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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1904.

All communicatione intemfol for pabllentior in The "HONGKONG TELEGRAFII" ninak! bo aldroved to The Editor, 1, Ice House Road, aud should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Addre

Ordinary Tagines communication should be addressal

to The Maunger,

Phe Editor will not undertake to be responsible for my rejected MS., que to return nay Contributions.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). DAILY330 fær noantra. WEEKLY $13 per amen-

The rate per quarter and per mensent, proportionn!. The day is lelireted free when the address is Berssille to assenger. Da coples sent by post un additional $1.50 per quieter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly invar to any part of the

work & 30 conta þær quarter, Single Codes Daily, ten rents: Weekly, twenty-

five tients,

MARRIAGE.

On the 30th April, at Christ Church, Malacca, by the lev. HC Izard, Colonial Chaplain, HARRY, chics son of Harry Lupton, SI R c.s, Strattord-on-Avon, Warwickshire, FLORENCE MARY, (Ruby) only daughter of the late John Baker, Esq, Penang.

DEATH.

THE P. & U. s. Coromandel will sal for Shanghai on the 20th inst, instead of on the 21st as previously advertised.

THE cruiser Medea arrived at Gibraltar after a passage of 65 hours from Plymouth, which is a record run for a cruiser of this class. The run is designed as a furthertest of the Burr boilers.

RETURNS are to hand indicating that two fatal cases of plague have occurred in the Colony during the 24 hours ending at noon to-day one being in Des Voeux Road and the other at Kowloon City.

THE Hon. Bunes Lawrence, Harbour Master, this morning fined Captain Genefulken $150, for attempting to leave the waters of the Colony with a number of passengers on his steamer, the 5,5 Brial, tot mentioned in his port clear- ance. Inspector Langhy arrested the captain when on the point of sailing.

SITTING in bankruptcy jurisdiction at the Supreme Court, thi morning, the Chief Jus fotice,ir W. M. Gunduan, granted an aplica- tion by Mr. J. Hays (Mlosses. Johnson, Stokes and Master) for adjudication in respect of the Brick, Tile and Timber Company. Mr. Bruce case St Tsau Lap exparte the Sam bong

Shepherd was appointed trustee.

On the 30th April, at the tieneral Hospital, Singapore, of enteric fever, MARY ISABEL, Wife of Captain C. T. BLUNT, K.A, Chief Online Office, Straits Settlements.

(he Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1901.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LONDON has been beaten by the M.C.C. by seven wickets.

Tu, damage done to the s s_Foduce by the fire in her hunkers has been estimated at £16,000,

THE M. M. Co's 55, Australien, with the next French mail, w I leave Saigon on the 13th insi,

pau., for this port.

at

THE hour of departure of the ss. Heungskan for Macao, on Sundays, has been altered to Noon, instea, of 12.30 pm.

AT a caded meeting of Polish imigrants in Land a resolutions were passed denouncing Russia's tyranny in Poland, and praying for her defeat in the war.

THE following, appearing in the China Times A. S. WATSON & CO., just alter the Dallas Company lell, sounds in

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Hongkong, 7th May, 1904.

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A CHEE &

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congruous. It's a poor month that has no chits--April was exceptionally rich

135 DREAMING that she might he buried alive, the late Miss Cobbe, the autharess, directed in her

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will that her head shout; be severed from her body, otherwise all her bequests were to be revoked

THE British Cotton-Growing Association has decided to apply for a Royal Charter. The capital of the concern is to be 500,000 in 500

O shares at £1,000 each and there are to be no!

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profits for the fi st seven years.

A PRIVATE letter received in this Colony from Melbourne states that among many other effects of the Japan- Russia war, one very obser. vable there is the notable decrease in the importation of Japanese matches.

THE Ancer of Afghanistan has met with an

ugly gun accident while out snipe shooting, The gun burst, and some of the fragments hurt the Amer's left hand rather badly. A 3m. splinter narrowly missed his face.

Lo Hau, a very young married woman, was this morning fined $237 by Mr. Kemp for un- lawful possession of prepared opium. She had not that amount of money and preferred to go to gaol for three months to letting her friends pay her one.

SOME very good imitations of British and Straits dollars have recently been put in circulation. They are almost perfect in respect of appear. ance and "ring," but to the touch they feel very soupy, due probably to the quicksilver

used.-S. F. Press.

It is of special interest in the present juncture of affairs that their are now in England the three sons of one of the most distinguished of living Chinamen, the Tantai of Shuzhai. These young men have come in make a round of our caval establishments and t-examine the ships in port. The Admiralty has given them every facility for pursuing their inquiry, and the naval authorities have been instructed to show them every courtesy.

