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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE was no case of plague reported to the authorities during the twenty-four hours ended at ngon to-day. *
LEAVE of absence on private affairs to the neighbouring countries has been granted to Captain J. R. Gale, Army Pay Department, from 5th to 8th inst.:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1905.
'HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH ":
SERVICE.
LEAVE of absence on private affairs to the Nor the smallest count in the indictment TELEGRAMS neighbouring countries has been granted to | against that necessary curse of modern life, Lieutenant J. T. Fisher, Royal Engineers, from the telephone, is the ugliness of the telephone 9th inst. to 9th October.next.
posts and wires, it is satisfactory to find that the mahetic conscience' of some of our officials has not been allogether stifled, and that the local company is now placing some of their main cables underground. The Mainichi states that, as many British and American papers have published news of the suggestion that a Togo lighthouse should be
ACCORDING to the returns, the senson's tea received at Yokohama from the tea centres up to the end of last month amounted to 8,142,000 pounds, against 12,072,000 pounds during the same period of 1904, while the quantity ex- ported from Yokohama amounted to 7,701,200 pounds against 17,553,600 pounds last year. THE Case in which' Vn Kam Wa was charged. The average price for the new fas exported was erected on Okleoshima in commemoration of The rates per quarter and per menem, proportionat with perjury was resumed before. Mr. FA. | 37 yen 33.58. sen per.100 pounds as compared the recent naval engagement, a number of Eus
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The daily issue is delivered free when the widrom Hageland this afternoon, when the cross-exa- Accomible to memenger. On coples sent by post amination of the complainant by Mr. H. E. Kdditional $1.50 per quarter is charged for portage,
Pollock, K.C, was continued. - The postage on the weekly banyo to any part of the
world in 80 cents per quarter.
PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the Band of the 19th lefantry, on the New Farade Ground, on Monday next, the 7th inst, from
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Hongkong, FRIDAY, AUGUST 42°1905.
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ropeans and Americans are actively interesting | themselves in the proposal, some of them hav- FURTHER particolars are to hand of the disastering even sent sums of money to Japan for this the coral boats at Goto Island. It seems puspose. As the scheme, however, has not as that the loss was greater than was at first yet been adopted, the amounts forwarded have supposed. The steamers Seirya-mary and be temporarily taken change of by the Naval Tamaura-maru, which were sent to render Department. An Irish firm has offered to supply assistance, report that the boats caught in the articles required in connection with the light. gale numbered over one hundred, and their house. occupants exceeded 6;o in number. Fifteen boats, with 74 men on board, returned, and about a hundred are known to have landed on Mejima Island. Some 454 men are atlil missing
An Italian Quartete has arrived from Manila where they have fast closed a very successful
opThey are mileg a performance in the Theatre Royal on Saturday, the fath lost, commencing at 9p.m. The members of the
March. The Egyptian, Patrol "fatic. Selection..."A Runaway Girl"...Monkton Valse........" "The Ofkcers". Coole Polacco.....stin ." Mcaroos "Crven Selection..." Reminiscences of Scotland Godiray Galep.........Post Horn". Koenig God save the King, YESTERDAY, Inspector. Withers, inspector of weights and measures, visited the contral does not often happen that the camaraderie company are Margherita Vinaccia, prima-don- market and tested the weights of four of the existing between the members of the fodianna, Cesare Freddi, tenor, Felicina V. Freddi, position of the colton industry-in presence of found them ali short. The scales were produc criminal act of one against another, but such conductor. A feature of the performance is most prominently situated, meat dealers, and community in this Colony la, upset by the mezzo-soprano, and Almerica 'Vinaccia, the
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
Any one who can rest satisfied with the
the evidence cited in the second report of the Tariff Commission must have the faculty
FINE FLAVOUR of self-deception developed to a very remark
AND
MELLOWNESS
ATTAINED ONLY BY
GENUINE
QUALITY
AND
GREAT AGE.
Per Dozen $16.50.
