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THE HOME BUUGHT,

According to The Timer, the prospects of the British taxpayer are anything but rosy On the 12th inst., Reuter informed us that that journal computed this year's deficit at two millions, and next year's expenditure at £142,376,067. Turning to our works of reference we find that the customs were esti. mated to produce £200,000 more than last financial year, but the return from this source during the nine months just ended is 400,000 less than in the corresponding nine months of last year. Thus, to come up

The rates per quarter wood per mensen, prgottmaal, to the estimated yield, there must be a The daily is deliteve Fry when the address is accesible to nurssringe" tin copias sent by post at mdditional $4.50 per quarter is elarged for postage) The purge on the weekly suite lo muy part of the

world as 30 cents per pavetre

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In consequence of the war between Russia and Japan, the Federal Council has postpoord indefinitely the International Conference summoned to meet at Geneva on May 10th to revise the Geneva Convention, with the view of improving the treatment of wounded man.

CONSIDERABLE surpris: was expressed in World's Fair circles, when information that Russia would not exhibit there was conveyed to press. Work on Russia's buildig had pro- the Exposition headquarters by the Associated gressed steadily until a few days previous, when it was stopped for lack of materials,

THE Peking Government has been recommend.

return of 600,000 more in the presented and decide to organize a new board known quarter than in last. and this last in spite of as Wen Shao Pu or Board of Education. Son the removal of the Com Duty. Glancing Chia Han is nominted the comptroller general at the Excise returns we find they are of the new board of ministry, Chang Fei Hsi

worse; for they

and Yong Chang the presidents; and Yu Ser to exceed the previous year by 600.000, Mac and Chang Han Fu, vice-presidents. and in the nine months recently concluded they have shown a falling off of £800,000.A BLUEJACKET," writing under yesterday's In order to justify the estimate, the present slate, contradicts the statements contained in a quarter will have to hand over to the Trea. recent paragraph on the subject of “Pictures of sury 100,000 in excess of the amountducing the first pictures of the Warin the Colony the War," and denies that the credit of repro raised during the corresponding period of hela gs to Mr. C. W. Clarke. last year. Other items of expenditure are of that pictures of the disabled Fury & rcturning a similar unsatisfactory character, and there to harbour at Chemulpo, were in the hands appears to be every probability that the of the Hongkong Studio on the 25th uft. British tax-payer will be brought face to face with increased taxation in the coming finan cial year. Its interesting, however, to note The special war telegrams published in that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has the columns of our Manila contemporaries, | intimated that the Guvernment has inten-

The Hongkong (elegraph

HONGKONG. Tutespay, MARCH 17, 1974

UPTO DATE JOURNALISM.

siture the opening of the present struggle, have haven a sunce of tinutigated joy to many, and these startling proofs of the elastie ofagination possessed by our Auencan confreres have evoked the candid congratu Eution of Ex British Far Eastern Press. Journalist in the Filipino capital have much vast becatombs of the legions and the Great White But. Whole regments have been slaughtered as land lights that have ret to be fought Tramloads et Cossacks have bern agulled in the lully depths of Lake Harkai, and the cruel lust of the Sibenan

tron of retoposing the tax on grain which was abolished last year.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

POLLARDS Liù putsats have recently been playing to crowded houses in Vretoria, BC

EMPEROR Willum has notified the Trar and the Mikado that the German hospitals at Kian- hou and Yokohama are available for the care of the Avounded during the war

lle assert:

By kind permission of Lt-Col. Iremonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma afonary will play the infining programme dinner, to-morrow, the 18th instant, (weather of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during

permitting).

Mar* The Blonde ad Polenta Hume Entrant Act, Lobengrin'.. ..WACHEL Help thith..

Merrie Fanghof Edward German "The Everlasting Par

Hevao

Selam Vaitz Mazurk

"The Mikas

Authaamgralce Liebe

Muh Balkr God save the King.

..Sulhwan

Karoly Klay

THE Royal al gy of Lord Roberts contined the special Army Onder issued last month, in which the King ok leave of Lord Roberts as Commander-in-Chef of the Army, 'sam- mented upon as annther instance where the

i steppes has ripped in the bad de la CHINEN. Constatile 320 applied for a day's tact of His Majes y rescued the finisters from

threatsands of Muscovite warriors, who str veiled up and blackened bike so many early abbages in the beds of a suburban market garden Mamla has told the world that Russes Eastern deet is no more: the erst what superb armada of Alexhelf is now a

leave which was granted, but as he failed to return he was arrested for desertion. At the police court this murning he was fined $75.

