FAREWELL DINNER TO
#MB. J. ROSS.
At the Hongkong Hotel last evening some fifty friends of Mr. J. Ross of the Public Works Department entertained that gentleman at a farewell dinner on the occasion of bis departure for home for a few months holiday.. Mr. C. Leykum presided, and after an excellent dinner had been done full justice to and the loyal and patriotic toasts duly honored, the Chairman proposed the toast of the evening "Our Guest," and, in doing so, said it was gratifying to him to occupy the chair that evening and to say a few words of welcome to their guest and to wish him, a pleasant, voyage and a happy "time when he got back to the old country. Mr. Ross had been in Hong- kony for many years, had filled various offices, and had made friends wherever he had been, and it was his (the chairman's) pleasure to present Mr. Ross with a gold chain and a charm, subscribed for by the numerous friends he had here in Hongkong, as a slight token of their esteem and good wishes,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1902.
and important is undoubtedly the establish-
NEW STAMPS CONDEMNED, ment of a State register of Teachers, which The new stamps are condemned on every will in the course of ten or twenty years hand, and it is at ted they will be withdrawn eliminate, to a very large extent the onin- before the Coronation in favour of a new issue structed governess and tutor, or at least which way leth great joy for the stamp will ensure that no one need ignorantly collectors. Apart from the assertion-officially employ such persons. The true teacher i of combated that the colouring-matter-of-the course possessed of a gift which no training penny variety admits of a cheap chemical can give him, and such persons are, in a treatment, which will remove all traces of sense, rare. The aim of the register will not cancelling, and thus open the door to ex be to hall-mark teachers as endowed with this tensive revenue frauds-the chief ground of natural qualification, but merely to afford complaint appears to be that the effigy of evidence of the attainment of a certain standard the king bears too close a resemblance of personal knowledge, and of elementary to that of the King of the Belgians. Certainly training in the art of instructing others, there is a very remarkable likeness, between Ultimately it will be made illegal for any the red Belgian and the new English penny. person not included in the State Register The objection that the whole issue is too to teach, or attempt to teach, in any public German'a very general romask-is certainly school or college. It will probably-be-in-based-on-a-misconception-no-commnon possible to control private establishments, but German stamp at all resembles our latest the best of these will, in their own interests, effort in philately. The adopt the State test."
The University of London has this week appointeda Committee to consider the establish- ment of a commercial degree in connection Mr. Ross, in accepting the gift, said that the with that seat of learning. The Drapers Com entertainment had been quite a surprise to him, pany has offered to provide the site, buildings and he beartily thanked thos- who had been and endowment of the necessary College, if, the means of getting it up. The beautiful chain within twelve months, the University Senate and charm he had just received would be and the College can agree upon a suitable cherished by him as one of the greatest scheme of incorporation. The London Cham treasures he possessed. It had ever beenber of Commerce has recommended the his motto throughout life that if he could not do a man a good turn he would not do him a bad one, and he had never found reason to regret the carrying out of that motto. Mr. F. Allen proposed the toast of " Mr. Risk, coupled with the Craft," and Mr. Shepherd, of the Police, submitted. "The Army," A very en joyable evening followed in which song and stories of the old country kept the company in happy thought until the early hours.
announcement
that the new coinage of which the gold and copper pieces are already in circula- tion, will include silver twopenny and fourpenny pieces is interesting numismatists; probably the money is only being minted this year as a Coronation niemento. A few other changes will take place. The double florin will not be issued again, the crown will have for reverse, the figure of St. George, which in the florin, will be replaced by the figure of Britannia standing upon the prow of a ves sel with trident and shield. The shilling will bear the royal crest and value for reverse, while the sixpence and half-crown will, except in the effigy, he exactly the same as in the reign of Queen Victoria. The silver is not yel issued, but will be available at the banks in a few weeks.
Mrs. Archibald Litle's new bouk
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION..
