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In view of the notice printed elsewhere in this | The Russo-Baltic Waggon Works at Riga 17/B HONGKONG"," issue, we may shortly expect the blank plague have just turned put a number of armoured returns to cease publication,

railway, cars for use on the Eastern China” Kiilway These cars have been ordered by the Russian Ministry of War; they are of enormous dimensions, and most luxuriously fitted up; they are to be sent out to Manchuria

INLAND LO! No, 1,725, at Causeway Bay, com prising 37,660 square feety and held at an annual Crown rent of $181, is to be sold by public auction, the upses price being $14,718,

at once.

THE L3 Shawmut returned to dack this morn-

THE Dame of Dr. Alice D. Sibroe, of the Alfcoing to complete her temporary repairs. It is Memorial Hospital, has been added to the expected these willccupy the best part of two Register of Medical and-Surgical Practitioners weeks after which it is anticipated that she

qua, during which time her new stern-post will

STIRRING ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR

TO PROTECT HONGKONG IN THE HOUR

OF NEEDS

The rates per quartor and per metues, proportionat, quailfied to practise medicine and surgery in will make, probably two voyages on her usual sembled in the City Ball last evening, to hear

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, Saturday, Sept. 24, 1904-

FOR THR DEFENCE OF HONGKONG.

The remarkably succinct and clear ex- planation of the new scheme of volunteer defence which His Excellency, Sir Matthew

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this colony.

THE time when the Coolle enjoys his indie caste and sent out, and will be fitted at the gestible moon-cakes has again come round, and Hongkong and Whampoa Dock. rows of these circular pieces of confectionary, with their claborate decorations, can be seen

many shops.

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THE Imperial Maritime Cuitoms have for! warded to us a copy of the reports and returns of trade for 1903, and also the usual Garelle, containing statistics of trade for the period, April-June last.

AMONG those who have recently joined the Hongkong Volunteer Corps are Messrs A. E. Wright, F. H. Dillon, C. E. Frith, G. W. Cors, C. W. Ward, R. Duncan, S. G. Hames, E. F. Casey, C. M. S. Alves, and F. Ward.

DR. Swan certainly deserves the thanks of those members of our community who have made their bus un the Kowloon side of the har bour; for, according to an announcement ap pearing elsewhere in this issue a meeting of persons interested in the formation of a crickol club for Kowloon will be held on Thursday next. There should be a large attendance, so that the proposal may be carried forward and. a start made.

Li Chung, the bill-collector for the Engineer's Institute, was charged with embezzling, on various dates between December 1903 and August 16th, sums aggregating. $15.43,, which he was alleged to have collected on behalf of

THE Daily Mail correspondent at St. Peters the Institute, but not paid in. Mr. J. McLaugh Nathan gave last evening in the City Hall, burg says that in a Russian village that he lin, manager of the Institute, prosecuted and should do much locally, to engender a knows of they believe that we are at war be asked for a week's remand, as other amounts healthy interest in volunteering from any cause the Cossacks stole a child from the Em-had since been discovered to have been re- standpoint. Than Sir Matthew Nathanperor of Japan, and won't give it back. ceived by the accused and not accounted for there are few British officials more qualified

by him. The remand was granted. to speak on the question of Colonial De- fence for, apart from his unique experience WHISKY. in such matters whilst fulfilling the important

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TONNAGE frequenting Singapore in 1903 was over twelve million; an increase of 359,802. British ships represented double that of any other nationality, the Dutch being second, duties of Secretary to the Committee on Im-German third and Swedish and Norwegian perial Defence, His Excellency, when Gover fourth. nor of the Gold Coast, inițiated and carried to

a perfectly satisfactory conclusion, a system of volunteer work, which accomplished much in the direction of rendering life and pro- perty more secure in that dark and unhealthy region. But setting aside the advocacy of volunteering in the general sense of the term, and which, in the main, usually appeals to the young and energetic Briton abroad, the proposal in regard to the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association ought to commend itself to every resident of manly instincts, providing always that physical in firmity offers no bar to the handling of a

gun. Many a man can find time and healthy A. S. WATSON & Co., brain-foeding recreation in rifle practice, and by enrolling himself as a member of the As- sociation he can make himself a proficient and efficient marksman, and thus become an important fighting unit in the defence of the Colony should such an unfortunate

