The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEWSERIES No. 8125
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and. Desthu.
Leading Articles:—
The Fature of Sint. Parsimonious Passengers and Ship's Doctors, -Plan for Western University at Hankow, Talograms:
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Chinese Bonde Légation Guards. Chinese Legations, Sir Robert Hart, Naval for China.
Meetings:-
National Bink of China-Ltd. China and Manila Steamship Co. Ltd. The Hongkong Ica Company, Limited. Buffs Race Meeting.
Legal Intelliganoa-
Rent Disputs at the Summary Court.
le Bankruptcy Jurisdiction,
Claim for Particulurs. Police:-
A Fortune-Teller's Downfall, Burglary in S. J. David,&, Co.
Sun A Wao's Extradition.
The Allana Cate.
Allana's Alleged Assailaót,
A European's Extradition.
· Oòrrëspondance: —
The Mercantile Marine."
Misosilaneous Articles and Reports:
Notes by the Way.
Rubber Estate Returos. Hongkong-Built Steamer.
Hongkong Hockey Challenge Cop, Canton Day by Day.
The Accident to Cyclept.
Obstructing the Fairway,
Sports,
Rubber.
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Fira on ts Lightning. Butter-Wright Case. Lecture on Forestry.. The Opium Fem. Malaria in the Garrison. Market for Abardeen.. Conservancy Contractor, Fruit Licences
Industries of Hongkong:
Xi-la Aberdeen,
· XII-Hnagkong and China Gas Co.,
Tytam Water.
The Kidnapping Curse
Hongkong Regalia.
The Far East and the near Parliament. Forestry in China,
Rowling Notes.
The Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. Hoogkong Fire Insprance Co., Ltd.- The China Fira Insurance Co., Ltd. Rival Trading Methods. Dr. Wu and Edison.
The Sugar Industry in Formosa.
Opium Smuggling.
Victoria Regreation Club.
China and Thibet.
Sir M. Nathan's Record.
Hongkong Volunteer Corpa.
The Canton Mutiny.
Gun Trials in Chion.
The Dalai Lamɔ,
Surgical Instruction.by Cinematograph.
The Fall in Silver-
China and Tibet.
Commercial:---
Yarn Market,
Freight Market.
Bollion.
Exchanger
Local and General.
BIRTHS.
On February 19, 1910. Shanghai, the wife of H. E. Campbell, of a daughter.
On February 19, 1910, at Shanghai, to the
wife of Ji Delbourgo, a daughter.
On the 26th February, at No. 4, Humphrey's Avenue, Kowloon, the wife of Mr. T. HUNTER, of a daughter,
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SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1910.
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gle file, for the very good reason that there not permit him to establish a practice on ibipped aboard the tender. On opening it university within the next five years, will cost, was seldom room for two, to pass abreast shore compatible with his capacity, and he the letter was found, besides thanks, to con- it is calculated, soooo, and to endow it at
The Canton Waterworks Company has ad- But the habit led to ludicrous results at the has adopted this method of acquiring faina ten-shilling plece and two orders of all adequately some £200,000 more. It is vertised offering an additional share issue of race meetings and, possibly, it still exercises moderate capital.. In both instances, how admission to the Strangers' Gallery of the orgeally necessary to raise a considerable 38,000 shares; imbscription lists will be,spannd the wit and ingenuity of owners to eradicate ever, the ship's doctor frequently finds that House of Commons. When it is remem- proportion of this sum in the near future, as for application from the first day of the second the original trait. That is by the way, as he has condemned himself to a life on the bered that the usual tips to one's cabin the men must be sent out, and the land, at mono we have said, but it affords some indication briny, which may sound romantic to the steward on this trip is a sovereign, and ten any rate, bought. This will cost $10,000
-AN-ABORTIVE RIOT.L of what the interior was like before the pre- uninitiated but is occasionally the very shillings to the bath steward, the cold, cal-The secretary for the fund, who will supply
26th February.- sent King and bis Ministers determined to reverse to the principal party interest culating economy of the doctor's reward any further information, is Mr. Leslie John- Ideal effectively with the question of road ed. No one would go so far as to becomes an unstudied insult, while ston, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Tung 7di, in tow of the steam launch\FF00 ·
On the 25th instant a passenger (unk named communications. As a matter of fact visitors say "once a ship's doctor always one," the notion of using his Parliamentary and his address, care of the Royal Asiatic SAL, arrived at Canzon from Shin Hing. Among to the north generally travelled by boat, but the adage is not altogether without force. privileges in lieu of hard cash con Society, 2a, Albemarle-st, W.
