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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1904.

NOTICK All communications intended for publication to The "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH should be added to The Editor, 1, Ice House Road, and ahonfd be accompanied by the Welter's Name and Address.

Úrdinary business communications should be addrosed

to The Manager,

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The Miitor will not undertake to be responsible for any rejected MB.. nor tot return any Contribution. SUBSCRIPTION: RATES (IN. ADVANCE). Dair-$30 per annum.

WEEKLY 18 per annum. The mice per quarter and per mensong, proportional, The daily issue in delivered free when the address in Becomible to messenger. On coples sent by post an alitional $1.80 per quartor is charged for portage. The postage on the weekly isius to any part of the

world in 80 cents per quarter. Single Coples Dally, ten cents; Weekly, twenty.

Ave cents,

BIRTHS.

FATHER Ambrose Aguiseto, a Maltesh. Bene | THE H. A. L; steamer Hellas in due here from dictine, has been appointed Apostolic Delegate in the Philippines

THE proposal is made by the Dutch Govern

Hamburg with 85,796. Kilas of gunpowder and cartridges for the Chinese Government.

SIDELIGHTS AT HONGKONG.

it

Some are bar with it and some are not, was while lying in Hongkong Harbour that the

signified.

ment to introduce the salt" monopoly on the THE auction''sle of leasehold property at author first realised what contentment really the other portion of the load, and carries it.up

East Coast of Sumatra..

THE Masonic Quadrille Club, which gave such is a delightful series of dances last season; 'i about to re-open is hospitable doors shortly for another series of these entertainments which proved so enjoyable last cold weather.

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OWING to the enormous aggregation of troops at Mukden the food reserves are exhausted, The strain on the commissariat is enormous, and it has been increased by the loss of quan sities of food during the retreat front Liaoyang,

Queen's Road, Central, and Hillier Road, ad- yertised to take place to-day as the offices of Messrs. Hughes and Hough, has been post- paned sine die.

THE first dance of the season, we are informed, will be held in the R. A. U. B. Club Rooms, on October 7th. It is also understood that another of the Bufaloes pleasant smoking canceris will shortly take place.

THE Canopur, 16, first-class battleship, which was coned as flagship of Rear-Admiral R. L. 3.roome for the manœuvres, is to be paid off at Portsmouth. She will, it is reported, be On 24th August, at Kiating, Szechuan, the THE till-thief, who stole $375 from the account-re-commissioned shortly, and it is generally wife of the Kev. F. J. BRADSHAW, of the Ame-ant's drawer at 168 Des Voeux Road, underreported will be sent to join the China Squad. rican Baptist Mission, of a zon.

circumstances reported in these columns last son. On 16th September, at Shanghai, the wifs of evening, was convicted and sentenced by Mr. THEODORE OGIER, of a SDD.

On 17th September, at Shanghai, the wife of Kemp to six months' hard labour and six hours in the stocks. Mr. O. D. Thomson proseculed H. CHS. MULLER, of a daughter,

MARRIAGES.

On 13th Sept at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. 5. Walker, M.A, brother-in-law of the bride, STAMFORD R. ROBINSON, to ISOBEL SHARP.

On August 16 at St. Michael's, Worcester, by the Rev. Creaswell Strange, MA, Canon of Worcester, assisted by the Rev. R. Thursfield, MA, Recior, LEOPOLD HOEFELD, last of Singapore, second son of the last Felix Hocfeld, of Munich, to EVA FLORENCE (BIRDIE) SIMS, fifth daughter of Charles Sims, L.D.S., Eng., of Birmingham.

DEATH.

On 30th July, at Blonay, Switzerland, JANE wife of the Rev. Hudson Taylor, Founder and Director of the China Inland Mission.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1904.

THE Petit Journal confirms the report that the Minister of Marine has decided to send two more submarines to Indo-Ching. The torpedo depot ship Foudre, which has already convay- ed the submarines Lynx and Protee to Saigon, was to leave for that port at the end of last month with two vessels of the Naiade type,

THE marriage between Commander Guy R. Gaunt, R.N., H.M.S. Pengeance, China Squad- ran, and Margaret, widow of Mr. Philip Jukes Worthington, af Leek, Staffordshire, second daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle, of Leek and Swainsley, takes place at Hongkong in November.

