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KONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1901.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. 'DIVIDEND of $23 per Share for the year 1900, equivalent, to. 46% on the Paid-up Capital of $50 per Share, has been declared.

WARRANTS will be issued on the 11th October,

By Order of the Boardi

W. J. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

Hangkong, roth October, 1901.

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

To-day's ______ Advertisements.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW THE Company's Steamship

"THALES," Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the with instant, at Noon,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAFRAIK & Co.,

General Managers... Hongkong, 10th October, 1901. [ose INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.

FOR MANILA VIA AMOY,.

NOTICE is hereby given that the STATU. THE Company's Steamship

TORY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Premises of the Company, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19th day of October, 1901, at 12 o'clock, NOON.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

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For WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED, R. G. HECKFORD,

Manager, Hunknet, Inth October, 1901,

FOTICE.

THE Undersigned will not be RESPONSI

BLE for any DEBTS contracted by his wife PALMYRA AUGUSTA TERCIO DA SILVA, and every person is hereby prohibited from giving her any Credit.

JOAO JOSE DAS DORES-BARROS. Hongkong, toth October, 1901. · [11080

WANTED.

"YUENSANG,"

Captain Rolfe, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 12th instant, at 4 PM.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First closs Passengers, la fitted throughout with Electric Light, and carrias a Doctor.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 10th October, 1901, · [10940 PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY

which allows vessels of all nations to pass through it is neutral, so we really don't ace what the reference to times of peace means. On the other hand the United States reserves the right to close the canal to any belligerent Power in time of war, and this will be where the hitch will occur if ever the United States asserts these rights. It will be, we imagine, a ticklish matter to deal United States into complications with some Power or other, But the Canal is not built with in time of war, and may draw the

yet, and very many things may happen before that takes place. Perhaps though, the war clause is only to apply in the event of the United States being at war. This probably be the true explanation."

TELEGRAMS. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS, NEW NICARAGUAN CANAL TREATY.

LONDON, October 8th. The Washington correspondent of the Chronicle states that Great Britain and America have arranged a new treaty grant- canal across the Nicaraguan isthmus which ing to America the sole right to contruct a

shall be open equally to all nations.

America guarantees the neutrality of the CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship canal in time of peace, but is allowed to do as she pleases in time of war to protect her interests.

President Roosevelt will urge the Senate

NOTICE."

"CHINA"

The aboveSteamer having arrived, Consiguces of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to

WATKINS CHINESE CLERK, Good Handwriting. take immediate delivery of their Goods from

LIMITED.

Chemists and Perfumers, No. 66, Queen's Road Central:

Hongkong, ist October, 1901.

THE

Salary $50.

Experience. State if Typewriter. alongside.

Apply to

THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LD, Hongkong, Totn October, 1901, [ro88c

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..

HE P. & O. SAN. Co's Steamship.

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"CORDMANDEL,"

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named

[74c vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

ROBINSON

PIANO CO., LIMITED.

BEST VALUE IN

PIANOS.

MONTHLY PAYMENT

SYSTEM.

Hongkong, 19th August, 1901.

KELLY

Just Received. --

THE FIGHTING IN NORTH CHINA, by

C. Gipps, R.N.

The Eternal City, b Hall Caine

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

GEORGE ECKLEY, Acting Agent. Hongkong, toth October, 1901.

Intimation.

Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each A. S. WATSON & Co., consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed..

This vessel brings on Cargo:

From London, &c., ex S.S. India.

From Australia, er S.S. Rom:c.

From Calcutta, ex S.S. Syria and Sicilia. From Persian Gulf, er B.I.S.N. and B. & P.

5. N. Co.'s Steamers.

Optional Goods will be landed here unleas instructions are given to the contrary before | 2 P.M., TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 17th instant, at 4 P.M. 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 ob. tained from the Godown Campany within ten days after the Vessel's arriva! here, after which no Claims will be recognised.

H. A. RITCHIE, (571c) Hongkong, toth October, 1901.

11929 $ 2.00

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The Gamblers, by W. Le Queux The Training of the Body for Gaines, Athletics and other Foring of Exer- cise, by A. Schmidt, M., and E. H. Miles, MA,

Superintendent.

WALSE, LD.

Correspondence respecting the Imperial

Railway in North China

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Further Correspondence Respecting the

Disturbances in China

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GRIP DUMB BELLS.

Hongkong, 28th September, 1901.

