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H. E. Senhor Horta e Costa is expected to arrive on the 10th or 11th inst.,. and prepara- tions for his reception were begun last Satur- day. Trimuphal arches are being erected and in the evening there are to be illuminations on the Praya. The Union Club's ball will take place on the 14th, and the Committee have already sent out their invitations.
His Excellency is bringing with him power to carry out many of his schemes for the welfare and prosperity of the colony, and no doubt he will lose no time in commencing with the various projects that have so long been his
October 14, 1896
On the 2nd instant the Superintendent of the local police force, Li Ka-chenk, made a raid on a military officer's house inside the a number of applicances for making con feit coins were found. The only person honse at the time was an old woman, at once arrested, and the house was sealed up.
On the 6th instant in Canton the overcast, the wind blow very hard, and fell in torrents. All the boats ran to places shelter. Very slight damage was reported.
A junk which was plying between Sai i and Canton was robbed on the 28th ultimo, when she was sailing near the coast of Wongting. The robbers boarded the junk as passengers as usual. They robbed all the passengers and broke open a safe which con tained one thousand taels.
Governor Hu Tsan-wai has sent servants to bring bis family to Canton and they are expected to arrive in a few days..
The third son of Viceroy Tan Chung-lun ar- rived at Canton on the 2nd instant by the gun- boat Kwangtung, which came to Hongkong t meet him on the 1st instant.
HANKOW.
seeking, investment here in Japan, upon the mained at their anchorages. The lowest read- coming into effect of the lately revised treaties. ing of my aneroid barometer was 29.51. It is said that American and other foreign About 6 p.m. it began to rise, but slowly, capital can and will be invested advantageously and the wind changed to the south, blowing in Japan, and that industries will be built up strong, but gradually decreasing. Heavy rain here, under foreign supervision, for the pro- continued to fall the whole night and for duction, with what is termed Japanese cheaps few hours we had thunder and light labour, of commodities that may be brought into ning. The steamers returned to their wharves competition with home productions in the na- on the 7th about 6 a.m; No damage was done tions of Europe and the United States. Under to property, so far as I have observed, except the laws of Japan foreigners cannot hold real that the Prays Grande was cut up somewhat setate in fee nor will they be permitted to hold and a lot of paving stones which had become land by what is known as perpetual lease, except loose were scattered about the roadway, and the where. such leases are running when the triumphal arches that were being erected in treaties become operative. The term of lease- front of Government House for the reception hold will not be greater than twenty-five years, of H.E. Horta a Costa were smashed to pieces. and the rents and charges exacted will be such
8th October. that the investment of capital here for mer- cantile and industrial purposes will be profitless. The safeguards thrown around the rights of lessors by the authorities, in this the mann- facturing centre of Japan, are such that the transfer of leases between individuals cannot be legally effected without the consent of the original lessor, In other words it has been decided by the highest court to which a case was taken, that the transfer of a lease would be held as void unless recorded in the office of record of the prefecture, and the regulation of the prefecture is that the application for record of transfer must be made by the original lessor. | dream. He will find rather a difficult task to Kiukiang, and moored off the British Con- With these precedents established, and the in- tense patriotism and love of country ingrained in the nature of the Japanese, who believe and practice the belief that Japan is and of right should be for the Japanese-and with the evidence of the present that in the schools and colleges of Japan, in the management of her navy and merchant marine, her railroads and private enterprises, wherever they have used foreigners as instructors, managers, or employés of any grade, they have ended or are striving to end such relationship-is it possible or reasonable to suppose that they will in the future permit foreigners or foreign capital managed by foreigners to profit by their labour. In conclusion I again repeat that the labour of Japan, cheap or otherwise, need not cause anxiety to the guardians of the interests of American labour. The real rivals of American working men are in Great Britain and other European nations. Their competition is and ever must be with the nations of Europe, and the most importaut steps to be taken by the producers of the United States should be those
which will in the near future enable them to stand side by side for the trade of the world, not with that portion of Asia which seems within the past three decades to have awakened from the sleep of ages, and become semi- Europeanized, but with those nations whose brothers and sons they are. In support of this statement it is only necessary to emphasize the fact that while in the balance sheet of the United States trade imports from the United States to Japan are yearly falling off, European imports on the contrary are increasing.
MACAO.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
7th October. The following notes on the typhoon as ex- perienced here may interest your readers:
On the morning of the 5th the weather was very threatening, with driving clouds, the sun breaking through at frequent intervals. The janks, fishing boats, and sampans sought shelter, expecting a gale. At noon the black ball hoisted at the Harbour Office and the Barra and Guis forts warned us of the approach of the storm. The wind rose considerably and about half-part one was blowing a gale. About 4 o'clock rain commenced, falling at intervals. The steamers Kiangtung and Heungshan left the wharves soon after their arrival, the Kiangtang going to her buoy and the Heungshan to Malochow Bay. The barometer steadied about 6 p.m., but fell again after midnight, when the wind and rain increased. At 2 a.m. on the 6th the typhoon guns were fired from Monte Fort. The sky was quite black and the wind blew in strong gusts from the E.N.E. and `E. At eight o'clock the sea was washing about foot deep over the Inner Praya, but soon fell again. The wind continued all day with rain squalls and the two steamers re-
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deal with in the repair of the Praya Grande wall, but the public have confidence in his experience and ability to do what is required.
