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WAR NOTES.

JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESIATCH.

Tho Japanese Consul at Hongkong yesterday worning kindly sent to us for publication a copy of the following official telegram received by him earlier:-

"Tokyo, 18th May.

"The commander of the landing forces at Linotung reports that, between the 5th and 16th instant, daily skirmishes have taken place, the Japaz.ess dotachments snacessfully driving the overy and destroying the telegraph courouaica tion and railways at Palantion and its vicinity On the 16th instaut, after serions Üghting, our forces occupied the highta distant three und a half miles from Kinchow. One casualties were 146, including ninu offerre wounded."

Pulantion is morked in most English maps Port Adams. It is alont 10 miles north of

Kiuchow.

BHASOHAI PELÉGRAMH.

MR. SHEWAN AND SIR HENRY BLAKE.

mis.

The subjoined note, says The Investors' Review, should close the correspondence on the subject of Hongkong government or government so far as we are concerned:---

(To the Editors of The Investors' Review.)

10/11 Lime Street, B.C., 7th April, 1904. Sirs,-Having born out of town for some weeks I am only now able to reply to Sir Houry Blake's letter to you of February 23rd.

If Sir Henry Blake will look ogaiz at wy Ister he will see that I did not write as a member of the Legislative ouzoil of Hong long but as a resident there of about four The times as long alauding ns himself. atrecious c.ime of having been for a short time a member of the Council I, however, in the words of one who was ever greater than p colonial Governor, one, in fact, who made them, and what is still better, unmade them, when necessary, will wither attempt to palliato nar

Wo take the following from the N-C. Daily dany." News.

Tokyo, 13th May-It is officially announced that the third squadron made an indirect bombardment of Dalny on the 12th May, and repulsed the Russinus ashore." -

Tokyo. 13th May. While searching for Russian mines, No. 49 torpedo-boat was blown up and divided in two, but she had successfully completed tho sweeping and survey. ing of the adjacent waters, and had cut off the colatannications with the land. By this accident The Japanese lost sevon killed, including su

sign, and seven wounded."

W38 never

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 20r¤, 1904.

HONGKONG SANITARY

BOARD

supply of water was provided. A bako hones license might, he granted on condition that the watorolosets be removed.

It was decided that if Mr. Weismann could get an independent supply of water he could use the closets.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday afternoon in the Board Room, Hou Dr.. J. M. Atkinson presided, and there were

Other matters pertaining to pork, fish, fruit, also present Hon. P. N. Jones (Vice-President). Hoa. A. W. Brewin, Registrar-General; Mr. vegetables, fat-boiling etc., were considered Fung Wa Chan; Colonel W. E. Webb applications being granted or otherwise accor- R.A.M.C.; Mr. A. Ramjak; Hon. H. Eding to the merits of the respective cases. Pollock, K.C.; Mr. E.A. Hewett; Dr., W. W

It was reported that during the fortnight Pears, Medical Officer of Health; Mr. F. Jended 14th May 1050 rats, of which 9 were Budeley, Captain Superintendent of Police: Dr. Pearce, Dr. Barnett; and Mr. T. A. Hanmer (Acting Secretary).

EAT RETURN,

infected, ware caught.

WATER ANALYSIS,

The Government Analyst reported that his The minutes of the lust meeting were con- analysis of the public water supplies showed tho firmned.

water to be of excellent quality.

ESTIMATES Fox 1905. Minute by the Medical Officer of Health recommending that cerisin works be provided for in the Estimates for Public Works for 1905.

The PRESIDENT said that with reference to this minute he did not know whether the num bera desired to consiiler the matte in committee. A mortuary at Yaumatì required consideration. and also the matter of public bath honses t Kowloon and Western Street, The bath house for Chinese at Wanchai was a great success; the more they had the better. Moreover, if these were granted the temporary bath house at Western and Centre Streets could be done away He moved that a recommendation he forwarded to the Government.

with.

Mr. FUNG WA CHUN SEOnded. Mr. HEWETT supported the motion, saying he thought. from a sanitary viewpoint, that they had better bare bath houses all over the City The Chinese would use them very largely.

