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Intimations.

WHAT TO DRINK IN

AND THE TIME TO DRINK IT I

Before Breakfast.

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

CROWN 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 Aerated Water Manufacturers,

Brąc

Hongkong, 13th August, 1901,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

$5.50 Cask of 375 lbs. Nel ex Factory. $3.30 Bag of 250.ths.

SHEWAN, TOMES & co... General Managers.

Hongkong, 1st June, 1001

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements.

IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE No. “

or 1893,

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON OF: No. 6. BREAM'S BUILDINGS CHANCERY LANE

IN THE COUNTY OF LONDON, IN ENG- LAND, PATENT AGENT, FÖR LETTERS PATENT. FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, OF AN INVENTION FOR "IMPROVE MENTS IN ́ CANS "AND SIMILAR CONTAINING VESSELS.”". TOTICE is hereby given that the PETI- TION, SPECIFICATION, and DE- CLARATION required by the above-cited ORDINANCE have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, and that it is the intention of the said PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON to apply at the Sitting of the Executive Council hereinafter

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mentioned for the Exclusive use within the said Colony of Hongkong of the, above nainei Invention.

To-day's Avertisements.

SHEWAN, TOMES. &" CO.S

NEW YORK LINE FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL. THE Steamship

"ATAKA,"

Captain

will be despatched for the above Port on MONDAY, the 16th instant, at Noon.

To be followed by the

SS. ANAPA,” about 15th October, iga). For Freight, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents. Hanglinne 14th September. 100 18710 DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW.

"THE Company's Steamship'

"HAITAN," Captain Roach, will be despatched for the And Notice is hereby also given that a Siting above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 17th instans,

of the Executive Council, before whont the matter of lie said Petition will come for decision, will be held in the Council Chamber, at the GOVERNMENT OFFICES, Victoria, Hong- kong, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of OCTOBER, · 1901, at it A,M,

Dated the rath day of September, 1901.

STEPHENS & THOM-ON.

Solicitors for the Applicant..

IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE No. 2;

OF 1892,

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION. or CARL JOHANN KIELBERG of Hi- LEROI IN THE Kingdom of Denmark, POLYTECHNIC STUDENT, FOR LETTEKS PATENT FOR THE 'EXCLUSIVE USE WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.OF

AN INVENTION FOR IMPROVED ME- THOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PIPES OF CEMENT OR SIMILAR MATERIAL. JOTICE is hereby given that the

NOPETITION SPECIFICATION and

DECLARATION required by the above-cited ORDINANCE have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and that it is the intention of the said CARL JOHANN KIELBERG to apply at the Sitting of the Executive Council hereinafter mentioned for the Exclusive use within the said Colony of Hongkong of the above named Invention.

And Notice is hereby also given that a Sitting of the Executive Council, before whom the Matter of the said Petition will come for decision, will be held in the Council Chamber, at the GOVERNMENT OFFICES, Victoria, Hong kong, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of Ocro BER, 1901, at 18 A.M.

Dated the 14th day of September, 1901.

STEPHENS & THOMSON,.

{10, 10160]

at 10 A.M.

For Freight or I'assage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers,

Hongkong, 14th September, 1901. [for

THE CHINA AND "MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR MANILA.

The Honghong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1901.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The North Borneo Railway. Our Labano Correspondent certainly has a rather black picture to paint of the pros- pects of the North Bornen railway. Un doubtedly the closing of the rivers will bring all the produce of the country to the railway; but we do not think that such a course will help the country ahead much. All that it will serve to do will be to give the Goven- ment the monopoly of the carriage of all goods in the district through which the rail- way passes, and everybody knows that mono; polies, by doing away with competition, are apt to prove most burdensome to the people. From the first we have pointed out that the way project in North Borneo is idiotic, and our Correspondent's account of how it is proposed to make the affair pay does not tend the least to alter our opinion, Borneo has splendid waterways which, if properly looked after, would serve to carry all the trade which is likely to grow up in that country for the next fifty years at least. The North Borneo Company could have made good roads into the country from the river banks and put on a launch service on the principal waterways for one quarter of the cost of the railway and, instead of thousands of dollars being wasted, these roads would have now been bringing in a handsome return. The Attention of Passengers is directed to There is no population to support a rail the Excellent Accommodation provided by this way and the little jungle produce which Steamer. She is fitted throughout with the comes down to the coast would not fill one Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera-train a week. Of course the fact that in ting Chamber.

