Kutimations.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
¡LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D). 1841.
CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT
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(REGISTERED).
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN. ADVANCRY DAILY $30 per aumära, WERKT.-#19 per in.
l'he me per quarter and por men proportion The unfly issue in 'deliveral free who, the addros is accessible to monenger. In eat it by tan
sekliliomai $1.80 per qanter is consgest for poings The postage on the weekly Issue to any part of the
world is 30 cents per quarter,
five cents. *
BHS.
On the 29th Aprit, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. M.ZIMMERM ›N, of a 500
On the 5th May, at Yangchow, to Dr. and Mrs. P. S. EVANS, Jr., a daughter.
DEATH.
GORDON STROUD, aged 27 years
HONGKONG'S POPULATION.
Songs interesting statistics regarding the population of the Colony are given in the annual report on the sanitary condition of Hongkong. Very few have any idea as to the numbers of the respective races in the Colony, and a summary of the report on this subject may be of value in the settlement of arguments which continually arise on the point. It seems that the white population of Hongkong numbers 19,835, of whom 5.722 are civilians and 5,113 belong to the Navy and Army. The coloured races (non-Chinese) number 6,837. In the city
of Victoria including the Peak and Stone-
is
1906.
show some surprising results to those who | LEAVE of absenco to the neighbouring coun- tries on private affairs has been granted to have trasted, in the past, to recoup them.
One of Captain G. Radbam-Thornhill, Royal Garrison selves on a rising exchange.
Artillery, from 16th May to 15th July, next. the features of trade competition the sacrifices made by foreign houses to It is said that the negotiatious as to a closer connection of the Shell Company with the secure a share of the market, and pow the elimination of the exchange ques
Asiatic Company, and consequently with the tion creates an inportant révolution in the
Royal Petroleum Company, are in full pro methods of business finance. It is remarked❘ gress, that a short time ago it was sometimes pus-The shields of copper prescuted to the captains sible to buy goods as cheaply as they were of the Atos and Vashims as gilis from the sold in Europe, but that was an unnatural British and Foreign Sailors' Society are state of things which will disappear with the fashioned out of metal from the Victory, and fixity of the dollar. The fluctuation in home bear in deep relief the picture of the Victory prices, and the movement in local stocks, beating up to Gibraltar with Nelson's body on
remain. the only speculative consideration board after Trafalgar. The shields are to bo
The Hongkong Gelegraph very reverse, for they are in the primi ring which has affected commerce since Lunatic Asylum.
HONGKONG, Monday, May 14, 1906.
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TELEGRAMS.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”
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SERVICE.
CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS.
PROTEST BY BRITISH AND AMERICAN MINISTERS.
FRANCE AND GERMANY INDIFERENT. [From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 14th May,
3.20 p.m.
It is contended that such appoints. ments will deprive Sir Robert Hart of the powers which were conferred on him, and which have conduced to the stability of the Customs service.
The French and Gorman Ministers
The British and American Minis- ters at Peking have presented a vi catters Island there are 194,950 Chinese; which now enters into transactions, beyond awarded annually to officers or senmen of the Stogle Copies Dally, ten cents. Wenkly, twenty. in. the villages there are ' 16,296; in Old the ordinary margins of profit. It is satis. respective ships for deeds of helpfulness.
