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PROMOTION FOR COMMODORE

DICKEN.

10th inst.

A naval correspondent writes to inform us that an intimation has been received in the Colony to the effect that Commodore Dicken, R.M., has been promoted to the rank of Rear- Admiral. Although no official confirmation has yet been received, the accuracy of the repor is not doubted. The Commodore leaves for home in October next.

HONGKONG POST OFFICE MALIGNED.

A JAPANESE ALLECATION REFUTED,

Fith just,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1905.

HONGKONG CONSPIRATORS

BIG GUN-RUNNING SCHEME FRUSTRATED.

ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR INSURGENTS.

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with inst.

A somewhat sensational story concerned with the running of guns and ammunition which it is stated, were intended for rebels in the Philip- pines, has just been unearthed by the detective department in Hongkong. The scheme was pro- jected by a syndicate who have previously been suspected of gun-rumping to various countries in the Far East; and it was financed by med who have ample funds at their command. Had everything gore smoothly, had there been no craven spizit among those who were sounded as to their willingness to embark on the ven- ture, the scheme, eat and dried, would have been on a fair way to a successful conclusion by this time.

The intermediary also gave a graphic des cription of the conditions prevailing in the Philippines Manila, he stated, is the only quiet spot in the whole of the Philippine

The Hongkong Post Office officials already have so many sins of omission and commission charged against them that when a baseless ac- cusation is launched it becomes almost a public duty to stand up for the weak and defenceless,

Last week a foreigner who is not altogether The Japan Chronicle of recent date declared unknown in Shanghai, and whose exploits as an evader of established law and authority that the Hongkong Post Office had "held up the mails from abroad, and it proceeded to give brand him as a true type of the filibusters, particulars. It stated that the Australian mail arrived in Hongkong, He was not much for Japan arrived at Hongkong by the N.D. L. to look at in appearance; but he had the steamer Prins Waldemar on the 19th June funds at his back and a great proposal in his and was taken ashore with the mail for China, pocket. He was unknown, to the venturesome Then, it alleged, although the Post Office off spirits of Hougkong and he had to feel his way cials knew that the steamer would leave in with care. Eventually, he met some outside twenty-four hours she was allowed to depart brokers to whom he disclosed his intention of without any of the Australian mail she carried running a big cargo of arms and ammuni for Japan. The result of this heinous offence tion into the Philippines. The order had was that the merchants in Japan who had come, he hinted, through the revolutionary cargo consigned to them from Australia were bands in Samar and the other unsettled unable to obtain delivery of their goods, be- portions of the Philippines. It was the cause the mail containing the bills of lading first that had been received; and if it was and shipping documents had not arrived. The carried our successfully, the riffes and am paragraph continued: "Should the mail not imunition landed secretly, and handed over to the guerilla bands which continue to harass reach Japan within the next day or two cón. signees will be unable get their documents the Americane, further orders would be given, presented at the Customs before the 30th inst, Money was no object to the revolutionaries. and it is thus probable that cargo which Each rifle was worth its weight in gold to them; would have been landed under the old Cus-and ammunition would be paid for at some toms Tariff will have to pay the increased thing like a thousand per cent. above market duties which take effect from the 1st proximo." prices. Now taking these allegations tertolini,it will be shown that the Hongkong Post Office has been traduced and maligned by our Japanese con- temporary, and that the Post Office officials have a complete and excellent answer to each and all of the charges. It is admitted to begin with that the Pring Valdemar brougla mails from Sydney and Brisbane. These mails were en- closed in the bags for Hongkong and naturally were taken ashore to be sorted here. All the mails for Japan, including the Australian mails, were sent on board the Prine Waldemar next day for Kobe, the first port of call. So that the indictment is wrong on the count that the Hongkong Post Office allowed the Prinz Wal- demar to leave without the Australian mails for Japan. But not content with merely saying that the Japan mails were all sent on by the Prine Waldemar on the 20th uft, the Post Office authorities go further and contend that if merchants in Japan failed to get their bills of lading and shipping documents, that was simply due to the fact that the people in Aus train had not sent them on. In other words the Hongkong l'ost Office afficials have a fine non possumur plea, If merchants in Japan had or have to pay the increased Customs duties let them not blame the Hongkong Post Office, which on this occasion is immaculate, but trounce the postal authorities of Australia for it is they and they alone who are apparently at the bottom of the trouble. That is, of course, always on the Assumption that the Australian shippers posted the necessary bills of lading, etc. How feeble and carping appear the criticisms of the Japan ese press when this beautiful refutation of a caluinny is taken to heart. "Complaints have frequently been made the Past Office at Hongkong regarding this way the mails in transit are detained,” says this Japanese critic, "but the Post Office there is apparently beyond the reach of criticism and continues to display the most extraordinary lack of judgment, to say nothing of common sense. That might be all very well if the alleged facts were cor. rect; but, as the Hongkong Post Office has shown, they are hopelessly wrong. And this is no official denial either; it is a case of mis taken identity, in which the Hongkong Post

