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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE

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more technical knowledge and skilf than mentan latepled for pallention the trained British workmen in Hong "The BANGKONG TELEGRAPH“ shonid te

libre) to The Editor, 1. Tee How Road, am! | kong, for example, WC are tempted exould be weepnaptain) by the Writer's Name and to smile and wonder how the writer came by that fellow feeling which makes him so wondrous kind. The despised and ignorant artificers and mechanics of the Hongkong and Whampion Dock Com pany have now reached the, depths of dis. grace. True, the Admiralty experts in Eng. land have but recently hvished encomiams and have inept workmen at Kowloon, Then the work at may part of the held out their performances as worthy of emulation at Woolwich and Devonport.

The Editor will not unlerinke to be impossibile for any priced MS,, om in retura may Contribution. SUBRCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE), BAZLY--390 per juitton. WYREELY-$13 for annum.

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scorld is 30 cents per qjänster). Single Pondes, Thaly, ten cents; Weekly, twenty

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30 1906.

of the police. Of course, it is a hackneyed PROGRAMME of music in be performed by the saying that the police are never where they Band of the 129th Baluchis, on the New l'arade are wanted, but we would not endorse the Ground, on Monday arxl, froin 5 to 6.30 p.m. :—

Overtire “ aly.........Reialger remark for a moment. The police in Hong

Intermeire.... Use Road to Moscow" Selection.......The Flying Squadra

........ Kappy kong have an onerous and diflicult duty to

Alagio from..."Sonata Pathetique "lethoven perform. They have to handle a cosmopoli

Sketch......" The Alabama Minstrels * „po..Knowles Seiecitos.... "Montelanks **

Callter tan population judiciously, and patrol: large area with a limited force. But it cer tainly does strike the average reader occa sionally that much power is lost by indiscri minate raids on hawkers and gamblers, with

God Save thy King.

THE Bishop of Victoria announces that he will resume his lectures tu ladies next month. In a circular which he has issued with reference In

on the skill and efficiency, of the sn-call the result that the real criminal is left to ther fer, he says that he proposes to give

series lectures on the general subject of "The history of the great nations of the world

psue his nefarious profession in the quiet residential sections of the city undisturbed by the fear of the law in the person of a con-

as foretold in prophecy." He will deal with the stable. While petty crime must be held in history of the empires of Egypt, Assyria, Baby- The shrewd managers of local shipping check, it is highly essential that no part of the lon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, All ladies aic citybe left at the mercy of the felon. Certainly, be held as formerly in Bishop's Lodge, every cordially invited to the lectures which will The Hongkong Arlegraph Company on account of the character of the when a case occurs similar to that reported tharaday, at 11.45 m.m., commencing on Thurs-

HONGKONG, Saturday, June 30, 1906

DOCK COMPRATTION IN THE FAR EAST,

firms have heaped praises on the Dock

Vessels built for Far Eastern requirements; but that is of no avail. The Shanghai cor respondent of Commercial Intelligente kauws nothing of these things and carca less. When the Government of the Straits Settle- ments expoprited the Tanjong Pagar docks

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ABLAZE:

COAL BUNKERS ON FIRE.

VESSEL MICKED AT SAN FRANCISCO, [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th June, 10.30 p.m.

A,serious fire occurred on board

the steamship America Muru.

The fire broke out in the coal bunkers and the flames blazed furious-

for a considerable time. A GAMMING warrant was executed by the East Police at No. 27, McGregor Street at 8.30 After an exceptionally hard struggle o'clock this morning, and twenty-five men were the flames were extinguished, but

the other day, when a lady was attacked in | day, 5th July. her private house and dangerously wounded, people are apt to become hysterical and low the entire blame on the shoulders of the police, forgetting that even, a cop stable cannot be everywhere at Ice.

arched to the Station. Two of them were

charged at the Magistracy this morning with not before considerable damage had

One of those abid and entirely misleading it did nai consider it necessary to discharge itut there seems to be an doubt that keeping a common gaming house of the pre-been done to the vessel.

summarily the old staff of mechanics, etc.,

EXPERT MANIPULATION. articles which have for their object the dis paragement of the British engineering and shipbuilding concerns in the Far East ap pears in the latest issue of Commercial in

All these conditions are obtained in Waters of our manufacture:

Absolute Purity. Repeated analyses both locally and at home guarantee this,

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The Finest Materials only are used. English Exports manage our factories. and our Wders and acknowledged by lead

ng English Makers to be equal to those their own manufacture.

