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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY APRIL 02.
Co-dey's Advertisements.
-WANTED IMMEDIATELY. HREE RELIABLE and STEADY TOVERSEERS TO HONGKONG and a
COAST PORT, to superintend the Erection of Buildings and other Works,
Apply in writing (stating past Experiences and Salary expected) to
"A.Z.
C/o Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, LTD. Hongkong, ath April, 1902.
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
PAQUENOTS-POSTE, FRANCAIS.
NOTICE
STEAM FOR
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SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO; BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;
ALSO
PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.
N MONDAY, the 21st April, 1902, at ON
FM the Company's Steamship "YARRA," Captain Alligre, with Mails, l'assengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY.
$1.75 per doz, less $1.00 allowed This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with Bottles returned.
WATKINS
LIMITED,
CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER
MANUFACTURERS, APOTHECARIES KALL No. 66, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, FACTORY:-Mason's Lane. WAI KIN TAI YEUK FONG.
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Branches also at Canton, Shanghai, Hankow and Peking. [2146 Hongkong, 19th February, 1902.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, D.D.S.,
DENTIST.
Beaconsfield Arcade, Nos. 11 and 12,
2nd Floor.
(774
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
$5.50
LIMITED...
PORTLAND CEMENT.
11
Cask of 375 Bhs. Net ex Factory. *8.59 P Bag of ago lbs.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Rangkong, 15th March, 10oz.
Gio
LEVY HERMANOS.
DIAMONDDECHCHMAKERS.
MERCHANTS, JEWEL-
EASTMAN'S
KODAKS and FILMS.
Sole Agents for " OMEGA", WATCHES,
" OMEGA" is the best, "THREE YEARS" guarantee given to every purchaser.
40, QUEEN'S ROAD,
Wajsan's Building.
247
the s.s. Polynesien, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 3rd May, Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles,
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in' transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.
Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on board until 4′r.M. Specie and Parcels until 3 P.M., on the 20th instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con tents and Value of Packages are required.
For further Particulars, apply at the Com. pany's Office.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 9th April, 1902.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.5 NEW YORK LINE. FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.,
HE Steamship
THES
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"QUEENSLAND," Captain Gray, will be despatched for the above Port, on or about the 30th May,
For Freight, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES, & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 9th April, 1902.,
[423d "BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
5.S. "BENLARIG," FROM LEITH, LONDON AND STRAITS.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Cinformed that all Goods are being landled at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining
undelivered after the 15th instant, will be
subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 30th instant, or they will not be recognized.
To-day's Advertisements.
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
Intimation.
OTICE is hereby given that at a Meeting A. S WATSON & CO., have enlarged and improved the present NOTIC
of the Board of Directors of the above named Company held on the 7th day of April, 1002, it wis resolved that the following Ordinary Shares of the said Conrpany, the distinguishing Numbers of which are bereander written, be, and they were duly FORFEITED in Accor dance with Article No. 28 of the Articles of Association of the said Company.
Notice of the liability to FORFEITURE of these SHARES appeared in the Hongkong Local Newspapers from the 30th day of March to the 5th day of April, 1902.
NUMBERS OF FORFEITED SHARES.
301/400
1578/1802
3444/3463
12494/12533
12707/13715
13998/14002
1413/1415
15422/1446
15855/15954
1659016639 17115/17214
17440/17449
21381/21405
22422/22466
2217/22526
33499/23518
5719/25733
29592/29616
20782/29791 31019/3 03
32044/32045
34233/34:44
30203 36213
36225/35334
40604/40703
30460/36474 38214/38288 46070/46119 46325/46329 49705/49729 55146/55:55 40810/49839 55000/55039
8142/58152 58306/58330 58633/58681 Goo06:59165
W. KERFOOT HUGHES,
Acting Secretary,,
Hongkong, 9th April, 1901.
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA VIA AMOV.
THE Company's Steamship
"PERLA,"
LIMITED.
Established A.D, 1841,
Wine and Spirit Merchants.
SHERRY.
Fez dor. Per bot.
claborate separate systen of drainage_18 | U.S.AND supposed to be an odouress one, but for all for sending. that one does not need a particularly acute England to ke sense of smell to detort the aroma of our monies of King Edward VII:1
PASEADO doned at England's request. drains.
What we think, would have been the be the only warship to go. wisest course would have been either to
Battery Path urinal, on else to have con structed the new one under the Parade Ground, where its position would have been equally central and at the same time far removed from dwellings. To remove urinal from a broad to 2 narrow street seems. to us to savour of gang out of the frying
into the fire.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. SOUTH AFRICA THE PEACE NECOTIATIONS.
