1908-04-11 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 5741

CONTENTS.

Birth and Marrings, : Leading Articles :---

Trade Rivalry between Cantonand Hongkong, A Batch of Harbour Oloader.RE. The Widows' and Orphans' Fundi

Chinese Woman in Politics

A Singapore Iostitution

Mr. F. A. Hazoland, Police Magistrate.

Kabe Meat Club,

H.E. Wa Tipg-fang in America.

Ching and Japan.

Power of the Press.

The Chamber of Commerce.

Telegram

The Japanese Boycoll Macno Territorial Walers.. Tientsin-Pukau Railway, Poyang Lake,

The Chloniao Dispute Muzzling the Press.

A Navy for China." Admiral Lambton is Cantoo. Floods in Hupeh.

A Parliamentary for China.

Viceroy Tuan Fang,«

Emberlement to Shanghai.

H.E. Tang Shao-yi.

Meeting -

The Buildings Bill.

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.

China Borneo Co

Toyo Kiten Kaisha,

Legal Intelligence 3-m

A Shareholder' Grievance,,

What is Mixed Cargo?

A Prinier's Breach of Contract.

Aernied Water in Coatl.

A Bill of Exchange.

Police:-

The Shatin Triple Murder.

Maskeytown Held Up,

The Treasury Burglary, Another Extrad·tion Case.

'An Amah's Dishonesty...

晚一十月三年四十三精光

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SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED. 1881)

SATURDAY, APRIL

II 1908

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一十月四其港香

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Berce Struggle between Lukong and a Thief. | veniençe and castom. At, present freight. | ed method among seafaring folk of wel retaine, aße:it continues to expand with | reader to the amazingly intricate docu-calculated to infame the minds of the

Triad Soriety. Fight Averted.

"A Tezgot Storm."

Grave Charge agaiona Merchant.

A Runaway Truck..

Excitement on the Ku?

A Trick on a Money Changer.

An Expensive Ride.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:~

Launch at Kowloon.

The Health Bill.

The Japanese Boycoll.

Supreme Court Long Vacations.

The Commander-in-Chief,

Mr. A. G. Wond,."

Japanese Yarn Lottery.

