THE HONGKONG ROPE MANJ-
·FACTURING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
The following is the report for presentation to the shareholders at the seventeenth ordinary general meeting to be beld at the office of the General Managers on Saturday, 9th March,
1901, at 12 o'clock noon;
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before- shareholders the annual statement of accounts made up to the 31st December, 1900,
The net profit including the balance brought forward from last year amounts to 5132,51465 which it is proposed to appropriate as follows j To place in reserve fund $ 19,805.00 To pay a dividend of 20 per cent... 100,000.00 To carry forward to next year's
12,70965 Business in Rope suffered during the year from the abnormally high price of Manila Hemp but nevertheless our sales show an in- crease and the result, though not so good as that of last year, is still, satisfactory.
⚫ account.
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
In accordance with the Articles of Associa
tion, Messrs, Gillies, Lewis, Raymond and Shewan retire, but offer themselves for re election.
AUDITORS.
The accounts have been audited by Messrs.. T. Arnold and F. Henderson who are recom: mended for re-election.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1991.
Account for the year goo. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
Donation to Indian Fainine fund ...$
Exchange
Auditors' fee.............................. Consulting Committee's fee...... Depreciation for 1900 written off Balance
ments...
Balance of Working account
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1901.
EDWARD VII AND THE FOREIGN:] by bandits who prey upon the West China THE READING OF THE WORKING
PRESS.
The new King is well known in Paris, with France and made many warm friendships as the Prince of Wales was a warm sympathiser among Franchmen. It is, therefore, to be hoped that he will do much to smooth relations between France and Great Britain until they return to the friendliness of the days gone by -Soleil (Paris),
and utter absence of pose, qualities which Many have noticed his perfect courttiness Parisians so much adinire in the majesties of the world. But to-day the man gives way before the Sovereign, and it is the Sovereign we should like to know-Figaro (l'aris).
England's best solace in her hour of trin! is the conviction that the dead Queen leaves behind a successor who will follow faithfully in her footsteps-fatin (Paris),
opium and yarn trade, that no great volume af trade could be expected to pats to Yunnan by the West River. Most of the robbers have been
where the officials are too weak to deal with expelled from Tonkin by the French and find a happy hunting ground in their own country. them. Furthermore after goods have been landed at Po-se or Pei-Ngai, the heads of navigatina on the West River, there is a long, overland carriage of 18 days to Yunnanfu along The number of dilapidated innsand stables, and an execmbiero-adand through very poor country; the relics of stone causeways, coupled with the present scarcity of pack animals along this route, fead one to suppose that previous to the opening of Mengtse there was a considerable | trade via the West River.
CLASSES AND ITS RELATION TO CRIME.
working classes. It is said that they read Much has been written of the reading of the nothing but worthless fiction and the yellow journals, and it has even been clained in Eng- laul--incredible as it may seem-that they are "too much educated," and that Hooliganism, streets, is largely a resultant of this. As so that strange phenomenon of modern London niany who do not belong to these classes have written of their literary tastes, it is interesting to learn the views of the son of a working coal- miner, Mr. Toas Cliffe Phillips, of Cardiff Mr. Phillips, who writes in the London Literature, adopts several views opposed to those of other writers on this subject. He says:
In spite of the blackmail levied by robber bands, there is still considerable opium irade vid the West River for the Canton *The average boy and girl leave school with accomplished sportsman, the new King is 1
Although Parisian in the best sense, and an market. This trade, I think, may be estimated just the ability to read the evening paper, some at about 3,000 plculs (1,064,000 lbs.), value periodical of Tit-Bits type, arinteresting story; model of regularity. Every hour of the day about 365,000l. The reason for the continu and story-reading not demanding any serious has its allatted function, either for work or forance of this trade, which is confined to the strain upon the mental faculties, and providing recreation. A King so methodical, se pains. Canton market, is that the combined risks of a stimulative salt in items of adventure of love- taking, and so genially sympathetic withal, bad roads, brigands, and likin are more than making, is, naturally taken to on the line of cannot fail to be popular-Gaŭlais ( Paris 1, counterbalanced by the heavy charges for ex-least resistance. Then in view of their squalid The death of Queen Victoria opens up a porting from China through French terntory, daily environment, the revelations of a different wide field of speculation as to the new reign.
world as depicted by the novelist, the fair and re-insporting into China via Hongkong. But one thing is certain, ler successor will
scenes of mountain, valley, and river, uncon taminated by the ugly factofies and workshops never dream of disturbing those constitutional
of industrial progress, the vivid descriptions of limitations of prerogative established by the
works of art and beauty, the account of rich precedents of the past sixty years. ~Le Genevois (Geneva),
dresses and splendid mansions, the clash of swords and noise of battle, or the armoured panoply of chivalric times, have an amount of attraction that cannot be very well understood by those whose lives have been cast in more favourable circumstances.
