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The Globe says the Russian naval officers" } revenue collecting in China by native col. · lectors, In the case of the Ching-chou explanation of the North Sea affair appours to First, that it Ch'ao Kuan, an institution under the Board divide itself into two heads.
is quite easy to confuse trawlers and torpedo- of Works, the effect of allowing the Com- boats at midnight (in fuel, the English them. missioner to control the collection of port selves have done so before), and secondly, that WATSON & CO., dues on junks, and duties un timber, was they are positive they did not confuse them.
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A Chineso fermer from the New Territory
who was travelling on a tram car near Canse way Bay yesterday, jumped off while the ear previously was in motion. He fell on his head, and staff, sustained injuries from which ho snecambad shortly after admission to the Government Civil Hospital.
sund taels, and in the following year (1908) an increase of twenty-five thousand taels
amount the average over accounted for by the native This does not necessarily mean that more had been collected, but that less, or rather At "had been deducted. squeeze Bhasi it was the same. When the dishonest native spater was supplanted by the honest HART administration in 1902-3, Mr. C. C. STUHLMANN, the Commissioner there, was able to report an immediate increase of thirty per cent. If it were not that the phrase "integrity of China" really implice "integrity of Europe," it would be the
STATIONERY. obvious duty of the foreignor, acting on the
principle of the greatest good of the greatest number, to step in and purify China, only allowing the Chinese to A WELL VARIED ASSORTMENT OF resume charge of their national heritage when they have learned the lesson of pure government and got rid of the classes who at present make the masses suffer terrible impositions,
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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 16TH, 1904. RECENT rumours to the effect that the Chinese Government is coquetting with the idea of raising a further foreign loan, to tide it over immediate difficulties connected
The German Club team to play in the match against the Hongkong Club on the 17th and 19th inst. consists of Messrs. F. Ebecins, C- Koch, F. Nicolai, J. Mueller, A. Romlach, E. Vollbrecht, A. Thiessen and J. Thun-The umpires will be Messrs. C. Mittell, F. Lieb and. Ch Lammert; scorers, Messrs. H. Oldenburg and A. Nielssen; and accountant, Mr. 1. E. Meyers.
The programme of ransic to be performed by the Band of the 114th Mahrattas on the New Parade Ground on Monday, beginning at 4 p.m., is as follows:-Roman March (transcription from an organ composition, Lefebure Wely; Overture to Rosamunde," Schubert: Chanson de Metio, Sir E. Elgar; Selection from Rigoletto," Verdi: Offertoire (transcription from an orgau composition, King Hall; Selee,
tion from "Der Frischutz," Weber,
An American report states that while the The Gorman Mail of the 16th N. ember was Baldwin airship was being dragged back on Nov. 2nd after its trial tight, it suddenly broke delivered in London on the 14th iust.
loose, dragging the repes out of the reach of the attendants. Rising to a height of 700 ft., the airship sailed steadily away to the northward and soon disappeared. News was received the following day that the ship had come down on the banks of the Mississippi River, near Keokuk, Iowa, and that it had boon secured, apparently nainjured, having travelled 150 miles.
An Indian who died in the matshed at the New Supreme Court was officially reported yesterday as having died of plague.
Reuter says that the Port Arthar garrison is despondent, fearing a massacre when the final assault takes place.
The first vocal rehearsal of "Rersage" by the Philharmonic Society takes place this (Friday) evening in the Theatre Royal
Out of seventy-three vessels in Hongkong Harbour on the 18th inst. 13 were British, 14 Garmon, five Norwegian, five American, two Chinese, one Japanese, two French, and
one Italian.
A Peking letter states that bertain gentry of Shansi orince have petitioned the Shanpu for permission to establish a Department of Forestry in that province, to presorve as well as extend the treebearing regions there, for which work it is proposed to engage a foreign expert, possibly from the Taiyuat Agricultural College. As there is also a vast extent of rich grass lands on the Shansi-Mongolia frontiers.
TELEGRAMS.
["DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.] MR. RAPHAEL BELILIOS.
THE MURDER CHARGES.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR AND HIS BROTHERS.
