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INTIMATIONS.

BROWN, JONES & CO. MONUMENTAL SCULPTORS.

AKEBICAN MARBLE.

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"Sanitary: Board, being

* Building Ordinance

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Med his west on the Poning Mundel mission, owing to his time being ful by his dution on the Legislative Council

Mrs Annio Bent of the Theosophical Bocisty, who has just reached Australia" on lecturing tour, intends returning to E, it is reported, vis Hongkong and the Canadisa Overland Beute.

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will leave here in January for South Afrim.

The Edgar, cruiser, was paid off at Devonport from the maneuvres on the 25th ult. She will be commissioned shortly to relieve the Royal Arthur, Bagship on the Australian atation.

Latest advices from Manila state that the

haU.8.8. Pennsylvania will not be sent upon her regular trip among the Southern islands this week, as she has been requisitioned to go to China. For what purpose remains a Govern

by the Public Works Ee considering that the build lapsed in Hollywood Road bað

by the reported on before they Sanitary Officers, whether to the Benitary Board or P. W. D. we know not, as being dangerous structures, the reply of the secretary practically places a prevoza on indifference in its officers. Not only A. S. WATSON & CO., Dr. HANIGAN ignored but officers. "of the Sanitary Department are instructed

The District Magistrate of Lower Ferak to ignore dangerous walls and to mind their caused two rhinoceroses to be captured in own business. It infers the principle also district and shipped to Singapore at the requent that any ratepayer wishing to draw the of the authorities there. The animals are said attention of the exact Government depart-to be full grown, and to be splendid specimens. ment responsible for a dangerous building

In consequence of the large number of officers or a public nuisance must be persuaded to

on board the N. D. L. 8. Sachsen, which arrived purchase a library of local ordinances, study at Bhanghai from here on the 21st inst, the the same, and if necessary consult his vimal proceeded to Taku instead of to Japan se | legal adviser in fixing the question of exact | usual. Ter Care responsibility. The departmental system I don

The Anal Kat of the Indian Famine Relief | is delightful in its way, providing each and

every department is competent in equipment Fund in the Straite and Malaya, shows a total and numbers to do its work unaided. But ollection amounting to about $73,064. The troops now doing service in China to the Singapore subscriptions reached, 858,119. Re mitted to India, the total amint ropriimuted, 108,582 Rupees,

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Chungking Tantaiship. help in such a matter as the one before us, is cutting it very fine indeed.. At home in a similar case such a course of inaction might |

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A telegram received in Singapore on the 17th Lost, states that the chief mate of the Lady Mitchell, Mr. E. B. Foulkes, died at Kinng onth previous day of fover. The captain and fifteen others of the crew wars also ill with fever.

ment secret.

The Rose, a steamer that used to ply on the Singapore-Penang run, has been sold to Manila owners, who intend to employ her in the Philip pine costing trade, under the American fag.

The authorities at Meails have received

communication from Washington to know the number of transports available to return the

Philippine Islands.

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THE CRISIS IN CH

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[FROM OUL CONBESPONDERM

SHANGHAI, 27th September, 852 pm.

EXPECTED RUSSIAN SEIZURE OF NORTHERN RAILWAY. The Chinese expect that after the ihana and Russians have captured the Russians will proceed to Shas intending to secure the whole of the No Railway, ie, from Taku to Shanhaikuan, which is pledged to British bondhokiers. CHINESE TAKE ACTION AGAINST

BOXERS,

General Mei Kungri, under ordata from Governor Yuan Shikni, has orpelled the Boxers from Shantung, and is now follow- ["no" ing them into Chihli

WARLIKE ACTIVITY OF THE CHINESE.

The Boer prisoner who attempted to escape

Munitions of war are still being shipped in Colombo Harbour from the transport Bura rian by slipping into the water over the stern. has been sentenced to twelve months' imprison-northward by the Chiness from the Arsenal

at Shanghai.

mont.

The 4, Strombus, with a gross tonnage of 6,030 toas, has beaten the record as a margo stester, says the 8. F. Prims. She ought here from Japan nearly 8,000 tons of coals, the biggest cargo over carried here in a single ship's bettor.

