Tutimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 1905.
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Ordinary business communications should be addressed to The Manager ALPHATANAMAN
A. S. WATSON & CO., The Editor will not tridtake to be responsible for
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sny rejected Mỹ, nor to return any Contribution. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). Datty--880 per annum.
WEEKLY—138 par konum.
Tux Pirah Ploster gives currency that it is possibla 1453
(over your
to the Folice
the Criminal Inve
THE reason for the withdrawal banks from the Japanese loan neg stated to be their inabilupto conte tient with the Hongkong and
as to their share of the underwriters' profis
The rates por quarter and per mensem, proportional; | THE following is the retura of visitors "the ESTABLISHED A D. The daily basis delivered free when the address is | City Hall Library and Museum for the week
1841,
WINE AND SPIRIT
MERCHANTS.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
WATSON'S
CELEBRATED"
E
A WHISKY
OF
BLEND
GREAT AGE MATURE,
MELLOW
AND
FINE FLAVOUR.
A Blond of the Finest Pure Malt
Whiskies Distilled in Scotland.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Hongkong, 1st April, 1905.
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accomble to messenger. On cóplet sent by post additional $1.80 por quarter is charged fá spostage.. The portage on the wookly brue to any part of the
world le 80 cents per quaver VAN GAAN Single Coplo, Daily, ton ́emis ;) Weekly, twenty-
fire conis,
ending the 23rd April, 1905
Non-Chinese................ Chinese
Total..
Museum
Empte date
OTH CASE.
this morning, before Sercombe
Chak U and 1,000 due on a promissory 994, given by the first Lai Fong Bank and hig defendant as surety and ea
ntiff on the bank.
H. Beavis appeared for the plain
X.d'Almada e Castro represented
the defendants.'"
Mr. Beavis explained that the defendants weres sund as 'andorsões, of the note, and as he understood it, the only point which Mr. d'Almada raised was that as the document was not a promissory note it was not negociable. If his Lordship found that it was a promissory note, Mr. d'Almada was pres
the action, Evidence was called and the Puisne Judge judgment accordingly.
Them that the:
told alm
Hale the other hands and asked, where the ship” wai
going to was going that they
dangerous thing to do and might lose their
The remainder of the crew said that the for going remarks expressed their own Indiridont views, and that the reason for their rehsal was that they were afraid to proceed.
By the Count Captain Forsyth, recalled, said: his cargo, was shipped at Penarth for Shang- hai. When the agreement was signed and explained to the men no quesinas we asked by them, neither had any questions been asked lace nor any trouble given by the mon until the vessel arrived in this port
aid that the rumours they heard at Durban By the Court: Roatswain J. Mlick, recalled, out the ship going to longkong for orders
hat Russia and Japan were at war when they? signed on the articles of agreement; they were
i prsity wedding takes that which was eclem- Cathedral; this afternoon Mabel Bain, daughter of the proprietor of our evening contemporary, was married to MG H. Edwards, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire The church has been very fastefully decorated, the porch being a mass of palms and over: greens while the chancel steps wore banked with the same plants, the chancel itself being transformed into a perfect avenue; of over banging palms. The whole scheme of the decorations was green, there being so flowers used anywhere the only touch of colour being that of the red carpet, laid down from the west porch to the chancel steps. Both
Hongkong and being members of the Caibed Choin have made many friends among
quently heard to great ndy n age at some of John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria, assisted by the
our best conceite. The service this alternoon Rev. F. T. Johnson, MA, GILBERT HAMILTON,
was conducted by the Bishop of Victoria, as- eldest son of the Rev. Gilbert Edwards, MA
sted by the Chaplain, the Rev. FT. Johns of GU Haseley, Oxon, to FLORENCE MABEL, RAD
The British steamer Oakley has been defi ton, and was fully choral. The bridegroom daughter of George Murray Bain, Esq, Hang- MR. Jahn Elbert Wilkie, the chief of the Uni-nitely confiscated at Sascho,
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ted States Secret Service, and one of the mostIt is intimated for the information of cost- DEATH. On the 2310 instant, at Marseilles, J. L. eminent national detectives in the wing steamers and others that the fights da HOUSTON. Aged o
(51 going to the Philippines. He has sailed already
for Manila. Chief Wilkie goes at the request of played by the diedger St. Dunst in while at the Secretary of War lo investigate the actions ratio south of Lukungian, mooted head of counterfeiters in the falands. It is said that and stern, will be in future three white lights is the form of a triangle, at the top of the lad- since the currency bas gone into effech there dar hoist, instead of the three vertical white have been many counterfeits of the bills in cir
lights previously shown. culation.