The following extracts are taken from the Jewish World:-
The appointment of Mr. Robert Nathan as Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India is,
ACCUSED COMMITTED.
Smit', The three Europeans, Charles Brik Hogmans, and William Nason, again. ap- peared yesterday before Mr. Gomperts to answer th charge of mardwing the Chiness boutseman Chas You, the girl Kwok Tit, nd with attempt ing to murder, the boy Kwok Sui, in the waters apart from the high importance of the office, of the Colony on 27th Norombor last. Mr. Fono of an extremely interesting nature, for it brings the fourth of a set of brothers, all of whom have done brilliantly, to the notice of the public in England. It is seldom indeed that four sous, three of them still comparatively
LONDON, 15th: D.,1.55 p.. Mr. Raphael Beliling has been adopted candidate for parliament for West Nowing-J. Badeley, Captain Superintendant of Police,
ton.
SPANISH CABINET RESIGNS.
LONDON, 28th November. The Spanish Cabinet, formed by the Marquis de Pozo-Rubio in July, 1908, has resigned.
OBSOLETE ARTILLERY.
LONDON, 28th November. The Times publishes a strong article to day, denouncing our obsolete artillery.
(REUTER'S SERVICE.] UNREST IN ST. PETERSBURG.
LONDON, 18th December, In St. Petersburg pesterday, a crowd of students reassembled with the intention of renewing the recent disturbances, but they dispersed on the approach of the Police.
FRENCH POLITICS.
LONDON, 13th-December. In view of the Premier's rese ve to introduce
prosented.
The first witness called was Char Kun coxswain of Police Piuraoe No. 5.nestioned ry to whether he was out with P.C. 88 when the body of a naked Chinese woman was picked up, about twu wa ks ago, off Kollett Island, he replied in the affirmative. Asked what was then done with the body, he replied that it was pat into a dead-box at the Wharf by some Sanitary Board cooies, and conveyed to the Polios Statica. The age of the decos-el was between 30 and 49. He did not remember the exact date when the body was found, but He did not believed it to be the 1th instant. see the body identified.
Mr. Gompertz then esid that on the evidenc that had been adlaced, he should commit the thras defendante to the Criminal Sessions; but that he would hear any statements they might
wish to make.
Charles Smith, after being cantioned in the
two months ago. After being here about two castomary manber, stated:~I arrived in Hong
weeks I met William Nasva. Ho and I stayed kong from Manila by the Zafiro about
together from that time until the 27th. I made a suggestion then to him that we should feta sampin, tie up the Chinese on board, and a new procedure against obstruction, the Deput them off on some island, and sail south. The suggestion met with immediate approval., ties of the Oppositiva entered the House before We walked down the street, and got a third the hour of meeting, smashed the Dais-table and the Ministerial chairs to atoms, and drova --Hogmenn. He was willing to go. That out the custodians with the legs of the tables, evening, at 8 o'clock, Nason and mycolf mit soms difficulty in getting a boat. Finally, wounding four. In consequence of this it wasogemann at the Sailcra Home. We had
after getting obe, impossible to hold the sitting
the American ship. When we arrived halfway to the mainland on the other side, Nason started- for the bay ahead, and Hogmann for the
THE WAR.
"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE,] KUROPATKIN'S THREAT.
LONDON, 9th December The Temps reports that General Kuropat- kin has declived' to accept all responsibility for the Russian army unless the number of
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starte: across to
Jong, mako moh marked note as have these of the late M. Joanh Nathan. Perhaps the best the age of 42, may be said to have had a remark- known is Major Sir Matthew Nathan, who, at able carcor. Gazetted to the Royal Engineers, from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1880, his active connection with the corps listed for 19 years, during which time he was on active service twice, in JS85 with the Nile Force for the relief of Gordon, and four years later with the Lushui Expedi- tion. In 1895 he was selected as Seoretary of the Colonial Defence Committee, and his ser- vices in this connection were recognised by the, conferment of a C.M.G., oalanced to K.C.M.G.
