Intimations;
ESTABLISHED;A.D, '1841,
LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY JUNE 4, 1906.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, Monday, June 4, 1906.
COLONIAL FINANCE.
If the figures presented in the compara-
A. S. WATSON & CO., tive statement of revenge and expenditure of the Colony for the first quarter of the year, furnish any indication of the results likely to be attained for the current year, the finances of the Colony show anything but a promising outlook for the twelvemonth. Examining the revenue returns for the quar- ter, as compared with the same period last. yeat, we are confronted with the fact that, whereas there has been an increase of $81,667.77 over the estimated amount, this surplus is more than absorbed by the de creased receipts in the other items which total $209,579.28. Of the latter amount
WIND AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
SCOTCH
WHISKIES. GREAT REDUCTION really represents
IN
PRICES.
From this date the prices of our popular brands of SCOTCH WHISKIES will be as
nder :---
I
A. THORNES BLEND)
The Command alu
$11.00
B. GLENORCHY "BLEND (A
Fine Soda Whisky)
C ABERLOUR GENLIVET A Fine Peaty Flavoured Whisky)
D. H.K.D. BLEND of the Finest Old Malt Scotch Whiskies
E. BLEND.
11.40
Land Sales alone account for $178,831,01 Excluding this source of revenue, which capital asset of the Colony, there is a balance of fifty odd thou sand dollars in favour of the current year. The detailed items of increase are:---
Licences and internal revenue. $12.188.19 13.391.98 55,826.54 351:00
Fees of Court, &C....... Hent of Property, &c. Interest
The heads under which the decreases are accounted for comprise :-
...Light dues.......
Post Office...
Miscellaneous
Water Account.....
$941.58 0,227.09 4.057.81 19.521-19
Before passing to the estimates of expendi- ture, attention may be invited to a sum of 12.50 $2.41,000 upposite a curious head of revenue denominated" Widows' and Orphans' Per 14.00 sion Fund." Enough has been said in these columus in opposition to the inequitable appropriation to the Colonial exchequer of so large a sum of money, which, it is very questionable if Government can legally transfer to the general revenues of the Colony. So far it is pleasing to observe that, though the sum of over a quarter of a million dollars has been put down by way of transfer from the Fund to the coffers of the Govern-
15.00
The popular Whisky in the Far East.... The above prices are strictly nel. The discount of five per cent. previously allowed
on our Whiskies ceases from this date.
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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Hongkong, 17th May, 1906.
Las
A. S. WATSON & CO., men, in the revenue statement of the first quatter of the year, nor credit has been taken of any portion of that, money. Far the most equitable procedure would be to return this large accumulated Fund to the subscribers thereto, who should receive their disbursed quota with far better grace than the bonus a .section of the Civil Service are claiming by season of the appreciation in the gold value of the dollar-a bonus, we have no hesitation in again emphasizing, they have no title to. "The expenditure of the Colony for the first three months of the year shows a diminution of a half lakh of dollars by comparison with the figures for 1905, that is, aer excluding a sum of $435,048.95 devoted
POST CARD
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S. "MONMOUTH"
DUE IN HONGKONG.
The British cuiser Monmouth, which left
THE MACAO LOTTERY.
MANILA JOURNAL'S SEVERE STRICTURES.
In the campaign now going on against gambling our attention has been directed to one
Singapore on Wednesday last, was expected to 'arrive here this afternon.
of the worst factors contributing to the present The Sfonmouth is commanded by Captain.mania We (Manila Times) refer to the sale According to one who is pretty well pasted of the Macao lottery tickels in Mauila.
on the transactions of this lottery and the pro protions it has assumed in this city, no less a
sum than F25,000 a month leaves Manila. Accepting this estimate, which is believed to be conservative, it probably means that the Istands lose every year anywhere from P200,000 to P300,000,
TELEGRAMS.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
BERVICE.
THE KIANGSI REBELLION.
10 KILLED. 16 PRISONERS.
FOREIGN MISSIONS SAFE, [From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanglui, 4th June,
12.20 p.m.
