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Entinations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEP

MBER 17, 1908.

FOR SMALL POX-PATIENTS.

A GOVERNMENT CONCESSION,

CHINESE GENTLEMAN'S MUNIFICENCE.

Telegrams

· HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH

SERVICE

interesting and, indeed, rather surprising to find that France came next with a total of, say, thirty and a half million tels-for goods received from Chipa, which war approximate ly five millions in excess of the value of goods WATSON & CO., taken in 1906 and nearly twelve millions over that of 1905. We might find out at LIMITED.

considerable trouble what were the chief goods which Chins shipped direct to France but on a cursory examination we may take it'to be silk, particularly raw silk, which ac counted for about 15 million Laels of the total. The United States ranked fourth among the customers of China, with an ac count amounting to over twenty-six and a hall million taels, an increase of practically

million on the previous year but consider. wood were the only woods used in ils construc. A RICKSHA Coole was charged in the Police Hygeia for treatment, they having an inherent certain country by a steamer flying

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THE MOVEMENT IN SINGAPORE.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")

Singapore, 16th September. The Fuk Lung firm of importera, 20 aversion to reporting caKOT of the Singapore, have imported seventy fear of their patients being removed to the odd packages of merchandise from notion that the exposure of the patient tendi miss the chances of recovery. A large number seriously to aggravate the complaint and mini the flag of the sume country....

The Chinese merchants in the of bodies dead of the disease was also found to have been dumped into the public streets in Settlements obtained knowledge of the city because of the Chinese objection the

the importation. to the wholesale disinfection of their premises and belongings.

this missiduary enterprise, will be sent the Masses Berjimin & Potts of Shaoghal are in New Chinese Hospital. lumber to cpastruct thousands of missionary receipt of telegraphic advices that the Cielental houses, schools, churches and other institutions Consolidated Mining Co. has declared a final dividend of Sfty cents, making in all G. Si for where Western civilization will be taught and

the year ended June jo, 1908. Western religious ideas disseminated. Already CONGRESSMAN Wilson S. Hill and Mr. McCor 35,030 missionaries are in the foreign Geld, and mick express their felief that Mr. Bryan has it is estimated that they with their friends, will a chance of winning Mr. Bayan and Mr. Talc

His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugarð, true costume-$15,000,000 worth of Seattle pro-wil be the guests at the banquet of the Chicago

to the traditions of British Colonial adminis ducts," That is good news for Seattle, of course, Asociation of Commerce on October 7.

tratom, has once again demonstrated his soli- but how is it that we in the Orient have heard. Tas, number of Koraan rioters killed, from citude for and sympathy with our Chinese, foi- nothing of these trials and tribulations to Jahnary down to the end of August," in 876, low-citizens, During the outbreak of the small- which the poor missionaries are subjected? Those taken prisoner amount to 233. Thirty pox epidemic last spring, it will be remember. we sedin to remember an instance where it four rifle and nice guos have been captureded that the lower class Chinese exhibited was found that a missionary's house was the and there have been, 364 encounters between

rioters and the troops. finest in the district, where, teak and olive. tion, and compared with which the Prelect's ibly less than the values received in 1905 Vamen. looked like a shanty. We also seem ind 1904. Then comes Great Britain as an importer of Chinese goods, unt the total to remember certain statements in a book Amount is less than half that of the Unit-written by the correspondent of the Zimer, ed States, being only some twelve Dr. Morrison, which alleged that the finest sillion taels, which was a million less houses on the landscape were certain to than in 1900 six millions less than in 1995, belong to the labouters", whose hire was and three millions less than in 1906. In not so very meagre Yet the mission- other words, for the past two years the aries are starved and clothed in raga. That mother country has been importing a smaller in when they are prepared to pay amount of Chinese goods. All Russia was matter of $5,000 Mex. per annum for decent responsible for something like 17 million taels' food and respectable cloibing. It is all very& worth of produce which she absorbed from sad and illustrates the old saying that one Half Chinese merchants, over five millions going of the world does not know what the other half to European' ports in Russia, a million and a

is doing. So the American missionaries in quarter to Russia and Siberia by land fron China are to have a distribution or transporta tier, and about ten and three quarter millions tion depot in Seattle where there will be a

Court, this morning, with recklessly driving his knocking down a woman, causing injury to her vehicle along Queen's Read yesterday and fect and arms. The coolie was ordered to pay Sto comparsation to the complainant? I is reported that Viceroy Yang Shib-hai- ang proposes to recommend to the Throne the advisabilly of raising a fan of Tis, 10,000,000 from some British Bank or Syndicate for the reorganization of the Navy, instead of utilizing the portion of the Boxer indemnity remitted by

'the United States.".

