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BIRTHS.

On th October, at Singapore, the wife of J. TYRRELL, Straits Settlements Police, of a daughter.

On the 9th October, at Taiping, the wife of JAMES KYDD, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

On the 1st October, at All Saints, Taiping, FLAVOUR Horace DE COURCY MARTELLI, Royal Field Artillery, son of Col. T. C."Martelli, late Royal Artillery, to ETIEL MARY, daughter of the

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THE Volunteer camp was to open on Stone cutter's Island at four o'clock this afternoon. An hour later fatigue drill was to take place. NINETY-NINE years ago to-day Lord Nelson was killed at the battle of Trafalgar. We may soon expect to hear about a centenary celebra

tion.

THE United States Navy is experimenting with an improved type of 21 inch Whitehead torpedo which has a speed of ja knots and a range of 2,500 yards.

WE would draw the attention of our readers to the fact that the bazaar in aid of the Ministering

Parade Ground to-morrow aftersson. Children's League takes place on the Volunteer

At the funeral of Frince, Herbert von Bismarck, the widowed Princess created a painful scene, throwing herself upon the coffin from which she was with difficulty removed.

LIMITED.

THE emisor Diadem la preparing at Chatham CANTON INSÜRANCE SOCIETY, Dockyard for the conveyance of new crews to the Far East for ships which are to recom- mission on the China Station.

THE Russian Government has sanctioned the construction of a cunal connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega, the second largest lake in Europe. It is estimated that the cost of the undertaking will be £9,000,000,

MERTING OF SHAREHOLDERS.

vening the meeting,

The Secretary having read the notice con-

GAMBLING MONOPOLY

'IN MACAO.

Negotiations are now progressing with the Portuguese Government, by Mr. John S. Barnes, HOPING to secure a wider control of the trade, the American Tobacco Company and the Con-holders in the above Company was held at gambling in Macao. Mr. Damos has been in The twenty-third ordinary meeting of share for a concession of the monopoly of European solidated Tobacco Company have re-arranged their respective securities, combining a capital son and Co., Pedder Street, The Hon. W. J. time, and has now succeeded in focussing the noon, at the offices of Messrs, Jardine, Mathe-communication with the authorities for some of £72,000,000,

Gresson presided, and there were also present, matter to such a point that he is sanguine of Messrs--H. P. White, F. Maitland, E. Shellim, obtaining the concession on his forthcoming Hon. Sir Paul Chater C.G., C. Rogge, A. G. visit to Lisbon in this connection, whither ha Morris, A. V. Apcar, J. Orange, J. Whittall, will be departing about the end of the current Ho Fook, Chan San, P. Tester, Fok Kam Hin, month. Mr. Barnes is the more sanguine of Ho Kom Toag, F. J. V. Ribeiro, Hon. Gershom a successful issue from the fact that, when in Stewart, Ho U Sang, G. H. Potts and G. T. Lisbon some time age for the purposes of the Vaitch, (Secretary),

negotiations, the officials appeared ready to fall in with his views and accede to his pro- posals and terms, and as a matter of form re fened the proposition to the authorities at Ma- cao, from whom no opposition in anticipated, This concession granted, it is Mr. Barnes' inten- tion to open a casino, on the principle of those on the European Continent, governed and guided by similar rules and regulations. But his plan does not end there; it includes annexes, con. shoots, a switchback railway, bowling grecas, quoit grounds, and in fact all and every sort of taining a theatre, restaurant, bar, cafés, water

outdoor amusement for young and old. No Chinese gambling will be permitted-that is to say, no Chinese games will be allowed to be played on any part of the premises.

MR. Baker, the curator of the Sydney Tech- nelogical Mim, is assisting the British medical profession to investigate the therapeu tics of the constituents of the Australian eucalyptus in connection with cancer and

THE S. F. Press says:-The s.s. Luity Mitchell, | phthisis. belonging to the Straits Steamship Co., has been sold to Messia. E. C. Wilks & Co.,

Hongkong. We alluded to this two weeks ago The Peking and Tientsin Times says that the steamer Courtfield is to be

sent from Chinwangtao to pick up the coolies from the

elegraph Swanley and carry them to South Africa. She

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1904.

