respectively. Ropes, are procurable at S171), Ices have been bought at $182 ex the disfend of $4 paid on the agth ohinte, and are naw enquired for at $181. Dairy Farms are in- changed. Manila Investments are offering at $50.
THE HONGKONG POLICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1901.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not burmurlly endorse the oploten expressed by Correspondente in this column.]
HUNGRY!!!
THE AUSTRALIAN VAUDE- VILLE 00.
but for the sugar controversy. In regard to sugar we are treating Russia precisely as we are treating other countries; we aresimply off-setting her bounty as we offset the bounty allowed by all countries that assist exports, and putting Russian sugar on an quality with German, French, Austrian, Dutch, and Italian sugar. Russia is attempting by the use of her tariff, as
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS..
MAILS DUE.
and proved his unfitness for serious respon- sibility of any kind. It had been indicated. that Admiral Sir John Fisher had approved of it, but having worked with the Admiral he refused to believe it for a moment. The Navy League and Mr. Amold White were the two. sources in which this agitation had originated. In his opinion the House was gradually losing its control over the Admimity, a tendency which ask for mere naval expenditure, for he found that the French, German, and Russian estimates amounted to just about the total amount of our own naval expenditure for the present year, including the expenditure on naval works left Manila to-day for Hongkong, which had not yet been sanctioned-Pall Mall Gaselle.
German (Prinzess frene) sth instant. American (Deric) 6th instant... Australian (Eastern) 6th instant. German (Stuttgart) 7th instant. Indian (Aumsang) 8th instant. American (Nipfón Marú) 14th instant. Canadian (Empress of India) 20th instant. American (Pere) aand instant.
To mux Editor of the "Hongkono Talkeravin" SIR,-May I respectfully suggest that, a public subscription should be arranged in order The police are losing a good man and the to assist some of the starving N. C. Os of the opening list of turns. Last night the attendance she has attempted elsewhere by the use of should be corrected. This was not a time to public a good servant in the resignation of Garrison? The Staff Mess in particular, I believe, G. S. Foden of Tsin Sha Tsui, F. C. 131. is famine stricken, no food whatever having A man with a flawless, record, a thorough sea man, experienced as a warder in the gnol, in fact just the class of man, that is wanted, that every effort should be made to get and when gat, to keep
It is significant that all the latest resignations should be from men of good character. If the scallywags of the force resigned it could be understood, but it is a sorry thing to think the honest, steady pains taking class are leaving and the force losing that leven of good fellows that in time texveneth the whole. What can be the reason that an allicer on a small salary prefers to pay $480 out of his slowly amassed savings and give three months notice so as to get out of a service in which there is either honour not adequate - remuneratinh. What encouragement is there for a member trained for the sea le whom, going aloft, taking bis trick at the wheel or in the chains is childsplay" to "have
nan pitchforked into a position above him (and mind you a brst class Inspectorship) in tench int scanrinship
at the same time that the constable has to teach the In-
spector police work? We challenge any petty officer in, any Navy in the world to come out and slow Inspector Gould, Sergeants Kerr, Ashmore and Burchill their duty And it tough on Riley; the mere fact of his appointment prejudices the force against him even if he knew anything. Our sympathies are with this gentleman. The winle arrangement shows a want of tact and an utter disregard of other mens teelings on behalf of the authorities, resulting in the falling out of such men us S. 8. . Foden, who can earn more money, be treated
́as a man und not as a child in a new sphere of
life.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
been obtainable there
Aqun ad lib. do.
The same
I append to-day's Mena:-
Breakfast Dinner Tea...... and so on ad nauseam. They are absent minded Reggars though their mess is like n club, nnd though they've lots of liquor, they've precious little grub,
Duke's sons, Cook's sons, suns of the Lord knows who,
Thirty starving N. C. Os, come up to mess each day,
Nothing to eat when they do get there, but they swear until all is blue,
:
They pull out their cash for the mess fund's sake and Pay Pay! Pay!
STARVING MEDICO. Hongkong, August 3rd, 1901.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
1
STEALING COAL Chan Cheung (was given, 50 lbs. of coal, so he said. L... J. Quinn thought otherwise, $to or three months. Paid up.
