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MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Auctions.
11 a.m. Auction of Stures at Central'
Police Station.
Miscellaneous. 245 p.m. Rifle Association Practice,
General Memoranda. MONDAY, September 16-
Gooda per More not cleared at Noon
subject to rent.
Goods par Niiha! unclaimed before
Noon, subject to rent.
3 p.m.-Auction of Crown Land situated
at Hungham.
9p.m.-Meeting of Perseverance Lodge.
Tenstar, September 17 ----
Goods per Radworshire undelivered after
this date subject te rent.
THURSDAy, August 13:---
Goods per Palydon not cleared at 4
*m. šubject to rent."
Mosnay, September 23-
2 p.m. Special Sale of Clothing at
Italian Convent.
MOXDAY. September 30 ;-
12.15 p.m.--Meeting of Shareholders of the Great Eastern and Caleilenise Gold-
MARRIAGE,
On the 14th August, at St. Leonard's Church, Strentina, by the Rev. W. Brucas Lindasny, D.D., the Rev. Tuomas Kang, B.A., N., to EDITH FRANCES (DA185) eldest daughter of Joseph Welch, Exŋ, of Streatham and Shanghai.
DEATH.
At Shangbai, on the 7th September, at 6 3.1. EL MARCELICA BISDER, Canst In- spector and Hachyour Master aged 67 years,
The publication of this isme commence
-at 9.00 pm.
The China Mail.
RONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.
LOCAL AND GENERAL..
Notes by the Way.
H.M.S. Forelieres the Marathon an the East India Station. :
There were two more fatal ense plague (Chinese) during the past twenty four hours.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Antartic Expedition.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
The Mosquito. Commander Hubert Falcon Scott, A Fierch entomologist has been ex- F.R.G.S., who is in command of the Antperimenting with the various accepted arstic Expedition, how en route to the south remedios against the mosquito, and has in the Discenery, as heen iondo a member discovered in that obnoxious insect an of the Royal Victorian Orler, M.V.O.
The late Capt. Bisbee.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1901.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
LOCAL AND GENERAL”
Notes from Nippon.
Norway his sent out a Comaul General
A Police Inspector's Racket:
Aoting Inspector MuNamaen, of the Singapore Poliou, to drown his sorrows, for Kobe, Me P. Ottesen. having received lad news from Home, ju- - bibed too freely and woke up in Hongkong, namazing power of adapting itself to all where he at ones surrendered himself. Ho manner of disconforts, Petroleum, for-was re-consigned to Singapore, charged instance, an effective protection agalact the with anlawfully absenting himself from
Gored to Death.
Mr W. Ferd, Tyler was with the late lerene, is on diareganied by the perfect duty, pleaded guilty and was senteneed to Captain A. M. Bisbee when he died. insect. The only substance of any lasting one month's simple imprisonment. Among his last verbal instructions to Mrse against the latter is pyrethrum. Whether Tylor was the conveynaro of the following in the form of a powder or a tincture this message to the Shanghai piloto in this adult mosquito seems unable to bear. The samo authority has discoverod, the singular fact that bil of cajeput, so efficaious against the awen uitova of Paris, ia wholly usaless against those of Italy,
farewell to one and all of the pilots."
To Marksmen.
There is no competition under the auspices of the Hongkong Rifle Association to-morrow, but the first practice for the In- terport Rifle Match will be held at Kow
ton at the new Birley targete. It is hoped there will be a large turn-out of matkancii.
Another Shipping Deal.
Saigon papers record a sad affair, the result of a buffalo running amok in the vill age of Phu-my. The furious antival in its wild career knocked over many Annamniter, and then entered a garden belonging to a French lady, Mmo. Asse. Her daughter, hearing the noise, went into the garden to nocertain the oxase, and was at one charged.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says that should the sale of the City Line gored peatedly, and trampled upon, dying a minute or two afterwards from her fright go through, the conferonce, which has en
cag fixed the rates from Manchester to ful injuries. The animal was immediately Calcutta, will probably be broken upshot by the neighbours. Enquiries in Calentta have failed to olleit
The International Medal for China.
