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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1904.
CHINA AND OPIUM.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
AN interesting article on the question of the registration of trade marks appears on the third page.
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PRINCE Fushimi's jewellery, stolen at St. Louis, was recovered by the police the next day, but the thief escaped,
LIEUT.-General Tsuchiya and Major-General Nakamura, who were seriously wounded in the attack on 230-mètre hill, are progressing fav ourably.
Tin British Red Cross Society has sent Sir Claude MacDonald by telegraph a sum of £5,000 for the Japanese sick' and wounded, in addition to the £2,030 previously sent.
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DECEMBER 29, 1904.
THIS morning Mr. Hazeland fined a coolie $5 or 14 days for using a seat in the Public Gardens to rest his feet upon.
THERE is no doubi, says a Japanese exchange, that the soldiers of the Mikadó have got big guns at the top of 203-metre bill
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THE Star Ferry Complay is now issuing packets of ten first class tickets for $1.00 thus reducing the rates on these purchases by onc third-a move in the right direction.
FOR returning from banishment a second time Mr. Gompertz this morning sentenced Lam Chu Sing, an incorrigible rogue and vagabond, to twelve months of the tardest, and six hours
in the stocks.
MR. James Pinnock, who gave us a delightful The Jiji suggests that Russia is hoping that interview some two years ago, has written Adntiral Rozhdestvensky will be found responWander- cars Round the World," which sible for the North Sea outrage, to give a was a busy girdle round the earth, traversing pretext for the recall of the Baltic squadron.
West Africa, the Khyber, Australasia, Fiji, Vladivostok, Korea, Burinn, Mexico, anîl Africa unce more by way of Uganda. The work is issued by Mr. Fisher Unwin.
A CHINASE girl of some ten years fell into the sea off the steps at Blake Pier this morning, but a boatman in the sampan to which she be longed immediately hooked her by her pants
and landed her cold and wat,
There seems to be little doubt as to the THE Central News learns officially that it is existence of a very decided trend of opinion intended to send further large shipments of among members of the American Inter-Chinese conlies to the Rand mines until the national Reform Bureau in favour of eman.
total number of labourers employed there reaches 60,coo. cipating China from her pet aversion-the opium habit. Anticipating that the close of the present war will afford strategic oppor tunity for a diplomatic effort to induce Great Britain to cut off the foreign supply of the drug to China, Mr. Balfour was recently approached and asked that his government should on its own riotion cancel the treaty and release the Celestial Empire from obli- gations to tolerate the sale of opium. A communication on the subject was duly acknowledged with the Prime Minister's as- surances that the letter would receive careful consideration. Here the matterseems to have ended so far as the representatives of Great Britain were concerned. The crusade against
THE schoolmaster, Wan Fu-hua, has been brought up for judgment at Shanghai. The Court found him guilty of attempting to ass assinate Ex-Governor Wang and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment with hard labour. Accused demarred at this sentence and the Magistrate said that if he was not satisfied he could take steps to appeal.
IT having been discovered by natives of Teng hill district of Wenténghsien, of which Lang chou prefecture, Shangtung province, that the
FOUR gentlemen went out to dine. They were Arthur Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Charles Beresford, and the Japanese Minister. Mr. Arthur Balfour was standing treat and said to Joey," What will younke ?* "Oh, thanks,
I'll take Scotch, Arthur" "And what will you take, Lord Charles?" "Oh, thanks, I'll take trish, Arthur." "And now, what will you take?" addressing the Japanese Minister, "('ll take Port Arthur, thanks.”—Tuiler.
THE Courrier d'Haiphong states that M. Mahe, the French Resident in Laos, succeeded in navigating the Mekong from Saigon to Vien- Thane; this is the first time that a vessel has passed through the Kemin rat falls, which have hitherto been considered an insurmount able bar navigation. M. Mahe is of opinion the year; this period might be raised to eight that the river is navigable for five months of
WRECK OF THE S.S.
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WORKFIELD."
CREW IN HONGKONG.
FULL PARTICULARS.
The captain, officers and crew of the ill-fated steam-ship Workfield, Captain E. G. Drond- head-which went aground on a reef near the Cape of Good Hope, off Swatow, on Christmas Eve, and eventually became a total wreck, arrived at Hongkong yesterday.
TELEGRAM
THE WAR.
URLUNGSHAN FORT CAPTURED.
ANOTHER STUMORN FIGHT.
