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The China Mail.

BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1942,

Today, Sir Thotans Jackson, having re Hinquished the Chief Munagership of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor. pantion, left the shores of this Colony for ever, carrying with him the good wishes of the entice community. In the social, commercial and politied life of the Colony, he leaves a blank which will not readily be filled. · Dur- ing the past few days, details of his career since he landed in Hongkong in 1864 have been given in various leave taking speecher. It is therefore un

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notes by the Way,

LOCAL AND GENERAL..

Nows from the Philippines. The English Mail of the 19th April Gonem! E. S. Bragg has been appolated was delivered in London'yn the 10th Blay. | Consal-General at Havana, -

-* The Fellow Dragon' for Mny is now Govenor Taft, will depart for the issued. It contains como interesting matter Philippines via Ronse on May 17. in English and Chinese.

Owing to the inclemoney of the weather | there was no land cancers, on the new Parade Ground this alterniarn.

General Wood has convened the Calute Congress to prepare their homo govern- weit, slich begins May 200

Satisfactory accounts are coming to band of the woundel men in Mindanao. Captain. Munu is expected zo vadover,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1902.

TELEGRAMS.

(RECYER'S SERVICE),

THE RAINSTORM.

During the past week, rain has fallen intermittently, and it would appear that,

THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN ❘ in spite of the bright outlook to-day, the

THE WEST INDIES.

Loxtes, 19th May, 1902. Deyatches from St. Thomas Island, West Indier, say that five hundred persona aro boloved to have perished at 81. Vincent.

It is reported that Fort de France, Martinique Loland, is now threatened.

THE NEW CHEQUE DUTY

WITHDRAWN,

lang-sustained drought of the past seven or oight months has at last been broken and that the Colony has cintarked upon ite Annual wet NANO).

Rain fell in substantial quantity on Saturday night und early on Sunday morning, and again set in on Mon- day night. The rain clouds, continned to gather yesterday morning, and the Col. ony was fairly deluged during the day. There was a stepay downpour frem morn- ing till night, with secasional fierce cloud Larsts, with the result that the water pone- ed out of every stream and gally on the hillside and certain parts of the Colony wore flooded. As a matter of fast, the rain. At a meeting of the Suez Canal Board,

fall for die twenty-four hours to this mom- M. Casimir Perier, ex-President of the

ing was more than double the total for the Frenet. Republic, was elected to all the

months of Jannary, February, March and vacancy on the Panni caused by the donth brought up by New Yorks capitalists, who northern side of the island of St. Vincent April. The following is the record taken

in Berlin.

The Mayor of Chicago, in conuliance with a resolution of the City Council, has invited Mr Krüger to visit Chicago, nt the

mamo time extending to hire the Freedom of the city.

Admiral Simpson' dial of beanmhagu of the bin: Bret Harte, in London, of hemorrhage of the throat, Archbishop Corrigan is also dem),

The Manila Transway Co, baas been

LATER. Sir Michel Hicks Beach Ins withdrawn the proposed new cheque duty,

THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WEST INDIES. Latest advices received state that the

necessary to repere those details here, of M. Heritte, foriner French Ambassador: propose to inaugurate an electric transport | is ablaze and unapproachable. The whole fat the Botanie Gariens dow

The Emperor Willing us conferred Du Captain you Ustion, of the Nw, one of his Majesty's Aides do Camp, the Or- les Pour le Mérito for his services on the occasion of the siege of Tien-tain and the part taken by him in Admiral Seyan's Expedition for the relief of Pekin.

system in the city and suburbs.

