Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1901.
U.S. MAIL LINES.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO., OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL $.S. CO.
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE;
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.
"CITY OF PEKING"
"GAELIC "
"CHINA "
"DORIC".
"PERU"
DOPTIC "
..............TUESDAY, 24th September, at Noon.
WEDNESDAY; 2nd October, at Noon. ..SATURDAY, 19th October, at Noon. „TUESDAY, 29th October, at Noon
TUESDAY, 12th November, at Noon. WEDNESDAY, zoth Nov., at Noon.
HE P. M. Company's. Steamship "CITY OF PEKING," will be despatched for SAN and HONOLULU, on TUESDAY, the 24th instant, at Noon, taking Freight for Japan, the United States, and Europe. Passengers are allowed to break their journey at any point en route,
Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers, and to the principal cities at the United States or Canada.
Passengers holding through ORDERS TO EUROPE have the choice of the Overland Rail Routes from San Francisco, including the SOUTHERN PACIFIC,CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL WAY; also the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY on payment of £4 in addition to the regular tarift rate.
Passengers holding Orders for OVERLAND CITIES in the United States have between SAN FRANCISCO and CHICAGU, the option of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and other direct connecting Railways, and trom Chicago to destination the choice of direct lines.
Special rates (First-class only) to European Points, are granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Consular Services, and European Civil Service Officials located in Asia, aid to European Officials in the Service of the Governments of China and Japan.
TO UNITED STATES and CANADIAN POINTS, Special rates (first class only) are confined and will apply only to Missionaries, Members of the Naval and Military Services, and to Consular and Diplomatie Officials of the Governments of China and japan,
Return Pasenge. Reduction will be made to passengers who do not hold return tickets, making the return journey between ports in the Orient and Honolulu ar beyond, within twelve months.
Through Bills of Lading issued for transportation to Yokohama and other Japan Ports, to San Francisco, to Atlantic and faland Cities of the United States, via Overland Railway to Havana, Trinidad, and Demerara, and to ports in Mexico, Central and South America, by the Companies and connecting Steamers,
Freight will be received a tard until 1951. the day previous to sailing, Parcel Packages will be received at the Ofice until 5 FM. same day; all Panel Packages should be marked to address in full; value of same is required,
Consular Invoices to accompany each shipment of Cargo or parcel (valued at $100. Gold or over) destined to Points, beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Companies' Office addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco.
Merchant's Invoice will be sufficient for cargo or parcel (each shipment) when the value is less than $100, U.S. Gold.
For further Information as to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Cam panies, Queen's Building.
1901
Hongkong, 10th September, 1901.
GEORGE ECKLEY, Acting Agent.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
SBKEER
SPEED.
PUNCTUALITY.
THE FAST ROUTE BETWEEN CHINA, JAPAN AND EUROPE, VIA CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.
1901
(CALLING AT SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VICTORIA, B.C.)" Twin Screw Steamships-6,000 Tons-10,000 Horse Power-Speed 19 Knots.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG. EMPRESS OF JAPAN...Comer. H. Pybus, R.N.R..........WEDNESDAY, 25th September. EMPRESS OF CHINA...Comdr. R. Archibald, R.N.R.....WEDNESDAY, 23rd October. EMPRESS OF INDIA..........Comdr. O. P. Marshall, R.N.R...WEDNESDAY, 20th November THE magnificent Twin-screw Steamships of this Line pass through the famous INLAND SEA OF JAPAN and usually de voyage, YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER (B.G.) in 12 DAYS, saving THREE DAYS to a WEEK in the Trans-Pacific journey, and make connection at Vancouver with the PALATIAL TRANS CONTINENTAL TRAINS of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY which leave daily, and cross the Continent FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE ATLANTIC WITHOUT CHANGE. Close connection is made at Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, New York and Boston with all Trans-Atlantic Lines, which passengers to Great Britain and the Continent are given choice of
Passengers Booked through to all principal points and AROUND THE WORLD. Return tickets to various points at reduced rates, Good for 4, 6, 9 and 12 months,
SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, "Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to European Officials in the Service of China and
Japan Governments.
The attractive features of the Campany's route embrace its PALATIAL STEAMSHIPS, (second to none. in the World), the LUKURIANCE OF ITS TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAINS (the Company haying received the highest award for same at recent Chicago World's. Exhibition), and the diversity of MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAIN AND LAKE SCENERY through which the Railway passes.
THE DINING CARS and MOUNTAIN HOTELS of this route are owned and operated by the Company, and their appointments and Cuisine are unexcelled..
For further information, Maps, Guide, Books. Rates of Passage, &c., apply to Hongkong, 28th August, 1901.
