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BIRTHS.

On 21st December, at Shanghai, the wife of THOMAS SHIRDAY, Imperial Maritime Cus toms, of a daughter.

On 21st December, at Shanghai, the wife of ALEXANDER REID WILSON, of a daughter.

DEATHS.

On 20th December at Shanghai, PHILIP WINTER BLAMPIED, aged 36 years.

are correct, and Japanese merchants, anti- [ NEWS has been received of the death at home cipating financial benefits, are acquiring proof air. Oswald, the well-known Tientsin archi. perty in the neighbourhood many changes teet and engineer, may be brought about in the course of the next few years.

LOCAL AND GENERAL."

MR. F. S. Kuhn has appealed against his sea- tence of fifteen months' hard inbour.

THE death is announced of Sir Lowthian Bell, the largest English iron mine owner.

THE Canton Viceroy is now contemplating raising volunteer corps to suppress the rioters in the province of Kwanglung.

THE agitation in favour of a municipality at Chefoo is not being allowed to cool, the recent change at Amoy being taken as a good precedent.

GENERAL Kuropatkin's lost charger has come into the possession of- Major-General Okazaki, who proposes to present it to the Mikado. The Czar himself gave it to General Kuropatkin.

On 21st December, at Shanghai, the beloved wife of ERNEST MELLOWS, aged 16 years.

On the 26th December, at mid-day, in Hai- phong(Tonkin), JULE D'ABBADIE, partner of the Tire only cases of communicable disease

Firm of Marty d'Abbadie, of Haiphong. [1387 notified as having occurred in the Colony during the past week were one of scarlet fever (European), and one of small-pox (Chinese),

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, Tuesday, December 27, 1904.

JAPANESE AT SWATOW.

The ascendancy which Japanese influence has secured over China since the upheaval of 1900, and which has attracted little attention because of its gradual and quiet develop ment, has frequently been remarked upon during the course of the present campaign in the north. Japan, however, has made no secret of her policy to unite the two great countries, and to this end is desirous of modernising China by persuading her to adopt the Western methods and machinery necessary to make her independent. Under standing the Chinese and associating with them intimately as no Europeans could, A. S. WATSON & CO., and as only the Russians among Euro-

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IT is stated that there is a good prospect of the Chinese building a railway to connect Che- foo with the German Shantung railway at Weibsien, putting Chefoo in railway com- munication with Chinanfs and Tsingtao.

AN officer just arrived at Chefoo from the Russian stronghold now being stormed by the Japanese asserts that there are some sixteen thousand combatants at Port Arthur, of whom eight thousand are in hospital. The garrison of the forts has no rest, but is under arms

night and day. Wounded men from the hos pitals are on duty in their bandages.

PROF. Jenks has written to Chao Er Chen, President of the Board of Revenue, giving twenty regulations on banking matters.-- Eastern Time.

GENERAL Linievitch, who commanded the Siberian troops in China during the Boxer trou.. bles, has arrived at Mukden to take command of the second army,

THE purse who escaped from the Russian into

the Japanese lines on the Shalig was sent by and it is now expected that the Sister Superior the French Consul at Newchwang to Chefoo,

there will gladly get her off to Japan, where the Russian officer she wishes to joia is a prisoner.

We are glad to be able to deny, on the best authority, the statement made to us the other day that preparations are being made at Saigon and Cape St. James in anticipation of the arrival in the vicinity of any vessels belonging te'the Baltic Fleet. We never anticipated their presence in that quarter, but gave the report,

as made to us, for what it was worth.

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On and after Monday next, the 2nd prox, the 1.5. Heungshau will leave Hongkong for Macao every day at two o'clock instead of at 2.30 pm. The change should be appreciated by the Chinese who will thus arrive in time to get to the country before it is too late in the even- ing to travel. The hour of departure from Macan remains as at present, viz., 8.30 a.m.

We have received a visit from Mr. George Lanties, a professional diver, who has recently

arrived from New Guinea where he spent six years in a professional capacity. He has de- scended into 26 fathoms of water and has many interesting reminiscences of his work beneath the waves. Among soine of his finds is a large white pearl of 234 carrats which he values at £4,050, and which we have had the pleasure of handling. His temporary residence is 1ho

mas's Hotel.

ACCORDING to a Chefoo telegram.to the N. C.

