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PUBLIC AUSTION.
THE CAPTAIN SUPERIN "HEUndersigned have received instructions
TENDENT OF POLICE to sell by
·PUBLIC "AUCTION,
00
MONDAY, the 4th November, 1901, at 2.30 2,
At the Central Police Station.
52 catties RAW MALWA OPIUM. 37"
KAW PERSIA OPIUM. TERMS: As Usual
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers.
(11790 Hongkong, 1st November, 1901.
WANTED,.
FANTED at once SMART SALESMAN
with knowledge of general store work also YOUNG LADY to assist in departiment
Apply to
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. NFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that ARTILLERY PRACTICE will take place from Stonecutters Island, West and East, on the 4th, sth and 7th November, 1901, and from “Belcher's Point on" the 6th klem, commencing each day at about 9. A.AS.
All ShipsJunks, and other Vessels are tau tioned to keep clear of the Range.
By-Command,
. H. STEWART LOCK
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, joih October, agora?
f1180c
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA VIA AMOY. THE Company's Steamship.
"PERLA," Captain J. E, McArthur, will be despatched as Clo II.K. Telegraph Office above on THURSDAY, the 7th instant, at Hongkong, 1st November, o [1815... INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
FRAGRANCE. THE Company's Steamship-
WATKINS.
LIMITED.
Chemists and Perfimers. No. 66, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 1st October, 1901.
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Today's Advertisements.
ZET LAND
"LODGE,
No. 526 F.C. REGULAR MEETING of the above
A LODGE will be held at the FREEMA SONS HALL, Zetland Street, TO-NIGHT, the rst instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely, -Visiting Brethrens are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 1st November, 1951, 159 HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. TOMORROW (SATURDAY), the 2nd
HERE will be NO COMPETITION
instant, but the Range will be open for Practice, -Cominencing at 2.15 P.M.
ALEX, MACKENZIE, Hon. Secretary. Hangkong, 1st November, 1901,
KELL.
"LOONGSANG,"
Captain Weigail, will be despatched as above Jon MONDAY, the 4th instant, at 4 P.M.
-This Steamer has Superior Accommodation- for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co...
General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st November, 10-
FOR NAGASAKI (DIRECT.) HE Steamship
THE
"OBI,"
[11820
Captain Pinkham, will he despatched for the above Port, on TUESDAY, the 5th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or l'assage, apply tog
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Agents Hongkong, 1st November, 19012 [11830
FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.. HE Steamship
THE
"LENNOX,"
Capiain Williamson, R.N.R.. will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 7th instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 1st November, 1901 (+4846= INDO-CHINA STEAM' NAVIGATION
COMPANY. LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANGʻAND CALCUTTA
THE Company's Steamship
"LAISANG
The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with the Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera ting Chamber..
A Doctor is carried. For Freight or Passage, apply to.
SHE VĂN TOMES & Con
General Managers. Hongkong, 1st November, 1901. [1856
BEN LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR SINGAPORE AND PENANG.
THE Steamship
BENLARIG," Captain Kroble, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 12th instant. * For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co, Agents. Hongkong, 1st November, igor.
(1177C INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
THE Company's Steamship "LAISANG,"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their
Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 F.M., the 5th instant, will be landed at Consignees, risk and expense into Godowns at East Point.
No.Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., General Managers, Hongkong, 1st November, 1901. [1187c
Intimations.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
BEG to inform my Patrons and Public Captain Fayne, will be despatched as above. General No. 15 to No. 1 D'AQUILAR Generally that I have REMOVED my
on SATURDAY, the 9th instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.
[1186c Hongkong, 1st November, 1001.
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XMAS CARDS.
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OF
PRIVATE GREETING.
XMAS CARDS,
All the Newest Designs.
Greetings tastefully printed from fancy types in gold, silver, or colours.
Hongkong, 28th October, 1901.
[690c
WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED.
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BIRTH.
FOUND OUT. The old Bobr had found by | THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIA At Edgecumbe Cottage, Confederate Estate,, a broken Sparkleis bottle a number of the TION will not hold a competition to-morrow, Singapore, on the aand October, the wife of E. carbonic charged pellets. Alimachier! he but the Hon. Secretary (Mr. Alex, Mackenzie), F, H. EDLIN, of daughter..
said; Don't let those verdompte Roinecks point out that the range
to will be open for
.DEATH.
talk about explosive or soft-n:sed bullets after practice at 2.45 pm. this.*
On the arst October, at the Australian Horse Repository, Orchard Road, Singapore, WIL UNDESIRABLES:Mrs. Hanks: Seems to LIAM DALLAN, Jate of Hobart, Tasmania.me, Jim that we ought to be thankful we ain't Aged 38.
named our boys Alias In this paper there's 'Alias' Goodwin and Alias Night-hawk sent to prison: Them" 'Aliases' is always cutting
he Hongkong (elegraph, up capere
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, (99).
