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Intimations.

WHAT TO DRINK I

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.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1901

To-day's Advertisements.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIAS HYEM JOSEPH, LATE OF VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

Deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court nance No. 3 of 1897 made an Order limiting time for Creditors and others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 17th day of DECEMBER, 1901,

has, by virtue of Section 58 of Onli-

All Creditors are hereby required to send in

said Date.

their Claims to the Undersigned on or before

Dated this 19th day of September, 1901.

DEACON & HASTINGS, Solicitors for

SARAH JOSEPH, the Administratrix of the*

above Estate.

NOTICE is hereby given that a B18.6.

entitled an ORDIÑANCE to amend ORDINANCE 19 of 1887, and to remove any doubts as to the validity of any matters done

under it will be introduced into the Legis-

fuch CCIL at an early date. A copy

of such proposed Bill appears published in the Hongkong Government Gazettes of the ......1-7th and 14th days of September, 1901.

JOHNSON, STOKĘS & MASTER, 110350

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Co-day's Advertisement.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

THERE will be a SPOON COMPETI. TION TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 21st instant, cominancing at 3 P.M RANGES-200, goo and oo yards,, Seven Shots and a Sighter at each Range.) Members of Committee are requested to meet.on the Range at 2.30 PM.

ALEX, MACKENZIE, Hon. Secretary ‚' Hongkong, 20th September. 1401..

THE OSAKA SHOSEN RAISHA, LIMITED.

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FOR ANPING VIA SWATOW AND AMOY, THE Company's Steamship

"MAIDZURU MARU,"

Captain R Suzuki, will be despatched for the above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd

October.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 20th September, 1901.

[226c NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. HE Steamship

THE

a body of men well together and contented; if they contend with one another in manly

sports they come to know one anotheʻbetter and to respect each other, with the result that a certain amount of esprit de engendered and the force as a whole and the men individually, are sure to benefit thereby. From enquiries which we have made, we have come to the conclusion that the sporting instinct still exists amongst the men, bat is not encouraged by the powers that be. Also, the work of the Police has increased so rapidly and to such a great extent of late that the men find it difficult to get ting for cricket or football and hence these sports are allowed to drop. We think that this ought not to be the case. If the Hend of the Police would take a certain amount of interest in the recreations of his men and would, lend his aid and

encouragement, we are sure that we should see our Police holding a foremost place in all sports and, as a result, there would be less grumbling and discontent. It should not be forgotten that even a policeman is not quite a machine, as yet, and he must have a modicum of amusement to make life bearable. We wish that His Excellency the Governor would think over what we have said and see if he could not make a move in the matter. We feel sure that were he to take a litle interest in the subject it would stir up others to do so and we should find that in a few months all ranks would know one another better, and the whole of the Goodsmachine would work more smoothly and

with a deal less friction than at present.

"LIGHTNING, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their will be delivered froin alongside,

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once.

Cargo remaining on board after the 24th instant, at P.M., will be landed at Consignces risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

Co., Limited.

-Chair and Ricksha. Coolies.

of incivility on the part of ricksim coolies, One is everlastingly hearing complaints of coolies rushing Europeans outside the Hongkong Hotel or at the wharves, of bad change being given, and of extortion, and whenever a complaint of this description is sent to the papers a wail goes up of "Where are the Police?" Now the Police

LATER,

THE TSAR'S VISIT TO FRANCE.

The Tsar and Tsaritsa, accompanied by President Loubet, have reviewed the French fleet at Dunkirk.

THE ROYAL TOUR.

the Board was be sent to the

a local medical practitioners.

The President, gaid that when plague again i appeared in epidemic form the question would arise whether it might not be necessary for the Beard to recommend the segregation of those who lived in infected houses The method was

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and followed in every other place where plague was York have arrived at Montreal.

epidemic with the exception of India, where he thought they had given it up.

SOUTH AFRICA. PATROL CAPTURED.

