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Entimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1957.

Iwards and forwards till it seemed as if the task of Sisyphus had assumed a new and oriental shape. It was blocked, sidetracked and mangled until there was real reason to fear that the attempt to get it through the preliminary stages would prove abortive. At A. S. WATSON & CO., length, Sir Ernest Satow, who was then

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British Minister at Peking, took the matter in hand" and by his vigorous and persistent efforts the Agreement was signed. In the meantime His Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan had arrived in Hongkong and with the true spirit of the engineer he determined that, despite the opposition of certain officials at the Chinese capital, the British suction of the line should be constructed in spite of all difficultics. Still the authori. ties at Canton, relying on the eventual suc cest of their representatives at Peking, re fused to move in the matter, blandly offer. ing the excuse that the Agreement had not

meaning of Commissioner, that he has no sympathy with those who would seek to relax the hidebound laws enacted against the Chinese. The recrudescence of the boycott against American goods, probably, occurred after the Commissioner, had sub- minted his report to the Senate, and conse, quently he may have fancied that it had died a natural death. But there is no doubt as to the sincerity of the promotes of the boycott in their propaganda work, and such a report is not calculated to calm the spirit of retaliation among the natives. However, it is perhaps unjust to judge the Commis sioner's views from an epitome of the report, and we can only wait until the original bas

arrived in Hoogkong.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.'

IT is anounced in the Garii!! that the Im2 4 perial Service Order shall, by His Majesty the King's direction, rank lenmediately after the Distinguished Service Order, and before the. Fifth Clays of the Royal Victorian Order.

AN Indian exchange states that a Parige lady,

Mrs, Manckhai Loud, daughter of the late Dr. haṛdurji, known of a sure cure for leprosy. this is so the lady should certainly be ap proached for his prescription, by those inter ested in the matter-especially the authorities

in Casion, whom'it should nearly concern.

OUR telegrams have mentioned, the severity of he weather in England, and last exchanges bring details of terrible disasters. Shipwrecks along the coasts, trains wrecked, and inany lives lost, among them being Mr. W. Black, M for Banffshire, who was so badly injured in a railway collision that he had to have both of his legs ampainted, but he succumbed, later, to his injuries. Then from Merthyr, Wales,

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SIGHT-SEEING IN THE CITY.

NO OFFICIAL RECEPTION. [From Our Own Correspondent.

Shameen, 9th February, 11.20 a.m.

The Duke and Duchess of Con- müght, Princess Patricia and the other members of the party accom-

beon especially selected and pro- been sanctioned by Imperial edict. Even al- / THERE will be practice of the Hongkong comes the account of the death of a little girl,panying the Royal visitors arrived

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Volunteer Reserve Association at the King's Park Range on Sunday, the toth instant, at 200 yards, at 9.30.a.m., and at 500 yards at

IT is notified that the offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from jo a.m. in 1 p.n. during the Chinese New Year vacation which commences on the 13th instant, and terminates on the 17th instant, exception Sunday, the 17th instant, and on public holidays, when the offices will be catirely closed.

though the Agreement had been signed, the opposition had by no means lost heart. They coalesced in their 'resolution to defeat then.m. scheme, and that they managed to prevent its final adoption for so long is a tribute to their skill, ingenuity and influence at head. quarters. It need not be suggested that there was any chicanery employed; the fact remains that they stood a solid phalanx in the way of those who favoured the agree ment. HE, Tang Shaoyi, the Senior Vice-President of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, became so wrath at loss that he wrote a stinging letter to the Opponents of the Agreement denouncing their tactics and condemning their attitude. "No sooner has this loan been made and the Agreement thereanent signed," he wrote, "than I find you advocating the can. cellation of this very Agreement. Although your views may be excusable in the light of your patriotism, I am afraid that you will find con- siderable difficulty in realising your hopes." His Excellency was right, for the Agreement has been sanctioned and the matter is settled. We can only trust that, after the Chinese New Year evidence will be forthcoming to show that a serious start has been made with the section rauning from Canton and join -ing the Kowloon section-at-Sum-chun. The first great obstacle has been serinounted, and it should not be long before the rest of the difficulties are cleared away, and the Kowloon-Canton railway an accomplished

fact.

