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scheine and shows that its author, Sir The first-class cralose Henheim arrived early| Charles "Rifaz, is prepared to stake his yesterday afternoon from Weihairai. -- reputation on the theory that inoculation is the only hopeful measure against plague, The Times of India, to which we are indebted for the outlines of the Punjab A. S. WATSON & CO., proposal, says that it is a confession that
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18,766 plague inoculations were performed in Punjab during June, making a total of 108,455, since the 1st October, 1901, and a grand total of 685,374 since inoculations were first co- menced in' 1897,-/
Former Boer prisoners now in New York from Bermute havs surprised some people with whom they have talked by their refusal to my anything against England. They my that the The transport Jelunga, which left here with war is over, and now they are friends with their the 4th Goorkhse on board, met with an aeni- former enemies, against whom they soon to boardent of her way to Singapore, the tail shaft of absolutely no malice.
Tök propelling apparatus dracking. She was to slay at Singapore for repairs.
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The president, the secretary, and the cashier of a prominent Chinese club in Rangoon we on the 4th ist, sentenced by the District Magis trate to three months' rigorous imprisonment each, for everting the ofub inte a gaming bouse. The sentences have caused great astonishment amongst the Chinese community.
At Kuala Lumpur, F.M.8., the question of registration of servants has come to a head. A draft of a Servouts Registration Enactment, which is to be Inid before the Government, kus been drawn up, and has been submitted to the public for discussion,
in dealing with a disense like plague all palliatives such as those suggested by the Indian Plague Commission, on which lakhs
It is understood that the Foreign Office has re of ropees have been and are still being received a report from Mr. Tower upon the It is now definitely settled that Lord spent, are of little use.
"Evacuation, the Consular service in Chios. The report Isaid. Kitchynom arrives in India, after visiting **most effective masure in this category," | to be a valuable ons, and the suggestions conKhartoum, about the end of November. He continues our Bombay contemporary,stained in it will be very useful to the Secretary will conduct the Delhi manoeuvres. The Duke
impracticable in the towns and unpopular of Slate; bad it is not intended to publish the of Connanght, is also expected at Delhi... "in the rural areas. The lesson the contents of the document at present, "Government have been so slow to learu *required 'no demonstration after the de- vastating epidemic which swept the Pun "jab during the last cold weather, and the "experiences of Bombay since 1898. It is "also the first official admission that inocu- lation is the one effective weapon against
Gorerner Taft and the other members of the plague in the ranitarians' armoury." As the result of St. Petersburg instruction,U.S. Philippines mission were received on the Now, as the Times of India goes on to it is reported, a mining deal has been carried diet alt. in forewell andienoo by the Pope, who, wait, success or failure in the matter is through between the Russian and Chiness whole dependent on the attitude of the authorities at Kirin, Manchuris, by which the cording to the Osservatore Romese, gave each people whom it is proposed to inoculate. Russians may open mines, bearing all coats of member of the mission a souvenir of himself as
a mark of special regard. If they are sufficiently convinced by the operation. Engineers and all supervisors: of The commander in past epidemics, they may come forward to be work will be Russions. inoculated with the readiness which is Kiria must not in any way oppose of interrupt hoped for, in which case many of the lead them in their proceedings. If soy interference be made by the local rioters, the Chinese com- ing Indian authorities are of the opinion, mander in Kirin is required to protect the based on previous experience, that the mines. It is agreed that five per cent. of the Punjab will enjoy a respite from plague gross product of the mines will be given in the during the next fatal season~which it | Chinese Government aà taxes, India is during the cold weather. On the other hand, the prophylactic may be ac cepted only half-heartedly or even declined, in which case the plan falls to the ground. The Times of India points out that the experience of Bombay, whers the most active propaganda, accompanied by pecuni. ary compensation, failed to bring more than a fraction of the population to the A. S. WATSON & CO. inoculatore, is not encouraging; but in the
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Punjab, Government has to deal with a different people, and must have good grounds on which to base its plans.
