LABUAN AND B. N. BORNEO.
The rainfall during the month of October has been greater than that of this month for the last ten years. Weather-wise natives have been anying for some months past that the great Adads which occur periodically in the rivers on the west coast of Bomen are due this year. The river Papar bore the brunt of the lant flood and the country around was con- verted into a vast lake. Whole villages were swept away. Shinult such a flood visit the same alisiriet dus gear it is to be feared that most of the new railway would be deposited in the China Sea..
The wet weather has been the cause of a great disaster in Labuan. At Coal Point there haun been various landslips, one in front of the Chinese shops, amother near the Marinding crossing but the most serious accurred on Monday last, October 11, when it was discover ed that the whole of the unbricked portion of the new shaft in process of construction and fallen in dragging with it the earth from behind the bricked part, This shaft has been in hand for three years and was very near' completion. Now it has to be abandoned and over 20,000 has been lost in the undertaking. The greatest sympathy is fel, especially for the manager and staff, who have been unremitting in their
efforts to make the new mine a success. It is
not yet i nown what the Labuan and Borneo Co. will resolve upon.
In consequence of this great loss, Mr. E. Pavitt leaves the Labuan and Borneo Co, and joins the Bombay and Burmah Trading Co. in the Straits. Two other of the European em- ploves leave by the same steamer with him for Singapore,
The Bombay and Burmah Trading Co. seems to appreciate Horneo.men. Mr. Wise and Mr. Allard are already in its service and now Mr. Paviu joins them.-S. F. Press Cor.
WHEN AN ENGLISHWOMAN MARRIES A FOREIGNER.
· (BY E. WITHERS'in The Humanitarias) It will astonish many people to be told that a mariage contracted in England between an Eglishwoman arid A Frenchman, even if solemnised in a church here, is not necessarily binding, unless the needful formalities' demand- ed by the French law have been complied with by the husband. The English marriage binds the wife, at least, in England; but the French
man may, should be desire to do so, release himself from all obligations by returning to his own land, where, should he not have complied with the requirements of the French Code, hé is in a position to make another marriage w ich shall be lawful-the contract with the English- woman being null and vold.
Under such circumstances it may be useful to explain what the French Code demands of Frenchmen who wish to contract legal marri ages with natives of another country. First, should a Frenchman be under the age of 23 he must obtain the consent of his parents in a document signed before a notary public. Unless he obtain this consent he cannot contract, a
legal marriage at all. Should he wish to marry between the ages of 25 and 30 he must still ask the consent of his parents by making what is called the "acte respectueux" three time at stated intervals. After he is 30, he must mill repeal the request for parental per mission to marry; but need only wait one mouth before contracting a marriage. Nor is the master entirely disposed of so. The banns must be published-First; at the Town Hall, nearest to the place in which he may be living, if in France, or at the nearest French Consu. late should he be living abroad. Secondly, a the office of the Mayor of the town in which he was last domiciled in France. Thirdly, in the town where his parents are domiciled, if he is under 25 years of age. We see by this how the French law hedges the marriage contracts with many precautions unknown to natives of other lands.
The social laws are sometimes even more stringent, and young people do not meet in the easy and informal manner to which we are accustomed in our country. It is then not to be wondered at, should a young Frenchman spend some time in our midlet, that he should wish to select a wife from the ranks of our fair countrywomen. Then comes the question of his making the "acto respectueux" by which he should solicit the permission of his parents, and in some cases his entire family, to The question of the date, too, is marry.
French one about which
parents
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901.
gistered in France, within three months of its celebration to make it legal and binding.' Englishwomen living in France, and marrying natives of that country in their own land, run much less risk: for there the formalities are understood, and there would be a difficulty in finding anyone to perform: either the religious, or merely legal, ceremony, unless proof were fortac ming that all usual formalitice has been complied with.
can
Hotels.
GO TO THE
KOWLOON
J. H. DOWNS,
* Manager.
HOTEL,
KOWLOON J. W. OSBORNE,
Proprietor.
THE BAY VIEW HOTEL Very best brands of Wines, Brers and Spirits only kept. Private dinners, a specialty. /
10750)
The better educated classes run fewer risks in this respect, Travel and intercourse with foreigners have made them in some degree conversant with the habits and customs of other countries. Pitiable results are caused: where an English working gid marries a French- man, in London perhaps, and on the return of the couple to France the husband may, should. he desire to dissolve the union, declare that the formalities had not been observed, bring an action in the French courts, and, by. appealing to the Code, obtain his freedom 10735
be proved from a marriage which illegal. That this is so in law is clear; but the French law is paternal in a very high de gree; and, should a wife in such a plight be able to prove that, she, at least, acted in good faith, it will in most cases give her some. protection for herself or her children, if she be a mother even if it punishes the wrong-doer. Having regard to this, it is deeply to be de plored that many women would rather suffer anything in silence thau, by making their cases known, try to obtain possible redress. To nane the expense of law proceedings would be prohibitive; but those who need the aid of a just law should not shrink from seeking the same, even at the risk of publicity.
