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class Chinese are
ning to grumble at the limited supp water and they are blaming the Government. According to From their idea, the Peak residents are now obtain ing a full supply, while the town is cut down Str
is utter nonsense, but nevertheless it is very widespread, and the people are asking one
to an hour a day. Of course such an idea
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also
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kong, 28th January, 1902.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
another why they, who also pay taxes, should MEASLES have been very prevalent at Koba have to pay heavily to obtain a little water of late. for drinking and cooking, while the Peak
folk are even revelling in baths supplied by A CASE OF PLAGUE is notified as bavice the Government mains. There appears to occurred at 17, Tunghol Street, and a case of be a strong feeling growing up on this sub-cholera at 22, Cross-Street. Both were Chinese ject, and if any mischief makers, of whom and ended fatally. there are always plenty to be found in times of trouble, once obtain the ear of the coolie class, there may be serious results, even ending in a riot.
The Government is certainly doing its best to relieve the people as much as possible, but so far as we can see there may be a similar shortage next year. Other waterworks are, we are told, under consideration, but we maybe excused for saying-that-we-have very little confidence in the experts at hand to carry them out. As the water question has become so important, why does not the Government seriously consider the advis ability of borrowing two or three expert irrigation men from India. There men can be obtained who have made irrigation and water supply the study of a lifetime, and not a mere side issue-as is the case with our Public Works folk. They would have a great knowledge at their fingers ends, and would be able to lead irrigation channels along the whole of the hillsides of Hongkong, tap streams, and utilize the whole of the avail. able water, in a manner which would pro- bably never occur to our own men. By them too, we believe, a scheme of water supply would be carried out quicker, cheaper and far more thoroughly than if left to local talent. We want experts and not amateurs for the apathy of our own men has left us in a predicament from which it is only too probable they will fail to extricate us under
ten years.
The Eagle Screaming Again. We are great admirers of our American cousins, but we must say that we think Mr. SHAW, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, goes a trifle far in his speech as reported by Retuer. The policing of the whole of the Western Hemisphere, including all the countries and islands washed by, the Pacific Ocean, is rather a large order, and will, we opine, even tax the resources of Brother JONATHAN. Besides, some of the other Powers may have something to say in the matter. America has not, Mr. SHAW should remember, even succeeded in policing the Philippines, and it will be quite time enough to talk about the rest of the Pacific when this little job is accom- plished. The American Eagle has done a great deal of screaming and flapping of its wings of late, but We notice Co., that it still evinces a strong partially for sit ting on the fence and remaining benevolent- ly neutral, hoping to come in for an equal share of the spoil all the same. The United States will find that the maintenance of an immense Army and Navy is not a very inexpensive amusement, especially when the freeborn American soldier and sailor has to be paid much more highly then his brother in arms of any other nation. When this tremendous police force is in being and working smoothly will be quite time enough for Mr. Shaw to talk about the transfer of the sovereignty of the Pacific from the Union Jack to the Stars and Stripes. In the meantime Mr. SHAW would serve his
The Hongkong Dispensary.
BIRTH.
At 54, Northam Road, Penang, on 15th inst., the wife of T. HILL-JAMIESON, M.IL,C.M, of i
DEATH.
son.
On the 20th instant, at Murguia, Spain, GABNO DE URRUTIA, aged 47 years, of Singa pore and Manila; by telegram.
The Hongkong Telegraph
THE M. M. STEAMER TIBRE was put up to auction sale at Saigon on the rath instant and bought by the Tanjong Pagar Dock Com- pany for $30,000.
COALING AT NAGASAKI -During the five days ending on the 15th inst. 3,580 tons of coal were taken in at Nagasaki by vessels bound for foreign ports,
PAN There
the advis
capital.
the investin
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almost rece leave Yokohama
INISTER ort has and 'will'
his post on May sthuman
THE NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS of various sorts in Nagasaki Prefecture is 67, employin 6,857 bands. Of these last the greater numb are at work either in the Mitsu Bishi Dockyard or the Takashima Colliery. stekesed
THE FOUNDATION of the Henan college buildings has been laid and the work is pro gressing in a satisfactory.manner. The Bonan authorities have arranged to set aside. Tis. 20,000 a year to carry on the work.
