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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22Nd, 1904.
Yesterday's plaguo return : nil
A V.R.C. scratch four-oar race, for which
of next month.
A coolie employed at the Quarry Bay Ship yard lied at hospital from injuries said to be received at the yard. An inquest has not yet
boon held.
The French cruisur Decaries, to replace the Pascal in the Far East, commissioned at Toulon, was to leave about Sept. 1, escorting a flotilla to Saigon and Madagascar. The flotilla includes two new destroyers, the Sebra and
Francisque, which have just completed their trials at Toulou. Those twe boats and six first-
class boats are intended for the mobile defonce
THE WAR.
[JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCH,]
FURTHER BOOTY.
....
TOKYO, 20th September. General Kuroki reports that he captured
names for the Hongkong Volunteer Association. for Diego Saurez will be detached from the 1900 tons of coal and 6,250 metres of trolley
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As elsewhere, the ratio oven then of the petty barter trade of an aboriginal re tears have entered, takos pluca on the 15th stood at about twenty to one, and silver was continent: the nation finds infinitely more continually falling in the markets of the profit in the commerce of a progressive A. S. WATSON & CO., world; the natural consequence was a cou- colony. Each is right from his own point tinual drain of the more valuable metal, of view, but each point of view is not equally The result was practically national bank-profitable to the nation at large. ruptcy; which was staved off for the time by enormous issues of paper money. At last! nates became a drug on the market, and foll to n disement of some sixty per cent. With the perseverance characteristic of the nation, the state non of the day threw themselves into the task of restoring the eredit of their country. They knew little of international finance, and made many blunders; but they persevered, and gradually affairs began ta
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Tho Chinese gunboats Kwong Yak. Chan Tang and Chen To have arrived from Canton,
The first examination of candidates for pilots' certificates will be held next Tuoday.
The American Liao, a unit of the Shipping Trust, is now carrying passengers from Liver pool to Philadelphin for 30/-.
A meeting of those who have sent in their
H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan presiding, will bo held at the City Hall to-morrow at 5.30 pm.
Our attention has hoon called to the number of street hydrants that the P.W.D. allow to run, wasting water. If a private individual is discovered to be thus wasting water. a pro- mention follows.
Shareholders in the Steam Waterboat Com-
at Saigon. Four other first-class boats intondod
Botilla at Jibuti, and will proceed to Madagascar- under the escort of the Infernet. The cruiser transport Foudre, which bas just returned from Saigon, will take on board two submarines and some vedette torpedo-boats. There will thus be in 1905 a respectable mobile defence at Saigon.
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WAR CORRESPONDENTS
GRIEVANCES.
LONDON, 1
September.
Our method of spelling Riesitolini" we derived from Brassey's "Naval Annual.” There were so many different formos that we fu consequence of the recent friction wore glad to follow some definite authority. between the Military authorities, Foreign
end. Then a few say that without a gold has incided to issue a fourth challenge for the Pay and Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and correspondent writes to Tlic Times approvAttnehéz, and Correspondents. General
currency the country could not stand along-] side Europe, and, cost what it might, they determined to alter the entire aystem. In
| 1897, after the successful issue of the war
Home papers raport that Sir Thomas Liptou America Cup.
The number of recruits for the Volunteur Reserve Corpe now amounts to abant 100,
Arrangements are being made for forming o
band.
Godown Company are reminded of the Extraordinary General Meetings which are to take place to-day at 12 noon and 12.15 repectively.
ing the spelling Beshitelni" for the name of
Yamagata has telegraphed to Marshal "Retslitelni" and "Roehitelni." The last Oyama hoping that so long as military the destroyer, in preference to the spellings spelling le probably duo, he says, to the influence secrecy is not infringed, they will be treated Reports from South Africa how that the of Fronch transliteration of Russian names, as
with frank and cundið consideration. Chinese coulis labour is satisfying the mine. the French transliterate Russian sh by French ch. Some Englishman probably has imagined
INTERNATIONAL AMENITY. H.M. erniser Tribune has annexed Aves owners, who say the Chinese are far superior to Island, and has hoisted the British flag there. the Kaffics. In the Johannesburg district the that the ch in Rochitelni "had the value of ch Aves Island is a small barren islet in the eastponing for some 900 whites of the wandering in the word "church," and hence may havo arisen. of the Caribbean Sea. 140 miles west of Dominica, class is gradually closing, but these will not be the spelling Retabitetni.“
The ship is displaced altogether. though they will neve,fignifies "decided," "resolute." hooing useful-workers.
