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tolearn their manners, their customs, Hreir¦ FELLOW-PASSENGERS arriving with His Ex- wants and their aspirations so that I may," he says, "have for them a real sympathy based on understanding and to be able to help them, as I wish to help all other classes of the community in things great and small-public and personal." When these lines shall have been read AMONG, thore present at Victoria Station by the Chinese and other sections that when ir Matthew Nathan left by the P, and O. form the heterogeneous community of express were ir. Donald Stewart, the new our Colony, a new light will shine upon Commissioner for the British East Africa Pro- then and those aspirations of a people tectorate, Sir Nathaniel Nathan, Sir George
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TELEGRAM
THE WAR.
TWO TOWNS ABLAZE.
A RUSSIAN RETREAT.
Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, has for- warded to us the following telegram-
Tokio, July 28th, 4.40*p.m.
General Oku reports that on the asth
The portage on the weekly issue to any part of the amenable to the just laws of a liberal | Arthur, Mr. Charles Lucas, C.D., Mr. Re.inaldinstant our army, pursuing the enemy, ad- Singla Coples Daily, ten cants; Weekly, twally | ful work in the way of enriching the Colony T. H. Whitehead, Major F. Nathan, Mr.vanced to north of Tashichiao. The enemy
The Hongkong Celegraph
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George Nathan, Miss Nathan, and Major retreated northward. Tashichiao and New-
Clauson.
LIGHT IN CUBICLES.
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steamer, was seen cruising off Kayabe, Hok kaido, on Wednesday afternoon, since when it has not been reported,
The squadron, with a captured merchant
The M.O.H, minuled.-I think the Baard The steamer, Hokuyehu-maru No. 2, which should refuse, as a skylight can easily be put in left Aomori on Tuesday night for Flakodate to light the cubicle and render it a legal roum.sighted the squadron, but escaped and arrived
safe is by port. Mr. Rumjalin minuted.-The premises in question are far better lighted and ventilated than most of the buildings situated in narrow les recommended by the M.O.H. for exemp
tiant,
ion given by the M.O,H.
Cal. Webb minuted ;-I agree with the opin
regard to its destination Japanese opinion The squadron is now in the Pacific. With
coincides with that expressed in these columns
yesterday that the object of the squadron may
and promoting the moral aggrandisement of Great Britain whose selection of Colonial Gov. ernors like that we welcome to Hongkong to-
VLAD VOSTOK SQUADRON.. day is quite in keeping with the admirable
The Kobe Chronicle of zand inst. says:- policy of the Mother Country. It is to be
A Hakodate dispatch states that the British hoped Sir Matthew will seek to gain his
aleamer, Samara was stopped by the Russian acquaintance with the inhabitants and
squadron on Wednesday off Esan, outside the their representatives by that personal con
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board-yester-Taugaru Straits in the Pacific, but was soon tack with the exponents of the various day an application for exemption from comply. released.
ctions who alone can give His Ex-Public Health and Fuildings Ordinance, 1903, ing with the requirements of section 154 of the 11.00 sity, but to do honour to the representative cellency a true and a just estimate of in respect of the top floor of Na. 209, Queen's
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Two cases of plag.e were notified since yes- terday at noon.
SEVERAL items of local interest have been crowded out of this issue and will be printed in The Telegraph to-morrow.
THE P. and O. Company's steamer Nubia brought the following specie for Hongkong: coin silver, £33,864.
have been given to understand that where they Mr. Lau Cho Pak minuted.-The Chinese have an eight-feel yard, or a side-lane of that width, they could apply for exemption. I am in favour of granting this application.
with the M.O.Who gave the Chinese to Hon. Registrar General minuted-Ingres
understand?
a
Hon. D. P. W. minuted. I think the number of skylights should be kept down. They have tendency to weaken the roof, or at any ratete
be the relief of the pressure on the Port Arthur fleet, rounding south Kyushu and so entering the Yellow Sea and diverting the attention of
are that the vessels are on the way to a Admiral Togo. Other vernacular opinions
neutral port in order to save themselves: that they are simply engaged in the de- struction of Japanese merchant vessels on
to the Indian Ocean in order to meet the Baltic the Pacific coast; and that they are steaming
squadron intends to make its way to the Yellow Sea and assist the escape of the Port Arthur feet is, however, the most general. Such a task one of great risk when it is considered that
it
the squadron must round the southern coast of
give a better chance to a strong wind. I have beep endeavouring to have them built of a uni-Kyushu and probably encounter the Japanese form and special type where they are neces-
before reaching Port Arthur. The vernacular papers consider that the exit of the Vladivostok The President move that the application from the Japan Sea, which will even be of ad- squadron into the Pacific has removed a danger be refused.
sary.
