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authority again conquered, and Russian An account of an extraordinary general akvolutiam was preserved. Fear of wight, meeting of shareholders in the Weihaiwei ignorance of light, the careful and cunning Gold Mining Co., Ltd., will be found on our
fifth page. dissemination of that superstition which
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more dreaded God, saved Russia from re- volution during those trying times. The first FICHOLAS always tried to keep Russia
apart from Europs, to phohibit the ingress
and
autocrats can devise campot prevent rumour from flying, like thistledown ; and rumour can breed discontent as well as the most authentic news. Thus, though ALEXANDER
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has been issued especially with the view of notifying that 400,000 men wili mirel to the Palace on Sunday afternoon, headed by a young priest aimed Father Gapou, io canonicals and carrying a crucifix, who is heart and soul in
the movement. The workmen insist on soeing the Tear himself, and a deputation of three workmen has gone to Tsarkoo Selo to try to Ex-deliver the petition to the Tear, to enable him to consider it before the monster demonstration.
Of all the industrint companies established in THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA, recent years in Shanghal the most succesful is
LONDON, 24th January. questionably the Shashai Pulp and Paper Co., Ld. On a capital of Tis. 450,000 it male Moscow is in a state of panic. a not profit last your of Tla. 91,971, or some-
1903. The N. C. Daily News is informed that ́ët
thing over 20 per cent, against Tls. 50,700 intensive strikes are planned to beginTroops are hurrying up from all districts.
cont., making 14 per cent, for the year, to place
a directors' meeting held on January 18th, it on Thursday. At Sebastopol, the was decided to pay a final dividend of 8 per naval yards of the Russian Admiralty Ts. 15,00 to reserve, raising that fand to Tls are the scene of a great fire. 25,000, to write of Tls. 8,592 for depreciation, and curry forward the balance, Tis. 6.903.
The Shanghai Bund, a now weekly journal,
who had a discharge from the American army. Sir Hiram Wilkinson, Chief Justice, in Cham- bors, stated that he was satisfied that defondant
summer residence on the south coast
LATER.
Early in the morning Cossioka and other
works for the Winter Palace; their route was
SUPREME COURT,
Tuesday, 24th January,
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. T. SERCONDE SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE).
TÀU EZE LOONG P. TÙNG TẠI 5MONG HYE
This was a claim for $74.55, amount das for work done. There was a counterchim for 860.84, Mr. R. A. Harding appeared for the plaintiff in the original notion und Mr. C. E. H. Beavis (of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) for
the
d-fendant.
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The manager of the plaintiff them said :-We are boiler makers all makers of machinery. Our
business is different to that of the defendants. The defendants are fittes, and sub-contract
their boiler work to us.
We have been doing
of Western idols as we fight against the importation of plague.bringing rata
troops were mavened to the Winter Palace; rags. But while the effect of such examples as that of the French revolution was by
Other detachments of cavalry and infantry, each 150 him recognised, he took no account of the
strong, were stationed at various parts of the fact that thought euanet be barred out,
fires are reported at Warsaw. At St.city, but the artillery was concealed from view. that the instinct of reform, like the idea
Petersburg, there has been more firing Fifteen thousand-strikers started from the Nora religious, is apt to be sporadic, to spring up like a fungus in unexpected places. Again, has boon proceeded against for fablishing by the troops, and numerous casual-barred by Cossacks, who opened fire and drove his sort of work for the defendants for
obec mo libela. A difficulty arose through the
some time; this is the first dispute. On all the censorships and sceret police that proprietor, Mr. H. M. Ayres, being a Britishor ties. The Tsar has escaped to his lack the demonstrators. Fighting then became the 1st December I received an order from general everywhere; the crowd at Nicolis Bridge the manager of the dofondant firm for was stopped by infantry, Uhlons, and Cossacks, certain goods for the as. On Sang. The the crowd appealed to the soldiers as brothers price was agreed upon, and the goods mude The goods were not to shoot, and the infantry laid down their according to the order. villes, but the rest of the troops charged. The delivered on the morning of the 3rd Decembor, Taar remains at Txarkoa Seto, The strikers I heard no complaint about them. On the 2nd are now infuriated and orecting wire entangle. December I received a further order from the ments, tearing down telegraph poles, raising defendants for a water tank. When this was barricades, and organising armed resistance; defendants' promises, whore my men proceeded completed I delivered it in pieces at the to put it together. That was on the 6th Decem bor, and we worked all night at the defendants' premises to get the job completed by the morning of the 7th December. tank was tested with water a small leakage was found, not an unusual occurrence, as vinety-nine out of every hundred tanks thus put together
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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
was entitled to American citizenship, but in the of the Gulf of Finland. The news of eront of the American Consul Generál not the assassination of the Grand Duke recognising the claim, defondant, for his own.. benefit, could return under British jurisdiction. Sergius is not confirmed. Mr. Ayres did not think this would happen, as before enlisting in the American Volunteer forces he had renounced all allegiancs to his pravions sovereign. If the Americans would Hot own him, he would be a wan without a conutry and be compelled to go to the Mized Court, His Lordship dil not desire a European to be put to such extremities. Mr. Jones
*LONDON, 23rd January. Martial law has been proclaimed in St. Petersburg.
