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Harmston's Circus was to arriva in Singaporo yesterday,
Mr. W. A. Carlson has been promoted to the substantive appointment of Harbour Master at Shungbaž.
Four moro fatal Chinese plaguo cases were reported yesterday, two bodies being found, one ut Yaumati, and the other in Hospital Road.
Ito ourselves we must point out that the question of an European reservation is one | on which we bave always taken a firm stand,
and that it is hardly just for the Times of Jadia to say in this connection that "what ["was everybody's business ended in being nobody's business in Hongkong." The case was rather that no attempt was made to reserve the Peak district until it was judged. that this district was actually threatened. Previously there was an agitation in favour (of an Europa reservation in Kowloon-muaien, 11 am.
for a less wealthy class of Europeurs than these of the Peak, it will be understood--- but there was a distinct feeling against this among the home authorities, and no reser-
vation has been setinned. With regard
The torrices in S. John's Cathedral-to-day (Asension Day) will be as follows-Holy Communien, 8 ain.; Matins and Holy Corn.
We mixeived yesterday some copies of the San Francion Chronicle and Call for December, which apparently wero despatched by some sail- across the Pacific. ing-ship. They must have done a sinart voyage
on coffee and cocoa intensifies the injustice of taxing tea. The opposition to the tea tax is growing and a close division is expected.
The latest Shanghai papers record the death of two well-known residents of the part
to the Peak wo still await the decision of
A special cabiogram to the Englishman, dated Downing Street, not without hope, seeing that the local Government has lent its sup-consider that the refusal to increase the duty London, 26th April, says: The tou trade
port to the petition and that the respectable Chinese have covered in the wisdom of The measure. We are glud, however, to see that we have the support of the Times of India, the writers on which see in Bombay conditions at least analogous to those prevailing in Hongkung. They are able to recognise how imperative it is to the health of European residents in the tropics-and, THE MACHINERY in so ombodies every in particular, European women and children
improvement known up to date,
made under constant European expert exporvi tion are gold throughout the Far East and are
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THE BEST MATERIALS only are used,
-to live under conditions somewhat, even if remotely, resembling those of home, and not amid crowded Eastern surroundings. They recognise that it is not a matter of race at all, merely of health of the Europe- ans, who after all must be considered the | backbone of the Colony, and whose prede. cessors from home, as the Times of Iulia THE PRICES are only half those cberged points out, sacrificed their lives in hundreds
in England.
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ou the same day, Mr. Ruins F. Eastlake died suddenly on the 5th inst. from heart discuss Mr. Elmund H. Gore Benth. | who of late years has carried on business as á bill und bullion broker, died the same cute, Both Mr. Eastlake and Mr. Booth could chin more than forty years' residence in China. The death of Mr. I. E. Avery, formerly U. S. Vice Consul General at Shanghai is also chronicled.
He died in North Carolina.
Though the imposition of the war tax a few years ago in England proved a great stimulus to the Cbian tea trade, Ceylon tes-merchants express the opinion that the increased duty of 20. per Th. might tend to keep China teas out of the British market. We cannot follow the at a time when the risks of life in the reasoning. With su oight-panay duty it will tropics were less understood and guarded probably be impossible to get the shilling packet against than they are to-day. Is it too any more, but we are inclined to endoise the much to hope that the home authorities will opinion of a Ceylon merchant who says the be able to see facts as our Eastern neigh-increased duty will loud to a greater run on cheap tais. and that migght let in more Chinas."
bours sce them and to admit that in our petition we have only asked for sanction to measure which will secure the best interests of the Colony?
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The Stem Observer understands that an action has bron entered at the British Consulate Bangkok. against Mr. Thomas Jones, Agent of the Chartered Bank, for 3,000 ticuls damuges For the first four months of this year the for alleged malicious prosboution, by Chua Hok toful rainfull was 5.98 inches. In the corres-Chong, the ledger-clerk. It will be remembers ponding period last year the total was 8.86 that about the 25th March Chua Hok Chong inches.
was arrester on a charge alleging the forging and uttering of a choque for 12,000 ticule, but. after being remanded in custody several times and then liberated on his own recoguisances, the charges were not sustained by the evidence adduced by the prosecution and Lecordingly were dismissed.
