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Framing, fancy and artistically done by LeT1 Nicht Nichts Poking correspondem fe National Government has approved, the learns that the Empress Dowager has of late recent decree of the Governor, of Panama, plac-: Mungan, 31, Des Voeux Road.--Advt.

begun to realise the extent of Russian ambition, | ingla, tax of $100 on all steamers and sailing while the danger of introducing bubonic plague and has become inclined to rely upon Jaran vessels entering the Ports of Panama and Colon lasts. These taxes will be devoted to defraying and Great Britain,

the expenses of the quarantine stations,

Tux last of the fifteen vessels constructed by Messrs. S.C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd., for the Philippine Government, the Panay, was successfully launched;

Or five Japanese stowaways who secured pass- age to San Francisco by the T.K.K. steamer' America-Marn, two died from beri-beri at the detention ward of the Mail dock within three days of the vessel's arrival.

FROM the 1st prox. the French, as well as the the German Post Office, will take mail matter in closed bags from Shanghai for Europe by the Siberian route., Every steamer for Chefoo will take a mail, as a mail train leaves Dalay

THE N.C. D. News says that the cover of the September issue of the Pall Mall Magazinė represents a somewhat dingy-hued girl with red hair, whose clothes seem to be slipping off her, in a field of exaggerated poppies.

IT is now confirmed that Mr. Yamakawa, Kobe manager of the Yokohama Specie.Bank, has been promoted to London, and will sail for England on the 6th proximo. The Kobe Bankers Union is contemplating the presenta- tion of a silver cup to mark the appreciation of the valuable services which Mr. Yamakawa has rendered during his stay in Kobe.

Chikowying mentioned previously, which is only about 18 miles south-west of Taku by water. Import cargo in considerable quanti- ties is being landed at these places, the junks, fur precaution's sake against pirates, and also to facilitate speed, being towed along the coast by steam tugs, largely Japanese-owned. Indeed, according to our northern contem. porary, there seems reason to believe that The rates per quarter and per mensom, proportional. Japanese traders are largely concerned in this new departure, as not only are many of the The isne is delivered free when the keldress is

daily accessible to monger. Da coplex sent by post an

steam tugs Japanese owned, but the number additional $1 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the of Japanese hongs in Cheloo has recently Single Copies Daily, teu cents; Weekly, twenty.greatly increased. But we gather that the matter is not going to be allowed to remain in its present unsatisfactory state, as our Tientsin correspondent writes that steps are being iaken to ascertain the precise amount of trade going by this irregular channel. It has been shown that the goods can be put JENATZY, the victor in the Gordon-Bennett off at Chefoo and landed on the coast ab./ Cup race, netted some £8,000. He received building industry there, is expected to return Pyrmont. Accused pleaded guilty, and Mr.

from the manufacturers of the Mercedes about solutely duty free, but as to the amount of £6,000, from the Continental Tyre Company cargo being so landed no satisfactory evid-1,000, and a motor racing car of the value of In view of the recent marked increase of ence is forthcoming. The Customs author-1,000. crimes of a serious nature, and in relation toities have apparently known, all about the the question to be asked by the hon. the matter for some months past and some time BLEND representative of the Chamber of Commerce ago they sent a special representative down to the coast investigating. But for some in- explicable reason an impression appears to prevail that nothing can be done to stop it. Many maintain that the amount involved is not large enough to matter, but this is not at all assured. Meanwhile, the listless inertia resultant on dull trade pervades everyths ig

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903.

THE DETECTION OF CRIME.

The ranks of local

LOCAL AND GENERAL..

THE body of a plague victim has been found in Chinese Street.

at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Thursday, the inhabitants of the colony will await with some anxiety the explanation which we trust will be tendered by the Colo- nial Secretary on behalf of the government. In a colony like Hongkong, which is with- in easy and cheap access of the most populous city in South China, the suppres- |sion and detection of crime will always be a matter requiring the niost careful attention of the authorities. criminals are continually being swelled by M.S. Fearters leaves for Sandakan this

afternoon. enterprising desperados from Canton, who have seen good to pay us a short, but gene rally, profitabile, visit; and there can be thule doubt that a very large percentage of the more serious crimes, chronicled so often of late, have been the handiwork of some of these desperate elharacters from the southern capital. The capture of criminals who are residents of this city is an easy task when compared to the discovery of the where abouts of these felons who fit to and fro, with comparative impunity, between Canion and this colony and who, on the first sign of danger or after a successful operation, can easily find a secure, refuge in the crowded intricacy of the slums of that city. It re- quires but small thought to realise the enorThe late Pope's Fisherman's Ring has been mous difficulties encountered by our police found on his writing table, and broken up after in bringing home crime to culprits of so identification. .*

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THE Peking correspondent of the Adulti reporis that the employees of the Peking Branch of the Ru so-Chinese Bank have of late aban daned their usual duties and are bus.ly engaged in business, other than banking. It appears that they believe that a war between Russia and Japan is imminent.

