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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1900
The case hought wgainst Consul-General) It is elated that sopis months will probably Wildman by the Filipino Juntil which has elapse before Indien sovereigns to bined. been considered in chambers, has been dismissed with costs.
grams are passing to and from all the prin cipal capitals and that the ambassadors at the various courts are having a busy time. The very fact that all press telegrams are so delayed shows what a pressure there is of official messages from the diplomatists in Peking to their respective governments We are, however, likely to know little of what is going on unitil some joint plan in fulls matured. The Peking withdrawal, or rather retreat, fortunately bangs fire, and we have' apparently grounds for trusting A. S. WATSON & CO., that, actually put into execution, it will att
least be delayed long enough to prevent the fatal compromising of the position which Russia threatened to bring abouf. Germany at any rate is unlikely to take any decided step before the arrival in the north of Count VON WALDERSEN, Now on his way
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Lost wel the fellowing British chips were reported on the Yangtze-Wallardo at Kin- kinng. Daphne at Wuhu, Hermions at Nan king, and Boario at Chinking.
Already the trouble in China have bed the effect of closing down seven cotton miles in Bom my says the L N News, and the stoppage of others is expected to follow. Shires liere falles value, plete for the most part unsaleable Shares of one will generally regarded as first class and difficult to obtain at Rs. 2,000 a share, are now below Rs.1,500.
bars and Bremen intend to bail near Antwerp
a shipyard which will be the largest on the Co- tinent. It is believed that the North German Lloyd 3learaship Company is interested in the nudertaking.
The Government of Siam has tbolished tran sit dues on tobacco. A tax of te per cent, on value of the crop is now levied of tobacco plan- ters,
The P. and O. Company has arranged to rig fortnightly service between Marseilles, Malta and Alexandria, commenting from the End just. The ship chosen for this services the Faletta.
The Pinang Gazette calls attention to the underamnned condition of the police force in the colony, resuiting as it does in overwork, to which it traces the recent death of three police officers.
and the other more considerable portion abred,
The Forming, which arrived here yesterday morning, having left Amoy in Tuesday, m ports the following re-et-wir at that port shes, she left-H.M.S. I. U.S.S. Costine, French Décide, Japanese Jumi, Tanhushi,
Pulao, and Takeshiko
The Japan Heral understands that Japan According to a cable to the New York Sus.is contemplating the contrusting of another Colcamel Thye, who is called the Belgian Cedi loss, this the twenty i postul from Singapore to this port Dr. MORRI.Rhodes, and other capitalists of Brussels, Honing of which a portier is to be feited in Fayan SUNs' despatch of the 31st ult. to the Tizes SCOTCH WHISKY.speaks ill for Russian sincerity. How are we to justify the fact that the Tsar's Government is insistent on the withdrawal of the troops from Peking, while Russia's own
The new Session of the Hongkeng College military authorities in that city are acting Medicine for Chinese commoners on Monday. in a high-handed fashion and "assumingast, the 17th instant. and the arrangements. over-mastering position " The task of as upproved by a umeting of the Senate on the explaining the tortuosities of Russian dip-11th instant, have been sent round for the lomacy is beyond us. Time aloub may show what is the exact object of this apparently double-faced action. Experience does not encounge us to hope that it is for tuything else than Russia's own material advantage.
One fresh case of plague and one death yere reported during the 24 hours preceding hoon
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From a notice appearing on another page render will see that the entries for the Hong- kong Football Club six-a-side competition close on Saturday, the 22nd inst.
The Singapore Frez-Preekings-Thero is a very marked contrast between the German soldiers who have visited our shores and those formation of members of the Court and Senate.of other nationalities. Although large numbers The Session is from the middle of September to have been on shore, there has been no known the middle of December,
The Governicent of India laro sanctioned the free issue of 400 rots of bandolier equipment to the 3ni Bombay Cavalry. This will be of a special pattern, and is being wade up in the Cawnpore Harness Factory. The regiment have a private 503 Muxia, which they will be permitted to take to China, 30,000 rounds of ammunition being issued for it at Calcutta.
