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a splendid heritage put up with auch monstrosity as is known to the foreign world as the Cinese Government,
A LARGE SHIPPING FIRM advertises for | LAWN TENNIS an English junior clerk,
TROOPS IN THE PHILIPPINES General Hughes arges the return of all troops to the United States after two years' service in the Philippines.
SARCASTIC JUDGE once remarked,
that:
Hout
kong Cricket Club 1902 Lawn Tennis Tourna ment close on Tuesday, the agih
Arrange
The people that inhabit this region are quite distinct in character, modes of life,
CHEUNG SUN KU, wat again brought by- fore the Me, Kemp this morning for allowing and physique from the other inhabitants of
cubicles to remain in No. 9 Old Bailey Street, the Two Kwang; fair and ruddy in com- plexion, fond of outdoor life and exercises; A
when nolice bad already been served on him. The case however was dismissed, as the house" A. S. WATSON & Co., tireless walkers, good riders and keen sports-
men, it is no wonder that the military the important points in a case were first, the LIMITED..
underlings of the Chinese recruit their forces costs; secondly, the legal technicalities; and in question had already been sold.
ANAGASAKEREFORMATORY: from these people. The Black, Yellow and finally, the merits. Red flag forces were really the high- TELEGRAPH RATES-Lord Georgements are now being made at the local Kenche landers froin the great ridge, and it is a misconception to talk of these disbanded Hamilton, replying to a question in the House for the establishment in Nagasaki soldiers of Su, Ma, or Lau Yas enigmating of Commons, said that the Press cable rates to atory, and a bill for the appropri
funds will probably be submitted to the forth to this district; they have simply gone back Indiu would be reduced to a shilling..
coming session of the local Prefectural to their own country. Martial by nature
RECRUITING IN 1901 steadily improved, Assembly they, submit to discipline and command, as is evidenced by their militia organizations the last six month's final total being only 2,005 We take this opportunity to state and armouries, which are situated at all, in- below 1900. A large increase has taken place MENTSir Michael Hicks Beach, in reply
in the more showy arms of the service, nda portant centres./
How much is known of this, part of decrease in the infantry. China by Edropeans may be judged by the fact that the writer, while travelling | THE TSIM-TSA-TSUI MARKET site, now through it about three years ago, was nearing completion, has been pushed ahead regarded in much the same light as a at a great rate. It is seldom that we have seen pigny froin the Central African forests would
a piece of excavation work done so quickly, be if he applored suddenly in a quiet Eng particularly by Government. lish town. At a village named Young Taw, he was most courteousy asked if he would ake a walk to, see an ancient lady, who had never set eyes on a green eyed devil This being acceded to, a very nice ony was sudderily produced, all fully rigged upduding the usual collar of cat belis, as also a string of servants, some and some on foot, and the man hed to be in charge said the pony lk bridges-to a traveller in S.W.
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INFLUENZA A London telegram of 25th ulto. says-Lord Raglan and 25 members of the House of Commons are down with in
fluenza, from which disease 17 deaths took place in London last week.
THE INDIAN CENSUS The Indian Gazette gives the final table of the Indian Census for 1991. The total of all India is
294,362,676. Of this the Native States and Agencies contribute-62,461,549.
me hours travelling the said writer wasnducted into the presence of this anci lady, she assured him that no fore-WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY-The Can igne had come way that for eighty years, and adian Government bas submitted to Parlia that he was neither a missionary nor a ment an agreement with Signor Marconi, grant govament man he could stay at her house, ing him So,cos dollars for the establishment ef andthis he did for a day and a night and i trans-oceanic service at a maximum rate of leaned many things.
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The statement of the old lady as to no feigner having been there for over eighty ars I subsequently found was supported the records of the district magistrates of Chun and Kong Wa. There is only one map of this country approximately accurate, and that is a Jesuit one probably made more than two centuries ago.
It is difficult to imagine any other equal
space on the earth where nature has so
ditions.
QUITE A SMALL ARMY assembled at the Magistracy this morning to answer to sum monses, issued by Sanitary Inspector Knight, for not keeping their respective houses in clean and wholesome condition. The fines amounted to $50, which were paid.
totel
A GERMAN MUNOPOLY.-The Times Pakin correspondent states that a German
Agreement for the acquisition of a mining monopoly in Shantung is on the eve of settle;
met, and will confer great political advantages and practically close a large part of Shantung
British and American trade. PRECAUTIONS-H.M.S, Mutine on her arrival at Singapore from. Pening had had the yards removed from hermainmist. The Rinaldo, a sister ship of the missing Cendor, is to have certain changes in her rigging made at the Hongkong dockyard. These will include th removal of yards from the masts..
