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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1902.

To-day's Advertisemeats.

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.

WANTED;

S POSTMASTER, British North Bornes

Government, a CLERK experienced in Postal Matters. Salary $80 per niensem.

Apply giving full Particulars and Testi- monials to the Secretary to the Governor, fc06d

LABUAN.

17th February, tŋnz, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHQW.

HE Company's Steamship TH

"HAICHING,"

To-day's Advertisements. ·

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

. LIMITED.

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FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI THE Company's Steamship

"HAILOONG,""

Captain Bathurst, will he despatched for the alive Parts, TO-MORROW, the 8th instant,

at A.5.

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For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 17th February, 1902. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR MANILA.

Captain Davis, will be despatchel for the THE Company's Steamship.

above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 20th instant, at Daylight,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers.. Hongkong, 17th February, 1902

- THE CHINA AND MANILA STÉAM-

SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA (DIRECT). "HE Company's Steamship

THE

**PERLA,"

f203d

Captain' G. J: Blaxland, will be despatched for' the above Fort, on FRIDAY, the 21st instant, at Noon.

The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with the ling Chamber.

CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera

MANUFACTURERS,

APOTHECABIES HALL,

No. 66, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong

FACTORY:-Mason's Lane.

A Doctor is carried.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.

+F204<! Hongkong, 17th February, 1902,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

WA! KIN TAI YEUK FONG. THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s Steamship

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Branches also at

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Hongkong, 4th February, 1902.

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FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessels bring on Cargo:--

From London, &c., er S.S. India.

S. N. Co's Steamers,

From Persian Gulf, c. B.1.S.N. and B. & P. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before

I AM TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 23rd instint, at PM, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.

All damaged Packages must be left in the Cadowns and a certificate of the damage ob- tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.

E. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent. Hongkong, 17th February, 1005.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE, HE Steamship

THE

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"ARRATOON APCAR," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once at consignee's risk and expenses.

Cargo remaining on board after the 19th instant, at 2 PM will be landed at Cansignees' risk and expensa into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown (779 Co., Limited.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

85.50 Cask of 375 lbs Net ex Factory, $3.30 Bag of 150 ba..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 1st June, tour.

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Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees'risk and

expense.

No Fire Insurance will be effected - Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 17th February, 1ýaz,

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HAVE THE

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Captain Weigail, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the arst instant, at Noon.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.

[202d Hongkong, 17th February, 1902

FORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

COMPANY,

NO

mail.

BIRTHS.

At Fernleigh, Helvedere, Kent, on Jan. 9th, the wife of W. G. H. MORRELL, of a son. By On the and instant, at 7, Logan Road Pinang, the wife of G. M. DUNDAS-MOUAT, of a son.

At Heatherley, Inverness, Scotland, on 13th January, 1903, the wife of Staff Surgeon W. G. K. BARNES, MD, R.N., of HIMS

Briten, of a son.

On 4th Janilary, 1902, at the Garden House Wheathampstead, Herts, the wife of Captain Henry Lynch Talbot, the Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay Slates, of a daughter.

DEATH.

At Berrelton, Perthshire, Scotland, on the 2nd instant, JAMES MALCOLM LYON.

personality such as Napoleon's they might have attempted it, at the cost of untold lives, treasure and misery, and their own final undoing. But these futile ambitions have to meet a new set of conditions with the comb

ination of the Mistress of the Seas and the Island Enipire of the East.

Bearing in mind. the matter of coal supply, it is a fact easily recognized that all the Continental nations.have their military and commercial navies in pawn for peace, with the one option of losing then if one or all should be rash enough to disturb this pence.

