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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1902.

To-day's

Advertisements.

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTIC

OTICE is hereby given that at a Meeting of the Company's Directors, held at the Company's Office, No. 2; Connaught Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the th April, 1903, il was resolved that a CALL of $2.50 and $1.50 premium ($4 in all) per Share should be and the same was thereby made upon all holders of partly paid-up. Shares in the Company, such Call to be payable on the 1st, May, 1902, to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at their Offices at Victoria, Hongkong

If the above Call be not paid on or before the said 1st May, 1902, interest thereon at the

1st May, 192, till acival payment will become

Epayable.

$1.75 per doz., less $1.00 allowed. Bottles returned.

WATKINS

LIMITED,

CHEMISTS, ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,

APOTHECARTES HALL

presention at the Company's Office of the Bankers' Receipt for payment of the Call together with the Certificate of the Shares in respect of which the Call has been paid, an endorsement to that effect will be made upon the Certificaic.

Intimation.

A. S. WATSON

AND CO., LTD.·

ESTABLISHED A. 181

small importance. The present rising, THE WRECK OF THE SENDAI MARDA however, seems to have more vitalitySecretary Heki, and all the persons who about it than is usually the case. The suffered shipwreck in the Sendai Maru, leader is said to be a veteran of the at Fusan on the morning of the 25th March Taiping rebellion and, as the hub of the the warship Helsm. 'All are well. insurgent party is forged of the troops.

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raised during the Boxer disturbances, it is AUSTRALIA AND MEAT CONTRACTS only too probable that arms and ammuniMr. Barton, the Federal Premier, baving tion are fairly plentiful. Whether or no they will be able to keep up their supplies the meat contract for the supply of the army in minde representations suggessing a rovision of remains to be seen, but every town captured South Africa, Mr. Chamberlain has teleginphed and every village,raided will doubtless con- tribute its mite, and captures from the in reply regretting that the proposed revision Imperialists will still further strengthen the is impossible. hands of the rebels.

CHINA, JAPAN AND ENGLAND In in The insurgents, we are told, arc aiming at the capture of the provinces of article on the prospects of reform in China, Yunnan, Kwang-si and Kwangtung, with the the Times says that England's business is to rate of $12 per cent, per annuns from the said WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS:object of throwing off the Manchu yoke and back Japanese efforts, and at the same time to setting up. an independent Government of learn how to make effective effort herself with their own. So far as can be learned at the object of encouraging and supporting present, no auti-foreign movement is included reform policy. in their programme, as they see that such an, attitude would bring down the wrath of the various Powers upon them and probably result in aid being given to the Imperialists for the restoration of order. We are told, in fact, that care will be taken to interfere as as possible with foreign trade and that to effect this no attack upon Canton will be attempted until such time as the whole of the three provinces have been thoroughly reduced to order under the new rule. This looks all very well upon paper, but we have yet to see how the rebels will pro- ceed once they emerge from the far interior and approach within reasonable distance of treaty ports. Also, does the Anglo-Japanese Agreement provide for the maintenance of Manchu rule or does it only operate so far as foreign territorial seizures are concerned? In the event of the rebellion continuing and spreading, this point will have to be con- sidered..

By Order of the Board of Directors,

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 16th April, 100z,

N°

NOTICE.

IN THE MATTER OF THE SHAN LUNG BANK.

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TOTICE is hereby given that the 25th instant, is fixed for the PAYMENT of the Last Dividend at the OFFICE of the Undersigned.

EWENS & HARSTON,

Solicitors for the Trustees. Hongkong, 16th April, 1972.

T449d

THE MEDICAL HALL, GERMAN DISPENSARY.

No. 86, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, No. 70, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL has been.

FACTORY:-Mason's Lane.

WAL KIN TAI YEUK FONG. 房菜大建威

Branches also 'at

Canton, Shanghai, Hankow and Peking.

Hongkong, 10th February, 1902.

17140

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY; LIMITED,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

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

SHEWAN, TOMÉS & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1902.

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, HONGKONG.

