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D. C. L. GIN,

OLD TOM and

DRY.

The Parst Landon Gin ou this

Murder

$7.50 per dozon.

Sale Fyens.

H. PRICE & CO.,

45H

MIEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Auctions. 2.434 p.9. Auction of Jewellery, at Mir

Gen. P. Lammert's Sales Roos.

DEATH,

THE

Cu the 10th March, at Misnaheim (Gre many), Juurus Mammuistomers, age 65, formerly Manager of the Hanes Nacionale, Banca Maxic, Comptoir D'Escompte, Shanghai, and Deutsche Bank, Yokobaian.

Pas prebkention of this issue commened at .30 ..

The China Mail.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL. 18, 1902.

EDITORIAL COMMENT.

KOWLOON

SCUO

CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notes by the Way.

found on Pages 2 and 3,

Carnspondence and ftovions will bo

LOCAL AND OCVERAL

Plague.

A Chinone, from the top door of Na. 40, Des Vaux Rend, and an Indian, resid.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1902.

ZOCAL AND GENERAL,

Tramway Fares.

The following patagraph in a Singa- pore conteaponry way be of interest to

TELEGRAMS.

[CHINA MAIL SPECIAL SERVICE.]

ing on the feat for of No. 28, Shiley tamany and way promoters in Hag. MR CONGER AND THE TREATY. The Shanghai C.C. has 250 playingSbret, were seized with plague yesterday,kong:-It is rumoured that the Izros for members and 189 honorary memors.

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Mr A. B. Stephen's has won the Perak Golf Championship with a score of 80, against six competitors.

The passage money of the Shangħaj cricket tear that visited, Hongkong wa jaid out of the Club Fendt, and, with cost of presentations, amounted to Tl. 993.78.

Lastentaut-Colonel the Hon. R. H.

Burtie, C.B., Commanding nut Royal

Welch Fusiliers, is making the antemal in- spection of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps,

To-morrow afternoon, at four o'clock, His Excellency Major-Omeral Sir W. J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G., as the Oficer Administering the Government, will take over the Kowloon School sued official notification that they will be The Singapore Volunteers have receiv. generously gifted to the Colony by Mr allowed to wear plain clothes on board ship Io Tong. We are asked to remind eurone to the King's Coronation in our renders of the opening ceremony, to | London. which the public are invitel, and to iotimate that ladies are particularly |

It is reported that the Cunard line is invited to be present. On previous to build two passenger steamers to eclipse ocensions, we have referred to Me Haine anything float. They are to be

over 700 feet long and of 48,000 horse Tung's generosity. It is due to hin and the interest he has manifested in poner euch.

72, Qend's Bondthe enactional adhies of the Colony

that the Government is now in the frota Hongkong ou the 10th instant, with H.M.S. Ality arrived at Funshow position to mitate one of the most im- Vigo-Admiral Sir Cyprine A. G. Meidge, purtant developments of the educational ¦ K.C.B., na Juard. After a short visit to the system of the Celony siner its foundation, Settlement and having called upon the and all who have those interests at Viceroy, the Adinital left for Ningpo on the Fenes will not soon forget the imady and 11th inab liberal spirit displayed by the donor when, circumstances having altered, he agreed to the conversion of the Kowloon School into an exclusive establishment

Genorni Memoranda.

MOS Dev, & pol 20 --

Noen Meeting of Sharobeklers of the China Steamship Co. of Crete ani Hongkong at the Company's Office. 9.390 pon.-Auction of "Funday House- hod Furniture de No 2 Gave Strea

Tipussy, Apr 22

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making le cases this sumeo',

Communication with the North

passengers tmavdling on the Felernted - Malay Status Railways will shortly be reduced. It is said that the 1st class fara Owing to reguits to the Hongkong-per mile, which is at present 8'cents, will Foochow cable, there was not delay on be reluced to 5 conts; the 2nd class from 5 the triffs to Norra China sul Janu.to 3 cents; and the 3rd class from 3 to 11 | Communicatiou Arsa potonul "yesterday cents,

afternoon.

A New Move.

NO NEGOTIATIONS AT

SHANGHAL.

(Fram Chir Own Correspondent.)

„Season, April 18,–10.2 a.us. Mr Conger, the U. S. Minister to Pok- ing, returns from Shangmi to Peking with-

out opening negotiations for the new coin-" mercial treaty.

Japanese Steel Work.

