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Entimations.

WHAT TO DRINK!

AND THE TIME TO DRINK IT 1

Before Breakfast..

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

GROWN SODA.

Before Tiffin.

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

SHERRY.

Before Dinner.

THE SAME.

At other times and at all times

Champagne Bitters and Whiskey is

good.

Stick to this advice and you'll never know you have a liver.

WATKINS

LIMITED.

Chemists and Aeratol Water

Munafixturers.

Hongkong, 13th August, 150i,

COTTAM & Co.

* JUST ARRIVED.

THE FAVOURITE SUMMER COLLAR

INCH LEADER," BATH GOWNS, OVERLAND TRUNKS. Hongkong, 20th July, repr.

To-day's Advertisements.

[7:48.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

THE

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FOR HAIPHONG. IE Company's Steamship.

"TOONAN," Captain Blethen, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 17th instant, at Noon,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

**DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & ̈ ̃Co...,"

General Managers, Hongkong, 16th August, 1901.

FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE. HE H.A.L. Steninship

THE

"ANDALUSIA,"

F881C

Captain Ehlers will be despatched for the above Ports, on MONDAY, the 19th instant, at 5P.3.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1901.

[985e

FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND

SINGAPORE..

"HE H.A.L. Steamship

THE

"ANDALUSIA,"

Captain Ehlers, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 3 M., TO-DAY.

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Any Cargo impeding her discharge, will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 23rd instant, will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to ba left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 23rd instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office.

Hongkong, 6th August, gor.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

TH

"PARRAMATTA,"

Lo-day's Advertisements.

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO,

* LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

N INTERIM DIVIDEND at the RATE

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1901.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE LONDON TEA SALES,

LONDON, August 4th,

A of 5% (TWO DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS per Share), for the Six Months ending 30th June, 1901, will be PAID to those Persons

The attempt of the Ring to boycott the who are Registered as Shareholders in the

public Tea sales has failed. Splendid prices: above Company on the 30th August, 1901.---..

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company were realized for 19,000 packages of Ceylon will be CLOSED from the 22nd to the 30theas sold publicly yesterday, and for 25,000 instant, both 'Days inclusive.

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 16th August, 1901,

DOUGLAS, STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

THE Company's Steamship

TH

"THALES,"

| Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 20th instant,

at 17 A.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

[882c

Hongkong, 16th August, 1901.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

packages of Indian teas sold on Monday, At a secret såle to be held to-morrow, only 11,000 packages will be offered.

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK IN AFRICA.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York have arrived at Pietermaritzburg,

LATER.

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. SEVERE FIGHT ON THE FISH RIVER.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL between three hundred British and an equal THE Company's Steamship,

force of the enemy. The Boers toughly re sisted the attack, but were driven from kopje to kapjejuntil finally dispersed.

HAIMUN,"

Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant, at 11 A.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPŔAIK & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1901. [88c AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-

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TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM TRIESTE, PORT SAID, ADEN, - KARACHI,- COLOMBO, BOMBAY, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. "HE Steamship

[88c T

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-namen vessel are herchy inferned that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown [6710 Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goads are landed.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

THE

CHERE will be NO COMPETITION TO- MORROW (SATURDAY), the 17th instant, but the Range will be open for Practice.

AĻEX. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, Jóth August, 1901.

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE, HONGKUNG.

T

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HE School will RE-OPEN on MONDAY,

the 19th instant,

Copies of Prospectus may be obtained at the School..

Hongkong, 16th August, 1001

KELLY

This vessel brings on Cargo

From London, &c., ex S.S. Rome. From Australia, ex S.S. Australia.

"CHINA,"

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 S.S. Metcovich transhipped

at Trieste. From Levant Ports, or S.S. Urania tran

shipped at Port Said. 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 to the Office of the Undersigned before

In the event of any Commission being appoint- ed to enquire into the subject-of jerry building in the Colony, we hope that Mr. Tooker will be given a seat upon it. He felt the effects of jerry building last night, and should be able to speak with feeling and conviction on the sub- ject of poor bricks. He would probably vote

for more adhesive mortar.

منيب

The Band of the Madras Light Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Satur day) evening, from 8 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME.

Overture

Maritana

Wallace. Setegiten

Iolanike...

Sullivan, Expresa....... Waldteufel. Wall...........

Schics Song..... Segnal...

