To-day's Advertisemen
HONGKONGʻRIFLE ASSOC) ION. THERE will be NO COMPETITION TO- MORROW (SATURDAY), the. Sth instant, but the Range will be open for Practice, after which the Range will be CLOSED for the remainder of this month for fitting up of New Targets, &c.
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ALEX. MACKENZIE, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 7th June, 1901.. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,- LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSÚL
THE Company's Steamship
THE
"HAIMUN,"
Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above Ports, o SUNDAY, the gth instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, th June, 1901.
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THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
HE Company's Steamship THE
"ESMERALDA,"
Captain J. McGinty, will be despuched as above on TUESDAY, the ith instant, at 5 PM This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers and is fitted with the Electric Light.
A Doctor is carried.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
[6634 Hongkong, 7th June, 1901. NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA, (Florio and Rubattino United Companies). STEAM FOR
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A150
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Taking Cargo at through Kates to PERSIAN
GULF and BAGDAD, also BAKCE LONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE, AL
MERIA and MALAGA. "HE Steamship
THE
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 7,-1901.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, June 5th. Commandant Kritzinger has captured and looted Jamestown,
WE may expect to hear 'something of im portance shortly from South Africa. Lord Kitchener is evidently following the same course be did before the battle of Omdurman in Egypt. Let us hope the cleaning up process will be as complete."
CORRESPONDENCE,
We do not necessarily andoras the opinions expressed by Correspondant au this column.)
JERRY BUILDING,"
GREAT FIRE IN SHANGHAI, LARGE NUMBER OF HOUSES BURNT IN YANGTSEPOO ROAD.
SHANGHAI, June 1st, At 215 this morning fire broke out in a row. of 30 or 40 new houses on Yangtsepog Road," near the Aquarius works. When we went to
General French has been entrusted with A CORRESPONDENT writes-I should be sorry standing by parties interested, I beg to say the press, the whole bunch seemed to be in a blaze,
the operations against the invaders in Cape Colony.
to think that the National character is chang- ing. The people who could receive the news of a Waterloo with a dignity befitting a great A Dearth of Doctors,
It is officially stated that the Boers attack-race, from all accounts went into a frenzy over Considering that Hongkong is now in the ing General Dixon's force at Vlakfontein the relief of Mafeking and Ladysmith. Now midst of a plague epidemic it certainly seems to us that the Medical Department of the numbered 1,200 under Commandant Kemp. webear from Australia there was more madness Government is shockingly undermanned. Canada' has offered another Cavalry Corps on the return of the troops to those shores, We have not sufficient medical men to carry for service in South Africa. The British A wild kissing orgy evidently took place, out the duties devolving upon them in nor Government has declined the offer, consider second only to the absurdity of the reception of Lieutenant Hobson in America. It is poor mal times; much less to cope with the greating it unnecessary in view of the number of comfort to think that what we ridicule so much increase of work and responsibility involved
in other nations is constantly occurring in our in dealing with such an epidemic as is at troops already in the field. present raging in the Colony.
Our medical staff at present consists of:→→ Dr. Arkisson, Principal Civil Medical Officer, at present on leave in England:
Dr. Lowsos, on sick leave.
Dr. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health, whose whole time is filled up in dealing with plague and who urgently requires at least two assistants.
Dr. BELL, Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer, in charge of the Government Civil Hospital, the Public Muituary and the Tung Wah Hospital.
Dr. L.Amour, who has been, temporarily appointed in charge of the Gaol, to relieve Dr. Be who would otherwise have to carry out the duties of Caul Medical Officer in addition to his own.
Dr. STEWART, LM.S., who has been bor- rowed from the Military, to assist at the Government Civil Hospital.
To begin with the Civil Hospital. Such qu institution requires a doctor in charge and a couple of resident house-surgeons, who should not have other duties to perform, but should give their whole time to the Hospital. The Gaol certainly requires a special medical nian in charge, but as this is not so important as the Civil Hospital it would not, we think, he asking too much of him if the Mortuary were also placed in his charge.
The Kennedy-town Hospital, in other words our infectious diseases hospital, requires a staff of at least two resident medical men, and these might also keep an eye upon that plague spat of the Colony, the Tung Wah.
As for the Medical Officer of Health, he should (and would in any decently organized town of the same size and importance else
LATER
THE DERBY. The following is the result of the race for The Derby:-
Volodyavski
William the Third Veronese..........
