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To-day's

Advertisements.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901.

To-day's Advertisement.

BOXING.

THEATRE

ROYAL,

CITY

HALL.

THEATRE

MR. HENRY DALLAS'

MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY,

LATEST

presenting all the

LONDON

SUCCESSES.

GRAND OPENING, SATURDAY NEXT,

MARCH 9TH.

With a magnificent production for the FIRST TIME IN HONGKONG OF THE VERY LATEST MUSICAL

C

SUCCESS,

"FLORODORA.”

NOW DRAWING CROWDED HOUSES

NIGHTLY AT THE

LYRIC THEATRE, LONDON.

FULL CHORUS. AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA.

Musical Director-Mr. W. F. Vallance.

MAGNIFICENT SCENERY,

by Mr. W. H. Pulford.

BEAUTIFUL

DRESSES, by the leading London firms.

The whole produced by Mr. HENRY DALLAS. THURSDAY NEXT,

SAN TOY.”

"

PLAN ROBINSON PIANO CO.

ADMISSION :--$3, $2 & $1. No Half-price.

Doors Open at 8.30 P.M., Commence at 9 P.M.

NOTICE.

Owing to the great demand for Seals, the Management is compelled to give Notice to patrons that all Tickets for Seats reserved must be taken up the day before each Performance; or they will be re-sold.

A Late Tram will run nightly during the visit.

BIRTH.

On the morning of the 25th ulto, at the University Hospital, Tokio, Captain JAMES THOM, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha,

MARRIAGE.

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by Mr. Peter,

THE Spanish Trans-Atlantic Company is about | HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAM- | on the motion of Mr. da Champeaux seconded, to open a service of steamers between Japan. and the Philippines. Two vessels of 2,000 tons each have been ordered in England for the purpose. The service will probably commerce within six months—Japan Mail.

At No. 160, Bluff, Yokohama, the residence of David Jackson, Esq, on the 25th alto, by the Rev. E. Chainpnoys Irwine, MÁ, H. W. ROYAL, FRASER, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking THE Colonia! Veterinary Surgeon's (Mr. C. Corporation, 3ni son of the late Alex. Fraser, | Vivian" Ladds) report for 1900 was submitted Island Bank House, Invamess, N. B, to at the Sanitary Board meeting this afternoon. MABEL AMELIA, eldest daughter of Geo. E.The consideration of this report was postponed Rice, Esq., of Yokohama,

from last meeting. Extracts of the report appeared a fortnight ago in nur columns.

CITY HALL.

A

WAYS CO. LIMITED.

holders of the above Company was held at the An extraordinary general meeting of share.

offices of the Company, 38 and 40, Queen's Road Central, yesterday at noon. Mr. Hart Buck occupied the chair, and the others present were Massis, C. Ewans and C. W. Dickson (Consulting Committee), H. Humphreys, Į. A Jupp, G. Murray Bain, A. H. Mancell, J. A. Tarrant, R. H. Potts, H. Sutton, J. M. Wong. and W. C. Taylor (secretary).

„The Secretary read the notice calling the

acting

The Chairman said-Gentlemen. At the last

elegraph appeare, guys the Narasaki Press, that meeting at which this resolution was passed, t

GRAND BOXING The Hongkong Celegraph

CONTEST

WILL TAKE PLACE IN

THE ABOVE HALL, THIS EVENING, (THURSDAY),

7TH MARCH, 1901.

PRELIMINARY BOUTS:

A. BRATT

H.M.S. Centurion.

J. MILLS,

W. HOWARD.

V. CURLY BARTLETT,

H.M.S.Goliat H.M.S. Conturion, W. MCAULY, 2 J: DRISCOLL,

HM.S. Centurion.

THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.

Under the Management of

W. B. WATERS.

T. ARMSTRONG, H.M.S. "CENTURION," WILL BOX JOE RILEY OF THE

UNITED STATES,

10 ROUNDS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE EAST. CATCH WEIGHTS.

"AND ALSO A MEETING OF THE LIGHT WEIGHT. CHAMPIONS IN A SIX-ROUND

EXHIBITION BOUT.

