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January 13, 1900)
GZA THE SHELL-COLLECTING:
MONOPOLY.
WRITS ISSUED AGAINST JUNK OWNERS,
Apropos of the 'shell-collecting monopoly, it may interest our realers to know that ten writs bave boon issued against júnk-owuers by Lai Po and Lenug Lai long, the following being the particulars of claim :—
**The plaintiffs, as lessons from Her Majesty the Queen of a certain piecs or parcel of ground covered by the ses off the eastern shore of the island of Lutao, in the colony of Hongkong. claim from the defendrat the sum of $100, being damigos for the wrougfa! not of the de- fendant in trespassing uppa the said premis‹ 8 and takiu therefrom certain shells and corals, the property of the plaintiffs, on or about the 18th December, 1893, and their coxts of xait,'
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REOPENING OF PORTS IN LUZON.
It bas already been announced by special telegram to the Daily Press that certain por's in Luzon were to be re-opened to trade on the 1st January.
ernor :-
British Consulate. Manila, Ist January, 1900.
CCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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bonght up by Belgium, which has no conces- Et quel décor! Des centaines de pics et de sion of her own, and on the land thus mamelons couleur de feu accusant leur origine obtained the station of the Hankow and volcanique, d'innombrables iles qui nagent dans Pekig Railway is to be built. Of the shares is mer bleue, de multiples baies enveloppant in that line only 36,000 were issued in Bel dans leur courbe gracieuse les barques des vinu, while France took 186,000; yet France pauvres pêcheurs de la côte comme une poule has nothing to say in the construction or abrite ses poussins et là en face de nous la masso management of the line. So with the Man- de Victoria encore endormie, sous la garde de cburiau lines; they are being made with French ces énormes cuirassés qui, vns de ces hauteurs, mousy, but they are not French. And then apparaissent bien misérables en présence de comes the transfer of the Kweichow quicksilver l'immensité; par toute la rede les steamers, les mines, a last straw that seems to have completely voiliers rangés chacun à leur poste comme les broken poor Mr. Raques's back, causing him pièces d'un échiquer les sampans, points pres- to conclude his charming volume with the que imperceptibles (1)-et plus loin Kowloon following lugubrious reflection:---
dont les docks semblent s'éveiller-plus loin "Oni, le cœur siugne lorsqu'on assiste, imp-encore, tout là bas, les montagnes de Chine uissant, a semblables folies; lorsqu'on songe derrière lesquelles des millions de fourmis jaunes que ce pays de Chine a été arrosé du sang vout reprendre tout à l'heure la travail de de nos compatriotes et ouvert par our à ces patience qh'elles out accompli hier et qu'elles cosmopolites d'aujourd'hui qui promènent fière. accompliront demain. aurait dû detter sans conteste. mout leur drapeau là où l'étandard tricolore
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La mort régnait il y a quelques secondes et veilà que la résurrection s'opère. Tout s'agito à la sueur de ton frout, car il te faut lutter et renait Peuple, reprends ta charge, travaille pour conserver l'existence !
passés en Chine, j'ai dû courber le front et "Bien des fois, au cours de ces longs mois rougir; je ne puis, en terminant la relation fidèle de ces impressions d'un voyageur, retenir
La brise souffie ici. Les plaids ne sont point The following official despatch on the same
le ori qui me monte aux lèvres: Pauvre France!' superflus malgré les chauds rayons pu soleil, subjec, received on Saturday morning, has beau
This, however, must not be taken as a fair L'ascension a siguisé l'appétit aussi faisons passed by the direction of H.E. the Gor-smple of the style of the book, which, on the nous grand honneur au déjeuner déjà étalé contrary, is lively and entertaining. The près du hanc de la terrasse. Les gardiens des journey from Hongkong to Canton occupies | signaux uous offrent des bananes, des biscuits, ous chapter, four chapters are devoted to Canton, des pommes, du sods. Enfoncé Lupullus! Tu our to Maeso, one to Hongkong, five to Shang-ne mangeas jamais certes de meilleur appétit. hai, two to the Yangtze, three to Hunan, and fire to Kweichow. The descriptions of scenes and incidents in Hongkong will be of especial interest to residents in the colony. In this con- nection there is one little feature that may be continually dropping across French friends a noted. During his stay here M. Raquez was
from Canton who had come down "to have their hair cut," because hameen does not boast a barber's shop of its own. Is it this that brings some of our English friends down so often? When we leave business to make a journey it is well to have a plausible excuse, and haircutting may serve as well as another.
Fir.-I bave the honour to report that by or der of His Excellency Major General Otis, the ports in the Northern part of this Island of Luzon are to-day declared open for all commer- cial purposes.—Ï have &c. &c.,
(Sd.) R. H. HARFORD.
To His Excellency The Governor of Hong
kong.
THE QUEEN AND THE NAVY LEAGUE.
The following item of intelligence has been despatched by the Navy League to the Press throughout the Empire. As Her Majesty has now thought fit to support the League it may be considered that a greater amount of financial support will be received than has hitherto been experienced
In response to a letter addressed to Sir Arthur Bigge, K.C.B., by Mr. A. A. Somerville, the Hon. Secretary of the Windsor and Eton Branch of the Navy League, on the suject of the training vessel for boys 'established by that organisation, now moored on the Thames at Windsor, the following reply has been received from Sir Fleetwood Edwards, K.C.B:--
Windsor Castle, 4th December 1899. Dear Sir,-Sir Arthur Bigge has handed me your letter of the 30th November, the con- tents of which I have laid before the Queen, who desires me to enclose a cheque for E10 xs a donation from Her Majesty to the funds of the Windsor and Eton Brauch of the Navy League. Believe me, yours very truly,
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FLEETWOOD I. EDWARDS,
REVIEWS.
