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MR. Henry Hursthouse, solicitor, will act as Crown Solicitar vica Mr. F, B. L. Bowley, who in going on vacation leave.

MR. E. Comewall Lexis takes the place of Mr. C. Mcl. Messer as a director of the Widows'

and Orphans' Pension Fund,

CONSIDERABLE interest will be aroused by the announcement, that'a new hymu:boak irto be brought out for English Churchmen, deifina

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MANILA, Newchwang, Siam, and Netherlands India are still adopting sanitary measures against Hongkong, while we have quarantine restrictions in force against Tamsui..

A CORRESPONDENT tí the Spectator meations the curious fact that persons born in the island of Ascension are reckoned as baving been born at sea, and therefore belong to the parish of Wapping.

MAJOR GENERAL Okazaki, who was seriously wounded in the operations at Port Arthur, and who has been under rgical treatment at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokio, has recovered from his wounds. He is now on his way to the front again.

A GUNNER of the R. G. A. was this morning sent to two weeks' hard labour, by Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Magistracy, for stealing a clock from a house in Ship Street. He also fined

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capable of lifting the largest battleship, says the Manila Cablews, of 16th inst. - A leading MR. English tugboat company was approached for tenders to do the towing, and declined to estimate, saying American companies were the only ones able to accomplish the task, as their boats are fitted with towing machines,

The postage on the weekly leue to any part of the MAJOR C L Josling, of the Royal Army him 33, with the alternative of a further week's and the work could not be attempted with

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1905.

THE "PUSILLANIMOUS

SEAMEN" CASES.

It is with a somewhat pardonable pride that we record to-day the liberation of the seamen of the St. Helena and the Bailersed Bridge who were imprisoned for refusing to proceed to Japan with contraband of war. Their defence was simply that they believed the risk of encountering the Russian Fleet too great. The Magistrate, however, took Another view and, holding that there was no risk, sentenced the seamen to three weeks' imprisonment each. On the very next day another batch of seamen came before the Court charged with a precisely similar offence-refusing to proceed to Japan with a cargo of contraband-and on this occasion the same Magistrale agreed that risk does exist and acquitted the men or dismissed The inconsistency of these two verdicts occurring so closely together was loo obvious to be lightly passed over, and we commented at the time on the

clear to the meanest intellect that in justice had been done in the first case. We were not then in possession of the facts regarding the second case, but the argument

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Officer to the 'Froopy, has beèn appointed a member of the Sanitary Board in place of Col, Webb, R.A.M.C., resigned..

It is notified in the Gurelle that no charge will be made in respect of specimens, from suspected cases of Infectious distase submitted for examination by a medica practitioner, practising in the Colony.

cases or

MR. J. C. beis who for many years was the taipan at Shanghai, of Mes.rs. Butterfield and wire, and who afterwards retired from China, he will again take chatgo of the Taikoo hong. will return to that post about June next, when

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Tut new currency system in Koren is to go into force from the 1st july. It is a very simple method of conversion. Every a yen of the old currency become que yen of the new and the coins will hereafter have the same value as their Japanese representatives,

THE Mainicht states that an enormous bell, which came into the possession of the Japan- ese when Port Arthur capitulated, has been brought to Japan and recently arrived at Shimbashi, To io. It will be inspected by His Majesty the Emp ror in the, course of a few days.

WK learn on good authority that Monsieur, P. from Kobe to take charge of the French Con- H. de Lucy Fassarieu is expected here shortly

sulate in this part. Monsieur Fossarica was here as Consul some sixteen years ago, and his nationals, as well as others under the cate of the French Consul, will be delighted to hear of his return.—Foochow Echo.

In a recent issue of the Japon Chronicle ap-

imprisonment for resisting the polica when

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arrested, PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the Band of the 19th Infantry on the New Parade Ground, on Monday next, the 24th inst, from 5 to 6.30 p.m. :-

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March..." Randez-Vous "...........Latan Selection........." The Giți (rom Kny's” ................Caryli Valse..."A Summer Night ta Musich"....Cellier Fantasia.............., Folk-Songs of Italy “.....Rampenotti. Gavolie, *** Princess Miny "Kottaul Polka...... ***The Drum"...... com. Jullien God us the King:

interesting little ceremony took pince at Shanghai last week when the editorial staff of the Shanghai Mercury assembled in the Assistant Editor's office to bid farewell to their chiel, Mr. J. D. Clark, who is going home on eight months' well-earned leave. The present ation took the form of a brows Rus an leather dressing and travelling bag, replete with all toilet requisites mounted in silver, each separate article bearing the monogram"].D.C." The. exterior boce a silver plate on which was in-

the members of the staff of the Shanghai. scribed :—" Presented to J. D. Clark, Esq. by

fercury, April 1905."

