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HONGKONG.
kong's magnates and the necessity of main taining the dignity of His Majes'7
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CHEMISTS
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AND
BUBONIC PLAGUE,
It has been proved by reported experiments that "WATSON'S HYGIENOL" is the most
which have been filled by supply, the savings of the year: oni personal
mool, and it is apparent that Department is not too free, with its advertising, seeing that the provision in the Estimates of $yo for the whole year was not spent by half that amount-in other words, that the Colonial Secretariat did not incur more than a fraction over Sa'a month for ad- vertising in the local Press. The yam fe can audit, involving as it does the revision of the Colony's "accounts in Hongkong and in Eng.
damages
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cost of building?
unexpended balance was over 575,000
regards the latter $29,500 less than the climate was spent. Blake Pier Shelter might for all practical pur, rees be eliminated from the programme of public works. Il recor with annual regularily, only to be explained away that not so much as a foundation stone. has been laid. The official explanation why the work was not taken in band sanation the
Celegrams
HONGKONG LE RAPH SERVICE
AFFRAY IN SHANGHAI
EUROPEAN CONSTABLE
MALTREATED.
AN ACT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
THE OPIUM DEBATE.
VOICE OF THE ENTIRE MERCANTILE COMMUNITY.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
-Shanghai, 28th May, 1.50 6.m. of the requisition for iron work in comble it to At upon yesterday thirty of the Total's 1and, represents an increase in the estimated be received before the close of thr year." "Yet police seized and maltreated a Buropean GOVERNOR'S DEFENCE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
of other work had prevented the despatch
somewhat extraordinary that the same de expenditure of about $5,0 0, there being a permanent increve on that score in England.partmental pressure enabled a number of officers to be on leave, their 'lapsing salaries As compared with the secretarial department
ments of that department. The resumption of
Constable within the boundary of the Foreign Settlement.
It is reported that the Municipal Council.
MR. STEWART'S MOTION DEFEATED.
"I speak with the voice of à com course would, hava sayad the Colody from
of any of the larger fisqus or public companies accounting for the main saving in the emblu has addressed a representation to the Foreign in Hongkong, it will be seen' how inadequate, insanitary properties cost the ratepayers, the Consuls to-day urging the desirability of an munity united in protesting against the much, harassing doub, dee to conflicting
ly paid is the department of the Colonial Treasurer for, inclusiva (of personal emoluments, the incidental expenses which also comprise, the collection of the rater and taxes in Hongkong and the New Ter- ritories, together with the sub department under Mr. Thomson of the Stamp Office, it con llongkong a triffe over $57,000 last year, the Treasurer's Department proper accounting
moderate sum of over $16,000 and another way- ing of $47,000 against the Kowloon Canton rail. way is left with no explanation whatever, This in curious, socing that other items of infivitesimal interest as compared with this item have their explanatory remarks. The Kowloon water the contractor's dilatoriness in pro works scheme spent team by $118,000, owing to in prosecuting the
potent agent for the destruction of fleas for only half the amount or barely ajo ́n / Works, "The transport of material and additional'i
especially rat fleas.
month for the Colonial Treasurer and his tech It is a well known fact that Plague is conical staff of book-keepers, and accountants whose duties involve heavy responsibility and veyed to human beings by means of fleas froin
demand a bigh standard of probity... The Post rats which have died of this disease.
Office has been economical to the extent of $52,000, the main items contnbuting to this saying being a reduction in the allowance fo extra work, a higher exchange which, brought about a savin, of about $y,cothe shate of the mail subsidy; and the despatch of mails
All risk of infection can be avoided, by washing the floors, etc., or sprinkling where the fleas are likely to be with a dilute solution of * WATSON'S HYGIENOL." A tea
sponful to a pint of water, or a teacupful to eig Siberia whose transit charges were not three-gallons, makes a solution of the strangib-paid, amounting-to-over-328,200-There is required for this purpose.
no good reason why the Colony, even in its present straits should begrudge the $6,000 of
YGIENOL IS A POWERFUL
·DISINFECTANT AND GERMICIDE.
PRICES PER PINT ...50 Cente
*GALLON...82.00
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
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HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Hongkong, 27th May, 1908,
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thereabouts for extra work by the departmen
work necessary connected with the first section of the Tytam Tuk scheme is responsible for su increase of $40,000 odd, by way of comper sation to the contractors.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
EUTENANT E. F. r. Shine, Supply and Transport Corps, attached 13th Rajputs, sailed for duty per 5.8. Chrongthing on 26th instant.
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The Agent of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappii (Netherlands-Trading Society) informs us that he is in receipt of telegraphic information advising that a dividend of eight
per cent has been declared by the Bank for the
year 1957.
RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the auth May, 1908-
Library. Museum,
340 139 375 2,560
2,699
Non-Chiness.... Chinese
TotalTM...... $15
tal underlings who are surely entitled to such for the laborious duties they are called upco to perform in connection with the handling of The very heavy outgoing and incoming mails of Hongkong. The. Harbour Départ. mant account for an increase of about | $3,000, which is justified by the purchase of three fairway lights and buoys. ho Judicial Departments show a saving of $11,000 made up-principally of the lapsed he'f salary of the THE fine German four-masted-birgun Rene Attorney General during a portion of the your days out She had rather an adventurous Rickmers has arrived in Rangoon ninety-nine and the vacancies is the staff of the Land Repassage, or shortly after leaving New York a gistry Office for the New Territories. The hurricane struck the ship resulting in a heavy abrence of police officers and mea, on leave list to starb'sard. Between Doe and two effected, a saving of Sigep to the Colony and thousand cases of oil had to be jettisoned
before the ship'righted hersalf. the vacancies to the Prison Department of about $14,000. But most of this saving has been wiped off by the raising of the fire fast which sank inthe typhoon of 1905, and the cost of the hull of the new fire float, which came t7, Cooke Street, Hunghòm, early this morning $11,500 altogether. In raund figures, the Medical Department did not exceed its estimated ex penditure by $18,000. The Public Health SUBSCRIPTION RATER: (IN ADVANCE Commission's best work so far as realised is DAILY—380 per annum. WEEKLY--$18 per annun
Norter,
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The Houghong Celegraph
Hongkong, ThURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908.
HONGKONG'S FINANCES,
If we may apply a commercial phrase to the financial doings of the Government it may be
shown in the saving caused by the reduction in -the-staff-of-the-Sanitary-Department,- usmely, $21,000. The scavenging of the city was also done at a less cost than estimated, as alio wat the price paid for disinfectants. The saving in this Department as a whole was $66,co. Un des education the only noteworthy item is that of the evening continuation classes whose actual expenditure was some $1,005, being an excess of about $3,600 over the estimated expenditure.
A COOLIE Damed Leung Sing Kai was con victed at the Police Court, this morning, an a charge of theft. Accused entered a house at
and was seen leaving the promises with a bundle of clothing belonging to some of the copperimisha employed by the Dock Company. The alarm was given and accused was seized. He was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
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extension of the Settlement,
inconsiderate exercise, of arbitrary power!" epts as to the precise nature of that state, Such, in one brief sentence, was the mont
Some of the telegrams in the newspape emphatic language employed by the Hon.
left Mr. Murray Stewart, representative of that the orders so suddenly issued
apon the reader's mind the impression the Chamber of Commerce on the Las promptly obeyed. Others left gislative Council, in proposing his re whether this despatch did not appe solution condemning the policy of the to the issue of there orders than to their Home Government on the upfum question execution.
THE YUNNAN KISING,
IMPERIALISTS VICTORY.-
[By courtesy of the "Shaung So]:
as affecting this Colony. The honourable The telegram from the Secretary of State Yunnan, 27th May.
member's address makes no attempt at pro quoted by your Excellency did not make this The Imperial troops bave secured a great viding a solution of the economic problem point clear."
Perhaps the telegram which he made it victory over the rebels,
which presents itself upon the abolition of
impossible for you to quote was more explicit, Auxiliary forces from Kweilin marched on the opium trade. The text of the resolution but there would have been no good reason for
simply embodies a protest against the treat keeping that part.of.it.secret. ment meted out to the Legislative Council
Hokow from across the frontier and scatter ed the beadquarters of the insurgents.
They finally succeeded in recapturing
Hokow.
In Boy case I think the Colonial Government
in not being consulted before the dictatori- might have selully applied for the precíso at instructions were issued by Earl Crewe terms and, if necessary, for permission to make
of to the
the Governor of Hongkong laor them public at this Council table. The roads from Hanoi to Mengtsz are dering the closure of the opium divana. · The members of this Council had at least an
The mover of the resolution made it clear now clear.
much interest in the announcement as meme-
bers of Parliament, concerned only, as was No assistance whatever could have been that, whether
her any new developments of the winity remarked by a brilliant journalist, in rendered [as was at one time alleged] to the opium policy adopted towards China, by the creation of Utopies on the other side of the rebels [by the French] from Annam. Other right or wrong, wise or unwise, good, bad, or Reticence invites, wonder as to whether
His Majesty's Ministers were in themselves world,
wise it could not have been possible for the indiferent, none of them ought to have been there is something, either in the announce Imperial troops to have put down the rising made to apply to this Colony without rement or in subsequent communications, which ference to the Council. In speaking fear the Secretary of State is noxious to withhold from this Council. Possibly bis reticence only lessly for that contention every thinking man, shields evidence that he was not quite sure of and every individual taxpayer will applaud what he was doing, not quite easy in his mind the mover of the resolution. In moving, as to bow far it would be possib'a tot falf! the resolution, at the meeting of the Legisis the promise made. Siap di org tive Council this afternoon, Mr. Murray Stewart said:
in so short a time.
