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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1890.
MARRIAGE.
On the 4th inst, at H.I.G.M.'s Consulate, Swatow, and afterwards at Kak Chish Chapel, by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, MAY HENRIETTE, oldest daughter of Captain Piersdorf, to I. H. M. Noor, 1. M. Customis, Lappa (Macao).
Hemakan Telegraph
Trekingong, FriDAY, JANUARY 17, 1900.
TELEGRAMS.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) EUROPE ADVANCES,
', PARIS, January 8th. The Times rublishes a telegram from Zanzibar stating that sanguinary combat bas taken place between Major Wissmann' and the Banaberi. Fifteen. Germans were wounded. The King of Dahomey is dead.
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THE defaulting shroff who embezzled atos | belonging to Ho Tim was committed for trial, by Mr. Robinson, at the Police Court late yesterday afternoon.
THE last memorial on failways, says the Chinese We hear that Admiral Ting, Commander-in-Astic existing lines are amply sufficient to carry
Times, is by the Viceroy Chang. Chili-tung, and | has been endorsed by the Seranth Prince. It is to fac effect that Chian shall build no railways whatever until she can do it with her own trop, A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. This should turn the attention of the Govern 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland ment more than ever to mining operations. In Street, on Wednesday, the 22nd instant, at 8.30 | náy case, it extricates Chang Chih-tung from the för 9 p.m., precisely. Visiting brethren-are,bog into which he fell in respect to his wild cardially invited.
scheme of a Hankow line.
MR. A. R. COLQUHOUN, recently suspended from bis duties in the Burma Commission, aniled from England for South Africa an 30th November in connection with the British South African Com pany. It is understood that the whole case, both for and against that gentleman, is now being considered by Lord Cross, who will probably not give his decision for a few months.
On New year's Eve, whilst Inspector Nicholson of the Singapore police, was proceeding in a boat to a Malacca station to pay the men there, a squall overtook him, the boat capsized, and
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Chief of the Pel-yang Squadron, and some of the officers in his fleet, are anxious to join the Masonic fraternity. There is, however, a very strict law in China prohibiting employès in the Government service from entering any society which requires daths to bind its members to secrecy,
A considerable increase on the present traffic, there was no prospect of revenue from the new interest. working expenses, maintenance and cable, and the yearly amount necessary to cover amortization was found to be £30.000 for n period of to years. In view, however, of the political and strategic advantages of such a con- nection, which can only be established by means of a submarine cable, as a route dependent on atrial lines is always subject to interference, and the messages passing can always be "tapped." by a very simple apparatus. the Company was prepared to hear half the cost, and would therefore accept, as mentioned above, a subsidy of £15,000 per annum, to be apportioned among the Governments interested, as they themselves
THE Cricket Dance to be given on Monday the
An extraordinary accident happened at the
27th instant will probably be a substiption dance at the rate of five dollars per member attending Concordia Club Bowling Alley, Shanghai, on the and five dollars for each guest-ladies excepte evening of the roth. inst, says a contemporary, invited by a member, Members wishing to The third officer of the Aayers, a fine, strong, subscribe should at once notify the H-n. Sec.ight arrange young fellow, had just delivered a ball, and into the Dance Committee at the Hongkong Club recovering himself, crossed his legs. A crack and at the same time send in the name or names was heard and he found himself unable to stand, of the guests they may wish to be invited... and sat down on the floor. Two doctors were
found that he had broken his left thigh bone. present, and they attended to him at once and He is now in the hospital. It is a fact, surgically recognised, that the muscles are sometimes tan
Borneo approached my Directors on the question In 1889 the "Government of British North of laying a cable to connect that territory with the Company's system at Singapore.
About $300.75 he had in a box went to the bottom. / strang for the bones to which they are attached. Mr. Robinson, at the Police Court, the sum of require 2;500 knots of cable, much of which,
The ministerial crisis continues. The King The inspector had a very narrow escape, as he was at the time about 14` miles off the land, clinging to the boat nearly four hours.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE will be a game of Polo on the Race.
course, to-morrow, at 4 p.m.