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS..
THE NICARAGUAN-CANAL TREATY.
LONDON, October 3oth. The Washington correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that His Excellency Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassador to America, has received authority to negociate and sign the new Nicaraguan Canal Treaty,
BOTHA NARROWLY ESCAPES CAPTURE.
Colonel Rimington, by a long night march, nearly captured Louis Botha who bolted hastily leaving papers behind.
LATER.
THE NEW PRESIDENT:-The St. James's Gazelle thus sums up President Roosevelt';, Smack of Lord Cromer, Jeff Davis,a touch
of him.
TIGER CAPTURED Mr. Debney recently caught a beautiful half-grown tiger in a mining shaft near Kuala Kubu. The tiger had been there two or three days and had only managed to save itself from drowning by tan-- ding on its hind legs with its front paws against the side of the shaft, it was noosed with ropes and hauled out into a cage at the to
TO-MORROW'S SPORT.
Little of Lincoln, but not very much of him ; Kitchener, Bismarck, and Germany's Will,cellent team for to-morrow's match with the
Jupiter, Chamberlian, Buffalo Bill.
CUTE-A minister in a Kansas town recently
1 adopted a novel scheme for bolstering up the church collection, which had been diminishing. He informed his congregation just before the plates were passed around that the members who were in dept pere not expected to con tribute. The collection that day was double the usual sum.
PRAISE MADE IN GERMANY:-A Ger man trade paper remarks that it is an indication of the beneficient nature of British rule in
Egypt that the additions to railways there during the past year have been 65 per cent
or 826 miles; while in British South Africa the addition is 494 miles; in the Transvaal,* 586 miles and in the Orange Free Colony, 596
SOUTH AFRICA. MORE FICHT-iles.
ING AND CAPTURES.
A MODEST REQUEST :-Professor Labaud, of the Strasburg University, received, a letter Colonel Byng's column has captured 22 recently from a Japanese Lady informing him. Boers including two Field Cornets.
that she would commit suicide on a certain Colonel Fortescue's column, after a runn-day because her brother had failed in an ex- ing fight all day, killed four of the enemy amination, and asking the learned professor to and captured fifty four, aleq 36 waggons and commit suicide also. On inquiry it was found much stock.
that the Japanese lady had actually done as she had threatened.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. UNDERPAID-Cadets in the British North
Borneo service will now start with a salary of
$1,440 a year, rising gradually to 52,400 a year in the sixth year of service, Poor cadets
THE STAFF SERGEANTS MESS have started their Autumn. billiard handicap. The -entry-was exceedingly good and we propose-to- notice each game in our sports columns as the tournament progresses.
TO OUST THE MOSQUITO:-Dr. Doty, in his crusade against the mosquitos of Staten Island, finds that petroleum oil sprinkled on grass or weeds about ten feet away from houses has a good effect, and the inmates are now able to sleep at night,
STRAITS OFFICIAL SALARIES In the case of those subordinate Government officers of long service who have chosen to pin their faith and future to a 4s, dollar while on leave or in receipt of pension in a gold country, it has been decided at Singapore, says the Pinang A. S. WATSON & Co., Gazette, by the Government that they are to participate neither in the bonus nor in the LIMITED.
general increase of salaries,
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SHERRY
A-SUPERIOR PALE DRY,
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bor Can
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12.00
sule
CMANZANILLA,
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PALE White
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ESTABLISHED 1859.
FURNITURE DEALERS:
IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;
Silver Plated Glass and China Wares, Iron Bedsteads and Mat -tresses; Cutlery and Dinner Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen
Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.
Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and Hotels in Hongkong..
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THE
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E-EXTRA SUPERIOR OLD PALE Dar, very finest quality; Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)
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WORTH' WILL TELL in the long run and Messrs. Diss and Gillings are just as busy as they can be. They have the very latest navel- ties in material, just landed, and night and day are hard set to cut them up quick enough. They have a fast principle of not letting any suit of theirs go out until it has passed the close inspection of one of the firm, hence the rush for autumn clothing.
THREADBARE NOBLES-A Viennese theatrical agent recently inserted an advertise.
ment in a number of Austrian and German papers stating that he wanted a penniless count er baron, to appear on the stage of
Continental music balls. No less than fourteen. counts and barons, all of whom could prove beyond doubt the possession of their titles and ancient lineage, applied for employment of this kind.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAM-The names of the first a candidates in the recent open com petitive examination before the Civil service Commissioners are announced.
