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THE WAR.

[JAPANESE OFFICIAL TELEGRAM]. "THE HUNHỎ SKIRMISHING.

TOKYO, 4th October.

On the 30th Sopteniber, the Russian cavalry (about fifty) were found burning the native juuks in the Hanho, when they were prevented by firing from the Japanese troops on both banks.

The Russian report of burning sevontoon juxis laden with Japanese amipunition is entirely false. It is believed that the report intended to excuse the Russian wanton destruction of junks, done to prevent the Japanese from using them.

[REUTER'S SERVICE] NOTHING NEW.

LONDON, 3rd October. General Sakharoff wires that the Japanese advance guards are south-east of Multäen.

The Intest accounts from Mukden indicate that the position is unchanged.

REVIEW.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6тн, 1904.

Japan by the Japanese. A survey by its highest authorities. Edited by ALFRED STEAD, London: William Heinemann. 1904, Twenty shillings.

SUPREME COURT.

:

Wednesday, 5th October.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

(PUISSE JUDGE.)

THE REAL PROPERTY AUT, The case was again callod in which Cha Kin Cho, trader. 16, North Station Street, Yaumati

sued Chan Ting On, 48, Sheung Wan Street, Sansnipo, for speciile performance of an agreement and 8500 damages. Mr. R. Harding. of Messrs., Ewens and Hurston, solicitors. appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. J. Grist,

of Messin, Wilkinson and Grist, soliciters for the defomitant. Plaintiff's case was that about the beginning of the current Chineso year he entered into negotiatious with defendzat to lease certain praises at Sanaspipo. On 16th April a six years lease was signed. But the plaintiff had nover boen let into possession, although he had rinde repeated applications, and the defendant had failed to carry out this agree- ment. Defendunt claimed that the whole question was whether the document was a lease or an agreement for a lowe.

spect of which specific performance of theallegat 1. agreement for a leasa is alleged to be claimed ex- coeds $1,000, it appeared that what Mr. Grist said was correct that he in the Summary Jurisdie. tion had no authority to transfer a suit which he had no jurisdiction to entertain to the higher

could not be entertained, and he could not order its, transfer to the Original Jurisdiction, thers- fore he would non-seit the plaintiff, with costs.

After hearing parties on the question of costs, His Lordship granted plaintiff costs in the first day's bearing saly,

POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, 5t1.Cctober. BEFORE MR. J. H. Kear (ACTING FIRST

MAGISTRATE).

:

AIDING AND ABETTING STOWAWAYB.

DEDICATED by permission to the Japanese Emperor, this collection of essays on the BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCOMBE SMITH jurisdiction of the Original side. The notion Imperial Family (by Baron Sanaomiya), the Constitution (by inquis Itoi, the national policy (by Marquis Yamagata), the Dist (by the Minister of Justien), the Army, the Navy Diplonmoy an excellent chapter by Professor Nagao Ariga), Education, Finance, Religions, Taxation, Banking. Commerce, Agricultore, &e., &c., forms an altogether unique volume Nothing just like it has been done before. It ought to disabuse the world of many errors of opinion with regard to Japan, but we fear that the general public will still follow after the falso and cheaper seribblers who have, through ignorance and lack of skill, conspired to create those errors. As it is impossible to properly treat all the various saticles in the space ut our immediate disposal, we shall have to return to the book as occasion serves. Indeed, this will no doubt be do o us a matter of e urse by inost journals, as the book must now be regarded as We the work of reference on things Tap:none. azo glad to note that in the preface the Editor has not considered it unimportant to remind us that before the so-called "eivilisation" of Japan there was already in existence a wonderful rational civilization." It is, indeed, opon to question if the Japanses as a nation are suf happier for the change that has come over the spirit of their dream. Incidentally, we may stop to admire the customary modesty with which young Mr. Stend premises I may have some little knowledge and some little under- standing of the Japanese people, but I certainly It is could not write anteoritatively of Japan." just as well to remember that, in view of some MOURDEN, 24th September.

For his idea of Our scoutsinform us that all the food supplies things that have been written. for Kuroki's army are being brought up from inducing the Japanese to supply such material Autang by the narrow gauge railway which he deserves the fullest credit but then, he has ruus for some distance past Feng-whang-chong.ulready taken it. in the preface. The inclusion A civilian arrived here from Lingyang says that of a lot of matter that is not now is explained all the Chinese in that city speak most lighly in this way, that some of the contributors hal already expressed their views so thoroughly of the behaviour of the Russian troops.

that to write on them again would only entail repelition." Therefore, the book repeats wint they had already published. Notwithstanding these things. Mr. Stead has every right to claim that it is “A unique work of great interest. Mr. Steal personally thanks the Emperor for so graciously accepting what

of that Buler's have thus tried to do for their country," and records his admiration qualities.

