surrender Miss Stone until they have actually received her ransom, and the Consul, on the other hand, declines to pay it over until the lady is returned to him safe and well. The mistrust of both parties is quite comprehensible, but since the welfare of the lady is the main considera tion, the general feeling is, that the Consul
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1901.
Hotels.
THE CONNAUGHT HOUSE,
QUEEN'S ROAD.
would de well to waive 'his very natural condi- allowance was at low ebb she stayed in The most comfortable family Hotel in Hongkong.
tion. The greatest sympathy is everywhere felt for Miss Stone and her family.
The long anticipated
and generally the climate had not suited her. If fairly well off the children were packed away to school, while their mother wandered. plaintive and fretful from boarding-house to hotel, loquacious on the subject of her desolate condition, and craving, Wespecially if pretty, the sympathy of male friends. When her
dull country places with uncongenial friends, who severely reprobated her absence' from her husband and general uselessness. If poor RESIGNATION OF THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR,
and dependent on the scanty "pay and allow 'Count Hatzfeldt, was announced yesterday.ance" of the lesser ranks, the Anglo-Indian It would have been communicated to the Press last week, but that the Count was awaiting the expression of the Kaiser's pleasure, which reached London in the form of a most gratifying autograph letter addressed by His Majesty to the retiring diplomatist. The Count is compelled to relinquish public life owing to increasing ill-health. He will be greatly regretted in London, where his tact, agreeable manners, and great ability have gained for him both respect and popularity. Count Hatzfeldt will be succeeded by Count Wolff Metternich, in whose selection the Kaiser is said, to have paid consideration to the wishes of the King, with whom the new minister is a persona grafa. Count Wolf's chief diplomatic experi- ences have been as Consul General in Cairo, and First Secretary in London, and he is understood to be thoroughly friendly, towards this country.
SPAIN AND ENGLAND. Colonel Escribano, a distinguished Spanish General, who served as Chief of the Staff dur ing the Cuban war, has this week been giving expression in the London press to a view which is known to have been longheld by the Govern ment of his country. The gallave officer desires a renewal of the close alliance which in the reign of King George II, existed between the two peoples. It is quite possible that the Colonel's very abe article in yesterday's Ex- press was inspired by his superiors. After speaking of commercial benefits, Colonel Escribano sets forth what he understands to be the political advantages of both sides. Spain would gain the protection of the British navy both in Europe, and, where it is even more wanted, in Spanish America. The advent of English capital would enable her to develop her agricultural and trade resources now lan guishing, owing to the national poverty."
faces,
matron was necessarily of a more energetic type. She took a tiny house in some town" where education was cheap for the all too numerous sons and daughters' and passed years of separation in the weary toll of making ends meet. These semi-detached couples and families of the fifties and sixties were a curious and pathetic social study. Wives who had
their husbands' almost forgotten fathers with grown up sons and daughters they might have passed unrecognising in the street; the wife becoming grey haired the childern mature, while the father passed lonely years in the routine of his office or his regiment. Not the least costly item in the price of our world Empire were these separated lives and too often estranged affections, which were the Anglo-Indian's fate.
EXCELLENT CUISINE, LOFTY ROOMS, CENTRALLY SITUATED,
TERMS MODERATE.
GIVILITY ANDIIATTENTION.
J. H. WAINWRIGHT, Manager.
Hongkong, 7th December, 1901.
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GO TO THE
KOWLOON
J. H. DOWNS, Manager.
HOTEL,
KOWLOON.
J. W. OSBORNE, Proprietor.
THE BAY VIEW HOTEL
Mails.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
(THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY),
PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
STEAMERS.
YAWATA MARU......
A. E. Moses...... IDZUMI MARU ....................
M. J.Curnow
KAWACHI MARU
J. S. Thomson
J. B. Macmillan
Very best brands of Wines, Beors and Spirits only kept. Private WAKASA MARU dinners, a specialty.
Under entirely now management.
107.5€)-
When the old Indian, of what Kipling calls the "far away sixties and seventies," came home on the two years' leave which succeeded six years of exile, his clothes, and even more so those of his wife, were deplorably old fashioned and rococo. His hat and frock coat, 19734} caused a sensation in Piccadilly, 'white her skies and sleeves were privately discussed by her female" friends with compassion and horror. When they left England Anglo- Indians stocked their wardrobes with a suffi-
cient supply of clothes to fast them until their
return.
