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TELEGRAMS

[{Reuter's]

The Resignation of M. Delcasse,

LONDON, 14th April.

Russian Admiral Ill.

It is stated in Saigon that Admiral Rozh 'destvensky is suffering from dysentery.

Fleet Sails North,

Later.

News from Saigon, dated 24th instant, states that the Baltic fleet at Kamranh con sisted of ga ships including transports. The fleet has sailed north with 14 transports; the cruiser Svitlana and the hospital ship, Orel continue near Kamraph, but outside

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1905.

THE DANGERS OF BLOCKADE | CANTONESE LOVE SONGS.

KUNNING.

SEIZURE OF THE "HEATHCR110” AND HER CARGO

*

Translated, with introduction, by Cecil Cla

vimenti, · At A late. Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, Member of the Land "Coast for the New Territorias, Hongkong. Tom

-At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964.

If a man ware permitted to make all the ballads of a fallan

Fliche Sallona, Paragu he need not care who maken all the laws of anakion

the

RAUBEREPORT

Tour weeks man and dire

Alan Gold Mining

THE SULLY.

nection" with ithë

sent

from

Strikin granding of the Sull Indo-China The reports states the cruisers Sully' son were in the Bay of Along, død the proceeded some distance up the coast for tor- podo practice.

* I beg to submit my monthly report on your mining and,

"Operations, The Mine

surements, and Assay results gfipros

show a total of Cost IL for

Aboutthien n'clock the D'Aisar received a ski) under review, made up of wireless, telegram from the Sully "We are 70) sinkler, 94 driving, and 531 cross-cutting, sinking. Send immediate help-immediate as against a total of 324 ft. for the previous four | help-help-help, the last word being continu wadra

Bentyfourly wired

Thinking it was an exercise in signalling, no Bukit Komao. 410 ft. Level, South Drive. notice was takers on the tea for an hour This has been advanced 8 It. bringing the total. The commander then communicated with the to 27 it. The lode is 37 in, wide and worth| Gu ydon, and was instructed to have steam

got up and go in search of the Stilly.

MINES

Today's Advertisements.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLO ERRMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

THE Steamship.

EROON

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being" landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, imited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained, qu

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notics to the contrary be given before tó sikí,, TO-MORROW, MORNING, BA

branchi passed into the west wall; this was fol. It was getting dark when they started, and have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain

At about 20 ft. from the cross-cut, a small FELL IN WITH THE BOATS.

~ No Claims will be admitted after the Goods lowed for 5 ft. where it disappeared.half an hour later they fell in with a numbering undelivered aner the and May, will be

440 (L Level, North Drive,➡To this has | of the boats and junks containing members of subject to rent been added 21 ft, making a total of 53 ft. The the Selly's crew, who stated that their ship disturbance referred to in last report continues, was wrecked 13 miles away, and as she had The footwall formation averages zo la wide, sunk by the head, and the position of the crow esas and worth 3/4 dw. The drive fu now being was perilous, it was urgent to rescue them turned to the footwall

The latest complication--and a very huge. M. Delcassé has withdrawn his resign-tangle it looks like, says the Ceylon Independient tion, but he insists that he must be in com- of the ith inst, that of the Heath Line, plete harmony with the Cabinet on the sub and speculation is rife as to what the upshot. It may well be that our opinion of the fran fect of foreign policy. Satisfactory assur-will be. The case is this: Certain, steamers slation before us in not whely-unblassed by

Mr. Clemenita selection of this particular book? ancer have been given him to that effect.

are fixed out nominally to Manila, Shangha to translate, to annotate and to expound in and Amoy, the ultimate port really being leamed prolegomens Vladivostok, and apparently the owners run. We quarrel with no rising sinologue, for de the war risk themselves; at any rate, that risk voting attention to Cantonese character collo is not insured against. These steamers being quial. That a Western student of a Chinese dialect, rich as is Cantonese in entertaining and heav ly mortgaged, the mortgagees seize not enlightesing reading and affording as untten. only them, but the rest of the fluet; and, in the Cantonese certainly does a wondrous we are case of steamers bound for Vladivostok, have inclined, lo affirm an unique insight into | | dwt, ^ stopped them, and are giving the merchants at native modes of thought and action, should be home notice that one cargo will be landed at liar conversation the sermo usualis, quotidia satisfied with the colloquial language of fami- Colombo, from the steamer (He thcraig) nus, pedestris, vulgaris, rusticus, is little short which is here nt present; another at Manila; of inexplicables, spille and the third at Amay, the nominal destina. tion. As to the latter steamer (Hesihburn) her cargo was on fire recently as reported in the columns of the dependent. The sale of her cargo has been recommended as the cheapest was out of the mess (that is of course, solely with regard to the fire). This may obviale, the difficulty caused by the mortgage procedure in this case, but, so far as the action generally is concerned, the complications that must ensue are immense, and are increased by the fact that the owners had nearly all the freights paid in advance, The general opinion is that the whole business is extremely involved, ani will be most dis astrous for all parties concerned. Already the merchants at home are beginning, it is said, to give notice that they will not charter steamers that have mortgages on them, and this giver

limits.

