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There were no plagne cases and no On the other deaths during the past twenty-four hours. The latest news from Cabul is to the effect that the Air has been in pror health Itely
of hearing of projected railways, which are to be built hither and thither, when the timber does not appear yet to be felled that are to form the sleepers thereof. hand, in Pechili, before we have left the province, thero will be many miles of railway, and these cannot fail to be in object lesson to the Chinese, and will, THE evacuation of Peking is fixed for perhaps, in a very little time, ba ini- today. A year and a day have passed tated by the more enlightened of the since the stalwart warriors of India wealthy people. One other thing any forced their way into the British Lega-be ruentioned, for it is a thing of some
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1901.
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Terrible Accident in Japan.
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News of a terribly accident way received at Kobo from Mutsusi Mara, Koza Gori, Kanagawa Kun, on the 7th inst. It seems that a village fastival was hold on the 4th,
FREUTER'S HERVICE].
KING EDWARD AND COUNT VON WALDERSEE.
LONDON, 13th July, 1991.
King Edward received Count von Wal- derace Homburg, and conferred upon him the Grand Cross of the Bath..
THE LATE EMPRESS
FREDERICK,
The coffin of the late Empress Frederick
fion and announced, amidst deafening importance. The Chinese in China China Field Force, will practed on ong when a religious dance was given at one of was removed from Cropberg church to the
Major Reid, Deputy Julge-Advocate, year's furlough on arrival in India.
the temples. During the performance a tin station by toreblight yesterday evening. The remains wure followed by a princely of kerosene containing fira gallons 'explod - j. An international football matched through careless handling and three ortega. Singapore on the ith inst-England children wore burnt to death; nine others
being seriously injured, Southand-resulted in a win fux England by 2 gouls to nil.
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cheers, that those who had been beday are more respectful to the European long leagured for many weeks, and at times than they have been for many a had almost lost all hopes of deliverance, your. Many facts prove this. There is the prompt settlement of the mission were free. Many things can happen in a year, and many things have happened claims. There are the personal inter views which prominent officials have WHISKIES during this time in the north of China.
It is understood that King Edwerd has On the occasion of the anniversary of and with prominent missionaries with a the relief, we are inclined to ask the view to this. There is the fact that issued an order, waking Ilin Royal High-
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Arc Supplied to HIS MAJESTY question, live we accomplished all that congratulatory dinners have been givenness the Duke of Cornwall and York his reoruited from India, have bom ruled in-principal civil and military authorities at
we attempted, all that we desired, all to those who have taken a prominent representative during the visit to Canada, KING EDWARD VII, under that we ought? We--that is, all who part in the adjustment and settlement and in that way he will take precedones tools purt in the relief expedition-we of these claims. And fast, but not least, over His Excelleney the Governor-General, have accomplished much, and it would there is the certality of the fact that who is the Sovereign's representative there, show Inck of appreciation on our part the general attitude of the people ali
The Rev. J. Genham Paterson left for wards those who undertook the work over China towards the European has Australia to-day in the Guk. He paid a flying visit Canton, and attended the to deny this. The first aim of the Allies greatly changed, and today he can go was, of course, the relief of the bewhere he likes without meeting with funeral of the late Dr Kern, He proposes Ceagured Legations. This was effected. any of the provoking abuse that is to land at Thursday Island and make his
The Secretary of State told Sir Sey-
[HAVAS SERVICE] After the failure on the part of Admiral usually thrown at him,
mour King recently in the Housh of Com
"THE NAVAL MANŒUVRES.. Seymour, who attempted the impossible, | formed Consul and are little time
mons that some speen concessions in the
Paris, August 5, and so revealer the difficult nature of since, Europeana are to-day peranze
mattor of officials expenses for quarters,
During the narcourros of the British fuel, nad lighting on the China expedition degt in the English Channel, one torpedo the work before the Alliex the latter grata, al so are treated as sudi.
