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CORONATION HONOURS.

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FA QUESTION OF WHITE ELEPHANTS: | IMPERIAL FLAGS --It has been ruled that The Pall Mall Gazelle must beware for the all the Imperial flags used in India are to bour Bangkok Tirer confesses that it can bardly in future the Crown which His Majesty the share the smiling, indifference of that Journal King has

King has approved. as to whether France does or does not keep white elephants.

THE HEAVY GUNS of the new battleship London are fitted with a clever device for train, SUPERSTITIONS —There is a Chinese suing and elevating the turrol guns. It consists perstition to the effect that if a structure or of a pistol grip placed in the sighting position ; building is commenced it is very unlucky not to by raising or lowering the grip, or moving it to finish it. A correspondent thinks that this may right and left, the gun is trained on the object, account for the non-postponement in the comand by pressing the trigger it is fired. All this pletion of the triumpilial arches.

can be done without taking the eyes off the sights.

Read this afternoon because a drunken 4 POLICE WHISTLE sounded in Queen's European had found his way into a native jewellery shop. The man in charge evidently thought there would be a disturbance so summoned the police who told the intruder to clear out. He went.

THE TERRIBLES DISPLAY-Some three buodred of the Terrible's crew, gave another exhibition at 11 a.m. lo-day. It was similar to that of yesterday and a bluejacket. God Save the King" was again shown against the ship's side. Owing to the miserable dowa, pour it only lasted about ten minutes.

JAPANESE ANXIETY ABOUT KWANG- Si-Japan is becoming very anxious over the absence of reliable information from Kwangsi, reports the Shangkat Times, and with the consent of the Chinese Government, bas sent a number of special intelligence officers to that province in order to ascertain the exact situa- tion and report to Tokyo.

noon news had just been received in the As we were going to press yesterday after Colony froni the Colonial Office intimating that Sir THOMAS JACKSON had been created a Baronet, that the Hou. C. P. CHATER, had been Knighted, and that the Hon. Dr. Ho KAI was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The news undoubtedly came as. a great surprise especially considering the fact that Reuter's wire from London, of the 24th inst., published in to-day's issue, informed us that the Coronation honours had been postponed, The public was little. prepared for it, and the news was the more pleasing. In the presence of Government Officials, the Unofficial members of the Council and the members of the Coronation Committee His Excellency Major General GASCOIGNE congratulated Dr. Ho KAI on his appointment. Sir THOMAS JACKSON, BAKT. and Sir C. P. Chater arc both away from the Colony, the former having left his labours here for good, and the latter for a wall deserved rest in England. What Sir THOMAS has done for the Colony will long bind him to the hearts of all whose interests are e'clock while a plague patient was being con- in Hongkong. For over twenty-six years he was connected with the great Hongkong veyed in an ambulance along Caine Road, just and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and opposite the tatian Convent, the string attach even with those responsibilities and the greated to the pole gave way and the ambulance tax upon his time, successfully dealt with the dropped to the ground. The poor man must. treasurerships of many charitable and other have received a severe shock, and one that THE BEST AND MOST EXPEN-stitutions besides numerous public bodies, would not be conductive to early recovery.

UNLUCKY FRIDAY 1--Evidently, Friday is to be the great day for State events in England, on Friday. The King's birthday was cele brated on a Friday, and the Coronation proces sion was to be on Friday. This in one way fits in well with the new parliamentary arrange ment whereby Friday is to take the place of Wednesday as the off night.

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great grievance on the travelling public.

SEPARATING THE DEAD —At one of the great London hospitals a cold storage chamber was being constructed in connection with the post-mortem room, and the secretary of the hospital, on going to see how the work was getting on, found that the chamber was being GOOD FOR THE POOR-It is an ill wind fitted with double doors-and those of small that blows nobody any good. A big Corona sire-instead of one large door. He made tion supper was prepared for the members inquiries as to the reason for this deviation and friends of St. Patrick's Club. A from the original plan, when the chief carpenter; quantity of mutton, fowls and

other who was superintending the work, replied: viands had already been cooked before the sad "Oh, sir, we are putting in double doors and a news which caused the postponement reached wonden partition in order to keep the sever ปริ. So acting upon the advice of Fr. Augustin, | apart "The Lancet, *** president of the club, the supper was distributed Amongst the poor.

