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Practically at a serious disadvantage. Germany has the control of all the lines of railway from the North Sea to the frontiere of Austria. The Ottoman lizes again from Belgrade to Constantinople are 1 Levies under her management, while the
At the V.B.O. this afternoon teams repre santing the Club and the lasitano Club will try conclusions at pole.
During the day ended at noon yesterday in cases of plague→→9 fatal-were reported, being ing the year's total up to 1,193. One was s
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A new central fire station is to be built at
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extension to the Persian Gulf was the missing link to be closed, is actually owned by Germany, who in addition to the mere working of the line has procured valuable political and commercial advantages there. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. with. Russie, ton, is in inconvenient proximity to the proposed line all the way from Belgrade to the frontiers of Porsiu; the intermediate territories, in fact constitute ber favourite bunting grounds, and have now for considerably more than a century been deliberately and 28 + mutter of settled policy kept in
a state of continual unrest, if not of absolate anarchy. However, then, we may regret being forced in CELEBRATED this affair of the Bagdad Railway seemingly to uet the part of the dog in the manger, there have been reasons at work to justify the instinct of the nation at birge in cim. pelling the Ministry to give an unqualified refusal to the approaches of the German Government.
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The police reported yesterday bust Monday, between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, a steam launch ran into and sank a sampan in the Larbour, Its three occupants were rescued from the water by those on board the launch
"There being considerable doubt as to who is the handsomest man in Penang and the F.M.S." the Straits Echo-the Dow Pouang janrnal edited by Mr. Cheney Duncan-hos started a beauty competition. The rooiplent of the highest number of votes will receive 2100, of wich half has to go to charity.
The British steamer Clitis (Capt. MoDonald), which arrived hero yesterday from Chingkiang with a cargo of ground-nuts, reports that on the night of the 15th inst, about 15 miles south-west of Dreaker Point, she passed steamer towing a large craft, which from ita appearance scomod to be a steamer. The Fannel and mast were gone.
A Government Gazelle Extraordinary and nounces that Amoy has been declared an infected port.
It is expected that a section of the Boon). Fasan Railway will be opened to traffic on the' 1st October mest.
The Wei We-pn las offoietly notified the Legations at Peking that ali trouble in Yunnan ended and all the foreigners are under military guards and no sazioty need be felt.
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The Maharajah of Bikanir, who was in Hongkong in 1990 and is well known to be one of the kenest sportsmem among Indian prinses, has promised to subscribe 1,400 rupees towards the expenses of the tour of an Indian cricket team in England.
The Consul General for the United States at Singapore, Mr. O. P. Williams, has received a notification from the Washington Government that British Borneo has, for United States consular purposes, beon placed under bis oflajul jurisdiction, and he has been asked to establish an U. S. Consalar Agency at Bandakan.
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to the status of a Lioutenant-General's employ.mining it he found that it contained sis ment. The proposal is that it shall usually be man skulls, a number of haud and fast-bones filled by an affles of the Indizo Army. The and some skulls of animals. The bones were first holder of the command is to be Maj. Gen. carefully packed in newspapers, D. J. S. McLood.
The 8.9. Samshui, which a Rinter's telegram. a few days ago reported as lost in a hurricane at Manile, has arrived there in safety, though bearing traces of heavy weather. The Samshai
'Suspicious still being rife that the Peking University students are in losgas with rebels, says the P, and T. Times, their privato effects and correspondence, were examined, but no incriminating matter was found. In fature, however, the incoming and outgoing corres pendence is to be vigid.
Nevertheless although the scheme, as
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the issues. If the Scutari Bagdad liue, ven if carried out with the aid of our own Pronounced by Commissours to be the capital, present features that we do not care to face, a Sentari-Bagdad Bailway made without our aid, and in teeth of our opposition, would be a much more distaste. ful meal to swallow. For the present the The following are also recommended, and scheme for want of our assistance has fallen through, but we may rest assured that the are unsurpassed in quality:---
proposal though scotched is by no means dead; and it buhoves us before it is pro. posed again in a much more objectionable formu calmly to consider the prospect. That a line of railway to India would be of enormous benefit to that country, if in proper control, goes without saying. Our own Canadian Pacific line is an instance of the enormous advantage which a country may derive from the completion of a line, even when at the moment seemingly little
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Russia has followed auit and thrown down the gauntlet to us in Eastern Asia; and this she has been able to do simply from her possession of a new line of communication in her Siberian Ralway, We ourselves are straining every nerve to make it possible to effect the union of Egypt with the Cape by the construction of another transcontinental railway, which shall bind into one the south and north of the African Continent; whilo our latest Commonwealth of Australia is equally bent on crossing the great central deserts which hold apart New South Wales and Western Australia. All theso schonses have at bottom the same uit-that of uniting the countries served by shorter and more practical routes with the home country than at present exist. The question of shortening the road to India is thus daily assuming a more important aspect; and equally important, or even more so, is the need that much a route should be in our own control, and not be subject to interruption at the whim of any foreign, and it may be at the On the 2nd June, at S. Gerge's Church, Penang moment hostile or unfriendly, uation.
