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fare as must be encountered in South Africa to the trained Canadian soldier who tracked down th
the fighting half-breed in the un- people wilds of the Canadian North-West,
to the
Australian accustomed to the arduous life of the bush? Those who know the stuff of which these Canadians and Australians are made, and know also what has to be facel in South Africh, will admit no such superiority, and will tell you that the British Ministry would go far to ensure the success of whatever operations may be before us in South Africa by gladly accep- ting theservices of as many strong regiments as Canada and our other Colonies can offer
us, and indeed are eager to place at our disposal. Fighting thus side by side in the cause of equal British rights, under British officers and under the British flag, the Cana- dian, South African, and Australian would learn as they have never learut yet the comradeship of British citizenship. All that is real and worth having in Imperial Federa tion would be achieved and the world would
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.T
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At the monthly meeting of the General Com- mittee of the Hongkong General Commerce, held on Thursday, the (Chairman),, A. McConachie ber, 1899, at 3 p... Proseut Messrs. R. M. Gray
(Vice-Chairman) A Haupt, Sir Thomas Jackson, Hon. J. J. Kee wick. Messrs. W. Poate, N. A. Siebs, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, and R. C. Wilcox (Secretary).
MINUTES,
friends are welcome to say what they like. | HONGKONG 19"NERAL CHAMBER They need not be afraid of prosecution for
=OF COMMERCE. B lese-majesté or other similar inconveniences to which underánalagous circumstan es foreign- ers dwelling in Germany might be subjected. Bat the great majority of German residents in the colony, though their sympathies may be with the Boers, are too sensible and too well bred, we think, to indulge in any | offensive ́expressions of hostility to Great Britain, Certain hochs" which were taken by hyper-sensitive English nen to be expressive of jubilation at the Ludysmith disaster had nothing more to do with the proceeding from the City Hall on Saturday matter, we believe, than the bughter heard night.
SU REME COURT.
7th Nove aber.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
(PUISNE JUDGE.)
sss and profit by the moral. The cause is BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. JUSTICE WISE theirs as well as ours, for without equal rights between the white races the Empire is not worth à decade's purchase.
British Ministers should not throw lightly aside these Colonial offers of help. A German paper recently spoke the min of Anglophones Europe over when it said that the moment to embarrass Eiglaud, to take revenge for Fasloda, to press forward in the -Persim Gulf, in Chin, and wherever else British interests are in jeopardy, will be when the pick of the British Arny is shut up in the African Übatiasat. Way shali any such large · proportion of our home Army be shut up? The Colonies at least see no reason for it.
GERMAN OPINION ON THE TRANS- VAAL QUESTION.
Daily Press, 6th November.) Some irritation appears to have been occa sioned by expressions made use of by our Germau fellow residents in respect of the recent British reverses in the Transvaal. In this connection attention may be directed to an article in the last issue of the stasia-
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Lt KWONG LOONG V. THE ENGINEERS' INSTITUTE.
tral, sought to recover from the Institution of Li Kwong Loong, of 17, Queen's Road Cen- Engineers of Hongkong $373.35 for work done and materials supplied and for goods sold aud delivered. Plaintiff also claimed his costs of suit. Defendants admitted owing $237.85, which su u had been paid into court, leaving $30.59 in. dispute.
Mr. Mounsey (Messrs. Mounsey and Brutton appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Grist (Messrs. Wilkinson aud Grist) for defendants.
Mr. Monosey said he had been through a list of particulars with his friend and they had boiled the items in dispute down to 14. The rest he un- derstood, were all admitted, so that the only en- quiry would be as regarded these 11 items. Mr. Monussy proceeded to deal with these items and the extent to which the other side alleged they were overcharged.
Mr. Grist said his clients did not wish to be hard. They might have objected to a rery greit number of items, but they had not thought it worth while to do so. They had culy taken the most glaring instances of overcharging.
The minutes of the previous monthly meeting (beld 3rd October) were read and confirmed.
QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS.
Chamber, the Colonial Government, and the The Serreetary reported the exchange of cor- respondence on the above subject between the
Government of the Straits Settlements, oulmin. ating, at length, in the removal by the latter, first of the prohibition on immigration from Hongkong, and anbsequently, on the 12th Octo ber, in the discontinuance of quarantine restric- tions on shipping arriving from Hongkong.
A letter had also been received from the Co- lonial Secretary, dated 18th October, announ- cing the removal of quarantine restrictions at Shanghai against Hongkong, Canton, and Macao.
PIRACIES AND DISTURBANCES IN WEST RIVER DISTRICT.
