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A. S. WATSON

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY. JANUARY 17TH 1905.

Of the six entries for the Pilots' examination

the scheme tells us that the coolies are Borry they went. They find; he says, the at the Harbour Office yesterday, three of the men who went ap obtained certificates. The regulations of their new home very oppressuccessful candidates were Mears. W. 8.1. sive. The newspapers, we are told, with Barrows, B. S. Lawlor and Wong Tai Hoo. some apparent exaggeration, teem with

& COS reports of riot, refusal to work, und murders.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGE.

PORTS

At the Crown Lands sale at the Public works Department yesterday afternoon, Inland Lot No. 164, situate at Tai Hang Village, was let for a term of 75 years to Mr. Chong Wa Kwon for $1,370, being $20 shove the upset price. There was no competition.

The Filipino Amok" case was again before Mr. E. 1. 1. Comporta at the Police Court yesterday. Pagain was farther charged with the murder of the rickduas coolin, Cheng Tang. at West Point. Three ricksha coolies gave evidenco as to scoing a "forsiguar": come

TELEGRAMS.

BEUTER'S SERVICE.]

RUSSIAN FINANCES.

LONDON, 14th January. The Russian Minister of Finance has issued a Budget statement. The estimated expendi ture for 1903 ahows a decrease of 65,500,000 Roables as compared with 1994; the decrease is chiefly in the Departments of Fissues and Communications. Roubles 10,000,000 have

been signed to doubling the Siberian railway and Boubles 1,800,000 for extra expenditure on the Trans-Baikal line. Everything is calculated to strengthen confidence in the dances of Russis, whose monetary system and national economy are nusbaken after eleven months of

WAN.

2. M. 5 Chanticleør & 39 15

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.")

The times at the finish worA ;- Yacht.

Yacht 4.

Min

Dione

HE. THE GOVERNOR'S CUP-14TH JAN, Elepeth...

2ND BACE.

Aileen...

The second pres for the Governor's Cup for Kathleen English-rigged cruiser yachts was sailed on Colleen.. Saturday, the first race having been sailed at the Victoria Regatta.

A nice breeze was blowing from the eastward right through the harbour, and though it be. came rather patchy and faltering during the day, yet it was sufficient to get the boats round the course in very fair time.

The course was out to the westward round Chong Teland, better known perhaps as Dumb. bell Island, which had to be left on the starboard hand, and back to the Police Fier-22 ses miles, Three yachts mustered at the start, viz. the Haider, scratch; Hita, with a time allowance of 11 minutės; and Thistie, with a time allowance of 22 minutes.

H. M. 4 29 4 30 45: Bonito

4 31 10 Vernon

4 35 20 fris

4.38 5. Gloria

...4 44 40

...444 50

4 40 13

... 447. 20

4 39 5 Alannah... 4 57 0

Payne 5 3 5 The handicaps were given in our issue of Saturday.

The Dim therefore took the prize.

The Commodore and Mrs. Gauntlett Dickon with a suull party of friends wore waiting to see the firish on the Police Piar at Kowloon, the Pearl lying alongside. As soon as it was seen that Min had saved her time on the other bea's Captain Crichton landed and was duly presented with the cup with a fow words of congratulation by Mrs. Dickon.

The cup was a very handsome cue of English make beautifully mounted, and Captain Crichton is certainly to be congratulated on having won so handsome a trophy.

The South African Constabulary has had to ride dowu, it is reported, a mob of Chinese. and several Chinese overseers were, it is alleged, killed. Several Chinamen have been sentenced to be flogged, and many others have, it is further stated, gone to jail for refusing to work. The British employes are finding it necessary to carry revolvers. On Nov. 24th, a fight between Kafirs and coolies at the New Klemfontein wine was so violent that the police had to charge with fixed bayonets. Now why should we be troubled with all these contradictory statements; and why should met be so heated by a simple SHERRIES. commercial proposition that their truth- telling capacity should, as it were, become fused, and run to waste? The Chinese not GEO. G. SANDEMAN, SON3 coolies who left these shores are

the sort of men to force any white man to carry a revolver, On the transports, the doctors weat amongst them entirely unarmed; and these alleged desperadoes, when some of their dirtier companions wore put into the stocks and received compulsory ablutions at the nozzle of the ship's hosa aot aside for Kiaochow. "Is Kisochow," he said, damaged the railway between Naiching and sails set at her moorings, but had no one to take of Admiralty have decided to order certain

AND

BOTTLED BY

& CD., LD,

LONDON, OPORTO & XERES.

PRICES.

