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PEOPLE returning from the north report that MR, H., H. J. Gumpertz, Police Magistrate, } the Russians at Port Arthur are using thirty remaining indisposed, the small court at the pigeons as carriers and those at Liaoyang Magistracy is closed, and Mr J. H. Kemp, forty,
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Tax Ceylon Government Mineralogist has
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years, is leaving for home by the P. and O. 6.5. Simla to-berow. This afternoon, the stall of that paper presented him with a set of carved ivory Chinese chessmen, a9 U mon esto of us connection with the Daily res he gill is a most appropriate ones the recipient has held the chess championship of longgong during his stay in the Colony, having carried off two cups, one for winning the honours two years in succession and the THE Tsar has issued a plase declaring that all other for holding an unbeaten record during good, imponed into the Amar district her nine months. by sea or land are in be allowed in unter free
of duty, while the duties already paid on taw TH. Admiralty has received an official report of the capture of Illig, on the coast of Somali- land from the Dervishes. Three bluejackets
cotton are to be retunded The he has been enthusiastically received by the merchants. of Vladivostuk
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FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS.
Hongkong's theatrical șeason is evidently drawing to a close and with the appearance of the 'Starlay Opera. Company next week cur annual run of entertainments will practically cease. Tomorrow and Monday evenings Mr. Fresaris producing his famous frivolities and to judge from the varied programme published he will delight big houses. Those who saw his 'turns' on the last occasion he appeared in the Colony pronounced his entertainment às excellent, and now that many new items are to be included there is every promite of a delight- ful evening. Tuesday night will be free from
Mr. Ernest Evers, of the firm of a theanical point of view, and on Wednesday Simons, Evers & Co., died at Kobe the famous comic opera Dorothy. Coinment- yesterday, and Mr. J. W. Hall, auc- ing on this play, as performed by them tioneer and agent, Renter's Telegram at Shanghai, the N. C. D. News says, it is on-
Co., expired here today. Both in which the strong points of the company are most readily brought out." On Thursday the gentlemen were among the oldest nautical drama Harbour Lights will be played.--business-heads-of-Japan, and-their- while on Friday The Nautch Girl will occupy decense is widely mourned. the boards. Saturday evening is reserved for East Lynne, Monday for La Mascotte and Tuesday, the 14th, for the Mikado.
Miss Stanley's commence a short season with
THE BROUGH COMPANY,
In connection with theatrical items some
COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE NEW TERRITORY.
The following reply to the communication
were killed and six wounded. Rear-Admiral interesting notes are printed in Shanghai from the Botanical and Afforestation Depart MANY of the tobacco companies in Deli have Atkinson-Willes, Commander-in-Chief of the | Sport and Gossip above the now de plume ment was read at a meeting of the Committee The Senembak Com East African station, who personally command of Daybreak." The writer says: Last mauf the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce at dis-pany, for instau e, has just distributed a ed the land force, says the fighting, which oc
slaviiend of 12 per cent for 150,
A PORTUGUESE R. E. officer is now formtulat- ing irrigation schemes for Goa.
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curred on April 24th, was at close quarters. The Dervishes defended their stone zarib and towers determinedly, but the British blue- jackets and a detachment of the Hampshire Regiment stormed their stronghold gallantly and drove them out with heavy loss.
It was
impossible to use the guas of the ship without danger to the attacking party. The British the zaribas, which will be demolished, and Illig will be handed over 10 a tribe friendly to Italy.
brought me
a welcome and interesting
letter from Mr. Robert Brough dated their usual monthly meeting :—i Theatre Royal, Durban, 5. A., 20th April. He writes of having had a very busy time at home getting company, plays, and costumes together, and rehearsing. His work, when his letter was written, commenced at 10 am. and continued till 11.30 p.m. His company is nearly a new one, save Miss Temple, Miss
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1954. Sir-1 am directed to inform you that the Committee of this Chamber have read your leiter of the 25th ultimo on the subject of Cotton Cultivation in the New Territory with
much interest.
