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W regret to have to announce the death of THE dredger Canton River has been raised at On the 43rd instant, at "The Gn ve," Robia-Mr. Elias Hyam Joseph of Ice House Street | last. We are sure that everybody will con son Rond, Kowloon, the wife of T. G. HUGHES, after being ill only two days.
grate late those responsible for the raising Þ. W. D., of a daughter
operations on the plucky manner in which they have stuck to their task. The raising of a vessel of her size and weight was no easy matter, as several failures have proved, so there is all the more reason for congratulation in the fact of
THE British Consular report on the trade of her being once more afloat.
At the Kennedy Town Hospital, at 11.55 1, on the 3rd July, MARY WILSON BROWNHILL widow of the late Mr. Jahn Brownhill, Super- intendent Engineer to Messrs. Bradley & Co, and daughter of Mr. John Wilson, of Bo'ness, Scotland, aged 38 years. The funeral will pass the Monument at 6.30 p.m. this afternoon.
A Cinxese 'workman at the Cosmopolitan Dock was found drowned this morning; we were unable to find out the cause of the accident. AR. Fr. Blunck of Queen's Road is now show
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TELEGRAMS. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.. THE LATE MRS. KRUGER, PRESS SYMPATHETIC.
LONDON, July send. The newspapers respectfully sympathise with Ex-President Kruger in his bereavement. FRANCE AND RUSSIA.
MORE AMENITIES. Count Lamsdorff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expected in Paris in September, returning M. Delcassé's visit to St. Petersburg.
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COST OF THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA.
A BIG BILL. Sir Michael Hicks Beach in the House of Commons, stated that the total cost of the expedition to China amounts to £4,350,000 Sterling, exclusive of the Naval expenditure. THE MANNING OF MERCHANT SHIPS.
ORIENT LINERS TO EMPLOY LASCARS.
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FURTHER INTENSE HEAT.
THE recent flooding of the We-1 River lands
is causing great distress or will in the near future, the incal sugar crop being almost totally destroyed.
H.M.S. is arrived from Kobe to-day and has taken up her buoy in the man-of-war ancho Tilge. B.M.S. Glory, with Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, is expected about the first proximo,
DANIEL D. Emmett, the minstrel," who is said to be dying in his home in Ohio, is eighty- six, and for many years bas virtually tried life all alone with his dog. He will go down to fame as the author of "I wish I was in Dixie."
A SIAMESE woman, at Chayok is the proud mother of sixteen children, brought into the world at eight births. When the King visited Chayko the whole family, who are all paddy cultivators, were presented to His Majesty, and received go ticals each.'
Now that the Kaiser bas issued an order for bidding the presence of reporters at the places where he makes speeches, he will greatly ex- lend his good work if he will issue a decree permitting the absence of the audience.-The Louisville Courier-Journal,
We shall be obliged if any subscriber on receiving his paper late or irregularly will write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Lily 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check, the delivery coolies. As Count Lamsdorff is going to Paris in Sept. we presume that Russia and France are about to go in for another of those'swearing blood brotherhood crazes of which we had so many of Jale. Thank goodness that our British Ministers do not indulge in such demonstrations.
New Caledonia for 19oo points out that British shipping in that year was of less importance
than in 1899, and this will continue not only consequence of the war in South Africa and the troubles in China, but on account of the very high subsidies paid by the French Go- vernment to all French shipping. For instance, writes the Consul, in port at this montent (Feb. 1901), a four-masted barque of 2,400 tons register left Havre in ballast for Saigon, where she took jo a cargo of 1,000 tons of rice for Noumea From here she loads ore for Rotter dam, and her subsidy for the entire voyage will amount to from 66,000 to £6,400 according to distance run.
THE Acting State Surgeon, Perak writes as follows: Attention is being paid to the fact that arsenic may be the cause of the neuritis in 'beri-beri, Dr. Connolly, District Surgeon, Batu Gajah, writes in his annual report up to the present, however, a chemical analysis of a not profound character it is true, has failed to find arsenic in beri-beri patients. In support of the arsenic theory, i would point out that 95 per cent of beri-beri cases treated are Chinese, and quite go per cent, aro miners by occupation; when we know that arsenic in combination with other metals is
common in the soil where these Chinese have to stand for hours while searching for tin, we may regard the possibility of arsenic as a cause for beri-beri as being something more than problematic."