the Governor approved by the Secretary of act of over beating dictation on State." If such permission were applied for the Japanese, We fear that by the Civil Servants we do not remember have cause to ne the hearing that His Excellency the Governor moral victory over the Chines had granted it, or that it had been approved Tatsu Mark was released. With by the Secretary of State. Presumably, of that case we have now no concerts however, it had official sanction seeing is past and done with, but the that Dr. Francis Clark is the chairman the bitter gall and wormwood remain, of directors, while the other members feeling of impotence is still there and mak of the Board are nearly all well known But if China is weak from mil Civil Servants. From the report for the naval point of view sheisstrong com half year the sales amounted to $32,426 and whatever Japan may have won diplos as compared with $6,531 for the first three tically she must, we are afraid munths of the year, but whether the latter mercially if the boycott is mad means the first three months of 1907 or And Japan can less afford to 1908 we cannot tell. The profits are stated connections with China at Ba,373 and the directors recommend a juncture than any other, mador dividend at therate often percent. per annum. In dire fonncial straits, with Turning to the accounts we are brought searching for every means of increasing the face to face with a system of book-keeping reproductive powers of the Kingdom in which verges on the miraculous. In fact, we order that the revenue may be enhanced, should like to meet the individual who can and the merchants probing for fresh For example outlets for their glutted products, Japan make head or tail of it up to the end of December last 797 shares can ill afford to lose the great and valuable of $20 each had been allotted and from that market of South China Yet that seems to source $15,670 had been drawn, and 8275 be what will be the direct development of remained to be paid up Now the average the Tatsu Afar affair. It may be said that person would expect that a dividend of ten Japan can compel the Imperial Government per cent. would mean at least the distribu- of China to adopt such steps is will suppress tion of $1,567, yet the amount set apart for the boycott; root and branch. But can they? the dividend only comes to B516 which is The Chinese Government may express its re- on shares fully paid gret that the people should refuse to purchato described as "interest at 10 per cent. per annum." Thet, we apanese goods, but not even the Chines would ask, how many of the shares are Government can compel Chinese subjects to fully paid up? Depreciation of attinge and buy articles they do not wint. And if the office requisites accounts for $132.00, pre Chinese people quietly combine to re timinary expenses $544.84, share redemption ject Japanese products, despite all the fund $423.51, reserve $500, etc., the balance lottery schemes that even the fertile imagi- of $80.31 being carried forward. The share nation of the Japanese, may invent, the holders number 316 so that goodly pro- Government is powerless, All that the portion of the Civil Servants in Hongkong Chinese authorities can do is to prohibit are member of the enterprise but, public meetings, to imposa penalties on for further details we would refer the those agitators whose patriotic addresses are ment passed by the auditors. It is a people, to suppress the posting of anti- most voluminous affair and on the face Japanese placards, and to express as politely regms one of those simple as possible Ils sorrow at the "obstinacy of s of it sheets of figures which have been drawn up stiff-necked people. But neither the for the benefit of the uninitiated, but it will Chinese Government nor anybody else take the average individual quite a consider can make the humblest coolie shell able time to comprehend their significance, out a single cash towards the purchase that is to say if they have any significance of a Japanese matchbox against his own whatever. The various items of expenditure supreme will, And it is difficult to see how and income are set forth in such detall and Japan could dare to demand compensation with such precision even down to a matter were the boycott rigidly carried into effect. of 52 or 54 that the average scrutineer finds If the Chinese Government can prove that it himself in a perfect labyrinth of statistics has taken every step to condemn, and pre So as time is fleeting we leave it to those vent. the boycott, and if the people remain. more interested in the Co-operative Society perfectly peaceable and act as though they to elucidate the puzzle, for themselves. knew nothing of a boycott being in progress Evidently the venture is flourishing, however, Japan could have to good grounds for de and from the point of view of the promoters, manding compensation. Of course, she might that is the main thing to be desired, although submit a claim for moral and intellectu what the small tradesman, who pays his damage," just as Kruger did once upon a taxes and helps to maintain the Civil Service time, but such a claim would only lead thinks about it all we should not like to say to hilarity among the Powert: With the United States putting forth every effort to CHINESE WOMEN IN POLITICS. secure the fidendship of Ching, and sending a fleet of battleships and cruisers to accept (7th April.)

the hospitality of the Chinese Government; Perhaps the most remarkable develop with Germany keenly alive to the trade pos ment in the domestic economy of China sibilities of China, especially in Canton, where a German Colony has been for all practical within recent days was that witnessed on Sunday, when a thousand Chinese women, purposes established; and with Great Britajn wearing the garb of mourning, assembled to acting as the friend and adviser, of the protest against the high-handed action of Chinese Government, it is impossible that Japan in connection with the Tatsu Maru Japan would seek to maintain, that her com case, the subserviency of the Chinese Immercial interests in China are of paramoust perial Government in tamely submitting to the demands of Japan, and the virtue of adopting retaliatory measures against Japan as taken of Chinese indignation that they should have been affronted by Japan in the eyes of the world. Buch a spectacle as that afforded by hundreds of Chinese ladies gathering together in support of such a cause has probably never been seen before in China, though it is never safe to dog matise on what has or has not previously occurred in the history of the great Middle Kingdom. It is, however, another indica tion that the awakening of the giant has begun, for if there are a thousand women in Canton sufficiently bold to appear in public and denounce the Government or, at all events, to express their approval of their mcn folk in a political campaign, there are thousands more who are of the same way of thinking, but remain content to act as the particular guiding star and influence of their male relatives in the family circle, The women of Chjua have kept so much to the background that their power to sway public opinion is apt to be underestimated, but after Sunday's demonstration we cannot get away from the fact that they are an extraordinarily real and potent force whose value will be best appreciated by those against whom their strength is arrayed. In other words, the boycott against Japan has received

offices were established in this Colony, and the departure of the boneward bound strenuous efforts were made by the Govern who effected all transactions from Hong French mail. As soon as that vessel leftment to swoop the Fund into oblivion by kong, the continued prosperity of the Colony the wharf all the langdies in the vicinity incorporating with the General Revenue was assured. But of late years a new spirit commenced blowing their whistles, making That is not to say the principle of the Fund which was largely the creation of Viceroy a tremendous noise. One of the defendants would be abolished the only difference Shum, who imprested his Individuality and stated that he had acted under the lastruc would be that instead of having an annual views on the quick-witted merchants of tions of people on board who wished to balance sheet to produce, the Government Hongkong Civit. Surants Co-opentive Canton, has arisen in the Southern capital, signal" good-bye to their friends on board would simply show a gross amount

Society.