It is stated that the Duke of Connaught has refused the newly eated post of Inspector-

an awkward dilemma. The exp edingly curi manner in which the War Office dismissed Lord Kuberts deeply incensed the la e Commander.

Chief, and ths i eling was shared by the led to a serious attack on the Government public to such an extent that it threatened to

The King's first intention of his disapproval

shapeless mass of scrape non, and Post Auto General, on the round that pubis policy of the War Office treatment was to inve ord

and Vaustok, with then girdles of massive bors hat become but terking, smoking heaps of scattered rums. There was a simple and eloquent grandeur in these descriptions of is the abemutom destlations, that excused

A CHEE & CO., 祥 Fill 廣

17, QUEEN'S ROAD.

demands that it should be given to Lieutenant- General Grenfell.

IN con quente of the reduction of the breach import duties on sugar, which came into force on September 1st lat year, the amount con.

Robers to Buckingham Palace, where marked attention was shown to the Fieki. Va shal. This has now been followed by the Army Order, which was eat out by the King person. ally, not, as usually, through the War Office.

the sight pots at detail which slipped into sumed in France in the three months folloWIDE | JAPAN within the past generation has been a

the palpitating picturesqueness of these reports, and left less naginative pressmen green with remorseful galousy. But ambi To by that sm fell the angels has wer leapt itself once mise: tur, dissatisfied with cupent events and the harrowing, gory details of our maith all torn with stride.' Manca Fions must needs took into

the crystal, and, for the nancy, bedecked with le pointed fat, quilted petticoat and crutch- handled stak af Mother Shipton, our enter laning nufærrereads out the future to trembl ang humanty. Here, says our contempor

FURNITURE Jay, is the horoscope for 1994, toade at the

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HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

moment the sunentered the sign of Capricorn it mai ates a year of great immorality in London. The viceroy of India abdicates The Unded States have grave quarrels with Kussia and Germany Roosevelt falls sick and a conspiracy is hatched agamst hum. Serious financial disaster in America. The

Emperor of Japan has a grave zecident. An attempt on the Fe of the Emperor of € hin. Volcanic sborks in Constantinople. Chile and the Philippines. A tear of unhealthy literature and unlimited materialism. The French Cabinet talis between April 7th and 19th. A panc in a music hall, grave acci dents and popular disturbances in Russia. An attempt to parson the Tzar. Serious dissensions between Russia and Austria. England loses prestige. The campaign in Thibet tails through.

Tremendous failures

showed an 18, rease of 77,000 tons

1s we are going to press the annual meeing of the China Associaron is being held at the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall. A

in the Telegraph to-morrow evening. full repart of the proceedings will be printed

THE Viceroy of Min-Che provinces applied to the War Wu u the other day for money to meel saine urgent requirements of the Foochow Dock. The Viceroy is empowered to draw TIs. 300,000 Irom the China Merchants' Steamn Navigation company.

phenomenal example of national development. established a constitutional system modelled on Emerging from centuries of feudalism, she has

our own, has taken full advantage of all the modern inventions and scientific discovenes of the West, and has entered the race for a posi. tion as one of the great commercial nations of the worki Her population is 46,000,00 Intle greater than that of the United Kingdom -and is growing rapidly. Japan's exports grew from (5.668,705 in 1890, to £21,492,989 | in 1899, a rise in nine years from 18. rod. to 95. zu. per head. Between the same years the bank deposits grew nearly ten fold, from 79 millions to 750 millions; the DURING the year 1903 the Mitsui Russan Kai-railway traffic receipts from three-quarters of a sha shipped 2,338,540 tons of coal from the

million to four milions, and the post office Moji, Karaisu, Nagasaki and Kuchinotsu. The revenue from a third of a million to a million tutal amount skipped by the various Japanese firms dering the twelve months was 5,895,392 tons, as against 5,271,144 tons in 1892, and 44723,944 tons in 1901,

Hongkong Football Club will play H.M.S. UN Friday afternoon on the Happy Valley the

Ocean under Rugby rules, Kick-off at 4.30. The following will play for the Club-H. Arthur fall back: A. Goodmann, J. P. Jordau, Lieut. Cameron and Lieut. Black three-quarters; A. G. M. Fletcher and F. G. Cavanagh halves; H. C. Sandford (Capt.) E. R. Hallifax, A. Boyd, Lieut. Strover, Lieut. Duncan, K A. Sclanders, S. O. Else and H. P. Chard for wards.

