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SAILORS, AND SOLDIERS' HOME, ARSENAL STREET.

CONCERT in aid of the Funds of the.

above Home will be given on TUESDAY, the 9th April, 1901, at 9 o'clock. The following Ladies and Gentlemen have kindly consented to give their Services:-

Mrs. HAGEN, Mrs. HAMILTON, Mrs. KELLY, Hon. F. H. MAY, Mr. GRACA, Mr. DANENBERG, Mr. KISSICK.

The Hon. J. J. Keswick will preside.

ADMISSION. $2, $1 & 30 cents. Obtainable from Mrs. KELLY or Rev. C. BONE.

Hongkong, 4th April, 1901,

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GREAT proportion of cataracts and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1901.

Intimation.

THE report of the Quarterly Inspection Com mittee of the Sanitary Board (Messrs Osborne and F. H. May), was submitted at the Board meeting this afternoon.

Tux S. P. C. A recommenů one drachm of fact that during the past year when inany Scheeles prussic acid as a painless method of important resolutions were debated, there was destroying dogs. A friend of ours, says the

not a single instance in which all the Official Members voted on one side and all the Un-. Asian, iately administered this dose to a pup-official members on the other side,

Hon. F. H. May minuted-The answer should be published.,

MR. Joseph H. Longford, the British Consut|PY` (retriever) to weeks old which was not at Nagasaki, writes that the outbreak of rinder wanted, with the result that the pup was rather

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THE third series of the reports to The Malarial Committee of the Royal Society by Drs, Stephens and Christopher (West Coast of Africa) and Dr. Danielɛ (East Africa) was sub mited at the meeting of the Santary Board to-day.

We are informed that Captain Talone da Silva, Harbour Master at Macao, died suddenly yesterday about 1 o'clock. He was about 45 years of age, and leaves à wife, but no family." He was very popular, and is universally regretted.

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Ws would remind, our readers that Stainer's "Crucifixion" will be given to-morrow, Good Friday, by members of St. Peter's Church Choir, assisted by friends, at the Soldiers and Sailor Institute Kowloon. The Oratorio commences at 8 pm.

GOOD FRIDAY.

more lively after taking it than he was before,

and is still alive!

THE mortality statistics for the week ended 23rd of March last shown death rate par thousand for the civil population of the Colony of 11.1 with the same rate the week previous; for the land population 154agiast 15.6 the previous week igat population, 127 against 14.3 the previous week; land and boat population, 15.5 with the same rate for the week before for the Colony, British, Foreign and Chinese, excluding army and Navy, 14.9 for the two weeks in question. The rate for corresponding week last year was 27.3.

FRENCH INDO-CHINA-Tenders are invited, unil July 1, for the Construction of a Quay on. the right bank of the Saigon River, near Kian. Fat-Seng. A provisional deposit of 20,000

CANTON NOTES.”

(From Our Own Correspondent.}"

CANTON, April 3rd. To Mo, has received a telegram from the Norit Rumour in the city has it that the Viceroy, to the effect that a peaceful settlement of affairs is impossible. This piece of news is ency's Yamen, to have made the Viceroy' quite supposed, according to reports from His Excel. gloomy-go much so, that he scarcely speaks to those about him.

The situation is watched with the keenest portion of the Cantonese, and it is not regarded interest by the thinking, newspaper-reading as so hopeful as it was a month ago.

IDOL FESTIVAL AT POLO.

AT THE MAGISTRACT.

THE ATTACK ON THE VICTORIA GÁDL

WARDERS AND ASSISTANT ".

SUPERINTENDENT. Before Mr. Hazeland yesterday afternoon,- the three Chinese convicts, Mok So, Ip Sam, and Yeung Fuk, who were charged on remand with feloniously and maliciously wounding R. H. Craig, Assistant Superintendent at Victoria Gaol, with intent to kill and murder, also with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, on the 27th of March last, were commit-. ted for trial at the next Criminal Sessions. Superintendent of Police) prosecuted..

The Hon. F. H., May, C.M.G., (Captain

OPIUM.

Before Mr. Hazeland this morning, Ng, Lam, trader of no fixed abode, was charged with unlawfully being in possession of 22 taels of prepared opium.

His Worship fined the defendant $400 or in default of payment two months' hard labour.

He went to prison."

FOOCHOW TEA TRADE.

francs is required. Specifications may be ob. launches, which made special trips. Now in spondingly disappointing, says the Echo of the

tained from the Direction of Public Works at either Saigon or Hanoi, or at the office of the Ministry of Colonies, Paris.Tenders are also The Post Office will be closed on Friday, invited, until May 9, for the Construction of the 5th instant, except from 8 to 9' am.

