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HONGKONG, Friday, January 8, 1904,
HONGKONG JOURNALISTS
ASSOCIATION.
Nobody with the journalistic instinct, or a journalistic training, and a fair measure of candour, can deny that there are many admir able features in the Association recently con- stituted by the Pressmeri of Hongkong. An acquaintance with the history of local jour nalism need not be more than slight and casual to reveal the fact that our news
gatherers have done much to add to the epute of the fraternity and raise then in tlie
esteen of their fellow-citizens. We cannot
THE Commander of the German mail steamer Sachsen which arrived from Europe, this morning, reports that on 30th Dec. at 10 am, he passed the steamer Baron Balfour at 5' 51" north and 94" 11" east, which wished to be reported to her agents.
THE NY. K. steamer Skinagau a-miru, which stranded off Omiyesaki, Enabu, on the 10th ult, has been abandoned. The Fairen-maru,
the steamer that was sent to the assistance of
the stranded vessel. and the position of the Shinagawa hopeless, the hall being rammed by several large rocks. ·
THE German steamer Directar Arikur Barty, Capt. R. Edler, from Emden, reports that when in Long, 119 35 N. lat 150, 35 N they com- municated with the American barque Eva J. Way which was then 92 days out on the voyage from Rangoon to Hongkong. She asked for provisions and the steamer sen her off a barrel of beef.
By kind permission of Major Radcliff and officers the Band of the 93rd Barma Infantry wilf play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow Saturday evening from 8 to 9. jo.
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IS IT WAR?
EXCITEMENT IN HONGKONG,
WILD RUMOURS!
I ate last night a war scare struck this city, and nit day, foam the first streak of dawn, ram- ant ramour stalked through our streets, The Arst antification of an impending military dance of the Sherwood Foresters, at the quivement was given out during the regimen
City flat, las night when it was whispered coined and it a portion of our garrison
that.news hideun arcived that hostil-ties had
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JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.
THE HOUSE OF MITSUI
We are indebted to the courtesy of the Mitsu Bussan Kaisha for a most interesting and artistic publication entitled "The House of Mitsui." There are comparatively few that are conversant with the fact that the immense com-
·FOOTBALki:
To-morrow afternoon on the Happy Valley, the Hongkong Football Club will play H.M.S.- Albin Kick-off at 4 pm. The following will Play for the ClubF. H. Kew, goal; W. C. Austen and E. F. Ancott, backs; W. C. Gray, J. W. C. Bonnar and J. D. Danby, halves; W. H. Williams, H. A. Brent, R. Hancock, C. R. S. Cooper-and J. Richardson, forwards.
CRICKET LEAGUE:
LEAGUE TABLE.
Matches.
Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. Drawn, Points, A. O. C....... ? 8 Civil Service 6 Craigengower 8
R. E... 6 "Tamar" ... 5 R. & M. C..... 6. H.K.C.C. "A" 5 Parsecs...... $
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CRAIGENGOWER V. "TAMAR " The return match in the League between the above Clubs will be played on Saturday on the ground of the former Club which will be
mercial enterprises, known respectively as the
Mitsui Kosan Kaisha and Mitsui Grafuruten (dry- Mitsui Ginko (bank), Mitsui Rossan Kaisha;
goods store), whose sphere of influence in the aconômical world of Japan and the East is sa vast and extensive, are the outcome of a joint were under orders to hold themselves in
association of eleven branches of the Mitsui readiness to proceed to the North. Inquiries family. There is something distinctly interest made early this morning resulted in the informing and romantic in the origin of this vast com alion that 250 men of the Derbyshire Rg. bine when it is considered that its present had been mobilised, and were awaiting ém- directors are descendants of the famous feudal barkation for an unknown destination, Colonel lord of Namadzuye, Takashige Mitsui, a renowned warrior of the 15th century. In 1723. Wylly, Captain Green, D.SO., and Lien- tenant Milwo being the officers designated to observing the verbal will of Takatoshi Mitsui, accompany the detachment. The authorities
his son, Hachirobei Takahira, laid down in at the Headquarter office refused to past with writing the Family Rules, by which he and his any information in reply to the anxious inquirie
five brothers pledged themselves to form a of ubiquitous Pressmen, and all efforts to anim
collective budy of partners working with a ate the sphing like funcionaries at the Naval collective capital. This agreement, drawn up Yard provedentally unavaḍing The redcence 180 years ago, is the same upon which the and secrecy of the authorities gave rise to whole undertaking is worked to-day. the wildest of canards, which; taking flight With the restoration of the Meiji ema, an im-represented by A. O. Brawn, L. E, Lammert, from the bats of our clubs and hostelries, portant epoch was opened in the history of the R. Basa, M. E. Asger, E. R. Herton, J. Craik, spelt rough our busy thoroughfares,, and firm
E. Ford, R. Pestonji, L. A. Rose, J, P. Jordan, While the new government under the
and J. Gloyn: circled over the Praya. Jones swore on his direct control of the Emperor was in the honour that the Foresters were off to Canton,
process of consolidation, the Misnis acted as where the maging crowds of infuriated Chinese were tearing up the railway.. Smith declared that the troops were speeding already on the Hunter to Amoy to suppress the riot, and
