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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26.

inting

Exports, Importa.

last, are as follows :- r Ten Totals from pays, January,

Yen;" -9,458,399,2 6,851,177 -7,365,071 252,351,311

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fresh film

Excess in

Exp 3,93,379

35,500,134

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MARRIAGE. SELLICK-THOMAS. On the 24th instant, at St. Joseph's Church, STEPHEN SCOTT SELLICK, to MARGARET ISABEL, daughter of the late D. P. Thomas, of Australia.

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, ÜCTOBER 26, 1903..

THE WAR CLOUD AND

JAPANESE FINANCE.

The disquieting news contained in the Reuter telegrams published in our columns to-day, to the effect that yet more reinforce ments are being sent out by Russia to her Far Eastern fleet, and that. Lloyd's has doubled insurance rates, does not tend to increase the small hope that remains of a peaceful solution to the present critical situation. At All less to% discount on account of Cur- this stage of events, when all the chances

rent Exchange.

- CHATEAU LAFITE .......

54.00

These CLARETS are specially selected and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value

and in fine condition.

THE CHATEAU BRANDS

are recommended to the notice of Con noisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.

LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE NO. 135, CABLE ADDRESS: "ACHEY," HONGKONG. A. B. C. CODE, 4TH EDITION.

ESTABLISHED 1859

A CHEE & CO., 利 利廣

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TEMPORARY STORE:

1ST FLOOR, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD, (above Messis. H. PRICE & Co.)

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Exports Imports

GOLD AND SILVER.

639446

10,350,739 846,209 26, 120.774

Excess in Imports, 206,763 15,870,035 This favourable report is significant of the Tourishing condition of national trade in Japan and, from the facts quoted, it is evident that, so far as her commercial and Ginancial position is concerned, the country is must probably in a better position than Russia to face a prolonged struggle.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The Commission has appropriated the sum of 2,50 pesos, Philip siria" currency, for the pur- pose of fighting the bubonic plague which has gotten a foothold at Cebu.

On the night of the 11th instant 500 Russian troops were suddenly dispatched from Port Arthur to a destination unknown, but it is bes lieved they were bound for North Korea or Scoul

FOR being in possession of a sword and two spears, without a licence, Wong Cheung was fined to or fourteen days' gaol, at the magi tracy this morning. The arms were con fiscated.

Two coolies employed by Messra Watson Co., 1.d., were charged before Mr. J, H.-Kemp this morning, with stealing five bottles of lodoform, value about $40, the property of the firm. They were sentenced to two months' bard labour each.

in the Co his duties AT.

while the things

charged be

Toing with Avere.order-

steam

for thred hostre");

Japan

Informed

ACTIVE preparations are being made at the of retaining their place of the Governar General at Hanoi for the reception of Mr. Hean, who is expected to arrive in the capital, coming from Cochin China, towards the end of the month.

RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 26th October, 1903 :--

Non-Chibele Chinese

Total

Library Museum

54

2,017

2,071

THE firstmail from France by the trans-Siberian Railway arrived in Tientsin in 19 days. "

THE Masonic Quadrille Club hold a dance at | A REPORT from the Saigon Chamber of Com the Masonic Hall on Tuesday, the 3rd pros,,merce declares that the rice industry in in a

IN, our article describing the Bazaar in aid of at 8 p.m.

very sorry condition. Crders are few. and the Ministering Children's League, on the 25th far between and the crop promises to be such- If you want fresh film and goud.. film, you can a poor one that several of the mills'are.on the last, we omitted to mention the names of Mia

get them at LeMunyon's ; they are guarantied. -Advt.

A FRIGHTFUL hurricane has ravaged the New foundland coast. An immense amount of da age has been done to shipping and to

coast improvements.

THE Russian newspapers state that the Gov. ernment has decided in princ.ple upon the establishment of a Ministry for Posts, Tele- graphs, and Telephones.

ONE of the leading newspapers in Berlin asserts that Russia holds Manchuria by a secret treaty with China and that Russia has agreed to defend China against the world in return for permanent possession of that province.

