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Intimations.

好

CROWN BRANDY

WATKINS LTDS 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 moden:

type and we have gone to great expense to erect our plant on latest scientific principles which has such a great advantage over the old process of manual labour still in vogue through the Colony, thereby further ensuring the purity of our products,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1902,

Intimations.

A. S. WATSON

AND CO., LTD.

ESTABLISHED AD; 1841

ÆRATED

WATERS.

THE WATER used is THE PUR- The Manufactory is under the personal | supervision of a QUALIFIED ENGLISH EST that can be obtained, and is 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.

(7140

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

66.50

PORTLAND CEMENT.

Cask of 375 Da. Net ex Factory,

SHEWAN, TOMËS & CO., General Managers.

$8.60 † Bag_of 250 lbs.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1902,

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ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, HONGKONG.

skilfully Filtered on the most scientific

principles. ·

THE MACHINERY employed is of the latest design and most approved

type:

THE BEST AND MOST EXPEN- SIVE INCREDIENTS only are used.

GUARANTEEING ABSOLUTE

PURITY.

ENGLISH EXPERTS Manage our Factories and their

WING to the insufficiency of accommoda- practical knowledge and constant

tion in the present building and the in-

creasing demand for admission, it has been

found necessary to extend the wings of the supervision enables us to produce

main building and to enlarge the Chinese de- partment by an additional storey with two waters of unrivalled excellence and 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 fits past pupils. As this is the first time we have

purity."

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, Tuesday, June 17, 1902,

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE BORIS arrived in Hongkong yesterday on board the

French cruiser Kersaint..

NEW SEASON'S TEA :-The Glengyle, with the first of the new season's tea; left Foochow

for London, on the 7th inst.

THE 1901 CHAMPIONSHIP of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club will be played at the Happy Valley to-morrow afternoon.

VOLCANOES STILG ERUPTING —Th] THE BRITISH CRUISER Endymion when THE BRITISH GUNBOAT, fearlris, ar volcanoes of Martinique and St. Vincept stillat Saseho, gave leave to, a hundred men rived from Singapore this mor continue intermittently active, though no more daily for visit on shore, says, the Kobe

THE PADDY MARKET Freights to serinus damages have resulted.

Chronicle of the 1st inst This is said to ba

Hongkong are very good at present, says the the first occasion of the men of a foreign war Bangkok Time, as shown by the number of AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES- ship landing at Sasebo since the opening of boats coming here to load, but matters are Michael Heibert, the son-in-law of R. The port as a naval station.

quiet between bere and Singapore. Better Wi-son, the noted financier of New York City, has been appointed British ambassador to the

Class paddy too is inther difficult to get hold of United States.

a consequence of the middlemen holding back for higher prices.

A

GOOD RUN-The str. Lucania, which arrived at New York on May and, from Liverpool and Queenstown, made the best run on that trip that the ship, has made in four years. The time of passage from Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook Lightship was 5 days 15 hours and 59 minutes.

KARATSU AN INFECTED PORT:-0w- THE KING OF SIAM has sent a contributioning to the outbreak of cholera at Karaisu, which of ticals 4,000 towards the relief of the sun ziving is very near Nagasaki, it has been decided that victims of the Martinique catastrophe.

quarantine shall be enforced at the entrance to 10 Nagaski harbour on all steamers, sailing vessels, juuks and other craft, arriving from or by way of the infected pot

THE TELEPHONE SERVICE between Seoul and Chemulpo, inaugurated by the Japanese Government, was opened for business na the 19th uk.

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CHINESE AUTHORITIES in some parts of the Empire are trying to overcome the initial

lotteries, the P. & T. Timės, says,

difficulties of financing schools by proposing

THE ADDRESS from the Hongkong com munity which is to be presented to the King is now ready for signature, and copies will be found at the places mentioned in an advertise

ment which appears in another column. As the signed sheets must be collected within a week those wishing to sign the address should do so as promptly as possible.

