Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JULY 5, 1902
Intimations.
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Hongkong, 18th June, 1902.
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PORTLAND CEMENT.
€5.50 Cask of 375 bbs. Net ex Factory. $3.50 Bag of 250 th
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Hongkong, igth March, 1902.
ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE,
HONGKONG,
principles.
THE MACHINERY employed is of the latest design and most approved
type.
THE BEST AND MOST EXPEN- SIVE INGREDIENTS only are used.
GUARANTEEING ABSOLUTE PURITY.
ENGLISH EXPERTS
Manage our Factories and their
WING to the insufficiency of accommoda: practical knowledge and constant
tion in the present building and the in-
creasing demand for admission, it has been
found necessary to extend the wings of the supervision enables us to main building and to enlarge the Chinese de- partment additional storey, with
produce
wings. The estimated cost will amount to over waters of unrivalled excellence and
$15,000. To cover these expenses we Appeal
to the liberality of all friends of Education. purity.
The establishment has been in existence for 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
applied for assistance we expect a generous A. S. WATSON & Co.,
response. The names of our most liberal Benefactors will be inscribed upon marble Tablets, as a lasting testimony of their generasity. THE CHRISTÍAN BROTHERS,
Hongkong, azaḍ November, 1001..
LIMITED),
The Hongkong Dispensary.
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also
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MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.
11ongkong, z8th January, 1904
HONGKONG-FRAGRANT WATERS MAN OVERBOARD —On the night before | BUILDING AND PUBLIC HEALTH
GENEOBIRTH. On the 1st June, at 6o, Daronih Road, in a bad way for want of water, says Indian Stamford Hill, London, N., the wife of 1. ES
Engineering, of the 14th June, GRAIK, of a daughter,
The Honghong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1903. ........
"LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ST. PATRICK'S CLUB will hold a Smoking Concert to-night
NO MANGOES are permitted to be offered for sale in Manila owing to the epidemic of
cholera.
last a stoker named George West fell overboard from the Terrible's steam launch and was drowned. At the time, the launch was steaming
NAVY NOTES -The Rinaldo is shortly expected from Sandakan and the Fearless is to between the Zamarand Terrible. Every effort was made to save him, the search light of the
ORDINANGE,
MOSEB 7. KNIGHT.
We have teamed some very interesting facts.
ba drydocked. She had been. Is monils op Terrible being turned on but he could not be from Mr. Ahmet Rumjahn, the well-known
found. Ife was 38 years of age, had been 14 property broker regarding the houses in Mac- years in the Navy and served with the Naval Gregor Street. It will be remembered that Brigade both in S. Africa and N. China, in the Supreme Court on the and inst. an appeal was heard against the decision of Mr.
M
the station without a't scrape.” - METEOROLOGY An extract of meteorolo gical observations, made at the Hongkong observatory during the month of June, is pub. kished in the Government Gazelle. From it, MR. HO TUNG'S MUNIFICENT GIFT-1 Kemp, Acting Police Magistrate, In We gather there were 61.7 hours of sunshine We have been favoured with a sketch of the convicting the appellant in May last of hav and aminfall of 15,440 inches.
brass tablet to be placed on the Kowloon ng failed to conform with the regulations of THE ACCIDENT TO THE "AJAX-
Salinol, generously given to the Colony by Mr. the Building and Public Health Ordinance of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire inform us they Officer Administering the Government. The space in connection with the house No. 26. Ho Tung and recently opened by H.E. the 1901 with respect to the provision of an open are in receipt of a cable advising the depar-inscription will read as follows: Sie Vos Non McGregor Street. The appeal was dismissed ture of the Ping Suey from Suez on and inst.
Pobis. Kowloon School. This building was with costs.
GRASS FIRES-During 1901 there were 41 This steamer brings forward the undamaged erected by Ho Tung Esquire, J. P. and pra
grass fires in the Colony, and 12,174 trees were destroyed.