The French cruiser Descartes has salled for Hatrong where as warships were sighted,

SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE,

FAR EAST

A CHAT WITH A WELL-KNOWN author..

- MR. ARCHIBALD LITTLE IN COLOMED,

Amang those whos aurived the other after. noon by the Hamburg-American Line steamer "Rhenania are Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Little, who are well-known as author and authoress of many interesting books on the Far East, Mr. Little touched here in 18,9

Mr. Clementi does well to treat serious colloquial studies. . If he is bent on prosecuting his researches gorotialy, and far, the field before him for exploitation is varied and extensive. Work such as he is capable of doing, will point many to higher standards and less limited ambition using not help wishing, however, that his painstaking and scholarly endeavour had been in another Cantonese colloquial channel. Our experience is that bese Cantonese Love Songs are viewed with distrust and disfavour not only by "sedain old age and high officialdom" but also by another class that may properly claim to be heard on the question of their marits. The native moralists in China do not like song writers who devote their chief attention to Venus and Bacchus. Quid wist cum mulie Venerem confundere vinu,

340 ft Level North Drive-This has been advanced 26 ft. bringing the total to 398 ft. The lode averages o8 in, and woith af dwt, and now shows signs of darrowing, which corres- ponds with what happened in the level above, about this distance from the shaft.

340 Level, North Drive. No. 1 Wirze. -This has been sook 15 ft making the total depth sunk og ft and had th

The lode, 48in wide, assaying af dwt, is now.

ing, the winze is being kept vertical, chiefly passing into the footwall. To facilitate sink.

because of the water we have to contend with. At 54ft & cross-cut has been put off, cutting

inga father width of 7als, assaying at det.

340 Level, South Drive. --Here itft has been driven, making a total of 35oft. The lode 36in wide, is worth i dwt.

The Gurydan found the wrecked cruiser with the fore part under water, having struck on a coral reef which was uncharted. She carried 1,200 crew, and as the intush of water. had been to rapid that the water-tight compari- ments had to be closed at once, it was at first thought that some of the engineering staff who

were missing had been drowned,

By ten o'clock at night, Iwever, the whole of other boats. 1,220 were safely accounted for by the discovery

BOWLING,

All broken, chated, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, the and May, at 9.30 h. RAS

All Claims must reach us before the 8th May, or they will not be recognized, - No Fire Insurance will be effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, as

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,'

·MELCHERS & Co.

Gala Agenia,

Hongkong, 15th April, 1905..

FROM HAMBURG, PENANG, AND SINGAPORE

THE Steamship

THE

in the old P. & O. steamer." Malabar" which raiber a comical turn to the position, for where ciently trimmed with lace sad embroidery. it through to the footwall of the lode, and show. against the Club Germania in the forthcomingquested to send in their Bills of Lading for

war wrecked on Point de Galls in the following year when Lard Elgin and Baron Gros, the British and French Ministers to China were on board: all the passengers were, of course, saved. Mr. and Mrs Little are friends of Sir Henry and Lady Blake and their disappoint- ment was very great at not being able to go up to Nuwara Eliya to see Their Excellencies owing to the stemer arrangements not suiting them Mr. Lutla is the author of "Through the Yangiste Gorges," "Mount Omi and Beyond”, and other books on China, while Mrs. Little. has written "Intimals China," "the Land of the Blue Gown", besides several novels.

The forthcoming volume of Mr. Mackinder's Geographical series is by Mr. Archibald Little, and is entitled "The Geography of the Further East" and the book is now in the hands of the Clarendon Press,

In course of enversation with an Independent representative, last night, reports the Crylon Independent, Mr. Little said that he has been in China since 1859 and has been taking a trip home every five or six years,

CHINA AND THE WAR.

will they find such. vessels? That merchants should have ever thought of such a thing is, perhaps, because they do not know that it is fashionable now-a-days to dub mortgages "debentures,"

In all probability the featherude's coal will be sold in Colombo to satisfy the mortgagees· demands, but developments are watched with the keenest Interest in shipping circles.

