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Telegrams.

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The East and the West

London, 17th September.

Mr. Templeman, Minister of the Inland Revenue; of the l'ominion of Canada, speak ing in Victoria, strongly advocated admitting into Canada only immigrants who were like ly by assimilation and inter-marriage to assist "to build up a homogenous popuˇation.

The Du'ch in the Celebes News has reached Rotterdam that a Dutch force was defeated at Mandhar, on the gth inst., with great loss.

"Reinforcements are being seat.

Minrocco,

Later.

It is stated that General Drude's condi- tions include the surrender of the tribesmen

implicated in the massacre, the payment of an indemnity for the massacre and the sack- ing of Casablanca, and hostages, as a guar antee of good faith.

"Holland.

Queen Wilhelmina, at the opening of -Parlament, ains sunced that serious efforts would be made to render the consolidation of Dute's authority in the Dutchs Indies beneficial to the native population,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1907.

"CACION DAY BY DAY,

STAL CONVENIENCES.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

""

Cantos, 18th September.

With relarence to the different complaints Indged with the Canton-Hankow Railway Com- 'pany against integularities in the taking of votes with regard to the election of Mr. Wong Shiu ping a vice-president of the Company, yesterday morning, ilie Prefect of Kwangchow, Crae, the two magistrates of Nambei and Junyu and several prilice officials visited the Company's office to make investigation. On going through the voten it was found that 42 vales, representing 12,1:8 shares, were altered in favour of Wong. The atter will be referred

to it: authorities.

Chai

THE BRIDGING OF CHINA'S

SORROW

DUMBBELL ISLAND NORLER.

"PRISONERS CONVICTED,,

We are sure that many of our readers must

At the Criminal Bussions, this morning; be have perused with interest the various letters fore bis Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Chief Justice, from the pen of our own correspondent, written To Hing. Chang, a faberman, and his wife, during his present trip in the Far East, and Ho Yung, were indicted on a charge of murder. that they will agree with as in thinking that Aing one Fan Mok Fat, at Lantau, on the 25th debt of gratitude is due to him for his illemical-ula

The following was the jury empanelled — Mestr. 3. A. T. Plummer (foreman), J. H. Ramsay H. B. Bridger, J. Olson, S. Jones, G. White and G. W. Gegg.

Mr. Reck Davis," Attorney-General, · prose- cuted for the Crown; Hon. Dr. Ho Kal repre seating the accused.

The Chinese Imper al Pasts have, for the first time, erecteil letter illats at different points of the City. The Postal authorities have writing account of the state of affairs in that part of ten to the Canton Police Department requesting the world. He has furnished us with a series them to instruct {fficials to see that these of pictures which will be recognised by all old pillars are properly protected.

Exsterners as bearing that stamp of reality RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

which could never have been produced by a mere globetrotter, and which bring us into touch with the real state of affairs as they concern

The particulars of the case as outlined briefly trade, politics and the fature of both. One of the most striking of our correspondent's letters by the Attorney-General werd to the effect that appeared in our last isso, and gave a brief but accused were husband and wife, residing in the vivid account of the bridging of the Yellow Hui Wo village. On the morning of the 26th River under foreign supervision. The fact that August, the first accused-To Hing Chan- this bridge, when complated, will be something went to the Cheung Chau 'Police Station and like two miles in length, is sufficiently startling notified Sergeant Angus that a robbery hád to Western ideas, accustomed thought we are been committed in his house the previous in enterprises of this kind on this side of the night. While the sergeant was listening to globe, but the imagination kindles at the his story the wife and brother of the deceased thought of the benefits which will accrue to entered the charge-room, accompanied by Yesterday a ten party was given by Me. Wong China if Western engineers can really stay the Chinese policeman and, recognising To Hing Chiu-ping, the vice president of the Company, ravages of the Yellow River, and turn "China's Chau gave him in charge for murder. Fan at the Company's office when he assumed Sorrow into China's permanent gain. We Muk Yau, deceased brother, said that while he was asleep in his house, which is situate about charge of office. There were several membris should not have drawn special attention of the board of directors present in addition to to this great work were it not that it forty feet away from that of To Hing Chan's, at A few shareholders. The seal.of office was seems to us typical of so much thai has bap- about fon o'clock on the night of the 25th all., handed over to him by the members of the Compened in Chins during the past fifty years, he was awakened by a noise made in the street. mitee, who took charge of the seal pon China is, as we know, a laud in which nothing jumping out of bed be went to investigate and resignation of the ex-president, Chang To abinlutely new is supposed to have happened saw the first defendant holding deceased by the during this period. The horsemen of Probyn queue. Then the second defendant, Ho Yung, and Fane were believed by Southern Chinese was seen striking the deceased on the head to have their exact counterparts "Peking side," and legs with a chopper. The deceased col- and the belief in the value of Chinese batilo lapsed. Witness asked what the trouble was array 10.8 great deal of killing before the two about. The second defendant threw away the- famous Viceroys established their corps d'arnide chopper she held and disappeared, Winess in the Far North, but it seems as if the value approached his dying brother, who informad of foreign assistance in malters connected with him that he went to the defendants' house to the welfare and progress of China-was gradual-collect a debt and was attacked. The female on the minds of the powers that defendant remained hiding on the hillside for a lydawnióg be in the capital. The wonder is that this fact couple of das when she, too, was arrested. has not been seen and admixed at an earlier stage is the history of foreign intercourse. For what does the history of the past 50 years tell the, observer in such inalters? Within the recollection of many old China hauds the Em•' pire suffered materially by a leakage is her Customs receipts at the open pons. Man darin in charge of stations were venal and

