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regard to the introduction of currency roform, the idea that "foreign assistance and pressure will be necessary" is con- firmed. In railway enterprise, greater hopes are rested on the Chinese, the various
Mesars, A Ches and Company were yesterday Aned 310 for blocking the sidewalk with carpets, The 19th yearly goneral testing of members of the Hongkong Club takes place on the 20th
instant.
'The s.s. Sanko-more was sunk by floating ice
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Bir Birom Wilkinson lat, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Shanghai, sa staying at the Hongkong Hotel. Last evening be dined with Bir H. 8. Berkeley, the Chlof Justice of Hong- kong.
Chinese desperadoes in the heart of Shanghai in trying to get ap river too soon, of New-settlement are again numerous. More European constatior are clamoured for by Chinesa.. tradosten, who apparently have little faith in their own or the Sikhs.
There word only two cases of small-pox is being resumed; and important develop-notified at Shanghai during the week ended ments are now being talked of. The report 2nd April. seems remarkably free from political bias
The Japanese commissariat line at Moukden
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Exchange has been going up rapidly during the last few days, clearly indicating that the fluctuations are influenced by the war. When
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in its reference to the Korean lines, by is said to have reached the unprecedented long there were circumstantial reports that RaChancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. this time she would not be a'lowed to iouoh
The fare, caught in the ics of northern Japan was broken up and spak. Two of her crew were frozen to death,
Numbers of Japanoso ora. roports to have been killed by Formosan head-hunters on Feb- ruary 20th.
Tientsin experienced a
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A Shanghai company has got provisional would be in the nature of a dangerous pre-permission from the Municipal Counal to cedeut. Their own telegram, however, intugurate a service of motor omnibases, wade. it clear that, provided' suitable
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arty of French soldiers seems a small mutter to have been made the subject of a representation to the Foreign Office; but as it is within our knowledge that our French friends in the northern port have persisted in referring to these as "trcope," it was an irregularity that very properly demanded attention. It now appeare that the British Govern- ment was a consenting party to this minor breach of the evacuation agreement It is also gratifying to note the cou- viction that the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal has been an all-
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On 11th April, at a, Granville Avenue, Kowloos, HENRIQUE LOURENÇO NOBONGA, of Eronchitis, aged 53 yearR,
Funeral will take place at the Bomar Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, today at nine o'clock. Friende are invited to attend Straits papers
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HONGKONG Office : 14. DEVEUX ROAD CI. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STEKET, EC.
HONGKONG, AFUIL 12TH, 1905.
Bela,"
"still" earthquake shack on March 24th, according to the Ties teen Timia.
a
The maintenance of the Russian prisoners in Japan is costing the governmout 12 million yen a year. They are to be hitad to work.
Major-General and Mrs. Villiers Hatton returned to the Colony from Shanghai by the Empress of India pesterday.
They appear to havo mjoyed "The Cingalee" very much at Shaughni; the papers speaking very highly of the Dallas Company.
More oscapes from the America Consular gaol at Shanghai are reported. This place is beginning to be regarded as oisier to get cutip! than into.
Major-Generab Villiora Hatton, is said to have been favourably impressed by the man- eurres of the Shanghai Light Horse, which he inspected on April 5th.
The Peking Pao says that & Gorman officer has been appointed adviser to the Shantung Governor, with a voice in "all international questions,"
was enquiring the terms of peace there wasu heavy slump in silver. The appearance of the Baltic Fleet in the China Fea has changed the Austen Chamberlain, for 1904-5, aspect of the situation and silver now ia rising
shows
actual surplus un again as rapidly as it fall a week ago.
ber guns, torpedoen, etc. A Japanese ship would be treated exactly the same as a Russian.
of
It is reported that large quantities of coal have recently been imported inta Saigon; and that colliers have been soat to meet the Flest
than
at ses. One left Hongkong not many days ago
with a cargo of Cardiff coal for the South."
was
Three R.G,A. men were convicted yesterday €1,414,000; of £394,000 more of refusing to pay tram faro, and ons defendant of breaking a gass window in a car. Near the the estimate. The expenditure Harbour Office, it appears, the car did not stop £141,032,000; or £1,848,000 less quite at the right spot, and the man struck at it with his stick, breaking the glass. The de. fondante then objected to pay ten cents to the Hongkong Hotel, calling the charge excessive
The first defendant was fined $15 and the other. two && each.