Having heard somewhere that Mrs. Gulls his and Italian flags were raised side by side over Gibson, and Mr. and Mrs. Dantrey who have ture of Cotton Yarn the availability of a good
THE irrepressible lady jurnalist is again on covered in Ceylon, thriving at an altitude of the shirts of Mr. Speaker for admission to the 3,500 feet, the highest yet known.
Press llery of the House of Commons. CAPT. James Hall, for many years commodore private gallers, we of the applicants, by way of a gentle but, say, she would be so much better able suitably to record the dresses worn by
Mrs. Speaker's guests."
of the P. M. S. S Co.'s fleet, who went to sea in 1827 and retired in 1881, died at Braintree, Mass, on the 22nd April, aged yo.
An Assistant will be on duty at all times LTE business is now bring done in war
to dispense prescriptions.
risk insurances, and that little at low rates. Coal steamers and the Cape to Japan are ben g insured at 10s, and 125, 60 percent. Steamers
THE Java sugar crop for 1993 amounted to 14.543,335 piculs, foi resevenths of which were the output from estates in the eastern section of the island; The export of the sweet 10 with provisions from San Francisco are insured Europe and America was less than to the at 10s. per cent and those with oil from the
Straits Settlements, India, and Australia. It is Eastern Stales to Japan at 5s per rest.
interesting to note that the export of the article to India showed heavy increise.
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sidered a rich man, he had nothing to leave except a country house near St. Petersburg
and a litle villa in the Caucasus. His long journey and hus exhibitions cost him much money, and he was very open-handed. He has left behind a large number of studies, bot only one large picture, "The Burial Place of Kines," which he valued at £1,2012:
The following notice has been received, at 135 the Colonial Office, fom the Assistant Secre
tary to the Government of Bengal, dated the air May, 1904 :-That intimation having been received of the outbreak of plagur in Hongkong, it has been declared to be infected and the regulations, for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea, issued by Government will be enforced in the ports af tuissa and in the port of Chittagong against vessels arriving from that place.
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On the 28th ult, the fine river gunboat Pater land, which has been presented to the German Navy by the German Navy League, and is intended for service on the Upper Yang ze was put into commission. The Faterland was con- structed in Germany and sent out in sections to Shanghai, where she put together at the old Dock, and the manner in which the work has been done has given the utmost satisfaction to the German naval anthorities in Shanghai, and reflects the utmost credu on Messrs. S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Cn.
A ST. Petersburg telegram says the tirand Duke Alexander Mikha lovitch is believed to
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Hongkong having entered into the manufac rejoined him. In addition to putting on seine supply of the raw material grown within the onea are The limits of the Colony is of great importance, and of the old plays the new Marriage of Kitty, The Licks that Failed, the Committee are anxious that all reasonable The Duke of Killiecrankie, Letty, Billy's means should be taken to further the project. A WUCH.W, Kwangs province, dispatch re- Little Love Apair and some others, also
It has therefore been suggested to the Govern. ports that there is a large body of brigands Night of which Mr. Brough has procured. He
ment that Catton seed or plants should be now operating in the subprefecture, who dress writes that there has been a very big depres-distributed amongst the Farmers in the New themselves up in the uniforms of soldiers be- sion here and business has not been up to ex- Territory and prizes offered for success bi longing to the Suiyuan, brigade-one of the pectations in Cape Town and Durban, but cultivation to stimulate interest in the experi- cashiered ex-darshal su's favourite brigades. things are on the mend and we look for big resment. In this way it would be possible to The brigands are all armed with magazine sults in Johannesburg and Pretoria-the former prove at a small expense whether the theories rifles and their lenders ride in mountain sedan 19 said to be the town for us in Africa. I only advanced by you are likely to have a practical chairs just like ordinary military officers travel-signed for twenty weeks here but we are stay side. ling the country investigating matters. Ining fo: another twelve. There is one important} Indian raw Cotton now costs locally 28 to consequence of this the suspicious inhabitants matter on the tapis, I am very desirous of com- of the villages in Heagchow were lulled and ing your way early in 1905, but this is in abey- na preparations were male to resist an attack ance for a while and of course depends upon upon then.