gorous protest against the appoint. Kowloon, 73473; in New Kowloon about actory to note that the position of Great A FORTNIGHT ago, a Chinaman obtained a 21,000; while 54,154 live in boats. The
Britain in the Southern Colony as a manu passage to Singapura by the s.8. Lightning. † ment of Chinese officials to be High grand total of Hongkong's population isfacturer of goods gives no cause for pessi falf way to his destination the native developed 377,850. It will hardly be believed that of
mistic utterance. She is far and away in lunacy and had to be kept onder lock and key. Commissioners of the Imperial the Chinese population no less than 729 front of her rivals, and there are no evidences On arrival at Singapore the police there refused Maritime Customs, per cent, were males, according to the
of any weakening of her hold; rather does it to allow the nian to land, and he was put aboard the Catherine Apcar and brought back figures obtained at the last census, so that
to Hongkong yesterday. On arrival of the On the 8th May, at Shancha, WALTER we have the unusual position of three men appear as if she would improve her supre-
to every woman in the Colony. And these macy. One of the great drawbacks to legi-vessel in the harbour the Water Police took males are not boys or decrepit oid men; the timate trade in Singapore is the shipping charge of the man and removed him to the of life, or at least half of them are 1897, by imposing restrictions entirely un-
natural and disturbing the balance of trade A. FLAMENT, aftur Vanderberg, alias Vander in that happy stage of between 20
remand at the Magistracy this morning, before and 45 years. Hongkong's population lives by doing away with the benefits which flowmiller, a Frenchman, was brought up on in 8,571 houses having 25.393 floors. The from a healthy competition. The writer, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, charged with alleged A WARNING TO HOUSEHOLDERS. average number of persons in each house is however. believes that in the near future embezzlement, said to liave been cominitted
the alliance will be shattered by the within the French jurisdiction at Canton profess to be indifferent one way or 22.4 and cach floor carries an average of Considerable attention has been given of 7.5 people. So that it will be seen the pro-introduction of vessels of huge tonnage Sergt. Morrison, who had charge of the case, the other. late to the largely enhanced cost of reget portion is perilously near the limit laid down which will oust the vessels, of the "ring" asked his Worship to withdraw the charge ables in Hongkong, but in dealing with this by the Government. Indeed, one is inclin. The reviewer argues that Singapore is de against the defendant on the ground that the His Worship accordingly dis- subject people are ama to overlook the dassed to suspect that in some cases the restric clining as a distributing port but maintains French authorities at Canton had refused to gers which lurk in the green foodstuffs which tion of eight persons to a flat is evaded, that it is increasing as a port of transhipment, prosecute, come into the Colony. It is a well known The non Chinese houses number 966. The although that is an unprofitable business charged the defendant.
area built compared with buying and selling. In this fact that in cultivating vegetables the market number of persons to the
over is 270. 11 the authorities went by connection he remarks that "eyen if, as some DEODORISER gardeners, who are practically Chinese to a
the births registered by Chinese their suppose, slie has before her as a shipping calculations as to the population would post immense possiblitics in the opening up be wholly untrustworthy. It is the custom of China, the cutting of the Panaina Canal of Chinese parents not to register a birth may be considered an offset in favour of the -unless the child survives the first month, and purts of Manila and Hongkong. The ex often in the case of female children the birth penditure on harbour works, the expansion is never registered at all. It is therefore
A POWERFUL
DISINFECTANT,
GERMICIDE
CHEAP
HARMLESS
EFFECTIVE
man, are in the habit of using buman excreta as manure, a practice which is prohibited in Hongkong, although no one will maintain that the custom does, wat prevail. In their
annual report on the sanitary condition of the Colony, Dr. Clark and Dr. Pearse, the
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[N. C. D. News.] Occupation by Purchase.
Peking, 7th May, Prince Ching reports that a large area of and in Mongolia, bordering on Kirin and
Stengking provinces, where he is now inspect
Las Lin, head "boy," Kawilon Botel, was charged this morning, at the instance of). W. riotous and disorderly manner in the hotel on Osborne, the proprietor, with behavingʻin a
tion took place between defendant and a Saturday night. It appeared that some alterça- European visitor at the hotel, which resulted The Japanese and the Pacific Mail.
in defendant challenging him to fight. De fendant averred that he was first struck by the of facilities 31 Tanjong Pagar and the possiEuropean. The case was remanded to allow
chief medical officers of health in Hongkong, assumed that all children of one month and ble creation of a naval dockyard, would all the visitor to aneud Const
call'special, notice to this practice and warn householders against the consumption of raw vegetables. Several cases of typhoid fever were traced or at least attributed to S. WATSON & CO., vegetables which were partaken of either up cooked or inder cooked. "It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the public in this Colony that to indulge in uncooked vege
LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Fungkong, zal March, rigol.
BAHADUR
CIGARS.
THE
under who die in the convents, or are found dead in the streets, harbour, hillsides, etc., have been born in the Colony, but not regis. tered, and accordingly a fairly accurate esti. male is obtained by adding the number of registered births to the number of unregis tered. According to that plan it appears that 124 males are born in proportion to every 100
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house coalie employed at No. 1, Observatory
POLICE Constable Wills proceeded against a Villa, Kowinan, before Mr. F A. iazeland,
mean the expenditure of large sums of money in the place itself, but this would be more or less of a temporary iature and it is doubtful, what, if any, increased beuchthis morning, for being in unlawiul possession In all these of a quantity of ginger, reasonably suspected as a port would accrue."
sw defendant's jacket. Jooking bulky, and circumstances the outlook is not reassuring to have been stolen. The coustable said he for Singapore. But the writer neglects to take into consideration the rapid develop arrested him in Carnarvon Roast. & hea arrest- His Worship imposed a fine of Sig on the
tables, e. g. salads, is to run a risk of typhoid females. In the non-Chinese community ment of the hinterlaml, the large areas of ed the ginger was discovered under bis jacket.
infection." These medical experts proceed: "By far the greater amount of vegetable 154 food is imported into Hongkong from China.
