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To-day's

Advertisements,

MUBILEE

THE

LODGE

OF INSTRUCTION.

"HE REGULAR MEETING of the above Lodge will be held in the FAKEMASONS' HALL, TO-NIGHT, the 4th instant, at 8 for 8.30 pin. Visiting Brethren M.M. are cor dially invited to attend.

"Hongkong, 4th January, 1900.

NOTICE.

THE WANCHAI GODOWNS.

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WE the Undersigned have This Day been

appointed AGENTS for the above Godowns, all Applications for Storage of Goods should be made to us.

T. RAUCHENSTEIN & CO., 12, Beaconsfield Arcade.

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Hongkong, 3rd January, 1900.

THE WANCHAI GODOWNS. XTE have This Day appointed Messrs.

WE RAUCHENSTEIN, & CO. to be

AGENTS for the above Godowns, all Applica tions for Storage of Goods-should be made to thom.

TANG LAP TING. MOK KUN HUL

MOK YEUK LIM.

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Hongkong, 3rd January, 1900,

TREASURY BILLS.

ENDERS for SPECIE-MEXICAN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900.

Intimation.

THE opening Concert of the Smoking Concert: Club, Shanghai, was given on Thursday, the 28th ulto Mr. Pelham Warren, H. B. M.'s Consul General, took the chair and a most successful programme was gone through. A. S. WATSON & CO., in the first round for the Hongkong Football TO-MORROW afternoon, on the Happy Valley,

LIMITED.,

GOODS

FUR TIK

BERI-BERI AT THE BLIND HOME | belonging to the boat absolutely refuse to pro-

AND BERLIN FOUNDLING

HOUSE.

REPORT OF THE M. OH.

The following report has been circulated inside the honour to submit the follor sin have the honour to submit the follow among the members of the Sanitary Board-

Beri at the Blind Homo and the Berlin Found

Challenge Shield, the Engineers Institute will play "F" Company, of the Royal Welsh Fusi-Ling House. Tiers. Kick-off at four o'clock. Referee

Lieut. Greene, R.A.

NEW YEAR SEASON. | Department not to go outside of the limitations GENERAL Otis has been instructed by the War of the Chinese exclusion act in the exclusion of Chinese subjects from the Philippines. This (says the 'Frisco Chronicle) is as it should be, and it is the first evidence given that the Government contemplates applying the general laws of the United States to our Philippine possessions,

A VARIED COLLECTION OF ARTICLES SUITABLE FOR PRESENTS,

CUT GLASS BOTTLES.

MEERSCHAUM PIPES, CIGAR AND CIGARRETTE HOLDERS, POUCHES, &c. SMOKERS' SUNDRIES OF ALL KINDS.

PERFUMES IN ELEGANT CASES.

THE PUREST AND DEST

CONFECTIONERY.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

TDOLLARS, CH SPECIE MEXICAN SCOTCH WHISKIES, IRISH WHISKIES,

weighing 7.1.7., in Exchange for Sterling Hills drawn at 10 days' sight on the Lords Commis. sioners of Her Majesty's, Treasury, London, will be received by the Officer in charge of H.M. Treasury Chest, until 11 A.M., on MONDAY, the 8th instant.

The Tenders to state the total amount re quired (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which cach Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for sums less than roo

The Tenders to be in Duplicate and in sealed covers, addressed to the Officer in charge of H.M. Treasury, and endorsed "Tenders for Treasury Bills."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.

E. H. GORGES,

Colonel,.

T. C. Officer, China.

Her Majesty's Treasury Office,

Queen's Road.

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1900.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR SHANGHAI

HE Company's Steamship

THE

"HANGCHOW,"

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Captain Pearce, will be despatched as above

on SATURDAY, the 6th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

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Hongkong, 4th January, 1900,

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

"LOONGSANG," Captain Weigall, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 8th instant, at 5 PM.

This Steamer has Superior Accountiodation for First class Passengers, and is fitted through. out with Electric Light.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers.

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Hongkong, 4th January, 1900.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA (DIRECT),

THE Company's Steamship

"SUNGKIANG," · Captain Moore, will be despatched as above en MONDAY, the 8th instant.

