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Hongkong, 19th February, 1902.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1902

To-day's Advertisements,

THEATRE.

To-day's Advertisements.

ROYAL, SANITARY BOARD.

CITY HALL..

LAST FOUR NIGHTS!

LAST FOUR NIGHTS!

LAST FOUR NIGHTS!

OF

MR. HENRY DALLAS MUSICAL

AND DRAMATIC

TO-NIGHT! (THURSDAY), APRIL 3rd, THE BELLE OF NEW

TO-MORROW.

WNERS of HOUSES situated in the

Netral Division of the City of Victoria

and in the Western Division of Kowloon, who have not had their Premises L1ME WASHED and CLEANSED. in accordance with Law, are reminded that the period during which this work should be FINISHED ends on the 30th day of APRIL, 1902, and the

Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity

of cleanliness in its efforts to stamp out Plague, is determined to rigorously prosecule any owner in delault after the above named date.

The Cential Division of the City lies between Garden Road on the East, and Morrison Street and East Street on the West. The Western YORK."Division of Kowloon is all that part of the Kowloon Peninsula to the West of Robinson Road and includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Th Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui and Shani

(FRIDAY), APRIL 4th,

THE GEISHA." SATURDAY, APRIL 5th, (by special desire), A GRAND MISCELLANEOUS

CONCERT."

MONDAY, APRIL 7th, Grand Farewell Benefit to Mrs. Henry Dallas,

"A MESSAGE FROM MARS.'

PLAN at THE ROBINSON PIANO CO,

PRICES AS USUAL.

Hongkong, 3rd April, 1902.

(7140

Two

WILLIAM MACLEOD, D.D.S.,

DENTIST.

Beaconsfield Arcade, Nos. 1 and #2,

2nd Floor.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

ย

Shui Po.

By Order of the Board,

Sanitary Board Office,

1st April, 1902.

G." A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary.

The Hongkong

Gelegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1902,,

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE CAPE REBELS.

LONDON, April 1st. The Boers and rebels in Cape Colony are showing considerable activity.

THE SHOOTING OF UNARMED

BOERS.

MANILA ADVICES report the capture General Mariano Noriel and staff, The official papers of General Malvar fell into the hands of the Americans.

REV. NAPIER TROLLOPE -Should the new Bishopric of Shantung be accepted by the Rev. Napier Trollope, Dishop Corfe will lose a very valuable clergyman in Corea. THE HON. W. T. TAYLOR, the new Colonial, Secretary for the Straits Settlements, was a passenger on board the Xenig Albert which arrived in Singapore on the 27th wit...

HON. JH. STEWART LOCKHART CM.G., Colonial Secretary, will probably pro

THE NEW COLONIAZ

ARY

TELEGR

SECRETARYŇOW.

ĮTATE.

Telegr

kindly informs us has been received by His Exc

Officer Administering the Government from the Secretary of State for the

Colonies in which it is notified that Mr. F. H. May, C. M. G., has been appointed Colonial Secretary at Hongkong, and will arrive in this Colony on the 14th, proximo,

Me May is undoubtedly eminently fitted

The transport Canada, which has arrivedceed to Wei-hai-wei, on the 23rd inst, to fill for the post as he has had a long and active ex

at Queenstown, has on board among the prisoners, two Australian officers sentenced to penal servitude for life for shooting un- arnied Bours. This is in connection with the same affair for which two Australians were recently executed in South Africa. GERMANY ASKED TO MEDIATE.

Dr. A. Kuyper, Premier of the Nether lands, bas visited Brussels and Berlin, his [399d object, it is stated, being to induce the German Government to intervene in favour of the Boers.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

"HE Company's Steamship

TH

"HAICHING,".

OBITUARY.

LATER.

The Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, R.E. C.B.

Captain Davis, will be despatched for theG.C.M.G, C.I.E., is dead. above Parts, on SUNDAY, the 6th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1902.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. In a railway accident which occurred near Barbeton, Transvaal, 39 soldiers were killed and 45 injured. f379d

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA.