The death is announced of Mr. Alister B.
Clarke, of the B. N. Borneo service, at Jessel- ton, on the 4th April, after a few days' illness [31 of pneumonia.
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BIRTHS.
On the 6th March, at "Scramble House," Sandakan, the wife of F. BREITAO, of a daughter On the 27th March, at Lahnt Duto, the wife of On the lat lay, at Inverlochy," Scotts Roud, Singapore, the wife of A. ExeLx Benzie, of a daughter.
A. ZANDER, of a son.
On the 2nd May, at Lucille Cottage, Bukit Timah, the wife of J. W. R. Scor, of a son.
DEATH,
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month was made up.
An Allahabad telegram dated the 22nd April says:It is understood that transports will shortly be taken up for the return of the troops from Somaliland, as the Howe Government have decided that operations shall be closed next
month.
In the typhoon which devastated Cap S. Jacques on the 2nd inst. a French soldier and a number of natives were drowned; considerable damage was done to the town. The residencos of the Governor-General suffered considerably, and nearly all the Europeen houses wore inundated.
that Mr. Carlisle will be the first British Con- sul at the port..
We take the following telegram and footnote from the N.-C. Daily News-Kobe, 5th May. the Kobe Herald. has been fined. The prosecution was the result of a statement in his leading article on the 27th ult, that the squadron in the Sea of Japan lud left Chinhaiwan the week before. He has ap- poaled." [The following was the offending paragraph, but no offence could well be slighter; Vice Admiral Kamimura's fine homogeneous squirun of six armoured emisors is somewhere in the Japanese Sea-it was reported to have left Chiniiwan six or seven days ago, presum ably for Vladivostock or the near roighbourhood. it being obviously necessary that the enemy's squadron at Vladivostock should be either bottled up or smashed up."]
Mr. A. W. Curtis, Eilitor
Among the passengers for England by the C.P.R. Cox steamer Empress of Jupa, which left here yesterday, was the Hou. C. W. Dick son, senior partner hero of Messrs. Jardine,
TELEGRAMS.
"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)
WAR
THE
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS
WITHDRAWN.
LONDON, 10th May, 10.55 a.m. The Russions have withdrawn the Viceregal headquarters in Manchuria to Harbin,
DISAFFECTION IN SOUTH RUSSIA.
LONDON, 10th May, 10.55 a.m. Grave anxiety is being caused at S. Petersburg by the disaffection in South-Western Russia.
RIOT AT CHINKIANG.
SEVERAL CASUALTIES.
SHANGHAI, 11th May, 8.22 p.m. A riot took place at Chinking to-day, The mob burned the quarters of the newly organised police free. Several were killed and wounded.
THE ALLEGED SEDITION
TRIAL-
GOMEZ ACQUITTED.
MANILA, 11th May, 8,58 p.m. Dr. Gomez has been acquitted.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF H. M. STANLEY.
Losbox, 10th May, 10,55 a.m. Sir H. M. Stanley, the South African explorer, is dead,
(Sir Henry Morton Stanley was noted awong African explorers, not least as the rescuer of Lvingstone. Perhaps no man living know more about the "Dark Continent" than he The following publicationswere the work of his pon --Congo and its Free State: Coomassic and Magdala: How I Found Livingstone; In Darkest Africa: Through the Dark Con finent; Through South Africa, 1898. Included amongst Sir Henry's numerous titles were:-- G.O.B; D.C.L.; LL.D. He was born in 1841; and married the daughter of the late Mr. C. Tennant, Governor of Congs.--Es. D.P.]
REUTER'S SERVICE.
RUSSIAN LOSSES ON THE YALU.