NAVAL NOTAS..

Captain Hannah of the Calchef, which arrived in part to day from Singapore, reporti that he sighted this morning soon after nine 'clock off Lintin Island three battleships and two cruisers, names unknown, but believed to be British,

of the British naval authorities.

NEW CORON MILL

FOR MESSRS. SASSOON.

is the more dangerdas in proportion to the art It must be admitted that licentiousness and insinuating delicacy with which it is clot ed

The foreign dress of these songs is suffi. is not an immodest or inelegant dress. Whether it is suitable and fitting is matter for the reader's taste

That the songs have a wide popularity is most true and in our view the fact, admits of

340 Level South, No. 1 Wine This has ready explanation. Felicitous quotations, re- ferences and aliusions derived from high been sunk 15iff, and is now 93ift deep The sources never fail to delight the literary. Chin-depth is sufficient to connect with the 440ft, ese and to give a certain sanction to literature of when it is so far advanced, so sinking has been

the class to which this volume belongs. Whore-

the quotations, allas ons and references have stopped.

the kind of setting that is here given them the. At about Bolt, the lode again came in, and fascination that they exercise well nigh |continued to the bottom, average join, wide, becomes enchantment. Songs of love "un and worth a dwt-

cally spiced may not be choice litera

fettered", classically flavoured and histori 140 Level North, Drive south, on Branch.— ture. There is, however, no mistakingThis has been extended oft, bringing, the total the force of their appeal to certain aspects of to gift. The lode 96in wide is worth 7 dat. human nature that are all too much in evidence 140 Level North, Sinking pass-This hav. in the gay and festive city of Canton,

In the volume of translation the notes ex-ing been sunk a further 7ft now, totals 13ft and planatory of allusions and references occupy has been connected to the pass from below. fifty pages. The student's attention is directed to sources and the formation given will prove useful in maiters more weighty than

Inve songs

songs and dealt with by the translator in his An respects the problems raised by these preface, view-paint, will in nearly every in stance determine judgment. The strength of tier-day Buddhistic teaching as a reans of consolation to oppressed and degraded woman. hood we will not essay to guage or measur Let it be granted that Buddhism, as Chinese women know it, has ceased to deny the per- manence of individual life; that it has altered Nervana into a heaven of conscious bliss, that it has dropped its atheism and adopted a viral theism, that it no longer teaches the useless ness of prayer and that it does present merciful deity as an object of worship With all this the analysis, of Buddhism as it appears in these songs leaves the humani tarian and philanthropist onconvinced of its

140 Level South, Extension of Main Cross cut from the South Shaft-This has been ad vanced 42ft, making a total of 278ft from the Shaft

Cross-cutting for Stope Filling.-157 of this work has been done.

the following

Stopes. The Mill has been supplied from

Above the 340 level, a stopes, lode 10gin wide, worth 3 dwt.

ELITA NOSSACK" Captain Lassen, having arrived from the The team to represent the Hongkong Club above ports, Consignees of Cargo are heraby countersignature by the Undersigned, and to match is as under-Messrs. E. H. Hinds take immediate delivery of their goods from (Captain), P. W. Goldring, T. A. Hanmer and alongside. T. C. Gray on the German alleys on 28th inste and on the English alleys, 29th inst. Hooper, P. R. Wolff, H, Hancock and I G Bonner, English alleys 28th inst. Ger man alleys`29 h inst.^/

A

The two fours will bowl in the order named. Begin at 5 p.m. each day. Scorers-C. H. Gale and J. A. Jupp. Umpires:-J. R. Wood and G. E. Storrell,

A USHNUL WORK.

Considering the number of places at which. the Customs Inspectorate has established offices, the thousands of miles north and south and east and went over which these offices are scattered, the varieties of climate, and the peculiar conditions to which, under such different circumstances, life and health are

- subjected, Sir Robert Hart believes that.

the Customs Inspectorate, aided. by its Medical Officers, can do good service in thề, matter of“ procuring information with regard to descasc amongst foreigners and natives in China. In consequence the in- spector-General came to the resolution of pablishing half-yearly in collected form all that may be obtainable. Ifcarried out to the exfent | hoped for he thinks the scheme may prove highly useful to the medical profession both in China and at home, and to the public generally The medical reports for the year ended 311 March, 1904, have now been published, and a

About the 240 level, 4 stapes; lode 68 in. wide, and worth 4 dwt.

