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Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE

EMPRESS DOWAGER'S

FUNERAL.Y

EMPRESS WILL ATTEND..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY NOVEMBER 9 1000

LIQUORS AS SHIP'S 8TURBS.

NEW REGULATIONS.

The following regulations made by the Gov- eroor-la-Council for exempting ship's stores from duty, are published in the'Gasatie :-----

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

QUESTIONS BY MR STEWART.

A meeting of the Legislative Council will be hold on Thunday, the 19h inst, at 2.10 p.m. The orders of the day are as follows:- *

Financial Minutes.

Report of the Finance Committee. (No 17). Bye-laws under Public Health and Buildlogs Ordinancos, 1903-1909 :--

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Totoxicating liquors required for use hi ship's stores and removed from a King's or licensed warehouse to the ship for whose use they are required under so export permit in Form No. 9' in which the words "for`ships (a.) Mosquito Breeding. itores" have been substituted for the words (4) Slaughter-houses and Slaughter of Api

Tok export to...............", are hereby exempt. mals, ed from duty. The cases or vessel containing

Hon. Mr. M. Sinwart will move the following ali such liquore shall be clearly and permanent. · Revolution-- The Empress of China will attendly marked on at least three sides in letters not That in the opinion of this Council the issue less than three inches long with the words of a new subsidiary coinage convertible at par

́ { By courtony of the "Sheung Pp."}

Peking, 7th November.

roys and Governors as to their supervision of the deliberations, and exhorts all to display a loyal patriotism so that the country may attain ateng and prosperity. The event may be one of great historical importance.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL' MOVEMENT.

The constitutional movement in China bas arisen since and on account of the victory of Tappin the recent war. its actual comman. cement dates from September, 1905, when an Imperial commission consisting of five high Chinese officials under the Doko Tsai Tae left

Peking to make a study of "the political con countries Delsyed by the throwing of a bomb ditions and governmental policies in other

at the railway station as they were about to art on their journey, the commission was re

It visited various European States and returned

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to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY),

the funeral of the late Empress Ship's Stores" and the name of the ship, and would not be successful unless the use of all constituted and did not set out until December.HE Undersigned has received instructions Grand Dowager and will accompany Į when so marked shall be exempt from the pre-' |other subsidiary coins were probibited in the safely in the summer of 1906, having accomp-

visions of Section 12 of the Ordinance, but shall Colony, and that, in the circumstances, it is lighed its mission. On his return the Duke Th: the roth Novembar, 1909, commencing at

the remains to the place of interment. Her Majesty will return to Peking in ten days' time..

MINISTER 10 GERMANY.

INTERIM APPOINTMENT..

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa."]

1..

Peking, 7th November. On account of the death of the mother of the Chinese Minister to Berlin, the Waiwúpu has wired to the First Secretary to the Chinese Minister in

ashington, to proceed

to Berlin once to act as Charge d'Affaires in the absence of H. E. Yam Cheung:

MINISTER TO WASHINGJON.

ARRIVAL AT SHANGHAI,

[By courtesy of the Sheung Po."]

Shanghai, 8th November,

be subject to sections 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16,

a. No liquors exempted under these regula tlons shall be removed.from any ship while in "the waters of the Colony.

3. No liquors exempted under these regula tions shall be sold or supplied to 'any person unless such person in either on the ship's articles or a passenger in the ship.

MANILA SMUGGLING CASE..

ANOTHER MOTION FILED,

Louis T. Grant, con of the defendants in the Mr. Chas, C. Cohn, legal representative of

Gran Kennedy smuggling case, is making a tesacious fight for his clical, and this morn

ing filed another motion for a new trial in the Court of First lostance, reports the Manila Times of 5th inst.

Mr. Coba pow comesforward with a'plea that the ceiling of Grant to the witness stand to testify against his co-defendant Keanedy was the legal equivalent of a dismissal of the case against sim (Grant), and will make a determined effort to defeat the case against his client on this ground.