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IMPUDENT ROBBERY.
It is to be hoped the heat will moderate a little by to-night, when the above Company may be expected to have a big house.
A com- plete change of programme is to be provided, and it is whispered it is even better than the was poor, but, barring some nincompoops, who might have graced a dog fight but were out of place amongst decent people, everything went off very well. Miss. Beatrice Warde was in happy vein and sang her best, and looked her nicest. Her rich, powerful soprano was heard to great advantage in her two songs and encores, and she is to be congratulated on making every effort to please a small audience, the same as she would a large one. The same cannot be said of some other members of the troupe, Miss. Verne was vociferously applauded and is predicted to be catching on".
RUSSIA AND TIBET,
troops, to secure exclusive privileges for her trade. By shifting the burden of the export bounty on sugar from the public treasury to the pockets of the domestic consumers, Russia seeks pose as a no-bounty-paying country at the very moment that she, is participating in conferences of the bounty-paying coun- tries and objecting to the abandonment of the bounty system. Of course if Russia did than any other country to have bounties not pay a bounty she would be more anxious abolished; yet she is the one abstacle to the abolition of the wasteful system. And if we defeat her efforts to secure special privileges for her exports, then she will attack our trade wherever she sees a chance. Valuable as our; Russian trade is, our national self-respect is worth much more to us."
FLEET.
SIR CHARLES DILKE'S VIEWS.
POLSE OF COMMONS, July, gril. The Speaker took the chair shortly after when half a dozen private bills were advated a stage.
The House then went into Committee of
Supply on the Navy Estimates, Mr. J. W. Lowther in the Chair.
The intrigues of Russia in Tibet will shortly bear fruit in the arrival of the Special Mission sent by the Dalai Lama to St. Petersburg. It was only last October, says the Globe, that an envoy from the Dalai Lama was received by STATE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN the Czar at Livadia, so that it is rather difficul 10 see what object the Russians have in these repeated communications with the Tibetans which they can decently avow. But whatever the ostensible renson may be, there is very little doubt what the Czar's Government really is aiming at. Soon after the Dual Alliance, was formed a plan was conceived by which India might be cut off from its hinterland by joining the Russian and French possessions in Central Asia and Tongking through Tibet and Captain Merlees of the s.s. Bothon found his Yunnan. By this means not only India but also other shirt missing, also a singlet and two belts. Barmah and Siam will be cut off from all trade 1p Sin Lu has a liking for Western style of with China and the north, and Siam will be dressing and get 3 weeks hard labour for easily absorbed by France. To achieve this ob giving way to his little failing, Captain Mer-ject Tibet is being frightened with the English lees' gain is Lu's' loss.
bogey, and the Dalai Lama being persuaded that the only hope, for him against English designs is a Russian protectorate over the country. The present condition of China is Russia's opportunity, and by the old device of representing herself as the disinterested friend, France in Yunnan and Russia in Tibet the she hopes to get a foothold in Tibet. With chain will be complete from the Baltic to the Gulf of Tongking, the British possessions in Asia will be cut from their legitimate trade with China, and a vast stride will have been made towards the complete absorption of the Celestial Empire.
N
GAMBLING,
Inspector McDonald and 155. A. Gordon had a small tribe of men up for gambling and all were fined. Under the efforts of the police, The scare occasioned by the this mania for gambling will surely be stamped The "Glory"sudden departure of three vessels out in about 2,000 years, ... Scare. and the non arrival of the Ghary must have come as a perfect God-
send to you newspaper folk, Mr. Editor. What a treat it must have been to your have some- thing to write about, other than the misdeeds of the Government and the Sanitary Board. It. is strange that nobody here should even be able to guess at the reason of this sudden move, on the part of the Admiral, but I suppose it will all leak out in time. I have heard all sorts of places named as the scene of disturbance, from Hainan in the South to Port Arthur in the North, and, even 'sleepy old· Maçan has been credited with being about to awake to a furious attack from the mainland. What does it ali Fincan ?
