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Intimations.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902.

To-day's

Advertisements.

NOTICE.

Intimation.

A TELEGRAPHIC RUMOUR FROM THE UNITED STATES is to the effect that a syndicate was formed there with a capital of

lands on both side of the great Trans-Siberian Railway.

helps the Cook to cook [ view of the Intimate connection between A. S. WATSON & CO., confronted with him in the Police Court, Rs. 15,000,000 for the purpose of acquiring free are biting their nails, because they missed the

as she should

cook,

con-

There is more beef centrated in a pound of

PLAGUE and RATS, the Sanitary Board invite the attention of Householders to the fact that RAT-CATCHERS supplied with the necessary TRAPS, &c, will be sent to any Domestic Building which is infested with Rats upon application to the MEDICAL'OFFICER OF HEALTH.

By Order,

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary,

Sanitary Board 324

OXO than in a pound Hongkong, 28th December, 1901,

of any other food in the

world.

ΟΧΟ

is the genuine

LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT.

AGENTS:

WATKINS

LIMITED,

APOTHECARIES HALL.

ERATED WATER FACTORY, Masons Lane.

Hongkong, 7th January, 1902.

NEW VICTORIA HOTEL.

ROTISSERIE,

Meals a la Carte.

17140

“HOPS, STEAKS, etc, etc., at any time,

between 7.30 a.m. and 11 p.. Monthly Tiffin at Moderate Rates.

Madar & Farmer, Proprietors.

Hongkong, and September 1901.

[958c

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

86.50 Cask of 375 Bs. Net ex Factory,

$8.80 Bag of 50 hs.

at

KAISERLICH DEUTSCHES

KONSULAT.

THE GOVERNMENT OF TSINGTAU

will shortly sell a lot of about q.m. 1,000 for the purpose of erecting a FIRST CLASS HOTEL 'Conditions of Sale and Plans may be looked into at the Office of the GERMAN CONSULATE here..

Hongkong, 8th January, 1002

+ [36

FOR HAVRE, ROTTERDAM AND

HAMBURG:

THE Steamship

"STRASSBURG,”

Captain Madsen, will be despatched for the

above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 11th instant, at 4 P.M.

For Freight, apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,.

Hongkong Office.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1992.

FOR KOBE (DIRECT).

HE Steamship

THE

[330

"FUKUI MARU” Captain, to, will be despatched for the abuve Port, on or about SATURDAY, the th instant For Freight and further Information, apply

LIMITED,

DODWELL & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, Sth January, 1901. COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

[37d

FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA. Company's Steamship

THE

"LAOS,"

Captain Flandin, will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to '

P-DE-CHAMPMORIN, Acting Agent. Hongkong, Sth January, 1902,

"GLEN LINE OF STEAMERS.

Στοές

FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL HE Steamship

THE

"GLENSHIEL,"

Captain McGillwray will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at Noon.

For Freight or-Passage, apply to

MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW,

Agents.

[14206 (19, Hongkong, 8th January, 100,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st June, 1901.

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,

DRAPERS AND OUTFITTERS.

NEW GOODS.

CARPETS, RUGS MATS.

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841:

We beg to notify

THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW

SEASON'S

CONFECTIONERY

-

prising

Selections of the Purest and

Best Description,

FROM

The Simplest Quality to that of the

Finest and Most Recherche

Character,

Imported from the Leading

LONDON AND PARISIAN

MANUFACTURERS.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY:

BIRTHS.

At the Hongkong Hotel, on Wednesday, the 8th instant; the wife of Mr. H. HAYNES, of a daughter.

[35d

On the 27th of December, 1901, at No. 3, Seward Road, Shanghai the wife of W. L KNARR, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

On the 27th of Noyember, 1901, at St. Luke's Church, San Francisco, by the Rt. Rev. William Hall Mouland, D.D., Bishop of Sacramento, and the Rt. Rev. William Ford Nichols, D.D., Bishop of California, assisted by the Rev. Buir Miller Weeden, B.D., Rector of the Parish, AGNES LAURA LOUISA, eldest daughter of Consul and Mrs. John Simpson, of Denmark,

to the Rt. Rev. SIDNEY CATLIN PARTRIDGE, D.D., Bishop of Kloto, Japan. No cards..