The attention of Passengers is directed 10 the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light.

AMERICAN WHISKIES, BRANDIES, PORTS SHERRIES, CLARETS, LIQUEURS, CHAMPAGNES, &c., &c,

OF THE FINEST QUALITY.

NEW YEAR CARDS

OF.

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

MARRIAGE.

At the residence of the Ladies of the M. E. Mission, Tientsin, by the Rev. R. R. Gaily, in the presence of Mr. J. W. Ragsdale, U. S. Con. sul, on the 21st of December, 1899. GEORGE BUTLAND to REGINA M. BONTKES.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.

LONDON, January and. The Correspondents at Chieveley are un- animous in their opinions that the task con- fronting General Buller is stupendous. The Tugela River is in full flood and the Boer position a perfect fortress.

Disaffection in Cape Colony, Ugly rumours are curent in Capetown of disaffection in the Victoria West and Clan- william districts.

Re-inforcements.

assa-

This European nurse herself showed no symptoms whatever of Beri-Beri, but the authorities of the Founding House are of the opinion that she must in some manner have conveyed the infection to the house, as the first two children to be attacked were being (surgi cally) dressed by this nurse, one for an affection of the eyes and the other for some skin affection. Within two or three days, however, of thesc two children showing symptoms of the disease no less than 50 or 60 others were attacked. Chinese children and girls up to 16 or 17 years Up to December 7th the house contained 102 ofage, and on this date 69 school children, all of whom were suffering from Beri-Beri, were sent to Macao, with six big girls (who were free from the disease) to assist in looking after them, thus leaving 27 healthy children in the House, their arrival there. Two of the children died in Macho shortly after

ceed when there is any chance of danger.

The pirates seem to have become thorouglily organised and have obtained so much rower that they are enabled to intimitate the mandarins, and make them pay for exemption actions towards them. Either may be incorrect the officials pot to be too energetic in their from being raided, or may be the pirates pay

but it is certain. that the Chinese mandarins are powerless to suppress the evil. It is stated that the Blind Home, a one storey Europeans on board has not been attacked, in, Up to the present time a launch with building on the Pokfulum Road, which maintains about 16 children, and is now closed, has had fact, was told of an instance in which on an infant, who was admitted suffering from the of this year, the first case to occur there being board the pirates went away. This is not cases of Beri-Bell-anning its inmates since July being informed that Europeans were on to say, however that Europeans have not sufler- disease. The only communication between respectors of persons, they are not of the owner ed loss as, though the pirates or thieves are this Home and die Berlin Foundling House ship of property and much loss has therefore (which are under different management) was at the Foundling House, to a European friends. The most severe loss has resulted from the daily visits of European nurse employed accrued to foreign shippers from these deprecia- at the Blind Home.

the state of panic that now prevails along the West River; the one thing essential to com comercial activity is security, this one thing is most conspicuous by its absence, and until this THERE was some talk lately about a project

terrible state of lawlessness is suppressed we for mining smokeless coal in China Chinese

cannot expect our trade to flourish, projectors came to fapan to push the enterprise,

The mom! effect of our gun-boats being and report said that Baron Iwasaki was likely

will receive prompt punishment has done some, on the scene, or rather handyito, and the knowledge that if caught the pirates to be connected with it. It is now stated that a company is to be formed of Japanese and

little to ahate the evil, but not much, and the Chinese in combination, with a capital of two

reason is not hard to find. If we catch a pirate hundred thousand yen, by way of preliminary.

the law demands that he shall be hanged. Our severest punishment is tempered with mercy, We (Japan Mail) are disposed to doubt

the actual execution shall be with as little pain strongly whether the Iwasaki family is

as possible under the circumstances. I do not ciated with anything so small as that.

