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WE. (Shanghal Mercury) hear, that the Old Dock and premises are about to be sold to a
the dock will be filled in and is to be the site for a wharfand godowns. --------
A. S. WATSON & CO., The Er will wat nu lertake to be responsible for shipping firm for a very good figure, and that ouncement is believed to have reference to
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IN connection with the removal of the prahi bition to import arms into China last month
Mesara, Melchers & Co, kindly forward us the French Minister at Peking placed on record the fact that his Government will not be res particulars of the Norddeutscher Linyd, ponsible for the consequences arising from the Bremen, fleet for which, they are the local The appearance in stails and shops of elabor removal of the p ohibition, This curious pro-agents. It consiste of 7 ocean: steamers; 48 ately decorated and evidently indigestible cuasting steamers, including these under cakes, enclosed in circular pasteboard boxes, the alleged admission of arms for the Kwangsi construction, 46′ river steamers and tog, a indicates the approach of a moon festival, when rebels, says Dr. Morrison.
|training ships, and 155 craft. of various kinds, | Chinese give themselves up to enjoyment and such as lighters, steamlighters, etc., with a total every bour of the day and night nothing in tonnage of 583,042 gross registon. A fow brief heard but the unceasing monotonous clang of items concerning this gigantic traffic institution | gongs and the roar of crackers. Yesterday"- will no doubt be of public interest. The N. D. being the 15th day of the 8th moon the mid- L. owns 7 express steamers, among which autumn festival was celebrated, and in accord-" are those famous boats Kaiser - Wilhelm | ance with custom all accounts were supposed to der Grosse, Kronprins Wilhelm, and the have been settled among the Chinese. The full- latest Atlantic wonder Kaiser Wilhelm derorbed moon shone from out of a clear sky and Zweite, which have gained a world-wide re. puration since they have been put on the Atlantic run; 16 Imperial mail steamers and ordinary mail steamers, 50 boats are fitted with twin screws and 12 of these are of more than 10,000 toas register. The combined engine power of the fleet aggregates no less than 439 765 ind. . P. The company controls 33 lines, in the maintenance of which
THE Echo de Paris says the cruiser Amira! In the report on the tide of the Straits Settle Gueyden, which is going to reinforce the Frenchments for 19 2, though the figures show a Squadron in the Far East, is, also believed en dollar increa-v over those of the preceding year have been commissioned to search for the over the ster ng value of the imports and exports have decreased by nearly 37 and 11 per cent, respectively, as compared with those for 1901. The gross talal of imports for the year amounted to $362,934,818, as compared with $320,520,209 for 1901. The exports amounted to $31 2,034,936 as compared with $278,753,805 | for the preceding year. These figures includes
THE Hongkong Football Club will have Rugby practice at the Happy Valley on Sat ur day, 10th instant. Kick off 4.30 p.m. Intend ing players will please send their names in to Mr. C. Sandford, Hongkong and Shanghai
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MR. J. S. Thomson, acting agent of the P M.S.5. Co., kindly verifies the news already reported in our columns that the examination of San Francisco through passengers' baggage, at TO-DAY is the date fixed for the signing of Honolulu, has been discontinued this month the American Chinese Treaty.
BISHOP Hoare is to sail for Shanghai on the P.M.S.S. Co.'s Korea, on the 13th instant, THE American barque Lilledonne has arrived from Manila after a voyage of eighteen days.
COMMANDER Macintyre, the new Harbour Master at Penang, has relieved Lieutenant Rad- cliffe.
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Do your own developing without a dark room by using an Eastman developing machine. LeMunyon. Advt.
THE case of alleged bribery wherein Insp. Gidley of the Sanitary Department was the prosecutor, was continued at the magistracy to- day.
