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The

NEW SERIES. No. 5570

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Death.

Loading Articles:--

The Darline of Pakhói,

The Industrial Future of Chien..

is that True?'

Official Omissions.

British Intervention Requ'red at Sam-chun. The Development of Rubber Cultivation,

-Telegrams:--

5. Canton-Hankow Railway,

Disastrous Conflagration at Wuchow.

7. Anti-Chulstian Riots.

the Kancho Massacre.

The Wuchow Emeute.

Typhoon Warning.

Mooting

Hongkong College of Medicine.

Legal Intelligença!-

The Tragedy in French Street..

Question of Forged "Chops,"

Polide:--

Alleged Assault in the Wanchai Market.

A Tilfle Complicated,

Armed Robbery in the New Territory.

Highway Robbery.

Alleged infringement of Trade-marks,

A Suscious Case.

Bull Terriers attack a Policeman.

Boarding a Ship in, Quarantine.

Europeab Seat 10 Prison.

Fisherman'a Wife and » Cuil of Wire.

Miscellaneous Articles and'-Roporis :-

Canton Kowloon Railway,

The Hongkong Tragedy,

The Now Viceroy.

Fouth China Disturbances.

V. R. C. Aquatic Sports.

Chinese Decor :tions.

Hangkung Street Index.

The Royal Hongkong Golf Club

A Practical Joke.

Hongkong Cricket Club,

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Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition,

Landslip at Hingham,

The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club,

Excitement at Wuchow.

Gymkhana Notes.

The Vancouver Outbreak,

Masonic

Volunteer Corps Orders

"Wuchow Notes.

Vancouver:

Canton Day by Day.

The Late Mr Grainger,

The Burning of the Fafoo Maru.

Murder in Shanghai.

Shanghai "Share" Case.

Hongkong Telegraph.

晚一十二月八年三十三精光

due solely to such a circumstance as an "elemental disturbance? It must not be forgotten that last year Pokhoi was in the centre of a ruled and agitated population, which was awaiting with eagerness, not unmixed with anxiety, the steps to be takon sgainst the officials who bad failed to die charge their trust according to the idea of the leading reformers in the istrict. People awaited crepta in suspense and allowed other affairs to drift. Neither Chinese peasants nor those of other countries are inclined to to and slave in the effort, to win a scanty livelihood from a rocky soit when there is a possibility, which looms larger every day, that they will not be permitted to reap the fruit of their labour. And while Pakhoi last year was speculating what would be the outcome of things Pakhol is in the same position to day, There are still the same rumours, the tales of actual fighting between the reformiers and the Imperial troops, the absence of security and protection, the sense of disaster, all of which contribute to the decline of trade generall. In 1906 the total value of Pak hol's trade was 6407.979-reckoned on the basis of the Haikwan tau! being worth 35. 344-a decrease of nearly £24,000. Of that amount £15,457 was due to a falling off in the import trade and £8.491 in the export trade. As Mr. Savage remarks, "it might be assumed that the decrease in the

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seems self-evident, and even Mr. Savage has to admit that the trade has fallen so low "that it seems improbable that it can fall much lower The trade area has dwindled gradually, owing to the competition of newly. opened ports, to little or nothing beyond the neighbouring district,"

THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE OF CHINA.

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Fimport trade would fall to be borne by them as they will.. Such an aggregation of eventually comes before the Governor wh', Seditions Bit would appear to be a most gam-chun is a perpetual source of trouble,

he does not say so in these words, but unless chants that the way to wealth lies in com. A Commission is appointed to investigate a holocaust of all telegram's relating to Chinese jurisdiction of British authority and then there

