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MARRIAGE.

On 23rd Aug. at the Synagogue Ibatul, Singapore, by the Revd. J. H. Sheridan, FLORA, third dacghter of Mrs. J. Nathan, to FLAVOUR EMMANUEL, second son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

Judah, of Calcutta,

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A FAZAL plano Case is reported from Amor Lans. Eight more and the gooth case since the beginning of the year will be reached.

OWING to the favourable reports brought back by both Prince Tsaichen and Fu Lun of their courteous reception in European countries, the Government is seriously considering the advisability of sending other princes and nobles to travel abroa-1---P, &a T, Times,

W. ISAAC, the carpenter of the 5.5. Mongolia, was walking along Queen's Road last evening, when a coolie bumped up against him, and at

MR. F. O, Seaton, the Bristy Viss your fur Macao, leaves for home shortly on a year's fur lough. Mr. Seaton arrived from Macao to-day.

News has been received of the total loss the Goto Islands in the typhoon through which the lava and Baralong passed the other day: of the Mitsu Bishi Co.'s steam collier Akunoura Baru, 1,065 tons..

INFORMATION (om Moukden on the 48th to

the Courrier states that the arrival of another army corps has brought the total Russian force there up to 100,000. Three Japanese columns

swung round and seized the coolie, who im- the same time he felt a tug at his pocket. Hoate advancing on Linoyang.

mediately dropped a purse containing $9 which he had just purloined from Mr. Isaac's pocket. Result: Three months' hard labour and six hours in the stocks.

THE Chinese Minister to France, who has charge of Chinese interests in Portugal as well, has recently urged that military attaches be appointed to all the principal legations abroad so that they may see something of foreign military methods. This very sensible sug- gestion is favourably regarded by the Waiwupu

calculated to inspire China with a proper

BV command of the Tzir the steamers Daa, Ural, Terek, Kuban, Iriysh, Anadyr, and Argun which were recently purchased by the Russian Gy.rnment, will be added to the Russian Navy list, the first four as cruisers, and the 1.st three as transports.

18 Rangoon crows have become so numerous that they are a nuisance, in consequence of which steps for their destruction have been taken by the Municipality. The report on the subject shows that 648 eggs were destroyed by

CAL BANKRUPTCY CASE..

lege an ER of graduates from the Military Col. LCAZ legs of Canton have been ordered to Kwangs. to officer the imperial forces now operating in that province, according to the Eastern Times.

At the Supreme Court this afternoon, Sir Henry S. Berkeley (Chief Justice) presiding, the hearing of the case Leafhing ex parte, NEWS has just been received from New York, (the debtor), and Leung King Chuen and Luk appointing Captain C. W. Mend, Engineer-in-Show Ip, and the trustee in bankruptcy of Lee Chief and General Manager of the American Shing was continued,

Mr. E. H. Sharp, x.C., again appeared for China Development Company, Canton- Hankow Railway, putting him in charge of all the petitioners, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, R.C., departments, both in Shanghai and Canton, filling the place of Mr. Willis E. Gray. Captain

Mead's valuable service to the Company have been justly recognised and appreciated by the New York Office and the Board of Directors The engagement of Captain C. W. Mead to a channing Shanghai girl, Miss Beatrice Zils, is also announced.-M. C. D. News.

A WASHINGTON despatch states that heirs of Louis Etzel, killed by Chinese soldiers near Newchwang, are dissatisfied with the amount of indemnity ($25,000 Mexican) paid by the Chinese Government on account of the affair and have complained to the States Department. The department has replied that in view of the facts, the unpremeditated character of the

can and other governments in fixing indemnities on account of death, the indemnity in this case is regarded as sufficient. The promptness of the Chinese Government in setting the case without any pressure is officially comm-nded.

he Hongkong Celegraph Nothing we should say would be better the ilealth Officers' Department there in June. killing and the genomi practice of the Ameri-

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1904.

THE PROFESSIONAL LOANER.

Several of the beachcombing fraternity figured in the dock at the Police Court yesterday and were dealt with according to their deserts. This morning a very cosino politan crowd of similar undesirables occu- pied the attention of Mr. Gompertz and WHISKY.now go to swell the ever-increasing mob of

SCOTCH-

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Price $16.50 per Dozen:

LIMITED.

respect for the power of other nations.

By kind permission of L. Col. Iremonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme of music at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Friday, the 2nd instant (weather permitting).

Masche..."The Washlugton Post ". Idyll. "Hiawath

Selection..." Merrie England

Song.1.lehæstied **

Selection...." Reminiscences of Scotland Yatır..... Lancer

"rule"......

The Tercader

God save the King.

