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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1905.

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has now,

might be arrived at. But until the United | THE Damber of plague cases officially report. States moves in the matter nobody else ed since the beginning of the year has

nce yesterday at noon... can speak. Upon President Roosevelt, reached 191, four cases having been not fied therefore, lics the responsibility for the continuance of the present struggle which is Kwox KAI, an aged Chinaman claiming to be decimating the people of two nations. When 78 years of ages was charged with removing the

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1905.

PROSPECTS OF PEACE.

ploughshares.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

COMPANY has been formed with a capital of 300,000 to start a new peony morning paper in London. It will be the official Liberal organ and will be called the Tribune,

the necessary permit, on the 8th inst. The body was that of a patient who had died of plague. Mr. A. Hassland fined bim 120 or four months hard about.

was recentlyappointed a director of the National

neighbouring countries has been granted to LEAVE of absence on private affairs to the Bank of China, and took his seat for the first

time at a meeting of the disectors to-day.

Capt. C. M. F. Watkins, Royal Engineers, from 13th june to 13th September; also to Capi. from 13th June to 13th December, 1955.

on that sum to the amount of $45,000, and, so far as I can understand, it will be distributed an that is to say, there will be interest received

follows, viz, $12.500, being 95 cents per share. on 25,000 Sto shares, fully paid up, in the old Company; and 82,500, being 45 cents per share on 5000 new shares, on which $c is paid up,

7th last, Messro, John D. Humphreys & Son endeavour to refute the arguments of Mr. D, E, Brawn ar prevented in a previous, letter and in His speech at the meeting last week They have accused him of distorting the facis and submit ting argumente based on an imperfect know DEAR SIR, AS some of the burd facts in ledge of the actual conditions, and proceed to to have disturbed the General Managers and only hope of revenue return for the next, three- brought fonbareply from them through the Fress year will be that samed by the present Com of yesterday, and in which instead of success-pany. The explanation given by the general fully, disproving same they accuse me of being managers is of such a nature that it might be We hear that Mr. Reginald Karting, assistant" inaccurate" and of uslugarguments based characterised as no explanation at all. Messra. to Measre: Ewens and Harston, solicitors, of upon insufficient or imperfect knowledge of the Humphreys assume that a dividend of 6 per Axandra Buildings, is to be taken into the actual facts," permit me through the medium cent, will be obtained on a capital of $750,000 babilities for disposal by them, and for the partnerships from the doth inst. Me, Harding of your paper to add a few more facts or pro In the first place it is not proven that my consideration of others interested. statement, "that all the shareholders in the old promised in return for their Company are

hares a one-third interest in the new Com. shareholders are to be given a preference in general managers got this $45,000 from? That subscribing additionally to the new Company

is an exceedingly important question. If th at Sip per share, nor does it convince me thai general managers count on the old Company this questionable privilege justifier the dis to bring in that sum, then the old Company salution and the sacrifice sale of the old Com when it comes to a distribution of their profits. pany, or that this privilege is sufficinat com among the shareholders could have given them Kone ladies who may experience any nervous-pensation for putting additional hard cash into $36 per share on the old shares (or $1.80 por company that can earn nothing in return for share on the new shares of the amalgamated nesi as to the chances of à "shock" on the new.

giving $15 per share on the old shares or 'Secondly; in dealing with the revenue re. $18.750, and strengthening the assets by carry success is in absorbing the old Company. turns from the new Company, the Generating forward the balance of $:6,250. Now, is it Managers dispute my statement as inaccurate, fair and just that the general managers should riz, that the only hope of a revenue return for the ext three or pass bly four or five years will be the revenue returns earned by the id

PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the Band of the 129th Baluchis, on the New Parade

G. R. 1. Nugent, Royal Garrison Ariffiery, Grounds on Monday must, from 5 to 6.ow pantepaly" is wrong by merely contending that old and i remains to be called. Where do the

THE members of the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association will have the use of the King's Park Range, Kowloon, (5co yards), from two to six o'clock to-morrow. There will be a poot competition, and members may: shoot for the Governor's Cup for June:

Ovuture...The Barber of felt Garokie." Intermezzo"

Rossini

F. Clarine Solo..." Nocturne L. Esperance" R. Ascher Selection......." Reminiscences of To Vale..." Moreska "ies in F. FRE Song"! Slandchen: Schubert