A

SUPREME COURT,

Thursday, 19th May.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BerouE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM. M. GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE.)

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

Ng Tseung, an old Chinaman, and Hon Him, his wife, were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of law and justico by pretend ing to the Squatters Board that the first prisoner was the leases of a plot of Government ground at Mati (the losses being in fact dead), by which means the lease was allowed by the Squstior's Roard; the man was also charged with committing several fraudulent acts before the Board thersby obtaining the lease. ·

Sir Henry Blake confines bimself to two questions only. The fire is the petition for rauitary exports which was sent home by the community of Hongkong. He says "there was no public meeting." I did not say there was, so in denying something that advanced bo may be throwing dnst in the ye of the Colonial Office, bat will certainly not delude the Hongkong people, who are too well aware of the facts. He now admits that his suggestion that experts should be sent out was only sent home tendays before the public petition was signed and despatobed, and I accept this elatement for the sube of argument. But peti- tions are not got up by the publio in a day........... signatures had to be obtained and the matter Further correspondenen was laid on the table

with reference to the drainage of the City. agitated publicly for even months husforehand. I leave your ruders to form their own opinion Mr. Ramjahn minutod -- I strongly object of a Government which, while this was going to the words "sanitary surveyor" in. Bye-law on, could not take action till the last moment, 27 as suggested by the Acting M.OH. until then rush for url a despatch only ten days the Colony has be provided with a proper before the petition itself was received, and, on qualified moon, as theso holding the same position the top of that, attempt later on to take thein England must be civil engineers and must Russinus are crossing the Pyongan and HankA whole credit for doing what it was simply pass a certain examination of hygiene and Crown Solicitor), appeared for the Crown. In youg borders. Russians who have failed to join forced to do by public pressure. their camp are now continually raiding the frontier districts."

The torpedo-bout No. 49 was a vessel of a little over 300 tons.]

Tokyo, 13th May-It is announced that the Japanese at Pulutien sighted on the 6th justaut a train from Port Arthur without any Red Cross mark, which Bred on thein. The Japanese replied, and then the Russians hoisted the Red Cross flag. The Japanese intended to examine the cars, which, however, went ahend at full speal, and escape1.**

"Tokyo, 13th May.A portion of the

"Tokyo, 13th May-Troops have been despatched from Segul and Fusan for the protection of the Seoul-Fasan railway."

As regards the second point-his intimacy with Chinese-Sir Henry Blake says that my statement is untrue. Ho gives me, with what he calls "bratal frankness," the lie direct, us a Epocimon, I presume, of the manners to which

DRAINAGE OF THE CITY.

pablic sanitation and are invariably members of the Sanitary Institute."

Mr. Lou Cha Pak"This should be referred to the sub-committee."

Mr. Howett Refer to the sub-committee." The D. P. W. I presume Mr. Rumjalin

They pleaded not guilty, and were defended by Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C. (instructed by Mr. F. Paget Hett, solicitor, of Mr. . K. Hall Brut ton's office).

The following jury was empanelled-Mesars P. C. Cunningham, F. W. White, S. E. Moses, J. T. d'Almada Castro, B. Walpole, A Schmidtborn, and L. Kerr,

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Hongkong, 10th March, 1904.

POLICE COURT,

Thursday, 19th May.

BEFORE ME. IL. H. J. GoиPERTZ. (ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE,)

ALLEGED MURDER.

Chik Sun, a Chinaman, was charged with | murder, the case being remanded for a week.

The supposed facts are that at Moon Stroot,

17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

(Few Doors East of Hongkong Hote

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on the night of the 18th inst, two men had a HAVE YOU TRIED brawl about repairing u jacket. One of them went away and returned with a mob, oun of the men hitting decoused with a bamboo pole, and indicted a wound on the left shoulder

about two inches deep, causing the man's death. A witness. it is said, followed the man' who usait the bamboo pole to his house in Sun Street, then looking for the police to offeot an arrest.

Chinese Constablo No. 219 was on his way to duty, passing along a street in Wanchai, whou witness accosted him and took to defendant.