It is to be regretted that the spectre of war should overshadow the opening reign of Ed ward VII. The world's best wish is that the shadow may soon be removed.-Petit Bleu 14.10 (Brussels).
500.00
400.00 4,000,00
7,205.79
THE MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,
LONDON.
A vast congregation, estimated to "number about 5,000, attended the afternoon service at the metropolitan Cathedral on the 25th of January, says the Daily Mail, all wearing
"I cannot see or feel that this is in any way mourning and indicating in other and deeper ways their grief at the irreparable loss which to be deplored. Before you can raise the class they and the whole Empire have sustained in level of intelligence you must first show the the death of a beloved Queen, whose rule individual members something better, and the was indeed "broad-based upon her people's way to again thereto, so that they may make will" The ordinary service commenced at their endeavour accordingly. If reading is to 4 o'clock, but the congregation began to be cultivated at all, it it must be from the point assemble fully an hour earlier, entering bv of interest; and maintain that the novelist, the smaller west doors. The inscription and he alone up to the present, has had any cut in the stone pavement at the foot of partion in providing the material wherewith to the steps leading up to the central or great establish the love of reading in the masses on est doar announcing that "Here Queen Vic-a firm and fruitful basis. From story-reading toria returned thanks to Almighty God for the readers will gradually advance to works of Both anniversary of her accession, June 22, 4.1). | literature other than fiction; essays and poetry 1897," was read by many before entering the will attract attention in growing ratio, and the Cathedral, and afterwards was doubtless reflect- love of good work will gradually and surely be Then working-class" novel-readers, ed upon by them, telling as it does of a joyful raised. and ever-to-be-remembered celebration in her pure and simple, fall into differerent ranks of
opinion that the general standard is on the upward grade."
TO-DAY.
On dute at On claté set"
WEATHER REPORT,
Barometer.... Temperature Humidity Rainfall.
TO-DAY.
20 M
4 p.m.
30.37
30.16.
58
70
0.17
Thursday, 28th Febrúary, 1901. – Chinese-zuth of 1st mean of 28th year of:
Kwang-sit. Sun-Kiser
Sub
Shipping.
Arrival.
BENLOMOND, British steamer, 1,750, Wm. Hutton, 28th Feb,-Moji zist Feb., Coal. -Gibb, Livingston & Co. PARRAMATTA, British steamer, 2,854, C. Denny, K.N.R, 28th Feb.,-Shanghai 26th Feb, Mails and General, P. & O, S. N. Co.
Clearances at the Harbour Olina. Kwangs, British str., for Shanghai, Mongkul, German str., for Santow. Marburg, German str., for Yokohama. Momeneur, British str., for Shanghai, Pak Kang, British ser., for Canton. Iosang, British str., for Shanghai. Iveemen, German str., for Shanghai Heimson, British str., for Cantori. ini, French str., for Hoihow. uchun, British str., for Shanghai, kang, between pirate junks and Chi-tongkoi, German str., for Yap Island. nese gunboats.
6hr, 24min 65. min. High watsa-Morning ..... Fhr. 16min. Afternoon .... Shr, 15min. Low water-Morning ...... ohr. 39min. Afternoon ... okr. omin. ANNIVERSARIES." 1831-Pitched battle in Aberdeen Bay, Hong
1876--Capture of the Sula capital by the
Spaniards.
TO-MORROW.
Friday, 1st March, 1901. Chinese-11th of ist man of 27th year
Kwang-st. Sun-Riter
Set.... High water-Morning
Afternoon Low water-Morning.
Afternoon
ANHIVERSARIES,
okr. 23min. 6hr. amin.
pår. duin.
phr. agmin, zhr. 7min. ohr. 23min.
•
of
1842-Surrender of Guzuee by Lieut, Col.