Office has come out topside.

FRENCH NATIONAL PETE,

QUIETLY CELEBRATED IN HONGKONG:

14th inst.

lands. The country is as wild as ever it was before America lebk possession of the Spanish clony in 1898. The natives are up in arms; sedition is rife proclamations denouncing the United States Government circulate from hand to hand; and in every province preparations are on foot for a great insurrection. The leaders are quielly biding their time; the people are being armed surreptitiously; the mine is laid and it only waits to be fired. The Shanghai conspirator said that the censorship relating to the rebellious state of the interior is as strict in Manila as ever it was in Japan. It is dangerous to wander about the outskirts of Manila, and all the talk about a peaceful settlement is described as mere fudge.

NEWS

Whether such is a true description of native sentiment and aims it is not for us to say, but that the gentleman who came from Shanghai in conduct these gun-running expeditions from Hongkong implicitly believed in his facts is beyond question. An adventurer is not pre- pared to squander some hundreds of thousands of dollars in some visionary project. Nor are backers such as those who were prepared to put up the money in this case likely to be inveigled into some fantastic scheme These men have bad experience of gun-running before; they know the ropes and they can see the colour of the money before they join the venture. From their point of view it was a purely business transaction-they desired to make money quick and this was one way of realising their object.

When the visitor to Hongkong unfolded bis plans and related his desires a select few, he found plenty of people ready to assist him, Some well-known people in Hongkong were interested in the scheme. The trouble was lo find the man who could procure the rifles and ammunition without attracting the attention of the Government. The Hongkong laws require that every man baving a rifle must have a license for his weapon: A rific cannot be removed from a godown here without a special permit from the Government. No armis or ammunition can be shipped from Hongkong except by the authority of the Gov- ernment. The difficulty then was to find the man sufficiently dare devil to foil the Govern- ment regulations and to gerthe arms and am- munition together under the very eyes of the law. The man was found. He is in Hong keng now. We are positively assured, and have every reason to believe, that despite the vigilance of the police 10,000 rifles and 10 mil lion rounds of ammunition, destined for the Philippine rebels, are secreted in Hongkong at this present moment. They are well conceal. edy the hiding place is known to a very few and those few are not likely to tell what they know of the matter.

Our French neighbours and friends are to day celebrating their National Féle, which commemorates one of the great epoch-marking events of French history-the storming and capture of the Bastille on the 14th of July, 1789. In France the Fête is celebrated by the masses as a sort of bank holiday, while official- ly it is marked by the bestowal of decorations,

The enterprising foreigner, who pulls the the review at Longchamps, and the military strings and holds the key to the money bags, luncheon at the Elysée. But there is wasted a great deal more than 10,000 rifles,

a growing tendency to treat the day: less as a political remembrance than as à national holiday, in which all classes may join without fear of compromising their particular opinions. In Hongkong where French interests are firmly entrenched, with the result that the French colony is of no lo considerable size, the National Féte was cele brated quietly. The tricolour was displayed on several buildings along the principal thoroughfares and one or two patriotic French merchants had closed their premises for the day. It is satisfactory to think that the relations between French and English were never more cordial than they are at present, and in Hong- kong, which is nothing if not cosmopolitan, many Britishers readily responded to the call of their French friends to honour the Fête-day of France. Following the usual custom, M.-Grston Lieben, French Consul, was "at home" at his official residence in McDonnell Road this maming, on the occasion of the French National Ho day. Among those who called upon M. Lie- bert were H.E. the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, attended by Captain Arbuthnot-Leslie, ADC, and Mr. R. A. B. Ponsonby, private secretary, The majority of the Consuls at present in Hongkong attended, and there was also a large representation of the members of the French community. A very pleasant half hour was spent in the spacious reception rooms,, where cordial salutations were ex- changed between the Consul and his visitors.