GURMAN SHIPPING ACHIP/1Y, corrupt after the manner of their kind, and only a small porti·a' of the Customs receipts

THE FIGHT FOR BASTERY TRAFFIC. from foreign trade found its way to the Imperial ceffen.. But the Chinese Government called

The activity of the German seamship com- in the aid of an English junior official from the Consulate at Canton and lot there came into panies nowadays-needs.ub.emphasis, but this being the Foreign Inspectorate of Customergy was never so marked as at present.

In no quarter has their zeal been more mark- with its honest administration, its thoroughly

ed than in their fight for the trade and traffic accounted-for receipts, had its unexpected supply of funds which could be regularly of the East,

The latest effort is the report that the North hypothecated against foreign loans. state of affairs, gratifying alike to the Imperialstreiben is Far Eastern line by putting on German-Lloyd Com any have decided to ruters at Peking and to all foreigners who had some of its best steamers to call at Southamp the welfare of the Empire at heart, could never by any possibility have been attained but for ton and Algicis." This is looked upon as a foreign help, and the moral of it all is patent bid for the large English passenger traffic to to the simplest observer. ·

WAICHUW INDUSTRIAL PROSPECTS. A correspondent writing from the prefecture of Waichow states that the industrial prospects NEW TOYO KISEN LINENS.

there for the present are not at all promising. A steamer to be added to the Toyo

Kisen

he vegetable ginwing, sugar, and wood cul- Kaisha fleet, to be named the Tedyo maru, ing industries have all shown signs of was launched at the Mitsu Hishi yard at inactivity. It is stated that the recent dis Nagasaki on the ith instant. A sister ship, turbances there have greatly disorganised, the to be named the Chiyo in iru, is expected to course of trade and lately the heavy rains be launched by about May next. These caused a considerable rise of the river; the steamers are intended to be placed on the Sanod is doing a large amount of damage to the Francisco service. Of the three steamers now paddy, the peanut and bean fields within the on the line, the Nipponyinyen and Hongkong-prefecture. maru will be withdrawn and the service will be BRIGANDAUE ON THE WEST RIVER. continued b. the thiee new steamers and the Robbers and pifates of the district of Sham Americu mar. The steamers now being built shui have been very active, but since the reor. at Nagasai are the largest "merchant'steamers'ganisation of the guards initiated by ex-Admiral built in Japan. The grass tonnage of the new Li Chen she district is becoming quieter: liner is 13,500 ions; her dimensions bing, Lately, however, some filty robbers and pirates length 550 ft., beam 63 ft. and draught 38 ft. were captured and sent to the Kong Po Camp, 6 in. She will be fitted within-line engines, where over twenty have been beheaded, while and ber speed will be 19 knots,

the others have been imprisoned for. having committed variour crimes,——

JAPANESE SIMAMSHIP

COMBINI

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LAWLESSNESS IN WACHOW, Although work of reorganisation has been going on since the suppression of lawlessness in the prefecture of Waichow, several cases of robber, have been reported from there The Nam Chun vil age, about three li from the cuy of Walchow, was attacked on the 13th lust, by robbers who ransacked several houses, kid nasped a child and led away several ploughing oxen. They also killed two villagers, includ ing an old man over sixty years of age.. On the following day, three or four junks laden with cargo were pirated at a place called "Tam Tong and all cargo was taken off by the freebooters.

