Intimations.
BIRTH.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1905.
At Changi, on 17th January, Mr. W. N FERGUSSON, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 38th of February, 1905, at the Cathe
dral, Shangbai, BENJAMIN CHAS. BLOOM- A. S. WATSON & CO., HALL, F. R. G. 8. (Eng.), of Taiyli infu. Shanti, youngest son of Benjamin Broomhall; Esq, London, to MARION, third daughter of Alfred Othniel Aldwinckle, of Highbury Park, Lon
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chants desiring to make dona fide purchases from the Government offices, which are really opium hongs, must be duly protected. Regarding the smoking licences, the wording of the regulation is somewhat ambiguous, and we fail to see how the restriction can be made applicable to members of the rising generation desirous of taking the first pipe. In order to limit the use of opium to those who have used it in the past, and to prevent young men
ESTABLISHED A.D. | Che Haughong Czlegraph acquiring the habit, licences should, it
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WINE AND SPIRIT
MERCHANTS.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1905.
PROPOSED OPIUM
says, be granted to applicants desiring lo use the drug, and a heavy fine should be imposed on any persons found using the drug without such licence. In this way it is estimated the habit might be completely checked in the space of ten years, and both foreign and native opium be done away with. The tax levied on native opium amounts
NAVAL NOTES.
It is rumoured that the Flora cruiser is being brought forward at Devonport to relieve the Sirler whose two years' commission expires
IT is reported at Victoria (B.C.) that inquiries are being made of the Pacific Coast regarding, the carriage of a shipment of 400,0.0 old rifles, Springfields and others, which are to be shipped om New York to Japan with the purpose, it is said, of arming the bandits and other Chi- this month. ness, as well as nomads living in Northern Manchuria and Southern Siberia,
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethemale Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Haspitals:-
D. MacDonald..............................................
...$15: Yung Chak................................. 10 "Thanking God for the truth and
good riddance of bad rubbish"... 50 a Puppy's bad habits have been the cause of considerable trouble and expense to two residents in Wanchai, resulting in a wordy wan a free fight, 'cross suminenses for assaults abusive language, and fines and bonds to be of
The fleet is at present carrying out its usual quarterly practices of to pedo and heavy party of men are detailed off from each ship gun firing. When not that engaged a large and are employed on shore building a rifle range for the use of the fleet.
TELEGRAM.
THE WAR:
APPROACHING THE GOAL.
JAPANESE CONTINUR, TO ADVANCE.
forwards us the following telegram:---
Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, kindly
Tokio, 6th March, 4.58 pm. On the morning of the 5th Inst., The monotony of life aboard in Mirs Bay is enemy, in the direction of Hingking was broken somewhat at times by concerts at the still obstinately resisting various ships. The other evening to celebrets. In the region of Sha-ho, on the 4th Inst., the anniversary of their first twelve monʼha-in
our detachment, attacking the height north- commission, the ship's company of the Andra- meda gave a concert preceded by a prend on
of Penninlupao, four miles east of Wartu the lower deck to whi h about 300 guests from shan, captured the enemy's first position. the Ocean, Sulie) and Iphigenia: sat down. At dawn of the 5th instant, the detach- Unfortunately the remainder of the fleet were ment, near Hausungmupaolzu captured a anchored too far distant to ad-unit of their at
Russian redoubt on the height.
by men of diverse views that one is inclined only to 100 taels per picul, which makes the gord behaviour. It appears that one of the tending. A cipital programme was gone. price smaller than that of foreign optumitigants owned several canined, sooch through and kept everyone Jovial for several
REGULATIONS,
The question of the use and cultivation of opium in China has been dealt with so often to wonder whether anything more practical than the existing state of affairs can be brought about by a further sifting of the subject. We have all heard the latest denun- ciation of the trade by members of the BLEND American International Reform Bureau, whó anticipate that the close of the present war will afford strategic opportunity for a diplo.
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
SCOTCH
WHISKY.
D -PORT,
VERY FINE OLD VINTAGE MANY
YEARS IN BOTTLE.