On the other hand, it must be uf- To Him Who Watts. pashe vigorously forward, and se
A Bangkok paper says:-On Monday had hoon sanctioned by the War Office. prevented the bloodthirsty Empress and mitted that we have not completely |
boilere damaged. her party from gitting their revenge finished the work wa hnd set ourselves, at 3 a.m. a polite coastaldo noticed a win. The extras had berne rather heavily on the best went ashore, ans torpiede boat dos-
But while there is assistance voted to the the blood of gentle and inousive The infamous leader of this revolt dow of a house in the Triputeh Road ogen, officers, especially in Honghong and Shang-troyer was lost, and another had all her Europeans. This rat object of the against Europestis might to have been and Incder reared up against it. He hat, where house rents are excessively ligh.
promptly constituted himself a surprise party
aus effectively ranchied. The captured and kept where she could do aty, and dinly entrenched himself well naval and military residents in Hongkong, In the foltest of time and the Colonial service, local civil reside Goods per Matajan not cleared at 4Allies also have swept the Boxers from harm. Whilst the Empress is aliqwunder cover,
the face of the country; or, at least, for ed to go free, the danger is not removed. burglar, with 200 ticals of silver, and costly ents have to hear their own burdens as the tire laing, have transformed them The Future cannot be guamaterd. The trinkets, canso down that laddie, right into well they catt. into coolies or fariners or boatmen rebellion in Egypt was crushed out, the arms of the Law.
root and branch, because Arabj Pasin,
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Auctions,
11 am. Auction of Surples Stores,
at Central Police Station. 2.30 --Auction of Sundry Household Furniture, by Messrs. Hughes and Hough.
Miscellaneous.
m, subject to rent.
General Memoranda.
SATCHAY, August 17 --
Central
2. p. Auction of Housebolt Farni. tute, at No. 7, Granville Avenue,
Kowloon.
the leader, surrendered, and was then Strike at Singapore. banished to Ceylon, Penen was restored
Non-Meeting of Shareholders of the
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor-havo transformed them into anything potation, at the City Hall.
but Boyers. The expedition has taught
The Chinesu strpiceepers and clerks Non-Meeting of Shareholders of the
Universal Trading Co., Ltd., at the the Chinese that the boasted invul-
No. 4. Bes cessnerability of the Boxer was to the last to the Souden when the inutilourplayed in the warehouses at the Tanjong Boxi
be little Mahdi was 'smashol. Could we have 'agar wharves, to the number of about 290 n.-Auction of Steam Launch Tang degree absuri. The can Fu, lengside of the Douglas S. & doubt but that the g neral aceptance secured the person of the foren tyrant persons, struck work on the thin. Their alleged grievance is insufficiency of Go's Whost, Praya Contral."
pay. It is probable there have been causer of this foolish belief is responsible for and then banished her to a place of the fact that so many of the bucolic safety, the most determined enemy to other than this owing to mere stringent natives joined the ranks of the rebels, progress and the west would have been discipline, which the Company has recently She yet found neeresary to impose for its protection. They saw entrancing visions of Euro- removed out of the way. pranaattered and slain, after which ages freely and probably inges wildly. The affair is now in the hands of the wharf they themselves-protected by the idols Our fenders too had forgotten the management. --would enrich themselves on the pro-Scripture proverb; 'Let not him that perty and the countless treasures of the girdeth on his harness boast himself as A Campaign Joke.
he that putteth it out' It was announced alien, withunt let or hindrance. Brow this pleasing sleep there was a roda awakening. It is no little thing to have taught the Chinese this Teason. It out by will cause them perhaps to be more
MONDAY, August 1-
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R. G. A, Officer.Aw:-Sgt. Atkins, and that of this confederates,
Japanese Liner in Typhoon.
The NY.K.Kiner Jumba Mare (Caps tain Wale), which arived at Kobe on the 7th inst. from Hongkong, encountered a lý. phoon of Turnabout an the my ap from Hongkong. The stormy commenced off Turnabout, and grow morać as the ship approached Tung Ying Teland. That was on the 2nd inst. The storm hated twenty four hours. It grew in strength at 4 p.m. on the day uicationed, and riged with unabated force ut 10 pm on the 3rd, when the wind wont round to tho S. E., blowing a heavy gale with high. sous. This weather continued until the Gutes were sighted. Captain Wale says his ship behaved splendidly. He mentiona having experienced a very strong set to the north-west, amounting to 0 miles in twenty-
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DECORATING TROOPS FROM CHINA.
PARIS, August 6. General André bon issued an order con- terping the decoration of the troops from China President Loubet will distribute the decorations,
THE FRENCH AIRSHIP.
PARIO, August 8. The acronaut M. Santos Dumont, with
his steering Laloon, left St. Cloud this morning and went mund the Eiffel Tower, but in returning to St. Cloud he struck a house and fell. M. Santos Dumont is un- injured.