PREMIER CIGAR
OF
INDIA.
the proportion of inale births te female was to to 100 last year; in 1904 it was 83 males to 100 females, and in 1993 and 1oz the uropieting was 171 males, in females. The death rate is rapidly descending, and if figures could be implicitly relied upon,
land in Malaya that are being brought into cultivation, the extension of the railways, the opening up of Jubore and a variety of other schomes which, uns all toved to meet the chief port of the peninsula. On the whole, looking at the matter from a dis-
defendant.
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DR. W. J. Simpson, Professor of Hygiene in King College, Landon, has led for Singa; pore, having been appointed by the Colonial Office, acting on behalf of the Government of
ing, has been purchased by Russians, and the farmers are so destitute of means that it is almost impossible to redeem the land.
Tokio, 8th May. The American Consul at London a said 10 have reported that the Toye Kisen Kaishia has floated a loan of $0,000,000 gold in London for the purchase of the fleet of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
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The Russian Terrorists Active. Tokio, 8th May. Governor-General 1), ubasoff of Moscow was
the Palace gate. Two attendants were killed and the assassin also. injured by a bomb thrown. by a terrorist at
Russia and Tibet.
Peking, 9th May: 11.F. Hu Wei-té, Minister at St. Petersburg, has telegraphed that Russia is profecting to send some fifty students of Lamaism to Lbassa, following the Dalai Lama who is expected shartly to start on the return journey to Tibet. motive at present undisclosed.
The Chinese as is well-known use human excreta as manure. The danger of this pia tice is not found in this mere fact itself, for provided that all such matter is thoroughly tongkang should be one of the healthiest interested standpoint the writer may be the Straits Settlements, to serve on a commis. The Minister thinks there is some political
places on earth. In 1886 the rate of mor
ripened in a manure pit before being ap plied to the soil the probability of contamin-tality was 31.70 per thousand; in 1995 it was ation of the plants is remote. But there is danger in the practice of watering vegetables
16.89 per mille, and the average for the five years from 1981 to 1995 was 17.02, a re-
deemed noduly pessimistic,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
has been sold to Mr. August Belmont, the American sportsman, for £25,000. The British Admiralty has sent seven cruisers to sink the derelict steamer Dunmore, which is drifting in the track of the Transatlantic liners. A SAMPANMAN was fined Sio, by Mr. F. A Hazeland, this morning, for carrying six pas sengers in excess of the number allowed by
lis licence.
sion to inquire into and report on the sanitary condition of Singapore. Dr. Simpson's former experience in Calcutta, and his recent special mission to Hongkong in connection with the plague investigations, mark him out as about
important duty.-S. F. Press,
WE (N. C. D. News) are courteously informed that the Directors of the Weihaiwei Gold Mibing Co., Ld., received a telegram from the Manager yesterday afternoon (4th inst.) giving the result of the second clean-up at Weihaiwel. covering a period of 26 days only, which shows a result almost identical with the first month's crashing 1,715 tons were crushed, yielding 132 nunces, valued at about $3,50 Mex Also go lens of concentrates, valued at ahou1 $15,00 Mex. The cost of running the mine for the The full month was about $13,007. Mex. expenses are practically the same as last month. The total for the two months in rough figures based on the above calculations would be as Follows value in bullion and concentrates. slightly over $10,000; expenses about $26,000 Mex.
with diluted fresh excretal matters. It is notmarkable rate for a semi-tropical city. But { ROCK SAND, the famous Derby winner bi go, the best authority available for his present generally known to the public that the 'utine this has to be remembered, that Chisest of a typhoid patient may contain the typhoid when in fear of dissolution seek their native bacillus for weeks and even months after land where they can die in peace and wihin convalescence. Over such food grown out sight of the ancestral tomb, so that these of the Colony there is no control at all.
