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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY NOVEMBER 12ru, 1900 science. GALVANI and VOLTA had been ages ago, the apacuse of energy to which we The importation of horses from Dingspers playing with electricity, but neither they give the name of gravity, acting on a num- into Malnoea has been prohibited until further nor anyone else had dreamt that there-ber of scattered particles, drove them into notice, in lay a miglity force which would one day change the mutual relations of the whole world, and practically eliminate time and distance. Thess, however, and not the struggles of the nations, will be the causes which to the end of time will make the nineteeth century a stepping-stoue in the progress of the world. Looking at the political aspect there are of course great
restricted space, where their collisions with one another set up in place of their original vibrations of gravity a modified form of motion called beat. In turn these vibration refected to the earth assumed the form of chemical affinity, and this induced particles which had assumed the forms of hydrogen and carbon to unite; and under another form of vital force to produce vast for
S. WATSON & CO., and important advances to be notad, but it osts. By and bye, these died and gạt
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A notification is published in the Gazelle of á telegram from the Governor General of Indo China, anouncing the rescinding on the 8th inst. of the decree of the 3rd May, declaring
Hongkong infected with plague.
Two cases of cholers were reported at the Lunatio Asylum, Bingapore, on last Friday week. Two more cases were found in a beat off Beach Road, both men being dead. They had come from Palembang to Singapore.
Arrangements have been in progress for some months past for the holding of a Military Exhibition at Earl's Court next year.“ A pre- liminary committee of distinguished military mon has already been formed,
The Canadian Militia Department has accop
ted an order from the Indian Offee for 2,000 tons of Browood for China. The consignment was to be despatchod at onen from Vancouver £49,000 has also been called in payment of great-coate, mocassins, and socks sent to China
from Canada.
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THE ORISIS IN CHINA.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.)
SHANGHAI, 11th November, 7.55 p.m...
TUNG FURSIANG THREATENS REBELLION
General Tung Fuhsiang, who is now on leave at Ninghsia in Kansu, writes to some friends at Hsianfu that if the Empress Dowager under compulsion of the foreign demands proposes to behead him, his only resource is to raise a rebellion.
LONDON, 9th November.
BRITISH, SOUTH AFRICA.
It is officially notified that Major Le Gallai surprised and routed the Boers, capturing guns with waggons and ammunition. Majo Lo Gallais Lieut. Engalbach of the Buffs Lisút. Williams of the South Wales, Borderers and eight men were killed, and sowan officers and twenty-six men wounded. Mr. Steyn and Comi mandant De Wet fled in haste.
HONOURS TO THE CHINA SQUADRON.
The Grand Cross of the Bath has been con ferred on Admiral Beymour. Vles-Admira Bruce has been made Commander of St. Michae and St. George Captains Barko Callagha and Jellicoo, Companions of the Bath, Th
Victoria Cross has been awarded to Midship man Guy, and Lieutenants Lowther-Craftoz Charrington, MacKenzie and Phillimors hav received the service order; all for services wit the Chias expeditionary force.
LAUNCH OF A JAPANESE BATTLE
The Baronbas Haynali christened a no
PREPARATIONS IN SZECHUAN A Chengtu despatch states that the Szep chuan Viceroy is preparing the palace there. It states also that the Empress Dowager Japanese battleship the Mikuse yesterday, a has recently killed fifteen eunuchs who are charged with secretly trying to assist the Emperor to escape alone to Peking.
