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fering entailed, upon the injured will HEWETT HAMILTON.-On March 17, at St. Peter's Church, Hongkong, by the concentrate the attention of the naval Rev. J. H. France, M.A., W, J. HEWLIT, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, to authorities of the world upon this MAUD BEATRICE HAMILTON, of Hongkong weakness in their "hruiour. Unless a comparatively safe explosive is used there will be little use in building! battleships bigger and mightier than the
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Large and Assorted Consignment of FRENCH PERFUMERY Sole Agents for the RADIO THERM,' the marvel of the age for applying RA DIANT ENERGY.' Can be used in houses where Electric Lights are avail- able, as it can be connect- ed with a lamp socket. Hongkong, January 18, 1907.
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... Meetings...
2.18 p.m.--Meeting of His Majesty's
- Justloon of Fosos al Magistracy.
6.30p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Yolus. teor Itensive Asspolation at City Hall.
Miscellaneous. p.m.-Choral Festival in St. John's Cathedral.
General Memoranda, WEDNESDAY, March 20;-
12.10 p.m.-Mootlog of Hongkong and Kowloon Whart & Godawn Co., Ed., nt City Hall, 9.80 p. Anotion of Japanese Carlos and Bilk Embroideries, co., at Mr Geo. Transfer Books of Hounkong Rope Manu- facturing Co., Lal, close from this date to 78rd March inglusivo.
F. Lammert's Salon Rooms.
TUESDAY, March 21
18.30 pm.Meeting of Hongkong los Co., Ld., at Mesare dardine, Matheson &Co.'s Offices
DAY, March 2
Goods per Zitten undelivered after this
date subject to rent, Goods per Amerios Maru andelivered
after this date subject to rent. Goode for Hudnorshire undelivered after
this date subject to rent. SATURDAY, March 23-
Neon-Mooting of Hongkong Rops Manufacturing Co., Ld,, at Mears Showan, Tomes & Co. Office. Bunday, March 2
MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907.
LOCAL AND COAST NEWS. BY TELEGRAPH.
The South Manchuria „Railway la to convey free of charge from Halamintan the Chinese troops destined for Heilong- klang.
A Mail fromthe U.8.4., via Yokohama, which has been recovered from the wreck theas. Dakota," was received here this morning, deranged by seawater.
of
Three returned coolies from South
Viceroy.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE LABOUR PROBLEM.
(Exclusive Servisi, supplied by Reuter, via Bombay,)
Losner, March 16,
The Natal government declined allow the departure of 1001. Indians recruited for work on the Bongualla
Dreadnought." Great Britain has so far been fortunate but it by no means follows that we will not at some time be Afrion, charged with murder and robbery, overtaken by one of these terrible visita-woru beheaded at Tientsin on the 8th tions unless we take the present oppor instant by the military Court of the tunity of making a close investigation into the characteristics of the explosives. adopted by the British Navy. Prevention the shooting affray at Shanghal wo mention-railway in Portuguese West Afrion, ed that the injured in Daly had formerly pending the Imperial Government's kept the Owl Grill robum now "managed consent by Mr Newbold. Mr Newbold is proprietor of the Ond Grill room, not manager,
is better than cure and where the lives of so many have, men are involved no expense or trouble should be spared to reader unlikely any such awful citas- trophe ae that which has overtaken tho ill-fated “Jenu,”
The Viceroy of Canton is making some efforts to improve the education that is obtainable in Canton, which it in hoped will improve the abilities of thoro students who have sought an education in the school of mining. It is reported that the Viceroy sees clearly enough that the welfare of the Province will be greatly assisted by the opening of mines, and that he is wishful to do everything Goods per Persia undelivered after this possible to enable them to be opened at
date subject to rent.
no distant dute by Chinese themselves, 11.Meeting of Hongkong Land Eligible students are to be selected to Investment & Agency Co. d. help on the work, and business men are to be encouraged to hope that in mining there is some chance for them to invest their money in such a way that they will
Gooda par Japan pot cleared st on this date subject to rent.
Monday, March 20:-
Op.'s Office.
11,16 Mesting of Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ld., et Co.'s Offices, Noob-Auction of Building Material on the Hongkong & Kealoon Wharf & Godown to,'s Promises.
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Hongkong, December 6, 1906.
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Nom-Auction of Triple Expansion Ma- rias, Engine, at Kwong Bang Loong's
11.30a.m.-Meeting China Sugar Refin ing Co., I., at Mesure Jardine, Mathe Bon & Co's Office. 12.15 p.m.-Meeting of Luzon Sugar * Refining Co., Ld., at Messta Jardine,
Matheson & Co.'s Office.
Boller Yard, Tai Kok Tsui,
i
On Friday evening when referring to
"เ
Mesas E. S. Kadoorle and Company are in receipt of telegraphic advices from Shanghai announcing that the Shanglui and Kongkow Wharf and Godown Co. I has declared a final dividend of Tis, 18. taking Th, for the year 1900,
The Military Governors of Kirin and
THE STOCK MARKET,
FAILURES IN LONDON,
(Exclusim Bergipe, supplied by Bru
via Bombay).
