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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 5, 1908.

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fitting. They have provided the natives with an Assembly of their own to which some

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"subject.

The conditions of sale for any lot of Crown land to be sold, by section will not in futuro be published in the Government Gazsits. Copies of such conditions can be obtained on appli cation at the P. W. D.

This new bridge of briats, 3,400 feet long, aver the Indus a Dera Ghazi Khan, was completed on the 31st Octoberand was opened for traffic by Bhai Gundit Singh, superintendent in charge of the bridge, on the rat ultimo,

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Ir is notified that the poste restante and dead letter notices will not in future be published in the Government Gazelle Lits of lettera, & remaining in poste restante will be circulated as hereiofore and be placed at the Post Office and branch officer.

Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SERVICE,

UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA.

PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT BY ENGLAND AND FRANCE:

[By courtesy of the "Shesing Fo""]

Poking, 4th December, "England and France propose to establish universities at Tientsin and

Shanghai."

THE BOXER INDEMNITY

REMISSION BY THE CON. TINENTAL POWERS.

[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po.

Poking, 4th December. The Gorman, French and Italian Ministers in Peking have informed the Waiwupu that their respective Governments contemplate a remis sion of the Boxer indemnity in token of their sympathy with China in her present bereavement.

THE DOWAGER-EMPRESS ESTATE."

HER LATE MAJESTY'S PERSONAL EFFECTS!

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po

Peking, 4th December. The Court garments of her late

pledged to undertake the most drastic re THE SOLUTION OF THES forms in the public expenditure and to PILIPINO PROBLEM. rigorously strike out every individual item

When we consider the high aspirations of the greatest rascals were elected and SINGAPORE BR been proclaimed an infected which seems t

superfluous or which which animated the Americans when they would have lived at the public expense port, can at least be temporarily omitted, and to took possession of the Philippine Islands, if the Government had not interfered and The sale of ferns and other plants to the public scrape the bones of even necessary depart the ideals which they held on the subject of they have done everything to make life casy for from the Botanic Gardens will be discontinued A. S. WATSON & CO., mental needs, has been appointed and will, colded a deministration, the marvellous to the lotus cater. But to what avail? The native after the end of this year

we understand, commence a thorough in forma introduced long before the natives prest turns upon its benefactors and calls them "LIMITED."

vestigation of the Government' offices from

were prepared for violent changes, it is with everything but blessed. The common crowd 12 is reported that there is floating lee, in the top to bottom. There is to be no mercy a feeling akin to amazement that we read in indulges in vainglorious spoutings and wild River Lies at Nawchwing and the port will shown by this official Committe lo simply the Manila papers the ill-effects which pro imaginings which a dozen years ago would be closed to shipping this week. whittling down a few dollars here and a few gressive and enlightened Government has have been characterised as rank rebellion. The King's exequatur empowering Mr. P. H. dollars there, after the old-time custom had on the natives. With all the will in the They gather together in their hovels and Tiedemann to be consul for Russia at Hoog It intends Lo conduct a wholesale world to boost up the claims of the preach sedition, for there is nobody to com- keng bar received His Majesty's siganture.” sweep of the most infinitesimal CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS, goings and to scrutinise to the

out Philippines to general recognition the page with the chronic loafer as a frothy pro very crowning defect remains that the nativer pagandist and a downright call-to-arms agita. THE JU learns from Chemulpo that a Chicere. marrow the reasons which may be ad refuse to be disturbed from the sloth and for All this to escape the burden of toll. vessel conveying many xiflus for the rioters of duced in favour of the retention of lump laziness which are ingrained in their nature. they would rather beg their way from pillar Korea has been spiked. The Japanese Consul BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE SAME, Covering untold objects that can be According to the Filipino doctrine, which to post than earn an honest, decent livelihood. Approached the Chinese Consul of the done without. Obviously, there must be was not disputed by the Spaniards, or, at all And their stora of a Government which GOVERNOR AND HOUSEHOLD.

