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ESTABLISHED_A.D.-1841,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY DECEMBER 22 1908.

Newchwang Line, called the Northern Railways of China, and in 1899 our first loan was issued on the security of the railway and the guaran- tes of the Imperial Government The issue was received with great favour, being more than four times over-subscribed, and iba result

namely a joint agreement between the Dents and typewriting. One might coocleds from the che Asiatische Bank and the Corporation with terms in which these, kindred subjecte are the Chinese Government for the Tientsin Puso frequently referred to that the capacity to kow Railway Loan and an agreement between take dictation at the rate of so many words a the Corporation and the Chinese Goverment minute and the ability to operate a type for the Pakow to Sinyang“ Rallway Loan. machine are the absolute "sesame" to cam-

A. S. WATSON & CO., indicated that investors were ready and indeed Thess contracts were transferred by the Cor-mercial success and a sim qwa nun in every eager to finance such railway enterprises, and portion to Chinese Central Railways, Lid,, pursuit in which a plain education, is essential. but for the untoward events in Peking and the and they, in conjunction with the Deutsche As a matter of fact, there are a hundred and acti-foreigu mevamant lo many parts of China Asiatische Bank, issued £1,000,000 on account one disadvantages connected with the acquisi, which so quickly followed the emission of the of the Tientsin-Fukow Pailway in March last, tion of these purely mechanical arts, and except loan, the other railway loans provided for by the As regards the benefit to the shareholders of in special cases it is difficult to see where the Corporation's agreements would have been mar the Corporation from the various loans issued, gain corresponds to the drudgery involved. In keted equally successfully, and with the same Mr. Keswick stated that, including the distribu- the first place the faculty of taking roles in advantages to China and the Corporation. The tion now recommended, the dividends average shorthand dwarfs and 'destroys the memory, effect, however, of the "Russian scare" and 10 78 per cent, per annum on the amount invariably affects the spelling, and usually the "Boxer rising" seriously affected Chinese paid up on the shares from time to time, condemns the boy without influence or the credit, and for a time impeded logo issues, the and there are prouts held in seterve equal qualities associated with dogged ambition partial destruction of the Northern Railway to about 44 per share. That in brief is the to a life of mechanical servitude. Above and its necessary occupation by foreign Powers record of the British and Chinese Corporall, it corrodes and weakens one of the greatest

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Hongkong Volunteer's Plight.

LOST ON MOUNT PARKER.

WANDERS ALL. NIGHT IN MIST 'AND RAIN,

When the Hongkong Volunteer Corps left the city on Saturday afternoon to engage in a sham fight in the Lycomun district and trudged. their weary way through mist and dristie over the sloppy mountain paths they had but one concorn and that was to pass the day pleasantly. Bút av events proved, the adventure which beś fell ons of the volunteers who was left behind in an unknown country was on the verge of becoming tragle. Some 70 or 80 members of the corps, attired in full marching order proceeded at one o'clock on Saturday after Boon to Stauschwans when they were joined What the bold-infantrymen intended to do or what the operations were intended to illustrato we have not the faintest motion. Eut with their rifles on their shoulders and their canteens at thair sides they marched up the side of Moust Parker, and so far as we know marched down again-like a celebrated warrior of another

by a detachment of the Taikoo volunteers.

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SHANGHAI ARSON CASE.

EUROPEAN FOUND GUILTY-

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 22nd December,

8.80 p.m.

Paul Floor was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for argon.

noon yesterday, while on the way to gaol, prisoner escaped, and was recaptured at midnight.

Past Flour was charged with feloniously,

producing a natural collapse of confidence.ation during the ten years of its existence. It gifts of humanity, that of imagination. The Notwithstanding these difficulties, the service does not take into account, the extraordinary of the loan was punctually met, and the rail- patience and diplomacy which has had to be way eventually restored to the Chinese and its condition made good. This railway has since exercised by the chief representative of the been developed into a magnificent asset of Corporation is soothing Chinese suspicious and the Chinese Government, and is a mony./ bridging over their susceptibilities. It amits cogʻin the working-of an office. Doomed to century—all but one man. The mountain was guilty.pl ment to the practical talent, earnest teg; { all mention of the prolonged negotiations ren, routine, his imagination is îlifled and lost, enveloped in a thick, clinging, Newfoundland-

and persistent energy and effort of Mr. Kinder, its founder and engineer-in-chief,"" Weneed not enter into questions connected with the retirement of Mr. Kinder, in view of the

