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AN examination for interpreters will be held at the Registrar General's Office on the 16th instant, to fill vacancies on the staff of the | Sanitary Department.

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INLAND Lot No. 1,729, adjoining Garden Lot No. 1, Rear Robinson Road, comprising 14,100 square feet, is to be sold by public auction, the upset price being $1,178,

H.E. the Governor has been pleased, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. R. O. Hutchison and Mr. D. W. Tratman to be cadets in the Hong kong Civil Service.

Tu¤ Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen corres- pondent says that the illness of Henrik Ibsen,'! the dramatist, has assumed the form of a Single Copier, Daily, fru vents; Weekly, twenty dangerous paralysis, and that he is unable to

speak, read, or write.

five cents,

The Houghong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1905.

THE BECK-CASE.

POSTAL notes ranging from sixpence to a sovereign in value, the present rates being 27 cents for the former up to $10.60 for the latter, can now be obtained at Hongkong or at any British Post Office in China.

SATURDAY, JANUARY

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FOR the second time it is in ended to start ar Ice Factory here, says the Sandakan correspon dent of the Straits Times. Once before Lorentzen had applied for and was granted a place on the reclamation where good drinking spring water is obtainable, but neither the machinery nor the appliances ever came to light. New rumour saith that Mr R. Dale, the Engineer in charge of the China Borneo Co's Shipbuilding and Engineering Department, is about to start an Ice Factory on the piece of land immediately below his house and facing the slipway, where there is a very good spring of clear water. We hope the project will be a success. Ice in Borneo is always a treat either in temperance drinks or with the much sought for Stengah.

7, 1905.

DOUGLAS COS 8.8. "HAP LOONG" SOLD.

TWO STEAMERS TO BE BUILT.

We learn on very good authority that negotia tions have just been concluded for the sale of the Douglas Steamship Co's... Hailtong, The price is stated to be between £18,000 and £19,000.

Some time aga negotiations were entered into, nad completed, between the Russian a well-known shipping Government and firm in Hongkong for the purchase of the Halleong. Immediately upon the fall of Port Arthur the Russian authorities intimated that they no longer had any need of the steam- er, and desired to cancel the sale? This being

FALL OF PORT ARTHUR

TO BE CELEDRATED, IN HONGKONG,

For some time past it has been in conten plation among the janinese community in th Colony to celebrate the fall of Fort Arthur in a fitting national manner, with banquets processions, special decomtions and so fail. At a meeting called together by the leadin Japanese residents it was decided that all the funds collected and to be collected for that purpose should be donated to the fund for the Japanese widows and orphans of the soldiers fallen in the war. This it was conside.c... would be a more fitting method of celebrating the occasion,

“MR”. AGAIN!

WHEN AN HONULE IN NOT AN HON'BL

The following editorial appears in a recent issue of the Straits Leho z

The Hailong is a steel, screw steamer, of 1253 registered tons, was built in 1898, by

A few months ago we directed attention in Mess Ramage and Ferguson, of Leith, who also supplied her engines. Her length is 230 this column to an extraordinary and offensive feet breadth 33.2 and depth 13.2. Her speed, circular issued by the Federal authoritie

relating to the use of the prefix "Mr.", The is 11 knols,

Since writing a few days ago on the reported--order-naturally caused a good den! of annoy. Ance in many quarters, and several caustic building of another ship for the company, we have ascertained that it is intended to bring letters were published in this journal bearing”

on the subject. It was, however, only a 'nin two new vessels on to the run. They will be larger than the ships at present owned by the days' wonder,' and when the mild sensation company and will, in all probability, be placed died out we thought we'd heard the last of a nauseating species of officiousness which seem- on the coasting trade hence to Formosa

ed to be peculiar to upper succkles' in the Federated States. That we were greatly mis

MR. Bruce Smith's intended motion to read, and adequate indemnity being offcted, the Commonwealth Immigration Restriction to the firm in question, Messrs. Jebsen and Act of 1901 so as to allow Japanese to enter Co, negotiated and have, we understand, Australia is thought in England to have no decided to take over thẹ. Hailoong and run her

ou the Haiphong line. chance of success. The general opinion among several Anglo-Colonials with whom n correspondent was talking was that the motion was more than futile-it was even wanton. The Act, they argued, was not especially levelled against the Japanese, and therefore -11;E-the-Governor has appointed the follow-such a motion must only serve to give the im. ing Inspectors of the Sanitary Board to be pression that it was so intended, and, further, inspectors of Nuisances under the Sale of that its defeat (for they begged that point one Food and Drugs Ordinance, Messrs. G. W. and all) would only curse needless irritation, Caysh, J. A. Bullin, 14. Pearson, C. E. Frith, Besides, only a few weeks ago privileges were accorded to certain classes of Japanese who C. W. Ward, R. Hudson and R. Fenton.

wanted to visit Australia, and these privileges were also extended to similar classes of Indians, Time, my informants said, would do much to relieve the trouble, as our allies the Japanese are naturally learning English in annually in creasing numbers, and this fact of itself helps to smonth away the language test clause where by intending immigrants, must write out at dictation and sign in the presence of an officer a passage of fifty words in length in a European language.

