LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Thursday, the 14th inat, a 3 p
BUSINESS,
1. Sanitary Bye-Law. (Cleansing and Lime whiting.)
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide for the better enforcement of discipline among the subordinate staff in the Civil Medical Departmen'.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1901.
AUSTRALIAN CONTIGENT
AT TIENTSIN.
examination centres, and in practice is little more than nominal; yet this is the only part of the examination which is of real importance, Very general regret will we know he felt that among the people who spoke it, while the new Lastly, the old schinnt learned the language the close of the winter also brings to an end are supposed to study it at an English univer- the stay of the Australian Contingent. The sity before coming out, with the result that men have not done the work they came to do they acquire an "accent which very few of and expected to do, but they have rendered a service to Tientsin which has been more therefore, that the system is much more to be them ever succeed in shaking off. It is clear, thoroughly appreciated by civilians and the blamed than indivduals for the present deplor- Military Authorities responsible for the goodable state of things. But that state of things discipline and order of the Settlements, than if exists, and is one of the most serious factors in 1. Third reading of the Bill entitled An
they had been winning laurels on the battle field. the present situation.-Er. Ordinance to repeal all Ordinances for the By the tact, good-temper and admirable discip Naturalization of Persons as British Subjects line they have displayed while undertaking the within this Colony and to make provision for policing of Tientsin, they have considerably the Preservation of the Rights of such Persons, lightened the responsibilities of their officers, 3. Commillee on the Bill entitled An Ordinand, wan admiration and respect from all, and Ance to conaniidate and amend the laws re- they will as a body of men carry back, with lating to Public Health in the Colony of Hong then to the Colonies a reputation of which kong.
they may feel justly proud. We shall miss them very considerably here as we shall re member them always with the kindliest pos. sible recollections.-P. & T. Times,
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
ARMY,
Before Mr. Hazeland this morning the Yan Hang Arnis Shop were qunmonsed far remov ing a quantity of arms without having a permit, and with not, entering the arms in the stock
books.
Mr. Mousey appeared for the defence. His Worship fined the defendants $20 on each of a summenses, in all $60 for the offences
REMOVING SAND FROM CHUNG HOM DAY.
Three masters of curge boats were charged by P. C. Smith before Mr. Kemp this morning with unlawfully removing sal from the hillside at Chung Hoin Bay, without having a perinit from the Director of Public Works, yesterday The first defendant was also charged with using his cargo boat in the water of the Colony with out a license, yesterday.
The defendants pleaded guilty and they were 5 or fourteen days hard labour on the and the first man was fined $; or y hard labour. Es wire paid.
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BRIGANDAGE AROUND TIENTSIN.
The P. & 7. Times of March the and says: The country around Tientsin is becoming increasingly disturbed, several forcieners have been done to death within a short distance of here. In one instance an American saloon- keeper joined same disreputable Chinese in an Attempt to extort money from a certain village, and brought upon himself a terrible fate. The Chinese seized him and cut off ears, pose, tan- gue, etc., and finally hacked him to pieces. In another instance three Germans who went into the country to purchase cattle, taking with tirem a large sum of money, were attacked and killed, the Chinaman with them escaping and bringing word back to the Settlements. A German force promptly went out and burnt down the village, killing a number of the Boxer inhabitants, We also hear that two Indian troopers who went out from Tung-chow on a racket of their own, were attacked, one being killed and the other rescued by Italian outposts Of course in cases where men break bounds and go on the pillage dae cannot marvel at tragic results. But we decline to believe that the raids made pon villages round by certain foreign troops in order to replenish their commissariat supplies, is altogether responsi ble for the dangerous state of the country. At times the Chinese are undoubtedly pro- voked; but, the incessant pillaging and cruel oppression going on among themselves, even in the City, proves that the country is infested. with disbanded soldiers and Boxers who have
come to the end of their resources, and are now carrying on a desperate and high-handed game of murder and plunder as a livelihood.
PEKING NEWS,
PERI, 8th March.
THE LEGATION AREA. The Legation Quarter has been rettled in principle; the location of the Cestoms will be amicably arranged.
THE MISSIONS TO EUROPE.
The Embassy to Germany is delayed. The deputy appointed to the mission of condolence to London is not acceptable meantime the reinterment of those who died in the Legations during the siege takes place to-morrow (Satur- 'day.)
WEIHAIVE TO AWAKE.
WEDDING OF THE YOUNG
QUEEN OF HOLLAND.