On April 19th, at "F. iry Glen" River Valley The Mitsui Bussan Kaishia forward; us coples pared to admit that His clients bad na defence of the contracting parties are very popular came from the chief officer. They were aware.
BIRTHE
Road, Singapore, the wife of F. KRARUP of a daughter.getMMARE
MARRIAGE.
year ending
10
of the 45th annual report for the year the 31st December, 1954, of the Tokio Marine
EDWARDS BAIN.—On the 26th inst, at St Insurance Company, Ld, of Tokio," which they subsequently found for the plaintiff, and gave the musical profession, Miss Bain being also aware that coal was considered contraband.
koog,
The Hanghong Gelegeuph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1905.|.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., to Japan, and maintaining them at great ex-
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pense to the country. According to official, investigations made on the 17th inst. the Russian prisoners in Japan included over nine hundred officers and close upon $8,000 men, These figures, do not include men still at Port Arthur and who are kept in hospitals in Mukden on account of serious wounds or illness, or those on their way from Tairen to Japan. Meanwhile, it is added that, on April 10th, 15. oflicers and 402 men were taken to Ujina and were removed to Yama guchi or Matsuyama, Discussing the ques: Ition at home, a London correspondent has
THERE IS ONLY ONE
CLUB No. In at-home,
WHISKY SOLD IN THE COLONY.
WE CALL IT INO, 1 BECAUSE
IT IS SO IN EVERY RESPECT :
are representing in this port Attention is drawn to the fact that the Company, transects Marine Insurance Business only and also that its surplus funds now stand at Yen 3,500,000,
THE report on the working of the Singapore upreme Court last year shows a decrease in
SHIPPING BISAM
of war by these countries. The captain gave them to undarsiand that the coal would be dis- charged at Shanghai
M. Helm, carpenter, said before signing on he asked the chief officer with whom he had
ha number of persons tried at the "Ainizes that, at Sasebo, there is a Dockyard regulation room,. The bride who entered the crowd countries went at war, und also when you mus!
pre
Armstrong, while the Massim was attended as best man by Captain weived before, if the ship was likely to go to Jopan. He replied that if the vessel did go to Esme Culd Japan or Russia there would be no harm in so well, Vida Grimbles and Peggio. Gorden doing. made very dainty "supporters of the bride. By the Court: He served in the Becckey on te her last voyage when she made a similar trip : in their capacity of bridesmaids. They were the coal then was ditcharged in Shanghai, and dressed very prettily in frocks of white they then went on a Japan, and took in a cargo
carried shepherd's crooks ornamented with There are three points of view affecting mousslina do sole trimmed with laco, ard for the south from Moji
His Worship in summing up, said: blue silk sinemers and forget masinets, and this cate which have to be taken into con- The attention of the Nagasaki Frass has
word wreathes of that flower in their hair, sideration. The first is that you deli been called by H.D.M.'s Consul (o the last They also wore very pretty pearl and gold berately signed articles to proceed to certain heart brooches, the gifts of the bride latitudes, which embrace both Atjalic-Ruslan and Japan ports at a time when you knew those ompared with the previous year, but on the by which application for admission must be ivil sido shows a marked increase in the nam made with 24 hours notice by persons who ed church leaning on the arm of her fa have been folly aware that your cargo, vis; coal, ther who gave her away, was most ele is regarded by both those countries as "condi may have occasion to enter the Dockyard
tional contraband of war, and yet you wait untif er of suits and small causes and generally in cincia. As this regulation affects persons havsantly attired in a very handsome dress of housurable distance of your final port of he civil business of the Court The Reging business with the Pris Court the widely in, with a court train some three discharge, which you were also aware was, lo unabi: to assign any cause for this except publicity is desirable in the interests of shipyards in length, trimmed with chiffon and the Far East, to create difficulties which have he one suggested in his last report, namely,
Owners and underwriters.
lace, and small bunches of orange blossom, involved serious delay to your ship, and conse aliness of trade. „
which flower also formed a coronet over her quent loss to her owners. In knowledge also of the fact that similar difficulties had bess creat- lang tulle veil. She carried a spray bouqueted during some considerable period before you of stephanotis, tuka roses and maidenhair fern. signed on, by other crews, yel you have de- The groomsmen wera Messrs. W. Turner, liberately chosen your own time to make W. Barrett, F, Bavet, and H.-M. Eain (brother representations on the subject now, instead of of the bride).