ON the roth instant a party of 46 policemen proceeded from Harisa, Giran, in Formosa, to the borders of the territory occupied by the aborigines. The police were engaged in mak- ing works for defence against the savages when they were attacked by about 203 natives. Two BLANK plague returns continue to be issued by inspectors and 18 policemen were killed. the sanitary authorities.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the band of the 10th Mahratta Light Infantry, from 4.30 to 6 p.m., on the new Parade Ground, on Monday next:-

Valte......Diana” to

God save the King

·

Antiolard.

Presseli.

„Kirby."

Matters had not been moving smoothly, and just when his mental horizon was looking about as black as a

casa Lambeth alley in a November fog a sampan passed. Lying at full length in the boat was the owner, with, his sleepy, slanting eyes staring up at the masthead and at the brasco aky. The blaring disc of a sun stood still in the blue like an open porthole of Hades, its rays beating down hot resistless on the pusty face of the Chinaman. There was not a breath of wind, and the lug sail of the sampan, ribbed like a bat's wing flapped idly to and fro, a hindrance rather than an aid to the progress of the beat, She was laden right down to the gunwale with granite, and required rather more than the faith of a Quaker to move her. Alt was the wife of the owner of the craft with the youngest of the fam ily strapped to her back. She was at one end of a long, heavy eighteen-foot sweep, propelling the ship with all her might, while the latter moved over the waters at about the rate of two kaots in the twenty-four hours. The work was. that of a galley-slave, and it would take four

wictions, twenty bricks in each. The coolle hands, bitches twenty bricks on at either end of the polo, balances the pole carefully, and then starts off at a jog rot on his six hours' task. After ascending thirty yards be comes back for to the first. In this manner he will take his eighty bricks to the summit He will do this in the blazing heat of the day, when it is almost too hot for a white man to stand erect Old men of seventy to boys of fourteen women and young girls labour on this ladder of pain. There are men who will laugh when you suggest that the work savours of slavery but these men don't happen to carry bricks uy the mountain side of Hongkong-they ride up in the cable car. Still it must be admitted that the long procession seem contented with its lot, the season given being that it enables the coolie to sweat a few cents out of the contractor to enable him to do his little gamble in the even- ing. When you have seen the work done, and studied the methods of conveying material to the heigh's of Hongkong you realise for the first time that the building of the pyramids was a simple affair after all, and you also arrive at the conclusion that Chinamen must have had the contract, leve

THE HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

bours to make the other side of the harbour, Much speculation is rite amongst those con- March......" Des Toreros Idyll..." Howatka"

Moret,The contract for conveying that mighty load of ceroed, as to the ultimate destination of the Sekction.." The Orchit

Ivan, Caryl granite meant fifteen cents, a little over three-present Supreme Court buildings, when the Song......." An der Weser"

pence. With this, on her mind, and a heavy, new Low Courts are completed and occupied Selection.. Rensiniscences of the Plantation...Chambers squalling brat on her back, the woman was In this connection it might well be suggested. happy and contented, She did not curse her that the Court building in Queen's Road, should lot, but worked and slaved at the sweep and be converted into a Police Court, in lieu of the sang and hoped for wind. If the wind did not present small confined rooms, called, for come she would not revile her Maker, but courtesy, the "Magistracy. The advantages simply realise that at some time at some period of this scheme are obvious to all baving busi- of her life she bad acted contrary to the rulingness which takes them to the present building in which Hongkong a Magistrates preside, the of the elements, and the elements were now

principal of which would be the isolation of the levying toll for her error,

Court from the noisy crowd of witnesses, gazers, and the loafing sight-seers,” who at piesent infest the precincts of the existing Police Court, and whose noise and chatter, at the very inaudible, the proceedings within. In the pre- sent building litigants and their witnesses, often refined Europeans who are unaccustomed to appearances in Court," are compelled to either loiter in the small yard outside, fosiled class of natives, or sit in a so-called "Waiting. room, fifteen feet by, sen, in which convicted by a heterogenous crowd of the lowest

THE subsidised French river boats, the ss. Paul Beast, and Charles Hardouin are still tying idle at Canton in the back reach above Pakinhok. Nobody apparently wishes to put them back on the run. In conversation with several leading Chinese merchants yesterday, a representative of this journal learned that the conditions demanded by the French would not be acceptable to the ordinary Chinese man of business. Neither could they see their way cicar to flying the tricolour as a condition of lease or purchase.

TRY Tilikum a Canadian boat of two and a

The memory of that sampan women has not faded yet.