Pop Ma
malic effort to induce Great Britain to cut
on which 110 taels is paid in China, in ad dition to the duty paid in India, and the freight. Moreover, seven or eight-tenths of the prepared opium can be obtained from the crude opium, while from the foreign, opium only four-tenths can be obtained. The consumption of the former then must
be much greater than the latter. After this system has been carried into execution, there
were pups, which had caused annoyance on the other litigant's' verandah. The owner thereof ofreted, and the objection led to both appearing before Mr. Hazeland at the Magis tracy this morning. The charge of assault was proved by the black eye of the first complainant, and the admission of the first defendant, who was then fined $15. In the cross case for using
hours: Great credit is due to Mr. Cistleman (Chief Bandmaster) by whose untiring energies the concert proved a great success. MATHS SHIPPING JET SAM.
morning of the gth inst., we captured In the region east of the railway, án thé
Liuchiangtun, two miles south-east Wan- paoshan, and are now
the enemy in that villageing a part of In the region west of the railway, on the 5th inst., we occupied Hanchengpto, The Minicola took 3,:00 tons of coal into Hsiaosuchiapao, and her bunkers at Nagasaki.
are continuing our. advance on the offensive. The railway station of Suchiatun is burning.
off the foreign supply of the drug to China, would be no necessity for renewing the were bound over is personal bonds of $200 Vla livostok, is lying ice-bound off Kunajiri. |
and are likewise mostly familiar with the cu rios defence set up by those who profit by keeping this millstone hanging around the neck of the Celestial. A discussion of the evils arising from the use of the narcotic need not be entered into here, as these are
question with the Indian Government, as opium would be stopped naturally. Our Northern contemporary observes that the re- gulations sound all very plausible if they could be carried out, but with the opium habit developed chiefly in China's
abusive and insulting language, and to put a stop to disturbances of this nature, both parties
each to be of good behaviour for 12 months,
ACTION AGAINST A SHIPPING COMPANY.
ALLEGED, SHORT CARGO. L
At the Civil Summary Court this afternoon,
A foreign steamer, presumably bound for
Owing to the ice, navigation in the waters of the northern coast of Hokkaido is now impos sible.
ROYAL ENGINEERS ANNUAL JASPECTION.
admitted on all hands and can produce very official class we altogether fail to see what before the Puisne Judge (Mr. T. Sercombe a dangerous position. The information was by Major A. A, Chichester, C.5.0., and Captain
little beneficial results. It is clear that there is an overwhelming general opinion against the trade, not among Western nations alone, but among many of the influential officials in China, who recognise the harmful influence which has been stem- ming the tide of progress for many years past. Without at this stage probing too far into the matter, it now looks as though the
measures with a view to curtailing the use
chance it has. It is roughly estimated that the area of land under opium cultivation is about goo or 600 thousand of ch'ing (1 ch'ing100 mou) of which the product amounts to 4,000,000 piculs. The price of each picul is calculated at goo taels, and a
levy of two-tenths on the value, makes a total of 400,000,000 tales. Allowance might
Smith) the Mutual Stores Company of Des Voeux Read, sued the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steamship Company to recover $117.60 in respect of stort landed and damaged cargo.
Mr. D. Sieavanson appeared for the plaintiffs,
and Mr. Bailey defended.
Mr. Stravenson said that the plaintiffs pur- chared twenty-five cases of sugar coin from a Californian Fruit Company, Eleven cases
COLLIER ASHORE, Laden with coal and bound for Manila, the steamer Pharsalla has grounded on Kalantal shoal, in the San Bernarding Stinits and lies in
contained in a telegram to the collector of cus- tons at Manila from the captain of the cur- toins cutter Stagull. Collector Shuster promptly wired the captain of the Seagull to stand by and render all assistance possible. Lloyd's agency and the steamer's agents at Manila were also notified. A later telegram from the captain of the Seagull states that owing to the dangerous position in which the vessel lies it
to relieve her of her cargo...