Contradictory reports prevail in St. Petersburg, some declaring that military anthorities expect a battle shortly, others that General Karopatkin is preparing to retire on Tieling.

(From Northera Papore). JAPANESE SUPPLIES.

A GRAND FINAL ATTEMPT."

-NEWCHWANG, 24th September.

The Isparese gunboats have left the river for the sont, it is rumoured to take part in n grand final attempt to secure the capture or surrender of Port Arthur. Bands of Hanghatze are still active all along both banks of the Liao River; and the Chinese authorities have recent ly caught and beheadel forty of them. There are: 7.00) Russian cavalry at Koutsiatse to protect communications west of Monkden.

PORT ARTHUR.

TOKYO, 9th September. The Japanese urty investing Port Arthur commenced an attack on the redoubts and etninences near Suisseying and those at the west of Flushau from the 19th instant, and in the afternoon of the 20th instant overpied the so-called Kuropatkin fort and six redoubts in the south of Suiszuying as well as the whole of the heights near the redoubts west of Itsushan, On the 21st instant the Japanese took the spring giving the water supply and destroyed the ongines there, and than occupied the redoubts west of Itsusban. According to Russian estimate Japanese casualties were about 7.500 killed sul wounded.

JAPANESE OCCUPY TWO MORE FORTS AT PORT ARTHUR.

CHEFCO, 25th September. A Wei-hai-wei telegram dated 7.30 p.m. of the 25th September says that the Commander- in-Chief of the British Fleet has just received a inessage from the Commander of the Japanese army attacking Port Arthur that two more Russian forts have been occupied by the Japanese.

FRENCH CAPITAL INVESTED IN RUSSIA.

TOKYO, 30th September.

A Puris special telogram says that French capital invested in Russia is of an enormous amount. The Russian Government loans The investments made in the Russian Government enterprises are over 150,000,000 yen. The amount invested in Banks, etc., is 1,344,498,000 yen. These figures are from the latest reports froni Paris. BLOCKADE RUNNERS SYNDICATE DISSOLVED,

amount to 1.175,370,000 yeu.

I

The Cyclones of the Far East; By Hov. Josk ALGUE, S.J., Director of the Philippine Weather Bureau. Manile Observatory Manila Barcan of Public Printing. 1904. THIS is the second and revised edition of Father Algue's great work on typhoons and their characteristics and data, which work pecupies foremost rank among the numerous authorities on the subject generally, and stands absolutely alone as a careful and methodical trostament of extraord navily minute offserva- tions and discoveries made in the course of forty years enthusiastic study. In the first section the painstaking and erndità author has explained the nature of the typhoon, its origin. its structure, its laws, and its movements, a great many elucidating the text with diagrams and charts prepared with reatness and accuracy always to be expected

the

ALLEGED ROBBERY, A man was charged with robbery. Inspector Robertson was in charge of the ease. It ap pears that on the morning of the 20tk uli. three wen broke into a house of Quarry Bay, and stole money, jewellery and clothing to the valus of $117. A woman was bound land and foot i· and a blanket put over her heal. On the 25th Mr. Grist said it would be remembered that the defendant was arrested, and identified. when the case was last argued he assumed A part of the money also was recovered,

The case was remanded. Ch. 306, was in force in this Colony. He ad that the Real Property Act, Sund 9 Vic., 1945,

For men were charged with ailing and mitted that this Act did notapply here, although

But there abetting stowaways, from Hongkong to Aus it Id been usually seted upon. wash further question with regard to jurisdic-tralia. on board the tion under the Summery Court Ordinance of which section 19, sub-section 4, limited the jurisdiction in setions for specific perform ancer of an agreement, such as a leuse, to cases where the value of the property did not exceedĪ $1.000. It was admitted that this property did exceed $1,000, and that being s there was no jurisdiction in that Court. He therefore asked that the action he dismissed.

