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TONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OLTorun 9, 1901.

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·LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9, 1901.

LOCAL AND GENERA AS

Murdered.

On the 13th of August last, it may be

In order to expedite the work of dis- ribating this cowspaper to subscribers *honghout the Culang, wo are re-arranging the Districts of nor delivery coolies. If any irregularity occurs, in delivery, we hope subscribers will notify us at once. The chango will be introduced in the various districts in the course of the present neith. In a cricket match at Kobe, hetween pears to have recovered, but the son has | the lvent Club and H.31,8. Burfeur there just died of his injuries The murdersta Notes by the Way.

was nonee high scoring. The sailors baited are still at large. H.M.S. fleur is expected hore first, and scored 123 for 7 wickets when Theft of a Watch. shortly on her way to England.

they closure. W.A. Cornabie scored 55.

The Postal authorities motify, thaƐ iu future all now papers for the contract maile remembered, a doable motor was com to Europe--English, Frenck and Gorman witted by robbers at Capsuimun. The packets-must be posted before 9 a.m. on | father and son of a family were thon dead the morning of dumpatol.

and the mother and another son severaly wounded. The wounded people were brought over to Hospital The woman ap-

Cricket at Kobe.

TELEGRAMS.

CHINESE MAI SECIAL

THE CHINESE COURT.

Removal from Halan-Zu to

Kaifeng-fu.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

HULAN FU, October 8.

Between seven and eight o'clock on the morning at the 6th inst, the Emperor and the Eupra-Dunager started from this city To-day, at the Magistracy, Char Yau, for Kaifeng-fa. They left by the southern Edwarda took 5 wickets for 27 runa. The servant boy, was disrged, on the complaint The Ben liner Bentontond from London hali was wet and the ground slippery, and of Mr A. H. Skelton, Taraworn, with gate; thence they rods through the eastern has a quantity of explosives for Hongkong. | taking full advantago of this Gillingham (81 stealing a travelling watch, valued at 840. gate, and entered the Temple of the Eight

not out) and Edwards (42 not out) won the The accountant of a pawn shop said defend- Geuil. To-day, Pan Ming, trader, was fined match for Kobe: In a subsequent match ant came to his shop and wanted to payya $20 for selling Wai Bing' lottery tickets against Borfier and Goliath, Edwards the watch For 30, saying that it wae bis own property. Mr Skelton said the watch wat his property and was missed yesterday, Defendant said he bought the watch from a Tung Pass man. The Magistrate sent him to prison for six weeks, with hard labour.

Theft of Cigars."

The frequency of the as- sertion that the increase COMPUTETIAN German tonnage is due to the support given by the German Government to the mercantile marine seems to have nettled. Mr Ballin, † the Director General of the Hamburg- American Line, who visited Hongkong recently. On Mr Ballin's showing this assertion appears to be quite incorret, Until last year, and then only because the Hamburg-American Line zombined forces with the Norddeutscher Lloyd, coining publication of The Island of For The Toyo Kisen Kaisha.

the Company over which he presides with so marked ability has never received a penny from the German Government, by way of subsidy. The

in Hongkong.

The Athenas announces the forth-

now by J. W. Davidson:

The very much decomposed body of n Kowloon on Mon:107 night. Chinaman was found on the foreshore at

Sir Claudo and Lady MacDonald will arrive in Japan by the Empress of India, dus at Yokohama on the 21st inst.

An advertisement in a Bangkok com- temporary still notifies that Mr N. J. Ele is Secretary of the Union Insurance Society

of Canton:

Company's stendy growth must there- fore be attributed to the growing spirit of commercial activity and enterprisa which has distinguished Germany dur- ing the past decade. All the more credit for the Company that it is able to increase its fort and extend its field of operations without Government support, will be the opinion of all fate-minded Britishers, who are never clary of re cognising weeth and wait whatever clime or nationality it may own! It would seem to be a natural inference that this rapid growth of the German mercantile marine aust catail damaging It is understood, from private inform effects to British shipping and cour

ation received, that Mr H. I. Chopo, Act toorce; but the contrary is the case, if { ing Agent P. & O.' Company, has received wo are to bèlieve Lord Avebury (better the permanent appointment as Agent at known as Sir Johui Lubbock). At a Singapore. This announcement will be

scored 56.

