1908-04-11 — Page 4

4

WM. POWELL S. MOUTRIE & Co.,

LIMITED.

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

CHILDREN'S -

OUTFITTERS

DAINTY

CHILDREN'S

FROCKS.

INFANT'S MILLINERY

GIRLS HATS

SUN BONNETS.

Wm. POWELL, Ld.

HONGKONG.

Hotels.

CLARENCE

HOUSE.

49 & 38, NORTH Honor Raj

SHANGHAL

NIRST-Class Boarding Hence,

F

Room for so per day. $5.00.

Room for two per day.

$8.04,

Monthly Rate Single- $100 $110. Two in a flocm, 850 exten Hongkong, November 2, 1907.

1764

BELLE VIEW HOTEL

A

SRITIAN ROAD

Pleasant Drive along the Sea Front,

either by Trum or Rickshs.

FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION AT MODERATE RATES.

Under European Management.

MACHADO'S FAMOUS STRING BAND

will be in attendissce

EVERY SUNDAY EVENING.

from 30 to 8.30 pm

TELEPHONE No. 393.

Hongong, March 31, 1964,

NOTICE.

M. Gains

COURT MILLINER, 14 ROBINSON ROAD. KOWLOON.

PROM ist May nez!, the above

Bursa berausferred

10 HOTEL MANSIONS, Hong- Itong

Further Reduction-TRIMMEL Has $3.50 to clear. FLOWERS, &o, Half-price.

CARMICHAEL AND

CLARKE,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS

193

3. Qucon's Building, Hongkong. 8-4, CHANGE ALLEY, SINGAPORE,

CABLE ADDREVEN :

CARMICHAEC, HONGKONG.

CARMÍCHAEL, SINGAPORE. Codos Used: Scott's 10th Edition; A.B.C. 4th and 4th Editions Leber's Standard; Watkins; and A.J. TELEPHONE No. 22,

WORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE JABUKANOE COMPANY.

TOTAL FUNDS AT SIST DEEMER, 1905.

£17,897,119,

I-Authorized Capital £3,000,000

Bubsribed Capital £2,750,000 Paid-up Capital ...... 4887,500 0 0 HI-Fire Fands 1,386,720 18 8 III-Lilo& AnunityFoods 13,769,895 8 6}

£17,897,119 8 1 Revenne Fire Branah. 2061,044 19 k

Life & Annuity

1733,POS 19 10 Branches,....

25,174,858 19 4 The Accumulated Funds of the Fire and

Life Departments aro free from itability in respect of each other,

96

SHEWAN, TOMTS & CO.,

Aganti.

'SIR ROBERT HART'S

.MEMORANDUM.“

Series of Articles on Sir RonES

A Har's Suare for the Improre

tent of China.

Reprinted from the China Mail To be had in pamphlet, form at the Office, 8, Queen's Road Central,

Parca 60 Cents.

LIMITED.

NEW PIANOS

AT

ON HIRE

$10 PER MONTH.

Tuning and Regular

Attention Inclusive..

|S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ld.,

YORK BUILDING,

Chater Road

Hongkone. Avril 18, 1907.

A. S. WATSON

& Co., Ltd.

ESTABLISHED

A.D.

1941.

CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS,

PERFUMERS, &c.

BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EX

CELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

AND HOUSEHOLD,

WATSON'S

FRAGRANT.

MEMOS FOR MONDAY Moating.

2.15 p.m.--Meeting of His Majesty's Justices of Peace at the Magistracy.

Missellasooni.

date wubject to rent.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Both H. M. S. Astras, and H. M. S.

occurred in Burms. In 1,431 uses death During February 1,520 cases of plague

development necessitatedi. Hed they not done they would never have be- come great. In the present instance the Monmouth arrived to-day. Government requires, roughly £160,000 Goods per Ghazee undelivered after this If flat amount were borrowed in Eng

laad at four per cent, it would cost theresalted. Colony £6,100 per annum for blerest. A sinking fund of £5,000 per annum would provide for the repayment, of the loan in thirty years.

The pay

General Memoranda. TODAY, April 14 ;-

2.30p.m.-Auction of Household Farsi. ture, &c., at Ladbroke,' 9, Conduit Reid. Goods per Yorch andelivered after this

dals subject to rent,

WZDNEDAY, April 15-

The next Criminal Sovions of the

Supreme Court will be held on Wednesday, April 22, st 10 o'clock.

It has now been decided to rerise the ment of £12,000 per annum would go system of Manchurin and the silver

p.--Anction of Motor Launch Murinvolve o strata upen the Cology/delar will be used as the standard.

gurite, at Ah King's Slipway.