The successful flotation of the Japan. Steam ship Company is dow considered very doubtfel, all the sharebulders besit ding to push on the scheme in view of the unfavourable condition of the money-market. Owing to the indefinite dragging-on of the scheme, it is stated that not a few of the capitalists interested are ex- pariencing.inconvenience, us a laige amount of guarantee money is being kept idle. A rumour is rife that an incorporation of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Toyu Kiken

JUNK LOST IN TYPHOON,"" Kaisha is on foot. his opinion is, however, One of the theatrical junks belonging to the dismissed by many of those in shipping cir Yeet Feng Nis Theatrical Company was over cles who are in a position to know definitely. taken by the lyphoon on the river, in the dis It is pointed out that the copital of the Toyotrict of Sanui, on the evening of the 13th, inst, Kisen Kalsha, of which Mr. Asano is the with the result that the juhk was sunk with all President, is chicfly comsibuted by American the valuable propeny of the troupe, besides capitalists. For this reason, all the important ur persons, being drowned. It was also re documents and papers of the company, are kept parted that most of the private property of the at the New York branch of the company, and the head office in Jamo is pracically in the position of a branch office. The principal service of the company is between America and Australia, and most of the vessels of the company are unfit for navigating in the gear seas of Japan. If an incorporati in is necessary, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha would be a more de- sirable comb nation with the N.Y.K...

SUGAR KAMINING INDUSTRY,

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members of the troupe has been also los*.

SILK CROP PROSPECTS The fifth crop of silk worms in the prefecture of Shiv Hing has turned out satisfactorily, and s good crop of silk for this season is expected, The price of mulberry leaves which formerly and al from 8 to 9 mace have now risen to $200 per picul--an extraordinary rise.

THE VUMCHOW RIJTS.

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This

Evidence was then called by the Crown. Bath counsel having addressed the Court, the jury brought in a verdict of gently of man. al-ughter.

Isis Lordship sentenced the first defendant to three years hard fabour and the woman to eighteen months' imprisonment.

that port..

The headquarters of the company in London profesa.ignorance on the subject. But the fact that another German line, which formerly sent its steamers to Algiers, has ceased its service. there, renders it the more probable that the North German-Lloyd will seize the opportunity to increase its hold on that pari.

To-day's Advertisements.

VOLUNTEER

CONCERT

ZA TO-NIGHT, 19th; at 9 15 P.M.

All tickets taken for 14th will be availabiq,'or. if not required the money will be returned.

Hongkong. 19th September, 1907. (832

THE TRADE MARKS"ORDINANCE,

1898.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS. NOTICE" is hereby given that W. It. NOTICED COMPANY; of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchants, have, on the 1st day of August, 1907, applied for the re gistration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Marks

1. The representation of a Chinese woman

sploning:

The represcalation of 3 feathers à'd the word "Prince" underneath; and the Chinese words meaning "Feather Mark

ཧཱུྃ "

in the name of W. R. LOXLEY AND COM- PANY, who claim to be the sole proprietori thereof.

The Trade Mark No. 1 has not been used hat is intended to be used forthwith, and Trade Mark No. 2 bas baep, used by the ap plicants in respect of the following goods

1. Cation Piece Gords of all kinds and Goods made of Cotton Materials in. Class 14.

3. Flpur, Wheat, Brao, Batley, Maize, Gralo

and Corn in Clast 43.

Facsimiles of the Trade Marks can be seen at the Office of the Colonial. Secretary of Hongkong,

Dated the 19th day of September, 1907. DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors for the Applicants,

843)

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LID NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS. THE Steamship

"BRECONSHIRE," Captain Tomlinson, having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed ai their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limitad, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda. have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 15th inst, will be' subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ba examined on WEDNESDAY, 25th' inst., si 3P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. r Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 19th September, 1907.

Intimations

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

CO., LD.

INVITE INSPECTION OF THEIR:

BABY GRANDS

BY

STEINWAY,

HAAKE,

WINKELMANN,

&c., &c., &c.

Prices from $750.

1643. Hoogkong, 22nd August, 1907.

PUBLIC AUCTIONGEA THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

an.