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but for a first attempt that number would do. The scheme seemed to be going on famously, and there was little to do beyond getting the arms and ammunition aboard a vessel which the leader of the expedition has, we are told, in readiness, when a cloud arose, The first parties consulted by the schemer were being left out in the cold They had done nothing, except by suggestion, to forward the movement. They had not put a penny into the schente; they were not to share in the spoil; they were not privy to the plans as a whole, nor were they

the syndicate. But they hoped to make a little commission on the quiet.

kong Government cannot touch us. Bet it is just, possible that · explanation is márely 'R' blind," it will be interesting to the outsider and rather exciting for the conspimtor to watch developments.

BELLS ASBESTOS EASTERN ·

AGENCY, LTONNA 4 Maasre. Bradley & Co..send as the lenth annual report of the above Agency which reads as follows:

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DEATH OF MI PLAWSON,

12th inst

It is with regret that we announce the death of one of the younger members of the commu- nity in the person of Mr. Peter Lawson, the sub-accoublant of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, who passed away at the brief illness. It was only on Thursday last Peak Hospital yesterday afternoon after a very that the deceased was out and about as usual, and appeared to be enjoying the best of The directors herewith present to the phire- holders the report and accounts, duly sucked, after business hours. The following day he was health when he was out with a bathing party to the 31st December, 1903. They are pleased taken (1) and as he exhibited signs of fever it to report that the business has been of a more | was deemed advisable to send him to the Peak favourable character during the period, and Hospitale became worse and expired at that the profit, inclusive of the amount hrought 3.30 p.m. yesterday the cause of death, we be forward from previous year, strows a credit ballieve, being directly due to blond poisoning. ance of £1,985, 91. 10.

The later. Lawson was only 16 years of age, be allocated as follows: To set aside £250 as held at the time of his death, for close upon This amount the directors recommend should and had been in the Colony in the position he a reserve for bad and doubtful debts and depre- three years. He was unmarried and, it is ciation on launch, to write £300 off "purchase believed, leaves à muther, sisters and brothers of trading rights," to pay a dividend of to perin Glasgow to mourn his death. cent. for the year, free of income tax, absorbing £464. 171, 6d, and to carry forward £770. 118. 3d, to the next account the sum" carried for. ward includes provision for payment of the sum of £500 off the debenture, in terms of the Bond.

Mr. H. R. Preston retires by rotation, and, being eligible, offers himself for re-election,

Mr. John Cooper, the company's auditor, also renres, and offers himself for re-appoint

By order of the Board.

G. LENNOX,

Secretary.

ment.

9th June, 1905.

'PROFIT AND LOSS · ACCOUNT for the year ending 31st December, 1904. Dr.

To

semminek. 53. 5 to

· 1967 8 1500 0 10 10 10

Trade expenses

London office expenies,

Directors' fees

Auditor's let

Debenture interest.................................

Advertisements

* Income tax ......

་་

Cr.

Depreciation on furniture......

160 6 10

29 3

25.00 * 2 *

Balance, net profit.......... 5,323 14

By Discount, &c.

E

Commission

H, Transfer fees

Profit on trading.

Dr.

BALANCE SHEET,

7

£3,050 10

£18 8 1 238 4 6 0 12 6 1,630 5 6

£2,050 10

31st December, 1904th-

'Liabilities.

To Authorised capital--- 8,604 shares of 11/6 each......

--65,377 10

Subscribed capital:-

Debenture bond... 3,000 0

7

7,438 shares, 12/6 each, fully

paid.............

