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LAST TWO NIGHTS! HARRY COGILL AND JACK SUTTON'S

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For the Second Time in Hongkong, the Amusing Comedy in Three Acts by CHAS. HOYT

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'A STRANGER IN NEW YORK." Full of Lively Situations, New Music, Songs, Dances and Splendid Cast throughout,

TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY), MARCH 14TH,

A STRANGER IN NEW YORK."

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The Kwangsi Rebellion. There is always rebellion of some sort in progress in China, we are told. but the country is so vast, distances ao great and means of communication sa poor, that it is not surprising that the great majority of these risings seldom or never come to the ears of the foreigners scattered along the fringe of A. S. WATSON & CO., the Celestial Empire. When news does come

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In another column we publish some news of the rebellion now in progress in Kwangsi, which, as it is gleaned from official reposts sent to Peking may be taken as being faily We take this opportunity to state correct. From this it will be seen that the rebellion is of considerable extent and that the rebels are well armed and apparently quite as well organized as the Imperial troops. Whether anything will really come of it it is impossible to say, for China is a land of surprises and contradictions, and the Taiping rebellion and Boxer rising came from small beginning and were pool-pooled

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THE C.N. COS STEAMER Tamsus is ro, ported ashore at Wade Island Light Boat. Wade Island Beacon is some so niiles above Chinkiang, on the Yangtze

LORD ROSEBERY has written a novel to which he has just been putting the finishing touches. Titles suggested for it are The Lonely Furrow or "The Neutral Ian Why

not "The Primrose Path ?” ⠀ -

THE MISSING CONDOR-According to the Weekly Call San Francisco, of the sth ult. the missing British sloop of war Condor was believed to have gone down during the terrific storin off Cape Flattery early in December. FOOTBALL:-The final for the Hongkong Football Challenge Shield will be played to-morrow, the 15th inst., at a quarter past four. After the match the Shield and Medals will be presented to the winning team by Mrs Stewart Lockhart.

THE VAST AMOUNT OF SNOW which has fallen lately in the Eastern United States has now melted, causing disastrous floods, Rail

"A MUDDIED OAF "Cassell's Saturday Journal announces the startling information is one of the mud- that the Emperor of Japan died oats. It appears that his Majesty is an athlete and a lover, of outdoor sports, intra- duced football into Japan, and is an excelent buster and angles.

THE CANTON RIVERAt their sales

rooms to-day Messrs Hughes and Hough, put up for auction the dredger Canton River, which is at present lying over in Hung-ham Bay, The bidding started at $50,000, gradually rising. to $84,500 at which price it stopped. Noother bits being forthcoming the owners bought in the vessel.

KIDNAPPERS AT WORK A Kiukiang despatch states that kidnapping has been going on for some time in that city and that already a large number of young children have been abducted. Though many cases have been

reported to the local officials, continues the despatch, no steps have been taken to arrest the kidnappers."

SAILING SHIPS RACE-The Standard Oil

by many people as utterly out of the bounds ways, roads, and telegraph-lines are damaged Company has given a prize of 500 dollars to of possibility. We shall await further news telephones are partially inundated, and there the British sailing ship, Brillani, the victor int of the state of affairs in Kwangsi with have been many fatalties in the neighbourhood

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RIOT IN CHUNGKING: There has been

· That "mest distressful country" Ireland

some disturbance in Chungking owing to the are made solely with the water pro-form of disturbance or other, and it now. always appears to be in the throes of some

imposition of a tax upon butcher's meat. appears that so unsettled is the state of affairs About a hundred rioters were arrested. Six there that the King has been advised by his

have been condemned to imprisonment for life, Ministers not to make his projected visit to and others to shorter sentences. Forty-three the country this year. Undoubtedly this are still undergoing trial. ̧ disturbed state of things is in a large meaTHE STATES AND THE CORONATION sure due to the irresponsible vapourings of

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BIRTHS.

On the 17th of February, at Hankow, the wife of PAUL J. DE HIES, of a son.

At Dunara, Cheloo, on the 5th March, the wife of W. GARDNER, of a daughter.

: DEATHS.

At 87, Praya East, on the 14th March, 1901, JOSEFIN, the wife of Vincento Abad, of Manila, aged 25 years.

The funeral will pass the Monument at 830 to-morrow morning. Friends are invited to attend.

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On the 9th of March," at No. 19, Seward Road, Shanghai, GLADYS NORAH, youngtel daughter of the late Capt. James Price, aged &

years and to nonths.

The

ous conduct of the Irish Members of the Alice Roosevelt will not attend the coronation a few dissatisfied people, and to the outrage--New York, NY., Mar. 3th, 8.40 p.m. Miss House of Commons, who have behaved in a because it is understood that she is also invited manner which would never be tolerated in any to visit the Kaiser, and in consequence of the other country. There cannot be the least political aspect her presence in Europe at this possible doubt that we draw a large pro- time is displeasing to the President. portion of our best and most loyal soldiers and public servants from Ireland, and it is a thousand pities to see the country kept in a state of semi-rebellion by a party of men who really don't know what they want and wouldn't be satisfied even if they got it; which statement sounds somewhat trish,

but describes the situation.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE IRISH QUESTION.

