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mend itself to the Chinese Government. But the Emperor and the mandarins alike looked aakance at such u revolutionary idea, and it was not natil late in the seventies
WATSON & CO., that, permission having with great difficulty been wrung from the local authorities to construct a road from Shanghai to Woosung, a track was made and a small railway luid. The first section of this line was opened on the 30th June, 1876, and soon afterwards it was completed and opened to traffic, being wuch patronised by the satires. But the Chinese Government; w denied the right of the projectors to lay a railway on the road, They re- werent thus to be got ever. mained obstinately opposed to the railway, and at length insisted upon exercising their right to purchase it. This was reluctantly acceded to, and the result was, that after PURITYnuing it for a short period they closed it to traffic on the 21st October, 1877. After remaining unused for a few months, a bright
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and on his suggestion it was torn up and the rails and rolling stoek were shipped to Formosa, nominally to be laid there to connect Tuskow and Tainan. The little line was never utilised, however, and was allowed, together with the rolling stock, to rust and decay on the wharves at Takow. The object CELEBRATED of the Chinese Government had, however,
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The froward attempt to set back the clock of progress by the Chinese Government in 1876 served to lalay the inevitable for nearly twenty years, but it did not avail to banish the railway, as they had hoped, for all time. Events arched, and pressure grew weightier, as the ninth decade of the nineteenth century examenced. but it was not until nearly the close of 1895 that the
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In last arening's six-a-side 'matches Gay's team beat Boyd's by 1-0; and 'Aucott's team draw with Rutherford's, no goals being scourd.
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The steamer Wing Chai has altered her time
departure from Macno on Sundays to 6.30 m. that is one hour carlier than heretofora The steamer is now lit by electricity.
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Mr. d'Almada e Castro point out an error in our report of the property salo in which he was interested. The purchaser was not, he says, "a Chinese" as we reported. It was Mr. M. A. Ranch,
Mr. A. Gelewsky, chief clerk of the German Consulate at Shangluni, has been appointed secretary to the German Consulate at Chefoe, and left by the H.A.L. str. Forwarts for that port to take up his new post.
On page 5 will be found a reprint of the correspondence which has passed betwaon the Colonial Office and the Chamber of Commerce in reference to the adoption of the Zone system of time, which is to come into force at the end
of this month.
Mr. R. A. Harding, who recently, strived from England, where he was in practice as a Solicitor and Commissioner for Ouths, was yesterday admitted by the Chief Justice as a Solicitor and Proctor of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
Dr. Millor of Kobe has been recently married at San Francisco to a lady whom he met while touring with his partner. Dr. Thornicroft, in New Zealand. Dr. Miller, who has resided for fifteen years in Kobe, is known to many · in China, who will associate themselves with the congratulations telegraphed to him from Købi.
residents
In the Suprano Court yesterday morning
in the during the hearing of the first case (riminal. Bessons there were present with hig
Lordship Sir Henry Berkeley on the Bonch the French Vice Admiral Bayle from the Montcalm, accompanied by Flag Lieutenant They and Mons. G. Liebert, French Consul General, their object being to see how justice is administered and criminal cases conducted in British courts
of law.
TELEGRAMS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LADY CURZON'S HEALTH IMPROVING,
LONDON, 18th October. Lady Curzon, the wife of the Viceroy of India, is progressing favourably,
PROTUGUESE CABINET RESIGNS.
LONDON, 18th October. The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned.
DEATH OF THE PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS.
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(JAPANESE) OFFICIAL PESPATCH28 ]
DESPERATE FIGHT BY AN ENTRAPPED COLUMN.
TOKYO, October 18th. One columa under Brigadier General Yamada procee-led on the 16th inst., tu reinforce a detachment of our Left Army in attacking the encuny north of Shahopau, The enemy was defeated near Weechiloutzu, two guns and two ammunition waggons being captured.
After repelling the enemy again at San- thoknutze the coluain proceeded to return to its original position, when it was suddenly en voloped at 7 p.m. by about one division
LONDON, 18th October. The Fafuta Dona Maria de las Mercedes the Princess of the Asturias, heiress pre-of the enemy. sumptive of Spain, has died in Connaught,
[The Princess was born je 1880 and married Prince Charles of Bourbon in 1900-ED.]