£4,648 15.0

Sundry creditors:-

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Loudon and branches

2,138 9 31

11

Reserve for bad and doubtful

11

debta

14

Unclaired dividend

Contingent liabi-

lity for goods

per contra

Profit and loss

11

on consignment,

uk 939 8 11

account, balance

from last alt...£1,147 13 10 Les amount

written off pur- chase of trading rights £300 00

Divi-

dend paid,

1974, 185 190

485 19 0

661 14 10 Add profit for

year 1904........ 6,323 14 3

Norn-Exchange taken at--

Hongkong... sol. per dollar. Singapore,ia md. “

By

17

13

Cr.

Ass115.

F

Cash at bank and in hand:-

At London and branches.....

Remittance in transit

Lordon assets ---

64 11

。

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SANDOW-THE STRONG MAN,

ixth inst.

The Austrian cruiser Panthar, which is át present on a visit to Australia, is leaving for New Zealand and will then come across, to China. She is classed as a third-class cruiser, but is almost essentially a torpedo-boat.

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that the lots of life: le:nót) so, serious an 188 authorities at first believed. According to thi Zapan Chronicle of the 6th Inst., the accident occurred on the Monday evening, and during the darkness it was difficult to estimata tha. exact particulars la“ what appeared, at first nɛ

It is the intention of the Admiralty to movery serious accident. It coms that when bills a number of reserve battleships and the Minnesota arrived, si Nagasaki she took w

nanouvres of the kind practised at Tsushima: cruisers, with the object of experimenting in

The Admiralty, is replacing the cruisers for pedo neis, and establishing on one of the war

anders ships fire control stations equipped with range

SHIPPING JETSAM;

roth insti

It was rumoured in Singapore the other day: that the Wes Bin steamer Hong Bes had been wrecked off Hongkong!

The H.A.L. transport - Silver, which is ex- pected here from Germany on the ișth inst., is bringing out reliefs for the Ger can brigade at Tientsin,

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The reason given by the Yokosuka Prize Court for the confiscation of the Norwegian heamer denry Balcow is that the vessel was on her way from Shanghai to Saghalian with cargo of 18,190 bags of American flour when seized by the Kumano-mary." "The flour, it is alleged, was destined for the use of the Russian

The Rohilla-mara, and the Roulla-maru, which were purchased by the Foye Kisen Kaisha from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, have now been resold to the Oxiro Kisen Kaisha. The vessels are at present in the service of the Japan Red Cross Society. Another report says they are sold to the Bijo S.S. Co., Owari province,

We have received a visit from Mr. S. Glinton Highets, the advance manager for Mr. Eagen Sandow, and learn from him that the world famed "strong man" who is now appearing at Singapore, may be expected in Hongkong in the course of a week ar ten days. - Mr. Sandow has | army. hada most successful season in Africa, India and the Straits, and will doubiless receive a hearty welcome to the Colony. The modern Hercules has with him a troupe of over twenty pupils who have joined him fira tour round the world to assist him in demonstrating his celo brated system of physical culture, Sandow, of course, in the big draw, for he is a marvel of phy. sical development. He appears on the platform amidst scenic surroundings that give "pictures», queness to his movements, while at the same time the spectator is enabled to witness the tremendous exhibition of muscle power with splendid effect. Those who have teen him will cease to wonder at the popularity, his sys tem of physical culture has attained, and he himself is the best incentive to the propagation of his gospel of physical developinent. On the stage he at once interests his audi ence in what he does, and so enchains their closest attention that scarcely a movement of his great muscles is lost. In addition to demonstrating his celebrated system of physi

Godfrey Hirst, chief officer of the“ na. cal culture, Sandow appears before his audience Wenchow, ban been charged at Shanghai with in his great Graeco-Roman arena, and with manslaughter, by causing the death of one Fu the assistance of his pupils takes part in Chising, quartermaster of the vessel. After a Olympian games as played by oman gladia prolonged deliberation, the jury found the Jois, and all kinds of athletic sports. Further prisoner" not guilty" on the charge of man- particulars of the performances are not at preslaughter, but convicting him on the alternative sent available, bu when they come to hand we charge of wounding the quartermaster, without shall again refer to this, marvellous exhibition intent to do him grievous bodily harm. His which is due here at an early date.

