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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1902.

To-day's Advertisements,

ENTERTAINMENT.

HE MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC

UNION

WILL GIVE AN- ENTERTAINMENT-

entitled

MAGIC MELODY,

TO-NIGHT.(MONDAY),

the 14th April, commencing at 9.P.M.

ADMISSION Hongkong, 14th April, 1902.

THEATRE

ROYAL,

CTTY HALL.

THE

INTERNATIONAL VAUDEVILLE

COMPANY.

FOR A SHORT SEASON COMMENCING

TO-MORROW

Co-day's Advertisements.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED..

FOR SWATOW. HE Company's Steamship THE

"THALES," Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW; the 15th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or l'assage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers; ̧· Hongkong, 4th April, 1903.

[4354

TO KISENYO KAISHA,

(ORIENTAL $.5. CO.) REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN

HONGKONG AND MANILA."

$1.75 per doz., less $1.00 allowed (TUESDAY), 15th APRIL, 1902. THE Company's well-known Steamship

Bottles returned.

WATKINS

LIMITED, CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS,

APOTHECARIES HALL, No. 68, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, FACTORY:-Mason's Lane, WAI KIN TAI YEUK FONG. # 菜大建威

Branthes also at. Canton, Shanghai, Hankow and Peking. Hongkong, 19th February, 1902. - (7140

WILLIAM MACLEOD, D.D.S.,

DENTIST.

Beaconsfield Arcade, Nos. 11 and 12,-

2nd Floor.

[77d

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

$5.50

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

Positively the Greatest Com- bination of Artists over brought to the Orient.

SEE THE BEATIFUL BALLETS.

20 CHARMING YOUNG 20

LADIES.

TWIN BROTHERS CARR.

"THE REAL COONS,” Exponents. of Rag-Time Singing and Dancing. CLEMENTS BELLING, America's Juggling Wonder. BROTHERS MORAS, The Perfect Athletes,

&c., &c., &c. «·

NUMBERS.

NEW FEATURES DAILY.

SEATS on Sale at ROBINSON'S at to A.M. Performance Commences at 9 P.M. Hongkong, 14th April, 1902.

[436d

THEATRE

ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO

General Managers.

Cask of 375 lbs. Net ex Factory.

83.50 # Bag of 230 Bbs.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1902.

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LEVY HERMANOS.

SATURDAY NIGHT,

APRIL 26TH, 1902. GRAND VAUDEVILLE

ENTERTAINMENT. ・・

DIAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWEL The Band of 2nd Battalion R.W.F. will be in

LERS AND WATCHMAKERS.

EASTMAN'S

KODAKS and FILMS.

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

40, QUEEN'S ROAD, ·

Watson's Building

attendance under Direction of

MR. J. H. MOIR.........Bandmaster, R.W.Y MR. Á. G. WARD. Accompanist.

POPULAR PRICES: $1, $2-& $3.

BOX PLAN at THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED!

Hongkong, 14th April,'

1902.

THE TWO POPULAR

SCOTCH WHISKY

SCOTCH WHISKIES

THE HOUSE OF CONNOR

auth

TEM WILKY WINEJD

· Belen LOT A LEADER

ARE THE CELEBRATED

"HOUSE OF COMMONS ".

Better known as

Black and White'

[White Seal]

AND

BUCHANAN BLEND

[Red Seal]

Distillers by Appointment to

His Majesty the King

́SOLE, AGENTS:

"ROSETTA MARU” 3.876 Tons, Captain Tate, will be despatched henre:for: MANILA, on or about THURSDAY, the 24th- instant, at Noon.

Comfortable cabins Excellent table. Unrivalled speed.

Magnificent accommodation.

Electric light.

BIRTHS

At Mo-chi-shan, Yenial District, Manchuria, on the 6th April, the wife of "ALBERT CP WILSON, of a daughtet.

(AND Itinoti“.

REDTER'S TELEGRAMS

THE LATE MR. CECIL RHODES.

LONDON, April rith.

arpa

with the Iber

with seniority to

in the Corps:

RNA

On the 7th April, at Government Hill, Singa pore, the wife of LE P. WOLFERSTAN, of a son.