Mr. M.. Noma, Consul for Japan, has kindly forwarded to us the following tele gram ---
Tokio, 29th Dec., 12.17 p.m. The Port Arthur army reports that the left the centre of the army, at to a.m. on of Urlungshan fort, then occupying the Wednesday, blew up a parapet at the front
parapet by assault, constructing thera defen.
the cover of heavy guns and field-guns. sive works, despite the enemy's fire, under
According to statements made by the officers of the vessel, ton representative of the Hong- practically a new boat, having been launched kong Telegraph, the ¡Vorkfield, which was
only three years ago, left Cardiff, on the 8th of coal. She had a net register of 2,759 tons, November, bound for Japan with a cargo of
She was built by Craig Taylor at Stockton-on-line of heavy guns in the interior thereupon and was owned Mr. W. R. Rea, of Belfast,
At 4 p.m. we assaulted and occupied the Tees, and engined by the North Eastern proceeded to the gorge of the fort, whence Engineering Company on the Tynt.
the enemy was eventually dislodged after a stout resistance.
might be considered rather a risky business in The voyage to Japan with 6,coo tons of coal
November when the Russian Baltic Fleet was bombarding all and sundry on suspicion of be- ing Japanese torpedo boats. The Workfield escaped the attentions of the fleet, however, and made her way via the Cape to Hongkong where she had been told to await orders.
ORDERED TO SASEDO. Hongkong was reached after an uneventful passage, and the Workfield was offered to continue the journey to Japan, and unload her cargo at Sasebo. Proceeding on Friday, 23rd inst,, to leave Bangkang, the vessel took the usual course for Japan, and all went well until
the following afternoon. About three p.m. on Saturday, while Swalow was some 25 miles charted reef. Orders were rapidly telegraphed away, the Workfield struck heavily on an an-
to the cagioc room to go full speed astern, and the engines were stopped. Meanwhile, how ever, the vessel bumped three times on the rock.
Thus the whole fort of Urlungshan fell into our hands at 7.30 p.m.
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JAPANESE CRUISER
OFF SWATOW,
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SWATOW, December 25th. At half past seven yesterday morn ing a Japanese three-funnelled eruiser, of about 3,000 tons register, with the Marconi wireless tolegrapli apparatus fixed to the after minst, stearned
up to the Cape of Good Hope Lighthouse. She was ready for action, and all her
the traffic was nevertheless pursued with the hushan is the liighest point, is rich in gold months if works of improvement were carried the crew-bearing in mind the reports and guns were run out. When about a
utmost vigour, the governments of Japan and the United States being addressed with such gratifying results, that the Reform Bureau pushed their campaign into other wide spheres of influence. That the useful work _they_have_in_hand_will receive the cordial support of most of the British people there is not much room for doubt. At home
A. S. WATSON & Co., they are maintaining a persistent agitation, and the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Traffic has long since expressed great gratification that the movers in the scheme are bringing public opinion to their aid. The British Parliament in 1891 declared the course of the British govern- ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, ment with reference to opium revenue in
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hongkong, roth December, 1904.
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Asia was "morally indefensible," and the Government itself has recently enacted grad. ual prohibition of the use of the drug in Hurma, seeking to evade any seeming con. cession to Christian agitation at home by saying, "The use of opium is condemnot by the Buddhist religion, and the Govern ment believing the condemnation to be right, intends the use of opium by persons of the Burmese race shall for ever cease." Undoubtedly this act is a result of, and so an encouragement to, agitation, and certain- ly the Government cannot long refuse to apply the same principle and policy in India
and China. It is said that another en- couragement to agitation is that the British revenue from opium sold to China is certainly decreasing, and will ultimately disappear through the steady increase of domestic
quarz, a Tientsin native paper states that a number of Shantung ufficials in Peking have obtained the necessary permission from the Shangpu to develop the Langhushan, or Wolf and Tiger mouatan gold deposits, the funds needed for the purchase of crushing and other machinery to be advanced by the Provincial Government of Shantung.
THIS morning Inspector Ford placed two shopkeepers, dealers in Chinese preserves, from false weights, and thereby defrauding their Queen's Road, before Mr. Hazeland for using
customers. The first was fined $too and the second $zoo. His Worship remarked that he did not consider he was fining the men at all, but was merely taking from them part of what they had squeezed from the public. Their class, and thus their "squeeze," through the use goods are all of a comparatively expensive
of false weights must have been considerable.
