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LIMITED,

CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS,

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HALL,

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·FACTORY:-Mason's Lane.

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Branches also at

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY MARCH 21, 1902.

To-day's Advertisements.

THEATRE ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

R. HENRY DALLAS MUSICAL

MAND DRAMATIC COMPANY.

TO-NIGHT:

-TO-NIGHT!

THE LAST NIGHT

OF

"THE GEISHA.”

TOMORROW (SATURDAY), 22nd MARCH.

(By Special Request). THE TOREADOR."

MONDAY, 24th' MARCH,

Grand'Froduction of

"THE CASINO GIRL."

PLAN at THE ROBINSON PIANO CO.

PRICES AS USUAL..

·Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.

Ta-day's Advertisements.

GOVERNMENT BILLS.

TENDERS for SPECIE, MEXICAN and BRITISH DOLLARS, Current in this Colony, and weighing 7.1.7., in Exchange for Sterling Bills drawn at 10 days' sight on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be received by the Chief Paymaster, Army Pay Department, until 1 A., on TUESDAY, the 5th instant.

The Tenders to state the total amount, re- quired (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which each Bill should be drawn, but not Bills will be issued for less than £100.

The Tenders to be in Duplicate and in sealed covers, addressed to the Chief Paymaster, Army Pay Department, and endorsed "Tenders for Government Bills."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.

G. H. FERRIER, . Licut-Colonel, Acting Chief Paymaster, China.

His Majesty's Treasury Office, Queen's Road. Hongkong, 19th March, 1902,

(344d

THE PUNJON MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

N Accordance with Articles Nos. 26 and 27

IN of Association of the Com [308d

pany, NOTICE is hereby given that the following Shares will be liable to be FOR

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA FEITED, unless the Call due on the 6th day

TION COMPANY.

STEAM FOR

SINGAPORE, PENANG, BOMBAY, FIUME AND TRIESTE. (Taking Cargo at through Rates to the PERSIAN GULF, BLACK SEA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC PORTS.

THE Company's Steamship

"INDIA,"

Captain Kiun, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd April, F.M.

For further Information as to Freight, apply to

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents.

Canton, Shanghai, Hankow and Peking.

Hongkong, 19th February, 1902,

[2140 Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.

THE VERDICT OF EUROPE

IS THAT

of August, 1900, be paid, together with IN TEREST at to per Cent per Annum, at the Office of the Company, No. 13, Beaconsfield Arcade, on or before the 5TH DAY OF APRIL,"

1902.

The following are the distinguishing Num- bers of the Ordinary Shares :-

12707/12715 49810/49829 13998/14002 14103/14152 36225/36234 15781602 15053/15152 15433/15446 15855/15954 16590/16639-17115/17214 58306/5*330 17446/17449 23490/23518 25194/25243 25344/25393 58142/58152

301/400

21381/21405

59066/59165

3444/3463

22517/22526

$5000/55030

-19409/19508

31616/31668

29592/2966

29782/19793

32044/32045

34233, 34243

25719/25723

[3154

55146/55155

5863-/55681

38214/38315

46070/45119

46325/46329

36203/36212

*3351/13450 .13651/13750

12494/12533

36400/36474 22422/23466 49795/49729

40604/40703

W. H. GASKELL,

Secretary.

Buchanan's Scotch Whiskies

ARE THE BEST.

DISTILLERS BY ROYAL WARRANTS TO KING EDWARD VIL

LORDS

PURVEYORS TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE

OF COMMONS.

THE CELEBRATED HOUSE OF

COMMONS BLEND,

better known as.

BLACK

AND ·

Price

WHITE,

$15.25 per Case.

BUCHANAN BLEND,

Price $13 per Case:

SOLE AGENTS:

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

HONGKONG.

(3430

WILLIAM POWELL, Ltd.

NEW PARISIENNE MILLINERY,

A SELECTION OF

CHARMING CREATIONS

IN

FRENCH MILLINERY,

'JUST ARRIVED FROM OUR FARIS AGENTS AND NOW ON VIEW IN "OUR SHOW CASES.

The following goods arrive next week:-

SUNSHADES, SUMMER HOISERY, AND GLOVES, MUSLIN ROBES, LIGHT VEILINGS, SILK BLOUSES, MUSLIN, ALPACAS,

&... &C., &c.