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circle. These views may, of course, be for, the second reading. So far as the fictitious valos, by attributing to the soil admirably suited to the deeds of the Co- majority of people are concerned, the only supernatural virtues, there has been go between „the chativen, and, the lony, or they may be simply the stereotyped opportunity they have of learning the character clash

of the new Billa fotroduced. In through the Philistines. Yoitshday, however, we racolved expression of hide bound bureaucracy medium of the Press. Shen a Bill consists private information to the effect that a sous It is for the Governor to discover for him of four 10; elsauss it is manifestly impossible what serious affray had occurred at Sam-chun, self the real situation, and therefore it is to publish it in extenso in a daily newspaper, in which a British surveying, party employed in that all who are interested in the welfare of and therefore the official summary and ex, car

connection with the railway had been assaulted the Colony will rejoice in believing that the planation are all the more valuable both to by a

y a gang of towdies. We have no wish in thu independent character of His Excellency's legislators and the general community. These slightest degree to magnify the importance of an unfortunate and, unexpected, occurrence, mind may be traced in the remark, made objects and reasons," then, have been cop- almost unconsciously, "Is that true?"sistently appended to every new Rill since the mare especially as we must remain in the dark

time of At the present time there is scarcely a single that by this concession, to the public the the disturbance. But its significance is not to r. Whiteheid, and it does not appear for some time as to the real or alleged cause of (3rd September.)

question of public concern on which any Government have lost any degres of their be glossed over, as if it were an ordinary every- The exceptionally well-informed artice by half dozen residents in Hongkong are agreed. bareaucratic poweri, But now that we have a day event. Te begin with, wo

we may confidently Asiaticus" in the Pall Mall Guzitie, and More or less, people are united in expressing Governor whose unfamiliar with the established assume that the surveying party did absolutely reproduced in this paper last week, will have their views on the subject of reforms, but forms of business at the Legislative Council, and nothing which would run counter to the commanded attention for the correctness of when it comes to detalla hopeless confusion an Attorney General who is equally frash to the opinions, beliefs, customs or habits of the the views expressed by the writer in the abounds. On the subject of opium, to take fair, the old one of things appears to be in a people. "Then, Again, the appearance of foreign #improved" out of existence, surveyors in. no Dew feature at Sam-chup home journal. In noticing the article on one example, the correct attitude to assume

Nai 980 Among the batch of new Bills which

which stands on the border between Brush the great question of the industrial future of is that in favour of abolition. In order to

were introduced at the first ragular meeting and Chinese territory. And on previous visits China, with which the interests of this attain this end a few harmicas and otherwise

of the Legislative Council presided over the engineers have been allowed to, go un Colony are so intimately bound up, the well-meaning zealots present statements by Hir Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, molested. What then aroused the wrath of the Singapore, Free Press remarks that "those which they naturally assert to be facts, and and attended by Mr. Rees. Davis, the At- people to such an extent that they assaulted a innocent perdons that think nations can by a lavish expenditure of embroideries seek torney-General, contained solitary line peaceful expedition? It must be remembered. which could be termed no explanation of that Sam-cbun-the Berwick of Kwangtung... shut themselves up in a ring fence and work to fuist their views on the Government

its "objects and reasons" for pressolation. is a veritabla hotbed of turbulence; it is out their own destiny for well or woe in- regardless of the opinions of those most"

Two of the Bills were of the highest importance eternally seething with alarums; the people are dependent of the pressure of outside concerned. The average official in a Crown

to the Colony and we would defy anybody entirely beyond the control of the authorition humanity, are vastly mistaken. It is some. Colony, or at all events those at the head of either to make head or tail of their

and law prevails. is no mean orto explain the necessity for their introduction: city in it. way, for it is the greatest maket such conception that is at the bottom of all departments, is but a transient visitor and

