1906-09-29 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No -6270

CONTENTS..

Births, Marriages and Death Leading Articles:------

Chinese Magnanimity. Neighbourly Sympathy, A Hint for Company Directors. End of the Canton Strike. Bugar Refining in the Far East. Lessons from the Typhoon. Official Salaries,

Hongkong's Thoroughfares.

Telegram:-

¿The Shanghai:"Fragedy.

The Late Bishop Hoare.

Floods in China.

The Fisheries Negotiations.

The Chinese Constitution.

Compulsory Education.

Vessels for the Philippine Government.

Chinese Tartar General,

Earthquake in Japan.

Manchurian Trade.

Keeting

Legislative Council,

Legal Intelligence:

Criminal Sessions.

Pelioo.

Indian Attempts Suicide. Dangerous Lunatic at Large, A False Charge.

An Ungrateful. Beggar.

Post Office Prosecutmn.. Alleged Serious Asauit. Chasing a Rat

An Officer's Spree.

AD Extradition Case. Breach of Shipping Rules. -A Durglar's Downfall. Robbing an Infant, v Highway Robbery. Correspondenca:-

Queen's Road Gutter.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :---

The Typhoon.

Interpart Cricket.

The Portuguese Consul,

"Marie-play..for High Stakos-***

The Douglas Steamship Co., Last,

The Stranded Leviathans.

Interponi Cricket.

Graigengower Cricket Club."

Sale of W. S. Pet Rosário,

The Acceleration of the Canadian Mail, Lund Sale.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China." Fatality at the Docks.

My Pa Says.

Canton's New Water-works. The Canton Baskersi Canton Day by Day.

Threatened Strike in Cantoó. Funeral of a Chinese Official "Beginning Cantonese."

The Yuanan Railway.....

The Shanghai Dock Co.

The Shanghai Tragedy,

Chow Tung Sang's Estate.

Anti constitutionalists at Work. The Fugg-shui" Bogey.

The Duties

at Newchwang..

South Manchur Railway Company. -The Yokobijn › Specie Bank, Limited.

The British China Squadron. Commercial Case at Yokohama.

The Japan Salt Monopoly,

Paper Manufacture in Japan,

Japanese Nuvad Visit to China.

The Tekin Tram Aghation.

Japan's Naval Policy.

The Japanese Scalers.

British Squadron in Korean Waters. Interesting Ceremony at Singapore, longkong: The World's Largest Port. Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report. Freight

Exchange,

Local and General.

Bon,

-BIRTHS

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MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1906.

六

就九十月尤其排香

ŠIS PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY, 25 CENIT

my opinion the scale of pay of Government servants in Hongkong" compares, favourably with that obtaining in most other patite of die Empire. I would observe, with reference to the suggestion made in your Detpatch troduced in order to get rid of the system of under reply, that sterling salaries were in- making payments in dollars at fictitious rates of exchange, and even if I were convinced of the necessity of taking steps in the direction which you advocate, I could not agree to any arrangements whereby that system would be revived.

No reference to the condition of the prin cipal thoroughfares in Hongkong could have been made at a more opportune moment

ward with a few suggested reforms. To some it may appear that in so doing we are ping the conduct of the fool who locked the stable door after his steed was stolen but we would like to remind such carping critics that to lose a horse through gross carelessness is one thing; to neglect to pre- pate for the next typhoon is another of an entirely criminal nature. Again, some of HONGKONGS THOROUGHFARES. the reforms we are about to mention have had attention repeatedly called to them without avail. In the first place, we believe the establishment of a typhoon signal sta tion in a position where it would be of use to people living at Quarry Bay, Shaukiwan and Lyegmoon has been time after time sug gested to the authorities. It is also worthy of note that the peculiar contour of the land in this section of the Colony renders jt ab. sulutely impossible for anyone to see what signals are flying and, further, boisterous weather nullifies the utility of the tele phone and the typhoon gun. it frequently happens that the resid ents in the above mentioned districts are bereft of precise information, and have to depend on the appearance of steamers in adjacent bays for warning as to the close proximity of the typhoon. This state of alter helplessness was never better illustrated than it was on, the day of the storm, At Quarry Bay, where two vastly important com- mercial institutions exist, no information of immediate danger was received. The signat

