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Intimations.

PYROLA,

PYROLA,

PYROLA.

A

PERFUME

OF

EXQUISITE FRAGRANCE.

WATKINS

LIMITED:

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

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements.

THE WANCHAŁ WAREHOUSE AND

STORAGE CO., LIMITED:

Co-day's Advertisements. NOTICE

NOTICES, TU'CORRESPONDENTS.

IT in reguited that all communication relating to Sub- seripilons Advertisements, & be addressed to the *Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" and not in the Editors

Lesters on Beltorlat mattera jo be sent to "The Editor" and not to individual members of the staff,

Communications intended for publicatlon mait be recom for publication; but as evidence of good faith.

Whilar the celarm of the Rangkong Teligh will always be open for the fair discussion by correspondens of mil quen tions affecting public interests, it must be e'istlactly ender wood that the Editor does not in any way hold himsel responsible for opinions thus expressed.

LATER.

THE NICARAGUAN CANAL, H. E. Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassa dor to America, and the Hon. John Hay,

THE GERMAN IRON INDUSTRY:-The conditions in the German iron industry are strikingly illustrated by the reports which are being published by the different works, Al- most everywhere has been witnessed a diminu

TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA. MK R. ABESSER bas CEASED frompanied by the nama and address of the writers, not necessarily United States Secretary of State, have signedition of orders; prices ara falling, and the over«,

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.

of the WANCHA WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the COM- [PANY'S OFFICE, No., Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 5th day of December, 1901, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Subjoined Resolution which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 18th day of November, 1901, will be submitted for con firmation as a SPECIAL RESOLUTION.

"That the Company be wound up volun- "tarily and that JOHANN GEORG LUDWIG "SCHROTER of Victoris, in the Colony of "Hongkong, be and he is hereby appointed "Liquidator for the purposes of such

winding up.".

MEYER & CO.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1901. [12580

THEATRE

ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

EMPIRE COMEDY

AND

VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. GRAND OPENING NIGHT,

FRIDAY,

22ND NOV.

A Collossal Combination of (21) *** STAR ARTISTS." (21)

From the leading Metropolitan Theatres of Australia, who will appear in refined and up to date Comedy and Vaudeville Bill intro- ducing all the lastest European and American Cruzes.

Box Plan now open at the ROBINSON PIANO Co., LIMITED.

This Date to Sign, bur Firm

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO. Hongkong, 15th October, 1901.

MELEOPOLD) LAMBOTTE has CEASED to Sign our Firm par Procuration since the. 20th March, 1901.

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO. Hongkong, 20th November, 1961. • [Taboc

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES. MÄRITIMES.

PAQUEDOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS,"

NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN.

AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX; ALSO

TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's fine not later than Three o'clock var not to retard the early publication of the paper.

Advertisement-and-criptions which are not ordered. for a Oxed period will be continued until counteraandedi.

The Hongkong Telegraph In the largest circulation of y English newspaper published in the Far East, and is therefore, the best medlem for Advertisers, Tesens can Le tearnton Kaplication.

BIRTH.

On the 20th November, 1001, at Meirion, the Peak, the wife of E. JONES HUGHES, of a [12570

son,

FORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE. The Hongkong Celegraph

ON Company's Steamship N MONDAY, the 2nd December, 1901, "ERNEST SIMONS, Captain Vaquier, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.s. Oceanien, which vessel take on her Passengers and Nails leaving that Port on the 14th December, Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on board until PM, Specie and Parcels until 3 P. on the 133 December, (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.). Con- tenis and Value of Packages are required

For farther Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Office.

P. DE CHAMPMORIN,

Acting Agent

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

LIMITED,

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1951.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Degenerate Hongkong. In delivering a presidential address at the distribution of prizes to the successful stud- ents of the Birmingham and Midland In stitute, Lord ROSEBERY stated that, “the nation that is satisfied is lost", an epigram which might well be taken to heart by Hong kong. We, the inhabitants of Hongkong, are not a nation it is true, but we are so isolated and cut off from the outside world that we are apt to live our own small lives, troubling little or nothing about what goes on in the great world around us and, being satisfied, we are lost. We do not mean to,

the new Nicaraguan Canal treaty. -

MARQUIS ITO IN FRACE. President Loubet has given a luncheon in

production is going on. Recently it was reported that the stocks of iron accumulated at the furnaces in Westphalia, the Rhineland and Luxemburg amounted to nearly 600,000 tons.* In spite of that fact the furnaces have gone on producing iron at nearly the same rate as init year, utterly disregarding the sharply reduced demands of the market. The only feature of order-consolation is the fact that some 15,000 tons •

houour of the visit of Marquin Ito.

THE REINFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. The Twenty-first Lancers have been ed to the Cape.

