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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JUNE 14, 1906.

THE CLERIC IN KOBE.

· NOTICE, lications intended for publication in The HONGKONG TELEGRAPH should lo

A ministerial humorist is always a mys- addreed to The Alitor, 1, Ice House Road, and should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and terious and wonderful being. Nobody can Ordinary business caminunitatsans should be adIredell or imagine when he will exhibit the

to The Marager. The Ritor will not undertake to to responsible for why mjusted MS, or to return any Contributions,

Altoo

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WEEKLY-513 por annuin, The rate per quarter and permansen, projkirtme), Tho dally mur delivered free when the address

acide to messenger. The plant by adrütioanl 31.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

The postage on the weekly me to any jest of

saving grate," or inat subject will be brightened and made lucid by his phantasies. The Anglican communion has been sich in men who could jest on serious matters, men like Sydney Smith and Dean Stanley, while Dean Swift was one of these who hid his biting shafts of cynicism under the garb of tinnocent folly. But these men of the past were mere hobbledehoys compared with the Anglican minister at Kobe, for if a letter which appeared in a recent number of the On June 13th, at "Meirion," The Peal, Mr. Kobe Herald is authentic then the Rev. E. Jours Hugues, a daughter.

[646 J. W. Platt is the Jee. Grimaldi, the Quin and. the Theodore Hook of the Far East There was a bazaar in Kobe held

world is 30 cents per gamster, Single Copies Daily, ten ceuds: Weekly, twenty-

five renta,

BIRTH.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French mail of the 15th May was deliver- ed in London on the 13th inst

MR. B. H. J. Gompertz, the well-known police magistrate, arrived in the Colony yesterday by the English mail from home leave, and took his seat in the big Court this morning. Mr. F. A. Hazeland went into the small Court. TWELVE months' hard Inbour Ind to be exposed in the stocks for six hours, was the sentence passed by Mt. H. Gompertz on a coolie, at the Police Court this morning: for returning from bacishment, yesterday.

PLAGUE cases during the 24 hours ending noon

10-day numbered five, all Chinese, one only being fatal, one patient being removed from the first floor of No..6 Lyndhurst Terrace This brings the total for the year up to 777

cases.

Che Hongkong Gelegraph under the auspices of the All Saints' Lirur. G. J. P. Geiger, Royal Welsh Fusiliers,

Hongkong, ThURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1906.

** ARE WE DISHEARTENED F

A somewhat, disquieting report, which will be hailed with glee by Tariff Reformers and Protectionists afike, has been issued by the Board of Trade with reference to the

trade of Great Britain with China as com

who served with the and Battalion at long kong a few years ago, has just been prompted captain. His friends in Hongkong will be pleased to hear of his advancement is the

service.

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A BOARDING-HOUSE runner appeared before Mr. H. H. Gampert at the Magistracy to-day charged with going on board the steamer Bour

banearly this morning without the captain's per mission. Pleading guilty, his Worship fined the coolic $20.

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OWING to indisposition, Sir Francis Piggott,

Chief Justice, was unable to take his seat at the Supreme Cout this morning, the Original Court being presided over by Mr. A: G Wist, P'ulsoe Judge, while the Bankruptcy Court was adjourned..

Ar the Connaught lotel to-night the Com- mitte of the Wal Or Kwong So, Guild of Aus- tralian, American and Canadian merchants,

CHINESE ACTORS FOR MANILA.

EXEMPTED FROM EXCLUSION ACT'S PROVISIONS.

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SERVICE.

RUSSIA MAGNANIMOUS.

AN INDEMNITY OF SEVEN AND A HALF

MILLION ROUBLES.

We have received the following interesting information, on the subject of the Chinese Es- THE VLADIVOSTOK RIOTS. clusion Act, from a valued correspondent:- Chinese professional actors are now, according to a recent ruling of the Department of Com- merce and Labour, Washingtoo. D.C., regard ed as members of the exempt classes and as such entitled to enter. America. Thus Chinese actors are accorded by the Americans all the special rights and privileges granted to Chinese merchants, students, teachers, and travellers for curiosity and pleasure. In the eyes of the Chinese, actors and barbert are the lowest in.

the scale of their civilization, and the fact that actors are now admitted into America affords much amusement to the thoughtful and ob servant Cantonese, who watch most keenly any changes in America's exclusive policy to

wards China,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 14th June,

2.40 p.m.