rown declared on oath that the Tommies were for Seoul or, perhaps, Peking. It was stated that they had left at 11 a.m. and, again; others declared' that at i pin, the men were still here. The excitement was feverish at noon, and at 3 pm. it had developed into a occasion, and our arcades echoed the Lurried trengy The journalists of Hongkong rose to the His objects are the promotion of whatever may tend to the elevation and improvement of the tramp of their cager footsteps, our streets were filled with the rattling, din of their rick- status of journalists in the Far East and obtain-
tha wheels. Undaunted by the blank-faced ing for journalists, as such, formal and definite professional standing; proinoting personal and and exhausted reporters who, time after time, -ocial intercourse between member of the Assofetined without news to the offices of our ciation; and holding conferences and meetings anals, clitors laid down their busy pen, rush- and duties; the acquisition by the Association of officers, public functionanes, sergeants, cor- a room or other place of meeting; and the pro- porats, and dodged around the gates of Murray motion by all reasonable means of the interests Barracks in the hope of securing the "scoop" of journalism. The Association consists of a
of the day, Seconds. minites, hours flew, but President, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer,
the most arenuous elfors were unavailing
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PRESS ASSOCIATION FOR HONGKONG.
As the outcome of several meetings convened by the fressmen of the Colony, a journalists Association has been constituted in Hongkong
dissociate ourselves from the knowledge that of late years there seems to have grown up in the Colony a strange tendency to regard the journalist as a person only to be tolerated; and even to be pitied. He neither desires to be tolerated nor wants pity. Joum for the discussion of professional affairs interests ed forth from their sanctum, interviewed Army alists are proud of the profession in the ranks of which they are humble toilers, proud of the record it has made, the work it is doing; proud of the position it occupies
in the forefront of the forces that make of it a popular parliament, a popular court of justice, a court of honour, and a court of criticism upon every question that may arise upon all questions of public conduct, upon all questions of public morality, and upon questions of taste. The journalist in the exer- cise of his profession is ubiquitous, having to rub shoulders with all sorts and conditions £35 of men. There exists no calling of which
surer are ex officio members of the Committee.
the crisis was reached when the "man in the street who knows" swore by all his household
and a Committee of not less than three mem-Meanwhile, the public ramour grew in volume, bers, and of members and associates. The quantity and detail, and the ultima thule of President and Honorary Secretary and Trea- Mr. T. H. Iteid has heen elected President; gods that Tein, thick, Harry & Co. had re- while the Committee comprises Messrs. P.
ceived a cable from their agents in the W. Sergeant, Douglas Stoty, and W.JI. Donald, North forming them that the Japanese with the President and Hon. Secretary and Trea
fleet had playfully thrown too shells into Port Arthur yesterday. One hundred and no surer, Mr. E. A. Snewin, as ex officio members.
more! Proof certain of the far-seeing policy The Association, which is governeil by the the members have a more profound Commiller, consists of two classes, viz. Memf Japan in conducting the struggle on the most possibly economical lines. Surely, knowledge of humanity than that of the bars and Associates. Members will be per alter this, none of us will accuse the "man sons not less than twenty-one years of nge who, newspaper man The etiquette of the
have been for at least two years professional who knows" either of vagueness or exaggera- Court must be at his linger tips, and journalists and are at the time of their election on. Perhaps, if we had asked, he might have the slang of the alley have no secrets for
in the active practice of their profession. As. told us the exact number of windows that were him. Outside of the profession few realise sociates will be persons employed in the news. broken in the, bombarded town. When the his hopes, his struggles and his disappoint-paper offices in the Colony inefigible as m m thought occurred, it was too late. Staggered ments, or the standard he has set up bers, bot by reason of their relations wil by the preciseness and exactitude of his infor-
CO., ments, or the standard he has set up bers, bet by reason of their relations with by the precisements and exactitute of his infor
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receives. We recognise his sense of loyalty to his paper that nothing can shake; an enthusiasm that never wanes. There. is no profession in which the standard of honour is higher and wherein the spirit
refer to
was it that, at the time we went to press, those who are really likely to know the first, we the leading Japanese firms in the Colony, had received
по definite information as to an outbreak of hostilities,
alists in the advancement and service of the profession. Members alone will have the right to vote or to be present at meetings convened fir the purpose of discussing the professional status of journalists or of debatin questions affecting member in their purely journalistic capacity. though there
was по a'tempt in con-
FURNITURE of fraternity and good will is more pro- The qualifications recognised by the Asceal the extreme gravity of the situation.