The Kete Chronicle learns that the now The Peking respondent of the N-6. | steel casting works started at the Kawasaki Daily News writes --The Chics oficials, { Shipbuilding Yerd of Kobe have proved Ho declined, yesterday, to confer with finding the Foreign Powers have been on very successful. Last month ingot stock the Chinosu Commissioners upon details alled to bind Chinn, are now adopting the was made with a slisfactory result,

before having negotiated again with the measure of weakening the influence of indi. Į the Eth inst, a shuift bracket to be used for vidunt foreigner whether educativamaliars,

a steamer now being built to, the order of | Wai-wa-pu (Chinsae Foreign Office) at" merchants or tûïssionaries

the Shanghai Castons was censsfully Peking.

The Health of Singapore.

Or

| cast. It is sixteen feet long, and two tols

in weight. We understand that orders for

CHINESE OBSTRUCTION.

The mortality returna at Singapore for cast atcel work will be taken by the firin the work ended April 5 show a total of 236 From the public. The fatcel-work depart NO PROGRESS WITH WHANG-

deaths, a ratiu per mills of 587; 19ment is managed by Me Matsomura deaths were du to cholora, 12 of them Rokuro, at the quarantine station. The most fatal The Tanglin Murder. cause of death was fever, one-fourth of the total number being due to thin,

Impure Milk.

POO CONSERVANCY.

Na progress has been made with the ne-

achieved:

We are given to understand (says the goliations for the conservancy of the Singapore Free Press of the 12th ine) that Whauspan. The matter has been referred at one o'clock this morning the police, to Peking, but it is me anticipated hero The Government Analyst's report for ueting on information received, raided that any catisfactory success will be the gaurrer ended 31st March shows that house in Chin Hing-st, near, the Ellen- examined. All but two samples of milk suspicion of being conecrned in the murder ten samples of beer, spirits, and mille were borough darker, and arrested a Maenu on

were found to be adalterated. Mr E.

of Mr Rutherford. After taking blus ar Osborne, as a member of the Sanitary rest, the Police proceeded to a house in Board, aska—' Where did the adulterated | Altacida-st., and there arrested two other milk cubic from; the public would like to Macnus and a woman, Riso no suspicion of

know

Music at Hongkong Hotel.

The Focio Ecko of the 19th inst. say: --The long continged drought appears at lt to have broken, and the much nocded By kind permission of Lieut.-Col rain during the past few days will have done Batllio and Officers, the Band of the 22nd incalculable good; heavy rains are abo re-Bombay Infantry will play at the Hongkong ported from the Yeng-ping and Keuning districts.

Hotel Lo-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 p.m. to 9.30 p.:-- Mareb.

Selection The Telephone Girl Valse Sondae d'Avril Intermezzo... Moon Light Selction................“ A Greck Slavo

* GOD SAVE THE Kaso,"

Intermezzo...... Endoria

for children of European parentage. We are pleased to learn that the School is likely to start with the brightest of biogrf $1. M.'s Justices prospects, Already as many children all nem at the Magistracy.

have been enrolled as were in average Monk por Potom undelivered

after this date super to monit.

attendance at the school established by ferde pare. Glaude and cleared at this the European residents in Kowloon be

date subject to neut.

tween 1894 and 1897. In Mr B. James. Coals per Hegde, undelivered after this

the Headmaster, the tiovernment has date subject to rent. Terseas, April 24-

scented the serviens of a genticman wel Gurals que dever ant elesień at 4 puta i entrainted to give the school a high tone

Roberts at Foochow

The Fucchow Echo of the 12th inst. and to imbus the pupils with Chose

The Kite Chronisir of the 7th inst. says:- watch took place at Foochow principles and ideas which will make says: We regret to learn of the death of Club

the date suigest to rent.

Fans, April 2

Auction of Japanese Curios, at No. 33, Des Voeux Ro

Maven lines. Ind.

lves Freewbl Mines.

According to the Peking correspondent of the M-Cady Nera, the Russe-Cli. mese Bank is making arrangements again to | build its railway from Chingting-fu to Tai- |

Juan-fu. 1900, when Yu Haion and Boxeriera suc- It was forming such plans in

ceasfully frustrated them.

...... Jones

being concerned in the murder. A five- chambered revolver, a quantity of ammuni tion and a large sheath knife were found m the house nad seized by the police.

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Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.

We learn that Mr A. R. Lowe, le- countant, of Blaasra Butterfield and Swire, has been elected to succeed Mr K. C.

THE CHINESE TARIFF.

THE REJECTION OF SIR J. MACKAY'S PROPOSAL.

