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Such are the particulars given of this disgraceful occurrence, and the narrator dece not hesitate to charge the Empress Dowager with being directly the author of the sentence, It rested with the Throne, and as the Emperor is only a figuro-head it cannot be doubted that the Empress Dowager passed sentence on the wretched Suzn. It is obvious therefore that, as our WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Shanghai contemporary puts it, even as the leopard cannot change his spota, so the Empress has not changed the crual and merciless nature which prompted her to execute the six martyra without trial in 1898, to join in the conspiracy to exter- COGNAC BRANDYminate all the foreigners in Peking, and to
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way for its own pery ass HERO, DRŽ unhapply while so ding it is imperilling the pace of the world. Russia is openly absorbing Manchuria, the ancient seat of the present Chine: dysty, nad is set- ting an example that
or liter will be followed by other Powers. Tha bth LUD wick Poking Govern en and 400 in lifterent to resice; it is more likely to me the gnature of Rapsi
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senteues :-" We do not know upon what data our contemporary relies; and it seems to us that he is guilty of exaggeration, if not of absolute ignorance of the true state of affairs, when he says the disasse gess on unchecked," It will be observed that "practically "occurs naither in italics har otherwise. We bave no desire to prolong Convicted of dis. an aeless controversy. courtesy and misrepresentation, our con- temporary retorts with an accusation of bad temper! Really, this is hardly serions. Yet we would assure our contemporary of our perfect amiability, even where malaria is concerned,
Another blank plague-return was issued yesterday by the Eanitary Office.
The Rifle Assosistion competition to-day will be for the long ranga cap and spoons, commencing at 3 p.: ranges, 700 and 500 yarıla
The Hongkong Cricket Clab had a com mittes meeting on Thursday evening with res ference to the Laterport team for Sha ghai. The decision arrive at has not yet been madu public.
11.E. the Governor will preside at a public meeting to be held in the City Hall on Friday next, the 28th inst, to insugurate the establish. meat in the Colony of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Wo puderstand that Hongking is to have a new weekly papar soon, of a social matare. It is amoured that it will bar a resemblance to the Manila Sumbag Sun Hongkong will shaetty rival Shanghai in the nnuator of ita jouranta,
B. L. Farjoon, the novelist, died suddenly at Hampstead on the 23rd alt. Mr. Furion onca had a great popular reputation as a writer of
tiction, hat his work is scarely the staff that lasts. He married in 1876 Margaret, slaughter of Josaph Jefferson, the American actor.
The greatest "idol-maker." as the mission- aries would call him, is a Garman in Philatel phia. His factory turns out the big stanaber of gods, etc. for Iulia and the Far East. Germany
does a large train in thesa comm zdi - ties toc, and so of course does Birmingham, as curio-collectors in Hongkong ace well aware, ·
The N.-C. Daily News Tientsin correspondent telegraphs under date 16th August: Ching Kun, Special Commissioune to Japon in 18 8, is expected at Tientsin to carry on his search for Reformers. The educated Chinese here are in a state of alarm, and are anxiously enquiring whether the Consale here are authorised to protest them.
Monday nert the fest day of the seventh moon, is the #fe-day of Leo Tazo. tamler of Janism. The whole sereuth modu is observed by Cuinese Taoists and Bad lists as a festival of all Souls, and exhibitions of groups of statuettes, dwarf plaats, incastril tablets, etc; are to be sten, while music and fire-crackers aro indulged in.
than to oppose, an effective resistance to her advance. What thea is to be done Is it not time the Treaty Powers, tosk couped and reviewed the situation ? ̈ ̈Thay should set aside mutual jealousies and endeavour to ezme to come artanga whereby the partitionment of is a scient empire may be averted and its commercial | visit and industrial progress assured.
To-pay is the 54th anniverary of the assassination of Governor AMALALIMO. The murder is thus deser.bed in the lac N. B. Dessys's craly Purts of China:--- «The "Governor, while riding with an aide-decamp wear thr Barrier. Was "saddeal, attachel by six or seveà Cùn st part of wha puited him from his koras, while others seared his companion, and
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Lord Roberts, it appars, is sol to visit the Unit d'estates this year after all. The London correspondent of a San Frane so› paper says that
the Cabinet has veted the propang i Tus decision was takem reluctautiy, but owing it a stated, to urgent questious relating to army reforms and the campaign in Somali- land, the Government regarded the Commander- to chief's presence in Enllantas indisponsible."
