CHOLERA IN KWANGCHOU A gentle-| man just arrived a Shanghai from Kwangchou that cholera is again prevalentin that city. Several hundreds of people have died of this terrible disease during the past month,
THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA have in- augurated their Tientsin. and Shanghai line
within the last few days with two steamers, They will issue through bills of lading and through passenger tickets from Tientsia to ports in Europe and America.
IN NEED OF RICE-Viceroy Yuan Shih. kai has seat io a memorial to the Throne,
asking for permission to invita. Chinese mer- chants to convey rice to Chibli from other provinces and sell it at a reasonable price as a relief to the poor classes.
MANCHU CAUTION :—Several Manchu nobles and comicmangers of the Bannermon are opposed to having the Chancellor of the University, Chang Pei-hsi, in `charge of the schools for Manchu children. They want to have the power in their own hands, and are dissatisfied with the way Chang Pei-hsi bas 'been managing things, '
ONE OF THE LARGEST STANDS, if not the largest of all, to be erected on the route of the Coronation procession, will be put up by the London County Council in the Strand. The demolition of a quarter of a mile of buildings on the northern side of the Strand in connection with the new avenue gives the Council a splendid site free of Lost. Here it is proposed to erect a stand to accommodate 3,000 or 4,000 people.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY APRIL 5002.
Mimera San, whilst Molly Scamary was in the 1 safe hands of Miss Eva Clark Both these talented artists acted in their finished style, In Hunki, Mr. Dallas deserves spécial mention, whilst the dancing of Miss Cissy Fitzgerald whs very taking. Mr. Percival Knight per that his acting quite took the house? sonated Lieutenant Fairfax, and need we say
A special grad miscellaneous concert will will be pro-fuced." A Message from Mars will be given to-night when fresh songs, dances, &c.
be staged for the first time in Hongkong on Monday next. It is to be hoped that a full when we bear in mind that it is also a benefit house will greet this popular play, especially
night to Mrs. Dallas,.~*
As there are only a few sents left, we would remind our readers to book their seats early so as to avoid disappointinent.
RULES FOR THE KOWLOON
BRITISH SCHOOL.
The following Rules, which are of a tentative nature only, and will be varied as occasion arises, by Notification in the Government Gazette, appeared in yesterday's issue of that publication
Admission to the School will be limited to children of European parentage of both sexes.
'II.
Application for the admission of their children must be made by parents in writing to the Inspector of Schools not less than one month before the desired date of admission.
HIL
IV.
The Inspector of Schools in deciding indivi- CHURCÒMÉN ENLOGIZĘ RHODES-dual cases will be guided by the space avail- London, 31st March-Canon Robinson prea- able in the School, and by any other relevant ching at Westminister Abbey on Good Friday circumstances. referred to the late Rt. Hon. Cecil Rhodes as "that great man of the Empire, the last who belonged to the mighty dead"" Canon Henson said that the best description of Mr. Rhodes' character was to be found from St. Pauls words in 1 Corinthians, 15th Chapter end 58th For the first child in attendance
I
of one family, verse, "steadfast, unmovable,"
THE SPECIAL EMBASSY TO THE CORONATION Tini Cheng, brevet Prince of the 3rd Order, Eldest son of Prince Ching, ist Order, and special Ambassador to the Coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII, according to a Peking advice, is expected to leave the capital for Shanghai on the ith of April As a matter of courtesy to the British it is stated that the Ambassador will travel by an English mail steamer ta Europe.
Fees will be paid monthly and on the follow- ing scale
Upper Lower School School
$5
53
$3
For the second of two or more children of the same family in attendance together ..... $4 For the third of three or more children of the same family in attendance together
$3 Fourth or subsequent children will be paid for as if they were third children.
יי.
V.
$2
In the case of a child joining in the middle of a term, fees will be charged from the begin ning of the term
VI.
""
In the case of a child leaving in the middle of a term, fees will be charged up to the end of the month in which the child leaves. |-
VII. For If a child is absent for one or more months in the middle of a term and returns during the Same term, fees will be charged for the months during which the child is absent
VIII.
