04
on
32 points. Guns were then limbered up and the battery came hit at a smart pace to the Run-shed, where Capt. Marshall, who is shortly leaving for home, bade firewell to the battery. He said that the work of the men throughout the training season had been most satisfactory, and particularly Bo thai day. Major-General Hatton had expressed himself as agreeably surprised with the work of the battery. The accuracy of the firing was much better than he expected to find, the laying was done very quickly indeed, and there was no confusion, but everything was carried out in a very orderly manner. In conclusion,. Capt. Marshall bade gooʻl-bye in the members of the battery, thanking the non-commissioned officers for the support they had given him, and the men for the afficient way in which they had carried out their work. He hoped that they would give the same support in Lieu. Crossley, in whose command the battery would
be until his return.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1905.
A BRÍZISH CHINESE EXPEDITION,
SHANGHAI FREIGHT,-
In their report of 30th ult. Messrs. Wheelock and Co, write-A-marked improvement has not as yet taken place in our Homeward Freight Market, and we must say that it still remains very dull, We cannot help feeling. near future.
Coastwise. This market is distinctly better tha allant writing, and rates are firmer all round. Newchwang has opened and there has been the usual rush of tonnage for that port. Outwards from awchwing, however, things are not so bright, and there is very little cargo offering. Coal rates are firmer owing to the scarcity of tonnage, but stocks in Japan are still very low, a fact, which tends to keep rates down.
RAUBS,
a telegram from Singapore stating that the Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts received crushing of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Company for the past 4 wesks yielded 675 oz smelted gold from 4,700 ton stone. -
Sukozom Colonel Dimitri Kousncizow, of the
Russian Navy, died on board the French mail teamer Terme, from hrast disease at 4. p.m.
on Sunday.,
ALTHOUGH the Bonaventure is to relieve the Their on the China Station, the immediate
be the Iphigenia. Her arrival will allow the Theils to return to Hongkong on or about the th prox.
THE Madras Government has withdrawn the regulations under the Venice Sanitary Con vention imposed against arrivals from Hong kong, intimation having been received that ten days have elapsed since the last case of plague at that place.
THE str. Industrie reported as captured by the Japanese is a small salvage steamer, which was lately engaged in the attempt to salve the island It is supposed she carried dispatches Chinese cruiser Raffi, wrecked on Eliot
for Vladivostok.-N. C. D. News.
| MR. Arthur Lee announced that there had
been no change of policy as to Wel-hai-wal but in view of the uncertainty of affairs in the
Far East, the Board of Admiralty had decided at present not to press on expenditure at Weis hai wel until our future requirements there were clearly seen.
pleased to give and grant unto Frank Arthur Morgan, Esq., Commissioner of Imperial. Maritime Chinese Customs, His Majesty's **** Royal licence and authority that he may accept and wear the Insignia of the Third Class of the Second Divising of the Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon, conferred upon him by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of
China.
ANOTHER incipient fire was nipped in the bud that some live ashes fell from the furnace in the yesterday at No. 9 West Street. It acpears
smoke was seen by a policeman on patrol, and kitchen on to a pile of firewood and shavings carelessly left these, and igslied it. The
he nt once entered the house, and, together damage done was very trifling. The place is with the inmates, extinguished the Are. The
used as family dwelling house, and in uninsured.
