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of M. P. MILLER, of a daughter.

DEATH.

IT is telegraphically reported that the Rus- | sian hospital-ship on olla is expected to go. to Shanghai from Port Arthur

AT Kowloon last evening the first match of the Water Polo Shield Competition was decided in favour of "B" team by three goals to 2 of the "C" team. At half time "C" team led by

2 to 1

TIEK funeral of the late Mr Harold Clarke

only on account of the slowness of the work, but because of the probable uselessness of it He pointed out that it is reasonable to believe that, as those parts of the harbour which stand in need of dredging have been, and are still being, silted up, so they will continue to be in the future, and unless'a prohibitive (as to cost) number of dredgers be employed, and he kept employed, very little, if any, impression will be made on the depth of the water. And the work will be dices, as it will have to be kept going indefinitely. As an alternative scheme husub mitted to Government one providing, inter alia, for the deepening by natural means, of the water west of the Kowloon Peninsula and inside Sulphur Channel. This he was THE coolies from Kwangsi who have recently not permitted to make public, but it surely joined the hikok camp pending their en- would be of interest to learn whether the barkation for South are said to he excellent matter has been allowed to remain in abeymer. They are anxious to get away, and at their request have been given work which

(Messrs, Carmichael and Clarke) took place at the flappy Valley last evening. There was a large number of friends of the deceased gentle men, at the graveside, many of whom either seat or brought floral tributes.

A STRANGE CASE,

EMIGRANTS IN CONFINEMENT.

HMS "TERRIBLE” IN HONGKONG.

1.M.8. Terrible (Captain A. T. Stuart) ar-

The cafe in which the accountant, the watch- man, and the cook of a Chinese boarding | rived here yesterday from home, bearing reliefs house, at 125, Des Voeux Road, were charged for various men-of-war on the China Station,,, with slaying and killing a coolie, as reported and it is expected that she will return to Ports- in these columne last evening, was called on mouth either next month or early in October. this morning before Mr. Ķemp. Mr. Bailey, The famous cruiser has undergone consider. solicitor, appeared for the defence. There able changes both in armament and 'men since was a further charge against the first defendant | the gallant part she played In South Africa. Sha of unlawfully detaining the deceased against has recently been re-fitted and overituuled at his will for the purpose of emigration. After Portsmouth, and is now nimed with the latest some discussion as to whether the cases should pattern guns. She carries two 9.3, sixteen six- be taken separately or together it was decided inch, a dozen twelve-poanders, an equal num- to take the charge of unlawful detention first. ber of three-pounders in addition to quick-

firers, etc.

Leing Ko said he came from Canton on the intertold him in Canton that if he came to long-representative of the Times of Ceylon said that 4th August with a man he did not know. The One of the engineers in an interview with a

the voyage from Portsmouth to Colombo was almost a record, for she had left the former port on 1st July and despite delays at Gibraltar, Port Said, Suez. Perim and Aden, as much as

journey in a month. The much discussed Belvilles, by consuming at the rate of go tóns coal per diem, showed a saving of from jo to so tons on other boilers.

She had kept up

ong he would get him a job. He understood that the job was to be got in Hongkong. The man paid witness's passage. On arrival he went to the Wong On Pông, being taken there']

·Hongkong ́ before. He was taken to a room on the third story..

At Newchwang, on the eth August, the wife ance or whether the advisability of adoptio enable them to earn some thiry cents per day by the same man. Witress was never in four days in some places, she had done the

At Government Civil Hospital, on 19th inst, THE GOVERNOR, | Captain B. MACKENZIE, of s.s. Kiang Tung,

Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 pm., 20th instant.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1904.

BARBOUR ACCOMMODATION.

it has already received the attention of the Executive. It so, we trust that something may be heard of it in the near future.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

:

NO CASES of plague have been notified to the Sanitary authorities since noon of yesterday,

LICENSES for 47 motor cars and 12 motor cycles to run in Calcutta have to date been issued.

WE are asked to remind our readers that the entires for the third meeting of the Gymkhana. Clubs close to the hon, secretary at the Hong kong Club to-morrow, Saturday, the 20th inst., at 7 pm. Entrance fees must accompany entries. The programme is adve,tised in an- other column.