SHIPPING JETSAM. The Invicta, which was put up for auction at Shanghai the other day, was withdrawn at the highest bidding. The price reached was Tis. 13,000. This was considerably below the reserve price fixed by the owner.

A Nagasaki telegram to the Afalnicht dated the 10th, states that the regulation of the mili- tary authorities that no ship shall leave that

poit after dark has now been withdrawn in the case of vessels of above 1,000 tons,

Latest news brought by the Anton Maru

ou: those machines. Here will be ano her interesting *adventura " for underwriters and shipping people generally, to watch. Of course the dock is too big for Suez, so it must

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICE.

FARNHAM, BOYDS.

THE PROJECTED SALE.

TWENTIMAN'S REFUSES SHAREHOLDERS'

DEMANDS.

CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED.

[From Our Own Correspondent:]

Shanghai, 20th April,

0.55 p.m.

The Board of Directors of MessTO, be towed via Cape of Good Hope or the Straits Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd. have of Magellan; that means through half the north, and the whole, of the south Atlantic, refused the requisition of a large body clear to the Philippines, traversing the greater of shareholdere to call a meeting to part of the Pacific,

farnish particulars of the offer made

As the Englishmen criticised "if the

to start from Maryland. Exactly the aum-

American Government had wanted cheap for the purchase of the business by towing the dock should have been built on a London syndicate. the western shores," it is now almost ready The shareholders have threatened. ber of towboats to be employed, the method to publish correspondence in relation of transporting the large amount of fuel need to the matter. ed, and all else that will go to make a success. ful start, 'will be watched here, as everywhere, with intense interest.

THE DANGER OF FLOATING MINES.

PERIL IN VICINITY OF CHEFON.

Shanghai, 21st April; 2.30 p.m.

The shareholders in Farnham, | Boyd & Co., Ltd., who were recently bitten by a speculation for a rise on account of the projected sale of the company's property collapsing, have now published correspondence.

They demand that at a special

The Chinese dispatch boat Chinghai, says the Chefed Daily Netus, was recently sent out by the authorities to search for floating mines, The same aftemnon, she founding one drifting about near the island of Yangnin, about eleven meeting the directors should ha miles from Cheiro. Seven shots were fired at called upon to give an explana. it from the quickfiring guns of the vessel with tion of the present position of out any explosion being effected. The next

morning a boat was sent out to fish the mine affairs, with particulars of the firm up, and for that purpose a rope was tied round offer said to have been made, to- it. The boat then took the mine in tow; but suddenly it exploded with a great roar. One gether with the names of the gentle- officer who was present in the boat and one men on the London syndicate. They sailor were wounded, although not seriously, also demand the inclusion of 'out- and the boat was totally smashed up. The side' directors on the Board: wounded people were sent to the hospital as soon as the dispatch-vessel anchored. It is To this Mr. Twentyman sent stated that severni residents felt the shock of a strongly worded reply to the must have taken place nearer in the harbour.

botated by the judgment of the Magistrate pears the following anent the Baltic fleet.-Arai has commented the work of finating the the explosion. If this is the case the explosion affect that the offer was genuine

on the succeeding day. A correspondent thereupon pleaded for the clemency of the Governor, for it was evident that both ver- diets could not be right. As the only news.

News is now cagerly awaited of the squa- dron's whereabouts, and it is evidently believed we know all about it in Japan. Yesterday we received a message from Hongkong asking for all particulars of the "Balticers," regardless of telegraphic rates, and we felt like witing back,

Like to know too.""