Shortly after seven o'clock on Wednesday night Inspector Font and a party of police visited No. 23, Nulah Jane, and found a hunter of men engaged in playing ot" Psi Kau." They
instance of drankenacss or riotous behaviour among them.
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Bishop Meler, Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Madras, who has gone to Singapore from India, il with malarial fever is not improving in health.
Owing to his serious condition, Singapore payers report, Bishop Fee thought it necessary to administer Extone Unction on the 5th inst
Bangkok papers report a butchers' striké in full swing at the beginning of the present month. The Bengkel Tim of the 4th last says:-The Indians and Chinese who are razi
Sanitary Inspector L. C. Brett again appear ed at the Magistracy yesterday and got three owner of houses in the Eastern District Indmade 12 arrests, and at the Magistracy yeter.uing the strike have scord distinctly. No
S10 esch for not limewashing, and three oller
each for not giving notice.
Messrs. Jardine, Matheron &'Co's stemmer Canton, which arrived from Hongkong den with coul yesterday afternoon, reported having had a trying time in the typhoon, a boat wing smashed, the saloons swampel and other damage having been done.
A Portuguese girl named Romano Camiero was taken indoors suae time ago by Mrs. The girl Taylor, of 23, Pottinger Street. abused the hospitality by stealing a gold bracelet
a month.
go out for them. They all reached the harbour
day two of the men were fined $1 or a month for keeping a common gathing house, and the rest $2, or seven days, for gambling.
animals were slaughtered at the abattoir to-day, and presumably we shall now have to free a neat famine. Mr. Musch has been unable to vù- tain more bullocks, and it is said that the whole The steely rise in the price of gutta-peres of the stocks now in Bangkok are so well cor- is likely to confitiue, and the outlook is seriesnered that ever a private person cannot obtain for the users of gutta-perchu golf balls, says a bullock to slaughter. That means goud or Engineering. Whereas the various trees gildenisation on the part of the strikers, but it is ing the india-mbber of commerce are found awkward for the ordinary resident.
The caries diamond-swallowing case con- growing pretty well over all the tropical parta of the globe, the area of the distribution of the gutta-pareha tree is much more circumscribed, tinuez at Calcutta At the trial of the moan the trees, of which there are several species. charged with theft of the Rs. 10,000 jewel. an being found in Barned, Sumatra, and the Malay old convict was called as an expert to prove Archipelago generally. Moreover. i5 is a re that person he cavities in the throat where grettable fact that the careless and deatretiranes et could be concealed. Witness commenced the business, is in followed tail with him for attempted murder. While in hardly any limitation by their successors of the jail he became acquainted with the fact that accused had a cerity in his throat. Witness present day.
said he had one himself and to make this cavity a person had to undergo training. The first
TELEGRAMS.
DALLY PRESS SERVICE?
THE CRISIS IN CHINA
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]
SHANGHAI, 11th September, 8:40 pm..
PRINCE CHING IN FEKING. Prince Ching returned to Peking on the Srd instant.
LI GOES NORTH ON SATURDAY. Li Hung-chang leaves Shanghai this Saturday to join Prince Ching at Peking and arrange the place proposals.
YUNG LU WITH THE EMPRESS. Yung La bas joined the Empress Dowager at Tatung, in Shann.
SHANGHAI, 12 September, 6,10 p.m.
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION LEAVES
PEKING.
A mixed punitivo expedition left Feking on the 7th instant, going in a south-westerly
direction
THE FLIGHT OF THE EMPRESS.
The Empress Dowager has mached Hsing chon, near Taiyuanfu.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LOCAL KOVEMENTS.
