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LOCAL AND GENERAL THE Penang Race Meeting is fixed for January 34, 26; and 28. -- The sinkos offered include the Club Handicap on the first day, the value being

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This check has more than a local effect. For until the Western limit, on the coast, of the Bhours zone is decided on (and it is possible

side the zone, may for practical purposes be included) it is inadvisable to take any steps towards establishing a boundary north and

therefore will not have to sun from the eastern in'e the western zone time.

The Nichi Nicki has been transferred to $5,000. In addition to this there is one event that Hoihow and Pakhoi, though strictly out the two western treaty porté určil km.

to London, adprotection of Mr. Kalo, ex-Minister to Lor

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The Iditor will not undertake or be responsible for tenced to seven years penal servitude for sten!- ing the Nelson relics, valued at £5000, from Greenwich Hospital, Prisoner is an old of fender.

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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). DAILY-30 per aunain. WEEKLY—$18 per annum.

The rates por quarter and per munem, proportional The daily fue in delivered free when the address in #ccomadble to messenger. Du copies sent by post an selditional $1.80 per quarter in charged for patage. Tre page on the weekly inɛ to any part of the

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CHANG Teh-yih, the Chinese- Minister in Lon- don, has wired the Peking Government that Lin Yuh-lin has been appointed to act as Chinese Consul to look after the Chinese emi- grants in the Transvaal.-Universal Gazette,

worth $2,50, and three of $1,030 each:

THE Tokyo City Electric Tramway line having now been extended to thirty miles in length, the company proposed to celebra'e the event ceremoniously, but it has been decided instead to present a th susand blankets to the soldiers at the front.

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ADMIRAL Togo maintains bis headquarters at Round Island, according to last reports Round Island is a short distance southest of Port Arthur. The fleet is said to make a daily

entrance in 't Arthur harbour,

south between the 8 and 7 hour Zone, A

W. FERD TYLER, Coast Inspector, Canton, and June, 1904.

'(Harbour Master's Minule.) So far as Hongkong is concerned such a change would, so far as I can see, be of no advantage. We should, I take it, benefit Can- on if she is dependent upon us for making change due to her railway expansion; it seems to me purely a matter for China. In our own

A TOKIO wire, of the 11th inst, says that three reconnoissance of the waters approaching the ennsideration we are essentially n shipping thousand Russian soldiers are encamping at Single Coplo Dally, ten cent; Weekly, twenty Songching and Pukebing and 600 Russian

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HONGKONG. Tuesday, OctoBER 18, 1904.

A WEST RIVER OUTRAGE.

In another colunin we print particulars of BLEND a strange occurrence related to one of our representatives by Masters of British steamers arriving from the West River this morning, From these it will be gathered that piracy on that important waterway of South China has taken a ton of a more serious nature than

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that which formerly characterised the depreda- tions of these river roughs. Accustomed as we are to hearing accounts of attacks on native launches and junks by bands of wandering marauders, the audacity of the most recent outrage in which British ships were involved, furnishes further proof of the urgent necessity there is for the authorities

soldiers at Hunyong. Their scouting party appeared at Hamkwanling on the 9th instant and had encounters with the Japanese and re- Treated

Tue Novar Vrewy publishes a statement to the effect that the sumour that the police au- thorities at Port Arthur are no longer carrying on their duties is unfounded. The journal adds that all the other pessimistic statements concerning the position at Port Arthur are also

incorrect.

The condition of the Japanese army is not considered at Muklen, says a Russian wire of 9th inst., to be brilliant. The Japanese soldiers are suffering much from the cold weather and2 also from the want of shoes. There are signs that there are many cases of typhoid fever among the Japanese.

THE following is the return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 16th October, 1901:—

Library Museum Non-Chinese.............. 245 103 1,806

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Total...... 334

SHANGHAI mandarins receis d. a telegram from Kweilin, the provincial capital of Kwangsi,

TUE Norwegian steamer Rosen (?), of 1,313 tons displacement, which arrived at Bongkong from America on the 20th September and after discharging a portion of her cargo jeft there for Vladivostok on the 24th, is now reported missing, says the Kobe Herald.

