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A FATAL (Chinese) case of plague is reported as having occurred during the past twenty-four hours at 8, Second Street.
Tue Shell liner Elax which went ashore near Yokosuka when outward bound, on the 20th ult., was floated and returned to Yokohama on the 23rd...
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AMONGST the guests who were present at the China Association' annual dinner held at Whitehall Rooms on Nov. 17 were Earl Fercy; Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, and Admiral Sir Gerard Nool. Sir Alfred Dent, K.C.M.G., presided.
A NEW YORK wire states the Navy Depart ment has ordered to Helena and Pompey to winter at Newchwang. If Russia should ask SIR Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G., the Governor-the reason the answer will be the same as when designate of Hongkong, is still at the Gold she inquired why the Pucksburg wintered February next. Coast, where he will probably remain sotil there two years ago, viz., that American interests needed it, and why did Russia put the question.
U HAN-VEN, one of the murderers of the Queen of Corea in 1895, has at last been tracked down and assassinated by two of his countrymen at the Japanese naval station,. Kure
THE river gunboat "B," presented by Ger. mans living abroad to the German navy, and built for them by Schichau, at Elbing, is ready for her trials, after which she will be sent out in sections to China.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1903,
OUR TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS. THE Japan Times says: "The nation is ready, the nation yearns for action and we The news that reached us a few days ago will not betray the grave responsibility with sincerely hope that the Imperial Government to the effect that the Government had purwhich a unique conjunction of circumstances chased two Chilian war-ships came as a sur-
has invested it." prise to many, and undoubtedly gave cause
reasons which had decided the authorities
AMONG the arrivals per the P. & Q... Sinia ceeds Major-General Sir W. J. Gascoigne as today were Major-General Hatton, who suc- General Officer Commanding, and Mr. B. Pon- sonby, who has been private secretary to Sir West Ridgeway in Ceylon and who now takes up the appointment of private secretary to the Officer Administering the Government in this Colony,.......
for a portion of the cargo, which had been re-tract, about 95 per month, for each labourer. stowed on the arrival of the vessel at Slugait is intended to grant each emigrant, before pore, chilted when the steamer was four days his departure, an advance of 505, for the out, dashing from side to side nt every motion provision of suitable clothing, but this amount hours of port and the resuks would have been wake. The next cast of each coolie would, on of the ship. This continued to within a few will be gradually deducted from his monthly disastrous had it not been for the able direc the basis of a monthly payment of 50s, amount tion of Captain Willy, and the constant, and to about sus, per month, as much as is now zealous attention of his subordinates. During paid to an efficient Kaffir minor,... the struggle carpenter Oliver was somewhat seri- The following is the summary of his report, ously injured. Captain Willy had a terrible time given by Mr. Skin: er throughout the trip only leaving the bridge (1) Suitability of Chinese for labour on the now and again, to go and assure himself that mines I have stated above that, in my the work on the cargo was proceeding. As if opinion, the hotter class of Chinese coolie will to add to the trying anxiety and continued be suitable to supplement the Kaffir labour strain of his sleepless vigil, he was deprived of supply in the gold mines. the services of his able chief officer, Mr. D. R.), Possibility of obtaining Chinese labour Corke, who was laid-up and unable to move Sufficient Chinese labour can, in my opinion, owing to his foot having bean smashed at boats be obtained to fulfil the present and immediate -station drill on the outward voyage. Bashed future requirements of the Rand..
and bat ered, with funnel and stays white with steamed into Hongkong this morning, officers the brine from the spindrift, the Glengarry and passengers alike congratulating themselves on having weathered successfully one of the severest monsoons on record;
CROWN LAND ŞALE. Not much interest was evinced in the sales
ance was small, and there was hardly any of Crown land announced for this afternoon at the Public Works Department. The attend competition in biddings
Shaukiwan Road, Causeway Bay, and contain.
