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or any food for any beast or animal which! is in an unwholesome state or unfit for their ust; and any member of the Board or any oficer of the Board or of the Police may seize uny such food, and the President of the Board on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health or of the Colonial

Society is about to be established in Manila.

Mr. V. A. Caor Hawkins has been appointed Manager of the Yokohama brauch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

The Gorman community at Tientsin has decided to build a new club-house from plaus

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It is again reported from Manils that tho Mores bare barn brought into submission. It is remarkable how short is their stay there.

"A Correspondent" who forwarded us a

communication yesterday, omitted to onsloss his eard. We should be glad to receive it to-day.

destroyed or be disposed of so as to prevent it from being used as food." The penalty for contravention is fixed at a fine not exceeding $100. In the case before the Court yesterday, the defendant stated that "a pig dealer tuld him to carry the pigs," but he did not know the dealer's name or address. We are not

Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the colebrated war concerned much to know whether the de- fendant's statement in this respect was correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, perfectly true or not, but when it is remen-rrived in Nagasaki on the 7th inst. to watch

affairs in the Far East. bered that this is ust an isolated case of a sall bat carrying pigs in the waters of th Coleuy, it becomes urgently necessary 1.70 that the law should be so altered as to re- der ana vailing ingenious excuses of this kind, Quite a traffic, we believe, is done by boat. oen who meet junks and Chinese steamers bringing in cattle from the mainland, and it is by no means a far-fetched idea that 27.00 2.25 with the aid of these boutmen the larger

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craft relieve themselves of any putrid cur- cases they may have before reaching their

Mr. Horbert Irving-Bell has been appointed Messre Jardins, Matheson & Co.'s agent in Japan, and to take charge of the firm's Yokohama branch,

Ex-Queou Liliuokalani, of Hawai, has ugsin gone to Washington, to urge her claims for compensation for the loss of her thrane and Crown lands.

The rico-crop in Japan was so bad in 1902, says the Mainichi, that the public were not in s position to buy much sake, and the brewing of

"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.

[YEOK OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. | LANDSLIP AT HANKOW.

SHANGHAI, 14th December, 7.43 p.m. About 150 yards of the German Band at Hankow have subsided into the Yangtze River. It is reported there were no casual.

ties.

CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA.

LONDON, 14th December, 11 s.m.

ENGLAND'S BIG SCORE.

In the first Test Match against Australians the English team were all

for 577.

Foster made 287 and Braund 102.

the out

REUTER'S SERVICE. JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, 11th December,

A marked discrepancy continues in the re-

PORT ARTHUR.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDANT.]

lat Dogomber.

SITUATION UNCHANGED. The situation here romajus unchanged The fost is here, ready, waiting; and ever stuce the arrival of the 27th and 28th East Siberian Regiments which I spoke of in my last letter, the preparations of the military preparations carried out, I daresay, more with an eye to a certain winter than an uncertain war) go on briskly. The same cannot Tokyo, but, in caso these negotiations break be said, I am afraid, of the negotiations in down, it can hardly be said that Japan would be in a better position to fight than she was a month ago. At any rate this is an ominous season in which to wage war with Rassin. In November, 1480, the Tartars were vanquished by the terrible Russian winter and their domination passed away for over; on 26th the torrible November, 1812, commenced

At the time of writing, snow covers all the passage of the Berains. landecapo and the cutting north-east wind which will continas blowing till next March would alone make the lariding of a large foron at any expo-ed and out-of-the-way point along this bleak ouast a difficult matter. I think I may afely venture to prophesy that thoro will be no troable .ore until next spring at any rate...

NO COMBINATION AGAINST JAPAN,

NOTA-L'art, after removal, should be moring, where, if not before, they are pretty that liquor so decreased that it cazeed a short parts from S. Petersburg and Tokyo; but it is There is ponrembination against her as there was

rested for a month before use.

Wise required for IMMEDIATE use

should he ordered to be deraated before

being sent out.

These Wines are specially suited for Invalids and general use, and are too well

known to need further comment.

