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of law we could not be permitted to testify to any particular act to show that the standing of a um was not good, but we would be asked if we knew his general
In the Small Court, at the Magistracy yester day morning, a Chinaman was ejected by the
Court Constable for speaking aloud.
There should be a good fight put up in the City
meota Hugh McPheo for $500 in a 20-round
Hall on the let of next month when Jack Burke
middleweight context. A few good preliminary. hunts are being arranged.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,pation. Acknowledging the justice of this principle, we do not, therefore, propose to direct Your Excellency's attention to any one act, but we state that the official stand-A ing of the Consul-General is not good, and -that-uis course her his hot inspired the confidence of the substantial foreign" re sident of this port. We do not-feel-safe under his administration, and we deeply
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regret to write that we do not. We are loyal to our flag, and we beg that you will have it represented by a man who embodies in his official conduct it's high mission.”
No one can read that without seoiug it a serious reflection upon a public official with great responsibilities; and yet there is not in the whole of the complaint a single specific charge against the man to whose conduct and character it bears reference. To such vagns charges, so serious in their general effect, as our Kobe contemporary Las pointed out, there is no possible reply. We cannot help feeling considerable amazement timt sich a' document did not promptly find its way into the waste paper receptacle of the U.S.
TELEGRAMS.
| REUTER'S SERVICE]
THE MÄRSEILLES STRIKE.
LONDON, 5th September.
The situation, at · Marssillas in uncringed, The P. & Oliver Arabic his left "for Lon) It has been decided to present, thy Colony of Ceylan with a Mazim gan obtained from thedon without discharging ler Marseils cargo. Boer forces, in roeognition of the servies ren-
CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE, dered to the Empire by the raising and despatch of the Ceylan contingents.
It is recorded by the Singapore Free Press
thut on seeing the larges number of ships in port decorated for the birthday of Queen Wilhel,
in a member of the M. S. U growled this a British Port? An Asiatic Antwerp call it."
all
The Rangoon Gazelle, reporting.« recent “mesmoric entertainment, says that a well-known
merchant was sat down among the audience selling imaginary monkey-nuts, while another who imagined himself a toddling babe followed after him calling Do, Da."
Mr. C. B. Mowzawala has just beaten r. A. B. Avasia, the holder of the Half Mile
Championship in connection with the Parsee The Club Championship Swimming. Clab. goes to the winner of the foal on Saturday next, accompanied by a silver cup.
LONDON, 5th September.
THE WAR.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS]
RUSSIAN CRUISERS
RETURN.
PAKHOL
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT]
3rd September.
CANY WAY TO OBTAIN GUNS. A licensed junk of about one thousand picuis espacity was peacefully lying at anchor off, the Custom House on the night of the 28th ultime ready to ruceive a cargo of foreign goods for Yamoków. Out of a crew of eight, four wåut The Tsar's orders having been ashore, and the remaining four last made up
communicated to them, the Russmtheir evening meal, leaving body on th
LONDON, 7th September.
their mind to retire to their cabins soon after
watch The weather was all that could b
M. Combes sperking - Auxelle doctored cruisers Smolensk und Petersburg desired, with a smoothie while the moon was that the Concordat was no longer possible are returning to Europe. the ouly plution of the xiinstion was the separation of Church and State by mutnal consent..
HONGKONG GOOD TEMPLARY.
Temporance work among the kindred servicer of the Army and Navy has been making marvellous strides during the last few years, and the good work institnted by Miss Agnes Weston as her 'go-helpers has found ready. hands to assist in furthering the cutie in all- parts of the world.
X
KUROPATKIN'S, DANGEROUS
POSITION
EVACUATING MUKDEN.
LONDON. 6th Septëmbor, It is reported at St. Petersburg hat General Kuropatkin's rearguaril has been (Cathay Lodge X) has instituted wekly ninost annihilated, and that the main army mostings at its rooms in Arsenal Street. whereis in imminent danger of being surrounded. such successive week, after the formal business
The hical branch of the Good Templars |
has been transacted. topies eulcalated to be of The Japanese are now within twenty-five general interest are set down for discussion alles of Makden, and the evacuation of the
when members of ather lodges are invited to attend.
just-anierging from the horizon-Besides, there. was a guard boat at afchor scarsely n hundred yards away. Under these circumstances no danger of any kind wwsapprobanded. Ketween 8 and 9 o'clock, however, to the OTOW'S AMEZE- ment, they found themselves surrounded by'n lot of strangers, whose demeanour convincert them at once they wage a gang of old and daring pirates. They were eagerly looking for rifles and ammunition of par kind: The cres, having been found napping, and who owing to their roduced number, quld not offer any resistance to the intruders were compelled to give up the seven rifles they hand on hourd, together with all the ammunition, after which the moran ders- guiltily slipped into their sosipuns, but not before threatening vengeance on the junkmen if they should mise any alariu.