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I was very agreeably surprised The at the Vaudeville's show, to which Vandevilles. I went on the opening night. I
hacond thing to object, to though, and that was the presence of a party of four men in the dress circle who made
A lot of noise and prevented other folks from hearing properly. They were riressed as gen. tlemen ton, except fir the fact that they were disguised in liquor. Now why cannot these people behave decently at a theatre or, if they are so overcome by the exuberance of their own and other spirits, stop away. They only make a nuisance of themselves, and what de- light a bald headed man can find in rattling an empty tim like a baby, I quite fail-to see. Daultless the whole fur thought themselves very funny indeed, but others thought them uninitigated bounders. We have too many of
DRUNK.
Thoufas Davis, had been in the sun, and was fined $3 for being disorderly at the Kowloon Ferry pier.
SALUTARY FINE.
It is not everyone will take the trouble-to charge a rickshan man, bat Mr. E. Borkelman of the Western Hotel did. The coolie refused to accept his proper fare and was fined $1. We should like to see more of these cases.
PLAQUE AT KARACHI,
We have received the following information from the Colonial Secretary's Office
With reference to Government Notification No, 402 of the 25th instant it is notified that telegraphic information has been received from the Government of India, that between the th and 2nd instant three cases of Plague
and one death have occurred at Karachi.
THE PLAGUE.
Number of cases reported Chinese......1,520 up till noon of the and Other Asiatics 51 August, 1901
Number of cases reported during the past 24 hours
Europeans......30 (Chinese 2 Other Asiatics o (Europeans... O
Total number of cases reported to date 1,603
this class in Hongkong, and they want sitting Number of deaths reported (Chinese....1,483
upon.
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I see you have been severely
and Hair. trespassing upon. Tommy's beer and hair and have been utvised to keep your awn on. As a inatter of fact this is rather good advice, 1 think, for editors are generally bald, except, of course our Hongkong ones. I took your advice the other day and went and tried some Canteen beer. I found it a really grod tipple, but when I came out in the sun afterwards I felt considerably "headly" and can quite understand that it is not a good drink for a man who has to be in the sun much. As for Tummy's hair,it would be disgusting if he were allowed to grow head of it like Paderewski or Hall Caine. He (Tony) lanks very well as he is, and I don't want to see him with five or six inches hanging clown his back. It might give him more to leave with the Hongkong girls when be goes. but I don't think it would protect him from sun or heat stroke.
Tommy's Beer taken to task, Mr. Editor, for
Why is it that whenever a lady Why? clad in short skirts has a song to sing on the stage, she invariably catches her dress with her left hand in front and hoists it a few inches, so as to display a certain amount of very nicely frilled petticoat? Ninety-nine out of a hundred shot shined lady singers do this. Is it laid down as a hand and fast rule of the stage or what? Why don't they lift the dress behind, or to the right sume- times for a change?' A friend suggested that they were all retained as advertiscaments by clearstarching establishments, but I am afraid this is not the explanation.
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I see the Star Ferry.Com Thoso Guides. pany have decided to give up using their double enders as pile drivers at the Ice House Street Wharf, ard bave increased the height of the guide. It strikes me that these same guides will swallow up a great deal of the boats' carnings, for they soem to be constantly in need of repair. From the way the new quartermaster in charge handles the launches, I should think that the placing of a European in each would ntivite the necessity of any guide whatever and, in all probability, the cost would be less.
up till noun of the 2nd Other Asiatics 34 August, 1901 m
Europeans11 (Chinese...
Number of deaths reported during the past 24 hours
Other Asiatics.o Europeans... O
Total number of deaths recorded tudate 1,529 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are ----
Cases Chinese...
Other Asiatics .. European
12
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Total
Death Chinese......
Other Asiatics Europeans
Total
IN
The plague returns for last week were --
Cases Deaths...
..... 19.
.20
Miss Herbst is progressing favourably and hopes to be out-hest week. Hier tardy re covery is somewhat due to the trying.weather experienced lately.
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from No. 6 Morrison Hill Road. Let us hope One death from pligne (Chinese) is reported this body dl buildings will not develop into a second Wild Dell.
CANTON NOTES.
RICE HARVEST.
