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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1905.

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IT is tepted that the Japanese Government is about to float another domestic loan of one hundred million yeu.

THE Tsarina has sent 53 packages of books and cigarettes to the Russian prisoners in Japan, which have been duly distributed by-e Japanese authorities.

HERR Friedenthal is proceeding from Shang, hai to Peking on a brief visit, and hopes to be in Hongkong, as the beginning of February On the third page is reproduced a leg

THE A. D. C.

"JANE."

SYNOPSIS OF 'THE PLAV.

weck.

GENERAL STOESSEL

biarlada bar hitule lager, while her tale and appearance have the effect of arousing the i

"PASSING THROUGH HONGKONG. wonder of William, her lawful husband. Kershaw asks questions and presently says he

Welente, of xcellent authority, that General would like to see the child. What child?

Stoessel, and the majority of the officers re- Here is a poser for Jana who has not been pro-maining in Port Arthur at the time of the sur "Jane" which is being played on Saturday perly coached by the inimitable Shackleton ; for the first time here, is described as a farco bist Jane is not one to stick at a trifle like that render, will pass through here on, the next French mail Australlen on roule for St. by the authors, Harry Nicholls and W. Lestocq, and she glibly tells how the child is out at Petersburg. The vessel is duo early and nobody who has seen the piece or read present, but will soon return. At the same the "book" is likely to disagree with that time Jane has an eye to business and she re-

The Mercury of the 13th inst. saya-General broad description. There are many piquant marks to Shackleton that the reward must now Stoessel and other Russian officers are expect situations, which in the hands of less skilful be £207, which of course, is duly promised.d at Nagasaki, from Dalny, and Arakawa, writers might degenerate into something more Money is no object on the stage. Well, a baby, Governor of Nagasaki prefecture, has ordered pronounced than mere farce, and occasionally is obtained from a virago named Mrs. Pixton the Police Station of Umegnenki to prepare there is a suspicion of French origin about and William is further horrified.

Jane," but there is nothing in the play as it

their lodgings General Stoessel and his staff: will stay at the Nagasaki Hotel and other stunds to affect the most susceptible sensibili.

officers will stay at the Japan Hotel and French ties. It is full of pure unadulterated fun, and

Hotel and their servants will stay at the Marine if it is less clever than some of the comedies staged by Pinero or Grundy it should at least pass a delightful mour or two, and give the wearied werd ers of Hongkong a "change of air" after the business of the day. "Jana" was first seen at the Comedy Theatre, London, COL-SENET. BULLOCK will lecture on Mus-in December, 1890, and it evjoyed a consider- kefry at the City Hall at 5.15 pm 10-morrow. able run.

anicle from the London Times of the gulfalt. on the subject of the price of sugar and the effect of the Brussels Convention. It should be of interest to a wide circle of local readers!

THE Rev. Father Jose Algue, director of the Manila Observatory, is in receipt of two grand prizes, five gold medals, a silver medal and .n bronze medal for various exhibits made at the exposition of St. Louis,

MR. Harald C. Austen, the late populic secre. tary of the Victoria Recreation Club, leaves by the s.s. Noon, on an extended trip on behalf of his firm, Messrs. Gibb Livingston and Com- pany to South Africa and Australia. He ex- pects to be away about six months. THE Britisk Weekly has reason to believe that a Unionist Free Trade daily paper will be commenced in London this year. The watter has been under the consideration of great capitalists who are able to ensure the future of such a journal so far as money can ensure it

lain nor a hero, in which respect he is like the majority of people. To his servants, the suspicious William and the impudent iule rascal Claude, he is merely the "Master," and as funds have been low with him lately, and he has neglected to pay their wages he is an object of considerable, concern to them, When the first act opens, William and Claude are having a passage-at-arms, in which the sharper tongue of Claude seems to win the wordy war. But, "be still brave heart,” is the motto of William to-day, for he has married the housemaid jane, on the sly. AS Claude pretends to think there is some thing going on fub rosa and expresses his firm determination to find it out, the passibilities

