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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY APRIL 9, 1902.

OF GARDENS IN JAPAN.

The artstic powers of the Japanese lands cape gardener are never more clearly, shown than in the cnstruction of bis garden bridges.

pirit creases it gladly; it is the high road of A bridge is always a consoling object-the

Fancy, the legitimate pathway of Hope, the out it would be more impassable than walls of overcoming of some empty space which with- stane; it is the link with the aerial beyond and our-feet are in haste to reach it and to spurá the barriers of finality. The humblest form of bridge is the one generally used in an iris, garden.

near the

Hotels.

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN,

„PLUNKET's Gar, the PEAx, near the Tran TERMINUS, Tel. 58.

For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 2nd July, 1900.

MANAGER,

GO TO THE

KOWLOON

I

Manager,

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HOTEL,

Proprietor

KOWLOON J. W OSBONNE, HOTEL CENTRAL,

No. 179, Settlement, Yokohama,

Jails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

(THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY).

PROJECTED SAILINGS, FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

7

STEAMERS.

AWA MARU.....

N. Treant

THE most centrally situated Hotel in Yokohama within five minutes of Hatoba (Landing

Pier), Banks, Post Office and Principal Foreign and Japanese Stores, met on arrival. Tariff inclusive of board from 3 yan a day. French Spoken. English and French Cuisine, Airy and Spacious Bedrooms. Electric Light throughout. All steamers

French Billiards. Best qualities of Wines and Liquors.

Telegraphic Address:-.

"VERISSEL," Yokohama:

"Finally we pray His Majesty to remove the Chattered Company and again take over the direct Administration of this Cof for make it an appendage of the St.

under a Deputy Governor sments appointed by the Crown or the shents with a representative of the Legislative Council We now pay $4,050, for Governor and staff, and $5.470 for Resident, and stag in all $9,620 per annum. For this amount less we ought to obtain a capable office As an alternative, we would gladly" be placed under the administration of Rajah Brooke of Sarawak (le was large intersts in the immediate neigi horhood, thoroughly

J. H. DOWNS, It is so filting for its understands the people of this part of the world, place and object that it explains it own exis and his adulnistration is pure and beyond fence at sight. So the bridge that leads you reproach, it is intolerable to have officials past the beds must be low, as appointed by the Chartered Company's Board fowers as it can be Inid; it needs no orna- of Directors subject to them and their lust for ment, for that would only distract your eyes revenue to pay dividends, apart from the other from their perfections; it must meander in such grave" inconvéniences we have mentioned. away as to give you a view of every spike; The Chartered Company have been given and it must be fairly wide and safe, lest, in a fair trial. They have administered the colony sudden transport of admiration, you should for 11 years and their rule has been a failure. topple over and find yourself trying to take The Colony has deteriorated all round. Roads, root in warm mud. So, in and out, in and out, in perfect order when the Colony was handed among the iris beds, wanders the low causeway over have been neglected and are now impass-called, from a famous iris garden in Mikawa able bridges baye tumbled down and have not where it was first adopted, the Yatsu-hashi been replaced, the outlying districts are now bridge. The most modest of all bridges, inaccessible, public works have been abandoned soine gardeners maintain that the Yatsu; and a want of interest in the welfare of the bashi kas à pleasing effect even Colony is generally no iccable. They have used to span some stream of pond which taken our corn and given us o

chaff in is bare of irises, but seen thus it seems in- return.