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PROBABLY THE SAME PARTY..
On night of the 29th alt, a pastonger junk
| Department of State. Mr. JOHN GOODNOW | China Times that nearly all the foreign specii These again are varied with Bacial evening,city by the Russians has begun. [Delayed.] from Saicheong was captured by pirates within
A recent visitor from Dalny infertus the
correspondents who were recently allowed to lease Tokyo to become attached to the force which is attacking Port Arthur pa to be found at the Dainy Hotel, kicking their lies with impatienes at not being permitted to go to the actual front, where siege operations are daily
nadertaken.
Reference to the quarterly programme would have shown the words Somebody's Birthday set against the evening of Tuesday, September The identity of the "somebody." however, was su open secret to all interested. It was simply a cryptic form of annonsing that Bro. Bullen, in charge of the Soldiers and Sailors Home and a member of the Order of many yOUTS
occupies, of course, a position of grave responsibility, and it were well that such an official should be, like the Imperid Roman lady, above suspicion. Who, however, may rise superior to all stigma, if he is to be exposed to such inconsequent aspersionsfas these made by the Shanghai missionaris : By kind permission of Lieut. Col. Iremonger and officers, the band of the 93rd Burn Infantry Mr. GoopNow may have given ameroas causes of complaint that we have no suspi-will play this programs at the Kowloon Hotel.ading, intended celebrating his birthday by eion of: we do know that he has seemed to during dinner this evening (weather permit giving a sin ten to the mambers of his ludge, Idyll. Hiawatha, Moret: Salcolion. Merrie The room presented quite an animated appear- England, German; Song. Beloved. it is Mora. Jauce, three long tables, with tasty floral decora. Florence Aylward: Selection, San Toy, Sidney tious, being well loaded with comestiblor, Ant Schwingon-der-Liche: among which must he mentioned u huge Jones; Waltz, Bolam: Intermezzo. Phryas. Hoby.
birthday cake. The soldiers and sailors—many of the former wearing the South African ribban --leavened by a fow civilians were not slow showing their appreciation of the same. After justice had been done to the things provided,
Association, announced the reason the gathering that evening, and wished Brother
soine Shanghai Americans a inan after Pra.ing)March, The Washington Post, Sonsa to be followed by an impromptu concert.
sident RoosxVELT's own heart, a strong man, of quick decision and prompt action, who has, in numerous instances, set the law of Shanghai above "yellow" patriotism, and given rulings calculated to preserve the higher prestige of bis own community and the necessary amenities of an international
With reference to the paragraph which appeared in yesterday's issue about two Chinese getting sentenced at the Police Court to a fine
THE PIRATE CRUISER "ST, PETERSBURG,"
LONDON, 6th Septembër. The Russian instructions to the merchant cruiser St. Petersbury (to cease operations) have
rent last been communicated to the
[Delayed.]
stenmer.
(HDOTER'S SERVICE.]
IMPEDED JAPANESE INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES.
LONDON, 5th September. General Kuropatkin wires, 3rd instant,
sight of this port in fact the discharge of Brearms during the attack could be heard by the people in the harbour, but the numerous guard-boats scattered along the port remained indifferent, as if nothing wrong was happening. One of the passengere was killed during the affray and several members of the crew and a few passengers were wounded. The junk was taken to a gulet place named San-niu-Wan and after being relieved of a pond portion of her cargo was released, arriving here on the morn ing of the 30th ultimo.
THUNDEESTORM.
A violent thunderstorms, accompanied by very heavy rain. visited na early on the morning of the let instant. A lightning spark caught the mast of a junk, anchored in the centre of thes barbour. After reducing the mast into splinters it worked its way into the cabin, killing a mau and a young girl. Another spark fell on public latrine in Salt Fish Street. I hear also that three men were killed by lightning in a
|tall millet, which greatly impedes the town: The houry in has not failed to cause inconvenience to those whose roofs are still
settlement. It may smack too mmel of the of $50. and 14 days' imprisonment respectivelyBrother Makom, of the Hongkong Temperance that the area of operations is covered with village named Tok-si-kan, not far from the
for unlawful possession of "filthy vice sweep-
S. WATSON & CO. methods of the petitioners if we stak furings, it appears that the sweepings were probable motives; but we cannot combat a brought to the Police Station simply to "blind" suspicion that there is justice in the saying the authorities What the men got sentoused Bullen, who that day hul attained his 47th movements of the Croops, The Japanese, leaky owing to the lato typhoon that United States Consuls in the Far for was the possession of a bag of goud rice.year, continued health and prosperity. After a concealed in the millet, are inflicting heavy
which had been stolen,
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MARRIAGE.
