Intimations.
ESSETS FLUID AGAINST THE PLAGUE.
What Pure Carbolic Acid will do n three hours, Essets Fluid will do in ninofminutes. The microbe or bacillus of bu- bonio plague grows readily in artificial media, and is destroyed by Essets Fluid.
(WATKINS, CHOW-SUI).
are important results These proving the exceptional power of Essets Fluid, in fact, it is far
superior to pure carbolic acid the same strength.
WATKINS
LIMITED, CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER
MANUFACTURERS, APOTHECARIES HALL,"
of
No. 66, Queen's Road Central; Hongkong FACTORY:-Mason's Lane.
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Hongkong, 4th February, 1902.
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Wai-hai-wei,
WE DAY Tises in PRINCA'S BUILDINGS, a strong garrison, fortifications and work be disbanded and replaced by police raised
Intimation.
LIMITED.
· [1840
quiry had shown that Wei-hai-wei was only The announcement made by Lord ONSLOW capable of fortification at great expense. regarding Wei-hai-wel, which we publish The idea of fortifying the place and keeping elsewhere, will come, we fancy, rather as a blow to those who have aiready invested a large garrison there had been abandoned, capital in our northern possession. Most but it would be an extremely useful place people were under the impression that Wei- for small arm and naval gun practice, and it hai-wei was to be made a naval base second might also be used as a Military and Naval only in importance to Hongkong itself, with
sanitarium. The Chinese regiment would shops for the use of the Navy. Had this been so, then Wei-hai-wei's future was im- locally, The Colonial Office took over the mediately assured. A certain proportion Colony on the 1st January, and it was be of the fleet would have been constantly lieved that under the administration of Mr. stationed there or there abouts and their presence, together with the garrison, would Lockyer (Stewart Lockhart?) its revenue have attracted a certain amount of trade. would increase largely, and that it would But Wei-hai-wel as a Naval and Military become an important commercial port like Sanitarium and Wei-hai-wei as a strong Hongkong. The Government had no in Naval Base are two very different things.
Lord ONSLow speaks very hopefully of tention of surrendering or returning the place
to China,
she above Company will be held at the OFFICE A. S. WATSON & CO., the commercial future of the new Colony of the Company, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, on SATURDAY, the 1st of March, 1903, at 13 o'clock (Noon), to receive a statement of accounts to 31st December, 1901, and the Report of the Manager and Consulting Com- mittee and to elect a Consulting Committee
and Auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 15th instant, to Ist March, both Days inclusive.
J. WHEELEY,
Manager.
f136d
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW.
THE Company's Steamship
"HAILOONG,"
Captain Bathurst, will be despatched for the above Pont, TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPŔAIK & Co., General Managers.
· [1820] Hongkong, rath January, 1902.
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N MONDAY, the 24th February, 1902,
FOUNDED in 1891, by Dr. C years Byat i F.M., the Company's Steamship
for several
H.E. POLLOCK, ESQ., K.C.
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(77d
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
86.60 Cask of 375 tbs. Net ex Factory.. 83.30 Bag of 250 bs.da
SHEWAN, TOM ÉS & CO., General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st June. 4:01
(19
"SALAZIE," Captain Aubert, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY,
This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the 5.5. Australien, which vessel takes on her
ESTABLISHED A,D). 1841
PORT & SHERRY,
CHAMPAGNE,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
NOT PLACUE:-We are informed that the Chinese coolie found at Quarry Bay yesterday did not die of plague.
COMMUNICATION WITH THE NORTH: The Amoy-Shanghai cable was restored yester day evening. Both cables to Shanghai are now in working order.
