POLICE COURT. Friday, May 10th.
BEFORE MR. F, A. HAZELAND (F:RST
POLICH MAGISTRATE).
ALLEGED MESTRUCTION 27 A MOTOR CAR. A Chianmou, for whom Mr. Reginald Harding appeared, was charged with sawzing an obstruction in Quéru's Road Wost with his
motor car.
P. C. Ingham deposed that, on the 2nd inst.
FUNNELS AND FLAGS.
NEW YORK SHIPPING STRICK.
New York's coastwise shipping is tied up by a general and agravating strike among the lengshoremen of the metropolis. Transporta tion is badly blocked, sad shippers are experien- sing heavy losses. An effort at compromise and adjustment is on foot.
ENGINEER'S CERTIFICATE CANCELAND. At the Marine Court yesterday morning, Comosuder Basil it. H. Taylor, M., Marine Magistrate, beid an inquiry connected with a charge of carelessnoer preferred by Thomas Neave, superintendent engineer of the Hoag Wing, engineer of launch K5,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY. MAY 11TH, 1907.
RUINED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
WHOLESALE DISTRESS AND STARVATION
AT WOOLWICH.
Ruid and destitution have been aprond throughout Woolwich by the wholesale and heartless manuer in which the Government has reduced the etaff of men employed at the Arrous There have been at least 15,000 discharges,
The policy of "senomy at all costs, no matter who is rained," initiated at the Arsenal at the bidding of the Government has resulted in the
at 12.15 he was on duty in' Queen's Hond West. kong and Whampoa Dec's Co, Lil, against Tae reduction of the staff 10 a figuro far below the
when he discovered that a motor car was obstructing the free passage. He learned tim the car belonged to the defendant as this latter
told him so bigself, Several ricstus were prevented from parsing.
Cross-Line-It was Cha Kee and not the defendust who informed bis that defend
was the owner.
Mr. Harding As a matter of feel it was my client's motor car. I am only testing this witness's vergity
You say it was not in the side channel as for No. It could have been bacit as it could be
another 1 inches.
Did 300
measura
Mr. John D. Morrison, foreman engineer of the Deck Company, said that the engineer, Tho Wing, had systematically neglected his duty for the hat two years, the fireman doing all the On the 6th ist, at work in the engiws-room.
He looked into the
crew a
4pm witness was going from the Sui Bang to the Wai Ching engine-room and saw the engineer was not Ahere. Then he looked into the quarters, abaft the engine room, and saw the engineer lying down ther, upparently are
was constantly absent from the The w amir-raco when the lunch was raonin and aagbed at witness when found fault
swith.
Tae Wing said he was eick at the time; be had been trequently sick during the last two He did not tell Mr. Morrison brcanka years. distaneh-.No.
he scokled him.
I put it to you that it was not more thani -eight ur nign inches from the kori: It was
more than eight or nine.
You swear to that Yes.
tr
Did you see sugledy inecoded obstructed by this car? Yes, several ricehas
Aro you going to call any of them?-No. His Worship A motor car there would be `an obstruction. It was opposite the Ko Shing
theatre-
Mr. Harding-My client was in the theatre His Worship-It wonki be an abduction
there.
Mr. Hardinge mast leave it somewhere. I will call two policombu to prove that the
car was right in the gutter.
The bearing was adjourned till Thursday.
ANOTHER OBSTRUCTION CARE, H. Kuttoujeo and wou were summoned for cauring an obstruction opposite their premises; in D'Aguilar Street. It was stated that the trucks had stopped opperite the shop, or mplate ly blocking the thoroughfare. Defendant, who pleaded guilty, explained that the trouble was due to the fault of the coolles, a second
His Worship cancelled defendant's certificate.
THE BERLIN
DISASTER.
The Court of Inquiry appointed by the Board of Trade, in delivering judgement on the "Berlin directer, finds that the loss of the steamer was due to an error of judgement or the part of the Captain who failed to make tufficient allowance for wind and sea.
usual peace, standard.