.

Travellers from Manila to Japaŭ will be

The deceased had only been engaged on the interested in the fact that a 200 per cent, duty nang paper, and his wife was expected from and a five cent, cigar in Manils will cost there Lady Mitchell for a few months, says the Peon cigara and tobacco is how in force in Japan,

joining her husband at Singapore.

rope by the next mail, with the intention of 40 cents, states the Manila Times.

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contemplating a visit to Japan should prepare accordingly.

nus to the

of police to say gİYM Stanley will be called upon to it'

addition she has been fitted depree el comfort that

LONDON, 26th September, 8.20 p.m. NO ULTIMATUM TO CHINA. -A tions, and thus sumars Ita permu

claim of being a The Governor's The Press Association is authorised torma Stanley la painted white, deny the Shanghai report that Colmit vòn | and presente a very Waldersse intends to present an ultimatum pearance : thờ to the Chinese Government.

'THE WAR IN BOUTH AFRICA.

and pale masta kayu just a nice harmoniser well with the liner har trial trip on Wednesday the ath interest among the nautical spectat: Buildera may righ claim the rowX dus to their labours., Gache wers represented by the Acting

Amber Government

function:

warning, then the P.W.D. were guilty of a grave neglect of duty. The President of the Sanitary Board, who is the head of the P.W.D., may-consider it a proper and fit thing as an official to evade Dr. HABTIGAN's point, but the public think otherwise. The col. one of them, named Chan A Ko, semmoned three | Commodore F. Powell, who has been given -CAPTURES OF GUNS AND ROLLING tors, Messrs. Carmichael, and Barlow, were pre-

(apse of buildings in Hongkong is becoming * frequent that the cry goes up as to how long it is to continue unchecked and uncon. troller. Fortunately over and above the palatial heights of the P.W.D., rests the shadow of H.E. the GOTERFOR, who may consider that public interests are best served inby having the question of dangerous build ings promptly and effectively dealt with.

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The ignoring of serious reports made by any officials is not a procedure likely to find approval anywhere. The explanation of the President at the Sanitary Board to be given at the next meeting will therefore be awaited

with interest.

The concert at the Volunteer Headquarters on Wednesday night in aid of the Ladies' [29 Military Hospital Fund was most successfuİ. Over $40 was taken at the gates. There is the money obtained by the sale of tickets to add to this.

At 39, Babbling Well Road, Shanghai, on the 22nd September, 1900, the wife of CHAELES WADEMETKE, of a son,

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 9, PRATA CENTRAL.

There was a row among the chair coolies at the Peak ou Wednesday morning, and sa the result

The Nerd and Military Record mys;—-

for assault. Ho aid he met the defendants the good service pension vacant by the !promo. and two others on the new road at the Peak. Hetion of Capt. Craigie to tag rank, is in com seked one of them for $5 upon which they all mand of the naval establishment at Hongkong, set upon him and beat him-The story told by and is recognised throughout the service an an the other sido was that the compliant was the offer of great merit. aggressor, he and four other chasing the de fondants with bamboo poles.The defendants were bound over to keep the peace for six months.

Probably never since its establishment, says

the N.-C. Daily News, has the Shanghai General Hospital held so many patients as now. On Thursday night (the 20th inst.) 158 beds were occupied, many by men froin the foreign fleet, and on that day alone five English bluojackets were admitted. The staff are sorely put to it to find accommodation, and in not a few cases they have given up their quarters. There are already 15 French soldiers in hospital, and more áre expected. It will be a serious matter if patiente continue to come in such numbers, and

the strain on the staff even now is very great.

On the 8th inst. a memorial and thanksgiving service was held at the Feitany Roman Catholic Cathedral Peking, the P. and T. Times records, It was a “memorial" for those who perished during the siege, and thanksgiving" for those whose lives are preserved. There was an or-

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The American authorities have commended the construction of a dry dock system in the Philippines at Sabig Bay, near Manila. Ex. cavations have already been made for four docks, the largest being 600 feet long and 80 feet wido;.'

the smaller docks are about 250 feet long and 30 feet wide.

