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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 5, 1907.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

THERE will be no excursion of the steamer. Honam to Macro to monow

THE German mail of the gth December way

livered in London on the gra inst

HAVE you any witnesses to call coke this morning, of a coolie who was charged with creating a disturbance in the public street. "I am here to be a witness for myself," replied. the coolie. That's what I came up here for." The entries for the Football Challenge Shield are au follows :-H.M.S. King Alfred, H.M.S. Diadam, Hongkong Football Club, Hongkong | Rugby Club, "A" Co., "F" Co. and G. Co. 3rd Middlesex Regt. Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, Y.M.C.A., Lusitano F. C and R. A.

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Gary C.AND. Melbourne, atythe. Police Court,

THB CHINA ASE

"sidenis, in particular | are;

treating too lighilyake'iden by Mr. Haldane "Unation in arma"

OUR RELATIONS WITH THE CHINESE PEOPLE. talking about

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charity - may-be pardoned, be said in favour of its practice in its Colony. There is an organised band

that the whole wor at work who have marked out their respective

The annual meeting of tas ongkong branchefgnificant EP of the Chios Association was bald, in the City of misreading) districts, and pursue their game with an

Hall Buildings = this, afternoon,, Mr. Murray, 1; foresaw) ins energy and assiduity, which, if directed into

Stewart presided and those present were the Many other sig proper channels, would assuredly make for success. Of course it is seldom the resident

Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson, the lion. Mr. Hy E appeared in Chin who encourages these parasites to prey on

Pollock, KC, Messrs. D. R. Law, A. G. Wood, just closed. One of the most significant war H, E. Tompkins, W. Parlane, T. P. Cochrade, the despatch of the late Commission round the his good nature, for he knows by long

G. C. Moxon, G. Balloch, S. V. Hogg, CH world with the ostensible object of discovering Ross, G. Osborne and H. T. Butler, die some more suitable system' than the old ways experience that the slightest sign of weak.

Mr. M. Stewart, in proposing the adoption provide for storing the raw product of ferment not, that diplomacy ness on his part will lead the beggars to

of the annual report, said -—Gentlemen, when ing liquor already referred to. Many Far drên. To be told believe that he is their partron for ever.

a homeward-bound P. and O. vanishing in a Eastern residents felt qualmish about it. “Ple-" no change made us No doubt one is inclined to give a trifle

sun-lit trail of smoke carried your late Chair. tures in the illustrated papers, Communionem Wo imagined CHAMPAGNE only to get rid of the immediate nuisance at

men away from the Colony and his duties de Junkeiting with the Prime Minister and other succeed in inst One's heels. It is the transient visitor who

Volved upon me for the sole though inadequate prominent politicians gave rise to fears that the "the designs. is really responsible for the creation of these

reason that all the other members of your com- attitude of the British Government in dealing misiske, motblog pests, and especially tho, lavish American

"HAVE you ever been convicted before?" Mr.mittee were too busy to undertake them, I with Chinese questions might not be strenght we want. But we are with his generous benevolence. The Euro-C. A. D. Melbourne asked a defendant at the was reminded of the old story of Elijah being ened thereby. There is certainly no evided as being. Alled pean is generally wall informed regarding Police Court, this morning, What?" returned caught up in a chariot of fire, and of the pre-ence to show that it was strengthened. Whe people among the modus operandi of beggar guilds, and the Chinaman, with some fealing of surprise.. dicament of his successor, left disconsolate then it was in any degree weakened-stick to the social ideale has bad practical evidence of their operations. "Not as yet. I have only been here two days!! with a mantle several sizes too large for him, probable aim of the Committee, true to ples and prefer to in the capitals of Europe. Those who have: His first conviction was registered there and uneasily contemplating the dificulties of the the traditions of its great Burlinghame post (bus dramatically vacated. Such a far- | prototype-may some day appear. Some scen the brigands who line the quays of

fetched idea may seem to some of you, in the contemporary diarist may describe an offer is believed to course like Genoa and Naples and all, travellers by the

absence of any clear perception of the risks of congratulations by the Commissioners to of European residents in the

cause of this wick Norddeutscher Lloyd have had that oppor-

involved in your Chairman's duties, to require cerials Cabidet masters on their offorts to an explanation, it is not to be found, in reduce the already insufficient fighting strength supposed to

to obsess "minds,""mur. tunity-know how difficult it is to escape the

desire unduly to magnify my offico. 1

of their own country and, with that, her over on all questions are beavily demands of the sturdy rascals

ale who, by every

do not wish to take too much upon a lefluence. He will not relate that he heard in advance.- 1 have an idea trick under the sua, seek to charm the