dany details of expenditure which are by no crents, was shows in the Spanish contempt refuses to maintain in affiucace these seedy means actually required in the proper work for the foiler, it is only the slave and the windbags is superb. Listen for a moment to ing of the departmental machine, and it is serf, the bondaman and the renegade who the inimitable sarcasm of Al Remucimiento: just possible that money is divested into should toll and moil for a band to mouth "There was a time when we believed that side channels other than those contemplated living. The freemiu, the man with a patch we were being guided to glory by this great A reliable remedy for all severe, acuto,when the Estimates are in course of pro- of land sufficient to bear a few banana trees, people. With the change of situation every. ration. t will be for the Retrench-perhaps a cocoanut or two, and enough thing appeared to indicate that here lamine, ment Committee to keep a strict watch herbs to provide for the daily decoction of calamity, despotisms, covetousness on the for suchs diversions of the public expen- ving, is above the drudgery of labour. It is part of parsimonious government officials, diture and to be adamant when such an excellent doctring for those born in the and absolutisni would be unknown. It look a vague, ilem as "sundries is coated. purple, but as far as the commoner is con-ed as though there would be nothing but 1 he personal tastes and predictions of cerned it has its drawbacks. Now that there prosperity and liberty enlightened with WATSON'S COLD CURS TABLETS, office-holders will have to be wholly disre- is a stable Government established in the justice. We laughed in our glee and dream

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garded, otherwise. the result of the inquiry Philippines various outlays have to be meted of the good fortune that was to be ours. Speedily relieves influenza, cold in the will be comparatively fruitless. It is not a by the squatters, such as taxes for road com- But now, after the passing of time that has, savoury duty which has been imposed on the munications and the maintenance of civil left behind it unhappy memories, doubt has Retrenchment. Committer, nor is it one administration. In consequence, the Fill-invaded the soul' of the Filipino." DoD THE Araki reports that China-has consented which anybody so closely bound together piso, accustomed to his perencial siesta, as to what? the reader will ask. Doubt as by mutual ties, interests, hopes and aspira has either to be up and doing or find other whether they are likely to be kept as tions as the members of the higlier brauches methods of meet ng the demands of the in- fatted calves for the rest of their natural of the Civil Service are, would willingly un- terloper. The alternative in the easiest way lives is the answer, we suggest. The Assem dermining of friendships and the creation of that the date for the tax-gatherer, to appear we are told, for beggars petitions, the sus vague suspicions that certain departments comes round, there are many and sundry dis- pension of taxes, appeals against this, that

be preserved; but all jewellery and are not afforded that consideration conson-appearances from the stock of wealthier of and the next thing and all the rest of the usual I is notified in the Gaveris, that in order to ant with their dignity and traditions, but if more fortunate neighbours. This does not rigmarole £7 Renacimiently absolves the reduce the bulk of the Garoffs and for purposes money will be appropriated towards the Committee is to do anything, in the shape merely apply to the payment of taxes, as Government from the entire blame of the of economy departmental reports will pot in the fund for the reorganisation of

future be published in the Government Gazete.the Navy.. of realising its aim, then the members will a little incident which occurred lately, and fiasco which is the usual ending of Assembly Copies of such reports and of the complete endeavour, as far as it is humanly possible, is reported in the Cablenetes will show: meetings and actually hints that if the Gov-anqual volumes of sessional papers can be to harbour but a single thought in their "Four Filipinos, a woman and a child were eroment in incapable of attending to the purchased from the Government printers. minds, and that the public weall What we boloed and then burned up in the store of needs of the people, then the people will anticipate as "a-direct outcome of this un-Mr. Guy Stratton, which is situated on the have to cure their miseries and calamities by A COOLIS accidentally met his death this wonted, although extremely necessary zeal coast of Jatawan. several milce south of their own individual and dollective efforts, morning in Leighton Hill Road. The unfortunate for economy is, the entire reorganisation of Puerto Princesa Agustin Suarez was in otherwise they will perish. That is the gaged in the demolition of a the several Government Departments. We charge of Mr. Stratton's trading store at the climax. If the Government won't help them verandab near No. 1 Police Station, when an iron rod fell on his head and tossed him into the do not for a moment suggest or advocate point mentioned. The Maro datto of the they will have to work. Such an iternative road. Death was instantaneous. The decenied, For colds in the Chest, bronchiti,sore the dismissal of clerks who have given their region was indebted, to Suarez for a large must like awe and horror into the stoutest whose name is unknown, was thirty years of lives to the Government service because such quantity of merchandise and became highly Filiping heart. The leaders, of the people age. a_step would be merely criminal, but it indignant when requested to settle up. He would increase the distress which exists in swore vengeance and gathering his clan on ing like work to distract a man's attention Hungary in Hongkong, has received a tele-Signor Sonsino condemning Signor-Tiltoni's the Colony and penalise those who through the night of October 14 raided the store, from the declamatory effervescence of dis-gram from, the Foreign Office. In Vienna, in attitude in regard to the annexation of 1 no fault of their own have been engaged to killing-^ gustin Suarez, his wife and child, appointed -demagogues, 'It is the death- which the Consul is commanded to convey the [ nia and Herzegovina ai a grave mistake satisfy the whims and fancies of their im- Mauricio Fabian, assistant to Suarez, and mediate superiors. But are there not cases two other Filipinos. After looting the place where duties are multiplied ad infinitum, of everything of value the house and bodies simply because the dignity and self-import of-the-victions were burned." That is how (13ance of one official will not permit of the wild tribes in the archipelago pay their his communicating in person with ཐ sebdebts and if the more civilised natives do not ordinate. What about all those needless venture that lengthitis only because they have "chits" which fly around, visiting one l'e-proved oilier methods to be equally effective P after another until at last it and much less hazardous. The real quer reaches the individual-for-whom it was tlon, it will be seen, is how to lead the by another "chit" which performs the of labour. Is the problem insoluble; is it originally intended? Only to be answered Filipino to a proper realisation of the diguity identical circumlocutory journey, at the end beyond the power of the American Govern- of which it is discovered that the answer ment to induce the new subjects of the conveys nothing. If the labours of the United States to understand the advantages Retrenchment Committee lead to the re-