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certain to be visited by the water police.in the State revenus of 10,000,000 yen. The terms of the law ought to be sufficient. ly comprehensive to render liable to the penalty any person found conveying putrid meat in the Colony except for the purpose of burial or cremation, and we do not doubt that the Government, now that so serious a fax has been revealed in the Ordinance, will take the earliest opportunity of so anneling it as to embrace cases of the kind It is before the Magistrate yesterday. eminently consoling to observe that the power of the police to seize and destroy the patric careases is unquestioned.

The compositors of the Manila Times went on striks on the 1st iust. because," they said, a member of the staff did not treat them with The strike only lasted proper deference." half-a-day, as they obtained no satisfaction.

The concluding performance by the A.D.C of Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest was given last night in the Theatre Royal and was oren more successful than those a large that had gone before. sudience.

There was

The soloists at the Choral Festival at 8. John's Cathedral this afternoon, whơn tho Hyma of Praise willbe given, will be Misa Murray Bain, The German mail of the 12th November was Mrs. Craddock and Mrs. Hagen, sopranos; and Messrs. G. P. Lammert and G. H: Edwards, delivered in London on the 12th instant.

tenors. The performance will commence at 5 P.m. procisely.

The revenue from Customs duties in the Philippines is said to have nearly trebled in the last four years.

Six months' hard labour and 400 (sic) blows was the penalty inflicted on a house-boy in Shanghai for stealing $200 worth of his master's property.

A now hospital for contagious diseases was (31 opened at Manila on the 1st ist. maniga,

and cost nearly 30,000, gold.

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BIRTHS.

On the role December, at No. 81, Nakayamata dori, Sun-chome, Kobe, the wife of O. Olees, of a daughter.

On the 6th December, at Singapore, to Capt. and Mrs. H. U. DE L. Woo), a daughter..

On the 10th December, at 20., Whungroo Road, Shanghai, the wife of Dr. PAULUN, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

daughter of Jas HELEFORD DOUGLAS, of Abar duen, Scotland.

DEATHS.

Corruption in the Philippines has now extended to politics, and it is stated that $12 are being offered per vote by the candidal

for election as Presidentes Provinciales!

Governor Taft, of the Philippines, is expected iu Hongkong on Xmas duy, en route to the United States, whither he goes to take up his appointment as Scretary for War.

The Sia Wan Pas states that when the British expedition recently entered Tibet, the Viceroy of Saeshaan wired to Peking for instructions and received a reply requiring him to pacify the Tibetans and do nothing to injare the friaudly relations existing between Great Britain and China.

The Imperis! Government is stated to bava instructions for the issue of official Gazottes in the various provinces. Itis aujoined that epocial attention be paid to the contents of the Gazettes, which are intended to "enlighten and uplift" the people. It was Dr. Johnson who declared that a people without newspapers must be

barbarona,

The Luacct extracts from its 1825 Ales a case of a devout person, of the Wesleyau porsun sion," who "lifting up his voice in a hymn to its highest pitch brought the condyloid process The Directors of the Ewo Cotton Spinning to the very edge of the glenoid cavity, and, attempting a shako at this critical moment, & Woaving Co. propss to pay a dividend of

per cent, on the pal-up capital of the Com-actually dislocated his jaw." Nowadays men pany, absorbing Tis.3000, and to carry for- ward to new account șls. 11,655.

Pedro Hernández, A Filipino messenger for the Commissioners in Tanila, pleaded guilty to

hard labour.

worthy of keto that Japanese stocks are rising to-day in Lendon and on the Continent. De- olarations from 8. Petersburg are most pacïfie,

[FROM DER OSTASIATISCHE LLOYD."]

THE AISEE.

Be lin, 9th December. II.M. the Kaiser is again able to spark loudly, but his physicians advise bim to still take care of his voice as much as possible. The Emperor intends to takea trip of recreation to the Meditor rancan after his next birthday, 27th January. RUSSIA SKEKS A MEDITERRANEAN COALING

STATION.

The Russian Press domauds that Russia must secure for herself & coaling station in the Mediterranean.

OBITUARY.