LIMITED,
able, though not enviable, degrée. The Red
Book issued by the Commission appointed for the purpose of examining the fiscal pro- posals which Mr. Chamberlain has submitted to the country, is a masterly statement of facts and conclusions, and however much Cobdenites may-wriggle, they cannot get away from the plain figures which reveal the present position of the British cotton indus
try. A quarter of a century ago our annual
consumption of cotton exceeded that of the Continent by upwards of two million cwts.,
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ed, along with the defrauders, in Court morning, and, the charges proved, of the
four men was sentenced to pay us each of the
happened yesterday when Luda Singh, a
watchman from D'Aguitar Street, went to No. 20, Des Vœux Road, and there, breaking open a box, as it was alleged, stole therefrom two promissory notes of the aggregate value of 5150, the property of Sunder Singh, watchman at that address. Evidence of the arrest was taken and the case was remanded until Tuesday next.
or two months' imprisonment. Tire master and four fokis of the trading junk Kum Shun Hing wore charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning with (1) being, in possession of arms, to wit, four rifles and six spears, without a permit from the Caplain Superintendent of Police, in the waters of this THE Japan Times translates, from the Chugai harbour on the 3rd inst.'; and (e) with giving a statement to the effect that, nonwithstanding false information to the Harbour Master rethe constant complaints raised by the shippers garding the cargo and arms on board their as to the insufficient anchorage at Yokohama,
juak. On the first charge they were each fined $30; on the second the master was fined $100 and the rest discharged.
the singing of "Cavalleria Rusticana," their
rendering of which is spoken of in highest Manila, where they have played before Gov- terms. They bring excellent testimonials from
ernor-General and Mas. Wright.
in certain circles on account of the large CONSIDERABLE interest having been aroused
number of repatriated conlies brought up from were made this afternoon by a representative of South Africa, by the ss. Indravalli inquiries the fongkong Telegraph, at the Emigration and Transportation office, as to the signi-
the work of dredging the harbour will not make ficance, if any, attaching to the affair. These much progress unless the expenditure for the inquiries elicited the information that there purpose is increased. The central Government was nothing out of the ordinary in it,' has been paying 100,000 yen a year, for the but the large number of coolies was ac
and that of the United States by over five SERGEANT Grant last night raided No. 5 | work, on which two dredging vessels are encounted for by the fact that there has been
million cwts., whereas in the period 1901-4
Aberdeen Streel, and found eleven men having
the annual consumption in the United King a good lime with cards, dice and money. They gaged. During the last five years, however, no steamer returning direct from Durban
dom was less than that of the Continent by over eight million cwts, and of the United States by close upon three million cwts. The per centage taken by the United Kingdom has thus fallen some 16.90
A. S. WATSON & CO., points, while the per centage taken by the Continent has increased by 5.80 points, and by the United States 11.04 points. Looking more closely, morcover, at the figures for the last few years, it is seen that we are approaching, a state of stagna- tion, while there does not seem to be scarce. iy any interruption to the rapid advance of
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905,
$16.00
WELL BUY A CASE
. OF
had taken the precaution of posting a curs canem man, and on his giving thanger signal the keeper of the house promptly did the vanishing act and could not be found: The eloren dupes, with their gambling gear, were placed before Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning
the expenditure has proved quite inadequate to. constantly idle. It is reported that the central cops with the work, and one of the vessels is Government desires to transfer the burden of this expenditure to the local government of Yokohama, as is customary with such work in other countries.
and were fined $3, or seven days each. Some paid; some "went in. They refused to FITZGERALD'S circus will open at Causeway divulge the name of the keeper,
Bay on Saturday, the rath inst, and the má-
for some time and those brought by the
iations of men. Some were time-expired, some Indravelli were about five months' accumu
invalided, and some had purchased their dis charges, in terms of their agreements, by pay ing 10 for same. They have been landed at the old camp at Laichikok for three reasons:
and to facilitate the loading of the coal now to give them a change after the month on board; to enable the vessel to be fumigated;
waiting for her here for the north. All this board the fadravelli, and taken in her to work completed, they will be re-shipped on their ports of first departure. The Katherine Park, the next steamer due from Durban, will
ARMISTICE' GRANTED
IN KARAFUTO (SAGHALIEN)
BY. THE VICTORS.
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Shanghai, 4th August,
4.10 p.m.
An armistico was granted by the Japanese to the Russians in Karafuto (Saghalien) to-day.
RUSSIAN RAIDERS
ATTACK COASTING STEAMER.
CAPTAIN KILLET."
From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 4th August, 2.55 p.m.
Two Russian torpedo-bont des troyers attacked the Japanese coast- ing steamer Keisho-muru, ofl Kyong- syong(south of Vladivostok) yesterday morning.
The captain was killed and seven nen, were wounded.
The destroyers subsequently re- turned to Vladivostok.
:
The Kewho-maru is listing heavily.
HỌNGRONG SHIPBUILDING.
