Intimations,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,
BIRTHS. On the 27th August, at, Portsman Mansionis Lundun, the wle of H.J. CRAIG, of a daughter On the 29th August, at 34, Sinza Road, Shanghai, the wife of P. BORKOWSKY, of a son. On the 28th ultat Shanghai, FRANCIS On the DEATHS!
S. WATSON & CO., KINGSMILL, aged 18 years.
LUNDED.
OWER AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS
FOR
RDERS
SEASON 1903-1994.
and on a calm sea, detailed narrativesofthe habits and manners of those who were to man them during the cup contests been poured forth upon an eagerly listening public from the sanctums of a hundred publications. It will, however, be interesting to note that Whamtrack III embodies more, novelties of type and design than any boat yet builtin Great Britain for America cup matches, the most characteristic, and, in some 1respects, the most daring, departure being
the 30th August, at 3, Haskell Road, Shanghai, the residence of her son in law Wm. Fraser, MARGARET GHISON, widow of the late Captain Alex. Mucléan, Aberdeen, N.H.
Freih Kodak f'my plenty of them, al: L«MU5%| you's, Des Voeux Road, Advis ACCORDING 10 a-New York wire of 29th aalt, Sir Thomas Lipton will not build another challenger for the Anterica Capta
e Dew Russian three screw.cruiser Aurora, only make a mean speed of 18.97 knots in her 6,600 tons, built as a commerce destroyer, eculd speed trials off Cronstadt. She is supposed to bas zo-knot boat.
INTERESTING
TICULARS
land and most of whi ¡of Wales' tu!
The Hongkong Celegraph in the fact that the length of the fin, was service between Vokohama and Shanghai, the that it would be interesting to exhibit one of the been sunk in a
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1903.
HONGKONG OPIUM FÄRM, We gave yesterday the particulars relating to the tenders for the new Hongkong Opium ERS are now being executed from Farm, which we were then able to gather from an unofficial source and from the letter, Stocks only...
which we print below, it will be seen that our report of last evening is now officially con- ICED CATALOGUES, with Hints on firmied. The communication, by the way, we ning, can be obtained free on Appli-reproduce by kind permission of the success ful tenderers, Messrs. Tau Joo Chin and Seah Eng Kiat, of 36, Bonham Strand West. The letter is as follows
ese SEEDS are supplied to us by EST GROWERS IN THE WORLD.
essential to use particular care when
shortened to an extraordinary extent, thus providing decreased friction and quicker turning. Nickel steel was chosen as the metal for the plating instead of manganese bronze, and this was manufactured with a
view to securing the minimum of weight with the maximum of tensile strength and trustworthiness. being practically dictated to by the condi- Her general dimensions, tions of the contest, are in a great degree similar to those of her immediate predeces those limits Mr. William Fife, the designer sors; but in the moulding of the boat within of Shamrock 1, displayed a considerable amount of originality, reverting to the old fender, built on the "skimming dish" pattern cntier type, widely differing from the new de The Reliance is a decided departure on the part of Herreshoff from his other cup de fenders, and is an excellent example of the
and a graceful, sweeping curve from the Her lines are very easy, with few hard places,
fat, so that she leaves but little wake, bilges into the garboards. Her stern is very while her bow, although not quit; so broad and flat as that of the Independence, is still very much different from the bow of either the Constitution or the Columbia. At the time of launching it was believed that her strongest points of sailing would be with started sheets in a comparatively smooth sea while her weakest point would be on the wind and flattened sheets, a point on which the
A
ed by the
was built, and the Defender tur
her.
The following particulars, the remarkable career of the vessels, ich during the last half century have competed in the International cup. 1891 while an international exposition race will be of interest to many of our readers
in progress in London it occurred to George. Steers, the best of American-yacht designers. In addition to the regular weekly N. Y. K. then, and to Mr. Geo, L. Schuyler and other Yekohanin Mart is to run a regular fortnightly American fare-and-aft vessels. Accordingly My the beginning of service between Kobe and Shanghai, calling at Schuyler and his friends exiled for Havie and Moji and Nagasaki..