An Allahabad telegram says It is any futtber particulars regarding the possiDisorderly Conduct Punished. believed that the International Medal for ble sale of City Line steamers, beyond con. To-day, at the Magistracy, D. Cruz the China Expedition will be given to all firmation of the report telegraphed by Re* (10), a native of India, described in a mor British and indian troopa which were quarter that negotiations for the sale Eave been chant, carrying on business at No. 20, Wing offered in places where the troops of Foreign for some time in progress. The poll-known Fung Street, was charged, on the complain-
Powers were present. These include City' Line of steamers runs between
ant of Tong Fuk, with behaving ia a disor- Liverpool, Colombe ned Calcutta. In 1889 derly manner in the Corner Clocks' Ofisa, the owners celebrated their Jubilee at Glas at the Magistracy, on the 10th inst. He gow, fifty years after their Constellation, pleaded guilty, and was fined $26, with the 344 tous, sailed for Calcutts. The line alternative of bint laur for a month, joined the monks of steam in 1870 with the and was bound over in a personal bond of City of Oxford, 2,319 tons. The feet now $100 to be of good behaviour for six coaxists of 13 cossels of 54,999 tons in all..
Judge-You say the defendant turned) and a bistleri to the dog. What followed?" Jutelligent witness-The dog, sene. *-
Two prisoners have escaped from the Boer Cantonments at Bellary. One is at Trishnan, J. Freser by nie, and the other A Hollander.
The hial of the two natives charged with prisoning Mr M. Lovell, of the P. and '0. Company, countenced at Columbo on
the 28th August.
Shanghai, but not Hongkong.
The Peking Observatory.
A Lundum zulegram states that there is an agitation in Germany against the removal of the Astronomipat lestrements from the Observatory at Pekin, and the Preas urges their restoration to China. It
Fijian Affairs.
months.
|
The Tokio darbi estimates the Russian forces hi the Far East at 130,000 men,
The publio trial of the murderer of Me Hoshi Tor was opened at Tokio on the 2nd inst.
The stormor Laura Mare cupaired in Shirahama Bay on the 20th ult. No one was injured.
There was a remarkabis report at Tokio: that the Russians are about to occupy the Churau Islands,
The Japanese Government is to get toan from the Bank of Japan, fustead of
seding Exchequer Notes,
Forge capitalists are hoping to get a
Bill through the Diat giving Farcignore the right to work minga in Japan,
The now, N. Y. K. 8. Tokachi Mori, built at the Kawasaki Dock to steam 12. knots, made an average of 12.88 knots, on her recent trials,
General Grilsky, who was reported to. have been censured by the Czar in connection with the Russian frontier atrocities, has not
*committed suicide......
will be remembered thing the French tralian contemporary says:--The Rev. ir be seen in the British Museum is arï old | displayed by her Representative at Scoutin
annexed the instruments to prevent | falling in. Inelarian' bauds.
The Loss of the 'Viper..
f'
A court martial has been held in con-
A Bare Bank-Note.
The Japan Times bongratulates France A New Zealand telegfam in an Aus
Among the many interesting things to somewhat bitterly on the skill and energy Slade, a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji, writ- Chinese banknoto of the face value of about connection with the French Seoul-Wiju. ing to Mr Seddon, saya--Sir George O'Brien really knows nothing of the F., which was bought by Sir John Pepo milway. --
the late Governor of Hongkong, Hennessy, abs. and being strangely subject to juk, at an auction about 20 years ago. It wan
official notice had been sent the Arbi Pasha terminates bis exile on nuction with the recent loss of the torpedo interprets a fit of obstinacy on, the part ofised in the reign of Hungroo, the Japsúese Governinent of the departure of one or two natives ng an indication of wide-celebrited founder of the Ning dynasty, Na Tung, and accordingly no praszationa hot destroyer Einer, off the of aprend disaffection. Fiji is quiet and or who died about the your 1998, and is of were made for his reception at Nagasaki on Alderney duringtherent naval marderly, Disaffection there undoubtedly is.great value, as it is believed to be the only his way through. Lieutenant Speke, who was our watch duty but it is caused entirely by the extremely one in existence belonging to this period. on the Piper at the tice of the accident, was irksome system of Government. Had Sir Banknotes are said to have been used in reprimanded by the couch who found that
Sunday, the 15th inst., when he and his family sail from Colombo for Egypt by the German mail steiner Princess Irene.
J
Ti-day. Ng Chok, carpenter, was sent
Mr F. W, Walsts, founder of the house..
to jail for a period of three weeke for steal-he ladrunde a miscalculation, and also that George O'Brien et less on his own dignity, China before the vinth century, and were of Walsh, Hall and Co., one of the ablest
ing $2 worth of Admiralty copper.
Hehe had not adopted sufficient precautions.
was arrested by Acting Sergeant James Coyle, Naval Fard.
The 3th, 16th, and 27th Madras In Mining Co., Ltd., at the Office of thefantry at Ceylon, Singapore, and Mauritius Company, No. 14, Des Ficax Road.