1902. After administrating the Government
which position he retained for three years, at of Sierra Leone in 1859, the following year he
the end of which time he was none the worse was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast,
in health for the long stay in the part of the world known as the white man's grave." Sir Matthew was the first Jew appointed to a Colonial Governorship
His brother in the sister branch of the scientific divisions of the Army was soon marked out for special advancement. He, too, gradusted at the Royal Military Academy.
is the training college for cadets for the Royal which, it may be explained to the lay mind,
Engineers and the Royal Artillery, the students for cavalry and the infantry receiving
their tuition at the Royal Military College,
I myself wont for the children. I Sandhurst. Major F. L Nathan entered the had some diffianity in keeping them quict. I Royal Artillery in 1879 and in 1886 Le passed took the first one and put her down in the lo'd the final examination of the Advanced Class of I then started the Ordnance College and was appointed the thirteen-year-old one. back for the othar one, the small one. She took Captain Instructor of the Royal Lab ratory. | fright and jumped overboard. I tried to grab Two years later he was mado Second Assistant her, but it was too late. The sampan was about to the Deputy Governor of the Ordiano? Fas- to run into a large ship. I had to grab the tory, and four years after that was nominated to
This little joke may be enjoyed by some of outside the Great Wall, it is farther proposed Provision trains be greatly increased. It is tiller and head her inland. That is all I wish the onerous post of officer in charge of Dasger
our lady readers; A young lady, a native of Tyneside, recently went into a diaper's shop in Newcastle and told the assistant she wanted a muff. "With plensare, iaitume what far?" replied the assistant. "What for? Why, for ma bends, wan; ye divvent suppose sa want it for ma fet, de ye!”
One of the earlier works dealing with the struggle in the Far East will be Mr. T. Coven's "Russo-Japanese War." which Mr. Edward Arnold has in preparation. The author is familiar with the scones of the principal conflicts on sea and land, and gives a comprehensive |description of the topographical characteristics of both Cores and Manchuria. Mr. Cowen is a very able newspaper man, well known in Japan, China, and Corea.
The allegation of the Loudon Express that Captain Clado, ong of the four cflcers left
behind by Admiral Roshdastrensky,aaresponsible for the North Sea outrage, is not a sailor at all, but a soldier who happened to be the Admiral's guest, is suficiently serious. If true, it would mean nothing but that the Russian Admiral treats the whole affair as a jest; und we under- stand that his action is so interpreted in St. Petersburg. It is a dangerous form of humour, and it may be provocative of something else than laughter if, during the progress of the Inquiry, the British nation should happen denly to see the point of the joke.
to stock them with cattle, and horses, the latter specially with the object of furnishing cavalry ramounts for the Imperial Army.
The Baud of the German warship duerst
PART 1. at Oberori **Tanhanter'
Bismarck is announced to give another concert in the Theatre on the 22nd inet, the pro- grumme being as follows:-
Weber Overture
Wagnier Schubert Pilgrims' Chorue a Moments musicals
Noctourno from the Ballet Copotia" (~tring"
Quartette). Delibon Sigmund's Love Song "Walkaro
PART II. Introduction Act III... "Lohengrin
"Zauberfota" OverLoremedi
"Symphony II. Larghetto. a Entr'wote... Mignon
Anos death...... Peer Gynt Suite (String Quarlotte.) Introduction and Chorus..." Riongi" Steeraman Song and Sailors' Chorns from
Wagner
Mozart
stated that the Russian Government will find it impossible to send more than they are eending at present.
[DY COURTESY OF THE JAPANESE
to say.
Buildings at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Erik Hogmann, through Mr. Lindblom
Waltham Abbay. This he retained for seren overboard, but she either jamped or fell over-years when he was made Assistant Superin- (interpreter) mid-I tried to heave the woTRENIE KA board herself. That is all I wish to say. tendont of the Factory, and the Roxt year Athird brother, meats maile by Nason read over, as he had not the eldest, went to the law, and it might out of notice in CONSUL][Hogmana expressed a wish to hear the state-promoted Superintendent, anderstood them, and Mr. Gomperts saying he be supposed would be thought him entitled to hear them, they were England when stationed in the out-of-the-way West Indies. However, he, too, has made his nocordingly translated to him.]
