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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

"AERATED WATER

SPECIALITIES :

DRY GINGER ALE.

LIME FRUIT

PAGNE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25, 1909.

GUPERNMENT.

Self-Government Society.

A HOSTILE MEETING.

THE ANTI-FORTUGUESE BOYCOTT QUESTION. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Canton, 24th August.

It was

SQUILL AT WUCHOW.

DAMAGE TO PROPERTY,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Wuchow, 22nd August. A cyclone-like S. W. iquall passed over Wu- chow at quarter-past six yesterday afternoon. It lasted only six minutes but lo that short space of time wrought havoc to property to the axtent of several thousand dollars. One of the landmarke of this city, the 100-year-old triple- archway in front of the Tien Has Temple, fell with a thundering crash across the public square. Fortunately, there were no casualties. The bawkers who usually occupy the square sought refuge inside the temple. Every kodse along the waterfront was more or lays damaged, some havlug the antire roof removed. The streets of the city were strewn with broken kius. All suffered damages. The Chios Navigation Com- the pontoons is the harbour and up the river pauy's pontoon had its roof and upper storey

blown away.

Hundreds of small cralt ware

MACAU'S DELIMITATION,

A STRANGE SUGGESTION.

given over to paddy and cereals What the THE "BENEFITS" OF MUNICIPAL who carry out municipal duties is now practically twenty per cent, of the revenue, result of that experiment has been one can-

whereas Bfteen years ago it was only about not say, but if the Department is noxious to maintain its reputation for zeal and enter There are a goodly, number of people in thirteen per cent, and we are still in a state prise it might do worse than consider the Hongkong who are under the firm impresof primitive sanitation which would be look. ed on with disgust by any village with over possibilities of the grape vine, Parenthesion that' were a municipal commission ap A. S. WATSON & CO., ilcully, it must be remembered that if the pointed to look after what may be termed the five thousand people in England. Judged new railway is to pay its way it parochial work of the Colony all would be by the business standard of results compared LIMITED.

must depend largely on the freight procur- well and the millenium would be at hand with cost of working and continuation

As the result of the despatch sent to the able along the route and every scheme. The subject is a fascinating one from many of goodwill, the present system appeals which contemplates the opening up of fresh points of view, because it hints at relief from to most men as a failure, and one of Self-Government Society by the High Authori- fields of agriculture will receive the support Sanitary Board debates which frequently the chief reasons appears to be that ties, embodying a telegram from the Ministry come to nothing and suggests the intro- there never seems anyone capable of plan of Foreign Affairs with regard to the represon of those who desire to see the Kowloon Canton railway a success from the beginning, duction of a form of self-government which ning a wide programme which should extend tions of the Portuguese and British Ministers With regard to the grape wine, this ques- always appeals to the free and independent over a number of years and achieve.several at Peking in connection with the Fathan is tion is suggested to us by the publication in citizen. Moreover, it can be pointed out definite results to really pressing wants," cident, a public meeting was held on the 23rd au unobtrusive way of a comment in the first that Shanghai benefits through the labours As for Penang, which is also ruled by a Mu-instant by the Canton Self-Government 50 section of the Imperial Maritime Customs of its Municipal Council while Singapore nicipal Commission, things would appear to ciety, when there was present a large number society, presided over the meeting. The statistical review of trade for 1908 on the also has its Municipal Commission which be ten times worse. The Gascite speaks of of people. Chan Wai Fo, the president of the MANUFACTURERS. wine growing business in the Chefoo district, looks after sanitary affairs and all the odds "the stenches which poison the air that we chairman read out the despatch received