COOLIE was discovered in a vacant house at 27, Belcher Street yesterday afternoon. He could not give a satisfactory explanation of chassif being a rogue and vagabond. On this charge he was given a week's imprison; ment in the Police Court, to-day.

himself, "and was placed under arrest on a

With a view of mitigating the dumping ovil our public-spirited citizen, Mr. Ha Kom tong, among other measures with which he has been intimately identified, has worked sirenuously to obtain the grant of a site from the Government whereon to erect a hospital for the treatment of Chinese small-pox cases. In that movement he has obialard the whole hearted support and co-operation of the direc tors of the Tung Wa-Hospital, with whose representations the Registrar General was in

full accord, and which received the Governor's

of State for the Colonies.

to Pacific ports. The total value of the systematic and intelligent system" of sending RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library for unqualified 'recommendation to the Secretary.

in

is

-out-the-absolute-accessaries of life to the "workers on the foreign field." There will also be ong at New York and another at London. Of course Seattle rejoices exceed- ingly, as well it might. Our contemporary says:-"As Seattle is closer to the base of missionary operations than the other cities; it obvious that she will get the bulk of the busi. ness. But the amount of goods that the mis- slonaries will purchase is small in comparison to the business that will be created by the advertising that this city will gel. On every package that is sent from here the name Seattle will be printed and in the remotest parts of the Orient this section and the goods it pro- Juces will beknowɔ," The 25 million and a half gulddollars that the missionaries are to spend is

of

the week.eading the 13th September, 1908; (The Museum is closed for repairs until further notice).

Library, * 371

Non-Chinesan jeune Chinese

Total.....

163

nedytown Flague Hospital. The site fronts

Fuk Lung's becoming cognisant of their compatriots' discovery and apprehending the community's dis- pleasure at their astion have paid a conciliatory donation of $8,000 and re-shipped the goods to their port of origin

LEGATION BARRACKS.

POWDER MAGAZINE REMOVED. We are pleased to report that approval

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"] of Sir Frederick Lugard's recommendation" has bien received in the Colony and a grant of lind sixty thousand square feet in area has been

Peking, 16th September. alloited to the Trustees of the Tung Wa Hos

All the Foreign Ministers in Pek- pital for the purposes of the proposed hospital. The land is situate on Mount Davis, jubileeing have agreed to the removal of the As we said before, the Grand Callion Hotel is Road, from 200 to 300 yards west of the Kopowder magazine attached to the be formally opened on the 1st of next monthe sea and has at present built on it a Legation barracks outside the limite comfortable the hotel should be and we under-porary matshed structure. "Lord Big stand that a score of people, bave already sanction bas also been obtained for the treat ment of the patients by Chiness doctors and engaged rooms-not visitors but residents, with Chinese medicine, at patients' option now proposed to keep the remainder of the Arother, great advantage to native sentiment rooms, some forty in number, for guests who secured is the admissibility of patients' relatives are only staying in Hongkong for a dalliance. Everything has been said that could be said Chintan set a high value on and which, accord- Into the hospital-a consideration which the regarding the character of the hotel, and the ing to beat informed opinions in their circle, fact that the people of Hongkong are "nothing will have the effect of reducing the number of

to

October. We have already described how

is

for those who have friends coming to Hong diseases on the part of the Chinese.,

goods taken by Europë, excluding Great Britain and Russia, was 59,796,150 Laels, as compared with 43.579,468. 1906, and 36,013,088 in 1905. Other countries take smaller amounts, the Straits being responsible for some lour million taels. British India accounts for three millions --which was within an ace of being twice as much as in the previous year-while Italy paid eight millious as her share of the goods Gbtained, and Germany six. Australasia is ance again giving attention to Chinese wares although on a very small scale. Last year the imports from China direct, were valued Al 199,503 fuels, against 60,262 in the previous twelve months, 74,928 in 1905 and 218,200 in 1904. As we have already noted the aggregate value of the exports of Chinese goods in 1927 was 26 million laels odd, as contrasted with 236 millions in the pre-] as nothing to the advertisement givan-Seattle if not critical should.ba.the.bist proof of the dumped corpses-and-of-securing the ready." A. S. WATSON & CO., they are sent. Naturally the chief centre minute consideration. That is only by the way kong for a temporary visit to view the new

vious year. Now let us see from which ports but after all, we offer the suggestion that it is a pudding. It would not be at all a bad idèllingness: for reporting cases of infectious To erect a bospital with suitable accommo of the original export trade is Shanghai, too, because the missionaries are to spend two conditions which now prevail in one of thedation it is estimated that a sum of $40,000 to which disposed of goods to the value of million gold dollars in transportation charget most select, and in all seriousness the most $50,000 will be required, which will be raised 73.737.546 tacks, but flankow makes a fair alone, which is another mite of a 'con. cheap, hotels in the city.

