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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON

LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2, 1908.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

H.M.S. Monmonth left for the North early this morning.

advancement depended mainly on their ability long report to be read before it is laid before occurring before, a continuous shipment bad to propitiate the Thronen by the remittance of the Emperor. The project 'set forth by this band complated related back to the commence. ready money. It cannot be denied that before the report is that Chiou's Davy shall be divided into ment of the act of shipping and rendered the monetary presents reached their destination, the three fleets-namely those of Pe-yang, Nan- ship ungeswonby ab initio. But the jury did bigher officials had their picking", bul even the yang and Yuet-yang. Each of these naval bot to find, nor did that seam to be the law. & CO., Grand Councillors would have thought twice be divisions will consist of one first-class battle. Now comes the point which will interest shippers SEVERAL failures of minor native, banka at fore they handed over to the imperious Dowager ship, one or two first-class cruisers, four and shipowners alike. The law as it appeated Hankow were announced on and ultimo, the a miserable pittance as the semblanes of soms or five second-class croisent, six fourth to the judge seemed to be that "the ship most total sum involved being not very large, financial consideration. Time and again reports class cruisers, a futille of gunbrats, a

be seaworthy for the reception of each package however. have been published of the magnificent dos flotilla of transport ships and despatch it is carried on board." That is an extraor ations by private individuals to the exchequer boats, with buillas of torgado-boats and de-dinarily fins point and in our opinion cannot be reserved for the Royal Family at Peking, and stroyers, and a fɔtilla ofsabiniarize Ench Accepted as more than a simpla obiter dictum is paint was found by the police, was givan four-

it to be assumed from that definition that until the last package is placed on board while the ship is in a seaworthy condition, the shipown

be sustained by the consigners, or is it that the ers are not responsible for any loss that may

shippers are only entitled to damages to the amepat of the loss sustained on the packages

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS,

&o.,

it is not to be disputed that wealthy merchants and officials who were in a position to squeeze effectively the districts under their control bave been quietly informer that it would be for the benefit of their health and the promotion of BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY: TUE their interests if they could possibly manage to augment the funds at the direct disposal

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fleet will have its own stations; the Northern fleet will bave stations at Chefoe, Tientsin, sad Take the Middle feet will be stationed at Sem-men-wan and Chusan, and the Southern fleet at Canton and Yout-log-kong. Every naval station will be in charge of commander, who will be responsible for the drilling of the

A DOATMAN in whose possession a dram of

toen days' to-day to think how he came into possession, or from whom he had stolen the stuff.

LI SING, the coolle who was accused of bring ing Wing Woog Kwan, a sixteen-year-old boy,

into the Colony, for the purpose of selling like

Telegrams,

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE.

THE EMPEROR'S EN THRONEMENT.

CEREMONIAL OBSERVANCES.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

of the Thrope. Now, it is ridiculous to believe crews and for the quizes. The commander. damaged on board? If this latter than the ship. pig" to some dealer in the Straits Settle- ernors and generals of the Provinces

dilections of Her Majesty for amusements and

ments, was sentenced to a year's gaal in the Police Court, this moreing.

of the Da Marine and Fire pauradce Com

that twenty million dollars represents the in-chief of the flost will have his headquarters haps the delay resulting from the accident to s per would have no great grievance beyond, per residue left after the personal tastes of at Nat-yang The vessels forming the pre- the Empreis-Dowager had been satisfied. sent Univere Navy will be put to other use-vessel, and the possible quashing of a contract | So far as outsiders are aware, the pre-So much for the Navy in post. But we have owing to non-fulfilment of delivery on a specifi-, charge against Choi Ming Shek, a casbier

ed date. If the former, the shippers are placed at chronic, and lingering coughs.and.colds, diversions were not at a very expensive char.pot yet got to the bottom of the declarations.

a decided disadvantage. But as wo sie gol in-pany, who was alleged to have embezzled the that the joint estate of the Empress-Dowager itiated into the terms of the claim against withdrawn. The defendant's discharge came and Emperor is only worth thirty milliers, or

sum of $40,000 from his employers, has been

how the vast sums collected from the Provinces are not in a position to say which party seems

the Canadian Pacific Railway Company we about in the Police Court, this afternoon, and from individuals have been dissipated, to have been despoiled. His Lordship argued Probably, we shall never know where the maway that at the jury said they could not find the went to. All we wonder now is, How will moment when the ship became unseaworth meter Fu-yi, the successor to Kwang-Hsu, nor whether the last case of cigarettes was, or was pot on board at 3.30 p.m. when they did

