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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1900..

To-day's Advertisements,”

THE CLIMAX CAPPING AMUSEMENT VENTURE OF THE AGE.

ILLUSTRIOUS!

REFINED!! RENOWNED!!!

WARREN'S

CIRCUS

The most Gigantle Enterprise known in the Annals of Hongkong Amusements,

GRAND OPENING-WEST POINT, "TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, at y 1.M.

FIRST GRAND MATINEE, on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at 4 PM.

BOX PLANät Messrs. RoHINSON PIANO Co.

Hongkong, ath April, 1900,

TO

W. PFLUEGER,

General Representative."

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TEACHERS.

HIBBERDINE'S ILLUSTRATED COMPOSI-

TION SERIES

MAKES LESSONS A PLEASURE TO SCHOLARS.

To be obtainal at - V

Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, Limited, Hongkong, Shanghai Yokohama and Singapore Mesara. W. BREWER & Co., Hongkong and Shanghai,

Megare. TSUI MAN KOK, Hongkong. Messrs. MAN YU TONG, Hongkong.

Wholesale? W. HIBBERDINE, 50, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

URING the EASTER MERTING, TIFFIN

will be obtainable on the RANGE.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR AMOY AND TAMSC1.

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE THE Company's Steamship

Hon. Secretary.

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Hongkong, 2th April, rgoo. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of the Company No. 9 Praya Central on SATURDAY, 28th April, 1905 at Nook, when the subjoined Resolution which was passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting held on the rath April, 1960 will be submited for confirmation.

RESOLUTION.

That the Capital of the Company be in creased to 1,000,000 by the creation and issue

of 50,000 New Shares of Sin, each fully paid up.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, General Managers.

Hongkong, 12th April, 1900.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

No. 136.

"RATEOONG," Captain Bathurst, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 4th instant, at Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co... General Managers, Hongkong, 12th April, 1900.

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FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.

E Steamship

גזין

"PATHAN,"

.I

will be despatched for the above Port on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, and will be followed by the Stearnship

"ST. REGÜLUS,”

on or about the 3rd May,

For Freight, apply to

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, ' Agents..

(132h

Hongkong, 12th April, 1900

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION COM. ANY.

TH

STEAM TO YOKOHAMA AND ROBE.

PTE Company's Steamship

"SILESIA"

HE following Particulars and Conditions of Teflon Pay Public Auction, Captain . Verona, will leave for the above

to be held at the Offices of the Public Works places, on THURSDAY, the 9th instant. Department,

WEDNESDAY,

the 18th day of April, 1900, at 3.00 1.2, áre published for general information

By Command.

::

Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 31st March, 19co. Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Wednesday, the 18th day of April, 1900, at 3 M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LANI, at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of enewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor, to Her

Majesty the QUEEN for one further term of 75

years.

but No 62.Registry

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locale..

Brambery Seasuremat

h. It It,

Mang-kak-Isan 26 101 101

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

NIL 1379

HE following Particulars and Conditions of ΤΗΣ

Sale of Crown Laad by Public Auction, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department, on

WEDNESDAY,

IMP

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SANDER, WIELER & Co.,

Agents. Efonu-kona, el April, syist

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AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.

To-day's Advertisement.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, .LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW, THE Company's Steamship

"HAICHING," Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SUNDAY, the 15th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 13th April, 1900,

Intimation.

with considerable losses on both sides The result is not known.

LANDLORDS AND RENTS.

The last number of the Porvir contains a

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THE IMPORTATION OF DOGS.

The following correspondence on the above. subject was laid on the table at to-day's meet;

FIGHTING AT WEPENER, Thero has been sovore fighting at Wepener during the last two days, sensibly-written article on the serious questioning of the Sanitary Board,

of house renting in the colony, which, it points out, has reached a crucial slage.

Save landlords, remarks our contemporary, | No. 49. one does not and cannot live in peace for the unheard of reason of being from month to month liable to be served with notice to quit one's premises, or to pay an increase of rent aunounting to twenty, thirty, forty per cent. pr

MAFEKING.

HEAVY FIRING. The enemy opened a most furious bombardment on Maleking on the [490b27th March. The Roers advanced to the attack on two sides, but were repulsed.

THE EIGHTH DIVISON. General Rundle and the eighth division have been diverted to Spring-

A. S. WATSON & Co., fontéin.

LIMITED.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

RAINIER BEER.