LONDON, March 18. Three more failures were announced.
Heilungking are consulting with a view to hailding a railway line between Feitualintzu, & place situated to the north of Harbin, and Sauteing, 500 li cast of the Sunguri River, on the London Stock Exchango yes- for which permission has been granted by terday the Board of Communication.
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The decisive match in this season's Association competition for the North China Challenge Cup was played on March at the Recreation Ground, Tientsin, when "C" Compuy, Middlesex Regiment, after a (North China Sports Club team) by throw fast game, defeated the civilians of Tientsin
goals to nil.
The M. M. Company'a Polynesien, which
[BEUTER'S SERVICE.] NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
Government Aids Banks
Loynox, March 15. Yesterday'a sales of New York stocks represented a fall in value of £100,000,-. 000. -
Washington wires that the Customs secure good interest for their outlay.danaged her propeller in the Suez Canal,reneipts have been ordered to be deposited
Two failures have occurred in London, where other operators have been erippled and had to be assisted.
It would seem to an outsider that all left Singapore this morning for Hongkong, with the National Bank; this, with the Noey Auction of Lessshhold Property this is little more than academical, and So far as we can learn front the local agent previous order for the non-withdrawal of the mails have not been transferred to the $30,000,000 from the banks, resne that before anything worth the name can be P. and O. Company's steamer, and the 71,000,000 are placed at the disposal of done there must he snu practical anomaly of the Franch mail arriving after the New York banke, with a view to training received somewhere, and pre- the English will be again in evidence, not allaying the panic. ferably in some foreign country wherewithstanding the entente cordiale. mining is a speciality. No doubt, The Japanese in San Francisco have however, something practical will be sont a telegram to Tokyo protesting against
A General Recovery, : svoived after a time, and, when that is the exclusion of Japanese Isbourers from
LONDON, March 16, really attempted, and something done California. Such decison, they declare, the province will in every way be bene will frustrate the offorts for more than There is a general recovery in New York, fited, and, also others who bare interests years of 80,000 Japanose in America, where and the marketa close buoyant. BIF they are farming 100,000 acres and earning Cortelyou is considered to have shown in the South of China.
annually 250,000,000. While they still nerve and initiative at the outset of his maintain that the segregation order sliould secretaryship, in dealing with a serious Hongkong being a "free" port we be cancelled they cannot accept the exclusituation, which is described as a rich naturally have no direct personal insion of labourers for the sake of the school mans panio, for in spite of millions nomin terest in the tariff question. As, how.children who number loss than a hundred,ally lost, not one important failure has taken place, and the prosperity of the ever, we are very materially interested
country is not affected:
2.30 p.m.-Meeting of National Bank
of China, Ld., at Co.'s Office. TozsDas, April 2:-
11.30 am.-Mosting of Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ldë, në Messra Jardins, Matheson & Co.'s Offics.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907.
THE "JENA." EXPLOSION.
Of late years a tendency has shown | itself in como"quarters to believe that the world bug next to nothing to learn in regard to weapons of offence and defence. We have gans now that deal death over a great number of
THE "JENA" EXPLOSION.
LONDON, March 15. A relief Fund for the "Jena catas trophe has been opened in Paris.
President Fulliores has subscribed 25,000 francs, and the Ministors 1,000 francs each.
in trade, and protective tariffs are de The Volunteer Reserve Associatión.
The annual general mesting of the sigued to curtail international trado, Hongkong Volunteer Roserve Association any suggestions in regard to this sub will be held at the City Hall to-morrow, ject are worth consideration. Secro-at-30. p.m. when His Excellency Sir tary Shaw has been telling the Matthew Nathan will attend and present
his Cup to the winner." Americans that the crying want of the country is a zone into which ra
A Kowieon Robbery. materiala can be imported free for the
Pun Y Leung, a cook, was indleted at purpose of being manufactured into the Criminal Bessions this morning with vio-
LONDON, March 15. goods paraly for the foreign trado.. It lence at Kowloon: The offence took place
Floods have occurred in West Virginia, seems amazing that such a suggestion, early in February at No. 1 Lochiel Ter-
race, Kowloon, and accused was charged Pennsylvania; Pittsburg and Alleghany should be made by. a professed pro with entering the house, tying up the house are flooded and all the factories are at toctionist The Nation, of Now York, hoy and lashing him to notice while he stand still. One hundred thousand working which has consistently advocated free-mado a search for valuables. It was a people are idle, and thirty thousand
FLOODS IN AMERICA.
milos, and battleships against the sides trade as the beat policy for America month before an arrest was made. Accihoineless many lives have been lost and
sod plundel not guilty and evidence was the damage is estimated at £2,000,000. taken.
of which heavy projectiles would dash waxes humourous at Mr Shaw's expenso themselves in vain. But we have still over this naivo statement. The paper a lot to learn. Periodically we hear says: What an innocent giving away of SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.. of gune," which had pamed a zigorous the whole tariff fraud this notion is!