the passengers on board was. A., man who when the depth of the Menam river per. The medical man has at the outset of his stitutes a master-stroke of mezaness."
was short by three cents of his passage money. On account of the shortago a dispute ‘*arowe mitted it and many quaint tales are extent career voluntarily exiled blaiself from the When a journal of the standing and reputa of the vicissitudes to which officials, both great centres of medical activity; be hastion of that from which we have quoted the
and the man was eventually pushed overboard, so it in alleged, by the junk master, when the native and foreign, merchants and others denied himself the advantages of direct above anecdote deems it worth editorial
junk was passing near a place known as Lok- were subjected in attempting to ford the cogaitance of medical, progress, and with.reference it is manifest that this illustration
Low, in Shun Tak district. It cannot be learnt.) river during the day season. As it is, most drawn himself from that association with his by no means a solitary example of what
at present whether the man was drowned or not : of the trade of the country is done on the medical confrères which is consistent with the ship's doctors of the great lines bava 40
́an, no tiep was taken at the time by the junk Menam, known as the "Mother of Rivers" interchange of views on medical problems, put up with. There is no reason why the
people to pick the man up. All the other pas and the canals which abound in all direc and if he remains for any length of time on 'hip's doctor who is called in to deal with
Babgers on board the junk, who took pity on the ooforooze man, were greatly annoyed with tions. In a recent report to his Government shipboard he eventually finds himself regard.oxceptional emergencies: which have arisco
ibe conduct of the junk master, On arrival ata Mr. Cari C. Hansen, U. S. Consul-General ed is more or less of a back number. Never catirely outside the abip and which may
Canton the passengers reported the occurrenes": at Bangkok, throws considerable light on theless he is generally a most conscientious not have been contemplated by him whca
to the police who thereupón arrested the junk" the state of the northern provinces of Slam. worker at a salary which would be scorned by he took up as appointment worth a few
maater. The arrest, however, did not sufficientë In one part of the report the writer says: an assistant clerk. We will not go into meagre pounds a month, should not be
ly appravo the people's wrath. "Accordingly, at Chiengmai, the principal city, is located the question of the salaries paid to ships entitled to submit a bill for his pro-
7 pm on the same day, a large number of beside Meping, a branch of the Menam doctors, because that were an unprofitable fessional services, proportionate, of course,
on the band just to front of the Canton Medical people collected at the junk wharf, situated Chow Phya, Kiver, about Goo miles from theme to take up, but there is one aspect of to the presumed position of the passengers Bangkok. Before the extension of the the question which at least merits the cou-treated. No individual of common, decent
College, for the purpose of obtsiting revenge by setting the vessel on fire. On arrival at the wharf Northern Railway the journey from Bangkok sideration of passengers in general, and the feeling would object to compensating hard.
they found that the funk was not there, having to Chiengmai was made by river and took parsimonious voyager in particular. It is worked officer who in such a case might be on-Tain Low warned in 1898 to the been taken charge of by the police and detained at six weeks to three months with low water. brought up by a medical contemporary re-regarded as a personal medical adviser rather,
amount of Li8,000,000 when China bad to
Dutch Folly pending inquiries. As they did" faino luoda co pay Japan for the war la- At present a part of the journey can be presenting the London School of Tropical
not gratify their wish, the people set fire to damcity. Theissue price was £83 at 4.5 Pas the Junk's wharf by igniting some kerasana made by all for one day and the rest by Medicine and the force of the arguments
cent. interest. Brist and German capital oil. The differmat fire brigades proceeded to horse and native carriers in six to ten days, presented, should appeal to a wide body of
was interested and Sir Robert Hart repro-the scene to extinguish the fre but they were depending upon the season of the year. résidents in Hongkong and the Far East
seosad: the Peking Gorerament in carrying The best time of the year for travelling. The question in a nutshell is whether a
cut the psgotiations for this loan-Ed., HKT) overland is the dry season, December ship's medical officer should be empowered to April, inclusive, Bedding, food, and to charge fees from those passengers who are treated.en voyage for diseases which are service must be provided by the tra veller, Canned provisions, rice, and fruit not primarily the result of sea conditions? may be bought at the stations, and rest "It is now quite common for great liners to ing and sleeping places may be found at have pigh to or even over, a thousand souls the numerous Buddhist monasteries, which on board, and 'everyone knows, that such always extend a kindly welcome to the a number will keep a medical man's hands stranger, or, if one wishes, inquire for the pretty full, whether afloat or ashore Added American teachers of religion, as the natives to this there is sure to be among the pas call the missionaries, who are stationed in sengers a number travelling for their health, all the principal cities of Laos, and they will and may include among them cases requiring assist the traveller in every way." After pro- continuous and anxious care from the port ceeding to give a fund of information of the of departure to their destination. Now, the guide-book character Mr. Hansen remarks: mere fact of such cases travelling in either the first-class or second-class accommodation
The striking feature of the East is its
(and March.)