a united Russia, the seeds of liberalism were germinating all the time, and the unsuccess- ful Crimean war of 1854-56 afforded outlet for similar symptomne to those that are now ALEXANDER 11, id what apparent NICHOLAS II. has been doing, dreaming of reforms. The censorship of the Press was Dominally relaxed, but its immediate out- burst of unsparing criticism of bureauemeyanggested that the American Cousul-General flict between the troops and the and its ways led to underhanded per
he at once communicated with. but his Lora-
The further casualtics in the con-
When the
secutions, to which the head of the ship said the learned counsel would have to net strikers are not, and cannot now be, mob has erected two barricades at Basil-Island, will leak a littlo at first. I said I would send
administration was not privy. On the Crown estatés during his time the peasants actually anjoyed a form of communism. On private estates, feu-
· dalism, with its labour dues, heavy imposts, and seignorial punishments, persisted. The great emancipation scheme of ALEXANDER II. was put into operation, a unique historical feature, but it was sorely crippled by the emendations of the vested interests; and the reaction, following the great hopes builded on the measure, led to all sorts of Nihilistic excesses Young-Russinns-are
on his own initiative. The hearing then endod.
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ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
correctly numbered.
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM.
*LONDON, 23rd January, The Government of the United
From the report of this institution, the following eximcts ле tak-a:-Totals for 1904: In-Potiouts, 864; Out-Patients Windividual
Visita of Out-Pattonts, States has announced its assumption
asex)
14,795, 27,785.-Throughout the year the number of
Loen treated has
well maintaind, the out-patiral departcent showing an in-
casus
predsa of 1,359 over returas for 1903. Tho
of a Protectorate in the case of the
republic of Santo Domingo.
AMERICA AND SWEDEN.
Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital was opened in Jane, sud by providing accommodation for ubstetrical cases, isolated from the general
*LONDON, 23rd January. hospital, warde, the work has been rendered more complete and snore in accordance with An arbitration treaty has been modern medical ideas. It is gratifying that signed by Sweden and the United through the generous help of friends at Home and in the Colony the Maternity Hospital has States. boen erected, furnished, and (as the balance abost shows) so debt remains on the building-
A. S. WATSON & CO. [like young men everywhere. They dream of the good of humanity at large, and yearn for universal brotherhood. When, therefore, the meats of writers like JOHN STUART MILL and others less sober are smuggled in, they prove too rich for mental stomachs In 1887 the Alice Memorial Hospital was open- habituated to a rigorous official dietary.ed, in 1893 the Netherole H spital, in 1914 The reigning Taan has offered the half loaf, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, and in and the result is this popular clamour for 1905 the Ho Mui Kwai Hospital, whięli kas the whole baking. The blood spilled during niready been begun, will be completed. The faith of those who began the work in 1887 has the last few days will have the effct of alboan rewarded, for not only have the Chinesa
partyrdom, real or imagined. It spells revolution, more blood, and historical changes whose far-reaching effects we ut present can do no more than guess at.
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Tax future may show that we have lately been watching the making of history: not the mere schoolboy history of battles lost or won, nor the crowning or burying of kings and queens; but the history that records the evolution of a race, the refreshment or diversion of the genius of a people, such as the revolution in Great Britain in 1688, which gave us a toleration Act, the purifica- tion of judicial administration, and un-
H.E. the Governor will to-morrow (Thursday) distribute the prizes to the successful scholars attending the Government District Schools. The distribution will take place at 11 am. in the Wenchai Government School, Queen's Road East. All interested in education are invited to attend.
A solemn requiem mass will be held at the Catholic Cathedral at 9 n.1. to-morrow morn- ing for the late Rt. Rev. Bishop Piazzoli, His
Lordship the Bishop of Macao, assisted by the clergy, will officiate. Tha mass is being specially propared for the occasion by Mr. O. Baptista, Organist of the Cathedral. Father Spada will, in his discourse, panegyrise the late cloric...
celebrated old Italian work --" On Crimes and
availed themselves of Western bealing in io creasing numbers, but additional hospitals have also been gifted to meet the needs of the work The site of the Ho Mui Kwai Hospital, lying mediately to the west of the Nethersole and Maternity Hospitals, has been kindly given by the Hongkong Government, and the cost of erecting the building has been undertaken by a Chinese lady, belonging to a well-known Hong- kong family, whose generosity is highly "ppreciated. The close proximity of this hospital to the Nethersole Hospital will greatly assist in the general management of the increasing work.
