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States in the colonising empires, followed by facilities of ranid intercommuxiration and ultimately by the sproud of the education and literature of the cou querors-of this there is a lobt. At pre-is sent it is said that over 5,000 distinct
The trial, of the Corenus Ko Ei-kon nud Ro
In-mei, the murderers of U Haz-zón, a Corian | refugee in Japan, concluded at Hiroshima on the 26th alt, Ko bring condemned to death and No to penal sorvituda for life. The formor
expected to appeal.
News from Hansi says that on account of trouble with the Siamese and the strained condition of international plitics in the Far East France is amassing a large sumber of troops on the borders of Siam. But a Berlin telegram to Shanghai says the diffenty has been arranged.
A. S. WATSON & CO., languages are spoken by mankind; no com putation exists of the number of dialects. But within the last century alune sone languages have "porished and countless dialects have been practically reabsorbed. I all the civilised parts of the earth, where at least railways exist, dialects are vanishing,
A telegram from Calcutta given the result For Dex. Per Hot. either before the languages from which they of the Viceroy's Cups follows: Great Scot, 1; sprang or before others; and one language Cretorne, 2; Hoop Iron, Great Seat, which, yields to another which finds the circum-nccording to the last Lulian mall papers, was B. OLD VINTAGE, Superior
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In Austria-Hungary generally the process way be seen widely developed; and in the Russian Empire: The reasons are complex. To quote from the article ingutioned above: "Lang nges owe their survival or their "conquests to a variety of causes. No more thau rees, or than other sociological species, or than biological species, do Nose-Port, after removal, should be hazguages flourish and survive on their "merits. Not the intrinsic superiority of a language, its flexibility, or smoothness, or “strength, or the wealth of its vocabulary, or the perfection of its inflections, gives it the victory in its struggle with rivalr
nt least not these alone.
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At last it would seem that the Lady Om (nel Emily Brown, "the only American Empress has been raised to the position of Empress of Ceron. The celebration in connection with the vent was to have taken place on the 6th inst., but the illness of the Coresa Empress Dowager baving become so serions na to threaten that anless the ceremony of coronation were speedily affected it might be interrupted by s period of narning, the Solh ult. was substituted for the
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Numbers are force, and the victorious language is often that of the more "numerous race, but it is sometimes that of
The Congress of the United States is about "the less numerous Instances of both Some
to consider a bill for extending to the Japanese will readily occur to the mind, « "point of advantage, extrinsic to the going from Hawaii to the States the same "language, may endow it with superiority.ystem of restrictions as that applied to the Chinese. With referencs to this a mesting of "Its fituees for the uses of commerce Japanese has been held in Honolulu, when a enabled Aramic to overcome Hebrew, resolution was passed declaring the necessity "Assyrion, and Babylonian. The prestige of adopting all possible measures to prevent the A. S. WATSON & CO. "of French quests made French the passing of Japaneso subjects from Hawaii to America, and outlining the principal measures that seem desirable.
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The numbers of those who will not ndait this are great and include many in England itself. So we bare seou recently a small movement i
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On the 28th December, 103, at Dove's Nest, River Valley Road, Singapore, as the result of au Recident, SYBIL ELLA, beloved daughter of S. "DONNENBEED, aged 2 years and 4 months.
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The Japan Mail writes:--Insurgents have again made their appearance in Core. They call themselves Tong-hat "--or the Students of the East-but rumour says that they arA thing more than muhappy and middle-class subjects driven to despair by the exactions of the tas-collector. At all events, troops have been sent to deal with them, a duty which might almost have been left to the winter weABOL This is not the time for insurrections in Coras We cannot forgot, however, that, a rising, of of the war Tong-hak was the proximate cause of 1894-5, Absit omen!
About 7 pm on Christmas Day a foreigner was found lying injured close to the railway line at Nishinomiya, Japan.
The man had
Mr. R. F. Hobson, late Lieutenant of the TELEGRAM S.
