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CORRESPONDENCE.

[Wa da poz-necessarily endorse the oplulans expressed by Correspondents in this column.3:

THE EDUCATION QUESTION. TA, THE EDITOR OF Juk-Hykakana Telegrafi."" DEAR SIR-1 bave read with some dégres of interest the letters of Anti-Humbug and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1902.

they positively asked him whether he did not think it sinful to devise methods for changing the predestined course of God's lightning ?-

Yours, &c,

TRUTHSEEKER..

* Hongkong, 12th March, 1902

Pearls upon the above subject. For my own HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER

`OF COMMERCES

At the Monthly Meeting of the General Com-

part I must say that it appears to me that Dr Ho Kai and his friends are but reasonable to their demands. "The Goverment have taken the school given by Mr Ho Tung and made it.mittee of the Hongkong General Chamber of one in which class distinctions are to be observ ed, and it is only reasonable that they should now make a quid pro gur for the Chinese hy providing them with a school run on similar lines. Equality is all very well in theory, but it does not work cut in practice.

Truly yours,

Hongkong, 14th March, 1902.

FAIRPLAY

THE BELILIOS REFORMATORY. TO THE EDITOR of the "Hovokong Telegraph.”

DEAR SIR,-1 see that the Government of this Colony has spent on the Belilion Reforma. tory $606.99 for Furniture, Buildings etc. and $1,781.42 for [Emoluments of Officers con nected with the institution. Now Mr. Editor can you tell me where, and to whom to apply for the job, as my zeal for public economy is so great that I would boss that little show at Causeway Bay, also be head cook and bottle washer, at a reduction of to % on the $2,781.4. It is not that I want to do any man out of his job, only zeal for the public welfare.

The statement says that 'one child was ac commodated in the Belitios Keformatory from the date on which it was opened up to the present day and its cost was nil. No sir, thai don't damp my teal a bit, I wouldn't object to

one kid being put there, provided that it didn't

Commerce, held at 3.30 pm, on Fursday, the fth February,-Present: Sir Thomine Jackson (Chairman), Mr. G. S. Sharp (Vice-Chalṛman), Messrs. A. Haupt, E. A. Hewett, Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, W. Poate, R. L. Richardson; H. E. Tomkins, Hon. T. I. Whitehead (ra efficic), and R. C. Wilcox (Secretary).

MINUTES.

The minutes of the last Monthly Meeting (held 14th January) were read and confirmed,

NEW MEMBERS.

The 'Secretary reported that the following had been admitted to membership since the previous meeting –

The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The Tai Shing Paper Manufacturing Co., Ld.

THE PROPOSED ASHES MONOPOLY.

A letter from the Government, dated 18th January, in continuation of previous correspon dence, and stating that they had decided to sign a contract giving the monopoly to collect ashes in the harbour to un individual ander strict guarantees, having been received.

A reply was despatched, on the 27th Jan, to the Colonial Secretary strongly protesting against the creation of this monopoly and beg ging the Government to reconsider its decision. Read reply to above, dated 29th January, stating the Government was of opinion that it would be well to give the new system a fair

watched and any complaints received would be promptly investigated.

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Read letter from the Manager of the Joint Telegraph Co's in reply to ab ve, stating that na.advice had reached the office here of any reduction in the telegraph rates in Europe, but that the writer was forwarding letter of in- quiry to the Directors in London' by the mail then leaving. Mr. Plordten also sent a copy of the Electrician of the 13th December cen taining an account of a complimentary dinner recently given to Sir John Denison-Pender for the perusal of the Committee..

The Chairman said they must awail the reply from London, he supposed. He noticed in the Indian papers nn announcement that the rate to India had been reduced to 2/6 per work | Ifthis were correct-and he had no reason to doubt it-there was good ground to expect that the reduction would be extended to the Far

East.

CLAYTON'S APPARATUS FOR FUMIGATINO

SHIPS.

Read letter from the Colonial Secretary, dated 19 Jan., enclosing commúnication from the Clayton Fire Extinguishing and Ventilating -Company, Limited, to the Crown Agents, and other enclosures, with regard to an apparatus devised for pumping S02 Gas into the holds of ships for the desturction of mis, and request. ing that the Committee would give thé ap- paratus their consideration.

The Committee were not in favour of this

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY) the 13th March, 102, adio A.BE

at H.M. NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL AND VICTUALLING OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,

1 Comprising

OLD IRON, PAPER STUFF, RAGS, CANVAS, CLOTHING, IMPLEMENTS,

&c.. &c.,

&c. ALSO:

!

Four Larga MATSHEDS at the Back of M. NAVAL YARD, Kowloon. TERMS:-As Usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers. 1260.1 Hongkong, 12th March, 1902,

PUBLIC AUCTION

of

apparatus, so fat as its application to vessels VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY passing through the port were concerned, most of which carried carge for ports beyond,

and they did not see how it was practicable to employ it here.