SHIPPING JETSAM:

The harbour at Moji is to be dredged. River steamers at Shanghai report the C.M. s.s. Irene still ashore off Baltic Paint.

The steamer Sikh, which left Chinwangtao on the 15th ult, with 1,849 coolies for the Rand, arrived at Durban on the 13th inst, there hav ing been one death on the voyage.

The Hamburg-American live from Shanghai, the O. S. K. line from Kobe, and the Peiping fron Cheloo will run to Chinwangtao this win- ter, as well as the Kaiping steamers from Shanghai,

The documents which established the fact

that the captured steamer Fuging was blockade commanding the Russian garrison in Peking, running, were signed by Col. Ogorodinkoff,

according to the Japan Daily Mail.

Captain Inman Seatby, formerly commander of the steamer Coptic, and still remembered

here by a large circle of friends, has been placed in command of one of the White Star Line's newest and largest liners, the Creffe, which

Mediterranean. rans between England, Boston and the

The Prize Court at Sasebo announces that Thales, seized by the Japanese cruiser Tutswia the adjudication of the steamer Veterán, late

TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH COLLIER LOST

NEAR SWATOW

CREW SAFE,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Swatow, 20th December, 12.1 p.m.

The British steamer Workfield has been lost near the Cape of Good

Hope.

The crew has been saved and brought to Swatow.

[The s.s. Workfield, Capt. E. G. Brandhead, left Cardiff on the 8th October with a cargo of coal, and arrived here on the 2nd inst. She sailed for the North on Christmas Eve. She is a steel, screw steamer of 4,257 registered tons and was built at Stockton in 1901.-Ed., B.K.T.)

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on the 29th ult, will take place on or after the sheepskin clothes, corned beef, salt beef, sheep, 15th prox. The cargo of the Peferau comprised

shirts, drawers, Chinese trowsers, shoes, THE FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR. goatskin rugs, soap, tobacco, black tea, milk, potatoes, salt cabbage,, cotton, matches, and appliances.

The steamer Lennox, Kilburn, Claverhill and Rasbers were expected to be released from charter to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, their places being taken by the Porihime-maru, Takao-muru, Nitto-maru and another steamen which the company has just hired for that pur

pose.

RUSSIAN OUTPOSTS TAKEN.

Mr. M. Nonia, Consul for Japan, has kindly forwarded to us the following tele- grams:→→→

Tokio, Dec. 24, 4.15 p.m. detachment of our right occupied a hill on The Port Arthur Army reports that a Three foreign steamers, the Tritos, Victoria and Tetarios were also expected to the east of Hoyangshukao. Thereupon the be released from the service of the Osaka enemy made a fierce counter-attack, but they Shosen Kaisha about the same time, their were repulsed, and our occupation is now terms of charter having determined. The char-ucarly assured. ters of this steamers Standard and Quarta to the Osaka Shosen Kaisha have now been ar- ranged for their renewal for another three

months.

The ss. Chefoo, the sale of which we an-

THE following is the return of visitors to the D. News, dated 19th inst, the corninander.of a nounced a few days ago, is said to have been City Hall Library and Museum for the week Russian battleship who recently arrived at that ending the 25th December, 1904 :---

Non-Chinesc. Chinese

Library Museum 219 84 1,307

1.391

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Total...... 330

port says the fight for 203-metre hill lasted a fortnight and was of the most furious character. When the Japanese crept up the slope in the face of a furious fire, and hoisted their flag on the summīta Russian non-commissioned officer

dashed to the place, scized the flag, and began to tear it to pieces with his teeth, but was shot dead on the spot. In another assault, during which the Japanese poured kerosine oil on the breastworks and set them Japusese private hoisted a flag, and dashed on fire, a

into the Russian líne with it. He was shot

IT is reported that the Japanese found three passengers on board the steamer Nigretia when she was captured. The W. C. U. News understands that a squadron of powerful cruisers under Admiral Kammura has gone south to meet the attic squadron; but a tele-dead, but the flag was raised again by another, geuren, waa-mautismek km-ko demag bai the other wesiliyho was also shot, and this weat on until noon by a leading firm stating that the Baltic fight men were shot, one after another. The Russian commander on the spot was so moved at the sight of this bravery that he ordered his men not to shoot the flag-beater, as the Japan- ese would not yield a step unless the flag was hoisted there.