At nine o'clock this moining Major General Villiers Hatton, C. B., made the annual inspec- tion of the Royal Engineers, at Wellington Barracks, His Excellency, who was attended
E. S. Ward, A.D.C., saw the troops go through the usual evolutions and review drill, and in been very pleased with their smart appearance subsequently addressing the men, said he had and thorough knowledge of the movements through which they had been put, and which bad been in every way very satisfactory, The companies generally, were quite up to their work, especially Company 25-which wan ex- coptionally good-and the Hongkong Company,
and were to be congratulated on their smart turn- out, after their European tuition and training. Council of the More Province has empowered minute inspection of the barracks and the Zamboanga, February 18-The Legislative His Excellency next made a thorough and the Provincial Governor to conclude arrange- men's quarters, and had no fault to find any just as soon as satisfactory freight and passen-dit to the officers and men alike. The appara Hongkong for their boats to stop at this port and well-cared for appearance, which did cre ments with the China Navigation Company of where, the whole place presenting a very clean.
Imperial Government is about to take be made for bad harvests etc., but were delivered on February 3rd, 1904. The will be necessary to send down a large steamer while the Native Company, were also very good.
A CHOICE AFTER-DINNER WINE, and cultivation of the drug; for, according to the P. and times, new regulations have been drawn up ostensibly with this object, but which are already regarded by Chinese as really an attempt to create a profitable A. S. WATSON & Co., Government monopoly. The four ways in which the drug can be brought under con-
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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 25th February, 1905.
BAHADUR
CIGARS.
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100,000,000 taels is obtainable or at least 100,000,000 taels each year. It is proposed that this amount should be devoted to the
carrying out of reforms and the repayment of loans, which does not quite coincide with the idea of a desire to curtail such a source of revenue, but rather only to more entirely control it. The move is too sudden,, and
vernment's solicitude for the welfare of her most ardent admirers of the paternal Go-
plaintiffs' godown man attended at the defen- danis' godown and received the eleven cares. the defendants' godown man informing him.
that fourteen cases were short-landed and gave him a shirt delivery order acknowledging the same. Plaintiffs sat back awaiting the nothing from the defendants up to August sent arrivals of the balance of the corn, but hearing
in a c'am for the value of the missing cargo.
THE C. N. CO. AND PHILIPPINE TRADE.
trol are set forth in detail by our Tientsin will not be readily accepted by even the in November defendants wrote asking why these boats stopping here, a freight business of and found to be in perfect working order, and
Sons,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tu Hongkong Schools Athletic Sports will be held on 27th inst.
TREKE was a report current in Japan towards the close of last month that the Rossia, and Gromoboi had put to sea.
The Rev. F. T. Johnson requests all. Dublin, University men who have not recently heard
from him to communicate with him as soon as. possible.
#
THE flagship of the Baltic fiert, Knias Savaro, has managed to reach St. Louis, Senegal, having been severely damaged through stranding.
SINCE the fall of Port Arthur, the Chefoo cor.' respondent and "the man who arrived there on a Chinese junk" with a story of the siege, have both gone out of business.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Contemporary. The first is with regard to investigation of the land actually under cul- tivation for the poppy. It is proposed that this investigation which has been adopted for several years, without objec tion from the people in Shansi, should be ex- tended to all the provinces, the method being to make the opium farmers report the number of acres to the local authorities through the constables, then to their superiors, who in return appoint deputies to compare the reports and make the col lection. The Board now proposed to adopt "San-lien piao," a document of three por- tions, of which one is to be kept by the local officials, the other issued to the farmer, and the third sent to the provincial capital, the number of acres and their location being given on each part of the document. The Viceroy or Governor is to submit a collec- tive report to the Board and appoint de puties to examine whether there is any discrepancy. The document can be can. celled when any faimer gives up his poppy cultivation. Allowance will be made in times of flood or drought, and a satisfactory feature of the.. regulation is that the ubiquitous Yanien underlings are to have strict orders against levying any extortion. No further levy, it adds, need be made on the land beyond the regular land tax, and the local authorities will thus be able to estimate the exact quantity of opium pro- duced. We then come to a regulation dealing with the extraction of opium which, if faithfully carried out will entail further exacting processes on the part of the merchants and officials. After the gathering of the poppy juice the farmer must be made to deposit money in the Government office for one month in advance, the limit and amount being in proportion with the quantity of drug. There will then
THE District Grand Lodge of Scottish Free be an examination of all documents pre-
masonry in Hongkong and China has issued a booklet of the list of active members of the viously issued and heavy fine imposed in various lodges for 1955, and brethren are re- $2.75 - per 100 cases of concealment, etc. If the opium quested to sure that they should inform the Se. juice exceeds the amount of money de-cretary of their Lodges of any change in their posited, or at least what is left of it * 'dress.