CHINESE CONSTABLE CHARGED,

Chinese Constable No. 325 was charged by an old woman, who said defendunt had assaulted her,

using her to die," a novel way of expressing that she had fainted. After two hours "she chs to life again," a report in the meantime being made at Shaukiwan Police Station.

Evidence went to show that the woman was not assaulted at all, but getting into a fit of

passion while quarrolling with a neighbour,

fainted.

The constable was discharged.

OBSTRUCTIONIST FINED.

The Attorney-General, Hon. Sir Henry S. Berkeley (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley,

opening the case, he said the prisoners were

The Magistrates, evidently, have now taken charged with manufacturing falso evidence for up a different view regarding obstructions under the purpose of obtaining from the Squatters' verandahs. Mr. Gompertz fined a Chiasman Board a chain to a plot of land which without! $3 for carrying a basket there, these false statements would not have been allowed. The Squatters Hoard was a Board

Tokyo, 13th May. The Yalu prisoners he refers and of which he seems so proud. I does not referto the acting Sanitary Surveyor presided over by the Puise Judge, which

consisting of 16 licors, of whom nine are wounded, and 415 men, of whom 265 are wounded, will arrive at Shikoku to-morrow.

POSITION AT THE REAS OF PORT ABTHUE.

On the south of the city of Kinchow, writes the Sinwespao, the place is mountainous, and on the summits the Russians have mounted big guns. At a very strategic point they have dug a trench over twenty fast wide and over ten #i long, encircling the whole of the south-east, and have also set up barriers for defence. With all these preparations it seemed that the position of the Russians was perfectly secure. But now we hear the Japanese have occupied Kinchow. However, we are told that at the rear of Fort Arthur the Russians have dug a trouch, in which are placed sharp-pointed bamboo poles, and in the middle of this trench there in a

will not imitate him by descending to per zonalities, I will content myself with the retort courteous and merely suggest that his memory must be strangely at fault, for in the very next admits his friendship with paragraph he Chinese, and for the rest-the propla of Hongkong are perfectly able to dot the i's with out any assistance from me.-I am, sirs, Your obedient servant, ROBERT Satwas,

SIR MATTHEW NATHAN.

The Stor writes:-Although Sir Matthew Nathan secured a startling promotion from the Governorship of the malarial Gold Coast to breezy Hongkong-a jump from £3,000 to £5,000 a year, after only four years of Colonial service-ho is apparently determined not ta excite himself by harrying to the Far East, and

Mr. RUMJAHN thought a qualified drainage surveyor should be provided for Hongkong, one of the largest shipping ports of the world.

The PRESIDENT proposed that they loave the matter to the committee already appointed.

Mr. HEWETT seconded and it was carried,

EXTERNAL AIR.

Further correspondence relative to the question of external air in respect of Nox, 4 to 66. Bridges Street,

The PRESIDENT recommended an exemption be granted.

Mr. FUNG WÀ CHES seconded and it was granted.

adjudged upon those claims to land. There was a man named Chan Cheung who used to culti vate soane Crown land at Mati as a nutter.

He held a squatter's licence for three-and-a-halt acres of land. This squatter's licence was for one year, renewable every year, and was transferable. In 1996 this man Chan Cheung lodged a claim with the Squatters' Board for, a Crown lensa of the land for which ho held a squatter's licence. Chan Cheung was un old squatter; his family had been there a long time. There were a good many such claims heard before his claim came on. Chan Cheung had diod. He died in May, 1898. Dofondants were aware of this fact. Thore was a son called Chan Tao who would tell the jury that in Sep- tember of the same year that his father died the female defendant came to him and offered bin a child, $20 a year for a lease of this land for

Nethersole Hospital. A great quantity of earth | let the land for that rental. would have to be cut away to get the proper Mr. Sharp (interposing) said it was incorrect width. He proposed that exemption be granted, to call the son a child; he was 21 years of

Mr. HOWETT seconded.--Granted.

EXEMPTION.

the

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Application for exemption from quirements of Sub-section 4 of Section 188 of the Buildings Ordinance.

