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LOCAL AND GENERAL:

THERE were no cases of plague notified to-day.

It is reported the King offered a knighthood to General Rooth of the Salvation Army.

THE fiji has a London telegram of the 31st alt. announcing the death of the Somaliland

Mullah.

THE provisional regulations governing the On the bih September, at Smyrna, Mrs. T. registration of trade marks in China, came SARKIES, of Singapore, of a daughter.

into force on the 23rd of next month.

MARRIAGE.

On 6th inst., at St John's Pro-Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Venerable Archdeacon Thom. son, the Rev. ROBERT C. WILSON, of Bethel, Vermont, to SARAH TAYLOR RHETT, second daughter of the late John Khett, Esq., of South

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Ou the 6th September, at 48-8 Waterloo Street, Singapore, CAROLINA EMBLINA, the be- loved wife of FRANCIS ALEXANDER OLIVEIRO, aged 29 years. Deeply regretted.

On 7th inst., at Hankow, after a long illness, MOSES RAPPAPORT.

THE French steamer Le Rkmi, 259 tope, now lying in the Pearl River, Canton, is to be sold by public auction at the French Consulate, Canton, on the goth inst.

THE French steamer George captured off Port Arthur and condemned by the Prize Court at Naseho, was a wooden vessel of 180 tons with a crew of 36. She has no French rezister, and

is declared on the best authority that the most capacity of the trans-Siberian railway is 17,000 men innath, or 204,000 men a year.

ALLEGED SLAVERY, IN HONGKONG.

UNREPORTED FIRE-ARMS.

afternoon, at the instance of Li Hi, a wealthy Captain H. Becker, of the Imperial German

CAPTAIN FINED $25. A woman was placed before Mr. Kemp this merchant of Bonham Strand, charged with Mail as Gneisenate, was this morning sum obtaining $200 from him, under false pretences. moned before Mr. Kemp, charged with enter- The facts of the case, briefly, are these. Aing the harbour with arms on board, which he IT is reported that 10 000 Russian troops with month ago the complainant approached the neglected to report to the Harbour Master, on 34 Runs and 200 waggons have arrived at Hsin-defendant with a request that she would hire arrival on the 16th of August last. A clerk in minuun from Mukden; but Russia is muck too out her daughter, a girl twelve years of age, the employ of the Hongkong and Kowloon solicitous ab mit neutrality of China for this to as a servant for his wife, for which she, the Wharf and Godown Company testified that, |be possible.

mother, was to be paid $203. The woman on the date in question, he was on duty at the tered upon her service, and the next day dis-other goods received, from the Gnatrenan, were agreed, the money was paid, the daughter. en- receiving godown, at Kowloon, and among

ONE of the most extraordinary orders ever received at Sheffield has been booked by appeared, well-known firm of silversmiths, "It is for an

entire suite of bed-room furniture in sterling silver. The order has come from the East,

FOR obstracting the Electric Tram Company's lines with their trucks, and causing the stop page, and interfere ce with the running of the cars, three coolies were fined $15 each, and one coolie $5. There were previous convictions against the three former.

Grist, appeared for the prosecution. Plaintiffs Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs, Wilkiusan and

accountant, testified to the payment of the money to the accused, by order of his master. A student, a friend of the defendant, then stated that on the day in question the complainant came to the defendant's house with $200, and asked her, in witness's presence, to make out a receipt for the amount. Defendant could not write, so witness took her to a fortune-teller who made out the receipt for her, and defend ant signed it by affixing her mark to the document. This receipt, a formidable-looking A REPORT was current in the city to-day, to document, thirty inches square, and of flimsy the effect that the conductors of the Electric red paper, was produced. Witness and defea Tramway Company were about to go out on dant then went to complainant's family house, proved it to be, so far as their knowledge of accountant to pay her $200, which was done strike.