Mr. Harding asked for a transfer of the

section 28. action to the Original Jurisdiction under

Mr. Grist contended that his Lordship had as power to transfer a suit over which he lad no jurisdiction. His Lordship had no juris- diction in this particular esse, therefore it could not be commenced in that Court, it could not be heard, and no order could be made except un order dismissing it.

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of the stowaways 12m from gani to give evidence. Three of the defendants were sen tenced to sine months' imprisonment, and the other to six weeks' imprisonment.

ALLEGED THEFT.

A Chinoman was charged with stealing sngar from the river stanjaer Kuroug Chow. The ense was remanded, so as to get a witness from the versal to prove ownership of the sugar.

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Hongkong, 15th August, 1904. KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.. A weeting of those interested iu forming a cricket chahat Kowloon was held at the Seamen's Institute, Kowloon. last night, com- moucing at nine o'clock.. Dr. J. H. Swan presided. A letter to Dr. Swan, from Mr. E. Osborne. was referred to. Mr. Osborne ad- vised that those interested in the mutter should first decide what they wanted. If they applied HAVE YOU TRIED for a ground for cricket alone they might have trouble, whereas an application for a generat recreation ground would, perhaps, be favourably received.

Mr. Scorr CRANSTON suggested that it was hardly likely that King's Park would be set aside for one club alone. He believed that the best course would be to apply for a general

recreation ground, similar to that at Happy Valley.

Mr. Gors STEVENS asked what was the position.

Dr. SWAN replied that the abject of the mest- ing was not in connection with a general zecrea.... tion ground, but to start a cricket club.

Three Japanese women were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner, with some 20 sailors, at West Point. They were running after the sailors, and the sailors running after them in turn. One of the women was seen on

"Quite so," said Mr. Stevess. They did u sailor's back. The thres defondants, who said they were simply out for a walk, were fined $5 not want a big piece of ground--not all King's sach or 14 days imprisonment. They wore Park-bat, for the present, just suough to make

months, in the sum of $60.

BEFORE ME. E. D. C. WOLFE (ACTING SECOND MAG)STBATE).

The CHAIRMAN: And for cricket alone.

A proviso at the end of also each hound over to keep the peace for six a pitch.. section 18 provided that the judge might traus fer a case if he were satisfied it came within the within the provisions of the secti n, and there- provisions of the section; but this case was not fore no order could be mule with respect to filing petitions and answers and any other matters necessary for the proper adjudication of the suit.

His Lordship remarked that if an original action had been started in respect of the same property it might be more convenient to take them both together and so to transfer.

Mr. Crist pointed out that the section with regard to transfer merdy contemplated that there was jurisdiction in that Court to traustax The Court must have jurisdiction over the subject matter of the suit

His Lardship in delivering judgment said that when the case was last before him the defence was raised by Mr. Grist that the document sted upon was in fact a lease and not an agreemont for a lease, and he said that as it

was not under seal then by virtue of 8 and 9 Vic., 1845, chap. 106, the document was void as a lease. To that it was replied that though the document might be void as a leases it might be

"

ALLEGED, DECOYING.

Mr. PARKS agreed with the Chairman; if they set the movement on foot it would roll on. Let them establish a club to be called the Kow- loon Cricket Club. They had ning or tan young players, ho know of himself, it to go in on the morrow. They could put a team as soon as Saturday to beat all the minor teams at Hong-

A man was charged with decoying a woman into the Colony, from Shekioong, for unlawful purposes, Mr. E. H. Grist, solicitor, defended. | kong.

The woman said she followed the defendant to, Hongkong, so as to earn money to pay her husband's debts; while the defence was that the defendant marvient complainant at Suckicong, thinking her to be a widow.

A woman was also charged, Both cases were dismissed.

ARTHUR ATTACKS. RELIABLE DESCRIPTION OF PORT

The following illuminative remarke (taken from the Kobe Chronicles were made by Mr. Bito, aide-de-camp to the Crown Prince, who with commander Miyamoto, uide to the Emperor and Dr. Katsura, the Imperial physician, ware

Mr. McGowan seconded that such a club be formed, and the motion was carried by a show of hands.

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The following cumamitted for the Club were selected and agreed to by thoso present: Dr. J. H. Swan, Messrs. Colland, McGowan, Cowan, Goyne Storens, Scott Cranston and Parkes, Mr. Harold Austen was made secretary pro tem.

The CHAIRMAN resommouded that a co- IT IS A SPLENDID ACCOMPANIST mittee be elected to approach the Governor on the subject of getting a small piece of ground IT MAKES ENTERTAINING VERY at King's Park.

