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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
· To-day's '05 Advertisements, “
THEATRE ROYAL,
CITY HALL.
HENRY DALLAS' MUSICAL
MAND DRAMATIC CLUB.
GRAND OPENING NIGHT. MONDAY,
March 17th
The latest Musical Comedy now drawing crowed houses at the GAIETY THEATRE, London.
THE TOREADOR.
The following pieces, will be played during.
the first week of the season.
MONDAY,
TUESDAY,
Mar. 17, THE TOREADOR.
WEDNESDAY, « THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
11
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
· LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW AND KELUNG. HE Company's Steamship
THE
"THALES,"
Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 14th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or l'assage, apply to
"DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers.
[299d
Hongkong, 13th March, 1902,
"HONGKONG JOĆKEY CLUB,
NOTICE.
MEETING of MEMBERS interested in for Next Year's Rares, will be held in the ordering SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Room, City Hall, 00 SATURDAY NEXT, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock NOON,
TF: HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course.
Hongkong, 13th March, 1992.
Lo-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE
ROYAL,
CITY HALL.
LAST THREE 'NIGHTS! HARRY COGILL AND JACK SUTTON'S ENTERTAINERS.
TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! For the First Time in Hongkong, the Amusing Comedy'in Three Acts by CHAS. HOYT entitled
A STRANGER IN NEW YORK." Full of Lively Situations, New Music, Songs, Dances and Splendid Cast throughout. TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY), MARCH, 13TH,
AND
Intimation.
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.
TO-MORROW NIGHT (FRIDAY), 14TH, that our
A STRANGER IN NEW YORK." SATURDAY, MAR. 15TH, LAST NIGHT. GRAND SPECIAL BILL. REMEMBER. SATURDAY, LAST NIGHT.
PRICES .......53, $2 & $1.
Blox Plans now open at THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED,
Hongkong, 13th March, 1902:
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.
NOTICE.
STEAM FOR
(200d
SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN
ESTABLISHED A.Ð. 1844,
coolic leaving his employment without rex- sonable cause is thrown upon him, it will, we fancy, go far to remedy a very real evil We think that the Government, has adopted the correct attitude.:
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
SOUTH AFRICA. THE CAPTURE (OF LORD METHUEN,
LONDON, March 11th, General Lord Methuen, who was wounded in the thigh, is still in the Boer camp, and being well cared for,
The other. British casualties were, three
WIDE SPREAD FLOODS did vast damage to the papper crops in Lower Sarawak last month. The only life lost was that of a little child. The loss in pepper vines will consider ubly affect the output CENTRA
A LARGE NAVAL AND MILITARY EX- HIBITION is to be held at Portsmouth in the summer to commemorate the coronation, and to raise money for the local war find and other naval and military charities..
THE Rossija, a Russian Liberal newspaper, has been suppressed, and the publisher banish- ed from the capital for five years for publishing a story which, it was alleged, held the Russian Imperial family up to ridicule. ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY:-London, 25th February, The Times, in a leader, compares the Anglo-Japanese agreement to the Franco-Russian alliance, and says it gives Japan henceforth due weight in the determination of problems in the East
We take this opportunity to state | officers and 37 men killed, five officers and
73 men wounded, and 200 men missing.
Lord Methuen's force was 1,200 strong, and the floors 1,500, almost all the latter being dressed in British uniforms.
The British troops behaved with the LIVERPOOL BANK FRAUDS-London, greatest gallantry,
23rd February. The trial of the Liverpool Bank frauds concluded and the sentences passed are as follows Goudie and Burge, ten years and Kelly and Stiles, two years each. RENEWAL OF THE LATE RIOTS is feared at Rawang. The miners' societies are reported to be preparing for further disturbances, and to have set a price on the head of the chief re-detective who has been instrumental in arrest
ing rioters.
ÆERATED
WATERS
are made solely with the water pro-
cured from the Government. Tytam
Reservoir and specially filtered in our
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AND BLACK SEA FORTS, LONDON,large stonge filters
HAVRE, BORDEAUX;
ALSO
FORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.scientific principles.
AN MONDAY, the 34th March, 1903,
"OCEANIEN," Captain Schmitz, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY..