LONDON, 9th May.
An official Russion statement gives the Rassion casualties at the battle of the Yalu at 70 officers and 2,324 men killed and wounded.
BRITISH PRESS ON THE WAR
LONDON, 9th May. The Daily Telegraph says the campaign has been conducted by the Japanese with a brilliance almost unparalleled in war. Jagen's success is due to the consummate combination of naval and military action, which even England has never rivalled. The Japanese successes of the
WAR NOTES.
TELEGRAMS.
We take the following from the N.-G. Daily Notre-
**Tokya, 6th May.—The Japaness officers and scouts marched on the third of May to Tang- shungcheng rather more than half-way betweań Chiulioncheng and Fonghwangelong), after a serious engagement with Russina envalry, and are pressing on to Fenghwangchong. Accord- ing to a native report, the Russian infantry at Tangshangcheng on the 1st instant opened fire on the Russian infantry retreating from Kiulienchong, mistaking them for Japanese resulting in 100 being killed and 70 wounded."
interesting now to note that the frond of sentiment has been along these lines. The first impulso was to sido with Japan; but for two wooks now, both in this canutry and in England, the pendulum kas beon swinging the other way Friendly letters have passed between · King Edward and the Tsar. The friendliness of Russia to us during the Civil War has been cited here with good effect. It is noted that the commersial journals of the country, no not at all inclined to favour Japan. Eastern news- papers are hastening to correct their first partial utterances. Evidently a sanor view of the wer will from this timo on prevail.”
NAVAL NOTES.
Tokyo, 6th May-The N. Y. K. S. Kage Maru ran aground on the 4th instant at the
THE "CALLAO," naval bading is, but was got off the next Miller, arrived from Washer and Son Sui The United States gun-boat Callao, Capi.
day."
HUSSIAN FORCES IN MANCHURIA
Reports received by the Military Intelliger.co Department of Viceroy Yuu Shi-kai at Tient- sin, sont by officers detailed for the purpose, three Manchurian provinces and Eastern Siberia make the total number of Russian troops in the as follows:-170,000 infantry, 17,000 cavalry, and 256 gaps.
Of this mumber 20,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 32 gous are in Eastern Siberia, the rest being concentrated at Harbin and the vicinity of Moukden,
SACRIFICE OF JEWELLY IN JAPAN.
yesterday, having experienced moderate wonther.
THE "ADAMASTOR,”
The Portugueso cruiser Adamstor bus buon undergoing a docking at the hands of the Hongkong and Wiminpon Dock Co.
PROSPECT OF NEW SKIPA. There are plain indications that the first result of the present was in tho Far Fast, like that of the war of 1894-5, will be to stimulate the shipbuilding programmes of the Great Powers. A now German programme is in pre- paration, and it is now known that a large Russian programme is contemplated, apparently in addition to the programme of 1903, which has not as yet beau entirely, carried out. It is reported that the new programs will consist of eight first-class battleships, and as many
scouts and destroyers. Obriously the rapid armoured crnisers, with a large number of
execution of so vast a plan as this prograwmo involves will depend on the finances of Russia, and will have to be spread over a long term of years, even if, as has been stated, a number of
So many objects of gold have been lodged by private individuals with the Bank of Japan for the purpose of strengthening its reserves that leading journals are beginning to cry out. There have been some interesting incidents connected certain uoble familias stores of old coins and gold with this movement. In the strong room of
ingots have been found which led lain andis turbed for periods varying from 60 to 300 years, having been originally destined for use in war or granted in recognition of some meritorious deed. That these should cease to lie usolessly idio is † units are built in Gorunudy. advisable. But it is different with jewelry and
a
| objects of art which could not be broken up with. out foolish escrifice. The Empress herself has sent a quantity of valuable jewelry to the bank, and when such an example is set something like Dublu is pretty sure to set in. The bank, indeed, is understood to be framing rules for the safe enstody of all such objects, and will engage not to break them up except in case of dire necessity. But the thing is either a force or a roolity, and if the latter, then it is time for sober folks to protest, especially as a very false impression may be created about the financial situation. The bank is in no want of such extraordinary aid. Its paper issues aggregate 224 million yen- being two millions less than its legal limit--and it has a gold reserve of 103 millions. In 1899, on the contrary, the note issies were 228 mil. lions-41 millions above the legal limit of that time and the gold reserve. millions. Yet in 1899 no one entertained the was only 67
smallest apprehension about the financial situa tion. It is one of the idiosyncracies of the Japanose to be carried away by impulses which appeal to their sense of duty or patriotism.
