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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6TH, 1904.

i to look the prospect in the face. Personally fast to memories of the long age past, as we have said, Sir Ronent HanT's admin trusted for information of what was going istration has been singularly free of interua-en around him, proved to be the absolutely tional jealousies, and the best man has over worst-informed individual in the capital. had the chance of promotion offered to him. As the question of Sir ROBERT Hant's In one particular, and perhaps only one, successor must arise within the immediate

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ed in the personality of the service, and usual reserve. It is true that the operation that is a weakness which curiously he has of recent events has in some slight measure. shared with many of the greatest minda in restored the weight of British councils at history; he has failed, and the failure is at Peking, by pointing out that on the whole the moment a serious one, to train up anther have been actuated by a greater regard adequate successor whose appointment would for the interests of the Cinese Government teet with the like universal approval as than those false but loud-tongued datterers his own.

This absence of political bias is who only nought their own nggrandi ement, It is one of the great difficulties that present utterly regardless of any higher dis

well that the British Government should themselves in the appointinent of a succes sor, as it is cssential for the permanence of boldly Face the situation; and this the mora an office, which itself is one of the strongest advisedly that many, if not the majority of guarantees for the continuanes of the Em the difficulties in China, have been conduced

to by its invelerue habit of refusing to look its difficulties in the inee.

TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

EMIGRANT STEAMER.

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FOUNDERS.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

LONDON, 4th July.

The Danish emigrant steamer Norge has foundered off Rockall.

Seven bundred and seventy people were drowned,

[Rockall in a reef lying west of the Hebrides. The Norge is a vessel of 2,427 tons not. Sho was built by Moser, A. Stophon & Sons, of Glasgow, in 1881; her present owners boing the Forenede Dmpskib Selskab. Her port of registry is Copenhagen.--ED.]

THE TIBET EXPEDITION.

THE FIRST AUDIENCE.

LONDON, 4th July, Only three cases of plague vero 01 yes.

The first audience with the delegates has terday's list.

Plate has broken wat af Aden, and the place been held at Gyangtse. is under sanitary restrictions,

Mr. Gen. P. Lammert's furniture auction,

AERATED WATERS of our manufacturer, that this independence of mere politi, cal aims should be the most prominent made under constant Earopena expert supervi-factor in the appointment of a successor, sion are sold throughout the Far East and are such an independence as in the present holder has established a record, as au invariably preferred on

Englishman, for perfect justice and impar tiality, uot only as between man and man, excellence.

bat between nationality and nationality. TEE MACHINERY in use embodies evory Possibly, and the complaint is pretty advertised to tuka place to-morrow, the 7th general amongst Englishmen, his impar.ast, has been postponed till Saturday, the 9th improvement up to date,

tality was so strongly marked, that sooner instant. than have it called in question, it some- times, when things were equally balanced, contrived to exrry his decision just over the dead centre, and gave the advantage to the non-English

is guarantood ABSOLUTE PURITY THE BEST MATERIALS only are used.

THE PRICES are only half those charged

in England.

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The career of Sir Rourer HART as Inspector-General may be divided into two great epochs, that before, and that after be had heen offered and accepted the post of British Minister in June, 1985. No greater blander, even in an age so prodigal of binndere, was ever made; and with bis acceptance of the office Sir ROBERT HART'S career of usefulness may be said to have como to an end. The good administrator and the good politician are seldom combined, A. S. WATSON & CO. and Sir KOTERT was no exception to the

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rule; as an administrator he stood on the highest lovel, and might have continued there to the end of his capacity. The British Government, without running counter to the interests of other Powers, were able to support his action; and the consciousness that this support would be forthcoming frequently enabled his 'recom- mendations to be carried even when they were opposed by the most reictionary methods of the Chinese obstructives. All this was changed when the Iuspector-General unwisely zeropted for a time the position of British Minister. It is true that the offer of the post was one extremely flattering to the self-consciousness of anyone, however high his previous position; and had Sir ROBERT HALT previously been free of his

it might have been a wise appointment. engagements with the Chinese Government

As it was, it was evident to anyone intim ately acquainted with the workings of the position that its acceptance must lead to

Transvaal mining houses interested in the importation of Chinese labour have purchased tku old refugee camp near Durban us receiving depot for tha.coolies.

Capt. A.Stewart, of the s.s. Catherine Apcar, reported on arrival at Singapore that a Chinese passenger jumped overboard while the vessel was leaving Hongkong, and swan ashore,

Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., Ltd, of London, the contractors who lave constructed the Hong kong tramways, have got the contract for the Siamese Tramway Co's lines and equipment.