Mr. William W. Astor, the American million- aire, has given Cleveden-hall and its contents to his son, Waldorf Astor, and the "Sancy" diamond, worth £2000, to Mrs, Langhorne Shaw, on the occasion of their wedding. FOR snatching a pair of trousers from the. A. Tuke. Capt. Take, who has served in counter of a shop in Queen's Road East and all parts of the world, joined the Queen's Navy in July, 1870. He was promoted lieutenant bolting down the road, yesterday afternoon, a coolie, on being charged by Inspector Gourlay, 1881, commander in 1895, and captain on the was this morning sentenced to three weeks last day of 1901. He was a sub-lieutenant on hard labour and six hours' stocks, by Mr. F. A. the Pioneer in the Niger Expedition to the capital of the Emir of Nussa. He also par Hazeland, at the Magistracy.
ticipated in the operations round, and the hom
The prompt action of the Chinese bardment of, the town of Nutcha (mentioned in
Discarding the moral principles involved Government in despatching troops despatches) and was lieutenant on the Northum derland during the Egyptian War of 1881 and considering the matter from a purely com- (medal and the Khedive's star). Ile bold the mercial standpoint, this Macao lottery is much to Yungshan, in Kiangsi, on the out- appointment al Master of the Fleet far the more prenicious than the other forms of break of the recent disturbance, hag Coronation Naval Review, 1902. He is no gambling in vogue here, in that practically all stranger to the China Station, having been the money leaves the islands, constituting a commander and navigating officer of the battle-dead loss. With the other forms of gambling ship Centurion, flagship of Sir E. H. Seymour, practised here, it may be said that they have st K.C., when he commanded the Station,, 1898- least the merit of not taking the money out of 1951. Latterly, Captain Tuke was in command
the islands. There will probably not be much of the gunnery ship Undaunted, and the Theseus, lender to the guanery ship Cambridge, Devonpurl.
It is stated that Dr. Louis Klopsch, of the New York Christian Herald, who collected many lakhs of rupees for the Indian famines of 1896 and 1900, and who received the Kaiser i-Hiud gold medal from the King for that signal service, has just received the thanks of President Roosevelt for collecting 100,oco dollars, or about three lakhs of rupees, towards the relief of the sufferers in the San Francisco disaster
SERGEANT O'Sullivan prosecuted two coolies before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy this morning, for stealing from a married woman a gold finger ring and a pair of trousers, at Hunghom, yesterday. Defendants denied the charge. Evidence was heard, and his Worship sentenced them to three weeks hard
labour and six hours' stocks each. Defendants
at the expiration of the term of imprisonment will be banished.
TUBHE was some commotinn at West Point
The Afonmouth is a first-class cruiser of the County type and is sister ship to the Donegal which went ashore on the way out to the China Station and had to be recalled. She was built by the London and Glasgow Co., in 1900-01, and was the third of ber class. finished. Her chief dimensions are:-Length 440 ft, beam 66 It, mean draught 24 f, and 9,800 tons dis- placement. She is fitted with four cylinder
question that this lottery business should be stopped, but there appears to be some question as to whether it can be stopped.
A test case in court has already decided that only the vendor and not the holder of a lottery ticket can be prosecuted. Even were a law framed so as to include the holder not a ven der it is a question whether any practical re sulis would be accomplished. The number of ticket-buyers is so large that the arrest of one or two would not be likely to exercise any de-
had the desired effect.
The rebellion has been suppressed. Ten of the rioters were killed in the conflict with the Governmont troops, who succeeded in capturing sixteen of the malcontents.
All the foreign missions are safe and none of the missionaries haye
been molested.
[The rising at Yungshan was first reported. in these columns on the gist ult, and at one time assumed serious proportions. It was movement. The dearness of food was given as the pretext for the rising, The Governor of of the outbreak, despatched troops to the scene Kiangsi Province, as soon as he was apprised
on Saturday alternoon when it was learnt that triple expansion engines of 22,000 h.p., supplied torrent effect on the others. The problem then believed to be the result of a secret society
a Chinaman, suffering from plague, had com-
mitied suicide. The occurrence took place at the district hospital at No. 63, Third Street. A
by 31 Belleville bailers with economisers, which
have done very well in this cruiser.