The
than the estimate of 1904-5. reduction of expenditure exported should increase the surplus for 1905-6
by another million.
The Budget, however, permits the
It remains to be seen whether or not the Times was tou optimistic in supposing the Chang Yan-mao v. C.E.M. Co. judgment would give the Chinese an exalted idea of British jus- tice H.E. Viceroy Yoan has demanded, after learning of the result, that the Wai Wa Pa extra two-pence on tea to be re- should sond Chang peremptory instructions to "obtain the full restoration of all rights." Buch official stupidity, it is only too sure, will be shared by large numbers of Chinese who were to have been properly impressed by tho example of British justice, which now appeara not to have gone far enough to sit the Viceroy's ideas.
moved; and £1,550,000 to be taken
off the National Debt.
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vague destination, with 45,000) racks of four on A week ago another ship also left for the same
board. Incidentally, it is said that captains of
ships running hopes to Vladivostock get £1,000 bonus if they got through For the greater part British shipmasters are oborem for such
work. It would not now como as a surprise to hear of Japanese captures south-west of Hong-. kong as well as north-east.
Informers, it is said, are paid handsomely by the Japanese Government, and the story of one particularly smart trick, which, if true, may account for some of the local Chineso bank- ruptcies, is still being retailed. The informer went into partnership with several Chiness spoonlators and sont a small steamor to ran the binckade with provisions. She was successful, and the informer asked his friends to plunge heavily for a similar venture: Thoy did so, and he gave the game away" to the Japanes Government, receiving each a reward na to enable him to retire.
LOED SAINT-HELIER.
We are informed that this title (of a Another old resident of Hongkong in peer whose death we announced in yeater" whole Baltic Flost.
day's telegrams) is that conferred upon passed away in the person of Mr. H. L. Sir Francis Jeune, who was made a peer Noronha, the senior partner in ortablished firm of printers and publishers, eu bie retirement from the Divores and
Admiralty Bench.
the old
Noronha and Co. The deceased was for some 18 or 20 years the Superintendent of the Government Printing Office in Bingapors, and retired on pension about 10 years ago, and returned to Hongkong, where he bought over the business of his father, the late Mr. D. Noronha. Mr. Noronha was suffering from an attack of bronchitis, but was improving Manila papers are gredited with an absurd when he died of failure of the heart. He was story of Japanese attempts to torpedo the s.63 years old. The funeral takes place this said to be laden with explosives for Vladivos agat 9 o'clock at the Roman Catholic
Carlisle in Manila Harbour, the said vessel
took.
Northern papers record the death of Mr. John Maltby, formerly of Shanghai and Naga- saki Hi China-side experience dated back to 1856. He was in the China tea trade in London and there died, aged 66 years.
Earthquake shocks were experienced at Shanghai on 3rd-4th instant. An astronomical dock at Siceswei Observatory was stopped. The experts regard the occurrence, as well as that at Tientsin, as an effect of the big earthquake in Northern India.
The Russians are said to be taking almost every pony in Mungulia, paying very bigh riers in the Canton river is noted, and prices for them. Even the native troops are apparently the Association sees no imme-selling their mounts, tempted by the large diate reason to complain that the improve- prices offered. ment is only partial It believes the channel will be widened and despened sufficiently to permit of free passage of res, Satisfaction is expressed at the "C. B." awarded to the ex-Secretary, Mr. R. 8. GUNDRY; and suitable reference is made to the losses caused by the deaths of Sir E. ACEROYD, Sir ROBERT JARDINE, and Mesers, G. J. Mozzisor, E. MACKINTOSH, and J. A. HAWEB. The Association has £2,055 48. 10d. in hand, including the balance of £155 48. 100, brought from last
year.