About a fortnight ago, while en- being able to get date with you. camped near a large market town well known for its well-te-do residents, the pseudo-soldiers suddenly made prisoners of the trained band of the village, took away all their arms and ammunition, also p the newest pattern, which had been supplied by Governor Ko of the pro- vince, and after robbing the place of all sons of valuables and food supplies the brigands marched off ranying with them several of the principal gentry of the village for ransoin.
AN awful instance of murder from jealousy is! reported from Saigon. According to 190penton, M. Phal Toulon, a clerk, einployed at Singa pe, heard recently that his wife, whom he fell at Sargon, had been "unfaithful to him. Hi went back at Saigon, confronted the erring spouse is a room by themselves and shot her dead with a revolver. Toulon then blew his brains out. In his pocket was found a ketta im which he avowed has intention of kilting bath himself and his wile The baples part leave a little child, who is now homeless audel, and when placed before Mr. Kemp yester
penuriess.
AT 8 a.m. on the 22nd ulto. Mr. J. Lee went to his store in Elgin Read, Kowloon, and found the place woopened. He waited some time, and as his boy did not turn up he temporarily engaged another boy, and heard no more of the latter until the af ernoon of the 31st ulia when the absentee walked up and cheerfully asked for his wages, remarking that he had been sic. Mr. Lee promptly had him arres:
day the defendant said he was ill, but could give no explanation of his neglecting to notify
He said he had witnesses
A TELEGRAM from San Francisco stated it whis employer, nor of his sudden return to
anconcel that when the steamer Amerits health on pay day Juru sailed for Japan on the 12th at the service would then be abandoned until the end
of the war. It is pracne.lly certain that the Nippon Muru, belonging to the same Japanese company, has been sunk by the Russians. War insurance rates are, besides, quite pr hibitive, and it is difficult to obtain cargues, The America Muru would have to sail in
have offered 30,000,000 ruubles for the purchase ballast. Up to that time she had been unable
of foreign steamers. Agents of various Ameri can, German, and other firms offered vessel', and two Bunish and three German vessels were immediately bought. One of the latter, the Furst Bismarck, is now at Liban, being hited with guns. The others will be delivered in a few days. The North-German Lloyd finally made such acceptable offers that the Russian autho rities will not apply elsewhere, as the German steamers are the fastest and best, and the prices most moderate.
to procure a single ton of freight, and bad net booked a single passenger for the voyage.
PASSENGERS by steamer to or from the north will learn with satisfaction that instructions have been issued to the commanders of the steamers of the Chisa Navigation Company and the Indo-China Steamer Company that they are not to pass at night through the danger zone from mines, between the Shan tung Promontory and the Shota Group island, south of Port Arthur. The G. N. Ch's THE and O. Company announce a new de-
steamers to and from Newchwang are lostruct- tons and 5,00 h. p, 19 to sail on a pleasureed to take a circuitous route via Howki; and cruise to Norway and the Far North in the first week of July. No expense has been spared in specially adapting the Vectis and her cabins, saloons, card and recreation, smoking, music, and photographic rooms are in all respects equal to what they should be for the work. (45 The Vectis is the company's former steamer Rone which has been -ntirely altered to fit ber for her new ôle.
