TELEGRAMS.
The Panama Canal.
LONDON, 17th February. The American Govemment has decided to construct the Panama Canal itself."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MARCH
DS CURKASPUNDE VILA
(We un not necessarily endorse the oplielona repressed by Correspondanti la shla dolumnist
'PARSEE APPRECIATION.,
To the Enton on tun, ?Honarono Tiggars,"
Sin your yesterday's paper there appears a telegram, received by his. Excellency the Governa, from the British &. inister at Teheran, by command of His Majesty, the Shah of Perin, desiring His Majesty protection to every arsed in his dominion or wheresnever they may be.
VO PHILIPPINES MEDICAIS AS-
SOCIATION,
DH, J, M. ATKINSON ATTENDS SESSION. -,, The Manila Cadliwewe of 26th' ult, says Dr. Kannosuke Miyajima, delegate from Bis Imperial Japanese Majesty's 'government, ar. rived in Manila yesterday to attend the lodim The canal engineer, Stevens, has resigned,
annual session of the Philippine islands medical and engineer Måfør Noethals succeeds him.
association and guest of Dr. Richard P Strong, aginglavna, fantatis en mas Pos The Surrender of Port Arthur.
Dr. Miyafiuta is chief of the biological def The Standard publishes a long secret re
partment of the Japanese government·labora- port of Commandant Smirnoff, the Com
Let me suggest, through your paper, that atory at Tokyo, and is a graduate of the {m- mandant of Port Arthur. The report covers meeting of the Parsee Community should be perial japanese university and has studied at between February and December, 1904. It called at the first opportunity at our Parser John Hopkins and other leading universities charges General Stoessel with cowardice, in Club premises, under the leadership of Mr. H.in America and is acquainted with the leading: capacity and favouritism, resulting in a sur-N, Medy, to consider about the telegram and medical men of the world...
if possible ig passa proposition to reply to the render before the defence was exhausted,
Shah, through his Excellency the Governor, Later.
thanking him for his kind desires and also of his devoting love (like his late lamented Royal Father) to his faubful Persee.subjects.Yours faithfully,
The Development of China. "" Mr. W. Runciman, in reply to Sir E. A. Sassoon, in the House of Commons, said that Sir John Jordan was doing his utmost to secure the acceptance of a plan for Chi nese participation with the London apd China Syndicate in the development of the Anhui Mining Concession," There was no reason for sending further Instructions to Sir John Jordan, who was naturally keeping, in touch with the agents of the syndicate in -China!
The Russian Duma.
BE JUST AND FEAR NOT. Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
THE INSURANCE SQUABBLE
Dr. J. M. Atkinson, the honourable principal. civil medical officer of Hongkong who has just returned from Montreal, Canada, where he read paper before the British medical association on measures against plague, will arrive in Madila Tuesday morning for the purpose ...of- attending the meeting of the association, and will also be a guest of Dr. Strong during hid slay in Manila.
Dr. Atkinson who is one of the leading medical men in the Orient comes as a delegate From Hongkong Colony and will address the association Thursday afternoon
!!
THE "MACAUS INSURANCE CLATMA At the fupreme Court, this morning, bis De Sia Tion Pan, delegals from His Im Honour Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Juice, pre-perial Chiness Majesty's government, has siding, the case was continued in which O Yan arrived in Manila and is the guest of Dr. Tec Tsai brought an action against the Fook On Han Kee at 87 calle Carvallo; Troz Dr.-Sia Assurance and Godown Co., Ltd., to recover the will address the association on SatuŊday after- The Russian Dunia will open on the gth sum of $10,oco, said to be due on an insurance
noon.. policy on the ss. Macau, which vessel was lost prox.
in the barbour in the September typhoon,
Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. C. F. Dixon, appeared for the plaintiff, the defendant Co. being represented by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., instructed by Mr. A. G. Jackson, of Messrs Johnson, Stokes and Master.
Evidence as to the value of the ship occupied
THE CRISIS AND THE MAN.
|
The Hon, John Barrett, who has just been chosen Director of the ureau of American Republica, with headquarters at Washington, is now beading for the capital with the expe- dition and the energy which notoriously chathe attention of the Court to-day,
racierizo not opgly, his movements, but his speech. The news of his selection reached. bim in fortland, Ore,, a few days ago, where, after sternly repressing his blushes and his. astonishment, he took local reporter by the ear" and spilled; into the yawning apettore a prophecy ko vast that it will nigh burst, the reservoir.
