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Intimations.

WHAT TO DRINKI

AND THE TIME TO DRINK IT I

Before Breakfast

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

AND

CROWN'SODA.

Before Tiffin

To-day's

·Advertisements.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION..

TPHERE will be a SPOON COMPETI-

NG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY.

_______ Intimation.

PTEN

the goth May, 1895, and the rath August LOCAL AND GENERAL. 1gor, laid on the table at the meeting of the

TION TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), A. S. WATSON & CO., houses, the property of the Hon. E. R. the 28th instant, cominencing at 3 P.M.. RANGES, 200, son and 600 yards. Soven Shots and a Sighter at each Range, ALEX. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong, 27th September, 1901.

WANTED.

OCTOR wanted for THE CHINÀ NAVI-

GATION CO'S 5.S. "CHINGTU.” Apply to

CHAMPAGNE BITTERS

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Hongkong, 27th September, 1901. [тобус

AND

SHERRY.

Before Dinner.

THE SAME:

At other times and at all times Champaguo Bitters and Whiskey is good.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK

COMPANY, LIMITED.'

NOTICE.

MR. WILLIAM BASIL DIXON has This

LIMITED.

WINE MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED AÐ, 1841,

CLARETS.

Day ASSUMED CHARGE as CHIEF ST. ESTEPHE.. MANAGER.

"By Order of the Board of Directors,

'THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM-

SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA VIA AMUY.

18.6019.20

ST. JULIEN..

R. SHEWAN, Chairman. Hongkong, 27th September, tobt.

(10620

LA ROSE

CHATEAU HAUT BRION

LARRIVET...

MOUTON CHATEAU MOUTON JAR-

́MAILHACQ

21.00 CHATEAU FONTET CAR-

NET

.......... 25.00

CHATEAU LA TOUR CAR-

NET

CHATEAU RAUZAN

30.00.

42.00

48.00

Stick to this advice and you'll THE Company's Steamship never know you have a liver.

"PERLA"

Captain J. E. McArthur, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 1st October.

The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer, She is fitted throughout with the

WATKINS, Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera.

LIMITED.

Chemists and derited Water

Manufacturers.

Hongkong, 13th August, 1901, -·

ting Chamber,

A Doctor is carried.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

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General Managers. Hongkong, 27th September, rgo1. (toбtc

Masonic.

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ZETLAND

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

LODGE,

No. 525, E.C.

REGULAR MEETING of the above

85.50 Cusk of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. A LODGE will be held at the FREEMA

$3.30 P Bag of 250 Bis.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, ist June, foor

KELL

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17, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

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

Hongkong, 25th July,, 1901,

THE

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CHATEAU LAFITE.

Legislative Council yesterday, at the request H.M.S. DAPHNE arrived at Woosung on of the Hon. T, H. WHITEHEAD is most inzand inst structive reading: The list gives 71 distinct collapses comprising no less than 97 build INWARD PARCELS by ss. Bengal are naw H.M.S. BRAMBLE left, Shanghai for Wei- ings, the largest collapse being that of fifteen ready for delivery. Belilios, C.M.G, which fell down during hal-wel on 23rd inst the typhoon of foth November last, while in course of reconstruction. Next in order H.M'S PIQUE and one French cruiser were of inagnitude coine the collapses of 215, oft Square Island, near Ningpo, on the sand 216, 217 and 18 Des Voeux Road, 4, 6, 8, inst. and ra New Street, and the recent collapse MR. E. ROBINSON, the well-known barrister, at 30, 31, 34 and 36 Cochrane Street, these three catastrophes accounting for one, seven

left to-day for a trip to Shanghai on the as and forty-three lives respectively. In three Bengal. instances blocks of three houses came down, and in seven, two fell together,...

The causes of the collapses are given as | follows:—Norecord, forty; typhoons, fifteen; defective building and heavy rain, four decay, two; and sharing giving way, party wall collapsing, careless reconstruction, landslip, bad construction of a connecting wall, careless demolition, bad foundations and defective brickwook, one each.

MR. W. B. DIXON, the new Manager of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., arrived in the Calony yesterday.

MR. R. H. JOHNSTON, has been appointed chief officer of the U.S.

transport Zafiro while. Mr. J. McIntosh goes as third engineer and Mr. P. J. Casker as second officer.

THE SHANGHAI TRAMWAYS question is

WE UNDERSTAND that the petition of Mr. Peak in connection with his alleged wrongful dismissal from the Gaol comes before the Exe- cutive Council at 11 am, on Tuesday morning. next.