God save the King. ***

In Hall

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What are the prospects of peace, and it peace be declared what will the terms be ? | A CONVOCATION of the Imperial Japanese Diet | electric railway wili have' their minds relievert a number of years and whose only hope of concern). Hut, wisely enough, they have been

These are the questions which all thoughtful Now that people are asking themselves. Japan has dissipated the Russian fleet, on whose success the highest hopes of the Muscovite were centred, the first question

inevitably comes to the front, Some

optimists hoped that, after Mukden, peace was imperative, but the passage of the Baltic Fleet gave the Russians room to hope that there was stili a possibility their arms would triumph, for success al' sea méant new life to those on land. But that hope has been lost, and nothing remains for Russia but to prolong á disastrous fight on land or submit terims of peace. It must be remembered that the Russian, Tartar if you will, is a hard nut to crack. It is the boast of the British that they never know when they are beaten. The Russian could echo the same idea, for over such a vast territory as he rules he is almost in-

for an extra session is to be made for the pur pose of discussing additional expenditure which was unexpected in the last session, such as repairing art Arthur, forts, refinating Russian warships and ferding Russian prisoners, etc. The spring announcements of Mr. Fisker Unwin included "My Life Among the Chinese by the Rev. E. J. Hardy, author of "How to be Happy though Married, lately Chaplain to H. M. Forces in Hongkong. The book will treat of the common everyday things of the Chinese, and anecdotes are freely used to illustrate.

HER Majesty the Empters of Japan, states the Japan Mail, continues to bestow grifts of

on reading the subjoined. The caution is quite a simple one to remember. The incident ap parently occurred in Dublin, when an old lady was heard to address a man in blue as follows: Isn't it dangerous to step on the electric tram linc, constable?" The answer was: "Oh, no, mum, as long as you, don't put your other fut on the wire overhead!"-Japan Chronicle.

THE JAPANESE VICTORY,

AMERICAN, OPINION.

NOTABLE LEADERS BY "NEW YORK- SUN,"

The following appears in the Shanghai Mer cury of the 3rd inst.-

The New York Sun of the 31st May states:

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take all the profits of the old Company and

propose to divide them en blc on the money. called up on the old and new shares alike?⠀ In

Company, and will have to remain satisfied that a fair and reasonable réply to Mr. Brown's (during that period) with a division of only argument that the old shareholders am ba one-third of these profit. I claim that my ing done out of their sights? I submit

Why, shout statement is not disproved because shares in is not. Why should a shareholder of the new Company issued to shareholders of the the Hongkong High Level Tramways, who old Company will be fully paid up and entitled does not believe in the rostalo prospects of to dividends on the full amounts of Sro per share the new scheme, be called upon to incrifice. from the formation of the Company"; neither nearly two-thirds of his rightful returns in order do I consider this inviting because "on the that new sbareholders who had nothing to do other hand the remaining (two-thirds of the with the existing tramway may benefit? With shares will only be entitled to dividends on the regard to the statement that the general

or the artificial limbs upon wounded soldiers. The Admiral Togo's victory is complete; never amount paid up for the time being, which will managers and the majority at the meeting hold number of men thus assisted by Her Majesty in the world's history has so effective a piece. certainly not exceed $5 per share for the first two-thirds of the shares of the Company, there

in the present, war is 1,261, and the detail is 574 (including 12 Russian prisoncis) provided with legs or arms, and 69 (including 23 Russians) with eyes.

of work been done on the sea. Russian sea power is wiped out and Japan can deal with the waters of the Western Pacific as her own. Russia's bluff has caded with disaster to her

year and may be less."

Then, again, if the promised dividends on the two-thirds of the $5 or $10 shares of the new Company do not come from the earnings

is a very simple answer to that. The interest: of the general managers is not alone confined to the dividends the ca pauy pay, but they' have the much greater interest in reckuning

Companies are amalgamated. So that their

DE AND "E" ARE FAVOURITE" | accessible to the assaults of an enemy. The DUTCH papers state that a cargo of animal and telf. When detailed accounts of the fighting of the old Company, and the pockets of the the commission they will receive when the WINES ALL OVER THE FAR EAST Japanese have managed to hem the Russian human bones from the Far Eastern battlefields come to os, naval experts wil, be able to draw old shareholders, where do they come from interests are; not to be considered as on the troops within a small area, but even in theba arrived in Holland, consigned to a glue lessons from them, as this is the first great To assist in the flotation of the new Company same plane as those of the shareholders who SPECIALLY RECOM event of another rout the Russians have factory. It is asserted that fragments of flesh naval battle in which two, evenly matched we are asked to begin immediately, and to conlook to the div.deads alone. The larger the still their last line of fastnesses behind. Lake and pieces of uniform still adhere to some of furces have met since modern armour and tinue for a period of at last three years giving capital the greater the commission received by

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, 20th May, 1905.

