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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901.
To-day's Advertisements.
SANITARY
BOARD.
WNERS ol, HOUSES situated in the Central Division of the City of Victoria, and in the Western Division of Kowloon, who have not had their Premises LIME. WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance with Law, are reminded that the period during which this work should be FINISHED endi on the 31st day of OCTOBER, 1901, and the Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity of Cleanliness in its efforts to Stamp cut Plague, is determined to rigorously prosecute any owner in default after the above named Date.
The Central Division of the City lies between Garden Road on the East, and Morrison Streat and East Street on the West. The Western part of the
To-day's Advertisement.
NOTICE.
HE Undersigned will not be RESPONSI❘ TELE for any DEBTS contracted by his wife PALMYRA AUGUSTA TERCIO DA SILVA, and every person is hereby prohibited from giving her any Credit,
JOAD JOSE DAS DORES-BARROS. Hongkong, 3rd October, 1900.
"Intimation.
TYPHOON WARNING.
WARNING FROM MANILA,
Mr. W. A. Rublee, U S. Consul General, kindly forwards the following copy of a telegram which he received from Manila to day ----
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minute, is derived from the slittle of men and it would produce poison, though it was a small matter it had become dangerous, and it was a great pity that people had no know
edge of that danger. For the benefit of the publle bealth the Board strongly advise people | MANILA OBSERVATORY,
not to spit in public reads and places October 3rd, a.m
where men mostly congregated. This is a Typhoon crossed Luzon last night to 16. marit, he concluded, which does not cost any Parallel moving to W. by N.
thing, and I hope that people will not take this
At,430 p.m. we were informed by the Cent iral Police Station that the red drum, indicating a typhoon to the East of the Colony, over 300 miles distant, had been hoisted.
LOGAL AND GENERAL:
THE PILES near Murray Pier, which mark the 'scene of the capsizing of the dredger
as a not true advice..
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
A SNEAKING THIEF.
Cheung Kan is an early bird, but catches his worms in a ençaking mainne At 3.1 yester- day morning he went to 13 Queen's Road West and by means of a bamboo pole hooked three pairs of trousers which were hanging on coman who caught him, and fict him sent to prison for 14 days.
Division of Kawloon is all that Robinson A. S. WATSON & CO., Canton River, are to be removed. The Har- balcony. He then ran off chased by a poli-
Road and includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Ti, Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui and Sham Shui
Po:
By Order of the Board,
G. A. WOODCOCK, Acting Secretary,
Sanitary Board Office, 1st October, 1901.
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PENDERS are invited for the Drawing and Nemoval of the Piles near MURRAY PIER Trecetly used in connection with the raising of
the Dredger "CANTON RIVER."
The Lowest or any Tender will not of necessity he accepted.
Tenders should be forwarded not later than the 7th instant,
MURRAY RUMSEY,
Harbour Master, &c.
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THE REPORT of the Government Analyst on the Kowloon water service, a sample of which was taken from a fountain in Chater Road shows that the water is clear, bright and of excellent quality. The Tytam and Pokfulum services are equally as good.
AS WILL BE SEEN in our advertisement.
columbs, Stoker Philips is prepared to box Sam Bentley if a match can be arranged. Any gentlemen interested in the noble art, it is hoped, will help to contribute towards a purse to enable Philips to get himself into good con. dition.
TRESPASS.
A
hawked milk without a license He either for
Lon Fat trespassed on military ground and feils $7 or retires from his occupation for 22
days.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION
Wong Hi could not account for the possession of a box of rice, value $1,80, and Mr. Kemp, believing it to have been stolen, imposed a fine of $to or ro days:
THIEVING STORE ORDERLY. THIS FROM AMERICA News from China Frederick Twynan, an English-store order- announces that Li Hung Chang has retiredly of the RA. M. C. Murray Barracks, was sent from politics for about the forty-fifth time, but it is also stated that China is to make extensive purchases of civilized arms and ammunition, so It would seem that in retirement the old man is sawing wood.
