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Py fixing upon what is, after all a purely | THE te Sir Edward Fleet Alford, of 26. Tho arbitrary gold value for the monetary unit Boltons, South Kensington, a director of the thus retained, the Government has succeed-British and Chinese Corporation, Limited, the ed at a stroke in emancipating the value of British and Korean Corporation, Limited, and the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company. that coin from the value of the mictal of Limited, and son of the late B'shop Alford, of which it is composed." The change effected Hongkong, fins left estate valued at £58,697,
in the currency of Mexico was carried out in the face of many difficulties. It appears. that the high rate of exchange which existel as the result of that country's adherence to the silver standard actually fostered many important industries. It was a protective tariff to the manufacturer, and even the
cturille renerenger cuplet by p» ditkat $1.800 pár user is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly bone in any part of the
world in 30 coals per qaurier, Single Copies. Daily, in cente: Weekly, twenty-exporter of native products derivid certain
live cams.
BIRTH.
On the 6th June, at Shanghai, the wife of C. RASMUSSEN, of a son
MARRIAGE. On the 9th June, at Shanghai, WILLIAM J. K. Turnbull, Victoria, Australia, to BETTY, youngest daughter of Mrs. E. Widler.
But there
advantages from the system. were many drawbacks to the silver standard, and President Diaz has for some consider able time, in conjunction with his chief Secretary, been weighing the question and
The following in the return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 11th June, 1905:
Library Muscum
66 289 Non-Chinese.. Chinese
1,154 99
Total...... 388, 1,220
HOUST
LANDLORD AND LODGER. LIVELY SCENES IN A HONGKONG BOARDING An interesting case, revealing some of the came before the Court of Summary Jurisdiction amenities of a boarding-house la: Hongkong [this forenoon. The plaintiff O. S. Bagge, a diver, employed at the Naval Yard, sued R. C. Hurley, proprietor of the Actor House boarding establishment, in the sum of $500 as damages forillegal arrest and imprisonment. In his state ment of claim, the plaintiff alleged that on 16th May last, while he was residing at 166 Queen's Road East, known as the Astor House, he was arrested by order, of the defendant and taken to No. 2 Police Station in custody, of a police
OFF TO THE MARKETA
Mr. Stephens asked the defendant whether food? Whereupon, Mr. Hurley entered into there was any ground for complaint as to the an elaborate, statement of how and where he
markel at half-past six o'clock every morning bought his supplier, how he was down at the buying up everything that was to be found of the best, and rejecting all that even suspicious. He told where ho got his butter and eggs from, maintained that his table was one of the best in the city, and all for $go'n month.
By Mr. Thomson-There have been com plaints about the food ?-The complaints have been through no fault of nine. They have been made by those who have been drinking,
All these troubles have arisen over the food? Ir is reported from Peking that H.E. Sircons:able. The defendant made no charge too much.
ho had suffered damage by reason of the arrest,They have arisen entirely because the man Liang Cheng, Chinese Minister at Washington, against him and the plaintiff was released, but has suggested to the Waiwupu that if an agree
was not able to take it. ment cannot be arrived at between that Minis and claimed damages. The defendant," in try and Mr. Rockhill, the new U. S. Minister reply, admitted the truth of the allegations as to the arrest, but said that he caused the plain spector Baker. He alleged that on the 16th of May, and on previous occasions, the plaintiff had repeatedly conducted himself in a ditor- derly manner, and threatened to strike the de. fendant. At the Police Station he did not
The defendant then described, by panio- mimic gestures how the plaintiff had squared
Joux TURNBULL, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs, apparently they have not succeeded in evol- at Peking, concerning the clauses ol' the pro tiff to be arrested on the advice of Chief in- up to him,
ving a scheme whereby Mexican currency The will almost rank with a gold standard. Mexican dollar is so familiar a sight to the residents in the East that anything affecting
posed Chinese Exclusion Treaty, an appeal should be made to the Hague Tribunal to arbitrate the matter."
The Hongkong Gelegraph its value as legal tender is necessarily of in THE highest price
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1905.
MAD DOGS.
During the past few weeks various cities in the Far East have been the subject of | hydrophobia scares, with the result that the most stringent regulations are being imposed upon those who keep dogs with the object of preventing an outbreak of rabies. The latest
ever paid for a violin in an
"NOT AT ALL ANNOYED." You were annoyed on the evening in ques tion? Not at all.
