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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1904

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The British despaith vessel Alacrite helt for Shanghat Bus mestring.

Ovar thirty bluejackets of the Acuolation and Spartan deserted, and after a stern chase at Holyhead, the police captured several of them,

The 17. 5. Mai steamer Sierra winch left Shanghai for San Francisco on 3rd anɔt, topk with her the portrait of the Empress Dowager for exhibition at the St. Lou's Exposition.

| SINCI. nons of yesterday four fatal cases of

relleve the second-class cruiser Talbot, $,600 tons and ri guns, which will return home.

THE death took place at the Government Civil | THE second-class cruiser Iphigenia, 3,600 tons Ị ÁT Glasgow the other day a young man was Hospital, today, of Adolph Ellengsen, chef and 8 guns from home, bound for the China sentenced to ten'days' imprisonment for steal- mate of the Norwegian sız. Ella. The funeralitation, will, arrive in a few days. She is to ing from his employer's office the diary of Dr will pass the Monument at 5 pm., to-morrow.

Pritchard, who was publicly executed in Glas- gow for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law. Inside the diary was the bosiness card of William Marwood, which bote the words,

shire. All orders promptly executed." The "Public Executioner, Horncastle, Lincoln-

diary contained many entries referring to Prit-

In the Lawn Tennis Tournament, Double Handicap, Third Round. Murphy and Boyd yesterd by heat Craig and Holyoak. In the Singles Handicap (A class} P. Strickland beat H. Pinckney, 6-3, 7-5.

A NEW organ has recently been built for the Episcopal Church on the Shamien, at Canton.

THE following telegram from Secretary to the Government of Burma to the Colonial Secre tary, Hongkolig, dated Rangoon, 11th inst.

has been received and forwarded to us:- "Hongkong declared infected, inform shipping firms "

chard's wife and mother-in-law.

Mr. A. G. Ward, the organist of St. John's Ca- As we stated already, the French Government Governor-General of Indo-China and one of)

thedral, has gone to Canton where he will give An organ recital as a formid opening of the instrument,

THE Postmaster-General at Singapo e ontifies the Press that he is in receipt of a telegram | framt be G.10), London, stating that the mail from London of the 29th plt., which would in the ordinary course have been despatched by French packet, has been sent via Bombay in sequence of the strike of mercantile marine Nicers at Marseilles.

is sending two submarine torpedo boats of the Nude type to husist in the defence of the port of Tonking, ad two others to the port of Saugus in French lado-China. The vessels are due in the southern Chinese waters in a day or two,

SOME. "Fashion" Don'ts:-Don't diess for golf until you can play it. The caddies have names for these things. Fon't ask your tailor for a large check, le night respond with a sim lar request. Small checks are fashionable on both sides. Don't go away with the wrong topic, THE Stanley Opera Company, who have been lest some une else goes away with the wrong impression. Don't, after you have pulled your

performing at Singapore during the past few weeks, are expected to open a season her shortly. The cunykiny's agent arrived on the 4.3. Susang yesterday, and has left for Shang- hai where they will first perform in conse quence of the Theatre Royal being engaged for a short season by the Dallas Company, who open here next Monday.

boots on, leave the tabs visible. You do not wear the shoe-horn or the buttonhook.

THE annual presentation of £20, or a gold watch of that value, made by the Governor of the Colony to the sergeant of pal ce who has poved himself must proficient upon examina- tun, takes place on Friday afternoon, when H. 2. the Officer Administering the Govern ment, Mr. F. H. May, will make the presenta- tion to Sergeant Sullivan, P. S. 34, the success- ful candidate this year. In 1902, Sergeant Watt received the award, and in 1901 Sergeant Kent was declared the winner. There will be fall dress parade of the Police Force on a tng and lighters to her assistance. She got { Friday afternoon, for which a rehearsal was off, however, with the assistance of the tug boat held yesterday, in the compound of the Central alone, it not being accessary in take off any of } Police Station. hes cargo.

