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CARBOLIC SOAIS Effect a saving of 50%, owing to the large size of the tablets. They are made of the
purest ingredients and are elegantly put up. Our Carbolic Dog Soap is the best
thing of its kind in the market.
,
WATSON'S TAI YUEK FONG HAIR WASH- Prepared from a recipe of the late Dr. Ayres, continues to give much satisfaction
to those who use it.
WATSON'S
ORIENTAL- DENTIFRICE
-
In the early days of the Colony the public used no other. Liquid dentifrices do not keep the teeth white and clean. We re-
commend the above preparation to all, and especially to those who are heavy smokers.
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HONGKONG, THESDAY, ÚCTOBER 20, 1903.
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS FOR
THE CHINA STAZION.
In an editorial, we commented upon the despatch, by the Admiralty, of the cruiser Europa to our fleet in Chinese waters, and reliable information now reaches us concern ing the extra battleship, to be taken from the Mediterranean squadron, which will constitute another unit in our Far Eastern defences. The names of the battleship at present on the Mediterranean list are as follows:-The Casar, Formidable, Illus trious, Implacable, Irresistable, Renown, Russel and the Venerable. One of these will shortly be on her way out here and we have serious reasons for believing that the most likely two, from which choice will be made, are the Russel and the Renown. The first of these has been newly commissioned and is of the latest class, while the Renown is somewhat less up to 'date, though still a comparatively new ship. She was the flag ship in the Mediterranean when Sir John Fisher was Commander-in-Chief on the Station there, and we are inclined to think
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THE por authorities at Salgon have removed. I understand that BE Sir A, Blako is the quarantine restrictions on Steamers Cofing, leaving “Mountain Lodge” to-morrow, and will from Hongkong and Amoy, munka *** take up his residence at Government House,
ARTICLES dealing with the Chino-Japanese from Singapore this afternoon. She left the Comme cial, Trenty and the Chinese Engineer- Southern port on the 14th insting and Mining Company, Ltd, are printed on
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THE trade of Japan, including Fermata, for the eight months'en ed. August, shows in?"" creases of £5,151,000 in the impons, 2,706,000 in the exports, and £7,857,000 in the total trade.
M. BEAU, Governor-General of French Indo
THE French man-of-war Parcal has been. ordered to Ningpo in consequence of the fight ing between native followers of the French and English missionaries,
SHONGKONG GENEKAL CHAIR
WEBER OF COMMERCE
At a monthly meeting of the Gèn mittee of the Ho Commerce held?
Hall, on Tuesday,
(be Ch mh
Octobe
Res
dóm, Clly:
p.m., Present Mr. E.“A He Dickson, Messrs. C. Michelau, MED:RL (Viet chaiman) Hoa G. W. J. F. M. Smith, H. E. Tomkins,
A., G, Wood, Hos. H. E. Pollock, KC, (ex officio) and A. Lowe, Secretary. sar digger & MINUTES,
Chamber "the acti
Hongkong memorial:
and asking for 'samo'subject which
The Secretary reported that the Chanib, r'a letter of the 1st August was.
TWO saloon dining care of the Wagon Lits. The minutes of the monthly meeting held the Tintain Chamber on the Company will be running between Peking and Stb ultime were read and confirmed Newchwang about the end of this month. w NEW MEMBER They are coming out by sea-Erling
The Secretary reported that since the last meeting Mr. A. M. Essabhoy had been elected
that the altered memorial Shangbai had been oved and of the memorial had been forwarde Ministers at Peking, also tha
Chia, returned to Saigon on the 12th instans | AT the invitation of Mr. P. 1. Roosegaarde to membership subject to the usual conferosince been sent to the Tient afte executing a tour of inspection, lasting for Bischop, head agent of the Java-China-Japan, tion by the members at the next annoal general for a complete copy nearly three weeks, through Cochinchina, Cam
bodia and the Laos....
OUR French contemporaries in Tonkin state that a severe epidemic of cholera is raging in Hanoi, the capital, and the surrounding villages Up to the present no Europeans have fallen victims to the disease.
TWENTY unemployed natives were charged at the Magistracy this morning with being Righe and vagabonds, Four of them were discharged and the remainder ordered by Mr. Sercombe Smith to be placed in the stocks for three hours.
THE Rev. Robert Hugh Benson, M.A, son of the late Dr. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church, at the Dominican Priory, Woodchester by the Rev. Father H. Reginald Buckler, O.F. THERE is a prospect that ere long an Admiralty station will be provided in the Isle of Man. The coastguard authorities of the island have recently been required to furnish the Admiralty with full information as to Douglas and Ramsey.
meeting card
Lijn, many visitors went off to the ss. Tipanas last evening and inspected the new ship.*
JAQUES QUARANTINE, Stories -Read letter, from Colonial Secretary dated the AN edict issued at St. Petersburg transfers the 15th ultimo stating that there were no quaran Trans-Baikal Cossack regiment and battery totine regulations now existing in the port of Kwantung, Peninsula, where the, independent Manila against arrivals from Hongkong. East Siberia Cossack Brigade is forming,
THE insurgents have established: native cus- tomy and likin stations in Kwangsi wherewith to meet their expenses, and the merchants appear quite satisfied with the way they man age things...
