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Intimations.

WHAT TO DRINK I

AND THE TIME TO DRINK IT !

Before Breakfast,

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

CROWN SODA,

Before Tiffin.

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

SHERRY.

Before Dimer.

THE SAME.

At other times fand at all times

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements,

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

་་་

THERE will be NO COMPETITION TO MORROW (SATURDAY), the 14th Instant, but there will be a Practice under the Interport Match Conditions, commnencing at'

3.45 PRL-

RANGES.-200, 500 and foo yaris. Seven Shots and a Sighter at each Range.. ALEX. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 13th September, 1901.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.'S "NEW YORK" LINE.

FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL

HE Steamship

THE

Captain

"ATAKA,"

[45

will be despatched for the above Port TO-MORROW, tha, 14th instant,

at Noon.

To be followed by the

For Freight, apply to

SS. ANAPA," about 15th October, 1901.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, Agents. Hangkann. 13th September, 1001

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Champagne Bitters and Whiskey is THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

hour

Stick to this advice and you'll never know lave

you a liver.

;

WATKINS

LIMITED.

Chemists and Aeratal Water ·

Manufacturers.

Hongkong, 13th August, 1901, '

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED, "

PORTLAND CEMENT.

$5.50 Cask of 375 s. Net ex Factory. $3.30 Bag of 250 lbs.

SHEWAN, TOMËS & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong. Ist June, root.

[10

"PALAWAN,"

$871€

EROM LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ, BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

My Coday's

Advertisements:

"SHIRE * LINE,

To-day we are much better off Our ballet carried beneath the skin. When this 6ghting fleet consists of five battleships is removed, no complications are to be aggregating 62,300 tons and carrying seventy feared.. eight guns, with a speed of eighteen and a quarter knots for the fleet. The vessels are

FOR NAGASAKI, 1.BE & YOKOHAMA, as below:- BATTLESHIPS.

THE Steamship

RADNORSHIRE, Captain Bindless, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 17th instani, at Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agents.. Hongkong, 13th September, 1901

ORIENTAL

*STEA

1998

“THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,..

STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS),

THE Steamship

"CHUSAN,"

Captain C. L. Daniel, R.N.R., carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched fromthis for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the z8th Septem. Consignees of Cargo by, the above-hamedber, at Neon, taking Passengers and Cargo for vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are

the above Ports. being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted qui Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo:-

From London, &c, ex SS, China. From Australia, ex S.S. Australia. From Calcutta, er S.S. Syria, ・・

From Persian Gulf, er B.I.S.N. and B. & P.

S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 12 MM, TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 19th instant, at 4 PM, 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 ole tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, alter which no Claims will be recognised.

H. A. RITCHIE,

Hongkong, 13th September, 1901,

A. CHEE & Co.

Iis, Queen's Boail, Centrul,

ESTABLISHED 1859. •*

FURNITURE

DEALERS:

NAME.

Albion.... Barftur Goliath. Glory... Ocean....

TONS. GUNS, SPEED.

12,950

16 18.29

10,500

14.

18.5

13,950

16

18.35

12,950

18.25

..... 12,950 16 18.25

Our first class cruisers are five in number of an aggregate tonnage of 52,850 tons, mount- ing seventy-eight guns and capable of steaming as a fleet at eighteen knots. They are shown in the following table

CRUISERS, IST CLASS. YAME

Argonait

Aurora

Endymion

Blenheim

Orlando Terrible

TONS.

GUNS, SPEED,

11,000

16

20.75

5,600

12

18.

9,000

12

21.5

7,350 * 20.5

5,600 12 18.1

14,200 14 22.4

Of second class cruisers we have seven on

∙LATER.

A HOME PAPER of July 30th records curious case

A dock laborer named William Dowling, of Newport, was killed at Newport station last evening. He and a Mrs. Bowen had gone to see some friends off, and one of them, after the train was in motion, kept hold of Mrs. Bowen's President McKinley's progress continues hand, pulling her along the platform. excellent.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY STILL IMPROVING.