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ONE of the cunuchs is stated by P. ST. Times to have informed a high official recently that

the Emperor spends all his time in study, as he is both good and intelligent and laves work; "but you outsiders do not know it and you

think he is merely foolishly idling and enjoy. ing himself, he concluded."

ACCORDING to a letter to a Peking official Irum Viceroy Tsen Chun-hsuen it is stated that the rebels in Kwangsi can now easily be sup. pressed though they are spread all over the

signs of secret society men giving trouble T: French gunboat Decide arrived from province. In Kwangtung, however, there are Canton this morning.

which is more important if they should rise..

The Wai Wu Pu has been notified by the French Minister at Peking that the survey of the proposed line between Kuangchow Bay and Yu Ling Chout in Kwangsi has been completed and the work will begin this winter.

A CHINESE seaman, aged 40 years, appealed Ms. Yamasaki, engineer to the Kuwasaki Dock before the Sydney Police Count the other to yard Company, Kobe, who recently proceeded

answer a charge of smuggling three tins of to America for the inspection of the ship opium from the steamer Australian, lying at carly next month. On his return the Dock Robinson, of the Crown Law Office, who ap yard Company is expected to begin the con-peared to prosecute, said that the smuggling of struction of a large slip to accommodate a vessel of 15,000 tons.

THE Aden Port Trust are revising their Pilo- iage Bye-laws and a new scate of fees is laid down for pilotage charges. The rates for day work varies from Rs. 5 to Rs io according to tonnage for the inner harbour and from Rs.2. 10 Rs. 5 for the outer harbour. For night work the rates are to be from Rs. 10:10 Rs. 20 for the inner barbour and Rs. 5 to Rs 10 for the outer harbour. The senior pilot will ordinarily serve only the P. & O. vessels and

British transports.

MR. B. E. Levy, head of the firm of Messrs. E. D. Sasscon & Co., of Kobe, died suddenly at Kobe 19th inst. He was very well known in business circles, and his death at the early age of forty-six will be generally regretted. When he left his office that evening he ap- peared in good health and in excellent spirits, but shortly after arriving home expired, the cause of death being heart failure. deceased who leaves a widow and three chil dren left Hongkong ter Kebe some six years

THE English mail of the 29th August was The French Consul at Hankow has in-ago. delivered in London on the 28th inst.

For anchoring his craft in the Central fairway a junk master was fined $20 or one month's

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THE St. George's Society of Shanghai are pro- posing to celebrate his Majesty's birthday in wortly style.

augurated a school for the instruction of the French language and science. The number of students to be admitted is to be limited to twenty and they must prove that they have had a good grounding in Chinese before they can be admitted. The course is to be three years and the graduates will be given posts on the railway.

CAPTAIN Idogawa, the Japanese military ad- viser to the Viceroy of Szechuen for many years, having inaugurated the military system and education in that province, has been rewarded by the Chinese Government with the second class of the third grade of the order of the LeMunyon, 31, Des Vaux Double Dragon upon the recommendation of ex-Viceroy Tsen Chun-hsuen of that province.

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We learn that nothing has yet been done with regard to the wreck of the Chinese gunboat Huang Tai, which sank off Breaker Point in the early hours of the 18th ultimo. Matters are at a standstill, owing to the mandarins not having decided on the choice of any of the several tenders submitted for the raising of the vessel.-Advices from London says: "The underwriters are congratulating themselves that the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of India is not to blame for the collision with the Chinese war vessel Hwangtai.

opium had become so frequent that the Cus tems authorities had to put special officers on to watch particular bouts arriving there. Even the maximum penalty seemed to be no deter rent in connection with that kind of offence; but it was the daly protection the Common- wealth had against such breaches of the law. A fine of £100 in default three months' gaol was imposed.

AN Osaka contemporary reports that the Cap tain of the P. & O. steamer Borneo, on arrival at Moji on 19th inat, applied to the police authorities for assistance to deal with the mutinous conduct of about forty indian seamen and others on board. The Kobe Herald says that fears were entertained that several of the crew would desert. Nothing in the nature of a mutiny was apprehended. So far as the field can learn, the Borneo, for some reason, shipped a Bengali crew this voyage, instead of taking on the requisite number of hands at Bombay; and the Bengalis are not particularly fond of hard work. Owing to this a number of the men left the ship at Singapore-forfeiting: à considerable sum of money as wages, by the way--and at this port others were shipped in their place for the voyage to Japan and back to Singapore. Evidently, the P. & O. skipper's action was more of a precautionary iban a suppressive and punitive nature.