A STRANGE REQUEST —A Nagasaki resident named Konishi Aizo recently asked *** the Kencho to allow him to glean the waste
STAMP COLLECTORS will be pleased to leam that the Singapore issue of postage stamps may be cancelled, as the King's head is not exactly in the centre.
coal from the bed of the harbour. His applica tion was returned with the remark that permis. or such a matter could not properly be sion for s
given
THE RUSSIAN FLEET: It is reported A NAM HO! COOLIE with an abode in from Tokyo that two battleships and three first Des Voeux Road believed in, adding injury to class cruisers of the Russian Asintic Squadron insult for bo replenished his inner man by will leave these waters not later than june means of false pretences and then behaved in next, having been ordered to return home. a disorderly manner. He afterwards assaulted MR. JOHN BARRETT, formerly United his host, and damaged his coat ending the States Minister at Bangkok, is expected to sail spree by stepping into the dock and paying $8. from San Francisco about the middle of April AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT NAGASAKI for the Far East, on a mission in connection-Nagasaki possesses an Agricultural Society. with the St. Louis World's Fair.
A KONG, who had neither occupation nor fixed abode, was imprisoned month with hard labour for stealing one serge tunic and one pair of tweed trousers, value 175. 68, from John Henry Millward; at Yau-ma-ti on the 28th
instant.
DISEASE IN FORMOSA:-The Formosan Government has published statistics of the island. From these it appears that during January, February, and March $14 cases of bubonic plague occurred there, 300 of which were fatal.
THE MIKADO'S COURTESY :— Altogether twenty officers from the Italian cruiser Marco Polo, the British cruisec. Talbot, and the Ger- man cruiser Hertha were invited by the Emperor to the Cherry Blossom Picnic held in Tukyo on the 17th inst..
POPULATION OF CHINA According to a Japanese joural the latest census returns compiled by the Chinese Covernment show that the population of China is now estimated at 417,947,325, exclusive of Manchuria, which is put at about 1,500,000.
KOBE BREAKWATER FINISHED: The breakwater in Kobe Harbour near the Customs compound, which has been in course of construction for two years past, is now finished, and-affords, we understand, very fine accommodation for shipping..
CHAU YUNG, a cook from San Ning living at Hung Wo Mat-Shed was imprisoned for one month with hard labour for, together with others not in custody, breaking and entering No, 23 Temple Street with intent to steal the goods on the 28th instant at Yau Ma TIME KAD
of its own which seems determined to do good
work. This Society bas just announced that. during the week commencing January 7th, 1903, there will be held at Nagasaki an Agri- cultural Show on the usual competitive lines. BANISHED TO SIBERIA—It was officially announced at St. Petersburg last month that 95 students and others at Moscow have been ban- ished to Siberia, '567 sent to Archangel and three to six months' imprisonment for political demonstrations and starting & movement for a society of working classes to overthrow the
institutions,
THE KYUSHU RAILWAY COMPANY req alised during the last to days of March Yen 110,244 in passengers' fares, and Yen 124,313 in freight. These figures average Yen per day or Yen 52.50 per mile per day. Com pared with the corresponding period of last year the earnings per mile per day show a decrease of Yen 4.18.
KOBE MATTING The shipments of mat
ting at Kobe during March last aggregated 91,586 rolls, representing Yen 698,200 in value. These goods were principally shipped to the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and China. Smaller shipments were made to Germany, France, Hongkong, Cochin China, Hawaii, and other places.
FIFTEEN JAPANESE GENTLEMEN in Nagasaki, all of whom are conversant with the English language, have formed themseleves into a Saturday Society," with the object of social intercourse and the gaining of a better
•knowledge of our tongue.
lications Forbera for membership have been received, and it is to be hoped that the Society will meet with every
SUCCCES
elegraph country auch beiden tung hate stan SIRF. LOVELL'S MISSION: The Medical SPLENDID COLONIAL DURBAR -A
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1902.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Water Famine. The water famine, from which the Colony has been suffering for so many months, has now reached a very acute stage and rain seems to be as far offas ever. This moming a representative of the Telegraph took the trouble to count the number of coolies wait- ing to fill their buckets at the water station established near the Canton Wharf, and found that there were 235 men, women and children waiting on one side, and 239 on the other, making a total of 474. There are three of these stations established along the Praya and we are told that that by the Can- ton Wharf is by no means the best patronised. Then too the station was not visited at the busiest portion of the day, and we are informed that a couple of days ago no less than 1,565 persons were waiting their turns to fill their buckets at one time. Allowing an average of six hundred persons waiting throughout the day and supposing that twelve can fill their buckets in a minute, it will be seen that a coolie has to wait some fifty minutes in the string of water carriers before he can fill his buckets, and this added to the time oc- cupied in carrying the fluid to its destination quite accounts for the high prices being charged for water.