A SRVEN DAYS' SIBGE,
THE FALL OF HOKOW.
[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po."]
Shanghai, 27th May.
H.E. Sik Liang, Viceroy of Yunnan, bas telegraphed to Viceroy Tuan Fang that
for seven days, the Imperial forces have re after besieging the insurgents' headquarters
captured Hokow.
A JAPANÄSK.GIF),
STEAM YACHT FOR CHINA.
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[By Courtesy of ite“ Sheung Po"]
Peking, 27th May', The steam yacht, which is a gift from Japan, has arrived.
Atrial trip took place on the asth inst., and the formal presentation will be made on the ayth iust, (to-day);
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President Fallieres in England.
If there was nothing of this sort why were bis despatches to be treated as confidnotia) ?əlf, -there- that the signs of a typhoon of protest, gathering was anything of this sort-wall, I hapa
Your Excellency, rise to move the reso jution of which i have given potice.
It is the outcome of the answer made to the focally, may bava suggestedto him the advilabil questions asked at the last meeting of this ity of slowing down
Council
"That is all we want. Wo only beg that he
In making that answer your Excellency add will proceed with caution. If he now does ed a supplementary reference to the turn in that, and can make it appear that, we have which those questions were putevas de Past
been making a fuss about nothing-we
"That reference makes it necessary for me to will be nothing new. It in easy to imagine how indicate, in an endeavour to explain the form it may turn out. The original latentic
of those questions, the position occupied in order will be modified as a result of the outery this matter by that section of the community made and then the outery will be held to have which I have the honour to represent. This 1 bees spreasonable. In any event, batil wa now what he is saying and doing, confidence regard as important. The importance of making that position clear must be my excuse for re will not be restored and an uneasy feeling will hang over the community and over calling the circumstances in which we slood a
the deliberations of this Council. For them fortnight ago.
Developments of the opium question threat are others besides myself who would decline ening a source of the Colony's revenue were the honour of serving on it if chaiters affect a reported to be taking place, concerning which ing the internal, revenue of the Colony are to this Council had received no information. In be settled without so much as the usual coute the Proms it had been stated that His Majestyy tesy of saying "by your leave."A Government had announced in the House of Some hint of this is intended. to be conveyed Commoss the fatention of issuing forthwith an by the second part of the resolation, a perfectly order for the immediate closure of opium ferpeciful-reminder that how
Sin the establishments in Hongkong. It was difficult portent this Council may appear to believe that such as announcement would oyes of those who sit in the Councils of have been made without previous comentation Empire, the members cannot confent to be with the local Government it was equally treated as though of no importance at all, dfficult to believe that the Colonial Govern Recognition in due to the great leférests of this ment had been consulted and had given Colony. Those who in any sense represent
SHORTLY_after_alud_p'clock this morning, a coolic, while walking up Battery Path, accom panied by some friends, was seen to stagger and fall forward on his face. Op examination It was discovered that the mio was dead." An ambulance was quickly .sumhioned and the coolie's'remaina rámoved to the martuary. The dead man was about thirty years of age. Heart failure is believed to have been the caused the entente may be a permanent one; it had their consent without informing this Council those interests cannot consent, to see them
death.
(LONDON, 16th May, At a banquet in Buckingham Palace, the King said he hoped with all his heart that
become necessary to the welfare and the Whether the result justified this burden on the FOUR men, two conks and two coolier, were prosperity of the two nations and for the Colony remains to be seen. A building grant for charged at the Police Court, this morning, with maintenance of the peace and the happiness clieed to be angry. Hence the somewhii asked, Why not Hoogho the Ellis Kadoorie School has been made to the stealing about $100 worth of gands belonging extent of $5,503, Considering the popularity Messia: O. C. Monsa and Company, I and.3, of the world.
D'Aguilar Street, on divers dates during the
President Fallieres said he was deeply
of this school the encouragement thus given past two months. The accuse are alleged to touched by the splendour and friendliness Excellency were only in a limited sensa mios. Becretary of State. It is not treatment to'which
have broken into the shop and so he removed the stuff (clothing, etc), some time during the night. They pleaded not guilty to the charge, and the case was remanded. WITH reference to yesterday's statement that subject, we are informed nd good authority stint the man la question possesses nothing but two Russian documents, in the one of which he is
an Austrian subject; but he is ucable to produce
of the fact. But there seemed to be no gored. Ceylon apparently was treated with escape from one or other of these two after some consideration. Also Singapore. True thi natives, he public was perplexed and in opinion was not waidd for, but still they were
Sir, the community as a whole includ militant pole of interrogation then sounding in the ait.
ing the Government has been forced into a The questions which I addressed to your most trying position by the action of the In reality the community asked them. I mere we are at all accustomed. It is surely most of the national demonstration.