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manage to exist now that it is proposed to

A Toxto despatch of 27th ult, says :-The Privy Council has approved of the establishment of a Railway Board, as a sequel to the nationalisa tins of Japanese railways. It is expected that Baron Gole (President of the South Menchuria

upkeep of this establishment necessitated ibe deplete the Imperial exchequer to the last fad the ship to have been unseaworthy be bad Railway) will be appointed President of the

expenditure of large sums susually. That is surely a very lame excuse to account for, the moderate estate left behind. If the Empress had been in the habit of gallivan ting round the Provinces in search of en- enainment there is a possibility, that the iaitial cost of the journeys might have been

farthing?

SOME IMPORTANT POINTS FOR

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SHIPPERS AND 'SHIP OWNERS.

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come to the conclusion that on these findings no judgment could be entered either way. There was no order as to come, to that each party paid their own expenses. It is a most unsatisfactory result, because it leaves both shipowners and shippers in a largle of doubt appealed to the higher court we may get for as in their rights and liabilities. If the case is

ther light on the subject, but as it stands the case is a distinct and interesting problem for

YARN LOTTERIES IN SHANGHAI.

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Board.

THE plague is now officially declared as got

under at Tongshan, but it is well-known that surrounding villages, so that the Sauitary other cases have broken out ia.some of the

Bureau should still take preventiva muasutės soon spread. in these isolated places, or the disease will

Poking, 1st December.. To-day being the day fized for the

the Throne, the Board of Rites has accession of the young Emperor to

telegraphed to the Viccioys, gov

that they should on that day, to gether with the civil and military officials under them, perform con- grutu'atory ceremonies, and that the officials and people within their respective jurisdictions should wear appropriate costume on that day.

officials cr merchants should present

On accession day if

any foreign

themselves for the purpose of offering congratulations, the Chinese officials. should receive them in their robes office and hoist flags and fire sal as the case may be) in accordance

the coremonies are over, offici la are with prescribed custom.

As soon as

enjoined to observe all the mourning ceremonies.

Later.

it has been-quite-usual-for-private—corpor The-Diplomatic-Corps-in-Peking- rations and individuals to apply to the, Chinore has requested tlie Waiwupu to pre-

Government for mining concessions, and rail,

exceedingly alarming, but even then the mage furists and laymen alike has just been One of those curious cases which puzzle and untes honoured by the visit of the Imperial decided" in ibs. British Supreme Court at entourage would have been compelled to de Shanghai leaving, however, the position anal fray the greater part of the travelling expeprestered, so that neither aids-can-claim-a-victory-The legal theorist. just as the Dalai Lama has been living in luxury on the sweat-earned savings of the peactions in the future. The case is of importance

nor is any precedent "laid' down for ̈similar; santry. Is it conceivable thai officials like the because it deals with a prabem, which is

way concessions, so the Wai Wu-pu has made sent a memorial on their behalf late Li Hung.chang, or Yuan Shih-kai, Chang bound to arouse much discussion in shipping

a new rule that hereiffer no applications of Chih-tung and our friend. Shom did not con-

this sort will be received, unless such appli- stating that it is the wish of the circles and may have the effect of leading to Some time ago we called attention to the cations are made through the Foreign Minister. Foreign representatives to be present tribule millions to maintain the Imperial

an ameodmest in the agreement arranged.ba-fact hat although the yarn lottery system household, even where no compulsion was tween the shipper and the shipping company initiated by the yarn dealers in Japan had THE Tientsin native city now presents a union of the accession of the Young to offer congratulations on the occa- exercised and no 'urgent need for gratuitous er carrier. It will be within the recollection

been frustrated so far as dealings in Ilong-asual appearance, all red or gilt signs and in- For colds in the Chest, bronchitis, sore thank-offerings apparent? And still if we are

of readers that in October last year a curious kang were concerned by the action of the scriptions &c., &c., having been now converted Emperor to the Throne. throat, &c;

