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dis expounded by the Cobdenites. Such a bringing up is naturally not conducive to originality or independence of thought, and so, equally naturally, it has come

A. S. WATSON & CO., about that the portion of Mr. BALFOUR'S body political which his sponsors forgot to dip, and so render invulnerable, was the very tendon Achilles-iu a Prime Minister of England the most essential for safe lendership. Mr. BALTOUR has, in fact, always been halting when he essayed to trend the paths of the Hines Finance, In 1895 he made so fooli a speech on the fanncial questions then agitating India that for a time he became almost a laughing stock; in 1897 we find him entrapped into

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proceeding. On the authority of the British Medical Journal the habitual use of iced drinks produces inflammation of the raucous membran

of the month and adds to thirst instead of

quenching it.

The Jiji proposes that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance should be extended that England hall socuro Japan's possession of Baghation when she recovers that island, and Japan shall ussist in preventing any Russian aggression on England's possessions and protectorates. in

Asia.

It is notified that Mr. Chug D. B. Bidwell has severed his connection with the well-known Tientsin firin of brokers, Watts, Buck and Bidwell, and will join. Messrs. William Forbes

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and Co. Tientsin will not therefore loss che a scheme for intinducing the will-u'-the-of her best sportsmen and kennost; business wisp of bimetallism from which he was only

Messrs. Watts and Buck continue their rescued by Lord SALISBURY. It is therefore old firm. quite in the course of erents that. Mr. BAL four should misinterpret the issue before the country with regard to the trade of the & MELLOWNESS. ation. It is the fundamental principle of

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the bearing of which Mr. BALFOUR has fail. ed to grasp. Under the pretence of follow. ing the principles of Free Trade we have bean directly encouraging the breach in others of one of the most objectionable of economic sins-the principle of bounties; and our own trade has suffered in conse- quence. This and not. Fre Trade as against Protection is really the question at

issue.

Speaking at the great Conservative ban. A. S. WATSON & CO. quet at Edinburgh the other day, his

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The Wai Wu Pu in reply to the Russian representations about clause 9 of the Tibeṭnu Treaty, asmres the Russian Minister that as. China is herself rather more interested in the

situation there than he is, it is not necessary

The Board of Commerce has rejected the

proposal to make the salt into brick form and thus economise waste, because, says the Fcking Times, the idos is altogether too new.

The refugees from Linoyang aro ficoking out sid- the south gate of Peking eager to be ourolled as emigrants to South Africa, and the native papers romerk that this is an excellent thing for these psople and will prevent there becoming outlaws.

Li Hsien-jui, the newly appointed Viceroy of Liang-King, is reported to be seriously ill and he has asked to be allowed to resign. The post will probably be given to Chang-Chih-tung again if the request is granted by the Govern ment.

The Japauose Military Administrator at Yinkow has issued orders to the popolace to report to the military doctors cases of sickness of any description. They will be punished any of them conceal any sickness. The iden is to prevent the introduction of plague.

The Hongkong Amateur Dramatis Club last svoning held their first orchestral rehearsal of "Dorothy."

The Peking Tiance hears that the use of all! foreign paper in official circles is being dis- couraged. Whether this is an expression of the inward want of graco apparently prevailing just now, or for economic reasons, is not quito cloar.

TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

MRS. ISABELLA BISHOP DEAD.

LONDON, 10th October. Mr. Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird) is dead.

