TELEGRAM
[Router's.]
Fighting near Mukden.
THE RUSSIAN VERSION.
LONDON, 8th March. General Kuropatkin, in n despatch dated the 6th instant, says that the Russians to the west of Mukden continue the offensive.. Ten
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH
HONGKONG OF LONG AGO,
Entertaining"LECTURE.
Members of the Union Church Literary Society enjoyed a mare treat last evening when the Rev. T. W. Pearce told them, in his enter- taining way, the story of old Hongkong and the many changes that have been wrought since the days of Thirish occupation. His nu dience unfortunately was not large, but those
ALLEGED JAPANESE ATTACK.
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After a lull of three weeks, the fire-fiend get busy this morning shortly before half-past threa o'clock. An alarmn was turned in at the Cen-
inspector Blaker turned out with promptness and made all haste to the scene, which was, found to be at the back of No. 13 Bonham Strand, East, occupied by a gold-beater, with family dwelling-house above, Dense volumes premises, while there was but little flame observable. Penetrating this deuse smoke the firemen found themselves m a son of smelting room, with kilns and furnaces, and large quantities of charcoal, and it was the tatter that had become ignited and was burning rapidly, though there was nothing to show the cause of its ignition. The firemen
attacks of the Japanese were repulsed yester present, among whom were noticed the Rev. other people. It was only right to say, how," Macleod, loaded to her Flimsoll marks with of smoke were rolling out at the rear of the
day, and their assaults on the centre and ex- treme left were also repulsed. Two thousand Japanese dead were counted at Kaotuling
Fall of the City Imminent. Reuter's correspondent with General Kuroki's army reports that the Russians, profiting by darkness, have evacuated all their positions along the Shaho, and alter firing huge quantities of supplies are now in full retreat with the Japanese pressing hard. The fall of Mukden is imminent.
Later.
France and Russia. The Times says that the French financiers have intimated to Russia that the new loan must not exceed twenty millions sterling in stead of thirty-two millions as required, and furthermore that this will be the last loan raisable in Paris for some years.
[Shanghai Times.] ***1.
counts of four attempts alleged to have been made by Japanese fishing boats to blow up the British steamer Carlisle, described as "the blockade runner which was towed into Manila from Tobaco a few days ago by the Antonio dynamite and gun cotton." It is stated that early in the evening of the 3rd inst. a large Japanese fishing boat headed out of the bay and was making a course for the north channel. When abreast of the ss. Carlisle, about 200 yards off, the dropped her sail and altered her helm and teaded for the steamer. The Custom's Inspector told her to sheer off, but the fishing
and seized the mast of the daring boat. The cus- tam's officer fired several shots down into the craft and the second mate also emptied his re- volver into the boat but she did not leave until a second volley was fired. The Carlisle sent up a rocket of distress and the customs night launch answered the call and gave chase to
The place was insure for $6,000, With such inflammable material to deal with the Fire rigade deserve the greatest credit for confining the outbreak to the one area, and quickly subduing it in the face of the suffocat. ing smoke.
ip former days the capital of the island). 10 TORPEDO 5.5, "CARLINZE." and Shekio. Two Hakka villages were Tung-lo-wan and Tai-tam-tuk. Thirdly, the Hoklo people came from the region of Swatow These people formed no villages of their own, but settled in existing villages such as Shau-ki-Manila papers to hand contain lengthy actral Station, and the Fire Brigade, under Chief wan, Cheung Chow (Long Island, to the right of Macas), and Yauninti and Hanghom on the mainland. Those Iloklos were terrible fellows for piracy and smuggling, and a great deal of trouble arose through their mixture with the ever, that these Hokles eople were the nucleus C. H., Mr. and Miss Hickling, Mrs, Pearce, of the Chinese who had done so much under Dr. J. C. Threnson, Dr. F. W. Clark, Mr. H. Hursthouse and Mr. J. Dyer Ball, ther the European occupation. The lecturer ques
tioned if there was ever a spot on earth where from where the enemy has withdrawn south-oughly enjoyed lister ing to his most interest-
ipg remarks. Mr. W. C. lumphreys proved enterprise had done so much. If the British wards.