PURE, SPARKLING

INVIGORATING

AND

HEALTHGIVING,

THE FREE STATE. ENEMY EAST OF BETHULIE.

COL. PLUMER FORCED TO

more...

It is simply amazing that, under the regis of a government we take for liberal and humani tarian, the community should be subjected to the whims and tender mercies of landlords in whose discretionary power it is, to impose such exactions, or the inconvenience of constantly shifting from premises to premises.

Sanitary Board Office, 20th March, 1900

Sihaye the honour by direction of the Sanitary Board, to recommend that the Gover- nor in Council may be pleased to inaku a regulation under Ord, 9 of 1893, Sec. S effect that :-

5 to the

"Any dog unclaimed within a fortnight of the expiration of the period of quarantinel may be sold by the Sanitary Board to defray expenses, or, if unsaleable, may be destroyed.”

There are three dogs at present in the Quarmutine Station whoso owners have left the Colony without leaving instructions as to the disposal of the said dogs and it would appear from the present Regulations that the. Sanitary Board has no authority to destroy or otherwise

I have, etc..

(Sd) C. W. DUGGAN,.

Secretary-

Many a landlord, abusing bis rights, mennly trades upon the public weal; and the expedients resorted to, so censurable from the social stand-dispose of these dogs, point, call for measures to check this lament able state of affairs.

Laudlords cannot be denied thejr rights to a just return for their capital and a fair margin for incidental expenses. But they should not be granted a carte blanche to victimise tenants by forcing upon them rents which absorb more than half and perhaps three fourths of their in- come.

That a property sale may be the more lucra- tive, an extrinsic value is procured by raising the rent at a sale which brings the value to twice or thrice the intrinsic worth, and in seli- RETIRE.

ing the property the landlord produces the Reuter's correspondent at Bethulierent-roll on which to base the fictitious demand. It is a speculation which should not be tolerat- 9th inst, says that the Borrs practiced, the less so because taxes are proportionate alty hold the Free State to the east to assessed values. Nor can it be otherwise, for if the taxes were based on such rents tenants of the railway, and that the enemy is would be double victimised, located 12 miles east of Bethulie bridge, having evidently come down country after the Reddersburg affair.

MAFEKING.

Col. Plumer with 270 men and a Maxim reached Ramathiabama on the 31st March and got within miles of Mafeking. when he WVHS

Another common contrivance is to farm the rent of a certain numbers of houses by means of a syndicate which in tum sub-let the concern for higher rents to satisfy their greed as well. Let it not he said that their is no law against all this. If there is a law to check the abuses of usurers, that very law perfectly answers the purpose of placing within just and equitable | bounds a renting cystem which is a curse upon the public well being. The landlords know very well that it is not possible to live in the streets, and should not take advantage of the

critical situation.

Undoubtedly the best Beer that has yet forced to retire, which he did in goodies, in their sacred duty of safeguarding the

been brewed in America."

PRICE:

Per Caso of 6 dozen PINTS

..$13.50 net.

QUARTS...$13.50 net.

Sale Agents for Hongkong and South

China:

order: with a loss of 3 officers and ́and seven mou killed; 3 officers and 24 men wounded, and eleven missing The enemy's loss was serious.

WEATHER REPORT,

The Observatory repoil says:- On the 12th at 11.55 a.m. the barometer bas risen on the China coast, particularly in the North. The depression is moving Eastwards over japan, and pressure is highest in N. China.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, The wind will probably shift to the N.E., with

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

Las The Hongkong

Hongkong Telegraph

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KARACHI, SUEZ, PORT SAÍÐ, FIUME AND TRIESTE. (Taking Cargo at through Rates to PERSIAN

GULF, BLACK SEA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC PORTS.)

THE Company's Steamship

MARIA VALERIE,

Captain A. Fellner, will he despatched as

above on TUESDAY, the 24th instant, P..

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

For information as in Passage and Freight, apply to

Hoyokone, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1900.

TELEGRAM S.

sqinally weather, in the Formosa Channel and along the S. coast of China during the next g hours. FORECASTS. backing to E. winds, moderate to fresh; unsettled, some rain.

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And even were there no law, these is remedy be found in the common sense of the autho welfare of the public, in the dignity of a civilising government which on no account should other the landlords to exact more than the community can bear, and at the cost of privations of the very necessaries of life, as does this rack renting.