BIG FIRE IN CHICAGO St. Luke's Society Hospital in Chicago has been swept by fire. Most of the nurses and patients escaped, but thirteen were ki led and thirty-four seriouslyng the analgamation of Atlantic steamship

THE NEWEST DEVELOPMENT regard injured.

A GOLD-HEADED WALKING STICK is

about to be presented to M. Jules Verne by his boy admirers in Great Biain. The presenta tion was inaugurated by the Boys Empire

League

a

A LADY CLERK in the War Dega tinent at Washing on, has been dismissed for criticising the dininistration's Philippine policy in series of new paper letters. Her dismissal has aroused considerable criticism.

THE WINNING NUMBER-Mr. H. D. Beaumont, of the Reveque cruiser Ping Ching was lucky enough to secure the winning num- ber, 1387, in the draw for a prize horse at the Circus Baroufski at Shanghai the other night.

lines, is a mour prevalent in London that Mr. Morgan in behalf of the American syndicate, and Mr. Ballin in behalf of two large steamship companies, have gained maiual control of the Cunard Line by the pur-

chase of the majority of shares.

NEW TELEGRAPH OFFICES: The opening of new telegraph offices in Nagasaki perfeciure has alie, dy been, announced. The local journal now learns that such offices are to be established at Fukahori, Imafuku, Aiday, and Arhibe. The Michinowo, Sazebo, Saga, Tosu, anti other stations of the Kyushu Rail way are to be provided with telegraph facilities for the public use,

THE SINKING OF THE CONDOR-It appears from Victoria papers that the sinking of the ill-fated gunboat Conder was witvested by persons unable to render any assistance. A letter written to his sister at Cowichan by a beripuller on one of the sealing schooners tress but could never get near her. She was firing gums and sky rockets."

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ANOTHER MANCHU NOBLE TO GO ABROAD It is reported from Peking that control over the Feling Gendarmerie and Prince Su, who it will be remembered now has

Roads of the Caplial, is out to send a Man Noble of the Imperial Ihicago, named Yu, to go to Tokio, Japan, for lus purpose of studying the organisation of iko Tolio metropolitan police, with the object of introducing the same into Peking and gradually throughout China.

ATLANTIC CABLES There are thirteen cables across the Atlantic between the United States and Europe. There is not ono. across the Pacific between the United States and Asia. The construction of a Pacific cable has been under discussion in the United States and England for twenty years. Up to 1098 no project took defaite form because not one goverament possessed along any practicable route landing places or islands upon which cables could be landed and the electric current reinforced.

ADMITAL SIR CYPRIAN BRIDGE has completed his arrangements for the celebration of the forthcoming coronation of King Edward VII by the squadron under his command at Nagasaki Press. The Japanese au larities, Honglong and at Wel-bal-wel, says the

we understand have decided to oder the cruiser Tekno, now at Chefao, and the cruiser Neriza, now at Sasebo, to visit Wei-tai-wei and Hongkong se pecively on Coronation Day, in order to take pa in the demonsumtions to

be made at the two Brķish naval bases.

THE LATE LI HUNG-CHANG-The coffin of the late Li Hung chaig arrived at Shanghai ou the 12th must, by the ss. Hi i om Tientsin. The flag of the steamer was half masted and a black flay hoited for mourning Many local officials went on board the steamer which was lying at the Kince-ven whef The Inst line he was at this whari was in igno whes he went up Noth to undertale the perce negotiations. There was a guard of 550 soldiers at the wharf to meet the coffin. On Saturday the remains left for Wuhu, ex ouse for Anhui

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PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the Band of the and Royal Welsh Fusiliers on the New Garrison Recreation, Ground; (d- morrow, the 18th instant, from 5 to 6.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME 3. Math. The login of Klor Edward's Army”..... Janas. 3. Over

Cow Dichaquela tava 3. Selection Generies ile Hrabah)!!, Mesbach,

5. Dance: 6. Selecion

"Soviet Siglusau. Curmen up ra, Datehuis

-Land of my Faihevi.

Men of March

God bless the Prince of Wales."

God Save the King.