» The record generally is a fairly satisfactory return, and evinces the contiuned prosperity of the part. That is how the L. & C. Express speaks of the Hongkong Bang Book for last year.
The Russian name.
with China, but against a strong opposition the Currency Bill was pissed. It had bean formeen, that a large import of gold was necessary, so the Government contracte a large loun, and we find some seventy million
not so large as the Russian th.d.'s last sent out yen in gold imported. The change in the
to the Far East. These are each 350 was with currency was effected; but an unexpected result followed; the old silver coinage called
engines of 6,000 h.p. ; while the displacement of the Reshitelni is only 220 tons, and her engines in was partly reissued in subsidiary pieces,
3,800 h.p. With regard to the spelling of the bat more than half, some 48 million yen,
name of the admiral who was killed by a shell on board the Congrevitch, the Russian form is were sent over to China and there disposed"
Vitgepht. which in its tarn' probably represents of as buflion. The people were, however,
the Russian transliteration of the German name By no means disposed to accept the gold
Withift. The Russians always trausliterate coins, and an jmmediate efflux took place.
German or oe. by e; thus of the name From Ningpo news comes that permission has Goethe," the Russians make "Gote." With This took the shape of enormous purchases
been obtained from the Taotni at that place for regard to the transliteration of the offer letters of foreign goods, apparently without, much regard to quality, with the result that in
the installation of a large electric lighting plautin Witheft," there being no e, no h, and no ƒ the two years 1897-98. the excess in value to the effect that. Kuropatkin was seriously which will supply 4,000 lights, A company in Russiau, the Rassins have represented those three letters by 2 g, and på, and thus arrived at
Vitgopht."
The Commander-in-Chief of the Gesman Asiatic. Floet is offering ten thousand marks to anyone discovering the missing attaché. Liut. Gilgenheim, who left Port Arthur in
junk.
A privat a letter from Nowchwang revive in Tientsin stated news had reached that port
wounded in the battle of Liaogang. The Japanese at Newchwang were celebrating the victory, suys the P. & T. Times.
The anti-kissing crusade at Atlantic City still continues, Several couples were caught at it on the beach recently, and a men who thought it a convenient time and place for embracing his
a better example. Policeman now keep watch wife was fined £2, being told that he should set on the bathers to see that the law against kissing on the beach is respected.
has been floated and half the capital of 100,000 tools is represented by the International Commercial C, and the other Ilf by Chinose. The Salert Committee of the House of Lords The building is already in course of erection, on the Chantrey Trust is of opinion (says the and the machinery, which is of the latest pattern, and furnished by the New York Import and report) that fus exclusive praferance has ligen.
Royal Export Company, is on the way out. The given to pictures exhibited at the Academy. The trustees of "the bequest (for whole work, it is expected, will be completed Purchasing pictures for the natiou) were mostly in about four months,
RA's.
We have received the Report of Procend-
WATER POLO.
It
At the V.R.C. poud, Kowloon. a water polo match was last evening played between the only trains entered it the Royal Garrison Artillery Water Polo Cup competition. two
was 80th Co. c. 78th Co. The 80th Co. was representail by Gunners Longmau (capt.) Lazenby, Mediam. Sewell, Penny. Fisher and Powell (real); while those who played for the 78th Co. were Gunners Shenhau (ort.) Mooney Downis. MeDonald. Carmlékaci, Kinshelle and Doyle (goal). The 80th Co. wou ly 5–μ, return match will be played on Saturday.
A
A New York correspondent siates that things." for 1903-4. of the Royal Colonial Institute, edited by the secretary, and issued in Targest and most important unval station in the
strong cloik binding, by the Institute. The book Western hemisphere is to be established at
contains papers on Malaria in India and the Panama by the United States. In this fact
Colonies," "Queensland." "Our Fiscal System, lies the significance of the dispute between the Now Republic and the United States in reguot Fijians and their firewalking," "Australia,
·Chandian Ques- "Ceylon East Africa," to the canal zone.
tious," -- Ferloration and the Mercantile Marine." West African Railways" "the THE FORTHCOMING GYMKHANA, Sudan," and Newfoundland" &c. ko.. with reports of the subsequent fiscussions. There are also records of testings, raports, lists of members hans. indexes, &c., of interest to members. The present volume contains nothing
kugirant
¦ of imports over exports rose to the sum of 168 million gen. The new specie earcenes practically disappeared, and was almost This in- absolutely replaced by paper. crease of imported goods was by no means confined to Great Britain, and we find it shared in almost greater proportion with Germany. Belgium' and the United States. Of these the two last have continued to minintain the advantage gainel, Germany showing some slight disposition to sharken. Bat the sudden disappuranes of gold, and as sudden influx of foreign commodities of Levery description, had other effects, the end of which is not yet apparent, and one of the chief of these was the stimulus given tu.)