By kind permission of Major Radcliff and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry
will play the following programme of music at
the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Friday, the 30th inst, (weather permitting):-
March. Conquerant " Intermezzo. Under the Moo1 Selection...... 11 Corvara " Talk Bus Vivant "........... Selection......" Schubertian Valt... Des Fleurs”. Galupe." Die Lancers Aquch
God Save the King.
Steam coal.
.Ord 17 me. .....Reuseli, Verdi. .(iodfrey, ......diu!frey. Tschaikowsky. Bohu.
JAPAN has renewed her demand for Cardiff The quantity is not definitely known, but orders have been placed with three Cardiff firms, who are offering freights for Shanghai or Japan. Messrs. Moxey, Savor, and Company have already chartered one steamer of 5,500 tons for Shanghai or Japan at tion. The number of coal steamers for Wladi. wostock, or other mysterious coal-carrying charters increases rapidly. They are insured generally for Wladiwostock at 30 guineas per cent, with a return of live guineas per cent. if not captured.
out.
At first there was some inclination among rumours that were current at home and in Hongkong to fancy that the vessel had struck a floating mine. However, they were quickly reassured and prepared to make every effort to save the vessel.
VESSEL FOUNDERS,
THE South Chinu Collegian for December has been published, and as usual contains many ex- cellent articles dealing with the education of the Chinese youth. In this number there are con. tributions by the Rev. Dr Andrew Beattie, the The Workfield had evidently collided with a Rev. Dr. U. F. Wisner (President of thie Can-sharp reef, and when she struck the third time, ton Christian College), the Rev. O. D. Wanna- maker, and by Mr. Lo Tsz Chun, a progressive Chinese educator, who is described as a repre- sentative of the new type of native scholars now arising in China.
THE text of the Anglo-Portuguese arbitration treaty signed at Windsor was published on 18th ult. It is in all respects the same as that concluded with France last year, except that in the preamble it is stated that both Govern- ments are "desirous of confirming, by a further solemn agreement, the frondship and alliance which have happily subsisted for so long a period between them and the two nations which they represent, and of eliminating as far
it was apparent she had been badly damaged. Water was pouring through the burst plates in the seam into the hold, and although a valiant attempt was made to keep the vessel afloat it proved to be useless. At first, when some idea of the extent of the damage was gained, the captain thought he would be able to reach the mainland, where the Workfield could be beached. But-the water gained so rapidly that soon the fires in the engine-room were es tinguished.
It was then decided to take to the boats, with the object of making for the Cape of Good Hope lighthouse. The crew ag bande mii: told occordingly manned the boats, and pulled away to a respectable distance from the unfor- as possible from their mutual relations every-tunate vessel. Altogether about twelve hours thing which might tend to impair or weaken that friendship and alliance."
elapsed between the time the Workfield struck and the time when she went down. Nothing could be done, of course, with the 6,000 tons of coal. The vessel eventually took a final plunge by the head and went down in fourteen or fifteen fathoms of water.
their ordinary engine-room clothing. At the lighthouse they were hospitably entertaimed and there Christmas Day was spent. The steamship Samsen, one of the N.D.L. boats, was signalled as she was passing on Monday morning and the shipwrecked crew were inken
mile to the eastwards, which seemed to indicate that she was anxious to have a look at Swatow, she changed her course and steamed to the South.
A MATTER OF EXCHANGE.
BANKERS AT VARIANCE.
At the Civil Summary Court this morning,. before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (Paisne Judge),
tische Bank against a native hong, known as an action was brought by the. Deutsche-Asia-
the Win Shing Hing Bank, doing business at 102, Wing Lok Street.
Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C, (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Blokes and Master) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. H. N. Ferrers (instructed. by Mr. P. W. Goldring) defended.--
Pialatiffs alleged that they had suffered dam. age by reason of the breach by the defendants of a contract dated the 4th October, 1904, and made between the plaintiffs and the defendants whereby the last-named agreed to purchase from the plaintiffs a sterling draft on London, payable on demand, for the sum of £2,000 sterling, at exchange 1/98, and which said con- tract was to be completed on the 30th Novem- ber, 1904 The defendant failed to complete their purchase on due date, and the plaintiffs had accordingly suffered damages to the extant of $785.84 by such breach. The sale of the draft on October 4th at 1/97 amounted to $21,942.86, and the cost on the 30th November at 1/10 11/16 amounted to $21,157.02, hence the sum claimed.