The project for providing China with a. university on Western lines is to be launched publicly at a Mansion House meeting on 16 March, and before this we have already learnt that meetings have been held at Oxford and Cambridge. The scheme (says the Press Association) has already met with strong support. Its trustees include Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Education, Sir Ernest Satow, late British Minister in Pekin, and Lord Salisbury, and it has the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Robert Hart, and many others. It was started by some prominent members of Oxford and Cambridge Univer sities, including the two vice-chancellors and
Tokio, 26th February. The Chinese four and a half per cent. Foreign Loan has risen to £102.85 in London.
LEGATION GUARDS.
· MEETING OF MINISTERS.
[By courtesy of the Sheung Po."]
praveated from so doing by the mob, and the fire was left to burn itself until the wharf wal burat,to the water's edge, -
MILITARY AFPOINTMENTS.
Taotal Chang Wing and Taotzi Lur Chi. have been appointed by the Viceroy sa Director: and Assistant Director, respectively, of the Canton Military Department.
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RE OPENING OF BEALS.
Tha official scale in all' yamers in the city will be re-apaned for the transaction of buaf?: neas on Monday uext, the 18th instant, at the
Peking, 24th February. The Foreign Ministers in Peking conclusion of the Chinese New Year holidays. have decided to hold a conference" to discuss the question of the with- drawal of the Legation Guards and their substitution by Chinese troops. Chun was Viceroy of the Liang un
CHINESE LEGATIONS. -QUESTION OF ALLOWANCE.
[By courtesy of the " Sheung - Pó."}
Peking, 24th February, Finding the allowances granted to Chinese Ministers accredited to for eign, countries insufficient, the Wai wupa has memorialized the Throne for an increased grant.
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SIR ROBERT HART.
CANNOT RETURN TO CHINA.
[By_oaurtery of the " Sheung, Po."]
TRAMWAY FOR THE CITY,
28th February, Some time last year, when H. E. Chang Jen
provinces, the local geotry submitted to him a suggestion to the effect that the Canton city wall should be demolished' and a tramway bo' built in its place for the convenience of the residents, as well as to avoid traffic congestion. H.B..Chang was then greatly in, favour of the suggestion and he 'sccordingly' memoriális- ed the Throne on the subject requesting Imperial sanction to carry the scheme" into effact. On the occurrence of the recent rosa); in Canton, the city gates were closed for several days to prevent the mutineeri rasbing the city and the city wall was therefore considered by conference with his subordinates H. E. Vicaroy
the officials as a strong defensiya moasure. Arī
Yaan strongly objected to the proposed removal of the city wall, so the tramway project has bean dropped.
RIFLES MISSING,
It is learnt that six hundred and twenty-four rifier, aventy-alx ponies, and a quantity of ammunition are missing as a result of the recent, riots and there is no means of tracing the lost). ́arms and stores.
OFFICIAL SKALS,"
24th February. The Inspector General of Customs The official seals in all yamens in the city of cannot return to China at once as heats were re-opened 10-day fox the transac
tlon of public basionsp after the China 'New is said to be suffering from paralysis. Year holidays.
ANOTHER MEETING.
NAVY FOR CHINA.
PRINCE SHUN'S MEMORIAL.
{By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa."]