YUAN SHIKAT'S GRATITUDE. A Chinantu despatch states that the Yuan Shikai, in gratitude for the Allies promise to avoid Shantung, has sent large supplies of cattle and sheep for the use of the foreign troops,
is noteworthy that the greater part of these buried, but the force that had produced were only rendered possible by the advances them was not destroyed or diminished, in the mechanical arts to which we have but was only hidden for a time. In these alluded. The most noteworthy of these is last centuries man, himself a creature of the growth of the British Empire. When these same forces, comes on the scene, and the period opened Great Britian was an he uncovers the former deposit, and finding island off the north-west coast of Europe, that, it still has some of its original energy with a single half-conquered dependency in left, tickles it into burning, which by dis- India. She had indeed struggled in the solving the union between the carbon and pust to found a colonial Empire, but mis the hydrogen, lets go the energy which sa management had alienated her colonies, and chemical affinity had previously enabled she had practically given up all thought of them to combine. This energy is now in again attempting the lask. When it ends the form of hest, and he employs it to we find a British Empire already an separate the particles of a certain amount established fact--not merely nominal during of water, which he has placed in a boiler. the piping times of peace, but able to bear. It is precisely the same as if he had used the strain of a serious and exhausting war. the same amount of energy in raising a The United States, which less than a quarter weight to a certain height; the steam is under of a century previously had started on their pressure, and in expanding it lets go the en- own account as a nation, at its conclusion ergy which had been imparted to it. Finally stand out as the most powerful and most the man applies this energy, now become force advanced of civilised peoples, with a popula- once more to the labour of pumping water, of tion, which although it has drawn on every spinning cotton, or of driving a dynamo, and nation in the world, has resulted in forming so once more it is dissipated to go once more the most numerous and most homogeneous the everlasting round, and perhaps in some people on earth. Germany after her appar far of planet to be employed by some other ent extinction at Jena has not only turned intelligent being for purposes equally suited the tables on her then conqueror, but has succeeded in rising to the front in all the Sporon WHISKY, Gold Capsule 15.00 arts which have rendered the century illus
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unequalled amongst her fellows, Last, but
an inkling; and it is aot too much to affirm by no means least, we must come to the that in its solution lies the key to the enormous Empire of Russia, the latest burn highest mysteries of our existence, as well of European Powers, but already ambitious as it may be to the production, or rather the of dictating to all the rest, and playing in transmutation for our use of the vibra. the future the part which a NAPOLEON vain. tious of the universal ether. Is there to be ly essayed in the past. As a Power Russia
a short cut between the etherial vibrations was at the beginning of the century practi-producing the phenomena of universal gra- cally confined to Europe, where, however, her vitation and the driving, say, of a dynamo ? territories covered not far short of a million The question may almost seem irreverent,
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to his conditions of existence."
This is the great problem which the twentieth century finds waiting for solution.
The following British war ships were placed on the non-effective list last month The Audacions, hattleship, the Invincible, battle ship, the Achilles, cruiser, the Baleigh, cruiser, the Active, cruiser, the Volage, cruiser, the Hydra, const defence ship, and the Scorpion, coast to fento ship. We understand that H. M. S
Witer has leo been condemned.
Mesara Jardine, Matheson and Co. informed
LONDON, 9th November, 7.55 p.in.
as on Saturday that they were in receipt of a THE CHINA SQUADRON HONOURS
AND PROMOTIONS. telegram from London that the Board of
Admiral Seymour has been appointed Directors, Indo-China B.N. Co., Limited, have share, free of income tax, for the current year.
On the 10th ult. the Russian transport Khattar, conveying six companies, two sotnies, and 4 officers of the Manchurian Frontier Guard, left Novo Rossiisk on Wednesday for Vladivostok, and the British steamer the City of Bombay, with 35 officers and 1,920 men of the Manchurian Frontier Guard on board, left Odessa on the next day for China.
