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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE German mail of the 13th April was de livered in London on the 13th inst.
AT the Post Office last year $351.300 64 worth of stamps was sold, as ngainst $264,420.83 în 1902,
WHIT Monday, the 23rd inst, and "Victoria Day," the 24th idem, will be observed as holidays.
LAST year 172,260 registered articles passed through the Hongkong Post Office, while 503
insured letters were dealt with,
Last year $81,400.50 was realised on the sale of stamps at the British post offices in China. In 192 the amount was $91,246.02.
INFORMATION has been received from the Single Copic Daily, ton veuts; Weekly, twenty-Commissioner of Customs, Shangh, that
Hongkong has been declared to be an infecter part.
the lens.
The Hongkong (elegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904
AFTER THE WAR.
Our London correspondent has lorwarded to us a copy of a very interesting resume of a letter written, by a European holding high office in the Far East, immediately after the
THE name of Charles Forsyth has been added to the register of medical and rgical pracu tioners qualified to practise medicine and sur Kery in the Colony,
MR. Kemp lined a houseboy, in the employ of a Mrs. Wilson, $20, or one month's imprisonment,
IT is reported that the East coast of British North Borneo is now clear of all secret societies
,
Tue death rate in the British and foreign com- munity, civil population, for the month ended 31st March; was 15.2 per 1,000 per annum.
UNDER instructions from His Majesty, H.E. the Officer Administering the Government re- cognizes Mr. A. Haupt, as Consul for Denmark at Hongkong.
AN IMPUDENT INSPECTOR.
SELLING GOVERNMENT WATER.
THE Tai On Ship Company, of 309 Des Vœux For same time past it has been noticed by Road is being wound up voluntarily, and Punthe Water Department that there has been a Yan Chuen appointed liquidator.
considerable leakage of water, for which they could not account. But the mystery was solved yesterday, through a Chinese constable in plain clothes hearing a conversation between a China. man and a woman at the door of a house in Queen's Road West. The matter.was.reported to Inspector McNab, and the investigation which followed, developed the fact that Li Chau, an inspector of the Water Department, had been in the habit of calling at a number of houses, during the hours when water tumed off, and after gaining admittance.under pretence of examining the taps, offered for n consideration, to turn on the water for the in- mates. On the roth inst. he called at the house of a woman at Queen's Road West, and after the usual preliminaries offered to turn on water for her if raid $16. The woman Ng Leong, said she had not so much money in the house, -but-would-pay..him $6Li Chau told her to get the balance and he would return later. This was the conversation overheard and re.
A SUNSCRIPTION list has been started at Khata umytor a public demonstration in honour of the Japanese victory at the Valu, rith a
torch light pree ssion and probably a dinner to which respectable Japanese will be invited.
HONGKONG P ́ST OFFICE
IN 1913.
WAS
ported to inspector McNab. The latter imme- The following report on the Post Office, fordiately placed two men in the house to watch, and in due course Li Chau arrived and was
the year 103, is published:
General Post Office, Blangkong, 13th April, 1994. STR-I have the honour to submit the
for disobeying onders, insolence to his mistress, annual report on the Hongkong Post Office and constant absence without permission.
THERE was an increase of $1,492.18 in the amount received for the sale of local postal notes at Hongkong and the British psd
for the year 19 3
DEPARTMENTAL CHANGES.
