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`ANOTHER MURDER CASE.

TWO "CHINESE CHARGED AT

BUFARME 'COURT.

43rd inst.

Two Chinese, a man and a woman, woro, charged this morning at the

ASIATIC CONTROL OF PACIFIC PREDIÜTED..

8. P. SCHWEÐIN DAYS SUBSIDIEG

KAKE COMPETITION DIFFICULT.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 28 1011

SPECIAL ARTICLE,,

CHINA NEW YEAR.

(By Aw Old Resident),

[THE

CANTON NEWS.

TELEURATU "CORNEаroм-

"DENT.

Canton, Jan 29.

REMINISCENCES OF SHANGHAI

· THE SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.

Last night's convort at the Seamen's · Instituto was given by Mr. O. Dannon-. berg, an attractive programine having boen arranged by him. The hall wan

took part :-Me J. H. Midd The following ladies and gentlemen

CANTON NEWS. }[From Our Own Correspontani,]

Caiton, Jan: 20. Thow was ono drawinck to the per- On the 18th furt, the Self-Govern-fort enjoyment of the farewell dinner to What monories those wonia avoku! huisė occupied by the family of Leungcontonuda tooting in connection with laat, and that was the fact that, with crowded to its utmost capacity.

Abstt 1 pin., on the 21st. inst., the ment Society of Hengshan district Sir Fulham Warren on Saturday night What visions of many-coloured mitment, The Wat, employed in the enquiry do-tho ndrancogent of a loan to the mor- the sxception of himself, there was no Supreme Court before Hir Francis in, vico-president and general manngor apparel, of “uice”—at least the Cook Company, and sitastud at No. 2 Fang Taiwan, Ltl. Tho notion of the mer knowledge of old Shanghai. There was Mr. B. G. Jordan, the Sociedada San Francisco, Cal.--. P. Bulwer of grinning: "boy" in gorgeous partment of the Yuu Han Bailway chants of rangehow by the Bask of speaker pula to daw upon his own Piggott and a jury with the murder of of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com-aid they woropice cakes, and the Cook Yuan piddle district, Sai Kwan, Can- teman named Chow Sang at Kowloon pany, has returned from a five months in Chins is not a man to bootmadicted, to, was broken into by six robbers, chants was sorely, criticises and for such an occasion, was somewhat dis-E. B. Ayris, A. Davis and Corporal on November 18, 1910.

Bir Henry. Borkuloy prosecuted on Orient, envindad that within the next in their best" and much Bespangled, of were thrusternd at the point of the re-ko stajs against this bargain, to dulgel a little in reoslication of inty

thus an Amount of reminiscence which, Philharuamies, Massns. R. E. White, tour of the company's agencies in the of marry little children feed all arm with revolvers. holl of the Attorney General, and ten years the Asiatics will control the forests of masts of junku with a wealtli } volver, nul relieved of money and or seck for the assistance of the Cantan past, but not nearly enough to satisfy :

Karded on a meriler of China's pre-appointing. Sir Pelham himself in- Burgosu. The inmates

stigo. It was envaïmously, resolvo to ontnereinl destinies of the Pacific,

Mr. Schwerin saya subsidies are

uanients to the value of about $2,000- 1 societies in the matter; ami to potitione desires of his audience who urged making it difficult for Americans to compote. Each of the two vessels of the og Kisen Kaishs, he found, receivau

Mr. O, G. Alabaster apponted for the defence. Both the prisoners pleaded not guilty.

The asting Attorney General said the dead wornan was married to a by the ramo of Foung Kas, why lived

doorposts gay with vermilion coloured of red banting flying in the breaks, of, deas paper, of lung strings of crackers

The robbers devamped with the booty, to high authorition in Canton to fores

PASSING OF THE QUEUE

dangling from verandahs and emeklingeir case. The outrage was report the Heangohow merchants to break the suggested that he was tiring: the IronTANT CONFERENCE IN PEKING, and exploding in the faces of the

a subsidy of $500,000, and the steam-admiring emoed below and rushing to

ud to the Nam Hoi Magistinto, whe

in Hongkong where he held a boarding ship now in course of constrastion will their death in one loud war of sound to and who, the next inorning, offered |

house licence. He last saw his wife

on November 15 when he went to visit baj, . The two prisoners rented thog round floor of bis wife's house. The dead woman.

receive a like subsidy from the Japan-nal fary, of sampons all clean and well be deckel, looking very quiet and strange in their unaccustomed idleness,

Oso governulent.

