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days, for instance, we have bad from our London correspondent the news that a Departmental Committee has recommended the re-organisation of the Board of Trade and the appointment of a Minister of Cous | meres. This has for years been advised by
́S. WATSON & CO., many of the Chambers of Commerce, and if we recollect rightly, by the whole of the Chambers in sunual congress, but now that a Departmental Committee has recognised the value of the suggestion there is more likelihood of the change being made. In most Continental Governments there is a Minister of Commerce. The fraction of such a Minister is too obvious to need explanation, and what has been accom- The BUSINESS of the TIONGKONG plished by such Ministers in Continental Governments may be taken as a sufficient Of recommendation for the change.
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BUILDINGS,
The HOURS of
BUSINESS
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of the
ONGKONG DISPENSARY in its now
fomises are as follows:-
Week Days, 8.30 AM to 6 P.M.
Saturday, 8.30 AM to 2 P.M.
Sunday, 10 AM. to P.M.
An Assistant will bo on duty at all times to
spenso prescriptions.
of greater importance than a Minister of Commerce, is lie need of a well-selected staff, of Consale. But above both these recommendations the journals devoted to commerce place the need for more commercial representatives.
· Sending representatives to the spot is the German and American way of doing "business," says the Magazine of Commerce, "and our traders cannot hope to retain "their trade unless they do likewise. In Portugual our travellers are becoming "practically extinct, Two hundred com- “mercials from Germany visited Lisbon during a recent year, compared with 30 from the United Kingdom, while for years "past not a single representative of British firms has been seen in Madeira, whereas feveral Germans go there every year, and "pass on to the Canary Islands. Egypt is a growing rountry, under our control, but
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"the number of British commercial travellers to be found there is quite inadequate." In fairness to the Consular service it has British Consuls to be admitted that all the world over are constantly giving advice of this description. It has appeared in the Consular reports ou trade in Chim again and again. In the first report to hand reluting to trade in China during 1903-that of the Acting Consul at Haukow-we find advice of this S. WATSON & CO. description given in the plainest of terms.
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Alt Katera for jublication should be written on the side of the paper only.
Members of the Masonic lodges will be in- terested to learn that at the festival held in London last month to celebrate the 116th anniversary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls the total subscriptions aniounced amounted to £21,515.
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TELEGRAMS
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] HEAVY SIBERIAN RAILWAY
. DEFALCATIONS, · The thirty-eighth anniversary meeting of
LONDON, 14th June, 10.55 a.m. the China Inland Mission was hold last month at Exeter Hall. Sir George Williams presided at the afternoon assembly. The annual report. The Empress Dowager has discovered which was presented by the Secretary (Mr. defalcations amounting to seven millions Marous Wood), slated that, although the clos- ing months of 1903 wor darkened by the dread-sterling in connection with the Biberian ful cloud of coming war, the work of the Railway. Mission throughout the whole of inland Chi was, with few exceptions, unhindered by political disturbance or unrest. On December 31 there were in connection with the Mission 783 mis- sionaries (including wives), of whom 148 wero associates connected with six affiliated societies These labourers were working at 199 stations, 10 of which had been opened during the past year; 1.688 parsons confessed their frith in Christ by baptism during the year-the largest
This use of the term "Siberian railway evidently includes the Manchurian line.--ED.]
THE FATSHAN FATALITY.
RAILWAY EMPLOYEE DEPORTED.
SHAMEEN, 14th June, 7. p.m.
In the United States Consular Count
number ever reported for one year. There had heen a met decrease in the annual income of to-day William A. Freeman was convic £12,878, as compared with 1902, but there wasted of unpremeditated killing. He was no deficit to record. Lord Kinnaird presided sentenced to deportation and sensured for at the evening meeting..
reckless firing.
The director of the census at Washington has prepared a statement explaining the discrepancy between the number of male and the number of female American-born Chinese in the Unitel States. The returns of the sixteenth consens show that of the 9,010 Chinese claiming Ameri. can nativity, 8,857 were males and 2,363 females. The director expressed the conviction that the preponderance of males is due to the fact that many mate natives of China have fraudulently
secured admission as American-born. The con
elusion is announced as follows:-The results of the compilation show that of 6,657 Chinese males reported as born in the United States, probably 2,231 were really born here, and 4.420 were cases of false returns; and of the Chinese females reported as born in the United States, 2,231 were really horn here, and 211 eases of false returns. The true number of Chinese immigrants in the United States was probably 85,041, instead of 80,953. us reported, the differ. nea, 4,548, er 5 per cent. of the immigrants,
being due to false returns.