U.S. Navy and formerly on this station, has pre- pared a Navy Extension Bill for submission to the U.8. House of Representatives, which is ambitions in pobame, being for the purpose, is he says, of making the United States the first Naval Power of the world during the next bigh- teen years. The Bill makesʻa fotal appropria- tion of 82,750,000,00 V, acertain portion of which is to be used each year for new ships. Fifty million is nudo available for the present fiscal year, $00,000,900 for the next, and so on, increan. ing by $10,000,500 each year up to 1915, when a lamp sum of $1,500,000,000 is made to carry on the programa to 1925.
Mr. A. Droege, in the course of a letter dated from Hamburg, 30th November, writes to tho London Standard:-After su absence of forty years in Chion and England, I returned, bere some four years ago for a special purpose that Meanwhile, I have still keeps mo bera become strongly impressed by the great advcut. ages and general prosperity enjoyed bore under protection. Superior business intelligence úlone,
bat theory were admissible, could not possibly have accomplished this; but industry, having its own market secure, found export markets abroad prepared for them by British enterprise, and British markets kept open for the sake of an infallible Free-trade dogma. Consequently, by degrees, they cane to consider here Great Britain as a sort of Chinese Empire, well suited for exploration by modern sciantille me hoda, and we know by this time what this means. American friends in business here have often suggested to me the necessity for a change of opinion in England, and no doubt a great many on your sido have seen the question raised with satisfaction. I venture to address yon, Sir, because you seem to insist on Mr. Chamberlain having a cast-iron proposal ready for menting all possible emergencies, which, to a business man, seems impossible. Even a trader when he Los to take a now departure, bis old lines having become obsolete, has to proceed orationely in gontormally with experience, never an easy task Now; over here, M. Chambarinin's proposals are considered as moderate and businesslike. No doubt thera is still great prospority, in Eagland, though not so well distributed as here. Many are the well-to-do, that go for have not been touched by foreign Protective Tariffs; but the time may come when they will fool the pinch as well, if British trade is allowed long enough
to shift for itself.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT MACAO.
$100,000 DAMAGES.
We learn that a serious outbreak of Bro
courrod on Wednesday at Moose, causing damage to property to an estimated extent of $100,000. The couflagration took place in Rua Nova d'El Rei. How it originated does not transpire. The flames rapidly spread from house to honse and despite the efforts of the Fire Brigade no less than 60 houses were ultimately gutted. Damage is partly covered by insurance.
"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
[FROM OUR OWN COLLESPONDENT.].
THE NORTHERN CRISIS.
SHANGHAI, 7th January, 7.35 p.m.
BOXING.
We gave in yesterday's issue the results of the first three bouts at the boxing entertain- meat under Mr. Norman's management at se Thestra on Wednesd Only one more nifalự
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remains to be described,
A second interval was taken before tho event of the oroning camo off. In this Charles St. Clair, whe is described as the midlle-weight champion of Brooklyn, and who Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, C.B., who tas doue well in Shanghai, underlook to stop was to have left Shanghai for this port 10-fames Christi», a Hongkong amateur, ia eight
ADMIRAL BRIDGE DETAINED.
lay, was ordered to postpone bis departure at the last moment on account of the un- certain outlook of the political situation.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] FATALITY ON H.M.S. WALLAROO.
LONDON, January 7th, 12.45 pm. The boilers on ILMS. Vallaroo burst, while that vessel was cruising nour Sydney, forty three mon being killed. --
[The Wallaron is i third class cruiser, of 2575 tons displacement, launched in 1889, and commissioned on the Australian is armed with 84.7iu, station. She 53-pounders, and 4 Maxims-ED. D.P.]
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rounds. St. Clair was 24 lbs. heavier than his opponent, weighing 13t. to Christie's 1st, 4 the Tho locul man was a warm favourite with the spectators, and when he showed up well at the start obviously d-lighted them. Early in the second round St. Clair appeared to slip as Christie renolesd his chest, and he went down, but plainly received so dawagn. A lot of luching took place all through, Mr, Newman having a very busy tima
Christie did well in" in enforcing “breaks.” round 3, but St. Clair began after this to follow bim up more closely, and when five rounds had gone the local man was less lively. His condition, however, seemed perfect, and in round he looked none the worse for what punishmout he got. In round 8 St. Clair, after trying in vain to induce Christie to lead, quickened the But pace and never gare the other a rest. Christie was equal to the occasion, and' was as fast on his fost as ever, Emily securing the verdict, St Clair not having put him out. The bout was well worth seeing. Some foolish crias of "foal" from time to tinus wight well inves been lacking, for there was no really foul hit in the whole event.