myself Nor do I forget that your con them and that China was steadily aiming to emanating from Hongkong, are nimble coin out of the visitor's pocket. But

fidence reposes on the knowledge that the

increase her. He may not have noticed any badly off in this way. Perhaps this risk of writing or saying the wrong thing, thing held in anyone's "Check," In the mean- 'I came by the iden. At the time the American who has not journeyed beyond Manila is apt accustomed to those sighted

of thus committing this branch of the Associa time it is noteworthy that, the visit of the sacre of a body of missionaries near Foochow than tos false position, is reduced to a minimum Commission took place in April and that the a meeting was held here in this half and and is apt to be worked upon by the doleful

by the wisdom in council of the rest of the voice of the charmer was never so distinctly | telegram-possibly rather an lodignant mess sight of a miserable child pleading for a

members of Committee. Indeed, it has been heard as in Peking during early May. The age-was despatched, I, fancy to the Foreign meal. There is no need for such generosity

their support that has pulled me through the ninth of that month was the date of the Customs Office, protesting against the matter being and no necessity why Hongkong should be

of risks 10 which I have alluded, risks increased Edict. But we may perhaps indulge the theory treated as of no importance. I happe

that, whatever bye-products were hoped for in Glasgow at the time and to see an article in come a byeword abroad. The police should

by recent events:

from it, the main business of the Commission Glasgow's leading morning paper on the sub- take the matter in hand and, leaving the

was to originate a method of retaining wilbio ject. It discussed the matter with the calm Kamblers alone for a few days, turn their

bounds of safety the expansive political and detachment and disinterestedness which is attention to this fester in the very centre of

economic forces set frem by the action of foreign easily ten thousand miles sway and Balshed the city.

intercourse. Mandarindom's emissaries safely up by alluding to the meeting in Hongkong and circumambulated the globe and duly delivered to the telegram giving the resolution prated at themselves of a report. An Edict has resulted, it, by saying that, in some cases, whatever the Foreign Office might in their wisdom decide to do, the last people whose opinion should be considered were "the shrieking colonists of Hongkong."

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MESSA H. Price & Co, wie merchants, bare just received samples of new bottle stoppers which are of original design, and excellently formed. They are also showing, corks which should be used after the ordinary cork has been removed, Both designs have only to be stea to be appreciated.

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MR. F. A. Hazeland, first police magistrates could not preside at the Police Court this morning awing to illness, Mr. C. A.D. Mel bourne, the second magistrate, sat in the large Court and disposed of the few paity cases that were brought before him. in consequence Mr. Hazeland's illness several cases, which came directly under his notice, had to be post- poned, including the decision in the Goldring Indian soldiers assault case, which 'was billed for to-day.

THE NEW CHINA,

China is changing. So are the everlasting. bills. But China'is changing in a rather more palpitating way. 1 mean by the statement just what everyone else means who makes it

that is how you may know it is true. The fertilising stream of foreign commerce flow ing evermore freely into the sluggish Yellow

There seemed to be little in the grim after the Water Police, with dredging is the man of River of the old national life has greatly altered

math of the Russo-Japanese war to arouse the risibilities of the bystander, and nothing coo- nected with the surrender of Port Arthur and

THREE sampanmen, who were charged before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, this morning, at the Police Court, at the instance of P. C. Berrie, of

war anchorage yesterday afternoon, pleaded guilty to the accusation, and were each fined $1o. Immediately after auaval vessel has been coaled it is the custom of the sampas folks to rush to

its character moreover, its course has deviated noticeably of late as an unexpected result of the influence exerted by the erection in the North of the great Dai Nippon dam across

THE HUICT'S EFFECT, SE

Its effect, if any, will be to create a certain number of poor copies of foreign political insitutions. That prospect has nothing to do. with this story. In the first Anglo-Chinese war the mandarin in charge at binhai in

the mas

This utterance indicates sufficiently well the attitude with which many Home critics view

the subsequent trial of Stoessel appeared to be the scene like vultures and commence dredg. Manchuria. The waters of the river have Chusan menorialised the Throna reporting our opinions. It should be one of the aim of conducive to mirth. It was all the other way. Bg for those pieces of coal that have dropped broken down the old banks in many places and that the foreign devils did not fight fair and the China Association to correct this error; to.

for no matter which of the combatants one sup-

ported there was no denying the steadiast earnestness of each. Humour lurks uncon- A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, sciously, everywhere, however, and it has cropped up is one of the most unexpected places, the chief characters being so less per

AGENTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Hongkong, 4th January, roof.