Naturally, we shall all have to content ourselves with a contemplation of only thermont,bashful eddy of this roaring torrent, It will yield bist a meagre instalment of the rapture eventually coming to us, though for the moment it may serve. The Hon. John Barrett nays, for exemplo, that ho intends to reorganize the office frit of all. "It will be necessary to maintain a much lar, er clerical force," he say Much larger? A thousand times farger at least. When Barrett gets good and warm in his new chair and begins to fire off with the de vestiting" "profusion of a mitrailleuse, his wads of educational remonstrances and appeal, the typewriters of the bureau will have to be multiplied on a scale of geome- trical progets ion for six months at least Do we or do we not recall his fructiferous literary and oratorical activities during that bri bi period which envered his Oriental and Polynesian tour in the interests of the St. Louis exposition? If yes, no need for another word. If no, let the forgetful and the un informed go parish in their ignorance. But we recall it all, and if the expression le permitted, we squat in an ecstasy of expectation."
In the light of those halcyon memories we forecast the final pacification and commercial exploitation of the 'teeming millions of Latin America, They will cry for our cotton shirts, fight over our hams, hatchets and glass beads, The fruit smeared children of the tangled bush will forget the roaming flet and gather on stormbaton shores to beg for Chicago sananga and Fall River prints. Best of all, they will as one man drink in the melody industriously churned by the Hon, "Juhn-Barrett-and-dis.. seminat d throughout the Western Hemis.. phere by that inspired...-minstrel's innumer abe choir. o.when he sets forth upon his promised tour "of the twenty Latin American repablics which are members of the union," he will go to mest faring, and enchanted populaces, ace hostile and suspicious my riads will bark an Iwag their tails as things bewitched. He will seed only to open his pack and there will be no oroide son obvious for them buy. Dregon will go abloat with opulence. All our manufacturing and com- mercial industries, will swoon with surfeit. The ear of harmony and international endearment will set, in, We shall cut pigeon wings upon the threshold of the true:milleniam,
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THE BANĒPUG BLUITEN,
Dr. W. V. M.Koch, medical officer in charge of infectious hospitals, Hongkong, who was to
THE FOREIGN POPULATION: OH,
VORONAMA.
We learn from the Japan Herald that accord ing to the latest cansus the foreign population. of Kanagawa Prefecture number 5.714. When clapaided according to nationalities they are as fallout a
pikach oda sı
| British 1215 300 American ...ess German...... French Ruslao...
Male: Female.
1666
́ ́398-
296
188
204
103
#
Chinero
2,394
Portuguese dinner deres
49.
Dutch
Belgian
3
16
45
Turkish.
·Italian
6
18
Austro-Hungarian,
*28
Swedish and Norwegian Spanish
9
27
Greek..... Brazilian
Danish
Swiss.
16 Total
12 T
(3.9041,820
E DUKH OF CONNAUGHT AND
THE STRAITS CHINESE:RE
The Duke of Connaught requested His Ex- cellency, the Governor to forward the following essage to the Chinese Community of Singa
pore :-
I have received with great pleasure the ad- dresses of welcome which the various sections of the Chinese Community of Singapore have address the association on Friday afternoon, Presented to me and I learn with great satis will not be able to attend on account of the hits contarred upon them by British Rula. Since
faction how highly the Chinese value the bans absence of Dr. Atkinson. The time assigned the foundation of the Colony the Government. to Dr. Koch will be occupied by Dr. Strong has always placed the utmost confidence in who will read a paper on Kubisagari or Paralythe ability, integrity and good sense of the tic Vertigo prepared for the association by Dr. K. Miura, professor of internal medicinë in the Imperial Japar 216 University.
WHY WOMEN MÄRRY.
LOVE NOT INCLUDED AMONG THE REASONS.
Paris, Jan. 13.
A French statistician has been devoting considerable time recently to discovering the reasons for which women are anxious to get married:
to ninety-five girls between the ages of fillee
Hie inquiries included questions addressed and seventeen, asking them why they wished to get married. The result was as follows:-
might go out unchaperoned.
Five wished to marry in order that they
amuse themselves..