On the 9th of April, at 11, Museum Road, The late Mr. Cecil Rhodes has been Shanghai, the wife of W. A. H. MOULE, of a interred on the summit of a kopjc daughter (stillborn).

- MARRIAGE, On the 31st ultimo, at St. George's Church, Penang, A. C VALPY, son of Rev. J. CW. VALPY, Rector, of Staple, Kent, England, to ANNA, daughter of C. A. McIntyre of Penang.

- DEATHS.

At Chelgiu, Szechuen, on the 6th of March, JEANNIE ANN STRATTON REID, of Aberdeen,- Scotland, the beloved wife of the Rev. James' Neave, of the American Bible So.iety, aged

29'years.

On the 13th March, at Tokyo, ALEXANDER CROFT SITAW, M. A. Archdeacon of South Tokyo and Chaplain of H.B.M. Legation, aged 56 years.

On the 6th of April, at Wuhu, China, Rev.

CHARLES E. MOLLAND.

The Hongkong Celegraph

the Matoppo Hills, Matabeleland, in presence of 1,000 whites and 2,000 natives. There was a simple and touching ceremonin

SOUTH AFRICA THE PEACE

PROSPECT.

The Honourable St. John Brodnak Secretary of State for War, states that the Government has not received any Boer terms for the conclusion of peace, and

Cholera,

Enteric Fever 1 cases, both European, ported from Canton,

A SUITABLE ARTICLE-Kwan Fuk. to go out in this sort of thought to himself, that as it was not good form and besidea risking priated in umbre thoughtfu

DISORDERI

For his

Fuk, will now do four-

For behaving

tion of their duty, Timothya

further, he is unable to say whether Lord teen days hard gaol, Kitchcher is authorized to offer terms other than for an unconditional surrender of the in a disorderly manner and for assaulting the whole Boer forces. In any case there will police in the

Karachi Kancin

S.S. Isla de Cuba, was fined $a, or

the first instance and ar 10 days on the second charge the sentences to be concurrent Kane went to prison.

REFU

elegraph be no Armistice.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1902,

RE-INFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

April rath

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Dumping of Plagueg Bodios. Professor SIMPSON, in his second memo- randuin on plague, makes an old suggestion, viz., that of fining the residents of a street in We do not for a moment think that such a the event of a dead body being found in it.

regulation will prove to be efficacious. In the first place it will raise a very great [171d opposition on the part of the Chinese them

selves, who will regard it as a great hardsiup. sent no proposals have been submitted to Garrison Recreation Ground, on Wednesday.

TO PAY LEGAL HIRE In addition to one thousand Guards, the Rasmissan, and B. Anderson, both seainen following drafts will begin leaving for South of the s.3. Ness, after having had a good drive Africa next week7,000 Infantry, 1,000 hen demanded. Before Mr. Kemp this round the town in rickshas, refused to pay the Artillery, 7,000 Yeomanry, and

5,000mbining, they were fined each $3, and 35 cents. Colonials."

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Ageqis Prince's Buildings,

Ice House Street,

Hongkong, 14th April, 1902.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION.

COMPANY, LIMITED. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND

SINGAPORE.. HE Company's Steamship

THE

"KUMSANG.” having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside... Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 P.M., the 17th instant, will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into Godowns at East Point,

No Fire Insuraifce will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON. & Co.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 14th April, 1902 [438d

A.

Entimation.

S. WATSON

AND.CO., LTD,

Established A.D. 1841.

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

It is understood that the Boer conferences at Klerksdorp continue, but up to the pre-

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

and in the second place we cannot see how any man is to be able to prevent a body the British. being dumped in front of his house, unless he takes the trouble to sit all night on his front doorstep with a gun. The Government, despite special patrols, failed-to-stop-the-THE-BRITISH GUNEOAT ESPIGNEL dumping of bodies, and we do not see that has arrived from Sheemess.. the inhabitants of a street would have any nore chance of preventing it than a Govern ment peuol. Such a measure would simply mean that a lot of innocent folk would be punished and no good end gained. "We predict failure in the event of this regulation being, adopted.

.