Hence,

職二十月八年二十三 the Chinese, in the face of sickness, disaster several prominent men appears in the iji, but the Commisioner took no notice of that LESSONS FROM THE TYPHOON. and death-other peoples' death, be it under- a Japanese vernacular paper, which charges appeal. Last year the merchants themselves stood. And now, comes a conclusive re certain directors of a public company with memorialized Viceroy Shum, on behalf of the

(27th September.) The amazing rapidity with which com- futation of these ridiculous imputations, of acting in the interests of themselves, and not launch-owners, to have the tax abolished. Western stay-at-homes, or Cook's tourists, in their shareholders. Our contemporary also Again the Viceroy requested the Commisparativo calm and renewed confidence have le form, first of all, of an inungdiate relief states that the action of Mr. Hara, the stoneroaccede to there quem say that as the excitedeat prompts us to come quickly for frod upon the heels of last week's intenso subscription-list, circulated among the Chin- Home Minister,, in sanctioning the car-fare The circular then goes on to say as cse by themselves, and promptly and increase at Tokio in defiance of popular Commissioner again ignored the Viceroy's largely subscribed to, while many of the opinion, in approving the construction of request, the latter sent copies of the petition Chinese, in a position to do it, bave taken in, the Keihin (Tokio Yokohama) electric rall to Peking, one being addressed to Sir Rob housed, clothed, and fed the unfortunate way, and an electric railway in Ehime Pre- ert Hart, Inspector-General, and one to the survivors of the terrible disaster of Tuesday fecture, has caused strong criticism among Board of Foreign Affairs. From the latter inst-survivors who have not only lost their the public. According to our vernacular con camc's reply to the Viceroy to the effect that poor little all, but even their humble floating temporary, we gather from the columns of the the tax ought to be abolished, but nothing homes, and only means of livelihood as well. Japan Chronicle, the charter in the last-mien in that direction must be attempted without Promptly, without any outside suggestion, the tioned instance was granted to a syndicate in the nt of the Inspector General. The sympathetic Chinese came forward with which a number of Constitutionalists are load considered the tax too heavy, and their assistance, ready to put down large interested, in preference to another syndi stated that all would be done that could be sums, as soon as they knew who was to take ente, which nevertheless had made prior done, to have it abolished. The Inspector charge of, and administer, the Fund. Next application. It is expected that this matter General also, in a despatch received later by comes the unexpected and most welcome will be taken up as a political question as the Viceroy, said tho-tax was a heavy one. It telegram from the Chinese in San Fran- the next session of the Diet approaches. was formerly charged at lappa, Kowloon, cisco-themselves, but just recovering from The Jiji also learns that the new directors Shamshui, and Wuchow, but under his the effects of a disaster of another of the Osaka Sugar Refining Company have instructions, the Commissioners had stopped nature-the terrible earthquake, with the under consideration a scheme to distribute collecting it. The Commissioner at Canton, awful details of which the world is between themselves a number of new shares. however, had not done so, and he in now familiar. And what did that tele for the increase of the company's capital, instructed the Commissioner to do so at gram contain? Were there merely words of return for their good services in effecting the once, and reduce the licence from $20 sympathy which ton often mean nothing, incorporation of the Osaka concern with to $10, and other classes proportionately, and carry but little consolation to the feedy that at Tokio. It is contended that a pre- The Viceroy gave instructions to the Sin and the distressed? Was there an offer of sentation of shares to directors, can only be Hau Kuk to have the despatch of the In pecuniary assistance, should i be needed? voluntarily proposed by the shareholders, as spector-General posted up all over the City, No; nad herein the sterling worth of the a mark of appreciation of directors who have which was done. This made the Commis Chinaman is shown. They did not wait for ably discharged their duties for many years sioner very angry, and he refused to obey any offer to be accepted, or refused. They and placed the concern under their control the instructions of the Inspector-General, did-riot wait for an appeal to be made. They on a firm basis. In the present case the in- but continued to impose the tax as before, have learnt, through the efficiency of the corporation of the companies, after protract threatening the people that if they did not News Agency, the awful calamity that has ed agitation, is only just agreed to when the pay at once their licences would be cancelled befallen their fellow-men. They have heard, directors commence to claim rewards for and their boats seized. The boatmen re- by means of their sensitive mental vision, their services! This fact shows, concludes ferred to the despatch the Viceroy had "the cry of the children"--the widows and the, that the object of these men in ad- promulgated, saying the tax was to be the orphans. And without a single day's vocating the amalgamation of the two com- whbdrawn, when the Commissioner said hesitation they have shown their practical panies was not so much the well-being he did not care for the Viceroy. And carried elsewhere on the wings of the wind, sympathy by sending the money itself, for the of the concern under their control as sn things went on. "The men again and the telephone, as is usual at such times, was, worse than useless. Had the signal assuaging of the dire sorrow and distress the possibility of securing a few shares. petitioned the Viceroy in August last, of their brethren p'er the seas. On The trouble is not an evil complained of in and stated that if his power, and the given by the Observatory been repeated at an adjacent station on the mainland, these the same day that they received the Japan alone. We have not to go a hundred instructions"

