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A FECULIARLY lucky Kling was caught by a i crocodile while bathing in the swamp near the 6th milestone on Thompson Road, Singapore), Į on the 4th inst. Ile got off with his life, bur his leg was chewed by the saurian, and he is therefore in hospital.
AT THE SUPREME COURT
NEW SOLICITORS ENROLLED
THIS MORNING.
tu moneys owing him that he lost over $40.00 ELEGRAM S.
in the last year. People were indebted to him in Japan and Australia. He sent goods to them and no remittances wereforwarded to bim
RIVER STEAMBOAT COMPANY'S FAILURE,
at the Supreme Court this morning, the His Lordship I supp se, you sent gooda Chief Justice, Sir W. M. Goodman, directed there to friends and hava.nuw get a nice that three newly-arrived gentlemen be admittede fortune there. Is that it? No, they don't On the 8th inst a largely attended meeting of and catolled as solicitors of the Court. The pay the the native Bankers' Guild was held to consider. Hon. H, E. Pallock, KC., first moved, under
Subsequently, his Lordship.made a receiving the state of the financial market of Shanghai the provisions of Ordinance 3, of 18yr that Mr.
order and appointed Mr. Bryce Shepher official on account of the continual export of silver Otto, Kong Sing be approved, admitted and
receiver, ap aycee to Port Arthur ant Japan, and to devise unrolled to pcrise as attorney and solicitor of means to put a stop to this exportation. The the Court. He beaved his Lordship would: Mercury says the sycee in Shanghai at presentee that the applicat on was supported by amounts to only one and a half million taels, affidavits showing that Mr. Otto Kong Sing should be about eight million tuels, white the usual amount at this time of the year was admitted to practise in September of last year in the Supreme Court of Judicature in England. There was also the usual affidavit of identity which had been filed by Mr. Fung wa Chuen
On the 6th inst. as the P. & O. str. Palermo Single Copies Daily, ten centa; Weekly, twenty was coming into Woosung on the flood tide and in swinging round she ran into the steamer Akunoura Maru which was anchored near the Red buoy. The Palermo had seven plates stove in on the starboard side, while the Abu
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, Thursday, JanuaRY 14, 1904.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
His Lordship admitted Mr. Kong Sing id practise.
Mr. E. II. Sharp, K.C, then made & similar application on behalf of Mr. Dudley Vaughan Stevenson, who was admitted as a solicitor in July 1951, having been previously articled for five years in London. He had just arrived in
Looker and Deacon.-The application was granted.
At the same Court this morning, before the Chief Justice, Sir W. M. Goodman, Mr. M. W. Slade appeared on behalf of the Wo On Steamship Co. Ltd., and applied for a winding up order. He said the petition, pre- sented by the Company itself, showed that the undertaking was now insolvent, and although, it had very substantial assets there was not sufficient to pay liabilities. The only possible
course to adopt in order to avoid incurring other liabilities was to cease trading.
noura Mary had her stem badly damaged, It is understood that the Japa ese steamer will have her repairs eflected in Shanghai and will be detained here about 14 days. The Palermo will be temporarily patched up for the present the Colony to join the firm of Messrs. Deacon,nd read the papers, from which it seemed that
|and will undergo a proper overhaul on her re-
SEVERAL items are unavoidably withheld until turn to Shanghai. to-morrow's issue.
A PENANG wire of the 5th inst. to the Straits Time: says that the N,Y,K. liner Bingo-Maru, while swinging to the tide at her moorings, colli- ded with the German steamer Sumatra, and did damage to the extent of $2,500. Both vessels Nort-Port, after removal, should be were anchored at the time. The s.s. Glengyle had some difficulty in heaving up her anchor owing to the position of the Bingo Maru.
rested for a month before use.
Wine required for IMMEDIATE usc should be ordered to be.decanted before
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These Wines are specially suited for Invalids and general use, and are too well
known to need further comment.
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Hongkong, 9th January, 1904.
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The transpon Dilwara has left Southampton
on a voyage of military relief service, which will not terminate till the vessel arrives back at Southampton about the middle of February with tinie-expired men, from colonial duty. In the course of her voyage she wit visit Gibraltar Malta, AlexandriaTM Ceylon, Singapore, Hong" kong, and Rangoon, landing relief drafts from home, and in some cases moving troops from une station to another.
By kind permission of Major Radcliffe and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner on Friday, the 15th instant (weather permitting).