In Hongkong, the "ared meak home man facture. It was evident that favouring umbrellas of late. At Shanghai, the strait on the finances of tho con alry according to this Mercury, there seems to be a implied by the enormous excess of importsmania for foreign hutsamong the lower class of could not long he aintained, and with characteristic energy ibe Japanese applied themselves to producing similar goods at home. Japan had always been an industrious country, and during her long isolation had contrived to supply her wants from home be noted, says Mr. Mortimer in his report for 29. the establishment of a soap factory at sources; she was therefore no novice in the Window by a Chinese who obtained the neces task, and set to it with characteristic energy.sary knowledge in Japan, and of a small factory The change, not yet completed, is one at Tai Chow, where towols are made after' record. Japanese style from yarn manufactured by the of the most remarkable 00
Niugpo cotton mills. Owing to the compare In 1893, for example, her exports to China
tive che poss of both products they are obtain had been under 24 million yea; in ten years
ing a ready market. they had grown to 95 millions. Although
tires. Pilfering is practised in divors ways, hardly in a more unoying for than in tlie annexing of one's hat from the stand in the kal.
Among loen! improvements at Womehow may
Further correspondences relating to Chinese labour in the Transrnal is officially published. In one place Lord Milner says to the Colonial Secretary: It is of course, neless to aid that no permanent economic remit, are to be expected from one, or even several, shipments of this size. But I cons'der that the experi-. ment has so far been sufficiently satisfactory to justify our making every effort to secure a stealy streams of indentured labourers from the
me sonrce."
of immediate local interest.
|
Losbos. 19th September. The Timen says that in spite of dementis there is good reason to believe in the general accuracy of its statements regarding a Russo-German understanding, RUSSIAN REAR-GUARDS AT WORK
Loxoox, 19th September. Genend Kuropatkin reports that Generals Recoukamf and Samsonoff are conducting important reconnaissances, and there has been fairly heavy fighting with numerous
casualties.
THE GALLANT TWENTIETH
REGIMENT.
TOKYO, 14th Sentember. At the battle of Linoyang, the Twentieth Regiment was the inest daring. The commu der of the regiment, as well as the commanders of all the battalions of the regiment, ware either killed or wounded. A captais took command of the regiment and stormed the enemy's deploying line and dashed into the enemy's forts and captured the sime amidst ohears and Banzai," which daring feat cost the regiment 1,200 officers and men killed and wounded.
HONGKONG "TERRIBLY
INSANITARY."
On the third reading of the Appropriation Bill in the House of Cominous last month, Mr.
Weir, in giving a long list of prievances, vallegi the attention of the Colonial Secretary to the as
There has not been regalar galloping, owing | terribly insanitary condition of this Chinese to the inclemency of the weather, and the heavy houses in Hongkong, and went on to improst nature of the course. The pour that shows on the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs most promise so fur is Mr. G. C. C. Master's the importance of getting rid of the obstractions Graftou; yesterday morning, ou a very heavy in the Canton river and of requiring fuller cons, he did the 1-mile in less than three reports from our Consals in China and Japan. minytes, finishing very strongly. Considering Mr. Lyttelton regretted that in the absence *-*
that of notice he could not answer inquiries by the
Some humorous stories are being told about Be Scottish Church crisis. A correspondent of that the
course TES
under water,
hon. member for Ross and Cromarty regarding certain Chinese residents in Hongkong
THE MANCHURIAN QUESTION.
The Chinese Government is détermined to
the Scutste tells how a Scottish gentleman the pany was carrying probably 5lbs overweight; was engaged in the hopeless endeavour to explain and that it also had a sweating hood. the per- to an English lady the distinctions between the formunee must be considered a good one. No Free and the Caited Free Kirks. A sports ponies have yot started to practice for the hur lle manlike man came to the rescue. "A friend ruce, as the hurdles are not yet up. The dis- of mine who had shooting in Rossalire said fance handicap promises to be a very amusing the new coiner, asked the same question that event, as anything may enter--horses, "ponies." tako-back the Manchurian provinces, but the the lady has asked of his gamekeeper, who was mules and donkeys. Already a great variety of Japanese Government has declared that i agront light in one of the kirks. What', he said, animals have been seen on the course. presum-China really desires to take over the provinces. is the difference between the Free and the ably training. A mule, a donkey, and two small cuptured by Japan, the former must be ready United Freak" After some long palaver from the ponies, the breed of which would be hard to to hold them with at least four Army Corps of keeper, he said. John give me the actual decido, are amongst the bunch. One of the disciplined troops properly provided with
modern guns and ammarition. If China h simple form.' › Well, sir,' said latter could certainly trace its ancestors back to difference in Z John, if you want it plainly, it is this, we'll all the donkey. Regarding the Challenge Cup, Desert King seems to be going very strongly. us also is Ca Canny. The race should lie bo- tween those two. The 3-fidong ilat race is a vory open affair. Any pony that gets away
be saved and they'll all be d].'"