Palmer, 1862-Public Meeting decided to establish a
Volunteer Corps. 1877-The German Army entered Paris. 1585--Bombardment of Chinese forts by French
1
men-of-war
chow.
1886-Citinase gunboat Sri-isin lost off. Nam.
1897--Gold Standard adopted by Japan. 1893-Chiness contract loan for £16,000,000
completed. 1900-Relief of Ladysmith announced at
Shanghai.
The new King of England knows France too well for it to be possible for any counsellor 13.401.04 to mislead him in regard to England's neighbour 132,514.65 across the Channel. He knows our politicians, our society, and our public; and there can be $150,830.79 no doubt that the liking which he knows has always been felt toward him in France will Balance brought forward from 1899$ 11,054.30 remain his as King of England-Journal des
Débats (Paris). Interest and profit on sale of invest
A fresh era is beginning, and the heralds are 132,570.20 Crying, The Queen is dead! Long live the King The verdict rests with history-Temps $150,830.79 (Paris),
The rince who has already behind him a long and active life, succeeds in a heritage such as no man has ever come into before him. It is an Empire which is, perhaps, only exceeded by China in point of population, but in extent late Majesty's reign, but forcibly reminding mental grasp and foresight, and I am of firm' Annual Hongkong Races. Third Day. might, and wealth is unrivalled, that Queen 195.00 Victoria, Enipress of India, Iraves at death to 6.763.81 her son and hei:.-Petersburgen Zeitung (St. 12,909.92 Petersburg), 132,514.65
The new Sovereign is the first nobleman of his Empire. He is now confronted with the $652,381-38 lufty and arduous duty of proving himself a
$ cts.
ruler on the throne. It is to be hoped that the
of peace.
BALANCE SHEET, Liabilities,
Capital 10,000 shares @ $50 paid-
up.......
Reserve fund
Due to General Managers
Sundry creditors
Balance of profit and loss
Assets.
Cost of land, factory,
machinery &c. as per
last account. $160,000,00
Expended on new exten.
sion to 31st December 1000..
43,402.04
account
$ cis.
300,000,00
203,402,04 Less Depreciation...... 13,402,04
190,000,00 Rope, &c., &c. in gedown, valued at 164.278.39 Rope on cousignment, valued at... 141.225.00 Fire Insurance Premia,
4,421.48 87,778.83 25.00 128,154.78 $652,383 38
Sundry debtors
Cash at factory Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation
We have compared the above statements with the books and vouchers of the Company and found the same in accordance there with:
THOS. ARNOLD Auditors. F. HENDERSON
MAN'S CRUELTY TO MAN. The inost prominent building in the ancient city of Nuremburg is the castle. It stands upon a precipitous ledge of rock, and its two towers overlook a singular sea of red-roofed, irregularly built houses. One of these served as a prison; the other, called the Fünfeckige Tower, its walls forming an irregular pentagon, was used for torture., It is so old as to ante. date the castle itself, and contained a veritable museum of horrors until it was purchased by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, in whose possession the relics now are..
The Wheel" was made of stout wood with flanges on the runs at certain intervals. The man was fastened, fiice upwards, to the rungs of a ladder, when the wheel was run over bim backwards and forwards more or less heavily, the flanges penetrating the flesh, The "Chair of Torture" is a piece of heavily made furniture, studded over in the seat and elbows with wooden blust topped spikes. To it the victim was tightly bound, and in a short time discomfort began to manifest itself, and increased until it became unbearable. During its continuance the torture was enhanced in various ways by means of wedges inserted between the legs until the skin burst, or screws applies to the thumbs until the blood spurted forth. The "Maiden" was the counterfeit presentment a young woman, but ser limbs were cast in an oaken mould, and woe to him who experienced her fearful embrace! She was constructed in three parts, the front two swinging on hinges, and these doors were studded with stilettoes so placed that the enclosed victim would be pierced in his most vital patts. The fiendish ingenuity of the figure was enhanced by the position of the two uppermost stilettoes, which were so arrang- ed as to nenetrate the eyes,
world is the richer for a
Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Vienna).
THE RED AND WEST RIVERS.
In his Report on the trade of Ssumao (in the south-west corner of Yunnan) and Mengtse (near the French Tonquin border; the Acting Consul, Mr. Lition says:-
It is notable that in 1899 only $9,8ool, or a little over 7 per cent of the total trade; is to or from the French Colonial Empire; all the rest, or 93 per cent, comes from or goes to the Bri- dish colony of Hongkong.
