October 30, 1905.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
would be notified that no live snakes would be allowed to be brought there in future.
NANNING NOT OPEN.
It is rumoured that Viceroy Shum has given orders to the Commissioner of Customs at Wuchow to stop all foreign owned steam launches that have hitherto boen trading between Wachow and Nanning from going to the latter port.
ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
married on the date that he married the said I wound cured. It was agreed that the shop Man Mi Kwai. I, therefore, hold that there was a valil Chinese marriage between, the com- plainant Cheung Pong and the said Mun Mi Kwai. With respect to the defence that the said Mun Mi Kwai left the complainant because of his cruelty, I am satisfied on the evidence that excessive cruelty as need by the complain ant towards her and that she ran away in consequence of such cruelty. It was not proved to my satisfaction that the complainant failed properly to maintain the said Mua Mi Kwai. Section 3 of the Ordinance is as follows :-" A person who receives or harbours a Chinese woman who has left her husband because of his cruelty to her, or because of his failure properly to maintain her, shall not be deemed to have received or harboured such married woman without excuse." By this section it is an absolute defence to proceedings under this Ordinance if it is found as a fact that a woman has left her husband because of his cruelty. My finding is, therefore, for the defendant, and I order his discharge.
CANTON.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT)
19th October. THE CANTON SCANDAL: MORE EIZURES. On the 15th inst. Viceroy Shum received information that Chau Tuog-Sang possessed some valuable leasehold properties in a village close by Fatshan. On the following day His Excellency ordered a deputy to proceel to the town with instructions to work in conjunction with the prefect and the civil and military authorities there to effect the seizure. The deputy proceeded with the sub prefect, two military officers and thirty soldiers to Long Haug Village, in the Wong-Ting-Sze district, where they sealed up the following properties :- (a.) One large ancestral temple cald the Wing-Luk-Tai-Fu (i.e. ancestral temple belonging to a mandarin of the 2nd degree).
(b.) One large family residence (not occupied). (c.) A beautiful summer house with a large garden attached to it called the Yew Shan Shue Sut. As a sequel to the proclamation issned by the Viceroy of Canton, calling upon the people to give information with regard to prop_rties known to belong to Chau Tung-Sang or to others implicated in the Canton scandal, the Chamber of Commerce has now furnished the Canton prefect with a long list containing 26 houses located in different towns of the province and valued at about 100,000 taels. The Viceroy has issued orders to the magistrates of the different districts interested to effect the seizures at once.
THE BOYCOTT.
Yesterday afternoon the Kwong-chai hospital received a telegram from the boycott committee in San Francisco making enquiries regarding the arrest of Ma Poon and Ha on account of boycotting Americau goods. They wish to know if the men have been released or not. The Kwongchai Hospital has also received a further contribution of $5,000 to as-ist the boycott.
SNAKES.
In the afternoon of the 17th instant a breakdown occured on the engine of a train that had left Shek-Wai-Tong for Fatshan. The breakdown occurred near the Fire-eyed Bridge station. The up train from Fatshan was requested to carry the news to Shek-Wai- Tong and ask for assistance. A train contain- ing the necessary implements for repairs was despatched from that station but, failing to slacken speed in time, could not stop and ran into the stationary train. Many people are said to have been injured, though fortunately none mortally.
A shop named Po-Hou-Lam in Wai-Oi street, near the Kwong chow prefect's yam-n, doos a profitable business in soake-tonic, a medicine much appreciated by Chinese. Peasants bring regular supplies of live snakes to this shop. On the 16th instant several baskets of a rery venomous variety were brought. Somehow or other two of the baskets had been carelessly closed and the captives escaped and soon found a comfortable hiding place under the street slabs. Consternation reigned for a time in the neighbourhood and people were greatly alarmed at the prospect of being bitten by one of these dangerous reptiles. Nobody cared to cross the street at night. On the night of the 17th inst, however, a stranger happening to pass there was bitten. Having learnt that snakes had escaped from the Po-Hou-Lam shop, he called for a meeting at an adjoining temple, and it was there decided by the neighbours that the shop, being respon- sible for the accident, would have to pay the medical expenses of the injured man to have his
19th October,
BACK FROM THIBET.
His Excellency Tong Shao Yi, High Com. missioner of the Imperial Chinese Mission to Thibet and India, arrived bere on the 17th inst, by the s.s. Hankow. I gather that His Excellency did not stop in Hongkong as he was afraid that the calls of his many friends at that port and the consequent fatigue would have involved to greet a strain on his failing health. He came to take a couple of days' rest and has been living in a flower-boat moored alongside the Dutch-folly Port. His Excellency left for Shanghai, this afternoon by the Chin Merchants' 8.8. Kwang-tah.
THE CANTON SCANDAL.
It is rumoured here that Prince Ching has wired to Viceroy Shum requesting him to be lenient towards Chau Taog Sang and not to take extreme measures. This intervention is attributed to the fact that Chau was a pupil of
Prince Ching (4).