The growth and expansion of trade in the French mail, and that was the view of amid all the intricacies of the revenue South China which is bound to the cis taken by the Magistrats. No one returns. And it is little wonder that the follow the completion of the trunk line to will deny for a moment that the perpetual Government should seek to conceal the Hankow and Peking have not escaped the and unnecessary tooting of launch whistles actual state of the Fund and absorb the consideration of the Cantonese, and their was not so very long ago an unmitigated money into the Colonial Treasury, for the resolve to carry out all national undertakings nuisance. At all houn of the night the outgoings are so infinitesimal as compared without the aid of foreigners is an evidence harbour rang with the whistling of the bust with the receipts that were the Fund to that they realise the possibilities of the ling little ferries, so that residents in the be continued for any length of time future. Canton as the Southern terminus of Central district, and specially those in on its presont basis there is no doubt the the line must become one of the greatest hotels, found it impossible to obtain revenue would swell to such height that distributing ports in the Middle Kingdom, a wink of sleep until their ears had there could be an old age pension for every the clamour one in the Colony derived from the interest provided that adequate facilities are offered become accustomed to for the handling of cargo.. It was and piercing noises. In the daytime the alone. In the time of Sir Matthew Nathan, the aim of Viceroy Shum to constitute continual hooting and whistling were drown. when every manœuvre conceivable was Whampoa the port of South China, by ed in the general hum of street traffic and being performed and every scheme hatched connecting it with Canton by rail, but that that indefinable roar which is to use an with the object of securing the absorption project was checked through the detemin Irishim, only perceptible when it is absent, of the Fund, the amount at the credit of ation of the British Government that the But at night the nuisance was unbearable, the Fund stood at something like $200,000. Chinese Imperial Government must abide and the Marine Magistrate was very proper To-day that sum has increased to over by the terms of the Agreement made with ly equipped with power to abate the disturb $318,000, so that it will be recognised at the British and Chinese Corporation with suce by the imposition of certain penalties. once what a valuable nest egg this should regard to railways which might compete That was all very right and as it should be, be for the Government and explains their with the Kowloon Canton line. Being but the power vested in the Magistrate of anxietytoget hold ofit and to employ its funds foiled in that respect, the Chinese Provincial punishing. this who carelessly infringed for purposes other than those originally con- authorities turned to Canton as. the city the harbour regulations did not rob him of templated. Out of that amount all that is which might become the future. Liverpool of that wite discretion which every Magistrate paid out in the way of pensions to widows the Far East, and the outlook, from theis asumed to possess. It did not say that is the insignificant sum of $4,228, point of view of Hongkong, in not at all willynilly he must blind his eyes to the fact while a miserable $70 is laid aside for reassuring. As we have said when dealing that there are certain occasions when an orphans. The total income and balance with this question on former occasions, if it ebullition of feeling may be reasonably re- fast year was $325,727, out of which is once established that foreign goods for garded as pardonable, so long as nobody only some $7,000 was spent altogether South China may be landed at Canton is annoyed by the demonstration and it is in pensions, expenses of management, without touching Hongkong a serious not of any considerable duration, As everytinting and other matters of detail. blow will have been dealt to the trade of body who has travelled ten miles from The remainder was left in the hands of the this Colony. It is all a question of con- Hongkong must be aware, the time-honour Government and there it will be jealously Bent from Canton, and intended for foreign coming and speeding the parting guest is cach, successive year, Astuming that the countries, is monly shipped in river boats by the blowing of horn, just as the warships Fund were invested at a modest five per or junks to this port, and trans-shipped to thunder out a salute of a dozen guns or cent. per annum, the interest would amount ocean-going atcamers. But if that freight can