THE
PREMIER CIGAR
No. 1.
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OF
INDIA.
IT is reported that while at Canton the Viceroy will proceed with the administration of di plomatic and military affairs, the raising of funds for military purposes, and the suppres- sion of native bad characters,
A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Br. Fredrich Gröne, assistant medical officer of health for Hong.. kong, and Miss Dorothy Mutter, who is now on her way to this Colony in the 5.5. Moldavia,
BEACONS are now to be erected on all shoals, in the Bay of Along where the cruiser Sully is wrecked, and it is understood that a system of rewards is to be instituted for such fishermes as may discover and report dangerous pinnacle rucks in those waters.
they had not taken delivery of the com. This was the first intimation plaintiffs had received that the corn had arrived. Plaintiffs inspected the cargo, and found that it was in such a sinte that it would be unwise to take delivery and declined to do so. Defendants refused to pass their claim, hence the action.
Mr. F. Mau Fung, managing partner of tha plaintiff firm, gave evidence in support of Counsel's statement.
Cross-examined: An advertisement appear- ed when the eleven cases arrived on February 3rd, stating that all claims must be sent it by February 8b. Hedid not send in aclaim, think. ing the balance would turn up by the next steamer. On the 22nd March a godown man did not come and tell him that the cargo had arrived. He remembered, on that day, someone bringing a case of cream, which was short landed on another consignment. I is godown man, who was frequently at the godowns of the defendant Company to take delivery of goods, did not at any time tell him the cargo was in the godown. He had never taken delivery of short landed cargo, without notice having been given him though he suggested it. He refused to take The cargo in November was not surveyed
"delivery and then have them surveyed, because | he took it, that once having taken delivery, the
shipping agents were no longer responsible.
The further hearing of the case was ad journed until to-morrow morning.
SURGEON-GENERAL G. J. H. EVATT, C.B.
ger rates are puaranteed. In exchange for tus for extinguishing fires, was also examined $500, U.S. currency, will be guaranteed by the the man showed great promptitude in turning Moro Trovince, The boats of this line, how out on a test alarm of fire being given. ever, must arrive and depart in daylight. A The inspection, in every way very satisfactory, marine agent of the Company is coming to was over by 9.45 am, when the men were en Zamboanga in response to cable message from abled to return to their quarters, His Excel- Governor Wood, when final Arrangements will fancy the General, accompanied by his staff, be made.
leaving about ten o'clock, for headquarters.
ted States, Australia and Japan will be one of Through bills of lading to and from the Unil
the important features of this arrangement,
Zamboanga business men go to Hongkong on It has been suggested that a committee of the first trip of the China Navigation Com pany's bat in order to arrange connections with wholesale firms of that city.
In an interview with a ferald representative Captain George Bennett, collector of customs for this part, said that in his opinion part dues and import duties paid on merchandise brought in by this boat would, almost from the start. pay the guarantes made by the Provincial Government.
The Governor was also empowered by the Legislative Council to make final arrangements with the South Philippines Steamship Com all centres of population in the Moro Province, pany of Zamboanga to call one each month at
Authorized, provided satisfactory passenger and for which a guarantee of P1,500 per month is freight rates can be agreed uponge
SANITARY BOARD.