final como e' case stint. "The shooting was Fand to the point. Correspondence which is the plaintiffs not only failed to plead that an good thirughout and maximum points were attractive to readers may be very detrimental agreement had been made between the parties earned no less than four accasions to the preservation of war secrets There are to the effect that damages should be to cal by cach gun. No. 4 sub-division was first many instances in which news published culated, but there was no evidence to show with 36 points, followed by Nos. 1 in the papers had led foreign experts to that such an agreement existed between the "and a with 15 colnts each, and No. 3 with infer the plan of operations of the Japanese. parties. It is, therefore, clear as already ex- This evil is particularly to be avoided in the plained that the plaintiffs are not entitled to present way, when all the Powers are so in- claim compensation in American currency however, that batter things are in store for the local relict at Singapore from Hongkong will THE GEzediè announces that the King has been tent on the study of warfare, you will be itself, which should only be used as the basis aware, the speculations of newspapers regard- of calculation. For this reason, even if the ing the plan of operation is Immediately trans defendant company is guilty of any delin- lated into foreign languages and transmitted quency, the claim being: unlawful; there is no abroad by telegraph. This is very dangerous, need of considering the other points of de- Important matters relating to warfare must be fence." kept absolutely secret, and the ultimate object Mr. Masujima has had charge of the plain of war can only be obtained by the nation tiffs' case, and Mr. Sunagawa represented the at largo in maintaining reticence. It is defendants. Considering the importance of impossible to expect the common people to the claim, and one or two legal difficulties maintain secrecy, but the intelligent should which arose, the action has been decided in an ↑ do so in regard to the interests of the country, unusually short time for Japanetė Courts. · For success in the war the nation must impli citly trust the authorities responsible and leave Į everything to them. Otherwise the nation will certainly lose. For the education of men to be entrusted with the onerous duties of war, that j, officers, the nation is doing its best, and it is that renders it essentially important of British and Chinese officials has started to We understand that an expedition composed tó train the ablest men. In this matter, let us take Russia into consideration. What visit the Burma China frontier, north of lat. has been the result of the Rassian Govern- tudo 25 35 The British representative is Mr. Litton, His Britannic Majesty's Conant, ment interfering with the work of the commvaders in the field? You have no
Tangyueh; and he is accompanied by Mr. need to trouble yourself, but only need rely Loveson, Deputy Commissioner of shame. The Tabtal of Tengyuch is the Chinese re- upon the army, War cannot be carried on without a heavy sacrifice, and we are making a presentative The British and Chinese parties heavy sacrifice. The nation must be prepared half days' Journey from Sadon in the Myitkyina
moet in China at Kuyung, which is three and a. to turn this sacrifice to advantage or the E-District. A selected Native Officer and about pire will be ruined. The war will affect' us politically, economically, and socially, and 40 Gurkha and Kachin Military Police Sepoys these matters require study, and are receiving form the escort of the British party, the Chinese escort being of about the same strength. The attention at the hands of the authorities.
"The present war has established same re-
duty laid upon the party is an examination of cords in battles. In modern times the dura. the frontier, not delimitation. A party of sur tion of continuous fighting has never exceeded veyors accompanies the British officials, and three days, but the battle of Lianyang lasted 8 it is hoped that information of much geo: days, the Shaho battle s days, and the battle of graphical interest will be obtained by the Mukden 14 days. Thus the belief that the expedition which returns to Burms in June duration of fighting would be shortened on ac ex-Rangoon Timer. count of the improvements in the science of war and the larger forces put in the field has not apparently been justified. During the fourteen days of the battle of Mukden, Japan-. ese officers and men worked with insufficient food and sleep; but they worked like giants rather than human beings. In this we felt that they found at the same time a worthy enemy.
THE RETIREMENT OF SIR
·HIRAM S, WILKINSON.
After nearly forty-one years of most faithful service to his country. In the Far East, Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China and Corea, laid down his office; and bade farewell to the Bar in the Court yesterday afternoon, says the N. C. D. News of rst inst. From student interpreter he rose through all the ranks to Acting Consul in Japan, passing through and being an acter in the stirring tires that preceded the restora Lion, Ile came to Shanghai as Acting Assistant Jodge in 1899, and was Crown Advocate here, and Substantive Judge in Japan, closing a brilliant career during which he has made crowds of friends, as the last of our Chief Justices. He retires full of years and honours indeed, but in full bodily and mental vigour, and when the time comes for his departure for home he will be followed by such tributes of respect and affection as none of his predecessors has ever earned in larger measure, and as his successors will be fortunate if they gather as fully. In him we lose a good and faithful friend, and a most able, earnest, and conscientious judge, as well as a strong link with the days af Sir Rutherford Alcock, Sir Harry Parkes and the great British Pro- consuls of the past. The melancholy that must cling round such a ceremony as that of yesterday was brightened by the exceeding gracefulness of the spreches that were made to and by Sir Hiram, speeches that were evident. ly heartfelt, in which there was not the slightest jaring note and the tone of which will be echoed by all the East who know Sir Hiram. Warmhearted, kind, courtecus, and obliging to all, he has made himself a home in all our heats; he has identified him- self with the best merest; of Vokalna and Shanghai, and we shall long miss hior; and the consciousness of this will, we hope, do something to ming ge the sorrow he must feel at leaving the bench be his so adorned.
ACTRESS SHOT DEAD.