LARGEST RIVER-BOAT ON ORDER
FOR YANGISZE TRADE,
A few weeks since when announcing thesecur ing of orders by the Dock Co. for building three
trade of the northern ports, once it is opened to powerful stoam water-boats and a steel lighter wo stated that it is quite on the tapis that the river' business, may demand a larger amount of creased trade, and we may hope that the share tonnage to meet the requirements of the in- falling to the Hongkong Docks for the building of now steamers will not be a very small one."
the Continent and the United States, which coolie said he was passing near the steps and over the centre of the ring, in addition to other bring the usual average for each steamer of We now learn that the contract for ballding
are both outstripping us in the race of com- [32 petition. There appears to be some differ ence of opinion in the industry as to the significance of the foregoing figures. On the one hand, it is said that the relative de- cline of the British consumption of cotton is due to the tendency to spin finer counts of yam, while on the other hand, it is main- tained that the relative proportions of fine, medium and coarse counts have not so materially altered during recent years as to explain the decline of the British consumption of cotton. Competition
GREGOR & CO.'S
IMPERIAL
THE case in which Indian Constable Ahmednagement are busily engaged in making the Deen was charged with the manslaughter of necessary preparations. There will be no poles Chung Yui, & marice hawker, was called on to obstruct the view of the spectators and the before Mr. G. N. Orme this afternoon, Mr O. arena will be lighted as well as a stage can be, D. Thomson appeared for the defence. A house by a number of powerful are lamps suspended he saw the constable chase the hawker, and auxiliary lights placed round the tent. The catch hold of his queue, and when they got to boxes will be floored with boards raised six the top of the steps the constable gave him a inches from the ground, and the chairs (or stalls) shove, and the hawker fell down the steps. Witness went down and was near the man and saw him die. An ambulance was called for defendant was committed for trial.. ` and the body was sent to the mortuary. The
By kind permission of Major S. H. Pedley and Officers, the Band of the 2nd Battalion "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) will
play the following programme of music, during
between 40 and 50 men.
THE Japanese sanitary authorities attach much will also be boarded. Fitzgerald's circus is a importance, to the destruction of rats as a well-known circus in Australasia, exhibiting in means of preventing epidemics of plague. Their its capitals, not under canvas, but in permanent action in this respect finds very full justifica building specially built for them and owned by tion in an article which Colonel Bruce Skinner, them. It can give a performance which is Medical Journal. The Colonel, indeed, carries RA M.C., recently contributed to the British
horse flesh good, and the appointments, such For a comparison of the geographical distribu genuinely first class, the talent being big, the the rat theory of plague to a remarkable length, an dresses, etc., of the best.
tion of the rat species, he has, collected some facts with regard to the history of the pest, and
a big twin-screw steamer for the Yunglaze trade has been entered into by the Hongkong- and Whampoa Dock Co. and the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. The steamer will be the biggest ever undertaken by the Dock Company, her dimensions being abous.343 feet in length, 56 feet in breadth, and 15 feet tons. The vessel will be built entirely of in depth, with a registered tonnage of 1,500
her will occupy some eleven months, steel, and it is expected that work on
It will be remembered; that in July-of last. year the s,s. Shanghai built to the order of the
China Navigation Co, Ltd, for the Lower Yangtze trade, was launched from the Kew
The rivalry of rich men in some directions is contrasted the results with what is known segard dinner, at the Hoogkang Hotel, tomorrow, by no means to be discouraged. Fired, perhaps, ing the invasion of Europe by the rodent styled is increasing in all neutral markets, and off 5th inst. Owing to the band having a later by the spectacle of Mr. Carnegie's educational the Norway rat, the two other species being the loon Docks. She is the largest ship yet launched those one of the most important is China engagement the band hours will be from 7.30 largesse, Mr. J. D. Rockefeller has begun to long-tailed rat and the brown tat. Colonel Skin-at Hongkong, and measures 370 feet between where our keenest competitor is the United P. to 8.45 p.m., instead of the usual time
States, whose, trade with that country, owing to cheaper freights, has increased with great rapidity, and at the present rate will soon exceed that of Great Britain. Manu- facturers do not complain of the exceedingly
March.............."Austrix"...Nowotuy
Stresia"
Overtitre............"
uber:
“The Chorlters"...Phelps. Selection from..."The Exsi and die Girl"......Caryll Three Dances from..." Henry VII "..... Gencan Two-Step 40" Happy Dayein Dixle "., ..... Milla. God save the King.