averages are not absolutely correct. Among Within this Colony the bye-laws require all the non-Chinese section of the populațień excretal matters to be removed to the conser-there were 302 deaths; of these 89. vere. vaney boats and hence the using of it in British, 36. Portuguese, 16 German 11 gardens is illegal. Practically the only American; 6 French, and smaller, nunners manure obtainable by gårdeners in Hongkong of Swedes, Italians, etc. is of human origin and the very existence of market gardens in this Colony must certain ly be taken as presumptive evidetice that human manure is used. In spite of the lact that people if caught removing exereta to any place but the conservancy boats are able to punishment, no one should assume that vegetables grown in this Colony by market gardeners are, or can be grown with profit, without the use of human manure. The moral is obvious:-To eat no uncooked
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THE Chinese Engineering and Mining Co.'s. total outpus of the company's three mines for the week ending the 28th u. amounted to 18,881.49 tons and the sales during the period to 16,123.44 lons,
TRADE IN SINGAPORE. An interesting and in some respectsim portant review of trade prospects. in Siga- pure appears in a recent issue of the Press. The writer after considering the but- jonk from a general standpoint comes the conclusion that the position of singa ore is not reassuring, and "unless there is me tracy this morning. change for the better in the condition the
FOR stealing a silk jacket from his master, a barber, of the Central District, an assistant barber was sentenced to three weeks' hard inbour, by Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magis
local bazaar which is now far from satifac-TuFrench Minister has made representations tory, the failure of large deafers hitro to the Waiwupu in respect of a French cum-
gth inst.
The Directors of the Weihaiwei Gold Mining Co. advise us that the returns for the month of April should be about $15,500 Mex, for the 25 days instead of $18,033 Mex. as previously
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this coimun.1.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT KOWLOON.
TO THE EDITOR of the "Honukynh Talegram," Dear Sir,As it might appear from the word. J. Steven's letter in your ing of the Rev, issue of 11th May, that I am providing a peal of bells for the new church at Kowloon, wil you kindly pernit me to say that this is not so. The bells will be paid for by subscriptions which I am collecting.-Yours truly,
EDWARD OSBORNE, Hongkong, 14th May, 1906.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
WAFLS DE'.
American (Amerića Maru) 15th inst, am, English (Oceana) 16th inst, 3 pm. Indian Namsang). Zest inst. Canadian (Empress of China) zand inst. German (Preussen) zzrd inst. American (China) goth insi American (Mongolia) zoth inst.
vegetables unless grown in a garden where to I one's own knowledge such manure is not deemed absolutely safe gives some intimtion any which desires to establish a river service advised. This will require corresponding San Francisco on 10th inst.
by tugs between Chungking and lchang that such an undertaking is permissible under the Inland Navigation Rule laid down in the new Trenty..
correction of the figures which follow.
THE COMINTHIAN CLUB,
FINAL CRUISE.
On Saturday afternoon, the Corinthian Yacht TBE members of the Garter mission lave de cided to purchase july a large tract of land along the line of the Canadian Northern Rail-Club closed its racing season by a very pleas. way, and to establish a colony there to be aut and enjoyable cruise to Seeton, remaining their mission to Japan. A wag suggests it will be desired, and a most successful trip was the result. The party remained at Seeton during Sunday, and several scratch races were sailed, require plenty of "stocking."
the rest of the day being spent la bathing, etc, the flees returning to Hongkong on Sunday, at & p.m.
The T. K. K. s.5. Nippon Maru saited from The C. P. R. Co.'s s.s. Monteagle left Yoko- haina on 12th inst., for Victoria and Vancouver.
The Great Northern 5.3. tinnesota from Seattle arrived at Yokohania on 13th inn, at E
a.m.
The Imperial German Mail's.5, Roon, which left here on gh inst., arrived at Shanghai on 12th inst, at 3 p.m.
