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The Briligh transport Itria arrived yesterday morning from Calcutta
We call attention to the Post Office Xmas and New Year parcel arrangements appearing in
another column.
The Italian craiser Marco Polo and three large torpedo-destroyers left for China early last month. Admiral Palumbo commands the squadros.
The following are the rosults of the six-a-side football matches which were played at Happy Valley last night:-Danby 1, Kow; Stevens (B.B.) 2, Goldring 0.
The visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum last week included 388 non-Chiness and 166 Chinose to the former institution, 118 non-Chinese and 2,243 Chinees to the latter.
The entire working staff of the Sanitary Department, including Dr. Clark, Dr. Pearse, and Mr. J. Bryan (Sanitary Surveyor), was photographed yesterday morning on the steps of the City Hall.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 8TH, 1901
Le Pelit Tonkinois deplores the absence in Tonkin of any such institution as our College of Medicine for Chinese, the idea of which it commer ds.
M. Etienne Ricket, who is charged by the
French Government with a political mission in the Far East and who arrived at Haiphong by the Mauche on the 2nd inst., will come on to Hongkong very shortly.
The Armecblati announces that the Austrian forces in the Far East are to be reduced. The Kaiserin Elizabeth and the Zenta are to return to home waters, while the detachment of men at Poking will be reduced to 100, The Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresa and the Aspern will continus in the Far East.
The Bangkok Times says that Dr. Trumpp has been engaged as chief medical attendant for the Siamese army. The army has mat hitherto had a foreign medical offleor, but the serious difficulty that was experienced recently in dealing with ou outbreak of beri-beri among the soldiers made the change advisable.
A rumour comes from servios circles at Sir Clande and Lady MacDonald left Eng Portsmouth that Admiral Sir Edward Bey-land for Tokyo on the 7th alt, proceeding vit mour, who has just returned from Chins, will Amerias. Sir Clands and Lady MacDonald relieve Lord Walter Kerr at the Admiralty. are said to have much enjoyed their trip home. Bir Claude hes naturally often been in consulta- Lieat Generad T. Kelly-Konny, C.B, who tion with the Foreign Office, hút he has had will succesd Goneral Sir Erelya Wood, V.C. good holiday according to all accounts. as Adjutant-General to the Forers, was born. in 1840, and served in the China war of 1860 the Abyssinian war of 1867-68, and the present war in South Africa.
Among the passengers who arrived at Vic- toris, B.C., on the 4th ult, was Mr. Charles Spencer, an Englishman who was arrested in Manila by the United States military authori- The Russian Black Sea Fleet is to be in ties on the charge of being a spy. Mr. Spencer, crossed by the addition of a new division of monounced that he would sus the United States sailors on the 1st January next. At the same Government for damages for illegal imprison-- time, a special detachment of sailors will be | mant. formed at Port Arthur, which will be called the "Kwantung Division of Marines,"
For some time past the death-rate of Madras has been rapidly mounting up, week after week, of late, and is described as never having been so appalling in a non-famine year as it has been this your. The death rate in one division was actually de high an 181.8 per thousand.
were the mathematical rosult. Without being believers in the theory that all evil comes from BEELZEBUR, the Father of Lies, and that BEELZEBUD's nearest representative on earth is Russin, there is much to prove that the present crisis in the Far East has been much assisted by an intrigue commenced at the time of the Tsar's coronation. LA HUNG-CHANG was moment, arily the most powerful man in China, and to Russian statearen of the day the winning over of so powerful an interest to Russian Per Coupenda was worth almost any sacrifice. It proved an even more gullible fish than the most sanguino at the court of the Tear could have anticipated. Paraded in a gold coach, the outward sign, doubtless, of an inward and substantial gruce, the wily statesunu left Russia no longer a free agent, but one bound by the strongest tics of self-interest to his.abliging friend. On the foundation thus laid, Russia did not fail to at once set about the erection of a vast edifice. In the then unpeopled wilds of Western America pioneer spirits did not fail to see that the first problem towards introducing a popula tion was to provide some way of entrance; rails were laid on the open prairie without the usual requirement of survey or levelling, leaving to a sucreeding generation the task of completing the road. Russia is North Asin was equally careless; her foundation shugapore on Saturday, the 5th inst., at 5 p... the vessel which has been built by Me points. Each team consisted of eight mon.