To the Hon. Colonial Secretary.

A letter from H. B. M's. Consul General at Shanghai was attached stating that the part was free from rabies but that cases had occurred within the last six months.

The M. O. H. minuted In view of the fact that cases of rabies have occurred in Shanghai during the past six months I recommend that the prohibition of the importation of dogs from that post be extended for a period of six months

The D. P. W. agreed with the M. O. H. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

from date:

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To-day at noon an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in the above Com. pany was hekt. Mr. R. Shewan occupied the chair, and there were also present the Hon. C. P. Ghater, Messrs. D. Gillies (Directors), E. Georg, F. Henderson, A. Babbington, Fung Wa Chuen, Sin 'Un, and Luh Yuh Hai.

The Chairman preposed:-"That the Capital of the Company be increased to $1,000,000 by the creation and issue of 50,000 New Shares of Sto each fully paid up."

The Hon. C. P. Chater seconded. Carried. The Chairman said that duo netice would be given of the confirmatory meeting.

LIMEWASHING.

The following was circulated among the members of the Sanitary Board at the meeting to-day !---

THE SERVICE OF LIMEWASHING REMINDERS.

Within the last 18 days (ie, since the intro- duction of these new notices) we have only been able to obtain about 300 names of owners from the Land Office. The total number of If the government wishes to show itself just notices served up to noon on the 4th April, and sensible, let it put an immediate stop to was only 176. The total number of houses in exactions, and thus avent the rain of family the Central District of the city is 4,000 odd, ex- men. It is necessary to appraise the proclusive of the houses in Yaumati which num- perties and fix a reasonable rent thereon. In ber 500 approx-and which have to be lime- so doing, the government will save the poor washed before the end of this month. These tenants from the dilemma they are in, and reminders ought to be served before the 30th without detriment to the landlords, who on April. At the present rate of obtaining the being, guaranteed a fair return for their names of owners, it will take fully 4 months. capital, should be made to understand their duty of being just and humane.

THE COOLIE STRIKE.

DIFFICULTIES. IN OHTAINING, OWNERS NAME, (a) The books in the Land Office are not up to-date, and difficulty is very often found in obtaining the owners of properties.

()In many instances, when a Lot Number is divided into several Sections and subsections, as is generally the case, and finally into Sections of the subsections, it is necessary to refer to five or six Volumes (huge books) in order to find a single name, and this cannot be done at once, because solicitors and others generally crowd the Land Office the 'greater part of the day, searching for names of owners, Deeds, memorials and other papers.

We have been informed that the coolie strike yesterday at West Point first began at the Nam Pak Honge Bonham Strand. The real cause of the stoppage of work was that the shops in LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nani Pak Hong charged their customers more for coolie labour, without increasing the coolies TO-MORROW being Good Friday there will be

wages. They accordingly asked the masters for › issue of the Hongkong Telegraph.

an increase of pay, which was refused. The coolies then stopped work, but started again. (c) There is only one street Index in the Land 1.M.5. Centurion left for Wei-hai-wei at 6 this morning, the masters agreeing to give an Office, and one Index to Lot Nos, (both old) o'clock this morning.

advance of a to 3 cash. The former pay and therefore it is very difficult to have posses was for each picul of goods 7' cash per picul,sion of the z books when many business people for a short distance, and upwards of a candareen are urgently in want of them at all times. for long distances.

These z books are passed from one person- to another, and so a lot of time is wasted before they get into my hands."

THE monality return for Macao for the week ended 25th March shows 15 deaths from plague

WANCHAI appears to be the plague centre this

ported from other districts.

'SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

RUSSIA AND COREA. RUSSIAN DEMANDS RENEWED. year, for so far four cases only have been re-

(EROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). YOKOHAMA, 12th April. It is reparted that Russia kas SANDER, WIELER & Crewed her demands with regard, [485 to Masumplio. The magistrate at Mokyo has been dismissed on account of his actions with regard to leasing land to Russia.

Agents.

Hongkong, 12th April, 1900,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FROM MIÐULESBROF LONDON AND

THE Steinship THE

STRAITS.

GLENSHIEL" having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her, are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the towns of the Blangkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld,at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the

the 18th day of April, 1900, at 3.5 13, ae Goods are landed. published for general information.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 31st March, 1900,

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Optional cargo will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4P.M., TO-DAY.

