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THE "DANGEROUS GOODS
ANCHORAGE."
As the official organ of the Government, it is natural to presume that whatever ap- pears in the Gazette in the reflex of experts, in departmental affairs, and has received the weightiest consideration before being pub lished. It occasionally happens, however, than an obvious anomaly occurs in the Gazette, and the bewildered outsider is apt to wonder how the possibility of a mistake could arise in connection with the compila- tion of the volume. As a general rule it is safe to accept the new or amended "order "| as an expression of the actual will and inter-
face will occur in spite of all the criticism Single Copio Dally, ten cents: Weekly, twenty-levelled at the ameuding rule, no matter how absurd it may appear to the aver
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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1906.
GERMAN ADMIRAL IN CANTON.
HIS EXCELLENCY VISITS THE VICEROY,
FOG-BOUND HONGKONG.
SURROUNDED BY DENSE PALL.
MAIL STEAMERS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED,
A SHIPPING DEAL. For printing a number of alips which pur-
[From Our Correspondent] ported to be passenger tickets issued by the Norddeutscher Lloyd for the voyage from
Cantos, 19th March.
Since Saturday evening, Hongkong bas Admiral Breusing arrived here on the Tiger been the one bright spot in an ocean of mist. Hongkong to Bangkok, and passing them
on the 16th inst, and, on the following day, heIn the north, dense banks of fog have acted as off on a guileless sirapleton, a prisoner was sentenced at the Criminal Sessions yester and his staff, accompanied by the German day to five years' herd labour. We have no Consul, paid an official visit to the Viceroy, concern with the parties or the sentence-who, fortunately, was not indisposed as he has which was richly deserved-but one is iu- so often been in the past when distinguished clined to wonder how anyone, even the most foreigners are desirous of calling on him.
On Saturday night the excellent Band of the unsophisticated of coolics, could be induced Furst Bismark gave a splendid exhibition of to hand over his hard-earned money on such their talent before a large and appreciative aspecious statement as that made by the audience at the Canton Club theatre and yester
additional $1.80 per quarlar is chargal for posing.tion of the Government, and that no volte prisoner in the case in question to complain. day thay treated the community by playing is
The postage on the workly imus to any part of, the
world is 80 cents per quarter.
.five cents.
ant. Some people never seem to gain scuse either from their own experience or from the experience of others. They calmly walk into the trap laid for them by the first sharper they meet, and only awaken to a
the garden in the afternoon, quite enlivening the general monotony of Sunday afternoons.
THE RUMOURED "PROMOTION" OF THE VICEROY:"
There is no confirmation here of the reported transfer of the Viceroy to Nanking, and in spite
a blanket, with the result that vessels from
Shanghai have been feeling their way to this Colony like people in black darkness. In the slowly, and the drifting wreaths were scarcely thick, but they still proved a danger and a menace to shipping. Amid all this impene- trable curtain which surrounded the Colony, Hongkong experienced comparatively good weather. The sun over appeared at intervals, and there was never at anytime anything like a sheet of mist along the lower levels, although the Peak was continually lost in the swift rol- ting clouds driving up, from the worth. On Sunday night the mist spread over the barbour,
south, the fog was travelling much more
The Hongkong Gelegraphcognising that it ltas made a false step, has realisation of their foolishness when they of the strong feeling existing against the but last eight there was not a suspicion of för
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1906.
THE MAILS.
