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AGAINST THE PLAGUE.

do

What Pure Carbolic Acid will

n three hours, Essets Fluid will do in nine minutes. The microbe or bacillus of bu bonic plague grows readily in artificial media, and is destroyed by Essets Fluid.

(WATKINS, CHOW-SUI), These are important results proving the exceptional power of Essets Fluid, in fact, it is far superior to pure carbolic acid of the same strength.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902.

To-day's Advertisements.

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AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,

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CORPORATION,

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager. For the NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

GEO: W, F. PLAYFAIR, Chief Manager.

LIMITED,

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LIMITED,

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Acting Manager.

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J. W. R. TAYLOR,

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YORK

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at 9.15 P.M.

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WATER RETURN.

Level and storage of water in Reservoirs:

THE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY of New York has shipped to the Philippines twenty-four new steam lighters, each of 200 tops burden, for service in the transportation on the 1st February. department.

Pokfulam..

1.EVKL.

1 IGOL

1902,

· 25′ 31′′ below gok 1" below.

{overflow overflow

10' 8" below. 34′ 0′′ below Loverflow

Loverflow

cheong.. averflow

{overflow Wong-bai- 22' a" below $43.9" below

/ CONTINENTAL OPINION, The preamble to the agreement between Great Britain and Japan declares that the two countries are actuated solely by a desire to maintain the status quo and general FOOTBALL-Hongkong Football Club .. to-morrow, the 15th inst. Kick-off at 4.15 p.m.. peace, they being specially interested in H.M.S. Terrible, will play on the Happy Valley Tylam of China and Corea, and in securing equal The following will play for the Club - C, T. opportunities for all nations. The agree ment is in six articles, and it provides that Kew, goal; W. H. Russell, and G. B. Mac. if either power is threatened by the aggres Donald, R.A,, backs; L. C. Rees, J. W. C. sive action of another or by disturbances, it Bobnar, and‹.. L. Jenkins, hall backs; W. W. shall be admissable for either to take mea-Clarke, J. D. Danby, D. W. Gmhạm, J. E. Lee, sures to safeguard its interests. The con- and A. J. Lowe (Captain) forwards. tracting parties will maintain strict neutrality, eren should either become involved in war SHROFF STEALS OVER $20,000 with another power, but will come to one

FROM THE HONGKONG BANK. OF THE FINEST QUALITY AND another's assistance in the event of being

opposed by more than one hostile power. VINTAGE.

Neither country will make any separate arragement with another power prejudicing the above, and whenever its interests are in jeopardy the two governments will com- JULES MUMM & Co., a Wine for wunicate with one another fully and frankly.

Connoisseurs.

SPECIALITIES FOR THE SEASON.

PORT & SHERRY,

CHAMPAGNE,

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QUALITY GUARANTEED.

CLARETS,

IMPORTED FROM THE BEST GROWERS, AND INCLUDING WINES FROM THE MOST CELE. BRATED CHATEAUX.

CONFECTIONERY,

AIMED AT RUSSIA.

The Continental newspapers, though he cognizing that the agreement between Great Britain and Japan is directed at Russian aggression, regard it as simplifying the situation. They consider the readjusting of the balance of power in such a manner as being favourable to peace, but admit that it enormously strengthens England's position. The certainty that the agreement will com- mand sympathy in the United States is recognized everywhere.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TODAY is St. Valentine's Day."

COAL IN JOHORE-Mr. Snow has covered deposits of coal and asbestos in Hatu Pahat district of Jubore.

At the Magistracy this morning before Mr. F. M. Hazeland, Wong Hoi Fang, of Stanley Street, and described as a shroft recently in the employ of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, pleaded guilty to the larcency of $20,353.61, the monies of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- ion, or of Lau Wai Chun, their compradore, between the 3rst January and 12th February The prisoner was arrested at eight o'clock on Wednesday night by Sergt. Kerr, who went to ike Bank and found the accused sitting at his desk. Mr. Hazeland remanded him for a week.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

The following is the report of the Board of Directors of the Hongkong and Whampoa Rock Company, Limited, to be presented lo the ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders, to: disbe held at the offices of the Company, Queen's. the Boildings, Victoria, ilongkong, on Monday,

the 24th February, 1902.

A GENERAL MEETING of Mercantile Marine Officers will be held at the Connaught House Hotel at 8:30 this evening. THE BOWLING CLUB are giving a smoking concert to-morrow, and there is every promise, of a most enjoyable evening being spent. RINDERPEST is so prevalent at Malacca that the exportation of cattle from there to

from the 27th January.