2. Mr. E. C. Lewis, the assistant Postmaster General, went on leave ou March 3rd, and on June 5th I was appointed act in his stead,
taken into custody. This morning the man was placed before Mr. Gompertz, and evidence was given by several women to the effect that they had paid the inan money to turn on the water,
Mr. A. W. J. Simmons, of the Public Works Department, gave evidence that the defendant hat no authority to turn on the cocks at any time, nor to collect any money on account of water rates. Li Chow was convicted and sentenced to eight months' hard labour in gaol,
outbreak of the war and the first Japanes.gencies during the past year as com, ared On October 2nd Mr. L. A. M. Johaston pro and six hours stocks,
attack on Port Arthur. The interest of the
letter is not so much the discussion of cur
rent incidents as the speculations of the
writer as to the future of the Far East He regards the ultimate Success of the Japanese as assured, not because of the result of the Erst attack on Port Arthur, but because of theu foresight, preparation, and eficiency, and above all. because of the extraordinary sell restraint exbainted by japa nese statesmen los the last thirty years. 11 self restraint which would, he says, have pre vented them from entering on this war unless they were suite of success. And their in
formation as to all the circumstances has been the result of careful investigation and Enquiry for the last ten years. It may not be a complete military success in the sense
with 1902.
THE hundredth case of plague since the begin. ning of the year has been reported, the return for the twenty-four hours curled at noon to-day anking another five to the list. They were all instances of damperg.
RUSSIA has summoned the second-call Re- serves to the colougs, and is threatening a demonstration on the borders of Afghanistan, which is interpreted as a counter movement la Britain's activity in Tibet.-Cublenews.
THE Yane gs arrived in Hongkong from Ma- Bila this morning, and left for Macao later in the day where they probably give an entertain. ment after which they proceed to Canton, re- turned to Hongkong next week.
MR. S. IL C. Ross has been appointed to act as 155istant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Coun- cils with effect from th inst. Mr. L.. A. M.
A. S. WATSON & CO., of a collapse of Russia as in the case of the Johnston resumes as duties as Postmaster
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Hongkong, 7th May, 1904.
TELEPHONE NO. 255,
LARGE ADDRESS: "ACHEE," HONGKONG A. I. C. CODE, 4TH EDITION
ESTABLISHED 1859.
Franco-Gemuan War. but he has no doubt
of the sucréas being one which will secure [35 the predominance of Japan in the Far East. If we look beyond this, what then? He thinks we are on the eve of a revival all over
A CHEE & CO.,
利廣
祥
17, QUEEN'S ROAD.
General while continuing to act as Colonial
Treasurer.
11 as notified in the Gazelle that ships convey. ing Chinese passengers, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1889, wi I not be allowed to carry there on the upper or weather deck,
ceeded to Weihaiwei on public business and on his return was appointed to act'as Treasurer, I was appointed to act as Postmaster General in place of Mr. Johnston.
* I altach a Table f shewing the actual number of registered articles and insured letters dealt with in this office during the year. The insured letters shew an increase of 177 percent. on the figures of the previous year. It is prob-
able that there has also been an increase in the
umber of registered articles, but comparison is difficult owing to the fact that for 1963 the Bgues represent the actual number of covers which passed through the office, while those ior 1902 wire an approximation. Table
shews the number of bags, packets, etc. which has been dealt with by this office. All the figures except parcel boxes despatched shew an increase, while the packets and bags which have passed through in transit have increased by 0,000. There is also an increase in the number of steamers carrying mails which have arrived and departed, the figures being 16,684 for the year under review as against 15,858 in
1902.
POSTAGE STAMPS,
4. i append a table shewing the monthly sales of stamps in Hongkong. The total amount
was $351,306 64, an increase of $86,885.81 on the sales of the previous year.
5. The sales of stamps at the British agencies
the Far East under the guidance of Japan. between the 1st of June and the 15th October, will be found in table D.The amount was
From Korea she will pass un to Cuma, and will afford that country the means of strengthening herself against external aggression and of internal reform and pro- gress. As was recently pointed out in thess columns, the "yellow peril," in the sense of Asia and Europe being overrun by hordes
FURNITURE of men of the Mongohan race, is a mere
DEALERS.
DRAWING ROOM,
DINING-ROOM,
and BED-ROOM
ELECTRO-PLATED,
GLASS, and
FURNITURE
CHINA WARES.
PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
KOCHESTER LAMPS,
WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING RANGES,
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
Inclusive.
The first case in Australia under the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act has been heard, the defendant being a lad of 17 years, who was charged with supplying a boy, 14 years of age, with a cigarette. He was fined a shilling, in default an hour's imprisonment in the police
cells.