THE MORTALITY RETURNS for the week BLEND. ended 14th September show a death rate of 27.8 per 1,000 for the whole community as against 200 per 1,000 for the corresponding period of last year. The figures for the week ended September 21st are.23.8 compared with 24.6 the same time last year..
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BIRTHS.
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At Woodbury," Garden Road, Kaulung, on the and instant, the wife of ETHELBERT FORDES SKERTCHLY, of a daughter.
On the 2nd instant, at Harbourview, Wan chai Road, Hongkong, the wife of HARRY STAINFIELD, of a daughter,
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THE INFANT MORTALITY in Hongkong is 18 per cent. higher than that in Calcutta, the fact that Chinese neglect their female children being a contributing factor to this high death rate. In Singapore the rate for last year was 386 per 1,000, in Calcutta (Mahomniedans) 748 per 1,000, and in Hongkong (Chinese) 928 per 1,000;
A PARTY OF ENGLISH OFFICERS, Major Manifold and Captain Hunter, were to start from Feking on 18th ultimo across country through Paotingfu and K'aifengfu to Hankow, and thence through Stechuan, on a surveying tour into Burmah and India. If safely carried through, the expedition will be full of interest and information. The British Government sadly needs more knowledge of the interior of *China.
THE FUNERAL. of William Amold Goulbourn takes place this afternoon. About 30 years ago the late Mr. Goulbourn arrived in Hongkong as a non-commissioned officer, in the 8th Regiment and subsequently joined the Public Works Department: since then he has been engaged in various business enterprises with more or less success, He will long be remembered as one who, with all the buffets of "outrageous fortune "never gave up the battle.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon in the Council Chamber. There were present:-His Excellency the Gover- nor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.,) Major General
he Hongkong Telegraph Sir Wilham Gascoigne, K.C.M.G. (Commanding
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE DEFENCE OF FORT ITALA:
BOER LOSSES,
the Tropps), Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (Acting Attorney-General), Hon. Commander R. M. Rumsey, RN. (Harbour Master), Hon. ' .C. Mel. Messer (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. W. Chatham (Acting Director of Public
Works), Hon. A. W: Brewin (Registrar Gen
eral), Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M.G., Hon. T. H.
Whitehead, Hon. J. Thurbum, Hon. J. J. Beli- Irving, Hon, Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei A Yuk, Mr. C. Clementi (Acting Clerk of Councils),
The Clerk of Councils read the minutes of the last meeting,
LONDON, October 1st. Reuters correspondent at Eshowe, Zulu- land, states that the Boers left 305 killed and wounded on the field after the fight at Fort Itala.
The report of the finance. Committee was Reuter's correspondent at Ladysmith saysT. H. Whitehead's question as to the decision read and confirmed and the reply to the Hon. that the enemy lost apo killed at Fort Itala, in the second enquiry into the Cochrane Street and over 300 wounded and captured,
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to prison for 14 days for stealing a mustard pot and a pepper pot, value $1, the property of a Queen's Road restaurant keeper.
*
THEFT.
Wong Cheung is a thief as well as a smoker. Yesterday he went to Yau-mati and stole smoking pipe and two pieces of clothing, value $3. To-day he went to prison for 6 weeks.
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A SAFE ROBER
Ng Sam attempted to get to the unlawful side of a safe, but he succeeded in landing himself on the wrong side of the law, where he will be safe for the next three months.
FALSE PRETENCES.
Chang Chan obtained a couple of towls by false pretences from a dealer in the Central Market, and this morning. he was awarded three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.
the prohibitive clause in fatal to the purpose. In the accepted form of the edict the Chinese, Government may import all the arms and ammunition it desires, re-equip the Boxers at pleasure and revive the anti-foreign crusade in all its former virulence.»