Lardship, on this finding, senienced; the pri soner to three months' hard labour.

NAVAL NOTES. .

STRANDING OF THE "EXE," {From Our Naval Correspondent.]

Weihalwai, and July. The Fleet regatta takes place on the 18th inst. H.M.S. Diadem is expected here from Hoog kong in the course of a few days.

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The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific company's tug Robert K. arrived at Manila on 6b inst, seven days from Shanghai, She brought the crews of the Reina Cristina and Mindanao which she had taken to Shangbai. In the straits of Pescadores the vessel met with typhoon, lasting four days. On June she was stopped by a Japanese destroyer just outside of Shanghai, which, after the signal to show her colours had been complied with, allowed her to proceed. '

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13th inst. Among the investigations being carried on by the Pathfinder, the survey ship of the coast and geodetic survey, is the discovery in the neighbourhood of Oras bay, eastern Samar, of a considerable extension, of rock at a depth of about twelve feet, and at a distance of twu and a quarter miles to the left of Uguns,

Fire was discovered among some cotton bales io the hold of the steamer Shimosa, which is lying at the China Merchants lower wharf at Shanghai. The burning bales were quickly dragged on deck by the steamer's people, with some assistance from shore, and the, fire was promptly put out, very little damage being done the Sirius either to vessel or cargo.

H.M.S. Glory will probably leave here on the 23rd inst. for Hongkong en toute for England.

In the middle of this month H.M.S. Flore will go into commission to relieve t and Iphigenia,

During a strong southarly breeze on the morning of Thursday, the 29th ult, the torpedo beat destroyer Exs parted her moorings and was blown on to the beach. The Whiting being under steam, was ordered to proceed to her assistance, and wha! endeavouring to tow her off collided with a picket boat, belong ing to the Glory, and knocked a whole in her side, which, in a few minutes, rendered the craft hors de combat, with the result that she was quickly washed up on to the beach close under the bows of the Ere. All efforts to move the 1,985 9.1

destroyer proved folife and as the tide went down the boat was left high and dry. During the afternoon the wind abated and patties were ret to work to remove her guns and all heavy weights aboard. Between 7 and 8 pm, a Government tag succeeded in towing her off. Fortunately that part of the beach where she grounded was sandy, and the destroyer sustain ed but little damage. The picket boat did not 82955 fare so well and some time must elapse, before 2500 she is fit for us again.

£11,876 0

Sundry debtors £ 16 18 41 Oace furniture 18 18 11

Ilongkong agency

355cis

Furniture ...... Steam launch... Sundry debtors Stocks.......

Singapore agency

SEIALS:-

32

* 573. 16 8: 413 18 9 1,926 19

Furniture .....

35 ID TO Sundry debtors 1,630 8 Stock ....... 2,420 18 Stock on con.

55 17 3

13th inst The British cruiser Sirius left for Singapore

this morning.

As announced in aur columas some days since, the cruiser Flora, which recently retum ed home from the Pacific Station, will be short. ly put in commission for service on the China Station. Since her return she has been fitted 2,946 169 and thoroughly verhauled.

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On the proposition of the Tokio Bay Steam. ship Company, all the Japanese shipowners whose vessels have been illegitimately sunk by the Russians have sent a communication to the Foreign Department through the Governors of their respective ken, requesting that proper steps shail be taken by the authorities to obtain compensation from Russia for their losses.

line of Messrs. William Thomson and Co., The Benlowers, a large steamer for the "Ben"

Leith, was launched on 3rd ult. at Sunderland by Messrs. Bartram and Sons. The vessel is of the spar-deck type, her dimensions being: length, 385 ft; breadth, 46 ft.; and depth, 16 ft. 3 inches. She has been built to lake Lloyd's highest class, and under the supervision of the owners' surveyors, Mr. J. H. Buchanan and Captain Potter. The engines will be supplied by Mess. J. Dickinson and Sons, Limited, Moakwearmouth, the cylinders being 35, 47, and 68 inches in diameter, by 48-10. roke, with boilers working at 180 13 pressure.