COUNT Okuma's speach at Tokio, to the effect that Japan must be ready to spend perhaps ¥2,000,000,000 on the war has begun to be. criticized severely in America. It is not believ ed there that Japan can endure a very long war. Many Japanese stocks hove dropped a full pound.

THE 5.5. Kasko-maru arrived at Nagasaki on the 6th just, from Chemulpo, and reported that the work of the raising the Russian cruiser Varyag, which was previously erroneously stated to have been re-floated, is progressing satisfactorily. When the Kasho-maru left Chemulpo, there was a British, French, Ameri-

can, and German warship in harbour.

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port and zone time is not popular with "navi- On the whole I should say that the change should not be contemplated without more reason than is at present apparent. I might be made the subject of an interchange of an opinion with Macao and also our Cham- ber of Commerce. My own view is that there would seem to be no necessity for the change,

L. B. L Harbour Master.

27th June, 1904.

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,

11th August, 1994.

The question as to the time to be adopted at vizi Pakbol and Hoihow, is a master of comparatively s portance to the trade of this Colony, and might well be left to the decision of the Imparial Maritime Custams.

The committee of this Chamber are unable to endorse the statement made that zone time is ' unpopular with navigators; so far as their in- formation gons this is certainly not the case-- rather the reverse as it involves no altoration of time between ports.

It might be of interest were 1 ́to ad f that the

Foreign Telegraph Companies have already adopted a universal'official time in their stations" in China and Hongkong.

The Harbour Master suggests that the Macao Government should be consulted and doubtless they would like to be. My committee have little hesitation in thinking that they will readily see advantage in agreeing to the change, more particularly as the owners of the projected Macro-Canton railway will be anxious to take advantage of any scheme which will tend to render easy the connection of their railway with the trunk lines running into Canton; ·

In conclusion, 1 am to paint out that as the only argument to be brought against the scheme is that it is a change from the existing order of things and as the ad- vantages in favour of its adoption by Hongkong are very reaf, the Committee trust His Excellency the Governor 'will readily give his consent to the proposed change of time being officially adopted in the Colony.-I have, &C C

A. R. Lowe, Secretary.

Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential communication dated 29th June, last (No., 3015/04/C. S.-O.) | relative to the question of instituting zone time in this Colony,

tary.

The committee have given this matter serious attention, and they are unable to see Honourable F. H. May, C.M., Colonial Secre any reasonable grounds for disputing, the pro- position as put forward by Mr. W. Ferd. Tyler, Coast inspector, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, in his memorandum on the subject which forms the enclosure to your letter, From

the minute of the Honourable the Harbour Macter it would appear that no advantage to Hongkong would be gained by the change at present, and, at first sight, the committee were

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th August, 1934.

SIR, I am directed to thank you for your full and interesting letter of the 11th instant, on the subject of zone time and to inform you that His Excellency the Governor, who is in favour of adopúng zone time for Hongkong, has addresset the Governor of Macan and the

THE Nunyoon Times says-Smoking at municipal meetings, we are informed by an old commissioner, is no new thing in Rangoon, It was in vogue many yeary ago. As for its rather inclined to hold similar, views, but fur Secretary of State on the subject.-I have de

being unparliamentary, Bismarck relates how ha introduced it, much to the surprise and suppressed indignation of an old Austrian dip

F. H. May, Colonial Secretary.

to take steps for putting a stop to this sort of on 9th inst, stating that the city of Loch'englomat. But after a few sittings they all took thing. "Piracy is still, unfortunately, pre-hsien: which was captured by the insurgents kindly to the innovation, and business was valent," wrote the acting Commissioner of about the middle of last month has been found to progress in a more kindly and satis. Customs, at Canton, in his report of the recaptured by the governmental troops, both factory way under the influence of the sooth. change is not made before Hongkong is linked | August I am directed to inform you that the ing weed. Our Municipal Commissioners have no all night sittings, so that meals are not required as the House of Commons.

trade of that port for the year 1903, "and were more energetic and effective measures

adopted for its suppression, confidence would be restored and trade encouraged to no A. S. WATSON & Co., small extent." Since the shooting of a con- stable, belonging to the British Consulate at Canton, while travelling on the river in a junk, no action whatever appears to have been taken to rid the waters around that city of these bands of robber, and until the highway for all classes of river boats is made safe for navigation passengers will always have voyage attended with more or less danger. In the pre-

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ther consideration convinced them that the inauguration here of 8-hour zone time would not only cause no inconvenience but would The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce. prove rather an advantage than otherwise. On the other hand, great inconvenience will result, not only to China but to the Colony if the

with the various railway systems now extend ing over China.