The town of Mengtse itself is neither large nor wealthy; it is little more than a forwarding station for goods. The Chinese merchants in Hongkong barter their yarns and cottons against Yunnan tin and opium. There are three large warehouses at Manhao, whence the joports are forwarded on mules to Mengtse, whence after passing the customs they are commonly sent on into the interior under transit pass on in Mengtse, and in a town through which over 750,000 sterling of Hongkong trade passes it is a matter of great difficulty to change a cheque on Hongkong,
From another point of view, Mengtse is of considerable importance. Situated on the edge of the healthy plateau of Yunnan, it is the natural sanatorium for the French officials and soldiers who are compelled to live in the low and unhealthy valley of the Red River.
The reasons for the satisfactory development of the Mengise trade may be summarised as follows:-
those who visited the spot yesterday of their lasting bereavement.
A few minutes before the service began the chair boys in a body, in their every-day attire, entered the Cathedral by the south door and proceeded to the vestry, from which they issued presently surpliced, heading the "gentlemen of the choir" and the clergy, among whom were the Dean, Canon Scott Holland (Canon in residence), the Archdeacon of London, Bishop Barry, and Minor Canons Gilbertson Kelly, and Morgan Brown. Sir George Martin, the organist, had already proceeded in his place. The Cathedral was now filled to its utmost capacity, every seat under the dome, in the choir, and in the transepts being occupied. The Communion Table and the pulpit were heavily draped, and crape bangings were sus. pended against the pillars beneath the dome.
After the clergy and the choir had taken their accustomed places in the chancel, the usual afternoon service was at once protected with, the only alteration in.it consequent on the death of the Queen being that the selection from Mendelssohn's St. Paul, which it had been mtended to give, was replaced by the beautiful anche "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. This was sung to music by Stanford.
Literature, in commenting on these state- mente, quotes from a recent letter in the London Daily News by the president of the London Metropolitan Board Teachers' Asso- ciation, in answer to a statement by a member of the London School Board that Hooliganism is bred in the erening-schools. The former gentleman assens that Hooliganism arises nat from education, but from the want of it, in fact from truancy. "There are 700,000 children of school age in the London School Board area," he says; "of these, 100,000 are always absent." From this semi-illiterate portion, aided by parental neglect, emerges Hooligan ism.. But even of these truanta, inost learn to read, he says, and this, far from being an evil, is the only hope for them. Literature continues:
AGENDA,
TO-DAY.
Boxing Tournament at the Theatre Royal City Hall under the management of Mr. C. T. Robinson, p.m.-Sharp. Harmston's Circus at the Re- creation Ground (near the Race Course.)
9
Cargo
ex Lightning subject to rent.
FRIDAY 1st, March, Diocesan Seliool re-opens..
5 p.m.-C. & M. Co.'s steamer Esmeralda þeaves
for Manila.
8.30 for 9 pm.-Precisely. Regular Meeting of the Zetland Lodge at the Freemason's Hall Cargo ax Indravelli subject to rent.
SATURDAY 2nd.
London.
Noon-F. & O. steamer Paramatta leaves for
Non-T. K, K. steamer Hongkong Maru leaves for Yokohama, and Honolulu, via Shanghai etc.
Berrikute,
Feb. 27, Chingle, British str., for Kobe. Feb. 28, Mongkut, German sir, for Bangkok. Feh. 28, Asongse, British str., for Shanghai. Feb. 28, Tacoma, American str., for Tacoma. Feb. 28, Eyzeroon, German str, for Shanghai Feb. 23, Seechuen. British str., for Ningpo. Feb. 28, Fuskum, British str., for Shanghai. Feb. 28, Marburg, German str., for Yokohama. Feb. 28, Canton, British str., for Shanghai Feb. 28, Tsurugison Maru, Jap str, for Moji,
STEAMRES EXPLER"
Names.
To-morrow To-morrow
Singapore
Hapan ...
Mar. 4th
Mar. 4th
Mar 4th
(Mar. 5th
Mar 5th
Plassy Kusang... Singapore China Hiroshima Maru...Japan. Nankin.