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have been turned inside out for the benefit Viceroy, it is now believed in well informed of the exploiter. There used to be a belief circles that the Viceroy will continue in office out "losing face," which will mean that he that when a knave and a fool came together"nill such time as he is able to withdraw with the latter won, not through his superior will remain here for at least six months. adroitness in circumventing the knive, but because the knave over-reached himself. | NAVAL`SEARchlight displAY. Unfortunately, that idea is an exploded myth to the man of the world, for daily we witness the rogue imposing on the simple
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EXHIBITION IN HONGKONG HARBOUR, The Praya was crowded last night with an
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voluntarily tinkered anew at the original
in the air, as was evidenced by the search light drill which was carried out by the men-of-war
Outside the harbour, and just beyond the "order" and brought something resembling
Lyemun Pass, the fog descended like a blagic order out of undoubted chaos, Inthe Hong
at the Admiralty anchorage.
wall. It was a clear cut partition and a vessel kong Government Gazelle, dated 16th March, 1906, there is an item numbered
the same time. Of course, this meant the *13, entitled “Rules and Regulations made
would be half inside the fog and half outside at dislocation of shipping between Hongkong and the north and vice versa. Vessels des by the Governor in Council on the 15th day of March, 1906, under the provision of sec
the lead alone, and they anchored at the most tion 6 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance,
interested throng of all classes. watching the paired of finding their way to Hongkong by convenient place. Nobody can tell how many 1873 (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873)-and the ton to his heart's content. It is a fine ques-play of the searchlights from the men-of-war in
vessels are enshrouded by the dank, luminous rules are laid down regarding the signals to be tion, however, whether the fool is not as the harbour on the buildings along the water. than a public calamity. In Hongkong, which used to indicate that dangerous goods are bad as the kuave. Without a victim the front and the hills behind. The majority of blanket which fell like a pall over the waters. on board ship, and so forth. But what we are knave would turn himself to other pursuits. people in Hongkong have frequent opportuniThere may be fifty; there may be only a dozen. is peculiarly affected by the exactness of the concerned with is the clause which deals In the case before the Sessions yesterday ties of witnessing a display of search-light Until this afternoon Hongkong had been with mail arrivals, the loss of a single day is of with "dangerous goods anchorages." and the the coolie who was snared seemed to be in practice, but seldom have they seen the effect vital importance to the mercantile com- definition of where these auchorages shall the wholesale business as a purchaser of afforded by the flashing of a dozen lights great mail lines for days. A few of the smaller
Modern transport arrangements have i reached such a high pitch of perfection that anything which occurs to clog the wheels of the machinery or interfere with the accuracy of the automata is regarded as little less
being worked at the same time. The sky was overcast and the lights when thrown upwards were lost in the heavy clouds, but the harbour was clear of mist and many picturesque views of the shipping in the harbour were silhouetted by the glaring illumination. The
out, a visit from any of the steamers of the
craft which were able to dodge here and there reported that they heard, the whistles of the French and Pacific mail steamers, the bells and trumpets of others, and a med ley of sounds which might proceed from an ethereal philharmonic society.
The smaller vessels which trade between
munity. As a rule, we are accustomed to be. With what is known as the "Eastern passenger tickets. He wanted 18 at once sel apari I certain days of the week for the anchorage" we have no fault to find for the and paid $1 each for them-the seller receipt of mails which will be answered on
present; we are solely concerned with the graciously allowing a discount of $2 per "Westeru anchorage,” which it will be found, ticket, no doubt on the principle that the other dates arranged according to the
sampan people were delighted when the full schedule of arrivals and departures which when read together with the Merchant Ship more you buy the less you pay. The fraud ping Consolidation Amendment Ordinance, was discovered, of course, although it was every merchant knows almost by rote. But
zling their eyes and leaving them blinking day-trip boats, continued their operations as raises a very important and serious question, stated that the forgeries were extremely light of the reflector was cast upon them, daz Hongkong and the ports on the coast, return occasionally it happens that the unforeseen
temporary blindness. Many junks were sail usual. Captain Weatherhead, of the Albatross, one which affects the entire community, and clever. It is satisfactory to notice that the