by "subscriptions among the Chinese com ly good second with a total of 60,427,393 sideration. Then the represcutative of the FOR obtaining a pair of shoes and a pair of musity. In testimony of his practical sym [33 taels, while Canton-is-not-far behind with an missionaries assured the interviewer that boots from a shoemaker at 178, Queen's Road pathy with the scheme; My: Ho Kam-tong he

export trade-of Chinese, goods-valued at

This is not a commercial enterprise; but a West, yesterday, ynder false pretences, a coolie headed the subscription list with the handsome $5.343.558 Laels. None of the other dis- religions one. However, it would be impossibamed Cheung Kau was, at the Police Court, donation of three thousand dollars. If others On September & 1908, at Ningon, the wife tricis approach there three ports in the value ble to carry on an enterprise of this nature about. Cheung represented himself to the small.pex hospital should soon be another this morning, sentenced to six weeks hard will but emulate his public spirit, the Chinese of the goods received from outlying stations without increasing the commerce between this shoemaker as a coolie in the Government Civil monument of Chinese benevolence in this and exported. The Kowloon district sent port and the ports of China and Japan. It will Hospital. He said he bad been sent by one of Colony which already boasts of several stand. Túmillions worth, Bentsin 17 millions, Hang - chow to millions, Wechow three and three result in more ships plying between the ports the patients in hospital to get a pair of shoes and ing testimonies to the munificence of our

more manufacturing industries in Seattle and a pair of boots. He got the articles and anked esteemed Chinese friends.

the shoemaker to accompany him back to the quarter millions, Amoy two millious, and so on. As to the direct foreign export trade, other parts of the Sound. These things, while hospital and he would be paid. Arriving at including re-exports, from each customs dis_not_the_object_of the board, will be the in the gate of the hospital Cheung Kau asked the trict Shanghai is credited with 131,963,587 evitable result of its work." So much the better shoemaker to wait outside, while he went in At Shanghai, JOSEPHINE, eldest daughter of George and Susan Burgess, aged 4 years and million dollars and Canton, which in this for Seattle, but why could not these forlorn and got the money. Cheung would have mede category comes second, with 51 millious odd.. and emaciated starvlings buy their goods in his escape through the other gate had not a hospital "boy" asked -the shoemaker his Hankow's direct foreign exports were only Shanghai, Hongkong, or other ports? is it, business. Cheung was arrested by Ward twelve and a quarter millions, most of the necessary that they should live on pate-de-fois-master Armstrong making tracks for the

LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, b September, 1908.

BIRTH.

of the Rev. W, LYTTLE, of a son,

MARRIAGE.

Ón August 6, 1908, at St. James', Peoton ville, the Right Rev. HRRIERTJAMES MOLONY, D.D. Bishop in Mid-China, to GERTRUDE ELIZABETH, widow of the Rev. J. W. Goodwio, C.M.S, Agra, India, and youngest daughter of the Rev S.D. Stubbs, M A., of. St. James', Pentonville, London:

eight months..

DEATH.

The Hongkong

goods being sent in the first place to Shang

elegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMURR 17, 1908. lions worth of direct foreign exports. From all these figures, which may be apt to CHINA'S GROWING AXPORT.

weary the reader, although they cannot fall TRADE.

to interest those who follow the course of trade in China it is perfectly clear that the -In-continuation-of-their-statistical-reports" -_on_the trade_of_China the Imperisi Maritime.

gras and dress in the height of fashion in order Queen's Rond gate.

hai. Even the Kowloon district was able to wis the souls of the Chinese ? No doubt to show a respectable total of over, 16, mil- | people who can afford £203 per annum in

order to live well and dress à la mode ‘are, entitled to considerably more advantages than the plain brethren who do not seek to live on the fat of the land, or demand summer quarters, for weeks at the time, but whether the Gospel

"PRANKS OF A LUNATIC,

*COOLIH BELIEVES HE WAS "VICEROY OF

CANTON" AND MAKES PREPARATIONS

FOR HIS NEW FOST.

·CAIS AS PLAGUE PREVANTERS,

SANITÁRY ́NDARD'S, ACTIVITY,

of the city.

{This precautionary measure ie the outcome' of the recent fatal accidental explosion which occurred in the German Legation barracks in Peking.-Ed, H.K.T.] /

"MISSIONARIES÷

QUESTION OF LAND PURCHASE.