DEATHS.

On the 17th of December, 1901, at Changteh, Hunan, CARRIZ GOODRICH, the loving and helpful wife of Dr. William Kelly.

At Tientsin, on Monday, December 23rd, and deeply regretted.

SPRING BEDS, DOWN QUILTS, HEAT-1901, ZELLA MAYNARD, aged 29 years. Beloved ING AND COOKING STOVES, LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S GLOVES, WINTER CAPES, AND JACKETS.

Hongkong, 4th January, 1902.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED.

JUST UNPACKED.

A NEW SHIPMENT

THE CELEBRATED

OF

APOLLO PIANO PLAYER,

Inspection invited.”

Hongkong, zznd November, roar.

A. CHEE & Co.

17, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

FURNITURE DEALERS: IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN COODS OF ALL KINDS;

+(9530

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Insolent Servants. DUBIOS puls. a very very old question to us and one which we fear we shall offend many by answering, still as we have been asked to do so we will endeavour to do our best.

Domos starts his argument with the very mistaken idea that the Chinaman is always listened to in preference to the Foreigner and that false swearing inevitably gains the day. This we can assure him is not, the

case.

BANKRUPTS GALORE! Within the first

A MISSING SHIP-Enquiries have been re-

two hours of the opening of the Tokyo Lecalceived from home which indicate that the four. Court on the 23rd uit, no less than 80 applica-masted British ship Robert Duncan is regarded as missing. She left Wei-hai-wei on Septem- tions for permission to become bankrupt were presented. Tokyo journals justly remark that ber 30th in ballast "for, Royal Roads, British the state of business in the capital may be Columbia, and has not been heard of since

95 days out. inferted from this fact.

Inim curb his temper and show himself to be AN ARMED SWEDE named William | THE MANY FRIENDS of M and Mrs. as superior to this insolent servant as he Miller has been arrested in the United States Haynes of the Hongkong Hotel will be pleased would have others believe he is, and for openly declaring that President Roosevelt to hear that Mrs. Haynes safely presented here we predict that he will, have no difficulty | should be shot.

lord with a daughter this afternoon, We offer whatever bringing the man to

our congratulations. justice. On the other hand, if he loses his temper when insulted by a servant

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKS he will probably lose it once more when

are looking healthy and many local operators

and the evidence of an angry witness cars

bus. This morning they stood at 5630 and ries little weight. Let him go about matters

Londen is strong at £64-15-0.1 calmly and dispassionately and he will be surprised at the success that he will achieve. We would also say to Dunois and many other Europeans in the Colony that one half of the trouble between servant and master is brought about by the master himself. He looks upon his servant as little better than a brute beast. He utterly fails to recognise the fact that the Chinaman is a human being and is entitled to a certain amount of consideration. Let him be as firm as he THE WEEKLY DISPATCH Charles likes, but let him also be just and considerate, John Tibbits, the editor, and Charles Windust, and we predict that he will find he has little the "crime investigator," of the Weekly Dis trouble in dealing with the Chinaman. - If patch, were by Mr. Justice Bruce, at Bristol on the other hand he loses his temper at the assizes, sentenced to six weeks' imprison least provocation he will forfeit all respectment in the second division for conspiting to and only bring trouble and worry upon him- defeat the ends of justice. self. Of course we do not mean to say that all Chinese servants are angels. They are very far from it; so are their European masters. Here and there, of course, one meets with a black sheep, just as one does with Europeans, and he should be got rid of as soon as possible and shunned as the plague, both he and his friends.

Thus the whole question may be summed up in two words" consideration, and patience. Treat your Chinese servant, not as you would treat your dog, but as a think ing human being. 13e firm but just with hi and you will find him a much better fellow than you imagined to be possible. Even the Devil is not so black as he is painted, and neither is the average, Chinaman. Treated decently he will make a willing servant, but treated as a slave, as he so often is, he will prove just the very undesirable person that Dubois seems to have met with.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY.