THE PLAGUE RETURN for the twenty, four hours ended at noon to-day shows four fatal cases, and one non-fatal case. ACTING ASSISTANT D.P.W-Mr. James Fettes Boulton, A.M.1.C.E. has been appointed Acting Director of Public Works, until further notice.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., is moving into more commodious offices; and from Monday the address will be No:
Ice House Street.
MOSQUITO MALARIA:-A report showing the results of tests made with various gauzes in connection with the mosquito malaria theory appears in the Government Gazélte.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS — The armis of the Volunteer Corps are being overhauled, and members are requested to send their rifles and carbines to Head Quariers. A FIT OF THE LIGHT BLUES: Unless care is taken Cambridge will become the abode of the owl, the bitters, and the decaying don Ali Khodes lead to Oxford now,-"Granta," Cambridge.
portion of the cargo ex s.a. Ajax
A SERIOUS DROUGHT-A drought such as has not been known for many years prevails over a large portion of the province of Szechuan, write lie W. C. D. News. The winter crops were a comparative failure, and at this writing there are large areas that are as dry as a desert. Rice is reaching up towards famine prices. ́ ́AN ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISMENT is to hand from Messrs. Melchers and Company as
are reminded that rates for the third quarter of 1902 are payable in advance on or before the 31st inst. If any person fails to pay on or before the 30th August proceedings will be taken in the Supreme Court for their recovery without farther notice. No refund of rates on vacant tenements will be granted unless such rates have been pail during and within the
present month.
BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. THE INDIAN WATCHMAN of the China-Baillie and Officers, the Band of the zind Sugar Refinery, who was admitted to the Civil Bombay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hospital a few days ago suffering from injuries Hotel this evening, from 8 to 9.30 pm: received at the recent assault died at that in-
"! PROGRAMME,”. "Scouts nut" stitution early this morning.
"Toreadar".
QUEEN'S COLLEGE —H.E. the Officer Administering the Government has appointed the Hon. C. McI Messer to be a member of the governing body of Queen's College, during
the absence on leave of Mr, E. A. Irving.
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March Valse
Home. Royle, Jones.
septed to the Colony on ground granted by the Government. This school was opened by Kie Excellency Major General Siz William Julius Gascoigne, K.GM.G., Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong April 19, 1902"
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Mr. Sharp, in opening the case, said this was a motion that the case which was heard by Mr. Kemp in the Magistracy In May last be re- beard by the Full Count on the grounds that his decision was erroneous in point of fact and oflaw. The question involved was whether a building which abutted in the rear on an open; un obstructed portion of a street which measured 500 square feet in area was, withia meaning of the Act, provided with an open, unobstricted back yard of so square feet of area. It would be
unreasonable to say that a 6-feet lane at the back of this house would allow suficient ven. tilation, light, and air for this house, whereas a public street 30 feet wide would not. He con-
ended that it wa
was an absolute superfuity, when the Ordinance said that a 6 feet lang gave sufficient ventilation, light, and air, to add to that area and asked if it was said that,
more liberally a go-feet road was not within, were clearly treated throughout the Ordinance
BUSINESS ETHICS IN JAPAN:--A home paper asks whether in Europe and America we have neglected to lay aufficient stress on the morality of business methods? The Japanese agents for the Eastern Asia Line of the German contributor to the latest volume of the Board mail. It depicts the Konig Albert steaming of Education's special reports is inclined to 1ht full speed through a calm sea with interested answer in the affirmative. In Japan, he says, spectators watching the huge boat from there are twenty-seven public commercial canoe momed beneath a spreading tree. The schools in which the subject of business picture is well executed and printed in delicate morality is reduced to a science. The course tints.
of lectures in these establishments covers such RATES-Owners and occupiers of tenements ground as modern ethical science as applied because it was an old-house-and old houses commercial mo ality from the standpoint of to business, dissertations on the nature of that science, suggestions on the means el forming vinuous habits, &c. No less than the intent of the Ordinance. 30 young men are turned out annually from
While Mr. Rumjan thinks that their Lord. these schools to apply their trained intelligence ships under the circumstances could give no in furtherance of their country's commerce 11ther decision on the facts laid before them, is, moreover, claimed for them that no smalle opines it very unfortunate that the case was part of Japan's rapid progress is due to the brought before the Appeal Court at all, A training given at these commercial, establish better course, he thinks, would have been to apply to the Sanitary Board Section ments.