Local time being in force here, the only change necessary would be to put clocks thereabouts, on the on 23 minutes, or appointed day. A slight advantage would be gained by the business community through

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th September, 1904.. Sir,-With reference to my letter of the 24th

Secretary of State for the Colonies has approve. ed of the adoption of the time of 12 cast longitude for longkong and that the Governor of Macao has stated that the adoption of the same time for that colony would not be

A DESPATCH received from the front in official quarters at Tokio states that Colonel Tulloch anti Lieutenant-Colonel Holden, British Mili- tary Attachés with the Japanese Army, were asperities if members made it a point to pare the fact of the working day.starting earlier and mittee of the Chamber of Commerce have any

much impressed by the extreme bravery, dis. played by several Japanese non-commissioned officers and privates As a token of their esteem, the British officers made the men a present of yen 200

TIENTSIN papers state that it has been officially notified that Mr. Humber, lately a joint manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, has been condemned to a years' imprisonment in con-

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Two Chinese were charged before Mr. Kemp this morning at the Magistracy with personating the police. The men heard a gambling game going on in a mat-shed on Des Voeux Road, Central, and the chink of money was too much for their morals. They rushed in declaring they were policemen, and sent to stop the gam- bling. On hearing this the gamblers bolted,

closing correspondingly sooner than now,

the usual closing hour of 5 o'clock as at present, thereby giving 33 minutes more daylight after The committee are unable to find any likeli- hood of complaint from the navigators using the port and indeed they are of opinion that they would welcome the change for the reason that it would simplify their calculations. It is plainly much easier for them to deduct 8 hours from the observed time of the falling ball of the

sent case piracy scarcely seems to have sequence of delalcations that had been dis- but in endeavouring to secure the money the local Observatory than, as at present, the

covered, and that he had absconded, leaving letters behind him suggesting suicide. A description of him is published in the papers by the German Consul at Tientsin.

leader was delayed and captured. One man

inconvenient.

2. I am now to inquire whether the com

the 23 minutes and 18 seconds necessary to suggestion to make as to the date upon which the time of Hongkong should be advanced by

effect the change.—I have, &c.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary. The Secretary, Chainber of Commerce.

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,

Hoogkong, 11th October, 1994.

Sir, I am directed, to acknowledge the

regulation figures representing hours, minules, receipt of your letter of 27th ultimo (No. 7748) held him whi' the other secured the loot,

seconds and decimals of seconds in order to 40 C.O.D.) notifying this Chamber that the and all might have gone well for the marauders, ascertain the errors of their chronometers. proposal to adopt zone time has been approved but for the unwelcome entry of a Chinese-dis This may not appear to be a great advantage, of by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, trict watchman, who scared the first culprit but it is the sum total of such small matters

and i am requested to thank you for your which secure the safety of navigation, and the courtesy sa asking the opinion of my Cenimit elimination of a possible source of error should tee as to the date when the change in time

should be made in this Colony,NARE not be passed over lightly,

Three months'

PRESIDENT Roosevelt, in accepting the nomina-into belting, while he secured the man with tion for the Presidency, denounces the insince the money, and raised as alarm for the capture rity of the attempt to identify tarif revision of the second, who was promptly arrested by with the solution of the problem relating to another district watchman. trusts, the evils of which are only remediable hard labour, and three hours' stocks. Inspector upon the rational lines taken by Congress and of Detectives Watt was in charge of the case. the Executive during the past three years. When Protection is modified it must be done with the utmost care for Conservatism.

been the motive of those persons who deli berately fired on vessels flying the British Bag, as front what has since come to our knowledge it is more the putting into prac- tice of a threat made by a desperado now awaiting extradition at Macad. It seems that the pirate chief who was captured in FURNITURE that colony not long since on representa tions made to the Portuguese Government DEALERS.