capital Chairman and, in a few humorous obfunded colonies in the eastern seas, the Chinese servations appertaining to the subject of the developed them, and these Hoklo people were the nucleus of those who did the developing. lecture, introduced i) e Rev. Perce wha, ni the
British enterprise and capital, but Chinese in-boat made no reply and her peculiar actions immediately got to work with their hoses, outset, acknowledged that be bid not what was called historic perse tive, and very little his bour had made the Colony what it is. "Why frightened the crew of the steamship who now and soon had streams of water pouring on had the faculty of historic selection. It was toric imagination, and even questioned if he and how this Colony became British? The realized that their visitor was a Japanese and the pile, thus preventing the flames, spread- Rev. Pearce answered this by quoting from a evidently approaching with intent to blow theming to the adjacent houses which also one thing, he observed, to articulate together work by his old friend, Dr. Eitel, who said it up. The fishing boat went along without any contained inflammable material. In less than an hour the co. flagration was entirely under the dry bones of analysis into the form of a
was the offspring of a marriage alliance con- hesitation, and the inspector fired several shots cluded at Canton in 1643 between the East from his revolver. The boat changed her course control. In the absence of the master of the skeleton, and it was quite another thing to make those dry bones live and move before India Company on the one part and the Chin-again and crossed the bows of the Carlisle, and establishment, the actual amount of the dam- ese Government on the other. It was an ill-with a derisive laugh melted away in the dusk. age done could not be ascertained, but it is their Literary Society. That evening, how-
A boat was lowered from the Carlisle and not thought to extend beyond the loss of the ever, he would endeavour to throw a little light Assorted marriage, one party having free-irade that was clear, kindly and gentle upon four notions and ideas of international equality, and gave chase, but the Japanese boat escap. charcoal, and the charred walls, floor, and questions relating to our Colony. In the first the other having enunciated ideas of monopoly rd. Later on another Japanese boat loom, heams, place, he would deal with the name of Hong. and pressing claims of political superiority ed up out of the darkness and have to so over the Universe. Divorce was bound close under the stein of the Carlisle that she collided and the man on watch reached out kong; secondly, with the original settlers or
10 came and this was pronounced al carliest inhabitants; thirdly, with the circum. stances of how and when Hongkong became Canton by Commissioner Liu; and Captain British; and lastly with the condition of the Elliot secured langkong for the British. Colony in the carlest years of British oc- The Chinese had been dominated by a system cupancy. "Hongkong "was not, he said, theof monotony. For countless centuries the son translation of two Chinese words meaning had copied the father, and the daughter the "fragrant streams," neither was the original mother. The British, on the other hand, had Hongkong the village: it was the port as dis- escaped the limitations which had been deter tinguished from the village of berdeen, known mind beforehand. It was the high destiny of as the fragrant, or pleasant, port. Those of Ho gkong to aid in the inevitable work of them who had visited the place, must certainly diffusi g the existing culture of all nations to have observed a very ancient and fih-like every part of the earth. smell (laughter), and that did not seem to sug- gost fragrance. lis view was that the name of our Colony, as derived from the part of Hong- kong, was never connected with the place as a pleasant or fragrant spot, but that in all pro- bability a man lived there whose name or sur- name was fragrance or pleasant, and who held property in hat vicinity, with the result that the port was called the port of Str. Pleasant or Mr. Fragrance. And how did that name come to be applied to this Island? asked the rev. gentle- man. Thereby bangs a tale. Before the" will ask you," said the reverend gentleman, 'o'clock the next morning a fourth fisherman Colony passed in'n British occupation it was "where else in the world will you find, in sorowed up very quietly alongside and was close certain that European vessels used to go to limited an area such enterprise, such commer-to the vessel several minutes before discovered
The first two boats which were planly seen Aberdeen in order to replenish their empty cial activity, such triumph of western pluck water casks at the mountain stream that runs in, and energy as here in Horgkang." (Applause), under the mail of the Carlisle are reported to to the sen by the Paper Mills. They heard the bave very great sympathy with the gentle- have bad an object in the bows which is strp part called Hongkong and at once applied the man who observed that he could imagine posed to have been a infernal machine or naine to the whole of the island. Shakespeare the figure of Britannia standing on the mine, and everybody concerned agrees that the had said that "a rose by any s her name etc., hilltop and looking down, with friendly Carlisle had a very narrow escape from les- but jo the Chinese scholar, Hongkong, called pride on the great Babylon' which her sonstruction. The ship is loaded forward with
had built." It was, indeed, a grand work, and,
GUN COTTON AND DYNAMITE fragrant streams', certainly does not sound as sweet. in fact, it stiņks in his austrils and is in conclusion; he proceeded to speak of not fragrant at all. He has it that the name some of the men who had done so much Hongkong' is really derived from the port to make Hongkong what it is today. He and not the village, for certain if is that the mentioned. the names of Capt. Elliott, Sir Chinese Named parts of the island. The Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davies, Sir S. G. southern part they called ongkong and the Rowan and Sir John Bowring and said that northern side of the Colony, to us the far morete later endeavours to render Hongkong important side, they called
thoroughly salubrious were not unworthy of the suçtesskal at hievements of the past.