(REUTER'S SERVICE.}
FRENCH SILK TRADE.
LONDON, 16th Ontober, The French silk trade is potesting to the Government against a propos & import duty of bine francs on Astul o silk fabrics from the 1st January, 1905.
PIRATICAL ATTACK ON WEST
RIVER STEAMERS.
NARKOW ESCAPE OF A CAPTAIN.
Early yesterday morning, about 12.10 a m., when the ss. Pak Kong (Captain A.N. Patrick) was coming down the West River to Hongkong
After a fierce hand-to-hand fght it succeeded in breaking through the enemy and regained the original position. Mean. while our artillery having lost most of its horses and men was compelled to abandon nine yaho and five, sanpo (sic). The enemy was reinforced in front of our Centrul Army. Our casualties on Sunday were about a thousand.
MARSHAL OYAMA'S LATEST REPORT.
TOKYO, October 18th. Marshal Opanus reports that on Monday
POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA COMPANY.
This well-knowu and deservedly popular com. pany of juvenile singers and actors opened. on Monday nights in the Theatre Royal, City Hull, with the American comic opera "Belle of New York."
The performance of these yenngslerais difficult to criticise. Some of them are quite musical; others are unmusical, but to compensate for it they have some clever trick of acting, or some humorous mannerism that endears them to the audience.
To begin with, the Pollard productions are al- ways splendidly staged and mounted, the scenery and the dresses being invariably kirishly hand-, some and good. Miss Era Moore as the Belle was a faithful copy of the original, and song very sweetly. Her voice is still quite young, and in certain passages it still attenuates. In her last. scene, where she tries to shock the elder Bron- son, our feeling was one of regret that mere children should have such "business" to emet. Miss Daphne Pollard, the tiny little girl who al ways takes the grand lady parts, and has an ex- traordinary maturity of bearing and style, was the heroine of the evening. She has all the
Mix characteristics of a Snished actress. Olive Moore as Fiti threw herself into the part with abandon and great success, her exaggerated French accent being very funny and never once dropped. Her songs are, however, too much for her, and the extraordinary substitution of aotta voce "mor-rid" for the high. "marriol in the duet was disconcerting. The amorous and inebriated dude Harry Bronson was played" by a girl, Miss Dottie Brown. Here again it was rather shocking to see how cleverly there children rould simulate drunkenness. Master Willie Thomas invented some amising business for his part of the polite Innatic; but he Master prolongs it more than is necOSKITY. Jack Pollard as the older Bronson was well
# gags 6.g., que was that when he made made up, and introduced a number of local
die Belle heiress to his millions, he told her she would now be able to stay at
night the enemy twice made fierce assaults she was fired upon from the tank on the farther in front of the right column of our Left
Between 20 and 30
smaller assaults in side of Kongmoon.
were discharged at the vessel, and Army, and some seeing that at that part of the river she has the direction of the Central and Right the Hongkong Hotel for as many as thres
shots
to keep very close in to the left shore from Armice. We repulsed them all.” which the firing came it is wonderful that more
The enemy retreated leaving many dead shots did not take effect than did. As it was only one shot, so far as has been discovered, bodies on the field,
who claim to Kave walked 41,000 miles, the cir- came aboard. It struck the pantry on the upper
The Kahe Chronicle appears to doubt the bon-ides of Mr. and Mrs. George O'Malley, eumfereuse of the world. in five years. They recently pund through Hongkong If," says the Chronicle, they are coming to Japan, and expect sympathy here we are afraid they will be somewhat disappointed." The couple left here for Australia.
