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AN ECLIPSE AT SINGKEP.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1901.

And meantime, day by day, life flowed on most pleasantly in the breezy bungalow of the manager of the Tin Company, who with his (From the Straits Times.)

most hospitable wife could not have done more for as if we had been members of his own And what, pray. is Singkep?" asked our family. The sixteenth was a genuinely, rainy friends at home when we mentioned last day, only the second in a month; but the February that we were about to set sail from seventeenth was brightly sunny with a few New York for those regions. Is it a city or a clouds, rather low-lying, to haunt the horizon mouninin or a nation?" And then we were and float across the blue from time to time, able to reply, from lofty heights of superior, in Sunrise on the eighteenth was a gorgeous formation, that it was a Dutch island within spectacle, and the early morning hours were reach of Singapore, quite small, celebrated for hotter and more dazzling than usual. Many Eng- tin, and almost exactly af the centre of the lish and Dutch friends had arrived on the Go eclipse-track, that pathway of anticipated dark-vernment steamer Flamingo, very kindly sent by the officials to convey our telegram of eclip ness in which were phout to collect astronomi-

se-results to Singapore with all speed, and cal expeditions from many parts of the world. For the first eclipse of the new century would by the Singkepustil litle Dabok began to be the longest ever observed-it indeed this huve a very cosmopolitan effect. At. Govern one should deign to be observed at all, after

ment House where the central observing station baving selected the most meteorologically fickle

was established all was activity and final pre- localities on earth for its route.

paration. But about half after ten a dark shower suddenly rose over the hills to the northwest, The Dutch Government had issued a careful and swept down with great speed, engulfing pamphlet da to cloud fiabilities in many places, the sun until a cool shadiness enveloped the and from that it appeared that Singke had burning landscane, and presently torrents of quite as good probabilities as the west coast of

water, a ver table tropical downpour, descended Sumatra; and as English, Americans, Dutch

as if the heavens were let nose. This was and Japanese, were gathering in great force at

perhaps surprising, but ret wholly discourag and near Padang--a concentration of apparatus,ing, or showers are short at Singkep, but it never the most desirable--the Ancherst Colle, prevented the observation of first contact--that Expedition pursued its way to Singapore,

ving one more chance for good behaviour to point when the dark moon takes its first bite" out of the sun. It rained without the uncertain skies of these equatorial lands,

censing for an hour, then the rush of waters Generously made guests of the Tin Com pany, we safed southward in the comfortable atle steamer which, belonging to the Corpora- tion, brings tin ta Singapore, and conveys Chinese coolies to its nines An interesting company indeed were those, twenty" "new recruits who filled the forward deck on one she voyage. Immensely entertaining, ton, their identification pefore starting, when their unpr

nounceable nalngs being shouted by an outhou tetive countryman, each coalie stepped forward and was compared, with his own photograph. The collection of picures might not have adorned a gallery of beauty, but would probably be much more significant to an ethnologist than any number of compettish faces and pir turesque atiitunesid sat to Singkep com stantly reminds one of c stain portions of the far-tamed utand Sua in Japan. Its charming istons rise from the quiet water in beautiful perspective, offering vistas of channel and bay apparently hand-locked, but always opening just in time, for further progress, the near ones derply tronically green, the more distant sofren ed by a pale mistiness into delicate shades of grey-blue-until one whiders when the lovely marvel will cease, and why no world-famous description of this enchanting water way has yet

been written.

Pretty Khio left behind, and Lingga with its impressive peaks and forests, the Singkey shores followed and its points rounded, we cas; anchor just as brief, bazing-sunsel was tad- ing behind the hills in a quiet bay, on whose shores at least eight lights could be seen in the gathering dusk. That was Dabok —not a city, hor yet a town precisely, but of fat greater interest to unaccustomed eyes than if a long terrace of Brilliant are lights had illuminated shops and palaces. And Diabol did not belie its promises. The Malay kampongs under friendly cocnanuts; the tin mines where lines of coulies passed noiselessly up and down lok ing in their big hats like Bles of unusually in- dustrious mushrooms; the sage making,- heaven save the process the still, mysterious jungle outside, all filled the time with absorb. ing occupation, while the renomer set up telescopes by tiny and observed sters by night.