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BIRTHS.

On November 23, 1958, at Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs. F. C. FRISCHLING, a son.

On November 29, 1908, at shanghai, to Mr.

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and. Mrs. JAMES Law, a daughter.,

On November 29, 1998, at Shanghai, to Mr. On November 34, 1953, at Shanghai, to Mr. ́and Mr. C. D. PEARSON, a daughter..

and Mrs.). JESSEN, a daughteṛ,

"the Self-Government Society.

will grovel in their dismay, for there is noth- MR, Von Wiser, Consul-General for Austria,

knell of incendiary orations and the ring of thanks of the Austrian Emperor to His Excel evil-minded place-hunters knows it. Editorilency the Governor for Sir Frederick Lugard's ally, the Lablenews, dealing with this sub kind.congratulations on the occasion of the

sixtieth anniversary of his reign, ject, remarks: "What astonishes most the stranger who comes to the Philipples are The death occurred at H. M. Consular Gaol, the thousands and tens of thousands of loaf Shanghai, on Saturday morning, of Mr. Thomas era. In every tienda, every biliard room, Brotherstone, who arrived in Shanghai from and in almost every window are able-bodied Nagasaki on the 20th ultimo and was removed men who apparently have nothing to do, to the British Consul Gaol on account of the When the members-of-the-committee-on-stranga manner in which he had recently been

tion weht into the filthiest parts of Manila, owing to the fact that he died in the gaol an cholera investigation of Merchants' Associa acting. The deceased had been under medical supervision during the past week, 'bot they were struck by these sights." Andioquest is necessary and was to be opened again: "Go into the provinces and these on 1st inst scenes are accentuated a thousand per cent. AT St. Andrew's Church, Kawinan, to-morrow, they would personally derive from the deve Everywhere there are men, lulling in their (Second Sunday is Advent), the Holy Com

[Reuter's,] Germany.

LONDON, 3rd December.

The Liberals and Radicals have started a'

great constitutional debate in the Reichstag on Ministerial responsibility in connection with the Kaiser's interviews and speeches.

Italy.

The debate-in-the Italian-Chamber was notable for a speech by the ex-Minister

China and the Japan-American Agreement.

The Times correspondent in Peking wires that, before signing the Japan-American Agreement, it was communicated to the Wairupu with a hope that China would re- cognise the United States traditional friend- ship......

China fully approved of the Agreement." The United States and China, President Roosevelt has received Mr. Tang Shao Yi and suits at the Whitehouse.

the United States for cancelling a portion of The Envoy presented a letter of thanks to "

the Boxer indemnity.

The Envoy also gave a most courteous

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speech, to which President Roosevelt replied

in suitable terms, condoling with China on'

HONGKONG, SAturday, DéçeNREM 5,-1908 introducing long-needed reforms. It might under their protecting wing the Federated but draw the contrast, to the prejudice of the Church Parade party of H Company, the deaths of the late Emperor and Empress.

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The Near East.