MR. Win. Redmond caused a scene in the House of Commons on toth n during the u Calcutta and the Transvaal. Anarchists

discussion of the subject of Chinese labour in the Transvaal, H. J. C. Custs (Conservative), troubles in Spain, the government threatened.

made a reference to the effect that Irish labour PHOTOGRAPHIC to China women massacre. Everywhere was responsible for corruption in New York.

DEPARTMENT.

Crings of passion, mysterious deaths and whereupon Mr. Redmond exclaimed, excitedly, strange phemanena. Nineteen hundred

"You have no right to insult America; I will and tour is an anagram of 1409, the date of

not allow it." The Speaker called Mr. Redmond the birth of Joan of Are

to urder. Mr. Redmond continued, repeating This year 3 wonderful child will be born with a nigh least, they don't appoint a character of the his exclamation, and added: "In America, at destry, showing its power in 1924, anagram | exchequer who is unfit for his po.t." The of 14:26, the date of the apogee of Joan of Arc The people of the earth are warned by this e Daniel; may they be grateful and art

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN, Hongkong, 8th January, 1904

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CARMICHAEL AND

CLARKE,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SPIPBUILDERS,

St RVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

KEPAIDS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

Speaker gam intervened, and Mr. Redinond finally subsided with the reatark: "America seems to get on all right."

and a quarter.

THE “ALHAMBRA"

GD. LD.

ANNUAL REPORT.

BANKRUPICY PROCEEDINGS.

The Chief Justice, Sir W. M. Goodman, sitting in bankruptcy jurisdiction, at the Supreme Court this morning, heard the follow-

The following is the general agents' reporting applications- to the consulting committee on the period 1st July, 1993, to 31st December, 19033-

per 31st Decembër, 1993.

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Manila, 5th February, 1904. To the Consulting Committee...t Articles of Association, we have the honour to Gentlemen-In conformity with rule 53 of hand you herewith-

Inventory Balance sheet Profit and loss a/c of $6,942.86 (including the 5570.77 loss carried The last mentioned document shows a luss

over from last half yearly balance per joth June, 1903) which we recommend to apply as follows: $7,000.00 to be writies of the reserve fund. and 557.14 to be carried forward to the credit of profit and lois account.

1+

We request you to have the accounts examin- after which they will be ready for the inspec- ed and audited, in accordance with article 54 tion of the shareholders in anticipation of the general meeting.

The sale of cigare has not given a satisfactory resu't, the account showing a loss of $4 771.05, whilst a profit of $7,503.73 has been obtained on cigarettes, their demand having considera bly grown, principally of those of cheaper de scription, on account of the diminished buying capacity of the people in the provinces.

In order to decrease the factory's own tobacco stock, we have used as large a portion as prac- iicable for the cigarette department, although values of the tobacco stock has already pre- the leaf is rather destined for cigars. If the

viously been brought down to a similar level as it was resolved upon in the recent extraordinary general meeting, the cigar department would have probably shown a profit instead of a loss, and the profit on cigarettes been considerably larger.we are, &c.,

Capital

BARK SENIOR & Co's Successors, General Agents,

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Mr. J. Hastings appeared, on behalf of the Too Tak Sing firm, of 18 Bonbam Strand West, in support of a petition for a receiving order against the Chi Loong firm, carrying on busi committed was that the partners of the debtor neas at 5, Hill Road. The act of bankruptcy Aria went away from the Colony, shortly before The China New Year, leaving the business alto- gether unprotected. It was stated in evidence that the assets comprised about $5,000 worth of and appointed Mr. Bruce Shepherd Official ginger-His Lordship made a receiving order,

Receiver

Mr. Hastings also appeared in support of a petition of the Joo Tak Sing and two other firms for a receiving order to be made against the Colony, shortly before the Chinese New the Ching Hang firm, the partners of which left

The assets were given as 52,0co-Receiving Year with a view to defeating their creditors."

order made.