I often happens, according to 'Eleveur, "that in cleaning fowls we find pins, bits of iron wire or the like, in their gizzards. This is the case with fowls that have no gravel at their disposal and are driven by instinct to swallow hard bodies. It a pin thus swallowed issues from the intestine and reaches the shell-sac at the moment when an egg without a shell reaches the same point, it will be enveloped in the shell and thus enclosed in the egg. Per If Lord Salisbury went in for this sort of thingrauet, the famous architect of the eighteenth every time he visited the Continent we should century, relates a case in his memoirs. He teils of an egg in which a pin was found with- be blood brothers of half Europe.
out anything to show how it got there. The Tux Daily Express (London) of the 30th ult.nin was covered with a thin whitish crust which says:-The University of Londou proposes 10 made it look like a frog's thigh-bone. Under
ALTHOUGHl we have the greatest respect for the Lascar we are sorry to see that the Direct- ors of the Orient Line have decided is employ them. We are greatly in want of British sea. men for our fleet and in still greater want of an efficient Naval Reserve, and every ship that discards British for Lascar seamen strikes a blow at our efficiency. We shall be interested
to hear what the Navy League has to say on the subject.
THE'A &. T. Times says that the North-west
Fort at Taku is at present only occupied by 25
inarines under Capt. Dyer. Some undermining work has been done, we believe in the hope that the rainy season will facilitate the work of demolition if fitially decided on. Most of the guns from the Forts have been sent to the respective countries holding them, a few obso lete and valueless ones being broken up for old iron.
ACCORDING to the Mercury's telegram which
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publish this evening, the Chinese with the four captured torpedo boats, (one, the Taku, now in the Harbour) to be returned to them. Well, of course, as we are told we have never been at war with China, we are only taking care of the Taku for them, painting her up a bit and keeping her brasswork bright; we ought to send a prince of some description with her, apologising for having kept her so long. NEAR Keanedy's stables, by the Tram Station are to be seen some of the new water-carts which have been built for the Government by Messrs. Bailey and Murphy. As these cans are completed and the weather is hot and dusty we should like to know why it is they are not in use? Can it be that the P.W.D., or other Departinent responsible, has no coolies or horses to draw them, or are they to be left there just as ornaments? A water-cart may be a very pretty thing to look at, but it is made more for use than ornament. OVER four and a third millions is a pretty high- price to have to pay to rescue the Legation's and get the heads of a few coolies lapped off, for that is about all that the accomplishments of the China Expedition amount to. Then to this there is to be added the expenses of the flect, which will certainly be another big bill However, we presume that China will have to pay for it all sooner or later and so she will find
summer's foreigner shooting come expensive: We wonder what the moral and intellectual damages will be stated at?
The Kabe Herald of the 16th inst; says a Tokio despatch to the vernacular papers reports that a burglar (or burglars) broke into a godown of the Government Mint and made away with which were in a safe about to be sent to the Bank of Japan. The burglary was discovered by the watchmen early next morning and was reported to the authorities immediately. The numbers of the notes would appear to be, known, as Mr. Sone, Minister of Finance, is issuing a notice that the stolen notes will not
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A fresh wave of intense heat is passing establish. a "department of practical Chinese,"his crust the pin was black and soinewhat new yen 10 notes to the amount of yen 30,000
over the American corn belt.
Special Telegrams to the Shanghai Mercury. The Russians Stop a German Officer Travelling Through Manchuria.
Major Bauer (German), an officer of the Railway Brigade attached to the staff of Count Waldersee, intended to return to Germany through Manchuria and Siberia, but the Rus sians, who apparently did not wish to let him sec all their cards, refuced him passage. He therefore returned to Chefgo and thence to Vladivostock.
Colonel Powell had about the same ex perience but disregarded the Russian prohibi- tion and went ahead. It is reported from reliable sources that the Russians had a very
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reported that it is incorrect, as stated in several English papers, that he was arrested as a spy. Colonel Powell has made no backward move,
ment up to the present and great interest is felt as to whether or no the Russians will allow a British officer to do what they refused to allow a German officer to do.