D. E. BROWN, General Agent,
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HAMBURG-AMERIKA.
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LINIE LLOYD,
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(Taking Cargo at through Rates to ANTWERP, AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, COPENHAGEN, LISBON, OPORTO, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, TRIESTE, GENOA, PORTS IN THE LEVANTE: BLACK SEA and BALTIC PORTA: NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN FORTS). PROPOSED SAILINGE FROM HONGKONG.
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Ember, 1903,
SAILING DATES.
21st Sept.
5th Oct,
19th Oct.
2nd Nov.
16th Nov,
30th Nov.
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"THE PLAGUE.
Number of cases reported ( Chinese......1,556 up till noon of the 14th Other Asiatics 53 September, 1901...(Europeans,30 Chinese O Number of cases reported her Asiatics `during the past 48 hours Europeans
Total number of cases reported to date 1,640 Number of deaths reported (Chinese.....1,522 up till noau of the 14th Other Asiatics 35 September, 19or .........Europeans...... Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics o
Chinese during the past 48 hours
(Europeans..... I
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,569 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and Meaths are:-
Cases Chinese
Other Asiatics "European
Total
Deaths Chinese.......
Other Asistics Europeans
Total ...
The plague returns for last week ware:-
Gases Deaths..
The European death from plague reported to-day is that of Stanley William Bell Ford, aged 11 years
·THE PEACE PROTOCOL.
ANNEX NO. 17.
THE CONSERVANCY OF THE WHANGPOO. 1.-There is established at Shanghai a River Council (River Conservancy Board) for the river of Whangpoo.
II.-The Board shall have the double duty of acting as a medium for the rectification and improvement of the river way and as a medium of control.
II The jurisdiction of the Board shall extend from a line drawn from the lower limit of the Arsenal of Kiangnan towards the mouth of the creek called "The Arsenal" till the Red Buoy in the Yangtze.
IV.The Board shall be constituted as follows
(a) The Taotai.
private individuals and to establish a system above mentioned taxes on the condition that of public mooring apparatus in the River. these vessels shall engage in no commercial XV. The authorisation of the Board is transaction in going and coming. But they necessary for the execution, of all works of shall have the liberty to supply themselves at dragging, construction of qunys, jetties, as Wonsung with water and provisions, well as for the establishment of all pontoons or floating bouses in the section mentioned in Article XIII. The Board may refuse this authorisation at its discretion.
XVI-The Board has full power to remove all obstacles from the River or Creeks above mentioned, and to "held liable, should it be necessary, the persons responsible for the exi penses which may result.
XVII-The Board has control of all floats, buoys, leading beacons and luminous signals in the section of the River and Greeks men- tioned in Article X111, as well of all apparatus established on land and necessary for the safety of the River navigation with the excep- tion of light,bouses, which remain applicable to Articlo XXXII of the Treaty of 1850 be- tween Great Britain and China.
XVIII The works of improvement and conservation of the Whangpoo shall be in their entirety under the technical direction of the Bureau, even if their execution necessitates operations beyond the limits of its jurisdiction. | In this case the necessary order shall be transmitted by the Chinese authority, and executed with its consent.
XIX.-The Board shall receive and disburse
all funds which are raised for the works, and shall take accords with the competent authority, all the measures necessary to assure the recovery of the taxes and the application of the regulations.
XX-The Board shall nominate the harbour master and his staff. The service will exercise its action within the limits of the powers attri. buted to the Board in the part of the river indicated in Article XIII.
XXI-The Board will have the direction and regulation of the pilotage service of Shang hai (Lower Yangtze Pilots). The certificates of pilots licensed for vessels sailing to Shanghai can only be delivered by the Board, which may. dispose of them at its pleasure.
XXIII-In case of breach of its regulations, the Board shall pursue the contraveners in the following manner; Foreigners before their re. spective Consuls or before their competent judicial authorities, Chinese or foreigners whose Government is not represented in China before the Mixed Court in presence of an assessor of non-Chinese nationality.
(b.) The Commissioner of Customs.
XXIV-All actions raised against the Board (c)-Two members elected by the Consular shall be taken before the Court. of Consuls of Body.
Shanghai. The Board shall be represented in the case by its secretary. -
(d) Two members of the General Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai elected by the Com mittee of that body..-
(a.)-Two members representing the interests of shipping elected by the Shipping Companies, Commercial Houses, and Merchants whose maritime traffic, for the total of the imports and exports from Shanghai to Woosung, or any other pert on the Whangpoo, exceeds fifty thousand tona per annum.
(f)—A member of the Municipal Council of the International Settlement..
