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PARCEL mails for Europe, &c., per as. Simia | ANOTHER scandal in connection with military THE King of Portuga! is expected to arrive Thursday, the 31st inst. expenses has come to light, Lieut. Colonel at Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa, in
P. F. Robertsón, late 92nd Highlanders, stating March on a visit to the South African colo; ⠀⠀ The Awungsak, whích prrived from Shang in the London Times that he was deprived of || nies.
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LIEUT. Lewis C. Hamilton, U. S. A, who was "wanted" on a charge of forging a cheque upon the Hongkong and Shanghai lank's Manila branch, has been arrested in Washing!
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HONGKONG, Tuesday, Decemb&R 29, 1993."
OUR NAVAL SQUADRON,
Year's Day at 3 p.m.
THE Grand Master of Hongkong and Southan a record St Leger at Shanghai, for Mr. China, the Rt. Wor. Bro. E. C. Ray, last even Craig; the water Dardy for Mr. Gray; and ing installed Wor, Bro. J. W. L. Oliver as R. Primo and another China pouy. Training work is now in progress, Mr. Lewis's No. 49 VICEROY Tsen tried recently to raise a loan of W. M. of Zetland Lodge, No. 525 EC., for the 1,500,000 taxis from the Hongkong and Shang-ersuing year, in succession to Wat. Bro. B. and Mr. Marshall's No. 14 baving made several Brotherton Harker.. Wor. Bro. Oliver installed half-mile ruris, while the animals owned by hai flank; but the latter wanted him first to
Mr. Mady and other gentlemen are being xive a guaranien from the Wai Wu-pu through his officers as follows:-Senior Warden, Bro. H. Sir Ernei Satow. The Wai Wu-pu hestitates Sykes; Junior Warden, Bro. W. H. Purcell; trotted out during the morning.
EARLY BIRD. to give this and meanwhile the bank likewise Chaplain, Bro. H. B. Townsend; Treasurer, hesitates to part with its money, Tsen is now Wor, Bro. G. J. B. Sayer; Secretary, Wor. Bro.
COLONIAL LITERARY NOIE. trying if he cannot get the coin from other J. Piercy (jun.); Senior Deacon Bro A. E. sources.-China Gaseite.
Crapnall; Dir of Ceremonies, Bro. J. C. Lowe; Organist, Bro. C. F. L. Donkin: Inner Guard. Hiro. J. Parkes; Tylěř, Bro, J. Vanstone; Stewards, Broa W, King and C. R. Fittock.
LETTERS which have reached official quarters
in Landon from Berlin state, that an endeavour is being m do persuade the Kaiser to under- take a cruise in the Mediterranean or some KING Edward has decided that he is unable to other warm climate during the winter. Though accept the invitation to send some of his this would fall in with his Majesty's wishes he horses to the St. Louis exposition. The de- considers it doubtial whether the trip, owing to clination is accompanied by an expression of the pressure of State affairs, would afford him inúch regret. The King has made it an invari-that rest and freedom from anxiety which the able rule not to enter horses in a handicap | doctors insit upon. The Kaiser, moreover, cannot reconcile himself to the idea of being separated from his family at Christmastide.
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SHANGHAI Sport and Gossip publisher a flash number for Christmas, in which the jovial Daybreak" announces that arrangements are in progress whereby the paper will, in the new
H. M. S Amphitrite left the Dock Company's hands and went to her moorings in the harbour about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. It will be re- membered that this ship went into dock year, take on a new lease of life. He will during the latter end of November for exten-have a difficult task to outdo the Christmas NOTE,-Port, after removal, should be sive repairs to her keel and sheathing. She is
rested for a month before use.
Wine required for IMMEDIATE use should be ordered to be decanted before
being sent out.
These Wines are specially suited for
Invalids and general use, and are too well known to need further comment.