Wo(Ceylon Times) certainly did not believo for a moment that it was true that Government had actually sanctioned an outlay of R5,000 on the purchase of a small plant for making ice for sale to the Bloor prisoners. It appears, how. ever, that it was true, While they are about it, Government might just as well erect a good refreshment bar within the Camp. It would no doubt, pay well, if wall fitted up and made attractive.

The result of the Marine Court of Enquiry into the loss of the American steamer Triumph, which was wrecked on the Ist ult., while pro- ceeding from Cebu and passing through the

LONDON, 26th September, 820 p.m.

Mr. Macdou

Bent and STOCK.

sentative of this pay designers of the Stanley, Messrs. General Hamilton found fourteen glina at Barlow, are to be heartily cong r Crocodile River mostly destroyed,” General on having produced such a handsome spec Pole-Carew has captured an enormous of naval architecture, amidst the haramtag

ditions that surroună industrial ent amount of rolling stock.

Hongkong-especially in the matte The vessel is built of teak and fastened. out with Munts matal fastenings, dimensions

GENERAL NEWS.

LONDON, 26th September, 8.20 p.m.

MR. GOSCHEN'S RETIREMENT. Mr. Goschen retires from Parliament and relinquishes his post as First Lord of the Admiralty.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 24th September

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of scantling considerably in requirements of Lords or Trade. The general arrangem

is as follows teak deck house forward of the engine and boiler compartment,

a commodiona Baloon with novommodation for seating ten persons at dining table Interior of the decklonse is of Foliaked task and nicely upholstered in lonther. Thors are two private cabins opening on saloon, which are Stted with folding wash stande, wardrobes, drawers, etc. The masin deokhouse also contains a commodious bedliroo THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR

and panty. Accommodation for the captain General Fola Carew has occupied Roomatlis provided for in s took deak house aft of the poort and General Paget has captured a Boer engine-room compartment. A covered com. panion aft of the captain's room loads to the camp near Elands River.

quarters of the crew, where bunks are fitted op for twelve hands. Forward of the saloon on the main deck a sorered companion

Mr. Steyn sad Commandant Viljoon are following the Salate railway northward.

Mr. Hazeland had another member of the gang of snatchers before him yesterday. This was a youth named Tung Chau. It appears that on Wednesday night a boy was sent from a Japanese eating-house to a shop in Queen's LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC. Rond to change a sovereign. A five-yen note Phanage attached to this Cathedral with 400 in- Balebao Straits, has been formally announced st |

was handed to him, and he hold it in his hand mates (Chinese); when the siege commenced 200 | Manila. The Court found that the loss wor indored to tie Portuguese and kave been sent to troop dook, wliers there is ampla while waiting for the other change. The de- fendant came behind him, snatched the note from him and ran away. He was followed down Victoria Street on to the Prays, where he was caught. The note, however, was not found in his possession, and it is supposed that

HONGKONG, September 28th, 1900

THE ways of officialdom in Hongkong are devious and past finding out. They have often formed a subject for serious medita Lion, but having generally no relation to enuso or effect they go by unsolved. That august and responsible body, the Sunitary. Board is generally, of the Government institutions, the most amenable to reason, but its capacity in this respect is of course regulated by the size of the unofficial mem- bership present at its meetings. Tester day's meeting was a good example. Dr.

children (Christina) were brought in for protec tion, so that all through the long siege the Ro- manists had 600 children alons to protect and care for. The small grard of French and Italian blue-jackets, who so nobly defended the place for, upwards of 90 days, on one seccasion during- the age rushed out of their strong hold, attack

he handed it to an accomplice while running.ed the Chinese troops and captured a small can- He was sentenced to a month's hard labour, the

non which they were afforwards able to turn on ast fortnight of the term to be apent in solitary

the tesiogers.

confinement.