CHINESE IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA,

It is not astonishing to learn that last year a record was established in the number of immigrants to the United States, the total, admissions during the period being 1,176,335 an increase of 106,598 over the previous returns. The summary in the San Francisco papers which have just come to hand is somewhat too condensed to permit of any examination of the Commissioner-General's report, but interest in this part of the world will be directed to certain remarks regarding the exclusion of Chinese. It is not quite clear whether of the total number of imrai grants admitted 1,151 were Chinese or whether that was the extent of the decrease in the applications for admission. Of one thing we may be quite certain, however

The number of Chinese admissions was an infinitesimal quantity in comparison with that of aliens of other nationalities. The Commissioner in considering the tabulated section of his report makes reference to the Chinese Exclusion Law and some of the

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meeting of scatholders and subscribers of St John's Cathedral, held in the 29th it, the following were elected lay members of the Church Body, for the year 1907:-The Hon, Dr. J. M. Arkinson, Mr. W. Armstrong, Mr. A. Bryer (bonorary secretary), Dr. Francis Clark (honorary treasurer). Mr. G. Hastings, and Mr. E. Ormiston. Mr. J. C. Peter was elected auditor...

The passage from Hongkong was uneventful,

12 years of age, named Mary William who was los: in the snow, and after a two days' search at Canton at eight o'clock this morn- was found, stiff and cold, frozen to death. the ing by the steamship Honam (Capt. communication by-train in the north was en-HD, Jones)" tirely disorganized, trains being embedded in the snow. The telegraph also was everywhere interrupted. It was feared that the death-rate this winter from cold would be very high FRAUDULENT emigration is still being carried in this Colony, to a large extent. Although some very heavy penalties have been inflicted by the Court on the parties found guilty of committing a breach of the emigration laws there appears to be no reduction in the number

of cases of this sort that have had to be settled at the Police Court lately. Boarding house

At seven o'clock to night the Duke and Duchess and Princess Patricia, together with those attending Their Royal Highnesses will be entertain- ed by Consul-General Mansfield to a Chinese dinner, which will be given in a flower-boat.

The boat has been moored oppo site the Shumeen for that purpose.

Chea Leong was specially engaged as guide to conduct the visitors through the city.

Viceroy Chow Fu sent an invita tion to tlie Duke and Duchess and the other members of the party to an entertainment at the Viceregal yamen, but the offer was declined.

KOWLOON-GANION RAILWAY LUAN AGREEMENT,

SANCTIONED BY IMPERIAL. EDICT.

We areinformed by Messri, Jaidino, Matho». son & Corfeitragents with the Hoogkong and

Prior to landing, the Royal pariy Shanghai Banking Corporation for the British and Chinese Corporation, Ltd., that by a tole had breakfast on board the Honam-gram from Peking they learn that an Imperial a plain, substantial meal. The menu Edict has been issued sanctioning the Agree- ment with the British and Chinese Corporation was as follows:-

for the construction of the Chinese section of the Canton Kowloon Railway,

B.S.HONAM.” BREAKFAST.,

9th February, 1907. 1-Fried Fish.

-Ham and Eggs 3--Grilled Beef Steak.

4.—Quail with Rjce,'.

5.-Fried Lamb'Chops..

6. Cold Roast Capon, 7.-Cold Ham: 8-Cold Roast Leg of Mutton. 9.-Cold Corned Beef,

10. Chicken Curry and Rice.. 11.-Womes.

12.-Potatoes.

UNDER the auspices of the Hongkong Ladies' Auxiliary, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, a meeting will be held at the residence. of the Rev. T. W l'earce, Ponham Rond, on Monday, reis insinnt, at 5pm, when ad-keepers and runners are the greatest of dresses will be given by the Rev. J. H. Ritson, lenders. They know, for it is mentioned on their papers, that before av emigrant is allowed the Society's secretary, i ondon, and the Rev.

to set foot out of this Colony he inust G. R. Bondfield, the Society's agent for China,

be kept in the boarding house for a. certain period (foity-ciglu hours) in order that he should be examined and passed as "fit" by the emigration officers yet this law is broken time and again, som tunes twice by the same ourt, this morning. person. At the Police Yau Lam, a runner, in a boarding house at No 27, Connaughi Road West, pleaded guilty, to this offence. He escorted a hawker on board the steamer Mau Sang yesterday before allow ing him to go through all the formalities order. is reported that a Bratish vessel, the ed by the law. Sergeant Grant was up to time name of which is uncertain, which left Vla- and took both men to the Central Police party. divostok-on-fasuary 16th, struck a floating-fintion. A fine of $50-was-imposed-by-Mr. mins about one mile to the southward of Askold Melbourne. Ysland on the 17th: Considerable damage was done, the steamer being temporarily placed in a dangerous condition. Fortunately by the aid of the Russian East Asiatic Company's steamer Kina she was enabled to enter Natung Bay for repairs.