William Nason, after being cautioned, stated: mark. Ho was made a Magistrate in Jutusica |--After the boy I had bean fighting with bad in 1888; Judge of the Supreme Court, at King- jumped overboard I pat out the light then stor in 1891; advanced to the Senior Puisno before going aft. When I got aft. I saw Smith Judgeship of Trinidad in 1893; received the chasing the small kid." It had got up on the Attorney Generalship of Trinidad and Tobago stern-right at the back, as far as it could get in 1808, and from the courtesy title of Hon. ho Smith had just made a grab for it when it
PORT ARTHUR IN EXTREMIS.
TOKYO, 1th December. The commander of the navel artillery reports that the bombardment on the Wagner thirteenth was principally aimed at the arsenal and the torped-depot at Tigertail, Beethoven and the ships and boats in that vicinity. ..... Grieg The torpedo depot was ablaze for one hour Wagner Three ships were destroyed and one sunk, and several buildings were greatly damaged. The indirect bombardment of the Sevastopol, staying outside the harbour, was suspended owing to the bad weather which presented observations.
The abs
"The Flying Dutchman"...... Wagner
There is still a steady amount of business
coming forward for the Far East, says the Times of November 11th, but war rates have not materially changed of late. Cargo to Japan which by ne amount of expansion of the elasti termi could be considered as contraband is being done at about 1 per cent, in first-class steamers, Higher rates are quoted for goods which might possibly come within the Russian definition of the term and according to the manner of ship It is quite likely that, as the Baltic ment. sud-Fleet gets further East, the tendency in rates will be to harden. Doubts are expressed whether the fleet will ever reach Far Eastern waters, bat, in view of the fact that opinion was fairly
Admiral Togo reports that the torpedo boat flotillus twice attacked the Sevastopol on the night of the twelfth, and thrice on the night of the thirtesath. The result was uncertain. Each time they met the enemy's fierce fire one torpedo-boat was disabled, but all were towed back. Three received one shot each. Our total casualties were
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The fourth brother also found his lines cast 21
jumped overboard. Then I saw Hogmana Was this year knighted and became. Sir Natha. holding the old woman, Smith taking the tiller. niel Nathan, I put my handkerchief in the old woman's mouth then, and then wont and sat in the well abroad. Taking his degree of BA The woman had began to fight. She pushed St. Peter's College, he, a barrister, entered Bogmann away from her, sud jumped over board. That is all I have to say.
The defendants were then asked whether they wished to call any witnesses, and, replying in the negativo, were formally committed to take thair trial at the next Criminal Sessions.
WEDDING.
THOMAS CHARLES DOWNING-GERTRUDE MAUD MILTON.
the Bengal Civil Service in 1988, serving as
Assistant Magistrate and Collector, Settle- ment Officer, Joint Magistrato, and similar functions which are special to the great dependency. Subsequently he became Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Financial and Commercial Department. This was in 1895, and two years later he was trans- ferred to the Home Department, and in 1900 Mr. Thomas Charles Downing, accountant mule Magistrate and Collector. In 1902, Mr. of the Chartered Bank of India,, Australia and Robert Nathan was Secretary to the Indian China (eldest son of Mr. Thomas J. Downing Universities Commission and now he rEROŽOS of Tokleton, Cambridgeshiro), was yesterday, the high post of Private Secretary to the at 11 a.m. in St. John's Cathedral, married to Viceroy. The power and responsibilities which Miss Gertrude Maud Milton, the only daugh. are vested in that office can be easily realised ter of the late Mr. Francis. Milton, of when it is remembered that India is not London. The ceremony was performed by governed on the Parliamentary system of the Rev. F. T. Johnson, chaplain of the England and that immense power is placed in Sir ROBERT HART, and the prospects of any tion, upon which the following legend was
When writing home about the Hussion Camp
Cathedral, Mr. H. G. C. Fisher, engineer of the the hands of the King's representative, who augmentation of revenue. On Sir ROBERT inscribed: "Notice to Russian navul officers--`
Public Works Department, acted as best man naturally finds his task made easier or more HART's scheme, so strongly opposed by the This is not a fishing sack.". Farther on was at Kowloon Rauter's Hongkong correspondent retrograde CHANG CHIH TUNG, we have a large destroyer which had been similarly said that King's Park was a beautiful spot on the
Of decorated with the inscription: A toothpick Kowloon peninsula. The buildings were surreports that two torpedo-boat flotillas Tho wedding was a very quiet ons. The difficult by the staff with which he is surround- already made considerable comment. the hopelessness of expecting any real ra- for the Russian navy. Everywhere in naval rounded by a barbed wire fence six feet in attacked the Sevastopol, and the commis.newly wedded couple left for Macus on their ed, of which the Private Secretary is naturally form to follow such excellent schemes, much cirolos, at the back of the general indignation, height, anda British guard was to be mounted to sioned ship at 3.30 a.m. on the 14th during honeymoon in the afternoon.