You had a row in the house two nights" before, when a man broke some furniture, and
terest. It is therefore with some degree of auction roam, 1900, was recorded at Messrs. press the charge because he had no desire to | you were still rather annoyed?-That has
Clendening's Room, Argyll-street, on gth ult The instrument was by Joseph Guarnerius, and was made a Cremona. The highest price hitherto rearted at an auction was £860, paid in 1893. The violin sold on the gib was as perfect as possible, and was a well-known one, having been played by Faganini, who then said
satisfaction that the departure made by Mexico in coming into line with those na tions which employ the gold standard will be viewed. The new law Inys it down that the silver peso which has hitherto been coined with a weight of 24.4388 grains of pure silver, will have legal weight equal to 75 centigrams of purc gold. Another section makes gold coins of A SERIOUS discrepancy has been found in one
a
a better one could not be found.
of the recent Spanish charts of the east coast
injure the plaintiff in his position as a wage earner at the Naval Yard; and only suggested that the police officer should give the plaintiff some advice as to his future conduct. The de- fendant denied that the plaintiff had sustained
Mr. Oswald D. Thomson appeared, for the plaintiff; and Mr. Matthew J. U. Stephens represented the defendant. any damage.
THE FOOD QUESTION.
The plaintiff in his evidence declared that
nothing to do with this caic
The sergeant and constable at No. 2 Police. Station who had been connected with the case were called. The sergeant declared that the plaintiff was very excited at the station and was under the influence of drink. The con. stable said he had arrested the plaintiff on the instructions of Mr. Hurley. He also stated that the plaintiff was intoxicated..
JULGMENT FOR PLAINTIFY.
His Honour in giving judgment, remarked
scare is reported from l'enang. There a dog any value and silver pesos are unlimited of the island of Samar, reports the Cablenews.the trouble arose because he cunsidered the that it was perfectly clear that no harm had,
legal tender. The Department of Finance may, exclusively for exportation, authorise the mintage of dollars of desigus ante-dating that of the year 1898 providing that they also hear special marks." It is possible. then, that the dollar (Mex.) may actually come to be worth more than the British or Straits dollar. In that case we might hope to see the gold standard suddenly adopted by the Government and all nervousness resulting from fears as to a fluctuating silver market.set at rest once and for all.
food bad. He briefly went over the points of his statement of claim.
Another witness named Brown, who stated that he also was employed at the Naval Yard and was a boarder at the Astor House on the 16th of May, said he had not seen the plaintif
A small island off the coast, in the vicinity of Samar, was recently surveyed and found to be no less than ten miles out of its proper place. The error in the chart was discovered by the The bureau is also making surveys, in other part, among which are the straits known as
language used. the Maqueta, between the island of Catan-strike the defendant, nor did he hear bad duanes and Luzon.
Pathfinder, which is now in those waters..
Was Mr. Bagge soher on this occasion ?--I don't know. I think he was by the way he was speaking.
Did you ever hear him use bad language 7- Not what you would call bad.
because the plaintiff was still employed. resulted in consequence of the arrest, But the defendant was not justified in ordering the arrest of the plaintiff that was perfectly clear. He did not think much damage had been done. The whole thing was really this--
boarder, and it was Mr. Hurley's own fault if Mr. Hurley had, for some time, an undesirable he allowed him to remais. He could not understand why the defendant had not taken. steps to rid himself of the boarder before. In all the circumstances he thought that day dam- ages with costs would meet the case, Judgment for plaintiff accordingly.
A ROMANTIC marriage was celebrated in the uit, when Mr. E. Whitney, of Montreal, Roman Catholic Church of St. Cecilia on 7th wealthy Canadian contractor, with a fortune estimard, at £4 oco, co, was united to Miss Acnic Bennett, a telephone call-girl. The
Has he stood up and waved his arms and NEW DESTROYER" FLOTILLA. bridegroom is 70, and the bride 13. The loveased these words to Mr. Hurley Sometimes.
Witness repeated the language, which is usually represented by a dash mark.
suddenly went mad and ran amuk, attacking several people in the course of its wild career. One man who had been bitten was taken to the hospital, where he went down us bis hands and knees and began barking like a dog. Subsequently he died in great, agony. The result of this case, which was not the only one that has recently occured in Penang, has been to create the utmost alatm among the people of the Settlement, and appeals are being made to the Govern ment to enforce a muzzling order on all dogs. In one of the Northern Settlements, either Shanghai or Tientsin, a mad dog was the cause of the death of a young German the other day, and indeed on every side
H fear of
general attack hydrophobia has taken possession of the people, until they have almost be
So far come obsessed on the subject. Hongkong has escaped this epidemic of A. S. WATSON & CO., rabies, tant it is evident from these reports
measure's possible to secure immunity GEORGE WILSON, an unemployed seamas from this most harrowing peril. At presing the Praya East as a bathing place, there with (1) refusing to pay his legal ricksha hire; once.' 132 sent regulations are in force against the by annoying the neighbours He was also and (3) with behaving in a riotous and disorder | by content. If 1 hadn't liked it I would hau, arrival at singapore, the local Free Prest anys 1.::
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at first sight of the Canadian and pretty Miss Bennett was described fully in the columns of the American press when the engagement was anaounced. Mr Whitney gave his fiancée £20,000, and the wedding the bride and also the gift of the pedant bridegroom.