There is no sign that the wholesale dismissale of workmen are nearing the end. Following the large number of men the ceased work on Thursday and Friday a large batch of notices were again given on on Saturday morning principally in the tinmans' shop of the
Factory. Laboratory and workshops of the Rajat Gan
It would unt, se ofoia! stated, be a CI- aggeration to say that curing the last three days of the weak close on 500 Dotices wern aged, and more discharges are anticipated this werk. Men who had been out on suspens- ion in the Royal Carrings Department, ev going
to draw their pay, wors handed ex. so prosperous, is Tho town. notice of discharge. periencing the keenest pinch of poverty. Tradesa on have found their trade redned by masy pounds a week, while the whole place
in
ence
in dotted with empty houses.
frequen
18
The outlook for Woolwich is gloomy. The discharges from the Arsenal, and the depression in trade felt by large private firms in the neighbourhood, have resulted in a problem of hrman want and suffering that
difficult to solve" very These words were spoken to so Express We are informed that the East Asiatic Com-representative by Mr. Squires, the Mayor of pany's steamers connecting with Transiberian Woolwich. trains will in fature be dispatched from Shang- hai on Fridays instead of Saturdays, owing to alterations in the railway time-tables. Through tickets.can now be ined from Sharbai to
the
SIBERIAN MAILBA DAY EARLIER.
towns in Siberia and Earopean li usria, and with new time-fable trains will run through frau Vindi rontok to Moscow in ten days. Malls must Traina leave in future close on Friday Vladivostok at 7 p.m. en Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The Tuesday trains cousiast of the International Wagons-Lite Company's care.
CERTIFICATE CANCELLED.
"It has been anggested to me," he continued, that I should call another town's meeting to protest against the Inaction and, as some phrase it, indifferenen of the Government. If Ruch a course would be effective I should be anxions to follow it, but I am afraid that ne depulation appointed at sach a gathering would be able to in Haence the responsible Ministar.
Mr. Equires le anxious that something should
"slockners
te done, and that the problem should be solved. He explained that the evil consequences of fall particularly at the Arsenal heavily upon the tradespeople of the town.
Of eures, they do les business," he said i by la, td.. Woolwich by a shilling, in Plumstead
and in addition, the rates have increased in and in Eltham by sixpencs. These increased amounts have been necessitated by spendthrift policy of the late Socialist Labour houses in the borough, while individual cases of hardship are all to commGA
the
TOKYÓ TO LONDON IN SEVENTEEN I DAYS.
A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph has travelled overland to Londoa from Tokyo (with only eleven hours on the res, Trushima Straits and the English obannel,) and he thinks it possible to do the whole journey in seventeen daya,
I have been altogether forty-two days on the journor, tarrying here and there for the par- travelling, however-of-moving from place to poses of investigation The period of actual place- did not exceed twenty-ono days, and had fortune and time-tables favoured me, that record It may not be without interest to reproduce tight have been reduced to seventeen daya.
the stages of Bach a journey
Tokyo to Shimonewki, the fortress at the entrance of the Island Ses of Japon and the
hour*. port of embarkation to Korea, Uirty thres
Shimonoseki, across the Tsushima Straits to Fusar, the principal port in Southern. Kores;
ten heure.
Fu-an to Peoil, the e-pital of Korea; one day Saul to Ping Yang; one day.
Ping Yang to Sin Wija, on the banks of the Yala, which" flows between Korra and Man-
churia: ons dag.
Antung, on ile Manchurian side of the Yain, to Saikoku, in Manchuris, by light military
One day railway
Shikoku to Muken, by light military mail. Kay, one day.
Makden to Kungobulin, the present terminus of the Japanese railway in Manchuria; twenty beus.
Chinese cart, from Kangelialit to Kwan-
obeatze Station, the ownership of which, together with the line south of Kangehulin, is
Kranclentas to Harbin one day. still in dispute, one hour and a half.
-
Harbia to Irikusk, in Sibarla, where there is a change to the Moscow exprom; four days and four nighte.
From Irikesk to Moscow; seven days and seren nights.
From Moscowite Loudon, ria Warsaw, Berlin, aud Paris; four days and four nights.
This is not partienlarly quick travelling owing to brigandage in Manchuria nad Koren, the trains do not travel during the night.
than twenty miles an hour in exceeded. Connections are bad, and the whole way from us to focus it is rare that a speed of more
Following are extracts from his notes on the
This is
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'BOAR'S HEAD" BRAND LIGHT, SPARKLING
PALE ALE
(IN PINTS AND SPLITS)
AND
GUINNESS' STOUT "BOAR'S HEAD" BRAND
AND SPLITS). (IN) QUARTS, PINTS
SAMPLES ON APPLICATION. H. PRICE & CO..