It is apparent from the persistency with which Mr. Cohn is fighting for his client that the defence will avail itself of all the privileges of the law, and that in the event of an adverse decision in the lower court, the case will be carried to the court of list resori.

Both Grant and Kennedy were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year. Grant H.E. Chang Yin-tong, Minister-pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal importa designate to Washington, arrived at ing attorney would recommend a fine only in Shanghai on the 7th inst.

NAVAL COMMISSIONERS.

ACCORDED CORDIAL RECEPTIONS.

[By courtery of the “Sheung Pa."

tion, with the understanding that the prosecut

his case. This arrangement was annuiled by Grant's failure to tell the whole truth at the beginning of the trial, during the greater part of which he was absent from the court-room on

undesirable to deal with the matter except as part of a comprehensive scheme of local cur rency reform.

Resolution under Section 6, of the Liquor Licences Extension Ordinance, 1908.*

Hon. Mr. M. Stewart will ask the following questions:--

(L.) Is it a fact that, in the original instance

-the-postponement-of-the-King's—Birthday Celebrations was ordered by the Secretary of State without any previous reference of the maller to, or consultation with, the Govern maot of this Colony ?

Secretary of State's respectful intimation that (2.) If.ss, will the Government convey to the such treatment is resented in the Colony?

date of the birthday of His Britannic Majesty (3.) In view of the fact that the well known

was chosen for the obsequins of the late Dowager Empress of China some weeks ago, and that up to last Friday the Secretary of State gave no sigo that be considered that the claims of the latter over-rade those of the former in this British Colony, has the Govern- ment any information as the reason for this sudden change of attitude?

Is it necessary to the work on the Post Office that the plot of Government Land between the Law Courts and the Praya should be largely occupied as workmen's dwellinge?

How many people are housed nightly in the quarters which the contractor is allowed to maintain there, and what rant, if any, does be draw from their occupation? Are all the people

housed there in work on' the Post Office?

And are we to understand that the public may be asked to put up with the nuisance created by the conditions of the plot in question for the year or more during which the Post Office will be in course of construction?

Third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordin-

Tre "pontrayed the benefits accrulög to a country through constitutional government parliamentary representation at an early date." and urged the granting of a constituion and of

The movement has continued with slight inter-

·ruptions since then.

On August 27, 1996, an Imperial committee, consisting of the highest. State officials is the Empire, was appointed to ex imine, and report on the 'terial presented to the 'Tarons in the name of the Duke. On September 1, 1906, en Imperial decree publicly preclaimed that,

be reformed, laws revised, fionaces and re- while the supreme control would remain in the hands of the Throne, the official system would

ment would be inaugurated."

in a few years time constitutional govern. vasues regulated, the army morganized, and

Another Edict of February 18, 1907, issued in the name of the En press Dowager, addus unced that, "owing to the dangers overhanging be granted to the country. Once more, later the Empire, a constitution and parliament will in the year, on Septembar zo. the Empress pro claimed that a constitution was necessary for the country, and ordered the establishment of an Assembly of Ministers to prepare the founda. tion of, constitutional government, the As sembly to be presided over by the Prince Po Lub and the 'Grand Secretary Suu' Chia-ani,

A little later, on October 19, it was declared

that, in addition to the Imperial Assembly of Ministers in Peking, provincial Assemblies were to be formed in the provincial capitals, The Viceroys and Gayarants concerned were to select the members. Matters of importance approval. In future the Imperial Assembly were to be first referred to the Throne for

was to be drafted from the provincial Assem bliss. ipformation or advice, if needed, was to be sought by the Throne from the provincial

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EXTENSION DINING TABLE, TEAK SIDEBOARD with BEVELLED MIRRORS, WRITING TABLES, &c., &c. DINNER WAGGONS, DINING CHAIRS,

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Auctioneer. Hongkong, 9th November, 1909.

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·DOCKYARD.

