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Intinations.

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

BIRDL

DEATH.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905.

At River Valley Raid, Singapore, RUTH DORIS, the beloved daughter of Mr. and Ms. C. C. Ochlers, aged 78 months.

in China.

IN the case in which Captain Lawlor, licensed and causing damage to the BS. Slavonia, argu pilot, was charged with negligent navigation, ments were heard for

THE SINKING OF THE

ST KILDA.*

THE BOATSWAIN'S STORY,

The Chinese crew of the sunken British

steamer St Kilda were at the Shipping Office this morning fth inst) and a representative of the Singapore Fite Piers had an interview with the Chinese bo sun who speaks good English, The bo'sun, Cheong Ah Chow, stated that he signed articles on board the St Kildo at Hong- kong on the 3rd instant to proceed to Japan, Hongkong, the original port of departure, the and thence to any European parts and back to

WINE AND SPIRIT The Houghseg Gelegraph. That the movement is being accorded con-defense before ad for the prosecution and the voyage not to excced one year.

MERCHANTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905.

CHINESE NEUTRALITY.

ane day sighted a Russian cruiser which signalled the ship to stop The captain of the

TWO ARMED BOATS,

Ten Russians sailors, armed with rifles and

to smoke opium or permit or abet cuci ACCORDING to a Peking telegram of 16th inst., On the 16th June, at Shanghai, the wife of smoking. The penalty is 50 for any per Mr. Rockbill, the new U.S. Minister to l'eking, HENRY MONSEL CUMINE, of Ä 105. g

MARRIAGE.

son found with opium in his possession, and accompanied by his secretary and interpreter, paid a visit to the Walwupu and then to the On toth June, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sinio if found smoking orübetting the smok: Beard of “evenue on the 13th instant and hid gapore, by the Rev. H. C. Izard, Colonial Chaping of oplum. A similar law is in force in an interview with the high, officials of the two lain, PALNER third A. S. WATSON & CO., the late Edwin Palmer Lee of Tredegar: the Island of Formosa, where it has had the Bonds The Minister inquired of them egard ville Cardiff, to LUCY AGNES MOSLEY, young effect of completely stamping out opioning the establishment of banks and al o about est daughter of the late Thomas Henry Mosley smoking. Before America took over Hono: Professor Jenks who had been in, China in of Calcutta.

lulu a sintilar law was also it force, and connection with the matter of the gold standard opium smoking was unknown, but since the new regine the importation of the article has been permitted, the duty being fixed at 10 dollars per pound,

The ship left Hongkong bound for Kobe at to siderable support is evident by the fact that noon, Mr. Wilkinson submining that the dea.m. on the 4th instant and at 4 30 pa, on the letters were received from all parts of the fendant was in no way to blame inasmuch as State expressing sympathy and promising he followed the custom in vogae in beathing the vessel, and the collision occurred by reason support to the promoters of the ahti-opium of an unknown current. - Mr. Looker addressed St Kilda at once did so, and the cruiser sent In connection with one of our special agitation. It is stated that a letter was the Court at great length, and argued that the cablegrams from Shanghai today in re also read from a European lady at Broken- pilot was atone to blamer He quoted Long Government with regard to the neutrality of forward her opium, as she was a confirmed reviewed the evidence already recorded in these China, it may be stated thai, at the date smoker, and was unable to obtain it locally, columns. He submitted that the pilot did not of last advices from the Northern Set. The Chinese have, apparently, thought the that account solely to blame. His Worship tlement nine Russian ships had arrived at matter out well, for in the event of success, said he would take time to consider, he jade

holds and examined the cargo. Shanghal and Woosung in the past few they propose to inaugurate a fund to providement, and to that end would adjourn the sum

medicine and comforts to both Chinese and mons sine dit, due notice being given to both European victims of the 'habit, of opium- sides, when the judgment would be delivered. smoking, the chairman stating that a lead ing physician had informed him that the torments these people endured through being deprived of the drug were heart-rending. Practical tests with opium antidotes in Hong-were placed before Mr. Hoz:land, charged with This morning Li Cheung and Wong Sam kong have demonstrated, in the opinion of obtaining a pair of gold-mounted rattan bangles, many, that opium-smokers are amenable valued at $30, from one Ring Lim a married to successful treatment, and if the Common. woman, on the 18th inst, by means of false wealth Governaient of Australia resolve to pretences. prohibit the importation of the drug into the State agitating for the abolition of the traffic, the effect on these addicted to the vice and the result of the method to he adopted for a cure of the habit will be watched with con-wrapped up in a handkerchief. As she was siderable intercal,