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Yesterday, while the Attorney-General was Criminal Sessions. an old Indian, apparently under the influence of liquor, eluded the vigilance of the Court officials, and approaching [31 eighty miles in length, was soon afterwards the Bench sahated bis Lordship and attempted commenced, and on the 1st September, to address the Court. Of ecurso be was hustled 1898, the first section, from Shanghai to out immediately. It appears that the old man had a personal interest in the accused man Woosung, was opened to traffic. Owing to
(an Indian), and he appeared in Court with the want of funds it has uut been continued,idea of paying a solicitor for couducting the but the British and Chinese Corporation, defence. His action constituted contempt of who in 1900 obtained the concession to court, and he will in all likelihood be called upon to appear at the Police Court to-day on the
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make the railway to Soochow and Nanking, have taken this pioneer line over, auul thus it comes about that the first railway made- in China has been repented after an interval long enough to enable Japan to construct a whole system throughout the islands. The On 17th October, at Shanghai, the wife of P. line thus at last, let us hope, permanently [2480 inaugurated, will probably prove the most On 18th October, at No. 11, Seymour Roud, prosperous and important in the whole of Hongkong, Mrs. A. WELL, of a daughter. [2481
Ching. It will connect four great cities aud pass through a highly fertile and pro- ductive country. As a commercial enter. |prise it cannot fail to prove a great success, and it is much to be regretted that so much valuable time has been wasted since the concession for its construction by the British syndicate was first obtained. Some difficul Tus simple function at Shanghai on the 9th ties intervened, and as these have now been instant, when the control of the Shanghai-happily surmounted, we trust the new lina Wassung Railway was formally taken over
will soon be completed throughout its entire from the Chinese Emperial Administration length to Nanking. This work will no by the Board of Commissions of the doubt be rapidly followed by the constrae- Shanghai-Nanking Railway, though un-
tion of the railway from Shanghai to Hang- attended by any great public demonstration, chow and Wenchow, and the Model was a matter of no small interest. The Settlement will in a few years become the handing over of a few miles of railway does centre of as important railway system which not of course appeat a very important pro-will still further add to its commercial ceeding in itself, perhaps, even in China; importance. The prospect should be a fresh but as it practically marks the commence.
with incentive to Hongkong to press ment of active preparations for the con- unabated effort for the long deferred connec tinuation of the line to Soochow and Nation with Canton by rail, king it acquires an interest that a mere toy line could not otherwise command. The representatives of Messra. JARDINE, MATHE- 30N & Co. and of the Hongkong and Shanghai Barking Corporation were present on behalf of the British and Chinese Co- poration, who have undertaken the con- struction of the railway, and it is hoped that His Excellency SHANG KUNG-Pao, who was then unfortunately indisposed, will be sufficiently recovered to cut the first sod of the new line when the time arrives for that ceremony to be performed.
The Shanghai-Woosung Railway, which has thus been banded over to the British
There were 2,789 Russian prisoners of war, including 30 officers, in Japan on the 9th instant.
It is reported from Tokyo that H. H. Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern has made a dona tion of yen 860 among the poor at Tokyo and Yokohama.
charge.
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should be departing. gentleman hald ír high esteem by all the staff of not only Messrs. Punchard, Lowther & Co., but of the Admiralty branch of the Naval Yard. Mr. Colson replied in folicitoas ternas.
A NEW BARRISTER.
deck close beside Captain Patrick's quarters, ponctrated the door of one locker, pierced au- other, and ultimately found a lodging-place in a wooden bulkhead inside. Captain Patrick was near by where the shot struck, and he had a most providential escape. That the firing was from the shore is almost certain, as the river junks or boats were to be seen about. Last channel at the point is very narrow and no night the Pak Rong made the journey again to the West River, and on this occasion rifles and ammunition were taken in ove of further
rasanit.
Captain Lewington. of the Wast River boat Hoi Hu, reports that his vessel also was fired upon at the same place shortly after nine o'clock on Monday night. None of the shots took effect though several were heard singing over the decks. According to the Customs officials it is supposed that these attacks upon the this neighbourhood is infested with pirates, and Hongkong boats were made because the Chinese pilots had failed to make their regular payments of blackmail to these blackguards,
It would be well if the Chinese Government sent a gunboat or two to patrol those parts of the river in which these ontrages have occurred.
RACING.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
RUSSIANS RECAPTURE LONELY- TREE HILL.
LONDON, 18th October,
General Sakbaroff reports the recapture o'a Sunday of Lonely-tree Hil, and twelve
guns.