What is known as the Waine incident the
arbitration over which has resulted in Great Britain being awarded £9,500) ecourted ou December 23, 1883, Wains is in the Konze district of Sierra Leone, and well Within, the British sphere of influence in West Africa. On the day mentioned French fence, nader Lieutenant Maritz, me into collin with a British detachment, under Colonel Ellis, of the
1st West India Regiment, Three Brish
fficers were killed and 24 non-commissioned officers and men wounded. After long and unaccountable delays the British claim for reparation was submitted to the arbitration of Baron Lamberment, Secretary-General of the Belgian Foreign Offles, who has just given bi
Hongkong cannot take a merely academic interest in the measures adopted in India against the plague, and we must be preward. pared to learn from the proposed campaign Dod and Debrett will be searched in rain for MANUFACTURERS in the Punjab lessons which we may have the Duke of Yulgilbar," yet there is culloqul to make use of ourselves. This year ally such a personage. It is the title bestowed fortunately we have had no such severe pen the head of the Australian branch of the visitation of plague as have recently befallen Ogilvier by the people in the northern part, ef us, but the disease is dying hard still and New South Wales. Sixty years ago an a total of five hundred and fifty cases Ogilvie sequired, an estate of three hundred [31 cannot be looked on as antisfactory, except as snare miles at the head of the Clarence River, compared with the figures of bad epidemic and blossomed isto one of the wealthiest of ONLY communications relating to the nowa column E years. We have tried, at the end of 1901 squatters. He built, at enormous expense,
maguificent mansion, which he called Yulgilber Castle. He not only imported all the marble for its construction from Italy, but also goodly contingent of Italian artists and workmen. It commande one of the finest views in the
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and the beginning of the present year, a aystem of cleausing the city on a far more thorough scale than hitherto, but we cannot of course tell what, if any, connection this
VOLUNTEER CAMP.
The next camp of instruction for members of the Volunteer Corps will be held on bat year's site from the 10th to 20th October next; the guns at Stonecutters' Island have been placed at the disposal of the Corps during that time
THE SOUTHERN REBELLION.....
A letter received from a thoroughly trust- worthy Chinees correspondent at Nanning states that the rebellion is entirely at an end. He confirms the previous information that the rebellion was of the nature of isolated struggles between bands of bandits and outlaws against the
Imperial troops, the rebels occasionally
ceding in cutting up parties of the latter. some that it is quite true that General Ma, one of the ablest Chiness alors in the South, was killed, but the tales of wholesale defeats of the Imperial troops were gresa exaggerations.
Though the rebellion, so-called, is at an end, á disquieting feature of the situation is that large quantities of up-to-date rifles are still importet constantly. The Chinese complain that there are muggled over the Tonkia frontier. The Indo-Chinese Government should look into the malfor, for a long modern weapons are imported, so long will the outlaws be able to meet the Government troops on equal terin
MISHAP ON THE PEAK:
TRAMWAY.
A mishap occurred yesterday morning on the Peak Tramway, which had the effect of in. torrupting the service for several hours. As the 7.40 tram was on the way up the incline it failed
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THE TROUBLE IN NORTHERN
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vity (Bangkok, Sth August. According to reliable native, souron. Muong Phat has been invaded and captured by Ngins, (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDAKT.]
key Bhaas inhabiting, Northern : Blam The Nang and Lakon Lampanga, are also reported LONDON, 19th August, 5.5m.to be in league with the Ngjast me
RAILWAY TRAFFIC STOPPED BY
CHOLERA
The traffic on the Chinese Eastern Rail way has been entirely suspended owing to the cholera epidemic.
GENERAL NEWS.
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, 19th August, 5.5 p.m.
The trouble began, at. Phrā,, where thirty armed Nglus arrived without passports. Tho gendarmes demanded their passports, and they replied that they had weapons, but no aspors A, free fight then anmed, in which the gendarmes and their suflants both suffered sovorely. The Ngiya finally bolted......
The next day, 300 Ngius arrived and killed the Commissioner of Gendarmes, the Finance Commistionor, and be wife, childs, mother and father-in-law of the Istier. The Siamese jadges in Phre are said, to have been murdered und out in thres picoss, and the town is now hald by the Ngins & ada suvel, dan when some
It is reported that 000 armed, Ngins went. THE BOER GENERALS AT COWES.outh near Laken Lampang and have erected
It is explained that the Boer generals otha, De la Rey and De Wet did not at first accept the invitations given them on Saturday owing to their attire being un- suitable for a ceremonious visit. They have expressed themselves extremely pleased at their visit to King Edward at Cowes on Sunday,
THEIR ABRIVAL IN HOLLAND, The Boer generals arrived in Holland to-day, receiving a warm welcome from the Dutch authorities.
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LONDON, 18th August,
DEATH OF A SHEIK Letters received from Tripoli azzounos the
death of Steak Sensa el, at Kasem, nor Lake Chad,
THE KING AND THE BOER GENERALS.
