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THE third-class battleship Audacious will shortly be stationed at Felixstowe, the new base for a torpedo-boat destroyer instruction Cotilla.

IT is reported at Tientsin that the Chinese Government is thinking of inducing Russia to evacute Manchuria by ceding to her a certain part of Mongolia.

AN Irish Industrial League has been incor- porated at New York, to assist farmers in Ireland. It is hoped to raise 1,020,000 dollars during 1çoz

Don't forget the chits for they will not go LeMunyon.-Adut.

A NEW Peruvian ganboat, built at a Birken-

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A TURTLE weighing upwards of 4 oths, was recently secured by Customs officials on the island of Lafsaing near Chung Chan, and was brought to Hongkong. Turtle soup and steak Ggured on the menu for tiffin at one of the principal hotels to-day,

A WIRE from London of 26th ult. reports that two inen, named Poster and Preston, have been arrested at Silly on the charge of shooting Constable Wilkinson dead at midnight. It is believed that the men intended to shoot an other constable, who had been active against poachers.

THE Shanghai Times thinks that Manila editors "contortionize themselves into bow knots and spatterize pen punctuation between column rates," in their attempts to apologise for the dishonesty of the officials of the Taft

since those of Egypt, which affect the Philip- pines.

The Hongkong Celegraph head, y une, sprang a leak and foundered off the government and the reign of plagues, unrivalled

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1903.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Scilly Isles, near the coast of Cornwall. crew were rescued.

The

Ecay Moorish soldiers, who were on the march to Fez, slept at a village called lad

baj, and were all murdered during the night by the incal inhabitants.

By Edictzth, h Moon, the Gran Intendant

of Kansuls, Lo Chia-chen, the Taots of Hsicho, Kwei Sun-hing, the Tantai of Chang

chu in Szechuan, Chang Chwen, the Prefect of Kaicho in Canton, Wang Chia-hio, the Prefect of Shao-cho Canton, Chil Si, the Prefect ol

DR. Young bacteriologist at Berlin, has died TUIR Majesties the King and Queen Alexan-Simming in Szechuan, Fung Shen-pu, the Pre- from plague.

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We guaranice our Wines and Spirits to he genuine only when bought direct from ns in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

dra congratulated and sent a bouquet to the Viscountess Glentworth upon the attainmem WAND Tzu-tung is appointed Prefect of Ching | of her tooth birthday on the 26th ult. Yuen in Kwangsi.

A PLAGUE case at Chili has been caused by a consignment of rice from India.

THE English nail of the 23rd May was delivered in London on the zand inst

GREAT Britain has annexed three Pacific istands it anticipation of the Panama Canai. Miss Benyusuf, the celebrated society photo. grapher of New York and the United States, is at present in Hongkong.

LeMunyon will have another grand opening Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date. -Advt.

A SHANGHAI, barbour natification has been issued stating that Foochow, Swatow, Canton and the Formosa Ports have been declared in- lected.

OWING to numerous false rumours afloat con.

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that the Viceroy intends to inaugurate an official Gazette în Kwangtung as soon as he has taken over the seals of his office.

fect of Ching Yuan prefecture in Kwangsi etc., etc. are all ordered to proceed to Peking for

special audience.

THE Vienna gambit (chers) tournament has Ar the Police Court this morning Willian Wad- resulted in a victory for Tschigorin, with 13ham, a butcher, employed on the Empress of points. Marshall was second, with 11 points, India was summoned by Mr. C. Warn, chief Marco third with 11, and Pillsbury fourth with steward, for stealing four turkeys and six tins of cheese, valite $26, the property of the C.P.R. To points.

Co. He pearled guilty, and was seneto prison Wong Cb w, of the same for one month. ship, was charged with stealing twenty tins of fresh pork valued at $140, and Mr. Kemp also gave him a month.

A TELEGRAM. despatched from London on the 28th ult, states that the New York Board of Trade has appointed a committee to investigate the alleged alarming state of the American shipping engaged in foreign trade.

At the instance of Commandant-General Louis Botha, permits have been granted to 14 Boers now residing in Holland return to South Africa, after swearing allegiance to the King Permits were refused in 23 other cases,

THE 13) was "Osaka Day" at the Exhibition and preparations were made for 100,000 visitors, but there was such a crush that the ticket office was overturned and there was an actual row. A total of 93,444 tickets were sold, but many more obtained admission.