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:- On the 7th at 12.10 p.m. the barometer has risen on the coast of China, fallen slightly on the S. E. coast. The depression in the North has probably moved into the Sea of Japan, and a shallow area of low pressure is lying over the S. part of the Foriosa Shannel. Forecast: Variable winds, moderate; showery,
LOCAL AND CENERAL. INWARD Parcels by 5.5. Chusan are now ready
for delivery.
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own.
YESTERDAY, through the courtesy of Mr. Davidson, we have an opportunity of looking through Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co.'s Aerated water factory at West Point. What strikes one at ence is the evidently perfect system of manage- ment, no needlesa fuss, or confusion, everything -quietly going along in a business manner. The process of manufacture is a guarantee of the purity of the waters. Everything is done automatically, nothing is handled directly by the Chinese assistants. No doubt the care exercised and well known by consumers is the secret of the arm having as many orders as they can possibly execute.
Á LATER account of the supposed. "Jack the Ripper, an account of whose arrest we pub- lished last night, is brought by last mail:-
LONDON, May ist...
A great sensation has been capsed by the arrest of a German, who is said to have con-
fessed to numerous murders on the Continent. The accused, who is 26 years of age, is named Ludwig Graf, and lie has been employed THE SS. Elaiching after being thoroughly dis-as foreman in railway works at Ludwigshaven, infected will sail again this afternoon, Captain in Germany. He is charged with having.com- milled no less than 18 murders, and it is stated Passmore in command.
that he dealt with his victims in much the same manneras" Jack the Ripper," who was notorious in London á few years ago.
A BODY, presumably a case of plague, was being taken away from the ricksha coolies shed
Graf has confessed that he was led to com. at the Kowloon wharf at 9 o'clock this morning."mit the murders by a feeling of vengeance.
THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is a forest of poles and hamboos in the interior. white ants have been attacking the roof, and neces- sitated repairs.
are. femporary vacancies in the THERE Colonini Secretary's Office for a typewriting clerk, salary $100 per month, and an office
appearing elsewhere.
against woman-kind. He blames the poisonous literature which he had read for having incited him to the perpetration of the terrible crimes. THE famous barber of Flect-street who, under the name of Sweeney Todd, practised his an and cultivated murder at the same time, has found an imitator in man named Bobbe, who lived in Berlin. Bobbe owned a cigar shop,
he constructed a trap-door in the floor opposite
the floor he intended to descend into the the counter. After dropping his victim through
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONgkong Telegrap}," SIR, beg to thank you for publisking my letter of yesterday. To prevent misunder- term "Jerry Building" under which my letter and probably ali would be destroyed.-New was inserted is not mine, but yours.
Will you please grant me space in your
BOAT-RACING AT SHANGHAI, paper for this.
"Thanks in advancé... Yours, &c.,
JUHN LEMM, 2, 1. Ag Architect. Hongkong, June 7th, 1901.
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-THE PLAGUE. Number of cases reported (Chinese....... 1,025
up till noon of the 6th Other Asiatics 30 Europeans14' Jung, 1901
Chinese......22 Number of cases reported Other Asiatics i during the past 24 hours (Europeans..... o
Total number of cases reported to date 1,09%
Press
HATPINS AND CURLS?
Here is an account of boat-racing as done in Shanghai, that is, according to the New Press. That journal thus describes à recent race-
The programme, it states, "consisted of three races. We do not know any port in the east that puts up a day's programme of is usual to put all into one lay, or half a day, only three itents. If there are sú few events it
or a smaller fraction. But the three events were dragged out over two hours. May be three events in two hours is the correct thing in Shanghai, but it is not in any other' place. We do not pretend to know the. ways of Shanghai. And incidentally, when the events did come off the judge 'managed to announce the result wrongly. Even in a Number of deaths reported (Chinese... 983 race where there were only two boats, he
up till noon of the 6th Other Asiatics 20
managed to make a mistake. hetween the June, 1901
Europeans 5 two. What he would have done with a ten- Chinese......19 Number of deaths reported Other Asinties ten-boat races in ports which are not Slang- boat event, heaven only knws. But they have during the past 24 hours Europeans......hai and which do not make the pretensions
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,027 Since noon on Saturday fast the cases and deaths are :-
Cases Chinese..........