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The Chinese Adhere to their

Liltin. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGHAL, April 18, 2.7 p.

Chinese Government has decided to rofuse- It is reported from Peking that the

absolutely to abolish the collection of

Guard of Honour... O'Keefe

Glover Wilcox as Secretary of the Hongkong ..... Depret

Andre General Chamber of Commerce. We con Boggetti grutalse Mr Lowe upon his new appoint

meut, aud hope he will have tours time likin. now to devota to cricket and football. During the past winter, Mr Lowe has hean seen but seldom upon the cricket field, but was a successful esptain of the Association team of the Hongkong F. C.

[Our Telegram: confirms the statement published in the Shanghai. Mercury on the 19th inst., and reproduced by us last night. It is evident that reforma in Chien is not to come so quickly as some people expected,

un Tuesday evening between Mr In addition to hie wcretarial duties at the and Use Pazers will now have to deal with

13.30 Meeting of Shareholders of the was thy sons and daughters of the Mrs Luens, wife of Mr H. B. Lucas, Ship-T.Gittins and 31r Jahn Roberts, the former Chamber of Commence, we understand "Chim in such a unor na will force her Noma. Meeting of Shavelmakers of the Empire, and in his work he will be ably ping Clerk at the British Corsulate, which being in receipt.of 700 points in a game of their Me Lowe intends to carry on business into different courecs—ED., C.2]

seronded by Mrs James, who has a took place on Saturday morning. Mrs Lucas has been suffering from au internal ready become popular with the Euro- peus sertion of the community. Tomplaint, and recently underwent an oper- ation at the Osaka Hospital, to which she morrow's curetuony will certainly be succumbed, after several years of sufering interesting at a anurable one in the end more than one operation endured with: history of the Colony

great fortitude. The Interal took place yesterday afternoon, the first part of the Banial Service being and by the Rev. G. H. Davies at All Saints Church, whene the body was taken for interment in the New Cemetery at Kusugan.

THE

The suggestion thrown out by the

Colonial KING'S PARK, Hemntury al yesterday's

meeting of the King's)

A. S. WATSON & CO., omation Celebration Committee, Alice Memorial Hospital.

LIMITED.

Established A.D. 1841.

ÆRATED

WATERS

Our ERATED WATERS are thus

1000. Resalt, Mr Roberts 1000, Mr Gitting 887. On Thursday, Mr Roberta copceded the same points to Mr W. A. R. Knight. Result, Mr Robarts 1000, Mr Knight 643. The champion's highest breaks were 117, 115, 114, 112, 108, 107,

If both games, Mr Roberts played a very open game and gave a splendid exhibition of his powers. The Camphor Monopoly.

asan nuditor and public accountant.

St. Patrick's Club.

The pro

[RECTER'S SERVICE] THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

LONDOS, Uth April, 1902, Reuter fearns that the British Gover- ment has received nothing definite from Pretoria up to the present. Parleying between the Boer leaders is proceeding.

THE NEW GRAIN TAX. The new grain tax includes rise, lentik, árrowroot, navi saugu

On Wednesday evering, St. Patrick's Club was filled to overflowing when an excellent variety concert was provided by the troupe of H.M.S. Ocean. grannie was a lɔng one, mil, except for the soneluding sketch, was entirely' musical. Dr Gote, the Director of the Fusen Specially worthy of notis was the murde Administrative Bureau, leaves Japan uext line selection by Messrs Brizzi and Hal; month for Europe, wid Amarica, and will the latter gentleman also won wuch favour spend some time in Berlin. In the course by his song. Musical Harmonics. En- of a recent interview with a representative cores were the ordar of the evening. Songs The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice of the Dakar Asali, De Goto expressad re- joen velebration of the coronation Memorial and Nethersale Hospitals begs to gret at the rejection by the House of Fears Evans, Hare, Burgess, Ginsby, Binke, C. were rendered by blessrs J. Cobb. 0. should be the cafting of the first so of cowled with thanks the following a short fing since of the Campher Monope

donations to the fads of the Hospitals-ly Hill, stating that as a result the prisu of

to-day, after which Lord Salisbury lied so An unexpected Cabinet moeting was hold a public park at Kowloon to be known

Risnerek & Ch

815 as Kings Park,' will probably receive Maine Mas

emphor lead declined frem yen 81 or yen a hang duel, and the orchestra, under Mr audience with King Edward, Į universal sapport. We say this on the Arcon V. Apear

82 per picul to about yen 68 or yer: 69. Brizzi, gave a mandoline march and an This, he said, would result in a loss of avarturo which were highly appreciated. assumption that this improvement vál

ahout yen 060,000 per sunum, two-thirds of which less would fall upon Formoss and bus-third upon the mainland.

the effect that one of the features of bei

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Narrow Escape of Missionaries.