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to the redressing of a few of the grave scan- dals coming to light in the Philippines. There is a good deal of police work for Mr. SHAW to do in his own before he invades other streets.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. MR. BRODRICK ON THE WAR. LONDON, April, 26th,
Fraternity of the Colony has been invited to meet Sir Francis Lovell at dinner at the Hong kong Hotel on Thursday next and to hear from him the details of his mission on behalf of the London School of Tropical Medicine JAPANESE LOAN TO BE REDEEMED The amount outstanding of advances made by the Nippon Ginko to the Japanese Govern ment, is now given as Yen 13,500,000. This will, a Tokyo telegram states, be redeemed in a few days with Government revenue procured from sake brewing and Income Tax
Mr. Brodrick speaking at the Borderers dinner, said that we were perhaps in sight of peace in South Africa, but that in the inter-
AN EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPH of Prince val we should continue sending out men and Tsai Chen, the Chinese Special Ambassador to materials to carry on the campaign for an-the Coronation, and suite together with the other year or two if necessary.
THE NEW SHIPPING TRUST. The Daily Telegraph says that the vessels of the new shipping combination belonging to British companies will remain British, and be under the control of British managers. In the event of war in which Great Britain, the United States or Germany may be in valved, the combination agreement comes automatically to an end.
scheme is on foot in Colonial circles for a great and essentially Colonial demonstration in the shape of an impressive ceremony at the Albert Hall, where an address will be presented to the King in the presence of the Queen and other Royalties by all the Colonials, then in London, The function will take the form of a splendid Colonial durbar.
CHINESE ARE NOT POPULAR on gold- fields, and the Mundic Miner of North Queensland, in a recent issue, after relating that two Celestials had found a slug of gold worth £160 and several small pieces, adds:
It is disheartening to think of the weary fos sicking our own countrymen have done around Talbot Creek, and then the cove
yama Okinawa-ken, the and inst, for Yona
JUNK
coveted metal is
Headquarter House party has been received
at last unearthed by aliens." from Mee Cheung's photographic studio. The grouping is most artistic, the photograph ADVENTURES OF beautifully clear and the whole production a Hidachi-maru broug
Weight tmen and one was credit to the photographer.
from a derelict junk GOLD FOUND IN KIRIN According to Hongkong. These peopl
despatch from Kirin, China, a Japanese mining engineer travelling in that region bas discovered a rich gold bearing district at Sanken a heavy gale, and drifted helple not far from the city of Hunchun, in Kinn pro-living on usbolled rice vince.
The discovery was reported by the They have been sent to Japanese to the Kirin authorities, and the lucky finder is to enter into an agreement for JAPANESE MERCH the concession with the Chinese Government, A. Japanese gentian guaranteeing to pay an annual royally of 15 per cent on the output.
THE RIOTS IN RUSSIA.
April 27th. Disorder is increasing in Russia. The peasants have devastated sixty extates in the province of Poltava, Southern Russia, and PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played
tured peasants are knouted en masse. The Tear has abandoned his proposed visit to Moscow owing to the agitation.
Y.K.S.
to Nagasaki from
Fort
Arthur has stated to
two
Japanese merchants Japanese Government
prior to his departi added that when
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God Save the King NEW BRITISH WAR OFFICE REGU LATIONS will lay down that an offic
The water is now only turned on in the City for one hour per day, from 6 to 9 am, in Kharkoff province the landowners and by the Band of the 22nd Bombay Infantry on the Russian authorities and during that time all taps are opened in stewards are fleeing and abandoning all to the New Recreation Ground, to-morrow, from order to obtain a supply, with the result that the infuriated peasantry and workmen. An 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
PROGRAMME... the water is all drawn off long before a fourth part of the town has been served, and attack on the town of Kharkoff by the rioters those who are unable to obtain a supply from is expected. The authorities show either their taps are forced to purchase it. Thirty pusillanimity or ruthlessness, and the cap. to thirty-five cents per bucket appears to be the average price for water at the present time, and this will readily serve to show to what straits many of the poorer classes must be put, who have either to give up valuable time in carrying it for themselves, or pay this ruinous price. From enquiries made Mr. Shaw, United States Secretary of to-day we learn that some of the smaller tea Treasury, declared in a speech, that America shops, principally those patronised by the will police, not only the street wherein she coolie clase, are shutting up, for they say lives, but the entire western hemisphere, in that the heavy expense incurred for water eats up the profits of their business. This, cluding all the countries and islands. waseed to say the least of it, will seriously incon by the Pacific Ocean. American wealth venience the coolie class, for they generally and energy, plus the Hawaiian Islands, the live in lodging houses and obtain their meals Philippines, and the Isthmian Canal, and at these cheap teahouses, so that the closing also the largest merchant fleet in the world of them will be a very serious matter.
There is another phase of the water queer tion, which requires attention. The lower
AMERICAN AMBITION.
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to carry a revolver o big belt, but is also. equipped with a carbine. Some wiseacre hás induced the authorities to add that: no carbine
possible but
ammunition whatever is to be allowed? carbine is to be merely a dummy weapon, the idea being to make the officer as little guishable from his men as pos same time to prevent him from yiel temptation to shoot when he shout after his men.
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