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The Russian Fleet.

The Jiji learns that the Russian men. of-war Bowie, Jebastopol, Pollart, Petropav

The publication of this isme commences lors, Naririn, Grombos, Anival Nachisa. off, and two or three others assembled at i3.2012.

Vhulivostock during the latter half of lost?

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1901.

LONDON LETTER

(From Our Chem Correspondent)

London, August 9,

ings checked in time, that our descend- nata in the twenty second century may not find their city toppling around them like the towns in the salt district, and Once again the British Court is

preparing the scene for the fulfilment of plunged into the deepest mourning Macauley's famous prophecy of the This evening's bulletin statos that Pre-Coloured ribbons and ornaments will be New Zealander who is to, in the midst

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.

Lokbor, 10th September. 1901.

saonth. Tho mine paper further learns that sident McKinley's condition continues sermitted after August 29, and on of a vast solitude, take his stand on a

those vessels will remain at the northern portás long as the harbour is free from ice.

KNOWLEDGE, HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEYTenner 12, 1901. A Patent, Propeller.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Notes by the Way.

A now propeller designed by Mr T W. Paterson, Manager of the Victoria and Sydney Railway, is being tried on the Company's stomer Iroquois The object of The French Mail of the 10th August the new propellor is to throw off the dead was delivered in London on the 11th inst. water which it is believed in carried by the ordinarily designed propeller. A new curvo is given the wheel designed by Mr Paterson to throw off the water on each revolution instind of carrying it round..

The German Mail of the 9th August was delivered in London on the 10th inst.

Parcel Mails for Europe, etc., per aux Parramatta will close at 3 p.m. on Friday,

the 13th inst.

During the past teventy-four hours there was one death from plague in the

HONEST LIQUORS Colony

HONEST PRICES.

H. PRICE & CO.,

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Interesting Statistics.

Statistics have recently beon collected of the height of 19,000. English boys and mo. At the age of seventeen these aver- aged 5 feet 8 inches; at the age of twenty. two 5 feet 9 inches. At seventeen, they weighed 10 stone 2 pounds: at twenty-two, A local fem ndvertises a typewriter for 10'stone 13 pounds. No nation is increasing English, Germau, French and Spanish.in height and weight so rapidly as the What the public wants is à typewriter that British. In fifty youre the average

gone up for the whole nation from 5 feet 7) Can speil correctly.

hae

inches to 5 feet 81 inches.

The average height of the British upper classes at thirty

A good story comes from Tipperary. A man was found guilty of murdering an-years of age is 5 feet 8 inches, of the farm other by hitting him on the head with a labourer 5 feet 73 inches. The criminal blackthorn: Asked by the judge if he class brings dowa; the average. as their afturhal anything to say why sentence of death height is but 5 feet 3 inches.

MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Miscellaneous.

Goods per Brune undelivered

this date subject to rent.

Mosting.

8.30 p.m.-Meeting of Lodge St, John.

General Memoranda.

Sarenbay, September 14-

Goods per Natet unclaimed before

Noor, subject to rent. 3p. Auction of Crown Land situated

cáo Hunghon. 9p.in-Meeting of Perseverance Lodge, TUESDAY, September 17-

Goods per Redurahire undelivered after

this date subject to rent.

ahoukl not be passed upon him, he answer- ed, Well, my lord, all I say is, a tres with Buch a thin skuli as that had no business at Tipperary Fair."

Conviction Quashed.

Woo Kee, contractor of No. 26, Coch-

favourable.

THE COMMAND IN NATAL

·General Lyttleton resumes command the troops in Natal.

September 19 the Court will return to broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the half-mourning for the late Queen, the ruins of St. Paul's,'

An influen

of All the virulent hostility of

tial section of German politicians to

THE CHINA SQUADRON. Rear Admiral Henry Tremonhogre Gron

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.

LATER.

Presidant McKinley's condition continues eminently satisfactory, Unless compli cations, develop, a rapid convalescence is expected.