Balkal. It has always been a characteristic of the Russian, where victory by sheer force

the bones. The authorities have forbidden dische ging the cargo during the daytime, and the work is being done at night.

At Manila away'sufficient from our present profits, to in modern guns have come into use, and Santiago the preponderance was all on one vestors in the new Line, so as to bring them the general managers. But, also, the same side, while at Port Arthur conditions of block an immediate return and thus perhaps justify principle does not apply where the shares. ade affected the problem. Hers in the Japan investment in a venture that would otherwise holders are concerned, it comes to this

it is proposed to distribute 6 per cent, of numbers seemed uncertain-although

sea, equal. flects met with the outcome that be difficult to float. It must not be forgotten which is the total return anticipated by the A. S. WATSON. & Co., Plevua is one of the exceptions-to keep on MR. Otta Kong Sing represented Cheung Kin, one was totally destroyed and the other practi- that it is not the old Company which proposes

new Company, among the shareholders. But retreating. In this case retreat may ultimately trading as the Fung Wo in a claim against cally unhurt. Japan can now breath freely building the opposition Line, but a new Com mean victory, as Napoleon found to his cost. Kweng Kam Cheung and Tax Cheung trading and carry out military operations unhinder-pany, and, unless I am once more mistaken, for years the shareholders if the old Company as the Wing Wo, of 18, Pottinger Street, made | ed. The Russian Armada has been swept they can only succeed in floating their scheme have been content to take 15.per cent. instead But we are become, so to say, civilised nowadays. The loss of human lives, wherein respect of work done and materials supplied. out of existence and even the Czar's mad if permitted to buy us out at a price more ad. of the $36 per share, to which they were en-

The total amount of the claim was 5781.30 ofness will hesitate to lend more Russian vessels such loss can be prevented (forgetting the which Sice had been paid off His Honour to certain destruction. Peace Suciety and its aims for the moment the Puisne Judge found for plaintiff for $381.30 Russia is eliminated as a factor in any ufficient traffic for a second Lina through to sacrifice? Not the 'abareholders of the old European entanglements that may call for sen | the Peak, nor of any monetary necessity for Company, if the new scheme is carried out. power and in so far the peace of the world is another even in substituition for the old Line. No; it will be the new shareholders who Titanic struggle without interference? It is By kind permission of Col, W. G. B. Westers, assured. Japanese military plans in Manchuria Consequently i am forced to the conclusion will earn dividends on an undertaking with evident from the telegrams which are receiv. C., and Officers, the Band of the and Batcan be carried out without fear of being cut off that the general manager and the consulting / which they had nothing to do. And where "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) from the base of supplies. When details of committee, who claim to represent or control will be reserve fund go? Probably, to build will play the following programme of music, Admiral Togu's victory are learned naval ex• 75% of the shares of the old company, up the dividends required until the sew

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is a matter which affects the whole world. Can the nations tamely sit and watch this

ed from day to day that there is a decided feeling against such a course., The United States, or rather President Roosevelt, has come into the open and declared that those who permit, without a murmur, such a con- dition of affairs to continue are little better than abetters. In fact they are conniving at With that nation's crime of jelo de se.

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idea in mind, the President has been in communication with the British and French Ambassadors in order to obtain if possible SPIRIT MERCHANTS, some inkling of what would be accepted as

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a fair and equitable settlement of the tron- bles in the East. It would be the finest

feather in the cap of President Roosevelt if be were accepted as mediator between Russian and Japan. His name would live in history not merely as a great President but also as an international peacemaker. At the best, however, he has a thankless task

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God save the King.