wishing to institute torture, but I am convinced, wish to pase as bloodthirsty, ferocious and WE have received a copy of the "Anglo-Chinese

and others who are at all conversant with the Royal First Reader" printed by the Commercial

not fear death, it being a well-known fact Chinese are also, that the Chinese criminal does Press Book Depot, Shanghai. It is similar to. The children who were attacked were all be-

that a substitule to be executed can be the usual "Royal First Reader as used in tween the ages of 4 and 7, and all of them

obtained in China by paying a comparatively some of the Hongkong schools, with the addi

slept in a series of adjacent ground floor rooms,

small fee. It is also well known that many an tion of having the lessons translated into Chi-lated and have close boarded floors which are These roots are thoroughly well lit and venti-

innocent man has confessed to crimes to pro- tect himself, from being tortured, a confession nese after each exercise. This cught to be of painted. Some children who slept in ground being esssential by Chinese law before sen very great assistance to whose who have to floor rooms in another part of the building were

tence can be passed. We certainly cannot teach Chinese scholars. We have submitted not attacked nor were any of the girls who slept but this form of punithment does not deter resort to torture. We may hang them as pirates, the book to our translator and are assured that up-stairs. No European cases have occured." the translations are accurate and show, that they generous

The children's dietary appears to be a most might hand them over to the Chinese authorities. others from committing the same crime. We must have been carefully revised.

comprising rice, fish (fresh

C885: This at the best it simply our relegating an and salt on alternate cember, received by the-Shanghai mandarins, AN official telegram dated Canton, 27th De- days) meat (beef or pork) at every evening do, to some one else to do for us, as by unpleasant job, which we say we cannot meal and thrice a week with the morning meal.

Chinese law The special points about the outbreak secem doubily bo tortured. But should we be car..

the states as follows: "Marshall Su has not yet to be the unusually early age of the patientstain that the mandarin or official to whom the prisoners would un- arrived here, although he notified the high

(all between 4 and 7) the absence of overcrowd- authorities that he would leave Kuangchouwaning, and the abundant lighting and ventilation laid down by the law. I think it is more pro- pirates were passed over to, do their duty as as soon as he had settled the boundary ques-

of the premises and the liberal dietary.

We must assume, I suppose, the germ which bable that the official is already a participator tion with the French. This work was finished resides in the soil and is not transmissible from in the profits of these piracies and that when just one week ago, but there are no indications one human being to another except through the be allowed to go scot free; some poor luckless the pirates were brought before him they would of his arrival at Hongkong, although a cruiser conveyed by the European nurse in her cloth coolics might have their heads, chopped off medium of fomites containing the germ, was has been sent there to bring H.E. to Canton. ing or more probably, perhaps in the soil ad- It is, therefore, considered here, that Marshal hering to her boots, froin. the Blind Home to

as a Chinese official is always ready to oblige with a dozen or two executions if he thinks by Su has been detained by force at Kuangehou the Berlin Foundling House, that it there de-so doing he will make things more comfortable

for himself. wan by the French as a hostage for the full-veloped impidly and that the children sleeping ment of the conditions granted by the Imperial se's apartment were poisoned by the toxin gene on the ground-floor rooms nearest to the nur Government."

rated by the infective germ. The fact that two the first to develop symptoms of the disease is children who required surgical dressing were only in accord with the accepted teaching, but I think that, in view of the very brief interval between their sickness and that of the rest of disease from the first two, but that all derived the children, these latter did not contract the infection from the same source.

A TIENTSIN dispatch states that the barracks at Hsiaochan, some so miles distant from the first named place, formerly occupied by the troops of Yuan Shihik'ai, now acting Governur of Shantung, will become the future canton ment of the Headquarters, or Middle Corps of the Grand Army of the North. This Corps. numbers 10,000 men equipped with modern weapons, and is entirely composed of picked Manchus' selected from the Peking Field Force.. and other Banner organisations. It is further stated that the Generalissumo, Jung Lu, intends to propose the construction of a military rail way between Hsiaochan and Peking in order to facilitate his own journey between the two points, as well as for speedy transport of troops to the Capital whenever necessary. The old occupants of Hsiaochen will have their future heme in Shantung, near their General, the Governor.

On the authority off Dr. Kitasato, the Fushin The seventh division will embark by the states that the only course now possible for

rith instant.

LATER.

