NEGLECTING
DUTY.
Robert Dower, Master of the British steamer Kenzingles, charged Willista Fleming, Chief Offer, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court yesterday, with neglecting his duty ou
board the said vessed.
This Worship asked if there was a of settling the matter out of Court, but Me, Hayes (of Masts: Johnson, Stokes and Master) for the prosecution, said he did not think so. Tho was no animosity between the Cptin and Chi-Officer, but the Kensington was be engagel for running bo waon Hongkong and Mexico, and in this business it was essential that officurs of the visset should be strictly sober, and geording to the Captain the defcadaet was not.
His Worship thought the section of the Marine Shipping Ordinancs under which the persecution was providing meant disobelistes of lawful entomnis er auglect of duty,
THE NEW FRENCH LAW OF LIFE ASSURANCE,
50:-
The now French law of 1 fe assuranco **R now been promulgated by the President, a hamestort all lamenco companies carrying on their business in France, whether they be nativo or foreign. are subject to its drastio provisions. A number of British offices are specially affectel, and it may be of interest, therefore, to refer to the main previsions of the law and the stops to be taken to comply with ita
requirements,
POWERS OF CONSULTATIVE COMMITTER. The sing on which the law turns is a new consultative committee of 21 members, of whom sight are to be insuranes men, or specially to adviso the Minister of Coin- Set up ↑ expert, set more on practically every mufter connected with life assurahes practice. The members may deformite by decre
(1) The amount to be expruded in establishing a now Fronch office, sud how this initial expanse is to be written off
(2) The fixing of the amount of gua antees required for each different class. of enterpri
3) The tables of mortality to be used and rat
THE HONGKONG PAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 11тя 1905
COMMERCIAL LEGISLATION
IN JAPAN:
DOW
assuming full control of the enterprise as a working concern thould its owners prove inggap-tout to meet their liabilities under the mortgage.
RESTRICTIONS.
NOTICE.
REMOVED TO No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD,
our Former Address.
Perhaps the most interesting legislativo
This legislation is very opportuno, for i "E HAVE THIS DAY
WE fostare of the Diet is the enactment of laws intended to free the capital which, during the Japanese enterprise will oriently receive a whole of the Maiji ara, the Japanese people grunt impotus after the war, and it is most have been sinking in railways, ships, and important that musas should be
provide for freeing the large se ulready invested. There industrial enterprises. Naturally thi Codes, having been drafted in days long feature open theiiejsu Pho-law-givers Premises formerly cccupied by Mr. FR. BLUкex, silk lavo manufacturer, and Next Door to
is one precedant to treaty revision, did not contain have displayed an irksomely paterual tendency. provisions fully adapted to meet thus present Instead of leaving companies and capitalists state of affairs, and thus, though in 1899 the free to eatinasta and fix the mortgageable value whole country was thrown open to foreign of a "foundation," the law enacts that sing 1.nds, travel, and residenes, no corresponding raised on sach security shall not excond the paid-up capital of the company minks its debts. development of foreign enterprise 100% plicn
A company's debts are usually contracted for the purpose of developing of improving its business, in which case they correspondingly enhance the value of its property, and that valuo is the really negotiable asset.
FOREIGNERS AND REAL ESTATE One diffulty greatly, perhaps andaly, om- phasized by local foreign publicists, was tua the laws did not extend to aliens the privilege of owning real estate. A title called super- fioles" was offered instead, and should have sufficed, spasmach sa it conferred the right of sedisturbed tenues for any fixed period of years, and consequently did not differ practically from actual owitership Being a novelty. feies" provoked suspicion. Recently armpiled
It
Britial cupi alists are already interesting themselves in the railways anil the wines. will be remembered that Sir William Bisset wes sent out by Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co. la | wera offered as security for kaus, Bis report 1903 to examine somo of the privite lines which
Mr. Hayes pointed put that it was defouchant's of interesi te ha ussumed, the ledings on which returns show, however, that there are now boruto was very favourable as to the quality and condi
handed the Captain his certificate on one or two versions and told him ho could do what he liked with it, that went to show that he was nagleting his duty,
fendant, asked what he had to say, stafida that he had always done his duty, and the Captain's story to the contrary was only a concoction.