Other Asiatics European.
Total....
.136
Deaths Chinese .........
Other Asiatics 'Europeans
.137
Total
The plague returns for last week were ;-
Cases........
.......215 Deaths
.207 The returns for 1st June, 1894, were:-
Total deaths to date New cases in previous 24 hours... Deaths in previous 24 hours Patients under treatment
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....12 69
1107 230
Chun Yet, engineer from the s.s. Haiching, was removed to Kennedy Town Hospital yes. terday suffering from plague,
We learn that Mrs. Varcoe, of 3 Wild Dell, has been certified to the suffering from plague and will be removed to the Kennedy Town case we have already reported.
of Shanghai. The crews took an inordin | ately long time dressing, seeing if their bats were on straight, their curls la position and their luairpins all fixed. The official time- keeper omitted to take time of their dressing operations, but it must have been at least three quarters of an hour, and night was creeping over the river when at last the four boats made their appearance.. Then for some inscrutable reason they went up river and wormed their way in among a labyrinth of junks as they were looking for the source of the Whangpoo"
FROM NATIVE PRESS.
(Mercury translation.) CHINESE TAXATION VERY LIGHT The Shen Pap points out that the indemnities must practically be paid by Inland Revenue. Now if this was as in foreign lands that would be easy enough, for foreign taxes are more numerous and heavier than. in China. In foreign lands, lands, forests, cattle, teachers, lawyers, diamonds, weddings and liveries for Fervants are all made to yiek a revenue to the govemment. Then they have stamp duties and Post Office revenue and many indirect taxes, so that each adult in Europe yields on an average four pounds sterling to the govern ment,' grand total of sixteen hundred millions. │⠀ It: well, of course, be said at once that the people mist he very well off to yield such a revenue without being impavenshed, and that
tax, all of which is most true. But the moral, of the comparison is that the Chinese can be made as prosperous as Europeans if the right means are taken to accomplish the end. What the Three Character Classic Teach them and nourish them. The foreign compulsory system of education should be introduced, and the people taught how to cultivate their land. If they do not know chemistry, they cannot make the best use of the soil. I these things were done, then China.could easily increase its taxation, and meet every demand without goading the people to rebellion.
Captain D. Costa, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 12th instant, at Noon.
At BostBAY, the Steamer is discharging in here) have a couple of medical men under clerk, salary $50 per month, vile advertisement and, like Sweeney Todd, says the P. M. Gazette, Hospital, together with her little boy whose the Chinese are too poor to bear such a heavy
VICTORIA DOCK..
For further Parculars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 7th June, 1901.
Intimations.
him, who would carry out inspection or routine work under his supervision.
Needless to say, the above recommenda- tions are not inclusive of the Principal Medical Officer. He should be quite apart 1694 from any of the Hospitals; so that he would have time to devote his attention completely to organization and supervision.
EYE SIGHT.
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Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Quech's Road Central, (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), " Business hours: 9 A. M. to 5 P.M."
A diseases affecting those advancing in life GREAT proportion of cataracts and
occur to those having some deficiency in the constriction 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 cyca, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Classes only to correct and cure.
Mr. LAZARUS, supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.
ADVICE FREE:
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As matters now stand everything has to be carried on in a slipshod manner. Not one of our Medical men is sufficiently free to properly, attend to all the different bran- ches which he is supposed to run at one and the same time. If Dr. BELL pays the attention which he should do to the Hos- pital he must let the Mortuary and the Tung Wah slide, and vice verse; while how he is to find time to exercise that supervision over the Kennedytown Hospital which one Medical Officer we utterly fail to see. would naturally expect from the Principal
In the same manner, Dr. CLARS has the bulk of his time taken up with mere routine work, which would not be the
case if he had assistants. How can he supervise the mortality returns, look into questions of sanitation and public health, deal with the plague epidemic and, at the same time, be constantly moving round inspecting, as he should do? It is utter ly idiotic to expect him to do a quarter of the work which devolves upon him, and everybody must admire the gallant struggle which he makes to cope with it. -It-seems to us that the Government is too anxious to save the halfpenny-worth of tar, and don't care a Dif they lose the
A. S. WATSON & CO., ship. They simply play at having an
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ESTABLISHED A.D), 1841.
THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS,
OF
ÆRATED WATERS IN THE FAR EAST.
OUR FACTORIES are construct ed with every attention to the best principles that sanitary science can suggest; and, our NEW FACTORY at WEST POINT is the LARGEST and BEST EQUIPPED in the FAR BAST.
A perfect System of Filtration is employed guaranteeing Absolute pur ity.
facture.
efficient medical staff, and, by giving the few hard-working men who are doing their best under most adverse circumstances a multiplicity of titles, they are trying to gull the public into the belief that our Medical Department is all that can be desired.
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THE woman who some time ago was sentenced
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to be hanged for the murder of a messenger cellar, there despatch and rob his victim, andgressing so favourably under the treatment of are right means? We answer (in the words of
and afterwards had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for life, died this morning in the Civil Hospital from malaria fever, THE inquest held yesterday on the body of Ip Fui, who died in the gaol infirmary, disclosed a very frequent cause of death. Ip Fai was sent to gaol for illegally possessing opium on may 31st. Death was due to heart failure. The want of the poison that kept him alive, killed him.
WE draw our readers attention to the advertise- ment in another column of the well-known Green Island Cement Company, where it will be seen. that the price of cement has been ad- vanced 50 cents per cask and 30 cents per bag, of 375 lbs, and 350 s. respectively. The in- crease dates from June ist..
WE shall be obliged if any subscriber. on receiving his paper late or irregularly wilt write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Lal, 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check the delivery coolies.
Tue Band of the Madras Light Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel 10-morrow (Satur day) evening, from 8 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. :---
PROGRAMME. Cavatina..." Lucia di Laimeniroor"
Kappey 2. Selection.... "The Gonuloliers ".......Suffivair, ....Waldtenfel. 3. Wall." Exudiantina" 4500 The Pondsed of Life"....Coven
Selection, A. Gniety Girl" ....Jones. G-Dance Comique Punch and Judy". Boggetti, "God save the King."
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MR. Coy, sole agent this side for: The Field Mercantile Agency Co. has removed his sam- | ple rooms from Wyndham Street to the first floor above the New Victoria Hotel. Mr. Cay's rooms are well worth a visit as he can quote one for pretting well everything a trader is likely to want. Being keen on the dollar he makes money by enabling merchants to
make it.
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And it will not be the slightest good send- ing for fresh men now, so far as this present epidemic is concerned Previous experience has taught us that, in all probability, the plague will die out in the course of a month or 50, and thus there is not time to call upon England for reinforcements. Why not ask it may be noticed that we are publishing a some of the medical missionaries to step azette of interest to the shipping community forward and help? They are on the spot generally, giving the names of officers on leave, and would, we presume, willingly lend their promotions, transfers, etc. We imagine it will Failing them be found useful by many shipping people here, aid if asked to do so. there are the Military Authorities to fall back upon, but they at present probably who can see at a glance where their friends are have their hands full of their own work in at the time. We shall be much obliged for the shape of preventive measures, otherwise any information from our readers tending to more cases of plague would have been re- keep the column up to date. ported amongst the Military,
Let the Government look affairs boldly in the face and try to act promptly for once Here we have a plague stricken, town and a wholly inadequate medical staff to deal with the outbreak. It is well known that plague recurs here with more or less viru- lence every year, yet no steps have been taken to bring our medical staff up to the
necessary.
EUROPEAN résidents in Hongkong cannot be too careful in having their washing and men- ding done. Do not leave everything to that gara institution "the boy. He will have your clothes taken, to the handiest man he can
make the best private arrangements with. It
is not conducive to health to have your linen hired out by your washerman or to find your
The Machinery used is of the Latest requisite strength. Let the Government thinkdiny clothes in the hands of a woman seated over these matters and take steps at once to on the curbstone with the attendant mite of Type.
have our permanent medical staff increased humanity and dirt sprawling over them! to two or three times its, present strength, We are glad to hear that the personal effects *A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS and do not let us go on in the old slipshod of the passengers of the ill-fated Sobreon have attends to every detail of the Manu-way of allowing the plague to get a good been recovered. It seems, shortly after the hold before any increase of staff is deemed wreck, a junk was loaded with luggage and loft for the shore with two stewards on board. If the medical Department is put on a proper footing when no epidemic exists, The men were landed safely but the junk bad an important engagement elsewhere and left matters will work well, but so long as we. wait for the outbreak of plague before we with 28 packages of luggage on board. These attempt to increase it, all will be done in a have since been found partly, every box being slipshod manner. The Department should carefully ransacked and anything of special be got into working order in normal times value removed. A traveller Identifying his and then, if efficiently manned, it might boxes may hope to make up for loss by finding hope to cope with an epidemic
effects belonging to some one clic,
The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; as testi fied to by the best English makers.