Inspector General, news of the terrible catastrophe here, miles from the Colony to discover, that were to be ignored by the Commissioner, commercial concerns would at once have they despatched by cable the sum of sharehniders' interests in joint-stock enter they would have to go into some other taken such precautions as would have saved $10,000, with the intention of more to follow. prises are but always placed before those of line of business. The result we gave in our that which was lost. At Shaukiwan, too, This seems something like magnanimity, the directorate who are invariably handsome. issue last evening the men went on strike.the death roll would have been considerably and is surely one of the many fine traits inly paid for inadequate services rendered. But not for long, far as will be seen front the admirable character of the Chinese.

letter from a correspondent appearing The spontaniety of this, and similar acts

in another column, as soon as the Viceroy in Hongkong, proves the worth of the

learned the men had gone on strike, he Chinaman when distress Jooms large about.

bestitied himself,-and-sent-deputies to Tim, and thrusts back the lie as tg, his cal

the Commissioner, post-haste, asking him lousness to human suffering and grief, in the

to stop collecting the tax until further teeth of the liar...

urders came from Peking, he, the Viceroy, guaranteeing to accept all responsibility for we stoppage. This arrangement having been concluded and coated to the men, they all agreed to resume work yesterday morning. Thus ended an incident which might have had disastrous results on the trade of Canton, and we cannot but reiterate what we said above, that the forebearance of the boat people, under the circum stances, was such that Canton may indeed congratulate herself upon, for had these men broken out into riot, who can tell what the results might have been? -

NEIGHBOURLY SYMPATHY,

END OF THE CANTON STŘIKE.

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the

SUGAR REFINING IN THE ÞAR KAS7.

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could not be seen, the boom of the gun was