His WorshipDo you wish to be discharged, Defendant - 11 is a matter of indiforenes to me, hat my state of laafth is such that I will nnable to proered on this voyage.
His Worship intimated that he would go en with the case,
(here is O
(4 The connitions on which the securities constituting the mathematical reserves against foreign company's liabilities in Franes and Algeria are to be held by the Caisse des Depots of Consignations. (Until now there has boog no obligation on foreign companies to hold assets
in France.)
The conditions subject to which tontino enterprises way be conducted.
The conditions to govern the spania! hooks of accants which it will be necessary to koop separately in future for French and Algoriaus
business.
REGISTRATION.
#
ease their
mor.
anil
a fatal obstele, nd owing to the dissolution of the House of Representatives in its session of that year, no new legi-lation could he affected. Now at length the impediments have boot removed.—Times.
THE PRICE OF TEACE.
Baton Suyematsu, formerly Minister of the Interior in Japan, has writtou an article for the London Outlook, under the heading War and Indemnity Japaneso Clain." The treud of the article is to show that Japer will carry on the war until Eueria consents to pay an indemnity. The Baron says:
LONG. HING & CO..
Hongkong, 4th May, 1905. MANILA PRAYING FOR CHINESE! LABOUR.
Dealing at great length with the crippling of enterprise in the Philippines owing to the only remedy is to admit hiuose roofies, which death at cheap labour, the Cable says the is forbidd u by the exclusion law, ani congress looking to its modification. The Philippine Commission, which fully realizes the situation. has again and again recommended that a law be passed giving them anthority to admit limited number of skilled ni-chanics and labourers fe China under certain regulationis. Their plan is to have contractors. Enotory managers, own rs of largo etater, mine spora- tors, lumb-rmen and others who require a large gumber of labourers, make application for the importation of us way - as they need for a term not to exceed five years, and give a bond that they will deport their mon at the end of the term agreed upon.
duty to bevárunk, and as the Chief Ofier Ind min rates of pronium must be drafted on the Jupawno registers 133 manos of fórei zn-- •} tieu of the roade, but the legal question provel will not listen for a moment to any suggestion
restriction as to maximum rates hold superlicies varying in lougth of form
from 160 to 100 yours. Thus the difference and the amount necessary in each case to con-
het woon this title and ownership is now clearly stitute due mathematical reserves to filent. valuation liabidities.
Kean to de mainly out of sentiment, experially sinc
disability exista in the of foreign individuals only. Two or foreigners ou always own land in
that they form vames, provided joint" themselves into a juridical parson' register as such according to Japanese law. Hence a company or a syndicate my own lond, It is against the tedividual slone that discrimin. ation exists, and since for him the resource of superficies is available, it en not be said that there is much ground for complaint. Yet, range to say, the Japanese hesitate to legislate in the sense of enabling the individual to enjoy perpetnity for any fixed number of years. whether detales, centuries, or unillenninius Government would have an objection to Prase this anomaly from the Codes, the political parties But proof has entertained conservativo viong now been farnished that the ristruction comes registration, subject to an appeal by those cou recutly in the House of Representatives in connection with a draft of ninerded mining cerned to the Conneil of State should the com. mitten refuse to register. The committee are regulations. The House showed a disposition allowed to fix the deposits to be made before to alter the draft and to place foreigasre sud business may be commenced in France, and they Japanese subjects on exactly the same fasting as to privilege of ownership. Evidently had ray strike off the register, and refuse to allow the further operations in France of any company this been done in the case of raines, the restric- which do not comply with the old laws and tion upon ownership of land in general could the new law, and expressly and particularly not have survived, and, therefore, the incidens Article 7 at the new law, on waicu especially attracted considerable attention. But the Go- the controversy was waged during the debatesvernment intimated that it was not prepared for such a obange, and so the House's amendment in the Chamber.
did not get beyond the stage of good intentions.