Singapore Kautschow.... Hapan Kawachi Maru Kebe Stuttgart
Colombo... Mar. 7th
Doric .............San Francisco...Mar. 12th Empress of China. Vancouver...... Mar 18th Nippon Mara....... San Francisc...Mar, 17th
We work dietat the seatina f -hungen; dona to da style in which "Steamers Exycue" and "ujete? plinos" are now published in the columns, and in so doinė mensche fully argo the managers of shipping firms to vice'inders te their clerks to Cornish this office, the fine already spps ofle rail with the latest nosiljka inferersilan setry day,
PROJECTED SAILINGS.,
Skip
Destination.
Date
Mur. 13th
Akashi Maru ...Swatow, &c.......Mar. th America Maru....San Francisco, &c. April 3rd Bamberg. Havre, &c... Auping Maru...Foochon
Bayern Bombay Bracmar China......
..April 10th Mar. zoth ...Mar. 1st
Straits, &c. Shanghai, &c. Victoria, B.C... Mar. 4th Sau Francisco, &c. Mar. 12th City of Peking San Francisco, &c. April 30th City of Rio San Francisco, &c.April 6th Coptic ..... San Francisen, &c. April 13th Deucalion London............... Mar, 19th Diamante Manila Mar. 4th Emp. China.....Vancouver, &c......pril 3rd Doric.............. San Francisco, &c. Mar. 19th Emp. India...
..April 24th Einp. Japan
Mar. 13th Esmeralda
MONDAY, 41h. p.m.--General Meeting of the Hongkong.
Rifle Association at the Volunteer and Head Quarters.
TUESDAY, 5th.
Freiburg Gaelic Glenogle Gymeric
Manila
Portland, &c. Havre, &c ...
Mar. 15t
Mar. 10th
Mar. 8th
San Francisco. &c, May 7th
Victoria, B.C. New York
Mar. 22nd Jok. desp.
the day of their arrival. There are no banks.) ghar which had drawn together lhe enormous [iz., not of the Roard Schools, but Harrow,. 3 p.m.-Steamer Lightning leaves for Singa. Hakata Maru...Kobe & Yokohama Mar. 15th
(1) The Red River is the natural trade route between Hongkong and Yunnan, the land carriage being much less than by the West River route,
་་
pore l'enang Calcutta.
"The outery against education which was beard in the seventies is dying, but it is dying hard. The key of knowledge is still but grudg- ingly offered to those who teally need it... No serious person can believe-though the protest would seen to be needed--that. education,
has believed, is to shose' one function, as every age and country 5.15
civilize, to soften the manners, and to let the ape and tiger die,' really leads to crimes of violence. But there 5.30 p.m.-Organ Recital at the Union Church. The service, which lasted exactly three-quar are two eorts of eduction. The main object of ters of an hour, was immediately followed by secondary education-of the public schools congregation present. This was described in Rugby, etc)-is to educate character, The the printed particulars which were circulated in main object of the primary schools is to impart the cathedral as a "Form of service on the death knowledge and let character go. There un of her Majesty Queen Victoria," but certainaltera-doubtedly lies one solution of the Hooligan tions were made in the first collect, and Psalm problem. Those who assert that education is cxxi. (1.will lift up miac eyes ") was omitted. useless fit only creates a debauched literary "Dead March" in Sand was afterwards taste can make a more plausible case. But there played by Sir George Martin, the whole con. is much exaggeration both in their ficts and their gregation reverently rising with the opening arguments. One critic sees in the fact that the note of Handel's soul-stirring music. This brought to an appropriate termination a short but most impressive service, which deeply affected the majority of those who heard it. The congregation shortly afterwards sorrowfully dispersed.
The
CONSCRIPTS IN FRANCE. (2) The respect paid to transit passes by the local officials in Yunnan is very beneficial to The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, the trade. Thus in 1889 no less than 85 per writing from Paris under date January 24th cent. of the total imports and 95 per cent. of says:The duninution in the annual contingent the cottons and yarns went into the interior of recruits, long apprehended in consequence under transit pas. An examination ́of the | of the stationary state of the population, would places for which passes were issued goes to seem to be becoming apparent. The conscripts prove that Mengise supplies South, Yunnan | who will join the army in November have just only. The towns which took up most of the been making their declarations and going imports were, in the order of their importance through the formality of the "tirage au sort" Yunnan-fu, Cheng Kiang, Chu Ching, Kai Such of the returns as have already been sent Hun, Lin An, all important centres in South ia by the recruiting officers, and which refer so Yunnan. Thus Mengise is the chief supply far exclusively to Paris and the department of town for a district containing a population of the Seine, show a curious state of things. The about 2,500,000, or about half of the whole number of recruits has fallen off in all the dis- province.