(REUTER'S SERVICE.]
A." CRUSHING DEFEAT" : A "VERITABLE DISASTER."
LONDON, 16th October, French correspondents in St. Petersburg report General Kuropatkin's defeat a verit- Able disaster.
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It is reported from several quarters that General Kuropatkin's advance was due to the desperate need of a victory, in order to stern the tide of popular discontent, and the reluctance of the peasantry to go to the front.
Marshal Oyaman estimates the Russian losses at 30,000. The Russians are retiring everywhere, crushingly defeated.
AWFUL CARNAGE,
LONDON, 16th October. The awful carnage in the recent fighting has produced the deepest impression in Tokyo where no elation is shown. Diplɔ- matists there are asking whether the opportunity for peaceful representations has not arrived.
On Monday evening a pleasant function took place in the mess room of the Naval Yard Extension staff, The meeting WES got up to bid farewell to Mr. F. T. Colson> CE to whom the staff es n mark of their respect presented & silver ink-stand Mr. J. Robson, of the Admiralty staff, made the
So far the only subscription grifāns bere are presentation, and Mr. J. A. Macgregor ably
these which arrived by the Kwong Sang, 17 in. fulfilled the duties of chairman. In his re marks Mr. Macgregor expressed the reall. No telegram has as yet been received from grst of all the
staff that Mr. Colson Shanghai regarding the next consignment, but was it is understood that they will leave by the first available stoomor. Regarding the first batch, HE. the Governor has a very smart blue dan with racing hindquarters, and, as ponies of this colour are usually supposed to be fast, we may expoot to hear more of it during the training. The Standard Oil Company have drawn a useful-looking beast. The only fault In the Supreme Court yesterday Hon. E. H.
seems to be that it is a little low in front, and Sharp. K.C., Attorney-General, made a motion in the shoulders. Mr. A. V. Apoar has drawn that Mr. H. G. Colcroft be admitted to the
a big light dun, a very fine animal as far as Hongkong Bar to practice as a barrister-at-law
Reuter's correspondent at Mukden wired appearances are concerned. Mr. Mody's pony, His Lordship, he said, had the essential papers however, is a beauty. It has splendid hind on the 16th instant that there was a lull before him, and from these it would be seen that quarters, with hocks well let down and fine oblique yesterday, but the battle was resumed to-day Mr. Colcroft had been admitted a student at the shoulders. Messrs. Fide and Mitchell have both ten miles to the south-west of Mukden. It Inner Temple in 1888, and had been called to drawn presentable ponies, though they do not is now certain that General Kuropatkin the Bor from there 18 years ago. Since that appear to come up to the standard of these men. time Mr. Colcroft bad practiced for ten years tiened. Mr. Henry Humphreys pony may do very will be able to extricate his army, although in Loudon and for about two years on the Goldwell, as it appears to have all points good and he has lost 30,000 men, Cost of West Africs. As his Lordship would racing-like. It is very weak and poorly just see, Mr. Colcroft had had a longer experience now, though. As it becomes fitter we may than most gentlemen who were called to the expect to see him develop into a very fast racer. Bar in Hongkong. He bad great pleasure in On Monday morning a curious sight was A pony, pulled up moving the admission of Mr. Colcroft, and he witnessed on the racecourse. was sure his Lordship would find all the papers rather sharply by his rider, sat down on its hanshes, and found it impossible to rise with the weight pressing down on its back. The rider climbed up about the animal's ears and it then was able to regain its feet.
in order.
His Lordship, Sir Henry S. Berkeley, Chief Justion, said he had read the papers and he had much pleasure in aceeding to the motion of the Attorney-General that Mr. Coloroft be called to the Bar of Bongkong
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
CRICKET.
The match fixed for Saturday, 2nd October, on the Cricket Ground, will be botween the undormentioned teams. Play starts at 11.30
It is reported that the Nippon 'Tusen Kaisha has arranged to re-open its Bombay service,
The E. & A. steamer Einpire, from Austraa.. sharp. which was suspended on the outbreak of hostiliau ports, arrived at Manila on the 17th Oct.,
and left again for this port yesterday; she may Mr. R. Hancock be expicted here to-morrow. litios, by the middle of November next.