SUPREME COURT,
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, (Before His Honour T. Sernale Smithi
Acting Puimi Judge, Thursday, 18th August, 1901.
THE DEATH OF A PON Judgment was idlivered to-day in the netion rained by Captain Hon. H. W. T Trefusis.. A. D. C., to the General Officer Commanding the Troops in China, to re- cover from Kwok Kong, junk owner, the
of $825, being damago Bustained through this death of a pony caused by the alleged negligence of defendant in trans
ase in every merchant's office and in every ferring it from the junk to the Commissariat
There are now no fewer than twenty-school in Hongkong and the Coast Ports. Pi His Lordship in the course of his
The
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two bustis in various parts of Calcutta, The maps are so coloured that one can see judgment held that up to and at the time which are being takon in hand by the at a glance the altitude of any given die-whan the haims) was killed plaintiff had not acquired the status of s Lailoc.
prossession was on the Health Oficer, either for completa demoli-triet. The place names are pamtersue, and tion, partial renovation or opening up appear to have been filled in with grast defendant, who ed 4 lion
care. It might be objected, however, that thing and until the thing was delivered to the plaintiff actually or constructively The busti at No. 6-1, Chowringhi Laue, a plague infected spot, bas heen demolished,
aphores of influence in China tare not
no possession in the plaintiff. Eis and the plans of the owner for the erection en allocated with the procision indicated Lordship awarded judgreat for defendant.
with costs. it of a dwelling house have been ng on the map of China. Great Britain has proved. Thus slowly, but surely (enys the not acquired a sphere of influence in the Bagfashen) is the whole torp being grad-Yangtse Valler, and we in Hongkong ought unlly rid of its plague spots.
to be more streuuna then we are in deny ing that Kwanglung and Kwangsi bava passed under French. control in the emine
Serious Accident at Haiphong.
Chi the 7th ́ inst., whilst auperistend-way's Shantung has been ear-marked ing the discharge of some heavy pieces of by Germany and Manchuria by Russia, machinery from the steaner Vesper at
**Mr Poutifer applied for compensatim
for the loss sustained by defendant through the arresting of his jack, and also asked for
an order for the release of the junk.
His- Lordship Asco a day!
fixed a day for hearing the application.
ing
Mr Heatings (Messrs Deacon and Hast--
soliciters), apported for plaintiff and Mr Pontifer (Messrs Johnson, Stokes and Master, solicityrs) represented the de fendant.
THE LOOTING OF PEKING.
cautions next time. It is possible This blood is still in the reins of about two miles away. there?" that it may even bring some dis.these rebels and boils to fees wildly Year" R. G. A. Officer, AnTast the idols geinst us because of the threats of hit him in the eye with your next 4.7 shell.
It Sgt. Yossir! Which eye, Sir?' of China, and there are many who he which, of course, they have heard. lieve and assert that there can be no would have beau wiser to have deannd- real advance till this is felt. Whilsted only what we could have exacted, if Plague Spots in Calentta. the Chinese believe in these things, all it were necessary, and in an far as we Lave failed her, we have shewn our advance is blocker.
Some of the leaders of the Boxers selves incompetent, let the reasons have been punished, as they richly debe what they nay. What will be the served. It is true that there has been sentiment of the Empress and her party a partial failure of this part of our task. when they return to Peking and find But whilst we have not been able to that their Forbidden City, with all its accomplish all that we aimed at in this stered temples and palaces, has been regard, uult has been done, and when trodden by the foot of the conqueror
Will they have the senso so see that reallit Europeans are
this is hot the fortune of war, and was to compel themselves to do 30-w
of influential Chinese inevitable, were the Allies victorious? It who have falten either in battle or at is thought by some that it will be im the hand of this exccutioner, we must possible for the Chinese to forget their admit that the expedition, has not alto-shame, and that even the Emperor gather failed even here. That the most himself will be unable to overlook this Pernotorious and bloodstained are still at insult. We shall sec. Nor must it be Haiphong, a M. Babourdeaux was seriously Tragedy in Japanese Society.
A Tokio despatch to the hi states liberty and are likely to remmin so for formation that the expedition has left a injured through the falling of the ma
One of his army was so indly that Field-Marshal Marquis Orama, Chief $18
A Missionary's Defence. the present is to be regretted, secing legacy of debt which some one must pay, chinery.