DESPITI. the fact that their rules forbid politics, the members of an aristocratic French Yacht Club voted against the election of M, Waldeck-

Rousseau, the ex-Piemier. Many members A BRITISH seaman named Harvey; twenty-thereupon resigned, and intend to establish a four years of age, belonging to the torpedo boat

rival club on a non-political basis. Vivago, was drowned on the 14th June near the

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Taky have an effective method of dealing with coolies charged with using obscene language at Shanghai. The other day a case of such a nature came before the Mixed Court and prisoner was ordered to received fifty blows on

the face. It was stated that a number of ricksha coolies who were in the habit of slopping on the stand near the Race Club gate contin- ually used ob cene language to young Chinese and European g tls as they were passing.

Four floors freshly painted and tinted and in first class condition to rent.. Inquire a C. E. LeMunyon, New Store, 31, Des Vanx Road. P. O. Box 368.--Adz 1,

PERING reports that the Imperial Resident of Thibet wired the other day to the Grand Council reporting the unexpected invasion of lus territory by a company of surveyors and engineers guarded by a few hundred cossacks. In reply to a protest made by him, the

Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe. Harvey, it appears, THE steamer Honan recently collided with a/mperial Resident, the Russians declared that small salt boat at Wahu, and caused the dently they were only travelling and exploring the

was bathing with a number of other men from the Pirago, and not being an expert swimmer suddenly sank and disappeared from sight, The assistance of divers was requisitioned, and the body was recovered about an hour after the accident occurred.

By kind permission of Major Radcliffe and Officers the land of the 33rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme at the Kowloon Hotel, during dinner, to-morrow evening (weather permiting):-. March

GOYADI Cherubini

"Marche Romaine' Uverture......" Ludoinkin Selection..." A Princess of Kensington " Edward German Comet Sulu...." Eme Nacha in der schweitz"...... Baune Selection.... ." Reminiscenes of the Plantation"..Chamber,

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A TIENTSIN dispatch to the N.C.D. News states that a large Chinese timber company, called the Tatung Mu Chih Company, which was last year stared by Yuan Taolai of the Eastern Marches Intendancy (Fenghuang- ching and the vicinity of the Yalu) to cut down timber in the Yalu region for importation into Chihli province, has been arbitrarily forced by the Russian authorities in Manchuria 10 "shut up shop," on the ground that the place now belongs to Russia.

We shall have a Souvenir Day, seon but you will have to pay us a personal visit as no chits will go. LeMunyon.-—Advi,

The result of the general election in Germany in 333 districts out of the 397 is now known.

PHOTOGRAPHIC Second ballots will be necessary in 156 districts So far the returns show 68 Clericals (Centrum), DEPARTMENT.

53 Socialists, 23 Conservatives and Poles. Among those defeated are Messis. Rocsicke and Hahn, leaders of the Agrariaa Alliance. Messrs. Eugen Richter (Radical Liberal) and Oenel (Conservative) are among those to be decided on by the second ballet.. The gains of the Socialists have been nearly exclusively at the expense of the Radical-Liberal parties. in consequence the power will be in the hands of a similar majority as before.

PROMPT RETURN. · Hongkong, 8th July, 1902.

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CONTRACTS for carrying freight from the Paci- fic coast to the Philippines are being made with the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for San Francisco freight and with the Boston Steam ship Company for freight from Seattle. The rate is $425 from either point to Manila; officers $150 each with subsistence, soldiers 540 to $50, according to the number when -subsisted en route, and $30 to $40 according to number when fed by the Government animals, $110 per head from San Francisco, and Sino per head from Seattle, when sobbisted by the companies, and 585 and $75 respectively When subsistence is, furnished by the United States: C3550

mudi mobbed last wind kan 11E Bear to drink in the tropics is the Beerde in the ropics-SAN MIGUEL,

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer Tade in the tropics--SAN MIGUEL.

TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHAEL," Hongkong. A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition.

