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THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S TEA PARTIES.

Writing on the 25th ult. the Peking corres+ pondent of the N-C. Daily News BBYS :-**

To-day there is the third of the series of entertainments or social interchanges between the Indies of the Legations in Peking and the Indies of the Palace. The rat was the function at the palace given by invitation of the Express Dowager. About forty ladies were

CURRENCY QUESTIONS.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH 1903

A correspondent of the Singapore Free Press writes The first result of the agits- tion for currency reform is unfortunate, the Colony being flooded with Mexican dollars, & large proportion of which sie unterfeit or at any rate not up to the mark. In view of the demonetisation of the Mexican ecin in the

MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA.

·LECTURE AT SHANGHAI.

wires underground. The electricity when con- Aned in this way gets choked and hinders the transmission of speeok.

Mr. Alfred Hogg, M.A., of the China InlandIt is different with telegraph wires, which, KODAKS,

Missiou, who for some ter months has been owing to the recent substitution of paper, for associated with the Liverpool School of Tro-gutta percha insulation, we are able to carry for pical Medicine, on arriving at Shanghai from long distances underground. Ta submarine home a week age, gave a public lecture on the telephony it is not possible to uss the paper subject of "Malaria and Mosquitoes."

'insulator, and gutta-percba renders speech

much mare difficult.

^The authorities at St. Martin's-lo-Grand hope

invited and on this was the socond or third time Philippines from 1st January, 1904, there will one of the most important diseases, which alot bla shortly to set up communication with':

most of the ladies had seen Her Majesty the greetings wore quite cordial Mrs. Couger and Mre. Uchida bad long and interesting conversations will the Empresa Dosager and the other ladies mingled together in most pleasant relations. They were greatly assisted by Miss Kuang who speaks German and Euglieb, as well as her native tongne, and is a most, accomplished lady. While refreshments were being served in the dining ball one of the ladies observed a

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beautiful yellow bowl from which the Fmpress

Dowager was taking fruit. She desired ou

doubtless bo further large importations from that quarter, Would it not be wise, and facilitate a change of currency here, to legis late immediately for the demonetisation of the Mexican dollar after acertain date, and prohibit further importations of the coma after some earlier deto?!?

Another correspondent, Mr. T. W. Elve, to the same paper remarks that as there seems little or no doubt that the dollar will be fired"

shortly, the main question which is exercising

to

Dr. Hogg began by describing. malaria as

the human race, especially in warm climates. Malarial fever, or ague, was produced by certain all the important provincial towns in France. minale parasites which live in the corpuscles of Already London has spoken to Marseilles, a the blood. These parasites, it had now been ne. distance of 650 miles, and a certained beyond doubt or question, were intra- London and Romo is a possibility of the Lear duced into the huwan system solely through the future, In the United States the longest agency of mesquitoes. The parasites were extra-telephonic communication is between New York ordinarily minute, so small indeed that it and Chicago, which are 350 miles apart.

́had been computed that the presence in the body of at least 250,000,000 was necessary to bring on an attack of malaria. After variable number of attacks, the parasites might

largely decrease in number until at last they

inlk between

It has been decided to adopt the Marconi system in order to help forward the scheme of through telegraphic communication from the Cape to Cairo. Definite plans are to be imme-

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like it and requested one of the ladies acting as the minds of thinking people is the determina patient free from fever until his system again all extension from the south.

interpreter to ask the bowl from the Empress Downger as a prescat. As it had been arranged by direct request of the foreign ladies that no presents were to le given or received, the inter. pretresa ualurally thought the request most extraordinary and declined to mention the subject to the Empress. But the legation Indy was not be headed off that way, so the services of the English-speaking Chinese lady were secured and the request was present d. The Empress Dowager was somewhat sur prised and remarked that she was not aware that presents were wanted but if the lady desired this bowl she could have it. So the Empress Dowager sent out and had two bowls of the same quality brought and presentest to the lady. Observers were impressed at this

tion of the value, which seems to confine itself between 18 and 2/-. The basis of 1/2, er 12 dollars (or other named coin) to the sovereign (he says) has many reasons in its favour as against the basis of 2/- or 10 to the sovereign. 1 the first place, it must be apparent to all that it has very many advantages in the way of divisibility and any one who has wide even the most rudimentary study of duodecimals" will perceive this at a glance, The number 10 is only divisible by two units 2 and 5, while 12. is divisible by no less than fanr, 2, 3, 4 and 6. Then again were it fixed at 1,8, there would be exactly twenty pennies to the dollar and our subsidiary coinage would be much simplified: 50 cents would be the equivalent of 10 pennies which very nearly

Wires have been erected as far as Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, a point considerably over The SadaneBO 3,000 miles ficm Cape Town, Government has recently re-establisber.com- munication with Renk, and it is expected that the wires to Fashoda will shortly be open, and these will then supply another important link in the scheme. The country north of Lake Tanganyika presents some serious engineering difficulties, but it is hoped to establish throngh communication by utilising wireless telegrapby as much as possible.