HONGKONG IN QUARANTINE.
The Colonial Secretary's Office seat us you- tarlay a copy of the following telegram from the Secretary to the Government of Burman dated Rangoon, 11th May —
"Hongkong declared infected. Inform skip- ping firms."
THE "PRONTO" SAFE.
The Hongkong office of the Hamburg- Amerika Linie kindly informed us that the German stemmer Pronto, Cupt, Grandt, which was rumoured to be lost, arrived safely poster- day morning at Ningpo.
NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS
attractive flowers with which the Far East has Gardenia Aorida is perhaps one of the most enriched English gardens. It grows wild out in Chios aud Japan, bat in consequence of it fragrance and beauty spread long ago in calti- vation to other parts of the world, though how *God is so high and the Teur so far." says and by whom carried we cannot say. But when the Russian possent, and there is something to the light of accurato botany dawned upon the be said for the traditional practice of the Ras-world it was found already in India, Ceylon sian Tsary to accompany their armies in the and at the Cape. Chine was not even recog
THE TRAR'S JOURNEY TO THE FRONT,
field and decide vexed questions off-hand by anised hy Lannous, writing in the middle of word from which there is no appeal.
JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN BIFLES.
M. Soureroche, writing in Illustration, gives a most interesting comparison of the rifles carried by the Russian soldier and the Japanese As to the mechanism for loading, the advantage
the eighteenth century, as one of its sources. It was first introduced to England from the Cape and known as Cape Jasmine. It wa named Gardenia after a certain Mr. Alexander Garden, a doctor of Charlestown, Carolina, ai at this time, and the scientific name has graduntly
i conceded to the Arisaka weapon, which, how-supplanted the more popular one. ever-has-the-drawback of, being more difficul In China, curiously enough, the Gardenia is to clean. The striking differences are first, that not valued for its scent. Too small" is the the Bussian buail (German silver) weighs 14 usual verdict. The fruit is used for medicins grams and the whole cartridge 26 grams, under the name of Wong Tea, and a yellow dye whereas the Japanese ball (hard lead with is extracted from the seeds and used for colour- Mr. T. Ff. Carlisle, who has for many years
covering of German silver) weighs only 10ing food. On the 20th April, at Kramat Road, Singapore, en associated with the British Legation and Mra. M. RYAN, aged 73 years.