Another person-Tsang Shai Chung, a boarding house keeper of No. 29, Wing Lok Street-who was alleged to have committed a similar offence, was 'discharged by the Court. He was defended by Mr. Quo Kang ting.

S.5. ^ WONGKOI" REFLOATED.

PROCEEDING TO HONGKONG..

A private telegram has been received in the Colony stating that the N. D. L. s.s. Wongkoi, which stranded at Capt. Varella some weeks since, has been reported. The Wongkol is

According to the Universal. Gazette, the terms of the loan for the proposed Kowloon- Canton railway embody the following im portant paints:-

(1) The loan to be £1,500,000 guaranteed by a mortgage of the Kowloon-i anton Railway.

· (2) £93 to be paid for every £100.

(3) jaterest on same to be at the fate of 5 per cent. per andùm, same to commence op. date of issue of the Bonds.

(4) A single track to be first constructed, but the road bed to be widened so as to be pre-

be annulled.

13-Tea 14.-Coffee. S-Fruits,pared for the constraction of a double track, .... When it was announced that the (5) Work on the road to be started within Ilonam had arrived, Mr. R. W. eight months, failing which the Agreement will Mansfield, the British Consul-Gene- ral at Canton, went on board and tendered his respects to the Royal

"There was no official reception, in tuy shape or form. No salute was fired.

(6) The Head Office of the proposed Rail way to be in Canton. The Viceroy of Kwang-

tung and Kwanusi to appoint a Director who shall be assisted by a British Engineer-in-Chief

and a British Manager.

__(7)___The_staff_of_the_Company-to-receive-

35,000 as remuneration during the time agreed upon for the construction of the Rail- way. The said sum being the commission for the purchase of materials.

(8) The sum of £1,600 to be paid the Com- pany each year; payment of which will cease apon repayment of the whole loan.

(9) The loan is to be for fifty years. Interest

only on same to be paid for the space of twelve terest to be paid in ipstalments.

and a half, after which both "principal and in-

The river steamers were decorated with bunting, but the river gunboats had no display whatever. The visit is regarded as absolutely unofficial, the party being solely bent on sight-vinces will arrange separate terms with regard seeing:

After breakfast, the Duke and Duchess and "othere, including the Consul-General, landed at 9.30 a.m.,

STRALING a table knife, on which bore the initials of the Hongkong Club, and carrying on his trade without a licence were the charges preferred against almanne hawker, of No. 15, Po Yan Street, by Inspector Ritchie, at the Police Court, this morning. The hawker was arrested yesterday alterconn by & lukong be- cause he could not produce a licence when it was called for. At the Central Police Station proceeding to Hongkong under her own steam. and proceeded to the city. when his baskets were searched the table knife was found. He could give no explanation as Mr. John to how he came by the knife. Quinn, steward of the Hongkong Club, iden- tified the knife, as the property of the club, and the hawker was sentenced us three weeks' hard labour and four hours' stac: 5

RETURNS of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st Jan

y, 1907, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks.

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WIDOW SENT TO' GAOL..

After innumerable adjournments the 'case against the widow, Chau Sze, pending for over three weeks, came to a conclusion at the Police Court, yesterday alternoon. The charge against the widow, who until her arrest resided at the. Hung On Chan boarding house, was Banks.

preferred by Wong Pui Yuk, a Canion school- mistress. She alleged that accused, and her Cliartered Bank of India,,

san separated her from a promissory note, the Australia and China £3,264,796 $2,300,000 face value of which amounted to $5,000, some Hongkong and Shanghai

time in January last. Mr. John Hastings pro- Banking Corpora. tion,...

Briefly, the particulars of the case were to the

he Hongkong Celegraph dificulties which attend its enforcement. National Bank of China,

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEB 9, 1907.

'Limited,

Average Specie in Amount,

Reserve.

The Viceroy' of the two Kwang pro-

to the joining together of the Capton' linë to that of the Kowloon, line.

TRICKSTER HEAVILY PUNISHED.

SUBSTITUTING COINS IN DRAPER'S SHOP. They were accompanied by an

Ho Chung, the long-coated Chinaman, who, escort of Chinese guards which had was alleged to have palmed off $2 worth of been furnished by Viceroy Chow Fu..counterfeit coins in Omar Cassio Moosa, the

ROYALTY SIGHT-SEEING.