Russin, it is understood, has con- sented to pay the sum of 7,500,000 roubles to the Chinese Government as an indemnity for the losses sus- This recent action on the part of America, tained by Chinese merchants at Vladi- disches the fact of how densely ignorant thevostok during the recent emeute. Americans are of China, ber people, customs

It is doubtless, however, p&o. CÓMPANY'S PROSPERITY. and civilization. owing to the fact that this particular class of Chinese does not compete at all with the American actors as a class, that they are allowed the special privilege of entering. America. It is reported that a troupe of thirty five Chinese professional actors have already obtained from the American Consul-General here the necessary, papers to entitle them, to enter Manila, and that over eighty more will apply in the near future.

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This large number of even actors who are se desirous of entering America, simply goes to show the immense number of Chinese who would at ence go to 'America, should the ex- clusion laws be repealed. 11 is estimated by persons who are well informed on the subject that hundreds of thousands of Chinese would go annually to America, should America let down the bara to thein.

CORRESPONDENCE,

Church, and it apparently proved a huge success. Now, a grateful pastor could hardly do less than return thanks to those who helped to make the bazaar a paying concern; the difficulty was to do so in a unique and quite original fashion. The Rev. Mr. Platt was equal to the occasion. He sat down in his study in All Saints' Parsonage, and concocted an epistle which should make the professional piercut writhe trasted with the openings secured by Ger with envy. First he said he hardly knew many and the United States. The report how to thank them-quite a conven- 'is described as a "return, showing so far as tional beginning; then he hinted that can be stated, the exports to China, inclusive God would remember them; and then he of Hongkong, from, the United Kingdom, thanked "my committee." Coming now to Germany and the United States for the years the livelier part of his discourse he thanked 1885 to 1964, and the average for each of those who toiled for months and those the quinquennial periods ending 1889, 1894, whose work lay at the latter end." Presumi 1898, and 1904," with percentages. It shouldably the reverend gentleman meat those be stated that although the United King who, after working hard for nothing, found dombas not löst ground, having, on the that the public had no use for their contrary, steadily increased her export trade amazing gew-gaws and redely acted the to China since 1885, her competitors have part of the Levite and passed then by been making great efforts to capture the The Rey, Mr. Platt proceeded to thank Ching market, and while the results of that those who bought and those who sold

or were sold-but the latter are perhaps Competition need not cause dismay-for Great Britain is well ahead of all rivals--the more in need of a prayer than a blessing; figures are the straw which shows how the and then he returned thanks to those who wind blows. Without burdening the reader danced and those who sung and played to with a mass of details, it may be stated that those who, riot being able, did neither, to „during the first quinquennial period 1885-89, those who ventured life and limb in the the average annual value of the exports motor-car, and to him who fetched them A. S. WATSON & CO... seni to China by the United Kingdom safely home without harms saving to the was 8,303,000; the figures for Ger- pucket; and, last of all, to our good friend maay were impossible to get; the United who knocked down to end of pot plants 43920 is for the transit of the dock itself, theve noticed the piles of foul, evil-smelling

without breaking any of them; thanks to you all my good friends? Now we do not desire to appear uncharitable in the least, but if that series of thanks does, not suggest that the proceedings became uproarious and ended up with what sailors term a "rough

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States sent goods to the value al 1,911,000. For the five years ending 1894 the average valne if the exports despatched to China 1 by the United Kingdom was £7,078,000; Germany sent goods to the value of 1,542,000; and the United Slates,

CARD 65,000. There was a single the dading, house, then deductions are worth-noiling

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the following five years, Great Britain send- ing goods valued at £7,964,000'tu China; Germany. £2,117,000; and the United States, La $5,000. But it was during the

They danced, they ventured life and limb in "the motor-car," that is to say the motor car attached to the Parsonage, they spent money

route to their homes-which everyone can

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will entertain, it a complimentary banquet, Mr. Frederic Jones, Queensland Government Commissioner.

The King has been graciously pleased to ap prove of Mr. Amos P. Wilder as Constil. General of the United States of America al Hongkong: Mr. Narito Goro Shoshichii, as Cosal of Japan at Townsville; and Mr. Jorgen Eluun as Vice-Consul of Norway at Hongkong, for the Colony of Hongkong.

The Suez Canal Company state that the tal charges to be received by them for the passage of the Admiral Dewey through the Suez Canal

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We do cut secessarily, endose the opinions expressed By Correspondents in this columnar) NUISANCE IN QUEEN'S ROAD EAST.

To Yak Eptol : HoNGKONG TELEGRAMU,"

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TRE INTERIM DIVIDEND,

We are enabled to state through the courtesy. of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Superintendent of the P. & O. Company, that the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company announce a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preferred stock, and an interim- dividend at the rate of 7 per cent per annum on the deferred stock of the

Company for the half-year ended 31st March.

