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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
FURNITURE,
Comprising:
The Kwangsi Rebellion. TAPESTRY and PLUSH COVERED. We note that our morning contemporary DRAWING ROOM SUITE, BLACKWOOD has at last come to the conclusion that there and MARBLE-TOP TABLE, OVERMAN is something in the Kwangsi Rebellion, TELS, CARVED DESK BOOKCASE though it still is rather dubious about the LACE CURTAINS, EXTENSION DINING TABLE, TEAK CHAIRS, DINNER matter and is a trifle afraid of handling WAGONS, HATSTAND, WRINGING the subject. MACHINE (Special), SINGLE BRASS what the Canton Correspondent of the BEDSTEADS, SINGLE IRON and BRASS Daily Press says anent the rebellion is very BEDSTEAD, MARBLE-TOP WASH little more than a recapitulation of what has STANDS TOILET SEA WARDROETS appeared in our columns during the last
with BEVELLED RUGS, CARD TABLE, DINNER SER- VICES, CHANDELIERS, READING LAMPS, SEWING MACHINE, &a, &c.
One PIANO by F. L. Newmann, Hamburg, in good condition.
ALSO:
PLANTS, FERNS in POTS. TERMS As usual, Catalogues may be had any time on Satur day, when the furniture may be viewed.
On view on Monday next,
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
PAQUENOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.
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matter
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water level at Tytam is still 86 below the overflow, a fact which speaks eloquently for itself
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE TERRIBLE VOLCANIC DISASTER.
LONDON, May roth.
A serious volcanic eruption is now report ed from St. Vincent. West Indies, and the inhabitants are fleeing from the island.
Vincent,
The Governor of Barbados cables that reports resembling artillery have heen audi- blent Barbados proceeding from St. and that these have been followed by dark- ness, with thunder, and showers of dust, covering Barbados. inches deep. It is now estimated that 40,000 persons have perished at Martinique.
with
Eye-witnesses say that the volcano sud- denly exploded, and that a tempest of steam and mud poured on St. Pierre, followed im mediately by a whirlwind of fire, with showers of rocks, lasting a quarter of an hour, the whole town being instantly ablaze.
LATER,
THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN
tobacc
(MüraißBron
Plait nightg thežestinialed
about yen 400,000 A
Ewas saved The Phæniz. Palatine
Commercial Union, National of Irelan and L'Union are the foreign-fasurance Com- panies concerned.
WEDNESDAY'S BAND PROGRAMMER- The following is the programme of music, to be performed by the Band of the Hongkong- Regiment on the new Farade Ground from 5
A tomorrow, the Tath inst pm, to 6.30 p.m.
DE MARCH. ANA The Gladiator, doux. 5, Overture,” Le Cherain de la Claire, “avi Kling 3.Selection.....Madams Favnet.Offenboch.
Waldienfel.
4. Valsti Belle Amis
Divertimente...Scotch Melodies... 4. Selection, Indian and Colonial Airs. Folka.......... "Chatentsion Espagne,
God Save the Klep COMMUNICABLE DISEASES The return giving the number of cases of Communicable Diseases which occurred in Hongkong daring the week ended, the tothay, 1902, shows. Twenty-four cases of Bubonic plague with eighteen deaths, (twenty- two Chinese, one Indina, and one Malay); Thirty-two cases of cholera with twenty-nine deaths, (two European, twenty-six Chinese, and four Aslaties.) Three cases of Diphtherin. Four cases of Smallpox with four deaths, all Chinese. THE PAOTING-TAIYUEN RAILWAY According to a Paoting, capital of Chihli pro- vince, dispatch, work on the proposed Railway between that city and Taiyuen, the capital of which is in the hands of a British Company, was to be commenced an or about the 1st instant. The dispatch further- states that the proposed railway between Pek- ing and Kalgan (Changchiawan), which is also in the hands of a British syndicate will be begun sometime in August next.-- Netus
THE WEST INDIES. The Senate of the United States of America has voted the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the volcanic disaster at Martinique.