LONDON, March 12th. Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary- for Ireland, was suntmoned yesterday to a Cabinet Council. Its understood that his recommendations to defer extreme measures in Ireland have been adopted.

LATER

ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND CANCELLED.

It is announced that King Edward has, by the advice of his. Ministers, expressed to H. E. Bari Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, his regret that the projected visit of Their Majesties King Edward and Queen Alesandra to Ireland cannot take place this

year.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

EXCHANGE has fallen again to is. 9. BAR SILVER has dropped to 25d. per oz. THE BUYING KATE for sovereigns has risen from $11.63 to $11.10

THE BRITISH SURVEYING-VESSEL, RAMBLER, has arrived from Aberdeen.

he Hongkong Telegraphi HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION :——

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902,

NOTES AND COMMENTS,

The Short Range Competition, which was post- poned last week, will take place to-morrow, commencing at 2.30 p.m..

NEXT YEAR'S RACES—A meeling of members of the Hongkong Jockey Club in- terested in ordering subscription griffins for next years's races will be held in the City Hall at noon to-morrow.

FOOTBALL-To-morrow afternoon, on the Happy Valley, in the final for the Hongkong Football Challenge Shield, H.M.S. Glory will play & Company, R.W.F. Kick-off at a quarter past four. Mr. Cooke will referee.

MRS. RIZAL:-The Mrs. Josefine Abad, whose death occurred. this morning, was the widow of Dr. Rizal, who was shot by the Spaniards on the Lunetta at Manila during the Filipino rebellion against the Spaniards,

The Want of Water. The drought from which Hongkong con tinues to suffer is probably one of the longest and most acute from which the Colony has suffered in its whole history of nearly three quarters of a century.. Last year was a most phenomenal one as regards rainfall. Our Spring rains, coming after an abhormally dry season, failed us to the extent of some twenty-five inches, and the rains which ac- company the typhoons of the Summer and early Autumn, and upon which we depend to a very great extent to fill the reservoirs for the dry season, failed utterly, for not a single typhoon came sufficiently near to the Colony to give us a respectable downpour. The present year has certainly opened any thing but auspiciously, The early rains which usually come about Chinese New Year, failed to put in an appearance; the whole rainfall for the month of February amounted to only one-fiftieth of an inch-journal. not sufficient to lay the dust or wash the foliage of the trees. We are now in the middle of March and, despite the clouds which gathered in a promising manner in the carly part of the week, seem to be as far off our Spring rains as ever.

The only wonder is that the Colony has remained so healthy through such a trying period, for the drains must be in a fearful

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 to 9.30 P.. --

**PROGRAMME"

1. Overture......" Handten Strefche". Soppe. Selection...." Kip Van Winkle. Planquette, 13. Vale........ Ifanpy Thoughts" ....Frout. .....Sullivan. Song The Lost Chord".

5. Fantastic Dance..." Doda".....................Buck. 6. Selection “Reminiscences of Scotland" Godfrey,

"God save the King."-

A YOUNG GENTLEMAN was brought up

the race from New York to Yokohama against the American sailing ship Acme. They both. carried kerosene and sailed from New York about the same time, that is to say on August 1st, last year. The Brilliant arrived at Yoko.. hana on January 23rd, while the Icme entered the port February 24th.

PARROTS are not generally supposed to range so far north as Hongkong, but we learn that a couple have recently been shot in the Colony, one on the Island and the other in the New Territory. The shooting of a single specimen could of course be put down to an cape, but it is hardly probable that two escaped birds of the same species should be

met with in one season and at a considerable", distance from the town."

THERE IS A RUMOUR, says a Japanese paper, that Mr. Kondo, President of the Nippon

Yusen Kaisha, has approached the China Mer- chaats* Stearn Navigation Company with a view to purchasing the steamers, and any other property of the latter. The Asahi, however, says that viewed from whatever point it is im- possible to believe that negotiations of this kind will be attended with success, even admit- Ling there is some truth in the rumour. THE TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS--Accord-

at the Ku Saibansho the other day the Kebeing to the Universal Gazette the Chinese Tariff Chronicle says, charged with stealing a bicycle Commissiouers have informed. Sir James Asked why he done this thing, he said he was Mackay that they would not agree to the a student of English, and seeing the bicycle following four suggestions which Sir James standing idle near a doorway, an English recently made in connection with the new friend told him that it was a free wheel, where Treaty of Commerce, namely → upon he had taken it out for a ride, when a policeman interfered and deprived both himself and the wheel of their freedom..."The Eng lish," as he told, the judge, "is an atrocity' language."

THE PANIC AMONGST CHINESE IN PORT ARTHUR:-A large number of Chinese merchants doing business in Fon Artbur have lately returned South with their families, owing, as they say, to having heard in that port that the Russians are preparing for war against Japan. The warlike activity also seen in Port Arthur by the merchants, has not lessened their panic, and the news brought to Shanghai by them seems to show that they are convinced of the truth of it. Goods ordered from Shanghai for Port Arthur have even been countermanded by several Chinese bongs, N. C. Daily News.