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WING to the insufficiency of accommoda- tion in the present building and the in- creasing demand for admission, it has been found necessary to extend the wings of the main building and to enlarge the Chinese de- partment by an additional storey with two wings. The estimated cost will amount to over $15,000. To cover these expenses we Appeal to the liberality of all friends of Education. The establishment has been in existence for the last 25 years and is open to all classes. Much of the clerical work of the, city is carried-on by its past pupils. As this is the first time we have applied for assistance we expect a generous response. The names of our most liberal Benefactors will be inscribed upon marble tablets, as a lasting testimony of their generosity. THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS Hongkong, 22nd-November, 1901.

TRANSFERRED to

DES VEUX

ROAD Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET.

Hongkong, 17th April, 1902.

(452d.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.:

THE Company's Steamship

"LOONGSANG,"

Captain Weigall, will be despatched as above

on TUESDAY, the zand.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

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 16th April, 1902.

145nd AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY. STEAM TO YOKOHAMA AND KOBE THE Company's Steamship. THE

"AUSTRIA,"

Captain Fellner, will leave for the above places, on TUESDAY, the zgth instant.

The steamer has capital accommodation for passengers. Electric light and carries a doctor.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 16th April, 1902. 1451d

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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requested that all communication relating to Sub scriptions, Advertisements, &c., bed andreased to the Manager, Hongkong Velegraph" and not to the Editors. Leiters un Editori uatters to be sent to "The Kitor"

and not judividual menchery of the staff.

Comunications intended for publication must be accom panied by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily for publication; as evidence of good faiths. bopea for the fair discussion by correspundents of all ques Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Telegraph will always is affecting public interests, it must be distinctly under stonet that the Editor does not in any way hold himself responsible for opinions thus expressed.

THE POPULAR SCOTCH.

IS

BLACK & WHITE."

CATCH

MARI HALBA

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.

SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS. Ity Appointment to

HM. THE KING.

SOLE AGENTS:

LANE, CRAWFORD &

HONGKONG..

BANJOS

∙CO.,

STEWART AND BAUER'S

20th Century" and "Thoroughbred

also:

WASHBURNS,"

MANDOLINES, GUITARS, STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

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

ongkong, 28th January, 1901,

AUSTRALIAN WINES.

Bottled

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

CLARET.

Per Doc. Qis Per Bot:

Reserve Extra .$12.00 - $1.00 Reserve Special

15.00 1.25 Reserve Extra Special 18.00 Supreme

21.00

HOCK.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

LONDON, April 14th. The conference of Ministers at Mr. Cham- berlain's house on Saturday night lasted from 1.50 eleven. until midnight. Mr. Chamberlain 1.75 was at the Colonial Office early yesterday, and subsequently had a two hours audience with King Edward. Despatches were for warded to South Africa during the day,

LATER.

Per Dox. Qix.

Per Hot.

Reserve Extra .....

$12.00 Reserve Special

.... 15.00 Reserve Extra Special 18.00 Supreme

21.00

MORE TREATY PORTS-The following piece of translation from the native papers is ingenious-The Chinese Government has agreed to open new treaty ports, but only at places where the people are kind enough to tolerate the "foreign devils," so as to avoid future complications,

TEACHERS FOR THE CAMPS The

Secretary of State has been requested by Mr.. Chamberlain to engage 40 qualified female teachers for the concentration camps in South Africa, at a salary of £100 a year, with main tenance and free transportation. The engage ment is for one year.-Reuter,

RUSSIAN STUDENTS PUNISHEDI is officially announced at St. Petersburg that 95 stúdents and others at Moscow have been banished to Siberia, 507, sent to Archangel and three to six months' imprisonment for political demonstrations and starting a movement for socialy working classes to overthrow the institutions.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR The composition of the Australian cricket team to visit England this summer has now been completed, Saun ders, Jones, Howell, and Hopkins having been chosen to fill the remaining vacancies. The players previously selected were: Darling, Noble, Trumper, Hill, Trumble, Kelly, Sydney Gregory, Duff, Armstrong, and Carter,

A BIG POLITICAL fight is taking place in THE BUDGET.

