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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1902.

TO PORTUGAL. alien, and with his death Imperialism Bas

OPINION OF ENGLISH

OWERIN

The Portuguese expedition against Makom be, the recalcitrant chief in Mozambique, will start this month on

"received" a "dee;

Rome

Populo Romano,"

On his bier all rancour and all reviling. should be stopped. That would be the bost way of obtaining penca in Africa.-"Voce della Verita, Rome, de

A GREAT MAN.

There are many complaints that the Portu guest have no authority in this part of East South Africa has been the grave of many Africa, and a Portugese soldier has just made repulations, and some of them great ones, but an unflattering revelation by writing to the there is no one who will occupy a more pro- newspapers an account of how he was taken minent place in its history than Rhodes-not prisoner by Makombe1 The Portuguese

so much because he was great in what lie authorities sent officers with orders to Makom accomplished but because of the greatness of be to release him, and said the King of Porto-his ambitious and calibre, and the methods he gal would punish him if he did not do so relied upon for their realisation.-"New York

Sun Makombe laughed, and said the Portuguese King was under English, orders, and he was not afraid of him, and would not release the soldier.

It was only when an Englishman living in the Barua came to interview the Chief and threatened hint,with England's displeasure that he set the salier free.

"

LIKE A CANNON-DALI..

without ideals; he lived only for his schemes He was without religion, without love, and

space, travelling to its aim blindly and spread- and enjoyed life only as a cannon-ball enjoys ing ruin on its way. He was a great man no doubt a man who rendered immense services. -to-his-country, but humanity is not much in

THE EMPIRE'S LOSS.

This incident was commented on in, Parlia-debted to him."Temps," Paris, ment, and Senhor Dantos Baracho remarked that such a state of things must speedily be altered, when things had come to such a pass that a Portuguese soldier was only given his liberty on Portuguese soil through an English man's intervention.--Ex.

HOUSING THE POOR, PIONEER WORK IN CALCUTTA.

CALCUTTA, April 8th,

A commendable step towards the removal of filthy and unsightly bustees in Calcutta has been inaugurated by Babu Sita Nath Roy in the erection of a commodious dwelling on an improved sanitary model for the use of the working-classes..

no other word to describe it-there is abundant Of his personal magnetism-we can think of evidence whether it be his treatment of the Matabele in his Matoppos or of the, Raid Com- minee at Westminster. By his death the Empire loses one of her great mes, who, had he lived, might, for all his mistakes, still have

Hotels.

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN,

PLUNKET'S GAP, the PEAK,, near the TRAN TERMINUS, Tel. 56."

For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 2nd July, 1900,

MANAGER.

GO TO THE

KOWLOON

J. H. DOWNS, Manager.

Mails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

(THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY),

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HOTEL,

Proprietor.

KOWLOON. J. W OSBORNE, HOTEL CENTRAL,

No. 170, Settlement, Yokohama,

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

Pier), Banks, Post Office and Principal Foreign and Japanese Stores,

French Cuisine. Airy and Spacious Bedrooms. Electric Light throughout. All steamers French Billiards. Best qualities of Wines and Liquors. met on arrival. Tariff inclusive of board from 3 yen a day. French Spoken. English and

Telegraphic Address:—

"VERISSEL," Yokohama.

27th March, 1902.

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS.

INABA MARU

W. Bainbridge ine KAGOSHIMA MARU.........

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(MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT

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SATURDAY, 17th May, at

Daylight.

SUNDAY, 18th May,"

Daylight..

VICTORIA, B.C. and SEATTLE, THURSDAY, 22nd May, at

.......BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 23rd May,

NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-į FRIDAY, 30th May,

U.S.A., VIA MOJI, KOBE, and) YOKOHAMA

4 PM

KOBE and YOKOHAMA

-FRIDAY, 23rd May, at

Daylight.

L. VERISSEL, Proprietor & Manager.

M. Yagi......

COLOMBO

Noon.

E. W. Haswell

HAMA

Noon.

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KASUGA MARU.

