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Intimations.

PYROLA,

PYROLA,

PYROLA.

PERFUME

OF

EXQUISITE FRAGRANCE.

WATKINS

LIMITED.

Chemists and Perlimers.

No. 66, Queen's Howl Central.

Hongkong, 1st October, 1901.

THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901.

Co-day's Advertisements.

** Strongest in the World.

THE EQUITABLE SURPLUS.

is a mighty anchor

that guarantees the security of every Equitable contract- $66,137,170.01-

the largest surplus fund

ever accumulated for the benefit of policy holders- Could you have a better guar antee back of the policies

that are going to mature 10, 15, 20 years hence?

The

Equitable Life Assurance Scoiety,

"

F. KIENE, Manager,

Hongkong.

.Hongkong. Sth October, 1901,

1995c

THE CHINA AND MANIKA STEAM-

SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA VIA AMOY. HE Company's Steamship

THE

"DIAMANTE,"

Captain J. Rattenbury, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the oth: instant, at 9.5 1.34.

!

(7140

ROBINSON

PIANO CO., LIMITED,

BEST VALUE IN

PIANOS.

MONTHLY PAYMENT

SYSTEM.

Hongkong, 19th August, 1901,

KELLY

Just Roceived.. THE FIGHTING IN North CHINA, by

G. Gipps, R. N...

[1710

Trade

$ 2.00

*330

The Eternal City, by Hall Caine ...... A Secretary of Legation by Hope

Dawlish

The Gamblers, by W. Le Queux......... The Training of the Body for Games,'

Athletics and other Forms of Exer cise, by F. A. Schmidt, M.D., and E. H. Miles, M.A.....

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

A Doctor is carried.

For Freight or. Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers,

frome Hongkong, 8th October, 1901.

NAVIGAZIONE GENERÁLE ITAHIANA,

¦ (Florio and Ruballino (níled Companies).

STEAM FOR

BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE AND PENANG.

Having comexion with Company's Mail Steamers to ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, MESSINA, NAPLES, LEGHORN and GENOA,

ALSO

VENICE and TRIESTE, all' MEDITER

RANEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE, and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO.

Taking Cargo at through Rates to I'ERSIAN GULF and BAGDAD, also BARCE LONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE, AL- MERIA and MALÁGA.

THE Steamship

“BORMIDA,"

Captain D. Costa, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 12th instant, at Noon.

At BOMBAY, the Steamer is discharging in VICTORIA Dock.

For further Particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to

CARLOWITZ & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 8th October, 1901. [10070

VALSH, LD. Correspondence respecting the Imperial

.Railway in North China.............. $ 0.85

SANDOW'S

15 OWN COMBINED DEVELOPERS

1.50

AND

4.50

PATENT

Further Correspondence Respecting the

Disturbances in China

1.00

GRIP DUMB BELLS,

Hongkong, 28th September, 1901.

A. CHEE & Co.

17A, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS ;

Ιστού

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, oor,

THE

* {777c

Co-day's Advertisement.

WANTED,

The Triad Rising | À MOST REFRESHING DRINK" is The letter which we publish elsewhere on Watkins clarade which we have recently the above subject tells the same old story had an opportunity of sampling. It is a mix that we heard last year. As we said then, ture of claret and lemonade and proves both we do not think that anybody would object palatable and invigorating. to the overthrow of the present Dynasty, if

THE DEATH RATE of Bladras has been rapidly mounting up week after week, of late, and is described as never having been so appalling in a non faming year as it has been this year. The death rate is one division was

OCTOR wanted for THE CHINA NAVIGA' they were sure that the new ond would not SIGNIFICANTI-The China - Gaselje be actually as high as 1818 per thousand..

TION CO. 5,5. “CHINGTU." Apply to

· --_BUTTERFIELD & 'SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 8th October, roor.

Entimation.

should

be antiforeign. If the Triads wish to succeed lieves it is correct in stating that at the present and to earn the respect of foreigners they moment there is not a single British subject in must be particularly careful to guard against the head quarters of the I. M. Customs at Pe the looting and burning of mission stations king beside Sir Robert Han, (1998 and the persecution of missionaries and

traders. Steps to prevent such occurrences DOUGLAS LAPRAIK'S shares are worth

the be taken before event, watching just row. It is rumoured that one of for it is little comfurt to be told their best steamers has been chartered at a that your house was burnt by accident highly satisfactory figure, and we should not be or your relatives tortured by mistake. The surprised to see the scrip go to Soa Triads may rest assurred that they will be judged by their deeds and not by their words. We are pleased to hear that the characters on the Triad flag have no reference to fore- and we shall be still more pleased to hear that the looting and burning of missions has

THE COLORADO BEETLE bas once again paid a visit to the shores of England. At Tilbury the destructive creature and the larvæ have been found among potatoes grown on

premises belonging to the London and India Dock Company. Fortunately, the Beard of - Agriculture has acted with promptitude and thoroughness. All the corps and grass within the infected area have been destroyed. The need fer vigilance has by no means abated.