Ashore the conditions of labour were very much the same. Up the hot red road came a roller, a heavy roller, a kind of affair that would flatten a kopje. It was not drawn by horses but by the slave women of the port They strained at the mass of iron like a team of bullocks falling a forest tree. On the balcony of the hotel the gentlemen of the East lounged Manilas and drinking cocktails. Theirs was cane chairs smoking fine, fat six-inch

with all its disadvantages, the contentment of

doors of the "Court-rooms," oftentimes render.

AT the Supreme Court this morning before COMMANDER Scott of the exploring ship Dis. His Honour, the Puisne Judge, (Mr. T. Sera covery has been promoted to the rank of Cap cembe Smith) the managing proprietor of the London. She sailed from Vancouver in May, the contentment of case and idle luxury, but criminals are placed, while the police in charge-

tain.

THE report of the moaibly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce is printed on the third page.

Two japanese have been arrested at St. Peters-

Cafe Weissmann in the Queen's Road sued a man named H. O. Wolle for $53.50 on account of board supplied during the month of June.

half tons, made by Indians out of the trunk of single tree in 1843, has just left Toronto for

1901, with Captain Voss and a companion pained Harrison, for a voyage to Europe vin the Pacific Islands, Capo Colony, Saint Helena,

She has been at Rangoon foreight days repairing her rudder and cleaning her bottom. On arriving in London her owner proposes to exbibit her

the team of women seemed more real, of the cases get the commitment papers made outlu the Court-moms themselves there, is Down the street in the Chinese quarters were scarcely room to move without disturbing

Defendant did not appear and judgment for and Pernambuco, a iun of about 40,000 miles. further proofs of Celestial contentment. Qul others seated at the small tables, while it is e

plaintiff was entered by default.

"A. S. WATSON & CO., burg. They are believed to be disguised naval A CASS which came before Mr. Kemp yester at the Crystal Palace.

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VICEROY Tan has been ordered to return at once to Canton to deal with the secret societies there, says a Tientsin exchange,

day ought to settle the question, once for all, of the bamboo pole nuisance. A cook was charged with carrying on the footpath, in Queen's Road East, a bamboo pole, from which were suspended two bags of rice, which was

A British merchant has concluded a secret agreement with a degraded Magistrate of Honan, with regard to railways and mines

side each shop the little joss-sticks burnt common occurrence to find solicitors, engaged away merrily. They would keep the "debil-in cases to come up before the magistrates, and man "away, and so long as he was at arm's

representatives of the Frest, unable to find a length all would be well. Shop after shop sest at all, the latter being occupied by Chinese, presented the same picture, the picture of who have no business there, or the "friends": ceaseless energy of toil and labour, of enduring of a "drunk and disorderly." Wers the Police contentment. If the man of the East must live Court removed, in due course to the present he must work, not eight hours a day, but

Supreme Court b g all this inconvenience would be done with, for there will be

sixteen, and Sundays included ways a Hong:

GENERAL LU Dao Sung, of Chekiang, has "calculated to annoy or incommode pedes: The agreement is for the building of the rai kong correspondent of ange. No one found ample accoundation for all concerned. succeeded in forming a regiment of 120 able. trian." Upon proof the man was fined $10, with way from Nanchaug, Kiangsi, to Kiuklangs grows tired in China, and f simple reason in this connection, also, it might be pertinent

bodied youths, who will be trained after the German military method.-Eastern Times.

THE General Agent of the Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Co., Limited, has received the follow ing telegraphic advice from the Deli Masts chappij: Sold 645 bales tobacco at Gids 0.85."

THE Japanese cruiser Miyako, 1,800 tons. 12 guns, 20 knots speed, built in 1899, which

was sunk on the 14th of May lasi by striking, a

FURNITURE Russian mine in Kerr Bay, near Taliwan, bas

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING ROOM,

and BUD-ROOM

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

been refloated.

the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment;

By kind permission of Lieut.Col. Iremonger and Officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma, infantry will play the following programme, at the Kowloon Hotel, during dinner, to-morrow evening (weather permitting):-

...Adam.

Kubens. Berger,

March..... The Belle of Bohemia “........Ord Hume, Overture,..." Reinz d'un Jour ". Selection....."Three Rttle Maids Two-Step....."Folly Negroes" Selection..." The Shop Girl" Valiz..........Revése".... Dance..."Slavonic"...

God save the Klag.

Ivan Caryll ....Follet .Dvorak.