SOLE AGENTS
TELEPHONE No. 135.
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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
ferta of Singer-masked pastry, that looked an Commonly like dumpling. At nigh, I was in Shikokn, & little village half way to Mukden, wher sleewbers stong the hue, the Japanese built a selfiemont in a day. Flers! the lanlerd of the Japanese inn, in slow, dis liberat s English wards met me with the wel!
"You are lucky to coms bere." The train between Anfang and Makden usually goes over the embankment. You see it is only a military! train for the purposes of war”
pume,
ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION.
A $10,000,000 World's Fair will be held at Frottle. U.S.A., in 1909, opening Juue 1, and clesing Ootcber 15, 1909, and its promoters say it will be, in relation to the world's development, one of the greatest world's fairs over heki,
The primary purpose of the exposition is to exploit the resources and potentialities of the Alaska and Yakon territories in the United States and the Demision of Canada, and to the trade of the Pacific Ocean and of the countries make known and foster the rast importance of
positions it does not depend upon historical Bani iwont to arouse enthusiasm and to indaco participation. It will not celebrate any particular inedoring upon it. Different from farmer or
event; it will be a great international industrial and commercial exposition,
truck bucing bean brought alongsied before his sentenes of fourteen days' rigorcus impri- council. There are at least a thousand emply found the Japanese dining high Kor an official, by over Eubscribing to the extent of $150,000,
the first had been removed, Fived $3.
POLICEMEN SUMMONED
Two Indian constables were summoned for. assaulting a Chinaman, the case being remanded
HIGHWAY EOBBERT.
A regarcanes of kwlessness on the part of Indians at Yaukti took p'sen st Tuumation Thursday evening. While a native woman was going along Kennedy Street to the market she
Indian-coolies emulsped on
the Canton-Kowloon Railway. One of them musicbed a gold ear pick, valued at So, from her head and both map made of. Attracted by ber eries of "save life" a detective came on the The first defend sat scene and gars chase. handed the pick to his companion and they went However, the ef in reparate directions. detective come up with his man and early yesterday morning Inspector Mellardy found
the other while he was on morning patrol. case was remanded for further evidence,
KOWLOON, AMENITIES.
The
A Marion Court of Inquiry into the con- duct of Mr. W P. Dargan, second officer of the local steamer Janet Nicoll, was hald in the Master Attendant's Court at Bugnpore,
Mr. P. J. Sproule, the Deputy Public Pro- secuter, asked that, in view of the conviction of Bir. Darges on a charge of desertior, and Bopment on April 18. his license be cancelled. Mr. Dargan, BWOLD, said that be held a second mate's certificate dated May 28, 1885. He had not applied for a master's certificate as he went into the river service at Hangoon. Ha secured master's certificate in the river service. but had lost it since. He had spent four years in the river service and bed since been employed or ses and shore. Before entering the Janet Nicot, be had been empleyed by the Tanjong Pagar Tock Board and Lad been dismissed. He asked the Court to consider the circumstances under which he had come to grief. He lost his clothes and He got to other personal iTests in a sompaa. arivances totalling 835. The tret, of $30, Le spent mostly in clothes, the balance being lost with the clothes in the sampan. Be did not go on a spree with the last advance. His last
On that he was quartermaster. steamer before the Janet Nicolt was the Trocas.
Captain John S. Wright, of the steamer Janet Nicoll, said that Mr. Dargan joined the ship at 9 a.m. on March 21. On that day he told witness that his clothes were lost and wit. bera gave him leave to go ashore and get them. He beror returned. At the shipping office, when he signed on, he get $23. On the next day, when he said that his clothes were lost, he got 810 more.
Prom Seoul to Ping-Yung was a day'e tra- velling. Here I stayeit at a Korean house which had been converted by an enterprising known far and wide by the high wanding title French into a nice littis hotel, and was of the Hotel Français. I dined exceedingly a to zoo Korean officials. well, for the incal Japanoss Resident was giving another way the Japanese hase of impressing the Korests, in fact, overs where I went I and the Japanese chasing the Korean common It was another day's journey to the Yala, For the most part the individual sufferes people. There are a few wasters, but not many; and
every other are Arsenal men-quiet, sober, industrious which was frozen. I was thus able to cross to
men, who sportingly shallenged the majority, no matter how sharp the pinck, ntang in a sleigh drawn by two furious China- passing sleigh to a hard race. I am glad, for will not seek or accept parish relief.