A SIDELIGHT ON INDIA:
Few home-keeping Englishmen realise at all adequately the extent of the revolution that has been wrought-for good and evil both-in that vast dependency which we are accustomed to think of as "the brightest jewel in the English Crown." Incidents like the Poona murders in 1897 occasionally rouse us to wonder for a moment whether our rule there has been quite the unalloyed success that we imagine, but trouble rarely reaches the point of active rebeliun, and so we imagine that all is well The impetitudes of the so-called National Con gress carry no conviction and inspire no freedom Liberals at home fought and won so respret, and the vernacular press, for whose hard a battle, has abused that freedom to its irretrievable discredit, so that any well founded discontent, supposing it to exist, has no reliable mouthpiece. The English press depends for its maiter and its public for the most part upon estici Idom, and bitterly resents as its comments upon the policy of the pre sent Viceroy abundantly show-any reflection upon in clientele. so the no penetrating criticism is to be looked for in that quarter; while the non-official Europeans are neither numerous enough nor sufficiently ready with their pens exceptions, among whom the late G. W.Steevens To gain a hearing. The globe trottor-with ranc was conspicuous-do little but accumulate an appalling amount of ignorance upon one side be other of the controversy between the official and the "Congress-walla," and their those who really know the country and the writing only serves to darken counsel; while defects of its administration look on with some- thing akin to despair. This is not the place to cater upon an exhaustive discussion, but we may, at least, direct attention to one important phase of the subject, and that is the growing And dangerous ignorance of the vernacular official languages on the part of the average English
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A PEAK REMINISCENCE. The following narrative, fiks a great many unpleasant things, is true. This has been said of other narratives, but you can take my word for it in the present instance.
Her entreaties to beg Spiers to let him oth;
TUESDAY, 19th.
moved him for a while, but he felt he could not Non-An Extmordinary General Meeting of Wasic and daughter, Mr. S. Welly and boy,
do it, and Spiers would most probably listen to help for it. his wife before listening to him. There was no
next forenson as he headed a group of laugh. Not few were the comments on his looks the ing, respeclable Hongkong luthies, Mrs. Spiers "You're not looking very fit," Spiers said, As being the life and the soul of the whole party. he cut an abominable woman-matie knot on the sandwich basket. "You shouldn't have come if you didn't feel like it," he added crossly. That Grover would have come at all had never entered his mind-what man would leave a dying wife for a beastly pic-nic of all things in the world.
the Shareholders of the Union Insur anca Society of Canton Ld., `at their office.
WEDNESDAY, 20th.
Noon-N. D. L. Co.'s steamer Bayern with
Mails etc. leaves for Southampton.
SATURDAY 23rd. Noon-Meeting of the Shareholders of the China and Manila Steamship Company Ld., at their offices.
Batavia--Mr. Klatte From Singapdré-Mrs.
Mrs. Stanford, Messrs. Buchanan, C. H. Best, Joa da. Viga Lee, Lee To Ming, S. C. Martin, Mrs. Ochige, Mr. Paul Fette, Mr.
hisiat, Dollfus, Bailly, Kob Heng Sek and boy, and Mrs Jacguemor, Mr. and Mrs, Uil- mann and 3 children, and 4 Chinese. From Saigon-Messrs. Tibbey, Martiner, Hadenf Koo Sao Tee and bay, Ha Toh Chi, and 100 Chinese. For 'Shanghai from Marseilles- Masers, John Mavrogordat, de Beaufort, Mons. E. Bernheim, Mr. and Mrs. Troniller, Mons, Guertz, Mr. and Mrs. Bernheim, Mr. and Mrs. Favier, Messrs. Ploton, Beiert, Jeannot, Mercier, Sonal Valmer, A. Verdier, Mrs. Ber WEDNESDAY, 37th. Noon-Meeting of the Shareholders of the Vioul, Edeline, Mrs. Paguini, Messrs. Dekkert, not, Messrs. Daniel, Devienne Braut, Choguet, 4. China Sugar Retinery Company Ld., Ponzi, Lebbe, Better, Sisters Gabrielle, Fran- at Messis. Jardine Matheson & Co.'s coise, Felicite, Louise, and Mr. Troniller. offices.
Front Colombo-Mr. and Mrs. Stecher. From p.n-Meeting of the Luzon Sugar Re-Singaporers, Paul, Mrs. Cigall, Mrs. Pere- Ginery Company Ld. at Messrs. Jar- stein, Mrs. Green, and Mrs. Stein. From dine Matheson & Co.'s offices.