.

The Paciflo Mail Steamship Conn- sured the esins kitchen as the prisoara.hanges in China is liste doing of horrow straets wet with a fine drizzio On November 15 the landlady last Mr. Schwerin, and it is less apres crop, traversed by coudly mail- isines in China and Japan," said of mia, which is hailed as good for the Haw the dead woman alive. She was in the company of the two prisques Orient. The Japanese are going after Chinese dejectables, candied fruits, precinted by Americans then in the serenate hurrying along with boxes of so far as the landlady could see. They business with the samo zeal which has preserved oranges, dried coconut, &c., were on friendly terms. ...

characterized all their retent nativities." not the least of which are the dried

melon weds which you are told to. COMING OF THE CLEVELAND. regard as "money" and therefore to fill

On the following day when the land- Indy went to feed her pigs and on pasting open the door sho saw the dead woman lying in a pool of blood on the floor.

your pockets with then as an onion of

A chopper was seen near the body, and HUNDREDS OF WEALTHY TOURISTS TO gond sagary for the Now Year.

the two prisoners and their child Ind vanished with a quantity of property belonging to the deceased, much as clothing and jeweller Ford was

A

the deceased woman was found.

Two

VIRIT THE HART.

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Much practice in a long residence in China has enabled us to partially extracting the kemel in the orthodox Fapseed in clacking show, seeds and mauter, but never to approach the tion is performed by our Chinose case and deftness with which the opera

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notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Dutch Ministor at Pekingas

that the British Consul at Swator will, for the present, not as Consul for Hol fand in that port, and lins asked the Ministry to communicate Life samo

went to the ransacked house to luresti-"greement.

reward of $200). for the arrest of those connected with the armed robbery,

On the 21st inst., His Excellency the Vieuroy of Caution called the local the Total for the Promotion of Indus." gentry, the Provincial Treasurer, and

of specifying a time for the total sp triest, his Jalued, where the qustion pression of gambling in Canton was discussed.

The local gentry were in favour of en- forcing the order for the total eradica tion of this uril on the 1st day of the 2nd on, but the Promoter of lu- dustries suggested that the 1st day of the 4th-moon would be a bettor date. of the 2nd moon, and ontortained the The gentry insisted on the 1st day fear that considerable delay would be the Ministry of Finance for discussion caused, if the testter he hauled over to nad report.

(TRANSLATED PROM NORTHERN PAPERN.)

The Prines Ragout, Prineos, Grand Councilors and the Ministors of the Council of State Affairs have reoutly held a meeting to discuss the question of discarding the guous and the style of dress. ".

The consunxits of opinion was that the queue should be discarded, but tha." Prince Ching said the alteration of dress would ruanin unaltered.

the usage established by their ancestors should be considered most profully.

replied that at the present time, when Duke Tsai Tos and Prince Yu-Lang all kinds of reforms ware initiated, there was absolutely nothing to stop the hillier but as large numbers of the discarding of the quena excopt ancestral

Minister to Washington, Wa Ting-fang, pople, oven His Excellency the Ex- Princu Tsai-tas, Admiral Sir Sah, and discarded their founs witout waitingi other Military and Naval officials had for the Infuriant Edict, it was advisable to take the opportunity of issuing on Edit sunstioning it, so as to comply with the wishes of the public. Tho change of dross innst, however, bo pro- libited in order to protect the commerce of the country.

him "Go on when he modestly

Reminiscenes is infoed one thing of which meù do not tire sy long na what actual experience. Wo se quite sure, is being told is new and a rand of

says the "Shanghai Merenry," that if Sir Pollant and talked till midnight ho would gladly have been listened to, since he could have brought forth out of his to the Canton Vicory. Hin Excolon-rosures things new and old. But he