THE TSAR AT DANTZIG. The Tsar has arrived at Dantzig.

THE ST. LEGER. The following is the result of the race the St. Leger Stakes:-

Doricles Volodyovski Revenue

She fell, and Dowling tried to save her, but both rolled from the platform. Mrs. Bowen escaped unhurt, but Dowling went under the "wheels,"

IN THE FIFESHIRE fishing village of An- for struther took place recently the interesting marriage of Princess Titana Poloma Brander, from Tahiti, in the Society Islands, to the Rev, Andrew Machlachlan, minister of the local United Frée Church.

SUCCESSFUL BRITISH OPERA- TIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Lord Methuen snccessfully engaged Com- mandants Vantonder and Delarey, driving them from strong positions.

this station, one of which, the Arethusa, really belongs to the Pacific station, so that our true strength may be said to be reduced Colonel Crabbe overwhelmed one hundred to six. These six ships aggregate 30,300 | Boers, killing Vandermerwe, Commandant tons and mount sixty two guns, their steam-Scheepers' principal lieutenant. ing speed is a fleet being nineteen and a half knots. They are shown in the table *below.

CRUISERS, 2ND CLASS.

NAME

Arthun...... Astri

Dido..........

sis

3,600 8

TONS GUNS, SPEED.

4,300. 10 16,6 4,300 -10 19.75 5,600

II 19.5. 5,600

20.0 19.75

5,600 1.

200

1,600 11, 19.5

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE FRENCH MAIL of the 10th August was delivered in London on the 11th inst.

A CASE of alleged stamp stealing by a China- mian in the Post Office was adjourned till Mon- day at 2.15 p.m.

Fisher folk from all around came to see the

dusky Royal bride and the ministerial bride-

room.

The couple were married in the Chalmers Memorial Church, and the wedding presents, numbering 300, were laid out for the congre gation to view.

· Princess. Titana Polonia Brander was the. daughter by a former marriage of the late Princess Titana Marania, who became the wife of ex-Bailie Därsie, of Anstruther, and left her -home in the South Pacific for the native village.

of her husband in Fife.

resides at Anstruther, and is unmarried.".

Another Tahitian princess, sister to the bride,

THE FIRST NUMBER of "The Searchlight, Organ of the Chelsea Workhouse Inmates," has made its appearance witli that quiet im- pressiveness which characterizes many a great

Last, but by no means least, comes a little WE HEAR that ont of our best known Majors event, says the last Pall Mall Gäerite to hand,

Pique. Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, Talbot and Tea for London (under arrangemen) will | Eclipse « be transhipped Colombo into steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London; uther Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed vid Bombay with Transhiphicat.

Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.

These small vessels

group of six destroyers. aggregate 1,677 tons and their speed as a squadron is twenty-seven knots. They are as shown below:-

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Fame Bills of Lading.

Hart

For further Particulars, apply to

Handy H. A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent. Janus Hongkong. 13th September, root

Entimation.”

*J

Outer.. Whiting

NAME

DESTROYERS.

SPEED.

TONS.

275

30.16

260

27.07

200

27.04

252

27.8

300

30.0 30.2

339

It will thus be seen that we can now muster a Beet of battleships and first class cruisers of over a hundred and ten thousand tous, consisting of eleven ships, mounting a hundred and fifty-six guns and capable of manoeuvring at eighteen knots. Such a force is certainly not to be despised, particularly

Superintendent. A. S. WATSON & CO., when one lakes into consideration that it

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;

Silver Plated, Glass and China Waies, Iron Bedsteads and Mat-

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1845.

THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS

OF

ÆERATED

would be served by six second-class cruisers and as many destroyers to act as scouts, the maneuvring speed of these two classes of vessels being nineteen and a half and twenty seven knots respectively,

There can be little doubt but that our fleet at present out here would be a match point of numbers for any force which is ever likely to be opposed to it, if it could act together as a whole, but this we fancy could never happen. We have so much to protect that the fleet would have to be so broken up that the Admiral would.probably have to go into action with half, or even less, of his full strength. We fancy that if a thorough affairs on the China Station, it would be found that we lacked cruisers, as is the case in the Channel. In the event of hostilities arising it would be necessary to tell off swift vessels to protect trade routes and this could not be done with the number now available. We should like to know what the Navy

tresses: Cutlery and Dinnier Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen WATERS. examination were made into the state of

Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.

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

Hongkong, 25th July, 1901,

KELLY &

TROPICAL DISEASES, with 11 lilustrations and two coloured Plates, by Dr. Patrick Manson ........... ...56.sa "HELLESPONT" ON BRIDGE

(7770

WALSH, LD.

BOXING, THE MODERN SYSTEM. DE GLOVE FIGHTING," by Capt.-W. Edge- wonk Johnstone....

* 3.00 MURRAY'S HANDBOOK OF TRAVEL TALK 575

THE ARROW WAR WITH CHINA, by Chas,

Leavenworth.......

THE EXPANSION OF TRADE IN CHINA,

by T. H. Whitehead

*

2.35

0.30

2 ENCIISH, FRENCH, GERMAN and ITALIAN ESSAYS AND ESsar •Writing, by-A-W

Ready.......

2.25

245

THE TRIAD SOCIETY or HEAVEN AND

EARTII ASSOCIATION, by W: Stantun.2 3.50 A JAPANESE MARRIAGE, by Douglas

Sladen............

MUSCLE, BRAIN, ASIDIEŤ, A LCEA FOR

SIMPLER FOODS, by E11. Miles

IN THE FAR EAST.

OUR FACTORIES are construct.

caused to be arrested an European police con. stable. The case is being investigated THE CHIEF OFFICER of the 5.5. Chowki having his suspicions aroused by tlic move- ments of the Quarter Master, on the 29th ult. at Bangkok, watched him from the bridge. Presently he saw the latter attempt to smuggle ashore 130 tins of opium, each tin containing to taels of the stuff, and arrested him. THE PROGRAMME of the Victoria Recrea- tion Club's annual aquatic carnival will comprise the swimining off of the dead hent between |N. A. Alves and S. R. Moore also, Leap frog, Diving, Fancy Swimming, Life Saving, Blind- fold Race, Tab Race, Egg and Spoon Race and Tournament. The sports will start at 4 pm. sharp, September 21st.

The journal advocates the establishment of a death chamber, where men and women who know themselves to be superfluous may enjoy an honourable, speedy, and painless.exit from life. The proposal is admited to be a little in advance of the times, but the writer thinks we might gradually develop towards it. But as we developed might we not begin to doubt our

own unusefulness? The comm'ttee of inmates at the Lump, Arthur-street, Chelsea, S.W.. who conduct this journal, are obviously daring thinkers. Life has no illusions for them, and death is the crowning mercy. At the same time the inmates feel that workhouse women ought to be allowed to wear more graceful. costumes. Obviously the committee would not

enter the death chamber were it established to-morrow. This is well, for we hope the Searchlight will have a long life.

THE DEMAND for Japanese brick tea, says the Nagasaki Press, is reported to have con- siderably increased in the interior of Siberia.THE PARL-MALL GAZETTE has the The Wadiyostock branch of the Kyushu Tea following dog and parrot story: A dog which Company of that port has already received an throws stones is a mare Bird. That, however, is order for 100,000 cases of brick tea, and as the the character given to a dog which, it was said, market is very promising the directors of the at the instigation 'of its"mistress, maliciously local firm are said to be considering the desir- barked at the other lady," and threw stones at ability of extending their business to Siberia window panes by tossing the missiles in his by increasing the capital of the concern. paws. We are not told whether,the canine THE SPECIAL SALE of work of the lialian thrower touched the spot every time, but it Convent is to take place from the 23rd to the must have been a sufficiently wonderful perfor 28th inst., when our readers will have an oppor- parrot which said "things" calculated to make tunity of purchasing ladies and children's the judicious grieve.. Anyway, it made her underclothing and other useful embroidered rival grieve, though she does not appear articles of all descriptions. The excellence of to have been very judicious. The parrot, the work turned out by the Italian Convent is indeed, altered approbrious epithets severely so well known as to need little praise from us. libelling the neighbour. An ordinary parrot Anybody who wants something really good is very rarely opportune in its remarks; it says should take advantage of this sale, and should"Pretty Poll," and other things that are not so

