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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1901.
To-day's Advertisements.
A CHALLENGE TO ALL CHINA.
MR. is in chien at R. BENTLEY is prepared to match an the Bantamweight, limit 8 stone, 4 pounds, from One hundred pounds sterling (100), or upwards under the following conditions:--
1.-Twenty rounds of three minutes duration, 2-Four ounce gloves to be'used. 3-The ring to measure sixteen feet. 4-Men to weigh in at 4 PM, on day of contest.
5-Should either man exceed the above weight he will forfeit all money deposited.
6. Match to come off in Hongkong on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, January 23rd, 24th, or 25th, 1902.
No other terms will suit. All offers of purses to be made before above date. Failing a
relieves that feeling suitable purse, will box for the stakes.
of fullness
CROWN
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(glaciale)
WILLIAM H. BENTLEY,
(Backer).
CALCUTTA
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To-day's Advertisements.
THREE CHEERS FOR XMAS
BHAGAT
CAKES.
Made from Pura Australian Butter. 10% Discount for Cash,
H. RUTTONJEE No. 5, D'Aguilar Street,
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Kowloon.
Hongkong, 30th December, rooi.
"INDRA" LINE OF STEAMERS.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK VIA SUEZ, &c.
THE Company's Steamship
"INDRANI,"
Nate Mr. Bentley has deposited twenty sovereigns with us as an earnest of good faith. All challenges to be sent to this office. Ed., having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods -F.A. T
[13640 Hongkong, 20th December, 1901.
are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godawa FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Goods not cleared by the 1st January, at 10 AM, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a cortifiesto of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within, ten days after the vessel's arrival here, after which no claims will be recognised.
"LIGHTNING," Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Pons, on TUESDAY, the 7th January,
at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 30th December, 1901. [1415 NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
HE Steamship
WATKINS,THE
LIMITED, AGENTS.
66, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 21st December, 1901.
(714c
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
"LIGHTNING,""
having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed
at once,
Cargo remaining on board after the 2nd January, at a P.M., will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside; such Carge impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and
expense.
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NEW NOVELS.
$1.50 each.
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No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 30th December, 1901.
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:
Gloves, Furs, Jackets, Capes, Leather goods, Fancy work, &c., &c,
WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,
28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.
Hongkong, 27th December, 1901.
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Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and Hotels in Hongkong.
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any case whatever.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 30th December, 1901. [1415
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Hongkong, 2nd May, 1901.
Intimation.
BIRTHS.
On the 19th Dec, at "Saionam," Northam Road, Penang, the wife of CECIL A LAW, of a daughter..
THE ENGLISH LADY DOCTOR shortly expected in Fenang is said to be coming out at the instance of two Chinese gentlemena,
is a
THE S. S. PRINCE HEINRICH (Nord deutscher Lloyd) arrived in Hongkong harbour this morning nearly five days overdus. This most exceptional thing for this Co's steamers, and on enquiry we find it was owing 21st instant, the wife of L, HERNENT, of the first floor of 17 Ship Street on the 29th inst to no fault of the ship;or her officers, but through and sustained injuries that necessitated his being delayed by fog on leaving Antwerp and
A Upper Norwood, St. Thomas's Walk, on
daughter.
DEATH..
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1901,
A PAINTER FELL from the verandah on
removal to the Tung-Wah Hospital.
On the 29th instant, at Tal-kok-tsui, Captain BEGINNING WITH THE KOENIG GEORG FRANZ SACHSB, aged 58 years. [14179.ALBERT, home-ward, and the Sachsen, put ward, the Imperial German.mail steamen will "call at Gibraltar to embark and land passengers, MR. M. W. SLADE has resigned his com mission as Captain in the Field Battery of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and has been pro- visionally attached as Captain to the Reserve of the Corps. FOOTBALL-To-morrow afternoon on the Happy Valley in the first round for the Hong- kong Footbal! Challenge Shield, the Royal Engineers will play H Company, K. W. F. Kickoff at four o'clock. VICEROY YUAN SHIH-K'AI has returned to Protingfa. He failed to persuade the Minis ters to abandon the Provisional Government; it is a disappointment to him. He now intends to meet the Court on its way.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. SOUTH AFRICA.-A BRITISH CAMP RUSHED.