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By permission of Major Radcliff and officers, the band of the 3rd Buron Infantry will play ut the Hongkong Hotel to-night from 8 to 9,30,
he following is the programine:—. March..." Diomede," .................
"La Bei- é d'un Jour," "An Artist's odol," Sidney Jones Danon........."Slavonie,"
Dvorak are ring and,"...... Ed German Section
Sevilla."
Matador Galop......... "The Lancers' Aftack,"
...... ohm "God Save the King?
The August leaf t of the Hongkong Church
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Five years ago yesterday the Empress Dowager made her plebrated coup d'étal Paking, since when H. M. Kwang Hoa his
been a nonantity.
Orders have been received from home that the cruiser Argonaut is to refit hero instead of proceeding home on the termination of her commission, the thres years of which expire 1 in April last,
On the 12th lust, two cases of cholem were reported in Kobs and one near Osaka,
Some French troops which were sent to the Tonkia-Yunnan frontier at Laukay, owing to the nasoftied slots of Yunnan have returned to Handf
A. Calcutta telegram, dated August 3, anys 2--- It is reported that the members of the Tibet Skim Mission have voir all reached Khamba- The Italian oruisse Lombardia is dus hero jong, but there are no signs yet of a proper from Shanghai, which she left on Sunday,representation of Tibet and Chius. Major flying the homeward ponasat. Her relief is | Brotherton, who is in charge of the Mission's the Puglia, which may be expected in a month transport arrangements, leaves Darjeeling in
the beginning of the week.
or two.
The sun's rays confined to do fatal damage at Shanghai. An ablo seaman named Morris, of H.M.S. Kumbler, was takon ill there with sunstroke last Saturday afternoon, and died in the evening.
The Japanso training squadron was expected
at Chemulpo on, the 12th inst., and a diunar in bouour of Admiral Kamimira was to be given by the Corean Minister of the Imperial House. hold Department.
The mishops of great racing yachts aro On the same day, the 22nd it.. many, Shamrock III broke her steal gaff, Reliance and Columbia ron agroand, and Constitutiva lost her topmust.
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BRITISH NAVAL ACTIVITY.
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SINGAPORE, 21st August, 4.40 p.m.
·H.M.S. * LEVIATHAN" HURRIED
TO HONGKONG. H.M.S. Leviathan arrived last evening. A cable was received to-day ordering her to sail full speed to Hongkong. leaves to-morrow at daylight.
She
In an article on sanitation in Barmo in 1902, discussing the scanty explanations in the returns of births and doathe of the great fluctuations both in town and rural populations, Indian Engineering says:-An improvement in destha is written down to the "comparative immunity from cboleza and 'small-por," which may well afford matter for rejoicing, the more so that decreased virulence in these foli diseases is troco- able. A joint recommendation of quinino and a mosquito-orusade is fred off against the report of prevailing lorer; bat it would be well in carrying out this recommendation to use liscrimination, so that when the malady diss | down, as it may be ferrently hoped it will, medical science will know in what proportions to credit the improvement to the two different measured yesterday The Reliance allows the
The Bangkok Tintes understands that all causas. arzugements bara now beau made for the formation of the new tramways company. It is to have a capital of Ticals 500,000 in shares of Ticals 100 each, and Ticals 509,000 in debentures bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. There will thus be n million ticals availabl, for the constractios of the works, and it is expected that the main lines will be open to traffle by April, 1905,
A telegram from the Pablic Works Depart. ment in Egypt annemanns that at the end of July the floods in Egypt were bad, the Blue Nile being very late and the conditions aixilar to those of last year. It was surmis d, there- foro, that the increase of rainfall by which ladis profited last month was due to the large diversion of the monsoon encroat from Abyssinia and the East African regions which norcally provide Egypt with its water-supply.
Teng Hwes Leo, a graduate of Yals, College, wis not allowed to land in San Franisscó, from the steamship Dorie because he failed to pradace his certificate of identification upon arrival. Mr. Tong came from Batavis, Jare, where for seceral yours past he has been conducting o school known as the Yale Institute, in which English is tanght. He wout to the Uaite States in December, 1902. gradasting from Yale in 1899, and subsequently returned to the Orient, at first opening a school in the Straits and later going to Batavia, in Java, where, necording to a `San Francisco paper, hy was at the head of an English sokool employing four professors besides himself.
