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Intimations.

New Plant!

More Hands !!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements.

THEATRE ROYAL,

CITY

HALL.

Improved Processes !!! AUSTRALIAN VAUDEVILLE AND

Our Factory has become much too small. Orders have been pars a ing in like a floot. Our facilities were never so good as they are now. Our capabilities for handling a BIG trade never so complete as at present. Our system never so good. And yet with all this, and increased `know-

SPECIALITY COMPANY.

GRAND OPENING NIGHT, GRAND OPENING NIGHT, TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!

AND EVERY EVENING.

SATURDAY, August 3rd

FIRST GRAND MATINEE.

When Children, will be addmitted at all price to all l'arts of the Theate

ledge arising from previous "experi- onces, the flowing tide has so com- SATURDAY NIGHT pletely swept us along we are'

Co

NEXT, COMPLETE CHANCE OF PROGRAMME.

PRICES:-53, 92, 51.

well-nigh overwhelined. New na- chinery, more hands, and further - sub-division of labour "are being BOX PLAN now Open at ROBINSON PIANO actively carried out and vigorously pushed forward, and everything else. we can do is being done. We shall soon be able to cope with any amount of new trade. Write us.

·WATKINS

LIMITED.

Aerated Water Manufacturers.

Hongkong, 30th July, 1991,

COTTAM & Co.

JUST ARRIVED.

THE FAVOURITE SUMMER COLLAR

#INCH Leaner,"

BATH GOWNS

OVERLAND TRUNKS.

Hongkong, 30th July, 1901,

Insurances.

L'UNION"

(714

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, L.D.

(Established 1825),

THEGENERAL AGENT for the above

THE Undersigned, having been appointed:

Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS

at current rates,

Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office,

A. 1. MARTY, Agent.

Hongkong, 5th July, rgot.

17120

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above,

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Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half-price to Back Seats only.

NOTE---A Special Tram will leave every Even-

ing 15 minutes after fall of curtain.

Mr. J. FRANK FINLAY Business Manager. (807

Mr. W. H. BROWN... Representative,

Hongkong, 31st July, igo1.

NOTICE.

THE Public are hereby notified that that They notified tha: that

junction of Plantation Road and Aberdeen New Road at Plunkett's Gap, the Peak, com- prising Rur. Building Lot No. 63, will be CLOSED TO-MORROW, 1st August, and that no access will be permitted thereto for

For the HoxGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION,

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. 18210

Hongkong, 31st July, 1901.

TO LET.

N°

10. 1, STEWART TERRACE THE

PEAK. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 3451 July, 1901.

[7090

TO LET.

GODOWN-No.5A, DUDDELI STRRET.

Apply to

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TO LET.

HOUSE in KIPON TERRACE.

($120

BLUE BUILDINGS, No. 3, 2nd Floor. "THE RETREAT." MOUNT KELLETT.

Company are prepared to accept First! Class FOREIGN and CHINESE KISKS at Apply to CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co

Hongkong, ch Maw, 180c.,

KELLY

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. ite; Hongkong. 31st July, 1001.

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To-day's Advertisements,

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW. "HE Company's Steamship THE

*"'HAILOONG,""

Captain Bathurst, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 1st August,

At 3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,. General Managers. Hongkong, 31st July, 1901,

(8200

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

THE Company's Steamship

at Noon.

"THALES,"

Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 3rd August,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 31st July, 1001.

(817

3

"SHIRE" LINE.

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

THE Steamship

"FLINTSHIRE,”

1.

'stroke. We are inclined to think that it is A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will take Tomay's thirst which is at fault. He is place in August, says "a mail paper, between (and no disrespect intended) a most irrespon- Marcus Warre Slade, barrister-at-law, of the sible being, and well described as an absent Inner Temple and Hongkong, second son of minded beggar. This absent-mindedness the Rev. George Fitzclarence Slade, rector of frequently leads him to indulge in a good Buckland, Surrey, and Isabel, oldest daughter. long pull of canteen beer on the top of a

of the Rev. H. Savill Young, rector of Engle. heavy tiffin, then to take a bit of a suooze and field, Reading. afterwards stroll out to walk or play cricket in the hot sun. Then TOMMY wonders what knocks him over. Anyone who has ex- perienced the effects of even a pint of light German heer followed by a walk in the sun, can answer. Tosiny's question for him,

As a matter of fact there is a deal of truth in what KIPLING says about the young British soldier who comes out to the East.