The position is uncertain.

(Gyangte is situated about 105 miles S.W.by.W. of Lusso. On the 28th ult, the Tibetans strongly opposed the advance of the expeditioo; and suffered heavy losses in con soyn noe, Our Londen correspondent on tlio 2nd inst. cabled that the delegates had arrived at Gyangtee.-En.]

SOMALILAND.

THE MULLAH ACTIVE.

LONDON, 4th July.

The Mullah is at present very active. He has 6,000 men at his disposal.

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[Little nows of any importance has come from Somaliland since the capture of Illig, situated on the coast, at the end of April. On that ocenior the British loss was light, whereas, the dervishes lost heavily.-ED.]

THE WAR.

JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCH]

RUSSIANS ATTEMPT TO RETAKE MOTIENLING.

Tokyo, 5th July, 3:45 pm. General Kuroki reports that under a thick fog at dawn on the 4th instant, two battalions of the Russian infantry attacked

our outposts at Matiealing, trying three times to take it by usnult. After severe hand-to-hand fighting our outposts repulsed the enemy, and pursued them 4 miles west. Our side had 15 killed and 39 wounded, including oue officer. The enemy loft on the field 30 dead and 50 wounded.

[METUER'S SERVICE.]

RUSSIAN REPORTS.

THE JAPANESE REPORTED TO BE

RETIRING.

Losnos, 3rd July. General Kuropatkin reports that the Japanese force have ceased to advance everywhere except from Benyucheng. They are retiring in the Eastward from the region North of Fenghwaagcheng.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NORMAN MCLEOD AND THE JEWISH ORIGIN OF THE JAPANESE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " DAILY PRESS," SI-Your interesting editorial of Thursday. June 30th, regarding the Hobraic origin of the Japanese, as propounded by Norman McLeod, in bis curious little book Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan. I have read with genuine pleasure, as it awakened many far-back

momori.

The small paper-bound Epitome, printed in. the office of the Rising Sun newspaper, at Nagasaki, was not the only book that McLeod

About 1878, he produced on the subject. published on Allaos, containing some ffly or

which

of

sixty copper-plute pictures, illustrating various Jewish ethnological qualities of the se cendants of Jiumu Tenno," and many of the domestic enstores nud utensils, connaon to the curly Jows and the ancient Japanese, were more DY less accurately depicind. There were, also, a few pages of in- troductory matter, in

: Un interesting comparativo folk-loro. of the two peoples, was spread out in McLeod's quaint and rambling fashion. The book was bound is dexible grean cloth, stitched through from cover. to cover, outside, after the manner of Japanese book-binding; it was for sale on the counter

was principally his own salesman; and I believe of Kelly and Walsh. in Yokoladin, lait Mekeink that the bus was first issued to subserilars.

The engraving of the plates was the work of a Japanese ärtist, who and become deeply engrosse ed in the subject of the Jewish origin of his countrgnen, and he was devoted to McLeod and his theory.

St. Petersburg newspaper telegrams frout Liaoyang stute that the Russians are taking

I was well acquainted with MeLeod, in Juzuar, the offensive and re-occupied the Taling pasa.

sou twenty-seven years ago, and had conside- The correspondent of the Boure Gazelle able intercourse and correspondence with hinn says that Mosier pass and Fengshui pass I still possess a few of his lotters, mostly written have also been re-occupied, and that Mis with rod ink. Ho was an enthusiast on the subject of the Jewish descent of the Japanese, chenko's Cossacks have annibilated a Japa-and had travelled far and wide over the Rising

| nese brigade at Sinyen. On the Tashichian | Sún-land, poncil and noto-book in hawdd, making

road the Japanese are retiring from all their positions.

The escape of the Vladivostock squadron was due to the darkness and the fog. Ad miral Kamiun at nightfall approached

Sixty Chinamen in Liverpool and district patitioned the Home Secretary not to reprieve their fellow-countryman, Pong Lung, who was recently sentenced to death for the murder of THE GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING the squadron to within a distance of 5 miles another Chinaman, Go Hing,

Sir Henry Irving in two years time will attain his jubilee as a strolling player," and when this period arrives he intends to retire. This announcement was made by the veteran actor himself at a reception given to him by the Manchester Arts Club last month.

CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON, 4th July.

Russian Hackenschmidt, the famous wrestler, beat Tom Jenkins, an American wrestler, in the Grieco.Roman Wrestling Championship contest,

In his annual report on the Straits Police

[Jenkins, 30 years of age, is of British descent. Force for 1992, the Inspector-General states

Until reaching his twenty-first year he worked that six secret socioties exist in Penang, and

in a cooling mill at Cleveland, Ohio. Here his that two of them, the Han Au Tre and Pangpowerful physique and prowess in wrestling Loong Hoey, with headquarters in the south of Province Wollesley, have been "active in interfering with the course of justico."

