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Kutimations.
CROWN
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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 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902.
Intimations.
A. S. WATSON
AND CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED A.D), 1841.
ERATED
WATERS.
THE WATER used is THE PUR-
The Manufactory is under the personal supervision of a QUALIFIED ENGLISH EST that can be obtained, and is
CHEMIST, who has devoted years to bring this branch of the trade to perfection.
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skiltully Filtererl on the most scientific
The Water used is analysed daily to en- „principles, 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.
THE MACHINERY employed is of the latest design and most approved
type.
DEATH.
On the and June, at the General Hospital, Shanghal, MAY BIANIA, beloved daughter of Osborne and Salome Middleton, aged 17 yenrs.
The
FIVE CASES OF PLAGUE have been notified during the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day,
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE deaths were registered at Singapore during the week ending on the 24th May. The ratio per thousand was
Jongkong Celegraph | 8974
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1902.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
GOING HOME: Mr. G. W. Butt, for so long in charge of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank At Singapore, has been appointed sub-manager in the London office of the Corporation.
THE ONCE FAMOUS "De Rougemont," "Henry' Louis Chien, is now living in Parramatta and has been surd by his wife for maintenance, He is employed as an insurance canvasser. SUNGKIANG QUARANTINED:-The Prin, brings news that the Sungking is undergoing 15 days quarantine at Marivelles, on account of a case of plague breaking out on board.
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SHORT OF PROVISIONS-The Singapore | THE DEATH IS ANNOUNCED by telegram which, arrived from Bangkok on the 31st ult of fr F. J. C. Ross, barrister at law, of Logad reported having met the schooner Rajah, front and Ross, Penang," The deceased was only Great Natuna, 40 daysfout short of provisions. married a short time ago to the widow of Mr.
W. ] Allan'at Penang, | A REINFORCEMENT OF NINE MEN,MI
for the European Police contingent, arrived at | D. S. O. CANCELLED :-King Edward has Singapore on the and inst. per s.s. Glenturret, cancelled the Companionship of the Dis- Three of them have seen service in the Royal tinguished Service Order which was conferred Irish constabulary, and the others were enrolled on Captain W. Butler, of the 6th Not South.
Wales Imperial Buabaen
as çandidates for that service. "
FROM WEI-HAI-WEI-Mr. G. T. Hare, THE PRIME MINISTER OF ANNAM, now who was formerly Secretary of Chinese Affairs, in Paris at the head of a mission from Indo- F.M.S., has returned to Selangorf om Wei-bai, China, during a visit to the Clement works at Wei, where he had the post of Acting Com Levallois ordered an eighthorse-power motor- missioner. It is understood that Mr. Hare willcar. The machine is to be of special construc- now resume his previous work in that State.
tion and the most sumptuous fashion: RUSSIAN MERCANTILE MARINE
a connection with the commission appointed dications, says Nature, in various islands of the GET TATTOOED:-There are several in-
to inquire into the condition of the Russian Indo-Pacific region, that the fact of being tat- mercantile marine, it is stated that the service tooed is thought to be beneficial when the soul consists of 4go steamships, with a total tonnage passes into the next world. The last example of this belief is zu account in Gladus by Pro- of 212.463, and 1,735 sailing vessols, with a
fessor G. Tilenius, of the tattooting of women ANOTHER
in the Laughlan Islands, or Nada, a small group of islands cast of the southern end of New Guinea. A considerable surface of the woman is tattooed with angled designs, but concentric circles are tattooed on the legs. The beliefis that between the Laughlan Islands and the bland of Vatum in the Tiobiiand” group, to which their souls should go, there is a great snake over which they must pass. The
The Health of "Hongkong, The weekly tale of plague mortality in Hongkong reaches us with clockwork re- gularity, and furnishes proof that the efforts of the Sankary Board in coping with the disease is bearing fruit. As compared with this time last year, the decrease is wonderful, and, whether or no the statistics do not show such a favourable record in weeks to come, there is no gelling away from the fact that what the Sanitary officials have done THE SUGAR CONVENTION-A report and are still doing, will have a decided effect that Tadia intends to impose a heavy counter-total tonnage of 154,593- upon the number of deaths in the Colony.veiling duy on sugar for the purpose of pre- The fatal cases of plague recorded during the seven days ended Saturday, aumbered venting flooding in India prior to the enforce si and brought the total mortality since ment of the Convention is causing excitement the beginning of the year up to 233 as.
in the German trade. compared with upwards of a thousand for the
Same period last year. In
regard to the other diseases in the Colony, there is also cause for satisfaction in a diminished morality and especially with cholera, which has dropped from 33 cases. and 31 deaths to 16 cases and 13 deaths, Small-pos has pracitally been stamped out for the time being, while the same may be. said of the other communicable diseases which figure on the returns hom week to
week,
Our Coronation Garb.