Mr. Pollock having briefly opened the case for the plaintiffs, called
SPIRIT MERCHANTS, production. This scarcely seems to tally, 165, and firm offers of 175, are under considera- night, thus hitherto leaving their mornings free. off the rock and landed at Swatow, where they bank, who stated that Lee Yuk Chee was a
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ANOTHER fatality occurred in the harbour yes terday afternoon, of a similar, nature to that recorded by us in these columns on Monday, by which a Chinese boy has lost his life. Again it was a launch, the Wing Luf, Chinese-owned throwing the sampan woman and three children which capsized a sampan, near West Point,
into the sea. Two of the children were rescued by a boat crew from the s.s. Telemachus, who
resuscitated the two half-drowned children, but the third was lost. While it is very often the sampan people's fault when these accidents oc- cur, there is no doubt that some of the launch.
masters often show remarkable indifference to
were taken to a hotel,
THE district Sanitary Inspectors are up in arms with discontent at a new order which has been issued, and which, they claim, is against the
The boats were puited to the land and reach existing regulations. The regulations lay down
ed Hope Bay, whence the crew walked to the that the district inspector shall be on duty from six o'clock to nine o'clock in the morning, and lighthouse. The crew had lost nearly all their from one o'clock to four o'clock in the after-effects, and indeed the engineers were wearing noons. The new order, to which they now take exception, provides that all district inspectors trust come to the central office in Glencaly Buildings from ten to eleven in the mornings to do their clerical work. This work they have always been in the habit of doing at home at
This new order, they state, completely breaks up their mornings, as some of them have con- siderable distances to cover, and after coming off duty at 9 o'clock, it is a rush to get their bath, breakfast, and be down at the office by ten o'clock, while leaving at eleven gives them. but just time to get home, have their dinner and start out on their rounds again by one o'clock. Were there any good reasons for this order they would have nothing to say, but where there has been no trouble of doing their clerical work at home in their own time, they
hopes that it will not remain in force long. feel it is somewhat of a hardship, and live in
LINKED BY LANTERN LECTURES.
The Colonial Office is to be heartily com- mended for taking up Mr. Sadler's suggestion of lantern lectures as a hak of Empire. In
Yuen Kwong Fuk, shroff in the plaintiff
customer of the Bank. On the 4th October last be contracted to buy £3,000 sterling from the
Counsel put in a document, in English and Chinese, relating to the transaction, which the witness identified.
The cold was intense, and the officers at the British Consulate, after scurrying around, man-bank. aged to collect a variegated lot of garments for the officers and men. On the day following their arrival at Swatow, the steamship Haitan was due to leave for Hongkong, and accord- ingly the entire crew were given passages to this part, and arrived here yesterday.
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They are at present staying at the Silors' Home, with the exception of the captain, who putting up at one of the hotels in the city. It is stated that all the ship's papers and other valuables have gone down with the Work field.
MR. S. D. SEINA LEAVING
FOR BOMBAY
lly the English mail on Saturday Mr. S. D. Seina is leaving for Bombay, bis sudden departure having been rendered necessary by the death of his father. He is one of the oid China Parstes
however, with the latest figures available- for the year 1903-when the total import of opium advanced from 50,801 to 58,478 piculs, or an increased value of Haikuan taels 8,590,000.