LONDON, January 6th. The Panama Canal Company has formal ly offered the whole of its property to the United States for the sum of forty million

dollars.

CHILI AND ARGENTINA. The situation between Chili and Argentina

is,again critical.

SUPPLIES FOR THE CAPE. Twelve thousand goods waggons are being shipped to the Cape.

LATER,

|

FROZEN OUT:The C. M. S. Pushun,... which left Taku Bar on the 28th ult, reported on arrival at Shanghai: Arrived at Taku Bar on the 18th ult, discharged no carge, the river. being blocked with ice. There was a strong N. W. wind on leaving and bitter cold. From N. E. Promontory to Shadghai, moderate to fresh winds and fine weather, EXPEDITION TO THE FAR EAST :--Ac- cording to information at hand, representatives FOOTBALL Tomorrow afternoon on, the of two scientific societies in Paris will shonly Happy Valley the Hongkong Football Club arrive at St. Petersburg for the purpose of will play the Officer's of the Army, Kick-off at perfecting arrangements with the local scienti439 pm. The following will play for the fic societies for a joint expedition to the Far Chib C. T. Kew, goal W. H. "Russell and East, for exploring little-known countries and W. H. Howard, back; J. E. Lee, McBonnar and I. V. Bennett, halves; J. D. Danby, 15. w. their inhabitants.

Clarke, F. von der Pfordten, Capt. Tulloch R. A., and3⁄4. R. Lowe, forwards.

ALL HOPE OF FLOATING the Daikoku Mar, which met her disastrous fate in Korean waters some time ago, having now gone, her owner has abandoned her. The vessel is said to have cost 63,000 yen and was insured for 50,000 yen by the Japan Marine Insurance Co. The wreck has been sold to Mr. Reizo Yama shina for the sum of 3,000 yen,

FAMINE IN EUPEEA Wuchang dis- patch reports the arrival the other day at Hankow of a large number of men, women, and children, refugees from up-country, These refugees declared that they came from Hsiang. yang and Fanch'êng where the famine was very severe and that they had been forced to come to Hankow to subsist on the gruel stations that have been recently established

there.

THE BRONZE FLOWER VASE with the carved figure of a dragon enveloped in clouds which is the work of Mr. Mitsushiro Maki and which was greatly admired at the late Paris Exposition, was damaged while being shipped THE EX HEIR-APPARENT, Pu Chúa, is back to Japan. The indemnity for the damage now designated, according to a Kaifëng dis-" having been asked for and delivered, the repair | patch, Duke Chün, whilst he is also now dress- to the vase is now being carried on,

RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL EXPEDI

TION TO ENGLAND:—A party of thirty-two Russian farmowners from different parts of Russia are shortly leaving for England, for the purpose of acquainting themselves with the wants and requirements of the English market, and to bring up their farm products to the required standard Mr. Krukoff, an official of the Department of Agriculture in the government of Kaluga, will be at the head, of the party.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Amur THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

District presented some time ago a pétition to A party of Scots Greys has been ambush

the Minister of Finance, for establishing "ä" ed near Broukhorstspruit. Six men were stock exchange at Vladivostock. The Depart killed and thirteen wounted. After two

ment of Finance, fully acknowledging the hours fighting, the enemy retired. The cornecessity for such an Institution there, passed respondent of the Times at Ermelo in a despatch dated- 29th December, says that General Bruce Hamilton's columns will be obliged to refit, and that such respites to the Boers are regrettable, but inevitable unless more men and animals are available.

LATER.

on this matter, together with its opinion on it, to the Ministerial commitice for a 'final decis¦ sion, According to private reports at hand, the question will probable have a favourable

decision.