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success behind him and, to quote Mr. Keswick, here need be no misgivings as to the neediul supervision and management of the line" in the future, the new appointment of engineer -chief having to be made by the Railway Administration in consultation with the firitish

and Chinese" Corporation. Following the falation of the first lose there was a long

all the quibbling views of the other parties to the town he found negotiations suspended for some trivial cause or for no reason whatever. Little wonder that the ubl. quity of Mr. Bland is becoming a byeword, and his unvarying urbani'y second nature, for only these two characteristics combined with a

largely because it is not required, and, indeed, it is not wanted at any price. And unless that boy who has joined the great army of clerks, become respectable and high-toned, te bodily drived from his desk he is on the fair way to

because he has been drilled and drum-majored into belief in the absurd superstition that short hand and typewriting form the coping-slove of commercial education. We have no grudge against there two subjects, but we do most strenuously object to their glorification, an if they were the world without end" objects of all knowledge. Half the pupils who start to learn shorthand have about as much teal knowledge of English as the bind leg of a

there is such a thing as a derivation, and given time they may concoct an epistle which will

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unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to dwel- log-house, No. 13, Range Road with intent thereby to defraud on October 15, 1908

Os arraigament, prisonar, „pleaded not

Mr. H. P. Wilkinson (Crown Advocate) and mist so that the troops could scarcely see Darm's Mr. S. H. McKean appeared for the prosecu length ahead. After deploying here and design. Mr. F. Ellis and Mr. H. 5. Oppe appear. bouching there and doing all manner of curious ed for the defence, you c

The case was tried before F. 3. A. Bourne, things to the way of scouting, locating the enemy, repulsing theinvaders, emptying their canteens, 19; Acting Judge, and Messrs, D. W. Crame slopes, fiercely charging at phantom figures, digging into the earth as if they were hunting for treasure, coating themselves with mud as if they owned the earth, and generally come. porting themselves in that slap-danks devil- may-care, die-for-your-country style which wa all appreciate, the volunteers were called back. They fell in or fell out just as the spirit moved them, for it seems that by this time the fog was so dense that most of the volunteers had to look after themselves. Apparently there was no roll call. The Taikoo men took their own road and the Victoris troops

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period of inactivity and it was not until enormous capacity for taking pains and dopkey. They may have a vague iden that tramped to the car termings and nobody

1991 that the first instalment of the Shang -hai-Nanking railway loan, amounting to £1,290,000 "was issued: Unfortunately the political situation thea was generally unsettled and when the terms of issue were ont found to ba sa favourable as bad been-expected, a share

years instead of-five, thus saving two' years' interest and gaining two years' revenue, but the Chinese Government failed to see the force of the suggestion However, the

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supreme business ability could have achieved the results which have to be credited to him,

[Renter's.] Aeroplanes..

LONDON, 20th December. The Wright Lemans aeroplane has cover ed 62 miles in 114 minutes.

The United States Secretary of State.

Mr. Taft has appointed Senator Koox, Secretary of State.

The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned.

Portugal

Sufficient, however, has been said to indicate pass muster in a crowd, but as far as, the pre-each unto his own way. But left behind in the The Delimitation of Maçao Waters.

cise and ready use of plain, vivid Anglo- Saxon is concerned they take a back seat. principles of Yet instead of having the

thought of asking whether anyone was missing. They returned to Hongkong and departed a coalition ministry is in course of formation,

who only realised his unfortunate, plight when

It is declared in Lisbon that there are no darkness and the rain was & young volunteer, help was gone. He was soaked to the skin, differences between China and Portugal in night had fallen, and be was alone on a the negotiations for the delimitation of the anywhere. The road round Mount Parker is maily. one of the most desolate-in-the-Golony No

ment officials. At many points the path body teams to use-it-unlass-it-be-Govern

nobody knows, or at least nobody is willing to 'tell., "This much is certain, he clambered about that mountsia in despair throughout the live long night. He must at one time bave become

whereabouts. Exactly what happened to him

American-British University. for China,

Christian lines.

Later,

The Franco-German Press, The Franco-German press has renewed its

The Hongkong Celegraph railway is completed and is already more Corporation Mr. Keswick said that at the pre- and rant and indulge in the heartreeding tro- semi-conscious in his haggard distress, for he polemics anent the suggestion of the German

with what great strides ife British and Chinese Corporation has made its way into the inder THERMOS FLASKS

