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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 36, 1904.

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READERS Aro reminded of the 'smoker' to be t held at the Engineer's Institute at 9 p.m. to-day.

COMMENTING on the injury to the Russian fleet, the Chicago New: sarcastic ly says Ordinary busines commuunicatings should bɔ addremel "At this rate the Tsar's prayer for disarmament

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At the Peak Church, on Saturday, 30th April, 1904, by Rev. F. 1. Juhuson, HARY MONTAGUE WERE TO JESSIE VORNÅERGER.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, ARIL, 32, 1933.

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The valorous conduct of the Japanese offi- cers and troups, passengers on the Kinsha miru, will undoubtedly appeal to all adanters There is a of courage and self-abnegation. stirring patios in this tale of a transport, manned by a handful of the Mikado's sol- diers defying to the death a squadron of powerful Russian warships. Simple as are the terms of the official despatch dat inform us of the episode, and can never theless conjour up the scene its dramatic vigour

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they imagined to be safely sheltered in the harbour of Vladivostok, or being shadowed by Admna) Kam.mura's signadron, ran well be imagined. Then the summons to suiren det, the consultation, the carefully consider. ed decision, the refusal to accept life with out a soldier's hunour. are fearsome, hat a suttender without strik-

Deleat and death

ing a blow a disgrace unspeakable. Belore the reply is delivered the non-combattants are sent away in the boats. All is done with a method, without hairy, and these brave men prepare to the icing their venten. i ne troops are formed up on the deck of the doomed vessel, the commander at the

DEATH OF THE KING OF CAMBODIA

Tonkin papers announce the decease of H. M. Norodom, King of Cambodia. His Majesty, who was born in. 1834 and crowned in 1860, died in his palace at Phnompenh, the capital, on the 24th inst., The heir apparent is Prince Yukanthor, who is 12 years of age. It is doubt INLAND Lot No. 1,7.6. at Wong-nei-clieung fut, however, if the prince will succeed his And Kowloon Inland Lot No. 55 at Matan-father, for, owing to an entspoken attack in the wei, are to be sold by public auction. The Figuro, on the reach Col¬nist Government, during his wait to the Paris Exhibition in 1900, upset prices are $10 and $174, respectively.

he was obliged to cross the frontier and take refuge in Belgium Ho is now an exile and lives in reduced circumstances at Singapore. It is rumoured that this prince possesses many partisans in Cambodia, and the nomination of ¡another sressor to the vacant throne by the French Authorities may possibly lead to future complications.

·H. E, THE Officer Administering the Govern ment has appointed Mr. E. A. Hewett a mem ber of the Medical Board in place of Mrs C. S. Sharp, with effect from the 1st May,

FOUR den es of plague fieu e na the relvins for the past twenty-four hours. One from Kowloon City, another from Ta koktsui, a thi di from Shaukiwan, and the her from Nullab Lane.

A CORRESPONDENT wishful to revive a mort. band topic of complaint remarks, inter alta, that while Shanghai is not troubled with easth- quakes, it suffers from serious ground rents,- M. C. D. News.

THIS morning a Chinaman 'was discovered smoking a cigarette in Mr. Gompertz' court with the result that he was ordered to stand nut in the middle of the rom and ho'd the weed aloft during the remader of the sitting.

THE Barmun, the Times war correspondents' despatch fat, recently arrived at Nagasaki from Wei-hai-wei, with Dr. Morrison, the Peking conospodent of the Times, Captai James and Major H. R. Beddoes on board. DURING the month of February 33: deaths were registered in the Colony, the rate per 1,000 per annum to the British and foreign community, civil population, being 14.9, ot, in the whole community, excl ding Any and | Navy, 124

THE Portuguese Minister to Japan, H.E. S, ahor de Freitas, was received in audience by the Japanese Emperor on the 11th inst, and

presented His Majesty with the highest

decoration of Portugal, on behalf of the King

Pontugal.

THE naval supply boat Zafire will have need. cu repairs made on this station and will be kept on present duty notwithstanding the report of the recent board of survey that she be sent to

the States and put out of commission pending

repairs.-Cablenews.