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BIRTHS.
Un the 15th June, at dovernment House, Wei- haiwei, Sra. STEWART LOCKHART of a daughter.
17s On the 16th June, at Macao, the wife of GEORGS MACKENZIE, M. Customs, Lappa, of a sun. (1741 On the 13th May, at Woodville, Porlock, Somerent, the wife of ItroNALU V. AWORY, late of the Sarawak Civil Service, retired, of a son (stillborn).
MARRIAGE.
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Fortunately the circumstances are not altogether untavourable. Without perimps fully seeing its importance at the moment our Government took the opportunity, when
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rescued the native crew of nine of the suhooner Josephine, which foundered during the storm. The steamer's commander reports many wrecks |on the shores of Leyte and Samur.
The following is from the P. & T. Timer :~~ The tablet of Confucius has always been duly honoured by teachers nad students in the Peking University, bat one day italy the tablet was found hanging from the ceiling,
and the students were much exercised, declaring that if the Sage had hung himself there was but little abance of success for themselves.
With referones to the statement, which we recorded yesterday, that General Biden Powell is engaged to Miss Daisy Leiter, sintar of Lady Carson, it seems that the firs: General Baden-Powell heard of this news was when he arrived in England from Amories last month by the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. It appears that he has never met the lady in his life..
A Stimonoseki despatch to, the Asahi states
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that the British cruiser Amphitrife arrived there from Kobo at 6 am. on the 4th inst., and left bree hours later for Weibaisi. passenger on the steamer Tremunt photographed the cruiser in the barbour, and being detected was at once arrested and charged with the infraction of the Strategical Zone Law. The offender was being examined by the Moji police when the message was sent to the Asahi,
The Union, Shanghai. of the 11th inst., says: Last week four British mon-of-war in a string went up the Yangtsa's. Of late ygaro men-of- war of all flags represented in Chithh hare paid- frequent visits to the river ports, it having suddenly dawned upon the authorities at home that it is a wise step to show the natives their fags. Jaas asad to be the month when rioters delighted to attack foreign property, but they now appear to have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of energy on their part,
Maj. Gen. Akiyama, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese troops in North China, roturn
Comimibuting on the establishment of two Americaa coaling-stations in the Pacific ocena. the Kreuz Zeilung of the 11th ult. says:"With the Panama Canal, the Hawaiian Islands, Tutuilo and the Philippines, the United States holds
most strategic points in the Western hemisphere, where some day her supremacy will be indisputable."
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Manila is soon to be equipped with a fire boat which will make the fire department of the vity practically perfect. There
many buildings on both banks of the Pasig which would have to be left to the mercy of the flames it's fire should occur. The boat that the authorities are contemplating constracting will cost probably $70,000, fully equipped, and have a capacity of 2,000 gallons a minute. It will be about 75 feet in length and capable of running up the Pasig under all the bridges.
TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
THE SELVIAN ASSASSINATIONS.
LONDON, 14th June. Karageorgaritch, who has been interviewed at Genova, deplores the bloodshed at Belgrade and the army's share therein and declares that he himsdf is innocent of the whole plot;
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SUPREME COURT.
Tassday, 16th June.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR AG. WISH (POISNE JUDGS).
A MINIATURE "ZAFIRO" CASE, Leung Chak Nam and Wong Ni Hong, trading as the Po Fung Kai Kt Bank, ened the Shan On Co., L., for damages in respect of na alleged breach of contract by the defendanta in failing to deliver a packegs of $550 in bankrotes shipped on board their steamer Namking by the Sorvin is quiet. All prisoners for political plaintiffs. Mr. H. W. Looker of Mosera. nod Press offences have been reless d. After Deseon Hastings, solioitors, appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. E. J. Grist of Messrs. Grist, solicitors, for the the electica of King to-morrow, the Wilkinson & Bkupshtine will adjoara until the arrival of the defendants, King, who will form a now Ministry.