A telegram has just been received stating that H.E. Senhor Horta e Costa has had con- ferred upon him by H.M. the King of Portu- al the title of "Conselheiro de Sua Magestade Fidelissime." This shows the confidence enter tained in him by the Lisbon Government.
28th September.- H.M.S. Esk arrived here on the 26th, from sulate. I hear she will remain here until the end of October. No leave has so far been granted, owing to the great amount of sickness now prevailing on shore.
27th report that the country on the way down The steamers arriving from Ichang on the is flooded in many places, and that there have been very heavy rains at Ichang.
The steamer Frosper left here for Swatow yesterday morning with a full general cargo, This move on the part of her Chinese charterers will probably wake up the other merchants, and foreigners starting on the same route. There we may soon expect to see vessels owned by should be a good business on the run.
According to the Boletim the military band is not to play in the Public Gardens for the whole of this week, and the public is thus de- prived of its usual entertainment. This is considered mere arbitrariness and an expression of resentment on the part of the Acting Gor- ernor for the criticism to which he has recently
The water mark on the 26th was 42 feet 8- been subjected. He is supposed to be irritated because with the arrival of the Governor his inches, on the 27th 43 feet 9 inches, and to- opportunities of exhibiting his own import-foot will flood the Bund and cause great incon-- day it is 43 feet 11 inches, still rising. Another ance will come to an end. Also he has venience.-Shanghai Daily Press. had an unpleasant jar in being ordered to refund to a Hongkong firm a sum of over a hundred dollars overcharged for passports given to Chinese passengers that went from here to Australia last year. There has been a great deal of correspondence about the matter, but it has now been settled in a sense contrary to that contended for by the Colonial Secretary, A few days ago a telegram was received from Lisbon ordering the gunboats Bengo and Diu to be ready to leave for Lisbon. No one knows the meaning of calling both the gunboats home. This will leave us without a man-of-war.
The Diu is leaving to-morrow or the day after for Hongkong to convey H.E. Horta e Costa here.
CANTON NOTES.
HONGKONG.
We were threatened with another typhoon this week, but fortunately the expectations were not realised and the weather seems to be settled now. On Thursday the shareholders in the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, had their annual meeting. The Sanitary Board also met on the same day. The Hongkong Volunteer Corps went into camp in Stonecutters Island on Monday morning and will remain there a week.
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H.M.S. Narcissus arrived from the North - on the 8th October.
There were 1,742 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 147 were Eus
ropeans.
A draft of about two hundred and fifty men of the Hongkong Regiment arrived from Cal- outta by the Catherine Apcar.
On the 7th October Hon. Commander. Hast ings committed for trial the two men charged with the murder of two mafoos at Causeway Bay.
Hon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, was one of the passengers by the Empress of China, having returned from leave of absence. The C. P. steamer Empress of China madə the run from Vancouver to Yokohama on her last trip in 11 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes. corrected time.
[FROM THE “OHUNG NGOI BAN PO."] Eighteen leaders of the late rebellion in Chin-chow district were captured on 12th ultimo. One of them was named Li Sai-chin, who was arrested in an opium divan. He was asked to point out his residence, and on the house being strictly searched there were found a written de- oument containing thirty articles in the form of a manifesto and two pictures, the subject of one of them being the gate of Mok-yang city with two dead bodies lying outside, and of the other a large castle, with four large characters, "Fan- ching, Fuk-ming," i.e.. "To overthrow the Ta- The maximum temperature last month war ching dynasty is to re-establish the Ming dy90.6, on the 4th, and the minimum 75,8, on the nasty." He confessed that he was the second 16th, the mean for the month being 81.5. The leader and that the first leader was in Chang-loh rainfall amounted to 9.995 inches. 7 r district recruiting men to join in the rebellion. He had more than eight thousand men under supervision. Ngai-un, a well-known leader in Ping-un district, had promised to join him in the rebellion. The standard of rebellion was pro- posed to be raised at the time when the Roman Catholic Church was completely built at Tsan- ping district. They were to break down the church first and then kill the local mandarins, there.
It is notified in the Gazette that Colour Sergeant F. Maitland has been appointed Lieutenant of the Machine Gun Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, vice Lieut. E. Osborne, resigned. r
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The stamp revenue last month amo to $20,963, being a decrease of $3,074 on amount collected in the same month last y $2,099 of the decrease is accounted for under the heading of probate.
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