Captain Dower, sworn, stated: On the 19th
In that way any demand for labour could be supplied without permanently increasing the Chitus population of the islands or exposing the Flipinos to the competition which it is alleged they drral. It should be said, however,
ment. They do not ears how many Chineso come fate the couuiry; the more the better. And it is qually true that there is no surions objection from any soures in the islands to a
February I was called from my bed half an hour the control and surveillance it is proposed to Hitherto it has been supposed that, while the sword unless one is totally overcome or has that the Filipinos take no interest in the argu-|
Thosa are instaucus showing the strictness of xercise, isnt before these conditions come to bo after mitinight, au found the Chief Oficer in observed every company must obtain registra
tion in France, and it is left to the consultative the cook's coom very intoxicated, and when told him to go to bed he used most insultingmmittes do formulate regulatious for apply
A canon of Japanese Bushido js: "Ons shall not unsheathe the sword unless in case of absolute necessity. nor restore to its sheath the secured equablo satisfaction for one's caLHO," This is our is eal in national intercourse. The sword or Japan is drawn and the aim for which it as unsheathed has scarcely been attained.
DEALERS IN PHOTO GOODS.
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PER CASE OF 48 FINTE...
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TANSAN
language towards mo. On the 8th May 1 unveig and granting or rolusing or withdrawing from officialdow. The question presented itsel! | Wo want a pouce which will secure tranquility/fimited importation of Chinese labour. On the SOLE AGENTS-
defendant nu crder to transfer some wal from ous part of the tween decks to another. He did not do this but throw it in a shovely way down the hold: In the afternoon of the same day ho was again under the influence of liquor. He tanged his cartilients on the raloen hable, and told me I could do what I liked with it. Os Mr. Gaiterres from the shipping flies Brriving on board the defendant handed him bis certificate. telling his he could prosent it to the Beard of Trade, as he defendant) had no more use for it. On Mr. Guitorrez remons
trating with him, he picked it up and walked away. I bgged him that day.
THE GOVERNMENT ANI
THE MINING LAW.
would ba Hüfficult t Brd
in the Far East for at least a goneration or contrary, it
WO. The world should know that in the anybody who is opposed to it. The entire comes from the politicians union in the United States, present war Japan staked her very existence, opposition whereas with the enemy it was a mere var of and labour
about the situation caprica. Why, then, in ease of defeat, should who know nothing not asia b made responsible in equitable and are acting upon theories rather than facts accordance with the nature of the affair? I They argue that Chinese competition in degrad
United States. Heroe it must be prohibited. believe, therefore, that in the case of the ading to labour in the Philippines as well as in the versary asking for peace, the satisfaction which she will have to make to Japan shaublin Bus Thenly objection you ever hear raised in the making good the laws of Japan, in other words, hippies as that tuo Chinese are tangal and Ley very indemnity
Baro Sayematsu farther remarks: Japan has no formulated datinite terms of peace because she might be accused of skinning the bear before it is shot. We have, however, utlined our idea." There is no reason why Japan should not decide how much she will ask final operation. The idea, said to be outlined, no doubt refers to the price of the polt.
Cross-ramined by the Chief Officer-I did one that is bound to receive attention in this other laws correlated changes which demand for the skie. The bear is a most ready for the
ALLEGED RUSSIAŃ SPY AT SINGAPORE.
