1909-12-10 — Page 9

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8056

新八十月十年元統宣

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Leading Artiolon:-

Commonsense and Chinese.

The Official Cats of Togo.

A Quiet Sabbath."

Hongkong's Cattle Trade.

The Civil Servant's Resting Place...

In the Seaman's Inforest."

Dar Shipping.

Telegrams:

Alleged Police Assault. Chinese Engineering and Mining Co The Tungkuanshan Mines. Telegraphs in Manchuria. Manchuria.

China's Navy,

Observatory for Kinochow. Macao's Delimitation. China's Naval Dolence. Tibar.

Provincial Trżandar

Chiness Bank-notes. Szechuan-Hankow Railway, Tena Fang,

Loan Agreement..

Snowstorm in Manchuria.

Mining in Mongolia,

Repentance,

Stamp Laws.

Late Shun Ka-nai.

Yunnan Railway,

Mootings:-

Legislative Council.

Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal, Council.

Legal Intelligence:-

Russo-Chinese liank Care.

The Rice Dispute.

Polios:

A Remarkable Position,

The Cyclops Cave.

Cruelly to a Mule.

Opium Manufacturers Sent to Gaol.

Trouble between Money-changers, Miscellanbous Articles and Reports:-

Macao's Frontier.

Round the World.

H.E. General Machado.

H.E. Kao Erh Chien.

Presentation to Lieut. 'Beckwith, Honeymoon Trip.

Destructive Canton Fire.

Forthcoming-Regatta.

Hints on Wrestling.

Notes by the Way"

Asilo de la Ste. Enfance.

Dalton Notes.

Subscription Griffins.

Holi Pacific Trade.

Hengkong Volunteer Corps.

The Far East in Parliament.

British Steamer Destroyed by Fue

Water Police Concert,

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Danish Butterers' Methods,

Colonial Cemetery,

Football League.

Cricket.

Golf.

Signals at Sea.

Japanese Consul on Tour.

South China Morning Post, Ltd." The Taiping Theatre.

The Chinese Naval Commission, Victoria Regalia.

The Opium and other Habits,

Volunteer Corps Orders. Rubber Notes,

Water Return.

Trips to the Orient.

Typhoon Warnings.

Mi Hart's Wedding.

Canton Day by Day.

The Canton-Haukow Railway.

The Macao Boundary.

The Palawan Fatality,

Dr. A. P. Wilder.

Opium Smoking Officials.

Accident la Astrata Chanpal.

Hiatus in Shanghai.

Belgian Trade in China,

Chinese and Sport.

Great Gale in Japan.

Prince.Ito's Assassin.

Examination of Prince Ito's Amino,

The War Monument at Port Arthur.

The Nippon Yusen Kaisha.

Brutal Maidar in Tokyo.

Death of an Old Yokohama Resident.

Opium Smuggling in Kobe and Yokohama.

Japanese Imperial Cuisine.

Four Meu Adrift.

Falber Algue Lectures,

Eastern Cadetships.

Dr. Morrison's Brother, Collision in Singapore. The Indian Opium Revenue. Petroleum in Singapore. Rhio Straits Collision. Cyclone in the Cocos. "Siti Kepah."

Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report. Bullion. Exchange, Local and General.

BIRTHS.

On December 1, 1909, at Shanghai, to the Ray, and Mrs. J. T. McCutchan, of Chinking,

Os December 3, 1909; at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. D. Warden, of 5 Macgregor Road, of s daughter,

MARRIAGES.

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On November 17, 1909, at Stockholm,' Axta A. Johusoo to Margaret Adelaide Orwin, daughter of the late William Ortwin, Shanghal. Molloy-On December 1, 1909, at Shang hal, Humphrey R. U. Cottrell Dormir, R., to Mary Isabella Molloy, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Molloy, Shanghai, No Cards.

On December 3, 1009, at Shangtal, the Rev. Edward Rowlands, B., B.D., of the London Mission, Hankow, sidest son of the Rev. T. Rowlands, of the London Ambohimandros, Madagascar, to Florence Mildred Sherwood, of Penarth, Wales.

Mitchell-de Tunzelmann-On the 7th De camber, by special long Christopher Berkeley Mitchell, Captain BaperiaTM tendent of Police, Kulangen, Amoy, to Mand Agatha, widow of the late E. W. de Tuncel mano, Surgeon, R.N.

DEATHS.

On November 29, 1909, at Oratia Auckland, New Zealand, John Lee Thompson (late of Suma, Japan), the beloved father of Mrs. C. M. Mannara. (By cabla.).