A 6. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
pass the body through another hole into the river. His plan was discovered before he could do any harm, and he was sent for seven years to a penitentiary. He was no sooner out of confinement than he took to making trap-doors again. He occupied some rooms in an isolated house in Berlin, and there he constructed his trap-door. This time he managed to drop the wife and two sons of the owner of the house through it, but he was caught and promptly committed suicide. Bobbe was a bungier compared with Sweeney Todd, but he is ever so much better dead. A loathsome spiderli
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
SOCIAL. AMENITIES.
Chan A Tung, sumingned Tang Kwai Yan for assault. But, Tang also summoned Chan, Simply a squabble in a disorderly house. Both bound over to keep the peace.
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WELL- ARNED
Li Sam had on board his junk a blunderbus swords, 2 revolvers and 2 pistols. Fortun ately he also had $500 to pay the fine this morning.
DISCHARGED.
Two Europeans named George Nelson and Edward Power were discharged on a charge of having stolen a receipt for $9.60 and trying to obtain the money by false pretenses.
ANOTHER CHANCE.
The many friends of Mr. Agostini will be glad to hear of his convalescence. He is pro Dr. Thompson that he should be out of hospital in a few days.
We hear from a reliable source that whereas the ordinary death rate in Canton is between 260 and 300, at the present time between 1,000 and 1,200 bodies are passing daily out of the West Gate.
Is this partly attributable to the exodus of plague patients going on from Hongkong, or is the prevalence of the plague in Victoria due to the state of things in Canion?
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At about nine o'clock this morning a China- mian turned up at the Ferry Wharf at Kowloon and wanted to cross by the ferry. As he appeared to be seriously ill, the man in charge of the ticket office refused to all him to go aboard the launch. A few minutes later, the
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man, who had seated himself on the ground alongside the ricksha shed, died. It was a case the man died have been deluged with disinfect plague. The coolie shed and the spot where ants. It is by no means pleasant to know that one's servants may be rubbing shoulders on the Ferry with men in the last stage of this horrible disease and we are pleased to see that the Ferry Company's officials are doing their best prevent suspicious persons travelling by their
bonts.
GERMAN SHOT IN PEKING.
PERING, May 27th."
The woman, charged with two attempts to commit suicide was cautioned and given into repairs, and the work has been much delayed the care of her sister.
Li Kwai Hing was sent to prison for six weeks for stealing a canvas cover from the s.s. Uld. The defendant said some coolies put it into his bucket:
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DISOBEVING LAWFUL COMMAND.
THE CULTIVATION AND USE OF SUNFLOWER SEED,
The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is a native of Mexico and the northern portions of South America, and was probably first brought to Europe by the early Spanish ex- petitions to Peru and Santa Fé, since it was grown at Madrid in the s xteenth century. The plant bas, therefore, long been known in most European countries as an ornamental shrub,
but in Russia it has for many years been ex-
in 1892, Mr. Crawford, Consul General for the tensively cultivated as an economic product. United States at St. Paterabug, presented to his Government a report dealing in detail with the sunflower-seed agriculture of Russia, and this report aroused so much attention among farmers and others that the Agricultural Depart ment of the United States has issued a bulletin on the subject for the guidance of farmers who The propose to raise crops of this plant. industry first began to assume importance in. Russia about 1830, and since that time bas steadily increased. The seed is the most useful A deplorable shooting accident occured yes portion of the plant, and this is commonly terday afternoon, about four o'clock. An eaten raw or cooked, while the oil obtained. American sentry was posted at the Legation from it is used as a substitute for almond and street bridge (only a few feet from the U. S. olive oils. The oil cake left after the expres Legation) with strict orders to stop all horsession of the oil forms a valuable cattle food, or vehicles of any kind from coming past him, being superior in this respect to maize or as that portion of the road is at present under linseed cake, while it is also said to act as a natural "condition powder" for horses, owing by soldiers persisting in riding or driving past. to its easy digestibility and its great nutritive A German Marine then came, with a cart, and value. There is also a very prevalent opinion was called on by the U. S sentry to halt. This in America that the plant acts as a preventitive the German flatly refused to do, so the sentry