THEKE is a persistent rumour afloat in Peking that Japan has sent an ultimatum to Russia on the Manchurian Question as to evacuation by October 8th.
past,
THE opening lecture of the Hongkong branch of the Sanitary institute will be given by the Hon. Dr. Atkinson in St. Andrew's Hall at nine o'clock to-nigin when he will explain the scope and objects of the lectures that are to be de delivered each week. H.E. Sir H. A. Blake, GC.M.G., will preside,
THE Dutch steamer de Klerk which arrived at Singapore on 28th ult. from Billiton brought the news that the British steamer Pelayo is ashore in the Khin Straits, but did not appear in any serious danger. The Pelayo is an oil lank steamer of 1,100 tons and left Singapore on the 25th for Batavia via Samarang and Sourabaya.
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LORD Salisbury's last recorded wards in the House of Lords were somewhat curious. They
were:
employs 12,700 officers and men, ex- clusive of an additional 4,000 men, retained.
looked down upon a strange scene in the south- eri provinces of the Empire where the natives enter into the spirit of the festival with much greater enthusiasm than their brothers in the north. The houses of Chinatown at Hongkong were illuminated by lanterns, gongs and drums. sounded in every street, while along the more important thoroughfares coloured lights, were suspe ded and numerous strange devices.
exhibited.
"These holidays will go on." The occasion was the announcement of the King's illness and the consequent, postponement of the Coronation ceremony in June, 1892. Lord Salisbury had made his statement, and Lord at Bremen for various purposes. These figures, THE STRANDED "AUSTRALIEN" days ordained would, in the circumstances, bestevedores, etc. in employ of the Company a observed. "These holidays will go on," was the various ports of call, Nearly 5 million pas the reply of Lord Salisbury. He never spokesengers have been carried since the starting of again in the House of Lords.
Tweedmouth inquired whether the Bank Holi
of course, do not include the farge number ofl
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the Co. and during last year is steamers covered a distance of altogether 5,781,000 nau tical miles, that is to say, 268 times the circum..
In 1902 the consumption of coal amounted to. 1,240,000 tons, cisting 20,,700 marks, whilst 13,153,000 marks were expended in
necessary provisions, stores, etc.
A DOCKING DIFFICULTY.
Japan exchanges bring further particulars.
regarding the stranding of the Messageries Maritimes n mail steamer Australien. The Kobe Chronicle says it transpires that when the liner struck the rocks near Imatura, as soon as pos- sible Commander Varron dispatched a message to be telegraphed to Moji informing the innam which was then due at Moji, of the accident, and asking for the assistance of the company's vessel. The Annam, however, had passed Moji on the voyage to Kobe before the telegram arrived, and was quite surprised at the spectacle which awaited her in the narrow strait through which she was to pass. The Annam stood by the Australien for ‹ ver twelve hours.
TELEGRAPHIC information from Peking states that the Canton Viceroy wired a report to theference of the globe. Imperial City to the effect that the insurgents Have retired to the mountains, and that his troops, not familiar with the mountainous dis tricts, cannot do more than garrison all the strategic points in order to cat off their supply and fresh reinforcements. The We Kien Ying (Wuchang troops) are said to be very serviceable, and the only difficulty the Viceroy has to face is lack of funds. Weiyuens have been deputed to borrow money from the rich Chinese merchants in the Straits Settle. shareholders of the Straits Insura ce Company, her safety depends upon good weather. It
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IN LIQUIDATION.
Following is the liquidator's report to the
Limited, in Liquidation.
Gentlemen,-1 beg to submit herewith state- ment of the liquidation accounts as under
A WANCHAI Chinaman was charged at the Magistracy this morning with obtaining the sum of $300 by false pretences. Ile is said to
At the same time the Viceroy re- have sold a large quantity of kerosene tins andquested the Wai Wupu to instruct the after receiving the dollars excused himself on
Chinese consuls to assist his weiyuens in this the ground that he wanted to speak to his.
Balance Sheet, 30th September, 1899 (dats of work. shroff and then bolted. The case was ad
going into liquidation). Liquidation account journed.
