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for the previous year, and about 26 inillions more than half the revenue. Laud and in the Menam, will. ways the Sian Cheercor liquors share the great bulk of the tusation. tako, when she goes from Koti-stohang, the biggest teak cargo eror sent in ons bottom The burden that war is and may be is start | from Bangkok to Europe, sis, about 1,500
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PRINCE ARISUGAWA IN ENGLAND.
Losnos, 6th July. Lord and Lady Lansdowno gave a small luackson party to-day in honour of Prince, and
Lord Roberts, Viscount Hayashi and Mr. Austin Chamberlalu.
LATER,
loads, of 50 gubin fret eneb. She is taking DEATH OF MR. A. G. WARD. Princess Arisigawa The guests included
timber for the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., for Genoa, London Newcastle-on-Tyne and Glangen. She was expected to leave at about the end of June.
Says a Madras paper The succory of the previous reduction in the Indian rate to 28 d. has been so conspicuously ancosssful-from a financial point of view, owing to the increase of traffle which followed it, that it may he hoped that the announced further reduction will soon justify itself in the same way and give grounds for a still further reduction hafore 'many years are passed. After idi, a reduction of ed. a word is not very much, and, until the tariff i reduced to 1s, a word, it can hardly be said that India engye a reasonably cheap e blegram service."
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SHANGHAI, 9th July. Mr. A. G. Ward, professor of music, and organist at the Cathedral here, died of typhoid yesterday ·
The Japanese Naval Attaché, Captain Ka burati, hus entertained Prince and Princes Arisagawa at a picturesque dinner stjhe Savoy, a
the courtyard of which was transformed into miniature Japanese landscape; the guests, who numbered sixty, ware chiefly unvo!, and included
The funeral is taking place to-day,
•*. All our readers will remember the former organist at St. John's Cathedral. It is not more than a few months sinca ka laft Hongkong. | Sir John Fisher. and a varios of presentations lulped to show his popularity. He was as well known in in the musical; and the untimeliness of his demise tricketing end athletio sircles will be a shok to a great number of his friends He would not be much, if anything, over forty years of age.
BURGLARS AT WORK.
سین صید
notional debts outstanding on 31st March last. Roughly a two-thirds segment of a circle shows the war debt, yen 1,008,317,150. The next biggest is tire very innocent 167 millions required to con- solidato old loans. The war has increased the national debt per capita from a little over ten yon to nearly thirty sen. It originated eleven louns, and undone hundred and seventy-six millions to be levied in special taxes. Yet the people continue “banzai-ing," and the accountant, who-wight-well-have-been-driven to “hard kiri” while analysing all these millions of debt, visibly "chortles "in. broad splashes of yellow and green, showing how the. Japanese, when asked for one million, offered five. Tinde flourishes in spite of war. In 1903, there were nine thousand companies with an aggregate capital of over twelve hundred million yen. There was a bigger output of silk in 1903 than any previous year, and the production of cotton yarn was short only of the 1899 record. Twenty years ago, the total value of exports and imports of commodities did not reach more than forty million yeu this last year it touched the three-hundred and exchango was too swall for the needs of the passage by the Empress for Saturday to have effected an entrance by climbing this
forty millions. China hai noorly seventy millions of the exports, and fifty millions of the imports. Hongkong received nearly thirty millions worth, and sent about twe and a half. The lion's share of Japan's imports, about seventy-five millions, were sent by Great Britain, British fudia coming next with a little over sixty-five, white America had fifty-seven an a half millions. America made up for this by taking over hundred millions of Japanese exports, to whioff China and France were poor seconds, while England's, share, exclusive of the
S. WATSON & CO. Colonies, was only about seventeen and
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SHANGBAI, 9th July.. Dr. Morrison, the famous Times correspondent, departed in the s.5.
TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENTS.