It is reported from Berlin that information has reached the German Foreign Office that Japan has recently made unofficial suggestions to friendly powers regarding the termination of the war. These powers conveyed the unofficial than the present state of the Egyptian cotton sutions unofficially to the cars of the Rus crop.

NOTHING, it is said, could be more satisfactory

Whatever may be the future of this Colony, whether it is destined to become a still more flourishing possession of the Crown or to dwindle to a Inggard in the long line of We regret to have to record the death of Capt. Great Britain's oversea dependencies, ship-R. Mackenzie, of the China Merchants Steam ping must continue to be the source whence Navigation Co.'s s.s. Kiangtung, which oc its support is drawn. Anything which is currel at the Government Civil Hospital this calculated 10, in any way, hamper this afternoon firm plumaine poisoning, raused by is deserving of every attention at the eating tinned provision.

PERFUMERS.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE MERCHANTS. hands of the

AERATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS.

authorities whose most

recent act for the benefit of captains has met with the approval of all con- cerned. We refer to the improved system of storm warnings and weather forecasts. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. There is, however, another matter of even greater moment. The experiences of the past decade have shown us that the ship. ping of the port continues to increase so rapidly, both in numbers and size, that it is imperative that further accommodation should be provided with the least possible delay. With such extensive reclamation work as we have seen carried out since the

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schemes, such, for instance, as the Navai Yard extension, and others in contemplation, the deep water area has been considerably reduced so that the berthing of some of the larger craft visiting the port is likely to necessitate the smaller vessels being compelled to drop anchor in the

outskirts of the harbour lar removed from godowns or wharves. Owing to the in- crease in size and number of His Majesty's

THE riotous Sanitary Board rat-catchers and district watchmen, whose case has already been reported in these columns, were convict ed this afternoon by Mr. Gompertz, and fined $10 each, and bound over in the sum of $15 each to be of good behaviour for six months.

MR James Thompson, until recently employed at Quarry Bay, died suddenly yesterday after- noon. We are informed that he reported him. self at No 2 Police Station, and lusp. Gauld had him at once removed to hospital, but un

well-known in Hongkong. fortunately he expired on his way there. The deceased, who was only 34 years of age, was

THE S. Halyard, a vessel of some 1,550 tons Shanghai and Manila with cattle, is said to be owned by a firm in Norway and trading between aground near the former port. She was bound for Manila at the time of the accident and has on board over four hundred head of cattle for that part. Another steamer, the Selun, has been chartered to salve the cargo.

sian government, Japan offered to cease hosti- lities on condition () that her right to annex

returned to China. Russia refused to consider Korea be recognised; (2) that Manchuria be

these proposals.

perty's court this morning while waiting for a A CHINAMan, who was standing in Mr. Gom

case in which he was interested, found the time wearisome and thought he would relieve the

monotony with a cigarette. But the sacred precincts of the Court must not be polluted by the fumes of tobacco, and so the c lprit was called forward and with the lighted cigarette in his mouth he advanced and faced His Worship who ordered him to stand out is the body of the Court room in the attitude of the Statue of Liberty, holding aloft the offending cigarette, and to remain so during the sitting of the Court

THE King Edward VII Lodge of Hongkong of the Royal Antidiluvian Urder of Buffaloes

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Mr. Hallifax, who prosecuted, explained the internal arrangements of the boarding house, which extended from Des Voeux Road to Connaught Road..

Witness, continuing, said there were six other people in the room with him. He was not allowed to go into the street, nor were any of the others. He was prevented by the watch man who would not let him go out. Witness did not try to go out, but some of the others did. He did not tell the man in charge that he wanted to go out. There was always a man in charge day and night to prevent them from going out. He was told later that they to go to Singapore The first defendant, the accountant, told them they were to go. He said they were to sail on the 16th inst. Witness agreed to go at first, but changed his mind because, finding he was still not allowed to go out, he understood he was kid- happed. The others objected from the first,

were all

Witness did not leave the house once between the 14th inst, and the time the police came on the 16th. He knew the third defendant, who

was the cook in the house and said he had seen him stop a man who tried to go but. Both the second and third defendants told him

that when once anyone came up into that house they could not go out again without the first defendant. Witness did not know the man who was killed on the 16th inst. He went down to the second floor, when the cook woke up the watchman, calling out "thieves," and deceased went back to his room. It was the first defendant who took witness into the house on his arrival on the 14th inst. received a telegram from the Grand Lodge