:

SENHOR CASTELLO BRANCO, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Portugal to Peking arrived at Shanghai on THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Friday by the French Mail. H. E. was greeted Kitchener's Constabulary under the com- at Woosung by M. Bottu, Vice Consul for mand of Major Beresford, in an engagement Portugal, and the Committee of the Club with the Boers on the 4th instant in central Recreio and conveyed up river in special Orange River Colony, killed a Field Cornet launch. Among H.E's. suit is Mr. Assumpead and ten men, and captured two Field Cor-who, some years ago, was attached to the Por nets and thirty three men.

tuguese Consulate General as interpreter to the Senior Consulship. "THE QUEEN AND HER EMPIRE" is the title of a publication now being placed before the Hongkong public by Mr. W. IL Brown, who is to be found at the Connaught House Hotel. The book is exceedingly well got up THE INDO-CHINA s.s. Yiksang has been and contains an excellent reproduction of the sold to a Japanese.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

BUBONIC PLAGUE has broken out at Kiron, Formosa.

H. M. S. ARETHUSA is on her way to Nanking to relieve the Eclipse, which is under orders for Hongkong. · ·

THE DARK BLUES beat the Light Blues in the Inter-Varsity Rugby match. Oxford won by eight points to mil.

JACK SLAVIN has been having several bouts in a Japanese gymnasium with men from the British battleships Ocean and Albion.

THE STANDARD OIL COY'S. river boat Mean is ashore at Kiuslan point and tugs have been sent up from Shanghai to iry to get her off.

If he prosecutes his servant for in THE QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL solence or misconduct he may be sure that

he will obtain a most patient hearing from FUND at the Mansion-house, London, had the Magistrate, that the testimony of any amounted to 178,000 by the middle of No- witnesses that may be brought forward vember

against him will be carefully weighed, and

ed as other Dukes, having had to give up his very large collection of clothes and robes made.

for him in his capacity of Heir-Apparent. He is not travelling with the Empress Dowager, nor bas he been sent to join his father at Ninghsia as at first reported, but is now travelling several days in the rear of the Court, under the care of the Honan authorities.

ANOTHER FIRE occurred last evening and gave the Fire Brigade opponunity to show. their efficiency in confining the fire to the building in which jit started, although it was surrounded with inflammable houses About

o'clock, the bell rang, and the Fire Brigade was at hand promptly, to fight a fire in a twò; story house on Connaught Road, occupied as shop and store, by Chinese. The entire tene ment; was bumed; and the loss amounted to $2,000, only partially covered by insurance.

THE IMPERIAL'ENTRANCE INTO PEK. ING-Owing to the fact that Foreign Minis. ters at Peking have given out their desire to personally welcome back the Emperor upon his Majesty's.return to his old Capital, says the N., C. D. News of 3rd instant, it is stated that upon the advice of Prince Ching, the Emperor will enter Peking alone on the 7th instant, while the Empress, Dowager and the Imperial Ancestral tablets and lares and penates of the dynasty, such as have been saved, will enter Feking on the afternoon of 11th instant. The Foreign Ministers will welcome the Emperor at the Manchiapu Terminus, outside the Yung- ting-gate of Peking-

THE WEEK OF PRAYER-The meeting" at the City Hall last evening was largely attended. Mt. J. Pitt, R., occupied the chair. Rev. T. W. Pearce gave the note to the prayers which followed, his subject being "Hongkong" and its needs." In introducing his subject he touched upon Hongkong's history, its impor tance as a political, commercial and religious centre and then dealt, with, the obstacles met

last portrait of our late Queen, together with an extensive atlas, flags of all nations, various statistics and a hundred illustrations of places of interest throughout the Empire. The work is an education in itself. CHANGING THE "MAJESTIC'S" MAX, IMSWhile the Majestic flagship of the Chan nel Squadron, is at Portsmouth the opportunity is to be taken, reports the Times, for replacing

