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natural, unreasonable,' anarchistic, tending to a surer destruction than is the war at: which he girds. "Pozdnyschoff," the character used by Tolator as a mouthpiece, admitted that his neighbours looked upon
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that the ss. Calchas, long overdue at Yokohama from the Pacifa Coast, has boens seized by the Vladivostock Squadron.
The Chinese gunboat Hsing Hang, from Canton, is moored at No. 7 busy, in the man-o'- war anchorage. She is to load arms and
A. S. WATSON & CO., him as cracked; and in his Confession, ammunition for the Imperial Government.
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TOLSTOI felt he was not quite mentally sound." NonDau sees in that admission a flash of self-knowledge on the part of the
Many Turkish military men declare that they are only waiting for the final defeat of General Kuropatkin in Munchurin, says Renter's corre
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THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.
LONDON, 2nd August.
The House of Lords, appealed to over the litigation with regard to the endowments
THE WAR.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENZ.]
GENERAL KELLER KILLED
COUNT. Those who have read My Beligionpondent in Macedonia, to let slip the dogs of of the Scottish Church, has uttered judge Japanese western columns having
-one of the most plausible and got
mis- taken commentaries on the New Testament ever written-will remember that TOLSTOI, in the usual way of the ill-balanced inquirer, APPOINT-arrived at the verge of pessimism and eui- side simultaneously. He saved himself on the brink of the pit by embracing a souti mental anthropomania; and by pouring the vials of his hate on the knowledge of science which bad driven him into danger. In his Confession, this great Russiau philosopher, who has probably destroyed more patural bappiness than NAPOLEON with his armies managed to do, denies to the natural sciences
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war upon Bulgaria.
Mesars. Gibb, Livingston & Co. (Shipping Department) kintily inform us that the as Scanley, which left Taku on 2nd July with 1,938 coolies, arrived at Durban on the 1st inst. The captain reports the coolien all well,
Owing to the accident which occured to the N.D.1. steamer Prinz Hinrich at Colombo the mail from Europe which was due to-day will not reach here until next week, the Prinz Heinrich's mails having been transferred to the French
mail stewner.
Smyth Pigott, the Clapton "Mosgíah," is still at large, and misconducting himself in Somersetshire Contemplation of such impud
ment in favour of the minority,
CLOUDBURST IN NEVADA,
Losnox, 2nd August.
A cloudburst has destroyed the two mining towns of Douglas and Silver Star (Silver City ?) în Nevuda.
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FRANCE AND ROME.
AT HAICHENG,
LONDON, 2nd August. There has been more fighting, the
come in contact with the Russian force strongly posted at Haicheng, last stronghold before Liaoyang, General Keller was killed. The first Russian army corps is on its way to Vladivostock.
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INTERNATIONAL
LAWLESSNESS.
LONDON, 31st July, The American Government has issued M. Delcassé bas volilled the Noncio in Paris | eemi-official *tatemest declaring
LONDON, 1st July.
that
ont impostors enables us to appreciate the point that owing to the rupture of relations his regardless of the rules propounded by
of view of the mob who had mercy on Barablas.
presence in Paris has becon purposeless.
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which would have toon of very great uso ay Failing to read the postmark on an envelope
The French Government has stopped the evidence. Judge Addison reamtked at South-stipend of the Bishop of Dijou and will refuse | wark County Court: "Postmarks are navor to fill à veral recant Bishopries; it întenila lo of any use in this country, because you can propose to Parliament the abolition of the never road them. The first reform of the Post Concordat and public worship esthunter, Office should be to make postmurks distinct,"
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.all claim to usefulness. His unphilosophic notions of science way be recognised in his Fruit of Enlightenment. He in a notable exemplar of the vast army of POUVARDS and PICUCRETs who deduce from Science Siftings the guiling principles of many a grand mistake. TOLSTOI, with his pactic, vivid treatment of a mass of half- truths, is more terrible this an army with
The weekly plague return, dated 30th July, bangers. His adoption and partial perver. sion of the theme Ronesu is, like his recorila seventeen deaths from plague, making sublimely unthinkable altruism, and unlike the total for the half year 470 cares, of which 456 were fatal-There was still a foreign his Buddhistie negatie of all the human
case of enteric last week. The number of iostincts, a taking or Fortunately, in-plagne cases in the three days ended at noon stinct is a persistent motor, apt to outwear | yesterday was four, three fatal. mistaken morals and false philosophies. AERATED WATER MANUFAC- TOLSTOI, as we have suggestel, must be
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accounted responsible for the setting back of a few human clocks, disgearing the MER-meatal mechanisms of impressionable you'h; but the unchecked flight of time finds man
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the great teetotaller, speaking against the Licensing Bill at Home recently, described Premier Balfour as Mr Mr. Chamberlain Chamberlain's caretaker. advocated "thinking imperially": Mr. Balfour's funcy queued to be "drinking imperially." Sir Wilfrid was the author, during tho Pro-Doer
ass."