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necessity arise. Although up to quite re- ceatly the appeal, or as it were "call to arma," was not very generously responded to, we have no hesitation in predicting that with the modification of the previously sug- gested age limit, that the number will very speedily be considerably augmented. The Governor has been able to place such facili- ties in the way of members to become efficients, that residents should rise en masse, and seize the happy occasion by the hand. It was pleasurable to note the acquiesence on the part of the gentlemen owning horses

THE Hon'ble Alfred Lyttleton is expected to decide shortly the question of estate schools in Ceylon, Mr. Lyttleton has submitted reports to Mr. Wise, who supports Mr. J. Harward, the Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon's ad vocacy of special schools.

A VERY light docket confronted Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy this morning. Only one Magistrate sat, Mr. Wolfe being, as usual, at Taipoo, and two hours sufficed to dispose of the illicit opium, unlicensed hawking and other such petty charges as were before the Court.

SANITARY measure. continue to be adopted against Hongkong at Manila, Indo-China, Netherlands India, Burma, Shanghai, Madras, Newchwang and Siam. Tainan-fu and Anping, Bengal, British North-Borneo and Labuan,

in Formasa impose quarantine restrictions on arrivals from this port,

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THERE is yet another claimant to the scriptural kingdom of Sheba, says Indian Engineering, A Company has been organized on a consider able scale in Londen for gold mining in the Egyptian Sudan, where it has acquired pro- specting rights over a large area: Those con nected with it bespeak legitimate enterprise,

REMARKING On the Thibet expedition the Times says "we owe a deep debt to Colonel Younghusband. It is doubtful whether any negotiator of less consummate experience could have brought the matter to its present successful conclusion, which is due in a high

FURNITURE and ponies in the scheme for the formation degree to his patient and

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of a limited Light Horse Squadron, and

far br Association, one day in the week, and j'embars will have the right to ura

all times when not otherw

range,

that was published. ion with the General Of (he is further willing

Association the shot provided for the milili also the milltary rifle rango at Kow

the Association that, Further, he has prom leo long as it is possible to use the King's Park

permitted to do so rifle range at Kowloon with safety they will be

THIS PERSONAL INTEREST.

City:

Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan, R.C.M.G, K

In response to the invitation of B. E. the a large gathering of prominent residents as K.E.)

an explanation of the scheme of His Excel.

1 should now like to justify my personal: lency in regard to the formation of the above

interest in the present scheme. From the end, Association. The Governor was accompanied of the year 1895 till the end of the year rooo it May, C.M.G., and amongst these present were the Commandant of the Hongkong Volunteers, by the Hon, the Colonial Secretary, me

Mr. FH

was my duty to examine the annual reports of: Sir. H. S, Berkeley (Chief Justice), Major and these reports during those years showed a Chapman, Captain C. Hall, Dr. Atkinson, Hou continust progress both as regards numbers and Gershom Stewart, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, T.Efficiency. At the end of the year 1895-6 the Hough, W. D. Braidwood, A. R. Lowe, F. B. L Bowley, G. Grimble, G. L. Duncan, W. H.

comber of Volunteers was 125 at the end of Donald, F. A. M. Johnston, Mowbray S. North-

1896 1897-8, 176; 1898-9, 181 ; 1899- cote, W. Danby, etc, etc.

1900, 311, 1 am able from my recollection of the reports of the other Volunteers aed Milltia in the British colonies to say that the state of the Hongkong Volunteers compared, as judged from these reports, very favourably with the state of the other 80,000 Militia and Volun

am forming the forces of the other colonies ha: Empire., (Applause). I was a little ppointed when I arrived here to learn that number had gone down to a little over 200, qqi also that there was a tendency on the part of the young man in Hongkong to abandon Volunteering for other amusements; and I had to consider what steps should be taken to

un revive interest in the corps and increase Its sumbers and efficiency. My experience dur

His Excellency, who was enthusiastically received, said:

Gentlemen.-The invitation to the senior. members of the Colony who are British subject to form themselves into an association called the Hongkong Volunteer Reser clation, which was published "lo

modify the conditions

I propose in In one case to are embodied

the colonlal troops of the Empire makes me

soft believe that the best way for increasing the

corps at Hongkong was to have its various component parts under conditions which would take advantage of the special circumstances of the various classes of the population. SIMILAR WORK SUCCESSFUL ON THE GOLD