Dr. G. E. Morrison, after a slay of one Mr Shaw frankly confesses both that inspection, exploding and killing a
protection imposes a heavy tax upon, wook in Shanghai, löft for Hankow en number of the hapless mou who wote Americans and bampers them in their route to Peking, working them. Also we find that manniscturing development; but what
loon.
to Tientsin, on the 13th inst.
POST OFFICE VICTIMISED.
Forged Orders for Registered Lotters,
Two Chinese, lately employed by the Kwong We Chong firm, succeeded in get-
Station leave of absence has been grant-ting the better of the Fast Office officials from time to time great battleships is his inference? Why, that it would be ed to Captain R. 1. Ranking, Royal Army to the extent of 3672 and a number of are destroyed, not by an enemy but wall-nigh criminst to lift the burden Medical Corps, from 19th to 28th March, letters, by means of a forged chop.: Know- ing that the firm in whose employ they by means of the deadly destructive from our own people, but that we
A splendid programme has been arrang had been, were in the habit of gotting & agenta which they are compelled to must resort to every trick and dodge
to make life easier for forsigners. Weed by its A. S. Tuxford for the concert number of registered letters from America carry. The cases of the "Maine" lest
imagine Americans would look over the to-night at the Senraer's Institute, Kow-for Chiness residents in the vicinity, the two Chinese concocted a scheme to get in Havana Harbour, the "Mikasa" fence of Mr Shaw's "zone" with which sank at one of the Japanese mingled emotions. They might even
Mrs, Waters, wife of General Waters, possession of the letters and the dite and neval ports, and the "Jena," the ter- be prompted to tear down the fence Commanding His Majesty's troops in North equos they contained aid as a first step Kwong Wo Chong. Armed with this they rible fato of which has formed the and get a taste themselves of the Chine, left Shanghai for Hankow en route procured a chop resembling that of the visited the Post Othco just after the mail enbject of the bulk of our recent cables, cheap goods which the Secretary instantly come to mind. The cause of would make such desperate efforts to Count and Countess Koszui Otani re-had arrived and eloven registered lettem, the loss of the "Maine" was never supply to Asiatics and Europeans, contly returned to Shanghai after on ex-smong others, vero handed over to them Shortly afterwards the frand was dis though sternly forbidding his fellow-tensive tour in the interior of Chins, entisfactorily established. Neither
Count Olani thoroughly enjoyed his trip, covered and the Police began to make citizens to touch them..
though he did not find anything of ex inquities. Chiuose Detective Sergeant was that of the "Mikasa"
Losa disaster.
ceptional, interest in the course of his Hau Hung, as a result of his investigations, In regard to the "Jena," although it
located the men in the Hotel Cluna and journey.
getting into their reous arrested them. A has not been definitely shown that
The Hon. Treasurer of the Allco
The members of the Imperial Tennis search disclosed the missing letters, which the explosion was spontaneous it is Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to
scknowledge with thanks the following Club, Kowloon, entertained their friends at had been opened and their contents abstracted, but the contents were subse clear that that theory is generally donations, to the fonds of the Hospitalsa danco, in the Kowloon sohoof on Saturday quently socotezes,
Allca Memorial Hospital.
Robert Porter &Co., Leid. There is a rivalry among nations Green Island Cement Co
Limited.
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HONGKONG, Hongkong March 8, 1937.
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75 evening, there being about fifty couples The case came on for hearing at the present. The music and floor being good, Magistracy this morning before Mr F. A.
a most enjoyable evening was spent, the Hazeland, and vas remanded."-
20 comfort of the visitors and members being
J. M. Cordioro, a youth of sixteen
to obtain the most effective explosive. In this as in other things the race is not
well looked after by Mesdames Robertson, A Youthful Offender. always to the awift. An explosive of
Ilayward, Stewart and Penfold, and Mauers medium power is apparently safo unless
Welsh, Pelling and Lowe. During the Fears, was charged at the Magistrney this there is gross carelessness on the part of
interval the secretary (Mr J. C. Lowe) morning with the arcony as a bailes of those who handle it. But what are
stealing a watch and a trunk containing Club, which had a membership of 45345.00. Be ploded guilty and was popularly known as “high explosives" SUDDEN ATTACK OF DYSENTERY briefly alluded to the steady growth of the blaycle goods to the value of $23,po, with posssss properties which even their in- Prominent lady of Brooklyn New excluding six metabors who were going sentenced by Mr C. D. Melbourne to six vantors do not appear to properly A York, USA, viltos to inquire boms this month, as against 37 in Blay laat weeks' imprisoninent
sunderstand. Apparently a sudden change of temperature is liable to cause an explosion of some of these prepata tions. The latest disaster with its terrible logs of life and the fearful suf
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