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SỰUSCHICTION RATES (IN ADVANCE) DAILY~$30 per nusiim. WxLY---$18 per annum.

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EDNESDAY NOVEMBER

cently$ar

This afternoon,

•Point and

over in the behaviour for six month

@largents" shipment of silver: China that has ever come from Vancouver The value of the bullion was put at ever $4,000,000, and it was estimated to weigh a ton and a half. The silver, we are told, was extracted from mines in Kootenay and The dally inne le ifelivered free when the addrew is | Boundary, and produced at the Canadianwaru has run aground off Mombetan in the

The rates per quarter and per meteen, proportional. accemiblo tu mérenger. Dre copies want by pijat års

widional $1,80 per quarter in charged for postage. The postage on the weekly us on any part of the Single: Coplas Dally, len cente: Wookly, twenty

-world is 30 cents per quarterý

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MARRIAGES.

On the 4th of November, at Hankow, LILIAN M, JOYCE and P. LONSDALE MCALL, A., M.,

both of the London Mission, Hankow.

Reduction Works in Trail, British Columbia, The consignment by the Tariae was intend cd for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, and formed part of a continuous supply, from Trail to the East since 1903. It is believed that the demand for silver by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will increase in the very near future, and to meet that the reduction works are being greally on-

The Oraku Asakf publishes a telegram stating that the Nippon Yusen Kaishi steamer Kitami

Hokkaido. The crew was safely landed, but

*Sir John Sea,

peror of

Sir John and his by the Empres visitor was entertained ut.

the steamer's position is such that refloating is Club by Vice Admiral considered hopeless,

THIS, morning before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Captain Gravecity, of the s.a. Marcellus, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Queen's Road, opposite the Hongkong Hotel, and further with assaulting Constable Bowler when in the execution of his duly The case was remanded:"

On the 16th November, at Shangbe, Dean, Kenneth WILLIAM Campbell, second son of the late Ex-Provost Campbell of Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, and EMILY ALICE eidest surviving daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.larged in every direction. The silver, it isSin Sik Kwan was arrested on Monday for the 11. Heard, of Shanghai.

1

LIQUEUR Che Hongkong Gelegraph

SCOTCH

Per Dozen

HONGKONG, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1905.

·THE VLADIVOSTUR “INCIDENT?

WHISKY, private telegrams we publish to-day-through

$16.50

It can hardly be doubted, in face of the the mediums and courtesy of the Hongkong manager of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie that the riots which occurred at Vladivostok have been exaggerated out of all proportion to their real value. A temporary ebullition of spirits among the hysterical garrison at

Vladivostok has been magnified into a semi-revolutionary meement. There is always an inclination among the excite able of a nation to lose control of them selves at the conclusion of a great wat

reported, is supplied by the Corporation to the Chinese mints at Canton and Tientsin, whose demands are practically unlimited. From this it will be recognised that the in- fluence and power of the Corporation is in creasing and widening every day. The Colony that has the strength of the Hong kang and Shanghai Bank at its back cannot lag behind in the progress of the world, for

it

is evident that this Corporation wields

a

potential power whose ramifications cannot be measured by national boundaries. For tunately, the Government of Hongkong has seen fit to utilise the advantages possessed by the presence of the headquarters of the Bank here, which must be gratifying to all interested in the business interests of the port. But, to return to the silver question, this immense consignment of silver valued

embezzlement of 25 cents, the property of the Harbour master, and was released on bail of Sage to appear this morning. Mr. R. A. Hard- ing appeared to defend the prisoner, but on calling on the case the latter was not present and his ball was estreated.

The British Ambassa and Ito were among tho

Band" "Admiral”

invited

Tux new freight steamer Berste Dolars was launched from, Port Glasgow Shipyard last month. She is a duplicate of the Massi Dollar and is owned by the Roben Dollar Steamship Company. The launching, was attended by Mr. Melville Dollar, whose wife, after whom the steamship is named, christened the vessel Captain Gow will take the new steamer out lo San Francisco when she will engage in the lumber trade to the Orient

agents.