(From Our Own Correspondent),
CANTON, August and. A large part of the rice has been harvested. The crop is a good one. The heavy rains knocked a good deal of it down and cutting was made difficult. Wages are high. A few years ago all the help that was wanted could be bad for fifteen cents a day. Now the lowest wage paid is thirty-five cents a day and many farmers are paying as high as sixty cents.
THE WEATHER,
THE NEW WHARF FIGHT.
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CHINA OUTRAGES.
STORMY DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER.
PARIS, July 1st, Something of a scene took place in the Chamber to-day when in connection with the
On the vote of £379,000" to defray the ex- penses of the Admiraly offices, Mr. Lucas called attention to the state of the Navy in the Admiralty to make such a statement as would Mediterranean, and asked the Secretary of the allay the fears that had quite recently been raised on this subject by certain allegations. Sir John Colomb asked it this question could not more properly be raised on the shipbuilding" vote. The chairman replied that he did not yet know the hon. member's intentions. If he was going to say there were not enough ships in the should be enlarged that could not be brought up Navy, and that the shipbuilding programine on this vote, but if he was going to argue simply.. that the strength of the feet in the Mediter ranean should be reinforced by other squadronr that was a matter of policy which could be discussed now.
Mr. Lucas said he did not desire to associate himself with any attack on the. Government until they had had sufficient ground for bes lieving that such a time had come. If the Goverment were wilfully 'blind to the facts
and consequently few this country into peril or disaster, they would earn, and rightly earn, demand of the Government for a supplement undying execration. (Hear, hear. Those who ary credit for the Chinese expedition, M. Marcelnd supported them and had trusted them Sembat made a violent attack on the entire
would remember them with undying shame. French policy in China, and declared that
But he hesitated to charge his Majesty's Go- France was, wholly wrong in forcing her way
vernment with such ramissness, and did not into a country which had given repeated proofs of its unwillingness to receive western civilita. tion.
He concluded with a categorical list of charges of outrage against European troops, which if only for the honour of France, demand ed special inquiry.
These statements caused great sensation, and the Minister of Marine warmly took up the cudgels in defence of the French troops, saying
was easy to sit at home and condemn men however, than an inquiry had been ordered into certain alleged cases of outrages, but these only numbered 30 at most.
inflamed with the heat of battle. He confessed,
An indescribable tumult ensued over the subject of what ought to be France's policy in China, for there were several deputies of M. Sembal's way of thinking, but eventually the the credits were voted by a big majority. Morning Leader Cor.
LATEST SEEKERS AFTER THE NORTH POLE LEAVE DUNDEE,"
The auxiliary wooden barque America, con- veying the members of the Baldwin-Zeigler Polar expedition, has started on her quest for the North Pole, says the Morning Leader of the 5th ulto.
The America, an ex-Scottish Whaler, which is well adapted for exploration purposes, has been equipped for a three years' cruise. She will make a short stay at Tromiso, where 400. Eskimo dogs and 13 Siberian ponies will be taken on board.
Accompanied by two store ships, the Fridtjof and Brigica, the America will head for Franz Josef Land, where the base of the ex-
pedition will be formed. During the open season the vessels will push as far North as possible, and on the approach of winter the Fridtjot and Belgica will return to Norway, leaving the merita to winter in the Arctic. Mr. Baldwin intends to explore. the territory lying north of Franz Josef Land, and make a dash for the Pote from the most northerly point
of the land.
The America is commanded by Capt. Johann sen, a Norwegian who has had a large ex- perience of Arctic life. The crew number 43, Americans and Norwegians of fine physique. and are all picked inen, being for the most part There is also a large scientific staff on board.
The departure of the America from Dundee was witnessed by a crowd of people, amongst them being several ladies and gentlemen who had travelled from America. Mr. Baldwin, before the vessel sailed, said he felt confident of penetrating und scovered land around the Pole.
believe everything he was told as to the state of things in the Mediterranean. With great respect he asked the Goveminent to give such information without making public that which should be confidential and secret, but to say as fly as they could what they were doing and intended to do to safeguard the public interests. Subject to the answer of the Secretary to the Admiralty, he did not desire to move a reduc- tion in the salary of the First Lord.