Kappey, Selection..." American Bielodies"

Harlman.. Serenade........ Hungarian Eches"

"God save the Khiq,"

As will be seen by reference to another column, the case which created so much interest is Singapore, in which Captain and Mrs. Strachan and some of the crew of the Envy were sup posed to have been poisoned with phosphorous, is ending in a very tame manner, the medical evidence showing that the people were simply suffering from, the effects of scurvy. Even the ship's dog had it, and Mrs. Strachan has lost a tooth through it. It is thought that Singapore fruit and vegetables will put all right (dog included) except the tooth, and that will re- quire the services of a dentist.

A severe fight lasting four hours has been fought on the Fish River, Cape Colony.in reference to the Chinese Immigration THE Singapore Free Press of the 8th inst. says: Bill, a friend points out onu fact that strikes him as important. A British ship is compelled to produce its log book to a Government Department (the Marine Department) while a foreigner is not compelled to do so. Therefore any ouussion from the log, or any false state- ment made therein, as regards death or sickness on board for instance, cannot be known, and breaches of Quarantine or other Ordinances may be committed with impanity and with danger to the health and well-being of this Colony (Singapore), "

The British lost one officer and one private killed, and seven, men wounded. The Boer losses include Commandant Pretorius who died from the effects of a wound received during the fight.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report says On the 16th at 12.5 p.m. the barometer has fallen slightly on the S. coast of China. Pressure is high over the Pacific near the Loochons, and low, apparently, over the N.W. part of the China Sea in the neighbourhood of Hainan, Gradients slight to moderate for E. and S.E. S.E. wints; squally, showery. winds in S. China Forecast:-Fresh E. and

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE following is the report of the Jelebu Mine (Rin lode)The battery ran 31 days in July crushing 100 tons for 15 tons 6 cwt. of tin oxide..

IN another column will be found a very sen-

sible article from the Saturday Review on "The China Carcase, and the Eagles. It will we have put forward ever since the late troubles began..

For the information of the Director of Public Works we may remark that there is such a place as Garden Road, Kowloon, At least, those responsible for the nomenclature of our public thoroughfares call it a road, but it isn't. It is at present more like a small extent of veldi covered with kopjes and kloofs etc., and with a very fine spruit running across it at an angle of forty five degrees. We have been capsized in the latter, so we know it to be there. It is very kind of Mr. Chatham to give the Kowloonites object lessons in geographical terms, but they have mostly learnt them before. If the gentleman in question would call upon some of the residents of the locality named they would doubtless give him their views upon the up- keep of public roads.

THE 'COOHRANE STREET COLLAPSE.

MORE BODIES RECOVERED, Work is still being continued on the debris of the collapsed houses in Cochrane Street, Last night twenty coolies were at work under Inspector Kemp, but no sooner was a body found than the whole fet struck work and cleared out. This morning a gang of a hundred coolies were put on and they have been busily engaged all day in removing the debris and carting it down to the Praya.

So far twenty-ong bodies have been recover- ed, but it is believed that many more will be found so soon as the apper stratum of rubbish has been cleared away. Many of the bodies recovered were shockingly mutilated, one so. much so that it was impossible even to tell if it

was that of a man or woman. There was a rumour current this morning to the effect that the bodies of two Portuguese had been found

under the debris in the street, but this, on in- sestigation turns out to be simply an idle tale. We deny it because it was so commonly pre- valent this morning, and bad such very circum- stantial details tacked on.

It seems that we were a bit out in our dates yesterday. The houses were built in 1879 to 1881, after the big fire, and not in 1878 as we said at first. The houses in that quarter were,

high rents, hence they were run up after the at that time, mostly brothels and commanded

fire with great rapidity. In other words jerry- built. Three of them fell down while in course of erection and lives were lost then.

Further inspection shows that the accident was probably due to the roofs, giving way owing to the weakness of the wooden supports, and in the collapse the houses seem to have lurched forward, for piles of brickwork were found on the verandahs of the opposite houses. Another thing which can now be seen is that the dividing wall simply butted on to the front wall, instead of being properly bonded to it.

It is hardly necessary to mention that the weather is much against the work of clearing the debris quickly. The last few bodies found. had already begun to decompose, and the job now confronting those at work is by no means pleasant. In all probability the spot where more bodies are expected to lie will not be, reached until to Morrow.

ARMED ROBBERY AT PICNIC BAY.

Last night at Picnic Bay, Lamma Island, off Aberdeen occurred one of those armed attacks that have made this Island notorious. 11ap- pears that some short time after nightfall an armed party landed and surrounded an isolated house near the beach. They forced an entry and commenced to ranstick the place,

and slashed and cut about in a most ruthless manner. Aftercompleting their work tharobbers got quietly away the way they came. We under stand that the Chinese authorities, under press-

Noon, on the 22nd instant, or they will not be be noticed that it bears out the views which THE following smaku story is from the Man. One of the inmates resisted and was attacked

recognized.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any From Persian Gulf, er B.L.S.N., and B. & l'instant, will be subject to rent.

Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 22nd

S. N. Cols Steamers.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before

P.M., TO-DAY,

Goods not cleared by the 22nd instant, at 4 IP.M. will be subject to rent.

No. Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.

All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob- tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.

H. A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent

1830c Hongkong, 16th August, 1901.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & Co.,

Agents.. Hongkong, 16th August, 1901. [685c

Intimation.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

AN obtrusive subject of discussion has been neaify shelved in conversation by a well-known American diplomatist. He was asked the nature of his views on the "feminine question." That," he said, "has been a side-issue ever since the time of Adam.” (Ribald man !)

THE weather of the past week has certainly been very unlike that usually, experienced in August. The min was very badly needed and the comforting drop in temperature which accompanied it will go far towards helping us over the heat of the fag end of the summer. It is rather like adding insult to injury for

dalay Herald of the 27th ult.-A very sad oc-

currence, resulting in this death of almost all the members of a poor family, took place at Mutla, in Bengal. The family consisting of a mother, two 500s, and a daughter, were sleeping on theure, are hunting the bad characters from pillar mud floor of their hut when one of the sons to post and they are coming into British Waters. This renders the work of the Water Police still woke up with the pain caused by the, bite of a cobra on his knee. The mother lulled the poor more arduous, as it is impossible to efficiently. fellow to sleep, remarking that it was only a patrol the coast line with the few men and scorpian's bite. Soon after, the other children launches at the disposal of the Captain Saper. were bitten, and as the unfortunate mother it intendent. a lamp she was also bitten. The whole family, except the daughter, succumbed to the bites, and the neighbours next morning dug up the floor and caught a pair of huge cobras,, which were found lying coiled over a nest of cobra

WALSH, LD. A. S. WATSON & CO., Reuter to tell us about sales of Indian and spawn.

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ESTABLISHED 1859,

FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;

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Silver Plated, Glass and China Wates, 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, 1907

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WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,

GENERAL DRAPERS AND GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS

OF

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

Are now showing a Large and varied Stock of

SUMMER DRESS MATERIALS, SILKS, RIBBONS, LACES, HOSIERY, GLOVES, &o.

MILLINERY....

Latest London and Paris Fashions constantly) arriving, inspection invited,

Ceylon teas. We all knew that China tea' is going to the demnition bow wows, and we are sorry for it, but to have the sales of Ceylon and India thus thrust in our faces is very like hiting us after we are down.

THE "severe fighting on the Fish River"seems to us to be a trifle overdone. Two killed in a fight of four hours duration does not seem to us a very big mortality. It sounds too much like the screaming of the bird of freedom over

the carcase of the Santiago mule to describe an affair of this sort as "severe.”

$

PIRACY IN BRITISH, WATERS.

A determined act of pitacy, was commit ted in British waters on the night of the 13th. It appears a junk had been anchored for nearly a week at the East end of Cap Sing Mun waiting for another large fishing boat. On the night of the 13th a boat put offshore containing six men, they silently rowed alongside the junk, cut her cable and attempted to tow her out to sea. An alarm was raised, on which the pirates in the boat commenced firing with revolvers, WE shall be obliged if any subscriber on An old man and his sun were shot dead, and receiving his paper late or irregularly will the oldest son and his wife seriously wounded. write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time ofIn the meantime their fokis in the other fishing delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong. Telegraph Co., Ld., 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check the delivery coolies.

A DECISION was given this morning by Mr.. A. G. Wise, Acting Chief Justice, in the case of Collins versus Gibson. A point of law. was

boat, bazing arrived that evening, hearing the cries and the shooting, started to come to their assistance. On seeing this, and realizing the serious nature of their act, the men ́in the boat made off and got safely away,

No arrests have been male and we are afraid the ruffians will get off scot free. They

THE CHINESE CARCASE AND THE EAGLES.

The prolonged conversazione which has followed the siege of the legations, at Peking has had at least one definite result, The Powers have decided to exact an iodemnity of Tls. 450,000,000 in payment of expenses entail- ed by that piece of "Midsummer Madness", as. Sir Robert Hart phrased it; and the moment may not be inopportune to take stock of the: situation." There is little use in discussing the amount which is an expression, in several cases at least, of exigencies that may not be resisted when a sword figures in the opposite scale. It might escape scrutiny altogether if China were organized and developed like ite count ries of Europe, with like standards of value. and monetary reserves; but £65,000,000, is a very large sum to be paid by people who use coins worth less than one third of a farthing; and the misfortune is that it will have to be paid chiefly by provinces that took no part in

the crime.