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ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, HONGKONG.
WING to the insulficiency of accommoda-
SIVE INGREDIENTS only are used,
GUARANTEEING ABSOLUTE PURITY.
ENGLISH EXPERTS Manage our Factories and their
practical knowledge and constant
tion in the present building and the in-i creasing demand for admission, it has been, found necessary to extend the wings of the supervision enables us to produce main building and to enlarge the Chinese de i pariment by an additional storey with two
wings. The estimated cost will amount to over waters of unrivalled excellence, and
$15,000. To cover these expenses we Appeal
113 BC CARETICE II the
last 25 years and is open to all classes. Much
of the clerical work of the city is carried on by its past pupils.. As this is the first time we have
ANARCHISTS IN SPAIN:-The anarchist
Suarez who supplied Lopez with dynamite car tridges has been arrested. He was recently released from imprisonment, for complicity in Ruiz's bomb attempt on Senor Canovas seven years ago, in which Ruiz was killed and Suarez badly injured.
A MISLEADING PARAGRAPH crept into
our colugins yesterday in reference to cholera mortality at the Kennedy Town Hospital. In- stead of there having been 32 deaths recorded
It is pleasing to note that many pre-at that institution during the week referred to, parations are being made to give the Colony there were only two fatal cases, as Chinese a festive appearance on the Coronation day. patients are treated at the Tung Wa Hospital. Government authorities and the leading
NAVY RELIEFS PASS THOUGH in the field, and one may look forward to HONGKONG-The German transport seeing Hongkong at its best, and second to dain, which arrived in Hongkong yesterday, one on the great occasion. In Queen's sailed at daylight this morning for Shanghai Road Central and various other parts of the and Tsingtau with, about 1,700 Imperial Navy City the workmen are busy, and the talk of reliefs on board. Sie was the vessel which the past few weeks is being realised in á practical form, Scaffolding has been erected
was burned in New York harbou, some three around the old clock tower, not for the years ago, and this is her first trip since the purpose of taking the edifice down, but in
disaster.
THEFT IN MORRISON
HILL ROAD-It will be remembered that Mr. Ritchie recently had a gold watch stolen from his house on the Morrison Hill Road, and now he has missed a mat. If the man will call upon Mr. Ritchie he would no doubt be given the watchstand; he might enquire,
THE GALLERY OF THE BARAU Scar. borough three men were fined for having frequented Aberdeen Walk for the purpose of betting. It transpired that the police made Congregational Church. Surely the uses and their observations from the gallery of the Bar
abuses of the church are many and varied. THE DUTY ON GOLD. collected in the Federated Malay States last year disappointed expectations. Perak collected Sags on a small estimate of 575, but Pahang only realised
$36,435 on a $50,000 estimate. Compared with the year 1905, Pabang shows an increase of $9,329 in duty and of 6,900 ounces in weight of the gold exported.
THE TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION pro- posed for the Penang Coronation Festivities has been abandoned. The Committee propose to substitute a ricksha procession, each person to hire a ricksha for a dollar the evening, and
This sort of thing would be greatly appreciated by the ricksha men in Hongkong-
snake asks cach soul for her tattooting. The soul takes off her tattooting and gives it to the snake, who covers itself with it. The spako
passades over as a bridge. If the soul is not then becomes broad and flat, and the soul,
tattooed, the sanks shrinks, becomes very nar-
reach Natum. These wretched souls hecome row, and the soul falls into the sea and cannot
sh
THE AGE OF THE WORLD-One of the
ways of reckoning the age of the world is that adopted by Professor Joly, of computing how long a time must have elapsed for the sea, which was at first fresh, to become charged with all the salt it now contains. Guided by the amount of chloride of sodium-otherwise common salt which, according to Sir John Murray, the sea contains, Professor Joly concluded that the earth was 80,co0,000 to 90,000,000 of years old. Dr Dubeis has reported on this matter to the
order to place a fitting Coronation mantle THE RANGOON CYCLONE.:-Wah refer- go through the town bearing Chinese lanterns. Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam, and he is
over his cracked and weather stained cement. No doubt, in time to come, the structure will be missed by many in Queen's Road, and welcomed by others on the Praya, but as there appears to be a slight hitch regard ing tenders for the construction of the new building its removal has been postponed indefinitely. The buildings of Hongkong are admirably adapted for decorative pur poses at least along the principal thorough fares and if firms having offices in large blocks would unite, there is no reason why the Colony should not be a blaze of colour by day and a twinkling fairy land by night.
ence to the recent cyclone in Rangoon, the steamer Nerbudila, which arrived there the other day reported that the Krishan and Baragua lights were sighted, which showed that the lightships hand safely weathered the storm. The Nerbudda met with nothing worse than a moderate swell on her voyage from Badras. The cyclone, which formed in Diamond island, clean swept it away.