to believe all we hear, the estate of the all-accident be'ell the Empiress of China, when Government, it was an open secret that the to blue or white; and the big bell it the powerful and actual juler of China for'a-quarter she sank at the wharf at. Vancouver/scheme was being pushed for all it was

yamen and many of the temple bells have A. S. WATSON & 00df a century has dwindled to the paltry sum of while receiving carga for the Orient. At the astonishment that the Municipal authorities / vities of any kind will be possible for many worth in Shanghai. We also expressed been kept tolling for quite a while, No fești. twenty million dollars, an noul which anime it was believed that the-accident-was on the Northern Serdement should blink Oriental sovereige could dissipate on insipidi accident at all, but the deliberate act of certain their eyes to this illegitimate and repre- ties in a few days. As for the Emperor's estate foreigners who might have had sums animus of a few millions--same vernacular papers aver that it does not exceed ten millions-the quest.R., the owners. It was discovered, however, not so much against the bout as against the C. (53 tion becomes still more inexplicable. The that the accident was due to the fact that the F'imperor was a weakling, and a nonentity; he condenser discharge pipe had been negligently never had the chance of flaging his pocket inf. open. As the result of the sinking, the "money about like'a

modern woud; he could cargo which had already been stored away was addressed to The Kaitor, I, Ice ilusse llund, was hardly call his soul-bis, ow, and it is cer- damaged, particularly a consignment of cigaret ould be accompanied by the Writer's Name-st-ain that if he had attempted to emulate ies which had been sent aboard by the British the fashionables and bloods of his caste he American Tobacco Co. A year after the would have been quickly brought to heet by the accident almost to the very day so action dominant pawer. It was not untual for him, was brought in H.B.M. Court at Shang. even when he had reached manhood, to beat the instance of the Tobacco Co. summatily locked up in his apartments whentai agimges from the Canadian Pacific

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AND

KOWLOON DISPENSARY,

* tiongkong, 23rd October, 1908

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SUBSCRIPTION RATER (IN ADYANCI),

· DALLY—$40 per marin

Waxy-$18 por konuku.

The daily up is delivered freu when this wiTeam In accekalble to mawenger. Da cupine moat by pass an

malilitional $6.50 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage uz the weekly mue to muy part of the Ja world in 30 ceas pai quattor

Kingis Lagu Bali, teu cents: Wopkly, twnty-

Ave CODIA.

DEATH.

were

months.

hensible method of interfering with SENTENCE of six months' hard labour. was taken to stamp

rade, and suggested that steps should be paired on a coolis named Chrung Chan by not merely for the benefit of honest yarn, non, for theft. Choung, it was stated, re-

out this deplorable practice | Mr. J. H. Kemp, in the Police Court, this fore dealers but also for the benefit of those moved from the pocket of one James.l.ee res Chinese whose natural bent for lotteries and cash. The theft, took place in Queen's Food terday a back book, two, letters, and $170 in gambler would be increased tenfold the cute machinatious of the Japanese allowed to continue, As a matter of fact the system of prizes as originated by certain of the Japanese yarn exporters was repro bated by, the best members of their own fraternity. in Japan. We learn that whe ther acting on the advice of the Tele

The complainant resides at 16, Wing we

Street.

Cheung Chi lost his temper yesterday afternoon while receiving a lecuire from his employer. He strack the compradore, and then proceeded in damolish-his vehicle. He succeeded in

fore a magistrite this morning he was fined $4 money was not forthcoming when the reporter and ordered to pay. 55 compensation, The

left the Magistracy.

A RICKSHA Coolie who goes under the name of

he committed minor indiscretions, and al Railway Co. "on an implied warranty of sea. Tuple or olber antagonist, to this lot | doing $2 worth of damage only. Brought be

CHINA'S “NAVY.

GERMANY'S PROFERRED

ASSISTANCE.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pol

Peking, lat December." In an interview with the Ministers of the Foreign Office, the German Minister mentioned that his Govern- ment was prepared to assist China in the reorganisation of her Navy.