..... Morel ...German

Karoly Klay

....Godfry ....ðlargis Williams

The Garrison at the Wousung Forts although they have been on review frequently of late doing honour to Prince Pa Lun at his incoming and outgoing has apparently been varying their exercises by duties of a more soldierly nature laid in several of the most important places in the Yangtsekiang river, reports the Shanghai Daily Press. The operations were commenced on the 22nd instant and have been steadily carried on since that date. The movements were carried on under the superintendence of the Commandant of the Forts,

than the simple reviews, Mines have been

DURING the fith moon of the current year six teen big cases of robbery were reported to the local authorities, and besides these, a great many others have not been reported, for

obvious reaseas. Notwithstanding the drastic measures adopted by the authorities, robbery

still often occurs even in broad daylight. It'

A queer task for Municipal administration

indeed!

THE S.S. Cranley, which was blown ashore at Ukaichi, Japan, in a typhoon, and which is now very much damage. A few plates have been in the Cosmopolitan Dock, has not sustained strained, causing a slight leak, her bilge keel bent, and a certain amount of wear and tear caused to the engines and machinery in the strenuous efforts made to get her off the sandy

beach on which she stranded.

The following changes in the Native Infantry reliefs for 1904-05 have been sanctioned :-The roth Mahrattas, and the 114th Marattas return. ing to India from Hongkong, will be relieved by the 119th Infantry and 129th Baluchis. A decision about the relief of the other battalion in Hongkong, and two battalions in Northern China has been postponed for a couple of

months.

A CURIOUS case came before Mr. Kemp yes. tenday, in which an Indian milk-seller was charged with being in unlawful possession of a quantity of "dholl," or split peas, which it was 'believed had been stolen. It appeared that as the defendant was leaving the quarters of the 114th Mahrattas one of the men stopped him and asked what he had in his bundle. He opened his bundle and showed the contents, which, he said, be had purchased from a man in the regiment. The milkman was arrested and charged with being in unlawful possession of goods reasonably suspected of being stolen. Mr. O, D. Thomson, solicitor, appeared for the defence. In the course of the evidence for the prosecution it transpired that the men were in the habit of selling or bartering the surplus of their rations, and that it had always been n custom with them to do so. The sepoy of the regiment, who caused the arrest of the defend: ant, and brought the charge, himself made that statement.—Mr. Thanisan urged that there was nothing to charge the defendant with, unless he knew that it was against the regulations for the men to sell their surplus rations. He was accustomed to such transactions, and naturally ONE year's hard labour and six hours stocks believed the men were at liberty to deal with was Mr. Compertz's award to a Chinaman (C-their rations, which were their own property day for enticing a coplie man and woman into the Colony for the purpose of emigration. pleased, and he did his buying or battering as part of their emolument, in any way they

A COOLIE, with several aliases, was sent to three months' hard labour and six hours in the stocks, by Mr. Gompent, this afternoon, for snatching a pair of earrings from the ears of a young Chinese widow in Graham Street. He said he did not steal the car-rings, which the woman saw him drop. Asked why he ran away he said he ran because he saw others doing so.

for the trustco.

Mr. Pollock, resuming his argument as to the Invalidly of the lease, said that assuming Sir John Carrington decided that allegations were absolutely and entirely correct, such a decision would not have the effect of deciding

that there was a full and valid leate for so years, inasmuch as in the paragraph (5) in question there was no date mentioned for the commencement of the lease, and it had been laid down in Humphreys cast, which he quoted yesterday, (and of course in other cases referred to there, that a lease must have a certain date of beginning and a certain date of ending. He further contended that there had been a mistake, and Lee Wun had no right to execute a lease, which, if done at all, should have been executed by one of his brothers.

The barristers' table was literally weighed down by legal tomes, and many authorities

the granting thereof. were cited dealing with the matter of leases or

Mr. Slade, in reply, read numerous extracts from decided cases bearing on such matters, He added that the previous judgment had been acquiesced in for some years, and as his clients had always paid their rent, he urged that the validity of the document could not be disputed.

His Lordship said there had been very able arguments on both sides. He would, however, take time to consider his decision, but would give judgment that day week.

CONTRACTORS ». PAINTERS.

A WRATHFUL DEFENDANT.

In the Summary Court this afternoon before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (Puispe Judge), the Hip Yuen Shing painting firm, of 11, King Sing Street, sued Yu Chan Tam Yuk, Chung Pui and Sui Cheong, Irading under the hong name of Cheung Lung, contractors, of 14, Stanley Street, for the recovery of $599, balance due for work done and material supplied.

Mr. E. J. Grist (Messrs Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. D'Almada e Castro defended.

