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Intimations.

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meals

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CROWN

CRÈME DE MENTHE

(glaciale)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,

To-day's

Advertisements.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Intimation.

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THE NEW ŚCREW, STEAMER "Kumand

TO-MORROW, the 28th Instant, com- A. S. WATSON & CO., Marit, has carried out a series of most success.

mencing a 15 P.M.. there will be a HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of so canta each, and $3o added: 3 Prizes: the highest nett sehrer to receive a Gold Maltese Cross, Handicaps will be revised prior to the compe tition,

́ ́ ́ ALEX. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 27th December, 1901.

EOTHEN MARK LODGE,

No. 264.

LIMITED.

149

ESTABLISHED A.17, 1841

REGULAR MEETING of the above A LODGE will be held at the FREEMASON'S HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW," the 28th instant, at fors.30PM, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.

Hongkong, 27th December, 190t.

[14500

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A CHALLENGE TO ALL CHINA. ·

M

R. BENTLEY is prepared to match on unknown against any lad in China at the Bantamweight, limit 8stone, 4 pounds, from One hundred pounds sterling (Creo), or Upwards under the following conditions:—

I-Twenty rounds of three minutes duration. 2-Four ounce gloves to be used. 3-The ring to measure sixteen feet. 4-Men to weigh in at 4. P.M. on day of contest.

5-Should either man. exceed the above weight he will forfeit all money deposited.

6-Match to, come off in Hongkong on

WATKINS Thursday, Friday or Saturday, January 231d,

LIMITED,

AGENTS.

66, Queen's Road Central

Hongkong, 21st December, 1901,

17+40

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

86.50 Cask of 375 hs. Net ex Factory. 29.30 Bag of 250 3.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 1st June, voor.

KELL

NEW NOVELS.

$1.50 each.

THE ETERNAL CITY, by' HALL 'CAINE. MARIETTA, by F. MARION CRAWFORD, LIGHT FREIGHTS, by..W. W. JACOBS. Hongkong, 27th December, 19ar.

24th, or 25th, 1902.

No other terms will suit. All offers of purses to be made before above date. Failing a suitable purse, will box for the stakes.

WILLIAM H. BENTLEY,

(Backer).

[Note. Mr. Bentley has deposited twenty

We beg to notify

THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW

SEASON'S

CONFECTIONERY,

Comprising :-

Selections of the Purest and.

Best Description,

FROM

ful trials in Tokyo Bay near Kisarađio, when the vessel made a mean speed of 16.697 knots on the measured course.

1901

THE MATCHES exported from Kóba during | THE NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD has ad- Secretary of State had determined that in last month amounted to 37,445 casca. The opted asystem of compulsory Insurance amongst future all appointments, the remuneration of Hyogo Guild contributed 20,092, cases, the the employees, which has reached, dimensions which were over Sizno a year, should be paid Osaka Guild 7,132 cases, and the rest came in accordance with the size and prosperity of the in sterling, but as regarded the present holders from outsiders.

company, assuring every individual contribut of office there were certain exceptional ad ing towards the fund adequate support in casa vantages which they held such sa the Ed- of accident, death, or old age pansion. A small vantages held by old officials who received tax is levied on the wages earned, and the when on Icave half pay at the rate of 45 per company itself liberally donates towards each institution before deciding on its dividend.

dollar and when on active service in the Colony compensation at the rate of 35. 6d. per dollar. CAPT. BEATTY, RN-We heard the other The Secretary of State however, said he did not day from a friend of Captain Beatty, R.Nit present propose to increase the salaries ofthe D.8.0., the gallant young Commander who so officials in Hongkong in the same way until distinguished himself with the Barfieurs in the hewas satisfied of the financial soundness of the Siege of Tientsin, that he has at last had to Colony, His Excellency explained that he as have his wounded arm amputated, says the once saw the position in which Hongkong PST. Timer. Happily Captain Beatty has

would be as compared with the other Colonies now reached such rank that this serious misfortune will in no way interfere with his and he wrote to the Secretary of State fully prospects in the Service he so greatly adorns. pointing out the matter, and that it was in the he has gained a wife. We also bear that though he has lost an arm, soundest position of any Colony in the Empire. In answar, he received a telegram from him agreeing to the granting of additional exchange compensation from the beginning of the next monty subject to the conditions laid down in the case of the Straits, but subject to the consent of the Legislative Counsel. Ho re- marked that it would mean an increase of about $120,000 a year.

