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NINE plague case were reported since Boon of yesterday.
IT is proposed to introduce Chinese labour into Southern Rhodesia...
SIR Ernest Satow, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, is sixty-one to-day..
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AT the Supreme Court this morning Dr. Noble and Co., dentists, recovered from R. M. Ezekiel the sum of $260 money dut for work done." DURING the week ending June 27th $46 rats were captured of which 43 were found to be infec ed with plague, a percentage of 0.78. TH: staff of the Yokohama Specie Bank enter. tained Viscount Hayashi and the members of the Japanese, Legation to dinner at the Savoy
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RETURNS for the inrtnight ending. June arst show that 4,520 houses have been lime-washed in the Colony, of which 842 were terasinated since last report. Fines and prosecutions were
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SIR Matthew Nathan, R.E, K.C..., the new Governor of Hongkong was to be entertained to dinner by Mr. Wni. Keswick, M.P., to meet a number of Hongkong and China people en 20th inst.
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THE PARTNERSHIP CASE.
1904
SANITARVY BO
PROSECUTIONS,
VIEWS OF THIS MEMBERS.
As we are going to press a "meeting of the, Sanitary Board is being held at which the most important business is the consideration of a motion by Mr. E. A Hewett concerning pro- secutions by the Beard's inspectors
ELEGRAMS.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ""
SERVICE
THE VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON
ATTACKS GENSAN.
(From Our Own Correspondent,)
Yokohama, 90th Juno, 11.34 a.m.
The Jiji reports that the Vladi- vostok squadron attacked and bom- barded Gensan this morning."
JAPANS COMMANDER-IN.
CHIEF
Mr. A. Rumjahn, minuted that from what he could gather the proceedings against the Go- down Co. have certainly brought, upon the "RECOLLECTIONS" IN COURT. Board, or more strictly speaking, the adminis Addressing his Lordship the Chief Justice,tration of the Sanitary Department, the oppro- at the Supreme Court this morning on behalf brium of the public. The time has now come of the alleged partners in the Fo Fung Bank, that the system an inheritance of the old Mr. M. W. Slade said that the result of the Board and not, a creation of the present-- issue was a "erious question for all parties, should be remedied, thoroughly overhauled; If his smp held that Lo Shang, Kwong but it cannot be gainsaid that matters have King Tong, and Kwong Yik Nam were partners much improved under the new regime and it meant that, practically, they would be ruined progress has been the order of the day, since men, for whatever they were worth would be the copstitution of the present Board. It swept into the net of the Official Receiver and might not be generally known that the Sani.. distributed with the other funds to the various tary Board is not responsible for the selection. creditors. On the other hand, it would be and appointment of any of the officers who are equally serious for all the witnesses of the chosen to carry out regulations in the name of
HIS CHIEF OF THE STAFF.. Official Receiver, because if it was held that the Board; and further, that the correspondence the men were not partners the dividends which of the Department and practically all proceed they would receive on their debts would beings against offenders, real or supposed, are
The Asahi announces that Field. materially diminished. So that as far as carried out in the name of the Board, generally regarded the principal witnesses for the Official without the knowledge and consent of its mem-Marsbal Marquis Oyama has been Receiver they were all equally interested in bers, as a whole.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak minuted that he doubted if appointed Commander-in-Chief of establishing the proposition to which they attended Court in swear. Counsel, bowever, pro- the President or Vice-President could go round Japan's armies in Manchuria.
General Baron Kodama will act ceeded to argue that the burden of proof did and verify every report made by the inspectors. not lie equally on the two sides, because it was Every officer of the Sanitary Department for the Official Receiver to establish the fact should be held liable for the proper and satis- as chief of the staff.