M. Desourdeaux - was In this connection it is noted that the
One missionary to China, the Rev. GR. that of these one head would be worth Already to the utmost Ecundaries of fractured that it was considered necessary of the General Staff, will shortly resign,
to amputats. it.
bert Reid, frankly defends in the Forum $24 perhaps a dozen of those who have falempire, the mesengo has been finslied otherwise badly injurul, chiefly about the Marquis, who has always been foremost in
len; yet at Protingfu and at other forth, to owners of property, 'You must head and breast. The machinery is going entertaining foreign visitors of note, was the looting patised by the foreign troops not present at the reception given by hand foreign civilians in Tientsin and Pekin. places justice has been satisfied, and the pay at once a tax of five per cent on up to the silk shiture at Nanidinli.
to Licut. General Sir Alfred Gavelee, Liept. His article is called The Ethics of Lont,” i General Turano, Vico-General Staff Officer,
but it turns out on reading to be much loot. $30 result so far will be salutary. China the rents you receive. The burden and the world are well rid of certain seems to fall on the landlords. For the
acting in his stead as host. The Marquis and no ethics. He speaks of the romantic Foreign Ships at Singapore.
The Singpers Fies Press says: In was at his villa in Numadze, whither he system of looting, and says that the matter double-dyed ruffians who can trouble us present, the toilers think that they are
of løet is only one of high ethics,' and, aps- free, There are some who are not reference to the Chinese Immigration Bill, proceeded on the 27th July. It was how, quite minor consideration, being, more. It is certain, too, that the Chinese have discovered the utter futili-backward in sneering at the rich, frigid points out one fact that wrikes him rumoured that some family trouble neces in his mind, only's postic way of punishing ty-of attacking Europeans, We know because they liave to pay the bill. But, as important. A British ship is compelled sitated the Marquis's absence. Now on the Chinese for having dared to de- other report is to hand (continues the Osaka fy the world and insult maskind. The
Attitude of this herald of the from his publications that Chang Chil sooner or later, it will be learnt that to produce its leg-book to a Governmen
calor state. a foreiga is not compelled to do so. There died suddenly on the 26th, July but her ment Personally, I regret that the We call attention to the slight tung, four years ago, pressed this fact indemnity must be shared by every Dogartenont (the Marino Department) while į journal) stating that Marchioness Oyama forma in ravaaled in spot of on his countrymen. His teachings will, Chinaman, however poor and bumble fore any omission from the lug, or any false death has been kept seret. It was also Bills of Lading, etc. increase in the prices of our Bhowever, come with a much more con- and then there will be unrest, and statement made berein, as regards death or reported that the Marchioness proceeded there is no great amount
We can here sickness on board for instance, cannot be and 'C' qualities, which altera-vlucing force now than they did before. perhaps secret revolt.
to Hakoss on the 21st it, to sena French or low, about this, but Mr. Reid
he laboring tion will take effect from 1st It has been learnt from experience-an only refer cursorily to the salient fear known, and breaches of Quanting or other officer whom she met in France, and who is the laws of war countenance.
experience felt and known at head tures of this wide question. One thing, Ordinances may be committed with inpuni now staying at the Naraya Hotel, Miyano as be sympathetically describes. Loot, he August, 1901.
quarter-what Beropeans are, and it however, is felt by many, and that is ty and with danger to the health and well-shita: The Marquis went to his villa in ear, means only the lawtul spoils of war. If there is been no war, looting may be Numadzą on the 37th. The Marchioness sat down as arou. But does not Mr will not be forgotten that even the that unless China is fully opened up, so being of this Colony,
met the Marquis at Kodas station and died Beid know that looting is forbidden by the modern rules of war? Has he never heard of mach despised Japanese can accomplish that Europeans can go where they wish,
lay down by internations! Jaw much when he marches side by side as they do in India, in course of time
suddenly (so the report states) between modern
property movable as well as im- remains of the Marchioness were secretly with the West. We think that the she will return to her old ways and
Matsuda and Tunakita Stations. The th Chinese will not again recklessly attack WIEP the European, and that should be in tend so to do, there will have to be very extensive preparations made, which will reveal to us, if we keep our eyes open, what is on foot, and so give us the opportunity to check it in time A further gain is the actual exist ence of new, railways, We who live in the South, are sometimes weary Hongkong
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14 Even what the firmy reires for its own subsis added that the Marquia was carrying a re-tance so be taken only by authorized vulver on the day mentioned, ar nozial,
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The time heard of in civilized warfare since HAMBERLAIN'S Colc, Cholera and of the first Napoleon Missionariegars,
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