The closest watchfulness will be necessary for

some time to come to avert the danger of a

crops of a whole year.

A. S. WATSON & CO. Vigners in the accepted sense of the term, class dressmaker,, who is expected in the plague which, in America, has devasted. the

LIMITED.

WINE MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841, 90°

WATSON'S

ceased.

Is Life Worth Living? «Engineer? writes a very sensible letter on the above subject, and strikes a note on which we have harped for a very long time indeed, viz., the utter lack of any means of self improvement or sensible.

sub recreation in the Colony. This is ject upon which the public might well ponder. The days of rapid fortunes are [ast, so far as Hongkong is concerned, and the young man coming to the Colony comes with the idea of spending the greater part of his life here. As matters now stand we have no hesitation in saying that the. chances are that he does not make any intellectual or moral progress from the day he lands to the day he either leaves or is buried in Happy Valley. All he can do, unless he is of particularly strong will and can educate himself, is to vegetate, and vegetate he does, for all other folks care. Why is it that we have no public library, no decent museum, no evening classes or lectures, no means of intellectual recrea tion and improvement whatever? Simply because nobody in the Colony has the energy to inaugurate and carry on such BLEND. institutions. As a matter of fact we are nothing but a community of money-grubbers, and unless some strong, man comes to the front and wakes us up we shall remain so to the end of time.

CELEBRATED

E

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

WHISKY.

Pronounced by Connoisseurs to

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

RECOVERY OF KING EDWARD. LONDON, October 5th. King Edward has practically recovered

·frùm his recent attack of lumbago.

THE MANNING OF MAIL

STEAMERS..

The Senate of the Australian Common wealth has ratified the House of Representa-

be the BEST BRAND in the FARtives' amendment to the Postal Bill prohibit ing the employment of coloured labour in mail steamers. EAST.

Per Dozen

$15.00

A. S. WATSON & CO.. LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY'.

BIRTH.

On the 21st September, at Tientsin, the wife of Lieut. V. G. W. KELL, South Staffordshire Regiment, of a son.

DEATH.

AL'

At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 3rd of October, WILLIAM ANTHONY SIMMONS of West Norwood (London), late of Hall and Holtz, Ltd, aged 30 years..

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901,

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The House Tax.

As will be seen by the letter of our Can-- tun Correspondent, which we pablish eise- where, the obnoxious Canton house tax appears to be as far from being collected as ever. The ten days grace allowed for the

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED. handing over of the money to the Authori

BANJOS, MANDOLINES AND GUITARS,

AT

COST PRICE

SOUTH AFRICA..: IMPORTANT CAPTURES. Commandant Pretorius has been killed and several notable Boer commandants captured.

SOUTH AFRICA. KRITZINGER ATTEMPTS ANOTHER INVASION OF

: CAPE COLONY.

October, 6th. Commandant Kritzinger has made three desperate attempts to cross the Orange River into Cape Colony, each time being repulsed

with loss."

TOTAL BRITISH CASUALTIES DURING THE WAR.

Official returns state the total British casualties during the war at 75,562, of whom 53,273 have recovered and rejoined the fight ing line.

THE RECENT ATTACK ON COLONEL KEKEWICH'S CAMP. The British casualties in the recent Boer attack on Colonel Kekewich's camp, are now stated at 55 killed and 138 wounded.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. MAJOR H. E. F. GOOLD-ADAMS, R. A‹ remains in China as a special service officer.

THE FRENCH COUNCIL at Shanghai has bought the necessary ground for the laying out

ties has elapsed, and, as we predicted the other day, not a cent has been voluntarily brought forward. Even now, although all sign,of trouble has passed away, the Canton of a rifle range: Officials are evidently afraid to collect the tax and have given notice that it is to be collected quarterly, thus putting off the evil day to November. What a pity it is that European tax-collectors cannot be induced to act with the same tact and discretion

Viceroy To::

COAL MINED IN CHINA is at present of httle account in trade-it serves merely to cover private requirements.

MAJOR C. A. R. BROWN, RE, has been appointed director of railways in China on the reduction of the British forces

DRESSMAKING will shortly become a fine art in Hongkong for we understand that Messrs. William Powell Ltd. have engaged a first.