Muchons of the Empire
........ Brantoni
Keletin
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The Toreador"
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Kappey „Walderafel
And ė
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Cal wave the King.
FROM the Peking ánd Tientsin Times of the 1st instant.Russian surveying parties have 135 been very busy in the vicinity of Haicheng, where there are now 1,500 Russian soldiers,
A CHEE & CO., 祥利 利廣
17, QUEEN'S ROAD.
with barracks being built for double that num- ber. It is rumoured that the control of the Russo-Chinese Bank-is to be transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the Far East Special Commission.--Chang Yen-mao has mortgaged all his property to a foreign bank in order to raise enough to meet the demand that has been made on him.
THE Universal Gazette gathers that on the 29th and the 30th ultimo the Central Govern- ment at Peking telegraphed to the Viceroys and Governors of the different provinces that
the Russo-Japanese negotiations would in evitably result in war, and very soon too; but FURNITURE the Central Government has definitely decided
DEALERS.
DRAWING-ROOM,
DINING-ROOM,
and BED-ROOM
FURNITURE.
ELECTRO-PLATED,
GLASS, and
CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING RANGES,
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD' REQUISITES.
His Lordship:-The liabilities are put down as $45,000 and the assets about $31,000,
After further remarks, Bis Lordship said that no one appeared to oppose the application. He
the Company was incorporated in April 1902,
for the purpose of working passenger traffic be tween Hongkong and certain ports of the West River, and generally to carry on the business of ferrymen, wharfingers, ferries, and cargo, tug and, steamboat owners, lo less than a year they got into difficulties, and the business is now being carried on at a dally loss. Under the circumstances he thought it right that a winding up order should be made.
Mr. Sharp also moved that Mr. Arthur Con- THE SANITATION OF THE
rad Holborow be admitted to practise. Mr. COLONY.
Hoiborow, he said, was admitted as a solicitor the Supreme Court-of-Judicature on Eng. Yesterday's visit of this Excellency the Gover-land 1st November, having been articled for nor to the central district of the Sanitary Board five years in the country and at Messrs. in order to view the cleansing operations of the Hepworth & Co., in London. He had only Colony has more than a passing interest in recently arrived in Hongkong and was also view of the stateme: is which have been pub-joining the firm of Mesars, Deacon, Looker and "He made the order, and appointed Mr. Lowe lished elsewhere on the condition of long Deacon.-His Lordship granted the applica-provisionat liquidator, subject to the proper kong 10-day. From the cadier times of the tion and, addressing the three gentlemen en- security being given, and sanctioned the ap-
rolled, said; I feel confident, having regard to pointment of a solicitor to assist him. the papers I have read, showing your antece- dents, that you will worthily maintain the re- FORTHCOMING bire brigaDE putation and dignity of the profession to which you belong. I wish you every success in your practise.
Honourable East India Company Hongkong has always been connected with some fatal pestilence, and as far back as 1859 the Times gave utterance to the prevailing opinion in England that Hongkong was always involved internal squabble, so much so that the name in some "doubtful war, some discreditable
of this noisy, busting, quarrelsome, discon tended little island may not inaptly be used 14 a euphonious synonym for 2 place not mentionable to ears polite." Every official hand was against his neighbour, said the London journal, and concluded, "a dicta tor is needed, a sensible man, a man of tact and firmness, and we cannot always be investi- gating a storm in a tea-cup, when each indivi
dual tea leaf has its dignity and its grievance. Fifteen years earlier than the penning of those words the sanitation of the Colony was under taken by the Govenment when a fever epidemic
threatened its very existence, and Ordin ,ance No. 5 of March 20th, 1844, had for its abjects the enforcing of sanitary measures among all classes
of residents; but no were undertaken at
| effective measures
that time. When later cholera attacked the Colony, Dr. Peter Paker and Dr. Hobson opered the Seamen's Hospital on the site of the present Government Civil Institution and with a view to exterminaing a scourge which had carried, off by death twenty-four per cent. of the troops, and ten per cent. of the European populace, over sixty years ago, the Govern. ment directed their attention to building con. struction to relieve the congested population. But noth ng was done. la 1874 the sanitation of the Colony remained as i did in the early sixties, and a decade has now passed since plague took hold of We understand that now, steps are about to be taken to give a voice to the opinion of Dr. Chaldecott in the
it.
early fifties, and Professor Simpson and Mr. Chadwick, who followed that early pioneer not
long ago. Every medical expert who has ven
A WIRE TRANSACTION.