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sonages than General and Mis. Stoessel. it

seems that while Port Arthur was besieged, a certain Mrs. Poudzky, the widow of a captain of the same name, kept, no doubt as a stand by, two cows and a calf, These she treasured as

overboard during the coaling of the vessel.

TANG E, who said she was a widow, sixty years. of age, was arraigned before Mr. C. A. D Melbourne, at the Police Court, to-day, on a charge of removing a certain landmark, to wit, Shu Lung, New Teritory, on the agth ultimo. a slope defining & Certain lot of land, at Pak

i did not remove the stone," pleaded the old lady. I simply would not allow them to put up the mark as the land on which they desired to place the stone belongs to our ancestors. A coolie was called and he stated that he was

on this ground, fie did so, but accused fore up. His Worship informed the old dame that ab was old enough to know better, and bound her over to the sum of $100 to he of good bebavlodt for six months.

that he was consequently unable to repel them inasmuch as they possessed ships capable of moving without sails. A second mandarin said that he had seen such ships and that he was quite prepared to make them. The first

rig out some kind of a junk in the likeness of complainant was superseded in his command by this confident gentleman who proceeded to foreign ship with two masts and fannel. In well at the lower end of the funnel he made a bonfire so that smoke appeared satisfactorily out of the top. He could not make out why vessel remained stationary. Neither could the

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aldreed to Thn Baliter, 1, Ten House Rodd, and the most valuable of her possessions and lavish ordered by the P. W. D. to place the landmark face the fact that these things have got to get higher officials who had taken his promise

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DEATH.

On December 29, at Shanghai, MARION FORD, beloved mother of C. F. Greenwood, aged 72 years.

ed more than housewifely care upon them. Early and late she kept an eye on them, fed

them when she was half-starved herself, neg- lected her children, if she had any, to nurse the calf, and ministèred to its infant aliments with an assiduity which made even the mother cow jealous. Hearing of these, cows' and the

FOLLOWING 'are the returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation, and of species in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1906, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks :--

Average Specie Amount. in Reserve.

Banks.

calf, General Stoessel gave many anxious thoughts to their condition and may even have contemplated the expropriation of the boving creatures. But fate willed otherwise, Chartered for the Japanese were pressing him on all sides and it was only a question of time when Port Arthur would be surrendered into the hands ofthe epenly. The fateful day arrived when General Stoessel felt himself obliged in the interests of humanity to give up his sword and admit the

The Hongkong Celegraph superiority of the Japanese investors, and Port

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907,

OUR BEGGAR POPULATION,

Some months ago, in obedience to the numerous complaints of local residents, the

Arthur was no longer a Russian fortress. The

Japanese Advertiser, which has translated the story from Russian newspapers, stains that General Stoessel came forward in defeope of his wife. From our contemporary's translation it would appear that the general laid the

Bank of India, Australia and Chioa...

..... $2,378,057 Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Cor- poration

13,654,879 Sational Bank of

China, Limited...... 119,702

Total.........$1,649,648 571,345,000 POLICE Sergeant Lee and a number of plain clothes men from No. 2 alice Station raided last evening a house at No. 1, Albany Street, where it was stated, gambling was being car ried on. When the police entered the house the door of which was wide open-they found in a room big enough to hold a large crowd,

When it was cut all through the breakdown

A CYCLE OF CATHAY.

persuade the Home folks that we are not much peculiar people as many of them assume, but men of like passions with themselves and, when it comes to business, with no more par- sionate views. If in writing on the Imperial

Foreign Office despatch 1 truss It may be Maritime Customs question we displayed more passion than would be thought proper in overlooked. The heat of our views is receiving justification continually You will have seap the telegram in Wednesday's China Hall of the years Edicts the two, to which I have alluded, are by far the most important. But, there have been many others all more or less displaying the old faith in the efficacy of fair words and a new bellef in political machinery as such.

People who believe that national character has deeper origins will not be very sanguine of great resalta

No one could realise that the driving power of the foreign devils' infernal invention was some- thing unseen in the heart of the thing. Without the driving power of a national faith capable of lifting the individual up and enabling him to sisk some part of bla malfishness in higher aims for the common good, no mere copying of