WOLVES, an Indian paper states, have been unwoutedly daring of late in the vicinity of Cawnpore, venturing right into Cantonments, Quite recently, in Mirpur, a little boy was dragged off his charpdy, and in the act of being carried away when his cries luckily roused some men who were sleeping near, who rescued him, but the animal escaped.

A HOME paper says the Hon. Ella Campbell Scarlett, M.D., daughter of Lady Abinger, who recently returned from Soul, Korea, where she occupied a position in the Imperial household, sailed on 16th uit in the transport essaye for Colonial Office to be one of the doctors to the South Africa; having been appointed by the

refugee camp in the Orange River Colony. A SMA despatch of the 10th inst, says Deaths from plague have again increased in

ADVICES are to hand that the Silk which weat forward from Japan by the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co.'s Trans-Pacific Línar Chingwo reached New York on the 16th inst. viz-m 22 days from Yokohama. The Silk forwarded per Hysen is due to reach New York on 8th August,

LIEUTENANT Gillespie, who was twice breveted for gallantry in the Philippines, is named as the probable successor to the late Mr. Adalbert Hay's Consulship at Pretoria when Mr. M'Kinley resolves to fill it. The salary, it is said, will be doubles, as an inducement to

· Lieutenant Gillespic.

WU TING-FANG, Chinese Minister to the United States, addressing the New York State bankers at Buffalo, urged all Americans, who now do 'most of their trade fin China through European agents, to send American agents; also in establish an American bank in Ching for which purpose he particularly recommended a branch at Hongkong.

UNDER the Strategical Zone Law the photogra- phing of land and water in certain parts of Nagasaki is illegal, but it appears that the law is not widely known among foreigners. Many

any aggrieved Toмay to come to us and say we are trying to rob him of his beer, or Captain Dwyer, will be despatched for the Calling him a beast and so on, and ask us to figures are nearly stationary, the figures reported, says the Nagasaki Press, that the above Port, on TUESDAY, the 6th August, come out and fight, as some foolish man is sure to do. We have a great love for TOMMY and we don't want to see him get sunstroke. That's why we rub this little lecture into him,

At 4 P.M.

For Freight, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents.

(818c Hongkong, 31st July, 1001.

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.

ΑΜΟΥ. THE Company's Steamship

"ANPING MARU,"

Captain S. Atsumi, will be despatched for the above Port, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th August at Dayligh

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 31st July, 1901.

f321c

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have been drowned, are now to hand, repriety the Kobe Chronicle. The mine was flc, ed between 4 and 4-45 p.m. on the 5th inst., when 9' men were working in it. Of this number 54 men and 15 women were drowned. Th families of the dead, mostly old' people at i children, 37 in number, are in a very pitiab position. Others are said to have been injure. while running out of the mine. The Gote Colliery (reserved. by the Navy Akat, Gongendo, Ishino and some other collieries a also flooded and the working suspended.

We don't mean to go as far as Mr. K. how ever, and say that he "behaves like a beast,' for we don't think he does more than other folks, but he certainly does occasionally "act like a fool," and especially in the beer question. For this his superiors are in a great measure to blame. We do not think that TOMMY would object if some other beverage were substituted for it during the hot weather up till, say six in the evening, after which he might have his beer to his heart's content. Were this done we are 'told, on excellent medical authority that TOMMY would not suffer from the heat hair number during the week ending July 6th, the breaches by foreign navy officers and tourists as much as he does. And we don't want principal increase being in Bombay Presidency have up to the present been reported, and the

where the figures have risen from 581 10 87% low courts have been compelled to punish these. and in Mysore from 93 to 157. Otherwise the involuntary offenders. In view of this, it is throughout India reading 1.125 as compared local Kencho has lately shown the foreign Con- with 821 last week.