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use the care he should have done and was on

CALLOUS KOGUES

DUPK A WOMAN,

The case for the complainant was that, on the 18th inst, the defendants went to her house

and asked her to change some $200 notes into smaller notes. The woman went to get the change for them, and took the soil which was

starting for the moneychanger's the defendants said she must leave some security for her safe return with the money, and she gave them the bangles. On the way to the money changers she opened the handkerchief, and found it only contained a roll of worthless blank paper. She immediately returned to the house only to find the men had disappeared. Yesterday she was standing in Queen's Rond talking hip- IT. is believed now that the Russian death-pened, to a detective, when the defendants roll in the Battle of Tsushima was only 3,500. came sauntering along, but, on seeing her, japan has taken over 6,000 prisoners.

turned tail and bolted. The detective and

FOUR cases of plague are notified in the official returns for the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day.

TELEGRAMS.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BERVIOS.

JAPANESE SQUADRON

PROCEEDING UP THE YANGTSE.

EXCITEMENT AT. NANKING.

[From Our Own: Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 21st June,

10.10 a.m.

An intimation has been received horo from Japan to the effect that Admiral

is about to steam up with a Japanese squa

Cuaids were placed over the hatches and at dron. the engine-room, and one of the Russian offi. cers then demanded to see the ship's papers He perused these carefully and ordered the hatches to be removed. He then went into the

Coming on deck again the two officers had a consultation, and the Captain of the Sr. Kilda was ordered to get into one of the Russian boats and accompany the senior officer to the Russian craiser, the other officer and his boat's crew being left in charge of the St. Kilda, Ater an hour's delay three boats put off from tain of the St. Kiida, who on orders from the the cruiser bringing back with them the Cap Russins, told the crew to collect their effects in readiness to go aboard the Russian ship This was done under supervision of the Rus sians who repeatedly signalled to the crew to hurry up and

LEAVE THE SHIP.

which took them aboard the Dnieper. The They were ordered to get into the boats

Russians then put their own crew aboard the St Kilda and got her under way with great haste, both vessels sleaming southwards at the highest speed the St. Kilda could be driven át›

Next morning at 9,30 o'clock both ships stopped, and Captain Skalsky, of the Russian, went on board the St. Kilda and made a' thorough examination of her. The boats then returned from her bringing off every one, and the bo'sun noticed that

ALL THE LAVE STUCK

with the vegetables and a quantity of tinne provisions had been brought away, as well as a bag of rice which the Russians sealed and

THE whole of the 78 bags of mails received ar/complainant bol'ed too, and soon had the cul- i marked as soon as it was got on board the

Singapore ex the St. Kilda were sent on to Hongkong by the Sui Sang, which arrived yesterday.

weeks and they are all in Shanghai now. Excepting the torpedo hoat destroyer Bodry the moorings of the rest are not yet decided. The arms and ammunition as well as por- tions of the machinery of the Bodrý were removed from her on the 12th and 13th instant and Commissioner Hobson and Admiral Veh inspected them and stored them in the store houses of the Kiangnan Arsenal. The Botry, when she completes Equal to any imported Bottled Whisky at her dismantling, will remove her moorings

to near the Mandjour. It is alleged, by local vernacular, that the Japanese Consul General maintains that none of the Rus sian ships should be allowed to dock or to repair and the Shanghai Taotai wrote Comatissioner Hobson, of the Chinese Im perial Maritime Customs, to decide the moorings of the eight ships speedily and not to allow them to stay alongside the wharf of a dock or to have repairs so as to complete. ly Abide by the neutrality rules. The pro- test of the Japanese Consul-General against the docking of the ships for repairs might almost be regarded as, frivolous in the light of the decision which obtained without any protest in the case of the three damaged Russians warships at Manila. In this case the A. S. WATSON & Co., contract calls for the repairs to the leg to be completed within sixty-three days, those LIMITED,