These results have only been obtained through, constant experiment; the adverse dimatic conditions of Tropical Climates for

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telligence, a weekly periodical whose declared policy is the fostering of British interests the

world naver - Linferturinately, the journal in question seems to be guided by the principle that the best method of encouraging British trade and awakening British merchants, in a proper realisation of the effects of foreign competition, is to decry British industries, turn a blind eye by the progress of British commerce, and frighten British investors out of the taarket. It does not seen to compre hend that such a principle is more calculate

a revision of the areas patrolled is high-mises mentioned and the others with gambling. If the beal allotted to Evidence was heard to the effact that the two leaders were professional gamblers and had

on the ground that their technical knowly necessary. ledge was it, and their presence` a menace to the prosperity and efficiency of the docks. Yet they are far inferior to the Japanese workinen in brains and initiative if we are to believe the Shanghai panegyrist. It is dis concerting to find that all these years we have been living in a fool's paradise, bu there is one consolation-we may yet reform our ways before we are swamped by the all conquering Japanese. The mechanics and shipbuilding experts at Kowloon must look to their kureis; they must furbish up their technical knowledge; they must show that English and Scotch engineers and ship

to inflict grievous injury on flourishing, conwrights-specially selected though they cerns, and re-act unfavopably on those B might have orginally been from first-class tish flivestors why, whether from patriotic and work-famed yards in the United King

van of other motives, have sunk their capital in dom--can yet keep in the

progress

The America Maru has been dosk-

been previously convicted. Mr. F.A. Hazed at San Francisco.

land fined the two, leaders $ico each, the others having to pay $2 each, the gambling implements and macy captured in the raid to be forfeited to the Crown.

cach, constable involves bis absence from any particular spot for an extended period of time then the remedy is at hand. Hong- kong can well afford to pay for additional men so that the districts may be reduced, and a teeling of security implanted is the minds of the inhabitants. At present the Mussis. Gregor and Company were "at home" Wanchai population, if we may judge from this moming in their offices, No. 19, Queen's various reports, live in an agony of appre-Road Central, when the list of prize-winners in heasion, fanching that every knock signifies the "post-card competition" was issued. From the arrival of a marauding band. picture may be exaggerated, but that is the impression conveyed, and it behoves the police to dispel the alarm of those under

their care.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The

the successful manufacture of high Clay Colonial enterpones; than to contribute and compete on terms of equality with THE French mail of the 20th May was de

Aefated Waters, necessitating spiccial sandy.

Our Stone Ginger Beer is the only teressful production of its kind in Tropical" Countries. B at once became populau ani mereasing sales testify to increasing popular ny. Brewed from the finest Jamarca Ginge it is perfectly wholesome and is an ide

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the promotion of new schemes or lead to the diffusion of new!" British capital in over ¦ ses undertakings,

The article referred to eparates from a Shanghai correspondent, whose whole wim and object appears to be the aggrandiscment of the Japanese (en-

gineering and shipbuilding yards at the expense of the establishments in Hongkong, A. S. WATSON & CO..] Shanghai atid Singapore.

Seldom have the Japanese yards enjoyed such a panegyric at the hand, presumably, of an English writer; int the appreciation would havebeen of vastly greater valve had the unrespondent confined

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the sturdy islanders in the North. And yet notwithstanding all this rigmarole about incompetence and ignorance most people will retain their faith in of the European engineers at loon and at other places in the Far East.

livered in London on the 29th inst.