The ports of the island of Samar will opened to trade at rwun to-morrow (Blay 15). On the day of the opening the pots

fact of Martinique island in constantly changing, rives are Arging op whilst others! are overtlowing

AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.

but it is fit and proper that in noting | the departure of one who has been so closely identified with the rise and pro- gress of Hongkong we should give ex- prsien to the general feeling of egret evoked by Sir Thomas Jackson's retire ment from the commercial life of the Colony. Pre-eminently, he was a success End Laaker To every branch send detail of breaking business he was freie peias | ops, but it was as Chief Manager of the Hongkong at Shanghai Bank, whose Captain Staurt for the Mediterranean staing beri-beri whose crimes are less rims is a man of grent wealth and unbounded -

widespread ramifications make it a power in the financial world anda controlling

inituene in the airs of the Far East, that Sir Thomas made his mark. By his rendy resource, clear intellect and gift! of prescience, he raised this institution

to its present powerfri position, wioning

'

|

The Pere, first-class baltie-ship, has been commissi noi at Portavouth by

| tion. She in the last battle-slip of the

Samar will have been doned for exactly one year having been closed as a military necessity.

Berl-beri has broken out anong Bis prisoners na. Malagi Istami. As a measure

stamp out the dicunse, all prisoner har

capital offeners, tuve been ordered released Cheempus class to be completed for sen. by the Division Commander. has been argud that she will, if deemed necessary, by rentually sent to the Chian station.

T

US. Minister to Cuba.

New York, May 7--13, 48 Squires, for merly the First Secretary of the Legation at Peking before and during the siege, anti afterwards Charge d'Abaires, has been selected as the first Minister to Cabo. lic

hospitality, and bis appointment is genes. aily looked upon as a good ouo.

nothing:

May

13

B

14

to this

04 inches

14 5.85

Total to date........ 9.40 inches

The Kawhon Peninsula sufervu as moozelt

Me Squires is almost an ideal man for any part of the Colony from flooding. such a position as Minister to Cuba. He The village of Mong-koli-tsui was in a tec is rich, liberal and the present Mira Squites rible cradition, and portions of Tsimsha isaslar ontertainer. Mr Squires was an oicer in the 7th Cavalry taruus as Gen. tsai were simply disgraceful. There, that Custer's odd command) previous to his mar-ronds are in a chronic stato of disrepair, and ringe to his first wife, Miss Fargo, unless suradical change is adopted in the Parts & Co. Afterward he went into the Government method of treating the roads daughter of a member of the firm of Wells,

tory of the US. Lugatine in Vienna; sub-

3:30 pm-Meeting of 1 4d Boys of the the tulence, esteem and respect of is to be refitted at Devonport Dockyan.after it has been passed upon by the diplomatic service, and was Second Secre- this favourably situated dunexe of Heng-

Fnas. May 16

Succu's College. 2.30pm. Avetica of Bus-hold Farmi- thie, at the Residence of Mr E. A.

Haroun, No. 3, Century Crescent, Kennedy Road). Goods per Marineihshice undelivered

after this date subject to rent.

1. Meeting Perseverance Lodge SATURDAY, May 17 :--

The court envened for the trial of Brigadier-General Smith, has made its decision. It has now been seated art sent The cruiser Bouncentury, rocontly re-

to the States for the reviewing authorities, turned to England from the Chum station,

and the result will not be known here until The machinery is in so bad a state thatthorities at Washington. General Smith £15,000 will hura to be spent in making unnecessary to do more than refer to goud the defects. Ordinary repairs and al will tears for the States on the transportsequently he was appointed First Secretary kong will speedily become a borbed of dis

to the US. Legation at Peking.} his public services outside the bank, asterations in the hull and squipment are. Heucort on her next trip to San Francisco. member of the Legislative Council, estimated to cost £13,000. Chairman of the Cimber of Commerce,

clients, staff and stareholders. It is

Chairman of the local branch of the

Esquimalt was frustrated two years ago. A plot to destroy the forts and dneks

The late Mr W. Machell.

case like the island. It is no exaggavation U. S. Failures.

to say that 3 per cent. of the drains were. Three stock exchange firms have failed as choked pesterday by the silt and refuse a result of the hunks calling in leans on washed dost from the roads. At the securities recently toated by Steward corner of Elgin Road, beside the Godowns, May Yesterday's failures on the stock the water and mud was nearly knop-deep; Street, and enda las beon restored.