Press on 30th August and subseque not having met with the recognition that hoped it would meet with, it seemed that if I could make better known thre medium of the gentlemen who have some interest in the scheme the exact condi- tions under which it is proposed to carry it out, A TALL, somewhat emaciated-looking China- and also the advantages which the Colonying the five years of dealing with reports from man, wearing a blood be-spattered singlet, might be expected to derive from it, it was and blood-stained bandages on his forehead, probable that the association would attain appeared before Mr. Kemp this morning, to greater dimensions and so become an institu- prosecute a fellow-runner for a Chinese board-on more worthy of the ing-house for assaulting him, at mid-night the first instance to exp yesterday. The trouble arose over the moving of a silver-mounted bamboo pipe, which the defendant accused the complainant of steal ing. The complainant said that, as he was going to the theatre, he put away all the loose articles laying about the room, the pipe in question being among them. When he returned, defendant accused him of stealing his pipe Witness told him be put it away for safety be- fore going out, and informed him where it was. Defendant then got the pipe and battered complainant over the forehead with it, casing a free flow of blood. Defendant admitted the charge, but said the complainant struck him first. This was not corroborated in further evidence, and defendant was fined $5 on or fourteen days,

THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED.

in the Governor's notification of the 30th. Aug. The first of these conditions now reads "The age limit for members to be from 35 to 50." propose to substitute for this: Members shall be not less than 35 years of age. By this alteration no mas over 35 will be debarred from enjoying the privileges of the association who feels that he retains sufficient energy to lend a helping hand in the hour of need.

A DISADVANTAGEOUS SUGGESTION, I have given careful consideration to the suggestion which appeared in last night's China Mail, that the minimum age limit should be altered from 35 to 25, and I have come to the conclusion that this alteration would not

be advantageous to the general residents. (Applause.) It seems to me that the result would necessarily be to weaken the Volunteer force, and to strengthen the Reserve Association at the expense of the Volunteer force that is to

An extraordinary general meeting of the say, to strengthen the body which receives the shareholders in the above Company was held lesser at the expense of the body which at the Bank, at noon to-day, for the purpose of receives the greater. Again, if the Volunteers confirming the resolution passed at the last increase as they should do, and as I hope they general meeting with regard to the reduction will do, after a time the bulk of the young men of the Company's capital.

in the Colony under 35 years of age will belong to the active Volunteers, and the Volunteer Reserve Association will then become really a reserve, consisting of men who have had some training and who are keeping up the most essential part of it-musketry practice.

Mr. J. Facke presided, and there were also present: Messrs. G. C. Moxon and Kwong Kong Kuk (Directors), G. W. F. Playfair, (Manager), H. Pinckney, E. W. Terry, G. H. Potts, Ng Chit Mi, Fung Wa Chun, Secretary of the Man On Insurance Company, Chun Hee, Fung Hoi, Wook Yik Tal, and Wai. Wes Shang.

The Manager having read the notice calling the meeting,

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen-Before

BUSINESS, MEN ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS. I do not attach much value to, the argument business would not allow some men to join the which was in the papers, that the exigencies of

Volunteers while they could manage to fulfil the conditions required in the Association.

COAST.

This was a system tuss, I followed in the Volunteers on the Gold Coast with some success. There I found that at the various coast stations there were only a few Volunteers, not enough to make a company by themselves, and disinclined to join the African corps. So I in- stituted a machine gun section in each of the principal corps. At Accra the capital, the machine gun section was mainly composed of officials under the command of an official. Ar Cape Coast Castle, the commercial centre, the Volunteers were mainly men in the business houses, and their commanding officer was the

head of one of these houser : whileat Axim the company representing the machine gun depart- ment was made up of men mainly engaged in

and officials, mining,

and the commanding

officer was an official. The various drills and parades fitted in with the normal work of the different detachments, and on the whole these detachments took firm roat; and I was la formed by the Brigadier-General who in spected them that they were a valuable addition to the defence of the Colony, Here, after care fully considering the matter, I put in hand three schemes. The first of there was to re- organise the existing Volunteers on the basis of detachments Comprising men of the rame department or the same firm with a view to these men always working together-in their "drills and service and of combining with other