suls the exact limits of the locality protected by A CRICKET match was played at home on June the law, with the request that steps be taken by 33 between the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank | the foreign officials in preven: further offences and the Tyros Cricket Club. The following on the part of their respective nationals, Pro-Boer Methods.

were the scores: Tyro C. C. Bellamy, 28 FURTHER particulars of the inundation of the We commented the other day on the J. E. Gardiner, 7; Stevens, 19; Rev. O. W. means taken by the pro-Boer Party to pack Darling, Rev. A. S. Anderson, 14; Cronk, Iwasaki Colliery at Nagatsu, Onga distric FOR FOOCHOW VIA SWATOW AND Queen's Hall with their sympathisers, arid 11; Geary, 49; A. F. Gardiner, 1; Blyth, 17 Chikuzen, in which 69 miners are reported

carefully exclude all who were opposed to them in order to make their meeting ab- Price, 1; Swallow, 1; extras, 14; total, 184. TH

solutely unanimous. We are pleased to see Hongkong and Shanghai Bank: K. R. Whistler, that the home papers have taken the matter 16: A. C. E. Elborough, not out, 36; K. F. up thoroughly, and ventilated it to such an Gordou, to; C. R. Rice, 14: Gower, 2; R. extent that the Poers must see that the Nicholson, not out, r; T. Longmuir, C. J. Dud whole meeting was a farce, so far as expressley, R. D. Sedgwick, Grayburn, C., J. London, ing the views of the people was concerned. did not bat ; extras, 2; total, for 4 wickets, 131. The papers were very outspoken on the sub- ject, and Mr. LABOUCHERE and his crowd of IT is rumoured, says a Bongkok paper, there hangers on must by this time fully realize that is great fermentation of feeling amongst the the healthy contempt which is felt for them Royalty of His Majesty's Household over a and all of their kidney:

seeming affront which was recently offered, by a Siamese Official of the Krom Wang to a lady of the Royal Court. It is said that while. A VANCOUVER (B. C.), despatch to the San Her Royal Highness Lady Chon Pah, a niece Francisco Chronicle dated May 18th, says :—.. of the late Regent and mother of Princess In order is compete with the Great Northern Sevilli was out driving escorted by cavalry, the Railmad successfully in the transpacific busi carriage of Phya Bamur-bhaldi, Under Secreness, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company tary to the Royal Household, drove through is planning the building of two new steamers the cavalry guardsmen, one of whom im- that will far outclass anything at present in the inediately resented the effrontery by slashing Oriental trade. The Canadian Pacific has the Under Secretary en the neck with the been considering the master since the an-

nouncement made last year by President Hil of the Great Northern that two fast boats As was before reported by Japanese papers, would be put on between Seattle and Yoko- the remarkable increase in the production hama. Only recently however, has definite of camphor in Japan of late has seriously action been taken, and plans are now being affected the Formosan camphor market, and prepared for two fast steamers. According quotations which at one time stood at to the present plans they will be vessels Yo have declined to Y75. This, says capable of at least twenty-one knots speed and the Kobe Chronicle, has largely reduced will be far superior to the Empress liners.now the revenue of the Formosan Government,

on the run. The scheme includes the running and measures to make good the loss are now of the Empress vessels to Vladivostok, in it is suggested in some Siberia, if the present arrangements can be being considered. quarters that regulations for control of the carried out, while the new steamers will zun camphor business in Japan should be enacted exclusively to Yokohama. The vessels will be for the protection of the camphor industry in built in England and are designed to cut down Formosa. This is, however considered im-the time across the Pacific by three and one- practicable, as the forestry system is only in half days. They will be finely fitted up and will. its initial stage in Japan, but it is believed a tax come under the naval reserve class. The pre- will be imposed on the camphor business in sent Empress liners were put on ten years this country.

ago. They are capable of a speed of nearly eighteen knots, but make the trip at a fifteen- knot rate. The new boats will be completed in September of next year.