afterward for Cowes, in their schooner yacht America, A cup has been offered by the Royal A JAPANESE was charged at the Magistracy Yacht squadron for competition by all nations, being a stowaway on board the ss. ikoson about it and when they arrived at Cowes they this morning before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith for but the American yachtsmen knew nothing faru, which arrived here yesterday from posted a challenge to meet any British yacht. hard labour. Kutchinatzu. He was fined $25 or one mon heThe schooner Titasin took up the gauntlet,
so attention, was paid to the challengers who ***** and made a match of twenty miles to windward
were informed they could enter the big regatta and return for one hundred pounds; otherwise
do this. Lesides the America eight schooners for a cup on August, 22. They finally decided to and nine of Wight The America carried away her cutter i started to race around the isle
astern, and the rest of the fleet not in sight Jibboon but she rounded the Needle, when the Aurora, the second yacht, was eight miles 1e America finished zo minutes ahead of the Aurora, And that is the history of the winning of the America's cupa mere yacht'ng incid
Englishman thought of trying to win back the cance. Seventeen years elapsed before any
America, cup. In the meantime the owners of the on July 8th, 1857, presented their prize to the New York Yachi Club, to be held as a perpetual interna ional challenge trophy.
A FISHERMAN was charged at the Magistracy this morning for having a quantity of dynamite Aberdeen harbour yesterday without a certi and other explosives in his fishing junk in ficate. His Worship imposed a fine of $25 or one month's imprisonment,
compa Ho-this:
and to exercise supervision over the 31st ultimo, offering the sum of $185,000 American ripe flat floored, fin keeled boats. contrary to Ordinance 14 of 1845, section 25*****ent, without international ör scientific signifi- should be made in the next race until the
sa. Gardeners, whose "olo custom" ds of dealing with the Seeds may imes lead to disappointing results.
Y'S FERTILISER,
"Colonial Secretary's Office,
4th September, 1903. Gentlemen,
With reference to your tender, dated the
known as the Opium Farm for three years rent for the privileges
directed to inform you that His Excellency from, the 1st March, 1904, inclusive, I am the Governor in Council has been pleased to accept your tender.
per mensem as
2. Iam to invite your attention to the 4th paragraph of the Conditions of Tendering' which requires you to deposit with the Colonial Treasurer, before the 1st For use in the garden generally. January next, approved security, either money or title deeds, to the value of three months' rent of the Farm for the
NEOME'S LAWN-MOWERS.
Best and Cheapest Machines in the
5. WATSON
LIMITED,
SEEDSM EN.
& Co.,
ESTABLISHED 1841.
TELEPHONE NO. 236. GE ADDRESS: "ACHEE," HONGKONG.
A. R. C. CODE, 4TH EDITION.
ESTABLISHED 1859
CHEE &
CO.,
for being in possession of $5008 in subsidiary A TRADER of no fixed abode was fined $too
coins, and eight pieces of marked paper reasonably suspected of having been stolen, or unlawfully obtained on the 17th ultima,
Kobe for Formosa, via ports, on 21th ult., The D. S. K. steamer Taiboku Maru, which
unknown, off Mutsujima, Bilchu province, the collided with a junk of 60 tons burthen, name same night at 9.40. The crew wer
were save and the junk was abandoned.
by using an Eastman developing machine. Do your own developing without ñ dark ́rooni
LeMunyon-Advt.
A NANKING dispatch states that Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao is reported to have decided to order from a certain Japanese shipbuilding yard four
The first race between Falkyrið III. Loid Dunraven's new boat, anal the took place off Sandy Hook, when the Defender... the Valkyries gallatruck and carrie won by 8 mins 40 secs. In the second ce sarboard top mast shrouds of the 'Defender. carried away the
The Talkyrie finished a mins, 18 secs abend.
unraven, immediately after thit race, sent A controversy.arose as to the foul and the
letter to the Au erica Cup committee, race was no judged to the Defenders
lances which prevailed during in sail his boat any more under the circ
dungerous to attempt to start races, on the ground that it was
of these vessels made it impess vessels in so confitied a space
eamers and tiny boa's, and tha the markboats, and hampered
ors all along the course. In respon appeal, the committee decided
the yachts. This concession did not satisfy excursion boats were hail, a mile distant from Lord Dunraven, who asked for a postp menti.. of the race in order that arrangements could boy made for the boats to race in clear, water. This request the commitice were unable to. grant. In the third race Lord Dunraven brought the alkyrds down to the marli, bue start he withdrew from the contest On Sept. after: crossing the line to give the Defender a 4th, 1895, Mr. CU. Rost, a member of the Royal Victoriacht club, appeared as a chal- build a y chi to be caled the Ultant Shire, lenger for the America Cup He proposed to
challenge was withdrawn, and it was let for Mn Ashbury went back to England, and had Lipton, acting ia unison with the Royal Ulstory.
the en erprise and public spirit of Sir Thomas built for him a new yachit, the Livonia. This Yuchu club, to make a fresh stuggle for the for the cup. All kinds of discussions was the first yacht especially built to compete prize with the specially built Shamrock,
ous preceded
at will be recollected that in 1oor, when Sir.