And such nights! The deep bite valve ot the sky was picked through with diamond con- stellations burning with au intensity never seen in more northern regions; that strange, un- familiar firmament, wherein the southern cross rose high and upright on the meridian, glowed clear and close, night after night, not a cloud dimming the glory of great Canopus, or of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star in all the universe.

A laug chair on a breezy verandah siaded by palms and clive trees, and that superb fame of the forest" to match the short, breath less sunsets, with riotous ferns and vines em- bracing every tree in sight, cascades of bcu gain villea, and through it all glimpses of a turquoise sea-that Is Singkep. ↑ Cloud and sunshine alternated every day. Sometimes a long, hot forenoon would be followed by a thun- derstorm as the sun mounted higher, and blazed mercilessly straight down froin vertical heights. Often a cloudy early morning preceded a glow ing noon, clear, burning, hopeful. But of actually rainy days there were but two in a month, the clouds being usually of so small an -area that while we were shaded, frequently Pulo Saya would be seen in fullest sunshine, or the Peak of Lingga would raise its mighty head unshrouded into the blue; or while we rejoiced in the fullest sunshine, showers might be falling heavily over distant parts of Singkep itself.

the sun. And it

Was

Space forbids a series of quaiaf incidents | fourteen by the hand as if he had been five years | silver gilt in "correspond with the general connected with this peculiar language, in old, and demurely standing at some distance decorations scheme, etcetera, etcetada. which it is impossible to define any do logs from her a miserable-looking individual whom "A toilet-set of the rarest unspotted amber- "of immensity, spage, glory, time or eterite:"; } supposed was the husband. I was about to tortoiseshell... The Dauphin's bed: (as remarked a clever professor, 31. Maisac, rej eddress him when the lady inquired whether 1 A toilet-set in the dressing-roum of hammered gold with a lily of the valley design in diamonds his studies of the creole "patois" but I cannot was the Governor ? omit a call I made on a beautiful Creole lady.

and pearls. What a tall our cat hạt got 1–3 The New Priss, whose servant informed me when I asked if she were in: "Madame vaccin, Missie vaccin, tot la case, vaccine."

He intended to convey that madame bad been vaccinated, all her male relatives, and in fact the whole householl had been the same, but it sounded otherwise' and made me depart in a hurry.

But if the natives were thus ambiguous, the better classes spoke French admirably, and constituted a fenture of that delightful land. Remnants for a great part of the exodus from France in the reigns of Louis XIV., Louis XV.. and Louis XVI., when the luxury of the Court left little to younger sons of family to live upon unless they emigrated to French colonies, they had not lost their sense of noble bearing, high born generosity of feeling and well-bred courtesy and kindness, though they had dropped the empty tities which their an castors had borne, nor is there, except, perhaps, in some parts of Canada, and may be, in New Orleans, a land where there is, outside of Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna and Rome, a more aristocratic small circle in its highest sense than in Mauritius.

ALAS FOR THEM AND THEIR ISLAND.

In the track of cyclones which yearly make four months of the year a period, of intense agony in expectation of the worst, they wonders at the courage with which they face have gone through such terrible times that one the prospects of each uncertain' seasons:

"Yes,"

"Tres bien," she replied; it is always better to address oneself to God than to His saints."

"What can I do for you, madame?" "Please look at my husband" "I have no time for that. What do you want?

"But please look at him did you ever see such an idiot, such a “cretin” in your life?

Really I have nothing to do with this," "No, but he has." "How?"

"Why cannot you see that in his helpless state of imbecility he is utterly incapable of assisting his wife or his child in in the hour of disaster? I brought him for no other purpose that that you might judge for yourself what a poor creature he is. Now look

at my son."

"Madame," I said sternly "I have other matters to attend to than to look at the several members of your family and if you do not at once tell me what you want I must leave you

She was, however, not to be hurried, and re- peated her request that I should look at lier son, a thin lanky young cub.

"N'estce pas Fimage de sa mere?" she said with pride."

"Well!"