*HE Undersigned have received instructions from K. W. MOUNSEY, Esq, to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
оп
MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 3rd and 4th March, commencing each day
at 2 PM
within his Residence, No. 2, Goo'istan, Conduit Road,
THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE 11OUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:- DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON BED- STEADS, MARBLE TOP DRESSING- TABLES, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARDS, WARDROBES, CANTON BLACKWOOD TABLES, CHAIRS, BOOKCASE, CABIN ETS, FLOWER STANDS and WRITING DESKS, CARPETS, RUGS, ENGRAVINGS, DESSERT SETS;
ALSO: One CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN DINNER SET;
AND
One PIANO specially made for the ciirnate. TERMS: As Usual
HUGHES & ROUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 25th February, 1902
PUBLIC AUCTION
[234d
of. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
situate at YAUMATI, KOWLOON, IN 4 LOTS,
On
FRIDAY, the 14th March, 1902, at 3 M..
At his Auction Rooms,
by
Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
LOT -All that piece of ground interided to be registered in the Land Office as Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 911.
LOT -All that piece of ground intended the Land Office as The to be registered Remaining Portion of Kowloon Irland Lot
establishment of a degree in trade, for some years past, believing that on the better educa❘ tion of our young business men, depends the commercial future of Great Britain. The Chamber is now itself a teaching body, and organises classes for clerks in foreign languages, and technical subjects. Two grades of certificates are given, to obtain the higher of which a candidate must satify the examiners in two foreign languages, (Oriental or European) Mathematics, Commercial History, Political Economy, Geography and English, and in two A second very pleasing function was per ather optional subjects, of which Commercial formed to-day at the residence of Mr. Ress, of Law and Bookkeeping are recommended as the P.W.D. when the Chinese foremen and the most profitable. If the young clerk can fitters of that. Department, after a light find time to attend the necessary lectures to putting before her readers a conception of the to be registered in the Land Offre as The luncheon presented him with a bandsome 18 carat gold watch, as a mark of esteem and respect, on his approaching departure for Scotland. The presentation was made by the chief foreman who mado a short but appropriate address prior to handing over the
watch.
ANOTHER PRESENTATION,
obtain his certificate; there ought to be shortly, far less complaint of the inefficiency of the English youth as compared with the German importation. Chinese classes are now being arranged, for the purpose of supplying the Far Eastern hongs, and their London offices."
Mr. Ross after thanking the assembly for their kindness in making him such a hand.ment that a combination of Atlantic Steamship some gift, bade farewell to the Chinese staff of the P. W. D.
OUR LONDON LETTER."
(From our own Correspondent.)
LONDON; January 24th. ARMY REFORMS,
A London paper is responsible for the state
owner has been. formed, with the object of settling through rates between England and the great American centres. Rates, and freight charges will be fixed week by week, and be bind- ing on all the thirty lines of the combine. Any Company cutting prices will be heavily fined. Only British and American Companies are concerned, all foreign lines being expressly excluded. Negotiations are still in progress with the only Company-a very small one which declines to join the 'pool. The raising of freights will probably follow the final settle. ment. Very little public comment has as yet been passed upon this gigantic scheme.
"THE LAND OF THE BLUE COWN," though only very recently published appears to be creating's favourable impression. Its object is to explain the state of affairs before the late troubles, especially with regard to the foreigners resident in China, and this object is very fairly attained. Mrs. Little' succeeds particularly in
No. 911.
Intimations.
At every turn,
day and night, you hear the en thusiastic praise of some one who is competent to judge and prefers
RAINIER
BEER
to all others--the whole world' has it and likes it.
SOLE AGENTS :.
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
LIMITED,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hongkong. 3th December, 1901.
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INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT.
to be registered in the Land Office as Section
LOT 3-All that piece of ground intended THE A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 912
LOT 4-All that piece of ground intended Remaining Portion of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 93.
Each of the above. Lots contains an area of 6,375.square feet or thereabouts.
For further particulars, apply to:-
EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's' Solicitors, or to GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 15th February, 1902,
(390d
every day Chinamanashereally is a composite individual possessed of many of the virtues, and subject to most of the temptations that beset the tordly white-but expressing both the good and the evil of his nature in a different manner to ourselves. European writers are too apt to confuse these points, and to study the native as if his springs of action were entirely peculiar to himself, and not a pan of bis human herit age. But Mrs. Little knows her subject with no mere superficial knowledge, wherein shc. differs from the ordinary book-writing, fort-
GEO. FENWICK & CO., LIMITED. night-in-the country traveller. The chapter
HE THIRTEENTH ORDINARY TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE- which will appeal most strongly to the non- China reader is undoubtedly the one devored HOLDERS will be held in the HONGKONG to a description of the neglected graves at HOTEL, on MONDAY, the 3rd March, at NOON; for the purpose of receiving the Report Taku. The country feels strongly at the pre-of the Directors, declaring a Dividend, and sent time on the subject of reverent attention
clecting Director and Auditor. to those places.