THE FIRST GARRISON FLAG ever raised in the Philippines was hoisted on the rst February at the Headquarters Post of Manila, with due ceremony.
and pays well deserved tribute to Mr. STEWART LOCKHART, to whom its adminis tration is to be shortly entrusted. There can be no doubt that Mr. STEWART LOCK- | PARCEL MAILS for Europe, &c., per ss HART is the right man in the right place, and Parramatta will close at 3 pm. on Friday, that he will strain every nerve to push the
the 14th inst. new Colony ahead, but he will start under SPECIALITIES FOR THE SEASON, very adverse conditions, with the bulk of the life blood of the place, so to speak, taken from it at the start. Wei-hai-wei, it must be remembered, does not possess the same advantages of geographical position as Hongkong. It is not, as Hongkong is, at OF THE FINEST QUALITY AND the mouth of an immense river system and in close proximity to a large Chinese mart, VINTAGE.
but is far removed from trade centres, al- though certainly on the road to them. In our opinion, in order to attract trade to the port in any large quantity a very large out- lay of capital would be needed. Wharves JULES MUMM & Co., a Wine for and godowns would have to be built and the port directly connected with the great railway systems which are designed to be, at some future date, the salvation of China. In other words, to succeed commercially Wei- hal-wei will have to compete, and compete successfully, with Tientsin, Chefoo and Newchwang, and taking into consideration the large difference in cost of carriage by water and by rail, we fear that there is not a particularly bright outlook. Still, Hong kong was damned in its early days, and it may be that Wei-hai-wei will rise superior to its, at present, seemingly overwhelming dis- advantages. Nothing would give us more satisfaction than to see such prove to be the case and the port steadily advance under the able control of Mr. STEWART LOCKHART.
Unrest.
Connoisseurs.
WATSON'S
E
SCOTCH
WHISKY.
Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the GOGNAC BRANDY, 8th March, Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles.
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, Carga will be received on board until 4 F.M. Specie and Parcels until 3.P.M.. on the 23rd February. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con tents and Value of Fackages are required.
For further Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Office..
P. DE CHAMPMORIN,
Acting Agent. Hongkong, 12th February, "rguz.
-QUALITY GUARANTEED.
CLARETS,
|
SIR FRANCIS LOVELL, CM.G., who is making a tour of the world on behalf of the London School of Tropical Medicine, is to visit
::་ ་ this part of the world.
LADY MCCALLUM, the wife of the Governor of Natal, has arrived in England. Her ladyship has just recoverd from a very severe illness, and she has gone to England for a change of air. A NEW DEPARTMENT-Washington, Jan. 29.--The United States Senate has passed the bill for creating a portfolio of, caminerce, and labour, the head of the department to have a'place in the Cabinet.-Shanghai Times. CRITICS UNCENSURED Washington, Jan. 29th-The Senate has declined to take any action on the motion of Senator. Dubois, to reprimand certain army officers for having criticised the Government on its Philippine policy.--Shanghat Times.
A SHELL EXPLODED over a dust boat yesterday while she was going to Gindrinkers Bay to empty rubbish. Three men were injured and the boat was damaged. Gun practice was being carried on at time from Stonecutters Island and it is presumed that one of the shells "went wrong."
THE LATE MASTER OF THE ROLLS- The estate of the late Master of the Rolls, Sir Archibald Levia Smith, has been valued at £107,146 gs, ód, gross, including personalty of the ost value of £94,952 85. rod.
THE OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAMER GAELIC which recently sailed from Hongkong experienced rough weather on by a heavy rea that smashed a life beat ard her voyage up to Yokohama. She was boarded
did other damage on deck.
CHIEF OFFICERANFORD D, BUCKMAN of the Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking, has been offered the position of marine superin- tendent at Cramp's shipyard at Philadelphia and will probably accept. He has been chief officer of the Peking for the past two years and. is one of the Mail Company's most highly
esteamed officers.