Next year's coronation procession

the late Empress Queen has been hush- may abandon the bistoric route by the ed in the memory of her painful Strand and past Temple Bar, the spot illness borne with such magnifi- where for many generations the Lord fail, C.M.G., succeeds Rear-Admiral Sir cont fortitude. Lerne su leiden ole Mayor has been privileged to meet the James Andrew T. Bruce K.C.M.G, as klugte (Learn to suffer without com-Sovereign at the confines of the City. second-in-command on the China Station.plaining) was the motto of ber husband, Flest Street is so narrow that it will be and she made it her own, Caller at an advantage if the authorities prefer the age of seventeen to sustain a must the Holborn entance to the City. difficult part as wife of a Crown Prince, Processions will probably pass along on often in opposition to the King his two successive days, taking, on the father, she had att her difficulties inten- second day, a much elongated course, sified a hundred fold by her constant and visiting both sides of the Thames. resolution to impress the mark of her No announcement has yet been made, own clour intellect and lofty purpose on and none may be expected for months the political life of her adopted country. yet.. Britons are apt to resent the manner it which her attempts to join in the strife of statecraft were resented and rebuff ed; but Prussin itself in these days was young and sensitive. The luat of En pire was strong, and the opposition of

THE CHARGE AGAINST -

KRAUSE

On the re-appearance of Krauss at Bow Street, the Tressary announced a fresh charge of incitement to murder. The pri- was remanded peading the arrival of

the necessary papere

CRICKET.

1.0.6. r. 25th CO., 8.1.4 KG.A.

bowling of Turner, who claimed 7 wickets for 11 runs. Scores -

A. O. C

Wood, e Dansie, b Jones Lilly white, b Allday..

Rutter, Gore, Allday... Turner, & Stewart, b Allday Lashbrook, st. Cox, b Allday Slaughter, i Gare....... Burgess, Shallis, & Tuckwell, b Gore.. Barley, not out...... Langley, e Tuckwell, b ailday Twynam, h Gore .....

e Smith, Gore

3

The Rev. Charles Wenyon, A.D.,. who so long conducted the admimble Wesleyan Mission Hospital in Fatshan, has been appointed pastor of the his torie Wesley's Chapel in the City Road,

| the Crown Princs to Bismarck's policy where is the tomb of the founder of was rightly or wrongly attributed to his Methodism, opposite the gates of Bun talented wife. We should remember hill Fields, the last resting place of how bitter would have been the protests Defoe, Bunyan, Watts and many other in England if our present King had worthies, associated himself in those days with the Liberal party and Queen Alexandrs as

QUARANTINE AT SAIGON.

Messes Lake and Rogge write to us, as follows, under this date

A TELEGRAPHIC UTOPIA.

Sir J. Wolfe-Barry's Prediction.

Anong the happier announcements made

Princess of Wales had given rise to suspicion of Danish influences behind the throne. In the strife of parties,

Messrs. Wea. G. Halo and Co. advise. wounds would have been given that us that quarantine is reduced to ono day's

have would

brought 09. much observation on vessels arring from Hong- regret as is now shown by even kong; passergera prohibited. the Kreuz

Zeitungwhen recall ing the victory of Bismarck over the late Empress and Time's revenge upon him when the pilot was dropped in 1890, No German royalty was ever so popular outside Germany, France and Denmark by Sir John Wolfe Barry at the recent nesting of the Eastern Telegraph Co.. was mourn in her a valued friqua, sud Liber-one that sounded salade to goud to be al sentiment even in Austria-Hungary true. It was to the effect that it will fools the hay of a deep sympathiser, fahertly be possible to telegraph from home The press comments in those countries to the For East at the cost of a penty a all express the prevalent idea that under word. The Utopian visions of possibilities Bher influence the career of the Emperor in the way of news despatches that this Frederick might have been the dawn of cast on the brain screens of British Editors an era of progress and enlightenment, in the East (says the Struïs Times) were had stern death not intervened

Played on the Military Cricket Ground, Happy Valley, on Tuesday, 10th inst.. re- sulting in a victory for the 2.0.C. by 4 Tuna. For the winners, Lillywhite was top rant Street, was recently tried and convicter with 19, white for the losers Stewart contributed a usoful 11. The fea- ad of putting rubble between the bricksture of the match was undoubtedly the fine 11 am--Abetion of Stores at Central | A Stranger who Took Them In.

forming the walls of a hours he is builting, Police Station.

and was $200. Owing to a recent decision Another of those human sharks, ne- Mostar, September 16-

Goods per Magune not cleared at Noonquerading in stylish attire and passing him of His Worship in another case, where the self off as a man of goed position, has just defendant was charged by Mr Crisp, Luspec- subject to runt.