RUSSIA'S SUBMARINE DISASTER.
The accident to the Russian submarine Delfin ut St. Petersburg on June 29th was partly due to the excessive number of the crew, who were mostly inoxperienced mom. howover. precipitated by the unfortunata at- tempt of one man to escape while his comrades were screwing down the hatch.
It was
The officers and men detailed for submarine instruction were ordered to assemble in the Baltic Yard. Three officers decided to ge down in the Delfin, althon,h the captain was not present, relying on the experience of her skilled crew. A score of norices were anxious to take
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Russia respecting the sinking of neutrals, America holds that it is opposed to all modern principles of international law.
The Russian Press is adopting a strong attitude in regard to sinking of neutrals with contraband, and maintains that the sinking of the Knight Commander was entirely justified on account of the in- possibility of taking hor into port
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION. The seventy-eighth report of the court of directors, to be presented at the ordinary half. yearly general meeting of shareholders at the City Hall, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 20th
Gentlemen,---The directors have now to sub. August, is as follows:- mit to you a general statement of the affairs of
ending 30th June, 1904.
The net profits for that period, including $1,417,366,05, balance brought forward from last account, after paying all charges, deducting interest paid and due, and making provision for bad and doubtful accounts, amount to $3,520,374.81.
1 A DAY IN THE NEW TERRITORY.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
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At this time of the year one sees the New Territory at its best. The mountaius are green to their orests and the valleys are enlling with crops, ranging in colour from green to yellow. A curious thing to observe is the way in which the work of hasbandry goes on; within the and threshing preceeding simultaneously, while just showing above ground, the half-grown orop is waring instily, and tho fally ripened grain bangs beavily waiting for the sickle. Every- body is busy planting or garnoring, and the yoked oxen have to work from dawa till sunset. The Chinees, by the way, apparently do not
same acre of land aus can see plating, resping
iu contiguous plots the delicata young paddy is
agree with the injunction against muzzling the uz zunt troodeth out the corn, for every daught animal to be seen is furnished with a muzzle that effectually prevents it from rualching a chance mouthful of the fascions young growth. Bank Holiday unfonately was not au idea day for travelling about the country. All tho mountain tops were capped with rain-clouds which every now and then swept across the plains and broke in a doluge un the already
fooded fields. But there was compensation for any discomfort that had to be endured in the beau iful effects of the mist when the man would break through and his reflection he cast back in broad rainbows. At this season, after the rains have come, the whole of the low-lying scuntry is flocited, and the farm people, mostly women, werk among the rice half way to the knees in mud. The paths which twist and turn among the paddy fields and serve as public bighways are for the most part laid with sloba of store, but there are places where this top dressing is dispersed with and the path narrows down until it in sometimes less than a foot wide. A wrong step one way or the other and the pedestrian finds himself oncased in a mud covering far above the boot-lops, Even in broad daylight such things will happen, but should he have the misfortune to be caught. out after dark then ho can depend upon arriving of his destination much in need of
bath and a change of clothing..
n the aggregate preity much as he was agitation, of the famous phrase "Union Jack, part in the manoeuvre. The nominal crew of the bank, and balance sheet for the half-year mischance on Bank Holiday. We started of to
when the Oxyrhynchus papyri wera written, fighting and loving, worrying and rejoicing
As onormous festing coal depôt, said to be the over the trifles that make the sum of human largest in the world, arrived at Portsmouth on things. Thus, despite Toraror, and the
27th June from the Tyne. The depot will hold prominence adcurded to his hysterics,12,000 tour, and is to be moored in Portmouth SBAKESPEARE (whom he sneers at as "an
A. S. WATSON & CO. over-rated scribbler "; what an opening for
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appreciation; Woman, whom TOLSTOI [1] despisos, will continue to play her noble communal part; and Man will not cease (we trust) to shoot straight and fight fair, The fact that Russia, usuntly credited with some intolerance, suffers patiently such seditions utterances by Tolstoi, argues 'that his madness and irresponsibility are recognised where he belongs.
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MARRIAGES.
- Mark Twain" is now back in America.
The strawberry crop in Eugland this year has been a record one.