The report is written by the Commissioner and "ends of work which are deemed too breathe; the concentrated, pent-up muck in by the society to the assembly. of Customs, Mr. F. S. Unwin, and has, trivial for presentation to the Legislative the Prangin Ditch that diffuses death and declared at the meeting that the differ therefore, all the authority which official in. Council. To those who have lived in cities disease all over the Settlement; the soul-ences, between Messrs. Butterfield and Swire formation can give to it. In 1895, a private where the City Council was the focus of sickening reek that blows across the Padang and the Chinese as a result of the Faithan concero known as the Chang Yu Pioneer local opinion and where strenuous fights and pours out of the by-streets; the damp, incident had already been settled, by the pay. family. The representations of the British Wine Company, owned mainly by that well have taken place over purely local questions drainage-soaked soil that is sick with the meat of the compensation to the deceased's kuown capitalist, Mr. Chang Chen beun, who it would also at first sight appear that the teeming life of a hundred years and so Minister as embodied to the telegram despatch has dong so much to advance the commer. municipal system os practised in the home forth. Hongkong can wait a while before ited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were CHAM-cial and industrial interests of Kwangtung, country could be transplanted to the Far East places itself in the position of Singapore and

། was inaugurated, Mr. Chang Ying-tung, his And, indeed, the report of the Public Health Penang, nephew, being constituted the managing Commission led many to consider seriously director. The company commenced opera. the advisability of advocating the adoption of a scheme of modified municipal government tions in 1895 under a Government charter issued at the instance of the Grand Secret for Hongkong. But it is to be feared that aries Li Hung-chang and Wong Wen-shao those who favoured such à proposal will find "primarily with the intention of making wine their ideas sadly shaken by recent events in from the excellent native grape grown inlar; e Singapore where the Municipal Commission quantities in the Laichow district, as well as is described as an absolute failure, so much clsewhere in the Chili, Shantung and so that there is a concensus of opinion that Fenglien provinces." It was very soon found, the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry however, that the supply was not caly into the municipal administration, of the irregular, insufficient and costly, but that the Colony has become one of the most pressing grape itself was deficient in sugar and pro. needs of the time. We have not much faith duced wine of poor and thin quality, in those Commissions of Inquiry, which sit Some vines were then imported from Am-interminable days, sift all souls of contradic erica and planted in the Company's own tory evidence, and. peer into amazingly, vineyard near Cheloo, In 1906, under Bron abstruse subjects till in the end the members" von Babo, the Austrian expert who manages themselves become so befuddled and distroll the business, large quantities of different that they scarcely know where they stand; varieties of vines, guaranteed Iree--but not whether black is white, or whether they are immune from disease by the Austrian Gov. living in the realm of inconsequent detail. ernment nurseries, were imported and plant- But the fact that the people of Singapore afe mixed with aerated or plain watered. These flourished at first, but after some seriously considering the possibility of ARRAYY squall broke over Sandaken about 10

time became infected with phylloxera, the Commission of Inquiry showe, that there o'clock on the night of 19th alt. Capt.'Sembill's Messrs. Bacterfield and Swire, and the it. placed upon their trial at the Magistracy thin- make excellent refreshing beverages source of which was found to be the first is something radically wrong somewhere,motor launch was swamped and Capt. Semblit Guaranteed to be made from the vines imported from America. The com- As everybody knows perfectly well, the reports that the sea in the bay, was running pany had then to face the prospect of the average resident in the Crown Colonies on exceptionally high. The signalling flagstaff on complete ruin of its enterprise or the costly this side of the globe take marvellously little Fort Pryer, which is set in cement, was blown pure juice of sound ripe fruit.

alternative of gradually replacing every plant fierest in local affairs. They may growl, down by graftings on imported plants of the dis- and grumble at those responsible for the in- ease-resisting" varieties. The first batch of sufficient, supply of water, we will say, and these was imported from Austria and planted they will probably formulate a programme of A. S. WATSON & CO., in 1902, since when the process of substitu- reforms which ought to be carried out im tion bas gone on steadily, with the result that mediately, but there the matter rests. So that LIMITED,

the bulk of the plants covering the 700 mou | il Singapore is really serious in its interest to The marriage will take place in the autumn at;

ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.

STONE GINGER BEER.

PALATABLE

AND

REFRESHING.

Watson's

FRUIT SYRUPS

HONGKONG and KOWLOON,

Hongkong, 15th July, 1909.