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. PHOTOGRAPHIC parture in that the steam yacht Vertit, 6,000
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THE Japanese steamer Nunyo Muru 3,700 gross and 2,337 registered tons, which sunken rock during a hely fog at Bullock Island, Dear Quelpart, Korea, on the night of the 18th April last filled rapidly and it has now been ascertained (according to the Nagasaki Press) that she cannot be MR. E. Hewell, the Chairman of the long-floated and must become a total loss. It is kong Chamber of Commerce, has done a public reported that the steamer was insured by the service in calling attention to the question of
Tokio Marine Insurance Company for Y 105,000
the Canton Kowloon Railway. The matter
She is owned by Messrs. Oziro's Steamship has been in abeyance for some years, but we Company of Tokio, and was constructed by believe that negotiations are at present in
Messrs. Workman, Clark and Company at Hel progress between the Colonial Office and the fast, Ireland, in 1884. concessionaires with the view of expediting the matter. The views entertained in the Colony THERE is now a farmal contradiction of the and elsewhere will probably assist in furthering New York Herald's story that the Petropy the matter, and lead to the definite arrangements fovsk had twelve million dollars worth of gold being concluded with the Chinese authorities on board when she sank. The Naval Author
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32 dollars and Chinese and Japanese 318 to 324 dollars per picul. An inferior Cotton to that grown in Shanghai district could be readily sold locally and, the possibility of a large production at à reasonable cost in the New Territory and Kwangtung Province would undoubtedly lead to the greater prosperity of the local industry and a desirable extension of Cotton Manufacture in this Colony...
In conclusion I am to state that any efforts you may make with the above object in view will always have the warm support of my Committee, and they will be pleased to be kept informed of the experimental steps which doubtless will be taken to prove your conten-
I have seen little, in fact nothing, of the places and people here so far, but the rough impres. sion is not a very favourable one. I don't think I should care about being here on visiting it again, rive for purely a business matter. The East has a different aspect for us--we simply love visiting there and live in hope of being amongst you all again. We were glad to leave London, the professional ou look was not allur ing in any respect and we missed companion ship and felt a kind of "void"→of course it was our work we wanted, for idleness suits ustion.-I have &c., not, a couple of months' spell is all we care for, Referring to the journey, Mr. Brough writes:— | we came overland from Capetown and found 5. it most interesting, though an arduous journey of four days and nights in the train, by far the
to make. Evidences of the late war all along the longest rail journey in Africa that we shall have
route, what a stupendous undertaking it must
very fine and through Natal it was glorious. I have been for our mes. The scenery too was
shall stick to my last in future and work Aus- tralia and the East as of old; it is quite good enough for me. Mr. Brough concludes his
to prove he was ill, and the case was remandedeter by wishing me to remember him and to
they proved men of straw, and when the case until this morning for their attendance, but
was called on to-day His Worship feed the defendant Si for his absence without notice ar leave, and ordered all wages due to him to be forfeited. This should have the desired effect of making domestic Chinese servants lose a little of their Confucian independence, and stick to the duties they epgage to perform.
THE S.S.HOIHAO."
A TOTAL LOSS.
We pederstand that the French steamier Hothao of the Cie de Navigation Tonkinoise, which recently went ashore in the Hainan Straits, has been declared a total loss. An attempt at salvage was made by Mr. F. D. Goddard, of Hongkong.
all friends.
THE CLOSING OF CITY WELLS.
day afternoon, Hon. Dr. Atkinson presiding, a Ata meeting of the Sanitary Board yester minule by the Medical Officer of Health, te- commending that certain oui wells in Nos. 122 and 126, Queen's Road Central, be closed, was
discussed
Mr. Lau Chu Pak said :-Sir, I, don't think it is either advisable or reasonable to close any more wells without ensuring a sufficient supply
T. Dunn, Esq.
(3d.) A. K. LOWE, Secretary,
Superintendent, Botanical & Afforestation Department.
Hongkong General Chikiber of Commerce,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1904. Sir, I am directed to enclose for the in-
ministering the Government copy of letter on formation of His Excellency the Officer Ad
the subject of Cotton growing in the New Territory from Mr. S. T. Dunn, the Superin- teodent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, and my reply thereto.