JOHN BELL, an anemployed seaman, was
Has he ever said 'I will ruin your business'?
never heard that.
⚫ BOARDING HOUSE MONOPOLY. Have you ever heard the defendant tell the
If you don't like the chow you can leave And Mr. Bagge replied: I am not quite pre- pared at present. He also said, 'There is a monopoly of boarding-houses in the Colony,
'ARRIVAL IN HONGKONG.
The Hongkong harbour to-day sees at an- chor a valuable addition to the China squadron which arrived from the South last evening.
destroyers, six in number, recently attached to the Atlantic fleet at Gibraltar. These are the Exe, the Ettrick, the Erme, the Der, the F- chew and the dran, the two latter having been
THE number of plague cases is slightly on the bridesmaids were resplendent with diamonds plaintiff to leave the house ?-Yes. He said-This comprises the whole of the River class of -- increase. Five are given in the official retuin received today.
living at the Sailors' Honie, was charged with charged before Morme this morning and I cannot very well get acother house atdelayed after the departure of the other foun
charged with indecently exposing his person at the same time and place, and Mr. F. A. Haze land fined him $10 or 14 days.
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importation of dogs from Shanghai, but it would be advisable to have similar regula: tions put in operation against Singapore and Penang. In addition to that, the police of
A CARPENTER attached, till yesterday, to the Hongkong should have instructions to "arrest "all dogs found wandering at large.Naval Yard, was charged before Mr. G. N. in the public streets, and those without Orme this morning with stealing a quantity collars or seemingly ownerless should he brass fittings from HMS. Tamor. He was despatched, after sufficient time has been caught with the fittings in his possession. Six allowed for the owners to appear and claim weeks' hard labour and six hours in the stocks
was His Worship's exemplary dictum. : the animals. Pariahs may not be such a nuisance in Hongkong as they are in some
A coolte was strolling along the Praya East
Did you find fault with the food?! was fair- (2) assaulting Chinese constable Cheung Sang,
gone away, I left last Saturday. I was there ly manner in the charge room of No. 5 Police Station. It was stated that defendant three months.
longed Why did you leave?--I found cheaper lode caffed the Chinese Constable a monkey," and hit him over the face, and thenings. We both live together.
Cross-examined by Mr. Stephens-Have drew a kaife and threatened to cut out the red liver of the sergeant at the Station. On the other people complained of the food ?—Yes. first charge, as he said he was willing to pay the ricksba-coolie his hire, he was discharged, on the second he was fined $t or 4 days, and on the third charge he was fined $5 or 10 days. THE N ̊C. D. News of roth inst, says: The obsequies of the late Mr. Zih Chin-foo, com- here, winn, died on the ist ultimum, will take place to-morrow, the funeral procession leaving the residence No. 1424 Chekiang Road, at 1945 a.m., for the mortuary on Burkii! Road, All friends are invited to attend, and we are. asked to state that in accordance with Chinese
for docking purposes. Writing of the fleer's
We learn that it is not long since these vessels, with all their spare parts of tuachinery, elda were transferred from Malia to Gibraltar, and their despatch to China was quite unexpected, The orders for the change; which came quite as a surprise, stated that the flotilla was to leave-
The defendant, Mr. Hurley, stated that he at once. Their placer at Gibraltar are to be had kept a boarding house for a considerable taken as soon as possible by another division time, and the plaintiff had lived with him for of the same class, the River type, of which plaintiff came to the Astor House there was net is the type decided on after the accident to several months. For the first few months after there are about thirty more, and almost all new trouble at all, but during the past two months, the Cobra, which was of greater speed bat tas of perhaps rather more, the effects of liquor slight in construction to stand the violent strains of a heavy seaway, without considerable
knots, though some are a knot or two faster. plaintif, and when he came home and did noi risk, or worse than that, as in the Cobra's case.