Possibly with the aid of a fashion paper and the neat but uninspired fingers of the native durzi some slight modifications may have been made in her well preserved silks and muslins, but St. James's and Regent-street stood aghast at confections which were ab solutely modern in the Mofussil, and passed well in Bombay. The amateur photographer worked his wicked will on them, and wet plates uricatured their beauty, or cruelly emphasised their lack of it. They are pathetic those little voluntes of Indian photographs England would secure the use, of ports in which lie half forgotten, in the corners of so the Balearic Isles, Las Palmas and at Vigo, many English homes. The leaves are of thin while she could pay less heed to the protection tinted paper, and delicately cut in little slits to of Gibraltar, with an allied Spain on the main admit the four corners of the unmounted land behind her, and Ceuta across the Straits, pictures. There is madam as à bride in wide The army of Spain, one million strong, could sowing skirts and banded, hair, looking con- co-operate, with the British Fleet, not only in siderably older than the comely matron of the eventuality of a European War, but imo-day. Her husband in whiskers and a mediately, in the subjugation of the Transvaal. collarless uniformi in fiercely frowning under This last suggestion, while, of course, in itself the strain of the long exposure. Jack and Meg chimerical, is nevertheless noteworthy, as being and the poor babies that died, with their thin the first formal military expression of sympathy shoulders and tiny tega emerging from the stiff which has reached Great Britain from the folds of elaborately embroidered frocks, have a Continent during lier two years' struggle with world of foreboding in their dark eyes and the Boers.
pinched faces. There are Captain and Mrs. Smith of such and such a regiment. He was wounded in the Mutiny, and she died at Cawn- pore. That good-looking man ran away with the Major's wife, and that fat woman's husband deserted her a year after they were married! so the tale. of the faded pictures runs, oid' scandals, old heroisins, old loves, till the owner puts it away with a sigh, and an "All ancient history to you, I know!"
ANGLO-INDIANS.
(Globe),
Ever since the grip of the British closed more or less firmly on the East, old Anglo- Indians have been a feature of English social life, dawn by hundreds and thousands from the upper middle class, not alien by birth or breeding, yet with a certain outlandish touch of thought and habit imprinted on them. But
the old Indian to-day is a vastly different being from his ancestor of the beginning of the nineteenth century. The returned exile of seventy years ago was generally rich, and always reputed to be so. Johan Company's servants, military or civilian; were better paid and far less restricted than those of His Majesty. India' was their home for the best part of their fiyes, and they came back to England with the habits of a ruling race in a conquered country ingrained in them. They invited guests to "in" and "chotah hazri," did not consider English festivities equal to Anglo-Indian tamashas, had touches of fever and ague, were attended by native servants, and above all gossipped among them "selves of a fair-away strange life, of palanquin Journeys and tik gharries and tongas, of up country stations and military cantonments,
The Anglo-Indian, as a class, a type apart
from his fellows, is fast dying out, and his little peculiarities and hall marks are rapidly becom- ing obliterated. Thousands have been in India, but very few are Anglo-Indians. Life in India, even in far away stations, has lost much of its oneliness and remoteness, since the days when communication depended on the chintz-lined palanquin and groaning bullock cart. Now rail- ways run in every part. Children thrive fairly well to a much later age, and; in charge of English nurses and governesses, generally wait for the regiment to come home. Indian, colonels and collectors no longer. scandalise club-rooms with their tempers, hole younger men with old stories, or harry the cook for hat foods and curries. Anglo-Indian ladies, full of languid airs and irritable tempers, have ceased to flirt compromisingly, pinch their ayaks, and
J. LACOCK.
METROPOLE HOTEL Convenient distance from town, delightful situation.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE. Intimations.
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO. The Oldest and Largest International Life Insurance Company in -the World.
Supervised by 82 Goverments,
Actual new-placed and paid for business for the year 1900 Dollars 232,388,355 Gold The undersigned, having been appointed HONGKONG AGENT for this Company will be pleased to received proposals for Insurance. A note or a Telephone Message from those wishing an "up-to-date "pulicy will receive immediate attention.
