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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED AD. 1841

HIGH CLASS

BRANDIES.

A--OLD PALE

B.-SUPERIOR

COGNAC...

VERY OLD

C.-VERY OLD LIQUEUR

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1904.

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1901.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE N.V.K. Rre reopening their Seattle line with the Kanagawa Maru, 6,169 tons.

THREE thousand more. Chinese troops are to be sent to Shanhaikuan.

THE English mail of the 33rd April, was de- livered in London on the 21st instant.

FIFTY-Two naval and military details left for Lon lon, per the 5.5. Manila this morning.

IT is reported that the final contract for the Tientsin-Chinkiang railway will shortly he signed.

AN order has been booked by a German firm in Tie tsin for 15,000 rifles and a million or so of cartridges.

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TEA may be exported to Russia so long as it is not sent to Manchuria, or for the direct use of the tramps.

FOR loading cargo into his junk on Sunday, without a permit, Leong Hk was this morning fined by Mr. Gomperiz.

THE Japan Time says that it is reported that the Government is con emplating the issue of another war loan on the home parket.

THE Timer correspondents' steamer Haime, has had her wireless telegraphic apparatus

traits of Tsushima.

SUPPLYING HONGKONGIS

2RADE

ANOTHER COMMISSIONER ARRIVES,

Australia is largely a land of undeveloped industries. Everywhere may be met the rich promise of the future, and the day of achieve ment is fast approaching, Hitherto the Labour Party has pursued a policy of protection, which tended to keep at home that stream of able- bodied labourers and artisans who would other- wise emigrate and make the country a strong link of the Empire. Fortunately the times are changing, and enterprising agents are being despatched to various parts of the globe with a view to encouraging emigration and pushing the Australian trade. A few weeks since we were enabled use,roduce a most interesting and important trade report, by Mr. J. D. Sutton, the commercial agent for New South Wales, who during his time in the Enst, made a special study of Hengkong trade and submitted much valu able material for the information of the Minister

are pending. It is the intention of the Queensland Government to keep the Far Eastern trade "sheeted" bome by Commis sioners every six monthe, when representatives will be sent with fresh supplies of goods and samples and every endeavour made to meet local requirements by inquiring into the nature of the trade of foreign compelltors, who will thus be met upon their own grounds.

ALLEGED MURDER IN HONGKONG.

He Yau Sang, an unemployed coolie, was brought up on remand charged with the mur, der of Chik Shan.

Dr. Hunter testified that on the night of the

18th inst. he examined the body of deceased and found some very 'sovera bruises on it, The breast bone was broken, and the vessels of the heart were injured. He attributed death to

1 ELEGRAM.

*** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICE,

THE TROUBLE AT MACAO. PRISONER'S DEFENCE.

ALLEGED WHOLESALE EXTORTION,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

MACAO, 20th May,

4.13 p.m.

The investigation of the charges brought against the ex-Nam Hoi Poi, whose extradition is sought by the Chinese authorities at Canton, still

these causes. He was also continues. The prisoner's defence of opinion that the injuries could not have has occupied three days, and the been caused by the light bamboo pole pro

up 35 folios, Tlie presence, ut the Civil Court, of the Attorney General and Counsel, Mr. A. J. Bastoris refused according

for Mines and Agriculture. He dealt at length duced in Court, but by an ordinary coolie's written evidence tako. with the flour trade, pointing out that it was carryins pole.--Chen Kai identified the prisoner the general opinion that, given equal chances, as the man who used the bamboo on the New South Wales millers are in a better posi deceased.-A conle said he was taking his ton to compete with the Americans, in conse rice on the evening of the 18th inst, when a quence of the distance from Sydney to Hong. man came in and asked to be compensated kong being much shorter than from the for work. The prisoner was standing at

IT is stated that the report that the rioters at damaged by bad weather experienced in the American ports and owing to the cheapness of the door, with a bamboo in his hand, and to law.

tacked the French scouts on the Annan frontier

is untrue.

THE report and statement of accounts to be

27.00 presented at the annual meeting of Messrs.

Watson & Co. are printed on the third page.

THE Fanny Stanley Opeia Co. opened its

33.00 Theatre, Shanghai, on the 21st ins'.

THE Emperor of Korea having reprimanded his Ministers for inattention to their duties, they all, as usual, resigned, but will probably

continue in office.