An unfortunate occurrence is reported from Pakoampob, Siam, in which en Eucopory was bully trated. On the 5th inst. M. Billiaud, the agent at Pakaampoh of the firm of Messrs. A. Barli and Co, was attacked by a numbbe of men, cmployees of the spirit farmer, and afterwards forcibly phead under areast by the potica M. Billioud and the Chinese sab-agats of the Arm and their employers were all taken away to Nakon Siwan, where they were taran bafore the High Commissi-nor. In a few minutes ha got the whole party at liberty. M. Billiond, who is a Fe neh subject, is making a claim through the French Legation. and an enquiry int the whole matter is being instituted by the Siamese Ministry of the Interior,
decapitated the body and married off the This horrible act head and hauls. errated a profonad se nation among all Missimary Association antes tat the C.M.S. Europeans in China, and strong renon is sending a ba this ou un to its "strances were despatche ( to the Duperial four missions in China Os of rast is to Commissioner at Canton by the British e to the South Chins Windm. He is the Minister and orier foreign representa- Ray Percy Jeakins, of Ivington College, who tives. The Imporist Commissioner (who wasordain by the Bishop of Lalento Deacon's had privily sanctioned the crime) finally Orders on Trinity Sunday Lust. As all tech-beams a Major-General early this year. A stated that
the murderer had been ing in the Training Collegs is gra i detected and brought to justice in the Chinese, Mr. Jonkins will have tɔ duos as interior; and the head and bands [sic] of least his first year to Faugangs stady, and
will not at once become available for work in the Governer wero given up.
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It is reported from Peking, saya tho N-C. Daily News, that the Viceroy of the Shoa- Kan provinces, Sung Fan, has recently tele. graphed to the Grand Conncil stating that the Tib tan tribes quartered in the so-called Tiao department bara storied pillaging the country in the vicinity of that region causing con. siderable trouble to their neighbours. The Viceroy further stated that he had already
sent a force of Government troops to averowe the raidors, but that as the Tino distrist' also closely borders Shoppsu in Szecbuen province, the Grand Council is requested to instruct
the Smocknen outhorities to send the Mejoz- General of the Suupaa oironit and his com- mand to join forces with the Bhonsi troops and so surround the raiders if possible.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION FROM
HONG KONG
We bare received the following from the Colonial Secretary's Office:-
Referring to Government Notification No. 375 of 15th June, it is hereby not fied that telegraphic information has been received from the Government of the Straits Settlements that the Prohibition against Chinese Immigration from Hongkong has been removed.
THE V. R. C. AQUATIC ENTER. TAINMENT,
at
To mark the closing of the present, water polo season, the V. R. C. purpose giving an the enclosure, aquatic entertainmat Kowloon, on Saturday, 9th inst., commeno- ing at 4.30 pm. An intorosting programige has been arrangai, and some good spart will be witnessed. There will be a team race botirean the Y. C. A. and the Club Lusitano, a two-lengths handicap race, an exhibition of dicing, a tub race, and water polo, the teams for which will
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP SOLD.
A cable to the New York Herald from London says:-Landon is to lose another of ter show
REUTER'S SERVICE.
"AMERICA" CUP-CHALLENGER'S
START:
LONDON. 19th Augast.
The Reliance and the Shamrock III wers
challenger 13 minutes.
London, With August." The first race for the Amerios Cap was abandoned, the Heliance leading.
The Shamrock ¡II bas bean re-measured and will now receive a time allowance of 117 seconds.
[The latior of the above telegrams is publishet this morning by kind permission of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Ev D.P.].
THE BALKAN TROUBLES.
LONDON, 19th August. Russia has presented supplementary demands of a political nature to the Porte.
The movements of the Russian squalon uro pow producing alarm in Constantinopia, wiera it is believed to porteul farther demands. The equadron anchore in Injata Day, 8 miles to the north-west of the Bosphoru
The Albanians have broken out in serious revolt between Monastir and Ustub, in which' latter district a reign of terror prevails. Tha situation at Salonika is critical.
THE MOUNTAINEERING ACCIDENT.
LONDON, 19th Augnar,
The tourists previously reported killed while asoading the Aquilla Aris fell into a erasion and were only injured.
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THE HOUSING QUESTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PERS."