LONDON, April 7th.. Reuter's Kroonstad correspondent states that although Mr. Schalk-Burger and his ner Wine, Green Seal Capsule $10.50 $0.90 companions are now in communication with ex-President Steyn and Commandant De larey, not much progress is being made, owing to the distance separating the negotiators.
B. Superior Pale Dry, Din-
C. Manzanilla, Pale Natural Sherry, White Capsule 12.00 $1,00
C.C. Superior Old Dry, Fale. Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule
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14.40 · 1.20
D. Very Superior Old Pale Dry, Choice Old Wine, White Seal Capsileiros
[6.20
1.35
Captain G. T. Blaxland, will be despatched for the above Pori,ba SATURDAY, the thinstant, at. P.N.
The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with the Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera- ting Chamber.
A. Dector is carried. For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 9th April, 1902,
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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA
THE Steamship
"LIGHTNING," Captain J.G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, al 3 P.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents.
[418d Hongkong, 9th April, rgoz.)
STEAMSHIP "INDUS."
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES.
MARITIMES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London, 'ex
lemphics, and Bordeaux, ex 5.5. Ville de Strasbourg and Frederic Morel, in connection with above Steamer, are hereby informed that their Goods, with the excep zion, of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are
E. Extra Superior Old Pale · Dry, Very Finest Quality (old bottled), Black Seal Capsule... 24.00
2.00
B, C, and CC are excellent Dinner Wincs, D and E are After-Dinner Wines of a very fine vintage. All are Superior Xeres Wines. The following Wines, bottled in Europe, have been specially selected, and procured from the celebrated firm of Messrs. Geo. G. SANDEMAN, Soss & Co., of London, Oporto and Xeres :-
l'ard Perl,
LIGHT DRY :........$15.00 $1.25
21.00 SOLERA....
1.75 1.75 VERY PALE DRY... 21.00 - FULL GOLDEN ...... 22.00 2.00 PALY DRY NUTTY.. 27.00 2.25 FINE OLD BROWN.. 96.00 3.00
GOO?........ FIN.
MADEIRA.
Per do. Per at. 15.00 1.25 24,00 2.00
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, The Hongkong Dispensary
BIRTH.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are being landed and stored at their risks into the the wife of E. R. PALMER, of a daughter.
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examines on the 15th instant, at II AM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 9th April, 1902.
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THE POPULAR SCOTCH
IS
BLACK & WHITE."
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.
SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS,
By Appointment to
H. M. THE KING.
.SOLE AGENTS:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
HONGKONG,
BANJOS
STEWART AND BAUER'S
20th Century" and "Thoroughbred
£
also
WASHBURNS."
MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.
cong, 18th January, 1902,
THE ROBINSON EPIANO CO., LIMITED, Hongkong, Shanghai & Bingapore.
Godawns of the Hongkong and. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before NOON, TO-DAY, the 7th instant, re- questing it to be landed here.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the rath instant, at NOON, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sentin to me on or before the 14th instant, or they will not be recognised. All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 14th instant, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent.
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Hongkong, 7th April, 1992.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE,
HE Company's Steamship
On the 3rd April, at 2, Park Lane, Shanghai,
DEATHS.
MARSHALL (Dzau Tze Zeh.)
On the 2nd of April, at Shanghai, Rev. G. K.
On the 3rd of April, at No. 10, Tiendong Road, Shanghai, JOSE ALHERTO, sencond son of Ignacio L, da Cruz, aged 2 years.
eHongkong Celegraph!
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1902.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A Public Danger.
LATER.
THE FOOTBALL DISASTER. Later reports on the Glasgow football disaster state that 22 persons were killed, and 250 injured.
SOUTH AFRICA. COMMANDANT KRITZINGER ACQUITTED.
Lord Kitchener telegraphs that the Boer Commandant Kritzinger has been acquitted, and will be treated as an ordinary prisoner of war.
COMMANDANTS PRETORIUS
AND PRINSLOO KILLED. The Boer dead in fighting which occurred at Boschmanskop, include Commandants Pretorius and Prinsloo. 1
LOCAL AND GENERAL. OFFICERS OF THE FOOT GUARDS have to discontinue wearing trousers or overalls with gold lace stripes. RAISING THE MAINE-General Wood has formally recommended the raising of the sunken battleship Maine.
