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in some way with oppositional movements. Twenty of the prisoners were dispatched to Siberia without trial, 13 were banished to Siberia for life, and the rest sentenced to
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5. J. Action No. 432 of 1904. The Tak On Insurance Exchange & Loan Co., Ltd. als.
Fung Wai Shan.
ARK BISMARCK OF JAPAN
MARQUIS ITO.
In the East they call Marquis Ito the "Bis marck of Japaw." "The emperor," says a re- cent telegram, "has had a long talk with Mar. quis Ito before convening the Council of Ministers to consider the text of the note to be addressed to Russin. It is believed that Mar-
various terms of imprisonment in Eastern The Tak On Insurance Exchange & toan Coquis Ito is kept well informed regarding the
Siberia.
AMONG the passengers ez route to fiongkong by the C.P.R. steamer Athenian which is due here to grow is Captain Traubridye, until recently Naval Attaché to the British Legation in Tusy, whis leaving for honte. The Captain on leaving Tokyo for Yokohama received a hearty send-offat Shimbasbištation fromalarge number of foreign and Japanese Inends, among those present being Air Clade MacDonald, British Minister; Count vun rco Valley, German Minister; Viscount Aoki, Admiral Viscount Ito, Chief of the Naval Beard of Command: Admiral juin, Assistant Chief of the Naval Board; Admiral Miyabar, and other well
known meN,
WE would direct the attention of readers to an
framing of the Japanese note."
As I read that despatch the face of the foreign statesman, the most remarkable that the last century has produced in the Orient, came vivid.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong Teltorası." DEAR FIR-The attention of our clients,
Ltd, has been drawn to the report contained in your issue of the 5th instant of this action, and in particular to the reported statements of Mr. flastings, plaintiff's soliciter, to the effect that, "this year, however, the directors wrate him (the platif) to the effect that as the busily before my memory. Again I beheld its ness was greatly decreasing and there being deep wrinkles in brow and cheek; its eternally feats of it not being able to continue for much stereotyped smile, disclosing the pointed white toner is he (the plaintiff) had a better situation teeth between the blanched lips; the extra- to take up he was at liberty to go.”
ordinary keenness of the eyes that looked out through gold-bowed spectacles; and especially the predigious and disturbing quickness of the glances that sought and found and recorded whatever was of interest to the mind that con- trolled them.
In the course of the hearing, the plaintiff's solicitor produced the above letter and put in and read what purported to be a translation thereof bearing out the above statement.
Upon the letter in question being translated by the Court translator, however, it was cerui- fed to mean as follows :- This is to respect-
fly inform you that at present we find
getting your businesa
very small rc-
Mr. Wai Shan.
announcement which appeared yesterdayregard.cently, and his Company cannot employ ing the Sea View Beach House near Kobe, you again. If you have better employment The house is well si nated on the beach of the please select one, and draw at once $15 as Inland Sea only six miles from Kobe and is settlement of the 12th moon's wages. This is highly respectable in all its appointments.
to specially inform WATSON'S ORIENTAL
The management cuter for families, to whom a special reduction is made, and we should ima FRICE. In the early days of the Colony the
gine that tolening visitors to the shores of public used no other. Liquid dentifrices THE German mail of the 2nd March was deli- this famous sea could not do better than pay do not keep the teeth white and clean. We
DENTI- | HosgKONG Bank shares have advanced to
5030 buyers.
vered in London on the tst inst.
a
visit to Sea View Beach House during the coming season. It lies in a quier spot away
from the bustle of crowded hotels. A first-
Kwai Year 12th moon 1st day (Chop)
"Written by the various Directors," The difference in meaning between the cor rect translation and the one produced by the
plaintiff's solicitor is so obvious that in justice to themselves our clients feel compelled to ask
It was three years ago, in a London salon, that I met him; and there we had a long, talk. To-day I have rediscovered the brief notes 1 had then jotted down in my journal.
