lot
SALE OF THE “SOBRAON:”
| The
At the sale by auction of the wreck of the Sobraon by Messrs. Hughes & Flough, it was stated that the amount of coal in the bunkers was 1,600 tons, not 1,200. With the first
2 Benhon boats were offered. auctioneer also stated that a boiler and derricks were already in place, alf but one, ready for shifting cargo. Everything was aboard at the present time exactly as the chief officer left the ship on Sunday, the 12th inst.
The first Lot, consisting of the bull, engines, etc., and 1,600 tons of coal in the bunkers was started at $1,500 first bid; the price crept up slowly by Stoon bid to $7,500 at which price the lot was withdrawn. Lot, consisting of the various iteos in our advertisement had no bidder.
Lot 3, the boiler now on the steamers deck, had no bidder, and the auction was closed. The attendance was poor.
FIRE IN DEACONSFIELD ARCADE.
About ten o'clock last night fire, broke out in the premises of the barber's shop, ktown as Salon Richlieu, situated on the grain floor of
Beaconsfield Arcade. The Fire Brigade were quickly on the spot, but all efforts at estin guishing the binze proved unavailing, and the Brigade turned their attention to preventing the spread of the flames and were successfit in confining the outbreak to the one room. The whole of the barber's shop was completely gutted, nothing but a few chaired remains of shelves and other portions of woodwork remaining, together with a strong scent of various perfumes, the bottles containing which had apparently burst during the fire and thrown their contents, over the whole room. there is no clue to the origin of the fire. We understand that the contents of the shop were insured with the Cmmercial Union Assurance Company for twenty-five thousand dollars. The whole stock is a total loss.
CORRESPONDENCE.
So far
ì
(We do not necesarily perse the opinirms expressed by Correspondents in this coltsten.1
MUNICIPAL REFORM.
MAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, 22, 1901.
unity for regaining their property and in seine instances availed themselves of it, This week Tientsin has been shaken by a number of earthquake docks every morning, due to the blasting operations. The clearance is now complete,
The British are understood to have with drawn from their position regarding the railway siding at Tientsin. The Russian view is stated to have been upheld at home.
MANILA BANKS PROTEST.
WASHINGTON, April 1st. houses of Manila bave filed with the Secretary Representatives of the principal banking of War complaints against the operation of an act of the Philippine commission entitled "An of the United States by banking institutions. act to prevent discrimination against money The act provides that every bank of deposit in the Philippine Islands shall accept deposits both in the money of the United States and in Mexican, and other local money, and shall hocour cheques on or repay such deposits in the kind of money in which they are made. This means that deposits in gold must be paid to depositors in gold. The banks claim that this is unjust, that frequently gold deposited is not retained in the bank, and that they are willing to pay depositors in silver equal to the value of the gold..
The papers filed with Secretary Root allege that the act is unconstitutional and ask that it be repealed.
CANCER MICROBE IDENTIFIED.
University, claims to have discovered that
Dr. Gaylord, a medical professor of Huffhto.
which he has identified and isolated." Cancer is caused by a tiny animal parasite
He asserts that the organism of cancer is undoubtedly a protozoan, and he has at least preliminary proof that the bodies, he finds are the organistas. The doctor déclared ¡that the cycle of development can be observed under the microscope, and that the parasite can be developed in culture tubes.
do an act of justice in "letting these facts be known.
It is impossible besides not to take account of the results of the experience acquired out- side of the British Navy,
In fact is it not a matter of public notoriety that the numerous vessels of the French marine provided with Bellevilles have accomplished distant repeated voyages, renewed, and always satisfactorily? Many of these large French ships are still at this moment in the waters of China and Japan, and it is certainly easy for the British Admiralty to ascertain by official pears the good results which they are realis
The memorandum joined to the presented by a certain number of these French war letter mentions the principal work carried out ships.
ing.
In another Navy a recent fact must be mentioned. The Japanese Admiralty taking delivery at Yokosuka of the cruiser Asuma, built in France and fitted with Belleville boilers, wrote officially to the builders to congratulate them on the excellent results of this first voyage made with a Japanese crew.