Framing, fancy and artistically, done by Le- covering the whole period of the liquidation. Munyon, 31, Des Vaux Road-Advt.
THE Pollard Comedy Company left for Singa- pore per the Arratoon Aptar this afternoon. After playing one evening at the southern port, yan's, 31, Des Voeux Road.—Advt.
they proceed direct to India.
HONGKONG might well follow in the steps of
the Penang riksha department which is ex perimenting with different aprons to try and
discover a material that is really waterproof.
On his arrival at Rangoon the Captain of that fine four-masted ship the Robert Rickmers des- cribes bis experiences whilst becalmed for days
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THERE are said to be about 1,020 post offices open in China under the Imperial Chinese Post. The P. & T. Times learns that the Im. perial Chinese Service via Siberia to Europe will be continued.
THE Government are now on the track of a certain. Mr. Li said to be a member of Kang Yu-wei's party, who is hiding in Shantung. His photographi has been despatched to Chow Fu with instructions to arrest him.
17 is reported that the Chinese Government is contemplating appointing a high official, whose
rank is to be equal to a Viceroy's with his headquarters at Shanghai, whose special charge will be to superintend the foreign affairs of that
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THE total cost of building and of equipping the Russian battleship.Tsarevitch, Toulon, has amounted to 1,540,000. This new warship will leave soon for the Pacific Squadron under the flag of Rear-Admiral Virenius, together with the other vessels which are being sent out thither to increase still further Russia's naval strength in the Far East.
THE 5,600 tan cruiser Hyacinth, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Atkinson-Willes on the Indian station, bas rounded the Cope on her way 10, Singapore where Admiral Atkinson-Willes will hold an important conference with Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge and Admiral A. D. Fanshawe, now on his way there from Australia in the Donal dathur La Matamata ja sana giaed probable that the flyacinth would go to Singapore direct and not call there until the
termination ofthe conference.
THE value of the prepared opium sent from Singapore to the United States during the past fiscal year was $212,500 The trade reports of previous years show no returns of the export of that commodity to America. It is singular that the town should have awakened to the possibilities of such a trade with the United States at the very period when the citizens of that republic are divided against themselves on the question as to whether the opium trade should be legitimatised or suppressed in the Philippines-Straits Times.
ANOTHER crack has turned up, this time in the person of M. Karloff, who claims to have dis-
AN Indian kept a stall in Kowloon at which covered that criminals can be infallibly deteci- money was to be made by natives expert in ed by the colour of their eyes. Murderers and throwing rings over coins laid on a cloth-cover- thieves have reddish-brown eyes, tramps lighted board. An examination of these coins re- blue, and so forth. Honest folk have dark grey vealed the fact that they were counterfeit; but or blue eyes.
the man was in the habit of paying out of his pocket all money earned by the adept ring his possession for some time. At the police being in unlawful possession of counterfeit
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Balance sheet, 15th September, 1993. Liquidation account from 1st February, 1903, (date to which last published accounts were made up) to 15th September, 1903.
The dividend of $2.41 per share which I have been able to declare as a "first and final" division of the assets of the Company is, I am pleased to say, well over the amount which the Liquidators in their report of 28th August, 1901, estimated as the probable return to share holders at the close of the liquidation.