REPORTED LOVE TRAGEDY AT SAIGON
The Hongkong police authorities know nothing whatever of a strange love tragedy repared to have cured in Saigon or of the Gabsequent arrest in this Colony of a Cup: Gras, who it is alleged made his way to thi port, where he an ...aken into custody, and extradited. The tak of the shooting of an actress is reported by the Strait Fines in the following terms:--
A great sens. Its been veri AT Saigon by a drewtal tra,edy involving the death of a young and pretty actress, who wits shot in the public street by Cipten Gris, well known shpnianer on the coast and latter. ly following the serpation of pikt, on the Saigon River. 11 appears that the young actress had shown veurs to Captain Gra and had led him to believe that he occupi the first place in her heart as lover but, often happens in such cases, the lover became jealous of the attention which his mistress
A STAFF GENERAL ON THE WAR.
The General concluded by describing the barren country surrounding Mukden, the hardships of the troops campaigning in a temperature 7 to 12 degrees below freez- ing point, with ice two to three feet thick covering the ground. Such work called for strong men and indeed proved the good physique of the Japanese. Their achievement was the result of the training of the Army in the past thirty years, and the Japanese people should keep the fact well in mind that such work required a strong and healthy body.
In the course of his address General Nagaoka gave some interesting particulars of the num- bers engaged in recent battles. The total Russian and Japanese forces engaged in the battle of Liaoyang, he said, were 460,000; in the baule of the Shaho, 580,000; and in the battle of Mukden, 30,000. The headquarters at Linoyang of Marshal Oyama were the centre of over 140 telegraph and telephone connec tions. He said the field-post service had grently developed during the present war. In the year and ten months during which the troops at the time of the Japan-China war re- mained in Chinn, mails dispatched from the field of campaign numbered 12,000,000, and monev remitted by Post Office orders amounted to Y6,600,000. During one month alone of the present war (December) 15,184,900 letters were sent by post, while the money remitted up to the end of December from the beginning amounted to about Y20,000,000.-Jupan Chronicle.
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MISSIONARY COMPENSATION
CASH.
JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS,
The Japan Chronicle reports that judgment was given recently, in the Osaka Chiho Saibansho, in the action instituted by Mr. Masujima, the barrister, for the family of the late Rev. H. G. Appenzeller, a missionary, belonging to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, against the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, for compensation in the sum of $55,425 U. gold. By the judgment of the Court plaintiffs' claim is dismissed, but the defendant company is ordered to bear the This case was first before the Court in Oc. sober last year, and the following are the facts an which the petition was based The Rev.
costs of the proceedings.
for Hokpo. On the voyage at to o'clock sa the evening of the same day the steamer came
14 was
sunk.
COMMERCIAL.
***
HI
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
THE NEW VESSEL FOR CHINA TRADE.
4th inst. According to a local contemporary, the new vessel which is being built in England to the order of the Douglas Steamship Company is That sit ment, however, on the authority of expected in arrive in Hongkong in August
the geber..l agents, is without foundation. No nows has been received in Hongkong as to the probable date of the new vessel's arrival here. and as there was no provision as to when the vessel should be delivered it is impossible to say when the vessel will be seen in Chinese waters. As a matter of fact, according to the Douglas Steamship Company, the vessel has not yet been launched, so that any statements as to the date of her completion and departure from ¡England are purely speculative.
Quotations for the week close as follows:- Hongkong Basks ...
...$775 £80 National Banks Union Insurances... Canton losurances Hongkong Fires China Fires....
H., . & M. Steamboats Indo-Chinas ... Douglases
Star Ferries ...
Uo.
China Sugars...
Luzans
Raubs
J
... 361 sq. & b. ....700 s. ....285 sa. & b.
+41
310 s
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGER
Selling
London-Inak T.T.
Do. Zeman.... Do, 4 months' sight France-Bank T.T................ America-Bank T.T. ................................ Germany-Bank T.T. .................... lalia T.T.
19 13/16 191
10
2.18
Do. iemand
Shanghai-Tank T.T.
6 months' sight L/C.
Ruying.
3 day sigh San Francisco & New York
86 za, & s.
26) 5.
Japan-Bank T.T. ....
Java-Baal TT: ....
+++
34) b.
214
37 12.
4th bt L/C.
TH
14
27 sa.
