The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-05
TONY AFONG'S
RAILWAY CONCESSION
THE GENERAL TERMS AND COM
MENTS on THEM by THE SOUTH
CHINA MORNING POST.

CHINA MORNING POST
The South China Morning Post thus
commnets on the recently concluded
Macao-Canton railway concession I'm
which Tony Along is said to be largely
Interested Senior CASTILLO Branco,
the Portuguese Minister who negotiat-
ed the convention recently passed
through Honolulu, and was the guest
of Senior a. de Souza Canavarro, the
Portuguese Consul.
The Macao-Canton Railway Conven-
ton, a translation of which has APP
peared i'm the Shanghai Mercury" is
an interesting and an informing docu-
ment The convention is the outcome
of deliberations between II. E. Jose
d'Azevedo CASTILLO Branco, the Portu-
guese Minister to China and II. e.
Sheng, Chinese Imperial Commissioner
and Director-Generalo of Railways. The
concession is represented by thirty
nine articles and an appendix. We
cannot congratulate the Portuguese
Government on either the language of
the convention or the concession
secured. That astute official, Sheng
Tajen, has decidedly scored from every
point of view; and although the Macao
community may be sanguine of the
scheme advancing the interests of that
ancient port, we shall be agreeably
surprised if the railway ever comes into
existence. Its very title is enough to
kill any respectable undertaking at it's
birth, for It has been christened with
the eu honistic name of the Chun-
Pu-Kuang-A o-Tie-L u- Cum-Sz which
Translator means Portuguese-Chinese
Company of the Canton-Macao Rail
way. We think the Portuguese Minis
ter, i'm the interests of his country,
might well have done his work better.
A survey of the articles of this pre-
cious convention will interest our read
ers. The head office of the company is
to be at Macao and the shares are to
be equally divided between Chinese
and Portuguese subjects. Then comes
the extraordinary provisO that the Por-
tuguese Government "can under no
preteXt interefer with the affairs of the
company" The Chinese, rightly enough
have evidently profited from their eX
perience of the Canton Hanllow con-
cession, for the articles provide that
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