BLOW AT "TONTINE" BYSTEMS. Article 7 is directly and publicly aimed at the deferros or accumulated or tontine methods On behalf of the Government's apparent of dividing protits, which are the special marks illiberality, it is explained that no ropugaance of modern American Life Assurance as prac. exists to the proposed change itself, but that tised in Europe. The question discussed was there would ensue a necessity for making in country sooner or later-namely, whether the preliminary investigation, and, therefore, ro- not blackguard you in any way whatever. You vast sums of money shown as surplus funds by quire leisure not immediately available. There these institutions do not in fact belong to the is no reason to query the sinsority of this ploa did not obey my order on Tuesday,
Andrew Forsyth, Chief Engineer, said: I policy-holders who centributed to form them, or nor can it be doubted that ownership of real whether they are available for the general pur estate will soon be added to the privileges caunot say the Chief Officer was intoxicated on
poses of the institutions. I need not discuss enjoyed by foreigners in Japan. The mining Tuesday. I heard the Captain read over the the merits of this question. Suffice it to say that law was a context essentially likely to elicit entry in his log to the Chief Offeer, and signed the now law in effect, if not in words, sup-conservative prejudices, had any such existed. the log, but waly as a witness. My signature presses in France and Algerin the tontine, effectively in the Lower Honse. For the
accumulated, or distributive method of dividing abuses of capital display themselves very con
Throughout the does not bind me as stating that defendant was
profits to the assured. The clause is so intorspicuously in this field. drunk. All I heard the defendant say, whosting sort far-reaching that it may be set out dominions of Japan no less than two million acres of mineral bearing land are owned by the entry in the log was read to his, was that in full-
Article 7-When the profits divisible to the individuals who, having obtained this vakt be was ill sad wanted tc ses a doctor,
assured are not payable Sundiately after the area under protest of making trial boring appeared to be slightly under the influence settlement of the accounts of the pariod during now hold it for speculative purposes, not the defence alleged that a Japanese gentleman
Second Officer Bautur stated that defendant
liquor on Tuesday, but bis state was not such So far as he as to affect his work in any way. kuem, defendant had not been drinking to excess of late..
At this stago the case was adjourned until after the tifla hour, as the defendant wished the doctor who attended his called as a witness
Dr. Gruo gave evidence as to examining the defendant, whom he found to be suffering from dropsy and weakness of the heast. Possibly this state of health might have been causal through excessive drinking, but defendant told him that with the exception of gin, which he a moderate took for h's health's sake, bo was drinker. The Chief Officer, when he examined kim, was unfit for wo N.
which they were earned,
It is not necessary to labour the effect of this olause. Every expert will see that it strikes at the root of tantine or American insurance, du necessitatos that British offers doing business in France should value their French policies annually with an annual division of profits. So serious is the effect that the Gresham Office,
Jargo
business in France, has which does already constituted a separate company to take over its Continental business. As this enact ment refers to existing as well as to future contracts, it will be interesting to see what action the Americans will take to get over the diffenlly. In any case, the situation deserves, and no doubt will receive, the serious attention of our own Institute and Faculty of Actuarios.
MINIMUM RATES OF PHEMIUM
tho abusa.
its
resource
themselves
NEW LAWS AN TO MORTGAGES.
or
en
İ
economical and save their son advance from laburrato petty shopkeepers, and then to commission mershunts and jobbers, and underbid white men for government con- tracts and other business, because they can do much cheaper than the
everything Caucasians.
NO
Two yurs ago Messrs. Farnham, Boyd, and Chip builders of Shanghai, proposed 15 inveet half a million dollars in a dry dock and
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rovided they were allowed to bring with them a portion of the trained mechanics in their up of at Shanghai. It was manifest that they could not do business without shipwrights, According to a long report in the Singapore mantiniets and other skilled labans, and it was ONLY PIANO SPECIALISTS Free Frees, Vladimir Autonovitz Horvitz is equally obvious that these could not be obtained on trial at Singapore for espionage. The at Mauile. Farnham, Royd and Co., proposed
IN HONGKONG: to emply two native apprentices for every
NOT charges ar (1) trespassing on military land at Pula Brani; and (2) being found in the vicinity skilled Chinese mechanic they importeil, and in that way would be able within a few years of a fortification with sketching material in his
MERE DEALERS, BUY- to educate a anticient number of Filipinos to possession. He appears to have stayed with
do their business Bat the Commission bud no authority to modify the exclusion law or to
ING AT ONE PRICE AND senibone referred to as "Conductor King," and
a separate account developing
make any exceptions in its enforcement. Hence had stayed
long time with another
Manila lost a half-a-million-dollar shipyard,
SELLING officer without any protest. Following in the
AT ANOTHER, muat set forth each year of the portion permitting their development by others on of the profit allotted to each contract under-easy terms. It is a natural reflection that, hed extr ordinary statement made by the prisoner: and ves-als x-ading repairs still have to be sent to Hengkorg. Shangbai or Nagasaki at a large Vladimir Antonovites Horvitez, and ho was writton or executed in France or in Algeria, rights of ownership belonged to foreigners a
and abnecc63; AT expense. All government and must be addressed to each of the assured.