railway is being built reads well at home and looks like progress to uninitiated folk, but everybody who really knows anything about Borneo knows perfectly, well that the railway will piove to be a white elephant. If the North Borneo Company would copy the methods of Rajah BROOKE and be con. tent to move ahead slowly but surely, they would do much, better for themselves and for the country. Had the Rajah's methods been adopted from the first, the, North Borned Company would by this time have been paying handsome dividends and build. having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby ing up a large reserve fund, instead of rais informed that their Goods are being landed ating money to squander on a railway from their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong nowhere to nowhere. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.

THE Company's Steamship

AL

2.

PERLAT. Captain J. E. McArthur, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, at. 5 PM.

A Doctor is carried. For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 14th September, 1901. fio14c AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM YOKOHAMA AND KOBE, HE Steamship

THE

"CHINA,"

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 Solicitors for the Applicant. Noon, on the 21st instant, or they will not be

recognised.

A. CHEE & Co.

17s, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1839.

FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;

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

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

Hongkong, 25th July, 1901.

KELLY &

HELLESPONT ON BRIDGE....... THE ARROW WAR WITH CHINA, by Chas

Leavenwortb..

(777€

ALSH, Ld.

TROPICAL DISEASES, with 11 Illustrations and two coloured Plates, by Dr. Patrick

Manson

$6.50

3.00

BOXING, THE MODERN SYSTEM OF

GLOVE FIGHTING, by Capt. W. Edge-'- worth Johnstone MURRAY'S HANDBOOK OF TRAVEL TALK in ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN and ITALIAN

51.75

THE EXPANSION OF TRADE IN CHINA,"

by T. H. Whitehead

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ESSAYS AND ESSAY WRITING, by A. W.

Ready.....

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225

1.25

TRANSACTIONS OF THE Korea BrancH OF THE ROYAL ASIAŢIC SOCIETY, Vol.

MUSCLE, BRAIN, AND DIET, A PLEA FOR

SIMPLER FOODs, by E. H. Miles 25 UNDER THE DRAGON FLAC, Experi

ences in the China Japanese War, by James Allan

1.50

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FRIEND TOMMY AND OTHER TOPICS, by

Joss Chinchinjoas.....

THECHILD, HIS NATURE AND NURTURE,

by W, B. Drummond

1.00

‚¦ Peaks' ENCYCLOPUDIA.,

1.00 $0.70

WITH STODDART'S TEAM IN AUSTRA-

0.80 LIA, by Prince Ranjitsinhji

1.25

THE TRIAD SOCIETY or HEAVEN AND

EARTH ASSOCIATION, by W. Stanton... 3.50: A JAPANESE MARRIAGE, by Douglas,

Sladen...dan

TRADE AND SHIPPING OF SOUTH-EAST

ASIA

THE

ROBINSON PIANOFORTE CO.,

LIMITED.

All the best known makes kept in Stock. The Greatest Assortment of Musical Instru-

ments in the Far East.

Constant Shipments of all the Latest Music.

Hongkong, and September, 1901,

CLUB

WHISKY.

$12 PER DOZEN.

tosse

F. O. S. WHISKY.

$15 PER

DOZEN.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 21st instant, will be subject to rent..