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The marriage of Englishwomen to foreigners is not in itself to be objected to-far from it. The wider our interests and sympathies the better for all. What we would urge persistent ly, however, is that she who intends to marry a man of different nationality should make due precaution to inform herself what the condi- tions of the country to which the other cons tracting parties belong require in regard to a legal and binding union. Consuls are duly in-. structed to supply the needful information to to
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Prompt attention given to all Letters and Telegrams, A Representative attends the arrival of all steamers.
C. A. BIDDLE, Proprietor and Manager. 1076c]
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Entimations,
Gillings,
14, Des Voeux Road, (Two doors from the Hongkong Hotel).
HICH CLASS TAILORS AND BREECHES MAKERS.
the present season,
those who apply for it. The safest way, therefore, is for Englishwomen intending to marry foreigners to apply at the proper Con- sulate and learn before any ceremony has been solemnised, first, whether the foreigner is at libery to marry at all; and, secondly, that he Are now showing a large and varied assortment of materials suitable for has fulfilled the needful conditions to render a marriage binding on both parties, and not on the wife alone, should hers be the country in which the contract is made. Should the need for such precautions be evident concern- ing the anion of Englishwomen with natives of European countries, the need is rendered much more pressing when they marry natives "of other and more distant lands.
Englishwomen have been-known to marry. men betonging to some of the Indian native rages ere now, and tù proceed to their husband's country, imagining that their posit ion of wives, would not be very materially different from what it would have bees in
Hongkong, 1st November, 1905,
Telegraphic Address: MARINEWORK, HONGKONG
Code Used:
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A and ABC, 4th Edition.
E. C. WILKS &
MARINE ENGINEERS, SHIP CONTRACTORS
AND SURVEYORS..
Co.,
Collisions and Damages Surveyed for Incurnace Companies, Sbips' esigns and Specifications Prepared. Office: 9, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 8th November, 1901.
AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG EXCHANGE, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
A
12140
BACON !!
BACON III
JUST RECEIVED. FRESH Consignment of AUSTRALIAN BACON "AS BEFORE" will be cut in
1b and abs pieces to suit purchasers.
England. A very rude awakening attends any THE CHINA & JAPAN TELEPHONE BACON ! such woman. A wife in such a case would too possibly only be one of many, an object of jealousy and di1li e to the others, and pos- sibly even of annoyance to the husband when time had rendered him careless. Englishwo- men as wives to Chinese are not so very incom- mon either. Then a wife is simply one shade more subject to all the whim, or worse, of her mother- Finlay, who reigns supreme in the house of son. Shold the wife become the mother of a son she may hope at some distant day io rule the house inher turn; but few English-born women could survive to do this. Meantime, the plight of any, woman in such cases is almost beyond compare of endurance. To marry in baste is a proverbial mistake.. But to marry the native of another country, be it near or far, in ignorance of the laws of that country, or the position which a wife occupies to it, is surely madness.
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The latest penny-in-the-slot triumph is the Roovers name-plate machine, an ingenious American invention belonging to Messrs. Ma- guire and Bauces, Warwick-caust, Balborn.
It is certainly a great novelty even among automatic machines, and when it is placed on the streets of London it will undoubtedly achieve an immediate success.
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ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF, EVERY DES..
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On the face or top of the machine is a round NS 210 most particular and far from complacent. All disc surrounded on the edge by letters. Pro this takes time, and the restraint regarding thejecting from the front part is a metal handle publication of the banns is tedious and irk- | about a foot long, which is used for punching some,
and it often ends in a Frenchman, simply nut the letters. ignoring the conditions of the law 6his own. country entirely, and only conforming to those of the country in which he is sojourning. If the couple are prosperous, and no French domicile is contemplated, things may remain quieċċent; but a Frenchman arting thus cuts himself adrift from the members of his family entirely and, should he need their ald at any time he is in the power of his relatives. Now, we will see what a neglect of observing the French formalities may entail,
Suppose a couple to have married as des- cribed, all a Frenchman would have to do to rid himself of a tie of which he may have grown weary would be to declare that his parents
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STEAMERS
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E. W. Haswell.....
KAMAKURA MARU
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DESTINATIONS.
