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January 9, 1905.]
rumbling noise was heard, and also the report of firearms. I was on the ground floor. Our front door was broken in and I ran up to the first floor. Fifty or sixty armed men then rushed in, some carrying firearms and some swords. The prisoner was amongst them. He held a revolver in his hand. He caught hold of m and asked where my money was. I said,
"In the safe." The defendant demanded the key, at the same time striking me over the
shoulders with a revolver. I gave him the key. He took 4,500 taels from the safe. He also took from my wrist a jadestone bangle. The other robbers helped themselves to goods in the shop and then set fire to it. The shop was burnt down. I then went to my family house, which is some distance from the city, and did not return for some days because the robbers had besieged the city, and were plundering the outside villages. It was not till the arrival of the Government troops that the robbers could be driven away. Besides the money I lost, clothing to the value of 28,000 faels was either looted or burnt. I also lost 3,600 taels' worth of jewellery. I reported the matter to the district Magistrate on the 4th October. I am quite sure defendant is the man who held me up. The Kwong Ning City is five days' journey from Canton.
Kwong Ying Ting, a partner of the last witness in the pawnshop, corroborated the evidence of Leung Sun Tong. Other witnesses identified the prisoner, and His Worship! remanded the case until to-day.
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REVIEWS.
Buddhism. An illustrated quarterly review. Rangoon, Burma International Buddhist Society. $0.75c.
THE fourth number of this new publication has a timely article, and an excellent frontis. piece portrait of Sir Edwin Arnold, who is described as "one beloved to all Buddhists." He was the first honorary member of the society. For Arnold was a Buddhist, not alone in fact of life, but also in his own eyes and words. it was always as we Buddhis s that he wrote to us, and all his life was but a living example of his creed." So tells us the editor, and if we are tempted sometimes to think that he was, like many more, more of a post than a Buddhist, we need not say so. Other articles in this very.
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artistic cases. The illustrations are excellent, and charming, and the book would be esteemed greatly by people at home as a unique gift.
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FAR EASTERN ITEMS.
for its New Year Eve dinner.
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A Shanghai hotel published a poetical mann They made beaten " rhyme with "Ice-cream Neapolitaine," "choice" with "a la Nicoise," and "Marechale" with "Pail." They somehow missed the op- portunity to make "hors d'oeuvre rhyme with
improver."
Work on the construction of the Japanese
finished this month.
The Russo-Japan War. By THOMAS COWEN. London: Edward Arnold. Fifteen shillings. MR. COWEN and Mr. Arnold enjoy the dis-, tinction of having got out the first book about the war. It is a good book ton, as those who have had the pleasure of know- ing Mr. Cowen and his work would expect. He has had experience as war correspon- dent in at least two campaigns, and is a keen, shrewd observer of men and affairs. His neat, often witty, style of expressing himself is apparent all through this handsome book, which is embellished with a lot of excellent photo- graphs and sketches. Mr. Cowen describes the circumstances leading up to the war, giving the point of view of both sides, tells of the opening stages of the fight, with their astonishing de- velopments, and in the end, brings us up to the battle of Liaoyang. During the course of his graphic narrative, he gives some interesting
Mr. Wong Kai Kah, Chinese Vice Commis- pictures of the Coreans, among whom hissioner to the World's Fair at St. Louis, recently journalistic work has lately kept him. Mr. delivered an address to the United Hebrew Cowen tells of a duel at Seoul between M. Congregation at Indianapolis on "The Reli- Parloff and one of his staff, Count von Raben, gions of China He made a few remarks on which was new to us, although it was an open
the Jewish colody in the Yangtse Kiang Valley. secret that at the crucial moment M. Pavlo's This colony, he said, had existed since two mind was more occupied with domestic than hundred years before the Christian era, and to with State affairs.
this day they had never heard of Jesus. They had a synagogue in which they attended worship, extracted the sinews from flesh before eating it, erected tablets to Moses and Abraham, and were called by some "Blue-capped Moham- headdress. medans," because of their blue Otherwise they were but little different from other Chinese citizens, hold high offices in the land at times, and because of Chinese tolerant principles had never been persecuted or oppres- sed.-Jewish Chronicle.
military railway from Seoul to Wiju (costing Y. 16,000,000) is progressing satisfactorily. The Seoul-Pingyang section is about complete, and the extension to Auju is expected to be - The line beyond Anju. will take several months more to complete, and the authorities have now arranged to construot a temporary railway on this section for utiliza. tion by the Imperial Army until the normal line is laid down. The work on the branch line between Pingyang and Chinnampo has been taken in hand.
HONGKONG.
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Messrs. W. H. Woolley, J. Reidie and George Coysh have been elected associate members of the Royal Sanitary Institute.
Sanitary Inspector L. E. Brett has been ap- pointed Senior Inspector in charge of the Eastern District. Senior Inspector Lyons has been transferred from thence to Kowloon.
The appointment of Messrs. Robert Oliphant Hutchison end David William Trotman as cadets in the Hongkong Civil Service has been approved.
The name of Mr. S. J. Powell has been added
to the list of authorised architects at Hongkong. Capt. Owen Ordish has been permitted to resign his commission in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps as he is leaving the Colony.
