TABLE
Intimations.
CROWN BRAND
WATKINS LT HONGKONG.
WATER..
Throughout the Manufacture of this justly celebrated brand of Table Waters all ingre- dients used are guaranteed of purest quality. The machinery used' is the most modern type and we have gone to great expense to erect our plant on latest scientific principles which has such a great advantage over the old process of manual labour still in vogue through the Colony, thereby further ensuring the purity of our products.
The Manufactory is under the personal supervision of a QUALIFIED ENGLISH CHEMIST, who has devoted years to bring: this branch of the trade to perfection.
The Water used is analysed daily to en sure of its absolute purity, and when we say. that our method of manufacture has been approved by Sanitary and Medical Authori:| ties, it is in itself a sufficient guarantee.
WATKINS
· LIMITED, ·
66, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902, .
3
(7140
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
$5.50 Cask of 375 Ds. Net ex Factory. $3.50 Bag of 250 Ds.
HE HONGKONG IELECKARTI
To-dry's Advertisements.
NOTIDE
THE OFFICES OF THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH CO., LIMITED, have now bean REMOVED to No. 35, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong 28th April, igoz,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW.
THE
THE Company's Steamship
"THALES,"
Captain Robson; will be despatched for the above Port, on MONDAY, ihe 5th instant, at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPŘAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED.
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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA
THE Company's Steamship
"SUISANG," Captain Tadd, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the 9th instant, at z F.M.. For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902.
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE. THE Company's Steamship
THE
"SUISANG,"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Carge by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after Noon, the 7th instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into Godowns at East Point,
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
: JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers.
: [siad
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902.
Intimation.
A. S. WATSON
AND CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED A.D), 'that.
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. At the conference to be held at Vereenig ing on the sth instant, not agth as at first stated, the Boer leaders will discuss the terms for their surrender among themselves and then proceed to Pretoria to settle with
Lord Kitchener.
THE GERMA láft on the
.occasion was taken toweli
tions of cordiality; by the the community whe
community, who gave him a good,
ifesta Bar
from Paotingfu that Viceroy Yuan Shih-keni
disóli the
POLICE FOR TIENTSINIt is reported has organised a new force, consisting of 1,200 Ser
men, for policing Tientsin as soon as that city is handed over to him by the Foreign, Powers
MR. C. 5. SHARP,' has been appointed an
for havin
EVOLVERA Servant
boy named L Pau living at Tsim ako tsui, was rison for one month with hard labour in his possession a revolver without permit from the C. S. P. on the 2nd inst The revolver was confiscated,
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA VISITS IRELAND.
Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council JAPANESE MATCHES-The Japanese Match Manufacturers' Guild of Osaka and provisionally and subject to His Majesty's- Prince Henry of Prussia with a squadron pleasure for a period of six years from as Kobe is taking steps to petition, the United of-nine-splendid-warships has arrived at ultimo. We congratulate Mr. Sharp upon his States Government to lower the rate of import Lough Swilly on a cruise along the coast of
duty to be imposed on Japanese matches im appointment. Ireland He will visit the Duke and
ported into the Philippine Islands. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Duchess of Connaught at Kilwainham and will also be entertained at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin.
SCOTCH
WHISKY. E
WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY.
Our Celebrated E LIQUEUR WHISKY is a blend of the best WHISKIES distilled in Scotland. It is of great age, very fine and mellow. Its superior quality has estab lished its reputation as THE LEADING. SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.
PER DOZEN $15.
A-THORNE'S BLEND,
FROM BREMEN, HAMBURG, ROTTER-White Capsule,
-DAM, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
HE H.A.L. Steamship
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., THE
General Managers. Hongkong, 15th March, 1902.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
WANTED.
₤19
"SERBIA,"
Captain Brehmer, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.
5 POSTMASTER, British North Bomeo
Government, a CLERK experienced in i Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless Postal Matters. Salary $80 per mensem.. notice to the contrary be given before 5 PIN,
Apply giving full Particulars and Testi-TO-DAY. monials to the Secretary to the Governor, LABUAN.
17th February, 1901.
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong [zo6d and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited,
and stored at Consignees' risk and expense,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the oil instant, will be subject to rent.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO...
WANTED.