THE PAYING OFF: PENNANT streaming out above the Endated has alimcted much attention during the past few days, and when the cruiser weighed anchor this morning the casing from the bluejackets in the rigging could be heard by many ashore. She sleamed slowly by the other waishins in the harbour. and was greeted will ringing cheers from each Leaving via the Lyceum Pass she proceeded on her way to Singapore where she will take part in the Coronation celebrations and then leave for home to be paid off. -

goes well with him, James R. Haworth will A REMARKABLE BELLRINGER :—If all

pulla bell-rope in the belfry of St. Paul's on Coronation Days This wonderful old man, who is eighty-one years old, rang for the death of William IV, and the accession of Victoria, for the birth of all the late Queen's children,

on each succeeding birthday of the King, at

Victoria, and the accession of Edward VII, the Jubilees of 1887 and 1897, for the death of

He was born in a house still standing in Lum. bard-sires, not the home of the bankers, but the lile known lane of the same name which skitts the Temple. His father was a composi for, and until he was fifty-one tha bellringer followed the same trade. He is still well- known to the members of the craft, having made several gifts of considerable value to the Printer's Almshouses and other trade charities. Now he is living in an ancient City house almost midway between St. Paul's and Temple

Bar

HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN has made a personal cont ibution to President Loubet through Prince Komatsu, asking that it be added to the fund for the relief of the sufferers from the recent disaster in said: "One of the schoolers saw her in dis. tion.Co.'s steamier Chefoe went around about The police arrested a lady who is accused of Martinique

SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD, during a visit,

to Shimonoseki a day or two ago, inspected the site of the new British Consulate, which will be erected there if it is determined to establish the Consulate on the north and not the south side of the Soals.

QUICK "CYCLING-Tom Linton, the relebrated English professional bicycle rides, is once again the hour record holder, having recently ridden the enormous distance of 71 kilometres, 660 metres (nearly 45 miles; in the

fapplied for assistance we expect a generous A. S. WATSON & CO., sixty minutes,

response. The names of our most liberal *Benefactors will be inscribed upon marble tablets, as a lasting testimony of their generosity.

THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS. ¦ Häögkong, 22nd November, igot.

LIMITED,

The Hongkong Dispensary.

THE TWO POPULAR SCOTCH WHISKIES

SCOTCH WHISKY

THE HOURS OF COMOR

HILE VILLE KANDIDA

ARE THE CELEBRATED

HOUSE OF COMMONS

-Belter known as

Black and White

[White Seal).

AND

BUCHANAN BLEND

[Red Seal]

Distillers by Appointment to

His Majcaty the King

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"WASHBURNS."

MANDOLINES, GUITARS. STRINGS, FITTINGS, REPAIRS.

AMERICAN PRISONERS IN CUBA: The Cuban congress has granted a geneial amnesty to Americans imprisoned in Cuba, including Rachborne and Neely, who were im plicated in the notorious postal frauds during American occupa.ion.

THE NEW BITISH STEAMER Ging Bee which left Leith for Banglick at the begin-

CHEFOO AGROUND :—The China Naviga

5-30. on the morning of the 13th in tant off Pootung point just sligh ly above the place where the same Co's termer Narkia went THE GREAT COAL STRIKE: The authusbore. She was floated on the flood ide i The Gri, COAL Manis has developed the evening assisted by the tug samso. She into a stubborn contest between the miners was bound for Chefoo where she let for in- and the mine-operators. There is comparative mediately after being refloated. She was in ly little disorder, the miners generally content bullar and went ashore at flood lide. Eviden.- ing themselves with passive resistance. The ly owing to the point being entirely flooded lack of fuel is greatly hampering the steel and with water she turned too quickly, says the vated by the spreading of a sympathetic strike. iron industiies, and matters are being agura Shanghai Times.

among the two great bituminous coal-fickis,

the East and West Virginias.

