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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1901.

U.S. MAIL LINES.

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO., OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL S.S. CO.,

(TOYO KISEN KAISHA,

TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE;

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

"NIPPON MARU"

"PERU"

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AMERICA MARU

TUESDAY, 5th November, at Noon. TUESDAY, 12th November, at Noon. WEDNESDAY, 20th Nov, at Noon. .....THURSDAY, 18th Nov., at Noon,

SATURDAY, 7th December, at Noon. SATURDAY, 14th December, at Noon,

TETRA NCHAL NANGASANI, HALANDA, OR, YOKOHAMA THE T. K. K. Company's Steamship." NIPPON MARU," will be despatched for SAN

and HONOLULU, Jn TUESDAY; the 5th instant, at Noon, taking Freight for Japan, the United States, and Europe. Passengers are allowed to break the journey at any point "ZN"TUNIE:***

Through Pass Tickets granted to England, France and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Stunners, and to the principal cities of the United States or Canada.

Passengers holding through OEDERS TO EUROPE have the choice of the Overland Rail Routes from San Francisco, including the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC,- UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL WAY; also the GANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY un payment of £4in addition to the regular tarul mate.

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Passengers holding Orders for OVERLAND CITIES in the United States have between SAN FRANCISCO „nd, CHICAGO, the option of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RID GRANDE, and other direct connecting, Railways, and irojs" Chicago to destination the choice of direct lines.

Special rates Fust-class only) to European Points, are granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval Military, Diplomatic and Consular Services, and European Civil Service Officials located in Asin, and to European Officials in the Service of the Governments of Chian and Japan

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Return Passago-Reduction will be made to passengers who do not hold return tickets, making the return journey between ports in the Orient and Honolulu or beyond, within twelve months.

Through Bills of Lading issued for transportation to Yokohama and other Japan' Parts, to San Franscisco, to Atlantic and Inland Cities of the United States, via Overland Railway, to Havana, Trinidad, and Demerara, and to perts in Mexico, Central and South America, by the Companies' and come tip treamers.

Freight will be received heard und 4, the day previous to sailing, Parcel Packages will be received at the Office until 5 PM. same day; all Parcel Packages should be marked to

required. address in full¦ value of same

Consular Invoices to accompany each shipment of Cargo or parcel (valued at $100. Gold or over) destined to Points, beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Companies' Office addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco,

Merchant's invoice will be sufficient for cargo or parcel (each shipment) when the value is less than $100. U.S. Gold."

For further Information as to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Com. panies, Queen's Building.

1901

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Hongkong, 1st November, igor.

GEORGE ECKLEY,. Acting Agent.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINË.

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AN OPINION ABOUT ENGLAND

WANDERINGS OF THE WATER

BUFFALO,

IN THE FAR EAST,7

Mr. Oishi Masami now shares with" (Mr. The Indian Government has recently formed Iaugal Ki the lendership of the Progressist dairy farms to supply milk and butter for the Party He has the great advantage of knowing use of the troops. The fine breads of Indian his own mind, and he has also the temerity to cattle are used in these dairies, but cow buffaloes say what he thinks in onequivocal language. are also kept on account of the richness of their An epitome of his latest' views is published by milk. Europeans sometimes object to usd it, the Niroku Shimbo. Mr. Distit, has always as the domesticated, buffiin is often kept in been a staunch advocate of an Anglo-Japanese sort of scavenger to the cow byres of the Indian alliance and his views as to that matter have cities, and eats the litter and refuse of the ant undergone any change. Haying carefully farmyards. But properly, fed the buffalo is by examined his expressions of opinion, we gather no means the bovine pig which it becomes that one of his chief tantives in rocommending | when kept in Hyderabad or Penares. It is such an alliance is that he look forward to Eng not only a first-class dairy, animal, but the fand's becoming Japan's purse-holderás France strongest beast of draught in the world exept Russia's. He thinks, in short, that Japan the elephant. Great 'areas of rich river delta wants foreign capital, that she offers splendid and marsh in three continents are maintained opportunities for its investment, and that if in cultivation by buffaloes, when no other England stood in the position of capitalist, animal could possibly be used to plough the polical bonds of strong character would rice fields or drag carts over and through miles be at once drawn round the tivo countries. of liquid mud. The value of this, probably Looking at the matter from England's point of the latest of All large animals to be domesticat view, he holds that her policy of isolation hased, is so well known in the East that it been a mistake. Ita palpable result in the Far East has been to expel her from the command ing situation she once occupied and to transfer large portions of her influence to France, Russia and Germany, which countries may be, FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. regarded as a triple alliance for purposes of Oriental politics and for the crushing of Great (Established 1828);

Britain. She has been driven from the Yellow

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assurance.