British Columbia. The provincial government The Budget has been introduced by the proposes to grant £370,000 to the Canadian $1.00 Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chan-Northern Railroad, the proposed northern competitor of the Canadian Pacific, but as the 1.25 cellor of the Exchequer. It suspends the accumulated provincial deficits are now nearly Sinking Fund, raises the Income tax one (400,003, the Government's opponents declare 1.50 penny, and increases the Stamp duty on that this policy will lead to provincial

cheques and bills

to two-pence. Tea, insolvency. 1.75

Tobacco, and Sugar are not touched. It imposes three pence per hundred-weight The Madras municipal four per cent, debenture duty on corn, and five-pence per hundred. loan for rs. 291,000; tenders for which closed weight on flour and meal. The new taxation on the 24th ult. has been remitted, tenders for is estimated to produce £5,160,000 sterling. rs. 41,0td only being received. The Madras It is further proposed to borrow fail, in commenting on the fiasco, advises the £32,000,000 sterling and to obtain the re-corporation to place the raising of future loans maining sum required by the issue of Ex in the hands of the Bank of Madras, as is done chequer drafts.

by the Calcutta municipality in connection with the Bank of Bengal.

SOLE AGENTS: A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.......

The Hongkong Dispensary.

BIRTHS.

At Kiukiang, on 6th April, the wife of Bible Society, of a daughter. LEONARD J. DAY, of the British and Foreign

At 8, Woosung Road, Shanghai, on the 10th Aprit, the wife of JAMES TIPPIN, of a son.

DEATH.

At Pdotung, 10th April, EDMUND IVOR, infant son of George and Alice Murray-Kidd,

LM. Customs. Aged 6 months.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1902.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Kwang-si Rebellion. So far, the rebellion in Kwang-si appears to have attracted little attention on the part of the Hongkong public. This is not to be wondered at, for there is always a rebellion of some sort proceeding in China, and so long as foreign interests are not affected thereby these periodic disturbances are treated with absolute indifference. Then too, Kwang-si has been threatening revolt for years past and many abortive risings have taken place, until the foreigners have grown rather tired of hearing about the great rebellion which is to engulf Southern China and put an end to Manchu rule for ever. The chief cause of this in difference, however is to be found in the fact that, so far, foreign interests have not been affected by the rebellion. We have no stories of butchered missionaries to relate and, as little trade is carried on by foreign merchants with the disturbed districts, we hear nothing of business being ruined. Hence the foreigners are, as yet, content to let the rebellion take its course without troubling their heads about it.

serious than

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE GERMAN CRUISER HANSA arrived this morning from Amoy. TURBINE DESTROYER :-The British government has ordered another turbine des-

troyer.

THE NEW BRITISH RIFLE-The new rifle for the British army is twenty-four ounces lighter than the present one. CHOLERA AT MEDINA-One thousand and fifty-eight deaths from cholera took place at Meding between the 8th and roth ult. CORONATION COMMITTEE -A meeting of the Coronation Committee will be held in the Council Chamber at noon to-morrow."

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FAILURE OF A MUNICIPAL LOAN

ENYLI Pat a carpenter Yard Extension, was imprisoned f

price

about Stooo, and a leather belt, the property

the

A DARING MEMORIAL A certain young recently forwarded an eloquent memorial to fiery official of the Board of Punishments has the Chongwu-chu, or Board of Regency, urging that the Emperor may forthwith be restored to the supreme power,

THE RUSSIAN CHINESE SQUADRON, consisting of the battleships Sorrot Veliky and Vavarin, and the cruisers Admiral Korailull

Donskoi, and Vladimir Stank arrived at Alexandria on toth sit. A large number of the officers of the Squadron attend ed at a ball given at the French Club at Port Said on 8th ult

PRESENTATION TO THE HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART CM.G. A meet

ng of the Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese will be held in the Legislative Council Chamber at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, under the presidency of Major General Sir W. J.Gascoigne, KCMG, officer administerlog the Government, for the purpose of presenting an address to Mr. Lockhart, the Rector of the College.