Inquiries made of the authorities and the latter took the receipt and ordered the any such Intention went, a were canard, pro-in witness's presence. That night witness was passing complainant's house, when he saw defendant standing about outside. The next appeared. The fortune-teller corroborated the receipt. Evidence of the disappearance of the last witness, as regards his writing cut the

is repudiated by the French Consul at Naga-bably promulgated by "the man in the street."

saki.

from the manifest produced to his company by seventeen cases of arms which he tallied. He said he got his information as to their contents

the steamer's agents, Messi, Melchers and Co. A. Grant, detective inspector, stated that in consequence of a letter received from the Captain Superintendent of Police, he visited the Kowloon Godowns, and there found consignees marks and the word "Arms ! seventeen cases of arms, bearing various

in English. He opened the case to prove, their contents, and then applied for a sum A boarding-officer from the Harbour Master's mons against the Captain of the Gneisenau, office stated that on the arrival of the vessel in question in port, on the 16th ulto. in the ordinary course of his duties, he boarded her to be filled up, declaring what, if any, arms, and furnished the captain with the usual form

filled up and returned to him, signed by the explosives, etc. were on board. The forms were captain, but there was no entry therein of any of thereupon reported to the Captalo Superinten seventeen cases of arms in question were land- dentof Police. Captain Bleckeradmitted that the

AN Ichang letter states that Viceroy Chang AN interesting letter has been received in Cane/morning he heard that the girl had dis the cases of arms in question. The maiter was

Celegraph Chih-tung has appointed Mr. Wang, for many

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1904.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN

HONGKONG.

Town from Dr. Muller, who attended ex-

President Kruger on his death-bed. He says

Swire at flankow, and Agent for that firm in that shortly before the end the dying statesman girl was given, ard of the arrest of the defend-ed from his vessel, among other cargo. The

years compradore of Messrs. Butterfield and Ichang, to lie Assistant Director of the Ichang Bureau of Foreign Affairs.

THE Nagasaki Press of the 1st inst. says:- The terms of chatter to the Osaka Shosen

is a pity there was was, but everything, 1 declared: "I no longer hate the English. It

believe, will come right in the end."

By the steamer which arrived this morning

ant, on the 5th instant, at Yaumati,

Defendant stated that she did agree to let her daughter out to service to com

were landed from his vessel, unreported, and

Master's papers was, he supposed, that the reason they were not reparted in the Harbour

plainant's wife, and she went and alter properly through the manifest, as he should purser had so much to do that he did not look wards returned, Hongkong possesses very little of the Kaisha of the steamers Triumph, Frithier from Canton there came to Hongkong a party of for her daughter's service, and she did not sign was not in Court, and Mr. Kemp offered the She was not paid $200 have done, hence the omission. The parser opportunities of teaching its sons the various Struve, Amigo, Daphne, Clara Jebsen, Lydia Young Chinese gentlemen, who are on their the receipt produced. The reason her daughter captain an adjournment to enable him to secure trades that are practised in the Colony and and Rugby, will terminate shortly, and the way to Japan to enter the Takio and other returned was because she heard she was to be his evidence, if he desired to do so. The cap- the large cities of the world. The time. Company have now arranged to renew the aniversities, as students, and to generally sold for $130, and sent out of the Colony Hertain, however, said he would admit the.cases honoured system of apprenticeship, which charter parties of the first five vessels for another study, so far as permitted, japanese methods daughter was with her at the time of her ar

six months, while the others are to be released military, naval, and educational. They leave, rest, but the father had taken her to Shanghai. I did not think it any use to call the purser, Mr. unhappily in England has developed in a great measure into a labour-saving specula- tion, giving masters of crafts an opportunity of turning over the most irksome of their work to their boys, and allowing them to farm out the most simple to their appren- tices, they drawing the proceeds and the nominal apprentices a mere pittance, can

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A TOKIO telegram, of 7th inst., printed in the THERE was a large gathering of Parsees at the N. C. D. News, says that the official estimates Parsee Club this morning when the "Jasan" of the rice crop forecast an extraordinary har-Ceremony of "Naoroz" (new year) was vest exceeding fifty million koku (250,000,00 formed by the Parsee Dastar (priest), Scrab bushels), twenty per cent above the average, Jamasjee. After prayers and the "Hamajor" and breaking the record in the memory of the Ceremony the company dispersed. King oldest inhabitant. There will be no necessity Yezdezerd, last of the Parsee Kings, came to

to import rice, thus making the balance of trade favourable. and cocoons are also excellent.

