Leading Articles :-
The Russo-Japanese War
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The United States and China's Neutrality.
123
Britiain and France and the War
124
Municipal Trading at Shanghai .
124
Hongkong Jottings
125
The far
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
126
Fiscal Debate in Hongkong
127
Hongkong C.icket Club Dance
123
New Territory Notes
129
Correspondence
129
Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ld,
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Hongkong Ice Co., Ld.
Hongkong and Kowloon Steam Launch Co., Ld........ 130 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
Hockey
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.....
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Hongkong Races
Japanese Army Manoeuvres
Water Return
Hongkong
Miscellaneous.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Hongkong Teleckly Press
HONGKONG UFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 15th ult. is expected to arrive per ss. Ballaarat some time to-day, the 13th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
War between Japan and Russia broke out on the 8th iust. Telegrams, etc., relating to the war will be found on p. 125
The Hongkong Post Office was notified by telegram from Shanghai on Thursday hat До 132 mails will be received via Siberia now, the line 132 being closed to mails.
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The Japanese and Russian Legations at 132 Peking are receiving reinforcements. The .133 Chinese Court is alarmed, and the Empress 133 Dowager is thought to be meditating flight.
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In spite of what some American journals have stated, both Mr. Goodnow, U. S. Consul- 184 General at Shanghai, and Mr. Fowler, U. S. Consul at Chefoo, are returning to their respec- tive posts. Mr. Goodnow should be in Shang- hai some time in March.
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On the 7th February, at 47, West Parade, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the wife of W. S. BORROWS, Douglas S. S. Co., of a daughter.
Born at Saifa, Szechuen, to the wife of the Rev. H. OLIN CADY, M.E. Mission, Chengtu, of a
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MARRIAGES.
On the 31st December, 1903, at All Souls', Langham Place, W., by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Southwark, assisted by the Bev. R. W. Carew Hunt, vicar of St. Giles', Reading, ARTHUR FRANCIA, second son of the late GEORGE NUNN THOMAS, of Landford, Wilts, and of Mrs. THOMAS, of Landford, to DORIS GRACE (DAISY); eldest daughter of WILLIAM RICHARD LOXLEY and Mrs. LOXLEY, of Sedgehill, Reading, late of Hongkong.
On the 25th January, at Penang, AUGUST HUT- TENBACH, to CLARA TREVILYAN, third daughter of the late Rev. NICHOLAS FRANK HILL, of Alban Court, Cheltenham, and of the late Mrs. HILL, of Streathey on Thames.
On the 9th February, at H.B.Ms Consulate, Shanghai, and afterwards at the Cathedral, GERSHON STEWART, of Hongkong, to HENRIETTA ELLEN, daughter of Major W. H. GRESSON (late York and Lancaster Regiment), Fernleigh, Chel-
tenham.
On the 10th February, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, by the Rev. P. de Gabardi, Jose,
second son of the late ANTONIO DS REMEDIOS of Hongkong, to MARIA LUIZA, eldest daughter of ANTONIO PAULO GUTERRES, of the Mercantile Marine Office, Hongkong.
-DEATHS.
On the 1st February, at Kiukiang FREDERICK WILLIAM COLLINS, of the Chinese Customs Service, aged 41 years.
On the 2nd February, 1904, at his residence, 88, Broadway, Shanghai, FEODOR ROBEET ALEXIS DE VILLARD, of Strasbourg, aged 43 years.
On the 5th of February, 1904, at the General Hospital, hangbai, MARGARET SELLICK, the beloved wife of STEPHEN SELLICK, aged 26 years. On the 6th February, at 14, Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sir EDWARD ACKROYD, late Puisne Judge, Hongkong.
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3,000 Japanese from Vladivostock reached Tsuruga on the 7th inst. The Japanese Consul at Newchwang has been ordered to proceed to Tientsin; he has instructed all Japanese to quit
Manchuria and Port Arthur.