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'DEATH.

On July 18, 1909, at 10 The Grove, Black heath, London, William Gunston Howell, late London-Secretary of the Shanghal Waterworks Co., Ld; second surviving son of the late Sir Thomas Howell, of the War Office, aged 8o.

over

ters to induce it to sell.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE lad, who was accused of stabbing a cook in Wellington Barracks some time last week, got seven days' imprisonment in the Police Court, to-day.

Pahang would appear to be rich in ligers if not in anything else. lo a fortnight recently there were no less than five of these beasts of proy brought into, Paken,

A MANCHESTER plaintifi, oing successfully for the recovery of money paid for a dress quit, complained that the trousers climbed up his legs and remained there, making a terrible picture."

FOR catering a washerman's shop at 9, Eigin Street, and walking out with some clothes of the fokis last night, a coolie, Chao Liog, wai sentenced to six weeks hard labour and six bours' stocks, by Mr. J. R. Wood, in the Police Court, to-day....

An engagement has been announced between Gordon Dingwall Maio, younger son of David Dincan Main, M.D., of Bangchow, China, and Florence, third daughter of the lale, Clement Alexsoder Widdoton, Beacher. of Gray's Ino,

the Cathedral, Shanghai.

On the last trip of the 5.3. Marudu to Tawno Capt. Rodenburg shot an eagle there which measured 6ft. ains, from tip to tip of the wings, This is about the largest specimen that we have heard of in this country. We understand that H.E. the Governor saw the bird measured, says the British North Borneo Herald

IT is stated in a Chinese report that the Chinese Government contemplates gppointing, military attachés in foreign countries, and for this, purpose, the Ministry of War has afficiel

written to for ly

the provincial governmente to send to Peking a selection of able and hard- working officers, so that they may be attached to the Chinese Legations abroad.

In the district officer's annual report on Labak

and Sugat districts, the follow paragraph ap pears:-The China Borneo. Co. worked their timber concessiont on the Samawang, and Kalapis rivets during the year, Mr. W. D. Jepp being in charge as manager with three assist ants. I understand that the company's output was a good one, but have an Ggyros by mg Parbaps the Customs Department could supply them.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]...

either destroyed by the force of the gale or suck by the heavy cargo-boats and postoons

to the high water and the strong current, they which broke away from their moorings. Owing

the people to jump ashore for their lives. were all anchored close inshore which enabled Strangely enough, the effects of the destructive squall were confined to the city, villages only a therefore misleading. With regard to the rafaw miles away in the track of the wind escap presentations of the Portuguesa Minister, Ing the fury of the storm. who accused the Society of having acted in a manner calculated to insult the Portuguess Consul at Canton, and further with having at tempted to lestitute a boycots against the Portuguese, the Chaliman stated that the

Canton, 24th August. Society had never gone beyond urging the

A man named U Tong Hi-bas presented a Portuguese Consul to give a definite reply to the Society's communications. The Chairman further disclaimed any intention on their part petition to the Viceroy suggesting that when After considerable discussion, it was resolved tognese Commissioners on the Macao delimita- to bring about a boycott sgainst the Portuguese, the negotiations between the Chinese and Par that a reply denying the allegations of the Portion question ara in progress,, guoboats should tuguese Minister should be sent to the High be despatched to cruise in the waters of the. of the public. The Viceroy, in reply, stated Authorities in answer to their despatch for the affected province in order to quieten the minds that he will communicate with the Special Da- information of the Ministry of-Foreign-Affairs It was also decided that telegrams should be sent to the Chinese io various places to im limitation Commissioner, H.E. Ko Yu Him,

on the subject. press upon them the liberty of their choice in the transaction of business with foreigners,',

The telegram drafted at the meeting. for dispatch to the Chinese residing abroad Reads as follows:-"With reference to the Fatehan

incident, the Portuguess Consul has alleged

that the Chinese witnesses acted in a bassed manner. The family of the deceased has re- ceived compensation from the British Grm of feeling against them should therefore be removed. The Portuguese did not think fit to express regret in the matter, but on the other and accuse us of having tried to boycott them, Everyone should understand clearly the fact that one is at perfect liberty to buy and sell as one likes and must act accordingly for the sake of sustaining our reputation.

