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learnt within the past week that His Majesty's Government has re-asserted (in words only) that attitude, at least so far as coal is concerned. Consider this declaration
ample excuse for the indignation of British shipowners when they see such indifference to vital interests as the Government bas shown in this case of the Allanton, to say CO., in its relation to the circumstances connected nothing of the case of the Knight Commander with the confiscation of the British steamer and that of the Calchas. The result of the Allanton. Prior to the outbreak of the war supineness of the Government is seen in she was chartered to carry a cargo of coal the fact that underwriters have in some from Cardiff to Hongkong or Sasebo. The cases been charging four times more for war vargo was discharged at the latter port after risks on goods to Japan under the British the outbreak of the war, and she was after-flag than if under the French or Germin wards chartered to convey a cargo of coal flag, and concoquently British shippers bare from Muroran to Singapore, this being part been diverting all the goods they can from DISPENSARY. fire at Singapore had agreed to buy for British trade to Singapore, Hongkong, and delivery during the present year. While Shanghai, and not only to Japan, is being on her voyage to Singapore the Allanton harassed. penalised and disorganised, so the was overhauled by Russian warships, and merchauts at Home declare, by the obvious owing to the alleged irregularity of her contempt of Russia for the British flug. A papers she was seized and taken to Vladivo-"plain business man" writes to the Times stock, where she was condensed a fortnight lator on the untenable supposition that she was carrying contraband of war to a The Court Japanese or Coreau port. reached this conclusion on evidence being tendered that the steamer set her course by the west of the Japanese Islands,
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DEATH OF THE "SQUIRE OF MALWOOD."
LONDON, 1st October. -Sir William Harcourt is dead, having died suddenly in his sleep.
THE WAR.
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LONDON, 29th September. General Kuropatkin wired on the 29th inst. that the Japanese had begun an offen- sive movement along the entire must and south fronts.
THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
LONDON, 29th September. The Temps states that Russia has ordered eleven destroyers from the Forges des Chan- tiers Mediterranee, deliverable in fifteen
of a cargo of 50,000 tons which a British British steators to French and German.ships in the Colonial Service or for clerks | Granville Venables Vernon, M.P., P.C., second months, and is negotiating for cruisers of
The torrential rains on Saturday caused the postponement of the Gymkhana. The Bowling Green at Kowloon was also made impossible, and the expected finals were not played, There was no cricket. Sport, generally, wes "off"; the more restless element of the community, unable to sit on balconies with novels, dusted the ping-pong sot.
Among the Chinese labourers who rocently arrived at the Van Ryn Mine, Johannesburg, is one who proudly exhibits two British medals. The first of these is for service in China, the labourer having at one time been s privale of the native regiment stationed at Weihaiwei The stond is the Coronation medal, the China
["Men and Women of the Timo" gives the
statesman. following details of the career of the deceased Harcourt, The Right Hon. Sir William George
son of the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, and grandson of a former Archbishop of York, boru Oct. 14, 1827, was educated at Trinity Collage, Cambridge, of which he was a scholar, und graduated in high honours in 1841. He was · called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1854, and went the Home circuit. He unsuccessfully contested the Kirkcaldy burghs in 1858, Mr. Harcourt was appointed a Queen's Counsel in
saying: "I make no pretence to a know. ledge of the refinements of diplomacy. I
1666; and was returned to the House of Com- only know that like thousands of other
mons for the city of Oxford in the Liberal business men in Great Britain just now, I
When the land officer certifies that a massign-interest in 1868. He was elected Professor of ment has been made for the sole purpose of International Law in the University of Lam- am being robbed and plundered, and that if the refinements of diplomacy, backed up enabling the mortgagor as the owner of any bridge, March 2, 1864, and he was a member of the Royal Commission for amending the by the strongest Fleet in the world, cannot property held from the Crown to obtain a Crown lease, and a new mortgage of the sama that is through the theatre of war, put a stop to that, then the time has come instead of going by the route east of for plains speaking and prompt action." property similar in all respects to the previous Neutrality Laws; and of the Royal Com mortgago i mnde immediately upon the grant-mission for amending the Naturalization which occasion he was Japan. It is to be assumed that the defen- There has been plenty of plain speaking bying of such Crown lease, reassignment and new Laws. He was appointed Solicitor-General
in Nov. 1873, on dants pleaded (and had the Court afforded ahipowners and business men in the columns mortgage are exempt from stamp duty.