Finally, I can rely on the evidence of the continuous voyages accomplished with the Belleville bollers by the mail boats of the Messageries Maritimes. The Commitice is not ignorant of the results obtained, for it sent to Marseilles three of its members who visited in detail the boilers of the Indus, then about leaving, and those of the Lags immediately on her arrival from her regular voyage to China and Japan. The delegates of the Committee were able to state the perfect condition of the boilers of these mail boats. They were able to recognise particularly that as regards the Laos, the tubes of the latter after three years' work the oldest of the vessels fitted with economisers, showed no signs of corrosioon. I permit myself to express regret that the Committee should not have specially mentioned this important result in its Report.
At the request of the Admiralty one of its engineer inspectors,. Mr. Pitt, who went on board the Indus to China, was authorised by the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes to study during the voyages the workings of the boilers and the engines of this mail boat. The Admiralty must necessarily have received from this officer precise information on the subject of the working of the Delleville boilers which be thus inspected. It would be very useful in the interest of truth that this information should be made known in the same degree as the appreciations of the Committer.
I add to this letter a statement of the number of thousand nautical miles travelled since their
if correct, may lead to the discovery of an effec-employment by each of the mail boats of the Toal cure for the dread disease.
Messageries. Maritimes fitted with Belleville boilers. In no case has one of these mail boats been delayed from anything in connection
After an injection of these cancer protozoans into an animal they have been found by mil Bons in its blood.
Dr.Gaylord says his experiments have proved To vux Elator.ny reitosesiSS TELEGRAPH."
the correctness of the observations of Pfeiffer, SIR-Scrutator in his valuable letter to the Skoobring, and other German scientists. He Daily Press of this morning suggests that the question of Municipal reform in the Colony is
has been investigating the case of cancer for one that might well be taken up by the China aroused the greatest interest in American me- several years, and his announcement has Association would not be possible for thatdical circles. It is believed that his deductions, body to entertain the question, consistently with its special „objects, and if the local branch were to exhibit any activity in that direction it would find itself very speedily called to order by the Executive Committer in London, the fundamental principle of action of the China Association, as at present constituted, being to keep the peace with the Powers that be and to avoid any and every question that might stir up angry feeling among the ofizial body. Any movement for a relva in the methods of government in Hongkong necessarily involves an attack on and condemnation of the existing régime and a vigorous onslaught on the system responsible for its continued existence, anti such an attack, to be effective, must take the shape of an appeal to the public.
The following are the objects for which the China Association exists and outside of which it cannot well act. It would be well if it was able to show that it had performed any useful work with reference to the greater number of
them.
(1) To represent, express and give effect to the egošon of the British Mercuate Community in theit jadini, cal and coperchaf vintians with the Chinese w „Japanese, Ve
(1) Te promote and protect the unde, commerce, stip ping and faciures of the United Kingdom, innlig and the Colonies with and in China, Hongkong Brel Juzon,
Dr. Gaylord will subusit a full report on the subject to the New York, Legislature. The advocate of India.
THE WATER TUBE BOIĻER QUESTION.
"MR. BELAUNAV (DELLEVILLE ON THE PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE
-BOILER COMMITTEE, SAINT DENIS, 23rd March, 1901, – Sir-Since 1 had the lignour of replying on the th March to questions you have been kind cough to address to me, I have received the preliminary report of the Water Tube Boiler Cominitiee published in The Times of this same date, 13th March.
V
I think it necessary.to place before the Ad- miralty the following observations which are suggested to me by the perusal of this docu
ment,
After having stated in paragraph that the advantages of the water tube boilers for service in the Navy, principally from a military point of view, are so great that their employment is certainly preferable to that, of the cylindrical type of boiler, the Committee state, paragraph To, that at the period when the Belleville boiler was introduced into the Royal Navy on the Powerful and the Terrible it was the only system of water tube boilers of large diameter which had been experimented on at sea on a considerable scale in actual service, and it was therefore possible to rightly consider it as the best systers of water tube boiler for the fleet,
Now, on the contrary, the Committee ex- presses the opinion, in paragraph 2 of its
pre-
with these boilers.
The Admiralty will certainly feel that, in these there are a number of notorious and im. portant facts which are worthy of being con- sidered, and that in the face of results so numerous, so satisfactory, and so entirely in agreement, it can scarcely give effect to the pro position of the Committee to withdraw the order for Belleville boilers intended for vessels of which the construction has recently been decided on, no other type of boiler being able to present for the judgment of competent men and of the public possessing practical experience in such matters so many and such decisive results as these which have summarised..