to the Aumea in forty-five days, and to the Zemichug within twenty-eight days. It is further stated in our norther contemporary that some of the Russian ships are still loaded with coal, and the Japanese Consul General is said to have requested the Shanghai Tautai to discharge them speedily. | A muutakt match will take place to-night at According to the die Wan Plaw strict rules | 8.30 o'clock at the Occidental Hoiel, Kowloon, will be compiled and enforced. to control between Mr. A. Morris and Mr. W. Pitt, Mr. Russian combatants who look parole not to Morris conceding his opponent go in a gaine return home till the end of the war, and the of soup. Shanghai Tactai has promised to the Japan TELEGRAPHIC messages to the Prean abroad ese Consul General regarding these rules to giving the news of the Battle of Tsushima, were control the paroled Russian combatants to held up by the Japanese Telegraphs until after petition the Viceroy at Nanking and to con-

the official reports had been sent to the Japanese sult with the Commissioner of the Jmperial Consulates abroad.. Maritime Customs. At the present time there THE earthquake on the 6th was felt severely are 72 Russian wounded on board the on the N.D L.S. Zie.in, several violent shocks Bodry and the Russian Consul-General has being experienced on board between 1 and 2 written to the Shanghai Taolai to the effectam, and it was thought that something had that the wounded are those picked up from gone wrong in the engine-room. various other Russian warships. It appears that the Badry has not enough accommodation to keep them aboard and therefore the Rus sian Consul-General has asked permission to allow them to go home. However, the Shanghai Tantaj answered the Russian Consul-General that though the Russians are wounded yet they are combatants and they are not allowed to go home but that they shall be distributed on board the Askold and the Mandjour after consulting Admiral Yeh, and also urg- ed to send in the document of the interned Russians who have paroled.

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THE CURSE OF OPIUM,

Tik reiting American Consul General at Yokohama, Mr. E. C. Hellows, was presented on the 9th by his American friends at the port with a large silver bowl.

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In the case in which Tang Fuk, ex-coreper's cleak, and third clerk at the Magistracy, was brought for trial at the Sessions, charged with the embezzlement of Sjo, the jury returned a verdict of" not guilty," and the prisoner was at once discharged.

prits in safe keeping.

The first defendant now derjed all knowledge of the matter, but was positively identified by the woman, while the second defendant cal lously admitted the charge, and said he took the bangles to Macao, where he melted down the gold-mounting and sold it for $17 55.

They were each sentenced to three months' hard labour and six hours in the stocks.

"SHIPPING JETSAM,

As the Volunteer fleeter Trtisch nunk in

shallow water after receiving only three shells, it is hoped that she will be refloated.

The story that the Zsumrud reached Vladi. mir Bay, 140 miles nont of Visdivostok and blew herself up there, with only ten tons of coal on board, is doubted.

Dniper.

Then the Dnieper steamed away from the St. Kilda to what the bo'sun described a about five hundred yards distance and opened fire with her guns. The first shot, flew right over the St. Kilda and burst in the sea at long way off. The next shots, however, few true and the Si. Kilda was soon enveloped in a mass of smoke, fragments of sbell and flying splinters, After half-a-dozen shots it was seen that the cotton in her forehold had been set on fire and

DENSE VOLUMES OF BLACK SMOKE

The Waiwupu has sent a notifica tion to the Consul-General for Japan, at Peking, that a squadron of Chinese Warships must lead the way up the river.

As a result of the intimation con. siderable excitement now prevails at Nanking, and the Vi-eroy hus officially requested the postponement of the cruise:

THE AMERICAN BOYCOTT·.

INCITED AT PEKING.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 21st Juno. The merchants at Peking have now takon the question of boycotting

up American goods.

They are inciting others to join. with them in the movement..

THE PRENS BUAT

"SAMSON.”

MR. BURLEIGH'S MISSION

- FRUSTRATED BY JAPANESE,

[From Our Own Correspondent.}

Shanghai, 21st June,

2.50 p.m.

In H. M. Supreme Court, to-day,

rolled forth from the hatchway. The bombefore Mr. Justice de Sausmarez, the bardment was kept up till it was seen the case in which A. Pavlow is suing doomed vessel was gradually settling down by the head. The Russians then ceased fire and Thomas Charles Robert Ward for St. Kilde gave a roll and went down by the in an hour from the fling of the first shot the the recovery of Tla. 100,000 for the

bows, her stern justing up into the air, and the wrongful conversion by the defendant The Kwannon Mary 23(1,307 tons) and the last seen of the ill-fated vessel was the British of the 8.8. Samson, the property of the Kairayama Maru (1,770 tons) strandard off flag which the Russians had neglected to

plaintiff, again came on for hearing. Port Hamilton in a thick log on the and inst.remove from her stern flag-post. The latter has been refloated uninjured.