The meeting is being held under the auspices The scene opens in the bachelor qua- |bf'the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Associaters of A young scape-grace, who has tion, and all members are requested to attend, almost reached the length of his te

ther. Charlie Shackleton is neither a vil. MESSUS. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., as gene- ral managers for the Aquarius Co, bave issued hn artistic calendar printed in colours: Messrs. Some few months ago we drew attention Belchers & Co., agents for the Royal Life As to an important commission appointed insurance Co., have also sent out their calendars America to investigate the conditions handi- capping the shipping interests of that country in competition with other nation's of the world. It was shown thai for several years past there has been ample evidence throughout the United States of a well-nigh universal desire on the part of the American people for a mer chant marine of sufficient magnitude to cor respond with the ever increasing volume of their over-sea commerce. The question has repeatedly been brought to the notice af Congress, but so far they have not deemed it expedient to encourage the service by going to their rescue with THE girl, Ah Mui, aged thirteen years, who serious, It is a letter from Mr. Kershaw, who jumped over the varandab of a house in Yau- holds the power of stopping his allowance appropriate legislation. The growing imati where she was being detained against her should he fail to comply with the terms of his portance of the Orient as a field for will, by a man and woman who had brought late aunt's will. Those aunts which we meet the export trade of most countries is no new her from the New Territory for unlawful purin farces seem to be specially born for the pur- subject of comment, and the desire on the poses, died in the Government Civil Hospital on's aunt, when she died, leit a will saying pose of harassing distressed nephews. Shackle- part of America to solve the long-standing last night.

that if her nephew settled down and married problem of the decadence „of her merchant marine, seems in part to be due to national

he should get 1,000 a year for five years, and if he continued good the principal should be

begin to be apparent,

When Shackleton enters, he finds his usual sheaf of dunning letters waiting for him, but amongst them there is one which is still more

Dlut Mrs. Chadwick has not disappeared. She comes buck again with Lucy, and we liave the comical scene of William posing as Mrs. Chadwick's husband with Lucy as his niece. It is a general mix-up with everybody except the keen-witted Jane and the ready-tongued Charlie in a muddle. The second act ends with jane bringing in the baby, while William goes into convulsions,

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Matters reach a climax in the third act. H. E. Tang Shiu Y, special Imperial High Kershaw, the innocent, has been successfully Commissionar to Lhassa, arrived from Shani. wheedled by the astute Jane, who is dressed in ni this morning on board of the China Mer. silks and satins and looks the lady instead of chants' S. N. Co.'s steamer Amping. He the housemaid. "And Kershaw says he will pay landed at once, and shortly afterwards called up the debis of the Shackletons He is a upon H. E. Sir Matthew Nathan with whom genial soul is Kershaw, and indeed be fre- he remained for a short time. He leaves for quently looks fit for a passing Birtation with Canton this evenings per the Anping, and will Jane who, to tell the truth, seems nothing loth, stay there for about three weeks, after which The baby, of course, is a barrier and Kershaw he returns to Hongkong and proceeds direct when he comes to look at it shows that ho to Calcutta, where, it is reported, he will have knows a little after all. It seems young for its a house rented for him as he expects to be age, he remarks. Shackleton jumps into the engaged in, conference with Lord Curzon breach with both feet. This is not the eldest there for a couple of months at least. It baby; it is the other one! The elder is at is stated also that it is His Excellency's school, winning prizes galore--at the age of intention to travel about India, and if nothing two. Kershaw is flabbergasted; Jane is Rule intervene in the meanwhile necessitating better. "Have I to produce another baby?' his return thence to China, he will proceed she asks in a whisper; Shackleton, the rein the following summer to Chassa, viâ Yatung doubtable, tells her that there will be no need and the Chumbi Valley.rrived at Lhassa for that.

his Excellency will have his hands full, as But Mrs. Pixton, the real owner of the baby his mission to Thibet has special reference produced, now comes on and wants her bundle to the reorganisation of that region. Having back. It is obvious that the baby must be plenary powers conferred upon him by the retained for a short time in order to allay Mr.Throne there is little doubt, says on exchange, Kershaw's suspicions, but how to placate Mrs. but that with his exceptional talent and abilities

Pixton? There's the rub. Mrs. Pixton is a lady with a strong will, and she knows her own mind, so when the baby is not forthcoming she makes the awful threat that Pixton himself

shall be called.

the High Commissioner will de a good deal

that will be beneficial to the Thibetans and so

prevent any recurrence of those events that led to the recent British Indian Expedition into

that hitherto hermit region.

