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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 22 roro

obtained through the agency of any old crons. who has long pasted the stage of disillusion ment, and the baly question between the parties is the price to be paid for the yellow slave. We are in sublime ignorance as to the A. S. WATSON & CO., market value of the goods in question or ar

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THE next census of Netherlands India is fixed for the year 1915, and it will be taken overy ten years, instead of once in five years as here. horses, cattle, carriages and' ships and other tofore. The enumeration, will also include craft,

THE Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, at Batavia, has just buil! quarters for the accom- says that the building is handsome in style and modation of its staff there. The Jaus Bods

appearance, besides being solid and strong. That journal is of opinion that the house is a ornament to the neighbourhood..

arlas on the borders of Tonkin should always | H. E. GENERAL Sir John Franch, a C.M.G be trotted out, caressed and dusted forfataranse, fuspector General of the Forces, and Brigadier it is impossible to understand. Har it never

General D. Henderson, D.B.O., were passengers Aftention is once more being directed to the occurred to these explore and theorists that to Singapore by the u.1. Desenho to-day, 7 vations schemes which have been propounded. China has enough to do to look after the affairs A RETURN Just issued shows that the total by British and French engineers to link up of the central provinces without bothering her number of electers on the register of the we might say in England, the saucy baggage- | the Western provinces of China with the in self about the Yanoan frontier? And the very United Kingdom for 19ta is 7,705,717, anʻlg but apparently it ranges from $107 upwardsdian and Indo-China rallway systems. As may fact that the country is mountainous another crease of 90,279 on the number in the presede Naturally the purchaser expects to get value well be Imagined, the object in each case is to argument against the adreisn critica, for is for his money and it is to be feared that in attract. Chinese trade from the Yangtse to. means that, in times of trouble the lise could FOUR New York brokers. led by Mr. Pasted, many instances the slavery, to which the Barmah and Tonkin and to develop the agri- | be rendered impossible at a day's notice. «ỌB and reported to bave made £1,500,000" In a .girl is subjected is very real But it acea colțural and industrial interests of Younas and the British side, Mr. Noel Williamson, a poli. gamble in cotton which has doubled the prices sionally happens that the go-between and Szechuan. The attitude of the Thibetans la tical officer in the service of the Indian Governo months and is closing many of the the price packet have a standing arrange- keeping their territory in violate is, of course, one ment, stationed in Upper Assam, has also been

world's.mills. ment, to the effect that the latter shall pass of the obstacles which have to be surmounted on an exploring expedition and if he had his ever to the buyer until the money has been by those who dream of an overland, route, way Thibet would be opened up to commerce safely deposited and then she shall slip away and white the mountainous nature of the coun- to-morrow and 'there would be railway com MANUFACTURERS.. and rejoin her confederate. It will be seen try offers many difficulties bas matter munication between India and Chios before that a few transactions of this sort may which can easily ba got over. In the case of the week was out. According to a London prove very profitable to the pair of females, the French Yunnan railway, segarding which paper, Mr. Williamson bas declared that so far sad it can be anderstood that there are tittle or nothing has been heard for a very long as engineering obstacles are 'concerned, the faw men who are likely to bewail their time, the most diverse opinion prevails as to running of a railway up the Lobit valley to loss from the housetops. Their duty is sim- the apvisability of extending the line to the wards Szechuan would be a distinctly feasible ply to make the best of a bad job and pro-Yangise valley. "After the extraordinary efforts project. As far as Rima on the Thibe an side ceed to look out for another and more amen of the French authorities, to connect Tonkin of the frontier, there would be so very serious CHAM-able "suivant." It is not suggested that the with Yunnan, their indomitable courage in the difficulty in building the line: Beyond that victims of this traffic are condemued to everlast face of heartbreaking trials, their stern and the country is difficult. To reach Siechudb ing misery in the new households to which steadfast determination to push the wallway various high passes would have to be crossed, they have been transferred, indeed; the con- through at all bazards, it would be ridiculous as well as the Salwees, Kekong, and Yangtse trary is generally the case so fr as we can to suppose that they would balt is their rivers. This is undoubtedly a formidable make out, for the simple reason that the head work before they had laid the foundations array, but obstacles in the way of railway of the household is not foolish enough to of the success they deserve. And to those who commudication between India and Chica antigonise bis "goods and chattels" or to look on from alar, the dog reward of their are great by any route. The altitudes. locar her animosity by forcibly restraining labours will only be obtained when Yunnan is of the do pot represent their her from indulgence in her favourite plea-brought into direct intercourse with Tonkin heights above the surrounding country, sures. She may have to kepp a sharp eye on. It may be necessary to educate the people to nor are the rivers the giant waterways into bør master's interests, but as most Chinese abandon their old caravan routes but a nation which they develop further south. Whatever women are natural-born housekeepers, and ar, es diplomatic as the French should not ex-the cost of the undertaking, Mr. Williamson believes that compensation would be found, in the facilities afforded for quick communication between India and Western China. Luch facilities should lead to an enormous expansion of trade between the two countries. At present, exports from India to Szechuan have to be car ried by sea to the mouth of the Yangtze and TELEGRAMS received by the Japanne Prais there commence another long and dificult voy-state that Duke Tani Tse, President of