NAM BHAUKIWAN I. L. 1708. When Inland Lot No. 1708, situate on the
Chinese labourers are favourable, I consider labour:If the reports to China from the first: (3) Time necessary for obtaining Chinese
that it would only be a matter of months before the inbour supply from China would begin to affect very appreciably the production of these fields.
would say that, in making the statments I do in this report, I have never lost sight of the
whose whole idea of civilisation and manner of serious undertaking it is to bring into a coun try a large number of people of an alien nice, living is entirely at variance with that existing in the land they are brought into.
to some speculation as to the probably urgent MR. Joseph Gillott, of Warwick, senior in the The charter, however, provides that the capitating an area of 18,896 square feet, was put up Chinese labour for the Rand has been publish-
firm of Messrs. Joseph Gillot and Sons, steel
York have formed a new company for railroad PROMINENT bankers and railroad men in New
development in the Chinese Empire. The under the laws of New Jersey, is called the company, which has alre idy been incorporated China, Investment and Construction Company of America, and has a 'capital of $1,000,000,
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final stage at Manila. The litigation is between the Hongkong Bank and the firm of jurado & Co. The firm has been in liquidation since died in July last. 1884 when litigation arose. The liquidator The Supreme Court at
to take so unprecedented a step. Whether pen manufacturers, who 'died on July 3 last, A LONG drawn out lawsuit is now nearing its i
aged 76 years, left estate of the gross value of 163,505, and the net personally, has been sworn at £76,809.
Now that the report by Mr. Skinner on his recent visit to the Far East in the matter of it was discovered that the applicant for the loted, it will be seen that it covers the ground in did not appear and the property was accordingly much the way that had been anticipated. It wi.hdrawn. The deposit of $100 was forfeited this action was taken to avoid the acquisition
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certainly shows that the Chinese miner will not of these fine vessels by Russia, or if it be due
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be as cheap as many people bad hoped for. to some grave political complication as yet
Three separate lots in the New Territory Only on a three years contract does he ap unknown to us, it will be of undoubted THE engagement is announced of Mr. Antony
came under the hammer this altamoon. Theyparently come out at the same price as the na- are Tai Po Inland Lots 1 and 2 and New Kow- tive Kaffir labour, and Mr. Skinner says that interest to consider the following informa- George Bethell, Chinese Imperial Customs, Manila decided that this could not interfere loon I. L. No. 4. The first two were sold in three years is the shortest period over which tion concerning the importance of these two youngest son of Mr. Henry Slingsby Bethell, with the progress of the case, as Jurado and one lot, and contain respectively 4,591 and 468 the cost of bringing the coolie into the fields new additions to our fleet. The names of and Miss Frances Langdon, daughter of the Company, not the liquidator, is the defendantsquare feet. Chinaman was the purchaser could be reasonably disimbuled. Besides he is these ships, which were originally built to late Mr. Henry Duminick Langdon. The
at 560 (ie. $10 above the upset price) for the Chilian order by two well known English marriage will take place at Mezzaralta, near
"combined areas. Attaching to the first lot is firms, Vickers and Elswick, are respectively
Florence, in January.
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A motion by the plaintiff corporation that n day be assigned for hearing the case has been decided upon favourably. The case is set for hearing next January,
THE Admiralty have issued for general in- heavy guns in His Majesty's Fleet during 1997, formation a return of the annual prize-firing from giving a list of the ships in order of merit, and showing the average relative results for each class of gun. For the 13 in B.L. guns the Ocean came out first of nineteen vessels with average relative results per gun of 7013; for the 92 in. guns the Cressy was second out of
the Naval Intelligence Department, died on COMMANDER George Murray Kendall Fair, of 3rd alt. from an attack of typhoid fever. Hefur vessels with average relative results per entered the service as a cadet in January, 1883, the Oceaa was first out of forty-eight vessels gun of 35; and for the 6 in. quickfiring guns was lieutenant of the Centre ion during the with average relative results per gun of 10273. Boxer outbreak in China in 1900, and during Admiral Sir Edward Seymour's expedition in FROM Straits Times (Nov. 28)-When Sir Jane was employed on the staff of the Henry and Lady Blake arrived here on Thurs. Intelligence Department, and getting along the day morning en soute for Ceylon, a number of
necessary to enable this to be done.