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Inquiries having been made about the record rip on tea-sicamer from Hankow to London, may be recalled that the Stirling Castle, 2,003 tons, Capt. Marshall, arrived at Shanghai on the 25th of April, 1883, consigned to Messrs. Adamson, Bell and Co. Left Shanghai for Hankow on the 6th of May. Left Hankow for London on the zand of May, with 3.873.984 bs. of tea. Messrs. Adamson, Bell and Co. received a telegram from London, dated 21st June, 2.10 p.m.Stirling Castle docks to morow." The Stirling Castle reached Grave send at noon on the 22nd of June. She was subsequently sold to an Indise Steamship Company, and re-named the Nord America, under which name she is stilling running, says

According to an Indian paper, the present war in the Far Fast has added nothing of in: terest to the experience of the Amphitrite and other vessels of foreign nations while lying in China waters... We imagine that one of two of signment.. 912 9.2

the ships of the China Squadron had moch, of the W. C. D. News, 4.431 18 8 interest added to their experiences. Goods in transit................ .............

634 14 10 "Consignment sales,

27 7 2.

Purchase of trad.

"

ing rights.

Lerr written off

3,000 300

#

Goods on-con- aignment, per contra .......

939 & Ir

A. G ANGIER, G. W. GILES,

G. LENNOX, Secretary.

£11,876

THE "SOLLY".

Directors.

14th inst... Shipmasters should note that, owing to the washing away of the bank, the quarantine beacon on Chung-pas-sha Island, has been shifted 4.5 cables. 54 E from its former position.

The unexpected retiremen of Admiral A. T. Dale, who had several months to remain on the nctive list before being compulsorily retired, ohas promoted ice Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel, KCB K,C.M., commanding the Eastera Fleet and the China Squadron, to the The Philipping coast and geodetic survey rank of Admiral, By his promotion he will not, has just published a new edition with corrections vacate the command of the Eastern Fleet and and additions, of one of its series of sailing-dis the China Squadron. Under the new scheme rections for the use of mariners. This publica of re-distribution it would assuredly babi contion presents to navigators the latest informa siderable advantage that he should continue to tion available, relative to the coast, of be the supreme officer in command, in time of Mindanao and the adjacent islands. war, of the China, East Indies, and Australian squadrons.

the Mitu Blahi Company, and it being deble

a position near the new floating dock of abla to moor, the huge vessel further away, the propellera wire set in motion, when by toma means a coal lighter near was sink? Varna- cular reports siste that auction caused the lighter to sink but perhaps somia mord ferable explanation will be forthcoming. "Onboard the lighter wäre about forty, coollei, men and. ». women, and some appear to have been struck - by the propeller. One coolie had his leg cut off. Of five women who were missing the bodies of two were recovered on Tuesday.

SHIPPING WARNING TO SHIPMASTERS

13th inst Through the courtesy of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, we hayo received the following information which should prove of Interest to shipmaster A rock, covered at low water to a dépik af 33 feet, and having soundings of eight to ten fathoms close around has been located by H.M.S. Waterwitch, in the following posi font-castward of Namoa Island, on the bitn SL. coast latitude 23:26 N., longitude 11749

From the rock the following are the prin cipal bearings Lamock Jaland highlight bears 5.7 W.; centre of Dome Jaland bears 5.65 W. dist. 11/to; North Point, Namen land, bears N 73 W. The rock is marketi by tide rips during the strength of the tide. The bearings given, are magnetic, Tha post- lion of the rack as given should not be ap proached within half a mile, the existing chart, No. 1957, being incorrect as regards the polits mentioned. It may be explained, in this con nection, that the Hongkong Chamber of Com merce have a Pinnacle Rock Fund which is pecially devoted to the discovery of rocks dangerous to navigation. At present the Fund mounts, with interest, to over 350 Last year no demands were made on the Fund..