THE programme of music to be performed by parade grovni, on Monday nest, the 16th the band of the 11th Mahraitas on the new

Inst. from 30 p. sast dlows:-

Marban G. Cheiture 216

• Le Secinetil

W. B

Schormann Selectur

"the Orcler Caryl & Munckton Transcriptor - Intensezza.

Cagan Compositorate i

A. Hollins Beckertoi

Atirme

God save the King.

THE notion that fish contains phosphorus had Ro doubt its origin in the glowing or phosphor- escence of fish in the dark. This phosphores cence is due not to phosphorus at all but to micro-organisms.

The belief, therefore, that fish as a brain food is just about as reasonable as the idea that because a soup is thick and gelatinous "it will stick to the ribs," ur as sen. sible as the celebrator.advice to Verdant Green to lay in a stock of Reading. biscuits to assist ins reading. Fish is excellent food, but it is its no sense a specific. for brain or nerve.-Lancet. THE French Foreign Minister has addressed a Note to both Count Lamsdorff and Count Goluchowski in regard to the situation in Mace- donia and the Russo-Austri in scheine of reform for its pacification.

M. Delcassé's action in this respect has been dictated by a desire to prevect the growth of the present trouble in the Balkans, and his Note has, it is adintled, been tramed after consulaan with both the British and the Russian Governments. seems, indeed, that rance is acting, and is to act, as the intermediary between the Powers and Turkey to prevent a really serious outbreak in the Balkans--at least while the situation in the Far East remains what is.

it

A BIG COLLAPSI

DEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

Lau Yuk Lam, the debtor, who has recently regained his freedom from gaol whither he was sent by the Chief Justice, to reflect upon his conduct in c.mmitting contempt of court, appeared before Sir William Goodman this morning for his public examination at the bands of the Odical Receiver. Quiten number of creditors were legally represented, Mr. O. D. Thoinson a pearing on behalf of Yu Chuk Sang, who had proved to the extent of $7,8.0, Mr. D'Almada e Castro representing Lau Sui Laut for a debt of $1,099, and Mft. P. W. Goldring attending in the interests of Chau Yau and Shiu Yik, patiners in the firm of San Ting, who are creditors to the extend at $1,439 part of which is secured. while Mr. H. W. Looker watched the case in the interests the debtor.

SOGAR MERCHANTS FAIL.

ONE MILLION AND A HALF LIA;

| LIABILITY,"

in native banking circles in Bonham Strand Considerable uneasiness was experienced

yesterday, when it became known that the firm of Tung Chan, importers of and dealers in Java sugar, were unable to respond to the financial demands of their creditors, principally those in the Straits. No immediate cause is assigned for the firm's failure, but it is surmised that in their extensive transactions in raw sugar between the producing districts in Java and Singapore and Hongkong, Tung Chan have met with considerable reverses and were consequently unable to meet their indebted- ness, especially in Singapore, where An extensive business is carried on in that commodity.

The liabilities of the insolvent firm are esti-

mated at one million and a half of dollars, be At the outset it transpired that Mr. Goldringing distributed as follows:-Hongkong 57:0,000 had not proved the d. said to be owing to objected, pointing out that Mr. Goldring had no bis client, and, in consequence, Mr. Lanker locus standi in the case.

Mr. Looker could ot be heard; all they could The Chief Justice, however, pointed out that

do was to see him.

right to ask debtor any questions he was Mr. Looker submitted that, while he had no entitled to represent him, and pointed out, regarding Mr. Goldring, that any creditor who had tendered a proof, or was represented, might question the debtor.

This Lordship (to Mr. Goldring): You do not appear to be iu order unless you have some authority.

Mr. Goldring: I have no objection, my Lord. I can put the questions through Mr. D'Almada. Bis Lordship: am afraid we must be deprived of the pleasure of hearing you, Mr. Goldring.

Mr. Goldring: The matter is settled, my another creditor--Heng Mak Hoi, who has Lord. I have just received instructions from proved to the extent of $300.

ing?

Lordship: Have you authority in writ

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against $100,000 worth of assets, and Canton against which assels to the value of from and Singapore between six and seven lacs

ditors, while two European Banks are also $300,000 to $400,00› are available,

Local Chinese bankers are the principal cre.

interested to the extent of i 100,030 and 160,000, respectively. It is anticipated that both these advances are fully covered by securities provid will net suffer by the firm's failure, since the ed by guarantors,

THE COOLIES FOR'S. AFRICA.