KOWLOON GITY ARMED

ROBBERY,

GRASS CUTTER's Hut ATTACKED.

Before Mr. H. H. J. Gompert, at the Magis tracy this forenuon, seven cien were charged with committing armed robbery at Kowloon City on Tuesday night, and stealing $195.60 in, money and clothing. The men pleaded 'not guilty. A grass-cutter, residing at Nan Shan Mu, Kowloon City, said that at half-past nine on the 12th instant, while he was asleep, five men entered the house, by breaking down the door. Two of the robbers seized him, while the others searched for loot. When they had

collected what they wanted they examined the goods, which consisted mosity of clothing.' They found that among the bunch wai

St-Much has been said respecting the limewashing and cleansing operations engaged in by the Sanitary Authorities, but there is one thing that I have not seen mentioned in con. nection with the preventive measures employ. ed in connection with infectious diseases, viz., Some the dumping of rubbish during the night and early hours of the morning in the various, Francis Street Roman Catholic Church will

burnt..

old clothing, which they After this they commenced to beat witness and then they left. Resides the clothing the •

do not amount to £20,000 as has been stated, thoroughfares. Nearly all who attend the St. robbers removed $150 in hard cash. Mean.

but approximately to 6,200, of which only

balance of £2,300 being payable on the cones, s A CHINESE boy was this mouing, at the Magistracy, sentenced by Mr. Gompert to twenty-eight days' hard, labour and twelve hoars' stocks for stealing from a dwelling boust at Hunghom, last night, one sheet and a clock from a cook. Defendant will be exposed in the stocks for two days, six hours on each day. This morning, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy, a Japanese fireman, on board 5.5. Nikko Afur, was called for assaulting two Chinese women at Wanchai last evening. He

ordered to be estreated. Another fireman had to pay $3 for being disorderly in, Ship Street last night.

maller that has been thrown in the street; and

white, the other three men set upon wit ness's brother and tied him to the bed. All the men were armed-that is, the five then

they will also have noted the number of fowls who were in the house-white a man who and stray dogs that are busy amongst the stood sentry at the door of the house, held a offensive offal, Such material might easily long four-pointed knife. Winess could not spread infectious gerina throughout the neigh. identify the defendants as they held him face downwards, but he could recognise the cloth burhood. Cannot songthing be done, to abolish this auisance? Thanking you in anti-ing which was found on defendants. Further cipation that you will make this matter public evidence was called and the case adjourned,

BALL'S "ASBESTOS EASTERN

AGENCY, LIMITED.

ANNUAL REPORT.

-1 am, etc.

Hongkong, 14th June,

OBSERVER.

BANK VERSUS BANK.

'CLAIM FOR MOSŁY DEPOSITED,

The following is the eleventh annual report of the above company which is represented by Mr. Bradley & Co., in Hongkong:-The Direc tors herewith present to the shareholders the

report and accounts, duly andited, to the just December, 1904. The business has continued to be of a favourable character. The profit, is-

In Original Jurisdiction this morning, his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisne Judge. presid Tag 5.s. Bourbon, which arrived in port homing, the Fun Tak Bank, of No. 109 Jervo Saigon this morning, brought with her 149 Street, Victoria, sued the Wai Wing Hork "deportees from that post. Later in the day Bank, of No. 115 Queen's Road Central, Victoclusive of the amount brought forward from the the s.s. Patratius arrived and seven more rin, for recovery of the sum of $1,049.60 duc previous year, shows a credit balance of £2,337.

interpretas be pleases--and finally ne obstre, did not appear in Court and his bail of Sio was perous individual fellthrough the conservatory a secondor Kobean clition of Handy Andy Now, we have suggested that the dance must have been fast and furious; the "light fan- tastic ios" and the "Terpsichorean art had no place in the gambollings of the youth and Iauty of Kobe. And it would seem, reading between the lines, that some people of Kobe had strong views on the subject of the bazaar dance. We can only infer what

undesirables were landed. These were from

Singapore. Lee-Sgt. Clyde took charge of the men, and after their descriptions had been taken, they were sent to their homes:

COMPETITION. To all purchasers at (ast five years 1900 to 190., that the manu- our Establishment of $1 faturers of the United Kingdom woke up 10, the fact that unless they redoubled their and upwards betweens to cater for Chinese requirements, June 1st and June 25th and adopted more advanced methods, they would be left behind in the race for Chinese will be given a Coupon patronage. In 1900, Britain sent gonds to entitling them to enter the value of £8,339,000 to China; in 1994 that amount had advanced to £13,146,000 the following Competi- - truly notable increase. It was in the tion. The largest num-ginning of the present century that the

Pince of Wales, addressing a group of those miserable, Puritannical, seni-Covenant- ber of English words London merchants, gave them the war crying misanthropes thought about it all from the "Wake up, England." Certainly those apologia of the Rev. Mr. Platt. He has re- that can be made fromanufacturers who had a connection with turned all the thanks he can think of, so he starts on "congratulations," and he says: * MARIE BRIZARD."