[Who's Who gives the following particulars- The Chinose Minister in Tokyo has wired to Mrs. Isabella L. Bishop, P.R.G S., Hoa F.R S.G.S.; Peking that the only return for driving the Hon. Meubor f Oriental Society of Peking; b. Russians out of Manchurin that the Japanese Boroughbridge Ball, Yerkshi u, 15 Oct. 1832;

ed, of Rev, Edward Bird, BA., Eector of Tatte are preparing to demand is the Chinese Fastern hall, Cheshire, and Dorothy, and 3. of Mara

Marmaduke railway, and this has given great satisfaction | Lawson,

Rinnor, Torridge Hall and Aldboroug

Educ. home. Began in Peking. The Chinese Eastern Railway" travel at 22; his travelled in N. America exten- however, comments the Peking Times, has sively, and for 8 yeare in A-in is intimately before now proved an elastic torm.

connected with several forms of philanthropic work at home and abroad, ospecially with medical wise ash built B hospitals aud nn orphanage in th East; . John Bishop, M.D.; 1981 jā, 158%); since for widowhood she has traveller for 5 years in Asia, and at home has ploaded on many plat- forms the needs of the East, and has also deliver- Societies; in 1892 she was elected the first

lectures before Geognphical and other of many

lady Society in 1901 Geographical Fellow of the Roy she rude 1,0.0 miles in Morocco, a journey which included the Atlas Mountains, Publications: The Englishwoman in America, 1866; Six Months

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DEATH OF CAPT. RAWCLIFFE. Capt. Henry Rawcliffe, of the Admiralty Extension Works üregar St. Enoch, died suddenly during Monday night, and was found dead in his hanunock yesterday morning. The canse of death is believed to be heart disease. Captain Rawcliffe was a very well known and populer igare about Hongkong, and was valno servant at the Admiralty Worka. He tions for many years past, on the Manchester Ship Canal, the Admiralty Works nt Gibraltar, the Dockyard Fxtension at Portsmouth and The two criminals Huang and Wang who in Weihaiwei. He was talking to some friends 4th, ostensibly bound for Hongkong, but having both assisted in killing the Franch Bishop have just before going on board shout half past air twenty-five days' coal on board; it is supposed been brought over to Ichang and have already on Monday night, and scomed healthy and that ehe intended to try to forco the blockade been decapitated. One of them while being exo-hourly as usual. Mrs. Rawcliffe left Hong at Port Arthur. On arriving at Woosung sheentod shouted out in a loud voice. None of you kong only three months ago for England, and broke down, and instead of returning to Shang shall ever be Protostart converts." From this was to have been followed early next year by hai, workmen were sent down to her by a local

it can be easily seen the trouble has been caused her husband on completion of his contract. A engineering firm lato at night to effect the by a disagreement between the Catholics and post mortem examination will be held today,

The Governor of Hunan reports the con mencemeat of an official newspaper at Chang she to be called the Hu-nau Kwan-pao and to be under the oditarship of an experienced and Chinese Government, which as aneh in the for him to interfore, but to leave it to the progressirs official. The paper is under the had considerable exporiousa in dredging opora- Joinoy in Persis and Kurdiston, 2 vols. 1802;

control of the office of sinuntional affairs, and Treaty which it is impossible to confirar. is to be published every other day.

The steamer Conton left Shanghai on October

necessary repairs.

Mr. Archibald, American war correspondant

on the Russian side, eays: Some day the Russian character will better be understood, and whatever else may be the result of this war, it will bring about a better understanding of the Russian people in the world, just as the Spanish-American war made us see the better qualities of the Spanish, and just as the South African war showed England that the Boer was not at all a bad sort.

Protestants- Universal Gazetto.

Rev. Mr. Kawaguchi, the Japanese Buddhist priest who got into Lhaass and escaped, will leave Tokya on the 30th inst. and embark on a steamer at Kobe on the 11th prox. on another tour to Tibet. He will first proces to Nepal via Ruris and Calcutta, in order to present the King with a prayer of the Japanese Kwobaku sect. Early next year he is expected to go to Lhasa auler protection of the British Government.

While a young lady named Miss Fletcher was walking along one of the upper roads the other day a Chinese had about sixteen yours of crept up bohind her, snatched away a satchel which she had attached to her waist belt and made off with it. side read into Wanchai and has been successful in evading capture so far. Lotwithstanding that the lady gave chase and tried to get hold of him. The satchel contained about $20 worth of stuff.