We further; pray "you to accept complete to eyes that have beheld it in us this memorial although sent direct. We right relation to those regal flowers. A more are aware it is usual, to send such documents ambitious bridge is the one known as the through the Governor in other British Colonies. bracket bridge, and although the Japanese have In our case the conditions are different made this their own, I cannot help connecting Although nominally a British Golany, our it with the Chinese scenery, having constantly Government is administered by a Chartered met with it in the Imperial gardens near Peking, Company and the Governor is immediately | This kind of gaiden bridge usually carries an under their orders. Whilst we have every elaborately ornamental mil or trellis, so that confidence in the Governor's personal in any effect of severity is avoided. There are tegrity, we have none in that of the Char here and there in Japan gardens where an tered Company and this petition once atmosphere of asceticism has been sought after in their Board room might never leave and attained these pretty wooden bridges it. We therefore send a copy only to the would be considered out of place in such sur- Governor. This memorial is signed by all roundings. classes-not alone in the town of Victoria but also in the outlying villages of the island, by the oldest and youngest European, Chinese and Malay residents. It is signed practically by all

the natives who can write and they but interpret the wishes of their less fortunate brethren

unable to write. It is the unanimous wish of

the inhabitants who pray that His Majesty's Government may take the necessary action, and your memorialists will, induty bound, ever pray Manila Timer

THE SITUATION IN CHINA.

THE MARICHURIAN

TION.

I have reason to believe, telegraphs Dr. Mor rison to The Times, that the agreement signed on March 15, 1901, by the Russian Resident at Kirin and the Tartar general, granting the Ruslans exclusive mining rights throughout the large province of Kirin, which is especially. rich in coal and gold, was ratified by LI Hung chang with imperial sanction shortly after its signature It is not improbable that the similar agreement which is also believed to exist be

tween the Russian Resident in Mukden and the Governor General of Mukden was also ratified in the same way by Li Hung chang, and that the recent negotiations on behalf of the Russo Chinese Bank which provoked a foreign protest were devised to hoodwink the other Powers, Russia making a pretence to give way, when in reality she had secured all she requires by pre-existing agreements.

Russia may be well contented to proceed with her own special Far Eastern programme, writes “W. Do in the St. James's Garitte. It must be hastily assumed that this easy attitude on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. arises from a political fit of the "dolce non far niente order. or from a sudden reversion to the" laisser faire" principle on the part of the Tsar's ad- visers. Some time since Russia changed her base of Oriental policy. She knows that the world's next great war will be over Korea, and that the splendid and coveted peninsula in the Yellow Sea may itself be the cockpit of the struggle for its possession. So good an authority as the Hon Albert K. Beveridge, the Americas politician and traveller, who has made a recent tour throgh, Manchuria, says that it will not be long before that war is precipitated. He however admits that Rusaja will not do any thing recklessly to precipitate the cataclysm, That is why she bar changed her base of operations" Leaving Koren for the present out of her sphere of tangible influence, she

ziast seven years been fully prepared

ragidly.cf

Very the

ading

when

One of the most fantastic of these water- crossing is that named Nozaki Hashi, or the "Peeping Bridge. Its first introduction was probably the result of some unforeseen inter

ruption, and its continued use a tribute to its quaint prettiness. It is like a nervous woman of the distance is traversed, when it stops short, crossing a crowded thoroughfare-two-thirds

breaks and refuses to go any further. So, just and seems to repent of having come. There it

this side of mid-steam, its purpose is taken up and carried out by big irregular stepping-stones, which may lead vou a somewhat slippery dance before you reach the hither brink. The bridge, on its last two piles, seems to look mockingly after you, when it has handed you aver, with something of a drop, to these obscure guides A still more unusual form of bridge is the hog- backed ont, which Hokusai so often reproduces in his illustrations of popular scenes.

Very different in its calm beauty is the three- slab bridge of marble in a Tokyo garden. which has been aptly called the "Bridge of: Friendship. The fair broad' stones lie low over the waters of the tranquil lake. In the

Dai Nikko a similar bridge. but composed of two slabs instead of three, leads from a small temple on ta a tiny islet in the lake. On the islet stands a beautiful gateway, that beautiful shape of the "Tori" which rests on pillars planted firmly in the ground below, while its highest cross-beam, delicately upcurved, at either end, seems to be the section of a viewless circle. ⠀

There is real beauty and dignity about some of the stone bridges of the East. Nothing could be more daring and harmonious than the

27th March, 1902.