Both these officers will proceed to that the men were partners. The question was factory performance of the duties delegated to not, he submitted, as would doubtless be bim. In the case in question he was of suggested by Mr. Hastings on behalf of the opinion that if any one was to blame those who the front next Wednesday.
not the witnesses were in favour of the existing bye-laws were to
[Born in Satsuma, the cradle of the Meiji Official Receiver, whether for the plaintif had been guilty of a wicked blame. They gave too much power to the and abominable conspiracy, and no decision officers to do things according to their own heroes, Field-Marshal Oyama fought in the would be given upon that question if his Lord-fancy. A sub-commission should be appoint-revolution, and was sent to the Franco-German ship decided that the defendants were noted to reconsider the bye-laws and the secretary war as attaché. He went through the siege of partners. That decision would amount only should be instructed that at all times before tor's reports he must consalt the medical officer to the fact that his Lordship was not satisfied issuing notices on the strength of the inspec
of health. that plantifis had established their case. Counsel proceeded to review the evidence which, speaking generally, he said, lell under three classes. In the first place, the evidence of various witnesses was of their recollection of re-conversations held with the defendants many years ago. That was the main evidence against the three alleged partners. Secondlys
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Holders of this stock in Hongkong and the coast ports will be interested to learn that the Company has succeeded in forming a powerful combine to fight the Standard Oil Trust in China, Japan, and the Far East. AN Englishmen (Calcutta) special, dated The sole owner of the Netherlands Indies London, Juue 13, says that the Zionist Dowie has been refused admission to the London Industrial and Trading Co., working in
hotels. He left England hurriedly on the 14th Sumatra and allied with three other Dutch|inst, under an alias. Companies the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., the Mocara Enim Co., and the Maesi Ilir Co. the Shell Transport and Trading Com pany has, in conjunction with these three and with the Paris Rothschilds (who are the second largest oil producers in Baku), floated the Asiatic Petroleum Company, with a capital of £600,000. It is believed that this combine is the new factor responsible for bringing matters to a bead at home in regard to the cutting of rates, which, accord- ing to advices received by this morning's
CAPTAIN Troubridge, H.N., recently returned naval attaché to the British Legation at Tokyo, has been received in audience by the King whom he is to accompany to Kiel on board the Royal yacht, as Naval A.D,C:---
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A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will take place at Tientsin in November next, between Captain E. B. Daniell, D.5.0., D.AA.G, North China, and Miss Winifred Currey, eldest daughter of Mr. Percival Currey. THE Crown Prince of Siam, who lately turned home after a long sojourn in Europe, enters the Budhist priesthood next month to
Mr. E. A. Hewett minuted that he had been given to understand that his letter of the 24th Inst with regard to the motion he wished to bring before the Board was not quite clear.. He begged to state that he would ask at the mecting that all papers relating to the ques-
tions that have recently arisen with regard to
We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to mail, has become so keen, until in London undergo the regular course of instruction in the there was the evidence; on which his Lordship the whitewashing of certain houses belonging
be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents
at the Coast Ports.
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Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.
TELEPHONE NO. 136.
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and the provinces the great distributing companies are selling oil at less than it costs them in Russia, so that the entire cost of freight, storage, and inland transport is dead loss. The real origin of the rate war
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A. S. WATSON & CO., is thought to rest with Roumania, which pos- sesses a rich oil-field that has hitherto suffer- ed from lack of capital and inadequate drill 135 ing plant. The Standard Oil Trust, unable to get sufficient American oil for its needs, compelled to do business in Texas owing to the anti-Trust laws, excluded from the Dutch East Indies by the sagacity of The Hague Government, and prevented from prospect ing in Hurmah by our Indian Govern- ment in its search for new oil-fields for exploitation, fixed on Roumania, For two years its agents have been vainly endeavouring to induce the Roumanian Government to allow it to construct a pipe-
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oil, would make it the master of the oil wells. It is now trying to carry out a scheme by which it will provide the impecunious peasant owners of undeveloped oil-lands with the capital to work them, and will contract to take the whole of their output at an agreed price. Many schemes were formed, until at length the Shell Transport Company, of London (of which Sir Marcus Samuel is chairman), formed a new company, register ed in Berlin, called the Petroleum Produkte Action Gesellschaft, in which the Shell Coin pany invested £100,000. An arrangement has since been made by which the capital of the P.P.A.G. has been divided into four parts, held respectively by the Deutsche Bank of Berlin and another German bank, the Shell Company, and Messrs. M. Samuel and Co., of London. At the same time, the Shell Company made an agreement with the Aurora, another of the Roumanian old companies, for the purchase of its output. The refinery of the P. P. A. G. combine is at Hamburg, and the rate-cutting, said to have [qt
been started by the Standard's German branch, spread to London, where the oil market was already affected by the existence of the selling organisation formed by the
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doctrines and tenets of the faith,
THE U.S. C. T. Ibadan, which sailed from leave the members of the 2nd cavalry at that Manila on 25th inst. for Camp Wallace will place, and then proceed to Hongkong, her charter with the U.S. Government having expired.