quarter of a century ago, they might now be
a Rovian journalist from Warsaw. He spoke the holders of practically all the anexploited Russian, French, German and a little English. vessels are sent to China for repairs; the War mineral areas in Japan; and that, wore such He arrived in Singapore on April 11, by the Department transports are compelled to go PRACTICAL EXPERTS rights evou now extended to them, they might Dumbea. He was booked through to Shanghai,there two or three times, a year, when that money might be kept in the Philippines if there soon displace the spoonlative owners of the two He met Conductor King on the ship at Mar- million heres. The new law sancts that hereafter wailles. Witness could not speak English when was anyone there who could do the work. It there must be paid on all lands held for purposes ho mot King. At first they occupied the same the recommendation of the Commission bac of trial borings an annual tax of 34, per acre, to cabin. When witness joined the ship he had be adopted there would Irrady be a go4 ¦ be increased to 12d. when the work of mining ab ut 150 francs. He left Russia because he supply of skilled labour, became the Filipinos He was sent to Siberia are exosedingly quick in learning the nee definitely commences. It is a small impost, was a revolutionist. bringing only some £20,000 a year to the for two months for agitating against the of tools.
In the government printing office at Manila exchequer on account of the unworked laude, bat Government. Ha was seat to Siberis by Minister it will probably prove quite sufficient to correct Plehve, and rolessed when the Ministry under berly the entire forus is composed of Filip nos went & changs. He hft Eussi becsuse he and every one of them lies been educated since was a political offender, and would have been Americs cccupa ion. The Filipino is very Passing now to the important question of made to serve in the War. He had no money deft in the use of his fingers and in landling liquifying the capital fixed in railways, mines, when ho landed in Singapore. Mr. King had tools. He learns with amazing rapidity, but he His Worship considered proceedings should
Another notable weapon giren to the Fronch hips, sud factories, the obstacle bitkurto exist lent him some since he had been here. He is inclined to be careless and reckless in hand-
Factory labour, however, is not needed so FACTS have been taken under the Marine Shipping Executive, which differentiates this law from ing may be briefly explained. It consists fan was to break his voyage here for fourteen days. ling machinery. Act, and the case tried by a court of Enquiry. the insurance laws of Continental Powers such demontally in the difference set up by Japanese On landing he went straight to Palo Brani with
Mr. King stopped at the Arsenal, much as ordinary agricultural labour. The law between a "platga "and a "mortgage." An Mr. King. Mr. Hayes stated that this would have been as Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Switzerland, object pledged must be movable property sad but witness did not remember the encounter native is not only reluctant to work with a
on, is the power given to the
has a bollow chest and narrow shoulders and done had the vessel boon remaining in port, but and
sultative committee: to fix a minimum belewust placed from the outset in the posses described by Mr. Black. Uu the rening of the shorel or a boo, but he is weak physically. He sion of the pledge. An object mortgaged same day Mr. King and witness want to town.
the muscles of his body are not developed. Mili- as she was leaving inuediately there was not which premium must not be allowed to fall. must be immovable property and 10 Later Mr. King took witness to the recreation
tary officers say that this is not a racial defact, time. However, the Captain was willing to This is meant, as the delete in the Senate shows,
obligation applies Kuch
ita tanure ground and introduced him to Sgt. Pocock.