counsels of the Chicere Government, and the most useful XMAS PRESENT for in the participition of fature profits had to be day will come when that Government will English instilled into them in the idoumara treacherous mountain pathway five miles from waters of Macao, which are proceeding nór. SPORTSMEN, YACHTSMEN and added as an inducement to subscribers. The admit the debt under which it was been ble ways which the born teacher understands, reception of the loan was disappointing, hat-placed-to-the-efforts of the Corporation. Or they are leduced to apply themselves to the when the second instalment, £650,000, was course, the Corporation is not a philanthropic study of the dreariest subject in the whole issued, the conditions were satisfactory, and at iostitution and the promoters, do not claim to gamut of scholastic studies and devote to lies alongside the face of the "mountain Lord Cécil, with Lady Cecil, will shortly shorthand bours and days which would be far with a sheer drop of fifty fast on the outer edge.. leave for a two months' visit to Chion, in par the subscription was readily taken without be dispensers of charity; it is a business con any right to participation in profits. The rail. Cern, conducted on business lines, but the effect more profitably spent in learning even gram 15 places there are morasies and swamps, connection with joint American-British way could have been completed in three of its operations remains and that effect will be mar. As for elocution, the lass said the bet-The unfortunate volantear had no idea of his scheme to found a Chinese University on

seen to greater advantage as the networker. Possibly some of Hongkong's notables of railway ramification is completed and the distinguished themselves in their youth sex- general prosperity of China advanced. In bis ponents of melodramatie vete a G, R. Sims, concluding remarks regarding the future of the but it is perfectly certain the ability to spout sent moment it was difficult to prognosticate, molo of the realistic reciter did not advance lost his rifle, and knows absolutely nothing papers that Germany should demand a de than earning expenses. In this connec-

"Recent events in Chica impress the Board as them a single iota. If we might be permitted about where or how be dropped it. A soldier limitation of the Algiero-Morocco frontier. tion, Mr. Keswick referred to the

The French press says that the matter to say it without offence, there is not a single is fate simply because he is in difficulties solely concerns France and Morocco. lysing effect of lekin exactions on goods being favourable to progress and "efforts at | traffic and said that but for these barassing good government, but it is too early to form speaker-in the clocutionary sense-at the Rather he clings. to it for protection, At any

The Near East. any defialte opinion of the policy under the Legislative Council and surely nobody in Hong-rate this volunteer wandered about the moun

The Montenegrin merchants are starting now regime. Railway bullding without foreign kong dreams of anything higher than that. taio all night and his feelings can be imagined. substantial surplus on the working of the rail aid in construction may piove an expensive It is to be hoped that the teachers at St. How he escaped falling over the mountain

a boycott against Austrian goods. path is miraculous. It was, pot until Sunday, way to divide. He added: Lekin in the ill experience to the Chinese, in which case it | Joseph's, College will not become possessed of forenoon that the alarm, was raised. A band defined irregular local and district exactions on would seem probable that in due course the

an exaggerated idea of the importance of short of volunteers was hastily summoned to proceed THE FIRE-FIEND IN SHANGHAI, and Chinese Carperation began those goods which are so troublesome throughout Corporation's services may again be called for hand, typewriting and elocution. The report to the rescue. They want to Shaukiwan and

the country, but as the Chinese Government The immediate prospects are, however, not so

of the Jaspector of Schools shows that in.nrith proceeded hot-font and to climb Mount Parker. aro responsible for the interest on the loan, favourable as we should like to see them, but metic the pupils have done admirably, especi-Half-way across they saw a limping, bedrage time, give abundant promise of even anhanced earnings. there would seem to be every, inportunity will be lost; and it should bé böme 19 per cent, was awarded on the papering volunteer. Only a vagno indefails 'report comparative immunity enjoyed by this Colony and are entitled to four-fifths of any surplus our representative is on the alert, and no opally in class 111 of the Chiness division, where gled, broken down image of misery dragging himself along the path. It proved to be the miss. Ceptive in a settlement on a defined basis in mind that the. Corporation enjoys the great

ses. The award for book-keeping was very as to how he spent the night has transpired:

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1908.

THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION,

Ten years have now elapsed since the British

tions which have contributed in a marked degree to the development of railway exten- sions throughout China and, at the present

prospects in the future. Although the asme

pata..

troubles there would undoubtedly have been a

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or.a civilian doas not abladon his rifle to

HONGKONG'S ESCAPES FROM DISASTERS ·

EXPLAINED.

