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NAVAL NOTES.

A CHINESE GUN-DOAT.

CARBIER PIGEONS.

Nothing further has transpired with mgard to the robbery of thess valuable birds from the

The Chinese gun-bost Sin Hang, Cap. Linavinry in the French Consulate compouni; not Chio Chong, has arrived here from Swatou, She is en route to Canton.

THE "ADAMARTOR.” The Portugueso cruiser Adamastor has left for Shuanghui. She is to accompany the Portuguese Minister to Tiontsin. The Minister expects to secure some good concessions regardi- ing South China, including one in congestion with the projected Macao-Canton Railway.

8. SHIP IN THESE WATNKS.

Admiral Cooper, with the battleship Wisconsin, thes granbout Vicksburg, and the naval collier Alecandria from Cavite, ure now ut Hongkong. The battleship Oregon has arrived also.

a single arrest has yet been effected in connec tion with the burglary.

THE WEATHER.

the season have troubled the inhabitants, nor

and.evon a single case of plague, for which this port

The Vicksburg proceeds to Yokohama Hakodate, thenes taking the northern passage She will cross to Bear Harbour, Alaska, and after taking on coal will proceed down the Pacific coast to the Bremerton Navy Yard, whence she will go out of commission pending repairs,

The sunboat Annapolis, a sister ship of the Vicksburg, will remain ut Cavite a while longer in order to complete needed repairs before start- ing over the same route for the States as the Vicksburg now takes.

NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

Movements of the U. S. Asiatic fleet are reported as follows :----Wisconsin, Vicksburg, und Alexandria (collier) from Cavite, at Hongkong. Frolic from Cavite for Chofeo. New Orleans reported at Chefou. Cinsinuali and Brutus (collier) at Chemalpo. Elcuno at Kisaking, Villalokun and Raleigh at Wonsung. Monterey at Hongkong. Helena at Amoy.

ADHIBAL STIRLING.

Admiral Stirling has cublod from Chefou reporting lisarrival with the New Orleans at Cho foo. In addition Admiral Stirling reports that the U. S. naval collier Brutus, which vessel left Cavite about May with marines aboard, has arrived at Chomulpo, and has transferred the marines to the Cincinnati, which vessel was recently ordered to Chemulpo by the Navy Department to represent American interests ut that port. It is ascertained that a marine guard of twenty-four men will be kept at the United States légation at Seoul and the rest of the men will augment the present enlisted strength of the Cincinnati, which vessel remaining at Chemulpo will be within easy communication of Minister Allen in Seoul should he deem more marines in Seoul expedient to the welfare of American interests in Coren

FROM

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OUR CORRESPONDENT.

Pakhoi, 19th May.

H. B. M. CONSUL." Mr. M. Hughes, British Vice-Consul ut Hoi- how, accompanied by Mrs. Hughes, arrived bere on the 9th instant. Mr. Hughes will pro- bably remain hare nutil the arrival of Mr. G. W. Pearson, who, I understaud, has been appointed Acting Consul at this port.

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THADE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH, 1904.

WALKS IN THE NEW TERRITORY.

A HOLIDAY BAMBLE. The ordinary Hongkong rosidont is wofully ignorant of our New Territory, mostly becuase We have been experiencing a boisterous of the difficulty that oxists in gotting thora. weather for the last few days. From the 13th When once we have a railway established thers to the 16th, the wind was squally to the extreme, can be little doubt that the people of Victoria but there was no rain until the evening of the will not be slow to make acquaintance with the 18th, when it began to fall is intermittent beunties of Mira Buy and of the verdant vallays showers up to the time of writing, the of the peninsula. Meatiwhite, however, if one thermometer ranging from 80 to 85 degrees should desire to see the country one has got to Fabr. all along. The health of the port is trust to one's own legs for locomotion, and as thore are very great difficulties to be overcome by the potwithstanding, es good as could be desired nene of the epidemics usual about this time of pedestrian who ventures on an exploring trip it is not to be wondered at that these generally dissuade people from the vouture of making an extended tour in that region. But there are many walks in the New Territory that can be accomplished easily in one day and yet servs to give the travelor a very fine insight into the saturs of the country andto repay him an hundred fold for any fatigue and discomfort that he may have undergone on the journey. For in weather like the present walking mong the Territory hills is a task of no little severity. In winter time, when the chill winds blow among the gorse, and nerve the traveller to exertion. walking is a pleasure, and the resultant glow which he feels upon his skin is a pleasure to be remembered. In these days, however, when a broiling sun beats down froin an unclouded sky upon him, and a hoary topes encumbers his hond, the conditions are changed to a very appreciable degree, and he feels that he deserves some compensation for his exertions,