The six new arrivals with those destroyers find everything to suit him, he made terrible They average 7,500 hp. with a speed of 25 trouble at the table abusing the witness.
already on the station bring up the strength in Fame, Whiting, Handy, Hart, Janus, Otter, that type to fourteen, the other eight being the
other cities that could be named, but they with two reams of foolscap paper in his hand. pradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank seemed to make a greater impression upon the ↑ ate to be seen, especially in the lower An inquiring Inkong investigated, and as the parts of the city, and they should be conlie could or would give no satisfactory nc dealt with in the most summary fashion.count of his possession of the paper, he was If rats are capable of transmitting dis bailed before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, who fined ense to the human race why not pariahs, him $54, with the usual alternative. which actually come into closer contact with
THREW BANANAS OVER THE ROOF.-
How did he abuse you?-He called me names, swore at me, and used horribly vulgar
humanity than the vermin of the cellar? "JUNK musters must learn that they have no castom refreshment will be provided at the and foal language. One night he picked up Virago, and the Tuku, captured from the.
These pariahs and ownerless mongrels live on the off-scourings of the city, and are just as liable to contract disease as any other animal. In the report of the Acting Medical Officer of Health recently published re ference was made to the manifold sources of
right to abstract the way in the harbour, was the warning given at the Magistracy this morn- ing when four junk-master's were charged with obstructing the passage of the Canton steamers to their wharves, and impeding their progress. Two were fined Sin each and two $7 ench.
plague infection, and there can be bttle A CHINESE hawker was stopped yesterday doubt that the wails and strays among dogs afternoon, when hawking his wares, by two lukong, and asked to produce his licente, are a distinct menace to the health of the This request appears have ex.ited his indig community. It is to be hoped that the nation, for he seized a chopper and went for" Sanitary Board will recognise the importance the two lukongs, though he did not manage to of this question and take steps to avert the injure them very severely.. For hawking with- introduction, so far as they possibly can, of out a licence Mr. F. A. Hazeland inflicted a the dread discase of hydrophobia into Hong-fine of $1, and for the assadit Srs with the
usual alternative, kong
THE MEXICAN DOLLAR.
Under a law which came into force on
1
And they were fresh that day, Hotel Metropole for foreigners returning from some bananas and flung them over the roof. Did you ask him to leave?- have asked the funeral. The Chinese mercantile cam. munity here have suffered a decided loss in the deaths of such an important member as the late Mr. Zih Chin-foo and much sympathy is felt for the bereaved family.
Chinese.
The six new torpedo destroyers are command.
Lt-Com. Basher, Ettrick, LL-Com. Lesin, him to leave as long ago as three or foured by the Dee, Li-Com. H. E. Sulivan, Erie, In reply to another question the witness said Arun, t.Com. B. Henniker Heaton, Ere, months. I begged him to leave. he did not like to take such an extreme step as Lt-Com. A. F. Everett, and lichen, L.-Com,! that of ejecting the plaintiff from the house, be- C. Seymour. These vessels are remarkable in naval constraction. They were included in the THE British steamer Towing, Captain Uuter-cause he thought all the trouble was due to the their way, as they mark quite a new epoch in 1933 estimates and are quite new. They are bridge, arrived at Manila on the gh inst, 2 effects of liquer, days from Hongkong. She took Goo tons of
placement of 550 tons, and are certainly ge general merchandise consigned to Smith, Bell
capable of steaming 236 knots and have a dis- •, improvement on the old type. Up in the year and Company, 30 sacks of mail, and 180 head
"A GOOJ BOARDER." of cattle. Three Portuguese stowaways were
Witness, continuing, remarked that when he 1902 no destroyers afloat exceeded 180 tons, the taken‹ff the vessel by the police boat and con.
watched with more than ordinary interest. fined at the San Fernando police station. The pressed the plaintiff to go, the latter said to behaviour therefore of this new class will be men claim to be ex-soldiers of the Portuguese somebody else in the house that Mr. Hurley watched army and state that they had disposed of all doesn't know when he has a good boarder. On their belongings, including clothes, to raise the 1st of May, also, there was trouble, so much
His Honour remarked that the witness had the remedy in his own bands and should have availed himself of it?