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THE North London authorities have adopted a novel method for suppressing the over-crowd-
of street cars. Finding the arrest and fin. ing of conductors was insufficient they are now resorting to the arrest, of passengers, including women, whom the magistrates fine for "aiding and abetting" conductors in contravening the anti-crowding law,
boat was successfully lifted recently."
now ready for sea again and the Whampoa Dock Company must be congratulated upon the rapidity with which they have completed the job. We notice that, although many of the ships in the fleet are by no means due for docking, they are all being got ready for their turn at having their bottoms cleaned and coated with fresh composition. In con- junction with this fact, we understand that they are being completed with stores and
It will be remembered that in the big squall ammunition sufficient for a prolonged cruise, at the beginning of September we mentioned and it is therefore evident that prepara that the lightship which marked the end of the tions are deemed necessary in case the North West Breakwater at Colorabo sank, and fleet may be needed up North, at short the valuable light with which it was filled was notice. The general trend of opinion in irrecoverably lost. The position of the sunken Naval circles here, as regards the possi-vessel was discovered by the divers, and the bilities of war and of ourselves being drawn into it, seems to point to the improbability of
THE edition of the Rheinisch Westfuelische A. S. WATSON & CO., such a crisis. Should diplomacy fail and
Japan have recourse to arms, it is extremely Zeitung of Essen has been confiscated for lese majeste. The paper contained an article trans- hard to forecaste what might be the develop lated from Henry Labouchere's London Tral ments; but there is little doubt that the pros-giving an alleged interview with the late Pro- pects of a naval action are so appalling that fessor Mommsen, in which Emperor William other nations would hesitate before becoming was sharply criticized. The newspaper is one involved, even at the risk of endangering of the leading national Liberal organs in West their interests. It is generally accepted that: Germany, a naval battle would be fought at long range on account of torpedoes, and, if this is so, it is difficult to sec. in what way an action would be decided, The vulnerable parts of the more modern battleships out here are so well protected by armour that, at long range, something in the nature of three thousand yards, they are impenetrable. That is all very well in theory, but in practice the question arises as to what would be the effect on the gun's crews when a shell struck the ship. In South Africa most of the lyddite shells exploded without detounting, but against amour they would certainly detonate and the results would be very different in different to explosion; as character as a push is from a sharp blow. The effect of detonation is to shatter every thing in the vicinity, and we may well sup-
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WE have received several sample heads of lettuce from the gardens of the Hongkong New Territory Cultivation Co., near Shatin Some idea may be gathered of the splendid results obtained from the fact that the smallest of these tips the scales at a pound and a half. fr. Bishop, who is in charge of the Company's plantations, is to be congratulated on
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MR. Henry Lancaster Satow, nephew of Sir Ernest Satow, was married on 13th ult, at St.
plien's Church, Gloucester-road, London, to
Miss Edith Baillie. Among the numerous guests bidden to the wedding were the Earl of Haddington and the Ladies Baillie-Hamilton.
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THE Home Office, there is reason to believe,
Mr. T. Fisher Unwin is publishing a special Colonial edition of Grain or Chop? The Autobiography of a Police Magistrate. In this volume Mr.A. C. Plowden, the well known Police Magistrate at Marylebone, whose piquant ulterances are a constant source of entertain. is engaged on an Alien Immigration Bill. Its inent la Londoners, gives his recollections of the provisions will be of a drastic character, and leading incidents of a life which, if not remark- will go further than the recommendation made
able for moving adventures by flood or field' hy the Alien Commission.. If the measure is can hardly fail to have an interest for those directed to the exclusion of alien criminals, of who find in the daily records of the inw cours whom, according to the Recorder of Loudon, a the most vivid presentment of human nature, great number are dumped down in this coup-in all its varying phases. As Law Reporter to try, it would meet with general support. This is a kind of dumping which all parties will agree to restrict. If, moreover, the bill con- tains provisions which are intended to put re- strictions on the immigration of pauper aliens
that is to say, immigrants who are likely to become chargeable to the rates these also would command a great deal of sympathy. Should, however, the bill go further, and at the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Mar-tempt to place a prohibition against the en trance of all foreigners belonging to the labour joric Gordor, Lord and Lady Binning, Lord and Lady Balfour of Burleigh, Lord and Ladying classes into this country, it would raise Polwarth, Lady Harriet Lindsay and Miss serious questions, it is doubtful if Parlameni would accept legislation of so sweeping a character, and even if it did, an exclusion bill of this character, would get the Government into difficulties with other Powers-Liverpool
Lindsay, Mrs. Francis Lindsay, and Me, and Mrs. Edward Yorke.