paper in the Colony which took up the question and showed the false premises of the Magistrate, and the injustice suffered by the thirty-six seamen, we naturally felt plea-from a member of the crew of a vessel Intely THE Tokyo Arahi's Maji correspondent learns 132 sure, when news of the liberation of the men

was received, in believing that in some small degree we had been instrumental in secur ing that result. Their treatment in prison and their experience in Hongkong generally

are outside the main question. What hap- pened on Monday has now been recti fied by the Government, although the stignis will still attach to these perfectly honest men of having been in prison. But John Wesley and a thousand others have endured prison life rather than give up their settled opinions, and, among those who count, the hardships suffered by the men will only raise them in general estimation. The importance of the case was understood when Loudon

opinion was attracted by the report, and the

SPIRIT MERCHANTS, fact that Mr. A. Lyttleton, the Secretary of

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State for the Colonies, telegraphed for par. ticulars, was further evidence of the stir made by the cases. It was quite as clear to the average man in London as it was to the resident in Hongkong that if danger did not now exist for vessels carrying contraband to Japan then it would be a fine point to state when it would exist. A Magistrate, however learned in law he might be, is not exactly a naval authority and for him to declare when there was or was not danger was almost Judicrous. It was equal to the best effort of Lord Halsbury who stated, when the Boer war was in full swing, that he believed there was "a sort of a war" going on. Then again opinion as to the injustice of the punishment was strengthened by a telegram from Bombay, reporting that in a case there per case quarts. where eleven seamen refused in sail from Hombay to Kobe with a cargo of cotton- which was declared to be contraband-on the ground that the risk of capture was too greal, the Magistrate had agreed with the views of the seamen and acquitted them. If danger existed then for vessels from Bombay how much greater was that danger to vessels from Hongkong, which is within the zone of the Baltic Fleet's operations? The Hong- kong cases, however, have now been settled, as equitably as possible, by the release of the seamen, and we can only trust that they will be assisted to their homes, and not left to be stranded on the beach at Hongkong.

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arriving there from Vladivostok, that the, Rossia and Grumobat frequently leave the har boas for the purpose of cruising in the neigh- bouring seas. The Bogatyr, however, has disappeared. The number of torpedo boats in

the harbour has increased, though it is not

known whether the boats were brought there by had or by sea.

Tat stanza from the "Pirates of Penzance" which concludes, "A policeman's life is not a

happy one" is hardly borne out in Hangkong, judging by the fact that eight members of the Police Force there, who had just completed a -tem of five years' service, were re-sworn for a further term of service of similar duration at the Magistracy the other morning. The men leave for England shortly for the nine months' leave

to which they are entitled.-Japan Chronicle,

THE formalities in connection with the change of ownership of the Japan Daily Herald have now been completed and it is announced that the journal will continue to be rau an the sarne

lines as heretofore--in the interesis of the for-

it

eign community as a whole, maintaining the independence of criticism which has marked in the past. There will be no change in the editorship of the paper and various improve- ments will be made to increase its value to the public.

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as the 8th inst. the ministers for Russia, France, Germany a duly, held a conference at the Russian Legation with the commander On the following of the Russian garrison.

from Korean ports, states the Rear Admiral Purray sunk at Chemulpo. Chinnaupo is generally inactive,

Business at

Another lot of water-boatmen were placed before Mr. Hazeland, at the Magistracy this morning, charged by Inspector Langley with obtaining water forships' use from places other than the Laichikok reservoir. is Worship

ment. fined them $20 each, or six weeks' imprison

Seven junk-masters were, at the instance of inspecter Langley, charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy this morning, with making fast to various steamers while the latter were under way in the waters of this Harbour, and thus interfering with and impeding the navigation of those vessels. They were fined $25 each.

THE FIRE ON THE "GERMANICUS." As the fire among the cargo of the s.5

Germanicus was found to be still smouldering this morning, the vessel was beached, says the Kots Herald, of ruth inst. The extent of the damage is not yet known, but a considerable proportion of the cargo is known to have been either destroyed or damaged by fire and water. The vessel itself does not appear to have been

THE SUNKEN VESSELS AT FORT

ARTHUR.

The steamer chili Captain Jorgensen, ar and the syndicate bona fide. He rived at Cheloo shortly afterwards with a float declines to furnish all particulars, and

mine in tow which she had picked up on

her way from Shangbai. The ship was very says that another proposal is coming close to the mine when it was sighted near the to Shanghai by mail. He refuses to North Rock off Eddy Island. The steamer call a meeting. stepped and lowered a boat, out the Chinese