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in such cases, the women or girl has usually exchanged a hand to mouth existence for comparatively comfortable home, she does not complain of ber servitude but makes the best of her circumstances. Moreover, both parties sre well aware that if there is any cause for quar relling or bad temper, the woman has it in her power to take French leave of her protector. It is for that reason,doubtless, that we seldom bearof

perience much difficulty in leading the natives to a proper realisation of the benefts which will accrue from viltising, the service in course of preparation. We do not consider it essential to regard the question of French railway develop ment from the Chinese official point of view. If it be argued that the line may have the effect of undermining Chinese authority in the Western provinces the French

versive of good wvernment in French terri- may occur on the frontics will be equally sub.

tory, But, although the majority of those con. aected with the Yannan railway are enthusiastic

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MEESRS Bradley & Co. favour hs with a catan dar from the Dearbor Drug and Chemical Works of New York and Chicago,

able in Hongkong bank notes of silver dollará SCHOOL fass In Government Schools are pay. only, and are not payable in subsidiary coinage.

A-REWIRED list of all authorised architect

under section 7 of The Public Health and Build.

1903), is published in the Gorette, ings Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. I of

THE warships in the harbour to-day were de coated to honour of the ninth saniversary of the accession of His Majesty King Edward" Vii. A royal saints was fired at noon,

JAPAN is reported to have protested against" the establishment by Chins of Unstoms Sta

that thele establishment is, to some extent, in tousat Hungchun and Chisntao, on the ground.

contravention of treaty.

THE election by the Justices of three Justices of the Peace to serve on the Licensing Board Court Building, on Wednesday, the 26th inst., will take place in the Land Office, Bopreme: from ram. to 1 p., fastead of at the Magis, tracy from 4 p.m. to 6 pm. Ha a hepa MESSES Hughes and Houghput up eight=" The following candidates figure in the result pories for sale by public auction, this morning. bridge: Class 3, G. L. Loo, Gooville and Caius. Eatou bought a choitout for $ço. For the of the Previous Examination, Part 1, Camat the Race Course A bay polo pooy wa Class 3, P. K. Liang, Goaville and Caius, and

bought by Capt. Heathcote for $too and Major

G. Matsumoto, Jesus. Mechanics: Class 1, K.

other six animals there were no bidder. H. Wang, Christ's. Part 2, Class 3, S B. Yin, Catb.; 4. G: uisuzawa. Amongst those who bare passed in French is the Chinese student P. K.. Liang.

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THE T. K. K. steamer Chiyomaru, which ar- rived at, Nagasaki on the zoth instant from Hongkong, made a trial trip the following day official examination in connection with the outside, Nagasaki harbour, preparatory to an rant of a subsidy in accordance with the new law. The result of the trip is stated to have been. very satisfactory. The steamer, with a draught of over 24 feet, developed a speed of

zo knots.