There were the Bill dealing with the publication town on the route of the railway between the ideas of Labour and Socialism. They do it is accordingly his aim to steer a middle not realise that there may be irresistible way between contending parties, on the of seditious matter in the Colony-that is to Kowloon and Canton. It is the rendervous say, matter which would be deemed, snditious of all the filibusters, vagabonde, wander- human forces outside of their ken and can principle that the smaller the fuss the greater in China by the Chiriese Governcient and ng Ishmaels and pariahs on the peninsula, trol that may some day bend them or break the prospects of promotion. The question the Bill amending the Stocks Ordinance. The and in times of excitement it is one of the head centres of the malcontents. In fact, foreign manufacturers, but inspection of the forces. "Asiaticus" finds in the as yet disdaining to take everything for granted, comprehensive measure, hitting at Chinese table of principal imports shows that such almost dormant activities of China, an asks "is that true?" not with the object of and English newspapers alike. Indeed, if it a menace to all peaceable communities in the parses as it stands it is difficult to see how the district, and a nuisance which this Chinese' ku- Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, was not the case. On the contrary, most of aggregation of Lindred peoples that has receiving a,reply in the affirmative, but in

most cautious Editor or Publisher will escape thorities should long ago have disciplined and Hongkong Cricket League.

the principal imports of foreign origin in- hitherto lived self-sufficient to its own needs." order that all the proofs which have con- creased in quantity. But there was a heavy With the opinion of our Straits contemporary vinced his subordinates may be laid before the penalty of years imprisonment for contolled. It will thus be recognised that drop in the import of nankeens (native cloth) that "all that is about to be changed" most him. Of course, the question itself is as old editious language calculated to ioflims inhabited as Yam-chun is by a lawless and the people of China against the Chinese overbearing-population, the slightest Incident amounting-to-over 1,600-w-which-alone-people will agree. The eagerness with which as the hills; it was rendered historical by Government--that model of propriety, im is trailed as an occasion for an uproar, and it would account for the difference. What was railway schemes are being taken up; the Pontius Pilate; it was, perhaps, the original partiality, and constitutional administration, speaks volumes for the diplomacy of the British still more satisfactory was that that portion introduction of telephone system and electric remark which ushered duplicity into the We, who are British subjects, regard with railway representatives who bave visited the of the trade which consists most largely of lighting; the installation of wireless telo-world. it the same time while a statement amusement the law. of last majesty as it is market-town in the past that no exhibition of British goods actually shows an Improve-graphy, are all the practical results of the may in itself be true, it may conceal a very worked by an ultra-officious police in Gere anti-foreign feeling has occurred. We may ment over the value of the year 1905." When assimilation of Western ideas which is to be material portion of the truth-in other many, but this Bilf proposes to convict of less also take it for granted that only the forbent. majcify and of sedition anyone who publishes ance and wisdom. of the party attacked the dealing with the question of opium, Mr. seen carried into effect in our own immedi words it may not be the whole truth, and anything derogatory to the Chinese Govern- other day, kept the nascent emente witbin

"Contact that applies very particularly to Hongkong.ment or likely to assist the leaders of the

bounds. The fact of the matter is, Sam- Savage is honestly sceptical, albeit in a proper até neighbourhood in Canton.

chun should never have been left in the and decorous way, of the ability of the Chinese with the West and Western methods," as the There is hardly a report or set of statistics opposition in Chinn. In fact, if it passes

bands of the Chinese when Great Britain Government to clear the drug out of Pakhoi; at Free Press correctly bserves, has taught relating to conditions in Hongkong which into law as it stands, the Press of Hong- the enlightened Chinese capitalists and mer is not susceptible to criticism on that point, the very existence of China, to make a

kong. will be

was delimiting her territory on the malcland. practically compelled to ignore any rate for some time to came. Of course

The line of demarcation should have brought the town and river of Sam-chup well within the certain question; the opinions of the mem-

disturbances, to smother, strangle and pack in bers are known to everybody and the result

would have been an end once and for ever to a trunk for shipment abroad all rumours. is a foregone conclusion, because it follows reports and statements of Chinese official all the affrays, turmoils, uprisings and disturb; that any examination that may take place is doings, on matter how well authenticated theyances which are endemic in Sama-chun.In. confined to the confirmation of the news may be, to emasculate tales of starvation, over place of a fighting, quarrelsome, rebellious already, expressed. in the majority of taxation, eleemosynary aid, droughts, famines, centre of disaffection, we would have had a elemental catastrophes, lest their appearance flourishing markat-town, the store house for the instances, those views or premises have should be deemed subversive of China's good products of that fenile district which in course been hammered and pounded into the government to stifle, poison and decapitate of time will be tapped by the railway, and the heads of those who ate not prepared to