Mr. Hazeland held an enquiry at the Magis- tray yesterday afternoon into the circumstances aonnected with the death of Tsoi Fak, who was

no way sine to the negligence of any one on board. This decision was "confirmed by the presiding officer. The Triumph belonged to Mossre. Smith, Bell and Co.'s feet and was formerly under the German flag.

for

will

Naw

Three thousand Boere in all hive surren- Lourenço Marques, where they are under guard the accommodation of fifty

RUSSIA AND THE CHINA CRISIS prove useful should An Imperial decree states that the remaining the rapid transport of Russian troops at Peking will be withdrawn Territory. On the bridge-le gradually as local conditions permit.

gar and other alimnots for tha retion of the vessel are fifted. The engine are compound surface condensing of the inverted

CANTON

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

* HARTIGAN, whose questions are always to killed by falling from the third foor verandah Powell, who is to zanist Cal, Grierson, is 44, Manila the Captain discovered typhoon weather Christians and one chapel being looted The

the stearing

type, designed to indicate 825 horas power the boiler te mutabubelar with two farmac

Board of trade

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The U. S. Transport Garonne arrived st Munile on the 7th inst, after a delightful pass- age: across the Pacific, with commissioned officers, and the 720, enlisted mon, comprising two squadrons of the 1st Cavalry. Three days

Canton, 20th September Col. J. M. Grierson and Lieut. Col. C. H. later the transport Pukling reached Manila

FRESH RIOTS ON THE ATH INST. Powell, the two British officers appointed to the Bay. She left Seattle on Aug. 11th calling at.

Disturbances broke out in the village of part of the main stuff of Count von Walderces, are almost of the at Kobe on Sept. 3rd. The Pakling experienced Shek Leong, 40 miles east of Canton, on the the necessary gear for lifting buoys, heavy same age. Col. Grierson is 42, and Lisut-Col a very pleasant vayage and upon approaching. 24th inst at 3 p.m., 14 honses of the native rings, eto, malo

Both have seen active service, and Col Grior and kept on the outside. The vessel brought mob ziade a rush into the Roman Catholit on is eminently fitted to form part of an in. 834 quimals all told, the largest number ever chapel and thence into the residence of a prie ternational staff as be is a qualified inter shipped to Manila upon one ship. 116 soldiers who had a narrow escape of being shot, and and proter in French, German, and Russian, is of the first Cavalry, for whom the animale are burnt it down to the ground. The refugees first experience of warfare was of the battles of destined, accompanied the shipment. The

men, women, and children, to the number Kassin and Tel-eb-Kebir. In 1885 he served stock includes the animals for two pack-traías, 32, came to Canton and have been with the expeditionary force to the Soudan. Hin The Pakling established a record, especially dated and led by the Freuck Missi most recent appointment was A.A.G. on Lord considering the large number of stock aboard. refugees were expected the next day. They trial Roberts staff in South Africa. Ident. Col. Only one mule and four horses were lost on the had lost everything and had escaped only with Powell, who is a qualified interpreter in Rus-voyage, one of the latter dying at Cavite, upon

what they had on their becks The work of siau, went through the campaign on the North arrival.

of destruction was still going on when the the New Wost Froution of India.

Chinese officials received orders to send troops to the scene of disturbance.

GOOD FRENCH PATROL WORK.

It is said that a steamer, the Zouglong, ply

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other day, the gentlast

there, this

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of the house No. 226, Hollysoad Road, on the the point and for the public welfare, asked

house being raided by the Police for gamblera a question, which to a Board with anything

on the night of the 18th inst. Dr. Thomson, less adamant than a Colonial official con-

who examined the body the day after the occur science, would be fraught with grave import-rence, detailed the injuries the man had received ance. His question referred to the latest col- and said that in his opinion the cause of death lapse of houses, hisobject being to find if any, was shock due to the fracture of the skull one was officially responsible. The answer resulting from a fall-Chinese constable 204 was of that evasive type which any conscien- said that he and another constable were stand tious officer with the interests of his Gov. ing back against the wall of the third storey ernment at heart is schooled to give. Prac- verandah at 224, Hollywood Rend, when 226 was raided. Three endeavoured to escape by getting tically Dr HARTIGAN was snubbed for his from one verandah to the other, and the deceased

