The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No: 0000
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths, Leading Artiolen
Tuan Fang's Enigmatic Address on Oplum. (On Plaguð.
Telegrams:
Chan:Pik
Ministry of Posts and Communications. Legation Tibet
Guards.
Official Mourning. New Silver Coins, Viceroy Yeung Shi chung, Chĺbi's Currency, Disturbances at Amoy. *Russia and China, vi
Russo-Japánsie. War Chizero in Andam. Duties and Likio. Distinguished Visito
Bank Note Issue.
Viceroy Hau Shi-chang.
Tang Shao-yl,
Another Shanghal Melee."
Eunuchs
The Grand Council.
·Railways
TV
Chan Pik Disgraced."
Finance.
Imperial Tombs,
Burden of Taxation."
Teachers for Chinese University.
Questions of the Hour.
The Imperial Mausoles.
Head Shaving,
- One-thel Coins.
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大拜禮小號三十月二英港香
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OFFICIAL MOURNING.
the const
Indian Prince is about to visit China and that suitable arrange-
necessity,
WHEAD SHAVING.
ppareat, and
NEW SILVER COINS
FUT INTO CIRCULATION,
· [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]
Peking "5th February. "The Board of Revenue has been paying official salaries with the new (one-tael) silver coing.
VICEROY YEUNG SHI CHANG.
AN AUDIENCE. [By courtesy of the "Sheung. Po."]
Peking 5th February Viceroy Yeung Shi-chang will be granted an audience immediately after the resumption of official duties after the vacation.
ment to suppress opium are hampered by existing treaties. Then, again, the dele gates are described as gentlemen selected proot by their respective Governments for their surely
nich by laws retrospec[By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo."}" benevolence, philanthropy and fame" impossibl and, therefore, they will not act con- tive it could do to goingPeking 6th February, trary to the benevolent and enlightened" pulling down and building that is going
The Board of Rites reports that objects which have brought them toge on ought to reduce considerably tho ther here." In other words, they will re number, of thors, not proof against these the people will be allowed to shave commend that the specific clauses in the vermin. The personal measures: advocated treaties of Nanking and Tientsin dealing late simpla lo the extreme. Plague, vaccine their heads on the 22nd inst. with the question of monopolies should has been kept ready in the Municipal As to Laboratory for several years against the pos be rescinded. Quite, so, Tinally, (6th February.)", Yesterday's mail from the North brought the methods to be employed in. secom-- sibility of an outbreak, and the injection of tlie text of the address delivered by His piishing this end the main idea will be to a small quantity of file in the beginning Excellency Tuan Fang at the opening of the prohibit the cultivation of the poppy, the of each year would render the perion sale of the drug and the consumption so injected quite immune. Those who ar International Opium Commission at Shang thereof. It is only to be apprehended that adverse, to vaccination for smallpox wi bai on Monday. It was impossible to judge in purting into effect the law for the pro probably be as an obstinate in the matter. from the somewhat cryptic cable which we -published from our correspondent in which bibilion it may conflict with certain clauses plague vaccination, but it may be some en- the essence of the Viceroy's remarks was of the treaties." No harsh demand in that couragement to them to be assured, on the outlined whether His Excellency had actual nothing whatever objectionable merely a suthority of the Medical Officer, who shares ly declared that the inauguration of Govern-suggestion that the labours of the Com with the Pope the quality of infallibility, ment monopolies for the sale of the drug mission will be in vain China's actions that plagde vaccinailon is a thoroughly, safe was actually the sole panacea for the are chained by treaty ifobligations. We and efficient measure. It reduces the Ha- eradication of the opium lätt, or whether can look farther into this aspect of the bility to attack to less than one-third of what His Excellency merely hinted that such were case, for it opens up an filimitable vista" it is in the un-vaccinated. And in one-third his views. Now that we have the text before of what many happen in the future, As of cases which still occur the recovery rate is us we know where we stand. And the more suming that the Commistion reports to at least double that in the un-vacciated at- we read that column-long address, the more the effect that all the countries exporting lacked; and further, that in a vaccinated we admire the astute lingual dexterity of the opium to China should immediately proceed Buropean an attack of plague, if it subae- to abolish that traffic, that the cultivation ofquently occurs, has so far ended in recovery." statesso, the mingied graciousness of the