Bast are at the mercy of American Mission Boards, who are powerin enough to have any Consul removed, unless he takes steps on avery occasion to show sympathy with their work." These missionary libellers have relied upon legal practice to justify their unique procedure: legal practice would excuse us if we were to suggest some like motive fur this action of their "How any useful in vestigation could be made on the strength of such an empty indictment we are unable to understand; nor can we conceive that On the 3rd August, at St. James' Church. Yan- such a memorandum could ever be enter B.O.. by the Lev. T. Fues Clinton,tained for an instant by British authorities, PERCT HOTEON, record sun of the Rev. T. H HOLTOAK, of Wimbley hauge, Manchester, to It would seen that the emphasised loyalty NELLIE GERTRUD, only daughter of WILLIAM
of these gentlemen " to the flag" was as to COWPER, of Moseley, England.
*[2166 DEATH.
quality somewhat strained; and that their loyalty to the principles outlined use New Testament was at the time of writing more than shaky."For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you crying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk iL men ???
PAUL to the CORINTHIANS is surely also PAUL to F. R. GRAVER, Missiouery Bishop Protestant
Shanghai, MAURUS LODSMAN LYNG, HAPPMANN, On the 2nd September, at the tiviral Hospital, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 24-years
The Daily Press.
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short, but appropriate response from Brother
globe.
Proceedings were brought to a conclusion shortly after eleven by the singing of the National Anthem.
THE RUSSIAN CRUISER FOUND.
LONDON, 5th September. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent wires that the instructions of the Enasian Government have been successsfully con veyed to the Volunteer cruiser Petersburg in South African waters. No news has yet
Bullen. the remainder of the evening was losses; one of Orloff's regiments has lost Mr. L. A. M. Johuston, the Postmaster devoted to harmony, most of those prosent 1,500. General, as sent a circular letter to various contributing to the programms, Brother. gentlemen in the Colony, reading as follows-Hughes, a Past Chief Templar, being especially Sir His Excelleney the Governor is of Inmorous in a few brief sketches culled from opinion that the Hongkong Volunteer Corps is his own experience in different parts of the not of the strength required to enable it to take its proper share in the detence of the Colony. I shall be inch obliged if you will let me know whether you are willing to join the Corps and also whether you have been s Volunteer before.” We are glad to learn from the Pioneer that arrangements are being matured for more coumlar posts in the Persian Gulf. This is goed now, for we met all (the Ceylon Times thinks be glad to hear of any step which is taken to consolidate the British position in Parsia, where other Powers have been left much too free to operate to our prejudice. A wise adjustament of influenes on the only basis which is reasonable ju Porsia would enhance British prestige immeasurably, and lay the Russian hogy affectually for a long time to come.
One of the dailies announces that the
marriage which had hean urranged between Major Eustace Crawley, 12th Royal Lancers, and Miss Daisy Leiter, sister of Lady Carzon, of Kedleston, will not take placo-Major Crawloy has returned from America. He of the best all-round inen in the British Army. This news shows that Major Marker may yot
of his former engagérnent to Miss Loiter that marry the heiress, for it was, and at the time
WE are wondering what our American Episcopal Church, when he says: "If then is famous racquets player and probably one
gueals are thinking of the extraordinary retition published in the Journal of the American Asiatic Asseintion, with.eference
ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are loast esteemed in the church. I speak to your
to the Consul-General for the United States Blame." Are the subsequent verses a dead, the objection to the marriage was sutively or
letter in the Episcopalian body? "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because yo go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather lake wrong? Why de ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? American polities, we have ne glean as they been told, are not always might be: In meddling with politics (for this is probably a bit of political jobbery), the reverend memorialists have associated themselves and their calling in a marked manner with very dirty politics indeed.