`LADIES' HAT "BOXES, WHITE LACE CURTAIN, ETC., ETC. Hongkong, zist Murch, 1902.

BANJOS

STEWART AND BAUER'S

39

[$590

20th Century and Thoroughbred "

66

also

WASHBURNS."

MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

Hongkong, 28th January, 1902,

THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED, Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore,. f9350

Hongkong, 21st March, 1902,

VICTORIA

X

Today's Advertisement.

THE CHINA NUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED. SHA

HAREHOLDERS are hereby informed that at a GENERAL MEETING held in London, recently a FINAL DIVIDEND was declared of 3% on the Preference shares for the 6 months endine 31st December, 1901; 4% on the Ordinary Shares making 7% for the year 1961, and 3% on the Ordinary shares for the 6 months ending 31st December, 1901. £40,000 written off Purchase Account of Steamers, and 20,000 transferred to the credit of Equalization of Dividends Fund.

Dividend Warrants are now ready.

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong. 21st March, 1902,

Intimation.

[346d

CHOLERA AT FATSHAN-Latest reports received state that cholera is still raging at Fatshan, and that the once clear river has assumed a dark colour, and is unfit for drink basing or cooking purposes. The smell in the

CASES OF PLAGUE are occurring daily in Sydney. Among the deaths from the discaso there are o popular actresses. THE CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL been favourably reported upon by the Serate Committee, at Washington, II. S. A

THE POPULAR COMEDIAN, Mr. Steve Adson, accompanied be his wife left Hongkong to-day on the Eastern bound for Australia. CHINESE SOCIETY BADGES may now be worn on ceremonious occasions by the Army and Navy officers of the United States.

ZAZA.

MOHOMEDAN FESTIVAL Today is known by the Mohomedans as the day of I'd It is in commemoration of the sacrifice of Isaac by the patriarch Abraham. TEA-HOUSES ON STRIKE --It is reported from Changshu that, owing to the imposition

A. S. WATSON & Co., of a new tax by the local officials, all the tax

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

houses in that city went onfstrike on the 12th

instant.

JOHN ROBERTS, the billiard champion, has made arrangements with the Committee of the Chinese Club to give an exhibition of his skill at the Club rooms on Sunday, the 23rd instant át 9 p.m.

..

THE NEW HARBOUR POLICE LAUNCH We take this opportunity to state BAILEY, which recently left for Manila, has been consigned to the hospital for alterations in her machinery. Her smoke stack will also be shortened to allow her to pass more readily under the bridges,

that our

ÆRATED

WATERS

BIG OPIUM FINE--Before Mr. Kemp, this morning, Ho I, a shop-keeper in Chinese street, was fined $120, for being in possession of 6 taels of opium without a proper certificate.. It was only recently that the same man was heavily fined in connection with a similar charge.

streets, caused by the stagnation of the various canals, and the decaying of fishes and crabs in the river, is awful.

A MOVEMENT IS ON FOOT, the Draper's Record, declares, to mise the question of the advertisement illustrations in some of the ladies'. fashion papers. The question needs raining. Many a modest man, inadvertently turning over the leaves of his wifa's favorite josmal, has bad the blush brought to his cheek by the pictures of young ladies in demi-senu-toilet, which meet him on almost every page. REMEDY FOR LEPROSYA·message" from Honolulu says that beneficial results in treating leprosy have been obtained by the uso......... of tua-tua, a shrub brought from Venezuela. A decoction of "this produced violent con- vulsions in the patient to whom it was admini-.. stered, whose nose was frightfully swollen and whose finger nails had fallen off. The treat-

meat checked the swelling and removed the

stiffness from the hands. The plant has been sent to Molokai: Great hopes are entertained. that a cure has at last been found.

RATS are evidently going to have a bad time in Manila, for further consignments of 3.000 traps of various patents have recently heen imported. These, when distributed, will. bring the number dispersed around Manila to over 300,000, and the rata continue to come rolling in apace. But few plague rats have lately been caught, and up to date there have been only two cases of plague in the city during the month of March, which is highly satin- factory to the Health Department, as is breaks all previous records for the mouth.

ZAZA.

"PROGRAMME."

Selection A Gainty Girl Jones.

BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. MR. T. F. HOUGH, the Clerk of the Course Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bom for the Hongkong Jockey Club, left Hongkong bay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-day on board of the Eastern, bound for 10-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 p.m. to. Australia. He will telegraph his recommenda230 pm. are made. solely with the water pro- tion and cost in connection with griffin ponies (345d

to subscribers at as early a date as convenientt.. DISORDERLY CONDUCT:-E. Werner, and Walter Hall, both seamen, were brought before the Magistrate this morning, for being drunk and disorderly in the public streets. They are now debarred from imbibing for the space of two weeks, and one week respectively.

PRECEPTORY.

ARGA PRECEPTORY will be held REGULAR MEETING of the VIC-

at the FREEMASONS' HALI, on WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, at 8.30 for 9 PM. precisely Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to

attend.

Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.

cured from the Government Tytutu

Reservoir and specially filtered

large storage filters on the

[347a scientific principles.

in our

best

THE TOBACCO WAR is still going on in England. The latest news to hand in that an agreement between the Imperial Tobacco Company and Messrs. Salmon and Gluckstein has been reached under which the latter firm

Our Aerated Waters are thus Abso. becomes virtually absorbed in the great English

INFORMATION has béén-received from the Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out on the 27th instant, over a land range from the road leading to Customs Pass, at targets in the direction of Ng-Tau-Kok.lutely pure and consumers of them

Firing will commence about 9.30 4.31.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, may feel themselves quite secure

Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 20th March, 1902.

INF

13480 against contracting cholera by liquid

[NFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE

will be carried out on the zoth instant, from hills about 1 miles N.W. of Lai-chi-Kek, in a Westerly direction, at targets placed on the lower slopes of Chonghue Island.

Firing will commence about re A.N, By Command,

[349d

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.'. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 20th March, 1902

'EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. (Calling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENS. LAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &c.)

HE Steamship

THE

"AIRLIE," Captain St. John George, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 10th April, at Noon.

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham bor, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provis sions, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage.

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.

A Stewudess and a duly-qualified Surgood- are carried.

N.B. Return Tickets issued by this Com

agency, which it is comparatively

easy to do by drinking impure water.

A. B. WATSON & CO. LIMITED,

Aerated Water Manufacturers,

The Hongkong Dispensary. ·

DEATH.

combine.

ZAZA:

JAPANESE SPRING FESTIVAL:-The

advent of the Spring festival was hailed with delight by our Japanese friends here to-day. All the Japanese hengs are gaily decorated with bunting, the flag of the Rising Sun being most conspicuous. Saki, no doubt will be in great demand to-day.

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS The annual inspection by His Excellency the Gen cral Commanding, SirW. J. Gascoign,K.C.M.G., will take place to-morrow afternoon at the Polo Ground. As it is imperative that all members of the Corps should attend, a good muster is expected.

A "BRITISH EXHIBITION" is to be held At the General Hospital, Shanghai, March 13th, 10 p.m., RUPERT GRIFFITH BENNETT in St. Petersburg this year, with a view to in- PARAMORE, eldes: son of Capt. Paramore, aged-creasing the trade between the United King 71 years.

dom and Russia. It will be opened early in June. An international exhibition will be held. at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, to commemorate

The Hongkong Telegraph the purchase of the Louisiana teritory.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1902.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE DEBATE ON ARMY CONTRACTS.

LONDON, March 19th.

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's motion for an enquiry into Army contracts for South pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for Africa, which Mr. Asquith and the Imperia. return by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGA-lats supported, was rejected by 345 votes to

TION COMPANY and vice verså, ... ·

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 21st March, 1003.

1350d "MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S. "MOGUL," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

STRAITS. "ONSIGNEES of Cargo are herebyinformed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 28th, instant, will be sub- ject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-

1gz.

A NEW RUSSIAN LOAN, The Standard states that a Russian four per cent loan of 19 millione sterling has been arranged in Germany.

WEI-HAI-WEI.

During a debate on Wei-hai-wei, Lord Selbourne, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that our policy was to increase the mobile force by building ships, and not to waste money in bricks and mortar.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE LARGEST CHILD ever born to white

in Saag mice. By the Fountain ", Adana, Valso" Morgenblatter "Strauss. 4. Folka...................." Thras Jolly Cobblers *-- 5. Lancers...