feet has been recalled.

pean peoples can attempt to do, the Japanese are peculiarly fitted for this work. There are, of course, many indica- tions of her progress in China, the most noticeable evidence, perhaps, being in the great number of Japanese who have settled in the northern part of the Empire. Many of these immigrants are ongaged in [35 business in a small way, and are able to meet the requirements of Chinese retail trade in a manner that the foreigner cannot. We have seen of late how the Japanese are educating large numbers of Chinese in their island empire, many of whom are sons of the highest officials and nobility, who are being imbued with liberal ideas of government which, on their return to China, may form the nucleus of a peace. ful reformation or possibly a revolution against the Manchu dynasty. But coming much further south to the vicinity of Hong MR. J. W. Davidson (U. S, Consul Designate pursuant to notice, was to move -

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BURGUNDIES.

THE Chefoo Daily News of the 18th inst. says that a letter received in Chefso gives the sur. prising news that the Russian cruiser Diana has turned up in an Australian port, having given the French at Saigon the slip. Our contemporary says that she will probably attempt to join the Baltic squadron; but in thal case she would hardly have selected a British port to start from.

for Antung, and formerly Consul for Formosa)

SANITARY BOARD.

As we are going to press a meeting of the members of the Sanitary Board is being held. There is not much in the orders of the day of

The President, very great public interest.

That the Board, with the approval of H. E. the Governor, appoint Police Sergeant Robert Shanghai, from Mr. John Goodnow, who is Fenton, a sanitary inspector, for the purpose of

has taken over the duties of Consul-General at

purchased by wealthy Russo-Chinese parties who propose to utilise the vessel as the nucleas of a new fleet of coasting steamers, The vessel was the pioneer of the large fleet of the China Navigation Co. and is 28 years old, her present appearance and good condition evidences the care and attention bestowed on

her by her former owners.

The blockade-runner King Arthur belonging the Bombay and Persia S. N. Co., from Part Arthur, was captured by the destroyer Aragiri on the 19th inst.

With regard to the cargoes on board the captured siehmers Hsiping and Peiping, it

has been decided to condemo 3,700 cases containing silver, provisions, various kinds of liquors, and miscellanous cargons, which shall be confiscated. The numerous cases of coiton goods consigned to Newchwang have not been confiscated.

Eighty saloon passengers were booked to sail on the liner Coptic which arived from Francisco this morning for Japan and China

San

In the steerage were 251

Chinese and Japanese returning from the S Louis Exposition, besides a large number o Asiatics returning voluntarily to their native. lands. The Coptic had a cargo of 4,000 tons of freight. In order to effect a rearrangement of the schedule, demoralized by the omission of the Garlic after her next departure from the Pacific coast, the Copiic is to remain at Hong-

south of the 203-Metre Hill.

This hill is situated one mile and a half

The bombardment of our heavy guns caused a great conflagration on the north fort of Haitayanghao.

Tokio, 25th December 7.10 p.m. The Port Arthur Army'reports that in the last few days the Russians were successively dislodged from their outposts in the direc tion of our right, all of which completely fell into our hands on the asth inst.

DEATH ON BISHOP PIAZZOLI.

It is with very deep regret that we are informed that, the Rav. Fr. P. da Maria, pro- vicar-Apostolic in Hongkong, received a tele gram this afternoon from Milan stating that, His Lordship the Right, Reverend. Luis M.. Plassoli, R. Bishop in this Colony, is dead. Early in the forenoon a wire, was received to the effect that is Lordship's condition was critical, and although "much anxiety was felt for his Lordship's recovery it was not anti- cipated that his end was so near at hand.

It was not many months since that Monsig. neur Piazzoli was medically advised to proceed sidered sufficiently serious to cause anxiety, to Europe, his illness at the time being con

The change has evidently not improved. his Lordship's health, impaired by the many years of arduous duties and incessant toil is the interior of China under conditions which the most robust constitution is apt to break down. Bishop Piazzoli, although of a retired dispo-