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by "

SANDER, WIELER & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 14th September, 190r

Education for Natives. Our Labuan Correspondent speaks some very true words ahent the treatment of the natives by the North Borneo Company in its territories. As he very truly points out, no effort has been made by the Company to educate them or raise them in the scale of civilization whatever. True, the Company has done its best, which is very little, to put down head-hunting and to make life and property secure, but this has not raised, the [GB5C native in the social scale. It has, if anything

simply taken away one of his favourite occup NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

ations without giving him anything in return BEG to inform my Patrons and Public for it. We do not mean to say that the Generally that I have REMOVED my North Borneo Company should try and make Stores from No. 13. to No. 5, D'AQUILAR the whole of its subjects Masters of Arts, but STREET..

it might do something towards teaching them H. KUTTONJEE,

5, D'Aguilar Street. the rudiments of civilised life. The more it Hongkong, 271h April, roco,

134 succeeded in elevating them, the more they would want, and, as their wants grew so would the revenue of the Company. A man with practically no wants beyond what can be supplied by the scratching (one cannot call it tilling) of a small bit of ground, and a few days work at collecting jungle produce, does not make a very paying subject, but once you begin to educate him he finds his wants

Intimation.

A. S. WATSON & CO., Increasing, and; to supply their, he must work

„LIMITED,

WINE MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WATSON'S

CELEBRATED

E

BLEND.

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH ® .

WHISKY.

And it must not be forgotten that every bit of work done in North Borneo means so much improvement to the property of the Chartered Company. It is a great pity that the Company does not view matters in this light. It would pay much better to have the country improved to a great extent by the natives themselves than to have all pro- gress made by immigrants who would, so soon as they had made a competency, return to their own countries and carry the wealth which they had amassed in Borneo with them. The immigrants will naturally put as little as possible into the country, while they all look forward to taking a great deal out The natives, if they could only be taught to be industrious, would be an ever increas ing source of wealth.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ADMIRAL SEYMOUR BAN- QUETTED.

LONDON, September 12th. The Corporation of Portsmouth hay ban quettéd Admiral Seymour, Officers and crew of H. M. S. Centurion. The guests includ ed the Earl of Selbome, First Lord of the Admiralty

THE TSAR VISITS THE GERMAN FLEET.

The Tsar, on board the Imperial yachit Hohenzollern, made a tour of the German feet, and afterwards visited four war-ships.

LATER

· SOUTH AFRICA.—METHUEN'S FIGHT WITH DELAREY.

The fight between Lord Methuen and Commandant Delarey was severe; and lasted. some hours. The-Boer losses include Com- Pronounced by Connoisseurs tomandant Lemmer and Field Cornet Joubert

who were killed,

be the BEST BRAND in the FAR

The best value on the Market. AST

SOLE PROPRIETORS:

and Septem

H. PRICE & CO..

QUEENS ROAD,

Per Dozen

$15.00

AS WATSON & CO. LIMITED

THE HONGKONG

The British lost fifteen killed and thirty,

wounded.

Kruger's youngest son surrendered..

THE TSAR AT DANTZIG. The Tsar did not land at Dantzig.. LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE GUNBOAT RONIN left for the West River this möming.

NOTTAM & Co.'s LATEST, SHAPES 10.

LINEN COLLARS

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WE are unavoidably compelled to hold over a report of the interesting function that took place at the Docks this morning at the launching of the Tachten. THE NEWS FROM CHINA is that the re: form program calls for the substitution of the Tsung-li-yamen by the Wei-wu-pu. This news is received with intense interest and satisfe tion.-The Washington Star.

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INWARD PARCELS by ss. Palawan are now ready for delivery,

A DALZIEL TELEGRAM from Paris, dated Aug. 9th, saysTha giant competition at Rouen is producing many startling discoveries of persons of abnormal stature, in France. Yesterday there arrived in Paris, en route from the South of France to Rouen, A young man who is not yet 23 years of age, and is still growing, but whose height is nine feat two

inches. Ha measures 93 inches 'round the

chest. He is engaged to an English girl who inches, and he wears an engagement ring is now in Daly. She stands eight feet three

which is as large in circumference as a five shilling piece.