mance. Per contra the barked-at lady had a

ed with every attention to the best League. thinks of the matter. We have made at,the same time. remember that by so doing a pretty-if there is a boy in the house at most

principles that sanitary science can suggest; and our NEW FACTORY at WEST POINT is the LARGEST 2.25 and BEST EQUIPPED in the FAR

EAST,

1.50

UNDER THE DRAGON FLAG, -“Experi

urices in the Chino-Japanese. War, by James Allan de long do THE CHILD, HIS NATURE AND NURTURE,

by W.-B. Drummond of,propano 1.00 PEARS" ENUYglori mafu

0.70

de, 1.25

TRANSACTIONS OF THE KOREA, BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, Vol.

3.21

FRIEND TOMMY AND OTHER TOPICS, by

Joss Chinchinjoss

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A perfect System of Filtration is employed guaranteeing. Absolute purity.

great progress in the last twenty years, but have we gone ahead sufficiently?

Kruger's Frivateers,

As will be seen by reference to another column, the question of privateers being fit ted out by the Boers has again been brought up by the publication in the Matin of what purports to be an agreement about to be

Inappropriate times. But not so this particu- ar parrot-or rather not particular parrot-- which levelled, its abuse at the very moment when the plaintiff put her head out of the window. The queer thing is that both plain- tiffs there was a cross-summons-sued for

very deserving institution is being aided. MR. AFLALO, the well-known naturalist, tells this little story of Lord" George Sanger in his "About Animals" column, contributed every Tuesday to the pages of a morning con- temporary.The mayor of a certain town in the Midlands, bad rather fussily insisted an libel; so the suggestion is that the dog made" being satisfied of the accommodation and also remarks too, as Gordon Stables tells us his as to the security of the public from such dog did. The judge, a sort of Paris Plowden, dangerous animals as travelled with the show, was quite equal to the occasion. He told the Having been shown a particularly illtempered parties that the dog and parrot, respectively, leopard, the little mayor severely interrogated ought to have been summoned. A very Solo. the imperturbable Lord George." "What mon for wisdom! steps would you propose taking if that ferocions, beast got out of its cage?" he asked. " long ones 1 replied the proprietor, turning away to attend to more serious business,

concluded between Mr. KRUGER and some anonymous personage for the fitting out of privateers. Of course all such talk is nothing but empty bluster, Mr. KRUGER might, it is true, be so misguided, as to imagine that he could fit out privateers, and he night also be able to find some few wrong-headed folk, ignorant enough to think that they

THE PEOPLES FRIEND has got hold of could join bim in such a project, but if such

some extracts from the diary of one of the an idea is entertained by the ex-I'resident for

members of the Moorish Mission to England, A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS a moment, he is reckoning without his host..

This gentleman appears to have gone away. In the first place he would have to get his THE STORY of a policeman's heroism was, attends to every detail of the Manu-ships and, after the lesson taught to the told at Southwark Police-court recently during

with some topsy-turvy, impressions of this

facture,

world in general by the Alabama incident, the hearing of a charge of attempted suicide country. Lord Salisbury," he says, "is an we rather fancy that any Power would preferred against a girl of 15, named Polly old chieftain who lives in the Lords Parliament take particular care, to see that Mr. Chandler, who jumped into the river from House in the winter and goes into the country The Waters produced are of the K's piratical flect was not fitted out in London bridge steps. The attention of Police to sleep and rest in the summer.". The Moor