ON Company's Steamship
the best
Our Aorated Waters are thus Abso-
This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the ss: Annam, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 5th April, Direct to Suez, Port Said and lately pure and consumers of them
Marseilles.
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon
on as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in may feel themselves quite secure transit through Marseilles for the principal
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-places of Europe.
TION COMPANY,
STEAM TO SHANGHAL HE Company's Steamship
"INDIA,"
THE
Captain Klun, will leave for the above place, on THURSDAY, the oth instant. Fat Freight or Passage, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,
Agents, Hongkong, 13th March, 1902. *(3150
TOYO KISEN KAISHA,
(ORIENTAL S.S. CO.)
REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN HONGKONG AND MANILA IN 48 HOURS.
THE Company's well-known Steamship
"ROSETTA MARU," 3.$76 Tons, [774 Captain Tate, will be despatched hence for MANILA, on or about MONDAY, the 24th COMPANY,|instant, at 11. A. -
Beaconsfield Arcade, Nos. 11 and 12, 2nd Floor.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
$5.50 † Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. 83.90 Bag of go s.
SHEWAN, TOMÈS & CO., General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1001,
Magnificent accommodation. Comfortable cabins. Excellent table.
Unrivalled speed. Electric light.
For Freigh: or Passage, apply to
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Prince's Buildings,
Ice House Street.
Troi Hongkong, 13th March, 1902.
POWELL'S
GREAT
TO-DAY!
GENTS LADIES
SALE,
41710
TO-DAY!!
ALL NEW GLOVES,
MUST CLEAR.
BEAUTIFUL SILKS UNDER
$1.25
$1.00
EVERYTHING THROUGHOUT THE STORE REDUCED FOR
COST.
10 DAYS ONLY.
Hongkong, 12th March, 1902.
BANJOS
R. G. HECKFORD, Manager,
(550c
STEWART AND BAUER'STM
20th Century" and "Thoroughbred '
also
WASHBURNS."
MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.
Hongkong, 28th January, 1902.
THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED, Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore,
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Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, against contracting cholera by liquid
Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M., Specie and Parcels until 3 P.M.. on the 23rd instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board;
they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con-gency, which it is comparatively.
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tents and Value of Packages are required.
For further Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Office.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 13th March, 1902.
easy
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AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM YOKOHAMA AND KOBE,
THE Steamiship
"TRIESTE." baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into, the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before
Noon, on the 20th instant, or they will not be recognised.
Goods remaining in the Godowns after the oth No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any instant, will be subject to fent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SÄNDER, WIELER & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th March, 1902,
Intimations.
WANTED.
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A
MINING ENGINEER (preferably one who has had some experience in the Philippines) can hear of an exceptionally good opening by addressing,
"H.LL,"
Co This Office.
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Hongkong, 8th March, 1902,
WANTED', YOUTH to act as JUNIOR REPORTER, one with a knowledge of Shorthand preferred.
Apply by Letter to
A
"JOURNALIST,"
C/o This Office, Hongkong, 8th March, 19 2..
WANTED. IN KOWLOON, Three Rooms with use of Kitchen and Bathroom; or to share a hopse.
Apply to
to do by drinking impure water.
A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, Aerated Water Manufacturers, The Hongkong Dispensary.
DAETHS.
ON March 1st, at the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpor, W. H. LANE, aged 31 years,
AT Mission Ilouse, Stamford Road, Singa- pore, on Sunday, the. 2nd March, the Revd. W. H. GOMES, B. D., aged 75 years.
في الحر
Lord Kitchener hopes that the reinforce ments now arriving will rectify the situation without disturbing operations in progress elsewhere.
BORNEO AND THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION.
British North Borneo is conspicuously presented at the Colonial Exhibition at the Royal Exchange.
RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA, Russia in yielding to China, undertakes to withdraw from Manchuria within eighteen months, if the latter's signature is given to the proposed convention.
LATER.
THE CRAND NATIONAL. Ambush II has been lamed, and is scrat ched for the Grand National Steeplechase.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR
SOUTH AFRICA.