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IT is not often that a policeman has to com- an absolute necessity from the fact that thereThis morning a very young-looking Chinese Constable Makan Khan had that misfortune plain of the theft of his property, but Police are many important industries desirous of woman living at No. z Possession Street, was this morning, he having discovered that an obtaining skilled craftsmen with a know. charged, before Mr. Kemp, with the theft of autemployed coolie had Jounged in to bis quar- ledge hoth of the theoretical and practical quantity of jewellery, clothing, and money to ters and endeavoured to clear out with shous sides of the avocation that they have chosen. the total value of $2,483, the property of an, and clothing value $12. The case was met by Besides, the number of engineers calling at

accountant employed by a firm in Wing Lok three months' hard labour and six hours' stocks. Street, on the 13th inst. The girl, who was the port and residing here has grown to such alleged to have been on intimate terms with large figures that among them will be the complainant, and, visiting his house in his found many only too eager to continue absence, secured the goods in question and studies in the various branches of their made off with them. The case was remanded. profession. Many youths having a sound insight into clememary mathematics and mechanics have now to proceed to England

or America in order to take up the more

ON the 9th of August, a shop coolie was sent by his master, a trader of Queen's Road West, to collect 5200 from the Bank, which he did and

The father came back wilbout the child, and appeared in Court, and said he knew nothing of the transaction.

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Mr. Grist argued that the only, difficulty which presented itself in the case was as to

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Kemp held that there was no actual intention to deliberately evade the harbour rules on the offence for which the maximum penalty was a part of the captain; but it was a very serious fine of $200, and as the law bad been broken.

whether, at the time of receiving the money, he must impose a fine of Sas. the defendant intended to entice her daughter away. That she did so eventually, and on the samne evening was proved by her waiting around complainant's house and the discovery of the disappearance of the girl the next morning, and the finding her in her mother's house. His Worship remanded the case until to-morrow for consideration.

·GERMAN PRINCES FOR THE KAK BAST.

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HOW SUBMARINES ARE TRAPPED.

That submarines can be caught by the sim ple operation of trawling has been demonstrat ed in Portsmouth Harbour. The test was onD of the most interesting features of the series of submarine manœuvres recently in progress. A net of fine sicel wire, nearly 250 feet long and -seven feet deep, was rigged on long booms at Two Princes of the Prussian Royal House tached to steam pinnaces, A accluded spot A CHINESE boatman was drowned in the har-study the war on the spot. To the Russian periments. It had a soft mud bottom, so that are being sent by the Kaiser to the Far East towell up the harbour was selected for the ex- bour at Yaumati early yesterday morning, Headquarters Prince-Friedrich Leopold will be any of the submarines touched in diving the through slipping off the gang-plank of the despatched, and Prince Karl Anton von

chances of disaster were greatly minimised. Seung Lighter. His wife seeing the occur-

Hohenzollern goes to accompany the Japanese For several hours the little craft attacked the rence watched about the locality, and eight armies. Prince Friedrich Leopold, who is a net in vain. At every effort the submarines hours later discovered the floating body of her Cavalry general, is a son of the late Prince became entangled in its meshes, and were com husband. The police were communicated with, Gerinan war as the "Red Prince." He is surface. Nor was it possible even to force the Friedrich Karl, known during the Franco-pelled to acknowledge defeat by rising to the married to a sister of the German Empress. passage at full speed or to dodge beneath the Hohenzollern line, is a major on the General Staff, and as announced in our columps the other evening is on board of the us. Sachsen scientific soldier of high promise. due bere to-morrow. He is regarded as a

and the body was removed to the mortuary,

FURNITUR advanced stages of the learning, simply by never returned to the shop. It was suspected where the doctor pronounced it a case of death Prince Karl Anton, who belongs to a collateral act. The tests thoroughly established the use