Cly courtesy of the "Shoung_Po"]

Poking, 16th September. Some time ago a proposal was submitted by the Waiwupu to restrict the acquisition of landed property by missionaries..

Most of the Foreign Ministers in Peking have agreed to the proposal.

The French Minister, however, disagrees and an exchange of com- munications on the subject has been opened between M., Pabst and the Waiwupu.

SALT,

IN PRICE.

[By_ courtesy of the "Shning Po"]

Peking, 16th September..... The Salt merchants in Shantung have submitted a memorial to the Board of Revenue.

In reference to the statement in oer Tursday evening's issue that the Sanitary Board are offering cats for sale at forty.cents.oach, as tho result of the report of the committed appointed AN ALternative to increase to consider the methods of keeping cats ia bouses as plague preventers, we have arcer lained additional facts in connection with the

·Board's new sphere of activity which should be of interest to our readers. A representative of the Hongkong Telegraph, visited Kennedy Towo, yesterday morning, where a number of kil tens are being fed and sheltered in a temporary shed near the Cattle Dipô', when' be was able Sanitary Board are tackling the problem of to appreciate the earnestness with which the

In the petition they expressed is taught better is another question. However, district. The man was not violent, and but for rat infestation as a disseminator of plague. Customs have Dow issued an analysis of the foreign exporTMtrade which is bound to the missionaries know what they want and that a rude shock, Shau-ki-wan was able to sleep Mr. Adam Gibson, the Colonial Veterinary their willingness to undertake the exports to foreign couotes, and this prove increasingly valuable as the years'roll

is_be_main_thing. They refuse to die of comfortably last night,

Burgeon, courteously showed our representative

payment-of-an-annual-sum-of-1 we take it complètes the series of exports on

starvation and wear the livery of the gutter. A coolie, who, it is believed, was at one time round the place and the few cursory observa- the subject of China's trade in the year

tions of that gentleman were convincing en 800,000 in lieu of the proposed in- ings at about two o'clock yesterday afternoon,ough that ere long the great majority, if not under review. How rapidly. China is deveTHE WORS OF THE MİSSİONANY They must have at any cost the products of employed in the Shipyard, returned to his lodg

Delmonico's and the garb of the boulevards showing every sign of joy; He gave his fall, of Chinesa tenements fa. the Colony wincrease in the price of salt,

fellow-lodgers, so the report says, to under- boast of their own particular cat. How far the stand that he was "Viceroy of Kwangtung" and enemy of the plague propagating rodent is had been ordered by the "Emperor" to proceed going to adbēre to the traditions of their race to take up his now post al once. Of course his by way of free, open air, nocturnal conceris Esteners laughed, and soma hjaled that be was and the consequent flying of boots, pickla’Jars, mad. Little did they know they were right"|"dumb-bells and other sundry articles which it

Middle Kingdom" is rapidly building up a

on.

and if they can get it, why, so much the better, Who would not be a missionary on these terms?

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

And the Bengal Provinces.

MR. K. Ritter von Wieser assumed the duties of his office as Austro-Hungarian Consul in Hongkong on the igih inst.

*

PORT Aribur was hung with flags and a lantern procession took place on the rath last, in hon our of the visit of O.E. Usu Shik-chong, Viceroy of Manchuria.

yesterday by a madman who appeared in the The peace of Shau-ki-wan. Was disturbed

Diyessing Gimself of all bjs.clothing, the coolic, the report continues, bade his friends good

bye, and, with not a stitch on, took to the street, and sprinted down the road as hard as he could go. That there was excitement need only be left to the imagination. A crowd of loafers pursued the Adonis, thoroughly, amused at

has been the misfortune of the cat from lime immemorial to be assailed with, we are not in

a position to state. But of this we fancy the facetious members of the Cat Committee are certain that residents of Hongkong wili glad. ly bear, inconveniences which they otherwise could not when they are assured that by doing his behaviour. At the bend of the road so they are helping in minimising theoreti the coolie's "urip to Canton ceased. Acally at any rate-the ravages of the dread dis- policeman took him into custody, and not very cate long afterwards he was seal to the Lunatic Asylum,"

:.

loping her resources may be discovered from

IN CHINA. the almost continuous increase in the total value of the exports of Chinese produce

Who would have believed that the American during the past ten years. Whereas in 1898 missionaries in Ching were hall-starved and the total value was recorded as being some practically asked for want of good, wholesoms what over 150 million taels,, last year the victuals and an abundance of the clothing to exports had increased to a64,380,697 (aels, which they have been accustomed? Certainly We are officially informed that quarantine the tael being reckoned at 3/3 in English not many in Hongkong or Shanghai, unless cur against Hongkong has been removed by Aden money, equal to $1.51 in Mexican. The experience is sadly at fault. Who would have increase, as we have said, has been almost thu, ht that they cannot obtain in China wood continuous, the exceptions being 1900 when.

