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A. S. WATSON
THE HONGKONY DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 1901
The Ceylon census will be taken on March Kamal Ist
* The German mail of the 23rd January. was delivered in London on the 21et inst.
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Mr. Kote Motohiro Shoshishit has been powered to act as Japanese Cursul at Hong
Francisco route came almost to monopolise We give to day what particulars are ob the trade. At that time wood was the tainable of the fearful disaster to the Pacific universal material for ship-building, and Mail Steamship Company's steamer (ity of with the puntically inexhaustible-supply Rio de Janeiro, which left this port on the furnished by the newly opened districts in 22nd ult. and was to have arrived at San the States the Americans found they couldFrancisco on the 19th instant. Instead of CO.,ould the British huilders. Unhampered so doing, she was wrecked in the labour
by tradition the people of the North of the latter place on Friday and ong run-kong. Western States commenced to increase the dred and twenty-two lives have been lost. length of their ships, and yoon found that Details of the actual catastrophie are at while the speed was considerably increased present almost entirely lacking, and we their vessels lost nothing in seaworthiness, can hardly hear much of the circumstances The navigation laws of the States made the of the wreck for some weeks. What we do CHAMPAGNES long journey from New York to Ban Frau know unhappily must come as a terrible
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The increase of pay granted to Lieutenant. General Sir Alfred Gassics will take effect from 12th September last,
The stemmer Algos, of the Paciñe Mail Steam-. ship Company, which can carry 10,000 tons of freight, is about to be purchased by the United
States Government to be used as an army trans port
~Arthur and 3. BM, Young, ---
A Now Jersey man dofeuds the character of the mosquits. He thinks that by the mill character of the disease which it imparts it confers immunity from more serious forms. Needless to say, the mosquito's apologist is not
I stated that Mr. T. Mollie Dimotor of Agriculture, first Director: Gistera
Depatr
Colonel B. Bowring has been ordered to China to proceed Colonel Shone in command of the Real Engineers, the latter having been ap pointed Director-General of Military Works in
P
India, as we have already reported.
London papers received this all have it, that the Orient liner Oplar, chartered by the Go- vernment to convey the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia, le now ordered to be in readiness by 1st March. Great expense in being incurred, and the vessel is to pass perman
ently into the hands of the Royal Family after her Southern trip, y
Some idea of thè valng of land in Colombo may
the Ceylon Government under acquisition gathered from the fact that quite recently
owner of a piece of land, who, considering the amount insidequate, appealed to the Chist Justice, with the result that the tender was considered sufficient.
cisco a coasting, voyage in which no outsider shock to residents in Hongkong, for a very could compete, and thus the New England well known figure in the Colony has been builders had the trade in their hands in removed for ever. Mr. RoUNSEVELLE
A telegram to Headquarters at Manila, dotal both directions, an opportunity of which WILDMAN for four years-has worked in they did not fail to avail themselves, Itour,midst us Consul for the United States Washington, 16th February, notes the pro- seemed under circumstances little better at this port and has been familiar to tis alike motion to the rank of Majer-General in the than ich act of insanity on the part of in his official, literary, and social capacities... Regular Army of Generale Arthur Mao-powers tendered Rs. 10,000 on more to the the British Government of the day to His consular work won the appreciation of select this period of greatest depression, le owen Governinent and his compatriots in when the shipping trade was already well the East, and at the same time he was nigh ruined, for the abolition of the last always courteously ready to impart such larrier to extinction in the entire repent of information as he could to all of other the Navigation Laws. So aseured were,ntionalities who asked for it. His earlier however, the leading spirits of the day of editorial experiences left him with a ready th truth of their fetish, Free Trade, that pen, and his various books have been re- they easily induced a willing Parliament to ceived by the reading public here with as throw open to the world the entire consting much pleasure as in America. With Mrs. and colonial trade of the Empire. The WILDMAN he has been well-known as & social shipping interest not naturally held that entertainer, and even as host and hostess if under the protection of the old laws, they alone they will be sadly missed. The sud. were scarcely able to subsist, under a system. den fate which has befallen them and their Anyone who has been to the MEETINGS which even in the home trade exposed them two children comes as a great blow to their Its untraumelled competition, the entire friends here, and all will join us, we are
"JACQUESSON
FILS
Dry Marquetterio, 1893, Brut Naturel. 1893.