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREE
to a question in the House of Commons, Laid that there is reason to believe that the Japanese. Traty is regardled with great favour in Austra- lig. Sir M. Hicks Beach, in reply to a further question, said that Russia had declared, that the rights of foreigners in the open port of Niuchwang remain inviolable. As Russian forces are in temporary occupation of the port," such an assurance may well be given by Russia.
THE ADMIRALTY have ordered important changes to be made in the constitution of the instructional Botinas of destroyers at Poris inòuth, Chatham, and Devonport. “In future only destroyers of the 27-knot type are to be commissioned for the service, with the excep tion of the commatore vessels, which will be
30-knot hosts. Hitherto it has been the custom to transfer the fastest vessels into the fiotilla, but those craft are now to be passed into the fleet reserve as soon as they are ready for sea, and will be used to strengthen the fleets on foreign stations as required. The change is to be effected at once, and this week the officers and men of the fastest boats at Portsmouth and the other flotillas are to be transferred to 27-knot vessels.
PIDGIN ENGLISH -A U.S. amly surgeon back from the Philippines tells a New York paper that while an furlough he visited Shang. bai and stopped at a hotel. A Russian prince who was touring the world was there, and one day two. of Shanghai's leading citizens came to
call on him. They approached the English clerk behind the desk and asked, with all due respect, if his highness, &c., was in: The clerk, calmly walked to the foot of the stairs and relled "Bayth A Chinese servant appeared at the head of the stairs. Then 'qdoth. the clerk: "Say, boy; one piecee prince, topside you have got?" "Have got," "calmly said the Chinaman, "All right," remarked the clerk to
the visitors. He's in his room. I'll send your cards up. And such, says the surgeon, is "pidgin English.
abundantly provided for her children; rich soil, abundant water, warm sunny, valleys, and altitude enough to temper the climate, great primeval forests to be matched only in Asia by those on the Terai in India, which indeed are only a continuation of the same range of mountains-and physical con- "The mineral wealth of this district, is wter.nothing short of the marvellous; there is geld in the river bottoms washed down from some eldorad in the hills, copper, zinc and in the rocky formations, and, above all, cal and iron galore. There are better chile, sheep, ponies and goats to be seen pre than anywhere else between the sea. TWO LOVELY PURSES valued at $1.00 in this office yesterday afternoon in the form of loard and the yet to be discovered caught the eye of Kwong Shing, a messenger a sample bottle of Junes Buchanan and Co.'s
are at W. Brewer & Co., and not being able to
selected Red River; in fact its resources,
celebrated whisky which is specially sized resist the temptation he quickly appropriated for the House of Lords and the House of Com qual to those of any similar istrict in the world, so it can be them and handed same over to Cheng Yan, an
mons. No matter in what part of the world one understood that a rebellion emanating there other messenger of that firm, Mr. Richardson
may is of a much more dangerous character than however, noticed their movements, and they it would be if started in a less favourable are now both doing two months harder the
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The Hongkong Telegra
'country.
By all accounts the present is the most formidable rising since the Taiping move ment in the 50's; and there is no apparent reason why it should not make equal head. way, as it certainly has the passive, if not active support of the bulk of the inhabitants of the Two Kwangs.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ILLNESS OF CECIL RHODES.. LONDON, March 17th. Latest reports on the condition of Mr. Cecil Rhodes state that the patient is weaker. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CAPE
Five thousand reinforcements will sail for the Cape before the end of the month.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE DRIVING MOVEMENTS. The last drives to the westward ending on
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
NOTES AND COMMENT
The Rebellion in Kwang The districts where the present iple is, have always been nurseries for revogainst Manchu rule; it was here that the Ping rebellion was born and nourish It is easy to understand why this shout so to any one who has visited these beal high- lands of Westem Kwang Tunastern Kwang-si and Southern Hunan..
Geographically it may be deed as the the 11th instant have cleared an immense country lying between the Nortiver, the tract of country where the Boers formerly Ho, and the West Rivers with, Northern kept their stores and remount dépôt. The boundary, the great chain of known as the Ling of ridge. The artwould be captures include the Boer Commandant somewhere about 15,000 squmiles and Celliers, who was wounded. comprises some of the most presque and beautiful seenery it is possibi conceive. Tivo of the natural divisiy're still in- habited by the Qu, tribes je perfectly independent of all Chinesrol in their own country. In all the ces that have elapsed since the Chinese anived in this part of the world, nejt ey nor their Manchu conquerors haen able to subdue these mountaineer
Force, bribery, treach have each and all in turn been tried in the Qus are still Que and not Chinesd it is worthy of notice, that under thew of this great the seaboard ridge, which runs Westwards until itt in the great table lands of Centyd Western Asia, are to be found cof the most untame able and independepeople-that-ever
existed.