NEW FRENCH CABINET.
*LONDON, 23rd January.
of
ex-
As forecasted in my telegram the 18th instant, M. Rouvier, Minister of Finance under M. Combes, has succeeded the latter as Premier.
of
He has formed a Ministry in which M. Delcassé retains the portfolio Foreign Minister,
FIRE AT SHANGHAI, LAST NIGHT.
SHANGHAI, 24th January. Volkart's premises in the Yuen- During 1904, the number of in-patients in the Alice Memorial Hospital was 491, in the Nether-mingyuen Road are [11.45 p.m.] sole Hospital 835, and in the Alico Memorial
Maternity Hospital 38. In the Alice Hospital surgical cases formed 52 per cent, of the whole, opthalmic cases, 31 per csat., and medical cases** 17 per cont., while in Nethersole Hospital the surgical casos formed 38 per cent., medical cases 32 percent,uphthalmic-27 percent., and obstetric (including gymwologieil) 8 per cant. The large number of surgical cases, which included fractures, injuries and diseases of hope, am- phasises the great need for an X-Ray apparatus. As the extension of work requires additions! expenditure the amount necessary cannot be taken from the general funds, and os we are
Miss Langdon boa continued her service as a voluntary worker and has four nurses in training in thỏ Nethersole Hospital.
burning fiercely.
[*Delivered yesterday.]
[FRIVATE TELEGRAM.]
HONG KONG VESSELS
"QUARANTINED.
Bangkok, 24th January,
To Swedish and Norwegian Vice-Consulate, Hongkong, from Consul for Sweden and Norway at Bangkok:---
tion, Kob Phui."
(REUTER'S. SERVICE.]
RIUTER'S VERSION.
Dr. Julius S.riba of Japan died on the 3rd inst. The proximate cause was inflamma. tion of lungs, complicated by an abscess of the liver. The services rendered by Dr. Soria during the part twenty-five years in the cause licensed printing. The Russo-Japanese of. His name, with that of Dr. Basis, will, it anxious to have the new hospital as well equip- of Japanese surgical science are highly spoken war will probably figure conspicuously in
is said, be for ever associated with the developped with modern instruments as possible, a
Nine-days quarantine is established here the historical primers given to future Rus-ment of medical knowledge in Japan. Prior to special effort will be made to obtain the Rontgen against all arrivals from Hongkong. Inspec- sian generations; but it is of minor impor- the announcement of his death, he was invested Bays, which will most about £120. tauce compared with the recent events at with the first order of the Sacred Treasure. St. Petersburg. When NICHOLAB the First The funeral took place in Tokyo on the 6th 'inst heard of the French affair of 1848, he said
The Chinese Press in Canton and Hongkong to those about him: "Gentleman, saddle is publishing simultaneously a translation by your horses; France is a Republic." He Consud. General Z. Volpicelli. It is a transla. did not mean they were to gallop to Paris tion into Chinese of the 12th chapter of a to restore Lours PHILIPPE to the throne: Punishments"-written by Marquis Beccaria in he thus signified that it would be Russia's the second half of the 18th century, which turn next. It was, however, averted for used a profound sensation in Europe at that that time, although the contagion of the
time. The chapter trauslated by Mr. Volpi Parisian example gave Prussia its con celli treats of judicial torture and holds up to stitution, and caused WILHELM I. to fly, seora and execration the practice which was FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. to salute the then provalent in Europe as now it is in
China. bodies of the fallen Berlin insurgents, MEITERNICH to escape from Vienos, andThe inquiry into the Elgin Road, Kowloon, before Mr. H. H. J the Emperor FERDINAND to abdicate. But firo we continued for the rigorous repressive measures of the Gompertz at the Magistracy yesterday after-annual Chinese donations.