At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon the annual reports for last. year of the Medical Officer of Health, the Sani.
tery Surveyor and the Colonial Veterinary-Sur- geon were submitted and laid on the table. After alluding to the area under the Board's jurisdiction and describing the topography of, the City of Victoria, and the comparative arcas of the sea front of ilongkong and on the Kow
loon side, the reports, stated that the number of domestic buildings In Victoria was 9,433,7 exclusive of barracks and police stations, of which, in all, 1,107 are non-Chinese dwellings.
attained in the month of July and August, and The maximum monthly temperature was
for July, 808 for August, and 59°5 for January .. the minimum in January,, 80° being recorded
though the highest temperature recorded was 91*1:00 June 26th, and the lowest 448 on De cember 24th. It was interesting to note that, throughout the year, only in the month of July alone the wind had no East in it.
The total rainfall for the year was 8041 inches
THE JUSTICES, MEETING,
Amenting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistracy this afternoon to consider an application from Richard Francis Daly for the transfer of his adjunct licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the pre-as compared with 93.66 inches in the previous mises situate at No. 51, Des Voeux Road, year, the greatest rainfall being, on one day, Oyster Room", to Wallace Archie Ward. The daily amount of sunshine was 5.2 hours, and?” Central, under the sign of the "Owl Grill and 11.135 inches on August 25th, The averagó following Justices were present: Messrs. H. H. Gompertz, President, F. A. Hazeland, F. J. and Messta, R. H. Craig and C. Dick Badeley, Captain F. W. Lyons, Capt. Goddard, Melbourne.
There being no police or other objections the application was granted unanimously.
THE WEATHER:
On the 7th at 11.55 am. The barometer has. risen in Japan and fallen over Chinz
on only 51 days was no sunshine recorded.in
the census taken in January 1901, the popula
Within a period of four years, according to
tion, exclusive of the New Tenitory, had in creased by 35,093, and this affords, eloquent testimony to the prosperity of the Colony,
On June 30th fast, the total strength of the g troops in Garrison was tot British Officersbal
mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser- men, and 48 Indian (native) officers, and 2,515. The following report is from Mr, J. 1. Plum- | 1415 British warrant officers, N. C. O's, and vatory:-
Indian Warrant officers, N. C. Of, and men.
The total strength of the British Fleet on the China Station on the same day was 10,067, compared with 8,905 in the previous year
The births registered during the year were t- Non-Chinese 263, Chinese 942, equal to a rate of 3.3 per 1000 as compared with 3.2 per Joso in the previous year.
the East coast of China and W., fapan.
Thehigh pressure area is now central between
may be expected in the Formosa Chancel and Gradients are moderate and fresh, monsoon N. part of the China Sea
Forecast
Fresh N.E. winds; cloudy, fair.
after it has passed through the usual chan-M. CLAUDEL who has been for many years No. 2 - $2.50 - per 100 nels, the drug will be kept in bond avid sold French Consul at Foochow is proceeding to at a subsequent date. Twenty-two tael France, and the local Eche understands that M. cents will be levied on every one tacl Hardy of the French Post Office is temporarily value received, of which twenty tael cents in charge of the French Consulate pending the will (or, should we presume) be trans- arrival of M. Claudel's successor.
Surgeon General G. J. H. Evatt, C.B., the prospective Liberal candidate for the Fareham Division of Hampshire, delivered an address recently at the Town Hall, Emsworth. He declared himself strongly opposed to the Licensing Act. For years he had been "with the teetotal party. Surgeon-General Evath, who, on his retirement, was Principal Medical Officer of the 2nd Army Corps, had in the Service a creer of exceptional usefulness. Of an old Service family, and born on November. 11, 1843, he entered be Army in March, 1865, at the age of 21, add served in the Afghan War, in the Perak (Malacca) War, and was afterwards Medical Officer of the Royal 1896, when he was ordered to Hongkong. Academy, Woolwich; promoted to colonel in There he made full use of the opportunity which his official position gave him to push forward sanitary reforms for the benefit of the soldiers stationed in the colony. Among other improvements be secured a full water obtained an extra shirt for all the troops in the supply for the troops at Kowloon, He also command, as well as two pairs of flannel sleep- ing saits for all soldiers in the colony. It was
MAILS DUE also during his tenure of office there that the Canadian (Athenian) 9th inst.