In the voluminous correspondencs repro- duced, there is a letter from Mr. R. C. WILCOX, chairman of the Hongkong branch, drawing attention to the announcement in the Daily Press that the Portuguese had THE annual report of the China Association secured the agreement for the Mucao-Canton. for 1904-5 as usual bristles with so many railway, and suggesting that were the points of interest that it is difficult to relate Kowloon-Canton scheme to be allowed to coherently the ground it carers or the lag, it would cause mortification here. It results that have attended the efforts of the
was the announcol that an early settle Association. Opening with an inevitablement was expected; and we understand that reference to the war, the report states that considerable pressure is now being officially **it is impossible to suppose that the applied to expedite the negotiation. Possi Chinese can witness the successes which by the renewed activity on the "Hankow have been achieved by Jupan
with-
line may help. out becoming conscions of the latent military possibilities in their own enormous population, if properly organised.”
There
Cemetery.
The Manila Cablenecce says:--Captain Garry bas at last made definite arrangements, toy proceeding with the work of seating the
strauded steamer Pharsalia, which Hes on an uncharted shoal in the San Bernardino straits and which; has resisted the efforts of other local wrecking people to save her. Captain Garry's price for the work and the delivery of
LEEUTER'S SERVICE,]
THE DISASTER IN SPAIN,
LONDON, 9th April. The face of a huge reservoir, in course of construction in the outskirts of Madrid, bas collapsed, and it is bediered that four hundred mammalties have occurred. The King and Minis ters hastened to the spot.
diresting the rescue operations.
His Majesty is
THE WAR.
{BEUTEL ́S 'SERVICE.]|
THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.
LONDON, 9th April, General. Linovitch reports twelve hours
the steamer at the port of Hongkong is 855,000. | fighting on the 4th instant, to the North of He will be assisted by the former captain and Teangtufu; and that the Japanese losses second officer of the schooner J. B. Lueda
were considerable. recently wrocked on the northern coast. Captain Garry undertakes the work on his own responsibility in case he fails, but he is quits confident of excess, and will shortly leave for the scene, taking with hini the best apparatus
this disporal
s statement in Court, is of opinion that China-to the following:-The British author, in his
THE RUSSIAN TROOPS IN MAN-
CHURIA.
LONDON, 9th April.
THE BALTIC FLEET.
LONDON, 9th April, There is no further news of the Baltic dest since it passed Singapore.
On the occasion of regimental fêter, Generals Kuropatkin and Linevitch have The Chief Justice (Sir H. S. Berkeley), from 4 conflding English journal lends currency telegraphed to the Emperor reporting the mer sentenced to be put in the stocks by Police days of struggle, knows what it is to havo his splendid bearing of the troops, whose devo- Magistrates here should not be put in the manuscripts returned with the formula, Deotion to the throne is unbounded, and confi- stocks till after the expiration of the term lined with thanks." The straggling French dence in ultimate future victory fervent allowed within which to appeal against the author is accustomed to the stereotyped phrase, and unshaken.
**Impossible, mille regrets." But how much Magistrate's decision.
better they manage this affair in the Far East: What does a Chinese editor say about the MS. he is returning? "We have rend it with infinite delight. By the holy ashes of our attestors wo wear that we have never seen Emperor, our exalted master, if we were to superb a masterpiece, His Majesty the print it would command us to take it as a model, and never publish anything of a less striking quality. As we could not obey this order more than once in ten thousand years, we are compelled to send back your divine manuscript, and beg a thound pardons." British editors and publishers, please copy!
The Chiness magistrate at Shanghai was amazed that an English lawyer could be induced to defend men whom he (the magistrate) regarded as fotorious and dangerous criminals, Mr. Ellis, the lawyer in question, said no doubt the magistrato was better and wiser than he bat ke proceeded with his duty.
Fire broke ont in the main hold of the H. A. L. steamer Segovia at Shanghai on April 7th. Part of the guano cargo in the lower hold was bursing. There was more smoke than fame. Steam was Srst tried, but. it was necessary to use water to get it out. Comparatively little damage was done. Thb
steamer was to leave in due course for Yokohama.