The Oriental Telephone and Electric Com- "pany, fatufted, of wider the Chime and Fapas Telephone Company is a subsidiary company, nanimously decided at an extraordinary genn Tartar to-day. meeting of shareholders hold in London ou May 31st to create debenture stock to the extent of THE NEW RUSSIAN MINISTER £200,000. The Chairman, explained, that the money was wanted for underground cables and. similar purposes. Locally the work of placing the ebles underground is now in progress.
The Chairman informed the shareholders, that the directors afight contemplate the orection of now promises at Hongkong as the present
TO PEKING.
SHANGHAI, 9th July. M. Pokotiloff, the new Russian Minister to Peking, has booked his
business. Money was also required for develop. | nëxt. meats in Egypt and India.
ANOTHER TRAM FATALITY. Another fatal trainway accident is reported from Praya East. On Saturday a coolie was walking along the centre of the line, and despite the incest ringing of the warning gong, pulled up when he stepped aside, and the motorman, thinking that all was right, sot the tram going at the usual spoed. Ashe did so, the coolie again stepped on to the line, and was knocked down by the car. He was picked up unconscious and removed to the Government
refused to get off. The car was just being
Civil Hospital. There he showed signs of insanity, and was transferred to the Lunatis Asylum, at which place he died shortly after admission,
DEATH OF A SINGAPORE MERCHANT.
SINGAPORE, Sth July.
THE WAR.
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SAKHALIN CAPTURED,
LONDON, Sth July.
The Japanese have seized the island of Sakimlin,
The capture was effected without serious resistance.
The Russians retreated, after dos- |troving all guns, buildings, &c.
[DEUTER'S SELVICA] la the early hours of Saturday morning the
THE NEW JAPANESE LOAN. residence of Dr. Koch nt Babbington Path was eatered by barglars, and goods to the value of
LONDON, 6th July. $161 stolen. The thiores effected an entrance.
"Great Britain, the United States, and by prizing open the shutters of a window, out of which they out a pane of glass to unfasten Germany will each take £10,000,000 of the the look. The whole house was rausacked, and new loan, which will be issued at 90, and
thioren had been disturbed in their work, as
20 years. To apparaten it looked as though the interest at 42 per cent. packages of goods which had been made up to carry away were left behind..
The premises of Senior Sanitary Inspector Laible at No. 10 Bonham Road, waru also eutered by thieves, who appropriated a cash hex containing money and jewellery to the value of $500 edd. These premises were undergoing repairs, and scaffolding wae eracted around them. The robbers are believed
INTERNED RUSSIAN SHIPS.
In the predictions which have been made in the Press as to the probable nature of the terma which Japan will submit at the forthcoming Peace Conference it is generally agree that Ceurrender of the Russian ships of war interned in ventral ports will certainly form part of the indemnity. The list comprises 27 ships. They are enumerated as follows in a Toukin contem-
The death is announced of Mr. Stringer, head of the well known firm of Messrs. Paterson, Simons & Co., merchants of Singapore..
MR. HAY'S SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, 7th July. Mr. Elihu Root (formerly Secretary for War) succeeds the late Mr. John Hay as
U. S. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.
half millions. Tous, while America beats Europe in the exports, and Europe is ahead in imports, Asia beat both under th CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO headings. Privato deposits in the Bank of
FIRE IN WINGLOK STREET., HIS EXCELLENCY THE
Fapun are still at their high water mark, GOVERNOR.
while Government deposits in January-The fire brigade under Chief Inspector Baker were higher than ever tefore, nearly forty- was called out at 2.20 am. on Saturday morning five millions. The Post Office savings of to proceed to a fire in a bird nest shop at No. 9 Wing-lok Strest. This was the shop of the
LONDON, 7th July. the people show a steady annual increase
Hang Yuen Hop Kos firm. The rear of the of several millious, the figure in March ground floor of the shop was used as a stere The wedding of the Marquis of standing at over forty millions Curiously room, while the first for was the residence of
of interest have the manager. It was in the store room that Bute and the Hon. Miss Bellingham enough, the rates
the fire originated, and being fed with plenty took place to-day.