than the ship's doctor whose services are at. the command of all and sundry. The Jour nal in question concludes by saying that "it in obvious that such persans-and they are not so rare as might be supposed-would be quite capable of deliberately exploiting' the P. and O. Company and its medical officers in order to obtain anti-typhoid inoculation" on the cheap. And it be. hoves his company and others trading to tropical ports to so modify their. rules as to the reception of fees by their medical officers as to protect them. selves and the medical profession generally from instances of barefaced imposition of the sort we have outlined.". For our part we would go farther and say that it is due to the ship's medical officers themselves to combine so that their professional ability may not be exploited by the ruck of riff-raff geatility, which in generally ready to trade religiosity, and this is indicated by the on loog voyages shows that they must be upon the generarity of other people. A charming Buddhist retreats seen on every persons of means, and quite able to pay the medical officer with Edinburgh degrees pro- hand as one travels through the cities and ordinary fees for medical attendance, and it posed some months ago through the jungles of Siam. The numerous ruins of is clear that the fact of their having carried medium of the columps of the Hongkong Buddhist temples teach the Eastern doctrine their ailments on board ship cannot in justice Zelegraph to enter into communication of impermanence, and throughout the jungle quit them of the liability." It will be seen with those of his profession who were willing stand the great smiling Buddhas in mould. that the writer of the article is referring to to consider a proposition that an association ering concrete, stone, and bronze to remind the tourist tribe and not to those who are for the protection of the interests of ship's the people of their great teacher, and od on business bent, which is the usual doctors in the Far East should be formed, every jutting bill or mountain the pagoda condition of those travelling on Coast but he received no replies, so far as we heard. with the bell-crowned top sends forth its link- boats and the like. We read that Is it not about time that the medical officers ling call for the worshipper." Some figures the company provides the ship with a medi. who elect to spend a portion of their life afloat are also interesting for it is stated that the cal officer and a few indispensable drugs, should give a modicum of attention to this export of cattle. by all routes from authern primarily for the officers and crew, and in subject? because it is not to be expect Siam amounted to 10,410 head; valued at the second place for the treatment of medied that anybody else will do it for them. $191,404, gold, or 1,884 head more than in cal and surgical contingencies arising during 1907, but 1,149 head less than the five-year the voyage; but it is no part of its trade to PLAN FOR western univer-
The total number of elephants run a sanatorium, and still less to afford pre
SITY 42 HANKOW, average. exported from northern Siam amounted to ventive medical treatment against the dau 8a-compared-with-35-in-1907-and-65 in...gers of discares to be faced on arrival at the 1966. Imports by routes other than the ship's destination. The same remarks apply Rangoon-Moulwain-Raheng route amounted obviously to medical and surgical procedures to $854,773 gold, in 1908, and $716,6x of a cosmetic character. It would be ob gold, in 1997, as compared with $172,572 viously outrageous for a passenger the day gold, for the five year average. Imports by after sailing to ask the ship's surgeon to Raheng amounted to $75,548 gold, as com- remove his vermiform, appendix, on the 'pared with $76,365 gold, for. 1907 and ground that the patient's ordinary attendant had advised him to submit to such an opera $53,901 gold, for the quinquennial aver age. Cotton manufactures show a con- tion; and it is equally unjustifiable for a siderable increase, being $73,168 over the passenger to demand the continuance of 1907 import, the only falling off being in vaccine treatment for pustular acne of the the item Indian plece goods, which drop-face. High fees are very properly charged ped from $1,195 gold to 5764. The de- ashore for special treatment of the sort; and crease of $64,491 gold in the import of silk it is obviously a gross imposition on the
Peking, 25th February. manufactures cannot be explained. The medical profession for well-to-do people to
Prince Shun Pui-lap, the Naval only considerable difference in the imports try to exploit the gratuitious services of the
Commissioner, has memorialized the for 1907 and 1908 is in silk manufactures sort. The usual rule laid down by the great ought to be done to help China in its pre-country cannot be established on a by the Rangoon-Moulmain-Raheng route ship's surgeon to obtain treatment of the six heads of colleges, who felt that something Throne that, without a Navy, the and jewellery. In the former there is a de passenger companies, that their medical scat educational crisis. After very wide- On February 23, 1910, at Shanghai, Alexander Gray, Examiner, I.M. Customs, aged 40 years.
crease in value of $4.993, gold, which can officers may accept but may not ask for fees, spread inquiry. they concluded that its solid foundation and that every dif- On January 29, 1910, at Pakbci, Isabel Bar-only be accounted for by the fact that it is is clearly inadequate to meet cases of the greatest need was for a university which fiealty should be overcome in an goss Guild, wife of G. A. Forsaith, 1. M. Cus. found cheaper to import silk piece goods Sort, at it entirely fails to protect the should make it unnecessary for the Chinese effort to reorganise the Navy.
