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THE &s. Dagmar, which has been undergoing repairs at the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock at Kowloon, is now lying at the Company's whart, where she is receiving her sea dress; preparatory to resuming duty.
ASSAULT ON A WATCHMAN.
AT THE BOWLING ALLEY.
A somewhat different complexion was given
to this case when it was called on this after
noon, after being remanded from yesterday, as THE Star Ferry boat, the Polar Stur, bas been reported in there columns last evening. removed to the slips of the Tin Hing Engineer--
Mr. Goldting, solicitor, appeared for the ing Co., Ld., at Kowloon, for a periodical over-defendants, and applied for a separate hearing haul, especially of her engines. She is not of the cases, in order that he might call the expected to resume her run for some months first defendant is evidence on behalf of the
second defendant.
to come.
THE Tin Hing Engineering Company, of Kow. loon, has a large amount of work in band at present, mainly in the line of building launches, lighters, and ship's boats, besides a small steamer being built for river service on account of the Company itself,
An interesting case arising out of the contract for the Phil ppine coast-gaard boats was com single Copies Daily, teu cents; Weekly, wenly is the plaintiff and S. C Farnham Bo d& Co. menced at Shanghai on the 13th inst. Ah Hing
Ld, are the defendants. Full particulars of the ca e are printed on page 3.
live Centa
BIRTHS.
On the th of July, at Tientsin, the wife of H. SCHELL, of a son.
THE Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com On the 6th of July, at 34, Haskell Road,pany, Ld., have on their slips a new boat for 14-50 Shangha, the wife of F. B. Præ:FER, 'of u the Star Ferry Company for service between
daughter.
Hongkong and Kowloon. This boat, as yet At Shanghai,, on Saturday, the 16th of July, unnamed, is nearly completed and is expected Mrs. J. E. Delbourgo, of a son.
to take the water in about two weeks,
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MARRIAGE,
On the 15th of July, at Amsterdain, Halland, the marriage took place, by proxy, of JAN BRUINS, of Shangbai, and ALIDA Agterberg,
of Amsterdam.
THE shallow draught steamer Shanghai, which has just been completed for service on the Yangtze River, is now lying at the wharf at the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, At Hankow, on the 9th of July, WILLIAM Ld., waiting for a date to he set for her trial
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These CLARETS are specially selected and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value and in fine condition.
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trip.
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Yung Wan, the punkah-puller, was `still in limbo.
If the above is fairly true it means à pretty serious state of affairs for Kwangsi.
THE CLIMAX.
** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE,
THE WAR.
ACTIVE
OFF HOKKAIDO.
JAPANESE STEAMER BUNK,
(From Our Own Correspondent,)
YOKONAMA, 21st July,
11.37 a.m.
The Vladivostok squadron sunk the Takashima Maru, off Isoya yes- terday morning.
The as. Takashima Mari is a wooden, screw steamer of 319 tons gross and 186 ions net. Sie was built at Kobe in 1891, and is owned by the Tokiowan Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha. Isoya is a small town on the south enat curst of Hokkaido near Caps Yeriman, about a hundred miles from the Straits of Tsugaru.]
R.M 5. “ TARTAR” STOPPED
AND RELEASED..
nire dy been done so many times to Kwangs TELEGRAM'S that doubtless it may have been attempted again. It is from this source that the ranks of the rebels are so continually being replenished. This was probably imminent, when another event brought matters to a crisis. According to reports, Viceroy Tsên has made overtures to one of the rebel leaders, offering him and his the government troops, good rifless, and VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON men free pardoas, immediate enlistment in fifty cents each. The leader accepted with ninety of his men. As soon as they were dis- armed they were all killed, as has been done so many times before, under similar circum. The case against Chan Su Yu, the "guest" of was made to kill them. But the net result was stances. Perhaps, however, only an attempt the bar-boy, was then proceeded with, when the that the three regiments broken loose, killed complainant repeated his story as previously all the officials, according to some reports, reported, adding that Chan Su Yu prodded him wounded them, according to others, sacked with his umbrella and then dropped that two banks, but left the populace alone. The weapon and a away into the Hongkong Hotelegraph operators were first reported killed, tel There complainant found him and had but now seem to have been able to escape in bin arrested. The umbrella was producer, a small boat. The suldiers, of course, took all
The bar boy struck complainant at the same and also four guns, quickfirers, but I do not The umbrella was thrown away by the defend the military stores, amounting to over three ant as he ran and cam, laitant picked it up thousand rifles, and grantities of ammunition, -time that the other man prodded him with the know of what size or make.
umbrella. He broke the bottle on his head. He did not know where the pieces of that bot Etle were. The bar-boy then ran away. He did not arrest the bar-boy because he was en ployed in the same place. Complainant con.