Lat: Yok Lam firm was supported by Mr. J. Ilays A petition for a receiving order against the (Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Maslar) who appeared on behalf of the Cheung Iu Kwong firm, of 51 and 53 Wellington Street, the peti- tioning creditors. The assets were given as to be realised, while the liabilities amounted, $53,000, of which about. $14,000 was expected roughly, to $80,000-His Lordship granted the application for a receiving order.

THE PREVENTION OF LEPROSY.

In the course of his letter to The Timer, Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson says: "The evidence, which connects leprosy with bad fish is of an inferential or circumstantial kind, but it may be suggested that as such it is qu te as streng as that which convicted the Tichborne claimant BALANCE SHEET PER 31ST DECEMBER, 1903. of perjury, and ucally as strong as that which

Liabilities.

very properly seat the Moat Farm murderer to $150,000.00 the gallows. It is more complicated, and 50,000.00 needs for its estimation langer, and closer al 123,050.20 tention; but, if this be given, it is scarcely less 77,685.80 conclusive. There is a bare possibility that 15,0.000 some one other than the inan Dougal fired the shot for which he was hung, and there is a $415 736,00

bare possibility that the eating of decomposed fish is not the ordinary cause of leprosy, but that is all that canbe said in either case.

Let me glance in the briefest possible terms

Reserve fund Loans against tobacco....... Banca Español-Filipino Sundry Creditors

Assets.

.$ 4,653.44 2.78895

Cash In hand......

At banker's

Stocks in hand:

Tobacco leaf............ 5194,511.63 Cigars, cigarettes and

cut tobacco........ Cigar boxes, labels,

paper, etc.

$ 7,442.39 at the facts.

10,885.93

29,160.42

334,553.03

Machinery Furniture and installation Various utensils......

Sundry debtors.... Premises in Calle Azcarraga

Profit and loss account

1. In almost all counities and mest ages fish food has come under popular suspicion.

2. Every statement which has been made in supposed confutation has been disproved."

3. No other explanation of the prevalence of the disease can be suggested which will bear for a moment the consideration of any one' acquainted with the facts.

30,638,71 1,853-57

4. We have dismissed as disproven the theory 1.575-05 of contagion, and the fish hypothesis now 18,232 01

+526.37 6,942.86

$415,736.00

E. & Q. E. Manila, 31st December, 1903. BAER SENIOR & Co.'s Successors, General Agents. Examined and found correct according to the company's books.

D. M. FLEMING,

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, PER 31ST DECEMBER, 1903. Losses,

Balance carried over from half yearly balance of 30th June, 1903......... Interest Machinery: zo% p. a. off

$21,469.98 6/m-10%.......

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial aud Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge Furniture and installation: 331 % with thinks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:--

H. N. Mody...

Profits.

570.77 6,398.59

2,147.00

stands alone.

5. From many regions where the disease formerly prevailed is has wholly disappeared, and this has always been coincident with improvement in agriculture and the compar. ative disuse of fish as food; assisted not infrequently by a change of religious creed.

6. At the present time it may be asserted that all the regions where the disease is either remarkably persistent or excessively prevalent are either fishing centres or come under the influence of Roman Catholicism.

7. The success of Roman Catholic missions appears to increase very remarkably the preva- lence of leprosy; although in all other respects they may have much conduced to the well- being of the community concerned.

8. In India those who profess vegetarianism *-*- are almost wholly free, those with whom it is a matter of indifference suffer in moderata degree, and those who observe fish-eating, fast days in very remarkable excess.

9. In India, whilst the general prevalence is only three or four per 1oco, it rises on the Island of Minicoy, which is devoted to fishing, to 150, and in Kaligoan, which is also a fish. $ 10,224.43 curing centre, to 500.

p. a off

E. E. & A. C. Telegraph Co. A. M. Essabhoy

5,0

35

$1,216.69 6fm-16§ %............ Various utensils: amount written of Sundry debtors..............................................

371.12 336.99 400,00

25

Sir W. Meigh Goodman

20

Talati & Co...

20

20

Dr. G. Bateson Wright

20

Madam Mussa

Balance

'S

10

10

IQ

I

Hon. We: Yok

Asgar & Esmail A. Becker J. F. Boulton A. H. Chinoy...

Cigars, cigarettes and cut tobacco..... 3,281.57

E. & O. E.

6,911.86

$ 13,274-43

Manila, 31st December, 1903. BAER SENIOR & Co.'s Success ro, General Agents,

Hon W. Chatham

J. Haver Driere

to

G. Fenwick & Co.... Kelly & Walsh

10

TO

the company's books.