The statement that the British steamer Old. Aamia has been recaptured by the Japanese is now contradicted, and it is feared that she was sunk by the Russians, as originally reported.

The O. S. K. 8. Sanshu Sture, 1,623 1003, stranded off Mokpo, Korea, on the 6th. Pas sengers, crew, and cargo were saved. The Heamer was afterwards refloated and continued

her voyage.

THE Colombo Harbour Board have resolved that, provided Government is satisfied that the

An allempt was made by ten of the fired's Suez Canal is to be deepened to 31 feet in the immediate future, the dredging of the Port of crew to blow up her part magazine while the Colombo to that depth should be certainly un-Japanese prize crew was taking her to Maizuru. dertaken without delay,

It was discovered at this critical moment, and eight of the Russians were shot on the spot.

MR. Mun Yew Chung, consul-general for China at Manila, has been succeeded by Mr. Su Yu

Thu, and is to leave Manda in a few days for China to take a station at iientsin where he will be connected with the Waiwupu, or Chinese

bureau of foreign affairs.

We reprinted, yesterday from an Australian exchange the report of proceedings at a representative meeting of Chinese merchants FIVE Chinese coolies have been buried alive and citizens recently held at Sydney which by a landslip which occurred in the Kallang served to show that they are determined in Tunnell at Singapore the other morning. A their efforts to get the Federal Government Mr. Cunico, the European officer on duty at the to deal with the opium traffic. A unique time, and a relief gang had a narrow escape feature in connection with the movement, owing to a second slip occurring. remarks our Sydney contemporary, is that the leaders are men who deal largely in opium, and the stoppage of it means a big LOCALLY BOTTLED item in the profits of their business. One

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The following par was going the rounds of the London press on the 17th May Hong kg and Singapore have Leen put in a com plete state of defence. This fact, coupled with speaker pointed out that a case of opium, the reinforcement of the British China station, containing 48lbs., cost about £90, and that is interpreted at Tokio as a virtual demons!m. the duty thereon was £95, making a total of tion by Great-Britain in favour of Japan. £185. The merchant had then to get his

LOCALLY BLENDED profit, and one would think that this would AN Anglo-Chinese calendar for 250 years, make the smoking of opium almost prohibi- seema rather a tall order. Mr. Chas Kiene, of tive. The figures quoted, however, showed the Chinese Customs, now at Hoihow, has in the press an English-Chinese calendar from no diminution in the importation of the drug. 1751 to 2,000, printed in two colours, with The Chinese merchants in Sydney lost no year on an opening. It will sun into 500 royal time in giving effect to their resolution; for quarto pages and should be very useful to we learn that the petition for the suppres-students, in courts of law, and so on. sion of the opium traffic has been drafted, LEAVE of absence on private affairs to the and is now being distributed. The docu. neighbouring countries has been granted to ment is being numerously signed, and it the under-mentioned officers of the Royal urges the Commonwealth Government to Garrison Artillery:-Lient.-Col. F. E Kept, adopt the Opium Prohibition Act of 1901, 5th July to 18th October, Major H. de T. Phil in force in New Zealand, which makes it lips, a8th June to reth July, Lieut. H. P. Gas wood, 28th June to 15th Joly, Lisut H. W. T. unlawful to import opiums in any form suit Smith, 28th Jupe to 15th faly, and privilege. able for smoking, or to manufacture oplum, leave to Lieut. W. H. Hodgson, 119th Infantry [33 and also makes it unlawful for any person from 18th Junë to 19th July,

GREGOR & Co.

SOLE AGENTS.

Hongkong, soth June, 1903.

The Russian cruisers Admiral Nikhima and Padimir Monomack were found on the 28th ult adrift near Teasbima. The Sade Marulowed them separitely towards Tenshima,

but they both sank in shallow water, and it is believed that they may be refloated.

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The Russian cruiser then bore southwards al twenty knots and after eight days stopped the steamer Flores and put the crew aboard het as has already been recorded.

During the proceeding, it was stated that Mr. Bennett Burleigh The rest of the crew, who all speak a litle (the correspondent of the London "pidgin English, state that they were not Daily Telegraph) had requested Mr. given time to remove all their clothes On Pavlow to buy the Samson in order board the Russian ship they were not unkindly treated. They were accommodated in the that Mr. Burleigh might proceed tween decks with the Russian firemen and to Port Arthur and obtain informa given the same fare, which consisted of bread and bad" butter in the morning, soup at the mid-day, and plain rice in the evening.