Vast numbers of remounts will arrive in

South Africa towards the end of December, each man being provided with a spare horse. In addition to these pack animals, pom- poms and galloping Maxims figure largely in the reinforcements to be sent forward.

.LOCAL AND GENERAL. LAU MANCHI, whoon Monday was sentenced In 5 years' imprisonment for forgery, was found dead in his cell this morning.

THE A. D. C. PERFORMANCE at the City Hall last night was played to a very poor house but the farce and the plantation revels went even better than the first night. THE TENNIS MATCH between Hancock for Hongkong and Ramsey for Shanghai took place this morning and resulted in a win for Shanghai, by Ramsey scoring three sets to Hancock's one. A full report is unavoidably held over,

THE FRENCH SOCIALISTS:-A Paris correspondent speaks of the uneasiness created in the public mind by the accumulation of guns, revolvers, and ammunition at Mont among the miners of the Saône et Loire. According to the Paris Temps, two recent seizures by the authorities of parcels of these weapons have had to be cancelled, as they could not be described under the law as military anins.

bave been ordered for American account, but the announcement that German conerns have

secured contracts for 20,000 tons of steels rails for Cuba is not very satisfactory, as the price is

unremunerative.

TUE OPTIMISTIC GOVERNMENT -Sir. Edward Grey; speaking on with ulto, at New castle, complained of the optimism of the Government, and demanded that we should have a force,more mobile than the Boer com-... mandoes to end the war by force of arms. He bari no faith whatever in negotiations, overtures, threats, or proclamations. He believed the country was quite determined to see the war through-no turning back or giving in. The average citizen was too much impressed by

the peril we had run in South Africa to see a peace patched up, with seeds of danger in the future, but they were dismayed by the futility, blunders, and want of resource that had been shown. He dil not want to contradict any. thing Lord Roberts said, but the formula of the War Office seemed to be this: Lord Kitchener has had everything that he asked for, but some of the things he hasked for could not be sent, and so they had to, be sent back,"

Hongkong, 20th November, 1901. [1004e say that everybody in the Colony has all

that he desires and wishes for nothing more, ceaux-les-Mines, a centre of Socialist agitation posed in high ecclesiastical quarters that the but we do say that Hongkong folk have got into a groove in which they are satisfied to FOR FOOCHOW VIA SWATOW AND remain, and unless some strong influence is brought to bear, apon them it looks as though they will be likely to stick there for ever and a day.

AMOY.

1259 THE Company's Steamship

PRICES$1, $2 and $3 Hongkong, 20th November, 1901.

PRECEPTORY.

Hongkong, 1st Octalser, 1901. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, VICTORIA

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

$0.50 Cask al 75 s. Net ex Factory, $3.30 Bag af 250 lbs.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 1st June, woj.

KELL 2

JUST PUBLISHED,

[ro

RUDYARD KIPLING'S MASTER- PIECE.

KIM OF THE RISHTI."

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.

$1.50

Hongkong, oth November, 1901.

REGULAR MEETING of the VIC ATORIA PRECEPTORY will be held

at the FREEMASONS HALL, on TUESDAY, the 26th instant, at 830 for 9 P.. precisely. Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to attend.

[1261c

Hongkong, 20th November, igai.

ALSH, L.d. CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT

OF..

XMAS CARDS.

ALL THE NEWEST DESIGNS.

[690c

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED.

28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.

·HIGH CLASS DRESSMAKING

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES BY EXPERIENCED ARTISTS NEWLY

ARRIVED FROM LONDON.

NEW SELECTION OF

CHOICE

GOODS

IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.

TOYS AND XMAS GOODS IN ENORMOUS VARIETY.

ALL CHILDREN'S departments have been transferred to No. 28.

DRESSMAKING will be carried on only at No. 34, Queen's Road.

955c)

THE

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY,

R. G. HECKFORD,

Manager.

LIMITED.

BANJOS, MANDOLINES

AND GUITARS,

AT

COST PRICE

TO CLEAR PRESENT STOČK.

Hongkong, 3rd October, 1901.

A. CHEE & Co.

17a, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859

FURNITURE DEALERS:

"ANPING MARU,” Captain S. Atsumi, will be despatched for the above Port, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th Dec, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA,

Agents, Hongkong, 20th November, 1901.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

NOTICE

ONSIGNEES

[321c

of CARGO per Steamship

"AMERICA MARU."

are hereby notified that their Goods are at their risk being discharged into Lighters and/or landed into our Godowns at Wanthai and Cory Godowas upon countersignature of delivery may, be had either from Lighters or

Bills of Lading.

Goods remaining unclaimed after the 27th instant, will be subject to rent,

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

GEORGE ECKLEY, Acting Agent. Hongkong, 20th November, 1001

Intimation.