"Where slumber England's dead, and it may be, that this book will awaken a public desire to see steps taken for the removal of that evidence of our too frequent indifference to matters of national sentiment, which Mrs. Little so ably pillories.
The Wat Office is about to deliver itself of some reforms unconnected with the tailor's department! and the skeleton scheme certainly promises changes of a radical nature. With a view to popularising the Service in the labour market, it is proposed to take the future Tom. my straight from echool, if his guardians so desire, thus entirely saving his keep, and pro viding for his physical development, at a time
It is however a little disconcerting that in when the supply of adequate food is often a quence of, the revelations, made by M. reference to fool-binding, the writer coolly difficulty in those families, where many months Whitaker Wright under examination. Con-
expresses a pious hope that the atrocities of
EDITORS RESIGN.
The Editor and the City Editor of Truth: have both resigned their positions, in consc-
Entimations.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 20th February, until the 3rd March, both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. G. WINTERBURN,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st March, 1902. HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. HE THIRTY-THIRD
ORDINARY
have to be filled. The boys will be fed:siderable interest has been aroused in journal European troops in Northern China may bear ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. clothed and trained for a year or two, and isticand financial circles over the whole matter, good fruit in convincing native women that HOLDERS in the above Company, will be then passed as 'full' privates into the regu- and other press resignations are probable. natural sized feet are to be desired, in order. lar army at the age of eighteen, when they Criticism is extremely guarded pending the
that their owners may be conveniently able to will be catitled to wages of 7/- per week, conclusion of the Bankruptcy proceedings, but
run away from the brutal foreigners! Everything found, and no stoppages Unnecesfurthers explanations from the "gentlemen of
Lord Rosslyn is back in London for a few
held at the OFFICES of the Company, Pedders Street, on THURSDAY, the 6th day of March, 1902, at 12.30 P.M., to receive a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1901, and the Report of the General Managers, and to elect
sary and purely formal parades will be done the Press concerned, are somewhat eagerly days, but will not, so I hear, discuss the success à Consulting Committee and Auditors.
away with, and the Continental systein which permits soldiers to sleep at home will probably
awaited.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT
of his system, beyond the statement that "nothing is wrong" with it. His. acquain- tances declare him to be extraordinarily cheer ful and opine that he is in a fair way to make
a fortune-but I cannot speak with personal knowledge. English visitors at Monte Carlo
good, but does not promise to break the bank.. This view may however be due either to jeal ously or to ignorance.
be introduced. Considerable diversity of has just been inaugurated at the instance of opinion exists among the experts respecting the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, at the this last suggestion, many authorities believing Stausted Model Farm, kindly lent for the pur that such a relaxation unless carefully restricted,pose by Sir James Blyth. A thorough investi- will be subversive of discipline. It is however gation, on scientific principles, into Dr. Koch's write home that Lord Rosslyn is a little-to the extremely improbable that so far-reaching a change in army custom will not first be tried within strict limits, and even eventually it is likely that the privilege will only be extended to good conduct men of over a year's service.
Khaki is not to be used after this campaign,
drab cloth, being substituted for the working
and service uniforms. The familiar insignia of officer's rank is also to be abolished, and stripes round the sleeves will take the place of stars, and crown, and crossed swords. By this means it will be as easy to tell an army man's rank, at a 'distance, as it now is to distinguish, the status of a naval officer.
theories respecting the incommunicability of bovine tuberculosis to human beings by means of affected flesh or milk, is under the direction of a board of distinguished
medicoes. Monkeys, guinea pigs, calves and swine, animals peculiarly inclined towards con-
sumption, bave been established on the farm,
where they will be inoculated with human tubercle, and subjected to other tests including the admixture of human tuberculous sputum with their food. Of course all that will be proved by the experiment is whether animals can be infected from man, but if this is con- clusively established, Dr. Koch's theory will Another departure of which the object is, to have received a severe blow. The medical the civilian mind, more obscure, is the inter-commission refuses to permit any human tion attributed to the War Office of changing being to submit himself for the reverse test, the good old name of Militia to the more though at least two offers have been made.