SAM BENTLEY,

TORPEDO DEPOT, LIGHT WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND,

WILL BOX

GEORGE SMITH,

H.M.S. "CENTURION,” LIGHT AND MIDDLE WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE COLONY.

ADMISSION-51, $2 & $1.

BOX PLAN may be seen and SEATS BOOKED at the ROBINSON PIANO CO.

Doors Open at 8.30 PM. Commence 9 P.M. Hongkong, 7th March, 1901.

Intimations.

EYE

[3000

SIGHT.

Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES

at 16, Queen's knad Central, (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours:-9 AM to 5 P.M.

GREAT proportion of cataracts and

[258c A diseases affecting those advancing in life

BERTRAM HERMANN, Business Manager. Hongkong, 7th March, 19012

QUEEN'S

COLLEGE

THE SPAN, the 13th instant, Applic auts for Admission should be in the COLLAGE HALL, at 9 A.M., on MONDAY, the 17th

HE SPRING TERÁ commences on

instant.

ALFRED J. MAY,

Acting Head Master. Hongkong, 7th March, 1901," [agoc

TO LET

BOARD In?

OARD and ROOM $70. In Private Family,

Apply to

7 R. ROE,

occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of 'Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901, REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR OFFICE. LORD WOLSELEY CONDEMNS THE SYSTEM.

there is a possibility of raising the O.S.K. steamer Tamui Maru (1,674 tons), which sank in the harbour, of Amoy on the zist January last. Several divers dispatched from Formosa have reported that the vessel is not so seriously damaged as was at first believed. On the strength of this report, measures are being taken by the company to raise the sunken steamer.

Tux Frochów Echo attributes the invention of the following riddle to local talent: "Why does Mr. Kruger wear boots?" After hazard-

ACCUSED OF NOT UNDERSTAND-ing the reply "To keep his feet dry," the victim

ING HIS DUTIES."

LONDON, March 5th.

In a debate in the House of Lords on the administration of the War Office, Lord Wolseley condenined the system of 1895, by

which the Commander-in-Chief was robbed of the control, the administration of which was wasted in a civilian, Lord Lansdowne denied that the Commander-in-Chief had been deprived of the control, and accused Lord Wolseley of not exercising his rights of supervision and of failing to understand his duties.

LATER.

THE DUKE OF YORK'S VISIT TO

AUSTRALIA.

The King has empowered the Duke of York to confer orders of Knighthood in

Australia.

LAUNCH OF BRITISH WAR-SHIPS, Two battleships and two cruisers launched yesterday, hold the launching record by one day.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The debate in the House of Lords con- tinues. The scene in the crowded House

WEATHER REPORT.

generally arrives near the right answer, which is "To keep De Wet from defeat," et "To keep his feet from de wet-an answer which has several times been heard." This of course would account for the strong suspicion that Mr. Kruger sleeps with his boots on. It is evidently not a mere Boer characteristic.

J. D. MCAULIFF, an American gragshop keeper in Ticatsin, was tied in the U.S. Consular Court there last week for attempting to murder two French soldiers by shooting at them with Shanghai papers of the 1st inst, the French a revolver. From evidence it appeared, say men were guilty of very violent conduct and tried to bayonet McAuliTM and other people in the bar, and that he only fired in self-defence, boring a good sized hole in the stomach of one of his assailants. He was accordingly acquitted.