LONDON, December 27th. Lord Kitchener in a despatch from Johan nesberg, states that General Rundle reports that on the 14th instant, Colonel Firman's camp at Tweefontein was successfully rushed by a considerable force of Boecs under De Wet, and that it is feared our casualties are heavy. The column consisted of four com- panies Yeomanry with two guns, and was guarding the head of the block-house line from Harrismith to Bethlehem. The Im- perial Light Horse has gone in pursuit of the enemy,
LATER..
MARQUIS ITO'S TOUR. Marquis Ito, accompanied by Baron Hayashi, Japanese Minister in London, was received at the Foreign Office and sub sequently presented to King Edward. He lunches at the Mansion House on the 3rd January, and leaves Marseilles for Japan on the 12th January,
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Signor Marconi is erecting a transatlantic wireless telegraphy station at Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE BRITISH CRUISER FIQUE, arrived yesterday from Mirs Day. REVISED POSTAL RATES, to take" effect from the 1st January next, are published in the Gazetle.
MR. JOHN MOSSOP'S resignation of his commission as Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps is colified in the Gazette. A FATAL ACCIDENT occurred yesterday at the Hok Un Cement Works, on the Kowloon side, One of the workmen, engaged in repairs, fell into a kiln and was killed.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE-Lam Chui Kwai, weary of the worries and troubles of this life, indeavoured to put an end to them by jumping into the Harbour. He was rescued very prompt-
"A. S. WATSON & Co., lý and removed to the Hospital, where it was found that he was afflicted with suicidal mania LIMITED.
THE DECEMBER SETTLEMENT is a heavy one and generally speaking the Banks are not too kind. Although the market lately has been practically dead the last month of the year is usually responsible for a big clean up and on this occasion the "bears" must be a bit ahead of it. THOSE TROUDLESOME CURISTTIANS! -Owing to the numerous law suits between con- verts and non-Christians, which constantly require his attention, the Magistrate of Chu- chibsien in the prefecture of Hangchow, whose name is Li, bas tendered a letter of resignation to the Governor of Hongchow.
THE
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1847.
We beg to notify
THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW
SEASON'S
CONFECTIONERY,
Comprising:-
Selections of the Purest and
Best Description,
FROM
THE LOWNESS OF EXCHANGE is mak- ing itself felt in the dovecots of the local merchants. Many have advanced their prices, others are in hope of a rise and forbearing from putting up values. What with ever increasing rents, ferry boat fares mounting, exchange down to 1/10t, nothing will soon be left but as a last resourse to enter the Government Ser-
vice.
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MESSRS. H. PRICE AND CO. have favoured us with a sample of their Calendar for 1502 done by Messrs Raphael, Tuck and Sand. It is one of the last efforts of this well known Co. and in keeping with the reputation of the local firm. JOHN MORRIS, seniman on the P. and O. steamer China, was informed by cable on arrival in London that an uncle, resident, at Sydney, had recently died, leaving him sole heir to a large sheep ranch worth ten thousand pounds.
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again losing three days in the Suez Canal by reason of a French steamer taking the ground in the fairway. THE TAIKOO SPORTS, it must not be forgotten, come off on Wednesday and the list of entries warrant the executive body in think- ing that this year they will make a record. As one of the best days outing of the year a large attendance is the rule, and no one will regret paying a visit to one of the prettiest little racing. tracks we have yet seen backed up by the efforts of the genial committeemen to make every visitor welcome. DOUBLE DROWNING FATALITY -Two lighters, one loaded the other empty, were con- tending for priority of position, alongside the str. long Moh yesterday. A war of words ensued, which seemed to so excite the ire of a member of the crew of each boat, that they cane to blows. So interested were they in their bant that they fell overboard, locked in each others embrace. Both were drowned, one body only having been recovered, up to writing this. W. POWELL, LTD, must be added to the list of successful local flotations. In the first twelve months of the new regime; profits have been made enabling a 5. Z div. being declared for the six months, and the turnover for the latter' half of igot makes it safe to predict a 77% dividend next June, bringing it up to 12 % for the twelve months. The $10 shares now, stand at 50 cents below par, and a parcel put away should earn a good return in the course of the next year.
