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THE HONGKONG TE
At Shanghai, Cctober 14th, HIDHARD, of Chicago, Ill,- KROGER, of Shanghal
onghan
building purpose
And
warehouseman,
HTHURSD
OCTOBER 19
elegraph keeper, and the Peak district will retain un
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1905."
THE NEW PLAK TRAMWAY ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC
PRESERVE
According to prevent information, it will be a considerable time before the new tram way to the Peak is likely to be constructed. The complete survey of the route has yet to be made, and when the first sod, will be turned is beyond speculation. When the Law Committee of the Legislative Council, to whom the Bill was referred, reported their findings it was discovered that considerable changes had been made or were recommend
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diminished its splendour and glò ¡tion. In fact, in the Peak district
has its Park Lane and Mayfair, so what could a country or a community desire ?
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Church' Lite
ing Mr. Robart Macphervos Java, the Gard
the East,
whois
>who had spent a number.
taking the place of read his paper on Law in the days Dickens
from the
stating that the wassal wa *The message was a most
asked permission to remain at Saig days longer in order that a full cargo. taken on board, ✨----
Captain Boardmano, said ons
wela
Falio“will leave for timber
of the Lucia Vittoria, “does not praph reporting his arrival in port. - "waits until the vessel is about to leave and then
telegraphs his departure. The telegram does not Vittoria arrived, or Hanrkong. She irlda and doubtless there has been some delay in getting the planks aboard however, to know that the vessel is safe, and the many residents in Hongkong who are in by her to Saigon relief, after a period of great tension.
ory
(JONES LOT
Captain C. M. T. Watkins, Royal Engineers, commanding the 25th (Fortress) Company at THE following telegrams has been received by Hongkong, has been promoted to the rank of the Colonial Secretary foam H.B.M, Consul major after eighteen and a half years' service General, Shanghai, dated 18th inst.: "Hong the army. As a special service officer he was employed in the North-West Frontier kong released from quaranilne 16th October."
*24 | Campaign of 1897-98, roughing it for a "con," MR. Douglas "Storey," who, was formerly considerable time with the Malakaland Field nected with journalism in Hongkong, amived Force, and doing some very useful work hare by the English mail to-day. He is (medal with clasp), proceeding to Peking on a journalistic mission.
ADJOURNED from last Thursday, the case CAPTAIN Hew Crichton, a gunner officer well against Aong Fung for using mortar noi of a known in Hongkong, where he was recently standard quality in the repairs now being ed to be made in the provisions of the Billerving with No. 83 Company, R.G., has effected at No. 16, Des Voeux Road, Central, The proposed scale of fares was altered, the elected to take his retired pay. He had the was resumed before Mr. Hazeland this morn terested in the vesiclior in those who travelled Tirah Expedition, 1897-98, to his credit (medaling-Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the period when the Government could step
in with
two clasps).
defence. Mr. T. Perkins, of the Fublic Works and acquire the tramway at a valuation was reduced, and there were many minor altera EARLY this morning the body of a Chinese given by Mr. W. S. Edwards at the last hears Department, gave similar evidence to that tions suggested At the time when the the Naval Yard Extension. It was subsequently miscuously from the pile used were quite woman was found floating in the harbour of ing, and said that two briquettes taken pro report was laid on the table of the Council removed to the Kowloon margue, and there sufficient to sample for the purpose of testing we gave a comparatively comprehensive identified as the body of one of the victims of the quality of the inoriar.in cross-examina; summary of the alterations proposed, so the Evening Star ferry-boat collision,
tion witness said that there were no panicular that it is unnecessary- now to repeat them.THE Commission, of the second-class cruiser rules to guide one in judging the good quality The promuters, however, were not in the Bonaventura, Captain H. H. Torlesse, which of mortar, except that experience would tell slightest degree inclined to acquiesce in the recently came from the Pacific Station to the builder at once if mortar were defective. The suggestions with regard to the scale of China Station, will expire in December next best quality of mortar lie had seen in Hobs charger or the period after which the She will recommission again at Hongkong for kong was composed of lime und sand, but he Government might acquire the. Tramway;.