The trade of the port has never been so dni as since the beginning of the year, especially in exports. I shall certainly not be surprised if the Customs Statisties show a dverense of some Tls, 10,000 for the first quarter of this year compared with the same period of any preriona

year.

PORT ARTHUR.

The History of Port Arthur," in the Nineteenth Century. by Mr. Joseph Longford, lately II.B. M. Consul at Nagasaki, is a compendiuur of information by a compotent writer, which should be studied everybody who reads the newspapers just now. Afier narrating the steps by which Japan was compelled by European pressure to surrender the fruits of her victory over China, the writer proceeds-

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At present that.compensating pleasure is to be found, in any part of the New Territory, in "She asked for a pledge that no portion of the wondrous colours of the valleys. Once the retroceded territory should ever be given to attain an eminence from which the countryside any other foreign country. It was refused, and in visible all round the horizon, and your eye is she then saw that the time must come when she feasted and delighted with every shade of would have to measure swords with Russia, anderdaney; and if only the view takes in a from the day she did so she steadily set herself blue bight of the sea, the effect is heightened

to a development of her material and military to such an extent that it is with regret resources which would enable her to face the

you raise your eyes from the contemplation of struggle, when it came, with the same.confidence as that upon which she had entered on the war with China."

Mr. Longford writes with a caustic pen in his description of the conduct of the British Government in withdrawing our ships from Fort Arthur in 1898. "It is now well known," he says, "that a firm refusal to meet the Rus- siau demand, or to submit the legitimate move ments of the British ships of war to the discussion of any foreign Power, would have been accepted by Russia, and that her admiral at Port Arthur had the strictest orders to abstain from any risk of an immediate condict

It is no sxaggeration to say that if there had then been a modicum of firmness on the part of the British Government, the present war would not have occurred. Russia concluded that Great Britain had ceased to exist as u factor in Eastern politics. Her protests might safely bo disregarded, and the Novoc Vranya openly wrote: England will never go to say greater length than a protest. Her predominance in the Far East is gone never to return, and it will be the worse for her if she does not come The new French oruiser Gueyeon and the

to an agreement with Russia, France, and gunboat depic arrived here on the 8th instant from Tonkin. The former, owing to her size Germany in time." Japan was the only other and draught, did not corso into the harbour, bat Power to be reckoned with, and notwithstand- remaived outside ju the roads, M. Casumoving the evilence she had given in the China was on board one of the vessels on a visit of inspection of the various French Government institutions in the Far East. The vessels left on the 9th to visit Waiohow island, when several members of the French community, including Consul and Madame Flayelle, joined the party, returning on the 10th. The two

Ou the 39th March there were in the Insular verse la finally departed for Heilow on the Treasury in the Philippines ̧ 1,435,808.13 11th instant.

Spanish Filipino pesos, 1,230,000 of which were A NEW CUSTOMS ASSISTANT. Mr. E. K. Ball arved here on the 3rdshipped to San Francise for recoinage. During

FRENCH MEN-OF-WAR.

war of her military strength and organisation, Russian officers in the Far East have never disguised the contempt with which they regard- ed her as a military Power.