On the moming of the 13th inst., while a train was on the iron bridge over the river Anjo, THE latest addition to Far Eastern journalism twenty miles south of Suigen station, on the is the China Review, of Tientsin, which, accord- Seoul-Fusan railway, the bridge suddenly culing to the China Times, is edited by Mr. Norris Newman. It is, of course, somewhat early to lapsed, and the train fell into the river, with

form an opinion as to the merits of the paper, but from the contents of the first three numbers no pains will be spared to ensure good and reliable news. It was started without one subscriber or one advertisement, and the com" mander of the German squadron had the

the result that three coolies were killed on the

spol.

with a subscribed capital of $10,000,000, and also for the developing of the coal mine at Nanchu. The Magistrate has succeeded in getting a certain Chinese patty official to be

the representative of the company, who will shortly go up to Peking on behalf of the` orga nisation, in order to report the schemes to the Board of Commerce.

Loko Milner, Wigh Commissioner in South Africa, has informed Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Chinese labourers who have already commenced work on the Rand are apparently keen to be come efficient miners. They neither fear nor dislike working underground. He considers that the experiment justifies effort being made to secure a steady stream of indentured Chinese labourers from the same source. As an instance of the truth of the statement that the employ ment of Chinese upon the Rand would give additional work for white men, it is stated that there are now 136 white employees on the New Comet mine, on the East Rand, as com-

Chinese labourers.

that every disciple of Confucius has leamt how to suggest that a special Court he instituted to apply himself to the work in hand. With all toil, there is enough latent energy in the land its industry and ceaseless labour and contional

to sbake the universe..

Magistracy, and could be presided over hy some official whose ordinary duties do not occupy the whole of his time. The Central Police Court should surely, be located in a central position, and not stuck away up a hil at the back of the town, which, in itself causes many a just case to fail, through lack of time ar other reasons on the part of would-be pro- secators, to go up to the semi-hidden Police

Court. The advantages are obvious; the only disadvantage in sight is the necessity of march

possession of opium, hawking without licences, and other such petty charges, which now for the trial of cases arising out of illegal

occupysuchalarge portion of the Court business Looking at the shops from the other side of and which, having to be summarily dealt with, the street is like looking at a sheet of honey cause so many remands of more serious cases, comb with the hive doing overtime. Each thus indicting great hardship, and probably shop front is fully open, and there are no winaxpense, on possibly innocent prisoners. This dows. Into these human cells pass the workers Court could have its haditor in the present with the results of their labour, Exchanges are made, a few words spoken, and then out into the road and down the pavement and into other cells the human bees pass to make fresh bargains. To be content in China you must work, and work in a way that you cannot conceive unless you have visited that mighty hive of industry in the Chinese quarter of Hong- of Hyde Park to do a full day's work in a kong. It would be the salvation of the drones Chinese workshop. So long as the joss-sticks keep alight the workers will be content, but

necessitate a responsible police escort. But there will be no peace until he is out again. where the advantages are so manifold, that when they go out the "debil-man" is in, and the prisoners up to the gaol, which would

“debil-man” has entered you will get quite it would have a very deterrent affect on the enough fun for your money. It is like putting native community who would have the sight of your head through the belt of a quick-firer in prisoners being marched up to the gaol to un- action, and if you don't think so, get into your dergo punishment for their crimes. back-yard to-night and let one of the household throw a bucket of lit crackers on your head.

the joss By and by, say about eleven p.m. sticks will burn tow, and the shopkeepers will The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plum draw the folding doors of their premises mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser- together, and through the cracks you will

atory

On the 23rd at 11.35 a.m. The barometer has busy, and why they are so contented. In fallen slightly in the Yangtse valley and risen see the reason why the bees have been so

the centre of the room is a table, and

a table at all other stations. around it four men squatting on low stools. Four pig-tails dangle on the floor. In the centre of the table is a lamp and around about little heaps of counters, constantly

and changing positions. Long thin hands

IT is stated, in the new China Review, that some of the Japanese soldiers got out of hand at Liaoyang, and that Dr. Westwater was wounded in a fracas. The same paper says that honour of sending in the first advt, wherein he pared with only 34 prior to the arrival of the If you happen to pass a house where the ought not to be allowed to have any weight; for

General Kuropatkin was not in command at the battle of Liaoyang, in which there were only 100,000 Russian troops engaged alto. gether.