At the general mesting of the share holders of the Toyo Kisen Kaisas, to re- ceive the report and sccounts for the last half-year, a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum was declared. The w pany has decided to build a steamer ex- coeding 10,000 tons, in order to keep pace with the progress of its allied companies, but the money will be found without rais ing additional share capital, in view of the present unsatisfactory state of the finsucial

market.

A Lucky Youth.

Fiat

After conducting a religious ceremen in that templa, they continued the journey until dark, nad pasent the night ht the Lân

[REUTER'S SERVICE) RE-INFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH

AFRICA.

LowDus, 7th October, 1901 The War Office has arranged for nine tmusports to convoy re-inforcements to the Cape. The vessels are to mail before the 30th instant.

THE NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR. The newspapora continue the sumiga

Before the Bromley Bench, on the 6th September, Charlotte Dalton, aged 16, in the service of a gentleman of Manila, new residing at 3, The Avenue. Deckenham, was charged with steating 500 bigara and a quantity of wines belonging to her master, James Levuse, 30, a groangrocos, was alo placed in the dock, charged with receiving the goods knowing them to have been stolen. Evidence slowed that the accused were lovers, and the ante prisoner was caught against the Government in relation to the by the policy with his pockets full of cigars, war. The language, le daily becoming the girl. The goods were identified as the which be admitted had been given him by

property of Mr Daniel Fernshaw, who it he was the possessor of a fortune of £80,000.tranapird, was lying very ill at his resi- His father was a captain for the firm of dence. The female prisoner fold the police Messra Hult, shipping merchants, Liverpool, that she would not hare taken the goods and was drowned at sea when Welch was except for her young on. The prisoners thirteen years of age. They were left well were remanded. off, his mother having £400 a year leit by laur husbanel, but, owing to a difference of

According to the fondneman, a izoninonger of Altrinchan his in his employ, years of age. On Monday a tiera of solie

driver, a young man named Welch, 22.

tors acquainted Mr Welch with the fact that

is very much appreciated in Singapore,

The 3rd Madras Light Infantry bandas

large cowds turning out rightly to listen to the music.

Lazy Volunteers.

Privato Fauce Melatuah, S.V.P., was

BCOBOL

DEATH OF THE AMEER OF

AFGHANISTAN.

The Ameer of Afghanistan is dead.

SOUTH AFRICA Goner Lyttleton is conducting a big movement in the South-eastern Transvaal, with a view of coralling the Bosts, whose

within the ordon pressing North from

welcome nows to Mr Chopo's numerona religious views with his mother, the soaloft sued by Colour-Sergeant Sharp, on behalf main body, under. Eummondant Botha, in

Goods per Bambry undelivered after recent meeting of the Associated Chain-friends in Singapore, says the Free Fress.

this date subject to rent. SaregDay, October 12

2.30 au-Auction of Japanese Porce

lain by Mr. G. P. Lammert, at his Sales Roors, Daddell Street.

SUNDAY, October 13:

Ganda per Hus Roam, not cleared at 4

1.. subject to rent. MONDAY. October 14 :--

Goods per

per Balese unclaimed before Noon, subject to ront. TURDAY, October 15:

Goods per Seporia undelivered after this

date subject to rent.

bers of Commerce, Lord Avebury quoted statistics proving not only the continued preininence of British trade but the far more remarkable and com-

By kind poradiasion of Colonel Bafilic and Ollicers, 22nd Bombay Infantry, the Band will play at Kowloon Parade Ground,

komne.

of the Commandant of the B.V.U., in the The Shipping Conference.