LORD Herschell bas arrived at Colombo to take up his duties as Private Secretary to H.
Sir Henry Blake. Lord Herschell has been in the East before, and visited. Ceylon in 1902 though he did not spend much time there. He will stay in Ceylon until Sir John Keane returns, when he will cease to act as Private Secretary and retura Home.
Sun-Lieutenant E. O. B. S. Osborne, of the Fervent, has been specially promoted to licute nant for his services during operations in North China in 1900, when, as midshipman of the Centurion, he landed with the naval brigade under Sir Edward Seymour for the advance to: Peking, and was mentioned in despatches. He has been appointed to the Exmouth on pro
motion.
AT the "Singapore Council meeting to-morrow,
Mr. Tan Jiak Kim will ask the following ques tion:-"Whether the Government is aware that the action of the Transvaal Government in recruiting Chinese labour in South China, whence the whole of the labour supply for this Colony and for the Federated Native States is drawn, is likely to cause as most serious injury, and if so, what steps are being taken by the Government to protect our interests?"
THOSE presented to the King at a recent leves included the following:-Ada. Sir Cyprian Bridge, G.C., on return from command of the China Station, by the First Lord of the Ad- miralty; Mr. Robert D. Howelt, Financial Commissioner, Federated Malay States, by Secretary of State; and Rear-Adm. Charles G. Robinson, on promotion and on return home from appointment as Senior Naval Officer, Hongkong, by the First Lord of the Admiralty
THE Premier of Great Britain and Ireland had an amusing encounter with a newsbby the other day. Mr. Balfour was walking home from the House at the end of the afternoon sit ting when he called over a boy and asked for the latest edition of one of the evening papers. The fad said he was sold out of the latest edition, but then; looking the Premier square in the eye and dropping his voice to his most obliging whisper he added, "I cao tell you the
was asked to draw an inference of partnership to the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. be laid of various witnesses who asserted that they
met Lo Yak Shang and Kwong Yik Nam at just after the failure. And, thirdly, there was meetings of creditors, at the Po Fung Bank, the evidence of the various lists made out by the managing partner. He submitted that evidence of conversations, which were not admitted to be true, was a notorious and a most unsatisfactory form of testimony to estab- fish liability against any man. With the best of faith, it was so very easy for a man to allow his recollection of conversations, which had taken place years ago, to be influenced by his pecuniary interest. In the present case it was admitted that every one of the witnesses called on behalf of the Official Receiver was directly.
interested in the result, and having regard to that fact it was especially important to consider whether there was any evidence outside of that which went either to corroborate or to dis prove the statements made by the witnesses as to their recollection of conversation.
Mr. J. Hastings, as representing the Official Receiver and the creditors, anid that the issne was a very difficult one to decide, and the fact that Mr. Bruce Shepherd proceeded against
the three men atone must not be taken, in any
way, as meaning that they constituted the partnership. There were probably many partners more, and action was taken against Lo Yak Shang, Kwong King Tong, and Kwong Yik Nan because there was direct evidence against them. Those persons with regard to whom there was only indirect or hearsay evidence had not been proceeded against, and, therefore, the sole question was not, who were the part- ners in the Po Fung bank, but whether the three men were or were not. Specific de- clarations had been made against them, and Mr. Slade contended that the evidence was mainly that of conversations of interested persons. Those people, however, had the very strongest interest in remembering what was said and taking note of that at the time and trea- saring it up in their memories, because it was the motive of their action in dealing with the bank. The very fact that money was deposited there shows that inquiries had been made, and persons knew perfectly well that substantial men were at the back of it; besides, the two figureheads, the men of straw, who were put there to manage the business that shows there were other partners who were wealthy men, and it was for the Court to decide whether the persons named were some of those wealthy men who were depended upon by the creditors when they advanced money, to the bank and trusted them to such a large extent.