Chia Chow

is in receipt of the communication, is determined to post to the end of the and has instructed tho authorities at chapter as a man who be not "onu of the talking Consuls," Dr. Wilder, on the other haul, is eror ready with wel The Yuen Fung Yan Bank was formerly agent for the Canton offieid him to take some remarks which ap- come oratory. Thoro was no need for Spocis Burosu, and for the Kwong carol in this volumin sonia time ago as Tung Provincial Officials Bank at Shanghai in the oxchange busiucas, very mannte day, we believe, when a a suggestion of satiety. It will be a and also in the purchase and sale of Shanghai audious will cry, Hold, Hongkong Bank notes and Shanghai enough!" when it is his eloqueneo that Those of us who have deplored the

Its failure has caused dollars, but it is now in bankruptcy. is being poured forth, and the thought testh of masy and the arrest of that Corrible gash the throat business activity which it was our wont

convenience to the Canton Official guests at the dinner on Saturday, what much in doubtless occurred to some of the older sovering the earsted artery nut to herald and enjoy must be gratified

hat in the exchange and remittance Polliam had finished, Dr. Wilder could Specie. Bureau and the Bank at Shang- trost it would have boon if, after Sir jugular vein. It was a month after to learn that the Orient-ever-chang-friends, and more expecially by those the prisoners were, isovered in Tinging, and probably assimitating western

business. The local government has have risen and, with his own powers as Chow, in Lauto island. In the ideas and colour gradually-has still at the clumsiness of the poor foreigner. the 1st day of the 3rd toon be fixed and, and to depute a-manger-and-staff-rotiniscones which might have eate

of the geutler sex who are apt to smile they were inhabiting the property of its charms for the travelled inan aint

The Provincial Treasurer moved that now decided to open an office at your a speaker, have poured out the flood of And how in there memories two for the ennetus of the order to sup-to continue what was formerly done by from the knowledge and experience of women who have deculated wealth well-war phrases stand out! pawntickets, were found on the and desire to seu soins of the beauty of old Chins hair will ever forget those The gentry asked the opinion of the person of the male prisoner. The the "luxurious East, "The tourist. Paystis words, Kong hot fat choy," | Viduny, and afterwards it was unani-earning of profits.

pross gambling in all forms.

the bankrupt Yoon Fung Yun, so n une of his predecessors in office here, perly owned would be proved to be that sometimes, spends invishly. The ersan Cum shay," and we presume theasly agreed to adopt the motion of

to facilitato communication, and the who has bat recently died, Mr. George of the deceased art, had, been pawned tons of artiutis hands and minds greator of thee is cushy! In the the Provincial Treasurer.

Soward, after whom the Seward sincebur death. At the time of her agrest

Rond is named, and whose fame is writ the female prisgnet was wearing a pair appeal to him, and he insists on brava days af öld, whom the dollar wAK

Iargo in settlement story. That would of hues which went he proved to have adorning his home with "treasures that

telegraphically memorialized to

On the same night, the matter was are delights for a tine if hot joys for

Thin, and similarly communicated to

have been treat indeed, for ramiais- belonged to the alumniased. The malu pri-

conco is the osecco of history. It Honer had tyd is extraordinary story

the Ministry of Finnice, by His Ex-

visualises the past as nothing also can. cellewy the Viceroy. The next morn- in the charge-ram to the effect that the

Canton, Jan.-20. It carries ns back, to use the failur deceased was murdered by a midnight

thoir provincials, who are holding merchants, the membora of the Salf-which have been the case of weal or onnial report, state-

At.oloron o'clock on the morning of and fitting figure, to the days when visitor in his prose without his going

official positions in the Capital, also to Government Investigation Society, the was ta the generations sa ceeding. It ing, the gentry telegraphed the sama the 20th inst., the veal gentry and things were done and words wore said

the Ministry of Fines.

