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January 28, 1903.]
Mr. Roosegaarde Bisschop, who is now in Holland, has been appointed chief agent at Hongkong of the Java-Japan steam navigation line.
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A sealed handicap tournament has commenced at the Hongkong Chess Club with the following entries :- Messrs. Danenberg, Dastur, E. J. Davies, W. Davies, Ellis, Houghton. Moses, Newborn, Pelling, Pollock, Raymond, Setna, De Souza, and Swaby. The prizes will be the entrance fees plus a small donation from the Club funds.
During the 24 hours ended at noon on the 21st inst. two fatal (Chinese) cases of plague were roported. These are the second and third cases which have occurred this year. One came from Wing Fung Street and the other from Taiping shan Street. The first case of the year was s Chinaman found dead at Mongkok on the 10th inst.-A fourth was reported on Saturday.
The Supreme Court returns are published in the Gazette From the return of all sums collected in the Registry of the Supreme Court in 1902 and paid into the Treasury it appears that 830.275.42 was the year's total, against $39,904.72 in 1901. In the latter year the item Land Office fees, $14,645,50 appears, whereas in 1902 this item is absent.
The police report that about eight o'clock on the 14th inst. the steamer Hansa on her way to Canton, collided near the Capsnimun Pass with a cargo-laden trading junk, which she cat into and sank. On board the junk were twenty Chinese, and all of these were pre- cipitated into the water. The steamer was stopped as quickly as possible and boats were lowered which picked up the struggling people, none of whom was lost. The Hansa then steamed back to the harbour and landed the rescued Chinese. The junk and cargo were valued at $5,000,
On the 17th the British sloop Phænizjarrived from Pakhoi, the Italian cruiser Piemonte from Singapore, and the French gunboat Avalanche from Canton. On the 18th inst. the French cruiser Chateaurenault came in from Tonkin and the Royal Siamese yacht Maha "Chakrkri from Nagasaki.
On th 21st inst, the British cruiser Pique arrived from Shanghai and the German gunboat Tiger from Bangkok. The Italian cruiser Piemonte left for Shanghai.
The German cruiser Hansa from Nimrod Sound, the British sloop Algerine from Canton, and the French gunboat Surpri e from Foochow arrived on the 22nd inst, The Surprise left again for Saigon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The total issue of convertible notes by the Bank of Japan is now 212,000,000 yen, and the specie reserve is 109,000,000.
It is reported in a despatch from Shimonoseki that the British authorities have decided to establish a sub-consular office at Moji.
The Sanuki Maru had a very rough voyage from Hongkong to Kobe, and a piece of machinery weighing about two tons, which was thought to be well secured in her hold. shifted on to the batch, though it did not break through.
According to returns issued by the Kobe Customs, the number of foreign vessels entering Kobe last year was 1,546 their aggregate tounage being 3,81 569, an increase of 71 vessels com- pared with the number which entered the port in 1901, and of 276,620 in tonnage.
The General Committee of the Progressist party in Japan conclude: a report on the seventeenth session of the Diet by vigorously condemning the Government for dissolving & House in which the Opposition commanded 300 votes out of 376, and for proposing a compromise that involved various retrenchments in the face of a previous declaration that no retrenchments were possible.
The Manila Times gives particulars of a loper-town to be founded shortly in the Philip pines. All lepers there will be deported to Culion, an islet in the middle of the group south-west of the island of Mindoro. The site for the leper-town has already been marked out. Marriages between the leper settlers will be for- bidden. The lepers will be allowed home rule and will be given land for cultivation. The lepers in the islands are estimated to number ten thousand.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The date of closing of the Hanoi Exposition has been further postponed to the 15th prox.
The death is reported at Taku of Mr. E. Riley, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., aged 31.
News has been received of the death from small pox, on the 10th inst., of Messrs. Batter field and Swire's agent at Nanking, Mr. H. E. Meade, aged 27 years.
The first of the revenue oruisers built for the Philippines Gov rament in Japan arrived at Nagasaki from Uraga on te 8th inst, and was to undergo minor repairs before proceeding to Manila.
The Nagasaki Press says that two of the Mitsu Bishi's coal vessels suffered in the recent storm. The Unko Maru was kuooked about and her boatswain drowned, and it is feared that the Yawata Maru sank altogether.
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News has been received of the death of the Rev. D. C. Raukin, P.D., at Pyengyang, Cores, on 27th December. He succumbed to an attack of acute paeumonia after a brief illness.
The last of the ten cruisers ordered from Messrs. SC. Farnham, Boyd and Co., of Shanghai, for the Philippine Insular Govern meut, the Tablas, successfully completed her trial on the 15th inst. and was expected to mail for Manila early this week.
In the collision between the Minno and Yinkow at Chefoe, the former sank in 20 minutes, all the crew and passengers being in that time saved by the Yinkow, with the ex- ception of two Chinese who were too anxious to sare their belongings. A valuable cargo ol silk was lost.
It may be remembered that a fraudulent American by name of Clifford was recently sen- tenced to a team of imprisonment at Kobe. We see from the Kobe papers that as Clifford was being conveyed through the town to the Mina- togaga gaol he succeeded in escaping from the custody of the polic
A telegram dated Washington, December 23rd, says:+The Secretary of State is preparing a suitable response to a special message to the President from the Dowager-Empress of China. This message was personally entrusted to Rear- Admiral Frederick Rogers, recently detached from the command of the Asiatic Station, and was delivered to the President last week.