RE-INFORCEMENTS FOR SOMALI-
LAND.
LONDON, 14th June.
A Camel Corps, consisting of two British officers, 1,32 camels and 500 drivers, leaves the Punjab shortly for Somaliland.
ITALY.
LONDON, 14th June,
The Italian Cebinof has resigned.
PEKING.
Plaintiffs in their statement of claim stated that they were Chinese bankers carrying on businem, in Cha Yak Steat, bainam, in the district of bamshui. Defendantu were a re- gistered company and carried on business as shipowners at 31, Wallington Strest. On 19th April 1903, plaintiffs shipped on board the steamship Nanking, of which the defendants are the registered owners, threw packages of silver namely, ono puckings consist ing uk 3500 in 20-cant pieces, one consisting of 80 Japanese yen and one consisting of $25 (Mexican) and une package containing 3550 Mexican currency in bankeotes and a letter ad dressed to the Wing On Bank, 193, Queen's Roud Central, and that the defendants daly rosive- the same on board the ship to be carried by them to Victoria for reward and there delivered to the Wing On Bank. The receipt on board of the esid thres packages of liver and one of bank. notes was duly acknowledged by the defendants, Peking, 9th June..:
and a sum of S. for freight was daly paid to tho DEMORALISATION AMONG THE OFFICIALS, defondants by the plaintiffs in respost of them. It is impossible to imagine a more complete The defendants duly carried and delivered demoralisation oxisting thau that which eabsiste the three packager of silver but failed among the officials of Peking, and the to carry and deliver the package of bank. Flaintiffs bad metropolitan province of Chili and the notes or any part thereof. province of Shantung. According to a High suffered damage by reason of the branch of authority, one of the most eminent Chiarse contract by the defendants and claimed $$30 officials, who has hitherto been impossible and interent of the rate of 8 per cent. por to approach, is now swayed and intimidat- annum from 19th April, 1993. od by fobsiga infusnioca, which reader his own inclinations rogatory Profiting by the experience of the treatment moted out to their predecessera in 1000, the cficials decline alt individual responsibility, which pertains to the Viceroys. Even the Empress's adoption of every advertised Court innovation is nothing less than an indieption of her submission to tho weakness she is sunble to withstand at present, Thore is indicated by the popalaes throughout the country an air of expectant indifference, which botrays a palpable disregard of the con- trol of the capital. The difference in this respect on the Yangtze is marked. Here at least the Empress Dowager has waned. The
deniably Russia. powerful influence behind the throne, is an
Cores are merely precipitating what is
LUBRÍA PREDOMINANT. The sooner the chimera of the integrity of A special to the Caloutts Englishman, dated
the Empire is dispelled the bottor it will b for London, 27th May, says Rabelais, Mead, Acefull, all the Powers apart from Bussia. The letter and Cerisier completed the field at the Derby.wil continus to acquire influence, unless it is The Erst three jookeys were Maber (who rode Rock Sand also in the "2000"), Thomson, and realised that her actions in Manchuria and halsey. Describing the race, the message sayu;
Mead led to the top of the hill, when Roestely inevitable. Anticipatious concerning Sand drew to the front and made the remainder Russie uilitary poliny in Manchuria are vain of the running, winning by two longths, the indulgences. As a matter of faut Russie is same distanes separating the second and the permanently established already.
The milway outside the Great Wall is third. It was a baautiful day and the course was in splendid condition. The crowd was enorguarded by Yven's soldiers and an equal num. moas. The King and Quson and the Princess Victoria were present.
Defendants in their answers admitted that ou 19th April, 1903, plaintiffs shipped on board the steamship Nasking three puckages of silver addressed to the Wing On Bank, 188, Queen's Road Central, all of which packages were duly delivered to the Wing On Bank. Defendants denied that they on the 19th of Apeil, 1903, er af any other time received from the plaintiffs package containing $550 Mexican currency in banknotes or any letter addressed to the Wing On Bank. Defendants also denied that they acknowledged the receipt from the plaintiffs of such package containing banknotes or that they received the sum of $1 for freight or otherwias in respect thereof.
tract to carry and deliver the said package of They denied that they sutered into any con-
banknotes for reward or otherwise, that they had committed a breach of any contract untered into by them with the plaintiffs in respect of the said package of banknotes and letser, and that the plaintiffs had suffered any damage.
