THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1901.
Auction.
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE
BY
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Undersigned have been favoured with instructions to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
TO-MORROW,'
the 28th December instant, at 11 A.M.
THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE CONSIGNMENT OF
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S
+
JEWELLERY.
Part of which was sold by Auction, on Saturday, the 14th instant.
the tortures in company with bis comrades Dowa, er appeared displeased but eventually except at the last act, which it is alleged con- said quietly: "Well, I have always felt that sisted of making the prisoners "breathe fire" the young man does not deserve such a high through their nostrils-their mouths being destiny. When Prince Ching gave the fourth stuffed up. After this person who, by the way, suggestion, the deempitation of Tung Fobsiang, is said to have been only eighteen years of age, he received the reply. This, at any rate, had confessed the whole plot as he knew it his will be easy to effect." Finally, Prince Ching comrades cried out a chorus of cumes at him. mustered up courage enough to present the They were then also forced to put a mark on first and second suggestions, namely, the The the so-called "voluntary" confession by having restoration to power of the Emperor, and the a pen put into each man's hand while one of removal of Yung Lo and Lu Ch'uan-lin Com his torturers guided the pen. One part of the the Grand Council." The Empress. Dowager "confession" declared that afnumerous body remained silent and thoughtful and made no of men had been specially detailed off to reply. Prince Ching was then dismissed from 'destroy the Cheng-tinfu-Peking, Railway-if all audience for the day. As comment on the rela- else had failed-and inke'up some of the rails tions between Prince Ching and the notorious. as the Imperial train came on, whilst other Lu Chuan-lin, the same correspondent re- bands of armed men had been ordered to marks: "Prince Ching arrived at K'aifeng fire at the Imperial train wherever chance from Peking on the rath of November. On offered en route, This being communicated that same day Lu Ch'uanlin sent in an applica-
A few lots will have an upset price marked at a very low figure to Viceroy Yuan Shih-l'ai, H.E. with his tion for sick leave, asking to be excused from usual promptitude and energy at once made attendance at the Grand Council. On the 17th-which will be stated at the sale with this exception the whole will provision to guard against this, portion of idem Prince Ching obtained permission to be sold absolutely without reserve.. the great conspiracy by ordering all available return to Peking-which he did that forenoon, troops under his jurisdiction to be ready .tg-and on, the evening. before Lu Ch'uan-lin camp along the whole railway route from reported himself 'well and ready to attend to Cheating to Peking, thus making one contin his duties at Court." Further comments are uous line of armed troops on both sides of the needless.-N.-C, D. News. railway whilst mounted troops are to scour the whole countryside within fifteen li.of each side of the railway and scatter any party of men exceeding two or three in number, at the same time arresting any suspicious characters in sight at the time of the expected passing of the Imperial train. The troops detailed for the purpose, camped in the vicinity of Peking have already started for their destination and the thoroughness of the Viceroy Yuan's ar rangements for the profection of the Court travelling through his jurisdiction will, it is expected, prevent any unpleasant, accidents en
AS OTHERS SEE US.
PLAGUES AND THEIR MASTERS.
Men
A few years ago, says the M. Y. Tribunt, the world was upon the verge of panic over the bubonic plague. That pestilence, one of the tngst, hideous and deadly known to man, was raging with destructive virulence at Hong- kong, at Bambay and elsewhere, and nothing seamed able to check its ravages. identified it with the plague which scourged London for Stuart sins, and with the "Black Death which decimated Europe in the may The Sinwapo states that some British Middle Ages. In that they may or
But they went on nining engineers have lately arrived in Honan not have been correct. province en route to open certain coal mines into assume; and openly to declare, that in
route..
MINING IN HONAN
the three prefactores, of Changte, Weihui, and
like manner Europe was about to be scourged
THE LOTS COMPRISE :-
DIAMOND, OPAL, and CORAL NECKLACES, WATCHES, LADIES' LONG CHAINS, PENDANTS, BROOCHES, EAR RINGS, SLEEVE LINKS, RINGS SET with PRECIOUS STONES, SCARF PINS, &c., &c. Setting of English and Chinese Work- manship (the English settings being of Solid Gold, Hall marked 19 and 18 Carat);
ALSO
A Large and Choice Selection of UNSET DIAMONDS of Perfect Cut, RUBIES, OPALS and other PRECIOUS STONES ranging from 3 to 49 Curats each, which will be sold by the Cart
This Collection is not Locally Owned, but consists exclusively of Jewellery, &c., selected at home for the Philippine market, bát owing to the excessive import duties recently imposed in Manila; the consignee has decided to stop the consignment and realise by Public Auction here, which will enable the Honglong. Community to obtain high-class selections at much under retail prices.
On View from Friday, the 27th instant. TERMS: As usual.
Hangkang, 23rd December, 1901.
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THE INTERNAL POLICY OF VICEROY, YUAN.
the same fate. Nothing could keep the bubonic plague from spreading to those shores, and once here nothing could keep it from ravaging all parts of the land. Such were the gloomy. forebodings put forth by then reputedly of judgment and of "light and leading."