M. Dyer Ball has been appointed a depaty registrar of maniages, with effect from the

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may be foolish and an evidence of mental decadence, but there the matter stands, despite the enthusiasm of the pro-Japanese writer in Shanghai. When he adds that the Japanese purchase a higher class of material from itish factories than the concerna in Hongkong, Singapore and Shanghai we`can. only characterise his assertion as idiculous and absurd; it needs no comment. The

ted by all that the enterprise and progress closing remarks are decidedly, encebir of the Japanese in building docks and co- storting vessels is worthy of the guts In view of them fast, it is difficult to see ora.. Within a few years Japanese ship anything bright in the prospects of those wrights and engineers have alisorbed and dock companies working in Hongkong or turned, to practical advantage the Jessons. Shanghai, and I must again very strongly leamed in European countries and taught advise British investors to abstain from pro- by British and other experts who have beenviding capitale for any such concem that is specially' employed to enlighten our allies in likely to be offered in London." It may be the Far East. The Japanese have applied that the author of that warning is a dis 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL | themselves assiduously to the task of acquir

interested witness, inspired by the purest motives and sincerely anxious_lo-save the ing Western methods and that they have

British investor from ruin but theres a succeeded one can deny. But when ith claimed by them, or on their behalf, that as curiously, unsatisfactory tone about the sen- lence, 1: rings hollow and falls as flat as a a result of this remarkable zeal they have outdistanced all others in the race for mas

prepared peroration. One gleam of hope: fulness is left--the British Investor in all probability will never see the screed of mis

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tery particularly in so far as shipbuilding, shiprepairing and engineering are concem ed--we must respectfully decline to admit the contention. In the course of the article in Commercial Intelligeme the writer says!---

statements which appears in this wonderful effusion from Shanghai.

Yesterday, a correspondent residing in the Eastern district of Hongkong drew at-

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Tone cases of plague have occurred since

have succumbed to the disease.

yesterday, all Chinese, Two of the patients

THE King's exequatur empowering Mr. }. Ellen in the consul for Norway at Hongkong,

has received His Majesty's signature.

THE proclamation dated the 25th April, 1926, declaring Singapore to be a port at which sin infectious or contagious disease prevails, has

breu rescinded.

komen of above (pirvikogo lanes) to the neighbouring country has been granted to

Lieutenant R F. Diff, 129th Baluchis, from

4th July to 8th Ocinber.

The King's exequalus empowering Mr. Amos Parker Wilder to be conschgeneral for the United States of America at Hongkong, bas received His Majesty's signature.

THE Honourable Mr. Edward Osborne and Mr. A. Denison have been appointed members of the Authorized Architects' Consulting Cam- millee, wire Messrs. R... Shewan and William Danby.

APPLICATIONS are invited for the past of

elegraph clerk in the Harbour Department, Salary: $4,682 a year, rising by triennial incré- ments of $120 to $2,040, The Colonial Secretary stales that applications ите invited liom Portuguese,

this it was seen that Mr. A. E. da Silva was

words out of the name "Marie Brizzard" while the winner of the first prize, having made 510 "Me E. P. da Silva, with 491 words, was second, and Mr, D. E. Carvalho, with 447 words, third. There were also sea consolation' prizes, clefy won by ladies, which were presented to the wieners by Mr. Moshiày Jones, manager of Mesurs. Gregor and Co. Success to this en. terprising firm having becen drank by the assembled company, the proceedings termin

ated.

MIR, A. J. MAY HONOURED.

It is actified in the Government Gazelle that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. Alfred May, late

second master, Queen's College, to be a mem- ber of the Imperial Service Order.

MACAO EXCURSIONS.

THE "BEUNGSHAN.""