IT is quite unlikely that people generally at the amount necessary to pay their fare to Ma- so that the witness had to apologise to another unpacked at Manila on the gth Inst., and is now
home, if asked which was the second shipping nila. The money realized thirty pesos, they port in the world, would reply Hongkong, had turned over to a countryman' in Hongkong 1st May, Mexico, the home of the silver The latest official returns of vessels entered at who promised to secure them passage on the the five greatest ports show, however, it is to Taming, but who, after placing them aboard dollar, emancipated herself from the thrall be act only second, but well ahead of New the vessel just previous to the bour of sailing, dom of the silver market and established her York, and likely at no distant future to beat had disappeared. They will be returned to currency on a gold basis. The new law London and to be first. The fact gives a new Hongkong on the vessel which brought them bears in some respects a resemblance to lirat importance to events in the Far East and to over-Offate there have been several cases of passed by the Siamese Government when the leading position of the British Colony-desertion from the European section of the
Macao police force. the value of the tical was fixed at a certain L. & C. Express, ratio to the gold sovereign. Mexico hai
THE WEATHER.
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg,
On the 14th at 11.55 a. The barometer has First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory: fallen quickly over E. Japan, the depression lying near the Loochous yesterday, having moving towards NE. into the S. part of the Sea of Japan.
boarder and to explain his regret that, there were unruly people in the house. The witness described how matters came to a crisis, and he accordingly went to the Central Police Station to learn what he could do. He gat advice and on the night of the 16th May, when trouble again' arose, he decided that he would not put up with it any longer. He told the plainilif that he was going straight away to the police station. Judging by the actions of the plaintiff on that occasion, observed the witness, nobody could fail to believe that he was well filled up. Witness then described how he went to the police station, told, his story to the police ser back to the Astor House, and gave the plain- geant there, got a constable to accompany him tiff in charge.
THE great seal of the Philippine islands was
ready for use.
It was designed by Gillard Hunt, recognized as the best authority on were Tiffany and Company, the famous heraldry in the United States. The engravers. jewelers of New York,
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English (Simfa) 15th inst American (Coptic) 15th inst., 2 p. Indian (Arratsen Apoar) 15th inst. German (Pink Waldemar) 19th inse. Canadian (Tarlar) 20th inst
Indian (Sisang) 20th iast." Gorman (Zielen) soth inst." German (Sachsen) ajst inst. American (Sidería) 23rd inst, Indian (Kumuang) 25th inst.
$9.75 PER CASE 1 DOZEN: decided that the silver peso will have in On Friday, the 9th instant, Mr. and Mrs future a certain fixed value in gold, although Raphael Sassoon celebrated their silver wed- that value need not necessarily represent the ding, at Singapore. Mr. Sassoon is a partner actual value of the coin. In connection of Messrs. Meyer Brothers and he has been a resident of Singapore for nearly twenty years with this subject Dun's Reeleis remarks :
How did the plaintiff behave at the Palicè What adds interest to this silver wedding is The Government has at no time felt dis- that Mr. Sassoon has been married three
Station -He said he would break up my posed to adopt an absolute gold standard by times. His first wife was a sister of Mr. E R.
Pressure has increased slightly over the business, and see that I had no other boarders, authorizing the free coinage of that metal Belilios, C.M G., of Hongkong and aunt of Mr.
As stated, no. charge was laid against the and by depriving silver coins of their un-N. N. Adis of Singapore. His second wife Loochoos and N. China, and given way a little and punish me for what I had done, al limited legal tender capacity. To do this was a sister of the late Mr. S. Manasseh, An area of low pressure appears to be farm
Gradients are slight on the China coast, and sergeant in charge and then returned to the would have been costly and would have dis. founder of the well-known Jewish firm of ing over the N. part of the China Sea. plaintiff. He received some advice from the turbed domestic commercial conditions far Almeida Street, and he married his present more than the retention in circulation of the wife (née Salomon) in Calcutta. We regret to moderate NE and E winds may be expected Astor House, "When we came home, con-
bear that owing to a recent-rikisha accident the Formosa Channel, and along the north- tinued the defendant," he did everything but for this part to-morrow moming, vie Toluca
er shores of the China Sea.
Forecast-moderate NE. and E. winds touch me. The plaintiff remained at the Astor
House until last Saturday, coin which the people have been accustomed this lady is conficed to her room.-S. F.
showery, to regard as the monetary unit for centuries. | Preis,
GREGOR & Co.
- Hongkong, 17th April, 1925.
ia S. China.
The 0, & 0. 5. S. Ca's sis. Coptic is expect: ed hare from Manila to-morrow at z p.m. :
The ss Oceano from Glasgow and Liverpool
The 1, M. S. S. Co's 11. Siberia with maila, sailed from Singapore op 11th inst., for this port
Honolulu, arrived at Yokohama, and will leave &c, from San Francisco to the myth dlate Sex, Kabe, Nagasaki and Shanghai, and is Che here on aged inst