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Mr. P. W. GOLDRING thought that the best! mode of procedure would be to send in a notification to the Colonial Secretary saying YOUNG AND OLD CAN PLAY THE NOBLEST SCORE WITH THE FINISH AND EXPRESSION OF A MASTER

from such a patient worker. The second part valid as an agreement for a lease. His Lord-recently despatched to the army besieging Portat they were willing to take up any site allotted i

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it must

document to show the date from which the leas

The

to them at King's Park. He did not think

desperate courage low by the Russians in defending Port Arthur is simply wonderful. the deputation favourably. He would per

now resembles a

bive of bees. Whenever the Japanese Legin

haps write

minute a

Artha to bivestigate the condition of affairs, exhaustively describes the phenomena which ship thought he would be prepared to hold on

Mr. STEVENS thought that they had better generally precode typhoons, and provides the similar cases that he had looked into that, us-

* The projectiles sout by the enemy reach a dispetitions or deputations were any good. tance of some six miles, and when we visited the student with some practical rules for making

Mr. Cowan agreed. There was nothing) 10, had force in this Colony, though the positions of the army, a shell would occasionally apply to the Governor.

I picked up a fragment of fall close to us. proper use of the early warnings which thus sing the Statuto 8 and 9, Vic.. 1845, chup.

like going to the fountainhead, and he was enable him to gather a good idea of what is document was void as a lease novertheless it. Here, in those precursory was not valid as an agreement for a lease, on

one shoil as a memento of the war.

mistaken if Sir Matthew Nathan did not recei.1€ likely to ensue.

and instruct the signs, we have au introduction to the study of the ground that the document sned upon had

For instance, a certain fort was being held by cloud phenomena which is likely to be as inte- nothing in it which showed an agreement to resting to the casual student në andoubtedly be useful to the mariner or other grant a lease at all. There was no hing in the

only about a dozen men, very skilfully working P.W.D. They ought to mark out five or ten acres on a plan to bring forward in case interested observer. The most up-to-date had been granted, whereas in an agreement for machine guns. They defeuded it with the

Mr. GOLDEING said that if they did not go methods and apparatus tee also described

greatest courage, and when they realized that they were asked what they wantel, The author in the third section advances lease a given date must be given from which to

obstacle in their way. Mr. CowAN did not! voluminous mass of evidence confirmatory grant the lease. In this document, then, there they could no longer hold out, they made u

furious charge against he Japanese, with smiles to the P.W.D. they would probably put every think so. His advice was adopted and a com- of all that has gone before, including was absolutely nothing to constitute an agrse- instances of the different types and clusos meut to grant a lease, so that if 8 and 9 Vio. on their faves, and fought until death. Sach |

mittés, ccnsisting of the following gentlemen. of typhoons, and preparing the student chap, i, had been a Statute in force in this examples are experienced every day in all for some exceptious and anomalies that he will Colony he would have held that the plaintiff directions, Port Ant ir

Swan and Mr. W. Cowan. positions just furiously probably encounter when making observations could not successfully go on with this action.

was selected to approach the Governor: Mr for himself. The practical parts of the work Only that morning it had occurred to him to bombardment, the forts burst into fire and W. B. Dixon, Mr. E. Osborne, Dr. J. H. have been presonted with an especial view to whether 8 and 9 Vic, chap. 106, was in force în helping mariners to a set of rules for navigation this Colony, and, after searching he had come to thousands of bees ash cut to the attack when cases where they encounter abnormal the conclusion, as Mr. Grist had brought to the the hive is once touched. The attack on the Courageons as the Japanese are, atmospheric conditions, and numerous ports of notice of the Court, that the Statute was not in stronghold is much more trying than a battle refuge are warned and their charsete s from the force here. This seemed to him to be mis- in the field ship-master's point of view adequately set forth, take which should be rectified, for it was just as it is impossible to take the fortress ut one

The O. & O. steamer Coptic, with mail"; &o., CHEFOO, 26th September. A Tsingtao telegram says that Russian This is the first genuine English edition of the woll that the law with regard to lease fore soul The Russians are defending Port merchants and other nationalities organized a work. A volume in English purporting to be should be the same as in England; and he was Arthur with forts constructed by the newest

powerful gaus of the best pattern, and other Oct, at 4 p.m., and is dus here to-morrow syndicate to trade in provisions, etc., to Porta similar book was firyf tea.slated from the not certain whother that statute had not been methods, which are mounted with the most left Shangbai for this port on Tuesday, the 4th

Spanish into German, and thence into English tacitly acted on in this Colony.