ACCORDING to a Penang paper, the Turkish frigate Ertogrout will leave Singapore in a few days on her return journey to the Ottoman capital, and intends putting into Penang. Great satisfac TH: Sessions will open to-ingrrow. There are tien is being expressed by the Mohamedan com- munity of that Settlement that they will thus be only seven cases, and ten prisoners.
afforded an opportunity of beholding one of the men-of war of the great Padisha of Stamboul. THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- fanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing
DR. Allen, late Secretary to the Corean Legation in Washington, arrived at Stout on the 5th inst.
TIR members of the Cricket Club are reminded of the meeting at the Pavilion to-morrow after noon, to arrange about the Ball.
MR. Commissioner R. E. Bretton look over charge of the I. M. Customs at Shanghai from Mr. Acting Commissioner H. M. Hillier on the
14th inst.
ON account of the Chinese New Year holidays there will be no night boat to ar from Canton na Tursday and Wednesday next, or to or from $1.00 Macao on Tuesday.
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· A rumour has re-ched us that we remain here for another year and then proceed to Halifax, Nova Scotia-a very good station, we believe, but a little cold to arrive at in January. If it is really true we shall, on our return home, be the ADMIRAL Sir Nowell Salmon went up to Canten first regiment that has ever been right round the the day before yesterday, in torpedo-boat No.world, and we shall have served in all four con- 37. When turning, near Shameen, the vessel ran into the steam-launch Kate, which was 1.50 moored at a buoy, and cut her down amidships,
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THE journal El Imparcial of Madrid publishes 0.75 telegram from. Barcelona ating that the authorities in that city have discovered some documents and proclamations destined for the Philippine Islands, tending to loosen the honds 1.00 of union between that colony and the mother
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VICEROY Tseng, of the Liang Kiang, has issued a notice to the effect that on account of this year's bad harvests the pawn-shops should not charge any interest on any cotton Jackets, trousers, long coats or cotton-bedding pawned for sums of less than Tis, 2. This notice is to take effect from the 1st of the rith moon, to the end
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Firry police get out on the 29th December from Quing yes, Tonquin, to disperse a band of pirates who were raiding the district, and had kitnapped about sixty women and children, $1.10 After some day's journey through thick jungle, they captured two of the pirates' sentries, and, from the information they gave, attacked them 1.50 next morning. Seventeen Chinese and ex natives were killed, including the chief, and the rest were dispersed. Fifty-four of the women and children were rescued.
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such a cass.. and in contracting break a bone; this is probably
DAKIN Bros, el China are making a bid for Chinese patrounge by issuing a calendar in the heathen hieroglyphicṛ. It is large, extensively | gilded, and as far as we can judge, is something po unhealthy Chinaman should be without. The design is, allegorical, shewing a gentleman feeding a pill into a trumpet belonging to a fish which is chained to a plate-full of fruit, surrounded by the characters "Ind Igest Ion,"Watson and Co. have added another joy
of the same sort to the Chinese New Year. It is mounted on dh dhnard, and apparently contains the same interesting kind of information. Groups
of Celestial Ladies with noses, like into those of the daughters of Shem-adorn the margin to some degree, and portray the various stages of sickness.