As be told me the story of his political career I felt as if I were turning the pages of some Oriental story of Haroun al „Raschid. He was twenty years old when he first took office under his country's Government. The old nikado, Komei Tenno, made him his friend and one morning summoned him to the palace. "You have," said he, "the making of a statesman, and perhaps you are destined
to become the prime minister of Japan, but to
recommend the above, preparation to all. PRINCE Po Lun left Tukin on the 28th ultimo class cook has already been engaged, and the you to give pablicity to this and so correct any this end you must give yourself a broad
and especially to those who are heavy
smokers.
en route for America, where he goes to vart the St. 1. na Exhibition.
MR. Okasaki, of Kube, has purchased the Dutch steamer Helebes and re-named her the Nichiyet-maru. She was transferred to the A. S. WATSON & Co., purchaser at Yokohama on the 16th ult
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U.S. ADM RAL Cooper has changed his pen- mant from the cruiser New Orleans to the battleship Wisconsin which is hereafter the Bagship of the United States Asiatic Fleet.
MR. Arnold Forster, the Secretary for War. in reply to a question in the House of Com- mons the other day, stated that the total nitish casualties deaths) in the South Ainican war was 20,620.
I wo fatal cases of plague are notified as having occurred during the day caled noon to-day, one was from Moon Street and the other from
[35 Second Street. Since the beginning of the
year there have been eleven cases.
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OYER half a million gallons of American ke- rosene oil past the Kowloon Customs-during October, November and December of last year. Compared with the same period of got it is a filling off of more than 75 per cent.
THE Nippon Yusen Kaisha has chartered two more steamers in London. One of these the Giessa, sailed from England on the 12th ult.
cuisine will be of the best, though if guests desire wines and spirits tey must provide their own, as intoxicating liquors will not be sold on the premises,
erto cous impression of our clients' position and standing that may have been created by the statement above referred to.
Yours faithfully,
DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON. Hongkong, 7th April, 1904.
THE HEALTH OF PAKHOL
Who's Who Year Book, 1934" is to hand from Messrs. Adam and Charles Black, Soho Square, London. In response to numerous suggestions and requests the publishers have, this year, issaed in book form under the above title, the tables which were formerly incorporated Dr. J. H. Lowry's report, on the health of in 'Who's Who,' and which were deleted fram | time to time in order to make room for the large number of biographies. The price of the book is one shiling net. It contains all that anyone ordinarily wants of the inimimation lound in the various year-boox>; Parlamentary annuals; Forein Office, Colmia, and Indian lists; be sides including much miscellaneous informia. tion usually only to be gathered from very many different sources, Among the contents are tables of pseudonyms, peculiarly pronounced
education, Especially you must understand Europe."
At the expense of the imperial treasury, Ito was despatched in company with another distinguished Japanese genileme, Count Inouye, on a journey to England. There he remained fifteen months studying English and the institutions of Great Britain; he observed men and affairs and ships, ships most of all At the end of the fifteen months he returned to the Orient and threw himself Fakhoi, for the half-year ended 31st March, headlong into the war in which Japan was then 1903, is printed in the Medical Reports of the involved. Un his way home he left the passenger Imperial Maritime Customs. Dr. Lowry says:
steamier and enlisted as a simple sailor on board ---The general health of foreigners has been a man-of-war; took part in the naval battie that fairly good during the past six months, aly was fought beneath the walls of Shimonoseki; four members of the Customs staff and one of and then, still in sailor's dress, negotiated with the postal have been off duty through sickness
the foreign Powers in the name of his There has been une birth, the lady being on a
emperor. He was twenty-two years old. visit from the neighbouring port: she was a multipara, and made a good recovery. The winter has not been a severe one-the usual northerly flaws, which last three days, then the weather is old again; the lowest reading of the thermometer was 3, F., on the 30th Jan.
When the treaty of peace was signed he was made governor of Hyogo, and in 1868 at the age of twenty-eight he was made minister of finance. Then followed cabinet after cabinet
and ministerial combination after misterial
canîbination without reference to Ito. Later, however, he was seven times made minister and four times president of the council.
proper names, profesors, sucreties, acidemic degrees, Government offresals and many others, The book, in shor, combines in itself the gist of the information given in many other publica-Th: rainfall has not been great; the largest quantity recorde I was in the month of Decem- ber and March. Dengue was prevalent in the
One day the younger emperor, Mutsuhito, town during September, October, and Novem. ber; in the latter month I attended three Euro-almost the same words which his father, had to called to him, and addressed him in
tions.