Latest papers from home indicate that the Beck scandal is far from dead, and that additional prominence has been given to it by the publication of the report of the Master of the Rolls and his colleagues. The Com

A CONCERT will be held at the Seamen's in missioners seem to have insisted on prostitute, Kowloon on Monday, 9th inst, comment. bing the circumstances as far as was posing at 8.30 pm. The following have kindly sible, to the very bottom, examining impar promised to assist: Miss Murray Bain, Messrs tically judges, advocates, officials, policemen, F. Austin, FC Barlow, J. F. Boyes, G. H. and all who were in any public sense res Edwards, P. W. Goldring, G. Grimble, Dr. ponsible for this tragedy of errors. Mr. Horley, R.N., Messrs. H. Koenig, W. J. Beck had against him, not only a judge Philips, R.N., A. M. Steward and H. A. Tozer, whose ruling, the Commissioners state,

THE decision of the Court of Inquiry, which "cannot be supported," but the police, the investigated the cause of the stranding of the prison authorities, and the Home Office. Knight of St. George on the one fathom patch Had it not been for the accident of of the Kent Rocks, early on the morning of John Smith having returned to England Nov. 29, has been published. The court found that Alexander Putnam "was alone responsible in 1993, and recommencing his old frauds, Mr. Beck would undoubtedly still be in prison. The police who arrested Smith identified Deck as that man, witnesses they secured invariably identified him as the swindler they "wanted," while the prison authorities "omitted to enter that vital piece of evidence as to identity in the place where it should have been entered. The one possibility of escape that remained

for the accurrence, which might have been avoided by the exercise of due care in the navigation

of the vessel "

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A. S. WATSON & CO., for an innocent man lay in the strict and found in our extensive coalfields to merit a

LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ALEXANDRA

conscientious exercise of its duties of re- vision by the Home Office, and the Commis sioners deserve the gratitude of the public for having unearthed the manner in which that duty is performed. With regard to compensation it is stated that the Treasury BUILDINGS. have offered Mr. Beck 45,000. Seven years

Hongkong, Toth December, 1904,

Gregort by

WINE

AND

COMMENTING upon a telegram announcing that it is proposed to improve Hongkong as Naval base and to extend some patronage to Colonial coal, the North Borneo Herald states, that "a good deal of our timber is used in the dockyards in Hongkong, and in time to come coal of sufficiently high quality may be

share in supplying the coaling requirements." ME: 31: Noma, Censul-for-Japan-has-received. intimat on that the Mikado Fins conferred upon him the Sixth Class of the Order of Me Sacred Treasure. This decoration is conferred on officials of the higher grades in the Imperial service, after thirteen years of continuous faith- ful service. Mr. Noma has just finished thirteen and a half years of such service, and is to be congratulated on this mark of His Imperial master's appreciation.

THERE is to be a re-arrangement of what has been hitherto known as the Hongkong-Singa- Mr.pore Battalion R. G. A. (Native). In fulare Hongkong is to have its own Corps of five companies. Singapore is to have two com panies which will be interchangeable with one

in Portland Prison, the loss of £1.000 in (37 expenditure in the endeavour to clear him. self, and all the character and notoriety in- volved in the nature of the judgment, are not likely to find much solatium in an offer of this kind. Whether it is accepted or not makes but little difference ; Beck cannot have tull reparation made te him, because to an innocent man full re- paration is impossible. The publicity which has attended his vindication will, however, scarcely put an end to the doubts existing as to whether everything is going on for the best in the best of all possible judicial systems. Hitherto, a general belief in the exceptional excellence of that system has prevailed, and it is, perhaps, not a bad thing that we should be reminded occasionally that

at Rangoon and one at Cal utta, this last yer to be formed. The Mauritius- Ceylon Batta- lion R. G. A., is to be interchangeable with com panies at Bombay and Karachi.-S. F. Press;

THE King of Siam is an onservant monarch and 3 correspondent is told by the writer of a letter which has been received from Bangkok that his

Majesty has been impressed by the example of the Ameer of Afghanistan in estabhshing his

SPIRIT MERCHANTS, perfection cannot be obtained even in ugowa gun factory. He has, therefore, despatched

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PORTS.