TUESDAY,

THE ORIGINAL

the 24th September, 1907, at 1.37 P.M., at their: CANADIAN

Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des. Voeux Road, corner of ice House Street, SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising -- BRASS-MOUNTED DOUBLE RED-

A150.

A prominent ship-bioker, in a conversation on the 20 ult, with a representative of the Pall Mall Gazelle, said that if the report were troe it was not of vital importance. "But," he added, "it only reveals the strenuous efforts STEADS and BEDDING, TEAKWOOD German companies are making. Look at the WARDROBES with DEVELLED GLASS -MARBLE-TOP BUREAU with BEVEL. headway they have made in the Persian Gulf, LED GLASS, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION for instance. Up to within a year or two ago DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, OVER we had this track in our own hands. Now MANTELS, PICTURES, &c, &c; they threaten our supremacy in all directions.· The Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linis kas just issuedà quantily, of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE; A list of sallings of their feet to Mashonaland and Rhodesia. Some of the vessels will call at Beira, and others will take passengers for Uganda and East Africa, vía Mombasri, This all proclaims heir keen desire to capture trade, however small The German services to the Far East from Southampton compare favour ably with the English lines."

AND 庸

* COTTAGE PIANOS (ens by Collard & Collard, London)." TERMS: As usual, -

Similarly, we can take our thoughts back to the days of the Triping rebellion. China was in its throes her very existence was at stake, but she called in the aid of a junior officer of English Engineers--an honest man, if ver there was one, who drilled Chinese forces in the Western fashion, Laught them to love and respect him, and finally, himself armed with a little cane, led his forces to victory, and brought peace to the troubled land. How much China owes to. Gordon China will probably never know, and certainly will never admit, but the fact remains. Further, China owes much to foreigners in the stability of Hongkong and in the security and well-being of the treaty ports, The Chinese little, thought when ceding to us the rocky steep of Hongkong that we should make it the second largest shipping port in the world, or that its very presence at the gates of the China coast would give to trade an impetus and a stability beyond the wildest dreams of Tantai Wu, of Chanchow, who pracrested to the early English and American pioneers. It Yumchow a short tige age, has returned to is hardly necessary to refer to the way in which Cantos and has handed, a report of the present we have dealt with that curse of Cliina-piracy state of affairs to E. the Acting Viceroy.but we may claim with good reason that our The report states that the present rising i seulements, notably at Shangbai, but largely in more general and stronger than the last one, such places as Tientsin and Bankow, have but, fortunately, owing to the large number of been the means of evolving order out of chaos,

An interesting series of soven troops sent, the government will be able 10 and of adding materially to the Imperial re-announcement from Bremen that the North. images has just been presented to the Museum, cope with the outbreak.

All this progress has come about to German-Lloyd has reduced, the steerage passtys the Singafors Fire Prass, by a former paturally as the result of foreign intercourse senger rates from Bremen to New York. The Library Clerk, Mr. Fong Tian Cheng, who at and foreign assistance that it seems almost reduction does not imply a culting of rates, present is travelling, in China. They represent: ludicrous to have to insist on the genesis of The various Continental lines have a pooling: the facts, ut they poist a moral all the game, system, under which companies receiving a whether the Chinese Government is content to large share of traffic are at liberty to a tvance Dynasty (6th Centur, B.C.). His name guifics read it or no. We have no space to descant on their rates, while thoin dot getting a full share "Old Boy," as he was born with white hair the railway question, nor to point out the can reduce the tariff. The rates consequently and the face of an old mau. enormous benefits which will acciue to Chraa automa'ically adjust themselves, and the reduc. (a) Lu pan, the God of the Carpenters," who 'when the lakes full advantage of those lines tion by the North German Lloyd forms part of lived at the time of Confucius and was skilful

which have been made under foreign auspices, Į this automatic arrangement,

in making wooden figures. or when she is able to complete on her own account such an putery as the 'Peking-Kalgan

DISTURBANCE BREWING.

JAPANESE COMPETITION.