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Teams from the Hongkong Police Force and Royal Welsh Fusiliers indulged in a friendly game of cricket on the Wongneichoug Recres. tien Ground yesterday. The soldiers scored 77 to their opponents' 39, and thus won an easy victory.
On Sunday afternoon a fisherman on ajank in Shaukiwan Bay was aloft putting a rope through a block, when he lost his hold and fell to the deck, a distance of twelve feet, He received internal injuries from which he died an hour afterwards.
English mail of the 13th September, left The P. & O. steamer Coromandel, with the
and is expected to arrive here on Thursday, the 10th in, at about 4pm. Replies are due to letters dospatched hence on the 12th August.
Apart from the thres plague cases last week (one in Victoria), of which two proved fatal, the
Kashan to Baluchistan vid Yezd, Kerman, and Bampur, on conditions similar to those of the convention of 1872 for a telegraph line from Teheran to Bashire.
A convention has been signed between the The following appointments have been made British and Persian Governments for the con. at the Admiralty-Ideutenant-H. A. Car-struction of a three-wire telograph line from ruthers, to the dibien, as flag lieutenant to Rear-Admiral H. T. Grenfell, to data Beptem- ber? Sub-Lients.-J. Jenes, to the Pegay, and R. G. Hamond, to the Goliath, to date August 19. Midshipmen.-C. J. Greer, to the Cressy, C. D. C. Bridge and B. V. Layard, to the Albion, to date September 16. Naval Cadets. R. L. Archer, and W. H: Looke to the Cremy, A.D..A, Barnard and L. G. Soiell, to the Talbot, R. C, Halaban and C. H. Warren, to the Allion, all to date September 15.
„The authorities at Shanghai'rocently ordered waterside factories, ducks, and shipping, sud powerful steaza fire-float for the protection of
Merryweather and Sons, of London, has just been despatched to its destination. The bost in 60 feet long, and has a quick steaming boiler, screw-propelling engines, and "Greenwich" pattern pumps. The latter throw 1,009 gallons
A Reuter telegram from New York states that at Sea Girt Enoxmpment on the 5th ult. rifle match for the championship of the world and the American Centennial "Palma" Trophy was shot off between a Pan-American team and a team representing Canada. Each man fired 15 ebets at 8001, 900, and 1,000 yards. The contest resulted in a win for the Canadian team with 1,522 points, the Americana scoring 1,494
The marriage of Captain Oswald Ames, 2nd Life Guards, with Violet, second daughter of the late Lord Francis Cecil, R.N, took place at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Bisset, on the 5th alt. In the absence of her step-father, Captain Philip F. Tillard, R.N., commanding 1.1.8. Dido, in China, the bride was given. away by her uncle, Lord William Cozil,
In the article "The First British Bettlers in Sonth Africs" in last month's Nineteenth Cen fury (page 404), by Rev. Dr. Wirgman, Canan of Grahamstown Cathedral, curiously occur the three following names-Vandeleur, Kroger and Jouberty, who all three took part in the ighting between British and Boer forces in 1795 and 1796. General Vandelear commanded the British force, and Krager and Joubert (ancestors of the present day mon) were the two Boers who hauled down the British flag when it was hoisted at Grasf Reinet after one first capture of the Cape in 1795.
Chinese in Java, though born in the Colony, anot be naturalised so on to be put on the same legal footing he European Datchmen. They remain a class apart on an Agintzo foot- ing, and inferior to Europeans. This dis The following members of the English cricket advantage has become unbearable to many of team, captained by Mr. ManLareu, booked these Chinese, now that Japanese there have. passages by the Orient-Pecite ner Ontralt, secured equality with Europeans in legal stand- which left London on the 27th September-ing. Of late the Chinese rosidonta of Batavia Meara, A. C. MacLaren, W. G. Quaifa, A. A. have striven not only to give their children on H. G. Garnett, A: O. Jones, G. L. Jessop, J. it to Europe. Their object is to sak for these Gnan, and L. Braand. Mr. MacLaren will be youngsters equality with Europeans in Java, Recompanied by his wife, who, it will be on the ground of their having had an European remembered, was a Mise Power, of Melbourne, bringing-op. The Chinese have never pressed whom he met in 1898 in Australia, when a
this point before. It was the equalisation of Japanese with Europeans that stirred them up. momber of Mr. Stoddart's tears.