CHINESE LABOUR FOR PANAMA.

The important news printed in another column concerning the proposal to introduce Chinese labour into Panama will be welcomed by shipping firms equally as much as it will be denounced by the importers of native labour into the Straits Settlements. To the former it will mean the chartering of their steamers, while to the latter a further drain on what they considered their special coolie preserves in South China will result. At the same time

it is of interest to note that Chinese work. men are to be given a trial in the Boleo mines of the Rothschilds, on the Island of Carmen, off the coast of Lower California. Just what the result will be it is, of course, hard to foretell. The work is said to be

exccedingly heavy, and whether the Chinese

can stand up to it or not is a question that can only be determined after a trial. At any rate, it is reported that they are pay- ing their own fares to the point in order to give it a trial. Recently, at the same place, an attempt was made to work the properties with Japanese coolies. It proved a dismal failure, states a writer in Ores Five hundred labourers were brought over at a cost, it is said, of $100,000 by the contractors. They took a violent dislike nut only to that section of Mexico, but to the work they were called

and Metals.

is due at the Natanas on the 25th inst.

THE Tientsin Chamber of Commerce has protested against the new trademark law in a letter addressed to the doyen of the diplomatic corps in Peking, handing copies of this protest to the American, British, and Japanese Ministers.

ADMIRAL Noel, Commander of the British squadron on the Asiatic Station, proceeded on 8th inst. to the Palace at Peking, accompanied by Sir Ernest Satow, the Minister, and was received by the Emperor and the Empress Dowager in audience.

CHARGED at the Old Bailey last sessions, with stealing a horse, a prisoner was called upon to plead to the charge, but said "I cannot say whether I am guilty or not until I have seen my solicitor.". His case was allowed to stand over for a day in order that he might consult a

solicitor.

MR. J. Pierpont Morgan, who is now in the

68th year of his age, is arranging to retire from active business by the end of the present year. Mr. Morgans fortune is estimated at 20,000,000. His son (Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jun., born in 1867) succeeds him in control of

the business.

THE international walking contest at Shanghai on Sunday proved a thorough sporting event, for the 17 mile race. The English team won, no less than 41 competitors toeing the marks

although a French representative gave a fine exhibition of the art of pedestrianism, finishing first in 3 hrs. 2 m,

THE French authonties are offering a large re

THERE were immense cremption fires after the

battle of Liaoyang. The theatres and churchies at Harbin were filled with Russian invalids, and 35,000 wounded underwent treatment there. General Kuroki's force was without food, except raw rice, for four days.

THE public servants' liability ordinance in Ceylon, which came into operation in 1899, and was meant to shield public servants from the grip of the money-leaders, ceases.at the end of this year. It is asserted to have been very unpopular with the men whom it tried to protect, and, in many cases, has dealt hardly with them.

THE cruiser Tallet, which was last employed on the China Station, arrived on 21st ult, at the Nore, and went on to Chathain Dockyard, where she will undergo an extensive overhaul and repair, and will also have her armament strengthened by the substitution of eleven 6-in.

breechloading guns in place of five 6-inch and six 47-inch quick-firing guns.

THE Admiralty have received tenders for the construction of two powerful battleships to be built in private yards. Offers have been re. ceived from Clyde, Barrow, and Tyne builders. The new ships will be the largest ever builu

having a displacement of 16,500 tons, and in passing anything yet constructed. point of armament and armour protection, sur

PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the band of the 93rd Burma Infantry on the new Parade Ground, on Monday next, from 4.30 to 6 p.m. -

March........... Penatau "

Gouncil. Overture........" 3.a Reipe d'un Jour".......... Adam. Selectiv........." The Orchid "Ivon Caryll. Morceall.... "Saint d'AmOUT .......Eigar. Selection......." Three Little Maids". Rubens. Valtr..