It appears to my Committee that no reason abic means should be left undone to prove whether the growing of raw Cotton within the bounds of the Colony is practicable or not, as, in the event of successful production, the possibilities of extending the Cotton manufactar-
ing industry of this Colony will be very great,
and thus materially add to the wealthy of the community, while a ready sale elsewhere could be found for any surplus.
His Excellency is doubtless aware of the
of good water to the people for both culinary attempt by the Lancashire manufacturers to and washing purposes. You are aware that further the cultivation of, raw cotton on British with the exception of the mins and a soil in East Africa. This experiment will ung few fever-stricken nullahs on the hillside,doubtedly increase the value of the East African
wo
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there is no other source from which water can be drawn, and the mains are so unreliable Colony, and by providing a British competitor, and unsatisfactory that the people can get check the violent fluctuations in the cost of the only enough to keep life going. At this time aw material now caused by the bulk of the of the year, it is most important that they
World's
I's crop being in American handa.ne possibly be done without a good supply of should keep everything clean and this cannot
If the proposed cultivation can be successfully. water. Supposing that the Chinese do drink prosecuted within the Colony's tritory the the water in these two wells, they do not drink | local attempt will not oäly emulate what is now it fresh. The Chinese always boil water before being done at home, but mills in Hongkong THE HONGKONG AND SHANG- drinking it. For some time quite recently I was, would have the additional advantage of finding
HAI BANK.
SUED FOR DISHONOURING A CHEQUE.
C.iterbhuj Sewdut Roy, Calcutta, has filed a
plaint against the Hongkong and Shan, bai Bank for the recovery of Rs. 13,000 and odd, being the balance of a deposit by plaintiff, and Rs. 1,000 as damages.
It is alleged that the plaintiff gave a cheque on the Bank and it was dishonoured,
The plaint was admitted and a written state- ment directed to be filed..
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The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which suspended its European service upon the outbreak of the war, has now made arrangements by which
We do not fearthe approach in the near future of ities in St. Petersburg have declared that no the service will be carried on by two English
a rival to Hongkong, as the distributing centre Russian war-vessel ever carries more than te firms. Each company will put three steamers for the foreign trade of South China, but it is thousand dollars. But this (says The Mail, on the line. Shippers of goods by the vessels not wise to give hostages to fortune, however from which we take this more) is a tale which if the two companies will receive all the
wel circamentanced one may be, or to allow | will live in spite of any contradiction." It fačílici
either, appeals to men "imagination," and "the" "Po
driven to use well-water. Many a time I
had been left without a drop from the the raw material practically at their own doors. mains. It is all very well for the Board to My Committee beg to suggest for His go about telling the people not to eat their Excellency's consideration that small vote own food, but does the Board possess the should be provided in the next Budget to meet means of feeding them? 1 am not here the expense of distributing Collon seed, or advocating the use of polluted water, but plants, to suitable Farmers, and prizes for the 1 cenainly say that no more wells should three best results obtained. The proving of the be closed until the Government is prepared to experiment would thus cost little money, and if give the people a plentiful supply. I oppose successful results are obtained other Farmers the motion.
will readily realise the advantage to be gained by turning their attention to the production of Cotton-I have c
(Sd.) A. R Lowe,
Mr. A. Rumjabn said the places were first classeating houses that required water to wash pois, etc. The wells should not be closed while there was an intermittent supply, and the master could be brought forward when there was a good water supply, he MUATRA Mr. E. A. Hewe.c strogly recommended that the wells be cl std. de question was Did the Government supply enough water? When there was a short supply of watert the
eating houses the spell water wohld be rely used for potable purpose. He thought they ought to order that these wells be closed at ouce 21 MONE
The President observed that thorn was no parapet w
Mr. Lau Cha Pak; any work is required there auts of the two houser can be
in have, it carried but am Bure from those two wells is ten:
muddy water scooped out
Hon. A. M. Thomson
Secretary.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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