two years' service on her present station,
could not any whether it was shell lime or stone lime, and it may have been an excep Conferences have taken place on the subject, LAST evening a Chinese coolie, who bad imtional case The case was further, adjourned. and a good deal of correspondence has pass. bibed not wisely but too well of the liquor of ed between the Government and the promo- bis country, walked over the edge of the Praya ters of the new Peak tramway, with the re-
wall into the harbour. An Indian constable secured a sampan and soon had him aboard, sult that à modus vivendi has been arrived
but as the thoroughly soaked individual, was nt. The Law Committee proposed that the far from well he was removed to hospital,
wwwwwwwwww.
19th of Apri
Alóns
built är St. Petersburg and lau | Her displacement is stated to
and she had a speed of 18 kan bied is anything like thanvassa scribed to be when launched she should prov a valuable addition to the Japanese navy. ED HAT
DINNER TO ADMI
ENTERTAINED BY ADM
[From Our Own Correspon
Shanghai, 19th October,
Admiral Sir Gerard Nool and the officers of the British festanowin
at a banquet whioli Japanese waters
Admiral Ito on
KOWLOON
HON. MR. OE
In supporting which Me. R. C. WB a" deputation which waited When he was administeri
tertained:
given
SWAY.
were utterly in the dark regarding the where- Up till noon today, the owners in Hongkong
made at the office of Messia, Musso & Co., but, abouts of their vessel. Many inquiries had been of course, no information could be given for the simple reason that the owner had no informa tion to give. Interrogated by a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph this afternoon, Masers Musso and Co., the owners, had refrained from telegraphing to Saigon stated that they asking for information, because they believed that every hour would bring the expected tole gram to say that the vessel was safe to the river at Saigon. This forenoon, however, it was de- cided to wait no longer There was one draw LarORTERS of goods into the Colony should back-Messrs. Musso and Co. have no agent be warned by the increasing number of reports or representative at Saigon. It was necessary made to the police of wholesale thefts of cases in these circumstances to call upon the Italian of merchandise 'from the precfacts of the im-Consul and obtala his good offices in com- porters' premises during the time of their re- mucicating with the Italian Coorul at Saigon mo al from the boats to the offices or godowns, for information as to the Lucia Vittoria, To: Great Western Railway Company, who has Messrs. Marty and Co, who had a case contain- Saigon, and asked his confrère, in the event of the first time in the report been appointed arbitrator on behalf of the ing zo rolls of Italian satin, valued at £60,148, the Lucia Vittoria having failed to turn up, to of the Hongkong, branchi British Government in the case of the Tanjong deposited outside the office in Des Voeux inform the French Government of Indo Chica The Hon. Mr. Garthom Stewart
Association. Pagar Dock Company, left Victoria on 218 Road, Central, a few days ago. The com- of the fact, and to request that a a warship be Your Excellency, I have very much ples ult. for Marseilles, "where he embarked in pradore went into the office for a short time despatched in search of the missing steamer, in supporting the remarks in the the P. and O. steamship Chiwa for Singapore, and ou returning found the case had gone. He There were three European passengers on Mr. Wilcox hay just reads. As ON, Sept. 14, Scott's Shipbuilding and En- sequel comes from Yaumati, Yesterday morn charterer, Mr. Jensen; was also on board, making all, the inquiries Cou
reported the matter to the police, and the the Zucia Villoria, all bound for Salgon. The occupied my time when I was gineering Company, Greenock, launched the ing a futong on duty in Station Street, Yauma
It was ascertained that the overdue was going on in regard to railwi steamer Hwickow, the first of a fleet of sixti, saw a coalie trying to carry a heavy packing steamer arrived at Chek Ham and dis- construction was in foreign ban
■ way that all I could End in the ordered from them by the China Navigation case into a shed there, and as the result of charged part of her cargo there. The news my suggestion that the Committe Company, London. The dimensions of the investigations found, the case contained that the Luzia Villarin had been at Chek Association naked Your zxcell vessel are:-Length, aty ft breadth, 40 ft.; rolls of Italian satin." The coolie was placed Ham was brought to Meurs Musso & Co. by We all know that the questions
the interview you have kindly depth, 23 ft. 6 in.; and carrying capacity, 2,600 under arrest, and is now held for tilal on the the officers of vessels which had passed the has been out of the public tons. The machinery will be supplied by the charge of larceny,
southern port and had soon the Lucia Vittoria, press and elsewhere: builders.