tricts for which the results are known, and in many cases the shrinkage is very considerable. It amounts, for instance, to 10 per cent, for one of the sections of the capital, and to 15 per cent. for the suburb of Aubervilliers. It is
the department of the Seine may be some 3,000 men below the average. The figures have never been so tow before except in the case of the contingents of 1890 and 1891, who were born at the time of the Franco-German war. As an excuse for the thinness of this year's con: tingent, it is urged that the winter of 1880 wat the coldest of the century, and that the infant monality in the course of it was exceptionally high. It is certain, however, that the compar atively satisfactory figures of the last two or three years were only reached by dint of the
The unwonted observance by the officiats of the treaty stipulations about transit passes is not due to foreign pressure, but to the action of the high officer (Taotai) who first opened Mengive, and was an enemy of the likin offi-feared that the total contingent furnished by cials. The passes once established have been maintained by the vigilance of the Commis. sioner of Customs.
In view of the large production of these mines,
(3) The considerable tin production which enables the Yudnanese to pay for their cot- tons and yams. The important mines of Kuo. Though offenders were usually confined in chiu are conveniently situated near Mengise, the prison tower, the unhappy wretch condem- and heavy charges for freight are thus avoid ned to death by the "Maiden" spent the nighted. In 1899 the price of tin in Hongkong before execution in her company. Taking his was very favourable to the operations of the local last look at the light his last breath of the free merchants and gentry who own the mines. air of heaven, he entered from the ramparts a narrow doorway in the five-sided tower, and by a winding stair gained the torture cham- ber- low room some nipe fect each way, Profound gloom added to the horror of the place, but as the eye grew accustomed to its surround- ings, the dim light that filtered through the narrow slits which served as windows revealed the shrouded form of the "Maiden." Within A couple of paces was a sort of pen, where, stretched upon a miserable pallet, the heavily manacled prisoner got such repose as his racked limbs and fearful anticipa tions permitted. Escape was impossible
it is hardly necessary to state that the provincial' very vigorous enforcement resorted to of late board of mines, which has hitherto effectually of the law relating to foreigners, and of the prevented the development of the mineral retemporary consequences due to the Franco- sources of other parts of Yunnan, has nothing Belgian Convention. That it will henceforth to do with the management of Kuo-chin. be more and more difficult to keep up the army (4) The tranquillity of the Red River, which to its present strength is beyond a doubt, was formerly much infested by pirates, is abso. General Andre, as may be known, has just lutely essential to the maintenance of the decided to ask the Chamber to abolish the Mengtse trade; this has been secured by the height limit. The mannikins under five feet, action of the French authorities. Soon after who used to be dispensed from military service the conquest of Tonkin, Alengtse was found to at now to be taken, provided they are able be the most suitable mart on the Chinese side bodied and of sound constitution. It is rather of the frontier, and since then the disorders on surprising that the Minister of War should no despairing scream, no groan of anguish, the Red River have been gradually suppressed. have thought this alteration in the regula could penetrate the immense thickness of the Roads, telegraphs, and inilitary stations have tions worth making, as, apart from all walls. The solitude was frightful. Imagina- been established by the French along the great other considerations, the numerical, results tion pictures the condemned man awaking route, and though the natural obstructions to it can yield will be very trilling. Only some from nightmare dreams to a full consciousness navigation have not and probably cannot be three hundred odd conscripts were rejected of his position. The few feeble rays of light altogether removed, it should be remembered last year in the department of the Scine on slanting from Above just showed in ghastly out that the pacification of the river is entirely the account of the height limit, and of the number line the awful form that with sightless eyes result of French control, and that, were that the majority were deformed or otherwise quite watched and waited! A new day dawned, the control removed, the river highway would very unfit for military service. More efficacious, it city woke to busy life, and by-and-bye thesdon be blocked.