* Parfum d'fliver

...Berger. God rave the King.

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen, with your permission we will adopt the usual custom and take the report and account as read. The re sult of last year's working I trust you will con- sider satisfactory, as also our recommendation as to the disposal of the available balance of $445,494-34, viz:-by paying a dividend of $18 per share, strengthening the reserve fund by the addition of $100,000 which will then stand at $1,4-0,0co increasing the re-insurance fund by $25,000, and carrying forward the balance of $150,494.34. Our premia income, you will have noticed, shows an increase over that of the previous year, this in some measure, was owing to the rate of exchange at which the sterling premia was converted, viz:-1/8 as against 1/10 in 1902. Sterling losses were also calculated at the same rate. The present year's working, to date, I have pleasure in stating continues satisfactory although in this quarter, owing to the existing war, business is some- what restricted. As regards our mortgages our surveyors report ample margins on the tion of the report and accounts; I shall be sums advanced. Before proposing the adop- pleased to answer any questions appertaining thereto which shareholders may ask.

much pleasure in rising to second the adoption The Hon. Gershon Stewart said he had

of the report and accounts. He was sure he expressed the general opinion of the share holders in saying that they were extremely contested with the very satisfactory report which had been put before them for the period under review (Hear, Hear). He thought that so long as they continued to proceed on the

very safe lines of distributing in the shape of dividendis only one half of their profits, they would continue to prosper. He was pleased to see that they were building up a very strong continued. He would furthermore suggest reserve, and he hoped this policy would be the possibilities and usefulness of transform: ing some of this silver reserve into gold, (Hear, Hear),

The resolution was put and carried unani- mously,

The Chairman proposed that the appoint. ment of Mr. H. P. White, of Messrs. Douglas Laparik & Co., to a seat on the Consulting Committee in the absence of Mr. J. H. Lewis, By kind permission of Col. Caulfield and Off-be confirmed, and also that Sir Paul Chater, cers, the band of the 10th Mahratta Light GM.G., Messrs. D. E. Brown, F. Maitland, and

Committee.

GENERAL SIVESSEL.

some circumstantial detail, that the tenacious The world has already been informed, with

defender of Port Arthur was a Swiss, and that some of his relatives still live in Switzerland.

But this theory is now challenged, in this passage from a home paper

and we have time to sort out the nationalities engaged, it will be interesting to see how many races and countries go to make up the Russian have heard it said, of course, that General Staffmore or less connected with the war. We

Kuroki is descended from a Pole, and we know that the late M. de Plehve, who was the main- spring of the war, was a Lithuanian and a Lutheran. The Pester Lloyd now says that General Stoessel, now at bay inside Port Arthur, is of Jewish origin.

When the smoke of conflict has blown away,

His father, we are told, was a goldsmith, who

in 1830 emigrated from Upper damith, wh Russia, where he embraced the Orthodox fa and amassed a large fortune. A branch of the Stoessel family settled in Buda-Pesth, where The last of them died a few years ago in the they Magyarised their name into Szelenyi. Magyar capital, a wealthy man without direct issue. The Stoessels of Russia established their right as next-of-kin, although the Magyar branch had not heard of them for close upon balf a century,

upon to perform, claiming that the workings ward for information as to the whereabouts of Infantry will play the following selections at E. Shellim be re-elected to serve on the same its design in its broader lines. It has been loo

of the mines are not such as they would de- sire to be employed in. They were used to working in soft ground, thoroughly braced,

■ and cannot understand that this is not ne- cessary in solid formation. At any rate, the the Chinese are arriving: but the statement is made they will only consent to employ- ment in the light tasks. The decision to

FURNITURE try the Chinese was probably brought about by the trial being made in South Africa, though in that case the Asiatics were taken under contract, while in the Mexican case they are aol, and may leave whenever they please. The success attending the work in the Transvaal mines has doubtless also