WELCOMED IN CANTON.

VICEROY'S HOSPITALITY DECLINED. CHINESE SOLDIERS, ESCORT THE VISITORS, [From Our Special Correspondent.]

Shameen, Oth February,

1.1.30 a.m.

The steamship Honam, with the secuted, and Mr. G. K. Hall Brution defended. Royal party on board, steamed into

effect that several months ago accused and her port at quarter past eight o'clock sen horrowed $5,000 from the complainant, this morning, and anchored near the who was given a promissory note. One day western extremnity of the Shameen, last month mother and son visited complainaşı, on the pretext of returning the tnau. Accused called for the promissory nose, saying that she wanted to see the date on which the loan was made, in order that the interest on the capital might be included. It was then alleged that defendant substituted a forgery for the genuine

manager of an Indian draper's establishment

D'Aguilar Sirect, yesterday, under circum stances already reported'in these colamas, re- ceived his tonic from Mr. Hazeland, at the alice Court, this morning. An expert, who was called by the police, pronounced every coin, out of the $z accused was alleged to have substituted for the complainant's money, to be counterfeits. It is true that 'when --he was arrested no spurious money was found on him and it was through this channel that accused tried, to establish his innocence, but The failed to give the Court an answeg when he was asked why it was that he gave a $5 bill as payment for two pairs of socks, valued at

small coins in his pocket. He was sentenced enty-five cents a pair, when he had $3.40 in to two months' hard labour and four bours

stocka.

THE WEATHER;

He is evidently of opinion that the power'

consuls to in Septed Americin vestigate the claims of Chinese desirous of proceeding to the States should be withdrawn and that a new system should be adopted. In the words of the San Fran- cisco Chronicle: "he recommends stationing officers to investigate and approve certificates sued by the Chinese Government to the to those who are interested in the subject of exempt classes, such plan to supersede that the main object was to locate a band of crooks, note, and was leaving the house, promising to the houseboat belonging to the Com- depression which is moving N.E. over Hok-

KOWLOON-CANTON, KAILWAY LOAN AGREEMENT SANCTIONED.

No information could be more satisfactory

14.394,200 10,000,000

125,565

60,000

Total,........

$17,284,531 17,360,000 TWENTY-hina gambiers were arrested in the Central and Western districts last evening. Eleven meu hailed from No. 109. Wellington Street (Detective Sergeant Murison the pro- moter of the raid), and the remaining eighteen famous chance of Serrant Kendal, which was under charge of Sergeant Kendal, who, it was said, were in the habit of victim ising people at West Point received by the police was no doubt correct for a number of knives commonly used by pickpockets were found and seized, but owner- ship could not be proved. The Inmates of the house were, however, caught playing what ap pearet to be poker and every man jack was arrested. They were arraigned before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, this morning, charged with viola-

ing the gambling laws and were all fined.

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feud with the money. later, when she was The Court found her guilty of theft and sent her to gact for one month.

VEGETARIAN "SUPERIORITY.”

PROFESSOR WHO OBJECTS TO THEIR TALL CLAIMS.

"Our Present Dietary was the subject of a lecture at the Institute of Hygiene, Devonshire- st., W.C., by Prof. Haliburton, who said that although it was unwise to overfeed, it was also unwise to under-ent

Taking the nations of the Far East, such as India, where the black population, was diluted with a small amount of the white races, it was

the construction of the railway which will of having the investigation made by United connect Kowloon With Canton than that States consular officers." A 'sly dig at the which was received to day, to the effect that consuls is made by the Commissioner when an Imperial Edict has been issued by the he says that greatly improved conditions re- Imperial Government at Peking sanctioning sulted from the President's orders of last the Agreement with the British and Chinese spring to instruct consular officers as to their Corporation for the Chinese section of the duties concerning the certificates to which Canton-Kowloon Railway. Time and again he has made reference. It is recommended it was declared that the Imperial sanction that there should be a system whereby the had been obtained to the document in ques-Government, might have a complete and tion, but the unreasoning opposition of certain detailed registration of all Chinese in