The leaders of the local rade abions are
my own credit's sake, to be able to add that in- official of the emphatio. A prominent
variably they won easily. These parts seemed Club and Institute of equally em
net by the word of mouth, but by We have had a fortnight off," he the written character, which can he read Amalgamated Sceisty of Engineers declared the cross-rosds of the Crient. Chiuse, Koreans, said, "and when the men return to their plac'hroughout the Far East. Here as at Fasan, many of them will again be sent back home the Japaness had a splendid settlement-wide while not a faw will be handed the notices which streets, clean, comfortable hotels, and a narro
RO much dread,
tramway with trolley-cars pushed by occlier. I was told that the land was allotted and paid for when the military were in nconpation, of course, China was compiled to
the
about The Exposition will have cost.
2 On Datoder 8100909 au opening day last, five months after the incorporation of the position company, which was feeted Way 7. lo financo the enterprise by subscribing in one day to its 116 people of Beatife were called upon ospital stock of $500,009. The generous and publie spirited manner in which they responded making the total amount available with which to begin work, $650,000, is now history. No obercity for any purpose aver equalled such feat. More than half a million dollars in one
ik das a large amount of money to be raised in a city of
of 200,000 inhabitants. An average of more than $1.00 was Bulwaribed for every woxen and child in the city.
that the picture could not be painted forsonintermingled, and made themselves 1. parsed a bill providing for 87000 ta bo spen
gloamily. V
they
The State of Washington has appropriated
for the participation of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines. Many other states have made $1,300,000 and the United States Beiste
ample provision for displays, and it is expected
tako part. but at least twenty-five commonwealth will
It will be the aim of the world's fair, to exploit Alaska and Yukon by showing to the world by exhibits that these two countries possess many things besides snow, cold and
the other day put the number at 15,000; that the agreement afterwards. The Japa-gold. Few persons realize the great possibilities i
my
IKYMA.
каз
MILLIONS
OF WOMEN
USE
Cuticura SOAP
Assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stop- ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, Itchings, and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and inflammations, or undue per spiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery.
Fold throughest the world. Tondon Dept: F. New- bere & honk, L., Charterhouse Tatler Drug
1. Mk4, U. S, A Chim Carp Hole Prop
"Nalled F, How to do.
There is some misconception as to the number of men actually at work. Mr. Haldane is wrong. It is muct nearer 10,010, What this means you will understand from the fact that daring the late war 26,000 men were em- played. This shows that a series of discharge has been going on until the total number has Again, in one of the branches of our society. rosebed between 15,000 and 16,000. out of 300 members all but seventy-one are on
Next morning, while it was still dark. I left the books, and, roughly, 25, per ceal. of the other branches.
Nur is it only the men of short service by the military light railway for Mukden. The Men with altemishe accommodation was little worse that I had of ordinary box freight expected, cousisting Recalled, Mr. Dargan mid that he was sooood that are anffring oross sin mors charging the former with dis.mate of a barque sailing to the West Coast of records extending from twenty to thirty years care, with windows and doors that rattled luxuries anjoyed by those living in other parts!
Africa, in 1985. the nineties, he was third have been turned adrift, When a man is die-
only those who have experienced a Man turbing the peace. The hoaring was fixed for waste of steamers belonging to the East Asiatic charged he is entitled to a bonus of ons week's apart, letting in the bitter Manchurian wind
Company-
pay for every year's service niter seven years; ring winter can realize its intensity. Every lies wholly north of the 00h peraliul, while very possible way. The site, 255 neres in ex- Mr. Sproule held that he was not of such a bat the twenty, thirty, or it may be sixty where, as far as could be beau, was know, deep Alaska six degress south of this latitude tent, is the unused portion of the campas of the character as to be safely entrusted with a watch pounds does not go very far when there are on a steamer.
His certificate was cancelled.
A. G. M, Silva summoned G. R. Edwards of East Terrace, Kowloon, na a charge of dis- orderly behaviour and the latter took cul a
nurt wook.
JACE ABHORB
An American bluejacket from the Cin cinnati was fined 810 for disorderly conduct in Ship Street, and aesaaiting P. C. Shepherd. The defendant was making himself offensive in the street, and when the police oflear interferel
ha struck him on the eye.