BANK OF CHINA.
A SHAREHOLDER'S PLEA FOR LIQUIDATION.
AGUINALDO FEARS ASSASSINATION.
(From Shanghai Papers.)
WASHINGTON, April 12th.
The 9.&O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Doric, with Mails, &, left Shanghai for this port this morn ing the and inst, at daylight.
The S. T. Co.'s steamer fudravelli arrived at- Yokohama yesterday and will leave for Hong- kong on the afternoon of 22nd inst.
The O. & 0.5, S. Co.'s steamer Copfic, with Mails &c., left San Francisco for this port vis Honolulu, Yokohama, Inland Sen, Kobe, Na-
At the meeting of the Bank of China and
The G. L. Co.'s steamer Eastern, Jeft Kobo Japan held on the 15th ult, says a home paper, Mr. W. Keswick, the chairman, observed that The report that Aguinaldo fears assassinat noon yesterday, the 1st inst., and is due as the result of the bank's operations during the ation at the hands of the late 'General Luna's
here on Sunday, the 20th inst. past year, although not so satisfactory as the followers explains to army officers the reason as the board could have wished, the outcome why he has been kept at General MacArthur's
palace. fulfilled the expectations of the directors when
General Luna, was one of the best they last met. The year had not been with-insurgent leaders who followed Aguinaldo in out its difficulties, and during the last making war upon Americans. He was a bold half of it, business at Shanghai was compara-
and aggressive fighter, but after the defeat at Malolos he reported tively at a standstill. Business at the other
Aguinaldo that the branches had increased, and were the bank's insurgents could not cope with the Ainericans resources greater, it could work mdre profitably.
and they had better make the best terms The liquidation of the old bank was steadily possible. Luna sent a delegation to Manila togasaki and Shanghai, on the 21st inst proceeding, and the deficiency account now
discuss matters with General Otis and the stod at 1990co, as against (207,000 in the plan Aguinaldo sent for General Luna and Philippine Commission. After agreeing to his ations contious to be made through official officers who were in the Philippines say the account to December, 31, 1899. Represent-
had hins assassinated in his presence. Army circles in regard to the indebtedness of the followers of Luna have sworn vengeance on Chinese shareholders, but the serious events
Aguinaldo, and they do not believe the in- in Peking had prevented any visible success.
in the discussion Mr. Basil Fleming strongly ation in Manila or in that part of Luzon, unless surgent chief will ever be safe from assassin- asked the chairman to give an undertaking kept under the protection of Americans. War during the current year from the Chinese pro- that.unless t0,000 or £6000s were recovered
Department officials believe MacArthur will prietors, he would take action to liquidiate the keep Aguinaldo a prisoner for some time, as bank. He, the critic, considered that in view
much for his own safety as to prevent him from of the huge indemnity asked for by the lowers starting another insurrection. nothing world he obtained from the Chinese shareholders.
The nur et value of the shares was very much less than the amount which would accrue from the realization of the assets. The chairman said it was impossible to give the undertaking askerl for, but certainly the directors had no wish to continue the bank unless it proved successful. intimated that unless something were done to bring matters to a head he would be under the necessity of calling an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders to consider the question of the future of the bank.
Mr. Fleming
THE EARL OF ROSEBERY. The cast wind has played havoc with our men of light and leading. It has had Lord Salisbury at its fect, it has sent both Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sir William Harcourt to bed. it has tried the strongest and shaken the weakest. It has set the anxious in quirer asking nervously about the future-who is to lead us and emancipate us froni the de- spair over the "sweet by-and-bye"? The old giants are shivering to their fall, as we are dis- maily warned. Where are we to look for a new set of giants? Who are the new men? Are there any new men at all? Periodically a ballon d'essai is sent up from Printing House Square in the interests of Lord Kosebery, and anxious Liberals are told to keep their eye upon The Durdans, for here exists the one man capable of leading them to power and place. But the statesman most directly con- cerned makes no response. Apparently he does not care. When he breaks into speech his admirers say "How clever!" anti Mr. Perks revives his project of establishing a Rosebery party in the House of Commons, with its own Whips, a political pocket Bible, and all com. plete. And so the Rosebery merry-go-round revolves from season to season.