He an down a

We hear, suys the Tientsin Times, that the Astor House Hotel at Feitaiho will shortly become the property, of a liraited liability com- pany. The sum mentioned to us as capital was Tia. 10,000, half of which would he taken up by the present proprietor. If the figures are correct there would not be the least difficulty in

One would suppose that India could grow all the coconuts sho requires within her own limits, but it is not so. In 1903-04 Ceylon supplied no less than sixteen million nuts to India againstage ten and a half millions the year before. And of hatel-ants India imported over twelve million pounds weight, worth Rs. 1,501,585, This did not suffice, for the Straits Settlements were indented on for six times this quantity, but of a much less valuable sort, says the Straits Times. Mr. George Kennan, one of the well known consciousness of his weakness came pain-war correspondents now representing the Out- fully to light; he could not conceal his took in Tokyo, wrote among other things in inability to lead a Conservative party which regard to the Japanese treatment of war zor- setting at one side the dictates of the most respondents us follows:-As for the present dissatisfaction. I should like to know the army recent development of so-called Free Trade would go back to the, original bas.5 of the argument, and abandon further dalliance with that modern Protection which ander the lion's skin of non-interference would hide the ass's body of little-Eng`andism. already appeared in other papers will be inserted.

Orders for extra copies of DAILY PRISH should be Proud us Achilles, and bravest of the brave, sent before 11 am, on day of publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash.be is as helpless before the slings of Mr. Telographic Address: PEMB. Codes: A.B.C. 3th B. CHAMBERLAIN us was Achilles when Paris aimed his darts at his one weak spot. The swan sings mournfully before he lies, and Cu 11th October, at Hongkong, the wife of 1. the words of a man before he departs should [2426 be words of wisdom. Mr. BALFOUR's words

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side of the controversy. That there is such a side I have little doubt. After what I saw and knew on the Manchu Maru, all foreign corres-effecting the arrangement, as the venture is pondents are not trustworthy, nor are they all assured of future prosperity. The foundations of the hotel have been so well made that they gentlemen.

will allow of further storeys being added which will do away with the necessity of purchasing more land. The site to of the building could not be bettered.

In the August Contemporary Revice, there is mention of Mikkad Bakunine, the founder and first leader of the Russian Nihilists.

Bannine had long been an exile in the worst

part of Siberia. He escaped to China and then

to Japan, where he arrived during the turbu lent time of the Rostoration, and went away with the conviction that in less than fifty years the Russian Empire oust of the Baikal would be broken down and replaced by the Japanese." That now smacks of prophecy.

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The China Review is informed that Mr. Ross.

son of the well-known missionary at Moak:

and the funeral will take place in the afternoon, starting from the mortuary for the Happy Valley at four o'clock. As a token of respect to his memory the works will be closed during the afternoon.

LOCAL. SPORT.

The first Cricket League fixture, the Army Ordnance Corps verses the Royal Army Medical Corps, will be played to-day. The Hongkong und Singapore Rattalion of Royal Artillery haso withdraw from the competition.

Yesterday afternoon Aneott's team beat Boyd's team, in the Six-a-side football, by 2-1. Gray's team beat Chard's team by 2-1.

The Six-a-side football fixture for to-day is Kayvätt v. Gray,

The following is the result of the different- rounds in the bowls tournament (singles) of the Civil Service C.C.-

1ST BOUND.

beat Lonolly. Duncan

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Entwistle

Reidio

Darner

Carter

Gusk

11

Howell Molver

Gladwell

37

Whitley

Pitt

5

Woolley

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Brett

Gourley

Highy

Witchell

Andrews

Brand

Brett

Parkinson

Robins

Gidley (EL)

beat Dorney

Brand

Smith

Lamble

2ND ROUND.

Reidie

Howell

+2

+3

McIver

Woolley

Andrews

Brand Lamble Brett

Brand Brott

Smith Whibley Cacter scratched to Lamble

RD ROUND.

beat Andrews Woolley Reidie

SEMI-FINAL.

beat Lamble a bye

FINAL.

