MARINE MAGISTRATE'S
COURT.
Wednesday, 1st March.
BEFORE HON. CAPT. L. A. W. BALNES LAWRENCE, R.N. (MARINE MAGISTRATE).
A CONTRABAND CARGO.
Captain Brown of the 4. Franklyn prosocated twenty-four of the steamer's cow for impeding the progress of the steamor by refusing to put to ses su tho 20th it.
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
NINTH CLUB RACE, 26тá FTNY.
CHAMPIONSHIF GLANG,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1905.
FOOTBALL
Thero will be a Football match betweeu
Lusitano Football Club and Bovers Football Club, on Friday at Queen's Recreation Ground (Cuusoivay Day). Kick-off at 5.15 pm. sharp. The following will represent L.F. Clab. Goal: J. C. Baros, Backs: A. V. Barros and Barretto. Halves: J. M. Sequeira, O. F. Rozario, and P.da Roza. Forwards: J. M. Britto, F. Osorio (Captain), E. M: Ozorio, A. O. Horradas and ▲. Ĵ. V. Riboira...
HỤNGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB T. 7.5.6, In the wet and mizerable weather of
yesterday afternoon them clabs art on the ground of the former at Happy Valley to replay their tio. A goodly number of onlookers Barrounded the field, and their vociferous clooring somet
to encourage the payers. The ground was in vory bad condition, and the men had great diflenlty in keeping their feet. The teams waso:-
Light airs from the North-west prevailed when tho start for this ace was mado at 1 pm. The Elepcid did not appear when the gun fired and the Dione and Vernon started very evenly, but the Aileen did not orges for about a minute lator, being somewhat blanketed by the Gloria. which was wondering about on the windward aide of the lian. The Dione and Vernon went off Captain Brown stated that on arrival in port on the port tack, the Aileen on the starboard hs was ordered to proged to Sasubo, Japan, and tack, and when they next met the order was commumicated the instructions to the erow, and Dione, dileen, Vernon. This order was kept down to the Fairway Booys, when Vernon went they at once refused to proceed. Their rouson
The wind was that the Cardiff coat the steamer was carry-off through the Sulphur channel.
outside The articles was gradually freshening al ing was contraband of wa?.
(troen Island a do choppy Ha Was
| from the tide running up against the wind. The sea, however, aben wont down as the tide was just on the turn, but the wind increased ae the rock south of Kau-i-chau was pared Dione was first, round 45 minutes ahead of Vernon which was 35 minutos ahead of Aileen. Shouts, were then emred for the passage to the Trocas Rock. Diane wont south of Kau-i-cinn and north of Stonecutters; Fernen wont south of both and Aileen went north of both. The wind gradually died away on the inn kone, which enabled the Dions to increase her load at the finish.
included Japan.
His Worship in summing up, mid that be had explained to the defendants tho falso conclusion they had arrival at regard ing their position. They had deberately signed articles to proceed to constries in which Japan was included at a time when they
know that that nation was at war. In cua- tinuing the voyage at the peasant time tiers conbl not be regarded, to be any greater risks than these asually attached to the ordinary risks of a sea-furing life. This being so they were wilfully and wrongfully ignoring ths turus of their agreement.
Two apprentices His Worship declined to deal with, and sidored them to be placed on bourd of the skip again. One of this men,
met
She has now equalled the por- formance of Veraon last year, winning 7 caros in succession, and thereby carrying off the Her new sail now championship for 1905.
H.K.F.C.; Dr. Kew, goal; W. G. Lackie and G. E. Morrell, backs; H. C. Gray, G. B. Macdonald and E. F. Aucott. bulves; R Meaplerson, T. E. Fearen, W. H. Williams, A Henderson and C. Humphreys, forwards.
V.R.C.; Loureiro, goal; Darie and Witchell, hacks; Horton, Humphries and Forbes, talves; Clelland, Jardine, Dixon, Holmes and Sayer, forwards.
BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.
Before the Colonial Section of the Bocisty of Arta, on Jan. 24, Mr. Byron Brannan, late his Britannic Majosty's Consul General at Shanghai, read a paper on British Commercial Prospects in the Far East" the chair was occupied by Sir E. Sassoon, M.P.. nad among the presont were Bir. J. Colomb. M.P., Mr. Keswic, 1.r. Bir West Ridgeway. Sir George Scott, Bir Westby Perceval; Major- General Sir Alfred Turner, General Sir W. Gagoigne, Colonel Manifold, Commandor Caboras, and Mr. C.V. Crough,
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JAPAN AND CHINA AT CAMBRIDGE.
The Daily Graphie says: It is not generally koowo-or at least it is not suflloiently realised how great an influence our older Universities have upon the intellect and ideals of far-distant
called attention to the numbers of students of nations. Somotime ago the Japanese Minister his own nationality at Cambridgs, to the Japa nose Undergraduato Club they have formed there, and to the useful influenes they are having apan University life in promoting a olmar intim.or of thought between the alliad nations.
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Die Bronnen, in the course of his paper, which was illustrated by a number of interest ing lanters views, sall that too much was made of the opening of now treaty porte. Some of more recently opened and never been visited by a foreign merchant. The ton the
deney was for foreign merchants to don
a at the principul places, and centra'a to the native dealer the work of collecting and distributing native produce. If the volume of foreign trade with Ching was not us it might be, the maju reason was that the Chinos Government did not give a thought to such matters as the expansion of commerce or to the
but would, in development of the resources of the country; pursuit of some local, temporary, and insignilio ut gain, blindly adopt messures which ended in strangling trade and killing enterprise. Chion's fiscal policy was want aly suicidal. Our chif hope in the futuro aust rust. mut OTA our Governments obtaining for British subjects more facilities or Hr-called opport privileges, but rathor in utilizing every unity for inducing the Chinese Government to grant i's own subjects tall liberty to improve The Club started by forwarding the leather
their position. As to the employment of Biltish towards the V.B.C. goal, but from this quarter capital in the building of always and the it was promptly returned to Chib territory. opening of mines, it was essential that those with whose money a railway was built in China Again and again it was sent back, but the
should be in a position to prevent waste and defence of the V.B.C. was every time equal to
I on the construction of onorailway-th
-tust A Daily Graphis representatiro had some Clelland took the from She Nanking; and on the successful
ALT given against them.
of this andertaking a great deal depended, foreign undergraduates, who were very willing interesting conversations with several of these the opright. Shortly
Closely connected with our future trade was kiok, but struck afterwards a corner was conceled to the V.R.C the tendency of somo Powers to mark off to express their views upon English University IND COOPE'S STOUT
lifs, and to give particulars of the little societies China ns their special sphere The bill was well centred and play became
ertain parts of t hot in front of the lub's not, Clelland had a way of developing into an exclusive Chinaman, "we had a Far Eastern Society GUINNESS' STOUT
of interest of influence. A sphere of interest they have formed among themselves.
**Until recently," said on intel igent young high. preserve. The fact that the control of railwayshore, which united the three nationalities of
would be left very much to companies of different nationalities, and in some cases to Chins, Japan, and Siam, componios that must do the bidding of their students from India, as, of course, they do not otecting Governments supplied a strong reason this society were the promotion of a closer
properly
belong to the Far East. The objects it was desirable that the whole railway system of China should pass under one honest, social intercourse between the fellows of our impartial, and competent management. In the races, and the disasion of Far Eastern and ploitation of her mineral r. sources a gruat/other oned his gravity for a moment, sad
ition with twinkling eyes Prantically mining indulged in
only
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The Japanes ludents are scattered among the various colleges; but su chiefly represuatod BASS' LIGHT GRAVITY at Pembroko. Trinity, Trinity Hall, and Pator house, while there are other non-collegiate Japanese, Japan, however, is not the only Far Eastern nation represented a Cambrige, for there are oven pero Chinese students, a number
India.