THE GREAT MOON FESTIVAL of the

6.96 $.7.58 These seventy one collapses accounted evidently not closed yet as a Special Meeting for the loss of no less than one hundred and of Ratepayers to consider the matter again is 9.00 9.80

two lives, lorty-three deaths being due to the to be held on Tuesday, the 8th prox. at 5.15. 12.08 13.92 Cochrane Strect disaster, eight to a collapsep.m.

in Kramer Street, Tai-kok-tsui, and seven to the falling down of No. 170 Queen's Road Central, both of the latter accidents occur ring in the typhoon of roth November last. It is worthy of note that for 22.20 twenty-four fatal collapses showing a death roll of one hundred and two, only tcn enquiries were held, while the deaths occasioned by the collapses on which no enquiries were held amount to 33. In only one case was a prosecution in stituted which resulted in the contractor being fined $roo. This was the collapse at 45 and 47 High Street, which occurred on the 15th June last and resulted in three deaths; the collapse being attributed to "bad foundation and weak state of base of western wall

helped by a

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portion of this wall having been pulled down. and re-built, and also two additional windows having been opened therein."

Although the collapses of 215, 216, 21; and 213 Des Voeux Road, and 36 Ship Street, which accounted respectively for one and two lives, are attributed in the return to carelessness, it is worthy of note that we enquiry was held in either case. Either the attributed cause of the collapse is wrongly stated in the return, or there has been gross negligence by somebody in not instituting proceedings against the persons whose care lessness led to this loss of life.

Chinese takes place to-night. All the principal Hongs have their feasts, and numberless launches will be seen in the harbour gaily lit up,

THERE IS A GRAND CONCERT to be held on Saturday evening at the Institute of Engineers on the Prays Central. A very strong programme has been drawn up and everyhting promises a big success.

MR. W. FERD. TYLER, Deputy Coast Inspector, has issued a notice to mariners that the alterations in the buoyage of the Tsung-. ming Crossing, referred to in Notice to Mariners 135 (special) have now been efected. THE REV. D. M. ROBERTSON, a mis- sionary in Shansi who escaped the massacres there, and was wrecked in the Sobraon while on his way home to recover his bealth, died at Broughty Ferry, Scotland, on the 13th ult, aged 47.

HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.

Yesterday afternoon at 5 pm. at the Cricket pavilion was held the annual general meeting of the Hongkong Football Club. There was a fair attendance with the Hon J.-H. Stewart the last meeting were read and a short address Lockhart C. M. G. presiding. The minutes of

from the chair followed.

The following officers for the ensuing season were elected",

President-Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart,

C.M.G.

Rugby Captain-Mr. J. W. T. McMurtrie. Assoc. Captain-Mr. A. R. Lowe, Han, Treasurer Mr. B. C. M. Johnston. Hon. Secretary -Mr. F: Browne.

Committee-Messrs. II. W Slade, C: T. Kew, P. W. Goldring, W. H. Howard,' A‚'C Jas Stevens, R. E., and W. H. Russel.

AT THE MAGISTRACY,

RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.. Lieut. A. McCleverty of the 2nd Rajput Re-.. ginient charged Leung Lam with receiving clothes of the value of Sto knowing the same

to have been stolen,

The defendant was remanded till Monday, bait in Stoo being granted.

STEALING.

Chan Kam was sent to gaol for one month from a matshed in Connaught Road. for stealing a bed cover of the value of 1.20.

*

* .

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.

Leung Chun was charged with stealing from his employer Cheung Luk, two pairs of bangles. and other jewellery, valued at $30. The first witness deposed that the defendant had told him that his (the defendants) master had scolded him and he stole the goods out of

The defendant was sent to gaol for two months.

revenge.

STEALING A COPPER BOTTLE." Sin Tai, Ngon was convicted of stealing a copper bottle from the Sugar Refining Company, and was sent to prison for one month.

STEALING MILK,

Tam Sau retired from public life for three weeks because he purloined one bottle of the milk of human kindness from the Dairy Farm.

MEMORIAL SERVICES for the late Pre-Company. sident McKinley were held on Sunday 'last at the Cathedral and Union Church, Shanghai,

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY,

K. Adlington, P.C. 61, charged Thomas Muir

nobody can be held to blame, but collapses the Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott and the Rev. C. B. with being drunk and disorderly, P. C. 6r.

Taking the return. as a whole we see that noisseurs as high-class after-dinner of the 71 collapses, only 15 are attributed to typhoons. For these, in all probability, attributable to other causes are far too frequent. Everybody in the Colony knows that they are caused by jerry building and poor materials with want of proper and qualified supervision. Is it to be wondered at that houses collapse when the mud from the street is scraped up and used as morfar? This we saw being done only, last Sunday 1

We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at

the Coast Ports.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

BIRTH..