5.80 p.m.Handel's Mossib, in St. but the provision of an additional

John'a Cathedral,

FRIDAY, April 17:--

Exchange Banks Cloed.

SATURDAY, April 18:-

Transler Books of Gren Island Cement

WEDNESDAY, April 28:-

at Club House.

THURSDAY, April 23:--

Noon-Meeting of Union Insurance So ciety of Canton, Ld., at Head Ofice, 12.30p.m.-Mosting of China Traders'

Insurance Co., Ld., at Read Office,

BATORDAY, April 26--

11. Meeting of Green Island Cement Co. Id., at Messrs Showan, Tomer & Co.'s Offico.

£160,000 in three or four year would bo a very serious burden. Every business concarn when it requires

Co, Ld., close from this date to 25th money for development purposes bar. April, inclusive.

rows it either from its own shareholders 5.16 p.m.Meetings of Hongkong Club or by means of debentures. We entirely fail to see why what is acknowledged to be a sound financial expedient when adopted by private concerns should be considered dangerous if applied to the business of a Colony. We are aware that many self-governing Colonies have 12.80 p.m.--Meating of Hongkong Jocovar borrowed but this is not e proof

key Club, at the Hongkong Club Annexa.

that borrowing is pernicious in itself. Though a British King killed himself by sating too many lampreys this has never been accepted as proof that lampreys are unsuitable as Food, Letters relating to businna ndiould be address the onse under discussion we are not

SATURDAY, May 30 :---

Neon-Tonders will be received at the

Office of Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

ad to THE MANAGER.

Communications relatių ta vores should be seldersvd to Tus Euros.

Correspondents must forcard thæir names arui addrenken with any communicains ad dressed to the Editor, not for publication but an evidence of good faith.

All leurs for publication should he written on our tile of the paper only.

No anonymously signed communication that hare already appeared in other papers will be

inserted.

copy.

on Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to our

In

The troopship Northbrook" left Taku on night of 9th instant, and any be expootud here on or about 14th instant.

--

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908.

KING'S ALLEGED

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

During the absence on leave of Dr Bate- But Wright, Mr T. K. Dealy will act as Headmaster of Queen's College.

Mr W. H. William has been appointed Bud Lieutenant in the Cadet Company at- tached to the Honghung Volunteer Corps.

MISTAKE

CAPTIOUS CRITICS

CONFOUNDED,

A very pleasant evening was apont at.

(Enchisive Service, supplied by Reuter, via Bombay.) the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, Alexandra Buildings. Inst

Losios, April 10. right, when the first social ovening held Dalsating Club became tu fait compli, the visit of King Edward to Biarritz in connection with the Literary and

The daily papers nav announce that

The uttendance was large, the programme

perfect order. Man J. W. Kaw say "The with the strong opinion of His Majesty'e oxcelleut and all amngonents were in was undertaken solely in conformity

Hush Song," and with Mr Ayris, "Oh,

essentiał

that we two wore Maying," in. hor usual medical advisere that it was accomplished style and each time for him to leave England owing to the Mr J. H. Kemp sent a coolic to prison recalled, for an entre, Mr Gonzales'

at the Magistracy, this morning for two selections on the violin were exceedingly repeated attacks of influenza whicht. His··

ths without the option of fino, for wolfresolved, and in addition to playing the unlawfully breaking and entering a house."Scene de Ballub" and Ordla's "Serenado," | Majesty suiters from each successive"

Mr Gouzsien had to give two extras. Mr spring. Characteristic American newspapor Ayris sang "I gave you Roses" with good

cont: China saçms to be getting into many and the United States ask Japan to the gate by gently suggesting that Gee

"toto fair" in Manchuria.

effect, and there was four other iteras, Dreaming ""Down where the Cotton two part songs-"Annie Laurie" and

Blossoma grow" and "In the heart of the Mighty Deep," by a double quartette. In "It is to the early inculation of the last-mentioned item Mr Claxton took loyal, honest, and wolf-sacrilicing religious the solo part. The success of the enter spirit that we must look for the successful tainment should encourage the promoters upbringing of coming generations."-The to further efforts. On Monday, April 27, Viceroy of India.

at 9 pm, a debate on the vexed question of Should bachelow be taxed" will be hold in the Y.M.C.A, reous, and ladies are invited to attend; gentlemen are always welcome.