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Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.

of several buatmen by drowning. The wreck of the salt boat has caused an obstruction to river traffic and it will be destroyed by dynamite, says the Shanghai Press,

Now look out for LeMunyon's new store adv. It is a beauty,—Adví,

A WIRE to Shanghai says that the Russians have at present no less than four hundred thousand tons of coal stored at Tai Lien Wan and Port Arthur, beside an indefinite quantity and munitions of-war. Russian colonists are simply pouring into Manchuria, most of whom belong to the lower class. Manchuria is rapidly becoming a colony.

of arms

Russian

A HALI. for the reception of the Foreign Ministers and other foreign guests is being planned outside the Hsi Hua Men of the For- bidden City. This is another try on of the old game. The Government's work may be allowed 10 go on, but the P. & 7. Times will be much surprised if the ministers consent la go to any "hall for the barbarians" constructed outside the sacred circle of the royal domain.

THE news as to the exact date on which the

Court will return to Peking is contradictory. Some believe the Court will return on the 19th while others persist in saying that the Court will return on the 20th. It is, however, sure

that the Emperor will have to be at Peking before the zand, for on that day he will offer sacrifice on the Altar of Earth as previously announced, in an edict issued long ago.

WHEN Prince Tsai Chen, the Special Imperial High Commissioner to the Osaka. Exhibition, was received by the Empress Dowager in audience, the latter made a few inquiries about the exhibition and was told by the Prince that every country is represented by the best of its produce, and that the articles sent by China are far inferior to those rent by Europe. The Empress Dowager expressed her regret for not being able to visit the exhibition herself, but she regretted more at hearing of the inferiority of the Chinese produce shown there.

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country, and that the cossacks were their guards. Prince Ching complained to the Russian Minister at Peking, but the latter denied having any knowledge of the matter. The Imperial Resident has been instructed to carefully watch the movements of this com pany and to report every detail.

THE funeral of Mr. R. M. Campheil took place on Thursday evening and was very largely attended. The burial service was performed by Bishop Moule, assisted by the Rev. H. C. The bishop referred to the sud- Flodges, M.A. den death of deceased in a most sympathetic manner and pleaded with those present to accept the Saviour before it was too late, and many felt impressed to his carmest appeal. Many lovely wreaths and crosses were seat by sorrowing friends. Great sympathy is felt by all classes of the community and the flags of the British Consulate, Race Club, County Club, Astor House, and at other places were half-masted during the day.

SOME weeks since we referred to the capture of a tiger near the West River and commented upon the cruelty of Chinese at Macao in caging the animal in a miserably small pen and ex- hibiting to any who cared to pay their ten cents. It is evident that the animal has been brought over to Hongkong, and we are glad to find that the authorities are not going to permit such cruelties to be practised in the Colony. Sergt. Thomas Abbey went into 200, Hollywood Road and saw a tiger in a cage so small that the poor animal could only Bink on to its paws and rise again. As in Macao spectators delighted teasting the beast by thrusting sticks into its cage. As a result of the sergeant's visit a Chinaman was fined $25 or the alternative of one month.

DURING his trip across the Pacific, Mr. Alfred Cunningham, of Hongkong, must have formed fresh ideas regarding the French and South China. He was interviewed in Victoria (C), and, according to an exchange, is of the opinion that, "France has bribed the officials, of Kwangsi, and is awaiting an opportunity to

Jays Mr. Cunningham, re-on the verge of a far pour troops into that province. The South, greater international crisis than that now on in ihe North, although the rebellion in Kwangsi THE total quantity of gold mined in the Fri- is practically brigandage on a large scale. morski region, Siberia, according to statistics, The, rebellion in South China, he says, is is 1,104 poods 2 lbs. (39,903.7 lbs.), containing another factor. There is no doubt that the an average of 1 zolotnik (24 drams) in 100 reformers have organized the brigands, and a poods (3,611, lbs.) of sand. This amount is rebellion which will be far greater, than the less than the product of the adjacent region of Taiping rebellion will break out before long in the Amur, which can be explained by the South China Large quantities of arms, are novelty of the business. The chief gold-mining being shipped to the rebels, chiefly from the works in the Province of Primorski were United States, and headed by the reformets, established during the last ten years, and ́a' great number of gold velns, of this region, are not yet worked, and not even declared "THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

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RUMOURED FIRE AT THE DOCKS.