A patrol of the Grenadier Guards has been captured near De Aar. Lieutenant Rebow

and one man were killed, two wounded.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. MRS. MCKINLEY, the wife of the late Prest dent of the United States, owns valuable gold mines in Nevada bequeathed by her father, Mining experts say the mines are worth millions. THE WATER CARNIVAL at the Victoria Recreation Club promises to be exceptionally good from the point of view of the spectator. Those who attend will certainly have a very pleasant afternoon.

WE ARE REQUESTED to state that the Band of the 22nd Bombay Light Infantry will not play in the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday evening, on account of the regretted death of President McKinley..

A FIRE occurred list night at the Peak.. The coulies was accidentally set fire to and quickly matshed erected for the convenience of the burned to the ground. For a few minutes it was a grand sight as it blated fiercely, but it

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burnt out as quickly as-it started.

The papers were placed on the table,

RATS AND PLAGUE HACILLI. Arising out, of a minute respecting the ap pointment of rat-catchers, Dr. Clark moved that the Board ask the Government to employ ten

rat-catchers in place of four."

The President seconded the motion and, in commenting upon the subject, mentioned that as the result of an investigation it was found.. that in non-epedemic times rats were still infected with plague bacilli, The motion was carred

INFANT MORTALITY,'

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE Hongkong, 20th September, 1991. [1930 DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside; such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and cannot be everywhere, even in the Hong opened for play on that day, and the first match dition and died within a few hours cf admin-

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Screw Steamship

ROSETTA MARU," (3.441 Tons Gross, Captain N., Tait), will be despatched for the above Port, on FRIDAY, the 27th instant, at 4 P.M.

This Mail Steagner is provided with superior accommodation find with all modern fillings and improvements for the safety and comfort of Passengers. Electric Light and Refrigerator. Doctor and Stewardess carried.

Return Tickets issued by this Company are available for return by steamers of the other Lines.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

A. S. MIHARA, Manager. Hongkong, 20th September, 1501. [103Bc

A. CHEE & Co.

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

HOXING, THE MODERN SYSTEM OF

kong, and therefore it often happens that when one has trouble with a ricksha or chair.coolie there is no policeman handy to whom to appeal; in fact the average coolic may be trusted to see that this is the case. Thus very many coolies escape all punish- ment for impertinence or extortion and the result is that they grow worse from day to day. Now and again some man is prosecuted, but as a general rule the European finds his time too valuable to waste a morning at the Police Court in prosecuting a coolle over a ten cent fare.

THE CRICKET SEASON opens to-morrow. That is to say the Cricket Ground will be of the season, the Eleven o, the Twenty-two, will take place on the following Saturday, the 28th inst. The following week the Club will play-All Comers.

to bring forward as a matter of urgency the Dr. Clark asked the permission of the Board question of infant deaths in the Convents. He said it would be within the recollection of the Board that about a month ago they decided that either the body of every one of those in- fants should be sent to the public mortuary for a proper post mortem examination, or else the Board should be satisfied that they had been attended during their fast illness by a registered medical practitioner, who would, in that case, give a certificate of death. The Birbs and Deaths Registration Ordinance person during his last illness should issue a distinctly laid down that a doctor attending a certificate as to the cause of death, but akhough the Board was now getting these certificates, the procedure was not exactly satisfactory." They all know many of the the infants were brought to the Convents in a moribund con. sion. Now, the Ordinance distinctly stated that a person for whom a medical certificate was issued must have been attended during. his last illness by the practitioner who so issued. infant, medical attendance a few hours before the certificate; but, in the case of a moribund death was not sufficient to allow of the cause, of illness being diagnosed by the medical officer who gave the certificate. Although they were receiving the certificates, he ought the Board would be justified in refusing to accept. them. Some attributed death to weakness, anum- IT IS a singular fact, says the Straits Times, moriem examination of the bodies of moribund ber to jaundice, and others to fever, unless a port that advocates for the defence in local criminal infants could be systematically made, the result cases invariably congratulate themselves if wight be an epidemic of yellow fever in the they can secure a jury untainted by pembers Colony, and under the circumstances the Board of simple European origin. There is not a would be perfectly justified in asking the Gov. single Englishman on the jury in the Hong-emment to insist that the bodles of infants kong Bank robbery case. With the exception who die in the convents should be sent to the of one gentleman-a German by birth-every public mortuary, except in such cases where European juror on the panel was challenged they had been attended during that last illness, by the defence.

THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK has issued the following order-The exportation of Sarawak copper coins and subsidiary silver is hereby strictly forbidden, and any person ex- posting or attempting to export such coins will be liable to fine or imprisonment, and such coins attempted to be exported shall be con fissated:

THE STEAM PINNACE belonging to the U.S. Afonterey that was run down by the Wayfoong, launch, was, without much apparent difficulty, raised this morning. If the raising had been in the hands of the Government we should have expected to see a large staff of

What we want to draw attention to is the fact that there is really no need to prosecute a coolic at all. The Captain Superintendent of Police has power, to cancel licences on complaints being made to him, and this fact does not seem to be known to the public. All that is necessary in the event of a chair or ricksha coolie misbehaving himself is to take his number, and report the matter to the Captain Superintendent of Police by letter. He will look the coolic up and admonish him, dealing with his licence if he is found to have other complaints against

as the Ordinance laid down, by a medical man. him. This, it will be readily scen, does away

such attendance not to be covered, however, by.. with the nuisance of having to waste a lot of

one visit half an hour before death. It might valuable time at the Police Court, and we

treading on somewhat dangerous ground and be thought, continued the speaker, that he was hope that the public will take advantage

apparently making out that doctors did what of the opportunity given them for teaching

they ought not to do. That, it was scarcely the coolles to be less obnoxious. We know

necessary to explain, was far from his intention. for a fact that the Captam Superintendent is only too anxious to put a stop to the in-engineers, extensive piling operations, one, or Doubtless the doctur signed these certificates solence and squeezing which is now going

two failures, and at last the pulled about reas a way out of the difficulty; but, so far as the on, and the least that the public can do is to help him by reporting offenders. We have a warning to add, however. In report- ing a case state the complaint. as plainly and concisely as possible, conline all state- ments strictly to fact, and remember that this law is only applicable to public ricksha

At the fortnightly meeting of the Hongkong BLEND. and chair coolies. It is an use to send your Sanitary Board held at the Board Room on private coolie to the Captain Superintendent Thursday afternoon, there were present the for a talking to, as he does not exercisePresident (Dr. Atkinson, (Principal Civil control over any but public coolies. Medical Officer), Dr. Clark (Medical Officer

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A Hopeful Sign..

The news which we publish elsewhere, to the effect that the Viceroys of the Two Kwangs and the Two Kiangs have forwarded to Hsianfu protests against the anti-reform policy adopted by the antiforeign and coniser- vative party, will be welcomed by everybody who has the welfare of China at heart. Every

mains of a steam pinnace raised, with grass on her botton that Mr. Rennie would prefer to that on his island for grazing sheep,

SANITARY BOARD.

Board was concerned, it was not a way out of the difficulty. They wanted to find out the cause of the present high infant mortality, and that object would gever be attained under the operation of existing methods. There was no doubt a number of persons in the Con- vents who were there as residents-persons who were attended in their last illness by a medical man. It was in such cases that the Board in- tended to grant exemption when it recently

of Health), Hon. W. Chatham (Acting Direcpassed the resolution bearing on the question tor of Public Works), Mr. F. J. Hadely (Acting Captain Superintendent of Pulice), Mr. A. Bre win (Registrar-General), Mr. Lau Chu Palt and Mr. G. A. Woodcock, (Secretary).

APPOINTMENT."

President was appointed a member of the Op the proposition of Mr. Chatham, the

It was altogether different, however, in the case of infants brought to the Convents in a mori bund condition, Dr. Clark concluded by saying that he thought the Board might send another resolution to the Government asking them to post mortem examination of such infants as die support the Board in their endeavour to obtain

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whatever of reformation for China so long as the old system is continued. They are all ofthe old anti-foreign school and they know perfectly well that so soon as reform becomes the order of the day they will be forced to go to the wall to make way for bet ter men, and hence they do the utmost in their power to frustuate every attempt at advancement. We have very little hope that the protest of the two Viceroys will have much effect, but still it is a step in the right direction and will encourage others to work for the good of China. If only the rest of the Viceroys would follow in the footsteps of these two, then the thin end of the wedge would be inserted.