more on the slightes provocation. The to $15,000 which would easily cover all be shipped direct to or from Canton then one is simply later innovation than expenses and leave a satisfactory balance in shipmasters will be directed to save the cost the other, and a modern substitute for the pockets of the Govemment. So keen of trans-shipmcht, godown charges, and all the brass cannon with which the vessels have the efforts of the Government been to the various expenses which have to be in- in the merchant service were formerly sweep the Fund out of existence that it is curred through the, transference of goods provided in order to herald their ap- practic ly certain a further and more drastic from one vessel to another, and proceed pearance and notify their departure. In attempwill be made at no distant date to direct to Canton where their cargoes may be these circumstances it might have been ex-secure possession of the Fund and to swallow discharged and fresh cargoes received. It pected that the Magistrate would have taken up the credit balance and the contributions. is no fanciful picture that we draw, nor is it that fact into his consideration and allowed. It is a known fact that the Government are one which can be characterised as fantastic it to be an extenuating factor in the case. hard pushed to find the revenue to meet the al. In Canton, there is a strong German

nstead of that, however, the Magistráte current and necessary expenditure of the colony of traders who are rapidly building seems to have viewed the offence as,che of Colony, and there is the ever-present fear up a firm and lucrative connection with the most heinoits that had ever come before. that the end of our firkacial difficulties the Chinese and, unless we read events awry, hint. He lectured the defendants up hill is far from being in sight yet. Indeed, that connection is to be more closely con- and down dale. He regretted that he had the probability is that we are only on firmed in the very near future. Some time not the real delinquents before him. He the outer rim of the vortex and have ago, the Chinese authorities in charge of the spoke of their conduct as being "reprehen- still to experience, the real peril of the construction of the railway between Canton sible and cowardly" How he made it out financial awit, Be that as it may, the Gov- and Hankow advertised for tenders for the to be cowardly" we cannot profess: 10 ernment look with a hungry eye on

And then be fined these expanding balance, and it is not beyond rea- supply of cement and sleepers. We-under-comprehend. stand that then was very keen competition Chinese defendants, who on his owo state son to bellere that the Secretary of State to secure the contracts by representatives of ment were not the real delinquents at all, for the Colonies watches the Fund with a all nations, but we learn now that Messrs in the extraordinary sum of $40 each, the wolfish glare. For that reason, it is to be Arnhold, Karberg & Co. have been the option being six week lo gaol. We do not expected that another effort will be made to successful tenderers both for, cement and know whether the defendants paid that secure the $318,000 and to administer the sleepers, Mess. Carlowitz & Co. com.extravagant fine or not, but we do hold that, scheme through the ordinary official channel, ing In also for share of the former in the special circumstances related, it was without the distinction of separate identity. gofitract. Such an award speaks volumes out of all proportion to the character of the Should that attempt be made, we may be for the perspicacity of Messrs. Amhold, offence. The blowing of whistles took place certain that it will be carried to a successful Karberg & Co., and is an undoubted at one of the busiest hours of the day conclusion and that the Widows and Orphans' tribute to their "push" and energy. They and probably nobody heard it or commented Fund as a lund will become a thing of the are entirely to be congratulated on the upon it except the zealous police officer past. In that event, while the Government success of their efforts to secure the in the vicinity, who, of course, had to do his are at their fell work they might find occa important contracts in question, but while duly and summon the offendes although aion to consider the grievances of bachelors congratulating the German firm on the for- they were not the real delinquents. The anders in having compulsorily to contribute to the maintenance of the Fund, tunate résult of their endeavours, we cannot irony of the sentence was, if possible, en- refrain from wondering, what has become of hanced by the naive remark of the. Magistrate as it stands at present, without being allowed their British rivals in trade? We have that he thought the first defendant was the a voice in its management and without the cement at our very door, and it could be only one who had told the truth, yet there prospect of receiving back more than a tithe sent at less cost to Canton than from Get w ao reduction in the fine imposed on of the amount deducted from their salaries many. Again, Australia has hall-aidozen him; he just had his-share ameted out to It is perfectly true that on the retirement Commissioner gallivanting round the Far him at the same rate as the others who had of the parties mentioned from the official East seeking to introduce Australian pro submitted cock-and-buil yarns for the edifica world they receive back anehalf of what ducts. Where were they when this oppor- tion of the Court. If the harbour regulations they have contributed but the Government tunity of introducing Australian timber for declare there shall not be at any time, or on retain the remainder, to that the bachelor sleepers occurred? Probably in Japan or any pretence or excuse, soine relaxation in is penalised because of his failure to marry, Korea, both of which are close, preserves their enforcement, p that they must be while the widower is penalised because he affording little prospect for Australian goods, considered as stringent, and unaltérable as had no children to carry on the succession. or sunaing themselves on the hills of Java. Llic laws.of the Medes and Persians, then at It is a most anomalous and unfair procedure Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., having large- let the Magistrate may surely take it upon and should be abolished simultaneously with establishments in Canton, are not likely to bimself to make the punishment fit the the abolition of the Fund. We find that the average monthly contributions amount, crime. make use of Hongkong as an entrepot of