THE JAPANESE MURDER.
The hearing of the charges of marder against
four Japanese and the charge of being acesseries after the fact was resumed, ridecce for the prosecution was continued. The medical testi-
HINGAPORE SHIPPING DISFETE.
Siece August last there has been keen com- The rate of freight bax gradually dropped to petition on the Singapore-Penang ruu. 50 per cent. of the original charges, while passage mcney has been reduced by over 60 per cent.
It seems that the freight and passage war
wife and children.
Now, all this is the more extraordinary since there are hundreds of thousands of pounde worth of ralpable machinary that is lying idle and, therefore, deteriorating. Only the other day three new drilling machines from Coventry were added to the establishment, and there is no work for them.
and adrautages of these countries, Besides nese lady who kept the local hotel had been a
"At that the gold, fish and fur resources, there are many refugee from Dalny during the war
"and
others that are only beginning to be developed,
54-88 time I walked two days." she said,
But I like the Russings.
and which offer unusual inducement for the +mployment of espita) and individual +Fort.
scratch- baby died in 2
The mineral resources have been only
In addition to the foregoing, Great Britain, if all my countrymen and country-women could They wore always kind to me, sad I am sure
ed on the surface and the agricultural France, Germany, Rassis, and the Netherlands. know them there would be no ill-feeling.
possibilities are only beginning to be realized. will be invited to participate, as they have Alaska and Yukon will soon be able to support possessions in the Pacific and are interested in millions of people with practically all of the the development of the trade of the ocean.
The The exposition itself will be well worth of Canada and the United States,
will be made original in grounds and buildings The foregoing statements are borne out by trip aeroas a continent or na ccean to see
This little country the example of Finland.
and hard frozen over mountains and plains, right up to the peaks and far to the horizon, From every cleft and rock hung rows of jagged picles, and the waterfalls had turned to lee 83 they fell. The railway, which stretches Boross 180 miles of mountains, very like the Rockies in Canada, is one of the finest scenic
A
University of Washington, a state institution, Finland is less than one-fourth the size of and borders for more then a mile and a balf on Alaska, and its agricultural area is less than Lake Union and Lake Washington, the latter Pacise Northwest. The Olimpic and the Cas- 50, & quare miles, yet in 1896, Finland had a Alaska now has only 95,000 inbabitants cade mountains mag be soer from the grounds population of more than 2,500,0 0, where a being the largest body of fresh water in the Argiculture is the chief pursuit. Only about and an unobstructed view may be obtained of
of dairy products, live stock, Mount Baker. 30,000 persous dwell in cities. Finland exports the perpetual snow peaks of Mount Kainier and
Different from flax and
eraction of permanent buildings in its plan. Several of the main exbibit palaces will be sab ka en rom, former world's faire, the Alas-
stantially built, and the University of Washing-
after the fair closes.
mony was to the effect that death had been, and ships owned by the Straits Steamship fixing the price to be paid for 'joka' In one of which the Japanese, in tresties, bare not Alaska and Yukon will be on exhibition in 1909 ton will use them for Educational purposes
caused by a stab in the heart,
Was
P
at a rapid pace, Many workers, no suicable settlement being arrived at Beng have been built Kee and Kee Guan and Company who are taking advantage of the brisk time during the jointly interested in the shipping, felt that they war, began to buy their own house. Hundreds had no other alternative but is defend their of them bave had to leave, and thousands of The ralus of property has seriously depre interests. Henra the competition. Kes Gran pounds have thus been lost to them. and Company are the owners of the old Perak, maning, din order to compete against rivals oisted in Woolwich Shops in Powing rest, which a short while ago let were for £200 a year, can it was deemed expedient to place her on the
Port Swettenham and Tulek Anson now be obtained for beif that sam. Routs that Singapore,
Kea's For Aur. were Its a week are fallan to 108.
Do you know that Suzuki was a procurer of run in Company with Beaver, the propriet
In the past few days, bows women --I do not know.
Was not the deceased man Troki his agent of the various ships interested in the movement
I do not know,
WEATHER REPORT,
d
BIBLE DISTRIBUTION.