KOBE (DIRECT) MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT) WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and PORT SAID.) VICTORIA, BC. and SEATTLE, I.S.A, VUA SHANGHAL Park, KonE and YOXCHAMA ́............****
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FRIDAY, 15th Nov., at
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MÓNDAY, 18th Nov, at
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5. J. G. Parson.......... KANAGAWA MARU ............(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-1 WEDNESDAY, zoth Nov., at
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HAMA
Noon. SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA FRIDAY, 2nd Nov, at Kasuga MARU
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MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE
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* Through Passenger Tickets and Bills of Lading issued for the Principal Cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY and Atlantic Steamers.
For further information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings,' &c., apply at the Company's Local Brauch Office at Prince's Building, 1st Floor, Chater Road.
Hongkong, 17th November, 1901. NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,
TA SHANGHAI, INLANO SEA OF JAPAN, KOHE AND VOKOHAMA,
FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOSA IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO
Steamers,
Clavering Brackstar Wyefield
Captains. Proposed
badings.
AS. MIHARA, Manager.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MALITIMES, PAQUEROTS-POSTE FRANCAIS
NOTICE.
STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT,, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;
ALSO
PORTS or BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATEL Barker... Nov. 16 ON MD, the Company's Stentship AN MONDAY, the 18th November, 1901,
"ANNAM," Captain Sellier, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via ports of call, WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.
3,328 3,000
V. Watt...... Nov. 16 3,235, G. Carmer... Dec. at
HE attention of Passengers 19, directed to the very cheap rates offered by rbis Line to the Pacific COAST and to the INTERIOR and EASTERN CITIES of the UNITED STATES and to EUROPE.
HONGKONG TO LONDON £$2, Excellent accommodation. First-class Table. Passengers to EUROPE may proceed by one
DOCTOR and STEWARDES8 carried.
of the first clas8 ATLANTIC MAIL LINES,
HONGKONĊ ro NEW YORK £48 The Railroad travelling is second to none on the American Continent; two trans-continental trains daily from TACOMA, DINING Car is attached to trans-continental trains day and Right; TACOMA to NEW YORK in 4 days. Magnificent Scenery of the ROCKY and CASCADE MOUNTAINS. The YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK route,
HONGKONG TO VICTORIA, TACOMA £35.
The best route in the KLONDYKE GOLD FIELDS. Frequent Sailings from VICTORIA, TACOMA to DYRA and ST. MICHAEL
Rates of Passage to other Points on applica
1100
Special rates allowed to members of Govarn- ment Services
For further Information as to Passage or Freight, apply to
́DÓDWELL & Co., LIMITED, General Agents. Hongkong, 9th November, rooT.
TAL
STEAM
COMP
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.
Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on board until 4 P., Specie and Parcels until 3 P.M., on the 17th instant. (Parcals are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)- Con tents and Value of Packages are required
For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Office.
P. DE CHAMPMORIN,"
Acting Agent. Hongkong, 5th November, 1901.
[10040
CALIFORNIA AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
IN CONNECTION WITH
THE ATCHESON TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILROAD CO
PROPOSED SAILINGE THOM HONGKONG TO SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRANCISCO. VIA SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN AND HONOLULU.
Taking Cargo and Passengers to JAPAN PORTS,,
and HONOLULU, The UNITED STATES, &C. Te Thyra | amn] about
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN FORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for EATAVIA,
PERSIAN GULE, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS).
BUILDING CONTRACTOR, WYNDHAM STREET (Opposite to the
CLUB GERMANIA). LECTRIC BELLS CANITARY APPLIANCES SUPPLIED TRAPS. and FIXED, DRAINS, WASTE PIPES, &c. CLEANSED and RE THE Steamship PAIRED. Sanitary Board Notices receive
"PARRAMATTA,"
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS, prompt Application for MOSAIC 15586 Captain R. T. Cork, despatches on this for
SWITCHES
WIRE, &C. &C.
The method of working the machine is sim-TELEPHONES, ple enough. You first of all put a penny in the slot and then turn round the disc until the first letter you want is opposite to an indicator You then bear down on the handle and press, and by this means you punch the letter on to. a narrow straip of aluminium which is con- cealed in the interior of the machine.
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You repeat the operation until the required name is completed." A period is punched in. facilities for spacing the words. the same way as a letter, and there are alsa
When the plate'is finished it slides out of a slot, and you see your name stamped upon it in bold carital letters. Furthermore, a smal} hole is drilled at each end of the plate, so that it is all ready for fixing on to anything you. wish Jabelled,
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ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,:
Erected and kept in order,
Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical work.
Prices on
JUST RECEIVED..