all references even to prosperity in case the distributing point for goods sent from Hong, take the trouble to think for themselves, with Empress.Dowager should complain that the kung. After all what does China want with Sam

chon? Naturally the Canton authorities would the result that those who cavil at finding or reformers may get up in arms, and Aggest that there is another side to the withhold a references to comels, eclipses, plaintively declare that without the unruly question are regarded as intolerant re-falling-Ha-spots on the sun menges dissipated ne'er-do-well of town one, ol

from Mars, the rings of Satam and the gesti- the brightest jewels of the actionaries. If His Excellency the Governor, culations of Jupiter, in order that the people ould be last to the Imperial Government, in the consideration of the affairs which may not be incited to wrath and rebellion but it is doubtful if they could be regard come under his review, in the course of his and the sleep of the Royal Family at Peking ed an entirely disingenuous. Sam-chun, as it stands is an excrescence and should be treated daily duties, keeps the question is that seriously imperilled. At all events, the Bill

As such, Let Great Britain firmly declare that true?" as his lodestone, his task of securing seems to make provision for all those things.

dam-chun-i-part and parcel of the New, the welfare of the Colony will be vastly in Yet we are not afforded the ghost of "an idea

police, deny creased; but the end will justify this labours, why it should be stroduced now or whether it Territory, install guards and

is done to propitiate Viceroy Ching, the new

the righis of others' 10 collect likin form of a Chinese line or lines to Europe provided that the bottom of the well is

rulerat Canton. And so it is with the other Bills. and convert the place into a respectable out and to the American Pacific coast. With thoroughly dredged. Indeed, there is pro- The unofficial members are A negligable post of British interest.

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It must come to that that a great further development of the bably no resident in Hongkong who is more quantity why, then, continue a system which sooner or later, for we cannot tolerate an true Chinese industries now being created greally handicapped in the acquisition of the was only introduced because there happened Aistia at the function of the British and Chin

ese rections of the Kowloon-Canton railway;- in China, he can see the movement in entire facts pertaining to any public matter to be a people's champion at the Council. ance the new and intense Chinese desire to find than His Excellency the Governor. Living atitude, the unofficial members of to-day will

upon a time? Thatzseams to, be the officiat and if Sam-chun is brought within the scope

of British lnfluence before the railway' their own capital for their own railways, in a serene atmosphere where the immediale say nothing; the Govenor is ignorant of the mines, mills, and ironworks. That is but difficulties of the governed and not apparent, custom; the Attorney-General is likewise in the first feeble trickle of what some day and surrounded by those whose main anxiety the dark-there is only the general taxpayer will be the letting out of great waters, is to give the Colonial Office as little trouble left-if he murmurs so much the worse for him, When China begins to compete in Euro- pean and American markets, as she will as possible, the Governor may be inclined This hole-and-corner business, administration to believe that all is well in the State of by means of the C.5.0.2 and general in the case of the smallest. The incidence some day, in steel, in machinery,

disregard of the rights of the people in electric enmark when the opposite is the case, It

We is becoming a trifle 100 common. of these additional taxes does not ap, car plant, in textiles of every kind, and under is not for the hoi-pollo, the native residents, can only trust that ifi Pxcellency Sir Ere cut all European rates because of endless the underpaid civil servants, the unrepresent derick Lugard' will stand by "olo custom" so far, to have had any effect upon the can. sumption of opium in general." So that de supplies of labour willing to work two hours ea taxpayers to blazon lorth their grievances in this respect at least and issue ondern that spite bad trade and the increased, tax on for the white workers' one, and to work hard for-to-clamour-about the disabilities under the former practice of adhibiting the objects where the trade Union members, go slow which they labour.. Their duty is to remain and reasons to all new Bills ba resuméd and the drug, the people still continued their old habit of philosophically consoling themselves deliberately to liniit output, the British work quiet, and truth to tell that is not a very with the opium pipe. The sugar, grown in man will begin to find that he has run up difficult thing for them to do, for the major the Pakhoi district finds itself at a disadvant against a snag that never in all the centuries portion of those few hours which are left to to come will he be able to get clear of them after the toil of the day are generally age when having 'to compete with the pro

