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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5T¤, 1904.
(REUTER'S SERVICE]
THE THIET EXPEDITION.
LONDON, 1st September. According to present plans the Thibet-expo- dition will leave Lhansa on the 15th instant.
identification; whose whole career from date HENRY BLAKE, We trust that when Sir TELEGRAMS. "of registration is accounted for; whose MATTHEW NATHAN has had time to grapple "recorded chamctors are genuine and not with this subject he will not hesitate to
borrowed for the occasion; men who can" | izaugurate the long-desired stom. Its "not swear that their last salary was say would be unfair to expect His Excellency "Rs. 30 when it was only Rs, 15; in a word, to act hastily or without due consideration, meu boso antecedents are carefully re and it is perhaps rather early as yet to carted for one's benefit." Recorded, wo worry him with the gostion, but as it has for the benefit of both master incidentally cropped up we have ventured should say, and servant, being a means of protection to to invite his attention to the eitrumstances- the former from imposition, and a pus port to good employment to the latter as well as a means of protection against pretendere.
Ono plague fatality was notified on Saturday, Soldiers in garrison lave commenced foot- ball practice at Happy Valley.
THE MARSEILLES STRIKE-
LONDON, 1st September. The Clan Matheson, Sardinia and the Den of Airlie ura uuable to discharge at Marssilles A general strilie `in gympathy' with" Marseilles | The Gorman mall of the 4th August was will be declared to-day at tan Mediterranean delivered in London on the 2nd inst.
ports including Corsiga and Algeris,
Capt BJ. Wolfo Flanagan the Queen's
What happens in Hongkong, where there is no registration, is as follows:-It is diffi cult to get efficient servants in any case, most of these offering being what are known as “laro pidgeons, and the vericet dufters often it that. Either they have to writtenOwn (Royal West Kent) Regiment, has heen GOVERNOR-GENERAL. OF CANADA. testimonials of any value or else they ex- hibit borrowed certificates the true owner- ship of which it is not easy to detect. Not obtain entry
ordered to Japan to study the language.
A contract has been made for advertisements on the tram cars. Notices and labels are uniter- going alteration now.."
The Diu on Friday fire a sahte of nine gus, not three: and the honour was for Consul General Roman leaving the ship), not for the Bishop of Mueno.
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Loxoos, lat September". Earl Grey has been appointed Governor. Gotieral of Catinda.
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTSTO
LONDON, 2nd Sopt-uber. Sif Edwin Egerton has been appointed Am
Minister to Stockholm.
THE WAR.
[PEOK. OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.].
JAPANESE VICTORY..
SHANGHAI, 4th September. Liaoyang City was occupied by the Japanese at seven o'clock
morning,
JAVANEBE OFFICIAL DESPATCHER)
LIAO TAKEN.
this
Torre, 4th September,
HONGKONG JOTTINGS.
The Coroner's "Jury summoned to inquire how and by what means" the death occurred of a Chiness wenian whose body was found beneath the debris of a house which collapsed in Ming On Lane during the recent typhoon might upon the evidence have added to their vordint a rider drawing the attention of the Government to the alleged inescurity of life in Hongkong. The building inspector told the Court that there are numbers of houses whose walls show shall ërtoks similar to those ho-hid- noticed in the honse which collapsed, but he did not consider it his duty to warn the owners,
as small cracks do not necessarily render a house dangerous." Nevertheless this export witness had no hesitation apparently in ex- presing the opinion that half the houses in Hongkong might to be condemned. Coming this opinion does from one of the build- Marshal Oyama reports that at 9-panine inspectors in the service of the Govern
nient, it ought to servó ex a warning alike on the 3rd inst., the central and left armies to the owners of such property and to the continued the attack upon the engary south Government, who certainly incur a heavy respon- and west of Liaoyang. All buildhiga near sibility in allowing house property which "ought to be condemned" to be inhabited to the danger the railway station, apparently godowns, of the lives of tenants. In the opinion of this were burnt ou Saturday,
witness all houses of more than ten years' stand- ing in the Colony ure suspect. If so, it is clearly the duty of the Public Works Department to | have a thorough examination periodically made
LATER.
