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A NEW PILOT STEAMER.
Mr. II. F. Carmichael, of Queen's Buildings, has secured the contract für the construction of a steam pilot-boat for the Licensed Pilot As nciation of Shanghai, the agreement being signed yesterday by Mr. D. C. Campbell on behalf of the Pilot Association. The vessel is to be built of teak and other hard woods, as being most suitable for the business," and she will be modelled on the lines of the Govern ment launch Stanley, which was also designed by Mr. Carmichael and is one of the smartest craft in the Barbour waters. The Stanley has a speed of a knots; the new steam-boat will have abovader beam and a speed of gf knots. The dimensions are 130 feet between perpendiculars, by 24 fect beam, by 13 fect depth. The deck houses will be of teak these consisting of the captain's room, smoking-room, and dining-room; for hot weather, with bath-room, lamp-room, store-room, European and native galleys. She will have accommodation below, all first-class, for fourteen person; the saloon is situated forward, and the crew's quarters are aft. The new vessel will have the distinction of being the first pilot steamer in the East. -
THE PLAGUE.
Number of cases reported f Chinese......... up till noon of the 25th Other Asiatics. February, 1902
Europeans....✪ (Chinese。 Number of cases reported Other Asiatics 1
during the past 24 hours)
Europeans............ ✪
1 Total number of cases reported to datë Number of deaths reported (Chinese ......... 1 up till noon of the 25th Other Asiatics, ...February, 1902........... Europeans... 0
(Chinese......... Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics o
during the past 24 hours
Europeans..... Total number of deaths recorded to date
NEWS FROM VLADIVOSTOCK.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1902.
THEFTS. OF CARGO.
SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES IN THE TIENTSIN COURT.
disabled and blind ng he was, arranged to remain, while Speke went out again into the wilderness to seek for the other unknown lake, which we now know by the naine of the Victoria Nyanza. Some weeks later. Speke rejoined „TIENTSIN, 20th February. Yang Tsu-ping, compradore of the Tabu Tug | Boston with the news that he bad found an and Lighter Company, has been brought before immense sheet of water. the Tu-tung Yamen (a kind of Wixed Court) charged with instigating and abetting an or- ganised system of robberies from lighters, extending over some years.
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The proceedings in court have led to most sensational revelations, showing complete scheme of systematic plundering. Native boatmen, employed on board the lighters of the Tug & Lighter Co., have given evidence alleging that the compradore was in the job- bery, and that while they were paid salaries per ranging from twenty dollars each month down-wards, they were paying the com- pradore some thirty and some forty dollars a month for the privilege of working on the lighters. The money was of course made up from proceeds of thefts, and in addition to re- couping theatselves for what they paid him, they made handsome profits themselves.
This pilferage of caroes has long been a seri ous grievance.
The case stands adjoumed, and it is thought others will be implicated.-Shanghai Times.
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DEVELOPING THE EMPIRE.
HOW THE VICTORIA NYANZA RAILWAY WAS MADE.
It seems astonishing that so great a monu ment to the daring and resource of British character as the completion of a railway to the Victoria Nyanza should not have produced something in the way of national recognition. Taken first and last, from the discovery of the Lake in 18:8, downt the making of the great commercial highway of to-day, the whole achievement is worthy of no term less that magnificent. Here we see the result of half century of tremendous effort. And it is to be. doubted whether any other race in the world could show a parallel to this last of the "deeds that made the Empire."
During something under six years those in charge of the operations, connected with the railway have had to undergo every danger and discomfort of which the Dark Continent is the prolific mother.
DIFFICULTY ON DIFFICULTY..
Thus the fable of the great lakes was tumed in to fact.