ing in the harbour, with the result that the stated that after leaving Hongkong he had to happens, with the result that the gear is dis especially the shipping companies whose Chief Justice sentenced the prisoner to a
instantaneous photographs obtained by the feel his way inch by inch. Nothing could be organised, and a new set of calculations have steamers may be engaged in the passenger term of incarceration which should deter to be framed to suit the exigencies of the trade, and therefore liable to quarantine. others of the accused's kidney from emula-manuuvring of the search-lights were excep seen. He picked his way by the echo of his situation. The delay in the delivery of the Our contention is that the Government has ting his example. The crime of forgery is tionally fine. There did not seem to be any steam whistle from the rocks. As shipping attempt made by the men-of-war to signal by men will know, there is a pass leading to French mails-outward and inward-at the woefully muddled the arcas defined as "dan usually associated with precocious educa-
search-light: It was simply an exhibition of the north beside the Lycmus Pass-it cuts off present time is a case in point. The French gerous good anchorage" and "quarantine tion, but fortunately it is comparatively the dexterity of the operators in working several miles and is favoured. It is only
the apparatus. From the Ferry, Hongkong fifty yards wide with beetling crags mail from Shanghai was expected to arrive anchorage" with the result that vessels carry-scidom that the Courts of the Colony have
Cap by search-light was an unusually interesting either side, and a shoaling bottom. on Sunday; it has not yet been sighted, or, ing dangerous goods and passenger vessels a serious-case before them under this head
scene. The lights illumined the houses on the tain Weatherhead took the Albatross through A. S. WATSON & CO., at least, up to the time of writing she had in quarantine will be occupying one and the If forgets turned their attention to the
not taken up her position at her anchorage. same anchorage, which is not merely absurd manufacture of passenger tickets none could hill-side, but failed to pierce the clouds which this pass carly yesterday morning and hugging one side of the pass could not discern the enveloped the Peak. The exhibition lasted The French mail from the south should but almost criminally wrong. The southerntell what the end would be. Hongkong being for about an hour, and attracted the undivided other. Points which in ordinary times are have made an appearance at daylight to-day.boundary of the dangerous goods anchorage a port of trans-shipment for an immense attention of most of the dwellers on the Praya looked for had either disappeared or were dis- The Pacific Mail Company's steamer from is "south of Stonecutter's Island." The number of coplies from the the north and It is believed that Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Worted out of fall recognition by the diaphenous Manila which should have been here on southern boundary of the quarantine anch 134 Sunday night had not taken up her anchor-orage is: "That giant of a line having the south, the skilled counterfeiter would find Moore, the new Commander-in-Chief of the quality of the fog.
with the view of finding out the capabilities of age, and a
host of other boats, large Naval coat sheds at Kowloon bearing himself temporarily in clover if he exercised China Fleet, was on a round of inspection
his nefarious calling with anything like mode- and small, remained to be accounted
tions. Whatever the result may be from a naval and technical point of view, the display for. All this was due simply and solely to
ration and caution. As a rule the tickets of the units of his squadron in search-light opera the interference of fog. In western coun-
coolies and other passengers are collected en
an interesting fact that foreign vessels of war are tries it might be considered a huge joke to
route, and even if the whole passenger list was certainly spectacular. It may be noted as suggest that fogs existed in the vicinity of a line from which the White Rock on Stone-consisted of coolics bound for the Straits Hongkong, whose cameo-cut Peak stands cutters' Island bears north." For quaran a steamship could not, without great not permitted to indulge in search-light prac- -out, as a rule, a prominent landmark for lined vessels it is: "A line drawn from the cxpense being incurred, return when it miles. But this is the season betwixt winter. western side of Stonecutters' Island to the was found that the coolies were travelling and summer, when the evaporation quicken western side of Green Island." The northern on forged tickets. The salutary lesson read ed by the returning suo meets the cold air boundary for vessels carrying dangerous by the Chief Justice should, however, effectu-. a blight on the profession of goods is defined: "North of a line having ally cast
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by 5. commencing where it meets the castern boundary, and terminating where it meets the western boundary." The western boundary for dangerous goods is "West of
tice within the waters of the Colony,
..19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. thrown south by the ice-flocs of the Yellow the sheers at the Naval Yard at Kowloon forgery, even if all the fools in the world siding, the case of Leung Kam Kwong versUS
CLARETS
FROM
MIN MARCEAU,
Bordeaux.