"I HAVE 'Do money at the Sailors Home gentry at Peking who, perhaps, had their the United States. The object of such said G. H. Wilkinson, an unemployed seaman, a scheme, is to impose a barrier against after he had been fined $7 at the Police Court owo ends to serve, delayed matters and at one time it seemed possible that the sub-those Chinese who, it is alleged, em this morning, "I have some in the bank ject would be quietly shelved. It was a ploy. various methods to enter the coun- (showing a bank book) but I can't get it from well known fact that Viceroy Chow Fu's pre-try iu violation of the law, one of the chief here. Take this instead," he said, produc- decessor was bitterly antagonistic to the of these being that they profess to be doing a draft which he handed to the inspec- the latter, the meat eaters, who came to the scheme, for the simple reason that he had miciled merchants. Any Chinese labourer tor. "That's a draft for your mother, isn't front, and who withstood disease and privatiDA

"Well," he more easily than the vegetarian population other objects in view, notably the construc found in the United States a year after the it?" asked the inspector. tion of a railway to Amoy, which was in registration act who has not a residence cer- continued, "we won't take it," Wilkinson the black races,

was charged with behaving in a disordery It was hardly fair to characterise the vege- tended, without a doubt, to divert traffic from tificate and is found to be unlawfully there

manner whilst drunk in Arbuthnot Road tarian practice as a fact, but the mere fact that the Anglo-Chinese line to the purely Chinese should, the report says, be deported. The last night. A further charge of assault vegetarians, so-called, added to their diet the undertaking. It may be argued that His Commissioner also states that on the Mexi- could have been added but the complainant three richest proteid-contalaing materials of Excellency Shum never actually showed the oan border Chinese coolies are constantly would not prefer the charge. The defendant the animal world-milk, eggs, and cheese- cards in bis hand, but there was ample cir- being smuggled into America from Mexico, was seen staggering along the road last night, showed that many bad perforce to recognise that cumstantial evidence to prove the trend of Other recommendations are designed to At the back of the inspector's quarters he was pure vegetarianism was next to impossible.

If used in that sense there was nothing much seen to assault n Parses gentleman for no his play. What he failed to do as Viceroy prevent the admission of Chinese minor of the two Kwang he succeeded in ac- children; and attach severe penalties for reason whatever. He was arrested, but the to bo said against vegetarianism, but his objec- "Parsee refused to lay charge against him. Ation was the air of superiority which vegetarians chieving through the medium of his permitting Chinese seamen to land. It is constable accompanied accused to the Hong. assumed. If vegetarianism was carried too far

- of brutality to beastą,

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figús First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory:

On the 9th at 11,55 a—The barometer has. fallen rapidly over N.E. Japan owing to * kaido.

opposite the German Consulate,

The weather was fine but overcast. At a quarter to nine o'clock the British Consul-General at Canton, Mr. R. W. Mansfield, proceeded, in missioner of Customs, on board the Honam.

Many Europeans, including prac-forming. The highest pressure is over N. tically every member of the British China and Korea, community on the Shameen, and Chinese, officials assembled on the quay awaiting the landing of the Royal visitors.

Pressure has also given way considerably in „ 5. China, where a depression appears to be

Fresh to moderate monsoon may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the China Sea.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at to a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches,

YORECAST..

-Hongkong ard neighbourhood, E. winds, fresh to moderate; cloudy, soma deiuling the rain.

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The Duke and Duchess of Con- naught, Princeus Patricia, Consul-General and the entourage stepped on show at 9.30 a.m. and immediately took chairs for the and Lamocks. Same as No. 1. city,

3.--Formosa Channel, NE. winds fresh to moderate.

They were escorted by a company of Chinese soldiers, under Colonel Lee-cho, which the Viceroy had sent to accompany and guard the distin guished sight-seers round the city.

After visiting various pagodas and places of interest, the party proceed- ed to the British yamen in the city

Later on the visitors continued where lunch was served,

of Canton

1.—South coast of China between Hongkong

4--South coast of China between Hongkong and Hkinan, samo as No. 2;-

SHIPPING AND MAILS..

MAILS DUE

German (Gneisenau) 11th inst. Indian (Kumaung) 13th init. German (Prinzesi Alles) 13ch inst. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 1gih inst..

The Boston Tow Boat Co.'s sa. Phelader

arrived at Victoria, B.C. on 6th inst

The Mogul Line ka. Lothian from Europa Tell Singapore yesterday, 'and may be expected here on fgth lart.

The Great Northern n.1.–Afinnesota, from

and is due here on 11th inst, at noon,"

friends and relatives in Peking: The terms-quite- evident,-if-this-pricis.of the report kong Bank later in the day-where-sufficient we might have horrors more terrible than those their exploration of the showplace Seattle, sailed from Shanghai at 4 mm, to-day, 9

of the Agreement were ilireshed out back. | may be accepted as approximating the money was drawn to pay his flooj