The N. Y. K. European Ligs 1.4. Awa Moru
expected here on 15th inst
used." If people adhered literally to that ritle of what may be expected." The writer ads: it is doubtful whether many would ever enjoy If, however, the bazaar quickly recoves in a salad in this Colony. It is practically im tone, a fixed exchange will prevent a reur- possible to keep a surveillance over the rence of the enormous losses sulain. market gardens in Hongkong, and the ways ed by Chinese and Klings during the of the gardeners are not always what they last months of 1905, giving greater abi- seem. No doubt many of those who have lity and removing the principal hindiace passed the gardens in the vicinity of Happy to confidence in business Iransactins," known as "Garteria," in commemoration of over Sunday. The weather was all that could left Shangbai for this port on 12th inst, and is Valley must have had their suspicions Although there has of late been an atence aroused as to the character of the manure of commercial prosperity in Singapore that which was being used to raise the vegetables, fact cannot lie attributed in his opinia toOWING to the change of dates at Canton the but nobody dreams of taking action on bare any lack of enterprise on the part ofer Great Thurston show will remain at the City suspicion, and the Chinese gardeners pro- chants. On the contrary, business fuses Hall for another three nights;, a matinee will be given on Wednesday. The prites of ad- No. 2 - $2.50 per 100 ceed in please themselves on the question of have never been half so alert or act as
manure. The fact that the use of uncooked they are at the present time. Theyhave mission have been greatly reduced and it is vegetables, grown in, districts which are free been doing everything in their power in expected that the crowded, houses which have from the tranmels of sanitary inspection, is duce business, but all to no purpose. They been the rule so far will continue to prevail.
No. 1
No. 3
$2.75 - per
100
$2.25 - per 100 a very real danger to consumers is found in the report that next to plague the largest number of cases of infectious disease occurred under the heading of typhoid fever. There were 42 cases among Europeans, 16 of which were imported; while the Chinese cases numbered 37, and there were 11 cases among the other races in the Colony. It will be well, therefore, for householders to eschew suck foods as those which imply the use of uncooked vegetables, unless, of courro, they have a back garden in which they grow the plants under their own supervision.
Gregor & Co.,
SOLE AMENTS.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1995.
·₤36-71
The following yachts joined in the final
sidered by Mr. Pepper
cruise :- May Hidernia Gael
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Gibson
M. Mclver
E. M. Hazeland McKirdy
Antrimmela Annie
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Kynoch
have, abandoned, liete in cuspendus "Yes," said Daniel Rutiserland, at the Police Wind attitude towards an intending custome and Court this morning, in answer to a charge of crave his business, with the result the the being drunk and incapable in Ship Street on customer is now the independent indidual Sunday night. "I am in the Sulors' Home," Thistic
Chant cicer who is waited upon deferentially the continued Sutherland, and I would like to seller. And the reason for this cloged inform you that I have no money. On being fris attitude is found in the keenness of copeti- 1 questioned' Daniel said that he was promised Thecla tion which has come to stay. It is nonow a job and expected to have it soon. My. Haze Astkore Land femanded defendant in police costody Marlon
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M. McCorquedale Melville
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a question of a fifteen to twenty per until he finds a boat. Tligo-defendant was to The Club will now enter upon its swimming cent. profit, but of anything under ven.be "put on board. It was later learnt that season, and for this purpose their new acquisit The question of exchange had blind to the story almut his being promised a ship was in the Ark, u species of floating dressing Singapore merchants to the real st of a fabrication and his Worshig fined hi 2 or rooms for bathers will shortly be anchored off
this club grounds, affairs, and the writer predicts that 19 will | seven dayeɛ.
The N... K. Bombay Line 5.3. Hakata Maru telt Kobe via Moji for this port on 18th inst., and is expected here on 21st inst.
The T. K. K. s.5. America Maru sailed from Shangbai on Saturday at 11 p.m., and will be dus at this port on Tuesday morning early.
The Boston S. S. Cols as. Trimont ánived at Manila on 12th inst. She is expected to leave that port on 16th inst, and to arrive here on 19th inst
The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s 's.. Oceana left Singapore for this port on 12th inst., at to m with the outward English Malls, and is due here on 16th inst, at 3 pm,
The C. P. R. Co's 6.5. Empress of Japan arrived at Nagasaki at 9 am, on 14th inst, and leaves again at 4 p.m., sime day for Kobe, where she is due to arrive at 9 pm, on 15th inst.
The Imperial German Mail 9.s. Preussen carrying the German, Mails with dates from Berlin' of the zaąth ult, left' Colómbo on 13th' inst., a.m., and may be expected here on 23rd
inst
The C. P. R. Co.'s s.a. "Empress of China arrived at Yokohama at.5.33 pm, on 13th inst and leaves again, at 3 pm, Monday, for Kobe where she is due to arrive at 3 p.m., on 15th
inst,