Lords Roberts and Kitchener at the Boer generals De West and De la Rey at Bouthamptor, and accompanied them: on board H.M.S. Wildfire to the Royal yacht at Cower, where Lord Kitchener presented them to His Majesty, Their reception by the King was of the most cordial nature. Conversation, was bolly informal, and politics wore strictly avoided. His Majesty referred to the Boers
persevering gallantry in the field, and their kindness and consideration to the Britisk pri- soner and wounded. 7 Interview lasted quarter of an hour. Lord shener afterwards entertained the Boer gerals to lonch on board the Wildfire, and an unde a tour of the feet at Spithead
THE TABIFF NEGOTIATIONS, The Times Shanghai o g rrespondent telo.
earthworks to resist the advance of the Biamas. Talegraph-wires have been out, and it is not known whether the Ngins have now taken Nan and Lakon Lampang, but a Nan is the central telegraph station, and no news has been reveived of late from there it in copoluded that it his fallen Telegraph soominunication is open to Rahong only nudi i serate
Jt is rumored that the real cause of the trouble was that the Ngius resented the judgment of the Siamese Court concerning forent property two mate sectiun
Phys Surinakdi Mantri, forinorly Sismes Minister for War and a very shla man, has left with some thousands of topops for the sons of the disturbance, and will no doubt doel ensotirely with the Ngina brunt and patient
CHINESE CARPENTERS STRIKE."
We learn that the Chinese shipscarpenters in Victoris and Kowlood Intro virüek work for an increase of wages. The Brit to cease out (this they did over fortnightfarago) were the
Femployees of the Dock Company at: Hunghor, and they were followed by the oërpenters em...” ployed in the shipbuilding yard of «Messrs. Bailey & Murphy at Yaumati, and finally by the entire body bod shipwrights throughout the Colony, the strike becoming general two days ago. The demand made by the atrikern in-for- an all-round daily; wage of 65 cents. ⠀⠀ The present rate of pay per day at the Dock is 60 cents for ship carpenters, While Chinese employers give 40 cents? At the Docker this strike, coming as it did unddenly, "caneed some temporary'iseburenfèfide" but the work there is
new running af dethly can be expected under the circumstanove, nie made it appears, gave no notion of their purpose until they dropped their tools, and the notion that werd posted up stating theft "domanda "bore no diganture; the whole affair: în fæet, cosmia to duve been carried out precipitately, and, but for the mill risinon taken by the other shipwrights in the Colony, would moggat alčk of õrkundition. The
comply with the rien's drinkuda, and matters are apparently how at a deadlock. The number of meu on strike is estimated to be between 2,000 and 9,000@yale yani:
has had with the decrease of plague, We Southern Hemisphere and enjoys the distinction to make the turn to the right at the crossing graphs that the Protocol the new Chition / matters hava hot shatuyany: inclination to
IN HONOUR OF JAPAN. The Royal yacht when passing the. Japonese watchips on Saturday went dead slow, as a mark of special honour to ** bur allies,
LONDON, 18th August.
TIGER SHOOTING AT RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE
The B. F. Pres of the 13th ine.
Great oroitement prevailed this morning in the neighbourhood of Bomés "Hotel when it became know that tiger had been shot on the Hotel prenched Tar Banday some Kling 'showmen” brought ** fndy, gown tiger oter" here from Johore, which they exhibited in, a
how tent on the Beach Bead Rechumation site... Late the same tight wild animal broke
and kept on the straight line down which the tariff was signed on Saturd by the represen must wait for expert opinion in the plague of being the only castle in Australia.
other car was coming, thereby making a collision tatives of Great Britain, Amories, Germany, The vigorous sanitary report of 1002.