The C. X. S., Ningpo, which left Shanghai for Hankow on Thursday morning with a cargo of timber, and ran aground beyond Woosung, got off on Foday morning and proceeded on her voyage. It was at first thought that she would have to be lightened of her cargo, and the Shang'an Tug and Lighter Company sent dawn

SINCE the opening of the Volunteer recruit- ing year on November 1, it is estimated that the sans of the forty metropolitan regiments have sustained a further loss of raro afficers

and men, making a total loss of about 9,000 since 2001. The number of London volunteers

in camp for the Easter holidays is less, there- fore, than on any similar occasion since the

THE part played by M. Doumer, the former

the promoters of the recent campaign against the Minister of Marine, is the subject of much comment. His attitude of vigorous assault, Inllowed as it eventually was by liis vole in favour of the proposal for an inquiry which was supported by the Government majority, not unnaturally exposes him to the criticism of his former Radical comrades for what they call his defection, which it likewise alienates from him the interested sympathies of the Opposition,

It is evident from the Paris papers that he has

fallen between two stools,

THE evidences are multiplying, that the English. speaking provinces of Canada, the people of which are watching the war in the Far East with intelligent interests, will be ready to take their place at the side of the mother country, as in the Boer war, in the event of Great Bri-

tain being drawn into the struggle. A few days after the colonel and officers of the 30th Regi- ment of the Canadian Militia, "Wellington Rifles," headquarters at Guelph, Ontario, adopt. ed a resolution to offer for service 500 strong should Great Britain become involved, the officers of the regiments belonging to the Ottawa garrison were interviewed by a local paper on the same subject. The answer was that although the matterhad not been discussed, as the occa- sion had not yet arisen, there was no doubt, in case of Great Britain tieing forced to take part

the struggle, that the Gitawa regiments would be among the first to offer for the front. The anti-Imperial campaign in the province of Quebec has received its answer from Ontario,

SOME London capitalists and the well-known Liverpool sugar expert, Siegmund Stein, intend | ELECTRIC LIGHT CO, FINED. to take advantage of the present favourable sugar situation to carry out on a large scale Stein's experiments in sugar-beet cultivation, which

The Electric Light Company, through the

have given must satisfactory results. It is in-anager Mr. H. 15. Bridger, was again charged tended to set up sugar-refineries in England, before the Magistrate, Mr. Gompertz, at the Police Court this morning, with not having

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICES

THE WAR. "EVACUATION OF NEWCHWANG.

RUSSIAN GARRISON WITHDRAWN.

(From Our Own Corrispondent.)

Weiwei, 11th May, 11.11 am.

The Russians are evacuating New-

chwang.

The guns have been removed from the forts and the garrison is being

withdrawn,

[There has been redoubled activity at New- chwang for some considerable time, and a. month or so ago the preparations for defence were vigorously completed. Formidable forti. fications were erected, and an enormous force of artillery stationed at the place-ED., F.K. T.]

THE SS. " PRONTO" SAFE.

The Hongkong agents of the Hamburg- Amerika Line kindly write to inform us that the German steamer Pronto, Capt. Grandt, which was rumoured as having been lost, arrived safely this morning at Ningpo,

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CHINESE WOOD OIL.

Consul-Gractal Wilcox, Hankow, China, re- ports-Wond is rapidly becoming an important article of export. During the past season there has been over $1,890,000 worth of it shipped from this port. Two United States firms have located branches here for the pur pose of exporting wood oil. One of the firms deals exclusively in this article, and it has shipped nearly 200,010 gallons since last fall. Previous to 1900 the oil was shipped to Europe in considerable quantities. The great difficulty of obtaining barrels to export the oil in is a serious drawback, as no barrels are manufac

plague were notified, two being from villages in force was established at the end of the fiftiesunds, Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent; in Scotland, abited the nuisance caused by the smoke from factured in any of the Provinces where the ol

the vicinity of Kowloon city and the others

trie Krows.

For this reason an American

Cases dumping at Yauman and in Hospital A further diminution is almost inevitable before Ireland, in Sligo, Wexford, Clare and Dublin. 1 month age. For the defence it was slate that firm here has imported from New York shooks

Road.

The Tsar received Mr. Heury Norman, MP., in private audience at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, last month. His Imperial Majesty, in the course of the conversation, spoke to the hon, member as length upto the general sua- tion arising from the Russo-Japanese war.