A NOVEL SOURCE OF ANXIETY,
lengthy title of Imperial Defence, Infantry" It is announced that possibly two or three the assumption apparently being that the year may elipse before a decisive solution of altered nomenclature will stimulate recruiting even the first point is reached... Shouff all these efforts to improve the, conditi tions of military, service fail goduce a suffi- The Chilian Government, not satisfied with cleat number of the right sort of soldiers, the manifold difficulties which beset the ad resort will reluctantly be had to some form ministration of every South American Republic, of compulsion, against which the older mem- is desirous of establishing in two provinces of bers of the present Cabinet have resolutely that country, a novel source of anxiety. set their faces until every effort to maintain the The Agent General has promulgated in voluntary system has proved abortive. One Europe an official offer of his Government to. point which forces itself upon the attention of the Boers. With the British consent, Chili is civilians is, that far little is done in the way of prepated to, grant to our prisoners now in educating boys from their earliest years to fe various parts of the world, a settlement in the gard the rendering of themselves efficient republic, where 140 acres of cleared land will volunteers (if they feel no inclination to the be given to every bead of a family, with ac profession of arms) as a no less abvious additional So, acres for each child, together observance of with building materials, agricultural imple- and imperative duty than the observance honesty and temperance. It is a question for ments and either food, or £6 per month the mothers of the Empire, do they realize for one year. The land is very fertile. their power and their obligation in the matter? The Chilian Goverment will undertake the expense of transporting intending Boer EDUCATIONAL REFORMED
Concentration Camps or from any other place where they may now be confined. Itis asporting offer, to which so far neither the British northe Boer reply has been received
Intimations. Sabang-Bay Harbour and Coal Co., Limited.
Fulo Weh, North Sumatra. Cable-Address"HARCOAL, Sabang,"
THIS
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Company supply best Welsh, Bengal Ships can moor at the wharves immediately after having entered the harbour, and coaling commences without delay at the rate of 60 tons per hour; timely notice being given, the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the zoth instant, to the sth March, both Day inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co... Limited..
[157d
Hongkong, 3rd February, 1903. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE OF Share for the Six THE DIVIDEND of 10% per Share and months ending 31st December, 1901, declared
at Monday's Ordinary Yearly Meeting, will he
PAYABLE at the Premises of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, on and after TUESDAY, the 25th February, and Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office, Queen's Buildings, New Praya
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE; ·
Secretary.
[33zd Hongkong, 25th February, 1902,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
By Command,
rate of coaling may be increased to 80 tons per The following Notice is published. hour.
Depth of water at the whartes 30 feet at low spring-tide.
Excellent pure spring-water can be supplied at current prices.
Vessels calling at Sabang are exempt from harbour dues and pilotage, and when calling for the purpose of scaling only and taking in water, stores or provisions, no wharfage is levied
A floating drydock for vessels of about 3,000 tons displacement lies on the north side of the harbour entrance, close to the shore.
JH. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong: 27th February, 1902.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HONGKONG HARBOUR.
SOUTHERN FAIRWAY,
Southern Fairway, are hereby informed ASTERS of vessels making use of the
that until further notice they must expect to The company execute ship and marine en- gine repairs of all descriptions under the find the Fairway obstructed to some extent in superintendence of experienced European the neighbourhood of the Nam Pak Hong Shipwrights and Engineers, at moderate prices: Wharf by the lighters employed in bringing
and October, 1901..
[1008c water from Tsin Wan,
R. MURRAY RUMSEY,
R. Com, R.N
Harbour Master,&c.
Hongkong, auth, February, 1902, (asod
NOTICE.
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Neither the CAPTAIN, the AGENTS, nor the
OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crews
Hongkong Harbour:-
DEVONIAN SOCIETY,
is also in, the air. The intimation that the immigrants, either: from the South African of the following Vessel during her stay in the HONGKONG CLUB, óó SATURDAY,
Government will this session introduce a com prehensive, Education Bill has brought to the fore, various plans for the better instruction of our people. Of these the most interesting
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