N EXPERIENCED FOREMAN for a A Government Timber Mill, Must be thor oughly acquainted with the erection and management of Timber-cutting Machinery, Forward copies of recent testimonials and state Salary required to
Per Cand
pet
af doren, bottle,
:
a
ST. PATRICK'S CLUB CONCERTO MR. PELHAM WARREN, C.M.G., British to certain malicious persons placing posters Consul General at Shanghai, left that port for marked "Postponed over the top of the England via Japan by the Empress of India announcement of this concert, we are requested on 25th ult. There was a large attend bythe Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. J. Blake, to state officials and residents that the entertainment will take place as no conveyed the Consul to the steamer, together as the tender Victoria unced to-day, the 3rd inst., at 9 p.m.. with a large number of passengers.
SHIPPING COMBINATIONS. At a debate on Shipping Combinations in the Houserof Commons, the speakers emphasized the dangers of transferring fast SANDAKAN AND THE CORONATION WHIRLWIND AT SANDAKAN – On the cruising vessels to a foreign lag as being The B-N. B. Herald say: It is proposed that morning of the and ult. between the hours loss to the country's carrying trade. Mr. that day shall be Officially opened by a cere 7 and 8 a.m., says the local paper, a severe Balfour stated that the Government had monial Parade at the Parade ground at Kamthunderstorm with heavy wind and rain broke obtained much information on the subject, will be fired, and the Royal Proclamation read next to the Hakka Club, and whisked the tin dong Bahru at 8 o'clock when the Royal Salute
geover Sandakan A whirlwind struck a house but was pledged to secrecy. A debate now to be followed by a Regatta and Aquatic roof fato the air like so many chocolate wafers would be a great mistake. The speaker Sports in the afternoon. In the evening there further said that arrangements had been' will be a Reception at Government House made, giving the Admiralty as complete followed by a fire-work display control of the vessels on which they had a
BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieu Col. tien as before, but it was difficult to prevent Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bom British owners from selling their property to bay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel foreigners. Nobody could expect the Govern this evening, from 8 to 9.30 pm. — ment to depart from its traditional policy of unrestricted competition without careful investigation. There were many complex problems involved.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MR. ADAM GIBSON, M.R.C.V.S., is appoint ed Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.
MR. JOHN R. WOOD is appointed Acting Police Magistrate in the New Territory, from ............$10.80 $o.go 1st May.
B-WATSON'S GLENOCHY MELLOW BLEND, Blue Cap sule, with Name and Trade Mark..
10.80
C.-WATSON'S ABELOUR- GLENLIVET, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark... 12.00 D. WATSON'S H. K. D. - BLEND of the FINEST SCOTCH MALT WHISKIES, Violet Cap sule
DANIEL CRAWFORD'S FINEST VERY OLD. Scoren WISKY...
1.4.0
0.90
1.00
1.20
244.440
1.20
A CHINESE NEWSPAPER is now published in Melbourne, It is styled The Chinese Times. The type was procured from Hongkong.
"PROGRAMME."
March The Belle of Chicago? 2. Pulks. Liliputian "(Piccolo Salo) 3. Selection..... "The Messenger boy.... 4. Vatre
Clasic 3. Serenades para". 6. Selection... "San Toy" C
Darkie's"...
God save the King."!
Brewer.
col..
.Buchloss
VERY LIKELY |--The Universal Gaxestas Peking correspondent reports that, besides the Treaty which was formally signed in, the new Foreign mice (Wai Wu Pu) between Lessar and the Chinese. Plenipotentiaries regard to Manchuria, a second Treaty is report ed to have been contracted which is kept perfectly secret
SUGAR During the year ending March 31s 1,611,712 cattles of foreign sugar of different Brands were imported into Nagasaki.The consumption duty imposed on these goods. -aggregated Yen 17,662.25.-The duty Imposed BRITISH SUBJECT DEPORTED-Anon domestic produce within the prefecture incident which is fortunately of rare occurrence during the same period was Yen 309, the bulk has just taken place at Tientsin in the depor of sugar being 14,147 calties. tation of a British subject from the concession.