PORTS:

DOURO OLD TAWNY

PER DOZ. $15.00 18.00

INVALID

12.00

ESTRELLA...

21.00

27.00

VERY OLD TAWNY

12,00

OLDEST AND FINEST

50.00

SHERRIES:

LIGHT DRY

SOLERA

$13.00 18.00

VERY PALE DRY...

FULL GOLDEN...

18,00 21,00 PALE DRY NUTTY... 24.00 FINE OLD BROWN... 36.00

to the stand and charge in amongst thom. Ile tackled the deceased with a knife. Farther evidence was infused as to the urrejt of Pagain iu disguise; the finding of the riskshu coolie lying down with several wounda on his body from which blood was trickling, bis death, and the post-mortem examination, wherein the Doctor fourd death to be due to internal hemorrhage brought about by wounda received.

THE WAR.

[REUTER'S SERVICE.]

LAND SKIRMISHES.

LONDON, 14th January, The whole of the Russian cavalry, recently

Horr Müller-Sagan (Freisinnige People'e Party), at the Berlin Reichstag lad month, spoke against Count von Bülow's colonial pro-formed into one enormous fores. under grammo, which, he pointed out, would ouls Genaul Mistchenko, is displaying con- bring about increased expenditure. The speaker

detachment has

asked for the reason why m.2.500,000 should be siderable activity; a

CANTON NOTES.

"thon, to become, as the Yellow l'ress usserts, a pipe, laughed like children. Children th

second Port Arthur?" The Anti-Somite, Herr Anshauchan, and between Yingkow and Lieberimanu von Sonnenberg, entertained the Tashichao, ou are, in many ways, and if the South African

the Japanese line of Police had to resort to arms, it would not House in his customary manner by representing

་་་་ Russia in the Far East as the champion of "the communications."" be their fault. They want to go and earn

meat sacred possessions of Europe" against the money. They can, even under the scheme Japanese. Continuing, ho said: Wa sinnot so much decried, do better for themselves lovo Great Britain, but we can keep peace with than they can in theircongested and officially-her. There the Imperial Chancellor is right, impoverished home districts. The mine As to the Russians, it is they who are making |.

a stand against the Yellow Peril, and let us owners want them, and pay for them. The remember that Kiaochow is to ho the next point officers have declared in their drunkenness and issolance." (▲ voice: "They do not fire at defenceless fishermen.")

[FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."]

A mrious strike oscarred recently in Canton

work they are to do is not the work that of attack of the yellow race, as Japanese resulting froin the dispute of the police tax;

between the police and some shop-people. The local authorities, taking the boat strike as a precedent, at once did their best to settle the case,

otherwise it would be more serious. On the 8th

the

When the starting gum fired the Haidee and Rita got off together, but Thistle had not worked up to the mark. boat, and crossed the line some two minutes Jate. The Haidee kept too close to the Kow. loon shore and lost the wind, so that Rila at first got a long lead. The three boats kept tolerably well together in the run down to Chong Island, but in beating back the Haides walked away from the other two, although she tried hard to get into the culm of Greeff Ísland. She looked very pretty coming up to the winning line in spite of her old sait of sails It is à pity that La Digate could not start. She had hor

hor out.

5 31 45

H. M.

5 31 46

The times at the finish were:-

Yacht. J. M. S. Heulee... Rita

5 56

5 46 0

0 Thistle... 6 59 45 5 37 45 The next 200 will be at tho Hongkong Regatta on Feb. 6th. starting at 10 a.m., course round the Bokhau Buoy. If the Huidce scores one point in this race she wins the Cup. THE COMMODORE'S CRUISER CUP.-2ND RACE

This race, for Chinese rigged cruisers, started 15 minutes after the start for the Governor's Cup, the course being the same.

Only three bouts started, Australia, Snipe and Tarry. Tary was first across the lies, close-

the white man wants. The pother may be set down to political needs; the lies to which we are treated need a lot of explaia. ing. So long as we realize that the partisan statemens being mile ars absolutoły uu- reliable, not much harm is done; but we do pletul, after seven years' work, a very remark Street demanding the payment of some ponos Australia wading. Here a few lucky pafts

not always remember the need for the pinch A. S. WATSON & CO. of salt. These later tales of terrible doings in South Africa should not be taken too LIMITED.

seriously, any more than the enthusiastic economics of Lord MILNER.

Agents in Hongkong and South Chian for Sandeman's Wines.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 17TH, 1905.

H.M.S. Vengeance proceeds in Europe in about a week.

Mr. L. de Souza has passed his Raal examina- tion in medicine and enrgery.