"Look at the intelligence which beans his noble heart to help his mother. it-eyes-nate the ambition which fills

"Very praiseworthy; but what can I do? "What can you do? Why everything? Should I be here if I thought you could not?” Give the It was my late to be in charge of the Gavern-

boy thm employment in the Government which island was visited by the most terrific cyclone you could not have refused to his father" (Jonk ment in 1892, when on the 29th of April the of the century: 1160 deaths and 2000 woundeding at him disdainfully) "had he been half constituted a hecatomb which appalled and made the strongest nerves, tremble thereafter at the slightes: breeze.

abated, and the cloutis broke in the west, with hopefully bright edges. The simm was over but would the cloud-track disperse in time fur total-ty

And with most exasperating slowness they began their re reat. sky were

Large areas of blue seen, everywhere except over ball after twelve that the narrowing crescent was occasionally seen through drifting vapours, and darker and more mysteriously gloomy grew the world. A tex Chinese in the amphoge began to beat on fire-crackers to frighten away the dragon now tomtoms, their immemorial custom, and sent off besily engaged dvouring the sun-and suddenly all the light in the world went out, Totality had begung up there behind the clouds, arsel the corona, full of its significant, story of solar constitution and energy, was wasting its glories up their hither side. Everthing grew very still, and the strange orange clouds drifted of peer Lingga until its peak rose unshrouded int the steel-blue, clear sky, Bits of white vapour clung to the bills near by, slowly rising smouldering away into ghostly ashes. For an like spectral smoke, as if all Singkep was eternity it seemed to last, while the breathlessy, and that even the great tragedy was pause beld every living thing in suspense, and relieved by unwilling comedy.

It is not my intention to recount the horrois of that day of gloom or to dwell on the plucky Indian Ocean, which it is fervently to be hoped recovery of, that bright island, the key of the our statesmen will not so ruthlessly disregard as they did Lorenco Marquez, when the late Sir Rubert Morier urged upon their predecessors the opportunity of securing it to the Empire, but rather to point out that even in a storm such as the unprecedented one which then well- righ altogether wrecked the old The de France,

t'e winds were not without their touch of

On this occasion he elements showed parti memory and hope both faded into shadows,

ality to the Mohamèdans, who not only es Then the light came back, and life began caped from hurt but became the hope of the again, with a great inginiment to add to island, inasmuch as rice, the staple food of the its experiences.

Fierce and short as the shower had been,people, was in their grannies, and the granaries it covered a large area, for supplementary on a Friday, and the black letter day, to the were untouched. The cyclone had occurred stations with telescopes had been established Christian poputation, became a red-letter Friday at three or four places on the island, many in the Mohammedan calendar. miles distant, and all had failed to see the ward, and Pulo Saya toward the cast. At the corona equally-as well as P'úlo Lalang south- latter island, however, the sky had remained clear until five seconds after totality began Then the clouds shut in, and no further glimpse was allowed. Nature knows how to beraber exasperating at times.

But from Lingga twenty-six photographs of the corona have been obtained, several of them

very sharp aud clear, and the one spot-which had appeared to be the general birthplace of storms has proved the only one from which the Amherst expedition has obtained pictures of this great eclipse.

The blasts reached a velocity of 121 miles an If the mind dwells on the significance of these hour or a pressure of 67th. to the square foot. figures it is absolutely impossible to conceive anything able to resist such a force. Indeed, nothing did. A column of granite was cut in two; the stoutest iron works were twisted out of shape, and walls nine fest thick were knocked down like a pack of cards, but dovecots in the yards of houses, mere boxes propped up on bamboo stakes which a child could have upgel, were preserved. Housed pigeons huddled in comfort and were saved, where hnused human beings were maimed, smashed, killed.

But of what uso fa, an astronomer if he be noti also a philosopher? The powers of the air only row of the disaster it was everywhere the Going through the streets us the mor-

them one may not contend. One deplores "so showing still a lamp or inkstand upon a are to be held responsible for disaster, and with

same, Houses with their sides rent open, much work and toil for such sadful end as rickety table that had not fallen when all else that," as a Japanese paper wrote of our Hok had been destroyed. Churches literally level. kaido expedition; and despite the underserved led to the ground but with a side chapel over adjective which the editorial applies to the pre-which a fragile stucco statue of some saint had sent writer, I may perhaps be pardoned for escaped the general ruin. People having lost quoting the further paragraph from the same their all, except some useless bauble which editorial which goes to show that one at least had persistently stuck to them throughout had not yet reached the realms of philosophic the awful day as a fetish or misfortune." But THE MOST RIDICULOUS FEATURE OF THE

calm.