Orders were received last month at the School
Burke (Orlando), Callaghan (Endymion), and Jellicoe (Centurion), B.; Vice Admiral Bruce, H.C.M.G.; Lieutenants Lowther Crofton (Centurion), Charrington (Alacrity), Mackenzie (Whiting), and Philli- more (Barfteur), and Engineer (Centurion) have received the D.8.0. Midshipman Guy (Barfeur) has
and a half square miles, with a scattered and yet upon its solution may depend the future of Military Engineering. Chatham, for drafts the V.Promotions are muerous.
rudepopulation probably under forty millions This population was not in any senso homo. geneous, and was divided by distances which then rendered communication impossible; so that when NAPOLEON invaded her she found her best and only defence lay in her dis- tances, and her want of population. She
of the human Tree.
of Royal Engineers to be prepared for Malta, Berwuds, Mauritius and Singapore. Col. Fuku-
The interport shooting match arranged for hara, of the Imperial Japanese forces, on the 11th alt. visited the School by special Saturday last takes place on Wednesday.
permission from the War Office. He was shown over the establishment by Major Jackson, E.E.
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Home papers report that Mr. Arnot Reid was affected by sunetaske on his way home from
A. S. WATSON & CO. indeed nominally reached across Asin to the Asia, and was lying dangerously last month.
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Mr. A. G. Ward will give an Organ Revital on Wednesday in St. John's Cathedral, when a collection will be made in aid of the Choir Fund. Mr. Also Marsh will be the vocalist for the occasion.
The Times of Ceylon learns that Mr. H. L Crawford, who is due back in Colombo on the
the launch at Barrow..
LOCAL MOVEMENTS.
H.M.S. Undaunted, conveying H.M.S. Fum and the captured destroyer Tatu, arrived yester day morning from Slangbal, together with H.M. storoship Humber,
The British transport Mohawk arrived from
Taku on Saturday and left the harbour agai
yesterday.
hai.
Tho Zibenghia arrived yesterday from Sharp
The German craiser Gefion arrived yesterda morning from Canton.
THE HONGKONG COTTON SEIN NING, WEAVING, AND DYENG COMPANY, LIMITED.
On Batarday at noon an extraordinary meet og of shareholders in the above company w held at the offless of the General Manager purpose of considering the financial positio (Meer. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.) for th
the Hon. J. Keswick, and thore wors al of the company, The chair was occupied 1
R. M. Gray, A. Haupt (Committee), T. present the Hon. O. P. Chater, C. G., Messi Cockey
Hough G. Stewart, B. Byramjoo, T. 8. Fores and R. M. Mehta, Ho Fook, Ho U Shang, Cha received
Chan Nem, Hon. Kwai Hin V. H. Deace (Legal Advisor,) Jas. McKie (Secretary) au A. Slaw (Manager),
LONDON, 10th November, 9.40 pm:
FRENCH PRAISE FOR THE JAPANESE
M. Pichen, the French Minister at Peking, heartily eulogizes the work of the Japanese
The SECRETARY read the notice convenin the meeting, LATE LAT
The CHAIRMAN said Gentleman, A mentioned in the notice calling this meet ing, which has been read, the invitation 27th September to shareholders to tako Preference Shares has met with practically t response, and we are again mat here to da to confront and consider the financial positio of the company
may be advisable me to repeat what I said at the inform meeting held on 25th September to th
2nd pros, will be appointed Special Comtroops in the events leading up to the cap-effect that after allowing for the estimate missioner to deal with the question of Buddhist ture of Feking Their bravery, and intelli Temporalities to which H. E. the Governor gance and their knowledge of the Chinese were of infinite service to the cause of made reference in his recent address to the Legislative Council. Mr. Crawford's perma rent post is, as is well known, that of Principal civilisation. Assistant to the Colonial Secretary, but Me. Thorburn will continue to hold the acting appointment.