IT is officially notified 1 at, on and after the 24th instant, no carcase of any animal whsi;. sover shall be buried on Orowa land in the City of Victoria or in the vicinity thereof Cas cases will be received at the Kennedy Towa crematorium for cremation on payment of the

following fees:-Homes, cows or bullocks, wat exceeding $2.00 per carcase; all small animals,

* picul or under, za cents per carcase, ..

GENERAL MACHADO IN HONGKONG.

A. QUIET DAY IN THE CITY.

8, E. General Sir Joachim Machado, K.C.

age up the river. If Szechuan ware placed" in the Ministry of Finance, has waived his ob- || M.Q., the returning Delimitation Commissioner,

mixed with aerated or plain water what is known as incompatibility of temperambaghave the retort that any disturbances which direct railway communication with Indiajection to the Chinchow-Taksibar railway loan, spaat à quiet day in the city yesterday while

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Hason. Of course, the custom is very wrong and the Chinese, who have contracted this form of

possibly it may be deered degrading and immoral, but the Chinese-and it is useless to

development of the an immense, impetus would be given to the Datural TOLOUICOS of the province, one of the richest in China. Mr. Williamson also has a plan for stimulating

signed within a short time. The amount of and that the agreement will accordingly be

he loan will be Y50,000,000 with a view to extending the line to Aizun. Japan is to be entitled to supply the materials: The authoris

ties in Tokio intimate that Russia wi'l pot con- sent to the extension to Aigua.

rope to-day. As stated to our last issue, Gene awaiting the English mail's departure for Bu

Tal Machado and bis secretary, Capt. J. M. R. Norton, arrived early in the morning yesterday from Shanghai and Peking. They disembark

ed late at noon and proceeded to the residenca ́of Mr. J. J. Leiria, Consul for Portugal, where they were entertained to an informat luncheon and where the General met his son, Liant, of Macao, and who is on, a brief vidit to Hong Alvaro Machado, A. D. O. to the Governor kong to bid "good-bye" to General Machado Capt. J. M. R. Norton and Sexker J, D. Moraes, Consul for Portugalin Canton, were also present

at tiffio. The Commander of H. M. F. S

Vasco da Gama was unable to be present on account of indisposition.

After luncheon a abort visit was made to

deny the fact that many Europeans come in their predictions as to the importance of the trade in Thibet by the construction of mule under the same category-see nothing objection as a commercial asset, there are not want-tracks as a beginning. He found no serious tionsble in the practice. They cheerfully paying crities who cannot find a good word to say

natural difficulttes in the way of his progress their money and take their choice, and it is

Iwo Chinese appeared before Mr. E. R. Bellj. in favour of the undertaking. If those who up the Lobit Valley, and believes it would be

fax, First Folico Magistrate, in the Police Court only when they are doped by an adventures, sought to belittle the French enterprian belonged an easy matter, as a beginning, to condect this morning for having wix taels of prepared who is under the sway of some old bag, that to a rival vation we should be inclined to take India with the borders of South-eastern Thiber opiam in their possession on board the they discover the demerits of the system. The their carping.comments with suspicion, hahay a good mule track. The distance from the Loongang. One of the men was discharged Chinese shopkeeper who brought a charge of emanate from those who might be expected to "plads of Assam to the border of Thibet is less while the other was fined $198." It was only obtaining money by false pretences against the appreciate and applaud the marvellous pek bap fifty miles in a straight line and little esitay What a man was convicted before intermediary who had arranged to get him tae | tinacity which kept the engineers at work in.

more than a hundred miles by the river valley.opium in his possession on board the same Mr. J. R. Wood for havidg 18 tuals of prepared [38 Light of Asia for a companion and comforter the valley of death when practically every man

The route traverses a country occupied by a ship and it appears that the captain communithe Portuguese Consulate, whenco His Ex- must have been badly smitten by the chaims a physical wreck and only the honour quiet, peaceable people, who look to the located with the Police to come and search for cellency proceeded to Government House of his quess, otherwise he would hardly of the country sustained the guiding spirits and the read could be constructed not dian Government as the paramount power, have mastered up courage to

more opium,

and called on the Governor, Sir Frederick appear in The latest critic is Commandant Gilope, a We do not 'up- Franch officer, who has been exploring Yunnanoply at comparatively little cost but without Messrs. Harland and Wolff and. Messrs. Caird Viceregal residence during General Ma«.......

