To-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE ROYAL,
CITY HA LALA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899.
To-day's Advertisement,
ZETLAND
No. 525, E.C.
LODGE,
REGULAR MEETING of the above THE HONGKONG AMATEUR A LODGE will be held in the FREEMA SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 1st February, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely Vieiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend. Hongkong, let February, 1899.. [1504
-Will give Two more Performances
of the
PANTOMIME
"THE YELLOW DWARF," TO-NIGHT
(WEDNESDAY), the 1st February, 1899, nt 8.30 PM,
(Under the Distinguished Patronage of Their
Excellencies
SIR HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,
and
LADY BLAKE);
and on
SATURDAY, the 4th February, 1899, at 8.30 P.M.
Dress Circle
Stalls Pit
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Half Price to Soldiers, Sailors and Police in uniform to the Fit.
The TICKET OFFICE is now OPEN and will continue Open Each Day from to a.. to 4 P.M.
Late Trams to the Peak.
H. C. NICOLLE,
Acting Manager.
Hongkong, 1st February, 1899.
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BAR BY THOMAS' GRILL ROOMS,
BIJOU THEATRE,
RECLAMATION GROUND, WEST POINT.
Another
Entimation.
LIMITED.
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THE latest giant is a young French-Swiss nineteen years of age, who is 8 feet high. He is exhibiting in Paris. His bed takes 8 men to lift.
of the Navy League and other public bodies | THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial | THE 218 Gold-mining companies in the in Hongkong and the treaty ports to comand Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge Transvaal representa capital of over £63,000,000, bine and place before the Naval Authorities with thanks the following donation to the but only 28 paid dividends in 1897., at home the absolute necessity for the China funds of the Hospitals squadron being kept up to full, fighting strength, which cannot be done, without bat tleships. We must have another vessel of the Centurion class sent out to take place of the Victorious. True, the Superb is to come out here but she is obsolete, can only steam fifteen knots, has muzzle-leading guns, and is only fit for a guardship.
Thanks offering for Patient...... THIS morning the cook and the assistant in the shop at 47. Wellington Street, were quarrelling | when the cook lifted up a chopper and struck his fellow-servant with it, seriously injuring him. He was brought before Captain Hastings this morning and remanded, complainant being in hospital
At the Magistracy this morning a Chinaman was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour for stealing Szoo, the pro- perty of a fellow passenger on the Cheang Hock Kiau, which arrived in the harbour yes- terday from Singapore. He said the owner of the money gave it to him to keep for him. TIME. Half-hour before close of European Mait
THE total number of cases of bubonic plague reported in the Prefecture of Tainan, Formosa, from the 1st to the aand ulto: was 30, with 17 deaths.
THE death is announced in New York of ex Senator Calvin S. Brice. He was the head of the syndicate which recently secured milway and other franchises in China. A FRENCH paper, quoted by Truth, reports the transit through Paris and Marseilles of Sir Dar Kitchener, Duke of Khartoum, Member of the Chamber of Lords, Chief of the Military Council of Great Britain, and Governor-General
If our squadron here is to be kept on a fighting basis we must have new and powerful ships and the newer battleships are all of very broad beam, there being no less than fifteen of the newer ships besides the Victorious with a beam of seventy-five feet. This means that if we wish to see nay of this class of ship on the station in the future A. S. WATSON & CO., our docks must be enlarged and, as in all probability the extreme limit of beam for battleships has by no means been reached Scene. In front of Stamp pigeonhole,Phlegmatic of the Central African' Indies." as yet, it will be just as well to see that when Chinaman retailing stamps, for him, at a most our docks are enlarged a good margin is break-neck speed. Irate and indignant Hong- WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. allowed for the increased beam of coming kong Citizen to the Chinaman-"You would do battleships. A battleship without a dock is well for an undertaker."-A Marine who had been almost as useless as a gun without ammuni- patiently (or impatiently) waiting for nearly 2 tion and we therefore recommend the matter hours-"Nohe wouldn't guvner, the body would to the attention of the Navy League. They be insanitary before he could get it to the Happy have accomplished much in the past and we Valley." hope to see them triumph once again in the present instance.
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(For Invalids and General Use.)
Per doa.
Case.