At the request of the International Postal Telegraph and Telephons Clarks' Christian Association, which has met half the cost, the with the lead ought to win it. Bible Society's agent at Shanghai has distri- buted a thousand Chinese Bibles and Testaments With every
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1904. Few things are more remarkable than the | China was the chief enstomer, she was During the different aspects in which the course of followed closely by others. trade in the Far East presents itself to ten years her exports to the United States ́ ́different minds according to whether the trebled from 27 to nearly 83 millions, and point of view is taken from a commercial or with Europe her esports of silk, raw and merely trader's stand. More especially is manufactured, developed in almost similar this the case with regard to Japan. Nothing proportion.
The outcome of all this is that Japan is is iñore common than to hear that the trade
2 British herself determined to become a potent factor of Japan is, as far at least interests are concerned, “ruined"; nothing in the commerce of the world, and is by no
While giving evidence in a civil case bofare among postal clerks in Chins. to the student of statistics seems clearer tucans propered to sit still while others
was asked in examination where his wife was.rately. a letter was enclosed in English aud than that trade is continually on the in-appropriate the entire profits of her trade. Mr. Justice Sarcombe Smith. a Chinese witness book, which was done up and addressed sepa Chinese, stating that the post office clerks crease. Both are probably true, and the Seen from the marrow field of view of the In the comitry," he replied. Then he was explanation is to be sought in the difference more local merchant, this is a very repre-asked if he know a woman sitting in Court and and pesten of Great Britain and Ireland feel of the point of view adopted by each. Seen hensible course to take, and so we have been he answered that he did; she was his sister-in-towards you a warm and brotherly spirit. We The Judge asked the woman where would ask you to read this book, and we desire
A circular is heen issued to the members from the position of the local trader it is treated almost ad navora. to stories of the law:
her husband was, whereupon she pointed to point you through its pages to Jesus enr
Saviour," Already a number of most interest setting forth the regulations for the com- quite true that the trade of to-day is by no miu of trade. Already we hear these par-
to the man in the witness-box, and said he was
petitions, Several prizes are offered for means so profitable as in the good old times, row-minded prophets crying out against by liusband. The lying husband was sent to ing letters have been received from some of
the recipients of these books, including most competition, and one of the company officers when a very large share was centred in the Japan's intention of clearing Manchuria poison for 21 days for perjury.
appreciative acknowledgments from Confucian has also intimated his intention to present a hands of British merchants on the spot; and from the puralysis of Russian occupation,"
scholars and others. The majority of the clarks the Anglo Chinese school, and are amongst the more intelligent men of China.
CARBINE COMPETITIONS. The Left Half No. 2 Company II.K.V.A. commerce their winter Carbine Competitions at Taibang Range, this week. The first two meetings will be of a preliminary nature, to enable the Committee to classify the manbers and adjust the handicaps.
not able to provide such a force then Japan must hold the provinces for the time being on behalf of China, the latter to pay all expenses. The Universal Gazette says the Central Governmcut is now considering the above matter. and it is our opinion that the upshot of it all will be that the Japanosa will be asked to hold the three provinces for China until the latter shall be able to put a large force in the field capable of holding them against all comers."
NAVAL NOTES.
TORPEDO-BOMT MISHAPE.
In Portsmouth on the 18th alt, torpedo-bout G6 ran into the destroyer Zephyr, and inflicted serious damage. Within the last few months the following mishaps have occurred to British
April 13-Teater (destroyer), collided with Наник wall. Hole in. port sido below water line and plates damaged. April 22-Leven (destroyer), collided with a
stoam ferry bridge at Davonport plates split,
probably fewer actual residents can now True, they tell us Japan will increase the regarded, was made by a Home paper last month in the Imperial Post. Office have gone through spoon to each man who shoots for the sub. torpedo-boats and destroyers::--
A happy guess, or prophecy, however it is Part of it says: "General Kuropatkin will be defeated at Linoyag or somewhere between that and Mukden. The defeat will either be a disastrous rout or will consist of a series of
find a profitable living in the seaports; but trade, but what is that to us? We can in the view which presents itself to the make more money out of our petty dealings British producer as most natural-and more with the Russians, who being no traders especially to the British shipowner the themselves put all the pickings in our way, brade has been eminently, satisfactors. So This is of course not the proper or the defeats followed by constand, retreats, according rough sketch of a fish seen near Gap Rock on hops that the members will musier as stron Mar 10.-Hart (destroyer), collided with Chiness.
as General Kuroki succeeds in offéctually cut- ting off his retreat or not, and Bukden will fail In either case the into the Japanese hands. remnants of the Russian army will continud the retreat northwards to Harbin
WEATHER REPORT.