CONSIDERING how well the Deli planters say they treat their cuolies, the latter give a deal of trouble. A Dutch paper states that on the Tandem Hill estate in Lower Langkat, a coolic riot last month reached such propertions that armed police had to intervene. They found themselves obliged to open fire on the rioters who soon quieted down on a volley, killing six of them and wounding five more. The police, thus set at
defiance, mustered 34 strong under European leadership. This incident shows how far Chinese presumption will go when they can raise the
THE foki who was arrested on board of cargo Sergeant Melver, for having in his possession boat No. 1278, the ather day, by Detective
six bags of myrrh, was fined this' morning by
$25, or six weeks hard labour. He denied being Implicated in the theft, saying that the mister of the boat "knew all about it.”, A warrant in the meantime has been issed against the master of the cargo-boat for his arrest, as he is believed to be the principal thief. The Chinese agents who had shipped the myrrh also appeared to claim the stuff, but the stevedore who was in charge of the landing of the grous could not swear to ownership, although no other claimant has appeared, so his Worship refused to release the property.
A JAPANESE paper gives additional details of the plot to assassinate the King of Korea. It appears that there is a widespread belief among the mass of the people in the peninsular kingdom that the reign of the present dynasty is drawing to a close. In the present instance, the con- spirators are reported to have plotted in the in- terest of a family called Kó, which family is alleged to have been indicated by a certain personage of prophetic ability as the succrat of the dynasty now in power. It is further re ported that the conspiracy has ramifications throughout the whole peninsula, and that several Ministers of State are implicuted in it. These Minister, it is said, ara endeavouring to have the prisoners beheaded as fast as possible, so
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This led to further enquiries as to the east of such a line, touching en route at Labuan and Sarawak, and by and extension to Hongkong Hongkong with Singapore, passing through providing the much desired line connecting
Such a scheme. would British Territory only.
bottom, would necessarily be of a heavy and nwing to the shallow, water, and nature of the expensive type, costing in all about £430,000. To,cover, as before, interest, working expenses, maintenace and amortization, a sum of £41000 whichthe Company is prepared to bearone-fourth, per annum for 10 years would he necessary, of leaving the remaining three-f urths to be appor- tioned among the Communities interes cid, as they would be materially benefited by being brought into direct communication with each other. As an instance, the Cape of Good Hope may be cited.
where the telegraph hay so largely assisted is developing the mining industries and the material welfare the whole of South Africa.
The following division of the subsidy of £41,000 was provisionally suggested: Hargkong....... British North Borneo......54 or say......£8,542
·5/14 P.543 Singapore.......... Sarawak......... Labuan..
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30,750 ********* 10,25o
A total ofte ........................ £41,000 The Intals for both schemes have been stated at the lowest point consistent with the barest business consideration.
it may perhaps be admitted that some time With reference to the cost of submarine cable, since a cable, might have been obtained for 100 per knot, which might be serviceable for short distances of say zco ar 300 miles, provided the sea-bottom and other circumstances were
that their own connection with the plot may not favorable. be disclosed;
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Even this class of cable however, cannot now be obtained for that sum as the price of guita
a nest of heel against authority with fancied impuni'Ysays:-A great fire broke out on Friday night in the cost of labor have considerably increased.
THE Governor-General of the Philippines has decided upon turning the Sooloo islands into a convict colony. Formerly it was pirates. Steps will also be taken to foster trade and ladustry there. The pouts in the islands will be free from duties for 25 years. Roads will be made, and every facility given for the cultiva tion of the soil. It only requires a change of | official policy in the direction of encouraging commercial enterprise to render the Sooloo islands a centre of activity and national wealth within a few years.