This was the last bout. Ryan challenged St. Clair to a match before the audience dispersed,
LONDON, 5th January. According to information from official sources in S. Petersbarg, the Russian reply is most conciliatory; some of the Japanese proposals are accepted and others ara m.de the subject of extended observations and met by counter proposals. It is haped in official circles that FEMALE LABOUR AT HONGKONG? the considerable concessions made to Japan will prove acceptable and that the Emperor will be
able to announce that pence is assured on Thursday, which is the Russian Christmas,
LATER,
Outdoor labour at Hongkong is largely dons by females; in fact, it is hard to say how wo would do without them. Passenger-sampant, Telograms from S. Petersburg mention the for instance, are, for a great part, worked and, holding of a Graad Conneil, presided over by owned by them. Who, also, has hot seun the the Tsar, at which several Grand-Dakes, M. damerons junks, daily plying about the Hong. kong harbanr, steered, and rory often propelled Witte, and the loading Ministers were present by women? Chinese women, again, are employ- It is supposed that the reply to Japan was
ed coaling steamers; they break stones for the drafted at this Council
road; they act as carrying coolies; they are employed as earth-carriers, filing in the various! reclamation works; and, indeed, they are even to be seen pulling big stone roller in connection with the raised-road on Praya East, Minor works they perform, inestimable in value to the community, are alwust too numerous to onter: into. Sufficient bas baon mautioned to, illustrate the severe tasks of mutual inbaue they porfarm; in many instances they com.pato with the stronger sex,
THE NEW JAPANESE CRUISERS.
LONDON, 5th January,
The legal formalities connected with the transfer of the Argantine cruisers are com pleted. The Japanese Legation said yesterday that the work on them continues day and night, and when they sail they will be ready for action. As it is impossible, an account of time, to get orews from Japan, the crnisers will probably Bail ouder the command of several Japanese mayal officers now in Europe, with European crows. The Japanesa Naval Attaché, who is arranging the matter, suggests prefer- ence being given to men volunteering from
suggestive of their hopeful character) ure more numerous on the Continent than in evidently been ran over by a passing train, as to the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, is going Great Britain.
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A LOSS TO THE RH.K.Y.C. Lieut. P. H. Campbell, RE, kon. sporetary his left lag was badly injured. He was sent to
home on leave shortly. The yacht he has bean the Kobe Hospital, where he is now undergoing sailing, the one-design class Kathleen, belong- treatment. He is likely to be in hospital some ing to the officers of the Royal Engineers, will, months. The man belongs to Texas, USA after bis departure, probably be sailed by His name is Honeyelt, and he is thirty-four Lieut. . S. Gaskell, R.E. Who will take years of age. He says he was in the U.S.Livut. Campbell's place na secretary of the Army and had recently arrived from Hoag kong. He had been suffering from dysentery and was woking bin way back to the States us well as he was able without funds.
Royal Hongkong Yucht Club is not yet decided Lieut, Campbell leaves by a hired transport, the British Indin as. Dulisura, on or about the 21st
inst.
LATEE.
SOKUNPO VALLEY.
One of the prettiest of Hongkong's many pretty valleys is the valley of Sokuupe." It im also one of the most secluded. Lying midway between Happy Valley and Causeway Bay, One hundred and fifty Japanese officers and the place should be well known to many who sailors leave London to-ding for Genoa,
OPENING OF MANCHURIA.
LONDON, 5th January. Mr. Shaw has recommended the House of Representatives at Washington to establish a Cousal-General at Louklen and a Coneal at Autorg.
