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actual for 119 was due partly to the increase in the estimated revenue of the year 120 and partly to the special provision of 2,800,000 ticals for the award in the Murray-Campbell Arbitration Case.
In the year 121 it has been found possible largely to increase the amounts provided in the y ar 120 under the heads provincial gen. darmerie, provincial public works and admini- stration, forest departmeut, ministry of foreign affairs, ministry of finance, judicial courts, education, survey department, and for other departments in a smaller degros.
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MACAO.
[FROM OVE CORRESP.NDEN..]
Macao, 6th September. ARRIVALS ANJ DEPARTURES.
Last week there was an unusually large influx of visitors both from Hongkong and from Canton, but now the town is much quieter again. The British gunboat Robin is here until the beginning of next week, when she will proceed the West River to Shanushui. Mr. and Mrs. Seaton left last week by the Kumano Maru for Japan, whence they are expected back early in October.
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NEW OFFICALS.
The new Governor of Macao bas delayed his departure from home, but both he and the Attorney-General will probably be here b fore the end of next month.
A LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
and turned into ornaments, and in one of these, named Kwong Kat Cheong, when a shell was cut open, a large pearl of the weight of one mace two candareens and a balf was found in it. It was a very large pearl, supposed to be the largest in the world. The pearl-dealers flocked to the shop to enquire about its price, and the proprietor Cheang Chi wanted ten thousand taels. The pearl-dealers offered only ten thou- sand dollars, and the sale is not yet cone uded.
There are so few excitements provided here that it was pleasant to see the announcement of an amateur entertainment (singing and thea tricals) for this evening in the concert hall of the Union Club. It is in aid of a local orphan age, and perhaps some Hongkong visitors may contrive to attend: they will certainly find it a more profitable investment than an evening at fantan It is hoped also that some support may be forthcoming from Hongkong for a grand bazaar which is being arranged for the early part of October.
UNWELCOME VISITORS.
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[FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.]
AN ENLIGHTENED AND PROGRESSIVE
W. I-YUEN.
Canton, 6th September. Some days ago a very amusing ad interest- ing care was investigated in the Yamen of the Kwong Chan Prefect. The circumstances of the case are as follows: About two years ago one Wong Tsan, who described himself as an American citizen, brought an action in the United States Consular Court here against a merchant in Kong Mun named Leug (heuk Nam for the recovery of $15,00, being the amount due upon a promissory note. Necessary steps were taken in the mat er and representation was ma'e to the high authorities, whereupon Leung Chenk Nam was arrested and detained in pris n. le strenuously denied and disputed the claim made against him. so further enquiry was instituted and it was afterwards found that his son-in-law, Tam Tsun Hig implicated and ad something to do with the promissory note in question. He was also arrested and detained in prison pending the hearing of the action. It came or for trial some days ago in the Yam-n of the Kwong Chau Prefect. The court was composed of Mr. Li Chi, an English-speaking gentleman, who is Wei-yuen to the Hoppo of Cantou and and who was special y appointed by the high authori ies to investigats into the alleged claim, the U.S. Consul, and some other Chinese officials interested in the matter.
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the railway junction in Fatehan is at Ying- Tsui-Sa. The site in Wongas, Canton, from which the railway is to commence has been purchased from the owner for a sum of six thonsand and four hundred dollars.
THE NEW GOVERNOR..
H. E. Li Hing-Yui, Governor-Designate of Canton, is obliged to stay in Shanghai for some days on accouut of illness, though his arrival at Canton is earnestly expected by Viceroy Tau- Mu, whose illness is gett og worse daily. Governor Tak Sow refuses to take over his seals until the arrival of his successor.
BELATED.
The Viceroy has received telegraphic instruc- tion from the Peking Government telling him to postpone the abolition of lekin-stations on account of the commercial treaty not having bon signed by the representatives of all the Powers!
WANT OF RAIN.
mulberry harvest will be destroyed in many It is feared that the autumn rice-crops and districts, if rain does not make its appearance at an early date. At present a dollar can only bay eighteen cattios of rice, which is getting dearer day after day, holders being firm.
NORTHERN NOTES.
The following notes are from the Peking and Tientsin Times of the 30th ult.:—
The Hai Kwan Tao has ordered a motor car for his use in perambulating the city. His Excellency clearly means to be quite ap to date.
The Geiman destroyer S. 90 is expected up with the ex-Chiness destroyer Taku now at a' the Bund early in September. The vessel Tsingtao represents all the vessels of this type the German admiral his at his disposal in Chinese wa'ers.
There are persistent rumours which have some ba is in fact or rather in correspondence, foreign field forces will cease next Spring. It that the permanent occupation of Chihli by the
distrust of each other that has kept this matter is largely, we fear, a question of the Allies'
in abeyance till now.