On Good Friday evening at 5.30 the Choir of St. Peter's Seamen's Church, assisted by a number of friends, will give rendering of the musical Cantara "From Olivet to Calvary."

awan what view the Chamber of at the Magistracy, this morning, touching An inquiry was held before Mr Kamp Commerce expressed in regard to the the death of Cheung Kam Tsun who died proposal to increase the taxation on the previous afternoon white ccnfined in shipping. We should suppose, how-causes.

prison for debt. Death was due to natural

ever, that they would regard web a suggestion with very little favour. The policy that has found most acceptance and has met with most success in Hongkong has been to make the bur- den upon trade and shipping na light

SEIZED GUNPOWDER.

Not Smuggled Goods,

(From Our Correspondent.)

CANTON, April 10. 'I wrote sometime back that a quantity

of the Supreme Court will be open from of smokeless gun-powder, weighing 300

During the Easter vacation the offices 10a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. The vacation piculs, was seized by the Chinese authorities April 23. commences on April 17 and constudes on near Pakhui, and overal persons wero On the public holidays the arrested. These persons, of whom a man ofices will be entirely closed.

named Su is the head, were arraigned be- foro the Prefect of Limehow on a charge of,

*

NEW PRIME MINISTER.

DEPARTS FOR LONDON.

(Erslusive Services supplied by Reuter, ria Bomb.)

LONDON, April 10.

two short interviews with His Majesty The Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, hac

the King at Barritz yesterday in connection with the reconstruction of

the Cabinet.

Mr Asquith has started on the return journey to London,

(REUTER'S SERVICE.] FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

International Courtesies.

LONDON, April 9. Fresident Fallieres will be accompani

Order for retra copies of the Curna BAIL should be sent before I am, on the day after publication. After that her the supply is as possible. Sir John Bowring in one of Monday, April 20 (Easter Monday) are toy. In his evidence Su stated that theek on his visit to London by M. Pichon

Friday, April 17. (Good Friday) and smuggling arms and munitions the other limited. Cask 10 eta., Credit 2 d., per his despatches wrote: Believing that be observed as publie holidays, Saturday lasted from a foreign vessel which was whole cabinet, constituting a visit of a quantity of smokeless gunpowder wand M. Clemenceau, practically the Alterationa and addition to Advertisements the satisfactory development of our public holiday throughout the Government still larger quantity of munitions to

the 18th inst., will also be observed as a wracked upon the coast of Aunam. There ruling Power to a foreign country, {Office at Wyndham Street not later than 121 prosperity is mainly due to the eman Departments, except the Police Alagistrates be obtainable from the village. Hogetheruuparalleled. The Paris Coun

an. Nur Advertisemens short be sent to cipation of all shipping and trade from Dapartinent. our Ofis at 8. Queen's Road Contrai before fiscal vexations and exactions, I trust [ p>+

no custom-house machinery will ever be introduced, either for the colfaction

A deertisements and Saiwriptions which are not orderal for a fized period will be continued until rountermauled.

Telegraphic Address Mail, Hongkong. Telephone No. 24.

The China Mail

HONGKONG, BATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908.

THE TYPHOON REFUGE,

TOOTH WASH-Tan be no gainsaying the fact that a lamentable, amount of delay has For beautifying and preserving occurred in taking atops to provide a

the teeth.

new typhoon refuge. That the present refuge is inadequate has been known for years and was brought home to the Colony in a very painhd manner by the, Great Typhoon of 1906. While signs of

WATSON'S

purchased the 300 picula of sninkcless gun- A variety concert will be girm at the order from the neighbouring villagers on Bellevue Hotel on Monday evening at 8.30 account of a man unned Chan A Yea for 9 o'clock. The entertainment is who had been previously informed that benefit for Mr and Mrs Carl Rozello, whose numitions were procurable from the villagers. He was surprised when he was arrested on a charge of smuggling.

of tariff or harbour dues or for any pur-troupe performed on Saturday last at the pose which may check the free logress be a good attendanes

Hotel. As the prices are low there should

and egress of alt shipping to and from the part nor the free transfer of commo- dities from hand to hand." The belief thani Sir John Bowring professed fifty years ago is as strongly held to-day by those who know wherein the real interests of the Colony lie, We hope

that His Excellency the Governor will reconsidor the method of raising the money to meet the expense of providing

the Colony's floating population with adequate refuge from typhoons.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A fleet of pearling luggers is to be

TOOTH PASTE the devastation wrought by that di-worked in Mindanao waters by stain

in collapsible.tubes.

Antiseptic and Deodorant.

WATSON'S

Tai Yeuk Fong

Hair Wash

An Elegant Preparation. Highly Recommeded.

Lindbergh, formerly master of this China Navigation Curapany's steamer Tsingy.