The troops which arrived by the Nudden on Wednesday live leen landed at Lyeemoon. All the other troops which are coming out I will be detained in Hongkong with the exoop-
tion of the cavalry,
Late on Wednesday the transporta City of Cambridge and Telinga returned to Hongkong from the north, the latter bringing with her 17 officere and 250 Naval ratings from Take.
The Patiala returned yesterday from Wei- haiwe
The Notab and the dakruf arrived gestor day from the south, the former bringing one balf of the 28th Madras Infantry (6 Britishi and 8 native offiom, 815 N. C. O's und mer, and 62 followers, with horses and mules) and B Section N.F. H. (de British officer, o men, and
battery, A Section 15th B. F. R.. some Siego. 57 followers), and the latter a Vickors Maxim
Train builocks, ou officer each of the Staff 3rd. Brigado and the til Juta, and details.
The British transport St. Andrew sailed yesterday for Taku, as also diet the German tmport H. H. Meier,
The French transport Adouroleo arrived yes- turday, having experienced some rough weather.
AT POKING.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT
Fering, 16th August,
THE UNUSED GURS. We bare arrived here at last, but ill-lack pro- vented the Naval Brigade with its guns from being among the first to enter the City, for the roads were simply so vile the last few miles that progress, was brought to a minimum. Since the feat small fight at Hsi-ku, or rather at Pelt- Bang, we are not fired a shot. Our battery was placed just north of Haiku Arsenal and were ordered to help the Russians on their attack on the Chinese position near the railway line;
many rounds, as the Chinese did not offer much range about 50 yards. The guns did not fire resistance. At one period during the figlita Jurge body of Chinese were observed from the top of our observation ladder-which is the balloon of the Naval Brigade The Chinese report thirty thousand troops and invaluable in a flat country like this-up- and Boxers round Pactinglu.
VIGOROUS RUSSIAN ACTION. The Russians at Taku intend to occupy Chiuwartao [7] and dominate the railway line completely.
VAST CHINESE FORCE AT PAOFINGFU.
*Delayed in traneniesion.
parently collecting together as if to threaten our fank; but few well-placed shells quickly dispersed them. It afterwards truspired that they were some Imperial Infantry Battalions being reformed after the first rush.
QUICK MARCH!
SINGAPORE, 13th September, 11.10 a.m.
After the fight was over we marched to Peit- COUNT VON WALDERSEE ON HIS distante of eight miles from the scene of
WAY HERE.
Field Marshal Count ron Waldersee ar- rived here by the Sacken yesterday and sailed again today,
LONDON, 12th September, $15 pm
THE "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT
the action. We placed our guns in junks the Lext morning and towed them to Yungtama- Imiles and stopped there for that day. Nost
day we proceed to Sishin, then to How
Tegteun our forces mut with some opposition, dud the casualties amongst the British aud ARGYRANS, WIE TUzined the principal party, wore alent 50, most of which the British General. salt could have been provented had our gans teen able to get up in time. The whole journey to the Capital has been a sort of International Race.
Dis well known for its fine flavour. E is of superb quality and pronounced by valued at $35. She admitted doing this to Mr. Hazeland yesterday and was sent to prison for The panel which went out to Tai-Ho to the assistance of another, which had lost her propeller, herself came to grief, her propellor
ON THE RUSSIANS. A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, ing also damaged, and a third launch had to
Recently a barkeeper named Cheng On
Dr. Morrison, in his despatch of the 81st all right at about ten cleck on Wednesday Hung came up from Singapore with $1,100 in thing to be done was to introduce a piece of
hie possession-2600 in silver dollars and rock salt till the flesh was deadened. Then August to the Times, says that the Russians.