An intelligent native correspondent his week wrote 118
follow :-"After the
out the dam squeeze, Viceroy take over Tientsin he tries to keep
A week finds two police (an old and a new) privately ago he
It is peculiar that the proceedings were conducted in quite a modern and civilised style. All witnesses before giving their evidence were kept away from the Court, so nothing could be Nothing has been heard lately of any furtherheard while a witness was giving his evidence. designs on the part of France or other nations And moreover there was a total absence of the upon the tranquility of Macao. Last mouth usual disgusting torture throughout the whole two Russians came to stay at one of the hotels proceedings. for a week and spoke mysterionsly of Ru-sian Wong 'I'san and his witnes es Tau Tsun Hing enterprises which would end in the acquisition (son-in-law of the alleged debtor Leung Cheuk of India and China; however, they themselves Nam) and Leang Kan Po were (xamined appeared to have no greater ambition than to
one after another by the Weiyuen Li, Chi.fining the people who hang not the lantern at obtain a place in the Chinese customs; disap-Their respective evidence was taken d wu in
the door $2: they have their heads cut off.” pointed in this-since they were unable to speak writing and signed by them.
This is surely graphic and clear enongh for even It ultimately the bypercritical. the despised English language-they weut off turned out to their surprise that their evidence without troubling to pay their hotel-bill, leaving did not corroborate each other's and it was behind neither documents nor baggage of any found that Tam Tsun Hing was the prime material value.
mover in the matter, and that be conspired together with Wong Tsan in the forging of the promissory note in question and bringing this bogus claim against his father-in-law, Leung Cheuk Nam. The Wei-yuen Li Chi thereupon ordered Wong Tsan to be imprisoned for bring- ing a false claim and his witnesses to be detained in prison ustil further orders.
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton, 8th September.
THE NEW GOVERNOR.
It is said that the newly appointed provincial Governor Li Kwong-yai is sick in Shanghai, and that his coming to Canton is deferred. A SUCC SS FOR THE BL CK FLAG GENERAL. Lin Yang-fu, the Black Flag General, who before had four battalions of soldiers under his command, and soon after the rebellion in Kwangs had his military power docked by Viceroy Tao Mu, leaving him but two hundred men, was not satisfied with this arrangement and went to the yamen to interview the Viceroy, He tendered his resignation, but it was not accepted. At the time when the acting prefect Kung took command of one of Liu Yang-fu's battalions, these soldiers attempted to desert, auder the pretext of going home or seeking other employment. About two hundred of them got away. His Excellency the Viceroy could not help it, but had to order Liu Yung-fn to take back the two battalions that he had given to Sam Chün-yee, and another that he had given to Oh Yam-kwai. The three hundred soldiers that were left under the command of the acting prefect Kang Sum Cham were also restored to Liu Yung-fu.
The river has fallen still more during the last Master's office than a fortnight ago. week, and is now 24 feet lower at the Harbour The Channel is, however, not deteriorating at the same rate, if at all; and steamers drawing 10 feet are finding little or no trouble. They are accompanied up and down by a tug as far as Peitangkou, though often the services of the latter are not required. The chief difficulty is
swinging" on the downward trip.
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date has been fixed for the latter, viz., 8th Octo- ber, there is now no necessity for the services of the regiment. The date of 8th October has time she will be ready to restore the extramural been fixed, as Russia has intimated that by that line and the workshops at Shanhaikwan.
It is now understood that the Third Battalion The U.S. Consul was in Court throughout of Goorkhas will not come to China. Their the trial and apparently he was satisfied with despatch from India was contingent on the ren- the decision, as he raised no objection;.thedition of the railway line, and as practically a proceedings were properly and fairly con- ducted. Mr. Li Chi has done a great credit to himself and to his Gorerument in the way he conducted the case, no cruelty or torture having been applied for the purpose of extorting confession or otherwise. His brother mandarins should therefore follow the good and humane example set by him. They will find it much easier to discover the truth otherwise than by resorting to torture or other cruel punishment.
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[FROM THE CHUNG NGOI BAN PO."
THE CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY.
Mr. Willis E. Gray, the representative of the Canton-Hankow hailway Company, accom- panied by his translator Mr. Leung Shun-chi, has commenced to make a tour of inspection of all the places through which the railway is to pass. He arrived at Fatsban on the 2nd inst., where he was warmly received by the local officers and the geny, who afterwards held a meeting in the Tai Foi-Tong (the chamber of the In An Kung Street, Canton, there are a gentry). Mr. Gray was escorted all the way number of shops in which mother-of-pearl is cut through by a band of soldiers. It is aid that
A GREAT PEABL.
A petition has been filed with the Philippine Commission by Mr. A Burlingame Johnson on behalf of a New York syndicate, requesting a franchise for the construction of a complete electric street railway system for Manila and suburbs, and for the installation of an electric lighting plant for private lighting. Should the franchise be granted it is promised that the construction work will begin at once, and that the entire system covering the principal streets of the city and outlying districts will be com- pleted and in operation within 20 months thereafter. It is to be what is known as the 'overhead trolley system." Both first and second-class cars will be run, the rates of fares to vary for the different classes of passengers. The cars are to be of the most modern improved types used in the States.
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