The demoralisation of the Russians after the
"BALTICER" GOSSIP.
But to return to Buigon, we are assured there is hardly room inside Capo St. James for the A secondary object put forward for Admiral Rozbalestvensky desiring to make for Saigon is that his cruisers and torpedo boats could be sent for a short while into frexis water up river, and the barnsoles having thus been killed the skips' bottoms could be cleaned with greater ease without the vessels going into lock. To accomplish this object the vessels would have to go a long way up river, nt lenat as far as Tiger Point, to get out of the brackish water,
There is a way of cleaning ships" bottoms, at sea with patent scribbers, but it is a very tedious task. A hollow dram covered with matting is attached to guys leading to either taff-rail zmler
the slip's bottom, and this is hauled for and aft by means of longitudinal guys. The water presses the baoyant scrubber against the ship's sido with suficient fored,
To be in neutral water immune from attack the Russian flect would have to romain within the three mile limit from the French coast and if it remained there indefinitely there fa no saying that Japan, after dne protest, would not make na attack.
If the cruisers and torpedo boata couli le got fairly clean the battleships would not matter
60 much.
There is no sign of the immediate departure of more British ships from Hongkong.
Exchanges atate that a fourth Baltic Fleet is fiting out at St. Petersburg,
A poem written by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), entitled "Battle of the Baltic," affords rather a striking coincidence, even in date. One stanza ras
"Lake leviathans afloat
Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew
On the lofty British line:
It was ten of April morn by the chime: As they drifted on their path
There was silenco deep as death; And the boldest held their breath For a time,"
it
austrors in the negative, and eren holds that. maoh of it is capable of expporting a greatly The Russian Consul, with respect to a increased population, quoting in confirmation
THE POPULATION OF CHINA.
Mr. W. W. Rockhill bas tande an inquiry inte tho probable papalation of Chins, both at various periods in the past, as deducible from Chinese records, and of the present day, Thosa. Arratoon Apcar arrived from Singa-cellaneous Collections, has been issued as a
The
paper, which appeared in the Smithsonian pore sesterday. She passed five deeply ladon reprint. Mr. Rockhill thinks that the high colliers steaming towards Saigon, presumably official estimates are fur in excess of the tratly pointing out that, in spite of the many with coal for the Baltic Flect.
unfavourable conditions, Chinese enumerations The following is a telegram culled from the would have us believe, the increase to be more Kobe Herald--London, 2nd April. It is rapid than in the most favoured countries of reported that the colliers accompanying Ad. the world. In this he agrees with the late Mr. miral Bozhdestvensky's Squadron have been Colborne Baber. In 1842 the population was about 350,000,000, a figure which probably battle of Mukden is indicated in the well-known ordered to proceed to Hongkong, via Jara cannot be greatly exceeded at the present day
inclined to place The Court of Appeal at Osaks bas dismissed Mr. Kuroda's dispatches to the Nishi Nicki The Baltic Equadron is arriving at Jibatil to- in fact, Mr. Rocklill is Thero is also a curious memorandum by the appeal of Mr. H. E. Beguell of Kobe quoted by the Japan Baily Mail:-"Mr. doy. The Hospital ship Kostroma, belonging considerably under 270,000,000. To the ques- Mr. GUNDEY relating to the Shanghai river against the decision of the Kobe first Court is Kuroda writes a treatise on the old saying to this quadron, we supplied with coal and tion whether the country is over-populated, he
an action brought by him against Mr. B.fasi kwakurei (sound of the wind and voice water at Perim.
of the crane). He says that history relates are, of course, already numerous indications more forcible than diplomatic, he proposes Reynell's claim was for 50,000 yen as damages imaginary indications of danger, but to credit formation about a naval fight at ses "in which
improvement question, in which, in terms Young, Editor of the Japan Chronicle. instances of troops flying before these rumeur, denies that he has received any. in- of this an opinion of Mr. F. B. A. Bourne.