fined as a curtain drawn from the heavens to the sea. While it is very satisfactory to understand the meteorological conditions which occasion this state of things, it is no consolation to those who are anxiously awaiting the mails. For instance, Shanghai is only three or four days away, yet we have received nothing in the shape of letters or newspapers for seven days. Behind the screen which has been dropped just beyond the Lyeemoon Pass there are vessels bringing American, Japanese, Shanghai, and Manila mails; in the south, the blanket of mist shrouds steamers carrying the European, In dian, Singapore, and Saigon mails. In or dinary circumstances these, vessels would have entered at intervals, allowing the man
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
At the time of going to press the P.M. s.s. China, and Leongsang were sighted:
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THE China and Manila steamer Zafire arrived this afternoon, and reports heavy fog outside.
pin not know that Ah King was a bad man," remarked a complainant in a rice-case at the Police Court this morning. "If I did I would not have trusted him. Only a few days ago I heard he was a robber in the interior." Mr. Haveland, "Was he? He's in besiness here." Remanded.
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The greatest grievance of the mercantile community is the delention of the mails,
arrival of the steamers from East and West, for Hongkong is one of the few places Work will be greatly hindered pending the
"East is East and West is West and never in the world where Kipling's lines that
Europe and America deposit their goods and the twain shall meat "do not apply, for both
mails at Hongkong. There is a prospect now, however, that the weather is clearing and that vessels at anchor outside will be able to make port before the fog settles again.
SEVEN ATTEMPTS TO REACH HONGKONG.. The German sleamer Niconidia, 4,380 tons,
CHANGE OF SOLICITORS. In Summary Jurisdiction this morning, lis Honour Mr. Justice Wise, Puisne Judge, pre-
six o'clock last evening from Portland, Ore., Kwong Hi Lau was called on for settlement of Capt. P. Wagemans, which arrived in port st Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Castro appeared for with a cargo of flour and lumber, appeared to the plaintiffs, Mr. R. Gardiner, of Mr. O. D.
have experienced some trouble with the fog, Thomson's office appearing for the defendants
which has bean causing such a delay to ships, in place of Mr. R. F. C. Master, of Messrs. from both northern and southem ports. The Johnson, Stokes and Master, who had with-chief officer of the Nicomedia, speaking to a
issues.
drawn from the case.
The point al issue was as to whether certain persons were or were not partners at a certain Mr. Gardiner said he understood that this time in the long Hoi Long Heng Kes. case was set for hearing to-day, but he must ask for an adjournment.
Mr, d'Almada e Castro: I strongly object to an adjournment of any sort,
His Honour: Yes, yes; I know of course, You must say that (laughter). But 'll hear what Mr. Gardiner has to say.
Mr. Gardiner explained that the reason he was obliged to ask for as adjournment was that he had only been instructed in the case yester- day evening and had hind, consequently, no time to go into the case, and was thus entirely un- Mr. d'Almada e Castro said it was a very simple case-merely to prove or disprove cer tain allegations.
Sea, resulting in a fog which bangs like a blanket over the water, and is as sharply debearing east ;" and for vessels in quarantine, were prepared to be "rooked" by unsympa.