Committee of the Charitablo Instita is better than history in some points. year as compared with the past two yurs tions, those of the seventy-two guilda. It always deals with interesting pupla-bat price for 1911 contracts show the members of the Self-Government and interesting events, Witness thuslight reduction on those of 1910. Ad Suuioty, the members of the Anti-agerness with which valuing aftor vo- large consumers live contraeted for Gambling Society, the members of the line of relections finds not only their requirements for the coming year, Anti-Opium Bovioty, etc., gathored at publishers but buyers by the thousand, [Our Own CoRRESPONDENT.}

the Tin Teo Wharf, to see His Excel- lere in Shanghai, reminiscence is all Jenoy this Tartar General off. The off-the more interesting from the unique Canton, Jan. 20. cials present were Ifis Excellency theditions of the ease. and from the His Excellency thao Viceroy has taken Viceroy, Admiral Li Chun, and other fact that there are still living many into consideration the fact that Canton civil and military officials. Tho Tartar natives and orogers who can was the first place in which Chinese had Gerieral having been requested to in within their own recollection cover the intercourse with, foreigners. Besides quire into the health of the Emperor wholof our eventful period. Wo could Hongkong, Macus, and Kwong-chow-on his arrival at the capital by the off-de with a good deal more of it. wan, which are under foreign jurisdiciale present, and before IIis Excellency tin, there are six tranty parts in the had boarded the gunboat Po Pik provide of Kyong, Tung. All these the popular Tartar General, holding the AWANSHIP MODEL FOR plecount for many diplomatic Viceroy's hands, maid that the gambling effairs. In comparison, this province eril in Canton was the deepest of all, has more to do with foreigners than any and that helped the Viceroy would 630 other province, In addition to the his way to wips it out at his oarliost foreign possessions and concessions al-coprenience,, Tlio Tartor General ready mentioned, the province separatus further remarked that, on his arrival, itself from Aunam by a frontier. This Peking, ho, would induce the Japane publie was surprised when Victoria, D. C., Dovember...-The is why Canton's afairs with foreign Grand Councillors to give their sup-news was received froin England that

About two hours before the departure.

the Japanese Navy Departinent liad or-

to her assistance.

Evidence was then led.

The jury retiral for alum twenty minutes and on their retura a venit of guilty was returned against the Prisoner while the femie prisoner

acquittad

was

His Lordship passed sentens of death, and the eriaal session then adjourned til to-morras.

WORLD'S NEWS,

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THE NAVY,

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CHINA.

VIEW OF THE VICEROY.

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FIGHTING THE GAMBLING

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[Our Own Correspondent]

JAPAN.

HONGKONG COAL TRÁDE,

Messrs. Hughes & Hough, in their There has been very little change this

Cardiff Coals and Patent Puul.-The quantity that arrived in the Colony is about 16,000 tons, being 2,000 tons less than the previous your. The Ad miralty had 83,000 tons, about 8,500 tons went into the hands of local dolora and 1,000 tons passed through-bound for Japan.

Australian Conis-Thaso shows grost falling off, about 9,700 tons only arrived during the year against 16,500 tons during 1909. Those coals appear to have been driven out of the market by the Japanese and North Chins coals.

Japanasa Coals-The total imported

WHY THAT NATION HAS ORDERER A during tho your shows an incresso oli

DREAUNOUGHT BUILT IN ENGLAND,

that of 1909 by some 8000 tons. The total for 1010 amounts 382,780 tons The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha continue of which. 61,000 tons went to Eauton. with the lead, timir importations amount ing to 600,000 tons.