The first performance by the A.D.C. of the three set comedy Our Flat is now definitely announced for Saturday, the 24th inst., and a |
The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Com second representation will take place on the following Monday night. Behearsals have been proceeding busily for some time and all propany have just insegursted a new servit be mises well for the opening night.
inhospitable plains would before the cen- tury was over become positive sources of wealth and strength. Now at the end we [29 find Russia a formidable Power in Europe;. and not content with this, but laying her On the 2nd inst., at Singapore, the wife of C. plans wide and deep for absolute supremacy throughout the entire Asiatic Continent. All these developments have been rendered possible by the advance of the mechanical arts, And the ruling power now in our states is not the amount of population nor the
The following notification appears in the perfection of their government, but the extent to which they have progressed in the Gazette The Hongkong Regiment-Liou application of the industrial arts, and their tenant H.S. Moberley, Indian Staff Corps, wing ability to apply them to the needs of niili officer, to be quartermaster, vice Captain A/C (Middlesex Regiment), wing officer, who has vacated that appointment.
C. MUL, of a BON.
On the 20th October, at Kuala Lumpur, by Mr. AE. Green DEN BIDsion, of Kent, England, to Burma, eldest daughter of Mr. George WILLER, of Groomwich, England, and recently of Kollegal,
India
DEATH.
On the 7th October, at 37; Kildare Terraco, Bayswater, after a short less, of paennonia, JOHN COLIN CAMERON, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Manila, only son of the late John CAMERON,
LORD SALISBURY ON CHINA. Lord Salisbury, speaking at the Guildhall Banquet, stated that if the objects of the Anglo-German Agreement could be achieved he did not know that the issue of the Chins problem need concern us in England very
Cotton in process, etc., the amount advanced proseeds of yarns and cotton in stock, an the company by Messrs. Jantine, Matheson an Mesers Jardine, Matheson and Co. had decide Co approximated $1,000,000 and then addedths not to exceed that amount, although they wa willing not to press for repayment at presen if some arrangement could be made to prović working capital. At the same mecting. further intimated that, subject to the regule quarterly payment of interest on the amou they have advanced, and provided that Sher holders were prepared to furnish a capital
Jardin not less than $300,000, Mosers. Matheson and Co. would undertake that repay ment of their advance should not be demande before the end of September, 1001 Wel Gentlemen, the financial position is practicall the sanie today, we are no nearer relief that when we last met, our invitation for applica tions for Preference Bhares was not responde to, a sohome for zo-construction drawn up b your consulting committee has been returned b the company's solleitors as illegal and impra. ticable unless absolutely unanimously sup ported, and all agreed to take up the ne shares in the suggested new company and n DE WET SEVERELY DEFEATED.uggestions of any kind have been forthcomin from Shareholders. I trust, Gentlemen, the Major Te Galinis and Gen. For severely you are alive to the fact that if you do no defeated De Wer's 1,000 strong, stoms forward and protect your own interests i some such manner as we have submitted to you General Eir A. B. Stransham, G.C.B., late of the Royal Marines, who died on 6th ult, at Eal. Bothaville and captured eight guns and 100 it will be alsolutely necessary to call an extr
ordinary meeting of shareholders, at which ing, in his ninety-fifth year, Lad a distinguished prisoners. The Boer casualties left behind shall reluctantly have to propose a resolutio career. He took part in the China Expedition, on the field of bottle were 25 killed and 80 that the company be liquidated voluntarily
will be a most unpleasant step to take, but u 1840-41. Ho wax adjutant sud brigade major wounded. The British lost 11 killed and that re shall be compelled to adopt with gro
THE WAR IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
tween Australia and Chips and the Straite. Two lines have been started-one from Bydney via the Caroline Islands to Hongkong, and the anxiously. other from Bydney via New Uzines to Singe pore-the Munchen ranning on the former line and the Stettin on the latter. The service shortly to be enlarged from a monthly to a three-weekly one. This service will be started as soon as some of the steamers of the Company, vernment for transport work between Germany which have been chartered by the German Go-
Esq., and Frances Hughoa CAwEren, of Singapontary science. Although NEWTON published / J. Campbell, the Duke of Cambridge's Own between Europe and Australia via Colombo in
The
bis great generalisation of the laws of
before the close of the seventeenth century,
Daily Press. universal gravitation some twenty years
HONGKONG, November 12th, 1900
comfortable best.
