Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY TANUARY 17 1007
which had been talked about for some time, ¡A SPECIAL. general meeling of may be said to have been virtually attainedtural Society was Kald At tha when we reduce the sterling equivalent at the day afternoon. Br. J. Barton
olected president current exchange rate of the day for demand
gote resigned. bills on London, So far, we have pointed made in the rules to facilit out the satisfactory features of the rise as of the society. The antud
be held on 25th and 27th February.
A. S. WATSON & CO., affecting the comparatively small body of
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,"
DE
This officers who are announced as on the staff of H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught for his approaching tour of inspection to the Far East Are Brigadier-General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, KCB, CX. C.V.O, D:S.0, and Lieut.the Hon, Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby, ar.V.D., formerly A. D. C to Sir Henry Blake He is the second son of the present Earl of Beisborough.
Fred
the prits...... Being,angry
Irvin that
Government;bas;
medals awarded under. Belilios Trust If to five perions wapsa galli life during the typhoon of 18th September han
gund
the villager wounding boir comrades the een brought to the notice of the Trustees. rabbers captured one of the villagers and shot The ceremony will take place at the Council him dead before they decamped. On the fol- Chamber on Saturday, 9th Instant, at 12.30 lowing alght the gang again returned to them, and the public are invited to attend. ****
The following are the recipiente village with an increased force to order to seek revenge. The villagers dared not offer resistance this time on account of their large number and their great violańce. The robbers then ran- tacked the whole village and took away what ever they could lay their hands on. When they took away with them eight plough they could find nothing more of a any value oxen. The case has been reported to the authoritias
shareholders, but viewing the subject from a more general, standpoint we can scarce ly refrain the feeling of satisfaction, which a consistent exponent of the commercial interests of the Colony, and of South China, Jadulge in as the result of the unbounded confidence reposed in the local Corporation by the leading financiers of the world. Such confidence is not obtained by CHAMPAGNE stealth nor by personal influence. It must
engender a feeling of the utmost security in WITH reference to the rock or sunken, wreck, a stock which ranks and stands on all fours struck by the Glamorganshire to the fairway with an investment in Consols. An institu- 2 min. north of Pulau Angsa, reported in our issue of last evening, a further notica from the tion like the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation cannot be regarded in the patch has been discovered in the above posi
Master Attendant, Singapore, reads : A shallow, purely commercial sense, because its operation about one cable-long, north, and hall a tions are invested with a large degree of cable wide, cast and west, Vessels are advised political significance, and it is identified to use the South Channel whon entering Post with every influential enterprise in which Swettesham. the British Government has been concerned, in the Farther East. The Hongkong Bank MR. F. A. Hazeland presiding as Coroner and by which it is known throughout the this afternoon, into the circumstances touching a jury conducted an inquiry at the Magistracy, Bast, and by which its status almost be the death of a Chinaman named Kwan. Po comes evident has been instrumental, prisoner in the Victoria Gaol, who died this in its carly days, in the flotation of several morning. Deceased was thirty years of age, loans. It stands in the position of financial and was sentenced on the 15th "instant to one agent for the Government in the matter manth's hard labour for being a rogue and of the protocol concluded between China vagabond. Medical evidènce was heard ADA | zalivé newspapers with the exception of the the jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes.
ST. MARCEAUX & CO. REIMS
1898 Vintage.
LE SIMARCEAUX
REIK
VIN BRUT AND VERY DRY. Per Case i doz, quarti ......................................$48,00.
a dos pints.iii. 50.00
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broke out in a fire cracker's establishment in On the morning of the 12th instant a fire
the Northern gate of Tai Leung City, Shun Tak district, through carelessness in the pro paration of powder, I happened that there was a largo gathering in the adjacent hours on account of a wedding. The fire spread so quickly that even the people in the adjoining and is consequence thirty-seven persons were house could not escape from the dager in time, burnt to death add about thirty others were seriously injured.
Yesterday, I reported that the Canton-Han kow Railway Company, and the Canton share. holders had decided not to patronise certain Canton Commercial News and the Seventy- | two Guilds' Press. Now it is reported that a meeting has taken in the railway shareholders A BROOM-MAKER named Chan Tak Chun, no association at Moe Lan Shi Yuen where it was addrest, was charged before Mr. F. A. Haze- decided that they in return will not patronise land, this morning, at the Police Court, with the prescribed papers because the latter had uttering four counterfeit twenty-cent pieces sided with the Railway Company and the that accused went to a shop at No. 101, Queen's Today, the two magistrates of Nambai and yesterday. Evidence was heard to the effect | Canton shareholders, Road Central and made a purchase which Panyu, Prefect of Kwongchow, and representa amounted to eighty cents and paid with the lives of the commercial circles will meet at the counterfeit coins. He could not tell the Court offices of the Canton Water. Works, to discuss how he came by the spurious money, and his sundry matters in connection” with the Water Worship passed sentence of one month's hard Works, which is now in an advanced stage
towards completion.