knighted, and he held that ofice until the re. the facilities it could have been conclusively of the Times, and other organs of public
signation of Mr. Gladstone's administration IRON proved) that this western route is the one opinion, and we have no doubt that the
in the following February. When Mr. Glad- which is always followed by merchant Russian Commission on contraband ques
stone returned to power in May, 1880, Sir W. Harcourt was nominated Secretary of State veszels coming south from Japan, because ittions of which we have recently heard some- js 200 miles shorter, and also because an thing by telegraph is one of the results;
for the Home Department. On his going adverse current and numerous small islands but the decisions of this commission would
down to Oxford for re-election on that acension are avoided thereby. A second reason for appen, only to have increased the difficulties,
be was defeated, polling only 2,681 votes against
and British shipowners huve still to wait the Court's finding consists in the statement that the steamer had a Japanese cabin boy for the guarantees and protection they seek. on hoard! Thirdly, the decision was based on the fact that the official log-book had GLYCERINE & QUININE not been entered up since the steamer left, Hongkong, her last neutral port. To this the owner replies that entries are only made in the log-book on occasions required by the Board of Trade, such as logging a deserter and the like. Most extraordinary of all is the farther reason given by the Court for its finding, viz., that the vessel had carried contraband on her outward voyage." The British Foreign
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General Hasegawa, who was in Tokyo about a week ago, hus been appointed to the comwand of the Japanese garrison in Cores.
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ship with conclusive evidence that the destination of the ship and her cargo' was Singapore. A copy of the bill of lading (31 and charter-party were amongst the ship's papers examined by the Prize. Court, and despite this testimony the ship within a We are face to face therefore with the fact fortnight of her seizure was condemned,
that, ignoring the indefensible excuse thrt the ship was taking the western rather than the seldom-used eastern route, the Prize Court, notwithstanding the British protest against. enal being declared under all circumstances contraband of war, confiscates ship and cargo, and moreover advanced the unprecedented claim that the ship having previously carried coal to the enemy's country justifies her condemnation.
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On 25th September, at Shanghai, the wife of
EUG. HYNDMAN, Jr, of a son. DEATHS.
On 25th September, at the International Cotton Mill, Pootung, FANNY CURDI, aged 39 yearH.
On 26th September, at Shanghai, Jon. Noring,
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HONGKONG, OCTOBER 3RD, 1904. WE reproduced a week ago the verbatim report of a speech delivered by Mr. BALFOUR
Inspection of the financial affairs of Mr. W. L. Bright, formerly M.P. for Stoke-on Trent, a son of Mr. John Bright, show liabilities of £12,000 and assets of £1,300.
The consneration of Bishop Henninghaus, who tng, will take place on Sunday, the 30th suceeds the late Bishop Anzor in South Shan,
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The China Review says that certain persons representing Russian interests have purchased the Canton-Haukow railway concession, the work construction."
Mr. Stevens, the newly-appointed Foreign Adviser to the Corean Government, left Washington on September 26th. He had az interview with President Roosevelt before he
left.
Major General Villiers Hatton, coramaniling the forces in Hongkong. and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, spout a week in. Shanghai following their return from Weihaiwei, and then left for Jupan
Quarantine restrictions are still in force
plague-infected places. On the other hand, against Tainan-fn and Anping, Formosa. Netherlands India has withdrawn all
tious on arrivals from Hongkong.
man having been one of the party sent to 2,795 recorded in favour of his Conservative
London in 1902 to represent his regiment
From October 24 to December 31 obstructions will be laid in an area to the south of Stoncent tor's Island. The area will be deflued by two small black buoys, each surmounted by a while flag, laid about 1,500 yards south of the southernmost point of Stonecutter's Island. The cast and west boundaries will be drawn due north to meet the Island. Anchoring within this area will be prohibited, but there will be no obstruction to through navigation.
--At the end of 1908, the railway lines under construction in Russia amounted to 5,929 versta (3,700) miles). The St. Petersburg-Vitebsk line, which is to put the capital into direct communication with Kieff and Odessa, bas
been opened as far as Zhlchinsk. It is said that the great line frors Orenburg to Tashkent will be opon for through traffic in the spring of 1905, and that the rails have already been laid along the whole track excepting a central section of about 200 miles.