It is reported that negociations are progress ing with a view to the publication of another evening paper in the Colony. The machinery is said to have already arrived, while rumour has it that steps have been taken regarding the editorship of the venture

IRE following is the programme of music to be performed by the band of the 10th Mahratta L. Infantry on the new parade

MASONIC.

The annual meeting of the District Grad Royal Arch Chapter of Hongkong and south China, took place at the Masonic Hall, Zet. Land Street, last night. M. E. Comp. L. Mal lory presided, and the following officers were appointed:-

Second Principal, M. E. Comp. L. Mallory. Third Puncipal, M. E. Comp. T. F. Hough. Se the E, . E. Comp. A. O'D. Courdiu. Seribu "N," M. E. Comp. J. G. Gectr. 1.0.6.P, M. E. Comp D. Macdonald. Treasurer, M. E. Comp. W. L. Ford Registrar, M. E. Comp. G. J. D. Sayer. Grand cojourner, G. P. Lammert. First Assitant Sojourner, G. G. Burnett, Second Assistant Sojourner, E. J. Laprintz. Sword Bearer, M. E. Comp. E. A. Stanton, Sundard Bearers, M. E. Comp. H. Bathurst, Comp. E. H, Ray, Comp. If. Sykes, and Comp A. H. Skelton."

D of C, Comp. J. W. L. Oliver.

Deputy D. of C., Comp. W. H. Woolley, Assistant 1). of C., Comp. J. W. C. Do, nar. Organisi, Comp. C. W. Languet. Janitor, C.mp. J. Vanstone.

THE BURIAL OF A QUEEN,

ROYAL FUNIKAL PAGEANT IN SEOUL,

ben, eis. These are fortunately drested in the old-time Korean, garb, with long skiri, flowing sleeves and horse-hair plunied hats The lan terns are simply oval iron frames two feet long by a foot wide, over which blue and glik gauze is draped. The candle is atta to the point where the iron ribs join and the whole is carried by a long wooden handle from the end of which the lantern hangs like, the lash of a whip. The whole ensemble is remark ably picturesque to those who have not seen. it too many times..

Then comes some forty or fifty banners in- scribed, in Chinese characters, with eulogistic biographical notes on the dead queen. Some- imes, in the case of an exceptionally renowned man, the number of these fluttering banners runs up into the hundreds. We now jump from the sublime to the ridiculous, for these stately baners are followed by four men of low birth who are hidden under the ugliest masks

ELEGRAMS.

HONGLONG TELEGRAPH

BERVICE

JAPANESE TRANSPORT

SUNK

TORPEDOED BY RUSSIAN WARSHIPS.

ING, LOSS. OF LIFE,

(From Our Own Gorrespondent.)

YOKOHAMA, April 30th, it am.

The Japanese trans, ort. Kinshu-

that human ingenuity could invent. The wild-marn, was torpedoed off Gensan by est fancy can imagine nothing more grotesque the Russian warships of the Vludi

and hideous. We have here a manifestation

of one phase of the real underlying religion of the Korean, stripped of all its Confucian and Buddhistic embellishm.nt. These repulsive figures are intended to scare away all malignant spirits, who at such times make special endra- vours to play their malicious pranks upon help- less humanity.

But even more interesting and striking are the six great paper horses that are trundle on carts behind these devil-scarers. The beasis

The

are cast in heroic mould and arc of various colours, gray, white and spotted red. cails are drawn by means of ropes, and a dozen or more of the Seoul shop-keepers supply the tractive power. In some countries, among savage tribes, a horse is killed at the grave and its spirit follows the dead min to the land of shades, where he rides it as of yore; but in Korca they carry these paper horses instead. It is cheaper and satisfies the requirements as well. Besides, it is more spectacular and that is a paramount consideration,

All these things are the preliminaries to.tbe grand overture. But now comes the real thing. It is 1.d off by the Grand Marshut, an official

of the highest grade, who is master of cere monies. He is dressed in a well-fitting foreign

uniform and is mounted on a fine horse. His appearance is tame compared with the flaunt- ing splendour of an official of the grade, in the olden times, but with his large retinue of sol diers flanked with lantern-bearers he is sath. ciently imposing. The curious mixture of modern and mediaeval in this procession adds an element of humour which was lacking in

the old-time pageant.