BRITISH FIRM SECURES BIG WARSAW CONTRACTS-According to a Vienna telegram, Mossrs, Cooper, and Co., the British electrical engineers, have secured from electric light installation, and for electric tram- the municipality of Warsaw contracts for an ways and local railways, having a total length of man arm, but were cancelled owing to the anti- 90 miles. The orders had been given to a Ger Prussian citation. There was also competition from Belgium, France, and America.

GIFT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM Lord Walsingham, who is a trusted of the British Museum, has presented to the South Kensington branch his splendid collection of microlepidoptera, which contains more than 200,000 specimens. This collection is at present at Merton Hall, Lord Walsingham's Norfolk. seat, and is not only the largest, but also the most important, in a historical sense, in exis tence. It will entirely transform the appearance of the insect section at the Natural History Museum, to which butterflies and moths at present contribute but scantily.

WALKING ON THE DANUBE -Captain Grossman begzon the 6th Feb, a walk down the Danube in his water walking shoes. He proposed to travel from Linz to Vienna, a dis tance of 100 miles. He covered twenty miles on his first day's trip, taking his wife in tow, in a small boat. The uial was

was Batisfactory, but the speed attained was by no means what he had anticipated. He stopped for the night on following day. It is reported that the peasants his way, intending to resume bis walk on the

working near the brink of the Danuble were much terrified at the range spectacle. WALDERSEE'S BIRTHDAY Berlin, 8th April. The City of Hanover ter

tendered to-day a banquet to Field Marshal Count Waldersee, BRITISH NAVAL CONTRACTS-It is In a speech Count Waldersee eulogised the who was celebrating his seventieth birthday.

ships have been placed as follows-Fairfield leadership, and made some remarks against reported that British "naval contracts for new co-operation of the different nations under bis Company, Glasgow; John Brown and Co., the so-called China Connoisseurs, who knew Clydebank; London and Glasgow Company, nothing at all about China. Telegrams of Govan; Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow; congratulations were received by him from and Armstrong, Whitworth, and Company,H.M. the Emperor, the German princes, and Newcastle, each a first-class cruiser; that the the Emperor of Austria. The Kaiser sent also Thames Ironworks Company, London, and a table service, the East Asiatic Expeditionary Palmer and Company, Jarrow, have each Corps sent an album with the pictures of all orders to build a battleship; and Willan officers who have been in China Beardimore and Company, Glasgow, an order for two third-class cruisers.

THE NEOLITHIC MAN has reached the British Museum, and a remarkable specimen he is. For one hundred centuries, more or less, he has peacefully slept in bis little stone cist NO NEW JAPANESE LOAN-The startlingly lifelike as he crouches, huddled up, on the banks of the Nile, and he looks almost Standard learns from good authority, that noin the replica of his sandstone coffin which the year. new Japanese loan is to be expected within a

CURIOS-A collection of choice curios is be sold tomorrow and Saturday by Messrs. Hughes hind Hough at their sales rooms, No. 33, Des Voeux Road.

THE GROSS VALUE of the estate. of Lieu tenant Octavius Henry Bonham Carter, aged 28, of H.M.S. Eclipse, who died in Shanghai on Oct. 12th last, is stated at £2,494.

THE LATE MR. RHODES' coffin was con structed of teak from the Zambesi forests and the tomb was hewn from a solid rock from the summit of a kopje in the Matoppo Hills.

CHINESE MINISTER AT JAPAN IN TROUBLE-From native sources we learn that the recent action of Choy Wo Pob, the Chinese Minister at Japan, in memorializing. the throne re the despatch of students to Japan, has raised a storm of popular indignas

repudiated the allegations, but only said that tion against him. The Minister has however,

though he had written to the Throne on the subject of the despatch of students, he had simply pointed out to the Peking authorities. to be more careful in future of the selection of the students, as he was of opinion that the majority of them were connected with Reform Societies, headed by: Keng yowel, and Dr. Sun Yet Sin

Museum people have supplied. He has been placed in it just as he was found on his left side, his left hand held up before his face, his knces 'drawn up to his breast, and surrounded by a dozen rude earthen pots and a few fint instruments. He belonged to the aboriginal lived long before the time of Menes, the first sace of Egypt, it is thought, and must have historical King of that country, so that he is the oldest specimen of the human race. That he Glasgow Weekly Mall has heard of the is so well preserved is due to the fact that bis, man who successfully tendered in New Zea body was treated with bitumen; probably it was immersed in, that preserving substance. name The skin is intact, and even part of the hair remains on the head.