Adolf von Haussmans, the manager and one of the proprietors of the Diskonto-Gesellschaft and president of the New Guinea Company, has died aged 78.

1U680-JAPANESE AGREEMENT.

The despatch of the New York Associated Press, which gives a detailed statement of the Russo-Japanese agreement, is considered here to be premature. But there is no doubt that The convening of Vent je iminent Petersburg is taken as an absolute indication of peace.

AN AMERICAN CONSET MOLESTED. A. Turko-Armenian affair at Alexandrette whereby the American Consul is said to bave been molested, is of no political importanca in regard to the devolopment of the Oriental

question.

SUGAR REFINING IN FORMOSA. The Asahi publishes an interesting article discriptive of the sugar refining industry carried in the neighbourhood of Tainan, Formosa

Japan may feel easy, however, on one point. in 1895. The Novi Krai reassures her on The Japanese Press," it says, this point. "seems to be uneasy last she be confronted by the triple combination of Russia, France, and Germany which opposed her in 1896...... In the disordered imagination of the Japanese, the slightest cloud on their political horizon takes the form of a coalition of the Europeans against the seizure by the Japanese of Coren

"But what mistakes the Japanese Press sometimes falls into! In the present instance, the fact of the matter is that a union with Germany for cominen action in the Far East would be anything but advantageous for Russia. It seems to us to be very probable that the chango which has already taken placa in international polities in the near East will extend to the Far East, but it will not consist in Germany drawing closer to France and Russia. It must not be forgotten that the Near and Far Easts have a common connection, A rapprochement between Russia and Germany for action in the Near and Far Easts would only be to the detriment of England, as the Japanese papers point out, but the interests of Russian and British Governments now coincide on many points not only is the Far East but

Far-sein also in the Near East, as we have already statesmen understand this, but unfortunately the masses have not been sufficiently on- lightened on this sabject.

عران علة العالم

AREA.

TO THROW LIGHT ON THR QUESTION. **In order, therefore, to throw light on this

question as far as possible and at the same time to show the Japanese Press the groundlessness

SUPREME COURT.

Monday, 14th December.

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. BEFORE THIR HONOURS SIE WILLIAM M. GOODMAN (CHIDY JUSTICE) AND A. G. Was (PISNE JUDGE),

LAND COURT APPEAL CASES.

On 23rd November, the hearing was begun of appeals by the Crown against two decisions of the Land Court. In one Lam Tseung Fuk and Lam Tak Luk claimed a traet of foreshore and sea-hol axtending from the old boundary front of Kowloon City and thinway, and com. plately blocking nooss to the sos orer that of British Kowloon for a distance 12 miles in

distance. In the other Ho Lap Hun claimed 621 now of land extending from Kowloon City to Lysomun for about 23 miles along the shore. The case of Lam Teenug Fak and Lam Tak Luh was first called. Mr. M. W. Slade, barris- tor-at-law (instructed by Mr. F. B. Descon, of Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, solicitors), ap- peared, first, for two parties who were applying respondente to be joined to the proceedings nu who claimed to have an interest in it us Aaving purobased the land. After hearing counsel their Lordships dismissed the applica tion with coste.

Subsequently there was led a petition for leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the decision of the Court.

The case was called as followB

In the matter of the New Territories Land Court Ordinance, 1900, and the Ordinances amending the same, and in the matter of certain claims to land in the New Territory known as Claim U, Survey District No. 1, and Claim K, District No. 2: petition for leave to Burvey appeal to the Privy Council.

There was no appearance for the petitioners. The Hon. Attorney-General Sir Henry S. Berkeley (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor) appeared for the Crown, He said--Your Lordships, I had intended to appear in opposition to this application, but I under- stand, from notice received, that the appellants do not desire to go on with the application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council,

The Chief Justice-Aa there is no one is dismissed. You do not ask for costs?

The Attorney-Qoueral-No; I do not ask appearing in support of the petition, the appeal

for costs.

The appeal was necordingly dismissed. The Court rose.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIE WILLIAM 3. GOODMAN (Curer JUSTICE).

