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HONGKO

Lamina

January,

Petersburg lture (on the „there will: Dola 50,000 tble, of ,000,000 will wipe out the deficit

cfcit för 1907 la 297,000,000 rbls.," of which 55,000,000 is covered by the 1906 surplus and the rest by a new loan,

•for 190.

The estimates include 114,000,000 to wards, the cost of the Japanese war and 61,000,000 for relief of the famine.

Later.

The United States and Japan. The president of the Stanford Leland Stanford Univerally at San Francisco, ad dretting a Socialist meeting, asserted that a Japanese Exclusion Act was impossible, and that it was bonsends to affirm that the United States must fight Japan for the mastery of the Pacific. He believed that Japan sin cerely desired to stem unskilled labour em- igration to the Uulted States, ;-

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

"A Paris despatch of Dec. 17 states:-The French and England' companies that have agreed to born each half of the tunnel under the channel that separates England from the continent, arg pushing their plans just as if the British parliament had already passed the bill authorizing its construction.

The French parliament has already given its consent, and well informed diplomats say that It is a foregons conclusion, Dow that both nation, have given so much evidence of late of the entante cordiale, that the British solons will pass the bill upapimously.

(A new model, which shows the course of the proposed tunnel across the straits of Dover, is now exhibited by the French company, giving the different geological strata through which the boring would be made. This model was contracted by M. Ludovic Breton, the chief engineer of the company, and one of the most noted geologists of modern times.

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Already, at Sangaste, bolów Calais, near the coast, the plant of the French company ban been erected, and a similar structure is in course of construction on the English side,

Charlotte Broo

asa of middle age who has apparently seen petier days, But, now stranded in the Colony made an app apen beluis Mt F

the Polica Court, this morning, on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner whilst dru Arsensi Street at four o'clock this morning

Ware you'disorderly?" asked the Court 1 was by myself and a dog, your Worship, said accused 1 was not disorderly How could I be disorderly when I was alone?" she asked,

* Police Constable Shepherd, who made the arrest, said that early this morning he saw da fendan! leaning against a pillar in Arsenal Streat speaking to some soldiers. She was intoxicat. ed. After he had watched her for a few minutes he saw accused run up the road, yelling at the top of her lungs. The officer followed her into Queen's Road East. She attempted to ascend the staircase of the house and rolled to the

bottom again. P

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went; on" (henSout

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a Justice of the Peace and Dap ant of Pembrokeshire, and has had the usual experience for a. Colonial law officer of having sal is the House of Commons. was Membar, of Parliament for Pembroke from 1893 to 1998, being, assistant private se cretsry to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1893 to 1895, › Mr. Rees Davis first official ap: pointment was as Attorney General of the Ba hamas, which he took up in December, 1897, and he administered the government-la 1901. ln 1902, he acted as Chief Justice for a few months, and in the same year went to Cypius

the truck thus left unguarded coolie helped himself to a box and fed streel, Being chased, however, by one of the Truchman kno

better sprinter, and who, had pot

out of the purloial

mproin

police:

#grabbid," and him-hatll the Courtant this kenḥit: cima" to his turn to

Accused uttered a subdued whistle and.said; as King's Advocate. The promotion to Hong answer the Magistrate's question as to whather:

oh! What falsehoods!"

kong, provided the same salaries are paid, is a very important one for Mr. Rees 'Davis. In

that the police

seaman bad injured could not obtain any information 85 to bow the. man got into the stokebold, but is is bellaved" that the seaman, while passing, slipped and fall 1010 the

>Hir-condition, is serious, and little or no hope is entertainment for bis

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CLAUCTION,

"What have you got to say? Were you Cyprus, where he had a seat in the legislative; of cigareltas because he saw others doing the UE Undersigned have received instruct)

drunk?" asked the Court,

***I was not," said, accused. "There was

nobody with me but a dog, and how could I do such things?"

Inspector Gourlay said that secuted lived in his district, and about ten days ago he had to ramove her to hospital suffering from the effecti of a long inebriation,,, !'

"Five dollari, or fourteen days," angcunced the Court.

1:4

and Executive Councils, bis salary, was £752. in Hongkong, Sir Henry Berkeley's salary was £1,500,-Straits Times.

O;S. NAVAL HOSPITAL.