·HAS CHINA CHANDED? external designs in social or governmental

As regards the latter it is, to say the least of mechanism can avail. It is difficult to make it, doubtful whether China has changed at all,

of foreign residents in China for venturing to protest against the encouragement of the Chi nese Government, in this litude, Oar old:

the lower levels of the great (hinese Commen are more than usually airy in consequence It is not a new fancy that views the waste spaces, and long and dreary "stretches of flat, boggy land, is a veritable Slough of Despond. But owing to the rising of the river the going Force which used to lead through the Slough is worse than ever. The old causeway of

is submerged and abandoned and the only way across is along paths not marked on any map paths as slippery and treacherous as the paddy bunds after heavy rain. It is annoying to find progress so slow and disheartening, to have to

worse before they can get better. But there is this reflection to consols us. When the river seitles down isto some new bed and the water subside, the fields will be much more fertile than ever before. Remember that the stream which is causing the present inconvenience is a life-giving stream. The story of its origin and the rise and

flow is the bistory of the world You know the saying that * History, so called, ́ ́is but a comment on the history of commerce," It is an illum-out much less to steer a safe middle course, if at all, whether it had not been for inating remark. The stream of commerce is between sympathy with genuine patriotism the worse. Since the earliest days of our an antipathy with a spurious article ex diplomatic relations with Mandarindom the exciting cause of civilisation with which we tensively masquerading as such. Many would there has never been any discovery made of are familiar. When it flowed into China by be reformers may personally be honest but AR active principal of good faith. We should land across Asia it stimulated into existence they must not obscure the fact that some of the like to record evidence óf this discovery. But $2,300,000 the civilisation, with which we are familiar. changes which they aim at may not be genuine exciting as the events of the past year bays reform or restrain anyone from opposing been, there has been nothing as wildly excit 9,000,000 of the old land routes this civilisation wax them. Take a case in pojat the question that ing as that. There seems to be no greater -

arrested and remained for many centuries has exercised as all so much during the past avidity to meet treaty obligations than former- * marking time." Only when the stream even- 45,000 tuaily found its way round the South did the year the change wrought by the Edict of the ly. We have noticed no sign of it in respect of process of new binh begin. The events that th May. la the administration of the LM, the Mackay Treaty. On the contrary, evidences Customs. A trae Chinese patriot honestly de- of a wholesale desire to repudiate engagements have pursued each other during the last cen“. tury with increasing rapidity to disturb the old sirous of reforming the national institutions are chiefly reported from Peking - In this equilibrium of the Far East are merely the the order obtaining in the only well-organised

mattor also there is the oddest adverse criticism. would not start by attempting to change. throes indicating the inevitable internal pangs.

and honestly administered government de Sixty years of open ports--a cycle of Cathay partment. He would begin bis, crusade else. has created a powerful commercial class in where. He would agitate for change where friend the Spectator took us a'i badly to task it is needed. He would agitate for it very not long ago in this matter. The Fditor.seemed whose minds western ideas, long fermenting, where except in the Customs Service. Oddly to lose sight of the fact that in advocating of fantan. Some of the gamblers got very new wise. Its expansive force is telling upon and motives of the officials who instituted this Englishmen resident in China display an much excited when they saw the officers and inclastic sides of the old bottlesmaid on the Customs Administration has been unreasoning, infpatience with, and homility made a dash for liberty. Many succeeded in These are strained almos!""" to bursting misrepresented as a display of cutility towards to, the Chinese people. It is often importa getting away and the manner they went about point. When that is reached some say the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese to keep in mind a distinction between the it was dangerous in the extreme. The police.

we shall all see sed. I eschew the pro people. Id fact an originating in attitude word Chins, meaning Mandarindom, captured nipsteen men, whom they arraigned before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, at the Police phecy as far as possible. I see only this unfriendly to Chine, Nothing could be fur- same word 10 mean the Chinese Court, this morning, on the orgel gambling The cleverer young men of the rising generather from the truth. As far as this Association these the interests of the entire foro charges. The two leaders were ford Sas each tion are pushing their way forward by new is concerned it was and is our belief that if the cantile community are manifestly bound up. and the remainder, but ope-a lad-who was roads. The steep and stony steps up the paths raid had been completely successful Chipw's This cannot be said Mandarindom. Though discharged on account of his, were asked of literary achievements are no longer the only credit would have suffered severely In our its ranks are recruited from the people, lis la- way to influence and power. The man of view the ultimate effect, would have been 10 torests are in many respects opposed to the to pay ga apiece..