Stamping out the plague in Kobe, which appears already to have spread to all parts of the city, Cape Colony,

is to thoroughly cleanse houses and premises, An official despintel states that Col. Pildistroy all rats, medically inspect the people cher with a force largely composed of

and collect all the inhabitants of the poorer Canadians and Australians after a forced

quarters in Kobe in one place and there isolate march of 22 miles surprised and completely ing houses clean, just as in the cities of Europe, them. The improvement of the drains and keep For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

defeated the Boer Commando near Belmont Agents.

are also recommended. The simplest way of Hongkong, 4th January, 1900.

on the 1st instant taking their laager with 40 catching rats, according to Dr. Kitasato, is to F16tya prisoners, besides killing and wounding many. spread birdlime on a sheet of paper, putting in AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-

The British lost Lieut. Adie of the Queens the centre something of which rats are very fond. TION COMPANY.

land Mounted Infantry, severely wounded, It is an extremely difficult maiter to disinfect houses, where plague has occurred, to such an extent as to thoroughly stamp out the disease. For instance, the house of lirai at Fukiai, who recently died from the plague, was disinfected three times, and yet the children were affected three weeks after the disinfection had inken place. Such houses Dr. Kitasato urges should be pulled down and the debris burnt.-Kobe Chronicle.

THE

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KARACHI, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, FIUME AND TRIESTE. (Taking Cargo at through Rates to South Africa, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, BLACK SEA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC PORTS.)

HE Company's Steamship

"GISELA," Captain F. Mosca, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the rath instant, P.M.

Silk and Valuables are transhipped on arrival at Bombay into an accelerated liner,

For information as to Passage and Freight, 'apply to

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 4th January, 1900.

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Intimations. NOTICE. THE OFFICES of the "HONGKONG THE

TELEGRAPH have This Day been removed to No. 50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Second Floor, (the premises formerly occupied by Messrs. POWELL & Co.) to which address all cominunications should be addressed.

ETH. F. SKERTCHLY, Manager.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1899. -

AN APPEAL.

HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Post Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that The will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.

Gentleman's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones.

Ludier and Chlidren's Under-clothing Chil dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.

and three killed.

The British success at Dordrecht is con

waggons, five squadrons of Cavalry and ten firmed. General French with Infantry in

guns, attacked the Boers at daybreak on the 1st instant, shelled their laager from a kopje overlooking Colesburg, and, after silencing their guns, took the position and cut off their retreat at the road-bridge. The enemy, 5,000 to 7,000 strong, occupies a strong laager near the junction. The British loss was three killed and seven wounded.

WEATHER REPORT.

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I recommend that the Blind Home be the roughly overhauled before it is again occupied beneath the boarded floors. and that all the ground surfaces be concreted

1 also recommend the infected rooms at the

Berlin Foundling House be thoroughly dis infected, limewashed and repaimed and that if there is no concrete beneath the floors, that to return to the House. this be done before the children are permitted

I have, etc.

(Sd.) FRANCIS W. CLARK,

M. O. H.

PROPOSAL TO EXTEND THE

CENTRAL MARKET.

that the mandarins of these villages either Two things are certain, that the pirates land their Jant nt riverside villages and

the men, or the stolen property. I think will not, or can not afterwards discover either this clearly shows that the villagers are British law is called "accessory before the in league with. the pirates, in fact what in fact and thereby equally liable to punish ment. If our gun-boats bombarded a village or two at which it had been proved that pira- doubt that villagers would not be so willing to ted property had been, landed, there is no assist these miscreants. We can reach the villages: we cannot the men.

There are objections, of course, grave ones no doubt, but when the whole world is suffering from these pests it is useless to stand too much on ceremony or even the letter of the law.

With the usual apologies.

I am, etc.,

"STUDENT OF CHINESE CHARACTER" Hongkong, January 4th, 1900...