A DEVASTATING TORNADO has swept over central Illinois, Iowa and northern Wis cousin pa tially wrecking a number of towns, causing many fatalities and tremendous des tunction of property. The fierce storm so se jously damaged railways and so totally destroyed telegraph and telephone lines that only very meagre details can be obtained, con- sequently the exact number of lives lost and

A SCHEME FOR BARNESSING the Victoria Falls in Khodesin, and using the water power to generate clenicity for working inines and railroads, is to be forwarded by the early despich of an epedition of engineering ex- ports from England Mr. W. A Wills, ie chairman of the Concessions Syndicale, thinks it will be possible to use the power of the falls for the electric trains on the Cape là Calio Railway to a distance of 150 miles noth and 150 miles soutli. In time it may be used to operate tramways and provide lighting in the contemplated, and indeed the possibilities of

STRANGE ADDUCTION STORY —— A mysterious affair is reported from Bordighera, having carried off at New York a millionaire's daughter, the fulber of the girl having since spent £40,000, in tracing her. A New telegram says:The American woman arrest cd at Bordighera is, Miss Clara Tayine, Cinciunati. The child is Margaret Taylor, her piece. The child's father is Mr. Albert Taylor,

A sign manufacturer, of Cincinnati. In 1893,

inst the bitter opposition of his family, be maried. Margaret was born a year later. In 1893 the child was sent on a visit to its

its grand mother. When the father went to fetch her a week later he learned that his sister Clara had disappeared with it. The recovery of the child. is due to Mrs. Ormiston Chant, who had given" the fugitives assistance during their stay in London. Clara Taylor made a partial confes sion to Mrs, Chant, and declared that she bad rescued her niece from a cruel mother, Tirs, Chant recently received newspaper cuttings from Cincinnati, and thus leaming the true facts of the case she notified the American Ambassador in London, Mr. Choate, who told an interviewer that she lived in London-

| aing of April in charge of Captain Dunlop, put people wounded can not yet be known. town of Bulawayo. There are diler indus.ries called to the State Department Miss Taylor

smashed and machinery out of order. It was in at Malta on the 29th April with skylights expec.ed that slic, would be detained for three days.'

number injured. Twelve are already reported killed and a large

such a emendous power station in Rhodesia are almost endlers. PREVALENCE OF CHOLERA ;—The

AS THE S.S. MADELEINE RICKMEKS made its appearance at Canton, Hongkong Members of the "A" Company, of the Hong: Nagasaki Press says that cholera has already HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORP3-The was leaving the Singapore harbour for Saigon Sydney, Shanghai, Manila, Tientsin, Takit kong Volunteers, held their monthly carbine a sampan which happened to be close under Soochow, Formosa and Karatsu this year, but competition ou Saiday and Satday last af the places where the epidemic is at present the bad weather here was a large aliendance, the Taihang Rife Kauge Notwithstanding

Islands and Hongkong. According to the re found to be most severe are the Philippine and excellent scores were male. Gunner E.

her stela was cut in two. One of the coolies was killed, two are missing, and four were recovered. The steamer arrived in Hongkong on the 15th inst.

turas made by the Japanese Government, C. Holms with 90 net sco eu the fist win in he "Jackson" Cup and also contributed the on the authority of consular telegrams, the number of cases already reported in these two best core towards the No. 2 Cap Gunner E places are 2,400 in the Philippines (including C. Emmett scored a win in the No. 3 Cup and 550.at Manila), and 250 at Hongkong,

RAIDERS WEEDED OUT:-Now that the raiders in Formosa have been weeded out, says the Japan Times, and that the island authorities find themselves in a position to give full play to their reforming tendencies, opium A TERRIBLE HAILSTORM-The little smoking is fast going out of fashion in the tehsil station of Musafirkliana, Sultanpur island. Thus the opium smokers in the island District, was visited by a remarkable hailstorm stood in March last at 140,000, showing a

on the evening of the 27th of May. Some decided decrease of 30,000 against the figure hailstones were extraordinarily large, in size for the corresponding period of last year.

THE HEALTH OF HONGKONG:-The

mango (rap

Gunners Holmes Crowa Emmett each

nett score at each rage are as followers

The Pool Competitions for the won a spoon.