reception and implied superiority of the the poppy be constituted a penal offence Obviously if the whole Settlement were to Chinese, the conilatial harping on the diplo except where it is intended for medicinal submit to plague vaccination plague would matic String that the Commission might purposes, that, in fact, the opium smoker in be a thing to be laughed at here. For the deliberate till doomsday but nothing would China will find it impossible to obtain the benefit of taipant and employes alike we result unless China's hands, fettered now by foreign article for love or money, what may may remind them that as a rule plague vac treaties, were freed, the mixture of dignity, happen? It may be discovered that cination does not involve any interruption. superciliousness and dialéctical skill. The plum is still being cultivated in China of attendance at business. However, all address exhibited China to the light of an under the nose of the mandarinate, that it that can be done to be in any degree effi arbitrator compulsorily bound, not of a sup is to be bought in the side-streets of every cient must strike at the root of the matter, pliant craving favours. Nothing could be more higgity, and that the governing officials are and that is the rats. They are here charming than the phrases employed to thank apathetic. What then? The foreign gov and need to be exterminated, and their the American Government for initiating the ernments who have renounced a lucrative natural exterminant is the movement to hold the Commission and source of revenue, will demand that China tie cat." The addition of a cat to the to acknowledge the assistance rendered shall act up to her avowed principles, and family menage will be one of the most effec-the, adoption of the gold standard by the British Government to assist China protest against the inaction of the provincial tive measures possible to take. But pussy in suppressing the opium band, but there governments. The answer will he to this must not be a pampered pet. She must be, as a matter of great importance, and was always a tail to each phrase with a sting purely hypothetical suggestion: "What can if anything, underfed, and must work out urged the Central Government to.
wo do in the matter? You refuse to give her own salvation by strict attention to the take it into its most earnest at the end of it. A statesmanlike speech expuse of the Commissioners, who were
longer on this important matter but we regarded as well-meaning gentlemen who
specially commend to the notice of our were bent on a fruitless mission unless
readers the comments on-provision of bait. China's desires were acceded to. We read
for rats and on the figures which are given that His Excellency delivered the opening
shewing what would be the capital cost of address sitting on a sort of throne facing the
complete insurance against rats and conse. delegates, only rising when the name of the
quent plague for this Settlement. There is Emperor was mentioned. Then when the
one point which must not be overlooked, speech came to be interpreted into English
and that is that absolute freedom can only The Viceroy" engagedinaudible conversation
be guaranteed by the co-operation of both with a member of the stuff," a modern Pon-
Settlements and the local Chincie authori Bus Pilate who washed his hands of the
ties. whole business; and, at the close of the English tizvelation, bu zote up and departed Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora without more ado, -But now, let us eximius
...lion.
Viceregal Appointments,
The Waiwupu,
Provincial Retrenchment.
Maçan's Delimitation.
Late Dowager Empresy Gold.
Chin Pik's Absistants. Recruiting for the Army. Opium io Yunnan, Meetings:-
Ltd.
The Chiaz Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd, Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat
Company, Limited.
The Kowloon Land and Building Co Ld. Legal Intelligence:-
Ar Estate Dispute,
The Late Mr.], M. A. da Silva's Will. Police:-
Householders Beware!~
A Parise in D'ficulties.
An inveterate Thief.
A Tailor's Sorrow,
A Child's Death.
Correspondence:-
The Clock Tower.
* Chinese at the Oxford Locale,
Misoollaneous Articles and Reports:-
-Hongkong Bank.
The Opium Trade.
Manila's Carnival.
Lasitano Recreation Club.
Hongkong Defeated.
Foreign Soldiers and Sailors.
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New N. Y. Liger.
Across the Harbour.. Chinese Government and Cotton Industry. Sydney Harbour Catastropht.
Lady Lugard's Health,
Bridge Building in China.
Canton Regatta.
Fireworks at a Funeral.
Marine Court.
The Craving for Opiom. Rowing.
Volunteer Corps Orders. Chinese Stowaways. Raub Gold Mine, Trade Improvement.
Japanese Fight.
Canton Day by Day.
The Oplum Commissjon Canton-Hankew Railway Loan. A Shadowland Opium Conference.
Mail-boat Sensation.
Consolidation of Finance.
Viceroy Tean Faiz.
The Fatihah Incident
Shanghai Trade.
The Position in Peking.