then the present, for people are in a position to judge for themselves whether the roads of Hongkong are, during the rainy season, all that they should be. At the last meeting of the Legislative Council the Hon. Mr. E. A Hewett remarked that: "Nobody can daný that the condition of the macadamised roads are a disgrace to any town that calls itself. civilised. In wet weather they are impas. sable seat of mud. In dry weather it is almost impossible to walk do them on account of the broken surface, remindilig one of the middle age saints who used to expiate their sins and do penance by walking to Canter bury with shoes full of dried peas." Queen's Road Central, probably the busiest street in the Colony during the bours of business, is very far from being in a satisfactory condition after a shower of rain. If this state of affairs prevailed in a city where there was much horse traffic, the ruts and cavities could possibly be explained away, but here in Hongkong there are not half a dozen. traffic is purely carried on by means of the the vehicular horas-carriages in daily use.. indispensable ricksha-coolic, whose bare feet and light machines are scarcely calculat ed to dig up the street and render it an "im passable sea of mind" after a patting shower. When a real thunder-storm occur the streets reduced. To avoid the repetition of this are flooded in every direction, and the ordin scandalous state of affairs, we think it highary pedestrian-has to make long detours to time the authorities put into execution some reach his destination. It can hardly be held practical scheme for the furnishing of a reli-that this is a satisfactory exhibition of able typhoon signal station in a situation Hongkong's drainage capacity: in one case, where its value would be adequately demon- the other day, a stop in Queen's strated, and where it would prove to all con- Road was flooded to the depth of three feet, serned a veritable boon and a blessing, and the damage done to stock is estimated Another suggestion worthy of consideration at fully $3,000. It would seem that the city's by the powers that be, and one perfectly main artery is not only allowed to remain in feasible, is the provision of life-rafts and the condition of an unfrequented lane, but life belts, the same to be stored in buildings is primarily constructed on wrong principles. along the prayas and accessible to all in the is higher at one side than at the other hour of need. Many more lives might have instead of being rounded off with the object been saved had a number of life-belts been of depositing the rald-water in the capacious at hand on the occasion of the recent gutters. But the Director of Public Works typhoon. As matters, stond, civilian, sols quite complacent on the subject. diers, sailors and policemen were badly handicapped in their endeavour to save live. Ropes were few and hard to find, and through want of foresight on the part of responsible parties hundreds of people found a watery grave. Last though not least, is the suggestion that steam life-boats like those in use on the Mersey should be pro- vided. They are non-collapsible and built to weather the fiercest gate. It would be impossible for more than a fraction of the number of people immersed to be rescued by such boats, but let them take in tow the life-rafts mentioned previously, and their usefulness is at once magnified. Careful investigation is about to be made into the efficient working of the Observatory, let us then hope that soon after the questions in volved have been answered, the same com- mittee of inquiry will be asked to consider these suggestions, and as far as possible, recommend their adoption so that out of evil much good may come.

OFFICIAL SALARIES,

(28th September.)

"Fer-

(26th September.) Canton has been on the verge of what might have developed into a very serious affair, with far-reaching results, not the least of which would have been the paralyzing of the water bome trade of the province. If the (4 September.)

crisis bad developed into a riot, whoshall say There is at least a drop of consolation in what aright not have been the awful results, our cup of desolation at the dhunage wrought with the fearful tales of tragedy we might 10 this Colony by the late typhoon in read have had to record. But the self-repression ing of the neighbourly sympathy extended and forebearance shown by those affected by to the sufferers, as expressed in our northern what, they thought, was an uncalled for im and southem contemporaries, wherein they position of a tax, which was going far to stop

sonally," he said, "I consider the roads of. state that the telegraphic news of, the awful their trade, and force the men to turn their

this Colony are, generally speaking, in very cat, strophe which has visited us has caused attention elsewhere for their means of

good condition." And the D. P. W. referred to the streets of London, where one was a thrill of pain, wherever.rend. Writing on earning their livelihood is remarkable.

spattered with mud from head to foot in the 20th st., the Shanghai Times says: They began a strike in their own defence,

wet weather. Surely there is a difference "We are sure our fair Southern neighbour, but, happily, through the unusually prompt

between the traffic of London and that of the Crown Colony of Hongkong, has the action, of Viceroy Shum, it was of but