'PROFERTY NEAR THE DOCKS

SOLD BY AUCTION,

This afternoon, it thair sales rooms, Messrs. Hughes and. Hough, Government uctioneers, put up for sale by order of the Supreme Couli 750 square feet of valuable leashold property itale near the docks at Kowloon The property is registered as Inland Lot No. 249, and has a building thereon known as 74 Des · Vaux Road, Hunghom, dates,

The position of this lat, is about midway. helween the slaughter-house, and the telervoir, and almost opposite Topg Hing 'and. Co's. » engineering and boat-building works, on the way to the Docks, at Kowloon, a destina

The lot is held from the Crown for, the residue of a term, of 25 year from the 19th December, 1893, at an annual Crown.ront of 57.

Bidding commenced at $400 and rose by offers of $10 to $1,200, when the bide dropped to $50 each until $1,400 was reached, at which figure il was knocked down to Mr. Kwong Fook? Hing, contractor. Among those present were Messrs. J. R. Michael, Ellis Kadoorie, Sammy, Warren, Richle and a few Chinamen, filends Mr. Kwong Fook Hingut de finalika je Messra," Johnson," Stokes and Master were the solicitors for the plaintiffs: "

· DESPERADOES IN DEEP DAY,

\'A PIRATICAL ATTACK.

11th inst

It is a well-known fact that many bad characters infest the shores of Deep Bay and Frequently give considerable trouble to the ►

authorities Notorious characters who live by what they can steal, and pirates who find a safe ` anchorage in the shallow waters off the Cantor River are often seen prowling about the Bay awaiting an opportunity to plunder, or even, to hold up some unsuspecting craft coming down the little waterways froni the mainland. A most daring instance of this has just come to light and shows the birefaced manner in which some of these cuffins set about their work On the night of the 4th inst. a junk trading ba tween Samchun and Tungkun was coming down the river at the head of the bay in com pany of a smaller cargo boat bound for Hong. koog, when a sailing craft sped out from the banks and made straight for the ship that was coming to this port. Arriving alongside; of her some dozen aimed men sprang out of the sailing boat and boarded her, ordered the crew below and proceeded to search for valuables, Unfortunately for them the cargo boat was empty and the value of the foot they secured did not total much more them $15. Blean: white the sailing craft had been, anchored and jaking charge of the cargo boat He robbers made off in the direction of the junk proceeding. to Tungkap. They did not take long in ever hauling het, pad once alongside site was quickly. hoarded, the crew ordered below and kept there pader baitened hatches. The master was then interrogated and during a struggle which en sued sustained a nasty sword cut!" He was forced to reveal the whereabouts of the valu ables so that when the robbers left they "took" with them $50 in cash, about $100 worth of Cocoon silk cloth, and various odds and endu totalling close upon another $100. The master Sahtin station and the mattor is now in the subsequently reported, the oppureines at the

hands of the Hongkong detective department who may be relied upon to do their utmost to bring these desperadoes to book!'; /