IT is stated that the two Chilean warships

freight. He advocated the importation of soap, butter, stearine candies, jums, tinned and frozen meats, sole leather, lead, old iron, barse shoes, copper, etc., and concentrated milk, and urged the New South Wales millers to secure a site available for a large mill and the bring ing of the grain from Australia. A greal future, he wrote, awaits any one who will act as sug

he prodded 'Chik Shan on the right side with it. Wilness and others told them to be qu'el, and he was struck on the head and became unconscious. Deceased had three holes on his tight side, and was bleeding.-Another witness stated that prisoner was the man who struck the blow.

P. C. Culliford said that, on the night of the 18th, he went to a house in Moon Street and saw deceased lyinged on a shutter, with wounds in his He saw the bamboo

had blood stains on it.

The prisoner alleges that Viceroy Tsen Shun suen's predecessors on- dorsed his magisterial acts, and he chal- lenges the prosecution to bring for- ward individuals to establish charges

shot season with La Mascotte at the Lyceum recently sold to a firm in New York are gested by way of a certain market and business produced. It was split at the thin end and which, it is asserted, extend back for

THE state of affairs in Vladivostock is reported to be quite pitiable. All trade has come to an end, and the business of the banks is confined to pressing their debtors, who are being 40.00 reduced to penury.

All our Brandies are guaranteed to be PURE COGNAC, the differences in price being merely a question of age and vintage.

For a "Soda" Brandy we strongly recommend the "B" quality.

THE Japan Daily Mail believes it to be impossible that Baron Rosen can have saul that many of the leaders in Japan were against going to war, but were overborne by General Terauchi and Admiral Yamamoto.

THE following telegram has been received by the Colonial Secretary from II. B. M. Consul at Bangkok:-" Kophol: quarantine on ar rivals from Hongkong and Swatow. Medical inspection imposed on arrivals from other China ports."

AMONG other schemes employed by the Times war correspondents, for reporting the course of the war to their paper, is one whereby maps

A. S. WATSON & CO., and plans of operations may be wired home,

LIMITED.

Hongkong, 7th May, 1904.

TELEPHONE NO, #35 CABLE ADDRESS: "ACHKE," HONGKONG

A. B. C. CODE, 4 EDITION.

ESTABLISHED 1859

thus enabling the Times to publish correct

plans of the disposition of troops or ships during

a battle.

In order to ensure accuracy an ex- [35 pert draughtsman is engaged on staff at

the seat of war.

A CHEE & CO., 祥 利廣

17, QUEEN'S ROAD.

„THE japan Maite apology to General Dessino leaves something to be desired. It says: "To say that publicists who analyse these narratives and associate him with their contents are doing anything frivolous, or dishonourable' seems to us to be an abuse of terms," but the com- plaint against the Jihan Mail was that it practically accused General Dessino personally of a lack of veracity,

THERE should be match activity at the Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Co.'s premises during

sold with an undertaking that they shall not be resold in a belligerent lower.

Two junk-masters were fined $10 and $25, respectively, for obstructing the Wing Chai wharf. The second, refusing to move off when ordered to do so, was given the heavier fine

THE war statistics fiendis now beginning opera tions. It is calculated that during the bare ul Chulien-cheng, the 16th Regiment of the Second Division fired 110,49 cartridges. Ob

serve the unit.

THE new flag which has been selected by the British Authorities to distinguish H.B.M's Consulates is a Union jack with a Tudor Crown on a white circular shield in the centre. The Tudor Crown is of the same shape as that on the present postage stamps.

OME coolies strayed into the Public Gardens last evening, and sat down with their feet on a bench. An Indian guardian was watching, and, at his instance, Sr. Gompertz fined each

of the coolies $3 for pulling their feet on the

bench. This should teach them to sit, and not squat, on these public seats in future.