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Sandeman's Two Crown Port...

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CRICKET LEAGUE.

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The following is the League table up to date:

Matches. Playel Won. Lasst. Dirawn. Polnis.

8 I 3 25 18

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0 6 D 3 points for a win-and-i-point fora.draw.

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THE MISSING 5.5."" LEGASPI”

Amongst the shareholders considerable indignation has been evincell" privately at the decision taken by the general managers without reference to the whole body of shareholders. As far as we can gather a great deal more may yet be beard at an early dale in connection with the question.

THE TRAGEDY ON THE "TREMONT."

MURDERER CAPTURED.

In our issue last evening we recorded the atrocious murder which had been committed on board the s.s. Tremont by a Filipino, who ran umok and killed a countryman, and severely wounded another. It appears that the mur be. derer, while the vigorous search was ing made for him, got clear away, having iu some manner, unexplained at present, secured

a suit of Chinese clothing, in which he managed to disguise himself and so escape ashore. But when be reach ed land, not content with his life-destroying deeds on board, his lust for blood was still -upon-him-and-when-be landed at the Charles Bardouin's wharf, Connaught Road West, he sought further victims among some harmless ricksha coolies, waiting there for possible fares. Being still in possession of a knife he proceeded to slash about him indiscriminately, unul he stabled one of the nen through the shoulder, and then drove the weapon into the unfortunate man's shoulder, and severely cut his arm as the poor fellow raised it to ward off the impending blow. At this juncture Chinese constable, No. 380 came to the scene, and the infuriated fiend turned The sunken reels which abound in the south-upon him, severely cutting fiim about the arm, east portion of the China sen have been ther and destroying his uniform, and might have oughly searched and not a vestige of wrecking, been answerable for his death but for the not a tell tale floating timber, or the floating timely arrival of P.C. Sutherland, who, with a carcase of one of the 2:0 odd caule, the ill well-directed blow, jerked the knife out of the fated steamer had on board, was to be seen. man's hand, and securing the murderer, The passengers as far as known were: Sr. J. took him to the Central Station. Mr. Pettit, Reyes, Sres. Anguisola, two brothers, C. H. who is in charge of this returning band of sent for and he at once identified the man as Hyde, Joseph Finland, T. W. Johnston, and L. Filipinos from the St. Louis Exposition, was Glowen,

the one for whom a vigorous search was being

The fate of the Legaspi is settled so far as human efforisare concerned, says the Cullenews of ist inst The Nanshan which was sent out by the naval authorities, after sc, uring the seas in every conceivable locality to which the monsoon might have driven her, has returned to the harbour without solving in the slightest degree the mystery of her disappearance.

The captain was the son of Sr. Yrribar, the owner, and the first officer, Bell, is an ex- employe of the coast guard service; the re-

mainder of the crew numbering de men, are Hland The Beck case will long remain letter to the Government of India asking for Filipinos whose names are not known, but

on record, and the investigations and recom- the "loan"-this is the official term 61-who-are-doubtless being mourned to-day, mendations of the Commissioners should go artificers skilled in the production of guns, and Senor Yrribar yesterday said that he had far to prevent the recurrence of such a de- apparently the necessary machinery of theg ven up hope, now the Nanshan had returned without news, and bowed to the inevitable. It plorable failure of justice. The remedies factory is to be at once ohinired.

was plain to see that the long suspense term. they suggest are important. First, and At the Civil Summary Court this morning, be-inating in the shattering of all hope on the most properly, they advise that the discrefore His Honour, Judge T. Sercombe Smith, the Nanshan's return, bau alunst prostrated the tionary power of Judges to state a case for Hongkong Land investment Company, sued old father, the Court of Crown Cases Reserved should Ng Chit Mi and another to recover $70. Mr. be changed into compulsion to do so. Had Sir Forrest Fulton been compelled to reserve the point he was asked to reserve by counsel for the defence, the mistake as to the ideni. ty of Beck and Smith would have be cleared up. Secondly, the Commissioners recommend the strengthening of the legal staff at the Home Office, in order that

The most reasonable supposition is that the

made on the Tremul

The unfortunate ricksha coolie was at once. removed to the Government Civil hospital, where, finding him in a very critical condition, his dying deposition was at once taken by Dr. Bell, J. P, by whom alsa_the lukong's injuries were attended to,

The prisoner, a swarthy, wild-looking man, is a typical Filipino ladrone in appearance.