It was decided after the Yangtaun esperienca bank notes. He and another inen, paned small leaden balls were introduced and enlarged vere assuming nu overmastering position. that our guns should be useil in way fature Yan Haug, of No. 8 Matten Stall, Central Mok Fung Krai, whem te had known forns gradually till a proper-sized curity was formed The sanctity of the Forbidden City was operations, but the Chiness offered no fight after:
or two years, urived on the right of theth where money, etc. could be concealed without only respected through joint action of Bus- this until Fexing itself was reached
Having collected together some 2 coolius wo On theth court placed four-enna and half-anno pieves in sia and Japan.
advanced with our junks in tow as fast as we At 6, Brondwater Down, Tunbridge Welle,terday charged with cruelty to animals. It ar inst, and they put up at the same bearing any trouble. Witness in the pressues of the
WHAT THE POWERS MUST ASK could keeping one junk well ahead with two house, occupying the same room. inst. Mok Fung Kwai went away and didnot the cavity in his throat and eventually a dies
The Powers must insist, he continues, one and munition rondy for imediatə retors, and on the Boring day he shout the same size as the missing iumend and Hong found that his money ho disapped brought them out again without any trouble. He reported the matter to the police, He said that ne force could expel mything the deposition of the Empress-Dowager and action. At lung-shun three guns were taken
night.
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DEATH.
Keyt, on the 4th August, aged 86 years, JAEs GUTHRIE, Esq., late of Singapore.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, September 14th, 1900 It is not yet possible to say that the situation at Peking is become much clearer, but it is certainly satisfactory that Prince CHING has returned and that the Allies are at length able to communicate with a pro- animent Chinese official, albeit one who has been long out of favour with the Court Party The fact that Prince CHING for all his sympathy with the foreigners was able to weather the "Eoser" storm and retain bis life during the period of triumph of his most violent enemies proves that be inspired even the reactionaries with a feeling akin to respect. The less deeply compromised of
GUN TRANSPORTIVO,
Market, appeared before Mr. Hazeland yester- peared that on Friday last he transferred 38 goats from Kenneriytawai to the Hunghom depot for slaughter. All excepting seven were slaughtered on Saturday, On Tuesday the Indian watchman tuld Mi. T. 3. Cotton. Market Inspector, that the seven had not been Mek Fang Kwai was arrested and chapel which went into the cavity, the person himself the execution of Prince Tuan and the other was very limited, and the ponies wil mules very fed since their arrival, and cu examining them before Mr. Hazeland yesterday with second only do so.
the money. His Worship, however, didkot consider the evidence conclusive and diuziod the case..
MACIO.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
Mac. 1th September. THE STORM. The great storm which passeit over as the day before yesterday was one of the most severe. The wind was something furious, but luckily
Some places enough 20 damage was done except to trees and
were covered with water about a foot deep. street lamps The tide was very high in the
The Prays Grande suffered most, all the pare morning in the fuser harbour.
ment stones being scattered about; repiirs will take about a week, I should say...
the Inspector found that this was no doubt true, their stomachs being empty. He spoke to the owner about it, and the man said that the
-Dr. D. H. McClosky, the Acting Beidey Indian troops. for whom the geats were re.. quired, preferred the goats to le lean rather then fut. His Worship said that it was quita! Eurgeon of Palang, has brought out the fi car that from Friday to Tuesday three goats cal report on that State for 1999. In deag were allowed to remain in the dept without with bri-beri which proved to be most rife touching a single ouzes of food. It was a case deadly at Heatong, he says that it is a 1 of absolute cruelty to animals and that needious disease, and in its relationship to heat ind das suffering was caused them. He proposed to make it resembles malaria. Improvement, these an example of the defendant to show him and of the soil and remoral of dampness would si others that it was in offence to treat dumtepsonsly lessen the amount of signess The unhealthiness of a tropical country is creatures in this way. He would tel bin $50, mertality from both beri-beri and mali portionate to the extent of undrained and or two months,
cultivatel soil wblch it contains. Henees value of deep drainega, cultivation, and amesto prevent Patulation and contamin of the scil with surface water. Beri-beral however, distinct fromumlaria in other rest scenability to quizine which is so claruet for instance, it does not exhibit that be
of malarial affections.