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reason of the fact that there have been no classes of a technical character which would be to them what the master is, or should be, to the apprentice. We do not lose sight of the fact that a scientific and industrial college was opened this year in Hollywood Road, where poor Chi- nese boys have an opportunity of learning science and shop work through English or native teachers; and from what we have heard of the inner working of this institute there is little doubt it will prove a thorough success. Apart from this, we believe we are correctin asserting that, there have never been any technical classes held in Hongkong, or in fact, throughout China where there are room for scores of large institutions. In the carly part of the year we were able to an nounce that instruction in practical mathema. ties and mechanics arranged to meet the wants of a large number of engineering and other

students in Hongkong, would be given at the

that the man had lelt for Macao, and a detec- from drowning, tive was sent there, found him, and secured bis extradition. He was brought back yesterday,

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THIS morning a vagrant, familiarly known to

and had $134 of the stolen money in his posthe police as "Ginger" Sharp, broke all records session. The coolie, who admitted that he had for previous convictions at the Police Court, he lost the rest in gambling, was sent to four acknowledging seventeen earlier appearances months' hard labour.

before the magistrates. He has several times, white in the House of Detention, secured work,

reasons, and had to return to that shelter. He but was unable to keepbis jobs, for diverse

was remanded; by Mr. Kemp, for the eighteenth time to the House.

between the Roman Catholic and Protestant ACCORDING to a Shanghai report, trouble

converts has broken out in Kwangtung. Ever since the 13th of the 7th moon they have fought each other with guns and other dangerous weapons, resulting in one Protestant convert being killed. The local authorities are exerting their atmost power to maintain peace and order. The family of the man who was killed have been compensated with Tls, 300 and it is hoped that this will put an end to the trouble.

THE hospital ship Miyoshino Maru had a The seas washed over her, one of her masts narrow escape in the typhoon of the zoth wit.

went by the board, two of her boats were des troyed and the others so damaged as to be useless, everything on board 'was soaked in cluding the beds of the patients, a month's provisions were washed overboard, and ten of All on board put on their life-belis, but the her eleven watertanks flooded with sea-water. vessel succeeded in reaching Ujioa of the 21st.

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CHARACTERISTIC DE THINGS

CHINESE.

fulness of the new defence, whica will, it is believed, prove invaluable for the protection of harbours and narrow waterways. Experiments on a larger scale are to be arranged forthwith. Trials will take place at one of the creeks" in Portsmouth Harbour, across the opening of which a great wire not will hang from a mas sive boom. The trap will be quite invisible, and will constitute a reliable test of the cability of the ingenious device,

THE WEATHER,

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

fallen slightly at all stations.

On the 14th at 11.2, a.m. The barometer has

Gradients are very slight upon the China Coast, and moderate. NE. winds may be ex- pected in the Formosa, Channel, and moderate E. winds is the northern part of the China Sea.

cloudy, fair generally,

Forecast:-Moderate E. to NE. winds,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

A Kweilio, capital of Kwangsi province, letter received by a Chinese official in Shang: bai, has the following, which is characteristic of the way they do things in China, at the present time at least. In the district of Tetenchiang, Liuchou prefecture, owing to the presence of strong bands of insurgents in the Last evening the Cricket League held its hills in that vicinity, a wealthy notable of the annual meeting at Victoria Buildings under the name of Liang Ying living in a village a presidency of Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, some half the bills, having besought in vain the protection dozen clubs being represented. The report and of the Government troops, bought out of his ufficers for the ensuing year were elected as accounts as presented having been adopted own pocket a hundred and fifty Mauser rides follows: Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (President), classmen and guarded his village from the with ammunition, with which he armed his Mr. Braidwood (Vice-President), and Mr. A. E. Asger (Hon.. Secretary and Treasurer). The fatter, out of which the Liang clan generally bandits. Many were the skirmishes with the Chairman expressed his thanks, on behalf of emerged victorious. Naturally Liang Ying the members, to the latter gentleman for his ended. A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. ger hold of him. Finally, taking advantage one was cordially hated by the insurgents who' services during the first and hardest year just unsucessfully tried all sorts of ways to Brawa, Asger, and Sergeant Skinner, was then day (about three weeks ago), when Liang elected to draw up a set of rules and bye-laws Ying and the majority of his clansmen were After further discussion regarding the entrance had approached near his village, a select for the League, and submit them for approval: dat pursuing a band of insurgents who of other teams, raising of fees, and the ques- band of these insurgents burst into the village tion of umpires, the meeting, terminated, with and carried off all the members of his own a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