THE RETURNS OF VISITORS to the City. Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 11th February, shows — Non-Chinese........ Chinese

Library. Museum.“

.157 69

62

Totals.170 9.770 HI-YAH —At Sukabximie, in west Java, the Chinese have started a society which has. reached a membership of one hundred. The members bind themselves to

cut their

The Hongkong Eelegraph the Admiral to the stokehold staff as is They may conduct some of their civic functions

HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1902,

NOTES AND COMMENTS. Japanese Naval Power as a

Factor in World Politics. The Japanese Naval power is in material- represented by a most modern fleet consisting of six of the latest type of battleship in effective condition now afloat, with an aggre- gale of about 84,000 tons displacement. Either of these is above the weight for any opposite number of the Russian, French, or German, ships on the station.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

In the cruiser class there are six of the STEAMSHIP DUKE OF FIFE," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, VOKO-first, ten of the second and six of the third

HAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND SHANGHAI

The above Steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested in send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

classification.

This enumeration of course leaves out of count all small cruisers, torpedo boat des troyers and torpedo boats.

In taking the valuation of this force in world politics its position with regard to its bases of supply is a main factor, and a fleet of such a character as could and would, bé' formed from these elements, resting on its own secure harbour of supply and succour, and only required to operate in its own waters, including those surrounding the NAVIGA-coasts of the Japanese Islands proper and Formosa, is unrivalled, with the exception of Great Britain.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 17th February, 1902. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM

TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM YOKOHAMA AND KOBE,

THE Steamship.

"CHINA,"

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having arrived, Consignces 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.

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 22nd instant, or they will not be recognised.

ecos Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 22nd instant, will be subject to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & CO.,

Agents.

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The Japanese Navy has a must unique queues off at a date to be fixed. Those who advantage in material, of being brand new break thier word will become liable to a fine of and with no limiting cloud of traditions, 500 guilders.each. hampering the action of the personnel from ELECTION EXPENSES, FOURPENCE:- the case with the older navies of Europe. on a grandly expensive scale in the City, says The great final test of efficiency was

a London journal, but they are absurdly placed on the Japaneso Navy when it was only half formed, and what it was equal toal the battle of the Valu and the naval opera- tions at Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei is sufficient answer.

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT.

LONDON, February 4th. The Marquess of Lansdowne, speaking in the House of Lords, said that it was England's desire to protect Japan against a coalition, and that by the agreement just concluded we were compelled to aid this friendly Power, whose obliteration it was im possible for us to tolerate. Lord Rosebery warmly congratulated the Government.

CANADA AND THE AGREEMENT,

The Dominion Government has advised the British Columbian Government that the bills passed last session containing clauses excluding Japanese, will be disallowed unless amended in the coming session.

AUSTRALIA AND THE AGREEMENT.

The Right Honourable Edmund Barton,

LATER.

RUSSIA AND THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT, In Russian official quarters the Anglo Japanese treaty has been received with even satisfaction. Its equanimity, and

Modern steam fighting ships are tied by an invisible cable in their radius of opera- tions, the length of which is equal to one half of their steaming capalilties as repro-Prime Minister of Australia, is satisfied with the agreement, and believes that it will sented by their bunker supply of coal. The limitations as to range of offensive benefit Australia. The Press generally operations that could be undertaken by a approves of the agreement, but Sydney modern steam fleet have not been fully papers. believe that it menaces the future of illustrated, but sufficient conclusions can be

white Australia. drawn from the experience of Admiral Dewey in the Phillipines, and of Admiral Cevera on effective fighting force afloat is reduced to his route to Cuba; to show that the most impotence- beyond a rigid line, which is represented by the circumference of a circle, whose radius is half the number of knots that any fighting ship can steam at cruising speed on her own bunker supply of coal. This hard and last condition may be more or less modified by coiling at sea from colliers, but a fleet at sea searching for its enemy and bent on forcing him to fight wherever and whenever could not depend on any system of coal supply from mobile transports. So vital is this matter that the British Admiralty, in building the great cruisers of the Powerful, Diadem Drake Monmouth and Cressy classes have sacrificed gun power and even ammunition, supply to a great extent in order to find bunker capacity, and Great Britain's Admirats have bases of supp ly scattered all over the globe, but all placed on the great trade routes.

objects, the preservation of the integrity of China and the independence of Corea, correspond with Russian policy, but if peace is imperiled, Russia will take mensures to safeguard her own interests.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

economical in some matters. A candidate has expenses at an election for the Common Council, and they amount to the large sum of fourpence.