Colombo is sending & Rugby football teain to Madras
N.DL. KAISER WILHELM [1." The new N.D.I., steamer, Kaiser Willem IÌ.. in June last, made on her Atlantic voyage from New Yorkhome an average speed of 23,58 knots, liceu received of the Smotenak:. while on the last day of the trip the distance
gavo mean speed of 24.3ň knots, which, says Engineering, is the inost remarkable per- formance yet achieved by any largo ship for the sune length of time. For the 3,112 miles. the
time taken was five days, 11 hours, 58 minutes. which is rather longer than in some of the trips when record speeds were attained, but the speed which from ne engineering port of view is the important point is the best ever attained by- Atlantic vessel, The 23.58 knots compares with, the 23,51 knots, the highest for a voyage by the Deutschland in June, 1901, the Kronprint. another of the Vulcan ships, lurs equalled this; and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grasse. the fourth of the splendid quartette of Vulcan ships, has recorded 23 knots on an eastward trip. When a British ship is 22 knots, it will be recognised it is noted that the best performance credited to that the now Custard ships have not been
the part of Later pre, now del Tordered too soon if British supremacy is not to of Ceylon
belong to the past. On the highest day's run ever made, 564 sea iniles in 23 hours 10 minutes she travelled 2485 miles per hour.
(From Northers Papers).
MARSHAL OYAMA ADVANCES HIS HEADQUARTERS.
TOKYO, 2nd September. The headquarters of the Japaness Manchurian Army is procesding to Liaoyang.
THE CAPTURE OF BLOCKADE
RUNNERSİ
TOKYO, qd September. Rear-Admiral Hoseya, one of the Commanders of the Third Fleot, reports:
BTBAM VERSUS BAIL
I note with gratification that some of the goods from Canton, especially native cloth, are being imported by steamers instead of by junks as formerly This je owing, no doubt, to the insannrity of the jank trade at present, which is liable to fall prey to the sea rovers. Apparently the loss of the junk from Kongmoon; reported in my correspondence of the 6th ultimo, did not fail to be appreciated as a lesson by the mer chants. It remains now to be seen how the silk piece goods from Canton will reach here by steamers. The differential duty on silk textures. is enormously heavier when carried by steamers through Hongkong.
KWANGSI REBELLION..
It is reported that recently Viceroy Tren Chua-huan and Governor Kok Feng-shin disagreed in their views regarding the Kwangsi disturbances. The other day Governor Kok Feng-shih wired Faking regarding the state of affairs in Kwangsi to tus effect that the number of the rioters at Sea Shihpatung exceeds fifty thousand and the place extends' over several hundred Chinese li and Lu Ah-fah is command- ing them, and that if a single soldier be sent there the Government troops will lose many men, and that even if the Government troops- might get victory over the rioters still the rioters can make their way to the south and will | inflict damages at Linohow or can make their way to the north and will attack Kwelin, and that it is necessary to surround the rioters from all directions with a big army, when all the Government troops will arrive at the scene, but, the Governor continues. Viceroy Teen China-- basu does not despatch Commander Hwang Chung-li and troops to join the other troops to suppress the rioters, and nothing definite has beon doria to suppress the rioters, which is a great mistake, eta..
The Governor the placed the blame upon the Viceroy, as Kok Feng-shih is not at all on good terms with him.
On the 25th Angust, 26 native junks left Wellaire with provisions aboard destined to Port Arthur. However, on the 28th and 29th August those junks had been captured by the at Shanghai, some comments on which we
floof on duty blockading Port Arthur ut ses took from the Kobe Chronicle and published
near Round Island and Nan Saushantao and We draw the attention of householders at the in our issue of yesterday. So far as our
these junks were sent to Dalay. On instrue observation has gone, the Shanghai papers
Peak to the advertisement of the High Level
tions given by Admiral Togo, the Commander- WIRELESS TELEGRAPH LAW.
in-chief of the combined Fleet, due trial had have observed a noticeable reticence with
Tramways Co. pablished in another column
Who wireless telegraphy has gens beyond been effected. und it being proved that these regard to the affair, and this absence
to-day, from which, it will he legant that in exder to provide for the increased number of of support or criticism may perhaps be
arrants going to and returning from the the experimental stage, no doubt it will be added junks were trying to break the blockade the
Another latter from Kwangsi says -- indicative of the contempt in which the
market, the Company his decided in tre to the Government monopolies of the telegraph junks as well as the cargo on board the junks
Viceroy Teen bas received o telegram from action of the signatories is held locally,
extin cars batween 6.801. and 7.30 am. The and postal systems. But the Pastmaster were duly confiscated. The crews of the junks General's Bill introduced into the House of were then put on three of these junk's and
the Governor of Kweichen saying that Heis- Upon referring to the files, we find that the
genorul managers invite householders at the
kiang, Yungtsong and Pingmei of Kweichow North China Herald deprecated the publica
Peak to state what they consider the most Commens a few weeks ago does not propose released. -convenient times to rua the proposed extra cars
this The Jost interesting feature of this
are infanted with rioters and asked the Vice- tion, and pointed out a misrepresentation
and to make any other suggestions they may new method of transmission is that messages
The Race-week at Colombo this year seems rey to give assistance to defend these places can be interfered with, and this fact will hay
to have left only one story behind. The Times with the Kwangtung troops. The Viceroy's made in respect of business firms supposed
have to offer. The Company's readiness to meet the wishes of residents on the Peak will to be taken into account in granting licences to to have signed the petition to the President.