Lam Chi Fang, the person who was We gratefully acknowledge special donations TRAR of that period, a political cataclysm noon.
of £64 from Mrs. Gibson, Paisley, sud £20 alleged to have written a letter to the insurance would have overwhelmed Europe. Auto-
from Mrs. Coverely, Oporto, which were devot companies interested, stating that there was cracy triumphed in a short time, for the argon in connection with the fire, having return-
ed to the purchase of bras, blankets, and general vastness of its strength then was noted from Macao, was called as a witness. He furniture required for the Maternity Hospital; known, but guessed at, and guessing tends slated that he had been informed of this fact also donations in kind received from St. Peter's to exaggeration. It was fear that made the from other sources, and his informants had told Church, and Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., Tsan pit his forces against the successful him that they were willing to appear in Court as witnesses, but had since changed their minds, KOSSUTH in Hongary, fear of the in- His Worship concluded the inquiry, and ordored fluence of example. The sword of that the premises be released.
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During the year forty studants have attended the various classes of the Hongkong College of Mulisine, receiving also practical experience in the wards, dispensaries and out-patient rooms. greatly by a special collection andle to clear off Financially the hospitals have been benefited
the overdraft en the general account. The arrangements were made by the Chinese mem- bers of the Finance Committee and a sum of over $3,000 was obtained The success of this effort was largely due to Hon. A. W. Brewin, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Mr. Chau Siu Ki, to whom our best thanks are due. Mr. Wells has been Honorary Treasurer and Mr. Lau Wai Chun has kindly collected the
LONDON, 2nd January. The situation in St. Petersburg is most
everyone in buying candles in anticipation of serious, The town is in partial darkness, and
testoppage of the gas and electric light supply: newspapers are Lot published. The civil em- ployees of the Arsenal have joined the strikers, A sinister démonstration takes place at the Winter Palies on Sunday to present a patition, the most remarkable and the most outspoken document ever presented to an autocrat. It declares that the people are insulted, treated as slaves, hardened with labour beyond their strength to bear, stifled by despotism and the intolerable yeke of officialdom; injustice has reached the limit of endurance, and death is preferable to intolerable sufferings; national representation is indispensable, and the im. mediate convocation of representatives of all olasses the sole balm for the wounds of the
Donations totalled $9,328.67, plus $3,629.50 people. Satisfy these demands and you make subscribed to repair a deficit. The Hospital Eussia happy and glorions; if no reply is given Sunday collections aggregated $721.50. The to the prayer of the people we will die in the balance sheet shows a credit balance of $973,92.square before the Palace. A Frefect's notice
guinary conflicts are taking place all over the city. Father Gapon is wounded, and many women and children killed and wounded: the scones are indescribable, and the air is rent with the cries of women and the angry shouts of men. The city appears planged in open revolu- tion, and a night of borrar is in prospect. The
from which they refuse to retreat in spite of | repastel volleys from the troops; they are also trying to erect barriosdes at Nerski Prospect. All classes appear alike inflamed. A number of officers have been wounded and fallen at the hands of the mob, who tore off their swords and epaulettes. Ambulances are busy everywhere.
THE WAR.
(N.-C. Daily News Service)
MISCHENKO'S RAID.
Tokyo, 18th January. "It is officially anounced that the Japanese on the 14th inst, surrounded the Russian Newling, and dimitrof them the west of dispersed Russian casualties were over three hundred, and a largo Bumber of arms were captured. There were meny Chinese regulars aniong the Russians,
Five or six thousand Russiang with over ten gans were recently defeated our Newchwang and tired on the 16th inst, northward, we Livotnaiulu,
On the same evening, the Japanese cavalry encountered some Russian cavalry in the vicinity
of Lianhohe. The Russians were wearing
pigtails. The Russians retired.
a couple of men to put it right. I did so, but the men returned immediately. Lau Fat, the manager of the defendant firm, sent for me and asked me to look at the tank; that was on the 8th December. I did so, and saw that a corner had made that hole, and asked Lou Fut the men I had sent why he did not use him. To mend that now hole I asked for more money. Lau Fat assaulted me. I Aummoned him at the Police Court, on the 14th December, and he was convicted, Next day I received a letter of complaint about previous
· goods delivered; the first I had heard. The defendants owe me $74.55 in respect of the orders referred to. Regarding the tank, I could ̈ ̈ have made good the original leakage in two hours, hat it would have taken a day to make good the damage I saw on the following day.
was broken. I said that it was not we who
The defendant's cross action was in respect of expenses incurred by his haring to work which the plaintiff complete the
had contracted to do. In all be claimed $60.84 on this account, but was only able to establish one or two items totalling $6.37.
His
Honour gave judgment for the
Chinese coats and caps, and some of them had plaintiff in the first action for $74.55, the full
OBAKA. 19th January,
A London telegram remivel here says that General Mischenko's daring raid with twenty thousand cavalry, against the Japanese garrisons between Lisnyang and Yingkou, is believed at St. Petersburg to be a movement preparatory to a general attrex in that direction content. plated by the commander of the Third Russian Manchurian Army.