Mr. J. H. Scott in Shanghai, The New Order in China.
Along the Great Well,
The Old Buddha.
Australia and Japan. Prof, Hattori on China. Betis Foundered.
A Hongkong Success. Manila Lottery. Eruption in the Philippines Horse Racing in Manila. Alleged Opium Smuggling. Brigands in Singapore. Children in Opium Shops.. Australia's Mother State. Opium Smuggling at Bailvia. Fire in Sandakao. Big-Blaze in Borneo.
Dommercial:
Freight-Market.
Weekly Share Report. Exchange.
domes.
CHINA'S CURRENCY. GOLD STANDARD ADVOCATED, [By courtesy of the " Shoung Po.")
Poking, 5th February. The Board of Revenue considera
con-
ments should be made for his recep- tion
The Central Government has telegraphed to the Shanghai Tastai directing him to make'adequate pre- parations for the Prince's reception.
BANK NOTE ISSUE,
RETURNS CALLED FOR.
[By courtesy of the Showng Far]
Poking, 7th February
The Ministry of Financo has called for returns to be furnished, within
in circulation issued by Banks, six months of the amount of notes whether under, official or unofficial control, also of the respective amount of capital of all such Banks..
VICEROY HSU SHT CHANG SERIOUSLY ILL
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa."]" ** Peking, 7th February HE. Viceroy Hsu Shi-chang has wired to Prince Ching informing him that he is seriously ill and asking His Royal Highness to apply for leave to enable him to retire."
undoubtedly, which glorified China at the us power to exercise official control of the business of rat-catching. We cannot dwell aidération before carrying tho pro by King Edward,
briefly this address of welcome, always re- membering that the Commission was sp. pointed in the interests of China and the material disadvantage of the countries repre- sented. To begin with His Excellency made the somewhat bold assertion that in the Klangnan portion of the Kiangsu province the area devoted to the cultivation of the poppy had been reduced by eighty per cent., since the :. Imperial-Edict was issued two and a half years ago. We will take the Viceroy's word for it and pass en to the next statement which was too syllogis
cultivation, sale and consumption of the dug. Our bands are tied. How can we do more than wo have done already? If you had allowed us the privilege of creating the opium trade a monopoly, the drug would have been long since unknown in China, As it is we have done our best to suppress the trade. We are still seeking by means of edicts to induce the people to abandon the cultivation and consumption of opium. We can do no more." That seems to to be the latent suggestion in the Vice- roy's speech but, of course, we may be wrong. Nous verrons. The deliberations of the Commission are being conducted in private and many moons will pass before we learn the result of those meelings that are being held in Shanghai, but it in not possible that dela auginant he cope can have escaped the keen-witted minds which are wrestling with the myriad difficulties which must attend any attempt to find a solution of the problem.
ON PLACUS,
Telegrams.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
OHAN=DIK.
FAMILY'S DEPARTURE FROM PEKING.
By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"}
Peking, 5th February, Chan Pik's family left Poking in great hurry taking with them several hundred packages of luggage,
MINISTRY OF POSIS AND· COMMUNICATIONS.
APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENT.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po,"
Peking, 5th February. The Grand Council. has recom- mended that either Lui Hoi-wan (Mackay Treaty Commissioner) or Sheung Kung-pao be appointed as president of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, Shum Chun- hsen (ex-Viceroy of Canton) having declined to proceed to Peking.
LEGATION GUARDS. THEIR WITHDRAWAL
posal into effect.
TANG SHAO-YI.
RECEIVED BY KING EDWARD.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")
Peking, 7th February HE. Tang Shao-yi, special am bassador, accompanied by Lord Li Ching-fong, was received in audience
The Chinese Ambassador present- DISTURBANCE AT AMOY Led an autograph letter to the King FOREIGN SUBJECTS IMPLICATED. of England.
By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."
"Amoy, 5th February. Some Spanish subjects have been Chinese giving exhibitions i theatre, notwithstanding the native mourning
The Police attempted to stop the continuance of the show when the foreigners fired, at them and detain- ed two policemen.
RUSSIA AND CHINA. “WITHDRAWAL OF LEGATION,
GUARDS.
{Dy courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]'
Peking, 7th February. The Russian Legation Guards in Peking have been withdrawn al- together.
'S RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.