By

CHINESE "MACS”.

land

was

53ys the

some kind of municipal work under the of Macpherson, and whose patinality. "discovered when his presence was for the elucidation of some obscure paint is the well known, as Mr

name (Cantones

six pherson."

very

Mac

DRUNK-Ingrald Joharisen, a Norwegian CHINA ASSOCIATION—At the annual firemian, of no fixed abode, was imprisoned for general meeting of the members of the Chindsig 7 days for unlawfully behaving in a disorderly Association held in London on the 11th ullo nced like Still there can be no possible doubt that manner whilst drunk on Queen's Road West under the presidency of Mr. W. Keswick, M.; the rebellion is proceeding on a large on the 15th înst. scale. and is far more

P. the following officers were elected for they definite any rising of the sort which has occurred in THE ROYAL RED CROSS-At St. James's ensuing year: Mr. W. Keswick, M.P Pre

Babe Kodelis Scotch, and sat) the South of China in recent times. The Palace, on 12th ult, the King conferred thesident of the Association and also Chairmen of hea

*** Mek÷Foy ingeniously styled him Imperial troops appear to have been defeated decoration of the Royal Red Cross upon Miss the Committee, and Sir Alfred Dent, vica all along the line, the rebels hold many im Agnes Mary Waterhouse (late Indian Nursing chairman and hon. casurer-Sir Thomas HONOURS CONFERRED ON FORE→→ portant towns; and the Canton Authorities Service), for services in China. are apparently convinced of their own.

Sutherland, G.CM.G., Sir Robert Jardines IGNERS powerlessness to deal with the matter. They FRENCH NAVAL STATION. ADVO Smith, G.C.MG., Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.

Bart, Sir E. A. Sassoon, Bart, M.P. Sit. Cecil C Ceneral are, indeed, striving their utmost to keepCATED-London, 10th April, The Figare G., Sir Alfred Dent, K.U.MG, Sir R.T. Rennie Throne at the the true state of affairs as quiet as possible,

Sir.E. J. Ackroyd, Sir Thomas Hanbury, but the arrival of refugees and the despatch

V.O. Mr. E, F. Alford, Mr. F. Anderson, of troops and gunboats to Nanning and Wuchow has made secrecy no longer possible,

A. R. Burkill, Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G. and they cannot now conceal the grave appre THE BATTLESHIP VENGEANCE has F. Comes, Mr. Herbert Dent, Mr. G. hensions under which they are labouring. been ordered to commission at Portsmouth on well, Mr. R. M. Gray, Mr. R. S

advocates the maintenance of a naval station on the Yangtze River as well as a French com mercial river steamship service.

Adry

Of course rebellions in China, although April 18 for service with the Mediterranean J. H. H. Joseph, Mr. W. Keswick, MP. Mr started with great energy, very frequently Fleet. The station originally named for the A Maitland, Mr. A. Michie, Me D come to nothing, being either suppressed Vengeance was China, but it is possible, now

T. W. Richardson, Mr. D.CR

the outset by the Imperial troops or dying that the Anglo-Ja nese understanding has H. Scott, Mr, W. M Strac of inanition through-want of support on the

part of the populace. The want. of leaders been arrived at, shall not further reinforce and lack of arms is often a primary cause of our fleet in Far Eastern waters, collapse, and hence rebellions have grown to

be looked upon generally as matters of COTTAM & CO. FOR SUN HATE

Turnbull, Mr. W. C. Ward

W. S. Young, and Mr.

ready reco

recogn

Consul who has

tion from the Chinesa Chunin