A. S. WATSON & CO., pride, which has been hurt by the frequent in St. Peter's to St. John's in the Caltran, its his. If he didn't why then he should lose blows the gaff. As he says, flesh and blood break of the fire in which four houses on Elgin

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reports from their Consuls of the increasing rarity of their flag in these parts. President Roosevelt, in again bringing the subject to the notice of Congress last month, said with fixed bayonets to avoid rioting and blood. he recognised that the importance of secur- shed by the revolutionary element. ing proper information and data with a

everything.

William, becoming exasperated at his ano Things get more and more complicated, till

KOWLOON FIRE INQUIRY. malous position, and believing that he has

This afternoon Mr. Gompertz held an inquiry AN attempt will soon be made to remove the

been made the victim of vile machinations, gets Kershaw by himself and in plain language at the Magistracy into the cause of the out- body of Pope Leo XIII from its present tomb final resting place, as the time for the ceremony

cannot stand the treatment he has received. Road, Kowloon, were gutted on the 3rd inst Now Shackleton was "hard up'-quite a The amazement of Kershaw ai William's story, is already long overdue. The procession will

common condition in these days-so he decid- which after all is only half the truth, is indes. The fire is said to have originated in No. 48, be guarded By a heavily armed body of troops ed to play a little trick on the worthy gen cribable. The indefatigable Mrs. Chadwick is Elgin Road, the shop of a camphor-wood-box tleman (Mr. Kershaw) who was appointed still at work and she decides to get rid trustee of his aunt's money. Three years of the baby. Naturally that is the time when

Before proceeding to take evidence, Mr. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master's pear on the scene. But the valiant fixton is a very milk-and-water sort of individual and it of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance is Mrs. Pixton who manages to Lun down Mrs. | Co. which is concerned in the mailer, to collect Chadwick and "catchee baby. Piston madest evidence. The inquiry was adjourned for one ly offers his card and begs the company to re- week. member that he will supply families on the shortest notice.

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he had mariied, had settled down a res pectable, and respected Benedict, and was on the high road to earn that principal which had been left by the deceased lady. Mr. Kershaw had swallowed all this, and had never come to see Shackleton, but now new bills were pouring in and the easy-going Kershaw had been led to believe Shacklelon had married a lady who knew how to make the money fly, with the result that debts abounded. All would have gone well had Kershaw remained at home, but he now writes to say that be intends coming to town to visit his ward Shackleton and speak a word of his mind to that visionary personage, Mrs. Shackleton.

All comes right in the end, of course, Jane gels her £100 and goes off with the happy William to start a milk-walk. Shackleton is forgiven and gets Lucy; Kershaw is magnani- mous to everybody and Mrs. Chadwick is discomfited,

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view to the enlargement of American trade THE "South China Directory and Blotter earlier he had informed Mr. Kershaw that Mrs. Paxon and the great Pixton himself apoffice, applied for an adjournment, on behalf with asia was undiminished, and stated that ↑ the current year has been issued and a copy their Consular representatives in China have sent to our offices. It is an improvement on strongly urged a place for permanent display the one issued last year. The directory includes of the US, products in some prominent trade Hongkong, Canton, Swatow and Amoy, besides dentro de empire, under Government a ladies' list and an alphabetical list of foreign control and management, as an effective residents in these ports. This is attached to the left hand side of the blotter, while on the means of advancing their export trade therein. It is premature at present to forecaste what right is a perforated daily memo-block. Copies the views of Congress will be, but shoulded for $3 from the S. C. Morning Post,

of this useful office combination may be obtain the members decide upon framing legisla don there is not room for much doubt THE destruction of the Russian fleet at Fort that the question of subsidy will be included | Arthur and the reduction of marine insurance in the drafting of the Bill. They will have to choose between the various methods of raising and distributing any compensation decided upon, and so far the most important proposals are as follows: The payment of Bounties of certain rates per ton on all ocean-going vessels

constructed in the

are resuding in an increased demand for Washington flour from, the Orient. Several large orders that were held in abeyance while awaiting safe transportation facilities have been placed with Puget Sound millers. Oriental cargoes for the next two months will be largely composed of flour destined for Chinese and Japanese parts. Flour manufacturers also U.S. and of certain rates per mile of report that the demand from South American for all vessels under American countries is better now than for years past. voyage registry plying to or from foreign ports; | Shipments to Japan have been less for several subsidies on mail steamships or mail con months past than formerly. This indicates tracts sufficiently liberal in terms to ar oust that Japan laid in a large stock during the early to a subsidy; or, thirdly, discriminating part of the war, when it was yet uncertain whether her vessels could continue crossing tonmage dues on foreign built and foreign

