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Were the same condition of affairs to prevail in the city of Victoria there would be a hue and cry which would eventually reach oven the ears of the Government itself. At least, a remedy would be found, because after all is said and done, the people on this side of the water are by no means so passive. and docile as those in Kowloon seem to be Perhaps, it is that being accustomed to all manner of annoyances, from the periodical Invasion of hordes of mosquitoes to a sort of

BOR perennial drought, the people of Kowloon have become inuted to their fate, and cry Allah be merciful." with a hopeless resigna tion to their existing state. At the same time, a little exertion on the part of the Kowloon residents would secure a modicum of relief, for such odours as permeate and poison the On 14th July, at Kuching, Sarawak, the wife air of the lower quarters of the town--that is of WILLIAM SERVICE, Superintendent Ento say along the roads leading from the WHISKY.gineer, Sarawak Government, of a son.

On 4th August, ut No. 83, Muirhead load, Shanghai, the wife of J. BLECHYNDEN, of a sen and daughter.

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On 3rd August, at No. 17, Macgregor Road, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. GRIFFIN, A JOB, MARRIAGE.

On 18th June, at Duncanborough Church, Fort William, by the Revd. John Mackintosh, United Free Church, assisted by the Revd. Duncan McMichael, B. D. of Largo, NB, CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of Charles Henry Darbishire, Plas Mawr, Penmaenmawi, to FRANCES MIDDLETON, daughter of Donald Davidson, Sheriff Substitute, Fort William.

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of Southsea, and the late Captain R. Gordon, RA.M.C., late of Indo China S. N. Co's

service.

On 27th July, at Canton, of typhoid, JOHN

Club, Shanghai,

ADMIRAL Sha, commanding the Peiyang squadros, has been appointed to succeed the late Admiral Yeh Chu-kuei, as Chief Controller. of the Government dockyard at the Kinguen Arsenal.

WE understand that the Rev. T. W. Pearce has gone to leitaiho to take part in the de liberations of a commitee formed for the pur- pose of revising the Chinese New Testament, He will be absent from the Colony for about three months,

HONGKONG RESIDENTS:

"HOAXED"

A good many Hongkong people got a sur prise last night when they wandered down to the Theatre Hoyal in expectation of sponding an evening listening to the delightful music of La Poupee. Probably a good many house holds were perturbed not to say disturbed by the antics of those who were attiring them. selves for the theatre, but if that were the case

before start was made what must it have

NEARLY 200 rooms at the Hotel Cecil in been after the reters of the play goers? It London were taken possession on the 11th ult, sceans that the Bandmann Opera Company had by a party of American ladies selected for left the Colony in the afternoon for Shanghai, their beauty and given a month's holiday, tour without, however, giving any indication to speedy departure. As a matter of fact they by an enterprising newspaper in the States. their patrone, that they contemplated, such a were not greatly to blame. The fault lies with the P. & O. Co's boats which of late have-de- veloped such high rates of speed that they arrive before they are expected and leave be fure people have time to recover from the shock. The Opera Company had of course to take advantage of the first opportunity to get to hanghai, and accordingly they embarked on the P. and O. baat yesterday afternoon. So

Their arrival cleated some commotion. in connection with the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association it is announced that the King's Park Range will be available for practice shoating over the 503 yards range, to-morrow from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock. Members may shoot for the Governor's Cup aghere will be a Pool competition.

to

cry--can be anything but healthy, and if Kowloon is to remain, as the Kowloonite proudly declares it to be, the healthest spot in the East (which we beg leave to doubt), apanese official who recently conveyed that only serves to show that it is under the seated to her by the Empress has now returned

Queen Alexandra the valuable pet dogs pre direct protection of a beneficent Providence.to Japan. It is stated that he brought with him A little help, therefore, to an overworked persoant letter from Queen Alexandra to the Providence should accomplish-marvels. Empress, in which Her Majesty's thanks for the kind gili were expressed in very cordial

·LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE death is announced of Mr. Kawabe,

well-known painter of Tokio.

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of

THE party with Secretary Tat consists eighty-one persons, including seven Senators and twenty-six Representatives.

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terms.