6. SANDEMAN, SONS & CO., of LON- coinfortable rifts incident on such a struc. instances of communicable disease in the Colony per miuate and will throw six jets simultaneous- Lilley, T. Hayward, J. T. Tyldesley, Blythe, European education but also to send them for
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ture; however, commenced to appear; the Gertian Emperor gave one or two slight hints that he too had noticed then. It was manifestly unsafe to go on, and hero 817.00 the marvellous astuteness of the Russian
On Saturday an earth-coolie played on Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's reclamation 25.00 diplomatic mind came to the rescue. If
works at Quarry Bay was killed by a large 25.00 L HUNG-CHANG be the willing, though piece of rock rolling on top of him. The rock 30,00 unwitting, tool of Conut LaMSDORFF, Prince lanced on the face of a bank and the 32.00 FERDINAND is his no less unwitting zany coolie was excavating directly underneath for 42.00 aut mud, it is to be remembered, is as the purpose of displacing it."
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As a result of last mouth's orders, the French brigade of occupation in China will be made as follows: The 16th Regiment of Colonial In- fantry formed of three battalions, one of which will be stationed at Shanghai; the 17th Regi mout of Colonia! Infantry of two battalions; es batteries of Calonial Artillery, con boing stationed at Shanghai; two companios of the 6th Regiment of African Chasseurs; one de. tachment of Engineers of the lat Company of the 19th Battalion, and various ústachments of
An Austrian Slar organ in Vienna calls atten- tion to the pleasure expressed by a number of its Russian contemporaries at England's dis- appointment over her bargain with Germany. The Novoc Vremyja remarks:-"It is only now that is to say a whole year after the non- clusion of the Anglo German Agreement--that
Mr. Harry N. Pillsbury (who is not for...
the day), it is once more announced, will aban- ̈* from being the most brilliant chess-player of don professional chees in a couple of years, and thereafter study law in earnest A home critio says:-"Judging by the events of the past quar ter of a century choss as a business does not pay Lack of solid financial appreciation has
Barracks, was buried at Happy Valley yesterday marshals, guides, and hospital attenfants, & the English have realised that, to put it plainly, led to one of two resulta. Champions have than its author could have anticipated, for morning. He was formerly a sargeant in the The Colonial troops withdrawn from Pechili they have been duped by German diplomacy aither had to face death by starvation or to
Sultan ABDUL HAMID has been moved to King's Royal Rifles, and left that regiment here 35 wake himself objectionable again and show to take up duties in the Naval Yard Police, in how little hope there is of the Turk. which body he ranked as sargoant. On leaving ADUL HAM, like his predecesser, cau the Naval Yard he was employed by the Hong hardly be looked on as altogether respon-Long Land Investment Company, but at the [-sible for his actions, and one of his most time of his seddon death was quite destitute.
dangerous hallucinations is that he fancies
Telographic advies have been received in himself the successor of a SoLyman, and
Shanghai from South China to the sect that
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It was somewhat thoughtless of the experienced politicians who guide England's foreign policy to A orionà titones is mentioned in a con.expect disinterestedness from diplomatists who temporary of bullet, or rather a portion of a have been brought up in surroundings where bullet, working its way from one part of the the traditions of the honest broker have by no human anatomy to another. An old rosident means ceased to operate." The Rossia and of Kobe who fought with the Naval Brigade at
other journals express themselves in a similar
sense.
The case of Mr. Gilmour, an officer of the
quit the chess arena; the former fate befall
Steinits and Zokeriort, and Dr. Tarrasch and is not correst in saying that Steinitz diod of others adopted the latter courao,” The writer starvation, but he is right in his general con
only possible for the man at the top of the tree clusion as to professional abess-playing. It is
to live by it, and then qply just while be is there. The charity of rich sinateurs has kept
sy professional from destitution.