BRITISH shipping at Nagasaki for 1899, accord- ing to the British Consul, Mr. Longford, shows decrease, the first, and perhaps principal, being the diversion of British tonnage to the require ments of the war in South Africa and in the earlier part of the year to the military service of the United States in the Philippines; and the second, the influence of the new tonnage dues. Previous to their existence two or three ships arriving at Shanghai from Europa with part cargo for Nagasaki would all have natural, ly come on to this port. Now the Nagasaki portion of all is frequently transferred at Shang- bai one only, so that where two or three would have entered the port, only one, now does so.

ja striking, and Feoresses dressed in the deep. LAST night, Bertram the great gave the third and last exhibition of his extraordinary skill, eat black fill the galleries,

in the City Hall. The house was crowded as usual. Mr. Bertram's wonderful manipulations of a pack of cards are almost uncanny and were much appreciated. He also performed with only slight variations from the method, the been so much discussion at various times. His famous mange trick about which there has

tricks with coins and in the art of palming were also very wonderful. Perhaps the best, because

The Observatory report says: On the 7th at 11.55 am. the depression is probably crossing Japan, and the barometer has risen quickly and is again high in N. China, Freshening monsoon in S. China, and the N.

part of the China Sea. Forecast:-N.E. winds, freshening; changeable.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Boxing Contest between Joe Riley and Thomas Armstrong, takes place to-night at the Theatre Royal, City Hall.

THE Mortality returns from Macao show that there were 58 leaths during the week ended 14th February last, compared with 34 for the

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi. eate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir-week previous. ing Classes only to correct and cure.

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.

ADVICE FREE.

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IT is reported that the protest entered by the Japanese Consul against the prohibition of the fanding of the Japanese at Columbia has re- sulted favourably, THE fortnightly limewashing return for the Colony Valed 4th inst. shows that there were

the most apparently incomprehensible, was the last one with six tin cylinders, from which he produced a great variety of articles, from billiard bails to bird cages. Altogether it was a most interesting and amusing evening, and we hope that Mr. Benram will find it worth his while to pay Hongkong another visit.

نیت

The auditors, Massik, J. H. Cox and WH. posal of Mr. Palmer seconded by Mr. Reid. Potts, wore unanimously re-elected on the pro-

The Chairman-That is all' the business gentlemen. Dividend warrants will be posted this afternoon. I am much obliged for your attendance.

THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST.

“ADDRESS BỶ MR. J. J. FRANCIS, K.C.

(Continued from yesterday.)

address, delivered on the 5th inst, which We give below the concluding portion of we were unable to publish yesterday.

Now, he was not saying that the action of the Chinese Government or people in what they had done in connection with the Boxer Outbreak was

think I explained fully why we considered the time had now arrived when we might justly re-this vert to the scale of remuneration which was decided upon when the Company was formed. I might, however, add that in 1891, before we took the general management and financed the Company through its troubles, another influen- tial Company was approached on the subject, and I find on reading the old minutes of micet ings that the terms named by them were in ex- cess of what we now propose. Before putting the resolution to you i shall be pleased to give any further information.

Mr. Murray Bain-It might be well, for the sake of the newer shareholders, to give a little more information about the terms formerly pro- posed, so as to give some basis on which to vote. 1 am one of the original shareholders, and know pretty well what has happened, but n great number of the shareholders know practi- cally nothing of the history of the Company.

The Chairman said-I find in the minule. book a report of a meeting held in 1891, at which the following terms were proposed to be which Mr. Murray Bain was present and at charged by an influential legal company ap pointed to conduct the general management: carnings; a minimum remuneration of $2,500 To receive five per cent. of the gross per annum, which will include office clerks, but not stationery or other charges. In addition to the above remuneration, this Company to take one-quarter of the nett profits after they (the nett profits) amount to seven per cent, and one half after they amount to ten per cent. That, I think, is as much as it is necessary to tell you.

Mr. Murray Bain-Thank you,

Mr. Murray Bain seconded, and the resolu- tion was carried unanimously.

The Chairman- thank you, gentlemen, for your attendance.-

THE OHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED. The Thirty-Second Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders in the Company was held at the tra, Victoris, to-day, at three o'clock in the Company's Offices, No. 3, Queen's Road Cen-

afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Report of the Direc. tors for the year ending 31st December, 1900.