MUKE MARD

M. Yagi

SHINANO MARU”,

W. J. Curnow

WAKASA MARU

J. B. Macmillan. KASUGA MARU..............

H. Fraser HIROSHIMA MARU

T. Murai.

DESTINATIONS,

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KOBE and YOKOHAMA ......................!

{. HAMA

SAILING DATES.”

SATURDAY, 19th April, at

Daylight.

TUESDAY, 22nd April at

Ncon.

THURSDAY, 24th April, at

4 P.M.

FRIDAY, 25th April, at

Daylight.

NAGASAKI, KOBE. and YOKO FRIDAY, 25th April, at

Noon.

BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 25th April," at

COLOMBO

Noon,

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA) THURSDAY, 131 May, at

L. VERISSEL,

Proprietor & Manager.

[370d

YAWATA MAKU.. A. E. Moses

THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE

and BRISBANE ....................

(VICTORIA, B.C. and SEATTLE,"

TOSA MARU*,

H. Christiansen.........

and УОКОНАМА

THE CONNAUGHT HOUSE,

QUEEN'S ROAD.

4 P.M.

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE MONDAY, 5th May,

4 P.M.

*Through Passenger Tickets and Bills of Lading issued for the Principal Cities in the

Atlantic Steamers.

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EXCELLENT CUISINE, LOFTY-ROOMS, CENTRALLY SITUATED,

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Hongkong, 71 December, 1901..

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Under entirely new management.

¡0750)

66.

J. LACOCK.

BOA VISTA,"

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Tords comfortable ac: ommodation for travellers.

Hid most select Hotel in the Far East, beautifully situated, over-looking the sea, and

57d]

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The strictest supervision as to food and cleanliness is exercised by a European Manager

Telegraphic Address: "BOA VISTA.”

METROPOLE HOTEL. Convenient distance from town, delightful

situation.

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NOTICE.

SECOND VOLUME of BOX'S EX-

HONGKONG SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.

18, Bank Buildings, Wyndham Street. FOUNDED in 1891, by DR. CANTLIE,

H.E. POLLOCK, ESQ., K.C.

and conducted for several years by

·

TRUSTEES:

THE HANGE TABLES with Rates in 1/16ths from 1/1015/16 down to 1/8d, is now in the bookbinders' hands and will be published next week. These Tables, which run in columns of down to 14 or from 5999 down to i cent, enable 100, from £999 down to £1. and, from 19/13 the user to arrive at the value in Dollars of any sum in Sterling under £1,000 by simply HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G., adding the equivalent of the Shillings and Pence to that of the Pounds; or to get the value in Sterling of any Sum of Dollars and Cents| under $1,000 by adding the equivalent of the Cents to that of the Dollars. By these simple means of computation a very considerable saving | 89,jo. of time and trouble, besides securing a ready, means of proving accumey is secured, as i illustrated in the following examples. To reduce £879, 17.11 into Dollars at Exchange 1/10 1/16-

£879. 0. 0-89,561, 925 -

17.1 9. 745

19,571. 671 whereas with the other exchange books the process would be as follows:

58,702 550

£800. o, o

70, 0.0,

761. 473.

9.-0. 2.

་

97. 904

17. 0

11,

9. 247

*

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$9,571. 671

same rate of exchange ----

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STEAM FOR

STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, ADEN,

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To be Let.

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WO SPACIOUS GODOWNS at WAN- CHAI, lately occupied by the Hongkong Land Kowloon Wharf and Codown Company,

Ld., To Let from the 15th April.

Also a SMALL ROOM for Office suitable fio a broker in central locality.

For further Particulars, apply to

N. MODY & CO., 54-56, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 4th April, 1902

[4058

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(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA Garden BedroDetached House

CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN Ports).

THE Steamship

"MALTA," Captain.C. L. W. Feild, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for MARSEILLES.and LONDON (DIRECT) on SATURDAY, the 12th April, at Noor, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above

Ports.