A visitor to one of our largest dookyards the with the payment of the indemnities, must other day was amused to notice a large board united against the probability of ita eror leaving only three men wounded. revive interost in the recent proposals of suspended over the side of one of our newest Europe, farther scepticism might prove oz-
and hagest ironclads, now approaching comple-pensive.
more might be said. Never could the state
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DESTROYING THE NAVAL REMNANT AT PORT ARTHUR.
Tokyo, 15th December. The commander of the third squadron
heavy snow storm. One torpedo-boat is the feeling is ons of amused contempt, and the prevent escape. There were four officers → one Russian navy has vodoubtedly become an object commander, two lieutenants, and one engi still missing but the rest returned in safety, and 61 petty officers and men. The ofleers of momentary ridicule with all ranks,
were to be allowed perfect freedom, but one of On the morning of the 11th our observation the men would be permitted to leave the anelo. station and the picketship reported that sare unless in company with an officer or when the Sevastopol's bow had sunk three feet. marched out for exercise Local military men From 11.30 p.m. of the 14th to 8 a.m. they were grateful for what had been done, had shosn every kindness to the refugees, and on the 15th, six torpedo-boat flotillas and While living on the storeship Tamar, the man special torpedo-boats incessantly attacked the wore landed every day and marched to Wong Sevastopol, Olvary and the commissioned ship. The details are not yet reported, hut
POSSESSION."
one of the most important. THE FRENCH SQUADRON ENTER- TAINED..
FRANCE AND JAPAN.
The Times of Ceylon dated Nov. 29th had "INDO-ORINA AN ESSENTIALLY PRECARIOUS
In the course of the debate on the Anglo. the following: The French squadron, which French Agreement in the french Chamber on arrived in Colombo harbour on Squlay from the 8th ult. M. Delafosss said Indo-China was Bombay, has been the recipient of a hearty inevitably be lost to them one day, either by the touched on its journey; and Britishers in the an essentially precarious possession, which would welcome at every English port at which it has notion of China or by that of Japan Everyone Fast are determined to let our French visitors was lavishly entertained, and not to be behind knew, moreover, that Japan had hesitated as to know that the entente cordiale is as strong ont whether she should declare war on Russia or here as it is at home. At Bombay the squadron M. Deloncle: Our policy in Indo-China and a proposal is on foot in Colombo to give a birthday of Queen Alexandra, is the day men- M. Janres: That is a very grave statement tioned, and additional significance would be is not a policy of conquest; China and Juga dinner to the French offieere. Tharading, tho know that. to make, that Japan hesitated about declaring given to the dinner if held on that happy occasion. The idea emanated from a naval officer, and the success of ach a function only depends upon the number of residents who are willing to show their appreciation of what French friendship means to us.