IS IT AN OVERSIGHT In the list of officials honoured for their services in interna tional relations there is no mention of Hu Yu- SEVERAL VERY HANDSOME CALEN. fen, although he has done more, work, and, DARS are to hand showitig, in neatness of more unpleasant too, than several who are re-design and execution, that the money expended for them has not been mis-placed. We note membered.
in particular those received from Messrs. Dodwell & Co. Ltd., agents for the Imperial Insurance Co. Mr. A. R. Marty, for L' Union Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., Messrs. Hener & Co., from Empreza, at Boas Festas, Macao, Messrs Melchers & Co., Agents in Hongkong for the Royal Insurance Co,, the Meiji Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. of Tokio, and The Tokio Marine Insurance Co, Ltd.
SINGAPORE FOLK have evidently had a great surprise this Christmas, for according to one of the local journals-"A mail steamer passed through the part this morning from North to South." Was it a phantom ship, or the inevitable consequence of Christmas greetings? NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS-On New Year's Day and 2nd January, the Post Office will be open from 8 to 9 am only. Correspondence | ACCIDENT TO THE FRENCH MAIL:-
on the 2nd December, as for local delivery on those days may be posted About 3 a.m. up to 9 am. The Night Box will be left open the homeward bound French mail steamer Ville de La Ciotat was nearing Singapore from during the time the office is closed. The Money Order office will be entirely closed on both Saigon, during a dense fog and a strong gale Jays.
of wind, she is alleged to have run or been driven into a shoal, with the result that two blades of her propeller were broken and the remaining two were beat, and she did not get alongside the wharf before 11 am, although due at daylight. Her propeller is being ex-. amined by divers. The Ville de La Ciotat is.. $15 feet long and the largest dock at Singapore.
THE ROYAL NAVY CLUB-The Members of the Royal Navy Club, 1765-85, dined at the Whiteha!! Kooms, Hotel Metropole, London on, 19th ulto. to celebrate His Majesty's birth day and to commemorate the battle of Cam- perdown. Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Rawson presided, and the guest was Major-General Sir Alfred Gascles.
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ly complete for two years yet. Over a hundred, million sterling has had to be withdrawn from the operation for satisfying the internal require- merits of the country. Hence European Russia has become, politically, the direct basis for the Far East, and its importance will in the future, become more and more apparent. The cam- pletion of the line is of the utmost advantage to inner Russia, as it will place all the immense resources of the State Treasury at the disposal of the requirements of the interior.
A QUEER BREAKDOWN:-The Central M. WITTE,' to an interviewer, said it was no News Correspondent at Portsmouth telegraphs: light task to carry out the Siberian and Man. The cruiser Pandora was prevented from leav-churian railways-which will not be thorough- ing Portsmouth on 19th ulto, through her con- deasers being out of order. It was found that thore were in the condensers a number of eels. This is probably the most extraordinary accident that ever incapacitated a warship. A NOVELIST'S WILL-The will of Sir Walter Besant, who died on June 9th, aged sixty-four, leaving personal estate of the value of £6,588 6s. 8d. not, and £8,812 195, 7d. gross, had been proved. The testator bequeathed' to his wife his household effects, but not his library, and the income during her life of his residuary estate, which, subject to her life interest, is to be in trust in equal shares for his children. It was Sir Walter Hesant's wish and hope that his wife should devise and be queath all of her property to their children. AN EXTREMELY GOOD STORY about Li Hung Chang is going the rounds of Paris, When he was there, he went to visit the Credit Lyonnais, and showed lively interest in its halls, its stairs, its safes, and the room where the bands of the last City of Paris Ioan are kept. He was, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, first shown bonds of 500 f. and of 1,000 £ and then of 5,000 Taking these in his hands, he scrutinised them exclaiming frequently, "Joli Jali!" Then he finally thrust them into his pocket, saying, "Souvenir de Paris " The Governor of the Credit Lyonnais went to the Minister of Foreign Affairs with a list of the bonds, and asked what he was to de' It was agreed that it would not do to ask Li to give them up, and the Foreign Office refunded his "souvenir de Paris,"
THE NEW TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS, which are ready to be gone into in Shanghai by the Commissioners of the various countries concerned, it is feared, will have to be delayed a few days owing to the delicate state of health Chinese Chief Commissioner, H.E. Director- General Sheng Kung pao, who, according to the Univeral Gazette, is still suffering from the effects of a severe attack of asthma The Assistant of H.E. Sheng Kung-pao, the "Con- verted Boxer "so.both Chinese and Foreigners in Tientsin are alleged to have termed him since the Boxer, disturbances in that port in 1900-Mr. Huang Chien-yuan, ex-Customs Taotai of Tientsin, has not, according to local mandarins, either the position or
power to represent the Chief Chinese Commissioner at the proposed negotiations, hence they will have to wait a few days for the convalescence of Director- General Shepg.