Mr. Brodrick states that 6,000 Yeomanry will embark next month for South Africa, and that large drafts of cavalry and infantry are being got ready. A tull supply of horses would also be maintained. The speaker
further stated, that Lord Kitchener would have all the assistance he asked for.
THE IRISH MEMBERS AND THE WAR: There is au intense show of feeling against. the Irishmen in the House of Commons, who received the reading of Lord Kitchener's despatches with derisive laughter and an outburst of cheering.
LOGAL AND GENERAL. EXCHANGE remains steady at 15, 9fd, H.M.Ş. VESTAL is expected here shortly from Singapore.
THE GERMAN Cruiser herTHA ar rived from Singapore this moming, and ex-
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, in the vicinity of Connaught House is now in the hands of coolies who, with pick and shovel are putting the street in repair. Queen's Road East is up. for several hundred yards drainage work being in progress.
IT IS REPORTED that Li Luen Ying, the favourite eunuch of the Empress-Dowager has been in the secret pay of the Russians, and that he has done all in his power to urge the Em press-Dowager to yield to certain secret. de- mands of the Russians.
MEMBERS OF THE HONGKONG: Volun-
teer Corps are notified that a parade will take place on Saturday, 15th March, on the Polo Ground, as a rehearsal for the Annual inspect- on to be held on Saturday, 22nd instant, by His Excellency the General Officer Comman ding.
THE SWALLOWS, harbingers of Spring, ure returning from their winter visit to the South It is to be hoped that they will bring the rains with them. In this connection it may be noted that the monotonous call of the rain bird, known as the brain fever bird in India, is not as yet in evidence.
R
AROUND KOWLOON CITY the fields are being prepared for the sowing of the Spring paddi Crop, and, thanks to the constancy of the mountains streams, do not appear to be so badly off for water as one would expect them.
be after the long period of drought through
which we have been passing of late,
AN INVOLUNTARY BATH, and evidently a very cold one, was taken by a well dressed Chinaman this morning while trying to board one of the ferry launches at Kowloon,
The Hongkong Gelegraph changed the customary salutes with shore and which bind just started. Strange, to my, when
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Chair and Ricksha Coolies. The answer given to the question put by the Hon. T. H. WarTEHEAD at the last Council meeting ahent the steps proposed to be taken by the Government with respect
fleet..
ALEXANDER ATCHO, described as a foreman, was charged by Inspector. Warnockas being a vagrant. He was sent to the house of detention.
MISS STONE RELEASED Miss Stone, the missionary who had been a prisoner in the hands of brigands for some months, has been released and has arrived at St. Rumnitza,
to the report of the commission, appointed COGILL AND SUTTON ENTERTAINERS
to enquire into the chair and ricksha coolie-We would remind our readers that this question, appears to us to be convincing and satisfactory, and to show that the Govern- talented company produces Charles Hoyt's ment have paid a deal of attention to the stranger to New York" at the City Hall matter. The decision arrived at by the to-night. Government seeins to be the most reasonable THE FRENCH MAIL DELAYED -Owing
'one under the circumstances. The reduc-
tion of public ricksha fares would hardly to the delay in her outward voyage the meet the evil complained of, and compulsory Oceanien will leave Yokohama on the 17th inst.; registration might very well prevent coolies in consequence her departure from Hongkong
will take place about the 27th. from entering private employ, for it is a matter of common knowledge that their pre- judices are legion.
THE EMPEROR WILLIAM bas presented to Count von Waldersee one of the bronze cannons captured in Peking, "la thankful re cognition of his good service in China" The gun is stated to be 250 years old, and was used by the Chinese in their siege of the Foreign Legations.
he came to the surface after his chilly dip, his cigarette holder was still between his lips. THE LATEST NOVELTY in Paris is the coffee cigarette, made, not from the ground bean, but from the leaf of the tree. It affords a fragrant and, it is claimed, harmless, smoke," completely, weaning the palate from tobacco, and thereby conferring a benefit on the race. The cigarettes are made in different degrees of strength.
very. exis,
TO SATIATE his inquisitive nature the aver age Chinese coolle will risk his ver fance, and gloat over an open sewer rather than attend to his work. This morning in Queen's Road quite a small crowd was peering into an open manhole while an enterprising hawker set down bis tray of "eatables" by the side of the obnoxious opening and commenced giving sticky." luxuries" in exchange for cash. A MEMORIAL signed by Yuan-Shi-Kai, Chang Chih Tung, and Liu Kwin Yit, has been forwarded to the Empress. Dowager, praying for the instant execution of the notorious ex- Boxerchief General Tung Fu Tsiang, A secret edict has now been forwarded to Governor Sung Fun of Shen-shi, where the General Toug is now quartered, to devise means for the de- capitalich of the prime mover of the Boxer rebellion.