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For the moment,

vantageous to hem had to us,

I am still of the opinion that there is not

titled if they had not followed the wise plan of building up a reserve. Who benefits by that

tramway is constructed and paying its perts will examine the interesting question, if it are beginning to realize that they overs

way. I think that the scheme in alto- is on torpedo boats and fast cruisers or on big estimated the importance of the contem

gether wrong. It is unfair to the shareholders battleships that a navy must depend, or if it is plated opposition, and overstepped them- superior pluck and knowledge on the part ofselves in commining the company to the of the old Company. It is inequitable and the man behind the gun that after all decides Government for the construction of this new unjust; it is robbing Peter that Paul's greed fight. However that may be, nebody will line. I have no objections to their committing may be satisfied, and 1 hope that we have not gradge the glory of the brave and patient com themselves individually, but I do still protest yet heard the end of it all am, cic mander who secured the great victory of against their having committed the company Japan.

without first having.received the consent of all the shareholders.

FAIRPLAY

Hongkong, 4th June.

RUSSIAN CRUISER SIGHTED

·NEAR MANILA.

Capt. Browne, of the steamer Team which

The investing public of llongkong, usually look for a return on their investments, and it is still a very debatable question as to whether an investment in the new Line would have been sufficiently inviting to warrant it being buit came in from blanita this afternoon, reports. for many years to come with the present Line that at 5 pm on Wednesday last when in latis operating against it for through Feak business,tude 17.25 and longitude 118,08, he wished and the only other business in sight being that one of the Russian Volumeer Fleet, with below Conduit Road level. Consequently the fiddle bows, two funnels and three masts, scheme now proposed by the general managers steaming slowly in a south-westerly direction. and consulting committee is not inviting, no He signalled to her that there were hice Rus

replied "Thank you."

in front of him. Japan has been so uni. sorry this thing had happened. He came itself in the very forefront of the naval matter how cleverly coloured, to say nothing.ol sian cruisers at Manits, and the Volunteer ship

the future prospects of the new Line or its ability to injure us when shorn of its one hope of success, viz, the revenue-turning eld Liné This may explain the desire to force the scheme through notwithstanding. The protest of share holders representing at least 271 shares out of

THE WEATHER,

The New York Sun of the 30th May says: ANDREW Smith, an engineer on the 9.5. The destruction by the Japanese of the Rus Kinluck, was placed before Mr. F. A. Haze sian fleet and practically Russian naval power land this morning charged with being drunk may be said without exaggeration to be one of and disorderly in Queen's Road Central yes the most momentous events not merely in terday afternoon. P. C. Cox said that while naval history but also in the history of the an duty in the Supreme Court he heard a com-world. Here is a nation which was opened to mation in the street and on, juoking out of the the civilised world only fifty years ago, has window saw the accused lying in the gutter, been organized after the plan of westem civili. with about rco Chinese loafers laughing at zation for less than twenty five years, and only him. The man was arrested, and when placed within ten years has had a navy of any con before Mr. F. A. Hazeland he said he was very siderable rank, that has by one blow put

ashore to purchase a newspaper and some other trifles; but he had a glass or two and powers of the world, after having previously furgot all about theth and everything else. He demonstrated its superiority on land to the nominally greatest military power of the world, asked his Worship to give him a chance" as The naval engagement in the Korean Straits his vessel was sailing today. The Magistrate therefore marks a radical change in the dis- said he did not wish him to remain in this tribution of military strength and military pos Colony, and discharged him with a cautionsibilities of the world. The complete victory and ordered him to get back on board his ship of Japan in the war with Russin, which it fore- at once and stay there.

Concerning the estimate of the general shadows, will pot Japan for up towards the managers as to the injury the opposition Live head of the military power and before this cen tury ends at will hold the first place beyond can do us financially, I contend, that it cannot peradventure if its development continues in and will not injure us financially so much as S. part of the China Seat made since its victory over China ten years force us into; and, in this connection, I ques anything like the ratio of progress which it has this voluntary sacrifice they are now trying to ago. The engagement in the Korean inesio tion the good taste of the general managers in afforded the first full test of the new engines of navsi war which has been made since. their giving expression or prominence, in the later introduction.. Certainly since the type of mo- portion of their letter, to the power vested in dera battleship has been brought to its present them and the consulting committes." in the development pur American destruction of the matter of adjusting future dividends, -some Spanish Fleets at Manila and Santiago could not be called soch test, though our expe people might consider this in the light of a rience there foreshadowed the results in Jap veiled threat liable and likely to injure rather anese galers-that is, both Spanish and Ros than to improve their prospects of success. sian ships were destroyed without significant Might" is not regarded and permitted as damage to the opposing fleets