French either as merchants in the foreign about to pay another brief visit to the United | carrying out the provisions of the bye-laws for kong about three weeks, or until about sition, made many friends in official, secular

kong we find that Swatow, which, since its opening to foreign commerce, has been the residence of Britishers, Germans, and

firms or else working in the Imperial Maritime Customs, is now undergoing a decided and rapid change. This has been brought about by the construction of the short railroad track from the portio Chaochoufu, somethirty miles further up the river. The work is being undertaken by Japanese who are under con- tract to supply the material, and who, it is said, are financially interested in the scheme. Japanese have kept on pouring into the port almost daily, and are now being looked after by a Japanese Consul. Many of them seen to have taken up their residence on Double

States. In Mr. Goodnow's absence the Senior the "Prevention or Mitigation of Epidemic, Consulate will devolve on Dr. Knappe (Consul. Endemic, or Contagious Disease." General for Germany), Mr. Kleimenow having declined the duties in consequence of the war,

AMONG the passengers to San Francisco by a recently departed steamer was Albert Marshall, who three years ago, when he was steward on the steamship Per tried to kill Captain Pillsbury, the commander of that vessel. He Marshall was sentenced to four years. In had served two years in Hongkong gani. consequence of a numerously signed petition prepared by a well-known Kowloon gentleman

Island, which we believe is some four miles he was released. this side of the port, and are buying up property at most extravagant prices. An THe hyena belonging to Hanston's circus old gentleman who has been long associated escaped in Manilalast week, and according to. with Swatow called upon as a few days since one report "hardly a soul ventures out after and expressed surprise that no mention nightfall and the majority of the people even of the matter had hitherto been made, keep to their houses during the day as it is not He told us that as much as thirty thousand known just where the ferocions animal will dollars have been offered by Japanese, not

next appear." The Christmas trade must con- sequently have been dull in.the city or else the immediately concerned in the undertaking, for a small site in the neighbourhood of the terminus of the line at Swatow, and said that 33.60 everywhere the utmost activity prevails immigrants. The material among the ne for the line, including cement, coal, engines, carriages and sleepers is being ordered from Japan, and it seems that the success of the nation in adopting themselves to a remark able variety of circumstances as applied to Formosa is to be repeated to some extent in the case of the southern treaty port. It is,

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imaginative scribe was anticipating the festi. vities. However, the animal was eventually caught before any damage was done, and is now back again in its cage. Manila should breathe more freely!

MR. F. J. Haver Droeze, Consul General for the Netherlands, writing on the 24th inst., says

BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.

There were several applications from various house-owners in this city and Kowloon, for modification of the requirements of certain sections of the Public Health and Building Ordinance, in regard to the building or enclos- ing of verandahs, upon the upper storeys of honses, which will abutt over Crown land. For various reasons, some of the applications were refused, athers being granted.

SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS AT KENNEDY TOWN.

A minute from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, relative to the mode of slaughtering

January 13th.

Captain Roberts, superintendent at Boston for the Boston Steamship Company, is to take command of the big steamer Skawinul, suc- ceeding Captain Smith, who has resigned be cause of the illness of his wife.

and clerical circles in Hongkong, and his early demise will be felt by mady, who will moura his loss as that of a personal friend.

A LONDON wire to the Shanghat Times says:' On her trip across from Hongkong to 'Frisco The military correpondent of the Times con- last mouth the P. M. Co's liner Korea found, siders that the Russian adherence to Port for the first time in her career, the ocean rough Arthur is a great strategical error. He also enough to shake her big frame and give those says that the awful sacrifice of Japanese lives aboard a taste of the tumbling with which has been compensated for by the destruction travellers on smaller vessels are familiar. All of the Russian fleet, which was the real object the way from Yokohama to Honolulu high seas of the attack on Port Arthur. It will hardly ba contested the liner's way and fierce winds swept necessary now to make another forcible attack her broad decks. She bad to lie for ten hours to probably cost more in lives than the former assaults. The obsolete fons will, sooner or later, falk The japanese only failed at the beginning of the attack owing to the weakness of their guns San Francisco wire states that according to the Japanese the fortress will fall into their hands at the Chinese New Year.

of calile, etc., at Kennedy Town, and Hung-off Nagasaki waiting for a pilet. She arrived hom slaughter-house, was laid on the table, off the Japanese port after dark, and as the har Mr. E. A. Hewelt minated: I should like bour entrance is elaborately mined for protec to have an official statement from the Colonial tion against Russian visitors Captain Seabury Veterinary Surgeon that the present pattern of

could not afford to take chances of losing his pole-axe is the best pattern for use here. What ship. The Kerea made a good run from we have to aim at is that animals slaughtered Honolulu, reaching San Francisco a few hours for food are done to death as humanely and before she was expected. with us little pain as possible.