action is coming to the front. The soldier is hamper honest trade, to promote smiggling to general good. Hence the fact that the foreign launch No. 2 at Cheung-shaiwan yesterday and made much of He is even paid. It friendliness that works to hinder the progress he noticed that a man on board a fishing junk would almost appear as if our old friends, the of such misfortunes. Criticism of the latter by or bad suddenly brown something into the bay. ferall, were being relegated to the back" A QUESTION OF UNFRIENDLINESL Expecting something to happen the lakong seats of bonour. Many observers view these An enemy wishing evil to overtake the old towards China The Chinese people kept his eye on the people on board the junk changes with concern. They see lo them Middle Kingdom would have rejoiced in the be on the contrary and gen and on the water, After about six seconds he signs that Chins is transferring her allegiance complete success of the original aim of of a wish for their welfare heard a stifled explosion, and saw the water from the old rule of propriety to a blind wor the Edict Anyone who wanted to see how to far as to o near where the something was thrown rise ship of force. There is danger in attaching China getting into a hopeless mess again down so far several feet. Full speed ahead" rang on the too much, importance to this view. It im would have welcomed the threatened upset ry I claim telegraph and the police launch was soon presses too deeply the imagination of over Precisely for the opposite reason we CH- alongside the fishing junk. "Fishing with mained politicians. It tends to paralyse deavoured to prevent it. We thought that wo dynamite ?? said the lukong when he got on diplomacy, it weakens the kases of the saw clearly enough that the usenzance: board the junk. Come along with me." He foreign Powers: On The other hand there is were an insult to the intelligence arrested the master of the junk, placed him on danger in attaching too little meaning to the the British Mercantile Community but of all board, the launch, and taking the junk, if yow, manifest fact that the mind of modern Man-foreigners. They certainly were. They were brought the whole outfit back to Hongkong darigdom is bent on the creation of big-bat probably meant to be, but whether meant to bo Polles Sergeant Jackson charged the owner of talions, even more persistently than on the insulting or not there was never apy, doubt as the fishing craft before Mr.C. A. D, Melbourne, manufacture of small coins I refrain from to their business meaning, not finast at the Palice Court, this morning, with the attempting to make a cheap point of compari, minds of business men. In the mind of! offence, but applied for a postponement as son between the two. That would seem like but dess man it dijpst, yoʻlmagine, according to him, further loquiries were neces- Javily. But it is to be hoped that the sold mary before the case could proceed. "casa, ára better stuff than the coll was adjourned,

police authorities made a series of raids on responsibility on the Japan Coverame a number of coolies deeply interested in a game have at last produced a remarkable brew of enough, adverse enticism on the methods resistence to Mandarindom's lapses from grace

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the beggart who infested the main streets of because the cows had been taken prisoners, the Colony. They were such an unmitigated and he begged the Court to award his legal nuisance that their clearance was appreciated wife 25 roubles from Mrs. Poudzsky, as by everybody. For some time this satis costs In the event of the Court aut consent factory state of affairs continued, but now ing to accept his statement he prayed that, the old condition of things lias returned, and before deciding the case, some arrangement the pedestrian is "hold up" at every street should be made for the examination of wit corner and even in the middle of Queen'snesses, a large number of whom lived in Road itself under the very eyes of the police. China and Japan, with the object of explain- A correspondent states that in the course of ing the circumstances, very important in the a walk along Battery Path he was challenged case, that the cows were almost dead, and that no less than a dozen times by relays of their keep, owing to the deärneas of everything WHILE lukong 460 was on duty in police no longer despised. He is even encouraged foster corruption. It is a strangu son of us. merchant and the Chinese trader are frequent beggars, who had clear marked lines of at that time, amounted to something like 500 demarcation which were in no case exceeded. roubles a month, and for the entire two months It is extremely annoying to be followed by a to ibou one thousand roubles, for which sum whining child who has been sent out by an he, Stoessel, at the request of his confidants elder to work upon the sympathy and the and wife, set up a counter-claim against the densibility of the foreign population. It has ex-captatoess. Mrs. Stoessel amplified her not escaped the notice of the lower classes husband's testimony by declaring that the feed that at this season of the year people are of the cows was not a 1,000 roubles but 1,500, more inclined than at other times to undo but she, having compassion for the position of their purse-strings, and, accordingly, the the ex-captainess, voluntarily reduced, the ancient device of educating a child in the amount due and prayed that only one thousand baneful, art of crying "poverty has been roubles be awarded her! The unfortunate adopted by the unscrupulous rascals who part of the thing is that we do not least how are in waiting to sec whether the the trial ended, but the picture of the widow appeal to the charitable is rewarded. and her cows, not omitting to mention the calf, Those who have occasion to perambulate and the commandant and this wife,, who alsq the principal thoroughfares at all hours can had an eye on the two cows, sic, is surely the fully bear out the statement that a perfect | height of pure, unadulterated farce. As Epidemic of beggary has broken out and if contemporary says it is

says it is reducing the tragedy of ona should be so foolish as to give the war to the level of opern bouffs,

for the dantzer to which we old fore

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that the palmed off upon the Lega lo the House of Commons, i

the