to nearly $3,000 and that the number of trade. Their cargoes of cement and sleepers will, we take it, be shipped from Ger-

those who receive pensions is 37. The many, in German vessels, direct to Can

actual interest derived from the investment 10, omitting Hongkong on the passage

of the Bund last year was $17,000 and it is altogether. Here then is the straw which

likely to be nearly double that amount this shows how the wind blows. As we started

year. It is therefore quito obvious that the out to prove, the trade of Hongkong is not

Government are in a position to give heed so firmly established that it cannot be shaken

to the grievance of the arg bachelors and 13 by the contingencies of the future, and when the German mail and not the French steamer widowers who are mulcted in the same at stated in the editorial. It seems that the amount or, at all events at the same rate as once it is found that it is unnecessary to make launches had been engaged by a number of Hongkong the terminus in place if Canton rieseniative Chinese gentlemen who desired the 386 married men who are on the list. It the supremacy of the former will be most to wish the Registar General, the Hop. Mrould be a simple act of justice which we seriously threatened. Of course there are AW. Brawlo, bon royage on the occasion of have not the slightest doubt would prove other factors in the situation which may's departure for England on furlough. One immensely popular especially with the poorly militate against the diversion of Hongkong's of the launches, whole master was not before paid members of the police force.

the Marins Court, curied the representatives trade with Chins, but neverthelest the fact of the Chinese community in the Legislative HONGKONG CIVIL SERVANTS' "Cannot-be-blinked that Canton may and Connell,————

-CO-OPERATIVE_SOCIBLY,

Private Munting Buoyi.

"Admiral Li Chua,

Sir Joke Jordan.

Viceroy Chang

The For:

Tha Typhoon Refugi, Commercial Examinations.. Macao's Boundaries, Hongkong Gymkhana Club.. Police Launch on Fire. Canton Flankow Railway: Morder a Yau-ma-th. 17. Masonic Fancy Dren Ball.' Wu Ting-fang. "Rosenstock's Directory." Wily Wu.

Volunteer Corps Onders Rico lor Canton. Golf.

Education in Canton, Water Relura. - Canton Day by Day. Railways in China." The Shanghai Club. Southern,China.

Viticulture in Shaowung. Compulsory Education in China. "Love's Labour Lol"

Industrial Educatim in China.

All Fools' Day,

Kobe Collision Case

Collision gear Hakodate.

The Denizens of Kobe's Foreign Selilement." The Flour Industri ja Japan..

Japan's Foreign Trade.

The Sugar Trade:

The Japanese Financial Situation, Burglary at a Yokohama Hotel, Dispatch boat Laughed at Nagasıkl. Japanese Yarn Trade.

Hotel Accommodation in Japan." The Cost of Living in Japan. On Sunday Labour

Chipero Seamery

Commercial:-

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Weekly Share Reports

Freight Market.

: Exchange,

Logel and General

BIRTHS...

On March 28, 1908, at Shangbal, to Mr. and

Mrs. J. DEWITT FANBUN, A SOD,

On March 19, 1908, at the Hague, Holland, the wife of 3.vas Leer, of a 58, WILLEM

HERALS

On Thursday, Apil 3, 1908, at Shanghai, Now 16, Route des Sccurs, tó Mr. and Mr. SIMON A. Lavy, a daughter

HAVE MARRIAGE.