France.
war on Franco.
of Denmark, oven in HAMLET's time, lave been so rotten as that of China, which
Mr. Samuel Turner, who has had a large ex. ought to be a rich and smiling country with all its natural resources and all its patient, parience of travel, exploration, and climbing in Eiberia, gave an interesting lecture last month industrious people, but which is instead a at Exeter Hall, in the course of which he describ, land of chronic poverty and suffering, dued how he met General Kuropatkin, in Man. entirely to the fact that a lot of conscienceless charia, reviewing 200,000 Russian troops just officials are battening on the miseries of before the War. He described the General as aneicheong, Happy Valley, for exercise.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. Iremonger and at 9 am. on the 15th the observation their poorer brethren. If the cryptic New thick-set man of about 50, of medium height, Testament saying, that to the rich man shall black whiskered, and with clean-cat features offers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry station reports that the Sevastopol's bow The lecturer was not surprised that the Russian will play the following programme of music, at was further sunk, with the torpedo tube be given, and from the poor man taken away Empire and Armies, in their hour of defeat, the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, this completely immersed. even that which he hath, has meaning any-had full confidence in General Kuropatkin. He (Friday) evening
Entr'acte... Introduction 3rd Act "Lohengrin " Wagner where, it is in China. Sir ROBERT HART had one of the most difficult tasks ever allotted March "The Lads of King Edward's Army" Jones
HOPE WANES IN RUSSIAM
M. Delafosse replied: I wished to paint out
On inquiry late this afternoon our reporter Costo talked of appointing "ten picked officials" to one-man. The Japan Bussiz War might be
that all the European possessions in the Far Folka This Handy Max"
Monckton to assist in inaugurating his administrative described as "a war for the Open-door policy of election ... The Silver Slipper Leslie Stuart
the East," and the lecturer thought Great Selection
East are destined to disappear. The speaker was informed by the Hon, the Colonist Secretary LONDON, 18th December. Chopin Bucalosa! reform scheme, It would be difficult to see Britain, the United States, and Japan might Waltz...
Admiral Rozhdestvensky, with twenty- then went on to emphasise the difficulty of that he was about to send invitations to the MENU MENU any advantage in ten picked from the all bad. have guaranteed that without this dreadful Hors d'uvres-Sliced Tomatoes, Cu- one ships of the Baltic foot, has arrived at defending anch distant possessions. Morocco flivers of the French man-of-war now in China "The day would come when it the dinner would talo place on Thursday night, They would in all probability be ten daughter of lives. Every Open Door in the
mbers and dentroots, Caviste Fast Soups Messnmedes, a seaport of Angola, Portu- offered opportunities superior to those of Indo-harbour, and, if they were able to accept them, He concluded who comes down for the meeting of the Legis Fried Fishi Entrece-Roast nail on Test, guese West Africa. pickers" instead, picking and stealing as East, he reminded them, would benefit Japan Ch
The destruction of the Port Arthur Rua. would be able to furnish two or three Aruy probably at the G. O. H. HE, the Governor,
Corps for the national defence.
There will probably be 25 Civil ustral from that which should go to the more than ourselves. Russia, he believed, would Fricasses of Sheep's Head, Lobster Mayonnaise Government. It is not so long since that in the end became a colossal Empire, and would Jointe-Boast Bridle of Mutton, Roast Pheasant, sian fleet, hitherto unknown except by a by expressing wishes for a triple alliance lative Council to-morrow, has promise to
develop the vast resources of Siberia. While Cold York Ham Curry-Chicken Liver. Raind small circle, has created consternation in between France, Great Britain, and Revain. preside.
-Cucumbers and Tomatoes Vegetables-Boiled
mcene of searing the peace of the world and 20 military and naval men, and 30 of 40 planters
and merchants, the Commissioner of Cystems at lebang, he advised the English people to be loyal to Fotos, Lrensio Potatoma, Sweet Corn, Carrots. Russia, and Admiral Rozhdestvensky's mis He regarded such an alliance as the best Servants at the dinner, if it takes place, 15 er
maintaining the colonies in the Far East. disaster. Mr. F. S. UNWIN, made a report which Japan, he strongly recommended them not to Sweets Plum Pudding, Baked Apples, Strawberry sion is now regarded as foredoomed to
Ice Cream, Finger Cased. included an exposure of the abuses of quarrel with Russia.
cumber
* Kitty Groy
Chicken and
brillante
on Toast.
1 Barley
{RECTER'S SERVICE.]
M. Bignon: All the newspapers in Indo. China have reported the presence of Japanese spies in the colony.