This morning he was charged with the mur der, and placed before Mr. Gompertz.

After heating formal evidence of the arrest of the prisoner, the case was remanded until these on the s.s. Tremont,

taken is now abundantly manifest, for we find in the Hongkong Telegraph a leaderette de voted to the subject, and showing pretty clearly that "M" is a prefix that one need not be at all proud of, for the new Governor of Hongkong insists on its use with a view, apparently, to drawing a wide distinction between the common or garden people and the various component parts of the Executive and Legislative Councils. That, at least, is what we make out of a fussiness, which, what- ever its object, appears in effect to make for the elevation of the descendants of Earls, Viscounts, and Barons at the expense of meaner mortals. Tuled persons are in many cases only such because their ancestors merited special recognition at the hands of the Sovereign, Nevertheless, all others are, in the estimation of some people, mere flotsam and jetsam-useful perhaps, but not important! The Governor of Hongkong is obviously a great stickler' for the authorised as opposed to the unauthorised: This seems fairly clear from the Hongkong paper to which we now refer and in which the Governor is stated to have indulged in holding forth to the M. L.. C's on the impropriety-of-members-of-the- Levistative Council being dubbed "The Honourable So-and-So instead of "The Honourable Mr. So-and-So," which be con- tends is the correct or authorised title of honourable members of legislative assemblies.

Vulgar persons have often been heard to say-What's in a name? Not so high and mighty officials who are authorised to drop the common "Mr."the prefix of the man-in. the street, the merchant, the trader, the minor, of shopkeeper-as will be perceived by perusal of this bolt from the blue launched on an unsuspecting world through the medium of a Hongkong journal whose explanatory article reads as follows:-(Here follows the article recently printed in our columns),

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Having perused this clipping our readers will know when it is wrong not to add the prefix Mr. to the names of mere men. They will also

representatives to permit the man-in-the-street. know that it is not compelcat in the people's to drop the valued prefix "Me" in addressing

D. V. Steavenson appeared for the plains, Legasti, heavily loaded and wallowing in the Monday morning, for further evidence from it may seem improper (in face of the Governor

and Mr. S. W. Tso for the defence. Mr. Iso

agreed to judgment against his client, and a subsequent action was heard in which Ng Chit Mi was plaintiff and sued four Cantonese to indemnify him to the amount of the judgment" he had just accepted. This was also satisfac torily settled.

per doz. points of law may no longer be left to theA SAN FRANCISCO wire of 31st ult. says that Lord Roberts has deman ed the reorganization comprehension of gentlemen wholly desti-

of the British Army. In a lengthy communica Lute of legal training. Thirdy, they would

tion he points out the defects that still exist put an end to the existing lack of co-ordina- which cost England so dearly in South Africa. $20.00 tion and cohesion between the Home le emphasizes the fact that England is no Office, the police, the Public Prosecutor, better prepared for another struggle than she and the Judges, by which it is possible for was at the commencement of the Boer war, each of them to be in blissful ignorance of and regrets the fact that the great lesson so what another is perfectly aware of. Lastly, dearly bought, has been ignored. With but 22.00 they would abolish the grim joke of the few exceptions the English press endorses the demand of Lord Roberts and the general senti- ! Royal "pardon" of the wrongfully convict

ment is alive to the absolute necessity of better ed. All these recommendations are, un-

drilled and more efficient troops as well as a more practical establishment throughout. "

71,00

Sandeman's Five Diamonds Port... 32.00 questionably, valuable-so far as they go. But do they go far enough? That is the Sandeman's Very Crusty Old Port... 42.00 question over which the legal profession is

now preplexed.

N.D.-All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at honic, thereby ensuring to our Customers all the advantages accruing from bottling done at home under the direct supervision

of the Growers and Distillers as compared to bottling done in China by Chinamen

at the service of EuropeansFirms. - Hongkong, 6th December, 1904,

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

trough of a heavy sea, was overwhelmed by quent intervals in heavy weather, and sank like one of those giant waves which follow at fre

a stone to the bottom.

The possibility of her foundering on a reef seems to be discredited by the total absence of wreckage, which would surely have been no ticed by some one of the many steamers who have been on the lookout for her, in that event A bare possibility remains that the Legaspi may yet turn up. that she may be barboured in some remote spot, far away from communi. cation, and in that possibility lies the hope which those most dearly concerned will cling to as a drowning man grasps at a straw.