SIR C. DILKE BELIEVES THERE IS GROUND FOR ANXIETY.
Sir Charles Dilke said he was glad the hon. member had left it open to some one with more heart in the subject to move a reduction, as he believed would be done. (Heas, hear). fe was inclined to take the view that the particular agitation was not well founded, but be strongly supported the view that there was ground for anxiety in the public mind. (Her,
He did not think there was anything to be gained by secrecy. An adequate ex-
planation would have the effect of directing the public mind to the particular points that were most deserving the attention of the 'country. It was undoubtedly true that at the present time naval officers were distressed abuut several matters that had been raised in the present agitation. The inadequate supply of torpedo destroyers and cruisers was a matter of concern. Did the Government contemplate increasing the force of destroyers in the Medi- termnean by the withdrawal from home of some, of these vessels, or did they contemplate an increase in the force, of destroyers? He did not think Mr. Goschen's defence in 1897 of our position in the Mediterranean could be made now with the same truth as then. Or Friday they would probably have a more useful discussion than they could possibly have to-day. The real question of policy that arose to-day was whether our present standard was sufficient and whether it was possible to increase or im prove it except at the expense of the vast and he thought, useless expenditure on military furces at home.
He
His
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Temperature
Humidity Rainfall
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The steamer Eastera, from Sydney, &c,
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The P.&O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Naukis las Bombay for this port on the 1st inst
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The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer Peru with mails &c., left San Francisco for this port via Honolulu. Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai, 25th ult
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TO-DAY
Saturday, 3rd August, 1901. Chinese-gth of 6th moon of 27th year of
Kwang-si San-Riser
skr. 19mia. Scis
Chr. 53min. Moon-In Equater Shr, aði, High watdi-Morning 10hr, 20min. Allernoon. 1hr, 24min. Low water-Morning ......... 4hr. amin..
`Afternoon ghr, qmin. ANNIVERSARIES.. 1460-James 11. of Scotland killed.
899-Canada decided not to increase Chinese
poll tax.
TO-MORROW.
Sunday, 4th Angust, 1901. Chinese-zoth of 6ik moon of 27th your of
Kwang-su
Sun Risesi
Sets.... 'High water-Morning
Afternoon... Low water-Morning
Afternoon
5kr. zonin. bhr. Santin lathr, grin. okr. omin. für 48min. shr. 40min,
, ANNIVERSARIES. 1265-Death of Simon de Montfort. 1842-British fleet arrived before Nanking. 1853-Murder of the Captain Officers and
Passengers' of the Arvatoon Apcar by the Chinese crew,
1899--Revised Treaties with Japan came into
operation.
AGENDA.
TODAY,
Cargo ex Lightning subject to rent, Australian Vaudeville Company.
TO-MORROW.
CHURCH SERVICES.
St. John's Cathedral:-Communion, 7 a.m.,
Matins, 11 am, Evensong, 5.45 p.m. Roman Catholic Cathedral:-Mass at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 8 am and 9.30 am. Benediction,
Zaire immopert Tweed
Colonies..
Taishan
D. J. de Austria, Petrarch
+1
Cosmopolitan
Aberdeen
hipping.
Arrivals. FOOR SANG, British steamer, 991, R. Y. Ander son, and Aug.-Newchwang 20th July, and Chefoo 28th, General.-Jardine,
Matheson & Co.
DR. HANS JERG KIER, Norwegian steamer, 691, H. Larsen, 2nd Aug,Chefo0 27th July, Beans.-Wing Tai.
GERMANIA, German steamer, 1,713, A. Ben
dixen, 2nd Aug,Bangkok 26th July, and Hoihow 1st Aug., Rice.Jebsen & Co. ROBERT DICKENSON, British steamer, 1,331, McDonnell, 2nd Aug,-Penang 25th July, Petroleum Dil-Arabold, Karberg & Co. TARTAR, British steamer, 2,768, E. Beetham, 3rd Aug., Vancouver, B.C. 6th July, General.-C. P. R. Co.