It will be noticed from the advertisement appeating rise where that the us. Hengshan will leave for Macan at 10 am to-morrow, July 1st, instead of, as usual, at 9 1.0. In this conection we are inquested tó mention that this change in the hour of the vessel's departure, only refers to to-morrow, and is necessitated by reas of the low water over the bar. After to-motiow the bout of departure on Sundays will be, as usual, 9 am, until further notice.

"KWONG TUNG" AND "KWONG CHOW."

The 5.5., Awang Tang will leave for Macap to-morrow, Sunday, July 1st, at 7 am., instead of at her usual hour, on account of the tide at Macao.

CHINESH MERCHANTS IN PRISCO.

THE FUTURE OF CHINATOWN.

An interesting contribinion, to the wrings on the subject of the recent earthquake and fire disaster at San Francisco appears under

the name of the Rev. William Rader in a Frisco contemporary. The article is as fol lows:-

The Chinese behaved themselves very well during the late unpleasantness. They have beer treated with consideration by the authori ties, and in nh sense nexlected. giay not be adepts in puning out American tires, but they are obedient an do what they

are

told to du.

Chinamen

Chinatown had been, for many years a peculiarly attractive section of our city. Many carious Easterners went there to see vice. in recent years these vire hunters were disap. pointed. On the contrary, they found shops filled with mre bronies and bric-a-brac, and gorgeous restaurants and joss botes, and iheatres where the Chinese drama went on ins its noisy, unique fashion. There were Christian niissions, schools and churches, and every in- dication of progress.

Franciscan has not been. The real San blind to the sanitary condition of Chinatown and to the need of certain reforms, but he is sorry for the loss of the Chinese quar

er with its traditions and landmarks. lle is sorry for John Chinaman. The ever-moving picture of the busy street of Chinatowo has gone forever. Now the question is: What shall be done with the Chinese?

Whatever may be one with them, this wo si do, viz, give them a square deal. The yellow merchant whose plates and bric-a-brac tas, looters are disposing of an Market street should receive some consideration from our hands. They own upward of 60 per cent. of the and in Chinatown. There they made their decided to collect them at hunter's Point or money, and established stores. some other place, but some of the Chinese have a sight to stay in the Chinatown district, and there they should remain.

11 may be

It does not seem right to take advantage of a great dissiler to show our race feelings, and drive away the Chinamen who suffered with us. T'here should be no discrimination made be- tween the Chinese and other merchants.

We are dealing with a local problem, and The 5.3. Kwong Chow will leave for Macao, one that has really nothing to do with Chinese iminigration. These people have been hare as usual, at six o'clock this evening,

for a long time, and probably will be here for some time to come. They have been burn- ed out and have suffered with us. The men who established themselves in Chinatown, purchased land and owned large stores should | Bave the same opportunity to recover them. selves as other San Francisco merchants. Their lands cannot be confiscated and thair We must deal fairly with business destroyed. We take the following from the Morming these men, and give them every climaco to Lender of 20th ult. :-

THE OMUM STIGMA.

MP'S WHO WISH TO END

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TRAFFIC.

DEMORALISING

A number of M.'s who are suxious to re-

CHAN Yuen appeared before Mr. H. i. move from British sals in the East the stigma Gompertz, at the Magistracy to-day,, charged of association with the opium traffic were enter with stealing a brass propeller, on Thursday tained to breakfast at the Hotel Ceat yesterday last, from Kimberley Road, Kowloon. The morning by the Christian Union for the Sever propeller is the property of Mr. H. S. Holmes.ance of the Connection of the British Empire Chan admitted the theft, and was sentenced 10 with the opium traffic. one month's hand labour and to be exposed in the stocks for six hours.