THE WAR
[FROM OUR OWN CÓRRESPONDENTS.]
LAND BATTLE NEAR PORT
ARTHUR.
GENERAL STOESSEL SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED.
LONDON, 14th June, 10.55 a.m. It is reported at St. Petersburg that a battle was fought outside Port Arthur last Friday,
The result is unknown.
General Stoossel, who is in com
log
man of the beleaguered garrison at Port Arthur, has had to have his
amputated,
MINE EXPLOSION ON A
JAPANESE STEAMER
Kope, 14th June, 6.46 p.m. While the Japanese steamer Tuihoke
The shooting affray cccurred at Faishan, a Chinese had losing his life. An American, numol Aldrich, was the proprietor of a tos taurant at Fatshan, and a Portuguese woman. who spoke Chinese fluently, live with him. Several Chinese were gazing into the house, as is their custom, when the woman reprimanded therm.. Alter some words she throw water on them, and the Chinese proceeded to bombard about this time William A. Freeman and two the house with mud, sticks and stones. Just
other railway employees arrived for dinner. Clods of mud were thrown at the windows, and finally, a stone was haried through the glam, landing on the table at which Freeman and his was laying inines a mine exploded and
Freeman jumped to two friends were wasted. his feet, rushed to the window and drew his twenty of the crew were killed. revolver. He did not aim at the retreating Chinese, but fired in the pond. from the revolver struck the water in the pond, glanced off and piorced a flad in the threat
The bret
killing him almost fustantaneously. The boy was 400 yards from the house. The father of the lad agreed to accept $150 in fall settlement of the matter. Viceroy Tsen, however, made a case against Freeman.]
Maru, chartered by the Government,
JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCH.]
TOKYO, 14th June, 5.50 p.2. Admiral Togo reports that while the Taikoku Maru was laying mines in the
face of the enemy, on the night of the THE CANTON MURDER TRIAL. 13th inst., one mine was exploded kill,
ing one officer and 19 men.
-SBAMEEN, 14th June, 7. p.m.`
It also
Sir Hicum Wilkinson, Chief Justice of wounded two officers and soven meu, but
CORRESPONDENCE,
"A STUMBLING BLOCK TO
CIVILISATION,”
TO THE EDITOE OF THE "DAILY TRESS.** BIRI entering the lists against beth His Excellency anda "Well-wisher of His Country," I must say I admire Mr. May's manly speech in defence of his modera Christianity, but am inclined to think that Christianity as practised in Great Britain and in this Colony has but proved a stambling block to civilisation, and having boom tried for 1900 years has proved n complete failure, and that solely because the classes in their selfish greed having grabbed the land and the power to make the laws, have used this power for ua-Chrieflike ends, and thus have they crucified Jeans afrosh by their selfish gread and want of the first principle of Christ's teaching, viz., love to their fellow men. If we conlil but convert the Church with its Bishops and priests who lire in palacos, and fare sumptuously ovary day on their many thousands of pounds yearly all drawn from the sweat of labour, and get them to convert the classes to the toashings of Christ as giron in the Sermon on the Mount,"
thon Christianity would became a living roligios,
and help to make this earth quit as much hoavob as they are fond of telling us awaits us in another sphere. The sam of the teaching of Jesus Christ is love, and the sum of the teaching of our holy Catholic Church of England is respect for the King, the Church, and the olasses,--and why, but because they are all parasites of a like kidney, for they are all drones living on the labour of their poorer fellows. And not until the Charch and thu glasses wash themselves and cast off the rags of their moderu Christianity, robing themselves in the teachings of the puro and sisaple Christ, can any advanos
in civilisation bo attributable to su calle
Christianity. What a lesson did the pagan Japanese teaob the, modera Christian during the Borer war! In conclusion I would like to quote Carlyle. A fine Society dy said to bim, "How delighted we would all be to. throw our doors open to Him (Christ), and to iston to His precepts if He came to visit London. don't you think so, Mr. Carlyle ?" Carlylo answered, "No, Madam, I don't. I think if He came very fashionably dressed, with plenty of money in His pockets, and pranching doctrinos palatable to this higher orders, I might have the honour of receiving from you a card of invitation, on the back of which would bo writton To Meet our Saviour! But if He come- uitering His sublime precepts and denouncing
the Pimrisees, and associating with the publicis and lower ordors, as He did, you would have treated Him as the Jews did, and cried out, "Take Him to Nowgate and hang Him. Tras,
H. B. M. Supreme Court of China and the damage to the ship was not impor t./Lord Houghton might have invited Him to
China Development Company,
American
Hon. H. E. Polluck, K.C., acting on be half of Mr. W. A. C. Platt, acting Crown Advocate, conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Crowe, and Mr. Ellis, of Shanghai, appeared for the defence.