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vacated the system altogether, leaving the

became fit for the reception of the infecting germs, which were then free to return and reproduce once more the whole mischievous series of phenomena. Such relapses might occur over and over again, oven many years after the patient had left the malarious climate or locality in which he originally contracted the infection. Between these relapses the parasites might continue to reaide in his system in com- paratively small numbers, but no return of the fever was to be feared until whole hosts of them again assembled na the result of a fresh infection. As to the manner of fatection, the lecturer minutely described how the parasites were first sucked into the mosquito's stomach, whence they burrowed their way through the body tissues of the insect, in which they lived until they

attained the parasitos deposited their progeny, which absequently found they way into the salivary or poison glands of the mosquito, whence they were ejected through the proboscis of the insect into the blood of some other animal bitten itching caused by a mosquito-bite, This sensa tion was due to the deposit of a drop of irritatible rates at present are 2, 3d. per word tong alations, and the safeguarding of the

The rapid progress already made is to some extent due to the favourable attitude of the natives along the route. There have been practically no instances of wire cutting and the subjection of the dervishes has made it possible

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PUBLIC COMPANIES expenditure was increasing beyond endurance.

strange behaviour. The Chinese are wonder approaches the franc, and when all is said and reached maturity. This stage having been for the crerpment to extend the wire from the? He urged an enquiry by competent authority, \HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF

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for instance, the Council of Defence.

Lord &tanley said that Lord Roberts who in- troduced the Army Corps into India, told him today that he fully approved of Mr. Brodrick's plan. Lord Stanly aid he believed the new

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log if that is the custom in foreign society. done this is the chief basis for monetary calculu-

A return invitation wee given by Mrs. tion on the Continent of Europe." Conger and was aceopted by the Imperial

One instance only of its world-wide adapta. Princesses who went to the American Legation.bility need be cited and that is that the new To-day at the home of the Imperial Princesa, tariff of the E. E. A. & C. Telegraph Com- the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager, pany has been compiled in france and centimes. by the mosquito. Almost everybody know the few years it is confidently expected that all the system would enable the authorities to provide HE SIXTEENTH

the foreign ladies are again entertained.

There are other indications that the ladies of high rank in Feking are most pleased to hold

these social relations with the foreign lodies. They accept invitations not only to the legations at to the homes of missionaries and seem do lighted at this introduction to what is more or legg a new life to them..

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CHANG CHIH-TUNG. Chang Chih-tong, Acting Viceroy of this Liangkiang Provinces and substantial Viceroy of the Hukwang Provinces, etc., has me

morialised the Throne us follows.com

Added to which the currency of Java and the whole of the Dutch ladies is on the basis of twelve guilders to the British sovereign and our fal ing into line with them would, in the opinion of the writer, be a great incentive to the Interinsular commerce. The actual valus of silver again points very much more to 1/8 than 2/- and there is no necessity of bringing. up here the advisability of fixing the now currency emparatively close to the present market value of this commodity.

There are uniloubtedly advantages on the sise of the dollar at 2/- among which may be mentioned the adoption of the decimal system, but Great Britain finds that her present betero- genoous system of coinage answers admirably all purposes, and therefore why should we fly to this fad of fevered continental brains, believe it to be a fact that the countries which have embraced this system do not find it work overwell in practica.

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ing fluid injected by the mosquito into the bite he had made, which drop of duid contained a large number of the young of the malarial parasite, which in this way were enabled to set up infection. That this was the way in which the mischief was done had been proved over and over agaia by experiments in Italy and India. The lecturer then went on to

describe a few of the varieties of the mosquito

There factors, together with the persistent efforts of the Transcontinental Company, will be responsible for an earlier completion than was originally anticipated, and within the next

links in the great chain will be supplied. The Heuk, while the tates to Northern Rhodesia bare this year been reduced to 2s. 11d. These figures will give some idea of what the cost may be when the scheme of through communi- cation is realised.- Daily Mail.

THE BRITISH ARMY SCHEME.

THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT. Telegrains in the Rangoon papers amplify the information already given in Reuter's messsgea un follows:--

and was even kind enough to show some highly magnified pictures of the insect and the parasite to which it gives hospitality. He then impress ed at length upon the audionee the obvious fact

London, 23rd February. that the best way to prevent infection, was to There has been a vigorous attack in the Honse destroy the only channel of communication to of Commons on Mr. Brodrick's army soheme the human victim, which was most conveniently directed by Unionist members. Mr. Bockett to be effected by the destruction of the mus moved an amendment to the Address regretting quito's breeding places, in the neighbourhood that the organisation of the Army was unsalted of human habitations. Kerosene oil might to the needs of the Empire, and that no propor- be usefully employed in this operation, ustionate gain in strength or efficiency had it had the effect of killing the larve of the resulted from the recant increases in expendi. He said the Army Corps system mosquito, and it should be freely used by tare. sprinkling it over stagnant ponds and places blocked the way to rational reform and must be where the mosquito is known to breed.

swept away. He declared that the Army is packed with expensive trash.

Major Seeley said that the scheme if persisted in would entail a national disaster. He urged that greater reliance be placed on the citizen arms. He ismented the decrease in Volunteers owing to ausympathetic treatment, Like Mr. Beckett be appealed to the House to forget party for the moment and to contemplate this as a national question.

All pools suitable for breeding the anopheles mosquito should be altered, either drained, filled up, or periodically cleaned and treated with a larvicide, such as kerosene oil, wells or tanks covered in, or tozshed up with a non-poisonous

Individuals aromatis oil.

can be largely protected by a scrupulous use of mosquito-nets, mosquito-houses, or mosquito-proof houses. Funkahs and musquito-traps are useful. In

Sir Charles Dilke condemned spending more fected individuals should be carefully isolated under curtains. Quinine is a preventive in on the Army than on the Navy, which should be daily doses of sufficient strength, as well as the first national consideration. ourative. The treatment of the zatives of a Mr. Brodrick replied that the object of the country by quinine on an extensive scale will Army Corps system was to establish a standard do much towards keeping it down. As regards by which the War Office could work if it were the treatment of the individual patient, that ever again necessary to send a vast force abroad, would require a lecture to itself, but the facts The alternative of the existing scheme was not given will supply general indications which Volunteers. It was preposterons to imagine

Es depending on a citizen army. may enable one to remain free from malaria.

Major Soley interrupling stigmatised the reference to Volunteers as a gross perversion of what he said.

ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- for the defence of India, the protection of coal. | HOLDERS in the above Company will be hold Connaught Road, at Noox, TO-MORROW THURSDAY), the 12th MARCH, for the at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 2,

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London, 25th February. Mr. Beckett's amendment has been rejestad,

from voting. Twenty Ministerialists voted by 261 to 145 votes. The Nationalists abstained

with the minority.

country against invasion.

Mr. Balfour in the Debate on the Army sail the Navy stood, first, and we must mout its needs; but it did not follow that we must spend more on the Navy than on the Army. The esential difference between the Government and its opponents was whether three Army Corps were required for the work abroad No war could be brought to an end by a fleet alone or by a citizen army and it wonki be folly to deprive ourselves of the means of offence. A war with Russia was in the last degree improbable, but the frontier of India was only a part of the Empire, militarily adjacent to a first-class military Power, and it must be regarded on the key to our military position. It was not the problem of home defence which settled the magnitude of the Army, but what the Array was required to do in a sphere of action, far from home. Events moved rapidly in Central Asia and every year improvements in her communications strengthened Rusia's strategic position. It was impossible to say that in the event of a war with Russia we should not require all the forces Mr. Brodrick's schemo

provided.

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Since your humble subject entered into the official service he has had the honour of having his first and only audience at the time when be was Governor of Shansi ju 1881, having been ordered to proceed to Peking to listen to the Imperial instructions, being thenes appointed Viceroy of the Linngkinng Pro rinces. When removed to the Hukwang He was relieved from going up to Peking to receive the Imperial instructions. But on the 24th day of the 9th moon of 1894 and again in the third men of 1898 he was ordered to proceed to Peking to have Imperial audience.