The New Pacific. By HUBERT HOWE BAN- CROFT. New York: The Bancroft Company. 1900.
MR. BANCROFT has taken a great theme, and little too discoursive, but what to the reader in he deals with it worthily. His work is, perhaps,
China does not seem of immediate interest may prove eo to the reader, on the other side of the great ocean with which the author deals. The first chapter is headed Now and Then," in which a comparison is instituted between the trade and the stage of industrial development now and sixty years ago in the countries border. M. Raquez, during his short stay here, sawing on the Pacific. Nowhere, as the author says, more of the colony probably than many old residents have seen in all the long years they bare lived in the place. Amongst other things, he made a journey to the flagstaff to see the suariss, and this is bis description of the ascent and its reward :
Trois heures et demie du matin. Il est dûr de sauter du lis quand l'on se trouve brusque ment expulsé du pays des rêves.
Il le faut cependant, car ane excursion matinale au pic a été décidée.
All right! forwards! Ce que je deviens Anglais !
Le fièdele Nguyen enroule dans une natte des plaids et un déjeuner froid, puis la canne à la maio, nous voil à par Battery Path sur la route de la montagne.
Quatre heures sonnent. De temps à autre un coolie avec son fardeau sur l'épaule, un grave Hiudou la carabine en bandoulière, et nous grimpons toujours la pente parfois très raide.
La lamière des lampes électriques nous suit jusqu'à mi-ronte, c'est à dire jusqu'à l'endroit où s'étagent de chaque côté du chemin de somp-
tueuses villas.
Nous n'avons plus ensuite pour guider nos Au Pays des Pagodes. By A. RAQUEZ. Shang-pas que cette obscure clarté qui tombe des
hai: Imprimerie de is Presse Orientale, étoiles. --- 1900. (Hongkong: Kolly and Walsh, Lim-
ited:)-:
Qu'il falt délicieux à cette heure ! La ronte est masadamisée sur toute sa largeur. In 1898-90 M. Raquez made a tour in Sou hern Dans les pentes trop rapides, des stries out été and Central China, during which be kept a full | creusées adn d'aider la marche. De chaque and racy diary. This he has reprinted in a hand-côté, des rigoles en ciment pour l'écoulement some and lavishly illustrated volume. Starting des eaux. from: Hongkong M. Raquez proceeded to Six cents mètres (1825 pieds anglais) à gravir Canton by the Hankow," risited Macao On de la sorte.
A cinq heures nous sommes à la -his-way back, went from Hongkong to station du tramway et vingt minutes plus tard Shanghai, thence up the Yangtse to Han- sur la terrasse da sémaphore, le point le plus kow, and then through the provinces of Hunan | élevé de l'lls L'ascension dure done environ and Kweichow, and back to Shanghai. While une heure et demie. 10- Kweishow. he saw the famous quick- silver mines, U e concession for which had been secured by a Frencli Company. On his return to Shanghai he was greeted with the news that the concern had been made over to the Anglo- French Quicksilver Concession and Mining Co. Limited, which leads him to indulge in doleful reflections on French errors and neglect in China France has secured a territorial con- cession at Hankow, most of which has been
Spectacle merveilleux. L'orient s'irradie peu à peu sur notre droite, au delà des montagnes; le bien du ciel, tout-à-l'heure si profond, se dé. grade et bladohit; les étoiles semblent fair l'une après l'autre dans les profondeurs de l'azur, chassées par le maltre du jour qui veut réguer seal et sans conteste. Le voilà le Seigneur et Maitre qui sort de l'horizon, tel qu'une de ces fées de théâtre que les machinistes font émer ger lentement de dessous de la scène.
is history so rapidly being made as in and around the Pacific Ocean; nowhere is the evolu tion of events which stand for progress of more increasing interest and importance. Those who wish to realise the progress of the past and to place themselves in a position to estimate the progress of the future cannot do better than study Mr. Bancroft's pages. The subject should be one of engrossing interest to residents in this "the financial focus of the Far East," for no place is more vitally interested than Hongkong in the devolopment of the Pacific seaboard east and west and of the islands that dot the ocean's broad expanse.
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The year ninely-eight was a memorable one for the United States and for the world. It saw the destruction of Spain's colonial empire and the rise of the United States as a colonising and Far Eastern Power, Mr. Bancroft, in his second chapter, gives a review of the events of the year connected with that great movement, and in subsequent chapters he traces the history of the war and states the case for and against Im- perialism and the policy of expansion, his own conclusions on the latter point being stated as follows:-
"As the matter stands, we bave only to accept the situation as it exists at present, and work out for ourselves as best we are able the glorious future which waits on intelligent effort. For expansion is not a policy, but destiny; it is not nor has it been a sudden or unexpected acquisi- tion, but a development, seemingly slow but really rapid and continuous. And were there such theory formulated as part of our system of government, as a policy of expansion, it could be nothing more after all than the adaptation methods to conditions, in the future as in the past.
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The chapter on the Far East opens with the aphorism that "the history of China begins in fable and ends in foolishness." But the end has not been reached yet, and further on Mr Bancroft shows that he is not without faith in the future of that nation. Though he quotes
saying attributed to President Kruger- (we were not aware before that Mr. Kruger had interested himself in Chinese affairs) ——- that
China is not a state bat a people, headless like a flight of locusts, but lacking the com
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