We are still doing business at 31, Des Voeux Road. BeMunyon. Advt.
VICE-ADMIRAL Sir Gerard Noel who succeeds Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge on the China Station, is 58 years of age, and as long ago as 1873 commanded the naval guard to Lord Wolseley during the Ashantee Campaign of that year; having previously obtained a first class certificate as a gunnery-lieutenant. He became a Naval Lord just ten years since, and following on his service in the Mediterranean (when he handled the Cretan difficulty so factfully) succeeded Sir Compton Domvile as Admiral-Superintendent of Naval Reserves in
A NEW work is announced from the pen of 1900.
CROWN AGENTS' SYSTEM AND THE COLOMBO
CHAMBERLA
Read letter dated 8th ultimo from the Colombo Chamber thanking this Chamber for the information sent them as to the working of the "Crown Agents System" and the Public Works Department in Hongkong and also for the offer to continue the discussion of this
question.
NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF FOR BUROPEAN
PROPOSED NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF
FOR AUSTRIA-HUNGARY...... Copies of these tariffs furnished to the Cham- ber by the Colonial Secretary on the 26th altimo with a request that the Government would be glad to receive any observations thereon which the Chamber may be disposed to offer were laid on the tible. It was agreed to look into the matter and÷8 send the Government the “results of Liquiry."
THE SUGAR CONVENTION.
.1,
the names of ite
ledged by:
stating
A letter dated agth ultimo from Secretary was rend enclosin {om Mr." Chamberlain to F referring to the resolutionss agreed to a. recent meeting of theDelegates from the United States, Chine and Great Britain regarding the monetary, sys tems of silver-using countries and the meal of a national currency in the Empire. The Secretary of State expressed the opinion that it seemed in be out of the ques standard for Hongkong while China remained tion to entertain the idea of adopting a gold
Rish-
a silver-standard country, and ho it there fore consider that it would be appofat a commission to inquire into the sub- ject.
intendo:
The Chairman said that the corresponde had since been published by the Government and that, under the circumstances, nothing could very well be done, until it was known what attitude the Chinese Governm ed to take up with rega to the gassed by the Delegates at the ference, and the opinion expressed in the Joint Memorial from the Chambers of C
otp Shanghai, Tientsin, and Hongkong, which would doubtless be forwarded by the
utions Con-
Mr. E. H. Parker, and will be issued by A ST. Petersburg correspondent of the L&by the Gävemment ware laid on the table. It Diplomatic Body at Paking to whom, it was and Present. It will have a specially good Messrs. Chapman under the title, China, Past map, and deals with China from the earliest times to the present day.
WITHIN a few days there have been no less than six suicides among the French soldiers in garrison at Kwanchouwan. The Courrier, de Saigon states that General Goronnat, the Commander-in-Chief, is adverse to the reten
as to whether it
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IMBECILE, EMIGRANTS ORDINANCE, $1903" Mr. Pollock drew the attention of the ComNS mittes to the provisions of the new Bill now......... before the Legislative Council a and pointed out
info the in the
that she will most probably be selected. The A. S. WATSON & CO., Renown was built in 1895 by Messrs. Maudsly & Co. at Pembroke, and has a dis- placement of 12,350 tons and is of 11,000 LH.P. Her length is 380 feet, breadth of tion of this new port, owing to its insanitary and the rest were taken out in sections on decided, on the suggestion of the Chairman, lunatic, idiotic or imbecile, deal, durab, blind beam 72 feet and draught 26 ft. 9. in. Her side situation. armour has a thickness of from 6 to 8 inches,
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND
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Boer te drink in the tropics is the Bear made in the tropice-SAN MIGUEL
bulkhead 6 to ro inches and turrets 1D inches. Her armament consists of 11 10-in. 29-ton guns, 10 6-in. Q.F., 8 ̧12-pr. do., 12 3-pr. do. and 8 machine guns. She is fitted with seven torpedo-tubes, two of which are submerged. It is interesting to note that the Russel was recently built by Palmer's Shipbuilding Co,, of Jarrow-on-Tync.. She is supposed to be the fastest battleship in commission, having been designed to steam 19 knots; and she exceeded this speed at her official steam trials in the English Channel.