Webb.

The Venetian Imbroglio.

columns, a meeting of Old Boys of facen's, As will be seen from our advertising

230 p.m.-Auction of Household Funt. 1 China Association, and member of vari-1 and the three culprits were sentenced to Collage is cenvened for Friday next, the exchange have not seriously affected Wall at the Kowloor Institute it was the saine. panai servitude for life. It is now stated 16th inst., to consider a proposal to create authoritatively that are of the men is Luko | a memurial to the late Me William Mackell, Dillon, the Irish National feader and fatson of the most popular teachers the Col- as a close friend of De Cronin, who was lege ever had. It is expected thero will be murdered in Chicags by merabers of a large attendance. secret society, who suspected him of betray-

ture, at the Resilence of Mr A. Fuchs.ous Commissions and public comitices. Cragside, Barking Rail.

In all matters he was distinguished for Mosar, May 19 :----

his reatly grasp of detail and scund judg Local Banks close Gonds per Tientsin not cleared at 4 pm.uent. Socially, he is one of the most

this date subject to rent.

charming of men. T. J.,' as he is lov. ingly spoken of by the book staff and in Star Ferry Co., Ltd.. at the Corn-fime acquaintaners, had no misanthro-ing their plans to the British Government.

WEDNESDAY May 21-

Neon. Meeting of Shareholders of The

pany 4 Othee.

Į pie taint in his composition. To young

The Kaifong' Case.

Mr Hazeland was engaged all day, at

ami old, zich or poor, gentle or simple,

of

Secretary Moody of the Navy has ordered Court of Inquiry to investigate the cir. cumstation attemling the arrest and con- viction by the Venice authorities of the office of the U.S.S. Chicago,

and at the opposite end of the road a small rivulet bad formed and the surface water and the top-dressing from: Robineon Read wern diverted from the site channels into

Comes

11 m. Meeting of Shareholders of the he was erer kind and sympathetic, hishe Magistracy to-lay, hmring the ovidoon. Manila: on the 8th inst., 29 cases and 21 now Secretary of the Navy is now proceed by sund. and the road becares almost

SATURDAY, May 24.

China Light and Power Co., Ltd, at Blue Company's Ollive.

Dorsbjer's gardens, which had and still It has been evident to those who watch. have the appearance of a newly-formed ed the dispatches in the Venetian ente row lake. This is no new thing at this point. Cholera in the Philippines,

On the 7th inst., there were 24 cases case that if the gilded offenders put off with Periodically, as enok wet season of cholers and 21 deathe reported in what punishacut the Doger saw fit to mete

cue to them, they would get off cheap. The round, the drains at this corner are choked Captain Prefather, of the stone deaths; on the th inst., 17 cases and 15ing to justify that view. It seems to bathegale except for ixanoled lis

object of the Navy Depnetrant, bawarer, knowledge of human nature in and out ifody, in the case in which the native deaths. The number of cases in the pro-to have complete fastive done, and whother But the ecndition of affairs les becom of business having in no way soured a crew of his ship, forty-one all told, aro

vinces down to the 9th inst. amounted to the officers were sinned against or siming warse during the past few days about a patrue al men healthy and buoyant. charged with aiding and abetting stowaways 242 and deaths to 1800. There have been there is no doubt that Uncle Sam's raind is

made up to go to the baton of it and fortnight go, the roudmakers began Naturally enough, his prolonged rosi- to obtain a passage by the Kaifeng to

17 caves mong the 3mericans and punish the offenders.]

to put four inches of soft earth on the dewer in the Enst and the constant Cebu. The prisonere included four Masila denths.