· COMPENSATION TO CHINA.
· [By courtesy of the “ Sheung Po.”)
A telegram has been received from Tang Shao-yi reporting his audience with His Majesty.
CHAN PIK. EX-MINISTER-IN-DISGRACE.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."
Peking, 7th February. Chan Pik, ex-president of the Ministry of Posts and Communica tions, has been handed over to the Board of Punishments to be severely dealt with.
ANOTHER SHANGHAI
IMUDEEN MO -POLICE AND SOLDIERY
CONFLICT.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 8th February,
3.80 p.m.
On Saturday last there was a melee between members of the police and the soldiery at Woosung..
The soldiers publicly bambooed Peking, 7th February. Russia has agreed to pay com- the police before the spectators, who pensation to the Chinese whose pro-watched the unseemly conflict with perty was destroyed during the much delight. Russo-Japanese war.
CHINESE IN ANNAM ALLEGED MAL-TREATMENT-
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po
Peking, 7th February.
In consequence of a petition re caived from the Chinese residing in Annam, the Wai-wa-pu has request
(8th February.) Shanghai evidently has got the plague tical for words. His xcellency declared score and got it bad. The first announce that "from the six provinces of Shansi, Yun-ment never appears in the newspapers; it nan, Fukien, Anbul, Honan and Heilong usually comes out in the form of a Garete kiang, or Noritiers Manchuria, memorials proclamation, so that when the newspapers have been presented to the Throne report begin to discuss the subject it may be taken ing that the cultivation of the poppy-will be for granted that there is more in it than entirely stopped by the winter of the present meets the eye. Nearly all the Shaughri year in the above provinces." That is to papers have been giving opinions on the say, of the eighteen provinces of China in matter of plague and our contemporary the:] one-third of them the poppy has disappeared | sfercury waxen pedantical over the subject." already. Here is an achievement, indeed, if It runs away back to the Piper of Hamlis. we are to accept the terms of the memo. Why not go farther back and drag in poor rialists as statements of fact. The Viceroy old Ulysser, because he had plague when did not commit himself to any definite he attempted the channel, which is now knowledge of the actual condition of declared out of bounds? Apart from that things; he merely quoted what he had some interesting and straightforward seDIC heard and left the Commissioners to take it is given by our press confrère, much of which or leave it as they thought fit Without fur will apply to Hongkong. For example it is iher beating about the bush the Viceroy pro remarked that the prosperity of the port lo ceeded to lay before the delegates the views large measure depends upon its freedom of the Chinese Government on the sub, from the infectious disease, and above all ject, and those views may be condensed into from that scourge of seaports, plague. Hence a single sentence: "Give the Chinese Gov. every resident will commend the Council crament the right to introduce opium and its Medical Officer for the issue this monopolies and all difficulties are at an end." morning of a special Alunicipal Gazette en- Over and over again His Excellency repeated tirely devoted to the question of plague pre- this argument, twisting and twluing round vention. If we dwell on the maiter for a the central idea but always returning to few moments it is not to supplement in any drive, the nail still deeper. One cannot way that admirable statement of the mea- bui-enjoy the humour of the scene when sures to be taken, but to emphasize what is
[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po】 “ the Viceroy quoted a British Govern therein raid, and to bring home to our readers
Ce ment official against the British Govern. the really serious nature of the present crisis
Peking, 5th February. ment, "Mr. Leech, Councillor of the British in the health record of the Settlement. Legation in Peking, has stated-Whether & careful perusal of the measures advocated China can completely obtain the good she bears out the contention of all hygienists Na Tung and Liang Tun-in have seeks without Government control of opium that dirt and disease are twins, or perhaps decided to communicate with the both native grown and imported is somewhat we ought to say mother and offspring. Whilst Foreign Ministers in Peking, on the doubtful, as opinion which gains my deep plague is imported by visitors in the shape 14th inst, on the subject of the admiration for his wisdom and far-sighted- of rats the visitors are brought here' and into withdrawal of the Legation Guards. new and merits our sincere thanks for bis our homes