Mr. Frederick Sandys, the great draughts man and painter. died on June 25th,
Sir Oliver Lodge has declared that radion was not so new and startling as to diaconcert scientists, It fits in with their cosmogony.
On the 30th July, before the Registrar tiener of Hongkong, HENRY MONIEL, son of the lato A. G. T. CUMINE, of Aberdeen, Scotland (formerly of Shanghai), to WINIFRED BEAVER, of Hongkong Shanghai
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(1899 papers On the 2nd August, at St. Job's Cathedral, Hongkong, WATER RUSSELL MCCALLUM, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, son of the late Major H. A. McCALLUM, K.M.LI
A gume of Bridge was played at Henglera to MARY FRANCER CUNTIVE, daughter of the Late JOHN RANSON HUNTER, of Inverness, and of with forty girls and a dozen men representing Mre. HUNTER, Grove Skiz, Teddington. 1000 the cards. It was for a hospital charity.
The Hipsang was fully insured agaicst war riska.
The bulk of the shares are held in Hongkong.
Home papers are suggesting that F. Car ruthers Gould, the caricaturist and cartoonist should have had a Birthday honour.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE; 14, DEVEUX ROAD C1. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
Mail steamers are now crossing the bar into
Durban Harbour. The Armadale Castle was the first to start the fashion.
The London telephone girls have boen striking against a ten hour day. Their grievances are to receive consideration.
Wilhelm Jordan, the German poet, author of
"Die Nibelunge" and other well-known works. flied at Frankfurt-en-Maina cu June 25th, aged eighty-five.
Captain J. H. McLeod, of the Philippine coastguard cutter Palawan, has had his certi- ficate suspended for three years. having been found guilty of ostafa (oppression.).
HONGKONG, 3rd August, 1904.
SHAKESPEARE' inquiry-What's in name?"--has been answered. There is that in it which will induce a newspaper like the London Times in devote a full page and a half to sheer, stark, staring nonsense, mis chievous drivel. We aliude, of course, to the anti-war adumbration of TOLSTOL, some of which we reproduce in our issue of to-day. There are a great many people who believe in Tolstoism; some of them have been'airing their shaky logic lately in the correspondence columns of eur Kobe con- temporary, the Chronicle. It is believable that had ToLstor's letter to the Times been signed by the Russian equivalent of " Jolm Saith," the page and a half of the Thunderer's space would have been otherwise engaged. TOLSTO! is insane. There is no doubt of it. He
A prisoner, arrosted for lareony, escaped out may be on certain grounds compared with of the dock at the Police Court on Monday, W. T. STEAD; but in the latter case we ar
und got clean away. He removed a few bars enabled to see sozia method in the mania, from the very ancient wooden railing and crept Toleror's philosophy--for it is as philoso-away, unnoticed by the court people, through pher rather than novelist that be claims the back doorway. He has not been recaptured. such universal attention-is a suicidal one. Two Scotsmen wore having a drink together In that immoral book, the Kreuzer Sonata and one of them remarked that the other took -immoral in its teaching, as well as off his dram' very harriedly. "Mau." was the indelicato in its expression-TOLSTOeply, "I never leave anything in my gloss since ma uccident," Accident?" said his friend struck the note which earned for him
1 dina hear of it. What was it?"Oh
Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, the Acting Police
Magistrate, has been indisposed for the last two days, and consequently unable to take his customary sent on tho Benel.
bis fame, or notoriety. We need not want I since put down res glass only half dwell upon it: it in of a piece with his empty, and had it coupit.”
Harbour. It will be fitted with machinery that
will enable the biggest warships to fill their bunkers alongside it. Being over 400ft. long, the depot will accommodate the largest cruisers afcat. At the present time great delay is experienced in coaling these ships from colliers, It is understood that the Admiralty intend to build floating depots that will hold as much as 20,000 tons of coal.
A protocol was signed on June 9th as an to the Franco-Siamese Treaty of Feb. 13th last between M. Delcassé und Phya Suriya, the Siamese Minister in Paris. The protocol refere mainly to Article III of the Convention, which deals with the question of boundaries between the Great Lake and the ses on the Cambodian frontier. In addition it settles the frontier of the State of Luang Prabang. The result is also that France obtains the port of Krat and the islands of Koh Song. Kok Kut, and Koh Khong. As soon as the boundaries are marked out the port of Chantabun will be evacuated by the French troops.
the Delfin was ten, but thirty-two men went on board, bringing the hatch down to
a point dangerously level with the river.
Just then a tag passed, sending a heavy wash, some of which splashed into the submarine's hall, creating a panic among the novices. One of there, tried to get out of the manhole, which
the older hands were serowing preparatory to a descent, the submerging compartment having already been opened.