A NASTY TUMBLE was the misfortune of anaged Chinamen last evening. He engaged a ricksha in Queen's Road, and as the coolie was running along the vehicle got into the
gutter and upset pitching the occupant out on
led to dispute Sir John Murray's estimate of the amount of sodium carried to the sea by ivers, and the outcome of his examination being to reduce the age of the oceans of the world to about 24,000,000 years. This agress fairly with Professor Sollas's calculation that the deposition of the geological strata, which
began as soon as there was sea and lead, has
taken some 26,000,000 years--a million or two
Darwin will not accept less than 56,000,000 more or lest do not matter. Professor George since the earth threw off the moon as a needless
encumbrance, and she had begun revolving on her own axis long before.
to a heap of granite blocks. He sustained a WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN BOM-Clinuman passing at the time kindly attended pasty wound over the right temple, but a young An Indian journal is interested to him so that he was able to get away shortly lears that the Marconi Wireless Telegraphy afterwards.
14 propose to establish a receiving THE LONDON SUN tells its readers that if station in Bombay, modu dola Tly this means it will be possible to ascertain the move-
Chinamna commits a crime punishable by THE KING'S GUESTS-The sub-committe tents of the vessels in the Bay of Bengal imprisonment, as hefore the police to whom the body of Metropolitan Mayors this fact, an exchange suggests the Directors in fact, all his relations that live with him--are dinner to the poor, have mer at the Mansion which are fitted with the apparatus. In view arrest him, his wife, his children, his momes enuusted the arrangements for the Kinge of the P. and O. Company night, perhaps, con-
secured as boxages and put in prison till the House. The sub-committee consists of the sider the desirability of fittings at least their real culprit is caught. The Chinese prisons, Lord Mayor, the Chairman of the London mail boats with this most useful invention,
as may be imagined have to be large in order County Council, Alderman and Sheriff Bell, to carry out this system of family imprison-Marshall, Sir Thomas Lipton, and the, Mayors
As far as practicable, business firms and collectively for the smallest thread of bunting can be made of use in ornamenting the streets if judiciously displayed in harmony
of with other decorations. No mention has
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LOCAL AND GENERAL. : CHOLERA is still prevalent at Singapore. H.M.S.. VESTAL arrived at Singapore from Hongkong on the 1st inst.
DENGUE FEVER has made its appearance in Krian and Larut, and is rapidly spreading. THE CHOLERA RETURN shows a clean slate for the twenty-four hours ended at. noon to-day.
THE GORONATION COMMITTEE. will hold a meeting in the Legislative, Council at five o'clock to-morrow.
MISSOURI FARMERS say they realised £1,400,000 last year by the sale of horses and mules for South Africa.
PROGRAMME.
SICKLY SOLDIERS-The Commander-in-ment, which in many cases lasts for years, Chief recommends the permanent adoption of PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the plan of moving sickly British soldiers from the Band of the Hongkong Regiment on the one station to another for a change of air, and New Garrison Recreation Ground to-morrow, suggests that the following amounts be pro- the irth instant, from 5 to 6.30 p.m. (weather vided in the four Commands for the purpose-permitting.) Punjab Rs. 3,000, Dengal Rs. 7,002, Madras Rs. 4,000, and Eombay Rs. 9,co. As in the past, Burma has been the only part where the measure was taken advantage of. The Govern meal of India prefers to give the experiment another single year's trial before making regu lar annual provision in the estimates for it.
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of Westminster, Fulham, Camberwell, Poplan and Finsbury, with Mr. W. J. Soulsby, C.B., as honorary secretary The apportionment of the guests was decided upon as follows → City of London 1,000 Holborn to boa City of West Islington 40,0
minster21,000 Kensington Battersea 18,ago Lambeth Bermondsey...25,000 Lewisham Bethnal-green..21,000 Haddington Camberwell... 30,000 Poplar... Chelsea 9,000 Marylebone. Deptford 11,800 St. Pancras Falbam14,000 Southwar£30,000 Finsbury 19,000 Bhoreditch,
Hackney.......24,000 Stoke Newington 4,500 Greenwich 9,500 Stepney 45,000
Hammersmith..12,000 Wandsworth...19,000
6,500
WHERE WAS THE ENTHUSIASM THE PATENT MEDICINE HABIT:-The British Medical Jurnal refers to a paper received very quietly in Singapore. The flag The news of the conclusion of peace was recently by Dr. Albert Robin, bacteriologist staffs were decked, and the men-of-war ran and "pathologist to the Della-werd Board of Health, who delivered a strong indictments up to the mast-head. One or two 80 against what he termed the "patent medicine downs displayed flags, but the general feeling habit. He stated that a vaunted remedy sold been seen to be for some days a certainty did was that the actual conclusion of what has at a dullar a box was composed of granulated sugar; that certain opium "cures" contain
not call for any great demonstration. A tele morphine, and that toaics especially recom
gram to a Singapore journal from Hongkong, mended for inebriates are largely made up of SRYS-On the reception from London of the alcohol. Other paient medicines contains of the successful termination of the contribution to the tributes which: Art, Music, THE PUBLIC ARE WARNED to avoid cocaine and other narcotic substances as their peace overtures the greatest enthusiasm wus
THE MANILA CABLE has been repaired and communication was made with the Philip pines at 4.20 this afternoon.