The lot in Kowloon Tong has an area of 18,000 square feet and the annual rental pay. down to a French gentleman for $770; the able in respect thereof is $42. It
twas knocked
reserve was $340. A Chinaman was, also a bidder for this fancied site.
to have free food of a nature agreeable and at- tractive to him, free housing and medical at tendance, facilities for purchasing. Chinesa clothing and religious material" at moderate prices, a f ec passage from and to China, with food provided, an advance before starting, and. an undertaking given to return the coolie's bones to China should be die away from home... All of which requirements add up- & Co. Express
C. Kinloca Cooke gives reasons why Asiatic In the Empire Review for November, Mt.
labor is necessary for the Rand. In the first place he attributes much of the present financial depression to the fact that the Transvaal mines,
CHINESE LABOUR FOR SOUTH owing to the lack of labour, are not working
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struction and armament. As regards speed, they have an indicated horse powerof, roughly speaking, 12,500 and a displacement of about 12,950 tons and this, in conjunction with their special form of hull, should give a speed of something over nineteen knots. Their normal coal capacity is about 800 tons in time of peace, while, on emergency, ie. in war time. they could stow 2,000 tons, which may be junks with wounded. In September, he was Ceylonese residents were at the wharf to greer briefly outlined in the following statement; which he deduces a net total of 4,672,230...
appointed flag-lieutenant to the 'Admiral, te
Tus Admiralty announce that his Majesty George, King of the Hellenes. K.G., has been appointed Honorary Admihal in His Majesty's Fleet. The distinction which has now been conferred on King George is the same as was
regarded as an auxiliary armour eight feet thick on the waterline. As armament they carry two ten-inch guns forward and two aft; these are protected by turrets eight inches thick. On either side of them are 7.5 in. guns flanking the turrets, and a couple of the same calibre guns immediate. bestowed on the King of Portugal list month, handsome bouquet to Lady Blake, who ex-
ly in the rear. Thus the ships show the enormously heavy armament, to front and rear, of two ten inch and four 7.5 inch guns,
well protected. On their broadside they
mount three 7.5 inch guns either side protected by the battery, bringing their
total armament in heavy guns up to four ten inch and fourteen 7.5 inch guna. The positions in which these guns are mounted enable them to bring to bear on the broadside a total of four ten inch and seven 7.5 inch. Their lighter armament consists of fourteen, 14 pounders, four 6 pounders and four maxims. The torpedo armament consists of two eighteen inch submerged torpedo tubes and the Chilian torpedoes are said to have a somewhat
and on Prince Henry of Prussia two years ago. The only other foreign officers of the Navy are the German Emperor, who has held the highest rank-that of Honorary Admiral of the Ficer for four years, and Prince Charles of Denmark,
who is a lieutenant, and can hardly be regarded now as a foreigner.
Vaudeville Company,, has arrived in our port MR. L. A. Wilkie, representative of Arthur Hill
from Bhanghai. This gentleman has come to pearance in this city of the troupe, which is at make the necessary arrangements for the ap present terminating a series of successful repre- sentations at the Lyceum Theatre of the northern port. The criticism of our Shanghai contem porararies are very favourable to the Company
with the hearty support of the Hongkong public. The troupe will give ten performances in our city, opening their season on the 23rd December next at the Theatre Royal.