I will, if you please, separate myself from the claque of flatterers, and consider Lord Rose- bery from the standpoint of his defects. The sug.cardinal defect of his character seems to those who have studied it closely to be a want of per sistence. It was persistence that made Mr. Gladstone so successful and so brilliant as a statesman. His notion of the luxury of life consisted in the triumph of purpose. had been born a Roman he would have be come a Cesar; if he had lived in the Middle Ages he would have died either a Cardinal or a great soldier.
Such, Sir, are the principal observations gested to me by the perusal of the Preliminary Report of the Water Tube Boiler Committee. and which it has appeared to me might usefully be submitted to the Admiralty. In a further letter I hope to examine from an exclusively technical point of view the opinions set forth in the Report.
DELAUNAY BELLEVILLE. Sir Evan MacGregor, K.C.B.,
Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, Loridan.
THE CHINA CLIPPERS.. Fairplay notices a little book entitled "The Coato's, and says Good Old Days of Shipping" by Lieut. W. H.
If he
Men say Lord Rosebery has been spoilt. He is too wealthy, for one thing. He has been too persistently flattered to be self-depreciative, which is the steadying pole of the unprofes sional punter. Lord Rosebery is too gay a punter to be quite safe-in his own hands. He rails at the Liberals upon their divisions, but he does not bind them. His associates are naturally and inevitably amongst the highest and the weakest. Pleasure plays a large, if not a lending, part in his career, because plea- sure has him completely and, necessarily in
to
NOTANDA..
CALENDAR,
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observations to 1893.
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* TO-DAY.' WEATHER REPORT.
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Wednesday, 2nd-May, 1901, Chinese-sik of 4th mion, of 27th year of
Kwang-su. Sun-Rises
Sets
shr. zgmin. 6hr.33min. ohr, 51min. ...thr. 5min. 4hr. 25min. bur. 25min,
High water-Morning Morning Low water--Morning
Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES, Byg--Shanghai Magistrate and Yu Shiu Wan agreed over New Shanghai settlement.
TO-MORROW.
Thursday, 23rd May, 1901. Chinese-6th of, 4th meon of 27th year af
Kwong-st. Sun-Rises
Reist High water-Morning
Morning....
Low water-Morning.
shr. 19min.
bhr. 34min.
ihr. 45min.
The T. K. K. steamer America Maru with
land Sei, Yokohama and Honolult, arrived at Feucisco, via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, In- Mails &c., which left lence April 23rd for San
her destination on the 20th inst:
U.S.S. Bennington... at
HONGKONG AND WRAMPOA HOCK RETORNS.
Kowloon Dork.
Union
Kiang Tung..... Glengvie Jana..... Burnside
Companiade Filipina
Taicheang.
Colanies.....
Pettiana Heungshan
Simangun.....
Victoria
P. C. C. Klo
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18
Aberdeen
PASSED THE CANAL.'
Outward-th Maya-Beulawers, Glaycus, Malaya, Hudson, Sydney, Sambia. 17th May -Flintshire, Alcinous, Rhein, Crusader, Devonshire, Imogene.
Homeward-17th May--Idomenens, Mar-
burg, Tantalus, Silesia.
Arrivals at Home-15th May-Feibur, Konig Albert, Stentor.
Shipping.
Arrivals:
ARISTEA, Austrian steamer, 2,298, G. M. Sco- pinich, 21st May,-Moji 14th May, Coul
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, TITARNIA, German steamer, 1,258, Krutzfeldt, 22nd May, Wilhelmshaven 1st April, and Singapore 15th May, General-Jebsen & Co.
LOONGMOON, German steamer, 1,245. F. Schulz, 22nd May,-Canton 21st May, TAKSANG, British steamer, 977, Baker, and
General-Siemssen & Co.
MayBangkok roth May, Rice and Meal.
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
YIK SANG, British steamer, 887, W. Zambei, 22nd May,-Newchwang and Chefoo 14th May, Beans and Peas.-Jardine, Matheson & Co. HIROSHIMA MARU, Japanese steamer, 2,035, T. Murai, 22nd May,-Yokohama th May, General Nippon Yusen Kaisha. -DAPHNE, British sloop, 1,140, Wm. C. Paken-
ham, zand May, Shanghai 18th May..