FIRST SEASON'S CONSIGNMENT of AMERICAN ASPARAGUS & DESSERT FRUITS, ALL KINDS. Apply to
G. .GIRAULT. Hongkongs2oth August, 1901,′-
[667 T. M. STEVENS & CO.
́CARRY IN STOCK. A FULL LINE OF "GERMINAL " MANILA CIGARS.
T. M. STEVENS, & CO.
Beaconsfield Arcade.
1959 Hongkong, 2nd September, 1901.
A. LING & Co., FURNITURE STORE
objected to his marrying, and wish him to The plate may be used for innumerable pur-Trained Mechanicisus sent to Out-Forts to f (Next Door to Mesara, WATKING & CO.)
up Installations if required.
poses, and it is particularly designed to be screwed on portmanteaus, bags, umbrellas, bicycles, hats, and doors. Being made of. meal it is of course far more useful than the ordinary paper label, and it has the additional NOTE ADDRESS, ICE HOUSE ROAD. advantage of being far more lasting,
return to his own country.. Even his parents may bring an action to annul auch a marriago on their own initiative. In case the banns should not have been duly published, a rd quired by the French Code, any imerested individual could take steps to annul the marriage. The case would be different, of courac, should the needful formalities regard hug consent of parents; publication of banus, etc., have been observed, but even then, A out. mixed marriage would have to be duly re- GIRAULT for all KINDS of FANCY
G. BISCUITS
The name plate machine has already been placed on the streets of many American cities, and has achieved a conspicuous success, for it supplies a really useful article that can be put to a hundred different uses, and will never wear
GIRAULT for the best, and GREAT- EST ASSORTMENT, of CONELC-
TIONERY
9574
་་་་་་
For full Particulars, &c., &c.,
Apply to
W. STUART HARRISON,
Manager. Hongkong, 19th August, 1901.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
",
Speciality: FOOCHOW LACQUER WARE. Hongkong, 18th June, 1901.
IS
MEE CHEUNG,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
TOP FLOOR OF ICE HOUSE, IN
Ice-House Roqdi.
[6420
Majesty's Mails, will be from BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 23rd Instant, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports,
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer
THE Steamship
«THYRA,"
Dec. 20
will be despatched for SAN DIEGO and SAN FRANCISCO, VIA MOJI, KOBE, YOKO- HAMA and HONOLULU, on or about the zoth Decembar,
Through Bills of Lading issued to any point in the United States.
Cargo will be received on board until 5 P.M. the day previous to sailing. Parcel packages. will be received at the OFFICE - until the same time. All parcels should be marked to address in full. Value of same is required. ·
Consular Invoices, to accompany cargo des tined to Points beyond San Diego, should be sent to the Company's Office, addressed to the Collector of Customs, San Diego.
For further Information as to Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, Hongkong, China and Japan. Manglenng, 9th November, ro01.. ·Trazzo
For Sale.
FOR BALR
proceeding direct to Marseilles and London SEVERAL MODERN BOOKS on En
other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed vid Bombay with Transuipment.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 P.M. the day before sailing.. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.
Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Bille of Lading.
For further Particulars, apply to
E. A HEWETT,
**Superintendent. Honghong, 9th Novembar, 1001
REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO NEW YORK,
VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL. PROPOBED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, "RICHMOND CASTLE *2:15th Nov, KURDISTAN 30th Nov, “LENNOX” Imam.15th Dec, "ORONSAY": summabácsim3sat Dec,
AFRIDI
TS dow in a position, in his New and Com-HILLGLEN"
modious Premises, to eclipse, as heretofore,LOWTHER CASTLE ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED
[29 in the Colsdy or in any part of the Far East.
GIRAULTS GREAT. "SPECIALTY, COFFEE ground on the PREMISES.
GROUPS AND VIEWS
Va speciality?NA Hongkong, 22nd September, 1895.
gineering Subjects,
For List, apply
"STEAM;" Clo The Hongkong Telegrap Hongkong, roth August, 1901.
POR SALE, CHEAP.
COTTAGE PIANO by BORD, of PARIS, A Three years old, in Excellent Condition
For Price, &c, apply to
THE ROBINSON PIANO CO. Hongkong, 37th May, 1901
· [5650.
DROZ & Co.,
WATCH MANUFACTURERS, STEAM FACTORY Established 1864, ST. IMIER, SWITZERLAND.
SPECIALITIEBS LEVER WATCH &' CHRONOGRAPHS TRADE MARKS: MAXIM, BERNA,
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For Freight and further Information, apply by competest European experts at
DODWELL & CO, LIMITED,
Porn Pågents.
Longkong, 4th November, 1901) filio)
Moderatë Rate, and
** NO. 10, QUEEN's Road CENTRAL Hongkong/ 14th May, 1901)
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