A VICEREGAL EDITOR that China has gained such a consciousness to let the VICEROY of Naoking "do it his for injury alleged to have been done to bis the annals it is necessary that one should the Russian feet had met, fenght and destroyed and is now groping her way towards giving own way;" and thus explains the alteration reputation by the publication of an advertise actually witness a fight like that at Makdan. Ase Japanese cruisers."
The fact that Monsieur Besu, the Governor- practical effect to the ideas thus acquired. in the river: "If those accidents' started mant signed by a barritter warning the public No less than fifteen thousand Rausinus
In his anxiety to make the now official paper General of French Indo-China, has postponed he has recently started in Hantów a RESCU68, It is to bo hoped that a similar willingnessit, BEYNOLDS wilfully increased it, by that an attachment had been issued against Mr.surrendered within the city, almost without a
Reynell in a suit brought against him by Mr. struggle. Bodies 2,000 strong, which had his departure for France on vacation has Viceroy Chang Chih-tang started the other other directions; and that in trade matters increase the area of bis land 1 "
the white flag after a few rifle-shots. On the The fact is, Monsieur Clemental, the new every other newspaper in his vicinity. His Chino may, as the report goes on, "recon-
owned paper called the Hankow Ji-ji There are now ton licensed pilots at According to the report of the New Darsel 11th inst. a force of from 400 to 500 men laid Minister for the Colonies, appointed to bis Excellenny's first step was against a Japanese sider her stubborn adherence to Oriental
Shimbun Hankow Daily News"). Writing Bay Tobacco Plantations for the year ended down their arms to 200 Japanese; a half-com-position but a few months ago, is going on a
to the Japanese Consul, the Viceroy formally ways and adopt Western methods, which Newchwang.
September 30, the 1909 crop, which produced paay, 120 strong, surrendered to a small com-tour of inspection. He will leave France next have contributed so ranch to the prosperity
5,855 bales (against 4,404 bales in 1909) was bold, misariat guard of Japanese, and, most July and spend August and September in complained against curtain articles in that Monsieur Bean was asked to paper and requested it to be closed. This the Japanese Consal consented to do in his reply to and advancement of Japan." In an isolated
at an average price of about 2e, per pound, as remarkable of all, 24 Russiaus notually allowed paragraph following the remark that "sigus
sttempt was made to close the "Ts'a of an advance are not wanting," the report
against ls. 10hd., and the not result realised themselves to be made prisoners by four after that of Monsieur Chart Indo-Chins till the Viceroy. Having Fucceeded so far of anbunta to £29,687. An interim dividend of Japanese who wore hastening to rejoin their after that of Monsieur Clementel
Should the Baltic Flest make for Shigon, Hope News' journal owned by a British # Viceregal dispatch 1 per share was paid, and the directors now corps. Nine Japanese prisoners were recovered and some think it likely to do so, the
was sent to the British Consul on the subject. says simply, "There is no change in the
The Shanghai racing pony "Mongol" was recommend, after placing £4,000 to reserve, a final when the Russians were in the act of escorting French rules of neutrality will, ao doubt, be It is whispered that the secretary who road the -personnel of the Chinese Court.
dividend of 18. per share, carrying forward them towards Tickling; the escort warrendered Donager Empress still remains in power," sold for The 725 on the 5th instant.
£1,892. The 1994 crop, which is now being and handed over the abjects escorted-paid observed very strictly. They differ materially contents of the British Consti's reply to the room after he had done this duty-NC. Daily There is an apparent implication about It is said that the Japanese will levy taxes prepared for packing, is expected to yield orar back the loan with interest, a Mr, Kuroda from the English rules of neatrality. Belliger Viceroy was only toe gist to got out of the
at warships, in the first place, are not i Neros. 4,000) bales, a portion having been lost by Loods- says."
to profit by experience may be exhibited inplanting barrels out on the foreshore to Alfred Kirby to recover possession of certain apparently retained their organisation, raised nothing whaterer to do with the Baltic Fleet, day, so reports a correspondent, to try to close
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A new public Municipal market is being provided at Shanghai.
General Sakhomlinoff has been appointed
Russian Minister for War.
that which perhaps was not intended. Within Hauchuria, for sanitary end polios work,
property.
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