THE Japanese naval casualties during the war Trouble have now been finally ascertained, and are officially stated to have been, aa follbwa um gês

Proval Petty Blucac "Officers_mary Officers

A Tokyo dispatch states that the owners of rice-fields in the North-east and Kwanto dis | Killed ....... 159 tricts-where the crops have proved a total fail Died from

are--are applying to the Imperial Government

wounds.... 14. Wounded 1340

(Gibers | Batories

1.1391324

kong

had been great!

684 [ed The 1260639 such americ

The following figures are given concerning irif.could the wounded Quite reco

vered Crippled

treatment:

Still under

for a period of grace to enable them to pay the Land tax. It is estimated that the taxation on the land in question amounts to about Y1,000,000, An inquiry was held this afternoon before Mr. F. A. Hazeland and a jury, into the ques tion touching the death of the unknown Chinaman who succumbed to the injuries sustained by being knocked down by tram car, under circumstances already recorded in these CAPTAIN Fracklin J. Drake, who is under or cohmins. A verdict of death by misadvendar la command the United States battle-ship „Wisconsin of the Asiatic fleet, la at prosent Captain of the Mare Tuland Navy Yard and will anil in a few days for his now duties in the Orient Captain Drake is one of the ablest and most experienced ordnance officers in the Navy and his knowledge of smokeless powder is very

at over $4,000,000 is significant of the rising | tura” was returned," value of the metal, and it cannot afford

A. S. WATSON & 00:;) Instead of being satiated by the reports much hope that the monetary value of silver THE following have been chosen to play for

AIMITED.

WINE & SPIRIT

MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

Hongkong, 28th October, 1905.

$16.00

WILL BUY A CASE

is likely to fall, at least for the present

of camage and disaster, they are incited to let loose the native instincts of the un- curbed animal Apparently that is what

THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. happened in the garrison quarters of Vladi. vostok. What was really an outbreak of

Though the prices of sugar in the markets insubordination among a group of soldiers, of the world already did and always will of revolt against discipline-all the more fluctuate, as they are governed by the ques. forcible because in war time discipline is, totion of supply and demand, the acreage in

the Hongkong Football Club in the Rugby match against a Naval team at 4:45 pm for norcow-Back: T. C. Gray j`three-quarters : F. C. Lamour, T. E Pearce, C. M. Presbaw,extensive. He had been ordnance officer, a C. T. Costigan; halves; H. W. Letiey, R. J. Mare island a number of years and during his Blackburn; forwards: P. W. Goldring, H. M. administration modern ranges for rifle practice were established and many improvements Ranking, F,C," Hall, J. S.- McGillivray, H. F,

made at the magazine on his recommendation Hickman, J. Hanson, S.C. Murray, and H. F.

Captain Drake is a native of New York and Chard.

entered the native service in February 1863.

a certain extent, relaxed-has grown' in theEurope sown to sugar beets has steady THE U, B, battle-chip Jowa, Captain, Tilley, is That he is highly regarded, by the department

is shown by the fact that early in the year he was sent to the Orient on important courts

The to my mind

@that:

might have

entirely at ab have

there had heen

being attacked by still continued and cas

at the wharves the mercy of any note

Boolin burning bava escaped, quite reassured

With regard)|

Oldörp independe

likely to order Vladivostok subsided

Finally, he observ telegrams regarding, highly coloured for the

eyes of the word artist to a revolution, or an emicute, er at all events something which grown. While it, too, had its ups and downs, found its origin in the national conditions the number of acres devoted to the beeting year. It is proposed to relieve, that ship martial duty and be was one of the first officers that some vessels from i

sugar industry has almost been trebled with in the last twenty-five years, as will be seen" from the following table recently published by Otto Licht, the veteran sugar statistician:

Campaigns. #880-81 1881-82 1882-83

Acres.... 1,976,383 2,085, 120

destined to go to the Far East during the com- from duty with the North Atlantic fleet as soon as the Rhode Island oi Virginta joins that command. The low will enable the au- thorities to arder the Oregon to the Pacific Coast, the latter ship being in great need of repairs. That work it is now thought will be done at the Puget dound naval station and will require several years. It will be atʼiznat six months before the Oregon can be relieved.