Potter Palmer Dead.

hun surince of Robinson Road It Petter Palmer, the well-known Chicago was obvious lni, unless A aues and responsibilities of business partermasters, Chinese compendorus, ste-

mircie miillionaire, is don4.

happened.

min would have told upon a constitution richly wards, ungiavers, etc. M. 3. C. C. Master

Potter Pauer, the worlti-millionaire of endowed with natural strength, but Sir appeared for the proscection on behalf of

Chicago, 61st sprung into promicance when wash away this surface dressing. Yester- the owners, Messrs Butterfield and Swire.

he urried the beautiful Bertuan Honore,day's min did this at novotal points on the Thomas retites from business activities Mr M. J. D. Stephens appened for three

and next when be attented an afternoon road, the side chaunels wero speedily obli- with his virility unirupaired, and it is of the defendants, including the boatswain,

reception given during the World's Fair in 1895 to tim Infanta Eulalie, attired in forated and the drains choked, and to-day who failed to appear, and lose buit of $500

groning dress and a colured outing shirt Dorabjes's grounds are a miniature lake. Subsequently the Infar, who was stopping The usual perinde choking of the drainas at one of BIr Pulmora hostelries, declined

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EDITORIAL COMMENT.

THE

DEOLGHT.

was eseltental. Mr E. J. Grist represen

ted six other. Mr J. Hastings noted on

behalf of the comprado and Mt D'Alicia for the Manila wen. Mr G. K. H. Jiration, who lately andů application for review of the sentence against the 134 stowaways, was also present, and is apparently watch ing the cue ou their behalf. Inspectors could and Riley are in charge of the ease for the Police.

بیت

Obaclete Projectiles.

The War Department has decided to soll 6000 runs shut and shell, which is at present stucked in the Royal Arsenal Marshes, Woolrich. The condemned projectile were made for the 110.in, 100-top, and 89-ton gms, of which no more are to be made. The modern wea.

- 12in. steel aul wire gun-weighs tons, is dift. long, and the weight of shell is Gest. The concerned projectiles will probably be purchased by outside an taunition contractors' far melting up for conversion inte modern sheil

New Sawmills.

the first

to recognize the lovely Mrs Paleor, saying occurred at Cameron Road and Granville that when the latter was presented to her Area, and, as usual, the culics me ti she did not know it was her in-keeper's ging out the site channels and placing the wito.']

One of Roosovelt's Friends. Hx-Lieutenant Colonel Brodin of the

Et silt on the side walks and road way whence it will conveniently slip

Rough Riders has been appointed by the back inte the chamols and drains

President as Governor of the Territory of with the next heavy shower of rain. Arizona.

1€ Rey Licat-Col. Brodie was a resident of

to imagine the condition Prescott, Arizona, at the breaking out of of the Tsimshatsai drains. The Director the Spanish war. He was counmissioned of Public Works has on synqathy at the major in first. U. S. Voluntees Cavalry, present time. Without men or money, he Roosevelt's Rough Rider Upen the elevation of Col."Lennard Wood from tha can do nothing to improve matters; and head of this regiment airigadier-genem judging from the condition of the Peninsula

The recent mirs being to an el one of the most protracted droughts of The Grave of Confucius.

We intimated in one of our former wcent years. Taking

A entrespondent of the N.-0. Daily issues that a large piece of land between account of the winter only, the drought | News writes From Chinanfu:-Your corres. Quarry Bay and Shadkiwan had been of 1890-9) was slightly more severe plent, had the opportunity, recently purchased by the Kang On firm of Beilders thay that just over, as is shown by the which he has long wished for, of visiting and Contractors. D'Aguilar Street, who

the grave of Confucine. Being called to intended erreting large sawmills drān. colonel of the regime and Major Brodin there is a terrible balance of arrears of work: SPUSO 8090 | figures below :—

Chiningehou, 400 li south-west of Chinan, We now learn that plans for same have nr-Brodio in beer wounded in the San Fe

its lieutenant-colonel. While yet a Major, to be overtaken by tha D.P.W. and his

Purine, Verdot,

1.40 190

DAINFALL.

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del), Black Stal Capai 21.00 2.00 the previous lowest on record-1895.6.