Since the resignation of Mr. Bonner, the for- mer Chief of the Fire Brigade at Manila, there

has been considerable dissension in the ranks of the brigade. Matters have been brought to a hoad by the Acting Chief suspending the Assis- tant Chief, Mr. Hoey. The nature of the charges has not been disclosed.

Mesare. Lovy Hormanos, of Paris, who have but recently opened a branch at Singapore, have just sold an enormous 'diamond of 112 carats to the Saktan of Deli, Sumatra. It is the celebrated stone known as the "Napoleon" which was recently discovered at the Cape, and

between Ikishima and Tsushima. The Russians shalled the pursuing torpedoers and, suddenly extinguishing their fights, disappeared in the darkness.

THE TRANSPORT DISASTER,

OFFICERS KILLED AND SAVED,

TO B

The Avani observes thut there now seems little reason to doubt that Captain John Campbell, attracted the notion of an English sports master of the Hitachi Mart, met his death when His triumphs include a victory over the ca

disaster overtook the transport. Thus being great English wrestler Tem Cannon, and victories ever "Bulldog" Clayton, Tom Mc-enerally recepted, the Government is now Inerny, Jock Carkcek, Cherles Green, and John making investigations with a view to decorating him for his services and granting a pousion to Piening of America. The leat-named. has him his family, as in the case of a Japanese officer salf emerged successfully from two contesta with Lurich. Hali Adali, admitted to be one under similar circumstances The same meng

ures are being taken with regard to Mr. Glass,

exponent of the art who has met Jenkins,

HONGKONG, 6TH JULY, 1904. AMONGST the great, administrators for whom the Victorian age will ever be famed endless misunderstandings, and could not it is said to be entirely the largest gem of its likely to have caused considerable disappoint. from the Hitachi, and 102 from the Sado

The

Capt. Johann Bolin, of the Choufe, has died suddenly at Koh Pai. He had gone to bathe in the son, when he was seized with apoplexy. The quarantine officer did what was possible to save his life, but his efforts were of no avail. funeral took place in Bangkok, the Bangkok Times states. Capt. Bohn was formerly muster of the Phra Chula Chom Kias, and his death is very deeply regretted by all who knew him.

rough drawings and memoranda of everything that suggested any connection with the subject of his theory; and, at the time I know him, he land amassed a great amount of curious information. relating to the social and domestic. Elu of thre ancient Japanese, about which he could taik interestingly for hours. But that contemplated

work of twelve volumes, in which la promiset v detailed account of the origin of the Japanese, with a description of their Jewish belongings,” was over published; and he would not listen to my suggestion, of the compression and system- tising of his accumulated material, for publien- tion in one volume. His ambition was to throw the great work of old Kaempfer into the sleade

McLeod, us his name implies, and as you say, was a Sent, with his broad speech only partially tamed, he was then. I think, nearing the balf century unack in life; wore a full heavy red-brown beard"; nad his nervone, rast. less torporament was clearly manifested in his features and manner. I cannot recall that. lie was a missionary certainly he was not attached

ano of his own peculiar waking; and I inve to any mission while I knew him, except tien

an idea that he had served in the British army, either in India or Australia. I have an im- pression that he was married to a Japanese

I berano acquainted with McLeod through journalist of

of the finest wrestlers it the world, is another the Chief Engineer of the Hitachi, and other for.adly; but in this I may be mistaken. They wrestled for thres hours and forty zainutes sign officers. Mr. Hayashi Asutaro, of the the late John Reddie Black, a lo a draw, Jenkins recently met and defeated Moji brauch of the N. Y. K., who has been ability, who had passed several years in Aus the great Scottish champlon, A. Muura,. The making inquiries into the fate of the crews of tralia and India, at one time the editor of the old Shanghai Courier, the author of a work appearance of Jenkins is deceptive. In the Idumi, Hitachi, and Sudo, reports to Mr Yatsui, manager of the N. Y. K. at Kobe, that

entitled Young Jago, and a remarkable figure breadth, stature, and development generally; the total of the crews of the three steamers wie

does not compare with the great

were saved and brought to Moji is 117, being 16 in the foreign community of Jepuu, upwards The result of the routest is he Russian.

of thirty years ago. Yours faithfully, including the third officer. From these men it U.S.S. Helete, is learned that Captain Campbell, who was on his right foot completely shot away. the bridge when the Russians approachod, kad

Ho T scun sitting on a chair near his cabin for a time, afterwards. Some say he throw himself ever- board, but the crew saw little of him after he was shot.