bat insist that it is dus merely to a lack of bo Witness went to the Russian Consul to ask for discharge bim provided he took himself out of to force the American life offices to raise their
a railway is Suppose Bow
exercise and lusufficient nourishment. In proof the Colony and past his own passage home, non-participating premiums (which are very offered as security for a losu. Part of the some Russian newspapers. He had a conversa or, if His Worship convicted him, he could be low at present) to the lovel fixed by the
part immovable, the whole could not and the Consal remarked it was a pity they only physical development of the native scouts and sent home as a distressed British acamen, and syndicate of French offices and, further, to things that go to form a railway being mur- tion with the onsul about Russian polities of their theory they call attention to the rapid
stop altogether the operations of eenderus
Witness objected to physical culture, and three square meals a day, the amount of his passage money taken out of practising assosemont assurance such as used to becue the object of a mortgage, and this killed 5,000 resolutioneries and not 50,000 in the constabulary, who after a few months of
inability alone is sufficient to preclude the St. Petersburg strikes. the £36 owing to him.
be done in Great Britain by the Matual Reserve raising of money on the security of railway servs in the Russian army eo be loft Rassis. develop into robust, chesty und masenlar Fund of New York.
He did labour and endurance. Defendant was willing to take his dischargeand
Thas France, which up to now has left her Further, whereas an object pledged becomes the At Pulo Brani, he did not sketch anything athletes, capable of any amount of physical It cannot be denied that all the Malay' countries are entirely dependent upon the go to England provided the owners would pay territory free to the operations of foreign absolute property of the pledges in the event of He did not ne the box of compasses.
insurance companies on equal terms with her the pledgers failure to sobargo his obliga. not know there were sny guns on Falo Brani, his passage.
own, hins entered the path already trodden by tien, an objectmortgaged not thus forfeited; it He paid a visit to a ship carrying Russian
they thrive physically and save their money and almost every country in Europe, and has felt aust first is put up to public ante. Hence, refugees and distributed pampilote against the Chiness for labour, sm that wherever they go
that a railway, a suine, a factory, or War. that the time has come to insist that an gysurance
make useful, industrious, lawabiding citizens her a shipping concern were mortgageable, it would contract will be what it professes to neither mere nor loss. We shall probably in Grast not, in the event of forsolosure, pass directly allowed. Brkala never get quite so far, bat sines is to the hands of the mortgage as a going collapse of the Nelson Tea bubble, the favela conven, but must be sold by suction, who, if tions in the Law Courts of the Mutual Reserse sequired by the mortgages, he would have to in order to carry on the business. Of course, Fund's methods of securing business, and the organize a new company of at least seven persone operations of the various so-called Bond com- panies which are springing up all over the where a capitalist lends rooney on the security of mach enterprise, their value as going concore country, it is certain that the time has come for
enters largely into the calculation. He looks an exier that the Board of Trade may exercise forward, not to breaking them up and selling an extension of the Life Assurince Act of 1870 an effective power of control which at present their pleat and so forth as old materials, but, to vigorously and profitably It will be seen, therefore, that there was much it does not possess.-Tüines,
to alter in the law.
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.
this.
The Captain said the ownere would not de His Worship said the evidence did not satisfy him that defendant had neglected his duty. With reference to the question of incapacity, it would be necessary to hold a court of inquiry jute his conduct to discharge therefore. e him. The summons would. dismissed.
JAPAN HONOURS HER DEAD.
A Tokyo telegram to the NC. Daily News, dated 4th May, saya: A national festival opened at Tokyo yesterday, and will be coutinned till to-morrow. is memory of over 300 won who had fallen in the war up till the end of last January. The Emperor and Empress were indisposed, but H. I. H. Prince Fushimi was present as proxy for his Majesty in the forenoon and Princs Kanin attended on behalf
of the Empress.
There is intense cathusiasm; the city is en fête. Families have come up to the metropolis from all parts of the country and she trains have overflowed.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The H.A.L. str. felene Menzell, from Rotter. dam and Antwerp, left Singapore fer this port on the 9th inst.. p.m., and may be expected here on the 16th inst."
The C.P.E str. Empress of India arrived at Vancouver at 4 pis. on Tuesday, the 9th ins".