Mr. A. Haupt occupied the Chair, and there Moses, G. S. Sharp, H. W. Slade, P. Witkonski were also present Messrs. N. A. Siebs, D. M. (directors), G. S. Tomlin (secretary F. D: Guedes, G. T. Veitch, H. W. M. Silva, J. C. Turner, G. de Champeaux and Chan Pat. Petor, R. C. Wilcox, T. H. Reid, C. Palmer, A. |

The secretary read the notice convening the meeting.

in itself justifiable. He would like to say that if we were to place our selves. in the position of the Chinese and were to be treated as China had been, there would he, a most vigorous resistance, and every international lawyer and every statesmag would be up in anna to justify and defend his rights. lle was justified in saying it and he would call attention to the possible justifica- tion of the Government of China and the people in endeavouring

get rid of foreigners from the interior. of the country.

in breaking the treaties because they were imposed by force, and they had no status as long as they For all practical purposes it was Might in were not capable of being maintained by force. right." And they had seen a senate of the small treaty made between them and Great United States advancing and declaring that a Britain was to be set aside. If they had been asked to state their reasons, they would have And not only that it had to say that circumstances had changed.

was inconvenient to maintain it but there was the undoubted sense and feeling that the United States was one of the most powerful, if not the mast powerful, of nations. Did anyone believe that Russia would not break the treaties that existed, the moment she saw her way to do it? Had not all the concessions in the interior been granted under pressure and threat of force? He was not attempting to justify the attack on the legations The Chairman then moved that the follow- nor the indiscriminate massacre of every ing resolution be confirmed: "That Article European in the interior of the country. Such XII. of the Articles of Association be cancelled occurrences as that were outside the pale of all- and that there be substituted therefor the follow-law, and the Chinese Government, and officers ing article: 12. The remuneration of the knew perfectly well by this time that such actions General Managers shall be a commission of and methods of carrying out their objects were five per cent. per annum on the gross earnings wholly unjustifiable and wrong. But the fact of the Company, and in addition thereto an

was that however much they had been dis- allowance not exceeding $1,000 per annum for

graced by the attack on the legations and how- office-rent and salaries of clerks,”

ever much the nation and the individuals deser- ved punishment, nevertheless, it must be fairly, clear and he believed it was the opinion ofa great many, that the Chinese had a very great amount of justification for the attempt to shake off the control and yoke of the Western nations. They had not sufficient power and the attempt had been premature, but although they had been defeated and Tientsin had been occupied, they might nevertheless have been right and justified in their attempt. Of course right of rebellion in certain cases they also imperialists laid down that by teaching the

laid down that the man who rebelled with: put having power to turn his rebellion into revolution was in the wrong. From. that view the Chinese government might by Mr. Colquhoun, who said that the Chinese be in the wrong. He had-before him a book Government was practically useless. He would ask them if the Chinese Government had as a nation shown itself to be powerless with refer ence to the internal Government of its own country. The constitution of the Chinese Govern- nient was peculiar. Each province or part of a.. province had its viceroy and was independent A LEADING Chinese resident died very sud

so far as its own affairs were concerned. Each denly at his residence in Park Road on the

raised its revenue and disbursed its expenses. afternoon of the fat icst., says the Ching

Each raised its military and naval force if Gazelle, in the person of Ho Sze-kwan, director

required. That was what might be called the social government of the country; the manage- of the Nanyang College and Managing Diree-

ment of the affairs of the people, as distinguish- tor of the local Chinese Railway Administra

ed between the management of the affairs of tion. The deceased was engaged, after tiffin,

the country. Every officer was appointed from in writing a memorial to the Throne for Sheng

Peking and though the troops had been scat on the subject of reforms in China, when, as we are told, he gave a long sigh and fell portion this sum as follows, vir: $120,000 to -tered and the Court was in exile, had there dead in the midst of his task, leaving it shareholders, being the usual. Dividend of $6 been any cessation of supplies or money? uncompleted whether from sense of the hope- per share, or 30% of the paid up Capital; $650 Of course there had been disturbances, but to contributors of Premia as a Bonus, an one occurred in England some little time lessness of such a subject, history sayeth not,

item which is gradually growing smallet go, when the mobs broke into meetings die fact that held by pro-Boers. The Chinese Government attribute somé ́such. sense to Mr. Ho's sudden

the balance, $22,763.79 to the credit of extra was very effective for all internal purposes. almost all premia is how on net terms, and was very far from being perfect, but it His death created quite a stir in local official reserve fund, which will then stand at $24,630.01. The power for the protection of Europeans .circles, and amongst those who hastily called to verify the truth of the said news was Sheng policies were somewhat heavy, but one claim,