FROM the Klondyke country, Canada's arctic goldfield, comes a report of the discovery of a perfect specimen of the inastodon. it was found in an oki subterranean watercourse. The finders estimate as value at fifty thousand dollars, and anticipate an eager competition for its possession by scienusts.

THERE is a proposal on foot in Scotland to celebrate the quarter-centenary of John Knux's birth, which falls a year hence, Curiously enough, the precise date, and even place of the great Reformer's birth, is in doubt, although it is generally conceded that he was born in 1595, in the country of Haddington,

FOUR Chinamen, residents of Png Chau Island, were charged with being in possession of various quantities of opium, for which they had no certificates. They set the usual plea that "someone must have put it there," but

nevertheless Mr. Kemp fined them $15, $41, 550, and 392 respectively and ordered the opiam to be confiscated.

the close of the official year.

A MOST interesting ceremony was to take place- the other day in the great Reman amphitheatre at Arles. A number of young ladies of the town and neighbourhood were to enter into a solemn written engagement always to wear the graceful Ariesian head-dress, and never to substitute therefor any fashionable hat from

Paris. This done, the poet Mistral, costumed as the Emperor of the South, was to kiss each of them paternally, not to any patriarchally, upon the forehead, and hand to each a diploma, bearing his sign-manual in commemoration of the great event.

It is not often that journals move their head. quarters from one part of the United Kingdoni to another, but when they do so it is usually from the proyeces to the metropolis. The Scols Observer was originally published in Edinburgh, and subsequently pitched its tent Londou, where it ended its bril sant career as the National Observer. The other week the Labour Leader migrated frous Scotland to London, where it will in future be published instead of in Glasgow. This is the Labour journal with which Mr. Keir Hardie has been identified very closely for some years, and it is the organ of the Independent Labour Party.

COLONEL, now Senator, Donville, fate of the

dih, "Princess Louise's New Brunswick ilussars, cabled to the Mikado of Japan, it will be remembered, on the eve of hostilities between Japan and Russia, bis warm wishes We understand that Chin Bok Cheong, the

for Japan's sucess. The Mikado has acknow. Chinese clerk the Chartered Bank at Bang edged the compliment by presenting Miss kok, who was recently charged with being con.

Domville, daughter of the colonel, with a gold cerned in the forgery of a cheque for $2,000

locket, a personal gift from the ruler of Japan, ticals and the charge against whom was disby the hands of Mr. Nosse, the Consul-General

of Japan Canada. presention of the Japanese flag. The incident is one of a crowd of others that tend to show events in English-speaking Canada are prepar- ing the public mind for active participation in the war, should Great Britain find it necessary

missed in the British Court, has entered an action against Mr. Thomas Jones, the local

PHOTOGRAPHIC Agent of the Bank, claiming 3,000 cals dam

DEPARTMENT.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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"OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Work undertaken.

Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam

Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

and Motor Launches.

Asbestocel goods kept.

ages for malicious prosecution.

A PEACOCK intervened in an unprecedented manner during the hearing of a case recently,

The locket is is re-

later on to go to the assistance of her ally, tapan. Canada has large commercial interests

in Lancashire, Cheshire, Lincoln, the Mid-

Fife, toxburgh and Aberdeen; and in the cost of each establishment, including the necessary working capital, will be £8,000 to £100,000.

A RIKSHA Coole was placed before Mr. Gompertz, this morning, by Inspector McNab, and charged with stealing a basket of clothes belonging to Chinese women, who had engaged him to take them to West Point. On the way they stopped at a shop and went inside to make some purchases, while the ricksha coolie m mediately bolted. The women raised a hue and cry, and reported the matter to Inspector McNab, and he instituted a search of the coolies' houses, hading the stolen basket and sume of the clothing in the defendant's house. The Magistrate seat the coole to six weeks' hard labour, with six hours in the stocks.