a dollar, this invariably siunta to one month's wagas (to inake, imp, we wore told, for the one month's wages *Information las just reached us that lost by the freigner's artful way of arrangemits have just been completednekoning only. Twelve Mouns" to a at west end for other visit to be your !) but now, als! other times, paid by the maumati liner. Cleveland, other istoms, and the Cook and the to the Far East. One of the g-Coslie, those tiny allies of is isers of a round the world trip is Highness the Boy, hard to be content arrived in the culony, discussed thist with half that pllowance About that wenith of detail which is ineritable mighty power, my bay" we dara say leat interesting, el Mr. W. Farmer, thing; it is daugennis ground, for of the Maga Hotel, has once more every man swears by (al often at) his been entrasted with the local arrange-own Taithinthenchini, squeczka ho ments - neerssarily to be unde for's match sad the honest, liard | the general comfort of 500 tourists working radio who belongs to the who aredite to arrive here about noon family; and rises early aut sits late on Saturday, January 6, 1912. They over the work of "the banebold has had are din to bare the colony on Tuesday, his praises sounded, hafore this, so wa depth. The itinerary includes the will let (hini jew too. following, lesing New York on Wed- But what about that my abated nesday, November 3, of this year, at individual die Cook, Whani Giles (was it not f), termed, the antitrakciemy of man in China? What revilings and indignities hare. bon heaped upon the head of that patient person? Surely there is a good word to be said for [him?" If he, okos" out "a wage, the minutongss of which would make the **plain cook" at home stara, with what he considers his bgitimatų return from the market compradors whom he lion ours with his patrauage, what then Is not the agent worthy, of his dam-

nations aru naniterous and miscellaneous, mission? After all he comes to us to Although the Waiwupa has meino- cook, and depthsque, well-cooked birds rialized the Throne for the appointment of the Tartar General sono gentry and dure 27,000-ton craiser from and joints he furnishes from a kitchen of a diplomati: Commissionor in Cair merchants waited on His Excellency in insist that this was in contravention CHINESE SQUEEZE “PIDGIN,"

British firm. Japanese newspapers and a fireplace chiefly consisting of ton to handle these affairs, to far his gamen, and beggel, H.. to raise of the policy nunsunod of constructing earthenwage chatties burning infinites-nothing has been done. Pending the the question of gambling suppression all war vessels ut home. imal, quantities of charcoal, that no appointment of this official, His Ex- when he was received in andieneo by chef, da onising in his worst moments cellency, now proposes to handle all the Throne, and to beg for sanction Issued an official statement that the The Japanese Naval Department anburg-Amerienu steamer, and it is cook's purgatory might be evor dreamt They will be carefully and thoroughly next year, so as to do away with a This is the itinerary of the great: wildest nightmares, of what

the diplomatic affairs in his, yamen: to the enforcement of this policy early order was given to a British yard in were scalded to death by an acidonture to yield the visitors pleasure and of or imagined that occurred on the United States enlightenment, for travel opens up now

inquired into, and dealt with, according |,big ovil. ・・

order that Japan might have a vessel Battleship Delaware while the resel work to those who, would realise the servants go for advice and information,

of the latest typo as a model for the "The Tartar Geuers! unhesitatingly other Dreadnought vrnisers. The now Is it not to the Cook that the other to the nature of the case. was proceeding from fantast extent of territories away from their for like a second Odysseus much as he junior oficials in different localities His Excellency awared them that

His Excellency further instructs his promised to take this responsibility vessel is to make twenty-seven knots Cuba, to Hampton Roads, Virginia.

own coastline. The Helaware is a battleship of are not only sources of education, with who, when our house-bout touched the with foreigners, they should cause no notice of the Throne, and ask for the sider the order an acknowledgment of has discovered that the government's

Again sneh trips sea and known"? Was it not the Cook that, in dealing with affaire connected he would bring the matter to the and roount twelve fourteen-inch guns.

Some of the Japinusą, papies con- 20,000 tons, and she and her sister memories that are hallowed for all ground, was ever ready to transform delay in their settlement, and handle limitation of a time for the total ship the North Dakota are the largest time, but they tend to the circulation himself into a Pilot, and striding about them in necordance with the treaty

vossols have been, and ars, committing suppression of gambling. If he wore to panose inferiority in warship con- Fion. They were, both completed in midbit clearly realise to the fullest shallow with a long bamboo? All from having something to 597. 1010.]

warships Tsukuba, Ikon, Satsumis, extent the natural beauty of our mag-.

the nation, and expecially the people of Aki, and others built in Japan have honour then to our varentilo friend, the