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A large concourse of people assembled at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard yesterday after. soon, 18th ult, to witness the launching of the O.S.K. #teamer Chicago-maru, among those CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING present being a number of foreign ladies and

CO., LIMITED. gentlemen. The launch was timed for half-past

FINAL DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING

four, and promptly to the minute work, come A and SIX PENCE per Share, fres of tax,

Account of 'less, A former motion for a new used as a' burial ground for parsons professing Assemblies through the Viceroys and Goy. in motion; when she glided down the slin year ending 18th February, 199

ernors.

war overruled by the court.and it was ballaved † nance to author.as the Construction and Main.gulations for the provincial Assemblies ware |

that an appeal would be taken then, but the appeal was delaye I owing to the preparation of the second motion for a new sial, which is as "Now comes the defendant Louis T. Grant, and respectfully moves this honourable court

tenance of a Harbour of refuge upon and over certain portions of the Sea Bed and Foreshore situated upon the Harbour frontage at Tai koktaal, Mongkoksul, and Yamari, Kowloon,

COUPON No. 13 is payable eu and Novam. ber, at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Russo-Chiness Bank at Tientsio and Shanghel

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menced to hammer away the chocks, It was not until a quarter of an hour later, however, has been declared by the Directors of the that the hydraulic buffers set the great vessel above Company, making a total of 15% for the 'ance to set spart certain Crown Laud to be trial in the Grant case, setting forth his lack of the Christian Religion.

amidst the cheers of the spectators and the 'opportunity to cross-examion witnesses on ac•

Simultaneously with the inauguration of the sounding of steam whistles by the launches count of the prior arrangement with the proto amend the Law relating to Trade Marks,

Committee on the Bill entitled An Ordinance provincial Assemblies each prefecture and dis. and factories in the vicinity. Scarcely half a secuting aliorney and his subsequent Winans,

trict was to organize a local Assembly. Re-minute elapsed from the time the steamer com- Committee on the Bill entitled An Ordi- Poking, 8th November.

menced to mova till she was well afloat.

of July 21, 1908. They were drafted by two sauctioned and published in the Official Gʻanette

The Chicago mary in the third of the series Prince Shun Pui-lap and Adiniral

Choking students educated la Japan-Chang Oaks Shosen Kaisha American line, the

built by the Kawasaki Dockyard Co. for the Bah Chen-ping, naval commissioners,

Taung-hsiang and Tao Ju lin-and were based

sister ships being the Tacoma maru and the bave telegraphed to the Central

uppa Japanese models. The provincial Assem Seattle-mars. The former was launched on the blies were to be elective advisory boards rather th of February this year, and the latter on the Gover ment reporting that, "upon

for sa order setting aside and varating the judg⋅ nnce to amend the Tramway Ordinance, 1902." I closely to the prefectural Assemblies in Japan,marn is a steel steamer 410 feet long, 51 fent thau legislative bodies. They coirespond 3rd of May. Like her sister-ships the Chicago their arrival at the different foreignment and sentence in the above entitled cause,

Qualifications of members and electors were wide, and 32 feet deep, with a gross tonnage of ports en route, they have invariably and granting a new trial thereof in so far as

specified, the use of opium being chief among 6,170, and carrying engines of 4.500. horse. been accorded cordial receptions. "Said motion is made upon all of the papar 1908, and to repeal the Liquor Licences Amend- convened within one year, and the experiencesident of the 0,5 K.)'performed the ceremony the disabilities. The Assemblies were to be power. Miss Nakabashi (daughter of the Pre- The Commissioners propose to re-records and proofs on file in said cause, and in based upon the grounde that errors of turn to China in the eleventh moon,

law were committed at the trial of the sald cause and in the rendition of sald judgment and sentence, as follows:

"MANCHURIA.

CHINESE AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS IN CONFERENCE,

[By courtesy of the "Shrung Po."}

Peking, 8th November,

The Governor of Kirin arrived at Harbin on the 6th inst, and has held private conferences with the Russian Minister of Finance concerning Man- churian affairs.

TYPHOON WARNING,

The following telegram was received at the American Consulate Generai from the Manila Observatory af 12.5 p.m. 10-day:—

November 9th, 11.55a.m. Cyclons or typhoon over N. Chipa Sea, inclining Westward.