HE:Steamship

13084 THE:Stea

煲鸡运敏

WANTED.

WO.GOOD CHINESE TRACERS. Apply personally between the hours of 19 A.M. and 4 P.M., at ROYAL ENGINEER

OFFICES, Fletcher Street.

Hongkong, 3rd April, 1902.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"HEP. & Q. S. N. Co's Steamship

THEPSO

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" SOCOTRA," [774 FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID,

SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignces of Cargo hy the above-named vessel nie hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Compary'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.

$5.50 Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory. $3.50 Bag of 250 lbs..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hoogkong, 15th March, 1902,

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LEVY HERMANOS.

JEWEL

DIAMOND AND WATCHMAKERS,

EASTMAN'S

KODAKS and FILMS. Sole Agents for "OMEGA" WATCHES. HOMEGA" is the best, "THREE YEARS guarantee given to every purchaser.

QUEEN'S ROAD,

Watson's Building.

This vessel brings on Cargo:-

From Madras, ex S.S. Nowshera.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before

FM, TO-DAY

Goods not cleared by the roth instant, at 4 P.M. 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 Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which 00 Claims will be recognised.

É. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent

!

Hongkeng. 3rd April, 1902.

THE POPULAR. SCOTCH

IS

BLACK & WHITE."

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.

SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS. By Appointment to

HM. THE KING.

SOLE AGENTS:

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

HONGKONG.

BANJOS

STEWART AND BAUER'S

20th Century” and “Thoroughbred

also

"WASHBURNS."

STRINGS,

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MANDOLINES, GUITARS,

FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

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

Hong

28th January, 1902

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"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain E. Fey, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 8th instant, At 3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSUON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1902

(384xl

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA. "HE Company's Steamship

ΤΗΣ

"LOONGSANG," Captain Weigall, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 9th instant, at 4:P.M.

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

JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.

[4014 Hongkong. 3rd April, 1902.

Intimation.

During the past week 23 Boers were killed, 204 taken prisoners, and 49 surrendered.

magda je varndes & Cover

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE SAILORS' CLUB at Canton has been closed..

his new position as Commissioner there, perience in the offaits of our colony. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Dublin, and was a first honour-man and prizeman in classics and modern, languages, This enabled him to pass a competitive ex amination which resulted in his being ap pointed, in 1881, 10 aongkong cade

DRY DOK FOR MANILA----The Manila Timer has received a wirs from the Associated Press to the effect that the Navy Department will vote $1,000,000 for building a dry dock at Manila..

INVENTOR FOUND SHOTME Rupert Greville Williams, inventor of the telepanto graph--the instrument for sending sketches by wire has been found in his green-house at Heywood shot dead. He was 46.

PLAGUE having broken out at Manila it is announced that after the N. Y. K steamer Kumane-maru, which left Kobs for Australia on the 25th ult, the calling, of vessels at the port will be discontinued for the present. THE R. G. A. ATHLETIC SPORTS were held in the appy Valley this afternoon in very fine weather, and the events were well con tested. A large gathering of spectators wit nessed the proceedings, which were terminated by the presentation of prizes. COCOANUTS FOR THE KING: A very interesting and appropriate suggestion has been made that a selection of cocoanuts should be sent Homs as a Coronation gift to the King from the tree his Majesty planted at Hanwella when he visited the Colony as Prince

of Wales.

THE ENGLISH MAIL of the 1st March was delivered in London on the 29th March. THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL, ERRONEOUS REPORTS appear to have the Hon. A. G. Wise, took up his new position gained currency yesterday to the effect that Sir yesterday at the Supreme Court.

Thomas Jackson, the late manager of the THE CLEANSING GANG have dealt with Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, was a pas. 1,032 houses, fumigated 1,600 flours, and clean-senger, homeward bound, on the Empress of sed 2,735 floors during the fortnight ended zzad March.