Human endeavour has done all that can be done, and it looks as if, in the fate of the Legaspi, another tragedy had been enacted far from human aid, in the wreck strewn waters of the China sea.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. J 1. Plum mer, Chiel Assistant of the Hongkong Obser vatory —

IT is announced in the Daily Mirror that the fashionable tint for hats in the winter sea son at home is "scorched onion." -A cor respondent thinks that this is apt to destory all

On the 7th at 11.45 nm. The barometer the poetry which has hitherto attached itself fo the feminize hat. Onions and poety do not go has fallen in northern Japan and in the Phi- well in double harness. Some female hats of lippines, and risen throughout China and over shows that have seen troublesome even- A depression is crossing Japan moving to The German mail of the 7th December was though these mostly those affected by ladies wards the ENE.

livered in London on the 5th just.

THE Osaka Shosen Kaisha send us a pretty

calendar for this year.

past seasons have often looked like flower-the Eastern Sea.

past a certain age-inferior green-grocers.

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Gradients are moderate upon the coasts of shops. We have had the aesthetic crushed China, and moderate NE monsoon will pre OWNERS and occupiers of tenements are re-strawberry, chewed string colour, coffee colour,val in the Formosa Channel and in the north minded that rates for the first quarter of 1905 and many others--but "scorched onions" era part of the China Sea.

Forecast:-Fresh E, to NE, winds, cloudy, are payable in advance on or before the 31st Surely they could have made it smell as sweet

fair: by any other name ?

[33-Inst.

VOLUNTERKING.

lelters to them. Furthermore, the members of the meek and lowly Fourth Estate will in future know that it is 'gond form 'to refer to members of the legislative assemblies as the Hon'ble Mr. So-and-so. It will cause a little

what is that in comparison with the acme of more trouble in the transcription of notes. but perfection thereby attained. They must do as they are told, and should not stop to consider whether a lot of people who are nowadays Mistered should be Esquired, or whether nine out of ten who are now Esquired should only | be Mtstered-or d-d. Also, and'incidentally,

of Hongkong's authorised version) to Mister anyone save and except M. L. C.'s, for to do that would be to class any Dick, Tom, or Harry with members of the legislative assemblies, which would be distinctly bad form even more sinful, in fact, than the prevalent custom of addressing unofficial members as the Lion'ble So-and-So instead of the Hon'ble Mr. Bo-and- So, for it is now officially declared to be wrong not to Mister unofficials, and it is therefore to be deprecated. Wherefore the word and all that therein is should be grateful to the Gover nor of Hongkong for shedding light where previously much darkness prevailed. Great is Diana of the Ephesians ! Greater far, though, is the oriental edition of Bumbledom 11.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

Summarising his Army of a Dream in letter to the Nary League Journal Mr. Rud, yard Kipling says: "The Volunteering and Yeomanry camps of to-day show that at present the women do not quite play the game. They wander about with vacant faces and they giggle at the spectacle of their men cleaning degchies or hammering tent pegs. A youth interested in public life might be careful to join a volunteer corps as soon after his majority as possible, for in my dream the law of the land laid down that he who did not volunteer should not vote i conceived that the average young man of my dream might be rather annoyed at having to stand aside at public meetings when rude voices demanded of him about to riot in the body of the hall whether he were a voter, and if he were not what all-the-epithets ha was making such a noise fer. I dreamed that even at the humblest places-at village flower shows. Mechanics' Institutes, Committees, Oddfellows' processions, and the like-the self disenfranchised man would be open to offensive challenges, when his name was pro- posed for any post... I dreamed that the pro- fessional and semi-professional players of games worshipped by hundreds of thousands had lent Kobe at 4 pm, on 5th inst, and left again at their influence, power, popularity, and prestige 11.30 p.m., same day, for Yokohama where she to help their country in its need by ruling that is due to arrive at 6 am., on 7th inst. · nor football player should receive any recogni-Nagasaki at 9 a.m., on 6th inst, and left again neither cricketer, boxer, cyclist, sprinter, rower lion from their organisations unless and until at 4 p.m., same day for Shanghai where she

is dus to arrivo at 10 am, on 8th inst, he were a volunteer in good standing.

MAILS DUE.

Canadian (Tartar) 8th inst, Indian (Namsang) 10th inst, American (Garlic) 12th inst.

-- "American (Siberia) t'in înst.

French (Ernest Simpas) 12th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th inst.

The C. P. R. Co's ss. Athenian arrived at

The C. P. R. Cols sa. Tartar arrived at

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