THE RIFLE Association, as notified else where, will hold a handicap sweepstakes com- petition to-morrow. The entrance fee is fifty conts, and thirty dollars will be added to the † stakes. The highest nett scorer will receive a gold Maltese črass.

A VERY ARTISTIC CALENDAR is to

hand from the Victoria Dispensary, and Messrs. Gibh. Livingston & Co. forward a useful Almanack from the Scottish Union and -National Insurance Company, for whom they are the local agents.

MR E. G. HILLIER, Manager at Peking of the Nongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion, has been appointed British Representative on the Commission for the arrangement of the payment of the Indemnity and is expected at Shanghai immediately.

THE STEAMER SEITOKU MARU(1,200 tona) belonging to Okura & Co., while in Nagasaki on her way from Maji to Shanghai; collided with a foreign steamer early in the month, and sustained damage. She had on board 1,200 tons of coal for Hongkong.

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FELL DOWN STAIRS--Tam Ki, of 124, Connaught Rond, ran down stairs in a hurry yesterday, and to basten matters turned a. somersault en route. He is now an occupant 'of the morgue, a fractured skull being the result of his acrobatic feat. He died on the way to the hospital.

A SWEDISH MAJOR, named Unge, has

sovereigns with us as an eamest of good faith. The Simplest Quality to that of the invented a new torpedo, which can be fixed

All challenges to be sent to this office. Ed., -I.K. T

Hongkong, 20th December, 1901.

TO LET.

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and 8, WILD DELL, WANCHAI ROAD. Suitable for apartments or boarding houses).

Apply to

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WALSH, LD.

DEEP SEA PLUNDERINGS, F. T. BULLEN.

KIM, by RUDYARD KIFLING.

IN SPITE OF ALL, by EDNA LYALL, COUNT HANNIBAL, by STANLEY WEYMAN. D'RI and 1, by Author of Ebben Holden, ĮSIRIUS, by THORNEY CROFT FOWLER, |A MODERN ANTARUS, by Aufhor of An Eng

lishwoman's Love Letters,

NEW YEAR GIFTS.

{690c

In great variety, largest selection of suit- able presents in the Colony. Call and inspect

Imported from the Leading

LONDON-AND-PARISIAN-

MANUFACTURERS,

AS, WATSON & CO., LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

BIRTHS

On December 8th, at Tientsin, the wife of On December 8th, the wife of EVAN MATHEW of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Tongshan, of a daughter.

DEATH..

WM. A. HARDING of a son.

On the 18th inst., at 7 pm, HENRY GARI-

BALDI WAGGOTT, eldest son of W. Waggott, of Kobe, at Rakkaku's Hospital, age 27 years.

The Hongkong Celegraph

our departments, you cannot fail to make a HONGKONG, Friday, December 27, 1901,

selection.

Gloves Furs, Jackets, Capes, goods, Fancy work, &c., &c.

WILLIAM

Leather

POWELL, LIMITED,

́28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD:

Hongkong, 27th December, 1901.

THE

Casse

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. MARQUIS ITO'S TOUR.

LONDON, December 24th, Marquis Ito has arrived in London,

SOUTH AFRICA.

BOERS LAACERS SURPRISED.

Colonels Colenbrander and Steele have surprised Boer laagera in the Pietersburg district, Northern Transvaal, capturing sixty two and thirty two of the enemy respectively. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

EXCHANGE remains unchanged at 18.

more taxes this year than last.

id.

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-under water or though the air for a distance of 4,700 metres. Experiments at Stockholm have been very successful, and experts declare that the torpedo is one of the most destructive

weapons yet invented.

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ON CHRISTMAS DAY:-A very delightful concert and Christmas tree entertainment was given at the Government Civil Hospital. Among those who took part were Messrs. G. Grimble, A. G. Ward, C. H. Dale, RWF, instrumental music, Mrs. Mudie, Captain J. H. G. Casserly, aand B.I., Mr. W. G. Worcester, Goldring, who rendered several very enjoyable Mrs. Badeley, Mrs. D. E. Brown and Mr. P. W.

vocal selections. After the musical features,

the guests repaired to the Christmas tree where Lady Gascoigne officiated, distributing souvenirs of the occasion.