The death has already been announced possible, if not imminent. Hoppily such and Japan, anreservedly, and by the Austrian measures which have been adopted are not telegraphically of Mr. Robert James Forrest, catastrophe was prevented, and in a manner Belgian, and Dutch representatives ad referen in any case, we prèsame, likely to be aban-late British Consel at Amoy, Chins. Mr. that says a great deal for the efficiency of the due. The Chinese Common are unable doned. Should it unhappily be proved in Forrest was appointed a student interpreter in service. The cause of the mishop was as follows to sign without imperial tion. the near future that cleansing the city does the Superintendency at Hongkong in 1858, add | When the upgoing car approached the crossing On the 19th August, at Clifton Gardens, Conduit not mean freeing it from plague, then we was employed at Shanghai nader the Chinese at which the driver directs his car on to the loop- shall have to seek other schemes. In Secretary in 1860, in which year he gave line to the right, the signals were in bis favour, connection with this, we may well tek our. assialanes to the Allied Foress who were en- denoting that the points were in the usual selves: "What chance would inoculation gaged against the rebels. After holding various position to permit of the car going on to the posts in the Consular service in China, hayas loopline. Accordingly the car was sent ahead have among the Chiness of Hongkong 7
appointed Acting-Consul at Bwatow in 1872 but at the last moment the pointsman' who is At the present moment, we might answer, and fulfilled the duties of this place for my aptioned at the crossing changed the points,
THE DISTURBANCES IN FRANCE none at all. Chinese public opinion would two years. In 1877 Mr. Forrest was promoted thereby causing the car to go straight ahead on Thousands of the pop laes resisted the clos Hororóg, 21st August, 1902. have to be educated up to it, and the to be Causal at Wenchow, and was transferred the track upon which the other car was desing of the Convent weh olin threo towns of process of education. would be long and to Amoy three years later, retiring on a portion cending. Fortunately this serious mistake on the Department of Finistère, Brittany. The ANY measures which other cities or govern- arduous. As in India, a tremendously in 1893. Mr: Forrest was called to the Bar at the part of the Chinese pointsman was attended troops sent to enforce the decrees were com ments are adopting to combat the ravages heavy responsibility would rest with those Lincoln's Inn in 1892. He was in Lis67th gear. y no serious consequences, thanks to the palied to breach the Coveat dogs, and expel
promptness of the brakeemen. As soon as the the garrisons of peajante
who sang hymns and of bubonic plague must of necessity be of who have influence over the nutive mind.
Mr. Charles Cameron (28), third engineer of brakesman of the ascending car found that he threw ith at the beste er the greatest interest to Hongkong. More We would prefer to think that plagua can
the steamer Sunghiang (Messrs Butter & had not caught the points bat was on the SPITHEAD FLEST DISPERSED BY particularly must the methoile which have be fought in Hongkong without having wirej, died in the Government Civil Hospital straight track, heshutdown his brakesad come to
A @ALE. recommended themselves to the sanitary recourse to wholesale inoculation, but the from cholera at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, an instantaneous standstill, signalling meanwhile
A gale of wind with mist and torrents of authorities in the different parts of India | future alone can show us whether we can and was buried in Happy Valley yesterday that there was something wrong. In the sanie rain compelled the abandonment of the evolu- phot call for our notice, since many of the con- reasonably hope so.
morning. The deceased was nawell when the manner, the brakesman of the down-coming tiene of the fleet sabled at Spithand, which ditione which environ life liere and in India
Sungkiang arrived from Cebu, and on Sunday var shut down his brake and so averted a · steamed out to sea,
BOER GENERALS,( ure similar. In the past few years much
was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, collision. When the ascending car was diverted
DEPARTURE OF attention has been paid to the way in which
where cholera developed. He lost conscious from her proper course, the cable was dragged
The Boor gezerala, Bothn, De Wet, and. De Bombay has attempted to get rid of its
ness on that day, and remained insensible fill out of its groove and three pulleye were da- egularly recurring epidemics of plague. A corporal in the Royal Engiusers who bad he died. The unfortunate young man had maged. The repairing of these, with the shift la Rey, have gone to the Hague, but Intend Ramb Now it is the Funjab which comes forward died of malarial fever after two days' illness, Dumerous friends in the Colony, and the news ing back of the car which had gone on the returning to London
wrong track, hind the effect of stopping the, with a scheme, on the success or failure of was buried yesterday afternoon at Happy Valley of his sudden and untimely death will prove "rvice until Esif-past twelve o'clock, st. which.:
The English mail of the 19th ult. was delivered in London on the 18th inst.
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Joses and for the last two days he has been roaming at large slaving dolled affefforts at
boarded one of the ton king"?in the harbour. ent as to what he has
destruction or cydide Believed to have
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THE SHAT EIN LONDON TEK His Majesty the Shah has arrived in Londen | of gle
od by the Prines of Wales, "of
sad shock to them. Mr. W. Ramsay, superio-time the ears re-commenced reading. A werd where he was recei berdent engineer to Mesers. Butterfield &
The
Long so the famous Mahogany Coast In Central America has been in England's poise
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chwab, President of the great Ameri- eel Trast, has retired on account of
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT.