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FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN COODS OF ALL KINDS;

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

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THE CHARGE OF TREASON

AGAINST KRAUSE. Krause, who was recently arrested for treason against the Transvaal, was again brought up at Bow Street, when Counsel for the Crown applied for a committal of the prisoner pending his extradition to the Transvaal, where he is to be tried for treat soo, and inciting to murder Barrister Forster of Johannesberg,

[FROM JAPANESE PAPERS.] Russia and Manchuria.

LONDON, Sept. 28th, 5.10 p.m. M. de Witte officially announces that the an- nual cost of the Manchurian Railway, including a guard of a hundred thousand troops, will be twenty-four million rubles.

Toxio, Sept. 29th.

A STRAITS GOVERNMENT notinction declares that the district of Bandjermasia in West Dutch Berneo is infected, owing to an outbreak of cholera.

AT KWANCHAUWAN, the port leased to France by China, the plague lias vanished after carrying off over four thousand parsons. The French have laid a new town in that quarter to be called Albyvilla,

THE SOUTH RAUB GOLD MINING SYNDICATE has received the following tele- THE FRENCH BRIGADE of occupation in gram from Southi Raub: Crushing finished, 191 Ching, as a result of latest orders, will be made tons of stone realized 96 ounces of smelted gold up as follows-The 16th Regiment of Colonial MR.J. D. MORGAN, representing Californian will be stationed at Shanghai the 7th Regi capitalists, has bought gold claims in the

Infantry formed ofthree battalions, one of which

Philippines to the amount of $280,000 (gold)three batteries of Colonial Artillery of two ment of Colonial Infantry of two battalions; All the claims are situated in the province of battalions; three batteries of companies of the Benguet

6th Regiment of African Chasseurs; one detachment of Engineers of the 1st Company of the 19th Battalion, and various detachments of marshals, guides, and hospital attendants, &c. The Colonial troops withdrawn from Pechili will be removed to Tongking.

THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MIN. ING COMPANY at Singapore, has received the following telegram from Raub - Crush ing finished. 3,200 tons of stone realized 2,17 ozs of smelted gold.

A MRS-COLLINS, who was coming to the Straits by the Inaba Afaru, with her husband and two children, had to be removed, to the The unfortunate lady died. Colombo General Hospital on account of fever.

MATTERS up the West River are not too

hardships in opening up the West River trade rosy at present. The latest pin prick is the action of the French at Shu King, and the

do not want increasing in number.

BOER METHODS-A Morning Post tele- am from Brussels says that Boer officials state that General Botha proposes to hold. 150 [tion of Lord Kitchener's proclamation.

·British prisoners as hostages against the execu

THE LATEST CITY MYSTERY," says a mail paper, has the charm of a fairy tale, with one pr two less charming points thrown int On a recent night a mystic lady was found alone and pately loitering in Threadneedle streel. She was apparelled, as became a

brown were her sandals, and they were fastened fairy princess, in velvets and ribbons white and blue, floating feathers, and a hat of green;..

with thongs. The policeman reported that she was in an apparently dazed condition," just...... as a fairy princess would be who found herself in Threadneedle-street by day or night. As was inevitable, he took her to the police. court, and charged her with "wandering, ap- THERE HAVE BEEN a number of natives Parently insane." Then the enchanted waif was searched, and from the feminine, form admitted to the hospital and bodies to the Mortufry, suffering and death respectively ceeding precious, jewels of blue and diamonds fluttered down gold and silver, documents ex- being due to lung trouble. Is this from the sine, "to the value of over £7,000." When unseasonable weather we are experiencing? P.-C. PATRICK RIELLY, (No. 63) a native elicited, we are told, that she resided at a cer further questioned, she suffered the fact to be of Ireland, died in the Government Civil tain address in Bayswater, which was after. Hospital last evening. He had been unwellwards found to be incorrect. Further informa- for some time and recently took a trip to Japantion she refuses, and so the wondrous mystery for the benefit of his health. About a week rests.

ga he returned to the Colony but without any signs of much improvement... His funeral took place this afternoon.

MIGHT WE SUGGEST to Mr. Baddeley that he puts a few plain clothes detectives on duty in Queen's Road. whose special object would be to take the numbers of all disorderly ricksha men and chair coolies and put a stop to that irritating habit of following a European along the kerb singing out the whole time. THE ST. PATRICK'S CLUB picnic to Macau next Sunday promises to be an enjoy

The Eastern Chinese Railway will be com pleted on October 4th and the railway connec tion between Siberia and Manchuria will be acable outing, but members and friends are complished. The line between St. Petersburg and Vladivostock and Port Arthur will be open- ed for traffic on the gist of the same month.

South American Trouble.