Read letter from Government, dated 10th October, stating that a copy of the Chamber's letter of the 21st September. together with other correspondence on the subject of the disturbed
condition of the districts watered by the West River, had been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Chairman read a letter from the Govern
ment, just received, enclosing copy of a despatch received by H.E. the Governor annexing letter from the Foreign to the Colonial Office, ordered the Tweed to patrol the West River with in which it was stated that the Admiralty had
the Sandpiper, and that, if further assistance, were required for the protection of British interests, a torpedo boat would be sent as tender to the Tweed.
Supt. had been received from the London On the same subject, a letter dated the 12th
Chamber of Commerce, acknowledging receipt of Chamber's telegram of the 10th and letter of dence with the Foreign Office thereupon. 11th August and enclosing copy of correspon»
THE PROPOSED REDUCTION OF CABLE RATES
BETWEEN INDIA AND EUROPE.
A reply to this letter was despatched on the Plaintiff then gave evidence as to the nature
20th October conveying the thanks of the Com- of the work done by bim for defendants. He
mittee for the prompt and courteous attention said that for removing furniture from one build-given to the matter by the London Chamber. which sun had been paid. The other work ing to auother be charged defendants $350, was supplying aer furniture and repairing old
Acknowledgment of the receipt of the Cham- furuitars,, for which he charged $428. Haber's circular letter and resolutions of the 18th had received on account, including the $330, $50 August had. the Secretary reported. been received altogether, which left a balance, according to his from the London and Adelaide Chambers of account, of $37.35 due to him. He considered Commerce. the items in the particulars to be reasonable
tische Lloyd entitled "Sympathy and Anti- pathy in Politics," the general purport of which is that sympathy and antipathy should fiud no place in politics, and that Germany, whatever her feelings may be, is not callel upon in any way to interfere in the South African business. Reference is also made to the fact that the present state of the Ger man fleet is not such as to warrant the under-charges for the work done. taking of any enterprise in that direction, and is suggested that the country has for the present enough to do in opening up an: developing the markets already secured for its trade. In conclusion our contemporary says:- "Weare byno means convince dot the justice of the English claims with regard to the Trans- vaal and Orange Free State, but we can also understand Great Britain in her own interest aiming at the paramountey of South Africa." Sometimes, we should say, sympathy and an- tipathy count for more in politics than our con- temporary gives the credit for, but in the preseut instance
tolerably certain that
items in dispute.
Mr. Grist cross-examined plaintiff as to the
8314.35, which is gay are the twinedit to
His Lordship gave judzment h costs) for by defendants.
H.R.H. PRINCE HÈN ¡Y OF PRUSSIA IN HONGKONG.
TELEGRAPH RATES BETWEEN THE FÅR
EAST AND EUROPE,
The Secretary reported that the resolutions passed on the above subjɔ̃ot at the last meeting were, on Oct., nuder
a re-
letto, to the Colonial Secretary with ne quest that. H.E the Governor would forward cupies to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, which letter, was duly acknowledged on the ilth idem, Copies of the resolutions were also addressed on the same date to the acting Mana The Deutchsland ontare l the harbour on Monger in China of the Joint Telegraph Company day morning having on board HRH Prince Henry of Prussia. It is probable that the Prince will be, with is hatil after Christmas, In the meantime the Deutchsland will go into dock. Tas Prias will stay at "Yalta," the Garmin Consul's Peak rasidence. On leaving
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there will be no interference in the Hongkong he will bill at Bangkok. for the Transvaal affair. It may, however, be taken purpose of paying his long-deferred visit to the for granted, we think, that all our German King of Siam. friends entertain a facial and cousinly sympathy for the Boers, whatever their opinion
may be as to their policy in en- tering upon a war in which they are bound
that the Roy 1 Walch Fusilier Polo team won Telegraphic intelligonos has been received their match against Shanghii by three goals to one.
Two Chinese houses in Chapoo Road, Shang-
and on the 6th idem copies were addressed, with circular covering letter, to the Chambers of commerce at Shanghai, Canton, Amoy Foo- chow, Chiakiang, Tientsin, Hiogo, Yokohama, Singapore, Ceylon (Colombo), Rangoon, M.- dras, Bombay, Bengal (Calcutta), Manila London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham
Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Southampton, Car-
diff, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dublin, Belfast, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Tacoma, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Vançon- ver, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth, Auckland, and Dunedin, N.Y Replies in acknowledgment had been received from the Amoy, Foochow, Singapore, and
to be defeated in the end. The expression hai, were burnt on the afteranon of thế 30th | Shanghai Chambers
of such sympathy in English colony, or
A question of good manners. the terms in which „ress aromalė,
Still, this is a fres country and our German
October, and two children lost their lives. It was reported that four children were locked în
was presumed the others managed to get out. a room, but as only two bodies were found it
THE NEW OFFICIAL TELEGRAPH CODI
VOCABULARY,NU Read letter from Mr. J. M. Beck, "Acting Tanger, Joint Telegraph Companies, in topky,
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