+ik
ANT
*** 224 8.
27
4 months sight
4 sa. & b
30 days' sight Sydney and Melburne
... 204 8.
4 months' sighs Francs
* ... 14.7 £
6 months' sight
-
...160
***
1175
129
... 140
13 b.
32 b.
16) b.
**
14 b.
27 sa.
Malwa New
17.58
nid
17 b.
Older
Diles
I
H. K. & Whampon Docks Hongkong Wharfs Farnhams Hongkew Wharfs... Hongkong Lands..... Hongkong Hotels... Humphreys Estates
Hongkong Cottons Dairy Farms...
Green Island Cements...
Do. Electrics(old)...
Do. (new)
YARN MARKET.
In their report, dated 7th instanı, Mesgr Cawasjee Pallanjee and Co. write :- Our last was dated the zith ultimo per s.s. Afallu since when a good country demand has been exper- ienced in this market, and a fairly large busin- ess has been put through, mostly in superior desirable' chops of 108, and 208, at an appre- ciation of $t to $1 per bale. Very little has been done la medium and comnion threads and rates are unaltered. Holders have now come
4 months' sight Germany manom
..44
MR.
THE first lot of copper, 10,00 piculs; con tracted by the Nanking Copper Coinage Mint from Mesars: Carlowitz & Co. has arrived at Shanghai and the Provincial Treasurer has ordered the Tantai 11 paas 'it duty free so that A REPETITION of the bloody scenes enacted it might be transhipped to Nanking.-Eastern | at Bilibid Prison, Manila, several months ago Times.
has been averted. Another plot was laid to rush the guards, burn the buildings and mur.. W. Jamieson, Commercial Attache to der the officials of the institution. Detectives has been seconded for a period of two years, plot, which was to have developed on the mora Hi Britannic Majesty's Legation in China, were scattered among the prisoners and the for service under the Colonial fice, as Super ing of March 28, fell through, at least for the intendent of Native labour in the Transvani. present. The officials had been notified that a He leaves, we understand, for Johannesburg plot was brewing and they were prepared for. by the English Mail.—N. C. D. News,
the attempt, reports the local Times. At the Supreme Court on Thursday the Puisne IN Shanghai the "black list" takes a very for- Judge commenced the hearing of an action in midable shape, which might well make Euro. which R. Freiwald Vojack sued W. V. Effel pean debtors tremble, observes a writer in a for $400 in respect of work done and services home paper. The clubs and hotels find them. rendered. Mr. H. W. Tonker appeared for selves so hard hit over the lang reckoninge plaintiff and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. represent-run up by young men of moderate means, ed the defendant. The case was adjourned which they are continually tempted to exceed until Tuesday next.
owing to the facilities of the "chit” system, that they are beginning to protect themselves by posting up defaulters' names, and the hotels are seriously thinking of following suit. Such sharp remedies are ns necessary in the inter ests of the shareholders as, morally, they are of the defaulters,
Two British Emigration Agents established an office at Tsinanfu for the purpose of enlisting 3,000 coolies for the gold mines in South Afica. They did not meet with the success they expected, as only 100 coolies signed on and 1.96 embarked in the trains for Tsingtan. On 136 arrival of the trains in Tsingtau it was as 136 certained that only 30 decided to go the rest thought better of it and decamped, says a German telegram.
109
1/10
44
45
-2.31
I to
.7.34
.2%
THE &C. Express learns that a writ for damages against Moreing and other defendants was issued on behall of his Excellency Chang yen-man and others on 8th ult. in the case arising out of the transfer of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Whether THE Germans have completed the railway an appeal against the judgment of Mr. Justice from Tsingtao to Tainanfu. A line from Toyce will be made remains to be seen, but Tsinania to I-chowfu is projected, says theyway an appeal can be entered any time for Universal Gasefie in confirmation of a telegram appearing in our columns several weeks back and another line has been commenced to be built from Tsinan to Techow whence it will be extended to Shunte to join the Lu Hao trunk line forming a complete system of com
Bar Silver....................... 35 7/16munication in the province of Shantung. Bank Angled rate
CUM QUOTATIONS.