IMPORTANT RULING IN THE MINING LAWS :-The Wai Wn pue (Board of Foreign Affairs) despite the strenuous opposition of the views of the Viceroy Lia and Chang as well as La Hai-hwan, and Sheng Shuen hui, the Treaty Revision Commissioners, has memo- rialised and obtained the Imperial sanction to allow foreigners to obtain mining rights in the interior of China, without restriction as to the proportion of Chinese capital employed in these enterprises.

SAME OLD STORY:-in a letter from Pre- |toria the daily Afaff leams that there is much

murmuring over the cost of living House-rent is abnormally and fictitiously high. The demand for houses at present is much greater than the supply. Ten pounds per month may secure a cottage of three or four rooms. Anything in any way decent, say, comparable to an ordinary suburban house of £60 or £70 per annum, hete would be from £16 to £20 per month. While servants want from £5 to £6 per month: The correspondent adds. that groceries are very dear, and tinned foods, which form a consider able item in every household, in many instances

A SEVERE SHOCK-This, morning at & A CLOSE SEASON FOR FISH-Siam is are exorbitant in price, The 6d, tin of marma-

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taking a step of some interest in making close season for fish, says the Bangkok Times Under the Fishing Regulations of the year 120 the responsible Minister has power to forbid the catching of fish in any specified district during the season when the water covers the paddy fields, the season when fish spawn." H.R. H. the Minister of the Interior has therefore issued a regulation forbidding the catching of fish in waters others than

1st July to the 15th September of this year The regulation is avowedly issued for the pur pose of increasing the supply of fish. It may be hoped that after this precedent the Govern- ment may find time to give some consideration to the other important questions of the breed ing of cattle and ponies.

lade is 15. 3d.; eggs, a luxury, are Bs, a dozen and chickens, a luxury, 168 to 18s. each.

said regarding his labours, on behalf of the says an exchange. The first Court was held rivers, within Ayuthia Mönthon, from the87 pounds, and stands tea feet 11 inches high

and won the esteem of every section of the community. As a member of the Legislative Council his works are too well-known to need recapitulation, while the same may be mercantile and shipping interests of the port Sir C. P. CHATER hs-long been bound up in the prosperity of Hongkong, and the energy he has displayed in all matters of public interest has contributed in no small measure to then numerous undertakings so successfully carried out. For many years he has now served the Colony as a member of the Legislative Council and his intimate ac- quaintance with public affairs, with the wants of the ratepayers and with progressive legislation has been a source of great help in the discussions of many matters affecting the

Doubtless when he again retums to carry on his work he will receive the congratula tions of all for the well deserved distinction just bestowed upon him.

HONGKONG POST OFFICE:-The action taken by the Post Office officials at Hongkong in sending on the P. & O. mails to Japan by the N.Y.K. European liners whenever possible is of great advantage to business men in Kobe, that this plan will be adopted in future instead of sending the mails on by steamers which call at Shanghai and Nagasaki on the way up.

DAME NATURE has apparently outdone herself in Edward Beaupre, the young French Canadian giant, who bids fair to outrival the fabled one eyed giant Folyphemus, of Homer's time, while he overtops by several feet modern competitors, Beaupre, therefore, enjoys the proud distinction of being the tallest man on earth. He is 30 years old, tips the scales at hands measuring 19 Inches, and his feet 24 inches by 12 wide. A two yard tape measure. barely encircles his chest. Each of his trousers legs can contain the figures of two ordinary persons, and there is sufficient cloth in one of his suits to outfit len average men. The mas sive framework of each of his outstretchied arma will hear the weight of three athletes. A

man five feet ten inches by his side appears a

mere pigmy. One of the peculiarities about

Beaupre is that his father and mother were of gymnast and has given much time to athletic sports.

6 to the insufficiency of accommoda, practical knowledge- and constant welfare of Hongkong, and its commuity says the local Chronicle, and it is to be hoped a better prospect was suggested to him at ordinary size. From youth he has been a great

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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

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THE PLAGUE RETURN for the forty-eight hours ended at noon to-day shows eighteen fatal cases.