chatice here. The RAJAH FRANCIS has a British Resident at Selangor is offering for sale, on behalf of the estate of the late Sultan of Perak, a real crown. The advertisement des. cribes it as "A Malay State Gold Crown (Macota) stadded with about one thousand brilliants, some of which are over 12 Carats in weight, and all apparently of the finest quality of Landak and other Diamonds, value estimated at $37,000. Also, a Gold Sirch Box (Puan) slid ded with Diamonds, and of great beauty, estimated value $7,000." Or His Majesty of Siam might fancy it, if the Hongkong Dispensary people would only "stand " il
A still more striking example of this took place on the 22nd December, on the Amplas estate, where the conties so went beyond bounds as tore- fuse to work unless three overseers were dis charged. They so stiffly stood by their demands that all efforts to quiet them failed. Emboldened by the inactivity of the police on the spot, about 600 coolies set upon them with such violence that fire had to be opened on the raging mob Twenty five of the latter fell, and the balance
utterly unsuited for the lang lengths involved in Such a type of cable, however, would be
either of the schemes under consideration,
A TELEGRAM from Foochow, dated the 12th inst.percha, has nearly doubled, and that of iron and the foreign settlement, at Nantsi. Sixty native houses were destroyed, the area over which the flames extended bring from Rozarin's to the
It is a well-proved and fundamental scientific back of Schönfelde. Hing Chong's Kaw Hong-fact that the speed of signalling decreases Inversely on the square of the length of the take's. the Bazaar, Baboo's, and Rozario's' are
cable. That is, by doubling the length the burat down,
speed is reduced- to`nne fourth. It is obvious therefore that for long distances a cable must be made whose speed capacity is proportionately great, result which is, oblained by using á greater quantity of copper and gutta percha, all of the best quality, and the must be of the very best manufacture.
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[The fire appears to have broken out at the top of Water street, a lane leading from the river to one of the principal business streets of the lost no time in seeking safety in flight. Most of foreign settlement, up the slope of the hill lead them came back soon and quietly resumed working to the foreign residences outside the settle
ment, This street consisted" principally of They were so cowed as to offer no resistance to
Chinese houses, with a few foreign bongs | the arrest of 21 of their ringleaders.
scattered among them. Messrs.' Adamson, Bell & Co.'s and Russell & Co.'s premises are in the same street, but they both, we understand, escape, while Hing Chong's has been destroyed, Messys. Russell & Co.'s loss amounts to about $200, which was covered by
insurance, Baboo's was a babery and general
AN unusually large attendance of members honored Mr. D. E. Caldwell last evening, when he lectured to the Literary Society on "Art: Its principles and practice." Dr. Cantlle, the vice-president, took the chair. Mr. Caldwell, in his introduction, referred to the instinctive
store, kept by a Malay ; Kaw Hong-take a leaning towards the cultivation of the beautiful
Chinese hong belonging to a British subject; and the desire to imitate, natural to humanity, the Bazan, which was Chinese owned, was a and its development in proportion to the stage of butchery and provision store; Mr. Rozario is civilisation reached. After some prefatory remarks the printer and publisher of the Foochow Echo upon the mission of art, interspersed with inter- The native shops were mere shanties of mean esting quotations, he commented upon the necesrppearance, but usually contained a large sity for incessant observation on the part. of quantity of valuable goods, so that the Chinese intending artists, for subsequent use, as in dawn loss is probably very heavy. Baboo is insured, andsunset effects, etc. He then dentat length with A fire, attended with great destruction of pro- the practical side of his subject, and although his contrived to invest it with a great deal of inl
years ago.]-N. C. Daily News. terest by means of illustrations of the vanishing paint, perspective, etc. Just as he was warming to his subject, however, the advancing hours necessitated an adjournment, and the re mainder of the lecture was postponed unti- Wednesday next.-Among subsequent papers to
cable
It is also obvious that if a cable is put down which works but slowly when perfect. any partial defect which may appear, and defect the cable almost or entirely useless. It is there unfortunately' do frequently appear, will render fore necessary to provide a type of cable, which has a sufficient margin of efficiency, to enable traffic to pass even when it is defective, until the repairing steamer is able to remove the fault.