Referring to the future of the sugar-refining industry in Japan, à vernacular contemporary remarks that the Governments of all the coun- tries in Europe are, vicing wi b one another in encoura*ing the development of the sugar in dustry in their respective countries, as the

The Total of Shiu Hing,. Yung Kọng and demand for sugar continues to steadily and Ln. Ting has memorialized the Acting crease. In Japan, the industry of producing Viceroy to the effect that the outlaws in the sugar' is yet in a very primitive state, and crude pretecture of Shiu Hing and sub-prefecture of sugar for the most part is imported from

In Ting are showing signs of activity, and as Java and Peru.he impart of the crude the number of troops there is at present in sugar last year amounted to 3,720,000 picula. On the other hand, thi: sugar-re sufficient, more troops and gunboats for that fining industry in this country continues locality are necessary.

to develop with rapid suides, though the industry is quite new is Japan. Until six or seven years ago, the deniand for refined sugar was almost entirely supplied by German and other foreign sugars. Now the import as been checked, only a small quantity of Cerman beet sugar coming in. Refined sugar is now being largely exported in China. The value exported last year reacheil sbour Y10,0,000. The future of the industry is quite promising. The producing expense of crude sugar in Formosa is such that the sugar can by no means compela with these of Java and Peru, and the day is yet far distant when the import of foreign crude sugar will be checked.

The issue of Bonds of the Japan Sugar Re fising company to the amount of Y3,000,000 has been undertaken by a syndicate of the leading Tokyo and Osaka banks~the Japan "Credit Mobilier, Daiichi, Fifteenth, Hundredth Mitsui and Mitsu Dishi in Tokyo, and the Sumitomo, Konoike, Naniwa, Vamaguchi and 34th in Osake. The interest is 7 per cent, and the issue price You for Yico face value.. The Bonds will stand for three years from the date

of issue and Y750,000.00, impre, of the principal |

THE WRATHER.

Venues

The following report is from. Mr. F. G. Figg, line. Our correspondent points out how n uch Directo, of the Hongkong Observatory

On the 19th at 15.45 -The barometer has fallen quickly in E. Hokkaido owing to the typhoon, which is moving away over the Pacifi: to the E. of japan.·

Pemure has increased elsewhere, consider bly over 5. Japan, and moderately over China and the Thlippines.' It remains high over China to the North o the Upper Yangize, and the normal is now exceeded by from 0.1 to 0.05 inch along the China crast, and over Formosa and Luzon,

Fresh N.E. winds are expected to prevail in the Formosa Channel, and the N. part of the China Sea..

Ilangkong Rainfall: (or the 24 hours ending at to a'm, to-day, t.to inches,

FORECAST.

"

1. Hongkong and neighbourhood, N.E winds, fresh; fair,

7.-Formosa Channel, same as No, I

3-South coast of China between Hongkong will be redeemed yearly from the fourth ypar, | and Lamocks, same as No.'t...

the total to be redeemed in seven years—Japan

4-South coast of Chips between Hongkong and Hainer, same as No. 1,

The Press Association's Liverpool corres. pondent telegraphs that no importance is attached in Liverpool shipping circles to the

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the railways are doing for China in the matter- of intercommunication between the provinces, and what good prospects they hold out for a consolidation of the Empire, whether. at its capital or throughout the provinces. In any case it will perhaps not be forgotten when these hoped for successes are accomplished ficts that, malgré elle, China has had to accept these improved communications at the hands of the despised foreigner; and that, bet for his persistence and the wire co-operation of cer

Do. demand...ayısı Lain Viceroys, the Empire might to-day be suill | Shanghai-Bauk TIT. depending for the transmission of its despatches Singapore T.T. yummi and of its tribule money by the ancient falfapan-Dank T.T... boats and mole traffic of the days that are past and gone. It is well that in these latter days, when the tendency of the Imperial Government seems to be that of thinking that it can stand alone, to ask that Covernment to remember all these things, to bear in mind that the bridging "Chine's Sorrow? is but another step in the org ladder by which the empire bat climbed out of difficulties and depths of trouble into the tafer regions of solvency and quietude. Chira owes mech to the despised foreigner, and she can only repay it by that just and liberal read ing of treaties through which, if she could only ace right ties her permanent "salvation.➡

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CHINESE, IMAGES;

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(1) Lao izu, the founder of the Philosophy known as Taoism, who live in the Chuu

(3) Yes Lowang, the Supreme judge of the Infernal World, who lived under the Sung Dynasty and distinguished kimself through his severity na judge.

(4) Kuan-ti, the God of War. He is one of 2/28 the most noted figures in Chinese, history,! 2/3 11/16 | famous for bin valour, generosity and high- 3/3 1/6 inindedness. He is represented with a red 19 face. There is a temple to him in Telok Ayer 53 Stree!

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(7) Pan-ku, the creator of this Earth, He is represented as holding the Sun in the one hand, 2.85 | aud the Mooo in the other. When he died, hin

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