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,
nounced. What is true of the home press -the most characteristic of British institu-
tions-is equally applicable to the Fourth Estate in Hongkong. The Head of the admin istration civil as well as the President of the Bench judicial have quite recently rendered appreciative homage to the "tone and stand- ing" of the Press of Hongkong in a manner that at once elivates it to the position it has attained by virtue of its unimpeachable character and dignity, The journalists of the Colony have realised that it is time they should unite themselves in a legitimate effort to ensure the recognition of the respect that is due to their profession and its individual members as educated and intelligent men a respect of times (perhaps unwitte ingly) ignored, and the acknowledgment of their standing in our society, with its peculiar constitution in the arrogation to itself of an aristocracy to which it has no
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. PHOTOGRAPHIC rightful claim. There can be little doubt that
DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING
UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS..
GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN; · Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.
CARMICHAEL
CLARKE,
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND
SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.
REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHAEL," Hongkong. A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition.
A. I Code.
Lieber's Standard Code.
TELEPONE, 232.
"Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
THE
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sociation as constituting any person a journa. However, none can declare that the dogs of tist within the meaning of the mies of the war are loose, and of the wave of excitement Association is that he is professionally and and speculation that swept our Colony to day, habitually engaged upon the staff of a journal it may yet be said: Parfugiunt montes, nascitur in the capacity of editor, leaderwriter, writer ridiculus mus. of special articles, assistant-editor, sub-editor, or reporter,
WATER RETURN.
NORTHERN NOTES.
The Kobe Herald of the 18th ult. says:- The foreign insurance companies of Yoko. hama are reported to have raised the rale on Level and Storage of Water in Reservoirs Japanese sips to Vs, which is just twenty on the 1st January.
1903.
LEVEL.
overflow
1904,
14' below? 19 - below Tytam...
I overllow Pokfulam..
21′ 6′′ below) 22′ 71" below nverflow I overflow cheang..... overflow Wong-nai-1 35' 2}* below) 20 2" below
3 overlow STORAGE GALLONS.
1903.
27,070,000 11,600,000
Tylam.......................... Pokfulani
the powerful alliance will once and for all Wong-nei-heong succeed in establishing the principles it bas advanced, and as long as our local press is marked by the tone that distinguishes it to-day its success is undoubtedly assured.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE German mail of the 9th December was delivered in London on the 7th inst.
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THE departure of the P. & O. s.s. Ceylon for London, and Antwerp via ports has been cancelled.
THE wheal yield of New South Wales is 21,570,000 bushels, being an increase of 12,500-| 000 bushels over the record year 1901.
THE Pollard Company gave their farewell performance in Rangoon on the 17th ́ult, before a buge audience, there being more money is the house than has ever been known in Rangoon.
THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL
1,00 1,000
1901.
240,100,000 19,575,00
9,201cdo
Total 293,570,000 260,381,00 Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria and Hill District during the month of December.
.
1902.
10.4
1903.
16,3 gallons
Consumption... 69,834,000 112,120,000 gallons Estimated po-2.
pulation... +16,800 221,700 Consumption)
per head per day............. Intermittent supply in force during the whole 'f December igos; and from the zist December, 1903.
Consumption of Water in Kowloon Péninsula during the month of December.
times the recent rate,
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha head-office in Tokia has been unusually active recently, and the number of communications with their principal branches has considerably increased. | A large number of officials, besides those on
watch, were working in the office yesterday.
An Imperial Ordinance was issued to-day providing for appropriations from Reserve Funds to meet the expenditure necessitated by the political situation. The Government have thus at their immediate disposal Y203,000,000; viz, fifty million yen from the reserve fund for the renewal of warships, torpedors and educa- tion; thirty million yện, balance of boads re- cently floated in London; and one hundred and twenty millious, speric reserve of the Bank of Japan. It is thought that the foregoing will suffice to mitet the expenditure for the time. being if hostilities result.
"LIBERDAD."