(g)—A member of the Municipal Council of the French Concession,
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XXV. The members of the Board and the persons' employed by it shall not incur any personal `responsibility from the fact of the votes or acts of the Board, contracts made or expenses incurred by the assembly when the skid votes, acts, contracts and expenses concern either the elaboration or the application, under the authority orders of the Board or of one of its dependent services, of the regulations emanating from the assembly in question.
XXVI-In addition to the provisions con- tained in Article XIII of the present annex, the Board shall have the power to make all necessary rules and regulations within the limits of its authority and to fix fines for cases of breach thereof.
(b.) A representative of each of the countries whose maritime traffic, for the total of imports and exports to Shanghai and -Woosung, ex- ceeds, two hundred thousand tons per year..
XXVII. The rules and regulations referred [813c-The-representatives will be designated by-to in Article XXVI shall be submitted for the the Governments of the countries in question. approval of the Consular Body, and if two V-The ex-officio members shall perform months after the submission of the proposal the their mandate as long as they occupy the post Consular B-dy has made no objection nor in virtue of which they form a part of the suggested any modification the proposal shati Board.
be considered as approved and fit for execution. The Board shall have the right to acquire all land necessary for carrying out the improve
HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.
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TO LET.
(From 1st August next)."
(d.) A tax of one-tenth per centum (or per cent) on all merchandise declared at the Cus toms at Shangbai, at. Woosung or at any other. port on the Whangpoo.
(e.) An annual contribution by the Chinese Government equal in the contribution fumished by the various foreign interests.
XXXI. The collection of the taxes mentioned in Article XXX shall be made through the medium of the following authorities
Tax (a.) by the respective Municipalitļes. Tax (b.) by their respective Consula from those whose Governments are représented in China, and by the Taotai from Chinese or from persons whese Government is not represented in China.
Taxes (c) and (d.) by the Imperial Maritimo
Customs.
XXXII-If the whole of the annual revenues of the Board should not suffice for the payment ofinterest and amortization of the Capital to be borrowed for the execution of the works, for the maintenance of works completed, and for the, general service, the Board shall have the power to increase in the same proportion the various taxes on shipping, fanded property, built upon. or not, or trade, to a figure sufficient to meet all recognized needs: This prospectiva in- crease shall be applied in the same proportion to the contribution of the Chinese Government, mentioned in Article XXX §.
XXXIII-The Board shall inform the Con- sular Body of Shanghai, in advance, of the need for the increase provided for in Article XXXII. Such increase shall not be applied until the Consular Body shall have approved it.
XXXIV-The-Board shall submit to the Consular Body of Shanghai within a period of six months after the closing of its annual
accounts
a detailed report on the general management and on the receipts and expendi ture during the preceding twelve months. This Report shall be published.
XXXV.-If the statements of receipts and expenditure correctly kept and published thow that there is a surplus of receipts over expendi- ture, the taxes mentioned in Article XXX shall
between the Consular Body of Shanghai and be proportionately reduced by common accord
the River Board. This prospective reduction sball be applied in the same proportion to the contribution of the Chinese Government which is mentioned in Article XXX § e.
XXXVI-On the expiration of a first term of three years the contracting parties to this. agreement shall examine by common accord the provisions contained in the present annex which it may be desirable to revise. A now revision may take place in the saine manner every three years.
XXXVII. Within the limite indicated in Article XIII and subject to approval by the Consular Body of Shanghai, the Rules. of the Board shall be in force for all foreigners.
CORPORAL AND "CORPSE MASTER."
AN ODD CHARACTER AT the front.
Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, gives in a letter to that journal an interesting sketch of a military morgue-keeper.
My friend the Corpse Master, as 1 „ven... ture to call him, is as yet an unknown Senius. He deserves publicity, and 1 am striving to enlighten the public respecting his The representatives of the Municipal Coun.
merits. A conscious or unconscious humorist, ell and of the Chamber of Commerce shall be
no one has been able to take change out of Izoge elected for the period of one year. They willment and the conservancy of the Whangpoo him by banter or earnest talk. A dark, medium-
be immediately re-eligible.
and to dispose of the said land. If in this sized man is he with droll seriousness at his The representatives of the Governments reconnection it should it should be judged ser facial expression, and the oleaginous ferred to in section, (h) of Article IV, shall also desirable to appropriate certain land, then demureness of an undertaker, and made so No.3, ORMSBY TERRACE KOWLOON be designated for the period of one year. the regulations laid down in Article Via by Nature. He is never ruffled, never fussy, VI-The mandate of the other members of the Land Regulations for the Foreign Set- and always full of funereal consideration. Apply to
PUN HUNG,
shall be for three years. They will be im- tlements of Shanghai north of the Yangking-To-day he is somewhere awaiting deserv 85, Queen's Road Central.mediately re-eligible.