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distribute money on the same lavish acale, pre-ner seems to have gathered enough information perpendiculars, is 45 feet broad, and 14 R., senting £2,000,000 to the General Education to lend colour to the theory that the Norway rat 3 in, in depth with a dead weight capacity Board of the United States for the furtherance is probably immune from plague. Not only of 1,500 tons on a draft of 11.ft. 9 in. of its work, and making a separate gift of that, but the Norway rat is the deadly enemy £200,000 to the University of Yale. The former of the two other species, and wherever he has donation, it appears, is to be augmented it appeared he has driven them out, paticularly
BIG GUN RECORD, resultsaro as beneficial as Mr. Rockefeller hopes in the case of the long-tailed kind. The writer.
New York, June 11-All records for shooting
severe competition, and declare that the fight CHEK, a unit in the great army of the un- for, and the example, at any rate, most,augur comes to the conclusion that by this destruc" | with five-inch guns were broken by four gune.
is a fair one because all nations are on an equal footing; and they realise that if once the country is fully opened by railways, the business would continue to expand enorm ously and China would be even of more importance to the maintenance of the colton industry than it is at present. But turning to another, and more important, phase of the question, we find that the Re- port exhibits very clearly the part which tariffs play in helping our rivals to compete successfully against us. The competition of WHISKY. foreign countries has hitherto been only
HIGHLAND
NOT ONE OF THE BEST,
BUT
THE BEST!
employed, was in the dock this morning at the Magistracy to answer to the charge of stealing a purse containing a promissory note for St,oco, fourteen pesos, and 6.50 local currency, the property of Lam Ling Yung, a new arrival from Manila by the ss Zafiro. Defendant met complainant walking along the Prays, and seeing a bundle bulging out of his pocket, As complainant looked up, defendant made called out' to him to beware of falling bricks. a snatch and got hold of the purse in the other's prcket. But the complainant had his wits about him, and promptly seized both the purse and its snatcher. "Six months' hard labour,
and six hours in the stack."
well for the future of America's educational retion of the long-tailed species the Norway rat sources, In connection with the Yale endow has been intrumental in saving Europe from ners of the first class battleship Kentucky, on ment, some fastidious people have contended the establishment and spread of epidemics the Northera drilling grounds, twenty miles ont that, as the methods of Mr. Rockefeller's Stan carried to ports by man as well as by beastside Sandy Hook, las: Thursday. One gunner dard Oit Trust are not above reproach, his gift The conclusion naturally is that the Norway with fourteen shots a minute, hit the target should be refused as coming from a tainted rat should be deliberately imposted in num
thirteentimes. The second gunner fired thirteen source. But there is no practical sense in rea-bers to places where plague exista in order times per minute and hit the target each time. sening of this kind. If Mr. Rockefeller is that they may destroy the other two species Two other men had each twelve bits out of kind of Mephistopheles, then it is surely all to and so remove the prevailing cause of plague, thirteen shots a minute. AN the good that money which he might use or Kobe Herald. Mephistophelian purposes should be transferred to the hands of those who will turn it to better account.-P. M. Gazette,
The range was 1800 yards and the target was twenty-one feet by seventeen feet, consisting of a painted muslin screen and floated on a raft,
Rear-Admiral Evans, who was in command of the squadron, said it was shooting of which any good American might be proud. "If the
be, "there would have been no enemy in half an hour Adr
slightly felt in the British home trade, except | CHARGES of assaulting a sampan, man in the Bonham Strand, was this morning charge with the hour of the arrival and departures of the squadron had been firing at any coemy," said
Tite Canton wharves appear to be becoming perfect hot-beds of pick-pockets' and bundle. snatchers, and almost daily thefts of that description are reported from the district. At steamers, the vicinity is usually so crowded that it is easy for the light-fingered fraternity to victimize all arriving or departing passengers, Rear-Admiral Evans said that the squadron and then utterly lose himself in the crowd, also established a new wireless telegraph re- before the victim really has time to realize his cord for warships. He said that while at New- loss. In this way clothing and money is con- port News the Kentucky communicated with stantly, reported as stolen, the clothing usually the cruiser Maryland, off Cape Cod, Man, 500 being discovered in some remote, and therefore miles away. An eighty word message was re
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
CHAN Yau, a shop-coolie employed at No. 44 in regard to certain classes of finished
early hours of this morning, and being drink the larceny of $1,095.50, from an unlocked goods; but there is no getting away from and disorderly in Arsenal Street, were preferred drawer in the shop of his master. It appeared the fact that the protected manufacturer has against two men of the Royal West Kents, from the evidence that a number of sums of his own market secured to him, and being regiment hitherto bearing such a clean record; money had been paid in to the shroff, aggre- able to manufacture and sell more cheaply, for its law-abiding behaviour and entire abstin Rating St,cos.50, in notes, besides a quantity lie can well afford to accept very narrow eace from any sort of trouble with the police. of small silver. The shroff placed the money, profits, or none at all. The high tariffs of this case the boatman, Wong Ke, stated as he received it, in the open drawer of his foreign countries have restricted the export the defendants came and hailed him to take defendant could see all the monetary transac apparently safe, pawoshop, Yesterday, bow. ceived without a break......