A Decisive Battle of the World.
London, 3rd March. Reports from Vienna are to the effect that military strategists on the Coutinent generally believe that the battle now raging at the Shaho and Bunho as well as in the north-east of Mukden will be the most decisive battle of the lasi fifty years. They believe the Russians are entrenched with superior numbers, but as these are mostly untried troops, they doubt their stability to fare a continually victorious army, strengthened by General ngi's forces, flushed with the success of Port Arthur. The vigour of the Taginese counter-balances the superior numbers of the Russians. bould the Russians be defeated, the engagement must he followed by a prolonged armistice.
Russian Doubts.
London, 3rd March. -The latest reports to reach St. Petersburg from Manchuria have caused a great panic in government quarters. in some military circles It has been suggested that the Army under General Kuropatkin should be withdrawn to the Harbin Vidivostok military line, which would enable it to maintain a passive attitude until the internal troubles of Russia were sufficiently abated in permit of reinforcements being pushed to the front,
FRANCIES ACTIVITY IN CHINA,
DEMAND FOR A NEW FRENCH SETTLEMENT.
Aa Asahi telegram from Peking states that the French Representative there is very active just now. He is pressing for the establishment of a special settlement at Nanning, and the Chinese Government has virtually promised to take this step so soon as the Kwangsi disturb ances shall have been quefled. He is also asking for permission to establish a line of Bleamers between Shanghai and Showking, to which proposal the people and the officials of Kwangsi are said to be strongly opposed, but the Waiwupu, impressed by the vehemence of M. Dubail, has engaged itself to find some method of granting is application. Finally His Excellency is org ng that, even though French capital be not employed for the con- struction of the Hankow-Swatow railway, French experts shall be engaged for the work.
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EARLY DAYS OF OUR OCCUPATION. The aspect of old Hongkong during the fist three years of British occupstion have been described by both Mr. Tarrant and Dr. Legge, and it was in company with these two gentle men that the lecturer took his audience on an imaginary sour from West to East. To sum up, in those days the city appears to have been one long street, imperfectly lined with houses and a few scattered residences on the hillside,
A vite of thanks to the lecturer brought
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the fishing craft, but she also escaped in
the darkness, The customs launch returned to the Carlisle and made an examination but nothing could be found attached to the ship,
At midnight
ANOTHER ATTEMPT
was made by the persistent japanese to send the Corlisle to her doom in Manila bay, but upon being sighted by the nawthoroughly frightened crew, and yelled at by abont a dozen sailors-10 keep off, she decided that was better not to make the attempt.
Three failures did not discourage the amen who were determined to prevent the Russians getting the cargo of the Carlisle, for at two
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Messrs. Twentyman and Prent ce are returning THE Undersigned have received ir structions. in Shanghai at once. There is a later report that negotiations have been re-opened in Landen.