Court of Requests at Singapore, on the Officially and unofficially, the Straits 2nd inst., before Mr Brookinan, the Com Settlements are making a vigorous commissioner, for the recovery of $25 being

Zululand

forting fact that the increase in the at 4.45 p.m., on Thursday, the 10th instant/paign against the Slipping Conference. In the amount of capitation grant due under the Porte demanding the immediate pay-"

at the hockey match 'Indiau Brigado

mosa

There has been a considerable increase

The defense was that the defendant had

(REUTER'S SERVICE TO BANGKOK.]

FRANCE AND TURKEY. The Temps publishes o French Note to

volume of British trade continues at a

recent issue the Singapore Free Press the rules of the S.V.C. fos futing to comment of the Lorando claim. higher ratib than the trade of any of our Royal Artillery, and the Officers of the makes the following remarks A little ply with the requirements for efficiency. foreign competitors. Beyond saying Brigade will be At Home to their case in point. A large foreign steamer leit

Singapore in May for Colombo with 3,000 never been medically examined by the Hon. that statisties require careful scrutiny friends.

| tons of space still available, not being able Surgeon, and that he had never bean sworn

SOUTH AFRICA. before acceptance, we accept Lord

tall up at Conference 'froight rates. At in as a Volunteer, in accordance with tho Avebury's comforting statement as that

Columbo the vessel filled up with nearly Volunteer Ordinance, and never attended Kitchener's Hands Tied. 2,000 tons of copra at 10s. to 12/6d. per a single drill. The Commissioner after

LONDON, September 28. ton for Hamburg and Bremen-far less than hearing the evidence, bold that the defend The Pall Mell Ca-elte Toporta, on the half the rate which was the minimum open

ant was not a Volunteer, and dismissed best authority that Lord Kitchener finds the case. The next case, J, Forbes, of his hands tied, and is seriously reconsider to the Singaporeshipper. Colombo is out. side the grip of the Conference, as there the S.V.R.. was sued similarly. His ex-ing his position. *

cuso was that he had never been sworn in He desires that capital punishment should. xl had no time to attend the drills, being be initiated on rebels, instead of a short employed at Now Harbour Dock. He was torm of impriccament. ⠀ ordered to pay the fine. Gunner Wafford, He is wants better seasoned recruits, B.V.A was also sued. He defense was and desires that martial law should be pro- that bu kad sprained his ankle, and that | claimed Ikroughout Cape Colony. he was formerly transferred to the reserve

of a careful student of modern econosnic conditions. It ought to be re-assuring to the British people generally, but whether it will be so to those who have the commonplace bitter experience of

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Accident to a Transport

When the Empress of Chim renched Yokohama from Vancouver. reports the Trepine Berald, she was not only late, but had just about exhausted her supply of drinking water. The oxplanation of this is that, ton days after leaving Vancouver, the Í met an American transport which had lost her rudder mi was fourteen days overdue.

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this year in the import of rice from For Since July the ranaut of rica in ported from the island hao amounted to more than ten thousand hot. The reason doubtless is the high price of rios on the mainland and the prohibition of export

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are competing lines frous Calcutta and Rangoon to keep freights at a natural level.

the way the Ring werke, This incident is a significant illustration of

The distinguishing note of modern gineering is that, it subserves in the main the interests of the ass of the people. The greater comfort. better feeding, higher Plague Precautions at Singapore. healthfulness, freer movement of the people The following paragraph appears in a to outside the congested urlan areas of to-report of a Singapore Chamber of Com day, as contrasted with the state of the mergeeting In February the Hang- populace of England and other countries akong Chamber, it request of the leading century ago, ure chiefly attributable to the triumphs of engineering professional work

and only lately rejoined. He also ploaded The King and the Government. that he was never sworn in. He was fined $25.