The King has conferred the chain of they drew them up. I drew them up with the unusual to conduct the business of State in such primary object of gobisicing official information fiery, haste. This unceremonious prompiness Victorian Order on President Failieres, and, and the secondary fotention of displaying a compares oddly with the truly the President has conferred the Grand Cross spirit of resistance to the iden that information courtesy lately displayed by
of a Trade Convention. Charles Beresford, and Prince Arthur of
stances, properly be withheld. But I hid no.
Connaught.
by the Government will certainly be endorsed by the community in general. The charitable allowances of the Colony do pot err on the side of liberality, for much of the work that belongs to the Colony is taken over by the balance sheet was laid before the Legislative of relieving the sick and destitute and indigent Council this afternoon. That balance-sheet is of all classes in Hongkong, and in this matter, in the form of a White Book entitled "Draft to cite the Tung Wa Hospital alone, the Appropriation Account for the year 1997," Government spenda A* a whole Sis, called an "inhabitant" of Casado, in the other accompanying the Supply Bill which passed its first reading fo-day. The balance sheet is question shows a saving in the expenditure of the Colony during last year of about seven- lakhs of dollars on the Estimates for that year. To givatha axact figures, the actual expenditure was $5,757,205,47 against the estimated amount of $6,431,740. The gross, savings were about night sod a half lakhs, and when the actual increase of $165,000 Is sex" off the pot decrease is obtained. The exact savings for the year, however, are given at $480,000 in round figures. With regard to the departmental savings which are itemised and explained, aos
that there is a decrease..." la the Governor's Sisco, which was reimbursed in the course
said with perfect appositeness that the Colony's various institutions established with the, object the "impudent vagrant"" ivanko is an Austrian of the Legion of Honour on Admiral Lon of the kind required: could, under noy circam sending nat to the local Govaramie
amidat cheering crowds.
Later.
per acoom, showing a saving over the
The King and Queen and President Fal Estimates of $2,350.. It is not a very citizenship. It occurs very often that tramps of and opened some of the chief buildings any proofs for this alleged Antrian or British|lleres visited the Anglo-French exhibition couraging prospect when we find an item imitar calibre make false statements with of about 510,000 due to refunds of revenue, regard to their nationality in order to gat The official explanation of that item is that pecuniary aid from different consulates at there were "more vacant fenements," Thus the same time. our contention that the assessed value of pro- party in Hongkong has arrive at that stage when it may be considered as stationary, he cause for two year, in succession we have, notölogical research in Indo-China's differentpanese are taxing the inhabitants, alleging | wen any increase in the rateable value of pro-countries, more especially in Cambodia, where that Chiento belongs to Korea. perties is the city of Victoria which is a far from bevisitedtheworld famous Khmer ruins, Angkor hopeful outlook, la fjóð the Colonial. Go- | monuments etc, etc., will start from here in so vernoical made an over-payment op account for days, when he will visit Paulow Pichim,
wish to strike at anyone innocent of participation Bulgaris, and asking if they in what at the time looked like an official conto its conclusion. The Incal spiracy of silence. To bring out the truth equal courtesy referred it on clearly, to fix respons bility sharply, was the, of the Chamber of Comme sale idea underlying the form in which those they saw any objection, The
The sawer questious were put,
that they saw none as bay badi any trade between Hongkong made was it'ominatings It
1 hara no desire ta rjdk ***, brought out into high relief the, fact upon
which the first part of my resolution comments. Consideration thus show
a difficulty in
· It fixed responsibility apon' the Secretary of China and Japan.
State for The
for the Colonies, True, it showed a way
trasted methods of Reports from Ussurisk have reached St. out between the alternatives suggested. Notice
Some critice We understand that Commandant Lunet de Petersburg that 5,000 Chinese: troops from of the announcement had indeed been given Lajonqnidre, who has been visiting Bangkok Kirin have been sent to Chiento because the Yes less than, 24 hour notice scarcely They attrib ་ས་༧། ་ after bir very interesting and successtal archies.
even to appeal ja, much less obtain hearing
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of some $7,400 odd alinibuted: to of last year. The total payments to the
acca that the Governor did not Imperial Government for the local garrison
part of his salary. The în exact figures, was $1,214:340, rtainly not begrudge the expané wern:absolute
on the farellur for Works
New Chinese Railway Loant Subscriptions will shortly be foiled to an ing to Bangkok he will start for Muang Lumasue of £1,500,000 Chinese railway bonds via: Paknampoh and Pichlt.
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