THE following telegraphic information has been received from this Sumaira-Director and Managerofthe Maatschappijstot Mija-Bosch-en Landbouwexploitatie in Langkat Ld.:-

Gallons. Daily aggregate output of Crude Petro-

leum

** 83,000. Crude Petroleum in Tanks at date. 190,000

ordered to the scene of the Bennington diáns tor at San Diego in July.

THE AMERICAN BOYCOTT

TREATMENT OF CHINESS IN AMERICAN - PORTE

The renewed shipments of flour to China bich occurred during the month have given the most practical assurance to American trade interests that the Chinese boycott has been called off, According to the American Asiatic of 18th Oct., flour millars report, in fact, that all this orders booked prior to the establish ment of the boycott have been filled. Hong- kong is yet, however, somewhat unsettled American flour buyers to some extent still hold ing off, For, a time another great staple of

of Russia. Shops were being looted, wharves demolished, godowns burned by incendiaries, people killed by the score and (3 all the rest of it. Thank providence, the matter-of-fact telegrams received by the Hamburg-Amerika Linie knock all that bluster on the head: Hongkang is so deeply interested in everything concern- ing Vladivostok, that we cannot view un- "noved anything, that happens-in-the-only- Russian seaport in the north. Our trade is affected, cargoes are detained, and the general passage of business is dislocated and disorganised. Too long already has the trade of Hongkong, so far as the shipping business is concerned, remained in a sluggish condition, and just when it seemed on the point of returning to its normal con- dition these rumours and reports from Vladi. vostok gave it a momentary set-back. For- turincely, it was only momentary, but trade is so susceptible to passing, currents, and swayed by the winds of popular opinion, that not infrequently a momentary loss means an annual decline. In this case, Hongkong, since there is some relation its attitude toward China. He said: "I do still with us, and it is a serious lesson. Many However, there is nothing, of that sort to be feared. "Send on our cargo immediately" might almost be adopted as a watchword.

GREGOR & CO.'S

IMPERIAL

HIGHLAND

...

2,340,404

883-84

2,690,020

1884-85

2,701,401

1885-86

2,143:154

1886-87.

1887.88

888.89

1889-90

2,452,720 2,184,095 2,469,8gz -9,755,371

1890 91

1891-91

1892-93

3,213,479

1893 94

3.484,763

1894-95

3,775,061

1895-96

3,31,671

1896-97

3,789,901

1897-98

3.734,508

Kerosene made since the date of the previ

1898-99

3,869,847

1899-1900

4,144,946

-1900-01

4.553014

: 1907-02

4,840.381

1902-03

4,415,567

4.318,397. 3,980,358. 4,043,037

193.04 1904-05- 1905-06

These figures have a special interest to

Cases.

given a vivid picture of there, but I am afraid there, exaggeration, and that the terrible as we have been all events, it is sails "mil finished now and

vostok will go on rioten."

CRIMINA

ROBE

The Criminal morning at the Sup MAG. WIR

The first case called was and robbery with

ceding half-monthly telegram...... 71,000 American manufacture, was also completely that on the 13th of]

Kerosene shipped since the date of the

preceding half-monthly telegram.140,000 Kerosene lo Stock at Refinery at date... 30,000

SENATOR Stephen; B-Elkins has expressed the belief that it is time the United States modified not believe the present Chinese exclusion act treats China fairly, It is too harsh in its action. The trade of Chins is more valuable to the United States than is that of all Europe, and

into the hous

force and threats, boo poles forced

·where he kept;}

The Ne

boycotted in China, and even yet the orders for

of Bam Chus, condensed milk and cream are of a nervous Wong Bum Kwang, AL character, in the same issue it was noted that the oath taken by labourere in Canting shop in the sgainst Americao goods, was an indication of the extent to which the ramifications of a boycott may go in China. The lesson of the boycott is of us are still asking why we, as, a nation, do not take it seriously, and establish the regime in connection with Chinese travellers which all know is fust. There are numerous

do this and they tied back, pressed him to the him until he told them They then opened a draw