This seems to be the climax of the now long tinued that he was always very friendly with the Levies are raised in other provinces at four continued policy of dealing with this rebelli: n. boys in the club; never quarrelled and was never reported by them for misbehaviour. For their own food, Lecal levies are raised at taels a man, ie, $5.50, and they have to find the defence Mr. Goldring called Yong lling three tacls, and the same conditions. But as Chi who said he was No. 3 boy at the Bowling the risks are less for Kwangsi men, I suppose Club. Witness stated that at about 10 o'clock it is possible to get them at the cheaper rate. on the day of the occurrence he heard a
This difference of risk is, an interesting point, great noise and going to see what it was about saw he complainant and the defen-egiments of levies, or whatever one likes to and hereby hangs à tate. Very few of these dant, Chan Say, struggling in a free fight. call them, come back intact. After some months He called out to them to stop fighting and making a disturbance when another boy stand tale to tell. "What's the good of fighting when some remnants return, always with the same
bowl at complainant's head and cut it. Wit at us from the mountain siles, and we can't see ness picked up the broken pieces of the bowl where he is. We attack his village and destroy (pendused). Witness saw the blow given by it, but he has gone. He shouts to us, 'Do you the bowl He did not see any umbrella used. Complainant, continued the witness, was a
value your life at only three tael? Come and very bad man, and always molested the boys fact desertions are numerous, as well as captures. join us. What can we do? As a matter of and made improper idvances to them, and When captured local men can ransom them witness had on ne occasion reported the com-
selves for a small sum, but those from other plainant for his independent behaviour in the provinces seem to be invariably killed. Hence club At the time of the trouble complainant was the difference of risk. not on duty and had no business in the club. Other evidence was the given as to the very bad character of the coiniplainant, while no evidence was led corroborating the latter's statements. Mr. Goldring, for the defence, submitted that there was no case at all against the defendant in either cause. It appeared he had no business there and had mahim might do from the rebels. This end the fact that the watchman had gone in to the bar when the populace suffer as much from them as they 1901, and is owned by the Ras Sleamboat self objectionable as usual, when, genting hut, that when they capture a village, they are be raised this story of assault on an innocent allowed to plunder it, keep adding fuel to the the 5th March.-D., H.K.T.] man in the execution of his duty. There was absolutely nothing against the defendant, while if you like to call it so, flourishes,
fire. Under the circumstances the "rebellion,"
on the other and it had been proved that the relations between the watchman and the boys of the club were not of the pleasantest, through the watchman's own fault. He appealed to this Worship to discharge the defendant which His Worship did at once, remarking that there was no case against him.
It is reported that the Vladivostok
steamer Tartar, but soon released squidron stopped the Royal Mail
her.
At No. 16 of 18 Aamamoto-dori, 3-chome, the beloved and only daughter off. M. XAVIER, the outbreak of hostilities in February up to Kobe, on the ith instant, at 9 p.m., MARIA, THE Cardiff coal imported into Nagasaki from ing near, named Nen Wan, threw a porcelain you can never touch your enemy? He pots Pim, on Saturday, the 16th inst, and sailed at aged 3 years 11 months. "Deeply regretted.
the end of last month amounted to 224,215 tons, valued at Y4.455,417, while the Japanese coal exported from Nagasaki to foreign ports in the same period was estimated at 48 127 tous, with a declared value + Í Y 264,434.
The Hongkong Celegraph
*Hongkong, Friday, JULY 22, 1904.
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN THE
RED SEA.
THE action brought by the owners of the junk Ling Lee-yuen against the China Navigation Company, for damages caused in a collision between the junk and the C. N. S. Ichang has resulted in Sir Hiram S. Wilkinson awarding the plaintiffs $12,000 damages and costs. The Russia, with historic indiference to obli-expert evidence of Capt. J. P. Roberts was that gation's moral, has once more demonstrated the only thing of va ue on the junk was her an inclination to the adage "that all is fair in love and war," and now stands on the verge of a crisis that might culminate in a veritable A. S. WATSON & CO., war of nations. If this is the objective the
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penalty will be quickly paid, and Russia will remember with everlasting regret the success [35 of her machinations. Great Britain, as a rule, is reluctantly bellicose; but on this occasion the telegrams indicate an intention undeniable. The P. & O. s.s. Malacca, seized under conditions peculiar, to say the least of them, has to be released, or inevit
masts.