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AN article under the caption of "Sell-Exile" descriptive of the German in other lands, is printed on pages 6 and 7. A report on the Ruub Gold Mising Co., and a discussion.on | Weihaiwei, together with late telegrams are printed on the third page. These articles and reports, through pressure on our space yester,

H. THOMAS aged 35, late Secretary, Masonic MCCULLOCH and Brailsford have been fined day had to be held over.

On 5th August, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, JOHN CALLAWAY

On 6th August, at No. 63. Avenue Paul Brucat, Shanghai, Mrs. THOS. WALLACE, aged 62.

one hundred pounds sterling each in connec- tion with the Russian passport case.

WHEN peace comes there is to be a general post among the japanese Ministers abroad, and two or three will become Ambassadors.

HEAT apoplexy claimed another victim at Shanghai on Saturday afternoon in the parson of Mr. John Callaway, formerly, when he was in the employ of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, a very well-known figure here. He has been lately on the staff of the Woosung Rail way, ile was taken to the General Hospital

after. admission..

On 6th August, at 16, Range Road, Shang- hai CHUN O-TING, Director of the Shanghai. Nanking Railway Administration, aged 59 Tur Mainiché states that Captain Bougouin, on Saturday afternoon, and died six hours

year,

The Honghong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1905.

who is now at his villa at Hayama, will shortly return to France. He is engaged in disposing of his goods. LIEUTENANT F. C. Chandler, Inspector of Arwy Schools, will proceed to Colombo en- route for Mauritius on the 12th instant on spection buty.

that it is difficult exactly to assign the blame annoyed last night. No "express or other for sendering a few Hongkong residente notice was issued to rate that there would be no performance. Nothing was done to show that La Pauper was "off" and even the Ro- hinson Piann Co. who were booking seats only received intelligence of the intended departure

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SERVICE.

THE “VARYAG" RE

FLOATED.

[From Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, 11th August, -3.35 p.m.

The Russian cruiser Varyay, which was sunk in the harbour of Chemulpo by the Japanese fleet, has been successfully re-floated,

THE BOYCOTT IN CHINA WAIWUPU AGAINST THE

MOVEMENT

Shanghai, 11th August. The Waiwupu ara reported to be

of American goods, antagonistic to the Chinese boycoté

They are urging merchants to use their influence to stop the campaign.

Shanghai, 11th August.

CONSULS IN CONFERENCE. of the Company late in the day yesterday.ADDRESS TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS. The Robinson Piano Co. at once telephoned to the patrons whose names were on the program me of those who had booked seats for La Pouper, and refunded the money. Others who had taken tickets for the performance will also get their money back, which is at least some solatium for a wounded heart... It may be meni tioned, in passing, that the Bandmann Opera Co. left the people of Singapore- under exicily similar circumstances.

-SHIPPING JETSAM.

The rumour is revived that the C. P. R. propores to build three 15,000-ton steamers to replace the Empresses, which will then be

placed on the Australian line.

MR. Acting Consul Hughes, in his report on The German steamer M. Struve which ar 1904, states that the commercial area of Pakhoi rived from Newchwang and Chefoo yesterday poit is now practically restricted to the prefec- evening reports having sighted six small Ja intures of Kanchow and Lienchow and the de-panese ships engaged searching for mines off,

partment of Yu-lin in Kwangsi. The free port Newchwang of Kuangchouwan continues to divert part of the trade of the Kaochou district. Last year. saw some improvement in other respects. The Kwangsi rebels were suppressed, and piracy and brigandage in this part of the province have been checked to some extent, so that the trans- port of merchandise was attended with less risk

ADMIRAL Nool, K.C.M.G., Commander of the British Squadron on the China Station, arrived in Seoul with his family on the 21st ultimo

from Wei-hai-wei.

KOWLOON'S ODOURS.

Whether Hongkong is all that it ought to be from a sanitary point of view is a moot point, but if the size of the staff be taken into consideration it should be immeasur- ably superior to Shanghai. Nevertheless, there are visitors from the northern Settle- ment who have had the audacity to suggest that half-a-dozen inspectors in Shanghai can do the work of three times that number in If that Hongkong, and do it better. be the case, and not merely the vapourings of the self-satisfied, complacent visitor from the north, then Hongkong has WA SINO, a passenger by the s.s. Manchuris, undoubtedly to look to its laurels. We was charged before Mr. Orme with being in not be possession of a sword stick without a licence admit that Hongkong would described by the vainest upholder of local from the Captain Superintendent of Police. sanitary methods as a paragon worthy He was fined $5 and the weapon confiscated,

DR. John Donald of Penang has been bitten by his own dog, which has now developed rabies.than in previous years. The Doctor has proceeded to Saigon for treat- ment at the Pasteur Institute. LOVERS of music should not lose sight of the fact that the performance of the Italian Opera Company takes place at the City Hall to morrow evening, and that tickets can now be had at Robinson Piano Co.