and the affairs following the Boxer trouble. The Hongkong Bank handles, and turns over to the British Government, the pro- portion of the indemnity to which our Imperial Government is entitled. More, the Hongkong Bank has been associated with the loans for nearly every railway undertaking in China, and only the other day it was prominent in underwriting the largest loan which has been contemplated by Siam. | Only a week ago the Bank succeeded in floating the Shaghai-Nanking railway loan, and the Bank will obtain, under the Agree ment between the Wai-wu-pu and, the British and Chinese Corporation, the money requisite for the Kowloon-Canton railway,
a
We have thus presented in the smallest com- pass, and without excess of phrase, the im; portance which the Hongkong and Shanghai, Banking Corporation holds with regard to this A. 8. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. | Colony, its relation to China, without refer
AGENTS:
ALEXANDRA · BUILDINGS, Hongkong, 4th January, 1906,
·fas
ence to its extensive ramifications in the Middle Kingdom, and its power as an exchange agent which it has so successfully
was established in 1864, fulfilled since it
OUR DOMESTIC SERVANTS. Referring to our article on domestic servants in Hongkong, our contemporary, the HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907. Singapore, Free Press, observes:Whether
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG BANK SHARES.
As we were going to press on Tuesday, we Ware very courteously. favoured by the off. cials of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corporation with one of the most im portant announcements, from a commercial point of view, that has been made public for a very considerable time. We refer to the statement that the Bank had decided to make an
issue, plus the premium on the shares, equivalent to the original capital of the company. Naturally, with those interest
ed in the commercial affairs of the Colony
-
we recognise the fact that, the poor we have always with us, most of us are daily conscious of the certainty that our comfort, or the reverse, in life, is bound up with our Chinese servants, who have very much more to say in the regulation of our households than many of us are aware of. It may at once be admitted that the householders who can afford a high scale of pay, and keep an es- tablishment rich in perquisites and pickings, have no cause for complaint. Directly, and in- directly, it becomes well worth the while of the servant to make himself indispensable to his master's comfort and to unike his own tenure.
labour,
A GAMBLING raid made by Sergeant Lee and at evening resulted in the capture of eighteen number of lukongs from No. 2 Police Station men, who were playing pai-kau' at No. 2, McGregor Street. This house, it may be mentioned, has twice been raided this year. The men were arraigned before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, at the Folice Court, this morning, two of whom were charged with keeping a common gaming house, and the remainder with gambling. The leaders were fined $35 each and the remainder 52 apiece.
vaszian, wine juurumunun kan man ti hawker," residing cat, No:13; Lower Lascar Row, came before Mr. F. Hazeland, at the Palica, Court, this morning, on a charge of being a rogue
A rogue and vagabond. Accused was found by a lutong loitering about the stairway of house No. 46, Lower Lascar Row, at 443 o'clock this morning. When he was asked what he was doing abroad at that time of the morning-defendant stated that he went to look for a friend, but mate a mistake in the number of the house. Il gol fifteen days' hard labour and fours' stocks.
Yesterday, H.E. Viceroy Chow Fu ordered the Commander of the Chinese gunboat Sum briat to bring to Canton the birthday presente, Hung to proceed to Hongkong with the gun. which have been presented to H.E. by the Throse, on the nccasion of his birthday. The presents consist of scrolls, Jadestone ware, furs and silk clothing and is expected to arrive in Canton to-day..
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THE ROYAL VISIT,
PROGRAMME FOR RECEPTION AT SINGAPORE,
H.K.M; the Data of ConnaugĦHA WAANUJEM.
mid by the Duchess of Connaught and Prin Jess Patricia, is expected to arrive at Singapore on February I by the P. and Uyas, Dalki, d
Johnston's Pier and the route from the EL- planede by Stanford and Orchard Roads to Government House will be decorated,
The,decorations will be similar to those at
the time of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Antbur of Connaught,
Honour of the royal West Kent: Regiment "al The Duke will be received by a Guard-of
the pier, and will then drive to the Vittoria Memorial Hall, where addresses will be pro-
BURGLARIES IN HONGKONG."^] Bented to his
COOLIES' MATSHED VISITED.