B-VINTAGE, superior quality,
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...$14.40
C-FINE OLD VINTAGE, Sup-
erior
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Packed and Over-crowded House D-VERY FINE OLD VINTAGE
LAST NIGHT
TESTIFIED TO THE
INSTANT SUCCESS
AND
IMMENSE POPULARITY
OF
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Port after removal should be rested for a month before use. Wine re- D'ARC'S WORLD-FAMED
quired for drinking at once should be MARIONETTES. ordered to be decanted at the Dis-
TO-NIGHT
THE
SAME UNRIVALLED PROGRAMME,
PRICES.
Boxes to hold Six'
Reserved Seats
Unreserved Seats
Pit
Gallery (for Chinese only)
..$15.00
2.00
1,00
-50
30
Children under 12, and Military, Naval, and Police in Uniform half price to all parts
wcase Hasnd Callare
PLAN at Rovinson Piano Co.
Hongkong, 1st February, 1899.
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--HONGKONG-AND-WHAMPOA - DOCK · COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
"HE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held in
before
being sent out, pensary These Wines are too favourably known to need comment.
Sample bottles and smaller quanti tics will be supplied at proportionate wholesale rates.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
The Hongkong Telegraph
the OFFICE's of the Company, No. 14, Praya | HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899. Central, o MONDAY, the 27th February, 1899, al 12 o'clock Noon for the Purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1898.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 27th February, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary, Hongkong, 1st February, 1899.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
TELEGRAMS.
(By Telegraph.) Special to the "Hongkong Telegraph." THE RAILWAY DIRECTORS.
TIENTSIN, February 1st,
11.5 a.m.
Changes have been made in the Directors of the Railways, the ex-Minister to Berlin and other progressive officials having been appointed. They are working in the in terests of Germany. It is stated that the British Minister is making strong represent ations to the Tsungli Yamen to the effect that the foreign railway employees cannot be dismissed without sanction.
SERIOUS RISINGS. Serious risings are reported in Anhui and Honan and Chinese troops under General Sung have been despatched to the scenes of the disturbances with all speed.
Received at 1.30 p.m. Published at 5.30 p.m.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE
DREYFUS AFFAIR..
LONDON, January 30th.
the judicial avstem of Col. Kitchener is returning to Omdurman having been unsuccessful in his pursuit of the Khalifa.
EGYPT,
-The Times correspondent at Cairo states that only six of the European Powers, not including Germany, France and Russia, have nals whose charter expires on the 31st instant.
[From Japanese Papers.] THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA, A SERIOUS OUTBREAK.
LAST evening at about 5.45 a collision occurred near the Ice House Street wharf. The steam
THE Turkestan Garette says the headmen of Herat are disquicted at the completion of the Russian railway to Kushik and have asked advice of Amir Abdur Rahman, who has published a proclamation that the railway is not intended to menace or injire the Afghans. THREE hundred workmen are being employed overtime at Portsmouth on the completion of the new British warships London and Formid able. The Formidable reached the launching stage in November. The British War Office has placed orders in Birmingham for 50,000 shells and 7,000,000 cartridges.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL,
This afternoon a meeting ofthe Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present His Excellency the Covemor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.), His Excellency Major-General Gascoigne (officer commanding the Troops), the Hon. T. Sercombe-Smith (Acting Colonial Secretary), the Hon. H. E. Pollock (Acting Attorney-General, the Hon. R. Murray Rumsoy (Harbour Master the Hon. F. H. May, CM.G. (Captain Super intendent of Police), the Hon. A. M. Thomson (Acting Colonial Treasurer), the Hoa. R. Di Ormsby (Director of Public Works), tha Hop, C. P. Chater, C.M.G., the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, the Hon. E.. R. Belitias, C.M.G., the Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, the Hon.
Councils.)
AND POST Wei A Yuk, and Mr. G. F. T. Buckle (Clerk of THE PROPOSED NEW LAW COURTS A
The Hon. E. R. Belilios gave notice that at the next meeting of the Legislative Council he intended to note the following questions:
OFFICE.
1.Will the Government state why, as the sites for the proposed new Law Courts and the new Post office have been selected and the plans of the former at any rate have been considered steps are not taken to carry the proposals into effect?
Will the Government state whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies has sanctioned the schemes for the public buildings above mentioned just put before him by the
Government.
The Hon. Gentleman was informed that the form of the questions was not exactly in order, and he was invited to re-draught them and hand them in later on.