When the day comes that the Chinese In duel of Jaya. We read that: "As far as

spent in solving the problem, a veritable quantity goes, most of the principal exports dustrial companies and trusts can sell in

pous asinorun in many cases how to make show a decided improvement with the un- Europe and in England articles that the both ends meet. However, we may take it fortunate exception of sugar, the most im British artisan cannot turn out for double that His Excellency ir Frederick Lugard portant of all. This article has decreased the money, discovery, of that will come on

comes to the work of administrating the by over 2,0 0 tons since 1905 and is 3.278 British industry with a shock that will afford affairs of Hongkong with the broad deter tons below the average of the past six years. poor chance of recovery. We who know the mmnation to find out, in the first lace, the This is partly due to damage to the crop Chiriese worker know that a great deal of whole truth and then to act upon his know he Hongbang Gelegraph from the heavy spring rainfall, but the com- what "Asiaticus" says is entirely true. Whe

petition of Java sugar in the Hongkong ther all that he says about the probity of edge of the truth. In any event, the snap ped-out query Is that true?" will not be market is the chief cause of the decline." Chinese merchants is so favourable as he lost on that fraternity which would bolster With the object of bolstering up the port, makes out, is something about which we may up bogus claims or support impossible asser it has been suggested that Pakhoi have varied opinions."

tions by means of fabricated facts. Sir should be connected with the West River

Frederick Lugard has given the Colony a basin by railway. On this subject

painter which is eminently necessary in these Mr. Savage admila that the scheme

days of fraud and humbug-"Is that true?" would almost certainly causé consider- abla expansion of trade, but, he adils, "Is that true" was the somewhat dis- #it remains doubtful whether such ex concerting exclamation of His Excellency pansion would be sufficient to warrant the Sir Frederick Lugard when he was informed necessary outlay, and it is still more doubt that his Inaugural shot over the new rife ful-whether the capital required could be range at the Peak on Saturday had scored a procured in this impoverished district. The "possible." Everybody knows how there promoters of the scheme have, it is true, pleasant affairs are arranged and everybody approached the Yuet Han (Canton-Hankow) is pr pared for the perfectly proper signal Railway Company for assistance in placing which follows the ope ing of a rifle range by

Behind."

Raw Silk Trade in Japan.

The Osaka Scotch Whisky Case,

Singaporerade.

we misread his meaning that should be his

merce and industry that shall have for a field no longer the limited area of Chinese pro opinion. Fe states: "Indian opium figures in the import list to the amount of

vinces and seaports, but the countries of all 220 cwts, valued at £17.403, as compared the world. In this Japan has, with its The Sicavci Observatory,

with 209 cwts, valued at 15,608 in 1905. greater mental agility and facility of Reforms in the Two Kwang.

Yanan opium is also represented with a assimilation of Western ideas, taken the The British Post Offiço nt Tientsin,

modest 9 cats, estimated at £600. This is initiative: And as to this it is only enough One Language for China,*

interesting, as it affords an opportunity of to point to the greater Japanese Ship The New Russo-Japanese Trenties: Disaster on a Japanese Battleship.

comparing the respective values of the In- ping Companies that not only cover the Japanese Steamship Companies.

dian and the native drug when landed here. Pacific Coasts on both sides with their opera The Yokohama Specie Hank.