THE FILST CHALLENGE. Eleven years passed before a member of the Royal Thamos Yacht club, announced that he would make the attempt to take back the cup with his schooner Cumbria. The arrange ments were not completed till 1670. When the race was sailed with eighteen starters over
Magic being the winner yachts finished, and the Cambria was tenth, the
due performance of the conditions on which | Shamrock III. was said to be very fast. The torpedo gunboats, or third-class cruisers of the New York Yacht club course. Fifteen but after a good deal of correspondence the
the privilege is granted and of the stipula tions or agréement in respect thereof.
"3. I am further to request you to be good enough to attend at the Crown Solicitor's office with a view to the necessary deed of grant being executed. A
"I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,.
Your obedient servant,
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.
conditions upon which the recent contest was to be decided were:-The best three out of five races, the course to start from Sandy Hook Lightship. The first race to be to windward or iceward and return, the second race an equilateral triangle, the third and fifth races similar to the first, and the fourth race similar to the second. The course was to be as nearly as possible 30 nautical miles in
Naval Academy, Lieutenant Jao, will be ap: great speed, and that a graduate of the Naning pointed to superintend the building of the four cru'sers.
doomed, as it is reported that a dead it would scem that "themesquito is destroyer has been discovered in the shape of a parasite, named Agamomernis culicis, which has its habitat in the abdomen of the mosquito: Infection takes place in
|
Mr Ashbury's second appearance in America Thomas Lipton challenged for the Cup with One result was the decision that thereafter the challenger should race against a single Ameri- was on September 26, when, owing to the light En Shimrock, there were five races. The first can yacht, The New York Yacht club selected wind, the race could not be completed within
length. If in any race neither yacht went the larval or pupal stages of the mosquito, the, schooners: "Columdia, Dountless, Soppa" | the time limit and was abandoned. "Messrs. Tan Joo Chin and Scah Eng over the course within five and a half hours, and the noxious insects are sluggish and short and Paimer to meet the Livonia, reserving the second race, on September 28, when the
Kiat, of 36, Bonham Strand West."
It appeared that technical objections had been mooted against the monopoly being granted to Messrs. Ta› Joo Chin and Seah Eng Kiat through their failure to accom. pany the tender with the deposit receipt
of the
amount placed with the Colonial Treasurer as a hona fides of the offer. Learning that the gentleman second in the list of tenderers, given in our columns yesterday, was to contest the legality of the grant to the present farmers, they instructed Messrs. Deacon and Hastings to watch their interests at the meeting of the Executive Council held yesterday in the event of Counsel for the other party being allowed to appear. We are informed that the FLOOR, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD, Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., was retained in bove Messrs. H, PRICE & Co.).
behalf of Mr. Ho Kom Tong, and that an application was made to the Colonial Secre- tary that the tenderer be heard through
祥利
TEMPORARY STORE:
ING-ROOM, DINING-ROOM,
and BED-ROOM
FRO-PLATED, GLASS, and
廣
FURNITURE..
RNITURE Counsel who might be allowed to argue DEALERS.
the case before the Executive Council. We were further informed that refer ence by Government to the hon the Attorney General elicited the advice from the law officer of the Crown that, the defi- berations of this Council being strictly pri- vate, Counsel could not appear.. For that reason it has not been possible for us to ascertain upon what grounds Messrs. Tan and Seah's claim was upheld. They were at one time (1898-99) connected with the Straits Settlements Farm, and on their failure to work in agreement with their old partners on the new lease of the Straits farm they proceeded to Hongkong and succeeded in obtaining the privilege they now hold.
E CHINA WARES.
UR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
CHESTER LAMPS,
WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.
"COUNTERPANES.