A Fraudulent Engineer.
and moved dreely among those who know
Fiji and its people, he might have known/ certainly issued several hundreds of years merchants and economists that urez came before the art of printing was known into the Far East, whence he retired in 1899, Europe.
died at Florence on the 31st.ult. in hir 74th
YEAT:
something of what the natives really nic, and have been less likely to be influenced At the Magistrany yesterday, an un-by the recklessly inaccurate reporta furnish employed engineer giving his name ased by his own officers. The statement
Shanghai Cricket
The return mitch between the Shang-
The 23d birthday of the Crown Prince. of Japan was celebrated with fireworks, ate
respectively, are to be relieved by three Henry Wilson alias Ramsry, was charged that the condition of Fiji calls for an erhsi C. C. and the Shanghai Recreation Club other Madras Infantry regiments, says an with obtaining from Mit Berindongue, Madinance 50 im-English us the one just issued ended in a diaw, The Cricket Clabscure at Nikk, where he and the Princess ste
Indian exchange.
Captain J. Peterson, 6.a. Fule of Doone
anger of the Banque de l'Indo-Chino, the isas gross a libed on the isleads as his sum of $18, unter fraudulent representa- Wainilokasi speech was on your colony,
·tions, and a pair of gold sleeve links valued |
of 811.50 froto Leung Fing, also under Naval Manoeuvre Lessons.
206 for three wickets and then cheur
| staging," on the Stat alt. Among the (W. J. Track 69, A. E. Lauuing 50, K. J dignitaries who visited the Prince on the Mchuan 42 not uit, J. Man 1 not out)oconeton was his baby son, Prince Michi. The Reorontion Clab scored 107 for the Ines of sorcu wickets. A Co., S.Y.C., play guilty the first charge, but cand nit French neral manuuvres, a Service writered the 2nd Brigade, China Field Force. to chokey for two months with hard deny having obtained the gold sleeve-thike,' in the Figaro siya that the operations will The match was down. The Brigade, cp Frouch'agents in Cares necessitate a sharp
had his watch and chain grole on-board
hie ship. His boy, Lí Chon, was arrested
in conection with the offence and has gone
latour.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
Ar Colombn on the 27th uk.. then was a pamide of the whole of the garrison, when the Geserne pruzanted the 1st Gloucesters with a shield subscribed for by
the Regiment in South Africa.
WINE MERCHANTS.
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WATSON'S
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BLEND.
false preteners. Aerunad p'oaded not
Reviewing the lessons of the recent
Resent moveioents of Russian and
He was sentenced to one worth's hand have served a useful purpose if they only tained by Goñeral Ruhárgeon, stored 162, |fuck-out on Japan's part. - The authorities bear on onel charge, the sentences to run bring the faer home to the authorities that E.-O. Cumming securing six wickets for 16, state that watters have not been brought concutively. The prisoner has a little the arsenal at Toulon is useless-zain- The Volunteers Frored 100 for the loss of to the surface ne jet, and so far, Mir history attached to bho He was sent stay of the feet. Notwithstanding that six wickets, G. F. Linning getting ous for Hayuhi, Jamnese Minister to Serol, has done from Shanghai to Hongkong jail to the dock authorities were notified days In a match between Elerens paptained not forwarded a report de six month's hard labour for committing before that they would be called upon to by W.-J. Tyack and WJ. Tumbull runs
When Doctor Harston awoke yes.
presentation watch, a silver cigarette case,
the public to commacaxrate the services of fraud there He behiel well while in evictual the feet they mide & most were nude at the rate of 100 per hour. For Tarceny com a Dwelling.
prisena assisted Mr Opig, Assistant mentable failure of the task. In fact so
viglit wickets, Trick's XI. soned 253 (W. Superintendent of Victoria Col, against a badly was the work carried out that had Track 8, G. Lanning 71. 1. Many 27 tonay morning, he discovered that n gold The Times of Ceylon of the 29th at number of Chinese who maderely at the conditions been those of actual sew. K. Stanton 27). Turnbull's XI. aured says:-Mr R. Ponsonby, P. S to H. E. tacked him some time ago. For this ser nothing could bave sarod France froin 175 (A. E. Lanning 68 highest scorer) peneit, and some cose cash, hul been the Governor, has completely recovered vice, he was allowed three months off his most humiliating disaster. The ehlaf dit Mann touk aix wickets for 81 and G. J. I abstracted from his room during the early
from his recent illness, and will be leaving on Saturday by the P. & O. s. a. Pian for Hongkong on a short holiday.