Clearances at the Harbour Ofiso. Germasia, German sic., for Amoy La Rhone, French str., for Canton. Kongriam, British str., for Canton. Antonio Macleod, American str., for Iloilo.
..skr. samin.. shr. bmin Afternoon...... 7hr, 16min. ANNIVERSARIES. 1898-The American Legation at Tokio, burnt. 1868-Loss of the P. & O. steamer Benares on 1884-Fall of Berber.
the Fisherman's Group.
1898-Japanese evacuate Wei-Hai-wer.. 1899-U.S.S. Olympia with Admiral Dewey on Mausang, British str., for Sandakan.
board arrives in Hongkong.
AGENDA,
TO-DAY.
Cargo ex Melpomene subject to rent. Cargo ex Nuernbery subject to rent. Cargo ex Gisela subject to rent.
TO-MORROW.
leaves for Coast Ports.
Shareholders, of the Wanchai Ware house and Storage Co. Ld, at their
office.
FRIDAY, 24th.
Perla, British str., for Manila. Taichlow, German str, for Bangkok. Anping Maru, Japanese str., for Swatow, Viksung, British str., for Canton. Sishan, British str., for Swatow..
Departures?
May 21, Goodwin, British str., for Singapore. May 22, Cheangchew, British str., for Ampy. May 22, Daphne, German str., for Nagasaki. May 22, Peiriana, British str., for Palembang, May 22, Whampoa, British str., for Canton. May 22, Wing Sang, British str., for. Canton. May 22, Mausang, British str., for Sandakan. May 22, Taichiow, German str., for Bangkok. May 22, Antonio MacLeod, American str., for
Iloilo. May 22, Isla de Luzon, American gunboat, for
(3) To consider all questions cunnieçi̇ed' with such trade
and shipping and manufactures. (4) To propose or promote or oppose legislative anger aneasures greeting such trade, competen, shipping and manuferdery, Te collect statisties and other informatia relating to such tale commerce ship ping and manufactures. Trade, commerce shipping and manufactures in China, Hongkong and apart are the primary objects for the protection of which the Associa tion is prepared to work, and the political func tions of the members are limited to such
Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the portions of the political relations of Great
book is that on "The China Clippers." In the Britain as are connected with our trading in-
early forties the Americans turned out some terests in China and Japane
very fast ships for the China and other long Report, that the Belleville boiler has not as trades. Freights between New York' and San her arms. He is too grave to be called a Daylight-O. S. K. Co.'s steamer Anping Maru May 22, Woosung, British str., for Amoy.. Municipal reform in this colony and the in regards the other systems ofavater tube boilers, Francisco were then up to £7 and 68 a ton. society butterfly. Yet even in his serious provement of the methods of Colonial Govern advantages of a nature to recommend its being The Flying Cloud, built by Donaid Mackay at moments, when he is at the table of the House 3 p.m.-Extraordinary General Meeting of the May , Perla, British str., for Manila. inent generally are clearly outside the legit fitted as best answering the needs of the British mate scope of the operations of the Associa- Navy... tion. As for any hope of getting together any body in Hongkong pledged to labour in the ference should be given to four offer types of
Ti suggests oven in paragraph 4 that the
cause of reform, it is quite useless to attempt it boilers: until such time as there is a change in the This further opinion could only be justified inanagement of the Hongkong Bank, until if since the period of the installations of the Sir Thomas Jackson can be induced to take Powerful and the Terrible the Belleville boiler the lead in the movement. He dominates the had ceased to be employed at sea on a con- Colony at present and if lie frowned on the siderable scale in active service." and if the efforts of the would be patriots and on their Admiralty had been able since this period to ambitions for the improvement of the position, experiment with other types of water tube nothing could possibly come of their labours. boilers of sufficiently large proportions to per In fact the Association would very soon, cease mit of its finding in this experience the ele to exist, as member after member cropped off, ments for a reasoned judgment. from it. Ask the head of the Princely House what he thinks of the state of affairs and be will tell you that the Colony is extremely well governed and that "alt is for the best in this best of all possible" colonies. It is the old question. Who will bell the cat? If Scrutator has the courage of his epinions why does be not put his name to his very excellent letters and give us a leader in his own person?
Yours.
OLD RESINEET,
Hongkong, May 22nd, 1991.