Hongkong, and it will tiot be contended sincere and unqualified sympathy of the short duration. The history of this affair entire community of, Shanghai ją the awful is interesting, as showing how, even in these Our recent comments on the sugar refin

that after a heavy shower in the metropolls visitation which has just overtake her days, an unpopular action can throw aing industry in Hongkong were dealt with

the mud is allowed to remain." It is swept The best possible feeling has always exist whole community into open revolt, and come editorially in the last number of the author

way immediately and pedestrians are not ed between the two places, twin out- perilously near to stagnating the shipping tative journal-the Far Eastern Reajew of

compelled for days afterwards to wade... posts, as it were, of Western enterprise interests of several districts. The story, as Manila. Mr. G. Bronson Rea, the editor of

through mud and slime. A reference was and civilisation in the Far East. From told by the very temperate, and forebearingly our broadly-known contemporary in the Philip

made by Mr. Hewett to the tentative experi the earliest days of their history they have phrased circular, issued by the leaders of pines, is, of all men in the East, the best judge

ments which have been made in wood paving. It would, be decidedly interesting to learn the On September 1, at Hankow, the wife of watched each other's rise and progress the Guild of Passenger boats, and which will, to give a definite pronouncement on the sub-

result of those experiments. A paich of HEINRICH REINHOLD, of a daughter.

with sympathetic interest, Each rejoicing in no doubt, be readyth interest by all having ject of the sugar industry, and in reproducing, LAMMERT-A1 Gondwood, Babington Fath, the other's welfare and sorrowing with it i mercantile or shipping interests in the dis in part, bis forecast of the result of the Japan

roadway at the foot of edder Street where on the 18th inst., Mrs. 11. A. LAMBERT, of a } is seasons of afliction or adversity; dud on Tricts mentioned in that circular, is as follows: ese competition with the Hongkong refineries,

it joins Der Voeux Road was laid with wood,

MARRIAGES..

the present occasion, we deeply surrow for The chcular begins by saying "It is it will he observed that Mr. Rea substantially

but whether it is considered a success or not nobody can tell, and nobody acce On September 17, at Shanghai, WILLIAM what assuredly has been one of the most for the public to pity the launch-owners, bears out the opinion expressed in our pre-

question of wood paving hinges to a large HUNTER,Shipmaster, of Monifiesh, Scotland, to destructive calamities to which the Southern who are being robbed by the tax-gatherer vious article. This is what the review says:

likely to lighten our darkness. The

extent on the cost of the blocks. When we HELEN GRACE BLACK of Cortachy, Scotland. Colony has ever been subjected. The ty of the Customs, of the Harbour Department The Hongkong Telegraph in its issue of On September 16, at Shanghai, the Rev: phoon, from what we can gather, arosewery at Canton and Fongmoon. Formerly all the August 9th, ulto, reviews the condition of

'remember that huge forests of jarrah are rot. ALBERT HERMAN BUTZBACK, of Ch'cochowfu, suddenly and was of narrow dimensions and steam-launches were under the control of the sugar, refining industry in Hongkong,

ting in Australia, it should be 'clear that the ! to Miss LORA CATHERINE MINCH, of Hoop brief duration, although while it lasted, it was the native-Customs, until the middle part of and after recognizing the inevitable compe. pole, Illinois, USA.; and the Rev. ERNEST,

cost of using wooden setis to pave the streets' one of extraordinary violence. The picture Kwong Sui, 30th year (1904) when they weretition from Japan, ventures the opinion that, KELHOFER, of Ch'enchoufu, to Miss MAXY presented in the very detailed telegram which handed over to the Harbour Department of given a fair field and no favours, the local

The position taken up by the Government Colony's purse. Ai nay rate, sóme improve.

should not be beyond the scope of the,- ELLEN BRAUN, of Credition, Ontario, Canada.we published from our Hongkong correspon the Imperial Maritime Customs. Then a companies can hold their own against any and those of the unofficial members of ment on the present system is eminently Council who supported it in relation to the desirable. With regard to the tramway the beloved wife of Frank Me L, LE C terrible desplation afloat. The harbour Holiday and Night working Act," which gards the Eastern markets outside of Japan. question of sterling payments of salaries of track, it is perfectly correct that in some