The Marshal is followed by the great chair of state in which the queen was wont to be car-

The funeral of the late Queen Dowager of Korea took at seoul on the 14th ultimo. She was married to the late King on-jong in 1844 when thuteen years of age and was let a widow six years later. Ruyal funerals in Korea always take place early in the morning, some- times before light, and it was sul dark when the main part of the procession took their places ed in her life-time. It is draped in gaudy along the wide street which runs through the coloured trappings and is carried high on the Behind it comes centre of the city, to wait for the conclusion of shoulders of thirty-two men.

what is ca led the "Small Catafalque" or 50-yu the ceremonies within the palace. The Korea

the casket is not in it, but in the Great Cata Review devotes considerable space to a desfalque which follows. It is a curious custom, cription of the pageam. From the Seoul magazine's interesting account we extract the following:-

The Queen Dowager's tomb is on a beautiful hillside about ten miles outside the East Gate, hear the spot where, as a young widow, she saw her husband buried. The road thither had been specially prepared for the occasion and it

that of always carry.ng two of each royal vehicle. Whenever the Emperor goes out, an empty litter is carried in front and the Emperor follows in another. To the foreigner it looks as if there might be fear of a possible break- down, but the Korean would be horrified at such a suggestion...

The Great Catafalque is formed of a heavy frame-work carried on the shoulders of 18 bearers. Thick transverse poles support the

head ul his company, his officers at their ground, on Monday next, the 2nd May, i on offered a wide and sinooth avenue for the un-frame-work and stout padded ropes are run

appointed stations, sergeants with their sections, corporals with their squads.

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the words of command, and a first volley

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from the rifles of the mett carries the proud reply to the Muscovite sammous. absurd the struggle, yet how herose. The rifles of a hundred men on an unprotected tramp steamer against the great guns of three craisers, the torpedoes of as many destroyers!

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THE Nagasaki Press reports that work on the construction of a dry dock, which was taken hand by the Matsuo Engine Works at Koyak: Island, outside of Nagasaki barbour, in De cember, 1901, has been progressing satisfac trily. If the work be carried on at its presen: rate the duck will be completed in August next. The owner of the engine works will then

pressive coriège that was soon to wind its slow

cess.on was about two miles in length, for it

vostock squadron.

Forty-five soldiers, three merchants and six coolics escaped.

Seventy-nine officers and men per- ished, while others were captured.

(Delayed in Transmission.) OPERATIONS ON THE YALU,

BRIDGE THROWN OVER

THE RIVER.

JAPANESE OCCUPY CHIULIEN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

YOKOHAMA, 29th April, 11.5 a.m.

The Japanese troops have succeed. ed in establishing a temporary bridge over the Yalu River.

On Monday last, u sevore cavalry engagement took place on the right bank. The Russians were drivon back, and the Japanese occupied the town of Chiulien.

On Wednesday, the Russians suc ceeded in partially destroying, by artillery fire, the bridge that had been built.

FIGHTING NEAR YONG.

·AMPIO

SANGUINARY ENGAGEMENTS

REPORTED.

Admiral Hosoya reports that seve-

fore and aft between these poles to that the ral sanguinary engagements have way to the Queen's last resting place. The pro-shoulders of the bearers shall not be salled recently taken place on the banks of On the high frame-work is a structure like a little house ten feet long, six feet high and five feet broad. The roof and sides of this liute the Yalu, near Yongampho. The pavilion are painted and draped in the must losses on both sides were considerable. highly coloured paints and silks..

stretched from the Big Bell, which has talled the curfew for every king of the dynasty, to the Great East Gaie. Down the centre of the broad strect there was laid the usual line of red

carth which intimates that royally cannot tread

the common way but must have a new road to traverse. Un either side of the road, all the way to the tomb, huge brush torches were placed at intervals of eighty or a hundred feet. These were a foot in diameter and about eight feet high. When the fueral starts on time and the procession goes out before the light has

is open at the front and rear, and the casket containing the remains of the queen is drawn in by a large number of men by means of ropes. When it had been carefully deposit. ed the silken curtains which had been tolled up were let down and a crowd of palace women came to mourn for the last time beside the body of the queen whom they had served so many years. They stood behind the weir and wept volubly, being the body and wiping their faces with their skills: When this to proceed. Two men took their stand on the platform, one in front of the casket and one be hind it. These were to guide the bearers. The one in front held a hand bell which he reng as a signal.