$7

W25

A SENSIBLE CANON-It has been pro- Goremment should appoint a day of public humiliation on account of the continuance of the South African war. The Rev. H. Hensley Henson, canon of Westminster, in a letter to The Times, holds that the difficult circum. stances of the campaign in, the Transvaal The whole life of Hongkong may be sum med up in two words, Dollars and Sport. WILLIAM DANIEL JOSEPH RICHARDS. explain sufficiently the long continuance of the Nobody appears to care about aught else and is the full name of the poor fellow who met his war, and he cannot see anything unusual or the result is that, from an intellectual point death so suddenly at the Hongkong Hotel this suggestive of extraordinary Divine chastise- of view, the Hongkong community presents morning. It appears that about 3 a.m. hement in experiences which are strictly normal. much the appearance of a field of turnips.

seen to go on to, and lean over, the Such religious exercises, says the Canon, The turnip has sufficient intellectuality to verandah in the centre of the hotel on the imply notions about the moral government of the universe which are properly obsolete, and thrust forth its roots and gather in the inois. ture and nutritive matter from the earth, as second Boor, and then return to his room.

which could not, therefore, be generally the Hongkongite applies himself to the This morning about 6 o'clock his body was gathering in of dollars; it takes its exercise picked up from the laundry, evidently having sincere. But if a day of humiliation were at when its green leaves wave in the breeze fallen from the second storey where he was all becoming it would be so, not. because of and sunshine, and this keeps the plant last seen. The deceased was employed as bar the magnitude and duration of our military healthy, much in the same manner as the manager in the hotel and had just returned to efforts, but because of our shameful and Hongkongite plays cricket, tennis or golf; the position at increased pay, after being a shameless neglect of the suffering and devoted

loyalists in South Africa.. and the turnip, like the Hongkongite, has-month in the Sanitary Department. A post no wish to expend any part of its energies mentem will be held at the morgue to morrow TEMPERANCE-Mr. Chamberlain on 14th in acquiring knowledge which would raise it morning.

ulto. opened the Birmingham Temperance in the natural kingdom. It is satished, it lives and is lost, and its Hongkong proto-

Hall, and subsequently addressed a large public meeting. He said the Birmingham type vegetales in much the same manner.

Take the Hongkong bred and educated

Temperance Society, during the 70 years of its existence, had endeavoured to serve its objects boy. He goes to Queen's College, where he receives an education which fits him to

by moral, educational, and religious methods fulfil the duties of a clerk in one or other

of suasion, and not by political agitation. · Ile. of our mercantile houses. By the age of

did not deny the need of legislation, if not fifteen, or sixteen, he has probably reached

to abolish drunkenness, at all events, to the top of the tree, if he is moderately sharp

mitigate its evils and diminish its extent. and then he fondly imagines that there is nothing more left for him to learn, except said to have been insured for £11,000, but the But if any such legislation, was the principles of business, which he must acquire in order to gather in the dollars chief regret is that so ancient and historic a successful, it must necessary to keep his body in comparative building should have suffered harm. It was

STEPNEY CHURCH INJUREDA sad disaster has overtaken the parish of Stepney Its finé old church, dedicated to St. Dunstan and All Saints, has been grievously injured by fire. Op 12th ulto. dense volumes of smoke were seen issuing from the roof, and, despite the utinost efforts of the fire brigade, the flames were not mastered until the chancel and vestries were entirely destroyed. The financial loss is a serious one, though the building is

of moderate

have

to bo

a larger force it opinion behind than

IA. S. WATSON & CO+ comfort. The moment that he leaves school built in the fifteenth century, and many famous had been the good fortune of any legislation his education ceases, for he has no means names are to be found on the roll of those who question, by which one Party sought to get

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SEEDS.

FOR THE SEASON

1901-1902.

ARRIVAL OF NEW SHIPMENTS.

ORDERS EXECUTED FROM FRESH STOCKS ONLY.

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application.

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN COODS OF ALL KINDS

Silver Plated, Glass and China Wales, Iron Bedsteads and Mat trosses; 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, 1901.

CLAYS FERTILIZER. 10tbs

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within the Colony of improving it. There are no night, classes or lectures that he can atter, there is no public library at which he can obtain works of real educational value, there is no debating society where he may learn to sharpen his wits and argue matters out for himself, there is not even a philharmonic society which he could join and so indulge a taste for music, while such innovations as scientific societies have never been thought of True, we have a so-called Museum, which he might visit to gain a slight knowledge of the natural history and products of the surrounding country, but the specialens are badly kept, poorly and often erroneously labelled, and the whole arrangement of the institution so shocking that the visitor comes away with the im pression of having had a nightmare; be has certainly learned nothing! And what

have held the living.

in his experience. It must not be a political

votes from another. It must be a moderate

THE . AM. C-Sir William MacCormac, in opening a new lecture-room at the West London Hospital on 14th ulto, commended the services of the medical officers in the wat, and said the results accomplished would bear com- parison with those of any other war or expedi- tion, and, as was recently seen in China, with the Medical Services of other nations. With present-flourished under the latter name. regard to the Army Medical Reform scheme, it would, he hoped, prove of much advantage, though some of the recommendations required modification; but he believed the establishment

measure, which combined the largest possible amount of support. He did not think any Government in its senses would be likely to repeat the experiment of bringing in a Local Veto Bill. He advocated magisterial control over grocers' licences and clubs, with a view to the suppression of bogus places which at

SANITARY BOARD.