BRITISH SYMPATHY,
The Japanese Soldiers' and Sailors' Widows and Families Fand started in London amountai a month ago to about £14,000, out of which £12,000, including £180 for the Japanese Red Cross Socisty, in accordance with the express wish of the donors, had been forwarded to the
The Siamese Government has granted forma permission to Messrs. B. Grimm and Co., saya the Bangkok Times, to have Kobsiclang and Bangkok connected with the "Telefunken" system of wireless telegraphy by way of experi mort. The "Telefunken" representative, it is The blunto for the lack of success of stated, has had every success in Japan and British firms, though commonly ascribed China. He bas sold a lot of apparatus to both "to the supineness of British Consular the lolligerent nations. The Custom House in Shanghai laas ordered 28 stations, and is con.
Corea, commenced the trial to-day at the "officials towards the efforts of British necting all the lightships therewith. Messrs. British Consulate, bore, of Abdul Kalik, ant. "merchants, would seem," says Mr. PLAY-Arnhold, Karberg and Co., in Shanghai, are to charged with the murder of an Indian FAIR, "to lie in reality with the firms connect. Shanghai and Hankow with the "Talewa tebman employed by the *themselves who ninke no serious effort to funken" wireless system, as a private enter push their goods in opposition to those prise, and they expect that the outlay will yield "of other countries
The only good results, as the telegraph lines in Chin Nonymously signed communications that have effectual method is to send accredited are often unt in good working order From
nother papers will be inserted. ready appeared in
agents with full particulars to officials in Sunghai the representive goes to Hanskan () to instul 10 stations ordered by the Fronch army Onters for extra copies of DAILY PRESS should be
charge of, factories in order to expound commander. at before 11., on day of publication. After that r the mpply is limited. Only supplied for Cash.
"the advantages of British-made machinery, plegraphic Address: Paras Codes: A.B.C. 5th Ed-
Lieber's
or to native merchants in order to point out "the superiority of the article which they "are trying to sell, and to secure orders "therefor." We do not knew that it can be charged against British Consular officials generally that they possess no inherent sympathy with commercial matters, though it is doubtless a fact that vory few of them have had a practical commercial experience. That, it must be admitted, is a defect in the Consular system, but we should Lesitate to endorse the view that the Consular officials of other Powers are, generally speaking, more efficient in that respect. A Ministry
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breakfast."Yours etc.,
Hongkong, 14th June.
POLICE COURT.
Tuesday, 14th June.
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTA
ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE.)
ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERT.
It appears that while a man and his wife were
sleeping in a house a band of robbers entered some of them with blackoned faces, and tied. them together. A quantity of goods were taken away.
The defendants were committed for trial.
The principal evidence for the prosecu Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, to hand
the amount to the proper channels.
Four men were charged on remand with hav As we have already, reported, as examination was strongly against the prisoner.
(The murder took place at Sainam, some miles
In a letter to the Times the committee ofing committed an armed robbery at Hunghom tion was recently hokt in Canton by the Pro-
on the 24th ml. The murderer bad blown off Japanese ladies say "Recent events have vincial Board of Education to select a number beyond Cauton. of young men who should i sort abroad to the back of the other's head and then decamped. made it clear how useful such a fund as study at Government expense. It was decided to Dr. Shelby, the Railway surgeon, promptly pro- this will bo. Legions of bereavesi wives and sond 20 to Jupus and about as many to Europe ceaded to the scoue, and the British Vico-Con- fatherless children in our constry will bless and America. The subjects of examination sul also went up, as the parties concerned were those kim givers who have a liberally were
British subjects. A few days later, when responded to our appeal. If it be the wish of (a) Translation from Chinese into a foreign | Abdul Kalik was accused by his comrades, he some of the donors that their contributions disappeared from Canton, coming down to should be applied for purposes other than hangaage auil vice verên,
(b) Mathematics.
Hongkong on u river steamer. He was arrested at Hongkong, and, on the 12th April, Mr: A. J. Major, of H. B. M. Consulate at Canton, handed Mr. J. H. Kemp, Second Folice Magistrate of Hongkong, the papers in connse- tion with the cass. An Indian gave ovidence as to the man's identity, and extradition was applied for. Next day the case again come before Mr. Kemp, when Mr. H. W. Looker, solicitor, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and
(e) Chinese Composition.