by the Viceroy of Canton, is reported to have said in his evidence that, in their raids, he and his party had hitherto refrained from molesting any foreigners or foreign property. Their operations were directed against the Chinese officials, whose rapacity brought misery upon the districts with which the chief and his confederates were con- nected. Since the Portuguese Government had been instrumental in effecting his arrest the captive boasted that he would use his best endeavours through the chief of the bands under his direction to avenge himself for his capture, and to this end his associates A CORRESPONDENT of the fiji attached to the would watch for any Portuguese or foreigner army investing Fort Arthur states that order who might be found within the district has been completely restored at Dalny, the streets of which have been named after our comprised in the zone operated by his fellow- robbers. This man is considered as the most prominent soldiers of the day. As the port is not yet opened to the general public, chief amongst the pirates infesting the there exist no Japanese merchants, except the PHOTOGRAPHIC banks of the West River. He had his purveyors to the army. The Chinese, however,

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residence in the island of Colowan, op- posite Macau, and within the dependency of that colony, and his arrest was effected by the secret police at the disposal of the Government there. The man is sup posed to have terrorised the districts that were subjected to his lawless attacks, and although the Chinese Government has

THE German steamer Hellas, which arrived at Yokohama on the 4th instant from Hongkong, had on board twelve shipwrecked Japanese men, who were duly handed over to the water police. The men were the crew of the Toyo- maru, a bonito fishing schooner owned by a merchant at Numazu. She was wrecked on the Totemi Nada and found by the fellas on the previous day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

are doing a prosperous business, their stores being open until midnight. A number of hotels have already been opened by the natives.

THE mavenient in favour of forming a Vol. wnteer Fleet of auxiliary cruisers seems to be progressing rapidly, remarks the Japan Mail

H. H. Prince Arisugawa addressed the Nobles at their Club on the 29th ult. strongly

ZONE TIME FOR HONGKONG.

The following correspondence has been forwarded to us by the Secretary of the long kong General Chamber of Commerce:--

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th June, 1904.

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That zone time has been successfully in-

troduced by the Imperial Maritime Customs in the parts of China north of Hongkong, and even up the Yangtse as far as Hankow, with out exciting adverse criticism and practically without reference in the local papers is a great achievement and augurs well for its easy adop- tion in Hongkong. It does not therefore seem desirable that this British Colony should with hold its support to a scheme which practically sets in motion Greenwich time throughout the Chinese Empire.

Sir, I un directed to forward for the in- As His Excellency is aware, zone time is not formation of your committee a memorandum a new idea. It has been found necessary to by Mr. Tyler, the coast inspector of the Im-adopt it in countries such as Canada, Australia perial Maritime Customs, on the desirability of adopting zone time in this Colony.

I also transmit a copy of a report by the Harbour Master on the subject and to state that the Officer Administering the Government would be glad to be informed of the views of your committee in this matter.-I have, &c.

A. M. THOMSON, Colonial Secretary, The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce.

MEMORANDUM ON THE DESIRABILITY OF HONGKONG ADOPTING ZONE TIME.

Quietly and without any public notification a standard time has been adopted in the Eastern part of China, and is now in use from New chwang and Swatow, up the Yangtse as far as Hankow, and at Wei-hai-wei and Tsingtau,

and United States of America which have great trans-continental lines of railway, as it was found impossible to properly regalate the branch line connections unless some easily calculated system of hour or 1-hourly zones divided these countries The Philippine Islands have also adopted 8-hour zone time as proposed for Hongkong.

The Committee desired me to suggest that

the 1st January next appeared to them a con. venient date on which to advance the local time, but should His Excellency the Governor prefer to make the change at an earlier date there. would be no objection to this course, being adopted as it does not appear necessary to give any long notice of the contemplated change,-I have, &c. lata, ka pad

A. R. LOWE, Secretary. Hon. F. H. May, C M.G., Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office;

14th October, 1994. Sif-1 am directed to acknowledge. your letter of 11th October and, in reply, I am to inform you that as no advantage would appear to be gained by waiting, His Excellency has ordered that this Colony, shall adopt the time of 120° east longitude on and from Sunday, the 30th October.

A notification to this effec), will appear in the newspapers and Governæ ent Gakrifi -I have, &c.