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course, no particuler reason why the in Jerusalem (which, insignificant as it was provinces of the Empire that hie Majeste oonded in the the thigh more than fifty years brought the matter before the British Govern. however, is likely to reau the profit, as the pre-
previously.
the battle of Mooltan in 1848 was wounded in the thigh by a bullet, which had splintered on that like him he is strong enough to face a very long memorial, emanating from the striking some bard substance close by. The WHAT is likely to be the condition of the entirety of Europe. France, ever ready principal gentry and literati of a number of piece could not be found. Recently he felt a affairs in China in October, 1902 The to act on a wink from "her only friend," the large cities of the two Kwang provinces, hard substance under the skin of the big tee of one feet, and cutting it out was surprised to question may seem almost impertinent, yet has been stirring up some mysterious grievas buon sent to the Chinese Flenipotentiaries find that it was a fragment of load, apparantly ou the issue may depend much of the futurs auce, as incomprehensible as the historic at Peking, urging in very strong language the
the piece of bullet with which he had been history of the twentieth century. There is, dispute about the duplicate key to a church wishes of the Emperor's subjecte in the southern commencement of a century should make proved the prelude to a big war), and the should be allowed to return alone to Peking, any ripple-mark even in the course
of Sultan, proud of the chance of doing a bit and astme the reim of Government for the good of the country, and threstering in mo international affairs. The 31st December, of self-assertion, has been posing for a
veiled langusga that if this e not complied 1900, marked no one peculiar feature more Donnybrook row. The infortunate part with the whole of the South of China will rise than any other 31st December in history-) of such petty disputes is that, however in rebellion, any more than the growth of the moon as trivial, they provoke a stats of wind emin- visible from the earth makes any coneixently likely to lead to fisticuffs; and we able change in the conditions that actuate find that ABDUL HAMID overpowered by weather; yet in all ages men have looked to his efforts to get someone to tread on his changes of the moon as correlative with changes of the weather. Some people, even in the food of light thrown upon subjects scientific during the last hundred years, are still ready to believe in the influence of the moon on weather, and even sober men of science, with the unerring records of Green- - wich at their fingers' ends, think they bave discovered in those records indications of, the truth of the popular belief. Similarly in both Turkey and Persia, a little squabble British tailor commit the same offence he couldnt he wrote two years age on the occasion of
about a few square miles of territory is at once be punished for it.
Mr. Hazeland gave judgement at the Magis tracy yesterday afternoon in the case of Ng Yan Kum, a steeraman, who was chargai with owner in respect of $22.30 advance of wages, as cheating Leong Booug Kum, a fishing junk previously reported. The judgement was in favour of defendant, whose discharge was ordered by the Magistrate, holding that defen- dant morely committed a breach of contract. At the same time his Worship strongly com-
tail, has been contemplating an unprovoked outrage on his neighbour of Persin. Once upon a-time Europe desired nothing mors than to see its two great eastern rivala at loggerheads, but the position is different now that we have entered on a new century, and think we ought to create its policy iamented on the state of things existing at Slau- its first decade. ArCount LAMEDORFFisgiven kiwan, which enables sailors actually to hold
to believe that he has some recondite interest the whip band over their employers. Did
The first-class cruiser, which on the ava of he departaro for this Station was found to have sustained serious damage to her steering gear was on 30th August undocked at Portsmouth after completion of repairs. She was to be ready to leave for the China Station by 18th alt. A home paper says:-It is expected that she will undergo some ex- haustive rials of her steering gear before departar for foreign service bas been delayed leaving; ad, although it is to be regretted hor. for such a long period, the accident to her steering arrangements, which has caused the delay, will not be without compensation if it provants similar mishaps occurring to several other new vessels of His Majesty's Navy.