CANTON MINT.
Mr. Edward Wyou's contract with the Mint authorities is about to expire. I understand the Provincial Treasurer has advised Viceroy Shum to retain the services of Mr. Wyon, who has done valuable work and whose experience makes him the fittest man to run the concern.
the Mint. Mr. Wyou is very popular with all hands at
OFFENCES ALLEGED AGAINST A "FRENCH
MISSIONARY.
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The S-Man-Po publishes a very eulogistic article about Viceroy Shum. It says that His Excellency enjoys the unbounded confidence of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress Dowager of China. It speaks highly of his undoubted integrity, and that although Ris Excell noy has cashiered hundreds of officials and is spoken of as being unusually savere, all bis acts are justifiable and must be ascribed to his desire to cleanse the Augeau Stables of Mandarindom and that it is for the ultimate geed of the Empire. Moreover, Viceroy Shum is ever ready to recognise merit and capability and las promoted only those officials who were deserving of promotion. The appoint ment of the new Governor of Kwang-Ei and the Kwat g-Tong Literary Char cellor were made on Viceroy Shum's recommendations. His Excellency enjoys the unbounded con. fidence of the Throne.
One of the local papers published yesterday the following: A French Missionary in the Po-Ning district named Fau-Man-Chai, relying and his personal influence as a member of the upon the support of the French Government French Missionary Societys has been guilty of grave misconduct. The magistrate of that district ha: memorialized Viceroy Shum request ng His Excellency to communicate with the French Consul and ask for the arrest of the missionary in question. It is reported on the other hand that the missionary has petitioned his Consul to defend his cause and to contradict the statements of the Po-Ning magistrate, adding that the magistrate was not performing his duties in a proper and impartia manner. Viceroy Shum in his report to the Consul stated that the missionary's brutality has ben the cause of the death of a man in that district. This missionary is said to have tehaved himself in a very improper manner on various occasions and that a whole series of misdeeds could be ascribed to him. All the people in the district are rady to bear testimony to that effect. By accusing the magistrate of n t performing his duties in a proper manner the missionary was simply endeavouring to extricate himself from the tight corner in which he finds himself. The Viceroy, continuing, says he cannot allow such things and that if the matter was dropped it will rous the anger of the people and might lead to serious troubles. His Excellency requests the Consul to communicate the matter to Bishop Mai and ask for the missionary's expulsion from the district.
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"DOG EAT DOG.”
A man surnamed Wong, a native of Lo-Po.... Eze, was a pirate chief in his younger days and had to seek shelter abroad some twenty years ago to evade capture, a price having been set on bis head.
Wong has amassed a considerable fortune abroad and had returned to his native district
some time ago. The local robbers, hearing of his wealth, have raided his house, carrying away thousands of dollars worth of valuables and money and have also abducted his only son. They are asking $10,000 for his ransom,
The district people ree in the occurrence the band of Fafe, decreeing that he shall be punished as he has sinned. The news of greatest equanimity by his countrymen and Wong's troubles have been received with the
neighbours.
HIGHWAYMEN,
23rd October,
Yesterday a wealthy Chinaman was held up near Shaho by half a dozen robbers armed to the teeth. Although the unfortunate victim was accompanied by numerous a rvants, none of them attempted to resist. They were divested of all they had with them, and those who were attired in silks were left on the roads very poorly clad.
VIRGINIAN TOBACCO. The Chinese having decided to boycott Wills' cigarettes on the ground that the tobacco is of American origin, an enterprising Japanese firm has placed on the market so-called Japanese cigarettes which are made nevertheless with Virginia leaf. The new brand is finding a ready sale and has come to stay.
THE BOYCOTT.
The following is a translation of a notification circulated through the medium of the local papers and distributed here to-day. It is headed in large characters:—“Notification to exhort the people of our country to abstain from pur- for our brothers it is as if we devis d it for chasing American goods. In devising a scheme
our sons and grandsons." The text offers a better example of composition than some of the boycott literature has done.
In part it is eloquent. Reminding the people of America's faults, and, of the progress of the retaliation up to date, the m nifesto says:- **Our ideas are good and the method adopted efficient. This is the first time in modern times that the Chinese have shown so much patriotism and we ought to be very grateful to Mr. Trang Hui-Hing, of Shanghai, for calling upon the four hundred millions of our country. men to unite together and to be of one mind and body. The people are exhorted to be patient and stand firm. This is all fair play and within common sense. This is a serious turning point in the history of our race and 's the moment to test our love for our country. Shall we become weaker or stron, er? Whether the sons of Han shall die ont and their country be wiped out of the world must be decided now. Everyone who claims to be a Chinaman must take the oath to do his utmost to preserve the integrity and rights of his country.' It then proceeds to supply fitting pithets for those mercenary Chinese who have trafficked with the Americans, evading the boycott; and assures them that the spirit of the late Fung-Har-Wai will haunt them; and that their sons and grandsons, if they do not die prematurely, will only live to dissipate their ill-gotten gains.
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