BY KIND PERMISSION of Lieut. Col. Baillie and Officers, the Band of the 22nd Bombay Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, from 8 to

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PRESERVING THE COLOURS -Colours are not now taken into action, says Navy and THE TRANSPORT NURANI with elevenny Before a corps proceeds on service officers and 873 men of the 34th Baluchis they are placed in safe custody as suits such (India) arrived from Shanghai this morning. honourable insignia, and "When Johnny comes marching beme again" they will be all the fresher for not being carried through dusty lands and trying rivers. The men whose duty it would have been to carry them and stand by them to the last are nowadays employed in less sentimental, if 'more useful, duties,

THE NUMBER OF FIRES in the Colony during 1901, was 58 with an estimated damage of $630,381, During the same period there were 84 incipient fires with damage estimated at $212.50.

FROM MORTUARY RETURNS, dated the 26th inst, we gather that three dead bodies were found in the harbour. Two of the were plague victims and the third was too decomposed to be examined.

TWIGS FOR THE CHILDREN'S TEA: Several men have this morning been employed in cutting twigs from the big tree facing the City Hall. These will be used as decorations for to-morrow's children's tear

UNDAUNTED: Many of the Chinese musical performen are continuing their shows to-day, but owing to the rain some have been obliged to protect themselves with screens thus shutting out the spectators view,

THE OLDEST PIECE OF WRITING in the world is on a fragment of a vase found at Nippur. It is an inscription in picture writing, and dates 4,500 years before Christ. The University of Pennsylyapia has secured it.

A CURIOUS ARCHEOLOGICAL survey, has been in progress near Naples. Important Roman remains beneath the sea stretch almost without interruption from Naples to Bain, and these are being accurately. charted, The work done indicates that the level of the Mediterranean has risen about twenty feet since these old pires and villas were constructed. The survey will have great practical value as well na scientific interest, for the submerged. foundations endanger anvigation and many vessels strike on them."

DARING ROBBERYA report has been made at the Central Police Station by a Chi- nese contractor, living at No. 9 Hollywood Road, that on the morning of the 35th instant five men entered his shop and stole from a wooden box 33,046 in cash and two promissory notes of $100 and $350 respectively. The police set to work immediately and succeeded in ar- resting one of the thieves, who was recognised as a former loki of the shop. On his person they found the sum of five hundred odd dollars Presumably the other four men have left the GERMAN SOLDIERS IN HONGKONG: Colony with the rest of the money.

The Hamburg-Amerika liner Hamburg,VA arrived this morning and left this afternoon for DRINKING PRESUMPTUOUSLY-The home. She brought from Shanghai 470 German troops commanded by Major Shoenberg. They come from Poking and Langfang via Taku and consist chiefly of infantry and about a hundred cavalry. This morning they were granted leave ashore and attracted con- siderable attention in Queen's Road,

A RECORD TRIP-The British ship Quer Victoria arrived at San-Francisco on the 18th ult. thirty days from Shanghai, with

THE LATE LORD PAUNCEFOTE-Re ferring to the late Lord Pauncefote, a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette says:In 1862, however, Hongkong, Mr. Pauncefote obtained a large legal practice out there at once, and in 1865 became Attorney-General. As such he was an ex officio member of the Executive and Legisla. Live Councils, and combined much work of the greatest utility to the general welfare of the colony with his legal duties.. Twice he acted for a period as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The great monument of his work in the East is the Hongkong. Code of Civil Pro cedure one of the most perfect codes in the

world-which he drafted; while he also pré- pared ordinances dealing with emigration, ex. tradition, and other subjects. He received the thanks of the Executive and Legislative, Councils of Hongkong for his services, and it. was mainly for his work there that he received his patent of knighthood. From Hongkong ha was transferred to, the newly-federated colony' of the Leeward Islands as Chief Justice, There he opened the Federal Supreme Court, set the whole administration going, and pro- duced another comprehensive Code of Civil Procedure, based on the rules in force in bo mother-country under the Jadicature Acts.

A LARGE CONGREGATION OF PAR SEES, under the auspices of the trustees of the Parpee Charity Fund, attended at their Club House in Elgin Street at 3 pm. yester day, where a special service called "Jusan was held. After the function was over, their very popular President Mr. H. N. Hody offered, in a most impressive manner, an Intercessionary Prayer for the speedy recovery and restoration to health of His Mest Gmcious Majesty King

Edward VII.