Brett

beat Brand

in the Sandwich Islands, 1873; A Lady's Life in

The Golden Chersonese, 1882- the Rocky Mountains, 1874 Unienten Tracks in Jupan, 2 vols.

5.1980; Among the libotana, 1994; any contributions to reviews and imgr.zines.

In 1893 she published vel. of Views in torn China and Korea, collotyped from her own photographs in 1898, after journays in Coen. Sibera, and China ex- her Neighbour, tending over 3 years, sho published" Korea and zvole, The Yangtze Valloy and Beyond, 3899; Pictures from China, 1900. * specially interested in the microscopic study of Recreations photography, rowing, microscopy, cryptogamous plots and car's forms of life. Address: The Burst, Hartford, Bwntingden. RAILWAY DISASTER IN MISSOURI,

LONDON, 11th October. There has been anothor disastrous railway.

America. At Warrensburg, collision Missouri, two trius collided, and thirty-thres persons were killed.

(BEUTER'S SERVICE.}.

TO SUE THE BALTIO FLEET.

LONDON, 9th October. The Tear, the Tsaritsa, and the Tsarevitch have arrived at Reval.

'BRITISĖ NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

London, 9th October. The cruiser Arora will leave Gibraltar fur Las Palmas on the 18th fustaut.

BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, 9th October. Mr. Harry Marks (Conservative) bus bcon elected for the Isle of Thanet. [The soat was made vacant by the death of Mr. James Low- ther.--ED.]

A VEXED QUESTION.

LONDON, 9th October. A mesting of the Hague Convention, re the Japanese house-tax, is fixal for the 21st Forenber.

SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, 11th October.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCOMBE SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE.)

A PROMISSORY NOTE CASE. den, Rov. Dr. Ross, has been appointed an

Tam Wan Chi, alias Ning Un Tong, a firm of Canton, sued the Lai Chan Hing firm of overseer te accompany the Coolie Fimigration steamer, the Cranley, leaving for Durban. Up

jade-stono marchants 316, Quson's Road to the present those responsible for such appoint-

Central, for $667,3t, being balance due on two ments have proved most fortunate in their choice DOS SANTOS OLIVEIRA, relict of the late F. Sto take note of them. Whether, he is On 5th October, at Shanghai, JosEPINA ROZA have been words of wisdom; and it is well

promissory notes dated 2nd December, 1903. of men as the highest reports have come back

and 15th February, 1904. The claim was as represented as saying, Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S A Chinese gentleman. Mr. B. C., Wan, well-from South Africa as to the ability, care and

We believe there is to be still another Gym-follows:-2nd December, money leut, 600 taels, estimate of the offer of the Colonies be right known to foreigners and Chinese officials in thoroughness with which every one of them hus khana mesting. At present, there is a tie for the with interest at the rate of 1.06 tools per cent. or wrong, we have reached a point at which Chinkiang and Nanking as the popular Inter-exaented his duties. As a farther proof of this, socond place in the competition, Messrs G. H. per month. Taels 62.75 money lent with in- preter of the American Consulate, first ut all the gentlemen so appointed have received Patte and G. K. Hall Bratton having six points terest at the same rate amounting to Tank Chinking and then in Nanking, for a period permanent engagements us mine compound each. The seven with which we credited Mr. 15.47, total, Taels 878.22. On 16th June there of twenty years, resigned from the American managers, at the various mixes of Johannesburg Potts in our report was the result of a

was payment on account of Taels 36 and on Consular servies on the 1st instant to accept and the surrounding districts, at £250 a month miscalculation.

18th September payment on account in the the higher post of special attaché to His and free quarters.

sum of Taels 361.76, leaving a balance due of Excellency the Viceroy of the Liangking

$087.91, the sun sued for. provinces and a member of the Secretariat of the Head Bureau of Foreign Affairs of the Liangkiang provinces. Mr. B. C. Wan's official rank is that of First-class Secretary of the Imperial Patout Office, a department of the Grand Secretariat in Peking.