may be thought, than General Andre's innova minions of the law visited the condemned cell (s) The unsatisfactory condition of the tion would be proposal inade by M, Leroy The poor wretch was dragged from his bed, Chinese or West River route from Hongkong Beaulieu, the well-known economist, who sug the Maiden's" arms opened, and he was and Canton to Yunnan has driven the trade to gests that the State should for preference em- thrust within them. Then, second by second, its rival, the Mengtse route. The opening of ploy in all its multifarious services none but slowly but surely, those fatal arms closed upon Wuchou has done little or nothing to improve the fathers of at least three children. A Gov- him, and, the deed of blood consummated, the condition of the Upper West River; in the ernment post being the supreme ambition of trap-door fell, and his mangled remains, des- year 1899, after traversing the chief trade routes so many Frenchmen, M. Leroy Beaulieu is cended to the sapulchre below New Penny of Kwangs, I came to the conclusion that this perhaps right in esteeming that his premium Magasini,
* Aprovinci bad for some years been so infested on paternity would send up the birth rate,
a
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porters at railway stations collect all the news- papers, all the ephemeral trubbish which has been idly scanned and thrown away,' a direct and melancholy result of mechanics' institutes. We need not enter now on the large question of the influence of inferior journalism; but in the matter of 'good' and 'bad' literature we cannot forget that these are relative terms. What is bad in the view of the cultured gentle- man may be good for the uncultured working | man. The former may question some of Mr.
Phillips' literary judgments; but our contributor is right in saying that the reading of fiction, even poor fiction, if it is wholesome, 'is simply a symptom of an interest in things that are brighter and more alluring than that every day dull grayness which surrounds the life of so many people.' It only wants to be guided aright-here the managers of public libraries have a great responsibility-and, at any rate, the first step will have been taken toward that ap preciation of great thoughts and beautiful pic- tures in which lies the sovereign remedy for savagery and crime.”—Literary Digest.
THE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY.
The larger portion of the 5,000 Imperial Yeorony that have been called for service in South Africa will be mobilized at Aldershot. In- structions have been given to prepare the East Cavalry Barracks for the reception and require- ments of the Ycomary, who will be drafted out to the front in companies as soon as they are mobilized and equipped. A short course of before cubarcation, and the men will also be instruction lasting ten days or so will be given
furnished with horses and tried in the riding school before leaving. Major H. D. Fanshaw, second in command ofthe and Dragoon Guards, has been appointed commandant of this Yeo- manry depot.
5.15 p.m. Lecture by Mr. J. J. Francis K. C. in the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall. p.m.-Yearly General Meeting of the Mem
bers (only) of the Hongkong Club.
WEDNESDAY, Gth.
5
Noon-N. D. L. steamer aufschon with mails
etc. leaves for Europe. Noon-Meeting of the Shatcho'ders of the
Hongkong Fire Insurance at the Com- pany's Offices.
3pm.-Auction of the Kace Ponies by Messrs. Hughes and Hough opposite the City Hall.
Hamburg
(Straits, &c ........June 13th Hiroshima Maru. Singapore, &e......Mar. 6th Hoihow.. Hongkong Marsan Francisco, &c. Mar. 2nd Shanghai. Mar. 1st
Idomeneus
Ixion
Shanghai... Mar, 1st London
Mar. 4th Kaifong.
Manila, &c.
Mar. 2nd Kawachi Maru...Marseilles, &c... ¡Mar. Bil Kiautschou. Straits, &c. Mar. 6th König Albert straits, &c. ......... April 17th Lightning Singapore, &c...... Mar. 5th Maizuru Maru...Tamsui. Malacca
London.... Marburg Mazagon
¡Havre, . Nankin Kobe.........
Bombay, &c.
Nippon Maru...San Franciscu, Parramatta Europe, &c. Patroclus
Plassy
Liverpool. Shanghai Preussen ...... Straits, &c. Prinz Heinrich...Summits, Rc.
THURSDAY, 7th. Noon-Statutory Meeting of the Shareholders of the Hongkong steam Water Boaf Co. Ld., at the Company's Office, Noon-Meeting of the Shareholders of thPrinzess Irene... Straits, &e......
China Fire Insurance at the Company's Sachsen...... Offices.
SATURDAY, gth. Noon-Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Share- holders of the Hongkong Rope Madu- facturing Co. Ld., at their offices.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
HAILS DUR,
Indian (Kumsang) to-morrow. English (Plassy) to-morrow. American (China) 4th prox. German (Kiautschou) 5th prox. German (Stuttgart) 7th prox.. American (Doric) 12th prok. Canadian (Empress of China) 18th prox. American (Nippon Afaru) 19th prox.
1.