H. Fraser

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG,

COLOMBO and PORT SAID

Daylight

THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE

and BRISBANE

Noon.

VICTORIA, R.C. and SEATTLE,)

MONDAY, 2nd June, at

4 F.M.

THE CONNAUGHT HOUSE,

:

QUEEN'S ROAD.

rendered it incalculable service." Westmins The most comfortable family Hotel in Hongkong.

ter Gazette."

ALWAYS FOR BRITISH PRESTIGE.. Some men with a fortune like Rhode's and more ambition for official pomp would have mounted the throne of South Africa and have established a wealthy and powerful kingdom there without much disturbance to the affairs The building, which is situated in Elgin of nations. He prefented to wield a power of Road one of the healthiest quarters of the business and money, leaving to others the town was opened this morning by the tawdry honours of office, though always further- Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, who, in declaring British prestige.—" Press," New York.. ing the building open, said the plague, which had been amongst them for the last four years, had driven, home to them very forcibly the pressing need for better and more sanitary dwellings for the people.

It was idle to leave a matter like this to the occasional and spasmodic impulse of philan thropists The demand for good dwellings would never be met on that system, but he welcomed the proposal of Babu Roy, because it was a genuine attempt to build upon a plan which would very probably pay, and the basis of which was a model working-man's dwelling.. which had been accepted in Bombay but Babu Roy had modified and altered the original and rigid Bombay plan with his foresight and shrewdness.

The building, besides providing the poor with a comfortable and sanitary elling, also promised to give a reasonable commercial return on the cost of the construction..

The Lieutenant-Governor said he was grate ful to Babu Roy for the lead be had taken in the matter. It was a pioneer movement, and he hoped it would be a precursor of many other improvements, based on similar plans for the construction of model dwellings for the poor of

Calcutta.-Er.

THE DEAD EMPIRE-BUILDER. MANY VIEWS OF THE PASSING OF MR. RHODES:

MR. RHODES AS ALTRUIST.

AN HEROIC FIGURE.

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Under entirely new management.

1075C)

J. LACOCK.

He has carried the British flag over a terri- tory nearly as great in extent as another British India. He has done more than any single contemporary to place before the imagination of his countryman a clear conception of the Imperial destinies of our race; aud with all the faults, which cannot be denied, with all the errors which have marred his noblest work, he (HOTEL SANITARIUM OF SOUTH CHINA),

BOA VISTA,"

MACAO.

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

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THE

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stands an heroic figure round which the tradi tions of Imperial history will cling.-"Times." RHODESIA'S SYMPATHY. The peoply mourn not only for the genius that saved a large Empire for the homeland, but for the man who ever had an open heart, and a generous haud, It is not too much to say that but for the fervent encouragement given by Mr. Rhodes to settlers in Rhodesia the white population would long ago have dwindled to next to nothing. It was a great achievement to obtain the territory; it was a still greater achievement to have kept the 776) people in the country" Buluwayo Chronicle."

AMERICAN OPINIONS.

A typical captain of industry, of great energy, of large conceptions, but with little scruples. It was the latter quality that prevented the realisa- tion of his grand dreams.-"New York Times"

All ambition, not that of the individual, but of the national and racial dreamer who dreamed of English supremacy. A sublimated jingo. New York. Work"

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

Telegraphic Address: "BOA VISTA."

METROPOLE

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Convenient distance from town, delightful

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BOARD AND RESIDENCE. Intimations.

NOTICE.

SECOND VOLUME of BOX'S EX-

a moderate interest in English solidified South Africa is about to be realised. in Sterling of any Sum of Dollars and Cents

Cecil Rhodes had little sympathy for English society, and politics. He worked for himself"Figaro"

IN SPITE OF FAULTS."

With all his faults, and they were neither few nor small, Cecil John Rhodes was a great Empiremaker and a Great Englander-

Telegraph."

AN EMPIRE FOUNDER.

He was the founder of an Empire, who will leave behind him the recollection of a powerful activity, a robust intelligence, and, an unscru pulous ambition. Le Petit Parisien."

SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

Mr. Rhodes represented the spirit of our age-adventurous, pushing, enterprising, full of resource, energy, and a perhaps too-assertive materialism." Standard."

A DECEPTIVE CHARACTER,

Despite his ability, his energy and his audacious enterprises, Cecil Rhodes has died leaving his character less commanding than it had appeared to be "Journal des Debats

OUR ONLY GREAT MAN. M

No one can deny to Mr. Rhodes the compre- hensiveness of the conception of his life's work nor the importance of his deeds. He was the only really great man of England. His death

New York Tribune.

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LIGHTS ON PERIM ISLAND.

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/to 116

£379, 0, 0, $9,561.926

17-

9.745

$9,571.071 whereas with the other exchange books the process would be as follows:--

or

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MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-SATURDAY, 31st May, at

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIASATURDAY, 31st May,

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA

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Hongkong, 10th May, 1902,

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STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;

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This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.s. Ville de la Ciotat, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 31st instant, Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon. don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

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STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA,

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(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA,

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Steamers,

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Olympia Glenogle

With reference to the improvement of the lights on the island of Perim, the Bombay Chamber of Commerce has addressed a letter to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Marine Department, in which it is contended

of principle, to lose the present opportunity of that it would be inexpedient, on a mere point

effecting the improvements in question in con: junction with the reconstrution of the light on Kennedy Island. The reply given by the Pre- sident of the Board of Trade to a question put to him in the House of Commons is quite or to reconvert the dollars into sterling at the CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS

equivocal as to the illegality of charging to the General Light House Fund the cast of those improvements. If that point is definite, the Bombay Committee conceive that nothing would be gained by contesting it in respect of a single and not very costly work. The ques tion of principle involved appears, according to the Advocate of India, to be whether the

has left a great gap never to be filled fact that Aden and the mouth of the Red Sea

"Berliner Tageblatt:"

ENGLAND'S INGRATITUDE

In any other country in the world the name of Cecil Rhodes would rank among the greatest of national beroes; by us in England it has been decreed otherwise. Our treatment of

of the men who have made the Empirefis one of the darkest blots on British history, Globa"

THE POWER OF MONEY AD Ange Mr. Khodes always regarded money as the only possible instrument of conquest. His countrymen, who are business men, will pro bably erect statues to his memory, but other nations which have not given up all their ideas of Justice and right will condemn him severely,

Le Matin.

AN IRREPARABLE LOSS The world loses one of the greatest men of modern times, the Empire loses one of her many devoted dervants and South Africa loses her only really groat than, The, blank

will Patlam

apa Colany the Cape

£800, 0, 0 $8,702.550 761.473 70.0.0.

.97.904 9:02,

17, Q.

11.

9.347 0.497

$9,571.671

same rate of exchange

·$9,000.000; £827, 6.10, 8,

571.000. $2.9.9.11 .671= 1.2.13

879.17.11.00 but by other books it would be:-

$9,000,000 CB27. 610. 8

500.000=

70,000

1,000

41.19, 3, 4

6. 8, 8, 6

.600.

1.10. I 6.1.3

70=

I. Q

879:17.11.00

are, for strategic purposes, placed under the Government of Bombay, ought reasonably to impose on that Government cost of lighting that waterway which is one of the most impor- Every care has been taken in compiling these tant to the shipping of the entire British Empire. This appears to the Bombay Chamber to be much too large, 2 question of principle to bc, even with the best of good will, settled by the Governments with the promptitude demanded by the present insufficient lighting of the Straits of Babel-Mandeb; and sa purely a question of principle that the ultimate decision regarding it will be unaffected by the consent or refusal of the Government of India to discharge, tentative. ly and with reserve, the expenditure at present contemplated...

The Chamber of Commerce suggest that having regard to the real danger to shipping at present existing, the consequent call for prompt remedy, tite relative smaliness of the expendi ture involved and the definite statement of the President of the Board of Trade that it would,

at present, be illegal for his Department to

butor it would be well.

Wat the Govem

nt of India should at once undertake the

ork without assistance, reserving the question

ple for subsequent discussion,

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