F. KIENE Manager

"Hongkong,

Hongkong, 2nd November, 1901,

"L'UNION"

1995c

GENERAL AGENT for the above

THE Undersigned, having been appointed Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rates,

Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office.

A. R. MARTY,

Agent,

Hongkong, 5th July, igo1.

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned AGENTS af the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at

River regions; in Canton the French are en- Coaching upon her sphere; in the Yangtze she is no longer paramount, and even from Shang bai she is now being ousted. Soon nothing would remain to her if things continued in their present groove, and her retirement from 1712cAustralia, India and Canda could scarcely be averted. England derives her greatness from her colonies and possessions abroad.. Should she lose them, her place among the nations would be very different to what it is. A service: able ally is her need, and japan is such an ally Mr. Oisbi thinks that many opportunities of cementing an alliance have been lost in the past, but that they still offer. The question is, how- ever, can England be induced to take that view? He speaks as though the difficulty were on Japan's side only. We apprehend that it is on England. Great Britain does not at present see any danger of a serious conflict between herself and European Powers in the Far East. She is still so strong that whenever the chooses to plant her foot firmly, no other Power is likely to defy her. Would she, under these circums tances, agree to become a partner in Japanese risks? We fear that the time has not yet come.-Japan Mail.

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́ON 1, 2, 4, 58, 6, 7 and 8, WILD DELL,

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AS OTHERS SEE US,

IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ?

has for centuries past been carried to places so remote from its original home, and ap. parently so inaccessible, that the extent to its involuntary migrations in the service of man has a peculiar interest. Besides this it is one of the very few domesticated animals which, like the yak and the gayal (possibly a tatne form of the gaur), are still found in their original wild state, with form and habits scarcely altered. The wild buffalo is among the most dangerous and formidable of, the big game of India,

NEVER HESITATING TO CHARGE. WHEN

WOUNDED,

and noted for the persistency with which it seeks to destroy the persons who has injured it Its natural home is in the grass jungles and swamps of India; Nepaut, and Assam. It is also found wild in the Island of Formosa. It is a huge black beast, with no hair, a skin like black guta-percha, immense horns, sometimes measuring more than twelve feet along the curve, though not spreading like a shield over the forehead as in the Cape buffalo, "but set like a pair of scythes on each side of its head. A bull stands six feet high at the shoulder, eighteen hands, that is; its bulk is enormous, and its great spreading feet are well adapted for walking in the swamps. By choice it is semi-aquatic. A herd will lie for hours in a pool or river, with just their eyes, horns, and great snub noses above water. Any one who blunders on to a buffalo in a wallowing-hole and frightens it out may be excused for imagine ing that he has just come on a mud volcata at the moment of eruption...

The great distance from its original home, in India at which we now find the bušalo ca- tablished is evidence that the animal, has a history of an exceedingly adventurous, kind, wore it possible to trace the story of its tmvels. Starting from the Indiin jungles, “and then domesticated on the Intian plains, this erat«/ while wild beast has reached, and been domes ticated and splays a most important part in,

Ypt, Palestine, Southern Italy and the Carpagan, the South And East of Spain, Hungary, Turkey, rand: Western Asia as far as the borders of Afghanistan. By some unknown route it has reached the West Coast of Africa, and is established as a beast' f draught and cultivation on the Niger. It has travelled far up the Nile, and will go further, for it would be invaluable on the great swamps Fashoda way. In the Far East the Chinaman has made it his own peculiar pet- having, it is believed, at learnt its value in the

Bvd

RICE-GROUNDS OF THE SOUTH,"

it has been taken to Japan, where it now works in the rice-grounds; to the Philippines and the islands of the Malay Archipelago; and there is no doubt that it would be useful in British Guiana. Possibly the Italians who are crowd- over into South America will introduce it in the Lower Mississipi Valley; but it is by nature a brown and yellow man's beast, and only appreciated in Europe by the South Latin races.