It was therefore suggested that the vessel bad|| past, ! It was with a view struck on the Paracels, that series of islands from the atmosphere and sunken rocks which
into the sphere of PLAS
4
plits $2.40 first-class fares to the Peak by the proposed Ms. J. C. Inglis, the general manager of the The last case was that of the compradore of day, the Italian Consul hero, telegraphed to May of last year, and, which is now
1
+ splito $2.40
tramway should be the same as those how in force on the present Peak trainway, that pls. $3.00 is to say, 30 cents for the single journey and 50 cents for the retum. The promoters of the new line objected to this scale. They submitted that the new track would be a trifle A. S. WATSON & Co., one than the post line, and that the cost of construction would probably be greater than that incurred in building the old line. Consequently, they urged, the fates should be higher on the new line. A compromise has now been reached; the first-class fares on the new route to the Peak will be 40 cents single journey, 60 cents [32 return, As to the period when the Government may acquire the Tramway the Law Committee suggested that at the end of 25 years, and after giving due notice the Government should be in a position to hequire the tramway, at a valuation of course,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
ESTABLISHED. A.D., 1841. - Hongkong, 23rd September,, 1905,
GREGOR & CO.,
and everything connected with it. The
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NEGOTIATIONS are rapidly procpeding with vlaw to the speedy transportation of the Rus sian prisoners from Japan. Competition "is" keen for the business, and it is expected that whose steamers are already in the Far East, probably the foremost Japanese companies,
repatriation. It is stated that the price to be may be invited to participate in the work, of paid by the Russian Government approximates 415 for all prisoners landed at Odessa,
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“MŪŠIC HATH CHARMS”. (POPULAR SELECTIONS AT 4 A.M. ON SUNDAY MORNING.
| proved fb5
this part of both partner poring over
promoters.strongly objected to this amend ment. They maintained that, after having -borne the heat and burden of constructing 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, the line, the shareholders of the new Com- pany were entitled to reap whatever benefits were to be obtained from the traffic on the having suffered most severely. We are in; subject, as was evidenced by the fact that those daylight for taking a course, which would bring
JST FLOOR.
tramway for a considerably longer period than 25 years. They pressed the point with so much force that eventually the Govern. ment had to give in. It is now arranged that the Government may not claim any right to take over the railway until after 75 years--always provided, of course, that the Company is not wound up' in the interval (which is a wild supposition) or that the tramway does not stop working for six months at a stretch. On, boil these points the promoters of the tramway have gained the day. Yesterday the new faraway company was registered under the name
BRANDIES of the Peak Tramways, Limited. If
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NOTICES of earthquakes this year have api peared from time to time in the press, Italy formed that about the same time shocks were also felt in Mongolia, in the parts between Uliasural sod Urga. In one place the ground disappeated, leaving a fissure several lis in length, aver ten feet in width, and too deep te menon appeared in a sparsely populated region be fathomed. Fortunately the unusual pheno and so no lives were lost-
A NEW battleship which is to be laid down Brest early next year is intended to be the most powerful ship in the French fleet, and will be over 18,00, and for the bull alone a she will be also the most costly. Her tonnage sum of £18,620 will be expended during the year. The total cost of this leviathan will be £1,680,coo. Until she is launched, the ship will bear the provisional name of A 15. The battleships République and Democratic of 14,800 tons each, which are being complete afloat at Brest will cost £1,463,000 each.