The English mail of the 17th December was delivered in London on the 14th lost.

Twelve cows, bred from prize Australian cattle, were yesterday lauled from the 8.8 Tanun for the Hongkong Dairy Farm Co, Led. During the week ouded on January 14th. three Chinoso died of plague, making the year's total so far foar. Cases of fever and smallpox reported were all imported from the north.

Return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ouding the 15th Janu- ary, 1903, were 278 non-Chinese and 111 Chinese to the former, and 122 aon-Chinese and 1.683

Chinose to the latter institution.

Our morning contemporary has addressed us concerning a letter we published in Saturday's issue, in which a correspondent conveyed the suggestion that our contemporary had itself concocted s letter which compared it with the other papers to their discredit. Information given by our contemporary goes to show that this insinuation was nawarranted.

THE discussion of the supply of cheap Chinese labour to the mines of South Africa is by no means over. Having served its turn at by-elections, and lasted during the proverbial period of a newspaper, wonder, At Cabinet Connoil held at Paris on Dec. 13 this question, custed temporarily by more under the presidency of M. Loubet, M. Delcassé absorbing topics, still keeps cropping up.announced to his colleagues that, in consequence Both sides, pro and anti, are responsible for of the ratification of the Franco-Siamess Treaty. fresh sticks of fuel thrown on to the M. Padoux, French Consul of the First Class. smouldering fire. Lord MILNER has told had just been engaged by the Siamese Govern. ment as Legislative Councillor. The Siamego us that the introduction of every seven Government had also appointed Colonel Goullet coolies to the Band increases the number of as Superior Commander of the native Militia în white workmen by one. In a letter report the Provinces of Buttambong and Siemrep. ing the effect of the arrival of seven thousand Chinese, Lord MILNEE wrote

"The introduction of 7,000 Chinese hus led to the increase of 1,000 white workmen. Of theso, on the average, hull are married. Assuming 500 are married and 500 un married, with an average of five per family, this means 3000 white people living in prosperous conditions who were previously out of work or not in the country at all. Bat this which the Sandhurst was to take to Hongkong is not the whole story. Every thoussad white was of a sirailar character to that of the vessel of equal number, and probably considerably more farther evidence was produced to the effect that men engaged in the mises involves a population leaving for the Far East, and that, unless in subsidiary industries as artisans, traders, c. Of these mon an even larger proportion are the cargo was for a belligerent, the steamer married than is the case with the miners. All would not be detained. told, there are at least 8.000 to 10,000 white people who have found employment and means of livelihood as a direct result of the importation of 7,000 Chinese,"

All those assumptions are rather bold as coming from an official, and we should be

The Standard's Cardiff correspondent re- ported that the steamer Sondhurst, which, it was Bepposed had on board contraband for the Far East, arrived in Roath Basin, Cardiff, with a crew of forty hands of mixed nationalities. Inquiries at Cardiff pointed to the fact that the anthorities were satisfied that the cargo of coat

By a regrettable oversight the report of the

The firm of Leroy, of Paris, probably the oldout watchmakers of Europe, buve just con-

ablo watch. It is of gold, tad is bountifully chased. It marks the day, month, year, and leap year for a hundred years, the phases of the moon, seasons, solstices, equinoxes, the times st 125 of the principal towns of the world, the rising and setting of the sun. It comprises a chronograph, a repeater for hours and minutes,

inst. the superintendent of the police force sently followed by Australia and Snipe. The two some policemen to a shoe-maker's in Sap-Pat-Po Green Island was reached were well ahead, latter rapidly overhauled the Tavy, and before

tax which had been in arrear for a long time. One of the folis of that shop had a quarrel with the policemen, and after employing some strong worda on both

sides, the police. men dragged the foki back to the police station. The master of the shop at once

After a few words from the Commodore of the Yucht Club, the Hon. F. H. May, the party then embarked in the Pearl for the Tamar, where the events of the day wore talked over to the accompaniment of nice hot tea and cukos, and the competing yachts sailed away to their moorings

THE BRITISH FLEET.

With the view of making the fighting efficiency of the British Flest complete and in- stantaneous on a declaration of war, the Board

changes in its distribution and in the arrange- ments for its mobilisation. These changes aro set forth in a Parliamentary Paper, signed by Lord Selborne, dated the 6tli lust.

The changes which the reorganisation will effect are as follows:-

Strategie Redistribution of the Fleets for War.

Formation of a Promier Squadron for Home. Channel Command to be $1 -Atlantic Squadron.

Withdrawal of all obsolete ships.

Reduction of Commission from three or two

years.