Mr. and Mrs. John Macleod bed a very ex- pains, not that the genial doctor is likely to missed his hold and fell into the street. Tho Captains Paymond and Coblem, with the new be effected by that, because any gentleman two succeeded in getting into the verandah of launches Ho Lee and Wang Lee, arrived in citing experience on Saturday week in Maxilo. with an epidermis of ordinary thickness 424 and were arrested Chief Detective In Manila last. Theday work from Hongkong They were driving along the Galle San Rafael could not long remain unless as a silent spector Hanson said he saw the deceased from after a somewhat fiue passage across, accom on there way home early in the evening when they ing between Hongkong and Lak Low, was frod member on that Board, But the snubbing the verandah, the man alighting about eight panied by strong zouth waterly winds, and were brought up by a live electric wire which at when she passed the disturbed district, ons -we trust the doctor will pardon the phrase fest from him. He instructed the whole party occasional equil. They are the usual type of had become entaneled in one of the wheels of the man on board being wounded. On her way

of Chinese constables es to their different 35 fest launches, and have been purchased by carriage. Mrs. Macleod was carried through the met the guiboat Avalanche whole doctor you did not end there. Dr. HARTIGAN, in re- sponse to his question when first handed duties in connection with the oxocation of the Government for the Quartermaster's Da-the inad to a house on the street, and then Mr, had attended to the wounded nian, The Malay, el the warrant, and told constable No. 204 partment. Another of those small craft named Macleod and the coachman turned their attention Avalanche, which is oruising about, with an come from? in, received a written reply from the secretary and also constable No. 388 to go on the the Keng On left Hongkong on the 15th inet to saving the horse. But the harness was occasional stop at snober, when she proceeded care of the Sanitary Board to the effect that third floor verandah of No. 224, Hollywood bound for Manila in charge of Capt. Murphy, so full of lightning that they could not unhitch to Lak Low found the place was a quiet as brevity of time before the meeting prevented Road. He instructed them to stand back and It is understood she is destined for George it, and all the time the animal was dancing and possible. It appears that the gunboat has been its being discussed at yesterday's assembly, not on any account to interfere with a man who Armstrong and Co. of Manila. The Wang Le trying to rid himself of the peculiar sensation: doing a great deal of good by her presence in the but it would be dealt with on October 11th. was making his way from one house to another and the Hoi Les made the fast time of a days Eventually the traces were cut with a boly, and disturbed locality and by an arrangement made Na The latter part of the letter is worthy of until he had reached the verandah where they and 10 hours. Capt. Raymond is well known the horse freed, fortunately without soy injury. by the French Consal with the Viceroy with a inst, and Mr. Macleod was engaged with his view to co-operating with the Chirices officials Shanghal, quotation. It is thus The President were standing, when they should arrest him in Manila for his successful vorages between While

“keng on also directe me to say that he will be glad Constable No. 204 arrested two of the gamblers Hongkong and this port with Q. M. Dopt own horses public quiler with a lady, occupant to suppress the disturbance, she will not leave

ft Roba via Moji for this part on the if you will omit the words or any other this way and No. 388 arrested one verdict launches, says the Manila Tince, and Copt came along and ran into the same wire. The the district until soms few heads of the leaders

shar, And I expected to arrive-tiere of accidental death was returned. His Worship Cobban is one of the old time Clans coast skip coachman and horse were fastantly killed. of the riot are of and other exemplary punisht

on the added that he did not consider any one to blame pers who for s long period was master of the though the lady occupant managed to escape peut enforced With the reference to the 2001 conclusion I should like to point for the socident. On the contrary, so far as he has ship Emeralda, operated by Warner, without arm. Mr. and Mrs. Manood notified false edict, which led to disturbances, out that the stability of structures is could see the greatest care was takes to prevent

Barnes & Co. of Manila, and Sheran, Tomes & the patrols of what had happened, and further sa far se Ewatow, the Acting Viceroy is going mail, loft Sauron Hesterday morning, at Co. of Hongkong... "a matter which does not concern the, na nocident of this sort.

trade on that street was stopped for the night, to issus a proclamation contradicting

tment" from your question.

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