To-day's 1 nations are as follows :—
Pans New 2 Henares New
an (Paper)
Per picul
1,100
@ 1,160
@ 1,250 1,340
Par chest @ 1,742)
1.082
. 780/910
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MAJOR-General J. C. Slade, C.B., R A., who was in the Colony recently, retired from actir: service last month,
Indian Engineering thinks that the figures of the Green Island Cement Co. ought to have some significance in relation to like enterprise
in india,
IT is notified in the London Gazette of 74th February that second Lieutenant E. S. Ward, of the Grenadier Guards, is to be lieutenant vice E. N. E. M. Vaughan, promoted.
down in their ideas of value and are anxious to meet buyers to a reasonable extent if any large quantity could be placed; but dealers are by no means inclined to increase their boldings or interest unless under country orders and are ply buying for immediate wants. Clearances from first hand have been satisfactory and the market closes steady. No.6.Fairly saleable demand. Nos, 108 and 20-Considerable ser ANOTHER fatal plague case has been notified, at current regular rates. No. 88, continue out of
ements have been made in these counts rate as making the twenty-seventh since the begin above reported, showing an advance of St to Saning of the year. This is sixteen in excess of per bale. Nos, 128, and 16-A fair business the number reported on the 7th April, 1904. has been done at unchanged rates. Sales . during the past fortnight comprise of about 150
Local Yarn-No-business is reported. changed hands at $133 to $132 per bale.
Japanese Yarn About 3co bales No. 2o3.
Exchange-We quote to-day on India at Rs. 1361 per cent. 1 badno at 12. 9. 13/16d;= $.
SHANGHAI SHARE REPORT..
The following resume of the week's share transactions is from Messrs. J. A. Sullivan and Co.'s report published on the 30th March:-
The volume of business has been confined to the four speculativa stocks, Indos, Wharves, Farnham Boyds and Langkats, and the purchases made have been either to cover shost sales for this settlement or to feel the pulse of the markets for futures London sight is quoted to-day 2/6 15/16 For 3 days the "Hong- kong rate is unchanged. Consols 491.
tary, and Mrs. Southam on the occasion of their departure for home
THE Royal Indian Marine Steamer Clior, (Commander W. G. Beauchamp) which recently left here for Bombay has now completed her last voyage as trooper. The vessel has been condemned and ceased to be on active service from 17th ult.
.
THE Gustile announces that the King has been pleased to give directions for the appoint ment of Francis Taylor Piggott, Esq. (Pro cureur-Général, Mauritius) to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong kong.
LIEUTENANT F. J. E. lynch, RG.A, latterly doing duty with No. 17 Company at Shoebury ness, has been appointed to the Hongkong Singapore Pattalion RA and joins at an early dile. Lieutenant Lynch: who is an Irish afficer, has held a commision in the artillery for nearly five years.
while Chang Ven-man remains in London for one year from the date of the judgment, Mean". the present, pending possible developments in the figher action he has just entered. His Exceltnes was an interested visitor to the House of Commons on 8th ult.....
The number of prisoners taken in the battle ACCORDING to the latest news from Liuchow. of "ukden it-now counted at some 30000; the Kwangsi, Hunnu Chung Hao s recently number having decreased from the first esti male, many whn we e non-combatants having captured at T'a Chia. Chuan village the Dolorious outlaws Leou Kiu Es, Su E, Wang been released, and mary of the wounded hav Tre, and Chang Kuel Sung, as well as Changing died. This number, however, will bring Lao Che, Mu Ching Hsiang, and Mu Kwang Liang, who supplied the outlaws with pro visions and ammunition, After trial, they were all beheaded. Again, Wang Sun, Wang Mun, Wang Shio Te, Mu Sún, and "many others were shot.
AT about a quarter to right o'clock on Thurs day the police on patrol at Praya East found the body of an able seaman in the water below the praya wall, mposite the Naval Canteen, and had it removed to the mortuary. It waS subsequently identified as that of J, W. Fisher, an A.B. from H.M.S. Cenarion. As there were barely three fees of water below the wall, it is surmised that the deceased must have fallen in earlier in the morning when there was a greater depth of water. This appears the are likely as the man was drowned and has no marks of any blows,
A CHINESE Police sergeant arrested a hawkes for hawking without a licence and in the man's possession were found four forks and four spoons stamped with the name of the Cafe Weissmann. The hawker said he had bought them, and went and found the boy who sold eleven years of age-was arrested and charged them to him. The boy-a youngster of some with the theft, while the hawker was further charged with receiving stolen properly, well- knowing the same to have been stolen. The boy was sentenced by Mr. J. H. Kemp to 48 hours' devention, and to receive 12 strobes with the birch rod, while the irceiver was sent to
two months' hard labour and six hours in the
were not so many of these ready receivers of stocks, is Worship remarking that if there *stolen property there would be fewer thefts by
house boys.