H. Jou, offered to rojoin the ship al the sets splendidly nad pashes her to windward in the occasion. Before the Club's goal » penalty was on fur the English were one of Siamese, and many from the native States of BASS' BOAR'S HEAD
clarge against bim was withdrawn, waile the rest were sentenced to ten weeks' gaol each an: ordered to be re-shippod should tha Franklyn return to Hongkong before the expiration of the sentenco.
ALLEGED MISCONDUCT BY INDIAN POLICE SERGEANT,
quite a remarkabla maniser, and hun enabled he this year to turn the tables on the Vernon. The times at the finish were:
Yacht
Dione ... Vernon... diben
H. K. 8
R 57 45 43 25 0 4 18
ONE-DESIGN KACE..
Just before the start Colices and Min went off by themselves intent on getting the better Karta Ellahi, an acting Sergeant of Polien of one another. The wind dropping sightly these two were in consequence about a minuto stationed at Yuumati was placed before Mr. F. A. Hazobid at the Polices Court yesterday, late and Benite and Kathleen got away together charged with the lureony of a watch and chain the forator with Kathleen under his los. The and other trinkets, xlso with unlawfully attempt-wind was light at first and several changes tock ing to obtain from ouu, Ho Kai, a bribe of $20 place in the order. Bonito, however, bolding on with vion to infnsacing the ad Karn to her load. Finally in a fuir bre- all four went to the north of Green Island and from Ellahi's conduct as a public servant contrary
there the wind northering a little they were to the rules of housty and integrity. Mr. Otto Kong ing prossented, and Mr. H. W. all able to very nearly fetch the look. Mis
H
had a second shot, bat went tro Time after time the V.R.C. bire down on the Club's strenglisid, but Morroll and Leckie were always ready for the east, Morrell especially being always in tight place to check an advance. Honours throughout the first half were evenly divided and the result was, as the whistle wounded
Half-livo: No score.
the
of
condition
He
Wo did not include
throw back his head and merry laugh. The discussion of problems was not very Bovessful. The Lasinos sido of our meetings was chiefly restrictant to eating and drinking. This left no time for oratory. Then, as to the Bocini side of the society, I am bound to
to say we
Lcukor (of Messrs. Deacon, Locker und Deacons was in the load, bat Kathleen was palpably out.intotald-Held. The latter tuum however, seemed force-first, the total abolition of every found it difficult to exclude class feeling alto-
dofonded.
fore
station coolie at Yaumati
a
Mr. Kong Sing stated that Ho Kai was
On the 30th December last he received his wagon, after which he abscontiod from the station. This fact was apparently known by the accused, the 5th February who met Ha Kai on
at the Yanmali theatro. Telling the defendant
ho must take him back to
the station,
be caught him by the arm and took him as for as Konnely Street. Here he asked Ho Kai for
polating her and finally on in coming round to lay for the rock it could be seen she would probably have to give way. However, she just managed to scrape round, the order being Min, Kathleen, Culeen and Bonito, Running up too harbour again to Trocas Rocks bucy the thro lunders weat N. of Kinacho, Bonito kosp.