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The
bead often considerably higher, und were only slightly lower in 198. average prices of chief commodities have gone up very noticeably since the The building of middle of "fast year. railways appears to have continued uni
our the supply is invited. Only supplied for Canterruptedly, at the rate of about three Fstagraphic Address: Fares, Codes: 4.8.0. 8th Ed. hundred miles a year for the last four years
Lieber's
The earnings went up correspondingly, P.O. Box. 3. Telephone No, 12
The tonnage of sternera has swollen from a hundred to a hundred and fifty each year. There are no figures for 1905, but to judge from the newspapers, there should have been a more than normal increas lately The population continues to grow, the Movers, methods of presenting statistics average increase per cent. being nearly one and a quarter. The population per square were first popularised, so for us we are (nearly six square miles) at the present aware, by Mr. J. Holt SCHOOLING; and time is 1,928. The population of Taiwan although his eccentric pictures of enormous (Formon) grows much more rapidly and loaves and little men standing beside them in proportion to area is nearly now as great attracted a great deal of attention in the
as in Japan proper. The foregoing figures pictorial magazines, men of affairs continued are all takes at a glance from the various to look askance at such graphic but flippant axcellent and pretty diagrams before representations of facts previously set forth in rows and columns of solemn figures. But to the business men to whom figures appeal mero than do any number of fine literary phrases or trenchant arguments, time-saving devices also appeal, and long befors the pictorial method caught the editorial fancy, it was recognised by scicatifically-minded men, like Dr. BERTILLON, Professors WESTER- BAARD, Gibaglio aud Lexis, that some- thing other than mere figures was needed to express the results of statistical research. Diagrams and curves, logarithmic or other- wise, are required by the most conscientious cf statisticians (who have a contempt for the big loaf and the little man) to supple- meat and complete their careful compilations.
alluded to. On a future occasion, we may enter into a closer analysis of the figures given in less attractive tables.
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A morning paper--the first and only-starta- Singapore next month.
On Saturday the finding of a plague corpse in a lane in Ile.Ith District No. 7 was reported
of inflammable material, there was soon a big
blaze. There was a plentiful supply of water. INTER-UNIVERSITY CRICKET. and the fire was subdued willún no hour, but not before the ground floor way gulted. The oat. break is said to have occurred through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. The shop was inaared for 825,000, $20,000 in the Russian National Insurance Company, and $5,000 with Messrs. Meyer & Company
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO, LD
An oxtraordinary general meeting of this Company was held at St. George's. Buildings, Connaught Road, on Saturday morning, when there were present-Hon. Mr. Te Shesab
(Chairman), Sir C... Chater Dr. Noble and
Mr. B. B. White (Directors), and Messrs..,4.
Babington, N. H. Rutherford, W. R. Roberts, Fang Ws Chuen, A. Cordeiro and I.. Henderson.
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The notice convening the meeting having been read, also the resolution that the capital of the Company be increased to $500,000 by the creation of 20,000 new shares ut $10 each, the CHAIRMAN proposed that such resolution, be confirmed as a special resolution.
SIR PAUL CHATEu seconded the proposition, which was carried unanimously.
LONDON, Sth July, Cambridge won the annual cricket match, scoring 218 in the first innings and 264 in the second, as against Oxford's 319 and 123.
** Cambridge total 482; Oxford 442. Last year it was a draw. Oxford wan in 1903 by 268 runs. Cambridge's last win being in 1902.
THE SURRENDER OF THE
KNJAZ POTEMKIN?
LONDON, Sth July.
It is reported that the Knia Poten Ein has surrendered to the Roumanian authorities.
THE LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP,
Loxnox, 5th July,
-H. L. Doherty retains the Men's The CHAIRMAN-That is all the Business Lawn Tennis championship of
land, having beaten Brookes, challenger.
gentleman.