No less than three burglaries took place in the Colony between two o'clock yesterday afternoon and four o'clock this morning, each case a capture has been made. The first
case occurred at Quarry, Bay after the tiffin bour yesterday, when a mashed occupied by coolles was broken isto. The coolies at the of clothing and was about to make good bis time were on duty. The burglar collected a pile racape when he was seep by a passing work
:
H.R.H. the Duchess will be asked to start the big clock in the tower of the Memorial Hall.
The Royal visitors will then drive to Govern- eut House, and will return to the steamer in the afternoon, pomen drew f
In the morning, the mate to Government
Chu Yu-mu and Chu Mi, lightboare-keepers at Waglas, who gallantly rescued certato Mad, fisherman from the outer point of the island et 3.30 pm. . "They swam across the gap in a very rough sea and assisted the man, who was badly bruised and in a very exhausted condition placed a life buoy round him and helped him over the rocks to the water's edge,” where they
across the gap, thus risking their lives twice, and undoubtedly saving his." Awarded a silver
medal and Sio.each,
Chinese Constable 304, Chute Shue-yang, and Wong Yau, fishmonger, who at great personal tisk saved the crew of a waterboat at Sham Shui Po Awarded a silver medal and Sto
each.
CHINESE
RED CROSS
(OUTBRRA
The International Society has handed over Tlas 41,564 towards the famine fand.
The camps which;
·pulare
of demolition.
Small por has broken out amongst the refugees.
THE BIO CAME, AT
The special correspond Newr telegraphi, from "Tsjon.
who was specially mentioned by laspector, as follow
To Pat-mul, married woman of Aberdeen,
worked hard and courageously throughout the Dymond for brave and devoted conduct. She
storm at rescuing people, while men looked on and laughed." Awarded a bronze medal and Sto.
THE SS, "WONGKOI"
layed six hours through the laund
I arrived here on Thursday after being
aground in the Grand Canal at
...On the north-west side of the city „mile away, there are campi stretching
speaking, two miles long, and a mil
•fat sandy country. There campa into squares of about 135, paces, sach They are laid out symmetrically in blocks, the mat huts being built; innes between them," The entrai each camp are "guarded by police,
FURTHER SUPPLIES FOR THE SALVING PARTY,
Salvage operations are still proceeding on the ss. Wongkot, stranded on Cape Varella diere patrol the whole country. We understand that provisions and stores sufderably surprised with the orga ficient for another fortnight or so will be sent the administration. The same rem salving party. The refloating of the Wongkol about five miles away and north of off by thes.s. Rajah, sailing to-morrow, to the to the camps In the vicinity may, therefore, be expected to take a few from three to five miles op the Canal days longer.
LAND FOR RACH BOOTHS.
LETTING. BY PUBLIC AUCTION.
E. J. Hughes, of Messrs. Hughes and letting, by public auction, this afternoon, as Hough, Government Auctioneers, put up for Happy Valley, several lots of land, numbered to 19, for the erection of booths and matsheds during the racing season. There was a large attendance, and bidding opened rather fast and went up by leaps and bounds as far as los 13 and then the few competitors, who were left in the running, had the market to themselves.
The result of the sale is appended: Namber of Amount of Name of accepted Allotment.
Tenant.
-Mr. Jones Mr. Jose
Rent
Unity
Mr. C. Lesbiret
410
400
410
Mr. Jones Vally
520
330
540
... Mr. J. Remedios
270
Mr. Ritchie
310
Mr. Ritchla
TO
300
Mi. Lo i en Man
230
Mr. O. J. Xavier
210
Mr. T. Trakawa
13
300
Mr. T, Tr kawa
14
...Mr. M. A. Rarack
15
Mr. M. A. Razack
18.
'Ah On
ingintel
I have now copoled 48 camp from a thousand to" twelve hundred familles each. I estimate the total number of relapsed at 450,000 of whom jo per cent show signs of distress, 20 per cent of acute dist Модат only is being deled out by
thronged by rice and "fond o Throughout the whole country the refugees bargaining with them. and children for miles are grubbing“ up grass and every conceivable thing that serve for food or feel. In the camps one SAL and twigs with a little cereal and rice. people eating a mixture of cooked leaves, grass
« The horrors of the filth prevailing speakable. At present them. is bright sune shine, but it is intensely cold at night.g The pools are frozen
The officials are trying to persuade - the
many more are arriving. The roads are throng- ed with the two streams of traffic and the score is o'ten indescribable, PAR
# 100,700 men, are absolutely idias many sta clamouring for work, but no one is doing soy No attempt is being made to repair the roada, which arsila a terrible condiļion, nor të make ditches or drains. As yet no crops are gros as the floods have not dried up suficiently,
admit of tillage. In an ordinary,
try hereabout would at this*
with growing wheat; it is now:
palm of one's band.