view of the requirements and of the increased
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We are perfectly satisfied, therefore, that in
cost of material and manufacture, a suitable cable for either of the proposed routes cannot be obtained under the figure at which we have.... estimated them, indeed, we believe that the cost will prove to have been if anything under- estimated," "
Shanghai is 965 knots in length, the contract Our cable said in 1883 between Hongkong and cost owing to its special design and elaborate manufacture was £212,000, which is about fazo estimates above given. per knot, a sumi' considerably in excess of the
0.75 THE Chinese Resident, Mr. Yuan, a correspon materials not being at hand, a Japanese is said discourse referred to very elementary details, he/ Perty; occurred in the same locality about two As regards, an independent direct line to
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ACCORDING to the Fiji Shiwpo's correspon dence dated Soul, December 27th, new palace buildings are to be erected there in European style. A French architect was engaged last fall Ito superintend the work, at the salary of two hundred and fifty yen, per mensam. But to have entered into a contract with the Corean Government to finish it in fifteen months. The whole area of the buildings to be erected is sald to measure 327 (sudo, and the contracted cost of construction is put at 71,500 yen. At the time of writing, the contractor was about to visit Tokyo and Osaka to obtain the co-operation of capitalists.
THE HONGKONG-SINGAPORE,
CABLE.
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be read are one on "Coal Gas Manufacture," Australasin, and Chinn Telegraph Company, to FROM the sale of the Kuling, our Tientsia con
by Mr. F. W. Cross, one on "The Climate of the Hon, A. P. MacEwen, under date the 13th
José temporary says, we infer that Mr. Little and Hongkong," by Mr. Bruce Shepherd, and a January
DEAR SIR,Since thy return to Hongkong last bis fellow-shareholders have at length been third on "Milk," by Mr. J. P. da Silva. Thera
month I have read your speech in the Legislative THB Shanghai Mercury publishes the following worn out by the exasperating tactics of there also four debates on the agenda.
Council on the 4th December, and the discussion news from Seoul, received under date of the 6th | Chinese Government, and that so far as they are inst.: "Pak has been degraded and sentenced concerned the navigation of the Upper Yangtze
thereon relative to the proposed Cable to 1.00 to exile by demand of Yuan, personally, at the will remain where it has been for the last
Singapore. palace. The Powers for independence must act thousand years. No one can blame them, No 0.40
now, if ever." It adds:-We have also received body can be expected to fight a public battle at 0.40 leiter, dated the 28th Dec., in which our bis own charges, and it was not the business of 0.50 correspondent says: "I have good reason for the owners of the Kuling to spend their sub
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IN estimating the labors of our police force a very THE Hyogo News says:-As will be seen by a large allowance must be made for the resultless notice which we publish in another column, M. work which they do. A good instance of this P. Falque, who bas so ably represented the in- occurred the other morning. A little before two terests of the Messageries Maritimes Co, at this A.. a man reported to Inspector Swanston that port, is very shortly leaving us, already having a lot of armed pirates had swooped down on his handed over charge to M. Jublot, who was for family-house and stolen & quantity of valuable merly the company's agent in Haiphong, whither goods. A telegram was sent to the Central M. Falque goes. The increasing trade with Station, asking for assistance, and all the Tonking necessitates an energetic man at the European detective staf bed to turn out of their head of affairs there, and M. Jobiot's health havjog warm beds and go down; a police launch being been severely injured by the climate, M. Falque sent to cruise round Quary Bay. After a long, has been chosen to do for the company's business cold, muddy search for the house, they found that in Haiphong that which he has so successfully it was a miserable but, which three men, arpied accomplished here. The chief business with with sticks, had raided. The officers, though which M. Faique is charged in the organization disgusted at the news, determined to find the of a regular sevice to Hongkong, for which thieves, but when, weer by, they found that the purpose a large plot of land has been acquired at plunder a few dirty old clothes had been the Haiphong end of the new line, upon which thrown down a valueless, their righteous indigna Hubscribers to The Hongkong. Taliga are reactify will be elected officer, warehouser, wharves, etc. I tion was unspeakable.