OPERATIONS for raising the cruiser Paryat at Chemulpo are reported to be progressing. Her coal has been almost taken out and conveyed to Sascho. The water in the ship is said to be su discoloured that the work of the divers is
interfered with, but it is nevertheless consi-
dered certain that the vessel will be raised within the time estimated. The assport Scongari will also be raised soon,
H.E. TSEN CH'UN-HSUEN, Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, according to a Peking letter, has been handel over to the Board of Civil
The second defendant then being arraigned for trial, Mr. Kemp said that as the evidence
CO., able complications will ensue. This is Appointments for the determination of a severe for trial, Mr. Kemp said that as the evidence
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messages that relate to the seizure, and the outcome is awaited with an interest
intensified by a cable announcing the ship's -departure from Port Said, where, if the de-
rebellion in Kwangsi province. This torn in the tide of Viceroy Tsen's official progress is said to be due to the bitter hostility of the
hundreds of Kwangtung and Kwangsi officials who have been cashiered by him-some for very slight causes-and their friends and rela-
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to, she should have been handed over. Russia has apparently declined the demand We learn from a recent Sydney paper that with a deliberate intention, and appears to Captain J. J. Simpson has been in Brisbine be carrying out a programuie introduced inspecting the steamer Elamang, on behalf of
Sydney firm, with a view to purchasing the with Herculean effrontery by the removal of vessel. It is intended, in the event of a pur the Japan mails from the N. D. L. s.s. Princ | chase being effected, to send the Elamang to Heinrich. Contraband of war is categorically Shanghai, where she will probably be broken indefinatile, and an unscrupulous belligerent P, or used in the coastal trade. The Brisbane Marine Board has been communicated with as is thus enabled to pursue tactics question to what survey is necessary to enable a thirty able and otherwise, with a certain impunity. days' certificate to be issued. If this certificate is granted, it will enable the vessel to leave post after she had been overhauled, and it depends on the decision of the Marine Board whether the purchase will be concluded or not.
There is a limit, however, over which even Russia cannot step, and the probabilities are that the Malacca incident will lead to the curtailment of a practice impudent and aggressive in the extreme. The infringe. KITCHEN UTENSILS, and ment of the neutrality of the Dardanelles is HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. in itself an unpardonable offence, and the PHOTOGRAPHIC consequence, as far as other interested Powers are concerned, will be watched with DEPARTMENT.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
It is evident that the Chinese malefactors have their "Mrs. Harris," even as other nations have their "unknown quantity." This fact was very much in evidence in a case before Mr. Gom- pertz at the Police Court, wherein one Liu Chin, describing himself as a stonecutter, was charged with being in possession of a quantity of dynamite, caps and fuses, reasonably sus pected of having been stolen, at Cheng Sha Wan, Kowloon, on the 21st inst. When placed before the magistrate and asked to explain his possession of the explosives, Liu coolly stated that they were given to him by a man named
to proceed against the defendant further upon, and he was likewise discharged.
The umbrella was returned to the bar boy's "guest," at the conclusion of the case.
KIVANGSI REBELLION.
WHOLESALE LOOTING.
For months it has been the same tale. Every new supply of government troops has meant more supplies for the rebels, so doubliess by this time if they had leaders, they would be a
very serious menace.
The fact of the troops having to find their own food, etc., means that wherever they go
reports that will not bear Inspection. Ever Other news is of the small kind, mostly since the visit some months ago of the French Viscent Foy and M. Balu, who had interviews with the Governor, there have been persistent reports of French intervention in the affairs of the province.
ities are now making preparations to protect Locally things are peaceful, but the author-
Kweilin,
The enormous increase of taxation, in some cases ten-fold, seems to be having a deterrent effect upon trade. Many people seem out of work. The price of rice has gone down to *about $3.00 a picul. So far this year there has been no epidemic of either plague or cholera.
THE CENSORSHIP OF WAK
NEWS..
INCONSISTENCY OF THE AUTHORITIES.