Decided to answer to this effect.

FOSTAL GRIEVANCES FROM AMOY. The Secretary reported that on the 7th January a letter was received from Amoy Chamber of Commance asking this Chamber to urge upon the Postal Authorities the necessity affixing a later hour for closing mails hy steamers leaving at daylight that than fixed, viz, pm. In response to this appeal, a letter was addressed to the Postmaster-General setting forth the grievance and also complat ing of the recent alteration of the Sou: for posting printed matter by the homeward mails. To this letter a reply was received the following day in which the Postmaster General promised to grant later facilities for posting per steamers

stop long, and didn't cast nothing like the trial, but that its working would be closely leaving Hongkong at daylight, and he abo

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You might put in a quiet word for me in your paper, you see, it is for the public beneft, 11. E., the Governor would be able to write to bis boss that he had effected a reduction of expenditure, and after my first annual report reached bome, deputations would rush to the Colony from Reformatories from all over the world to learn how to run 'em at a cost of notbing per head.

Requesting an early answer.

Your humble and obedient servant,

ECONOMY.

Hongkong, rath March, 1902.

PRAYERS FÖR RAIN,

To the Editor or the "Hongkong Telegram” SIR,-I beg to offer the following comments on the letter which, appeared'in your evening contemporary's issue of the 10th instant on the above subject, and as the matter is of great interest to us all in our present scarcity of water, I trust you will be able to find room to *publish this correspondence.

Some discussion took place, and the general opinion was that as the Government had deter- mined to sign the contract nothing could be done Lut to watch results. It was decided to reply to the above letter, thanking the Govern- ment for its pledges to promptly investigate

complaints; but to adhere unmistakably to the principle laid down with regard to the funda. mental objection to all Chinese monopolies.

PREFERENTIAL DUTIES.

readily complied with the Chamber's sugges tion to revert to the former hour of closing the mail for printed matter by Homeward packets.. On the 6th February letters were addressed to the Amoy Chamber, giving results of repre- sentation to the, Postal Authorities, and to the Acting Postmaster-General thanking him for his prompt attention to the complaint and ex- pressing the Committee's satisfaction with the proposed arrangements.

Read letter of acknowledgment from the Amoy Chamber, dated 13th February, express- ing satisfaction with the new arrangement and thanking the Committee for representing the case to the Postal Authorities.

THE FRENCH TARIFF AND HONGKONG PRODUCE.

Read letter from the Government, received on the 22nd January, enclosing copy of des- patch received from the Secretary of State announcing that the French Govemment and introduced a Bill into the Chamber of Deps- ties authorising the grant of the benefit of the minimum tariff to the produce of Hongkong for long as French produce imported into the Colony is accorded most favoured nation treatment."

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situate at YAUMATI, KOWLOON,

IN LOTS,

on

FRIDAY, the 14th March, 1902, at 3 P.M..

At his Auction Rooms,

by

Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Lor -All that piece of ground intended. to be registered in the Land Office as Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No, qui,

LOT Z-All that piece of ground intended. to be registered in the Latil Office as The Remaining Portion of Kowloon Inland Let No. 91.

LOT 3-All that piece of ground intended to be registered in the Land Öffice as Section A of Kowlooa Inland Lot No, giz,

rations.

At every turn,

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day and night, you hear the en-- thusiastic praise of some who is competent to judge and prefers

RAINIER

BEER

to all others the whole world- has it and likes it.

SOLE AGENTS :

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 13th December, 1901.

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INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT.

at consumers is drawn to the fact that

the Undersigned, being Sole Agents for DR AUER VON WELSBACH Co., VIENNA,

LOT. 4-All that piece of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office n The Remaining Portion of Kowlagn Inland Lot THE INVENTORS OF INCANDESCENT No. 912.

Each of the above Lots contains an area of 6,375 square feet or thereabouts.

For further particulars, apply to

EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's, Solicitors,

or to GEO.P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1902.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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GAS LIGHT.

ARE SELLING THE ONLY CENUINE MANTLES, The Price of which has been reduced to FIFTY CENTS per piece.

BEWARE OF INFERIOR IMITATIONS!

KRUSE & Co.,

HUGHES and HOUGH have 954c).

received instructions froay Mr. YOUNG

CHEOK HIN to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

on

WEDNESDAY, the 19th March, at 3 Pát, At their Sales Rooms, No. 20, Des Voeux Road,

IN TWO LOTS.

If not previously sold by Private Contract. THE VERY VÄLUÁDLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY..

