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shall decide upon just and equitable prices, so that the said owners may obtain whatever may be the right value of their properties under the circumstances. Having determined upon the sums to be paid, the said Foreign Ministers will demand these monies from the Chinese Govern- ment.
Now be it known that beginning from this date of the issuance of this proclamation a limit of twenty days, that is to say, to the 8th day of the 4th Moon (25th May) shall be given to the owners of the said properties to present their title-deeds and documents or petitions thereon to the said General Conncil House in Shamao Street. If it should turn out that false title deeds have been presented, or that false owners have appeared with claims to property not be longing to them, and such like attempts at fraud. or there may be collusion with witnesses to per- petrate frauds, as soon as these are found out the severest punishments will be dealt out to the culprits, and no leniency will be exercised.
4th May, 1951.
THE FOOCHOW TEA MARKET.
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trader should have the market spoilt for him at the commencement of the season by a hand- ful of small orders, practically unlimited as to price, and sent by people who will have no further interest in the article during the season but where is the remedy ? - Fonchow Echo,
HONGKONG.
The Harbour Master, Commander R. Murray Rumsey, R.N., has returned to the Colony.
On the 26th ult. one Chine:0 0182 of small-pox in the colony was reported by the Sanitary authorities.
On the 25th ult. the U.S. gunboat Benning- ton left for Shanghai. The German gunboat Jaguar loft on the 26th ult. for Pakhoi.
By regulation made by the Governor in Council on the 17th ult., the number of jinrickshas to be licensed was increased from 1,000 to 1,200.
Considerable enthusiasm and excitement was caused on the 21st ult. among the Chinese of Praya West by the appearance of a Dragon boat, on the water front, rowed by about forty men, which was going towards West Point.
The return of the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M G., to his duties as Colonial Secretary is notified in the Gazette, as is the resumption by the Hon. T. H. Whitehead of his position as Unofficial Member of the Legis
On Thursday an unknown European, while going in a ricksha along Praya East, either jumped or fell out of the same, and sustained severe concussion of the brain. He was picked up in a comatoss state, and, we are informed, has not yet regained consciousness.
After all the trouble and discussion over the Venice Convention preventing the local Govern- ment from allowing sick Chinese leaving the Colony it has now been discovered that the Convention does not apply to Hongkong. Really the local Government should start an Intelligence Department.
From the doleful accounts reaching throughout the spring and the gloomy view taken of the future by those who in the slack season had visited those markets we were pre. pared to вее unprecedented difficulties attending the commencement of business this season, and it is not too much to say that thelative Council, Chinese rather expected them than otherwise We do not mean that we were prepared to see no buying until the middle or end of June (as some predicted) or that Chinese expected to get no offers for their teas for some time after their arrival-that would indeed be a serious collapse in a trade that is dying out, but the end is not yet. What we and they looked for, under all the existing circumstances. was a determination on the part of buyers not to begin business unless they could purchase on a dis. tinctly lower basis of price than they did last year. These remarks do not apply to our specialities, Souchongs and Flowery Pekoes, which our rivals in India and Ceylon have not yet succeeded in interfering with. It is of our stable commodity, Congou, that we write and what have we seen? So far from there having been any hitch, the market sprang into life almost as soon as the samples were shown and on a scale of prices fully on a parity with those established at the opening of the market last year, blowing the forecast to the winds. And so we are launched into the tea season of 1991. 1902. The Chinese are making handsome profits, and as regards the best chops of each district it is a good thing they have made them, since it will encourago them to supply teas of good quality; but we think that it would be of advantage to all those interested in the trade if there was a larger margin in price between those that are best and those that are not. It may be-indeed is-argued now that the important shortage in the yield of first crop (estimated at 30 per cent) warrants the prices paid for every chop so far shipped, looked at as first steamer shipments,--this scarcely fits in with what was generally thought a fortnight ago.
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On the 26th ult. the British transports Chingta and Ibua arrived from Weihaiwei and Calcutta respectively, while the Putiala and Itola left- the former for Taku, the latter for Calcutta, On the 27th ult. the British transports Chingtu, Mutra, and Itrca left the harbour, the first for Calcutta, and the other two for Taka.
Mr. A. G. Wise, Puiane Judge, was on the 26th ult. sworn in by H.E. the Governor as Acting Chief Justice during the absence on holiday of Sir John Carrington, C.M.G.. who sailed by the Empress of China on the 26th nit. for a three months' tour in Japan. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary, will resume the office of Acting Puisne Judge.
P.C. 99 (James New) died at the Sung Sui Police Station at 10 p.m. on the 24th ult. from malarial fever. The funeral took place at Happy Valley yesterday afteroon, and was numerously attended by the deceased's comrades. New was one of the last batch of marines which
arrived in the colony a little over a year ago to augment the Police Force. He held the medal and bar for the Beuin campaign of 1894-97. New was aged only 24, and was a native of London.
unwashed and ill-clad, stepped into the witness. box and calmly surveyed the departing form of the Chief Justice. He had a little difficulty about money that he wanted settled, it transpired, and took this method of bringing his case directly before the notice of the Court. The would-be-litigant was persuaded to retire from the witness-box and to make his application in the usual way.