THE NORTHERN RAILWAYS.
Now, so far as concerns the Belleville boiler, it has not ceased since the installation of the Powerful and the Terrible to be extended in all the Navies of the globe, and its numerous applications give in every case the same good
results.
As to the four types' recommended by the Committe, to what extent have they been tried by the British Admiralty?
Two of these types indicated by letters (a) and (b) have only been tried on torpedo-boat destroyers, and the Report itself states in pala graph "that the trials, which the Committee has witnessed.. have shown, the difficulty of drawing from the experiments with torpedo- boat destroyers conclusions strictly applicable to the largest vessels." Further, it is stated that the type (a) adopted for vessels under construction differs substantially from the model experimented on under the conditions above mentioned.
As to the two other types proposed (c) and (d), neither of them has been tried in the British fleet.
East Boston in 1857, made 4337 statate miles
of Lords, or propounding problems of Empire in one day, noon to noon. The Sovereign of Liberal Club, you find it impossible not or policy at the hospitable table of the City freight on her first voyage from New York to fortune, the sport of genius and the triumph the Seas, from the same yard, received as
associate him with the favourites of San Francisco $84,000 (16,300). In her second year she made 6245 miles in 2 days. The
of grace. The chronicles of the day usually American clipper Surprise took outward car
trace his course from one charming home. goes from New York to San Francisco, made
to another charming hoaie, or depict him her way to China, and loaded tea at
as a swallow flying to the sun, or vision his Canton for London. Her receipts for the round engagements amid the exalted gaieties of life voyage paid her entire cost and running ex-
and away from its squalor, its grime and dis- penses, besides leaving a profit of $50,000 (her honour. If Lord Rosebery were an ascetic it freight from Canton was (6 a lon). One of would be because of his inability to encompass the Baltimore clippers, the Architect, secured the indulgence that is about him. His prodigal in 1854 no less than £8 a ton freight from ability has made him incapable of bemoaning the lack of any intellectual grace. He is thus American vessels stimulated the energies deprived of one of the stimulants known to Challenger was pitted against the American relapses from time to time into intervals of of British builders. Mr. Richard Green's capacity. He is a popular idol, who has ob clipper Challenge from Anjer home, and ship pair, and in that humour yearns for back- tained so readily every wish of his own that he
was staked against ship. The British ship beat the American by two days, making the passage in z days. Reference is made to the Lord of the Isles, the Titania, the Arict, the Taising, the Thermopyle, the Cutty Sark, the Fiery Cross, the Serien, the Tuching the Sir Lancelot, and other famous British clippers.
Canton to London.. The success
THE LATE SIK EDWARD WATKIN.
of the
cloth and the toil-earned sleep of the daily labourer. But the golden chariot of fame picks him up in the morning, and in the afternoon finds him immersed in the gratuitous delights of his beneficent genius.
4 p.m.-N. Y. K. steamer Kasuga Maru leaves
for Australian Parts via Manila etc. (A56g)-P, & O. S. N. steamer Parramalia
leaves for Shanghai.
SHIPPING GAZETTE.
In future the Telegraph shipping form sup plied to Captains of vessels will contain a heading for notices of officers and engineers transferred or on leave, etc. Friends will much oblige by giving this information:-
May 30th.
The officers of the American steamer Tat. shun, are Captain latierson; T. Steplen, chief officer; W. Kay, chief engineer; Chas Stuart, and officer; A. Adair, and engineer; Taylor, 3rd-engineer.
Jas. McDonald, chief engineer, s.s. Chwan- shan, has been promoted chief engineer, Pak- shan.
RH. A. Kellar, acting chief engineer, 5. Pakshant, has been promoted, and engineer, Pakshan
A. Cameron, 3rd engioeer, s.s. Pakshan, gone home.
.
been promoted chief engineer, Chwanskan.
Jos. Brown, chief engineer, sis. Siam, has Fred. Dean and engineer, 5.5. Siam, has signed his ship and joined the Siamese gunboat Makus Ragakumar.
Pakshan, 3rd engineer,
Percy Smith, Resigned P. W, D. joined s.s.
gone home.