and ammunition for heavy arullery aft, and an explosion under the ship would have resulted Messes, Farham, Boyd and Co, Ld., stating in appalling disaster, probably doing damage that the proposed sale of the company in to other vessels, although the Carlisie is a can-ondes has not been conciled, and that siderable distance from other ships in the bay. Upon receiving the report of the affair Mr. F. S. Cairns, the insular surveyor, went to the Car #fsfe to investigate the case, and returning to the custam house noticed two Japanese fishing boats lying about a cable length off the Cor Hist, with sails up, but they were not under headway were they fishing. These boats were boarded and on each of them there was a Japanese who was dressed as a fisherman, but they were bath very intelligent in appearance -in fact, a type of Japanese common to the higher classes in Japan. They refused to un
derstand English, but it is certain that their occupation is not always in a fishing smack They were warned not to commit any acts of violence against any vessels in the bay. Several days ago
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BENE MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Campany, wil be held at the Company's Offie, Si, Cierge's Building, No. 6, Con wight Road, Victoria, on AURDAY, the 25th March, 1905, at ULA.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statemear of er ants and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December,
three very intelligenf Japanese came from Hongkong as steerage passengers, and needed an interpreter to
904. pass the migration officials, but several days ago they were seen to ether in the vicinity of a native show and talked English very intelligently and were dressed as gentle men, says the local paper,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FD ESD'Y the
in fact, they still call it suck, and to the the the procedings to a terminations port of Aberdeen is koown..s Hongkong Viewed from the mainland the umber inhabit. ants saw the white track around the hillside that was worn by the feet of the tuilers of the sea and to them it suggested a pettico i string. Before British occupation there was Petticont String village at East l'oint. But things had changed. Look in this picture and an that, Where Des Vœux Road is, with its magnifi cent structures, the Alexandra Puddings and Prince's liuildings, where the trambi e now runs, where your prays extensions are being filled in, there the towers of the sen dragged their heavily laden junks along Pellicost String Road, and that road is, in parts, the ground now, covered by the Queen's Road "When I look at the buildings there and see what new Hongkong has become I seem to see great promise for the future, not of Hongkong only, but of our civilisation on the opposite mainland." Turning to the original inhabitants of or island, the speaker said he was inclined to go back to the and of the 12th century, for there was evidence that, at that time, the mountains of the Colony were covered with fores's the same as those used 10 be across the harbour, and the first use of the tall peak running up from the present city was as a pirates look-out station. The most exalt er two capital songs which he sings with char-Brush master, and her cargo or destination THE DALLAS-BANDMANN ed man in the Colony to-day, if he might be farteristic force. "Sweet Ceylon is a particu or busines, is no affair of the government so allowed a joke, was the man at the flagstaff arly charming balled and he rendered it in long as she complies with the regulations of (laughter). Long before that benefactor fired bis the most artistic and finished manner,
For the third change of programme, the Dallas Company staged "The Cingalee at the Theatre last night, and it fatind approval at the Trinis of a large audience. The piece, though tuseful and melodious, and containing"? many very humorous situations, does not compare in light or brightne s with either "A Country Girl" or "The Orchid," though it is extremely well acted and, as usual, fuulessly staged. Like all the latter-day musical com edies it possesses the merest thread of a story, and relies for its interest on the many songs and rances introduced. Mr. Dallas has an admirable part, one exactly suited to him, that of Chambuddy Kam, an up-country lawyer who has been to England and acquired some of the habits of the country. He was as droll as it is possible to imagine, and at times re- inded one forcibly of the late Dan Lena. Mous, Andre Faya, as Harry Vereker, has one
Mr. C.
When seen in r gard to the affair of the Cartiste, the collector of customs, W. Morgun Shuster, aid: The Curitsle is in this port as a Danish merchant vessel, and is under the protection of the United States the same as any other merchant hip which might come in here as a por. of call or distress. The fact that she is chartered by the Russian govern ment does not aber her position at all she is fiving the British flag, is commanded by a
the pon, The government is responsible for
the safety of foreign ships in part, and as the