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point of closing..

IT is reported that a bed of pearl oysters has been discovered in Pakhoi bay. The Chinese,

who are owners of the same, are trying to sell their claim for four thousand dollars. Rumour states that these pearls are poor in colour and defective in shape.

JA

ssociated are,now.

Wehb and Mrs. Birdwood as bein with the organisation of the fir informed that the success of this brilliant

GROWN

D SALE

The site of the old No. 1 Tank In Robinson Road

201704, was pat for sale by pul

afternoon at offices of the Public Works Departme side competition arose, betw inten buyera.A”BWith

Fto the lot "158

by: $7,000

cessive stages

fereda

function was, in a great mensure, due to their beha efforts

A BAND of 1,500 Chinese pirates is within ten miles of Tong Hing, a small town in the extreme south-western comer of Kwangtung and just over the French border. The in- A NATIVE charged before Mr. Sercombe Smith habitants retreating over the frontier into Top at the Magistracy this morning for being inking and the French garrison at Moncay which unlawful possession of 35 catties of betel nut is just opposite Tong Hing is being strongly reasonably suspected of having been stolen, reinforced. stated that he was told by a European to take the nuts to the Praya. He was fined $20 or one month's gaol.

drchaser, conts

Chen between 94 Stotoo Sang the bida” rosa-to _ _10,620 lot was knocked down to the latter i

Mr. Ho Mu Lau,thes The property thus cost a fraction ov a squate fol::. The total area 18: 14,924 square feet and the annual Crown rent S102.

The purchaser has, to spend upon rateable? improvements on the lot a suni bir Tthin Sigoco.

VOLUNTEERS IN CAMP.

IT is reported at Washington that the United you want a first class photo of yourself youMauser, Winchester and Lee-Metford (7)through slipping down

OVER ten Russian warships and torpedo-boats are assembled off Haiyang Island (near which the naval battle in 1894 was fought, and which is situated midway between Port Arthur and the Yalu), and are keeping strict watch on all traffic between Port Arthur and Tatungkau.

is reported that trials of new Russian sub, marine will shortly be made at Cronstadt. Its length is twenty-three metres, and its width. four metres. It is half submerged by means of an electrical motor, and is cigar-shaped. Its crew numbers twelve men, under a captain, 194

IT is officially certified that the value of the Siam Currency notes in circulation on the 30th September was Ticals 6,349,600, and that the whole of that sum was retained in silver at the head office. That total is Ticals 34,850 less than the amount in circulation on the 31st August.

...

can get it at LeMunyon's --Advt.

A VERNACULAR Contemporary, says the Fode Herald, states that the New York Sun Life of Canada, and Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s branch offices in Tokio and Yokohama have received orders from their general offices not to accept insurance on the lives of military and naval men in Japan, China, and Russia.

THE plague return for the week ended 24th inst, shows that no cases were reported during that period. At present the total number of cases notified since January is 1,416, of which 1,243 endel fatally, four being Europeans, 1,2co Ghinesc, and 39 classified as other Asiatics Thres Europeans and a Japanese were reported suffering from enteric lover, during the past. week..

A NATIVE was charged, at the Magistracy this morning, with stealing a brass beam belonging to a weighing machine, value about $5, the property of Chan Poke Wai at Kun Chung, Kowloon, on Saturday night. He was sen tenced, by Mr. Sercombe Smith, to fourteen days' hard labour, and in lieu of the last day's imprisonment, to be exhibited in the stocks for three hours,

TONKING papers stale that gun-running is being carried on, on a big scale, at points on the coast to the west of Macao. The rifles imported are mostly of the Martini Henri,

pattern. They also declare that the rebels are creating big stocks of arms and ammunition at Nanning Fu and Lion Tcheon, two small towns close to the Tonking frontier

A FIRE took place on Saturday afternoon in the Mitsui Bussan coal godown, Wanchal The police were notified and the fire was extinguished. Damage to the amount of $15 was done. Another outbreak occurred be

same afternoon, at Cheong-sha-wan, Yau-ma-ti in a maished owned by an Indian. It appears that the fire was caused by a lighted cigarette being thrown in a corner. The matshed was burnt to the ground, and the goats and clothes of the Indians were destroyed.