Nothing further bas yet been heard from Shunsi province St. Vincent. S
month or so. He gives the names of a few places occupied by the rebels, etc., and ad- mits that the affair is serious. We must point out, however, that the correspondent in question does not appear to know much about the Kwangsi Rebellion, for he makes out the rebel headquarters to be at Nanning Now Nanning is a treaty port, and we should certainly have been informed had it fallen into the hands of the rebels. If this is the description of reliable news which our con- temporary waits for before believing in things, I545d all we can say is that, we prefer to trust to
our own sources of information.
Our readers will doubtless have noticed
of good deal
Our rebellion is drawn from. Wuchow and. Nanning, and these places, being much nearer to the scene of the disturbance, are much more likely to be in possession of uthentic news than, Canton. As we have frequently pointed out, the Chinese Autho rities have done their best to minimise matters and have tried to induce the Con- suls to believe that there is no such thing as a rebellion in progress. If such is indeed the case we should like to know why the Cruton and Peking officials are so concerned miles to the windward of the eruption, caus-of an examination of 600 bruins he found that over the doings of what they call a few rob-ing twilight. bers. As a matter of fact the Kwangsi rising
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is on a much larger scale than any rising of
cent years, and if the rebels succeed in
Five thousand refugees gathered in the hills around St. Pierre, Martinique, are being gradually removed.
It is feared that the destruction has been far wider than at St. Pierre alone, and it la stated that three large communities besides St. Pierre have been annihilated. The
cloud
of ashes, dust, and smoke extends for 750
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obtaining more arms, and have a really cap. THE AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND, able leader, we shall not be at all surprised et secing the movement spread to an extent which will mako even our morning contem-County, commenced at the Crystal Palace The match, Australians versus London porary admit that there is danger to the dynasty in it. If our contemporary will take on the 5th instant, was abandoned owing to the trouble to make enquiries in Wuchow, rain. In their match against Notts com- it will be found that cargo boats have ceased menced at Nottingham on the 8th instant, running to Nanning for some time past. If the Australians were victorious by an Innings this does not mean that Nanning is cut off and four runs. we must admit that we do not understand the meaning of the term.
The Eruption in the West Indies.
The Spirit of Ill-luck seems to dog the steps of the West Indies continually. First their sugar industry, was ruined by the in troduction to the European market of beet sugar, next came a fearful hurricane, almost wiping out the entire plantations of one of the Islands, and now we have a tremendous volcanic eruption reported, which bids fair to utterly ruin three at least of these unfor tunate little dots in the ocean. To all accounts the eruption in the West Indies throws into the shade the tremendous ex- plosion of Krakatau. Forty thousand per sons have already perished-and the vol canoes are still active. In all probability the whole aspect of the affected islands and the surrounding seas will be altered, and when matters are once more reduced from chaos to order, it will take years for the destroyed plantations and towns to be once again brought to the state in which they were prior to the eruption.
(From the Kobe Herold.)
TROUBLE IN INDO-CHINA.
THE JAPANESE BRAINA distinguished: Japanese anatomist has made a prolonged research on the Japanese brain. As the result
the male brain is on the average 153 grams heavier than the female, a proportion that balds in Caucasian skulls. Man's brains as a
rule decrease after the age of 50, while woman's
increase from the age of 50 to that of 60, He
cidental brain. asserts that he has so far established little or no difference between the oriental and oc
THE INSURRECTION IN CHIHLI-A dispatch from Peking, states that the Grand Council has been informed by Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai that the insurgents of Kuangtsungh sjen, who murdered amongst others a French priest, number over 6,000 fairly armed men, and that they have retreated into the hills in the vicin'ty of the city whore for centuries have been the strongholds of generation after generation of bondlis The Chihli provincial. authorities therefore anticipate some trouble in suppressing these insurgents-V.CD News NEW RESIDENCE OF THE IG. Sir, Robert lurt's new house at Peking is almost finished and he expects to move in in a few days. If is built on the site of the old one and in just the same style. The garden has been . The Standards Tientsin correspondent states laid out most artistically, with the band stand that a German firm is offering a largs royalty | placed in the centre, and Sir Robert intends to for a monopoly of the sale of opium through- start his garden parties as soon as he gets out China
LONDON, 1st May, French troops from Indo-China are reported to be helping the Siamese to suppress the rebellion which has broken out on the Mekong, The French desire for expansion is disturbing
the situation.