On December 3, 1909, at Shanghai, H. F. Brackston, Examiner, 1: M. Customi, Nanking.

On December 1999; in London, Jean far dine, Laedale, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. › Darid Fandals, agad za monika,

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people as a whole set an example to the so-restaurants and hotels where no liquors aro called Christian artlons of simplicity of living, furnished to guests. Such meal must be paid

which makes the labours of the missionaries guest. Men do not as a role order bona-fide (from a utilitarian point of view) singularly meals, and pay for them, to leave them un impertinent. As lovers of peace and tranquili- touched. On occasions, this may occur, but ty, they make our professors of the gospel of where men habitually cater restaurants or pesce look the sorriest humbugs. It is a botela and order meals with drinks and leave *****pity that in our natural prisle in teaching the micals untouched it is a fair indication COMMONSANƏK AND CHINESE. | them a thing or two about science, some that such men are not boas-dde guests foreigners should make the rest of us entering such hotels or restaurants to appesse ridiculous by talking of converting them from bopa-fide hunger, but are there for the barbarism to civilization. The Chinese who purpose of appeasing their thirst for intoxicat called us barbarians were ridiculous enough; fog liquor, and are simply willing to pay for our own people might have taken warning meal in order to get the liquor. Hotel from their egregious mistake." Into the and restaurant men who furnish liquor with arguments in favour of a rapprochement with uncals will of course be the prey of such America, we prefer not to enter. Being individuals occasionally and will be power English, we should only be tempted to enle to help it, but where they habitually large on the undignified proposition that allow parties to enter and buy meals which 'Codlia's your friend, not Short.

(4th December.) ·

In a recent leading article the Straits che remarked that in these days, when so much interest is taken everywhere in Ching and the Chinese, and much nonsense written and published about them, it is desirable that essays by men like. Mr. Wei-Ching. W. Yes, Second Secretary of the Imperial Chin ese Legation in America, should receive full attention. He discusses the relations of the United States and China, in a pamphlet. issued in an admirable series by the American Association for International Conciliation, but most of his general, and incidental remarks have a

wider'

THE OFFICIAL CATS OF TOGO..

(6th December.) Much abused Hongkong occasionally comes in for a meed of flattery in its imita- tion which is the sincerest form of manifest ing its praise, According to a Reuter de spatch from Berlin of 3rd November, the Government of the German colony of Togo has issued a decree ordering that in public buildings in the colony, where natives con- gregate, such as schools, hospitals or prisons, cats are to be kept officially. The explana. tion of this order is contained in the decree of the Governor of the colony dealing with the danger of the introduction of plague into Togo from the British Gold Coast. The Gov.

"A QUIBT SABBÁTÉ?"

THE CIVIL SERvant's restinNG PLACH.

IN THE SEAMAN'S INTERESI.

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source in 1908 is a reduction of 8,179 from question, but what we would suggest in that the number of Chinese cattle imported duras treated at the Sanitary Board It is becom-

East Indies to the number of 14,574 repre- | within measurable distance of the "eyesore" sent an increase over those received during complained of by Mr. Murray Stewart. But the previous year of 13,013.The change we take it that with the adoption of the mo- to this trade is the result of the recently tion proposed by the President yesterday and Increased proportion of diseased animals the appointment of a committed to deal with among those from the China coast, and the the subject, we shall hear no more about consequent restrictions placed upon impor graves and monuments and cometeries for tation from that source, which has led some time to come "and sao the Lord be to larger purchases in the French East thankit.”. · Indian market." The Cablenews concludes: "Over two million pesos a year spent for foreign grown cattle accounts for no amall share of the poverty in agricultural circles in To those who look with a sympathetic the Philippines. The man who will find the eye on the ordinary seaman, the hardships way to restore the ranges of the islands to which he has occasionally to undergo can their former usefulness and dam up with not but arouse concern and compassion. home grown beef this flow of money abroad He is as a rule such a helpless individual are not eaten, with which'drinks are furnish. will have performed a labour of Hercules for where his own comfort is concerned and is et, they should be cautioned and if they the country," From our viewpoint it is im- so much at the mercy of a harsh master that disregard the caution a watch should portant that Hongkong should assist in the his life in many cases must be little better be kept until a clear and flagrant case regeneration of the Philippines even if the than one long martyrdom. It is a common can be made out then they should be work be done purely as a matter of business, cry that British ships are no longer manned prosecuted and their licence revoked. A sum of $2,000,000 spent in the cattle by British seamen in the proportion that and equally important application." The