High-way Bridge over the Arrayo-Chinois. Pro Correspondence for the Peak and Kowloon-visional deposit,-6,coo-francs-Specifications may be posted up to 9 am

The Night Box may be obtained as above. will be kept spen. The Money Order Office will be entirely closed

FROM Fondoland, a correspondent sends an illustration of the grief with which the news of the death of Queen Victoria was received by natives by whom she was revered as the chief heard the sad tidings of the beloved "Great White Queen." When a Pondoland Sovereign's passing away, he expressed him self in the following political words"; "When look up into the sky to-hight I shall see another

star."

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Tite "freedom" of the following at stamps it as a clipping from the Singapore Free Press A lady correspondent writes to a Ceylon Journal:-"Our local papers are some. what dull just now, are they not? Beyond the

Municipal Scandals and the Over-production Problem, there is little to interest the feminine mind". (It is somewhat of relief to find that the problem in question refers to nothing but the tea planting industry.)

The annual worship at the Palo temple was of people were conveyed to this place, which celebrated on Sunday and Monday. Hundreds is nine miles from Whampoa, by steam this connection your readers may have heard of the fanious Polo paper chickens, which are said to crow: but possibly they may be ignorant of the interesting fact, that there is enshrined in the Polo temple an idol, which is supposed to embody the spirit of a back The Chinese explain that this foreigner foreigner who died there several centuries belonged to one of the sailing ships, that inded with China in those days, and that near A PEKING telegram of 23rd ulto, published by the time of sailing, he had wandered off to the Asahi, says :-Russia continues to press Polo to witness an idol procession, and as he returned to the bank of the diver, he beheld a the Chinese Government to ratify the treaty sight which turned his brain. Away down the regarding Manchuria and insists that it must river with every stitch of canvas set he saw the be signed on or before the 26th. Li Hungship, which had given him up for lost or dead. chang, who holds that it is useless to defer the matter any longer, has consented to the Russian called on Li yesterday and advised him to The Japanese Minister to Peking refuse ratification. Li pointed out that it was impossible to resist the Russian pressure any longer and asked the Japanese Minister if Japan would oppose the Russian Government, and help China, even by force of arms if necessary. The Japanese Minister reserved his reply. The situation is critical.

demand.

MR. G. A. CALDWELL, whose name has been

One version of this strange incident, which has been handed from generation to genera tion among the people, is that the man died of a broken hean: or, as they put it, "wept to death." The other is, that his mind became unhinged and that he died shortly afterwards of insanity.

cease, and was, consequently, installed among In any case he became a fairy after his de-

the tutelary deities of the neighbourhood, and worshipped with the same reverence as if he he had been a notable and worthy prefect or governor.

Tradition leaves us entirely in the dark as to the seaman's nationality and surname; but it is just possible, that the history of the Canton province, which is a voluminous work, complete in one hundred and eighteen tomes, may furnish more details.

associated so long with the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, was on Tuesday evening presented with a diamond scarf-pin. from the Staff on the occasion of his depar ture for England on a holiday, owing to ill- WILLIAM Allen, who is employed by the Wear health. Mr. Hoile, the book-keeper, made the Fuel,company, Sunderland, has been awarded presentation on behalf of the staff, to which Mr. the Stanhope gold medal by the Royal Humane Caldwell suitably replied, in a few well chosen society for the most gallant life-saving act out

words. Mr. Caldwell also received a present of over 6co cases considered during the year.

ofa handsome silver salver. We understand Allen's feat was to enter a tar still gft. wider, and Mrs Caldwell and family sail to-mor-tugese colony. Evidently the authorities are and 8ft. deep, in which two men had been overcome by gas fumes while trying to rescue a third. Seeing the apparent fate of the three mea, Allen got into the still and saved all

The Hongkong Celegraph the

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1901,

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

A MUTINEER SHOT.

LONDON, April 2nd. 'One of the ringleaders of the mutineers in the West India Regiment at Cape Coast Castle has been court martialled and shot.

BRITISH SOUTH

AFRICA.

There is a general movement of 'Easter Transvaal Bours northward into bushveld in view of the approach of winter,

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE IN CHINA.

Over one thousand Orange River Colony Boers have enlisted in General Baden- Powell's constabulary.

Sir W. C. Hillier, K. C. M. G. has been

A diseases affecting those advancing in life gazetted acting First Secretary of Legation

occur to those having some deficiency in the at Peking, 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.