With
stems to devolve on catching the vendors or
agents. According to one informant, the tickets
Chinaman, it appears, was suffering from regard to protection the Monmouth has a steel are purchased in Macao, while another says of the disturbance.-Ed., H.K.F]
plague, and being in a delirious condition, he rushed for the verandah and jumped to the street below. He was killed instantly. The police were summoned and his body removed
to the mortuary.
beit from four to two inches thickness on either side from the after gun turret to the bows. The casemales, turrets and barbettes are protected by armour of from four to five inches thickness, whilst a protective steel deck covers the ship's vitals. The conning tower from which the cruiser is controlled in action CHAN Hak, a boarding-house runner, perjorm-
has 10-in' armoar. Her teeth comprise four ed an athletic feat in the harbour yesterday, and had it not been that Sergt. Wilden was nearguns in pairs in turrets on special double at hand he would have got off well, but as the mountings, tea similar guos in casemates.on officer witnessed the feat, it cost Chan dearly. the boardsides and sundry lighter guns with The torpedo fats At the Police Court this morning he was char-two 18-in torpedo tubes. ged with going on board the steamer Hanol contain-nine 18-in and five 14-in Whitehead without permission from the caplain. Sergeant torpedoes, the latter being for boat service. Wilden said that the defending "jumped" on board the ship while she was gang full speed. Mr. F. A. Hazeland lined defendant $59, with the option of two months' hard labour.
scamun on board s.s. Anglo Canadian was armigned before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy this morning, with being drunk and disorderly in ice House Street, on Sunday, and also with nssaulting a Chinese constable while in the execution of his duty. Defendant pleaded ignorasce. it appeared that he was asleep in the side-channel and when told to get up he twisted the lukone's hand and struck him. Inspecter Warnock said defendant was very disorderly when he arrived at the station. His Worship imposed a fine of $2 on the first charge, and $3 on the second.
The vessel carries a complement of 70 officers and men, and has served one commission with the First Cruiser Squadron which she joined when it was first formed.
When the cruiser Monmouth was first com.
missioned by Capt, H. C. Reynolds for service in the Cruiser Squadron in December, 1933, the people of the county whose name the vessel bears presented to her a silver cup, and the ladies of the county also presented a silk ensign and a silk Union Jack, which were enclosed in a carved casket. The gifts reach ed the ship, but they have never been formally presented. Lord and Lady Llangatlock re- cently acceded to the request of Lord Tredegar (Lord Lieutenant of the couply) to present
them to the officers and ship's company. It
was also intended that a lieutenant and two petty officers of the vessel. should proceed to THE constant petty larcenies that have been
Monmouth for the purpose of presenting to the going on of lale at the Army Service Depart-officials of the county a picture of the ship. ment resulted in the watchmen being put on
the qui vive. On Sunday afternoon the watch. Owing to the departure of the afonmouth on
they are printed and purchased here. If any are issued here, it seems certain that they constitute only a small proportion of the total number circulated.
In the case of the great Louisiana lottery the evil was stopped by enacting a law prohibiting. the passage of the tickets through the mails. Here there is no such law,, nor is there any law which makes them liable to seizure by the Customs authorities. The only tax to which they are liable is that on ordinary tickets or printed matter, which amounts to the ridicu. loua sum of forty cents on almost a million dollars worth of tickets. As the minimun amount which can be collected under the tariff laws is one dollar, the tickets escape even this absurd impost and pass in duty free.
We understand that in the new penal code, which seems destined to pass when the mille nium arrives and penal codes are no longer needed, there is a clause which provides for dealing with lottery tickets. Until that. law is in the arrest of the agents or vendors. If the passed, there appears no other remedy than lies extent of the transactions of this lottery be any thing like that reported, it would seem to be incumbent on our Secret Service Bureau to try its utmost to break up the present, perni- clous system. Whether under the present de fective and discouraging laws or lack of laws the Secret Service can accomplish anything is a question. We should like to see it tried, however. Better still would the Commission pass that penal code.
THE UNLUCKY "THIRTEEN."