Mr. Looker in opening the oase said that
except the one thing-namaly, that this parcel of banknotes was pat on board. They admitted receiving the silver but said they did not receive the letter containing the $550 in banknotes,
everything was admitted by the defendinte
He would bring the manager of the plaintiffs' shop to tell how he counted out the notes the night before, and evidence would be called bor under the Tarter General, thess lust baing to show that the three packages of silver and practically owned by Russia, although under the one containing the bankncias were shipped Chinese officers. The statement is freely made on boned the Nanking and their receipt chopped It was subse- The Asahi on the 8th inst, received a
that these are guarda by day but robbers by in the acknowledgment book, message from Blimonowoki giving a curious night. They are callous to everything but quently found that the bank in Hongkong had story. It stated that a soldier belonging to their own personal interest, and Russia can not received the $550 in banknotes, the Fourteenth Regiment at Kokura appeared prod:ably afford to study them. Another enquiries were made the people on the steamer at the Moji uffice of Messrs. Illies & Co. and significant feature is that Lese associates of the said they had not received this package of asked for an interview with Mr Robden, Mancha robbers have been generously supplied banknotes. When the book with the shop in it waasger of the office, saying that be desired to with rifles of Russian manufactare. Agents was produced the steamer people adid it was sell something to him of a very private nature. I freely distributed these at less than maker's falsa, that it was obopped in a black book and Mr. Karsto, a Japanese employee, saw the cost. soldier on behalf of Mr. Rohden and asked his
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nor in a yellow book. He would prove that the plaintiffs had been constantly mading money in ballon and banknotes down to the defendunts, Those sums had always been received, and the
POSITION UNALTERABLE. Although every port in Manchuria were to be the foreigners piss of the Moji and Shimenseki forts. Mr. Karata, after indignantly denouncing declared open to arrow, the position would the man, gave information to the gendarmerie remain unaltered, and would only be a temporane chup used in respect of this consignment For the plaintife evidence was given that the station, but the soldier had run away before aary solution of the dificulty. At present the had been used in many other cases. gendarme appeared in answer to his message. Procrastination of the Powern is encouraging The soldier was traced, however, and arrested, Russia's slow but steady tread further South bank faki took the three parcels of silver and opposite policy is the only preventative of war. them, and got the acknowledgroent book chop- --Mercury.
ped in respect of them, Lenng Chuk Nam, and has been put on his trial before a court that is desirable. The pursuance of the the one of banknotes to the steamer, shipport sub-manager of the bank, said that the bank. merthal
notes were Hongkong and Penang notes.
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E., Turkey, to take some unwontedly vigorous Japan, on the 2nd inst. Be in stated to have HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DeVœux HoaD U. Koweit was threatened with absorption bying from the continent, arrived at Bakan, basin488, whereupon the soldier offered to sell steps to keep open communications with the aid that both foreigners and Chinese are interior of Arabia. The best comment that agreed that the real sovereign power in Max ALTHOUGH it is reasonable to suppose that could have been made on its conduct in theoharia is still practically in the hands of the affair como from the most unexpected Russians, even the partial evacuation of Makden we shall not again hear of the Scutari-
having been only a matter of form." It will Bagdad Railway as an eligible investment quarter; Germany actually proposing to for British capital, the rejection of the make use with our consent of the appa-bo highly interesting," he added, "to watch German proposals has rather tended to rently useless territory for the Persian Gulf how the real evacuation of Mansheria takes emphasise the used for some more rapid terminus of her projected Bagdad line. No place."
better justification of Lord SALISBURY'S means of transit then exist at present for policy could be desired. But the conduct communicating with our Indian Empire of the minister with regard to this insigni- Coming to look at that scheme new we
ficant spot has had another effect, equally on the instinct that ein only insist
unexpected. It bas shown the people of induced its rejection; not only from the the interior of Arabia that we are not fact that we should practically have no control in its management, but that from willing to band them over tied and bound
KWANGSI FAMINE FUND.
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THE LOSS OF THE SS. PAUL DOUMER."
GERMAN SHANTUNG,
A foreigner who has just returned from Shantung informs the Shanghai Mercury that Shangtang is as much German as Manchuria
For the defendants evidence was given to the effect that there was no package of Lanknotes accoinpanying the packages al silver coin, aud. that the chap was not genuine.