Mr. Grist said they had always acted upon it scientific machines. The Japanese must care-morning-

The steamer Lightning, from Calcutta, left Arthur to ran though the Japanese blockading card is full of inaccuracies and even nonsense. fleet.

methods for attacking Port Arthur. Courage Singapore for this port yesterday morning. But recently the Japanese blockading No one reading this edition right through is

The Indo-China steamer Kunsung left Cal- fleet have been strictly watching blockade likely to seek elsewhere for information relating and it had come quite as a surprise to him to fully study the question of armament and the

to the topics treated It ia manifestly exhaus-find it was not in force,

His Lordship went on to say that a valid and tactics are only part of the forces necessary

culta for this port via the Straits on the 4th ranners, and the syndicate las failed to attain tive, manifestly able, and save that it is by no its object, and has been obliged to dissolve. means a "popular" work, we should expect its defence had been set up to the effect that the to reduce Port Arthar"

Oct., and may be expected here on the 20th Oct. Despite the contract for three months the publication to be hailed with the acclamation value of the property in respect of which the lease was granted was more than $1,00). This syndicate las pail throw months' churter money deserved by a real magnum opus.

was admitted by Mr. Harding. Therefore and discharged the junks. The syndieste has

ander section 12 of Ordinance No 4 of 1873 this Jost a great deal.

·Court had no jurisdiction; for as the property

LIAOYANG LOSSES.

ST. PETERSBURG, 25th September.

in

FOOTBALL.

今まで shell.

THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW.

Russia is stubboraly opposing the attempt of England and the United States to curtail its

The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

SHIPPING NOTES.

STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

MISCELLANEOUS"

The s.s. Auchenarden brought 5,200 tons of deal from Moji for the M.BK..

The sa, Mathilde arrived from Touron and

In the Hongkong Football Club's six-a-side udmittedly exceeded $1,000 the jurisdiction of privileges with regard to the restricti n of competition yesterday afternoon Williams' team the Summary Court was ousted. In reply to trade with Japan. It declares that unless these Hoilow yesterday with 800 tons of cargo for The staff officio estimates the losses of the and Gray's team nei at Happy Valley, and that he was asked by Bir. Harding to exercise two countries can be stopped from supplying the Mosers. Jebsen & Co.

Russians, in the various combats at and around Liaogang, at 56 officers and 1,810 soldiers killed; 955 oflicers and 10,811 soldiers wounded; 5 officers and 1,212 soldiers left on the field of battle.

ANOTHER SEVERE ENGAGEMENT.

HARBIN, 26th September. Two Japanese divisions attacked the Russian

left on the river Hounho and were repulsed with

after a spirited contest Gray's six came out victoriens with a score of one goal to nil.

The six-c-site fixtures for to-day are Boyd Chard; Kayvett v. Aucott.

WEATHER REPORT.A

1.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:--

Mod rate N.E. winde will prevail in the For China Sco.

The Hamburg-Amerika' ss.Seandig arrived any power he had conferred upon him by the islanders with foodstuffs, railway matoriale, Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance, section 28, cartridges, powder aud dynamits, Russia's from Yokohama and Keslang yesterday with The 3.4. Paktat arrived from Bangkok No. 4 of 1873, and transfer the suit to the chances of ultimate victory will be seriously 4,000 tons of cargo for this port. Original sida. Hat it seemed to him that the compremised. It assorts that England and power of transfer which he had terens Americs have developed a contraband trade yesterday with 2,200 tons of rice for Messrs. limited. The section was peculiarly phrased, but unprecedented in the history of war, and Butterfield and Swize... hethought the effect of it was that where to ha? charges that the whole equipmost of the no jurisdiction to entertain an action in that Japanese reservos, 250,000 men, was smug Court he also had no jurisdiction to direct u glod from the United States. Hence Rus transfer of that astion from that Court in the niu's extraordinary efforts to station commerce- diction. As here the value of the property in re- East-China Revice.

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The B.I. 98. Scalda arrived from Rangoon

a loss of seven hundred. The Russiana Iosi 'mosa Channel and in the northern part of the Summary: Jurisdiction to the Original Juris raiders on all the shipping routes to the Far yesterday, en route to Japan with 8,067 tons of

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