The Fester Lloyd states that twenty battes llons have been ordered to Bosain

A Turco-Montenegrin Agreement round- ing off the frontler, to avoid future qual has been concluded.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The following telegram quoted below was

The Hongkong clegraph organisation of staff duties so mucht desired lopment of the agricultural and mineral re-backs. The visitor, especially who comes minion will be administered at the close of the it will at once attain two objects—that of sources of the Jalands? A somewhat simi-by way of China and who has seen there mid-day service. Morning Prayer and Sermon excising wasteful expenditure, and that of the problem faced the British when they took the patient and toiling millions cannot help at 11 am.-tended (weather permitting) by

not be inadvisable for the Committee Malay States. There, from the sultans down the Filipino." The Cablenews has hit the ud Batt "The Buffs"). Sunday School at GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT junipt servants, of

to invite anonymous suggestions from the wards, the meaning of work' was unknown; in nail on the head when it calls attention 3 pm.; Evening Prayer and Sermon at 6 pm the Government in fact it was a degrading spectacle to witness a to China. There is the country, where The Offertories will be in aid of the Church Maintenance Fund, which is in debt to the COMMITINE APPOINTED. dicating in what direction economies might man, presumably sane and responsible for his work is not considered derogatory, where Treasurer, and has, some heavy claims to meet

be effected. It would never do for the actions, voluntarily assisting bis female de-harren hills are converted into smiling in the near future. Although it is barely three months since subordinates to sign their names to such pendapts in the fields and no man with a gases. Now we come to the point. the Estimates of the Colony's revenue and messages, for reasons which need not be kriss or a spear allowed the idea to cross his why Great Britain so successfully managed THE bird performance of A Country Girl last expenditure during the current year were stated. But if anybody should know where mind. Vet io-day the Malays are workers to bring the Malays to understand that they night at the Theatre Royal by the Amateur submitted to the Legislative Council and unnecessary expenditure is being incurred in the best sense of the word. They are had everything to gain by labour, Chinese Dramatic Club was honoured by the presence passed, the Government has already found it it should be the humble pen wiper, who industrious and, in their own fashion, enter by the hundred and the thousand were im- of H, the Governor. The piece weal with a becessary to curtail still further all items of does not dare to open his mouth in case the prising and this entire change has been ported to open up the mines, to work in the of excellence as on the two previous nighis.received at the American Consulate General

delightful swing and the same high standarð expenditure which are not absolutely requisite inexorable law of contumacy and insubor brought about since the days of Sir Stam- engineering yards, to plant paddy and Mr. W. C. Worcestor as Barry is still from the Manila Observatory at 10.30 am. for the welfare of the Colony, To-day's dination be dragged out for his special ford Rafles. How did the British pioneers tapioca. The Chinese were paid reasonable screamingly funny in his somewhat difficult add Hongkong, December 5th, 1908. issue of the Garlic furnishes abundant benefit. With one exception, the Retrench break the Malays into the yoke, without wages, They lived like fighting cocks, from ele and the other amateurs ar sustaining their Cyclons or typhoon, East of the Visayas evidence of this retrenchment. In ordinary ment Committee will, we understand, be harming their high spirit or coerging them the Malay point of view. They gambled paris idinirably. "Thon who dare not seen

moving W.N.WI times, when there is a steady or rising composed of officials, the non-officials, being, in any way? Well, we will come to that when they wished, and they had the money Country Girl (and we fancy there are pre- THE Japan Chronicle of itat alt guys:-There revenue, when the outlook is promising, and it is rumoured, Mr. Murray Stewart. In presently. It is openly admitted now that to gamble with, and they took trips to China cious few of them) should do so at once, WIS A very large assemblage of foreign- there are no shadows to darken the financial view of the explicit directions of the Governor the Filipino is a shiftless, weary, forlora and had great times when the spirit moved THE Roosevelt dam, when completed, will be yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr. Alf. residents at the American batoba at Kobe situation in the future, a certain laxity in that the Commitice must spare nobody, it is a creature, who cannot be got to work at them. Some of them prospered and launched by far the largest artificial lake in the world. Woolley, the Chief Agent for Japan of the P. providing for the wants of the Gov. ccrtainly that the official element will proceed any price. Most Americans who come to our on their own account, became towkays At present ao ludian reservoir, which is Giled England. Mr. Woolley has resided in Japane & O. Company," who left by the Oriental lotz crament Department is excusable. But to the attack with the gusto of famished Hongkong from the Philippines deny. and respected members of society. The only once in twenty years or so, is the largest, for a good many years, and has taken a very at prezent, when the air thick wolves, and leave manya gap in the hide of the the fact, but we maintain it is true neverthe force of example and the evidence of what with a capacity of 950,000 acre-fest. Then activa part. in the public life of the foreign with rumours of impending trouble, and the departmental offices. Mr. Murray Stewart, less, and we are supported, in that attitude could be gained by imitating the comes the Assuan teservoir, on the Nile, which, communities, having been stationed torba revenue appears to be decreasing without if our supposition is correct that he has been by the well-informed Cablenews, which is Chinese miraculously did what no corte as now constructed, holds 900,030 acre-fees. Kobe and Yokohama Latterly be held the post of Chairman of the Kobe Foreign Board full sad adequate reason to explain away the requested to associate himself with the work not likely to condemn or chastise the natives system could have done; it induced the When completed, the Roosevelt dam, now be of Trade and was also President of the Koba Cause, it is highly essential that retrench of spoiling the Egyptians, will unquestion without reason. American visitors-point Malays to recognise that labour, and harding built by the United States Reclamation Club, bat, whether he resided in Yakabams or ment should be effected in the most trivial ably go. to his task with a fair, open and with; no little pride to the numbers. of labour at that, had its compensations, and Servies, on Salt River, in Arizona, will impound Kobe, Mr Woolley has always been foremost