The circular in question goes on to say that trade is worth the attention of the shipping should exist, but when we remember some leader then proceeds: "There is a Chin-

no subterfuge of paying for a meal and giv. agent, for we take it that in the years of the stories we have heard from esc saying to the effect that between

ing away liquor will be tolerated. While to come that trade will continue to the lips of the common â. B. about the lita. right and wrong the public is an equitable

restaurant and hotel keepers may on deca-expand, until the day comes when the Islands

on board ship our only wonder is that they Judge. Chinese both of high and low de

sions treat bona-fide guests, they do not cao meet their owe requirements, But that should continue to serve as seamen. Ap gree act on this axiom. Sir Robert Hart

habitually furnish them with liquor which is is likely to be a distant day and in the mean-parently, however, it is the case amongst the has said that the Chinese believe in right

not paid for. The price paid, should ordi- time it is the duty of cattle dealers in South majority that once a seaman always a sea- so firmly that they scorn to think it requires

narily be sufficient to include the cost of both China to see that the trade is not diverted man, and so they jog along till the end of to be supported or enforced by might. It

the meal and the liquor, plus a reasonable to Ludo-China and Siam. Incidentally, of the chapter, being Shanghaied at one port, dues seem a pity that intercourse with the

profit. The practice of furnishing liquors in course, Hongkong stands to benefit which is punished for desertion at another, returned rest of the world should be tending to

unlimited quantities to alleged guests, who our main object in raising this subject. D. B. S. at a third and generally knocked discredit this amiable theory. Many of us

buy food of little value merely to enable

about from pillar to post. In Hongkong. (foreigners) also regard it as a philosophi

them to order round after round of drinks

| comparatively little is scco of the ordinary cal truth, but in our practical, inconsis.ernor says that the renowned bacteriologist; and drink deep over it, will not be permit-

seaman as we understand him in London, tent way, we do not, trust in it absolutely. Dr. Koch, had reported the successful experited. Where it is apparent that such is the

Liverpool or Glasgow. Here, for the most A popular saying with those writers, de- ments made with cats for the eradication of tats practice, proceedings will be instituted against

(8th December.)

part, he arrives in big steamers where he is Birous of concealing their ignorance of the in plague-infested and plague-menaced har-offending parties. So much for the legal

We should think that the interminable

irested in a decent and respectable fashion, Chinese, is that which describes the China bours of China. In Hongkong orders had interpretation" of the law in Manila, discussions, which are repeated every fort-

more like a human being than a drifting man as esoterically unknown and unknow. already been issued providing for the main- To our way of thinking there should night at the Sanitary Board meetings, on

derelict. He has little or no cause to com able, incomprehensible, inscrutable, contra- tenance of cat cat in every house, and three either be a wide open door for all parties the question of graves are nearly exhausting plain-though it must be said that your true dictory, and so on. This clever and witty cats in larger houses. An investigation made or none at all. It is too much to expect the patience of those members who recognise salt is worse than the average farmer for Chinese writer says he is reminded thereby by the German Goverment at Lome (Togo, of human nature that it will forego a profit- that there are other subjects of equal import grumbling. His food is usually better than of the conventional characterisation of wo-showed that there were rat-eating cats there able transaction because of some technicality ance to be disposed of by the cleansing that authorised by the Board of Trade, his man in a comic paper. Chinese are very and that rats were not generally to be found and it is for that reason we have argued authority of the Colony. It may be, of quarters are ample and clean, and his work much like other human beings, in all that is in the houses where cats were kept. It is against the continuance of these half and, course, that certain of those whose voices is light in comparison with that on a wind- vital and important. The arguments which therefore, officially advised that the num- half licences. We believe that even the'

are raised in favour of certain improvements jammer. He may not possess the droll Bacon puts into the mouth of Shylock are ber of cats in the coastal towns primarily holders themselves would be benefited in

in connection with the cemeteries really be humour of the "ancients" who have been all applicable, in his case, his peculiarities exposed to the plague danger and in Ho the long run if they were placed on the same

lieve that they are adding to the gaiety of exploited by Mr. W. W. Jacobs, but that is being as immaterial, and due to centuries of Kpandu and Paline should be increased level as hotel and public house keepers, the citizens by dwelling time and again on the because he is more a man of the world than segregation. These peculiarities show signs Besides appointing official cats to the public.Certainly they would not be induced to of disappearing as intercourse extends." I buildings in the colony, the Governor re- infringe or dodge the law, and for that reason

features of such a lugubrious question. But the Thames barges. Still he has his grio- we fail to arrive at that point of view. And it rances, and we discover that steps are being support of its argument our Penang contem-commends all Europeans Rad natives to if for no other it will be interesting to watch is more in torrow than anything else that we taken to recure a further amelioration of porary quotes -

adopt this precaution against plague, how the Manila statue is operated, because refer to the ratiocination of those members his general condition. In America there Always a nation that delighted in books and

the performance is sure to be of value and who have in a way made this subject their is a society known as the International wooepped Inetary talent, we have had a lito-

significance for Hongkong.."