Mr. Ho Teuk Wai│All relief at present comes from" in the form of barrelloads of mone continually passing along the str possible to get figures, The from the Executive Commslijes the people do not eat milk patch here is causing the merriment.
... Ab Os
Ah, On
THE WRATHER
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg,
I have sifted a mass of evid
Hanse will be lined by Regulars, and in the First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatoryvious that the alfall in gigantic, afternoon by Volunteers..
The 95th Russell's Infantry, will furnish a pier in the afternoon.... Guard-of-Honour at the departure from the
On the 17th at 17,92 p-The barometer has risen in N. China, and fallen over S, Japan and the Toochoos
of employment as permanent as any such we realised the importance of the financial project designed by what is undoubtedly arrangement can be in so changeable a the principal institution not merely in down in the scale of household expenditure, community as OUTE. But a little lower the Colony but in the Far East, for it when a mistress has to see, that there is as must be recognised—as we have tangible little waste or peculation as possible, then reasons to understand-that it is recognis- comes the time when the China boy or cook Inspector Robertson, of Shau-ki-wan Police February 18. No arrangements for this visit Japan, and to the North of the Yangice,
choose. The Hailam boycott when a ser vant is dismissed how operates actively, and to the picketing of servants willing to take on the vacant job, there is but one result: the new-comer is wamed off effectively.
LOCAL AND GENERAL:
ed as a power in the land, and a factor can put on pressure if, and as much as, be in the life of the Far East. Yesterday, we briefly commented on the results of the exceedingly pleasing anticipations which have fallen to the lot of the holders of the, gilt-edged scrip of the Corpora- tion. Without using, the superlative, the "sensation" which occurred on the Lon.. don Stock Exchange' was, in a smaller way reflected on our own Rialto and was sufficient to arouse comment in business circles generally in Hongkong. But, pleas ing as that "sensation" was, the spurt which was started yesterday morning in Hongkong Banks-as they are termed by the brokers and supported after the tiffin adjournment, witnesses to-day a still more remarkable
THE German mail of the 19th December was delivered in London on the 16th inst.
On the return trip, the Royal party, will stay man and seized. He was turned over to at Government House from February 14 to
Station, and this morcing made his ap-havo been made
pearance before Mr. F. Pï"Hazeland," at the.
Police Court, charged with stealing 56 worth of clothing. He was found guilty, and was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour and four hours' stocks.
WAS SCOD
SHIP'S COOLIE
HAS, A"SWEET, TOOTH,
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system of relief wor the end is bey The shallow depression, which paried from authorities, the continent last night, is ini. tly indicated in the neighbourhood of S.W. Japan.
are apparently: Areas of high pressure are lying to the N.E. yond
getting them Moderate to fresh monsoon may be expected thousands is patie in the Fermosa Channel and the China Seny
pinch has not yet been fand
VICEROY YUAN
CHINA'S REFORMER
ME FORECAST. MINU 1.-Hongkong and neighbourhood, NE. winds, moderate; fine.
2-Formosa Chanael, NE. winds, moderate to fresh LAN
3-South coast of China between Hongkong and Lamocks, same as Nokr. NEGAR
4-South coast of China between Hongkong and Hainan, same as No. I
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
[From Our Own Correspondent
Shanghai, 17
8.25
It is reported, from oes, that memorials denuncis Yuan Shi-kai" bavo been
to the throne and that Prine
is
for the Far East on 13th inat,
The 11. Saint George sailed from New York
T The C; N. Co.'s 1.9 Team left. Manila on 15th!
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inst, and fa dne here on 18th lost, at
also under the ban
DESPERATE GIRL COMM
SDICIDE
When a case, which appeared to be one of BUGLAR BPRAINED BIS ANKLE At about four o'clock this moming the in: ordinary theft, was called on before Mr. F. A.. mates of house No. 3c8, Queen's Road Central Hazeland, yesterday morning, at the Magistracy, were awakened by, a. noise made in the room. a tale was unfolded which certainly showed his bed and saw a man busily converting so would appear that yesterday afternoon, while The master of the house turned over gently on the curious-if not bland-indifference of the ship's coolie 10 a charge of peculation.. it. thing into a bundle, Jumping, out of bed he OWING to Mr. J. A. Tarrant's inability to give the verandah.. The occupier of the house fol. stroll near the Charles Hardouin's what, he
mado a lurch for the intruder, who dashed for Detective Sergeant Terrett was doing a quiet American (Mongolia) zoth just French (Tourane) zand instag his promised paper at the nion Church wed and saw his man jump over the verandah, noticed a coolle leaving the vessel, carrying a
Canadian Athanian) 3rd prox Literary Club this evening, the Rev. C. H.distance of about fifteen feet. He was
German (Prina Sigismund) 6th prox. big bundle, Hickling bas kindly undertaken to read liraping away when the accupier of the bouse
What have you got there?" asked the inhis port, and is dus bere on arst lest.