Marshal Ovais reports that after the
The V.R.. anual aquatic sports commence "bassador to Rome and Sir James Rudell Rod battles on Saturday night and Sanday in-every case. this afternoon at their enclosure, Kowloon, the first race being timed for 4.30 p.m. Lannel leaves Blake Pior nt 4.15
into respectable" honacholds by these means, and the firer hint of the fact is given by the discovery of the sudden, Rifting of the newly-engaged GANYMERE with the bulk of the moveable, vambles. In other cases One amusing revelations come to light. lady engaged a staid and solemn looking Chinangan as "boy" or butler, and after a
The Government of Hongkong las~recog long and sore exercise of patience with his
pised" the President of the Republic of Panarán, by publishing extracts from a recent decres by apparently unaccountable blenders, nad clumsiness, accidentally discovered that the him relating to Chinese and other transit new domestic had been fuki in a Chinese-passengers crossing the Esthurus.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED.
On Saturday was hell an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this Bank. Present- Moises J. Fooke (chairman). G. C.
Moxon, Kwan Foug Kuk (directors), Georre W. F. Playfair (chief manager) Fung We
noruing, Liaoyang fell entirely into our hands.
The proposal of His Excellener the Governor', to form a Volunteer Resorve Association is
MARSHAL OYAMA. STILL PRESSING on which finds a responsive coho in the breasts of the majority of Britishers in the Colony, for bere, above all places, such an Association ought to exist. Many ex-members of the Volunteer Corps will, I am sure, eagerly join the new
But why fix a maximum age. Assocation. limit? The gray-bearded old Beer on the relat proved himself as officient a rifleman as his son
TOKYO, 3rd September. Marshal Oyama reports that the enemy in front of our left and central armies con- tinged on the 2nd instant their retreat to
shop, and had only acted on one occasion-as- His Excellonry the Governor Ins teen pleased substitute boy" for a tricod. Another to appoint Edward Dudley Corscarden Wolfe to boy whose aspirations for pay mounted to a act as Police Magistrate for Hongkong during Chan, Chow Shui Ki H. Pinckney, E. W. right bank of the Tufzuho, except a portiou and grandson, and it says a great deal for the, very high figure as compared with his youth, the absence of Henry Hessy Johnston Gompertz Terry. E. D. Haskell. Wai Ki-Shang which occupies the defence work at aouth comparative healthineas of Hongkong that there
and absence of reliable references, was formed to possess absolutely no qualifications for the
on vacation leave.
This Shanghai Union, which some time ago
Chitt-Mi. Fang Hoi, etc.
The CHAIRMAN and that when the Bank was started exchange was over 3 per dokter and
but as exchange had now roached a mach lower level it had been felt that capital should be
in north-west of Liaoyang and on the height north-east of Mutsheng. Our armies are
post beyond a slender stock of broken started the, report that one of the oldest and capital was laid dowa in the East at Average continuing the attack. Our right occupied
English and an unlimited "cheek," which on this occasion failed to carry him through. On auther occasion a Police officer who had heen called in to investigate a robbery from the house, recognised in the person of the head domestic an old affonder. The wages asked by servants in Hongkong are in inverse ratio to their capacity or experience Every change is the signal for asking an A. S. WATSON & CO. advance on the pages enjoyed by the last
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A fire at Binan, Laguna, P.T.lus resulted in the loss of four or five lives and the destruction of several blocks of hipu and bamboo houses, One of the lives lost was that of an infant, who
was left in the burning house while the father
rushed to save his gange-cock-
Reuters correspondent at Johannesburg
to ask the Court in London to allow them to do o. They proposed to take the capital is.80 which with the addition of balance on 31st December and capital reservo fund and part of ordinary reserve would bring the shares to £3 paid up on a share of 67 instead of its paid up
on the morning of the 2nd instant, a part of
TOKYO, Enter
are many men in the Colony exceeding the age of two-score years and toy whoso vision is as keen and who are as capable of baxdling a ride as any a man on the sunny side of fifty..” The
clief obstacle to the success of the Association is what we are prone to regard in this enervating elimate as the inaccessibility of the rifle ranges; but when this is seen to be the case His Exool- lency will doubtless find a satisfactory' way ont of the difficulty.