The ss. Inku has been ordered to Chefoo The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon minuted: for Chinwantao to load cargo and coolies for

The large animals, water buffaloes, etc., are shot at Kennedy Town, by a service life, and at Hunghom by a Winchester carbine. These are used by the inspector only. Pattern ham mer pole-axes were made locally after the English pattern, but were not a great suc cess. The butchers had not the dexterity required. A heavier and modified form was substituted and these now work satis.

Durban, and, en route, she will load up with bunker coal at Kuchinciza, Japan, It is ex pected that she will be ready to sail on or about Friday next, and will probably be followed by. the s.s. Courtfield on the same course,

The repairs to the s.s. Swanley are nearing completion, at Singapore, and the vessel is expected here on or about the 8th proximo, when she will be prepared to resume her run, that the Governor General of Netherlandsfactorily. In reply to Mr. Hewett's minate the

The Norwegian steamer, Oscar II, which is India has decreed that all ships or vessels Colonial Veterinary Surgeon stated: I regret under charter to the Inpanese as a coastor, has arriving from Hongkong or having called at that I did not make my meaning clear. The arrived in this harbour, and will be placed in this port are subject in Netherlands-ladia to pole-axe in use produces complete unconscious- the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's departure from this port or since the last case a quarantine of ten days from the date of sess instantaneously, and is, as far as I know, dry docks for the purpose of having a new

the most suitable weapon for use by Chinese thrust shaft fitted.

of plague on board. Importation is temporarily butchers. Its effectiveness in producing death, prohibited of animal refuse, claws and hoofs, with minimum of suffering, is quite equal to

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. French (Australien) 17th just. Canadian (Tartar) 38th inst. Australian (Tafyuan) z8th inst. American (Korea) 29th inst English (Coromandel) 3ṛst inst; noon.

The ass, Hindustan arrived at New York on atst inst

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The 2.8. Shimoto left Shanghai to-day, for Hongkong.

The C. & M. Co.'s s.s. Rubi left Amoy to- day, at 3 pm, and is due here to-morrow at 3

p.m.

The Imperial German Mail's.s. Stydlits left Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai 00 25th inst.,

The P. & O. S. N. Co5 .5. Coromandel:

of course, difficult to say to what extent the new line will benefit Swatow which has gained prominence because of the reminera N.B. All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at tive coolle traffic carried on with the Straits animal or human hair and bristles, hides, which the English pattem, The reason why the THE U. S. Minister of America în Peking his

home, thereby ensuring to our Customers view there is nothing remarkable to record, with arsenic, raw wool and rags, bags or sacks English butcher strikes his blow with a swing, canstruction of the Panama canal, the U. S teft Singapore for this port on 25ıb inst, at

Settlements. From a commercial point of are untanned and which are salted or cured English pattern was not a success is that the notified the Wai Wa Pu that owing to the and may be expected bere oa 3rd prox. all the advantages accruing from bottling and some seem to think it a moot point which have already been used, coming from as in golf-playing, whereas the Chinese butcher intends to engage Chinese labour in connection done at home under the direct supervision whether the railway will bring about any Hongkong or transbipped at this port..: Also it strikes bis' blow over head in the same way as therewith, but that the U. S. Government does noon with the Outward English Mails, and of the Growers and Distillers as compared material change in the present condition of is temporarily prohibited to import from Hong- a forge hammer is use by a blacksmith. The not take the responsibility.-Universal Gazette, kong into Netherlands-india tapestry and.used English pattern was; therefore, too light for use-This is a somewhat different view to that affairs. But the fact of the Japanese having embroideries unless they are transported as bere by Chinese, unless with a training that held by one of our Manlia contemporaries in the matter in hand should augur well for the personal baggage or is consequence of change meant an infliction of suffering which it was designing the report recently appearing in our success of the undertaking and, if reports of residence,

columos, our object to avoid,

service of European Firms,

to bottling done in China, by Chinamen

986, 1904. [1266-m

is due here on 31st inst; at noon..`

The Imperial German Mail s.a. Bayern cat-

rying the German Malls with dates from Berlid of the 6th inst, left Colombo on Saturday p.m., and may be expected here on 5th proš