LONDON, Sept. 28th, 5.10 p.m..

A sanguinary engagement has taken place on the Goajira peninuuls. The Venezuela army lost four guns, and their casualties amounted to six hundred, including a brother of President Castros who was wounded.

Treaty Revision în China.

TORIO, Sept. 30th. The negotiations with regard to the revision of the Treaties with China are the most import ant consideration now that the peste protocol has been concluded. It is, however, still un- certain if the matter will be attended to separately by the powers or jointly. The election of an international committee to

BLEND.enquire into the matter was unofficially agreed to by the powers prior to the signing of the protocol. The British Government have ap pointed Sir James MacKey to attend to the begotiations in connection with Treaty revision, and he will leave London for the Far East on or about the 1st proximo, as reported by Reuter some days ago. Messrs. Henty Cockbura and C. J. Dudgeon, who are is Peking, will assist Sir James. The British Government opposed Joint negotiations with the Chinese Govern ment from the outset and they seem to have decided to start negotiations by themselves. The powers will be equally entitled to enjgy any privilege acquired by Great Britain by the negotiations, and they will not object if the British Commissioners take the matter in hand lalóne.-Araži.

SCOTCH

WHISKY.

Pronomiced by Connoisseurs to

The Chinese Court and the Han- churian Problem.

Toxio, Sept. 30th. The Chinese Court is reported to set out from Shianfo for Peking on the oth proxy but be the BEST BRAND in the FARs reent Peking despatch states that the de- parure will be postponed to January next The Japanese Government has not received EAST.

an official advices regarding this postpone ndt, but the authorities are of opinion that the deprture from Shianfa on the 6th will be im. pojible after all, as the Chinese Government dere the evacuation of Manchuria by the Rusians before the return of the Court to Fek intakes place.-Asahi

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Hongkong, 3rd October, igor.

DRESSMAKING.

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The Foreign Garrisons at -

Shanghai.

TOKOI, Sept. 30th. Japanese authorities stated on the de- span of the troops to Shangliai that the step wasot taken willingly by Japan but it was donin order to maintain the balance of power in t district. further intends

reminded that the launch will leave the Blake Pier at 6.30 am, instead of an hour later as previously arranged. She will fly the green fing, Gentlemen desirous of joining the party should at once: send in their names to the secretary.

MME. SARAH BERNHARDT, sime little time ago, excused her absence from a charitable entertainment by a telegram to the effect that she had been prevented from appearing to an incredible experience." What was the nature of the gifted actress's adventure, thus mysteri qusly design fed, has not become known, but it is now understood that she is lald up with a severe-perhaps oven a serious-attack of nervous prostration, in her castle at Bells-isle- en-Mer.

THE MAN Fan Hok who was killed while at work at Quarry Bay met his death simply by his own want of sense. He was at work on the hillside and was taking away the earth from under a large boulder, when the rock fell, as naturally it would, and crushed him to death instantaneously. If a man were to sit on the branch of a tree and saw it off between himself denly hitting the ground. Exactly the same and the trunk, could he be surprised at.sud.

Street and sooner or later the same result will sort of work is going on at the back of Bridges

occur.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

held this afternoon in the Council Chamber. A meeting of the Legislative Council was There were present: His Excellency the Gover nur (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.,) Major-Geneml Sir William Gascoigne, x.C.M.G. (Commanding the Troops), Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (Acting Attorney-General), Hon. Commander R. M. Rumsey, R.N. (Harbour Master), Hon.. C. Met. Messer (Acting Colonial Treasurer),, Hon. W. Chatham (Acting Director of Public Works), Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar Gen- erai), Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M.G., Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. J. Thorburn, Hon. J. J. Bell- Irving, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wel A Yuk, Mr. C. Clementi (Acting Clerk of Councils).

The most important matter brought forward, Ordinance to apply a sum, not exceeding was the second reading of a. Bill entitled An Three million Seven hundred and Thirty-nine thousand Three hundred and Twelve Dollars and Twenty-six Cents to the Public Service of the Year 1902.

the Finance Committee when several altera. The matter was afterwards considered by tions were made in the estimates, reducing them from $3.739.312.26 to $3,724,982.26.

A full report of the proceedings, will appear in to-morrow's issue..