(European Line) lei Kube via Moji for this arrive here on Wednesday, the 6th March. port to-day, the 28th inst, and is expected to
The N. Y. Kji steamer Kawachi--Maru,
#1
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK HITVENN The nired transport Manhattan sailed from
S.M.S. Hansa .........
Kawlarin Queenstown on the 24th ulto. for Gibraltar e
U.S.S. Isla de Luzon route to Cape Town. Before she sailed there was no cheering or other manifestation of feel-
U.S.S. Bennington....! ing given either by the troops or by the people Hongkong Maru....... on shore owing to the death of the Queen. She Hu embarked at Queenstown two officers, so men Nanyang of the 16th Lancers, Lieutenant Adams, Lieu. tenant James, Lieutenant Younger, of the 14th Hussars, Mr. Thomson, civil surgeon, Captain Egbert Jobson, and 86 remounts. At Gibraltar she | Pompey... will receive seven officers, 27 men, and seven Chowlal horses of mounted infantry. She took on board at London drafts from the 7th Dragoons, one officer, 121 men, noe horse, three men, eight officers, and 470 remounts.
NOTANDA
CALENDAR.
FEBRUARY. Meteorological means based on fifteen years'. observations to 7898.
Barometer: „şirez-bros-................ 30.145 Thermomater. 57.3. Humidity ......................................................... 79,0& Rainfall
Avalanche
Marakolu.
PASSED THE CANAL Outward-8th February-Agamentnon, Ben- cleuch. 12th Feb-Gisela, Juhan, Stuttgart, Hudson. 15th Feb-Ernest Simon, Stakets Maru, Tantalus, Trust, Ascanide Neptune, zand Feb.djor, Konigsberg, King, Oceanien. 26th Feb-Canton, Sebruyn, Konig Albert,
Homeward-8th Feb -Dardanu, 12th-Fab. Hitachi Mary, 22nd February-Achilles, Norderney, 26th February-Indus, Sambla, Wakasa Maru
Arrivals at Home 16th Febniary / Calchas, Wittenberg, 231d: Feb. Prik
Sanuki Maru
Savoia
Sibiria
Stentor Strathgyle. Stuttgart Sungkiang
Tacoma..
Tosa Maru
Victoria.....
Straits, &c. ....!.
Mar. 1oth Mar. 9th Mar. 30th.
Mar 26th
Mar. 9th
Mar. 28th
Mar. 2nd
Mar, 16th
[Mar. and
May 29th
May 15th
May 1st
June 27th
Kobe & Yokohama Mar. 2nd Livre, &c.
Alar. 23rd
Havre, &c. ...... April 5th
London.....
......April 3rd
San Diego, &c. ...Mar. 30th Straits, &c.
April 3rd
Manila
Mar. 8th
Victoria, B.C.
Mar. 1st
Victoria, B.C.
Mar. 16th
..¡Victoria, B.C.
Mar. 8th Mar. 22nd
Yawata Maru ... Jajan
SWATOW WEEKLY SHIPPING REPORT.
(February 16th, 1900.)
ARRIVALS.,
Where frasa
Vessels ambay
ской
DATE.
Feb.
to Choyang to Phranang...
E
Farine
Clinfpe
Haiching
FL
Pelayo...
14:Haitan
Yingang
FL
14 Pachilli
13inchi....i.
Н
......Hongkong
Cheloo... Boegkeng
Hongkon
14 Tomaui............Chinking
Thanks
Tingan
15 Akanul Ham
15 Maru.
is Pakhoi
Anping Maru
·JOTRADE
Wenchow...
Wuhuman Hongkong
Chunghat
Agents.
& Co.
, M. & Co.
M. & Co.
& Co. 1. & Co. J. M, & Co.
J. M. & Co.
C. M. & Co.
5.
Amoy & Shanghal... Hongkong:& Co.
Wuku ini.
JAmoy .......
Kilangat
& Co, M& Cheko & Shanghai...U. & S.
DEPARTURES.
Daic Fabio Paoting ...........
Talcheang.
thysang
eart;
Destination. .....Stanghali
Dell
Agents.
&IT. M. G: 1
Houyong & Cantan
Amoy
AS.
hanghai, anytime
ingapore, cum, & Co.
Pensy
Slugtapóro & Veuang.MM. & CO
Shangial Ifongkong
Me & Co.
M. Ca.. AH, &CA
& Canton, M»& Co,