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tention to a subject which seems to be the principal topic of conversation in that locality at present. is maintained that from Wanchai to Causeway Bay it is the UNCAN, chief engineer, 5.4. Knielifard, took exception instead of the rule to meet one of

out a summons yesterday against C. Bevis, fire the law's myrmidons, and the suggestion is

man, of the same ship, for assault on the high that this lack of police supervision is respon or by Mr. F. A lazeland this morning, the Seas on 14th june. When the case was called

sible for the numerous "outrages" and thefts piosecutor appeared and asked that the sam- which occur in the district. It can well be mons be withdrawn, saying that the matter understood that the fact of a lady being had been amicably selited. His Worship can- liable to an attack by a baird of scoundrels celled the summons accordingly. who may enter her house in broad daylight, I did not siel it. I took it out of the is causing the gravest concern among the shop." What difference that made is known residents. During the daytime most of the only to the coolie who made the statement be houses are practically at the mercy of prow-fore Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, at the Police Court ling thieves, who have previously made his morning. He was charged with stealing, themselves acquainted with the habits of or, according to the Chinaman, removing several baskets of teu, from a shop at Kowloon the various households and act accordingly. last night. The owner of the goods said that In most of the houses there is nobody pre-nccused had no authority to remove the tea, sent, with the exception of a defenceless and his Worship sentenced him to one month's woman and, perhaps, one or two domestic hard labour and six hours' socks. servants who would fly for their lives at the bare idea that a gang of cut-throats was in

"A striking fact about the Japanese ship. | POLICE PATROLS IN 12 ONGKONG, building and dock concerns is that they are alt capable of accepting and carrying coul building contracts of considerable magn tade, which is not the case with any other concern anywhere East of Port Said. O couse, they have to import a considerable amount of their material, but so have the others. There appears to be considerably more technical knowledge and skill in the private yards of Japan than in any of the concerns working in the British possessions of the East or in China.

What is more, the class of material purchased in Great Britain by the Japanese yards is, far higher than is the case with similar.concerns at either Sin gapore, Hongkong, or Shangbai.” These are suggestions which will appear 'amazing to residents in the Far East. A eulogy of Japanese dockyards might receive a consider able meed of approval even from rival under takings, but when it is submitted as a fact that the Japanese concerns are all in a better position to carry out building contracts or undertake repairing work than such under takings as the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, the Shanghai Engineering and Shiprepairing Company, or the new Gov crument institution, the Tanjong Pagar Duck Board, a chorus of dissent will be aroused,

possession, and even if they were valorous enough to stand by their mistress their efforts

LAST night there was a row at the Tai Ping theatre and the police had to be called in. It

appears that a Chinese coolie who could not

get what he considered a good seat in the to repulse the miscreants would be feeble auditorium attempted to reach the stage, A It is said, with what degree | ticket-collector approached the coolie and told of truth we are unable to say, that practical. hin, to get off. The Chinaman refused and had

in the extreme.

A score of M.P's were able to accept the invitation, but this number does not represent the full strength of the anti-opiam feeling in the present House, Special interest attached to the proceedings in view of the fact that Mr Theodore Taylor, M., will an Wednesday next move a resolution condemning the opium traffic with China.

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JAPAN'S EXAMPLE.

Lord Kinnaird, who presided, was hopeful that a new era of public opinion on this ques tion was dawning, especially as Japan has se Great Britain a fine example in dealing with the opium evil in berdominions,

succeed in the new Suu Francisco,

The fire did some good, not alone in the Chinatown district, but in other sections of the rity. Gone are the oldtime opiums joint and and the iron-barrow house of Chinese pro- underground, retreat and pestilentini alleys, stitution. Gone also are the white tender- Inin, the hell-holes of vice under Ameri can management. These will never ceappear precisely as they were. The Chinatown of the under world has been wiped oul and should never be resurrected, but the higher fe of Chinatown should be recovered and protected. The Chinese institutions, news- papers, resinurants, missions and ningnificent shops have a right to remain. There is no reason why they should be sent to Hunter's Point or any other place. Let us have a purg ed Chinatown with all of its legitimate trac- ions and none of its objectionable festures. As there will be a new San Francisco, so let there be a new Chinatown. Now is the time to lay the funndations for such a section.