all sot spinnakers to port, Afin tearing-horn ing to the son i After passing the island idly just after setting it. It was get down again and a reef takou in the heal and then
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improvement in China's material might be looked for. The restart witnessed the V.R C, bearing
had not yet bugun; and hera, rather in railway extension, were to be found at. down on the Club's citadei. but their stay was of short duration. From a coruse gained tructions for the employment of British by the Club on a transference of play aothing capital. The messures that would have the resulted, and some splendid pasting by the greatest effect on the material prosperity of
Chinm
of internal taration on merchandise; VRC quintetto carried the leather will out to give way before the lab's forwards, who cou and, secondly, improved means of commanios.geter. Yen soa, a Prines of the Royal blood tinued to pris ou the V.I.C. stronghold. tion. China & international trade would con of Sint-and mest of the Siamese students are Pearce a way into the net was clear; his shot tinue to grow in the future; but if the English of this class my condesound to exchange a were to retain their fair share of that trade for words in the society with a Japanese or was from right in front, and syparently an
wer factice. The British manufacturer could put follow that he will cognise a friendship managed, however, to head the leather in easy one, but he wont wise of the mark. He they would have to display greater energy and Chinese student of inferior rank; but it does not look to the British merchant in China to outside, and will probably ent you dead, as shortly afterwards, but the the goal wa
the raferee's whistle disallowed us
had secure a greater demand for his goods. He you call it. That, of course, spoilt the chief blown Williams was the next to have an must himself go to the trouble of
single-handed to lados It a short time
Still the ugo. Japatiesa and Chinese siente haug protty not face the expense, a number of sou likewise his second drive from a ball nicely
tirms must centred by Macpherson, but he was cheered for
closely together, because, whatever differences cambian opportunity. His first attempt was a failure, goods; and, as one manischer Beating his post of the society; so it was thought woll
cowering
ploy
we are at Cambridge we of both countries feel the effort. Later, he carried the leather along energetic agents in investigating the murks the two nations any have is the Far East, whe
t spinning of China. The presu.it war must have very in fine style from mid-8-ld and font it were again put on the defensive, sad play was
sination in Chiod and it would be well for us by instant, so that we cultivate friendship.*
The Japanes are at present very popular if the encouse of Japan put an sad to
glich students. before getting to Trocas Rocks and the order hot bet.re their posts as tims was called. round was in. Kathleen, Colleen, and Bouilo, Result: HKFC, 1, V.B.C., 0.
insidions designs of curtain Powers on the with the independence of China. It was our interest After rounding, the wind was very faint, the
that China should be left intact and should be lender having mach the best of it. Bonito
able to take care of herself. frew up fast on Colleen and Kathleen and passing them wont on after Min. Once more spinaskors were eat and Min crossed the line in a faint trickle of wind sore distance ahead of Bonito. Colleen a long way behind coming in just ahead of Kathleen. The wind failing
to
$20, stating that he woull release him procidad rasok. In a failing wind a gybe was mudo Fast the goalie amidst great shearing. The Chivortant Consequences for-the-commercial that we are allied by race and to a certain extent
the amount, was paki. Complainant said he
was not possessed of the amount. The accused Bearched him, and found on his person a watch, elain and other trinkets, which he took.
Inspector Macdonald gavo ovidence as to getting the jewellery from the defendant's house in Temple Street, Yeumatí.
Ho Kai duped: On the 30th December I luft the Yoursti Police Station. I saw the defendant on the 5th February last at the Ynumati theatre, He said to "Why when you left did you not tell the Inspector
Ho You had better come und sie him not. took me as far as Kenuody Strest, and there told me if I gave him $20 I need not see the Inspector. I told him I had not that amount. He searched me, and took my watch and chain,
Hearing continnes.
THE GREAT NAVAL LESSON OF THE WAR.
REMINISCENCES OF JAPAN'S MERCANTILE MARINE.
in the way it did completely spoiled the finish 1810"
of the race which was a very close one up to! Trocas Rooks, all the boats being close together at that buoy, Kathleen had
collision with Mir near the start and was disqualified. The times at the finish were :~~-
Yacht
Alis
Bonito
Colles
Katheen
A. M.
A.
4 23 10
4 27 8 444 5
Disqualified.
CLUB RACE, HANDICAP CLASS, FEB. 27. Alannah went in front in the beat out of the harbour, while Durces gained by kooping a southerly coarse near Green Island, and the
Vessels of Jaz
Was
"
The Chairman, in opening a disenssion on the paper, said that, as to the partition of Chins, to feared we were no longer masters of the situation; but it was to be hoped that it was not yet the late to make our assertion of a spher of interest in the Yangtze Valley effective. More of a Palmerstown walud fiat" wee necessary to secure vor interus 6 Bod rights in the Far East.