......
ARRESTS were made on Saturday and Sonday, the 25th and 26th ult, "by the Shanghai police of five men in connection with a case which bids fair to rival the famous Supão Case. As far as can be learned outside the police they were given warrants by the Mixed Com Magis trate for the arrest of the editors, publishers and printers of the native paper known as the Ching Trung Pao published in Shanghai in Faschow Road. This action was taken owing to certain alleged libellous, Inflammatory and seditious article published in an issue of the paper on the 23rd ult. The articles complain ed of, it is alleged, are such as to endanger the peace of His Majesty the Emperor of China's subjects and liable to create rebellion. The trial, says the Shanghai Ties, is to come off at the Mixed Court in a day or so, meanwhile all five are being detained at the Central Police
Station.
allowed other men to pay to her and fer a The young lady quarrel they separated. found plenty more ad tires and this seemed only to add to the jesiousy and anger of the lover. One day when he met her in the street with another be asked her to give him a few words apart. Unsuspectingly, she went aside with him whereupon he suddenly drew a pistol from his pocket and shot her dead. Captain. G. Appenzeller left Chemulpo on June 11th, bales of No 68.; 1,750 bales of No. 1 1 525 BOTH the European and Chinese department Gras, after the affair, made his way to Hong, 1903, by the O.S.K. steamer Kumagawa.marhales of No. 12.; 45 bales of No. 16. and
of the Y M.C., are giving a farewell meeting kang, where he was arrested and extradited
1,300 bales of No. 208; in all about 4,175 bales. to the Rev W. J. Southair, the general secre by the Police, oh advices from Saigon, to await his trial. From the tone displayed by into collision with the Kirogawa-maru, alsa Arrivals per steamers Simia, Gregory Apcar, the Saigon paper, public feeling appears to belonging to the U.S.K. when the Kumagawa. Lasang and Capri of about 13,849 bales Shipment to Shanghai and Northern Forts The missionary was be all in sympathy with Captain Gras, whose
about 6,000 bales. The unsold Stock is estim crime is regarded rot as premeditated, murder drowned, and his body was not recovered. but as the sudden rash act of a righteously Deceased was in the employ of the Methodistated at about 38,000 bales jealous man.
Mission, receiving a salary of $1,650 (gold) an nually, on which his family, the plaintiffs, were subsisting. As deceased bad served seventeen years as a missionary he was in a position to claim an increase of salary and was entitled to a pension, which the family lost in consequence THE EVIL OF PUBLICITY,
of the deceased being drowned, as claimed, by the negligence of defendant company. He was NUMBERS ENGAGED IN RECENT BATTLES. 45 years of age, while his wife is 48 years of age, and has four daughters dependent upon General Nagaoka, Vice-Chief of the Army her, aged 16, 12, 10, and 8 years respectively, Staff at Tokyo, the other day addressed the who are now deprived of the means of obtain Oriental Society at Nobles Club. In the ing bread. Based on American life statistics, course of his speech General Nagaoka said the deceased had twenty-four and a half years that while civilisation was promoted by speech longer to live. Claim was therefore made for and pen, silence wat the friend of war. General the loss of his salary for the period, which Nagaoka contrasted the soldier of old-time amounted to $40,425, in addition to $3,000 Japan with the soldier of the present day, and allowance for each of the plaintiffs in the case with which an army was once sup. consolation for their grief at the loss of ported when soldiers lived by plundering the deceased, making the total the amount claimed. Wharves. Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf
THREE Chinamen, lately arrived in the Colony from Penang, took a pair of bangler to a Inhabitants compared with the complicated The reasons given by the Court for the shares have been placet for cash and to-day's AMONG the passengers who recently arrived in commissariat arrangements necessary in these. judgment are as follows:-
settlement as Tis. 196 ris. 20,197,200,201 Hongkong from Manila was Dr. O'Connor,
as they appeared to be gold the accountant times. The General also dealt with the diffi
"The plaintiffs claimed payment of $55.425 p.n.i. For old Tis. 574 ex dividend has secretary of the late apostolic delegate, 1r. Dawnshop at No. 123 Queen's Road, West, and said he was prepared to advanco $150. As culty of preserving war secrets with an army in American currency as compensation for been paid for cash. April sales have been Guidi, who sailed on the Rubi for this port
from whence he returns to Rome. composed of all classes, with freedom of speech loss resulting from the unlawful action of the ninde at Tis. 200 to Tis 205 p.n.l. June at O'Connor is not in very good health and the
Dr they were strangers to him he said e preferred and the Press exining, and an intelligent pub defendants. Thus the plaintiffs demanded. 1971 and 2074. July from Tis. 205.3071.210. heat of the Philippines has materially affected together with the pawn-ticket. The party ac to hand over the money in them in their house, lic waiting for news, and compared this with damages as represented in a particular foreign shares are wanted on there terms.