Upon the the list will depend the ultimate destination final allocation of the candidates higher on
of those intended for the Home, Indian or Colonial Service. Some are intended for the Straits and Hongkong, but who is not yet known.
BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bom- bay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 p.m. to: 9.30 p.m.:
Lancers.. Selection
Valac...... Intermezzo Song...... Sefaction
PROGRAMME: ...
"Jolly Boys "................. William. Reminiscences of Scotland* Godfray.
Happy Thoughts "........
Provi On the road to Moscow". Loetz, Sunshine and Rain Blumenthal. i..."-Patience"..................Sullivan. "God save the King."
The Hongkong Football Club have an ex-
"A" Company of the R.W.F. The game will take place on the flappy Valley ground.com. mencing at 4.15 sharp. It is to be hoped that/ all players will turn up in time so that a prompt start can be made. ""Company of the R.W.F.'s are reputed strong and willing, but we expect the Hongkong Club to win.
The following is the Hongkong lean- H. S. Bevan, gaol; J. V. Bennett and J, W. C. Bonnar, backs; S. L. Jenkins, C. T. Kew and E. H. Codling, halves; A. R. Lowe, N. H
Pforten, and J. D. Danby, forwards. Rutherford, D. F. Tallach, R. A., Y. Vonder..
At the conclusion of the game Mrs. Stewart-
Lockhart will present the Cup and medals to the winners of the six-a-side preliminary
matches.
The Ranger's Football Club opening match will take place to-morrow afternoon on the old V. R. C. ground at Happy Valley, when they will meet a team from H. M. 'S. Ocean, H.
Gidley will be in gaol with C. Fittock and H. 5. Spurge as backs and W. Maxfield,. A. Loureiro and W. Andrews as halves, while H` A Seth. G. W. Ruby, R. Henderson, D. Smillie and E. B Baston will look after the forward. interest. This game will be watched with inter. est solas to judge of the worth of the latest formed Club. We wish them success in to- morrow's match and if that is not forthcoming it will not be for want of work on the part of their
energetic secretary 'Mr. Williams.
*
To-morrow's fight promises, to be a big success Phillips, as we noticed yesterday, is one of the best and Bentley is not under valuing his rival. Sam'has fought upwards of 32 pitched battles and has never been beaten. If he has any great difficulty in puiting out a man with the small gloves he is always willing to accommodate him in a mill with the raw uns, The management to-morrow-night is in excel- lent hands and strict order will be enforced. To all lovers of the game Saturday night's show should be the best yet seen as the preliminary houts are going to be well worth seeing..
"
AT THE MAGISTRACT.
A GUNNER'S GAMBOLS. William Thomas Martin, gunnery instructor of H.M.S. Aurora evidently had a merry time early this morning and getting himself into trouble had to answer A charge, of conducting himself in a disorderly manner in a public street. This is a detailed account, of his manoeuvres as related by lukon No. 179.. About one o'clock this morning, while he was on duty in Peel Street, a Chinamen went to him and told him to go to a house at the back of he Stag Hotel There he found the. ROBBERY AND MURDER-A serious case defendant and at the request of a man told of robbery and murder is reported from Batu him to go away. This he refused to do, Gajah in Perak. In the morning of the 2nd inst, three Chinese attempted to break into a
and then tried to wrench the constable's lamp from him. Prior to that defendant had been fowl-house there. The owner of the house chasing Chinese people about the street, and and his brother gave chase to the thieves and the lukon thought it advisable to take him to with the aid of other Malays surrounded them
the jungle. The owner's brother with and to emphasise the determination of his de- the station. The instructor naturally objected
another Malay entered the jungle and attemplcision commenced punching the constable, A ed to seize one of the thieves, and were fatally stabbed. The murderer made goed his escape.