Goods ant cleared by the roth instant, will be subject to rent.

Received at p.n. Published at 5 p.m.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR. THE FREE STATE. -

LARGE COMMANDO LEFT FOR

WEPENER

LONDON, APRIL 10th. Six hundred Boers have occupied Rouxville. A larger commando, con- sisting mainly of burghers who had previously submitted, have left Smith- field for Wepener where 2,000 Boers 143b with five guns already are. The town is practically isolated, but is provisioned and entrenched.

The enemy is in sight of Aliwal North..

No Fire Insurance has been effected. . All ship damaged packages must be left in Particulars and Conditions of the letting by the Godowns, and certificate of the Public Auction Sale, to be held on Wednesday, obtained from the Godown Co. within ten mage the 18th day of April, roo, at 3.15 P.., at the of steamer's arrival, after which no claims win Offices of the Public Works Department, by he recognised. Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lots of CROWN LAND, at Quarry Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of og Years. with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of Her Majesty the QUEEN for one further term-of-99-years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Marine Lot No Registry 1

İluandary

Mraxitement

*Tongatory.

Quarry Hay

Annual Ret

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR TIENTSIN.

HE Company's Steamship

THE

"NANCHANG,"

TO MORROW, the rath instant. ** For Freight or Passage, apply to

MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 12th April, 1909.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

~THEI=-&-OS, N=Co.'s Steamship

"JAPAN,"

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SÁID,

SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are funded.

HORSES FOR THE CAPE. TWENTY THREE TRANSPORTS CHARTERED,

DURING the quarter ended 31st March last, 8 samples of Whisky, 2 of Brandy and 1 of Rum were analysed by the Government Analyst, only one sample of Whisky being found to he adulterated.

owing to the delay caused in removing the debris to clear enough space to erect the huge

tents of Warren's Circas, and other unavoidable delays, the management begs to announce the Postponement of the Grand Opening which will Positively take place Tomorrow (Friday) 13th April.

A KEPY to a letter addressed to the Colonial Secretary anent the inconvenience occasioned by Council Meetings being held on the same day as those of the Sanitary Board, has been received by the Board and states that the Council will meet in future, on Mondays as 2 general rute.

THE Post Office will be closed on Good Friday,

13th inst, except from 8 to 9 al., on Saturday, 14th inst., except from 7 to 11.30 a.m., and on Easter Monday, 16th inst., except froin 8 to 9. The Night Box will be left open. The Money Order office will be entirely closed for

the three days.

CHINESE CEMETERIES.

The following letter was laid on the table at the meeting of the Sanitary Board to-day

Colonial Secretary's Office,

30th March, 1900, acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 25 Sir, am directed by the Governor to

of the 5th ult. forwarding for His Excellency's consideration copy of resolution adopted by the Sunitary Board at a meeting held on the 2nd ult. in which is advocated the closing of the Chinese Cemeteries at Mount Davis, Caroline Hill, and Matawai, and the existing Plague Cemeteries in Hongkong, and the opening instead of a Chinese Cemetery and a Plague Cemetery on some Island close to Hongkong and of another Chinese Cemetery and a Plague Cemetery further north of Matauwai; for reply

I am state for the information of the Board that there are various difficulties in the way of establishing a Chinese Cemetery on au island near Hongkong and.I ani to invite the Board's attention to the means of providing more burial space for Chinese dead by a recourse to the Chinese Custom of disintering and urning the bones of the dead, which was suggested in the Acting Col. Secretary's letter to the Board. No. 534 of the 25th March 1801.

The Boards letter No. 39 of the 12th June,

189t, and the enclosures thereto show that the Board were then of opinion that under certain safeguands these was no sanitary abjection to still of the same opinion, I am to suggest that the adopting the system referred to. If the Bond is Board should depute 4 of its members (including 2 Chinese members) to confer with the acting Registar General, who will in that case invite the Committee of the Tung-Wa Hospital to meet the THE PROPOSED TRUST CORPOR- members of the Board with a view to considering whether or not the system referred to can be ATION.

availed of to meet the need of more burial space in all the Chinese Cemeteries mentioned in the resolution of the Board,

(d) Owing to great pressure of work in the 10. it is staff to register transfers of proper- up-to-date, and so notices Have in many instances been served on the former owners with the result that the notices, have been returned.