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Once more I have the honour of presiding at your annual meeting, and am pleased I can pre sout such a satisfnotory balance sheet. Thanks to excussive competition and silver cccentricities our profits have been earned with increasing. difficulty, and it much redounds to the credit of our managers that such a respectable total has boon maintained. You will observe that our gross profits were only £5,000 less than in 1902, notwithstanding the provision of £30,000 for the adjustment of our securities, but the ex. penses of management sro £22,000 greater. FOR The directors are keenly alive to the necessity fur wis sonnomy, but our staff have a reputation for prudence and intelligence, consequently they are exposed to the tempta- tion of higher pay elsewhere. Our defenen lies in liberality, and I soon judicious retrench- mont near at hand. Trade between Germany. and the East constantly increases, and with the view of maintaining and enlarging our connec- tions with that country, we have determined to agab favoured with suflcient ruin, and the open an agency at Hamburg. India has been country has consequently prospered. The price of cotton has naturally followed that ruling in America, and the cultivatora unist, thereby have benefited in a marked degree. Opiton has also under Lieutenant Colonel Brander consisted of attained a price quite anexpected, notwith four companies of Infantry, two seven-pounder standing the constant increase in the produv- tion by China. I presume that the well-to-do guns, and two Maxims. After four hours' fight. Chinese greatly prefer the flavour of the foreigning the flanks of the position were turned and

the Tibetans fed. The enemy's loss was Cup-¦ produck, and are, therefore, willing to pay the

tain Bethune, 2nd Pioneers, and three men enhanced cost. Indigo is still on the down grade, as it must be sold at uu unprofitable price to compete with the synthetic production of Germany. The great expansion, of linsed exports from Argentina shows that India hus to face a rivalry of no mean magnitude. Whether the world's consumption will increase sufficiently to absorb the cropsof both countriesis problem to be solved in the future. Jute so far production of the manufactured article is a very has found no competitor, and the increase in the Lord Carzen satisfactory feature in the trade.

[VIA RANGOON:}] THE TIBET MISSION.

Simlu, 8th May. Thero has been some severe fighting in Tibet. A movable column from Gyantsze last Friday

position beyond the Carola. The Tibetans worn drove the Tibetans from a strongly entrenched two thousand strong and were reinforced to two thousasul five hundred; the movable column

killed and fourteen mer wounded. The loss of Captain Bethune, who was killed in storming a sangar, is much deplored; he was a rising officer with a promising career before him.

Simla, 9th May.

The following Press communiqué is issued to, night: On the 6th information was received that the Mission Camp at Gyantsze was attacked a.m. The on the previous morning at 4 Tibetaus were repulsed with a loss of about 250 | killed and wounded. Meanwhile information

great the neighbourhood of the Kara La which was had been received of a gathering of Tibetans in

tions, and Colonel Bränder, with four companies considered threatening to our line of communica of the 32nd Pioneers, forty Mounted Infantry, twenty seven-pounders and two Maxims, moved from Gyantsze to attack them. He reports on the 6th that he found the enemy about 2,500 strong entrenched behind sangars, and that after about four hours' resistance, succeeded in out- breaking and dispersing them. The enemy's loss has not been ascertained. It is to be re gretted that Captain Bothune and three men of 32nd Pioneers were killed and 14 men wounded. All is quiet now at Gyantsze

Simla, 9th May.

India at Khangra, where the alternative route to Llassa joins the Tuus-Gyantsze road. It

as Viceroy, and Sir Edward Law as Finance Minister, have by their wise budgets proved If desirous of a short trip into this country. their fitness for the positions they occupy. The one can never go for wrong in firing upon plans for further izliway communication barnd Kowloon City as a base of operations. Rick upon expanding revenues shavid create in due shas are easily obtainable up to that point, and course new avenues of trade, and