sufficent to b sild-their-bungalows and mission. the trade dropped slightly below that of

spel. Yet that is the suggestion which ane 1898 and 1905 when it fell under the pre- ceding year's results, but an advance of con- of the brethren has been offering the guilstess siderably over 100 million taels in the short newspapermenof Seattle. It may be thought by space of ten years is proof positive of the some that we are exiggerating the picture entrance of China among those nations drawn by one of the frateraity, that wo submit which have a large and potentis export it is not so, and we may be permitted to sob. trade of products grown or manufactured mit proofs in favour of our contention, Un- withintheir own bounds. With respect to the less the Seattle Times is vastly mistaken, and value of directexport of Chinese produce to the there is no reason why our contemporary will be launched on the 25th instant, various countries abroad, the largest apparent should be on so important~a~subject, the un ANOTHER" gang of daporless; numbering At West Point yesterday. in most tragic abs" at home to whom puss appenage is consumer is, of course, Hongkong, which ac

fortunate missionaries in China are in a bad counted in 1907 for goods to the amount of, We will quote the "accredited representa *97,226,434 tacīm. We need not enter into

the question once again as to the countries tive of the missionary supply bureau, recently which eventually took those goods through created by the Men's Federated Missionary So the medium of this Colony, because even ifciety of the United States. His statement is that we did the question would still remain un "Hundreds of missionaries die because they answered. The greatest actual customer of are unable to get wholesome food and clothing Chine last year was Japan, including For-and-they have not received it because there has mosh, which accepted Chinese products to heen no concerted movement by business men the extent of 39,347,476 taels, or abouk sik to get the supplies to them. But that is not millions more than the previous year. It la gil. From Seattle, which is to be the centre of, a street lamp in Mosque Strest

DETALLED regulations for the joint Chiness and Japanese Yalu Forestry Company were signed at Mukden on 11th last. The Company

twenty-two in all, arrived in the Colony this morning by the steamer Gregory Aprat. Steps are being taken by the police to return them

DASHED 10 DEATH.. SAD TERMINATION TO A BRICKLAYER'S LIFE. A bricklayer named Lam Wai met his death

CIGARETTE TAX.

A VIOLATION OF TREATY- ACUT STIPULATIONS,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po

Poking, 16th September. The Superintendent of Customs advises that the proposal,jo levy, ja duty on cigarettes ig Treaty stipulations.

tion

The duty cannot, therefore, enforced.

Tho Customs official urges that

ANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN.

ANOTHER VICTIM,

The cats are being properly looked after by the Sanitary Board authorities, and no pains are being spared to feed them right royally, no that on being banded to their future owners there need be no grumbling on the part of the the matter be allowed to remain in porchaters that they bare not obtained thele money's worth. There are little kittens whose abeyance. fun and frolic will steal the hearts of "little fashion,, Lam Wui, with a number of other such an irresistible handle. The shed where they are accommodated are scrupulously clexo, workaten, was attending to the roof of a house and the spacious, wire cages: leave nothing to at 5, On Fook Lane when the accident, which be desired. There were some seventy kittens was to have cost & life, happened. The work among them a few cas, to all at the time our mon were scattered all over the roof. Near representative visited the premises. This number is shortly to be augmented by two The lad-Daniel Antonio Saares-who was the edge was Lam, Wai in a stooplog position; hundred more. It need not take anyone's charged in the Police Court, yesterday, at the laying on the plaster. As he was about to tito breath away from what mysletipus roosses of instance of Sergeant Lee, with resisting and to proceed farther down, Lam slipped and mother earth these numbers are obtained when wilfully obstructing an fading policeman while being buable to steady himself, overbalanced, it is learned that, for some time past, a number on duty, was to-day fined $5. Soares, it will be and fell to the roadway, a distance of about of exceptionally Active coolies have been remembered, went to the assistance of one of forty feet, Death was insisatansous. The engaged in bunting for tat-calchora li over

the New Territory, and when it is, known how, enfor his friends who was ander arrest for breaking mangled remains were convoyad to the mor.onderfully retiro sad elastic: their limbi be habit to which he had been addicted.

**] tuary by the police:

come in order le Baron few extra centr

their homes.

[By courtesy of the "Sheun

Peking, 10th September,

1eral; of Olika

died as a trasu biofer

abstention from the "opium.