A USEFUL CRAFT. The schooner (auxiliary screw) Herzog Johann Albrecht has arrived safely in Hong- kong from Manila in tew of the a.s Diamante. Lately the Albrecht has been in some very dirty weather, but Captain Andresen managed to bring and delays that beset him. His sails and running her through allright in spite of all the dangers

broken, so he determined to leave at short gear were much damaged, also his crank shaft

notice in tow, instead of sailing across and arrived safely yesterday,

KENNEDY'S STABLÈS.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE in Tottenham Court-road, so familiar to playgoers of 40 years ago, is about to be dismantled and destroyed. The Royal box which the King→→→ then Prince of Wales-so frequently occupied Causeway Bay are well worth a visit just.new. Mr. Kennedy's fine block of stables at during the lesseeship of Marie Wilton has been purchased by an American, and is being prement is in apple pie order and does great credit Everything right through the entire-establish pared for shipment to New York. Many well- known actors and actresses had appeared on

to the able management of Mr. Hill. Of course its stage, where T. W. Robertson's remarkable arrived griffins and, as has been said, they the great object of interest is the lot of newly- series of comedies-Perit, Casts, Home, School, and Ours-first made bid for public favour, and became established as dramatic classics.

THE AUTHORITIES AT SHANGHAI, re- cently ordered a powerful steam fie float for the protection of waterside factories, docks and shipping, and the vessel which has been built by Messrs. Merryweather & Sons, of London, has just been despatched to its destination The boat is 60 feet long and has a quick steaming boiler, screw. propelling engines and Greenwich" pattern pumps. The latter throw

level is remains to be seen. Mr. Hill is working are a remarkably leyel lot, what that

bard at them, giving some gentia exercise and nursing others, and they already show a marked. improvement in appearance. Of course, all tha subscribers could not draw the pick of the lot, but amongst the lucky ones are Mr. Gubbay with his No. 19, who looks a very racey little horse, One of the best of the bunch is No. 65, (Mr.) Ruiter) that will surely win a race; also No. 6a (Mr. Bolinke) will be an awkward posy to beat. Mr. R. Shewan in No. 3 has a shapely, useful

The Hongkong Celegraph draghem as soon as the powere withdraw 1,00 gallons per minute and will throw six little mare that should prove a good investinent,

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1901. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Nicaraguan Canal. The construction of the Nicaraguan Canal,

and another that takes the eyele No. 38 (Mr.

theiroops. It is reported that they can be of jets simultaneously too feet high. A similar Kttles there at present, and the powers are vessel, but with 2,000 gallon pumpa is in con G. Potts), Perhaps the pick of the whole lot Shop the chance to propose withdrawal.struction for Auckland, New Zealand, by the is No. 50 (Mr. Gillies) he is all over a Shot ose power withdraw it the ers will follow its example promptly.

expected that Matki,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

same Firm

racing horse and seems to have suffered THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, little or nothing from the trip, a useful colour, speaking at a Primrose demonstration at Wyn. well set up and good goer, we shall see. Mr. THERMAN MAIL of the 5th September war He denied the charges made against the Another fortunate gentleman is Mr. Kadoorie,

yard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, referred to the David's colours in the van on bis black griffin.. was evered in London on the 7th inst

is estited for the year at 95,000 piculs, THEOVERNMENT COFFEE crop in Javaharibaese and severity towards the Boers will be heard of Mr. Whitehead has also a very British Government, generals, and soldiers of who in two tries got two staunch pojnes that

Never had such kindness and consideration good looking one in No. 28. treated harshly, and severely, he was of opinion as a bullock and yet looking as if he would been shown to a foe. Had the Boer been in going round one sees old towel as fat

if it ever becomes an accomplished fact, will certainly come as a blessing to both North countries interested in the ocean carrying and South America, to say nothing of other trade, Still there is one point about the telegram which we think requires explana- PARC MAILS for Europe, &c per s. neutrality of the Canal in times of peace, th

Having secured the services of a high-class London dressmaker, we beg to announce that this departament will be open to receive order tion. America; we are told, guarantees the Palaz will close at 3 p.m. to-morrow, the the war would have been over long ago." The enjoy a good gallop, also. Glory in fine fettle."

on or before the 15th of November, 1901

paper.

but is allowed to do as she pleases in time.M.E KING will, according to the Stan- Style, out, workmanship, and fit. Further particulary through this really see what is meant by, this, for the dard, crowned Emperor of Hindustan at

of war to protect her interests We cannot

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announcement that the Canal is to be open to all nations naturally means that in time of peace it must be neutral. Every cana CM

Co. for SILK SOCKS and

country was that she had showo 100 great a Derby ponies, is barred from the next meet-... only charge that could be brought against this We are sorry to see Kismet, along with all magnanimity at the expepse and to the detriming. Let us hope there may be one for two ent of her own people.

private matches

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