After all it is nothing new that the opening Just as the hearing was adjourned for tiffiu of business should go contrary to local pre-of the Crisp trial on the 21st alt, a Chinaman, conceived ideas. It has long been evident that however disastrous a past season may have been to shippers, the circumstance has no influence on the opening prices of the next season. It has been proved, the present opening proves it, that our buyers as a body have no control over the market; it is those at a distance in the various consuming markets who unwittingly control it. Orders come from all quarters of the globe for, say, finest teas to be shipped by first steamer; they may ba over 60 small but in the hands of several firms they lead to a good deal of competi- tion in the course of their execution, and So it comes about that the most careful buyers find themselves obliged to pay prices their neighbours deem absurdly high. Small though these orders may be, they ag- gregate quite sufficient to set business going and establish a scale of prices which others haye to follow or lose their chance of an interest in a first steamer. This is the ex- planation of our early activity and high prices. It is undoubtedly a hard case that the regular
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[July 1, 1901.
The British transport Itola arrived on the 24th ult, from Takn.
On Sunday night, the 23rd ult. the British transports Lalpoora and Nurani left for Taku. The meeting of the Legislative Council summoned for the 25th ult, at 3 p.m., was post- poned sine dic.
Four French transports leave Marseilles for Taku this week to take back part of the expeditionary force.
Sir John Currington, C.M.G., Chief Justice, left Hongkong on the 26th ult. for a three months' holiday in Japan.
On the 24th ult. the British transports Mutra and Putinla arrived from Calcutta, while the Ula left for the same port.
On Saturday the British transports Ula and Nurani reached Hongkong, the former from Taku, the latter from Calcutta.
Invalided non-commissioned officers and men, to the number of about thirty, left for England on the 28th ult. by the P. & O. steamer Japan.
Nurse E. 8. Gray, the first of the nurse engaged to work in connection with the Hong- kong Nursing Institution, arrived in the colony by the last English mail.
Apart from plague last week, the cases of cominunicable disease reported in the colony were only two, both of enteric fever-one European and one Chineso. No deaths we'e reported.
Among the departures by the _Parramatta on the 22nd ult. were Capt. Langhorne, R.A., Commander E. D. Hunt, and Deputy Inspector General Bolster, of the Royal Naval Hospital, who are all bound for London.
The water polo match at Kowloon on the 25th nlt. between the V.R C. and 25th Eastern Division, R.A., resulted in a win for the V.R.C. by three goals to one. Armstrong for the V.R.C: played well, and Andrews played in a mauner worthy of the best traditions.
On the 23rd ult. Mr. C. B Buyers, Super. intendent of t'e Peak Tramway, who has but lately returned to Hongkong from a holiday, met with a serious accident. It occurred as he
was abont to board a tram in motion near the Peak Station, Missing his footing, or misjudg- ing the speed at which the car was approaching, he was forcibly thrown off the car and against the fence. The impetus carried him over the fonce, and he fell a distanos of about 15 feet. On being picked up he was conveyed to the Peak Hospital and found to be suffering from a severe injury to the head, a fractured collar bone and a damaged rib. Mr. Buyers is, howevor, progressing favourably, in spite of his numerous injuries.
Colonel The O'Gorman, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in Hongkong, is, with Madam O'Gorman, leaving the colony at an early date for England. Colonel O'Gorman's term of service expired on the Sʊth ult., but the date of his sailing is not as yet definitely settle 1. He will be succeeded by Major Hamilton, King's Own Scottish Borderers, a staff officer of con- siderable experience. Major Hamilton, whose last appointment was that of Acting Adjutant Goneral in the Presidency District of India, is due to take up the duties of the office left vacant by the retiral of Colonel O'Gorman on 1st July. The departure of Colonel The O'Gorman and his wife will be regretted by their many friends in Hongkong, who naite in wishing them boa voyage. They travel, it is understood, by way of the Trans-Siberian · Railway.
The operations in connection with the attempt to be made on the 27th ult. to raise the Canton River are practically complete. Two pumps, one 10-inch and one 9-inch, have been erected in the forward compartment, and in the William Klein and Charles Knairacher, two aft compartment is a 12-inch pump which German youngsters, without employment, re- will take in the entire engine-room. It siding at the "Star" Coffee House, were taken is intended to pump out the three com. to the Central Police Station last Saturday noon partments at the same time, and, all being on the charge of stealing a pair of silk pyjamas wel', the vessel should float in about two from one Mr. Haley, a boarder at the same hours from the commencement of pumping, place. They claimed that the pyjamas were The steam for working the pumps will be given to them by complainant amongst a lot of obtained from three launches to be moored other clothing he gave them a few days ago. alongside the staging. This staging has been They were released after a short detention, as erected with a view to lead the vessel up, and there was not sufficient evidence to ensure a four anchors are placed on either side to conviction. The inspector in charge justly con-prevent any possibility of its capsising when cluding that possibly the pyjamas were amongst the clothing given to defendants without com- 'plainant being aware of it.
it leaves the bottom of the harbour. The actual operation of raising the vessel will take place early this week.
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