Hougene OFFICE: 14. DEVEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.

HONGKONG, OurоBER 12TH, 1904,

PERSONALLY no fing an ever served the office of Prime Minister than Mr. A. J BALFOUR; a thorough Englishman, all the more so from a good part of his blood having been derived from the north of the Tweed; a gentleman of unstained honour; a genial friend who never permitted political differences to sour the amenities of social

the only way out of the impasse is to have a perfectly free and untramelled conference with the Colonies and India, in which each party may frankly state its own opinions. It will not do to base this, the most morentous question to the Empire at large which has ever come up for discussion, to be settled, or attempted to be settled by the Home Country aloue, as if it were a thing in which she alone were concerted. On its satisfactory adjustment may depend the welfare not of Great Britain only bm of the

The Tientsin China Review says:-We welcome to the town Mr. H. Kassell Brasier.

There are indications that the Chinese mean to are their soldiers with the best rifles in the market, and thus be prepared for every emor- gency arid, opportunity. These may soon be upon them. The authorities are hoping that BEFORE in the vital struggle proceeding in Manchuria both Powers will issue from the contest exhausted and then China will come to the Thas there is no eager desire for the top.

POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, 11th October.

Mr. R. Harding, solicitor, of Messra. Evans and Harston, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Otto Kong Sing, solicitor, for the defendant

Ma. H. H. J. GoMPERTZ (ATING firm.

FIRST MAGISTRATE).

ALLEGED THEFT OF SILK.

A Chinaman was charged with stealing over 3800 worth of silk from Messrs. William Powell

life; a ua of culture and wide-seated whole Empire. The Colonies have noble who kus just arrived here from Hongkong triumphant success of Japan, for that would † & Co.'s store. The case was remanded. It is

knowledge; of that sufficient to enable him to shine in the most difficult post which can be assigned to a Parliamentarian-that of Leader of the House of Commons-he yet has the heel of Achilles. Although Mr.

where he was long and favourably known, to

on their right to be respected, they have take over the duties hitherto carried out by. Mr. in the hour of need not closed their purse Parris, the Transvaal emigration agent, whe strings, nor spared the blood of their sons; is shortly leaving to return to South Africa. if the outcome be that Mr. BALFOUE be the Mr. Brazier is a fluent Chinese scholar, and destined sacrifice, none will more regret his has already had some experience in connection

give her an undesirable predominance in the said that another man, an employee of the firm affairs of China. As an official expressed it, suspected of being implicated in the robbery, the other day, it is preposterons to think that a obtained leave before the police arrived, on the small country like Japan could be of permanent ground that his mother was dying. service. The thing is not to be thought of! Here we see the old face peeping through tho

EXTRADITION.

Mr. Harding said the solicitor on the other side (Mr. Otto Kong Sing) would, he under- stood, consent to judgment.

Mr. Kong Sing signified that' such was his intention.

Mr. Harding stated that the sum of Taols

BALFOUR was still unborn when in 1846 Sir loss than those who have bewailed his ons with the coolis lunur question in the south.tidoscopic changes that are happening. required by the authorities of Indo-China, o proceedings was the plaintiff in this case. The

point of weakness.

Col. W. S. Birdwood is giving up the com- wand of the 10th Mahratta Light Infantry.

Tientsin is going to celebrate the King's birthday next mouth with a sports meeting and a ball.

His Lordship said he could not order the goods to be handed over.