MR. J. F. LOVELAND, the well known travelling representative of Messrs Burroughs Wellcome & Co., the manufacturing chemists, is in the City and intends to make a short stay. For-13-years-Mr. Loveland has made periodical visits here and bas'a large circle of acquaintan- ces. His firm make a specialty of concentrated drugs, in tabloid form, so generally used by the missionaries and travellers in remote places.. RAZORS were flying in the air between our
THE YACHT ARIADNE:-The wreck of the yacht Ariadne, which occurred on the New local pugs a short time ago, but one or two bona fide challenges effectually squelched the
Zealand coast in May last, is the cause of a sensational trial now proceeding at Wellington. ardour of the would be champions. Mr.
Mumford, the master, and Thomas Kerry, Bentley's money is still waiting for some one to
A GALLANT SKIPPER:-The steamer Vic owner of the vessel, together with a third party, pick up, and if bantam weight cannot be got furia which recently afrived at British Columbia are charged with having wilfully caused the The Simplest Quality to that of the down to, T. Edwards is willing to make a match
from the Orient, reported the foundering of the loss of the vessels it appears from evidence at 128 pounds. Ifour aspirants can fight as well
steamer Ryumon Maru, 255 tons, off the coast already given that the vessel was insured for as they talk, now is the time to call at this
or Aumora prefecture, a disaster involving the £10,000. Surveyors who examined the wreck office and a man will be found to accommo-loss of zz lives. In connection with this state that the vessel had apparently been data-that is if they mean business,
disaster, a story is told of the captain, who was stripped of all valuable fillings and sails, An CHINESE PRISON RECORDS: In the 61 years old. His son is captain of the steamer agreement to the effect that the master was to re-- thirty years from January 1, 1871, to December Gayo Maru. Just prior to the fatal accident, ceive £400 for casting away the ship has been This agreement 31, 1900, the prison records of California show the deceased captain is reported to have receiv put in by the prosecution. This a that 1645 Chinese felons have served time, ed a letter from his son in Osaka, in which the was signed by Kerry, who gave a copy of it to some of them being in for life and others latter advised his father to leave the sea and the skipper. The latter lost his copy and Kerry having been hanged. The numbers imprisoned to spend the rest of his declining years in his refused to pay. Mumford's copy wað sub- for the various crimes enumerated. were: native place of Osaka in peace and tranquility. sequently found, but the £400 was eventually Kidnaping, 8; manslaughter, 35; murder, 123; To this the old father returned a reply saying paid the skipper by Lloyd's surveyor at perjury, 17; criminal assault, 9; robbery, 84; that as soon as he had finished the voyage he Lyttleton (NZ), who produced the above. mayhem, 2; receiving stolen property, 4; im- would resign his post and return home as his agreement in court, together with the skipper's porting females, for immoral purposes, 1; son had advised. It is further said that when statement. Altogether the case presents some assault to murder, 196; arson, 5; burglary and the vessel was gradually beginning to sink, the interesting and unusual features, and is excit. attempts, 718; bribery, 2 counterfeiting, 5; old captain remained on the bridge, all the ing much comment among shipping and in. embezzlement, 11; felony, 148; forgery, 6; while directing his men, who were busily surance circles, both hers and in New Zea grand larceny, 257; violating exclusion, act, 14; engaged in saving the passengers; and that he land total, 1645. 19
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