Judian oplum works out at £79, and Yun. tions, but run direct lines to Europe, thus Supposed Suicida uf a Foreigner,

han at £66 138. 4d. per cwt. Apart from farming an independent medium of commer: The-Foreign-Community as Seen from the fact that various yamens liave receivedal exchange-between-Japan-and-Europe: written instructions whereby the officials and China has already done something in this their staff are given three months to break direction upon her own coast; and even in off the habit of opium-smoking, no active the Straits we had the Chinese individual steps have as yet been taken to restrict the and company shipowners enterprising and general use of the drug by the people. active. It will be but a short time before Early last year new taxes were instituted we see some great equivalent to the P and on aplum throughout the province in the Company, of the . D. Lloyd in the form of licences to be taken out by all shops and, divars selling prepared opium. The usunt practice of farming the taxes was ad opted, a system which does not benefit the public revenue to the fullest extent, but which has at least the advantage, from the Chinese official's point of view, of saving much trouble and of avoiding a good deal of popular oppos tion and discontent. The amounts paid by the shops on account of this tax vary from about an-dols per month On September 17, 1997, at Shanghai, the wife in the case of the largest strops to 2 or 3 dels

Once a Ship Went Sailing.

"Opium-smokers Need Not Apply." The Siamese Army.

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THE DECLINE OF PAKHOL

(21st September)

"IS THAT TRÜB?”

(24th September)

OFFICIAL OMISSIONS..

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adhere to,

BRITISH INTERVENTION RE QUIRED AT SAM-CHUN,

(26th September.} Among the many difficulties which have to be overcome by enlightened opinion in China none attains such dimensions as that which conflicts with the superstitious beliefs of the people. The construction of railways, together with the introduction of telegraphic communi cation, has invariably been hindered by the caprice of the ignorant body of the community even despite the advice of the elders and counsellors, Occasionally the action of the preple in manifesting their objection to the newfangled notions brought from the end. of the earth has been quietly engineered and Roided by those who had an eye to business

Province

reached the town, and before a start is made with the construction of the great bridge across the river, to much the better. The step has to be taken so it might as well.be-taken-at-onco China as it will to Great Britain, or rather It will prove as advantageous and beneficial to

loogkong, and it is unlikely that any other. pawer will have a word to say on the subject, for it is not a case of annexation of new terri- tory or an instance of Britain's facully for land; grabbing on any excuse, but a simple-desire to reduce a wayward and dangerous centre of disturbance to peace and tranquillity? As for the assault on the British surveying party wa shall in si probability never know the origin of it. We will be regaled with tales of feng shut by the pestants; of anti-monarchical rebels by. the authorities; and of renclionaries by the res formers. Whatever the alleged cause of tha outbreak, it should have the effect of opening the eyes of the Government of langkong to the extreme danger of a towing Sam-chun to remain outwith British Jurisdiction, a menace Lo the prestigs of British administration,

THA DEVELOPMENT OF RUB- BER.COLTIVATION.

(27th September.) bout ten years ago, a few experimentalisis in Ceylon turned their attention to the cultiva tion of rubber, with the object of finding out whether the soil of the Colony was suitable for and whether the.

the future and the fanaticlam bego: by.1gbor./ the propagation of the plan fell far short of

ance has been used to serve the purpose of world's supply of rubber the schemer: Accordingly, when it was de the demand could be augmented by the East" termined to construct a railway between Kow- Indies. In many resperit, the planter enter loon and Canton foars were entertained that

ed upon their experiments with but littla some of the natives in the interior might practical knowledge of what was necessary to (25th September.)

sea in the innovation an insult to the sacred secure the best results, but the natural care When Mr. Thomas H. Whitehead was and of the soil. It is wonderful, by the and attention which they had devoted to their justifying his title to the designation of the way, how usefal an suxitinry: feng-shuf is to tea and coffee plantations were not cast aside stupert of debate at the Legislative Council of the discontented, the money grabbers and when considering the possibilities of rabber. Hungkong, he succeeded in compelling the the speculators. A parcel of land which In 19:3 patches of Leves Braziliensis wore in Government to

the special domain of the land geolus im- but the planters of Ceylon, using in receipt of duced into the Council an epitome of the bill may poche worth a song as it stands becomes cultivation on a considerable number of estates their shares upon the Chinese market for the chief administrator of the Colony. His was termed its objects and reasons.