time of war, each detachment being told off to detachments or relleving other detachments in

its definite position in the scheme of orenis, I believe there are some difficulties in carrying

under the direction of that born borseman, IT is reported from home that the Army Coup-you as I did at the meeting of 3rd September and departments give great facilities to Volun- whole favourably reviewed, and that there bas

the Hon. W. J. Gresson, the most usefulcil have accepted in principle Lord Kitchener's the statement of assets and liabilities as on

work may be expected. One of the bright est announcements His Excellency was in a position to make, was that no less than sixty-six ladies had engaged themselves to -undergo a course of study in first-aid to the injured, so that in the event of emergency, there need be no lack of competent nurses

to minister to the wants of the wounded,

dia. There may, however, be modifications in details before effect is given to the proposals, it necessarily take several years to carry out the plan, as it involves the building of barracks and lines on ao extensive scele.

leers to attend the annual camping exercise, been some increase in the Volunteers since it

LIGHT HORSE,

Ere in the

The second project was the formation of the men who owned ponies, and who were habit of riding about the island, into a mounted troop. I was told that I could probably get 20

scheme of redistribution of the garrison in in. 31st December 1903, drawn up so as to give and apart from this camping exercise the num was put out.

may mention that we hold proxies for 15667 to very considerable, and great latitude is effect to the proposed reduction of capital. 1 ber of drills that a man has to attend are not ordinary and 281 founders, and against. 88 allowed as to when they go out in these drills, ordinary and 49 founders. If there are no Altogether, I think it will be found that the questions to ask then I will propose as time spent by an efficient Volunteer on his Volunteer work is not a very great proportion of the time that he is away from business during the year. Further, it is withio my knowledge that some of the busiest men of the Colony are

follows:-

"That the capital of the company be reduc-

IT is notified in the Gazelle that the Governored from £1,000,000, "divided into 750 abares has been pleased to accept the services of of each (founders, shares), and 99,925

men to enrol themselves in such a troop. 'As a matter of fact the troop which is now being enrolled consists of 24 members under Linut. the Hon. WJ. Gresson.

For ourselves we wish the movement every certain gentlemen who are desirous of being "hares of £10 each (ordinary shares), to already or propose to be active Volunteers, AZ ON THE SCHEME IN GENERAL

success, and inaugurated under such happy auspices, we have little doubt, but that the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association, will stand out in the future as one of the most laudable institutions of which the Colony can boasi.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

formed into a Volunteer Corps under Ordi- Bance 4 of 1893, and have offered their services in that behalf, and that His Excellency has ordered that such Corps shall be designated by the style of "The Hongkong Volunteer Troop,"

THE Siamese Tramway Company, Ltd., pro. pose to extend the Bangkok City scheme, 34 miles for Tcs. 250,000; to construct an electric tramway on the west side of the river, 63 miles in length, for l'es. 450,000; and to construct a THE British despatch vessel Alacrity, is now

steam tramway from the company's terminus in-port from Weihaiwei.

at Samsen to Pakret, a distance of 12 miles, GENERAL MO denies that the Japanese have 22 miles of extention is thus Tcs. 1,200,000

for Tcs. 500,000. The estimated cost of the

been enlisting any Dungbutse.

AN ordinance will before long be laid before [4; the Ceylon Legislative Council for the regis

tration of medical practitioners in that island. MARINERS should note that the beacons which marked the fairway over Muara Inner Bar, on the N.W. Coast of Bomeo, have disappeared.

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Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

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A large stock of Canadian, Asbestos and

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SIR Marcus Bamuel, ex-Lord Mayor of London, has just received; through the Japanese Minister, Viscount Mayashi, the order of the Knight Commandership of the Rising Sun, con- ferred upon him by the Mikado. For 25 years the firm of which Sir Marcus Bamuel is the head has been intimately associated with Japan, and has had close relations with the Japanese,

ese gold loan in Europe, and later, with the consent of the Government, issued the munici pal loans for the Yokohama waterworks and the Osaka harbour works.