DISPUTE ABOUT THE BUILDING OP Two STEAMSHIPS,

Further evidence was taken in the case in Road West, ening as executrix of Two Heung Po, which Too Cheung Shi, widow, 162, Queen's deceased, claims from To Shing, 22, Peel Street, $28,000 money received and $12,000 damages for breach of contract in respect to the Pullock, K.C., harrister-at-law (instructed by building of two steamebips. Hon. H. E.

Slado, barrister-at-law Mr. F. B. L. Bawley, of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, solicitors), appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. W. Wilkinson and Grist, solivifore), was for the dafgudest. (instructed by Mr. U.E. H. Beavis, of Messrs.

"The Court aajourned untii to day,

POLICE

COURT.

Monday, 14th December. BEFORE MR. T. SARCOMBE SMITH (POLICE

MAGISTRATE).

SICK ON INSANE

of its alarm, we shall permit ourselves to say fow words about the colonial policy which Germany has pursued of late years in the Neur

A Chinaman, who appeared to be either ill or East." The Fort Arthur paper then points out half-witted, was charged with sleeping in the how Germany has gone rather against Bussin open air in the streets. He pleaded that he was very poor, he had only low cash, and could He had nowhere to go, so got no work to do. in the matter of the Bagdad railway and seems to think that a Russo-Franon-German combina- he slept in the streets. He was sent to guol for our contemporary says a number of small sugation against Japan is not likely to take place in 10 days with 3 beurs in the stocks.

nories have been formed in Fermo. Necd- les to Buy, the journal continues, this is an altcome of the measures taken by the Formosaa All the carpenters' shops and furniture Government for the encouragement of the ugar Industry, and also the general advance

are dorout with more discretion.

warehouses have received orders from thr

the near fatare,

THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY,

The Novi Krai has published a series of articles from one of its staff. who has lately been

INSULTING A MAGISTRATE.

everything in them. Some of the streetshore these shops are situated yesterday gave me the The visitors to the ty Hall Library and ides thet a lumber-sale was in progress, both MACLARER Goran, wife of HAHRT GOWMAN Museum for the week eging the 13th Decomber sides being lined with a heterogus con-

were 223 non-Chinees al 65 Chiness to the glomeration of tables and chairs at only for / Hasan district; the Nansho. Refisers, vith a | fleecing the latter nnmercifully. It is sug Irma Gayon, to prosecute a charge of libel

On the 23rd Novomber, at Bangkok, is t GoDun, eliter of Siam Observer.

On the 3rd December, at Yokohama, REECCA

to the latter institution. CAIN, widow of the late Captain Jonn CAIN, of former, and 90 non-Chine and 2,054 Chinese firewood. Liverpool, aged 71 years.

The Daily Press.

MASONIC.

ALLEGED LIBEL.

Leung Wai was standing in the Court yester day morning after giving evidence in a case of patty larceny when be lit up a cigar and made s remark which was alleged to to "insulting to a magisterial duties." Mr. Smith, the Magistrate, REGINALD PAIHIN, to FLORENCE DOVOLAS, third respectively. He waszentenced to two years' entire premises, and to disinfect them and commercial world which has led them to be In these articles a bad account is given of the ordered a charge to be framed, and later in the On the 8th December, at Shanghai, WALTER forging two cheques ir $50 and $60, gold, Sanitary Board to immediately clean up thir ment of Formessus in their knowledge of the all through Manabaria making investigations.magistrate while in the performance of his discontented with the old state of things. Of state of things clong the railway line, especially day Loung Wai was brought up on the sharge, the now refining companies which have lately in the Chinese town of Harbin, where Russian and fined $2 and severely reprimanded,

Mr. F. P. Hett, solicitor, appeared at the Rednery, with a capital of 200,000 yea, in the depraved taste of some passengers and then been floated, the principal are the Bhinke Sagar Jews are accused of first pandering to overy