SHANGHAI RACE CLUB¦—At the request. of the Doner, the conditions of the "Shanghai Gold Challenge Cup" have been altered, and now read as follows:-VII-The Shanghai Gold Challenge Cup. One Mile and a Quar- ter-Presented. Value, 500 Guineas. China Ponies, being bond fide. Griffins at date of entry. To be won two times in all by Fonies the bond fide property of the same owner or owners. Entrance, Tis, 10, 70 per cent. to the Second Pony and ro per cent, to the Third Pony, until the Cap is finally won, when the Second Pony will receive 75 per cent, and the Third Pony, 25 per cent. of the Entrance Fees Weight for inches as per scale.
Fees are payable in advance.
EDWARD A. IRVING,
Inspector of Schools
Hongkong, 20th March, 1902.
- A LESSON FROM HONGKONG,
The following article has recently appeared in the Shanghai New Press, and will be of interest to many in Hongkong-
"Á LOST BRITISH GUN is not exactly a novelty, but there is a lost British gun which has just been mounted in the new Admiralty buil dings to which an interesting story attaches. The gun, which is a bronze 12-pounder, was found
In June last an article headed "Kill Them" last year in Peking by the Germans, and on it being ascertained that it was a British piece of was published in The New Press journal with ordnance, was handed over to Admiral the view of inducing the authorities and the Seymour. On looking up the gun "Admiral general public to take same steps for making Seymour discovered that it was the self-same wholesale destruction of rats, which all experts gun which he himself had lost from a gunboat agree are prolific diseminators of infectious on the Canton River in the China War of diseases, more especially of the bacillus of 1857.62 The Chinese had dredged it from the plague. No notice or little indeed, was taken of xiver and taken it to Peking where the Germans our note of warning then, because, presumably found it Admiral Seymour brought the 12-the Settlements were quite free of any infer pounder home and restored it to the Admiralty, tious disease. Now, however, the situation is altogether changed and it is no longer possible WAS, THERE REALLY A MISTAKE —–
to deceive ourselves. Scarlet fever is carrying The Feking correspondent of the Tientsin off scores and from time to time harrowing « Jéh-jén Sin-wên" states that when the men information comes to hand relative to the who had been condemned to be executed for awful sudderness of its effects on young and discharging loaded slings the other day at the old among our own kith and kin. Yet no cart of the wife of the Italian Minister, were special efforts are put forth to check the being led to the execution ground recently, one spread of this fatal disease at one of its well of the condemned loudly declared his innocence known sources. Why should not every ex. to the crowds who followed the procession, pedient be tried to crying out that he was to be beheaded for a
GRID US OF THIS SCOURGE ? thing he had never done.” He said he was a
Why should wo fold our arms and say, "Oh, humble hawker of candied crab-apples, plying the rains will wash it all away." We hope the his trade at a distance from the place of attack, recent rains will have a beneficial effect on the and that the guilty persons were a number of health of the Settlements; but we think specin! rowdies who were klie flying and used their
attention should be devoted to the destruc- slings to capture other people's kites. Tetion of the millions of rats infesting the Unfortunate man declared his innocence even when the sword was held over him
THE DALLAS COMPANY
iliarity is apt to detract from the charm
it is generally remarked, but, the this conclusion: Was, never more
or forcibly demonstrated than it was last Dallas Company produced for ver popular Japanese play, The house was a bumper one, displayed
lodging from the enthus
anded the:
and the
that
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FIREMEN AND THEIR
ZOREMUNERATION;
Auction.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
Department, on
No. 185.
i.
HE following Particulars and Conditions e
to be held at the Offices of the Public Works
MONDAY, the 7th day of April, 190%, at 3 P.M., a published for general information."
By Command,
Intinravions.
INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT
The attention consumers is drawn to the thet that: He Undersigned, being Sole Agents for AUER VON WELSBACH VIENNA,
DR
Co.,
THE INVENTORS OF INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT.
Apropos of the late fire the present is an opportuna ecension to take into consideration that the miserable, remuneration members of the Fire Brigade receive for their services. The ́munificent sum of nine dollars per month is little less than an insult to tender to n man
so large ned rich a colony as Hongkong, in who has to protect the lives and property of
case of the outbreak of fire, and we understand that when a man has once joined the corps
it, and that any apparent failure of duty, while there is no possibility of his getting away from
at this most trying workrounts against him in his position as a member of the police force. From what we personally saw at the fire—the energy and pluck shewn by the Brigade, Particulars and Conditions of the letting by coupled with the number of occasions they Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the have been called out during the last six months 7th day of April, 1002, at 3 P.M., at the
Offices of the Public Works Department, by 954c) we could not but feel that these men ought to Order of His Excellency the Officer Adminis receive something considerably more than theytering the Government, of Two Lots of CROWN do for the
LAND, at To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a tem of 75 Years, CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His with the aption of renewal at Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, and March, 1902.
years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Lots of Sale
Registry No.