nder ope retired,
her or not the
and not
uself to they o978 of the believing, he laid low and said nothing. The boys who attend to the for the billard toom and who sleep overbond, also thought they saw Bome large object lying sleep under one of the tables, but in trae Oriental fashion did not trouble themselves, to find out, what it was. Early this morning, however, their suspicions au to there being some large suimal in the room were "vorited" and, moreover, the animal was | proved to be the escaped Uger. Being entirely
with military honours. which great issues way very likely hang. This scheme is nothing less than the inocú-
Four more fatal Chinese plague cases were
ouse, escorted by Life Guards. BYAB beid lation of six and a half millions people reported up to noon yesterday, one case being mire, represented the company at the funeral, of praise is deserved by the brakesmen, but for who afterwards drove with him in state to "but
and Mr. B. Farrell, chief engineer of the whose presence of mind and promptness of Marlborough F
the procession was lined with wishing to between the months of September and in a boat in the Harbour, while a dead body was
Sungkiang, the ship. Mr. Cameron was tion a serious collision might have resulted. The ronts of
KANNADA PE found in Des Voeux Road West. January next, at the cost of eight and a
untivo" of Blairgowrie, in Footland,
Naturally, the occurrence, caused some excile--| troops.
ÁTION OF STEEL TRUST mant among the passengers. It is not known half lakhs of rupees. The inoculation is to The Hongkang Polo Club is giving ingkang went into quarantine,
what made the pointsman alter the points and
MAGNATE. be entirely voluntary, and therefore it will gymkhana ou the Felo Ground, at Causersy
to send the car on to the wrong line. Ha was not be offered in the districts of the Punjab Baş, on Saturday, 23rd instant, to commence
an old servant of the Company and was where plague in the past has been only at 5 pm when the members will be. "At light, for the people would hardly be likely House" to their friends. Through the kindness, and small as British Hodduras is by thoroughly event with his work: Ap to accept the prophylactic. In the eity dis of the Colonel and officers, 2nd Royal Welsh comparison with u ost other colonies, much of itparently his action was due to excitement or an Fusiliers, the band of the regiment will play has so far remained unexplored. Lately a party aberration of mind. At any rate he semed to tricts, wherethepopulation is about a million,
has been ont among the Cockscomb Mountaine | realise the culpability that he had fuld himself daring the afternoon.
and the back parts of the Stanu Creek district, under, for he vanished and has not since been it is hoped to inoculate half a million in the five monthscommencing with September. The United Planters Association of Southern under the leadership of Mr. Thomas Fenwick, heard.of. The rural population affected by plague India hold its general meeting at Bangalore with interesting resalts. The ruin of oral
There is a certain rich newspaper proprie numbers ten millions, of whom two-thirds recently and among the subjects discussed was ancient Astec cities were found concealed in must he inoculated in the same period if that of exchange. The resolution of the Indian the tropical jungles. Many of the peaks in the in the North of England who ignorance the scheme is to hold out any promise of planters, unanimously passed, wes as follows: Cockscomb Mounizing have been given dine any literature beyond his betting boo This Arvociation, while yielding to none in tive nainen by Mr. Fenwick, and we shall in found, and the other day the sub-edie one of bis papers used a Kosta sense? BUCKCH.: To accomplish, this, the whole
loyalty to the Government, desires publicly to future find or the maps of British Hours All ap" Coming down on the following morn available medical staff of the Punjab is to record that it considers that fixing the rupes at Murnt Lady Wilson (given this awkward game as is his moat, to put his atan “ throug be concentrated on the work, supplemented high rate acne shilling and fourpences in honour of the Governore wife), Blount Cacing the proprietur balled for by ave members of the Indian Medical oriously detrimental to the planters of Izdal Joseph Chasisberlain, Queen Alexandra Pak, editor and said, pointing to the sont Service from other parts of India and and it cannut regard the currency question u and Printa of Walden Bangu, ▲ träất bi by Kestiwal Is it do thirty-seven medica! mes from England, finally settled so long as a higher rate is labis country behind. The mountains has been named sands any wars of them in, dont
King Edward's Lead
| them, or thou'll ha tô pay for theth 12- temporarily engaged. This is a great to be imposed."
The E. & A. ataumer Eurders, from Bydney dio, has left Port Darwin for Tintor, Manila an anwelcome visiter, Mr. Sarkies chans to the sad this port, and is due on the 1st prox.onclude that the best thing to be done was
The K.Y.K. stommer Kasuga Mars (Auto hayo His Majesty, spateled as ipe of an Lina) left: Kobs via Nagnanki and Shims
in noseki for this port on the 19th inst., p.m.,: shi of is expected here on the 27th hostin
ssible, sod, noted ride
Shot) being with The NY.K. steamer Hiroshima Maru (Bonsai". bay Line) left Bombay via Colombo and Singa their
·Lt pere for this port on the 17th ft, and is- sub-expected here na the 5th pror, begged taking New,
The CF.R. ibesmer Athensan arrived at Van. | shoulder
pound
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TN.Per Clovering arrived at Tacoma of Hong kong on the liik Instj
Hips of the Cadet Corp",
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