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ABOUT half past 9 o'clock on the morning of the 7th inst, a Brunei man named Niang, who was living with several others in a house situated at No. 183, Arab Street, Singapore, seized a kris and a parang, and with one in each hand ran amok, killing one man outright, and seriously injuring several others. He then ran out at the back of the house through another house farther up the street, where he stabbed a Malay in the head before getting into the open thoroughfare. On arriving in the street, the infuriated Dyak ran away towards the beach, stabbing at every person be met. A couple of Malay detective constables happened to be near the place, and at once made after him. One of them got up with him, and received a stáb on the leg, which stopped his progress: slightly, while the murderer ran on towards the beach, where he threw the knives into the water before he could be arrested. According to an eye-witness, the previous night fire broke out in the house of a Malay. but the fire was soon put out owing to the neighbours speedily hastening to the spot. The next morning, at 9 o'clock, the shopkeeper found fault with C'Niang, who happened to be lodging in the house, on account of something which took place at the fire. The fellow, all of a sudden, went to the back of the house and stabbed to death two of his companions. The third one escaped through a window and gave the alarm. The door of the house wall locked, but the murderer managed to escape through the back, and got Into another house, where he wounded a boy,
As the estimate of cost. named by you. (£100 per mile) is not in accordance with our experience and as I gather that the Pubile have not clearly noted the distinction, both in cost and in other respects, between the first proposed Direct Cable to Singapore, and the subsequent proposal to carry the cable via Borneo, I now wish to set forth as clearly as possible a statement of the cost and other considerations involved by the two schemes.
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Singapore, the following figures may prove of faterest:
We estimate the cost as follows:— 1600 knots of cable :................................................£250,000 Repairing steamer,.......................................“ 20.000 Apparatus, stores, spare cable &c. &c.
Working expenses per annum....... Repairing steamer
20 000
£300.000
£12,000 10.000
Total expenses per annum...£ 22.000 he regatnet antye p The present local traffic between Singapore and Hongkong equals £9000 per annum
As this is a subject of general interest, I proposo to forward a copy of this letter to the Local, Freas," and hope with you, as the matter has again been prominently brought forward, that in the light of the recent discussion some steps may now be found practicable to establish a connection which" on political and strategie grounds is generally admitted to be so desirable.
*Yours truly, design
WALTER JUDD, Manager in China, The E. E., A. & C. Telegraph Co.,
THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED. The first report of the board of directors, to be presepted to the ordinary meeting of share holders to be held at the City Hall, on Thursday the 23rd January, Ju as follows
Genlernen The Directo:shavenow to submit
Company, and Balance sheet for the nine months ending 31st December, 1889,
daddy to you'a general" statement of the affairs of the
First of all, my Directors would, wish it to be distinctly understood that their terms for bath plans have not been put forward on their own initiative, but have been given in response to enquiries addressed to them by the authorities and others interested in the establishment of a line of telegraph between Singapore and Hong kong which should be purely under British In 1885, and again in 1888, enquiries ware control.
addressed to my Directors as to the terms upon which the Eastern Extension Telegraph Com pany would establish and maintain a direct cable between Singapore and Hongkong. In reply, the company stated that they were prepared to establish and maintain such a line for a yearly subsidy for, 20, years of 15,000. The steamer distance between Hongkong and Singapors de 1450 knots, to which must be added way to per cent to allow for the inequalities in the sea bed. détours to avoid shoals, rocks &c, and for the necessary slack to enable the cable to be raised
The Hon Bell-Irving having resigned on to the surface for repairs. Bien separean leaving the Colony, the Hon, 14 J. Keswick was The length of a direct cable taáy, be enfipinföd invited to take the Chairmanship of the Board. therefore ai stoo know, and the cost at £250,000, l'and his appointment now requires confirmation
The net profit for that perfod amounts, to, 814 871 69 which, after deduxing the Auditor's lec, leaves $24.831. 69 for appropriation, leave From this sum the Directors, recommend the payment of a Dividend at the rate of 61 per cent, per annum, which will absorb $24.375,00
The Belante el 445.6g, to be carried to now Profit and Loss Accountan des
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