Out of 560 candidates the following 13, who passed highest, are to be sent to Europe and America.
Name.
Schools whero eduented.
Period of
Study. à Ferra
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the Reviews, if not on the public plat- prins of England, ample evidence is afforded at there is no abatement of public terest in the discussions on the Fiscal roblems of the Empire initiated by Mr. HAMBERLAIN. Meanwhile the Tariff Com
of Commerce with an efficient Consular Lam Po Hong. Titan University ission is quictly proceeding with its most
THE Lo Ki Queen's College, If'kong 6 portant task of obtaining a full and ac-staff co-operating would certainly have it Wan Chung Ti. Qacen's College nud.... rate presentation of the facts by expert in its power to render valuable aid to the Wan Yang Sing... Tientsin University ani vidence such as will enable them to show more baut and manufacturer, but in the long To Ya Hang... Queen's Golig early (1) whether in fact any given in-run the place which the British trader Lo Ting Yü stry is declining or progressing; (2) occupies in the race must depend mainly To Hok K hat are the causes of the decline whereupon his own exertions.
ach a decline has taken place; (8) to what
tent the fiscal policy of England and of
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5 yenes
4
5
Tientsin University 5 11 Railway College, s'hui 1 your ..... Queen's Collage Fung Hing Kwai Queter's Collage
Kwangtang Yik flok
Kwun... Wong Ka Luen Chinese Private School 2
and Christian College, Macuo 24 Trang In St
Chinese Private Sebool.. 9 months and Ellis Radoorie Selwol, Honam 12 yours Mr. Justice Backmill last month; decided that Wong Sz Ching... Torpedo College, Whampoa
over 4 years not illegal.
Torpoda College, W`pol. do. Provincial College, C'iou.
ther countries has Leen a factor in bring-betting a bona fide clubs
g about that state of affairs; and (4) to dicate whether it is likely that these con- itions can be altered by a change of policy tbe part of Great Britain, Any detailed ecommendations which the Commission may ercafter make must, as its Secretary says,
A petition signed by a large number of mis. sinaries has been sent in to the authorities at Amoy praying for the abolition of the Municipal Lottery, on the ground that it is a bad example to the Chinese, who are already such gamblers, to see a Foreign Council obtaining mossy for
e determined not only with reference to administration through a lottery. onditions of one particular trade but of
The number of plague cases for this year has
Tui To
Lå Kong
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN HONGKONG.
do.
A shocking tragedy occurred on the night before last at the house of Mr. Wong Kam Fuk. the compradore of the Hongkong and Kowloon
he ether trades with which it is inseparably now reachel a total of 278. Looking over, yes.
Wharf & Godown Co., Ld. At about 9 p.m., a. Chinaman called at the house în qrustion, onnected. Only after a careful analysis of terday's return we note that, on of ten, two No. 56b, Peel Street, to see u azul, one of xisting conditions can the question of a are s wore imported, .c. one on the s.s. Restorer, three or four female servants. He told the woman that he felt sick, asking her to massage omplete change of policy be profitably and one on the sa. Glenogic, the latter steamer
iscussed.
from Singapore. On Tuesday, also, & case was him; and sho brought him into the kitchen. imported froin Canton. Yesterday's plagne Shortly afterwards cries of
come from the woman, causing the other victims were all Chinese.
Nevertheless the public discussion of the nto of British trade and commerce has rought into prominence many suggestions,
Tho Fanny Stanley Comic Opera and Dramatic
· Suve
life"
specified in the finds, such as for the Red Cross Society, whose work of bonevolence and of
succuar to the wounded and sick makes no
THE BRIDGES STREET AFTAIX. Two Filipinos were charged in connection with the Bridges Street affair in which a Chiness carpentor was severaly stabbed in the distinction of nationalities, friends or foes, we will make arrangements accordingly. It is our
face, neck and hand, necessitating his removal intention to keep this fund open until the to the Government Civil Hospital. It appears restoration of peace in the Far East, and further the ground floor of the honse in question is contributions will be much appreciated."