(Sd), THE CANTON SELF-GOVERNMENT

SOCIETY."

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

PASSING COOLIE and a fallinG, POLE. .

:

TRADING JUNK ATTACKED. STEAN-Launch USED BY ALLEGED PIRATES,

The seven mas, who were captured the other;

day in connection with a piracy which was committed on board a trading junk outside the waters of the Colony on the 18th July last, were

Chief Detective Inspector Hinson prosecut afternoon, before Mr. J. R Wood

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ed. Mr.J.H. Gardiner represented the third and fifth defendants. Mr. Reader Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, was for the second. pect.

The charges against the men were that they'

pirated the San Fuk Rep jouk is Nom Was Bay, off: Chedog chau Island, and stole the juck, tackioj elc, and her cargo, which wets, valued at $18,382." There was also an additional charge preferred against the mes-that of receiving stolen properly. The defendants. 7 denied the charges in foto,

it

The story of the piracy was told by the accountant of the San Fub Hop. He said that An accident, which necessitated the removal was witnessed in the Westero districs yester Tung, & four or five days' journey, provided" of a man to the Government Civil Hospital, the junk traded boween Hongkong and Sal day afternoon. A coolie, giving the name of there is a fair wind. On the 18th July, at about Mak Loo, was the viction, Mak, it would three pm., the San Fut Hep net sail for Sal sppear, was walking al 10g Queen's Road West Taog, leaving the Salt Fish Lane pler, There were a crow of thirteen op board. When they at about three o'clock, returning home.. As he arrived aulside a certain tenement, one of reached Cheung Chau Island, near Lantan, the. outside the verandahs of Chinese bbures, ceed any fortber, dropped her mud books st the clothes' poles, which are so conspicuous wind went down and the jusk, unable to pro left its support and fell to the street. The the north-east side of the island, from where nefortunate Msk was passing, the house at the the Cheung-chau Police Station could be seed. Between 9 and to p.m. that night a steam- moment, and the pole struck him on the bead, rendering him unconscious, and caning him launch came alongside the junk and over to lose much blood-A-passing policeman bad--ten-mea-boarded-bor-under-the-pretext him taken to No. 7 Police Station, where he of searching for arms. The accountant pro- was temporarily treated, and thence to the hos duced his arms licence and as he was handing pital. It is not considered that his wound is in over to one of the strangers, he was seized by the queno, a sack was thrown over his head, and he was placed insido a capboard, near the any way serious.. " -

- FOUND UNDER THE BED.

mainnast, and locked in. In bin uscomfortable. position, the accountant heard the sacher being SHOPKLEPER'S EXPERIENCE' AT YAU-MA-TI raised, and, the junk put in motion. From A shopkeepar, who resides in a dwelling the sound he knew that the junk was being bouse at 381, Shanghai Street, at Yau-ma-ti, towed away by the launch, The remainder of received a stock while he was lying in bed fast the crow were confined in various parts of the A week later the accountant was released night... It happened about eleven o'clock, ten junk. minutes after he had retired for the night.

"I was just dozing off," said the shopkeeper, from the cupboard. The juok bad-grounded; when I saw the front door open gently. and the crow and himself were put ashore on watched, and saw a man on all fours crawl Chap Ho Island, near Kwong-chau-wan, and quietly into the room. He made his way the pirates sailed away with the junki The witness identified the second defendant as one under my bed where he remained for a short crew remained on the island for five days. The of those who took part is the piratical 'attack, and the bearing was Rdjonmod.