The directors recommend the transfer of $500,000 from the profit and loss account to credit of the silver reserve fond, which fand will then stand at $7,000,000.
The water rushed in, and as the submarine was on the point of going down in the ordin ary manner, she was suddenly swamped, andmises amount the sum of $200,000. sunk like a stone.
They also recommend writing of bank pre-
The offers and men who were saved were blown up through the manhole by the rush of escaping air. The Delfin won shortly after
wards raised
Lientemat Elaguin, who was saved, doserib. ing the accident, said: "It is all like a dream. I remember a sickening sense of suffocation from the fumes of the storage batteries, and then came the rush of air and water. When I recoverest consciousness I was on shore."
The Delfin was Russia's best submarine, and was invented by the nasal architect, M. Boab- noff, and Captain Heklemishoff. She under- went a successful trial in 1903.
HONGKONG COOLIES IN RAND.
Two Chinese being accidentally killed in a mine night shift on the Rand, a number of
Controller, who was injured. others mutinied. and throw stones at the
After making these transfors and deducting remuneration, to directors thore romaine for appropriation $2,805,874.81, out of which the directors recommend the payment of a dividend of one pound and ton shillings sterling share, which at 4/6 will absorb $533,333.33.
The difference in exchange between 4/6, the rute at which the dividend is declared, and 1/9 15-16, the rate of the day, amounts to $779,487.17.
The balunce $1,492.35431 to be carried to new profit and loss account.
DIRECTORS.
Mr. C. Michelay, Hoa. C. W. Dickson and Mr. C. A. Tomes having resigned their seats on leaving the Colony, Mr. A. Haupt, Hon. W. J. Gresson and Hon. R. Shewan have been invited to fill the vacancies; these appointments require confirmation at this mesting.
AUDITORS.
The accounts have been audited by Mr. W Hutton Potts and Mr. A. G. Wood, the isttor
The police eventually restored order, and acting for Hon. C. S. Sharp, who is absent from
the Colony. arrested seventeen of the ringleaders.
The mutineers subsequently returned to
work.
POLICE COURT.
Taseday, 2nd August.
Our company was the victim of such a
tes a new part of the country that wo had never visited before, having as our guide, philosopher and friend a Now Territorian who developed walking ability to the extent of something Praching six miles an hour when once we got fairly started on the journey. We saw the country all right, but by the time we had satisfied cur curiosity it was getting dusk and there was a retura journey of more than six miles in front of us over such delectable paths
ns are described above. If there is ons peculiarity about the people in the New Turri- tory it in that they wish ne much as possible to
"rag" the fellows who come out from Hong.
kong. In this instance the New Territoriang certainly had the best of it. There is a suavity about Now Territoriana that beats everything. The New Territorian in a soft and 9am Blick
voice will ask you to go as far as the next village which, he nyowe, is not more then six or eight milea distant, but whos once you start to walk the road on find that the six miles multiplies into twelve and the road gots wores as it goes along.
On this particular night after we left on our return journoy tho stars were shining but feebly- We had to trust mostly to our homing instinct to find our way home. Even our guide, long- legged though he was, and conversant with geographical matters, was not able to get us on our fest,
We set out on war way with light heads and wat feat. Darkness descended like a cload before we had gat half way. I forgot to mention that on the way across we had had a river to wade. On the outward route the stream looked so formidable that the whole of ns, with the exception of the bardened Now Territory man, stripped, waded across and dopted our plethes on the other side.
A London paper states that the committee of Mr. Thomas Faerne's new national institu- and the encouragement of thrift, bare completed lion for the suppression of sixty per cent, usary,
arrangements for the establishment of a system of saving on the "penny-in-the-elot" principle, At an early date msahines will be on exhibition at the principal rnilway stations, factories, clubs,
The Chinese coolies who mutinied at the schools, and other places, in which pezzies can be deposited in exchange for tickets. On sixty Rand belong to the first batch sent from of the latter, representing five shillings, being Hongkong. They were consigned to the New BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE presented at headquarters, a deposit account Comet Geld Miting Company on the East will be opened, and interest at the rats of three Raud. The properly forms a part of the East porce will be paid on every completed five Road Proprietary, of which Sir George Ferrar shillings. The scheme dom voi and here, but is managing director. He it was who, at includes the placing of a money-box in the Boksburg, on 31st March of last year, first storekeeper, charged a woman with uttering & if there was a ferry he inevitably took us by hemes of the people throughout the country, raised the ery for Chinese. To judge by the spurious dollar. He said that the defends the deepest crossing possible to choose. Except the savings placed in these boxes also bearing preparations being made, says the Straits Times, came to bis shop and asked for a tin of con- interest at the rate of fire per cent."