AT THE KALGOORLIE RECREATION GROUND, Western Australia, on New Year's Day a young son of Mr. Banvard, of Hong- kong, won the Maiden Cycle Race of one mile in 2 min. 14 secs, and also the chief event of he day, the Caledonian Wheel Race, of two miles which he pulled off in 5 min. 13 secs., five seconds faster than either of the five heats. THE DALLAS COMPANY arrived at hang- hai on Thursday last and were to open on the following Saturday, 8th inst, with "The Casino Girl" which was to be replaced to-day by H.M.S. Irresponsible." Booking, at the time the mail left was very brisk and hardly a seat was obtainable. After a short season at
Shangbai the Company will come to Hong- kong. Our readers will be pleased to, bear. that Mrs. Dallas has quite recovered from her. late illness, so we shall have the pleasure of seeing her in some leading roles.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—It is now con- sidered that all hope for H.M.S. Contor must
be abandoned. She left Esquimalt six weeks ago for Honolulu and has not been heard of since. There have been severe storms, and ber power was not great. It has therefore been decided to institute, a systematic search among the islands and reefs of the north-east Pacific
for any tinces of the wreck. Two British and
two American. revenue cutters have been de
tailed to make a thorough search for any trace of the disaster-Shanghai Times Special. FREIGHT FROM MANILA:Messrs. Smith Bell & Co. Agents of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., and the China Navigation Co. Ltd., Messrs. Warner, Barnes & Co, Lid., Agents of the China and Manila Steamship Company, have notified exponers of cargo that from the 1st January to 30th June, 1902, a rebate. of ten per cent will be paid on all freights of those who bave confined their shipments from the Philippines to Hongkong by, the lines re- presented by the above mentioned firms. Those exporters who confine their shipments to the above lines until December 31st, 1902, will be allowed a birther rebate.of ten per cent on cargo shipped to 30th June, and twenty per cent from that date to December 31st, 1902. Messrs, Castle Bros. Wolf and Sons recenity made a reduction of 25 per cent on rates of freight to Hongkong by the steamers of the Toyo Kissen Kaisha, for whom they are agents, so it looks as if a freight war on the Manila to Hongkong run, may be ushered in.
A perusal of our Tientsin Correspondent's letter which we published yesterday is not conducive at all to the belief that all our troubles in Chica are over and that, for fore igner and native alike, a golden summer tline is about to dawn. In the north, sc cording to our correspondent, a very bad feeling against foreigners in general exists and is increasing in intensity as time goes on. Threats to burn the Stand on the Tientsin Race Course have been made, and it has been found necessary to place a guard about the place. This certainly does not look as though China in general, or the Court in particular, had been very much impressed with the power of Allied Europe! Another rather ominous sign is to be found in the fact that we have had no further news of the little plot by means of which the Empress Dowager was said to be OF THE HIGHEST CLASS IN hoping to draw the teeth of the notoriously texts of Scripture.
anti-foreign TUNG FUR-SIEN. TUNG has GREAT VARIETY, IMPORTED been neither cashiered, banished nor de- FROM THE LEADING LONDON capitated, and instead of his troops being tial on Col. Metcalf, of the Kansas Volunteer CLAIM FOR AN INJUNCTION In the
IMPORTED FROM THE BEST 'GROWERS, AND INCLUDING WINES FROM THE MOST CELE BRATED CHATEAUX.
[10040 CONFECTIONERY,
| PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE.
ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
"CITY OF PEKING"
The aboveSteamer having arrived,Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside,
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
*J. S. VAN BUREN, Agent.
Hongkong, 12th February, 1902.
Millinery.
SPLENDID
OF
SELECTION
[1
FASHIONABLE MILLINERY,
JUST UNPACKED
'AND' NOW ON VIEW IN OUR SHOW CASES.
Hongkong, 6th February, 1902
AND PARISIAN HOUSES
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES,
AND SMOKERS REQUISITES,
&c. &c., &c.
A. 8.. WATSON & OD. LIMITED; THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY
DEATHS.