been working on the simple credulity of tor of Buildings, with a like offence and are respectable people in the Colony, equitted, Woo Kee, through Mr Crist, Representing himself as the engineer man-opplied for a rehearing, and the ease came ager of mines in Cores, and giving out that up yesterday afternoon. Mr Kemp decid- he was staying at the Hongkong Hotel, heed, on a point of law, ns.c. & contractor's chatted freely with his victims, and, in antiability, and held that a contractor who had dhand sort of manner, expressed the tut signed antice of intention to carry out 2 p..-Special Sale of Clothing at wish to borrow 3100. He succeeded in alterations was not liable. The summons

Italian Convent.

duping the, manager of the French Bank, was accordingly dismissed, and the time of and also in doing a Chinsman out of s prir $200 refunded. of gold sleeve links. Other respectable people have been taken in by the stranger, and they are now requested to communicate with the police, Sergeant Murison, of the detective staff, cffected the arrest of an in- dividual answering a descripton supplied to the police of the human shark. He was found in the Metrogade Hotel last night enjoying a quiet night-cap, and was request. ed by the Sergeant to accompany him to the Central as quietly as posible. The man is now safely lodged in gaol pend. A. S. WATSON & CO., ing the framing of an intent in

Monday, September 23 --

MONDAY, September 30-

12.10 p.m.Meeting of Shareholders of the Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., at the Office of the Company, No. 14, Des Voeux Road.

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cluding as many of the charges as it is possible to get. The man's rame is given as H. Ratosey, and we her?, that he is well known about the coast ports. If he is the individud wanted, he took a ro at the Hongkong Hotel, but never elained or occupied it.

British Officers in Changsha.

,

The Mysterious Stabbing Affair.

A charge of attempted murder has been preferred against the Filipino musician who, it is alleged, stabbed a young Spanish woman in her room at Collège Gardens n Monday morning. He has been mutanded pending the recovery of the lady, who is in Hospital. She is, we hear, recovering satisfactorily. The prisoner appearal be- fore Mr Kemp, to-day, and was reinsinded till Wednesday next. Prisoner's name is He is 32 yearR DÍ Viguel Hilary Kuxas, age, native of Manila, and a musician residing at 43 Cheen's Road East. He is charged by Chief Detective Inspector Han- with having on 1th September, wounded Maria Moutrol de Zarya with intent to murder her.

SAM

Extras.....

Totalig 20TH CO, 8.D., X,G.. Smith, b Turner Stewart, e Ratter, b Turner Tuckwell, b Turner Canavan, a Lilly white, b Turne Griffith, c

Rutter, Turner Jones, o Shallis, Turner Gore, b Rutter Alday, Turner, b Hatter

Cox, not out Goddard, run out Dansie, b Turner

Extra

Totni

38

0

2. II

NEWS FROM THE CHINESE CAPITAL.

A

The death of My W. W. B. Beach, by which his cousi the Chancellor of the Exchequer succeeds to the title of

quickly dispelled by a further perusal of the report of the meeting which showed that the proposed revolution in rates is to be sondustcu tai n plan that is not intended to benchit newspapere, though it may do so after a fashion by enabling them to dis Father of the House, calls attention, pense with Router's Agency Aya matier again to the disgraceful condition of of fact, it is not proposed to lower the London streets. There are so many rates por word actually despatched cur the The Signing of the Protocol::

nuthorities and Companies having at wires, but, by the introduction of a public Pekiso, August 30,- One of the three edicts required by the times the right to trach the roadway code system, to afford facilities for reducing Foreign Ministers arrived on the 27th inst. for this, or that purpose that the inquest that the oust per word sent will work out" the number of words requited en materially was the me relating to the prohibition is adjourned for a month before the of arms and machinery for making arms responsibility for Me Beach's death can relative to domestic and private ocurrenees so the nimble penny. Special code hooke The Franco-Turkish desdilooks grese as daring a period of two years. The Minis be duly allotted among the possible and requirements are now loing completed follows:-Tae concession of the Coastanters met the next morning, and after con parties the Westminster City Council, with great care. They contain parases tinggile quays was granted to M. Granet,sidurable discussion decided to accept it the New River Water Company and the bearing on almpat syory canteivable require Postmaster-Generad in the Freycinet-Com-without asking for a substitute. At the calman himself. Two are witnessesment, and copies will be kept by all the stans Ministry at Paris. According to the same time they did not exactly approve the have differed already, atly contradict leading post-pffices of the Kingión. Com- terias of the concession, it was stipulated reading of the first part of the edict, which

AT PUBL

The Franco-Turkish Difficulty.