The unfortunate individual in question was a AGHASTLY SCENE was witnessed at a woman who was brought up by a touring com-recent execution of a lawless ruffian at Chusg pany which was dissolved at Tientsin The king. The executioner had to back at the unhappy woman has been hanging about the man's neck for several minutes before life Tientsia since that time, in a frequently, dis was extinct. Thirteen cuts were inflicted be creditable state, and has now been deported to the head fell off. The superintending executioner has been cashiered for failing to Shanghai by order of the Consul General
engage a qualified executioner. TO VISIT JAPAN :—It is officially reported that the Crown Prince of Siam will pay a visit FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN-During last HAPPY PENANG-An interesting functi to Japan on his way home from England. year, the Japan Gazette says, 13,118 foreigners, took place in the Police Court this mom
belonging to 35 different nationalities, and says the Penang Gazette of 19th alto, whe GO AHEAD JAPAN -The municipal author,I2z peopleof unknown nationality arrived in the 3rd Magistrate, Mr. Ross, on his arrival, rites of Nagasaki are to commence the enforce Japon from abroad. These make a total of was presented with a charge sheet marked ments of compulsory vaccination on May, 10th. 14,440, including 3,967 Chinese 3.222 English" nil" and a pair of gloves. It is the first time, MR. LAU LAI, a Licentiate of the College of men, 189 Americans, 1,433 Russians, 1,122 we believe, in the annals of the Courts of this Medicine for Chinese, has been appointed Germans and 607 Frenchmen. Of these Colony that such an incident has to be noted Resident Medical Officer at the Government 6,688 landed at Yokohama, 4,148 at Nagasaki, 2,997 at Kobe, and 19 at Niigata, Yokohama, Dispensary, Wanclizi,
of course, standing at the head of the posis. A NEW RULE-A correspondent, writing from Chinantu, the Capital of Shantung, to the Mercury, says Taolai Chou Hsian Hei, Director of the College for Western learsing here, has issued a proclamation, according to which all the students of the College are required to perform kowtowing before the tablets of Confucius and his disciples on the 1st and 15th of each Chinese month, on the day on which a school term begins, and on the birthday anniversary of this great sage. They are also to undergo certain ceremonies on the birthday anniversaries of Their Majesties, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. If any student absents himself from the ab mentioned ceremonies for three successive times on false pretences, he shall be expelled from the College for ever.
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods are A. S. WATSON & CO., According to the Tang Wen Hu Pao. China examined on the 9th instant, at 3 P..
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office, f15d Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902.
fsogd
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, SANDAKAN. 3rd February, 1902.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1902..
TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Special to the "Hongkong Telegraph." THE HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART.
ARRIVES AT WEI-HAF-WEI-
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
WEI-HAI-WEI, 3rd May, The Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., the newly appointed Com- missioner, arrived this morning. He landed on Liu-kung-tao, where lie was received with a salute of eleven guns and met by a guard of honour of the 1st Chinese Regiment. He afterwards proceeded to the mainland.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
MINING CONCESSION IN JEHO -
has consented that the gold mines in the Jeho district will be expedited by Italian capitalists. TROPICAL MEDICINE:A scheme arising from the visit of Sir Francis Loveli to that town,
is said to be on foot for the affiliation of the Pathological Institute at Kuala
Lumpur with the London School of Tropical Medicine. ADMIRAL ALEXEIEFF, Russian Gover- nor-General of Port Arthur, left there a few days ago and is now crossing Siberia on his way home, having been ordered to present him- self before the St. Petersburg Government,
DREDGING The Russian Ministry of Marine has voted the sum of £600,000 with the object of expediting during the present year the construction and dredging of harbours in territory in the Far Fast belonging to Russia.
THE JAPANESE FLEET:-When Admiral Ito returns to Tokyo and, his report on the recent inspection of the Standing Squadron is laid before the Emperor, a good many changes are expected to be made in the organisation of the Fleet.
RUSSIAN SHIPPING The shipping re- turn intely published by the Russian Govern. ment shows that the total number of Russian team and sailing vessels which are engaged in trade are 326, of which 98 vessels are trading with the Far East.
ANOTHER INVITATION: The Empress Dowager has, through the Board of Foreign Affairs, invited the Legation ladies to inspect Yuan Shih-kai's troops. The Dowager arranged to inspect the troops on her return from the Eastern Mausoleum,
INDIGO CROPS: DAMAGED:-Owing to the recent hard frost the indigo plants in Tokushima prefecture have been considerably damaged. About half the crop of the ordinary years is anticipated. Tea and mulberry leaves were also injured to a large extent
|
HARD, UP-The Governor of Henan is now badly in need of money, like many other peo ple, it may be added. H.E. bha applied to the five foreign banks in Honan for a loan of T1s 15,000, promising to liquidate the loan by the end of the third Chinese moon. H.E. obtained the money, agreeing that should it not be repaid by the stipulated time extra interest is to
be paid.