Here is the programme of music to be per formed by the band of the 111th Maliratias on the Now Parade Ground this (Monday) evening,
Selection from "Box and Cox"
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antagonist Mr. A. W.. Hal. At this juncture Mr. Plimsoll, M.P. for Derby, very generously accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, whereupon Sir W. Harcourt was elected one of the representatives of that borough in his stead. Sir W, Harcourt was presented with the freedom of the city of Glasgow, Oct. 25, 1891. He went out of offics with his party in June, 1885; but on the return of the Liberals to power in Jan., 1886, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ho was re-elected for Darby at both the General Blections (1885 and 1880). He is one of the cleverest Parliamentary debaters, and is spoken of as the probable future leader of his party. He was out of the original
writton various political pamphlets and letters on contributors to the Saturday Review, and has international law in the Times, published und or
the pseudonym of "Historicus." The latter were reprinted in a voimme, with considorable
Sir additions (1863). William Harcourt married, first, in 1859, Thérèse, daughter of Lady Theress Lewis-anut to the Earl of Clarendon and a widow of the late Sir George Cornwall Lewis. Bartby her first husband, T. Lister, Esq.; and secondly, in 1876, Mrs. Ives, daughter of the late John Lothrop Motley, the historian, and sometime United States Minister in Loudon.]
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RAILWAYS IN CHINA.
from 4.30 pin. to 6 p.m.- March......... <-Rienzi Overture to... "Rosamunde' Song "O, dry those tears" Teresa del Riego Yefdi Selection from "Rigoletto"
Padervishi Melody
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The Aeth says that Japanese experiments with Chinese cotton have provel successful.
LONDON, 29th September. Only 17 years ago not a single bale of Chinese
Washington wires that Mr. Couger has tele. cotton was imported into Japan for spinning graphed that Chign has promised Americans purposes, but now the imports of Chinese oiton and British shall have the preference if foreign. stand ut the ratio of about 50 balos against 90 capital is required for the extension of the Han- of Indian produce. The quality being equal,kow railway to Chiakieng. Mr. Conger wishes the advantago of drawing the supply from to know soon if American capitalista care to China is obvious, and the Asali entertains the embark in the enterprise. hope of a very bright future for the cotton industry in geiferal.
The Governor has given his assent, on behalf of the King, to Ordinance No. 8 of 1904.-Ån ordinance to amend the wild birds and game restric-preservation ordinumes, 1885; Ordinance No. 9 of 1904-An ordinance for enabling the Tung Wah Hospital to acquire, hold, mortgage and sell land and hereditamente in the Colony of
Prince Carl von Hohenzollern had an 2
Hongkong: Ordinance No. 10 of 1904-A ordinance to amend the prepared opiura ordi-
THE KAISER TO VISIT ENGLAND.
LONDON, 30th September.
The German recspapers report as the Kaiser will visit King Edward in November.
RUSSIA'S CHAUVINISTIC PRESS.
LONDON, 30th Reptember.. The semi-official Courbet de St. Petersburg reproduces an anticis from a Motow paper
disace of, and tiffin with, the Emperor of Japan on September 26th. The Emperor returned his call next day. Cat Areo-Valley, tenance, 1891; Ordinance No. 11 of 1904-Androlaring that Russia cuinat and west not German Minister, was giving a dirner in the Prince's honour.
Admiral Bayle, the Commander of the French
recognize the Tibetan treaty, which displays the bad faith and off-handedness of the British
the Bayan type.
INTERNATIONAL LAW AT THE
HAGUE.
LONDON, 29th September. The eminent Russiau jurist Demaartens speaking yesterday of the conference on international law at the Hague, referred to a Ukase defining the state of things to be He pointed out observed during the war. some declarations made at the Hague cou- ference which were embodied therein, but said that some of the Hague conventions were only for five years, which period had
not been renewed.
COAL FOR BELLIGERENTS.
LONDON, 30th September. Five German colliers left Cardiff and Newport yesterday for Porto Prayu, a sea- port in the Cape Verde Islands. understood they are on Kussiau account,
MUKDEN ABANDONED.
It is.
LONDON, 30th September. The Standard's correspondent with General Kuroki on the 28th ultimo wired that General Kuropatkin's main force had fallen back north of Mukden and upon feiling, but a considerable body of infantry was still south of Mukden observing the Japanese.