Hongkong, la Angust. St-We ̈how much of the hardships-of the-
I drawn from the competing umbers of the Chinese, of there being jusuBlion how far Polo Association. The committee managing them and of the Government 1arning them out the affair desire to see a big attendance of spec-into the street without a roof to cover them, ami so forth. Thero aro hamlrds of houses at tators, and ladies will be cordially invited to
Hanglom and Yaumiti, now andl -sanitary bé present.
in every respect, absolutely withoni an
tko miserable p occupant, and oven of $4 a floor is insuficient to attract tenants A Chinese coolie would sooner pay $4 a month for sleeping sacs in ongkong than places A building in Portugal Strest, tfty cents for the same space in Kowloon. This Major-General „Jaman. F. Wade, now in Livutu's Ios Fals, which is said to have in itself could afford no grounds for objection We reproduced yesterday from the N.-C.]
military command in the Philippines, was born been the original of the Old Curiosity Shop, were it not that he makes it u prima facie cass Daily Newe au ncerint, from a Peking
in Ohio in 1949 and is a son of Senator BeRimmortalized by Dickens, has been sold," says always for obtaining more wages from bis correspondent, of the innst recent offical
the Daily Mail, to an American, who will employer. It is an anionote I feet that Can an Wade. In 1861-at the age of 18-ho was murder in that city. The victiin was this
commissioner First Liantenuat of the Sixth eventually tako it to pio sea and re-rect it in the love to herd together: day detest befag isola wd." SHEN CHIŃ OF SHES K-wer, of whose death
U. S. Cavalry and was afterward Lieutenant United States. Thousands have paid for the Hongkong has many attractions which Kwien we wrote lately. He had acted as cor-indieting a unerras wounds ou l'a person,
Colonel and Colonel of the girth Cavalry privilege of seeing the venerable-elifice and of does not afford, süded is which the end, who, He was bravetted a number of times during purchasing Dickens' curios, cazing but little we will say, works in Hongkong and lives in spondent in the Chinese capital' for some
the war. In May, 186, he was appointed whether the house writtau about by the jusster Kowloon, cannot ever be sure of getting to mis of the Japanese papers, was a reformner, and belonged to the literati chuss. It seems
Captain in the Sixth Cavalry. To be me novelist really existed there or, as many suppose, work in time. Unless this state of things is he was mixed up with the Hankow move-
Major in the Ninth Cavalry in Juis of thein Fettor Line. Thirty-five years ago the remedied. Hongkong Chinens will never live at sume year. In 1979 bo was made lentesunt observatory of the house in St. Martin's Street Kowloon. ment in 1900, for which a number of his
Colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, and in 1887
was bought by an american syndicate for 8500 The "service" (?) to Yaumali and Buogbom fellow-countrymen lost their lives, and he
Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry. Subsequently and shipped. across the seas. The Yankees consists of native-owned loanches which can was at one time a secretary in the Viceregal
were delighted, for they thought they were form to no time-table or rules and which Yarnên at Wachaug. He escaped at the
was commission à Brigadier Gegend and time, probably to Japan, but returned to
purchasing the rooms which had been used by will keep their fares waiting an hour or two, dir Isaac Newtoo. Plenty of English people, sooner than make a start without the fall com Feking as * newspaper correspondent,"
however, know batter."
plement of passengers. This could be remedied in either one of two ways. () To have a regular hoping that matters had blown over, and
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. servies of electric trams counos ing Raagnom that he would not be recognised or rowem
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and Mongkoktani with Tsimshatsui and each bered. But some official or other became
The C.P.E. stammer, Empress of Inpan luft other. (2) To have a regular service of ferry- aware of his identity, and he was arrested the garrison of Chinese soldiers which had
Vagcouver on the 18th inst. p.m., for Hong boss under Government or Europeau control La view of the number of tires started by by a secret Decree and handed over to the hitherto been maintained at the Barrier
A "Strong Foreign Policy League" has been kong, via the usual ports of call wires, electricims are assiduously
The T.K.K. steamer Rohilla Maru left Mavila raoning be woon Hongkong and Youwati and Board of Punishments for trial. This took had been attacked by a small Portuguese einstric
yesterday afterason, and is expected here to Hongkong and Hanghoms. Nodoabtibeecisting place on the 29th July before a special «form, and driven off with soras lasses on searching for a perfect sulating material Luangarated in Japin. The Japan Fines on-
morrow, ut about 3 p.m.