PROPOSED STAMP DUTY Telegraph on 26th ulto, the Peking Correspondent of the N. C. D. News says The Inspector-General of Customs, Sir Robert Hall, proposed to the Grand Council the imposition of a Stamp Duty, of which a trial was to be made first in the province to Chili, but it is understood that the Grand Council are considering the advisability of inaugurating this tax at the Treaty Ports only, for a commencement,
FASTEST OVERLAND TRAINE stated that the management of the Canadian THE CORONATION. CONTINGENT Pacific Railway is perfecting arrangements The various detachments from Hongkong, viz placing in service on 1st June what the Hongkong Regiment, Hongkong and ed will be the fastest, overland train Singapore Battalions of Royal Artillery, Continent. The schedule time for this Chinese Royal Engineers and 1st Chinese for the run from Montreal to Vancouver, Regiment are to embark along with the Hong-tance of 2,906 miles, is 72 houta, or three kong Volunteers on tlie Empress of Japan. This is one day better than the time made It will therefore be seen that the contingent the present through train during the sun
such a run the ave will be a thoroughly representative one. The season detachment from Wei-haiber is due to antive cluding, stops, is a traction over
hour,To make this through time, here on the oth instant. A review will be held, on the New Parade Ground on the 13th inst speed of 65 miles an hour will at 5.30 p.m., when the 87 officers and men will mined over certain sections be inspected by His Excellency Major General feasibility of the plain is | Sir W. J. Gascoigne, £.C.M.G. On the question proved
of the Hongkong Volunteers we note that portions of
average five feet eleven inches in height and those selected for the Straits Contingent so far: miles of the
thirteen stone in weight. We would like to know the average height of those from Hong- kong,
by, the
A POINT OF ET employed as an overs mentin singtau, perial Ge Courtat ing Mt Rech (his superiory huguage yards him, accusca Wne dissatished
their
LONDON, 1ST MAY, 1902.
VICEORY YUAN IMPEACHED ——With re- Reuter's Pretoria correspondent states that
Kendricks ference to Viceroy Yuan's impeachment by a the Boer leaders are visiting cacb. district in
certain Censor, mention of which has already rotation, and that on the conclusion of these
been made in these colums, we now learn that his summe. He had meetings a combined conference will beheld
the accuser complains to the Throne that Yuan
thought that he was at Vereeniging, Southern Transvaal, on the
took advantage of the Boxer distur 25th May, for the purpose of finally dis
strengthen his own power by posin imself cussing terms of surrender.
as a great friend to the foreigners, and that Yuan's desire for power is insatiable as is FORGERIES BY A PRINCESS FOREIGN ADVISERS It is reported in evidenced by the fact that he continuou
Shanghai mandarin circles that Viceroys Lui the Government to permit him THE INDIRECT CAUSE OF
Kun-yi, Chang bhih-tung and Yuan Shih-kai new army on the foreign model CECIL RHODES'S DEATH. have sent in a joint memorial in the Throne provinces. despite the sad con Princess Radziwill has been found guilty urging that foreigners should be, engaged to Imperial Exchequer Yuan' at Capetown of forging promissory notes on advise the Government on matters of reform.bition be not checked in time,” the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes, and has been
memoralist, something might sentenced to two years detention in the CORONATION CELEBRATION COM- would prove ruinous both House of Correction. The Daily Telegraph MITTEE: His Excellency the Officer Ad-Yuan himself. The Empress ministering the Government has appointed the the denunciatory memoriali, commenting on the affair, points out that following additional members to the Comsaid that Yuan was purely Princess Radziwill has been the indirect mittee-Messrs. J.R. M. Smith, Gershom and that the charges brouz cause of Mr. Cecil Rhodes's death, as he Stewart, W. H. Wickham, M. S. Northcote, false and should left Dalham for the purpose of giving personal and T. H. Reid. evidence at the trial, and the hot weather at Capetown proved fatal.
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COTTAM & CO, FOR SUN HATS
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