Saigon Mr. Alexander Raison, Mrs. Brindini, Mrs. Cavagrandi, Messrs. Colesse and Rigal. For Yokohama from Marseilles-Mr. Guignard, Frisk, Kentler, Mrs. Philipon, 2 children and baby, Messrs. Nakas, Sishido, Mishiwo, Pusas Yoslukawa, Protopopas, Lackchewitz, 11. Fujata, Rymin Kohitson, Nagnska, D.. Souche, and Miss Ida Renault. From Port Said-Rev. P. Ray, From Suez-Mr. Banchi-
12.30
THURSDAY, 28th,
faintest suspicion that Grover was well nigh off Noon-T. K. K. steamer Nippen Afaru leaves Mr. and airs. Carpentier and child. Messrs. his head, and no one enlightened him.
Grover was seemingly the merriest among the At sunset when the fussy little torpedo boat took back her loadful of tried passengers,
and if his face looked haggard, no one
exerted themselves to see it.
"I had no alternative," Grover answered with away even to her own husband. He laughed a stupid laugh. He would'nt give Mrs. Spiers with the rest, cat with them and drank with It was not generally known in Hongkong She had intended him to feel that he was in them, till Mrs. Spiers herself was surprised. that Grover was married. Pt he was an all-round good fellow, ready to spend money joilier time apparently than anybody else. her power, but here he seemed to be having a on all occasions, ready to make himself gen-Spiers was disgusted, for he had not even the erally useful and popular, and to tie himself to Any lady's apron strings when called upon to do so, was well known, and if he were married, which was a matter somewhat vaguely under- stood, what, were the odds so long us his wife kept at home? But a man can't have a wife. and scarcely ever mention her name, and even Grover's best friends began to grow suspicions when he always avoided the subject. But it came upon them more suddenly than a bolt froni the blue when it was one day announced that Mrs. Grover was coming out by the next mail, due in a fortnight. And with her came old Hongkong hands fresh from holiday making before twenty-four hours were over the little Colony had curled its lip at the mention of neither tongue nor time in telling what they Grover's wife, for the holiday makers had spared knew. Who ever saw a Southaca girl, said they, who wasn't the same? Even if Mrs. Grover had been all that she might have been, it would have made small difference. This, at least, the Colony declared, and they knew daresay. Did Grover think, they questioned indignantly, that he was going to hondwink them? What possessed him to have her out at all.
"It's disgusting," Mrs. Spiers, wife of a mighty A.S.C. man, said to me. "We used to be so fand of him, but we never thought of this."
I couldn't argue with her. Could I tell her it was Grover's business, not hers, as to who and what his wife was, and that probably the white faced little woman who had suddenly come among us was about as good as most of the other men's wives?
We heard she was dying of something or the other, but she might not have existed at all as far as the feelings of any of Grover's old friends were concerned. After a few weeks he gradu ally found himself back in his former place, and indeed before two months were over he was as popular as ever, in a lesser way perhaps, as he chose apparently to remain at home in the small red bungalow with the woman who had come out to him, knowing well enough her, but her cry was, "I want at least to be with she was giving up the few years still allotted you when I die," each time he argued with her for her folly in coming out against the doctor's orders.
be stated; they are to be found in the growing The results of this ignorance hardly need to alienation of the rulers from the ruled, the grow ing dependence of the European officers upon officials, and the fact that the present gencia- a rapacious horde of English-speaking native
Mrs. Spiers was religious. This is saying tion of youthful civilians know much less of much. For myself, I liked her immensely, and the every day life and interests and prejudices so did everybody else, I believe. Great as were of the native than the far less highly "edu.her social duties, she did no: let them interfero cated officers of the old school, who spent with those of her religion, and she was a haun- their lives in closer contact with them, speaker of the Peak church, it was said, on week ing their language and following their lines of thought with a humorous insight which can be only rightly appreciated by those fortunate ones who were familiar with the old school as well as with the new. Their ears were attuned to niceties of idiom and intonation to which the new generation are absolutely
Was
case
insensible; and to hear one of those old world magistrate and judges try a
a revelation of intimate and minute acquaintance with the life of the people. The records of trials in these days are, no doubt, compiled with far more literary elegance and faultless logic; but the inform- ing spirit which made the people accept the judgment of the old sahih, while they despise that of the new, has vanished, in a general way, completely. We might almost add that on the rare occasions when such ability is detected in is rarest in the one service where it should be these days they are sternly, discouraged. It absolutely indispensable--the political; and so Sandeman we were landed in the frontier war it was that, after the death of Sir Robert of a few years ago; that the whole service could not produce a "political capable of -conducting the negotiations with the insurgent We learn with great pleasure that Mr. Cham- tribes, and that a pensioned veteran of the old berlain, Colonial Secretary, has instructed the school, Colonel Warburton, had to be recalled Commissioner at Weihaiwei, Colonel Dorwani, to duty for the purpose, after which order was to apply the Ceylon Mining Laws to the new restored with comparative case. We are not Colony if he finds them suitable, and there is denying that there were no incapables in the thus every chance of the development of Wei-old schont, or that the central governments, haiwes being actively taken in hand, with with the fatuity which so often characterises favourable results.-N. C. Daily News.