of malaria in low-lying districts, which is pro- had no alternative but to fire. He fired his bably founded on its capacity for absorbing rifle, not with any idea of hurting the German, water rapidly, and so improving swampy but as a warning. Unfortunately the bullet country, In America the seeds are at present glanced off the wall of the bridge and sped mainly employed in feeding poultry, although they are also to some extent used as a cattle food. For the cultivation of the plant it is stated that the best results are obtained by sowing the seed in April or May in a light soil, such as that which gives good results with Indian corn, liberal manuring being carried out, unless the land is very fertile. The sun- ber of seed heads to each plant should be mited, the superfluous ones being-removed as they, form. In harvesting the seeds, the heads are removed just before they are quite ripe, and the seeds obtained either by beating with a Bail, or by holding the beads against a rotating discstudded with icon nails. The United States Agricultural Department has collected. a considerable amount of information regarding the composition of various parts of the plant, of which the following selections may be cons the composition of other better known foods. being added for comparison
Mr. J. S. Harston's chair coolie refused to along the other part of Legation Street, pen-
go to market when ordered to do so and was tined 57 or 14 days. He went to prison.
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OPIUM.
Four Chinamen were charged with the illegal possession of a quantity of opium. The defen- dant was fined $40 or six weeks The second and third were discharged and the fourth fined
$zo or one month.
BAD MONEY.
The first defendant in the case of selling and uttering counterfeit coin was committed for tria' this morning, the second defendant was discharged. The case was brought forward by Detective Inspector Terratt, who prosecuted.. Mr. Mounsey appeared for the prisoners.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION. CO., LTD., Messrs Jardine, Mallieson & Co, advise us that they have received a telegram to-day from thic Head office, in London of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. stating that the General meeting of Shareholders will be held
on the 13th instant.
The Directors propose, after allowing for depreciation on steamers etc. for the year 1900 to deal with the accounts as follows
To pay a final Dividend of 6% and a Bonus of 4% making with the Interim Dividend af 4% already paid, 14% for the year
To transfer £70,000 to General Reserve Fund,
To add £44,392 to underwriting a/c, increas ing it 10200,100 CON Toale
To add £4.198 to Exchange Reserve a/c, in creasing it to Lts,699
To carry forward 13.500
etrating the leg of the sentry at the German Legation. The wound is not serious-New Priss special
INCREASED SHIPPING FACILI-
TIES AT SHANGHAI,
The Ostasintische Lloyd says :- We have already announced that a Com- mittee of the Diplomatic Corps, consisting of the representatives of Germany, England, France, and the United States, had been appointed to consider the question of the Woangpoo river. We now learn that the basis of these negotiations is formed by a report of Mr. Franzlus; of Bremen, one of the greatest autliorities on river conservancy. This report has been made through the instigation of the Norddeutscher Lloyd. According to this the navization of the Whangpoo below Shanghai could be so much improved at a cost of Tis. 4,000,000, that vessels drawing 28 feet of water (the largest modern mail and freight steamers). could reach Shanghai without the slightest diffi culty. The German Govelament after having Sunflower heade considered the matter on the basis of the
above-mentioned report, has ordered their representative in Peking to take action in the matter during the peace negotiations, in con- junction with the British and French Ministers, These Ministers have also received' similar instructions from their government, after the P. & O. S. N. Co. and the Messageries Mari times had requested their Governments to intercede for them. It is now intended that the improvements, and later on the necessary con- servancy of the Whangpoo River, will be entrusted to the European Powers interested, or to an international Commitice appointed by them. The cost of the work is to be borne according to the proposals of the three abore named steamship lines by the I. M. Customs,
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It will be seen that the plant possesss a high content of nutritions constituents, and since it is easily grown it should become an article of more general cultivation. It appears that no sunflower oil, is made in America, several, attempts to express the all giving very poor (now. yields in the hands of oil makers. pointed out that the poor yield is due to the great absorptive power of the seed husks, which should be carefully removed before expression of the oil is attempted-Imperial Institute Journal
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