FROM telegrams which it is understood have been received at the India Office from Calcutta, it would appear to be probable that, in the event of the operations in Tibet being on a larger scale than at present contemplated, the Government could rely upon the material, as well as the moral, assistance of the Ameer of Afghanistan. This assistance would consist in the provision of transport, stores, and guides, and would also, in certain eventualities, relieve the British force of the necessity for keeping up its own lines of communication with its base.
LETTERS received from various parts of the Empire contain news of the rapid spread of the Anti-Russian movement in the country and the establishment of Anti-Russian societies with the avowed object of strengthening the hands of the Govemment in opposing the permanent accupation of Manchuria by Russia. In Canton also there has been started a Society of this kind whose membership is being daily aug mented to an encouraging degree. Branch societies are also being rapidly organised in other cities of Kwanglung and Kwangsi provinces.
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REPRESENTATIONS are being privately made
to both the War and the India Offices as to
the necessity of giving an absolute preference to British shipowners for the transport of Government material, whether their rates be
waters with so much cargo in the shape of rails, steel work, coal, &c, guaranteed by the Govern.
ON the 17th inst., the shipping and passenger lower than those of the foreigner or not. It is trade in Chefoo was being seriously incon-urged that a foreign ship, being once in British renienced by a sampan strike. The Taotui instituted a monthly tax on the sampans in the barbour, a measure, which was resented by the men, and all struck and refused work. One or two who did not join them, or took on jobs, were severaly mauled and their sampans destroyed, and a spy from
handled, and seriously injured.
ment contract, makes a point of taking general cargo at rates which would not otherwise pay, with the result that British shipowners are practically doubly deprived by the Government action.
Post,
THE FLEET.
H.M.S. "AMPHITRITE." We understand that the Amphitrite, which was supposed to be going to Mirs Bay directly she came out of dock, is prolonging her stay until the fourth of next month.
II.M.S. GLORY."
The Glory is refitting at Hunghom dock in preparation for her new commission.. Most of her officers and crew are hulked in the Tamar awaiting the paying off. The ship is at present having her decks renewed and her machinery overhauled, and will shortly have her bottom cleaned and coated with composition.
THE NEW TERRITORY.
(From Our Coirespondent.)
December 29. Things are quiet generally in the New Terri- tory, the only item of local interest being the weather, which has been the severest experi- enced for a good many years. Several sharp frosts occurred last week, and the fields of sweet potatoes bear evident proof of their passage; the leaves of the plants being quite black. Crops will be delayed in consequence of this cold snap.
CUSTOMS PROMOTIONS.
Mr. Waight of the I. M. C. has been pro- moted to the post, of assistant-examiner and tranferred from Sha-tan-kok to Hoihow. He has been replaced by Mr. Edmon.
CULTIVATION,
the Times for many years and a familiar figure on the Oxford Circuit, Mr. Plowden bad exceptional opportunity of observing the course of many memorable trials and coming in per sonal contact with some of our greatest judges; but it is as a Police Magistrate at Marylebone that Mr. Plowden's reputation has been cqui- red; and his personal recollections in that capacity, extending over 15 years, are likely to excite curiosity among a wide circle of readers and should prove crisp and entertaining reading. A new volume which he is adding to his Library is The Stronger Claim by Alice Perrin. The book is a remarkable study of Indian life. Its theme is the effect of a dash of black blood in a white man's veins; the conflict is a man of his mixed Eastern and Western instincts. An interesting picture is given of life both among Auglo-Indian and among, half-castes and of the reception which meets a man of mixed bland. The hero is the son of a white father and a half caste mother, Entering the Indian Civil Service, he receives by chance the appointment in his native town, and the con- sequences bath for himself and his English wife are worked out in a story which, if sombre,
is convincing and full of clever chamcterisation,
THE MEASUREMENT OF
FOREIGN SHIPS. ··
A deputation representing shipping, dock, pilotage, and other interests in the Bristol Channel ports is shortly to wait upon the British Board of Trade for the purpose of ask- ing that Department to put into operation section 84, sub-sections 1, 2, and 3, of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, so that every foreign vessel on entering English ports may be re-measured and the dures; &, charged. not upon the certificate of register which such vessel may carry, but upon her tonnage in accordance with the British method of measurement. Mr. A. Beasley, the. general