on a large scale. This fact is also recognised Mr. Frederic Jones, the North Pacific Trade Commissioner for the Queensland Government, who arrived in Hongkong a few days ago and has established his local offices with Messrs. Barretto and Co., of Bank Buildings. His object in coming to China is to find a markei for the natural products of Queensland, which has the largest acreage of land avail able for cultivation of any State of Australia. M. Jones was seen by a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph to whom he cour teously explained the object of his mission and the great possibilities there were in Queensland for competing with foreign trade. It is..gener ally recognized that the country is very much under populated, and when one considers that the whole of the north-eastern portion of the continent comprises a total area of 668,497 square miles with a population of some 503,000 the necessity for emmigration is apparent. Indeed, the commissioner pointed out that they were offering every possible inducement to the migrant of any European nationality to settle in the country, and in order to illustrate the advantage to be gained asserted that an agri-

cattural labourer who arrived there with fifty sovereigns could obtain immediate possession of land that would enable him to become an independent worker. The people who take It is interesting to hear that the sons of

ippon advantages of the opportunities are colonista have just opened a social clab of their own in who have gone there to live and stay, and the London. The new club's premises were agricultural bureau, with its State farms and formerly occupied by the now defunct Crichton, classes educate the sons of the farmer in the whose familiar door-plate has disappeared, and very highest grades of agriculture, with the re been replaced by another, which, in Roman sült that with wheat alone Queensland suc capitals, bears the inscription-Niton-Jin-passes the best American grain, and they can Kwai.

A FIRE broke, out on the 12th at 2 a.m. on board the German steamer Quarta chartered by the Usaka Shosen Kaisha. She arrived at Kobe on the previous day from Formosa with

compete at the same price with a much superior article. It is generally recognised that flour forms by far the most important feature in the imports to the Orient, and so far the trade has been practically to the hands of the The same remark applies to Americans.

FURNITURE the next month or so as the United States rice, cotton, and miscellaneous goods on board. tinned ments, and in this respect Mr. Jones

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

FURNITURE.

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICRODE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

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HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

torpedo-destroyers Decatur, Dale, Bainbridge, Barry and Chauncey are going in for an over. haul, while the Empress of China and other ships will be taken there in a few days. It is reported that the tug-boat Fame, belonging topliances at their commad. the Dock Co., has been sold at a good figure.

A strong wind prevailing then, she was unable to discharge the cargo. The fire originated in the cotton in the first hold. The crew were able to get the fire under control with the ap-

PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the band of the roth Mahratta Light Infantry on the new parade ground, on Monday next, the 30ta instant. from 5 to 6.30 p.m.

March... "H.M.S. Camperosen Overture

Selection

..... Chate Williams ...Godfrey

.Delibe-

"Carnavalia '......

The Pirates of Penzance Valse" Pas de Flours" Inver." The Moon Light

.... lazza Seleccion...." Stephen Adains Popular Song" Henley God save the King,

LOUIS M. LEVY, the Manila theatrical man,

By kind permission of Li.-Col. Iremonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Barma Infantry will play the following programme of music at the King Edward flotel, during dinner, on Friday, the 7th inst. (weather permitting).

March

Idyll.

"The Uhlan's Call

Hiawatha'

Eilenber ...lorer ..Monckton Sekction ...Katy Grey Song....

The Flight of Ages..... ....... Bevan Selection." Reminiscences of Wales...... Godfrey Walte.......... Amoureuse "........................... Borger Cake Walk..." Jolly Negroes"

assured us that the quality of the article as. shipped from Queensland, is superior in quality to that brought from the Pacific coast, while at the same time the buyer has generally an advantage in the weight of each tin. Frozen food is of course a feature in the Australia market, and rapid progress has been made ia its export during the past few years. Mr. jones can remember the time when the only way they could dispose of their meat was to bol it down for tallow; now, owing to the be facilities of cold storage carcases can shipped to any post of the world, and people be given the advantage of the very finest meat. Australia controls the Manila market, the whole of the fresh meat supplied being shipped from that continent-principally from the State of Queensland. Oo account of an abundant harvest there is a heavy export trade in jams and wines, the latter being sent mostly to France and Spain where they are blended and re-exported as foreign wine. The Com- missioner, however, has arranged to place the wine upon the Hongkong market, and says be will be able to give a good dinner claret or red wine at a retail price of about a shilling per pint boitle, the consumers having the satisfac a mani est proof of the reality of the Dual tion of knowing they are drinking an absolute Aliance, and a warning that, should China jointy pure wine. Queensland also competes in the Japan in fighting the Russians, France would leather market, and is at present tendering to

God save the King,

A MUKDEN Official Dispatch received by the who has been in Shanghai for some time past Waiwupt at Peking informs that Department looking for a suitable site on which to erect a new theatre which shall be operated in conjuc. that it has been reported by secret agents that tion with a circt. including Manila and Hong there are no less than twenty-seven French kong, has found a lot on Szechuen Road officers serving in various capacities with the Russian Army in the vicinity of Liaoyang, and PHOTOGRAPHIC between Hankow and Foochow Roads. Messrs.

that this fact has been frequently Baugted DEPARTMENT.

before the eyes of the Chinese in Manchuria as

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

Atkinson and Dallas have decided to erect a theatre thereon to be completed within nine months, bath lat and building to be leased to UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. | Mr. Levy for ten years.