Affairs in the North. Our Tientiso Correspondent, as will be seen by a perusal of his letter published in another column, does not take a very hope ful view of the general trend of events in the north. Apparently no impression has been made upon the Court Party, and thus matters are likely to reiurn to the same old unsatis- factory state as before the Loxer outbreak and the expedition of the Allied Powers: Certainly, the instances quoted by our cor- respondent do not tend to show that China has been at all.humiliated. On the other band, it looks excessively like an impression having got into the minds of the Empress Dowager and her followers that they have in reality won. all along the line, and we should not be at all surprised if this proves to be the view really taken by them.

PEIHO CONSERVANCY-Tis, 150,000 has been put aside for the conservancy of the Peiho river.

A BARMAN at the Stag Hotel has been sent to prison for fourteen days for being drunk and disorderly on Saturday evening. CHOLERA seems to be on the increase of late. For the past forty-eight hours no less than ten cases were registered all of which ended fatally.

RUSSIAN HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT The Russian Ministry of Matine has voted 600,000 to spend during the present year on the construction and dredging of harbours the Far East.

:

KRITZINGER ACQUITTED-General Kritzinger, who was captured some time since and has been tried on serval charges of breaches of the rules of civilized warfare, hat been acquitted.

THE EIGHT JAPANESE DOCTORS en- gaged by the Hongkong Government for the purpose of assisting in the prevention of plague arrived in the Colony yesterday on board of the Shinano Maru.·

As we have frequently pointed out, the Dowager and the Conservatives must see that once China, commences to advance along the path of reform their occupation will be gone. Young men who have received a training in western methods and ideas will [4370 WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. be required to fill all the more important

posts, and the Conservatives who have PLAGUE For the past forty-eight hours, two. hitherto held them will be ousted and lose cases of Plague, terminating fatally.dccurred all chance of feathering-their-nests as they in No. 1 Des Voeux Road Central and No, have done in the past. circumstances it is not surprising that the victims were Chinese.

Under thèse Second Street respectively. In both cases the Conservatives should eagerly seize upon anything which holds out the slightest hope MR. THOMAS SKINNER, Surveyor of Un of the coninuing to maintain their licensed Steamships, has been granted leave of supremacy. If they see that by secretly absence for twelve months from the 26th inst fortering an anti-foreign movement they stand a chance of dusting the foreigner Mr. Archibald Ritchie has been appointed to and his methods there can be little doubt act for him during his absence, but they will do so, for they have had an illustration already of how easy it is to escape all punishment for such misdeeds.

AUSTRALIAN WINES.

Bottled by Messrs. SANDEMAN, Sydney, N.S.W.

CLARET.

RECTEN OLD:

NEMOLISE OF COUNDA

Per Don. Qu. -Reserve Extra $12:00 Reserve Special 15.00 Beserve Extra Special 18.00. Supreme

21.00

Per Bat $1,00 1.25

150

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

HONGKONG.

BANJOS

STEWART AND BAUER'S

HOCK.

Mosquitoes and--Malaria.

compensation, to the pullers, or 4 days in the house of detention. They went to prison.

PROGAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the Band of the 2nd Rayal Welsh Fusiliers on this

next from 5. p.m. to 6: 30. p.m

9. March, Eumps

ta. Overture

Selection.us.

Piccolo

Rosamundo

**Whisper I skall ligar

Song Jenny Jonca

& Selection!! LailaChristophée Colùn 75 Galop

Plena Carlarn God Save The Eing.

Schubert Osmond Cam

Clothlide

Caryli Bokn

A QUEUE (RIDUS) STRATÁGEM: --The exchequer of one Yeung Nam being rathar $120, from one of his fellow-country men, and low, he managed to snatch a purse containing

was on the point of running away, was quickly nabbed, by the queue. to relate, the queue suddenly came the scoundrel would have made escape but for the Indg.arm morning.. before Mr. sentenced to six weeks hard labour. CEREBOS TABLE SALT, as supplied to the King and all the Royal Households, should find its way into many local residences because with our damp climate it will not readily cake and can be sprinkled lika sifted sugar. box to hand from Messrs. Boyd, Kaye & Co

sample:

of Des Voeux Road, is of extraheat quality con- taining valuable butritive ingredients which go to stimulate changes resulting in the growth and repair of brain, nerve and