The prayer was as follows

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF HOLY ADURA-

MAZDA.

Almighty Abura Mazda, Holy, Heavenly, Pure; give ear, we beseech Thee, to the prayers of Thy Mazdayaçnian servants, and satisfy us with Thy Mercy,

THE CANTON FERRY:

FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED

It has just been reported from Canton that two ferry boat owners have had their licences forfeited by Capt. Yeung who states that they refused to pay their taxes, but foul play is suspected. The public indignation increases.

"IN CHINA TOWN,

.LAST EVENING."S

Though all official celebrations of the Corona tion were postponed a visit to China town last evening was productive of pleasure to a large number of people. The great centre of altınc tion was the Flower Show on the Praya which thousands of people visited during the course of the day, and at night there was no decrease in the numbers The Des Voeur Road was densely packed while, if anything, Queen's Road was worse. The many arches, and stends erected were illuminated and everywhere could be heard, the sound of gongs and symbals mingled with the voice of the sing song girl. It was undoubtedly a

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FARE TIME IN CHINA TOWN, and one that most of the shopkeepers appeared to thoroughly enjoy. Many buildings were illuminated with Chinese lanterns, though there can be no doubt that the proceedings last evening were far inferior to what would have been witnessed bad the coronation ceremony, not been postponed. The arcbway in Queen's Road, Jervois Street, Bonham Strand and the Praya looked exceedingly pretly and attracted large crowds of sightseers, though. marionette shows erected in many of the public thorough fares, drew such numbers that the streets were practically blocked and those in rickshas had the greatest difficulty in yelling. past. The native story teller kept crowds of

Vouchsafe to him, Merciful Creator, Thy love, and grant unto him, with Thy abundant grace, the spirit of heavenly piety, as also Thy spirit of wisdam for his guide and Thy arm for his strength, so that in his godliness, and in his openmouthed unfeigned spirit of wisdom and strength, Justice, Truth, Peace and Love may flourish in his days to promote the well being, solidarity and unification of his various subjects of all classes and creeds.

We pray noto Thee, O Merciful Mazda, to bestow upon our illustrious Sovereign Thy following is the text of, a letter written by an choicest blessings, to speedily restore him to "educated" South African Kaffir, who was perfect health, and endow him with many employed about a Government office, and had years of happy life and a Juy, and peaceful been officially rebuked, for his intemperate reign resplendent with glory. habits: “Having promulgated my conduct of supplicate Thee, O Mazpiful Creator, to drinking presumptuously, I beg to tell me crown the fulness of his daye with the fulness nominally the person informed you: Consulted of Thy divine blessings, grace, and love, and by speculations, the case should be reprimanded receive our humble prayers, O"Almighty God, these and all Thy other gifta may be long for the derogation of my name. When you addressed your inspection I perceived dishonest continued, and crown him with immortality in

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and the man with the gorg hanged away bringing reinforcements to the throng. Several Chinese ladies who ventured into the streets to view the illuminations were somewhat roughly handled, and some of the natives even turned seaman's attire, their attention to a foreigner in who came along in a ricksha” He did not ap preciate the little onslaught so lastening from the vehicle endeavoured to square matters

by sending blows to the left and right, and without the least respect or thought for where they fell. The crowd drew back, the jolly tar returned to his ricksha. But the enemies returned for more and were more than accommodated for they drew back leaving him to resume his journey in penc the music was as deafening as ever, the story teller continued fascinating the simp coolie marionettes still danced upon the stage and when at length the last lamp had flickered oor, So we give Thee theaks for ever, and let our nature continued to illuminate the City with

her continuous flashes of brilliant light cry come unto Thee.

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garded seamen as a phenomenal one. Gap tain Morrison staled that it is a record hitherto not made. The weather was favourable almon to the Golden Gale where a gala was

tered Aside from losing some canvas no particular injury, was sustulijed by the vessel

me; the matter is not to be approbated clandes- tingly, because it was proclaimed publicly. Quickness of the answer will so oblige, yours Truly

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