We are still doing business at 31, Des Voeur Road, LeMunyon,

A CHINESE boatman was charged at the Ma Bistracy to-day for being in unlawful

falarge box containing Chinese and fancy wares. The box was address Captain Montgomery, and it appears the owner:

bid it. He explalged this mornin was asked to keep it asthe board the ship.

officer in charge of the case to i

seem to indicate that Japan will shortly be engaged in, what promises to be, the biggest war in the history of that nation, it is of the greatest interest to exatnine the effects which the crisis is having on the position, in the financial market, of Japanese securities

on the and

'trade of that country. | States of America has agreed to prolect the Within the last few weeks there have occurred interests of Belgium in the Orient. In return several "slumps" in Japanese Government for this protection, Belgium will concede to the bonds on the London market, but these

United States certain trade matters which are of considerable interest. depreciations are not alarming, and the following explanations from the Angle Japanese Gaselle admirably describe the causes of these fluctuations. Although the "scare" was a feature of the latter part of July, it is well to remember that the decline in Japan securities began fully a month A. S. WATSON & CO., earlier. On June 24th Japanese Four-per- cent Sterling Bonds were made up" on the London Stock Exchange at 894, which was within of the highest price at which business was done during 1902, and higher than in any other year since the bonds were issued four years before. In June, therefore, the high-water mark of Japanese credit had very nearly been reached. During the last week in June and the first week in July there was persistent selling, and the vague rumours which always pre cede international trouble. The quotation of the bonds gradually fell away as the sellers predominated, and on July 8th they were made up at 86, a fall in the fortnight of 21. The adverse movement was not much felt until the third week in July, when the papers announced that Japan was be coming very impatient in regard to Russian action, and that complications were in sight.

down heavily, and on July 27th the Four per-cents. were made up at 82). At about this stage the long-sighted ones began to doubt if war was so very imminent after all, and more than one house with connections in the Far East began to buy For it was plain that if there was no war a good four-per-cent, gold bond was going un- commonly cheap. Since then the more sober views have prevailed, buying has become stronger, and the movement has been almost exclusively upward. On August 11th the making up price was 834, and a week later business was done at 837. It is curious to note, however, that, in Japan, Governmentsecurities are commanding better prices than on the European markets; indeed the Rabe Chronicle states that prices have not varied more than ten sen for several months past, and that, PHOTOGRAPHIC while 5 per cent Consols stood at Y89 a DEPARTMENT. year ago, they are now quoted at Yea. This is also the case with the Naval and War Loan bonds-both bearing in terest at 5 per cent for twelve months rgo the former were quoted at Y88.50 and are now at Y91.20 while the latter, A GENERAL confidence exists in Manila ship which were selling, in 1902, for Y89.00, ping and official circles that Congress, during have now reached Y92.00.

The ex- its next tern, will enact a law making all planation being, not that the public do Philippine vessels entitled, to American re- not appreciate the gravity of the present gistry. In light of this fact it has been decided is the Russian Government is

to adopt a system of signal letters and numbers found official journals (at political situation, but that owing to for Philippines Craft exactly similar to t that Shanghai In order to the stagnant condition of the Far recently instituted by the United States Com-attacks from Japanese and

Two seamen belonging to the French cruiser Bugeaud, while at Yokohama, attempted to stow away on board the steamer America The Sin, Wanao says the Russians seem to far with the object of escaping the water adopt a very peaceful policy towards the They were, however, discovered by the Water foreign Powers regarding the Manchurian seat home Police on the 14th inst., and were transferred question and want to avold war. But accord three months' hard labour.

FURNITURE A report of this kind inevitably sent prices

DEALERS.

DRAWING ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM.

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES. "PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES. COOKING RANGES, '...

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

DEVELOPING. and PRINTING * UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN.,

Hongkong, noth August, 1903.