Hongkong, 17th December, root.
E.
Telegraphic Address: MARINEWORK, HONGKONG.
HECTOR W. SAMPSON, Hongkong Hotel.
Code Used:
[1374C
A and ABC, 4th Edition.
C. WILKS & Co.,
MARINE ENGINEERS, SHIP CONTRACTORS AND SURVEYORS.
Collisions and Damages Surveyed for Insurance Companies, Ships' Designs and Specifications Fropated Office: 9, Queen's Road Central
Hongkong, 8th November, 1901.
WING CHEONG.
F12140
DEALERS IN JEWELLERY, PEARLS DIAMONDS, JADESTONEWARE, CURIOS, SILKS, CARVED IVORYWARE, AND GRASSCLOTHS,
AND
GENERAL EXPORTERS.
No. 35, Queen's Road Central,'
Next Door Messre. LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, 20th November, 1901.
THE HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
JOTICE is bereby given that the SEVEN,
NTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Regis tered Offices of the Company, 38 and 40, Queen's Road Central, on FRIDAY, the 27th day of December, 1901, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together, with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th November, 1901.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company' will be CLOSED from the 20th to 29th Inst., both days days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
{13570 Hongkong, 14th. December, 1001
NOTICE,
neglect their children. Even the widow of an In-DURING the operations for RAISING the
S.S. "9KRAMSTAD there will be
attempt to pass. and launches and junks are warned not to
THE
[12560
IYO MARU
S. J. G. Parsons
KUMANO MARU. .................................
E. W. Haswell.........
DESTINATIONS.
SAILING DATES.
Noon,
FRIDAY, 20th Dec, At
(NAGASAKI, KOUE' and YOKO-Į FRIDAY, zoth Dec, at
HAMA
GOMBAY (DIRECT) .................. {KOBE and YOKOHAMA
MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT- WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG * COLOMBO and PORT SAID .......................... VICTORIA, B.C. and SEATTLE, U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJ, KODE and YOKOHAMA um broyt SYDNEY, and MELBOURNE, VIA
Noon.
TUESDAY, 24th Dec, at
Daylight.
FRIDAY, 27th, Dec., at
Daylight.
MONDAY, 30th Dec, at
4 P.2.
FRIDAY, 3rd Jan., 1902, at MANILA, THURSDAY. ISLAND, F.M. ******* ****
TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE ..
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 und Atlantic Steamers.
For further Information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings, &c., apply at the Company's Local Branch Office at Prince's Building, 1st Floor, Chater Road.
A. 8. MIHARA, Manager.
Hongkong, 17th December, 1901.
ORIENTAL
STE
COMP
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERBIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS),
HE Steamship
TH
"CHUSAN," Captain C. L Daniel, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the arst instant, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports,
[6
CALIFORNIA AND ORIENTAL
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
IN CONNECTION WITH
THE ATCHESON TUPEKA & SANTA
FE RAILROAD CO.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG TO SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRANCISLO, VIA SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN AND HONOLULU, Taking Cargo and Passengers to Japan PORTS, and HONOLULU. The United STATES, &C. Thyra
1....... 1 about j Dec 26 HE Steamship
"THYRA,"
will be despatched for SAN DIEGO and SAN FRANCISCO, VIA MOJI, KOBE, YOKO. HAMA and HONOLULU, oq or about the 26th December.
Through Bills of Lading issued to any point in the United States.
Cargo will be received on board until § 2.1.
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, the day previous to sailing, Farcal packages and Tes for London (under arrangement) will will be received at the OFFICE until the same time. All parcels should be marked to address be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer in full. Value of same is required. proceeding direct to Marseilles and London other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed vid Bombay with Transhipment.
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 nota the torms and conditions of the Company's Bill of Lading,
For further Particulars, apply to
E. A HEWETT,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, 7th December, 1001
ROBINSON NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
PIANO GO., LIMITED.
COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, VIA
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 lupaa. Manolomu, 17th December, nONE
Trögze
Insurances.
"L'UNION".
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, .LD. (Established 1828).
SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, THE Undersigned, having been appointed
KOBE AND YOKOHAMA
FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CÓ.
Steamers.
Captains.
Proposed Bastings.