DEBILITATING CLIMATE OF THE FAR-BAST,

he was railty or not, the accused put up the arousing ples that he helped himself to a box

same, and thought that the boxes were special- ly placed on the truck for the public to help

themselves to them at their own free will That remarkable plas, however, did not explain bis bolting for dear life down the road when be bad secured his public property,” and the unsympathising magistrate thought that fourteen, days' hard labour would, about meet the justice The project for the erection by the govern of the case, and passed an order to compan ment of a large marind hospital at the navy | that result accordingly," as she entered the prisoner's waiting room: she | yard, Puget sound, was unanimously endorsed 74,5 was mel by the Supreme Court balliff, who |by the Chamber of Commerce' on the 19th ult.* handed her a writ. The writ was for 585 dan in the following resolution, Introduced. by to the Government Civil Hospital which has Judge Thomas Burke: not been paid. She paid her fine and left the Magistracy,

-Accused marched out of Court and as soon,

TANJONG PAGAR AWARD.:

The following circular has been sent out 10 the T.P.D. Co. members;-

SECRETARY'S OFFICE, TANJONG PAGAR, Singapore, 3rd January, 1997.

"It is understood that the navy: department has recommended the establishment of a large and well-equipped hospital at the Puget" sound navy yard, to care properly for the sick and alling brought there on naval vessels coming to the yard from the Orient and other places as well as for the care of the occasional cases of sickness arising at the yard. 12% Wagh "Resolved. That in view of the healthful Best of the climate of Pugot sound at all sea sons of the year and its marked recuperative influence upon persons returning from the de bilitating climate of ibs. Far East, that the action of the navy department is recommends. ing the establishment of such a hospital at the Puget sound bavy yard deserves the cordial. support of this chamber and of the centre con- grossional delegation from this state, and we earnestly urge'our members of congress to do

To the Members.

Dear Sir or Madam-I beg to advise you that in the course of negotiations with the Colonial Government, with referance to the terms and conditions of any proposed issue of For nearly a century the tunnel scheme has Inscribed Stock to the Company ja part satis. been broached in both countries off and on,faction of the Award, the Government have buj pot nati)-1865 was any decided-move-mader informed-the-Directors-that-they-cannot-yet-everything in their power-to-secure-the-adop Then a French society was formed under the commit themselves as to the rate of Interest ortion of the secretary's recommendation.”: presidency" of Michael Chevalier, the noted price of issue or other terms of the proposed economist, with capital' of 2,000,000 francs, issue of Inscribed Stock. One-fourth of the shares were taken by the In view of this, the Directors propose to De Rothschilds, and the French parliament take payment of the full sum awarded as com auctioned the project. At the same time anpensation for the acquisition of the undertaking English concern was organized. It was planned of the Company in cash, unless a favourable that from each side a separate tunnel should be proposal regarding Inscribed Stock is put be. built.bis British parliament permitted, but fore the Directors in ample time to allow it to when in 1880 the two companies were merged be submitted to the shareholders, and the necessary arrangements to be made with shata. holders without loss of time being caused in distribution.

and each wanted to build half of the tunnels so as to meet in the middle of the channel, Lord Wolseley sounded the alarm, and said the tunnel would prove a great manaca to English in case of war. He had no objection to a. bridge that could be blown up. The Britons passed a bill forbidding the construction of the Tunnel, but not until from each side a mile of underground tube had been 1 ored.

Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since the last bill was rejected by a select.com. mittes of lords and commons, and now a new bill is about to beintroduced in the hope that the "Increased friendship of the two countries, the advance of science, and the reliability of the modern, explosive, which would enable the tunnel to be blocked instantly, in case of emer: gency, will completely do away with the old objections,

The proposed tunnel is to be 30 miles in length, running from Shakespeare Cliff, near Dover, to Baugaile, near Calais, in France. It in figured that the cost will be about $50,000,000, The immense advantage of this dry-land link cannot be overestimated, for it is reckoned that a saving of at least five shillings in the top would be effected on merchandise, and for pas sengers the knowledge that it was possible to get from Londo to all parts of the continent, without the discomforts of a channel crossing and the risk of mal-do-mer would be quite sufficient inducement to more than double, the passenger traffic in both directions,

: --One of the tunnels will be for outward traffic, which would then run direct from London to all the countries of Europe, and the other tanagl for the incoming trains by the "Chemin do Fer du Nord.”.

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By order of the Board.

J. 5. M. RENNIE, Secretary,

-A SOUTH SĦA ISLANDS CONTRACT.

COMPLICATIONS WITH CAPT, O'KEEFE'S

KEIRS.

** THE NEW FAR EAST””

ÎN CHINA BORNBO CO, LD:

WORK FOR THE BLIPWAY.