and from the seaboard. Burma has again when once the quaint (and dirty) town is passed desideratum, namely, lessened cost of transit to there is quits a variety of routes to tempt the prospered, the crops of rice are always increas walker. For those who do not care about hill.ing, and the quantity of rapees ponred into that country year by year never to reappear is climbing there is the shore road leading away phonomenal, The Straits Government are round Kowloon Bay and Lyenmoon Pass, busily engaged in perfecting their new currency Hill-climbers will ho more attracted by the scheme. Unfortunately their difficulties have been greatly aggravated by the delayed prohibi- steep old highway that runs straight up the

tion of further importation of dollars. During mountain-side between the frowning Lion's the transition period it behoves bankers to work Head and majestic Nogtan Kok. But of all with much eircumspection, but I trust that are the paths that may be chosen there is one that long our branches in the Straits will be able to resume their former position with freedom and will appeal to most as offering the advantages of profit, Jaya has still to contend with low a pleasurably easy ascent and over-recurring fue values of sugar. Contraction in the cost of pro- views. This is the road that goes road the duction has hitherto prevented curtailment, but

It appears that the reason of Colonel Brander's bay beyond Kowloon City and runs throngly the there is a limit to economy, and the future is unpromising unless the position is ameliorated villages of Ngaushiwan and Ngautaukok before by the abolition of bounties in Europe. Our being sent out from Grantsze to eject the it commences to go up the hill. From the business in the Philippines had been of late Tibetans from their sangers on the Karola Pass was because the latter threatened Colonel paddy fields, glorious in their greenery, this restricted and unprofitable. Trade in those islands shows fow signs of renewed activity. road runs up the slope some two miles before The Americans, since their advent have very Younghusband's line of communications with the inmit is attained. When the top is in unwisely prevented the ingress of Chinese, and sight and just at the point where the have thus made a return to prosperity difficult and tedious. China during the year ander old Customs House comes into view. there review has produced no surprises; the volume was impossible under these circumstances to is a path branching off to the right, a granite of external trade and the revenne derivable leave the Tibotas apon the Karola, though this built path used for years inumerable as a from the foreign customs show little variation

pass (the highest on the whole route to Lhassa) highway by the farmers and village people of from the figures of 1902. With peace there is some forty-three miles from Gyaatsze.. The will be industrial progress, but any rush to the district. The main path leading right up exploit the country is greatly to be deprecated. Tibetans appear on this occasion to have made the hill is not devoid of attractions, for if you The Chinelo aro very conservative, and it is some slight stand behind their sangars, but the should follow it and go on post the Customs difficult to eradicate their preconceived notions. nature of their opposition was such as to show House for a mils or so you open up Baikune Japan up to the outbreak of hostilities was their entire inability to west even the smallest. happily placed, The effects of the over- Valley and the broad bosom of Port Shelter speculation which followed the war with China trained force. They fled headlong after the but it is the branching-of path which attracts had disappeared. Capital was abundant and fight and no purenit was undertaken, as Colonel our footsteps to day. Here there is no chance trade thriving. Now, bearing in mind the Brander sobject was entirely attained in driving of ancountering oven the most nomadic of waste of money produced by the present conflict

with Bussin, it is in possible to forecast the them from their position. It appears to have been Hongkong-ites. A great silones pervades the fatwe economic condition of the country. during Colonel Brander's absence that the Tibe- The Chairman then moved: That the tans from Shaugatizonítacked Colonel Younghus- place. Only an occasional grass-cutter with her burden lends animation to the scope, and the report now presented, together with the balance band's camp at Gyantsze. Two hundred and sheet nad profit and less account, he approved fifty dead and wounded Tibetans were found in silence is runde all the more marked by the rip and adopted." pling song of the clear brock that accompanies us down hill. As we get farther down into the valleys towards the sea, we find that the streun opens out into a broad pool whose cool deptins and dancing current at once suggest a baths. And very pleasant is the dip. It puts an edge, too, on our appetites, and there and then we proceed to make our midday meal on a loaf of brown bread bought in Kowloon and a tin of sardines. It was a meal to be remembered with gratitude till the and of our days, and as we partook of it we thought with pity of the poor of the year, and the process of elimination has deladed creatures who were spending theja gone on with respected speed, greater pro-holiday in playing billiards in Hongkong or gress having been made during the month of fantun in Macao, April thas in any preceding mouth. During the mouth of April $646,110 ia vulno of the new silver certificates were issued, making the The H.I.G.M. gunboat Tiger arrived here total of such certificates in circulation April 30, yesterday from hougay and Haiphong.