May
launch at Hongkong.
Bow
staucer Albion off Dover.
23.-Burehorse (torpado-bcat), collided with
French schooner off the Balearic Islands. Bows stove it.
28-Fcum (destroyer), collided with a
in the preliminary shoots. division which obtains the highest aggregate This ought to encourage a large attendance Mr. Johnson, Light-house koepor, has made at the range, and the officers, and N.C.O.§ the 8th instant at 10a.m." He describes the as possible. A large number of new new have animal as yellow, with forge, irregular, black joined this company since the commencement splotches. As seen, twenty yards from the of the present drill season, and several of these Rock, and about two feet below the sarface, it ought to be heard of during the coming season appeared to be very But in shape, the plane of in connection with the company's marksmanship. the tail being paralled with the surface. It sacmed to be about nine feet long, a foot broad across the shoulder, and had six side' tins,
There was nhont nine inches long. dorsal fin. After lettering in one place for ford: CIE, late. Inspector-General of Irriga about a quarter of an hour. it swam away tion, India, to whom Sir William wknowledges westwards. Careful us the observation seems his indebtedness. Mr. Beresford has thirty. to have been, we do not think naturalists, need seven yours' experience to guide bina, having record a new species, or bathers four sharks.
'The greatest pressure lies over N. China and joined the Indien Public Works Department We cannot help being struck, however, by the
Gradients are minderata on the China Coast," in 1867, five years before Sir W. Garstin resemblance of the local visitor to l'otyouton the least in the Pacific, eastward of Formosa. entered the same department. As Chief Engineer spathula, the "spoonbill isturgeon," referred to and moderate N.E. winds will prorail in the
the North-West Provinces and Dudh, and by naturalists as found in the Mississippi valley. For use Chaabel, und moderate E. to NE. July 23.--Jasmi (destroyer), struck on Tuko also in the Punjab, he has been very largely That has four prominent side fins and the winds in the northern part of the China Sea.
far the case would seem to be readily anier international way to look at the subject. standable, yet the reviewer who would go (reat Britain as a nation palpably made deeper into the matter would discover more out of the trade of 1903, amounting to things which are hardly reconcilable, with 50 million yen in value, than she did in
Credit for the conception of the most daring either. In 1893 the value of imports from 1893 out of an anual export to Japan of Great Britain, which had been steadily twenty-eight million yen. But we have to of Sir William Garstin's proposals--that to rising from year to year, stood at 28 million take a still wider purview to comprehend ent a new Channel for the Nite for a distance yen; in 1897-98 it had grown at a bound to the real advantage to the nation. Ten years of 210 miles is due to Mr. John Stuart Leros an average for the two years of 64 millions; ago the imports of Japan from India in the next four years it had declined to amounted to under 8 million you, in 1903 Jess than 19 millions. Such extraordinary they amounted to close on seventy. Did fluctuations surely denoted some upwonted Britain burself derive a benefit from the disturbance. The causes of this had been enormous sum of money thus thrown into long at work. When Japan was first opened her great dependency's lap? This is the to foreign intercourse a large amount of way in which these fluctuations of trade
must be viewed by the economist. The concerned with irrigation projects. gold was in circulation, and gold was
Lorizontal tail.
no
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report-
On the 21st at 11.30 a.. The barometer has". risen slightly in the neighbourhood of Formosa Channel and fallen, also slightly, at all other stations.
Forecast-Moderate E. to N.E. winds, flee.
-
June 13-Success (destroyer), so denged in inexplained accident that another destro- yer had to be substituted in the King's escort to Kiel
June 17-Sperroslutwk (destroyer), struck an uncharted rook at the moatte of the Yang- -txze Kiang, and sank in eight fathoms of
water. Back broken.”
July 17-Haughty (destroyer), run into by
steamer off Harwich. Deep rent in side. July 20-Three torpedo-boats of the Medway -Botilla-put back to Sheerness with pre-
pellers damaged by wreckugo.
Rocke, Weihaiwei, Bows buckled, dumaye amidships