LIME WASHING PROSECUTIONE.

among the members of the Sanitary Board-cedure in prosecuting limewashing.delinquents The following report has been circulated The following minutes regarding the pro- Sir, I have the honour to submit the follow has been circulated to members of the Sanitary ing for the consideration of the Sanitary Board. Board. and retail dealers in poultry and fresh fish has

The necessity of a market for the wholesale The President long existed, sind is the reclamation of the Praya in front of the present Central Market would, when finished, be a very suitable place for such a building, I recommend that the for this purpose. Board advise the Government to retain the site

Should there prove to be more space than would be required for the fitting up of these shops and stails, the remainder of the area and so provide accommodation for many of the could be profitably ptilised as vegetable stalls, hawkers who at present infest the streets and byeways of the Central district.

I have, efc,

(Sd.) C. VIVIAN LADDS, 20th December 1899.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents is this colum}

(1)It appears to be necessary for the Board connection with the limewashing and cleansing to take into consideration certain matters in question-The present machinery for enforcing the bye-law under sections 18, 19, 29 and 21 of Ordinance 24 of 1887 is slaw, laborious and generally unsatisfactory.

(2) The wording of the bye-law also is open object of it is to secure the cleansing of Chinese to question when it is considered that the houses which are not occupied by one sole tenant and his family.

(3)-Again the enforcement of the bye-law is no doubt the cause of the increasing number of applications for exemption of certain bouses from its operations on various pretexts aud many of these applications only reach the office, after the applicant has been summoned, but in strict justice it is necessary that inquiry be 'made into the truth of the reason put forth, then the paper has to circulate and the Board decide at a meeting; in the meantime the case is sub-judice at the Police Court and pros bably remanded. I beg to suggest that the time necessary to give an answer to such an application may be materially shortened and business facilitated if the Board take ad

It is found in actual practice that the issuing of these notices which are said to be obligatory under the above quoted section makes the otherwise simple work of bringing offenders to book so long and slow and so laborious that it is impossible to deal effectually with the de this notice after a flagrant breach of a well each two months, and the necessity for giving faulters under six weeks after the expiry of

known bye-law has apparently another bad

will be able, and it seems likely from the effect, for a cureless man, or worse, a man who waits for a chance to evade the law, list of defaulters that they are, to wait till he expired, and then receires. a notice, after the two months has the work. With men of this class to deal with, only will he do

the work. the necessity for giving notice tends to relard.

Taking all these things into consideration it seems that there is no moral obligation on the broven a bye-hw any more than there would Sanitary Board. to inform a man that he has be to give notice to a man who contravened section 30 of the Ordinance and kept goats without a license. Therefore I would ask that the Board uses its influence to procure the.

of the Section 19 and of so much of the repeal following Sections 20 and 21 as will be necessary

offence against this or any other bye law made in order to allow the Board to bring a man to the Police Court the moment he commits any under Section 13 of Ordiance 24 of 1837.

The Public Health Act 38 and 39 Victoria Chapter 55 on which I believe our local ordin- requirement with regard to procedure under ance was founded does not contain any such byc laws as far as I can see it.

of Sec. 19 work injuriously to the public I think I have shown that the requirements. interests, in that they retart the enforcement of Justice that the repeal of Sec 19 and of parts 'Sanitary regulations and I may say with equal. of Secs. 20 and at would not inflict any injustice on individual members of the public, who cannot require any more notice of offences against the bye-laws of Ordinance 24 of 1887 than of offences against those of any other ordinance.

(Sd) M. O. H.

(Sd.) C. W. DUGGAN,

Sec. 13th December, 1899 been pointed out by the Board before and the Plase circulate; if (am not mistakon this has Attorney General advised that the present pro- dedure must be adopted.

General did advise se, but I am asking that The President.

On C. & O. 1976/1899 the Hon. Attorney

altered, as I have tried to show that it is not the law which renders that course necessary be for the sanitary improvement of the colony

abolition will not work any injustice or hard be allowed be allowed to exist, while its that the present cumbrous, machinery sl.ould

ship.

(sd) C. W. Duggan.

14.13.99.

THE LATE MR. YEH CHING CHONG.

A SHORT SKETCH.