TSURUGISAN MARU, Japanese sleuner, 4,128, J. Narasaki, 3rd August,-Kutchinatzu 28th July, Coal-Mitsui Bassan Kaisha. FEICHING, British steamer, 980, G, A. Gordon, 3rd Aug.-Hollow and Aug, General.-- A. R. Marty,
UNTA, British transport, 3,450, R, W. Gimblitt, 3rd Aug.-Calcutta 21st July, Ballast.-- Admiralty.
TING SANG, British steamer, 1,05, W. E.
Sawer, 3rd Aug.,-Moji z8th July, Coal- Jardine, Matheson & Co.
WING SANG, British steamer, 1,517, T. H.
Sellar, 3m Aug.-Canton 2nd August, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co. TAISANG, British steamer, 1.547, Bradly, 3rd Aug.-Shanghai 30th July, and Swatow 2nd Aug, General Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Clearances at the Harbour Office. Hongkong Maru, Japanese str., for Nagasaki,
fara Kolb, German str., for Shi-wui-yau. Kongberg, German str., for Swalow. Thales, British str., for Swatow. Daijin Maru, Japanese str., for Swatow. Fooksang, British str., for Canton.. Onsang, British str, for Hongay, Tantalus, British str., for Kobe. German Bethesda Chapel, West Point-Holstein, German str., for Saigon.
Morning Service, I am.
Sungkiang, British str., for Manila. St. Francis Church, Wanchai-Mass (Chin,) 6 am, (Port), 7.30 am. Benediction,
5 p.m.
5 pun.
St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road-Morning
Service (English), 9 a.m. St. Anthony's Chapel, West Point:-Mass,
.8 a.m.
Wesleyan Methodist Church:-Services, 10.30
am and 545 pm. Union Church:-Services, 11 am and 6 p.
Hoiñas, French str., for Heihow. Krunglee, British str., for Shanghai. Tsurugisan Maru, Jun. str., for Kutchinotzu. Pak Kong, British str, for Canton. Jacob Diederichsen, German str., for Hoihow. Wo Plug, Chinese steam-launch, for Wuchow. Haimoon, British str., for Canton, Wingsang, British str., for Shanghai. Dr. H. J. Kier, Norwegian str., for Canten. Petrarch, German str. for Saigon. Taicheong, German str., for Hangay. keiching, British str., for Haiphong. Telemachus, British str., for Saigon.
Departures..
St. Peter's Church.
West Point. Nineth.Sunday after Trinity (August 4th), Matins (11 am.) Hymn, 4; Venite Macfarren; Te Deum,Aug 3, Hrugal, British str., for Europe.
Aug. 3, Benvenue, British str., for Nagasaki. Henley: Jubilate, Smart. Hymns 38, 321205 Aug. 3, Mogul, British str., for Shanghai,
Evensong. (6.30 p.m.) Hynns 17 Magnificat Bentinck; Nunc. Dimittio Crotch. Hymus 45, 326, 27.
Cargo ex Bombay subject to rent.
Bank Holiday. MONDAY, 3th. (About)-"New York" line steamer Arara
leaves for New York via Suez Canal. Cargo ex Tanaba Afar subject to rent. Cargo ex Benvenue subject to rent.,
SHIPPING GAZETTE.
In_future the Telegraph shipping form sup- heading for notices of officers, and engineers plied" to* Captains of vessels will contain a transferred or on leave, etc. Friends will much oblige by giving this information:—
August 1st,
Mr. Yerburgh desired replies to two ques tions. The first was whether, in the opinion of the Admiralty, our Mediterranean Fleet was sufficient to face a possible combination of ships belonging to France and Russia. did not see how ten battleships, however twenty battleships of those Powers. splendidly manned and officered, could oppose second question was whether the Mediterrancas and Channel Fleets were prepared and equipped for war. If they were not, was it the policy of the Admiralty to keep them in this condition of unpreparedness and without pro- per equipment! Île was not speaking by the- inspiration of Lord Charles Heresford, dis- tinguished man though he was. He was in- spired by a sense of his duty. He asked, there-transferred to the Tungchow. fore, whether it was a fact that the Mediter- ranean Fleet and the Channel Squadron were not efficient as fighting units. He concluded Speaking on this subject the New York Press by moving the reduction of the salary of the
First Lord of the Admiralty by 100.
