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CROWN DISTILLERIES COMPANY.

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A PURE LIQUEUR.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1901.

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To-day's Advertisements.

HONGKONG GUN CLUB,

"HE TIE for the CHAMPIONSHIP of the above Club for 1901 will be shot off at 3.30 P.M., on SATURDAY, the arst instant, and there will also be 'à LADIES' NOMINATION COMPETITION. Members are asked to invite Lady friends.

Hongkong, 18th December, 1901,

(1381c

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA:

THES

*HE.Steamship

"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain E. Fey, will be despatched for the fabove Ports, on TUESDAY, the 24th instant,

at 3 M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSÕÓN, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 15th December, 1901.. [1378c

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE -Francais.

NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

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

AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;

PORTS oF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.

A1.30

N MONDAY, the 30th December, 1901,

O, the Company's Steamship

|"YARRA," Captain Negre with Mails, Pas-

To-day's Advertisement.

* increase on account of the Secretary of State | MR. J. WESTCOTT, master of the s.3. Jedan for the Colonies being of opinion that the has recently died from cholem at Bangkok, risc should date from first of January 1903, and there are several other cases in the district. instead of from the beginning of this year.

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE Steamship

"MARIA VALERIE," baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This Vessel brings Cargo:—

From Venice, er 5.5. Melcovich transhipped Optional Cargo will be discharged here, unless natice to the contrary be given immediately.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 24th instant, or they will not be recognised.

at Trieste,

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 24th instant, will be subject to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 18th. December, 1901. [13176

Intimation.

sengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Part A. S. WATSON & Co.,

WATKINS, for MARSEILLES, via Bombay.

LIMITED,

AGENTS.

66, Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong, 7th December, 1901.

[7:40

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY;! LIMITED.

PORTLAND GEMENT.

$5.50 P Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. $3.30 Bag of zgó lhs.

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.s. Polynesien, which vessel take on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 1th January, Direct to Suez, Fort 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 4 P.M, Specie abd Parcels until 3 PM, on the 29th instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con- tents and Value of Packages are required.

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

P. DE CHAMPMORIN,

Acting Agent. fiq Hongkong, 18th December, 1901. [10040);

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, isi June, roar.

KELL

JUST LANDED.

Ex 5.s. Chrsan.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF

"GRAPHIC,"

"ILLUS, LONDON NEWS,"

"ILLUS. SPORTING & DRAMATIC NEWS," "SKETCH,"

"BLACK & WHITE".

"PEARS' ANNUAL"

With Coloured Plates

WALSH, LD.

H. K. V. C.

A Handsome Souvenir of the

1901 CAMP.

15 PHOTOS and DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS.

Price ...

$1.50

CHANDERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY,

...75 cents each.

Price ...

Hongkong, 27th November, 1901.

$2.25

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XMAS GIFTS.

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TOYS!!

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The Finest

Finest Selection in

the Colony.

CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK.

WILLIAM

POWELL, LIMITED.

28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.

Hongkong, 16th December, 1901.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY,

JUST UNPACKED.

A NEW SHIPMENT

THE CELEBRATED

OF

(955c

LIMITED.

APOLLO PIANO PLAYER,

Inspection invited.

Hongkong, 22nd November, 1901.

A. CHEE & Co..

17A, Queen's Road, Central. ESTABLISHED 1859.

[953

FURNITURE DEALERS: IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS;

Silver Plated, Glass and China Wates, Iron Bedsteads and Mat tresses; Cutlery and Dinner Servicos; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &e.

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

Hongkong, 25th July, 1901,

Tazze

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

We beg to notify

THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW

SEASON'S

CONFECTIONERY,

Comprising:

Selections of the Purest and

Best Description,

FROM

OVER 200 CHINAMEN were dealt with in one moming at the Senior Magistrates' Court, in Singapore for verandah obstruction. The fines ranged from $2 to $7

AT THE WANGHAI FIRE yesterday after noon the damage done to the house is estimated at $500, and to its contents at $350,-making a total of $850 for the Chinese Insurance Com panies to meet.

THE EXECUTION of Kwok Tak Tung; the ring leader in the Cap-sui-riun piracy, will take AN ENGAGEMENT is announced between place to-morrow morning. The two other one of the senior liqutenants in the R. A. and shrimpers sentenced to death for participat. the daughter of an officer in the Hongkonging in the piracy will remain in gaol for life as Regiment. We,congratulate them.

in their case a reprieve has been granted. THE NEW HALF-PENNY and peany

EX-WARDER SENT TO PRISON, stamps, bearing the likeness of King Edward the Seventh, should appear on our letters and papers in the course of a mail or two.

MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.

Considerable interest has lately been aroused not only in Victoria Gaol, but throughout the Colony by the conduct of Richard Curtis,

One thing that strikes one as being rather peculiar is that although the senior Unofficial Member stated that the whole of the Un- official Members were in favour of the increase being granted from the beginning of this year, none of them seemed to think that the matter was worthy of mention until the Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD brought it up, Surely this looks as though Punch's verses was it that Mr. WHITEHEAD did not get a were singularly applicable, otherwise how stronger backing, but was officially sat upon when he first mooted the question? How ever, he carried his point, and we have no doubt but that every subordinate officer of the Colony would like to pat him on the THE ARRATOON APCAR, which has just could make of the Council peacefully sleep-hole 45 feet by 65 feet-in the Tanjong Pagar aged 26, described as a seaman, of the Western back for it. What a capital cartoon. Punch arrived from India and the Straits, made a

ing while the Hon. T. H. W. alone paid any Wharf at Singapore when she ran into it.

Hotel. Until quite recently he was employed as attention to the proceedings i

THE SINGAPORE CRICKET TEAM have | a-prison, warder at the Victoria": "Goal, where " been anxious to try conclusions with a re-

he was held in such high esteem by bis com- presentative eleven from Colombo, but the tades that he was appointed President of the islanders replied it was impossible to send a

Committee of the Warders Mess and had the team at present.

handling of all the monies. However, he got into difficulties, and eloped to Shanghai, where he obtained employment as a painter, but disliking the life he wrote to the Assist be able to return, and stating he had lost money. ant Superintendent of the Gaol asking to

owing to the Mess. He then returned to Hong- kong, and a few days later was arrested in Queen's Road, taken before the Magistrate, and remanded.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

SOUTH AFRICA. LOUIS BOTHA RÉPORTED WOUNDED.

LONDON, December 15th. It is reported that Commandant Louis Botha has been severely shot below the left

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. FROM ENGLAND TO NEWFOUNDLAND,

THE HONGKONG GUN CLUB shoots off the tic for the Championship for 1901 at 3.30 p.m., on Saturday next. There is also to be a Ladies' Nomination Competition. Members are asked to invite lady friends.

.

knee, and that he escaped capture by craw-ON THE ANNIVERSARY of II. M. Quicen Alexandma's birthday an additional cable was ling into the bush.

laid between Penang and Bagan Jermal, Pro- vince Wellesley. This cable is to facilitate This morning he was again takeû before Mr. work between Penang and the Federated Hazeland, and charged with the theft of Maday States.

$177.72, the monies of the Warders, Mess, and LADY CATHERINE JANE CAREW, grand-October 12th and failing to deliver up a whistle,

also with absenting himself from his duty on.

Nov. 12th at Woodstowns, Waterford, Ireland. mother of the present Baron Carew, died on the property of the Government. She was a guest at the famous Brussels ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo and was a noted beauty at the court of Louis Philippe.

Signor Marconi, now at St. Johns, New- foundland, states that he has received through wires raised 400 feet by kites, faint wireless signals from a powerfully equipped station near Penzance, Cornwall.

LATER.

THE ISTHMIAN CANAL TREATY. The United States Senate has ratified the new Isthmian Canal Treaty,

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The first witness called was Charles Parkin- |son, a warder at the Ganl, who testified to the fact

that the prisoner was elected a member of the Committee of the Warders. Mess, and was THE MARQUARDT CONCERT in Manila President from July to September. The amount was a great success, and the artists are said to due to the Mess he said, was deducted from the have been bost the musicians who have appeared salaries of the warders and banded to the Pre- there since the American occupation. Mr. and sident, whose duty it was to settle all bills and Mrs. Marquardt recently appeared in Hong-accounts. Curtis ceased to be President on the THE MANCHURIAN QUESTION.kong, and though their audience was small the 27th September, and on the third of the next

Great Britain, America, and Japan are

concert was greatly enjoyed

month he went into the Hospital. Subsequent-. -exerting strong pressure upon China to pro OILING MACHINE-GUNS--The following had not been discharged from there, but was ly witness met him and was told that he cure the submission to them of any treaty appears among military orders just issued at out to pay bills in connection with the Warders concerning Manchuria before signature. Colombo: A case of corrosion in the barrel of a Mess. Afterwards, however, the witness ascer

Japan has notified the Chinese Govern machine gun has recently occurred, which is rained that the bills had not been settled. ment that she will require equivalents for all altributed to the use of "Rangoon Oil" after.

