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· Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

SERVICE.

GANTON-HANKOW,

RAILWAY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY AUGUST 31.

NEW CANTON VICEROY,

LXPECTED TO-MORROW, ›

H.E. Yuan Shu-Hsuan, the cow Viceroy of Canton, is expected to arrive here early to morrow morning. After the customary official visits to the Governor, the Officer Commanding

THE "KUTSANG'S" OPIUM CASE,

VERDICT OF QUILTY ENTERED,

The Kutsang's opium-stealing casa came to ao end at the Special Criminal Sessions to-day. The case for the defence concluded just before three o'clock, and the jury retired in consider

THE INDOLEnce of prINCE

CRING...

as follows:-

J

the Forcer, and the Commodare, His Excel whether the two men were guilty of the theit of newly arrived diplomatist, nothing is maro sur-

PETITION TO THE NEW VICEROY.lency will be entertained at luncheon at Gov. erament House. Among others a number of [By courtesy of the" Sheung Po"],

the leading members of the Chinese.com. munity bave been invited to meet the Viceroy.

In the afternoon H. E. Yuan will call at the

The

Bud the party will subsequently, sij to a cake

and wine banquet,

160 balls of Benares opium, valued at $4,000 part of the King's cargo, and the boatwoman of receiving the stolen property, After an absence of several minutes, the jurors returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against the first

Chess Club, where a reception will be held two prisoners and not guilty against the woman, His Lordship passed sentence of five years' hard labour on the first defendant, and even years on the second mar, the quarter-master of the ship. The female prisoner was discharged. In his summing up to the juy, the Chief

Shanghai, 30th August. Cantonese merchants in Shanghai who are shareholders in the Canton-Hankow Railway Co. According to present arrangements the Viceroy will resume his journey to Canton the are of the opinion that as the new

same evening. He will make a tour of in. Canton Viceroy has been in Cantonpection of the forts en route and arrive in Canton to take ever the seat of office on the before to conduct an investigation 4th Septembar. into the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway, they should framo a peti- "tion for presentation to H.E. Yuan

upon

his arrival at Canton for trans- mission to Peking...

The petition will embody a request for a thorough inquiry into affairs of the Company and for the pushing on of the work of construction.

NAVAL COMMISSIONER.

SOJOURN IN SHANGHA),

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."

Shanghai, 30th August. ; Shuu Pui-lap, the Naval Commis- sioner, is staying in the Foreign Burosu

SPECIAL ENVOYS.

RANK OF SECRETARIES.

[By courtesy of the "~Sheung Po."],

Peking, 30th August. The Ministry of War has decided that, in future, the secretaries of all envoys of the first class on special missions to foreign countries should be of the equivalent rank of an ad- miral or generál

Secretaries of envoys of the second class will be of commodore or cap -tain rank.

This regulation does not apply to Resident Ministers accredited to foreign countries.

The rule has been sunctioned by the Throne.

FLOOD IN THE HUKWANG

HOW TO INDUCE SUBSCRIPTIONS.

[By couring of the “Sheung Po"]·

Peking, 30th August. The Viceroy-of-the Hukwang has memorialized the Throne to the effect that floods have been very disastrous this year within the Provinces.

In order to induce subscriptions towards relief measures he suggests that subscribers of any sum over $10,000 to the flood relief funde should be given a rank

The proposal has been sanctioned.

OHANG CHIR-TUNG.

PRINCE REGENT'S INQUIRY.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.",

Peking, 30th August... The Prince Regent has directed Grand Councillor Taxi Cheuk to call on Chang Chih-tung and inquire after his health, and to ask him to resume his duties as soon as possible.

Shipping and MAILS

MAILA DUR

English (Assays) zod prox, 6 am. Indian (Arratoon Apear} geð proX- German (Prims Bitel Friedrich) 8th prox. Indian (Namrang) 15th prox.

The N. G. I. s.x. Capri left: Singapore for this port this moraing, and may be expected here on 6th prox. .

TRIAD SOCIETY RAID.