The discussion closed with a vots of thanks to Mr. Byron Bronnsu for his paper.-Times.
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slator that
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said one of them, with a smile, is not a much our own charms as a ouri- nsity brought about by tho present war. You adrraplucky little Japan, as you call our contry, and want to know more about
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what sort of lile we load at home, what am- bition we have, and what is likely to be the future policy of Japan. Some of you think we are funny little beggars, but you like us in. year unemo ioual English way, and certainly we like you..
From the inquiries made by our representative, it seems that both the Chinese and Japanese students go to ambridge for paroly prao- tical reasons. They have not much sympathy with the classical lewning, which seems to them rather was'a of time; but they express great admiration for the training to be get at Cambridge in engineering, science, and medicine.
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A correspondent of the Japan Chronicle wrote:-To anyone who can recall the insigni- ficant merchant marine of Japan of thirty years go, the tremendous progress that basime been made will be at once, apparaui.. In about the year
the ten Bishi Company's * was one of the large trading of Japan, and those in the
company imploy at that time used to marvel at the siz and especially at the length of that steam-r.
hunts that resched Japan atont the. Great Eastern
caused that vessel to be re- Boating city, but after all its ten- garded as
a în 18,000, and therefore it nage was
The report for the your ended September 30 was considerably smaller than the Minnesota.
the expedition, consisting of If I remember rightly the "Takasago mera!” mining engineers and pro-pectors, to which
"dapin, of course," said one of the students,! vessel of about 1,300 t ne rasistor. Reroference was made in the last roport, the knowledge of these things, and although we has owen a great debt to England, for her little short of amazing to examined several of the departments in acting on this, it think of the successors to that company, the Province of Yunnan, allocated to the syntiete haze oar owa Universities upon modern lines, prosent Nippon Yusen Kaisun, posses ing under the concession
the high there is undoubtedly a great advant ge in steamers of 5) 0 tons and arting as agents for provincial authorities, and antifed
ified by the coming to this Univerzi F, which is, to a certain BABY Chinese Imperi
cial Government. The investiga extent, the fountais head of modern science. steamers of 21.000 tons,
When steamers ware first purchase by the tions of the expedition have not yet been carr
Naturally
Blac, in
in Japan i there is a good deal Daimyo of Tosa, most of the crew consisted of
to uny definite point, bemus, unfortunately, of prestige surrounding a man who TimesThe point raised by Admiral Fitz. Kau-i-Chan rock was rounded by Alannah | Samurai, who went on board wearing two
Bir Cyprian A. G. Bridgs wrote to the
the enginer-in-chief was obliged. in con Gerald in the Times of the 20th Jan. is ous of minutes ahead of Doreen, 6 minutes ahead of swords, which they put aside while working, sequenon of ill-health, to return to Europe in
November, 1903; and the second
cond engineer, wào great importance, and the question that he Irs, and a quarter of an hour before Chanticleer, but took up again on going ashore,
Few people will now remember the old had been provisionally placed in "charge of asks has also been asked by others not so whe burst ber jib, with Payne far behind. All
paddle-wheel steamers capable of dealing with it as he is himself, wers becalmed of Stonecutters for half-an-hour, plina-paru, Nagoya-mars, Genkai-maru," to relinquish his post for menths afterwards: Chinese undergraduates remarked with a smile
"Tokyo-mara," "Hiro-
firo opemtions, was compelled for the fame res- the of solving it will,
When they constituted The expedition, however, between the time of The diflculty in it is understood that and the Trocas Rock Buoy was rounded in and Baikio mart perhaps, disappear there is a dropes between a fleet and a floot the same order, oroopt that fra had passed Japan's steam mercantile feet, the farthest ita arrival in the East in December, 1902.
and its wak return to WAS DECO definal "in being." The latter
to Europe in May, 1904, visited and by a Doreen. In the reach home along the Kowloon point resohed by Japanese s'esmors
Shanghai.
