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Intimations.

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CROWN BRAND

WATKINS L HONGKONG

WATER.

Throughout the Manufacture of this justly celebrated brand of Table Waters all ingre- dients used are guaranteed of purest quality. The machinery used is the most modern type and we have gone to great expense to erect our plant on latest scientific principles which has such a great advantage over the j old process of manual labour still in vogue through the Colony, thereby further ensuring the purity of our products.

The Manufactory is under the personal supervision of a QUALIFIED ENGLISH CHEMIST, who has devoted years to bring this branch of the trade to perfection.

The Water used is analysed daily to en sure of its absolute purity, and when we say that our method of manufacture has been approved by Sanitary and Medical Authori ties, it is in itself a sufficient guarantee.

WATKINS

LIMITED,

66, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1902.

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND GEMENT.

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1902.

To-day's Advertisement.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED. 7

FOR MANILA

HE Company's Steamship

THE

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"LOONGSANG," Captain Weigall, will be despŕched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 11th insta it, at 4.30P.M. This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout with Electric Light.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th June, 1902.

(618d

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.

To-day's

Advertisements.

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA (DIRECT). 'HE Company's Steamship

**PERLA,"

THE

Captain G. T. Blaxland, will be despatched for. the above Port, on MONDAY, the 9th instant,

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The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation, provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with Electric Light and is supplied with a "Refrigerating Chamber.

A Doctor is carried, For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.

[6:6d Hongkong, 5th June, 1902.

NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA, (Florio and Rubattino United Companies).

STEAM FOR BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE AND

- PENANG.~~ Having connection with Company's Mail Steainers to ADEN, SUEZ, FORT SAID, MESSINA, NAPLES, LEGHORN and GENOA,

ALSO

VENICE and TRIESTE, all MEDITER. RANEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE, and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO.

Taking Cargo at through Rates to PERSIAN GULF and BAĞDAD, alsó BARCE ...LONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE, AL-

MERIA and MALAGA

THE Steamship

"BORMIDA,"

Captain Belsito, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 11th instant, at Neon.

At BOMBAY, the Steamer is discharging in VICTORIA Dock.

For further Particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to

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CARLOWITZ & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 5th June, 1902. ;)

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

"PARRAMATTA,"

[617d

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, and/or Com; pany's Lighters where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo

From London, &c., ex SS. India.

From Persian Gulf, er B. 1. S. N. and B, & P.

S. N. Co.'s Steamers.

Intimation.

A. S. WATSON

AND CO., LTD.

~ ESTABLISHED A.D. 1811.

THE CORONATION CONTINGENTS.

The Duke of Connaught yesterday in spected the Coronation contingents from the Malay States, Perak and the Straits Settlements.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THREE CASES OF CHOLERA occurred during the 24 hours ending noon to-day. SIR WILLIAM BISSET left Yokohama for England by the Empress of Japan on the 33rd

ulto.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.-notified as having occurred since noon yester

WATSON'S

CELEBRATED

E

BLEND

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH-

WHISKY.

FIVE FATAL CASES OF CHOLERA are

day,

THE GERMAN TRANSPORT, MAIN left Singapore on Wednesday, and is expected here next Wednesday.

THE HAT WARThe authorities at Hanoi are adopting a similar practice to that taken by Japan in the crusade against rats, and are offering 3 cents for each rodent destroyed. On the 7th and 8th ulto, over 7,000 rats were killed, making a total up to the latter date of 25,831. GREAT ASIATIO POLICY IN FRANCE

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RELIEFS

ROM

been decided that the stren and Indian

Chas now the Brit

is to be reduce the Legation Guard at Péking, but exci Shanghai "the" Bombay - Gaselle. The reliels from India will be arranged in accord-

RUSSIA AND CHINA'S COAL Russia

It is reported from Paris that probably these with this plan. Working on the basis that, the Legation Guard will be British troops wa former Governor-General of Indo-China, M.

make out that only five native infantry Doumer, will be appointed either Minister, of Foreign Affairs or of the Colonias, This would iments will have to be sent to North-East China and Hongkong to relieve the eight be considered as the inauguration of a Great

now there. Asiatic policy in Frince HONGKONG SHOULD FEEL PROUD for in the report of the Navy League for 1900, the following passage occurs-Hongkong retains its position as one of the strongest and most useful off thents of the League. The Executive Committee, have to thank it for free quent communications of eminent practica value.