RUSSIA AND THE U. S. A.
says:-
• THE TARIFF QUESTION,
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Mr. C. F. Milne, acting chief officer, Chefou has gone and officer, Fonchow,
Mr. D. A. McKay, chief officer; Szechnen, is
Mr. C. F. Maundreli, chief officer, Ngankin, is transferred to the Ssechuen.
Mr. P. Blair, supernumerary and engineer, Pekin, has been transferred to the Chunghing. Since appointed 2ad engineer Wuchang
Mr. A. Austin, 31d engineer, Wuchany,, is transferred to the Chungking,
Mr. T E. Taylor has gone acting 3rd engineer, Woosung. *
Mr. P. Hamilton has gone acting 3rd engineer, Chungking,
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Mr. R. McLellan, 3rd engineer, Chungking, is on leave,
Mr. J. H. Woollacott, and officer, Foochow has been appointed chief officer, Cheloo
Mr. H. B. Cochran, chief officer, Tungchow, transferred to the Ngankin.
Mr. M. Bryab, and officer, Nankin, has gene acting chief officer, Keilin
Aug. 3, Tinies, British str., for Swatow. Aug.'s, Hong Wan J, British str., for Amoy. Aug. 3, Hailiao, French str, for Hoihow. Aug. 3, Hongkong Maru, japaitėse str., for San."
Francisco.
Aug. 3, Massilia, British for Shanghai. Aug. 3. Wingsang, British str, for Shanghai. Ang. 3, Sungking. British str., for Manila! Aug. 3. Kwangice, British str., for Shanghai. Aug. 3, Kongheng, German str., for Bangkok. Aug. 3, Taksang, British str., for Bangkok. Aug. 3, Tantalus, British sir, for Kohe. Aug. 3, Fooksang, British str., for Canton.
Postenvers-Arrived, Per Fook Sang, from Newchwang, &c.—Mr. .T. S. Pratt.
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Departed.
Fer Hongkong Maru, for Nagasaki-Mrs. 0. Kino. For Yokohama-Messrs. G. H. Aroron and Lam Sai, For San Francisco- Messrs. M. H. Cardew. J. Lewis Crew, Louis Shuck, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Spear, Mrs. Lee Shee and infant, Misses Louis Moi, Louis Y Fa, Louis Y. Lam, Master Louis Fong and Mrs. W. Whiley.
Per Massilin, for Shanghai from London- Lieut. Farmar, From Colombo-Lict. Hulke, Messrs. G. K. Mitchell and i, Tuxford. From Hongkong Messrs. J. Younger, G.-C. Hod den, S. G. Vietto, L. Schinz, A. Blass, H. S. Meggit, Col-Sergt Maltas, Capt. W. Meissel, and Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar,
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain GA Gordon, of the steamship Feiching, from Hoihow, reports:-Variable winds and fine.
Captain McDonnell, of the steamship Robert Vra, Dickinson, from Penang, reports --Fine
weather throughout.
Capt. W. E. Sawer, of the steamship Ting Sang, from Moji, reports:-Moderate W.S.W. breezes, fine and clear.
great tendencies which ate to wrestle for the Let us make no mistake about it; the two
Mr. Robertson, said that this discussion brought to a head an agitation which he mastery of the East urc American trade expan.
not hesitate to characterise as mischievous, sion, seeking the preservation of the Chinese
and one the real character of which demanded After the heavy mins we are having a warm empire, and Kussian territorial annexation, imperatively the consideration of the House. dry spell. The streets were badly flooded for seeking its dismemberment. Herein is a great,
It had been a newspaper agitation. It took several weeks, but the water has lowered con- probably the principal, source of the Russian some, courage at this time of the day to protest As the English are coulially siderably. The drains in the city have been hostility which, in striking contradistinction to against the influence that the press at large "How John detested," as amation, if the well flushed, which should go a good way the traditional policy of his Government, M. was endeavouring to exercise. But its power Repaya Con- truth were spoken, so is the towards improving the health of the people. de Witte has so frankly revealed. As the con- in the House had grown, was growing, and
tempt. Chinaman individually. The The attempt to clean the streets does not seem nict is irrepressible beyond a doubt, we thank ought to be diminished, and he was not sur
Judian's opinion of John China to be very successful. However, a beginning has the honorable minister for assisting us to enterprised that a press which presumed to dictate.is man is only equalled by John's opinion of the been made and in time we may see some im-it with open eyes and without a remaining to a party who were to its leaders and what Indian. The Australian with lively recoiles-provement.