The powers have, however, been proceeding against the Imperial Government, on the mis- taken theory that the Boxer outbreak and its resultant atrocities were due to a failure to properly exercise its authority for its suppres sion and the preservation of peace and order, They are endeavouring to pledge it to preserve order in the empire hereafter and guarantee residents. Our own Government has enter security to the lives and property of foreign tained this theory, hence Mr. Rockhill objected. to the provision prohibiting the Chinese Govern
enforcement of its authority. If it is insisted, ment from importing such materials as will manifestly be needed for its own defense and however, that the imperial authorities shall pre serve order they cannot be logically deprived of the means of doing so. But if, on the other band, they instigated the Boxer movement, the powers are inconsistent in relieving them of the intended punishment, for it enables them to replenish their stock of arms and ammunition and repeat the offense at some future date.
the
CHINESE GIRTON GIRL.
STUDYING NATURAL SCIENCE. Within a few weeks at most there will apply for a mission to the State University a Chinese, ivoman who is going to America to take advanced work in natural science. Her family name is Hseuh, and her father is possessed of an independent fortune, being one of the parchers of a large Shanghai mercantile institu- tion. He is a believer in the education of women, and, having no sons, has given his daughter the advantages of the best schools available and is now sending her to this country. to finish her education.
She would have arrived tliere on the Garlic with the seven Chinese students who are now pursuing studies at the University, and who is the regulation full dress of the European this evening attended the reception given by Pre- sident Wheeler, had it not been that when the Gaelic reached Yokohama it was found that a clerical error had been made in filling out her. certificate, and, rather than run the risk of being refused a landing, she decided to remain at Yokohama until she could have the certificate corrected.
The students who were to have been ber travelling companions speak in the most com. plimentary terms of Miss Hseul, who, they THE PLAGUE.
say, is a believer in the faith of the' Christian,.
Number of cases reported (Chinese....,562 scholar, having graduated from the McCrye and has more than a local reputation as a up till noon of the 2nd Other Asiatics 54 October, 1904
Europeans.... ji
Schicol at Shanghai and later attended the Chinese 。 Number of cuses reported Other Asiatics o herself for her scientific work. She was attend- Tientsin University, where she distinguished during the past 24 hours)
Europeans...... ing the university during the period just prior Total number of cases reported to date 1,647 to the home of her parents in Shanghai, where to the siege of Tienisin, but managed to get
Number of deaths reported (Chinese......1,527 the addressed a mass meeting of several thou- up till noon of the 2nd Other Asiatics 36 sand people, dwelling a length on the possible October, 190Europeans......iz Chinese ✪ Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics a during the past 24 hours Europeans... O
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Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,575 Since noon on Saturday inst the cases and deaths are
Cases Chinese
a
Other Asiatics European....
Total...........
Deaths Chinese ju
Other Asiatics Europeans
Total.............
The plague returns for best week ware
Cases Deaths........
IMPORTATION OF ARMS
IN UHINA
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One of the penalties which the powers pro- posed imposing on the Chinese Government as foreigners during the Boxer uprising was, says punishment for the crimes committed against an American paper, to deprive it of the right to import arms and ammunition. The motive was to render the imperial authorities powerless to repeat the experience, for there is a moral Certainty that they fomented and encouraged the Boxer movement, notwithstanding their mistaken notions of the Western nations is disavowals to the contrary. One of the
that which relieves the Chinese Government of
results of a war in which China would be the
battle ground.
It is said that she was the first Chinese wo-
listeners were numbered by the thousand, and man to address a Chinese audience where the
further that the event ittracted as much atten- -- tion as did news from Tientsin. Her object in becoming better educated is that she may
·be of assistance to the women of her race.-Ex.
'COPPER 'IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Dr. George F. Becker of the United States Geological Survey says that copper deposits in the province of Lepanto, near Mount Data, have been worked by the Igorroles since before the Spanish discovery of the Philippine archi peligo. These barbarians, who are heathens living in squalor, have developed industrially to a surprisingly high point, and the skill they exhibit in the extraction and working of metal is extraordinary. They turn ouc copper kettles no less than three and a half feet in diameter, and they also make numerous kinds of imple- From 1840 to 1855 they exported fully twenty ments and ornaments out of the same metal. tons of copper utensils and ingotsburg Despatch.