About the ado level, i stope; lode 105 in.; wide, and wonth 3 dwt,

Above the 140 level, i miope; lode 6 in, wide, and worth 7 dwl.

STOFZ MINE.

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO DAY,

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's "arrival here after which date they cannot be recogniseda MON TO

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3rd May will be subject to rent..

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godawns, where they will be examined on the 3rd May, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insuranco has been effected.

·HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 26th April, 1905. -"BARBER LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE STEAMSHIP "HINDUSTAN," FROM NEW YORK.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

have left the Godowns, and all Gonds remain

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods: ing undelivered after the 28th April will be subject to rent

All Claims against the Steamer musí he pre» -

Creads are tested by lives, by the inspira. small bunches of mixed quartz matter have been Heibow, Pakhoi, Tengyuch, Wuhu, and Can to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

Prince Louis of Battenberg lias, a corres pendent is assured, notwithstanding his pre accupations in lils present command, devised a remarkable, improvement in the system of signalling in the British Navy. The system has been submitted to the experts of the ser Talking on Far Eastern affairs, Mr. Little vice and declared to be infinitely beyond

system in existence in the European services. said, "the war does not affect China at all The American signalling service was thought and it has been rather beneficial to trade. Both the Japanese and Russians have spent large to be the best in operation, but this is said to sums of money in the Chinese ports, Shanghai, be far better. This, at all events, is the view Chifu and Tientsis, and as the Chinese Govern-, ment bas taken no part in the war, the profit to the Chinese has been very great, and the same remarks apply to the foreign merchants.. Trade has been remarkably good and the demand for British manufactures has never been so great

On India, the 6th inst.,, a 'targo gathering as it is at the present moment.

As far as net at Chinchpoukli, India, to witness the politics go everything is very quiet in China and opening ceremony of a new MH, called promis steady progress and new projects for the Rachel Sassoon Mill, founded by Messrs. railways and mining enterprises which, when E. D. Sassoon and Co., the well-known developed, will tend to an increase in the mill proprietors of Bombay. Mr. Nathan, general trade China, as you know, sym the Suprintendent of the Mills in delivering pathians with the Japanese, in this war his opening address, congratulated the senior No doubt it will end in the Japanese in. pa iner of the firm, Mr. Jacob soon, upon fluence in China being paramount. Many his fresh venture in the field of mill in Europeans living in China fear this result, dustry, and after wishing the new mill every but if it leads to a greater union among the success mude feeling reference to Mrs. Jacob European Powers, the possible drawback of the Sassoon, after whom the mill had been named, cannot impari into human lives the joy of of the clay, Efforts, however, are now being trade falling into the hands of the Japanese will who through ill health was unable to be pie-ight shining within the recesses of a Chi made to expose the lode from surface bo mitigated by the effeci of such a naino. So sent Mr. Jacob Sassoon, who, ou rising to nese prison shows iniquitous cruelties that call far everything points to the Japanese rigidly reply, was warmly applauded roudered thanks to civilized humanity for redress. Light on maintaining

for the kind references made to Mrs. Jacob the position of woman in China almost always Sassoon and for all the good wishes bestowed means revealing the secrets of her prison-house upon the new mill for its future success. Mr. valling aspects.

where man's inhumanity is seen in its more re Jacob Sassoon amid Bud cheers then formally declared the bachel Sassoon Mill opened, and the gathering then adjourned for refreshments After being profusely garlanded, Mr. Jacob Sassoon and party, amid renewed cheering and applause, drove off.

THE "OPEN DOOR" FOR ALL in all the countries occupied by them, and there is no reason to suppose that they will go. back on their engagement to keep the trarle open on an equality to all nations. The Jap- ance are not likely to make peice until they can bring the Russians on their knees and so make it impossible for the Russians to simply make a truce and wait for a mose favourable opponunity to re-commence the war. This danger the Japanese are determined to escape). consequently, my own impression is that wo

- SIAM'S SUCCESS.

Main Cross-cut West.-This has been ex-copy forwarded to our office. The contents sufficiency to satisfy what Longfellow calls tended 72 ft, bringing the total to St it. Some of this little volume comprise reports on

the marvellous heart of man."

the health of Chungking, Ningpo, Wenchew, tion, guidance and direction they give to in. does rint secure fir woman a higher place than dividuals and to society. The religion that

she has attained in China cannot do all that is needed to set woman's heart at ease or to speak peace to her souf. Nor can we imagine the woman whose life story; is the theme of these songs and whose environment they sawinze has been sunk 33 ft. on the west side of vividly portray finding delight in a faith which the lade but this we have been obliged to

passed through but of no importance.