At the Police Court on January 4th before Mr F. A. Hazeland, Sergeants Cashman, Brazil, Brown. Earner, Daritt and Linnahau and P.C. Mackenzie, returned from leave, were sworn in again as members of the Hongkong Police Force. H. Jones was also sworn in as a police constable.
Shortly after two o'clock on December 30th a fire broke out in a shop at No. 16. Wing Kut Street. The brigade was quickly on the scene, but the fire had such a hold that by the time it was got under, practically nothing was saved. The building and goods were insured to
the amount of $1,600.
A Chinese foreman in the employ of the contracting firm of Sang Lee, while cycling on the Des Voeux Road came into collision with a tramcar on January 5th when trying to avoid colliding with a jinrikisha he bicycle, which was a new one, was bally damaged and its rider was apparently seriously injured. Several of his teeth were broken, and he was picked up unconscious and taken to the Medical Hall. Some European who had witnessed the oc- curr nce obtained an ambulance to re:nove him to hospital, but the injured man's friends preferred to take him to his own home for treatment.
pr sentable review include an authoritative definition of the Philosophy of Buddhism by Dr. Paul Carus; an equally authoritative account of the founding of Lhassa, by Sarat Chandra Das, the enterprising babu who was one of the few foreigners who actually pene- trated that mysterious city prior to its recent invasion by our troops; and a thoughtful and impeccable essay on the aim of religion, by Mr. M Kechnie of Rangoon, the superintendent of the society. In the editorial notes, there is a very proper protest against the description of the Russo-Japan se war as a war between Buddhism and Christianity, for Buddhist and Christian alike are breaking the clear precepts of their respective faiths" by fighting at a'l.
Ilana, a Daughter of Japan. By GENSAI MURAI. Tokyo The Hochi Shimbun. 1904. THE popular Japanese n velist has written this tale specially to help foreigners to a right understanding of the attitude of the Japanese with regard to the war with Russia. It will achieve its object; but it wil fail to make them understand the charm of Gensai's work, which has a literary quality in the orig nal which cannot be found in translation. The famous author knows English welk and Early on December 30th Lieutenant Com. writes it straightforwardly, but it is not to be mander E. F. Jellicoe, of the torpedo boat expected that a man, however gifted, can destroyer Whiting, was found lying in his achieve that felicity of expression in an alien cabin with a bullet wound in the head. A tongue that, in his own, has made him the
weapon was lying beside him, one of the cham- Dickens of Japan. In this tale, there is abers of which was di-charged, and all indications good deal of talk about trifles which mean much in Nippon, but which would arouse no comment among foreigners. The American tourist in this book is therefore an impos ible character to our minds, and h's talk and actions alike improbable. With the Japanese characters it is otherwise, an wost foreigners outside, to whom the book is addressed, will be quite con-
vinced by the author's sympathetic drawing. The book is got up in the Japanes style, with their awkward but pretty binding, and several
point to a case of suicide. The body was remor- ed to the Naval Mortuary, and an inquiry was held at three o'clock in the afternoon on board H.M.S. The to. The enquiry was, as usual, held in camera. Lieut. Commander E. F. Jellicoe (of the destroyer Whiting) was buried at the Happ Valley Protestant cemetery with Naval honours on December 31st. The cerem- ony was performed by the Chaplain of H.M.S. Ocean; the band of the Ocean was present; six lieutenants acted as pall bearers.
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TRADE ITEMS.
The N.-C. Daily News is informed that the C.N.S. Whampoa has been sold. It hints that the Japanese Government was the purchaser.
The November exports from Nagasaki were valued at Yen 469,773, and the imports at Yon 594,248. The value of the imports exceeded that of the exports by Yen 124,475.
A book-keeper who was recently dismissed by the Osaka Cotton Spinning Company, by whom he had been employed many years, has been arrested on a charge of misappropriating about 500.000 yen belonging to the Company.
The N-C. Daily News was informed on Dec. 31, by Sir Pelham L. Warren, K.C.M.G., H.M. Consul-General, that a telegram had been. received from H.M. Minister to the effect that the Chinese Government had consented to suspend the exaction of the one-tael fee on transit passes.
The
Governor
committee appointed by Arakiwa to forward the scheme for a new Nagasaki Steamship -Company, assembled at the International Club recently. The Nagasaki Press says they estimate that Yen 400,000 will be required to commence operations, and they suggest that, with this sum, two or more second-hand steamers be purchased in order to open a Korean service.
The Sinwenpao states that Acting Governor Chou, of Kiangsi province, has sent an official to Shanghai to purchase machinery for the making of cigarettes in order to counteract the immense sales of imported cigarettes that come from Shanghai. It is also stated that the tobacco produced in the Juichin district of Kiangsi province is very good and similar to the flavour of imported tobacco The new Cigarette Manufactory will be in Nanch'ang, the capita! of Kiangsi province.
Another old Shanghai landmark is soon to disappear, says the N. 6. Daily News. Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co's property at the south- east corner of the Foochow and Kiangse Roads has been sold to a Chinese investor, and the old house, in which successive lollidays have held sway and exercised unbounded. hospitality for so many years, is to be pulled "down" and replaced by a modern pile of offices, in which the firm will still carry on their business, property comprises, according to the Land Assessment schedule, 6.621 mow, and the price paid is something over Tls. 30,000 per mow, assessed value being Tla. 20,000 per mow.
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