(C) of Ordinance 13 of 1901 says:- THE RECENT BOXER DISTURBANCES The Beard with the consent of the Govenor in Council shall have power, in special cases IN SZECHUAN With reference to the re- centBoxer disturbances at Tzeyany, Szechuan to madify the foregoing requirements of this „province, when a nalive preacher and several section where such modification may appear converts were murdered and some mission and desirable. That is the section in question.. other properties were destroyed, as reported by The Houses in MacGregor Street were built telegram by the MC.D. News. Szechuan coria compliance with the then existing regulations respondent at the time, a native official dispatch and when the present public Health Bill No. 13. from Chiêngtu to the local mandariussia.es that of 1901 became law exemptions from having the chief leader of the Boxers, a man named Li, back yards or reducing kitchen's should-have with the sobriquet of "Vin-gan-sze," or one been applied for, through the recommendation of who undertakes to determine affaire mudane the Sanitary Board to the Governor in Council. with those of Hades, was captured the other Mr. Rumjaha is of opinion that the removal day at a place called Lochib by Lieutenant of half the roof off the kitchens, in the Colonel Wang, commanding the Ching MacGregor Street houses would make the chuan battalion, which had been seat by premises more insanitary instead of more Viceroy Kuei Chun to suppress the Boxers sanitary, for the following reasonsFirst Colonel Wang at once sent the Boxer chief The present internal area of the kitchens, is to Chengt to be tried, and in consequence of about ya equate feet; take half away and only the importance of the capture Li was brought 36 square feet remain. This he thinks before Viceroy Kuei Chun himself who with the extremely small. Secondly; as the tenement Provincial Treasurer and the Provincial Judge of a floor generally consists of two or three as assessors, allerfreceiving the prisoner's" con- families many people would have to do their. GUN PRACTICE Information has been
fession of guilt" immediately ordered the man cooking and bathing in this small space. received from the Military Authorities that gan
to the execution ground to be decapitated. Thirdly, up to the present the cooking, has practice will be carried out from the Belcher
Subsequently Li's head, after being carried been done at that end of the kitchen furthest Batteries on the 15th instant, at targets in a
around the city of Chengtu for the inspection from the door, and the smoke prevented from North-Westerly and Westerly direction. Prac
of the populace, was sent on to Treyang, the entering the main-building by a doored parti tice will commence about 8.30 a.m.
scene of his late exploits, to be displayed there tion. Now if half of the kitchen is taken off it as a warning to all.
must necessarily be that portion farthest from. HON. SIR C. P. CHATER-About 50 of his A NEAT EXPLANATION-This is the
the main building into which smoke is much most intimate friends recently sent to the Hon. Malay Mail's rather neat way of explaining anTHE GRAND SECRETARYSHIPS -Is more likely to gain excess both through the Sir C. P. Chater, the following cable Hearty error in a previous issue: "Some of our the dynasties to the present Manchu, the one door instead of two and through the win- congratulations. Health drank royally" in readers may have noticed that a list in our yes Grand Secretaries at Court stood in the light in the houses opening into the cleared space. dow which the regulations require to be put reply they received the following. "Expressterday's issue of the Enactments recently passed of Chief Advisers of the Throne and therefore Fourthly as half of the present kitchens, is to all good friends hearty thanks for congrain by the Stat: Council was set up in a somewhat were, and are still styled Prime Ministers-utilised for bathing &c. abolition will neces Talions. Chater."