The Chinese-some of them-bave given- Rev. Dr. Horton recognised that the revenue of £3,000,000 from the opium traffic with substantial aid in the building of San Francisco. China was one obstacle in the way of reform, They are not to be set aside in the name of bai, surely, he argued, as it was a tainted religion, or color, or nationality. The man who raises a question of religion or color in revenue, a precarious revenue, and, moreover, these days is a bigot. Bigotry has no place in a diminishing revenue, the geest British Em- pire ought to have sufficient courage to sacrifice a crisis This is not the time to split hairs. 11 is the opportunity for justice, fair play and gen. it based, as it was, on iniquity and suffering

China is awakening" said Prebendary

erous treatment of all men, Webb-Peploe, and no man of high position Chinese will be justly treated. In these frying There is every reason to believe that the in the schools or public life is permitted to

hours they are not without friends. For the smoke opium; in fact, it woul 1 he as much a disgrace in some circles in Chisa as it would time, Chinese exclusion has given place to a be for any of us to be found drunk in the policy of Chinese protection. Strand to-day. Yet de British Empire pours tons upon, tons of opium foto China lo de moralde the population-in some cases, in the past, at the point of the sword!"

SHIPPING AND MAILS."

MAILS DUZ. Canadian (Monteagle) ist prox. German (Bayern) 3rd prox., 5 p.m. Canadian (Empress of Jahan) 3rd prox. American (Hongkong Máru) 7th prox. Indian (Namsang) 1ith prox. Canadian (Tartar) 17th prox.. American (Korea) 18th prox.

THE COMMONS OPPORTUNITY, "Wednesday next is Derby 'Day," said the Fer. F.IL Meyer, "and a large number of M.Ps will no doubi go to Epsom Race-course, Therefore, when Mr. Taylor's motion comes The Itongkong Company can point tely every house in Moniton Hill Road and not only to be thrown off the stage but out of

on there will be eliminated from the Houso à wood many of the more frivolous elements that record of achievements which would have Leighton-hill Road has been systematically the theatre altogether. When the coolie arrived

might be inclined to look with contemp! st added lustre to the reputation not merely of robbed within the course

of the last in the open he picked up a good-sized brick and the greet moral crusade against the opium The Great Northern 53. Dakota from Seattle any shipbuilding and engineering yard in six months,

hurled it at the ticket-collector, striking the man | praffic.

saited from Shanghai yesterday afternoop, at It is not

50 very long

on the side of the face. The coolie was given in Mr. Herbert Roberts, M. P., Mr. D. M. [ p.m. Great Britain but even of the private yards ago since an American was "held up." charge. He was placed before Mr. H. H. J. Smeaton; M. P. (who as a Financial Commis. |

The C. P. R. Cols 16. Empress of India of Japan: That may appear to be a pre-in a ricksha in the same district by a couple Gomperts, as the Magistracy to-day, and said the ravages of the ppium evil, Mr. H. J. Wil and Vancouver,

sioner in Buimals gained wide knowledge of Jeft Yokohama p.m., on 29th inst., for Victoria posterous averment in the eyes of the Japan of thieves who dung pepper in his eyes and that the ticket collector trod on his toes last son, M.P. (who is a member of the Opium The Impenal German Mali ss. Bapira.cat. ese enthusiast in Shanghai, but the fact re- attempted to overpower him.. That they did night. ile objected to that and struck the Commission), Mr. Arnold Lupino, M... Mr.ying the German Mails with dates from lertin mains and is incontrovertible. When it is not succeed was due more to the stout resist complainant. He had no intention of going en J. Allen Bater, M, P., Dr. Maxwell, Mr. Joshua of the sth inst., left Singapore on 29th Inst, st the stage. His Worship ordered him to pay Rowntree, and other speakers neartily sup- 10 am, and may be expeçied here on sedproxy (35-3 | suggested that the Japanese appear to have ance offered by the visitor that the presence | Bae of ten dollars,

parted the anti-opium crusade.

at $ p.m1

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