Mrs, Todd," writes the appreciative Japa- nese editor, "came from far place, berself as enginers, to help her husband's work; and for many days and nights she has done her best. But the weather prevented her will, and she has forgotten herself to cry out, and we ought to remember such learned lady's heart."

MAREL L. TODD.

MAURITIUS.

AN EX-GOVERNOR'S REMINISCENCES.

BY SIR HUBERT JERNINGHAM.

And so no pragnastications or prophecies It is not often that an ex-governor writes bis were of any avail; though while the astrono. reminiscences. But Sir Hubert Jerainghan mer patiently spent twenty hours out of the shows us that he could, if he would, and that twenty-four in aident and unremitting work they would be well worth reading. The among his lelescopes, it remained for the * Empire Review" has induced him to write a unofficial member of his exp dition to study sketch of Hunderas and Mauritius. The former the sky with unavailing thoroughness, to spe- colony interests us lite. Mauritius is nearer culate on the entirely unreasonable and unpre-home. That island he describes as the most beau dictable effect of changes of vind, and to record tiful island probably in the world as historical noon after soon, "perfectly clear sky at total as it was lovely and as interesting as it was ity-time:"

historical; and says Sir Hubert, no longer Meantime expeditions into the jungle bore a grudge to the stinginess of the British revented a new world, in which the superb Treasury, for I had more than I expected; rush and vitality of life were over-powering in nature in all its glory, people more than their insistence and where the splendid angle attractive, and congenial work where good invited yet repelled intimate comradeship. work had a chance of recognition, Three things are to me well-nigh insupportable. The puzzling feature of Mauritius is the in their grandeur and impressiveness, and with | Creole French spoken by the natives. It is them nothing else can stand comparison. still a pathetic, ungrammatical echo of the days These are the great desert, on whose edge last of slavery, when the Malagassi from Madagas year we observed a clear and unobstructed

car were presand into the wor ice of their ca-ona, the jungle and the local eclipse itself. French masters, in the He de France, and And Singkap, only twenty miles on way by about fifteen the other, offered many a myster. ious, primeval forest, laced together by immem. orial vines, haunted by strange insects and Nouns of course impressed themselves first squirrels and monkeys, where bird songs occa upon their memory, and there being no neces sionally rose as resonantly as if their song sity to link them or to qualify them, the Creble echoed through the high arches of some verpatoja" knows neither the article nor the table cathedral, and where streams, claar and adjective: Some significant verbs also were swift, came down from the hills with many a brought to their knowledge, but they remained soft gurgle and musical tinkle through the in the infinitive, to serve as a noun and it is a shadows.

fact that Mauritius Creole is perhaps the only spoken language in the world in which it would be impossible to say "God is for the verb "to be" is non-existent.

somehow or other had to understand and speak French jointly with the work they had to per form.

The Sultan of Lingga took a very pleasant and friendly intercat in the expedition, and sent his band, which gaye us several musical

Shortly after my arrival I called on the family evenings soon after our arrival. Many of the players wers Filipinos; and the leader was of one of the principal members of our asked toward the close of one concert if he local legislative assembly and asked whether could play the American Anthem, but this he | madame was at home. I was not aware that was quite sure he could not do. However, after his mother lived in the same house. The ser having given the fine Dutch hymn, he tried, vant at once replied: with true courtesy, to comply with the request, "Mo mete in alle, grand madame fin for you are Americans, now, you know, said vini, mo guste li" (literally My master one Dutch pentlcinan, encouragingly. "Net has finished going away, the scular lady yet," answered the Filipino leader very prompt-has finished the act of coming in and I am ly plunging into "America," however, with watching her"), which "anglice meant that out further words. The Sultan's little steam though, his master was away his master's" yacht Dalel was also very kindly placed at our mother had just come in and he himself was disposal for a week or two before the eclipse, expecting her appearance, -- and by its aid a number of supplementary observing stations were established, one of them, upon a fascinating and lonely island, Pula Lalang, beside which Singkep seemed vast continent. Another telescope was sent over to Lingga, to the Assistant Re- sident, Baron von Brotzeiner, though with but little hope that that showery Inland would afford any coronai vlaws.