traverse Caroline Road. Yet such is not the case by any means. Travellers passing by on foot or in ricksha pernit their gaze to feas on the artificial banaties of the Ewo deiceste and its fine old trees with never a thought for on the the forely valley that lies hidden other hand behind an unpromising exterior, The entrance to Sokunpo is not conspicuous." Along the side of a vegetable garden boasting
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England, but there is little indication that they can hope to convert the world to the learning of an invented, not evolved, lan guage. We have never been able to make out why the language-mongers have gone to the pains of compounding a speech, the main elements of which are taken from the Latin people's tongues, when there is Latin itself, a language, known to great numbers, once the social medium of Europe, and
i burrow pathway. Following this, one dives HONGKONG, 8 JANUARY, 1904
capable of development, as shown by the
immediately into a fine avame of trees, mostly camphor-wood, and soon emerges into the open Some time ago we considered the question progress from the classital to the “silver" period and beyond. It is true that com
As Association has just been formed in the
Rear Admiral Stirling, from the U.S. flagship with hills on every side, clad from base to crest of an universal language, more particularlymercial Latin would be fearful and wonder-
Colony, under the name of the Hongkong in connection with the spread of English as ful to the eyes and curs of the scholar, but
"The Monarch
Journaliefs' Association. The rates are model. Rainbow, paid an official visit to H.E. Mr. with tirs of greenest kao, grey boulders frowpy much so
"Tancredi дэ "Esperanto" or Overture .. the leading commercia) tongue in the world, not
Slaughter led to a certain extent on those of the Institute F. H. May, C.M.G., at Government Housing out here and there upon the valley and Song
Beloved It is orn" Flor. nuo Aylward of Journalists at home, and the main objects yesterday morning. The Kear-Admiral, accom.lending wildness to the view. For all tho world the spectator could imagine hims-if in In the December namber of Knowledge, a "Volapuk" to the average man of educa. Selection..... Dandy Dan
areThe eleration and improvement of the panied by Lieat, Palmer, fag-secretary, and Phelps monthly magazine but rarely seen out here, tion. However, it is perhaps barren to Selection... Songs without words" Mendelssohn
"The Choristers"
Gillet status of journalists in the Far East and the Lieut. Stirling, son of Rear-Admiral Stirling, Killarney or far north Inverness, so similar we find an interesting paper on the linguistic discuss the question of the best language for Interiotzze. "Pondant le Ba!".
God Save the King."
obtaining for them of formal and defuite pro- fag-lientensnt, errived to Blake Pier, in the is the style of scenery. In this little isolated side of the struggle for existence in Sociology, international commerce, when it is probably
fessional standing; the promotion of social | Raszbow's steam-targe, shortly before eleven strath one fools apart from all the world,
He was received there by U.S. Huge hawks float about the hill-tops, a by Mr. J. CoLLYER. This writer looks answering itself. The spread of American
intercourse between members and the bolding o'clock.
Vice-Consul Hoblins and by a guard of honour, lending the last touch of Highland semblanco of conférences; and the promotion, by all rea- forward to a day when four world-languages trade end industries is not rendering it less
with band, from the Sherwood Foresters. The to Sokuppo. In the midst of this silent valley an unending strife. A necessary or couvenient for the business
sonable means, of the interests of journalism and straightforward German willan, of any country, to know some English.
itself. A committee has been elected Es follows; Bear-Admiral returned the general sulute anp one feels not the least surprised to find a Chiness.
lard
Mr. T H. Reid (China Mail, President; proceeded to Government House in the U.S. city of the dead." It seems so appropriate Central Europe; Im- And what reason it there beyond interna
Messrs. T. W. Bergeant (Hongkong Daily Consul's chair, carried by the stars-and-stripes to the placa. In the early morning, when perial English will reigu alone over tioual jealousy why English should not be
Preze), Douglas Story (South China Morning robed coolice. Rerr-Admiral Stirling arrived the sun ripens the aspect of the valley the North American continent, and a accepted us the medium, desired?. English
Post), W. H: Donald (China Moil); and here from Masila by the Rainbow on the 5th into a kind of mellowness such as only more business-like Spanish will dominate may not be the easiest, the most elegant, er
Mr. B. A. Snewin (Houghong Telegraph), Hon. inst., as has already been recorded in the Daily sunsets are supposed to give, tho Chinese funerai its South American sister; while Russiau, most cuphorious language. But it is the
Secretary, and Treasurer. The Association Press. The Rainbow went into dook on the 6th.train may on occasion be encountered, flanked It sounds somewhat peculiar that the flagship by musicians who draw from their instruments or some other rich Slavonian dialect, will language most widely spread and most
admits both members and associates
Rainbow was once upon a time the British dirges both weird and pathetic as they wond blend the races of Eastern Europe and Cen- rapidly spreading now.