LATER.
KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE
RIVIERA ABANDONED.
King Edward is not now going to the Riviera, but, will cruise in his yacht in home
'waters.
Gaol.
CHOLERA:-During the past twenty four hours two more deaths were reported, in bath case, the victims being Chinese The first case was discovered in No. 408, Des Vœux Road West, and the second in a matshed on the Praya Reclamation. The feel disease has made its appearance in Fatshan and from all ac counts, the disease is carrying away many
victims daily.
AN OLD SCOTCH FRIEND was received
travel there he is certain to find wherever a few scattered together the love of the home- land retains for evera warm place in their hearts, Smail wonder is it that to British people in the Far East such an old and genuine friend so strongly appeals, for it is undoubtedly a con- necting link with the land of their birth and brings vividly forward pleasant memories of the happy days at home... But apart from that it is a brand of whisky which has been most favourably reported upon by a special Government committee. The ana lytical chemist said that the whisky afforded evidence of having been stored in wire casks,
THE ANDROMACHE SPOKEN-Cap. and the result of the analysis was consistent with genuine pot still spirits. From the generat tain Abel of the Messageries Maritimes steane chamcter of the sample there was reason to iner Guadalquivir, on arrival at Singapore re ported that when in Lat. N.3° 48′ and Long,
believe that it had been warehoused for many years. With such a character the old acquain tance will quickly find a warm place in the hearts of many Hongkongites and those desir ing an introduction or wishing to renew the
E. (of the Paris meridian,) on 7th inst. a four masted English ship was spoken, which signal- led that she was the Andronache of London, bound for Hongkong and wished to be report. ed all well. [It will be noted that the Longi-friendship should go to Messrs, Lane, Craw- tude is not given.--Ed., A. X 7'.]
ford and Co. who have been appointed sole agents in the Colony, In all ports of the East A RISKY SWIM-As the 5.5. Hinsang, it is becoming everyday more evident that bound for Singapore with Chinese einigiants, Buchanan's whiskies are having largely in- was going out through Sulphur Channel yes creased sale, and this we understand, is due to terday, four men jumped, overboard and were the indefatigable energy and enterprise dis- rescued by the Ilarbour Office dinghy, which played by Messrs. Buchanan's general repre was returning from Green Island. They are sentatives Messrs. Boyd, Kaye and Co., of Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokobarna, and Singa pore
some of those probably who are decayed on
board ship under false pretences. They were handed over to the Police, who undoubtedly will make the necessary enquiries as to the cause which forced the men to such a rash act
THE HON-TREASURER of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following dona-
Buksion
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A COINCIDENCE:--Four fatalities are to hand by boats which have arrived here since Saturday, says the Singapore Free Press of oth inst., and in each case the victim is a China man and a fireman. The vessels ou wbich the men died are the German mail-Sachiin, the WAR OFFICE REVELATIONS. During a discussion on Army contracts, E. Ex. Tel. Co's, cable ships, the Recorder, the Ms. Brodrick referred to the position in Norwegian steamer Skild and the 5.5 Dil Black which Sir H. Campbell-Banneroah, Secre- In the first case death was due to heat apoplexy, ary of State for War in Lord Rosebery's in the second to heart failure, the third man's, Ministry, left the War Office as regards death was due to natural debility, and the fouria artillery, which was not allowed to transpire and last died from taking an overdose of opium- as it was too serious a matter to reveal theman There was likewise, at the same time, a shortness of rifle ammunition, and had THE SEMPMA MINING Co, held a General Meeting at Kuala Lumpor recedily at which a dividend of $3 per share was declared _for_the_last six-months.-, This, together” the $3.50 declared for the previous six mon makes a total dividend for the twelve months of $6.50 on a 57 share. If there is any
Remembering the that in the district complications arisen in South Africa then, there exists two we would have been compelled to abandon
independent-the-country-after the first three-month
we are now speaki communites of pe from time iminemo itself is naturally operations byt equipped-force extremely hazard enemy, and that i ful valleys in all existence and c
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square miles of EXCHANGE has fallen a sixteenth and now
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Co and why shoul People who have such
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