The subject of this short sketch was born of rustic parents in a village suburb of Ningpd on Kuang (July, 1840) which made him a little the 20th day of the 6th moon, 20th year.of Tao over fifty-nine years of age at his death which occurred at his residence No. 1109 A, Broad- way, Hongkew, on the 3rd day of the 10th 1899), although according to the Chinese method moon, 25th year of Kuang Hsü (5th November, of calculating ages he was considered to be sixty years old when he died,

The second son of a family of five, he lost his father at the age of six and at nine was seat to the village school to learn his falters, but owing to the poverty of the family the youngster could only stop six months.. On leaving school Ching Chong helped his widowed mother and elder brother to till their little plot of ground for, three years, but being of an ambitious and energetic disposition he was anxious, to earn a little hard cash for the support of the family. At the age of 14 he entered the einpley of a neighbour who

a fellow villager took passage in a papeco junk ran an oil mill, where he remained two years, Hearing of the importance of Shanghai he and and, in a couple of days, found themselves at their destination. He secured, upon arrival," employment in a ship chandlery and was soon. promoted to be a runner for his long. The his first store-ship chandlery and sundries year 1801 saw Ching Chong the possessor of concern-at the head of the Hongkew Creek bridge, on Broadway. This pioneer store has now five offshoots situated in the various;: settlements,, such as "Y. Ching-chong," "W. Ching-chong etc. Once he had obtained a foote With an enterprise not usual amongst Chi- hold fortuneemed to smile upon his effens. nese merchants Ching Chong launched his hongs in almost every large Treaty port in- China, so that the name of Ching Chong is. widely known in the interior of China and has become synonymous with kerosene oil in every city of the empire where the oil is known and used. His.name was also connected with silk filatures, match, factories, etc. He was also well-known as a philanthropist and his intense: love for his fellow-provincials of Chèkiang, among whom no-one ever appealed to him them. So well appreciated were his charities in vain, has made his naine idolised by by the Imperial Government that not only did autographic tablets written by Royalty itself, he receive increased official rank, but also two praising his philanthropy. He could well afford

and appoint a select committee under Sec. late Mr. Yeh Ching Chong died worth nearly 4.of as many members or others as six million taels.--V. C DeNews. forward applications, and from them receive the Board sees fit, to whom I should be able to

Instructions,

...

*#*{sd}{/G, W. Duggan,

Secretary.

PLAQUE AT NAGASAKI

The following report Has been circulated to members of the Sanitary Board

PIRACIES ON THE WEST RIVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HongKong ThLEGNAPH." SIR, I see by the translations from the AcCORDING in native papers, the mysterious that the number of pircies now being com- Chinese papers in your valuable publication character who was recently arrested at Chichow,mitted on the West River are still numerour,vantage of the powers of Ord: 11 of 18950, give largely, for if public report be true, the Hupeh, for personating a brother of Kang Recently I was informed of a supposed pira. Yuwel or a Manchu Prince incognito, and ical attack made on a village on the banks of created much sensation among the Chinese gentlemen who were on a pleasure trip. the river, witnessed by a party of British besides causing the high officials to telegraph Four gentlemen engaged a private lunch to Peking for information, has turned out to be at Canton for a trip up the West River, and At the present time, to give an illustration The Observatory report says:-

a fraud. He was indeed thought by many to when a little above Samsui,at about ten o'clock of the slow way in which the law can be worked, On the 4th at 11.55 am the barometer has be the Emperor himself and on the Kianghsia the bank, while the villagers were returning the

at night, they saw a boat firing at a village on at the end of October certain owners had fallen in E. Japan, risen on the China coast. Magistrate ordering him to be beaten on the fire. On making enquiries they were told it was

not complied and although all reasonable speed The anticyclone still covers China, and gra-palm, the prisoner wrote in vermilion a letter firing a salute in honour of Marshall Su. we were only able to bring them before the has been observed yet at the end of November

British Consulate, Nagasaki, Dec 16th, 1899, dients continue rather steep with very strong purporting to be an Imperial Edict to the effect Such may be the truth. I am not in a position Magistrate. Practically the fimewashing of the