THE HON. TREASURER of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following dona tion to the funds of the Hospitals -

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ALLEGED LIBEL-M. H. D. O'Shea, Editor of the China Gazette, has entered a suit for libel against Mr. T. Cowen, Editor of the Shanghai Times, in connection with an article THE NEGOTIATIONS have been concluded, that appeared recently in the last-named says the Shanghai Mercury, between the

China.

The Importation of foreign, salt into

2-The Exportation of rice from China..

·3—The opening up of the interior of China- for foreign trade.

4-The conversion of Peking into a Treaty Port

THE DIRTY LINEN of the Schmidts, Tom- allas and Longs was very thoroughly washed at the Police Court to-day. It seems that one of the Longs called one of the Schmidts a "fat" pig" and cast reflections upon her moral char acter and further, decorated the door of the Schmidi mansion with a badly executed drawing of a pig. Then the Longs accused the Schmidts and Tomallas of an assault on the aspiring young devotee of art; and of indulging in remarks of a you're another character. Mr. Hazeland delivered a Long, Schmidt, Tomalla lecture and bound the crowd over in a bond of a hundred dollars to wash their soiled cloth ing in private for six months.

SAD DEATH OF A SAILOR :—Láte last- night a sailor, named Blair, from H.M.5. Rambler, went to the Criterion Hotel, Pottinger Street, and demanded apartments, which were duly supplied him. On one of his mates going up to seek for him he found the room empty and a diligent search was made for the missing man, when they eventually found him, in the street lying in a pool of blood, quite dead, with a fractured skull. The police were immediately notified and the body was removed to the mortuary where an inquest will be held. It is surmised that the poor man, under the influence of liquor, met bis death by climbing up. the scaffolding behind the room, and missing his footing was dashed to the ground, a distance of thirty feet.

COGILL AND SUTTON'S ENTER TAINERS.

Charles Hoyt's musical comedy, in three acts, Stranger in New York, was successfully produced last night by the Cogill and Sutton Entertainers at the Theatre Royal to a very good house. From the rise of the curtain to its fall, everthing went without

hitch, and considering the burried rehearsals, every

Shanghai Pilots Association and Mr. F. Carmichael of Hongkong for the construction THE IMPERIAL CHINESE TELE- of a steam pilot boat. The vessel is to be of GRAPH ADMINISTRATION have decided similar type to the British Government tender to extend the telegraph service from Wenchow Stanley, except that the new boat will have'n to Lanchi, several experts having already beca broader beam and a speed of g knots as credit is due to the mans sent to the former place so plant the necessary against the Stanley's 12. The deck-houses

usual, Mr. Harry Cogill and Miss May parts, and telegraph poles..

Arlea sustained the heavi kept the audience in roars of laughter by their

Sands was in the safe hands of Mr Fred Altro whils

Dave Caston and Miss. ana Harvey

advantage in their in appea

ersonations) Dorone and May Ketchum. In local artiste Mr. Orberry as Wright

THE DALLAS COMPANY, we would re-

consisting of captain's room, smoking room and dining saloon for hot weather, bath room

state, as is shown by the very unpleasant mind our readers, opens at the City Hall on lamp-room, store-room; European and native irresistible acting. The character of Baron manner in which they make their presence

galleys, etc., will all be constructed of teak wood. The saloon is situated forward and the crews quarters aft. She will altogether be a smart craft and the first of her kind in the of I East. The new departure, besides being a the list

felt at every trap and opening. Messrs. Monday next with "The Toreador." The BUTTERFIELD and Swine have come to the Shanghai papers are loud in their praises of rescue in a very creditable manner, and Mr Dallas' new Company, and as booking is certainly deserve the thanks of the whole very brisk we should advise all'intending play community for placing their reservoir at thegoers to hurry up and secure seats before it is

boon to the members of the Association, will init was all there, We have never seen. Nr. service of the public, but their water will not too late.

benefit, mail and other shipping companies, Oxberry appear to better advantage; his acting: last for ever. The fact that Hongkong's slotage reservoirs are inadequate to supplying A RUSSIAN SOLDIER TURNED KOB-The initial expense and upkeep will be heavy was good and, to a stranger would the population during a dry season has been BER-The other night, reports the Universal and the Licensed Pilot's Association is to be the fact that he was only an amateur, amply demonstrated during the last three or Gazelle's Peking correspondent, when a mem complimented on its praiseworthy effort, after Chase, Mr. four years and it is to be hoped that the bar of the Wai-Wa-Fu (Board of Foreign only two years existence, to serve the public infect succ Government will leave no stone unturned in Affairs) was travelling near the Tungan Gate the best and smartest possible manner. No

other part their efforts to place our water supply upon in a cart he was waylaid by a Russian soldier doubt the authorities will view the a satisfactory footing without further waste who relieved him of a native bank order for with pleasure, and it

of time. Should the present season proveis, 500,

an dry as the last, Hongkong might not be so fortunate as to escape those epidemics usually attendant upon a water famine.

COTTAM & CO. NEW.

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