Arrangements have been made by the local However, on the former occasion buying mean. time been appointed acting Viceroy of Liang agents of the Canadian Facific Railway Co. kinng, he was relieved from doing so, and then (Smith, Bell and Co.) and the China and Manila on the latter occasion after arriving at Shanghai Steamship Co., Ld. (Warner, Barnes & Co., he was ordered to go back to his port. So on Il) to run a new passenger service between to 1991, in the eighth meon, when the Imperial Manilo and Hongkong in connection with the contega was at Kaifeng-fu le again applied for well-known Empress line. The Eubi and Zafiro, audience. His request was not granted and on the 11th day of 12th moon in 190) Lin Kung- the two latest and most modern steamers on the yi was ordered to proceed to Peking to have Hongkong and Mauila run, do not need a de- Imperial audience by telegraphic order and seription here; their merits, speed and their upan Vicereg Liu's return to Nanking your comfort are well known; they are the only memorialist was commanded to proseed to- Peking. But on the 15th day another decree steamers regularly on the run which have from the Empress Dowager was received accommodation amidships and they are of was modern constraction and compare favourably saying that antil treaty rovision completed your memorialist should postpone with ocean liners in any part of the world. proceeding to Feking. Thus again another These steamers in fature will leave Manila every year has sincs elapsed during all of which time Friday in order to connect with the Empress his eyes have been turned towards Metropolitan line; and intending passengers to Canada, the sky with longing for Imperisi audience. The United States and Europe have now unrivalled

The telephone cable which has just been Inid new Viceroy Wei Kwang-tao, of Liangkiang, opportunities for a comfortable and luxurious will arrive at Nanking sometime in the 2nd sea voyage from Manik to Vancouver. The between England and Belgium, and which moon(March) and will take overhiasmal, and your discomforts of the China Ses are avoided as

will shortly be opened to the public at the memorialist will be then relieved from the acting the new service is a speedy one and the charge of 18s, for a three minutes conversation, vicuroyehip and will have leave. Accordingly at Rubi and Zafiro only keep their passengers this period he desires to pressed worth to have on the Chias Sea for two nights, this much is the longest submarine telephone is the world. the honour of mosting Your Majesty, with of the inconvenience in crossing the China. It crosses the Channel from St. Margaret's whom he has longed to have audience for the Sea is avoided. Every arrangement has been Bay, near Dovor, to a point on the Belgian

London, 24th February. laal twenty years. Your memorialist should made for the comfort of passengers in Hong. coast near Ostend, a distance of over sixty miles.

The great-st patience and care were expended Several Conservatives supported the amend like to personally state the circumstances of the kong and for their speedy transfer from by the English Post Office authorities on its ment to the Address moved by Mr. Beckett.

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Boar's State affairs judoteil, etc." Theabove memorial opportezily of visiting and Being the sights of was duly sanctioned with "vermilion "pencil on the wonderful towns of Hongkong, Canton San Gatte, near Calais. a distance of about there than for us to do so. It was the same in the 26th alt, and the Viceroy was crdered to and Macon, A regular service is everything, twenty-four miles, and the Anglo-Irish, run the case of South Africa, and in the case of proceed to Peking for audience.

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Mr. Brodrick in his speech said that no Canada or Europe to purchase a through ticket

We have been feeling our way," said an Army had ever undergone anch changes as AUTOMATIC MAUSER official at St. Martin's-le-Grand "By careours during the last two years. Delegation the Wai Wain (Board of Foreign Affairs) and H. B. Darnell, the Eastern Travelling Agentful experiments with the Anglo-French line had not only began but in a few years it would it is probable that he will attain his desire. We of the Canadian Pacino Railway Co., is expected we arrived at conclusions which justified our be the key-note of the Army system. He denied

From excellent sources we learn, the China Gurette save; that Chang Chih-tung's great desire at present is to be appointed President of from either of the above mentioned firmar. Mr.

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answers expectations we shall then consider the a bugbear. The preparation for the defence of greatest dependency must, he said, be judged practicability of submarito telephonic com- munication between, say, England and the unexpert advice and we must remember that Netherlands, still greater distanca."

for a mach smaller dependency we had to send The speaker would not commit himself with | doable that pumber of troops.

Mr. Winston Churchill denounced Mr. respect to the prospect of e Transatlantio telephone. Telephonie so ence." he said, "has Brodrick's scheme as a sham and kombug. Its zot odvanced as far as that yet. The submersion object was to make England a military nation enormous and cajole the taxpayer into paying war rates of a telephone cable makes an difference to its inductive capacity. In foot, it during peace time.

is of the utmost impurtanes even with our Sir Henry Campbell-Barnetman asid the inland system that we should avoid potäng House must face the fact that the nationa!

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. ONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS are requested to send in a Statement of Business contributed during the Year ended 31st December, 1902, on or before the 15th it staat, on which date the nocount will be closed.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GEO. A. CALDWELL, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1903.

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