Marshal Oyana reports that at 9 am. 3rd instant, the remnant of the routed enemy is still offering. sonne resistance outside of Lindyang. Our central and left armies are for the Transvaal has not been paything like as
on a share of 210. The only other items alter ed was that their sterling securities had beer attacking. altered to 1's and the difference shown as at. addition in the reservò find. - With regard to
of impudence was reached the other day be wired on August 20th that buried treasure the abolition of the foruders' shares they were
some chair coolies, who, hearing a lady was fikely soon to require such servants, applied for the job and calmly demanded fifteen dollars per month cach is wages!
it is not wonderful, in such circumstances,
i larters for publication should be written ontlant, the domestic servants should have been anowymiously signed communications that have degcuerating ever since the voluntary system
of registration was abandoned. The servant at that period were not all that could be wished, but they were infinitely superior to their successors in capacity, civility, and behaviour. They were as a rule drawn from a better class, they took some interest their work, were more reliable, und certainty
FO. Roz, 38. Telephone No. 12
BIRTH. On the 3rd Sept. et No. 4 Elliot Crescent, the wife of 950 Peiteng, of a dwighter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 23rd July, at Hollington, England, S. BARTON, of H.M. Consular Service in China, to WINIFRED, daughter of A. P. MACEWEN, of The Grove, Hollington, late of China.
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estimated at a marter of a million størling-
which was removed from Pretoria before. Lord Roberts's entry, had been discovered beyond The Government receives haii Spelarkan.
the find.
His Excellency the Grovernor has been pleased subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to appoist Geoffrey Norman Orme. Passed Cadet, to be Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary Board, vice Josephi Horsford Kemp, promoted, with effect from the 1st instant.
at premat worth nothing because the directors
acknowledged a loss of impital by the all exchange and these were first to bear such loss thorefore would be absolutely wiped ont. But it was proposed that at the sabse quent meeting it should be agreed that the founders slonld be paid at par value of their shares and the founder would get 21 for wint was worth nothing at present; ant at the wame time it was worth the while of the ordinary shareholder to do this so as to extinguish the right of the founder which might stand in the His Excellozoy the overnor has been please way of raising additional capital, if desired.
-Prosios received for the resolution were to appoint Lieutenant Hugh Wilfred Thomas 497 ordinary. 279 fenders, (for) and 8 Smith, Roya: Garrison Artillery, to be extraordinary, and 49 tonuders (against.) - Aide-de-Camp with the local rank of Captain tomthe distant at Captrin William Armstrong, Hongking Volunteers, to Honorary Aide-do-Camp,
be
- Saturday's police cases, considered by Mr. J.H.
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BEFORE LIAO. .
LONDON, 1st September. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent wires that General Kuroki, with artillery, is crossing the Taitse by means of pontoona; the cavalry is utilising the ford. One division is already across. General Sacharoff reports desperate fighting all yesterday on the south frout. There were two separate engagements. Fighting was suspended at midnight. The Russians claim to have maintained most of their positions. The
Stackelberg and Orosowsky were wounded. losses on both sides were great; General
"WHEN PORT, ARTHUR FALLS
LONDON, 2nd September. Popular estimates of the fall of Port Arthur place the date late in September.
So far the supply of coolies from South China
ample as was anticipated. And I suppose this explains to some extent the rumour that the Opium Fermer is to petition the Govern- ment for a considerable reduction in the large sume he is paying for his monopoly in the Colony. It has been said that the Farmser anticipatod a Jarge income from the demand likely to be croated by the coolies arembling et Hongkong for embarkation, but if the Farmer's tender was based on any such anticipations they cannot be regarded neof a very intelligent order, for at the time the tender was accepted it was
by no means certain that Chinoso voolies, would be admitted into Bouth Africa. It would be interesting to know the real rent won the falling off in opiam consumption alleged slike by
the Opini Farmers in Penang and Singapore as well as Hongkong:
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It may seem to be useless repetition to refer again to the beacBoomber nuisance, but really this question is getting so serious that it cannot be-too-freely rentilated. During an early morning walk on Saturday I was approached- by several of these characters aveking for money - In the evening I saw two of the game number at a street stand in Queen's Rond swilling those
Having mentioned this, the Chairman moved that the capital of the Company by reduced. from £1,900,000, divided into 750 charos of £1 each (founders shares), and 49,925 shares of £10 each (Ordinary) to £899.475, divided into 99.925 shares of 17 each, and that such reduc- tion be effected by writing off the whole amount THE CRUSHING DEFEAT AT LIAO. nauseous drinks set out for the delectation of
Or Hithade of birds bei ratib nor is the supply of servants, even of this andesirable type, equal to the demand. The Servants Guild sees to this. If a bad ser- The Hon. Treasurer of the Alive Memorial vant has at length exhausted the endurance and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge of his mistress by insolence and laziness, and with dunks donations of ten dolars each from
Hau Fung Chan Sua I, Wong Shin Ki. paid or credited as paid on each of the 750
Chinese coolies. They are certainly at liberty finds summary dismissal, he hies him to the Cheung Lung. You On, Lak Lai Cho. Tsoi Li 21 shares and cancelling those shares, and
LONDON, 2nd September.