It is stated from Peking that while Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai was in that city lately, H. E
LOST ITS UNIQUE TERROR. conferred with Prince Ching with reference to
We shall not rush rashly to the opposite (1) the establishment of a War Office at extreme, and say such a catastrophe is intrinsi- Tientsin, connected with the Peiyang Admin cally impossible. But at least we may legi- istration, which should control the organisationmately point nur thar it-has-nor occurred-and- and supply of the land forces of Chihli and that its occurrence now seems, upon the ground Shantung after the best foreign methods; (2) of what has actually taken place and been' the complete rehabilitation of the Peiyang arhieved, to be altogether improbable. The squadron under the control of competent Bri plague is still prevalent in some part of India. tish or American Naval officers; and (3)he it is raging furiously in China, notably, at equipment and arming of the whole of the land Foo-chew. It has on
many occasions in forces of Chihli and Shantung with the most modern arms and amunition, said forces to
number at least 100,000 men within three years It is also stated that Prince Ching fully agreed with the Viceroy
EN ROUTE TO EXILE.
A Wuchang dispatch reports the arrival at that city from Nanking, on the 13th instant, of Yung Ch'uan (Manchu), ex-Provincial Trea- surer of Chekiang, who was cashiered on account of the anti-foreign riots in Chichou and other cities of Chekiang Just year. After calling upon the various high officials of the city, Yung Chunn left the same day by junk, escorted by a couple of gunboats, to go up the gorges en rout for Chêngtu, capital of Szechuan, which is to be his place of exile.
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Europe, to Great Britain, to South America, and to the United States. But it has not gained a foothold in one of these countries. It has nowhere become epidemic, or caused any 10750) - local anxiety. The result is that in popular estimation it has lost the "unique. terror" with which its name was once invested. A few years ago announcement of a single case of it at a European or an American port would have caused a panic. To-day it would scarcely vie in public interest with a new "problem play," cl and would be completely distanced by an
historical novel."
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LONDON, 1600; HONGKONG,T19a1. This gratifying fact-which bespeaks not apathy, but conscious security-indicates the A REPORTED OFFICIAL CHANGE. magnitude of the revolution wrought in human Dispatches recived from Nanchang, the pro-affairs by Pasteur and Lister and their disciples. viacial cépital of Kiangsi, state that there is a Bafore their time sanitary science had not rumour amongst mandarin circles in that city begun to exist. Civilized nations were little to the effect that H.E. Li, Governor of the better off than savage ones. province, is to go to Shansi as Governor while Charles 11 was no better than the Hong-be H.E. Tsên Ch'un-hshen, Governor of that pro kong of to-day-the native Hongkong, vince, will came South to take, Governor Li's with all its crowded "squalour-and we should place.
not court a comparison of the New York of cholera times with the present Bam- bay. Pasteur and Lister have changed all that. They have'armed civilization against pestilence, so that now the deadliest plagues are held in check, and their few imported cases in en- lightened lands serve only to emphasize the completeness of the immunity which such countries enjoy.
RUMOURS AND CONJECTURES,
The report that the Empress, Dowager has the intention of appointing. Piu Lun, Prince of the 4th Order, as Heir Apparent upon her' arrival at Peking would appear to be premature, and as a matter of fact so contrary to the usual policy of that shrewd and strong-minded old lady that the very announcement would seem
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to contradict itself. In other words, Prince This end, so immeasurably beneficent to
mankind, was attained through patient, painstaking scientific labour. It is to be maintained in the self-same way, and in no other. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SCIENCE
P'un Lu is twenty-seven years old, having been horn in 1874; and as the Empress Dowager's ambition is to get hold of some youthful mam. | ber of the Imperial Clan--the younger the better having no intention yet of relinquishing The genius of Pasteur may not be rivalled what she has, it seems improbable that she by another in our age. But at least the would even dream of putting one who has
work which he wrought may be continued
attained the age of manhood, possessing in
dependence of mind and holding opinions of bis own, in a position which could easily inter- "fere with her own policy and work destruction to the party supporting her if such an Heir Apparent had the desire to do so. It is truo that Prince Plus Lun, as the first character of his name designates, belongs to a junior branch to that of either the present Emperor or the jate Emperor Tung Chih, who is in want of an keir; but "circumstances alter cases" and the circumstarice of Pu Luo's age must alter his case in the opinion of the Empress Dowager.
K'AIFENG NOTES,
The Universal Gazette's K'aifeng corres- pondent confirms our Peking correspondent's telegram of the 6th instant concerning the four suggestions of the Foreign Ministers which Prince Ching was asked to present to the Empress Dowager when he arrived at K'zing the other day. The correspondent states that when the Empress Dowager asked what the
Foreign Ministers desired Prince Ching burst
by those who have learned his lessons, and
who in his spirit seek so to do. It took a Stephenson to invest the locomotive, but thousands of other men have since been able to run locomotive engines. Yet we would not take a rustic from the hedgerow, who did not know a throttle valve from a sandbox, and put him in charge of the engine of a limited express. Scarcely less obvious is the folly, and incom parably more serious might be the results, of putting the administration of sanitary science into the hands of the ignorant and unqualified.
The public health department of a great city should be the most highly scientific of all branches of the government; and no matter | how skilled some of the subordinates may be, it is at once an incongruity and a menace to put at the head of it a mere politician to whom the very elements of sanitary science are un- known. There are able and faithful scientists. in the employ of the Health Department But how unspeakably grotesque it is to have them
subject to the orders of a preposterous Murphy
into tears and exclaimed, "Your slave date or of a Sexton! Even under such a head the oty it." After a pause the Prince began department may do admirable work. But what, with the third suggestion, namely, the disina reproach it is that good work should have to heriting of the Heir-Apparent. The Empress be done, not because of, but in spite of its head
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