AMENDING THE PRISON ORDINANCES On the motion of the Acting Attorney Ge neral, seconded by the Acting Colonial Se- cretary, the first reading of a Bill entitled an
launch America was coming alongside the wharf when the steam launch Langkat backed out from her berth and striking the former amidships on the port side carried away her bulwarks and snapped the awning stanchions off short from abreast of the wheel right up to THERE will be a practice, game of Hockey to Ordinance to amend, and consolidate the Law
the quarter. The Langkat apparently received no dainage.
Le Courrier &Haiphong asks if its readers know that the number of officials in the French Colonies far exceeds the number employed in the British Colonies. In Cochin-China and Cambodia there are 1,500 officials and 272 colonists! In Tonkin and Annam, with eighteen million inhabitants, there are 1,936 officials and 447 colonists, whereas in Burma with about eleven million inhabitants there are only 630 officials!
It has transpired that before peace had been concluded between Spain and the United States, Great Britain suppressed a Filipinos filibustering expedition which was being organized at Hongkong. America, it is stated,
suspects that Germany rendered assistance to the promoters of the expedition, and interprets Britain's action as a recognition of the United States sovereignty in the Philippines. Admiral Dewey's squadron at Manila has been gein forced by additional American warships, AN Edics issued on the 24th ulto, refers to a memorial presented some time ago by Li Hung- chang and Chang Yin-mai, in which they stated
We only guarantee our Wines and
The Temps and the Debuts regret the deci-that they had succeeded in collecting a large Spirits to be genuine when boughtsion of the Cour de Cassation on the Dreyfus sum of money from Chinese merchants residing in foreivn countries for the relief of the famine direct from us in the Colony or from case as derover s
Shantung two years ago, the memorialists concluding by asking for the bestowal of rewards upon the donors. Li Chang yung and LiTai Ching had also informed the Tsung-ti Yamen that they had raised Tls. 200,000 from the Chinese in the various Treaty Ports and a like sum from merchants in foreign countries for the same object. The edict says that the Emperor will bestow tilles (honorific) upon the charitable contributors, but the same time he orders Li Ching-yung to refrain for the future from raising famine funds for China as they are becoming too great a tax upon the charity of foreign and Chinese merchants alike. A NATIVE dispatch from Amoy reports that recently a Japanese travelling in a junk with a cargo of cloths, etc., whilst at Tungshan, met with pirates who took the vessel and cargo but released him,
On returning to Amoy he at once sought protection from his Consul who addressed the matter to the Chinese comman- der of the port, the lass being 400 bundles of cloth, 30 bundles of hemp and and a wooden box containing 120 odd dollars. A military officer was then sent in a launch to Tungshan where he found the junk and cargo with no one in it, so it was towed back to Amoy and handed over to the Japanese, when he found that some of the cloths were missing and re
TOKYO, January 24th. Suchow, An-whei Province, have reached ten The numbers of the insurgents who reset thousand. Very strict discipline is maintained among thein, cruel actions being strictly avoided, These insurgents are quite unlike any who have risen before in China, so that their force increases by leaps and bounds, the soldiers. sent to suppress the insurrection frequently deserting and joining the rebels. The provinces of Kwantung and Kwangsi are threatened, and the whole of South China seems about to be disturbed.
We understand that it has now been de finitely decided not to attempt to dock the battleship Victorious here. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company certainly cannot be blamed for refusing to accept the responsibility of docking her, for, with only a very few inches to spare on either side of the ship at the dock entrance and a considera bie tide running past, it is patent that any attempt to get this great fighting machine into the dock would be attended with grave risks and in the interests of the shareholders it would hardly be wise to incur them. The Kaval Authorities are in much the same predicament too. They are in a measure responsible to the nation for the safety of the Victorious, and, when one takes into quis Kuroda, the Chairman, stated that some quested the commander to recover them. Later i consideration the fact that the ship cost no [1550 less than £868,313, or nearly a million sterling, to construct, it is no to be greatly wondered at that the local managers of Jous BULL & Co.. do not care to risk the money of their shareholders if it can possibly be
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION,, HE PUBLIC is hereby informed that Tuntil further notice the RATE OF POSTAGE on correspondence to the CAPE
COLONY is 10 cents per oz.
A. M. THOMSON,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 1st February, 1899.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY,, LIMITED,
FOR MANILA (DIRECT),
THE Company's Steamship
"YGENSANG,"
avoided..