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

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WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory-report-says--

On the 4th at 11.55 am. the barometer has risen on the China coast, faller in Japan. The depression is proceeding N.E. in the Sea of Japan, and pressure is highest over the N.E. coast of China Gradients slight to moderate

with moderate to fresh monsoon in S. China

and the N. part of the China Sear Forecast:- Fresh or moderate E. winds; fine.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TO-MORROW being Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Hongkong Telegraph.

The English Mail of the 2nd March was delivered in London on the 30th March,

The officers and men of the Australian Naval Contingent arrived here to-day per s.s. Chinetu. SINGAPORE was declared an infected port on the 20th of February last against arrivals at Burma ports.

row morning by the Tamba Maru. He will be much missed here during his absence, but we hope that ere long he may return again to his duties in his usual health and strength,"

ENGLISH sportsmen contéinplating a visit to A FIRE broke out at Foochow on the 26th us. India are invariably assured that they need in the suburbs eastward of the long street and hare no fear of snakes; but there is the ghastly not far from the river.

Commencing at 3 record of twenty thousand deaths per annum to o'clock it raged until 8 and consumed some 250 be set against these comforting assuraRCES,. houses. The site of the out-break was close

observes" Ranger" in the 1.5, and D. News. to that of a conflagration of a few months ago. How many of such deaths are murders, no one upon which blocks of newly built houses had

can tell; but there can be doubt that a good jsprang up, and all of these perished in the flames with the rest, liringing disaster upon dis-

many persons are thus got rid of by their aster on the unfortunate owners. One life is the hollow of bamboo and there securely enemies. A vigorous young cobra is put into

tied, with just enough of his head outside to enable him to bite. When such a weapon is. pushed to the side of a sleeping man his fate is sealed; for the infuriated snake strikes at once. There was a widespread belief, in my time, that this form of murder prevailed extensively in some parts of India-Bengal especially.

reported to have been lost.

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:-

Dr. Gerlach...******* H. A. Esmail & Co.

A. Shaw.........

D. W. Craddock

R. W. Dale

Erich Georg..

G. Ginult....

Arratoon V. Apcar ...... Banker & Co

R. Becher..

P. Brewitt..

A. H. Chinoy

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.NO, 204. The following Regulation is published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMPE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901.

REGULATION. Made by the Governor in Council under section a of The Holidays Ordinance, 1875, this 3rd day of April, 1901. be, and the same is hereby, excluded from the The Police Magistrate's Department shall operation of the above recited Ordinance on the 5th and 8th April, 1901.

Council Chamber, Hongkong.

R. F. JOHNSON, Acting Clerk of Council,

Tays the Singapore' Free Press in a leading article-It used to be the playful. fiction of HONGKONG is declared to be an infected port French journals to insist that British recruits by a telegram from Singapore.

were manseled together in tens to go to South Africa, that they wept at the idea of going ashore from the transports to face the Boers, and that they had to be flogged down the journalism is a perfect mine of comic delight, gangways of the ship on to terra firma¦ French but that picture, as an achievement of fictive imagination, "claims the crumpet," as, the than ever is it apparent that it is now not love British humourist would perhaps put it. More,

of country, or racial animosity to the British, or the high ambitions of the "Afrikander Dream" that inspires the Boer to maintain his "peep bo" runaway, game of guerilla warfare He receives his inspiration in the direction of bis netherlands, through the piquant stimulu of the stroke of the jambok. No effective ha this disciplinary instrument proved in WET's hands, that it well deserves all the glori fication and immortality that song can contr

MR. G. H. Kemp, Acting Police Magistrate, did not occupy his seat on the bench to-day owing to indisposition.

THE mortality return from Macao shows that there were 24 deaths during the week ended 24th of March, compared with the same num bar the previous week.

A EUROPEAN at Eurasian matron for the Kuala Lumpur, Slangor, is required, vide ad- Federal Home for Chinese Women and Girls, at Such as

The Dear Little Shambock, The Sweet Little Simrahocke de

TREATRE ROYAL,

We have now only two more opportunities of scoing the Dallas Company in Hongkong this season, as they depart for Singapore after Saturday night's performance of "San Toy."

"The Belle of New York" occupied the stage last night and very successful was the produc- tion. This is undoubtedly one of the Company's best pieces and they could not have done better than place it again before the notice of the public. The Company will present "San Toy" on Saturday, there being to performance to morrow, Those who have not seen "San Toy" cannot do better than attend the last performance by the Company bere.

THE RESIGNATION OF DR. HARTI GAN FROM THE SANITARY BOARD.

Correspondence relative to the resignation of Dr. Hartigan from his seat on the Sanitary Board was submitted at the Sanitary Board meeting this afternoon.