direct from Europe via Bangkok in prefer- medical profession against imposition of the to get Western education in other countries On February 28, 1910, at Shanghai, Charles ence to the Burmese and Indian silk goods most barefaced kind. The sort of cases than their own. It should also give instruc Sturmann,
brought overland. There was an increase that arise may be judged by the following tion in those subjects which form the higher of P6,105 gold in jewellery. Precious examples: The voyage to India is obvious-sides of Western education, such as political stones included under this head amounted ly the most convesicat period for anti-economy and philosophy, and should pre-
by this route in 1907, Made-up jewellery in-perfect rest" without clashing with other ese culture, literary, artistic, and ethical.. To creased in value from 5177 gold 10-$3,010,' || cugagements, and the date of termination of make such education really valuable, in- MAIL SUPPLEMENT,
Nothing is said about the export trade in the period of immunity is advanced by a struction must be given in the Chinese lau ISSUED GRATis to subscrIDERS. rice-but, that commodity should form no period equal to the duration of the voyage. guage, and to make it efficient it would be mean factor in the total exports. When the On this account it is becoming increasingly necessary that the students should re- HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 4; 1910,
northern territory of Siam in opened up by. common for passengers to India, to ask the side under discipline in residential colleges. THE FUTURB 08 SIAM,
mesne of railway communication connecting ship's medical officer to undertake this pro. The final form which the scheme has Burma with Singapore there is no telling phylactic treatment. Now this places the taken is, therefore, that a university should (a6th February.).
what the future of Siam may be, but it will medical officer in a most awkward position, be founded, consisting of a central staff Even those people in Hongkong who vastly improve the condition of the country It is needless to say that the vaccine, of professors, with adequate institutions tablet possess a superficial knowledge of the capital and the prosperity of the people.
which costs ros. per patient, is no part libraries, laboratories, lecture-rooms, etc., of Siam can seldom lay claim to any great
of the ship's medical stóres, so if he has and a number of affiliated colleges or halls
Ting Nai Young, theex-Kwangtong Salt Com qualifications to speak of the interior. The
provided himself with it, it must come out where students should reside. The scheme, missioner who was (permitted to resign from fact that until a few years ago the roads were
of his own pocket. By no stretch of ingen unlike the Hongkong University project, f his post, left here on the 24th instant for Hong little better than goat tracks, that travel was
uity can such treatment be considered his intended to supply the central establish.kong en rouls to the Capital' to hers an cumbersome and difficult, that the distances
duty, and yet, if he undertake it, he is prement; the realdential institutions are a mat- between the chief towns were " long 'and In a port of the size and importance of cluded from asking even for bis out of pocket ter of individual initiative on the part of On the 4th day of this moon a gang of seldom compensated the mere visitor for the Hongkong, where the shipping trade is one expenses, and further, gives the patient foreigners and of the Chinese themselves. journey, and that it was only at certain sex of the chief factors on the prosperity of the gratuitously an advantage for which a fee The site chosen for the scheme, si the re- sons of the year that a trip to the north could Colony owing to its intimate association of re gulocas is usually charged ashoresult of a journey undertaken by Lord Wil. be undertaken contributed to a great extent with a variety of undertakings and industries Examples are given of the phenomenal lam and Lady Florence Cecil, at the request to render the territory which is bounded by which are allied to that trade, the average cans of some presumably wealthy of the Oxford and Cambridge Committee, Burma on one side and Indo-Chins on the landsman canhot but have given a montent's travellers who call upon the ship's doctor to Hankow, a centre of the railway and other a comparative terra incognita. Much attention to the position of the ship's doctor give them the benefit of his skill. In one ryer communications of China. The title has been dose of late years to open up the who is usually regarded as the entertainer. CAR, we are told "A nobis, M.P., who of the scheme (which was originally country by the extension of railways and the in-chief by the passengers and a accessary has since held one of the most important known as the Oxford and Cambridge construction of roads, but much more still evil to the crew. Too often the ship's offices under the Crown, was on his way to scheme) has been altered owing to the de- remains to be done. As an indication of medical officer has accepted, the appoint India. At Port Said he sprained bis ankle, sire of members of other universities to the character of the tracks it may be stated, meat in the first festance in order to an accident that might well unser certain take part and a strong committee is to be in parenthesis, that a humorous feature of obtain, a welcome relief after having plans of exploration he proposed to under-formed to support it formed of members of Ko Kun Cheong, the present Total of Con the races held at Bangkok was the habit of passed his examinations with the full take. The P. and O. surgeon spared no other English and Scottish universities: On abulary in Canton, was yesterday is receipt panies of following the leader in single file intention of establishing land practice palos on his distinguished patient, and by the authority of the London news agency we of a telegram from his native bome informing him of the death of his mother, According to despite all the efforts of the riders to induce when the bloom of his ability has been reaktiful treatment and massage: be set bim learn that number of men of the highest Oblaass official custom; Ko Kus Cheung has their mounts to forgo ahead. This was due, of stored by several ses voyages. In other down at Bombay done the worse for his intellectual attainments have already offered to resign his post to go into mourning The course, to the early experience of the animals of cases the doctor on shipboard has sought accident. You will find a letter on your their services as teachers in the univer. Viceroy proposes to appolat Taofal Chang proceeding along the country paths in sin the situation because his restricted menus de table, doctor," said the buddling peer, as he To train these men and establish the ・ Wing to fill the pon thus vacated,
On February 27, 19in, as Hongkong, Mr. B. A. Somekh, to Miss Kittis Judah, at the Registry, and afterwards at the Synagogue
Ohel Leah.