family to the bills. Liang offered Tis. 10,000 for their ransom, but the insurgent chief refus ed to do anything unless Liang himself came to the insurgent stronghold to arrange the ran- som. Liang had no alternative but to do ai ke According to the Koelnischs Vollsmeitud, was bid and being also taken prisoner in this which is always well-informed on Russian, manner the insurgents made him hand over to Art Department of the Board of Education, A TRAVELLER from Liaoyang who arrived here Kuropatkin in money matters. The family of Tls 10,000, before he and his family were als affairs, the Czar is very generous to General them three founhs of bis Mausers, plus the London, to hold examinations in science and in practical mathematics at the end of the his departure from there, a Russian Prince with continues to draw his salary, of 56,000 roubles, mandarin of Ta'ienchiang heard of this and a

on the 22nd ult. states a few days previous to the Commander in-Chief, at the Czar's request, towed to leave for their village. Then i

the session, at which the candidates will be re- 39,000 troops had just arrived from Russia. as Minister of War. General Kuropatkin him report came to Liang that probably he would quired to take similar papers on the same dates There had been six days' conticuous, heavy self, in addition to munificent allowances, has be arrested for entering into secret (or private) The 0, & 0.5.5. Co.'s as Doric with mails as candidates in similar subjects in schools of rain and many of the fortifications and earth-200,000 roubles per annum while in the field. communication with the insurgents Hearing &c, left Shanghai for this port yes science in England, and the Board's certifi-works had broken down in consequence. The Just before his departure for Manchuria the this Liang fled from his village add probably noon, due Hongkong to-morrow Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical/cate will be given to those who are success work thus betokened and held the officers in million roubles. General Kuropatkin, when he consented (there was no help for if indeed) tol. The P. M. S.S; Colss

Prince was extremely fadiguant at the bad Commander-in-Chief received a gift of balfa is now with the insurgents that had Liang not ful. The student in Hongkong are, of charge responsible. The informant heard, than received his command, was still a poor, course, handicapped to some extent owing to in the collapse of the buildings six officers and although for years be bad-filled a position a lack of sufficient funds to enable the com- a number of soldiers were killed or wounded. which had antiched so many of his predeces [581mittee to erect, and maintain a laboratory P. and 7'. Times,

Institution of Engineers, in Des Voeux Road. The first session has ended, and so successful has it been that Mr. W. H. Williams and UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. the committee feel justified in introducing additional classes and providing a larger staff of teachers. The second session, commencing this evening, includes in- struction in applied mechanics, machine drawing, practical geometry and electric ity and other studies covering the mechani- cal principles and mathematical-methods needed to solve the problems which natural ly come in the work of electrical, civil and mechanicalengineering trades. Mr. Williams, the director, also announces that arrange- ments have been made with the Science and

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the terms of the insurgents, he and his whole famly, including father, mother, uncles, child res, etc, would have been massacred.-M. C. Dễ Neas

MAILS DUE. American (Doric) 15th inst., German (Sachsen) 15th inst.. Australian (Changsha) 17th inst. French (Salaris) 19th inst. Indian (Latsang), 20th inst Canadian, (Alkentanaoth inst. Australian (Taiwan) and prox. American Coptic) 7th prox.

The CN Co.'s s.3. Taming left Manila on 13th inst, at 4 p.m., and is dus here on 161k inst.

cuita and the Straits lek Singapore for this The ICS. N Co,'s 5.9. Zaitong from Cal

purt on 13th last, at 6 p.m.

&c, which left bence on 13th ult, for San cisco vid Amoy, Shang Inland Sea, Yokal

at her destination on 12th ins