Yet it was not merely this, for it represented undertake the constraction of a second dry coine, these huge flaming torches add just the lamentation was over the catafalque was ready

the loud shout oi deliance from a free and fearless people to their mighty antagonist. The Russian shell sweeps the deck, mang- lng and maiming in its blind hate, yet while a man remains and finger can press trigger the riffes crack. The agony is a short one- half an hour-yet how many individual instances of unselfish courage must have occurred in the short space of time on the bloody, shell-swept decks of the Kinsan- A torpedo strikes the vessel amid ships and with a mighty upheaval, rends her in twain. Living and dead, heroes every one, go down into the depths; the grandest tomb a brave man cant desire, the sea. "Duice et decorum est pra patriâ mori."

MATH.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

dock fur coasting steamers.

REFERRING to the question of the Kaping mine property, a certain Minister expressed the view that the company, should be an Anglo-Chinese one, the rights and privileges to be shared together alike. But owing to the strong opposition from Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, this view has never been adopted, and will probably not be adopted. Recently Chang Yen Mou came down from Peking to Tientsin where he had a conference in the matter with Mr. Dering, and, subsequently, he sent a telegram to London, the result of which is still unknown. Ea,

LU. WEISENHRAUN, who, it will be remen- bered, left Boston on August rich last in a small buat aineen feet long and six wide and ngged with sails, safely arrived at Marseilles last month. The seamin experienced bad weather during the trip, and twice his frail craft, which he had named the Columbia 11, nearly capsized. He countered but two vessels during the entire trip. Eisenbraun, who is thirty-five years old, proposes to go up the Rhone and the canals as far as Strasburg, 145 Tue German mail of the 30th March was de-reaching Hamburg by the Rhine, whence he

livered in London on the 28th inst.

will start for London. He then plans to return to New York in his little boat.

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

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PROMPT RETURN Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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An additional storey is to be built to the Central Police Station.

EUT. E. G. Barrett, of the Hongkong Voles- teer Corps, has beto granted leave of absence (or twelve months from the 28th inst.

We understand that the results of the competi- tions by the Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon have not yet been drawn up in detail.

THE Universal Gazette is advised by a Peking telegram that there is no truth in the report that France had stationed a garrison in Lung chow, Kwangsi.

STOCKS were very much in evidence in the sentences passe I at the Police Court this morn

necessary touch of wierdness to the impressive

picture.

First in the procession come the great cm- broidered banners of the guilds, which make one think of the guilds of medieval Europe. They, represent the industries in silk, linen, shoes, paper, tobacco, silver, furniture, frus, rice, fish, furs, bronze, wedding outfits, cord, figured silk, and the river towns of Ulang gang. Surgang, No-dol, Kung-duk-yı, Sam-go, Yong- san, Su-bing-go, Tuk-sum and Wang-sim-yi Each of these great banners, hanging from cross-piece, bears the name of the guild that furnished it, and the guilds vie with each other in making the banners as conspicuous as pos- sible,

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After a good deal of running about and confusion the sc8 bearers took their places with the heavy padded cords, over their shoulders and with a rhythmic sort of chani lifted the carafatque from the wooden horses on which it rested and slowly forged ahead. Four long rupes led forward from the catafalque and two others led back. These were held by come seventy men each. Those in front were.

supposed to help it forward and those bett to case it down a hill. As the catafal passed down the street it had on either side sort of screen or curtain of black cloth behind. which some women walked or rode. This wa

MERCHANT STEAMER OVERDUE.

SUNK OR CAPTURED.

A Japanese merchant steamer, the Oyinoura-maru, from Gensan, is considerably overdue.

She is supposed to have been sunk or captured by the Russian cruisers. The steamer service to Gensan has, novertheless, been renewed.

TROUBLE IN SOUTHERN KOREA

INSURGENT BANDS ACTIVE.