A CASE OF ANTIIRAX; - Mount Austin Hotel was purchased for the English (Nubla) toth inst., 6 a.m.
Dr. A. Gilfson, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, troops by the War Office, at the cost of Indian (Suirang) 14th inst £30,000. In addition, the sick, who formerly
reported a care of anthrax which occurred ip German (Prinsess Alice) 14th inst. the balance be used for expenses. District DR. F. W. Eastlake, a well-known teacher and were sent home from Hongkong only once a
American (Korea) 16th int
the Kennedy Town Cattle Depot on the night- yamens will be supposed to establish opium writer in Tokio, who has been in Japan since year, left the Far East fortnightly or monthly
German (Prinx Heinrich) 16th inst.
of the aeth ulto, and said the animal came into Canadian (Empress of India) zzód inst, affices to be directed by the local magis 1884, died at Tokio on the 18th ult., of pneumo- steamer the great improvement and well-
the depot (wo weeks previously und showed mia, aged 46. He was conversant with the Japas: bein garrison. The solders' bed-sheets, trates, and in large districts it may be found nese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, were ged every fortnight, and in this way which left here on 1st inst, arrived at Singabeen contracted in the depot. The animal...
upito Ime changed only once a month, The Imperial German Mails.. Sachsen, symptoms of disease up to that dats. There was every possibility of the disease having necessary to establish branch offices. These Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, and Arabic languages, cicasliacos, comfort, and health were promoted pore on Monday at 6 am. are to be under the direction of the head
While at Hongkong Surgeon General Evatt The Imperial German Mailan. Prinz Regent was a Chinese bullock, and was found dead by office to save expense! The third regulation We are pleased to be able to announce that visited the French garrigans in Tong-King, and Luftfold, which left bere on and inst, arrived the inspector when the depot was opened in deals with the stamping of the opium cakes Chevalier 7. Volpicelli, Consul General for crossed the Franco-Chinese frontier into at Shanghai on unday at to am
Kwangsi province in 1897). A report of this
The shed was washed and the morning. The Imperial German Mail: na.- Prinzess to prevent adulteration, and enabling free Italy at this port, has so far recevered as to be journey was forwarded in the War Ufice auth-Alice left Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai disinfected and the carcase cremated. The transportation. A watch must be kept, it Singapore, to which port he will escort bis Surgeon-General. Evatt, and, later on, ha inst., both a SAVIVAL
able to take a trip, under medical advice, to orities. The Yangtze Valley also was visited by on 5th inst, and may be expected here on 14th natural period of focubation of this disease varies from 26 hours to eight days, and visited Peking. In 1898 he visited the Philip The C. P. R. Co,1 9,s. Athenian arrived at
No. 3 - $2.25 - per 100 mitted to the Provincial Treasury, and
Gregor & Co.,
SOLE AGENTS.
Hengkong, 7th March, 1905,
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SHIPPING AND MAILS.
The total number of deaths was 6,1190s.com- pared with 6,185 in the previous year, or 16.94. per 1000,
says, in the various villages and markets to wife, who is about to proceed by the next mail pines, seeing the American army in the field. Shanghai at 11 a.m., on 6th, inst, and leaves infection is usually'intestinal, through infected. guard against illicit deals and smuggling to lily. The Chevalier expects to be abient and the Spanish troops as prisoners.-L. & G. again at midnight, Fame day, for Hongkong food, and in this case was probably convored [33 but there must be no extortion, and mer, about two weekĻ
Express,
where she is due to arrive at 5 p.m., od 9th inst, by rice stram.
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