4.

I took the whole to mean that everybody was out and was considerably surprised a few days later to find that I had unintentionally been exceedingly rude.

I afterwards learnt that "grand madame" was always the senior lady residing in a family, just as I found myself, when Governor, to be

STORM

was its attack upon clothing, The heroic clergyman of the Church of England Cathe- draf at Port Louis was struck by the fact which he recorded that nearly all who were rescued on the night of the 29th April, 1892, had been denuded of clothing. This, he wrote, was specially the case with women. Whether lying dead or whether they succeeded in gain ing shelter, it was always the same, they had scarcely a mġ left upon them."

Approaching a corner of a street which had been particularly ill-treated, in company with my private secretary, we perceived behind a hurricane shutter which had been wrenched from its window and was lying ball on the ground and half propped against a 'crumbling bobbing up and down in an anxious manner. wall, some three or four dishevelled · heads A discreet inquiry proved the heads to belong sufferings find proved small in presence of the to a family of respectable Creole ladies, whose

agonics they were then undergoing, secing food, and were so painfully conscious of their that for twenty-four hours they had had no nudity that even to satisfy the pangs of hunger modesty forbade their utilising the only article of clothing left to them sir, their boots, and make a run for the nearest standing house.

A parley with these poor females became a necessity; and this was not easy, as the shutter was not very large, and the strategy necessary to keep the ladies behind it from view was complicated.

"N'approchez pas." was the stem command of the elder, who was not particularly attractive. Depechez-vous," was the remark of the next female who appeared, the elder having recognised who we were, and

Ün chalo, par amour du ciel, car nous a'avons rien," the pitiful supplication of the youngest, who had bobbed in her turn and was more practical-minded.

The discreet private secretary heeded all requests. He did not go near, he hurried, and he brought back the necessary, shawls, which were thrown over the shutter and saved these gentle creatures from their terrible lives, draped in the true cloak of charity, nor position. We saw them running for their

were they ungrateful. A month later, in their best toggery they appeared at the Governor's reception to thank him "de les avoir tirees d'une situation difficile.”

A week after the cyclone had wrought such

had

havoc, my office was beset with people who NOTHING TO› CLAIM BUT EVERYTHING TO

HOPE.

I was informed by the private secretary that a lady, her husband, and her son, would take no refusal, but insisted on seeing the Governor himself.

What do they want? I inquired.

"I cannot say, sir; but they-will not budge an inch until I have brought them a satisfactory answer and the yard is full of people waiting their turn. Perhaps it would be shorter to see them."

“Perhaps it would," I replied and suiting the action to the words I went down to the private the "grand papa" of the whole coloured secretary's office, where I found rather a good population, who never called me anything else. | looking young woman holding a youngster of

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man."

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"But there is no vacancy." "Comment pas de vacance? et tant de mons!-Pas de chance!" and she bounded out of the room, followed by the lanky boy and the meek husband. Some weeks later she fad cipal council of Port Louis. That institution managed to get the boy employed by the muni had apparently not been able to resist the elo

ent pleadings of this lady with a "cretin"

husband.

Going the rounds of the ruined town 1 came to the Royal College, which was indeed

A PITIFUL SIGHT.

An annexe had been spared, and I was in formed that some people whose house had been entirely destroyed had appropriated this annexe and were busy utilising it as a recep tacle for whatever goods they could' recover in, the debris of their home.

As I walked up to the building I saw a tall greyhaired lady walking up and down the shat book she held in her feeble hand. tered verandah, and apparently intent on a

Having saluted her, I asked whether I could be of any assistance to her.

"And pray who are you," she said "that can

visitation render any assistance at a time of so great a

"Perhaps," I replied, "it would be more legitimate for you to answer my question, as it was at all events meant kindly.”