EXHIBITION AND COMPETITION.
For the past six weeks or so members of the Fire Brigade have been busily engaged with Messrs. A Ross & Co., of 4, Des Voeux Road, their appliances at the Central Station, and at seven o'clock this moming a number of fire men with pumps, ladders; etc. carried out
sought to recover the sum of $708. from the Ching Hop firm, of Winglok Street, in respect of the loss on re-sale of a quantity of wire rig-various movements at the City Hall. Exercises- ing, of which defendants refused delivery. were gone through with the telescopic ladders, The case came on for hearing at the Supreme pomps, hoss, reels, dispatch boxes and so on, Court this morning before the Puisne Judge, and some very sman pieces of work were
Mr. A. G. Wise, when Mr. E. A. Bonner, of witnessed.
Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. J. Hastings for the defendants. Mr. Bonner explained that it was an action for damages for breach of contract in respect of the sale of a quantity of wire rigging. The contract, which was dated the 18th December, 1903, cúpulated for go tons of the wire of air quality; not 100 much worn or rusted As good possible. Tu arrive January or it arrived in several shipments, and when February shipment" the last delivery came to hand, on the 2nd June, the defendants refused to chop the notice book, of arrival. The first two lots arrived within time and defendants refused to take delivery of them on account of the quality, and cancelled the contract.
Mr. Hastings thought it was unnecessay to failed to deliver the quantity raentioned in the ko into the question of quality. Plaintiffs had
contract, and it was quite clear defendants were not bound to take any less amount.
Mr. Bonner submitted defendants broke the contract as they refused to take delivery.
Mr. J. Douglas, marine surveyor, spoke to
Having examined some 200 coils of wire ligging
case.
about seven months after it had been landed. It was then unfit for rigging purposes.—Mr. T. P. Hall, marine surveyor, also gave evidence, and his Lordship eventually adjourned the
BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. Mr. F. X. L'Almada e Castro applied for a receiving order on behalf of Chan Yik Cho alias Chan Fang, carrying on business under the styles of Kwong Yik and Kwong Cheong, rice dealer, of 237, Des Vaux Road, West. The assets were set down at $25,553-37, against which there wore liabilities amounting to $53,095.06. Forty per cent of the assets were good debts and the remainder doubtful. Mr. D'Almada explained that the petition was filed on the 23rd December last. The debts due to the Kwong Yik shop amounted to $11,835.95 and those to the Kwong Cheong shop to $13.71743. The debtor was the sole owner of the establishment,
His Lordship-What does he want with two different firms? Does he run it for two sepa tate firms? soppose he goes in for rice gambling? He gambles in rice, and if prices go up makes large profits, and if it goes down goes into bankruptcy. (To the debtor): Why did you want to have two separate firms?
to remain neutral and assist or interfere with tured an opinion on the subject has stated a neither of the belligerents. The Guzelle firm conviction that rodent life and overcrowd. remarks that it is true that Russia and Japaned dwellings are the main factors in the will soon be engaged in a war but considering dissemination of plague and other diseases. the subject of contention between the two To frame Ordinances and amendments with countries it is inexplicable how the Central a view to legal effect and nol with an Government could come to such a decision. intelligent view of the circumstances, consist
ent with sanitary science is about as futile THE Shun lao has given a long account of as Willet's action in Barnaby Rudge when the causes of the Kwangsi rebellion. Accord. he advertised for his runaway grown up son, ing to that account, the rebellion; now still by describing him as a child of tender years. unsuppressed, is due to three principal causes,
To prohibit the file rodents from landing viz., the dissension among the civil officials, the from steamers, and permit them to enter by discord between the civil and military officials,way of junks, is about as absurd as to stop and the miseries and suffering of the people them by other means of entering houses by ROCHESTER LAMPS,
Mest of the people in the affected districts were
day when they can secure a safe entrance by WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. compelled to join the rebels under peculiar night, and it is about as foolish to quibble over circumstances. They were poor and hungry, the true definition of a kitchen, a hood, or a subject to maltreatment of the Government flue, as it is to permit the construction of a troops and turned out of their houses by the wooden ceiling, veritable harbours where rebel forces." The disbanded soldiers of rodent life grows and flourishes at will. If it Marshal Su formed another potent factor of the is possible to grasp the plague thoroughly, and rebel strength, for, on being disbanded, they entirel, eradicate it from the Colony, the opi- immediately raised the cry of revenge against nions of medical experts and others versed in PHOTOGRAPHIC their Government, and turned their arms against modern sanitary science musibe taken fairly into the very people for whom they had just fought. consideration, and according to the distinctly DEPARTMENT.