A London telegramı dated 2ûth August,, Bays: The death is announced of Colonel Gastrell of the 8th Rajputs. Colonel G. D. C. Castrell was fifty years of age, and had thirty-one years' service, twenty-seven in the Staff Corps. He scrred in the Afgħan War of 1879-80.
sentence and was discharged so recently as the 37th of last month. He does not seem to have got well out of prison when be began his old tricks once more.
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The Artistic Broker.
Lookor-on is responsible for the following in the Jugzuen Gazette - When an enterprising iruker's nota-broking
(Chorus of jobbers) Not a-broking, Or maturing little things in bullsand hears
(Bulla and Lears), Or indulging in his rough and rendy joking
Ready joking)
zust.
In an inteṛriaw.on Cricket in India, Captain J. G. Greig, who is playing this - Then he's off n-dimwing plougha instend year for Hants, makes mention of M. “Dy
of shares.
('Stead of shares), Wood, of the West Yorkshires, as one of When to lower the price of stocks no more the best cricketers in India. Mr Wood is he's craving an old Wellington College boy, and cap-fa
(More he's omving). When he's weary of the Change's ciddly taived the Hongkong text in the Interport | matches at the last carnival here.
(Giddy ruab), Then he's off to where the fields of rice are
waying Yesterday, twenty chair coolies wero
(Rico are waving), all asleep behind their chairs at the Peak With his canvas and his patettonamhis and Constable Taylor woke them up. The
*(and his brush) last Run, Chau Loi, resented this inter- When rice options are the object of a rush, VERY OLD LIQUEUR farence with what he no doubt considered Ther he paints them with his palette and
the liberty of the subject and, turning on the Constable, kicked him on the stomach. When his interest in golt mines in declining
(Is declining). Today, he was fined $13. with the option
And Nippobscccupy his thoughts no more, of imprisonment for a ronth.
(Thoughts no more), Then he paints a rugged miner busy cining
(Busy mining). Ora buby Nippon bathing on the shere (On the shore). →
(Vain to anotherj
SCOTCH
Today, Lai Kwong, coolie, found him. solf in a tight corner. He was first ordered
to pay à ten dollars fine, or suffer fourteen
WHISKY d'impliwinment fox, being on beard, the
Ton Sung without permission: He was
brush
his brush
+
His artistic tastes he tries in vain fasmother When a stamp in Dijin shares has just
Just begun).
begun
the
remarkable records
Lanning four for 50
Retirement of Mr G. V. Ladás.
hours of the morning. The thief had eri- tered by the open door The theft took place at a friend's house, at. Queen's Car-
culty was experienced in couling the fleet. Admiral Gervais lectured his men upon the high hoportance of conling promptly, and pointal cer
We regret to learn that owing to conleos, where the doctor was staying over uchiered by British ships of war. By his tinued health, Mr C. Vivian Ladds night. The think is still at larg» direct on, and fer the firsttime, the French Colonial Veterinary Surgoon, la retired naval officers took a part in the work, with from the Comunical service sul is not
the result that a few ships managed to take returning to Hongkong, Mr Ladda, who Aquatic Carnival
Dredging.
A- Policaman Winded.