H. E. the Officer Administering the Govern
Majesty's pleasure, an Unofficial Member of the son to be provisionally, and subject to His
Executive and Legislative Councils during the absence of Mr. C. W. Dickson, or until further
notice.
A SAN FRANCISCO wire of toth inst. reports that, in a fierce battle which has been raging for several days at Acre, the Brazilians have ninally routed the Peruvians with heavy loss. The killed of the Peruvians is placed at over two thousand. The quarrel has its source in a question of territory.
phantasm, although a strong and independentment has apointed Mr. William Jardine Gres China is quite within the bounds of political possibility, and will probably be the most striking result of the war. The writer fore- sees a peace of many years in the Far East as an immediate consequence of the hostilities during which China will, under Japanese guidance, enter on the path which has car- ried japan so far. We shall see an end put to those schemes of partition, of spheres of influence, and the like, as if China were a mere carcase and the European Powers so many vultures. And he is not sure that even in Siam: the same influence will not be fell, and to some extent even in Persia, which has all but her independence. As to China, he points out that for years past Confucianism, which is the barrier to all real
PHOTOGRAPHIC progress, has been losing its hold on the
DEPARTMENT.
DEVELOPING and PRINTING
UNDERTAKEN (or AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN, Hongkong, 8th January, 1904-
people. Western knowledge is permeating the country, and the educated classes are being alienated from the old teachings,
which have been lound'of little use to main-
tain and guard the State against the dan- [45gers which besel it in modern times. Cum. merce, which is attracting the young men more and more, has nothing in common
E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
COLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.
Salvage Work undertaken.
Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam
and Motor Launches,
Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms
with First-class Builders.
A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and
Asbestocal goods kept.
Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical
Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.
Telegram: Address: "MARINEWORK"
$81,406.jo shewing a decrease of $8,839.52 on the lakrags of the previous year. The Shanghai and Canton offices are responsible for $7,276.97 of this decrease. In the former case the open. ing of the Siberian route to mails sent by for- eign offices before the British office was able
COAL FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
:
A BIG ORDER.
A big emergency order for coal was recently placed by the chief quartermaster of the divi- sion at Manila, with the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. This was the order for 14,000 tons which is now arriving and has been coming in on col- liars from Japan for the past two weeks. This
or other contingency threatens to cut off the emergency order is provided for, in case war
supply altogether or so diminish it as to cripple the transport service. Some weeks ago, when it was debatable whether or not the japanese island would be threatened actively by the
Russian fleet, the quartermaster of the division, to make sure that the transports would not he tied up in Manila with empty bunkers recom- mended that he be allowed to call for the addi. tional twenty per cent. About ten thou- sand tons have been delivered. The con tract costs the army exactly $70,000. The army in the Philippines spends over a half a million dollars yearly for coal. For the fiscal year ending July 1, 1933, the expenditure
I ELEGRAMS.
** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'
SERVICE.
FACING GREAT RISKS
IN KERR BAY.
́ENEMY'S COMMUNICATIONS
DESTROYED.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
YOKOHAMA, 14th May, 11.25 ani.
An official report has been re- coived from Admiral Kataoka stating that, on Thursday, the third Japan-
ese squadron reconnoitred the shore of Kerr Bay, in the vicinity of Ta- lionwan.
Although facing very great risks, the Japanese dispersed detachments of the enemy and, sending a party ashore, destroyed the telegraphic
communications,
JAPANESE DESTROYER
SUNK.
FOURTEEN CASUALTIES.
MINES DESTROYED,
During the operations, the torpedo boat destroyer, No. 48, in tapping a Russian mine, was blown up and sunk, as a result of which there were fourteen casualties.
Three other mines were located at Navigation Point and destroyed.
THE EVACUATION OF NEWCHWANG,
The enemy continue leaving New- elwang, and only a thousand how remain.