THE F. and O. Company have contracted with gram to Shanghai, the bospitality of the Court as a complainant."

Lugard, who had kindly extended, by tole.

along the route is infinitesimal. It may two now mail steamers of the well-known invitation was reluctantly declined, Later in risk of tribal porest. At present "rade and Co. for the construction by these firms of chado's short stay in Hongkong. The kind "M" type of nearly 13,000 tons register and the afternoon General Machado was met at proved communications would lead to

Ind, Chice, and Australino service: Thess speedy development, South-eastern Thibit (or

Leiria.

development of its resources. A great quantity dustries because there is no incentive the

Addre Ordinary kuinum communication, srould be side, men i

to The Manager.

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All communications Intended for publication in The HONGKONG TELEGRAPII" should be addressed to The Blitar, i, Ice House Road, and should be sooompitied by the Writer's Name and pote for a moment that he was after the and the neighbouring country. In his opinion Sr4 which he bad paid for his purchase, it is sheer folly to believe that the railway will He was after the girl, and doubtless in- | benefit by being extended to the Yunnan valler, reasonably be hoped, bowever, that im corresponding power to be'employed in their Government Hoais by Capt: Norton and Mr. The Palitor will not undertake to be responsible fir voked the majesty of the law, in order toHe bares the warning on his intimate know- regain possession of bis property. In the result, ledge of the land and people,. He admits that however, be has not e ily lost hie $140 and the the populous and productive province of YUD. Kong, as the country is called) has ne in- f which the working of this fine class of ships ceeded to the Portuguesa Consolar residence girl, but it is not at all unlikely that he has Das will be developed by the railway, and that mad: himself the butt of all the wits and the country at present will be a profitable field

sny Miscfad MS..., nor to return any Contribution.

BUBBCHUPTION RATER (IN ADVANCE), DAILY-236 por 'andori, WARKLY-$10 per annum.

Subscription for any period less than one month will be charged as for fall month,

a

of wool is wasted annually because there i no

vessels will be fitted with all the Improvements

total tonnage under this designation. to ten has shown to be advisable, and will raise the ships, aggregating upwards of, 100,000 tons at a cost of party £3,500,000,

After the visit to the Governor the party provvi where they were the guests of Mms.. Leirin í at tea. The distinguished visitor re-embalkedok on board the Devanka: at, six o'clock in the evening, being unable to accept, an invitation

The rates por quarter and per mensem, proportionni scoffers in Chinatown. The woman against for French trading enterprise, but in his opin: márkot, for its sale. This: ís trae not ony as whom the charge was brought was sentenced ion, it will be far otherwise were the line ex- The dally issue is delivered tree when the address is to three months' imprisonment, according to tended to the province of Szachaen. It seems, garde wool of ordinary quality, but as sejaids WELLESLEY Welman, described as a retired from Mons. G. Liebert, the French Consul, to shair coplo castrerad i take there can have the report, while the girl was sent to the Po however, that the Chinese are eager for the ex- the Coatly variety called bathm, from ich captain of the King's Own Shropshire Light dinner, as the General is suffering from slight their coples delivered at their residences without Loang Kuk. What we should like to know tension, and seek to intérest Europeau cepitet. shawls are made. If communications were Infantry, was charged on 'remand, at South-indisposition. any art charge. Os copica sant by post an