unusual manner. The compositor, on being Tsai Siang. When the Manchus found them-sitate the use of bedroom cubiciles and so on, asked his reason for this digression, replied I selves firmly seated at Peking, the Emperor which would indeed add to insanitation, thought it was poetry. We have sometimes had around him a Board of Military Coun heard of public bodies waxing prosy, but cillors, denoted #Chun-chi Ta-ch th, who and the rest is left to the indulgent imagination took the place of the Grand Secretaries 50 of the reader, says the Morning Leader.
that the latter became for all practical pur poses a miere sinecure, and eventually the
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Zikoži. "God save the Klog." INCIPIENT FIRE, Chancery Lane, an off- shoot of Old Bailey, was within ao ace of being the scene of a fire at 8.30 last evening, owing to some sparks from the kitchen chimney igniting the eaves of a new house in course of construction in Caine Road. Fortunately, those who happened to observe the danger before much damage had been done with a few buckets of water judiciously applied suc- BOARD OF TRADE CERTIFICATE:-Aceeded in putting out the flames.
THE PAKSHAN:-Those at present con- cerned in the Pakshan have decided to make no attempt to raise her. It is reported that an engineer is coming over from Swatow to see if he cannot do something with the submerged vessel.
Board of Trade Certificate for Mate was issued to S. F. McDonnell on the 30th June by order of H. E. the Officer Administering the
Government in lieu of a Master's Certificata suspended.
REPLACING THE FOREIGNER-ME T Volquartz, who was Chief Officer of the Rosetta mary died at Manila a few days ago, and the vacancy has been filled by Mr. Chiba of Japan. Mr. G. Tahu, a Japanese engineer has also
filled a berth which was previously accupied
by a Scotch chief engineer on the same vessel CANTON AND PLAGUE-The following telegram from the Secretary to the Government of British Burma, Rangoon, is published in the Government Gazette :—"Canton declared infected port under plague regulations framed. under Venice Sanitary Convention for Burma ports. I request that shipping firms may be informed accordingly."
"JERRY" BUILDING A correspondent had occasion to go to Tai-kok-tsui the other day, and inform us that he saw three aged ladies clearing the old stones from the walls of the houses recently destroyed by fire, and two or three small boys of a tender age piling them up and building "houses." Should such a state of affairs be permitted io contiate after
all that has been said and written.
PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the Band of the 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, on the New Recreation Ground, on Wednes day next, the gth instant, from 5 to 6.30 p.m.
PROGRAMME. .............“Pondergus".
1. March
2. Overtase. “Musantello
BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT:-The Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department has forwarded to the authorities his annual report for 1901. An the course of his observai tions, he points out that planting operations in Hongkong were the smallest on record since afforesia ion work was established. The plant sales realised $783.30, loans of plants $174.88; and forestry products 5758.11 making a total of $1,716.29
THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP-UP
the 1st June the counties stood:-
Played, Woa. Los Drawn. Paints. P'centage. Yorkshire 6 puno mars 4 juin 200 Surreying Bola • sana mí ő my Leicestenire..4... › Derbyshire,, • dil tvinə dai
Sussex suda u 12 Lancashire... 6 mon é de 1 à 3
Somerset..... 5 juo 1 ma 1. Netta A ↑ air ✪ Essex. $. I.... Cloucestershire 5 Worcestershire. 4
iddiasex-pria Warwickshire 3do li Hampshire...
Kent...
100
33.33
33-33
100
LICENSING-A special meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' Rooms at the Magistracy, at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, the rob inst. for the purpose
of considering the following applications
1. From one William Young for the transfer: intoxicating Liquors on the premises situate.at of his l'ublican's Licence to sell and retail No. 2, Shaukiwan Road, under the sign of the
Metropole, Hotel to one B. Ealley,
2. From one Luiz Manoel Lobo for permis sion to remove his Publican's business from Chouse No. 142, Queen's Road Central, to houses. Nos. 148 and 15o, Queen's Road Central, under the sign of the "Stag Hotel?VER
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislativo, Council will be held on Monday, 7th July, at 3 p.m.