£699,475, divided into "99.925 shares of 67 EXPL

EXPLAINING THE CONDITIONS, each; and that such reduction be effected by

The eccond condition is that members should writing off the whole amount paid or credited as paid on each of the 750 shares of 41 Each undertake not to quit the Association within and cancelling those shares, and by writing one year of joining, without leave, and to enrol themselves in the event of necessity under the off £3 per share, part of the sum of 8 per Volunteer Ordinance as the Hongkong Volun- share which has been paid or credited as paid on the 40,153 shares of to "each which have been issued, and by reducing each of the 99,92; "shares of £10 each to a share of £>""

Mr. E. W. Terry seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously....

This concluded the business of the meeting

MORTALITY STATISTICS.

The third project was that of a Volunteer reserve, to get hold of the men who no longer felt themselves disposed to go through the drudgery of ordinary drill or who had gone through that drudgery already. I was told that I should probably get about 100 members. As

teer Reserve Company. This was inserted to a matter of fact by the 15th September, the make the Association a real reserve that could: dato mentioned in the original notification, be counted on in time of emergency. It is only 35 members had enrolled. There was a necessary that we should know always what fourth project, not entirely unconnected with men will be available at the hour they are re- the other, and that was to form a first-aid class qu red. It is not intended to prevent men for ladies who would subsequently go through leaving the Association, at any time for good nursing classes and then regis

Dames pitals reason, such as leaving the Colony or suffering for service in the naval and from serious illness, or any other good rea- in time of war - Sixty-six ladies put their Bon. With regard to the

le second sentence of names to it During the month of July, 676 deaths were that condition, Upon enrolment officers of THE DUTIES OF COLON registered in the Colony, of which 30 were the company will be selected from among the A few words now on the gener among the European population. Ofthis number 46 wern from infantile convulsive diseases, 146 members and commissioned by the Governor," of Volunteering, and especially on Colonial

1 think you may be perfectly certain that the | Volunteeri At home the ever in from chest affections, 44 from howel complaints, Governor will select as officers these members burden of Imperial defence," which now 136 from fevers, 68 fr m marasmus and atrophy: under whom he thinks the remainder will be 60 per and 136 from other causes. Among the British most willing to render efficient service. The taxati and foreign community, civil population, the third condition is that the rules of the

the revenus derived failure of

nisation to provide lat

THE Basel Mission Chapel of the Basel Mis. Government. The firm issued the first Japan. death rate was 25-5; for the whole Colony (landAssociation are to be framed by the Committee opinion for the

Bionary Society, situate at Shaukiwań, has been added to the list of places licensed for the solem- nization of marriages.

H.E. the Governor has approved the appoint;} ment to the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from zoth September, 1904, of the Hon. W. J. Gresson as Lieutenant.

A SHANGHAI trader was walking along the esplanade at Singapore shortly before the tiffe hour the other day when five young Chicamen set upon him and robbed him of a bag con MR. E. A. Farby has been added to the list of taining $100, which he was carrying over bis persons exempted from the operation of bye-shoulder. Fortunately the scuffs was observed | lass 2 de saad of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903

THE residence on the Yokohama Bluff of Mr. Paul Bauer of the Deutsche Japan-Post, and the next house, which was occupied by Mr. I Scheller, were burnt down on the zith.

by a number of fgmbies at the Singapore Re: creation Club, and two of the men were scited A Sikh and a contractor bagged another couple,. but the man with the lost got clear away.". We thought Hongkong wanted a lot of beating in daring highway robberies, Singapore will run un close if this sort of thing continues,

population) it was 245, and for the whole Coleby, excluding the Army and Navy, 23.7 per 1,000 per annum.

'THE WEATHER:

The following report is from Mr. JT Plum mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obier vatory:——

of Management elected by the members delen and'aga from their own number. This provides for the army, by, the Association being of the DRIU: club with power to for its own Hak to rifle competitions and as

as may be necessary and as to any that may appear to them desirat |

view the general Idea of the asso On the 24th at 11.15 am. The barometer has fourth condition is that members sh risen in N. Chlua and N. Japan; and fallen in ise rifle shooting S/China and over the Pacifiche

for

Gradients are moderate upon the China Const the Gene and moderate NE. winds will be maintained in the Formosa Channel; they are rather ste over the China Sea and moderate to winds will be met with in its nost

Forecast Moder