CHINA AND western. EDUCATION.

:

Belio, October 14. The Shanghai-correspondent of the Cologna Garella warns Germans from "supposing that bacanan the Chinese have contributed 40,000 taals towards the foundation of a German high school at Thingtau, and have agreed to pay for ten years 403,000 table annually for Its upkeep, Germans are looked upon with special favour by the Chinese authorities, There is always money, be explains, to be got from the Chinese for schools. Merchante realize the adväntage of having their sens educated on the spot, and it is not to be im agined, that in the case of the Hongkong Uni- versity, for instance, it was affection fox Kog- land which led the Chinese to contributa so handsomely.

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follows:

concerns the said defendant. Louis T. Grant,

7. That the calling of said Grant as a wit pess for the prosecution in paid cause was the legal, eqzivalent of a dismissal of said cause a to said defendant Grant, and therefore the said Grant was not legally subject to sentence in said cause. }

law,"

LORD KITCHENER'S TOUR.

ARRIVAL IN TOKIO,

in this Colony.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordin- Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordin ance to amend the Licences Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licences Extension Ordinance,

mant Ordinance, 1902,*

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C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils.

* Will not be proceeded with at this meeting, N.B.—A meeting of the Finance Committee will be held immediately after the Council, ACCIDENT IN DES VɖBUX ROAD. OLD WOMAN Knocked down by TRAM-CAR.

therein gained was to fit men for service in the Imperial Parliament.

PROPOSED GOVERNMENT,

of naming the Chicago-maru as she did the Beattle-maru, k

After the launching ceremony, the guests The issue of these regulations was followed, adjourned to the offices of the Kawasaki Dock- en August 27, by the Memorial and Edict on yard and partook of refreshments, the band of Constitutional Government, which set forth the the, Oriental Hotel being in attendance. The general principles of constitutional system, the proceedings were altogether of an informal methods of choosing members of parliament, character, and the old regulation as to the woar- and the preparatory measures to be taken ing of frock coats and high hats, was happily during each of the nine years antecedent to dispensed with, Mr. Kawasaki (who acted as Des Voeux Road was the scene of a tram-car

Shortly after six o'clock on Sunday aftercoos, the summoning of a parliament. In this State host) welcomed the gosits, and at the conclu accident, which, happily, was not attended with paper the absolute power of the Sovereign is sion of the proceedings called for three "banzai

out reference to parliament. Parliament may sponse by the visitors. In return Mr. Nakahashi not interfere in military affairs, Parliament fed the ''banzai" for the Kawasaki Shipbuild. tive power. Elections will be by ballot. What the Chicago-mary is expected to be completed. will have only deliberative power; no execuing.Co. January 15th next is the date on which has to be done in the nine years is stated.

In Japan Chronicle, the first year the provincial Assemblies and local government created; in the second year the census taken and provincial budgets drawn and the new criminal code (drawn up by a Japanese jurist) promulgated; in the third courts of justice established; and so on to the ninth year, when Upper and Lower Houser of Parliament shall be established and a Prima Minister appointed. ·

"2. That the denial of the motion of said Grant to withdraw his plea of "Guilty herein Guilty constitutes an abuse of judicial disapproaching the Victoria Cinematograph when and to substitute, therefor a plea of "No! fatal results, it appears that car No. 20 was / guarded. He will control foreign affaire with. for the Q. 8, K., to which there was a hoarty ro- cretion and an error of law.

"3. That the judgment herein is contrary to who appeared to ba deaf, suddenly crossed the a Chloese woman seventy-five years of age track. The car-driver endeavoured to apply the break, but this was found to be too fato, for, before the 'accident could be averted, the woman was knocked down by the pass ing car and rendered semi-unconscious. As Tokio, Nov. a. ambalance was seat for and the fojured Lieut-General Baton Y. Fukushima, Chief woman removed to the Government Civil Hos- Adjutant of the Major Staff, met Lord Kit-pital, where har injuries wern, attended to, chever at Shimonoseki yesterday morning and accompanied him to Tokio in the afternoon.