PRIVY COUNCILLOR KRUPP, proprietor' of the famous Krupp Ironworks, has presented “I sun of auf a million marks-to-his-workmen's pension fund as a New Year's gift. It is ex- pected that a similar sum will be presented to the fund of the clerical staff. Are they Anglop- hobes in Essen? SYMPATHY AND CONGRATU LATIONS—A supplement, to the London Gastle was issued recently containing ad dresses and resolutions expressive of sympathy with the King and the royal family on the Fine-King upon his Majesty's accession. The list occupies about go closely printed pages of the Gasette and the addresses number some thing like ro,uou. (One can hardly wonder that it has taken the Honie Office nearly a year to catalogue them. It is expressly stated that the list does not include telegraphic messages.

death of the late Queen and congratulations to

WAS THE OATH NECESSARY?-A curious point was raised at the North Landon Police. court the other day in a case of alleged deser- tion. On behalf of the prisoner, a young,Shore- ditch engine-cleaner, it was urged that he was not a deserter, because though he signed an attestation paper and went into a room with a number of recruits for the purpose of being, sworn in before a magistrate, he repented at the last minute, and putting his Testment down without kissing it, left the room. Mr. Chapman said he should reinand the case for the point to be argued whether the man was a soldier or not.

THIRTY THOUSAND RIFLEMEN-By

the time of the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association next month, it is hoped that there will be a membership roll of nearly thirty thousand riflemen in the clubs affiliated to the association. Already the numbers are in excess of twenty-seven thousand, while the clubs have reached a total of two hundred. The recent Volunteer regulations are said to have provided a fresh stimulant 10 the rifle club movement, and in the metropolitan area, in particular, a great many men who are unable to fulfil the conditions, of the new regulations have left the battalions and joined the various shooting clubs.

PRINCE EDWARD AT LESSONS --Little.

EXCHANGE remains steady at 19. 10d. BAR SILVER has fallen to 25 7/16. THE BUYING KATE for sovereigns is still Prince Edward of Wales is already showing a delightful sturdiness of character. He has a $10.84

profound dislike for arühmetic, and shares the THE FIRE AT TAI-KOK-TSUI has caused opinion of the bard who laid down the axiom, damage estimated at about $50,000.

MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE:-Next Wedneday being a race day, the. Military Band will not play on the Parade Ground in the afternoon.

THE ENGLISH MAIL STEAMER, Bak aarat, experienced a rough voyage up from Singapore encountering a strong monsoon and high head seas, which made her a day late with. the mails,

"Multiplication is vexation." Many times (says the "Tatler ") has the future King of England been "put in the corner" owing to this; and recently, when he saw the hated preparation of slates and arithmetic book being made to start the day's lessons he arose from

In the event of Naval operations in these castern seas this inflexible condi- tion would affect the Naval forces of the powers in, an easily deducible way. Great Britain acting alone against a single power would have her radius of action confin- ed to a fixed number of knots from Singa pore, Hongkong, Wei-hai-wai and possibly Port Arthur, with a cut off at the Suez Canal

the table with a sigh for the impending inevit to all reinforcements of the enemy. France

able catastrophe, and said quietly to his tutor. acting by herself has the centre of her

I don't think I'll do 'rithmetic to-day, I think radius at Saigon, or possibly Kwong Chow

I'll go in the corner again instead, if you don't Wan. Russia from Port Arthur and Vladi-

mind." And be marched away like a soldier' vostock. Germany from Tsui Chau. In

FOOTBALL:-To-monowafternoon on the under arrest, leaving a very bewildered tutor combination France and Russia would have the radius extending North and South Happy Valley, in the semi-finals for the Hong-in the rear. from Kwong, Chow Wan and Port Arthur kong Football Challenge Shield, H Company, THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY to Brighton is and if Germany was included as an ally R.W.F., will play A Company, R.W.F. Kick-in cost £12,000,000. The promoters of the Bill have only deposited their bill for introduction against any other combination the coal sup- off at half-past four. Mr. Cooke will referee. ply obtainable from Shan Tung.