·JAPAN AND CHINA.. together, his opportunities facting the gay and worthiness, e. that the ship should be fit to ery system a Shanghai ratepayer furnish The rates for quartof wat par, prodebonair princeling were smaller than those of receive the plaintiff's cargo of cigaretes," The Council-as-if they needed to be wakened

COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS. cd certain information to the Municipal the meanest subject in the Middle Kingdom. jury's fadings as summarised by the Court At the same time, be was not forgolian when

[By courtesy of the "Shoung Po."] were. That the ship was "seaworthy about noses--and showed specimens of lottery. up to see what was going on under their the presentation season was in full swing, and

it ha at about which time the shipping of the tickets sold with the bales of cotton yarn The prosecution brought by the police agains, as one who was thrifty by compulsion he must cigareties was commenced. z-Tbal the ship imported from Japan. The Council Liere; the coolie Ho Cheung,and Messrs. Hastings,

Kirin. 1st. December. have accumulated quite a fortune, as fortunes was unreawarty and in imminent danger at upon addressed a letter to the Japanese and Hastings, shriff (Chan Chick. Yee) for

Mrjuin, the Japanese Minister are understood in monarchical circles. But 3.30 p.m. when the shipping of the cigarettes Consul-General at Shanghai inquiting whe: being in unlawful possession of three cheques in Peking, has notified his Govern- according to those who have constituted was about finished but the jury cannot say that ther these operations had his sanction, and belonging to the Dairy Farm Company, mant's intention to pay compensation On November 27, 19, 8, at Shanghai, RICHARD the never his executors, the Son of Heaven the last case of cigarettes was on board. 3. otherwise desiring an expression of his coecluded in the Police Court yesterday after

has left behind him an amount considerablyThat they cannot say whether the ship be- opinion on the subject. The members of ceant Appleton found the lost cheques.in Ho soldiers were shot by Japanese in. 2390. It will be remembered Detective Ser. in the case wherein six Chinesa less than Mr. Andrew Carazgi annually dis came unseaworthy before the completion of the the Municipal Council, it was stated, were Cheung's possession, and it was alleged that parses for the erection of free libraries, church shipping of the cigarettes; they do not under- unanimous in the view that this mode of Chan Chick Yee had attempted to dispose of Kirin. organs, and up-to-date Valhalls. Say that the stand enough about ships to say the moment competition was prejudicial to legitimate them for a reward. The magistrate (Mr. J, R total value of the personal estate of the late when she became unseaworthy. The question trade; and that every effort should be Wood) discharged the cain. HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1908, realises thirty million dollars, what secret judgment to be entered on these findings?" Part of the letter to the Consul General was Empress Dawager and the Emperor combined for the Supreme Court now was "How ought made to suppress the lottery, either by the prosecution of the concerned, or otherwise. It was claimed by counsel for the defendants in the following explicit terms: The that judgment should be awarded his clients Council has given public notice that the because they had provided a ship which concealment of fottery tickets in bales, of wax fit to receive cargo when the act of shig yarn constitutes an infraction of the prohibi-

MARKWICK, aged 47 years.

The Honghong telegraph

THE EMPRESS-DOWAGEK'S, PRIVY PORSE.

"ATTACKED BY RUFPIANS;

-CARPENTERS' EXPERIENCE AT WEST POINT,

THE ANHUI MUTINY

methods have been adopted to dispose of the.

TAOTAI IN TROUBLY, -remainder? It could not have vanished with out leaving some trace of its whereabouts, and

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo."] who should know better what has becorio of Who would have believed that the estate of it than the Grand Councillors? The Prince Reping began, or, is the alternative, because the tion rules against lotteries in the Settlement, Leung I Foog is a dark alleyway at What

Shanghai, 1st December, the late Empress Dowager of China only gent, it is reported, proposes to devote the en burden of proof was on the plaintiff and had and before undertaking the Police prosecu-Point, rapping between High Street and Third

The soldiers who mutinied in amounted to the comparatively small sum of lite such towards the creation of a cavy for not been discharged. His Lordship dismissed tion of the concerned, I have the honour to Street, and is well known as the rendezvour of Anhui have been examined and have twenty million dollars, or less than two million China. What sort of a navy can be gathered the suggestion that the Carron Park case was inquire whether you are aware of the opera ruffians after pighi-tall. pounds sterling? Nevertheless that is the together for a matter of £3,00,000) Great "estimate which the Prince Regent is believed Britain pays more than that for two battleships that he could fod na authority for the propozi. I desirability or the reverse. It is at all timesters, one of whom was named Mok Kwai, bd Bing-kee.