cordingly adjourned to Western street, and the time when the army was composed practi- currency in satisfaction of their claim.
Shipping Indo Chinas have changed hinds him.
the accountant being satisfied handed over cally of one class which did not mix with the "In considering first of all the propriety of at Tis. 89. Tls. 87, 88 Tls. By and Tis. 88 for THE Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club Bave people.
this claim, the Court flods that the amount of this month's account. For July Tis. 92 and
the pawn-ticket and $.go in one note of an excellent company for the production of Sa requiring funds for the war from the compensation must be computed in ordinary Tis : are quoted. Shares are wanted. Tus Esmond's "One Summer's Day which they
$100 and 10 of $5 each, and left the uation," continued General Nagaoke, "It is currency, as specified by Article 417 (which and Lighters have had altention at Tls. Si for present in public at the Theatre Royal this
house. In the meantime one of the men in the pawn-broker's shop had tested the bang necessary to divulge war secrets to a certain states damages may be calculated in money) | Ford," and Tis. 45.17 for preference shares.
Docks-Farnham, Boyds have been largely degree. Japan and Russia have been contest- and foreign currency can be regarded as for the field with equal determination, and equally, with domestic currency in point of dealt in for this settlement at Tls. 146, 147, she seemed perfectly drilled in their parts and steal with golden to be copper, heavily plated with gold. He at once rushed to the both sides are wihang every scientific prin there,being a basis in the value of exchange. 145 146, Tis. 149.150. Tls. 148 349, Tls. 150,
Police Station and reported the matter to in. ciple to the fullest extent. Wireless telegra The creditor is, therefore, entitled to compute 148, Tis. 149.150. April shares have realized
spector Collet, and detectives were sent out to look for the mea fa question, They phy, the telephone, the carrier pigeon, and the the amount of damages on the bisis of foreign Tis, 151 and Tls, 152. May Tia. 153. July Tis dog have been used in practical warfare in currency but it is plain from the provisions of 57. T. 156, Tis. 155, 157.
soon found trying to change the Manchuria for the first time in history, Un- Article 403 of the Civil Code that the debtor, Lands-Shanghals have been sold at Tis.
5too at a money-changers, at 327 Queen's der these circumstances the world is concen. so far as no agreement is made to the contrary, 115, Hongkong Lands are wanted at $127.
Road, West, and on the men being taken to trating its attention on the present war, and must pay in ordinary Japanese currency ac Cottons-Ewos have changed ownership at THE British Bornen. Exploration Company, the station the ether 10 notes of $5 each were every action is a subject of close study. War cording to the rate of exchange at the place Tia. 33.
Limited, has received the following telegram: found in the possession of the first man, as well secrets are therefore liable to be divulged where the obligation is to be discharged, Sugars.—Peraks are firm at quotation,
Rich deposit of iron ore has been discovered; as the pawnticket, so that all the money was through various channels. The forces in the It will, therefore, follow that the crediMining-Wei-Hai-Wei Golds have been covers a large area; quality $7 per cent. Jam, recovered. The men were placed before Mr. field can be guend at from the, must trifling or cannot make as a direct abject of dealt in at $7 and 561,
boogon smokeless coal has been discovered Kemp at the Magistracy on Tuesday, and matters. Newspaper correspondents with the claim a particular foreign currency, which Tobaccos,Sumatras are quieter this week, here comparative caloric, Labuan 100, Jane charged with obtaining therey by false army at the front are unlike those in the Japan has no force of compulsory acceptance Langkats have bad buyers for cash and account borgan (14) (comparative) ash (Labuan) too pretences and sentenced to two months' China War, most of whom were people of the in Japan, and cannot be regarded in the same at Tle. 2471,150, and T. 452,251. For (Jambongon) 3. Quantity not known as yet." hard labour and three hours in the stocks each, roshi type with lile learning or education in light as Japanese curreny, withoul special April Thu, 255 has been done. June shares Office Note-Both the above discoveries are So well were the bangles made, and ab decep- the present case, most of the correspondents agreement being made to that effect. While have been purchased at Tls, 260,261, July at in the north of the island, rear the coast. The tive is appearance, that His Worship retained are men of k.owledge and, intelligence, and it is proper of the plaintiffs to popute the Tls, 262,201†263. At the close there is a shares have been dealt in fairly freely at about them temporarily for examination, and to atigi much of the coupondence written is practical damages in American surrency in this case, strong incllestion to buy at thees rates.