EIGHT SUSPECTS ARRLETED.

For how long has it been known to the police that 34, Gage Street was the vendezvous of members of the Trind Society; and for how

tong have the police failed in their attempt to capture them red-handed?

5 me weeks ago it became known at head- quarters that meetings of Triad. Society men were held almost nightly within & stobe's throw, so to speak, of the statico. Many attempts, so it is said, were made to

STRONG COMMENTS BY DR., MORRISON.' The Peking correspondent of the Timar dīs, patched a letter to that journal on the zad inst,

“To the stranger'in Peking, especially to the prising than the respectful humility with which the representatives of the foreign Powers sub-

the President of the Chiness Foreign Office... It mit to Indignity at the hands of Prince Ching, would seem as if the old time exclusiveness of the Throne which forbade sudicece with the foreign representatives on any footing of equall. ty had been revived in the Foreign Office, the conduct of the President of which bas for many years past been a national reproach.

By the terms of the peace protocal which Jurice highly commended Detective-Sergeant terminated the situation created by the Boxer Widea on the smart capture he made and the rebellion, it was agreed that the Chinese For

·équally clever way in which he recovered theaiga Office, the old Tsungli Yamês, had to be

totan opium.

reformed. An Imperial Edict of July 241b, 1901, gravely declared that 'International af fairs take the Grat place." It ordained that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Wai-wu-pu, was to take rank above all others Ministries and Ministers were to devote themselves to their duties exclusivaly. The Ministry was to consist of Prince Ching, Président, two As- sistant-Presidents, and two Vice-Presidents.

• From the beginning the provisions of this Edict have been ignored. For from devoting

Mr. C. Alabaster, acting for the Attorney General, instructed by Mr. W. L. Shenton, of Meters. Deacon, Looker and Deacou, and Mr. F. B. L. Dowley (Crown Solicitor) appeared for the Crown; while Mr. E. Potter, 'instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almáda e Castro, defended.

CANTON DAY BY DAY.

ANTI-OPIUM CAMPAION.

[From Our Own Correspondant.]

Canton, "joth August,

himself exclusively to the duties of the Foreign Office, Friaca Ching, has persistently ignored that office. The condition of the Wal-wu-pu bas been a perennial subject"of adverse com- The Canton Government Anti-Opium Bureaument. It became a saying that the only change.

1909.

To-day's Advertisements.

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raid the house, but with no resolt, as the news has issued circular instructions to require all between the old Taungli. Yames and the of every description and

had got abroad of the contemplated visits;

the servants in the official yamens and depart

Oa Sunday fast, however, Inspector Hansonments, etc., to report at the Burean and present and a panty of men raided the buse and cap tured eight men, together with a number of

documents which were said to belong to the unlawful society.

Those arrested 'ware:-Wan Sam (35) a car.

penter, rf 45. Aberdeen. Street; Ha Hi (37) ime washer, of Tai. Wong Street Lam Six (35) a b. ter. of Queen's Road East Fung | Wai (29) a tailor, óf 17, First Street; Tan Chan (30) a hawker, of Queca's Road West, 'Chan Chai (19) a bawbër, of 44, Third Street; Lan Yam (1) a carpenter, of 4, Peel Street; and Li Sing (1).001, Aberdeen Street.

The Imperial German Mail us. Gorden, which Taft bere en zoth inst., at 1 pm, arrived at Singa. pore on goth, fast, at 7 pm, Ar

The Glos, Lino Ka Glenroy left Singapore on joth ink, pam, and is expected to arrive hart og sih prox, at daylight, the pr

THE CS N. Cab L. Namrang left Cal cafia for ikla port via tha Straits on agik lant,

Amay be expected barn on 15th pook.

The suspects were charged in the Police Court with being members of an unlawful so ciety, and the case was adjourned- until 10,

morrow.

DIRECTORIES,

ROSENSTOCK'S AND ANOTHER.