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On March 30, 1978 at Shangha, PHILIP JOHN ABBEY of Yokohomas, Japan, and ETHEL ANNIE HUTCHINS of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

The Jongkong (elegraph probably will become a dangerous rival to

MAFE SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GITATÍS TO SUBSCRIBERS,

HONGKONG, SATURDAY,' April 31, 1908, -

MILLZRADE. RIVALRY BETWEEN

CANTON AND HONGKONGI

(April)

Signs are not wanting that the prediction hich we made sone months ago is to the sossible revival of Canton are trade centre apposition to Hongkong appear to be Kaner falliment with every day that Solong the people ind mer- of Canton were Content 10 slumber business house of Hong- whore bead

Will reference to the leading anicle entitled: "A Dach of barbour offenders which appear edin Saturday's issue of the Hongtong. Tala grath, a correspondast writes to explain that the farewell, demonstration made by the five Inches whose masters were charged with cous travening the rules by, blowing their whistles unnecessarily, look place on the departure of

importance as agalait those of Europe and America, so that as far as we can see Japan has landed herself between the devil and the deep sea. News from Canton to-day shows that the merchants and agitators understand the situation to a nicely, and are carefully avoiding any tactics in the prosecution of the boycott, which may embarrass or compro mise the Government, but that doesnotimply that there is any slackening in the campaign or any weakening in the sentiment, which led to the adopilon of the boycott The appear ance of women an adherent to the scheme and earnest supporters of this latest form of retaliation would in itself prove how deter mined is the opposition which the Japaness will have to face, and it is certain that the end is not within sight, not by a long chalk,

A SINGAPORK IN8111UTION..

The Singapore newspapers have a delicate habit of now and again taunting publa bodies in Hongkong with a lack of imüntire and a lukewarmness in matters which asem to be of the utmost importance, to our Southern Beighbour. For example, they harped for years on the question of the registration of partnership, but so far as we are aware nothing of any very great import ance was ever achieved. Certainly, there were many meetings at which everybody Ад utterly unexpected, appeared to be at sixes and serens, and the but none the less powerful, impetus result of one meeting was usually a fat con through the action of iba "moutners who tradiction of that which had preceded it, bewailed the loss of dignity sustained Then the Singapore Press expressed the by China. It is clearly evident that the stir utmost diuppointment because Hongkong aroused over the 7otts Maru case is only in falled toʻses eye to eye with them on the its infancy, and that the ultimate outcome question of the Crown Agents, but singapore hay assume proportions and lead to results has not accomplished very much despite the absolutely beyond the conception of the floods of oratory which-poured is cataracts THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' We have been favoured with a copy of promoters of the Japanese boycott idea: We over the hands of the Crown Ageal

“FUND

the third report and balance sheet of that saw how effectively the Chinese throughout Latest news was to the effect egregious body described as the Hongkong the Empire could organise a boycott against Crown Agents were more firmly established (615 April)

Civil Service Co-opentire Society, Limited, American products, but in that Instance it than ever, and bad removed to paaa Bince the news appears in the Government which is a combine formed by members of was a principle rather than a definite act premises in order to cope with the demi nda Gaselle that a new official has been appoint the Civil Service of the Colony to compete that aroused the ire of the Chinese. They of their anomalous office. There were other ed on the director of the Widows and against the legitimate traders in Hongkong, demanded ample justice for their coun- matters which were from time to So seldom the Harbour-master or the Orphans Fund, exublished for the beneßt. It has in own establishment, where groceries flymen who desired', to acquire a know, ed out by the Singaporeans, hat the Harbour Department at fault that it in with of the survivors of officers who have died in, are served out to members, who seek to ledge of Western methods by residence could scarcely be considered. considerable hesitation and no small relus the service of the Government, it may not harm the very people who contribute towards In America, and they were quick to re- Now we learn on the authori Lance that we call attention to a cain which to deemed inopponine, to refer once again their salaries by withholding their customs, cognise that it was the labouring class, Aimer from which wa

the uolon workers, and not United Singapore came before, him for adjudication in his to this Fund. As ill readers are aware, the We have not yet been able to fathom

Government thot

their: Fässoc managed | capacity of Marine Magistrate. As reported constitution of the Fand fecus with anom

in the Press, the masters of five steam laun Ile-bachelors are taxed for the bene ches were chirged with blowing their whistles the children they had no other than for, the purpose of navigation, gelling Widowi live-16 ED From the evidence of the complainant it thirty miles in ordeko bollect appeared that the launches were moored off or $15 which may the Kowlsion' wharron waiting, remingly. When Bir Matthe

this Colony, and it therefore behoves British merchants to be up and doing, unless they wish to see themselves, outdistanced by foreign, commercial rivals.

AVBATCH OF HARBOUR OFFENDERS,

the first Stat set forth pur

The Gon