Colony on or about the 15th November. WOE UNTO those unfortunates who have to travel by ricksha down Queen's Road to the West End of the Globe Hotel. The P. W. D. have another of their great road metalling acts in full blast. Most of the blast is from the riders.

M. KATARD, Consul-General for France, arrived at Shanghai on the 2nd instant by the C.N.S. Pekin from Ningpo, where he has heen assisting in the arrangement of certain difficul. ties which had arisen between Roman Catholic missionaries and Protestant converts at Tai- chow..

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT of Ireland has intimated a desire that a team of Irish cricketers

shoud visit England next year, and with that end in view bas, requested Sir T. C. O'Brien, the ex-Middlesex batsman,to endeavour to procure a representative side. The team will probably cross in June, and will be the guests of Lord Cadogan.

THE CRESSY, first-class cruiser, which, ong the eve of her departure for the China Station, was found to have sustained serious damage to her steering gear, was on 30th Ang, undecked at Portsmouth after completion of repairs. She was to be ready to leave for the China Station by toth ultimo. It was expected that she would undergo some exhaustive trials of her steering gear before leaving, and, although it is to bo regretted her departure for foreign service has becu delayed for such a long period, the acci- dent to her steering arrangements, which has caused the delay, will not be without compen sation if it prevents similar mishaps occurring to several other new vessels of His Majesty's, Navy.

·· THE BRIDĠES STREET

ACCIDENT.

It will be remembered that about three weeks ago, a fall of earth occurred at the back THE VENGEANCE, BATTLESHIP, which of Bridges Street by which one life was lost. is being hastened forward at Portsmouth, for One would naturally think that after this a very service on the China Station, was to be ready for close supervision would be exercised so as to her gun trials by the first week in September.make a recurrence impossible, and yet only Should they have taken place before those of yesterday another large slip accurred, but for- the frresistible, the Pengeance will be the first tunately no one was injured. There is going to ship whose 12-in. guns can be loaded at any be another as sure as night follows day if the present mode of procedure is allowed to con- degree of training and elevation.

tinue. Right in the centre of a "sloping bank of loose boulders, loam, and rotted granite a long deep trench is being excavated to allow of the foundations going in for a new.retaining wall. Instead of taking out about three feet at a time and building in, the contractor is making a long face of ground leaving it hang,

HMS. ALGERINE arrived at Shanghai on Tuesday afternoon and took up moorings at the P. & O. No. Buoy. She left her moor- ing again on the 2nd and went down river. The German cruiser Hansa and torpedo-boat 5. go left Shanghai on 2nd instant. The French cruiser Bugeaud arrived outside the Spit Buoying. It only needs to be seen, to realize that on the and, and the japanese gunboat Akagi every coole engaged is working at the risk of returned from a cruise and is anchored in the his life, and moreover it only needs a heavy river.

“METEROLOGICAL:-The average mini- mum of the thermometer in the Shanghai Set.. tlement in September was 67.41, the average maximum 83.95, and the mean 75.68, against 70.22, 80.05 and 75.13 respectively, in Septem ber, 1900. The rainfall in September was 2,79 inches, and rain fell measurably on 7 days, against 9.47 inches and 13 days in September, 1900, and an average of 5.12 inches and ro.3 days for the nineteen years 1882-1950. PRINZ, FREDERICK CHARLES of Hesse, and husband of Princess of Margaretha of Prussia (sister to the Emperor), who has hired the castle Friedrichshof, the property and late residence of the Empress Frederick, has al- ready taken possession of the Castle, and is to live there henceforth. Princess Sophie of Greece (another sister of the German Emperor) is expecting a happy family event, and, there fore, has left Castle Friedrichshof for Athens.

a

downpour of rain to bring down sufficient to reader the houses built on the higher level in a very dangerous position. We should like to see a frank report on these works by cur In- spector of Buildings.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

HOUND OVER.

Two bullies, named Tsak Kam and Tsak Fai, lodging at Elgin Street, Kowloon, throw stones and otherwise molested a watchman employed in a Godown, To-day they were each bound over in the sum of $100 to keep the peace for six months.

LICENSE REQUIRED.

Wong Yat Sun was requested to produce a license for an eating house which he kept at 95. Queen's. Road East. He was unable to do so, with the result that he paid a fine of $5.

*

一条

SILENCE NOT COLDEN,

*

THEFT AT A CLUB.