Commenting on the wholesale prosecution of newspapers in Japan for mentioning that the Japanese were within a certain distance of a certain Russian position, the Japan Herald of Saturday week thus deals with the inconsistency of the officials :→→
[The R. M.S. Tartar arrived at Kobe at 7
According to latest advices she reached Shang 5 p.m., on Sunday, the 17th inst, for Woosung. hai at 9.30 a.m., yesterday and left at 2 pm, the same day for Hargkong. It is, therefore, refer to the s.s. Tarfur of the C. P. R. Co., see bighly improbable that the above telegram can.
engaged in intercepting Japanese steamers th ing that the Vladivostok squadron was actively the South of Lotkaido on Wednesday morn ing--- DA IKT]
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THE S.Š. “RAS BERA”
Some anxiety is felt regarding the safety of the s.s. Bas Bera.
[The Ras Bera, Capt. Morris, is a steel, sciew-steamer of 3,817 tons gross, and 4500 ions nelt. She was built at Sunderland in
Shipping Co.
She arrived here with coals from Moji on the 25th February last, and left for Kobe on
AGAINST HONGKONG PAPERS..
According to a Tankin repart the Governor General of Indo-China has forbidden the cir. culation in the Colony of the following Chinese newspapers, printed in Hongkong :-The Thương Đan, Trung quoc bao quan hơn bạn This action is probably taken with a view to Quang dong bao, and Huang cang bao tu bao.
preventing the news of repeated Russian defents being brought to the knowledge of the Annamese.
THE WEATHER,
The following report is from Mr.. I. Plum. iner, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser- valory:-
On the 22nd at 11.35 am. The barometer has risen slightly in W. China but elsewhere the changes are trivial and unimportant..
and moderate S.W. winds may be expected in
Gradients are moderate on the China Goast
the Formosa Channel and to the northward.
They are likewise moderate over the China and fresh S.W. monsoon will continue in that
Forecast-Fresh S. to S.W. winds, cloudy,
(From a Correspondent 】
Capton, 21st July. Very bad news have reached Canton aboul the situation at Kwangsi. The Viceroy left here on Saturday 11 am. for Kwai Lin, under orders from Peking to suppress the rebellion within three months. The rebels have looted the Taotai's yamén at Laochaofu, and carried about $30,000 from the Treasury, besides taking about 6,000 arms and 400,000 cartridges
"The authorities seem to be pursuing the from the "Kwan Hai Kok," the store for aras offending item as to the attack on the land side region. &c., at Lacchaofu. From Larchanfu the rebels of Port Arthur to the remotest parts of the proceeded to Cheong Chow, and looted the country. The number of newspapers that have | fair. city. Before leaving Laochao city they set fire been fined for publishing it must now be con- to the place and very few houses, if any, are siderable, and the end has not yet come. It left standing. They looted a p.wnshop at can only be strewdly suspected that the Laochaofu, of over $300,000, and from other authorities, having themselves made a slip în business shops &c., over $61,000-making a | allowing the report to leak out, are desirous of total of about a million dollars besides the covering up the traces by laying the blame on Government treasury of 300,00. Over 2*,co the newspapers. No other reason can be men including the mutinied Imperial troops assigned to the general indifference displayed have joined the rebels. Rebels are anxious to to the publication of other reports from Poit
see the Viceroy in the field and they have offered a reward of $10,000 for his capture and say that they will butcher him, if they succeed in capturing him 1.
NEWS FROM KWEILIN.
The Kweilin correspondent of the W. C. D. Newvi sends a most interesting letter to that
[45 ANOTHER day with only one plague case Li. But when questioned as to who and what journal dated from the capital on the 2nd inst.
E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
recorded seems to indicate that the disease is
on the wane.
THE British steamier Ascot has arrived from Moji and will be docked for the purpose of being fitted up as a coolie trip, for taking emi- grants to Durban.
and where "Liwas, the prisoner evinced the most profound ignorance. That being so Mr. Gompertz found he had no alternative bul to convict, and sentenced Liu to pay a fine of $50 or go to goal for two months.
THE following telegraphic information, dated 16th inst., has been received from the Sumatra Director and Manager of the Maatschappy tot Mijn-Bosch en Landbouwexploitate in Lang- kat, Ld
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He says:-
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
inst.
MAILS DUE.. Australian (Empire) 23rd Canadian (Tarlar) 24th inst.