Mine has been carried on in two places... Surface prospecting in the district of this

At about 800 ft North East of the shaft on the outcrop of the East Lode, pannings from which have given very good results, a small

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tor, also on the sanitary conditlan al-Mongtze, and clinical moles on leprosy. That which more directly concerns us is Ur. E. C. Daven the fifteen months ended 31st. March, 1934.. pon's report on the health of Canton, for There is one important point in the report that should not be overlooked,. He tells us that the increased number of cases of typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhea, diphtheria, and septic

at its best and under quite other conditions i abandon because of the water and soft nature is that have occurred is probably caused

chiefly by the defective and insanitary drain. age system. For this reason, and having in

Stope shall, and on the line of the main lode for The drains on Shamien are," he The second place is about goo it south of the view further increase in population, a more sanitary system of drainage is urgently called Here the results are not encouraging. The regrets to say, in a very defective and outcrop is exposed, for 6 ft, and the one cut insanitary condition. The "outhouses of ting made through it shows a lode 84 in. wide, Seve lots have been found to be very which admits of being drawn in detail. Accur, and preparations made fortaking this stone ingred systems are now in course of We will not carry further the comparison, and pans 6 det. Further work is being carried unhealthy and to have a very deficient accom

modation, for. Chinese servanta Repairs and cannot have an exalted opinion of present-day Buddhism as a work-a-day faith. It is an into the Mill, This lore is no doubt a part of constion." With a low-lying an 3 subsiding adequate basis of ethics, and a poor means of the main fede, the extension of which we expect Settlement, surrounded by a tidal river, such

calming the weary strife of frail humanity," to strike in Stope cross-cul

One or two observations on the place of song

BUKIT, MALACCAL

de

In these days the first and last, sign of proindustry, contentment and patriotism is 4 and having passed the mit of the Ora

in Chinese life may fitly concludo this notice. That from the earliest times the Chinese have No. 3 Level, Drive south. This has been set a high value on songs as a means of ednica driven a further 2 it, making an aggregate of 10 and 'esprelally of inculcating the vinues shall not see peace for some months to come.gress is to borrow, so it is easy to understand clear from the frequency with which unsiches shoot, is now stopped. All work in the mine is The Japanese will not give it until they attain why the Royal Siamese Goremment 41 per of ancient song as introduced into the most suspended waiting the completion of the rail- their object and drive the Russians entirely out Cent. Sterling Loan received such a hasty For how long and to what extent the Chi broken, and proceed with other work...

way, when we shall remove the stone already esteemed classical literature sold way. welcome. The amount is a million, which is anese have had songs appropriated to various The railway will be finished in about another Since the fall of Port Arthur the streets in very fair beginning, bot Paris took one-half it might prove an instructive inquiry two weeks. Shanghai have been crowded with Russians and and of the balance only £3500 was available They have labour songs that touch the hear

of Manchuria TAA

Russian Consul there, as fast as steamer accom- modation can be obtained, yet the number is so great that the streets have been crowded ever since the beginning of the year. The Rus sians seem fairly well off and were spending a good deal of money which they accumulated during the siege. Most of them are artizans, camp followers and tradesmen, who were now returning home,

the applications reached eight millions in less than an hour, and the lists were then closed, sufficient evidence having been obtained he the Stock Exchange would take Siam tots bosom. The stock certainly looked cheap at 951, and it was promptly sent to a substantial premium. The P. f. Gazette is inclined to think that better toets might have been secur ed, but perhaps it is just as well for the Slam: ese that borrowing should not be made too aay. That would merely bave encouraged

as Shamien is, the most suitable method of drainage seems to him to be an entirely sur face system, the advantages of which, over the existing deep system, he fully sell out in his separi, fed

COMMERCIAL

To-day's Advertisements.