Entimation.

The bottom, has also been completely knocked out of the dismal picture drawn by Miss Honouse as to the conditions pré- vailing in the refuge camps, and this, as will be seen by reference to another column, by A. S. WATSON & CO., a gentleman whose name alone gives one the impression that he might be excused for painting matters as black as possible for the British. It is not these methods that will avail the Boers or their partisans anything, for there will always be found honest men among their own party who will give the lieblunt of his sword. to their essays of imagination and worse.

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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

SCOTCH

WHISKY

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Hongkong, 29th July, 1901.

upon Application.

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GENERAL DRAPERS AND GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS.

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QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

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MILLINERY,'

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AUSTRALIA, AND THE IM- MICRATION QUESTION.

LONDON, July 29th.

The Hon. Edmund Barton, Premier of the Australian Comnionwealth, has introduc ed a Bill into the Australian Parliament con- taining drastic restrictions upon immigration, including the educational test.

THE PROPOSED GRANT FOR

LORD ROBERTS.

In a message from King Edward, which has been presented to Parliament, His Majesty says that considering the eminent services of Lord Roberts to the country, and desiring to confer upon him à signal mark of favour, he recommends that a grant of The following Blends are also recom£100,000 be voted to the distinguished

mended, and are unpassed in- quality- A-THORNE'S BLEND... ....$10.80

B. GLENORCHY, MELLOW

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D.-H,K.D., BLEND of the

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R. G. HECKFORD, A. S, WATSON & CO. LIMITED,

Manager.

OLD MATURED

JOHN WALKER WHISKEY,

FROM THE FAMOUS. KILMARNOCK DISTILLERY. "THE FAVOURITE WHISKY IN THE OLD COUNTRY,

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A. CHEE & Co.

17a, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;

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Silver Plated, Glass and China Waies, Iron Bedsteads and Mat. tresses Cutlery and Dinner Services Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.

Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and Hotels in Hongkong.

Hongkong, 25th July, 1901,

17770

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

BIRTH.

On the 29th instant, at 3, Victoria View, Kowloon, the wife of H. BATHURST, of 2 (8190

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1901.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Tommy's Shorn Locks. The other day we published a letter from Delta complaining of the fact that our soldiers were made to clip their hair short, and this, in Delta's opinion, contributes greatly to the mortality from sunstroke. We rather fancy that Delta has been leaping before looking for were he to take a stroll along Queen's Road any morning, afternoon, or evening, he would find that nearly every man he met, with the exception of our American' cousins who seem to delight in a scalp lock, had his hair clipped much closer now than is customary in the cold weather. Only yesterday a gentleman of our acquain tance dropped in with his head almost as bare as a billiard ball and explained that he

Field-Marshal.

THE SOMALILAND OPERATIONS. The Mad Mullah has been defeated with heavy loss.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report says:- On the 31st at 1.10 p.m. the barometer has fallen slightly on the China coast. Pressure is highest over Japan, and gradients continue slight with light S. and S.E, winds on the China coast and in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast:-Light S.E: winds; showery.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SOME Peking relics and curios were sold at home at Mr. J. C. Stevens's sale on 29th ult. The more important from Peking were the following :-A-rich scarlet silk coat, beautifully embroidered with flowers and birds, lined with yellow fox-52 os.; a very fine blue silk-lined sable coat, 42, in. long-£22 15.; a Chinese complimentary umbrella, each ribbon bearing the name of one of the subscribers, said to have been the property of a leading Boxer whose decapitation was demanded by the Allies-£12 128.: a peacock blue silk coat, lined with Russian sàble-Log 6s.; a violet robe lined with embroidered lambskin, 3 135.; and a Chinese Imperial seal, in silver, weighing about 141b, said to be about 257 years old-70 guineas.

