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There can now be no doubt of the opening up China. The Shanghai Mercury reports that on eptember 26th a Chinese funeral procession was seen passing along, and that the deceased's bicycle was a conspicuous object therein.
The French gunboat Surprise returned to Kiukiang on September 25th from a cruise in the Poyang Lake. She did not go further than Nanchang; it is said that the Chinese pilot declared he was unable to take her further into the lake.
The Courrier de Tientsin learns, on good authority, that the Chinese employed on the Yunnan Railway are rapidly dispersing owing to their fear of being forced to enrol by the Chinese sent to raise troops, or the alternative of being considered as rebels.
While tacking to leave. Woosung on Sep. tember 29th, a heavily-laden Chinese vessel refused to answer her helm and was carried on the tide full against the Austrian Lloyd steamer Trieste, then at anchor. The steamer suffered little, but the "lorcha ' was so badly damaged that she had to return to discharge her cargo.
L'Echo de Chine says that the Japanese painter Murata, who did some remarkable work in connection with the China-Japanese war, has left on board a man-of-war, by Imperial desire, to see and picture the capture of Port Arthur and the naval combats preceding that event. Our contemporary sees in this incident an illustration of the confidence which breeds
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The engagement of Captai Acourty, of H.I.A.M.'s navy, and Mia D. von Meyeren has been formally announced. The marriage will take place at Tientsin in February, on the return of Capt. Accurty from Home, where he is proceeding on service.
The Hou. J. M. Davidson, American Consul- General to Nanking, left Shanghai on Septem. ber 24th by the C.N. steamer Kiuling. Mr. Davidson went to Nanking to relieve Mr. F. D. Cheshire, who has been transferred to Canton, where he takes Mr. McWade's place as Consul-General.
The statement, repeated by us, that China had protested against the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty, is now declared false. A Peking telegram to the N.-C. Daily News says: The Waiwupu denounces officially the statement recently made on Russian authority, and declares that it has never protested against the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty. It appears, nevertheless that there was some strong objection raised at Peking.
Stude its who speak Japanese and are fairly well educated are being selected to go to Fengtion and assist the Japanese municipal arrangements in the various places they are controlling, everything being done through Chinese officials under Japanese direction. The Wai Wu Pu has wired to the Tartar General et Fenztien to ask the Japanese not to institute their municipal governments in any of the cities taken. as the Chinese can govern themselves. The Japanese absolutely refuse to entertain the request. - Peking Times.
Among the Chinese labourers who recently arrived at the Van Ryn Mine, Johannesburg, The difficulty of getting and keeping good is one who proudly exhibits two British medals. servants is becoming a serious problem also in The first of these is for service in China, the India, as locally. There are signs (it is said) labourer having at one time been a private of which show that the most ruffianly and good the native regiment stationed at Weihaiwei.for-nothing servants belong to a sort of trades The second is the Coronation medal, the China-union, all the members of which support each man having been one of the party sent to other. so that if one is dismissed for no matter London in 1902 to represent his regiment.
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a fault it becomes impossible to A merchant of Riga, named Hirrow, has been replace him. Quite lately the Couned of the placed in prison for a curious offence. He had Imperial Anglo-Indian Association addressed missed his last train home, but, finding that a the Government on the necessity of introducing goods train was shortly to start, he bought a a law into Calcutta regulating the relations fowl and booked it by the train, at the same between masters and servants. calling to notice time obtaining a ticket for himself as attendant the recent frequent boycotting of employers on live stock. He reached his destination, but by servants. was afterwards arrested, and is now being prosecuted by the railway company for fraud. His fowl has been confiscated.-Korea Daily News.
The technical school attached to the Board of Commerce will be opened in Peking on the 1st of the 9th Moon (20th Oct.) The number of scholars is now temporarily limited to 120, who will be divided into six classes and taught various technical subjects. The required books and instruments have been imported from Japan. and the annual expenditure will be defrayed out of the sum of Tls. 200,000 which was given to the Board of Mining and Railway; Affairs (now abolished) by a Chinese merchant from Singapore in exchange for some mining con- cessions in Kwangsi.-Tientsin Official Gazette.
Thus Hector Fuller, American war corres- pondent:-"When I was released from jail and went among those Russian soldiers, I realized that, with all their faults, they were white men. and there came upon me a full realization of the difference between the white and the yellow. If Japan should win this war-and I hope she won't, and do not see how she can-it will be the worst thing that could happen, so far as America is concerned." Perhaps it is just to explain that Fuller was in jail only for invading Port Arthur without leave. He was at Chefoo, empty of news, and went over in a junk to get fuller. He seems full now.
The St. Peterburskiya Viedomosti states that Vladivostock has again been constituted a free port, an event which had long been desired. M. Protassioff, a Government financial expert. who has been sent on a mission to Vladivostock by the Viceroy, has just arrived in that town in order to decide the question whether it would be advisable to maintain Vladivostock and the Amur district as free port territory after the war, or whether the decision arrived at should be considered as having been taken only as applying to the period for which the war lasted. There exists much difference of opinion among the inhabitants of Vladivostock regarding the necessity of making the place a free port, or of re-establishing the customs system, and there are many favouring the latter course.