OF THE HIGHEST CLASS IN Singapore has been forbidden for thirty days

GREAT VARIETY. IMPORTED FROM THE LEADING LONDON AND PARISIAN HOUSES

A Eastern business who is returning to CICARS AND CIGARETTES,

England shortly, would be glad to act as LONDON AGENT for some good China Firm.

Address:

'A.B.,"

(1960

Co The Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, 14th February, 1902. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW. THE Company's Steamship

*HAJCHING,”

Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above Port, on SUNDAY, the 16th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

[1930 Hongkong, 14th February, 1902.

NOTICE.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, NOTICE is hereby given that HO U TIN

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

$5.50 Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. $3.30 Bag of 250 bbs,

SHEWAN, TOMÉS & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 1st June, 1901.

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has CEASED to be our Compradore and that no business can be arranged by him on our behalf. Also that no business can be arranged on our behalf by his son HO KWAN SOON or any other of his sons.

All Outstanding Accounts due to us in Hongkong and in Canton should be paid here to us direct..

ABDOOLALLY EBRAHIM & CO.

· [166d Hongkong, 6th February, 1902.

POWELL'S

HAVE THE

LARGEST

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AND

ASSORTED STOCK

OF

BEST

FASHIONABLE GOODS.

FOR THE

COMING RACES.

AND SMOKERS' REQUISITES,

Scc.,

&c., &c.

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

MARRIAGES.

On the seth December, at St. John's Church, Holland-road, Kensington, by the Rev. G. Russel Corbett, THOMAS JUDGE, MA, FCS., to AMY ANNE (MAY), daughter of the late Henry N. Velge, of the Straits Settlements, Malacca.

On 22nd January, at Kew Church, London, WALTER CUMMINGS, of Singapore, to FRANCIS ELIZABETH, elder daughter of J. T. Jarrett, Kew Gardens.

THE ORDINARY HALF YEARLY MEET- ING of the shareholders' in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will be held at the City Hall at noon to-morrow.

·AT BANGKUK, the East Asiatic Company, have now two large electric cranes, 2 tons and 3 tons in weight respectively at work for loading and unloading steamers. This is a new thing there,

ľ

the shareholders of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited -

Gentlemen, The Directors have now to sub mit to you their Report, with a Statement of Accounts for the half-year ended 31st Decent ber, 1901.

The net profit for the six

months, after paying interest due and all charges, amounty to... to which has to be added the balance brought from last forward

Account

and from this have to be deducted--

$645,919.87

459,695.15

$1,105,045.02

Directors' Fees ......$ 10,000,00 Auditors' Fees ......

$750.00

leaving available for appropriation......

$1,094,895.02

STORAGE GALLONS,

+

1901.

Tytam.-1,365,000 Pokfulam. 43,860,000 Wong-nai-

cheong

8,418,000

Total...255,643,000.

1901. $7,220,000

4,100,000

156,000

91,456,000

Consumption of Water in the City of Victorin and Hill District during the month of January.

1901...

1901.

Consumption 107,199,000 €6,178,000 gallons

310,000 212,300 population Estimated Consumption)

per

head- 165,

10. gallous per day Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula

1907,

1902. during the month of January. Consumption... 11,040,000 10,426,000 gallons, Estimated

#6,900 $4,300 population Consumption"

per Trend per day

1.2.3

6.2 gallons

The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.

W. CHATHAM,

Water Authority.

"

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(Frost oueron Correspondent)

LONDON, January reth. ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA. The rumour that the Prince of Wales will visit India immediately after the Coronation festivities are concluded, and in time to take part in the celebrations of our great dependency, has gained ground all this week. Although as yet no actually official announcement has been made I have little doubt that the Fress reports are true, at least up to this point, that unless some unforeseen political complication ensue in the meantime the Prince will visit India some time this year. That the decision is wise no one can doubt. In the tour of his father's early manhood, the Prince has the best possible precedent; while in the success of the recent Colonial trip he has an assurance of Imperial service in his own person which is even more valuable,