NG RANGES, -** TCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
OTOGRAPHIC EPARTMENT,
OPING and PRINTING DERTAKEN for AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK
PROMPT RETURN. ong, 29th August, 1903
[728d
MICHAEL AND
CLARKE,
ULTING ENGINEERS AND
SHIPBUILDERS, YORS AND CONTRACTORS.
COMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Hongkong.
ion,"
Code:
20th March,
Casse
drink in the tropics if the Beer
UCH-SAN MIGUEL,
THE INTERNATIONAL VÁCHT- RACE..
exclusive of time allowance, such race was not to count, and had to be resailed, The first race was to be sailed on Thursday, August 20; the second on Saturday, August 22, and the third on Tuesday, August 25. Further races (if any) were to be sailed on each following Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday until finished. We have seen that the first гасе Was abandoned, with the Reliance leading, and that when it was resailed the defender won by seven minutes. In the second race, the Shamrock was z minutes and 36 seconds late in start- ing, of which 36 seconds were disallowed according to rule, and although in running home she gained considerably, the Reliance secured the event by 79 seconds. regard to the third race, which was declared off on the 27th ult., Reuter reported that "the result of the skilful jokeying of the Reliance was that neither boat crossed the starting
race."
With
line till after the handicap gun had fired, the Shamrock thus losing 107 out of 157 seconds handicap. This is the worst tactical defeat ever sustained
America' Cup
at the start in any
want of wind the event could not be re- Oving ta sailed until yesterday when, according to our London correspondent, whose wire is supplemented by information kindly placed at our disposal by the local representative of the Sperry Flour Company, the defender won the race by between eight and ten minutes thus leaving in Amercia the cup, which the genial Hibernian knight, who has proved himself first a man, then a sport, and last, but by no means least, a true son of Erin has, for the third time, unsuccess fully endeavoured to carry across the Atlantic.
LOCAL AND GENERAL The Mikado seat a personal telegram of sym pathy to Hatfield. :
As announced in a special extra to the Hongkong Telegraph, at nine o'clock this morning, the American yacht, Reliance, has successfully defended the Royal Yacht Squa dron's International Queen's Cup, value £100, which was first won by the America, an American yacht, of 171 tons, at Cowes Regatta, August 22, 1851, in a match round THE Tokio Government denies that a commer the late of Wight, and afterwards presented cial treaty is being made between Canada and
Japan.
lived, and the females do not breed.
い
right to name one of these four on the morning of each mee. The Livonto sailed five races and 'won one.
AROUSED FOREIGN INTEREST.
Meru and nine other vessels, two hundred and TB crews of the Japanese schoner Tenyu
fifty inen all told, were arrested some time ago by the Russian authorities at Kamchatka forThese races aroused some fureign interest, fishing in Russian waters. The crews were of Duft vin, arived as a challenger, The and in 1876, the Canadian schooner Countess sent to Vladivostock on the 16th July. They schooner Afadeleine, was selected to meet her were released after being tried and 150 of them. arrived at Shimonoseki by the Aikoku Maru and won the event. In 1881, the centreboard expected there by the Ise Maju on 25th olt, yesterday. The remaining 100 m a were loop Atalanta, designed by Captain Cuthbert went from untalio to get the cup, but the iron sloop Mischief won the cup. The Atalanta's voyage hitherto led to the insertion of a clause in the deed of gift, specifying that vessels selected to compete for this cup must proceed under sail on their own bottoms to the port where the contest is to take place.":
By kind permission of Major Radcliff and Officers the land of the 33rd Burma Infintry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow
(Saturday) from 8 to 9.30 p.m.
March. Euir' Acle: Selection So Selection. Valtz
"La Lettre de Manoti
Leibeslied
Marmion "Atherley Gillai The Shop Girl Ivan Caryl Caroly lay A Chiaest Honeymoon Talbot 'Amoureuse “ Characteristic Piece A Dervish Chorus "Bebek ***Berger
God save the King,
In 1885 came the challenge which lifted the America's cop to the level that its donors had Sought for it that of an international challenge cup; and so far as America was concerned,
Mail your films and Kodak orders to LeMun- made the contests for it representative of the yon, P. O B. 368-Advt.
American yacht Columbia won by i min á sec. The third race, on October 1, was unfin shed. An October 4 Celunibla won the fourth race by 3min 35 sec; and on October 4 won the fifth race by 41 sec. The Cup, therefore, was retaine the United States. This year as we
has carried off the three races. seen Shamrock, the cup defender Reliance
S.SINGPO" ON THE ROCKS.