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How did the buffalo get from India to Africa? Who first took it to Egypt? How did it get from Egypt round to the West Niger? And who brought it to Italy, and from whence? All these are most interesting questions, and as the distance of time which has elapsed since the animals were introduced into Europe does not fall beyond the historic period, may possibly be answered. In Egypt, for instance, there exists pictorial record on the tombs and elsewhere, pictures of animals play an important part covering many thousands of years, in which

If the first appearance of the water buffalo in these paintings were noted, the date of its im portation from India to Egypt would be M. Maspero at the suggestion of Lord Cromer,.. known and from inquiries kindly made by

it appears that nowhere in the long "picture history" of ancient Egypt does the water' buffalo appear. The African buffalo is seen there; not so the domesticated Asiatic one. this domesticated animal was not known in This is very interesting negative evidence that.

ancient Egypt. It is surmised, probably rightly, that it was imported after some..

GREAT EPIDEMIC OF CATTLE PLAGUE,"

or it may have been taken from the West Coast of India up the Euphrates Valley, and thence down the Jordan Valley to Egypt. Arab dhows have for ages done a regular trade in This is the real buffalo-called in ladin the carrying borses from, the 'West Coast of India to the Presian Gulf. It is probably one of the arnee and not to be confounded with the gaur, or the banteng, the wild oxen of India and the oldest forms of shipping which exists, and the

Arabi who now ship horses from Bombay to' Some correspondence has been going on in Far East. It will be seen that the buffalo in the Hongkong Telegraph, says the Pinone is wild state is limited to a not very large the Persian Gulf may have been in the cattle Gazette, on the subject-pretty well worn outre,namely, the country south of the flima trade in very carly days. It is also probable NGSTEWART TERRACE THE at home, but reasonably fresh in the Far East ayas, and extending for some distance, the that in the era of flindea maritime enterprise of life being worth living? A letter in the limits of which are not perfectly known, in the these creature were taken both to the Far East territory of the Indo-Chinese States. Yet this and to the East Coast of Africa. The circum. THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. last received number of that joumal from an

MENT & AGENGY CO., LD, "Engineer" draws attention to the lack of ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL AND FIERCE ANIMALnces which led to their introduction into Hongkong, 31st July, 19h. froge cheap means of recreation in Hongkong, and has been so completely doméstiated by the Italy and Spain are probably to be found in the fact that it is impossible to go anywhere Hindoos that the lame herds are regularly ally known, the nearest surmise being that they some existing record'; but it is not one gener. for intellectual study and comfortable reading, driven out to feed in the same jungles in may have been given to a Longobardian King except to clubs where there is a good deal of which wild buffaloes live, the bulls among which with other animals by the chief of a horde of." drinking. If a band plays it is usually at a will often come down and, after giving battle to Asiatic invaders. They were not known in hotel, where it seems one is expected to par the rame bulls, annex the cow for a time and

Italy in Roman times. But if they had been introduced as recently as the camels which are still used on one of the Royal estates in Tuscany (ah entérise due to the Medici), the fact would probably have been matter of com. mon knowledge.--The Spectator.

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take of dinner along with the music. All social functions are costly affairs, and the writer com- plains that he cannot go to a concert without donning evening dress. We cannot see much hardship in this last complaint. "Engineer acknowledges that wages are fairly good, and a steady map who wastes nothing on "drinks" should be well able to afford n dress suit in which, in course of time, he would feel reason ably at home. But apart from this, his complaint is not ill-founded. The Hongkong Telegraph points out that the Fragrant Port possesses "no public library, no decent museum, no evening classes or lectures, no means of intellectual recreation whatever," and adds that no one has the energy there to in- augurate and carry on such institutions. While we are surprised to hear that Hongkong, which is so frequently held up as a model settlement, full of enterprise and bustling with healthy vigour, is so far short of these desirable attri- butes, it is easy without travelling very far to point our other places which are sadly lacking. in similar amenities. Even in Penang matters are scarcely in the, position we should like to zonesee them. We have tried to stir up the public to a sense of the shortcomings of our intellectual life. The Penang Athenæum supplied a cheap and interesting means of recreation blended with an uncertain amount of instruction, but having dwindled into nothingness it seems all

of a museum in this centre has also formed the subject of more than one exposition in these columne. Unfortunately that lack of energy which the Hongkong Telegraph deplores is equally in evidence in our owa Settlement. The fact is that in all small communities in