What a contrast at the present reported upon various coal, copper, and other writer in your columns as a fest. " strategic by shore Chanticleer gained sad coming up close time, when regalar services are run to England, mines and deposits, including iron, silver, lead, THE MARINE INSURANCE MARKET. at large-in other words, in a efficiency and readiness to act. Harbert (Earl in, passed Doreen and Fría and saved her time Australia and America! An old foreign re antimony, &o, situated within the boundaries sident, talking with me on the suject, said it of the syndicate's concession. The districts orrington)};__
was like &
Writing on January 26, the Times says :--- a dream when que's thoughts travelled examined by the engineers comprised those purposely fed in order to keep his
abstained from pressing the Tho times at the finish were
bank to those old times when the Mitsa Bisbi situated to the north, north-east, and west of The seizure by the Japanese of the Austrian fighting at Beachy
had its offes on the site where the Hyogo Ken Yunnan-fu, the rapital of the province, and, in steamer Burma, with coal for Vladivostok, foot in an effective state, and then look uj
Noko Ginko now stands, and when the "C. & the south, the country sarrenading the districts shows that the.
© Japanese have Datablished a watch position where he could only be attacked in cir
J. offles was a few doore east, where ths to be cumstances disadvantageous to the ussailant.
opened Herbert was, therefore, as the late Admiral Colomb pointed out, in the position of a flank- ing army, which eren a superior hostile army
of
to
WAY
a state of
whom Admiral FilzGerald on Alannah.
and big operation canxoi sutare to
5 240 (2)
Corrected.
Taoht. F Alannah... 5 2% 37 Chanticleer 5 ᎦᏚ Doreen
B.
H. M. 8.
5 27 8 (1
... 5-40 220
5 29 50 (3)
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A COMBINATION TO RAISE PRICES.
By their preliminary operations ho Japanese took away from the Russian flect the character
A Daily Press representative yesterday in. flost in being," reducing it at least for of s
condition in which ita terviewed the keeper of the Hongkong several wooks-to 3 corporate officioner was lost. This gave them Butobory Company, in Contral Market, to inquire tims enough to transport their army to the the reason for the rise in the price of meat. Asiatic Continent without fear of molestation except from single slips or small groups with This person stated that the reason for the latest which their own force would have been able to increase of prices was that sulie from Canton deal affectualy,
were not mure expensive than before The The history of the Brusion flest at Port won said that a now formerly costing
was
carried
› renowned a place as Cambrides studiod
The leng Varsity vacatione seem rather a waste of time to the Japanese stad-ats, who, as one of the Cambridge professora remarked. "are a keen as mustard"; but one of the
that "this is the best thing in the system."
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view of the war in the East, and over the passage between Japan and Koras. PIANO PLAYERS. Jepan Tea Inspection Office was at one tine Railway. In by the Tonking-Yunan-Cu over La Perouse "Straits to the north as wall so
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the
the difficnlies resaltant therefrom which curtain There is no doubt that Burma" took the former The repetition between the Mitsu Bishi, corporations have experienced, the board have course. This vessel is 3,071 tons, built in 1895. Pasific Mail, and the P. & O. Company, and deemed it advisable to defer for the time being The war risk insurances were on a mutersie between the Mitso Bishi and the Kyodo Unyu | further operations in Yuncan-Times,
scale
-namely, £22,500 on the steamer and Kaisha. was very keen, and would form an
£10,000 on the 4,000 tons, of coal: altogether £41,500. This makes the sixth seizure of a stesmer interesting history in comparison with present.
In which this insurance market is any competition.
interested.