The fifth dance this season, given by the Masonic Quadrille Club, took place at the Masonic Itali last night the followers of Terpsichore commencing at 9 pm and keep ing the ball rolling until the early hours of this mning The dance must be pronounced a most unqualified success, and quite the best and largest attended of the series, quite a number of old members, missed the previous dances, making their appearance again on the floor. A very excellent programme had been arranged, and included the extremely pretty valletta, The Fatest fishjowable dance. When the dance was at his height there were about 150 up es present, and the masters of cere movies, Messrs : Sibbell and N. McLeod, were indefatigable and ubiquitous in looking after the comfort of and securing partners for gun and raised his flag to inform us that letters. Cooke was admirably made up as the jealous their guests. Mr. H. Wolfe, president of the from home were being brought into the har-Robhamba and sang well, whilst Mt. Frank Carlisle is not armed as a war vessel, has no Club, had a genial smile and merry word of hour, the high slopes of the island were used Cochrane as the irascible judge created con- greater crew than the regular run of merchant welcome for all. The hon, secretary, W.Higby, as a look-out station by pirates, and about a siderable merriment. The small part ofAfyam-ships and does not violate any neutrality rules and committee, as well as Mr. J. Vanstone, may kundred years ago a famous pirate had his re. Lak was in the capable hands of Mr. Jamie while in port, the authorities will make every all be heartily congratulated on the success of their efforts, and the excellent condition of the gular station very near to where the present Dallas who introduced a startling Devil Dance effort to see that she is not destroyed in this
in Act H., Miss Queenie Strachan looked port," floor, while Messrs. Morgan and Engletonearned signalling is now done. It would therefore be the gratitude of the trippers of the light fan- seen that the man at the station on the Peak charming and dainty as Nanoya, the tea girl tastic by ushering them in, at midnight, to a to-day has his predecessors (laughter). Com-sweetheart of the plantation owner, Vereker, dainty and well-served supper, at which they
and played and sang throughout gracefully and acted as stewards. A word of praise is also due ing down from some five or six hundred years to Sergi. Jenkins, R.E., and Corporal Roberts, go to a period of between 250 and 300 years sweetly. Her singing of "The Cinnamon Tree" RE. for so ably presiding over the musical back the lecturer spoke of the various classes called forth the heartiest plaudits of her auditors, arrangements throughout the entire evening. of Chinese that originally came to the Island,
and she was obliged to respond to the re-call. It has not yet been decided when, if at all, the
Miss Bel Luscombe, as Ledy Patricia Vant, next dance of this series will take place, but in
has several charming sangs, whilst Miss Dolly this connection we are informed that she smok- ing concert arrange by the Club for the 17th
Varden was quite at home as Peggy, Sabine, inst, has been postp, sed to the 21st inst.
the finishing schoolmistress, and ber dancing was very neat. Other minor parts were all well sustained, and mention should not be forgotten of the solo dance by Miss Jessle Williams. She received a vociferous encore, and was like wise presented with a handsome basket of flowers,
tory:-
THE WEATHER,
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observa- On the 10th at 11.55 am. The barometer has risen over Japan, and fallen in China..
The highest pressure is lying between the E. coast of Chipa and W. Japan."
Gradients are decreasing in the South, and the monsoon will moderate in the Formosa Channel and N. part of the China Sex.
Forecast fresh to moderate, E. winds; cloudy, misty,
EARLY DAYS OF AFFORESTATION! First came the Punti prople from the heart of the great Tang Kun District, which in those days, before the province of Sun On was cut off, was the Yorkshire of China. Hoogkong formed a part of Sun On District when it was taken over by the British. These Punti people denuded the hill-side of its trees, clearing the ground for cultivation. After the Funt's came the Hakka people, from the north-east of the provinces. Whereas the Puntís, had cut down the wood, the Hakkas even cut down the grass. There were then two groups of vil lages in the Colony. The Punti speaking villages, including. Wong-nei-chong, Tang | lung-chau, Pok-fu-lam, Chik-chu (Stanley
"The Cingalee" will be repeated to-night and to-morrow night when H. E. the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan, R.E., K.C.M.G.) and suite will be present. The fourth changs of pro gramme on Monday and two following nights will be "Three Little Maids," the Apollo Theatre succén,
Later in the days number of customs is-
spectors armed with repeating shot guns loaded with buckshot and revolvers were sent on board with orders to fire on all suspicious craft approaching the steamer.
A later issue of the paper says there is trouble in the ranks of the Japanese fishermen in Manila, for every one of them is under surveil- lance by the secrel service of the customs house, which has already arrested three men in connection with the supposed attempts to blow up the steamship Carlisle. The Japanese copsul, Mr. Goro Narita, is rendering every assistance in his power to ferret out the men who were guilty and there is little doubt bat that they will be discovered and made to give |.an piplanation of their actions. In the mean
time every precaution in the way of arms in being taken to protect the vessel from further danger. No credence is given to the rumour that the Japanese government was responsible for the attacks, for there are other and more | simplo means at their disposal,
22nd March, to SATURDAY, the 15th March both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TONES & C
General Managers, Hongkong, ruth March, cong
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TO-NIGHTH
(FRIDAY), roth March, "THE VINGALEE,"
TO-MORROW, (SATURDAY), 11th March, "THE CINGALEE."
MONDAY, 13th March, The Enormously Successfett Musical Comed;, "THREE LITTLE MAIDS? From the Apolló Theatre, London.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 14th and 15th March, THREE LITTLE MAIDS."
Doors open....... 8.30 P.M. Commencem 9.00 P.M.
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Plan at Messrs. ROBINSON PIANO Co., Ld. Late Tram 15 minutes after the Performsace.
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