-Plaintiff said he entered into a contract with the defendants to do certain lime-washing and painting at an agreed sum of $950. At the present time there was due to him a sum of $98.

calculating look in his eye. Maybe, he is a appears that Kwangtung is a province infested They were told that if they came to Hongkong | openly. There was nothing to show that the rejected by Mr. Thomas, the architect, as be

vagrants congregated in the House of Deten- tion. The reading public who have followed our columns and those of our contempor- aries cannot fail to have been impressed by the alarming recrudescence of vagrancy in the Colony; while others, outside of the pale of newspaper criticism, have doubtless noticed a similar condition of affairs by watching the streets of Hongkong. The lazy ne'er-do-well is easily detected. He is thin or he is fat, but he is always voluble. The "state of his affairs is a perennial subject, and when he buttonholes one in Queen's Road Central it is soon observable that there is no false pride about him. He is "down on his uppers and he tells you so. Misfortune has overtaken him, and in the same sentence A. S. WATSON & Co., he reminds you that there is no shame in poverty. There is no mistaking him; he is the unkempt, unshaven man with a cold,

sailor stranded in Ilongkong, an adventurer [35 who for the nonce las missed his mark: or he may have held some good position and korced to give it up owing to "ill-health;" but no matter what his position or pro- fession he is invariably in urgent need of anything from a few cents to the passage money to "get out of the Colony," The exact amount depends entirely upon yourself. Does he think you good for two dollars, then -it is two dollars at stand between him and starvation or suicide. A refusal seldom dis mays him and if one is tempted to help him a little he thanks you profusely and generally disappears into the side door leading 10 a bar. That is one specimen of the pro- fessional loaf who swears his eternal indebtedness to you, and the next moment goes through a similar performance with athers who may be stupid enough to give

BUILDINGS.

ALEXANDRA

Hongkong, 30th August, 1904.

TELEPHONE NO. 250.

TABLE ADDRESS: "ACHEL' HONGKONG

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A CHEE &

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17, QUEEN'S ROAD.

FURNITURE

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS.

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH. TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

him an ear.

Sooner or later these men get into prison, or in many instances are dis- charged on their promising to leave the Colony. Somehow or another they get away, and upon arrival at Shanghai or Manila recommence annoying inhabitants until they are ordered out, and then return to Hong kong. The neighbouring ports have no desire to sustain the beachcomber any more than we have in Hongkong; yet these men continue infesting the Colony and each of the ports blames the other for the indiscriminate dumping of the seun of the Orient upon Vagrancy is not a crime; begging is and if only some scheme could be devised whereby the deserving cases among the vagrants could be sifted from the undeserving, the problem would be nearer solution. As matters stand at present it is evident that nothing can be done to put a stop to the career of the majority of the professional loafers. Labour is too cheap to 145 permit of their engagement locally ships are besieged by the more fortunate yet no less unsuccessful members of the seafaring

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and-

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

its shores.

with robbers and malcontents, and, among other reasons, those generally given are that the province is overtaxed, while the rapid in- crease of population over a small limited area of land is disproportionate.-Eastern Times.

THE Japan Daily Herald says a very funny incident happened at the Swimming Club. The

game of water-polo was in fall action, the Red Caps having scored two gauls, when suddenly players were surrounded and cut off their base by an enormous army of white jelly-6sh. The scene was most comical. The sensitive swim- mers found themselves in a very awkward situation, for it is not very pleasant to swimm through heaps of stinging gelatinous masses. Some of them tried to climb the goal-posts, but they soon fell back among their enemies. The only thing to do was to return to the barge and that they did in a desperate rush.

AT the Supreme Court this morning, before the Chief Justice (Sir H. Spencer Berkeley), sitting in bankruptcy jurisdiction, Mr. G. K. Hail Brutton appeared on behalf of the Po Fung Bank debtors, and the Official Receiver (Mr. Bruce Shepherd) versus the Pod Sun Cheung firm and the Official Receiver, and made ap. plication for approval of the scheme of com- position made to the creditors, and annulment of the adjudication order Messrs. P. W. Goldring and E. A. Bonner represented in terested parties. The case has been fully reported in these columns, is Lordship gave assent to the applications.

he would get them very lucrative work, but when they arrived they found he was going to send them to Singapore. They did not wish to go there, and complained; hence the charge.

By kind permission of the. Commander of Police, The String Band will play the following programme of music at the Macau Hotel from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on Saturday

next, the 3rd inst.