1,300 930 acre-feet of water, and thus will hold in sandering angrudging, service in the lo concerns, even although, in some cases, the unbiassed, mind, and his presence mayrilipinos who are engaged in Manila at the average Malay to-day- is a worker and the record of being the largest artificial resor-crosis of the community, On Thursday t19th instant) the members of the Robe Club cutting down of expenses may lead to a cer- even afford a gleam of hope in the eyes of ordinary labouring work; they speak of not a dreamer. The American Government

assembled at the Club to witness the presente tain amount of impatience on the part of the those who already see their cherished views native-built bridges, and of the Filipinos have erected an insurmountable bariler

tion of a silver salver and tea service, which heads of Departments. It is only to be ex- as to what a Government Department should who, toil in the hiprepairing yards, the against Chinese labour. They bays excluded

had been subscribed, for as a mark of respect and esteem. The presentation was mida by pected that those in charge of the various be rathilessly destroyed. That the Com-factories and so forth. Take any American the very people who would have opened the

Mr. H. Lucas, the President, who la A few bureaux under the Government should cavil mittee has not been appointed too soon who has spent his life in and around Manila eyes of the Filipinos to the benefits which

appreciative words referred to Mr. Woolley at the elimination of small items, which from is evidenced by the fact that in the and he will rhapsodise over the wonderful flow from labour. When the Government

public work and his qualities as a priz citizen. Mr. Woolley repiled lo, a happy. time immemorial have been allowed them comparative statement of the revenue strides made by the Insular Government relaxes the restrictions and admits the Chin-

speech reminiscent of the years he had spent 'by the Legislative Council and it may be and expenditure for the period ended 30th in the way of public improvements, and ese agricultural labourer to offer an example

in Kobe and the affection he had for the place. Yesterday afternoon, as they launch; left the that the old cry of compulsory inefficiency September, 1908, we find that there has been the faculty they have attained of at of what patience and industry can achieve,

hatoba, the large crowd of foreigners gave three will be raised, but efficiency irqulte as con- a total decrease as compated with the contracting native labour. But Manila is not then, perhaps, the problem of work as the

Hearty Cheers for this, and Mrs Woolley sistent with economy, as it is with wanton responding period in 1907 of 8427.94, the Philippines Irlande nor is the erection of real panaces - the Philippines may be

Whelber Mr. Woolley will return to Japan in not, we believe, wifolly, assured/bat:wal nem extravagance, and the Government Do- which is exclusive of land sales and their public buildings any criterion of progress ja | solved,

115.787 10.000.000 quite certain that his return white poped partments will have to learn, that nour also show a decrease amounting to 850,428, the provinces. . The American adminstratore

by a large circle of friends, and we may wan prass the belief that if the choice tian With Minn lesson before many "weeks have pass-These figures speak for themselves, and there

he will decide for japan, where he has made his home and rendered such excellent pat

ed. By order of His Excellency the the question of retrenchment may be left for Governor, a Retroachment Commitee, the prosecky

have given the Filipinos liberty, freedom of THE AUDual prise distribuţioa at speech, a free pich, good government and

College i zake place on Monday, the the promlee of autonomy when the time

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voir in the world until the competition of the Engle dam. RETURNS of the average amount of back- notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 10th November, 1905, as certified by the managers of the respectiva Baskı

Average Specie in Amouet. Reserve. Chartered Bank of India,

Australiaand China, $1,612,097 $2,700,000 longkong and Shangkai

Banking Corpora tion National Bank of Chin

Límited,

Banks.