Magistracy yesterday, on behalf of Madame espital of 100,000, yen, in Ako district; and the geated that order be maintained by gendarmes against Captain Bazin, master of the s. Wong Tebi Refinery, with a capital of 200,000, yen, in placed under the direct control of the Viceroy Nam. Mr. Harding appeared for the defence, It is reported in Shanghai andarin circles, the Ensui district. Of those the last-named is and having no connection with the railway when both parties asked for a remand, which was granted until Friday, the 18th inst, after evidence of arrest of the captain had been given by G. C. Shepherd, P.C. 121, bail being allowed In default of finding surity in $500 for his the N.-C. Daily News says, news has been to commence operations immediately, and the company.

in the sum of $150 al. future good behaviour, to Chief Justice atractived from Moukden to so effect that on the others with the coming season. The proposed Shanghai has sentenced an named Joseph 2nd instant there wore noess than 4,800 Rus-establishment of one company in the Ensai Benna to be deported to Higkong. Benne has sian troops inside the ci' of Moukden and 800 district has been abandoned, not, however, ba HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DESVEUX ROAD Cl.just served twelve anothe'mprisonment with artillerymen with save batteries of field guns case the place is unfitted for the industry. The camped in the soutira euburbs of that city; contrary is the case, for there is an abundant LONDON OFFI03: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. hurd labour for theft.

it would be better to form a larger con- at present owing to the rations of the expected to join a present force within the prospects are considered to be so good that HoxAKONA, 15th Tyravost. 1903

cern with a capital of not less than 500,000. A China utual steamer which arrived at It is stated that the Sugar Affairs Bureau P.W.D. in raising the lay of the road. next ten days. The thoroughfare is covered,ith mud and

the 8th inst., Shanghai Tientsin on experienc great diffealty in coming down the Formosun Government has under considera littered with bricks and road-nl.

Ou Boxing Day and the falling. Sunday, the Por River and passing the Taku Forts tion a scheme to establish a refining ourpany his officers for the ensuing year as follows:

men in Japan by using a large retining Council, in the interests of the public health 26th and 27th inst., a grand chaiy bazaar will owing the ice. Botween Tangka and the with the support of local capitalists and business of the Colony, sheuld lose nò time in repairs be bold at Macão in aid of the lutution under Forelie vessel was jammed in the ice, unable apparatus which was recently shipped to Take Robins, Scribe; J. Hioka, 8.D.; E. R. Udall, ing. A Chinese boatman was arraigns on the charge of the Canosaian Sister of Charity; to ahead for twenty-four hours. Again, a charge of having brought into the Colony the venue being the Publio lens, Sanie abreast of the Forts she was driven bagt by Messrs. Samuel Samuel & Co. from the D.; J. Parkinson, J.G.; W. Tucker, D.C.; human food three desd for human food three dead pigs unfit for Fpeiseo (Praia Grande). The ar itself, th the fow of soft pack ies three times while bo definitely decided upon by Mr. Goto, Director consumption, and though the evidence went is l as the charitable nature of object, willsving full speed ahead. The port of Tientsin, of the Formesan Administration Bureau, who to show that these putrid earcases and others doubtle, attract many visitors in Hagkons the N.-C. Daily News says, is practically closed is now in Tokyo, and a large refining company.

Is a base which came before the Senior Magistrate at the Police Court yesterday serious flaw was revealed in the Public Health Ordinance which the Legislative

Praya East is almost impable for cysliais further, that consiablo reinforcements were supply of water and sugar-cane, but the instant, Bro, G, G. Burnett was installed | prosecatrix verily believed the letter in question

A reprentative local sub-mittee is charge of arrangements b

and no steamerā are now being dispatched

2

there.

which were thrown overboard as the police approached, were to be converted into lard and musages, the magistrate came to the A "Speelt hute to the lobe

The Manila Gablenaren publishes the follow-

conclusion that he had no alternative but to Chronicle, writng from my on trading telegram, dated London, December 8- dismiss the cases, as it was not proved that November, says: stat rent, Dow at the Libertad, the battleship bought by Great

war-scare has dimbed, winter & in, our

the defendant was the person who actually couple of thousaturou inhalants have

Hokkaido. It is expected that the matter will

may see the light and start operations with the new machinery next year.-Kobe Chronide,

WEATHER REPORT.