Congratulations to the singers and players; the music went merrily. And to the dancers upon a good floor and fair numbers. And wiry should people af dance under the Station, West Point, came before Mr. H. will surprise most auspices of All

King David Gompertz, at the Police Court today, and plead- people is the comparatively small advance danced before the Ark so holy. Truly hised guilty to rebbing one of his comrades of the

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China followed the advice given by His Royal Highness. The average annual value of Great Britain's exports to China between 1900-4 was £9,922,000; Germany, £2,804,000; and the United States, £5,320,000.

What

Saints'?

made by Germany-small in comparison wife shot out the lip at him, but as truly he

on two deposit notes signed by the defendant Bank in favour of the plaintiff Bank..

5s. gd. This amount the directors recommend should he allocated as follows: To' set aside The plaintiffs carry on business as bankers

£500 as a reserve for bad and doubtful under the style of the Fun Tak Bank, at No.

debts and depreciation on stock, &c., to jog Jervois Street, Victoria, Hongkong. The

write £500 off "Purchase of trading rights," to A LAD, ahout ten years of age, was charged defendants carry on business as bankers under

pay a dividend of to per cent, for the year, free of income tax, absorbing £480, 105, and, lo before Mt. H. Gompertz, at the Magistracythis the style of the Wai Wong, Bank, at No. 115 morning, with hawking oplum in the public Queen's Road Central, Viciona aforesaid. On

carry forward 856. 155. yd in the next ac street at Wanchai. The father of the bay

the 29th July, 1995, he defendants were in-

count; the sum cattied forward includes provi- could not be found, but the mother appeased.debted to the plaintiffs in the sum of $4,000, on

sion for payment on June 1st of the sum of His Worship said he had power either to whip current account, and it was agreed between the sea off the debenture, in terms of the bond. the boy or send him to gaol, but he would give partners that the said sum of $4,000 should be Mr. A. G. Angier retires by rotation, and, be- him a chance, discharging him with a caution. transferred from current account to depositing eligible, offers himselt fut re-election. Mr. account for the term of two Chinese manths, Jubin Cooper, the Company's auditor, ako commencing as from the 27th day of the fifth retires, and offers himself for re-appointment. Mnan (39th June,, 1995), and that interest By arder of the Board. should he paid thereon at the rate of $6,20 per

A CHINESE constable from No. 7 Police

sum of $31, yesterday. Defendant was alleg.

ed to have waited until the other man went on

with the general estimates of German went on dancing. So will we." It is safe duty. Then lie jampered with his trunk. His trade in the Far last, while the into say the pastor himself had a fing on the Worship said defendant did not have a very crease of American trade with China is good floor," and we may surmise that his good character in the force, having been fined no less than sixteen times for misconduct, and amazing. They had discovered a new field. good lady had a word for his private car from puny shopkeepers they have become afterwards. But revenge is sweet, especially he would sentence him to one month's gaol. mable exporters. They challenged, rival through the columns of a newspaper, so he THE cruiser Argennut, Captain E. H. Smith, led, and surpassed Germany in the rush for gaily returns the compliment and declares has been selected to carry out relief duties be Chinese trade. The percentages will best himself impenitent. He'll do it again, hetween home ports and the China Squadron.

The Argonautwas to leave Plymouth about une

for the Far Eastern ports. Orders have been issued for the stoops Cadius and Clio, which were withdrawn last year from the Australias Squadron, and sent to the China their affidavit that there is no such thing as Squadron, to be recommissioned for another a parsen in Hongkong. Kowloon seems to spell of service in Chinese waters. The relief have one, but thea Kowloon is not long-crews for the sloops will be despatched by the kong. Perhaps the Colony might be the Argonaut, and also a big draft for the Tamar, better for a visit from the exuberant cleric receiving ship at Hongkong. The Cadm of Kobe, and then again perhaps not.

indicate the state of affairs during the past says, and why not? Truly Kobe has a ten years. The average annual increase breezy parson; Hongkong sometimes won- during the five years ending 1904 11 com- ders if it has a parson at all. There are pared with 1894 was-United Kingdom hundreds of young people who will take 29.2; Germany, 81.8; United States, 157.6. That speaks volumes for the energy and vigour of American enterprise in China. To a certain extent, however, these figures are misleading. The return shows the exports to China from the United Kingdom, but what about the exports from the great British

Colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada? What about the exports from India to China? They are not declining

Indeed, their output is increasing with every round of the sun, so that although the per- centage of exports to China from the old country looks miserable in comparison with the gigantic strides made by America, we can afford to ask with a confident split the question of the moment-"Are we disheart- coed?" well knowing that the answer will be in the negative.