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the new Governor of the Colony. Further ing, there was a similar gathering of Ceylonese more, when the Malli'sailed yesterday morn to wish the distinguished passengers farewell, and before the ship left Miss Sibyl Gunatilak, daughter of the P. & O. Company's wharf manager, who belongs to Ceylon, presented a pressed much pleasure at receiving the gift
The report of Messes, Skinner and Noyes, who were sent to China by the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, to inquire into the question of Chi- nese tabour, is now made public. The results of the investigation of these gentlemen are
fall speed. If they were, the gold output would be very different to what it is to-day, lle admits that if the native labour supply were: sufficiant, it would not be necessary to introduce the Asiatic lle asserts, however, that it is not sufficient. He gives a number of figures from
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Noyes were sent to natives, from among whom it may be possible The delegates, report that the coolies from the in sixteen of men between eighteen and tiny inquire into the question of Chinese labour to recruit labour. Of this number possibly one Southern Provinces of China, who are also six years of age could be induced to work con- employed in British Columbia and California,tinuously outs de their own territories. This are as efficient as Kaffir inbourers, and that gives in round numbers a net total of 292,000 they have received equally satisfactory accounts natives available for the mines, and for all the of the coolies from Northern China, In order developments in South Africa. Moreover, the to ascertain whether the north or the south native African does ant like underground em would supply the most suitable miner, theployment. And, in view of the numerous Chamber of Mines Delegates advise a trial openings for surface labour, Mr. Cooke ven- with 1,005 to 1,500 Chinese from each district. turcs to think that but a very small portion of ARRIVAL OF THE OVERDUR MAIL. A firm at Hongkong has declared its readiness these two hundred and ninety-two thousand The heavy monsoon now prevailing on the
to obtain these numbers at jo days' notice, and will sign on for twelve months af mining work, China Sea is playing havoc with steamers to place them on board for trans-shipment to. It does not, therefore, he says, require much coming up from Singapore nearly every vessel. South Africa, Chinese labourers, the delegates knowledge of arithmetic to see that if the delayed and, in many instances, bearing evidi- especially in the vicinity of the coast towns, an making port from the South being considerably affirm, can be obtained in unlimited numbers, as, Rand mines are to be worked at full speed it cannot be done with native labour, for the ence of their encounter with the waves. The enormous proportion of the population is prae- simple but conclusive reason that the acquired Saturday and Sunday caused some anxiety would only too gladly be relieved of a part of dus expert opinions to support this view. As non appearance of the P, and Oss. Simia on tically unemployed, and the Chinese officials supply cannot be obtained. He quotes numer having regard to the punctuality of these this cucumbrance. In recruiting these coolie
to the restrictions to be placed on imported steamers, and had she not arrived to-day the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association Asiatic labour it would, perhaps, he remarks, vessels would have been despatched to ascer- anticipates that it will obtain the co-operation be rash to prophesy; but he adds it may safely tain whether she needed assistance. Fortu- of British officials. In the Transvaal a Govern- be concluded that every care will be taken by
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longer range than our own. Passing on to the protection, we find that there is a seven inch belt amidships, tapering to three inches at each end and a protective deck amidships one and a half inches thick; the vitals are WHITE TURKISH TOWELS enclosed in a sort of large tank, so to speak, seven inches thick and a bulkhead, or parti- tion, of six inches. The guns are protected by barbettes and casemates in the immediate HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES, vicinity of the gun itself, and the battery recognition of the efficiency with which the housh she was being run at full speed the opportunity of doing piecework should be given is highly necessary from the shareholders' point
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so that it is more than probable that it will med nately, there was no necessity for such a stepment Department would have to be instituted the Commissioners to safeguard the vested to be taken, as, at seven o'clock this morning a for the control of imported Chinese labour, and interests of the white miner and the white message was received from the Gap Rock this department should be able to communicate trader. Further, says Mr. Cooke, it is mistake signal station reporting the passing of the direct with British Consulates in China, as the to suppose for one moment that the introduc vessel and, two hours' later the Simfa steamed latter would be able to facilitate and hasten the tion of the Asiatic involves displacement of into port after a prolonged voyage up from emigration materially. British Consuls in China white labour; on the contrary, after a centala THE King received in the grounds of Bucking-Singapore. She left the southern port at five would also have to arrange for a strict leeway is made up in the proportion of white ham Palace on 4th ult. 143 officers of various clock of the afternoon of the 29th ulto, and a- medical examination of all Chinese recruited to coloured labour, every seven Asiniica im- tanks connected with the Transport Service few hours out encountered an exceptionally for the Transvaal, in order to ascertain the ported means employment for an additional and conferied upon them the Special Transport strong north-easterly monsoon with moun, physical suitability of each emigrant. The while man. So, if 50,003 Chinese or Indians medal, which was instituted by His Majesty in winous seas. Cap. C. D. Goldsmith kept her delegates believe that the Chinese miner will white men would find curployment. Finally, be brought' ver, at least 7,roo additional skilled 1903 for officers of the mercantile marine, in head straight in the teeth of the gale, and be satisfied with a wage of 50s, per month, but he argues that the introdu: ton of Asiatic labour transport of the troops by sea was carried out orce of the wind and seas beating akainst her to the coolice, who would then be able to walls and battery screens between them (the during the South African and China Wars hade progress very slow; indeed, her speed accomplish more work and earn a higher com PHOTOGRAPHIC casemates of which there are four Amongst those present were: Rear-Admiral
averaged about 130 knots a day. The Simia, petence. As regards the commissariat arrange- DEPARTMENT.