"the five fathom line of soundings."thetic sharpers. Finally the vessels in quarantine have an eastern boundary: "A north and south line drawn from a white mark on south' side of Stonecutters Island until it reaches the southern boundary," To put it in a nut shell, the "dangerous goods anchorage" extends from the extreme west of Green Islanti and the extreme west of Stonecut ters' Island to the White Rock. The quarantine anchorage" extends from the western sides of Green Island and Stone- cutters' Island to the white mark on Stone cutiers' Island. It will thus be seen that the "dangerous goods anchorage" also com- prehends the "quarantine anchorage." The curious part of the puzzle is that, in dealing REFERENCE was made in an editorial in our with the quarantining of vessels, the Ordin-columns yesterday to the need for considera- of business to grapple with each parcelance speaks of the white mark, a well-known tion by the members of the Sanitary Board of of correspondence as it arrived. But when point; but in the "dangerous goods rules the precautions adopted against the spread of
corded between yesterday and to-day. Com ever the fog lifts on this occasion the no mention whatsoever is made of the white smallpox and plague. Five, deaths, were re-prepared to go on.
mark. Butevenas it is, the possibility of vessels
ment is needless. city offices will be inundated by mail matter,
laden with dangerous goods rubbing against leading to endless confusion or, at any rate, vessels carrying passengers in quarantine TONG Yung made a very fruitless attempt on |to excessive labours in order that the arrears is not pleasant to contemplate. It may Saturday afternoon last to transform a few
of work may be cleared away. Little won- der, then, if tempers disappear and irritation happen that half a dozen vessels carrying sheets of zinc, the property of Messrs. Fun- grows apace. It is difficult for people in dangerous goods arrive at Hongkong during these strenuou, times to await events calmly, a period when quarantine is being slemly and from a health point of view this delay imposed that half a dozen vessels are await In the arrival of vessels may be considered a ing pratique. The very fact that certain virtue. But how many can adopt the philo-vessels are relegated to the dangerous goods sophical spirit and keep on waiting? We anchorage is proof positive that they are a for pilots' certificates for service locally, was ing. The following composed the Examining danger to themselves and to everything withheld at the Harbour Master's office this morn in á considerable radius. It is needièss to Board: Mr. Edward Jones, Assistant Harbour
Winthrop. Six candidates presented them this morning, at the instance of Inspector dwell upon the point, because it must be Master, Captain T. A. Hall, and Captala E. forer. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court apparent to all that a vessel with a cargo of selves for examination, of whom the following Collett, on a charge of applying a false trade gunpowder and another with some scores of four passed the tests successfully: Ab Tai, description to a quantity of flour, on the 19th
Leung Foo, Foe Shing and Shek Tai,
Mr. A. C. Holborow, of Messrs. Deacon, passengers, should not be liable under the law to lie alongside each other. In what ALLEN Stuart, second officer on board the Looker and Deacon, appeared for the defen- It was alleged that on the 19th instant the AT noon to-day Mestrs. Hughes and Hough,
ever way they are looked at the rules and Hailan, prosecuted a coolie at the Police Court dants..
this morning, before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, auctioneers, put up for sale at their auction
for stealing a money-box containing $45 from defondants, on behalf of a Chinese firm el rosma, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, by order of the regulations clash, and we submit that we
have shown ample grounds for a reconsidera. his cabin on Monday afternoon. Complainant flour merchants, were transferring a quantity. said that on Monday morning he placed the of "Red Seal flour into bage bearing the mortgagees, the valuable leasehold property, ANSTERDAM 1895,
registered in the Land Office as sub-section tion of the "rules and regulations" made money in the box, and in the afternoon when "White Lily brand. This was done, it is ho went to open the box he found that the box alleged, because the Red Seal brand of No. 2 of section A of Inland lot No. 25. This under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance.
and money had both disappeared.. When the four bore the mark "U.S.A." while that of the property comprises Nos. 1, 3, 5, and 7, Lower
matter was reported to the Station, and Detec-White Lity did not. Therefore they would ROUEN 1895, Lascar Row, Victoria, Hongkong. Meas.
was searched and a bunch of keys was found marks. Deacon, Looker and Deacon were the vendor'
tive Tearest boarded the Hailan, the defendant evade the boycotters if they substituted the in his possession. The first key that was tried solicitors. The reserve price not having been reached the property was withdrawn, and the
opened the box. Defendant was sentenced to one month's hard labour, (--4 || sale postponed size dis.