The cases paid in 1900 on account of our 1899 could be exercised if they desired to exercise Hsian-hwei. He had been a confidential adviser that of the unfortunate destruction of the

it and maintain peace. The population of China's 38 provinces tras something like to the late Viceroy Cheng Hsu-seng, Governar Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's new pre- 300,000,000 and that they were the same.... Nieh Wen-wei [of Liang Kiang] and Liu

mises at Paking a year ago, will alone account class of", men, cute, active, intelligent, Ming-Chuan of Formosh fame. He was an

for $53,000.00, of the sum paid gut. The loss capable, not only of managing their scholar uncontaminated with the babu cult with 78.38% for 1898. The addition to our perfectly capable, in spite of all we could do, or the "pidgin" of the missionary school,

extra reserve fund will, I feel sure, meet with of getting their own way. Was it likely that with a mind singularly free to receive sensible advice from any, rational quarter. His man.

your approbation, for this is a fund from three hundred millions of people, occupying which in the case of a disastrous, year's one of the most fertile lands in the world, and agement of Nanyang College is said to have working you may have to fall back upon all with the same peculiarities from one and of heen marked with good sense and he handled for your dividend, and therefore whilst we have the empire to the other, was likely that they with great skill, though he knew no foreign. am convinced that it is a wise policy to do so cleven powers represented at Feking, and Sheng's more confidential and delicate businessan. opportunity of strengthening the same, wool be put out of existence? There were language. Lately he was invited by Viceroy Turning now to the stateinent of Accounts the mere fact that they were hostile to Liu to go up to Nanking to assist him in pre- there is nothing in the Balance Sheet which each other was in itself one very sufficient, paring memorials on Reform, and his death is

calls for remark except that the item of $10,000 reason why China would not go to the regarded as & distinct loss to the progressive

on mortgage at Amor las since been repaid ground and why China would not be broken mandarin caste as distinguished from the im- practical so-called Reformers.

It may also interest you to learn that the Com-up. And what was in become of China? pany's Surveyors have, as usual, reported on Was this the beginning of the end? Of the the properties under mortgage to us, and I am destruction of China? or as Sir Robert Hart happy to say that irrespective of the recent boom suggested, was it the commencement of a new in land in the Colony, safe margins are shown era in which China was likely to reestablish in each case on our advances. The Working herself and to take her proper place in the Account for igno shews a smaller balance.car society of nations? Looking at it with all the ried forward by: $6,566 57 1hanghe Brevious year, thought and intelligence he could give it, and but it is hoped that when our liability has baring read nearly everything that had been run off it may be found at the profit written on the subject, it appeared to him, and exceeds that of the former period and thus he thought if his listeners would reflect they reverse the present position. Premium Account would see, that they were at the beginning of a. shews a slight falling off which is accounted. new era in China, and that the movement. for by the reinsurances being somewhat

The Chairman said-Gentlemen, the Director's Report and Stattinent of the Com- pany's Accounts for the past year having been in your hands for our three weeks I will, with your permission, now take them as read and proceed to make such remarks upon them as seem called for. I am pleased to say that the year 1899 has run off leaving the satisfactory balance of $143,413.79 to be dealt with at this meeting, and with your approval we propose to:

1880 houses limewashed in the Eastern Uis, though the superstitious natives will doubtless year by year owing to Care of Office of This Paper A. S. WATSON & Co., trict, 3436 in the Central, and 3266 in the call to the realms where "squeeze" is unknown;

Hongkong, 7th March, 1901.

TO LET.

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.