Cross-examined by Mr. Bailey, witness said of England instructing to raise Mr. Sorabjee if he saw the man who met him in Canton he Dhunjechboy Setna of Hongkong to the second

could recognize him at once. It was not either (the Primo) Degree of the Order. The lodge of the accused; he first saw them in long- on receipt of the telegram unanimously decid-kong,. He was sitting in the road at Shamcen ed to confer the degree on Mr. Seina, and when the man came to him and said if he in the presence of a good number of Buffaloes, yesterday he was raised to this sublime degree

Before the ceremony the officers met at the Hotel America where a good dinner was en joyed, by some twenty-officers, under the pre. sidency of Mr. Seina. We believe Mr. Setna is the first i arsee to join the order, and the local King Edward VII Lode" is rather-

IN UU ships on the China Station, as well as of the On Wednesday morning Mr. Robert Duncan, proud of him. -Contributed.

A CHEE & CO., 祥 T 利廣

17, QUEEN'S ROAD.

FURNITURE DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

even

Gur Own

of

warships of foreign nations and to the re clamation to the shore of deep water near the Admiralty anchorage, the man-of-war ground which formerly accommodated all battleships British as well as foreign, has been found at times quite insufficient for vessels and the excess has had to be accommodated elsewhere. The necessity for providing special an- chorages for the accommodation ships-of-war, coal ships and ships with gunpowder of dangerous goods, as well as for keeping three fairways clear, for the passage of ships through the harbour, curtails very much the available deep water space This, in conjunction with the silting up of certain parts of the harbour, the continually contracting area within which our ships can conveniently moor, certainly calls for ROCHESTER LAMPS,

action without any loss of time. Approxi WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.mately speaking, the water area within the

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Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

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

NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

COLLISIONS 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 on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept.

Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.

Telegram Address:

MARINEWORK."

harbour limits comprises seven square miles. Of this about one-half is of less depth than fathoms at low water, while fairways and special anchorages take up another square miles, leaving only 2 square miles of deep water available for the very large and constantly increasing amount of shipping

Sanitary Inspector, was called out on business for a while, and when he returned he found his silver watch, gold chain and locket, a gold brooch, and $76 in notes had disappeared from his bedroom at No. 17 Wyndham Street. The maller was reported to the police and the cook Chan Shun, alias Chan See, was arrested on suspicion. The case was remanded till the 20th inst.

WHAT might have resulted in a frightful accident was very narrowly averted this morning, at the corner of Wing Lok Street and Des Voeux Road. A coolie carrying on his back a suck of grain suddenly dashed in front of a ricksha in which a European was riding, and finding another ricksha advancing in the other direction a few paces from him, dropped his bag in front of the first ricksha letters at No. 8 Connaught Road, West had KWAN Tak, a letter-carrier, while delivering | nearly upsetting the coolie, and causing him his cupidity excited by seeing a gold watch, tram car which had to pull up with barely. lo stop dead short in front of an advancing with a brass chain, lying on a desk, the pro-three inches between it and the back of the perty of Ng Chau Po. He quietly put the ricksha, which was unable to move on account same in his pocket and was about to leave the of the sack of grain in front and the crowd of establishment when Ng discovered his loss, rickshas and trucks on either side. Seeing that and Kwan was immediately arrested. Two all danger to his own anatomy was over, the with the months' hard labour and six hours in the stocks coolic calmly advanced, and

assistance of two others replaced the sack on was Mr. Gomperte's award.

his shoulders and continued on bis way.

THE United States Consul General at Bangkok brings to the notice of the Government the indigenous rubber producing plants in Siam

which he believes could be profitably cultivated also recently introduced the Para variety in in the Philippine Islands. The Siamese have various places, but the ultimate result of the venture remains to be seen. The indigenous variety yields about four pounds of rubber per

before Mr. Gompertz yesterday, charged with. Two burly looking Chinamen were placed entering No. 24 Gough Street, and stealing two boxes of clothing, silk bed-covers and other articles valued at $85, and $50 in money. Mr. defendant, Chu Chin. The complainant stated