"Jally boys". 6. Selection

The Golalia" "God save the King."

Jónes.

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

́ ́E D, Sassoon & Comita

Dorabjes Nowrojes Mutual Stores

Sidney Hancock Rev. F. F. Galtschalk

A. G. Morris... Barker & Co.

H. Ruttonjes.....

$:00

JAPANESE DESTROYERS —In the matter: of torpedo-boat destroyers Japan stands second to no other Power, as far as quality is cons pernéd. She is wise in that she entrusts all her orders for destroyers to two firms, Messrs.

Thornycroft, of Chiswick, and Messi. Yarrow, of Poplar. The newest boats have all made on an average 31-knots an hour with ease, and as a group, are the fastest vessels in the world. Torpedo-boat construction is a very difficult business, and only firms who have been at it for years can turn out really satisfactory boats. PREVENTION OF CANTON FIRES The Pun U Magistrate at Canton has calised pro- clamations to be posted in all parts of the city, relating to the prevention of fixes, which of lato have been so frequent in Canton. All military and civil officers are ordered to accom pany the fire brigade, and to do their utmost to stop any outbreaks that may occur, the Chief item being the removal of all combustible. matters in the vicinity of the fires. The origin of fires is to be inquired Into, and all damages made good to the sufferers by he shop or shops where the fire first originates

ZAZA

THE CANNY SCOTThe following story

BRIBERYA stalwart sikh had one, Tang. Kee, a hawker, before Mr. Kemp this morning, for bawking live ducks in the street and, at the told by a contemporary A wealthy but same time, offering a bribe to this son of India eccentric farmer had married three, daughters, to stop his arrest, but knowing, that honesty is making a condition in each case that the son-in- the best policy be refused it with the result that law should place 100 in his (the old man's) Tang Kee was fined $a on the first charge coffin when he died. He was gathered to his and Sy on the second charge Both fines were Irishman, placed 100 in bank-notes in the paid.

coffin. The second, an Englishman, deposited 100 in gold. The third, a Scotchman, with LARCENY :—The premises of Hongkong, much complaining as to the waefu waste

pukid

father in due couran, One son-in-law, an

Kowloon and Whampoa Dock Company seem of filler, dropped his cheque for £300 into the Only the other day Thomas Elvins, the watch to be the hot beds of petty thefts at present coffin, and look out the notes and gold as

change.

man, had a rogue up before the Magistrate BENEATH FILES OF OILY WASTE in the for stealing, and to-day we find another case, hold of the Perla ning Chinese recently stowed. where one,, Wong Sing, was charged with steal themselves and went across to Manlly where ing eight pounds of brass valued at $8,00. He the police found them huddled together on t

the was seat to gaol for six weeks hard labour, beach. The Manila Timar saya they were in GRICKET:-The Hongkong Cricket Club a pitiable state and goes on to record the will play the Garrison to-morrow, the match following-Two of them had not taken food for four days their clothes were tort and commencing at the 1a.m. The following will smirched with, grease and their bodias werd play for the Club:-A. G. Ward, W. B. Dixon, reeking with fith. At the detectives broke E. Mast, A. W. Mckinley, R.N., A. W. Camp into their might they evinced bell, R.N., E. W. Fitch, R.N. Dr. H. Huskin venat Secret Servi

morning they, Acemod inca son, R.N.. Lieut. FH. M. Jackson, RN, ing the seriousness of Lieut. Com. Lampen, R.M.L1, Lieut. A.N., had paid well to Gouldsmith, R.N., and A. N. Other and more could be, expec

had met with hard THENEW ROYALYACHT; In Portsmouth of departure from

story of the Dockyard for the current financial year

sent retained at throws £686,000 was allowed for wager. So

sented to the Undersigned on or before the 28th parentage in Manila was recently given birth however, has been the pressure of work?

instant, or they will not be recognized, a

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to. It weighed 14 pounds.

to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 28th instant, at 3 PM.

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.

CHOLERA -Two more cases were reported to-day which, termofnated fatally. In but in- -stances, the victims were Chinese.

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the Central News, that the Admiralty been obliged to grant an additional the wage bill of this dockyard. Th is understood to be largely due t overtime worked upon the nEW.

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