SOILING THE RED choss·
FLAG
WHEN LEAVING PORT, ARTHUR.
It is officially announced that, was $600,000, It is not likely, however, that while escaping by train from Port this item will always be as large, says the | Arthur, the Russians misused the Cablenews, is the mines of Batan island, which Red Cross flag.
lies east of Albay province, are coming on famously and there are high hopes that in time they will supply not only the army transport service but the entire Philippine government with coal, at the bare cost of mining it. One hundred tons were received from these mines only the other week, and it was tested and proved to be very good coal. These are the mines which the war department was in doubt for some time whether it was worth while to
J
"
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY-
ON, A RUSSIAN WHALER.
(From Our Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, 18th May,
8.17 p.m.
Members of the crew of the Rus-
to send mails doubtless took away business spend money to develop or not. It is be. from the Shanghai agency. The decrease in lieved that the few thousands of dollars that Canton is due probably to the improved have been spent will prove to have been asian whaling vessel Georgi have methods in the Imperial Chinese office. There protable investment.
is little doubt that this with occur in other
agencies and that as the Chinese postal service
Union, the receipts from the British Agencies comes into line with other countries in the
will diminish.
PARCEL POST.
SINGAPORE SHOOTING AFFAIR
THE VERDICT.
At Singapore, on the 6th inst., the Hylam Street tragedy was brought to a conclusion, when, according to the Straits Timer, Mr.
Raine, in an oratorical out-burst which rang through the Courtroom, held that no jury could convict J. M. Somers of murder. In calmer tones, he proceeded to state the facts in favour of Somers.
Statistics of parcels for the year 1903 are given in Table A. A direct comparison of figures with those of the previous year is impossible as the figures for 1933 are actual.
The space provided in the parcel branch is inadequate. Structural alterations have been
la an impassioned peroration he asked the made in the registration and parcel branch and jury to allow the prisoner to return to his own there is now sufficient space for carrying on people, to have the solace of their verdics that the ordinary routine work of the office, but the the tragedy of Hylam Street was the result of A CHINESE tailor and a farmer of Sydney, Newtory manner with the mails which arrive by the life of a European in a Singapore prison, the rooms are too small for dealing in a satisfac an accident. He painted in vivid colours the South Wales, stowed away on board the s.s. stern, and obtained free passages from that
contract packets.
hell of torment" that shortened his days and pork to this Colony. Mr. J. S. Clark, purser of
made life a daily terror, and he pleaded that the Eastern, reported the matter to inspector
Somers should go free. Langley, who placed them before Mr. Gompertz this morning, with the result that they were
sent to nine months' hard labour,
IT is openly stated by the Opium Fana auto
ities that owing to the prevalence of opium smuggling, the farin sales here have gone down thirty per cent. This may explain the handsome reward offered for the apprehension
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
The revenue and expenditure for the year The revenue will be found in Table F received from all sources was $411,867.70 as compare with $387, 66.19 in 1912. 'The expenditure WAS 5334,177.40 28 against $316,24113 during the previous year. The profit m de by the Post Office on the year's transaction was $80,689,80.
MONEY ORDERS.
bir. Ra ne spoke nearly 55 minutes for the defence.
assaulted and killed the Captain's wife and inflicted such serious injuries upon the Captain that his life is despaired of.
Robbery was the object of the at- tack, and the men have now decamped leaving no clue as to their where- abouts.
TYPHOON WARNING.
MANILA OBSERVATORY,
May 14th, 11 .LL,
General, kindly forwards the following copy of General Edw. 5. Bragg, U. S. Consul
a telegram which he received from Manita to-day-
Probable depression in South Chins, sea di rection W.N.W.
The Atorney-General briefly laid the facts.connection with the explosion of the sa-ton as submitted by the Crown to the jury, He spoke 15 minutes.