at the attack on Chaenpee, commanded the
LONDON, 9th November, 7:55 pm
reluctance, if in the meantime shareholders as will eave the situation by finding the workin capital we have mentioned. It has been to wish of the
the general agents by any possible mear LONDON, 10th November, 9.40 p.m. to pofegard that shareholder, and their no
investment in the company's shares, but you business men will perceive that they cannot on indefinitely moriding money, and I am cou palled now formally, to intimate that unles money is forthcoming they will have no optio Bry meeting to submit a resolution for th hut to call as I have already said an extraordi liquidation of the company I shall e glad i receive any suggestion from shareholders, als to answer any questions, bearing on the bus neas of the meeting, to the best of my ability.
No questions being asked the UHAIRMA said would have been very glad to hav received any suggestions from any of the shore holders, but as there are none, I am afraid ther is nothing to do bot to call an extraordinar heating as I intimated before was necessary. 1 is a step I take will the very greatest reluctanc That being the case I will call an extraordinar meeting in order to give the necessary notio gentlemen.
In the matoh, Hongkong AFC. v. RA HONGKONG OFFICE : 14, DES VEUX ROAD CI, the theorica thereby established did not Cox to-day, at 4.15 p.m., the following will represent the club Goal W. H. Howard; LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.Cmake progress till well within the following banks-W. H. Russell and A.NE.; half back and Chins, are released from their contracta
century. In 1843 Sir WILLIAM GROVE in -C. T. Kew, S. L. Jenkins, and J. W.C. Bon- like nunner propounded publicly his genera-nar: forwards-J. E. Lee, F. M. Browne, R.E., lisation of what he called the "corralation J. F. Noble, T. V. Fregear, (5th J.H.C.), and WHAT will be the characteristic of the of forces." According to this new theory, R. Low. Mrs. Lockhart has kindly con Twentieth Century? So far as we can at heat, light and electricity were but different sented to present the Six-a-side Cap and tedals the moment forecast, its distinguishing developments of an energy already existing, prior to the match feature will be a struggle amongst the and which could neither be destroyed nor
The new P. & O. s.8. Sobraon, though, as told Royal Marines at the storming of the Whampoo 33 wounded. Major Le Gallais himself was able to come forward with some proposal th nations for the supremacy of the Pacific created. Subsequent investigations bore ont
elsewhere, she did not ran into the typhoon Batteries sud at the reduction of Maceo Fort, killed.
which he garrisoned and commanded. At the Ocean; yet if we take the analogy of the this generalisation; and acting on its mani- had rough weather all the way up to Hongkong last we should be led to a very different festations Professor: JOCLE carried out his
She shows, however, but very slight aigue of ill capture of several small forts on March 17, conclusion. To all appearance at this date celebrated experiment, showing the actual usage. The Sobraon is not, as has beep stated 1841, he was severely wounded by an explonicus,
FLIGHT OF STEYN AND DE WET just a century ago, the main problem in amount of energy required to raise the tem- pretty widely in the press, definitely intended and afterwards received mention for his gallan.
The Boer prisoners taken at Bothaville which the world was likely to be concerned perature of water ene dagros, Although as yet to inaugurate a new service of boats for try. He was adjutant at the capture of Canton was the future of Europe in face of the the experiment threw a flood of light on the the Far East. Her trip is more of the nature of and until the end of the war. For these ser military ascendancy of France; yet the nature of the vibrations which produced the an experiment. In type she is an improved vices he received the bravet rank of major on say that Messrs. Steyn and De Wet are in
full flight. flame burnt itself out with comparatively effects known as heat, light, chemical affinity, Malta, nul passengers say that she is a very obtaining his company.