own. What is it that they want done? Seamen's Union which is organised to look cature equal in 'extent and quality "to that of Greece and Rome. Very fow Westerners who

That opens up a wide vista, for wo defy the after the interests of Jack ashore and aflost (7th December.) have mastered out language have not echoed

HONGKONG CAIZLE-TRADE..

and it is proposed that paxt year grand ordinary reader of the reports which appear Manila has been wrestling with the vexed and re-echoed tbe sentiment that "untold trea

in the morning papers to discover the par.congress of the representatives of two million sures lie hidden in the rich lodes of Chinese question which is associated with the liquor

An important and profitable trade which ticular requirements of the principal speak seamen throughout the world be held in the literature. This mine of intellectual wealth trade, the supply of drinks under adjunct sprang into existence about ten years ago is

ers. At one meeting they are declaiming month of August next year, to plan logir has been enriched by the translation of the best licences, and Manila is determined to stamp that of the sale and delivery of cattle to against Chinese being laid in fairs next to lation for the improvement of conditions for works of the West, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, out the practice which exists among some purchasers in the Philippine Islands: The those of Europeans. Then that point being scamen in all civilised countries." The Spencer, Darwin and Henry George, just to holders of these licences of selling intoxi- trade has been profitable in many ways, and settled, it is found that Japanese have had president of the Union in issuing the call mention a few of the leading scholars of the cants with an imitation sandwich and calling various parties have benefited-the exporters, the audacity to bury their dead alongside notes that "in reading over the different modern age, are as well known in Chios it a meni. Unlike Hongkong there is ap the intermediary dealers, the shipping com. this country. The doctrine of the survival of

those of another race and when that is rec-

maritimo codes it must become plain that the fittest is on the lips of every thinking parently no general public house licence panies and the purchasers. But lately cattle tified the question arises, where should Euro there is no practical difference between them Chinese, and its grim significance is not lost on allowing bars to be kept open on Sundays, sent from Hongkong to the Islands have not peans who have lived for so many years in referenca to the status of the seaman, a nallop that seems to be the centre of the and the thirsty souls of the capital of the been up to the high water mark. demanded in the colony be entitled to lay their mortal In all codes he is made the property of the struggle in the Far East. Westera knowledge Philippines have therefore to resort to sub- by the health officials in Manila and there is shell? Now it seems that a question concern vessel on which be sails, Once having is being absorbed by our young men at home or terfuge in order to get their accustomed a danger that the trade which should conti-ing the position of civil servants as contrast-signed, he must serve, with or against hie brid at a rapid rate, and the mental power of potations. The usual way, we gather, harnue to prove a flourishing and lucrative one ed with ordinary residents has cropped up. will, at sea, in open roadstead or in a anfo large part of four hundred millions of peg been to enter a restaurant and call for a to this Colony may be driven away to Indo- We have always felt that the modern civil harbour. To leave the vessel singly or in ple, formerly concentrated on the Confucian sandwich-which may be made of rubber Chios. Hongkong cannot afford to sit still servant who was sent to Hongkong for the combination bringe prison penalty. To classics, is being turned in a Dew direction for all that they care-and then demand aand watch such a result of sheer carelessness beneût of his health was a “ cut abc a" the refuse to work, even while lying in a

Socially, ao agricultural people is being drink on the ground that they always in

plain citizen, but we admit that we were not safe harbour, where there is no danger transformed in a sudden into a manufacturing dulge in intoxicants with their meals.