The United Sates Senate has passed

to be paid the Archbishop of Maails, the the house bill appropriating $13,000.19

expenses of this sum to be in full-atisfac- tion of all elaines, we, and oceation of the property of the church in the islands

to January 15, 1906, and for damages thereto by the many prior

is

a great pity that se little interest is taken

The Friend of India" remarks: "It

The Prefect seeina to have every con. Sidence in the evidence of the accused. The case was adjourned to allow of further investigation.

CHARM SELLING.

Business Blocked this Season

·

(From Our Correspondent.)

CANTON, April 10.

cil is coming bodily to inaugurate their Pavilion Exhibition,

TELEGRAPHISTS' STRIKE.

Indian Service Dislocated.

LONDON, April 9,

The bulk of the Indian telegraphists have struck, and the accumulation of monages is enormous; the few operators who remain attend to urgent and press

work.

THE SLEEPING SICKNESS,

LONDON, April 9.

The Governor of Uganda-bas issued

in public questions in Calents, and that so matives who cannot afford to get a decent sufferings of these afflicted with the As a rule during the plague seasons, a warm appeal for funds to alleviate the

few men ake the trouble to inform them-living resort to cheating in rious methods sleeping sickness. It is estimated that solica suficiently to enable the formation and sell fales medicines. During the past there are over 20,000 under treatment, of a sound opinion. If Hongkong were faw days a great many of these persons substituted for Calbatta in that sentence its truth would not be impaired.

Letters Patent have been granted locally to T. O. Kent, Chemist, of London, for an invention for process for treating

wore about the town selling charms which the ignorant mass of people were made to believe were plague preventives. Some of the enlightened class of course did not try

them, but nevertheless a goed profit was made by these charm-solors. Their luck,

sastrous storm were still to be seau in every dinction the public was abstred

tar for the elimination of water and re- however, is not a lasting ono. The Police that no time would be lost in preparing

covery of volatile products therofiom, and Department came to know of it and, as During the recent operations in the to T. Heffernan, of Kensington, for an order has been issued to pince all such per plans for a new shelter. The detailed a single enlisted follower or other ron-prevent hotties from being fra tently pursuing their illegal occupation.

Bazar Valley against the Zakka Khols not invention for improvements in expsules to sons under arrest if they are still found estimate for a breakwater at Mongkok-fighting man was killed or wounded by the resided. tsui, to erclose 166 acres of sheltered enemy. water, lust last been prepared. The

Tho C.PR. liner Einpress China The Government notifies that it is has madu an excellent passage from the Calcutta contemporary, came to life on the A curious freak of nature, reports a now refuge in to cost $1,540,000. To about to resume Lot 398 in Survey District East to Amorica, and has delivered her night of February 39, in Depot Lizes,

No 4, Naw Kowloon West, for public

emago of silk in Now York in 26 days from Karachi, in the shape of a three-legged purposes. The owners are at present Hongkong and 19. from Yokohan. This chicken, one of a batoh of ten. The little unknown.

is rapid going, and a feat the Company thing has a perfectly shaped leg, toes, on March 12 and arrived at Vancouver at protruding at the tail. The little fellow should be proud of. The stemmer kit here talons and all, attached to the hacktone

in New York on April 7.

p.m. on the 29th, the silk being delivered quite lively and soms not a bit in- convenienced by its abnormality. Should it livo, it will be a natural curiosity inzloed.

meet this large expenditure the Govern- ment proposes to impose a special tax on shipping until half the cost of the new sheller and improvements of the Very received. The Chamber of Commerce existing one at Causeway Bay, has been

Fre-

are reminded that rates for the epond Geners and occupiess of tenments

or before April 20. It styone fails to pay quarter of 1905 are payable in advance on

up before this date pieceedings will be kus stated that it is strongly of opinion takon immediately by the Government. quent Orders are received that a less costly scheme should be

Nut Wednesday the architects the

AMERICA AND ANARCHISM

Roosevelt takes Action,

LONDON, April 9. President Roosevelt has sent a special Messge to Congras, asking for legisla tion for the suppression of arsechism.

A CHINESE ASSEMBLY

DEMANDED.