NO CHANGE.
LONDON, 30th September. The Tsar has arrived at Odessa to review troops proceeding to the Far East.
The Russian general staff announces that assaults on Port Arthur between the 20th
everywhere repulsed. September and the 26th September were.
(From Northern Pupere).
PORT ARTHUR.
TOKYO, 26th September. The Japanese on the 20th inst. occupied-siz Russian extrenchments besides the Katoputkin fort at Port Arthur, and on the following day an important height about a mile and a half
west of Shaiczeying, and the reservoir which was protected by the Kuropatkin fort. The Kuropatkin fort was built by the special order of that Gen eral who, when he examined all the forts in and around Port Arthur, remarked to General Stoessel that the other forts were sufficiently strong, but it was u great defeat that such an important point as the reservoir was not protected at all: Thers- after a very strong fort, south of Skulsaying, was hurriedly constructed and given the name of the Commander-in-Chief.
PORTUGUESE NEUTRALITY.
BERLIN, 24th September. Portugal ins issued a declaration, according to which coal and provisions can be given from the Tagus only to single Eussian ships, but not to the whole Baltic feet.
HOUSE SAVED FROM FIRE.
At about four o'clock on Saturday morning a lukong noticed anoke issuing from No. 11, Eastern Street, in the Western District. He blow his whistle, and three other constables came on the scane. A fire was found on the second Boor, in a corner, burning fiercely. The heap consisted of a quantity of inflammable material soaked with kerosene, and several bladders of kerosono, containing about two quarts each. One of the bladders had just become ignited when a kong rashed into the fire and suatoked it, and another, away from the fumes. The fire was smothered with damped blankets. A PRIZE FIGHT.
When the Fire Brigade arrived, ander Mr. E. Yesterday there was a prizo fight on a R. Hallifax (dapaty superintendent of police), Chinese island in the vicinity of British and Mr. H. G. Baker (chiaf inspector), there territory, the combatants being Jack Burke was nothing left for them to do. It is said that and McPheo. Samn Newman was timekeeper, the promises were heavily insured. The lakong
ordinance to amend the protection of women and girls arriuance, 1897.
One of the waterworks regulations, Rule No. Government.
ing offect substituted :-
Fleet in the Far Fust, is offering a reward of 19, has been repealed, and a rule to the follow- $5,000 for trustworthy information of the actual whereabouts of Commandor do Cavorvilio, Franeh Naval attaché in Port Arthur, who left that place on the 17th Augnst lust.
When the owner or occupier of a teuament wishes that a service should he made, altered, extended or repaired, by the wateranthority at his (applicant's) expense, there is a special form to be had on application. The water authority will
Holding such views as it has repeatedly declared on the subject of contraband, one would naturally think this a case in which the Government would have been quick to take action. It is almost incredible to find that down to the 16th of August, the British Foreign Office had not become "officially aware" that the fact of the vessel having carried coul on the outward voyage was considered by the Prize Court (on June 27th) to constitute one of the gum ads for her condemnation. The owner of the ship to a deputation representative of British
had long before made, the newspaper read shipowners who sought information as to the intentions of the Government withing public aware of the fact, and he seeme regaril to the protection of British shipping to have kept the Foreign Office well posted during the continuance of the war between with all information relating to the case. Russia and Japan. The speech, we fear, Moreover, on July 27th the British Ministerut St. Petersburg communicated to the Foreign can have afforded small consolation to British shipowners and the mercantile com- Office the fact that he had received "a note Government stating munity generally, except in so far that it from the Russian
was condemned for
The new Java China Japan Lino, subsidised effectually dissipated the idea that British that the Allanton
by the Dutch Government, and which consti- ships are subjected to one law by the carrying a full cargo of contraband to the Russians and the shipping of other nation- enemy and for the undoubted active tutes a regular monthly service via Manson, then let him know how much deposit has to and a gontleman whose name was given as who plucked the bladders from the flames will
be paid before the work is commenced. In the Mr. Barnes was referee. The fight, which was probably be rewarded for his bravery. alities to a more lenient law. Adequate participation of the owner of the vessel in Soerabaya, Samarang, and Batavia, to Hong proof is certainly wanting for the mainten. the conveyance by steamer of contraband." kong, Shanghai, Maji Kobo, Yokohama, and case of repairs or renewals of an urgent charac-attended by a large company of sportsmen from ance of this idea up to the present. While This statement, it will be seen, is based moy, is imparting a considerable impetus ter the authority will execute the work at once; Hongkong, raɛolved itself into a fiasco, owing rannds Burke gare better than he get, putting ready to accept the brave words of the solely on the facts that before the outbreak to the export trade of the Dutch Indies but if the owner does not pay his deposit within chiefly to the referee. In the first and second Prime Minister that the expressed deter- of war the steamer left England with a
Messrs. P. Henderson & Co., of Glasgow in coveral hard jabs on the jaw as well as a num- mination of the Government to uphold the cargo of coal which was delivered in Japan rights of neutral shipping was no empty after the war had commend, and that being initiated into the complications of (British & Burmah Steam Navigation Co. ber of punishing body blows. In the third round
theology, "when I go to Heaven will 1 have Ld.), whose vessels call at Colombo regularly, MePhee assumed the attack.