¿COMPETITION. To all purchasers at our Establishment of $1 and upwards between June 1st and June 25thture is in excess of that for the correspond-Courlay took charge of the man. The coole, ship for the Andromeda, which left for home Station, raided a gambling den on the hillside,
will be given a Coupon entitling them to enter the following Competi tion. The largest num- ber of English words that can be made from
MARIE BRIZARD.”·
1st Prize:
1 Case Pts. Per-
inet & Fils Champagne $56.50
2nd Prizó:
1. Case Royal Old Highland Whisky
3rd Prize:
24.00
1 Case Macin-
tosh Whisky 10.00.
AND
10 CONSOLATION {PRIZES.
In the event of ties to 'be drawn for. All replies
tributed the 30th June when all cards may be inspected at our office.
man noticed a bulky looking coolic leaving the
to Public Works Extraordinary. Inclusive, yard and on searching him twenty-eight pounds of this sum, however, the aggregate expendi- of brass was found under his coal. Inspector
ing period of last year by $125,935-54 who turned out to be a marine hawker, was Detailing the respective departments contri charged this morning, before Mr. Hazeland.
buting towards the excess expenditure the
result is tabulated as follows:
mient
Pensions
........$ 0.924.84 Registrar General's Depart
838.12 322.80
203.20 4.434.50
Audit.... Treasuty
Post Office
Harbour Master's Depart-
ment
Observatory
Judicial..
Medicul
Education
Charitable Allowances
Transport
Miscellaneous
'3,170.52 220.45 874.10 7,079.08. 2,825.42.
-29-35 639.56 3.586.83
Public Works
2,077.10
Do.. Extraordinary... 17537-05 Against the foregoing increases must be
an earlier date than was expected both these ceremonies have again been postponed.
The Monmouth has supernumeraries on board for the China Squadron and is the relief
some little time ago.
He denied the charge of being in unlawful possession of the brass. Evidence of the watch man was beard, and his Worship fined him $15, with the alternative of one month's gaol..
HERB is a new-and true-story, writes acor respondent of the Morning Leader, to set be side the hoary anecdotes of schoolroom answers that we have all so frequently heard. AA LONDON telegram of May 21, which is worried pedagogue was trying (without much published by the Tokio Asahi, states that Mr. success) to drag out of a class of small boys Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand, has had the names of various kinds of stones. At an interview with the Japanese Consul in length, in desperation, he said: "Do you ever Sydney in connection with a project for open- go into a country churchyard? What sort of ing a regular ser ice between New Zealand stone do you see there?"-"Gravestones," came and Japan. The result of the conference is. the prompt reply." And what sort of stone do not yet known. The plan is warmly welcomed they remind you o!?! he added, wearily, by Japanese und Colonial traders. "Brimstone came the startling rejoinder from
YESTERDAY afternoon, two coolies had a heated some small descendant of Calvinist forbears.
argument in an opium divan in. Queen's Road West about the question of some stolen pro- perly and the result was that they came to blows.
A TRUCK accident occurred in Des Voeux Road Central on Saturday afternoon, which
FIGHTING IRON FOR THE POLICE, Inspector Robertson, of Shaukiwan Police
[Reuter's.]
The Bomb Outrage in Madrid.
London, 1st June. After the explosion of the bomb, King Alphonso stood up as if to protect the Queen, and smilingly saluting the alarmed public, assisted the Queen to alight.
The bomb, which was, of polished steel, burst in the air, killing two aristocratic oc cupants of a balcony.
The people are infuriated and threaten to lynch foreigners.
Later.
The latest from Madrid states that three officers, seven soldiers and ten spectators. were killed, and one hundred injured, in- cluding General Weyler, seriously.
Their Majesties motored through Madrid in the forenoon without an escort, and met with a tremendous ovation, crowds running in streams on either side exhibiting delirious
enthusiasm,
There are indications that the outrage was hatched by anarchists in London,
The World's Congratulations. In the cpurse of yesterday, Their Majesties frequently appeared on the balcony of the palace and received ovations,
The city was magnificently illuminated last night.
Their Majesties are overwhelmed with telegraphic congratulations from everywhere in the world.