Again, the degradation of Marshal Sa and peculiar conditions prevailing in Hongkong, DEVELOPING and PRINTING Governor Wang added greatly to the changed given a fair trial. If the question of external air is all-absorbing, and a rat-proof building necas- UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. situation in Kwangsi.
sary in the suppression of the scourge, then by GOOD WORK.
all means reconstruct dwellings where the sun light shall reach every portion of the structure, and where light will penetrate where, in the darkness, plague bacilli is known almost wholly to exist. It is understood to be the growing official opinion that vacant tracts of land both on the Eastern and Western sides can well be utilis-shop. ed for the construction of model dwellings some- thing on the style of the Peabody system, and a number of European and Chinese property owners are willing to speculate if the ordinary Why did'at you continue to do pretty well in difficulties attending land tenure in the Colonyone shop instead of very badly in two?-Afier. be removed. The acquisition of land in the opened the other shop people cheated me out Central district for the purpose of reconstruc- of money. They would not pay money which tion of dwellings more upon the lines advocat. they owed to me.
PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904. CARMICHAEL AND
CLARKE,
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.
REPAIRS PLOMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
The debtor- first bad one shop and found I could open another so I started the
second.
You speculated in rice and lost your money, is that it?-Yes.
I don't like these two different shops. One shop can draw bills on another shop, and all sorts of iniquity can go on in that fashion, Why don't you trade under your own name?— There was business and so I opened another
Why, if you could not make one shop pay,
1 did you want to open another?-When I started
was pretty well off.
THE Sin Wan Pao gathers that the Govern ment at St. Petersburg seeing that China was [45 about to unite her military strength with that of Japan to strenuously oppose Russia's oc cupation of the Three Eastern Provinces, has become sorely alarmed and surprised; con. sequently she has been recently more yielding to Japan's demands. At the same time she is playing with and fooling Japan and trying to sever her alliance with China while she is applying every pressure on the latter Empire in order to acquire as much advantage as possible in the meantime and under the circumstances. In response to the telegram of the Grand Council to the Viceroys and Govern. ors of the different provinces asking them to ed by Mr. Chadwick has within the past: Altogether you say that about 40 per cent. of give their definite opinion to the Council for few days engaged serious attention, and apan: the debts are good. That would make you transmission to the Throne - whether China from the ordinary, cleansing of the Colony, if have less than Stojoco assets. You owed should co-operate with Japan" in arresting | something practical can be done in this direc. $30,000, so you have done somebody out of Russia's aggression in the Far East, Viceroy ion, a distinct advance will be made in the $42,000 from the two shops in a very short time Teen Chun hauen of Llang Kwang promptly already progressive commercial steps of an Continuing, debtor said he was solvent when telegraphed in the affirmativélum,get otherwise belated Hongyong Cqubileudd. || Be started the second shop, and it was owing, THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Eter
THE Beer to drink la the tropics the Bear
made in the tropice SAN MIGUELT
TELEGRAME: "CARMICHAEL," Hongkong. A.-B. C. Code, 4th Edition,
A Code
Lieber's Standard
Code.
TELEPONE, 332. Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
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HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer Tide is the tropics--SAN MIGUEL,
THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL.
The practice, lasted until about eight o'clock, after which the men returned to their quarters. We understand that it is in tended to exercise one half of the brigade on Thursday mornings and the other half early on Fridays. Some time in February it is hoped to have an exhibition on the Cricket Ground at which there will be competitions for prizes between the members of the Brigade. It is certainly a movement deserving of support,
appreciation of the Brigade's services to the and we trust the public will show their
Colony by assisting in every way possible.
CORRESPONDENCE,
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents to this column.)
#HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE.
(From Our Correspondent.)
SERIOUS RIOT
NEAR CANTON,
4,000 RAILWAY COOLIES STRIKE.
SHAMEEN, 14th January.
9.10 a.m.
A serious riot has occurred in connection with the Canton-Jankow railway. Four thousand coolies em- ployed on the construction of the line have gone on striku, giving as their reason the insufficiency of wages, an increase of which they demand.
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The United States Consul, Mr, R. Me Wade, wired to Minister Conger at Peking last night for instructions to act in the emergency. [The above wire was issued as a Special Extra.
at 11 am, to-day.--Ed, II.K. 7.