The PRESIDENT explained that this applica

BEFORE ME. J. H. Keme (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

OPIUM.

Mr. Kemp fined a Yazmali prostitute 3500

long-coated Chineso "gentlemen" $100 each for for unlawful possession of draes opium, and two

same offones.

SHIPPING NOTES.

PINE WEATHER WEST, Mariners continus te urrive from the West with smiling faces and clean funnels. They al report fine weather, saying they have not had to wipa salt out of their eyes this trip. ··

The P. O. outward mail Coromandel weather excepting experienced fine clear occasional squalla.

The Edendale from Sourabiya had a very agrccable pamage.

FLAGUE AT BOMBAY,

The outward P. & 0, mail Coromandel, from

crooked path so laid out as to make all who he will not take up lik new post til July tion was from the new hospition adjacent the cultivation purposes. The boy was induced to Bombay yesterday, reports plague at that port.

walk on it to be in dangor of death. Moreover, the guns of the forts at the back of the mountains are all pointing to the north. For this reason there is some doubt whether the Japanese can rapture the rear of Port Arthur s easily this time as they have captured Kiuchow,

NAVAL NOTES.

H.M.8.IPHIGENIA."

The cruiser Iphigenia was put in commission at Sheerness on the 15th April, under Captain W. B. Fewekuer and kus left on her way to the China station, where she will relieve the cruiser Talbot, which will return then to Europe. The Iphigenia ought to arrive at Hongkong shortly. H.M.9.CADMUS" AND "CHALLENGER," The sloop Cadmus is on her way to the Aus tralian station. The cruiser Challenger is another of the British warships to be despatched to the Australian station,

A NEW NAVAL GUN.

The British Admiralty has decided, after a very extended series of trials, to adopt for Navel requirements a new quick-firing gun. This will fire a projectile weighing 3b. It is much more powerful than that fring a similar pro- jectile already in use, and is to the design of Vickers, Maxim, and Co. The cartridge will be charged with modified cordite, while the gun, which is capable of exceptionally rapid-sim-re, will be fitted with antematic sights. The Naval triala have horn carried out under the direction of the Captain of his Majesty's ship Excellent and the Chief Inspector of Ordnance at Woolwich,

OLD WARSHIPS SOLD.

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Sir Henry Blake left Hongkong so long ago that he must now have nearly forgotten the and congenial life at place in the Colombo, and Hongkong may forget that it is entitled to a real Governor before long. How. ever, Sir Matthew is well deserving of a rest at home after his term at Accra, for he has worked hard there under exceptionally difficult circumstances, having to clear up the maddie caused by Sir Frederic Hodgson's demand for the Golden Stool at Kumasai. Although only just turned 40, Sir Matthew Nathan has seen a good deal of rough service, beginning with the Nile campaign of 20 years ago, and following with the dangerous Lushai trouble of 1889, in which the young Jewish officer won marked distinction as much by his useful resource as by. his heroism in hot corners.

THE GOLD STANDARD IN DANGER.

So says Dr. E. J. Dillon in bis article on Foreign Affairs in the April Contemporary. He writes:-

to the

Further correspondence relative spplication for exemption from the provisions of Sections 180 (1) and 141 of Ordinanes 1 of 1903. in respect of No. 438, Des Voeux Road.

The PRESIDEN' stated that these premises were to be used as a godown. If later they discontinued to be used as a godown the matter would have to come before the board again.

THE PEAK STATION. Plan of proposed arinal in the Exgine house at the Peak Tramway terminus.

Mr. HEWETT id he went six times a day past this vicinity. At times there was no water in the place at all, or, at all events, an ex- coedingly small supply.

age now.

A LONG TOW.

The 8.8. Stettin arrived from Shanghai Foster- day. Capt. Farrell reports that he tawed down a 15-toos lighter, R.F. No. 3, with Capt. Pryn ; and Chinese orow on it.

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THE 8.8. IZBAL" The 8.9, Ikbal arrived from Capetown yester- quite recently, employed day. She was, up ranning cattle, horses, etc. between England RACHALS. and the Cape, but will now be employed for the transportation of human beings-she is to take Chinamon from Hongkong to Durban.