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THERE is an interesting account of an audience with the late Pope Leo in the first volume of the reminiscences of the late Sir George Bowen Ule was an Irish Protestant, but he got op well with the Catholic Bishops in Australia, New!

A. S. WATSON & CO., evasive a class; and success in such cases must depend entirely upon the adequacy and excellence of the Tetective Branch of the police force. From the increase in serious crine which has taken place during the last few months, one is tempted to believe in the Cotton Mills at Yangtsepoo, were awarded. A STORY 100 good to be missed is told of the A HIGH Mandann, intely Acting Provincial to the reports, from colonial Bishops: sent

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MR. G. W. F. Playfair, chief manager of the National Bank of China, and Mrs. Playfair arrived from Vancouver this morning per the Empress of China.

BUBONIC plague is very bad at Newchwang, from fifty to sixty new cases being reported daily. The Russian authorities are trying to stamp out the epidemic.

A BOATMAN was fined $15 or a month's hard labour for failing to have properly covered a junk-load of kerosine while occupying the Dangerous Goods Anchorage.

THE Keiko Maru, which arrived at Chemulpo on the the 18th from Chinoampo with a full cargo of cereals, caught fire at a am. on the 19th, and was scuttled and sunk to save her hull,

regulations.

Shanghai Volunteers, according to the Waga suki Press, Si non e vero, ben frovato. A party of them were taken out to the range, and order ed to fire at the 500-yards targets. All missed. They were tried at 200 yards, with similar lack of success. At 100 yards not a man hit the target. "Tion!" roared the sergeant. "Fix Baronets Charge! It's your only hope.".

DISPATCHES from Berlin state that a fierce duel is impending between the American steel trust and the Krupps. The campaign has been opened by the Krupps, who have al ready sent experts to the United States to compete for bridge building contracts. If the Krupps find themselves able to compete with the steel trust in the latter's home territory, it is certain the Germans will enter the lists every- where.

ANOTHER rich haul is being made by the Chi- nese on the West Beach, Chefoo. The large quantity of kerasine oil that has been stowed there for the last two years, has been leaking very badly, and the sandy beach is fairly soak- ed with oil. Owing to some reason or other the oil has come to the surface of the sand and the Chinese are gathering it up in bucketfuls. We learn that one lucky Celestial got away

with no less than 25 bucket loads.

We have frequently alluded to the great depression characterising the import trade in the North, and more especially in Shantung province, and, on the 3rd inst., printed a letter from our Tientsin correspondent stating that the main reason. NARUMI, formerly manager of the Japanese for the stagnation had been ascertained. I acrobatic show opposite the Central Market, was fined $45 at the Magistracy this morning seems that merchandise arrives at Chefoo and is there transhipped into coasting junks for failing to comply with the limewashing and imported at a small native shipping port south-west of Taku, for conveyance we are in receipt of the revised prospectus of THE Wiju correspondent of the Asui informs inland by road and waterway direct the Canton-Hongkong Ice and Cold Storage us that on the 30th ult. 12 Russian soldiers Co., Ltd., and in comparing the list of behaved badly to the Chinese Mounted to the consignees. We pointed out that the Shansi bankers have opened a bank near officers with that published in our columas Highwaymen Ta-ko-shan and that the this place in a big town called Yenshanhsien, some time since find that the names of Messrs.next day Lin Tsih, a notorious chief of the in order to facilitate this new route, and Chau Tit Sai and Chau Tung Sang, of Hong-Highwaymen," accompanied by 260 of his as that could not be done without the kong, were omitted from the board of directors. followers, left the Rusian camp, carrying away 30,0:0 taels of silver. A number of Russian knowledge of the local authorities it points THE Sin Wan-pao reports that the construc- troops at Feng-hwan chéng have been ordered very strongly to Government connivance,tion work on the Canton-Hapkow Railway is

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Judge of Kiangst who is to accompany H.E Ko Feng-shin, Governor-designate of Kwangsi, is at presont in Shanghai with the object of purchasing a number of Mauser and Mannlic her rifles to arm a brigade of troops which are to be under the special command of Governor Kb Feng-shih in Kwangsi., The N.C.D. News says that from all accounts it would seem that unless the rebels in that province return to their allegiance Kwangsi will soon become an armed camp, that is, if Viceroy Tsen's scheme is to take effect,

periodically to the Vatican, several of whom spoke highly of the services rendered by Sir George. The Pope thanked his visitor for tl is kindness, and Sir reorge rejoined that be was only carrying out the instructions he had re- ceived from the Imperial Government. His Holiness added that he had every reason to be atisfied with the good relations between the British Government and the Catholic ecclesias- tics all over the Empire. "While speaking to me," says Sir George, "his Holiness held, in a most gracious and paternal manner, the hand of my youngest daughter, a girl of 12."