in 160 tons an hour, a result far below is a Member of the Linyal Collega: of The Vretoria Recreation Club is arrang what is the usual record on board the Bri Veterinary Surgeons and a Fellow of the ing to hold a gater carnival at the Kowloon tish warships. ·
"Zoological Societs, had been four cent years caclosure on Saturday afternoon the 21st in the Colonial service, having joined in inet. There will be several mees of a novel 1887. During that time he did some unchametery and the proceedings will terminate The Lioutenant-Governor Jonpected cellent work. We believe he was the first with a grund aquatic tournament on 8 sca'e the new storm dredger Lindon Bules at in China to establish a Vecino Institute never before attempted in Hongkong. At Calcutta on the 25th August. Shois a novel for the cultivation and collection of call the close, the prizes wou at the recent form of a dredging vessel of the same des lymph. This was done at the instigation aquatic sports will bo presented to the suc
rip on which has proved most successful of Sir Wiling Des Voeux; and it was not cossin competitors. The public are invited In different parts of the globe, especially, in | Mr Ladd's fault that the Vaccine Instituto in attend. Australia, the United States and Russia. does not always fulfil the object for which The principal features of the vessel are that it was created. He was the first, we be the dredging is dono by a revolving cutter lieve, to successfully apply authods for the Last night, a Norwegian sesuirin named which-is-fire to the end of a tube and is prevention and cure of rinderpest in Chics, Gilbert Gillection-not related in any way lowered down from the vessel's bows. As and lastly, the first to discover the the opts took the broath from a this cutter revolves in the ruud or sud saunpholes, or malariat mosquito in tong friendly jeLeeman, whose sole desire. was the case may be which she is dredging at kung, and so far as we are aware, in China, in see him bately of the street w the the tion, a powerful centrifugal pump This is not at al and record. The un Sallors Home, which is situated in the after part of the proyculents which he managed to effect in scene at the west end of the town and. Gilbert was creating 4 ressoi oreates a vacuum, and the consequent the food supply of the Colony during these when the policesual remoustrated, gave him suction in the certnil tube fitted inside thus fourteen years, were mostly, if not all,kick on the stomseh which knocked him cutter dina up the material displaced by carried out by him in spits of determined three yards away and in the language of the cutter. The same pomp also forces and persistent opposition; and had his the copstalk, wined him Penalties dredgingsthrough anothertube which passes efforts been privily backed up sud not sounting to 27, with the alternative of throught from the form to the after part of thwarted in every possible way, he could five weeks imprisonment, were inflicted on the vessel and then into other lubes car have done much more for the public good, the Norwegian phay he apponzed to day ried by Beating pontoons to shore and then It may be some consolution to Me Idds before Me Komp.
then sent to jail for a further term of Lu But, thát job.dime, he's off upon another "gin into the fixed tubes to a pint where in his retirement to reflect on cod work
months, without the option, for stealing an opera glass and silver coins belonging to
(Poo another), And it'sthen the broker alot's a happy one Henry Copeland, second engineer of the when his sketch of us begun,
(Happy-sue), Oh it's the the broker's lot'e a happy one,
Pronounced by Connoisseurs to be the ] Tandang.
Per Dozen
$15.00.
it is desirous of depositing the dredgings accomplished, and that bo invariably lnd Neval Coaling Stations
The dredger has been working very success fly art it is anticipated that good results will be obtained and clint she will prove vory usžíul vessel for the Hooghly.
It is announced that the marriage of BEST BRAND is the FAR EAST Miss Dorothy Faget, youngest daughter of
NOTHING LIKE OTL.
"The Health and Vigour of an individual de Sir Richard Paget, with Mr Herbert Glad dealing with mai, remember that a stone, MP will esko place in the gallon of vinegar. The same may be and thrown into the blood, waste products, and if spoonful of it will go farther than a pond upon the quantity and quality of the Blood When the tissues have been at work, there are Autumn. Sir Hichard Fager sit for 30 of children There is nothing so good for these be not eliminated but through any) years as a Somerdotalire member in the However much they abhor it, it is their and fanston and finally prodnes organic dre children as the old-fashioned castor oil detained in the blood they inflace untrition House of Commons, and when he retired in best medicine for disordersofthe hotels. In The Humanitarian. In cases of Bere- 1896 he was madia Privy Councillor. He the most severe cases of diarrhea and fula, Scarry, Ecosse, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood. was also made a baronet as a reward for his dysentery, however, Chamberlain's Colie, Diseases, Pimples and Sores of all kinds, tha Cholers and Diarrhoea Romedy should effects of Clarke's Blood Mixture are marrellats. services to the Conservative Parts. Be be given after the oil operater, and hands of wonderfel cases have been effected oam seme 4,5 30 netes mong the Mand quick curs is sure to follow. For sale by by Clarke'a Risod Mistare la sold-every- All Donler ATTES. Ltd., General whore, at 2. 94. pa bottle. Beware of worth.
·less imitatione and onbelite? many
E24 Agents
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY
ment.
IT GAVE HER STRENGTH.
the support of the public. His many In the Liouse of Contions, on the 13th- friends in Hongkong and the Far East will August, Mr Pretyasu, ropijing to Mr E. be sorry to learn of the entise of bis retire Robertson, said that, due ports at which
conling facilities were to be pro the Naval Werke Bill were Doyouporn Poriland, Portsmouth, the Medway, Maltı, Gibraltár, and Hongloug, and. it, there were suficient funds, at Haldar,, Bermuda, and Jamaica. Mr E RobertsOD Firet Cord of the reREDI question between the 17 Admuraizy as to the
if the decided. Mr.
Stearns Wine was tccommend od to me by Mrs Capt. Simona, She spoke of it so highly that I thought I would try it, Thave been very weak, but after taking: two bottles feel like new woma My petite is much better, tho,
Timetum, R. I
ked the
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