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On January 4, at the Garden House, Wheathampstead, Herts, the wife of Cap tain NKY LYNCH Talbot, the Cummin sioner of Police, Federated Malay States, of a Daughter.

MARRIAGE. On the 10th February, at the Holy For THE RACES Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Hav

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THURSDAY, February 20

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notos by the Way.

Three fires were reported in Shanghai on the 13th inst

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Commodore.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1902.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notes from Nippon.

The following in the official nunauner- All the survivors of the Aomori disaster iment of Cesimodoro Powell's mecessor ****

liare beca printed one grade. Captain C G. Robinson, to the Trender as

Denmark is proposing to make a com The Italian ernisne Puglia arrived at Commodore Second Class and Naval Officer mcrcial treaty with Goren. Shanghai from Nimrod Sound on the 12thin Charges at Hongkong Canin Robin- inst.

son's maination we munced severa

On the 4th and 6th inst, the low lying pertions of Singapore wore again Boodork. It is a pily Hongkong cannot get a chare of Singapore's surplus supply of rain.

It is announced from Brussels that Mr

Rone Sheridan, Deputy Public Prosecuter the Congo Free State, has been appoint

ed Legal Adviser to the Goventiient of Siam.

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Elutf residents are now supplied by the wedka ugo. He was formerly in command | extension of Che Yokohama. Water Works. of II.M.S. Fernon, the torpedo instruction headquarters.

The Marconi Invention.

Discoveries of loot from China con tinue to be made in and about Hiroshima.

I

Baron Kusumoto, formerly Vicu- Minister of Foreigu Attairs, died on the

It is believed that Mr Carnegie, the Philanthropic millimize is to interes: himself scientifically, and commercially in 7th inst.

the development of My Marcini's ideas.

The Zawanfu and Kaiser Wihelm arrived The port of Vladivostock was fragen recently at New York and reported a most on the 2nd inst, for a distance of 20 miles interesting and muccessful use of Binrconi-outside the harbour, 6grams, extending throughout sixty-six hours

There were 103 European and Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and Boropean and 9,708 visi o tu the Museum during the week ended 10th February.

Draft bye-laws for the prevention ur itigation of epidemic, endemic or con tagious disease were submitted at the meeting of the Sumitory Board this after

noon.

and a fifteen hundred miles voyago. Over Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai will publish a « hundred messages were exchanged during newspaper at Tientsin as soon as the city varying distances between the vessels. comes into his possession. Its views will

be enlightened and progressive. ...

Hongkong. Docking Facilities.

There is an excellent article in Marius

Engineering (New York. October, 1901) on

It is

Docking Facilities at Hongkong from the pen of Mr Robert Sanford Riley, whe presents a good deal of technical în- formation in a concise and attwctive form, The article is illustrated with views of the

The non-engival of the American sailer

Azen, which was reeing with the British

saler, Philliest from New York, was causing

anxiety at Yolobama until she turned up on the 4th insi., 11 days after her auto petitor.

TELEGRAMS.

[*CHINA MAIK' OPINIAL, SERVION.]

THE FOURTH TEST MATCH.

ENGLISHMEN LEAD IN FIRST

* INNINGS.

Collapse in the Second Innings, (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Losos, Fobeniry 17, 5.3 p.m. The fourth test match between All Australia and Maclara's English XI. opened at Sydney on Friday. the 14th in- stint.

Maclaren won the toss, and the English- men bathed ist.

On the first innings, they hold a lead of 18 runs but have already lost seven wickets

in the second innings for 77 ns.

[ROUTER'S SERVICE.]

THE NAVY AND ARMY ESTIMATES.

• Lostos 16th February. The Navy estimates for the coming year amount to $31.265,100, and for the Army

The Shanghai Lund Investment C5, which put an interim deiland of 6 per cepit July last, propuses to pay a finu various Atablishments of the Hongkids in the arm, at Kobe, was sentenced } &f 120,016 m. dividend of 6 per cent.. amking 12 per Fenwick and do, rad Messrs W. S. Bailey and Whampoa Duck Lo.. Messrs Geo.