THE following portion of the Japanese Stand- ing Squadron left Sasebo for Ma-Sam-pho Korea, on the 28th ultimo, Battleships
These may be taken as the final accounts of Asahi (15,200 tons), Mikasa, (5,200 tons), the liquidation as in accordance with the Hatsuse (15,000 tons), Shikishima (14,850 tons), resolution passed at the meeting of shareholders Fuji (12,310 tons), and Yaskima (12,320 tons), held on 7th May, 1993, I have accepted the Cruisers-Asama (9,750 tons), Kasagi (5,416 offer of, and made the necessary agreement tons), Chitose (4,760 tons), Yoshing (4, 180 tons).with, the South British Insurance Company, for Suma (2,700 tons), and Chiyoda (2,450 tons), taking over the whole of the Company's liabili- with fourteen torpedo destroyers and five torties under its Policies, for the sum of £900, pedo boats.. The Russian fleet proceeding to which amount has been paid to that Company, Port Arthur comprises: the Petropavlovsk as appears in the accompanying accounts, 10,960-tons), Novik (13,000 tons), Peresvie! and the sum remaining after making provision (12,674 tons, Pobieds (12,674 tons), Boguty for a dividunt of $6qi par skava ie nat mare (12,330 tons), Gromboi (19,23% suna), AIA than will be required for the final expenses in (13,130 tons), Poliava (10,960 tons), Sevastopol connection with the close of the liquidation. “ (19,950 tons), Askold (6,100 tons), and two other war-vessels which were engaged mances vres off Sang Chin, in the Korean sea. IN addition to our late report about the order. ing of a new large but less luxurious excursion steamer for the Hamborg-America Line, we can state that the board of directors of the said fine intend to let their large and and splendid yacht excursion steamship Prinzessin Victoria Luzes make two excursions around the globe in the winter season 1904-05. The steamer is to start on her first trip from Hamburg on Sept. 25, 1904, for Lisbon, Villa Franca, Nice, Genoa, Athens, Constantinople, Port Said, Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Singapore, Manila, Hongkong, Shanghai, Tsingtau, Japan, Honolulu, Hilo, to Ban Francisco, where she is to arrive on Jan 17. The partakers in the second trip take the reverse way, by going to Now York by regular steamer, and then to San Francisco by rail. They leave there on Jan. 25, and arrive home on May 11.-L. & C. Express.
The position of the Australien is such that
seems to be the general opinion that she will run serious risk of breaking up if the wind should freshen.
According to a Takamatsu dispatch to the Asahi, the torpedo boat which went to the as- sistance of the Australien was ordered to do so in response to an application of the French Consul. Divers have examined the damage to the hull of the steamer. Little effect follows
the efforts to stop the inrush of water, and the steamer is heeling over to the starboard. The
rapid current of the strait greatly increases the difficulty of carrying out operations.
The Kobe Herald, of the 30th ult, reports that M. Machand, an assistant, in the local offices of the M. M. Co. bas expressed himself Pumps and salvage gear have been sent to the as confident that the ship will be got off safely.
Kure, and the lighters sent from Kobe by M. scene of the disaster from Nagasaki as well as Roux, the local agent of the Messageries Mari times, are proving of great use in lightening the ship. The Australien lies on a sondy patch on the south-eastern shore of Umasina, the large island which lies in the centre of the Kuusima no Seto between O-Sima” and the“ Shikoku coast. A rock has penetrated the plating forward of the foremast and it was in gliding over this that the tents, which measure some 20 metres (60 feet) In ali were made. The stem of the steamer is about 100 feet from the rocky bluff of the island, and about 150 feet from the
aceasternmost point. Both the pilot (Capt
A final meeting of the shareholders to pass my accounts as liquidator and to resolve as to the disposal of the Company's books and counts will be called by me in due course. Your obedient servant,
G. A. DERRICK,
Liquidator.
Singapore, 16th September, 1993.
(The accounts are printed on page 3.)
THE NEW, STRAITS DOLLAR.
The Straits Times, of 26th ult, says Through the courtesy of Dr. R. Hanitsch, the Curator of Raffles Library and Museum, we have been favoured with a view of the new Straits Settlements dollar, which will abortly example of which was presented to the Museum bo in general circulation. The new coin, an to-day by the Hon. F. G.. Penny, Colonial
James) and the commander of the steamer: (Captain Varon), who has been running out! East for many years and is one of the most experienced captains in the service, were on deck when the disaster occurred. The only explanation of the accident so far forthcoming is that the ship in heading north with the object of taking the easterly passage through, the narrows (that between Umna, Síma Fand Nagato Sima) was swept by the current farther. west than there was reason to suppose she would be and so struck just inside the south- eastern point of the island instead of clearing it.
but we cannot say it is altogether satisfactory This is the only explanation offered at present, as the weather was, we are advised, perfectly
passage when it was seen that the ship was altered with a view to taking the we tem being carried under the island is not apparent. The ship struck at about 4 o'clock.