THE CATHOLIC UNION :-The annual tea of the Catholic Union was held in the rooms of the Glencaly Orphanage on Christmas Day. The affair was most successfut; close on Foo children were present and each received a pre. sent of some description. Needless to say the little ones spent a very happy time and went away delighted with themselves and the world in general. A large basket of toys was sent to the Italian Convent for distri bution amongst the smaller children and the little patients in the infirmary, On the and January a dinner is to be given to the aged poor in the "Home of the Aged and Infirm.".

LEGISLATIVE · COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon in the Goantil Chambér, There were present-His Excellency the Covernor (Sir Henry Blake, O.C.M.G.) His Excellency Major-General Sir W. J. Gascoigne, THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA has pur.K.C.M.G.(General Officer Commanding), Hon chased a British steamer of 1,500 tons, which will arrive at Yokohama about the middle of the current month. The Company has been contemplating the extension of the North China line, and the newly purchased steamer will be

pat-in-this-service.

THE BRITISH STEAMER Glengarry (3,035 tons) belonging to Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., which left Shanghai for Kobe on the 4th inst, while entering the harbour of Kobe, went ashore at Minntogawa-jiri, nt-7 p.m., but she was safely floated an hour afterwards, with out causing damage either to the hull or the caryo.

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W. M. Goodman, K. C. (Attorney General) Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), Hon: Commander R. M. Rumsey, R.N. (Harbour Master), Hon. C Mcl. Messer (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. W. Chatham {Director of Public Works) Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar General), Hon. -T. H. Whitehead, Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, Hon. J. Thurburn, Hon. Dr..Ho Kai, Hon, Wei A Yük, and Mr. R. F. Johnson (Acting Clerk of Councils).

The Clerk of Councils read the minutes of the last meeting.

KOWLOON WATERWORKS ORAVITATION SCHEME.

THE ARMY will play the Navy on the

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Cricket Club Ground to-morrow. The Royal Copy of a letter and enclosure sent from B.E. Engineers will play a Club, Eleven in Happy the Governor to the Secretary of State relat Valldy, starting at 1.30 pm. The following the Kowloon Waterworks Gravitation will play for the Club Eleven-Messrs Hay,

Scheme. He stated that a telegram had been

Hapson, Gray, Robertson, Wild, Wheeler,

Woodgates Head, Rutherford, Another, Brown (Captain),

THE RED BAND -The wearing of a red band on the vaccinated arm is now recognised as the right thing at home. It is not often that fashion tolerates anything so sensible. As the left arm is almost invariably the limb operated on, wayfarers took as if they were carrying a red light on the port bow, and the similarity is all the greater as they follow the same rule of the road' as ships.

VIOLET DAY—A movement is on foot to commemorate the anniversary of the death of

Queen Victoria by the wearing of violets. No doubt "Violet „Day" would become an even more important institution than Primrose Day, as the idea is certain to be universally adopted, and thus another simple flower be made to yield 'extra work and profit to market growers, fruiterers, and florists.

FOOTBALL:-To-morrow afternoon on

received from the Secretary of State in which he informed 1.E. the Governor that he had

proposed. "That the decision of the Rt. Hon. the Discussion ensued and ultimately Dr. Ho Kai

Secretary, of State for the Colonies regarding' the further grant of exchange compensation to civil servants of this Colony subject to the approval of the Legislative Council be approved by this Council."

The Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving seconded and the notion was carried.

[A full report of the discussion and an extend- ed account of His Excellency's remarks together with other business transacted will appear in our issue to-morrow),

A VISIT TO THE HAPPY VALLEY."

There is an nfd latin quotation, 'Tot Homines, tot sententiae, So many men so many opinions-and this saying is particularly true of Christmas Day. Some spend the time by taking a short trip to Canton or Macao; Others make merry in the midst of their friends, talk of old days, and hope that that day next year they will meet in the old country. A number pass the day by going to church, in the morning and making good resolutions in the afternoon-the fate of many of the latter we know so well. Many worship at the shrine of Bacchus; a God time without number denounced and cursed for causing the greater part of the crime, misery, and poverty on the earth, but who still proudly holds up his head stronger than ever, owing to the fact that the number of his followers increases year by year. Others spend the day in a manner more or less orthodox.