We give below the following further parti- culars of the two battleships recently purchased by the Admiralty from the Chilian Govern ment, taken from a home paper.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSELS. The two vessels thus acquired were launch.
its principal financing agent. As a reward THE" CONSTITUCION" AND THE for this and other public services to the country, Baron Hachiroemon Mitsui, the present head of the house, was created a
partners peer, and other
were given various titles. The bank and shipping business were founded in 1876, and in 1889 the firm acquired from the Government the Milke Coal Mines. Since then several other mines have come under the control of the family. Accord-ed-the Constitution from the Elswick yard of society is the family, and not the individual 15. Each is remarkable for the weight of its ing to the social institutions of Japan the unit on January 13, and the Liberdadiön January
as in the Western world. The House of Mitsui firing and its coal-carrying capacity. The Con is a collective body, a joint association of stitucion can fire a total weight of 13} tons of eleven families, which work, with their collec-projectiles in a minute, with a collective energy tive capital, in their joint name, and under the of 1,700,000 fast tons. Of protective armour system of unlimited joint liability; and that they she carries a K. C. belt zin. in thickness (laper- enjoy almost unbounded confidence and credited at the extremities) over the whole length of both at home and abroad is assuredly due to
the ship, and extending vertically from 5ft. be- this admirable system of business organisation. low the water-line to the upper deck. The Besides the enterprises already mentioned as
barbettes of the twin mountings for the toin, undertaken by the sole power of the Hause of guns are covered by join. K. C. armour; and Mitsui, the family is an important shareholder the ten 7'sin guns on the main deck, besides in the Bank of Japan, Yokohan a Specie Bank, being protected by the 7in. side armour, are First Bank, Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Co. separated from each other by armoured bulk. Sanyo Ry. Co., Nippon Ry. Co., Kinshiu Ry. heads both longitudinally and transversely. An Co, Tokio Tramway Co., Japan Mail Steam-underwater protective deck sin. thick on the ship Co., Tokio Marine Insurance Co., Kane-slope is fitted throughout; and in addition gafuchi Cotton Spinning Co., Uji Paper Mill special protection is given on the upper deck Co., and the Formosa Sugar Refining Co.to the 75in, guns below. The sea speed : f 19 These shares together with those of numerous knots is the same, and trunks are provided for other companies amount to over, ten million. coal sufficient to carry the ship 11,000 knots at yen, from which it can be realised that the in-
10 knots. Buence of this immense family association can make itself felt in nearly all branches of Japan's
economic concerns.
THE S.S. HELENE RICKMERS."
The Hélène Rickmers, whose Captain has had such an unpleasant experience at Moji, must have most unfortunate recollections of Japan, if a ship can be treated as a personality. Twelve years ago, in August 1901, she went ashore at Kobe during a typhoon, and was hard and fast off the Eastern camber for some three weeks, being eventually floated by the late Mr. A. C. Sim. When got off, it was found that she had knocked two or three holes in her bottom, and she had to be taken to Nagasaki for repairs of a somewhat extensive nature. For about seven years she avoided the coast of Japan, and then, if we remember aright, she arrived at Kuchinotsu to load coal and got caught in another typhoon in which she dragged her anchors and did some damage. Now, on what seems to be her third visit, the Captain gets into difficulties with Japanese police, who appear to have used him almost as badly as the elements had done the ship on previous occasions. After these experiences the owners, if at all superstitious, will, we should think, give instructions that Japan is a dangerous region for the Hélène Rickmers. It would be interesting, by the way, to know who would have been responsible if a storm had sprung up while the police had the Captain and his first and second officers in custody. Under the best of circumstances a large ship like the Hélène Rickmers is not in a very safe situation in a place like Moji, where the tide. runs with such swiftness, and it was exposing the vessel to serious danger to deprive her of her principal officers at the same time and for
several hours.—Kobe Chronicle,
AMERICAN FLOUR IN JAPAN,
ITS INCREASING POPULARITY,
The demand for American flour in Japan has shown a remarkable increase of late years, says the Kobe Chronicle. According to the latest statistics published, the value of the flouri imported now amounts to some Y3,000,000 annually, and there are indications of a still further increase. When flour, was first intrp- duced into this country' it was used only by The Yoredau states that the chief officials of confectioners, but it is now coming into general the Nippon Yusen Kaisha held a council on
use as an article of diet. About ten years ago Friday morning and decided to offer the ser-
the value of flour imported was more than Y200,000 per annum, and the demand began vices of its whole fleet,'consisting of 76 vessels
to show gradual increase at the cocclusion of to be used as transports at a fare between 3 the Japan China war, It is generally known. and Yst person. In the afternoon, Mr. Kondo, that during the war flour was largely imported president of the company, notified the Minister by speculators to such an extent, indeed, that of Communications that effect. The same it became a glut on the market. The demand journal reparts that ilfe Japanese Government declined when pace was declared, and those who had been endeavouring to make a corner has decided to expeed 5 million yen for the time being for extending Japanese influence in had to dispose of their stock at very low rates, Corea. With that sum, we are told, the the result being that the market was largely Consumption.... 14,546,000
tramway in Seoul under American man- Government intendia) to purchase the electric extended, and the Japanese began to appreciate the value of Aqur as a foodstuff. Since that Estimated po-) pulation.....