As the bride entered doing so when befo e signing on your had the opporturtunity. I assign no reason for the church Mr. E. J. Chapman, acting yoursct, beyond the statements you have made i organist of St. John's Cathedral, played the but to show you the difficulties that sometimes bymn "The voice that breathed c'er Eden," occur in fudging these cases would point out which the congregation sang, and, the cere that in one or two previous instances, where men have been similarly circamalanced, they mony over, and the register signed, the jayaur, have since declared that they were put up jobs," before they signed on, with the intention of obtaining pastiges home, spent in idleness,
THE CREW OF THE SS. “HARBARTON.": The Japan, Mari states that the deadlock in dhe arrangements for the transference of the crew to England of the steamer Harbaries, the captured blockade runner, has been removed, and the men left Yokohama by the Ocean Steamship Company's steamer Tydeus for Liverpool. The men had made a protest to the Captain that they would all adhere to their de termination to contest the isque raised as to
THE Fearl Fishery of 1905 is fast drawing to a Jose. It has now lasted thirty five days, dur
g which some 74,400,000 oysters have been sted..
The prices obtained have been very tisfactory and the Government coffers have zen enriched by some. R2,324,000. The total uantity of oysters fished up to date is some l millions below the estimate. The full mount will doubtless be reached before the ose of what is considered the record fishery..the payment of the wages, and representations | chords of Mendelssohn's wedding march peal. were about to be made to the British Ministered forth, while the newly wedded couple left 4a recent statistical statement issued by by a few of the more enthusiastic of them, but the church. A reception was afterwarde held dessrs. Gox, Wilson, and Staton, it is shown early on Monday cabled instructions were at the residence of the bride's parents, in bat the total exports of tea from Ceylon to the received, and the men were summoned to the Conduit Road.. principal, if not all, parts of the world during Consulate. They then signed off the articles 19-4 were 158,952,96;, as compared with to be paid their full wages up to the time of $120,000 in the previous year, 148,991,241 their arrival in England, and with a small ad- in 1902, and 146,399,015th in 1901. These Yance, for necessaries during the voyage, the figures show a remarkable increase in the shipmen boarded the Tydens and left port as above ments of tea in the short space of four years, stated.. marred only by one drawback-the sudden falling off in the exportation of green ten from the island.
certainly seem to have denounced, as it der serves to be denounced, the Shanghai, factory
|_of falsehoods."
Messus. Samuel, Samuel & Co, have sub scribed to the fau th domestic lean through the Yokohama Specie Band to the amount of five million yen at the price of ninety-one yen. But
SURVEY WORK IN THE INDIAN OCEAN,” H.M.S. Seðlark, a yacht regently, purchased by the Admiralty to carry out surveying, te Cemily arrived in Colombo, under the command of Capt. B: T. Sammerville. The Sealark has for the last five months been in the Red Sea and round about Suskim carrying out survey. ing work. From Colombs she will convey scientific pasty of the Royal Society, who are to bin charge of Professor Stapley Gardiner They will carry out scientific operations on different Banks in the Indian Ocean. In addi- tion to this work the Sealurk will carry on dredging operations and also do surveying work in the Indian Ocean. The places the will touch will include Diego Garcia, Mauritius and Seychelles" and then return in Colombo,.