Mr. Glass, the Chief Engineer, was seen lying in the passage between lús cabin and the engine room, also wounded by projectile. Mr. Bishop, the Second Engineer was working in very high spirits up to the ast. It is stated he once jumped into the

ment in Englund and America, as a good deal of confidence was felt in Jenkins. The Chara pionship contest was arranged to take place at Albert Hall.ED.]

[REUTER'S SERVICE.]

THE TRIBET EXPEDITION.

LONDON, 3rd July. The Thibetana are opening nogotiations with the British Mission,

SINGAPORE AND THE CROWN AGENTS.

oar. It is

THOMAS GIBBONS.

Canton, 2nd July, 1004.

THE BISHOP OF MACAO.

PASTORAL VISIT TO SINGAPORE. Yesterday His Lordship D. João Paulino d'Azevedo e Castro, the Bishop of Macao, journeyed down to Hongkong by the Hong- kong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's B.B. Heungshan en route for Singapore and Tix a month's pusforal visit. Lordship was accompanied to the Macao wharf by at the loading officials, including His

Malacca on

water, but clambered on board again, helped to lower a beat, and left with thirty or forty mea, The Colonial Secretary, replying to a question he being at the behu. Two or three of the men Excellency the Governor, Sr. de Queiroz addressed to him last month, said :—

in the boat were swept away by a shot and the Montenegro; Sr. Alfredo Lelle. Colonial The negotiations between the delegates froin rest jumped overboard. Mr. Bishop was seen

Secretary: Br. Alves Branco. Harbour Master: Johore and the Colonial Office as to the terms of swimming and clinging to an

Sr. Guedes, Captain Superintendent of Police: the Convention under which the Federated Malay

supposed he is among the Crowned. Captain the Captain and Offers of the gunboat Die; / States desire to construct the railway through Anderson, of the Sadu, Mr. Kerr, Chief Major Santa Anna. Lispector of the Military Johore to connect up with Singapore are pro-

Attorney-General. The studouts of St. Joseph's Yahiko and Kawata, purser and clerk, were differences which as prosent divide the two picked up by a Russian beat and taken on

College to the number of about eighty also went ceeding. It is hoped that the romaining Engineer, Mr. Dring, Chief Officer, and Messrs. Forees; Inspector da Fazenda, and the parties may be surmounted. The official repro board one of the warships. Mr. Carmichael, aboard the Meangshan and paid their obeisances to the party and kissed tho Bishop's hand before the steamer left. Those who accompany his Lordship to Singapore are Father A. Gomes, Father Nunes, Father Arkwright, and ́Sr. João Lima; while there accompanied him as far as Hongkong O. Br. Deão Illydno de

few names stand out more prominently be conducive to British interests. As a kind in this part of the world, than that of Sir ROBERT HART, in whose fhet so great was the friction induced that hands for upwards of forty years has rested from the very beginning the appointment the control uf the Foreign Customs of proved a fiasco, and it become necessary to China; and whose good work has built up choose between Sir ROBERT as British Minis- one of the most splendid and efficient ter and the occupancy of the Inspectorate services of the century. Built up from the by a British subject. More unfortunately beginning free from the dangers of what is still, it was subsequently arranged that the usually known as politics, the service las Minister, with his wings clipped, and his been open to all the nations of the earth; power for good irrevocably ruined, should

On the 25th ult in the Yokohama District and out of such an apparently incongrious go back to his former office of Inspector..

From that time the Taspector-Court before Judge Danuo judgmont was given mixture, through the single-hearted work General. of the one man, has been built up a service Genral was almost forced to convert the in the claim for damages brought by M. which for unity of purpose and esprit de office from one of administrator pure and Dhanamal Chellaria against the Hongkong and The plaintiff's claim was Shanghai Bank. corps hus seldom been execeled. As having simple into a political factor wherein he dismissed with costs. It will be remembered, the largest interests at stake, as well as found himself opposed to all the other says the Japan Herald, that the plaintiff claimed being the most concerned in the opening up Powers, while the British Government for a damages from the Bauk for fullare to inform of China, the chief management of affairs similar reason were unable to afford him him of the arrival of a certain sum payable to naturally fell to an Englishman, but so well adequate support. This was shown in a him, by which he was unable to fulila contract. bas the institution been conducted, and so curious but instructive manner when, Sir The defendants claimed that in telegraphing the money a mistake had been made in the name of carefully for many years did Sir ROBERT NICHOLAS O'CONOR having been appointed the payee, and they had as knowledge that the HART avoid the error of permitting himself Minister, an influential intrigue was started person meant was plaintiff. to be swayed by merely political considera. amongst all the other Ministers then at tions, that for many years the Customs Peking, wherein it was suggested, probably service was superior to the efforts of those without a particle of reason, that the intriguants, mative or foreign, who have at Inspector-General and the British Minister