KRUGER SENILE-An Edinburgh tele gram states that an influential Transvaal lady, who has just returned to Scotland from visiting Mr. Kruger, states that she found him in a con- dition of senile decay and employing a great part of the time of his secretary in writing out
NEW YORK, Febimary rat-The courtmar
HeSingapore Supreme Court a provisional injunc disbanded we are told that he is busily Regiment, ended favourably to him. adding to his forces and has agents in was charged with having, after the battle of tice was asked for by Mr. Ellis, on behalf of Tientsin, right under the very noses of the Caloocan in 1899, caused the killing of twe Mr. Clifford Wilkinson, of "Tan San" fame,- foreign Generals, purchasing arms. If one Filipino prisoners. The
The court finds that the to restrain Messrs. McAlister & Co. from using. reads between the lines one is led to the killing of the natives was not with Col. Met the word "Tan San" to describe mineral water conclusion that China is most certainly bentcalf's knowledge and consent, and he is com sold by then. After hearing arguments. His upon reform, but hardly upon the reform which the Powers would wish to see adopted. pletely exonerated. The court adds a rider to Lordship reviewed the evidence, quoting it to She is, in fact, feverishly anxious to an her the effect that the Government is recommended show that the plaintiff contention was that, the word "Tan San" was originally introduced. the Colonel's appointment as self, and in nearly all of the socalled "reform to confirm edicts" this point invariably crops up. Even Pension Agent for the State of Kansas by them, and had got identified with their name, and that the use of it by the defendants the disarming of the population, as ordered Shanghai Times Special.
would lead purchasers to believe they had got by YUAN SHI-KA1 the other day, savours strongly of a desire to have all the available FRANCE AND RUSSIA-On the occasion the origoal Tan, Sau" water when buying hit's mineral waters. His Lordship arms ready for government use directly they of the New Year, Fresident Loubet received a defendant's may be needed. Orders, and secret ones at telegram from the Tsar expressing, best wishes stated he was not satisfied that plaintiff had that, have been issued to the various arsenals for France, and remarking that amongst the used the word *** At the Homestead, Tai Pak Cheong New to push ahead and increase their output of most agreeable souvenirs left by the year just entitle him to the exclusive use of it, and that arms and ammunition, and this does not closed was that of the few day spent in the was sufficient grounds for refusing the motion. beautiful, friendly, and allied country." The On a statement that had been argued, as to President, in reply, expressed warm thanks on whether the word Tan Sap was a word behalf of France the friend and Ally of denoting generally fineral water, produced, Russia" General André, the French Minister and that it could not be claimed as a frade p-expressed the opinion, of War, also telegraped to the Russian Minister mark, His Lordship - of War the good wishes of the French Army after quoting Various other decisions, that the name itself could not be claimed as a trade for the glorious Russiau Army,
mark,
On the 5th February, at Vevey, Switzerland, EDWARD DAVIS, Late of Shanghai, and formerly of Canton and Foochow; deeply regretted..
Territory), on the 10th February, at io am, CHARLOTTE MARY; the beloved wife of Jamina Edward; aged 52 years,
[1836
The Hongkong Celegraph
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
wear a very peaceable aspect on the face of it. We have also the frequently reported to marks of the Empress Dowager anent "revenge," and her present attitude of loving kindness towards all foreigners hardly tallies with that assumed so recently as during the siege of Peking, when her subjects and most HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1902. trusted advisers were clamouring for the heads of these same people who are now being so sweetly smiled upon. Again, it MISTOOK HIS CALLING --An” extra, must not be forgotten that the Empress ordinary and Jamentable sequel to the murder Dowager has given most explicit instructions of President McKinley recently recalled the regarding ber late retreat, ordering that it sad event in the North-Western city of So far there have been no great develop be kept in apple-pie order, etc., etc., which Minneapolis, where a man named Samuel ments in the situation which is arising out looks as though that lady had more than a Hogan was sentenced to three years in the of the demand put forward by the Mates of mere notion that she might ere long wish to State penitentiary for abooting Peter Kolli, the Coasting Steamers for an increase of return thereto... These things all taken into pay, A representative of this paper, as consideration, it most certainly would appear soon after the McKinley assassination. Kolik noted elsewhere, this morning interviewed that the fears expressed by our Tientsinis Pole, and on being asked if he was an the heads of some of our principal shipping Correspondent are not altogether groundless, firms, but was unable to gain any great
The Mercantile Marino.