-INDIAN TAILOR-INJURED:

FALLS ÖVER A VERANDAH, A

(roughly, 110 acres) now under cultivation have an inquiry there must be more in the are immune to the pest. During all these matter than meets the eye. We find the Sin [a8 years the vintage has been accumulating and gupur Free Press declaring: "In whatever maturing in huge casks in the cellars of the way the public regards municipal work here, company the actual stock, consisting of they cannot avoid feeling intensely dissatis. 10. varieties of red and white still fied with the results." That should give the wines, being about 2,000 hectolitres red supporter of the municipal council principle and 1,500 while. The wines are pro-ao think furiously. There appears to be an nounced by all who have tasted them, echo of the prehistoric days when Hong. A CHINESE woman, of 9, Batters Street, man Atlewall with a quantity of cotton cloth in including not a few connoisseurs, to be kong was considering the question of whe-Hunghom, was arrested yesterday by Felice excellent, and much pressure has been ther the administration of the Sanitary Board

her possession. She could not give a satiëfac- brought on the company from various quer was all that could be desired in the followtory explanation to the officer as to where she Before this is posing remark:-"It matters not whether one had procured the stuff, and was charged in the sible, however, the question of casks, and merely looks into a 'system which requires Police Court to-day with unlawful possession. bottles, which presents considerable difficul the signature of the Secretary on every The case was reminded ties, has to be solved. So far go wood document of whatever description issued suitable for cask has been obtainable in by the Municipality, and in consequence eastern markets, "There is a glass factory at brings in its train a host of rubber Pushan, on the railway line between Tsinan-stamps with the Secretary's signature lying fu and Weihsler, which turns out a very about the office, conveniently handy for superior description of glass, but up to the any tamby who may be in the room present has not been willing or able to when the Secretary is out; or whether one undertake the supply of wine bottles. The looks at the cost of an administration Chang Yu. Wine Company now possesses which is yearly growing greater in com. 1,000 m of land on Chefoo hills, but exparison with the revenue; or whether one periences many obstacles in adding to it looks at a primary duty of municipality such Though practically worthless for farming, as the efficient disposal of sewage put aside owners of adjacent land ask prohibitive from year to year as too big to be tackled, prices. The results of many years' experi whilst fancy schemes are carried through; or ence show that the climate-though occa whether one looks at the health of the com sionally Djuricusly damp during July and munity which is steadily growing worse as August-aid the sail of the district are on the years go by, under each and all of these

Believing that the intruder was one of bis the whole suitable to wine growing, and that aspects municipal work appears to be doing a vast amount of hill land, otherwise tittle to justify its continuance under the A CARLEGRAM received in London from Wei-fokis, who was about to play a practical joka unprofitable, could be made productive if present regime." Truth to tell, Hongkong hai-wai refers to a notable achievement in on him, the shopkeeper remained silent. The obtainable at a reasonable price. The may not be Utopia in tablet form but its gunnery by His Majony's ship King Alfred, man crawled from under the bed again sud, enterprising pioneers of this new industry general record is certainly better than that the dagship of Vice Admiral Sir Hedworth seizing the shopkeeper's shoes, made a dart for HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1909. are entitled to all the encouragement, and of Bingapore, if figures are worth any. Lambton, Commander-in-Chief of the China the door. Before he could get there the shop- The cablegram is not altogether keeper had seized him and, to his great sur- support the Government can give it" thing: We read that in the sister clear in regard to figures, bat rups as follows: † prise he discovered that he had been playing | the first floor of zo, Austan Road, Kowloon, mat with an accident last night, which might When it is added that the enterprise has Colony the birth rate has steadily risen, King Alfred, flagship, gunlayers believed with a thief. been prosecuted in the face of many diff for whereas in the eight years from 1892 (to have achieved) world's record. Two 9.3-

The intruder wis banded over to the police, possibly bavo fatal resultados

At about nine o'clock last night Rakam res culties with extraordinary patience and per- to 1899 the average number of births per guas (fred) 19 tounds (and secured) 14-bits, and in the Police Court, to-day, was charged Many experiments have been made dur- severance, at a vast outlay of capital, the year was 13.17, in the eight years from Sixteen 6-id. guos (fired) 152 (probably 1,520) with entering a house with felonious intent, tired to bed after having had his supper. About Defendant's excuse was that he went there to an hour later he left his bad, owing to the beat, ing the régime of the present Superintendent Commissioner's remark is thoroughly justi- 19oz to 1968 the average was just over, 26, rounds (with) 1,095 bit.”~

collect money." He was sentenced by Mr. F. and went into the verandab. There he climb- of the Botanical and Forestry Depart-fied. It may be explained that a hectolitre That, though slow, in an eminently satisfac.