"Hosenstock's Directory for the second half of

themselves for examination. If any one is still addicted to the drug and should fail to appear as directed ka will be severely punished. ¿

NEW PROVINCIAL, JUDGE. The newly appointed Cintos Provincial Judge, Chiu Yin Fun, is expected to arrive here about the beginning of the 8th moon, to take up his new appointment!"

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SUGAR IN JAPAN.

DAI NIPPON COMPANY,

modera Wai wa-pu was an altération in the shape of the table at which the Ministers sat, The Foreign Office had no authority; it at tempied to exercise an authority. It was simply a bureau of transmission. Dispatches from foreign Ministers lay unanswered for months.

THE DOWNFALL OF YUAN-SH!H+KAI, "From this position, as was pointed out ia the Times of September azad, 1,08, the Wai-, „wu-pu was rescued by the ability and energy of Yuan Shib-kai, its Assistant-Président, who had no lear of accepting responsibility, 'whose bame carried immense weight in the provinces, who was backed by the prestige always as sociated with the Viceroyalty of the Metropoli- tan Province. His dismissal not only removed from office à statesman who bad rendered signal service to the empire, but it shook the confidence of other aspirants for office and ren. dered the position of Minister in the Wai-wu- pus one not to be envied.

The Osaka Jiji reports that the time appoint ed by the Dai Nippon Sugar Company for bring ing forward a plan for the readjustment of its ffairs has expired, but nothing has been dope by the company, says the Japan Chronicle. The creditors in Oaks have called attention to the delay, and, adopting a determined attitude,

"Since the downfall of Yuan Shih-kai' the have demanded that a plan should be proposed Waiwapu has relapsed into its former state of at once. The refusal by the Suzuki Shoten, incapacity, and for this Prince Ching is to which holds the "fate of the company in its blame. Amiable but corrupt, he bar for a the current year has arrived, as up-to-date as hands, to accept the terms of settlement progeneration stood for all that is worst in Chinese ever, as bandy in its general arrangement, and pased-whereby the price of the Dairi Sugar officialdom. All stories tell of his rapacity, bis as useful as the merchant, the professional Mill was to be reduced by Y500,000, the pay greed, his unscrupulous sale of office, his in- man and the private citizen has ever found it to

ment of fêterest on the debentares held by the difference to the affairs of State. His wealth in be. From Manila to Cheloo, Rosenstock and Sim be delayed, the special agreement to re- his assistants have gathered together the sames deem the debentures at the rate of Y500,000 has ever been recorded in his favour. Every. enormous, yet no generous or charitable action

of the firms and individuals that count, the

every half-year be cancelled, and the first in- people who are "it"--which is quite a permissialment already redeemed be refunded-as sible phrase to use in referring to an American placed the company in a very awkward position publi ation. If the enterprising compilers are and its fate is now regarded as sealed. really anxious for fame we would suggest that they should try the North Pole next 50 that they may be on band with a

settlement. Recently Mr. Tanimura, a director |

¦

naw Minister in every office of emolument his

to pay him toll.

For years he has not visited the Wai-wa-pu He dwells in the sphere spart from his follow Ministers, and, in his private residence, re- lactantly.accords rare andiances 10 the repre- sentatives of the Great Powers." They are rare audiences indeed. For the discussion of foròiga affairs he has granted one of the most

other GEMS.

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Hongkong, 31 August, 1909.

the price of butter in Australia and to the low rate of exchange ruling here, we are compelled to raise the selling price of our "Daisy" brand butter to ŝo cents per 'Ib. from 1st September next, when the following prices will sulu.

"1

'Honeysuckle" brand

Daisy" "Dairy maid "Butteroup".

Hongkong, 25th Augus; 1909. „

PILSENER

ASAHI '

AND

par lb.

$1.00

80

70

65

1380

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"SAPPORO"

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, bremen. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

FOR-SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, Kobe,

¡AND YOKOHAMA,

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"DEAFFLINGER"- Captain E. Zachariae, will leave for the above places on THURSD, ths and September, at Noon, from the buoy of the Kowloon Dock Co.