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

FURNITURE,

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

Mr. de Cuverville, the French attache who left Port Arthur in a junk about the middle of Captain Lieutenant van Gilgenheirab, who left August. Neither he nor the German attache.

there at the same time have been heard of,

AN official belonging to the Staff of the French Legation states that the best way to bring the war to an end would be for China to ask

the Powers to intervene between the bef- ligerents. France would welcome action by China in the direction of despatching several leading statesmen to make representations to

the Powers.

the Hongkong Hotel, on Saturday next, the 22nd insi.:--

March..." The Liberty Bell Overture. Du Jan"

Selection..Welcome Becher Jonathan"..Stewart.

Value Myosotis"

Song................** Husbeen “ Selection.."The Messenger lloy

Seura, Mozart.

Lowthia, Needham, ...Monckton,

WOOL, frozen meat, coal, lead, and copper

formed the leading lines of the cargo of the Australian mail arriving yesterday. The steamer had booked 1,000 bales of wool, 500 tons of lead, 200 tons of copper, 35 tons of barley, 50 tons of flour, and 1,000 tons of coal, the last-

refrigerating chambers contained 300 carcases mentioned shipment being for Shanghai. The

to of mutton for Manila, also a shipment of butter,

A PARTY of missionaries arrived from Aus. tralia yesterday and are proceeding

contributed to the decision of the Panama authorities to engage Jabourers from China, and although the number required is about a fifth of that to be sent to South Africa the work of transporting them should be benefi- cial to the shipping interests of our Colony. If the syndicate meets with the success

News has been received of the death of Cap. anticipated in securing the required number lain Desseimann, the well-known commander of men the Chinese will have an opportu

of the North German Lloyd mail steamer Prins

and 150 tons of compressed fodder, and 1,500

Shanghai, to join the China Inland Mission The party consists of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. King, cases of potatoes, for Manila. Dodds, V. Lyle, R. J. Pemberton, 1. L. Reid, Misses Lily Pears, M. E. Edwards, R. L. E, Powell, D. Trudinger, A. B. Rout, and A. G. Gresham.

SATORI Kator, aged forty-six, a Japanese, des-

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Mr. Rögge seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

The Chairman moved, and Mr. Ho Fook seconded, the re-election of Messrs, W. Putton Potts and R. Chatterton Wilcox as auditors for the ensuing year, and the meeting unanimously accepted the proposition,

The Chairman announced that dividends shareholders for their attendance. were payable to-morrow, and thanked the

NAVAL CONFERENCE.

ADMIRALS TO MERT AT SINGAPORE.

Vies-Admiral Fanshawe, Commander-in-

Chief of the Australian Squadron, is proceeding to Singapore with the flagship Euryalus this conference. The Euryalus left Sydney on 21st month for the purpose of attending a naval uft. boond for Jervis Bay, for shot practice. She returned there on the 30th uft, and after embarking Vice Admiral Fanshawe was to sail for Fremantle, and thence direct to Singapore. There Vice Admiral Fanshawe will meet the

ladies squadrons,

THE YANGTSE SPHERE.

aggressiveness, although it may appear to

One more proof is afforded that Russian-

slumber from time to time, never swerves from readily assumed in this country-we trust to better knowledge at Downing-street-that the St. Petersburg Government, having a great war on its hands in Manchuria, had recognised the necessity for dropping its scheme of bisecting our sphere of influence, the Yangtse Valley, by "railway penetration," So far from that being the case, there is, unfortunately, substantial evidence of its having very nearly secured the desired object. The northern portion of the line, from Peking to Hankow, has completely fallen under its control, and now the southern moiety, from Hankow to Canton, is being sub. jected to the same process. It would be repeating an old familiar story to relate how astutely the prime mover in this campaign of aggrandisement hides its band. In both instances the required concessions

have been made by China to other foreigners,

to a Belgian company in the one case, and to of these convenient intermediaries is Russian, an American in the other. But the real control says the Globe, that being the quarter which furnishes the capital, and in due course, Russia will emerge from her ambush and come out into the daylight as director and dictator us

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.nity of proving to a section of the British Regent Luitpold. The deceased was in the singing so loudly that a crowd gathered. The Commander-in-Chief of the China and East British sphere in two. The only remaining

COOKING RANGES,

COUNTERPANES.