pang" shall be followed. In such cases the
ed celebrity within, I think, twenty miles of (7614 VIL-In case of a vacancy occurring in the price shall be fixed by a commission composed Landon. Like most great men, he has tasted course of a mandate, the successor of the retirof (1) one person chosen by the representative of experience and adversity. He has been ing member will be designated for one year or of the Government to which the owner is sub almost everything, from a cattle clerk to an three years according to the category to which ject; (2) one person chosen by the Board; (3) ordinary Militiaman. It was in Natal, at Eat- he belongs.
one person chosen by the Doyen of the Concourt, and during the war, that I first mot sular Body.
Hongkong, 17th July, 1901.
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VIII-The Board shall name its President for one year,s well as its Vice-President,chosen from among the members. If there is not a majority for the election of the President, the
·Doyen of the Consular Body will be asked to | give a casting vote,
IX-In case of the absence of the President he shall be replaced by the Vice-President. If both are absent the members present shall de: ignate from among themselves a President -ad hoc,
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XXIX-Riparian owners-shall have a pre ferential right to the purchase of all land form ed in front of their properties by reclamations made for the improvement of the waterways in question. The prices for the acquisition of such land shall be fixed by a Commission con- stituted in the same manner as in Article XXXIII,
XXX-The Revenues of the Board shall be composed of:-
(2) An annual tax of one tenth per centum (o.1 per cent) on the assessed value of landed property built upon in the French Concession and in the International Settlement.
Private. In those days, as since, we had both sick and wounded. Major Philip Hayes, R.A.M.C, was sadly in want of some one to. take charge of the mortuary. Now, soldiers as a rule shirk jobs of that sort, and avoid intimacy with morgue-keepers, Volunteers were not forthcoming until Private heard of the position. His tastes ran that way, and he easily got the appointment For a few days he did his work, and did it well, without making sound or sign. Then he approached Major Hayes, and said, "If -you please, Sir, I want to speak to you up- on an important matter. I am an old soldier and I have several good conduct badges and I want you to make me a corporal. What
XAt all the meetings of the Board if there is an equality of votes that of the President shall be decisive.
XI-The Board can only deliberate when four members are present.
(b.) A similar tax on all property situated on XII.-The Board shall nominate the func the banks of the Whangpoo from a line start for?" queried the Major, “Because, sir, if I Rionaries and employés whom it deems necesing from the lower limit of the Kiangnan ain't a corporal I have no proper authority over sary for the execution of its work and the ap- Arsenal near the mouth of the so-called Arsenal. plication of the regulations, and shall fix their crack to the spot where the Whangpoo, falls
the corpses The Major was nonplussed. appointments, salaries, and emoluments, and into the Yanteze. The taxable value of these
The argument was continued, but in the end shall pay them from the funds at its disposal properties, shall be fixed by the Commission though Private was told he would be granted a corporal's rank, but without it can issue regulations, regulate the duties of
won all along the line, took extra pay, he the personnel and dismiss them at pleasure, mentioned in Article XXVIII.
(c) A tax of 5 candareens a ton on every the rank and the 4d. a day extra, And XIII The Board shall dims up regulations vessel of non-Chinese type and of a tonnage cheap at the money, the doctors by and to control the traffic, including the placing of above 150 tons entering the ports of Shanghai, mooring apparatus in the River, and the regula of Woorung, of any other port on the Whang asked the Major to come and look how well he by thought of him. Shortly after Corporal→→→→ tion of the mooring itself within the limits in poo, or leaving. dicated in Article III, as well as in all the water Vessels of non-Chinese type of go tond or ways such as the Soochow Creek and others under shall pay one quarter of the above-men- traversing the French Concession or Internationed tax These taxes shall be leviable on tional Settlement at Shanghai and the foreign each vessel once in four months only, without quarter at Woosung, as well as on all the creeks reference to the number of entrances and debouching on the River, as far as a distance ef two English.miles above. their mouths.
HXIV The Board has the right to expropriate the fixed mooring apparatus belonging to GIRAULT for TABLE DELICACIES
departures.
Vessels of non-Chinese type navigating on, the Yangtze stopping at Woosung only to take their River.papers shall be exempted from the
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had arranged the dead-house and that he had there two handsome boys, one a Church of England and the other IL C. No," said Major Hayes," although I am a medical man have no curiosity nor tastes in that direction, All hopeisyou conduct the funerala ina be ing manner. Oh yes, sir, said Corpor
Iawaya sits on the front of the have for a hears to take them to the
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