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(e) In the case of new properties, such as those on Connaught, Des Voeux, and Shaukiwan." mati, Tsim-tsa-tsui and Hanghom, the required Roads, and of a good many properties of Yan

information is not obtainable at the L. O...

THE DRAINAGE BYE-LAWS.

A letter was submitted from the Surveyor (Mr. Drury) recommending the alteration of Drainage Bye-law No. 55, or the addition or another Bye-law made under Ordinance 24 of 87 to give the Board power to enforce open semi-egg shaped channels instead of under- round pipes, to the greatest extent possible' any private house drainage scheme in the No. 55 does not provide city, which Bye-law No. ford to

Dr. Hartigan, Mr. Osborne, and Dr. Lowson minuted-in favour of the scheme.

PLAGUE IN MACÃO,

The deaths in Macao for the week ended March 25th numbered 69, including 15 from plague..

LIMEWASHING.

The fortnightly limewashing return stated: "The period for limewashing of the Central district is still current. Many landlords leave

the limewashing till the last few days of the period. The Inspector in charge of limewash- ing reports that he has visited three or four which he has had notices of intention "where hundred houses (several times individually) for work has not been started. This entails on him considerable needless and avoidable work."

*THE HEALTH, OF HONGKONG, The death rate of the colony for the week ended March 24th was 273, against 23 for the previous week, and 148 for, the corresponding week last year!**

EXTENSION OF TIME,

I am to add that Ilis Excellency is of opinion.Wong Kam and Tin Wing Shing, of 26 and 2 that the Plague Cemetery at Kennedy town 28, Kennedy street, respectively, asked to be should be closed if possible, and am to enquire allowed to keep their cattle in the sheds 26 and whether the Board can suggest a new site for 18, Kennedy street, for a further period of four

plague cemetery on some portion of Mount months, Ee, until a new shed is built. Davis or at Sandy Bay...

The following reply anent the formation of a Trust Corporation was laid on the table at to- day's inecting of the Sanitary Board :---

Colonial Secretary's Office, No. 520.

30th March, 1900. Sir, I am directed by the Governor to ac knowledge.the receipt of Mr. Duggan's letter,' No. 37 of the 3rd instant, forwarding by direc beention of the Sanitary Board a draft scheme for the formation of a Trust Corporation to be charged with the duty and invested with the power of carrying out Sanitary improvements To the Secretary, Sanitary. Board.

Twenty three steamers have chartered, to convey 20,000 horses strictions Goods will be landed here unless from Australia, Buenos Ayres and New Orleans to the Cape before the end of May.

instructions are given to the contrary before 2 P.M., TO-DAY,

Goods not cleared by the 18th instant, at 4 P.M. will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by mné in. any case whatever.

All dainaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob- Captain Finlayson, will be despatched as above tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.

H. A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent. Hongkong, 12th April, 1900,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 13th April, 1900.

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LATER.

GENERAL CARRINGTON PRO-

CEEDS TO BEIRA, General Carrington, has arrived at Capetown, and proceeds to Beira immediately

in the City of Victoria.

In reply 1 am to state that, while His Ex- cellency fully appreciates the excellent "work being done by the Sanitary Board and the anxious desire of that body for improved sanitation, he is not prepared to recommend the creation of a Trust to the Secretary of State, who has so lately decided against the proposal to∙grant, municipal powers in the Colony..

I have, etc.

(Sd) F. H. MAY; Ag. Colonial Secretary. Act. Secretary, Sanitary Board:

I have the lionour to be, Sir,

Your most obdi servant

(SL) FH. MAY, Act. Colonial Secretary

THE PLAGUE;

Cases reported to tpth instant opsi 39

Do. do. during past 24 hours...

Total-39

Deaths reported to rith inste

"do, during past Do

burs

THE PLAGUE IN FORMOSA

A return from the British Consul at Tainan, showed that from the 11th to 16th March, 137 cases of plague were reported. The deaths num bered 195, recoveries 15, under treatment 17.

JAPANESE TOPICS

(From our 'Dun. Correspondent.),

„YOKOHAMA, April and. The attitude of Corea vis-a-vis Japan ap pears to be gradually undergoing a change;" change that is almost imperceptible to the ordinary onlooker, but which is distinctly visible. to those who have closely followed recent events." "Towards the end of last month it was reported that Japan applied to the Corean Go vernment for permission to construct wireless telegraph in Corea, so that the mainland might be brought into closer touch with the: many iss