THREE OVERSEERS are advertised for elsewhere to superintend the erection of build ings in Hongkong and a Coast Port
THE HOUSE PHILIPPINES BILL has been completed. It makes the gold dollar the unit of value and adapts the Conant currency
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scheme. CHOLERA AND PLAGUE-For the past twenty-four hours, there has been six cases of cholera and one of pneumonic plague, all of which ended fatally.
-FIVE CASES OF PLAGUE have not been reported from Robinson Road as mentioned in our Saturday's issue; there was only one case, making the fifth this year.
THAT PHILIPPINE DOLLARI The Senate Philippines Committee have agreed that Philippine dollar be coined of the same weight and fineness as the Mexican dollar, is to be a billion dollar, and the volume will be limited only by the demands of business,...
LARCENY Kowloon, has of late been a happy hunting ground for house boys, cooks, and coolies to enrich themselves. This mom- ing Mr. Wilhelm Dommich, of No. 4 Omisby Terrace, had his house boy before Mr. Kemp, charged with stealing a gold ring. Luu Cheng, will now forego the pleasure of visiting Kowloon for two months
IS THERE CHOLERA IN HANKOW?:
now, alse farch, 1903. Sickness is still rampant at this port and deaths are occuring cunsiently. One of the most, sad was the death of the daughter of one of the assistant Examiners of the I.M.C. who died after only a day's sickness. The unfortunate child was " taken with a
severe cramps, accompanied by a black vomit and turned black Immediately after death,
THE RUSSIAN FIRST CLASS STEEL BATTLESHIP PRRESVIET Capt. Karoleff arrived from Cronstadt this, morning. The following are the particulars of the vessel. Displacement 12,674 tons, 1. H. F. 14,500, speed, 180, Armament, 4.1oin. fin. Q. F. 1. 63in. to 1. 8in. 17. 1.4in. and a light guns. She also carries six torpedo tubes. Her coal, capacity is estimated at 2,000 tons, and carries a complement of 732 men,
PLAGUE —The lomates of No. 49, Shelly
·Street, where a casa of plague occurred yester day, were ordered by the Sanitary Authorities: to leave the premises with 48 hours. They were fortunate enough to be provided with quarters for 3 months in Bowrington at the Government's expense. Those reading in Mosque Junction, have secured free houses near Happy Valley-the proprietor being Mr. Ho Tung and the lessee the Government. MISSIONARIES MISSING: The Univeral Gazetta says Though no foreigner was mur dered at the outrages recently committed against the native converts in the districts of Fiyang and Nanyang, Honan province, Iwo missionaries were reported to to missing after the outbreak of the disturbance. Latest news to hand states that one of the missing mission.. aries has been found, but that the whereabouts of the other missionary are not yet ascertained.
TEE SANITARY BOARD, we are told, has notified the householders Elgin contingent to 49 Sh
that their premises will be examined, and the ground-floor nation may consequently be opened for Considering that these premises were concreted only nine months ago, and
and that they", are. exempt from the presence of rats, this measure seems to the inmates to be a arblirary and inconvenient. From an unanthenticated source, we understand that there is every probability of these houses being pulled down to the ground,
A FISHY PAR:-The Brighton Council have sent back for further consideration a report A CHEAP PASSAGE FRUSTRATED- Four inquisitive celestials of a roving disposi suggesting alteration to the Aquarium, now, the property of the town, at a cost of £30,000tion, suddenly took it into their heads to pay Manila a visit, and forthwith boarded the 5.3. 'A QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL public
Rosetta Maru They bad just comfortably mecting has just been held at Colombo. The meeting decided that the Memorial should con ensconced themselves, when they were haulded ont, and their passage tickets demanded Not sist of an eye hospital and a blind asylum.
having them, they were speedily sent on shore. OPIUM POISONING-Chan Ying, a Tuis morning they found that they had travelled Chinese woman who was lately admitted into P to the Central Station, and after being Interviewed by the Magistrate, were seat to the the Civil Hospital, owing to an overdose of house of detention. Their travelling proch vitisas. opium expired this morning at the Hospital. cost them each two months hard labour... HASTENING TRANSPORTS-On account. WHEN THE EMPIRE IS THREATENED of the epidemic of cholera in the Philippines, Mr. Brodijck's reference in his speech a dronation season, with Secretary Root is bastening the departure of conference, during
Premiers on the subject of making troops from the island. Five: transpons will the Colo
orces of the Empire available when depart from San Francisco during, the month the whole of April.