SANITARY BOARD.
peans, all living in the same house, situated on
Komei Tenno, had used: "You are a grea
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held the Lienchow Road. One of the ladies stricken minister, but you must still inform yourseli
this afternoon in the Board Room. Present: The President (Hou. 1. J. M. Atkinson, P.C.M.O.), Mr. P. Jones, (Vice-President), Mr. Ahmet Rumjahn, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Dr.
for Nagasaki, while the other one was to leave Peatse (Acting M. C. H.), Dr. Burnet' (Assis-there was much weakness of the knees for
home by the end of March for either Nagasaki or Kube.
--.-
THE erection and construction of a railway terminus and offices at Penang, for the Feder ated Malay Slates Railway, will soon be taken in band. It is now only a matter of a few years for through rail connection between Penang and Singapore.
THE total of dues and duties collected by the Kowloon Customs during the last quarter of 1953 was Hk. Tis. 84,687 as against Ilk. Tis 80,280 the same quarter of 1993. The figures for the Lappa district are Hk. Tis 101, 921 and ilk. Tls. 76,633, respectively,
THE French steamer innam which left Shang- hai on Saturday took away about 450 passen- Besides too men of the crew of the gers. Mandjour she had a number of men belonging to the Russian vessels detained in Japan and numerous refugees from Korea and the north,
PHOTOGRAPHIC HE. TSEN Chan Hisuen, Viceroy of Liang
DEPARTMENT.
DEVELOPING and PRINTING
UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN.
Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.
CAPSULES.
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Kwang, has wired to Paking that he would undertake to raise funds for the construction of
the railway in Kwangsi, 10 keep it from falling
into the hands of a certain power, whose re- presentative has been for soine time after the concession.
tant M. O. 11.), Col. Welsh, Mr. F. J. Hadeley, and M. T. A. Hanmer, Acting Secretary.
The minutes of the previous meetings were confirmed.
The President, moved :-- That Donald John Mackenzie, Hubert John William Gidley and Horace Julian Kaight be appointed for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the bye-laws for the "Prevention or mitigation of epidemic, endemic or contag tous disease" subject to the approval of His Excellency the Officer Administering the
Government.
That Henry Thomas Jackinan and Allied Carter, acting sanitary surveyors, and Horace Julian Knight, and Herbert Pearson b: deputed by the Board under section 30 of the Public lealth and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, to institute summary proceedings before a magis. trate against any person contravening any of bye-laws duly made under sertion 16 of the aforesaid Ordinance; and that the said Henry Thomas Jackman be authorised by the Board to issue disficates of occupation in respect of domestic buildings under section 84 of Ordin- ance No. 13 of gor; and further
That the said Henry Thomas Jackman, Alfred Carter, Horace Julian Knight, and Herbert Person be deputed by the Board under the provisions of section 256 of the
Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993, to institute summary proceedings before a magistrate for the recovery of any penalty impos d by part 1 of the said Ordinance or
M. CHARLES HARDOUIN, Chef de Cuôinet of || by any bye-laws made thereunder.
M. Beau, Governor General of Indo China, will leave for France by the French mail that sails from Saigon on the gh inst. It will be remem- bered that M. Hardouin was formerly Consul for the Republic at Canton, and was particularly active in encouraging French commercial enterprise and in furthering the interests of that country in Kwangsi.
dinner, on Friday, the 8th April, (weather permitting).
"
Mr. Rumjahn seconded. Carried.
THE SHOOTING OF THE
CHINA SQUADRON.
more broadly. My father sent you to study Europe; I am going to send you to study
America."