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with the object of teaching that language to officers, commercial men, and others proposing to make a career in China. Mr. George Brown, late British Consul at Kiu-kiang, will be ap THE Kobe City authorities, says the 'Heraid pointed director of the department, and will be have been buying rats at the rate of 5 sen per assisted by native Chinese. The China Asso-head since May last as a preventive measure ciation have, guaranteed £500 a year for five against bubonic plague. A large number of years towards the cost. Sir Henry Roscoe hasrats have been purchased, and analytically ex- | be honoured. been elected Vice-Chancellor of the University.amined. Only two were found to be infected
The Academy prints the following list of titles from an alleged book catalogus ; "The Double Thread," uncut: "The History of China," quaint plates; "The Mantle of Elijah," cloth, hardly soiled; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, badly foxed;"Le Jardinier Francais," Plantin Press; The Compleat Angler," front missing; "History of the Sword," many cuts; "Don
Quixote," original old calf; "Portrait of a Lady, name on title-page; "Frederick the Great," wants two pages; " Beyond the Dreams Avarice," 25. 6d. "Success in journalism," splendid copy. -
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THE fatest local flotation viz. Messrs. Powell Limited, are evidently going to work in the right way to secure the patronage of residents and visitors. They have secured the services
with plague germs. The fund for the purchase of rats gave out on the 8th inst, and when the matter was introduced in the City Assembly á resolution was carried to discontinue the system of purchase. The Kencho authorities thereupon issued an order to the City officials to continue the purchase of rats, at the old rate on and after the 14th. A meeting of the City Assembly to discuss the order was called en Sunday last, A heated discussion took place but no resolu.
tion was arrived at. The Aldermen's Council was held recently, when it was decided to re-
spect the Ken order to purchase rats and the
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Ir America goes on having unprecedented kest waves we shall have to ask for reliable ther- mometer readings. Nearly every summer we
somewhere or otherin the States, and this must bear of unprecedented heat in New York or
mean that each succeeding summeris hotter than the last. If things go on in this way we shall have boiling point passed in a few years, and what will happen then? Can it be that the Ameri can thermometers have learnt to give sensational
readings by a close study of yellow journals?"
If so, the sooner they come to their senses the better. When the thermometer starts to try and
lick creation things are apt to grow unpleasantly
warm. We suppose the expansion craze has affected the mercury.
affair has thus been settled for the time being. THERE was a very large gathering of the old and new friends of Mr. Cornelius Thorne in We would warn our readers against an old, the drawing room of the Hongkong and grey-bearded member of the beachcombing
The Russians Release Chinese Prisonors. belong to the Naval Academy at Port Arthur of Mr. R. G. Heckford, a gentleman with Shanghai Bank, on the 19th inst, when he was fraternity who wanders about the place with a
The 13 Chinese officers and sailors, who
when it was under Chinese control, and who, in spite of Russian occupation, insisted in carry ing on their studies there, and were therefore sent by the Russians to Saghallen after the out- break of the troubles, have now been released
fourteen years experience in the best houses in the West End of London. Mr. Heckford is aiming at, not so much getting out a large consignment at one time, but to receive
presented with still another testimonial of regard and affection hefore his departure from Shanghai. Mrs. Thome, and her three
fine little sons were also present and there were
very pitiful tale of having been just discharged from some vessel or other without money, or left behind, or any other yarn that he thinks
will attract a dollar, or less. This man has
by the Russians. They arrived in Shanghai weekly shipments of the very latest novelties quite a number of ladies in the room. The been in the Colony considerably over six
last Thursday, afternoon by a Russian steamer, and are now to be quartered on board the different vessels of the Peiyang flect
A Captured Cruiser Returned to the Chinese.
THE CHINESE ADMIRAL WANTS THE FOUR TORPEDO BOATS.