In 1875-6 a thirty-six hours' journey between Kobe and Yokohama was considered a fast performance. There were no such convenience as piere in those days, sad when a steamer west to Shinugawa to land cargo for Tokyo it was necessary for the vessel to anchor about two or three miles from the shore, and the conveyance of passengers to and from the stester of course occupied a great amount of
of time,
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
Thu 0.0. steamer Doric, with mails, &c., aft Shangbai for this port on Tuesday, the 28th Feb. at 1, and is dun horn to day about & p.m.
The Indo-Chisa steamer Suisang left Cal catia for this port via the Strails in the 25th The I... steamer Bayern, which left here ult, and may be expected here on the 14th inst. on the 1st Feb. at noon, arrived at Glenoa on
Arthur ropested in essentials the history of the could not now be bought for less than $50. especially at low tide. Cargo lighters word Tuesday at 5 p.m. Tichio left Singapore for at haltigerents should in all cases be compelled
The N.G.I. teamer
floot at Bevastopol. As soon as the latter decided to land its guns and its crews to assist This rise bad come about gradually. Boef often driven by adverse winds to Hanede Point, in defending the place on land it lost its steak and soup meat now cost 20 canta, and with the result that it was sometimes two or this port yesterday morning, and may be ex- charact r as a fleet in being," and caused little 16 cents respectively, as against 19 cents and anxiety to the French and English expedition 14 cents a few days ago. A sigilar increase Crossing the Black Sus. The subsequent ciuk-
of the Rossinn ships to abstract the was noted in the ease of mutton. A 810 sheep
Loft
the 7th just
entrance to Sevastopol harbour accentuated; now costs $12 to $35. "We now charge 26 Nagasaki, including large-keepers For the and gapore for this port on the 1st inst., a.m., :
impotence to which the fleet was reduced.
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Some business is still being doue in steamers with provisions, oil, &e., from the facile ports to Vladivostok at 40 guineas per cent. for the wer risks. As the cargo carried in these! GRAND torsors comes into the category of "conditional to watch
in Japan the interests of underwriters in the event of seizure-have considerable contraband," the stops which have been taken
importance. It is of great moment to all countries, and to Great Britain particularly, ove the contraband nature of cargoes before
I may say when I was dealing with the
in order to avoid any misunder standing. t that liabilities of Lloyd's underwriter on steamers for Vladivostok, the amounts at risk on all steamers at sea were included from Europe, China and other intermediate parts, United states, Australia, &c.
to prova t The H.A.L. steamer Silesia, from Hamburg, they condemn them.
may be expected here The Bucknell Line steamer Baralong left Shanghai yesterday, and is das here on the The Ben Lise steamer Bencleuch, from Autwarp and London, left Bingapore ea, the 28th alt for this port.
three days before the cargo reached Tokyo,
There were at that time some sight or nine pected here on the 6th inst foreigners in the Mitsu Dishi head office, tilroo
at Kobe,
and
Three at at Yokohama, thres
steamers on the
line tickets ware
Mr. Takahira, now Minister tr preter at the head office. Mr. Kondo, now President of the N ppon Yusen Enisha, was in those days manager of the Yeahinaka Copper
rather than changed the condition of strategio cents for shoulder of matton, sad 28 cents for written in English, even for Japanese steerage 4th inst
In both cases the mischievous effect of obops and neck, as against 24 cunts and 16 conts passentos, was then a translator and inter-
reliance on a fortifled port went for a great denl. Had Herbert skeltered himself behind land fortifications, in all probability his fleet also would have lost its character of a flest "1 in being,"
respectively. It is not long since matten was only 16 cents." It is Guild pidgin-the man mid: "By and by still more dear. All butchera have agreed together:"
Mine in Bitchíu.
1
Portland, Or, on the 26th Feb, and is due hers The P. & A. steamor Nicomedia, sailed from
on the 30th March,
Two new steamers, building for the Canadian Pacifio Railway Company on the Clyde, have) £375,000 each. Felicies run for 18 months.
on insured against builders' risks for
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