time during the night he turned over in his ment with the object of discovering what equals aa English gallons so that the total tory increase, but when we turn to the deaths 17 is with regret that we record the death of A. Haseland to three weeks' hard labour and ed up on the ledge and went to sleep." Some sleep, forgetting where he was, and fall to the William Holliday, which took place this morn plants are most suitable for cultivation in stock of the company at the end of 1968 over the same periods, we find a very differ an old and well-known Shanghai resideat, Mr. six hours' stocks. the New Territories. These experiments as 77,000 gallons. Now if it is possible to ent tale has to be told. Whereas in the first ing, at the age of 46 years, reports the Shangkat THUS an Indian contemporary:-Hongkong. it street- twenty feet drop...

He was picked up some timp låter and con- have been undertaken in a purely utilitarian achieve results which satisfy those qualified period. mentioned the average number of Mercury of 21st inst. The deceased, who had a candidate for University honours, Mr. H spirit, the idea belog that the farmers may to judge as to the character of still wines deaths per year was 34.68 in the second period been in Chins, for nearly twenty years, was N. Mody, a prominent crizan, will give the wayed to the Gexs:ament Civil Hospital, by be led to extend the area of their arable and satisfy the Commissioner of Custome the average number was 40.34. And yet the at one time head of a naval college in China buildings if the money for endowment and officers belonging to the Water Police Station, land and embark on the cultivation of new that the promoters of the company are-en expenditure by Government on the medical and until quite recently he was in charge of equipment can be raised this year, and, the and he lies there is a serious condition, suffer. and remunerative products. In the last re-titled to the support of the Government, department in 1890 was a sum of $80,00o the Machinery Department of the firm of Governor has issued an appeal for funds log from severe lojuries about the head and port, if we are not mistaken, it was stated surely there should be a chance for Hong whilst in 1907 it had risen to $260,000, Meus Halliday, Wise and Co. A couple Thers would be no lack of students we are told, body, that the Department had been experiment-kong to follow ault and start a similar, but New Hongkong may have its annual visita of days ago Mr. Holliday had the misfor. for, says the University Correspondent, Chinese

ed to go leto hospital. Yesterday he was Univernitios, au a stay of loss than ten years is steady increase in the numbers of ing with the tex plant on the mountain not necessarily rival, enterprise in the New tion of the plague, but its death rate is just tose to break his arm and he was compell. paremis object to sanding their sons to Western THE Batavia Nieuwsblad calls attention to the slopes, because it was certain that in days Territories The idea, at all events, in a about half that of Singapore. The Free Frase found to be suffering from heat apoplexy, and useless, and when the son comes back he has exters and morphine-fiands at Baileszorg, gone by when Chinese tes ruled the Euro- taking and attractive one- and then there in a spirit of anger declarca: "The death rate" kis condition gradually becoming wores he ex- become greatly denationalised, despising residence of the Governor-General of No pean market the shrub had been extensively is this to be said for it, the tax on the pro- rises and municipal expenditure on salaries pired at 3am.to-day, Deceased was at one his country and parentage- hybrid European lands India. Arrests of these people cultivated in the New Territories especially duct would help to swell the revenue of the has increased from one in seven and a half time a prominent Mason. He leaves a widow with a vacest of forsiga mansers badly fald on police are matters of common ocenit

Chisme framework.": to one in six] the cost of payi for those to mourn kiz lost, on the higher levels, the lower ground being | Colony,

The Hongkong Celegraph

CHINASH EXPERIMENTS IN WINE-GROWING,

Siation.

while."

Au Indian tailor, named Raham, residing on'

[there]