her round the outer group of the islands) If on the other hand, she s'atted from Chek Hain at apon, the vessel would be in the the Paracels at midnight."
is a careful and experienced nav
boy a been in charge of
book to him would not sake vessel past the account of his between Ho
and Ban
In his
Music hath charms to soothe the savage upon the circumstances under which the music a desk and making breast, they say, but a good deal depends
the hour when the programme of selections They are also formin is provided, the character of the musician, and
as to the possible positi is submitted. It can hardly be suggested with what might or might not any degree of faith that 3 a. or 4 m, ¡¡| the Lucia Villerin left Chek sxactly the time when the charm of musle can
in the morning ♬ said the senior part be quite thoroughly appreciated. Of course would be just approachin different people have different ideas on the nightfall, and would have the residents who live in the vicinity of Queen's Road Central were regaled by what may be termed a selection of popular songs between 245 am, and 4 am. on Sunday morning. It was not the sort of music that emanates from saxophones, it was not even the so-called the big bassoon, or the trombone, of even the
music which we Ato accustomed to associate With the gramaphons. (It was a combina:log of the whole lot, with several brass bands and a nigger minstiel show thrown in. Apparent ly it came from one of those immense music- a dollaral? Ten centa is dropped into the stands, which supply popular songs at so much
slot and the figure moves, This particular figure was a midnight or early-moral awakener. It started as fall: speed, and att is expected that the old company, the
top of its instrumental voice. Such a thousa High Level Tramways Company and
lunged power of moine kasnol besa kerrd, the new company will be formally amal
properly appreciated; for ksan gamated to-morrow. It is interesting, If
strident, blatant slopes resou profitless, to speculate upon the conces We have received from Mars. Caldback, the best part of the
radlus of a mile, at lea sions granted by the Government to the Macgregor & Co, the agonis in Hongkong for had jos sunk into promoters of the new tramway. By increas the Aquarius Company, several samples at the use clasic ing the fares on the new line the Govern- mineral waters which have justly gained for life by this kern MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER,nient have to all intents and purposes plos include lemonade, ginger ale, ginger beer, Been missed Aquarius a world-wide reputation. The sam- of discordan'd created the Peak district a "preserve" for the tosic quinine water, and table water, The genial" moneyed classes. The fare of go cents, peculiar sparkling and effervescing quality of minstrel 1, a thing return, to the Peak is bad enough in all the mineral waters, their deficate and at the rattled and crashed conscience; and there are few in the com- same time characteristic flavour, and the fact began to wonder what had happe munity who have not emitted a grow that they are prepared by a firm whose sand. fine-2a A'dreamy lullaby -- over the exorbitant charge. But when it is a guarantee of the purity of the waters, force of half a dozen German harda
abould recommend the products of Aquarius there was a sudden? comes to Go cents for the return journey by to all who appreciate cool and refreshing splutter, and the dis the new line, ono, can only characterise it as drinks, which have at the same time modicīna! down. Back t absolutely preposterous. It may be sald qualities
only for that these fares are only described as the
or perhaps maximum farea which the Company may
THE steamship City of Panama had a rompt whirred impotently tic experience recently, when crossing the charge under the Ordinance, and that in Pacific is to deg 5 min N, and 100 their mercy the Company will adopt
adopt a W. Suddenly, the sea around middle rate. Does anybody seriously belleve | choked with flosting for a moment that the Company will forego of drowned animals
FROM
COGNAC
FROM $18.20 TO $126.00
Per Dozen
HE LARGEST AND MOST VARIED
BRANDY IN
its right to charge the thi
fact is that, following
cluding the Chinese from the Govern
"slow down and
caution.
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of an old-time, good Then with a KNOTE: Bword can be Ope
Schoes of
of
those
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mole to suppose that
and run the risk of
andcarpuring to do.
We have been told that