The recent enlargement of the Hongkong the anti-foreign party must now see that he Daily Press, from four pages to eight affords then the best means of making terms pages, necessitated the introduction of larger with the Powers; this was evinced, indeed, machinery, two new.quad royal machines being by his selection in the first instance as peace secured from Mesa Miller and Richards, of Hitherto the machines have negotiator. It still remains for us to bear Edinburgh, to enabk the paper to be printed in whether he conveyed any proposals from the ons sheet, uncut. Court to the allied Powers or whether he bean ru by coolies, a slow and unsatisfactory process, which it was impossible to continue returned to Peking on his own initiative. with the larger and sqquently heavier ma- His intended co-adjutor L BUNG-CHANG chinery. After considerable delay in the execu. has not yet leit Shanghai, but proposes, as tion of the order at home the Hongkong oir telegram states, to start to-morrow and Electric Co., Ld, have just succesfully sup make his way up to Peking to join the lied and fitted an electric motor, the ma
A writer using the initials GF" disc
in the Amy Gazette the question of tyre that part. He says:- Within tire m there have been fourteen cases of typhoid among the foreign residents of Amoy, a
THE NEW GOVERNOR.
It was certain that the
organisers of the massacres.
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, 12th September, 9.10 p.m.
It is officially reported that Mr. Kruger and his officials have urived at Lourence KRUGER AT LOURENCO MARQUES
Marques.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LUSTON, 11 Septembər,
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. General Baleu-Powell has been appointed
out of thesjunks, and as our mans of transport
much toney, it was decided to leave behind the fourthi run in the junk to come afterwards,
-- BAD EOADS AND JLOW PROGRESS. We took to the road again at 1 pm, on the
G: 13th inst, with the thres gens and nearly 500 wounds of shell. Our progress on starting was wry satisfactory, but a delugé et riju made the ronda resemble, sodden ploughed fielda --only, Worse A American transport rection that has nhead of us you stacks, and at 8:30 pur further advance bocams impracticable and wo vouacked on the spot, having only made good about four miles Started again next morning at in mandioned the roads in nuclen saial con- dition that the Maring escort and guns creva hud to be pat on the drag-ropas to assist tu got the | guns along - Wa eventually got to within ons bile from. Paking and entered the city meat morning—the Royal Artillery lending us some - horses to give what world otherwise have been
Seuber Herte e Costs is again sharing his
30 MORE GUNS, WANTED 24 energy. A few months ago as everyone
We are now on the top of the val holding knows, the quarter of fen, Lazaro was a place mall horses there were breeding this sickness, Chief of Poke in the Trusteel hut nothing was done. Now Senhor Horta o infected by plague.
General Buller occupied Manchberg on the the SE. Gas, which is the best view and algo Costa has given orders that the valuation of the Oth inst. The enemy resisted, but were dislodgest ganposition available. The sinchguns that houses shall be taken it once and that expro-ed from their positions by the King's Hines, priation shall begin as son ne presilk. It is supported by Artillery. General Büller is now to do away with the ty quarters of this to be hoped that His Excellency will continue moving on Bitskop colony, especially such quarters as most ger- vigorous retion is well known in Alecao, and
L
THE CHINA QUESTION.......
were to have joined the relief colunu, but which
were not the ready, have been stored, as more gas are not now wanted; those already here o oasily do what may be required frout tho France and Bussin have exiled to their Captain Scott was something more thun a kamo- Froid troops to Tientsin and it is expected that the Ladysmith to Peking-Immediates,
Prince. This he can only do by the consent chinery being new run by elasticity, the we include the previous six months, there winate the bacillus of plague. His Excellency's linisters to arrange a withdrawal of their ton he inscribed on these gunk
of the Powers, which, however, there seems first experiment of its kind in. Hongkong, been sirten cares. Of these threo have un reason why he should not obtain.