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keep then in the jungle. The only striking diff- erence in appearance between the same, and wild buffalo is that the horns of the former do not grow to the size attained in the wild speci- mens, and alter their curve and pitch. Mr. Lockwood Kipling notes the curious effect of the grove of long horns above a herd of these animals, no two buffaloes having them of the same pattern. Traces of the lateness of the. date of their apprenticeship to the service of man are seen in their power of self-defence and combination when threatened with attack by tigers or icopards, by their mating with the wild stock, and by the uncertainty of their temper, especially towards Europeans. Wher ever they are used by Oriental races these autbreaks of savageness are always in evidence from time to time when the white man encounters them, In China, they have been known to chase Europeans when the tatter were riding, as well as when passing on foot. They will do the same in India, in Egypt, and in Burmah, Yet in India they are generally taken out to pasture by some small boy, who is their tyrant and master, and will protect him, their calves, and themselves from the tiger, An account appeared recently in Country Life of the use of a herd of these animals to beat the jungle for a wounded tiger which had killed a native. The buffaloes were driven up and down for a whole day, beating the ground in a compact body, until they found the tiger, whose hiding-place was shown by the excitement of the herd, at which it charged almost as soon as they observed it, and was shot by the guns following them. As a beast of draught the buffalo bas

ASTONISHING"POWERS OF HAULING

the Far East, the individual has to provide his heavy over roads. It can plough in own recreations. Where the enjoyments of meaty trafic over bad road scale. I can

club life fail to attract, and where we are all

...

· AFGHAN AFFAIR

Kabul on the day upon which Abdur Rahman's By slow degrees some details of the events in

death was announced are reaching Peshawar. The scene at the public Durbar on October 3rd'

was dramatic. When Habibullah stated hin

father was dead and the funeral must take place forthwith, the Chief Kazi of Kabul rose and spoke with the authority attaching to bis priestly office. He said Afghanistan being a " Muhammadan country, their late ruler could not be buried until the new Amir had been proclaimed. He then advanced to Habibullah and bound the turban round his head accord. ing to the accepted custom, saluting him to the vast assembly as their legitimate ruleri.... The younger sons of Abdur Rahiman Immediately made their obeisance to Habibullah and swore allegiance to him. The example was spontani eously followed by all the sardars, zobles and. high officials present. Thousands of people, who had crowded to Durbar joined in saluting. the new Amir and acclaiming him as the right ful successor.

Habibullah then addressed the assembly, announcing hit intention of ruling as became a true Muhammadan sovereign, preserving the boundaries of Afghanistan as it had come to him, neither lessening nor increasing them, and maintaining the friendly alliance with the British Government as bis father had done.

His speech was acclaimed as one evidently.

acceptable to all and the Durbar then broke up.

Abdur Rahman' funeral followed, his body being escorted to Bostan Samaj by a small. selected party of these who had been personally devoted to him.

His Highness Habibullah has been practi. cally in charge of the whole administration Afghanlatan for a year past, the Amir, his father, bring only occasionally consulted. No change. in the administration therefore has been caused by Habibullah's accession; all classes in

to a considerable extent thrown upon our own swim a river going to and from work, tow resources, we have to make up our minds barges along canals and streams, sometimes to depend upon ourselves, and adapt our walking in the shallow water by the banks, selves to circumstances which at first appear like the hors did on the Lower Thames before unbearable. It is the man with a hobby who the towpath was made. It will eat anything it first reconciles himself to his surroundings, can get, and ask only for one indulgence, a providing he has reasonable opportunity of good hours swim or mud bath in the middle following bis favourite pursuit There are many directions in which one's tastes may be of the day, The rice fields which feed so great developed. We drew attention anly the other a percentage of the population of Eastern Asia day to the pleasures of gardening, a recreation could scarcely be cultivated without its aid, and which, for those who have the opportunity, it is so valuable as a dairy animal that the Afghanistan have accepted their new ruler, and may become a never failing source of interest, Lovers of nature have a wide and varied field percentage of butter in its milk equals that of the wise measures which Habibullah has taken before them, and the man with reasonable the best breeds of English dairy cattle. The 10 maintain order are proving completely suck health without which life is scarcely worth result is that it has become an equal favourite the living and with some time on hand, with the Hindoo, the Arab, and the Chinaman, should create and build up for himself some interest which he may prontably fellow. to his own general (nstructios and advantage

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