to drink anything they like if they live the HONGKONGPICE: 181, FLEET STREET, R.C. Guild, and by misrepresentation of his grie Co., Wing L. Un. Tung Shan Wo. On Kat, by writing off £3 per share part of this can of
~A report is current that Lianyang has money, but I noticed that the spessule afforded ance procures a boycost of his late employer. Lai Uo. Kwong Fang Wo. Kung Fat Un. Ki 48 pershare which has been paid or credited as
been captured. While attributing a great huge amusement to a crowd of street loafers who looked on. To let out those of them who HONGKONG. SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1904.
The latter is theu compelled to do without | Mau. Shau Tso Tong. Po On Tai; Pak Tse paid on the 40,458 shares of £10 each which
have been issued, and by reducing each of the feat of arms to the Japanese, the papers are in the House of Detention on a pretence of suspend judgment as to the ultimate issue, looking for work each day is bad policy. They 99,925 shares of £10 each to a share of £7.” The advantages derivable from the system assistance for some time or engage one of the Tong, and Iân Fang K.
wasters who is sure to apply, and demand
Mr. No CHITT-MY recouded.
and consider that General-Kuropatkip's don't want it. They should be detained of registration of servants as worked in
Carried
position is one of terrible danger, with altogether or else deported whence they came Caylon is tersely summarised by our Singa excessive wages for absolute incompetence pore contemporary. It would be curious to Registration would speedily bring about bear what the present Gofernor of the a cure for all these evils, and a realist
possibilities pointing to the destruction of Spicy Island, Sir HENRY BLAKE, has to tion of the benefits sketched so clearly by my on the subject. Fortunately for the our Singapore contemporary. people of Ceylon-employers and coiployed and foreign community have been very long they had secured the system before His suffering in this patter. They have urged
A writer in the Transvaal Advertiser wants Excellency's arrival. Sir HENRY BLAKE the introduction of registration for years knew something of the drawbacks and evils past, and all the arguments against it have to know the intentions of the Government is attending the prevent want of such a system been completely demolished. The only one respect to the Chinese immigration question: in this Colony, and it is quite possible that having any force at all is that some of the also, whether the statement mate by Mr. in spite of his tenderness for Chinese preservants would object to be photographed. Lyttelton in the House of Commons that the Transv aul-would have to pay the cost of erect judices, he would have adopted the renom Considering all the benefits which regising receiving houses in various parts of Chinsel by the Court, there be paid out of the profits mendations of the Commission appointed by tration would confer on the servants means that the people of this country will be of the Company in priority to any dividend on him to consider the question of the regulu in securing their record and facilitating tuxed to facilitate the means whereby the the ordinary shares to every person at the date tion of chair and jinrichsha coolies had not good employment to good workers, mining companies are to extract the mineral of the passing of this "Resolution registered as
Kemp. were of no particular intarest. The most important was an application by the French Consal for theextradition of a Chinamar Mr. John Hastings appeared to resist the . British petition The hearing was adjourned.
Indian watchus from the Kowloon Docks was fund $30 for neglecting his duty.
wanted" by the authorities of Indo-Chine.
An
The CHAIRMAN announced that » còn- tiretory meeting would be held on the 24th instant; and thanked those present for
attening.
bis army.
A mosting of ordinary share holders followed, ut which the CHAIRMAN, without much pream- ble, proposed that the 'rusolution passed at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company losses. held on the 3rd day of September, 1904, for the reduction of the Company's capital-inseling the extinguishunent of the founders' shares and the writing off of 4 por share on each of the ordinary shares-being confirmed and sanction
CARNAGE ON BOTH SIDES.
LONDON, 2nd September. It is officially stated that the Russian on Wednesday and yesterday were 5,000. Router's correspondent in St. Peters- burg wires that General Kuropatkin reports the Russians retreated yesterday evening to their main positions. The Japanese shelled and wrecked the Liaoyang railway station
BANYAN.
SUPREME COURT.
Saturday, 3rd September.
IS SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BBFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCOMBE, SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE.)