The Iklal is a fine looking four-masted steamer, and the fittings for oaolie socom- medation are good. The steamer's agents here are Messrs. Gibh, Livingston & Co.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Chunshan arrived from Bangkok yester day with 2,300 tons of rice for Mosers, Bradley- & Co.

new

The Tex, one of the China Navigation Co's. steamers, arrived from Shanghai yesterday. She is a pretty craft,

The Hamburg-Amerika Batavia, frota Saigon yesterday, has no less than 7,00 tons of rice aboard. Some 4,0 0 tons of it are for Hong- kong.

STUART.

AND

BABY

GRANDS

The Attorney-General remarked that was detail. At any rate he could not have baen more than 15 or 16 years of age at the time. The woman and her husband got the lease. Chan Teo left the land and went to live at Changshawa, giving the defendants the squatter's lease held by his father. Defendants want to live on the plot, built a hat, and adopted the name of the deceased Chan Cheung in whose name the lease was made out. When the annual squatter's rent became due the defendants went to the Treasury and paźd it, passing themselves off as Chan Cheung In March of and Chun Cheung's wife. 1904, Chan Tro, the original squatter's som The PRESIDENT, interrupting, said they wore went to the woman and asked her for his father's squatter's licence. She said she had alluding to the wuler in the engine house.

Mr. HEWETT sail he knew, but if they had lost it. Chan Tso was not satistled with this and he went to a solicitor, Mr. John Hastings, no water in the engine houss they could not use it (laughter). Besides, that precious water for advice. Then it was discovered that the should act be used for fushing urinals; it defendants had been before Mr. Wakeman, the

The Edendale, from Evarabaya yesterday, more appropriate for household secretary of the Squatters' Board, and had filed brought 1,100 tons of sugar for this port. would

a new claim to his land, the male defendnut

The Ugina, a B. I. steamer from Rangdon, Hor destilation purposes,

Colonel WEBB said that if the water went to stating that he was Chan Choung and the has 7,150 tons of rice. waste it would be better to use it for an urinal, woon that she was Chun Chenng's wife. That probably Japan.

The Tear from Shanghai reports southerly In the dry sea they could naa buckets. He was deliberate act of manufacturing false winds, fine weather, and smooth ses till of COTTAGE, BUT WITH THE FIN

evidence for the purpose of deceiving the Board. Ocken, when wind shifted to the N.E. with muude a proposition to this offect.

Defendante, although aware of the fact that dense fog at times. There was a freshening Chan Cheung was dead, had concealed that faet breeze will dull and overcat treatbar. 31oder- APPEARANCE AND TONE OF from the Squattery Board and had not com-nte, broken following en was experienced. muricated it to the Poblie Works Department The recent disasters to the Russian Navy are

be

The PRESIDENT seconded.

One of the worst effects which the present war can have upon Russia's finances is the driving of gold out of the country and the return of the Government to a depreciated paper currency. I do not mean to say that this calamity is inevitable; sn able Finance Minister, like . Witte, conlil and wou'd find ways and means of meeting all liabilities without endangering that greatest achievement of

Mr. HEWETT asked what was meant by the modern financial skill. But M. Kokofftaff is not M. Witte, sud the policy which his first dry season. His seclies and other coolies eked out every drop of water from the placu that they measures foreshadow has already challenged the

could. severe criticise of the chief financial and

Dr. ATKINSON said it was only intended to commercial authorities in the Empire. The

use the water that went through the engine. pressat Minister is a painstaking, conscientions

Mr. HEWETT contended that this would not bureaucrat who is as unlikely to conceive a great idea as to perpetrate an cbviously be sufficient to flush an urinal properly. disastrous blunder; but be is quite capable

It was decided to make enquiries into the

Ono of the conditions of the sale of old British warships which were offered at auction at Chatham Dockyard last mouth was that nono of the vessels was to be sold to the Powern now at war.