5.S. "SWANLY" READY FOR EMIGRANTS, Recruiting coolies for work in the South African gold mines is going on briskly and there are now some 2,300 waiting proceed to their new sphere. The examination for physique and medical fitness is carried out with great strictness by Dr. Swan, who daily rejects large required standard of fitness, and who leave the numbers of applicants, who are not up to the

them return after a few days in the Sape that depot, dejected and disappointed. Many of

they may "pass," and are of course rejected

again.

Mr Guldring: No, my Lord; I have not. His Lordship-According to the Act, a soli citor who claims to represent a creditor may be moved fom Yaumati to Lai-chi-kok, preparatory Most of the coolics selected have been re. required to produce his authority in writing.

Mr Lonker: Those words are not in our Act.quired by the regulations, before embarking, 10 undergoing the ten days' segregation, re- His Lordship (to Mr. Goldring): Is your thent in Court?

Mr Goldring: Yes, my Lord.

His Lordship: According to the English Act, any creditor who has tendered a proof, or his representative is authorised in writing, may the causes of his failure. Our Act has, "the question the debtor concerning his affairs, and Official Receiver and any creditor may take part in the examination of the debtor."

davit that he is a creditor or files a proof on Mr. Looker: Yes, if the man makes an affi-

oath.

His Lordship: The difficulty does not arise at the present moment.

TELEGRAM.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'

SERVICES

THE WAR.

(Delayed in Transmission.)

RUSSIAN CAVALRY REPULSED AT ANJU.

{From Our Own Correspondent.)

YOKOHAMA, 11th May, 10.50 a.m.

Two hundred Russian cavalry at- tacked Anju yesterday, but were repulsed by the Japanese.

SEVEN WARSHIPS. REPORTED SCUTILED

BY RUSSIAN CREWS. The Chefoo correspondent of the Tokio Jij has telegraphed to his paper that, on the 5th instant, seven Russian warships were sunk by their

own crews.

[A reptative of the Telegraph called on the Japan Consul this morning with view to ascertain whether any official confirmation sulare; but was informed that no official of the report had been received at the Con-

communication has so far been made to Mr. Noma.-ED, ILK. T.Į

ALEXEIEFF AT MOUKDEN.

!

Admiral Alexeicff and the Grand Duko Boris have fled to Moukden.

THE VIEWS OF IVÁN

IVANOVITCH.

Moscow, 25th March. A note from a friend was brought me to-day by a "krasnaia shapka," or red-cap, as the commissionaire here is commonly called, from the scarlet headgear of his office. The man was a typical "katzap," or Great Russian, physique. blond, merry-eyed, and of stalwart stature and

The "krasnala shapka " is literally "the mat in the street and his knowledge or ignorance of the cause for which his country is fighting in Eastern Asia is the knowledge or ignorance of the popular mass of Russians.

"You are not a reservist?" I asked, aker slipping the usual tip into a palm..

and there they are housed in large airy mat sheds, while many of them are engaged in building a substantial permanent barrack to be used for the accommodation of the recruited onlies. For their labour they are paid 20 cents a day, besides being housed and fed. to embark the coolies after their term of Besides the s.s. Tweeduir, which is now ready segregation, the s.s. Swanly is now being r.pidly prepared to take her quota of emigrant passengers to Durban. The exact date of the sailing of the first batch, numbering about however. fifteen hundred, has not yet been decided, The Swanly is a much larger steamer than the Tweedale, of both of which Messrs. Butterfeld and Swire are agents, and

"Oh, yes, barin (monsieur), in the Second is admirably adopted in every particul for Line Reserves. I have already received my this class of passenger traffic. She has poviéska! (notification) to hold myself in The subject was then allowed to drop, and immense hatches, which the 'tween decks readiness for active service.”. Mr. Bruce Shepherd proceeded with the x-light, coal and airy, while a good system of amination of debtor. In reply to his questions, ventilation makes them wholesome when fout Lau Yuk Lam said he was sole proprietar of weather necessitates the battening down of the the On Hing firm, which was started by his hatches Of course, among such a large num- father some thirty years ago. He had also had } ber of coolies, it cannot be matter for surprise a business in Honolulu and started a Macao apium farm, which has since failed owing to and to the smuggling of opium, and to the few the heavy taxes, amounting to $160,00 a year,

Mr. Looker: I understand, according to the debtor these people are not creditors.

sales.

A MACIO OPIUM FARM.

The Official Receiver-Where does the smuggled opium come from? Is it smuggled from Hongkong?

the harbour, and from other places in the

country.