"I am only a guest of my friends who have lost all they have, and am keeping this tem- porary abode during their absence, while pray ing to the Bon Dieu to sent me a saviour who shall see me safely back to my native island of Reunion,"

"Madame," I said, "I ́am the Governor." "Comment! yous etes le Gouverneur 7 Ah, then you are the saviour I have been pray- ing, for, you are the person who can send me back to Reunion. You are the one who can prevent my being a further bur- den on my friends." Then lifting her eyes to, Heaven she exclaimed: "0, mon vous etes bon, meme dans les desastre 2 in distress, rejoicing at the prospect of relieving There was something so fine in this old lady her friends even by her removal and grateful to Heaven for raising her hopes in answer to prayer that-1 resolved to rescue her. -

que

Madame, what is your name?" I asked. "Mademoiselle `M; Mademoiselle de Mwith an emphasis on the "de" "Car je tiens beaucoup à ce petit' de' malgre les ruines qui m'entoureat."

for a noble prefix when giving her name, it is. What the ruins had to do with her caring idle to speculate upon, but it was the human weakness coming out, and made her all the more interesting on its account. It is curious that neither centuries nor circumstances nor localities can change the characteristics of the old French nobility even in their Colonial

descendants.

Mademoiselle de M-was sent back, to Reunion, and I treasure her little stiff note of thanks on her return to that equally hurricane- tossed island.

The language of petitions constitutes in itself a never-ending source of amusement, and a volume of entertaining matter could bé easily compiled by anyone gifted with the patience of collecting, besides acting upon these inter- genius. At times pompous, at others humble esting outbursts of oriental or tropical literary

in the extreme, often incomprehensible, oftener florid, always tragic in statement and comic in the exposition thereof, petitions sometimes appeal direct to one's better sentiments. in ratio with their absurdity.

The wife of a Trinidadian labourer, on one occasion finding the increase of her family too rapid, requested my assistance in support of her children.

i must inform you, she pathetically wrote, that "I have been a prey to twins on two oc- casions, and last month, as the enclosed certificates will show, I was delivered of tri pleis. Happily one is rather delicate, and I hope I am not offending Heaven by trusting he will return to that celestial abode, as I have no means, as a labourer's wife, of maintain- ing these blessings without assistance from those who can sympathise with me.

She did not, however, end her petition as an Indian coolia did in Mauritius with the extra- ordinarily humble formula, and your dam nable servant will ever pray-Rangoon Timer.

MELBA AT HOME. Somebody-probably a certain faithful pen- ousness of Melba's domestic surroundings in woman from Melbourne-describing the gorge

the obsequious M.A.P. —

Melba is expected back from America in a few weeks to her house in Great Cumberland--|

A BROKEN IDOL.

A SHORT STORY,

The boys often laughed hmong themselves at Handsome Jim's devotion to his wife, or "Little Fairy," as he called her.

They had little belief in the morale of a pretty girl who had been the favourite of a

second Tate music-hall.

But Jin, although she was 3,000 miles away and was young and pretty, swore that she would always romain faithful to him.

The boys sympathised-and laughed. After working all day at the goldfields, Jim and yarning, and dream of the time when he would sit silent, while his chups were drinking. would return to the old country with gold enough to buy his blue-eyed idol, the luxuries

and fine clothes she craved for.

machine, was exhibited in the saloon, not far One day the blograpli, 'n newly-invented from the sliggings.

Most of the boys went, autongst them; Jim.

He was not particularly interested, but sat lazily watching the flickering pictures. A scene presenting a cafe in Paris was switched on.

Seated at a table, as large as life was p wonin, dressed in the latest fashion, pretty and young. She was laughing at something her companion had just said.

Her friend, a man with a coarse, blanted

face, was seated next her and his arm round her waist. Suddenly he leaned forward and kissed her, and then the scene vanished amidst the inugliter.

Jim was siting with a blank, stern expression

on his face.

companions.

"Good un, that, eh! Jim?" said one of his

But Jim never answered.

He had seen his wife for the last time.-Spart & Gossip,

NOTANDA

CALENDAR.

JUNI.

Metemological incans based on fiftam years observations to 1808.

Barometer Thermometer

Humidity

Rainfall

-TO-DAY.

.29.763

.80.7.

.83.0

16.496

Saturday, zand June, 1901. Chinese--7th of şik moon of `a7th year of

Kroang-su. Sun-Riser

Sets

High water-Morning.