Fen because they would then be able to
The Loners unrelenting quest of the germ has discovered another lurking place of the microscopic foc. Our contemporary observes “It may reasonably be doubled whether the highly bismudged blotting pad is innocent.as regards disease germs. In the act of writing the blotting pad is commonly breathed upon, as bacteriological experiment has shown, that micro-organisms may be projected a long di stance by the breath. Bloiting paper being an absorbent of moisture any septic matter would be rapidly dried on it, and reduced to a readily transferable substance. Inkpots, again, are nearly always left open, and consequently dust readily gains access to them, carrying in its
transferred by the pen to the paper, and thence them to travel. load of micro-organisms. These in their turn are, Five because their husbands would enable
to the blotting, pad, where they are left high and dry to be scattered once more in the room on the smallest provocation. Some inkt, of course, contain an antiseptic, but it is not fikely that all inks serve as germicides. It may be a counsel af perfection to lay down that the blotting pad should be a fresh, spotless sheet every day, but when infectious respiratory disease is endemic such's precaution would not be so fatunus as might be supposed. Apart from this everyone appreciates a clean blotting pad which will dry the writing without smear- ing it. Often enough the blotting pad is one mass of bioichy characters and inkstains re presenting a us ge of days, weeks, or even months. In such a condition its function has not only come to an end, any further use of it invariably leading to smears and annoyance, but it must be also bacteriologically filthy! Antiseptic blotting paper is clearly a decessity of our daily life..
THE ANTI-GAMBLING GUN.
~~PAR-AṀPIU- PLAYERS;
1007.
To-day's Advertisements.
HONGKONG HOTEL,
MENU
SATURDAY, MARCH 208, 1907.
DINNER,
Hors D'ŒUVRES: Sardines on Toast.reb.
Sour,
Consomme Royal
FISH.
Smoked Fish and Parsley Sauco
ENTRERS.
Lamb Cutlets and Green Peas. Jugged Hare and Red Currant Jelly, -
Chicken and Ham Patties,
CURRY.
Madins.
JOINTS,&C
E
Roast Sirloin of Beef and Baked Potatoes Roast Turkey and Cranberry Savce,
Hoiled Corned Leg of Pork and Pease l'udding.
Cold Roast Pheasant-Rod
SWERTS,
Cabbage, Salad.
Toast Hadding,
Chocolate Ice Cream and Finger Cakes.
Tipsy Cake. Cheese Biscuits.
DESSERT.
Coffee. Fruits.
NOTICE,
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FROM this date Mr. EDWARD FAIR- BAIRN MACKAY and Mr.{ALEXAN- DER CUMMING are authorized to Sign our Firm per Procuration.
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
NOTICE..
Chinese merchants and has granted to them admitted & PARTNER in the
the same freedom in the conduct of their business and the management of their pri vate affairs as it enjoyed by 'Englishmen themselves. That this confidence has been wall deserved the present condition of the Colony and the progress which is has made Straits Settlements the Government and the since my previous visit c'early provés. In the
people have worked together in harmony and the country consequently flourishes. I shall inform my brother, His Majesty the King.
have expressed to me. I learn that the Chi Emperor, of the sentiments which the Chiners
nese New Year began three days ago. The Duchess and myself are much gratified that at a time of general holiday-making and relax. ation the Chinese should have voluntarily undertaken for us the task of organising the procession which accompanied the gentlemen who presented addresser to us. We watched it with great interest.
We wish to the whole Chinese Commurity a
'(SD.) ARTHUR,
Seven so that they would own their own' homes and at laten die man met.
Four innked forward to possessing a family, happy and prosperous New Year,
bren did not wish to marry at all; while sixty-one were anxious to be married, but could give no specific reason why.
Not one of the girls suggested love as a motive for matrimony.
PERPETUAL MOTION IN JAPANESE MILLS,
"COUNT WILS INCOME,
RECEIVED £1,900 FOR ARRANGING THE PEACE TERMS,
St. Petersburg, Jan, 15.
In order to destroy the impression that Count Witte has accumulated vast wealth from his Government service, one of his friends has published an account of his income and expenditure in a newspaper which is widely read among the poor here.
The writer states that Count Witte's actual
salary from the Government at the present moment is only £Boo, which he receives an a member of the Council of the Empire. He
The writer's communication concludes with a description of Countess Witte's charities, She gives 250 dinners daily to the poor of the district where they live besides free supplies of bonts and warm clothing.