aware that such a feeling extended beyond to life or property, brings prison pensity, and industrial nation. New desires have given The trick is as old as the hills but

the pale. We entirely agree with the sensible along with loss of wages earned. Wagea birth to new wants; the railway and the steamit is difficult to catch the parties respon-

remarks of Mr. Shelton Booper when he to be earned may be and are taken to ship 'mast take the place of the mule cart, thé sedan chair and the houseboat; gas and elec.sible for its success. In the first place

said that he thought civil servants should be pay for services of shipowners, agents who ticity supplant the paper lantern and the oil the restaurant keeper sees that it is to

treated as residents, as they were residents serve as middlemen in hunting up men for limp; the roar of the loom bewilders the his interest to retain a good if only occa-

to all intents and purposes, When they the vessel. In practically all codes there is factory girl who has been used to the band- sional customer and the customer is not likely

came out here they expected to remain as permission to hire and take to sea any men weaving machine; and the make of factories to blab about his doings in the direction of

ordinary residents, but the naval and mili- regardless of skill or lack of skill. This and arsenals threatens to soil the blue of oar outwitting the law. And so the game pro-

tary were different, and he thought it was a tkies and make hideous the exterior form of ceeds and will continue., In Manila a raid

good thing that they should have their res- wages for the efficient, and that the efficient nature as it has done in the West. The foreign trade of Shanghai is already greater than that

was made the other day on certain saloons

pective plots down there. So far as the navy men do the work of the inefficicut, Since - of Boston, while the greatest sea-port in the where it was known that the law was being

was concerned, he knew they periodically had all seamen suffer from the same laws, and world, measured by the tonnage of its vessels, defied and five or six licenceholders were

their monuments inspected and repaired out want of proper laws, we believe that there is the island of Hongkong, a stone's throw hauled before the Court to answer for their

of grants, and he thought the military did the should be a meeting of the representatives misdeeds. According to the Cablents the

same. At this stage Colonel Bedford inter- of the seamen of all nations, with the object judge found the accused parties guilty and

jected "yes," and Mr. Hooper proceeded to of coming to an agreement upon a legislativo in sentencing them to pay a fine of Stoo he

say he thought it was a good thing to keep the programme to be submitted to all govern said "Manila is the most orderly city for its

naval and military together, and if they were ments and to all national legislative bodies. size under the American flag and this court a head, before the war could have been pur-bound to have a section for the civil service We believe that by such unanimous demand is determined to keep it so and enforce the chased for from six to ten pesos. Through then they could have one. But he saw no we shall be able to repeal the antiquated, liquor, act, as it stands, if I have to send years of neglect, the wasteful slaughter of reason why civil servants should be different unjust and injurious laws and obtain for our- every saloookeeper to Billbid for six arules and the ravages of disease, those to other residents, because they expected to selves the right of combination and self help months." Judge Low added that six months droves have been for the most part exter be here as long as the ordinary, resident, where such combination can be exercised in jail plus a fine of Paoo, would be the sen minated. If the country once produced The Registrar General, with grims humour, without endangering either life or property. tence meted out to those brought before flourishing herds, there seems to be no rea- ejaculated the single word "Longer," and sad that in the interest of safety of life. st him on a second charge of this nature. son why it should not do so again. The nobody appears even to, have smiled. All sea we shall be able to obtain laws providing There is a fine ring of patriotic pride in that abnormal conditions of war, the importation we can say is that if the civil servants are for a specific number of skilled men to be on statement that Manila is the most orderly city of cattle from Asia and other causes may anxious to have a special section of their board of the vessel before she is permitted etc, and we will not quarrel with the view, have introduced some diseases not known in own 'in the cemetery then by all means leto proceed to sex." It is proposed to hold The article in our Southern contemporary which is quite possibly correct. The exfoon the islands before, as some assert, but it is them have it. In fact we might even go far- the congress in Copenhagen-which seems which we reproduce concluder: "The gains keepers who had been mulcted decided to very probable that many of the preacht ther and suggest that everybody who wants a a somewhat out-of-the-way place for such a and losses of civilization as we understand appeal and probably the appeal is now enemies to cattle existed in the former days site awayfrom everybody else might bes.com gathering, most of the members of which are it are fairly balanced, and if the Chinese pending. We have nothing to do with that; and tried the patience of the stock-raiser. modated as far as possible by the Sanitary sure to be poor men, but of course the have seemed to us slow in accepting our what we are interested in is the interprets. Yet in spite of that the country is said to Board and so end the matter. Mr. Hewett Union should know best. The movement offerings as uomixed blessings, we cannot tion of the adjunct licence law as stated by have produced practically all the cattle proposed that the whole question should be is significant of the social revolution which respect them any the less for that. We the prosecuting attomey of Manila. It is laughtered for the resident population. re-considered, but we fancy that was only is taking place among all classes of people speak of them sometimes as ultra-Conserva- declared to be entirely in the interests of How shall this condition be brought about his sarcasm. As the President of the Board and should certainly attain its object of tive. Conservatism is more natural, more what is described as "a quiet Sabbath" that again ?. This is a question second to none explained aft that it is intended to do at securing improvements in the lot of the able in accordance with buman nature, than is the law has been promulgated, but it has its in the agricultural quiz book unless it be present is to appoint "a committee consist bodied sexman, Already something has Yadicalism, if we have correctly read be- application to Hongkong. A bona fide how to make the islands produce enough ing of Colonel Bedford, Mr. Hooper and been done la England by the Board of Trade, tween the lines of history, or there would hotel or restaurant, we are told, is one which rice for home consumption, As we have himself and he asked that power be given who refuse to sign on Chinese who cannot have been greater political fickleness than has as its principal and primary business the road before, the question of rice production them to grant excess area after dus consider prove that they belong to British stock or we have known, speedier-changes-of-cond furnishing of either meals or meals and lodge is being looked after but apparently such isation in cases where monuments made at cannot understand the English language. tions that have bred open discontent, more, ing to boas-fide guests for a price sufficient to not the case with regard to the rearing of home might possibly exceed the size allowed But much more remains to be done if youths. disastrous administrative experiments. In ordinarily give a reasonable profit. A bona cattle and our contemporary quotes from by a few fuches. He thought that the com- of a better class are to be attracted to the some things, as the foregoing extract shows, fide guest of a hotel or restaurant, within the the annual report of the collector of cus-mittee could go into the question of sites for sea, and the International Union hare plenty China has not been unwisely deliberate, meaning of the statute, is one who resorts to toms, to the following effect: "Figures the various sections and any, other matters of work before them if they are to achieve In other things, which we would fain see such hotel or restaurant primarily for food, covering the importation of live cattle which the Board as a whole could not deal event a molety of the results desired. altered, China has no monopoly. The per or food and lodging. The statute does not for the past ten years indicate con- with." That was agreed to, but we should fect Government, securing the greatest hap permit a restaurant" keeper to furnish board- | piness of the greatest number, is as yeters with liquor except with bona Ade meals. undescribed in all the Year Books we know And now we come to the point of what on the moral order of Chinese civilization; attorney describes it in the following terms: of. It would be difficult for us to improve meal should be. The prosecuting on the filial piety of the nation of the A moal to be bona-fide must be a substan people's family and clan affection and loyal tlal meal of food, in character and quantity 17. As so un-Christian nation, the Chinese such as is ordinarily set before a quest in