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"eyening. At the dress rehearsal of yesterday made the piece move without a single far or awaking any sense of its unreality. The play offers ample opportunity for clever actirg and these were made the most of by our amateura about whom we shall have more to say in our next issue,
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the total of prisoners in Japan up to go,nco, and their maintenance becomes a serious ques tion. Estimating the cost of food, clothing, and lodging at 50 sen per day per head, the total cost of the prisoners to the Government will amount to Yra 600, co annually. The prisoners, also, have certain grants in cath--~~ from the Government as provided for in the Prisoners' Regulations.
H.R.H. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia was expected to arrive on board of the German --- mait Prince Eitel Friedrich at Wonsung on Friday morning and was to proceed by the same steamer the following morning to Taku, | The steamer will not fly the Prince's standard. at Woosung; consequently na salute will be fixed, says the Shanghai Times of 26th ult, The Prince has, furthermore, inade a request, that to official reception should be made in Sbangs which has been offered by the Shanghai Muni. hai and that no international guard of honour,
cipal Council, should receive him. There will
be held, in honour of the Prince, a dinner at the German Consulate-Ge erat at 6.50 p.m. (this early hear having been selected with fer gard to the fact, that the Prince has in return heen sent by Consul General Mr. Knappe to ocosung the same night), invitations having the Consular body, the high officials and a number of prominent Germani.
THE N. C. D. News of 3rd inst, says :-Å most kind and gentle Indy, a most gracious repre sentative of the palmy days of old Shanghai, a member of a fam ly that has been connected
away here on Saturday morning, in the person with China for about half-a-century, passed of Mrs. Coults. She has been seriously ill for some time ard but little hope was entertained of her recovery. She came back to China last rear to accompany her daughter, Mrs. C. W. Campbell, and to be with her during Mr.. Campbell's absence in Szechuan. Her elder laughter, Mrs. Ritchie, is in London, but the had the pleasure of having her younger daugh
ter and her son with her to the last. It was a great pleasure to her old friends here when sha returned to China, and they will feel her loss acutely for a long time, for she was loved by all who knew her. She was laid to rest in Fahsien. fao cemetery yesterday afternoon, her old friends. gathering round to pay the last tribute of affection.
THE many frien's of Mr. W. Quincey, the superintendent of the Cly Native Police, says China Review, will be sorry to hear that he is leaving Tientsin almost immed ately. At the request of the Governor of Shantung be it proceeding to the capital of that province to inaugurate & Police Force on the same plan as that of the Tientsin. City Police. He was recommended for this post by the late Customs Total, Tong Shao Yi, who recently left an his mission to India and Great Britain. Mr.
Quincey, as far as he knows at present, will only be absent some three or four months, to give him time to start and organise the Police Force, and he is leaving his family behind him in Tientsin, MA Quincey has had a long, useful, and honourable career in the service of the Chiness Govern ment, and bis promotion is a flattering mark of: their appreciation of his sterling qualities, and
connected with the Police Force. Hongkong in" his abilities, as an organiser. He has been Shanghai, and Tientsin, and from each of these ports holds the highest testimonials from the authorities with whom he has been connected, We hope him backe in Tientsin la 'a few, mouths. To this connection we have also to congratulate Mr. W. Ross, Assistant Inspector, in his promotion to the Inspectorship of the City Native Police vice Mr. Quincey. When. confiming this promotion we believe the Vice roy paid a bigh tribute of praise to the manner ia which Mr. Ross had carried out his various and sometimes difficut duties,
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