The shareholders replied by isu- crew refused to man it, being terribly scared of the machine. The mate and second mate pro- ing a dircular letter, couched in cended alone. A line was a from the mine heated terms, emphasising tlie to the ship which was lying about a cable. length off. In this way the mine was brought necessity of introducing_an_inde to Chefoo, where it was immediately bandet pendent element in the direc over to the Chinese cruiser Rai-shin, which torate. Among those signing the with the assistance of Mr. Tank-Nielsen, the chief mate of the Pechidi, had the mise towed document were Sir C. J. Dudgeon, to the shore of the island of Tung-kung-kas Messrs. J. O. P. Island, F. Anderson, where it was finally destroyed by a shot from 47-mm. gun. The explosion made a hole

in

in the ground eight feet deep, and large stones were thrown more than three hundred yaids away. A steel wire rope, one hundred and twenty feet in length, was fixed to the bortom ! of the mine,

A VERY fashionable and exceedingly pretty seriously injured. We are asked to state that wedding took place at the Beth FI the report that a part of the cargo consisted of Synagogue, Shanghai, on Sunday, the bride matches is incorrect

being Miss Agnes Schwartz, the sixth daughter of Mrs. E. Schwant, of Shanghai, and the bridegroom Mr. Henry Marco, San Francisco, U.S.A. The preliminary ceremony was held at the American Consulate, before

after which the party drove to the Synagogue, J, W. Davidson, Esq, acting Consul General,

when the Jewish marriage ceremony was gone through,

It appears, remarks the Japan Mail, that the idea of damming Port Arthur and draining out and dry has been abandoned. This project the water so as to kave the sunken ships high

sounded attractively audacious, bat on closer examination it proved unpractical owing to the number of rivers that flow into the harbour. More ordinary measures are to be adopted, and among them is the purchase of a specially con structed and equipped vessel which will assist the work of salvage.

A

day $7,000,000 were drawn from the Russo- THE OPENING OF "NHWCHWANG. Chinese Bank and $8,00,000 from another well known bank. This amount is reported to

UNFAVOURABLE TRADE CONDITIONS. have been sent to the branch office of the Russo-Chinese bank in Shanghai,

The following telegram from Inkao, dated It is stated that the above sums were borrowed-April 7, has been received in official quarters from Germany, France and Italy.

at Tokio:-

Br kind permission of Col. W. G. B. Western, G, and Officers, the Band of the aud Bat, "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) will play the following programme of music,

during dinner, at the Hongkong Hotel, to night, 22nd inst.:-

Grand Matth.......” Entry of the Gladiatora ".....Fucik Overture la......." Zamb

.........................y.Elerold Selection from....The Gondoller ...........Sullivan Valet................., La Herceane'... Wallenfel Scene Espernel.." Sevilla "

.Elgar Selection from Three Little Mald

.....Rubens "In Coonlandi "...

„Bidgood Fantasia

God save the King,

Sisee the opening of the river the steamers that have come from Japan tois) 30, and their cargoes have consisted chiefly of wines, bead sauce, miso, vegetables, sati-fish, fruit and charcoal. It is believed that other steamers

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

HAILS DUE. American (Jongolia) 23rd lost, Indian (Lightning) 24th inst.. German (Roon) 25th inst. American (China) z5th inst. German (Prias Eitel Friedrich) 25th inst. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 1st prox. Indian (Susang) 2nd prox.

Burkill, A. W, Maitland, J. M. Dickenson, F. E. Taylor, T. Morgan Phillips and Bruce Robertson.

MR. TWENTYMAN INJURED.

Mr. J. R. Twentyman, the chair

Co., has been seriously injured in a man of Messrs. Farnham, Boyd &

carriage accident at Shanghai.`-

*RUSSIAN MINISTER. AT PEKING.

́DIES AFTER OPERATION.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, April 21st, 2.30 p.m. Minister Lessar died after one of his feet had been amputated last week, [Paul Lessar, the Russian Envoy Exiṛa- oudinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, at Pek- ing, was born in 1851, and came, of a Mon- tenegrin family. He was educated at the Ecole des Ingénieurs in St. Petersburg, and on account of his ability he was selected to ccompany General Skobeleff into. Asia to survey for always. In 1880 he joined Gen- ateral Komaroff as an expert in surveying and to a.m., and is dus here on 24th inst, at 3 p.m. exploring the Turcoman country between the The ss. Kaitaw left Shanghai on 21st inst, Caspian and Afghanistan. He established at daylight, and may be expected here on 24th he penetrated beyond Sarakhs, across the himself at Askabad, and in November, 1881, inst.