There has been some talk, we believe, of Captain P. H. Rolfe, R.N.K., will be despatchod | sending the Victorious to one of the Japanese as above on MONDAY, the 6th instant, at 3P.3.
This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First Class Passengers,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co,,
General Managera."
Hongkong, 1st February, 1899.
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IMPERIAL DIET.
TOKYO, January 14th. Commercial Code, dispersing with the forma The House of Peers has passed the amended lities of successive readings. In reporting the proceedings of the Comittee on the Bill, Mar alterations had been made since the Bill was passed last Session, but they were not import ant. The Bill was passed through the House to-day in 20 minutes. The Income Tax Law Amendment Bill was read a second time, carried to a third reading and finally adopted After some minor Bills had been disposed of the House rose.
The Lower House did not meet sa-day."
NAMING WAR-SHIPS.
TOKYO, January 24th. of the Emperor, has named an armoured The Minister for the Navy, with the approval
fkas, and a cruiser as the Tware, battleship now being built in England the
LORD CHARLES AT YOKOSUKA.
YOKOSUKA, January 24th. Admiral Ito, the President of the Naval Staff Lord Charles Beresford, accompanied by Department, and Captain Saito, the Vicer Minister for the Navy, inspected the shipbuild
yard and other works here to-day,
ports to be. docked, but, unfortunately, the same drawbacks exist here and it is stated that there there as
is no dock this side of Malta with a sufficiently wide entrance- to take the ship in. It is absolutely necessary that she should be docked and that soon. The days of the old three deckers, when a ship could EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM-nin her whole commission without docking.
-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. are passed and gone, for the underwatering FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
fittings of the modern battleship are com plicated in the extreme and can only be kept in efficient working order by periodical overhauls which make docking every six months or so a necessity. The Victorious has not been docked, since she arrived upon the station although she went, ashore near Port Said on the voyage out.
(Calling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to: ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &c.)
HE Steamship
THE
GUTHRIE"
*
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK, MATSUMOTO (Shinano), January 24th, here yesterday, the tremor being so strong that Two earthquake shocks were experienced people ran out of their houses,
WEATHER REPORT. The Observatory report saysOn the 1st at 11.40 am. Barometric changes are slight Pressure is highest in N. China, lowest to the E. of Japan. Gradients slight on the coast, moderate with feels monsoon in the N. Part 2 the China Sea Forecast-Moderato -N.E
winds fine......
Captain McArthur, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the thinstant, at 4 P.M.
This well known Steamer js specially fitted This being the case it appears that we for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham must make up our minds to lose the services ber which ensures the supply of Fish Provi- of this fine fighting machine almost imme. long. Lee, en trohout the yediately, for, if left on the station with no
This Steamer is installed throughout with Eléctric-light..
docking facilities whatsoever, a very few months will see her rendered unfit for service and merely an Incumbranca, to the fleet. Could she remain out here then we should I is stated that a number of Chinese Christians have the satisfaction of knowing that with have been adinitted into the University of three battleships we held a predominant position in Far Eastern waters - However,
Paking
are carried
...
A Stewardness and a duly, qualified Surgeon -Retura Tickets issued by this Com pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for return by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGA TION COMPANYand puga ugradjenda For Freight or Passage, apply to
"DIRB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agents. Hongtong, 1st February, 1899.
LOCAL AND CENERAL.
It ja no use bewailing the loss of the ship if | DIPHTHERIA is again prevalent in Nagasaki, It fa impossible to retain her under existing the number of patients reported from the ist to [1520 | conditions. It now behoves the local branch | sko zgth ulic, being 16,
on the Tungshun military station sent about 30 bundles of cloth which were recovered from one of the pirates who was trying to sell them. The pirate, however, made his escape. It is alleged that the Japanese Consul has pressed for a full recovery of the lost property and the severe punishment of all the pirates-Mercury, THE Kekumin says:-Lord Charles Beresford standing, in common with not a few foreigners, seems to have been working under a misunder when he made a suggestion, in his speech at the reception of the Oriental Association, with regard to the treatment of prisoners. Ho said; "I do not know exactly what your rules are in him the advantage of counsel and do not allow Japan, but if you arrest a man and do not allow him to see his friends, then it seems to me you are holding him guilty until he has proved him- self innocent," "Now, we shall refrain from touching the question of principle whether a he is innocent until proved guilty, but we man is guilty until proved innocent or whether
may mention that in Japan criminal suspects are allowed the advantage of counsel and are allowed to see their friends during arrest, the provision being made in Article 85 of the Code of Cri minal Procedure, promulgated in 1890. The only restriction of the liberty of communica. tion imposed upon criminal suspects is that the interviews and letters are subjected to official supervision. It is only in exceptional cases where secret confinement is deemed necessary that the liberty of communication is greatly. confinement is not absolutely denied the right restricted. But even a man subjected to secret of communication; for his friends may see him under the permission of the judge concerned, Moreover, when the new treaties come into operation, the system of secret confinement, in all probability, will have been abolished s
1898, which are four in number.