March......" The Summer Girl"..Vissor Merceson Overruza...." Poet and Peasant....F. ron Suppe Waltzes.. Team Faces"... ...J. Moissler Selection...." Pirates of Penzance"....II. Sullivan Waltzes...." Worship to the Beautiful “ G. Codina Among the Roses

W. Willcon hchottische." Kinky Headed Coon ".....S. Hosfeld Galop..." Get Away".C. Weber

Two stokers, from H.M,S. Rasario, went into a Chinese shop in Queen's Road, West, last evening and asked to see a few harmonica, or mouth organs. They were shown sonse, and played several times, and were so pleased with one instrument that they decided to acquire it. Unfortunately, however, they did not want to pay for its acquisition, and that led to the trouble. Finding the men refuse to pay for their pur chase, the shop-keeper blew his police whistle, and a constable appearing or the scene, the men were given into custody, and taken to the Station. There they were asked if they would pay or be charged with larceny. They paid; but the matter did not end there, as it was shown, before Mr. Gompertz this morning, that they were behaving in very disorderly manner, and when the first man was arrested heassaulted the constable, the second man trying to release his chum by holding his arm. They were each MR. J. Hartley, of Shanghai, forwards lo us a

fined 15 or 7 days, for the disorderly conduct; phamphlet entitled "Why and how I was boycotted by the Imperial Japanese Govern. the first defendant also being fined $to for ment and others for more than twenty-five assaulting the Police, and the second $5 for years." The writer alleges that he was "boy-interfering with a policeman in the execution cotted for furnishing documents showing that of his duly. The fines were paid. the Japanese had had conferred the 'favoured

E. C. WILKS & Co., community, and immediate prospects offer

no field for cheap European labour. That TRAVELLERS to the States will be interested in the following report from the New York something must be done is inevitable; for Maritima Register:-Judge Adams in the as things are at present the beachcomber | United States District Court at New York on is a disgrace to the streets of Hongkong.

MARINE SURVEYORS,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

NAVAL ARCHITECTS..

Cross-examined: His work was not entirely. stuff had been stolen, or that it was Governing badly done. It was true that the stairs ment property, which it would not be after it were re-painted by another firm, but because was issued to the men, and he asked for the he had thrown up the work. man's discharge -His Worship found that there had been nothing in the evidence to bring the defendant within the pale of the law. He had simply acted in accordance with an existing custom. It was a pity, however, that he was

teable to identify the man from whom he bought the goods. Under the circumstances he must be discharged, and the goods restored to him.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

THE CHINESE BOARDING-HOUSE CASE,

́The case in which the accountant, the watch man and the cook of the "Kwong Hok "board. ing house, at No. sar Des Vaux Road, were charged with slaying and killing a coolie held for emigration, was continued this afternoon

before Mr. Kemp. At the last bearing of the case an adjournment was had for the production of the plans of the houses adjoining that in which the occurrence took place. These were produced-to-day by Inspector Withers.

Mr. E. R. Hallifax prosecuted for the police, and Mr. H. G. C. Bailey, solicitor, appeared for the defence.

Mr. W. Wissell, assistant engineer of the Public Works Department, stated that last week he made plans of the upper floors of 121, Des Vaux Road West, and 55 Connaught Road, West. The only entrance to the top

floor of No. 55 was by the staircase leading to the top floor of No. 121, they being practically

one flat. There was no other exit from the

|

A Chinese book-keeper appointed to go through the books of the defendant firm pro duced the books in question, and said that he found there was due to plaintiff the sum of

$447.97.

Cross-examined: The four defendants-were present and agreed that this sum was due,

Mr. d'Almada said that so far as he was con- cerned the case was ended.

Three of the defendants, examined,admitted the truth of this statement; but the fourth, Yu Chang, an aged, irascible and cantankerous . individual, denied it, and further more alleged that his name had been affixed to the contract by some one else.

ly

Pressed by his Honour, the old man resolute- refused to answer any plain questions.

His Donour said it was very difficult to have

patience with such a man.

In the end judgment was given for $447.97. The old man had to be forcibly put out of the Court owing to his expressed contempt of the whole matter.

H. M. SHIPS IN CHINA.

A PROTEST.