59,500
agement, (2) to esta lish'a central Corean bank, time the demand for flour has" continued to (3) to secure for Janese the right of manag- increase, and in, the short space of ten years Consumption)
ing Corean costor, and to have a Japanese the import of flour has expanded tenfold. It is per head per}. Boy
gallons subject: appointed nancial adviser is the pointed out that s the present time the price Corean Government and (4) to monopolize the of flour rales rather below that of rice, and in The Government Analyst reports that the privilege of buildinilways in the peninsula.
case of hostilities breaking out between Japan water is of excellent quality,
Count Katsura and Bon Sone are said to be and Russia, the stocks of flour at Kobe and the chief workers the scheme, with Mr. Yokohama would soon be exhausted, while the Optiwa as their aged or negotiating with the price would rapidly advance and the four Corean Government), tak
Imarket would undoubtedly Benefit
1902.
1903.
14,568,000 gallons
65,400
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made to the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,
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The firing capacity of the Liberdad is, ac- cording to an article which appeared in En- gineering at the time she was launched, only exceeded by the latest vessels in the United States Fleet. The weight of shot which the American Nets Jersey class is able to discharge per 1,000 tons of displacement is 440lb, where. as the weight fired in one round by this Chilian ship is 4271b. per 1,000 tons from all guns and 407 b. from primary weapons. The new battle- ships of the British Navy of the King Edward VII. class fire at the rate of 326lb. per unit
of displacement, in the Duncan class the gun power is equal to 3281b, per 1,000 tons diplace- ment, in the latest French ships the proportion is 306lb., and in the case of the Russian and German ships 290lb, each. The length of the Liberdad is 426lt, the breadth gift, and the depth 41ft. The draft is 24ft. 6in., and at this the displacement will be about 11,803 tons. The hull is protected by an armoured belt, an armoured citadel, and a protective deck. The belt is 8ft. deep, 3ft. 6in, above and 4ft 6in. below the load water line and practically extends to the ends of the ship. In wake of the engines and boilers the beft is zin in dick- ness, tapering towards the ends to gin. The thickness of the citadel armour is 7in. The armour of the barbeltes for the icin. guns in roin. in front and Sin, in the rear, except where
protected by the citadel armour, where it is proportionately reduced. She carries four 10in. breechloading guns mounted in pairs in bar. bettes. Ten 2.5in. quick-firing guns are. mounted within the citadel amidships on the main deck, and four in casements on the upper deck. The auxiliary armament consists of fourteen 14-pounder quick-firing gens, two 12. pounder field guns, four 6-pounder quick-firing guns, four Maxims, and four 37mm. semi-
utomatic guns mounted in military tops.. There are two submerged torpedo tubes on the broadside forward. Her speed is 19 knots, and, like the other vessal, she carries 'coal enough to enable her to keep the sea at 10 knots for 11,000 sea miles,
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUR. American (China) to-morrow, Canadian (Athenian) roth inst. Indian (Latsang)'14th inst
French ( Ernest Simons) 12th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 18th inst. American (Doric) 19th inst. 6 WEEK The T. K. K. 3.5. Rohilla Maru left Manila yesterday, and is expected here to-m;rrow' af ernoon,
The Glen Line 6.3. Glengyle from, London left Singapore this morning, and may be
y be ex-> pected here on 14th inst.
The N., Y. K. 3.5. Kamakura Maru (Eur- inst, and is expected to arrive here on 13th inst. opean Line) left Singapore for this port on th
The PA9. Indrapura left! Portland, Oregon, on 2nd lost, via Japan Forts, and may be expected to arrive at Hoogkong on 3nd pror,
The G. P. R. Co.'s 5.5. Athenian arrived at, Nagasaki at 436 p.m., on 7th inst, and left again at 1 pm, Friday, for Shanghai where she is due to arrive at 5 nim. on foth inst,
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