JULES MUMM-DI
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a dúetor.,
The oficial history of the Bouth Africm War in being written by List Col G. F. R. Horderson, who in the Times of the 21st ult Writing to the Time before the Russians saks officers and others who have been engaged had given up the Shanhaikwan railway, Dr. in the osmpaign to lend letters, diaries, sketches, Morrison said-Dar position does not inspire&o, which throw light on any of the operations. contidence. When the Luhan milway is under Without the aid of regimental and private re French protection, and completed in 1906, there cords, says Lient. Col. Henderson, it will be will be continuous railways between Manchuria, slmost impossible to give due prominence to und the Yangtze exclusively under. Russian the work done by different corps, or to make
the history as instructive as it should be,
and French control."
A bulletin at Division Headquarters, Mauils, last week contained a telegram from General
The military and strategic necessity of an
at ASCOT and GOODWOOD will remember trade must pass into foreign lands. That sure, in offering a sincere tribute of sym-Corbin to General MacArthur, informing him of American Pacific cable has recently been pointed
it did not is one of the strongest proofs ofpathy to the families of both, and particu- the indomitable courage which has more larly to those near relatives who are known these WINES as being FAVOURITES with than once, come to the rescue of the nation to residents, of Hongkong, the brothers of when the prospect looked most gloomy. A the Consul and his wife, the latter of the ROYAL and other distinguished Owners, few of the leading shipowners met together two now Acting Consul to this port
to discuss the situation. We must put our shoulders to the wheel, said the chairman,
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and see if we cannot accept the chul and turn out ships to beat those Yankees. Taking thought of the improvements that had been introduced by the Americans, the English builders strove to tackle them on A. S. WATSON & CO., their own lines, and the Chins trade was
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THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
SHANGHAI, 24th February, 7.15 pm.
PROPOSED EXCHANGE OF APPOINTMENTS, Being greatly unpopular at Hsinnfu, Lu Chuan-lin, the reactionary Grad Council-
for, has asked the Emperor's leave to ex
of Yunnan and Eweichsu change posts will, Wei Kiang-tao, Vicero
pravinced
LONDON, 22nd February, 3.45 p.nx.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
ABOUT PEKING. Viscount Cranborne stated the House
of Commons that the British Government has not any information as to the Italian annexation of the Customs compound at Peking. In the question involved in the defence of the Legations no decision d
been reached.
THE WRECK OF THE CITY
OF RIO DE JANEIRO
the departure of the first battalions of the 2tithout by Brigadier-General Greely, chief of the and 27th U. S. Infantry, which have already been United States Signal Service, who, on the os. organised under the New Army Bill. The troops
casion of a mesting of the Manufacturers. Clab
LONDON, 23rd February, 9.20 p.m. sailed for Manita from San Francisce on the of Philadelphia zaid: "The cable experience of the War Department in connection with the transport Sheridan on the 16th February,
relief of the legution at Peking points clearly to TERRIBLE PANIC ON BOARD. Mr. A. H. Pollard called at Hongkong on the tremendous disadvantages under which the
The geamer City of Rio de Janeiro has Saturday on his way from Manila to Sun United States, without its own cable facilities, Francisco, whither he is now proceeding by the would labour in care of an extended war in the heen wrecked in San Francisco Harbour, The weekly prayer meeting in connection Gaelic, which left yesterday. M. Pollard tells Eust. An American frans Pacita cable is re was a terrible panic on the sinking
military and commerciel necessity if our colonial possessions are to be retained, or if American in-ship, terests are to be safeguarded in Asiatic countries. Experts have estimated the cost of the cable for. 7,750 antical miles at $10,000,000, requiring an earning capacity of $925,000 a year?
The German craiser Hertha came into the Harbour on Saturday aftertioon from Kisochan.
A
with the Hongkong Christian Union will be hold as neal this evening ut 5-15 in the City
Hall. The Roy. W. J. Southam-will-lead-the- meeting.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd etosmer ·H. Hị Meier, which arrived here on Saturday morning brought-with-her-to Hongkong, 800 recruits for the German fronclad vision in Far- Eastern waters. Kinoohau is the destination of these recruits.
Mr. Erich Georg says in his weekly share ist, dated Hongkony, 23rd February Chinese New Year Holidays have interfered with the business of the week, and but little has con done in stocks generally, but the tendency is fowards steadier rates.
that the youthful Company has been, having a first-rate sunson in Manils, so muek so that Mr. Pollard is arranging to take the children to the United States themselves. However, before then the Lilliputians are to visit Shang. hai and Japan. They leave Manila at the end of next month, end hope to stop here for a week on their way from the Philippines to Shanghri.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.