C. Crumler, for shootinga godown | £99,150,489 & the latter providing for a force

The transfer of the Native rent in all for 1901. Customs was not made al DEFERRED. Canton yesterday, it i quite evident

1.11 (Hippo fas' no desire to give up this presfitable source of income, and if the Luasfer

Nover was there a more brilliant ex- emplification of the Marry in husto aul repent at leisure' proverb thans ín a case which has just come, before one of the American Courts. The bride eluped un

and Co.

Indemnities.

At Shanghai, on the 14th inst.. the Indemnity Claims Commissioner allowed Mr C. F. Wintour, of the Imperial Mari

E1823,15.6 for wounds received at Su-

un the Tch inst., and has received the least penalty prescribed by the ende - one month's imprisonment. He has appealed and is out on bail.

Tho new stoaurship service between Vladivostock anel Tourages will be opened

SOUTH AFRICA.

Patrol Entrapped.

One hundred and twenty Mounted Infantry patrolling the Rip River ware entrapped by the enemy and overpowered, The twelve being killed and forty-eight wound-

tot Insperial Maritime | Sunday, was pursued by her stern parents time Cascans, £770 mart of a claim for with two steaners on the 20th inst Customs is accompanied by the stipula on Monday, was married on Tuesday, Wang-Fu on 20th July, 1900, and forarti. / Government of 14,00) yer por stuburn for

obained forgiveness in her irate patentsches lost or destroyed. Mr J. W. Richard- on Wednesday, only to leave her husband

tion that the preferential treatment of junks is to continue then it really does Goods per Rehey unclaimed after Noon not miter much to Hongkong who i on Thursday. Then she went lack bumeson's claim of £1700 for wounds and losses.

this date subject to rent nad banding

The bad faith on Friday, and filed a petition for divorce (Customs) was allowed. Thols 19,500 and i was roluced to £1809. Mr. C. B. Mears charges. Transfer Books of The Hongkong Fire

Insurance Co., Ltd, desert fram this already shown will not help to streng.

Mr. II. S. Hurst (of Take) Tacks 1300.

date to the 6th March, melusive. FRIDAY, Palary 21-

Hongkong Races. 11.15cal Hauks close. 11.4.

tusurance (iticos close. CHINA WARES. SATURDAs, February 22

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February 23:- vols pure not decred at 4

pm, this date subject to rest, Masiay, February 24 pm

collects the duties.

then confidence in the Chinese authori

sat Peking. At the same time, the bitch at funton will serve as a warning to Sir E. Stow and th: Tariff Revision Commissioners, and would be the safest course in future dealings with the

Chinese to make no eoréessions till the

Chinese have established their good The transfer, we are now told

faitla

No Meeting of Marchulders of Theis pestroued till the 19th inst.

Hongking and Whaupon Deck Co., lal.. it the Company & Offices.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Adjournment of Criminal Sessions.

on Saturday, As she is only 17, she has | brilliant possibilities of a sensational mor- rying and unmurrying career before hec.

Football.

The Pope and the Coronation.

Viscount Canterbury, who was recent- Yesterday, the Ateanf the Hongly in Rome for the purpose of discussing kong F. C. defented the officers of H.M.S. certain details relative to the Mission which Terrible by 2 goals to 1. The first grens inct on Saturday when the Terrible Won by goal to 6, not in grounging result to the Clah supporters, who would like to see their team win the approaching semi-inal

with the long in the Stick tiek,

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Communicable Diseases.

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will represent the Pupo at the Coronation of King Edward, had several interviews with dignitaries at the Vatican, sex was to have an audience of the Pontiff himself.

The Mission will arrive in England whon

the festivities in connection with the

Coronation have terminated, following the precedeat which was adopted on the neck. sion of the Jubilee of Queen Victória.

line receives a subsidy from the Japanese ed.

ite years.