On September 8, at Swatow, MARTHA EDITH, dent yesterday morning, describes a scene of new law was passed, called the "Sunday, competitor. This is undoubtedly true as re-

must have offered a perfectly awful spectacle provided that all steam launches should be In this country everything point to an early certain Government servants, has, as has ports there are cavities which retain the when the storm was at its height, and it is treated like big occan-going steamers, so monopolization of the refined sugar business been maintained in these columns from the rain-water, but the Tramway Company are to be feared that the loss of life must have that whenever they pass a Custon's station by the Japanese refineries. The trade returns outset of the consideration of the question, not entirely to blame for that, because all been very great indeed. Especially deploron Sundays, holidays, or at night, they must indicate that Japan will continue to increase been an untenable one. Into the merits of wheeled traffic uses the track. The rick- able is the disaster which overlook the-pay a tax of two Haikwan Laels for a clear her imports of raw sugars, and correspond the case as urged by H.E. the Governor for shas may not excoriate the hard macadamised French destroyer futilia, involving as our ance, which is a great hardship on the poor ingly diminish the imports of refined grades a revision of the question by reason of an road, but by continually bumping along the correspondent reperis, the death of at least tax-payer. When launches were first intro until her local consumption is fully covered. appreciation in the value of the dollar, it tramway's route they dig sp the stone track a score of gallant French sailors. Our te duced into Canton, and later into the How far this consumption is capable of seems hardly necessary for us to discuss with the result that ruts are perpetually

nova. Our views have been emphatic and legram yesterday reported thirteen vessels interior, for towing purposes, there was a extension depends on the education of the HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1906. ashore and tiree sunk, white several colli. great saving in time and trouble, to the mer Japanese to a preference for the refined unequivocable. We said, in effect, that theng, formed and enlarged. Indeed, the fact that the vehicular traffic invariably sions were also mentioned. Today's mes

chants and shippers, until the launches were article, and the ability of the refiners to keep Government was advocating, a cause wholly prefers the tramway track, leaving the road- sage adds to the tale of disaster, and it is to handed over to the foreign control, and now the price within the purchasing power of the inconsistent with all-principles of equity. way at the sides severely alone; except when be feared that the worst is not known even

they very often-have new orders given to poorer classes. With this big home demandTheficials choose to play a game of passing cars, should make the macadamised... (22nd September.)

yet. The tempest must have come on with- them by the Imperial Maritime Customs, to supply and cater to, under, natural con-