King Edward had yesterday a long and aerious conversation with Mr Brodrick (Sporetary of State for War) on the estuation in South Africa, Also concerning recruiting and the Yeomanry.

to have a beneficial effect, infortunately mintain the stuhi qua.

shipping firms of that port, but asked the The late Dr McClosky, Seu, Government of the Straits Settlements if it The Pinang Gazette says We greatly would relax the restrictions or shorten the regret to announce this death of Dr J. H The Singapore Fres Press of the 30th póriod of Singapore Quarantine, if impos. McClosky, for many years in the Etrhite board, The Empress stood by her and supult, says :-Sir Alexander Swettenham, oured at all, provided emigrants were disin. Medical Service, which occurred on Tuesday

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plied her with water and provisions. Jake Colonial Secretary and Acting Govar-tected and their baggage fumigated to tho (24th Sat.)at the Seamen's Hospital, Allert noz, arrived here yesterday morning by watisfaction of the Health Officer before Docks, London. It is only some four or

TURKEY 3.60 Naval News.

French Mail from Hongkong. Sir Frank leaving Hongkong. The opinion of the five months since Dr Mcclosky left Penang

PART October Tu sécordance with the provisions of an Swettenham, who had bern dining at Johora Chambor was asked by Government and He had not been in good health for some

Great Britain has sent several warships LA ROSE incoming 12.96 13.92 Order in Council, Commander W. W. on Saturday with the Pemangken Raja, enne their Committee had replied that the time, and hoping to obtain benefit from

to the Persian Gulf, intending to occup Smythe has been pinced on the Retired round early in the morning by the Sea Belle Chamber could not recoinmond that course, long sea trip he arranged, to go home via

Koweit. The Turke-kave massed their 19.20 List at his own request, with permission to to meat Sir Alexander. It is understood being satisfied that the Strails Government, Japan and the United States. Accordingly ps with the object of proventing the

assume the rank of Captain. Commander that Sir Alexander will stay a fortnight well aware of the primary importance to Mrs McClosky and he commenced their cccupation: Smythe's last commission was in command here before going on by the following these Settlements of unhampered Chinese journey in June last, and thevoyage seomed

PARIA, October 2 D'ARMAILHACQ..... 21,00 22.20 of H.M.S. Lunet, which he took home French Mail to England. and thence to immigration, would take care that it be not

Great Britain and Turkey have agreed to this year. He was the ofliver instructed in British Guiana, to take up his new appoint-enciobured by any extreme restrictions. 1898 to proceed to Manila to report speci- nent as Governor of that Colony, ally on the engagement between the squadrons respectively corsanded by Ad- miral Dewey, U. S. N., and Admiral The New York Times, referring to the Moutojo, the Spanish naval courmander. Blue Book ou China, says: The porfidy of Kassian diplomacy, the complete and The Coming Coronation.

shameless bad faith which Russia has ex- According to Truth, the Emperor Wil-hibited towards. China ant towards the liam is said to have expressed a wish to Western world-these stand out so clearly attend the Curnuation as a relative, on ar- in this formal oficial recital that it is ira- rangement which could scarcely fail to

portant that they should be understood. The American journal assorts further on that Russia relies on the apathy of America, but may be wrong about that, and ends by

aspirations in Eastern Asia constitute the

politics to-day,'

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These CLARETS are Hought and ACCESSORIES, direct from the leading French

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however, before reaching home symptoms of sprue developed, and Dr McClosky elected to go into the Samen's Hospital at the Albart Docks, there to be under the personal supervision of. Dr. Manson, the specialist. The most

Cccounta

satisfactory

PARLIAMENT. Parliament will most on the 22nd inst

SOUTH AFRICA

Pinie, October 3

that 1000

The werking of the Bank of Force would seem to bare been satisfactory since its establishment (says the Kobe Chronids),

wereceived of Dr Mo and the business gradually increases. The total amount of deposite, which stood at reported him as nearly convalescent Boors under Delarey attacked the Beitiah

Closkey's progress, and recent letter It is reported from on 100,000 at the end of 1899, rose to yen and hoping shortly to be wit of hospital near Rustenberg. The Boers were to 1,530,000 at the end of June last year, Apparently complications must have pot in palsed, but the British had 33 mog killed while six months later, at the end of Do and the suddeness of the news received and 128 wounded, many seriously combor, they land increased to you 4,970,000 by members of his family here last night During the period ending June last the senders the loss a greator bler to thont ANOTHER FRENCH SCANDAL business of the bank was to some extent The greatest sympathy will be felt for his