From the facts of the case it appears that the adopted daughter of the prosecutrix died on the At a regular meeting of the "Ararat" 23rd of October last, and on that day she Lodge of R.A. Mariners, held on the 10th received a letter, couched in insulting and libellous terms, referring to that death, The as the W. C. N. for the ensning year. to have been written by Captain Bazin, who, it was alleged, since that date from time to time The installation ceremony was performed by had told several persons that she, prosecutrix, Wor. Bro. J: Bryan, desisted by Wor. Bra. J. had caused the death of her step-daughter. Lochead, and Wer. Bro. G. P. Lammert, Wor.

The letter, unsigned, and merely addressed: Bru. G, G. Burnett then appointed and invested "Dedić á Irma, la proxenété," was to the effect that the judgment of God had fallen upon her, and she must now beware of the justice Brethren H. W. Wolfe, S.W.; W. H.cf men, and adding "you understand me." Woolley, J.W.; J. P. Preulay, Tross J.

J. Vanstone, Tyler.

HOCKEY.

A FLAW IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW,

Inspector Langley charged a Chinese boat man with having brought into the Colony for

not guilty.

tion.

The accused plead unit for coup.

It appears that the boatman was arrested by the Water Police at Shamauipo on Sunday with the thres dead and putrid pigs on board his boat. On the approach of the police launch he dumped several other carcases over the side into the harbour.

80th Co. R.G.A. on the hockey ground, Happy Last overing the 89th Co. R.G.A. met the

When charged with having brought the dead Valley. The teams were:--

pigs into the Colony accused made a statement 80tb Co. B.G.A-Walker, goal; Copper- to the effect that a pig-dealer told him to carry Toone, backs; Lient. Strover, Murphy the pigs. He did not know the dealer's name or madras. The dead pigs were used for making Needhasa, half-backs; Marchant, Liout Doward and sausages; he knew this as he had booz

brought the putrid pigs into the Coleny. somewhat respon teart of their record speed to-day of 20.3 knots an hour over arisen over 8. Japan and at Vladivostock, fallanding, Lieut. Pudsey, Sowell Longman at the place in Shamanipo where, these were

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-- Britain along with Constitucion, has made a

On the 14th at 11.10%. The barometer has

created a sensation among naval exports. The section of Ordinance, No. 1 of 4901 way; and, as insided, both here and in measured course. This magnificent spoed has over the E. cost of nat

Libertad and Constitución were built in England under which the prosecution was brought is Port Arthur heris litts/chance of a uffet is taken ip with three rate-all

Sonications in hanchuria, at finishing touches, Russia and Japan are said to matters-

AndMoulder with the Chinese; have tried to buy them. Britain stepped in

sterling.

No. 82. It reads as follows:-"No personar with or the time being, at any for Chile. Lately, as they approached the Manchuria.

shall sell or expose for sale or bring into

the Colony or into any market any food for Newchthefilu River with the Coreans, and took them from Chile for 1,875,000 pounds man in a tainted, adulterated, diseased or the trolex's next movements.

unwholesome state or which is unfit for use, nd Ad

forwards.

A depression is moving Eastwards in the Yangtze Valley and pressure remains low to the Woods, backs; Byrne, Riley, Capt. Kirkpatrick, 89th Co. R.G.A.: Allan, goal; Anderson, N.E. of Japan. Pressure is high over

half-backs; Capt Riach, Lient. Tanner, White- Gradients gentle over S. Chius and the N. ford, Elms, Kenney, forwards. part of the China Sea with light to moderate

Monsoon.

Forecast-Modorata E. winds; cloudy, some drizzling rain or mist.

Capt. Butcher was referee, Nothing was made before first whistle. the second half 80th Co. scored two

made for ten days or so. Ho was out of om- ployment and went there to work for his meals, Inspector Langley pressed for a conviction. His Worship stated that he could not convict the man under the Public Health Ordinance as it had not been proved that he brought the carcases into the Colony, and he accordingly dismissed the case, expressing the hope that note In of the deficiency of the Ordinance, in this

direction would be taken by the Press