PERA KOR 188 OCCUPATION

When the man who could and did procure the rifles and ammunition was found, he was made partner in the scheme; and he candidly says that his share would bave amounted to $30,000 at the very lowest computation. That did not suit the brokers. The contract or terms of the syndicate were to be signed last night by It has not been signed. all the members, Somebody went to work and, it is alleged, from pure vindictiveness told the whole story to the proper authorities. As the result of that dit cloure, the police visited a certain house in Hongkong the other evening and interrogated the resident there. They got nothing from him and found nothing on the premises. But the scheme has been nipped just as it was be. ginning to blossom.The gentlemen who is at the bottom of the affair has not been seen for two days. He did not furn up fast night to sign the syndicate deeds, and where he is no body can tell, or they pretend that they cannot tell. The 10,000 rifles and 10,000,000 rounds FRANCISCO Reyes has brought suit against the of ammunition are still in Hongkong, however, ❘ to-day, "there is no reason to doubt that our cruisers. The last cruiser 'flagship was the hospital, but nothing, definite as regards her in the nation's heart-il pesce were ith bél con- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and there is not the slightest doubt a bold efforts will be ultimately successful in salving: Imperieuse, which carried the flags of Vice- for $380,000 damages which, as the complaint effort will be made to get them clear of the the cruiser." Mr. E. C. Wilks remains at the Admiral Sir Nowel! Salman and Vice Admiral There was another bearing in Japan the alleges, the corporation refused to allow him Colony. One of the members of the enterprise scene where operations are still in progress, Sir F. W. Richards from 1888 til 1891, The other day in the case in which an Awal junk to make use of in meeting certain drafts on said to a Hongkong Telegraph representative and in a few days some very powerful salvage destruction of the ill-fated Baltic Fleet by owner ves the Kobe agent of the Pacific Mail Spain. The case is full of interest to the buri to-day, in a most aggrieved one- What have year will be shipped to film, by Mr. W. C. Jack; Togo's straight-shooting: gunners is the im S.S. Co. for the loss of his junk in collision ess world, says the Cablenews, and the impor- the police to do with it, whatever? Didn't the including among other things some pumps mediate cause of the reduction of the China with the steamer Siberia, After heating the Sanco attached to it is evidenced by the fact Boers run their cannon into South Africa in which will enable them to clear out co tons Squadron, for so long as Russia had a fleet in evidence of a carpenter who built the sunken that the assistant chief manager of the concern plano-cases ? Nobody split on them, and if per hour, and some powerful air-compressors being in the China Sea, England was bound to junk, the Court stated that the expert evidence paid a visit to Manila some time ago, in con- they had done so what would have happened, for boring the rock under the cruiser, prepara keep a large naval force in the same area in given at the former bearing regarding the value nection with the case. Senor Sierra, attornay Nothing? We can wait a little-there is plenty tory to the blasting operations. It is undere for. Francisco Reyes, has just returned from a of time. Another gave a new version sinod that as soon as this gear has arrived, and accordance with an agreement with her allies, of the lighter, &c,was considered upsatisfac visit to Hongkong with reference to the affair.of the real destination of the arms and been fitted in position, Mr. Jack will return to

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tory, and the hearing would be again, adjourn Plaintiff prays for the payment of the above ammonition. We are going to ship the goods the scene to resume control of the further

ed. Fresh expert evidence will be abtriped: named sum, the payment of legal interests on to the borders of China, the French borden, operations. All things considered, there is the same, the cost of the suit and such other and the British Government cannot prevent hope that we may yet see this long stranded

"THE "MINNESOTA"""ATFAIR. relief as to the court may seem just and us. There is no Treaty between Britain and cruiser enter the harbour and go into the

Papers to hand from Japan throw further pquitable.

France as to shipping arms and so the Hong- | Kowloon Docks.

fight on the accident at Nagasaki and show | than,

ad the adjacent islands. The fill, which regards the time as oppor- The Russian hospital ship Kostroma arrived tune for the occupation of Sagbalion, gives, we in Manila bay on the 8th just from Shanghai; learn from a Japan Timer translation, the fol Our forecast that the China Squadron would. When entering the harbour the vessel flew the lowing reasons for promptly, putting thats step be reduced in strength as-soon as possible me chant marine flag on her stern and the red into execution. The occupation" of the island roth inst.

turns out to be perfectly correct. The battles cross ensign' at the malamaș. The object of will, in the first place, enable: Japan to plant ***So long as no excessively revere typhoon ships on that station are to return home at an the vessel's visit is presumed to be to take on her standard on the enemy oil and the visits the scene of the stranded cruiser Selly, early date, and in the future the squadron will board the wounded sailors from the three in achievement will in a measure lake away the said a prominent member of the salvage party consist of cruisers only. Up till a few years terned cruisers now cared for at the Cafficão sore feeling that would long remain rankling to a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph ago the squadron was exclusively composed of

mission could be learned-Cableness,

cluded before theiwar had been carried loto tha

indemne de and

14th inst.

The Lords of the Admiralty have determin- ed to relinquish the system of fixed or ground

mizer

torical relation of the island with this Empire Den enemy's dominion. In the next place the hiss

makes it imperative that its possession bre covered as a part of the prizes of whThirdly, its actual occupation will facilitate its annexa. tion when peace terms come to be discussed, as they will be in the

conference

PRINCE Ching, supported by Viceroy Yuan and Treh Liang, having proposed that all Chin- eso military officers should wear foreign style uniforme and have their hair cut short, the Em• press Dowager declared that do anche finova..." tion should be allowed to her lifetime, and cut Prince Ching five years' salary for bis presumps