On the 19th of September, at No. 3, The Bund, Chinking, the wife of G. T. EDKINS, of a daughter.

As Others See Us. Thus a recent issue of the Singapore Free Press on the Cochrane Street collapse The Hongkong Government by its toleration of jerrybuilding and its laxity in supervision of construction has unfortunately succeeded in making the biggest bag on record as a re- result of the collapse of a couple of its architectural failures. The bag in question, some thirty killed, is equal to the results of On the end of August, at Gauting, near round dozen of the average South African Munich, Germany, suddenly from an accident. skirmishes. Now, just imagine anything HERBERT HIRTH, Ph.D., and Lieut. in the R. like that happening under a Municipal Bavarian Reserve, the eldest son of Dr. E.Department. What a how the Hongkong Hirth, formerly Commissioner of Customs in China, aged 27 years.

* DEATHS.

On the 13th of September, at Ma-Toa, Wei- of. W. & J. C. Wilson, of Shih-Tao, aged 17 hai-wei, BERYL MARGARET, the only daughter months.

At Tsingtao, on the 21st September, RECHT- SANWALT Dr. UDO EHRHARDT, aged 37 years.

Darwent, respectively, preaching the memorial sermon at either Church.

MESSRS SLAVIN and McAuliffe, the famous Pugilists who have been couring with such success in the South, and in India, literally punching their way into fame and wealth, hope to give their first exhibition in Shanghai in the Town Hall on the 1st prox-Ex. They might have added to their feme (or otherwise) if they had waited to punch Bentley. H.M.S. OCEAN, Aying the flag of Rear Ad- miral The Hon. A. G. Curzon Howe, CB, C.M.G., arrived from Wei-hai-wei this morning. Admiral Curzon Howe has just been promated flag rank, and hence is forced to resign the command of the Ocean. He leaves for home to-morrow by the English Mail. We congratų. late the Admiral upon his well-earned step and hope to see him in China once again in com. mand of the squadron.

Government would have raised for some- body's head on a charger! But circum- THE RISE IN CHINA SUGARS as report kong Government is its own Municipality so by the following. "In view of the increased Cus- stances alter cases, and as long as the Hong-ed by us a few days ago is more fully explained long must supervision be far too weak to ex toms duties on sugar and kerosene eil, to be Chinese.. property-ower and the Chinese articles have been imported here. The sugar ercise the needful rigorous control ever the enforced next month, large quantities of these building contractor. Thirty lives sacrificed imports from January to August last amounted is a sufficient condemnation of the present to 215,615 picula, valued at 1,676,581 yen, while the kerosene imported during the same period amounted to 8,358,900 gallons, valued at 1,716,935 yen.".

The Hongkong Telegraph maladministration.""

Hongkong, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1901,

NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Public Works Department. At yesterday's Council meeting His Ex- cellency the Governor announced his inten- tion of appointing a Commission to report upon the Staff and working of the Public Works Department. We are pleased. to bear that such a Commission is to be ap pointed for after the revelations of the dis graceful manner in which that Department

Constant Shipments of all the Latest Music. pointed out the other day, the enquiry

Hongkong, and September, 1901,

WE HAVE BEEN APPOINTED

SOLE AGENTS

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FOR

& BRANDIES.

ONE STAR THREE STAR V.S. O.P. V.V.S. O.P.

Hongkong, 24th September, got.

Co.

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PER CASE $22

28

44

80

H. PRICE & CO.,

QUEEN'S ROAD.

las conducted its duty of inspection of _buildings, as revealed by the second enquiry into the Cochrane Street Collapse, such a Commission is urgently needed. As we showed that the Public Works Department had taken everything for granted and bad. not taken the trouble to look at the 'build- ings in question, either before or during the allerations. We trust that this, matter will not be lost sight of but that the Commis sion will be directed to go thoroughly into this question among others and show exactly where the blame for this disregard of duty lics. It is all very well for the Director of Public Works to report to the Governor w that his staff is insufficient for the proper carrying out of the duties imposed upon it, but the man in the street, who has studied the evidence adduced in the second collapse enquiry, wants to know why such representa tions were not made months, or even years ago? The state of affairs lately revealed makes one wonder as to how many more death-traps like those in Cochrane Street have been run up in the last year or so without any supervision whatever. Hobably the next typhoon or heavy rain will reveal a few, and add a number of victims to the long list of those who have lost their lives through carelessness and greed, c

Collapses,

The paper giving "Particulars of Build- ings in the Colony which collapsed between

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. BOTHA'S COMMANDO.