manager of the Taff Vale Railway. Company, says Commercial Intelligence, bas initiated the movement, and he was led to do so be
cause it was found that at Penarth Dock which
belongs to that company, certain vessels which were some, three or four years since sold to
foreign countries had had, upon the change of ownership taking place, their net registered tonnage considerably red.ced. Upon this Mr. Beasely communicated with the dock com panies at Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Barry," and Port Talbot, and, on inquiry being made, they discovered similar instances... Mr. Beasley pursued his investigations, and arrived at the conclusion that, even if the Government had, Splendid progress has been made by the
under the provisions of the Act, satisfied.them. THE Tainfu (Shantung) correspondent of the Hongkong-New Territory Cultivation Co., and selves, that foreign countries had adopted the N. C. Daily News wrote, on 10th inst:-The there are now about 350 mow of land under English method of measurement, those coun Germans are active in this region just now,
cultivation. The winter crop of vegetables tries certainly did not in practice adhere to that PRINCESS Alice, wife of Prince Frederic of
Parties are, here continually surveying and
is a splendid one and consists of cabbages, method. A list of formerly British owned vessels Schoenburg-Waldenburg, disappeared from the
taking observations, ostensibly for the purpose sweedes, tomatoes, potatoes, radishes and trading with Bristol Channel ports has been Prince's castle at Gauernite, near lieissen, of making a correct map of the country. There lettuce. All the seed used is of American prepared, and this shows that their net regis Saxony, on Nov. 9, and no trace of her basis much curiosity excited among the people in origin, Messrs. Peter Henderson & Co., of Newtered tonnage has, after their sale to foreigners, handsome man, vanished at the same time and consequence, but the main effect of it is to York, being the purveyors. For manuring been greally reduced. Comparing the year.
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shells against her side, hardly a man would be left to fight the guns. These anticipations are, however, built upon the effects of the Bolleisle trials and similar experiments, and can pretend to say positively what the effect upon a ship's crew would be in reality. It may be that the power of our present armament have been over-estimated; but mean- while, the prevailing dread of a fleet action is a healthy restraint upon the dogs of war. It has been said by some that, if Russia and Japan go to war, it would "clear the air"; but if clearing the air would destroy that wholesome fear of modern ordnance in any measure, it is to be hoped that the atmos KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
phere will remain clouded for a very long time HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
to come. Meanwhile, we are pleased to PHOTOGRAPHIC know that our fleet in these waters is ready
DEPARTMENT.
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to put to sea if required at short notice, and that the Amphitrite is once more on the
active list.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE German Mail of the 25th November was
delivered in London on the 28th inst.
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A SMOKING concert is being held at the Water Police Station, at Kowloon, on New Year's Eve.
THE Columbia, the sailing boat, nineteen feet long, in which Captain Elsenbrawn left "Bos- ton August rith alone for Marseilles, arrived
at Gibraltar en 20th ult.
ACCORDING to the P. & T. Times it is
generally accepted in official circles in Peking that, in consequence of the Manchurian occupation, Great Britain will very shortly appoint a Governor for the Yangtze, which will then become like Hongkong, THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer
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since been found. Her coachman, a young and
stimulate inquiries as to trade prospects. Al purposes American fertilisers are used, con- it is not doubted that they cloped, as it has about the country we are asked if we think such sisting mainly of pea-nut cake and salt petre. About 200,000 cabbages are now out
heen learned from reliable sources that the relations between the couple were very intimate. Princess Alice is a daughter of Don Carlos.
THE Novoe Fremya, in a recent article, declared that if the British succeeded in carrying out their plans Thibet will be in their hands, as they will always be in ap sition threaten Lhassa, and if they gain control of the Holy Land of Thibet, that the 500,coopoo Buddhists will regard Great Britain as being the most powerful country in the world. The Novce Vrémyu adds:-"While it is impossible for the weak Thibetans to prevent the British crossing the Himalayas, it is quite possible for others to compel the British to stop by creating a slight diversion in some direction disagreeable to the British politicians."