Recently an editorial appeared in the Tolo""" graph bearing the above caption in which the

from serious fires was contrasted with the

hai Times adds the following comment's

We-have-no-desite-to-fake-the writer to task-

as to the secedness of bis deductions, but it is

of the British and Chinese-Corporation figures Meantime, on behalf of the Corporation and all advantage of the Hongkong and Stanghal good," while in algebra the awards to the The recruit did not, we sie told,'seem to know frequency of serious outbreaks in Shanghal 30 Jarga in connection with every raway other bolders of det profit sub-certificates, we Bank's support and infecace." That Mr. various classes are curiously diverse. As much about it himself. He bad lost his rifle, After quoting the leader in question, the Bhongi schema projected in the Chinese Empira-and -that of its principal-representative, Mr JÖ÷P¬

are doing all we cao to urge on a settlement. Bland is on the alert is proved by the fact that might be expected, English composition was but where, he hadn't the slightest idea, Some- |-how-or-other-ba-bad-found-binito!f_carly in Coming to one of the undertakings which is

an agreement is on the polar of being signed only good to fair, ideas poor, parsing, faulty the moming with a Chidaman at the Tylam Bland, is continually' in evidence--there ́ore

regarded as af vital importance to the future between the Corporation and the Chiness and slovenly in some cases and spelling of waterworks. That was all he knew about it; possibly many, who have but a glimmering idea of the origin of the Corporation and prosperity of Hongkong, the constraction of the Government for the raising of a loan of grammatical terms very poor. Dictation, of he was tired, förlora and miserable. His prevail in Hongkong are bäidly analogous to "the purpose for which it was formed: At Kowloon Canton railway, Mr. Keswick spoke 42,000,coo in connection with the Buzan course, was quite satisfactory. From there, enthusiasm bad waned and vanished and it the tenth annual meeting since the incor of the "interminable and almost, exhausting Hupth section of the Canton-Hankow rail results, it is evideat that the students was only a spectre that his comrades escorted should be kept at the ground work of every home. However, all's well that end's wall; poration of the society, beld in London on the delay and difficulties which preceded the

way; while negotiations are proceeding with education and not: switched off to sach accom. the volunteer is safe and sound, and all the cessitate the use of household fires to a far 26th of November last, Mr. William Keswick, launching of the loan for £1,501,000, but

plishments as shorthand and typewriting, which, Probably there will be a roll-call when she authorities are now concerned about is the rifle, M.P., seized the occasion to glance back over.

the terms were finally arranged and the loan-

if they are desired at all, can easily be acquired sexi sham fight is ended. w'ss issued at par lost year. All that the chair

in later life. the main features of the history and rise of the

mau deemed necessary to say in this regard Corporation and to recount the various steps in its progress as it gradually became a powerfu! Wat that: "The engineer-in-chief bas com-

such a commanding position in the affaire of a

reference to the firating of a British loan to be devoted towards the construction of the railway through the provinces of Kwanglung and Kwangai. In all these circumstances it is not surprising that the shareholders usapi.

factor in the opening up of railway'communi, pleted his fiasl working survey and estimates, mously doubled the fees of the directors, from cations in China. Few enterprises bave attained is urging the Chinese to push on with con struction. This line will connect with the rail way which is being made by the Government of Hongkong on the one side and effect the through communication between the Colony and Canton, which is so much desired, and later, when from the latter city to Hankow there will bo established a direct sailway communica tion, through the whole length of China with

200 to £400 per aroum, and increased the chairman's fee to £500 per annum. tuch gen erosity speaks for itself and marks the axtisfac. tion of the shareholders with the work of the management The British and Chinese Cor poration is engaged in a great policy of ad- vancement, and what is more to be noted by those having no direct interest in the Corpora- tion, it is increasing the reputation and stand.

AN EDUCATIONAL PALLACY,

foreign country as is held by the British and Chinese Corporation in China, but that the confidence of the Chiness highs administrators has been thoroughly justified and retained fa manifest in the close relations which subsist at the present time. To begin with, the Corporation started well; it started under the auspices of one of the two princely houses in the capital." The Shangbai-Hangchow-Ningpoing of Britishers in China and adding to the the Far East, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., railway loats for £1,500,000 was issued in May prestige of the British Government at Feking and the premier banking institution" of the last at 99. "The Chinese Imperial Govern Orinat, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking mest is responsible for the construction of thin Corporation, so that inccess was practically railway, bat, according to our information, two

asured from the outset, if the Chinese author provincial companies, who have been in the At the annual distribution of prizes to the ties would merely trust in the good faith of the field for some lime, are constructing a railway successful, scholars attending St. Joseph's Col. promoters. When the Corporation was regis independently of the Government. The posllege yesterday, His Excellency the Governor tered in London in 1898, the mercantile firm tion of these companies is peculiari, they are laid emphasis on the importance of acquiring and the banking establishment bad Jointly working under an edict which ought not to have a knowledge of shorthand and typewriting and entered into a number of preliminary contracts been issued, and conflicts with the edict under also spoke in laudatory terms of the special for, Joan Lesses in connection with railway which our loan was authorised, and some attention paid to eloculice. ~ These are all construction in Chius, so that the Corporation arrangement. will have to be comp to be exceedingly useful and, valuable, subjects of Entered upon its life of activity with a full tween the Government and the companies." practical use in whatever sphere of life boys cargo of responsibility. At that time, said Mr. These loan agregate the considerable sum of may enter on leaving school, asid His Excel Kerwick, addressing the Corporation's share. £8,200,000 and account for all the contracts lency. We bave often attempted to discover holders last month, the Chinese had built which the Corporation had in hand when it wan the origin of this implicit faith #bich so many portion of the Peking-Tientsin-Shanhaikwans | registered ten years ago with two exčuptiane, sansihin paople place in the value of shank