THE RETREAT."-MOUNT KELLET.

A GODOWN.--No. 83, PRAYA EAST.

GROUND FLOOR.-No.

BUILDINGS.

4,

HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.

No. 4, FAIRVIEW. KOWLOON.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

LIMITED.

IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS

Per Bask

1 dor,

dinner.. wine, Green Seal MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

Hongkong, 7th March, zoor.

FOR ILOILO.

THE Steamship

"ANTONIO MACLEOD,"

Western District.

WE have received an artistic calendar with a map showing the Great Salt Lake Route of the Rio Grande Western Railway, in connection with the Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado

SHERRIES. Midland Railways. The Rio Grande is the only trans-continental line passing directly through Salt Lake City. It is described as "the scenic link between Orient and Occident." THE mortality statistics for the week ended 23rd February for this Colony show that the deathrate per thousand for the whole Colony, civil population, was 33.5 against 17.9 the previous week: fand population 220 against 23.7 the week previous: bost population 30.8 compared with 29.3 the week before: land and boat population 23.2 per thousand against 24.5 the previous week; the whole Colony, British Foreign and Chinese, excluding Army and Navy, 236 per 1000 against 24 6 the weak previous.

B-SUPERIOR PALE DRY,

Izoge Capsule

12.00 CC-SUPERIOR OLD DAY, · PALE NATURAL SHERRY, Red Seal Capsule

$10.80 C-MANZANILLA, PALE NATURAL SHERRY, White Capsule

12.00

D-VERY SUPERIOR OLD

Captain Ugarte, will be despatched as above an SATURDAY, the 9th instant, at 2 P.M.

For Passage only, apply to

BRANDAO & Co., Agents.

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OREGON AND ORIENTAL PALE DAY, choice old wine,

Hongkong, 7th March, 1991.'

STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

IN CONNECTION WITH

THE OREGAN RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.

PROPOSED SAILING FROM HONGKONG TO PORTLAND (OR) AND SAN FRANCISCO,

VIA

INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE. AND YOKOHAMA., Taking Cargo to JAPAN PORTS, THE UNITED STATES and Canada. THE Steamship

MEVA"

2,088 tons, Capt. Petersen,.. This Steamship will be despatched on or about, WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, for PORTLAND (OR VIA MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMAD MA

Through Bills of Lading, issued to any Point

in the United States and Canada.

Cargo will be received on board until 5PM. the day previous to sailing. Parcel packages will be accepted at the Office of the Under signed until the same time. All parcels should

be marked to address in full. Value of same is

required. W

Consular Invoices; to accompany Cargo des- tined to points, beyond Portland (Or), should be sent to the Company's Office, addressed to the Collector of Customs, Portland (0:3) - ***For further Information as to Freight rates,

cc, apply to

ARNHOLD KARBERG & Co.

White Seal Capsule

E-EXTRA SUPERIOR OLD PALE DRY, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)

14.40

20.40

A RUGBY football match was played yesterday afternoon at the Happy Valley, between the Club and the Navy. The following were the 'teams:-Clul: Back-Campbell; three-quarters --Harman, Beattie, Cowie, and Forsyth; halves Stevens and Burke; forwards-Johnson, Bishop, Clark, Goldring, Hallifax, Loring B, C, and CC are excellent dinner Sandford and Wilson. Navy: Back-Roper Wines and suitable for invalids and three-quarters-Royds, St. Clair, Wiltshire and delicate stomachs. D and Goldie; halves-Noble and Shettle; forwards after-dinner Wines of a very Superior Vintage. ALL ARE TRDEXERES WINES.

Sample bottles and smaller quanti ties will be supplied at pro wholesale rates.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony oom our authorized Agents at the Coast Ports:

A. S. WATSON & 00. LIMITED. HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Grieve, England, Graham, Caskill, Palmer, Bartlett, Walcott and Gibson. A good game resulted in a win for the Club by three tries (6 Spints) to one try (2 points).

excellent type of the best class of Chinese

CRICKET.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

The Hongkong Cricket Club will play the Army, starting at 2 p.m. to-morrow and 11.ăm, on Saturday.