Afghan frontier, to within a few miles of Herat. In the course of two years he rode a distance of nearly 6,000 miles, exploring the whole 'of the ground of the Russo-Persian and Ruste-. Afghan frontier. He becaite. Diplomatic At

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he s.s. Zafiro left Manila on zzūd inst,

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The Java-China-Japan Lijn s.6. Tjimahi Test Macassar for this port on 19th init, and may

inst.

S.

be expected here on 27th inst.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s .s. Mongolia with coming afterwards will import similar articles mails, &c., left Shanghai for this port yester

taché to the Governor of the Transcaspian, But among these things only thole carried today at 8 am, and is due here on 23rd inst.

The H, A. L. ss, Elita Nossack from Ham and to him was committed the real direction order have found a market. Even the quesburg left Singapore for this port on 19th inst, of the matter of the Afghan frontier. In 1885 tion of storing them is causing difficulty in p.m., and may be expected here on 26th inst. he was sent on a special mission to London as some cases. There will be little demand here. The O. 5. S. Co. & C. M. S. N. Co's sa geographical expert, so assist the Russian Am after for charcoal, and since vegetables, frui: Calchos and 1.3. Mayume lefl Singapore on bassador in the negotiations which accom and fish are perishable articles, heavy losses ist inst., and may be expected here on 36hpanied the despatch of the Afghan Boundary

Commission. Subsequently he reluined' to: will be unavoidable unless dealers exercise

The P. M. 5. S. Co.'s 3.5. China with mails, Peking where he has since remained-ED, great caution.

&e, left Nagasaki for Manila on 21st inst,, at, K. T MK. A. Carter, M.S.L, hon. secretary of the Further, since the opening of the port, some roa.m., and is due here on 25th inst, at day, Hongkong branch of the Royal Sanitary In-yoo Japanese subjec's have arrived, and the 46

THE WEATHER. light. N.B-All our

Wines and Spirits are bottled at

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"The Imperial German Mail is. Reon carry. titute, informs us that two examinations have Japanese inns are now full of them. At pre-ing the German Mails with dates from Berlin The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, home, thereby ensuring to our Customers

been held at the institute this week. The sent the stocks in the market consist of 200,000 of the 28th wit, left Singapore on Friday at First Assistant of the Hongkong Observa THE French mail of the 21st March was de- following candidates passed-Practical Sani pieces of beancake and 150,000 koku of beans, noon, and may be expected her on 25th inst. all the advantages accruing from bottling livered in London on the zoth inst.

tary Science-Messrs. Philip Thomas Lamble but as these have been laid in since last year The C. P. R. Co.'s 3.5. Empress of India done at home under the direct supervision We regret that our report of the Masonic and James William White. Sanitary Insper at high prices, business has not yet been done, arrived at Shanghai at I am., on azad just, and left again at 9 p.m., same day for Naga aki bere she is due to arrive at 8 am, on of the Growers and Distillers as compared "Smoker" has to be held ever until our issue tors Examinations:-Messrs. Charlie Killing and exports to Japan are consequently small.

ton: and Charles William Ward. The ex- The Chinese have of late gained confidence, | :4th just.. On Monday.

The P. M. S. S. Co's sa. Korra with mails, aminers were:-Hon. Dr. Clark, A. F.C.M.O.and.in consequence Japanese warnetes have Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.G., Capt. Fitzwilliams, gone into circulation, and have risen to about &c, which left hance on 24th all, for San Frac par with Mexican dollars. That on the 6th cisco via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe Inlard 485, Dr. W. W. Peane, A.M.O.H., and Mr. A instant 533 Haikwan caels were exchanged for, Sea, Yokohama, and Honolulo, arrived at Fer H. Osgb, NLGE, -

63.90 yen or 63 Mexican dollars,

destination on 20th inak,

10 bottling done in China by Chinamen

at the service of European Firms. Hongkong, 5th December, 1904.

It is said that the works on the Peking-Kalgan (Chang Chia-kou) lie will commence some (33-d time in the 4th moon!-Saw Wan-jgA.

for th

On the 22h at 11:55 &. The barometer has

The anticyclone, which is of considerable in- risen considerably over China and Japan. tensity, is still lying over N, China. Ungar

Gradienu.are moderate in the North, sad. steep over the Formosa Channel and nonbern shores on the China Sea where strong NE. winds may be expected.

Forecast-strong NE. to E, winds; squí'ly, rainy,