particle of the "traditional friendship myth were to be its principles, should, not take the tions of collarless shirts coming from the wash
which has so long beguiled: so many of our
command of the feet and wrest from the finds in China he is fortunate if the shirt comes I have already written of the various altempts people.
Admiralty the business which they alone were back at all, tinted as it may be by being wom by to stop the building of the new wharf. This The New York Journal of Commerce makes qualified to conduct, an-Eurasian for a week. The German treats is now finished, butthe people in the neighbour this comment.
THE LETTER FROM LORD CHARLES BERES- him with stolid indifferenceand uses him for pur-hood are not satisfied. They now complain "Of course Russia has a right to impose any
FORD. poses of trade, while the Frenchman, detesting that the owners of the wharf have encroached duties it likes upon imports; we have the same But more serious than the journalistic the men, consoles himself by loving the women.
breeze and fine weather with smooth on land belonging to the street: A petition has right and make pretty free exercise of it. But character of the agitation, Mr. Robertson con
a discrimination against our goods as compared tinued, was the fact that the agitators hesitated with those of other countries is a very different 10 bring into the discussion the names of the thing it is subject to the agreements of highest naval authorities concerned in this commercial treaties, and to those Secretary question, and he thought that the House was Gage has called the attention of Secretary entitled now to have some statement from Hay. To retaliate upon us for levying a the Admiralty on this point. The letter from duty on Russian oil, which is levied solely Ford Charles Beresford had not yet, so far, as because Russia has already levied a duly they knew, been disavowed by him ad he on our oil, is the most impydent act that disavowed it? If not, then he authorized it, and a government could perform... Of course this that was an act against discipline-(bear, hear) patroleum altercation would never have arisen | —which deserved the severest condemnation,
RIVER PIRATES,
The dislike of the Scotchman is the most unbeen sent to the Nan Hoi asking that coin accountable thing, for there should be a bond pensation be trade or that part of the wharf be of sympathy between the two nations, seeing removed, the similarity in their national music And last of all the Chinaminn broods over these matters and retifes quietly to his house, cuddles "his lovable little wife, nurses. bis laughing little baby, and leisurely thinking, hatches schemes; forma plots, devises methods and gets there. every time
GILAHA:
The river pirates in the Nam Hoi and Shun Tak districts are very busy. Their latest move is to levy toll on all boats passing, certain points. The officials have been appealed to put a stop to them, but so far have taken no action. A number of boats have agreed to pay the contribution demanded.
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Mr. J. S. McGavin, chief engineer, Woosung has been transferred to the Kweilin
Mr. A. M. Morton, chief officer, Kweilin, is. on leave.
Mr. W. Jack, acting and engineer, Wachang, has resumed duty as 3rd engineer.
Mr. 1. Hildreth, chief engineer, Kwelin, is transferred to the Waste
Captain Wheeler, Peckifi, has been a pointed, and wharfinger, Associated Wharves, Hongkow.
August 3rd
Mr. Reydokis, chief officer Feoksang, is captain bro, tem to the Pechili
Mr. Marah, and officer Froking, is promot- ed chief officer.
Mr. D. Shearer has joined the same steamer Pro. tem as and officer:
Mark, from Kutchinötzu, reports :-Light S.W. Capt. J. Narasaki, of the steamship Tsurugisan
Sea
from Shanghai and Swatow, reports:-Light Captain Bradly, of the steamship Taitang. variable winds, and fine clear weather to Swatow, from there to port strong WS.W
Captain R. Anderson, of the steamship Fooksang, from: Newchiyang, and Chelos, ropants-Left Newchwang on the 26th ulto., and Chefop on the 28th, had light winds and fine weather throughout,"