Hon. Brewin.-I second that
Mr. Rumjahu.--The building in question has a side lane 8' 2" in widih running conti-
mises.
vantage to the Japanese plan of campaign as the squadron can hardly reckon on re urning again in safety to the barbour of Vladivostok.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has postponed the departure of all its steamers for the north. Very few vessels were in northern waters on the Pacific Coast at the time the Russians appeared. The Tugonoura-maru, which left Muroran at midnight on the 19th instant, and the Hokkai-maru, which left Nemuro on the 18th, are reported to have safely arrived at Hakodate. The fakkai-maru reported that flags five miles off. The British steamer Ras she had sighted three large war-ships without
TELEGRAMS
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(From Our Own Correspondent.)
OUTRAGE IN RUSSIA.
MINISTER OF INTERIOR ASSASSINATED.
LONDON, 28th July, 1904, 11.15 a.m.
News has reached here from St. 'ctorsburg that M. von Phleve, the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, has been assassinated at the station
by the throwing of a bomb..
(Since the news was issued by us in an extra jast evening, stating that the assassipation took place at Warsaw another telegram was received announcing that the outage was committed in St. Petersburg, and this morning the telegraph company informs us that the word "bomb" had been included in the cable.].
(Reuters.)
The Red Sea Seizures.
LONDON, 27th July. *The Formosa was seized by the Smolensk.
LATER.
The Malacca has arrived at Algiers; her crew is at Gibraltar on board the Oriental. The Formosa has been released, also the German liner Holsatia which a Prize Crew brought to Suez.
Germany and Russia.
The German press declares that the ques- tion of Russia is settled so far as Germany is concerned. It praises the prompt and.
friendly action of Russia.
It is thought in Germany that Russia in-
status of the Volunteer cruisers, and that she tends thrashing out the question of the
has secured the tacit support of Germany.
ously along the whole length of the pre- There is also a backyard of 8 feet. Three windows open into the lane and one into the yard besides, of course, the windows in front. The cubicle is lighted and ventilated by two of the windows apening into the lane and the one opening into the yard. The ag gregate area of these windows is more than the lane only requires the window area to be half of the floor area of the cubicle; whereas
recommended many buildings fronting on lanes Kaisha, which left Otaru on Wednesday Jaw.
The Sinking of the "Knight
Commander."..
to be a deep-seated predilection in favour of him who will preside, for several years, over the destinies of England's distant outpost of a world-wide dominion. At this initial stage of His Excellency's gubernatorial career in Hongkong he has already ingratiated himnon, Mackenzie and Co., Calcutta and Bombay self with that section of the community who has joined the firm of Messrs. Gray, Dawes one tenth of the floor area. The M. O. H. has Bero, under charter to the Nippon Yusen afraid it involved a breach of international
were privileged to listen to his excellent
SIR James Lyle Mackay, of Messrs. Mackin-
and Co., London.
maiden speech in our Council Chamber this THE Times has added to the daily "hatches, less than 8 feet wide to be exempted, (quoting morning for Hakodate was warned and pot
forenoon when he had taken the oath of allegiance, to serve the Sovereign and do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this Colony without fear, favour, affection, or ill-will. The keynote of His Excellency's first public utterance
here is strictly in accord with the feeling and the hope of the people.
His allu sion to the line of rail that is destined to connect the mainland with the interior and beyond to the capital of South China has just that happy effect of an "open Sesame " with a community that have been waiting with a Job-like patience over a project that appeared so distant of realisation but whose accomplishment is pregnant with such promising possibilities for the greater prosperity of the Island and its dependen- cies. Commerce will receive the Governor's
matches, and despatches" list one giving be trothals. People now.talk of batches, catches,
matches, and despatches.