a right-handed swing, mant for the kidneys. phrase, the British public have not seen when captured she was carrying a cargo of wings like the ether angels ?" Yes, my dear," on outward and homeward-bound voyages, have upper cut on his opponent's jaw, followed up with sufficient evidence of the intention to dis- coal to a British firm at Singapore. The said the mother. The youngster was thoughtful added the steel screw-sleaner Martaban to abuse their minds of the idea that the Foreign Office with the whole of the facts for a moment. Then he looked up again, their fleet. The steamer, which has been built Burke feinted and put in a blow for the wind will ran on the Company's Glasgow-Rangoon | MoPhee's fist came down on his opponent's Load cries were raised for n-fou),- dilatory, almost apathetic way in which the in its possession had done nothing in the "And shall I go to bed at nights, or have to sit by Messrs. Wm. Denny & Bros. at Dumbarton, which McPhee parried, with the remalt that
service, calling at Colomba regularly. She is stomach. Government has dealt with cases of appa- mattor down to the end of August; not even on a perch like a chuckie hen?
so much as telegraphed for that officia! A Roman Catholic precassion of "The Holy 410 feet in length, 25 feet wide and 30-9 feet the contention being that the panch was below rently indefensible assault and robbery on the part of Russia constitutes an exhibition knowledge which it lacked of a decision Rosary" took place yesterday afternoon in deep. The passenger accommodation consists the belt. The refores in the first place, She pounced in favour of the fight proceeding. of feebleness which is as lamentable as it rendered on June 27th involving a grievous Glenaly Cathedral compound. There were 15 of large 2 and 3 berth zooms. The Martaban admitted that Burke was in the right, and pro-
banners representing the "15 mysteries-joyful, is able to deal with bulky pieces of cargo. is unparalleled. Some months ago the loss to one British shipowner and disturbance sorrowful and glorious," An image of the has 13 derricks, all having an out-reach of fully Latterly however he appeared to be overborne British Government declined to regard coal, and loss of a less direct character to the Virgin was carried around; and the large con-8 foet over the chip's side, the lifta ranging up by the voices of parties uutside the ring, and he foodstuffa and cotton as absolutely contra-whole shipping industry of Great Britain.gregation joined in the singing of the Ave to 20 tons, so that cargo of practically any gave judgment for McFloe.
weight in bulk might be conveniently handled. band of war, and telegraphically we have It must therefore be allowed that there is Maria," and other prayers.
Fairplay.
**Mu," asked a little five-year-old," who was
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24 hours the water may be shut off.
broke up in some disorder.
HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE
The honorary secretary of the Hongkong Cricket League (Mr. A. E. Asger) informs ne
He landed an have entered for the League Competition which that twelve teams representing eleven claus
Clubs' representatives will be held at an early commences this month. A mesting of the
Army Ordnance Recreation Clab date to arrange fixtures, e, for the season.
Civil Service Cricket Club The following is the list of teams entered:
Craigongower Cricket Club- Hongkong Cricket Club "A" Hongkong Cricket Club "B". Royal Engineers Recreation Club Royal Army Medical Corps Pareve Cricket Club.
The company.
Hongkong Police Recreation Club Kowloon Cricket Club.
83rd Co., B.G.A. Hongkong Singapore Battalion (R.G.A.)