The s.s. Pluyen lett Salgon on 16th inst., for Paper un "Slang Language, its origin and got into the street. He was given is charge. Atquisitive tec use. The chair will be taken by Mr. J. the Central Police Station, Inspector Warnock
Sugar, smilingly answered the coolle boom in a further rise in the London mar-McPherson at 9 p.m. sharp. ket in Hongkong Banks by £13-1or in a
identified the prisoner as having been banished What do you think?," Bingle day." Hongkong has answered to the THE appointment of Field Marshal. . H before, and this was found to be the fact, when Where did you get it?" pursued the slenth. the records 'were referred to. Before Mr. F.A. **** Come, and I will show you," coolly replied spurt with a comparatively trivial rise of $45 the Duke of Conaught and Strathearn in Hazeland, this morning, be pleaded guilty to the scamp. N
spector General of thin, orces, and President the two charges-burglary, and returning from per share. The elasticity of this altered of the Selection Board" and his salary is banishment. He was sentenced to one month, i tovited the limb of the law to follow him into via usual parts of call, and may be expected man she did not love, a quotation must be apparent when the co. Major Lt. Green-Wilkinson is his hard labour on the first charge and twelve the lower hold, and upon arriving there, he sterling rate of £116 for Hongkong private secretary's, A. PC's Major M. months' on the second. It was owing to the calmly pointed a bag which lay amongst the Banks is compared with the local clos- Murray and Lieut. the hon'ble C. M. B. Pon fact that he sustained a sprained ankle through Cargo, and which had been cut or torn along
quotation of Sgas, even allowing seaby, vaga ang kare
lumping from the verandah that be escaped the one side. There's where I got it from,
smiled the coolie. 1 Hawas gathered in, and the next morning look This place in the dock in the First Magistrate's Court Detective-Sergeant Terrelt mentioned of pilfering going on, on the steamets in the that there was a considerable deal of tbls sort harbon, especially, for some unknown reason, on board the French vessels and asked his Wonhip to deal wilt the culprit, in a manner that would really be exemplary and act at deterrent to others, Bis Wombip.thought that A sentence of his wacks! hurd labour, and four hours in the stocks would or should, belex by amplary!
..
stocks.
LAD ON DURGLARY. CHARGE,
for the disparity in the rates of interest ruling SHORTLY after seven o'clock last evening, a between the great business centre of the Chinese woman was knocked down by tram-
olis and the exchange market in car. No. 1 near the Central Market. She was Sin Kan, a fifteen-year-old school boy, was Hongkong. Parenthetically, it should be severely bruised about the head and shoulders, the nest offender to face Mr. Haseland op z the effect of this new capital and although her condition is not serious, it was charge of burglary. The defendant who there has been not fonad decessary to remove her to hospital. resides at No. 1, Elgin Street, was alleged to but an actual increase of The woman, it appears, attempted to cross the have broken into No. 51 Merder Street, a house the potential wealth of the call the car was several paces away occupied by one U Yat Uand stole clothing,
from her. The mojerman adjusted his emer- money kad jewellery to the mate single web The gancy brake, but the woman failed to clear in lad denied the secusation, a the case was for Hongkong Banks, I tima and was knocked over.
riznánded for further evid
1.164. The
1 Boarding the Charles Hardouin the coollo
1.
The Bon Line na Benvorlich, from, Leith and London, Jel Singapore on 15th inst, for REFUSED TO HARRY HER A this port
The st. Tiinan left Sydney, an igth inst, Because her parents wan here on 8th prox for Hongkong direct on 15th inst, and may be an overdose of opium
years of age, residing at No. The C. N, Coss. Chineta left Kochinotza committed suicide on Tuss expected here, on 20th instyper street copile. On the The N. Y. K. Ly Fora Mard, American before leaving for ble” Line, left Moji for this port on sốth lust, and to understand is expected here on wolb instrum ziddies date for/t. The Imperial German Mail 23. Priör Siguia the girl's wad laft Sydney on fgth insty at a pom and chate
The PMS, S. Co.4 16 may be expected here on 6th pro Shanghai on 10th Inu 10 pm. therefore be dee at this port, at daylight, les a The Silk as Hongkong on toth glin 'uitoriived de New York making a trubaik di