THE case against Cowasjee Shapurjee Pau zana, the Barrister-at-Law of Bombay, who is
under trial for forgery in Bombay, as already repoted in these columns, was called on before Mr. Kemp, second Police Magistrate, and again evidence. remanded for the purpose of securing further
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THE ice-breaker Yermak, which is being over hauled in the Constantine Dock at Cronstadt, is to sail for the Far East "on the first favour able opportunity that presents itself," accord- that the authorities have found it necessary to ing to the Crosstudi Vesinik, which says also use the Vermak in those waters, together with the Vladivostock ice-breaker, Nadeshay. EARLY this morning Inspector Dymond, of the Peak Police, saw a Chinaman wearing some peculiar badges, and stopped him to inquire what they were. The man coolly admitted they were badges of the Triad Society, of which he was a member: The inspector placed the inan "before Mr. Kemp, later in the day, and he was sent to six months' hard labour, and six hours in the stocks.
many instances) and the applicant's property
lighted and ventilated than any of those recom- mended by the M, O. H. Some time ago the Board, by a majority, including the Chairman, recommended the Government to treat a Jane building to be counted as external air and 8 feet if running continuously long the side the building in question has not only an 8 feet side street but also a yard of 8 feet as well. The Board must be consistent. It is all very well to say a skylight would meet the case, but skylights are a great nuisance. They are ex- ceedingly hard to be kept rain proof and a great danger to the stability of the roof. If this application is refused there would be no need of entertaining any other application for exemption from external air." Hemoved an amendment as the matter be adjourned till next meeting in order that members of the Board should have an opportunity to view the premise before adopting the M. O...'s re
is in every respect far more sanitary and better
commendation.
fused the Board shoud make it known that no Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-If this application is re- applications whatever for exemption would be entertained in future.
Col. Webb, Mr Pollock, Mr. Fung Wa Chun, There voted for Mr. Rumjaho's amendment Mr. Lau Chu Pat, and Mr. Rumjahn.
Against The Presidentland Hon. A. W. firewin.
back to Otaru.
THE MANSHU MARU."
RETURN OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
EXCURSION PARTY.
the Navy Department recently for a cruise The Mansku-maru, which was filled out by along the Korean and Manchurian coasts for the benefit of foreign military officers, member of the Diet, and journalists, left Nagasaki the 17th inst. for Kobe and arrived there on the 21st. Some of the passengers left the vessel at Nagasaki, and proceeded to Tokyo by train,
The steamer was at the mouth of the Yalu on the 14th instant, proceeded to Edai Bay
(near Talienwan); and thence steamet to the proximity of the rendezvous of the Japanese fleet, remaining there till the 16th. On the following day she went to Talienwan, from there to Nanshan Island, and then commenced the voyage home. On the cruise the Manshu- muru sighted destroyers and torpedo-boats the battleships Arahi and Mikasa and the des- steaming in line, and also by arrangement met troyers Asashio and Kasami. The guests
boarded the Mikos, Admiral Toyo's flag-ship,
steamer then headed for Nagasaki, arriving on and drunk the gallant Admiral's health. The
the 19th instant..
THE SOURCE OF JAPAN'S STRENGTH. Amendment was accordingly carried, and the On the 19th inst, His Majesty the Emperor
fullest share of support, and in pledging himself to promote the interest of trade His Excellency will be ready to receive the advice and suggestions of those whose busi- ness it is to create and foster the trade of this important port,-the members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. To protect commerce the defence of the island and the mainland must be preserved in a state of the bigbest efficiency. With one so eminently fitted to pronounce, with and Nethersole lospitals begs to achnowledge matter will be considered again at next neet: degratched a gracious message to General authority, on the question of military with thanks the following donations to the ing. strategy, it goes without saying that the building fund of the Alice Memorial Matern.ty local garrison which is "ready, aye ready' Hospital:-- will be stronger than ever to see to the defence works being kept up in a con- dition not likely to jeopardize the retention of the Island. In its invulnerability Great Britain's fleet in these waters maintained
THE Hon, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial
A. Wellwisher Luk Shi Ki Chal Ki
THE TRIAD SOCIETY.
...$150 . 59
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Kusakabe & Co's Compradore ...
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AN EXPERT'S EVIDENCE.