So, always at the expense of the imperial treasury, Ito set out to learn about the United States. As a result of the investigation, he brought back the outlines of a constitution for Japan. Of this let him speak for himself;
had not long recovered from her confinement. All three cases did well and the disease ran a simple course: there was much weakness after- wards, and in the case of the male patient quite a time after. This is the first occasion that dengue has come under my notice during a long residence in the South. The description of the disease given by Manson in his Tropical Diseases is must accurate-a true picture of the disease. At the time of writing this report no cases of bubonic plague bave come under my netice, and from daily inquiries there is no outbreak in the town, though this is the time of year the disease is prone to make its aply for the future. I tried to forget all the con- pearance in this neighbourhood. No Kura peans now live in the town, and more houses have been built on the healthy plain to which have so frequently referred to in previous reports
THE TRADE OF JAPAN,
EXPORTS AFFECTED BY THE WAR.
Sagar and kerosene oil are now being import- ed into Japan in large quantities in anticipation of a rise in the rates of Customs tariff The +xport trade his been generally in a depressed condition of late owing to the situation in the The foreign trade of this country from the 11th to the zoth resulted, in con- sequence, in an excess in imports of Yen 1,9 35, 653, which makes a total of Yen 11,687,697 from January last.
hr East.
NAGASAKI SHIPPING REPORT FOR 1903.
"It was by no means an easy thing to make a constitution for a country which had never so much as heard of parliamentary gov. ernment. I had no model to guide me in all our history, and it was necessary to build sound.
stitutions of all the Western nations and to frame one which would be adaptable to Oriental peoples. I asked myself how Buddha would have acted under the circumstances and what Confucius would have done if he had been
required to establish a parliamentary regime, and 1 flatter myself that I succeeded pretty well in getting into their skins; for my con- stitution has worked beautifully for twenty years, and no efforts have been made to modify it in the slightest particular.”
This man, who is perhaps a rather clumsy. joker, had nevertheless profound political con viction, and when he spoke of the duties of a party leader his voice assumed the inflections. of genuine eloquence: "A political, party,* said he, "must be really a guide for the masses, and to that end it must begin by maintaining a strict discipline and perfect order within its own ranks.
lis chief rule must be the maintenance of an absolute devotion to the bigher interests in its country, and it mus particularly avoid giving office to mediocre individuals who have no other claim. of:
preferment than their political affiliations. His countrymen have given him the sobriquet of Bismarck. and the emperor, who has four, times called him to preside over the councils of the inistry, now makes him preside over
the councils of the elder statesmen, as we have.
TELEGRAMS.
** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
RUSSIAN CRUISER STOPS
THE HAIMUN
THE "TIMES" STEAMERY
SEARCHED.
(From Our Own Corresponden!.)
WEIHAIWEY, 7th April. 10.50 a.m.
The Russian Cruiser
Bayan
stopped and searched The Times steamer Haimun, when the latter was cruising about thirty miles from Port Arthur.
[The s.8. Haimun was chartered, from Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., prior in the opening of the present war by the proprietors of The Times. The vessel is fitted with the marconi apparatus and communicates with a station erected at Weihaiwel by permission of the British Government.—Ed., H.K. T]
(Reuters),
Anti-Government Plot in Korea.
LONDON, 5th April. News from St. Petersburg says that the recent statements of an anti-Government plot in Korea are confirmed. The Buential pedlars guild is involved. The main object of the plot is to overthrow the pro-Japanese Government and depose the Emperor.
The War.
A Japanese destroyer engaged in scouting at Port Arthur has discovered a channel, 130 yards wide, available for the passage of ships.
LATER.
The Trans-Siberian Railway. M. Khilkoff has returned to St. Peters- burg to confer with the authorities. He says that the scarcity of cars and locomotives on the Eastern section of the railway has been remedied; west of Irkutsk ten trains, beyond Lake Baikal nine goods trains, be sides passenger and military trains, are. run- ning daily in either direction. M. Khilkoff returns in a fortnight to supervise, the con- struction of the circum-Baikal line.
PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE.