Canton. His Excellenes further ratnark- ged island home, convince visitors of it, Cook, and to all our frugal, faithful,

ed that Chinn was in a critical condi- more or less defects in comparison with sted place ample facilities at their dis servant friends to whom we herrily

tion, and that the Chinese and tho

those constructed in Burape.. rosal for admiring scenes that are wish "Kong Hoi Fat Choy,"

Manchua were like passengers on one peons in themselves and are won their faults wo lore them still, and we sail to have informed the Wai Wapu bont, or lika eggs in a nest. If the boat rapturons praise from painters. If we

ba capsized, all its occupants would be did this, and advertised the place, the

thrown into the water. colony and its people would profit to greater degres than wo do to-day by the occasional visitations of tourists.

The distinguished officer, who are relinquishing their commands are respèce) tively sixty-two and sixty-one you're old.]

A NAVAL ACCIDENTS. London, January 18,-Telegrams.

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QUATOMS COMISIONER ON TOWING QUESTION.

[THE TELEGRAPHTM" CORRESPON. DENT.]

Canton, Jon, 28. The Canton Customs Commissioner

United States incn-of-war in 'comantis-ul dollars, and if we in this calony the river un led the depths and stipulations, so as to prevent foreigners break his promise, he could not hatinfytraction. The Apuhi says that the the offence of towing boats with the aid

ADMIRAL LAMBTON'S

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FORTUNE.

It is interesting to note that the lady who died recently and left Adinifal Lambton (formerly of the China Squadron) £20,000 a year proved of sono assistance at the time of Sir Remuell Rodd's mission to The party on this trip is limited to Menelik in 1897, which led to the 500, nif it is interesting to record the establishment, for the first time, of fact that two grand cruises have al- permanent diplomatic relations between ready been fixel, thú duration of each our country And Abyssinia In Coustong doing alwent three-and-or-if- Gleichen' With the Mission to Menolik," he gives an account of this presents bestowed on that monarch, These included silver salvers and bowls, gold inlaid double-barrelled rifles, feld-glasses, eat, tiger, and leopard skins, silk embroideries, and Persian ear

months, and the cost from $650 (gold) upwards por pornon. The first will leave New York, Nor., 1911, & the second San Francisco on February 17th, 1912.

LOCAL BANK ROBBED.

With all

wish them all a Happy New Year, for this in their time of rejoicing when it

behovor na ali

To their faults to be a little blind

And to their virtues very kind.

THE PRINCE'S VISIT,

[TAR TELEGRAPH ** COPPERFONə DENT.]

Cunton, Jun. 23.

OPIUM SUPPRESSION, The American Minister in Peking is

that his Government wishes to 200 China have a fron hand in dealing with the opiam question and that if Great Britain will not agres to the cancella- tion of the opit agromont it will bring up the subject at the Hague Con- forense for decision.

RUBBER MARKET.

pets. Finally he was given a "Life of AIX HUNDHED DOLÍALA TAKEN FROM for the reception of the German Im-given way all round.

Alexander the Great," printed în Ethiopie.

This last was a reproduction of a manuscript found in Magdala, and wax

THE FU YUEN.

The Fe Yaen Bank was robbed yes printed in London by the generosity of terday of six hundred dollars.

Lady Meux. The excellinen of the The theft was and in a poouliarly

Amharic type particularly struck his cool manner.

Majesty, and to discussed the possibil- One of the staff had gone to the Ta ity of having other books similarly Ching Bank at Bonham East to dry priated. Otter nations, ho said, ont a sum of $800. While he was thus have treated iné likes a baby, and given engaged, he left on the counter $600, too musicai boxes and angie lantorns which he had already collected. Dud medaniçal toys; but you have On the conclusion of his business he giveu to what is really useful and val- found that he had been relieved of this liable have never soon such things sum, and every effort has failed to tree &fore

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THE CUMBROUS LAW.

way, when tho nest was overturned, all | FOREIGN CASES WAITING BETTLEMENT. the eggs would be broken. Both mees should try to bury their racial pro- (THE "TELEGRAPH " CORLESTON- judices, and sava China from dangor.