DECREASED USE OF CHINA LEAF THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENT has

Board of Trade returns show that the consump been made at the Admiralty-Commander Rtion oftea in Gacat Britain during 1930 exceeded Nugent, to the digerine, in command, to date

six pounds per head per annum compared with five pounds in 1886, the properiton being about 31 lbs. of India, z) of Ceylon, and ¦ of a lb. of China leaf. The import from China continues to diminish relatively and absolutely.

May 1.

H.E. SIR HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G. was invited to a Court held by their Majesties the King and Queen on the ad ult. at Bucking- ham Palace.

JAPANESE EMIGRATION: According to a return made by the Foreign Office, 24,034 passports were issued last year to, Japanese going abroad.

MATCH SMUGGLERS —A Russian match factory on the Sedan River, in the vicinity of Vladivostok, has closed up because it is found that when the import duty on materials is paid, it is impossible for the factory to compete with Japanese matches, which are freely smuggled THE MARTINIQUE ERUPTIONS :—A

into Manchuria. The stock of unsold matches small scientific commission has started for then the factory amounts to 2,000 cases, and the West Indies to investigate the causes of the price, which at one time ruled at 43 loubles late eruptions in Martinique.

per case, is now reduced to 36 roubles without RUSSIAN TRADE FOR 1901 :—–The Russian buyers. retures of trade for 1901 shows that Exports amounted to 729 million of roubles, and Im- ports to 523 million of roubles. CHINA CONFERENCE BOATS It is

announced that the China Conference steamer

Our Celebrated1E'LIQUEUR SCOTCH. freights will be immediately reduced to prac. WHISKY is a Blend of the Finest WHIS-tically the same level as the New York rates. KIES distilled in. SCOTLAND Specially selected. It is of great age. Very fine and

mellow.

Its superior quality has established its reputation as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.

PER DOZEN $15.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless A. S. WATSON & Co.,

instructions are given to the contrary before -5 P.M., TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 12th instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.

All damaged Packages must he left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival bere, after which no Claims will be recognised.

E. A. HEWETT

Superintendent. Hongkong, 5th June, 1902,

THE POPULAR SCOTCH

IS..

BLACK & WHITE.”

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.

SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS.

By Appointment to.

H. M. THE KING.

SOLE AGENTS:

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

HONGKONG.

BANJOS

STEWART AND BAUER'S

“20th Century” and “Thoroughbred

also

WASHBURNS. MANDOLINES GUI

GUITARS.

STRINGS FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

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

Tosse

LIMITED,

The Hongkong Dispensary,

DEATHS.

proprietor of the Adelphi Hotel (by cable).

At Vienna, on the 24th May, J. HASSNER, On board F. and O. s. Oriental, at Royal Albert Docks, London May 4, T. RAWSON KER, age 50.

At Boston, U.S.A., on April 20, T. G. WHEELOCK, aged 18 years.

THE GUNBOAT REDPOLE, home from the China Station, was paid off at Devonport on 8th ult. by Captain J. Ferris, and passed into the D. Division of the Dockyard Reserve, NINE TIMES ROUND THE WORLD A Rural postman' in Kent who has just retired after thirty-six years' service, is said to have travelled a distance equal to nine times round the globe.

CORONATION REHEARSAL-There has been a most successful rehearsal of the Corona- tion precession, which will be repeated shortly, during which the procession will march through the streets of London.

DECREASING :-According to the returns made on the 31st December last, there were under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Consul at Scattle, 19,862 male and 243 female Japanese residents, being a decrease of 1,500 persons as compared with the same period of 1900. JAPAN has now in all sixty-eight Consulates including branches, and I commercial agency. These offices are filled by 5 Consul-Generals, 25 Honorary Consuls, and i Commercial Agent, the remainder being represented by Consuls, Vice-Consuls or officials representing Consuls.. UNWHOLESOME FRUIT:-Despite the

has for some time been acquiring coal fields in Manchuria, to provide, coal for her Asiatic Squadron, the Volunteer Fleet, and the Siberian Railway. Since March the Russians have been working two coal mines in Shingking province,

is the

name

of a Chinese, in addition to the

two mines recently opened by the East China Railway Company It is reported that the coal. from the new mines is of excellent quality, and the deposit has been ascertained to be very extensive Engineers and some hundreds of miners were sent to the mines last month to. improve the output.