The Acting Puisne Judge, Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, beard an action in the Supreme Court this morning, in which the 1 Lung Wo Ki firm sought to recover $254.93 from the Tseung
delivered. Ying Ki firm in the respect of goods sold and
Mr. O. D. Thomson appeared for the plain- tiffs, while Mr. E. J. Grist, (of.Messrs. Wilkin- son and Grisi) represented the defendants.
Mr. Thomson explained that when the casa - was last before the Court leave to amend the claim was given, and the amended amount now Blood at $154.93. The goods in disputa. were ordered from the plaintiffs by Tecang Ying and Tseung Kow at different periods and consisted of bricks and tiles. Tenung Ying and Tseung Kow were partners in the firm, and the only question was whether the goods ordered by each party were ordered on behalf of the firm. The partnership bad been dis solved and Tseung Kow bad left the Colony. Plaintiffs submitted that the goods were ordered on behalf of the firm. Certain items more ad-te mitted and $51.20 had been paid into Court, $50 having been paid just before the issue of of the writ.
Witnesses were then heard.
SHIPPING AND MAILS:
MAILS DUE Canadian (Alkesian) 8th inst. English (Malta) 8th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) rath Inst. German (Hamburg) 12th fast. Indian (Grigory Apcar) 13th lost,
''
Indian (Laisang) 17th lust. American (Siberia) 37th inst. Canadian (Tarlar) 22nd inst;
The total number of steam and sailing vessels that visited Nagasaki last year was 6 381, 2,996,229 registered and 4,948 496 gross tons, inclusive of 5,057 coasting vessels with 793,109 registered and 1,264,650 gloss tons. The foreign trading vessels were therefore had occasion to learn through recent despatches citita left Singapore for this port this after
The Apear Coës sa Gregory djar 1,374 in number, the detail: being as follows:-councils where all the old servants of the
Vessels. Registered Gross. Nationality,
country and all the past glories of the empire are summoned together, and at which it is. 808,795 1,353,812 decided what part the nation is to play in an
883.468 491,772 453.5-8 383,272 that is crew whatque me what came
Jong inverview with Marquis Ito. What came 54,433 of it? That is Bill a mystery. At that solemn
A corres, ondent writing to the Navy League Journal says in February issue of that paper: Japanese.. By kind permission of Lt. Col. Iremonger tics of the shooting of the China Squad German
-"The inference is drawn from the statis British and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burina Infantry will play the following programme to two Vengeances. Such an inference is only U.S.A. «z i....
ron that on these figures one Albion is equa! Russian of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during legitimate if you know that both ships did their shooting under exactly the same conditions of
Norwegian.... French weather, light, and marking. If you do not Danish know this, 1, submit that such an inference is
Swedish unjust, misicading, and mischievous. The Dutch All only result of this suit of criticism is, to make Austrian captains unwilling to carry out their shooting Korean in any except the most favourable ciscum. stances possibio:"
March... The Start and Stripas for ever “.....Soula Overture......" Romantique "...................................... Kéller Edla Selection......" The Toraalor “................ Caryll and More Corner Solo.... Cradle Song "
Lauge. ..Codfrey ..Follet
Selectio... Remolaiscences of Wales" Valt............ Rēveusa "
Intermezzo...." Eudoria "svikangremman Audió God save the King.
tons.
tons.
hour of anxiety and trouble."
The P. M. S4S COLA AL Hongkong on 10th ulti on 6th inst. N
The 1. C. S. N. Co.'s si cutta for this port via the and may be expected
.A
The C. P, R. Co.'s
arrived at Kobe at
Such an hour has just come to Japan, and
727
198
544 630
97
308,112 176 257,986
53
218,091
45
33,548
8 16,563
30 703
το 800
3.323
5 177
remembered the unforgettable words of the
where she is due to arrive
3:234
5738
o her Bismarck, "whose granite statue rises in
The C. PR. Col 1.6.
2,929
4579
the Place de Friedrichruve: "Never in my life have I declared war, unless--¡ bad more:
rtainty of winning than a certainty of winning a victoryZz Shanghai where she is?
arrived at Kobe at 3 am;;
again at 2:30 pm, same
1801 monent perhaps this "Bismarck of the Orie again at noon Wedne