1. E. MAJOR GENERAL SIR W. J. GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G., and Lady Gascoigne have been for a trip up the West River beyond

Wuchow.

A QUANTITY OF OLD PEKING CURIOS will be offered for sale by Messrs. Hughes and Hough in their auction-rooms on the 5th

instant at 2.30 p.m.

THE BIG FINE of $250 was imposed on Chau Ho, a married woman for being unlaw fully possessed of 15 taels of prepared opium. She could not pay and had to go to prison for

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A BANDSMAN from H.M.S. Goliath evident ly ran amok the other day for he was charged at the Police Court this moming with having assaulted & Chinese student, and behaving disorderly and damaging a rickshaw. On the first and third charges he had to pay $6.50 and on the second he was acquitted. AN ANSWER REQUIRED: What is the matter with Hongkong asks the Kobe Chronicle. Plague appears to be endemic there, several cholera cases of the worst type have recently occurred, and the latest papers bring news of three cases of small-pox. The sanitary expert who has been sent out from

ner Wine, Green Seal Capsule $10.80 $ago RECLAMATION

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China, which sailed on Wednesday. As a matter of fact he is not leaving the Colony until some time in May..

PRIEST AND NUNA "priest named Barbics has eloped with a nun named Vilanda from Agram, Vienna. The priest supplied the nun with ropes, whereby she let herself down from her room in the convent, Soft, above the ground, during the night. The priest, dis guised as a pedlar, was waiting below. The nun changed her robes for the dress of a pea- sant woman, and together the pair proceeded to America, where they have since married They are now trying to found a new sect among the Creats of Chicago.

THE DALLAS COMPANY H. MS, Irresponsible was again staged by the Dallas Co. yesterday and a large and appreciative audience greeted the rising of the curtain. We have already given in a recent issue a synopsis of this play so that it is unnecessary to again go into details. The parts taken by Mr. Dallas and Mr. Percival Knight were capitally rendered and the Company acquitted them selves in their usual excellent manner, The Belle of New York will be repeated to-day and the Geiska to-morrow; a variety entertainment will take place on Saturday and on Monday they will close their season with A Message from Mars.

SANITATION-It is a wonder that those

Per day. Perbet, home to examine into the condition of the

residing in Belilios Terraces have not made any Colony has not arrived by any means ton soon,

complaints to the Sanitary Authorities respect WORK IN NAGA- ing the disgraceful way in which rabbish is SAKI--An Important meeting of the Nagasaki strewn along the steps leading to the various Harbour Improvement Committee has been terraces. Ina corner may be seen, every evening held at which it was decided to start the work from 7 o'clock, a heap of rubbish, ready for of changing the course of the Nakajima river transfer into the carts that make their rounds at once. A reclamation area of about early the following morning. It cannot be the 2,800 sute is expected thus to be inmates are unaware that this must be the work obtained at a cost of Yen 200,000, and, this of their servants, Cannot the Authorities devise expense is to be offset by the income derived some means to remedy this evil if the house- from the land. The reclamation work at holders are either too negligent or unable to Inasa is to be stopped while this is going on." prevent their servants from disinfecting that DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG part of Robinson Roads By the Empress of China, Commodore Francis Powell, CB., R.N., accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Powell, left for home yesterday. A large gathering of friends, including their two married daughters, boarded the steamer before and during the interval of the concert.

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AS. WATSON & CO. LIXITED, The Hongkong Dierensazy,

In April, five years later, the duties of acting assistant Regi General, and in January of 1887 he was appointed acting, assistant Colonial Secretary. Two years afterwards he was made secretary to the Board of Examiners, and in 1891 was assistant Colonial Secretary. From April, 1889, te December, 1891 he acted as private secretary to H.E. Govenor Sir Des Vaux, Sir F. Fleming and Major General Barker. For about six months. of the succeeding year he was acting Colonial, Treasurer, and upon the death of Major General Gordon, in February 1893, ho was Gazetted CaptainSuperintendent of Police. In May, 1895, the honour of a Com- panion of the Distinguished Order of St Michael and St. George was conferred upon him in recognition of the services rendered by him during the great epidemic of bubonic plague at Hongkong in the previous year. Mr. May was amongst the Companions of the Order, who afterwards were introduced into the presence of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria on the occasionof the bestowal of the honour. Only two months previous in consequence of the retirement of Sir George O'Brien, the present Colenial Secretary (the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G.) was appointed to that position. The same year Mr. May became member of the Legislative Council, and during the time he was Capt. Supt. of Police he also held the Office of Governor of the Gol