Consulate at Bangkok, is leaving the Siamese
grams and the cartridge has a weight of 224
In Hongkong, na ovoryono knows, the shrub capital. It has been resclvod to establish a
Bams. The meaning of these things is that is one of the chief ornaments of our much- British Consulɛle at Hanoi, and it is understood Matheson, & Co., and Mrs. Dickson. Mr. Dick- last three months are even more marvellous thea weighted to an extent of only 2,250 grams in alroadly appearing in every little patch of bushes sollier who carries 100 cartridges into action is favoured flora. Its starry white flowers are son, has, during his management of the firm, those of Germany in 1870. The Standard says the Japanese army, whereas the corresponding displayed great angacity and business ability there have been few finer feats of war that the figure in the Russian army is 2,600 grams, the nuited with untiring application, and his devo-blocking of Part Arthur. From the l'eking and Tientsin Times we see tion to business has rendered a change noces-
Japausse soldier's load being thus lighter by 350 that the Dellas Company's total receipts in aary, as his health has suffered considerably
grams. In other words, the Japanese can take Tientsin for seven nights were $8,999, but on from the strain. He is succeeded by Mr. W
JAPANESE NATIONAL HYMN. into action 115 cartridges against the Russian's the last night a number of complimentary Jardine Gresson, who has already been clected
LONDON, 9th May. tickets were given to the guarantors and their to the Chamber of Commerce Committee, and
100. But of course the lighter ballet is not so There is a universal chorus of eulogy of the accurate in its light, especially in windy production, while the Japanese is on the con- The Russian national hymn is quite a modern friends. The Company only plays four nights will no doubt also take Mr. Dickson's seat in
masterly strategy of the Japanese combined with swift madlinching execution. Even the initial velocity of the Russian bullet is only "Kimigayo." Translated into French it is a
The second point is that irhereas the trary, tlie oldest existing, known as the in Shangbai.
the Logislative Council. A large number of Germen Press, which has hitherto been the 620 metres, the velocity of the Japanese is 705 follows their friends went to the wharf anil to the steamer to wish Mr. and Mrs. Dickson bon most reserved, cannot with bold its tribute of motres; whence it results that while the zone of voynge.
HONGKONG OFFICE; 14, DESYEUX ROAD 01. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
HONGKONG, 12th May, 1904
Ir is not often that Indian papers trouble themselves to comment on the affairs of Hongkong. Occasionally only do we re- member seeing mention in the Times of Indio, one of the best known of them, of this Colony, and then it has generally been when our Bombay contemporary has chosen to refer, somewhat slightingly, to the outcry
The Universal Gazette now hears that uince Viceroy Wei, of Nanking, wefused to appoint an official to take charge of the improvement of the Whanggoo with other foreign officials, he proposes now to ask the Senior Consul of
Not the least remarkable instance of Japanese ambition in Corca, says the Times correspond.
made by Hongkong journals about the Shanghai to inform the Consular Body, who inent. is the railway by which they design to
ago, Mr. FRASSE, the Editor of the Times of India, paid a visit-his second, we be-
EVEN GERMANS ADMIRING.
praise and admiration.
THE JAPANESE LOAN.
LONDON, 9th May. The Japaness loan, which was expected to be issued last evening, was quoted on Saturday at
An unqualified success is assured. GERMAN SOCIALISTS ON THE WAR.
LONDON, 9th May.
weather.
en the hill-sides, and it will continue to brighten our country walks for many months to come.
Put
Que de souverain
Mille ans dare lo reigne Pais onenie huit mille ans,
Tant que les pierres ne seront roes, Ni très épaisses les mousses!". inte English prose it can read:--- May the reign of our sovereign endure for a thousand years, and for eight thousand more beyond that, until stones are not rocks any moro, ner moss any longer grows thickly."
The American Sua humorously put it into this form ----
"A thousand years may our sovereign reign, And eight thousand more with never a pain, As long as the pebbles don't grow to be
bowlders
maximum danger for the Russian weapon does not exceed 500 matres, it is nearly 700 metres for the Japanese, and the penetration also of the latter is much greater. From these facts the French expert concludes that the Japanese tura are to inform their respective Ministers at ravages of plague here. To Bombay aur Peking, that China would undertake to obtain connect Fusan with the capital of the country, 21 per cent premiam and yesterday at 3 por cabt. distances and that the great tension of the arm" will be very dangerous at ordinary combat plague sufferings in the past have seemed the necessary funds herself to carry out this and in time to extend to the regions lying to the north of Seoul. Ultimately it is the inter-
trajectory will give the Japanese a superiority slight, reckoned merely numerically and work within a certain period. The Gazette without regard to the effect on the trade of remarks that the Viceroy's proposal is certainly tion to effect a function with the Siberian mail-
which their adversarios will be obliged to con- sider." In the case of each alike the magazine con- this port, one of the great clearing-houses preferable to carrying out the work jointly way beyond the Corean border; but there is little possibility of such a consunraction whilst the
tains 5 cartridges, and the rapidity of fire is the of the world. However, just about a year with foreign officials and partly with foreign Far Eastern question remains in its present un-
In the Reichstag, Herr Bobsi attacked the same. So also is the weight of the piece, which capitul
satisfactory state. At Fusin 40 miles of the Pro-Russian attitude of the Govorament in fact is thought to be in favour.