Western Police Court Inst additional $1.80 per quaster is charged for postage. this: Was the woman seat to prison for ints in the ides notwithstanding that those of improved along this natural outlet for bigamously marrying Esther Hickman in dar. The Commissioner maumed, his homa. month with General Machado did not come subore to The portage on the woskly laus to any part of the baving defrauded the prosecutor ? If so, France are advised to turn a deaf ear to any

the trade of South-eastern Thibet, facililia for 1904. It was stated that Mrs. Welman and ward voyage at noon and will make a say in world is 30 cents per quartar. Singis Coples, Daily, ren cents. Weekly, twenty- unjust. She fallled her part of the bar-if the extension,is once carried out, Tonkin will

we maintain that the conviction was most such proposal. The economic objection is that export would be brought within the read of the second wife were introduced by a Portuguese India of about a fortnight on bis five conta (for cash only)..

all; Mutual intercourse is impossible at the stranger. The second "wife," giving evi- way to Lisbon. gain in every respect. She sold and delivered lose most of the Yannan trade, which will flow

present moment, because Thibet is a farbidendence, said that she had a wretched life with Welman, who bad threatened to murder, ber the goods, so to speak, and if through the to the Yangtse Va ̈ey instead, as Chinese land; but a good bridla path leading dwa

three years after the wedding, and when under carelessness of the prosecutor the girl dis-dationalism will give home markets the prefer proximity to the terminus of the Dibru-Satya

from the frontier of Sadiya, a place ja se the influence of drink he told her that she was appeared the could scarcely be held responsible ence' over foreign onts, That is, of course, except by a very fue interpretation of the law. the old story which has been told and re- railway, would attract Thibetans to Ind in

The

Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910,

"FLYING THE WHITE PIGEON.

not bis wife. He finally left her in August last. The accused, who reserved bis defence, was

What we had expected to find was that the peated ad namasam, but it is mere speculation Assam; It is evident from both Frenched committed for trial.

British sources of information that.sha timjis

A BOXING STORY.

THE IRISH REFERBE WAS, AFTER THE ... Dios......

In view of the general interest is boxing at run present, Hongkong sports should enjoy the ara following yaras

A glove-fight took place in the East End of 19 London between a degro and an Irishman,

fast approaching when the railways of heBANK, so well-known for its tin, also grows

when the Chinese honeycomb' system comes of the spice last year was estimated at about United States will have to take a back at Pepper, the cultivation of which steadily in- creases in the hands of Chiness. The export

The referee was also of Irish birth, and when 40,000 picats. Tin remains the chief product in his first round the negro reached the Irish of the islands, the mines yielding the govern- | fighter's jaw and the lastor's baad thumped the ment yearly a uct profit of from 10 to 12 millions boards with a crash that seemed to preciade of gallders. The 25,000 Chinese who delva in faither content, the following monologus took the mines are well cared for and looked after. I place :

into existence:

·LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE German cruiser Arcons arrived infort yesterday afternoon from Taingtan,

Tuz trial of the Korean who assassinad Prince Ito will be held in February:

law of Hongkong was sufficiently elastic to at the best and the argument that the natives deal with what may be designated the yellow