The question is one which, we fancy, must be left to a great measure to right it- self, It depends of course to a great extent upon supply and demand, and naturally every coolic will dispose of his services in the best market. The Cover- ment have gone the fight way to work to remedy the matter by increasing, the number FOOTBALL:-To-morrow afternoon on the of public rickshas; for the more rickshas we Happy Valley, the Hongkong Football Club have upon our streets the less will the in-will play the Navy under Rugby rules Kick-off A SYSTEMATICAL MODE OF SQUEEZ- [295d dividual coolie be able to earn, and hence an in- at 4.45 p.m. The following will play for the ING is reported by the soldiers of the notorious centive to enter and remain in private em Club-Johnson, full back; Another, Pierce, Lee Kar Check, Magistrate of Shun Tak ploy will be created. Singapore has con- Smyth and Robertson, three-quarters; Jordan siderably more than double the number of and Burkie, halves; Clark, Sandford, Hallifax, public rickshas that we have, in addition to Wolfe, Wilson, Burnett, Barags and McMurtrie gharries, and we do not think that the Co- (Capt.), forwards. verment will be unwise ifit licenses as many Cfa II.K. Telegraph Office. licences should be the sole guide in this re- vehicles as possible. The demand for Hongkong, 25th January, 1902
spect, and no hard and fast rule as to the the Grand National Steeplechase. We dont Repeated complaints to the Prefect has had BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. number of rickshas and chairs allowed to ply for hire should be fixed. By this means the WANTED.
happy medium would be naturally arrived at,” for licences would be applied for so long as the drivers made a good living, and when competition became keen the demand would fall off and the surplus coolies be available for private employ.
"F.E.S.,"
S POSTMASTER, British North Borneo Government, a CLERK-experienced in Postal Matters. Salary $8o per mensen,
Apply, giving full Particulars and Testi monials to the Secretory to the Governor,
LABUAN,
17th February, 1992.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
WANTED.
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N. EXPERIENCED FOREMAN for a
A. Government Timber Milli Must be thor oughly acquainted with the erection and minagement of Timber-cutting Machinery, Forward copies of recent testimonials and state Salary required to
DIRECTOR OF FUBLIC WORKS;
MANG SANDAKAN, 3rd February, 1902.
prefecture. The so-called guardians of the peace are not properly paid, but manage some how to live on the proceeds of fobbery and loot. When caught red handed, these soldiers. produce their uniforms bearing the Frefects A BAD NAME-Reuter informs us that Amel on them, and are at once liberated,
bush II has been lamed, and is scratched for
no effect, and it is apparent that he allows his soldiers to do what they please?
wonder at it. Any horse with such a pro-Boer name as that may be expected to fall into all sorts of traps and misfortunes and our office boy says that scratching isn't half enough pun PETIT ishment. He recommends a good thrashing, pro or summary execution on a repetition of such a Boerish act. The new Bill brought forward at the last
WATER FACILITIES The population of Council Meeting will provide a remedy for the employer should his chair or ricksha that portion of the City between Queen's Road coolies prove insolent, or refuse duty, and and the Praya and extending from the Central will at the same time show the coolies that Market to the Sailors Home is now being they have not the upper hand and cannot supplied with water brought from the main- play fast and loose, as they have been in the land in fighters and pamped into à large tanks the habit of doing hitherto. The clause constructed on the Praya front. The water is which states that all engagements shall be drawn off into buckets through numerous large considered to be by the month is a good tapa. Over a quarter of a mill one, and as the onus of proof in case of a being supplied daily in this
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