the Russians, Quite an exodus from the Colony took place railway are complete and 15 miles open to traffic. regard to the war, He declared that the who are bigger and stronger men than the
Kaiser's telegram of sympathy to the Tear on Тиражива love to Hongkong and wrote for his on the C. P. P. Ca ss. Empress of Japan About the same distance is complete at the the occasion of the Petropavlovsk disaster in ne yesterday. By it, among others, Mr. R. F.Seoul end, 25 miles being open to the public.
AMERICAN OPINION [P]." journa very able article on this Colony, Johnston, up to new Acting Assistant Colonial Throughout the whole 250 miles the track has way reflected the feeling of the nation, Count'
The following is au extract from the Sen in which he dwelt with insistence on the need Secretary and Clerk of Councils, left to take a bean advanced to such a stage as permits of rapid von Bülow denied that the Kaiser's telegram Francisco Argonaut, though that it represents of an European reservation for Hongkong, the post of Secretary to the Commissioner of constraction at both ends. It is expented that was a departure from neutrality, and regretted American opinion regarding the We sea in one of the latest numbers of Weihaiwei. Mr. Johnston, in his comparatively the line will be open to traffic by the autumn of that the dansters of a neighboring friendly is
loubt:" As open to the Times of India an article entitled brief career here, has proved himself a man of this year. [This was written or a month ago sud caricatures by a portion of the Gorman probably the average American, if asked |
nation had been the object of malicious articles
October the Argonaut said that the following report:- "A Lesson from Hongkong," in which the exceptional ability, and has been honoured with of course. It is significant of the tendency of the esteem of a Governor and two Acting American iron to supplement British in markets
which of the two nations ho would rather seo writor discusses - eur Peak Reservation
Governors -no small tribute to his merits. where the latter until recently han boen supreme
vietorious, would say Japan. But we went on Ordinance with the highest approval and It is to be hoped that he is not lost to the Colony that all the beams and girders for bridges, the
to say that there was another and perhaps holds it up for the emulation of Bombay. permanently. There also left, on a year's wheels for rolling-stock, and the locomotires are
farther-seging view.” of the situation. We said Our contemporary takes some credit for holiday. Mr. D. E. Brown, local Superintendent being imported from the United States, whilst
that "after all Russia is white"; that her course of the C. P. Co., who intends to spend some time England has to be content with the farnishing of apprehension in Russia, and the General Staff in Manchuria, while bad, was little worse than having stirred up public opinion in Hoog- kong on the subject last year. In justice parted by the same bat on short holidays.`
in Canada. A number of other residents de- of the rails; Japan herself is constructing the declare that the latest developments assure a England's in Egret, that at heart the Oriental
¿cars.
long and bitter war.
disliked the Occidental and always would. It is
Press.
THE FEELING IN RUSSIA.
LONDON, Stu May. The Japaneso successes have caused a feeling
as
War
long ago
As long as the moss doesn't reach to our
shoulders!"
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hoogkong Observatory yesterday issued
On the 11th at 11.25 a.m. The barometer has risen in the north of China and fallen wisewhere, particularly near the estuary of the Tangise,
The depression, birst noted on the 9th, has moved in a SB. direction, the centre being now to the westward of Kiusin.
Gradients are moderate on the China Coast Formosa Channel, and light S. to SW. winds and moderate SW. winds may be expected in thu in the northern part of the China Sea,
Forecast-Light S. winds; cloudy, fair.