BUSINESS
Financial Minutes. (Nos. 37, 28, 29, 30 and 31.) ******
title was bestowed more as an honorary distinction, but of the highest sort. Then came the time (1900) when the Court had to flee to
2 Report of the Finance Gommittee. (No. 7.): Hsian, when the Chengwu Ch'n or Department. 3. Question by Hon. G. W. Playfair :- of State Affairs was instituted to conduct the will the Honourable Director of Public business of the nation on behalf of the ImWorks inform the Council what steps, if any, perial refugees in the North-west, thereby are being taken to carry out the recommendo- taking away almost all the duties that were the water supply of Hongkong dated 18th nation of Mr. Osbert Chadwick in his report bu still left in the hands of the Grand Secretaries, As the annual salary of a Grand Secretary is 4,000 shih of rice—each shih equals 166 catties and there are four of them, and an Assistant Grand Secretary's (two in all) annual salary is 2,500 shih of rice, the yearly cost to Government of the whole "Nei Ko" or Inner Council, which is the usual designation of this Board, or Grand Secretary-ship as a body would total 21,000 Shih of rice, or some Tls 80,000. According to a Ecking dispatch a number of Censors have recently memorialised
is stated that the idea seems to be favourably the Throne to abolish these sinecures, and it
considered by the Empress Dowager.—N C. Daily News
CANTOR NOTES.
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HEAVY TAXATION:G therers with body-guards
of six
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ato paying the new heavy war indemnity house lax. The Fun U district, is not men- tioned,
April, 1902, especially having reference to the question of prompt action in enlarging the storage capacity, as omphasised by his follow ng remarks. It is tvident that the water question is presing. It is one which should take precedence of all other sanitary improve ments such as those of sewerage and drainage. It is necessary to act with promptitude. ORDERS OF THE DAY
dinance, to consolidate and amend the Laws
First reading of a Bill entitled An Or relating relating to Public Health and, Build-
ings,
z. First reading of a Bill entitled "An. Or-
allas Choy Kwong Yung. dinance for the Naturalization of Choy Chung Ni, alias Choy Chung, alias Choy Man-Ku,
* 13. First reading of a Bill entitled An Or. dinance for the Naturalization Choy Yes, alias Choy Man Lol, alías Choy Siu KwRT- **First yeading of a Bill'entitled An Ordinance of the Naturalization of Choy Kwai Ng, alias Choy Shing, alias Choy Man Chow; alias Choy Kwang Tak
-to further amend
BANK NOTES AND SPECIE -The follow
Second reading of the Bill entitled An Or- ing Retums of the Average Amount of Hank soldiers are employed in house to house visitadinance to further amend The he Territories Notes in Circulation and of Specie in Reservetion in the Namhoi district of Canton This Land Court Ordinance, 1900, (No. 18 of 1900), YORKSHIREMEN on the Terrible spent a in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th has been instituted. to frighten the people * Secc reading of the Bill entitled An happy evening yesterday at Thomas's Grill June, 1952, as certified by the Managers of the Room where they sat down to an excellent respective Banks, are published in the Gour dinner. There was a large company present,ment Gazelle im V and after the cloth had been removed the rest
Average Specia Amount, in Reserve. of the evening was devoted to harmony, with Bandmaster Squire at the piano. A capital programme was arranged, and those assisting in the entertainment included, Mestra, H. Wade, Rinder, Garland, Cummings, Smith, Le Robertson, H. Rayner, Sherridan, Wilson and
THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED,the genial host, W Waters
Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore,
Toard
COTTAM & CO FOR SUN HATS,
Banks Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and China...$2,914,690 $1,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation. 9693,658 Limited National Bank of China,
443,947-
Total 1) 513,
AUSALT DUTY! A ten cash per calty duty. on salt, an article, which hav Tree. The chief, Salt Hong
Viceroy
Vicerov has
NOT
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The Bill Ordina Supplein Sum of Five) been imposed thousand two hundred and the past becníl and seven
Years1
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and fifteen enty-five-Dollis my the Charges of the
entitled: Anvor Fawnbrokers.
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