IT IS THOUGHT POSSIBLE that neither of the chief actors in the Santiago battle con- troversy was wholly responsible for Cerver's defeat. There were several other Americans in that engagement.--The Washington Star, THE CHINA GAZETTE of the 9th inst., publishes the full text of the Peace Protocol AMONG the many interesting things to be referring to the Conservancy of the Wangpon.seen in the British Muscum is an old Chinese We hope to print this important document as banknote of the face value of about 48, which soon as we can find space, but it is lengthy, was bought by Siri John Pope Hennessy, the late Covernor of Hongkong, at an auction about consisting of 37 clause9.

25 years ago. It was issued in the reigns of Hungwoo, the celebrated founder of the Ming dynasty, who died about the year 1398, and is of great value, as it is believed to be the only one in existence belonging to this period. Banknotes are said to have been used in China before the ninth century, and were certainly issued several hundreds of years before the art

THE KAISER, according to the Daily Mail, is letting his beard grow. This new fashion may only last during his summer yachting voyage, The growing beard gives him a striking re- semblance to his father. Without it he was growing very like his illustrious ancestor and prototype, Frederick the Great. ***** ****** THE JEWISH NEW YEAR commenced at 6p.m. yesterday. Special Services in the Syna- gogne will be held for two days. Tonight nearly every Jewish establishment will have their own private gathering and, in the midst of the festivities, will they remember that the Hongkong Telegraph wishes them long life and happiness?

of printing was known in Europe.

AN AMERICAN` MAIL CABLE, dated London, August 1st, says --Mr. Lander, a shareholder in the Southeastern Raitway, an- nounced at the half-yearly meeting yesterday that an American' syndicate desired à forty- year lease of the line, and was ready to deposit £1,000,000 as a guarantee of a 3 per cent. dividend during the first year and ultimately a

This statement was

STATISTICS have recently been collected of the height of 10,000 English boys and men. At the age of seventeen these averaged 5 feet 85 per cent. dividend. inches; at the age of twenty-two.. 5 feet 9 made after the chairman of the company had inches. At seventeen, they weighed to stone reported that no dividend could be paid this. pounds; at twenty-two, to stone 13 pounds: year, that it was necessary to issue additonal No nation is increasing in height and weight stock to the amount of £1,666,000, Nothing

was done with reference to the proposal. so rapidly as the British. In fifty years the average bas gone up for the whole nation from A SCOTTISH PAPER says:-We in Ayrshire. 5 feet 7 inches, to 5 feet 81 inches. The are so near to Glasgow that, of course, we hear average height of the British upper classes at a great deal about, and many of us see not a thirty years of age is 5 feet 8 inches, of the little of, the International Exhibition. I have farm labourer 5 feet 78 inches. The criminal | just been hearing some Exhibition jokes, and class brings down the average, as their height as they are going round pretty rapidly, basten is but s feet 54/5 inches.

to tell the best of them to you before you have heard it elsewhere. Such a puerile one-as that during Glasgow Fair weak ope side of the Exhibition is to be free to the public is, of course, easily spotted. jokist refers to the outside. Not so, how- ever, that which a friend of mine passes. round tree puts on a lugubrious look and had his arm taken off in the water chute ? says sadly, "Did you hear about the man who "No!" comes the answer with a look of surprised interrogation, The unwary listener "Well, a young fellow took his girl and her wants to hear more. Thus proceeds, my friend: mother into the water chute. The two young folks sat down in the front seat, the mother sat

A HOME PAPER bays huge stocks of Scotch whisky were on the 14th ult. unexpectedly reduced to the extent of some 75,000 gallons by a fire which broke out in the bonded stores of Messrs. Melrose, Drover, and Company, Limited, Leith.

The stores, which are five storeys in height, were enveloped in flames in a few minutes after the outbreak, and were burnt to the ground.

The spectators had the unique experience of seeing a veritable river of blazing whisky running down the gutters and into the sewers

A fireman, was somewhat severely, hurt. Several explosions took place within the build- ing.

...

The damage is estimated at £25,000 £15,000 for the stock and £10,000 for the building,

THAT BEGGING-LETTER WRITERS are the bane of the prosperous man's existence is pretty generally allowed; and that they are the hourly termor of the millionaire philanthropist nope will gainsay.