and Capt Supt. of the Fire Brigade. He will be welcomed back to Hongkong by many friends as notwithstanding his somewhat auto cratic manner, is absolute integrity and devotion to duty has always been recognized,

CONCERT AT KOWLOON INSTITUTE.

A very successful Concert was given by the Ethiopian Minstrel, Troppe in Kowloon Insti tute last night The programme with

one dull moment, Songs, jokes full swing from beginning to end and there allusions, which caught on at once; côt

Flocal

her. undrums, and dances succeeded each without a single hitch and the audicace, which

high good humour from start to finish. Crowded the concert room, was kept in The closing item, A Debate on the abolition of the toasting fork provoked roars of laughter. Frequent encores were demanded during the

Course

of the evening and it was nearly eleven. o'clock when the proceedings came to an end. Great credit is due to the promoters for the energy with which it was carried through, The financial results will, we understand go a good way towards paying the cost of cleaning and refitting the Institute. It the remainder of the mor will be raised by a Concert which Bandmaster Moir of the RWF is organising for the 17th inst

The full programme is given below

Seng yoga ho's that calling so sTVOEL, Song Want you let me kiss you, Dinah Sontinuavel • Shea My Lady, Loye

A.GRAND VARIETY CONCERT was held song... in St. Patrick's Club yesterday evening and. was largely attended. A naval string band was present and played various selections

to wish them bon voyage. Commodore Powell The principal items were Home, Diarie, was in charge of the Naval Dock Yard here for Home and Fit for Tat, by Mrs. Brand the past three years. Mr. David Gillies, the the comic songs-House to iet and Thaftl recently retired chief manager of the Hong-doodle doodle do by Mr. Robins, Fallig

in and Falling out by Mr. Kent, and Song, kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld, was a passenger on board the N. D. L. steamer Girlie girlie and Right in the middle of Debara Bayern. He was seen off yesterday by nearly the road by Mr. Burgess, Miss Dolly Terril, the whole staff of Europeans in the Dock Co. a tot of 6 years, accompanying her father in About thirty launches, decorated with bunting, song, on the piano, was loudly, app accompanied the buge mail-boat down the The proceedings terminated with a laughal

sketch entitled "Don't grumblé," Harbour, whistling sirens and firing crackers. THE POLO CLUB ANNUAL DINNER was SMUGGLING CHINESE IN AMERICA held in the Hongkong Hotel on Monday even. Port Townsend-The smuggling of Chid ing, Hon.. T. H. Whitehead taking the chair, from British Columbia continues, and a nu After the customary loyal toasts, the Chairman, have been recently landed on the nume in referring to Lieut.-Col. Koe's indefatigable islands between here and the Britis work as Honorary Secretary of the 'Polo Club, sions. The approach of the fishing and as a memento of the member's appreciation caused a revival of Chinese smuggl of his services, presented him with a souvenit, according to the reports received her wishing him on the occasion Godspeed being brought over in sloops (Lieut. Cal Koe left by the Empress of China British side at night, and if the yesterday) Mr. Whitehead concluded by asking reach their destination befor the members to induce others to join the Club, run into some cove, where they as it would stimulate the present members to darkness, when they, proceed keep the Clob always in a flourishing condition. tion. The revenue cutter After toasts for the Navy, Army and the among the islands and to overh Civilian supporters of the Club had been drunk and she sailed last night for and replied to, a very enjoyable evening was ass ting the two revenus, brought to a close, o

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