A Peking letter states that a Portuguese all times found Feking a fertile soil were playing into each other's hands, and gentleman is now in the Capital trying to get for the exercise of their peculiar arts. so powerful was the pressure brought to the permission of the Shangpu and Waiwapt to Sir ROBERT HART has now attained bear that the Minister, coutraty to all construct a railway between Macao and Canton. an age when it customary for even the precedont, was at once sent as Ambassader "It seems that this gentleman first went to most active of intellecte to seek rest in to St. Petersburg. From that time till the Shanghai and approached H. E. Sheng Kung. pao with the object of making the proposed retirement, and from time to time appear outbreak of the Busso-Japan war British railway a private ons, and a modus vivendi had evidently inspired paragraphs hinting that influence has steadily declined at Peking, even been settled upon when, it is reported, the wisbel-for period has arrived, and that and with British influence also that of the I.E. Viceroy Tan Chun-haven of Canton the resignation of the Inspector-General Inspecter-General, who gradually, from wrote to H. E Sheng Kang-pas asking the

share for the year ending 39th April, 1904, as fort of the party was well looked after by the may any day be looked forward to. Doubt being the trusted adviser of the Peking latter to delay signing any agreemont -von-

The depression mentioned as eastward of against 15 per cent. paid for the previous year'd captain and chief officer of the Heung-kat- less in many cases the wish is father to the Government, sank into the position of being corning the railway. The Portuguese gentle-cnlarly in the neighbourhand of the Miaco Simant., making in all 12 per cent or Tls. 12 per Bishop Piazzoli. On the voyage down the cou

Formosa yesterday is a typhoon moving appar. thought, yet it would be futils to suggest its humble dependent. To such an extent man, therefore, wearied with the delay in getting things settled in Shanghai, went to Peking to

met at their Club-house in Glenealy to welcome prevail in the Formous Channel; and light SE. rumours, or that the time has not arrived spring of 1900 the Inspector-General, to of Commerce and Foreign Affairs."-N.-C. wind in the northern part of the China Sea.

Feast-Light E. winds, fine. when it is becoming daily more necessary whom the British Government, clinging Daily News.

PROPOSED CANTON-MACAO RAIL-

WAY.

sentatives of the Government of Johore are displaying a liberal and broad-minded attitude and it only remains for Colonial Office negotia tors to meet half-way, to bring affairs to an early conclusion satisfactory to both parties. The question whether materials, machinery, etc., which have to be supplied from this country shall be purchased in the open market or

few others still an obstacle to an amicable through the Crown Agents remains among

settlement.

-WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday, isoned the following report:

Ou tho 5th at 11.45 .. The barometer bas fallen at nearly all stations, but more parti-

Group.

Second Engineer, and a few seamen und atokers, rowed to a warship. Captain Higg, Chief Engineer Kubo, Perser Yoshida, and all the other member of the crew of the Llaumi who were not killed, may have been taken on board one of the Russian ships. The boatswain and

14 men were killed by the first fiving at the Idzumi-Kobe Chronicle,

FARNHAM, BOYD & CO'S. DIVIDEND,

Gouveia, Father Manuel M. Alves, and Br. Braganca. His Lordship will leave for Singa- pore by the German mail steamer the Scyllitz to-day. The ceremony of bidding a revoir to the reverend prelate at the Muco harf was most impressive, and all the gubernatorial Moers. Vernon and Smyth, sharebrokers, party were dressed in full-dress uniforms and write-Our Shanghai agents wire us to-day medals. At. Hongkong the Bishop and his suite (July 5tle that Mesars. S. C. Farnham, Boyd were met by several reverend Fathers on the and Co. have declared a final dividend of 7 per pier and escorted to the house of His Lordship,

that there is no foundation for these was this carried that in the troubles of the work his scheme officially through the Boards ently to the NNE. Moderate SW. winds will working. A san. of Tls. 50,000 is carried to Last night the members of the Catholic Union

reserve, bringing that fund up to Tls. 900,000, and Tls. 48,900 are carried forward to the new account.

his Lordship and bid him God-speed on his voyage.