Three Reserve Flotillas at the Home bases. An Emergency Squadron.

Six powerful Cruiser Squadrons. Decentralisation of repairing work. The new War Floats will be as under:- Command. Baso.

Zone. Atlantia.....Gibraltar... ...Atlantic.

...Home Ports ...North Ses and.

Channel. ...Red Son and

Mediterranean

Channel...

for the wind shifted to forward of the port again gave the Tavy the lead, but nol for long,

beam, and in the light air Australia draw away rapidly and established a long-lead. The Mediterranean..Malta wind again" drow uft us Dumbbell Island was approached, and its southern end was rounded.

Eastern China, &c.

a thermometer, Larometer, hygrometer, alti. asked the assistance of the Kaifong people and in the following order Australia, Snipe, Tary, Particular Ser-

mater up to 5,000 metres, compass, and a peal of mul bells strangest of all is a dial-plate of the heavens, recording the sidersal movement, that is its daily advance of 236 seconds on mean time. This plate is studded with th gold points denoting stars to the fourth magnitude, enables the observer to see the exact position of the celestial bodies on any day and at any hour without gazing at the heavens, in either the northern or southern hemispheres. This is claimed to be the most wonderful and com- plicated watch in the world; it contains twenty- four mechanical movements, and consists of 75 distinct parts.

HONGKONG. GARRISON

RECREATION CLUB.

QUARTERLY COMMITTEE MEETING. The quarterly committee meeting of the Hongkong Garrison Recreation Club was held in the Court Martial Room, Fletcher Street, at noon yesterday. Capt. Elgood, 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment, presided, and thoro rare also present Lieut. Hope, Royal Artilery (Hon. Secretary), Capt. Davies, Army Orduance Corps, Lieut. Chesney, Royal Engineers, and Lieut. Hurvog, Royal Army Medical Corps (Committee), Col-Sergt. Spoonor, Sergt. Preiner, Sergt. Lowder and Staff-Sargt, Wilson (Sub-Committee).

The business of the meeting was to fix dates for the football and cricket matches in con- unction with the Soldiers Club Challenge Shields.

After some discussion it was decided that the first round in the Football Shield should ho finished by the 7th February, and that a date for the completion of the second round would be fixed later.

The drawing was as follows:

FIEST ROUND.

1-R. A. play Naval Yard; 2.-H. M.S. Vengeance play H.M.B Albion; 3-Staff Departments and R.E., a byè; 42nd Royal West Kent Regiment, a bye. Winners of I play 4. Winners of 2 play 3. The third round, of course, will be the final, Re vricket, it was decided that the Royal Artillery play the Staff Departments and Royal Engineers on the 19th inst; 2nd Royal West

played on the 20th inst. Kent Regiment, a bye; and the final to be

JAPANESE PORCELAIN EXPORTED The porealain exports to the United States cass at the Polico Court on Saturday in which are yearly increasing. The following table Mesars. Lütgens, Einstmann & Co. were fined shows the value of the exports during eleven $1,000, appeared in our yesterday's issue under months -the-heading "Smuggling. Arnis." From the

nclined to put the number of married report itself it was clear that "sanggling " colonists of the kind referred

to at was the wrong term to apply, as the authorities much less than half, while the average were cognisant of the nature of the cargo landed. The offence consisted in landing them of live is much too big to. the families of the "rolling stones" who under a permit held by another firm, and we regret having incorrectly designated the irro-

Lasesa

bave mestly gone to spy out the land, gularity as "muggling. The case was to with an eye to quick returns, and large pro-have been re-heard yesterday, but the Magis fits. On the other hand, one of the most trate was unable to take it then and postponed bitter and least Borupulous opponents of the ro-hearing to Thursday next.

Yen

January

2798

February Margh April May.. Jaue.. July August

.35,982.

$7,77

43,507 $9,311

52,068

41,546-

46,491

September October November

Total...

$1,690 59,472 43,286

405,867

a meeting was held subsequently in a temple, At the second watch of the night they proceeded in a large number to the police station asking the release of the foki As a dense crowd assembled at the door, of the police station, the policemen tried to disperse then with long polos. They did not retire till about twenty of them were wounded, and one being very serious aucombed to the wound a short time afterwards. The Kaifong people getting more angry at once commenced strike a and closed all their shops,