Sir, I have the honour to report to you for monsoon on the coast and in the N. part of the that he had been travelling incognito since the to say such was not the case, but, from what Central Division is now finished save only the information of His Excellency the Go- China Sea. FORECAST-Fresh to moderate th moon last year and now inevitably discovers think it was an attack made on a neighbouring within the next few days be so dealt with

my imformant, told me, Fain more inclined to those who are being summoned or who will vemer, that two cases of pest have recently N. winds weather improving.

himself through the insult of the Magistrate, village by bad characters. I was told that

occurred within the jurisdiction of this Cons sulate. who should be cashiered and punished, and the river is simply swarning with these law

In the first, a boy,

one of the crew of a small the gaol warden should be, promoted in his obtaining private information or their know.

less men, who either through their means of The Secretary

Japanese steamer, which left this port on the place. This supposed Edict the prisoner-ledge of the utter powerlessness of the Chinese Byclaw governing the cleansing and limewash-27th ultimo. While the steamer was at Hakata, Send me the papers re the making of the 25th ultimo for Osaka, died on board, on the commanded the Warden to serve on Viceroy authorities, lie in wait for any richlying of Premises. It was made by the Sanitary a port near Moj Chang who was quite taken aback and had the loaded bottom that may be passing their Board on 13th day of August 1800. prisoner brought before him when on close special district. Sometimes the craft may be at examination the fraud was discovered. The lacked in another district's preserves, then there prisoner has also an accomplice who posed is trouble between the two gangs. This was himself-as Manchu Prince who had been what the party probably saw. There are guard following the Emperor in his accret travels

In obedience to the decision of the Board 1 They both await severe punishment;

boats, provided by the Chinese Covernment, have to point out that the limewashing bye-law stationed along the river bank at intervals of gives two months within which the houses in

A both these are isolated cases and as no five or ten miles, but they never move unless each particular division of the City of Victoria declaration has been made by the Japanese ordered to do so, and it is more than half have to be cleansed by the owners. Authorities that either Nagasaki or Moji or suspected they are in league with the pirates. That bye-law is well known to all, landlords Halcata is to be considered infected I have not Tho-private-sicam-launches are to terminany offence against it is not committed through frbuught it necessary to faform you of them by extent protected by having many folds of thick ignorance of its provisions. Thus it may be telegraph, but should any fresh cases occur, netting hung up on either side of the coxvery truly said that there is no, just need for a which may appear to render it advisable that swain, to prevent the bullets from reaching notice (as provided for by Section 1g nt Ord 24shunt retegraph to you, I shall not fail to do so have stout wire netting placed around the it, he knows what he is breaking (in contraination, the steersinan, and most of the launches of 1887) to be issued to an owner who breaks | immediately on my receipt of authentic infor bulwarks to prevent being bearded, and besides

I have, etc. these precautions the crew carry arms for self

(Sd) Josum H. LONGFORD, protection. Notwithstanding this, the men

H.D.M. Consul” -

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FOOTBALL RESULT.

This aftemoon at the Happy Valley, in the first round of the Hongkong Football Challenge Shield, the H.K... malo scale to zit Co, S. D., R.A. 1 goals.

reported in the Colony during the week ended THE return of cases of communicable disease

30th December shows four cases and three deaths from plague and four cases of small-pox. with two deaths.

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial The Superioress will also be most grateful and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge

for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made with thanks the following donation to the Into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools funds of the Hospitals: who are taught by the Sistera

Hongkong, zand April, 1892.

1493 Liu Chiu Fan

THE FRENCH MAIL.

The Agent of the Messageries Maritimes informs us that the departure of the French Mail Steamer Erneit Simons is fixed for p.m. an Monday. In fature, according to a new arrangement with the postal authorities at home the departure from Hongkong of the French Mail steamer homeward bound will be Fatp.m. instead of at noon as hitherto.

The President.

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distinction to many person who may cause nuisances of which they may really be in ignorance at the time of so causing).

....... In the second, a man died in the immediate neighbourhood of Nagasaki, on the 4th idiikot, and I have been to day informed that, after prolonged medical investigation, the disease of which he died must be considered to be of the character of pesta contact

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