WU TING FANG, the new Chinese Minister for London, has says the Globe, made himself famous in more ways than one in America

Charles Patterson, a German seamari, had Quite recently he won the first prize at a cachre nothing to say in answer to a summons charging party, while he has also won literary laurels by him with being drunk and incapable in Queen's fascinating article on "The Inability of the Road Centralfon Monday evening. Mr. Haze- Entire American Nation Properly to Brew Tea land said: $2 or eight days.. When he comes to England he will have to add Ping Pong to the list of his attainments. It would be an addition to the Chinese language. Club, stole a wooden pipe, value $4.50, the pro- Yeung Yuk, a messenger at the Hongkong,

THE RACING PORTION of the community perty of Capt. A. Tillet. The prosecutor said turned up in good numbers at the drawing for that between eleven and twelve on Sunday- the lately arrived lot of griffins. The general | moming he left á pipe on the mantlepiece of opinion is that they are about the most even the Club Reading Roon, and it could not be looking mob that have arrived in Hongkong, found again until nearly ten o'clock at night, Great credit is due to Mr. Hill for the condi- The Club steward stated that he searched the tion he had got them into after their long trip, defendant's box and found, the missing pipe. but we did not notice many" Kismet's" or As an excuse the defendant-told Mr. Hazeland "Glory's amongst them, although had we been that he put the pipe in his coat pocket and for- a subscriber we should have liked No. 65 to got all about it. He will take no more messages. have fallen to our lot.

or pipes for a fortnight.

.

was captured E3, H.KT.]

Á BUTCHER AND A HAWKEK.· ́

LI Wong, a hawker, and Pang Fu, a butcher, went over to Kennedy Town and stole two baskets of sugar, value $42, out of the Wo On Godown Company's premises. They got them

months.

WASTE PAPER The Kube Chronicle says that it is stated that the sailors of the Russian war-ship now in harbour at that port are tender ing paper money, issued by the railway authori ties in North China, for payment of goods bought by them. Several cases in, which the notes have been accepted have been reported a hoard of a sampan and, giving the boatman a false name, ordered him to go the Nullah. to the police. The Russian. Consul bas been Then the police stepped in, and the hawker communicated with upon the matter. It will and the butcher go to gaol for a couple of be remembered that a large quantity of these notes, mostly unsigned, were seized by the We are pleased to see that the resignation THE NEW ZEALAND penny postage system. Russians when the Tientsin Railway Station of Viceroy To has not been accepted, It will be remembered that he, together with extends also to specified South Sea islands now. the Viceroy of the Two Kiangs, sent in his incided within its boundaries. resignation as a protest against the anti-pro LIEUT, COLONEL C. L. EMAN, RCA, gressive party being allowed to usurp power. has been selected to succeed Colonel T. Ferrot, To has, during his tenure of office at Canton, in command of the R.A. at Hongkong. shown himself to be in favour of reforms and of Western methods and has also done, his BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. L. R. RICH- best to weed out useless officials Were his ARDSON, C.B., LS.C., bas been appointed to smoker followed, with Mr. Duffet in the chair. Ar the beginning of the monili Chan Kung resignation to be accepted we might find the command at Shanghai, on the retention of Songs were contributed by Messrs. Duflet, had no occupation nor any fixed place of one of the anti-progressive party put in his the field force in China place, and this would be a serious blow to

Minto, and Johnstone, a double Highland Fling abode. For the next fortnight he will have. foreign interests in the Two Kwangs. We MAJOR NORIE, MIDDLESEX RECI by Messrs. Presley and King and a recitation both Chan went to Third Street and stole trust that the Viceroy will accept the iperitMENT, lately D. AQ-M; G. for Intelligence by, Mr, W. Farmer. Dr. Howard's accompani-jacket, valuo so cents, which completed an

outfit, as two day Having secured the services of a high-class London dressmaker,able and while continuing in office strive to with the China Expeditionary Force, has been ments were much admired. The

previously he had been to Queen's Road West and purloined wo beg to announce that this department will be open to receive orders

of the prize to the winner of the Tourna on or before the 15th of November, 1001

trousers, valus da cents,

Hongkong, 3rd

TO CLEAR PRESENT STOCK.

ober, 1991.

19536

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED.

DRESSMAKING.

Style, eat, workmanship, and fit guarantee Further particulars through this paper,

pave the way for a better state of affairs. selected to write the official account of the Every little helps, and one progresive man China Campign f can do a deal of good, even though mis hands.

be tied to a certain extent, as are those of

To, by the Court:

OTTAM & Co for EVI

SHIRTSNE

ROVING REVERSED Chung Fai, was the owner of the simpan THE BILLIARD TOURNAMENT that has and had the sugar aboard, well knowing it to been proceeding for some time at the Warrant have been stolen. He denied all knowledge, Officers Club, cate to a termination last week, but joins his colleagues in gaol where he will The Goal game was between Mr. W. Farmer remain for a couple of months and Mr. W. Presley, the former winning a very close game by 27 points. A most enjoyable

take place shortly,

DRESS

ALIN

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