LOCALITY.
;
To Kwa Wan Kowlean,
VALUABLE SERVICES THEY RENDER, and we feel sure that if the matter were brought to the notice of the numerous insurance com- panies interested in the colony they would willingly pmvide a fund sufficient to pay well for the services of the members of the Brigade. Nine dollars a month barely pays for the wash- ing of the clothes, chair or jinríkisha hire and small sundry items which these men have to pay in connection with the services they are called upon to perform as fire brigade men. Consequently it may be properly considered that those services are rendered free to the Colony. This certainly should not be, and should be remedied promptly and efficiently. Public Road. These men are only mortals and it cannot be expected that they will continue on every oc- casion of the outbreak of a fire to use that energy and shew that pluck for which they are so well known unless they receive proper sympathy and consideration from the members of this rich community. The late fire has been a great strain on the men, and the occasion should not be allowed to pass without some tangible proof that their successful efforts to prevent the spread of a fire which might have been even very much greater.
SHANGHAI TRAINING NOTES.
THE HONGKONG PONIES.
March 30th.
The wet weather this week has confined all work under the clock to Friday morning's gallops and then, as luck would have it, a heavy thunderstorm commenced at about 4
Boundaries and Measurements.
1386d
quare (ext.
Contents in
Ammal, Rest
| Lipset Price.
1. W.
ft. ft.
Theft.
8
{290" 190";730]{13=1;+8,300) 164
¿335*350*1601|i4|||60.763) 400
1 Crown Lanel Waters of the 'bore
• Puble Lane adjoining KiLLyan. Public Road to To Kwa Wan,
Kutimations.
SANITARY BOARD NOTICE.
IN view of the Prevalence of CHOLERA in
Canton, the public are hereby warned
against the CONSUMPTION of UNRIPE or ÖVER-RIPE FRUIT, UNCOOKED VEGE- TABLES and UNBOILED MILK or WATER.
By Order,
G. A. WOODCOCK,
Secretary, Hongkong, 12th March, 1902
3ool
CHINA STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF CANTON AND HONGKONG, LIMITED.
[OTICE is hereby given that the FIRST
ARE SELLING THE ONLY GENUINE MANTLES, The Price of which has been reduced to FIFTY CENTS per pioce.
BEWARE OF INFERIOR IMITATIONS!
KRUSE & Co.,
BRE
CONNAUGHT HOUSEN
23 & 25, QUEEN'S ROAD,
NEW STOCK.
ANGLO - EGYPTIAN CIGARETTE CONS
Co.,
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES
ROYALS (Gold tippod.)
PULTANS,
PASHAS, GORDONS (Cork tipped.)
Hongkong, 2nd April, 1902.
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The machine is worked by hand, can be attended to by any ordinary native servant and manufactures Aorated Waters of bost quality at enormously cheap prices. LEOPOLD SPATZ & CO.
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NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.
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a.m. yesterday and lasted till 8 n.m., and in N GENERAL MEETING of SHARE The Oldest and Largest International Life Insurance Company in
that time the mud course was reduced to a paddy field. With the exception of Messis Ring, and Jay's stables, which were exercised up the road steadily, all the animals in training were galloped short distances.
HOLDERS of THE CHINA STEAMSHIP CO. of CANTON AND Hongkong, LIMITED, will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, on MONDAY, the 21st instant, at NOON.
LUK KING NAM,
General Manager Hongkong, 5th April, 1902,
Very few of the times are worth recording. The Leader. Mr. Cumming up, stood out far away from the crowd, covering a mile in z. KOWLOON going as he pleased. The Dealer ridden by a boy covered the same distance in 2.36 and it looks like him repeating his last three meet. ings' successes.
I was glad to see the Hongkong ponies once again in exercise and Set did a half-mile canter, but he does not seem keen on his work; per. haps like Rare. Rose a rest would do him good. The famous Ewo black griffin, Mr. Midwood up, made his debut hefort the public in a mile canter in 1.53 3/5, last 36,and perhaps in this case he will bear out his reputation.