and the gates of Sap-Pat-Po Street were also

A small

space

closed, leaving

allow the passage of only one person. The magis- trate of Namhoi went personally to see the leading Keifong people, entreating them to resume business, but to no purpose. The case was unde much worse in the evening of the 11th instaut, because some policemen wanted to effect, the avrest of some people who drank wise and made great noise at the prohibited hour at nicht in an eating house in San-Tin-ti, which is the favourite resort of bad characters, The bed characters tried to release the captives by fore. The policemen were compelled to fire at were wounded. them and several persons A rumour at once spread out in the whole city that the policemen often killed inncoent persons. Hearing this the shop people in many streets who had already been ouragad by the onse of Sup-Pet-Po, were just going to un ta together to follow the example of the shop people of Sap-Pat-Po to go on a strike, when the local authorities and leading merchants of the charitable institutions, seeing the gravity of the case, proceeded to them and promised to square the case fairly and justly. Soldiers were immediately dospatoved to the scene where dis tarbince occurred to guard the different streets. In the afternoon of the 13th instant the foki of

the shoe-maker's shop was liberated and some shopa r opened and resumed their business, and in the morning of the 14th instant the strike wasorer, nearly every shop resuming business as usually.

FRANCE AND SIAM,

With reference to the Franco-Siamese treaty

the Australia sixteen minutos in front of Snipe and nineteen in front of Tavy,

The Zavy gained on Snipe, and for a short time the two boats had a close race till the wind, which tad bonto the south of east, shifted to the N.E. and placed the Swipe in a componding position, The Snips with duelrulia well ahead went to the northward, whilst the Tavy vainly ondoevoured to pick up the tormer wind and got becalmed." ́

The northerly wind hardened and brought the beats back fairly fast, the Australia erossing

the line 44 minutes ahead of Snipe. The times at the finish were-

Yacht.

Australia

Snipe..

Torg

H. M. 8.

6 4 33

6 48 15 0

The next race will be on Feb. 6 at 10.15 a.m. THE VICE-COMMODORE'S CUP-15TH JAN. This was a Handicap Race for a cup kindly presented by Commodore C. Gauntlett Dicken K.N., and was sailed as announced in this paper on Saturday over No. 27 Course. There was a uios fresh breeze blowing from the eastward up the harbour, but it decreased in force as Green Island was approached, and in the open water | between Green Island and Kowichan thero was scarcely any wind at all.

...East Indies, Ans-

tralia, & China. North America

vice Squadron. Devonport 1st Craisor Squadron......Channel Flant. 2nd

One Оде

3rd

One

Atlantic Fleet. Mediterrasoun Fleet. In the East.

The Cape. North America and

West Indies.

At Home there will be three groups of ships held for service and an Emergency Squadron.

FOOTBALL,

HONGKONG F.C. V. OFFICERS H.M.S. "ALBION." This match was played on the Club ground at Happy Valley yesterday afternoon botwean the following tergios

Club:-0. Humphries, goal; F. C. Hall and A. Substitute, backs; H. C. Gray, W. Brown and H. Y. Garrett, halves; „T. Clark, A N. Humphreys, R. N. Williams and R. Henderson, forwards.

two

About

iam

goals.

five

defest, the They short in

minutos

Ation-Lt. Seymour, goal; Sab.Lt. Bernard and Mid. Taylor, backs Paymastor Aylon, Eng. Lt. Bartlett. Mid. Blackman, halves: Mide. Macgregor Robertson, Henderson, Mr. Coude William, Lt. Hallett and Rev. Mull'meux, forwards. Mr. C. Drew was referee,

The Club sustained another sailors winning by 3he start was rather a ragged one, the played throughout one Kathleen getting away with the lead, and the the forward line. Payne being left behind trying to weather the after play began a goal was recorded in favour mark-boat. All the boats except the Aileen went of the Albion, who during the greater part eat north of Green Island. The Aileen seemed of the first half kept the play round their to score at first, as there was a strong wind opponents' posts: Their forwards, however, through the Sulphur Channel, but she was soon hopelessly becalmed with the tide drifting going wide of the mark.

showed poor shooting ability, several easy shots The Club, in one of towards the up

Capsnímen. The

their low transferences of the play to before Iris then gradually went to the front their opponent's, stronghold, succeeded in netting with Vernon not far behind. The wind the leather. near the Rock was very faint, and several boats had some difficulty in avoiding being drifted on to it. The Iris rounded the Rock at 2.19, at having much their own way, and the Club, with 2.23 the one-design boate went round in a bunch

the oxoption of a few breaks-away, were kupt and the Aileen brought up the rear at 2.34all the time on the defensive. Humphries, their After rounding the Rock the little dost split up goalkapor, was rather severely tested, but of into two detachments, the Dione and others the many shots for the net, only twice the bull going off on the port tack, and the Elspeth, got past him.

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