Mr. Grist in his concluding remarks made is Bussian. Coal minos are being opened up, the objection that in the pleadings the bank- and the Germans state that they have got at least uotes were described as of Merican currency 10,000,000 tons of con! in sight. From what he whereas on the plaintiffs' own showing they a British point of view the route selected to Turkish misgovernment, and the feeling recommended by a hoarding officer, and held a
could gather very little, if any, royalty is paid were sotually Hongkong and Penang notes. to the Chinese Government. Tho Germans On that point alone the plaintiffs' care zanat was of all others the least desirable for the of friendliness has fortunately been accen-number of certificates from doctors and the interests, commercial and political, of the tuated by our action with regard to Turkish Sarawak Gorernment. Mr. W. Evans of the
are now patting up a branch railway Has fail. On the main question he contended that to Poshin, Porcelain-factories are being the evidence of the two principal witnessce entire Empire. Passing, as the proposed encroachments at Aden. There is no doubt Chinese Proiectorate prosecuted. Thers were
established. The Mercury's informant says the showed vital discrepancies and that the plaintiffs, line does, through the heart of Europe, its that a line of railway from Cairo to Koweit 600 coolies on board.
We are informed that a commission, mostly officials are afraid of the Germans, he on whom lay the oans of roof, had failed to construction would immensely accentuate is from an engineering point of view not
The Japanese Navy Department is at present
otherwise, and if they prove the probable existence of these tauknates the disadvantages of our instar position, only feasible but easy of accomplishment. engaged on plaus for the three battleships and composed of officers of the French Navy, under they oficials or
the presidency of Mr. Bean, Consul for France, demand anything it is at onse supplied or their shipment on board the Namking. and the fact that it would pass the entire We know from the late Capt. BURTON's fire cruisers, the construction of which was
Die Lordship in giving judgment said that distance from Antwerp to Constantinople adventurous explorations that the country recently approved by the Dist. The plans will has held an enquiry into the wreck of the He was also informed that the Germans had with regard to the technical objection as to is not the barren waste, nor the people the be sent to Mr. Matsuwo, Naval Constructor. French as. Foul Doumer. After examining endeavoured to create a Chiness Regiment, but Mesian as against Hongkong and Penang through territories controlled by our keenest uncivilised savages we used to represent Inspector, and Captain Iwamoto, who are at the report of Capt. Heleur and the depositions had failed in the attempt. He says the railway currency, he would give Mr. Locker leave With regard to commercial rivals coull not fail to be turned them. The suggested line has from time present in England, and on receiving the of the principal members of the crow, it he is now more than paying expenses. The goods to amend his pleadings.
'our serious detriment, not only com- to time beea proposed as feasible; but report of these officers orders for the con- decided that Capt. Beisuz has strictly followed traffic is large and growing and has increased the pain point there was only one slight principal witnesses for the plaintiffs, referred mercially but politically. It is not that cather insufficient was known of the country struction of the now ships will be given. It the rules of navigation and that no fault can four-and-a-half times in one year, whilst the discrepancy in the evidence of the wa we object to the possibility of an important to be traversed, or the advantage of the line is believed that the builders will be selected he laid to his charge either in the way be passenger traffic is now 46,000 monthly. They to by Mr. Grist. He was thoroughly convinced trade route being opened up between India did not present itself. More than all this, and Central Europe, but that the proposed the time had not come, and any relations from the following British firms, all of whom managed his steamer or in the way he behaved are pushing forward the railway lines both have previously built vessels for the Japaness when the wreck happened. Accordingly, it north and south; to the north towards Tientsin line, so far as it would have any effect in unsatisfactory. Fortunately this last, with Navy-Messrs. Armstrong and Mitchell, tho was decided that he should keep his captain's and to the south to Toliow-fa, to the borders of
with the British Chizkiang line, improving the trade of India would do so better knowledge, is disappearing; and the Thames Iron Works; Messrs. Vickers, Sons certificate, this decision to be approved by the this province, where they expect to connect
and Maxim; and Mesars John Brown & Co. Marine Minister in Paris in due time. along a route which would place ourselves former is becoming more feasible.
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that the book was chopped by Lam Lin (ons of the steamer people) and therefore he took it in that he received the four parcels. Judgment conjunction with the evidence of the plaintiffs
The Court adjourned. for the plaintiffs with costs.
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