122 LIVES LOST. The latest information is that 122 were drowned, 24 being saloon passengers, 10 officers, 56 Chinese sailors, and 4 Asiatic
steerige passengers.
CONSUL AND MRS. WILDMAN DROWNED. Consulneral Wildman, his wife and
re ningng the drowned. 200 MAILBAGS GONE. 200 mailbags Inve been lost, but the two Tokyo bags were saved.
children
HONGKONG, 25th February, 1901
THAT England should continue to hold a practical monopoly of the seaborne com- merce of the world is not to be expected, and probably is not desirable. The four and prepared. His steamers were already land. The precise amount will be fired accord- Times of the 19th inst., though the case is being artistes, and the encomiums they have rechived
the field chosen. The first ships made a good struggle, though beaten in the long Frun; but the experiment was hojeful, and those who were in Chine will remember the excitement on the issue of the annual occia
The Ceylon Legislative Council has under
After a short, but most successful season, the race from Foochow to Loudon. Grander
consideration in Ordinance providing for the Circus management announce in our advertis ships than the Thermopylee, the Leandar,
compulsory segregation and treatment of lepers, ing columns their forewell performances. The the Taiping, and a few others were never
There are a case of the disease in the various public interest, which on the initial appearanca turned out from a launching slip; and it
institutions of the island, and it is the general of the troups appeared unbounded, has never
for
an instant flagged, and the continuous en- became difficult to forsee what might have
opinion among medical men that they are in thuniasm of the crowded audiences who have been te ultimate result; when, ulas or the
creasing. Among the Cingalbose leprosy is alghtly vowed the performancesine boon glory of the tea clipper, the Suez Canal
looked upon as such a blemish in a family marked by a demonstrative appreciation rare like olanrader. The that great difficulty is experienced in ascertain towards entertainments of
cold of the past was opened, and with the introduction of the
Bo had somewhat wack OF ing the exact number of leprous cases existing militated against crowded areas at the rear of
sper steamer, the short-lived splendour of the
It is noted in the Gazette that all persons in the island outside the various deper asylums, the marques, but the stalls and boxes have bean clipper came to an end: The struggle; making, elsime to waste or uncultivated land, and hospitals, but an approximate return has all filled by the European public. end ample however, had lest its marks deep in such as hill sides, land cavered by trees (other been compiled, which gives the aggregate in the evidence thereby obtained, were it needed, to the national character. The British ship than fruit trees) or by brushwood or grass, etc., various provinces is 208.
prove how great a hold the artistes have secured apon public esteem in the Colony. The builder WAB not this time taken aici, will be required, if such cialis are established
programme of last week is to receive an- other complete change, and for the first to the satisfaction of the Land Court, to pay disadvantage. When the Suez Canal was
their appearance. They are aerial trapeze opened the British ship'owner was ready
time the Eldrom Brothers are to make
from the London sud provincial Press gives the is that through wo much self-confidence she built and his shipyards were ready to meet
Laishranes that their performances" are well may so much mismanage what she is justi. the demands of the world; and for many
worth witnessing. Then other new and alto-
LONDON, 23rd February, 9.20 p.m. fled in considering her fair share bat she years he may said to have supplied its mer-
by the Frezagendus, the Jansops, the Ajax martel and other artists, are premised, while muy wake up too late, and fired the most cantile navies. That he richly deserved the military authorities here are despatching to
other as yet naporformed feste in the ring
success not even his greatest chemies, and Foking at an early date four hundred men of
novelties in horsemanship, &c., are to be intro-
THE COST OF THE WAR. profitable portion of what remains gone")
they are many, have attempted to deny; his the Royal Welsh Fusiliers to relieve the understood that the safe beienging to Teodor duced. These innovations are to be given this
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach states that the. beyond recovery. It was only half a cen
tralian contingent, which, has been stationed in the capital since the relief of the Legations by Lieut. Vanghan recently, was found who benefit on Wednesday, and there will be
Carranzas, which was brought from Pagsanjan evening, and continued aightly throughout the
week. The Sisters Frezagonda will take their cost of the South African War to date le tury ago that she was largely dependent on prosperity was the result of no turn of for outsiders for the conveyance of her goods toure's wheel, but was the outcome of his own is now to return home. The relieving and from China; and the manner in which agacity. He foresaw the wants of a new force will be made up of one hundred men opened to contain a pile of the most incriminat-other riding contest on Thursday, full particu she raised herself from the backward post-world, and met them boldly. But what each from B, D, Fand G Companies of the ing documents. Correspondence is said to lire of which will be announced in these columns.eight millions and a half sterling.