BEST VALUE IN
Tacoma
2,811 A. Dixon..... Dec. 2x
Victoria
Olympia
Glenogle
PIANOS.
MONTHLY PAYMENT
SYSTEM.
Hongkong, 19th August, 1901,
[7510
at current rates,
GENERAL AGENT for the above Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office.
A. R. MARTY,
Hongkong, 5th July, 1901
Agant.
YORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
3,502 1. Panton... Dec. 27THE Undersigned AGENTS of the shove Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN A CHINESE RISKS Rt CURRENT RATES.
2,837. Trucbridge Jan. 17 3.750 W. Frakes... Feb. 7
"HE attention of Passengers is directed to
to the PACIFIC COAST and to the INTERIOR and EASTERN CITIES of the UNITED STATES and to EUROPE,
-HONGKONG TO LONDÓN. Ész
of dealings with natives and the ways and dian general has vanished from the pension and obstructions between the ship and the shoreEstablishment of SHIP. CHANDLERS, | Excellent accommodation. First-class Table.
boarding-house drawing-room, where she auth
habits of Rajahs and Begums. They were of the West and yet had seen the East, and theoritatively gossipped of elopements in palanqu«. magic of her languor and luxury could not be forgotten even when her shores were far behind
thom,
ins and tragedies of the Mutiny. We recognise the fact of their departure with a sigh. Doubt. less they were bares and tiresome, but they stood out from among their fellows, and from them the humorous observer might derive much amusement, for they diversified the dead level of sameness to which modem society tends,
BARMAIDS IN INDIA.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY,
R., Com, R N Harbour Master, &c. Harbour Department,
Hongkong 16th December, 1901 HONGKONG CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LD.
TENDERS are invited for the sale right of advertising in Chinese on the backs of tickets issued to native passengers by all, tho steaters of this Company and by the Navigation Company's steamer China "HANKOW."
For further Particulars, apply to
The Secretary Hongkong, 15th December, 1901, 1366
Following up the recent order by Sir John Woodburn prohibiting the employment of bar- "maids in Calcutta from the opening of the next excino year, the Board of Revenue have now ruled that the following condition shall be inserted in every license throughout Bengal whether taken out by Europeans or natives :—- IR BENTLEY is prepared to match an
MR
unknown against any lad in China at That at the place for which this license
A CHALLENGE TO ALL CHINA,
C. CHARLIES BROS, & CO.
HIS COMPANY has opened a New
NAVY CONTRACTORS, GENERAL STORE-
DOCTOR and STEWARDESS carried. KEEPERS, PROVISION and COAL MERCHANTS, Passengers to EUROPE may proceed by one TAILURS and OUTFITTERS. FRESH WATER | of the first class ATLANTIC MAIL LINES. „ supplied at Shortest notice. All orders promptly attended to. THIS COMPANY sells. everything cheaper than any other Company In this Colony..
No. 30 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 13th December, 1901,
DROZ &
Co.,
[1355c
Watch ManUFACTURERS, STEAM FACTORY ESTABLISHED 1864. ST. IKIER, SWITZERLAND.
SPECIALITIESI
LEVER WATCH & CHRONOGRAPHS.
TRADE MARKS: - MAXIM, BERNA, &c.
HONGKONG TO NEW YORK £48. * The Railroad travelling is second to none où the American Continent two trans-continental trains daily from TACOMA DIXING CAR IN attached to trans-continental trains day and night; TACOMA to NEW YORK in 4 days, Magnificent Scenery of the ROCKY and CASCADE MOUNTAINS. The YELLOWSTORE
NATIONAL PARK route,;
HONGKONG, TO VICTORIA, TACOMA £35.
The best route to the KLONDYKE GOLD FIELDE. Frequent Sailings from VICTORIA, TACOMA to DVEA and ST. MICHARI
· Rates of Passage to other Points on applica Special rates allowed to members of Govern
as to Passage or Por further Information Freight, apply iphone
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.