Read letter from British Minister at Peking, General had promptly removed what was quite

The Chairman said that the Postinaster-MESSES. dated 28th December, in reply to the Cham-agrievance. He referred to the change of hour ber's letter of the 11th idem, to the effect that for closing the mail for printed matter. the subject of the preferential duties accorded by the Hoppo of Canton to junk-borne cargoes would have. His Excellency's serious attention. The Chairman said that this letter was very satisfactory and had been promptly translated into action. The transfer of the collection of the Native Customs to the Imperial Maritime Customs had taken place, he understood, but there were reports prevalent that the preferential rates were still maintained. He had ao advices on the subject himself, but the statement seemed to lack official confirmation. Perhaps some member of the Committee could throw some light upon it or possessed some informa- Mr. Ponte said he would read a letter, dated the 14th February, which had been received from Canton announcing that the following notification concerning the Native Customs had been circulated that day by the Imperial Maritime Customs

Quite a number of people are laboaring under the delusion that this question is a religious one and the Director of our Meteoro logical Observatory, will not doubt if appealed to, 'assure "Churchman." that Meteorology is 6 scientific subject, although not yet quite detien.. veloped into a science. If science understood meteorology, as well as it understands the movements of the heavenly bodies, it could lave told "Churchman" whether the weather he wanted was due or the reverse and why. But for this ignorance, prayer for a change of weather, would be seen to be much like prayer for or against an eclipse. The Chinaman who aces the Sun apparently encroached upon, or as he thinks--devoured, prays lustily that the destruction ofthe great luminary may be prevented. He would doubtless regard in astronomer, who should tell him that the Sun would disappear in a little while, let him pray his hardest, as a very wicked parson, One

who was not quite so well informed as the astronomer, but not quite sa ignorant as cur Chinaman, might not know how near the eclipse would be to totality, yet would see the absurdity of prayers for what he knew to be a patural phenomenon. He would reason that if the eclipse was rot going to be total, prayer that it might not be so was unnecessary, and if it was going to be total, such prayer must be useless, unless a miracle was to be performed In response to it. The meteorologist.of to-day is in somewhat the position of our supposed middle mina- he knows the progress of a bad season is a natural phenomenon, and that to pray for any change, however, desirable the change may be, is to pray for what is either bound to happen (soon enough to be of use) or bound not to happen, unless a miracle is prayed

for.

But then Churchman may say, the weather may be changed in response to prayer, not by controlment of the laws of nature, but by means of them. Let him try to think what he really means by this, and he will lea what it amounts to. Does he suppose that somewhere or other in the chain of causation, on which weather and weather changes depend, there is a place where the laws of nature donoi operate in a definite way, but might act in one pr other of several different ways?

What real difference is there between pray ing that weather may change and praying that a planet or comet (as churchmen in old times (did pray) may take a specified course, except that we have not yet mastered the laws accor ding to which weather varies, while we have, mastered those which govern the movement of the heavenly bodies?

"In conformity with instructions from Peking arrangements have been completed for the

trander of the control of the Native

Customs (Chang Kuan) to this office on and acluding the gth inst. (the roth day of the 1st moon). The work will be carried on as heretofore and no material "changes are at present in contemplation." That notification was signed by the Commis- sioner of Catoms. Nothing further had been. he was aware of. He thought that they had received and nothing had since transpired that better wait results of enquiries that ware being made.

The Committee acquiesced, the opinion being that the phrase referred to the method of working and not the perpetuation of the com- petition which it was known had been carried Pon for years by the Hoppo to the detriment of

the Imperial Maritime Customs.

THE TARIFE AND TRADE NEGOTIATIOINS. A letter in reply to Sir James Mackay's letter of the 7th Jan, was despatched on the 17th idem, with a supplementary addition on the 33rd idem.

Read letters from the Special Commissioner February, the latter, giving the result in reply to these, dated 4th and 11th of an Interview Sir James had with Mr. Tyler, Deputy Coast Inspector of Shanghai, from which Sir James has formed the con- clusion that the improvements needed in light ing the Coast are fully recognised by the Im- perial Maritime Customs, who propose to carry them into effect in the order of their importance and subject to accessary limitations as regards The Chairman said he thought this assur- time and expense.

auce was very satisfactory, as indeed were all the communications received from Sir James Mackay

Mr. Hewett was disinclined to accept the as- surances of the Customs. He thought nothing would be done after the pledges had been received. They had no money,

· THE BURMAH SITAN-CHINA RAILWAY. The Secretary stated that a reply to the letter from the Liverpool Chamber of Com- merce dispeaking the support of this Chamber for the above scheme was despatched on the 18th January to the effect decided upon at the last meeting, viz, that the Chamber is not pre- pared to support their Memorial owing to the heavy outlay the project would entail.

QUARANTINE.