. Evidence was then given by Fung Yuk Kan, firing, instead of "Rifle Oil." The attention of a clerk and interpreter at the Prison, who de- advantages given to Russia in Manchuria.

officers having these guns in their charge is posed that during the month of September called to the instructions for care of machine $305.30, was deducted from the salaries of the guns, contained in

the Instructions forwarders and handed to the prisoner as President Armourers, 1897.

of the Mess.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

THE FRENCH CRUISER DESCARTES has arrived from Woosung...

MR. WEE THEAM TEW has been elected a Municipal Commissioner, Singapore., ·

AMUNG. THE CHINESE in mid Java, a movement to cut off the queue is gaining ground.

A COIR-ROPE SHOP will shortly be opened

in, Penang by a Sinhalese firm, with workmen from Ceylon.

di

E. M. O'Connell, a warder, spoke to seeing some clothing in a box in the prisoner's room, said that he remembered one morning seeing and Chan Sing, a boy employed at the Mess, the prisoner going out with a bundle under his

arm.

Bench that he saw the prisoner in the Mess Another warder, named Radcliffe, told the when he was supposed to be in Hospital, and G. E. Kielo, also a warder, who was a patient with the prisoner at the Hospital, deposed that he noticed some clothing tucked under the prisoner's hed,

AT THE MAGISTRACY „to-day the usual heterogeneous mob of unkempt coolies filed into the dock, one after the other, to answer charges ranging from stealing wood to crying wares in the streets. The principal case is re- ported elsewhere under, the heading of "Ex- Warder sent to Prison," and the only other cass worth recording is that of a Chinese schoolboy who will have seven days in goal to get recovered from the effect of twelve strokes of the birch He stole a pair of grass slippers, value 40 cents. MARK TWAIN'S view on "cures is that a man should have an opportunity to try Christian P. C. Gibson, who, in company with De- arts. science, or osteopathy, or any of the healing tective Sergeant W. J. Kerr, arrested the man "I tried Christian Science once," he in Queen's Road Central, stated that when said, "for a cold, but it did not do me any he saw the prisoner he asked him if he was good. Perhaps I did not have faith enough. Curtis, He made no answer, and when witness' Still, after all, there is nothing like a pint bottle asked him to go to the Police Station he said of whisky to cure a cold, even if it does take a

"I may as well go." He was then arrested. week to get over that." Possibly Mark resided for a winter in Hongkong. He would certainly have ample opportunity of testing. bis own special cure.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS should arrive. from the old country by the England Mail on Saturday next.

The Simplest Quality to that of the QUEENS ROAD EAST is being repaired much to the gratification of ricksha fares, to say nothing of coolies. THE SCHEME for the raising of a Volunteer Rifle Corps for Malacca has been approved by the Secretary of State.

Finest and Most Rechercho

Character,

Imported from the Leading

LONDON AND PARISIAN

MANUFACTURERS.

A. 8. WATSON & CO. LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

BIRTH

At Bedford House, Penang, on 3rd instant, the wife of ALLEN DENNYS, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

At the Ipoh Methodist Episcopal Church Singapore, on November 18th, FREDERICK NELSON MCKENZIE to ALICE MABEL KOENITZ, No Cards.

DEATH,

On the 3rd December, at Prye Estate, Pro vince Wellesley, the beloved infant son of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN LÁMU, "Thy. will be done."

The Hongkong elegraph

THE COOLIE who feel off a scaffold, at the Gaol the other afternoon died this morning from the injuries sustained

A LARGE QUANTITY of rice, bought in Manila with rebel funds, has been destroyed in the insurgent camps. MR. EDWIN A. WATSON, of the Straits Settlements has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, THE ABSENT JURYMAN mentioned in our report of the Criminal Sessions is to appear before his Lordship at ten o'clock to-morrow morning.

JACK MCAULIFFE has been attracting large crowds to his Boxing Academy at Shanghai where several interesing competitions have been held,

M. R. H. Craig, Assistant Superintendent of the Goal, said he was in immediate charge of the premises, and remembered receiving a letter from the prisoner in which he stated he had not paid the bills, and that he had lost the money.

THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT for Hongkong is reported to have stated that the prices in the City are more favourable on most and afterwards told Mr. Hazeland that he did not Prisoner called evidence on his own behalf, articles than in Manila; though merchants did like the idea of telling his mess mates what he not carry stock in any quantity. He learned had done, and when it occurred to him that he that the Empress line of steamers were going might get employment elsewhere and be able to extend their voyage to Manila, instead of to pay the money back he went to Shanghai lying three wacks in Hongkong, which meant that goods shipped by those steamers in the

and earned a living by painting. Afterwards States for Manila could go through on one

he wrote to Mr. Craig, offering to go back to the Gaol, and that he might be able to repay bottom, and no longer require all the handling the money. of transhipment in Hongkong, with all the attendant risks from loss, breakage or other damage,

THE NEW STEAMSHIP ZAFIRO, was late in starting on her last trip to Hongkong. OWING TO HIS PROLONGED ILLNESS, from Manila. The delay was caused by some Viceroy Tao Mu, of Canton, asked and was of the passengers not having Custom permits granted two months' leave some time ago. As to take their baggage aboard. Messrs. Warner, the Viceroy's leave has now expired and he has Barnes and Company took the luggage out 10 not yet recovered, be applies to the Throne for the steamer at a late bour in the afternoon, but permission to resign his position. But the were prevented placing it aboard by Inspector Throne refuses to accede to his request and Williamson until the usual requirements had grants him another two months' leave.

been fulfilled. Upon returning to the custom OFFICIAL RANK is not on sale though the house to secure the permits they found that Viceroy of Canton has announced to the they were after hours, and as the Customs

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18,1901. wealthier members of the local gentry that he House is closed on Sunday the permits could

NOTES AND COMMENTS,

Sleepy Hongkong.

Mr. Hazeland sent the prisoner to gaol for four months with hard labour on the first charge, and for two months with hard fabour- on the second count, the sentences torun conse-. cutively,

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF OLUB.

resulted in a win for Mr. H: W. Robertson who The tie for the Captain's Cup for December

returned the mediocre score of 68 - 10 - 88.

Mr. J. H. T. McMurtric, having already qualified for the Cup, did not compete.

A SMART PASSAGE. can persuade the Throne to bestow these not be secured until the morning. By this honours on any one who would subscribe a delay the Zafiro has cost the company several feeling for the Restila Maria, the old Rosella There are many in China who have a kindly decent sum of money towards the foreign in hundreds of dollars.

of the P. &0. Co, and when she does anything demnity fund. Already a large number of THE DECISION of the Supreme Court of out of the ordinary they are always pleased to wealthy people have liberally responded to the Manila in the habeas corpus proceedings insti hear of it. Some time ago we noted the fact call, and H. E. Tao Mu has sent up their names tuted by Thomas Toye Patterson, who was un- that the Rosetta Marie had made a passage to the Throne for reward.

der arrest for refusing to take the prescribed from Manila to Hongkong in 46 hours, and

In the current number of Punch appears a little ode, which we reproduce elsewhere, inspired by a paragraph which appeared in the Hongkong Telegraph not a hundred years ago. The Ode is entitled "Hours of DURING THE EXHUMATIONS at Devonth of allegiance to the United States is as fol- now she supplements this fine trip by ateaming lows. The case of the writ of habeas corpus, from Moji anchorage to Hongkong in 3 days. Idleness" and appears, to our dull mind, to shire st. (Sydney) cemetery a skull, says an ex- be dedicated to Hengkong Officialdom. If change, was found to have so decayed as to having been heard and submitted for decision, and his Chief Engineer this favourite liner is issued on petition of Thomas Toyo Patterson, 18 hours. In the able hands of Captain Tats this really be the case we should like to have split apart, but contained a perfectly-pre- point out to Punch that it is not everybody served brain. None of the medicos who have the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, re, in as good condition as ever she was who is asleep in the Colony. Take for seen it can explain the phenomenon. The solved by a majority of votes to dismiss the writ although over 20 years old let it be remem- instance the manner in which the Hon exhibit will go to some anatomical museum and to order the petitioner responsible for the bered they used to build steamers in those the salaries of the subordinate Government Hongkongles were X-rays a rush of anatomical the Court he was assured by the American Manila Hongkong ina and with the present T. H. WHITEHEAD attacked the question of If some of the craniums of several prominent costs of same." Mr. Patterson had informed days The Rosella Maris is going o officials. There cannot be any possible room to doubt but that these men have felt museum directors would inevitably be the Consul at Hongkong that there would be no commander is bound to be a popular passenger the great rise in prices, which has taken result. What a contrast they would be to the difficulty in landing in Manila, and that he carrier in a very short time. place of late, far more acutely than their Sydney skull

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