THE Russian steamer Manchuria which has thrower, and had had the counterfeit coins in Shanghai Banking Corporation, and a Chinese Treasurer, is a very conventionial product from clear. How, it was that the Course was not.
put in at Lisbon with her machinery out of order suffered very severely in the recent fire
at Port Said, and cargo to the value of about, £25,000 was practically destroyed. The hull, insured for £75,000, was also badly damaged, though she has been able to get to Lisbon
under her own steam.
court this morning the indian was charged with
maney, but Mr. Kemp dismissed the case.
THE proposed Shanghai-Nanking Railway, which is to be built conjointly by Messrs. Jar dine, Mathieson & Co., the Hongkong and Syndicate, at the head of which is Sheng originality of design. It lacks the lady will an artistic point of view, and absolutely lacks kung pao, is to pass through the following dis the trident that does not fit into the zim, which tricts, the Chinese local authorities, of which lends a tone of numismatic originality to the have been instructed by Sheng Kung-pas and the Shanghai Taoiai to protect the foreign current British dollar. Instead thereof, it car The Annam, which left Kobe on the 29th engineers and railway staff engaged in con-
rics a head of the King in his golden fulto, took the Australien's passengers, and structing the railroad --The districts, or hsica, crown, and the legend "Edward VII, King and mails on to Marseilles and such of her carabas Emperor." Though a triflo smaller in diameic | she can take on board,—the silk anyway. The (Kahding), Kunshan (Quinsan), Hainyang, same weight. The design of the King's head shipped at Kobe to the Empresa pf Japan, and
THE Interior of Siam does on occasion provide some excitement, though in Bangkok we are Ir is reported that the proposed purchase of apt to forget the fact. Mrs. Poulsen who of Shanghai, Paoshan, Tails'ang, Chiating than the British dollar, it is of exactly the passengers for the north by the 4 trangi the ND. L. liner Kiaotichou by the Toyo sister from Lang Suen last week had quite an arrived in Bangkok with her husband and her Kisen Kaisha for the San Francisco service, adventure down there recently, an adventure Changtsou, Wuhsien, Wusich, Chinkuel, on the obverse of the coin will tend to avert her Yokohama kargo goes forward by the P chiefly depends upon the ministerial consent, which few ladies would care to have to face: Yanghu, Shangyuan, and Kiangning, or mistakes as to the identity of the old dollars 0. S. 8. Java. It is not yet settled where the PHOTOGRAPHIC of the granting of a subsidy thereto, as in the
The footprints of tigers have several times been eighteen districts in all situated entirely in this and the new. The head in question is precise | Australien will be docked. The Kure Dock case of the Nippon Maru, Hongkong Maru, DEPARTMENT.
seen in the moming about their house and one mandarin,deputed to accompany the foreignly the same as that on the new go-cent and 20 (where the US.battleship Oregon was and America Maru. But it is doubtful whether
day when Mr. Poulsen was out sailing Mrs. Poulsen discovered that there was a leopard under the house. She pluckily got her hus. band's gun and shot the animal dead.--Bangkok.
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the Government yields to the said application for the subsidy.