The subject for to-morrow evenings meeting ber .45 Maxim guns by the more modern .303 Maxima. These guns also are much lighter, is "Families Colleges and Schools. Leader and they take the same kind of immunities Rev. W. J. Southam, Chairman Dr, R. M. as the magazine rifle. It is further intended to Gibson. Time and place, 5.15 pm in the supply the flagship's,6 in. guns with the single Music Room at the City Hall. All are wel- motion action for opening and closing, the tome.. breech, instead of the treble motion as at pre-H. E. LU SHU-FANG-The C. N. 8. The barbette machinery is also to Shinghing, the first steamer to leave Shanghai undergo some alteration by which a great saying of time will be effected in tärning the for Chin wangiao this winter, took north H. E barbette and laying the 12 in, guns.

with in working amongst its population, be cause of their origin and tongue, the peculiar -temptations beseting people here and the in- difference of many, from whom, because of their opportunities and upbringing, betler things were expected. He also noted various signs of improvement in recent years,

sent.

Lu Shu-fang, Chief Commissioner of the Chinese Rescue and Relief Society, Director of RATS.-Lisbon has recently been subjected to the local bureau for the sale of ranks, etc., etc., an unprecedented invasion of rats, which has who is proceeding to Peking to meet the Count disordered the domestic economy of every on its return. Lu Shu-fang has succeeded in household and made life miserable. Cats buying back in Shanghai à very large number were powerless to check the invaders; poison of Imperial curios taken from the varoius seemed to act as a stimulant to their appetites, Palaces last year, including seals, tablets, jade, and traps only served to demonstrate the help porcelain, cloisound, red lacquer, precious lessness of man's ingenuity to cope with the stones, etc, all of which he will present pest. At length the aid of the bacillus was to the Empress Dowager. Besides this he

the capital the' invoked, and the municipal ductors were com has already remitted to missioned to inoculate some rats with an in large sum of Ts, 700,000, the proceeds of their Peking branch, and through losses fectious disease. A suitable virus, harmless to of the sales of rank. It was he who sustained by their Tientsin branch. The Comman, was found, a few' rals captured and in rescueil, over 6,000 natives from the Central missioner allowed $5,376.22 on the whole claim. oculated, and then let loose. The bacillus and Southern provinces who were left destitule triumphed. The rats sickened and died with and starving in Feking and Tientsin after the

MESSRS. J. LLEWELLYN AND CO, LD, chemists of Shanghai, have claimed $7.223.07 for drugs destroyed through the burning down

that he will have every opportunity.of ques THE ROYAL FLOWER OF SIAM is the tioning them himself and so upsetting a con lotus, and the Queen of that country uses a cocted story. It is very seldom that manu-gold thimble, given to her by her husband, factured evidence will stand the test of made in the form of a lotus bud on which her cross-examination, and thus Duns may rest name and the date of her marriage are worked assured that in nine cases out of ten he will in diamonds. receive justice pure and simple. It is, as a matter of fact, a very mistaken idea that one man's word is as good as another's, as DuBios would have seen very many times had he attended the Police Court day after day, as we have, for lies generally proclaim themselves and it is no uncommon thing to see the Magistrate utterly confuse the lying

as he is congratulating himself that he has carried all before him.

DuBois says that he advises Europeans to give their servants" a sound dressing".

ho likes, but he will immediately put him self in the wrong and cannot hope for

Silver Plated, Glass and China Wures, Iron Bedsteads and Mat witness by some simple little question just THE HON: TREASURER of the Alice wonderful rapidity, and 10-day Lisbon is cele 1950 troubles, and brought them back to their

tresses Cutlery and Dinner Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.

Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and for insolence. Well, Dunois may do so if Hotels in Hongkong.

redress which he does not deserve. Let

Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following dona tion to the funds of the Hospitals

Pawnbroker's Guild A

Market Charitable Fund

$100 50

brating the conquest of the voracious rodent. bomes by raising subscriptions, chartering It is now proposed to use the virus on board steamers, and obtaining military escorts from ships, where rats are known to be the carriers Peking to Tientsing Pro of infection fatal to man, notably pinguer

ESSRS. COTTAM & CO. for PATENT

ESSRS, COTTAM & CO. for FOOT MESSRS COTTAM & CO, for WARM

MSTS. COTTAM

DRESSING GOWNS.

M LEATHER DRESS BOOTS AND