bays to finish off her work in the Indian Ocean According to present arrangements, she will
before the end of August, so as to be in Colom. bo in October and then start on the survey of the south coast of Ceylon. An officer on board
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and to sue the owners for full wages to the time they arrived in England The second point re quiring consideration is how far owners can be hac expected to go, in bavlng it stated on the agree-
* Mr. and Mrs. Eiwards spend a brief honey.ments that their vessels are carrying contra-
moon at Macun
SEAMEN AND JAPAN
band, for without some such statement attitudes such as you men have taken op, are rendered possible. An agreement to this effect in the ship's articles would condemn the cargo-If captured--without "quattion, and running, of contraband would have to be abandoned.. "If the reasoning powers of crews derlig, the, earlier stages of the war were al fack when signing on, it can hardly be contended that I is the cune now-13" months later when men must surely be aware what they are committing themselves to
THE circumstantial statement that Great
No conclusion, that I am aware of, has been Britain and China are to exercise a joint pro-
come to in England as to how these chacuɛ; should be treated, but the line'f'baye,consin- tectorate over. Tibet is declared by Sir Ernest Satow and H.E. Wu Ting fang to be "a pure
senily taken since the commencement of the invention conceived and circulated by the
war has been fand this is the third considera- Russian agency in Shanghai which makes the
ips 1 alluded to) what risk is likely to be en fabrication of falsehoods its chief business.
countered in the voyage between Hongkong and the port she clears for. If a risk of cap- been informed by a diplomatist of high offi- We do not imagine," says the Japan Daily
tore and a personal danger to life may be rea cial rank that two or three of the great Mait of the 15th, "that either Sir Fraest of
sonably thought to exisi, I have not-in spite of the foregoing considerations—exacted the Powers--one of which is Great Britain-Mr. Wu used quite that language, but they
fulfilment of the agreement. On the other have under consideration a proposal to
hand where no apparent risk can be shown I convene an International Congress at the
have endeavoured to point out to those cond cerned, and usually with success, that it is their end of the Russo-Japanese contes! to revise
duty to proceed; otherwise they are liable to the rules of warfare and also to consider the
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
punishment. *1 kore, is, however, one point: nolike others I have dealt with, in your best means of dealing with this question of
Lawrence, RN, Marine Magistrate, this more pired, and I have the declaration before me,
Before the Hon. Captain L. A&W. Barnes case, which has to be considered, it has tronu, prisoners of war. It is, of course, pos
ing, Robert Forsyth, master of the s.schlay that the coal your ship. Is carryisiglo not las sible for the Powers to agree upon some
charged twenty-one members of the crew, offended for alther of the belligerens fleets, but plan whereby prisoners would be handed after the closing of the subscription lists ved said that the work will last a considerable time the vessel with impeding the progress of the coming to a decission 1 desire to give you back to their own countrymen to be depan Advertiser, the Company received. All depends on how the Stolark will behard ship by refusing to proceed to sea, to the water men an opportunity to consider your positions tained en masse under such supervision ported to have nearly concluded an agreement If there is no accident, the work could be done of this Colony of the 24th inst, Ch that it would be impossible for them toe to purchase from the Bank of Formosa tem comparatively quickly. The Scientific party join the army without the whole world being million yen's worth of the bonds which the vong from Colombo will only be Professor said that on the 24th inst. at 7 pm. in this port The Court here adjourned for an hour, and cognisant of the fact. Under some such Bank subscribed at ninety yea and sense ship's men will help the party in the operations
Stanley Gardiner and god
another, but some of the rangement, the taking of prisoners wind The Company is also reported to be making they are about to carry out on the banks in the AND DISTILLED FROM PURE MALT, not simply mean the reduction of the further efforts to purchase more bands.
Indian Ocean. enemy's force at great financial cost, or be a cause of difficulty to commissariat and transport departments, The embarrassment would fall wholly upon the losing side and not, as now, chiefly upon that of the victors.
IT IS OF GREAT AGE,
MATURED). IN SHERRY CASKS,
MELLOW; SLIGHTLY SMOKY
BESIDES,
IT IS BOTTLED AT HOME
BY THE DISTILLERS,
DO NOT FORGET
WHAT THIS MEANS.
$18.00 PER DOZ.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The number of Rossian guns captured by the Japanese round Mukden now reaches over 300, Ir came out in a Customs case at Yokohama that the net weight of toob, tins of butter is only 88-lbs.
THE Japanese are actually teaching their Rus- sian prisoners to read and write, to the great delight of their families at home..