The writer spent a few hours in a visit to the Protestant Cemetery at the Happy Valley. soothing half hour was spent in a meditation on the mystery of life and death, but as milliona of people have pondered over the same matter without coming to a satisfactory conclusion, the writer is not ashamed to say he left the cemetery no wiser than when he entered it.

On entering the gate one is at once struck with the beauty, of the spot. To the South stretches an an uneven ridge of lofty mountains,

thick with vegetation, the tops of which are darkened by the clouds passing over them

referred the scheme to Mr.hadwick to report high above the cemetery the aqueduct on the upon

FINANCIAL, MINUTES..

The Colonial Secretary moved that fioan cial minutes No, 71 and 74 be referred to the Finance Commitice.

Bowen Road stands out clearly, the only visible sign that human foot has ever reached the heights above. The flower beds are laid out with beautiful and various kinds of flowers all in full bloom; stately palm trees, fir trees, and tropical vegetation of all colours meels one's The Colonial Secretary submitted the raport eye in every direction; here and there, balf of the Finance Committee.

FINANCE..

SUMMONING OF CHINESE ORDINANCE,

hidden by the shrubs and foliage, a monument erected to the memory of the soldiers and, sailors who died in China in the execution of their duty" during the China War may be seen; around one are the tombstones, in many cases covered with grass, of those whose names figure in the earliest records and who helped to male Hongkong the prosperous Colony it Dow.is.

The Attorney-General had given notice of motion as to Ordinance No. 40 of 1889. It read as follows-Whereas by section 5 of The Summoning of Chinese Ordinance, 1899 (No. -40 of 1899), it was enacted that the said Ordin ance should only continue in operation for the perind of two years from the coming into operation of the said Ordinance and for such

Close by a side path, is a tomb-stone erect.. further period or periods as might from time,10

ed many years ago, which is particularly, time be determined by Resolution of the Legia- lative Council: It is hereby resolved by this noticeable; in a glass casing is the portrait Ordinance, 1899, shall be continued, in opera Council that The Summoning of Chinese of the man buried there; the epitaph runs — tion for the further period of three months from the 30th day of December, 1901 (inclusive), He said the Ordinance had now been in

"Stay, stranger, stay, as you pass by,

As you are now, so once was I, As I am now you soon may be, Oh then prepare to follow me,"

To a religiously inclined person the force of

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY LIMITEDD. NEW YORKERS will have to pay $12,004,000 Smyth, Another, three quarters; Jordan, operation for nearly two years, and he under this warning will be accentuated when, walking

JUST UNPACKED":

A NEW SHIPMENT

THE CELEBRATED

OF

APOLLO PIANO PLAYER,

Inspection invited.

"Henghong. 22nd November, 1901,

A. CHEE & Co.

17A, Queen's Road, Central,

ESTABLISHED 1859.

FURNITURE DEALERS: IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN COODS OF ALL KINDS

forge

Silver Plated, Glass and China Wales, Iron Bedsteads and Mat- tresses: Cutlery and Dinner Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &0..

the lappy Valley the Hongkong Football Club will play V. Navy under Rugby rules. Kick- off at 4 pm. The Club will play in Blue and White Stripes. The following will play for the Club Knox, full, back; Another, Beattie,

Burlee, balves; Hallifax, Goldring, __Clark, Sandford, Wolfe, Wilson, Von der Pfordten, NEW ORLEANS now boasts of being the Mustrie (Capt.) forwards. greatest fruit market in the world. DR. AND MRS. LOWSON arrived from Sydney by the Chingiu yesterday. The BugBand, French cruiser, airved at Wpsung from Yokohama on the 19th infant. THE EXPORT of cigarettes to China, Korea and other Asistic countries is steadily increas. ing.

A GUN has been mounted on the fort at Wel- hat-wei, and foreign war-ships calling there will bereafter be saluted.

"OUR VERY OWN"-Lieut. Bingham and 150 men of the Hongkong Regiment arrived from Tientsin to-day by the sa. Nanchang,

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COL. MAYNĖ, G.B., and the Officers of the 30th. Baluchit were "at home" to their friends

at Shanghai on the evening of the 19th instant..