RUSSIAN TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
Reuter's announcement that a special commission under the presidency of the Tsar has been formed at St. Petersburg to consider affairs in the Far East and to dis cuss financial proposals and measures for the development of trade and industry, is evident
y a result of the meeting of representatives of the Russian railway companies and Bourse committee which, towards the close of last year, was entrusted with the task of drawing up the tariff of rates for the direct carriage of goods between Russia and China. The most divergent views were expressed by mem bers of the committees during a preliminary debate on the position and possibilities of Russian trade in the Far East, and several of the representatives gave it as their opinion that it was hopeless for Russia to strive against England, Germany and America on the Chi nese markets without some strong artificial sup. port such as would be given by export bounties. On the other hand, it was argued that a great demand existed for European goods in the Far East, and the considerable number of Russians living along the Manchurian Rail- way would constitute a natural market for Russian wares. All that was needed was to make the railway rates so low that the Russian exporter could send his goods more cheaply overland than his foreign competitors by sea, while the Manchurian railway could, moreover, assist Russian trade by providing warehouses, by granting loans and by other means. The members, however, were agreed that it was time for the country to exert herself if she intended to compete
for the Far Eastern trade with the Western nations.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE British cruisers fatkan and Eclipse arrived at Fusan from Weikaiwei on: the 7th inst..
We have received the medical reports in con- nection with the Chinese Customs for the year ended 30th September, 1991.
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16,000 tons, will be laid down shortly in the posed of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and
Express states that two battleships, each of
addressed. was decided to appoint a Sub-Committed com- Baltic Sipbuilding Yard on the Neva, The Hon. C. W. Dickson to plans of the projected vessels were prepared would be advisable, or not, to bring in legisla. last year by the Technical Marine Commission,tion to deal with the Sugar trade of this Colony with the assistance of a Special Commission: THE SALT TRADE OF THE COLONY At this moment the Pacific Squadron contains・・ A series of questions, relating to the salt 26 torpedo boats of various types. Some of trade and consumption in the Colony, asked these crafts have made the voyage, from the Chev. Z. Volpicelli on behalf of the Austrian Baltic to the Far East with their own engines, Government, was laid on the table and it was
shipboard and put together in the dock at Port to leave him to discuss the matter with the
-EXPLOSIVES ON BOARD STEAMERS IN THE.
HARBOURNE The following correspondence was read
Hongkong, 16th September, 1903, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
SIR, I bave the honour to brag to your P notice, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that the obligation to fly the red. dag and to lie in the dangerous goods anchorage by every steamer arriving at this port with ammunition on board in quantities, however
If you want a first class photo of yourself you Arthur. Moreover torpedo boats, built
can get it at LeMunyon's-Adet.
THE sloop Espiègle arrived at Kobe on the 7th inst, after several days' fru tless search for the missing steamer Finsbury, which left that port
on the 22nd ultima for Yokohama and has oft since been heard of. Search for the instry will be continued by the cruiser Sirius, as the Espiègle has left for Wei hai-wei
THE Jap nese Consul at Bombay informs his Government that the Indian markets have been swamped with Japanese matches to such an extent that business in that product. is at a complete standstill. The Consul advises his countrymen to form a trust for controlling the export and the price of Japanese matches.
AN engagement took place near Lucnam in Tonking, on the 27th ultimo between a column of native militia under the weders con spector Guillaume, and a group of Chinese bandits armed with repeating rifles. Several of the latter were killed and wounded, and the remainder of the band escaped into the moun
tains.
A HOUSEBOY, employed at No. 15, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, was charged at the Magis- tracy this morning before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, for unlawfully being found in the ser vants' quarters at No. 1, Canton Villas without the consent of the occupier. His Worship imposed a fine of $10 or fourteen days' bard labour.
THE statue of the late Lord Salisbury which is to be erected in Parliament-square 'will, it is probable, be placed in close proximity to that of the late Earl of Beaconsfield and immediate ly facing that of Canning on the other side of the roadway. The other similar memorials this quarter are the statues of Peel, Palmerston, and Derby.
PRESS message from the States are evidently cheap. The following is dated, New York, October 16th-The Prophet Elijah is expected his courier ahead, and will lead a host of 4,000 of the faithful to charge the bears and bulls John Alexander Dowie, who claims to be Elijah reincarnated, says that he will storm Satan-in his stronghold. He expects is convert to Zionism, his religion; the majority of the devil ish brokers,
to raid Wall street to-morrow, He has sent
recently in various Government and private shipbuilding yards, are on their way to the Far Of the larger warships destined to East Alexander II, and the Auroru are still.com strengthen the Pacific Squadron the Imperator, pleting their general equipment in Cronstadt, whence they will sail about the end of this month.