IN casting a retros ctive look at the figures of exports to Chius since the year 1877, it is encouraging to behold that yo3 shows the highest figure, vi, 604,003 bales, being an increase of about 50,000 bales on last year, and the current year will be able to show a still greater increase for the plain reason that owing to the Russo-Japanese War, the produc

on in Japan will be curtailed by about 50 per cest, in consequence of the mulls which were bitherto working day and nigat are only work ing by day. This will naturally restrict the Japanese export of yarn to China, creating a

demand for indian productions, and with a greater demand luigher prices will result,

THE bonour which has been done by the overment to Mr. Naprojec Pudumjes of loba is not less flattering to the whole Parsee community than to its recipient himself. The Pudumjce family justly buids a high place in the estimation of the people of the Deccan, and Mr. Naarajee, who has been now made a Sirdar in the place of his deceased brother, has been kauwn to have followed closely in the footsteps of the tue Mr. Dorabjee and his father. The distinction that has been confer.

red upon him is, therefore, as much a compli ment to the famify as to the individual who has received it, and it may well give occasion for

for 5,000 barrels and machinery for setting them up.

A MURDER ON THE MAIL STEAMER.

PATHAN KUNS AMOK.

the chimney as ordered by the Magistrate a

due diligence had been used in trying to abate the nuisance, but that the defendants had been much handicapped by reason of several break- downs of the machinery and plant which had interfered considerably with the work of altera. 10, and repair necessary to effect an abatement ❘ of the nuance. For the prosecution it was pointed out that a notice was first served on the defendants requiringgan abatement of the nui- sance in 1932, and (röggtime to time since, bui The passengers of the P.&O. s.s, Aradio without any visible effect, so far as the nuisance had an exciting joumey between Aden and was concerned Mr. Bridger admitted the Bombay. On the 13th ult, when the steamer continuance of the nuisance, and stated that was two days out from Aden, a quarrel occurred new machinery was on the way out from home, amongst the Punjabi and Pathan firemen of the and when it was installed and in working order ship. It is stated that a native fireman had there would be no further cause for complaint,-| ublained a bucket of water and that one of his Mr. Gompertz held that, considering that the first notice was given in 1907, and the nuisance was not yet abated, due diligence had not been used to effect an abalement, and as the com- pany was liable to a fine of $10 for every day the nuisance continued he must inflict a fine of $60 on the defendant Company—that is for | the six days which had elapsed since the last notice the daily liability still continuing,

THE DEMAND FOR MAPS.

The enormous demand for war maps is a clear indication of the keen interest with which the public are following the progress of events in the Far East.

"Since the commencement of the Boer war, remarked the manager of a large London establishment, "the public have taken a much more intelligent interest in military operations in all parts of the world. One has only to watch the crowds that gather round our windows for the purpose of scrutinising the 'flagged inaps to appreciate the fact. Then again peop'e demand detail. Mr. Angus Hamilton's new map of Korea is an example of this. Its scale is 35 miles to an inch, and gives almost every road."

Is there any map in particular request?" he was asked,

mmates attempted to snatch it from bim. A quarrel immediately occurred and after high words one of the participants of the dispute, a Punjabi, went to the engine room, and pro. cured a bit of iron. Before he could be stop. ped, he had administered horrible blows to the heads of two of his Punjabi comrades, and had: knocked four or five others about, in a brutal manner. One of the Punjabis died, despite surgical attention, twelve hours later, and an- other is in a precarious condition. Unfor. tunately at the time of the quarrel, none of the officers of the ship were in the neighbourhood, According to the account of a passenger, the firemen were a scratch crew picked up for the voyage, and they were extremely wild all the way out The offenders were taken ashore in the police boat, this morning. Naturally the the passengers were much exercised over the The occurrence took place in the matter, neighbourhood of the second saloon and is stated to have been witnessed by several of the passengers.