The Nagasaki Press reports that the Japan Ocean Whaling Company, Ld., of Shimonoseki, has been granted the use of the three captured Russian whaling vessels, viz, the Nicholai, and Chinese Corporation, has a bit of a strander, and Box. history. It is many years since the idea of
The H.A.Leteamer Segoria, from Hamburg, loft Singapore for this port on the 15th Oct., p.m., and may be expected bors on the 22nd Oct., s.in.
The CP.P. staxmer Athenian arrived at Nagasaki at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, the 17th Oct.. and left again at 1 p.m. on Tuesday for Kobe, where she is due to arrive at 9 p.m. to-day,
introducing railways into the Central King Government Railway Bureau has decided to Au Osaka paper learns that the Japanese
dom was first wooted, and in the sixties á toy lease its Maidkuru and Kura lines to the railway was presented to the then Emperor Hankaku and the Sanyo Railway Companies, where she is due to arrive 3 p.m., to-day in the hope that the innovation might com- respectively.
The C.P.R. Steamer Emprees of India arrived at Yokoliams at 10.30 am. on Tuesday,. the 18th inst, and left at 3 p.m. for Kobe,
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Mr. Maitland's teani hats first,
In an interview just before the battlo General Kuropatkin highly extolled, the bravery of the Japanese, and how faithfully they observed the rules of war. In this respect it was the moat pleasant war in which he had been engaged.
days,
Master Teddie MaoNomura as the Bowery boy was as funny in his ways as ever. He must be doing serious injary to his throat, however, by the strenuous croaking he resorts to in delivering his parts. The funniest make- up was undoubtedly that of the "twin Portu- guess noblemen" (Jack nod Fred Heintz), and their well-drilled movements in the various scenes evoked both applause and merriment- The choruses of travelling companies are often painfully weak. It is quite otherwise with Pollard's. If we are permitted to, to'l the whole truth, it will be that they are just. a little deafening, and reminiscent of a Chinese school in full session. Very often their efforts might as wall have been Chinese, for the words were indistinguishable. Thus much of criticism is necessary, as much not to deceive the kamovent playgoer as not to spoil these elever and won- derfully trained children with the unthinking flattery to which they have so often been treat- ed. After these qualifications, it is still to be added that the theatregoer gets from these children a great deal of enjoyment. There is no other Company just like them, and we have seen infinitely worse performances given by adults.
Last night there was a large audience, which
frequently expressed its approval of the show- The children seemed, moreover, to be in better form for their work,
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. The following cards were returned at the quarterly meeting held at Happy Valley from the 15th to the 17th October,
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A telegram from Mukden says that the AMERICAN SHIPPERS BUSY.
There was only small concern in America 7th and 16th army corps bore the brunt of the fighting on the 14th instant. They regarding the presence of a Rassina cruiser in repulsed six attacks and thrice silenced the South African waters, and it was mainly con- Japanese artillery before retreating across fined to the merchants and shippars in the the Shako. The Russians are still fighting Eastern State, who had sent contraband goods doggedly, but every despatch shows more by this route to Japan. They, however, wern clearly the decisiveness of the last victory only a very small minority compared with the of the Japanese, who not only defeated the scores of manufacturers and producers who are. Russiaus, but are pursuing them in every shipping from San Francisco and other Pacific perts almost daily quantities of goods coming direction.
within the Russian category of contraband for Japan. There is not (it is stated) the slightest difficulty in securing ships for this purpose ut the higher rates paid, and the trouble from which the British und German abippers and merchants suffer in getting any goods at all to Japan has thrown a golden harrest into the hands of the Americans on the Western fres- board, an advantage of which they have not been slow to take the fullest possibile advantage.
BALTIC FLEET ON THE WAY.
LONDON, 13th October, Twenty-eight Russian warships have passed Formbolm en route to the Far East.
General ou Hasegawa, Commander of the Japanese arred in Cores, has proclaimed mikter in Hambuingde.
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