COMMENTS AND THREATS --London, May 22. The St. Petersburg newspaper Nouza Vremyo, in an article on, the recent railway freements between Great Britain and China, declares the action of Sir Ernest Satow (the British Minister at Peking) to be audacious and provocative. The Journal argues that the concessions demanded by Great Britain con-

stitute a breach of the Anglo-Russian Railway Agreement of segg, and reminds both China and Great Britain that the promise made by Russia to jevacuate Manchuria is conditional only on the strict observance by Chica of the terms of the Manchuria Convention,

MODIFIED " VOLUNTEER REGULA-

TIONS have been issued at Home, making some concessions to meet the views expressed by Sir Howard Vincent and other commanding. officers. They are not regarded with much. favour and the chief grievance is the restriction placed on the supply of ammunition to the men. The free supply is only ten rounds per man, per annum 2nd is quite inadequate. All the rest has to be bought at the rate of £5 per thousand rounds by the battalions, who either

re-sell it to the men or let the extra amount be

A REMARKABLE SIGHT AT SEA that of a tree standing upright in the Atlantic Ocean was reported by the officers of the Liverpool steamer Huelva on arrival at Baltimore from Mediterranean ports. The object was seen gently rising and falling on the swell of the ocean sixieen 'miles out from Cape Charles Lightship. When first sighted it was thought that the tree was a derelict two-masted schooner with her hull submerged, with masts standing twenty feet above the waters. RAILWAY-ATTACKED-According to na charge on the administrative funds. The Shanghai telegram, a portion of the rebels in Chih-li, who were recently dispersed by the troops under Yuan Shi-kai, has attacked the Luban Railway, and burnt down bridges and destroyed other material on the line The Belgian engineers engaged on the railway had to rétreat to Singting-fu and Changto-fu Four thousand Japanese and German troops and 2,300 French troops in North China will shortly march to Keichow, to assist Kwang-sun in the operations for the suppression of the insurrection.

BUSINESS, AND RELIGION: The Chugat Shegyo Shimpe urges that the disturbance, in China chiefly originates in the action of foreign missionaries in the interior, who occasionally take advantage of the misery and suffering of the natives and buy up land or houses. It urges that in future foreign missionaries should refrain from such actions and devote themselves wholly to the propagation of their religion. same journal further urges that France should not make excessive demands for compensation because of the murder of French missionaries

The Hongkong Telegraph

ng Telegraph potice issued by the Sanitary Board, waming in the recent disturbances.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE. LONDON, June 3rd. The terms upon which peace has been concluded in South Africa are regarded as satisfactory, except by the extremists of both sides.

people against the consumption of unripe fruits etc., a hawker, was this morning, charged by P. C. 71 with exposing for sale unwholesome peaches on the 4th inst, at Yau-ma-ti. He was fined $5 or 14 days,

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE:-General Hutton's scheme for the retrenchment of Australian defence has been adopted and in- volves the early abolition of certain Militia and Volunteer regiments and the absorption of the members into other corps and a heavy cur ailment of the naval forces."

The

local Government is very much mera generous in this respect, and wisely so, for il Volunteers are to be of any real use, it will be because they are effective fighters, and nothing but practice with the rifle, or the gun, will make them effective fighters. The trouble here is not altogether the expense, although shooting on the range is not a cheap amusement. It is that there are so many other forms of recree= tion which men are loth to leave for the range. MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE: —Alexander. Murphy, master ss. Hongkang,

the loth from

was this morning charged by the Hon, R. Murray Ramsey, Harbour Master with pro- ceeding to sea without a port clearance con- trary to the provisions of Ordinance 26 of 1891- sec 14 sub-sec. 6. The Harbour Master stated that on the 8th April last, the defendant applied to him for a clearance, and he refused, to gmot it The steamer left the Colony and returned on Canton. The objection to granting the clearance was that the Register was required for an endorsement, and the master could no produce it when requested. When cross- examined by Mr. Looker, who appeared for the HOW FAR THE GAMBLING MANIA defence, Comdr. Romsey said he considered the prevails in Australia may be seen from a certificate necessary in this case because he paragraph in the Australian Review of Reviews required to endorse certain particulars. He No lotteries known to history,” says that understood; that the certificate had been journal," have ever approached the scale-in deposited in H.B.M's Consulate at Cantos to proportion to population of Tattersall's sweeps. comply with certain requirements of 1. M. Through these alone-if the amount spent on Customs. He remembered receiving a wire Postage is a gauge-not less than £1,209,000 from the British Consul in Canton stating that per annum must flow out of a great number of he had the certificate in his custody. As soon pockets into one or two dozen pockets, without as he received it he communicated to the being cared or yielding any useful equivalent, "of the steamer the contents of the telegra and leaving, in the process every tenth cala in Mr. J. LS.. Alves, first clerk, CorE ROBBERY AT MONG-KOK-TSUI--the whole vast sum in the hands of the gentle the statement of the last witness. Wong Sing, storekeeper, and Lam Ham, car-man who runs Tattersall penter, were this morning charged by P. S McSwayed with stealing $290 in silver, from A CURIOUS INCIDENT is reported to have Ma Yau Fish dealer at Mong-kek on the 4th occurred in the Oka Ku Saibansho. A police- inst. The case has been remanded until the man named Furusawa, belonging to the Kujo CANADA AND THE JAPANESE. 6th inst, bail being allowed in the sum of £600. branch of the police, was summoned to give