Afternoon Low water-Morning

Afternoon

ANNIVERSARIES.

shr. 18min.

6hr. 45min.

phr. Semin

ohr. Igmin.

shr. 45min.

7kr. 10min.

1840-Canton blockaded by the British. 1855-Serious damage caused by excessive

rains in Hongkong. 1893-Loss of H.M.S. Victoria with 351 lives. 1897-Celebration of the Diamond Jubiles of

H. M. Queen Victoria. 1898-American flag hoisted on the Island of Guam.-American troops land at Aguadores under fire from Spanish flect. 1899-Armed attack on Custom station and French Consulata at Mengteey Yunan. 1900---H. E. Li Hung Chang ordered to Peking to suppress the. Boxers, and to restore order.

J

1.

TO-MORROW,

Sunday, 23rd June, 1901. Chinese-8th of 5th mom of 37th year of

Kwang-s

Sun Rises..........

Sets

shr. gmin 6hr. gómin. dhr.

air.

-Moon--In Equator

High water-Morning. 2kr. 39min. Afternoon......... thr. zain. Low water-Morning...... Okr. 57m). Afternoon Shr. min. ANNIVERSARIES,

1843-Ki-ying visited Hongkong. 1848-Red Republican rising in Paris sup- 1874-Shock of earthquake in Hongkong. pressed; 10,000 lives lost. 1884-French troops defeated by Chinese near

Langsod. 1886 Steamer City of Tokio lost on Sagami

point.

1894-Prince Edward Albert born,

B9yCommemoration stones of Women's

1.

Hospital and Jubilee Road laid by H.E. Sir William Robinson, G.C.M.G 1898-American troops landed at Baiquire, 17

miles from Santiago,

1899-Mr. C. W. Kinder, Engineer in Charge. of the Imperial Chinese Railway, dis- missed for alleged insubordination..

AGENDA.

TO-DAY.

Cargo ex Wurzburg subject to rent. Cargo ex India subject to rent.

TO-MORROW.

O. 9. K. Co.'s steamer Dalgin Maru ́leaves

for Coast Port, Cargo ex Maria Valérie subject to rent.

MONDAY, 24th. p.m.-N. Y. K, steamer Riogun Maru leaves

for Victoria B.C. and Seattle U.S.A.

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TUESDAY, 25th. Cargo ex Sado Maru subject to rent.

SHIPPING GAZETTE,

- In "future the Telegraph shipping form sup- plied to Captains of vessels will contain. a

Mr. A. G. Smith, chief officer Bransferred to the Warang..

Mr. J. Harris, and engineer, Neha transferred to the Shar

Mr. R. Lewis, zad officer, Shasi,“ ferred to the Newchwang,

Captain J. W. Miller, from leave, has resumea, command of the Fasting,

Captain. F. Garriack, Pooting, is awalting

orders.

M. J. W. Mennell, chief officer, Choysang, is awaiting orders.

Mr. H. Cuthbertson, 281 engineer, awaiting orders, has been transferred to the Taisang

Mr. W. G. Elder, acting 3rd engineer, Tas sang, has signed off.

Mr. S. J. Payne, chief officer, Wasang, is transferred to the Choysang

Mr John Rae has gone 3rd officer, Choysang. MAV. W. Kay has been appointed 2nd officer, une

Mr. E. Bleyes, 2nd-officer, Flunan, is promoted chief officer, šame steamer.

Mr. F. C. Everett, chief officer, Hunan, is on leave.

Mr. H. Troubridge chief officer, Ngunkin, is transferred to the Poocket.

Mr. G. F. Death, chief officer, Forckgw, has resivned.

Mr. A. J. Philbey, and offices. Pekén, is trans- . ferred to the Chinking.

Mr. T. H. Wheatson, and officer, Koue, is transferred to the Zaiwan,

ferred to the Ngankin.

Mr. M. Bryan, 2nd officer, Taiwan, is trans-

Mr. Alfred Watson has gone and officer, Kansu.

Jun 22nd.

Mr. Rattenbury, now in Hongkong, takes command of the Diamante, the present captain goes home to bring out a new steamer.

Mr. MacArthur, and officer Esmeralda, is promoted tst officer, of that ship.