It is reported upon excellent authority that elegraphic despatches of a very important character have reached Loudon from Tokio, indicating very interesting developments as the result of the Marquis fto's mission to Korca. These pending developments are officially given as the reason for the return of the Mar- quis to Japan, where he is to have conferences with the Mikadu and members of the Govern- But when you took over the tender of the ment, and, significantly enough, with Sir farm you knew that opium was smuggled Claude Macdonald, the British Minister at through? We were the dross opium farmers.

Tokio.

on that Baron Suyematsu, whose arrival in It is worth noting in a similar connec

England has already been dealt with in this column, has been a very constant caller at the Foreign Office during the last few days.

The report of the commission appointed by Mr. A. Moseley to inquire into the question of education in the United States of America has been published. The commissio. eis emphasise America's absolute belief in the value of

PHOTOGRAPHIC The Board of Trade returns show that the education, including manualtraining in scho is,

DEPARTMENT.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

value of British imports for the most of March increased by 1,775,751, while that of the exports decreased by 856,398, as com- UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. pared with the corresponding period last year. The decline in the value of iron and steel manu- factures for the same period was £485,228.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

*OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Work undertaken..

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

and Motor Launches,

Contract for New Tonnage ou reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestecel goods kept.

Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.

Telegram Address:

*MARINEWORK" Telephone: No. 358.

Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.

DR E. A. O. Travers, the State Surgeon, Selangor, is of opinion that the comparative absence of bers-beri from the agricultural dis. tricts there is mainly due to the scattered nature of the population. This tells in favour of the theory that beli-beri is an infectious disease, cuolies when crowded together in

attacked than gardeners and cultivators who mostly live in small separate huts.

By kind permission of Lt. Col. Iremanger Infantry will play the following programme of and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma music at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Friday, the 13th inst,, (weather permitting).

and holds that education, though not a prime cause, is a powerful contributory cause of the progress made by the United States, and is absence of class prej idices and any religious certainly essential to it: maintenance, The difficulty has, the commissioners consider, served to materially facilitate efficient work. It of education co-ordinated, with a view to is also noted that the schools of various grades preventing overlapping. The need for some such organisation among the British is regarded as imperative.

Continuing, debtor said he sometimes sold 303 or 400 laels of opium a day, while on other occasions he lost $200 or $100,

Manchuria to fight for the 'Gossuda '(Governor "And you are ready and willing to go to of all Governors) ? "

MM

A HARD QUESTION.

red cap, and his eyes were downcast for a The commissionaire's hand fumbled the

mne pozhaluista, barin (please excuse_(mo)→ earnestly in the face, he said:"Skazhitys hesitating moment, then, looking me very

what is this place Manchuria? And why are our brothers going there to fight? * · ·

"Manchuria," I replied, "is a Chinese pro vince."

that some malcontents are making their ap.

them away, and in disbelief at the promise of voices in suspicion at the delay in sending pearance and a few are already raising their

of the rejected coolies, becoming spiteful, and the golden prospects before them. Also some envious at the selected ones' good luck, going Debtor:-No. From Chinese territory, at a made to them are all fairy tales, and thailut, barin, if Manchuria is a Kitaiakaia

about among them, saying that the promises place called Wan Tsai, on the opposite side of they are being taken away to be killed Gubernaia ' (Chinese province) why does tha by order of the Empress Dowager. Some Gossudar want it? We have plenty of land, the idea that South Africa is so full of who, I have been told, are very numerous, and of the more simple are firmly inued with without taking more from the Kitaitzi (Chinese), gold that the cultivation of the land is impos.will want all the land they have for themselves?" sible, and that they are being taken there to bring it away. This may have a good deal to do with the fact that the warnings and suepi- passing practically unheeded. in the mean- cions of the malcontents among them are time the coolies admit that they have more money, and more and better food, than they ever had in their lives before, and are quite content to continue their present existence under such circumstances for an todefinitely prolonged period. So excellent are the sani

that throng of men there is no sickness, and no tary arrangements, and so close and rigid the medical inspection of the roolics, that among Case of infectious disease has appeared amongs. them since they were recruited.

When you tendered $170,000 a year for it didn't you expect to be able to pay that amount?- did ngi think there would be such a large amount of opium smuggled.

In reply to further questions, he said he put $24,:00 into the Opium Farm, and when it failed he got back something like $14,000 with which he paid some of his debts Company, which was still in existence although Bie it was who started the Yuk On Steamship his interest in it had ceased, and he had got back about $11,000 of the $15,000 which he had put isto il e sold his share as be bad bo enough money with which to carry on his business. Another of his enterprises was a piece goods shop in Wing On Street into which he sack a thousand dollars, while he had a house. Money was owing him from Honolulu, fourth share, or about $800, invested in the

knowledged that out of $48,742 due according Australia and Kwanchowwan, although he ac to the books, $31,420 were bad debis, $9,502 rowed money to the extent of $18,500 in order go; d, and the remainder doubtful. He bur to pay for gonds, and also received $4.000 used in various way, from different people, on deposit, which he had

SHARKS' FINS AND FISHES' MAWS

FOR REBUILDING LONDON.