The sort of epistle which these writers pen was merrily hit off by the following note which Mark Twain sent to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, upon reading the announcement of the Scottish millionaire's recent munificence

The

behind. As the car started, the youth careless. ly let oge arm hang over the side'; the other he put round his sweetheart's waist, and the old girl took it off"

A CONTEMPORARY, in connection with the proposed new Royal Title, says On the accession of James I. the kingdom of Scotland was added. The "wisest fool in Europe" rejoked in the title of "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland." The title of King of France assumed by Edward 11., was not formally renounced till the Treaty of Amiens," 18oz. The Irish Union, 1801, made another of India was assumed by her late Majesty on I modification necessary. The title "Empress May, 1876. It is rather curious to note that the title"King" was originally considered superior "My Dear Carnegie,-I see by the papers to that of "Emperor. It wasin ordertoavoid being that you are prosperous, I want to get a hymn-styled "Rex" that the chief magistrate of Rome was called "Cæsar," "Imperator," "Princeps" book; it costs six shillings. If you send me According to the strict interpretation of the. the hymn-book I will bless you, God will bless word Emperor-ie, the chief of a confedera you, and it will do a great deal of good.Yours tion of states of which kings' are members-the truly

German Emperor alone seems 'worthy of the name. It matters little, however, for the according to the date of their several access crowned heads of Europe now take precedence

sions without regard to the style it may please them to assume. As to feminine.titles it is to

MARK TWAIN.

"P.S.Don't send us the hymn beak, send me the six shillings."

THE WEATHER BUREAU; of the United States has for some time past been investigating the conditions and special climatic phenomena of semi-arid lands, such as exist in many of the western States. Among the facts it has obtained is a very careful, estimate, based on Australian records, of the relation of rainfall to the number of sheep capable of obtaining sustenance on a square mile of land. This shows that up to a rainfall of ten inches per aunums, as many sheep can thrive on a square mile as there are inches of rainfall. That is to say, if the rainfall is seven inches in a year, seven sheep will manage to live and grow on a square mile. When the rainfall is above ten inches, however, the ratio of sheep rapidly increases, so that twenty sheep can be support. ed per square mile when the rainfall is is thirteen inches per annum, and about seventy sheep when the rainfall is twenty inches in the twelve months.

A HOME PAPER saysThe marvellous. rapidity with which news travels in lands where electricity is not known has often afforded matter for discussion. Even in India, where the telegraph has long been operative, it is a fact that news, particularly of disaster, travels much faster among the natives than among the Europeans. A milway smash midway between Calcutta and Bombay is the talk of the baza ars in both cities Jugg before the news bas been flashed over the wires. The general and certainly the most rational explana the great silent distances, where sound travels tion is that the news is simply shouted across.

much further and more clearly, and so passes, from mouth to mouth in rapid continuity. In solitary places it is probably carried by tunner -like the post in the more remote districts and then the shouting, is taken up again." "Of course, there be those who talk darkly of tele patby and more occult methods of news trans- Terence. Whatever the explanation the fact

remains.

185K WALK

be noted that those of strictly English origin as knight, sheriff, alderman-possess no femi- nine. 'Queen" is simply. Cwen, the woman,

the wife.

HONGKONG COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CHINESE.

HONGKONG, 13th September, 1901. The following note of arrangements made by the Senate for the Session, mid-September. to mid-December, commencing on Monday, 16th inst. is circulated for the information of the members of the Court and the Senate

Sabreet.

Anatomy

Osteology.....

Surgery

Materia Medica....:

Senior Students

Dr. MacLean Gibson

Surgery Tatorial Dr. Wan Tun Mo........... Practice of Medicine...Dr. R. Gibson Medicine Tutorial......Dr. Kivan King Leung.. 6 Public Health Dr. F. W. Clark ......... Botany.......................MI. W. J. TutcherĮ. Tropical Diseases....Dr. I. C. Thomson

Dr. G. M. Harston 2.15 Dr. F. A. Beringer 2.15-

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JOHN C. THOMSON,

Hon. Secretary.

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