The following items are from the Foochow Echo of the 10th January-There have been two fires this month. One took place on the 2nd instant in a village of farm-houses near the Kuliang Creek, completely destroying it together with its stores of grain staw and its agricultural implements; the other occurred on the 8th inst. in the long street lead ing from the bridge to the city, near the halfway tea-houso, and in spite of the best endeavours of the authorities to check the con- flagration, nearly 100 houses were burnt down before it could be got under. The two Foochow griffins sent down for the Amoy Race Meeting distinguished themselves, Blancmange having Owing to the growing dimensions which the won the Haekwan Cup, 1 mile, and Calibre the rebellion in Kwangsi province has now attained, Chaasze Cup, 13 mile. The usual Monthly says the NC. Daily News, the Governors of the Cup competition of the Foochow Gun Club two provinces of Yunnan and Kueichon, lying took place on Green Island on Wednesday and adjacent to that province, have made arrange- resulted in a very close finish. Mr. G. Lments with Governor Wang Chih-chun of Greig headed the score, and is now the holder Kwangwi to join forces and, if possible, confine of the Cup for the second time.
the outbreak to the latter province alone. With this as the basis of operations the ter- ritorial armies of the three provinoss will converge from three points and try to surround the rebel forces somewhere near the central portion of Kwangs. This projected movement is, however, cousidered to be rather late in the day in the South as the rebels have now burst beyond bounds.
The Japanese Gazette Official announces that Dr. Ishigami Toru, head of the Osaka Vaccine Lymph Laboratory, bas discovered the germ of small-pox. Dr. Ishigami, who is a pupil of Dr. Kitasato, has been engaged in this investigation since 1893, with intermissions. In 189 he gave up the work owing to pressure of official duties, but having been appoint d, in 1896, a teacher in the Naval College, he obtained access to the necessary instruments, and resumed bis efforts, changing his line of enquiry. Au- other interruption occurred from a similar cause, and not until 1898, when he was appointed head of the Osaka Vaccine Lymph Laboratory, could he devote himself again to study. Two years later he found a microscopic green bacil'ns in the pus of the disease, and subsequent experi- ments showed him that this animalcule is not
only the prime cause of small-pox, but also that associated with it is another bacillus which is extensively present in skip-diseas's of animals and human beings. He separated the two and succeeded in cultivating them so as to obtain clear proof that one is the germ of smallpox. He has prepared an accurate account of his investigations and their result, appending a drawing of the broillus.
A New York telegram of the 15th inst. to the Manila Cablenews says that the National Board of Trade passed yesterday a resolution in which it endorses the application of the Philippins merchants for the admission of Chinese labourers to the islands. The board proposes certain restrictions whereby the United States shall be protected against the Chinese reaching the United States by way of the Philippines and also to assure the protection of American commercial interests against possible competition. The National Board of Trade is the most powerful body of its kind in the United States, and represents all the commercial interests of the country. Its recommendations may be expected to have a wide effect in Congress.
The Straits Times in its Netherlands India note says that the doubts of the titular Sultan of Actieep's death bave been justified by news The following items are from the Manila that a letter from him has been received by the Cablenews:-Secretary Root has requested Gover..or of Acheen. In this letter the Sultan Congie-s to appropriate another quarter of a has offered his submission. The Governor of million dollars for the building of barracks in the Acheen has gone to meet him. The Sultan is Philippines. A balf million has already b.eu supposed to have been discouraged by ceaseless appropriated but many complaints have been pursuit and by the capture of his wives, includ
The secret of her received of the insufficiency of this amount for the the favourite with her son. work tha has been planned.—Brigadier-General | hiding place was betrayed to a passing patrol. Leonard Wood has made a formal application for Many so-called well-disposed Achinese bave service in the Philippines. The application was rendered the Netherlands forces good servios in made to the Secretary of War and is now under this way. These very services have largely con- consideration. It is believed that it will be tributed to the ill-success of the Netherlanders granted and that General Wood will succeed in Acheen. The friendlies find themselves in a General Davis when the latter returns to the difficult position among their fellows, from United States for retirement. General Davis failure of the Government to protect them will retire under the age limit next July and afterwards. The troops in the field are too few will probably be ordered home some time before to form an army of occupation. A detachment that date.-It is stated from Washington that which lad overcome a hostile band through the the programme mapped out by the Administra-information given by friendlies has too aften to tion is that Governor Taft shall return to the move away in search of the enemy elsewhere, thereby leaving the friendlies to their fate. The friendlies cannot protect themselves, from their having been disarmed by the Government along with the disaffected Achinese, Hanos they find themselves at the mercy of the evil- disposed. Among the Achinese generally, this holds good chiefly in the distant coast states. Mistrust has thereby been aroused both a to the power of the Hollanders and as to their good faith.
United States in the spring or early summer and will then succeed Secretary Root as Secre- tary of War, The supposed object of this move is that Governor Taft shall be in more complete control of Philippine affairs and may bring his knowledge of conditions to bear. Mr. W. W. Kook hill will then succeed to the vacant place on the Commission. General Wright will leave San Francisco about 1st February to return to the Philippines.