such bodies, did not frequently select them for high places, where they discredited their position; but that the rank and file of district officers twenty years ago-were linguists of a higher order than they are now, and so were in closer touch with the people, we entertain no The wedding of Queen Wilhelmina and sort of doubt. One more fact and we will pass on. Duke Henry was celebrated at The Hague on Often chief commissioners who administered a the 7th of February amid scenes of unexampled single Province in eighteen years we under- popular rejoicings. Enormous crowds gatherstand that one only--and that the oldest had ed in the streets to witness the Royal proces- a real colloquial knowledge of the vernacular sion to the Groote Kerke, where the religious of his charge, and two others enough to pass ceremony took place, and the bridle and bride-
muster; the remaining eight had no practical groom were welcomed with frantic cheering. acquaintance with it whatever, though they had The weather was fine. The civil ceremony took pisce is the Royal Palace at a-quarter and were, perhaps, fair scholars on paper.
doubtless passed the prescribed examinations, past eleven. After this ceremony which was There are some obvious reasons for all this. of the simplest character, the Queen and The enormous increase in office work has un Duke Henry drove in state to the Groote Kerke. doubtedly put a severe check upon the free The gilt State carriace, drawn by eight horses, intermingling with the people which used to be was used, and a strong force of cavalry formed
so characteristic of the old regime. The dis the escort. Inside the church the picturesque trict officer of the old school, when municipal and varied uniforms and dresses, with the committees bright decorations of draperies, flowers, and
were unknown, went round foliage made a most brilliant picture. After the chaplain had addressed the Royal couple and the nuptial benediction had bech pro nounced, the bride and bridegroom exchanged gold rings, according to the Dutch custom, and the whole wedding party then proceeded to the reception room attached to the church, where the Queen tenderly embraced, first her mother and then her husband. Duke Henry afterwards kissed the Queen-Mother. The bride groom, likewise, in his turn, kissed his wife and his own mother. wedded pair, having received the
The newly gratulations of the members of their families, con drove off to the palace, the route being the same as before. The public rejoicing at the wedding of the young Queen is finding expression in all parts of the Netherlands, from the little villages of the mother country to the settlements in the East Indies. In this country the interest excited by le mariage cannot but suggest memories of close ties which for centuries have existed between the British and Dutch peoples, and which have survived not a few contests in which both sides have borne themselves man fully, and gloriously. To-day a passing cloud dims those happy, relations, but we may to member with some measure of satisfaction that such clouds have gathered before, and yet the identily of spirit which characterise the two peoples has alwys asserted luclf again. Tar
days when she found the doors open, and the Cathedral saw her at least twice on Sundays, when in garb of dazzling expense, she went down punctually each week by the regulation church tram. Grover had been her right- hard man since he had first come from India-he was
Calcutta man born and
his house with a foreboding of something evil, He fairly raced up the miniature garden of and fully expecting someone to spring on him with word of which he tried hard not to think of.
and the cry he gave at sight of her was pitiful His wife welcomed him with a little smile, even to the hardened native boy outside the
donr.
she said that night, "but I don't think I could Perhaps I am not what any of them are," have done what some of them do-and you say | she is so religious."
Ha
for San Franciscn via Shanghai, etc.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS BUK
English (Chusen) ih instant. Canutian (Empress of China) 18th instant. German (König Albert) 19th instant. German (Bayern),19th instant, American (Nipßan Maru) zoth instant. Canadian (Tartar) 28th instant. Canadian (Athenian) 1st prox.
+
The A. 1. S. N. Co.'s steamer Melpomene, left Singapore for this port on the toth inst.
+
The A. L. S. N. Co.'s steamer Trieste, left
the hours he had spent with that woman when Grover could say nothing. He thought of he might have been with this pour suffering Singapore for this port to-day, the 13th inst, little creature who had given up her chance of life to be with him. How many times had he wished she had not come out, and even told old connections with Mrs. Spiers and her kind? her so, because it had broken off most of his Now, he asked, wore any of them half as good as she? And in the small hours of the morning him at her side, he thought what little use was when her wish was gratified and she died with
is regret.
The Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Co's steamer Ching, left Kobe via Moji for this port on the 11th inst.
dance, was kneeling besides an open window, Mrs. Spiers, just returned from a barrack deep in the the evening devotions of the book of daily prayer.
Sport and Gossip.
FATHER O'FLYNN.
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR..
MARCIL
Melcorological means based on ten years' observations to 1893. Barometer inng Thermometer ...................
Homidity, Rainfall
30.141
...57.3 ..790
1.76
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
On dale Al
On date a
Barometer...... Temperature Bumidity Rainfall
TO-DAY.
*
p.m.
30.16
30.28
60 54
Wednesday, 13th March, 1901.
Kwan-38. Sun-Rius.... Sels
Abr. 1gutin.
Ohr. 7min.
bred, except for a few years he had unwillingly Chinese 23rd of Ist moon of 27th year of spent out of it-and she never quite for gave him for suddenly springing a wife upon her, without at least asking her permission first. Up to the time Mrs. Grover had come cut, Grover was wont, in silk hat and other
High water-Morning . Sunday freaks, to take Mrs. Spiers down to
4hr basin. Afternoon church, and she missed these escorts keenly.
... 3hr, 34min. Spiers himself, who had just got over some
Low water-Morning ... ohr. gmin brevet honours, entirely sympathised with
Afternoon ...... okr. omin. Grover; he was an easy going, happy mortal, 1508-Cesar Borgia killed.
ANNIVERSARIES. and he saw no harm in anything that did not 1868-Attempted assassination of the Duke theories and (this is what I heard afterwards)1879-Lutheran Church, Hongkong, opened. immediately harm himself. His wife's religious
of Edinburgh at Sydney. oftentimeschtirely different practices, inaddened 1896-Santiago and Valparaiso damaged by him at first, but in time he had gat used to small opposition when his wife remarked sho them. This was the reason that he had made had invited Grover to a torpedo boat expedition that was coming off in a few days.
he growled. "You know well enough that the "Why on earth can't you leave them alone?" poor little woman is dying-can't you let lier die in peace ?"
that class are always dying, and hesides, i "Die!" repeated Mrs. Spiers, "people of don't think it at all necessary to mention her name to me."
"Why not? Don't you suppose-oh, it's not a bit of good talking. You're all alike." He would have liked to have read a chapter, out of one of his wife's many books of devotion, said, it would have done no good. on the subject of Christian Charity but, as he
When Grover got the scrap of blue paper day scrawling, he threw it over to his wife. with its well known monogram and latter
after she had read it. "We've only got such "You won't go?" she asked him, wistfully a little time together now?"
"Go- go? You silly little girl, do you think I'd leave you now?" he said, though he wondered how he was going to get out of it; coming up by the five o'clock tram, and he He saw Mrs. Spiers some evenings later walked home with her as he used to do in the old days.
day," she said, we couldn't get on without "Remember now, you're to come on Thurs. you at Stonecutters,"
"I'm afraid I can't, Mrs. Spiers-I've got so much work to do," he answered lamely
"Absurd, you haven't, and you know it. By the bye, Fred is going to send one of you over out will be rather pleasant, won't it?" to Kowloon till the trouble's over. Camping
a sinking feeling within.
"Do you know who's going?" he asked with
"Fred said you, but I promise you if you'll come will us, that I'll make him send Mr. Burns instead."
Perhaps even then Grover could have made an excuse, he could have made fifty excuses, but he did'nt to laughed instead.
fond of camping out."
"It is awfully kind of you," he said, “I'm not.f
1895-The Legation Guard withdrawn from
canhquake.
1900-Murder by an Indian Soldier at Kowloon.
Peking
TO-MORROW,
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DỤCK RETURNS,
Kowloon Dagi.
U.S.S, Isla de Luzon G.MS. Hertha.........
H.M.S. Alacrity.... U.S.S. Benningtot... U.S.S. Farktown...... 11.M.S. Arethuss.. Glenogle China Hainan
Chingin Lekit.. Taion Hailan
U.S.S. Concord Lionum Nuentung...
17
Cosmopolita
PASSED THE CANAL..
trite.
Fram Singapore Mrs. Suzor. From Saigon-Mr. Hallein. For Kobe from Mar- seilles-Messrs. Juan Giol, Montavon and Garriga Monco. From Singapore-Mr. and Mrs. Samder and 2 children. For Nagasaki from Saigon-Messrs. Colombier, Galzi, and £ - Annam
Douarted.