together with an explanation its purpose, mediately shybody suggests that it may have remustrative prices for their tea, were not dis-

some But this

attaching to the posed to make any special provision for a foreigners are not wanted and have been Excellency, however, not being versed in which tha mevation, fills were fung on the coil disappears very fapidly should the ex- plant whose characteristics were but imperfect- met in a sympathetic spirit. But the enormous these happy evidences of friendly feeling and table without a single word to account for prapiator be the Chinese Government or the ly understood and whose future was, to say the difficulties of financialisation and encouragement had his doubts and, no doubt their presence, and il members by same hippy Viceroy of the Province, There was no suge least, problematical. In the Malayan States. management, with which stronger Can-to the astonishment of those in attendance chance managed to discover the motive gestion of feng-shut when Viceroy Shum or ex- however, where coffee was the chief agricultural Government to Minister Chang projected their railway scheme product, low returas induced the owners: of tonese combination has had to contend, and give expression to them. Whatever the which had induced the

answer to his query was, and we are not told introduce the Bille, or by theizgull.of_fecond. | 19 Amodered to hire op their fand with a gu auxiliary which would compen

via Whampoa; the people were

to look around in the hope of which it has yet been unable to overcome, will undoubtedly repeat themselves for that any was offered, there is an application sight found themselves in a position to brusquely

fathom the working of the official mind ar the best grace possible, for if they failed to do | ante them for the trouble' of cultivation and

of

In his report on the trade of Pakhai in 1906, the British Acting-Consul, Mr. Savage, attempts to paint a bright and attractive picture from colours that are faded and dead. It may be that Pakhoi will become one of these days an important port of call In South Chinn, but as matters stand at pre sent what seems most evident to the looker sents the steady recline in the trade of the port: Mr. Savage attributes the decreases shown on the import and export sides of the report in great measure to the effects of the typhoon of last year, which did much damage to houses, junks, fishing craft and tanding crops. Then again, little or no

in feil during the last three months of the many years to come in any similar venture in His Excellency's question which if carried: shown in the Bills, so much the better so they would suffer the consequences. It has enhance the value of their estates. In some Year with the result that the rice, sugar undertaken by Chinese themselves, so long to its ultimate limits must involve important for them. But the devious and tortuous rea- been the policy of the Hongkong Government quarters there has long been a mistaken iden and sweet potato crops suffered accordingly."

as they insist upon rigidly excluding there issues in the conduct of the administration sonings which load to the framing of Govern-in directing the operations of the Kowloon that the Federated Malay States are given over In the view of the undismayed optimist from the valuable assistance of foreign of Hongkong's public affairs. When a ment measures are frequently beyond the section of the line to Canton to propitiate and to tin micing, notwithstanding the namerons most pronounced conciliate the native Chineas residing in the agri-horticultural shows which have been bald Mr Savage adds: "In these circum capital, and the equally essential advantages Governor arrives in a colony where the connderstanding of the

New Territory in quidrone, zad Mr. Thomas Whitehead had

every stances it was not to be expected that of foreign experience. In these circum-ditions are totally different in every respects entire community on his side when he that trouble might be averted and the question agriculture. It is true that many fortunes have possible way in order of late yes to prove the progress made in teade would flourish; the wonder is stances it is at least unlikely that their fairy to those to which his previous experience rather, that its balance sheet should not dreams of railway development will material has accustomed him, it is but natural that obtained the promise of the Government to of geomantic influences avoided. So carefully been made out of tin, but the real wealth Bill introduced, so that its purpose might or two exceptions, when rapacious squattere possibilities, a fact which has been made, reveal a greater deficit than it actually does." ise into solid realities for a long time to he should accept the views and ideas if rects and masons with every has that policy been pursued that with but dee of the Malay States lies in its agricultural Bat are we to believe that the deficit was come." To conclude, the decline of Pakhoi !of those who come. within hin ipmediate be open to chudlem before it came up sought to invest their property with a' manliest by the Internet shown in the calibras