When it was reported in the Colony about noon to-day that fire had broken out at the Kowloon Docks shareholders and other is terested parties histened to the offices of the Dock Co, to learn whether or an the rumour was correct, and if so, the ex ent of the out- break. They were soon sel at ease, however, on learning from the authorities that the the unusual report was false, and that

mount of steam about the dock premises occasioned by the fact that casting operations had been in progress during the morning and Instead of the steam being allowed to escape in the ordinary manner it was exhausted direct into the open air.

was

TIENTSIN.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

The American squadron has arrived and Adonial Evans went up to Peking yesterday, Let us hope that some sort of demonstration is now going to be made in regard to that firm front which is said to be the only thing needed to made Kussin quit Manchuria. It will have to be a very firin front however, and it is to be feared on a demonstration being made Russia will retire temporarily a certain distance; the allies will bow and declare themselves moral victors, the squadrons will disperse, the Man- churian “incident" will end and-Russia will

Tout cela! come back

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this Columni

BRITISHERS IN CANTON,

To The Ditor oF THE "HONGKOng Telegram",

SIR,--During my residence in a house boat on the 5th March I was robbed of a trunk con- taining gnods to the value of about $400, and June 12th. although I reported ilie matter to the British Peking has been having all the excitement Consul-General the same day I could obtain lately, Chen Pi has already reached the capital no redres. The men, who were supposed to with the Iron Tablet it is said, and has pre-be engaged upon police duty, were patrolling sumably risked the incapatibility of fire and the river and blowing horns, and seeing

water taken the talisman by train after all, as he has not had time to get it there by road. We shall now heir of elaborate sacrifices and services, but what will happen if it fails one hardly likes to thing. In several districts in Chibli the killing of animals and catching of fish is already prohibited on account of the drought, and prices for all kinds of produce are steadily rising.

my bouse boat crept in and made off with the booty. Their noise attracted my attention, and as they shoved off 1 sprang up and could bave shot several of them down, but knowing that their account of the occurrence would be believed in preference to that of a foreigner I refrained from polling the trigger of the revolver

experienced the same sort of thing three or four in my hand. Another British subject would h.ve

nights ago had he not seen the men approach, and, with a 'bull-bog' pointing at them, scared them away. There can be no doubt that the

On Thursday las! in the afternoon the Board of Revenue was burnt out, causing widespread consternation, and it Was at reason these men rob Britishers and not other one time feared that not only the Board of foreign subjects is tuht their Consuls see that Ceremonies but the fire building of the General |they are well compensated for any loss sustained and the culprits well punished for their crimes. Hospital would also be involved in the con- flagration. The fire originated in the kitchenYours truly, of the Lonan Department, and in spite of the

A SUFFERER. valiant efforts of the international forces, all of whom leat a hand, the building was ent rely destroyed. There was said to be between three and five million tacls' worth of silver in the vauks, though it is

questionable if, anyone knows the exact amount, and the foreign troops fixed their attention on guarding this treasure, and Bri- tish, French, Japanese ad Russian guards were in attendance. As the fire occurred in the early evening when the members of the Board were all in attendance, a the officials as well as the watchmen, gate- keepers and coolies have been handed over in a body to the Board of Punishments, and the matter is being severely investigated. Some wretched understrapper will probably lose his head and some minor officials be degraded for the occurrence. About 300 buildings are said to have been destroyed. Being so close to the Hospital and Legations the officials issued prompt instructions to the soldiers to guard all foreign buildings from pllage by the mobs

thought the foreign guards could doubiless

Canton, June 23rd 1933.

FRANCE AND KWANGSI.

FRENCH "DISINTERESTEDNESS."

An Indo-China newspaper, referring to the famine in Kwang-si, has these remarks -

As regards Kwang-si and the three adjain. ing provicces, we should like to say to the whole foreign press what we have already stated several times in the columns of this journal. France is perhaps the only Power that offers the "open door" to all;"'-{what ho ?). "und cherishes no territorial ambition whatever!" (we shan't whisper a word about the Upper Nile/ She aspires to no personal advantages, Perhaps she has been wrong in this respect but this course of conduct is entirely in keep ing with the general note of the French character,--so different from that of our good friends (the English.)-(But this reads as

though France were the only Free Trade

nation, and Britain a pronounced protec look after that themselves.