This case which had been remanded from, for the protection of trade, will find its THE Sanitary Surveyor's report for the second Tuesday last was resumed, before Mr. H. H safety. The administration of Government quarter of 1904 was laid on the table at the Gompertz, when Mr. Mok Lai Chi gave evi Sanitary Board meeting yesterday afternoon. dence that all the flags and other paraphernalia will not be conducted with too great prodiit showed that plans were passed for the drain produced were things used by the Triad Society gality; for economy of expenditure in certain
age of 47 houses. Plans for 2t1 houses were There was no religions meaning attached to directions is one of the features of the adminis carried forward from 1593, and of 104 houses any of them. To form a complete outfit of a tration proposed for the future. There are from the first quarter of this year. This makes Triad Society there were only three things existing anomalies in the Civil Service as, a total of 362 jobs in hand. The drainage of missing viz. a pair of scales, a red lantern, for instance, the question of exchange com- go houses, however, has been completed and and a live chicken. The flags represem pensation attached to personal emoluments, 18 were cancelled during the year, leaving 244ed the names of the patriarchs who ori the removal of which the Governor might to carry forward. Notices for repairs or altera-ivated the Triad Societies. He did not tions to drains of 78 houses have been explain the significance or usage of the profitably devote a smail measure of atten- received during the quarter. Fifty-eight were other strange articles, but said they were all tion in order to do away with that differen carried forward from 1903, and a6 from the first typical of a full, grand meeting of the Triad. tiation which "favour" creates for one class quafier of 1904, making a total of 182 in hand Society. Thirteen out of the fourteen accused to the prejudice of the other. A particularly during the year. Of these 54 have been com tried to explain their presence by saying that A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and noteworthy feature of Sir Matthew's speech | pleted and three cancelled, leaving 125 to carry they went to look for friends; because it was is his graceful allusion to "tite great Chinese forward. The drains of tos buildings have raining; and because they wanted to join a race," who form so considerable a propar. been jaspected and reported on as defective. gambling game. One of them, No. 2 accused, Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical tion of Elis Majesty's subjects in this Colony. Of this number 48 required reconstructing and set up an alibi and was given until Tuesday 58 amending. Houses to the number of 3,927 next to prove it, the rest being sentenced to six With perfect candour, born of modesty have been inspected by the Drainage In-months hard labour, and six hours in the elegram Address Telephone-No. 356. inherent to great characters, His Excellency spectors, with the result that 363 drainage stocks. The paraphernalia was ordered to be
[581 makes it publicly known that he intends nuisances have been discovered Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.
Ship Designs and Specifications prepared.
Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam
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Asbestocel goods kept.
Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.
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Nishi, Commander of the 2nd Division. Itams thus:-We highly appreciate the actions of the and Division, under your command, which has
Mr. Balfour, replying to a question, refer- red to the sinking of the Knight Commander as a regrettable occurrence, and said he was
Russian Ships pass through the Bosphorus.
London, July 19.-The Russian warships Junnustel and Chirnomorets, of the same! class as the Koritiz, fully armed, passed the Bosphorus to-day, the Russian Government hereby selting the Treaties (Treaty of Paris and Treaty of Berlin) at defiance. Two more Volunteer Fleet cruisers are new coaling at Sebastopol and are intended to follow the cruisers Smolensk and Petersburg.
[By the Treaty of Paris 1856) the Bosphorus was closed to ships of war and the erection of arsenals was forbidden, while a free passage was accorded to the commerce of all nations. This confirmed the treaty concluded between the five great Powers and Turkey in 1846,. whereby no non-Turkish man of war could' pass the Dardanelles without the express con-
repudiated this article in 1873, and subsequent sent of Turkey. The Russian Government
(March, 1870) the neutralisation of the Euxine was abrogated at a Conference of the Powers held in London. The Bosphorus and Dardanelles are still closed to ships of war other than Turkisht, but the Sultan can open them at need to allies-Main chi,
'YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK.
not only defeated the Russians, although they We learn that, Newchwang being 'now.in were twice as strong, who came to attack Japanese occupation, it is the intention of the Motienling and the positions in the neighbour-directorale of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ld., hood, but pursued them for a long distance, to re-open a branch in the northern port. thereby entirely destroying their hope of re- covering these places....
General Nishi's reply in the Imperial Res- cript, congratulating him on his fatest success at Motienting, runs as follows-The success secured by the Division this time is entirely due to your Majesty's illustrious virtue. Neverthe less, we have received your Majesty's gracinus Rescript with grateful surprise. We will en deavour to discharge our duty with even greater zeal. I humbly submit this.
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The La. Saxami left Manila yesterday, and may be expected here on 31st inst &c, from San Francisco to the sath inst, via The P. M. S, S. Co.'s s... Korea with mails, Honolulu, arrived at Yokohama to-day,
BOWLING.
At the Kowloon Bowling Green to-morrow afternoon, Spoon Competitions will take place, commencing at 4.30 p.m., and afterwards the Neish Bowls will be presented by the donor, Me Jas Neish. The winners are Mr. J. Galt and Mr. J. Ramsay,
THE WEATHER.
The following report is from Mr. J 1. Plum- mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser vatory
On the 29th at 11.25 am. The baromistor has fallen in the Philippines and risen considerably at all other stations, sent
Coast and moderate S. winds may be expected Gradients are moderate upon the China
winds in the China Sex in the Formosa Channel, and light variable
Forecast – Light &, wlads, fige"
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