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Paris, studied military education in France
in the Civil War of 1877, returned to Europe to and Switzerland, commanded a flying column. investigate the military systems of the West, was rewarded with the title of Count, intro duced reforms in the army, and was appointed Chief of the Staff-Ed., H.K. T
JAPANESE OCCUPY
KAIPING.
RUSSIANS DRIVEN NORTHWARDS.
upon the table, in order that the matter might
The Japanese army under General be fully discussed by the Board. He also gave notice that he intended, putting a resolution before the Board to the effect that in future Oka has driven the Russians north "no prosecutions be instituted by any officer wards and occupied Kaiping. deputed by the Board under Section 30 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1993 until the matter has been approved by the President of the Sanitary Board, or, in his absence, by the Vice-Presiden,"
CHINESE PARTNERSHIPS.
REGISTRATION OF FIRMS,
Commenting on the report in a recent bank. ruptcy proceeding in Hongkong and the re- marks of the Chief Justice, the Singabore Free Press in a leading article on the 23rd inst. observes:
An ever recurring subject is the registration of Chinese partnerships. It is well-known that the Chinese commercial custom of partners ex tends much further than is customary in Europe. & "Chop" or "Kongsi" is inaugurated for some specific commercial venture, or to carry out
some industrial work, or manage an estate, gr
Official
Opium for China.
(From Our Onum Correspondent.)
BOMBAY, 30th June.
The P. & O. Co.'s mail steamer left Bombay yesterday afternoon with about 650 chests of Malwa opium.
Prices are as follows:
Malwa (Now) .......Rs. 1,400 ||
(Old)
1,600 (Older) 1,700
(Oldest)
··1,800.
THE WEATHER.
The following report is from Mr. J. I. Plum mer, Chief Assistor of the Hongkong Obser
rain..
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUR: American (Doric) ist prox." · Canadian (Athenian) 3rd prox........
· Canadian (Empress of Japan) 4th prox.
German (Seydlits) 5th prox, h
own a ship. A number of names are got to gether, some of men of standing, some of men of straw; the combined capital may be much or little, the fact being that the good men's names are the draw, and these men may (oratory
On the 30th at 11.20 a.m. The barometer may not) believe in the bona fider of the specu lation. On the strength of these good names remains stationary in Mid China and Formosa the "chop" commences business, gets credit and bas fallen at all other places, among the Chinese as well as the European The greatest pressure is still found in south- em Japan and the least in the Gulf of Ton- firms, and goes on gaily for a time living on credit. The really good men find out that the quin.
"Gradients are moderate on the East Coast of business is not a paying one and withdraw," giving as little publicity to the withdrawal as China bat rather steep upon the South coast, the managers of the firm can persuade them to and over China Sea. Moderate S. winds will adopt. Whes difficulties arise the proprietors prevail in the Formosa Channel and strong and other parties concerned are not to be found, S.W. monsoon in the China Sea.
Forecast:-Strong S. to S.W. winds, overcast, and often the only person in the firm who can be got at is he who describes himself as a paid servant" or manager. The procedure is quite common here and in Hongkong, and is as generally condemned as it deserves to be. But for some inexplicable resaron Euro- pean firms do not rise as one against it and demand the registration of Chinese firms-or rather all firms. Indeed, if our memory: serves right, the Singapore Chamber of Com merce, the corporate wisdom of the trade of the place, frowned on a proposal made at the suggestion of practically every Assignee from the days of Mr. Hornby down- going to press forward a measure intended. wards, and the Government of course were pot solely for the advantage of the merchants, if those merchants refrained from supporting it, and even opposed it. The real objection to been able to get at Probably it arises from *egistration of partnerships we have never the necessity of including all partnerships, and the disinclination of the European firms to dis- close the exact composition of their proprietor ship. Ur it may arise from a constitutional. dislike to Government interference in .com mercial matters a dislike which it must be confessed bas some real foundation when the numerous maddles made when the assiduous but verdant cadet finds himself in a position to dictate to "those people on the other side of
The C.P. R. Co's sa Emprees of India the water." At all events nothing has ever been done here or in Hongkong, although the arrived at Kobe at 4.30 2m, on 29th inst, werd subject is always cropping up, left again at noon same day, for
The Silk'ex C. P. R. Ca's as sular Service in China are notified in the Lon; that although it was not proven that defendant of the Po Fung! Bank, our esicomed contem- and Motor Launches:
don Gazette-Edward T. C. Werner, Esq, to was a rommon carrier, because he was not porary thus concludes: It may be suggested
cean that the Singapore Chamber of Commerce have China which left Hongkong on.ast inst, Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms Abrahams, to superintend oil-boring oper- Consol for the Consular, Districts of Kiung: bound to accept goods for conveyance, it was here a subject that is worthy of their attention. Yokohama on toth inst, arrived at
with First-class Builders.