the Empire is threatened is believed to fore. shadow states the Portsmouth Evening News a great scheme of Imperial defence. Great Britain and Ireland will produce and equip, six army corps, three of which representing a force, of 150,000, will be prepared to take the field in defence of the colonies against any European Power India 1 20 provide an army corps from each of the
Affies hich will be istralia: as and one, army.corpa
It has been pointed out to us that in the Chinese theatres of the Colony it has grad ually become the custom to increase the sea- ing accommodation by placing bamboo stools in the gangways between the rows of seats until they are often entirely blocked. This is no doubt very beneficial to the owners of the theatres from a financial point of view, and it also to a great extent guards the public from the disappointment of not being able to obtain a seat to witness a popular having arrived from the above Parts, consignees play; but it is not only the convenience of of cargo are bereby informed that their Goods the public and the pocket of the theatre are being landed and placed at their risk in proprietor that should be taken into con- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and sideration-there is the public safety to be EXCHANGE has fallen to is. gd. This beats Godown Company's Godown' at Kowloon, where each consignment, will be sorted out thought of as will mark by mark and delivery can.be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed..
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"HITACHI MARU"
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4 P.M. TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 15th instant, will be subject to rent.
All ship damaged packages must be left in the Godowns and Notice of same sent to this Office before the 18th instant, or claims in connection therewith will not be recognized.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 9th April, 1902.
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THE NEW NAVY LIST-London, 3rd April--The new "Navy List" contains a novel feature, having the names of the pursing sisters under the heading of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, with the Queen
as. President.
o miserable beings- Dhowi
A reference to the Reuter's Telegrams all previous records and those i which we publish to-day will show the great who are paid in dollars are wonderin danger to be apprehended from a large crowd long it will be before at the end of the month getting out of hand in a confined space. they have to pay their employers instead of The crush at the Glasgow football match being paid themselves. resulted in twenty-two persons being killed and two hundred and fifty injured. Foot THE BISHOP OF MAÇÃO who is on leave ball matches are not played at Chinese in Portugal has been transferred to Angra theatres, but there is always a danger of fire is not known who is going to be elected to the with its attendant panic, and the result of a Diocese of Macao, which exercises a direct large crowd trying to make its way out of jurisdiction, over the Portuguese missions the building through gangways blocked with Singapore and Malacca. bamboo stools can be easily imagined. It
Out of the Frying Pan. ・・ We fear that we cannot congratulate the Government very heartily on its decision to remove the Battery Path urinal and
LARCENY Before Mr. Kemp this morning. Miss Eulalia da Silva, charged one U Kun vagabond, with breaking into her house No. Waachai Road, and stealing twelve knives, and six tea spoons. As the charge wa proven, U Kua was sent to gaol for the spac of two months, with hard labour
would be bound to mean a great loss of life, STUDENTS FOR JAPAN :—Ma Yuk- SANITARY BOARD not only from the crush, but from people the Governor of Feking, has recently
being burnt to death from their inability to patched sixty students to Japan to WNERS of HOUSES situated in the reach the exits through the blocked gang-Western knowledge; chiefly to Naval.
Military academ es. Among the number Central Division of the City of Victoriaways. We certainly think that this is a and in the Western Division of Kowloon, matter to be taken in hand by the Authori- Govenor Ma's only sou who have not had their Premises LIME: ties before their attention is forcibly called WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance thereto by some great disaster. with Law, are reminded that the period during which this work should be FINISHED ends on the 30th day of APRIL, 1902, and the Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity of cleanliness in its efforts to stampout Flagge, is determined to rigorously prosecute any establish another in Ice House Lane. True owner in default after the above named date
The Central Division of the City lies between Ice House Lane has not quite so much Garden Road on the East, and Morrison Street traffic as Battery Patb, but a urinal there and East Street on the West The Western will be much nearer to offices and dwelling BAIL ESCHEATED-Frank Division of Kowloon is all that part of the houses than the one on Battery Path, and himself as manager of the New Kowloon, Peninsula w. the West of Robinson we think that those who live in the vicinity who was charged with bejpg Road and includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Th are worthy of more consideration than mere having in a disorderly conduct at Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui and Sham foot passengers passing to and fro. The yesterday, did not appear. Shui Po.
Government of course assures everyone that called dut this morning By Order of the Board,.
the new urinal is to be odourless, but on the result that his bail of this point we have our doubts. Our
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Sanitary Board Office,
1st April, 1902,
G. A. WOODCOCK
Secretary:
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