HONOURS FOR SHIPPERS-On the into Parliament next session. It comprises Any possible combination of continental oscasion of the great International Exhibition 53 clauses, proposes to confer powers on the A high class wine, well known to powers against Great Britain alone, in as connoisseurs and a favourite at Good.much as the far East. is concerned, has the at Paris, Herr Albert Ballin, director-general company to construct a practically straight line extreme danger to run of all lines of supply of the Hamburg-American Steamstrip Com- of railway, 45 miles 03 chains in length, from being able to be cut, and any number of pany, has been named Officer of the French a poiat in the garden of 37, Ranelagh-rd., l'im- ̈ wood and Ascot Meetings, &c.

mailed fists securely tied to their coal sup- Legion of Honour, and the same distinction ico, to a house now forming part of St. Mary's plies might shake themselves in empty air for has, been awarded to Dr. Wiegand, director Home, in Queen's-square, Brighton. The pro- all the hurt they could do to Biltish Interests. general of the Norddeutscher Lloyd at Bremen. moters of the scheme named in the bill are Sir Henry Knight, Sir William Treloar, Mr. F. E. So far we have left out the weight in THE 1992 CHRONICLE, AND DIREC Barnes, J.P. and Mr. Harding Cox. The share International politics of the Great Republic; but her position in the Extrem Orient is in

and loan capital proposed to be created by the naval operations governed by the distance

company is fixed in the bill at £12,000,000, of between Honolulu and Manila measured by

which 9,000,000 will be raised by the issue. f900,000 £10 shares and £3,000,000 by the consumption of coal in her fighting ships. It is scarcely within the bounds of imagina

creation of debenture stock. tion that Great Britain would have to face

GENERAL SIR GED. DIGBY BARKER, alone a combination of European powers

who has been Governor of the Bermudas since and the United States of America, the

1896, will shortly retire from active service and is expected home in the course of afew months. Saturday evening in their prettily decorated General Barker, it is hoped, will take up his rooms in Wyndham Street went with a swing residence on the family estate, the Priory, and was thoroughly enjoyed by many members Clare, where he will be sure to receive a hearty Japan holds in the Far East an almost and friends. Mr. H. Humphreys presided and welcome. On November sand, the General identical position to England in the West,

a capital programme of instrumental and vocal welcomed at Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, she has the balance of power in these seas. items, including selections by the R. W. F. the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Her feet acting from its own secure basis of supply of coal and munitions of war is Band, was gone through. Pressure of our Regiment, and in the course of a Speech which practically invulnerable to the attack of any columns prevents us from giving an extended he made on the occasion le intimated that in Mi a few weeks be should retite from the Army, one or two of the Continental nations. It account. is said with good reason that the centre of HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS AT THE after close upon 50 years' service. Gen world politics has shifted from the West to CORONATION:-The following are the Barker's career has been a distinguished one. the East, and as a weight on a lever is names of those who, so far as arranged, will be He served the Persian campaign of 1857, and multiplied by its distance from the fulcrum, asked to represent the Hongkong Volunteer during the Indian Mutiny (1857-58) he took so is the naval and military power of Japan

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opposite theorem is not so hard to imagine that the English speaking peoples had THE BOWLING CLUB'S CONCERT on league for offence and defence against the growing dominion, of all that tells against peace and stability.

the finest American Beer in the rendered effective: as regards European Corps at the Coronation:-Sir John W. Carr part in the battle of Cawnpore and the defence politics by its base being at the far endington, C. M. G.; Captain Sanders, "A" Co.} and capture of Lucknow. In 1890-95 he com- market.

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