AN UP-TO-DATE WORK.
and
Mupposing
carrying them
that
to
to
The position has been fully met. Owners of railways, mines, factories, and skipping busi nesen will henceforth be competent to form "foundation" what is technically called & (zaidan), with a view to transactions of mort Such foundation" will, consist of
The case was adjourned, heavy bail boing
JAPANESE THREATENING
THE RAILWAY.
RUSSIA AND CHINESE NEUTRALITY.
A Poking letter states that H. E. Hu Wei-tê, POSITION AT VLADIVOSTOR,
Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, has in- A Daily Telegraph telegram from Tokyo, dated 9th April, said:→→Six Chinese officials who formed the Waiwugu with reference to that
Ministry's recent complaint that Russis assisted the Russians to make their cavalry raids troops were transporting supplies through the to the south were recently exsented at Lias-yaar, Mongolian grasslands. east of Urgs, and A large antaber of Chinese baudits and troops through the region west of Petunt, on the are concentrated at Taltsihar northwest of Manchurian-Mongolian borders, that "instru Vladivostok, nad muy never the railway.
There are many Russian Rick sad wounded from Mukden at Taitailar wbéregreat confus.on reigns.
The ice at Vladivostok began to melt ou March 25. The Russians are now making preparations for the coming siege, and the two battalions, as well as by volunteers. A ordinary garrison has been increased by thirty-
everything Nikolaiersk
land
The following, extracted from the article on Japan that appears in the Encyclopedia Britannic, eighth edition, written say about 1837, has a revived interest now: The gage. Jayateke at one't me enjoyed a high reputation everything forming an integral part of the number of troops have also been sent to
nations for courage and company's working appara ameng Eastern
is no longer movable or immoratie, not. military prowess. This, however, the case, and we suspect they will be found an foundation" will be mortgagealda, and in the essentially feeble and pusillanimous people. evout of the company failing to discharge its According to Golownin, they are deficient in obligations, the mortgages will bave the choice courage and, in the art of wer, mere children, of two remedios; he may either demand consequently the Chinese Minister at St. This can scarcely fail to be the case with a public sale, thereby following the proceduro people who, by all accounts, have enjoyed peace provided by the old law; or he may naminsis external and internal for more than two persons of his own choice to carry on the centuries. A courageons and patient endurance business, with the endorsement of the Japanese of pain and suffering, and even a contempt of authorities. This will apparently solve all A mortgagee will have full death, we know to be quite consistent with a difficulties. lack of active aggresive courage.”
security and will be guaranteed the right of
The Japanese extreme left will prevent the Russian army escaping westward. Information has been received that the Russians intend to establish a light railway in Mongolia, and otersburg has been directed to inform the Government that Chins will not allow such a serious broch of noutrality and is, fortbur more, ready to resort to feros of arms should the scheme proceed. The general commanding the Chinese troops in Mongolia has been instructed accordingly.
tions have been sent by the Russian Govern ment to the generals in command at the rout to refrain from using the routes referred to, so that the neatral rights, of China may be
·respected."
WEATHER REPORT.
.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report :---
On the 19th at 11.56 am. The barometer has
risen on the E. const of China, and fallen in Japan and N. China.
A shallow depression lies to the South of Japan, and pressure is also low ever Eastern Manchuria, Pressure is highest aver Central Chius
Gradienis continus slight on the China coast, and molerate N.E. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and moderate N. to E. winds over the N. part of the Chipa Sea.
Forecast:-Moderate N, to N.E, winds; fine.
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GRANITE AND Marble MERCHANTS, EXPORTERS and ConteACTORS.
Agents of
QUAN TAI & CO., Lime Manufacturers. All descriptions of GRANITE AND MAEBLE DE EXPORT. Dealers in GRANITE and MARULE MONUMENT
Prices & Estimates on Application. "No.1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST, Hongkong, 17th January, 1905.
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DR. NEWELL WILSON,
DENTIST.
Laleat American Methods. Renzonable FoсB,
No charge for examinations. Office hours 9 a.m; to 5 p.m.
1ar FLOOR, WATKINS' BUILDINGS.
31, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 19th October, 1904.
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