To-day, in the Monbasa Railway and in the telegraph to Tannanyika, we see the results of which the foundations were laid by the hardy pioneers who so long ago struggled and toiled through the difficulties of Africa.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
The most trustworthy estimate of American opinion regarding the furtherance of amicable relations between England and America is not always to be obtained from the politenesses of diplomats nor from the compliments exchanged at a banquet, but from what American editors are not afraid to print. Many personal views have been published from English sources, bat on this side the reply has so far been exceed- ingly small-for the good and sufficient reason that there is no subject on which an American editor has had to be more certain of his audience. The "plain talk" here quoted from Mr. Drexel's Public Ledger, of Philadelphia is, therefore, especiallyl'interesting, because his paper is one of the oldest and most conserva- tire in the United States, and as the combined fortunes of the different Drexels represent a woodly portion of the American money power. the Ledger is expected to know and utter the sentiments of those who practically control. A leader of yesterday says:-One of the wholesome signs of the last few years is the decay of the foolish sentiment that talked loose- ly of war with England. It was not unnatural that the war of the Revolution should have left ill-feeling, and that the war of 1812 should have intersified it. Lumber quarrels, lake navigation arguments, and Eshery disputes were never long apart. Add to this the natural arrogance of a proud old Kingdom and the natura! vanity of a juvenile Republic, and few will be surprised at the friction that has arisen. Mrs. Trollope's book on America” threw, our countrymen inte childish rage. Englishmen took umbrage at silly Fourth of July speeches. There was always some offensive newspaper, or some bitter debate, or something over which to wrangle.".
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Nview of the lalimate connection between PLAGUE and RATS, the Sanitary Board invite the attention of Householders to the fact the that RAT-CATCHERS supplied with Domestic Building which is infested with Rat upon application to the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
By Order,
The life had to be laid through a region of malaria of the most fatal variety. Then followed the work of pioneer engineering up the long ascent to the healthier tableland. Through deadly
swamps and through tropical fores's the A list follows of the difficulties dispersed by line was
pushed forward with extraordinary the "good sense of both nations," and concer A Vladivostock correspondent, under date aitness The average speed with which thening which "hotheads called for blood." "But the 30th ult. writes that during last year. 46,637 'work went forward was something like nine to that sort of thing has gone out of fashion. A persons of differant nationalities departed-from-twelve miles a month.
large element of our population sympathizer that port, foreigners who parived during the
with the Boers, but the general trend of same period being 34.015.
talk of a generation ago. Once, if the British Government put down a marauding tribe on the Indian frontier or sent a gunboat "against the Malay pirates some one yelled and did all in his power to make the Eagle scream. day the good sense of the Republic teaches us that we had better solve problem of the Philippines, and make several improvements in the West Indies before we enter into hostili- ties with Greet Britain over the South African question.
We must not forget that among the difficol-expression contrasts favourably with the wild ecessary TRAPS, &c., will be sent to any
Six Russian concems have recently heen organized with the object of working gold mines in Heilongyang territory, and these bedies are waiting the approval of the Chinese Government though the Russian Minister There are many other Russians desiring to commence mining operations in the same district.
It is a well-known fact that the Chinese Eastern Railway Company Intends to defray a considerable sum of money for the completion of its route. A journal in Vladivostock men. tions that 160 million roubles were spent be 1ween 1895 and igor for this object.
The establishment of a commercial college is now on foot in Vladivostock. At the sugges tion of the leading merchants a meeting was held in the rooms of the Russo-Chinese Bank recently, when the mayor of the port submitted a bill for establishing a commercial school, which was eventually supported by those present, and contributions ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 roubles were immediately 'offered.
Mr. Kawakami, Japanesetradecommissioner, held a conference on the 27th ult, of Japanese residents to consider education, sanitary, and Japanese cemetery undertakings. Committees were appointed to investigate into these matters It is expected that these affairs will easily be settled, as there are no objections to the schemes.-Nagasaki Press. ...
THE "NUDITY
CURE
ties to be faced were the attacks of hostile and dangerous tribes, and the bridging of wide and rapid rivers. These are the baldest facts of the matter; but where are we to borrow words to describe the round of constant effort, the fortitude that met danger and endured suffering while still remorselessly pushing for ward the giant project?:
It would seem, moreover, that this huge work, which is destined to play its own part in the redemption of Africa, has been accomplish- ed at the relatively small outlay of between four million and five million pounds.
We of 1002 now see something of the result towards which the explorers of 1857 and 1858 were straining. Surely it is only common gratitude to recall those who, though now dead and gone, in their time bore their own portion of the burden and heat of the day.
It was in June 1857 that an officer in the East India Company's service applied for leave of absence, and employed that leave in fighting his way through the Central African jungle to seek the lakes beyond the Usagara mountains At that time those lakes were regarded as something in the light of fables. With a grant of 1000 from the Royal Geographical Society, this young man, who was even at that time well known to the world of science and scholar. ship as Captain Richard F. Burton, started, with Captain Speke as his companion, on a Journey which would lead him through the country of hostile and savage tribes, of some of the sickilest of the continent, to the unknown interior,
Starting from Zanzibar, he marched with his party over pestilential swamps to the foot of the Usagara mountains. From there they began the ascent to the higher levels, and there fol- lowed a time of tremendous difficulty as they fought their way up and down those, monoton- dus ranges.