instant to fill the post of Assistant-in-Charge of Geneval Office in the Customs-left vacant by the departure of Dr. J. H. Lowry, who de. parted for Eugland at the beginning of April laat. In the absence of the usual Medical OBeer attached to the Customs, Dr. Sanger, of the Church Missionary Society's Hospital, has consented to act as Medical Officer to the Cus-

toms staff.

AN OLD RESIDENT.

Mr. L. Jadell, paraer in Messrs. A Sobemburg & Co.. who, together with Mrs. Judell, left for a sojourn in Germany last year, returned on the 9th instant. Mrs. Judell will not come back nutil the autump,

THE GERMAN CONSUL

The s.8. Car! Diederichsen arrived on the 17 instant for the sole purpose of lauding Mr. H. vou Varchmin, who left for Hongkong a few weeks ago on business,

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THE BRIBERY CASE.

PHILIPPINE CURRENCY.

the month of April 8,031,395.66 Spanish

Filipino pesos, irinluding subsidiary coins, came into the Treasury, and were retired from oir- culation. Of the amount time received 1,810,000 were shipped to San Francisce for recoinage, On the 30th day of April there remained in the Iusalur Treasury ready for conating, packing, and shipping 3,810,164.72 Spanish Filipino pesos. Since the 1st day of January, 1904, therefore, it appears that more than eight to twelve millions of Spanish-Filipino coins and

· the Treasury been retired from eirculation. This amount is undoubtedly much more than one-half of all that there was in the Islands at the beginning

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1904, $4,666,710. The large elimination of old local currency during the month has operated The enquiry in connection with this now to create a scarcity of that kind of coin in the famous case is not yet concluded, Cheong Islands, and therefore to raise its price in the Kwok-fung was again summoned to Liuchow to local markets. While the Gorerament ratio of give evidense, but as he had left the port, a 1 to 2.26 which existed on April 30 was telegram was sent to him to appear; in the materially lower than the commercial ratio in meantime a responsible assistant in his shop the oils of Manila, it was likewise materially being retained. Cheong came back on the 9 higher than the ratin existing in Hongkong or instant, when he was ordered to proceed to London. In other words, the Government ratia -Linchow, taking with him his old account-books, was better than the markets of the world would The late magistrate of this place, who is con- warunt, but not as high as the ratio created by corned in the ease, 'is still detained at Lauchow special conditions in Manila. pending the order of the Canton Viceroy, it is said.

AN ARMED ATTACK,

When the water of the Mississippi riyer is werm enough to permit, Henry Holinan, a diver, will start to walk from La Crosse A native clerk in foreign employ, living in an city to St. Louis, about 600 rules, on the bed of isolated hours in a village net far from the the river. Hofman was once a deep-sea diver, foreiņu residences, was the victim of an armed and claims that he can make the trip in safety in four months time. He will be accompanied attuck on the night of the 9th instant. During by a boat carrying air-pamps and provisions, the fray an innate of the bones received and claims he will leave the water only for meeks wound on the bond which necessitated his re- and sleep. Hoffman has already ordered a moval to the Church Missionary Hospital for special diving suit in which to make the novel

trip. treatment,

Mr. Emile Levita.seconded the motion.