on all fours with the Empress of Chins and said tions, and what view you take as to their At abart nine o'clock, last night two carpen confer sed that their leader was Hung

alleyway A short cut to the house of ung having been recommended l'a rather rough experience while using this

friend, whom they were going to meet Four for appointment by Taotai Ku Chung- man, who had been hiding themselves in a door.

viate preferential treatment of any class of residents in the Settlement, and the suppres

to bave made, and it is suggested that the es--the Dreninought and Lord Nelson having tion of defendants' counsel that the shipowner's the Council's endeavour where possible to Late of the late Emperor is even less. Where cost £1,600,000 each. But of course, if China duty is fulfilled when he has provided a ship have all the hundreds of thousands of taels limits herself to gunboats and torpedo baated to receive the cargo at the commencement which were regularly remitted by the Provincial she might acquire a flotilla of mosquito craft

of the act of loading that carga. In regard

to

a

coming up a few paces behind his friend. He way, rushed out and attacked Mok Kwai, who was sum, the Provincial Judge bas

ground. While down another man sat on bis further proceedings. chest, a third proceeded to remove his shorn, Mok cried londly for help and his friend ran while the fourth man started to rifle his pocketa: to his rescue. The marauders were taken by Indian police-coosable, formerly stationed

THE charge brought against Fattah Bingb,'s surprise, and balta 1 to different directions at Yau-mut, fer accepting as a baba once they had got clear of the alley. Mok and bottle of whisky from a hawker at Kow!

native lotteries during recent years would fail sive measures which have been applied to Governments disappeared to, and what has be- } which, would · suffice to patrol `effectively the burden of proof the jury:'had not answered in their object were a lottery of the present whe seized by the hair and thrown to the placed the latter in custody pending come of the enormous sunis presented to Her the great, estuaries along the South and the material question, what proportion of the character allowed to function with impunity," Majesty on her birthday and other special East coasts and prove of infinite service in cigarettes had already been shipped when the This reply of the Cansul-Gederal to the occasions when officials desmed it advisable time of trouble. Might we laterject here the vessel became unseaworthy? For these rea Council's pote was bright, brief, but by no to carry favour by gilis of hard cash? There remark, that if the resolution of the Prince Ressons he thought judgment could not be entered means brotherly. It ran: "I beg to inform is not a single vicory in the Chinese Empire seat and bis advisers is adopted, there is a for the defendants. That settled the defendants, you that the coupons to which you refer are who has not emptied his coffers into the lap possibility that the work of constructing at and the question now arose whether the plaintiff given away and are not sold, I'm there of the avaricious roter, who knew how to tight. least a portion of this flotills might be obtained warentitled to judgment. His Lordship held that fore unable to see any objection to this en the strings which held, the realm together. by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com-judgment could only be entered for the plain-mohod of doing business. Art. XXXIV. of The most insignificant official was not ignored papy, provided the directors take fime by the tiffs if the jury having found the ship to be sea the by-laws of the Municipal Regulations, when he gathered together a respectable amount forelock, Qupting from a summarised report worthy at is am, and had further found that at refers to the sale of lottery tickets or which could swell the Imperial Treasury, and in the Navy League Annual on the Chinese some time before the shipping of the cigarettes chances to lotteries, And as far as we can be mandarinste knew only too well that the Navy, "The Ministry of War recently sent to was finished the ship had become unseaworthy, remember there the matter resta. A little pennen of their office and the probability of all the viceroys and governors of provinces a sad if the law was that such absnaworthis

doug way now and then,

his friend parned con man and caught him in the other day, particulars of which we record Third Street, handing him over to a policeman recently, was concluded to the

The man, who gave the name of Cheung yesterday. Mr. T. H. Kapp sent Chong, of 12, Nallah Lang, Wanchel, was to Rol for six months. In pasal charged by Inspector Robertson in the Police hit Worship said "that the and he was somenced to six months bard the good character of the Catand Court, to-day, with assault, intending to rob, very seriona ona. He had

labour

could not im pon