DEATHS.-
On February 17, 1910, at Kobe, Japan, W. F. K. Fearon, aged 57.# James Smithers, inte Chief Engineer Indo- On February 23, 1910, at Shanghai, Thomas China S.N. Co., Ld.; aged 51 years.
toms.
Jonghong Celegraph to 52,871, gold, whereas none were imported uphold inoculation, as the patient can take serve all that is valuable in the native Chin-
The Honghang Helegraph
PARSIMONIOOS PASSENGERS
AND SHIP'S DOCTORS.
(28th February.)
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
MEMORIAL TABLET.
[From Our Own Correspondent,]
Canton, 15th February. The Canton Mint was founded under the Chang Chit Tung, when he was Viceroy in auspices of the late Grand Councillor, H.E.
Canton. In recognition of the late founder's services and is remembrance of him, a tablet will be erected to-morrow, at the office of the Mint, when the Viceroy and other officials will be present to offer their respects, before the
·SALT COMMISSIONER,
audience with the Throne.
"-"VILLAGE' ROBBERY,
5.
robbers entered the Ho Chus village, in the Pan Ya district, and ransacked several houses A large quantity of booty, to the value of several thousand dollars, was carried away by the robbers. A man sumamed Chan, who is a merchant la Hongkong and happened to be home at the time, was also taken away by the rabbers. Tap accomence has since book rá- ported to the Fan Ya magistrato.
H.E, the Viceroy will proceed; personally, on the 1st Match next to the Government Treasury to check the official accounts TAOTAL OF CONSTABULARY.
An official daspatch has been received by the Vicaray from the officials of the Lo Ting pra facture reportleg that, on the rgth day of this moop, the soldiers there, about two hundred in number putinied, but no serious consequences › resulted. The mutineers are now at large, and steps have boso taken for their arrest,
DROWNING FATALITY..
Canton, 2nd March. Kin from Canton collided with a cargo boat at On the gift ultimo a junk pročending to `Sbi Lok Chuk, near Chen Tean, with the result that one passenger was thrown overboird and drowned.
THE RECENT RIOTS.
At the height of the recent riots in Canton: H. E, Viceroy Yuan Shu' Hsun telegraphically requested the Viceroy of the Llang Kiang pro vinces to send the cruiser Hol Bhum to Canton in order to be lo, readiness against way emers gency. Complying with H. E. Yuan's request,: the croiser was despatched to Canton, where she arrived on the 30th February. As the riots: have been entirely suppressed and the services of the craiser ses no longer required, the Foi board, left bere for the North on the 1st fastant. Stum, with Commander Yeung King Ban on
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NAMHOI MAGISTRATE. SE
The newly appointed Nambol magistrate, Yeang Bhi Ri, bas appointed the 7th instant as the day on which he will assume charge of
ofico.
CLAN FIGHT.
A serious clan. Bight is reported from Sul-
chio, near Fatshen, and several persons were killed and many others wounded; On receiving the report, the Viceroy deputed magistrate Chaung Fung Kal to the scaña to restore order. RE-ENLISTMENT,
Soms sixty of the nawly trained troops, who had been disbanded as the result of the recent disturbance in Canton, have now been re-enlim. ed and allowed to resama duty at the request of the members of the charitable institutions,
* CHARITABLE BAZAAR,
A large, matshed has been erected in the Westem, suburb close to Chae Sain stran where a charitable bazaar:will be held for TÍ weak, from the 6th instant, for the purpesa, of raising money towards the funds for the maine); tenance of the well-known Canton Fong Pla Hospital, Many ladies and girls of well-to-do and respectable families have promised to render their services at the forthcoming backars ADDITIONAL Internat a given to the forthcom Ing Billiard Association Amateur, Champ thip by the fact that Mr. Ze H. Hi Hongkong,, is among the participant qualifying competition commenced an st Orma's Soko-square sulgos, Liandout.
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