It is likely that such a visit would be of considerable importance in welding India into, 10,750.00 more complete harmony with the rest of the Empire; ip setting a new seal of loyalty upon the fealty of the native princes, and in establish- The Directors recommend that a dividending that personal relation which counts for so A COMING MARRIAGE-It is reported for the half-year of 10% or $250,000, and a bonus much in the East People about the Court un-, that Miss Frances Collingbourne, late of the of 8% or $200,000, in all $450,000 be paid to the nimously assert that if is Royal Higliness Gaiety and Daly's Theatres, where she played Shareholders, bonuses of $20,000 to Contribut goes to India at all, which they treat, in duty the leading part in "San Toy," is now on hering Shareholders, and $25,000 to the European bound as still an open question, it will not way to Hongkong to wed an officer of the

be till late autumn in order that he may

garrison.

be present at the Coronation Proclamation ment of dates would also ensure that the visit Darbar on January 1st 1993. Such an arrange. took place during the cool season. In another years' time therefore Hongkong will have, with the West Indies, the unfortunate distinction of being the only Colony unvisited by Britain's future king. This travel throughout the Empire cannot but be of very great service to the Prince of Wales in preparing him for his further respon sibilities; and though there are as usual to be found individuals of a certain class, who scoff at any such assertion, there is no doubt that

Staff, that $155,988.36 be written from the value of the Kowloon Docks, $13.787.07 from the Cosmopolitan Dock, and the balance $420,119.59 to be carried to the new account.

SMOKING CONCERT The Amateur Dra. matic Club, as announced in our advertising

The total tonnage figures of Ships of all kinds columas, will give a smoking concert at the City Hall on Saturday, the aznd inst. As there docked at our yards during the past half year is bound to be a big demand for tickets, we shew an increase of 5% on the corresponding should advise our readers to book early. half year of 1900. These figures are, for and half 1900, 445,757, and for and half of 1991, THE DALLAS COMPANY opened at Shang 469,375. This increase, however, is more than accounted for by the dockings of heavy war to a crowded house. Miss Fitzgerald made a vessels, as merchant vessels tonnage shows a decided hit with her dancing, and we are told decline of 4%. that "the play grow merrier and the audience'

The Hongkong Gelegraph kai on Saturday inst with "The Casino Girl,"

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1992.-

TELEGRAMS.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

• Special to the “ Hongkong Telegraph." THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

PRINCE CHING DELIGHTED. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, February 14th. Prince Ching expresses himself as being delighted at the announcement of the formation of the Anglo-Japan- ese Alliance for the preservation of the integrity of China and the main tenance of peace in the Far East.

A SET BACK TO RUSSIA, Prince Ching has informed the

better pleased every minute." After the very mediocre shows which have been foisted upon us of late, the arrival of Mr. Dallas, and his capital company will be as welcome as the advent of the spring rains which don't ap pear anxious to eventuate.

BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bom- bay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 p.m. to

9.30 pm:

***PROGRAMME."

1. Selection......" Little Miss Nobody "......Godfrey. 2. Value.....

*Norgenblatter".... 3. Palka.

.." Chappies".

4. Laucers............. Jully boya “. s. Gargite........" The First Kiss".

Selection Les Cloches de Curneville

* God save the King,"

Strauss. .......Fare. Williams. ...Schubert Planquette

CRICKET:-There will be a Cricket Match

on Saturday, 15th February, between the R.W.F. and the H. K. C. C. E kind permis sion of Lieut. Colonel the Hon. R., Henry Bertie, and Officers the band of the Royal Welsh Fuisiliers will play during the afternoon. The following will play for the Club:-A. G.

The progress of the érection of the New

Engine Shops has been but slow. Electric driven, cranse have been put in hand for each of the three divisions of the new building and should be delivered this quarter. Tenders for driving the plant throughout the Yard by Electric Motors are now under consideration.

Recently the anvil block, weighing 100 tons,. for the large new Steam fammer, was success fully cast at Kowloon and is now in posi. tion. The erection of the Hammer, &c, will follow and the Dock Co. will then be prepared to deal with the very largest class of forgings.

A plan of the proposed new dock for Kow. loon has been in the hands of the Hong. kong Government for several weeks. It is understood the question of the sale of the land for the proposed site is still open. It is confidently expected that the present Acting Governor, General Gascoigne, will not

indirectly, an equal benefit is conferred upon the country at large,

Two of the probably numerous books purport- ing to give an account of

THE VOYAGE OF THE "OPHIR" are already published and have for the most part received very favourable criticism. That by Mr. Maxwell of the Stoffdard is perhaps best received, chiefly by reason of the very vivid word painting put into every description of scenery or incident. The two best chapters, so far as a cursory acquaintance permits of selection are those dealing with the admirable cadet system of Australia, and the Colombo festivities, respectively. If the commanded official account is nearly as good as the two uns official records, specially that of Mr. Maxwell, it will be a good book, and more palatable than most volumes written to order.