ations in the Greek island of Zante, where how and Pakboi, to, reside, at Kinogchow clear that by reason of his taking the goods Ons can bardly expect them to take up agato on 18th inst, thus making a transit of large stock of Canadian Asbestos and
Asbestocel gooda kept.
it hopes to obtain further supplies of oil. It / Henry A. Little Esq, to be. Consul for the that he had undertaken theʻliability of a com- | jual yat the Harbour Improvement Scheme from Hongkong and 18 days from Yokoha
Consular District of Kongmoon, to reside at mon carrier. That did not scam to be disput- considering the divided opinions that are known to exlat on that subject 1513 is obvious, therefore, that a big battle is Kongmoons Eras C. C. Wilton, Bag, to bed by either side her quoting various au mater goes dove to the very foundation of arrived at Naga in progress, and although the wealth of the Vie Consul for the Consular District of Chungthunties on the limitation of the liability, indgstecestol barisets, and if they cannot agree
PARSEA SEAT Sking to reside at Chungking i and Harold meat was given for defendante efellers is enormous, the Shell Company King, Esq., to be Vice Consul for the Consular A stay of execution was grap
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GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.
E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
COLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.
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Salvage Work undertaken, Ship Designs and Specifications prepared.
millionaire Mantascheffs, of Baku, last year, in opposition to the Rothschilds. In addi tion to the alliances mentioned above, the Shell Company has an agreement with the J. M. Gufley Company, of Texas, under which it is importing to England large
names of the first three."
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By kind permission of Li-Col. Iremonger and Officers, the Band of the gård Burma Infantry will play the following programme of music at the above Hotel, during dinner, on Friday the 1st jply,:1904: (weather permitting.)
PROGRAMME.
Ivan Carylt. .Cherubini,
„Sullivan, “ Liebeslied
Haroly Klay Selection, Merrie England. Bernian Valu. Hansel and Gretel". Braculonal.
Perdue! Gavotte Eunice
God save the King.
March...The Espada Overture....." Lodolska “...; Selection.... The Chieftain
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Judgment was reserved,
A QUESTION OF CONVEYANCE.
Before his Honour Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (Puise Judge), at the Supreme Court this morning, the Ko Wa Sung Kee firm sued Cheung Bad for $327.05, being loss sustained by the non-delivery of 60 bundles of paper en trusted to defendant for conveyance to plain tiffs.
Mr. J. Hastings represented the plaintiffs while Mr. G. K. Brutton appeared for the de. fendant
German (Prins Regent Luitpold) 6th prox. "American (Siberia) 7th prox. Indian (Kumsang) iath prox.
Australian (Triman) 13th prox.
Canadian (Tarlar) 19th prox.
The ss. Lothian arrived at Salina Crus on 18th inst
The .s. Skamul arrived in Victoria, B.C on 29th inst,
The N. G.1.5, S. Co.'s as. Ischia left Singa pore for this port yesterday, and may be ex pected here on 4th prax..
Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam quantities of Texas oil, and it has just sent | THE following movements in the British Con;}* In giving judgment His Honour pointed out), ́After quoļing from our report of the failure where she is due lo arriya at DOOD I
gents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical
Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.
one of its leading representatives, Mr.
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District of Tientsin, to reside at Tientsin, a
The C. P. R. COS KA EM
Nagasaki at 830';
on 30th ins
to ask the Goverment; to take action in the mistier, it jej due to their own reputation
stats the reasons for and against its
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