WM. POWELL, Ltd. amount of information, owing to the fact that
BANJOS
- Cosse
STEWART AND BAUER'S 20th Century” and “Thoroughbred
also
WASHBURNS."
MANDOLINES, GUITARS,
FITTINGS, REPAIRS
STRINGS,
Hongkong, 26th January, 1992
THE ROBINSON PIANO GO., LIMITED,
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19530
the owners do not appear to regard the demand put forward so seriously as do the men themselves.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
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anarchist, replied that he was, whereupon he was shot. It afterward developed that he did not understand English well and supposed he was asked if he was an organist
THE EMPIRE COMEDY CO.-A.Tientsin contemporary has the following wate may beof some intsiest This Company gave two more entertainments this week, but beyond the fact that the titles were altered, the prop
cak bore a close resemblance to those
DE WET AGAIN ESCAPES.
LONDON, February rath We are told that the men regard the movement both here and in Shanghat as
Commandant De Wet on the 6th instant proceeding satisfactorily. If so, and they was within an enclosure of our mounted ire apparently quite confident, it stands to troops, but realizing his position be ordered reason that one or the other side must give in, his men to disperse and seek safety. He Should it come to a fight between owners himself succeeded in breaking the block and the remarks we then made are again strict and men many Interests will be affected, If, as the owners say, they can stand out house line by rushing cattle at the wire fence, ly applicable to the new performa and obtain plenty of other then at the terms and escaped mixed up with the cattle. The Steve Adson once more impressed us with bis now ruling, then the men must either sub- Boors lost 183 in killed, wounded, and pri- fine versatility and really remarkable ability as mit or go to the wall. If, on the other soners, and yoo horses, including a quantity, comediau. The Indies dancing hand, the men can, as they say, control the killed, wers captured. The British casualtica graceful and effective though there
whole question by a unanimous refusal on
the part of officers, both bere and elsewhere, were very slight.
to accept any but their own terms, then the
owners must perforce submit. The nonhem
WEI-HAIWEI.
be an absence of Fanely in the and steps. With the exception
LATER
Lords, and that a careful en
ham's num
¡us; and
to too frlyi enable us
and
NEW HATS for the
POTTAM
TIES for the
ports will soon be opening and the grand The Earl of Onslow, in his statement rush for cargo taking place and, in view of this, it will be interesting to observe the the House of Lords, development of the dispute. If dispute it in to bar Saj
OTTAM
RACE
dge of the.
Mr
gain
"Tan San" by itself so as to
TEN CEERKS of the Eastern Telegraph Com pany have landed at Cocos The laland, ove mile long and half a mile : broad, lids four hun- dred miles south-west of Java, and though nominally under the administration of the Straits Settlements, is governed by Mr. Ross, The cable, which is the cause of the clerks, landing on the island, will join Ceylon to Australia, and be a great boon for Australia and South Africa, and will reduce the price and fransit time of magdagen between Adelaide and England. Its total length is 15,000 mile and it is costing at least cable starts from Porthcemow, in Comm to the Cape, thence from Durban thus, and on to Rodrigues, thence to and Adelaide by way of Cocos (or Kokos- Keeling) The work of laying, the cable has for the most part been carried out, by the steamer Scalia, of the Telegraph Construction Maintenance Company, and the presence of the line will enable messages to be transmitted from England to many of her colonies without
the chands
Eastern aph Company's clerks. The clerks will
money
alaries will
for tho
of which