are bound eventually to realise the valse akthas sinya traffic. If the woman had been con. Very few will have much sympathy with the demsed for her share in an illegal transaction Then we come to another threadbare sugges line in quite as sound as the opposite contention Ohlüsse shopkeeper who was swindled out of then there would have been cothing more to say too, that viewed from a military standpoint, the $140 the other day by a woman who played the about it. But we should have liked to bear the extension lies under the 'disadvantage of ancient trick which is known in Hongkong evidence on which Mr. Hallifax found the woman epabling China, at any time, to ass in army "dying the white pigeon." In fact, the proba-guilty of receiving money by false pretences. on the Tonkin frontier, an undertaking bhein bility is that the majority of people, reprobates And, aguio, if the transaction was illegal how unable to carry out at present owing to lack of and righteous alike, will smile at the incident could this pona'ty bave been imposed on the and declare that it served him right, Batcharge submitted? It seems to us that charge menos an enormous feciones of the military means of communications, Such change before wa go further, it is possible there are might lie against the woman for her share in outlay in Topkin to meet the altered conditions. some who have no idea what the flight of the conducting a pseudo-matrimonjal bureau, Politically," says the Commandant, "the white pigeon means. The explanation is very otherwise described as a slave agency, but if Powers, who are scheming for financial con almpin, as wall it might be, since it has come she was guilty where did the man come in or|trol over certain Chinese public works, favour down through the centuries from the time of rather how did he escape? The law may be the extension ides, They do not bear in Nosh. A man, who, wa will say, is fairly slack, but in our oploten the man was as bad mind, however, that the mousteinous nature of wall of so far as this world's gear is con- as the woman. However, the conviction will the country and the lack of much local traffic the forthcoming races, was issued by it, F, The programme, with complete entriesfor cammed, decides that single blessedness is a bring comfort to "many beáris, for wn take it means heavy expense in constructing the ex Hough, Clerk of the Conene, this morning frand and certainly not what it is claimed that the Chinese veroacular press will give fall | tonsión, ' It would never do for Finace to jalau to be by the follower of Schopenhmar and publicity to the case, and we can see Chinese them as any such, course means the Tonkin On the Chargeurs Rennis steamer Aral be decides to acquire a helpmate, who shall shopkeepers gator solemnly reciting to their will lose the chances of profit from the railway. Mogon, on route to Saigon, are two officeras be his wife in everything but name, and whose favourite damsels the pries and penalties The only course for France is to farther then-commissioned officers and 190 solistor servizos skali enable him to dispense with the to which they will be subjected should they interests of Indo-China only, and to hare ne- Indo-Chine,wind retians of servants who prey upon, his good take it into their hands to run away, while the thing at all to do with the proposed extension.” nature. Such a companion who combines in punishment meted

meted out to false-hearted woman. Another French explorer in the same region part in existence, weighing

Tax Queen of Paris, said herself all the functions of paramour, house- who lead the young and Innocent astray will be Robert de la Caix, has arrived at similar concio-measuring three-quarte hold drudge, and zvestal factotum may be depicted in the most larid terms,

sines. Why this hogay about China mining bar- ja Bembry

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Ir la proposed to engaga Taoiai Jeme Tiedow As Engineer for the Yust Hap Railway,

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of 45 guilders a pical in 1978. The market compatriot: "Come on, man, get up out o The Government worked the mines at a cost "Obel" (In an undertone to his gasping value is well over zoj guildars á pícul. The thati Aro yez goin' to let this black son of guilders in 1908. To reduce working expenses, coss of recruiting the coolies came to 1,300,000 Ham say be knocked yez out?")

mechanical mining has bean resorted to.

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**Two 1* (Wurrah, runn, can't yez raise your self and listen to what I'm tellin' you. Come.. OD, get up!") "E

Now that Le five o'claque" at any time from Three!" ("For the sake of your fathang- threa to seven has become a Parision habit, the ❘ that bled on many a field get up and wipe the rale of tea in Paris has gorn up by leaps and floor with this black smoke that's' grinning at 17 genious advertisement of the fact that it sells Four" ("Au sure, are yes gole' to lie there bounds. A tenshop has hit upon a most in... you!”)

Teal China tea. In the centre of the shop is a | slapla) while this limb of the divil takes all the life-site figure of a Chinamar. An electric wire moneyGet up, I say, alore 1 pull-you up 1 connects it with the door. As soon as the door. This sort of antrealy continged until, as the acc

paned the Cbizaman raises a hand for disgusted referee lingered on the final punt, of the meal China ton on sale. The thing is, fast, wang wildly at the unguarded silence, noda his head, and extols the excellanco | the badly-dized Irish pagiiläl stagi

of course, only an Ingenious adaptation of this gramophone, but the novelty of the motion bus caught on, and the shop down a laryn tende. People go there to hear the talking

and cannot very well go without bayloTM:

to his