The Chiel Justice, in summing-up, said it appeared to him the evidence tended to show that the revolver could not have been accident-
tional ect. I did not follow, however, that the
gun in the after-turret of the United States battleship Afissouri, while at target practice off Pensacola, in the Gulf of Mexico, 31 fatali. ties have been reported. It appears that the was being charged, when the gases from the previous charge, or a smouldering portion of the canvas belonging to the cartridge,
The money order business done during the ally fired, but that it was a wilful and inten- and conviction of opium smugglers. The state year 1993 was $790,641.10. A detailed state-jury must find the prisoner guilty of the charge ignited the powder. There was another ex.
of affairs of the Penang Farm is said to be cau ing much anxiety Straits Times.
ment will be found in Table G. The sales of
Tables / and /
or of any charge. It appeared to him to be imperial and local postal notes are given in absolutely clear that there was no case of mar-plosion of charges in the handling-room der here. Coming to the question of injuries beneath the turret. Altogether, about 2,000 f. Imperial postal notes sold during the year inflicted in self-defence, if the jury found the of powder blew up. The intense heat descend- ed to the magazine, and melted some brass. amounted to £6,637.51., an increase of £640 prisoner was guilty of exercising more than bis with Confucianism, and all the imported Eastern and Australian Steam Navigation 185. d. as compared with the notes sold in rights of self defence, still that would not be work, thus affording, striking evidence of how
A NOTIFICATION was received at Port Darwin on 30th ult, from the Sydney agents of the
Company, intimating that, in consequence of the discontinuance of all subsidy, Port Darwin in future will be omitted as a port of call. There is much anxiety locally respecting the threatened isolation of this settlement by the proposed restrictive legislation.
GENERAL.
1907. Local postal mates to the value of murder but homicide.. $12,26,25 were sold which is an increase of The evidence appeared to be very stron, ly $2,492.18 on the amount sold during the pre-in favour of the prisoner that he fired in self vious year.
defence.
The Chief Justice spoke for. 50 minutes, The Siberian route was first used for the baving summed up very strongly in accused's transmission of closed mails from the British | favour, offices: in China and Hongkong in November. The postal rates are the same as those charged við Suez.
learning of the West is hostile to it. No other religion is really taking its place, but the feeling of the educated classes in the rising generation is all favourable to the introduction of the methods which have made the Japanese what they are. Hence the time is favourable for that revivification of China which the Japanese design, and the next thirty years in the Far East will be I even more striking than the last thirty, the more economical or to the ease. with which { of parcels were arranged with the United States was guilty of a rash act not amoyuting to mur-
Á UZMAND is springing up among the natives of Ceylon for a new preparation of tea. It is soluble, and there, seems to be a question whether its popularity is due to its being
Conventions relating to the direct exchange soluble tea is turned into a beverage, as it of America and Batavia.“ forces which will operate being those of can be made with warm water only, and the
I have, sic,
union and homogeneity in policy, Hands off!" will be the motto from India east Telephone:--No. 358. wards as completely as it is now on the
[581 American continent,
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.
necessity for boiling water being added to tea
5. B. C. ROBS, leaves is generally beyond the native's com prehension. Inquiries have aliò been made gable Acting Postmaster Gederal: about soluble'tea from firms in Australia and The Houcurable
The Colonial Secretary
New Zealand.
THE VERDICT. The jury retired so consider its verdict short- ly before 1 o'clock, and returned at 1.30 o'clock, with a veidiet to the effect that the prisoner
der, resulting in death, and was sentenced to nine months' simple imprisonment
Darrowly the whole ship escaped being buried to destruction,
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE
French (Australien) 16th inst, American (Korea) 16th inst Indian (Kumsang) 23rd inst, Canadian (Empress of China) 23rd lase
The Bost
leave
Fueld
The
I be accused sa'd hê wat €8 years of age, and
Saturday, had been connected with the stage for 17 years day, ats
He joined the Stanley Chem Co. af Calcutias
2 months before Christatas last year. He lost The PA
5 S. Co
bis wife, when, he went to Rangoon and bad - &c, loft' Shanghai for this por (tried to drown his corr
is dût-haze on Lách lást.