For further particulars, apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co., General Agents.

Hongkong, 31st August, 1909.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

BENVENUE,"

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S.S. FROM ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO, LONDON AND STRAITS.

informed that all Goods are being landed ONSIGNEES of Cargy're hereby their risk into the hazardous and/or extin hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or froin (the wharvas delivary may be obtained

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Goods remain.

subject to rent. “

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th Sept, of they will not be rećogulied.

The Osaka Mainichi notes that among the claims of the Fujimoto Bank, of Olaks, now under liquidation, that against the Dai Nippon classified list of firms and addresses when Sugar Company will be the most difficult of Walter Wellman ultimately manages to atria bis heart's desire. Shackleton also might be communicated with for the names of those resident at the South Pole and then the Directory would be complete, otherwise we do not see what Rosenstock can do to improve bis publication. Nothing that can be said now cat enhance the value of this slate-coloured communicate the result of the negotiations volume which lies. at everybody's elbow and with the Suzuki Shaten on the 7th August, and enerally wears towards the end of the six to propose a plan for the readjustment not later months that thumbed and battered appearance has the 23rd. On Friday, however, nothing which beteken the well-used reference book. had been heard of the result of the negotia Go into any of the hotels and ask for Rosenstions with the Saraki Shotes, gor of the plan, stock's it is not as a rule necessary to ask for of readjustment. The Fujimoto. Bank has "The Prince Regent seems wholly unable to it because it is sure to be staring you in the therefore, decided to force a settlement of the realize the importance of the Foreign Office, face-and you are sure to find it earmarked claim against the sugar company: A petition. Indeed, no feature of bis administration inspires with all the signs of cooutant employment. will be filed in a few days against the Dai Nip greater disquisinda among the well-wishers of That is the best evidence of the value of the pon Sugar Refining Company for a declaration Chink. If for no other reason than its impair Directory and it is also prima facts evidence of bankruptcy and the recovery of the money ment of the efficiency of the Wai wu-pu, bis' on promissory notes, the other creditors being impetuous removal of Yusu Shin-kai was an that the public know a good thing when they see it. Roinulock's Directory has a great future first informed that it is impossible for the backuppatriotic. blunder. And he is now committing -in front of it,

to delay the settlement of the claim any longer. other blunders, and the complaints of the Lega. Messrs. Hirata, Moriya, and Muramatsu, bar. tions are daily increasing. sisters, bava been retained by the back, NEW COMPANIES IN FORMOSA.

of the Fujimoto Bank, visited Tokyo, 'and, in } powerful Foreign Ministers in Peking two company with Mr. Moriya, a Tokyo barrister, audiences in three years. The average numbering undelivered after the 6th Sept, will be saw Mr. Fujiyama, president of the refinery of times that, as President of the Foreiga company and urged that the claim should be Office, he discusses foreign affairs with the settled without delay. Mr. Fujiyama promised foreign representatives is less than and inter- view per representative per annum. Age and decrepitude are the reasons, given for his neglect of duty, Bis aguis 72, but, while this can be arged as an excuse for his neglect of office, it cannot be advanced as an excuse for his retention in office.

Of Mutiny's Commerctal Map and Directory of Hongkong wo cap bonestly say that it is a

DISMISSAL QƑ' NA›IONS.

"The Senior Assistant-President of the Wai-

most dainty and beautiful production. It is admirably got up and bears all the traces of the The success of the sugar companies in For-wa-pu is a Menchu, Na-tung, a member of the artistic temperament of the lady responsible. Į mosa, attributed partly to the discrimination Grand Council, who has been a promicant for its publication. The advertisemonia also shown them by the Formosa Government, configure in Peking for some yours, where he deserve a word of praise, for they are displayed lines to result in the establishment of new com.. is equally popular with foreigners and Chinese. with a skill and an attractiveness which help to panies. The latest is the Nitaka Sugar Refining His special duties in the Wai-wu-pu he hat done excellently. Absent since the death of set off the contents of a really interesting work. Company, projected by Mesars. Okura & Co., his mother, three months ago, he only returned It is certainly a unique example of its class and of Tokyo. On the 16th August an application to the Foreign Office on June 16th, and 13 for that reason will probably hava an-enormous was filed in the Kagi District Office for a char days later he is ordered to relinquish his post

and proceed to Tientsin as Acting Viceroy. sale. The maps of Hongkong and the Peakter of formation. The scheme of the company