CHINESE OBJECTIONS.

of a great Military Hospital and school in Lon- SCHEME OF CLEANSING AND DISINFECTING. don, similar to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, would exert a wider influence than any other measure,

is the result of this state of affairs? The M. JEAN WEBER is not to be prosecuted for Hongkong boy grows up ignorant and his scurrilous caricatures of King Edward VI1. narrow-minded. There is no chance for recently published in the Assielle au Beurre. him to improve himself intellectually, and in accordance with the decision of M. Leydet, in consequence he vegetates-an hotel bar, the Examining Magistrate to whom the affair a novel and sports being his only recreations. was referred, the Indictment Chamber has de In his speech at the laying of the founda cided that the caricatures are not obscent, and, tion stone of the New Tung Wa Hospital consequently, not punishable by law. The legal the other day, His Excellency the Governor authorities and not to judge whether the draw. dwelt upon the fact that the people of ings constituted an insult to a foreign Monarch. Hongkong had, since the inauguration on the

For that question to be raised, it would have South African War Fund, contributed to various funds no less than $433,000, and been necessary for the British Ambassador to bad within the past year subscribed to chari have lodged a complaint, with the French ties, exclusive of the Tung Wa Hospital, a Government, which was not done, any more sum equal to live-and-a-half per cent. of the than on the occasion of the publication of M. total revenue of the Colony. Does it Millette's abominble caricature of the late Queen

A special meeting of the Sanitary Board was held at noon to-day for the purpose of consider. ing the question of general cleansing and disinfection of premises. The President (Dr. Atkinson,) Principal Civil Medical Officer occupied the chair, and there were also present-Hop. a. W. Brewin, Registrar General (Vice-President), Hon. W. Chatham- (Director of Public Works), Dr. Clark (Medical) Officer of Health), Mr. F. 1. Badeley (Acting Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. Lan Chu Fak, Mr. Fung Wa Chin and Mr. G. A.. Woodcock (Secretary).

The Chairman said It will be in the memory of the Board that in September last additional bye-laws were passed by the Legis lative Council conferring on the Board the same powers to cleanse and disinfect houses in non-

redound to the credit of the Colony when we PRECAUTIONS IN LONDON THEA. epidemic times that had already been passed are obliged to state that, in spite of this TRES: The Lord Chamberlain is acting in free-handed charity, not a cent has been spent upon intellectual improvement?

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. SOUTH AFRICA. CONCLUSION OF TREASON TRIALS.

LONDON, November 18th.. The South African treason trials have been brought to a conclusion at Mafeking Five death sentences have been pronounced, and twelve more Bop leadem have been banished from South Africa.

OTTAM & CO, NEW SCARVES and

TIES

for epedimic times. Before considering what measures should be taken to check the concert with the London County Council in securing some needed refarms in the internal yearly recurrence of plague it appeared to the Board, seeing that plague always disap arrangements of some of the theatres. It is no

peared in the winter months, it would be ad- reflection on the present management in mos! cases that the provisions for meeting-a fire du visable to attempt some general cleansing of

the whole City during this time: Undoubted break or the seating anangements are bad or insuficient; but it lies upon all present lessees ly the bacillus must be present in our to see that these things are attended to in the midst, and the object of this cleansing future. Four important theatres the Lyceum, and disinfection is to take it in its lair. the Criterion, the Strand, and the Vandeville- and remove everything as far as possible have bad their licences renewed subject to the which will form an oasis for its growth. We LC.C.'srequirementsbeing carried out, and these, include, in each case, the provision of a fire: resisting curtain. The conditions are hard-upon lessees, no doubt, but they are not unreasonable and the outlay should be of positive benefit to each theatre in the long run in the confidence which the alterations will induce in the public mind of the safety of the building.

&CO. FOOTBALL KNIC

cannot expect even by those means to thoroughly rid the Colony of this pest, but it is incumbunt upon us to do all that lies in our power, and this mast strike everyone every well-me

ing person that this is a step in the right direction. This s

appears a superituman tasikiito. COTTAM & CO. PYJAMAS for AUTUMN

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