the Pacific. owned vessels entering American ports. The Commission cannot have experienced much | Mas. 5. W. Webb, of Killadoou, Wanchai, trouble in securing definite information on this morning prosecuted her house-boy for the subject as it should not have proved a refusing orders, and leaving her service with difficult task to secure a inass of testimony out giving a month's notice. The accused regarding the precise difference between the stated that he wrote in the "servant's book" "a cost of construction of ocean-going mer month's notice." Frosecutrix said he had no chant steamers and sailing vessels in Ameri- right to write anything in that book, and she

What is to be done? A wile must be found immediately. William is called in, but his advice is worse than useless. "Would anyone believe," cries-Shackleton, "that in a civilised country a man can be driven to destruction

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On the arrival of the Yaumati ferry launch at the Pak Kong wharf, on the Hongkong side; at 9 p.m. yesterday the engineer of the launch reported that he had taken a European; from/ the water, and lauded him on the wharf. He then told Inspector Collett, who found the man on the wharf with a crowd of Chinese around H.M. surveying vessel Rambler has returned him. As the man was unconscious, he enden. from Manila.

NAVAL NOTES.

The British fleet in Hongkong harbour will go for a short cruise on Tuesday next, and will

for a little thing like that." A wife who will not be expected back in port until about the be a wife for 24 hours in name only is urgently 4th February. Three days later the ships needed.

again proceed to sea and in all probability will steam in a southerly direction.

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H.M.S. Vengeance leaves Hongkong on the

casy steam..

Now, Shackelion has been engrossing the mind of a certain young lady named Miss Lucy Norton, who has a dragon of an aunt, Mrs. Chadwick. When they come on tife 7th February, and three days later parts com- stage Shackelton is in agony about the pany with the fleet and steers for Malia under wife who doesn't exist, and a very funny scene occurs, when he alternately pleads and demands that one of these ladies should be his wife for a day. Lucy is horrified, but Mrs. Chadwick thinks it over and comes to the conclusion that there is no reason why she should not embrace marital relations once more, and why not Charlie? If she could only render him a service, the thing is done!

Fortune has other designs, however; for

The trophy for the best shooting with heavy guns in the China squadron has been won by the Vengeance and was handed over a few days age by the previous holders--the Ocean. In 1902 such a small ship as the Bramble won the coveted shield.

The U. S. cruiser-Baltimore, now lying in the foreign man-of-war anchorage, leaves for Manila on the 23rd instant, and after a course

I can and foreign shipyards. With this be. did not take that as a notice. Mr. Hazeland when Shackleton again sees his chambers beof firing and manoeuvring, is to proceed to

fore Congress there will be a sufficiently sure foundation upon which to construct a Bill for the permanent revival of ocean ship building in the U.S. and the return of American merchant men to the high seas. When this is brought about competition in these parts may be keener than is the case at present; but our bold upon the Orient is of such long standing that it is doubtful if it can be loosened to any material extent by the enterprise of the American merchant marine.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE formation of the submarine flotillas has been gazetted in Tokio.

THE Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., has now opened a branch at Linoyang.

Honolulu..

said that if he did write that is the "servant's finds "my pretty Jane' there busily dusting, book" it was a month's notice. Prosecutrix had Jane's great aim is to get her arrears of pay, not the book, which was only for the servants and with her rightful husband William, start

The American torpedo boat Bainbridge, to sign receipt of their wages in, in Court, and what is called a nitk-walk. In other words, to which was recently in Hongkong, has been His Worship set back the case till 2.15 p.m. for open a dairy and sell what is usually called painted white as an experiment. Coving to its production. Upon resuming this afternoon milk Shackleton, however, puts the question the cramped quarters on these tiny vessels the book was produced, and something was plump and plain, about being his wife for 24 and to the fact of their consuming such vast quantity of coal, the department written against the defendants' name in hours, and as he promises her £100 reward, a Chinese which the Court translator interpreted Jane promptly closes the bargain. There is a has hitherto had them' painted a dark green as I give a month's notice." Prosecutrix. said good deal of humour when Shackleton wants colour, but as the larger vessels are all when the boy wrote in the book she asked him to make love to his soi-disant wife, in pre-painted white it is desired to have all the what he had written, and he said "that is my paration for Kershaw's visit, but at length ships of the navy of uniform colour. Thosa that part of the business is settled to the satis serving aboard the vessels seem to favour the name." He said nothing about leaving, and as

faction of all except William, who is left in darker hue for the torpedu boats stating, in explanation of their reason, that the torpedo boat is much hardor to keep clean than the larger fighting craft and that the dark green colour is more adapted to them.