For its great article of luxury and self-indulgence, which in 1902 cost an all-round average of Hk. Tis, 700 a picul, China had in 1903 to pay a higher price, Hk. Tls. 750, and at that price took a larger quantity. The revenue table for the previous year shows one contributing cause of this increase in the loss of Hk. Tls. 646,566 in the duty from the home-grown With a market short of supplies of the | cheaper native opium, the demand for the Indian drug actually exceeded the supply obtainable. In view of this, too, one must not lose sight of the fact that the foreign trade of China in 1903 was disappointing danger abead, and handle their boats with ex- to most of the interests concerned, and
treme carelessness. it is to be hoped that Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and long- with all the reasons suggested for the when the inquiry is held, it will bring out just kong the higher classes in elementary schools depreciation taxes to meet indemnity pay: where the fault in the present case lies, so that and adults will benceforth be enabled to see ments continue to reduce the absorbing the offender may be adequately dealt with, what London and England are like without power of the Empire. Notwithstanding that
having to go there, as a few favoured chiefs and Per dozen. the millions of China crave for their opium;
FURTHER particulars are now to hand of the prime ministers have hitherto been able to do. if the British supply were stopped the that a dispute arose between the Chinese cooliestributed over seven, lectures, they will see the recent disturbances on the Rand. It seems By means of nearly 300 lantern slides, dis- Chinese Government would undoubtedly use employed on the mines and the natives, with journey from the East to London, London every means to suppress the habit. For the result that a band of 800 Chinese, armed itself, the town and country life, military and such a desirable end to be brought about with drills and crowbars, attacked a body of so naval strength, and industries and commerce the unity of international support must first Kaffis, who carried knob-kerries. The conlies of England. London is to bave similar oppor be sought, if only on the grounds that the and Kaffirs engaged in a general battle, and tunities of familiarising itself with the East. matters quickly assumed a very serious aspect. A home journal has no doubt that the plan legitimate trade of every commercial nation A'strong force of police who were immediately will be extended gradually throughout the holding stalls at fêtes and sales and working has been seriously curtailed by the pauperis dispatched to the scene of the conflict found it Empire, and that these colonies will find their ing of more than a quarter of the world's necessary to take prompt and determined expenditure of £300 each on this matter well are annually being wasted by the Chinese in They charged the coolies with fixed bayonets, knows, is the one way of really getting hold of most populous nation. Millions of donars measures in order to prevent serious bloodshed. repaid. The lautern, as every popular lecturer the purchase of what brings no useful re- turn and decreases both the producing and
and even then it was only with the greatest an audience, even in cases where the audience the buying power of so many people, and difficulty that they succeeded in restoring are not being taken into such strange and even if there were not weightier moral peace. Eight of the rioters were so badly in unfamiliar scenes as those into which these considerations, commercial interests alone jured that they had to be taken to the hospital, Cingalese will be introduced. As the pictures should prompt action being taken both by many others being less seriously injured. The will no doubt be carefully selected-London in Great Britain and America who have such ringleaders of the affair were arrested. A fog and snow,, for instance, being carefully immense Interests in the undeveloped land number of civilians, armed with revolvers, avoided the result should be very impres-
I assisted the police to quell the disturbance, | sive,
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Mr. Ferrers abjected to its admission as evidence, on the ground that it was a broker's note, and ought to have beep stamped. Even if it was not a broker's note, it required to be stamped.
Mr. Pollock submitted that it was not broker's note,
His Honour admitted the document. Witness, continuing, said that the man Lea was not a broker but the general manager of the defendant Bank.
He had had many previous dealings with him. Witness pro- ceeded to prove many previous dealings with the defendants through the man Lee Yuk Chee. The case was adjourned until eleven to-mor- row morning,
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SHIPPING AND MAILS.
and his last sojourn here has covered a period ofabout five years. During that timehe has been in sole charge ofthe business of his family's firm IN honour of a big shoot in Silesian preserves in Hongkong which is one of the oldest Parsee the Kaiser presented to the Burgomaster for firms in the Far East, Messrs. Cawasjee the local town hall a'copy of the picture which immortalises the moment during the China Pallanjee and Co. Mr. Setna has proved a man of varied activity and energy. He has been one campaign of 1000, when Admiral Seymour of the Trustees of the local Parsee Charity uttered the thrilling command, "Germans to Funds, and has made a large circle of friends, the front." including Europeans, Civil and Military. He was always forward
in helping and promoting acts of catholic charity by not only subscribing handsomely, but by taking an active personal part therein, such as
energetically to bring large receipts to the charities concerned. He has somewhat been Europeanised in ideas and tastes and has been taking an active part in balls and dances, „He will be much missed by convents and kindred benevolent institutions to which he always extended a willing hand of help and encourage ment. His numerons friends wish him a plea sant time home and also hope that he may return with his family and settle down here. Contributed,
one of the only two Parsees who have been,
MAILS DUE. American (Korea) 30th inst. English (Coromandel) 31st inst. Jadian (Catherine Aptar)-sad prox. German (Seydlits) 3rd prox." Gennan (Bayern) 5th prox. --
The Bucknall Lina's.s. Bucentaur left Singa pope for this port, on 28th inst, and is due here on 3rd prox.
The N. G. 1. Co.'s 1.s. Fizhiä left Sínga. pore for this port to-day, and may be expected hero on sib prox