The P. & A. steamer Indrasumfuas left Yoko."Star" Ferry Company would undertako tan Commission nominated by the Empress hoth sides. The resi test mandarin at the which will remalo so auder alt conditions. They siders the League annecessary, “whor such B Dowager, He was simply interrogated," same time was expelled from Macro; and do not seem to buve succeeded thus for in policy happens to have the endorsement of
guarantee it against setual loss for five years, The Boston Tow Boat Co.'s eteamer Hyades The Government wishes to preventore crowding. and, as he confessed his offence freely, he" from this period the settlemens has boon finding one, or else pe per precautions are not practically the whole nation." In its report of hame on the 20th inst, at nocu, and way he servicewithoutsubsidy, if the ovumui ronid and taras people out into the street if there is was spared being put to the torture, This. governe 1 exclusively by the Portuguese taken in the wiring of building The fasurance the mosting at which the longue wa inaug.spected here on the 3rd-prox.
The E. & A. steamer Australion, which left a contravention of the Health Ordinance, yet it did not, however, in the end avail hin much."officials." Thus from this crime, which companies en favour to protect their interests arated, the Times By:"Prinen Konaye. left Yokohama for Victoria and Tecoms on the
from the meeting was very much regretted by here on the 30th alt, arrived at Sydney on the makes no effort to cope with the numberless in buildings on which thy accept fire-risks to The Court reported the result of the trial to was one of a still more nudacious and horrible by subjecting all eie ris light installations Count Okume, and Count Itagaki, whose abrenne 18th inst.
difficulties which arise from its endeavours to the Throne, and, after a brief delay, a nature than our own recent Gage Street the most carefal inspections. Fires break out those present, rack sont au address to the gather 20th inst.
improve the public health, Decree was issued ordering that the pri- murder, though resembling it in the parti- however, with undiminished frequency throating. Prince Konoye said in his address that soner should be beaten to death in prison.culur of the Chinese fical complicity, was faulty ins lation. Wh never an absolutely Japan wust not hesitate to present a rosolate This may not sound such a very terrible the beginning of Macao's independence reliable insulation is discovered and a perfectly fr nt against Russia if the latter continued to sale system of wiring is devised, owners of keep hold of Manchuria. Count Okuma com- sentence, but, as the correspondent of our from China.
property sad the corporations insuring the pared ho patriotic enthusiasm of our peo, lo to the fire in a volcano ready to burst forth at any contemporary points out, it is the most
same will enjoy a BUBA of security which is at present lacking. Doubtless nature moment, and wondered why our Goveronient reserved for the eunuchs and slaves of the article, our senior evening contemporary which the electric enrrout cannot leak, and support.
cruel and barbarous that could be passed. By a liberal use of the word “practically'
Major General of Volontere. He was placed the outbreak of the Spanish War ko was made at the hand of the Cuban Evacuation Com mission, and in January, 1899, was appointed Military Governor of Cubs. He has been in the Philippines for a long time.
WEATHER REPORT.
In the matter of enterprise the citizens of The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued Hongkong are miles ahead of the Goreipment, and any remunerative venture is jumped at at The barometer has risen over 8. China, fallen
once, bat the Government cannot expect private the following report :-→ over N. Chins.
Probably the depression is crossing the individuals to lose mepoy for its benefit. Let moving in a Northerly direction.
It finds no existence in the Code, and is in italic throughout the course of a leading has provided a material somewhers through / should be so timid when it had such powerful | Iangtsze between Kiokiang and Wuba, and the Gerornment therefore give a Ferry Com.
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guarantee as I bare referred to, and I make bold to say that the overcrowding question will ho
forgotten pest-Yours, eto.
Count Itagaki saw no reason why: Preasure is high over Japan, the Lcochons Pany or a Tramway Company ons such Palace. It is stated that the execution was endeavours to avoid the accusation of engineering skill will in time find ́s way of Busin, which had wivised Japan years ago toxud the N. part of the China Sea," commenced at four d'elock in the afternoon, having garbled a statement made by UB. spplying it so that the danger from fire to give back the Lisotang Peninsula to China, and for two hours the body of the un- We therefore would point but that in buildings from this source will be entirely I should be allowed to occupy Manchuris," The variable winds in the N, part of the China Sea relegated to the archives of an unIsvoury Sn fortunate than was subjected to a rain of the first column of the China Maul's article abolished. We have, evidently, not reached Kobe Chronicle rebukes the "Fings manifesto" blows from the blunt bamboo, until his of the 19th inst. occurs, the following that stage in electrical installation yet.
and certainly some of the speeches were violent,
showery.
Moderate SE, winds in the Formosa Channel, Forecast:-SW. or variable winds, light Reports from the Philippines not yet to hand.
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