steamer Ajaz, at Yokohams, is still fresh in the
The price of cattle has gone up in Singapore minds of residents in the Far East. The Mor- chant Servics Guild now write to us that, as în
and the cattlo-traders here, mays the Bangkok the case of Mr. Kent, another offloor who had Times, are naturally disgusted at being unable suffered in a similar manner, the Guild have to take advantage of the big prices. Kelantan, ment. Lord Muskerry, noting for the Guild,hibition against the importation into Singapore has seen the Ministor to Japan and Lord
of cattle from that province has now been re- Lansdowne, presenting at the same time a moved. Say makes precious little effort to claim for compensation for the loss to which help the trade, though it is a very fair source Mr. Gilmour has teen unjustifiably subjected. of revenue to the Government. Is the country Lord Muskerry has been informed by the being drained of its stock by the export the Forsign Offee that "Lord Lansdowne has Timed maks. Is there urgent need of the people instructed His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at
being encouraged 10 pay more attention to Tokio to make representations to the Japanese breeding F. It is sometimes said that is so, but» Government on the subject of Mr. Gilmour's we don't suppose that accurate informationrex treatment."
ists. There seems to be no system of notifying infections diseases, and it is only after the dis- ensed animals have been over half the country and much harm done, that an order is issued te prohibit transport from infected districts.
Although it is believed that prompt measures have exterminated the Colorado beatle at Tilbury, in England, the Board of Agriculture nevertheless desires to advise growers of the danger which would threaten the potato crop
Workmen on the 4th September, says abould this voracious insect become established Boston correspondent, began the work of in this country. Provision was made for the converting Mr. Thomas W. Lowson's Indepen M Gaston Donnet, the special correspondent present contingency by the Destructive Inceots dence into a junk. The owner was petitioned of the Temps in China, in a recent letter recalls Act, 1977. The terms of the Colorado Baette by 1,000 of the most prominent citizens not fo Order of 1877, issued under that statute, require destroy the yacht, which he had desired should the first visit to the Far East. "Egypt is dead, the commencements of each of the centuries
all persons to give immediate notice to the defend America's Cup, and which was refused Persia is dead, India is dead, and China-by from the sixteenth have been distinctly puffed up into an European difficulty, and The fire in Queen's Road Central on Sunday what derogation of natural law-will she not police if any specimens of the insect are found, a place in the trial races by the New York marked by important movements that have we have notes and counternotes interpass-night, which we briofly reported yesterday also cease in her turn?" He finds little to alterador a penalty not exceeding £10 The Yacht Club. It has been published and not for good or ill affected for long periods the ing, my of which may produce sufficient morning, occurred at No. 116, and but for the in what he then wrote. Notwithstanding Tuan police constable on receipt of such informs died that Mr. Lawson applied for membership. history of events, and indications are not friction to draw a spark capable of igniting promptness of the Fire Brigade, who found the and Tang Fuhsing, he continuos to put the tion must at once inform the local authority of the Club, and to prevent being blackballed wanting that the twentieth century is about the large stores of dynamite purposely left flames bursting out of the first and second Chinese in a bior. With its family organisation (the same as under the Diseases of Animals he had his name withdrawn, notwithstanding Acts, who are required to communicate by that he expended £30,000 in the construction to follow in the course of its immediate about. Now the worst of this electric floors when they arrived, the outbreak would on one side, and its religious mook-boliefs on predecessors. Perhaps there is some reason state is that there is actually as much, have been serious. The ground floor, occupied the other, the yellow man is indeed dead-staffed. telegraph with the Board of Agriculture. It is an of the yacht, and upwards of 220,010 more for deeper than mere fancy for this, aul men's if not positively mors, danger in any but the doors above wore practically burst ont.