PARIS, October B

of trade and other cauess, got the balance

the end of the period, while at the end of

of exceptional value and guaran-man Emperor and King of Prussia, but teed to be the genuine product of merely as a grandson of Queen Victorin saying-Russia's acquisitions and her unsatisfactory in consequence of depression relatives in Penang, where the doctor was Generals Davenne and Lebalinta onne

and a nephew of the King, so that his placereatest and most urgent question of world-of the deposits atood at yen 4,310,000 st his second wife, to whom, he was only the Council of the Legion of Hunou

the juice of the grape.

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would be among the royal family, and he would not take bis rank ass Sovereign. The Emperor is to be officially represented by either Prince Albert of Prussia, or by his brother-in-law Prince Frederick Leopold (brother of the Duchess of Connaughty whose wife is a sister of the Empress.

Nursing Mothers.

are

could do somehow for double the mouer."

so well known and so well beloved. And for

married early last year. Two soda and two Advances have increased from yea 840,000 survive bin. The song

have sent in their resignations 85 kuende

disapproving of the retiremenz of

August deposits stood at yen 4.680,000, daughters, the children of his first wifey Devon Lause he refused to

ment are added, the total at the end ofner, Penang Dr MeClosky's pratoses o August reached you 7.370,000

career was varied, beginning with

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survice with a Madras Regimente mutiny (model). Then PC

the sitiking out of Mr Loreal

Admiral Lefevre, anoffier member of the

What is an Engineer?

There is an American definition of an at the end of 1889 to yn 1,930,000 in Service of the Federated Mahy Suite

in the Alecai engineer which states that He is a man who June last and yen 2,170,000 at the end of his elder daughter is married to Me W. H can do well for one dollar things that anybody hast month. This relates to advances tede McArthur, Government Veterinary Surgeon Council has alus sent in his resignation

to private individuals and companies only, of Panang, and the younger to Me Alen This is getting very near the truth. It is when the advances made to the Govern Wilson of the firm of Wilson and Neubron The quality and quantity of an infant's not, says Engineering, the whole truth, of food is often seriously affected by the state coursey but that is unattainable, of its mother's health who nurses it. rato, it places in das prominenco a quality. At any health of others is frequently the cause of indigestion and diarrhoea in their babies which those who regard engineering studies which a

the breast Foor from the college standpoint are apt to We guarantee our Wines and waters,

And insuficient milk ignoro. A good deal of wastet ingenuity ENDERSON Grinett, of this place 1871-76. A short a cannot properly nourish a baby, Foor food

as atricken with partial paralysis | British Clujana preceded Spirits to be genuine only when will disorder the health of the child and will would be saved, if those who engage in and completely lost the use of one arm and with the Straite, is

cause emaciation. Stoarne Wine of Cod every kind of engineering work work side. After being treated by au emiment bought direct from us in the Liver Oil increases tho flos of milk, makes

it rich, and at the same time-builds up the remember to use the money standard, as physician for quite a while without relist, Wellesley and Penang. He re

iny wife recommended Uhimberlain's Pain

got from her food the greatest quata of

is almost entirely cured. Geo, McDonald, nourishmont, It is sustaining in

in the high- • Which do you love most--your paps or Man, Logan Co, WV, U.8.4. Several est degree through this trying period your mammal Little Charlie I love other very remarkable curos of partini time when the organs of digestion and spa mest. Charlie's Mother Why, | paralysis have been erected by the use of assimilation must furnish nutridori for both | Charlie, I am surprised et gun... I thought | this Uniment. It is most widely kansa, mother had child. At all Chemists, and you loved ne mirst. Chúlle Can't, however, sy à cum lúc Theuinatlarta, aprainis Wholesale from A. §. Watson & Co., Ltd., | help it, manma; we men have to hohl lo and brukes Sold by All Dealer, Waran Le 1607 Bongkong.

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