F. II. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

In view of the great extension of railways in the Empire of China which will undoubtedly take place in the near future it is obvious that The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, some such system as zone time will presently become imperative. My committee, therefore, endorse the view expressed by the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs officials that this change should be made now rather than at a later date when the various railways are com-

In addition zone time is in use in Japan and | pleted. in the Philippine Islands.

A great and important progressive movement been vigilant in its watch to secure his advocating the measure and calling upon his has thus been inaugurated in the Far East.

Introduced now, when railway' development arrest the officers employed have never hearers to lend their assistance. Prince Tokuin China is in its infancy, none of the usual succeeded in running him to earth. gawa replied on behalf of the Nobles, promis inconveniences connected with the initiation of That, as we have pointed out, was left to the ing their hearty support. We learn from thets introduction are feit. excellent secret service at. Macao. We originators of the movement that it is receiving

Put off until different railway systems were

understand that his rendition is not yet much encouragement, Subscriptions are comanning, with traffic tables adjusted to local effected, but he has appeared on his trialing in from all quarters and from all classes.. and is now incarcerated in the Monte prison

The fact that these systems are being deve loped by so many different syndicates 'em- bracing so many different national interests adds weight to the request that the change in official time should be made before, rather than ofter, the railways are completed

From its geographical position China lends itself very readily to a zone system of 7 hours in the western position and 8 hanis in the eastern.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. T 1. Phinis .. mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser vatory BRANDE PROMEN

On the 18th at 13.1a.m. The barometer bas risen generally but has fallen in Yangtse Valley, prod

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A new continental depression has been developed in the neighbourhood of Hankow and is moving towards the NE, and will reach the coast to the northward of Shanghai

Moderate NE. winds will be experienced in Formosa Channel and moderate Ewinds la the aorthern part of the China Bea

ForecastModerate Ewinds, cloudy, fine.

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time, the difficulties in the way of obtaining the necessary co-operation for its introduction The 8 hours, zone east of Greenwich would at Macao. There is no doubt, that he will be 51. Petersburg gives out that at the close of would be immense.

be between 113 to 1971" therefore the eight December Russia will have in the field-two- Now in the future expansion of this system hour zone could well be made to embrace the handed over to the Chinese Government, in armies, the first consisting of 7 corps with 4 divi a check; exists. Zone time is in use as far whole of China castward of, say, Hankow on which event his ultimate fate is not one to sions of cavalry; the second of five corps, with south as Swatow. But at Canion and the the Yangtse, and Canton on the Chukiang give rise to much speculation. Should it be 3 divisions of cavalry. A Russian corps West River ports it has not yet been introduced Thus not only would the main railway systems the punishment that is usually meted out hi d'armée numbers 30,000 of all ranks on a war owing to the interdependence of these places in China be worked on the official time of 8 China to people of his stamp it may have the footing, and the seven divisions of cavalry with Hongkong-it is seen that considerable hours east of Greenwich; but also all the treaty effect of acting as a warning to the members represent probably as many sabres as the rifles inconvenience would occur were an attempt parts at which the main coasting and river

The H. A. Ls3 Segovia from Hamburg Kussia will commence next year with 360,000 of China except it was done th co-operation which ocean-going vessels call and may be expected here on and inst adopted; for, by every means in our power, men of the twelve corps and some 30,000.ca with Hongkong and Macao Are all dan The nature of the Yangtse and West Rivers The C. P. R, Co's en didemias arrived at we should facilitate the safe navigation of vatry or very nearly the 400,000 that Kurd- Until these ports agree to the adoption of is such that steamers proceeding on river be. | Nakasaki at 3 50 pm, on 12th lost and left boats plying in the Canton Delta and on patkin declared necessary to cush the zone time an obstacle exists in the way of the yond Hagkow and Canton respectively have to again at ipm. Tuesday, for Kobe where the the waters around the neighbouring capital, | Japanesu.

| further expansion of the system in China. be especially constructed for the purpose and is due to arrive at 9 pm, on 19th lust,

Agents for Mesir. Allen & Sons Electrical / of his band.' If not, other methods must be of a corps d'armée. On that calculation made to establish a standard time in this part trade is conducted, as well as those ports left Singapore for this port on içib inst, pm;"

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