E. J. Stoddart, chief engiucer, s.s. Diamante,
Alex Whyllie, 3rd engineer, as. Diamante, has been promoted chief engineer, Diamante. alda, has been printed 3rd engineer, Dia. T. H. Williamson, 3rd engineer, s.s. Esiner
time the most interesting speaker known to Yet Lord Rosebery will remain for a long Englishmen. He is what the Americans know as a "live" debater. His manner is fascinating. BRIDGE RE-BUILT BY GERMANS.
He looks fascination. His fine mobile face, bis, flexible delivery of language, his strong The Peking correspondent of the New Press writing from Peking, May 10th saysThe
says the Glebe of the 15th uk., but if any, Eng- tion, all seem to interpret his compact ficure, England is not the country of Railway Kings, impressive voice, which suits itself to any ques railway bridge at Hangko on the Tongku
Jishnan has had a claim to the title, it was Sir Shan-hai-kwin line was opened on. Wednes
and its suggestions of strength and encurance. Edward William Watkin, He is remembered Lord Rosebery is what he seems. He may be day. There was a special ceremony at which
by the present generation in London and the pronounced a slowy, shetoncian, but the track General Reid, from Shan-bai-kwan, Colonel
Southern Counties mainly as Chairman of the of his speeches always is crystalled with happy. Macdonald, Director of Railways, and other
South-Eastern and Metropolitan Railway Com-thoughts, which would jewelany phrase book. In British officers from Peking, Tientsin and
In the absence of all comparative trials panies, but be was at the same time head of his own way he is the cleverest man in London Tongku were present, as well as a number of judged sufficient by the Committee itself, that the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire and the most attractive. He divides the inter- German officers from Tientsin. The bridge is to say without any solid basis for establish Railway, the nucleus of the Great Central and was rebuilt by the Germans on their own special ing a direct comparison, one is justified in now merged in that undertaking, and from time
est of the political world with Lord Salisbury. request. The Germans have been all along asking how the Committee has been able to to time was connected with other railway commediately behind the King. He has no rival As a social favourite he stands alone im- anxious to do something," and they have car decide on the inferiority of one type in relation panies in one capacity or another. The weight as a great Commoner. He has just escaped tainly done this work well-rather too well, to other types, and to insist on its exclusion of responsibility which devolved upon him at probably, for those who will have ultimately from all future vessels,
being royal in thedeat sense of what is royalmante. to pay the bill. nantely, the railway share.
one period of his life was, indeed, enough to And, in fact, after how long a period of ex-
Critics who have died Lord Rosebery by holders. The construction is remarkable as
crush a weaker man. In most of his enter the light. of certain actions, 'say that be lacks periments-and-of navigation will the Admiralty prises he was successful, but there was one ballast. Perhaps it would be fairer to say he being almost the only big work of its kind bave gathered in respect of the new boilers as notable, exception, the failure of which was, is too impressionable. I have heard, it said which has been done entirely without Chi-much and as detailed information as it now.it may be believed, a great disappointment to that he is pione to take up the idea of the nese labour. It was curious to see German possesses in respect of the Belleville boilers in him. His chairmanship of the South Eastern fast man that he has becouting to, and to soldiers working as colies. They enjoyed it, as its own fleet and in, foreign vessels i After Company brought him into continual connec- play this for all
Cladstone, as well they might, seeing that they were receive what length of service, particularly, will the tion with French railway managers, and for Prime Minister, never sprendered to an idea, ing double pay and at the same time deriving Admiralty consider itself as possessing definite many years be strove with all his might to not being his own, until he valuable experience in bridge building, Great knowledge in regard to the safety, the coat of secure a chatinuous railway between London
was forced compliments were deservedly paid to Major upkeep, and the risk of destruction or corrosion and Paris hy tunnelling the Channel. He
to adopt it by party expedience. Then he, byEnglish (Parramatta) 24th instant. Gerhard who is responsible for the work. It is of the types of which it has not yet been able never admitted that the scheme was impractic
a natural paradox, loved it. His characteristic persistence it was that shaped the weapon that anticipated that when the rest of China has to make experiments in large vessels? fallen to pieces the Hongku, bridge will still
able from the engineering point of view, and carved his career. When he made up. his. How then could it at presentisubstitute within that opinion he was sustained by compétent mind, whether from his inner consciousness stand unimpaired, vide MARTINSONthe chance of a greater success any system opinion both in England and France. The pro- or at the dictation of opportunism, he stuck to
There is now no break in the railway from whatever of boilers in the place of the Bellevilleject was not favoured, however, in this country, it is the only possible thing to do, end to end, Shan-hai-kwan to Tongku and on the British Navy even there are many
where it was foreseen, that whether it involved Peking
Lorp Rosebery may be classed as a brillianı The Bombay Sappers and Miners have per other installations in work besides those of the formed a useful work in clearing the River seven ships inspected by the Committee. Iron Peiho of the sunken junks which have formed clads and cruisers at present in the China scas a danger to traffic since last August. The have their Belleville boilers in all respects in pynen of the junke were given every opport good condition, The Admiralty certainly would
In
actual danger or not, its réalisation was sure to Englishment as te doubtless, suffers result in panics from time to time almost as brilliant Englishman. He doubtless suffers disastrous as an armed conflict. Sir Edward from the defects of brillancy, he daizies where Watkin had Ideas of his own that point, and he would convince. But it is a point well insisted that the tunnel could be effectively gained on the road to conviction when the per neutralised.