We give the figures below:----

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RAINFALL. AT THE WESEMNATORY

Mean of 18

Fears.

13-28

כן,

Corpse Dumping.

a

Lieat.-Cul Rovsvelt becam

hill fight. de las been for years identified staff. The Goverment will have to cousi- with the picturesque life of the ritory of der the advisability of treating Robinson, and will undoubtedly make & Chater and Austin Roads as they have popular governor.]

done Elgin Road, if they are to maintain Republicans stand by Army.

Tsimshatsui in a conditiet lit for a residon. Republicans, still defend the Army intial unity. Ofrse, yesterday's

Philippines, saying en anthuna cons favorably with Generals Shefur and winfall was exceprimally invy, und the roads were muckier and more injusable than usual, bat it does not regnize & heavy The Army Bill has been reported to the vainiai, to flood the Kaylan ride, snit Senate, appropiiring one hundred milion

Shuridar in the Civil War,

Higher Pay for Army.

Up to yesterday at noon, the rotalollars and protahy for fou put cont in this is evidently due to the caregive away. plague cases reported in the Colong this rese in cien pay and twenty per cent of the anft, surface into the channels and

in that of united mou serving outside of drains. the United States.

(The enlisted men at present on duty in Notarithstanding the heavy downpour 15.00 a nonth, and other grades in pru tumbled over the mountain sides, there the Philippines are receiving, the privates and the outades of water which leaped and

on business, the return trip was made by rived from home and the work of erection Sept., 1901-April 3902 1.8 inches 12.00 1.04 Sept., 1890-April 19901........ 991

way of Chifu, 10 11 east of Chining, where is to be rushed forward with the staost both the grave of the Sage and bis own dispatch. The whole modern equipment | Mean Supt.-April(18 years) .......87.70

specist temple sore located. The temple is | ei large and powerfal wood-working ma- But if we include the summer, and

situated inside the city walls, and is, by chinery, ordered through Mr E. F. Gilson. take what Mr Osbert Chadwick in one far, the most beautiful example of temple is expected to arrive shortly. When D VERY SUPERIOK OLD

of his recent reports has advised should arelitecture I have seen in China, the out-finished the mals promise to be one of the be treated as the water-year,' viz., from side pillers of the main building, in which largest and best equipped in the Far East. FALE DRY, nice l Wing, White Seal Capsule 16.20 19 the beginning of May to the end of the effigies of the Sago and several of his April, we find that we have just find a noted disciples are placed, being of beasti- considerably lower year's rainfall that fully carved stone, and the whois builong Wie kept in good state of repair. The descendant of Confucius, who was

year was 83; 7 boing notified during the attendance to show us through the place, provious twenty-four hours. It would and who was very police is his attentless, seem from the returns to date that the assured as timi tho image of Confucius was practice of dumping the corpses on the portion, which smoents an iacrcase of was no repetition of the catastrophes which 1837-1891-04 futhat representation of the Sage as he street in as common as ever it has bees States. Formerly officers received ton per two years in Hongkong. Only one landslip 20 per seat, over their pay in the United have rourked the rainy sectors of the but 12 66 looked whap alive. The expression as mataitbatanding the vigibus both of the cent additional while on foreign service. is nown to have taken place. 16:40 pleasing and the facu benignaut, though it Police and the Sixibary authorities. Out The Away Bill which has just passed the qcurred in Macdonnel Road where a 13-60 strock both my travelling companion and of the last seven casco reported no fewer Senate is intamiled to cover that and unko

is permanent.] 827o that the eyes were too large mud too than four Chinese bodies were found in the

Philippine Outlook Brighter. 10

prominent to be those of a Chinese. The open air without anyone to claim them.