applicant. CAN WEAKENNE
that section 3 reading as follows “3. The owner, charterer, ag and master of every ship which bri Colony any passanger Colony, who at the time of his landing is either
or infirm, or becomes so within eriod of six months from the date of land
and who becomes a charge upon the public or upon any public institution, shall be held liable repay to the Government of the Coli fall costs and char
by the Colony on behalf
such
charge on the
was decided to protest againi
ADMIRAL Marechal, who was recently removed from the command of the French Squadron in the Far East by M. Felletan because he had refused to repriman M. Hourer who, he con- small, has recently been under cons
by the committee of this Chamber with par sidered, had merely obeyed the Minister's in- structions, arrived at Marseilles by the in-cular reference to the decision of the Mag coming French mail. It was charged to Lieut. of the Police Court in the case of the 5.5. Nord- Hourst that he exceeded instructions in going whose master was fined So on the 3rd to the protection of French residents' in the instant for failing to comply with the regulations region of Upper Yangtsze. A heated corres-in this respect whilst having two cases of sportlery SCROBBERY pondence ensued, and Admiral Marechal was ing cartridges on board,“
tion of the measure,
A
THE BELILIOS TERRACE
The case io
ordered to hand the squadron over to Admiralt may be known to the Government that Cochrane Stre Le Do, pending the arrival of the permanent practically every coasting steamer trading in successor, Admiral Bayle. On his arrival Ad. Chinese waters carries certain quantities of miral Marechal refused to be interviewed, be- ammunition in the shape of cartridges for pro- cause he said he was unaware of the motives tection against piracy and apparently the for his disgrace, and was simply, proceeding to masters are liable under the Ordinance for the Ministry of Marine to explain himself, as infringing the red flag rule, he had been requested to do. Before, leaving
the Far East Admiral Marechal received visits from the commanders of all the foreign squa- drans, and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge made him a present of a model of a junk in silver.
CORRESPONDENCE;
[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by *Correspondents in this column.]:
OUR COOLIE ARISTOCRATS
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TO THE EDITOR or the "Hongkono TrísgrAFIE”.
It is suggested that the maximun quantity allowed as cargo loading and discharging with out their lecurring the formalities required under the existing regulations might be placed at one hundred pounds of gunpowder or fixed ammunition to a quantity not exceed ing twenty thousand pounds so that the aggregate powder charges do not exceed one hundred pounds
San Hing, and been charged, stealing jewel and wounding against Ada Marie amah; on the 16th, Mr. Sercombe Smith outset Ng Muk, the
usin
Kwas afternoo Who was
by the amal in the street as baving in the affair, was discharged at seem nothing to do with the matter. were remanded in custódy until
SE
For some Whampoa
Such small quantities may in the opinion of my Committee be handled without any serious k either at the wharves, or amongst the
instructed to inquire, whether His Excellency upon general, shipping, in, the stream, and I am
can see his way to authorne the introduction.
scher Lloyd of an amending Ordinance containing such leave the slips clauses as will meet the views of the shipping and Patris, respe interest in this direction. — I have, etc.
The Colonial Secretary.
steel and their Length
depi extreme, o
SAR Lows,
Secralary, Colonial Secretary's Office, 50 picula. They
triple expansion Hongkong, 22nd September, 1903. Y
with one BIR-1 am directed to acknowledge the re-
the worki
the
SIR-Will you allow me, through your columns, to bring before the notice of the public the conduct of certain private chair coolies when carrying their employers on some of the narrower pathways of the bills, which think could be corrected were
their masters? On more than one occasion the necessary instructions given them by
it has come under my observation that a couple of chairs bearing what, at first sight, appeared to be ordinary Hongkong gentlemen, travelling two abreast, met. a lady who was ceipt of your letter of the 16th instant regard coming down. I looked to see the chairs forming the conditions under which a vessel with into single file, so as to allow the lady to pass but no such thing happened, and the member and to inform you that the Goverment sees no ammunition on board may enter this harbour, of the gemiler sex was obliged to stand in the suficient reason for altering the law in the gutter while: the chaits, with their contents, of passed abreast. Doubiless, what I mistook for WRITING on the subject of the recent prose-gentlemen were a couple of pillows being trans.
in chairs, but mây, I. venture to suggest. cution for shot-reeled yarns, a Manchester that if the coolies were instructed in the Euro- correspondent says:-It seems very absurd pean manner of treating the fair sex, visitors an outsider that any merchant in Manchester would not run away with the idea that Eastern should be fined in Manchester for something custom had superceded European courtesy out which is done outside of the country altogettier, and done for a country which possesses no suce here I am, Yours sic law as the Merchauise Maries Act. "': How many Manchester merchants, trading with, the Siraits: Settlements, Dutch East Indies, and the Philip pines could be punished for doing identically the same thing as Mr. Manoukian, with imp
iforence, that! Manch merch ware short reling
"get them at LeMunyon's; they are guaranteed. Manchester and shipping.it:
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Hongkong, oth Deuber, 190.
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