Per Empress of Japan, for Shanghai-Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Dr. Mudra, Messrs. Arthur Smithy and Lo Cheng Cheun. For Nagasaki-- Mr. S. Yosukawa. For Yokohama Mr and Mrs. J. C. Whiuier, Misa E. R. Scidmore, Messrs. O. S. God, W: D. Graham, W. H. Brenner and Mrs. Johnson. For New York- Rev. and Mrs. C. H.. Buck, Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller, Misses Mary and Helen Miller. For London-Sir W. J. Cummingham, Mr. and Mrs, J. V. Braddon, Misses G. C.. and A. Scarr, Messis, G. H. Rittner, J. W. Campbell, Frank Scarr, and J. C. Butanan For Frisco Lieut. C. B. Robbins. For Macon Ga. Mr. G. H. Kitcher. For Vancouver-Mr. H. McDonald. For Victoria-Mrs, and Miss Tsang Kwan, and Mrs. Fung-Yuk For Winnipeg-Mrs. and- Miss Warne.
SHIFFING REPORTS.
Capt. H. Bathurst, of the steamship Hailong, from Haiphong, Pakhoi and Hoihow, reports Hoihow to Hongkong strong ENE winds,. bigh sea and overcast.
Capt. A. Robson, of the steamship Thales, from Swatow, reports-Strong E.N.E. monsoon, dull and cloudy. Vessels in Swatow:-German cruiser Seeadler, s.5. Haitan, Shansi, and Dagmar,
Captain E. G. Dickens, of the steamship Outwerd-12th February-Gisela, Japan, Patricius, hom Moji, reports On the oth Hudson 15th Feb-Ernest Simon, Hakalast, strong S. wind and rain, clearing up on Maru, Tantalus, Trust, Ascania, Neptune the 11th, from the 11th to longkong strong 22nd Feb.-Ajax, Konigsberg, Kiev, Océanien. monsṇon and fine. 26th Feb-Canton, Sobranu, Konig Albert. 1st March Awa Maru, Benledi," Saxonia, Kobe, 5th March-Strathord, Denbighshire, Cymbeline, Ferndene, Groswant, Thyra. 8th March-Dagfred, Skeikh, Teresa,
Homeward-16th February-Indus, Sam- bia, Wakusa Mar. 1st March-Hamburg. 5th March-Prometheus. 8th March-Laos.
via, 9th March-Hamburg,
Arrivals at Home-2nd March-Sachem, Wakasa Maru," Strassburg, 6th March- Saranac, Achilles, Norderney, Rhipeus, Valdi-
Shipping.
Arrivals.
STEAMERS EXPEDIER,
Names.
Frvm.
Chusan..... ¡Singapore Tantalus....... Singapore Melpomene........ Singapore
Mar 15th
Mar. 15th
Mar. 17th
China
Mar 17th
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Empress of China.Japan
Mar. 18th
Konig Albert.....Singapore" Bayern
Mar. 19th
Japan...
Mar 19th
Nippon Maru...... lapan
Mar. 20th
Trieste...
Singapore
¡Mar, 20th
Yamaguchi Maru.. Singapore ..... Mar. 22nd
Tartar... Allienjan
Vancouver..... Mar. 28th Vancouver...... April 1st
ERNEST SIMONS, French steamer, 2,162, G.
Durande, 13th Mar,-Marseilles TRALES, British steamer, 820, A. Robson, 13th: piled grell with the intact sunilahin infromstinn apare Awe
Feb., and Saigon toth Mar.. Mails and General Messageries Maritimes.
rothstyle in which Steamers Expected and Project link
are now published in the columna, nad in so dolút ersparets fully argo the managers of alpping firms to gender i their clerks to furnish this office, on the fothus nirende up
We would direct the attention of syning firm to the
TA: FU, German steamer, 1,065, E. Schipper, Mor, Swatow 12th March, General- Douglas, Lapraik & Co.
13th Mar,,Bangkok 6th Mar Rice. HUNAN, British steamer, 1,158, Frazier, 13th
E. A. Trading Co. ·
Mar, Chinkiang 9th March, General- Butterfield & Swire.
Chinese-24th of 1st moon of 27th year of TRITOS, German steamer, 1,148, H. Clausen,
Thursday, 14th March, 1901.
TAKAO, Japanese cruiser, 1,760, Matsuide, 13th
MarAmoy Pth Match.