$1,000 per Chinese mouth.

The said sum became due and payable by the defendants in the plaintiffs on the 27th day with interest at the said agreed rate, but the of the 7th Moon, (27th August, 1995) together

defendants have not paid the same or any part thereof. The plaintiffs therefore claim judg ment (!) for the sum of $4,000; and (2) interest" on 54,pro at the rate of 16.20 per $1,000 per Chinese month from 29th June, 1905, in date

G. LENNOX, Secretary,

T-E Court of Inquiry as to the destruction of decided at Cardiff on 14th at that the captain the steamship Carlisle in the Saigon River during his absence ashere at Saigon took no precautions for the safety of his vessel. It was evident that the vessel was not in a seaworthy condition on leaving Vladivostock. The Court suspended the master's certificate for twelve of payment or judgment, and (3) the costs of months, Notice of appeal was given.

this action.

Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. H. R. MR. A. P. Wilder, the new U8. Consul-General Holmes, appeared for the plaintiff Bank, Mr. at Hongkong, was born in Calais, Maine, in F. Pagat lett, of Messrs. Brution and Helt, 1861, and graduated from Yale University. After editing the New Haven Palladium be watching proceedings on behalf of the defend-

became editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, ant Bank, which was otherwise unrepresented. Mr. Wilder is a ready and eloquent speaker: His tonour: Mr. Slade, I understand this he has an agreeable personality, and much of case is undefended?

that savoir-faire that goes with a long and successful journalistic career. He will find that Hongkong is an excellent vantage ground from which to work in the East.-Ż, and G. Express.

Mr. Slade: Well, my Lord, Mr. flett, the solicitor for the defendant, is here and has told and Clio were commissioned at Sheerness.in me that he has written to his clients by regis. the April and January of 1994 respectively.tered letter to come to the Colony, but has had

no reply, The chief duties are largely is policing the

A come by name Chao Hin was arrested waterways of the station. The shallow draught yesterday aftersioon for stealing a quantity of river steamer Kinska will also be recommis. Station he asked the policeman to give him a service, the relief zinc (rom a Chinese shop. On the way to the sioned at Shanghai for another two years' crew also embarking in chance, but as the officer paid no heed, the the Argonaut. The new crews for the Cadmus coolis dug his hands into his pocket and gave and Clie was to be drafted from the Chatham the policeman $1 to be released. The police Depot and embarked at Chatham on June 5, man took the Mexican, but Chan was not given after which the Argonaut was to proceed to liberty. At the Central Police Station the prisoner was entered on two charges-theft and Devonport. The crew for the Kinka, a half bribery. He was placed before Mr. F. A. crew for the Tamar, and the new crew for the Hareland this moming, and sentenced to four Challenger, which will include the nucleus teen days' hard labour on the first count, and crew of the Doris, were to embark on the on the second, to pay a fine of $35, with the Argonated at Devonport. The old crew of the option of one manth's gaol The money given Kinska will return from Hongkong in the

Terrible as bribe to be placed in the poor box.

His Honour: Then they are absent ?

Mr. Slade: Well, my Lord, they are repre- presented by their solicitar.

His Honour: Well, then you had better formally call them.

Defendants were called and found not to be

present.

The managing partner' of the plaintiff firm was called and proved the claim against the defendant Bank.

His Honour: Judgment with costs, Mr. Slade: 1 would ask that the order be mado an figm July, 1905.

Hip Honour: Very wall, take the order so,

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUL American (Doric) 16th intl. Indian (Sultang) 18th Inn. American (Manchuria) zjd iøst, Canadian (Monteagle) 27dɩ inst.

The Imperial German Nail ... Nordkap left Singapore on 13th inst, and may be ex- pected here on zoth inst

The I. C. S. N. Cols an. Sulzung from Cal- cutia and the Straits left Singapore for this post on 13th inst., at 10 am.

The C. P. R. Co's sa. Empress of Japan. left Vancouver pm, on zith inst, for Honge kong via the uajzal Ports of Call,