FH. May, on leave, V

TEMPORARY BATH HOUSES.

The President seconded the motion and agreed with Dr. Clark that it was a matter of The President thought that the papers relat urgency. He said that during the last two weeks. ing to the temporary bath-houses might be the two Convenis referred to the French, and returned to the Government with a minute to Italian--had contributed to infant mortality 46 the effect that the Medical Office of Health out of a total number of 210 deaths in the suggested that permanent bath houses would Colony-a percentage of a little over 21. Un- be better for the purpose of abating the plague. doubtedly, inamalarial country like this, he con

Mr. Chatham mentioned that sanction had tinued, many of these infants die from malarial already been obtained for the erection of one disease, but it was important to know exactly permanent bath house in the neighbourhood how many did so, and to discover that a port of N. Police Station, Wanchai district,moram examination was needed. In British The great difficulty was to find sites, and if Guiana many infants died of what was termed they were available there was little doubt the malarial conia, and it must be home in mind Government would be prepared in sanction that infants with malarial coma were practical- expenditure on the permanent bath-houses

ly infective to Europaans, through the agency The President said the temporary bath houses of mosquitoes and other parasites. That was certainly did some good, but now that the one reason, concluded the President, why he LONDON, September 18th.epidemic was over he agreed that they should be thought the matter one of urgency, because At a meeting of the United States Cabinet, abolished. He would move a resolution to the they would be able to ascertain whether these President Roosevelt requested the members lect-that the Board recommend the Govern deaths were due to malarial fever or not... to retain their portfolios."

ment to do away with the temporary bath- houses, and to erect as soon as possible, one or wem permanent bath-houses.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Sport in the Police.

MR. HAY'S RESIGNATIONS

CONTRADICTED.

The reported resignation of The Honour State, is denied. able John Hay, United States Secretary of

THE BRITISH NAVAL MANCEUVRES.

DECISION OF THE UMPIRES.

Mr. Brewin shall certainly vote against." this, because I cannot see in the least where the urgency comes in. The Medical Officer of

- Mr. Chatham, seconded the inclion, whick Health gets up statistics, prepares & speech,"

was carried.gg/

THE CENTRAL MARKET. The recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, that stall holders who required aditional light in their stalls should only use electric lamps or smokeless oil lamps of a pattern to be approved by the. Inspector of Markets, was adopted by the Board and ordered to be forwarded to the Government,

During the last few years there appears to 2.25

have been a most woeful falling off in inter est in sport amongst our Police. In former 3.75 days we had a Police Cricket Eleven and a 2.50 Police Football Team and whenever, sports

In the report of the umpires on the British of any description were to the fore the natal maneuvres, it is concluded that Ad 2.50 Police were certain to be on the spot and to miral Noel's numerically superior feet was

make a good struggle for carrying off the victory. Now all this is changed we hear annihilated by Admiral Wilson's smaller, nothing of the Police.in cricket or football, but swifter and more modern fleet. by a committee, and after forniil adoption by

H. PRICE & CO..

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and they seem to have dropped out of other

sports as well. This is, we consider, a great, C

COTTAM & CO. for SNOW'S and BUCK- INGHAM and HECHTS BOOTS and pity. There is nothing like sport for keeping SHOES,

COMBATTING THE PLAGUE Dr, Clark had prepared a statement showing thorities the means at present adopted by the of dealing with plague. It had been

proved

OTTAM & Co, for EVENING DRI

SHIRTS

and comes and tells us all about it. As for me,

should like to have little more time to think. about it. The question of deaths among infants. has been discussed for years, and I don't think foxinight's delay would cause any danger to the public health in the Colony,

President-Do you wish to move an amead- ment?:

Mr. Brewin-No, simply said I should you against it.

The motion was then pat to the meeting camed; Mr Brewlo and Mr. Lau Chúti

otlog ngainst it,

was no other business before the

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