Kwang-si. Sun-Rises
ohr, zimin. Sels
6hr. Smin. Moon--Mar. Declination S. 6hr, a.m. High water-forning ...... ohr. min. Afternoon ...... ohr. owin. No high water. Low water-Morning chr., ouin.
Afternoon..... ohr. ouin När low runter. ANNIVERSARIES>, 1842-8,000 Chinese troops routed by the
British at Tsz-hi with great slaugler. 1890-Law Courts at Yokohama opened, 1849-Surrender of the Sikhs to the British. -- 1897-Autonomy of Crate officially concederl 1899-Bombardment of Samoa by U.S.N. 1900--The Hongkong and Shanghai, Bank
premises at Peking, completely des- trayed by fire.
AGENDA.
TO-DAY.
13th Mar,,-Saigon 8th Mar, Rice Siemesen & Co. TOONAN, American steamer, 956, J. Blethen, 13th Mar, Shanghai roth Mar., General -C. M. S. N: Ch HALLOONG, British steamer, 783, H. Bathurst, 10th March,Haiphong via Pakhoi and Hoihow 12th March, General.-Douglas, Lapraik & Co. PATROCLUS, Britisli srealner, 3,548, E. G. Dickens, 13th Mar,Moji 9th Mar., Gene- ral. Butterfield & Swire. BOLSATIA, German steamer, 2,166, O. Muller,
13th Mar.-Klautson 8th Mar., Ballast. Siemssen & Co. PATHAN, British steamer, 1,723, C. H. Butler,
13th Mar-Manila roth Mar, Ballast Dodwell & Co., d.
DAIJIN MARU, Japanese steamer, 899, T. Ogata, ih, Mar-Swatow 12th Mar., General-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
Clearances at the Harbour Offico. Esmeralda, British str., far-Manila. P. C. Klar, British str., for. Bangkok. La Rhone, French str., for Canton. Empress of Japan, British str., for Shanghai, Toonan, American str, for Canton.
9 p.m.-The Dallas Company at the Theatre emeralds, American schooner, for Guam.
Royal.
`TO-MORROW.
Noon-C. & Co.'s steamer Risagus leaves for
Singapore, Penang and Bombay, Noon-Meeting of the Shareholders of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Go- down Co. Ld., at their offices.
Swatow.
FRIDAY, 15th,
Daylight D. & Co.'s steamer Thales leaves for Daylight-N.V.K.steamer Hakataifaru leaves
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for Kobe and Yokohama. Cargo ex Catherine Aficar subject to rent.
BATORDAY 15 h.
his headquarter's station every morning when he was not on tour, met the principal inhabit ants, dealt summarily with questions of sanita- tion and the like, and afterwards held an informal reception for an hour or so in the verandah of his bungalow, when natives who had grievances could state them, sure of an intelligent hearing. Such things are seldom are out of touch, and the latter requires fre- done now. The native and the district officer quent official admonition to keep up the form of being."at home" to native gentlemen once a week, when the conversation rarely strays pass of that officer's vocabulary. Confidence, beyond commonplace inpics within the com- on the side and sympathy on the other there is little or none. Again, the old school, used to do their day's work in the vernacular, hearing their papers and passing would she care a cent if he did ?. He had been N. D. L. steamer Warning leaves for German
Could he tell ber he had a wife dying at home;: their orders in the tongue of the people among on sick leave for a week as an excuse, and he Colonial and Australian Ports. whom they worked. Now: natives who speak couldn't ask for more. And if Mrs, Spiers gave Noon-P. & O. 5. N, steamer Bengal with English-English, that is to say, as she is her instructions to her husband-they used to.
Mails etc. leaves for London, taught in the Goremment schools and universi- any she commanded the A.S.Cit would mean (About)-P. & O S. N. Co.'s steamer Chusan ties are as common as blackberies, and all a week at least away from his wife. official papers are put up in English and ordersBetter a day than a week, and it meant one 5 p.m.-C. M. Co's steamer Diamante leaves
Icaves for Shanghai. passed in the same tongue, to be translated, according to the taste and fancy of the shari- there was so much devilment in one woman, 5.30 pm-A Regular Meeting of the Persever, or the other. He had never dreamt before
for Manila. stadar (nativo clerk), who bulks much more He told his wife as much as he thought fit when largely in popular satecm, and with good read he got home, and her half hysterical crying did
ance Lodge at the Freemason's Hall. son, than his master. The departmental not mend matter, Ang examinations in the vernaculars are stiff enough, on paper, but the colloquial portion
Then you'll come with us?"