misket: swatc small article

between the beet production in Europe and one of the most important of the local industries, viz., the refining of Messrs. Lamke and Rogge had a melancholy"cane sugar. It was seen last year that, with its vast area and jis millions of people; is absurd stories circulated regarding the Amer the shop and took $2 / freight report to submit to their patrons last when the beet crop in, Europe failed to just being opened up to the commerce of the can treatment of Chinese bat to those who Kuey stole a jacket and um week; they were obliged to look for the reach anticipations and the supply was con- world. This country is in better condition know, who witness day by day at Pacific Coast An imper, room silver lining, in the prospective rice trade sequently short of the growing demand. than any other to secure the practical monopeports the real thing, there is only one verdict, from Saigon. This week there should be a

there arose an unpredecented appreciation more reassuring statement, especially seeing in the value of the cane product, with the re: that all their predictions as to a poor crapsulting benefits to the two local mills which in Japan have come true to the letter. With did not fail to take full advantage of the WHISKY. Vladivostok open in the far north, and japan situation. From the above figures it does

requiring supplies from the south, the ship ping irade of Hongkong should experience a marked revival in the immediate future and the hopes of shipping firms be, fulfilled. The Vladivostok incident, however, is valu- able as a pointer to show how intimate is the relation between Hongkong and any Important port in the north.

NOT ONE OF THE BEST,

BUT

THE BEST!

Co.,

GREGOR & Co..

19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong, 15th Jane, 190žia

*SİLVER FÖR China.

*The

Peter

bell

fy of that trade, and for that reason there should and that verdict is that the United States be more liberal treatment of the Celestial management of the Chinese traffic is disgrace Wor Empire, 1 favour a method of some sort in the fal. It is managed by a rude red-tapism which ar way of restricted immigration that would not makes the officiating individust cause the Chiness to think this country was oftimes blush with shame discriminating against them."

the other kind of officiating portunity for pelty revenge mature revels in. There in the managemet

not appear that the increase in the acreage sown to beet for sugar is progressing in the A CORRESPONDENT writes to say that while same ratio that the demand for the product passing along the Wong Nel Chong road the

The modern city other day he was amared to witness the manner has grown. There is do authoritative figure in which the market-gardeners; of that village mand in the Orient available at the moment to establish an ac irrigate their lande. I seems that these on up-to-date lines. curate comparison; but taking the figures markel-gardeners cultivate water-cress, vege did addition to the for the increase in the East in the demand tables and fruit which is disposed of to which is noY BEETIN for cane sugar, it is safe to say that the latter European bouseholds in Hongkong many peo Mansions, industry is capable of holding its own, espe: plo, as everybody is aware, having a penchant Hongkong Hotal Co, cially in view of the fact that the bounty for such green trifles which they might not the largest and most i

obtain, unless cultivated. in. the viclaity, of being six formerly derivable by beet growers has since Hongkong. Adjoining these gardeds is cordance with been nullified by the Sugar Convention 'to stagnant pool of considerable length, which, tion, light which Great Britain, with her Colonies, is he says, is nothing more or less than a breed. one of the signatory States.

How fallacious was the argument lately advanced that the end of the recent war would witness a sudden decline in the value of silver is becoming more and more ap. parent every day, Yesterday we showed how the Government of the Philippine Islands-awakening to a realisation of the fact that with the fncreasing value of bullion silver, and the value of the Philippine the head office of the bank at St. Petersburg. silver coins being equal to

to: or, more than

· LOCAL AND GENERAL

ing ground for foetid malter and disease spreading microber. It is doubtful yeven whether this pool is not replenished from the off scourings and excreta of village. The water of

MR, Drosemeier, manager at Shanghai of the irigate the ganden Russo Chinese Bank, has been transferred to cons

their face value, there was a possibility of 3 A PRIVATE telegram was received at Shangha traders or financiers profiting at the expense from Vladivostok on Wednesday evening, date

of the Government-bas just pass

Act prohibiting the

pine coins under

[was and to the

believed soma possessing keen

the same morning, saying 1. “The quelled.

CHANG' Yung'" who, was ; ATEI

ad to be, cost

Kas been ordered the Industrial wor

bose