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

There will be an official dinner at Govern- mest House to-night to which the following guests bave been invited:-Korveltonkapitab Ackermann, Capt. Baird, D.S.O., and Mrs. Bedford, CMG, FM.D., and Mrs. Bedford, Baird, Staff Surgeon and Mrs. Baiss, Colonel Fresattenkapitan Boedicker, Mr. and Mrs Boulton, Comitauder Buchanan, Capt Brier ly, D.5.0. R.A., Capt. Baron, R. de Cervin, Mr and Mrs. Montagu Ede D. and Mrs. Evan-Jones, Capt, and Bi-Majus Findlay, and Mrs. J. Hastings, Mr. King, Hongkong Rev. and Mir, France, Dr. and Mrs. Grone, Mr. Police, Mr and Mrs. Mackay, Miss Mutter, Kr. and Mrs. Scott, Capt and Mr. Worthing ton, and Captaid Wurmbách, --

kan

"BOX FACTORY ABLAZE,

FIRE BRIGADE SAVE ADJOINING BUILDINGS.

as well to point out that the conditions which those obtaining here. With the approach of winter in the Settlement fires naturally becoma more frequent, as the climatic conditions no

of the fires which unfortunately result in greater extent than in Hongkong. Many

the destruction of property are the result. of carelessness, as investigations, hayn

prov ed. Of course, there are suspicions fires occasionally but not kairly to the extent inferred by the tons of the comment in the Ta.

Trap, Our local Police does lis doty affici« ently and the frequency of fires in the Gatile- Fire was discovered on the second Boor of a ment cannot be laid to their discredit, nor can} two-storey brick building at 15, Sai Wo Lane, it be suggested that the Fire Bilgads: is in the sight. But for the first floor, which was cary the Shanghai Fire Brigade need yield to West Point, shortly before eight o'clock last || slightest degree lax in its methods. For effici occupied by a family, the ground and second 2008; as a Volunteer organisation we have yet doors wis owned by a ina box manufactores, to learn of its peer. We should certainly wel- which contained a great deal of paint, varnish come any suggestions which our llongkong and glue, which caused the fire to spread contemporary could favour us with If they rapidly,

wanld tend to lessen the number of firen; but

Police Sergeant Brennan, with Inspector Re-Hongkong and Shanghai wo must question the When the fire Brigade arrived, in charge of having regard to the conditions which exist in bertson, of No. 7 Police Station in charge, inscendoes contained in the comment<we dense smoke was issuing from the windows, publish bore. bat. little or no flame was to be seen,. The The fallowing received invitations but were fire-fighters made every effort to keep the flames His Imperial Highness the Prince Regent, saavoidably prevented from attending-Mr. away from the adjoining buildings, the one who so far bas had no official seat, issued and Mr. Crofton, Flest Surgeon and Mrs.cupants of which were by this time to a great orders the other day to the Ministry of Rites to Beadnell, Capt. Climo, RA. Comdr d'Estienne, | state of alarm, In this they were successful, bara, one made for him without delay... Brother Christian, Dr. and Mrs. Belilios and and it was before ten o'clock that the fire was seal is to be a gold out two inches square with

extinguished. A

hope the following als characters in Aucions

ale writing kograved on li 'oamely

Mr. Fox

·His Excellency this morning received Caps Our representative was given to understand ta Baron W. Hohenberg of the Austro- the origin of the Bre war taured by the upset Bulgarian cruiser Leopard and Captala Marting of a kerosine lamp, while ander trimming. quis L. Comi, Viscont of the Italian cruiser by a foki. ⠀⠀ Puglia

The damage done to the first and Tomorrow at .. Ul Excellency will re-floors was estimated at $1,000. The ground coire d'apiai, Liang Lau-hsiu, the Chinese door was simply damaged by wales. Consul General of

and also Mr. ha premijes were insured the Queen' Harris Commissioner of 1. M. GamOME Läeurand's Office Jar $1,200,

ond