"Heads I win, tails you lose when they roadway along the route of the tramway a There are probably few foreigners in unprecedented suddenness, for the ship. and if they fail to obey them, even though ditions, it would be a long time before Japan accepted the 1903 scheme of sterling pay-model of perfection. It is to be feared, Hongkong to-day who have not, at one time ping seems to have been taken outer the disobedience is not their fault, heavy will figure as a competitor with Hongkong ments of their saferies; but fortunately for however, that the contrary is the case, for the or another, read some of the effusions, of lynnawares and unprepared.” Those lines are imposed, and even, sometinies, the for the supply of China and other markets. the ratepayers of the Colony Lord Elgin streets traversed by the cars are quite as globe-trotters, and others of that ilk, who, words were written when only the first launches are arrested, and all their work Japan and Hongkong receive their supplies saw through the game, and in his reply impassable for foot passengers as any other! on reaching home, after spending an hour messages, "were received of" "the_ dire stopped. If a launch happens to pass several of raw sugars from the producing centres of the despatch from the Governor thoroughfares after a shower. We do not on the subject, his Lordship refused desire to be censorious, but the engineers of in the East and Farther East, consider catastrophe that had befallen this Colony, Customs Stations, it has to pay a fax at each, Java and the Philippines, and are placed on themselves fully competent to write authori- and surely the sympathy, expressed so amounting to several taels a day. Therefore equal footing in thisrespect. The difference point blank to reconsider the matter. The the Public Works Department might be tatively about countries with which they sincerely, will be fally appreciated here. the launch owners are obliged to add these in freights and labour favours Hongkong in text of the despatch is as follows: "I have encouraged to give a glance to this side of have become but cursorily acquainted. To The old saw has st that "a sorrow shared is taxes to their charges for hire, so that, find determining the cost of refining and their carefully considered your observations, and their duties in the hope of achieving a more dasfi through a country, on a Cook's tourist a sorrow halved," and in view of the symp ing the expense too great, shippers have ability to control the market. With the I regret that I am unable to satisfy myself satisfactory state of affairs. ticket, is not to see that country; and yet athy pouring upon the distressed in this been stopping sending produce from, one conventional tariff on refined sugars in Japan that measures of relief are necessary or justi- the flood of "literature" (save the mark!) Colony, we think there will be few indeed place to another, and so the launches have of about six-tenths of a cent per pound, it ftable at the present time. In the matter of fuisted upon a too confiding publicat home, who will not endorse that sentiment? ·become unemployed. The owners joined to- gives a practical monopoly of the home remittances to this country the Govern

PETER Byrne;" sailor on board H. M. ship has been and we suppose will continue to

gether and memorialized Viceroy Shum, market to the Japanese refiners, and even ment servants in question are no longer Frourtheus, was arraigned before Mr. B be endless. And thus it is remarkable the

appealing against the handling of the with a rebate on exports they can not hope affected by the rate of exchange, and a Hazeland, at the Police Court on Thursda astonishing reports we read of ourselves, |-

launches by the Harbour Department of to overcome the advantages enjoyed by reduction in the dollar value of imported charged with damaging a ricksha last evening from abroad, as a result of these globe-

the Imperial Maritime Customs, as it Hongkong, on supplying the China market, article must presumably be only a matter of to the extent of twe dollars and refusing to pay trotters' fairy tales! Not very long ago we

gave a lot of trouble to the merchants unless they receive certain concessions in time if exchange continues to rule high. his vehicle hire, which amounted to twentys read in a-hoaic paper that, in Hongkong, Not long since considerable friction bad and shippers, and they asked that the native freights from subsidized lines that will make Moreover, I would remind you of the state-cents. Defendant did not know what happened. male servants had been abolished, females existed in certain commercial circles in Customs and the Sin Hau Kuk should it possible to compete. If the present policy ment in your Despatch No. 72 of the 29th The charge being proved he was ordered to taking their place, as being more satisfactory, Japan culminating in the resignation in a take the business in hand. The Sin Hau of Japan is any indication of what may hap. March that house rent is the chief, if not pay the coplie sa for the damage denn to 188 ricksha and twenty cents for bis side, When and we had to rub our eyes and read again, body of the directorate of one of the pro- Kuk sent a petition to the Commissioner of pen in the future, this lowering of freights in the only, expense of living which is not defendant was arrested he had to be brought for surely, we thought, we had not read minent joint-stock companies in Osaka. the Imperial Maritime Customs, asking him favour of the Japanese product will be the lower in this Colony than in most others, to the station in a chair. The Court also made eright. It was, indeed, news to us, Then, The matter apparently did not rest with the to consider which was the best means to determining factor on which the trade will where Customs duties are levied and where an order that he refund to the police the coat how often we hear of the callousness of resignation in question. An indictment of l'have this tax much reduced, or abolished; } swing,

- DEATH.

toms; aged 39 years.

The Hongkang Celegraph

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS. ·

CHINESE MAGNANIMITY,

BRA

A HINT FOR COMPANY.

"DIRECTORS.

(25th September.)

to

−1 wages are bigher.' I am bound to add that in of the chair ride.