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Read letter from Colonial Secretary enclos- ing copy of telegram received from H.B.'s Consul at Batavia, as follows:-

LOT-Being a portion of the Reclamation of Marine Lot No. 18 being so feet deep and having a frontage to the New Praya or Con naught Road of 46 feet, 6 inches and a width. at the South end of 43 feet, 6 inches situated at the Western end of the Reclamation and any Reclamation rights of the Vendors (except the wharf rights which the Vendors retain but "Hongkong declared to be infected with so that the stem of the wharf shall not be Bubonic Plague," and attaching copy of a letter Constructed in front of the premises sold) sub- formance of the convenants and conditions to from the Consul-General for the Netherlands,ject to the payment of the rent and the per- dated 24th February, stating that vessels arriv ing from Hongkong in Netherlands Indian ports would be subject to ten days' quarantine.

The Hon. T. H. Whitehead said he was given to understand that the Government had favourably considered the expediency of amending the Rye-laws annexed to the Publie Health Ordinance, No. 13 of 1901, so as to empower the Sanitary Board to take such steps as may be requisite in connection with the periodical outbreak of Plague without the necessity of formally declaring any district in the Colony as an area infected with Plague. This action had been taken in consequence of subject to be put at a meeting of the Couuci! is having given notice of a question on the to be held on the 27th inst, and which would have very beneficial results to the shipping of the port.

REVIEW.

LONGSHORE ROMANCES, by V. Waton Paul, Hongkong, Guedes & Co. This little volume is the product of a sailor who has ap- parently dabbled in literature before, for we find him described on the title page as author of separate stories "Juanita: a romance of Pat "Fatima's Fate," etc. The book contains three onin," "The Last Adventure of Richard Adeane " and "Four and a Plot." The first yarn is, as its stle announces, a story of Pata-

gonia, and a rather mediocre one at that, for

we must admit that the, plot appears to be particularly far-fetched and the sentences are chopped about, broken up and mangled in a manner which plainly reveals the hand of the amateur writer. There is not sufficient point about the story to fix one's interest throughout is weary length. To the second tale, The last adventure of Richard Adeane," the same remarks apply. The characters are poor and that of the English detective even idiotic. Also the author is unaware that the eldest son of an earl possesses a courtesy title and that the second son is an honourable. It would undoubtedly be better for. Mr. Watson Paul to confine himself to sea stories, for here his local knowledge will come in handy, as is shown in the last tale, "Four and a Plot" which is read- able. If Mr. Watson Paul takes our advice ha may succeed in producing some interesting sketches, but if he persists in depicting scenes and phases of life with which he seems to be totally unacquainted, we fear that be will weary his readers and prove a dismal failure. THE REBELLION IN KWANG-SI,

THE PROPOSED EXHIBITION AT

Latest advices from the seat of the rebellion BST LOUIS U. §. A.

state that Marshal Sou, has arrived direct from The Secretary reported that replies were Hupeh overland, and taken full control of the sent to the letters of the G. S. Consul Genera troops. In an engagement at Lingchow, the and the Colonial Secretary on this subject in rebels were entirely routed. The rebellion is the terms agreed upon, at the last meeting, a expected to be entirely quelled in a month's Copy of a letter addressed to the former being time. also enclosed in that to the Colonial Secretary,

TELEGRAPH RATES TO EUROPE. AAN

As & scientific question, the matter has been debated over and over again--with no particu.

articu lar result, because the student of science can only have one opinion on the subject, while The Secretary announced that a letter was the unscientific only think they think about it | afdressed; on the 17th January, to the Man- Good old Benjamin Franklin was one of the ager of the Joint Telegraph Companies asking if he could afford the Chamber any information.

the Telegraph rates to Europe, would be likely to come into effect:

first to be denounced for giving the only posan to the date when the promised reduction in sible opinion, But many must have been still more foolish then than several now; for

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be reserved and contained in the Possessory Agreement and in the Crown Lease of the premises when granted.

Total area of Section A of Marine'Lot 18- being 3.600 square feet.

LOT --All that piece or parcel of ground together with Building thereon situate in the LAN KWAI FONG, in the Colony of Hongkong. containing in the whole an area of 661 square feet or thereabouts and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 993 abutting on the North West side thereof on LAN KWAI FONG and measuring thereon 14 feet, f inches on the

1,006 and No. 6og and measuring thereon 14 South East side thereof on Inland Lots No. feet, sinches on the North East side thereof on Inland Lot No. 1,007. and measuring thereon 46 feet, a inch and on the South West side thereof on Inland Lot No. 993 and measuring- thereon 45 feet, 9 inches which said piece or parcel of ground hereby expressed to be demised contains in the whole 661 square feet for 999 years from 26th June, 1843.

Annual Crown Rent $8.co. For further Particulars, apply to

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, rrth March, 1902.

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