Gunner W. S. BOW WWWCHIS. Holires.

H. S. Helmer

220 yards 400. 509

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for four years under assumed namos, and had been at Bordighera, in the house of an American doctor.named Viviani, since January.

THEFT OF STATIONERY,

This morning, before Mr. Hazeland, Leung

charged on remand with being unlawfully I Man, master of Man Shing Printing shop,

sessed of stutionery, value $117, well know the same to have been stolen on the 7th June.

Mr. Hays, appeared on behalf of Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, for the prosecution and Mr. Hastings for the defence.

Sery Murrisou deposed that in pusuance of warrant be entered the Man Shing shop on yinst and discovered the stolen - property' among which there were five tins of printing ink in the chest. He seized the goods and arrested the defendant.

Chas. T Lillon, manager of the

fors

Tastings

quite as big as cricket balls, and the majority GUNFIRE AND WEATHER-While the printing department stated that betwe were the size of fowl's and pigeon's eggs The Jaunese are investigating the practical pra on the 6th and 8 am, on the

cases of communicable disease reported in the menally good, has been quite ruined along the the passing min in their agricultural districts,oods stolen. On hien occasions the place i

in this locality, which was phence sibilities of employing cannon to bring down their shop in Dudd Street was entered Colony last week were-Pingue 39 (Chinese, path of the storm, which extended for six or an even more serious campaign is being cons been entered and on the third the ink 29 in Victoria), all fatal cholera, 5 (Chinese, 2 in Victoria), all fatal: enteric fever, (Japa Benares-Lucknow road. The hail was necom against those destructive, hails.orms that perior shop.

seven miles east of Musafirkhana, along the ducted by expeits in both France and Germany taken away and be saw it in the defendant's The goods were never given away nor nese in Victoria), fatal and small-pox, panied by a regular tornado of wind whichdically ravage the vine countries in both sides sold by witness. (Chinese, in Victoria), fatal. The year's plague wrought great havoc among the trees,

of the Rhine. Gratz is one of lite centres of On being cross-examined by cases up to the end of the week were 280

these interesting experiments in Controlling the the witness raid (European, 265 Chinese, 14 other Asiatics,) WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL NOAH'S whims of nature, and one of the most success and, he was with 172 deaths (European, z61 Chinese, 10 ARK? In the way of curios the World's Fair | ful devices of this applied meteorology is the office in the colony used other Asiatica), For the twenty-four hours at St Louis is to be a kind of safe deposit apparates designed at Windisch-Freischtrits. anded at noon to-day four additional cases Still there are limits in the curio-hunter's An interesting account of its construction and were notified.",

imagination, and "where is the original Noah's Ark?" is one of there cul-de-sacs. A famous Ohio Senator, a man of wealth and sagacity, has recently received the following letter: “On the top of Mount Ararat there is still pre

FOUNDERING OF JAPANESE TOR- PEDO BOAT -The Nagasaki branch of the Nippon Yusen Kaishia have received a tele gram from Tokyo telling of the foundering

of the Japanese torpedo boat destroyer servei, buried amid cleinal snow, Noals's Shimename, all the north-eastern point of Arl I am organising company to dig it out Miyakajina, one of the Yayeyema group, and bring it to the United States. You can Okinawa-ken. The defence boat Salyen and help me to make a lot of money if you will go the destroyer Usuguple were at once ordered into the scheme. The orginal Noah's Art, I to the sucne of the wreck. In addition, the can assure you, would be the best paying at traction to the St. Louis World air Need «NYKS Tatre mazu, which has left Naras

less to say, the wally

Still alls tight for Kestung requested:

dover theumáttér:

THE COBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED, authorities

Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapor

her arrival.

Nagasa

report what shqy

working is given in the Meterological Society of pears that the principle is to hurt a ring of heated gases, very similar rings sometimes made by cigan from a master of special make ring leaves the mortar with its velocity increasing point, and the disturbance quite effectual male a wide the two

obser

Compositor

witness his master sent Kinkrupto,