Objects and Reasons of the Bill morrow at the Club Ground at 4.45 pm. The relating to Prisons was passed. following members have notified their intention
The object of this Ordinance is to consoli to play-Messrs. Pinckney, Edmonston, Mcdate and amend the Prison Ordinances, 1885 to Clure, Biddle, Millward, Gerrard, Moxon, Row croft, G. D. Campbell, Wodehouse, Brutton, Wakefield, Thomhill, Bewley, H. Grant Smith, Brown, Hornby, leaving five vacancies. A match will probably take place on Tuesday, 10th instant.
FORTY Russian harbour engineers commis sioned by the Government have left by mail for Irkutsk, whence they will proceed to Talienwan to carry out harbour works there. For this purpose the Russian Government bus set apart 5,000,000 raubles, On the island situated in front of Talienwan a strong fort will protect the entrance to the harbour. Two docks will be constructed to accommodate the shipping,
and warehouses and Customs houses will also be erected. A branch line of the East Asian railway will run to Talienwan, which will be ready as a commercial harbour in the summer of 1900.
KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
The following are the amendments in the old law which have been introduced by the (1.) Section 8 of the present Ordinance differs present Ordinance
from section 7 of the Prisons Ordinance of 1885 in the omisson of the word lighted" and" tha word "ventilated." The reason for the omission of the word warmed" is that cells. here are not as matter of fact wanned at all,
(2.) Section 9 of the present Ordinance differs from section 8 of the Prisons Ordinance of 1885 in the following main respects
(1) By abolishing the rigid classification of hard labour into two classes. which
in
was laid down by the old Ordinance and which was found unworkable practice and in leaving such classification to be prescribed by the Prison Rules and Regula tions. (u)The language of the old section as to the employment of prisoners outside of the walls bas been modified in accordance with the recommendation of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(3.): Section of the present Ordinance differs from section to of the Prisons Ordinance of 1885, in that the words "who escapes or attempts to escape from any prison or are now added. The object of this amendmedt iš to prevent difficulties from arising in the pro attempting to escape and who have not com mitted anything which could be described as a
At noon to-day the tenth ordinary meet secution of prisoners who are caught while
ing of shareholders in the above company was held at the Company's offices, Victoria Build in the chair was occupied by MEE E. Jones Hughes, J. H. Cox, Goosmann Rodger, W. H. Purcell, H. J. Holmes, A. O'D. (directors), M... Northcote, GE Georg. A Gourdin, and A. Shelton Hooper (secretary)
The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting
laid before you which I will ask you to consider The Chairman said Gentleman, the report as read so closely resembles that of last year that there is really nothing fresh to say in regard to the position of the Company, Charges exists apparently a very goad demand for houses are a little less and rents have improved. There such as we have at Kowloon, and we have been able to raise the rents somewhat without losing any of our tenants. The property has been fully maintained at a cost of something just got to say. If there are any questions to pals a little over last year. I think that is all I have) shall be happy to reply to them.
Mr. Holmes-There is only one question I would like to ask and that is in reference to the itur. "Accounts receivable $568.16. Docs that refer to rents?
The Chairman-Yes, the month's rents On the motion of the Chainman, seconded by Mr. Holmes, the report and accounts were: adopted.
On the motion of Mr. Georg seconded by Mr. Rodger Messrs. Henderson and Goos mann were re-elected directors,
On the motion of Mr. Gourdin seconded by Gaskell were re-elected auditors. Mr. Purcell Messrs Arnold and W. H.