THE MEMORIAL SERVICE allow the conflicting claims of the War and Colonial Offices to stand in the way, of the to be held on the 22nd at Frogmore, at which all the Royal Family will be present is settlement of a matter which is one of great im-- portance not only to this Company but to the under the joint control of Dr. Kandall Colony generally and that he will very shortly Davidson and Sir Walter Parratt, whose bring this long debated matter to a conclusion programme of music has been submitted to the

King, and by him approved,

Russo-Chinese Bank that he posi Ward, A. Mackenzie, W. Dixon, J. A. Wood satisfactory to all parties concerned.

tively refuses to sign the concession for the Poking-Kalgan Railway, for which the Bank had applied on

PLEASE CALL AND INSPECT. behalf of Russia.

Hongkong, 14th February, 1902.

BANJOS

STEWART AND BAUER'S......

·(9550 ·

20th Century" and "Thoroughbred "

also

WASHBURNS."

MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

Hongkong, 28th January, 1992.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. OBITUARY.

LONDON, February 12th. The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava dead.

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT.

is

gates, J. Hooper, Major Wynne, R.A., Capt. Oldham, R.N., Surg, Nimmo, R.N., Lieul Edmondson, R.A., Lieut., L. Raymond, R.N., A. N. Other.

TUBERCULOSIS..

The Honourable J. J. Keswick, Messrs. J.

The King's determination to dévote, sir E. H. Lewis and E. S. Whealler having, left the Colony, and Mr. P. Witkowski having resigned Cassels' munificent gift, to which allusión has his seat, the Honourable J. J. Bell Irving, been made in a past letter, to the erection of a Messrs. H. P. White, G. H. Medhurst and E. Sanatorium or hospital for tuberculous patients Goetz have been invited by the Directors 10 has been received with enthusiasm by the the vacant seats at the Board. The Honoura, medical profession, and with much sympathy

AN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY FOR HONG- KONG-It has been suggested that a Society' be formed for the practice of orchestral music ble C. P. Chater, C.M., has been invited to by the public generally. Sir Ernest is, I hear, a' of a high standard. Mr. H. Moir has kindly join the Board. These appointments require man of considerable distinction, but the only consented to assist the Society in the event of to be confirmed by the Shareholders at this its formation, and it is believed that many meeting. gentlemen-who play orchestral instruments

Mr D. E. Brown has been appointed Chair man for the year 1952...

AUDITORS.

In accordance with clause 71 of the Articles will be glad to sapport such an effort. A meet of Association the Honourable J.J. Bell Irving ing will be held at an early dale to elect a and Mr. E. Goetz retire by rotation, but being committee and decide the time and place of eligible, offer themselves for re-election. the practices. The probable annual subscrip The agreement between Great Britain and tion will be $15, but the rules for the Society Japan is for five years, terminable by one will be discussed at the first general meeting. Gentlemen willing to assist in the formation of year's notice.,

The newspapers are in a chorus of satis-such a Society are kindly requested to send at an early rate their names, and addresses stating faction, and declare that the agreement what instrument they play, to "Orpets. Or makes for peace in the Far East, and that chestral Union care of Messrs. Lane, Craw no Power can reasonably object to it. They ford & Co., when they will receive further

and the soldiers and sailors of the two island empires of the East and West,

THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED, auded in flattering terms to the Japanese, particulars in due course.

Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore,

19530

TOTTAM & CO., NEW HATS for the

CRACES

The accounts have been audited by Messrs. Thomas Amold and Fullarton Henderson, The Directors recommend the gentlemen for re-election.

R SHEWAN,

Chairman Hongkong, 13th February, 1902. “OTTAM & CO., NEW SCARVES and

CIES for the RACES,

large affair in which his name has beco pre- viously before the whole community was his successful scheme for financing Sir John Aird's irrigation plans in Egypt, without reference to the Egyptian reserve funds. It is confidently expected that Sir Ernest Cassel will receive a peerage at the Coronation, much as Sir T, Lipton obtained his title after his great gift of too,000 to the charities of the late Queen. By the terms of Sir Ernest's gift the King was left free to allocate the whole sum ás he thought fit, but His Majesty's well known interest in all bospital matters made the selection of come medical charity a certain conclusion,

The choice lay between a sanatorium foz.. consumptives, and a hospital for cancer, and

OTTAM & CO, the RAGLAN OVER

COAT for the RACES..