that he was at the steps at Arsenal Street when table, and from his position about the shop the trade of the United Kingdom by excluding them to a steamer in the harbout. They were tions passing, and could also compute pretty ever, several of these men ran in the wrong British products from markets formerly sup: drunk, but he was willing to take them, until accurately the amount of money in the drawer direction and were thus stopped and arrested, plied by us, but now supplied by various they commenced behaving like mad nien. The at any time. Yesterday the shroff's attention some with bundles of clothing in their posses native industries. The home trade of the pro-men forced him to get into his boat and they was drawn away for a few moments by a cus- sion. Placed before the Magistrates this morn. tected manufacturer is safe and remunera- following, nearly upsetting it, and complainant tomer, and they afforded an opportunity to Ing they were sent to three weeks' hard labour, began to row, but bad not gone very far when the Chan which he was quick to seize, and grab with six hours in the stocks. One case heard tive, and it is only a matter of time for him first defendant jumped up and struck him, and bing all the paper money in the drawer he im by Mr. Hazeland exhibited the consummate to be able to capture even more trade of his being afraid for bis life, complainant jumped mediately made himself scarce, "A foki at imprudence of the class of individuate. A pas- British competitors and drive them out of into the water to get away from his assailants. once went for the police, and reported the senger having just arrived at the whaif took the field. Thus equipped the defenceless The police pinnace was coming up, and seeing matter, and a search commenced for the thief, out his purse and from its contents paid his rival of the foreign producer can only make it the defendants sprang overboard and swam which, however, did not prove of long duration, ricksha, slipping the purse back into a side a temporary struggle to wade the conse- ashore, where they were chased by P. C. Folay for about an hour afterwards, while passing a pocket. As he did so a Chinaman tapped him and arrested. The first defendant pleaded guilty pawnshop, the very man himself strolled out on the shoulder and drew his attention to his The quences of so unequal a contest,
to both charges, and having nothing to say, he and into the arms of the fort, and the agent of queue. The man accosted grabbed his append Commission recognise this and being of was fined $5 on the first and 53 on the second the jaw. He was taken to the Central Station, age to look at il and as he turned his head to count. The second defendant was acquitted and there the usust search revealed $960, and get it well over the shoulder, the other man
GREGOR & Co., opinion that the British Colonial markets
34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hangkong, 15th June, 1905.
are capable of almost indefinite expansion urge the adoption of a satisfactory scheme of preferential. arrangement within the Empire which they think would secure the largest proportion of this growth for British [33-trade,
of the charge of assault, but was fined $3 for some small articles evidently newly purchased slipped his hand into the passenger's pocket being drunk and disorderly, Mr. Hazeland The shroff identified the notes as those extract- and extracted his purse containing $5.70, and remarking that in dealing thus leniently with ed from his drawer, and when placed before bolted. He was arrested, and coolly told Mr. the men, he did so only in consideration of the Mr. G. N. Orme this morning, the thief admit. Hazeland that be "was only running to catch fact that their commanding officer, who sat ted his theft. He was sentenced to six months" a thief he saw in front of him. He also went With His Worship, gave them both very good hard labour and six hours' exposure in the to three weeks hard, labour and six hours in
characters.
stocks
the stocks,
MAILS" DUE French (Armand Behle) 7th inst, Indian (Arratoon Apcar) 8th Inst, American (Manchuria) 9th inst. Australian (Eastern) 13th inst Canadian (Empress of India) 14th inst. Australian (Changsha) 19th inst.
The ss. Merlonathshire left Singapore on 3rd inst, and due here on gth inst
The Buckness. Bechuana left Shang- bai on 3rding and is due bere on 6th inst.
The 0.5 Co. & C. M. S. N. Cols La Oopark left Singapore yesterday pm and la dus here on 8th last,
The Boston S. S. Co. a. Tramont nailed from Manila Teaterday, at 4 pm, kad may be ́ ́expected here on Saturday afternoon,