His Majesty, boy up, went · 12 miles in 3.9 last 36 4/5, and Conou, Mr. Cox, the same distance in 3.18, last 437. Paper bunting does not seem to have improved these two. Mr. Sophar's by sub (not Ottoman) bay up, did three-quarters of a mile in 1.54. last 140; not a bad performance for a sub and he finished in good style.
Mr. Toeg's bobbery bay, boy up, went for a mile in 2.35 2/5. last 37 1/5. This stable now seems to have more buck jumpers than race ponies, at present. Testolcm, that famous dun which nearly caused a law suit, in the Horse Bazar, went a mile in 32 2/5 last 14 2/5 This animal can come down the straight, if he is unable to do anything else.
Take them on the whole, though about 40 per cent of the subs have been discarded, there will be some good racing left amongst the re- mainder though we shall not see very, fast times.
· The entries closa next Saturday and before then I hope to be able to record some interés. ting paws. From the number of griffins on the course the entries should be a record.
There are very few walers on the course at present, the only ones being Advance, Eileen, Golden Dell, Wahini, Silver Spar, and Broom but I hear that Bay Ronald, Eros, Kismet and Annie are on their way up from Hongkong.
THE EAST CHINA RAILWAY.
Up to the end of last year, the steamers of maintaining two services only, so far as its the East China Railway Company had been international route was concerned, that is, one between Shanghai and Vladivostock via Kiao-
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THE FIRST TERM At the above SCHOOL FOR EUROPEAN CHILDREN begin on the 1st MAY, at 9 AM.
APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION should be made in writing, not later than MONDAY, the 7th April, to the Inspector of Schools at the Education Office.
in the Government Gazette, will be charged as Fees, subject to rules which will be published under-
Upper School, Lower School For the first child of a
per month.
per month.
family in attendance $5 For the second of two
or more children of the same family in For the third of thren.
attendance together $4
the World.
SUPERVISED BY 83 GOVERNMENTS.
Written Business 1951 exceeds $380,000,000 Gold. Actual Paid for Business rgox exceeds $260,000,000 Gold. A note or a Telephone Message from those wishing an "up-to-date policy will receive immediate attention.
HECTOR W. SAMPSON, Special Representative, Hongkong Hotel
Hongkong, 11th February, 1903.
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or more children of the same family in attendance together $3 Fourth or subsequent children will be paid ter as if they were third children.
Hongkong, 1st April, 1903. HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ATARY of the HONGKONG CHAMBER OF PPLICATIONS for the post of SECRE- COMMERCE are invited. They should be made in writing and sent in to the Undersigned,
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX, Secretary, pro. tem. Hongkong, and April, 1902 -
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whole place, especially Hongkew. Rats are absolutely useless and are admittedly a source of grave danger. The Hongkong Sanitary Board, and the Health Officers of Bombay and other Eastern cities have gone to great lengths in the matter of the destruction of them pests. They even aupply the public gratis with the means of destroying them; they offer rewards for them dead or alive, and the Hongkong Board is now offering to supply, chow, Chefoo, Port Arthur, Chemulpo, Na- free of cost, rat-catchers to all who have neither gasaki, Fusan and Gensan and the other the time nor the inclination to clear their pre-between Vladivostock and Port Arthur via mines of these useless and dangerous rod Nagasaki. From this year the company has ents We are sat urging the authorities to changed its programme and increased its squander tens of thousands of taels in the
steamer servică to four regular routes, beside pursuit of some useless fad. What we appeal
a new line on the Yellow Sea. The above Apply by Letter to them to do is to encourage the general
four lines are as follows-The first between Port Arthur and Vladivostock via Nagasaki, public to assist them in greatly reducing the
the second between Shanghai and Vladivos. 20 number of the hidden woe and thereby simule tock touching at Port Athur, Chemulpo and taneously mldimising the terrible effects of in Nagasuki, the third being a line between Arthur, Nagasaki, Fusan and Gensin. The Shanghai and Vladivostock by way of Port newly established line is on the Yellow Sea and is sald to be between Dalny and Chefoo
diseases, which have, so unfortunately, ned a strong foothold in our midst. If more can be gained by a crusade of
it would tend to render the. via Peat Arthur. The company is carrying out "the navigation of the above lines with seven
less liable to epidemics than they boats of reasonable size.
PLAID RUGSrind
OTTAM
AMERICAN
CO.
SHO
ENGLISH
and "S, 300TS" and
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preferred.
JOURNALIST,"
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Hongkong, 8th March, 19-2.
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