THE Universal Gazette states that Viceroy Wei of Nanking has recently ordered the

THE fünther bearing of the case in which S. A. Neville,mate of the s.s. Powan, was charged with Shanghai Taolai to settle the Supao Case as soon as passible in the Settlements, etc., there-kicking a native woman on the Canton whath fore Taotai Yuan has sent a despatch to the

on the zoth inst., was continued at the Magis ́Senior Consul, Mr. Goodnow, asking the Con sular Body to agree to have the prisoners con tracy this afternoon. Dr. E. A. Laing, of the woman was 'ndmited on Sunday at 6.30 and nected with the case tried in the Bureau of Government Civil Hospital, deposed that the Foreign Affairs on the Bubbling Well Road told him that she had been kicked. There was' a slight wound, the size of a sixpence on by a Mixed Tribunal consisting of three Chi- nese and three Foreign judges. The former the left side of her back. She was discharged are to be Taotai Yuan, City Magistrate Wang on the following day. He did not think the and Mixed Court Magistrate Sun while the Consul Generals of the United States, Great Britain and Japan are to represent the latter.

Two pudding-hawkers boarded the Hong Wan yesterday afternoon to sell their wares. After patrolling the ship for some time, they were called by a native employed by the compradore of the ship, who commenced sampling the wares without asking the price of the, articles. He then inquired the amount of the damage and was told 2 cents each. He refused to pay and offered one cent, which was not accepted. Both men became excited and the compra dore's assistant is said to have taken

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hold of a copper-pan of boiling water and the American ship Helen Brewer, Captain Mah-thrown the contents over the hawker. The any, may now be said to be given up, as the second hawker standing by, immediately rate on her stands at gå guiñeas por cent. She summoned the police, and the accused was left Sourabaya for Delavare Breakwater on the arrested and the bawker, who was frightfully 28th of February. Beth ship and captain were scalded, removed to the Hospital. very well and favourably known in Hongkong, It may be remembered that the Helen Brower was ashore near Sourabaya three days after sailing, but got off and proceeded.

the trade is to avoid payments at the enormous number of likin stations estab- lished by the local Government around Tientsin and which, coming on top of the Maritime Customs dues, the River Impro- vement dues, and the Chow Kwan or native THE first consignment of Chinese cotton of the Customs, is almost too much to bear. The

season has been received at Kobe to the amount of 275 bales, of which 240 bales have import duty is 5 per cent., Chow Kwan 2

It is alieady changed hands at the price of 27.10 per cent., and the likin 4 per cent. estimated that goods imported by this routeye per picul. It may be added that the save 31 per cent and, according to our cor- quotation now ruling on the Shanghai market respondent, hundreds of thousands of taels is somewhere about 26.30 yen for September worth are in this way being diverted from and 25,25 yen for October. Tientsin's trade, and the authorities are sup An Imperial decree states that the post of pre- posed to be losing some Tls. So, ac a month fect of Yunnanfu, Yunnan province, being a in dues in consequence. The matter is fully most important one, the Viceroy and Governor dealt with in the P.&T Times of the 15th and 17th inst., from which we also learn that there are four places in all along Chan-1 be appointed to the prefectare vacated as there is no river in the district. The total railway or any delay being occasioned

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DURING the recent military manoeuvres in Russia the utility of the Trans-Siberian rail-, way as a means of transport of troops was tested. The 2nd Brigades of the 31st and 35th infantry divisions together with two detach ments of artillery, all of which were stationed near Moscow and Kiew, were transported, together with the necessary material for there units, into the Transbaikal, where they look The part in the manoeuvres conjointly with the afferent garrisons in this region, The operations terminated, the men were taken back, by the same means to their starting poirs, without a hitch having occurr

wound in question was caused by a kick, but probably from a stick, such as the end of an umbrella. or a small bamboo. Defendant said he was on duty on the Porras, and he saw several loafing coolles amongst the women and went down to clear them away. All ran away except one whom he got hold of and tried to "boot him off the boat, but missed him and accidently kicked the woman. Ha then attended to her, and was rubsequently. told by Captain Morrison that he was wanted by the police. His Worship agreed that it was an accident on his part, but said defendant had no business to kick. He was ordered to pay the woman $5 as compensation.

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The PM.S.S. Co.'s 3.5. Korea with mails, left Shanghai for this port this morning at daylight.

A FORMOSAN despatch states that an extensive forest of hinoki has been found at the foot of Niitakays, the highest mountain in Formosa, Messrs. Kawai and Dagura travelled through a portion of the forest recently and estimated its area at 1,000 or 3,000 cho. The trees are mostly hinoki and they are of exceptionally of the province are commanded to select from large size. The place is about 15 miles to the amongst the substantive prefects of Yunnan east of Kagi and it will necessitate the con the man best fitted for such a post, and let Chustruction of a railway should the timber be cut

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