As
The motor was made by the Fulker Wenston while two others were so serions that for d when the cable brought is the pleasant news of United States and Japan will initate Russia whilom insuption has now became an accom we pointed out yesterday, though there are Electrical Manufacturing Company, London, time there was bat little hope of their rec kis coming out against Governor, the inhabi- regarding the withdrawal from Peking.. many reasons why Li's appointment to the It is 24 B. H. P. and rotates at a speed of 1,050 Estimating the foreign population of Artants were full of joy at the news, for during | THE MAKOHESTEE COTTON MILLS.
revolutions per minute.
serious and yet preventable infectious d
ed amongst our Anstralian allies. Privats | This is as evidence of grosa carolssness All the Krugers were not fighting on the valuere. Very frequently typhoid e said the side of the Boere. One, at least, was unbo on the island of Kulangau While this had an enthusiastic reception from the third from the large number of Chinese now Kunger rimzed to Ballarat this Privat ruzado, it certainly is not the imt battalion aper Presden, Krugir, by all
papers. accounts, compiled a respectable bank balance cause" In conclusion the writer tuggest 3
plished Ineta de
THE TASK NEARLY COMPLETE. It is expected that the stoppage of the cotton Further serious fighting is not anticipatel. mills in Lancashire, ring to the high price of the Empress and Court Imving But somewhere: cotton, will become general.
four days previous to the arrival of the allies The Naval Brigade will return to the shipa os LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. Donas the Forbidden City Eng been taken, which The C. P. R. meaner Piprers of China left it is understood will be attempted (y-morTOW Vancouver for Hongkong vis usual ports of call on Tuesday morning, the 11th inst. The losses to the Anglo-Saxon contingenti The N. Pitsainer Brcemar barrived at has been very slight, but the Raschus and Jup-
With ternating about 280, it is evident that nearly sir pethree long years no improvements at uil were position of negotiator should be distasteful current motors the great trouble has hitherto of the foreign community lare sulered made by Seulor Galharts. to us (an article appearing in another been to deviso successful means of starting colum puts them forward in a striking them against a hat, and although no perfect nammer), yet his undoubted, ability marks method has been devised, it has been found him out as the man for the anerous post, possible to overcome the difficulty by an in and there is no one else whose name will genious device. The motor shaft is fitted with carry a tithe of the weight which his carries a clutch pulley so constructed that until the To China he has for many yeare been the motor has ron up to nearly normal speed the unfailing last resource; to the rest of the motor shaft revokes freely, When the proper be taken:1. To lean the roads cleanin South Africa; but Private Kruger, strang, Yokohama and sailed for Portland (Oregon) of witsa Lost a considerable number in capturing: world he is with all his glaring faults the speed has been reached the clutch comes into keep the wells ciena 3. To prevent thto say, esu see no financial: possibilities what the 11th instaat
THE LOSSES,
The N. F stemmer Victoria sailed from their positions before entering the City. The Tacoma for Japan and Hongkong on the 11th Chingre, aparently expecting the principal at action and causes the belt pulley to rotate and ing of the milk. To prevent the winerer in the country, Here is the advice be
The N e leaving Australia to uttle in South Africa. strongest Chinaman of the century, not drive the machinery. The motor is fitted with of beef, 5. To force the manufctarerives with Kipling-like directness. It's o trusted, but at least in a fashion respected self-piling bearings, which requires minimum only boiled or (better still) istilled wine place to keep away from You don't catch instant. K steamer Kawacht Mow tack would be delivered there had strongly
practically undefended. We still await from Europe the news of of oil and attention. The fitting of the printing aerated waters. 6. Xast, but not least, on can take it from me that people who go (European Line) left Kobe viz Moji for dais fortilled that particular position-leaving the an approach to definite agreement among machinery was done by Messra, G. Fenwick and the water used for drinking, do, thor51l be biting their fingers over it a week after i port on the 13th inst, and is expected to ar. muy that our troops and the Americans came.
steriled by bailing. Co,, Id, who also applied the shafting, etc.
the Powers. We may be certain that
by land"
rive hore on the 10th inst..