2. Genaral Agents, Hongkong, 6th December, voPT) .....
Josh Bedley, immortal Josh, is the very type and embodiment of the Anglo-Indian of the beginning of the last century; that Collector of Boggley Wallah whose quickly gained wealth gave him more social importance than now falls to the share of his hard-working descend ants, Josh told long tales pointed with Hindustani words of obscuro meaning, ate hot curled foods, considering it an excellent joke when the unsuspecting Backy burnt her mouth, and bullied a trembling native servant. Even Miss Matty Jenking' quiet cousin, the Major from India, whose possible need of razors
DEPAIRS, of WATCHES and CLOCKS ment Services: REPA in his dressing-room softly exercised the maid.
by competent European experts at lady, had an Indian servant behind his is granted no female shall be employed the Bantam weight, limit & stone, 4 pounds,
for any part of One hundred pounds sterling Moderate Rats, chair, Nowadays Anglo-Indians do not con in connecion with, or take part in the(100), under the following conditions
vend of imported wines, spirituous and sider it good form to invite friends to tiffin. many do not cat curry, and which of them fermented liquors in ony capacity whatsoever." possesses a black or brown khitmagar at whose Taken in conjunction with the recent enact- bead teapots, bootjacks, or bad language mayment in one of the States' of Europe that na impartially be burled ? Josh and his type are barmaids sliould be under 45 years of age, it utterly extinct. The pagoda tree is dead and would seem that the sphere of action of the ibarren of fruit for the fortune-seeker, Retired barmaid is becoming limited. The latter collectors and colonels economise in country regulation, by the way, reminds one of the rule towns, and their daughters swell the ranks of laid down not long ago by a popular Captain the daily governess and typewriter. Twenty on the Chida Station, that none of his midship years after Josh's extinction came the lady who men might be seen in the company of ladies had not seen her husband for a decade or more. between the ages of 7 and 47, under penalty of
going on sborn She had brought the children home to educate, being debarred from p
1.-Twenty rounds of three minutes duration. 2.-Four ounce glopes to be used. 3.The ring to measure sixteen fest. 4-Men to weigh in at 4 P.M. on day of contest.
5.-Should either man exceed the above weight he will fortelt all money deposited.
6.-Match to come off in Hongkong on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, January 23rd, 24th, or 25th, 1902, 33
No other terms will suit. All offers of purnes to be made before above dater Falling a
WILLIAM H. BENTLEY, suitable purse, will box for the stakes, an
(Backer).
Note Mr. Bentley has deposited twenty sovereigns us as an earnest of good-faith,
G. GIRALT BRILLIANT VARIETY GIRAULT: CRYSTALLIZED All challenges, to be sent to this good faith,
Paris, London, Boston, New York, &or
FRUITS, ROSE, MAROONSTAD RAM
Hongkong 16th December, 100s, GLACES à mout Splendid Assortment. 19579)
No. 10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Mengkong. 15th diny, v
NEW GOODS.
PLENTY
Tg260
JAPANESE CURIOS.
HAN
D. NOMA, No. 12, Beaconsfield Arcade, Opposite the City Egil
Hongkang, 30th Apr
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 28th May, 1805.
(10
Intimations.
F. BLACKHEAD & 00, SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL. CONTRACTORS. AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, PRAYA CENTRAL HONGKONG, SOAP MANUFACTURERS. SULE AGENTS FOR ITARTMANN'S-KAHTJEN'S GENUINE
ARTMA
COMPOSITION RED HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES,
& C
Bolt Agenti for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL
CREAM
P. & Q. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH"
WHISKY, &C.] EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
TIGAT
REASONABLE PRICES,
REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TM STEVENS & CO
TO NEW YORK,
VIA. PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,
1 1902
LENNOX ....................................................about 21st Dec. ORONSAY®
31st Dec.
...about roth Jan
20th Jan, Just Jan. For Freight and further Information, apply.
AFRIDI
HILLGLEN
LOWTHER CASTLE
ILL & CO., LIMITED,
Honokang. 6th Decemb
fasté
CARRY IN STOCK, VAN
A FULL LINE OF GERMINAL" MANILA CIGARS.
1*8
T. M. STEVENS & CO.
Beaconsfield Arcada. Hangkong and September, 1991, 224 (9590)
NEW VICTORIA HOTEL,
ROTISSERIE,
Meals a la Carte
HOPS, STEAKS, etc, etc, at any time,
between 7.30 am, and 11. p.m. Monthly Tina at Moderate.
Madar & Farmer. Sist Propri Hongkong, and September 1901,
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