standing one in each corner of the Sir Chichester, Bart, C.B., C.M.G., Capt. J. Lowever, weathered the storm with sustaining ments, Mr. Skinner estimates the monthly battery), arc seven inches thick as also are B. Eustace, R.N., late Principal Transporty material damage, only an anchor crane requirements of each coolie at Hongkong as the battery walls. The screens between the Officer, North China, Mr. W. Keswick, MP, frehead being slightly troken
follows-Rice,, 45lbs,'; fish, Elbs. ; pork, 8 lbs. ; guns are one inch, while the barbettes and and Sir Thomas Sutherland.
vegetables, 8 Ds. ; tea, rib, goil, roz. In view of turrets are eight inches in thickness. The ADMIRAL Superintendent Henderson on 2nd
THE "GLENGARRY IN THE GALE. the colder climate of the Witwatersrand, these heaviest armour is round the conning tower, ult: inspected the Centurion, which was passed of om Singapore, suffered severely and the cent. It has been calculated that the food of The ss. Glengarry, that followed the Simla quantities may have to be increased by so per which being eleven inches thick brings the into the Fleet Reserve, ready for hoisting the officers and passengers underwent a terrible each coolic would work out at abort 8. per total weight of armour up to three thousand pennant on 3rd ult. On that day she was experience, the memory of which will abide day, or possibly a trifling amount more. Mr two hundred tons. At a range of about tommissioned at Portsmouth by Captain F. F. With them for some time to come, Shortly Skinner also believes that the Chinese will be eight thousand miles the Albion class of ship Fegen for service on the China station. Since ter their departure from that port a N. Ef satisfied with the accommodation as now pro could maintain a speed of ten knots and, as her return from her last commission, when she monsoon of abnormal severity was encountered vided for South African natives, hot adds that these two ex-Chilian battleships have about was the flagship of Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, and a continuous high head sen, washing the new barracks for coolies should consist of the same coul capacity and speed, it is to be the Centurion has undergone an extensive refi, vessel fare à ́d aft, id considerable damage. several storeys. The floors would most pro.
Including the substitution of 6 in. for the 47 in the ship laboured heavily and rolled re-bably have to be coverid, with cen
comeat or presumed that they could do about the f. guns. With the arrival of the Centurion on feltedly to a dangerous angle. The sky was asphalt, and the room should be sub-divided Poris and Manila left Manila on 5.h, inst, and
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MAILS DUEANCOIS VAN Australian (Chingtu) to-morrow, German (Fring Heinrich) to-morrow. Gorman (Kautschou) toth inst. American America Maru) 10th inst Canadian Tartar) 9th instin Tacoma (Partoria) 13th inst.
American (Korea) 14th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) sist insi. American (Gaelic) 23rd inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 17th inst
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The N. P. S. Co.'s 3. -Victoria arrived at
The T. K. K. ss. Rohilla Mfar left Manila yesterday, and is expatted here to-morrow Afternoon, the 8th inst.
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