LADY Minto and her daughter have been pre sented to the Empress by Sir Claude Mae Donald, the British Minister Accompanied by several members of the imperial family, the
British Minister, and Lady MacDonald, Mar- quis Ito, Viscount Tapaku, and Baron Komura, they were the guests of the Emperor and Em- press at luncheon, which was followed by an exhibition of dakyu
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A COLLISION is stated to have occurred on the Grand Canal between two steam launches;
province of Kiangsu. The special Chinese
A PROCLAMATION BY THE
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cent pieces, now current The reverse is very engineering staff, is an expectant preferike the old dollar as regards the semi-geome Kiangsu named Ts'ui Ting.--N. C. D. News.
trical, semi-floral, scroll-work design, save that the Walls-of-Troy pattern edging which adorns both faces of the old coin is supplanted by the legends Straits Settlements," on top, and "one dollar 1903," at the bottom. Inscriptions of the value in Malay, and Chinese are
The Shen Pao publishes a lengthy proclama both belonging to Chinese, but one of them tion by the Viceroy of the two Kwang, Teen being owned by a company of naturalized Chun Hauen, ordering. all his subordidate as in the old coin-enclosed in the scroll Chinese British subjects and registered in officials to dismiss, without discriminatión, all designs. It is a serviceable, handy, and un. Hongkong. Several prominent Chinese of bad Yamén runners in their services. The obtrusive looking piece of money, with no Tientsin are interested in the registered Com general tone of the proclamation is that since obtrusive merit other than its local value, which pany. After the collision, the native papers the Yamén runners formed an important part is in exces of its intrinsic worth. It has no say, there was a regular free fight and com- of the public administration, so they should be stout-waisted; heavy-helmeted lady carrying a plaint has been made at the British Consulate, strictly dealt with. There are some runners flat-fisher's prong and wearing a tropical The authorities there have referred the matict who pretend to the secretaries and clerks, and costume of mosquito netting. There is no eld. to the Chinese to be dealt with. This steam some who rely on the strength and leniency of fashioned wind-jammer" in the offing, no faunch business in the interior has, since the their Lou Yea (Masters) to extort money from oval Union Jack ashore. It is just a dollar, trouble of 1900, attracted considerable Chinese the people. It is understood that these bad void of all fal-lals, frills or furbelows, bat carry- capital and enterprise; Some, four years ago characters are very often not dismissed It ing just enough sentimeet about it to appeal to an attempt was made to start a steam launch must be borne in mind that they would the tenderest and most careful consideration of service, but every impediment was placed in ultimately bring trouble (and disgrace to their all sorts and conditions of men while, yellow, the way if those then desirous of starting ont, masters, and therefore no marcy should be brows, pink or blus-ikat may happen to be and the attempt fall through?
shown them,
using dollars in this part of the Oneot.
IT is reported that the last audience of the ladies in Peking with the Empress Dowager is soon to take place. Some time since the mur der of Shes K'o-chien, several ladies said that they did not wish to see the Empress again. Now, the sentiment seems to be general. It is certain that the determination of the Empress Dowager to stamp out everything which looks toward reform is fixed. Men of progressive. ideas are decidedly at a discount and reform: [3550 bides its head.-P. &- T. Timas, " \ ELTE 30 in the troncs SAN MIGUEL Beer to drink in the tropics in the Deer
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repaired) is available, but it is undenipod there is some difficulty in connection with the engagement of the Naval Dock at Kure as the officials will only undertake to keep it ay, llible for the mail steamer for four days, iss question if this short period of time would suffice to enable even temporary repalm to be made to allow of the ship proceeding, say, t Nagasaki for repairs.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
PENN GMAILS DUE. American (Gaelic) 8th jpst, English (Malta) 9th inst. i- Australian (Tsinan) 12th inst Canadian (Athenian) 13th inst German (Stydlits) 13th inst. German / Preussen) 14th inst.: Indian (Komsang) 20st inste
The P. & O.S. N.Co. 2. Banca left Sing pore for this port on jih inst, ar. 4 p.m.
The I.C.S.NS Kumrang left Calcutta this port via the Straits on 4th inst, and, be expected here on zoth inst.:"
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