GOOD WORK.

SOME PROMPT RETURN.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

COLL

OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Work undertaken.

A EUROFEAN plague case was reported as instantly join her ally in actively participating supply the Japanese army with infantry and

having occurred at Zetland House on the 5th inst. An ambulance was obtained, and a gentle- man bundled off to Kennedy Town Hospital where it was ascertained that, not only was he not suffering from plague, but that bis illness was not even infectious. We congratulate him on the fact, and sympathise with the pro- prietress of Zetland House, who was put to considerable trouble and expense in coose- quence of someone's serious blunder.

MR. Frederic Jones, Queensland Government Commissioner of Trade, accompanied by Mr.

in the present war.

THE SHIPMENT OF COOLIES

FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

We understand that, at an early date, the steamer Ichbal, which is now being fitted out for emigration purposes, will leave here for the north, and take on board another batch of coolies for South Africa. These will be recruit

The prisoner was subsequently committed to the Criminal Sessions,

THE "STÄR" FERRY CO., LTD.

The following are the accounts of the "Star" Ferry Company, Limited:-

BALANCE SHEET, 30TH APRIL, 1974. Liabilities.

To Capital-

10,000 shares @ Sto

each fully paid up Sr00,000.00- 10,000 shares @ Sto

each $5 paid up... 50,000.co

10

Reserve fund

+1

'Insurance fund..............

Unclaimed dividends...

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"Accounts payable

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事务

Directors' and auditors fees..... Dividend... sez

Bonus de ............ Balance of profit and loss a/c...

Assett,

By value of boats as per

last account......$150,000.00 Less value of Guid-

ing Star & Morn- ing Star sold...... 48,002,00

Since expended on 2

new boats..

Less written off.....

value of goodwill as

per last account...$ Less written off...

He contends that his five years. pro-Emperor political opinions have earned the Viceroy's displeasure, and in consequence he is now being per- secuted.

During the few weeks that he has been in Macao an emissary of the Viceroy is said to have extorted twenty-three thousand dollars from -$150,000 00

60,000 him. 15,093 75 421.50 10,320.18 1,00, 0

DEATH OF A PARSER WORTHY,

27,000.00 The following article reaches us anent the 6,000.00 death of Mr. Kabraji, editor of the Rast Goftar, 1,287,06 of Bombay

*$171,122.49

101,000,00

44,875.00 146,825.00 10,875.00

-$136,000.00

4,000.00 4,000,00

+

value of Turnstiles as

per last account... Less written offein

1,500.00 1,500.00

#1

*

cost of alteration to Ice House Street Pieras per last afc $ 3,500,00 Less written off 3.500.00

Accounts receivable.......... Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

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No. 2 account Hongkong Hotel Debentures... Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ld., loans Cash in hand

Mr. Kabraji is dead. Who can contemplate the event without feeling, what it means the removal of one of the foremost of a great generation of Farsees, the passing of one of the most remarkable figures that have adorned the annals of Indian journalism? Who indeed, of all that have labourmed in that field, could claim to have achieved so much, to have swielded such enormous influence and power over the people he had sworn to reform? Who effected, through the sheer might of his pen, such a vast revolution in their habits of thought and action? For forty years be made his voice. heard among them, and lived to see a mighty change brought over in their social habits and customa la the course of those forty years and more, he fought battles such as few hava fought, and made himself a power even among those who always challenged his supremacy. He was a journalistic Ishmaelite throughout all his life, his hand against everybody and every. body's hand against him; a man who seemed to revel in conflicts, who never shrank. from stinging those who differed from him into war, who made it to be a privilege of his life" to fling whate'er he felt not fearing "into" words," Till the end of his days, even after the harness was set aside, the old warrior was will band ready to measure swords with anybody, and everybody who could be found to enter the 7,761.70 arena against him, “A man of bis temperament and idiosyncracies could never make himself 421.50

much popular or beloved; and there cannot be 30,000.00 a few of Mr. Kabrji's friends who must be

739.29

wishing, to-day, that he had gone down to his 96,000.00 rest more an object of love than of fear among 300.00 his co-religionists and his conatiginen. But while contemplating the many achievements

$171,222.49 of his remarkable career they cannot ignore

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.