add on to be convinced je dazzled — Sunday Sunda
T Clark, resigned from Douglas Co. and engineer, Esmeralda,
J. Furniss, from home leave has joined s.8. Loonysang, chief engineer;
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE,
American (Doric) 24th instant. Indian (Arratoon Abcar) 24th instant. Canadian (Empress of China) 28th instant. German (Sachsen), 28ih instant. Gorman (Preussen) 28th instant Australian (Airlic) 28th instant American (Nippon Maru) 31st instant. American (Peru) 8th prox. American, (Coptic) 18th prox.
The NP Co.'s steamer Ginegit arrived
Manila,
Passenger-Arrived.
Per Tabsang, front Bangkok-rog Chinese. Per Rosetta Maru, from Australia for Hong- kong--Mr. and Mrs. H. Lindsay and child, Messrs. W. Griffiths, G. Whyte, C.A. Wright- body, H. Jarvis, Mrs. Arpatler, Mr. and Mrs. Langhoro, Col. Spiebages, Mr. E. E. White, Mr. and Mrs. Lister, Master Lister, Messin Maran, H. Richardson, Sheperdson, A. Marchi son and T. Kernan, For Kobe-Mr. K. Morita
Smith, Miss E. Asherson, Mrs, S. Boyce, Mr. and Miss T. Koyama. For Yokobama-Misses.
Sweet, Mr. and Mrs. T. Antherton, Messrs. H. Darley, Mr. Wright, Miss Bolydon, Mr. A
Fikokuro Takayama, S. Goshida, Lieut. Mc- Donnell, Dr. A. E. McDonnell, Lady Gordon, Messrs. Howes, L.-M. Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad, Misses Schwabe, K. Numato, Mr. O. Goshimura. Mrs; M. Hauguchi, and Mrs. Ker- ban and child
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Capt. Baker, of the steamship. Taksing, from N. swell, and fine clear weather. Bangkok, reports:-Moderaic S.W, monsoon,
Captain G. M. Scopinich, of the steamship Aristea, from Moji, reports:-Strong N.N winds with heavy sea from Goto Island to Breaker Point.
Capt: W. Zambei, of the steamship Vitsang, from Newchwang ind Chefoe, teports: From Chefoo to Tung Ying light N. wind and smooth sea, from Tung Ying to Lamock fresh N.W. smooth sea to port. winds and sea, thence light S.W. winds and
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STEAMERS EXPECTED:"
Parramatta
Names
Fraut
Doric.....
Arratoon Apcar
Singapore Shanghai.. Singapore
May 24th-
May 24th
May 24th
Nankin...
Singapore
May 25th
Easter...
Kobe
May 26th
Empress of China. Japan.
May 28th
Preussen,
Japan
May, 28th
-Sachusen
Singapore
May 28th
Airlie
Port Darwin
May 18th
Nippon Maru
Japan May 31st
Peru... Sau Fmacisco..une 8th Coptic
San Francisco... June 18th
We would drect the attention of shipping frm to the j'atyle in which if Steamers Expected" and "Projected Ball ligat Iskra tow published in fliste onlusana,'and'ân' su doing
Tally urge the malaray of shippÍVESEN ZO
their clerky to farth
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