OFFICIAL CONTRADICTION TO AN ARGUED
AMERICAN RUMOUR.
systems in the world. Construsted as a light large quantities, grain, and the population | "The methods adopted by the authorities are railitary railway for the purposes of the war,
in spite of the large emigration. belittle known. At the same time, it is a
Yukon is in bearly the same istitude an Alaska was brought about in consequence of inability as costly as they are mysterious. Office boys it must, in the ordinary nature of things, has increased 800,000 in the past thirty years, to settle a dispute regarding the running of bara uotually been sent out to work with the raitable pioneer link in the great_oross-Com-
and the resources nd advantages differ very tinental communication between Fussu and
little from those of the American territory. steaners in which Kos Guna and Company, of gangers. There is a new departure styled the Penang. aud Berg Kere, of Penang, are interest-rate-fixing department. The staff je engaged in Calais, and constitutes a valuable concession,
case the price was fixed at a farthing, and over made too much. As an egineering achievement They have the goods and will have a chance to Company. Beng Kee objected to the Straits
a ahilling was spent in ticketing and scheduling it will certainly compare with anything that abow them. They cannot make headway with Steamship Company running their new steamer
has been accomplished in the way of railways, the people they hope to convins by displaying
totem poles or
gilded cches representing gold Dy the The mistress of the boarding honse in Con. Perak from Singapore to Penang via Fort Swat- the contract.
the Government *nd senseless policy of
workman have scrificed the specially when the fact is taken into considera
prodnations. The people want to see the real Sometime the
Inquiries made by a Fress representative go naught Road Central where deceased wat his tenham on the same day as the Pin Song, which, for the past ten years, has been running on
completed during a great war.
copper and the real agricultural productions.
to disprove the statements which appeared in Biblo death, stated that when the four men assaulted Saturdays to Penang. The Straits Steamship results of years of thrift and foresight. In the tion that its construction was undertaken a
The bringing of the shores of the Pacifio several London papers to the effect that a the dearsted he did not see that the hitter Bad Company were spproached on the subject and suburbs, notaby Bostal and Eltham, residences little rattling toy train would take soveral hours gold, the real coal, the res! timber, the real anything in his hand. She knew the fifth de- found
to sig-zag along a narrow ledge up the side of a The results cannot fail to be beneficial.
fendant the interpreter who
bil, only to zig-zag down the other side, and tains was in this was erased without tunnelling another important accomplishment of the feir. the British and Foreign Bible Society and the No several bridges This will be done by the exhibition of the pro- National Bible Fociety of Sortland are parties. Looking up one conid miniaterpreting, and was charged with being
repeat the process until a lefty range of mean- Ocean closer together commercially. will be Trust" is being formed in America, to which
high wooden structures-
across Forver, and ducts and resources of the countries bordering The suggestion contained in the rumour-or an accessors), but sha did not know any of the other defendaute. Under cross- Jamination she
possibilities for an increase in the trade of the Trust independent competition will be stifled, looking down, una cond ses bridges below. apon the greatest of Oc-ans. Thers are great rather allegation--is that by means of the Fartber-more, one could invariably see the
by as such as 40 par cert. admitted that she also knew the sixth defen.
The Rev. A. Taylor, one of the general allimate carve of railway, either Ligh or low.ustries of North and South America with and that the price of Bibles will be advanood dsat by sight.
for which the train was making in its steady those of the Orient and Oceanica and vice versa. Оле The Orient will send its wares, ita products
"The round-about climbing or descending. gained the impression that the train was all the and its people to the Alarka-Yukon Pacific secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible time winding up and winding down the mountsio Expo ition, and Americans wat study them at Society, come to the main pointe at once. slopes, curling in and curling nat, and moving first band. The products of the Occident will only arrangements we have with the United very little forward. The occasional panorama of he displayed also, and the mercheats and mana. States." he said, "ar that we supply Bibles to The Hongkong Olmervatory yesterday issued white scenery down the valleys, reliesed only facturers of each section may learn the needs, the American Society in Continental isngasgas by the grey bats of loose stones that formed of the people of their respective markets, and for the use of immigrants into the United the villages, was magnificent, and in ite dis- how to secure and hold the business. Oriental States. These we supply to them at the actual But as to the alleged combine?" asked the the following report :—.
tant
awe-inspiring.
ental buyer and Oriental seller, will be brought
Press representative.
"There is no combine at all," said Mr. Taylor. At each station wary a few little Japanese closer together to their matas! advantage: say, wept Banking peaks that pierced the bayer and Qeridieztai seiler, as well as Occid. cost price of their production.