'Marshal Princa Oyama, General Terauchi and many others greeted the distinguished guest on his arrival. A section of cavalry was told off as guard of honour, and one third of the infantry in Toklo lined the route from the station to the Shiba detached pilace where Lord Kitcheneris to stay. A section of Infan try is attached to the palace..

The military commandants of the districts between Shimoŭrseki and Tokio, and the British residents at Yokohama were present where the trais stopped to walcome Lord Kitcheger.

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AT. THE MANEUVRES,

Tokio, Nov. 5 The Emperor of Japan and Lord Kitchener left Tokio this morning to attend the grand military manœuvres, which begin to-morrow and will last doill the gth instant, On November to there will be a review. The mancavres take place between Utsunomiya and Shirakaws, in Northern Japan.

Fortunately, the injuries received were not of a fatal, nature and the' woman is expected to secover shortly.

NEW PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES,

Thus the decree of August 27, 1908, places Chios in the same position in which Japan. found herself on October 21, 1881. The Im- perial declaration of September 1, 1906, cor. responds to the, Charter Oath of the Emperor of Japan of April 17, 1869, the first article of which proclaimed the Imperial will in those words—“A deliberative Assembly shall be formed, and all measures decided by public opinion."

Peking,, October 14.7 To-day marks' an era, in the establishment of constitutional government in China. Io obedi- ence to the Imperial decreas of October 19, 1907, and of July 22, 1908, ordering the establishment, within one year of the latter date, in each of the 37 provinces of China proper and in Manchuris and the New Dominios of provincial delibera- The decrees, of October 19, 1907, and July 17, tive assemblies, elections have bono in progress 1908, authorizing the establishment one year for soma tima past, and the assemblies meet in later of provincial Assemblies in Chios corres- accordance with the regulations for the first pond with the Japanere decres of 1878 authoriz. time to-day the first day of the ninth moon. ́*

ing the establishment in Japan of profectural It will be remembered that last June, when Assemblies, their object being the same, "that the Viceroy of Kasanb provlace memorialized experience gaload in such bodies would train against their inauguration as prematurs, he men for service in the Imperial Parliament.”. was promptly dismissed from office. The eloc. They were established; in Japan in 1880, tions have taken place according to the rego one year later. While the decree of August lations, and balls have been erected for the ay, 1908, proclaiming that in 1917 a Four thousand officers and 67,000 men of the assemblies to sit | wherever x Viceroy or a Parliament will be established in China, rank and file will take part in the mannvies, governor bas his seat. The number of em corresponds with the Imperial -announce- and if paymasters, surgeons, and other non-bers varies from 140 in Chih-li, 184 in Che-ment in Japan of October 21, 1851, that a Par- combatants are added, the total forces will kiang, to go each in Kiris, Lehlen-chiang, and liament would be established in 1890, auto- exceed to0,000 men.

Hsfo-kiang. The incomplete returns which cratic power belog reserved for the Emperor, General Hasegawa will commsed, the have been published show nearly 1,000 volers On February 17, 1889, the constitution was Northern force, and General Nishi will be in for each representativa,

promulgated in Japan, rather more than eight. command of the troops operating from the For weeks past reports have been coming in years after the inauguration of the prefectural from provincial authorities asking for Instruc- Assemblies. The same eight years is allowed. Lord Kitchener will receive princely treat-tions and information concerning this new de to elapse between the inauguration in Oblux of the provincial Assemblies and the promulgation belag in unlawful possession of a quantity of || ment during the macœayre.... Two sections of 'pertura." An adiet issued last night renews the of the constitutionis pay N prepared opium. Another man was fized Seo | Infantry of the Goard are sitached to his hotel. Imperial admonitions to imembers of the as- - The Throne is now redeeming the pledges ** She some offrace.

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A. Cuinner passenger by the KarShut On was South. fnod Say at the Magistracy this morning for

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