Mr. Johnstone, sails as and officer of the Esmeraldo,

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

MAIL DIA.

American (America Maru) 25th instant. German (Bayern) 25th instant. German (Sachsen) 26th instant. Indian (Catherine Apcar) 26th instant. American (City of Piking) 4th prox, Canadian (Empress of Japan) 9th prox. American (Gaelic) 12th prox.

American (Hongkong Maru) zoth prox.

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The P. & D. S. N. Co.'s steamer Malacca left Singapore for this port on the 21st inst at $ p.m.

The D. & Co's steamer Gymeric from Japan, China and Hongkong, arrived in New York on the zoth insi.

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The U. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Peltur; left Singapore at noon on 22nd inst, and is due Hongkong on 27th inst.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s S. 9. Athenian arrived at Kobe yesterday, 21st inst, and left again to-day for Yokohama.

The N. Y. K. Co.'s steamer Hitachi Maru (European Line) left Shimonosiki for this part on the 22nd June and is expected to arrive here on the 26th inst.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S. Empress of China left Nagasaki yesterday. at 3.30 a.m. for Yokohama direct, where abe in due to arrive at 8 p.m. to-day.

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The T. K. K. steamer Hongkong, Maru with Mails, &c., left San Francisco "for this via Honolulu, Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Shanghai, on the 22nd inst.

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Mr. McCarthy, and engineer- 1.3 Elità Nossack, has left thatahip.g

Mr. Jorgensen, and officer, Ellla Nessack, is on sick leave at Shanghai.

Mr. Siegmann, has been: transferred and engineer of the Elita Nossack, from the Nanyang,

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place, one of the most wonderful homes in all London. The grand Salon, which aroused the | enthusiasm of the Heir Apparent, was copied by a number of famous artists from a room in the Palace of Versailles. The diya's own apartments are very lovely, and the quaint diamond mirrored and adjustable partition that divides her dress- ing-room and bathroom was designed by her- self. The bed, which is placed on a stand and | fitted with a canopy, draped with priceless lace, is the one on which the Dauphin of France spent his last night of Royal state. The toiletset in this room-hats off is of the rarest tinspotted amber tortoiseshell, and each piece beard a large "M" in diamonds. That in her dressing room is of hammered gold, with a

SEA WITCH, American ship, Howes-Master, lily of the valley design in diamonds and pearls. Mr. A. J. Jackson, chief engineer, Chuentines | "ADOLPH OBRIG, American ship, Amesbury Ewers of rarest Sevran atand in basins of solid | frost lexve, bar been transferred to the ♬ xipan.

June 19th

Mr. D. C. Campbell, tower Yangtsze piloty having returned from leave, has resumed his duties as pilot of the Canadian Pacific Co.'s

steamers, batte

Mr. H. Petersen, chief officery Store Nor diske, is acting master, same steamer.

OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE for any Neither the CAPTAIN, the AGENTA, not the DEBT contracted by the Officers of the Cre of the following Vessel during her stay in Hongkong Harbour

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Consignees.

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, PENANG & SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

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MARIA VALERIE," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This Vessel brings Cargo

From Venice, er SS. Massimiliano tran

shipped at Trieste.

From Trieste, er S.S. Imperator transhipped

al Bombay.

Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.

No.Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in the Office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 23rd instant, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any

Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 23rd

instant, will be subject to rent,

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SÄNDER, WIELER & Co., Agents,

Hongkong, 17th June, 1901,

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

FROM YOKOHAMA AND KOBE. RE, Steamship

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"INDIA"

Having arrivent Consignees of Cargo are hereby info hat hoer tots are being funded at then adjourn the de bons of the Hongkong and 17. 4. Wie Godown Company,

bary my be obtained,

Northge will be bitted after the Gonds have 1 the Guloway, and all claims must be sent in 1 Once of the Undersigned before. Noon, on the sand instant, or they will not be Tecognised

No Pine in hunce its been effected, and any, Goode ver gang in the Godowns äter the 22nd

insana, will betungent to rent.

Bills of Laying will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & CO.,

Axents.

den, hung, 17th Forex con

NOTICE TO CÜNSIGNEES,

S.S." HEATHBURN,"

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FROM NEW YORK, STRAITS AND

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