The outlook for a vote is the Senate 58gra is situated about a mile from the Ons was found in a building in course of the Philippines Bill is brighter, and pr The troubles of the Water Authority 138 nortis gate of the city, in the widdle of a

construction beside No. 311, Dos Vieux bably action will be taken within two have come to an end for the present, for 2:05

very large enclosure, the burial ground of Road Central, another was picked up on

the rainfall since Saturday right has given The Senate and House committees, us up to this morning a total of 123,000,000 5.80 the whole Confucian clan, a shady avenue the foreshore at Store Cutter Island, the working quite independently of each other, plus in the three reservoirs where there Irading from the city gate to its entrance, third was lying on the reclamation op-bave been considering the problems of was only a total of 9,000,000 less than a A smaller plot of ground, of only a few posice Hung Long Street, and the fourth legislation for these islands. The Senate week ago. The water in Cytac toed seres enclosed by a red wall contains the was lying in the channel opposito No. 4, graves of Confucian, his son and his grand-New Street. The other plaque cases were Several coses of plague are reported at son, all of such tuarked snaplícity that we a Japanese Train No. 32. Pottinger Strect, | Bac-niah`in Tonkin. The victims are all could scarcely believe it possible we voe a Chinese from the Freach Convent, and Pardoz. Ver bot. natives, where residences are spoken of as standing before the tomb of China's great Chinese Trom No. 49, Leighton Hill Road. $15.00 $1.20 vory insanitary

est miyo, when our guide finally told us wa had arrived at the spot. The mound is

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the Ming tombs near Peking, while the in dealing with what may be only a slight tablet is a plain elab of stone standing up cough will often avert same more serious NEED an antiseptic dressing. Chan-righ, musli like the ordinary tomb stones illness.

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Just received and Xeres

May

June July

1901-2 1410 22-34 3:06

5.64 4.97

18.87

LIGHT DRY... SOLERA...

The following Wines, battled in Europo, Angast have been specially sciocred, and prorated | Saptettler, from the celebratel tira of Messrs. Gur. | Ouder G. SANDEMAN, Soss & Co. of London, November......

Per do, r foesh, January... $15.00 $1.20 February.....

March.. 21.00 LY April

14-07

13

-3-80

397

2:51

50

17

*32

161

December

*3

20

1-73

+02

7-93-

48

1*44

1-84

2-10

21.00 1.75

24,1) 2,400

Total.....46-65

73.82

83.63

Plague in Tonkin.

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FINE OLD BROWN ...

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NEW MILLINERY,

FINE

MADEIRA.

34.00 3.00

24.00

2.00

NEW MUSLINS, A S. WATSON & Co., Limited, N borinin'e Pain Balint answers this one correrywhere. We would not bet NEW SUMMER

THE HONGKONÒ DISPENSARY.

DRESS GOODS.

121

weeks.

quantity of loose earth partially blocked the radway, leaving only sufficious rojan to form a pathway for foot passengers. No tires were heat, and nobody is known to have been injured.

cute, about a month ago, reported at the 54 feet mark, the downpoure the bill upon which it had bent working, since Saturday having mised the watermark Senator Beveridge, a member of the com about 10 feet, and increased the contents of mitter, expressed his epicion that the bill this, the chief water elors of the Colony. would pass the Senatorecisely as reported from 8,000,000 to 92.000,00 gallons. by the commitice, regardless of the action: The total capacity of Tytam, which on of the House corruttee. The House com only two occasiona is koown to have over. mittee interpolated a provision for a repre- Rowed, is 108.000.000, so the extent of the aontative assembly, which the Senate come rainfall from Saturday nights can be judged mitteergen did not consicer wiac or feasible when it is suficient to fill Tytan to at the present stage of proceedings. The almost a quarter of its capacity. The total recent alibustering in the Senate and the depth of Tytam is about 100 feet, but like. bully-ragging of the Army threatened to the Highlandman's glass of whisky an inch beach the Philippines bill high and dry, at the top is worth three at the bottom. but the reactionary wave of Republic The intermittent supply to Juuseholders. is just the thing for this, as it is always sentiment secous new abcus to entry it on the upper levels is to be extended at

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