The now steamer Kolau Marn, for the Vladivostock-Tsuruga service, misdeas very successful trial trip from Yokohann on the 2nd inst. Her dimensions are 200 × 24 × 23 feat: indicated horse power 1,300; gross tommage 1,600; speed 12.207 knots.

Major Yamaguchi, who cinisanded the unfortunate Aumori party, was rescued alive, but has since died. Before dying ho took on himself the whole blame for the catastrophe. it was understood on the 5th inst, that there, were 16surviçonsultogether

The

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Matsukata's statement that his visit to America and Europe is connected with the coming Coronation Ceremony. The same paper bas an utterly unfounded report that the Kaiping coal mine is sold to German buybrs for 1 million teels.

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The stemor Bristol, from Vancouver

RIOTING AT TRIESTE. Serious rioting has taken place at Trieste.. Martial hw na beon proclaimed.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Reform His H. d. 4. Wiss, geting

Chief Justice,

Tasday, February 18.

THE CALENDAR.

The Criminal Sessions optied with a roll of five cases to riisposa E, The prisoners, numbering twolvo, vere all Chincau. Seven were barged with armed robbery. Jarecay and receiving of stolen goers. Two ousen uf mandaughter involved three peo. ple. Une man was charged with

uttering forged bank notes, while the twelfth pri- forge bank note and being in possession of soner had the charge of unlawfully wound- ing and inflicting grievous bodily harma against him. Mr J. Dyer Balt neted as in. terpreter.

During the week endel Tôch February, one case of smallpox, imported to the Co- At the Supreme Court to-day, in lony per 8.. Pelens from Swatow, was auswer to Hon. W. Meigs Gooduan, K.C., reported. The Mound, United States The Siberian Railway. the Attorney General, his Lordship the mau-of-wax, reported une case of enteric

An Odessa correspondent, wrote on the

THE WELLINGTON BYRKET ROBBERY, Acting Chief Justice intimated that there fever, while another case of this disease 19th ult.-The total cost of construction

of the great Siberian Railway has ro hora to Atika with 2,500 tons of coal was Ip Tan, Lam Near and Lam Hong were

Cheak, Fan, Cheong So, Lo Kn would be my sitrings of the Criminal Sesccurred in the City itself. One of these!

aetirade. The length of the He is 7783 Island on the 2nd ult. Sai anday forendon owly,

Wong vorsts, or about 619) English miles. The

Hoi

in e pase in Wellington six of the arpw-were lost in one of her Street of certain jewellery, etc. expenditure so far incurred is 780,000,000 bunts, the rest being saved by amber.

All, except the thin, risth and seventh roubles, and, when the remaining exteramer,

prisoners, pleaded guilty, and the caso was adjearned till today order that the evidence of the first second prisoners against those who had douind the charge.

A. S. WATSON & CO. dig the Race Meeting except on cases was fatal: Another ease of diphtherial onlculated with approximate exttally lost by striking the recks off Green changed, with baving, on 5th Forney, be

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do the Summary Court today, haforesius and junctius are completel, the total His Hour T. Serbe Sith, Actingallay will have mounted to 850,000,000 The American China Development Comp- pang, organised in 1975, kas cleated new | Puisme Jadze, M. J. D. Stephens, solicitor, Joubles, or close en £90,000,000 szerting Directors including Mr. August Beinont, sued die Kwong Long sentructor's shop for Emsidering the nature and quality of the and has prepared for worl. by paying in 2000 as dengs dong to his property Lot constructive work of the Siberian Railway, rx aquired rhinus and cupital and borrowing No 1, med bois 24 Bunun "ade greater part of the permanent way of importance, have taken place.