ENTERTAINMENT AT THE
CATHOLIC UNION.--
(REUTEK'S SERVICE."}
porary:-
AT SHANGRAL Mandjour, gunhont Askold, cruiser Grasovoi, des royër Brodzie, destroyer Vladimir, transport Vorone
teanmort Livonia, transport
transport Caronia, transge Farosaf, tra Kures,
tinnsport:
water-bant Meteor, Soir, torpedo-bunt
AT SAIGON, „Diana, cruiser.
At San Francisco. Long, transport;
AT TIESTSİN. Tazarovitch, cruiser Biezchonwie, destroyer Biezstrachnidine, destroyer Biespotchedne, destroyer Buikie, destroyer Smicloi,
destroyer
AT CHEFOO
Skorle, destroyer Serditio, destroyer- State e, destroyer ♥lasfnie, destroyer.
AT MANILA
Oleg, erniser Aunra, cruiser Jemtchong, cruiser
SELFISHNESS OF THE RICH.
folk, says:
It will run
SUEZ CANAL
COMING REDUCTION IN THE RATES. It is understood that Suez Canal mtos are to
to reduced from January lut The traffic of the Canal largely increased in 100%, and this
gave a commensurate increase in the divided, which last year was 19 f. per share and this year 1tlf.
Anto whether the reluation fo likely to he maintained, a high authority in the shipping world said to a Press representative lately -- In 1986 tus Canal. Company or going to line 10,000,000, in conâquence of this reduction, and it is a question' whether or not such a loss can be continued. The Company are taking considerable risk in the interests of the ship ping trado certainly not in the interest of their own shareholders
The proposed radnotion is 75c. per share, 'which is equal to a reduction of 10,000,000£ or £400,000. The arrangement is just part and parcel of the London programme, and is by no means in consequence of the agitation which was set on foot a short time ago."
On the other hand thors are shipping authorities who held the view that the 750. reduction is distinctly the outcome of the rescut. agitation.
At first," said one of these gentlemen to the representative, they only talked of a 250. reduction, but, nitimately, a little rop of The. was suggested
The Company are paying 28 per cost. divi. dend on the shares, which is a breach of the London agreement. All profit ofSE 25
per cont according to the terms of that arrangement, enght to go to a reduction of the tonnage dans, and if that were adhered to in all
probability Ike rates would be brought a wn Sf. or 36.-
***The agreement to which I refer was be-- tween M. d. Less pr on the one hand and the London · Committee of Shipowners nu tüe other. This is a clean logical agreement, and would, no don't, hold good nt law. It is a great deal more than honourable understanding.?
Mr. Harold Begbie, writing in the Daily Mail on the extravagance of the smart rich "I learnt the other day from a gentleman of exceptionally high authority on these matters Twenty five ahil ings for each person is often that the only explanation which can be given the cost of an ordinary luncheon, and is ad- for men like those at the head of the Cacal dition to this charge there are the tips of the Company's affairs-including representatives Yra serrants. Now twenty-five shillings, of the British Government-practically break- the weekly wages of a varter, keeps u man, sing their word, lies in the fast that they bars woman, and a family of children in food, discovered that the London agreement, if ad- clothing, bouts, and house-reut.
hered to, would place them in the position of To spend a pound on a meal while there is fiduciary legates. Still the code of hongar one hungry woman in London is sutely a that regulates private irms should apply in the blatant offense against humanity.
case of great companies.
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How is it possible, we ask oureel es, that
people can be so wicked? At one end of the social scale there is General Booth feeding the ontcast at lid. each, and at the other end of the sales there are these gross hedonists spending fire-and-twenty shillings on a single meal. Is it possible, then, that while 1d. will feed a por- con, and while many people spend more than a sovereign on a single meal there should be thousands of hungry people in this single centre of human life? The selfishness of the Philis tinasi
ia. in usplumbed sea,
"The Company might have come to tha slip-
owners and said; We are in a moss-we must
hare this agreement altered.' The shipowners. who have shown every disposition to be reason able, would, no doubt, have Contented to discuss the insiter. Instead of that they have ridden rough-shod ovər, everyone.”