A rumour was ourrent last month that a French naval division consisting of the oruisers Kleber, Desaix, and Amiral Aube, belonging Toulon, might on arriving there, receive to the Northern Squadron, then proceeding to orders to proceed to the Far East. In that case, the battleship Suffren was to join the division. The Sully had already received orders te join the squadron in China. The following Italian warships received orders last montu co leave for the Far East:-The Marco Polo from Naples, the Dogali from Venice, and the Umbria from Spezia. Four others, namely, the Volturno, ed from the Kud Sea and Indian Ocean, and Galileo, Colombo, and Stuffetta, have been detach-
orders. The Marco Polo takes out Admiral are concentrated in the Gulf of Aden awaiting
Delibero, who will command the Italian Squadron in the Far East.
The news of Sir Edward James Ackroyd's decease, which occurred at home on the 7th Hongkong, where he was for many years a instant, was received with great regret in p ominent figure and where he is still well re- membered. Sir E. J. Ackroyd was admitted holding a clerical post in the Registry of the a sbarrister to the Middle Temple in 1872 after
Supreme Court of Mauritius. He obtained an authority, says the Singapore Free Press, that there. In 1881 he was appointed Registrar of It is stated, on what we are told is good exhibition from the Council of Legal Education
Welsh cual at. Pulo Way, some 40,000 tons.to 1888 he was Acting Attorney-General bere, the British Government has bought up all the the Supreme Court of Hongkong. From 1886 We should hardly be inclined to accept this and again in 1890. In 1891 he was Acting/ without ample confirmation,
Chief Justice, a post which he held again in 189 +. In 1892 and for the next three years he and settled down in England. During his years was Puisne Judge. He left Hongkong in 1898
he was on
a commission appointed to revise the laws and ordin nces of the Colony. He was created a knight in 1898. We heard recently from a private source that he intended to
visit Hongkong shortly.
Now unhappily that intention is frustrated.
R. Echwiud, late assistant of the Russ.- Chinese Bank at Shanghai, who was recently arrested on a charge of embezzle nent and lodged in the British Consular gaol, Shanghai, escaped on the 10th inst., an outsider having cut the window bars with a file.
The Yokohama reception of the foreign officers and men manning the cruisers Nisshin and Kusuga is likely to be a very elaborate affair The Comittee having charge of the arrangements for the re eption of the crews voted a sum of 7,000 yen for expenses,
Sixto Lopez, who left Hongkong last week on the Shawmut for Manila, was not allowed to land there on arrival, as he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and was ordered again to be deported. Lopez was first deported in 1892 by Spain,
45 of the constabulary and garrison at Vigan, Ilocos province, Luzon, P. I.. hive seized the barracks, liberated the prisoners, and escaped southward with 55 rifles and plenty of ammani- tion. They are cutting the telegraph-wires and gathering recruits. Governor Wright has despatched a battalion of the 11th Cavalry and three companies of scouts and constabulary. Sn ft punishment is expected.
tention of proclaiming neutrality in event of -a It is stated that the Corean Government's in-
Russo-Japanese war was kept secret from all the lowers-except such as were taken into official confidence and that with the object of preserving secrecy until the end, a Corean off cial w s despatched to Chifo for the purpose of forwarding the intimation through the French Consul there, who is also Corean Consul.
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The following news has been published re Tibet:--A Russian memorandum dated 2nd February, 1903, threatened steps to protect Russian interests in consequence of the British action in Tibet. Lord Lansdowne in reply on the 18th February, 1903, informed Count Benck- endorff, the Russian Ambassador, in London, Great Britain would be obliged to reply by that if there was any display of Russian activity,
a display of activity exceeding that of Russia. Some weeks later, Count Benckendorff submitted a statement of Russian views, declaring that any disturbance of the status quo in Tibet would compel Russia to safeguard her interests else- where in Asia. Lord Landsdowne replied that Great Britain insisted on Tibet fulfilling ber treaty obligations. Later, when the Mission advanced, Count Benckendorff made further earnest representations, to which Lord Lans- downe replied that "it was strange beyond measure that these protests should be made by a Power which all over the world never hesitated to encroach on its neighbours. If the Russian Government had a right to complain of 'Great Britain advancing in Tibet, what kind of language would Great Britain not be entitled to use concerning Russian encroachments in Manchuria, Turkestan, and Persia ? "
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