by a money-changer, was not greatly damaged, Individually he is too much in a groove. Of offence, to which penalty of £10 is attached, the crew, the tenders, and for incidentule, to keep or sell any living specimen of the employing Captain Hank Haff, the successtał conrso we presume M. Donnet means he is doad superstitions or desires have had more to tempt to discharge artificially the over. The promises are insured altogether for 84,200 in a national and political sense; physically he
Colorado beetle in any of the stages of its life. skippor of four Cup defenders, and the most say to the coincidence than might at first charged accumulators than in leaving them to in the Yan On Insurance Company for $2,000 is by no means moribund.-L. & C. Espreme,
expensive crew ever put cu s yacht. He says The Times Vienna correspondant wrote on that the boat was made for racing, but she sight appear. For the last quarter of a silently discharge through the atmosphere; in the Chun Company for $2,200. The
«FAG” writes in the Kobe Chronicle:-- the 6th ult.-I received this morning a letter cannot get any reces, hence she is useless. “ All cantury it line in many quarters been a and it is generally from the most up-cause of the outbreak has not yet been astor-
of belief that before long the sub-pected quarter that such outburst appear.tained, but the fire is supposed to have originated There is a war-ressel lying in the barbear of from a military friend, a former staff offloor, the metal will be used to make a figurs or set was bound to be one of world. This is then the position of affairs towards in the first floor, which was occupied by fokis Kobe called the Goliath. It is said that a fow upon whose opinion I set the highest value of figures to illustrate the insident. To that There were not a fow the close of the first year of the century, and workmen. The second and top floor were sights ago the officer of the watch was surprised Due passage of it seems to me worthy of special end I am going to offer artista and sculptéra That China would be the and Chiun, the gh not so much in evidence unoccupied. A quarter of an hour after the to find a little steam-sanch come alongside and notice. Referring to the embarrassing quantity in this country and Europe a set of suitable. firemen arrived, woid came down from the whistle for attention. He directed the gang of couroy and baggage which some of the cash prites for the best design. No such entieth century; and as some months ago, is really the most dan frente Police Station to despatch help to way sentry to ask what was wanted, and the general officers in South Africa appear unable deliberate throwing away of £50,000 has ever
to a certain extent certe element in the battery. There is no
Shaukivan, where another fire was in progress sentry, with reminiscences of the Transvaal, to dispenso with, my correspondent writes thus: before bean saen in Americ er to the though evidence that any of the Powers engaged Four men were sent on à quad-bicycle, but it shouted Who goes there?" "David!" was Mauy military observers on the Continent
of September, has abated one jot is intentions, while the broke down on the way, and caused delay. the surprising answer. "What do you want, suspected long ago how the remarkable clowness Statistics have recently been collected of the height of 10,000 English boys and men. At nes minds danger is more imminent than ever that, Fortunately, Inspector Robertson, of Shauki.
David "Only this!" was the reply, and a of operations was to be accounted for. Resent the age of seventeen them averaged 5 feet 3 in has no while the attentions of the others are diver wan, with the help of the Chinese firemen under stone came jumping and rolling on to the reports are quite suficient to explain the failure ches; at twenty-two; 5 Reet 9 inches. At wever, ted elsewhere, some one of the number may his command, was able to unter the ontbreak, deck, ne the launch darted away into the dark of the British troops to catch the nimble Boer, seventeen, they weighed 10 stou 2 pounds; st I tell the story as it was told to me, unencumbered as he is. I am reluctant to offer twenty-two, 10 stone 13 pounds. No nation is gs introduce a short-circuit, which may induce and telephoned to the Central Station to that mess
the Britah. In fifty years the average, kas gens rsa premature explosion of the whole. If the effect. The four men were consequently recalled, and will not vouch for its accuracy. But any adverse criticism on the British operations increasing in height and weight so rapidly as world were in n less zerrous state there This second fire broke out in a two-story house, really, the Admiralty ought to know butter in South Africa, but in the face of such self-up for the whole nation from 3 for inches the ground Hour of which was used as a paper than invite the perpetration of such a joke created impediments to military movements, I to 5 feet 8 inches. The average height of the would be but little danger, but unluckily shop and the floor above is a dualling house, shall we call it P-by naming a vessel Galati, cannot help expressing my horrer and amaze British upper classes at difty years of age is b ervousness is just now epidemic, and The place was entirely destroyed, the damage, For was not the big Goliath sin by the small ment." It seems to me that these faw words foot 6 inshes, of the farm labourac 5 feet 7.3/5 inches. The criminal class bringa, down the yousness and rashness are too frequent which is not covered by insurance, being Darn-But I hasten to say that I believe this speak volumes, coming as they do from an average, as their height is but & fest. 5 4/5
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