.COM WERCIAL.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE,
Salling
R. ELLIS KADOORIE has this day
Firm.
E. SKADOORIE & Co. :) Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
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THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY, LIMITED.
"GENERAL MEETING OF, SHARE. THE TWENTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
held at the Company's Office, St. George's HOLDERS in the above Company will be
Building, No. 6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th March, 1997, at 11 4.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1906, declaring a Dividend and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY," the
9th March, to WEDNESDAY, the 13th March, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN; TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
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¡ Honɔkong, "ist March 1907,
"SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, LONDON, ANTWERP AND STRAITS. HE Steamship'
THE
"BRECONSHIRE,” Captain. Tomkinson, baving arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk and expen
No Clai will be admitted after the Goods
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 7th instant will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 7th instapt, at 3:30 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Dills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
Agents Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
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THE CHINA & JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.. SUBSCRIBERS are requested to make the
DIRECTORIES.
CORRECTIONS in
CORRECTIONS |--- sto Hongkong Colton Spinning, Weaving and
Dyeing Co., Ltd, Works,
169 Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Co-
down Co., Ltd., Mess,
496 International Bank Manager's Residence, ../24496 Scolt, Chas. R, Residence....
In Japan Sunday is not regarded, and the mills do not stop for the day. The majority of the mills have two holidays-the 1st and the 15th. In any mills the engine starts at o'clock the morning of the 20 and ruas con- tinuously until 6 o'clock the morning of the 15th; then starts at 6 o'clock the morning, of the 16th and runs continuously until 6 o'clock the morning of the 1st, This is as near A received £50,000, from the, Imperial Treasury petuk) motion as men and machines can while he was President of the Council of stand. No stop is made for dinner, the Ministers, but this sum was lar: ely consumed hands taking thirty minutes for dinner in in expenses necessary to that position. retation, and spre bands taking theApart from this, he has only £15,000, which place of each batch. Each, operative works is his wife's dowry. He received only £1,900 It is highly s tisfactory that the legislative from 6 10 6, with thirty minutes for dinner, and for his mission to the United States to negotiate gun which was recently loaded by Parliament the night shift comes on at 6. Thirteen to the Portsmouth treaty, while his actual ex for the gambling fraternity has gone off n sixteen twelve-hour days on a stretch neces right when a senior-sergeant of police pulled sarily makes the hands slower and less effi-
penses on that occasion amounted to £5. the trigger, and has resulted in a fiar bag, cient. Though they do not observe the Lord's. comprising pins Chinese pak-a-piu, players, rest day, a good number of the mills have, by says a Sydney paper. The raid, appears to experience, come to see the material good that have been planned with forethought, and comes from having one day in seven for rest, | axecuted with such dash and vigour that the and one of the largest grups of mills observes whole community, with the exception of the the 4th, 1th, 18th and 25th of each month, but nine Chinese, should be truly gratified. Pak-a-does not, as customary with us, allow a third piu is a game of chance, in which the gambler or half of the previous day for rest also. These places certain marks, at his own discretion, on
four rest dayı are utilized by the management- a square piece of paper inscribed with a vast to overhaul and clean machinery, check up re number of Chinese hieroglyphics. The bank salts, instruct green hands in regard to their also places certain marks, at its discretion, an auties, etc. The national holidays, of which a plece of paper containing an exactly similar there are about ten, are observed by the mill, set of hieroglyphics, and if the gambler is for- so that even in the mills inaking a practice of tunate enough to have marked a given number stopping only two days for rest, the holidays. of the same hieroglyphics as the bank, he is effect a stop of one or two more days per month. proportionately: rewarded. If otherwise, be "be hours of work and the number of rest lores his stake. It is more complicated,|| days vary with the locality and the mill. Each though probably fairer all round, than the mill has its own system, and though they work three-card trick or thimble-rigging: but it together in same respects, through the Japanese is emphatically gambling, and therefore it is Cotton pinners' Association, in publishing to be hoped that the Chinese will be severely comparative reports etc, they are very jealous punished, as a warning not to be caught again, of each other, and keep the details of their 4 junaths' sight L/C.