AWARDS: GOLD MEDALS AT
PARIS 1900,
HANOI 1902,
BORDEAUX 1895,
Dijon 1901,
LILLE 1902,
'Hongkong, 4th July, 1905,
VIENNA, 1902.
can only trust that before this is read the "missing" steamers will be safely anchored in the harbour and that these who are almost feverish will be calmed by the news of good fortune from abroad.
THX following is the return of visitors to the ending 18th March:-Library-Noo-Chinese, Cily Hall Library and Museum for the week 27: Chinese, 133; total; 304. Museum | Non-Chinese, 118; Chinese, 3,899; total, 4,077,
chard, Lowther and Co., into silver, The trans-
formation did not materialise, and Tong was arrested.. Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court this labour and ex houre' stocks,
morning, sentenced him to three weeks' hard
THE periodical examination of candidates, under the compulsory examination Ordinance
representative of this paper to-day, said that the vessel left Portland, Ore, on February 13th, bound for the Far East. Very fine weather pre- 5th. The first sign of the fog occurred at vailed as fat as Moji, which was left on March half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday morning last, but it was very slight. Two hours later the fog became so thick that the Nicomedia had to slow down her engines and subsequently to anchor. This occurred about twenty miles from Waglan Island. From Sunday morning to Mon- day afternoon seven attempts were made to push the ship to her destination, and cach time the anchar had to be cast overboard. Late yester. day afternoon the Nicomedia raised her anchor for the last time and steamed for this port The fog was left behind at Lyeemoon Pass. On the way an American man-of-war god the s.s. pilot, were sighted, while the fog-horns and Chis, which, it is stated, was waiting for a bells of several ships lying in the vicinity, were beard.
SIGHTED THE FRENCH FLEET. The P.&O.ss Peona, 4.877 tons, Capt. C, His Honour said he thought it reasonable, R. Longden, arrived in the harbour and steam- under the circumstances, to ask foren ndjourned alongside her wharf at Kowloon at six o'clock ment, and he would grant same till Friday, last evening. The chief officer of the vessel reports that he left Singapore on March 12th, for Hongkong. After the Poona had passed presuming the costs were all right.
Gap Rock a thick fog fell in and lasted up to her arrival in port From Singapore they ex- perienced moderate N.E. wind, moderate ser and fine weather. They passed the French fleet consisting of two craisers, the Montcalm and Gueydon, and two destroyers, ten miles from Gap Rock sleaming a North-westerly
Mr, d'Almada e Castro intimated that he was not going to presa for the costs of the day, and The case was adjourned to go into Friday's bad explained that to his friend. summary list.
THE BOYCOTT IN HONGKONG.
ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH TRADE MARKS.
Three men and two women were placed ba
instant.
The case was remanded until Wednesday sum of $100 each. The women $15 apiece,. next. The three men were pleased in the
courst.
DEFIED THE FOU..
The 1.8. Henlowers, 2,920 tons, commanded by Capt. B. Clark, arrived alongside the Kow. yesterday evening. They left Singapore on loon What, from Singapore, at six o'clock the 12th instant. On Saturday a slight fog thicker. They were then about 50 miles from commenced to setile, and it gradually grew Cap Rock. The chief officer reports that the French fleet consisting of two cruisers and six torpedo boats were seen to be manicuring and target shooting, thinty-five miles from Gap Rock.
THIRTY-SIX HOURS IN THE FOG, The Freach mail steamer Ozeanien from the North arrived in part this afternoon. From a passenger en the boat we learn that owing to waited for nearly thirty-six hours. It was only 10%, which was very, beavy pusside, the vessel at 2.30 p.m. to-day that she steamed for Hong- kang. Quite a few passengers left by the pilot's kong before the mail, boat earlier in the day and arrived in Hong