its dominions, for such Power would ren-

constable Smith, 336. M, was called to the ish diarist has not quite assimilated his inform highest class and excellence; as testider itself liable for all damage done by the occurrence, and he at once dived into the water ation. Evidently, what he was told by some fied to by the best English makers,

privateers. Next comes the question of after the girl with all his clothes on. He dived playful gentleman from the Foreign Office was coal Such vessels could hot coal at any

a secund time" and brought the girl to the "that "Lord Salisbury is an old chieftain who port, for it would also involve some Power or other to supply them with fuel. For the surface, but a strong eddy drew him down. lives in the country and sometimes goes into same reason it would be impossible for them. He however, reappeared with his burden, but the Lords Parliament House to sleep and rest." to obtain stores or to rofit anywhere, and was then drawn beneath a steamboat. Just as ships, nowadays, cannot keep the sea for it seemed certain that the brave fellow must long periods, as was the case in the days of perish he succeeded in clutching a boat-hook, sail. Last, but not least, where could Mr. | by means of which he was got out of the water

Nobody would, we imagine, care to become

A. 8. WATSON & CO. LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY;' Hongkong..

The Honghong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901 NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The China Squadron. Comparatively speaking, twenty years is not a great length of time, but the changes which have been made in the British squa- dron in Chinese waters in that period are immense. In 1881 we had upon this station, the armoured steam frigate Tron Duke, of fourteen guns; the turret ship. Wivern, of four guns, both under ten nots speed; we had four corvettes or third class cruisers! each mounting fourteen guns and steaming. from twelve to thirteen knots and there were in addition four sloops, each mounting four guns and of about ten knots, speed, with eleven gunboats. This, in 1881, was our effective fighting fleet in these waters, which could not steam, as a feet, more than about,

eight knots and could have been sunk in half an hour by any one of the second clas "cruiters now on the station/z

KRUGER and his friends sell their captures 7 still holding on to the girls

that were-hic to succeed in so doing, their career would be meteoric. The crews of such vessels would receive short shrift at the hands of any civilized Power.

The "Chief Minister," adds the Moorish diarist, can do anything he likes; even though he committed murder, he could pardon himself and hang someone else? Unfortunately the only time that the Chief Minister does exactly, as he likes is in the " Lords Parliament House Were he possessed of the privileges attributed to him, Lord Salisbury might rid himself of all inconvenient political personages at one fell swoop. It would be merely necessary to mur for the crime. That would be a splendid pri

der one-half of them, and have the others hung

vilege.

the purchaser of a pirated vessel, for such an A MANDARIN who refused to kneel was act would place him in the same rank as the hated before the Mixed, Court at Shanghai receiver of stolen goods. Still, the unex-recently, says the Chine Carette, for shop lift pected frequently happens,and Mr. KRUGER ing. "Mr. Palmer of Messrs. Hall and Holtz might succeed in fitting out a privateer, or prosecuted. The Assessor said he had received even two or three, but it is pretty certain

letter buying accused was subject to klepto mania and was the son of a rich official, Mr. Palmer complained of constant shelfs of the Our Moorish friend also records his impres- kind. Accused bought 50 cents work of thingssions of the police constable. He evidently and was seen trying to put something into his had him under observation during the progress sleeve. Upon search a, purse and a pair of of a fight further up the street. scissors were found upon him." The Chinese *." The police gentlemen are placed all-over. in the shop suspected him of a similior offence; the great cities in different corners, and are not previously. The Magistrate expressed himself permitted to run or move, with any indecent willing to become security for accused as be basic. These officers are Vory, incorruptible, was of the same rank as himself and could not and you can only lempt them to forsake their punish him. Accused's father was a taotai and high duties by the sight of gold""." the man had been sufficiently punished by losing face in having to appear before the Court, Accused was therefore ordered to and security.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WOUNDED PRESIDENT.

LONDON, September 11th. The bulletin issued at 10.30 yesterday, evening says the President's condition is unchanged. The healing of the stomach wound is delayed by, imitation caused by a fragment of the patient's coat, which the

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