The
money will be collected periodically by duly
authorized officiale.
MAGISTRATE).
SPURIOUS COIN.
Mr. Jea Jas Bhoy, a Hollywood Road
Bat coming back in the dark things were very much changed. Our long-legged friend delighted in taking us by all the by-paths. If there was a bridge to cross he was sure to taka us by a ferry, across which we had to wada, and
a few ditsbes there was only one considerable
no effort is to be spared to make the Chiness deased inilk, paying for it with the bad dollsr.river to gab over on the way there, This was satisfied with their surroundings. Compounds, A police inspector arrested hes, and found five well ventilated and built, lit with the electric unopened tins of condensed milk in her house; light, and each supplied with a fully-equipped and she had three dollars' worth of small
coin by her, when she uttered the dollar.
Defendant admitted tendering the dollar, but she denied knowledge of it being bul
The case was remanded.
A FAMILY DISPUTE.
The keeper of the Criterion Hotel was charg-
not a very bad obstacle on the journey towards the way back to the Hongkong, but on Samchun River ita horrore seamed to have increased.
What was before a three-foot stream was swollen to the extent of sixty or eighty fest Our guide who, es I mentioned, was a long and
A COSTLY ADVERTISEMENT.
kitchen, bare boen provided. A strict Two Cardiff tobacconists possess the award supervision will be kept over the other miner of t High Court judge, eonfirmed on appeal, to prevent ants of brutality on the Chinese who, aat present arranged, will do underground giving theza a share of the famous offer of Mossrs. Ogdan, Limited, to divido among the work on some of the mines, and the natives the members of the trade who complied with curtain surface work. It may be added that oppositioned with cutting and wounding a relation of Lisardy New Terzitoriau, took particular delight conditions £200,000 a year for four years.
to Chiness labour has almost died out on the wife, a man employed at the Naval Yard in leading us over all the worst roads, and when The directura of Messrs. Ogden, adrised that Rand. John Chinaman is expected to bring Extension. Mr. Golding prosecuted. It was their offer became void upon the purchase of back prosperity to the mines. The Randites their business by the Imperial Tobacco Company, have yet to learn that Joba" is alsanish, and Limited, have notified their determination to will give trouble the moment he fancies that nek the House of Lords to reverse that award. injustice is done to him.
Mr. T. H. Kershaw, C.M.G., Into Legal a letter to the Times
Should the two Cardiff retailers succeed
Adviser F.M.S, in
said that the defendant, since his marriage, had been behaving to a disorderly manner. stabbed complainant in the cheek.
The case was remanded.
I
it came to crossing this stream he chose as a
crossing place one of the deepset parts that it was possible to choose. There was only cue saving circumstance, which was that on onr arrival at the stream we were all so much covered with "mud that we were glad to wade across without stripping, so that we could
before the Lords, the presumption among many
FLOGGING IN THE NAVY. other retailers is that they, too, would stated a commenting on the discussion in the House of
£800,000 As Commons on the outbreak of beri-bari among The protest of the Humanitarian League wash away some of the mad with which woro oncased. It was tubes of sharing in the 18000e directors of the Chinem Inbourers who have arrived in-again Sogging in the Navy has been cehood or nether linke -Ogden's would fight each separate case on its Johannesburg, maye, "I hare myself lived for in the House of Commons, whore Mr. MecNeill no ass swearing at our guide, because he was case-hardened to swearing, and be own merits, up to the Lords again if necessary, years in the neighbourhood of Chiusse has asked the Secretary to the Admiralty a
admitted with a laugh that he had set recent meetings of tobacconists have endeavoured coolies in Singapore, Pensag, and the Malay question as to the size and weight of the cases
himself out to "roast" the "tender-fest" from to decide whether it would be better to form a Peninsuls. Daring that time I have learnt to
used for corporal punishment.
Hongkong. Personally, I was so sore in my bones as the result of my rumble through the fighting fund to keep the litigation geing or to respect them for their sobriety, industry, and endeavour to gain something by aaicable thrift, and should be sorry to see any prejudice negotiations.
created against them in South Africa by ex-
New Territory that I was glad when I arrived Both policies appear to have secured groups aggerated statements as to the nature of beri-
home to get to bad, which I have not left.
of adherents among the claimants.
beri,"
In a printed reply, Mr. Prolyman says that the canas are about three feet in length, half an inch in thickness, and two ounces in weight. Official patterns aro kept at the dockyards, the officials purchasing them locally.
sincs.