The cosmopolitan company of pur-

Correspondence relative to the applications chasers and sightseers included

the country into utter disorder. Although the for Bake-house Licences, in respect of Nos. 21 representatives of foreign firms, but some

gold reserves are certainly less abundant than

and 30, Sham Shui Po, and the unsatisfactory foreigners were kept outside by the police.cficial statements make them out to be, it can-

condition of the drainage in that village.

The prices obtained were:-

several

1

Belleisie, battleship

£8,600

Duke of Wellington, hulk.

... £8,350

Algiers, halke

£9,350

Edgar, bulk

£5,100

Hannibal, hulk

£4.500

Biter, gunboat

£995

Pel. guatont

£400

Beatrice, roastguard cutter

£200

Dupline, sloop

£4,050

£4,000

£8,900

Stelowy, sloop...

Icarus, sloop

of adopting course has indeed already mattor. adopted one-which may in the long ran throw the froucial and economie acndition of

BAKE HOUSES,

not be doubled that they are considerable, and according to financiers who have no interest in

The PRESIDENT moved that application be distorting facts, they will enable the Govern-granted on condition that the premises be kept ment to pay allclaims upon it, without recurring

Hon. Mr. Pollock seconded.

to dubious makeshifts for a considerable time to clean, whitewashed, etc. come. The claims which must be foreseon and provided for will come chiefly from the Wor Oce, the international trade balance and the increased internal demands for money in general,

and gold in particular. And the gold reserres rently available amount in all to about 500 million roubles The Finance Ministor affirms, that they are almost double that eam, but his method of consting differs widely from that of Western Europeana.

Carried.

the

Farther correspondence relative to application for a Bakehouse Licence, in respect of No. 34, Queen's Road Central.

Mr. HEWETT thought that Mr. Weismanu should be treated the same as anyone else. There should not be urinals unless a proper

The Carl Diederichen arrived from Haiphong and Hothow yesterday with 1,000 tons of cargo for Messrs Jebsen & Co.

The Halaban, an oil tanker," arrived from Tientsin in ballast yesterday.

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Hongkong, 18th May, 1904.

DENTISTS.

leaving them to assume that Chan Cheung was consideret to leave little chance of interference alive and that the male defendant was he. The with Japanese commerce, and premiums asked evidenes of the officials of the Squatter's Board at Lloyd's to cover the risks of war and its records showed the following conclu. merchandise outward bound to Japan have

become little more than nominal. Shipments DR. NEWELL WILSON. DR. WILLIAM DAN sions. The male defendant deliberately signed of coal from South Wales to Japanese porta are Chan Cheung's name to his claim with the insured at 10s. per cent. via the Cape," and intention of having the claim allowed by the several steamers bound for Japan have taken the risk of being stopped in the Mediterranean, Squatter's Board Ou- 19th February, 1904, be and sailed via the Canal, the premium for signed his namo as being Chan Channg, and on contraband being only 25s. per cent. 17th March his daim was heard by the Board and was allowed to him as being Chair Chenng which left Hongkong on the 20th April and The silk er C.P.B, steamer Empress of India, On 24th March, the two defendants, Chan Tsp, Yokohama on the 29th April, arrived in New the sou. and Mr. Goldring, his solicitor, were York on the 17th May, thus making a transit of in the Land Olive. The male prisoner there 37 days from Hongkong and 20 days from. stated to the Squatters Board that he was Chun Cheung and the woman Chan Cheung's wife; also that he had appeared before the Poard on 7th March us than Cheung and that he was the same than Cheung who had signed

the old claim in 1896.

Evidence was taken for the prosecution and the hearing was afterwards adjourned till to-day.

Yokohama,

I ho C.P.R. steamer Empress of Japan arrived at Kobe at 11.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 17th inst, and left again at 12.30 p.m.on Wednesday for Yokohama, where she is due to arrive at I p.m. on Thursday, the 18th inst.

The C.P. steamer Empress of China arrived: at Nagasaki at 8.30a.m. on Thursday, the 19th inst., and left again at 5 p.m. same day for Shangbai, where she is due to arrive at 3 a.m. on Saturday, the 21et inst.

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