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It has been known for some weeks, says the A-C. Daily News, that Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson contemplated retirement from the onerous duties of Chief Justice of H. B. M. Supreme Court of China and Corea. The announcement is now made that Sir Hiram's resignation has been sent in to the proper quarters, but that it will not take effect until a successor is appointed. In the meantime session of the Supreme Court will open, and on its completion in the course of the next few weeks Sir Hiram will go on oircuit to Tientsin and to Hankow. The retiring Chief Justice has seen 40 years' continuous service in the East.
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We have heard this good story before, but it will probably be fresh to many readers. It is about the Japanese when they purchased their first steamer. It was brought out from Eng- land by a British crew, and they had hardly arrived and taken up their moorings in Naga- saki Harbour, before they were boarded by the Japanese crew to take her ever. They were as usual very polite, but they made it clearly un- derstood that they wished to take a cruise on their own account without any foreign assis- tance. The British crew therefore went ashore, engineers and all. The Japanese immediately shipped their moorings, sounded the whistle in a cock-a-whoop style, and steamed out to sea. Everything worked splendidly, and the steerin: was beautiful to behold; after a short time they returned to harbour again. Then came the hitch,--when the captain signalled, “Ease her." "Stop her," and so on, those in charge of the engines down below could not find the necessary handles and levers to carry out his instructions. Consequently they ran over their moorings, nearly collided with some shipping, and finally had to sail round and round the harbour with the signal of distress flying, and blowing the whistle in anything but a cock-a-whoop mann r. until the ecotch engineer who had brought the steamer ont came off in a boat and showed them how to Stop her." The Japanese had picked up their knowledge from somewhat out-of-date text books. They have improved considerably
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[October 8, 1904 TRADE ITEMS.
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It is reported in the North that the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. have sold the steamer Fuping.
Chinese bankers have been buying up Russian rouble notes around Yinkow and sending them to Shanghai, making considerable profit.
Sheng Kung pao wishes to have the terminus of the Shanghai-Nanking Kailway at Woosung, while the British Minister desires to make Shanghai the terminus.
This comment, taken from the N. C. Daily News, refers to the Dallas Horse Repository Co., Ld. "It speaks well for the amiable way things are going when the secretary of a com- pany is permitted at its annual meeting to propose the re-election of his auditor, and the legal adviser sits by without tu ning a hair."
The Poking Board of Commerce report the founding of a glassware company by wealthy Chinese at Soochow. The company has been formed with a capital of Tls. 500,000 with the imports from European countries being on the idea of protecting the industry in China, the
increase yearly.
Sanction has been obtained by wealthy mer- chants, from the Board of Commerce to esta- blish a large commercial and industrial institu- tion at Kirin Fu, which is the capital of the province of Kirin. The institution will com- prise wool, cloth, cotton goods, soap and sugar factories, and the capital is to be Tls. 300,000 divided into 3,000 shares of Tls. 100.
But erfield and Swire's steamer Shast now plies on the river Shan between Hankow and Shantan, but there being no suitable wharf the Company bought land near Chinchia wharf outside the west gate of Changsha to build a wharf matter has been settled through the British Consul at Hankow and the Customs Taotsi at
hangsha.—Universal Gazette,
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The new Java-China-Japan Line, subsidised y the Dutch Government, and which co sti. tutes a regular monthly service via Macassar, Soerabaya, Samarang, and Batavia, to Hong; kong, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, Yokohama, and Amoy, is imparting a cousiderable impetus to the export trade of the Dutch Indies.- Fairplay.
A German message says that the report that the British Government has forbidden the sale of coal to Russia is contradicted by the fact that not only have already large quantities of English copal been sold to Japan and Russia, but the delivery to Russia is still continued at Cardiff British, French and Norwegian, as well as German steamers, have a share in the freight. Some Liverpool coal-steamers are at present on their way to Hongkong.
The Aah says that Japanese eriferiments with Chinese cotton have prove successful. Only 17 years ago not a single bale of Chinese cotton was imported into Japan for spinning purposes, but now the imports of Chinese cotton stand at the ratio of about 50 bales against 90 of Indian produce. The quality being equal, the advantage of drawing the supply from China is obvious, and the Asahi entertains the hope of a very bright future for the cotton industry in general.
The China Review having stated suggestively that the Yokohama Specie Bank was discount- ing the Japanese war notes at 15 per cent., the Tientsin manager, Mr. S. K. Suzuki, con- tradicted it, and said: The Japanese war note are redeemed by the Japanese authorities in Manchuria at par on demand, and are circulating freely in the interior as well as at Newchwang." The Editor of the pro-Russian journal has a good reply, naming a specific case and person. We may add that the ientsin imes also reported the discount. What is truth?
The Shanghai branch of the Trade Marks Registration Bureau will be opened on the 23rd October, and the Shanghai Taotai has been notified by the Board of Commercial Affairs that the head office of the said Burean in Peking will also be opened on the same day and the Shanghai branch should not fail to com- mence work on the same day. Taotai.Yuen has already intimated the matter to Mr. Hobson, the Commissioner of Maritime Customs of Shanghai, and attached one of the writers of the Yamen, who was in charge of the matter, to
the Commissioner of Customs to deal with it.
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