we are sure, be nauch appreciated."
the various syndicates and companies proposing guarantees its absolute accuracy. A midnight idea in that all the rioters are now at the reveller, who had on board more than bis proper districts along. Meitsai and Yangkiaug, while There has been, however, no protest against
to operata. They will have to be divided up the thing itself, nor any animadversion
Dr. Park, the Health Officer of: Penang, has into spheres of infimerice, and Government will cargo. found himself in a rickshaw one night the Kwangtung troops are at Hwai Yuan upon the form of it. Only the vigilant
presented a long and valuable report on the require-susuy-powers of regulation which it has but could only articulate "uruwalt tettu" in Pangkiang and Laopas, while the Huzar more effective control of Penang's food supply, not at present. As the difficulties about wire. feeble accents Ramasamy, siways equal to su troops are at Kahaus and Toking, and if the paper in Japan, apparently, noticed any injustice, and its comments we have already
the second part dealing chiefly with milk. Dr. less telegraphy have shown during the Russo omergency, took him to the GQ.H., and there Kwangtung troops be sent to Hsiakiang and Furk advises that the bowking of wilk should Japanese war, there may even be political he was shaken up and examined. Arawatt Pigmei it will take some time to affect the presented to our readers. Whatever mistake
be stopped, and all milk should be sterilised dangers in uregulated transmission of these tetta" was all he could say, so he was taken suppression of the rioters, and the Viorcy or misunderstanding there may be as to the
To carry out sterilisation would probably need ethereal messages. Where the installations go upstairs kindly and put to bed in No. 68. answered that the defence there should be done. business men at the back of this expression
an analyst capable of carrying out bacterio- beyond the United Kingdom or the three-mile Shortly after well-mowy sneficial member by the Kweichow army, while a portion of The average miniman of the thermometer in "of dissatisfaction with the senior consul of the Shanghai Settlement in August was 75.2 logical investigations, and would post about limits, there might be, breaches of neutrality in of the Legislature, who is a staunch teetotaller Commander Hwang Changli's troops be seit
the northern port, there is"
"no probable the average puximum 97.6, and the mean 81,459,000. But it would enable the standardisa case of war which would involve Government in and who had been diving but, returned to the as reinforcements so as to suppress the rietors his bed. skibpatung are now attacked by the various shadow of doubt, no possible doubt what against 76.5, 924, and 85.4, respectively, intion of milk to be carried out. Dr. Locks responsibility. Yet says the Saturday Review, hote and sought his room only to find an on the Kweichow border. The rioters et Sre ever," that this remarkable request to August 1903. The rainfall in August was 2.81 4greed as to the importance of looking after there exists no power of control under the inebriated person snoring in
and the intruder awakened. I told the Kweilin and Lushow are dealt with first and President ROOSEVELT was signed by a dozen inches, and raie fell measurably on 9 days, the food supply and the supreme necessity of Common Law, or perhaps it would be better to Porters, boys and messengers were summoned Government troops. Now the rioters sear
against 1.27 ineties and 8 days in August 1903 para milk supply, but was not propared to say it needs better definition to meet such a
Ho make so many restrictions on the trade. or more missionaries. The serious portion and an average of 6.08 inches and 103 days for was naked to supply a memoranlam for the remarkable development as wireless telegraphy; coolia-sixty-eight Brissy Hot'l," he mumbled I then those at Clingyuan will be dealt with in
out, and thither they eenvegel him. - use of the Commissionera,
found dead
A Chinese plague victim was yesterday in or at Jardine's Bazaar.
H.M.8. Espiegle, gunboat, has returned from Weihaiwei, spending a week at Mira Bas en route. The Leviathan; 1st-class oraiser, is on
her way up north. The Humber, stoveship is
taking stores to Weihaiweí.
of the representation - reads :- “In a court the twenty-two years 1882-1003..
and this the Government Hill proposes to do.
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