AS OTHERS SEE US It is said that the docking facilities which Japan offers for the repairing and overhauling of plen-of-war are- says an exchange. Germany nowy-prefers to beginning to be appreciated by foreign nations, send her ships for cleansing or repair to Japan
struggle ensued, both men fell to the ground and another lukon, who had been looking on, then rendered assistance, and the defendan was finally taken to the station. Further light was thrown on the matter by Loi Chi-hingy
A
photographer's employe, who doposed that while in his house behind the Stug Hotel he heard someone shaking the front door; the Grst floor saw the prisoner, who asked and upon looking through some into bits on
LIQUID FUEL: The Hamburg-American Line have decided to try liquid fuel on some of their steamers. The C. Ferd, Lacisz will be the first vessel to be fitted, and she will use Borneo oil. The steamer was at Suez, where' she was to take the oil on board after the necessary conversion of furnaces had been completed, when she was to continue her voyage to Hamburg, consuming liquid fuel THE WHITE STAR LINE:-A well-known member of the Liverpool shipping community writes to a Colombo paper on September 20th in preference to plague-stricken Hongkong him for a bed. The camera man said "This as follows:-"You will be interested to learn The German cruisers Bussard and Hertha is a shop: no 'can," and the naval instructor that the White Star Line have practically have been sent to Nagasaki for repairs, and it decided to enter the competition for the trade is expected that the flagship of the German replied "Sz," which he afterwards increased to and passenger traffic of the Far East, and in a Asiatic squadron, the Fürst Bismark, will also. Lo even went so far as to state "for few months or so you may expect to see the shortly be sent to Nagasaki. good old house flag flying from White. Star.. ships in Colombo Harbour”
A HINT TO HONGKONG-Rows of small houses and cottages for the poorer but respect able classes are now springing up in all parts, of Colombo, where rents have been rising owing to scarcity of house accommodation, Mr. Noorbhai, a Bombay merchant trading in In addition to wines of our own Columtio, contemplates a scheme to enable bottling the following brands, bot-tenants to purchase their dwellings by a system tled in Europe, have been specially purchase-hire system."
of payments on what may be termed the selected, and procured from the celé-
BOER LIES-An instance of the remarkable
MR. AND MRS. HENRY DALLAS, with a new theatrical company, have returned to the East-in-the-P-and-O, s. s. Valetta. The Company are to perform at Calcutta and, on the steamer touching at Bombay, Mr. and Mr Dallas travelled overland by rail, while the rest of the Company, with the scenery and stage property, went on to Colombo by the steamer. The present Company which numbers about fifteen, includes Misses Arnolds, Curt Clark, Campbell, Featherstone. Gilfillan, Percy and Vernon; and Messrs. Eversleigh, Gordon, Knight Munio, and Riley...
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$1000 no can," and this had the effect of quiet- ing William who commenced banging the. bathroom door at the Stag Hotel, and kept up a disturbance for about half an hour. The witness called x lakon, but defendant only struck him and kicked him down some stairs, and punched Loi for his trouble.
The version of the yarn-spun by the "gonger did not throw much light on the tale. : He told
Mr. Hallifax he was turned over in a ricksha and striking his head lost his senses until he found himself in the police station. He fancied
that he and the Ficksba must have fallen over between 11 and 11.30 fast night, as between that time and one o'clock he did not knowy what happened. He was not under the influence ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED. brated firm of Messrs. GEO. G.
SANDEMAN, SONS.& Có., of 1:on- is being 'carried on is to be found in a letter has a newly-formed "syndicate of the kitchen-He intended to go to his ship und went down -conditions under which the South African war WANTED, THE "LARN PIDGIN Paris of drink, and had been to the Naval Chib. don and Oporto, for whom we have received by a gentleman in Calcuta from his maids, whose object is to restore to women west so as to sail to it instead of having to pull. been appointed Sole Agents.
He paid $10 for his amusement instead of going to gaol for a fortnight.
BANJOS, MANDOLINES AND GUITARS,
COST PRICE
TO CLEAR PRESENT STOCK. Hongkong, and October, 1901,
Per Case i don
.817.00 23.00
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#25, 0
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brother in South Africa., The latter, throughout | her, rights in the kitchen, from which she is the war, has been living quietly on bis farm, being driven by men cooks and waiters is which is 85 miles north-west of Nylstroom, N. restaurants and hotels... The syndicate asserts Transvaal, a centre of Boer resistance. Hetimi experienced women cooks cannot get refused to leave, and the Boers have allowed him to remain, though under surveillance. He is occasionally visited by his Dutch neighbours, who bring him.news from the outside world. One of the facts related to him was that the Russians had invaded India and that the British were having a very bad time of it there.
COTTAM & CO. NEW SCARVES and;
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THEFT
Wong Wak strulled boldly out of the Green Island Cement Company's premises with a bear across his shoulder, and this morning he shuffled meekly but of the dock with the penalty of his crime, in the form of seven days, weighing heavily on the place where his con science ought to be..
places, and that women who want to fit them- selves for the place of chef ure, anable to find opportunity. It has therefore petitioned Paris hotel-keepers to consent to employ regularly à certain proportion of apprentice girl cooks in their kitchens. In other words the Hongkong system of the arn pidgin is to be introduced,
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