A PERILOUS JOURKEY, At this stage of their journey they came across many corpset and victims of local disease, and both Burton and Speke suffered much from sickness themselves. ・・
While medical science is painfully and laboriously, winning its way to the goal of exactitude, a larke field of the partly known of the unknown lies in possession of quacks. So far as the world at large is concerned, there appears to be no method of so-called "cure" too grotesque, too savolting, too meretricious to be swallowed--and paid for in wholesale quantities by the vulgar, One pretender Advertises to cure rheumatism by means of a magic ring, and simightway he veads his fraudulent wares by the bushel. Another puffs scure all in the shape of a worth less belt, and money forthwith pours into his coffers, while the highly qualified University graduate works hard for a bara living. At any rate the qualified man has the satisfaction of knowing that the poverty is that of an honourable gentle man. The "nudity cure is a parasitic crase of Austrian origin. It is described as a method whereby neurasthenic patients are exposed to air and sun in a costume composed of "a hat and short trunks," Thickets are carefully. But when he seemed to recover they pushed
When they reached the furthest range of the mountains they rested for a littla.
Then on again, through the heat of a great equatorial jungle, to Kazeh
After nearly seven months of travelling they reached M'bali, and there Burton became partially paralysed as well as almost blind, the results of the terrible malaria of the swamps through which they had passed,
To-
"The calmness over the Nicaraguan Canal 'fs another case in point. The immense number of Englishmen who are settled in this country, the ever-growing colony of Americans in England, the English "investment in our securities, the business and personal corres- pondence between the nations forbid the thought of war. Quicker transit, better mail service, and the submarine cables have drawn us so close together that we can hardly believe that the two nations once fought a great battle after they had signed a treaty of peace, London. and New York are nearer to-day than Washing. ton and New Orleans were in 1815. If the Atlantic is less wide than it was, the Atlantic is the greatest of the barriers, for, in all parts
of theworld, the inferior races look on the Americans and English as one people.
"With or without British sympathy we should have defeated Spain. But the war was shortened and the enemy disheartened at the outset by the knowledge that no Sanish cruiser could buy a ton of coal in any English port. The moral was clear ostensibly the English were neutral: really they wished to see the Americans win; and such a lesson was not lost on Europe, Asia, or the islands of the sea. The whole world saw. that in many points, and points of importance, the two great English-speaking nations were ona. Washington checked the demagogues who
would have plunged us into war with England
over the French Revolution; Andrew Jackson used sil his influence as President in favour of friendly relations with Great Britain; Ulysses. S. Grant poured cold water on some very silly and sputtering fireworks-and it is a lesson of no slight value that three great military Pre- sidents stood for peace in days when crossroad taverna and geaboard ratpits shouted for war. Now, with all that is said of large armies and stronger fieets, no one dreams of any collision between the wonderful little island that has lasted for ages, and the marvellous continent that has grown like the prophet's gourd,"
On the front page of the same issue is a
cabled despatch from Berlin quoting the Krays Zeltung in a wild ċry to America to march to
arranged so as to separate the sexes, and the an ngain, and by the middle of the next manin treatment is completed" by a combination (February 1858) the long struggle was crowned | of baths, massage, gymnastics games, and by the discovery of Lake Tanganyika, lying the invasion of Conada as a means of suppress- iam,The scheme appears to be a' in the lap of the mountains, basking in the ing the Boer war; and on the same day some well-known experts on the Irish question gather gratultons eccentric variation of the open-air gorgeous tropical sunshine." treatment whic has been tricked out in the
at a spot not too far from the Hoffman House
fantastic
fashion or strictly com-
bar to resolve to call their compatriots together mercial lines. attempt to attach a curative
and knock England into a cocked hat; yet, somehow, when by chance ranged alongside figdeal garb of our first parents of Eden
medical practical
And this is the spot-Ujiji, on the "Sea of Ujijl or Lake Tanganyike-which has quite lately been connected by telegraph with Capetown,
To rotum to the direct subject of the Mom Mr. Drexela synopsis of the true American baan Railway to Lake Victoria Nyanza, Burton patriot's views, these other matters seem to be
Speke, in course of time reached Kazeb | singularly "out of fashion." again on their return journey, and there Burton, COTTAM & CON PLAID RUGS and
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