ST. PATRICK'S CLUB.
at Shaukiwan, yesterday forenoon, and effected the arrest of thirteen coolies, who were engaged in the game of to chee. When the police enter Another very enjoyable entertainment was THE irony of life is well illustrated in the cateer of Robert Ashworth, a Manchester gro-ed the mashed the gamblers showed fight. given on Saturday night, in the Club rooms, cer. For twenty-eight years he worked in a The head man produced n fighting-iron that by the members of the St. Patrick's Club, con- mill, saving £18. Then he bought a grocery
was near at hand, and brought it down on the sisting of songs, recitations, and instrumental business, and now he is in the Bankruptcy head of a lukong, bruising that man to some solos, with an excruciatingly funny farce, Court, with a deficiency of £138.
extent. The police succeeded in getting the "Sunshine after Rain," which elicited roars of fighting-iron, and the thirteen men removed to laughter from the very appreciative audience, the police station. They were paraded before The stage, or platform, had been tastefully de. Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy to-day.corated and draped for the occasion, and the The first two men were charged with keeping a common, gaming house and also with being in possession of a fighting iron, without a police permit. The others were charged with gambling in the shed.. The defendants pleaded not guilty. Evidence was heard. His Worship fined the first two defendants $ oo each, or six weeks' hard labour, on the first charge. As regards the question of the fighting-izon, Mr. Hazeland said it was a very serions matter, as he knew the men had the fighting-iron for the police when the shed was raided. They would also pay a fine of Stoo each, and six hours' stocks, for being in passession of the iron. The remainder had to pay 53 each for gambling.
ALLEGED CRIMINAL, LIBEL,
set the various economies effected. They resulted in a blind boy being removed to In the scuffle one of the combatants produced
are in respect of-
Public Debt...
...$
Governor
Colonial Secretary's Dept....
Police ... Sanitary
Botanical and Forestry Military Expenditure. Public Works
یر
20.09 253-14 .237.06 2,326.62 5.909.of
3.503.09 72,274.74
*** 2,077.10 hggregating $86,601,8g. On the whole, it is very improbable from the results thus far attained that the financial operations of the Government for the current year will show any credit balance at the end of December,
The largest deficit will, undoubtedly, be
programme, an excellently arranged one, was gone through without a single hitch from be. ginning to end, and as the night was fine and delightfully cool, a very full audience was at. tracted to the Club, and showed, by the numerous encores, their appreciation of the various items. Those who took part were: Messed. &. Bacon, W. G. Jury, J. Hunt, R. G. Turner, Le Grave, T. Williams, W. L. Leckie, A. T. Walstow, J. B. Northam, Leach, Gill, A. King, C. Heworth and Miss Kathleen Coyle. Mr. Sheffield was the accompanist. The concert concluded with a laughable farce, entitled "Sunshine after Rain," the performers being Mr. H. E Moriarty
·{Jim Driver), Mr. W. G. Jury (Mrs. Driver), Mr. R. G. Turner (Sarah, their daughter), and Mr. Leckie (Tom, their aun), all of whom sustained their parts most creditably.
Truck 99. hospital suffering from bruises,
à pocket knife and stabbed the other in the which was heavily laden, was rushing along chest, which necessitated his instant removal the road, being drawn by a number of coolies.to hospital and the arrest of his assailant. At They collided with the blind boy who was the West Point Police Station the coolie, in his knocked down, the wheels, of the truck passing statement, said: "He, troubled me and !
CHINESE KDITOR PROSECUTED. over his hand. It is expected that one of his stabbed him." He was placed before Mr. F.
AN octogenarian inmate of the Windsor Work- fingers will have to be amputated. All the A. Hazeland this morning, charged with mali.
At the Magistracy this morning. before Mr. house applied to the guardians for a suit of coolies in charge of the truck bolted, but one, ciously, wounding the other man. The police whom the police arrested. He was charged received nows from the hospital to the effect. A. D. Melbourne, Sam, Kok Sang, editor of clothes, in order that he might go out and get the Chinese newspaper, Sat Kat Kung Yick | a job, as be "felt capable of a few days' work before Mr. F. A, Hazeland this morning, at that the wound is of a serious character, In the instance of Inspector Warnock, with caus. the circumstance, they applied to the Court for Po, was charged, in that he, being the publisher yet." The application was granted, it being His Worship of the World's News, did on April 25th and stated that while in the workhouse the old man ing the injury to the boy. The defendant ad- the case to be adjsursed.