GREGOR & CO., oubtedly to look to its laurels

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MR Sandow has been reluctantly compelled of Victoria is situated in a most favourable to prematurely terminate his engagement at position, from the sanitary point of view. Shanghai owing to the heat. He will not give Lying at the foot of a range of hills, every any further performance at the Lyceum, but passing shower sweeps away the garbage will leave for England direct with his company which would otherwise-unless the efforts of by the next German Mail.

We regret to learn that a serious accident marred the proceedings is connexion with the. embarkation of the contingent of German

gaing home on relief, write troops at Tientsin' the China Times. The soldiers were sent dowo the river in lighters, but on one of these, while the lighter was still at the Blund, crowded with troops, a hatchway gave way beneath the weight of men standing upon it, giving them unexpectedly an ugly fall. About twenty men were injured, one having both arms fractured. Four or five had to be left behind on account of their injuries. The rest were not very seri ously burt. The injured men will have some compensation in the shape of a passage home by mail steamer instead of transport. Lond Muskerry, the representative of the Mfer. chant Service Guild in the House of Lords,

received last month an answer to his question whether the Admiralty could rat depute ves-

Capt. Fawcus, of the Telegraph cable steamer Magnet, has been appointed to the command of the Recorder, Capt. Neagle, who has been acting in command of the Recorder, becomes commander of the Magnet.

The two Lascars Tecently arrested on a charge of complicity in the alleged murder of a japanese girl on board the Prinr Waldemar in Kobe harbour have been released. Three Japanese will be sent for public trial, the Pre- liminary Court having found sufficient evidence to warrant their committal,

The Japan Times states that the Toyo Kisen Kaisha intends to open a steamship service to South America towards the beginning of Sep: tember. The route will take in Hongkong, M, Kobe, Yokohama, Callao of Peru, and Equique of Chill. On the outward voyage the steamer will carry Chinese emigrants and general merchandise, while on the return voyage the cargo will consist of cotton and wool from Peru and saltpetre from Chill: The

company is negotiating for the charter of two

foreign freight beals, of over 4,005 tons each, for the purpose of opening the service,

A mooting of the Consuls resident at Shanghai was held yesterday to→ discuss the question of the boycott"

of Amorican goods

It was decided

sided to send a joint representation on the subject to the diplomatic body at Peking.

THE ALLEGED PERJURY

BY AN INTERPRETER.

The case in which. Un Kam Wa, clerk and interpreter to Messrs. Johnson, Ftokes and Master, is charged with perjury was again called on before Mr. F. A. Haicload this morning.

Mr. H. W. Looker, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. instructed by Mr. C. S. Bailey, of Messra, Johnson, Stokes and Master, for the defence.

The case for the prosecution being closed, Mr. H. E. Pollock, addressing the Court, said: that this was not one of the usual sort of cases which came before his Worship; it was a case in which the prosecutor was a man, who, of courie, wished to press home the charge on account of pecuniary interest, he having interests in the concerns of his own. He submitted there was no case to go to a jury: To substantiate the charge of perjury it was necessary to prove that the accused either did not believe his assertion to be true of actually knew it not to be true. When a man is served with a writ

of summons in a partnership it is neces. say that there must be some writing to show it was so served on him as being one of the partners, or as one having full control of the management. In this case the complain. ant was served as a partner. Therefore in no stage of these proceedings was it necessary for

the defendant to make the statement, which it is admitted he did make, and therefore it wan

perjury materiality is necessary Mr. Pollock not material, and to substantiate a charge of

said he would show that complainant had known defendant and had frequently admitted to several men that he was a partner in the Ko

'Shing Theatre.

Further evidence was then called and the case was adjourne till tomorrow.

As mentioned in a recent issue the Kawasaki Dockyard Company has been con the sanitary officials were ably directed-FITZGERALD 'Bros.', circus' and 'managerie has sels of His Majesty's feel on the China station accumulate and render life a burden. The arrived from Singapore, and the arrangements to undertake the work of removing, as far as structing a yacht for the use of the Siamese result of this beneficent condition of things are practically completed for the grand open-possible, the serious dangers to British ship Crown Prince, orders for the same having been is that Hongkong on the whole is a coming performance at Causeway Bay to-morrow ping which existed in the shape of floating given by the Minister of State of Siam, The

evening.