WHAT OUR COUSINS SAY,
With his appetite for war, it sometimes seems a pity that the Kaiser was not born a Venezue- lan-The Washington Stax.
If Rudyard Kipling renlly wants to do some- thing for his country let him move up to the
disaster, was laid on the table, LATER.The various bills as given by us, yesterday.in.
the agenda paper were read and the proceed. f responsibility for the Boxer rebellion. With firing-line, and read his 11oems to the Boers.
interest.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, terminated without any discussion of Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, K. C.- M. G has been gazetted Governge of the Straits Settlements.
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SOUTH AFRICA. THE FIGHT BEFORE FORT ITALA. Commandants Potgeiter, Scholz, and Op-
permann, dre amongst the enemy's killed in
the fight before Fort Itala.
Lord Kitchener reports that the Boers were removing their dead and wounded from around Fort Itala throughout the 26th and 27th September.
The fighting lasted nineteen hours."
ANOTHER BOER ATTACK REPULSED.
Commandants. Delarey and Kemp attack
Silver Plated,Glass and China Wates, Iron Bedsteads and Mated Colonel Kekewick's camp to the westward tresses; Cutlery and Dinuer Services, Cooking Ranges and Kitchen of Magato Pass in force on the joth Septem Utensils, Aspinal's Enumels, &c., &c.
SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
At to-day's meeting of the Sanitary Board the Honorary Colonial Secretary circa Tated a minute to the effect that the main feature of his plan with regard to an im proved type of Chinese house was that premises
might be made of special depth without being insanitary in consequence of lack of light
With reference to the measures of prevention of epidemic, endemic or contagious disease ing and disinfection be carried out quietly? Mr. Lau Chu Pak minuted : Can't this cleans:
The stationing of police in the streets will Unnecessarily frighten the people,
It was interesting to find on the agenda correspondence relative to the prevention of spitting by the Chinese, especially in public places. The Pissident recommended that some notice should be translated into Chinese and be disseminated broadcast all over the Colony He suggested a notice to the effect that all people in the Colony should understand that consumption bad been ascertained by doctors to The second yacht race for tite America | be infectious. The disease, he continued in the Cup took place yesterday, but it was und
Co for SILK SOCKS and finished owing to the failure of the wind,
ber, and were repulsed.
"Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and THE AMERICA CUP. Hotels in Hongkong.
Hongkong astir July,
out the connivance of the Government the re-
bellion could not have attained the proportions that it did; besides, there were evidences in numerable during the time it was in progress that the imperial troops were co-operating with the insurrectionists.
The prohibition of the importation of arms and ammunition was to have been made the subject of one of the imperial edicts to be appended to the protocol vital element in it was that which
The Chicago News,¦
Health Office on Tuesday Thursday the Twenty-five births were reported to the City
milkmen met and raised prices so per cent The Nashville American,
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson has gone into the cotton business. May ha have better. luck in this line than he had with calico a few years ago The Chicago Port. S
announce that the steel strike is to be fought to the finish. While not upholding the fight, the public will be glad to let the finish. The S Louis Globe Democratic
President Schwab and President Shaffer both
applied to the Government. But when the rend feeling that truster are hot as black as If the Standard Dil Company succeeds in destroying mosquitoes, there will be a whiles edict was submitted to the council of foreign they have been painted-The Washington Ministers the Imperial Government gave
an Star the prohibition, apply only to Chinese subjects other evidence of its gift of evasion by making
It has been accepted, however, by the Ministers in this form, against the protest of Sir Ernest, Satow, the British representative, with the understanding that the first paragraph in it. which makes it appear to be the voluntary act of the Chinese Government, shall be omitted in the publication as part of the appendix of the protocol. Satow's reasons for objecting to the form of the edict were indisputably well grounded, for, If the importation of arms and ammunition, warto be prohibited to the Gov. ernment as a punishment, the elimination of
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