Addressing Lord Salisbury on to September last, when the negotiations which have reached this notable result were about to open, the China Association laid down two propositionS: (1) That no settlement should be regarded as admissible which did not exclude from power those primarily responsible for the outbreak ; (2) That fiscal reform was a necessity if addi tional requirements were to be met without they might hardly endure. Personal respon subjecting the people to additional taxation

WHIKAJ argued between, council at some length, result. chose their time for the attack in a blinding sibility rested notoriously on Prince Tuan,

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ing in a verdict for the defendent (Gibson), each party to pay their own costs, Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C., appeared for the complainant and Mr. Robinson for the defendant.——— A NUMBER of friends will symathise with Mr. Cottam in the sad loss of his youngest son, Arthur Symonds Cotiam, aged 14 monuis, which occurred near Suez. Mrs Cottain and ber children were on their way home to the old country on the s.5. Sachsen, and although every- thing possible was done nothing could save the young life. The burial took place at sea... Ar exchange, in an article on the life of Andrew Carnegie, finishes up thus-But in spite of a happy marriage, Andrew Carnegie $10,80 is not a happy man. I remember as we drove

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down to the station on his four in hand coach, I was saying how I envied him his wealth, and he said "I am not really to be envied. How can my wealth help me? 1 am sixty years old and I cannot digest. I would give you all my millions if you could give me your youth and health." And then I shall never forget his next remark. We had driven on some yards in silence when he suddenly turned, and in a bushed voice, speaking with a bitterness and depth of feeling quite indescribable, he said: "If I could thake Faust's bargain, I would F'd gladly sell anything to have half my life ever again." And I saw his hands cleacht as He spoke" But where does Mother Siegel's Syrup come in

rain squall and none of the occupants of the junk could identify any of the men. If not frightened away they would have bad a good haul, as over $1000 were on board besides per sonal effects, and cargo. The bodies were removed to Tsim Sha Tsui and from thence to the Mortuary,

JERRY-BUILA MAXIMS,

Stucco covers a mutitude of sins.

A brick saved is a profit gained.

——

The careful man is careful of his mortar. Every contract has a silver lining,

Kang Yi and the Empress trusted henchmam Tung Fub-siang"; and they should pay the penalty of their crimes. The exclusion from power of a faction so deeply compromised should, at any rate, be regarded as an essential preliminary to negotiation; and though it might be expedient, for reasons of State, to guarantee the personal immunity of the Empress it was essential to rescue the Emperor from-ber durance and restore him to power. "The Emperor and the advisers he had gathered; round him before the coup d'etat bad perceived. the necessity of reforms, if China is to survive as an integral State. His attempts to abolish sinecures and introduce the princidle of a budget rank, were indeed among the proximate causes of the conspiracy which has had such disastrous consequences, not only for foreigners but for Chinese themselves. Such reforms are opposed to the selfish interests of the courtiers, permanent officials, Manchu pensioners, and, sinecurists who gave their support to, the lately. dominant clique; and they are in the last degree unlikely to be inaugurated under what called may, for convenience of designation, be ad Empresa regime, jo vaiko w

The programme is plausible, and has the It has been decided that if the day breaks advantage of requiring no, peculiarly expert fine with every promise of pleasant weather knowledge for its comprehension. Let us see the programme of sports already published will how far it has been carried into effect. (1) As be proceeded with Many people would think regards the political aspect, the Chinese Govern- the recent heavy and continued rains would ment (to quole the Peking and Tientsin Times have made the course too rotten to hold a of 11 May) to whom we are presumably, and meeting. But such is not the case. The going, prospectively going, to hand back province though rather heavy, is not nearly so bad as one of Chibli and the protection of our commercial might think and no accident should occur to interests, is identical with the Chinese Govern prevent the best horses-winning The week's ment which lied to us, besieged us, and dealt postponement has served to put a fine edge ah murderously with us. At the head of it is the many of the contestants. But we still hold to Empress Dowager, still dragging the Emperor Loyalist as the best of the batch at both like a whipped dog at her heels 17 ucin distancerk

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fantastic pantomime on her shadow "Keskei

A dollar to an overseer saves nine.

THE SECOND GYMKHANA MEETING,