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A NEW CANAL:-It is proposed to connect the Black and Caspian seas by a caual naviga ble for moderate draft ships. It will extend from Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov, to Astrak ban, on the Caspian, by way of the Volga., it will be 530 miles long, 84 feet wide and 22 feet deep. It will be supplied with water from the mountain streams Terek and Kuban, The surplus water will be utilized for irrigation and the generation of electric power.

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stood it had worked very satisfactorily, It a further, the tombstones of several patrons could not be put into operation without the who were alive only a few weeks ago are direction of the Governor, as he alone could reached. Hero is a fine chance to theurls.a and direct the Registrar General to make the point a moral with good effect, but the reader enquiries referred to therein. It was not,

must do that for himself; the writer is too therefore, surprising, knowing how carefully conscious of his own shortcomings to attempt matters of that kind were considered by His to do so.

Anyone interested in the history of the. Colony, Excellency, that no complaints had been brought to the knowledge either of the and wishing to get an idea of the lives lost in Registrar General or the Attorney General of its building up during the late forties and any harsh or undue exercise of the very necesfiftys, has only to take a trip to the cemetery, sary powers conferred by the Ordinance.

The motion baving been seconded was duly confirmed.

INCREASED EXCHANGE COMPENSATION H.E: The Governor said that before procee

Let him read the inscriptions on some of the monuments and he will besthankful that he was not living here in those early, unhealthy days, when three years decimated a regiment. There are many memories of those who fell in action in China. One's recollection of the recent storming of the Take Forts is revived on reading a tablet to the memory of those who were killed at its- first taking.

BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bom- bay tufantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel. to-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 to 9.30ding to the Orders of the day there was a matter that he had been instructed to bring before them by telegram from the Secretary of Stato, In October last the estimates of expenditule went home, and at that time in Hongkong To a lover of the picturesque and beautiful. they were aware there was an increased grant the Happy Valley ought to be an ideal places of salaries and emoluments to the officials of in which to be buried. Boss Tweed, some

-PROGRAMME,

Bucalo $1 * The Bella of New York "...Kerker. "The Maid of the billi.......Liddell, Serenste **Der Engel Lied "......Braga.

"Chic" SODÁSKÉNT. Wheeler... Remialacences of Beathad "Godfrey,

God save the King.",

walk

Á, M. S. WATERWITCH left this forenoon THE ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY and the Straits Settlements and the Federated years ago the leader of Tamany Hall, is re| to resume bar survey work in Mirs Bay, We Minister Plenipotentiary for Portugal to the Malay States. There was no provision made ported, to have been asked to subscribe. anderstand that the survey will be completed Chinese Court, H. E Senhor Conseilbeiro in this Colony for any increase further than towards the cost

of!!

repairing the within a few days;

José d'Arevedo, Castello-Branco, intends leay that recommended at the time by the Com- around the local cemetery. He refused to OVERDUE On the azoth instant the sg, with his suite, for Peking by, the French mittee. A short time afterwards, however, subscribe, Aaked the region of his refusal Changen was three days overdue at Shanghai bail on the 31st instant On Tuesday be he received from the Secretary of State a for he was generally charitably inclined he and it was presumed that she must have gone ade a trip from Macao, in company with copy of the despatch that had been, ad replied, "Ite no use those inside don't want E. the Governor of Macao, to meet the dressed to the Straits Settlements in which in to get outside, and those outside don't want ashore somewhere op'river.

fortuguese Chargé d'Affairs in Japan, who is

his way home by the German mail steamer, answer to the representations made by the io get luside." I venture to think that if Mfr.

Straits Settlements and the Malay Slates the Maru, which were formerly owned by the Iyoonte Albert. Steam Ship Co, were bought by the Osaka

ESSRS, COTTAM & CO for FOOT

MALEATHER DRESS BOOTS, AND MBALL BOOTS Shorpy Kaicha a few days ago,

Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and THE STEAMERS Nox 2, 3 and 4 Hijikawa Hotels in Hongkong.

Hongkang, atb Tile, 1901.

MESDRESSING GOWNS.

LESSRS. COTTAM & CO., for WARM

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"ESSRS; COTTAM & CO. for FATENT.