"It is absolutely untine and absurd. As a The depression appears to have moved East- houses, made with wooden walls, not with through the exhibits collected with that sim
paper soreons, as in Japan, and the officials, in view, wards into the Sea of Japer.
And the same result will be gained in matter of fact, we do not work in the United Pressure is probably high oror Central who generally numbered two, wrapped in sheep- skins, and stamping their feet, came out shiver-
American and Mexico. In exploiting trade which is charged for the Bibles which we send China:
Besides this it is interesting to note that Molerate N. to N.E. winds may be expecteding, and witli blus hands took the wail bags, regard to the countries of South and Central States at all. We do not wran know the price Chinese, and we were packed tightly in the world, the Alaaka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is in the Formosa Channel, and the N. part of the end went back. My companions were mostly relations between those countries and the to the American Society, China Sea,
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending its box cars. With one of them, who spoke taking up a virgin field, being the frst world's although the printing and publication of Bibles business man may enter, there is no such pidgin-English, I had a pleasant conversation. fair that ever included such a purpose in its in Britsin is not a phase of trade into which any at 10 a.m. to-day, 2.45 inches.
He had been prospecting for
Foreign representation will be limited to the restriction in the United States. There anyone The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon expressed his contempt for the Japanese under
big breath, and his love for the English out countries whicse shores are lapped by the Pacific may print and sell circumstance which to day is as follows:-
The cost of Bible production to as every year derate, fair. aurance that Chics was really awakening, be
aloud. Soou, after giving me the solemn as Ocean, and the following countries will be appears to make the combine or trust all the
Costa Rics, Ecuador, Chino, Columbia, N. to N.E. lighted his opium pipe, and wont to see ht invited to take part: Anatralis, Canada, Chile, more unbkely. winds, moderate. the China in the box were very dirty and fat-- Formosa, Koren, French East Indies, German is £25,060," went on Mr. Taylor. "Tow sras Same as No.2. not naturally, but because of the lairs of greasy Colonies, Guatemala, British India, Japan, this sam we get £100,000 in sales-the remeising clothes which they were. This was a pily, for Mexico, Dutch East Indies, New Zealand, £150, have to come from subscriptions.
welcome to it." it prevented me from schepting a great deal of Fenston, Peru, Philippine Islands, Siam, and Anybody who can mak a combine of that will be Samong No. 1.
Find hospitality which they offered me in the Salvador.
Don't you know that when Suzoki went away he left Ircki in churgo ?--I do not know, bet I have seen the men tegether.
Witzess afterwords stated that she board Suzuki way before he went to Japan that he left his business in the hands of Iruki. Sub- sequent to that she was told that Irski was very unpopular among the Japanese here. She sharp did not see the deceased carrying & instrument nor did she see it used prior to the nesault. As a matter of fact she could not remember what actually teck place at the time.
Other evidence was called, and the case adjourned.
Theven who are fond of song and music should not forget the "grand promenade concart which is advertised to take place on the Volunteer parade ground to-night. The concert is in aid of the Union Church organ fund, and the programme includes the names of maay noted local performers.
held a ennference at which certain proposals were put forward. What these are has not transpired, but it is understood that within four mouths the Straits Steamship Company have the opinion of changing the saling time of the Perak to other than on Saturdays. If the terms of the agreement discussed are signed and come into fures the companies will revert to their former charges both in respect of freight and
the route. Passage money, while it is possible that other steamers may be engaged on
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The CP.R. str. Alhenias, strived Nagasaki alam, on Friday, the 10th May, and loft gain at p.m., same day for Kobe where she is due to arrive at 5 am, on Sunday the 12th May.
The NY.K. tr. Tamba Maru (Earopean Line) left Shanghai for this port on the 10th May, and is expected here on the 13th May.
The H. A. Line str. Brisgavis left Shanghai
Ou the 10th at 12.10 p.m.-The barometer has risen moderately over Chint, and fallen considerably over Japan..
via Amoy on Thursday the 9th May; and reay Hongkong & Neighbourhood N. winds, mo- be expected here on or about the 13th May.
The T.K.K. str. Koren will sail from Yoko baza on the 12th May, and will be due to arrive at this port on the 21st May.
The IM. str. Prins Sigismund has left Sydney on Wednesday 7 p.m. the 8th May, and usy be expected here on or about 30th May..
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