prosecutrix could not read Chinese she thought it was his signature for his wages. The boy was fined $5.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. J. I. Plum mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser-

vatory :-

On the 17th at 11.55 am. The barometer GENERAL Nogi has been appointed titular has risen in the Philippines and over some guardian of the Imperial grandsons.

portion of the Pacific and has fallen throughout China and in northern Japan.

USSIANS suffering from infectious diseases will be detained at Port Arthur for the present.

THE Tsar has changed his mind about geing to the front, which indicates that the baby has [33-quieted down-Ex.

First Floor,

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Hongkong, rath December, 1904.

Gradients are very slight upon all coasts and the monsoon is for the present entirely inter- rupted" „Light variable winds may be expect ed in the Formosa Channel and in the northern part of the China Sea.

Forecast:-Light E winds, cloudy, fais,

sublime ignorance of the compact,

Meanwhile Mrs. Chadwick has been hatching her little plot to represent herself as Shackle. ton's wife, and actually happens to be in the house when Mr. Kershaw arrives. Kershaw is :dismayed 10 and that his ward's wife has seen her best days and says so. He could under- stand a young and comely wife being extrava- gant but, as she appears-! Fancy then the contretemps when Shackleton comes with the pretty Jane and announces that she is his one and only love and that all others are imposters, and William's feeling when he listens and sees Jane smilingly admit the story.

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In the second act, we find Kershaw, Jane and Shackleton at lunch, with William, In a blind maro of thought serving the company, and Claude playing tricks behind. Jane gains the good graces of Kershaw and begins to turn

THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

The January Sessions open to-morrow morn ing at ten o'clock before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry S. Berkeley). There are only four dis- tinct cases in the calendar, but they are all of a serious nature.

voured to resuscitate him by means of artificial respiration, but after working thus for an hour and a half without any result, he sent for blan- keys and an ambulance, and taking off the wet clothes wrapped the man in the blankets and sent him to the Government Civil Hospital The body when found was still quite, warin, though there were marks of violence about the face, and in the pocket of the coat was found a handkerchief that bore evident signs of blood on it. On arrival at the hospital Dr. E. A. R. Laing examined the body, and certifying that life was extinct, it was removed to the morte. ary. Upon examining the clothes a card was found in one of the pockets bearing the name of "Thomas Crowther Augland Greenland' This card Inspector Collett sent by one of his detectives to the ships along the wharf, and then it was discovered that it was the card of. the mate of the s.5. Fah Kong; running to the West River, and the body was subsequently: identified as such.. Nothing has so far been discovered to show how deccased got into the

water,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. „American (Gaelic) tậth inst.

Canadian (Empress of India) 18th inst. ́ ́German (Zietén) 19th inst, ¦ Indian (Suisang) 25th inst. American (Mongolia) 28th inst." Indian (Kumsang) 31st inst.

The s.s. St. Fiilan's arrived at Manila yester- day, 16th inst, on her way to this port.

The H. A. L. 5.5. Alexia from Hamburg left Singapore for this port on 16th inst., p.m., and may be expected here on 23rd inst

The L. C. S. N. Co.'s 8.5. Kuumsang left Cal- cutta for this port via the Straits on 14th inst., and may be expected here on 31st inst.

The C. P. R. Cols 8.8. Empresî of China arrived at Nagasaki at 11 am, on 16th inst., and left again at 6-a.m., Tuesday, for Kobe where she is due to arrive at 6 am, on 18th

(Tsang Hing, indicted for defiling a girlint, under the age of twelve also with attempting ditto, and indecent assault.

(2) Pagain, indicted, for the murder of a Filipino on board the ss. Tremont.

(3) Wong Tsing Tseung, manslaughter. (4) Wong Cheuk Yay and Wong Tim, con- spiracy and forgery.

The P. M.S. S. Cols 5.3. Mongolia with mails, &c, from San Francisco to the 28th olt, via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and leaves' for this port vig, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai on 19th lost, and is due here on 18th inst