LONDON, September 25th. The Boers under Commandant Botha have been inactive since the reverse of Major Gough near Utrecht.

BUFFALO AND TUGELA IN FLOOD,

The Buffalo and Tugela Rivers are now flouded, thereby preventing any serious in- vasion of Natal.

BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut.-Col. Baillie and Officers the Band of the zand Bom- bay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel 20-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 p.m. to

9.30 pm. -

PROGRAMME.

March. "The Rustic Bridge". Rogers. z-Selection. Falka

Chassagne 3-Bar Dauce. "Poplorn www... Godfrey. 4.—Poika,................“ P5¢ P&O." ........Benelor. S-Polaces dones, sponomasianomaig Winne Selection Les Clocher de Corneville" Plinguette.

Extra.

„1.--Quadrille

." Lightä O London S'.. Corie "God aden the King”

DOGO ROZARIO Un Loss,

Band Havaldas.

THE AMERICA CUP. "SHAMROCK II'S" HANDICAP. THE COMING CELEBRATION of the Shamrock II allows Columbia 43 seconds.

LATER

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.' KITCHENER'S PROCLAMATION.

The sentence of permanent banishment from South Africa in accordance, with Lord Kitchener's proclamation has been promul gated at Pretoria.

BOER LEADERS CAPTURED. Ten Boer Leaders have been captured by the British since the 15th instant.

י

THE CAPETOWN GUARD CALLED OUT.

The Town guard at Capetown has gone into active service.

THE CHINESE MISSION TO

GERMANY

PRINCE CHUN'S RETURN TO

1,000th anniversary of the death of the good and great King Alfred is providing the one topic of Winchester. It has been decided that the commemoration shall be held in the third week of September, and delegates have been invited from the Royal societies and from the Univer, sities of Great Britain and Ireland, the Colonies, and the United States of America to the meet part of the celebration. Among many projects ing which it is desired shall form ar importanı which have been decided upon may be men tioned an exhibition of objects pertaining to the Alfred period dunng the summer at the held at Winchester and the performance of a British Museum, the historic pageant to be play entitled King Alfred the Great by Mr Bensen's conipany, on some historic site in the

ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS

FAQUATIO SPORTS.

A very enjoyable afternoons programme was gone through at the Victoria Recreation Club yesterday afternoon. The premises were loaned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for the time being and it events were contested. The handicap ping was good, some very close finishes being Prince Chun and suite will embark at witnessed The names and times will be given Genoa for China on the 1st October.

CHINA.

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OTTAM & Co. for EVENING DRESS

SHIRTS

sworn said-At 12.15 am, this morning, I was on duty in. Ship Street I saw the defen- dant with two other men, he was the worse for liquor.

The defendant kicked at a door and the giris shouted "police" 1 went to the house and told defendant to go away but be challenged me to fight I took, defendant to the station Fined $3 or 14 days.

BURGLARY.

Tsan Chi was sent to prison for three months for burglariously entering No. 1 Hing Loong". Street and stealing clothing.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.

Veer Singh and others were charged with the unlawful possession of a quantity of cloth- ing. Mr. Grist appeared for the defendants The case was gone into very fully and the defendant fined $25 or 6 weeks. The fine was Faid.

THE PLAGUE, Number of cases reported (Chinese......1,558 up till noon of the 26th Other'Asiatics 54 Number of cases reported (Chinese........

September 1gat (Europeans.....31

during the past 24 hours Other Asiatics, o Europeans....♡: Total number of cases reported to date 1644 Number of deaths reported (Chinese......1,514 up till noon of the 26th-Other Asiatics 36 September, 1901 Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics o

during the past 24 hours

Europeans......

$

Europeats.....12. Chinese...!

Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,573 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and deaths are:-

Cases Chinese

Other Asiatics European....

Total

Deaths Chinese

Other Asiatics Europeans

Total)...

The plugue returns for last week wer

Cases- Deaths.

THE CZAR IN FRANCE

Under Latest News, Saturday's Ecko do Ching says that at the luncheon given to the"

Loubet gave them a formal welcome. The Czar Russian Sovereigns at Dunkirk, Président

affirmed the great pleasure he felt at finding himself again in the midst of a friendly allied nation, and proposed the health of the French Navy. The Sovereigns retired to rest at the Chareau of Compiègne, and arrived on the morning of the next day at Kheims, where they were present at the last day's manoeuvres, after. having visited the Hotel de Ville and the Cathedral of Bheims, The Czar expressed, during the luncheon, the lively sat ton ha felt at noting the degree of perfection attained by the brilliant army of France which he had just reviewed.

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