Accident to the 8:8. “Fatshan.".
"DEPARTURE DELATED:
SHAMEEN, 14th January,
9.20 a.m.
As the steamer Fatahan, Captain Jones, was leaving the wharf this morning her propeller fouled the wharf chain and she was unable to proceed. The Tai On and Kongmun have not yet arrived, being probably delayed by the fog.
-LATER
The Fatshan got clear and sailed at 10.45 am. The Kongmun arrived here at 9.30 and the Tai On at 10
a.in.
China Association:
IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.
(From Our Correspondeni.)
SHANGHAI, 13th Januarý,
5.40 p.m.
At the annual meeting yesterday evening of the China Association a resolution was carried unanimously
THE CHINA ASSOCIATION AND THE to the effect that steps should be taken towards amalgamation with the China League.
FISCAL POLICY.
To the Editor or rux "Hongkong Teleurapii.
小
DEAR SIR,- beg to inform you that the [This telegram was received too late for pub- Committee of this Branch of the Cuina Associa- | líestion in our issue last night.—ED., H.K.T.}, tion have despatched the following telegram to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain :—
"Large majority of Members Hongkong
Branch China Association warmly support your fiscal aims. Consider reciprocal treaties abso- lutely necessary, failing which recommend adoption retaliation."
The Members, who were asked to vote on the subject, were practically unanimous in sanc tioning its despatch, only two dissenting.
Yours faithfully,
C. PEMBERTON,
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, 14th January, 1904.
SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING CO.
Opium for China.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
BOMBAY, 14th January.
The P. & O, Co.'s mail steamer left Bombay yesterday afternoon with about 1,100 chests of Malwa opium, Prices are:--
Malwa (New) ...Rs. 1,230. (Old) 1,350 (Older) ·1,400
21
(Oldest)
1,500
(Reuter's.):
33
The Crisis-Russia's Proposal.
LONDON, 12th January.
Reports have lately been circulating in the Java papers hinting that the Shell Transport and Trading Company was not at all in a satisfactory position and that the Royal Dutch Oil Company was likely to administer the busi. ness in Java. The Socrudaya Handelsblad actually went the length the other day of giving It is announced in Berlin that Russia's the name of the gentleman who would act as proposals to Japan are essentially as follows: administrator. It need hardly be said that the (1) Japan is accorded various concessions rumours are devoid of a foundation. The Shell Trading Company's business was never in a in Korea (2): Japan is allowed to deal with more flourishing condition. There is only Southern Korea economically and strategi. one possible ground on which these rumours cally as her interests may require; (3) may have been based. There has been an interchange of views of lata between Russia leaves Japan full commercial free.
reverse, for it would result in enhanced trade
the two companies, having as an ultimate dom in Northern Korea, but neither nor in object the combining of trade interests for mutual benefit. But if such an arrangement Southern Korea shall Japan permanently were adopted, it would not mean that either of occupy any fortresses whether on the coast the Companies was in a' bad way; rather the or in the interior (4) The establishment of created profits. It is matter for concer: a neutral fifty-kilometre zone along the Valu and regret that a Socrabaya paper should lend to Tinmen, where neither Japan nor Russia
self to the dissemination of news whose un- reliability could easily be ascertained. Stratis shall establish fortresses, the Straits of Korea to be neutral and free to Russian ships; (5) Times,
Russia accepta no conditions in reference to Manchuria, but is ready to accord Japan and other Powers representation for com- mercial interests. It is afro-stated that Russia has notified the Powers that she will respect all rights in Manchuria granted under treaties with China,
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE.. English (Malta) 16th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 19th inst, American (Doric) 19th inst.
-- German (Bayern) 19th inst.
Australian (Tsinan) 2151 inst.
||| Gelman"(Gern) sandrinst. - )
Indian (Kumsang)-26th inst,
The s.s. Wyneric left. Moji yesterday after- noon, and may be expected here on 18th inst. The Apcar Ca's Liglining from Cal cutta left Singapore for this port yesterday! afternoon.
The CPR Cossa, Empress of India arrived at Kobe at 1.30 pm, on 13th inat, and for Shanghai where abe is due to arrive at 10 left again at midnight same day, via Nagasaki! pm, on 16th instNG MANG BER
Bear to drink in the tropica is the le pomade in the tropics.
Unrest in the Balkar
Advices from all the Balkan point to the certainty of a gener tion in the spring! important factor in the Far Easter engaged both in the Ne because Russia is not likely
HE Beer