"As to the- enforcement of the agreement. where is the court to enforon it. The ship- owners would have to to France, and ja an international affair of this kind they ought to kary their own Government with them. The Government, however, at this time are sitting on the fence."
Consider what it means to spend fiteen, twiaty, and thirty shillings on a bottle of champagne. One hundred and sixty people can be fed for a sovereign. Thousands of pounds JAPAN'S ABILITY TO CONTINUE are spent every day in London on champagne, and more then half of the children of the poor go hungry to school
Neu pay two shillinge and half a crown for a glass of special liqueur brandy and one and sixpence is a common price paid for cigars in fashionable restaurant. A chilling, which would feed eight-people, is paid for a thimbleful of
coffee.*
All that is trus enough, co far as it goes; but supposing the rich man is content with one of those three ho pouny meale, and foregoes his Enggar and liqueur His poorer neighbours, to benefit, must be the recipients of downright his charity, must accept out and oat gifts from him. By spending his surplus wealth our insaties, the rich man allows it to filter down to his neigh bours, without pauperising them On his own line of argument, Mr. Bogbio should dispense with all but bare necessities, which would ruines him to a wardrobe of sacking and rope, and a diet of bread and water
A largo audi nos assembled in the hall of the Catholic Union on Saturday niglit, when the THE BUSSIAN NA AL MUTINY. St. Patrick's Dramatic Society staged for the third time the farcical sketch 4 A case of
LONDON, 6th July. The matineers of the Kniaz Potemkin hags
Mr. EJ. Moss, merchant, of Foochow, hos Spirits" and the drams. "Hip You Winklemmoned the authorities of Theodosis on board
The inmates of the House of Dolention are
The two pieces were again very ably performed
"APARIMA" STOPPED BY
RUSSIANS
THE WAR INDEFINITELY.
A very interesting French opinion on the respectiva capacities of Japan and Russia to carry on the war is contributed by one of the correspondents of the Paris Journal at Tokyo, M.J. U. Balet, who, writing on March 17th, just after the battle of Muuden, gives a very pessimistic account of the situation as far as Bassisconcerned, M. Balet thinks that Russia ought to make peace, for he knows Japan well
enough to believe it highly doubtful that Bussia can wear her out financially and no less improb- ablo that Bugs cau-ever worst her on land. or on ees, in opinion that was written long. before Admiral Rozhdestvensky's disaster. Be adunits that the internal situation of Russia is an unknown quantity. The
The most erroneous no ions prevail as to the financial strength of Japao, says M. Balat. The fourth national loan of 250 millions of frangs was taken up by the people se joyfully as was the first. The new taxen are paid without demor, - and instead of there be ng any track in the reporis as to growing misery in Japan, this country was never better off. The cost of living has hardly increased. and there has been no falling off in the savings banks
is trac
some stagnatica in trade, but no realig drop in prices. Japan, says M. Balet, can always borrow money so long she can provide
been adjudged bankrupt by an order of by the members of the Society. During the and demanded 500 tons of coal, provision, and | intervals Mr. A. Cunningham and Mr. G. Bor- tobacco, within 24 hours; in the event of the I.B.M.'s Court at Foochow
nett contributed songs which were very mush authorities not complying with their demands now allowed to wear their own clothes, provided appreciated, and the splendid orchestra of the the town will be bombarded. The crow also Newestle, New South Wales, with a full care deposits, the contrary is the case. There is, it'
Sociedade Philharmonica played several salce requested the Mayor to distribute to the inlabi they be clean and kept so.
tions. The evening was rather close, and the ants a proclamation demateding the cusation of seats were arranged too near to one another, the war, a convocation of the Zemstvos, and An armed cut off as boat from the two things-guarantees and victories. She ha This method has been seized and wastered Registrar General during the absence of vaca otherwise there was nothing to detract from the gummoxing the people to join in a revolution:
Mr. E. A. Irvine has been appointed to art as by the Japanese to a wonderful extent, and tion leave of the Hun. Mr. A. W: Brewin.
pleasure of a very enjoyable entertainment.