The movement, however, is commented on in London as intended as a mid against the noutral zone, to induce the mediation of the Powers,
THE CAPTURED GARRISON.
Toxyo, 18th January. The Port Arthur prisoners so far quartered in Japan number about twelve thousand.
KUROPATKIN'S REINFORCEMENTS.
TOKYO, 18th January. There has been considerable Russiau activity on the Shabo since the fail of Port Arthur. There are now about 20,000 troops in the Hsien- ohang direction and 3,000 in the direction of Huaijen. Tanghus, the Russian mala position
amount claimed, and costa; and the plaintiff in the cross-action for $0.37, wineli did not carry costs.
POLICE COURT.
Tuesday, 24th January,
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOмPERTZ (FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATE),
ILLICIT OPIUM AND ASSAULT.
Fire of the crew of junk No. 225 were arraigned-three ou charges of assault and two on charges of being in possession of illicit opian, P.C. Winter gavy evidence, ns to boarding the junk with fve excise officers. He left them in the cabin while he went to search the hold. During his absence the crew nesaulted the excise officers, and throw the opium and paraphernalia for preparing sanay overboard. On the charges of assault three of the defendants wore nach £ned $25; on the charges of being in possession of illicit opium the fourth defendant was fined $300 and the fifth $10.
A PICKPOCKET,
A gasfitter while changing some money at a
ou the Shaho, continues to be the central front. money-changer's in Queen's Road Central The Russian right is also extending westward, was robbed by a coolis of three $10 notes. the men along the whole fronting numbering He felt his pocket being picked, but was not smart enough to capture the opolis, who from 260,000 to 270,000. The Russians at
arrested on Monday night in Hollywood Road,. made good bis excape. Be was, however,
man in the gaol compound from amongst sixteen and was yesterday identified by a district watch
other nativos. He pleaded not guilty," but was sentenced by His Worship to three months' hard inhour.
Nikolsk, north of Vladivostock, are now in creased to 30,000.
The Siberian railway is busily occupied, and fifteen trains are running daily.
BRITISH STEAMER CAPTURED.
TOKYO, 18th January. A Japanese man-of-war captured in Tsushima Channel yesterday the British steamer Bautry, and took her to Sasebo. She was bound from Tsingtao to Vladivostock with a carge of food- stuffs, machine oil, and shipbuilding materiale The Bautry in a West Hartlepool steamer of 2,407 tona gross.
ANOTHER BRITISH COLLIER SEIZED.
BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND (SECOND Porce MAGISTRATE).
LARCENS,
A district watchman was obarged with the farcery of a piece of cloth valued at 60 cents, from a shop in Queen's Road. He was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
LABOENY AND OBTAINING BY FALSE PEETENCED,
To, Pio Wing was charged (1) with the larceny of $600 as a builes; (2) obtaining the sum of $500 and seven $20 gold American pieces Tоxто, 19th January,
by false pretences; (2) obtaining the further The British steamer Oakley, which left sum of 2200 by faise pretences. He was impri- Cardiff on the 171h of November with 5,900 soned for six months with hard labour on each tons of coal for Vladivostock, was captured count. yesterday afternoon in the Tsushima Channel and taken to Sasebo. The Oakley is a steamer of 3,798 tore gross, also belonging to Mr. W. R. Hea of Belfast,
THE FUTURE OF THE WAR.
Torvo, 19th January, the prospects, from the diplomatic point of view, It is intimated on the highest authority that still defy prognostication, but the fall of Fort Arthur cannot but seriously affect the general
situation.
Japan, however, still holds to her original programme, international sympathy with which is increasing more than ever. It is all-important that she should accomplish her ultimats object without procrastination.
Russia's devious diplomady is no concern of
hers.
The remarkable enhancement of the value of Japanese bonds abroad is regarded in Tokyo as reflecting the increasing foreign confidence in Japan's staying power.
GAMBLING.
Thirt on Chinamen and one woman were charged with playing Chai Mui in Hollywood Road on Sunday night. They were each fined $10 or the alternative of fourteen days' imprison ment.
NOT "LONDON FASHION." Chan Tam, a broker of Queen's Road, was attempted bribery. The constable was about to charged at the instance of P.C. Ingham with arrest a lady friend of the defendant's, when defendant asked him to have some beer. As
the constable refused this defendant put $10 into his hand, saying at the same time,
That's all right; proper London fashion." Chan was. ordered to pay a fine of $15 or go to gaol for three months..
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT.
The Indo-China steamer Kumaung, from Cal- entta and the Straits, left Singapore for this part yesterday at 10 am.