(From Our Correspondent;)

CANTON, April 10,

As the result of the settlement by the Waipu of the Taosu Maru II case the ropresentations from similar associations Self-Government society, in reponse to at Stanglini and olowhere, will west to morry for the purpose of joining other provinces in a memorial to the Throne demending the immediate creation of a national assembly. Shanghai has already

Friday the 17th, and Monday the 20th instant being Public Holidays, the Post Office will be open for one hour only iversal adoption of the motor vehicle forment in the matter conjointly, The A New York paper says That tho un conscited to approach the Peking Govern from Great Britain, Europe, undertakea. Obviously that attitude is criticised the proposed Bill to amend the Lc. 8 till 9am. All the outgoing mails business and pleasure must ultimately proposed memorial will be gut, before the

and America for this Hair entirely justified by the state of the Public Health and Building Ordinanco will bo closed at, 9 a.. The English and work havoc with the Chinese cutlery trade, meeting and something lively is expected

confer with the Colonial Secretary and the

Wash, which has been pop rigid economy and if the scheme which evolve a workable Ordinance so far is the the 18th instatit es, usus). The Post Office follow any contemplatol shelving of the

YE OLDE ENGLISH,

EAST PRAYS RECLAMATION Lavender Water

JOHEME

teclinical parts of the Bill are concerned.

ONLY A FENCE BETWEEN.

Colony's finances. This is a time for Director of Public Works to endeavour to American mails will be closed on Saturday is the astonishing condusion which must at te morrow's meeting.

will be closed at 1 pm. There willbe one hasee in favor of the more modern auxi delivery and a collection of letters each liary of transportation. One of the con stently growing imports into the province of Shantung, China, is scrap iron con siding largely of old horseshoes. grust is the demand for this material

A Northern despatch says fourteen day on Sundays. The Money Order cases of dynamite were seized by the Office will be entirely dosed. Customs on the 17th March at Tientsis on banada Chins Merchants' steamor. It was

The private yacht Nirvana, omed by

So

A stranger addressed the farmer's boy accross the fence:

"Young man, your cor looks kind o yellow"

"Yes, that's the kind we planted.

lar in the East for Many was submitted to the Chamber of Cont Years.

merce ie ausceptible of modification we trust that the Government will make such modification. If not, it must be gone on with. We need the shelter. boon discovered that the consigner is 'n Madame la Comtesse de Beam, arrivod in that recent single shiport of 300 tons The policy of paying for. perinat iurestigations are being instituted nofraco | Settlements. The yacht is built on hand. The knife and tool makers all over the "Don't look as if you would get more Cantonese named Fang, and although port this morning from the Straits was not considered at all extraordinary, woke out of revenue is in Hong of the man has been discovered.

some linne, and is lick in appointments, province ne the metal in making their than half is crop. "

the consequence is that we have to 50 since the year 1439, between the local arrival visits ware paid by Admiral Sir impossible to obtain in any other way, kong held to be almost ancred and

We don't expect to. The landlord This party on board consist of the fair, claiming that it has a pecubar A# Buit, which has been in progress owner and a party of six Shortly after cives under the horsch feet, which it is

taripur due to the constant beating it gets the other half. without many things which are donuthority of Friemar, suburb of Gotha, and Hodworth Lambton and others. The sirable and to wait an ordinately long certain millowners in a neighbouring party will proceed to Canton and later time for those me do get. This condi- village, has been micably settled, aftor will wynge to Japan. It is probable that

00, the form of Government under which we lowed up enormous dus in law coats, was

tion of things is likely to prevail until 78 yos of constant litigation. The the Contesse will have the yacht at original cause of the suit which has oral Yokohals and procced to the continent

live is altand. The greatesli-governing the action of the millernors in raising Colonies have borrowed freely to carry

without authorisation the height of a haru

Handsons Cure makse teadly THE many commutable features of in the River Nesae, in order to increase the superior of all such preparations. Bare, out the public works which their the supply of water to their milla.

harmlise, easy to takaj?

AS PROPUSED TO THE HONGKONG In Elegant Bottles.—A Delight

GOVERNMENT and THE MARINH.

ful Adjunct to the Toilet. LOT-HOLDERS BY IR PAUL UHATER

The Full Details Printed in Pamphlet Form

Doplossy be had at CHINA MAIL" Omor, 8, Quran's Road Central

A. 8. WATSON

LIMITED.

Pelos 50 Cents 'dech.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

via America

you

CHRONIC DIARRHOEA CURED.

physicians claimed that chronic diarrhoes cannot be cured, Don't believe it. "There sto incurable ongsa, but fene so had that they cannot be helped Diarrhoea Romedy, and oven temporary by Chamberlain'a Colis, Cholera and relief mends mach to one to acre afflicted. 10 For sale by all chemists sad storekeepe

Then, after a short time, the man said:

41

Boys there a much difference be twood you and a Fool.

*Nope," replied the boy, only the fence.

GET A BOTTLE TO-DAY: YOLIC, pains in the stomach and disr- rhoea are not only painful, but may indicates seriore disander Chamberlain's relieves promply and cares permanently. Colio. Cholera and Districes Remedy For sale by all chemists and storekeepers,,