There is at present on Messrs. The China

to Company's Slipway at Bandakan the American schooner Perrissa mensuring 137 x 33' x 9' 9" and of 245 tons register, her, actual dead-weight is about goo lons, She has come -to Sandakan to be repaired and is having a new faise keel placed, new timber put in, various minor repairs, and is being scraped and painted.§. N. 2. Herold, Jan, 2,

A GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

SKELETIÓN IN A PILLOW,

The Singapore Free Press of 8th inst," says ¦ Yesterday, at the Teluk Ayer Reclamation; two" chintings" were examining the baggage of some Chinese coolies for oplum when they One of the mada rather a gruesome find. coolies had a pillow wrapped up in a mat, und whilst examining it for concealed tins of chandu the "chinting's" fingers encountered ja hard substance? The pillowwas promptly: ripped open and instead of the expect ed chanda tins the horrified Revenue Oficer found a grinnior poman skull." "A Inther examination of the pitton when his nerves had recovered from the first shock, disclosed. other parts of a complete human frame. The owner of the pillow was taken to the Teluk Aver Police Station and bare slated that the bones were the remains of his elder brother who bad died in Bagan. He was take | ing the bones back to China for burial. The coolls appeared much alarmed and begged to

The changing circumstances of the Fat Eas: are described with much insight and modera tion by an American writer of repate,

Mr. Thomas F. Millard, sometime special corres pendent from the Russian side in the Russo Japanese war to "Scribner's Magazine, in a volume which has just been issued by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, It is titled "The New Far East," and in it the author views political conditions in the Far East without racial prejudice, describing the situation in a style which should prove of interest to those who are so ready to condemn any criticism of The Japanese Government and the policy in Korea and elsewhere in the Orient, Mr. Mil. lard, however, only gives voice to conclusions | bé" tolonged.", which should have been by, now generally re cognised. That they are not at all events in' England is due probably enough 1o. the foolish exaggeration with which Japan is now

Some three or four years ago, an adventurous sea captain named O'Keefe, well known throughout the Far East, was lost, it is sup-regarded. posed, in a typhoong: He was known by his

None the less, it should be understood that intimates as "The King of Yap,” an island in by the results of the Russo-Japanese' war a the South Seas, and he made periodic voyages new factor has appeared in the Far East in his little schooner from Yap to Hongkong which, under a pretence of helping China to with copra, béchic-de-mer, and other island reform, conceals a widespread movement products. It was during one of those voyages, "gainst foreign predomination. The new that he disappeared from human ken, and the China-as much a creation of Tokio supposition is that he was caught in a typhoon product of Peking-it is imended and that his schooner foundered with all hands, Captain O'Keefe wall we believe, an Irish American. He was an adventurer of the 18th century type, and many are the yarnu told about him. One is that he acquired the island of Yap with its queen, who subsequently bore him children. When he died, his fegitimate widow and family apprared from the United States as claimants of his valuable property in the Far East and in the South Seas though an adventurer, O'Keefe had succeeded in acquiring a good deal of this world's goods and he had some leasehold property in Hong kong which realized a goodly sum at public

auction,

For,

The great drawback to the difficult opération of piercing a long tunnel, as demonstrated by. This is not a full and particular history of an the Simplon, is that the interior of the excava interesting figure, however, but only a brief tion is extremely hot, thus making work very

outline to introduce the following paragraph difficult, but the character of the subsoil through from one of our Netherlands India contem which the channel tunnel would be bored is poraries, and to correct some of its mis- altogether different from that, through which statements the Simplon was pierced.

la Aben, again, another difficulty presents itsell, the question: Would there be any danger from andden inrushes of

of water, considering the that would roll ceaselessly

Recently an American trader named O'Keefe died in the fellow islands, leaving there, ha geed to carry on trade with the Mupia riches which his heirs are disputing for. From

islands, a group off the New fuisse, coast

ormous mould imagine that there within the jurisdiction of the Sultan of Idors

rhead? One

ould be grave danger, but experts declare hat there would be very little, and they con- Adently assert that the infltration of water would not be, nearly, so much’us is often seen during the sinking of mines,**

shall view Far Eastom problems through Japanese glasses, and Mr. Millard illustrates the gravity of the situation 'in' words which strike an undoubted warning. Thrusts at the expense of Great Britain are not wasting from the shrewd comments with which his pages are filled, but although the rebukes may be justified, the worstip of things Japanese has assumed such dimensions in this country that It is to be feared it will not be arrested by Mr. Millard's work.-P. M. G.