To facilitate the dispatch of reinforcements to the Far East, sidings are being built at all the stations on the Siberian railway..
Tuz. Yomiuri: Shimbun issued its inocoth number on the 8th inst. It consisted of 40 pages with contributions by well-known native and foreign writert.
orders from London, so the firm is re
Gillons
GERMAN STEAMSHIP, TRADE "TO" EAST 'ABIA.
The Imperial Government has published the
is consigned to a frm in Nagalaki." Before
from the stand-points I have placed before you Robert Forsyth, master of the 3.8. Baechlay, with a view to affording you an opportunity of
returning to your duifs when preparing to proceed to ses, members of oe resuming, His Worbip sald, if any of questing to know the destination of the ship, they might hold up their hands, when the crew now in court, came aft in a' body re- "the men' still refused to proceed in the ship
every man did so. WEAT as if she was going to Japan, they refosed to
*Hit Wonhip addressing the men, THE following tele.raphic information dated
proceed in her, and on being informed that said: Aliboogh I have a statement before ma the 16th inst., has been received from the Suma-
Nagasaki was the destination, they did, collec-to the effect that this conl is not intended for tra Director and Manager of the Maatschappij results of the German subsidised lines of steam-tively and individually refuse to proceed her, the use of either of the billigerent feets,T tot Mija-Bosch-en-Landbouwexploitatie iners going from and to East Asia and Australia | Langkat, Ld.;-
for the past year. Outward and homeward bound, the traffic amounts to 313,804 tons of Dally aggregate output of Crude Petro value of m, 145, 01.com Against 311,558 tons at
leum.......
a valus of m, 331,450,000 for the previous
us year. Crude Petroleum in Tanka at dele ...........1160co. In addition, specie has been shipped to the
Cases
amount of me 33,500,000, against m. 20,206,000 Kerosine made since the date of the pre-fortheyear before Outwards, the traffic mon
ceding half monthly telegram, 30,000 adta 166,000 tons, at a value of m
lam 130,532,000 com for the previous year and homeward bound: Kerosine shipped since the data of the a. preceding ball-monthly telegram ... 31,005, 147,714 tons, "valued at m. 209,817,000, baro Kerosing in stock at Refinery si date 110,000 been abipped, against 157,830 tons, valued
mi 200,798,000. The number of M. John Hay, the American Secretary of been 41, outwarda, and 42 hor State, who bas sailed from New York to re- 43 "each-case: (or the cuperate on the Mediterranean shores, is, of East Asiatic Liss course, well known in London, where he was traffic American Ambassador in 1897-8 As a writer, exten Mr. Hay is chiefly known as the author of "Little Breeches" and "Jim Bludeo, two. the racy Pike County Ballads. A curious is told about these days when he was
With Me Wh Abs has reces THE Chinese employed on the Rand since the to the Lond 16th ult numbered 34343 There have been Hay one nigh
sumber in the country on the soth ult, was 34.315.
GREGOR & Co., 13 deaths and five
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR, THERE are now 100,000 Rusalan troops at
dopa but you Raid
giving as reason, that Shanghal war the port would or would not be suficient to prevent
bave bad to consider, whether such statements they signed on for, Witness polated to them the ship's detention in the event of her capture, that they signed, 10 Shanghai and other on the ground that such coat was being taken places within the limits of 75 Ny and 61 S to a Japanese por Such detention until By so refusing the said member of the crew the case was fried by a Russian Prize Court might reasonably, he maldito involvalirisk: have prevented the cleari of the vessel when and this holdg so, I am not prepared to in- 1-7,30 pm. Wilnels | sint that you' men, should proceed. On the ready to proceed to sea. saint
and asked them 10.re other band i am not going to allow you fo
sever your connection with your vene, and, the same time.offering
have thereford made arrangements with Captain Forsyth that you will be maintained in the gain Sation Home here until your vessel returns
(AL) to this post í falling which other arrangements. imem self be made for your future. The men were. Thesi nstructed to: golpuribould read collect their personal effects, and left the Court thank jog His Worship:
of a fail month's
skéd
SHIP
G AND MAILS.
King"
Hongkong, 24th April, 1903.
Vladivostok and foo guns.” The
Gromöbel ará
large number
entrance of the hari
them
the pop