~çin his absence, as during his last absence, district are just the very thing that was wanted. is to construct two milis, each with machinery the Regent has appointed a Grand Councillor, No higher encomiums could be passed on such | capable of crushing 1,000 tons daily, in Kagi | Shih-Hou, whose qualifications to hold office a bright and exquisite piece of workmanship district. One of them is to open operations are his unusual knowledge of Mauchu script The Chies Mail may be congratulated on the next year, and the other four years later. The and his exceptional ignorance of foreign affaire. excellence of the printing and lithographic capital of the company is fixed at Y,000,000, in 100,000 shares, zo per cont. of which is to be allotted to farmers and sugar producers in the district where the company is to obtain its supply of raw materials.

work.

BLACK-BALLBD.

& PICK POCKETING CONVERENCE,

Hoit au smlable and coorly gentleman much respected in Peking, but he admits he knows nothing and wants to kuów "nothing about foreign affairs. During the recent absence of Na Tung is declined to attend office, and yet the Regent re-appoints him to that office.

"Next to Na-Ton is the Junior Assistant President Liang Tun-yen, a graduate of Yale, a fine scholar in Chinese as well as in Eng.' lish, & contemporary of Tang Shao-yi and other able Cantonese educated in America. Upon his aboulders is placed a heavy burden of responsibility

t

A Tokyo dispatch to the Asahi states that the protection accorded to the pro- A paint scrapor, giving the name of Pan Tao duction of crude sugar in Formous by the Sing, was sent to gaol this morning for assault. Formosan Government amounts to a valoa of log" a coolie named Chan-Shoong yesterday. Y3,000,000 a year. When the Sugar Exciso Paonodtwo othain were planning a pick-pockal | Law is strictly enforced, us is proposed from **Both the Vice-Presidents are useful subor:: ing excursion, when Chan appeared on the next season, which opens in October, the Fordinates who have been attached to the For scene and asked to be taken into the game. mosan Sagar Industry will be deprived of pro- eiga Office for many years. Below them again Pan replied that three were sufficient, and tection to this extent, and it is foured that the is a body of younger man-councillors and ordered Chad away. The latter would not go at industry may be seriously affected unless som eign language. Selected for their, ability and secretarios--many of whom speak some for

first, but as he saw that there was no chance of measure of assistance is substitated. After a capacity they are the most competent body of having a finger in the ple," he threatened to series of conferences with the Flance Depart officials in Peking. Many of them have been givethemaway, whereupon Pan struck him over meni, the Formosan Government bas decided abroad, and have seen in other countries the importance attaching to the post of Foreign to appropriata Y1,500,000, half the amount of -- Witimer and the devotios with whịch its datien the increased revenue to be gained by the strict | are idlálied. To thom the contrast, is most anforcement of the Sugar Excian Law, and to striklag, grant a subsidy to each company socording to the quantity of sugar produced, in the name of un ancouragement bounty." This seems like

• protection fun mað

the head with a koifa. Chan was badly injured, and had to be taken to hospital. In the Police Court, to day, when Pan was charged with the masault, it transpired that he had three previous convictions and had twice been banished from the Colony, Thú migistrate (Mr. Wood) sant kim ye gaol for six months, with hard jabonn

No one sees more clearly than they do how much China "lowes ince by the present incapa deanad by all progressive Chinese; kin removal, city of their chief. Hin neglect of duty is con

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will, be examined on the 6th Sept, at 11:

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 31st August, 1909.

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*CHOOL will RE-OPEN TO-MORROW,

1st September,

Hongkong. 3rat August, 1909.

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