MAJOR-General Dessino, Russian Military Agent, has asked the China Gaselle to make it known that he received a telegram on 15th inst. from Moukden, saying that General Mitschensko is alive and very active just now, and desires his friends and enemies alike to know he is not dead as was oficially reported by Marshal Oyama. FROM Newchwang the correspondent of the China Review writes that Lieut-General Sir W. Nicholson, the Senior British Military at tacke with the Japanese, felt Lianyang after† Newchwang en route for home. Lient-Cal- onel Macpherson, K.A.M.C. has also left the

offered 10,000 marks reward to anyone who could give any definite information respecting Capt. Lieut. Glegenheimb, who left Pont Arthur on August 17, in a junk and has not been heard about since.

CABLE INTERRUPTION.

Owing to an interruption of one of the East- ern Extension Co.'s cables to Singapore there is at present some delay on telegrams ex changed with the Straits, java, India, &c. and with Europe via Eastern. Early restoration is

FOLLOWING is an item in the Chefoo Daily News, translated from the Port Arthur Novi Krat of 7th instant-At eleven o'clock in the morning a soldier was seen coming from re doubt No 1, carrying two boxes in tre me tion of the Chinese village. We immediately opened fire on him. He continued without attempting to seek cover. The bullets struck EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS. nearer and nearer to him every minute. At last he threw down his boxes and ran back,

expected.

The case in which a Chinaman was charged with embezzlement in Saigon, and whose extra-ing

Cimor

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Pressure is greatest in the neighbourhood of the Loochoo Islands and least in the China

s

Seas

Gradients are slight upon the China Coast,

[45❘ the occupation, and has retured to Japan sent out to ascertain what the boxes contalded), aution was wanted in that French Colony, was with loch finger nails pass deftly across the bat steeper byer the northern partof the China

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Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Sicam

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A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

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THE attention of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has been called to the irregularity in the arrival of the French mail from Europe, and the possibility is suggested of approaching the Postal Authorities at Home with a view to improving the present unsatisfactory position, The matter is recognised as being of consider able importance, and is held over for inquiry and further consideration,

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NUMBERS of the Port Arthur Novi Krai, as late as September 8th, look rather bright for a newspaper that is being gotten out under the dificulties which must surround publication in that city, says the Chefoo Daily News: The columns contain such advertisements as the and followingWanted: To buy a carriage teams, Lost; A pet monkey Finder, will be rewarded di Wanted: To enrage & good type wntist: Lost: A bracelet:

then fell, apparently wounded. A squad was and succeeded in bringing them back to the nearest post On being opened some ful- minating caps were found in one of them, and fuses in the other also some lyddite..

SIR Henry Biako was just a little bit dithy. rambic in bis speech at Mr. Im Thurn's lare well dinner in Colombo the other day, observes the S. F. Press. Referring to the Demerara portion of the guest's career and his future as Governor of Fiji, the account of the proceed ings says: From the rain-swept, wind-swept peak of Roraima," the speaker transported his heasers to a quiet tropical isic, where the Governor-Elect of Fiji enjoyed the company of beautiful dusky maidens and anon we found ourselves foll wing him in imagination as he sailed among the coral islets, or went down in a diving dress to the bottom of the quiet la/oon! How pretty, too, the sentiment when Sir Henry coupled Mrs. Im Thurn's pame with that of her husband (Men. Im Thurn would of couche bave to chaperon the Governor during dusky maiden promenades.)

when a

called on, this afternoon, before Mr. Kemp, remand was again asked for by Mr. F. J. Badeley, Captain Superintendent of Police, who prosecuted, as the witnesses expected from Saigon had not yet arrived."

table, and will pass and fepass fat into the small hours of the morning until the four putty. faces withdraw from the light of the lamp and four little celestials stretch out on the wooden hunks at the back of the shop. Give us this night our nightly gamble seems to be the one and only prayer of the heathen Chinee. For a nightly gamble, he will work ceaselessly and keep sober and content,

Mr. John Hastings strenuously opposed the application, pointing out that there had already been several remands, and that at the last bearing his Worship had himself stated that

A little farther on and you have reached the the prosecution, had had, ample time to get their witnesses here, since the man was arrested foot of the mountain, At the summit of the on 20th August last-Mr. Kemp sald be must Peak new buildings are in course of erection, bear the evidence of the witnesses, but Mr, and to those buildings quantities of material Hastings pointed out that, with all the remands must be taken daily. Fay up the mountain granted, there was still nothing before the side are things like ants moving son, described in the papers received. If a morning you would be Court to indentify the accused with the per rack. Should you rise son, remand was granted, Mr Hastings said be procession start the procession of must request that it would be a final one, and ant fapp fo

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