5

A Debtson

PIKE IN JERVOIS STREET

HOUSE GUTTED.

Examined and found correct according to

D. M. FLEMING.

RESULTS OF THE NILE DAM.

The Assouan Dam, which was completed in December, 1992, at a cost of over $25,00,000, has already proved something in the nature of ing points regarding the first year's experience 1 boon to the people of Egypt. Some interest- of the dam were emphasized by Sir Benjamin Baker in a lecture delivered some time ago a a meeting in York. 8r Benjamin stated that the Assicut Bartage, working during the

ia. In several places. (Cape Colony, the Sandwich Islands, &c.), the outbreak of leprosy followed directly on the introduction of fish-curing-

It. In other places tradition credits the intro- duction of the disease to Catholic missionaries; and sometimes, as in the States of Columbia, asseris that a priest was the first victim.

iz. Father Damien's case was only one amongst many which have occurred in which. Catholic priests, living in leprosy districts and eating the fish of the country, have themselves become lepers."

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE.. German (Hamburg) 18th inst French (Sulasie) 2700 inst Indian (Suisang) 22nd inst. American (China) 25th inst Canadian (Athenian) 29th lost.

Singapore on zo h inst, and may be expected

The Glen Line 1.5. Glentiærret will feare · here on 16th inst.

Shortly before noon to-day a fire broke ot situated at No 37 Jervois Street. The Brigade, on the second story of a Chinese silk store under the direction of Mr. Hallifax, Acting while there is yet time. Those who can

Superintendent, and Inspector Baker, arrived afford the expense would do well to charterair

on the scene of the conflagration a few ininutes A St Petersburg correspondent, according to after the first alarm had been given. ships and fly to some more congenial planet ;

4 cablegram from London says: "I learn The fforts of the firemen were, at the nutset, summer of tçoz, caused a saving of £60,000 those who cannol run to

from official sunrces the news of a dramatic seriously hampered by a lack of pressure on this luxury should realise their little as have a good

sequel to the Russian disaster at Fort Arthur the mains, so that the flames had gained a

on an expenditure of a million. During the most critical periods for the crops-March till The Java China-japan Lijn sy. Zyipanas left time while it lasts.

On Feb. 9. After the attack by the Japanese, complete hold on the building before an One shudders when cerny Alexieff summoned before him the abundant supply of water could be obtained.

June of last year the available supply of Macassar for this port do 15th jost, and may thinking of the lot of the unfortunate meni Russian officers whose negligence was the Eventually, thanks to the untiring efforts of of the action of the dam. The irrigation of |

water for irrigation was just doubled as a result be expected here on 23rd inst bers of the fourth estate who, victims to intin cause of the defeat. After cross-examine the Hrigade, control of the fire was obtained, rice, prohibited in previous years, was allowed; arrived at Kobe at 7:30 aur, on 16th inst, and The C. P. R. Ca's 5,5. Empress of Japan their duty, will be forced to remain on our ing them concerning their conduct, Alexief and at one o'clock, all danger of the conflagra- several similar prohibitions were relaxed; and left again at noon, same day, for Yokohama, stricken sphere and chronicle events.

was convinced a lieutenant among them was tion spreading to the surrounding buildings the increase in value of land now converted to where she is due to arrive at 1 pm,, on 17th Probably they may be useful in stemming most culpably guilty. It is declared that was over. The construction, a two- toried perennial irrigation is calculated at over five inst by their writings the wave of vice that is to

Alexieff drew a revolver and shot the young house, was completely gutted. sweep over our Metropolis, and others will tenant had taken a party of officers ashore da athe outbreak, was a small one, and we are work, is to send a well-executed model of the Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohami,

officer dead before his comrades. The lieu that the stock on the premises, at the time of John Aird, whose firm carried out this great Sic, from San Francisco to the 2015. ut,

It is stated millions sterling. It is announced that Sir

The P. M. S. S. Co's s.s. China kith mais, stat most certainly profit by the opportunity to torpedo boat, whereas be should have beer på informed that neither the building nor the dam to the Louisiana Purchaic Exhibition at [47 interview "the wonderful child."

guard outside the harbour."

merchandise was insured,

St. Louie.*

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