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Tapanese Shipping Subsidies.

On the 4th inst., the Osaka Shosen

Godfrey, Cheras Reeves and Harper. Messrs Attwater and Blakely contributed

The sketch was entitled 'r. Gytdaasium,'

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

B

LATER

THE NEW LOAN, and was exceedingly funny. Mr Harper been issued at 93.

The new loan of £32,000,000 sterling has The prospectus

of the Toard of Directors of the company, depredations of a man-cating tiger which

According to the Fitur Daily oticials coming in from camp noticed that s

DER INTASIATISCHE LLOYD SERVICE),

BELGIUM.

In Belgium the socialist movement

We take this opportunity to state that our entail ao call upon the public for Football.

subscriptious, the Government having The fint tie for the English Football contcanpilated for some years the lying Cup (Association) is to be played at the

was the boxing mater, Mr Turpin acted announces that sixteen millioos have 'Mr Marphy,' Me McGill Murphy's son,' already been placed. It is stated that the out of this Park and inving already Crystal Palace co-morrow. It was hoped

and Mr F. Baglow the club attendant. Me luan has been covers ten times. Half is voted money for preliminary work, the King would witness the game, but he

W. Godfrey's arrangements as stage man understood to have been taken by the We would give the suggestion our

his notified his inability to be present. † Baisha opened a fortnightly service be-

ger were all that could be desired, and, from Rothscbikls, Barings, and Morgans. cordini support ia suy event, as it is a

The Pries of Wals, however, is expected tween Yokolunm and Takau, Fornos, vitae first to the leat item on the programme, to see the struggle for the cup. South-Kobe, Ujina, Nagasaki, Kelung and An- there was not a dull moment. tender that the Government means to

empton is one of the competing teams, but plug, one steamer calling at the l'oscadores pay more attention than hitherto to the whether Duby Canty or Sheffield United every month. The line has been opened

(FROM JAPANESE SOURCES.] better laying out of Kowloon, but, unless are the other analists will not be known under the order of the Government, sad an Ohina News frora Burma,

U.S. TRANSPORT ASHORE. some contingent improvements are eu-till the arrival of the French mail to-

MANILA, April 12. apral subsidy of you 120,000 has been The Bhano correspondent of the U.S. A. T. Humac. is ashore near the granted. Are made solely with the water procurde as little appreciated by Europeans us

forced the King's Park at Kowloon will morrow.

Provicusly those steuners rau Bangoon Guzelle wrote on March 23:-The northern end of Luzon. No loss of life. between Osaka sari Formosa only. The rebellion in Kwantung, Southern China, from the Government Tyran Reservoir is the Botanic Garden on the island,

subsidy grated for this year for the Kohe has only been faintly heard of on this side] The following is the copy of a letter and Kelung direct service of the empany and no efect has book produced on the

LANCASHIRE YARN TRADE. Unless the King's Park scheme is received by Archdescon Banister, Church is yen 59,000, dat for the Formiesa const-

LONDON, April 7. and specialty filtered in large storage filter accompanied by a European Reservation Missionary Society, from

trade between this and Yunnan, If there The Lancashire Mill Owners bave curtail Rev. Louising service yen 140,000), and that for tho is anything that is slegating the poscofuled the output of yarn and to million on the best scientific principles

it will be of doubtful utility. If the Byrde, who wrote from Wuchow on the China service yen 250,000. At a meeting passage of caravans to and ire it is the spindles are now working part time only, new Park is to be bounded on the north | 15th fast. :- by a Chinese cemetery and Chinese

You will be glad to hear that we are now it was decided to build two ateam launches,has heen appearing on Hre two main routes gardens, well supplied with malodorous safe and sound at Wuchow, having arrived about 30 feet long, to be used at Kawa to Chin. Since the bruto first tasted bu Chinese fertilizers at sumowa: on estoulay. The rest of our party and most guchi in Osaka and Takao in Formosa. man blood. hest Decembor, he has become THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN The east by a fotil stream and that none of us are any the worse for the try. Rough Weather on the Pacific.