the study of the civilization of the West.

from Canton.

There is a public opinion in Chios now that takes itself beard and obeyed: No longer is it possible to hold to the conception that China stands for a few men in power and that their will is the law of the land. As Mr. Elibu Root has recently expressed it, "The people now, not Governments, make friendship or dislike, sympathy or discord, peace or war between cations." The people of Chios are gradually coming to their own and with the elaborate preparations now being made for a constitu flobal government. It is only a question of a faw years when a Chinese parliament becomes an established fact, and another member of the human family added to the ranks of liberal

gerarament.

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nor is it to the interest of those engaged in the trade to allow their good name to be amingbed in the matter. For it is not only the cattle required for the abattoirs that are concerned but the Islands as a whole require to be restocked, and where should the supplies come from if not the China count via Hong kong ? In an editorial which appears in one of our contemporaries in the southern dependency of America we find this matter dealt with, not as regards Hongkong in particular but from the general standpolat of uplifting the agricultural wants of the archipelago. We find that those who were in the Philippines before the days of the revolt of the Filipinos against Spain assert that the islands once possessed large herds of castle in many of the provinces. It is said that cattle that now sell for fifty or sixty pesos

tiqued annual increase from the total of 193 like to know whether it was in Roy head received during 1899 to 43,157, valued spirit of facetiousness that the President at $1,055,936, imported during YooB. This in an earlier part of the proceedings sald ut lecludes occasional small consignments cemetery and so decide where the separate number embraces principally beef cattle, that the Board a whole should visit the of brooding and draft animals. Chinese sections should be located? We do not sock cattle continued to load in this trade, alto deny that there are many people in the though the 17,895 head received from that community who are really sensitive over this

means that the most inefficient men set the

"OUR SHIPPING!

(ock December)

pig world Hy was take it, of Imtarin Hongkong, anything that concerns the al In port of the sire and Importance

community at large. It fa thar feeling of remorse that we propoes to indict on suffering reader some facts relation to