The management are evidently mises. The Marquis of Linlithgow stated yacht was recently launched, and it is now

IN a recent num er of the Journal of Tropicale parative paradise for the sanitary official, determined to put up a good performance cheerfully that "the question of the risk to life completed, and will shortly be sent to Slam. and it is not so much upon the outward as-judging by the varied programme prepared, and property in the China Seas outside terri- The vessel is: 13aft. 6in. in length, 11 in Medicine: there is a communication by Dr. pect of the city that he is required to ex- and as the arrangements made for the comfort torial waters has for some time past been oc- breadth, and the speed is to knots. The in-William Hartigan in which the use of cylfin in cu ying the attention of the Admiralty." His ternal fittings are of a luxurious character, and sprue is highly recommended; The great ad- ercise his energies as upon the noisome of those patronising the entertainment are of

been the vessel is said to be a greal credit to the vantage of giving cyllin is that it enables tha patient to resume an ordinary, though restrict heaps which are allowed to grow and fester the best there should be crowded 'houses Lordship added that orders had

given on the subject-not as the result yard.

ed, diet much sooner than when treatment by each evening.

diet alone is adopted.; for at the rear of the lower-class dwellings. If

of the Merchant Service Guild's appeal, Hongkong is free from outward nuisances

but, owing to a previous communication the same cannot be said of Kowloon.

from the Japanese Government inviting the The residents of Hongkong's suburb

co-operation of His Majesty's ships on the have a high opinion of their little settle.

high seas. That is quite satisfactory.so far as ment, and, on occasion, will maintain

it goes, but the matter was mentioned in these columns in the early days of this year and it that it defies competition with any place in the East; but when seriously challenged on the subject they are bound to admit that

it has many inconveniences and drawbacks

MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER, unknown to dwellers in Hongkong. From

BORDEAUX,

THE

AWARDS:

HIGHEST

WHEREVER

By kind permission of Major, S. £. Pedley and Officers, the Band of the and Battalion "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) will play the following programine of music, during doner, at the Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow,

12th inst.:-

March..." Russe". Gruse

Overture 10........."Tancredi ".......Rusaini Selection from........" Atilla "

→ Vendi Valce.........

"Wiener Das". ..Straus Serenata..."Love in Idleness'

Macbeth Morceau Stignon...Salut D'Amour"............Elgar Selection......." Scotland's Pride Godfrey

God save the King............

has taken a very considerable time for the Admiralty to realise the perils which existed for vessels traversing mine-strewn seas. Per haps it might be well if the feet on the China station were allowed a free hand on such oc casions. In such an event the attention of the Admiralty might be devoted, for some con

Importance to mariners.

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha's total receipts from January to June last, inclusive, were Yen 5:371,000 while the business expenditure for the six months reached the figures of Yen 4190,000, the net profits being Yen 1,18100 The following is a comparative: table of the company's net profits for the first six months of this and two preceding years Yen.

•1903...

1904

1925.

1,0:8,0ca

1,181,000

The Steamship Company has now a fleet of 94 steamers, with a gross tonnage of 90,626 tons, exclusive of a number of foreign steamers under its charter.

a sanitary standpoint, for instance, there remains a great deal to be done before night | THE Japanese Naval Department has now pubsiderable time to some other question of vital at Kowloon can be freed from the noxious lished a list of the total casualties of the Navy odours that pervade the atmosphere. Some throughout the war, as compiled up to the 31st |--**

LLOYD'S REGISTER. of the streets reek with an agglomeration of ultimo. The total of the casualty list is 3,673, comprising 1,008 killed and 1,665 wounded.

ACCIDENT TO THE FRENCH Mall stenches. In places one would think that Among the latter are included the very slightly We have to acknowledge the receipt of The following is from the Singapore Free an immense street sewer had broken bounds. injured. The number of naval men requiring Lloyd's Register of shipbuilding returns for Press of 37st, ull:-Mr. C. Tournaire, local The air is so saturated and mixed with foul treatment in hospital was 647, of whom 32 died the quarter ended 30th Jane latt. From the agent of the Messageries Maritimes, has re- and odoriferous gates that a spark would in hospital. When the number and extent of returns compiled, it appears that excluding ceived a telegram, informing him that the M. probably set the street ablaze. Every street the operations is taken into consideration, to warships, there were 473 vessels of 1,301,457 M. mail steather Tourane fouled something tons gross under construction in the United whilst going up the river tó Saigon on Friday, has its peculiar aroms, so that it has been gether with the dangerous service upon which

the blades of one of her twin screws carrying suggested that residents on the peninsula the Navy was engaged, the casualties reported Kingdom at the close of the quarter.

officially are extraordinarily small.