VOLUNTEER NOTES.
Gunner C, Strike has been permitted to resign from the Hongkong Volunteers, aud A. S. Heuchman and L. J. C. Anderson have been enrolled as members. Gunner W, 7. Androws has been granted twelve months leave of absence.
it is along a sure, as well as profitable, Yesterday there reached as an ominous rum-) to open one of the Financial and Economical our concerning the native binks at Canton, for Annuals of Japan. The fifth (for 1905) has which we prefer to await confirmation. Money reached us by courtesy of the Consul Generalis uuusually "Light" at the native city. for Japan. There is scarcely a page from The new organist of St. John's Cathedral, which some interesting statement cannot fr. I Fuller, who comes from Bourdemouth, be extracted. For the fiscal year, 1905-6 it entered upon his duties yesterday. Fince the late is dparent, at a glance, thut the ordinary Mr. Ward departed for Shanghai the duties of The resignation by Dr. J. II. Swan of organist and choirmaster have been eficiently his commission of Surgeon Lieutenant in the revenue was larger than ever before, and a
performed by Mr. E. J. Chapman. It wasa Hongkong Volunteer Corn has been accepted, second glance gives the figures, practically molanobgly coincidenes that Mr. Faller should and I.E. the Governor has been plossed te three hundred million yen. Ordinary ex- have been called upon to play a funeral hymn of appoint as Surgeon Lieutenant, Dr. Charles
Forsyth penditure for the same period was less than Mr. Ward's composition.
the inhabitants are panic stricken and are feeing. The Municipality has decided to deliver the provisions but not the coal, there being none of the latter in the town.
LONDON, 7th July, It is rumoured in Odessa that the Kniaz Potemkin has been blown up at "Theodosis.
LATRE.
The report of the blowing up of the Ania Potemkin is without foundation. The officials of Theodoris went on board and found a com- mittes of seven in command of a crow numbering
760, The latest report is that the ship has put to eea in chase of a British collier.
-HELD UP IN THE KARIMATA STRAITS, Capt. Stott of the British steamer Aparina, which arrived at Singapore on June 29th from
of coal, reparted that at 2 p., on Tuesday, the 27th, his ship was stopped in the Katimats Straits the Basilan converted erniser Terek. sian warship and boards the Apartme Cap'nin Slott asensing the Russian officers that the cargo was for Singapore his vessel as all the base,
guarantees enough and victories galore, each day offering her more and more decisive ones. If Russia fancia, therefore, that she will starse ent Japan save by carrying on the war fer four of five years, which is unlikely, is the vessel, which suck the B. L. Ikhona, but she is gracely misinformed, As for the Russians did not mention anything about her in battle M, Balet thinks that this that piratical set to Captain Stett. The Aparima was detained only an hour.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The P. & A. steamer Numantia left Maji on July 6th, and is expected to arrive here to
"morrow at daylight.
net es unlikely. The Russian
arity, in his opinion, is inferior, all things considered, to the Japanese, army that the Iatter would-be victorious even if pitted against ite enemy in the
proportion of two to three. The Japanese. reserves are far from exhausted, and Japan can make excellent soldiers in three months. M
Balet had, it would soom, three months ago, no The P. & A. sa Arubia sailed from Portland more hope of a Russian victory on sea than on on July 2nd, and is expected to arrive in flong-land. In a word, ho regards Russia's caALSO US kong on August 3rd.
atterly compromised, and she has bat one thing The str. Bu left Manila on Saturday, the to do to make peice. Peace would be well 8th inst. at noon, and is due kers today at received in Japan, says M. Balet, for the people
want to get to work.