Only a day," he said soothingly.
A gay meant so much now-oh, don't go. De
JUNDAY, 17th:');
St. Patrick's Day O'S: K steamer Daijin.
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Benclatha, British str., for Shanghai. Hunan, British str., for Canton.
ongnam, British str., for. Canton. Holsatia, German st for Kol-si-chang. ·
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ilonartunes.
Mar. 13, Taicheong, German str., for Swatow. Mar. 13. Anping afaru, Jap. xir, for Swatow, Mar. 13, Progress, German str., for Touron.
Mar. 13, chang, British str., for Canton. Mar. 13, Clam, British str., for Shangbai Mar. 13, Hmpress of Japan, British str. for
Vancouver.
Mar. 13, Ernest Simons, French str.. for Shai. "Mar. 13 Benclutka, British str, for Shangbai
Mar. 13, fenlomond, British str., for Yokohama. Mar 13, Loosok, German air, for Swatow. Mar, 13, Agamemnon, British str., for Shanghai
Mar. 13, Bamberg, Germanstr., for Yokohama Mar. 13, Shantung, British-str., for Hongay.
Mar: 13 Deuteros; German str., for Saigon. Mor. 13, Conch, British str., for Shanghai
Mar, 13. Esmeralda, British air, for Manila..
·Mar 13, Kelvendale, British str., for Akyab,
Passengers-Artiven
Per Thaler, from Swalow-70 Chinese, Per Ernest Simons, for Hongkong from
and Mia Pesquet
From
PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Ship.
Destination. Date.
Akashi Maru...Swatow, &c... Mar. Soths:
Bamberg. Havre, &C....... America Maru. Sau Francisco, &c. April 23rd Anping Maru. Foochow Mar. 27th
April 8th Bayern ......... Straits, &c. ......... Mar. 20th Bengal Europe, &c. Mar. 16th Benlomond Yokohama, &c. Mar. 14th Bingo Maru......Marseilles, &c......Mar. 22nd Bisagno Singapore, &c......Mar. 14th Bornco
Marseilles, &c...... Mac, z3rd Canton........... Shanghai, &c. ...... Mar. 27th China. Singapore, &c. Mar. 19th China
jan Francisco, &May 25th Chusan
Shanghai Mar 16th. City of Pekings...San Francisco, &f April Joth Clavering .........Victoria, C/April 2 Captic San Francisco, April 15th Deucalion London Mar. 19th Daijin Maru.....Tamsuit.... Mar. 17th Diamante Manila
Mar. 16th Doric Francisco, Mar, 19th Emp. Clin. Värkerver, S...April 3rd Emp, India
April 24th'' Emp Japan......
...... May 15th Freiburg
Mar, 18th Caelic
an Finncis use. May 7th, Victoria, B.C......April ist New York......Qk, desp.. Nagasaki, &c....... Mar. 15th Straits, one 13th Hongkong Maruban Francisco, &c. May 16th Idomeneus London........ Kiautschou. Straits, &C König Albert traits, &c.
...Bavic, &c.
Glenogle. Gymeric Hakata Maru Hamburg
Marburg
Marogon
Havre, &c
April 16th
July 13th
April 17th
...Mar. 27th ......Sombay, &c........ Mar. 26th Melpomene. Shanghai Mar. 18th Nippon Maru San Francisco, &c. Mar. 28th- Nuentung... German Colonial Mar. 16th Olympia Victoria, B.C... April 26th Pakhoi
Shanghai Mar 16th Pathan
Kobe & Yokohama Mar 15th Patroclus. Liverpool... Mar, 16th Marseilles, &c.Mar. 30th. Straits, &c. May 29th
May 1st May, 15th
Plassy Preussen
Prinz Heinrich...Smits, &c. Prinzess Irene.Straits, &c. Queen Adelaide Victoria, B.C....... Mar 29th Rosetta Maru Sydney, &c. Sachsen.. Savola
Sobraon Sibiria
Stentor... Strathgyle, Stuttgart Taiyuan.
Thules Tosa Mara
... Mat. 29th
Straits, &c. Havre, &c. Marseilles, &c. ..Havre, &c.
June 17th
April 4th
April 15th
April 27th
London........... San Diego, &c.
pril 2nd
goth pril'ard?
19th
Straits, &c
Port Darwin ec..
Siwátow Marth
Victoria, B.C. Marih
esto. Yokohama & Kobo Marast Yamaguchi Maru Mojli &c. A MAN Renan
Yawale Mary,
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