The official report by the Commander of the vessel states that a case of manslaughter occurred, committed on board during the voyage between Aden and Boobay. It is stated that an altercation took place among the engine room crew between Pathans and Punjabi fire men on the night of the 13th instant, at about 10 o'clock. One of the Punjabi struck a Pathan on the back of his head with an iron bar. The man fell down unconscious and died on the following morning at about 7.30 am.

in the British Court, at Bangkok. Entering the Far East, which are likely to become sell-congratulation to the community at large munication between the various countries.pany's mail steamer Arabia, with the murder of

more important every year.

the Court, it flow up to the top of the jury box and perched itself there, resisting for a time even the efforts of the assistant gaoler to dis lodge it. Twice it was ejected and twice it re-

LOCAL Journalists in the Far Eas: must be turned, and finally it had to be lifted bodily having a bad time just now, judging from and carried off to a place of security. A Coun- house constructed in the airy fashion necessary in this climate is liable to these little inter- ruptions.

QSBORNE House was recently opened as a Convalescent institution. In conformity with the King's desire, there was no ceremony, and the public are being practically excluded until the first occupants have become properly at

"Yes, our map of China and Japan, extended to show the adjacent portion of the Russian At the Police Coust, before Mr. J. Sanders Empire, India, Burma, and so on, and also the Stater Inspector Wilkins charged Ellumdeen various railways and principal lines of com- Fagga, fireman on board the P. and 0. Com- Then there is the map of Russia's great railway Akbarsha Leebas. The case was remanded. route to China over which General Kuropatkin pending further inquiries. is travelling. Fvery station is marked, and the greatest possible care has been exercised in its compilation. Of course, maps, like everything. else, must be up to date. Geographers follow the operations as closely as possible. A place hitherto unknown suddenly springs into im poitance in a night, a wide area becomes the field of important operations, and these have to be fully covered in all subsequent editions. With the assistance of our correspondent; and the maps of the country we are able to do this

11 may also give rise to some wholesome re- flections. The honour and respect that Mr. l'udumjec l'estonjee and coming after him his sons, Mesars. Dorabji and Naorojee Pudamjee) the following information forwarded by a

have enjoyed at the hands of the Government Moscow correspondent of a home paper. The and the public shows that it is quite possible Nevi Krai, published at Port Arthur, and for the Parsees to play a useful and au bonour- formerly the semi-official mouthpiece of able part in public life without being either Admiral Alexeleff, is now, for lack of advertise- fussy or obauxious. Parsees, certainly, did not ments, and owing to the paucity of its sub- rise to honour and affluence by dabbling in scribers, reduced to publication on a small high politics, and the results of their playing single sheet. Its editorial and printing estab-high at the game, as evinced in the career of two or three distinguished Radical stalwarts, lishment in the old town of Port Anhor was destroyed by Japanese shells, and it is now have been, by no means, either encouraging or bidden away in a semi-subterranean apartment profitable to themselves or others. We should. The maps of the Japanese are very good, and we have found Russian maps of g‘eat assist.

believe that the Parsees have elsewhere a better, higher and certainly more profitable | ance. field for she comployment of their talents and

the Pudumjees and oxbers,ought easily to con- vince them that the sphere of public useful

patriotic, endeavour a

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. German (Sachsen) rith inst! : American (Korta),1 3lb inst, French (Australien) tốth irit, Indian (Kumsang) 23rd 'mst Caundian (Empress of China) 23rd inst.

The C. P. R. Can an Empress arrived at Vancouver at 7:30 pm, on joth inst The P&O 5. N. Co,5 15, Tunisin left

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“At present," be concluded, "there is a lull

with events, but let there be an important movement and the effect is immedia e. But oh ist, and may be expected empese kha, great, struga rin“ the Bay East has

"Moji on

home in their new surroundings Afterwards it in the new town, - The Kharbin Viestpië bas | is presumed that, under the terms of his had all its Chinese and japanese intelligence Majesty's bequest of Queen Victoria's favourite sources cut off, and is dependent upon Si. A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and residence to the nation, the public will have Petersburg for news. It had fifteen British their energies, and the careers of worthies, like in the demand for war maps. It rises and fall.Singapore for this port on roth inst., at, & a

every facility granted for enjoying the State subscribers in Chine and Japan, and it now, apartments and grounds. Portions of the announces that it has struck those off its list, estate have, however, been enclosed for the sole in case its patriotism should be questioned. Telephone:-No. 355 grounds to which they have access for the the discarded'abonnés va

use of the convalescents, and the gardens and More than this, it makes on

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