cattle-steamer Norse King, trading between their way to the grave. Farther on there neatles tral Asia into an harmonious feleration, It
Liverpool, Antwerp, and New York, She is amid a cluster of trees a lazy farmhouse who may la remarked that this leaves a lot un-
not regarded as n fighting craft, but as a large, occupants stay their several labours to gaze accounted for. There is, for, instance, the
comfortable ship from whence to direct the open-eyed at the unaccustomed stranger, whils Latin portion of Europe, France, Italy,
movements of the southern squadron of the the barnyard fowls fintter into the undergrowth U.S. Asiatic foot. Rear Admiral Stirling the pigs gallop off with protesting grunts, and Spain, and Portugal.
arrived to Manih by the US first class battle-the inevitable dog barks defiance for a space, ship Wisconsin last June, and then took over thon, rcurries up the bill to a safe distanco command of the squadron; he has since then Now the valley broadens out into a cultivable been pretty busy cruising ift Philippine waters.* strip of land with a stream flowing down the The Rear-Admiral paid only a formal call middle. The opposite hillsides are terraced and on HE. Mr. May, lasting about ten minutes. verdant, rising to grim eminences that in this The visit had been arranged for a couple of narrow dale appear bigher than they resily are days before. The following cards were left at Then, before one realises that one has beezi Government House-Rear-Admiral Yates traversing a semi-circular route, Caroline Rosa Vice-Consul-General of the United States, realism by the spectacle of the stern-looking Lient. Laigh Carlyle Palmer, Lieut. Yates prison that once was Belilios Reformatory and Birling, Ecar-Admiral Stirling may stay in the bank of spindles from the prossio, square,
brick cotton-mill. Hongkong à fortnight or så.
The Municipality of Saigon has decided to borrow 16 millions of francs for the construction of waterworks.
A rumour that Mr. Chamberlain meditates a There are the visit to the Colonies is denied by the Birminghom." Mohommedan countries. There is the whole! mass of Eastern Asia. Is it to bo believed Daily Mail, which says Mr. Chamberlain bas
no such intention at present.
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WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 7th at 11.50a. The barometer con- the following report: tinues to rise over Japan, and has commenced to fall over N. China.
The anticyclone still, covers China and the greater part of Japan.
Gradionts are decreasing, and the monsoon
FOOTBALL.
This afternoon, on the Happy Valley, the Hongkong Football Club will play H.MS. Ocean under Rugby.rules. Kick-off at 4.30 p.m. The following will play for the Club':--
Lieut. G. B. Macdonald, Full back; Lieut. P. H. Campbell, T. E. Pearce, O. J. Barnes, and W. R. Robertson, three-quarters; J. P. Jordan and A, B. K. de Voalle, halves, H. C. Sandford (capt.) A. Boyd, E. H. Halifax, Lleut, M. R. Strover, H. E. Rowley, Lient, É. Rogers, 8.0. Else, and H. F. Chard, forwards. The final match in this season's competition moois H.M.8. Leviathan on the Club ground at friendly between the club, and H.M.S. Albion 215 p.m. This game will be followed by a
| kick-off at 4 pm.
that there will be no tendency toward assi- milation of language in these parts of the world, while in those mentioned before it will prove so strong? We hardly think this is meant, nor that English, German, Spanish, and Russian alone will make fresh -conquests. But that the movement, former. ly rather in the direction of the break-up taking place at the end of this month close to will moderate in the Formops Channel and N. will be played to-morrow, when H.M.B. Glory Stirling, U.B.N., Mr. Harry Mears Hobbins,is debouched upon, and one is brought back to of languages into sub-languages and of the
morrow, the 9th inst., st.4 p.m. Those desirous part of the China Sea, but continue to blow
China Sea. latter into dialects, is now set in the of entering ara requested to send their names strongly over the middle and 8. parts of the opposite direction owing to the gradual in to the Hon. Secretary on or before that. Faremst:-Fresh to moderate NE winds absorption of the previously independent |åste.
Members of the Victoria Recreation Club are reminded that entries for the Seraich Races
fair.
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