Parcels will be received at this Office until 4

F.. the day before smiling. The Contents and

Value of all Packages are required.

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of ike Company's Bills of Lading.

· For further Particulars, apply to

E. A HEWETT,

Superintendent, bangkany, 29th March, 193

NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, "

VIA

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KOWLOON, in

Dining Room, Drawing Room, Kitchen and Outhouses, suitabla for Family or Bachelor's Mesa.

Apply to

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392d

TO LET.

OFFICES in Ground Floor of DES VEUX ROAD and ICE HOUSE STREET. For Particulars, apply to

THE MEDICAL HALL,:

70, Queen's Road Central: Hongkong, 4th March, 1902,

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FOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, -CON-

HOUSES

DUIT ROAD,

GODOWNS at BLUE BUILDINGS. HOUSES at Causeway Bay, facing the

Polo Graind.

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. Apply to

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[zogo

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Per Half Year FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA," THE KENNELS MAGAZINE GAP.

Apply to

.Per Mouth,

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Intending Subscribers are requested - tó apply to

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Full-moon #bridge. of China as reproduced amidst the gentler scenery of Japan. The Full-moon bridge is built out from the bank in solid blacks of marble, till the current rushing under it appears to be flowing through a perfect circle of which the upper half only can be seen. At Osaka there is a splendid bridge!!which lies across a stretch of lotus-covered stream, The high, bold arch rises as if to lead you up among the tree branches, and these reach, down to meet the tmveller, nothing lothi The whole span beneath is or to reconvert the dollars into sterling at the CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS intersected with cross-beams which form, in their square-bewn strength, a fire contrast to the delicate hand-rail above, and through the openings is sean a straight wooden bridge crossing the same river just beyond this spot, its level lines beightening the majesty of the "pringing curves in the foreground. many arched bridge at Iwakuni bestrides a river and forme a public highway, so perhaps it has no rightfal place in a treatise on garden architecture; put itu maiŝive stone foundations" and vigorous arches, give it, a ebaracter of its own Mr. Hugh Fraser in Country Life.

WANTED: A SHELL.

The

Avery important question of a novel kind is to stated by the Army and Navy Journal of New Rgnificent York to be now being considered by naval on. under the gineer. It has to do with the probable indirect the situation effect upon a warship of the repeated impact of Russian officer is

aurianae facto projectiles from guns forming the battleship's Governors of the secondary armament, the 8-inch or 6-inch guns. Shingkin Up to now it has been found impossible to get the absolute

a'satisfactory shell, which will pierce n battle. tip' è armour plate and explode on the other side. But it is held by many experienced off- cere that shells, even if they do not pierce the par, may have the effect of putting a ship

of action by throwing out of gear some of

mux giram cylinders, or the countless

f various sorts and bolts on which

warships depends.

The

resent the subject of serious: In- the Navy Department. And

WHITE BLUE;

COFERE

$9,000.000 827, 6.10, 8 571,000- 52. 9. 9.11

.671=

.1.3.33

879.17.11.00*

but by other books it would be:' .$9,000,000-£827. 6.10. 8

500.000

70,000m 6. B. B.

1.000

500-

70- I

45-19.34

1.10. 1

I. 1.

879.17.11.00

Every care has been taken in compiling these Tables to insure their accuracy and even as the book was being printed the last impression of each sheet was taken and carefuly rechecked by two separate persons and any little errors in reading which will crop up in such works as these are carefully corrected in each copy. before it is issued, thus making it a most accurate and useful book. Subscriptions for this and the previous volume, may be sent to the Daily Telegraph Office, Price $10 per copy, Hongkong, Toth February, 1902. [1jad

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HE attention of Passengers is directed to The very cheap rates offered by this Line No. 8, Queen's Road West, to the PACIFIC COAST and to the INTERIOR and EASTERN CITIES of the UNITED STATES sad to EUROPE,

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