The tally clerk of the St. Kilda, who super. intended her loading, states emphatically that the cargo-consisted of only rice, cotton, sugar, and rastani.

Arrangements are being made at the local Shipping Office to send all the crew to Hong- kang at Board of Trade expense by the first

available steamer.

CHIEF ENGINEER'S LETTER

tion of the movements of the Russians. He was prevented by the Japanese from doing this..

THE following telegraphic information, dated 16th inst., has been received from the Sumaira

Mij »Bosch-en Landbouwexploitatio in Larg“ Director and Manager of the Maatschappijot

kat, Lda-

Dally aggregate output of Crude

- Petroleum woman Gallops 72,000- Crude Petroleum in lanks at

150,000

date

A le ter signed by R. T. Young, late Chief Engiarer of the 5. S. Kid, dated off Dia A. Tokio wire of 16th inst., in the W. C. D. mond Point, Sunday afternoon, Jith June, war News, says ufumation has been received brught to Singapore by one of the Chinese Kerosene made since the date of here that the Russian transports Roslin Castle crew. The writer requested that the news

the preceding half-monibily „telegram” Vilémquam Cases 70,000. 1,623 tons net, Dunolly Castle, 3,636 long, and might be spread that the St Kilda was captured. Kerasete shipped since the date McPherson, 2,645 tons, which were purchased by the Dnieper on the previous Bunday 60 ofthe preceding ball-mombly. by the Russian Consulat Kiel and sent mund miles off Hongkong and was sunk and that all telegram

dates

the Cape early in April with coal and provi- the officers and engineers, cook, steward, boat-Kerosene in stock at Refinery at sions, arrived at Cape St. James (Indo-China) on the roth inst. The McPherom had been damaged by stranding at the entrance to Mozambique, bui continued her voyage after temporary repairs had been effected.

awain and mess-room steward had requested to be taken as near honie as the cruiser could take them, and that they were likely to be taken to the Baltic,

47,000

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

(Tourant) 16th

Canadian (♬impress of Japan), 3rd prox.

The Goldmouth; from"Middlesbro” and

London left: Singapore yesterday and is ex- pected here a 26th init/

NEWS OF THE DNIEPR A UNIQUE PRESENTATION;" A very interesting and purely Chinese Captain James Stephen of the British steamer ceremony topk place on the afternoon of the Loch-Tay, which arrived here this forendon 14th inst, on the Hamburg-American Lineste from Barry with 6,503 tons of coal and 500 Loongmoon. Amidst much firing of bombs tons of coke consigned to Messes Guthrie and and crackers, four of the chief members of the Shipping Guild here, namely, Kwong Tuck tai, Co, reports that on the 12th instant at 7:30 S'jną, Vip Doe-kong, Kwong Sinzing; and Vin Keg a Russian cruiser was sighted steaming worl hong, visited Captain Kalkofer, and after com- ward forty miles to the west of Acheen Head. mending the very successful way he had com The cruiser approached the Zach Tay and pleted many voyages to Canton they presented carefully scrutinised her, but did not interfere him with a very beautiful silk fag, argging with her. She steamed away westward again him to honour them by flying it on special oc casions. The flag is triangular su shape, measures six yards in length and has woven on DRIS 15H CRUISER IN HER TRACK.

in Chinese all Captain Kalofen's various virtue and great popularity, both with the foreign and Chinese residents of Shanghai. Captain Kalkofen has now been two years in command of the Legion, and by his quick and successful passages between Shanghal and Canton, he has rapidly brought bis verse This warship was probably the cruiser Provia Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kehe, the favourite one for the Chinese merchants to travel in and ship by, as is shown by the unique wrpins which left singapore on the roth at Yokohama, and Honolulu, arrived at her dog- presentation given him ➡N, C. P. Nowi (11.30 am. bound for Gelombo,

at a high speed.

The same day at 5 o'clock in the evening the Loch Tay sighted another cruiser steaming in the Russian's track and as she approached the steamer it was geen she was flying the White Ensign of England.

The 1. C. S, N. Co.'s 4.3. Kantong from Calcutta and the Straits left Singapore for this. port on 20th inst. p.m., and is dus here on

26th

inst; a.m.

&c., left-hence 24th May for, San Francisco,

land Sea).

The O&O. S. S. Co.'s ss. Doric with mails,

tination on the soth Inst