of our things came to-day. We thank God

bold and people have becoms terror stinking beach and on the west bying experiance. We were wrecked on the

stricken. A short while ago two European

Bentas, April 10. Chinese dwelling houses, with

the Toung Ling Lapid, about thirty li abova Colamist, the N.Y.K. steamer Toshirou, part of the wor! they travelled on borsatowing to such an extent that the Militie inevitable chai-out, gougs, garlic and Chaoping, ons of the worst rapids on the which arrived from Yokohama on the 11th what appeared to be page of a tiger. They has been called to arms. other evil-smelling compounds so dear river, if not the worst, by a bamboo raftult., had a rough passage on the verage then passed a cimayan, but in a few seconds to the Oriental scuses, then the construe calliding with us. There was no one to zeross the Pacific, oxperiencing south-wear-there was a general uproar as the tiger hul Establishment for the selves qaito sezara against contracting some extent, the waste of public money, business to come down a rapid she an

tion of the King's Park will oran, to blame except the raft people, who had no erly and rrth-westerly gales from the rushed into the thick of the caravan and

time she left Yokohama on February 25th,entricit away an unfortunate Chinaan Sole purpose of execut-

Cholern by liquid agency, which it is com. On the other hand, if the Governoiet nearly at the top of the rapid when the ally blow the big steamer across the Pacific cast, for whoss destructíos a reward has We were During one of the heavy giles, which liter. Shikariz have been on the track of the following the example set by Lagos and paratively eny to do by drinking impure other West African Colonies, desides to reable and carrying us with full force and broke up the starboard side of the Intelligence has just been received of the Vienna has strengthened the opinion of all

great raase of lambeo struck on, breaking to Victorin, a big ned awept over the bridgo been offered, but he is up to date, at large. create a European reservation on the upon the rocks, which ripped the bottom Kowlnen Peainsula and make the Park very few seconds. This was fortunate, for side of the top of the chart house, some 40 own countrymen on Chinese soil near the of the international policy if the triple- of our host to pices so that we sock in deck, carried away the canvas on the lectuosome murder of a Chiusman by his statesmen concerned, that it is in interest the centre of this reservation, then the otherwise wo would have been errried to ect chove the water-line, and flooded the frontier. The decused is alleged to have Alliance be renewed on the same basis CO., Scheme should command public support. teat therefore grounded with the water stoke-hole, drenching the Bremen. Even unmitted some crime in China and to have before.

the deep water of the gorge below. The While giving the proposal or support, over the decks, and we got off in ting t, the ratlines, running from the burricane fed into this district. A man was sent

wile saving a few dry things for the under these conditions, we may express the. I am too tired to-night to give & deck, were broku, and the wrecked desk after him and ho was taken back, and on the hope that the Curemation Committee full count. Later, we left for Chaoping, on the starboard side shows plainly, the arrival across the frontier opposite Nam- will not follow the example of the and on Friday started in a minuta boat for great force of the big sea,

Wuchow, periving on Monday morning.

The second paung, he was tortured. After a fow days Jubilee Committees in collecting money Many things were stolen, but much more officer was ou the budge and had a narrow of ageay his persecutors put an end to his

PARIS, April 10. to carry out public improvements which To-day, we have begun to dry the dripping ses dooded along the bridge to where he Marray, of the 29th Burma Infantry, left silk-throwing wills of the Ardeche have The workers in the woolen indnatry of dustroyer by being in the water so long. escape from being washod overboard as the sufferings. Colonel Rippon and Captain Rheios. Roubaix, etc., and those of the should properly fall upon the Colonial contents of our cus, but what the state

the stood on the lee side. The weather was for Tengyaoh during the early part of this gone un strike. They demand the main. of the last will be I am afraid treasury. The Jubilee Road absurdity plate. We thank God for the wonderful heavy throughout, but, fortunately, it was month, A Chinco escort was provided taining of their former salaries in spite of should teach the present Committee a peace He has given us in all this time. I mostly on the beam and behind the steamer, for the two offices on their fearing British the application of the ten hours and a half

shall have to come down to Hongkong in a 121 lesson.

few days to refit.

no head westher being experienced. territory.

Absolutely Pure,

We have fitted out an And consumers of them may feel them

ng work for Amateurs.

water.

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSART,

other boat was coming up.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Chandler Coant Bülow visited Vienna

on his way back from Italy, where he con- ferred with the Emperor of Austria.

BERLIN April 11. The visit of Chancellor Count Bülow to

ĮKAVAS RERVICE). STRIKES IN FRANCE,

day law.