A British taxpayer in China writes to. Truth' Protesting against the use of his Majesty's ships for the conveyance of guests to and from functions given by naval officers. This is a very old story, and taxpayers at home may well ask why so notorious an abuse still flourishes unchecked. In this instance a dinner was top-floor. One door was the key to the whole given on June 3, on board one of the ships of of the upper floor. The height from the top destroyer Fame was sent to fetch certain guests the squadron then lying at Nanking. The floor to the ground would be about 45 feet. from Chinking, and the Whiting, another Cheung Fok Ling, sergeant interpreter of destroyer, brought them back. The distance police, stated that he took the statements of

is about seventy miles, and the coal expenditure the prisoners after their arrest, after giving on the jouracy, therefore, represents a sub- them the usual caution. The first and third.

duced.

made his mark. The statements were pro-any status which could possibly entitle them privileged individuals were civilians without

to such accommodation at the public expense- The prisoners were committed, for trial at though, from Truth's point of view, the status of the next criminal sessions, their defence being the parties really does not affect the principle. reserved. The first defendant, on the charge of the thing. Truth supposes there are some of detaining the deceased against his will for naval regulations on this subject, but they the purpose of emigration, was fined $250 with the alternative of three months' hard labour,

THE WEATHER.

seem the more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

"SHIPPING AND MAILS,

nation clause' on Dutch American and Ger- 1r conditions continue as at present, the streets man firms in permitting the import of opium should soon be cleared of the undesirable British importers, wholesale and retail," lle lately have been infesting our principal for medical uses, ignored by the Japanese to classes-the beachcombers and loafers-who defendants signed their statements, the second stantial sum of money. Moreover, some of the solicits the support of all classes to help him thoroughfares to the annoyance of the business to obtain justice and compensation from the community. This morning Inspector Gourlay British and Japanese Governments.

placed a very cosmopolitan section of that genus before Mr. Gompertz and Mr. Kemp and that fair play may be established for far-

among whom were several Americans, some eigners in the Japanese Empire."

British, two Mabommedans, an aged jew from Baghbad, and an Arabian Jewess. The old Jew said he was 72 years of age, no one to support him, so he was reduced to begging.

The Jewess, who only spoke Arabia, was remanded for the July 8 handed down a decision in the libel attendance of an interpreter. The others were all filed against the steamship Minnetonka by declared vagrants and remanded to the House of Frances M. Barnes for loss of a pearl necklace Detention. Upon this one of the men spoke up valued at $5,000, which she alleged was stolen and said that if he were sent to the House of from her stateroom by a steward in the employ Detention, he would never get work, as those of the company. Judge Adams, finding for the who were there told him that as soon as would libellant, made out a case of more than negli- be employers heard that they were in the House gence. That she was unable to deposit the they immediately refused to have anything to jewels with the purser who fault of her own, do with them, and refused them work of any and the made a diligent effort to do so. The sort. Mr. Gompertz said vagrants could not conditions printed upon the back of the tickets be allowed to infest the streets; they must 50 he held "are not binding, because they are not to the House and from there they could com reasonable, nor in accordance with public municate with their consuls, if foreigners, wilb THE Chinese now being enrolled by the Rus-policy. Admimlly lawyers regard the decision a view to getting them sent back to their sians as railway' guards are only armed with as of great importance in establishing a pre-own countries. The Britishers, if they chose to Telegram Address:

Telephone-No. 358. stout stick in case when the Russians retire cedent in connection with the liability of steam look for it, should be able to find work MARINEWORK.*

they should turn and read the hand which ship owners in regard to fosses of valuables on the shipping, or perhaps work their passages Hongkong, 3rd May, 1904.

[58x has fed them.-P. &* 7. Timers,

shipboard

out of the Golonyty

OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed,

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

and Motor Launches.

Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocal goods kept.

Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sous Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

IN Colombo the question of connecting ships in the harbour with the telephone exchange is under consideration; ·

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THE subject of "Problem's" letter has been sufficiently dealt with in the Press, and need not be re-opened in our columos.

ork among

The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plum. mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser vatory:

On the 1st at 11.45 am.. The bafometer bas risen throughout China and in the Philippines, and is falling in N. Japan,"

The typhoon would appear to be crossing S.. Japan, still moving N.N.E.

light variable winds will be experienced in the Gradients are slight on the China Coast, and

Formosa Channel. Over the China Sea they are rather steep and strong S.W.monsoon will prevail there.

Forecast:-Fresh 5, winds, cloudy, fair. N.H-The information from the north this morning is meagra.

NAILS DUE.

Indian (Arratoon Apcar) 6th inst. Canadian (Empress of Jajan) 6th inst Australian (Chingtu) 7th inst. German (Prins Heinrich) 7th fast,

The Q. & 0. 5. S. Co.'s 3.5. Coptic arrived at San Francisco on 29th vit

The P. M. S. 5. Co's s... China with mails, &c., left Shanghai for this port yesterday mid: night, due Hongkong Saturday at daylight.

The Silk ex C. P. R. Co.'s 5.8. Empress of China left Hongkong on 3rd ult, and Yoko- hama on 12th ult, arrived at New York on 30th- ult, thus making a transit of 27 days from Hongkong nad 18 days from Yokohama..

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