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formly successful in the field and on sea that she rightly feels that the terms of settlement should be dictated by her Russia, with the pride of nearly a dozen centuries of greatness behind her,, is unlikely to admit the claims of the new star in the East. Moreover, if Japan should demand an indemnity how is Russia to pay - it? Is there Some A WEEK or so ago, a Kling revenue officer was Pandora's box in the treasury at St. Peterson duty on Keppel Road outside Bornes burg that she could utilise? But granting Wharf, Singapore. He saw a Chicaman who had apparently just landed from a longkong steamer, that an indemnity could be paid by instal. He at once pounced on the stranger and del ments what is to become of Vladivostok ? manded to see his possessions.: Among these It has been suggested that it should become was found a number of Chinese silver coins. a free port, controlled by a sort of inter- The officer at once scented profit and declared national board. Even if that suggestion that the stranger was a law-breaker and must were acquiesced in by the Russians and the forthwith be arrested and subsequently exposed Japanese, there is still the question of the to dire pains and penalties. To avoid these, the Chinaman handed over four of his cuins ownership of Saghalien. "Is there any worth about 80 cents. So far all seemingly reason why Russia should await the capture went well, but the Revenue Officer bad

The theory that when modern ships of war right in British Law

In conclusion, it is not necessary to make of Vladivostok and Saghalien by the Japan-reckoned without the possible immediate pre actually "met squarely in battle cach side

managers closing esc before suing for peace?" cries a writer sence of a detective. He had hardly got of electoralty, the victory won by may reply to mas tenere a userlip of in a Russian journal. And the French possession of the money when this Nemesis disposed of effectually. The victory won by remarks in connection with my

shares the old company, as they are quite put in an appearance and removed him to the the japanese is not only one of the most com of naval warfare, but it also newspapers re-echo the same idea. It is nearest police station. Inspector, Gallager Plate in the history on to the pictor It le beside the question. Yours truly,

D. E. BROWN" 'impossible. to believe that Japan will take obtained a summons, Yesterday, says the demonstrated that

Hongkong, June 9th, 1995;

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG Telegraph," all the advantages accruing from boling tion of hostilities Russia is or may sentative responded to it. Mr. Colman beard Japan bar won the war another European power which would have done feel debarred from taking the initiative, the case with the result that the revenue office better than Kussia except Great Britain with

SIR,The controversy which has arisen over It therefore remains for outsiders to has three months' hard work to do, and some hittiyan naval preponderance? When (Japan

piny into the Peak Tramways step into the breach. If the United States leisure to think on the erros of his wayThis has gone ahead in its development under the proposed conversion of the High Level

is but another of the cases in which promthe impetus of the present victory may not Tramway would open the negotiations, then Britain

Farmer's servants inke advant and France could, without losing caste totion to oppress stranger wards their allies, join in the arbitration | however, prompt" retribution proceedings, and thereby a just settlement This is at any rate satisfactory

NE,→All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at

home, thereby ensuring to our Customers the first steps towards securing a cessa• Straits Timex, of and inst the Revenue repre superior of Rusers, bet military

done at home under the direct supervision of the Growers and Distillers as compared to bottling done in China by Chipamen

at the service of European Firms. Hongkong, th December, 1994.

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The following report is from Mr. FG FIRK First Assistant of the Hongkong/bservatory :--- On the 9th at 11.55 a. The barometer.bas rison in E. Japan, and fallen over China

An area of low pressure lies over 8. China. Pressure is highest over E. Japan and the

Gradients are moderate, and fresh S 5.10 SW. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel, and the N. part of the China Sea

Forecast-moderate to fresh SW. winds; qually, showery,

Returns from the Philippines ate lacking..

SHIPPING AND MAILS:

MAILS: DUELS American (Coptic) vath inst.: Canadian (Empress of India) 13th insty French (Quanien) 13th inst. German (Print Waldemar) 19th inst Canadian (Tarlar) 20th inst Indian (Sulsang) 20th inst

The C. P. R. Co.'s as Empres arrived at Nagasaki 4: 7.30 am, the and leaves again at 5. p.m. am

dato arrive at 52 Shanghai where, she

The tu. Satuma sailed from New York o .m., on toth

the time come and in no distant period when Company, whereby the old Company is to be the even Great Britain will be distanced? How

wound up volunt abut dürselves? The payal baita of Satur followed day and Sunday may change the whole course new Company broughi

of civiltisation during the twentieth century,

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French Mail, will leave Skij

the greatest interest. In their letter dated the the roth ineti ataram, for thie