Quite a number of French troops while being little effect on the world at large, and the and electricity, it remained for the latter only country which permanently suffered portion of the century to show that the Although, for the convenience of the troops conveyed to Chins in the various French trane was France herself, the instigator of all the vibrations of the other were by no means serving in Northern China under the command ports, have, deserted at the coaling ports, trouble. France has, during the contury, confined to those manifestations Herz, of Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Gasolan, and although many have beun no-captured, there are a good few still at large. The latest from being the best organised and strongest ROTGEN, BECQURBEL and others showed Field Post Offices have been established, at
MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. military power in the world sunk into the that there were many other modes of etherial which postage stamps are obtainable, says the from Colombo is contained in the local Times
Mr. Wyndham has been appointed Secre position of being a mere satellite of Russia vibrations then those conceived by the Land C. Express, it may often happen that of the 25th ult thus Three Italians, eix -the very nation whom after her victory earlier investigators, and that for all that these offices, and cannot, therefore, prepay their board the French transport Colombo, which taxy for Ireland, Mr. Long, Secretary, Local at Austerlitz she assumed she had for ever
we know the number might be incalculable; correspondence. In these circumstances it has arrived in harbour last evening on her way to Government Baard, Viscount Cranborne, Under made subservient to her interest. Far other and more recently there has been a tendency been rated by her Majesty's Government that Chins, effected their escape from the transport Secretary, Foreign Affairs; Mr. Austen Cham
by swimming ashore at night. Two were borlain, Pinancial Becretary to Treasury; Lord wise is the account of the expiring century to connect with these the phenomena of soldiers actually serving at the front may which will be handed down in history. In gravity. Though conceived long ago as the be allowed, within reasonable limits, to sand arresteil by the Police in the Pettah, one at Stanley, Secretary to War Office; and Mr. fact the nineteenth century, though it was natural consequence of GROVE's doctrine of letters home free of charge, the postage, which Kotahena, one at Modern, and the rest in Arnold Forster, Parliamentary Bverstary to born amidst the struggle of the nations, the "Correlation of Forces," the old theory under ordinary circumstances is recoverable lighters in the harbour and at Galle Buck, All Admimity.
President McKinley secured 305 votes against and though during its existence it witnessed of gravity as a force of attraction still holds from the reosiver of the letter, being dabited the deserters, numbering ten, were brought to PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S ELECTION some of the bloodiest wars in history, will general away; though men's minds are against Army funds. All correspondence from the Fort Police Station this morning, and an en- in the future leave its deepest tracce in the gradually being turned to the more logical the United Kingdom for the troops in Chinsquiry, was held by Major Knollys, Inspector Mr. Bryan's 142 The Republicans will contral
should be sulllciently prepaid; but in cases in General of Polices, at 11.30, when the French both Hons.
THE CHINESE QUESTION resdur of mechanics. When it commenced view that gravity, like the others, is but the which the postage in deilcient every assistance and German Consuls were present. The mun
The Nove Frenga states that Rusais, France, two or three inventions and discoveries were effect of etherial vibrations, and hence that notwithstanding, by the postal refused to go on board, but wore adviesd by
Amarios and Japan have arrived at an under just beginning to be spoken of WATTS had all of these so-called forces are but the authorities to ensure delivery to the addressee Major Knollys to do so. The men were oven- invented the steam-ongiae, and LAVOISIER emunstions of a common cause, and are Tas connien noted above is not applicable to tually given in charge of the French Consul, standing as a counterpoise to the Anglo-German
Agreement. who sent them on board and DAVY had erected chemistry into capable of unitaal transformation.
porrespondence from (or bo) Hongkong.
Thus,
soldiers at the front are not within reach of
Germans and an Austrian, among the troops on
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 8th Noveraber.
That concludes the business before, thin raseting
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Moji for this port on the 10th instant
The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Silesia fol
The N P steamer Tacoma has arrived e Yokolama and will sail for Hongkong on th 11th instant,
The N. P. steamer Olympia has arrived a Yokohama and sailed for Hongkong, on th 10th fast
VAL The P. & O. steamer Morgon left Sings pore for this port on the 10th inst, at 8 am