Pre millions from the productes, all deposited with Mt. Morgan, China has been asked to advance forty two million DRY.se hundred thousand Bonds acording to agreement for the construction of the seven $48

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which will have to be practically relaid within a few year, the Imperial Govern ment is paying an enormously exurbitan: price the its great undertaking,

The Shanghai newspapers congratulato Coghill and, Sutton's Buitertainers. the longlong postal authorities on the te diection of posings they have inaugurated between the Treaty Purts of China and all Britiste possessions. The Sanghaj Thus

As will be seen from the annotate- ment elsewhere, the Colony will be visited

which, according to Singapore and Manils sewn by comedy and variety company,

E. and C. Express writes:-In the German The Hamborg correspondout of the Consolare in the Far East some changes of

Vice-Canal

Berean from New York has been sent to

Shanghai, and Herr van Lohnessen has been added to, that Consulate as Vice Consul, while Dr Foroko is to act as inter prostor. The former Vicc-Consul at Shang hai, DrSchrammeier, lnd to leave that office for another post, From Hongkong Herr v. Oertzen leaves, and Dr Voreras goes to

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Interesting Facts.

THE FORGERY CASE,

Tang Yau Tai was charged with having, forged ten dolar note of the Hongkang and on 7th Janury, at Suship, uttered a Shanghai Bank, and also with having been

possession of two forged noes.

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note was forged: le said he was only Prisoner denied that he knew that the

engaged in business. In auswer to the about the second note, but knew about No. second charge, he said. le did not know 143.

The following Jury was ompanelled, viz Giftepts. D. A. Cordeiro B. M. C. da -Moses R. Douglas, W. Schumacker, J. Cunin, A. Romjahn and F. Q. R. Xavier. The Astorney General (Hun. W-Meigh Goodina, K.Ú.), said that, about fone o'clock

on the afterboon of 7th January, t ciose to Sanishapo, priemer went iniscellaneous gnos

kept by a widow and purchased Gallery He got the rice and nine dollars in tea cont rice, which he tender a torollar note

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a particularly appreciative leading article entitled 'The Penny Post' and the large sure of public support. Captsin Professir J.

newspapers before as, should receive a In the course of a recent leerves, A. Fleming aid light Meremy also deals with the matter editori.

Jack Sutton is the genial advance agent. revelled at the rate of 180,000 alles a ally, it is arident at Mr Lowis, thed be assures us the Company is a really second; the velocity of the electric waves piece. This nute Acting Postmaster Genom has seed good une.

found to The entertainment will include was identical, so the difference between! The following story is published by Feat Fuses, not only for the Department bright little comedies, singing, dancing light and electricity was one of

Presambly emboldered by the success of, 111

of his first FILTRARCO. the An Australia who has gented over which he so ably presides but for the masties, &e. The perforunces in the length. Some views of Marconi's toleztap

wave prisoner, xhout twn hours a what, I think, must be a record. instruch Eritab postal service in this piction of the Zenith Theatre at Manila on the lot inst, station were shown, and, in illustration of where ho purchased the rice. He asked for opium divan across the way from

Is dit was preseur in Mell;ourne during the world. It is alat incredible to believe an attended by Major-General Chaffer the different velocities of, waves, Professored mother bad ter dollar not to ment a wall package of drosseplans and tender vivir of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, that only a year or two ago, an attempt was at Mrs Chattee, Governor and Mrs Fleasing said that a message could be sent The opium divan man was not so easily in and arrived in England in time to witness nude to exclude. Hongkong from participat. Wright, folonel Chathaur Miss Buechem-re Newfoundland in the hundredt part of posed pan. It went to grocer's shop next their arrival at Victoria Station from a baling in the benefits of the penny, post/

i. Majer Thomas Cruse and party, Dr second-blast (supposing one could be one. A dispute then arose with the pri

door, and the general the note was a b rony in Grostonar Gardens—givas' me "an

Atlason. Gevora! Superintendent of made sufficiently powerful) sent thrigh a super, and people began to gravd round, BLEND.ing anecdote of the recent Royal visit

Public Instruction, and other lending re-speaking trumpet would take two hour up. Prisoner, secing he was an tight including the widow he had been imposed to the capital of Victoria. One of the core-

The Russing first-class cruiser Fayresidents of the city. Madane Agnes Freed and a half to cross, and a water wave, if it corner, attempted Tue chose was monies was at the University, where the which arrived here on Saturday on her way took part in that performance.. Duke was to receite an honorary Degree.