26th, May 9th, and June and, publish 'in that had painted and grained nearly every door. mitted the charge. As the lad is unable to granted an adjournment.
journal certain obscene libels.
SHIPPING AND MAILS. leave hospital the case was adjourned. Bail $25.
A PECULIAR experience in mid-ocean is re At the recent sale at Christie's, London, of the posted by Caplain Roberts' of the French ship
Andre Theodore, which reached Port Jackson.
to be sent on Post-cards shown by the estimate framed for land sales, personal effects of the late Sir Henry Irving, only. Prizes will be dis-which in the present stagnant condition of some excitement was caused by the purchase, on May 5, from Barry. The vessel was cross- the property market, may fali far short of the by an American collector, for 1,200 guineas, of. ing the Southern Ocean, ob the 19th ult. in forecast for the year. There is all the more John S. Sargent's famous painting of Ellen lat. 46.49 south, long. 141.36 east, when sud- reason, in view of the unpromising outlook, Terry (whose jubilee was celebrated recent denly a submarine disturbance occurred. The the taxpayers should not be burdened ly), as "Lady Macbeits", Afterwards, shock was felt it through the ship, and caused Duveen secured an option of repurchase on the considerable alarm among the crew, many be with any further expenditure like that in understanding that he intended the work for ing under the impression that the vessel had volved in the Hon. Mr. Pollock's suggestion Tate Gallery. Sir Charles Holroyd, head of struck on some sunken rock. The vibration to the Legislative Council, to grant a bonus of Tate Gallery; laid the matter before the lasted for several seconds, and passed away to the extent of the salaries of the Civil Board of Trustees who accepted the generous without causing any damage to the vessel. Servanis paid in a sterling basis, by convert offer, and the picture, which is considered ona Cap'ain Roberts was surprised to learn on ar ing that proportion on an arbitrary fate of of the R.A's masterpieces, will thus be pre- rival that the shock was felt about the same exchange of 15. 8d. to the dollar with that served for the nation. The portrait shows the time the disastrous earthquake occurred in San great actress raising the coveted crown to her Francisco. It is interesting to note, too, that token's current value standing at 25. 1fd. head, and forms a fine likeness of her, both as the earthquake at San Francisco was experi-
enced on the 18th ult, (36 The grant is preposterous!
CASH LESS 10%, CREDIT LESS 5%% GREGOR & CO., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. I.QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hoogkong, 29th May, 1906.
woman and ex artiste.
Mr. G. E. Marrell, of Messri. Dennys and Bowley, Crown solicitors, prosecuted,
The case was adjourned.
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THE WEATHER.
The following is from F. G. Figg
On the 4th at 3.45 0. The barometer bas fallen over Japan owing to the depression which is moving Eastwards and approaching the SW. coast of Japan,
First Asistant of the Bangkong Observatory,
!
Gradients are slight in S. China. Moderate 'to fresh winds shifting from SW. to NE, may be expected in the Formosa Channel and moderate SW winds over the N. part of the China Sea,
Forecast:-SW, or variable winds, light to moderate; fair at first, showery inter.
MAILS DUR
German (Zielen) 5th inst, 11 am, Canadian (Empress of India) 12th inst. The Great Northern Minnesota from
at 4 pm, and is expected here on 5th inst
The N. Y. K. European Line 8.5. Tamba Afaru left Kobe for this port via Moji and Shangbai on zad inst., and is expected here on
Seattle left Shanghai for, this port on 2nd inst,
11th insta
.:
The O, P. R. Cole as. Empress of India arrived at Yokohama at 7 am on ih inst, and left again at 3.p.m., same day, for Kobe, where she is dus to arrive at 3 pm, on 5th inst. The C. P. R. Cola s.a. Empress of China arrived at Shanghai ar 11 p.m., on 1st inst., and left again at 3 p.m., Saturday, for Nagasakiş. where she is dua to arrive at 7 ama, în gih insti
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