using the road skirting the Pokfolum Reservair during the reconstruction of the conduit. TOMORROW being the Jewish Day of Pentecost services will be held at the Synagogue this evening and to-morrow. PLAGUE-The Chief Officer, and Chief Engineer of the Afelbourne, are reported to have died of plague at Marivelles.
active ingredients. No doubt the habit of self-displayed here, physicking, often with powerful drugs, is on the increase, and in America the insurance Offices are beginning to take cognisance of its existence. Already one company requires that the medical examiner shall ask the applicant, "What patent medicines have you used in the last five years?"
Hampsted 3,450 Woolwich 10,000. THE CORONATION MARCH -The March as it must be called, since it has been Coronation March, or the Royal Coronation
expressly dedicated by gracious permission to the King, is Sir Alexander Mackenzie's brilliant
Literature, and Science are making in honour of the coming Coronation Singularly
City Press mentions a curious incident in con- MADE FOR A HOT CLIMATE-The caough, although nothing has been heard of nection with the recent Barbican fire. On the
the composition until quite recently, it was written over a year ago, when Sir, Alexander premises of Messrs T. J. Bryer and Sons there Mackenzie first conceived the idea of writing a is an old clock-a striking regulator-made by piece of music in honour of the event of this them about 40 years ago, and intended to go year. Only the composer's closest friends out to India for a native prince. The clock know about it and perhaps, aven they didn't FRENCH FORCES IN EASTERN was not finished in the specified time owing to know that in February last (he Principal of WATERS: The Rappel in the following the suicide of one of the men engaged in some the Royal Academy of Music received tvards, strongly approves the new organization special work on it. It was, in consequence, command from the King for its performance of the French naval forces in Eastern Waters never sent to its destination, and, in fact, was in Marlborough House. It opens in E flat- the side of our Atlantic and Mediterranean it was dragged out of obscurity, completed, comete, and after a brilliant Intermediary and expects it to give beneficial results: By left unfinished for sixteen years, Eventually, with bright martial music given out by the squadrons we have brought into existence a and cased. For over 20 years it has been in development, there comes what may be third united force, which watches and defends the possession of the makers. Its performance called the trio in B. flat, the first secilonm our colonial empire in Asia, Eastern Africa as timekeeper has been phenomenal, it has of which is of a hymn-like character, essen. THE COLLISION CASE, in 'connection and Oceanin. M. de Lanessan has secured been known to vary only 14, seconds from tially English The second section has á;;; with the at Cheang, and Skramstad, was for us another advantage by entrusting to this mean time in a year. No, 63, Barbican, where distinctly patriotic or jubilant ring about it
A YOUNG BURMESE LADY of Thar- rawaddy has obtained Rs, 3,000 damages, for breach of promise, from a myook on leave. TIN ORE exported by the tributers on the Royal Johore Tin Mining Company's lands, during May, was 515 bag's equal to 386 piculs.
continued to-day, and has been again adjourned till to-morrow.
new naval army the education of young paval officers. It is practically, a sort of grand naval A CENSUS table just issued shows that ofthe academy that the minister of marine inaugue, 38 209.436 people in the Madras Presidency, ates, Two great advantages are bound to 34,048,097 are Hindus, 2,467,331 are Mussal accrue to us in the shape of time gained in men and 1,024,07! are Christians.
en times of trouble and a more advanced instruc. KINO'S PARK, KOWLOON-We are officiation to our young officers on account of a more ally informed that the Secretary of State has continued practice at naval weapons. We are Park at Kowloon, so that the ceremony of approved of the inauguration of the King's certain that we shall promptly reap benefits from
this arrangement" turning the first sod will form part of the local Coronation festivities
HATS
it was, lodged, was one of the unfortunate and ends up with the employment of the full buildings in the recent fire. When the house orchestra. A fully developed retorn is then was entered some time after 196 fire com-
ichs Rogether, most: menced the clock was faund still in its place. of his material for
tion The frame was blackened and rokon, the subject" which glass smashed, and the casement soaked with Towards the end the water, but the old clock was sill
riginal key!
was intended for India, hot climat
instrume:
buk ditend has been in a yet botter place, and has march, being broi
sented fanfarade:
survived
epeated
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