RUSSIAN MILITARY MEASURES,
The case was remanded, 'coch man being
allowed bail in the sum of $200,
occupied by Chinese, and the first and second foors by Malays and Filipinos. During the Energetic measures, the latest home papers heavy rain, on the evening of the fith; water Deacon, appearing for the defence, uskad tell us, are being taken to hurry forward rein-splashed down from the upper storeys on to the his Worship if he was satisfied that the prisoner forcements from Russia to the Far East. The Chinese inmates of the ground floor. The was a British subject. Mr. Kemp road over mobilisation of two more army corps is an-Chinese, apparently, thinking the Malays and | the evidence, which showed that the man was a nounced, four others are to be mobilised Filipinos were pouring it down, protested,
British subject from British India. Acting directly, and 'reservists are being called out in whereupon the others attacked them. upon the advice of Mr. Looker, defendant did several districts. It is stated that another not make a statement. An application by Mr. 100,000 men will thus he placed at the Looker for an adjournment was rofused, My disposal of General Kuropatkin. Each army war comprises Kemp ordering that the man be sent to gaol to corps, which in time of await warrant from the Governor for extra-30,000 men, inciades three infantry divi dition, saying that he would not be given up sions, consisting of four regiments of three. however, for 115 days, during which he had a battalions each, a division of cavalry, consisting right to apply, if he thought it, for an over- of three ragiments of six synodrons each, one raling decision from the Supreme Court. In Cossack regiment, and two brigades of artillery, onc field and the other horse artillery-altoge- dus course the man was sent in custody to
ther 129 gas. Attaobed to each army corps Canton to await his trial.}
are also detachments of engineers and sappers, By the departure of these troops to the Far East the European army of Russia will lose six out of 31 army corps.
[REUTER'S SERVICE}
RESULT OF THE GRAND PRIX.
LONDON, 12th Jane.
1.—Ajax. 2.--Turenne. 2-Macdonald,
THE "PALMA" TROPHY.
LONDON, 12th June. The discovery that the American winners of the Palma Trophy in 1903 had violated the rules
`SINHALESE WALL NEWS.
The native newspaper reader in Colombo (says the Times of Ceylon) has to put up with some fierce reading in the way of war xows. But the richest thing we have seen for many a long day appears in a Colombo Sinhalese newspaper, the Sarasavisandaresa. We trans- late it, as it is too good to be lost :----
"The Sultan was communicated with regard ing the approaching conflict, and, being a great friend of the Japanese manarab, ha sent a specially-trained company of swordsmen, ssch of whom, with a sword in his hand, is shot away
servants to awaken their master and also the people living next door, Ou going to part from a change of Fiscal Policy Company gave a performance of the Mikado disemboweled the woman with a knife, in- the kitchen it was found that the man lud hich might usefully be adopted forthwithast night at the theatre. Since the opening Bicted other wounds on her body, ent his own the advantage of the manufacturer and night there has been some improvement in throat, and stabbed himself in the stomach two he merchant, and though these have often the Company's performances, oving doubtlose or three times, both the man and the woman een put forward before, they are likely to the opportunities since afforded of practice were dead.
with the orchestra. In consequence partly no The decoused man, Mak Su Tong by name, then out of employment, was ubent 39 years of Now, thanks to the public interest created doubt to the inclomoney of the weather the age; and the woman was a widow 28 years of protests, the result of which is that the executive ordinary shrapnel. y Mr. CHAMBERLAIN's campaigo, to house was a small one. We can hardly say that age. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the eceive far more attention than has been the Company appeared at thoir best in the pieco cximo, the woman Turing engaged horself to
another man. heir fate hitherte. Within the last few To-night they present the Nautch Girl.
Three Filipino women and a boy, in connec tion with the same case, then came before his Worship. These, also, were allowed bail.
BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE.)
HR. COMPERTZ'S SERVANTS IN TROUBLE. A donkey boy and two gardeners, servants in tho aaploy of Mr. Gompürtz, were brought before Mr. Kemp; but the case was remanded.
A COMPANY CHARGED.
The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. were summoned for not obeying a Sanitary Boarl cotice, issued on the 11th April, regarding the whitewashing of Nos 9a
and 96, Praya East.
Mr. H. W. Looker, solicitor, of Messra. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, appeared for the dafenco.
The case was remanded.
ALLEGED SNATCHING.
A Chinaman was charged with matching two gold rings from a Chinese woman's finger. The complainant's husband, it was stated, was washing himself in the house at the time, when
by using a special pattern of rifles, has elitited from the month of a gun at the enemy, as the defondant caught hold of the woman's hand
Committee of the American National Rifle Association has decided to return the roby top Eogland.
On arrival among the and put her finger into his mouth to get the rings enemy he makes short work of them-by hie off. When a constable arrested defendant the sword play | These swordsmen are now fighting rings were dropped to the ground. for Japan and gaining victories."
The case was exauded,