1728d

CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CON RACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

to their war-ship..

At Ichang, on the 3rd instant, two members of the crew of the British gunboat Tweed fell out of a native boat alongside the gunboat and were drowned. The accident was noticed by those on board the Tweed and at once a

N

ing to a Port Arthur message to Sheng Kung,

pao's organ dated the 11th ins, the Russians

barricaded the entrance to

port while

15,000 Cossacks are stationed at the port to repel any attack.

buoy was thrown out and a boat lowered, but THE American squadron in the Far East will, the two men were never seen to rise. Up to according to a despatch received by the Osaka the 7th instant the bodies had not beenFrancisco, shortly be reinforced by the cruiser Mainichi from its correspondent at San. recovered.

Baltimore and five torpedo destroyers from home. The despatch adds that the battleship, Okie, which is now being armed by the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, will also be commissioned for the Asiatic squadron on her being ready for service.

taip Superintendent, to the Commodore,

while

tmän

bat,

The Corps mustered well on Saturda Sunday; about 150 men being present Camp on Stonecutter's laudable and keen inter in the drillesand, instructions going on. Karly on Sunday ing Corporal. Hayes, met? wit

his wrist on

roken soda, of the main cīns were severed

st-aid: the timely Nobbs, the mishap

hâve";Ka serious consequenc

age had stopped when Dr. Swan, who had been over from necessary to send the

Kowloon

for further treatment.

rporal to the

There were a numerous visitors to

which

Camp yesterday animaled cappearance; la Volunteers friends, weather, came over on were hospitabl

kbaki,

tors

promptu/con

was fined

Kowlo

Two leading natives engaged in a northern theatrical company appeared, before: Kemp at the Magistracy answer a charge of fraudul geleven boys whose ages:

thirteen years; with intent to depr dians and parente

with the lads, parents of appears that, accordia

en were to perform only vinces, and vil the manager an

kong, withouty: parents. The actors

Med the

THE King of Italy is expected to arrive in London about November 14, and remain for a week or ten days. Immediately after his Ma- jesty will proceed to Windsor as the guest of the King and enjoy four days' shooting jo|

were defended by Mr. Windsor Great Park. During the remaining

Deacon & Hastings. portion of his stay King Victor Emmanuel will IT is understood that a large party will accom reside probably at Buckingham Palace or Spany Governor and Mrs. Taft as far. Hong SEVERAL days ago a Chin James's Palace.

kong on their homeward journey, in December, Bird Street, was found The Cablenews says that the firm of Mass four tatls six mace Castle Brothers, Wolf & Sons hus notified its when Hongkong agent to have the Grelic at Manila admitted the offenc exactly on time for the departure of the lies of three mon gubernatorial party. Governor and Mrs. Taft really and the party who are to accompany them to for the United States, will change at Hongkong Senior Magis from the Garlic to the Koren, which is to carry the party to San Francisco... it is said that all the state rooms of the Garlic are being reserved to accommodate the escoit party to Hongkong. and that no passengers are now being booked for the vessel on this account,

THE registration of insular Chinese which has been going on at Manila for several months wili close on October 29. In all, 31,000 appli cations for registration have been received The registration has proved beyond a doubt that the Chinese population of the Islands has been over estimated. Collector Shuster is cop- fident that the number of Chinese in the Phi. lippines is less than 50,00

Eastern money market, bonds giving 5 permissioner of Navigation for American bottoms. Daily Newer hopes cent., under a⠀ government guarantee, are a

Cili) | of introducing desirable investiment, above all since they A KOREAN in foreika dress left Chemulpo for would undoubtedly are obtainable at Y8 or Yto below par. It Port Arthur by the Tairan Maru on the gib.the typical subsidised is somewhat startling news that, notwith-It is now known that he carried a message story, to be called

chuile would MICHAEL, Hongkong standing the existing tension, the foreign from the Emperor of Kores to the Vicero

might run on for trade of Japan for the first ten days Alexelef, asking biar to Seoul Th kils stop was tak

very: resulted in an excess in exports

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of Oct

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