TO COST £190.0.0,000.

"Well to videsh (seest thou), it is this way. Russia has built a railway through Hanchuria, and she must not allow it to be injured. And remain in Manchuria, and that is why your the Japaness say that the Russians are not to brothers and the Yapontzi (Japanese) are goiar to fight."

railways,

and if the Yapontzi say we should not take

"But, barin, people do

land from their neighbours, then barin, it seems to me that the Yapontziare more honest

fight, I think they were beller at home." ban we. If that is the cause for which our brothers are going ten thousand verats away to

D WITH HEAVY STEP. "But if you are called upon to go to Man chur

"Well, of course, barin, in that case I must. go and take my part, but I shall not go with a cheerful hear. Now, if the Gossular Impera« tor would send us to ht the sccursed Jurak

of the congestion in the London streets has

An amazingly elaborate scheme for the relief | (Turk) we should re been prepared by two city engineers for con- and with slightly lowered, voice, he added: sideration by the London Traffic Commission."Barin, as you are a Gospodin Anglitchanin Suddenly, advancing a step nearer to me,

Frain a copy of the plans with which I have (English g-nileman), and will not repeat what been favoured (says the London corresponent. I say, may tell you that my cousin, of the Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury), I gather Arseni Mihailovich, who is a sergeant in Metropolis. Two malo avenues, each 24 miles this war, not one of them; wand not only that, that it is practically proposed to rebuild the the th, says that his comrades: do not like

don, with the usual:

officers that the

ould be the ruin of

He denied having gambled or speculated in DR. Verner, a celebrated West African ex- shares, and attributed his loss to dealings mining camps being much more liable to be lorer, intends to bring back with him 8 of in sharks fins and fishes' maws, and trans-long and 160 ft. wide, are to pass through Lon but he has heard his captain an the most in eresting specimens of the human actions with companies and the uncertainties don from north to south and cast to west,alking among; themselves and race. There will be aone but pigmies in his cording to the Official Receiver, about $400 and a new Embankment on the south side | Rumla

of exchange. He owed $95 660 of which, ac with numerous branch roads 100 ft wide, Dalt Vestock (Far F party, classified so as to interest the scientific could be recovered. If all the assets were good of the Thames between Waterloo and Black student of ethnology, as well as the mere curious spectator.

he would have, at the outside, $50,000 which His instructions are to

left an absolute loss of $16,000. On exchange friars Bridges. The avenues are to be double ntchen blagodorys " adult woman, preferably the wife of the chief; bring back one pigmy patriarch, or chief; one $17,00

he lost $20,000 and on sharks' fins $16,0 g or decked, with a motor track in the centre

of the lower bad, occasionally rising like a cumicative exprasi

many thanks to yan switchback to the surface, Above the centre ures an adult man, preferably the son of the chief; and an adult woman, wife of the son. Others

of the avenues will tua suspended railways, to be included in the exhibit are a male and

and there will also be tramways in pacta female youth, two infants, four adulla, a priesto ay 30,

beneath the lower roads. The scheme, I and a priestess either of the Batwa or Dombe Herold

tribes; one fine type of the red African, prefer-trate, was then producet relating to the alleged appearance of London, and would remova A document, issued by the Chinese magis carried out, would completely-transform the ably of the Ndombe tribe; three more red Payment of money, but did not solve the my many of the overcrowded and insanitary, Areas. Africans, and two stive pigmies, each of a

stery regarding the allegation against the The cost, as well as I can make qui, would ba debinr. distinct ethnic type from the others.--Science

a mere Siftings.

something over a hundred

...Sulliva

PROGRAMME. MarchThe Star and Stripes for ever *** Sousa Overture...... Zampa"...... Selection....."The Rose of Persia Cornet Solo...." Eveco Alannah" Selection....." Cavalleria Rusticana "

.... Thomas Valer..."The Wells of New York. Kerker „Mascaguj Japanese Dance mi ......... Clayton Thames God save the King.

Did you ever pay me any money as Official Receiver? asked Mr. Bruce Shepherd.

Debtors No.res

Why did you tell the Magistrate at fleung shan that you paid me 10002 taelst I did

The solicitors present having question the men, his Lordship cloyed the examinatiqu.

SHIPPING AND MAILS,