This was all the business,
"ALARMING " NEWS FROM SHIMONOSTEL
of prison.tunters from section: PCCION FEE UT U
ri of the old Ordinance in giving power to hard labour, and in altering the penalty of £zo impose imprisonment either with or without sterling into a penalty of zoo. There are also one or two slight verbal alterations.
has been converted into Stoc
(5) By section 13 the former penalty of 10
visions of Ordinance 13 of 1889 as affected
(6.) In adapting section-18 from the pro by section of Ordinance 15 of 1896 it has been thought expedient to leave out the dinance 13 of 1889, namely, "who is guilty of following words which vere contained in Or any neglect or violation of duty in his office, or of any disobedience, to any rules made under the provisions of section 17 of Ordinance 18 of 1885. The reason for leaving out these words offences contained in the omitted words are 15 that special provisions for dealing with the
contained in the new drait Prison Rules, (7) Section 19 of the Bill consists of an adaptation of section 17of the Prisons Ordinanca of 1855 with certain additions which are intended. to remove doubts as to whether the rules, which it is proposed to bring into force directly: this Ordinance is passed, will be ultra virer or not.
The second sentence of this section is new and is intended to confer full power upon the Governor in Council to impose by the rules any punish ment which he may think fit for a breach of ony of the rules.
(8.) The provision contained in section 21 of the Bill is new so far as this Colony is concerned, but is adapted from the provisiona of section of a Statute which was passed in: the last session of the Imperial Parliament. (61 and 62 Vic 41). The proviso, however, at the end of the section is original and does not correspond with anything contained in the The Oraka Asahi has received analiniuto, be just, and its insertion was recommended Home Act. Such a proviso, however, appears ing" telegram from Shimonoseki, which states by the Acting Police Magistrate. lying there, exchanging telegrams incessantly The following bills were read a third time with Russia." The officers are reported as and passed having landed with cameras, presumably with | the intention of shooting the surrounding scenery....
that the R.V.E. steamerndaroysk is still
THIRD READINGS.
Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordin, ances of 1866, the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1882, -Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordin
THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND THE e 8 of 18ya, (Public Buildings), age
FAR EAST.
Vehicler, Anda far Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Regulation
Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide for the esprvation of certain land at British, Kowloon known as Sung Wong Tai or Sung: Wong The following resolution will be submitted at Tonga the forthcoming annual meeting in Landon of Bir entitled An Ordinance to amend the
that a department should be formed at the of Blackburn Chamber That It is desirable the Associated Chambers of Commerce by the Dogs Ordinance, 1893
Foreign Office devoted entirely to the political, Consular, and commercial relations of this country and colonies with China, Japan, Siam, and Corea A similar, suggestion was urged by a deputation of the chambers of commerca effect-Times to the Foreign Office In 1897 but without
POISONOUS OVERCOATS-//
An extraordinary, occurrence has been re- ported to the Birmingham City Council The men employed to clear the streets of snow were supplied with overcoats, which, on be coming soaked by the sleef and rain, apparently suve off a poisonous gas. As a result, a large number of the men suffered from poisoned hands and arms, and had to be treated at the hospital. Aboutée of the corporation employés The garments were supplied by a Birmingham complained, and other cases were expected.
cloth was obtained from a mill in the North, house, whose representative explained that the The medical officer of health analysed cloth and roponed that it contained chloride of zinc, chiled in to be returned to the inakars, leaving The garments, to the number of 300, lycra the firm to obtain redress for itself from the mill-ovrière.
A MISSIONARY'S HOUSE ...“ DESTROYED BY FIRE IN JAPAN,
The following sad news has been supplied to the Japan Timer by the Rev. D. S. Spencer of Nagoya, now staying with his brother at Aoyama
Telegrams
reached Tokyo conveying the sad information that during the night of the. 18th Inst the Methodist Mission House, oc
cupled by Rey R. P. Alexander and family. was completely destroyed with its contents by dress Mra, Alexander received Injuries from which she soon died, while Mr. Alexander and their little son and only child were also injured, but are reported as doing well Their cooke wife is also reported as having received fatal: injuries, a
place in Hirosak, but the exact time has not The funeral of Mrs. Alexander, is to take yet been reported
a hand
No further defiulio Information either as to the cause of the fire or its extent but the prosumption is that the fire origidated in the dwelling house.
The very large circle of friends of Mr. add Mr. Alexander both here and in America will Teal, the fores of this terrible shock/