Another startling event has been the failuretionist power: as though Saigon were the "free pon," and it was Singapore that of the Heng We Bank which suspended payment on the 4th inst. It is one of the banks started imposed the Indo-China customs tariff) by four relatives and known as the Four Heng The article contigues:-"We require no fur- ther proof (of our disinterestedness) than the Banks. They started business rather more

recent decision of the Governor General in than half a century ago, as gold merchants, and gratually worked in a loan and deposit coming to the help of the population of Kwang- business. The other three banks, all of which si, this too to the detriment of the Budget of are being strictly guarded by Chinese soldiers, Indo-China, which is hardly in a position to successfully sustained the run, which naturally do anybody a favour, at the present time resulted in the Heng Wê doors being closed, and they may survive the ordeal. But the state af hinances in the North generally is such that no one institution can go under without more or less involving others, and their respite may

be only temporary. The extent of the bank's liabilities and immediate causes of its collapse have not yet been ascertained, but as the Board of Revenue Seals are on the doors and the Imperial Household Department was known to have deposits there, one may hazard a guess that Imperial expenditure, which has been on such a very lavish scale of late may have aggravated an already critical position. It is stated confidently enough in some quarters

that whatever the liabilities, the assets will assuredly cover them; but those who have had experience in dealing with the book debts

of native insolvents know what they are worth as realizable assels when a crisis comet. I hear to-day that the Board of Revenue has lent the bank Tls. 100,000 and it has started again, but the authority does not lead me to feel any confidence in the report,

Rice has been allowed to be despatched to the frontier without letting the Chinese in charge of it pay any railway dues, and

in this case no export duties have been levied. France, guided by a pure sentiment of huma nity, follows, in this incident, her traditional policy.

We should like to see our friends the English as disinterested as ourselves, and to find them making an outburst of ges erosity in order to rush to the rescue of these unfortunate people. They would thus co-operate in the re-establish- ment of tranquillity and order. And we should be the first to applaud them."

[Perhaps we may be allowed to hit that no nation in the whole world has, year after year,

subscribed for foreign disaster and distress any. thing like the sums put together by British

sympathy. (There was once a siege of Paris! But we glady admit that all this is as nothing compared with the remission of railway charges and of export duties in the case mentioned.]

THE PLAGUE.

During the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day 12 further cases of bubonic plague, making, accrding to the official return, 1,264 since January 1st, were reported. They were all Chinese and ten were fatal, Six of the cases were reported "found" in various die

An authority of another kind assures me that one certain official is a great deal more re- sponsible for the state of affairs in Tientsin City than the Viceroy is, and by all accounts Yuan Shi Kai is having rather a rough time of it. He has surrounded bimself with men as unscrupulous as they are sharp, and one es pecially has obtained an ascendancy which tricts of the Colony and one on a buoy tear. cannot now be very well checked. This man the Canton wharf. is concerned, it is stated, in the excerive likin charges which are crippling local trade in all directions, and it is said as long as he is here things will never be better. For the pre- they do not realize to the full the true state of sent export merchants are doing fairly well and affairs. Later on exports will fail, as the pro- duce merchants prefer to be paid in import cargo very often, and au import purchases of any extent are being made, as there is no money with which to buy

Yesterday the long-talked-of presentation of medals with class Relief of Peking to the Tientsin Volunteers who perved in 1900 was mide, unfortanälely in a terrific dust cyclone flowever, it was done in proper form by the Consul-General who did his best to say the right

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. Indian (Lairang) 29th inst. French (Polynesien) 29th inst, American (Coptic) 30th inst, Canadian (Tarlar) 1st prox. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 6th prox.

The P. &.O..S, N. Ca's as. Mazagon left Singapore for this port on azad inst, at 5 p.m..

The T. K. K. 43. Rošetia Maru left Manila

yesterday afternoon, and is expected here to now, at I pl

a movement will break out pro-foreign in, lushing, and its ant fafactory to know that The N. Y. K, 5.3. Idrumii Maru. (Bombay nature to overthrow the Empress Dowager and the corps possesses this substantial recognitionLine) left Kobe v,Mojt for this pori on 23rd by the Government of their valuable services: taal, and is expected to arrive here on est prox. THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,

THE Bear to drink in the tropics in the Beer

made in the troples-SAN MIGUEL

اشتملة

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Bear

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,