STRENUOUS efforts are being made to develop tin-mines at Hin-Boun in Laos, says a recent Siam Free Press. As far back as 1896, a com pany to work the land was started at Saigon The only thing done since has been surveying and prospecting work. Last year mining work was fairly started. Shafts were sunk, and leads traced.. Upon this, inachinery and other min,

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THE AUSTRALIAN VAUDEVILLE

COMPANY.

This Company open their season here to-night at the City Hall, where the theatre has been just cleaned and newly fitted up. As it is s long since any form of public entertainme was going on in Hongkong, there is sure to a crowded first night, and if the Company is up to the reputation it has obtained in the press of the various places it has visited, their stay public and themselves, here should prove a good thing both for the

Later, we hear that there promises to be a big house to-night to witness the first, performance of the above Company. In spite of the weather a large audience is expected and they will not be dis appointed. The troupe were carefully selected from the best talent obtainable in Australia and are most highly spoken of in Manila. We wish them every success, as it is a bal experiment to visit Hongkong at this season of the year. but in the names of three or four of the Star then is a tower of strength which should rende

THE plague return by the Governor of the Cape again reports no deaths amongst Chinese ing appliances were ordered from France their success almost a certainty, there.. Their immunity seems extraordinary. THE Pinang Gazette Says Count von Walder see on arrival at Batavia did not go ashore, as he found that cholera was prevalent in that

town..

By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that the sailing date of the steamship Hengkang Maru, for San Francisco, has been Altered to Saturday, 3rd August, at daylight. THE Singapore Free Press of the 23rd inst contains an obituary notice of the late Mr. Arnot Reid, for ten years editor of the Straits Times. He left Singapore for England a litle

over a year ago.

The Saigon Opinion calls attention to the fact that it is a 'wlioily French enterprise worked with French capital. Further mining opera tians are expected to be soon started with vigour. Specimens of metal from the mine are on view at Saigon. These include ingots of tin which are said to stand favourable com- parison with the Malayan article.

'A RECENT Bangkok paper says in tropical need merely to be tapped to provide the countries nature has provided plants, which parching traveller wherewith to quench his thirst. Such a vegetable reservoir, the

Travellers Tree," is now to be seen in its.. glory at Bangkok. Stam. It is a wonderful We are pleased to see that Lord Roberts is sight, too. The trunk reaches a height of soft, likely to get the substantial little sum of awhile the 20 to 40 monster leaves spreading hundred thousand pounds voted to him by therefrom like a fan are over 30ft. long. These Parliament. It is just as well to reward our leaves are a foot wide, and generally torn by great leaders thus, for it spurs others on to the wind, like banana leaves. If any one emulate them in the hope of similar recognition, the leaf stems be pierced, a small stream of and our leaders are too honest to grow rich in cool, sweet water rushes out of the aperture. their commands, as, de those of other countries. The cross section of such a leaf stem reveals Of course there will be a great outcry on the within a small canal extending atong its whole part of Mr Labouchere and other pro-lloers at length. It is reasoned that the moisture in the

this wanton waste of money upon a highway robber, desecrator of homes, etc., etc, but we had been shorn on, account of heat

do not think that this will prevent the vote We really don't think that Tom hair being passed, and so showing the Boers, the har anything to do with his 'getting sun. trud temper of the nation.

of

bot, atmosphere coming in contact with the cool leaves is condensed on the latter and carried down the canal. This travellers' bless ing is found in many sections of Southem Asia. The tree at Bangkok is now in full bloom,

THE PLAGUE.

Number of cases reported (Chinese......1,513 up till noon of the 30th Other Asiatics 51 July, 1901.

Europeans....30 Number of cases reported

Chinese during the past 24 hours Europeans...o Other Asiatics o

Total number of cases reponed to date 1,596, Number of deaths reported Chinese1,475 up till noun of the 30th Other Asiatics 34 July, 1901

Europeans.11

Other: Asiatics Number of deaths reported Chinese

during the past 24 hours Europeans o

1

Total number of deaths recorded 10 date 1,522 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are

Cases Chinese......

Other Asiatics European

Total

Deaths Chinese

Other Asiatics Europeans

Total

The plague returns for fast

CaseL

Deaths;