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SILVER is quoted at 23.11-168, per az, THE BUYING KATE for sovereigns
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TEA. The tea season at Hanow opened on thh 5th inst.
EXCHANGE has risen one-eighth and now stands at 18. 81d
It is not at all surprising to hear that the $11.83. explosions were audible in the neighbouring islands. When Krakatau blew up, in the early eighties, the reports were distinctly beard in Singapore, and in Sandakan an armed launch was sent down the coast to look for pirates, who were supposed to be conducting A PICNIC has been arranged by the Civilian, a naval engagement somewhere in the vicinity. The eruption of Great Sangir, Club to take place on Monday next. which occurred in the early nineties, was CHUI KING, coolie, for depositing night so also heard in Sandakan, and that too was at i first purdown to a piratical attack on one of the outlying islands. The scene of decola- tion in Sangir was pitiful in the extreme. For miles the whole country was a sea of boiling mud and lava, under which the inhabitants were buried with their houses and domestic animals, while here and there the gaunty scorched limbs of some giant tree protruded, only adding to the general sense of desolation and death. Γι
Doubtless the survivors of this last mis- fortune which has fallen upon the West Indies will be put to the utmost straits to obtain the bare necessaries of life. Relief has probably already been sent, but that should not prevent Hongkong adding its mite to the fund which must of necessity be started for their relief and support.
Tantalizing Nec
daw a drain in High Street was fined $5 cz 14 days.
LAM CHAN, was this morning charged with causing an obstruction by placing salt fish on a public foot-path-fined $5 et 14 days.
A BIG FIRE occurred at Migata, Japan, on the 30th ult. More than 100 houses were reduced to ashes and many others were partial ly destroyed:
settled down. A new gateway, very beauti fully carved, has been made, exactly similar to the former one which was taken by the Italians together with a slice of his grounds.
HONAN NOTES According to a Kaifeng
dispatch the district magistrate of Honan province, having been informed the other day.
ti-missionary, rior" in ja that there was village outside the city walls, went at once to suppress the rising. Upon returning to the city, howe the magistrate found himself shutout of his own city for several hours
by the inhabitantsIt is reported that the R. C Bishop of Henan, Monsgr. Anhsiman (7) having heard that a cortait priest in the pro vince was making unnecessary exactions, on both converts as well as non-converts, has sent a secret agent to investigate matters on the spot
News,
THE TIENTSIN PEKIN RAILWAYA @native; says that negotiations have been
going on
tims between the British Minister
Shih Kai tespecting the sin-Pekin Railway, The
farmer
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tking.
CHOLERA IN HONGKONG:-Five CARE! of cholera were notified during the 24 hours en ded at noon to-day, four being Chinese, and later however refused 10 the other Japanese.
ASSAULT:-An accountant living at Das Vaux Road, was fined $15 this morning for assaulting P.S. Hau Hang in the execution of his duty on the 12th lost.
It is, to say the least of it, somewhat tantalizing to see the rain pelting down, and { THE DAILY CHOLERA reports for the the gullies on the hillsides all transformed. $10.80 80.go into so many raging cataracts, and yet to
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know perfectly well that one cannot get a drop of water from the mains. Surely this should be an object lesion to our Officials. We are assured that if the Government were to apply for a couple of experts from the Indian Irrigation Department that they would, and at comparatively small expense too, run a system of catchwater drains round the hillsides of Hongkong, so that all the water at present running to waste would be run off into the reservoirs. What we require here is greatly increased catchment area, and much larger storage capacity.
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Philippines show a continued decrease in the number of cases both in Manila and othe provinces, the maximum at no time exceeding thirty-eight within the limits of the city for one. day.
TE CHINIESE INDE May 1st-An official states, that the
bull
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the Toyo Kiseis Kaisha have To-day's rain has certainly given us pro- mise of better times to come, but still we captains and officers are told that it will require several days Maru, Amerista Mari xiao. more rain to admit of a full supply of water Recently, says the No being tunned on. As an illustration of how mates on these the last few days, we may remark that the engineers an little the Colony has benefitted by the rain Japanese, and
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