I

that the Turkish Government should have gave us the reason for issuing such an oring each other even as to the place

the right of parcbusing the concussion after der, the purchase of firearms by mer- where the accident occurred.

The following letter fangs the NC, Dedy Nears) has been received from native correspondent at Changsha, the provincial capital of Human-At about 8 o'clock on the evening of the 27th August, just about the time of the shutting of the city gates, it was reported to tha Goserner, the notoriously conservative Yi Lien-shan, that a small British gunboat had arrived near the band, outside the Westgate, and tline the British officer on aard had stat ed their desire to outer the city that same night. As it is the fashion now-a-days for the high provincial aythorities throughout the country to show cordial welcome for alvinas rensus to all foreignets who may Turkey. en on them, the Governor and all those under him at ee went out of the city to Resikuation of Rev. G. J. Williams.

awet the British officers, who received a

former

ireen and blue officjai sedan-chairs were

the leggo of ten pears. The time elapsed early in July, but the Turkish Government had been at loggerheads with the French Ambassador as to the price and conditions of the purchase of the quaya from the can. cessionaires. The result is the recall of Ambassadors, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations between France and

Mr Sumers Clarke, architect to the Dean and Chupter, has furnished the Times with an elaborate account of the Paul's Cathedral,

chants at the ports to sell surreptitiously to local bandits. The Ministers decided to append to the Protocol only the outer without the prelude. It seemed to the that it was usless to cause delay by reject

edict and telegraphing to the Court condition of St. ing the to issue another in its place. Such action When Sir Christopher Wren erected night day hech smuld not be pleasing the great edifice, he found the substratum

the signing of the Pratocul an other to some, especially to Mr Rockhill, who is so sandy and unreliable that he covered

week,

anxious to leavƐL,"

bed,

China without sufficienzi

MORE DELAY.

good movement in the Colony. As it is Mr Williams desire to be reliered from duty

they want..

THE DOUBLE CAPITAL,

thir

mercial Gras which have for the most part private codes, which reduce the oat in some cases to a half peony a word, will: not bo so much affected by the innovation, her, as we have stated, will the prese bencft grently, but to private persons the new plan ought to prove s hoog, if it be practicable From practical standpoint, will be invented which will make one scord o do not believe that any code

time be adaptable for the requirements of convey the sense DE fifty, and at the same,

however.

of

the public ne large. That is what a peony service would nican. At the same time, Still it is forgotten that the part of the it with pot earth that moisture might the publication of farther details will pro- edict scouted and recognized is not the ed-consolidate it. The enormous weight of cable which is to unite the

give a fillip to the long- iet issued, neither in it the edict published -

adrocated We regret to hear that the Rev. G. J. throughout the whole Empire. The people the dome rests on eight piers all of ap

Empire by & cable, British State-owned salute of several volleys from a battalioni 5 Willinnas, who has been pastor of the of Chirs know of une edict actually publish- which have settled, breaking arches and throughout. The Ottawa Beard troops that como as ewort to the Governor. Union Church for nearly eight years, bas something they call me edict, but which, na and the Foreign Ministers know of

windows above them. The great west

Trade

is the latest public buậy to To this the British gunboat returned a been compelled, through it health, to place auch, has never been leaned, or published. ern towers are sinking, cracking the that

agitate on the

subject, and it is, vaid the communication has bren solute of eleven guns. The British officers his resignation in the hands of the Church. This is a method of saving the fare of west front, and the north and south Favourable reception at the Colonial Office, received at the Colonial Office. favourably rece then informed Taui Mu, expectant Tavi Commuitico. This is neither the tinie nor

equivalent. and commissioner of the Hunau Barvau of the place to refer Mr Williams work

transepts are inclining as if to fall out as we all happen to know, does not invarub The Chinese Plenipotentiaries are annoy- VERY OLD LIQUEUR the city authorities when the

Foreign Affairs, that they would call upon since he came to the Colery, but we believed at the non-arrival of the other two edicts wards from the main fabrics. Alt very much. In rogaul to this Inter scheine, and Imperial cables generally, the relating to punishments and to examinarether Me Clarke's report is not following appeared in the we are expressing the feeling of very large tiens, "It was thought they would ench inspiriting reading, and he goes on to had entered Christin, whereupon Ts'ai action of the community when we say that hera' early in the week, ban mudly be note the effect of the Central London tea on Ucain Tulography Sir Edward of Aug. 3he Daily Telegraph