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meals at the Star Coffee House they will soon make beachcombing unprofitable, and thes: lusty rogues will be obliged to work for their living instead of cadging,
so that any Hongkong lady who wishes to keen presentation took the form of a handsome gold months and has not done a stroke of work up to date, must pay regular visits to Messrs. watch, having Mr. Thorne's monogram on during that time. He makes his living by one side and on the other the inscription begging, and is to be seen in the low pubs of * Lest you forget" Cornelius Thome, the city at all hours. If people will refuse to ACCORDING to a house paper, there is a Mexican From
in-Shanghai, 19th July give such men anything but a chit for bed or "enthusiasm "which some people desire should 1901 Mr. R. W. Little made the presentation be introduced into this country. It is that of in a very touching little speech in which he shaking bands on all possible occasions. Men briefly referred to the genuine regret which is shake bands with many of their friends both felt at Mr. Thorne's departure from amongst upon entexing and leaving a street car. The in-us, after nearly half a century of a life so in- spector of the tickets on the car will shake timately bound up with Shanghai. The reply bands with a number of his regular pas by Mr. Thorne was quite moving and its touch segers every morning, clerks behind the of sadness had to be relieved in a rousing round will shake hands with of chreering and handshaking. Mr. Thorne the customers that they know, and when the and his family left on the 20th by the Express employees of a store or mercantile establish boat and the best wishes of the entire com- ment assemble in the morning the formal greet-munity accompany him and his family-China ing is never omitted. In Mexico, too, there are often protracted discussions as to which of two men shall accept the honour of entering a street car or a doorway fitst, or which shall
The Chinese cruiser Haiyang, formerly the flagship of Admiral Yib, which was taken by the allies last summer off Taku, has been restared to the Chinese.. Admiral Yil is at present in Peking and is doing his utmost to ket back the four torpedo boats which were taken by the British, one being kept by them, White Seal Capsule ‹-
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The 6th armas are to be stationed at Tongshan from about the middle of next ́month. On the vacation of the West Village by this regiment, the Hongkong Regiment will take up its abode there, the officers occupying the Tautai's House in Taku Road as their quarters and incss.
Respectable Chinese families are flocking into Peking from the surrounding districts, as
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The frequent sound of guns at night outside banded troops looting the surrounding villages, Peking is reported to be due to Jung Lu's dis and foreign troops suppressing them.
Wines of a very superior Vintage. N. part of the China Sea. Forecast-Moderate ship to the Alabama and the Wisconsin. She benefit thereby. Accordingly, it is said, he sanctioned an exchange of uniforms with the
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fallen in the Nonh, risen over the Philippines. A depression lies over N.E. China and the iow pressure trough still lies in the N. part of the A CONTEMPORARY gives the following notes China Sea Gradients slight on the China on the Illinois, said to be the fastest battleship coast, moderate with fresh N.E. winds in the in the U. S navy The Illinois je a sister
E. winds; fair.
The Timeball at Kowloon Point is out of order and cannot be dropped. A new ball, nów under construction, will be ready in the course of a few days. Chronometers may, in the meantime, be compared at the Observatory, if desired.
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A SPECIAL cable to the Ostasiatische Lloyd, dated Berlin, July 18th, states that Count Tolstoi is dying.
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The Lieut-General Commanding having
Russians, a complete sample outfit of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Hongkong Regiments have been issued to the Russian Military Authorities.
PRINCE CHUN.
THERE is a neat liule story told of the Kaiser and Herr Ballin, managing director of the Ham burg-American line, says the Pall Mall Gazette, Herr Ballin is a man of brilliant business capa- City, and the Kaiser, who is a judge of men, had made up his mind that the State, and nor the Hamburg-American line' alone, should
one day asked Herr Ballin how he would re ceive an after to join, the Ministry. Herr Ballin pointed out that as he was a Jew the offer was of no use to him. The Kaiser did not see that at all. Every thing, in his, opinion, ought to give way to
Many people were on the lookout to-day for the good of the German Empire. If a Jew,dhe arrival of the Bayern with Prince Chun on being a Jew, cannot serve the State as he board, but as the vessel has put into Foochow ought, then let him cease to be a Jew and she will not arrive until daylight 10-marrow. It there is an end of it. So, When Herr Ballin is understood that Prince Chun will first call at said that he was a Jew, the Kaiser replied. airily, "Oh, that can be cured" Herr Ballia hastened to correct his Majesty. He explained that he was not only a Jew by birth, but also one by conviction. The former obstacle might certainly be got over, but what about the latter Always fair to a fault, the Kaiser admitted that he was floored, but refused to admit himself beaten.
Excellency, the Governor will be invited to ten Goverment House and after interviewing. His by the Chinese Merchants at the Chinese Club. This latter entertainment is of a purely non- official character and it is not even known as yet if the Prince will accept the invitation. A Chinese cruiser has been detailed to meet the Bayeth and make arrangements for the landing of the Prince, etc. but so far it is not known if he will land. A guard of honour will be ready to meet him if he comes nahord