CONTEACTORS' DISPUTĖ. The bearing was resumed of the adjourned
new station further north. The whole sought to recover 500 £2, for work done and and the Russians thereupon established a action in which Chun, For Chu, a contractor,
tarling of ground at Mountain Lodge and Victoria Hospital) from Chun Yes Sen, another contractor. Mr. E. J. Grist, of Mosers,
wealth of the country and forward it to absent the holder of a founder's share, or founders Japanese right wing under General Kuroki atorials supplied connection with the the petticoat influence at Government House while eliminating the dishonest and dividend receivers abroad. A satisfactory soltshares the sun of £1 for every such share has now crossed the Tai-tse. been too potent. It is a comfort to think deserving, it is hardly worth while to discuss tion to Rome of these Colestial problems might. registered in his name, and that the rightMORE BRIGANDAGE AT SHANGHAI.] Wilkinson and Grist, solicitors, appeared for
he thinks, tend to stimulate the market.
that in Ceylon, where the system is working this objection. Men of quite as good so well, Lady BLAKE's influence is not like-class and earning better wages-víz, “ thế
On Saturday afternoon the portrait of HE The Straits engineers and sailors employed in steam-Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., subscribed for ly to bring about its reversal. Times says, and we make no apology for muches, &c. make no objection to being by the Chinese community on the occasion of again reproducing its remarks:-"In Caylon photographed as a means of identification, His Excellency's departure from the Colony, “a person who needs a servant sends a note and it is preposterous to imagine that was removed from the Commercial Union Insurance Co.'s offices on the Prays to the Tung to the Registrar, who exhibits a list of domestic servants would prove less amena- vacancies at his office daily. All uuemble to reason. Of course if the objection is Wab Hospital, where it is to be permanentis hung. The removal was attended with, much «played registered servants go there to to be raised for their they will be quick to ceremony. A Chinese procespiga was formed «<examine this "Tist, and dozens generally endorse it, but if they realise that the Govern and the portmit was borne through the streets apply for the appointment within a very ment mean to insist upon registration they to the hospital in a special conveyance, richly
decorated, such as one sees at Chinese mat
belonging to the holders of ordinary shares are hereby altered
A gang of desperadoes under a man named the plaintiff, and Mr. R. Harding, of Messrs. shall be and the same avcordingly."
Lino Teh-yu made a raid on August 26th on a Ewens and Haraton, solicitors, was for the Proxies in favour of this numbered 15,297 wealthy grain dealer ut North Sings, but while defence. The question was one of quantities
engaged in plundering the place a servant of - and of extra work done,
His Lordship gavo judgment for $29,60 with sharok, and against it. 38.
LIRED ACTION. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for 19
Mr. E. W. TEREY seconded, Caried
The funeral took place at Happy Valley on Saturday of P.C, 43 Louis Evans, who had died on the previous evening in the Government Civil Hospital. The immediate cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel. Constable Welsh Fusiliers, with which regiment horved through the Cretan war and the Boxer trouble of 1990, His funeral was attended by a large
the grain dealer gave the alarm by beating gong. A post of militiamen in the vicinity at once responded, and in the fight which ensuod costs. between the militiamen, assisted by the country people in the neighbourhood, and the bandits, seven of the latter were captured, including the leader Lino Teh-yü himself, one of the gang sents (each party to pay own ousts) in the case being seriously wounded in the head. They in which a rico merchant, Chan Lai Ng, seda were taken to the native aity on Saturday, and clanaman, Chan Po San, for $1,000 for an alleged when entering the Shanghai magistrate's. yames, the one wounded in the head suddenly the contained in an advertisement in the writer of the NC. Daily News, that the character. Mr. H. W. Looker, of Mesra remaining six having been caught red-handed Decon, Looker and Desoon, solicitors, was for Tim Ferg Gas been communicated with by the was a decapitated here as sales in the plaintif, and Mr. J. Hastings, solicitor, for Slanghai Taotai.
few hours. Applicants are trained ser will promptly give way. The ladies of the riages, though on a more gorgeous Beale. A Evans joined the Police Force from the 2nd diod. It is probable, says the Native Notes Canton Times newspaper, defaming plaintiff's vaute who have a complete record of their Colony recently addressed a memorial on large number of the intuential Chinese in the service in their pocket registers, man this question to Mr. MAX, while acting as Colony were present at the hospital to witness whose name, description, nationality, &c., Administrator, and though he did not feel at the formal handing over of the portrait, which are recorded in the book for purposes of liberty to so soon reverse the policy of Sir is a very fine likeness of His Excellency,
number of his friends,
the defence.
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