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

He was

cribed as an "editor" of Seething-lane, was charged, before Mr. Rose, at West London Police Court on 10th ult., with being drunk and disorderly in Shepherd's Bush road. A police constable said he was undoubtedly drunk, and service of the company for a period of 18 years, liberty in this country, as others do, so long as Defendant: Didn't I say I ought to enjoy my Press that it has been entirely in the wrong being appointed captain in 1899. in denouncing the movement in connection formerly in the steamer Oldenburg, in the respected the rights of others? Mr. Rose: A with South Africa on the ground that they Australian trade.

very precise presentment of the law. The would be unable to stand the constant strain

Defendaal: The policeman was thin-skinned, and got angry because I said he wasn't

The defendant, addressing the magistrate,

guilty," he added, gravely, "at a time when my denied that he was drunk. "I should not be

compatriots are hazarding their lives, of such an absurdity." He was, he added, treated very courteously at the station; the sergeant wanted him to find bail, but be refused. A witness having given evidence for the defendant, the

It is understood that the conference will be on questions of naval construction and strategy in the Far East. In October last a similar con- ference took place, and it was announced at the time that arrangements had been made for

confer each year.

a railway, whose chief object is to cut the

scheme is that the Hankow-Canton conces obstacle to the realisation of this ambitious xion was expressly reserved from transfer to any non-American nationality, But efforts 816 already being made at both Washington and Peking to supersede that governing condition company to acquire the concession.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

PHOTOGRAPHIC/any truth in the assertion of those who Lloyd, which hitherto went from Sydney via educated enough to understand my phrases. the Admirals of the stations mentioned to of the contract by permitting another Belgian

DEPARTMENT.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

of a difficult and fatiguing work. If there is THE South Sea line of the Norddeutsche Bismarck Archipelago, Kaiser Wilhelmsland will go another way, viz., from Kaiser Wilhelms and Dutch East-India to Singapore, in future

land to Manila, Hongkong and Kobe, thus creating a traffic between Australia and Japan, which will give better financial results for the the line.

opposed the building of the Canal across the Isthmus the coolies from China are likely to experience a trying ordeal on this six-mile UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. strip of land. The fatal objections to the

GOOD WORK.

Panama route were said to be climatic, en- gineering and technical, but in these matters

PROMPT RETURN, Hongkong, 8th January, 1904

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E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

COLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Worklundertaken.

one has always to remember that, usually, the opposition will not refrain from drawing a picture somewhat highly tinted by strange ideas, If the scheme goes through the British public will, rio doubt, experience a sense of profound satisfaction, and the enter prise should meet with the support that, at first sight, it appears to merit.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

RADIES having appeared in Kuala Lumpor all Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam dogs have to be muzzled or confined for the

Ship Designs and Specifications prepared.

and Motor Launches.

Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

A farge stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept.^. Agents for Messrs, Allen & Sons Electrical

Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.

period of two months.

THE Malay Mall hears that the Bilensing Mining Co. has arranged to work the tailings of the Punjom Mining Co.

By kind permission of Lieut.-Col. Iremonger magistrate observed, "I understand the care- and Officers, the band of the 93rd Burma In-it is an exceedingly trivial one, and I shall be fantry will play the following programme at quite justified in discharging you." Mr. Kator the Kowloon Hotel, during dinner, to-morrow bowed to his Worship and left the Court, evening (weather permitting):-

March......"Constellation".