Trouble, is feared in the three perhaps the most curious part of the whole southern provinces of Korea, where procession from an historical point of view. It is well known that in ancient Korea two or it is reported that insurgent lands more people were buried alive with the body

are being raised. of a king. We find it expressly stated in the hisio y of one of the kings about twelve hundred years ago that he gave specific directions to omi; this ceremony in con with his funeral. During a pa of the dynasty which existed in tween 918 and 1391 A. 1). it was bury kings in vaults which had seven part- others three or four persona voluntarily took ments. In one the body was placed and the their place, provided with a small amount of food Then the whole structure was covered deep with earth and the buried persons died of starvation or lack o ́air.

Behind the banners come gaily ornamented kiters borne high on the shoulders of four men, and in the latters are placed the toilet articles and other utens is of the dead queen; such as mirrors, cosmetic dishes, writing utensils, jade ornaments and other jewelry. All these are to be deposited in her grave This represents an ancient idea that the spirit of the dead will use the utensils in the other world. Third in the procession come some more four-man litters in which are carried all the diplomas and other written honours that the dead queen received during her life-time. After these come a crowd of small official in chairs or on horse

On the platform in front of the casket stood back. They are the people who have charge a man in full mourning dress, and behind the of the mere manual part of the funeral arrange casket, facing backward, stood another. The meats. They are al: dressed in-desp.mourning one in frost hald a bell ia h's hand with which

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUR American (Coptic) and prox, .. French (Ernest Simens) and prox. Indian (Namsang) 4th prox...... Can dian (Empress of Japan) 6th prox. Indian (Sutsang) roth prox. American (Korea) 13th prox": German (Oldenburg) 13th prox.

The s. Richmond Castle from New York

ing. Li Tung, a young Chinaman, is one of which consists of linen roughly woven and of he enforced his commands to the beaters. Be arrived at Manila yesterday, next port of call

those who has been seated in the stocks, and has gone to six months' hard labour. Li desired a new suit of cloibes, and thought No. 303 Des Voeux Road was a good place to procure them, but as he wanted them on the cheap, and did not wish to disturb the residents, he waited until two olclock this morning to make this addition to his wardrobe. Carefully cutting CAPT. E. Richards, of the s.s. Wuhu, which out a pane of glass he unbolted a window, and has arrived here from Wuhu and Chinking, made his entrance. There he dropped his rags reports having seen a Chinese craiser badly and in exchange for them, donned a nice new ashore on Elliott Island, Bonham Pass. He suit and, dressed in these he quietly walked noticed that her stern was submerged. Two out, and sat down on the verandab of a house Chinese cruisers were in attendance. The near by where he fell asleep, and was found at recked cruiser is probably the Haifles, whose 6 am. by the owner of the clothes, who prompt

ly caused bis arrest. Hing illa lacryma, loss was reported on Tuesday,

The M.M; Cors,5 Frvest Simons, with the

side him was a great brush pen such as the Koreans use in writing, but enlarged a hundredi Hongkong. fold. It warn bamboo pole-no-the end of

The CP. R. Co's Le. Empress of India which was a huge brush and when the driver left Yokohama p.m. on 29th isst, for Victoria saw any man shirking his work he would dig. shoulder of the miscreant with it. This would this brush in a bowl of paint and touch the and Vancouver, make it possible to single him out for punish ment later. This min standing in front of the casket is the chief of the carpenters who have bai the work of making the casket and other is the Chief of the painists who-have decorated paraphernalia of the funeral. The man behind. the bier and the casket.

the natural colour, a very light brown.

A body of Koreas troops, about 200 in Hum ber, comes next. They carry muskets with fixed bayonets, but not reversed. These soldiers are dressed in what is intended as foreign uniform, but it is a rather queer imitation. All the suits seem to be made on a single pattern, whether the wearer be five foot two or six fout one Perhaps it helps to give a semblance of uniformity, but it is sometimes accomplisted only with an inordinate exhibition of neck and

Immediately-belind the catsfalque comes a shank. In the old days say 1889, ibase soldiers,

the Emperor, when he attends in person. in their long flowing skirts, with red sleeves, crowd of soldiers in the midst of whom rides looked far more imposing than they do ja bynd behind all, come a mass of police and painful stiem,t at foreign uniform. On each side various kinds of menengürs, servants of this body of troops walks a line Tanterns hangers-92€

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