O. D. Thomson appeared to defend the second

that when he made a search and found that a

an average speed of 13 knots despite ex- periencing some nasty monsoonish gales four days from Colombo, when seas almost ran the Russians was fleeting, said an officer in over the high decks. 'Our acquaintance with reply to a question put by the reporter at Colombo. We were fortunately informed of the doings of the Russian Volunteer Fleet cruisers in the Red Sea before entering the Canal and the Captain had been informed to da nothing. We were surprised on seeing the P. and U. Afalacca being escorted by the Russian vessel St. Petersburg back to Port Said and could not help feeling indignation over the fact, but we passed by without hailing each other. received orders from the Admiralty to wait there At Perim, where the vessel coaled, the Captain

until instructed to proceed. This was very significant and the officers were full of con. jeclures as to what was going to happen, but four days later the vessel was ordered to proceed os its journey, this being probably due to the fact that the Venus and two torpedo boats had entered the Red Sea. Though a small incident in itself it was sufficient to show how serious

the situation at that time was.

The officers and men were all in the best of trim, and claim amongst their number some remarkably good athletes. Amongst their recent achievements they have wiped out fairly good cricket elevens at Port Said, Suez' and Perim, and are most anxious to antagonise the lacnls. There will, we are sure, be no difficulty in coming to an arrangement in this connection.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Pium--

vatory:-- mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser-

On the 19th at 11.49 2.m. The barometer has

job. he said he was quite willing to get work came to Hongkong he would get witness a

in Hongkong. The man dal not mention any

When he landed he went straight to the board-ther to the northward and has fallen slightly.in. special place where the job was to be got risen slightly in S. China and considerably fur ing house and saw the first defendant who asked his name and country, and then sent him upstairs to the third floor. There were six men there, and the watchman,

Two men were then called into Coud and witness immediately recognised them as having slept in his room. Seven others were called and witness identified them as baving been on the premises, but not sleeping in his room, There was no actual force used to prevent witness from going out, the second and third defendanta merely telling him he was not allowed, and he remained still. One man who slept next to him tried to get away. He did not know that man. Witness himself wanted to go out, but on being told he would not be There was a balcony outside witness's room, allowed to do so he did not try any more.

and they were allowed to go on it, because they could not get to the street that way. Ile found out early in the morning of the 16th that they were to be taken to Singapore. The accountant told him so. The third defendant was never in charge of the room alone by him- self. It did not strike witness that the six of them could have escaped when only two were guarding them. Witness did not want to have any disturbance, so he did not try to escape.

the Philippines.

Gradients are slight upon the China Coast and only a little steeper over the China, Sea.

in the Formosa Channel and light S.W. winds Light S.W. or variable winds will be met with in the northern part of the China Sea.

Forecast ---Light 8.W. winds, fine. N.B. In the absence of information from

the north it is impossible to locate the typhoon. It is probably raging upon the west Coast of

Korea.

MR. Fritz Harding Gage, British Vice-Consul at Rouen, was drowned in the Seine near the Pont de L'Arche while he was with his fiancée, in a small sailing craft, and when he was step- his sister, and some friends. They had been

ping from the boat to another, he slipped and fell into the water, his friends being unable to effect his rescue, Mr. Gage's fiancée fainted oo witnessing the fatality. The deceased was thirty-three years of age.

GERMAN statistics compiled up to the middle of Juné give, the aggregate sales of steamers by other countries to Japan and Russia siace the outbreak of war as follows:-

Witness knew that a man tried to escape, but did not see him fall. With others he took ogland to Japan, 12-steamers, of 57,418 tons, ed from the verandah and saw him in the road England to Russia, one steamer 1,303 tons. The second defendant came and prevented Germany to Japan, four steamers, 6,742 tons. them from looking any more, saying that if they Germany to Russia, seven steamers, 5,264 tons, looked other people would see what bad hap-Holland, Italy, and Norway, ore steamer cach

pened and accuse them. He then made them

to Japan.

trading to the Colony. This matter has been annum, grows very quickly, and does not ap door leading into No. 22 Gough Street adjoin. go into the room, and shut the verandah door- Subsequently there has been announced the considered on several occasions by successive pear to be so liable to be attacked by disease ing his house was open, also another door Harbour Masters, and we believe it was Mr. as the imported Fara plants, Murray Rumsay who suggested deepening

The first defendant also came up and told them not to look out. No one went down from the boarding house to attend to the fallen man, but pretanded not to know about the malter, At this stage Mr Hallifax requested His Wor ship to add the further charge of sending in a false return of emigrants to the Harbour office. flis Worship elected to bear that charge se paralely.

sale to Japanese owners of two British steamers, of 4.913 tons; one German steamer, of 2,821 tons; and one Norwegian stramer of 2,123 tons.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

Indian (Lightning) 23rd inst. French (Ernest Simons) 24th inst.