It is sold by all storekeepers and is well wo th a trial,

NEW LEGAL CURRENCY IN KIANG St-According to a Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi, dispatch, Governer Li of that province bas sauctioned the printing of Government 1,000 and 950 copper, cash. nates for current use province, the said notes to be redeem- the Provincial Treasury. A mint with foreign machinery is also now being con structed in Nanchang, and it is expected that silver currency

introduced into the the inning of July DEATH SHIP AT chwang, April 2nd

New-

orweg! stcamer

with coolic passengers arrived a fer

Behera from Chefoo and was at once

quarantine, cholera having broken out the coolies, who were

the Russian authorities refused

LEAVE FOR VOLUNTEER OFFICERS Lieutenants Thomas Skinner and James W. Graham, of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps As the Government are now waging war

have been granted twelve months leave of against the mosquito with a view to absence from the 26th inst, and ist proximo, eradicating malaria from the Colony, the fol-respectively, lowi.ig extract from the Journal of Tropical Medicine should prove of interest

THE HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART -

We learn that the Chinese community will entertain the Hon. J. H. Stewart: Lockhart, C.M.G.. at a farewell dinner and present him with an address) on the 19th inst, prior to his departure for Wei-bai-wei.

to land, and required their immediate departure forc

tain of the his office

andi

who threat

siil at

tions or chor, and

kind

these instructions ed to mob them ji they made

The vessel depa the end pot yet

FORTHCOMING COND permissi

and off

"A MOSQUITO-CATCHING PLANT, Such a plant is much needed in India gener- ally and in Calcutta especially. The plant 10. which the Americans have applied this name is known scientifically as Vincetoxicum acumin- atum. It is a beautiful hardy herbaceous perennial from Japan, It is in full flower at THE HONGKONG CHURCH MISSION MO the very beginning of summer, at which time it is one of the showiest things in the garden, and continues in bloom for several weeks. It grows to a height of from one to two feet, a clump of tender stens enveloped in a cloud of star-shaped, creamy white flowers which Ito persons-59 males and si females Eight tions

ARY ASSOCIATION have just issued their yo

monthly report which shows that during the D

present year the Bishop has already confirmed and

are borne on short cymes. The plant belongs candidates at Pakhoi were lepers., to the Milkweed family and its flowers

kind

1.75 and especially mosquitoes..

secrete a viscid substance that attracts insects PROFESSOR W. A. DAVIS has been giving & Co.,

Once these

Per Doz Que Fer Bot $12.00 $100,

16.00

1.25

[343d

Reserve Extra Reserve Special Reserve Extra Special 18.00. Supreme

21.00

20th Century" and "Thoroughbred

-also-

"WASHBURNS."

MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

Hongkong, 28th January, 1902.

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

of the

insecis alight upon the flowers, and plunge an entertainment at the Club Theatre, Amoy The whole o their "beaks" into the tempting sweet, they | where his ventriloquism and mimicry held his are hopelessly entrapped. No matter how audience spell-bound. Mr. Davis has now len frantically they struggle they cannot release for Shanghai via Foochow and will doubtless themselves?

give us another visit at Hongkong.

In amplification of the above it may be stat- ed that the planı belongs to the natural order Asclepiadace, and would probably thrive in India, as many gepera of this Order are natives of this country. Any way, an experiment might be tried with it.

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THE RETURN OF VISITORS to the Cit Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 13th inst., shows-

Library. Museum. Non-Chinese Chinese

Total

H. ST. JOHN JACKSON. Editor, Indian Gardening and Planting." If, as is stated, the plant is an inhabitant. of Japan, we do not see that any great 1.50 difficulty should stand in the way of a 1.75

supply being obtained from there and A SERIOUS ACCIDENT expérimented with. They could be planted at Sai Wo Lane, when three in the vicinity of houses where malaria very badly injured ife and might have some effect upon the three youngsters were skyla health of the inhabitants, Mosquitoes are andah when, owing to some also said to sliun the neighbourhood of the castor oil plant. This grows freely here below, a fall of about fourteen reason, they were precipitated and we think that experiments might be tried with both. At all events, a trial would the youngsters sustained injuries A. S. WATSON & CO., not involve a feat outlay, and beneficial nature to their skulls, whilst the results might possibly fellow..

with a damaged ear..

LOTTAM & CO, FOR SUN HATS,

SOLE AGENTS

LIMITED

The Hongkong Dispensary,

COTTAM &

&CO. FOR

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