The tonnage under construction at the end away. As the dock at Saigon was occupied recognise their surroundings by the particular

of March was about 205,000 tons more than at the agents at Saigon wired to Mr. Tournaire to effluvia emitted, just as a connoisseur of wine JUDGMENT was delivered by His Honour Mr. the end of December, 1904. The present know if the mail steamer could be docked at tells a vintage by submitting it to the test of A. G. Wise, Pulsne Judge, in summary juris quarter's total shows, a further lacrease of 50,000 Singapore, but on enquiry it was found that the his palate. No doubt, in some parts this is diction, to-day, in the case, of W. I Seabrook tons. Compared, however, with the total reach vessel could not possibly be docked here till due to the smells rising from the beach at W. A. Scott. As reported yesterday the ed in September, 1901, which is the hights on tomorrow as the docks are all engaged. low fide, but that source of contamination plaintiff, who was second engineer on the record, the present figuren still show a reduc wire to this effect was despatched to Saigon

steamship Royalist, claimed $1,000 from the tion of about 111,000 tons

and it was then c

décided to keep the steamerat to the air will disappear as the sea wall is defendant, who was master of that vessel, for Of the vessels under construction in the extended. It is in the streets which lead to breach of contract, together with double wages United Kingdom at the end of

991,591 tons are under the supervision of the passengers on by the steamer El-Kantara, one

The Touran Surveypts of Lloyd's Register, with a view to of the company's new cargo boats, which will classification by the Society. In additit, s arrive here to-morrow morning. vessels of 128 876 tons are building abroad with is expected to complete repairs and be fiere by to classification. The total building at the 3 d. All the vessels carry spare propeller the present time under the supervision of Lloyd's blades and once she gets into dock it will not

·Register is, thus, 419 vessels of 1,123,678 tona take long to At now blades.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is, from Mr. F. G. Figg

On the 11th at 12.15 p.m. The barometer First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory: has fallen on the China coast, and ovet Formosa and the Fhilippines, pe trek e

The fall over the latter area app ars to be due to a depression in the Pacific, to the East,

of S. Luzon.est of the China coast and

Gradients are slight on the China moderate SE winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel, and light S. and variable. winds over the N. part of the China Sea.

Forecast-Moderate to light S. winds; 'fair.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE, sagte Australian (Eastern) 13th instan Canadian&mpress of India) 14th inst. German (Preussen) 16th/instag Indian (Kumsang) 16ch init. -2 German Prins Heinrich) 16th inst. Australian (Changska) 19th instag The 1. C. S. N. Col'a sa, l'umsang from Cal- culla and the Straits left Singapore for this port on joth inst., at 5.p.m.

The R&A Aragonia arrived at Yoko ham ost, and is expected to arrive in Hongkong,on and inst

the main sea-wall that the smells are most and bonus, which he claimed bad been pro- BAHAMA Walk to REAL:374 of that port for repairs and send the mails and at 6 p.my same day for Shanghai where she is

masterful. In places the smells might mised him, verbally, for runding the blockade be attributed to the warehouses, bet in to Vladivostok. His Lordship found for the EXHIBITED. quarters where the population is thickly deferidant with costs. Mr. H. J. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, repre- housed there are equally offensive odours, seated the plaintiff and Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, [33-9 emanating nobody scams to know whence, the defendant,

Hongkong, 12th July, 1905,

The Imperial German Mails.s. Prinz Hein. ich len Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai on on 16th inst, TALA 9th Inst at 3 pm, and may be expected here The C. P. R. Cole s.a. Athenian arrived at Amoy at midday on 10th inst, and left againa due to arrive at 1 pm, on 13th inst

The C. P. R. Co.'s La Empress of China again at 8 pm, Wediesday, for Yokohama arrived at Kobe at 8 am, on 8th insi, zed left

The C. PR Co.'s ss. Empress of India where the is due to arve at 7 pm, on Toth inst arrived at Kobe at 4.30 p.m., on 8th inat, ard where she is due to arrive at 6 mm, on 19th it ste.

again at midnight same day for Nagas ki

felt