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ed. The following is the reply to Dr. Hartigan

Most of the letters have already been publish. dated 25th of March, from the Colonial Sec- retary's Office-

A PILGRIM FROM JERUSALEM. The days of pilgrimages to sacred tombs are Quite recently, it seems, a French priest, who not over, as-we many infer from the following. was stationed for eighteen years in Jerusalem arrived in Macao and requested the authorities there for a launch and a guard that he inight visit the grove of Francis Xavier, who was buried on one of the islands cpposite the Por not keen on pilgrimages for insuperable diffi pbability of encountering pirates which infest culties were raised, among others that of the those regions, and thus just as the pilgrim was about to reach the goal of his ambition his hopes were dashed to the ground. However, the pilgrim, bent on seeing and venerating the and again he met with disappointment. Same tomb of the far famed saint, tried Hongkong, travellers, having had cold water poured on their cherished scheme by both colonies, might have given up in despair: but not so with this priest. Discouraged both in Macan and Hong- representatives of his own church and begged kong he came to Canton, and sought out the them to assist him. They, too, it would appear did not fall on the neck of this travel stained Pilgrim and bless him for such devotion to the saints of bistory; still, they so far favoured his project as to secure a native; who should act as guide.

Then when the enthusiast from the Holy Land started off on a passage boat with a Chinaman for a companion and guide his hopes were near realisation. To his chagrin and surprise, however, the guide fell ill during the voyage to the town in the delta from which they were to travel by a small boat to the sacred spot, and informed the priest, that it was imperative that when they reached this town he should visit a certain chemist, who was a particular fend, and that, moreover, his contract: but that he would engage another being unwell he would not be able to carry out mat to take him to his destination. A correct disgnosis of the guide's sudden collapse would that the case was hopeless, and wisely decided probably be pirates! The priest began to feel

son-whom his guide might suggest. not to trust himself into the hands of any per-

The crafty and cowardly guide returned with his ill-fated compacion to Canton, where the latter is reported to have said in a state of uiter dejection. Pilgrimages do not seem to be in favaur in these days."

The comparative figures of the Deliveries of China tea in London and Australia are carre. 20th alt, notwithstanding that the lowness to which prices have falien have made the ten attrac tive to buyers if solely on account of its unpre cedented cheapress. It has been apparent for some time past that Foochow tea, with in- London to mix with that from India and significant exceptions, is only bought.in Ceylon, and not then until the importer, tired of holding, parts with it at a price below the cost of production.

Under these circumstances the prospects for the trade are exceedingly gloomy. The Chinese were lasers last year and will act with great caution this year. They know, as well as we do, the low scale of prices current in the consuming markets and will run as little risk as possible. Everything points to diminished supplies next season. The money usually ad- vanced about this time of the year is not forth- coming, the native banks giving as a reason for withholding facilities, the unsettled state of affairs in the north. Thus the tenmen will have to fall back on their own limited resources, which the well-informed say may be taken to mean that a considerable portion of the first crop will not be picked at all: and if present current prices in the consunsing markets are to be any guide to the Chinese in their later operations in the season, the export figures at this date next year will compare very unfavour. ably with those just published.

TWO JURES FOR LOVE-SICKNESS.

A San Francisco scientist-undertakes to cure the most obstinale.case of love-sickness by means of hypnotisie. He is, he avers, able to show testimonials from patients who have been through his hands. Still, hypnotism is not nearly so effective as the advice given as to how to dispose of a slighted And despondent lover in a black-letter chap-book of the time of Queen Elizabeth. The advice runs thus :- Tye une end of a rope righte over a beame, And make a slippe nouse at the other extreame, just under the beamo leitbuckett be sett. On it lett the lovier most manfullie gelt Righte over his heade lett the snicket.be gott, And under his ear well fasted the knott. The buckett kicked cigare, lett him take a full And leave alle the rests of the worke to the

swinge, stringe ! .

LIQUID FUEL,

SUCCESSFULLY TRIED BY THE DUTCH

ROYAL STEAM PACKET CO. THE following translation from the Java Bode of the 18th ulto, concerning the trial of the new steamship De Klerk with liquid fuel, will be found of interest to local shipping

men

The day before yesterday, the newest acquisition of the Royal Steam Packet Coy, the steamerDe Klerk, made a trial trip ofsome hours', duration outside the harbour of Tanjong Priok, to which, by the tauitesy of the Head Agent of the Company in Netherlands India, several people were invited, and we are privileged in saying that no one had any cause to regret the day's outing.