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was not likely to be prescut. At last the coloma procession of the Council and Senate

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Erilence was Tech, så å freqult of which the prisoner, was found guilty.

His Lordship passed scatence of seven:

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THE TRUCK CASE.

Un Hing was charged with manslaugh

SA ALLEGED WOUNDING.

wounding and inflicting grievous bodily Fau Sing was charged with unlawfully

The jury returned a genius verdict of

nut guilty, and prisoner was discharged.

20 knots an hour. It is stated that she car The Bangkok Times of the 1st inst. Rascally Engineers. carry suficient dual for the diavet run from says Mr E. James, usaistaut master at Krestait to Vladivostock. The Porjeg | King's Coluge, has been appointed head some two hunted and forty million roubles A Siberian paper states that out of the expectant audience that the Duchess left Kronstadt for Port, Arthur in the mid-master of the new European school at Kow that East China Railway has post the tor. A child was run over by a truck and

ale of Acqust last, but made a long stay at Toon, Hongkong He leaves here by the Russian Govorimont, there are

killed. Koweit and the Persian Gulf. ports. The Bem, on Monday, for Singapore, where nas forthcoming for more than ten of not guilty, and prisonet was discharged. The jury. returned a ananimous verdiot of the University emerged and made its Furyay was builtes Filadelphia and launchine is to be married to Mrs Span, widow of million roubles of the expenditure. Tho way to the platform, the Chancellor escort- ing the Duke, gorgeous in his now hood and in 1809. Her displacement in 6, 60 of the late Mr U. W. Span, a former troubles in Manchuria were made the most tous. her engines have an indicated horse-master in King's College. He then goes of by the astute engineers of the line to get power of 20,000, and she is very powerfully on to Hongkong to take up his new rid of every kind of document which might of the students called out, in a disappointed, carrying twelve 6-in. 2. F. guns, appointnient. Before coming to Bangkok, throw light upon the way in which the ed tone. Hulle, George, where the twelve 3an. gans, and six 1.4 Hotchkiss Mr James, who is an Orient man, was a money actually went. It is matter of regis The shocked expression on the sun. She has six "torpedo tubes (two master in Queen's College, Hongkong. All common knowledge that every engineer faces of some of the bigwigs only added to subsierged), and her full complement is who know his he will be glad to learn of of any rank connected with the building of the audienco's delight at the friendly sila | 960,men, exclusive of the commander and bis advancement, but it must be said that this line bas become wealthy in a porc but was afraid the du so on account of J. SNELL wanted to attend a party, My James is a man whom' a evmmunity brief even for Russian officinis like that of Bangkok can ill afford to lose engaged upon Government work. The grow worse. He says, was telling my trou- pains in his stomach, which he feared would Such sterling men as he do much to cum Adjunct Minister of Finance is engaged in bles tos lvly friend, who said: Chamber- ain's Colic, Chalara and Piarrhoes Remedy pate for the pinebbeck so common in the hopeless endeavour to Eruce some of will put you in condition for th

for the party the East, and for the swollen bead caseé so. the methods which have been in operation bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating

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with which cho Dake looked up in the twelve officers.

direction of the voice.

Tur undraped truth" doesn't always show COOKE: It's surprising how unpractical up in a bear story. some non sre. 'Brooke: Why, how's that 4 Croke: Well, there's our friend the pre-

fessor, for example. He spent the best part CELESTIAL Music So he praised my sitg of his life acquiring fluency in nine or tensing, did he "Yes-he said it was hea different langungus, and then went and mat venly, Did he really say that that ried a wife who never giros him a chance to not srselly-but he probably meant that

He said it was unearthly." 191 get a word in edgeways.

use in his businese.“

HAD A GOOD TIME.