evidence in the trial of a gambling case. The Earl of Minto's disallowance of Acts Mr. Brutton is retained for the defence,

he did not remove his cap, the Judge ordered -passed-in-British Columbia, imposing-dis-GREAT BRITAIN-LE-A-DS-Statistics him to take it off when he was called in to abilities on the Japanese, has been approved issued by the U.S. Census Bureau show that testify. The man refused to obey on the ground by the British Government.

the area of the United States and its insular that be had been instructed not to take off his. possessions aggregates 3,690,822 square miles, cap, as it was part of the official uniform. As which makes it fifth among the nations of the he persisted he was expelled from the court- earth in territorial size Great Britain leads room, The policeman reported the incidert to with 1,258,277 square miles; Russia comes his Superintendent, when it was found that he second with an area of 8,644,too square miles; had been mistaken in the orders he supposed China third with 4,234,910 square miles; and himself to have received. The Superintendent France follows with 3,944,092 square miles. I had instructed him not to take of bis sabre

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Thereupos ENGLAND AND THE "OPEN DOOR"; and nothing about

King Edward has been the recipient of congratulations from everywhere in the world, including the most cordial telegrams from the German and Austrian Emperors.

LATER.

LATEST DERBY BETTING. The following is the latest betting on the Derby.

13 to 8 against Scepire.

100 to 7 #

6 to i

-8 to I

37

Ard Patrick, Pekin.

3

21 to 1

Intruder and Friar's

Tuck ..Cheers...

28 to 1

11

Royal Ivy.

33 to 1.

'st

66 to 1

100 to 1

Csardas, Duke of West-

minster and Royal Lancer. Keartage.

Prince Florizel.

PARLIAMENT.

It is announced in London to-day that a special meeting of the House of Lords will take place to-morrow to receive a message which it is expected King Edward will send to Parliament

THE ST. VINGENT DISASTER.

The Municipality of Berlin has voted ten

thousand marks to the fund for the sufferers by the St. Vincent disaster Me

.

the

The Temps regards the (recent) railway the poilceman returned to the Court and agreements made with China as being tant. apologised for his mistake,

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addressed the court for the defence. Rumsey replied, whereupon Mr stated that he would adjourned the week 60 as enable him to loo. Merchant Shipping Ordinance, and judgment

ALLEGED MUE HON

KILL

Con

Enear

the

amount to the abrogation of the "open-door" THE GUNBOAT PLOVER was paid off the #Cent policy, and says that England wishes to preport on 3rd ulto. The crew, belonging to Ports: some vent Russia's acquisition and the consolidation-

of her political hegemony at Peking by the Devon. month and Chatham, left by train, and the old man conquest of the railways. The French journal adds that this polley is a continuation of the system that produced the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

the officers of the Plover and a temporary crew will to-day navigate the vessel to Gibraltar, where she is to be used for boom defence work On 2nd ulto. Mrs, Carlton V. DeM Cow wife of Commander Cowper, distributed THE FIRST-CLASS CRUISER AMPHIT for the Ching operations to the RITE left Sheerness on 4th ulto. for the China the ship's company who were Station, where she is to replace the cruiser, during the recent operations,, Orlando, Captain J. H. T. Burke, C, B, which medals to a few men w left Penang for England on April 28. The the Plover from the Amphitrite has on board a new crew for the Cowper, who was in command of the shallow-draught steamer Robin, which is to be a few months ago, recommissioned at Hongkong by Lieutenant for inviting him Commander John P. Irven. The late ship's looked upon it not company of the Robin is returning to England but as

prevailed in the in the Orlande.

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