The

the immediate proximity of the camp after this Mr. John Squibb said he was very glad to see attack, so the Tibetan loss, including their that the directors had now increased the reserve fund to an amout equal to the paid up capital casualties at the Karola, which are not get of the bank £800,000-for he believed in good accurately known, zust have been heavy. £16,000 more than was brought forward. In reserves. They had also carried forward about lesson which has been taught them kus been so those circumstances he hoped that, before the rere that it is new doubtful whether any close of another year, or when the next interiecnsidera le addition to Colonel Younghusband's dividend was declared, the board would take force will be required to enable the advance to into consideration the patience of the share be continued to Lhassa, failing satisfaction at holders, and see if they could give them a little Gyantsze. The fighting which has taken place more then in the way of a dividend than the 16 changes the entire position regarding Tibot, per cent. which they had been receiving for the Blood and trineurs which have been spent making it necessary for the British some time, (Hear, hear.)

Government to insist upon grantees prevent the possibility of a recurrence in the future of such events us have just taken place.

Kangra 11th May.

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Our casualties at the Karo La on the 6th

The Chairman replying, stated that some months must slapse ufore the profits for 1904 wore ascertainable. When that time arrived the directors wonid duly keep in mind the reasonable expectations of the shareholders; but

met tell them fully that the board's policy were Captain Bethun, and four sepays killed would be directed to moderate annual addition and fourteen wounded, one since dead. The to the reserve fund until at least unother £400.000 Mounted Infantry pursued the Tibetans twelve was reached. A bank such as theira, with rami-miles, killing many. They found a second camp fieations in distant. colonies and foreign hands on the road to Nangatso; this was burned. The must emrefully safeguard its credit. Besides, the Tibetan losses were about 250 killed and mury reserve was really an addition to the capital wounded. Several prisoners were taker, includ- without a cull upon the shareholders for money; ing sover monks, one from the large monastery it was always fructifying, and therefore pro- of Sampling. portionately increased the yearly profits.

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The rost of the journoy was equally enjoyable to the first part. The advantage of this route is that it is circuler, so that one does not have to traverse the same country twice over, and also one makes the journey as long ne as abort as one pleases by cutting down any of the valleys to this set and coming back to Kowloon by the shore road. Some of the valleys here.

Colonel Braudler's force returned to Gyantsze about are of remarkable beauty, filled with fine

to-day without molestation. Maxims were fired old trees, banyan and conphoz, and alive without that last year an amount of £15,000 was on the Jong during the afternoon, and the fire feathered inhabitants-partridge, turtle-doves, shown in the report as representing bonus for was not returned; but at dusk the Tibetans and smaller fry. On the way back to Kowloon the staff, whereus there was nothing in the opened fire from larga jingals which can reach Dr. City by the beach one finds new objects of present report, the chairman said that it mat the camp. Ons Gurkl of the 5th Regiment was hit and one follower of the 8th Regiment not be forgotten that out of the $22,000 increase interest or attention at every step, and it is in the cost of management during the period Beth have since died. with a feeling of something like regret one sees under review, £15,000 represented increase in the blue ensign finttering in the ear distance the salaries of the staff last your from the Police Station, denoting that here the rickshas await us to carry us back to dingy | Hongkong and our daily drudgery at the office desk.

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Gyantsze, 11th May. In a reconnaissance yesterday to the hills The motion was then unanimously adopted, north-east of Gyuntszoto a monastery harbouring and a resolution authorsing the dividend Tibatan soldiers, big jingals in the Jong fred carried.

ou vur troope when returning, and continued Sir Montagn Cornish Turner and Mr. Lewis firing all the afternoon, my balls, buif and Alexander Wallace were elected directors, and sne pound, striking the camp and passing No serious damage was Bir Alfred Dent, KCMG., and Mr. Jasper through the tents. Young, who retired, were-re-elected directors. donu.

Simla, 12th May. "The auditors, Mr. Maarice N. Girdlestone and Mr. Magnus Mowat, wero re-appointed,

Colonel Brander has returned to Gyantsze, Major-General R. C. B. Pemberton then where the entire Mission is now assembled. proposed that the best thanks of the share There has been no further fighting, and the holders be given to the directors and staff for Thotaus in the neighbourhood are most friendly, their successful management of the bank.

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