Insurance fund

*

Balance appropriated as follows:

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Directors & auditor's.

fees 51,100,00 Dividend of 18%...... 27,000.00 Bonus of 4%

................. 6,000.00 Written off Boats...... 10,875.00

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Gooodwill 4,000,00 Turnstiles 1,500 00 Ice House

St. pier 3.500.00 Transfer to Reserva de

· fund vormi... 25,000.00 Carried to new #/C ..... 1,287,06

-7.343-75

the fact that the great revolution he brought about would scarcely have been possible had

This is not the place to enumerate his achieve To Repairs and alterations to boats $ 10,035 go be chosen to adopt more conciliatory methods: ments. Suffice it to say that the present day Parsee society owes much of ila making- and alas much of its unmakingo him. As the moulder of the thoughts and the habits of his co-religionists, for more than a generation, to him is due much of the praise of the blame that belongs to them for their present position in social matters, The dust of battle has till now, Decca- sarily, prevented his critics from taking a dispassionate and an impartial view of his careti es a reformer and journalist. But now that he is gone, they might be expected to weigh the scales evenly, to do fall and fair justice to the man and his work. As one who, according to his own lights, had devoted him self wholly to their service all his life-time, who, while seeking to give an impetus to re- form always raised his voice against the atti- ficialities oflife among them, who through good and evil reports, through trials and struggles of life, stuck manfully to his appointed course. and sought to fulfil his mission, who always looked to the future of his race with faith and courage this Titan of a Parsee journalist has left behind a name which will be remembered with no small amount of awe and admiration by even, perhaps, the latest generation of Parsees

80,262.06

$ 97,641.71

By Balance from last account ......$

Nett earnings of boats.......... Interest...

"

Scrip fees.................................... Difference between written down

valus and sale price of Morning- Star and Guiding Star

RESERVE FUND,

By Balance from last account

Transfer from proft and loss Zjc

#

337.of 55,68442 500.23

·63c0

36,550.00

$ 97,641.71

6,000.00

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

5,000,00

60,000.00

Amencan (Garlic)

Indian Greger

INSURANCE: FUND;-

cavalry boots, made from solid leather at a cost of fifteen per cent less than the American or British article. The factory workers, who are daily under the superintendence of Govern ment inspectors, have nothing bot raw material at their hands and are thus enabled to turn our

To Balance a finished and serviceable article

With regard to coal, a trial shipment is be ng sent up from Queensland, and a depot will be open. ed for Intermediate supplies until the value of the article is proved. In the South American market the State has been most successful, and when Mr. Jones left Brisbane there were 5000 To Balance F. D. Barretto, Vice-Consul 'or Mexico, paided at Tientsin and Shanghai, and it is hoped tousofcoalon the wharf awaiting shipment. The an official call on His Excellency the Hon. that a fortnightly service of steamers between article from the mines is somewhat small, but By Balance from last account

„Profit and loss ECCOURT, H. May at Government House this morning. China and South Africa will shortly be organised: the ash average is only some 71 per cent As will be seen from another column, At present seven steamers have been chartered. Engineers of steamships have expressed them- Mr. Jones is visiting the Orient ports for the These are the Tweeddale, Stanley, Cranley, selves as satisfied with its steam producing purpose of developing business relations with Ichbal, Coustfield, Indravelli, and Brinkburn. | qualities, and consider it equal to the New- Queensland and he expresses himself well It is believed that a large number of the cas

owing to the easy facilities "ile" conf"Queeonlanı satisfied with future possibilities of trade with coolics from the north will be men who have for obia

price with No South W Hongkong. The products in which Queensland been used to underground work, having been excels are frozen-meat and butter, four, canned employed in the Kaiping coal mines car Telephone No. 358.

meats, condensed milk, cheese, jams, fodder Tientsin, and therefore most suitable for the [ser and forage, coal, leather, boots and tallow. purposes of Rand mining,

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

and Motor Launches.

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Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders,

A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept. Agents for Mesars. Allen & Sons Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps:“ Telegram Address: **MARINEWORE."

Hongkong, sed May, 1904.

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Australian (Ching()))

due