American (Mongolfa) 17th inst. Indian (Kumsang) 29th inst.

leading to the roof, and on going to the roof he found the boxes but the contents had been the area between Yaumati and Stonecutter's WHEN reporting to the Government on the abstracted. The matter was reported to the Island by which nearly two square miles trade of Japan during the first four months of police, and a few days ago, Sergeant Murison, more of deep water could be added to our 1994, Mr. Suttor, the Government Commercial while coming over in the launch from Yaumati, present space. Then, again, there are shoal Agent, pointed out that the imports of leather, saw a man with some of the stolen clothing in sole and other descriptions, amounted to his possession, and arrested him. That was patches in several places of the harbour, 469,054 in 1904, as against £44.556 during the the first defendant, Kwan Shing. The latter principal of which is off Quarry Bay and in same period of 1953. No doubt the war had a then took the sergeant to a house and the Witness, continuing, said that the third mid-channel south of Cust Rock. Some lot to do with this increase, but, in any case, I complainant was sent for, and he imme- defendant slept on the premises that night. time since it was suggested that they be the demand had a decided upward tendency, diately identified some more of his stolen pro-Deceased was coming upstairs when third de- removed by dredging, but as the estimated and therefore special attention was again in-perly. That was the house of the second fendant cried "thieves." When deceased gol cost of doing sa proved too high the idea vited to the leather market for Japan, as well defendant. The first defendant said he was upstairs he immediately ran out on to the had to be abandoned. Not long ago it

as the Orient generally,

given the clothes found in his possession by a verandah. Witness thought deceased ran into friend of the second defendant to take them to the verandah an account of the third defendant's was pointed out that they were an obstruc.

Yaumati to pawn when a constable arrested calling out, The latter again called out tion to British warships, and owing to IT is difficult to attune the mind and imagina- him. Mr. Thomson said there was no evidence "thieves", after the man fell from the ver the tendency towards larger and deeption to the Pope "doing" the Vatican sights, against the second defendant beyond his pos- andah. Witness thought the third defendant draughted vessels it is quite possible that but that is how he is employing his leisure at session of a bundle of unmarked clothes, and called out "thieves" the last time, because a in the very near future they may become the present time. Of course all the world it was not for him to offer any explanation; it | visitor had left the house! The third defend a source of grave danger to merchant knows that in his Palace of the Vatican there was for the prosecution to show that he stole ant went out on to the verandah after the de- vessels. In his report on the har.

are so many art treasures that it would take the goods or received them knowing them to ceased fell. the lifetime of a young man to study them all, have been stolen. There was no evidence to Other evidence was thep called corroborat-tralian Ports, left Sydney on 13th inst., p.m.j bour for last year, Mr. Basi! Taylor, who

and that they are of overpowering interest; yet, show any criminal act or intention or knowing that already given. Several of these wit and is due here on 7th prox. with all that, it does not fit in with one's ideas ledge on the part of the defendant.

Both

then held the acting appointment, did not favour dredging which, he said, was extremely that a Pontiff should go sight-seeing. But why defendants were convicted on the charge of slow and expensive work. Any scheme not, after all? There is nothing undignified in being in unlawful possession of stolen property, Telephone-No. 358. which bases its entire hopes on this alone it, and it certainly must be a consolation and a and were sent to three months' hard labour

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Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.

each and six hours stocks,

nesses said they were quite willing to go to Singapore to work, but they wanted liberty. They also identified the defendants as their captors and detainers,

The cars was remanded,

Australian (Chingiu) 7th prox.

The Barber Line 5.5. Skimosa sailed from New York on 14th inst,'

The E & A. Co.'s 5.5. Eastern from Sydney, etc, will leave Manila to-morrow for this part.

The C. N. Co's 1.8. Chingtu from Aus

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The H. A. L. 3.1. Scandia from Hamburg el-Singapore for this port on t&b inst. km, and may be expected here on 24th lost, | daylight.