T. Sercombe Smith, E. Mast, 1. Franklin, R.M., The following will play for the Club - Capt. Strong, R.M.L.L., Lt. Mayhew, R.M.L.I., Commander Lyne, R.N., D.W. Salter, T. Hooper, C. P. Hay, Lt. Noble, R., H. Mannisty, K.N. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

SUPREME COURT,

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

(Before His Honour Sir John Carringion, K., C.M.G. (Chief Justice), and a Special Fury, March 7th.

*** HERBERT PRICE, TRADING AS II. PRICE

¡AND CO., V. BUM SIN SANG.

Or the mail bags sent by the Yokohama Post Office by the wrecked liner Rio de Janeiro 15 were directed to Honolulu and 113.10 San Frunesco, says the Kobe Herald. The Re egistered letters, numbered 893, of which 209

The plaintiff prayed that the defendant might were addressed to America and 684.10 Europe be ordered specifically to perform an agree The Yokohama Agent of the P. M. S. 5. Coment and to grant a lease to him in accordance has a telegram from the head office to the effect with the terms. of the said agreement

that the Piru will take the place of the sunken vessel. The Peru is a vassel constructed on much the same liner as this Afo. The wreck of the Rio (the Japan Herald notes), will cause quite a loss to local insurance companies. As will have been scen, shipments of silk.totalled 680 bales, ich, at the present market price

was worth in the ne

Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mesare, Jolinson, Stokes, and Master) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C. (instructed by Messrs. Mounsey and Bruston) for the defendant.

The jurors were Messrs. Thos. Arnold (fore: man). Denison, JM. Beattie, F. H.A. Fuchs, RG Shewan, R, K. Leigh, and A Shelton

Hooper NCAA

fatio for 1000 works out at 57.70% as compared own affairs but, as they knew to their sorrow,

initiated by the Boxers and taken up by the

heavier this year than last, a precaution on the

Government and by perhaps all the leading right side which will commend itself to you, men connected with the central government of and also, no doubt, the trouble in the North China, was only the beginning of a quiet per- has curtailed our income to a certain extent. severing movement, he would not say for the Interest Account shews a steady increase, and expulsion of foreigners from China, because he we look forward to an even greater improve did not think that possible. The saine thing ment during the current year. Charges and would occur in Chink as in Japan, Europeane Commissions shew a reduction, which must be would not be expelled. The Chinese movement considered satisfactory. Lorses are in excess of would result in that the foreign encroachments those shewn in our last Report, not that we can would be repelled and China would maintain ber- point to any particularly heavy claim, but rather self sooner or later as a sovereign state, capable to a succession of moderate losses which in the more or less, of: holding her own with the. aggregate total. the sum of $75,451.16. The foreign powers, certainly so long as they were claims incurred ince the 31st December divided amongst themselves, and possibly in amount to $31,302.55% of which the sum of the course of two generations of doing mure $1,947.68 falls on the 1900 account will than holding their own, and of actively.com- now conclude by the moving that the Direc peting with us in all matters of trade and com- toys report and statement of accounts for the merce in shipping as well as in the field and year 1900 as presented be adopted. After this in military prowess. Of course there was the has been seconded I shall be pleased to answer other side of the question, and it was perfectly any questions that may be put relating to possible that a partial break up of the Chinese business before the meeting.

Empire would take place and that certain The adoption of the report and accounts powers might endeavour successfully to annex was unanimously carried on the motion of the certain portions of the Chinese Empire. The Chairman seconded by Mr. Wildox.' ';

process had commenced and it looked promising "The appointment of Messis. R. Shewan, H. enough, and fall powersthat werenow sccupied W. Slade, C. S. Sharp, and P. Witkowski asin endeavouring to settle themselves at Peking, directors was confirmed on the motion of Mr. only one was likely to succeed. The same Tuiner secdaded by Mr Veitch Live will nower that had accorded since 1860 1t absorbi