the British slupbuilder bas done is open Fusiliers, and will be under the command of have been in the safe, to high izaurgent afficers,
–HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE tion-in-which-she found herself during the
signed by Carrauzne aad-Corman, diveolly | fifties should be a useful object to her into his rivals, and some of them in some Major Everitt. They are to be retained as a
and illegitimate trafic the near future. There are a few still alive respects have advantages he did not possess; part of the pornmnent Legation Guard, and as relating to shipments of goods to the insurgents
Crown Eent for such waste or uncultivated ing to the nature of the land claimed, but in no case will it be less than ten cents per mau,
Acting on instructions from the War Office,
No further action his as yet been taken in the case of D. M. Carmen, tater the Manila
gradually propored for trial. It is learned that Mr. Carman was brought before the Secretary of the Military Governor last Saturday after
and some of his explanations were beard nothing noon, but beyond the fact that he was questioned can be learned. From another source it is
Our contemporary
COUNCIL.
A mocking of the Council will be held to-day,
KLEINKBS,
in Chian who remember that the prineinal America has even finer and rieber deposits preparations for their dep rture are beink thinks that Mr. Carman bas aided by his own Monday, 25th February, at 3 p.in:
of iron, and it is to his credit that already. | rapidly pushed forward, it is expected that the admission in sealing the aveanas of escape before America herself, he is utilising this fact. So. Germany has at the moment a cheaper supply of labour, and has been
mon will leaver for the North in about ten days" time.
against himself.
aster.
THE PILOT'S DEFENCE The pilot blames the Captain for the dis-
The latter perished in the wreck.
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 21st February.
THE OPERATIONS IN BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA
portion of the tea, which in those days. formed the main article of export from China to Europe, was carried in American. clippers; and that we are indeed indebted to the United States for the loan of that utilising it so ably that the largest and day, when Sergeant Vigara, of the Army. Or having suggested that in commemoration of dinance to consolidate and amend the laws of Boere, bave succeeded in breaking through
word. In these day's, too, nearly the whole of the coasting trade of Chim was carried in American and Continental bottoms, and
quickest steamboat at the moment afloat is recently been turned out of a German shipyard. The record for size is, however,
An act of gallantry had vis reward on Satar-
No news has been received: from General French for five days. It is believed that partios
-1.-Fizancial miante. (No.0).
2. Bépart of the Finance Committee. (No. 3.).
OKWERĄ OF THE DAY, 1. First reading of 競
Bill entitled an Or-
2. Third reading of the Bill entitled an Or. lis laes, but that the main body of 4,000 is relating to the punishment of Blogging. dirance to consolidate and amond laws roisting still in front and hard pushed by General
Fronch to trustees
3. Third reading of the Bill entitled an Or-
LONDON, 22nd February.
THE OPERATIONS IN BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA
preservation of flis rights of such persons, is pursuing
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
Some of the Spanish papers in the Philippines dnance Corps, at a parale of the detachment, Washington's birthday on the 22nd inst., the was presented by Liont-Colonel Wheeler, com- Governor General might perform an act of tanding the Corps, with a testimonial en vel. clemency by liberating some of the 3.800 pri- lum of the Royal Humane Society for assistance sonors confined in Manils for complicity in the the most frequent flag to be seen in Chinese only momentary, as ulready the British rerendered by him in the saving of the life of insurrection, General Beli has been interviewed diuance to consolidate and amend the laws re- waters was not the red ensign, but those of ply is rapidly appoaching her launching Sergeant Aldridgs at Capsuiman some time ago, is the probability of the rumour. Hestalating to rating
4. Second reading of the Bill entitled an Or- the northern European states, Norway This is a competition in which, both may Sergeant Vigars is well known in local concert distinctly that, as far as ho know, the United Cinance to read the law of libel and slander.