by our careful provision of reluse warm sympathy in our endeavours." There of one sort or another on which they may is a conscious pawky irony in the Viceroy's feed. A primary necessity of plague pre- congratulations which nothing can remove vention is that all refuse be properly collect- from the translation, and it must be real-ed and placed in a suitable receptacle, and humour when it can bear the test of transla- there covered up. Again, the construction tion. In one case it is obvious that the in- of special apartments in the shape of hallow terpreter made a slight error. He reported spaces in our houses, into which inevitably the Viceroy as having said the "Chinese refuse of one sort or another finds its way. merchania who imported opium might and to which rate resorts as to quarters Chiu I-fong has, in a memorial, claim that the introducing of the monopoly theirs by proprietary right, la direct incen-reported that, upon hearing of the At Shanghai, Men, EMMA BIEBER; aged 8 yalem would he contrary to former tive to the increase of the rat population return of the Dalai Lama, the natives On January 28, çog from heart failure, treaties and disadvantageous to their trade. | The diagrams provided by the Public Works CHARLES LENOX SIMPSON, Commissioner of Clearly what the Viceroy intended to say Department make it quite clear to the least of Tibet have become amenable to 3.Customs, Tientsin, aged sixty-five years, he was the foreign merchants in China, but intelligent what are likely to be the resorts the administration and the country
Ohrabruary 11, 1909, at Shanghai, KARL, that was a slip of litle moment. But see and homes of the pestiferous mat, and the is again quiet. ZIMMER Bideant at H.1.German M's Con how His Excellency harks back again and measures to be taken in that respect are salata General, aged 36 years,
again to his original contention. He sees obvious. Considering the imminent positions there is no occasion to hurry A telegram has been received from
London advising that ANUEL WEINBERG, age 37, late of Standard the pomplete stoppage of the native-grown | sibility of plague infeaiing this port at any Oil Compuan khangba paper plane coppie opium, but "the attempts of this Govern, time during the last Afteen years it le a mat — the troops to Tibet, {"
Local and General...
BIRTHS.
On December 24, 1908, at New York, the wife of JORN RISLEY PUTNAM, of a daughter. On January 23, 1509, at Kityang, Swatow, the wife of JACQU SPEICHER, of a s00,
Ob February 1, 1909, Suchien, North Kianger, to Rev. and Mrs: Wm. F. Jankin, of the Sou them Presbyterian Mission, a daughter, Acres
PENICK
On February 4th, 1909, 10 Dr. and Mr. R. H. Cox, at WooLugg, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
Sara Luiza d'Encarnação José D'Assump ção participam as pessoas de suas relaçoës e Bon Casamento realisado na Igreja do Sagrado Coração de Jesus, no dia so de faueiro, p.p., 15. On February 3, 1909, at Shangbai, AUDASON CHARLES, of Nasking, to CORNELIA B, Snow, of Washington, D.CU.S.APANE
offerecem a aDS CARR','
A longiosasih Februar 1000
TIBET.
RETURN OF THE PONTIFY,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."}"
Peking, üth February.
In view of existing peaceful con-
EUNUCHS.
MEMORAL FOR DISMISSAL,
By courtesy of the " Sheung Po"]
Feking, 8th February
All the Censors have presented a joint memorial with a recommends.. tion that eunuchs should be done
with altogether.
away
ed the French Government not to The Grand Council holds that, in ill-treat Chinese subjects there. view of an old custom, it is iner
The Governor-General of Indo-pedient to make such a radical change China has declined to defer to the all at once. representations of the Ministry of, Foreign Affairs.
be above despatch is printed for all it is work.- 8.8.7.]:.
DUTIES AND LIKIN. CONFERENCE WITH THE EG [By courtesy of the Sheung Po"]
شب
THE GRAND COUNCIL. PRINCE CHING'S LOCUM TENENS.
* | [By couriety of the "Sheung Po?"
Poking, 8th February
It is proposed by the Grand Coun cil that, in the event of Prince Ching
Peking, 7th February.being away on leave of absence, his place as president of the Grand Coun The Ministry of Finance is con il should be filled by Teal Chuk
ferring with the Inspector-General
of the Imperial Maritime Customs on the question of the increase of duties and abolishing the likin.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
INDIAN PRINCE TO CHINA. [By courtesy of the " Sheung "Po"]
Peking, 7th February.
-
RAILWAYS,
AN APPROVED PROPOSAL,
By courtesy of the "Shaung Po
Poking, 8th February,
The gentry of Shenai and Kansu propose to raise loans for the con struction of railways.
proval of the
The proposal meets with the ap
of Posta and
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