„2/3 3/16° It is a pity, however, that the public mind puriness, methods of operation, etc, a secret 6 months sight L/C.......... ............./3 cannot be quit free from a les qualms of con from other mills. This instinctive secrecy, as
30 days' sight San Francisco & New York...55 science due to the fact that the Legislature de shown in other industrial lines, such as 4 months' sight pat liternicly loaded only one barrel of its gun, machine shops, shipbuilding, etc., has made 30 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne..2.3 9/16
Execution among the Chinese. The Attorney a very "Incrative one, as new projects can manthis sight attacked by thrashers and the sight of the an- General was full of good intentions at one not copy from old, but have to E gained monsters, tortured by their persistentime. He announced that he would load the in expert advice to select the machines, etc. 4 months sight, Germany enemies, throwing their vast bodies but of the other barrel for promoters of church bazants, A slight illustration of this occurred in PyBank of England rate...... water, and Calling again amid a whirl of lashed persons, who got upart unions, and organisers of visit, on successive days, to two mills not gver Sovereign up foam, was one not easily forgotich by the Eight-hour Day rattlas. But, somehow or fifty miles apart. The superintendent of ons passengers who lined she bulwarks of the other, the ammunition slipped through his so said a good many erroneous articles wers steamer. The spectacle was reminiscent of the
gers at the fast monsient, and consequently, printed about hours run by Japanese mills; that To-day's quotations are as follows story Frank T. Bullen tells abou! the sea batthough the pak-a-piu offenders have been dex the great majority stopped thirty minutes for ties that denizens of the deep engage in on octemusly, grassed, the rafflfreligious objects dinner and always had at least four rest days a Malws New cusjons-lima am insight into the life of the and the other philanthropists who once a year, month. I was in the other mill from 11.30 to marion world of which, sman only catches acon Eight-hour Day, advertise rod for one 1 o'clock, and saw the method of using sparo mensional glimpses. So hot was the fight that the shilling, to the cusnaring of the unwary, are "great› Creaturen took no heed of the steamer, sull' entitled, to gamble gaily under the pro
which "prused within soʻyards of the scene of jaction of the law. Parliament and the people; “slaughter. Several snapshots were taken of the should have insisted upon both barrels being
mayal incidente.
Figaded.
This is what the Hon. John Barrett proposes In his more businesslike momonist Can't doubt that a charmer who has lured, the King of Siam from his evil ways, and by the ribaid yet losive expedient ufienderly 'chucking her under the chin recovered the Duwager Em- press of China to a proper observance of Chris- tlan geely-cap. we doubt, we ask, that the Hon. John Barrett is the man of all men for the emergency?-Ex... ·
BATTLE UNIWEEN, SEA MONSTERS.
When the steamer Corinthic was within a day Drew. of Lan, town, on her fast voyage out to New Zealand, a battie royal between sea-mon-
Lulon-Bank T........
J?b. demand
1. 4 months' sight France-Bank T... America-Bank T.T.. Germany-Bank T.T.................... India T.T. TIRT
Do. demand........... Shanghai-Bank T.T. Singapore. T.T. fapan--Bank T.T. java-Bank T.T.
q.
Buying
do.
NEW LINES:
568 Assessor's Office.
196 Chinese ublic Dispensary Central. 595 Doctor Arkinson.
54675 Doctor Belilios; R. A.
2/2 13/16
7/31
...2871
7.28
618 Doctor lo, N, H.
16:
613 E. Hing, fron Shop.
61 Jewish Recreation Club.
...721
*****... 1651597 How Woo,
591 Kwong Hung Shing.
.3 % prem 614 Maitland, F, Resid2nce.
109
$93 Netherlands India Commercial Bank,
612 Sam A Yeck.
617 Sincere & Co,
616-Yee Woo..
Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
"
55t
Biers was sacks," "A school of whales were being and that, was, the barrel that bas done such the office of consulting engineer in Japanmonths' aight France, amps3,861
handy and insking no stop for dinner, and the superintentent said this was done in a good. many mills, and that this mill, like most others, only stopped on the 1st and 15th days of the mouth-Consular Report,
Bak Silve
...z.88 2.341
.........................5% 38.96
"OPIUM QUOTATION!.
"Older
Oldest
Paina New
Bhonras New,' Persian (Paper) savi
H.
Per pical Boo/830 .@ 850/880 900/960
Per chest
930
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