DENT.] After thanking the Tartar General for his instructive and touching remarks, the party withdraw.

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Canton, Jan. 20. His Excellency-the Canton Viceroy

era aro interested,

of pops. This practico, the commis- sensor considora is not only an infringes ment of Customs regulations, but a danger to navigation in the river. If the offenco le committed by mercantile vossals, they are heavily fined. Now the Government's vessels are all porpstrat- ing the offence. They do not observa the rules of the mul, and are hoodland in navigation. The commissioner pro- potos to report the matter to the Can ton Viceroy, and requests His Excel- ioncy to warn the commanders of gov ernmental vessels generally against the contravention of Customs regulations, while passing through the waterways of

MEDICO.

On the 19th ist. a local photogra-instructed the Magistrates of various the Canton River. If any of the com Messrs. Eilis and Ellis report as pher went to the Tartar General's districts regarding the numbers of diplomadors be found guilty under this r follows on the rubber market: The Yamen, and the official was photograph-matic cases unsettled. He flude that gulation, the commisionor may be em weakness in the prices of the paw pro-ed preparatory to the making of his statue of the German Crown Prince's arrival when the price receded from 6s. 2d. campaign against gambling in nooom-this kind, and has now dispatched de

It is reported that the probable time duct, so pronounced during the week, in appreciation of his corrices, when the the Namhol and Pun U Districts are powered to flue the perpetrator ten Hai

“blocked up" with undecided cases of kwan taels, at Canton will be the raiddle of the per lb. to 48. 11. about, the middle plistic with success. 2nd moon, and that the focal officials of the week, found its reflex on the

putics to visit the districts and hurry FOOCHOW AND A POPULAR have been instracted to select a place share market, where quotations have MYSTERY IN LOCKJAW CASE. baring of all cases in which foreign- porial personage, and to make pro- The depression has again been taken Salem (Or.) Dor. 18-After baffling paratory arrangements in this co-advantage of by investora in Bingapore physicians for three days with an aggrá- where inquiries have tot with responsevated base of lockjaw, Ray Brondeil, 18 As soon as the option Commis by shares going down in fair lots" from years old, died to-day. official will join them in considering sioners arrive in Canton, the local Hongkong.

There was nut a dorate on the boy' London wire fino Para at 45. 10d. body and his parents have no satisfao. all preparations without delay.

per lb., but at this rate the market is story oxplanation to give. One of the buying one, thus giving a steadier tone attending physioians believes that the to the share market which olosos firm. disease enter the boy's system through decayed tooth, whiols had troubled him

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Magistracy on Monday morning with the A Chiraman was charged at the Jarcony of a quantity of clothing and jewellery, to the value of $72, from photographs of the crowd gathered at Mee Cheung sende' us a batoh of No. 282, Shanghai Street. The defon- the City Hall and Blake Flor on the daat was sentenced to three months, cocusion of the departure of fir Hoary hard labour and six hours' stooku, and

ad Lady May,

of late.

priation of 06 million gold dollars for Washington has passed an appro- support of the US, aray for the ngat dagel pours

the

The "Shanghai Mureary" says

In diplomatie cases, it is roinetimes ecossary for the local authorities to try tham with the Consuls, or to send for The many friends of Dr. Ronnis, M.D., the foreigners connected with the cases met in the parlors of the Foochow Clab to give evidence. For this reason, Higon tite afternoon of the 10th and pro- Excellency has deemed it fit to appoint sented him with a large and bountifol some officials well versed in foreign silver server, in token of the care and affairs to superintend the trials of attention he had given thom, and the diplomatic caros by the magistrates of high esteem in which they held him. various districts, in order to give antis- fotion to the foreigners, an'i to cause no delay in their settlement.

His Excolloney bun found that Mours.

Mr. Ronald Greig in a fow well oto➡' sen words prophesied some of the ox- periences the Dr. might have during a Fook Mow and Sik Wing Lintho gift. The Dr. leaves on the 18th his vacation time and then presented computent for the posts, and has appolat and expecta to bo away for alwut two ed them accordinglys