Shanghai advices of 20th "fast, slate -- Business, reported i Farnham,, Boyds at Tis at Tls. 115. Wei-hai wel Golds at $68, Mautries 157) cash, and at TIL, 156) for April, : Lands at $5. Ices at Tis. 25. Telephones at Tis. 72, * Business dono direct —Indo-Chinas at Tis: "although they are being shipped off by the for money lenders here. It is understood that and land vigour to the arm of the toller Such the bill immediately north of this property 88 for April. Faraham, Boyds at The 100 for

labour songs form no mean contribution to and south of Sungei Argus two crosscuts, sta publie happiness MAMA being put in to prove this section. The No. Fat Tis, 245h, and at Tia, 1551 for October

June, and at Tid 162) for 'August." Langkats What Dr. Jobaton noticed in the Highlands has many parallel in modern China. The has covered 170 and No. 7, 84 ft. Some strokes of the sickle were timed by the small seams and bunches have been driven modulation of the harvest song in which all through, but of no value, definit every action which can be done in equal time Their voices were, united. They accompany with an appropriate strain which they say bas not much meaning but its effects are regularity. the rapids on the rivers of China do precisely and cheerfulness, Boatmen working against after the manner bere described to M Songs written and cowritten must enter into any.complete picture of Chinese manners So true is this that native newspapers published In Hongkong are occasionally seen to sum: "mariso namative, news and incident under the heading Canton Songs or information in rhyme. The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg: Mr. Clement's skill energy and laste might NAAR of Chinese songs with translations prolegomena

notes and index Such a work would certainly bours mins mainly due to breaking, of pro have a charm of variety which the Cantoness section wire og main cable lice, clean up and Love Songs seems to lack, AER

“RUSSIA DARE NOT MAKE PEACE... Continuing, Mr. Lintle said that a correspon dest of one of the Russian, papers who was shut up in Port Arthur during the siege inform ed him that Rusia dare not make peace, First- because she could not let her people know how badly she had been beaten, and secondly, be.

extravagance.

THE WEATHER:

renewals, have worked fairly continuously, . The Huntingdoo Mills, since the arrival of

All oiber machinery has been thoroughly. Mill ran as follows --- overhauled, o

No. 1 Milt as days.. 113

Menge Crushing 1413 tond

and producing 1231 qzs bullion baving a fice ness of 8496, 3

Average yield per ton of bullion 1-73 dwtster Bukit Komas Milling Returns for Month ending 25th MarchStamps working 4%

1

NOTICE

THE Business of Dressmaking and Millinery. hitherto carried on under the name of FLINT & CO. will, from the 1st proximo, be carried on in the name of and: styled.) MADAKE JAY'S MILLINERY and DRESS- MAKING PARLORS No. 4 Des Vœux Road, under the same proprietorship, G

Hongkong, 26th April, 1995.ca

CAUTO AS FOOD'as peace le digned there would first Assistant - of the Hongkongi Observas | be used to advantage in compiling an anthology Period of working 28 days, less Jost-time FOR SINGAPORE PENANG ANDA.

be some fifty thousand prisoners to return to Restia, which is equivalent to fifty thousand revolutionisisR

Mr. and Mrs: Litils yo up to Kandy this and will visit the Botanical Gardens, Colombo to the afternoon, when retureldg

resume their voyage home, concludes, the

mal. They will return to China in the aŭluma pia America, sa Mr. Little bus largo mining interesia tharge

tory

the 26th at 11.55 am. The barometer is rising over N. China and Jupas, and falling slightly on the SE coast of China,

· Pressure is again bigh over N. Chiza, and A collection of beetles may properly include gradients are increasing along the coast insect from a habitat, not of the cleanest and a few specliness of the fine large variety of Fresh Finds will probably set in again most inviting. Too many of this one kind backing to E winds may be expected over the tive and findable paruits of the collector over the Farmosa Channel, and moderate S. would pat us out of conceit with the instrace part of the China Seadra Cantonese songs islo other things ForecastS, to E winds, light to moderate; Chinese the Western reader likes more "sorts

and kindo**

repairsi.

Ore milled 1,267, tons, Jacluding,

old blanketings. Catalo

CALCUTTA

THE Steamship:

LIGHTNING"

Captain. G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Parts, on TUESDAY, the and May, at

For Freight or Passage, spply to

Amalgam yield 1,692,75,01% producing 559) 3 P oz smelted gold, having a

Bullion yield=3.97 dw% per

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED

Arente

Hongkong noth April, 1905).

sented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th April, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are examined on the 28th April at 3 F.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED;" Agents Hongkong, 25th April, 1905..

Intimation.

THE POPULAR.

SCOTCH

BLACK&WHITE

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTCH WHISKY, ZISTILLER SA By Appointment, toʻy.7)- EM. THE KING

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LEADING CLUBS Fand (OTELS, and to be obtalfied" from: [599] the principal ikorea.

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