Besides the many novelties of the general arrangements on boud, which bear witness to to make their ships all that can be desired as the alertness of the Company in endeavouring passenger steamers, a spacial interest attaches to the new steamer in the method of stoking employed, with petmleum residue.

It is very widely acknowledged that the use of liquid fuel for generating steam in marine. 'boilers has considerable advantages over the use of coal. Without taking into account the financial side of the question, which shows a great saving attributable to the much superior heating powers of liquid fuel in conjunction with price, and which saving is of course more Such was the inevitable conclusion at which or less dependent upon the quality and fluctua he had hesitatingly and unwillingly arrived."

tions in price of the fuel, there is yet another The last that was heard of this undaunted indirect advantage in the reduction of person- had received him on board a gunboat bound and in the reduced waar and tear of the boilers, pilgrim was that the French authorities hereel in comparison to that required for coal, for lakhoi with a promise to land him on the thich enjoy a longer ille under the new regime island, where he will pay the vow he made in

then in the days of King Coal, Jerusalem.

THE PLAGUE

Number of cases reported (Chinese........79 up till noon of the 3rd Other Asintics T April, 1901

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It is surprising to anyone who bas visited the stokehold of a coal burning steamet anlast clouds of coal dust, to walk here in perfect immunity from any such inconvenience, and without even the risk of diriying a clean white suit, and even the ladies of the party did not hesitate to make the descent into the stoke- Europeans... o hald. When one is acquainted with the un- Number of cases reported (Chinese 3 enviable lot of the stokers whose duty it is to Other Asiatics o haul coals from the obscure bunkers, and of during the past 24 hours European's those who have to face the fierce blaze of the

furnaces and pile on coal at the utmost pres Total number of cases reported to date...83 sure, and has seen the exhaustion which they.

suffered after such labour, one can realise that Number of deaths reported (Chinese 75 the new system is a gain to humanity as up till noon of the 3rd Other Asiatica o well na to industry. Now, instead of breath- His Excellency the Governor regrets that you have withdrawn your valuable assistance

April, 1901.... (Europeans...... oing up thick coal dust, which fills, not from the Sanitary Board and would point out that Number of deaths reported (Chinese 4 only the nostrils but also the pores of the skip, one man can attend to two or three furnaces in Other Asiatics o during the past 24 hours

Europeans... perfect comfort, and all that is required is to regulate the flow of fuel, which is supplied Total number of deaths recorded to date...79 atomically, by turning a handle, now and them; and the uninhabited look about the modern stokehold is a striking feature.

your letter of the 18th instant resigning your I am directed to acknowledre receipt of position on the Sanitary Board and enclosing a copy of the letter in which you have informed the mate payers of the reasons which impelled you to take that course..

Board, which is not even trammelted by the you underestimate the service which you have rendered to the community as a member of that responsibility advocated by you in the con- cluding paragraph of your published letter, the personnel of the Department, the adoption and the recommendations of which have been freely adopted by the Government, both as to Saritary legislation, and the execution of public works recommanded.

The cost of the Sanitary Staff in 1898 was $152,933, while within that time, which corres

fos018. The estimated cost for 1901 is ponds with the period during which Sir Henry Blake has adminis ered the Goverment of this felony, a sum of $1,148,8ri has been expended carrying out Sanitary Work, recommended included in the estimates for the current year. by the Board, and a further 'sum of $302,450 is

Legislation of far-reaching nature has

Number of cases reparted (Chinese43

SMALL-POX.

up till noon of the 3rd Other, Asiatics 5 April, 1901

Europeans to

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during the past 24

hours

Other Asiatics o

Europeans...

Total number of cases reported to date...58

fuel in steamships has been put beyond doubt, These results have not been obtained slat once, of course. Although the future of liquid the practice is yet quite in its infancy the market making the problem a difficult onc varying composition of the fuels now on the

The Company is greatly indebted to Mr. Meyer, their inde fatigable Fleet Engineer, ably supported by the broad-mindedness and liberality of his Directors, for the good regulis. which have thus far rewarded their enterprise.. Number of deaths reported (Chinese 33 and to-day no less than six of their vessels are April: root Enropeant... success Bus up till noon of the 3rd Other Asiatics a being dayen with the new fuel with much. Number of deaths reported (Chinese a The Royal Steam Ficket Company have Other Asiatics o just, causa to be proud of the newest addition turing the past 24 hours Eurgitans to their fiter as have also the Dutch ship

buildid träd, in gereal and the builders of 29)

also been adopted at the suggestion of the Board, whose services to the Colony is Excellency appreciates very highly, and whate, Bi