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and such places are favourable for development of business. We are still supposed, of course, to be possessed of unlimited powers for discern ing the occult forces of nature.
and in splendid condition, and most of the plants might figure with success in our agricul
tural exhibitions at home. In the summer
months tobacco and hemp is cultivated on the duce, All work is done under strict European ground now laid out for market-garden pro- supervision, and to this can be attributed the excellent results obtained.
that the foreign tonnage entering the docks at 1897 with 1902, Mr. Feasley has also found
Cardiff, Newport, Penarth, Barry, and Swansea has increased by no less than 92 per cent. Mr. Beasley holds that the effect of the system in question is that the English shipowners are unfairly bandicapped, the dock companies lose IT is said that steps are to be taken for the
considembly in dues, and the earnings of pilots formation of an Australian Commonwealth
points out, is simple for the Government have are prej dicially affected. The remedy,, he Bank. The scheme was originally proposed
power to issue an Order in Council direc'ing over two years age, but its realisation was
that foreign vessels shall be remeasured on the postponed owing to the war and the ansettled
Access to Mao-tam, in the Santin district, is English basis when entering British ports.- erally. The plan involves the obtaining of aby no means easy, owing to the deplorable Fr, special charter, so that the bank would have condition of the roads, which are little better more or less the same relation to the Common than mouniain tracks. It is to be hoped that wealth as the Bank of England possesses to
the authorities will see their way to bring about some improvement in this respect. the home Government. It is possible, how- ever, that opposition may be offered to this by
state of affairs in the Australian colonies gen-
some of the older colonial banks, which have hitherto been accustomed to share Government business.
A CURIOUS letter has been published from. King Edward on the fiscal fight, A London Ir is reported that M. Louis, the Director of correspondent of a provincial paper stated that the Consular and Commercial Department of his Majesty would view any change of the fiscal the French Foreign Office, is expected in system with disapproval. Somebody wrote to London shority for the purpose of making the King asking if this statement was true, and private inquiries into the working of our at the reply: "The Private Secretary is Consular and Commercial Departments. It is commanded to acknowledge the receipt of said to strike the French, and indeed, most Mr. Percy Marks's letter. of the 17th inst, and foreign minds, as peculiar that our Commercial in reply to say that the King never expresses Department is separated from our Consular any opinion on political matters except on the Department; and, although there are many advice of his responsible Ministers, and that anomalies in our system in this respect, it therefore the statement Mr. Marks refers to would seem to be inadvisable to turn the Con- must be inaccurate. Grammatically this would sular service over to the Board of Trade, in mean tha: his Majesty, did not view a change view of the diplomatic character of the services in the fiscal system with disapproval, ....... which Its members often have to render. THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the. Bear
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Local sportsmen have suffered disappoint- ment this year, for snipe and quail are ex- tremely rare. There are numerous wild pigeon, however, and shooters who go in for this branch of sport can rely on a day's tramp through the fields resulting in a good bag Great numbers of duck and teal still frequent Deep Bay, but the difficulty of getting any- where within range, owing to the mud flats,
does away with any chance of securing any of these wily birds,
CATTLE DISEASE.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE.
'French (Polynesien) to-morrow.
American (Hongkong Maru) 31st inst. English (Bingal) and prox. Canadian (Athenian) 5th prox.
German (Klauischon) 5th prox. German ( Sachsen) 8th prox. Indian (Lalang) toth prox.
· American (China) roth prox.
The N...P. S. Co's as. Olympia arrived at Victoria, B.C on 24th instyt
The A. A. Co's ss. Himera left Fobchow There has been an outbreak of cattle disease this morning, and is dus here on 1st prox at Chek-un, and about 70 head out of a herd. The A. A. Co's 5.3. Arara from New York of ico, belonging to a Chinese breeder, have dne here from Manila on 4th prox., at day. been lost in a very short space of time light. seems that the epidemic has now died out, for no further losses have occurred during the last
week or so.
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The N. Y. K. 9.B. Kinshiu Maru (Bo- bay,
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HE Beer to drink in the troplos is the Beer made in the tropica–SAN MIGUEL,