win, and as it has beoir brought about by circles as a comedian of no mean ability. It States Government had no such intention, and -| 5 Second reading of the Bill entitled an Oy Bremen. The Oldenburg, Hamburg, or trade of our Australian Colonies was largely, fair fight, no Englishman nced repine. It is understood that a similar testimonial is to be that wore this step to be taken he would-be dinance to repel all Ordinances for the 13-
De Wet is close to the Omnge River, hie ia_this colony and to make provision for the objective being Griqualand West. Col. Plumer- if not mainly conducted under the American frue that in other industries Eugland, presented to a non-commissioned officer of the most likely to know of it, as the prisoners re:turalization of persons us British subjects with if not wait lociced as if the meteor flag" of not only comparatively but actually, has Army Pay Corps, Bergrant Barrell, for asisting tarul de como under his charge. Coral Bell
6. Havision of jury list. The invaders everywhere in Cape Colony-
B. F. JOHNSTON, England were about to take its departure been losing ground, but he would be a rash in the some act, and a silver medal to Sorgeant exclaimed that the custom of pardoning pri man who would assert that within a single Morris R. A., who would thus appoar to have enors on the occasion of Washington's birthday
Acting Clerk of Councils, are ratresting northwards Since entering the from the seas, which Bagland had once
N.B.-- A meeting of the Finance Committee Colony De Wet
And 55 ruled without a rival. Mr. MICHIE in his generation the energies of England have so taken the principal part in the saving of the at home only applied to civil criminals and
ile of Sergeant Aldridge.
that therefore it would not be possible for the will be held immediately after the Council
priadoers and many of his mum late Unsorted Government bore to find any procedent for liber recent work The Englishman in China has declined that she cannot in 1901 do as she
General Methuen kan expalled 1,400 Hoors from The minstrel troupe of the US.S. Kentucky ating political prisoners. Felitical prisoner, given a most interesting account of the did in 1870, and make the world ber debtor,
a strong position near Vetpan. British casnsitieg struggle and the manner by which littleIt is well to remember that-it the middle gave an entertainment in the Theatre Royal on said General Bell-are-confined as enemies of
57, including three flera killed The Boora ages England was dependent on Germany Saturday evening before a crowded house. The the onnalitated govermont and not as a panish-
TT. K. K. steamer Nippon Haru, with | suffered severely The Boers have captured by list England's empire of the seas was and the Low Countries for many of the entertainment was free, admittance being by ment for crime. The object of depriving these maj &c., left San Francisco for this port vis regained. The opening of the gold, dige staples which she now supplies to those card. The band of the Kentucky supplied the offenders of their liberty is to prevent their lain, Yokobaras, Inland Sea, Kobo, Naga another train load of food-sina at the Klip
and Shanghai on the 19th instant ings of California bad much to say countries, and in the course of trade all music, and gave splendid selections at intervals committing acte naainst or inimical to the go-
throughout the evening. The minstrel por ernment, therefore to return to liberty any from San Francisco to the 1st instant, vis The P. M. steamer Chira, with mails, "&c... to this temporary supercession of British
staples must find their level. If agery formance was well rendered and sustained, and snel enemies of the state in order to celebrate Honolula, has arrived at Yokohams, and lift shipping. A vessel carried out to the new El Dorado a number of emigrants, or per ountry could supply equally well the staples in view of the fact that the performers are not the first President's birthday roull be the for this port on the 24th inst. Vir Filand So chancé a cargo of stores for the wipers; of its neighbour, there would, it is always accustomed to facing such a great addiernes, ar, keight of folly. The custom only prevail in Kobe, Nagasali and Shanghai. finding on her arrival at San Francised no well to remember, be no occasion for trade; indeed, to appearing in publie at all, the eater. America in the era of murderers other return freight available, she stretched across and the entire world would become stagnant. tainment on Saturday veuing reflected great criminals. It is mnderstood, rote that some the Pacific to China, and was at once laid This is the great mistake of the Protec- credit upon them on the berth to carry teas to Europe, at tionists, who would strike away the very the coloured
dusky that time entirely dependent on China for foundations of trade in their anxiety to prop its supplies. She was easily able to take it up. England, we are convinced, would in lower freights than the ship which had made the long ruu lose far more than she gained her toilsome journey out by the Care, until were she to become the Universal Pro-able reception, by degrees these ships built for the San vider" of all her needs.
cor
dress and co burning and
round boxing
contestants boxed atöl
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The Austrian Lloyd's stomer Moravia left Kobe for this port on the 22nd instant
The steamer Kumeong, from Caleatts, left trotire featus was prisoners are to be liberate but not for this singapore for this port on the 2nd instant,
easts of the resson. The action of Government in at 4 p.m.
coniz, be set mendations of the Federal
d into their granting thair release is best pon the rocom- The N. Y. K. boamer Sonals Maru (Buze
ty, having brst pean Line) left Bingapors for this port on the A three and It's judgment and dise, fou to the 23rd inst, and in expected to arrive here on the
wheedat proj cially (argur merits of the case. The Unitata govrza. * 1 C. P. E steamer Empress of India lett when the meat wieber to showúile vnf confidence in Yokohama on Friday afternoon, And it for
the new political party.
Victoria and Vancouver,
river.
Louvor, 22nd February
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