Overture...." Medusă "........... Selection...."Little Christopher Columbus". Bun Banco., "The Dostou Helle Selection...." Vloradora" Valts........"A Greck Slave", Two-Step...."Mumblin Moss “........

God save the King.

Clark, .Elliot.

Ivan Caryl).

Godfrey.

Leslie Stuart. .Sidney Jodes.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plam, Thurban. mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser-

vatory --

cus Samuel, made an interesting reference to

On the 21st at 11.12 am The barometer has

stations.

Ar the annual meeting of the Shell-Transport and Trading Company the chairman, Sir Marisen broughout China, and fallen at all other the subject of liquid fuel. He observed that it The northern depression is now situated in was not a little remarkable that Russia, with the southern part of the Sea of Japan, still the largest supplies in the world, should still moving in an ENE., direction but rather more be burning coal in her own Navy. The whole rapidly, ma

the conference, reaching Melbourne early in The Euryalus will return to Australia after

November.

VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.

BECOMING INCREASINGLY VIOLENT."

The eruptions of Mount Vesuvius are be coming increasingly violent. No fewer than 1,844 explosions have occurred within 13 hours. During one of them a stone weighing 18 tons was ejected from the crater. The upperstation of Cooke's funicular railway is ablaze, says a lale wire from London.

MAILS DUE, Canadian (Empress of India) 22nd inst. American (Korea) 23rd jost. German (Zielen) 25th inst Indian (Arratson Apcar) 26th iast. American (Garlic) 29th inst. American (Siberia) 4th prox..

American (Mongolia) 10th prox.

The Apcar Co.'s s.s. Arratoon Aptar from Calcutta left Singapore for this port this morn The O. S. S. Co. & C. M. S. N. Co.'s 5.5. It was in November, 1903, that the comple-Pingsucy left Shanghai daylight to-day, and is tion of a new electric railway up to Vesuvios, expected to arrive here on 24th 108213-

The P. M. S. 5. Co.sss. Korea with mails, by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Sons, the tourist

c., left Manila for this port ou Friday 11 to the of connect with the old to the foot of the cone, to conness rith Resina

point of the new railway is Pugliano, which, funicular railway to the crater. The starting except for a small stretch, is in itself connected with Naples by electric trams. The railway (exclusive of the line up the cone) has a total teligth of 47 miles, and is divided into three sections. The first and third sections are both

The C. P. R. Co.'s 2. Athenian arrived at am, and is due here ou agrd must, day at

at 12.30 p.m., same day, for Yokohama where Kobe at r dim, on 20th inst, and left again she is due to arrive at 6 p.m.. on 21st inst.

The C. P. R. Co.'s as. Empress of India arrived at Nagasaki at 8.30 am, on arst insty and leaves against 3 pm, same day for Shang- hai where she is due to arrive at midnight, on 220d inst.TAANANT The Silk ex CP. R. Co.'s as. Empreis of with a maximum inciiae as great is that of the Yokohama on 30th uft, arrived ́ar New York Forecast-Moderate to fresh NE. winds, Rigi, railway, 25 per cent. The generating on 19th inst, thus making a transit of $8 days cloudy, fair.

station in at the foot of Monte Cateroni from Hongkong and 19 days from Yokok

of her difficulties in getting the Baltic Fleet Gradients are decidedly steeper upole out would, he asserted, have been easily over- China Coast and fresh NE. monsoon may be

COLONEL F. H. Haynes, Chief Paymaster, come bad that fleet been capable of steaming expected in the Formosa. Channel and in the adfiesiph lines, and the second is a tack railway Tapan. which left Hongkong on alat pit, and Telephone-No. 358.

Woolwich, has received instructions to hold on liquid fuel. It is satisfactory to note that northern part of the China Seas himself in readiness to embark for Hongkong our own Admiralty is making successful ex- [581 on or about Nov. 3 next

|periments with liquid fuel.

Telegram Address: MARINEWORK Hongkong, and May, 1904.