French (Touring) 24th inst,
· Canadian (Empress of China) 15th insti Indian (Gregory Apear) z6th inst.. Indian (Latsang) ind prox. American (Korea) 8th prox. Amencan (Gaelic) 18th prox.:
Arthur and the importance attached to the publication of the one in question. The action of the Government has caused some uncer- tinty as to what is permitted and what is not. Thus the Mail for two days refrained from reproducing the telegrams from Cheloo refer ring to the land operations against Port Arthur, prohibited by the authorities. In the meantime Manila. on the ground, that their publication was
the Japanese papers were going on reproduc- For the last week all sorts of reports haveing them as it nothing had happened, and this been going around about the doings of the morning the Mail follows suit, saving its face rebels" at Liu houfe. What the real truth by remarking that censorship has been relaxed is I do not venture to say, but simply try to (1). As a matter of fact, the Press Ce ser bas piece together the most credible items into a never interfered in the publication of the tele connected whole. But whatever the actual facts grams in question. On principles of consistency, are there must be some substratum of truth in of course, the Mail was quite correct, since we the persistent reports.
have yet to learn that prosecution depends on There were, it seems, three regiments of the correctness or otherwise of the reports. troops at Liuchoulu, ie, more than a thousand. The report received at Divisional Headquarters men. Their loyally seems to have been sus
in Tokyo may have been correct, but pie Ship Designs and Specifications prepared.
Daily aggregate output of Crude
pected, but why I cannot say. Possibly some sumably this was not the reason why those publishing it were prosecuted. On the other Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam | AN entertainment is being given at St. Joseph's Petroleum..... ..........Gallen's 68,000 official deal. Anyway they were ordered to ga hand, the re, orts received from Cheloo and
and Motor Launches.
College this evening by past and present | Crude Petrolcum, în Teoks, att
to Kwangtung for the purpose, it is said, of other China ports are probably incorrect, but Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms | scholars. The programme has been drawn date..........
170,000 being quietly got rid of. This they flatly re- again this presumably is not the reason why They contain with First-class Builders.
up on an elaborate scale, and a very pleasant Kerosene made since the date
fused to do. Then it was proposed to disband thir publication is allowed. evening should result.
of the preceding half month.
repp t, and as nothing is said in, the Ordinance ly telegram.men
COLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.
Salvage Work undertaken.
A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and
Asbestacel goods kept,"
MEMBERS of the Gymkhana Club are reminded that entries for the second meeting close to the hon, secretary of the Club to-morrow, the 23rd insi, at the Hongkong Club, at 6 p.m.
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Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical | THE freight steamer Algen was more seriously damaged by striking on the sunken rocks off Point Bonita than the first opinion of experts | foreshadowed. She was floated oto drydock at [581 San Francisco on the pist ult
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Kerosene shipped since the date
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The s.8. Sagami lest Singapore
pore yesterday for
The H. A. L. sa Andalusia from Hamborg left Singapore for this port on 21st inst., p.m., and may be expected here on 18th inst, a.m;
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The C. P. R. Co. a. Alhenton arrived at
moy at non on 21st inst, and left again at 3 pm, same day via Keelung for Shanghai where she is due to arrive at 7 on 24th inst.:
The C. P. R. Cofs 3.5, Tarlar arrived at Shanghal at 9.30 am, nn ist inst, and left again at 2 pm., same day, for Hongkong whers she is due to arrive at 4 pán, on 14th inst.
The C. P. R. Co.'s 9.8. Empress of Japan arrived at Kobe at 9.30 p.m., on 19th inst., and
them and send them back defenceless through qu fe as many details as those in the offending left again at monn Wednesday, for Yokohama:
Cases 60,000 the rebels' districts, which are certainly dan gerous, to Kweilin. This they objected to Lastly, there were two months pay due to them 1.4.0.0 and here we have, i think, the real key to the !situation, looking at it from both sides. The 84,000 disbanding of troops, when pay is overdue, has
of the War Department as to the place of where she is due to arrive at noon on 21st iust, origin of the news, there seems no reason why
The C. P. R. Co.'s 8.5. Empress of China they should be allowed, to pass, except that the War Office, having permitted their publica-anived at Nagasaki at 8 a.m., on 1st inst, and tion before, cannot very well perpetrate the left again a 5.30 p.m., further inconsistency of prohibiting their pub.
same day, for Shangbal llcation now"
where she is due to arrive at y am, on aged inst,
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