361.76 put down as having been paid on account on 18th September was represented by a quantity of jade-stone bangles and other goods presently in the custody of the Police. There had been The case of a man whose extradition is some criminal proceedings with regard to these goods, and one of the defendants in the criminal He recantly also visited the enlistarent depota, en route, al Weihaiwei and Chefes and leaves Possibly it will remain the permanent one-charge of receiving soise $9,000 of stolen charge against hinn was dismissed, but the goods. here on Monday for Chingwantao to make an. C. Daily News. The Austrian cruiser Aspera arrived from inspection and arrange as to the dispatch of the Shanghai yesterday.

next steer, which will leave in about a week A number of khaki-clad medical students congregated at Tientsin station on the 1st inst., to bid farewell to two doctors and four senior medical students, all of whom were members of the Chinese medicul college. They are journeying to Liaoyang to assist Dr. West- water, who has one hundred and seventy-five patients (Chinese) in his hospital; a large amount of hospital stores were also taken with thom. Their professor. Dr. Mitoui, accom Mr. Dixon, solicitor, of Mr. John Hastings panies them as far as Yiakow. The dress is ofico, a new arrival in the Colony, appeared for the Arsttime at the Police Court yesterday.

one of the smartest in the Imperial service, being a blus serge with red collar, trimmed with Mr. H. H. J. Gomperts resumed his seat as gold braid black velvet cuffs, on which are Mr. BALFOUR thus, like ST. PAUL, has been Acting First Police Magistrata yesterday.mcial kind, in the centre being a silver disc, three gold banda. The hat is of the usual brought up as it were at the feet of GAMA Hia holiday in Japan seems to have dono him surrounding which is a gold wreath, while in LIEL, and in the strictest tenets of the Law good.

the centre is a red glass cross.

ROBLET PEEL forcibly converted the great Tory party to Free Trade, he was in his early years brought up in the doctrines of the new faith. As those who had accepted Mohammedaniem at the point of the sword usually turned out its most fanatic suppor ters, so there were no stricter observers of. the letter of Free Trade than the Conserva tives who unwillingly enough followed Sir ROBERT into the Division Lobby on the eventful 19th January. Since then, with the almost solitary exception of Mr. CHAPLIN, no Conservative who has attained distinction in his party has ventured to bold the heretical doctrines of Protection.

H.M.S. Sirius second-class cruiser, and Renaldo, sloop, left for Shanghai yesterday. The Festul, stoop, sise left port.

BEFORE Mr. J. H. KEMP (ACTING

SECOND MAGISTRATE).

"Mr. Harding then asked his Lordship to make a note in his judgment to the effect that the goods should be delivered up by consent of the defendant, because, he said, he must have some- thing to show the Magistrate to prove that the goods should be handed over.

Mr. Dixon,

were still in custody of the police pending the money, came up, en ramand.

decision in this caso. He would ask his Lord- solicitor, appeared for the defence; and Mr. ship to make an order for these goods to be A correspondent suggests that, seeing that John Hays, solicitor, watched the case ou landed over. the concrete routes laid down by the Tramway hehalf of the Chinese hong said to have lost Company have been such a success and have the money: The case was further remanded. made ricksha travelling so much more pleasant, Mr. Kemp advised the French Consul to amend the Government ought to set about concreting the charge to that of larceny the whole of the streets in the Colony. The anggestion is worthy of serious consideration by the Public Works Department. There is hardly one town in Europe that is liable to the torrential rainfalls that we have in Hongkong, Inspector Gaal charged two men before Mr. and yet that remnant one will be found almost

Kemp, the one with larceny of sage from suroly to be granite paved and to have its gradients adapted to the climatic conditions the ether with receiving stolen property. The certain godowns near McGregor. Barracks, and

under which it exists. In this Colony, where first was sentenced to three months imprison- the tropical rains practically demand a hardment, and the second to two months' baprison. surface dressing for the public thoroughfares). we have nothing (except the tramway' route) but red-soil dressing which turus to mind at the first sign of a shower.

ment.

LARCENY.

·STEALING A BICYCLE.

Alax Sakson, a Jew, was charged on remand with stealing a bicvole. He was convicted and sentenced to two months' hard labour,

His Lordskip said he would give judgment for plaintiff with costs; if the plaintiff wished to do so he could get a copy of the judgment from Mr. Sulad (Clerk of the Court).

· Excention was stayed for a week

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report :-*

Fresh to strong monsoon prevails along the entire coast of China and over the greater part of the China Sea

Forecast: Fresh N.E. winds, fine...