S
The British steamer Vingpe, while on a trip. from Hongkong to Cebu, struck a large rock projecting from the Island of Hermiana Menor, on Friday night, says the Cablenawr of the st insi. The Wingpe is commanded by Cap'ain Parker, and the crew, numbering eight, who reached here. yesterday declare that little hope
entertained for saving the steamer
culated
encountered nextthe shores of Hermaba Menor, A reacherous current of great force is always
and it is believed that the pilot misca his ground and neglected to a through the turbulent channel, di
The ruined vessel was cons
and Fille
ghest skill in yacht building and builing, The Royal Yacht Squadron and the Royal Northern Yacht club simultaneously offered as and Galatta and it was agreed that the Genesta Smith, Bell & Co., and challengers the eighty-five-foot cutters Genesta should compete for the cup in 1885, and if, shen board because of the improb The publications of the dimensions of the failed to it, the Galaled should try in 1886ccesfully fluating Ber Genesta aroused anxiety among the American
AN investigation was held at the Magistracy attending the death of Sunwong, at the Vic yesterday afternoon into the circumstances toria Gaal on the 3rd inst. The deceased was $10 or go to prison for ten days' imprisonment, sentenced on the 31st August to pay a fine of
for having a quantity of opium in his house, without the necessary certificate. The follow-yachtsmer, and it was at once seen that a new SHIPPING AND MAILS. ing jury was appointed Messrs. R. familton, medical and other evidence, the jury brought A. H. Edwards and P. E, Silva After hearing in a verdict that death was due to chronic ulcer of the stomach and failure of the heart's action
boat would have to be built to defend the cup. to every yachting organization in the country The New York Yacht Club sent an invitation to ent Bep
to enter competitors in the trial races to decide on the defender and the Puritan was finally
A PAINT scraper had to answer a charge at the chosen as the bait to meet the English cutter. Magistracy this morning. before Mr. T. Ser She won the first race and the second meet- except, the contest between Vigilant and combe Smith, for being a member of the Triading was the finest race ever sailed for the cup.
Valkyrie, s
Society, A native detective stated, tat at about 2 pm. yesterday, he encountered defen. dont at the Tsim-Tsa-tsul ferry wharf, with a bundle of clothing in his hand. He stopped him, and after inspecting the contents of the bundle, consisting of various books, fancy. suits, &, he arrested him for unlawful posses son, but on further investigation at the Central Police Station, it was stated that he belonged to the unlawful society, Defendant was remanded
No cases of plague were reported during the until Friday 11th instanse twenty-four hours ended at noon lo-day
A large gathering of sporting men met at the City Hall last night to witness a
contest between Sam Newman,
Jones of the Albion There were liminary Bouls, which included THE British steamer Afercedes arrived from sparring match between J Wellington this morning with coals, for thean America pugili Admiralty.
and Barret, of the of the 178 and Goliath
and Leight Marripity of the
to the New York Yacht Club as a trophy for au international race. The eyes of yacht lovers the world over has been turned to- ward the spot on the American Atlantic sea- board where Shamrock III, emblematic of IN the budget of Japap pext Sir Thomas Lipton's Irish sporting pluck, being compiled, the revenue has struggled. ocean with for the blue ribbon of the estimated at about the equi
the representative of the Stars
sterling.
and Stripes in which millions of Americans, THE Wakanoura daru, have placed so much reliance. DescripJapanese at Chem tions of the challenger and defen service, between with comparative tabulations of their
on her first voyag portions, lines and sailing c ificatio estimates of their speeds in-ro
THE Bear to drink in the tropics is the Beer
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL
year, which is now. xpenditure are of £23,000,000
wned
fight twar Jones ani
enty-round:
of the Hum
The following year the Galatea made ready to fight for the cup and the Mayflower, which was selected to meet ber, won both races,
A syndicate of En busiastic Scotchman. of the racing spirit of the Clyde, now eng the eminent designer, Geo. L. Wat Yankee inventions. The yacht was down the lines of a yacht that a now known as the Monk
- Afelor; and Emperor William of Germany was the lint Britton Jach! America's Cup competition good boat, but was beaten For five years the cup
Earl of Dunt
Zinning
MAILS DUE
French (
Ind
Cana
Australian
madiag
Namsa
(Coptic
Page 5Page 6