On behalf of the Part

Parliamentary Commit. Tentui at once invited the visitors to regret will be general over the approaching expected that Ciese ediots can entirely satis

week has nearly good. It can hardly wake up their quarters at his Bureau departure of Mr and Mrs Wilisus, who have fy all the Bintan, and got they may be Railway Tube to the North and the Sassoon had an interview with the Colonial Secretary, for the purpose of urging that then provided to carry this guests into the 50timately identified themselves withevery tempted to decline to insist «D just what Waterloo and City Tube to the South, the Cape to Australia cable contract might and a leach-liko sewer that carries away custama clauso giving the State power to eity and upon arrival at the Bureau of Ker

The menageident of the question of much of the needed mojsture away down phoning after the lapse of certain period: Buel a provision is con cign Allairs Thai kiu mas informed mt hie

an early as possible, a subcommittee will scoring edicte has, all through the Gedliman Street to the South. It is sidered the more desirable because this fine kitors pesired to see, the Governor nest

stions, been hardly up to the standard of

is avowedly projected in order to compete confer with him to arrange steps for the past. Heretofore, when certain edicis almost impossible for the man in the with the Imperial cable vidct is about to day ou important business. On the morn-

securing & Baccissor, and the westholders of have been demandle, the precise form has

be laid serves the Pacific Mr Chamber have expressed him. between the Ministers and the Tourigi uificenes, to conceive the idea of self an issuurable to the

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prin of plu DE Yanea Now, with the Court at a dia-

clause. Ha alan sympathised in its tance, this previous understanding is diffi- possible danger to St. Paul's

with the suc

suggested establishment of A CHITAIN CURE FOR DYSENTERY colt. Hore the Thenne issues an edict third century any more than to calculate branch from the Cope Australia cable

AND DIARRHOEA.“

according to its own will, and if hard-

ou the collapse of the Pyramids, and it affording an all Britishy, but

conbert Locos Blend with Ceylon, this pressed issue another ons later, to Procsunced by Connoisseurs to be the al personally accompanied the latter to UME years ago. I was time of a purty please the Foreign Ministers. In some may be that the man in the street is and aroding many of the risks which hel

visit various points of interest outside that intended making a long bicycle cases the first one has been published, und Changsha, celebrated in Chinese history trip, sare F. L. Taylor, of New Albany. the latter one has merely been handed to ultimately right. Every gront huilding the existing cable service to England. BEST BRAND in the FAR EAST.

Bradfoni Co., Pa., U. S. A. I was taken the Ministera.

in the world shows these distortions to and song. The day conclufled with a pursuddenly with diarrlines, and about to give

POSTING THE TIMES. ade of the fuel troops of all arms before up the trigongs: suggested that I take peolusid siste, tut De Meriton, ne erected, and then to find itself

CAME NEAR BEING A CRITPLE when editor Ward, of the

many places. A building ha first to The Ministers agreed not to give out the

TOSH Weather of Legantes In Laseyville a doso of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera atid

USA, poor man, bar beays he Times correspondent, telegraphed the like Kipling's ship, but it honestly con-whuld not be without Chamberlux's Pair Diarrhoes Ready. I purchased a bottle.

structed, the cracks and bends are really saved him from belog a cripple. No es But if it cost bry dollars a buttle, fort and took two doros, se balore starting and larger smrt of it over ten daya age. Stearns Wine of Cod Liver Oil uns on the route. I made the trip success are still roaming over the country, some in aîl civilised, equntries has proved it to fully and never felt any ill effect. Again thates coming near to the pity gates; d

process tting into pecumbent teral application is equal to this niuent for psh. and swollen jubats, » quntracted bo meritorious in the highest degate. It inst summer I was most completely run few days ago a band of nearly thirty were

Atany rate, it is an advantage

muscles, stil tod an

Prius su The arnatio has produced fremarkable results where down with us attack of dysentery.

or even posable risks that precautions meus esses of putin Dal

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WHISKI. Ting-of the next day at about o'clock they tho Church will be called together at unheen pretty well determinent beforelmod street, looking up to the massive nogain is rodantendi

word rectised by Governor Ye Lien-shan, in early dath to consider the whole matter. bis yowen, after which the three Principal Military Officers of Changana invited the British officers to an entertainment and

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other so called torrice and rechnstructors | hought a bottle of this same retaedy and captured by the olliors under General to have attention directed to Tolablar and Duscular Mama 135 Bisa eurod

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