**The New Far East: An examination to the new position of Japan and her in fence upon the solution of the Far Eastern Question, with special reference to the interest of America and the future of the Chinese Em Pire By Thomas F. Millard. (London:

Hodder and Stoughton.)

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. FIG. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory: risen over Japan, and fallen over China, parti On the. 16th at 11.45 -The barometer has

cularly on the E. Coast,

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIDENCE.

Noop

Buyers-Hongkong Banks $875, National Banks $49, Union Insurance $735, Hongkỏng Fires $350, China Fires $94, China Sugar $135, Raubs $81, Shanghai Docks Tia. 105, Hongkong Leads 5:10) Hongkong Hotels $12, Humphreys Estate Six,85, China Pro- vidents 591, Cements 521, Electrice $154, Ices $255, China Light and Powers $91.

Sellers-Canton Insurance $2971, HK., C. M. Steamboats Sio, Douglases $36, Horg kong Docks. $148, West Points 550, China Borneo Sto, Ropes $17.

Sale-Macao Steamboat $30, Hongkong. Docks $14ß, Hongkong Cottons $114, Cements $11, ma

Nominal: Indo-Chinas 387, China and Ma- milas $32, Shell Transports 30/ Kowloon Wharves $96, Hongkew Wharves Tili. 235 ex new issue, Dairy Farms $161, Tramways Sz15 Watsons $13, Powella 18,

„-TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. Sailing, London Bank/T, Do. deman Do.

„France Bank America-Bank T.T. Germany-Bank T.T.

Da India T.T. ...........

demand. Shanghal-Bank T.T. Singapore TT. Japan-Bank T.T. Java-Bank T.T. ...

The depression, which will probably mors a vassal of the Netherlands India Government, Esawards, has appeared over Central Chini, O'Keefe bound the Mapia thiefs to supply and the Sigh pressure area now lies over the him under contracte, with all the copra pro Sea of Japan duced on the islandsramno dan de dade

Moderate to light monsoon may be expected 4 months' sight L/C,.. he hold of the Netherlands India Governin, the Formosa Channel, and fresh to moderate; & monthe sight, L/C

monsoon over the Chios Sea.

*** Ops of the greatest difficulties that would be is only manifested by occasional visits of men. ment un the islands is very slight indeed, and experienced in making the tuncal would be in of-war. On Keele's death, his contract The line that should be followed in rights in the islands passed over to bis.

teep within the limits of the ground a Filipino, and their children.

not penetrate.ment have directed that O'Keefe's contr ely difficult, as with the Mapla chiels should be confirmed to work will have his hairs, on condition that thby'allow no offer

foreigners to suitle there."-- Sirulla

the

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MMI FORECAST,KA

*90 days' sight San Francisco & New York - months sight re

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moderate to lights cloudy, misty

2-Formosa Channel, same's No. 3South coast of China betwe

and Lamocks, same as No.

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6 months sig

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PUBLIC AUCTION,ASYKE "FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED;

SATURDAY,UNDER the 19th January, 1907, at 11 AM at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dès Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

A LARGE, ABSORTMENT OF WINES AND SPIRITS. TERMS:-As usual, B

HUGHES, & HOUGH, Auctioneer

Hoogkong, 16th January, 1907 1

НЕ

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

A

in to sell by a PUBLIG, AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

SATURDAY, g

the 19th January, 1907, at 11 a Mỹ, at the Po On Insurance Co's GodowDI, West Point,

91 Bags AUSTRALIAN FLOUR, (more or less damaged by ses; water). TERMS-As Oscal

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 16th January, 1907,

PUBLIC AUCTION;

THE Undersigned have received instructions

the

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

SATURDAY, 19th January, 1907, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, conser of Ice House Street, "SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising

| "DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON BED-

ROBINSON PIANO

COLD

TALKING

MACHINES

RECORDS.

New Stock just arrived

LARGE AND VARIED

ASSORTME

Comic

MUSIC

Opera Scores

and Dance Music.

RECEIVED BY EVERY MA

Hongkong, agth November, 1906.

THE FAMOUS

STEADS with WIRE And HAIR MAT TRESSES TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, SAWRITING TABLES, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARDS and DINNER WAGGONS with GLASS, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS, GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, PICTURES, AMSTEL PASTEURIZED

ALSO

Soc. 3

A quantity of CANTON CARVED BLACKWOODWARE.

TERMS: S—AS ustali velA

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 16th January, 1907, 1

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS, FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

THE Company's Steamship

21

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Captain Lancelin will be despatched as above, OD or about MONDAY, the 21st instant,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

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