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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FLOATING IN THE HARBOUR-Two dead bodies werd found floating in the harbour last night.

BERI-BERI: Two fatal cases of beri-beri have been reported during the past twenty-four hours, One case was on board the 5.8. Perla.

HONGKONG COLLEGE OF MEDICINE one would be at a loss as to what acceptation FOR CHINESEA meeting of the above to give this expression. It might be taken to Institution will be held in the Legislative mean anything from, "God bless you.” te “Get Council Chamber on Thursday, 28th inst, at out, and as the first meaning in not apparent noon, when His Excellency Sir W. J. Gascoigne, from Mr. Ross's speech, who also neither E.C.M.O., will present the diploma of the colle Justifies one in giving the expression, the rudo go to five of the students who have passed interpretation, I trust the Chairman will "shell

out" the meaning. | in the professional examinations.

Suppression No. 2 1n Suppression No. 3 the Chairman tells us, as will be seen lower delivered in inaudible tones. He is there down, that Mr. Michael's remarics were

OLO CUSOMAt Birkenhead on aind ult. five Chinese sailors were charged with having MARRIAGE:-Me. William H. Gaskell, who deserted from the Ching-We, a vessel belang. recently left Hongkong for England has beening, to the China Mutual Company. They comfore to be excused for not giving them to married to Mrs. Julia Powell, and their home

his dear, absent shareholders for whom he shows so much solicitude. But is it possible is at Hove

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plained that they had been ill-treated by their superiors, and would be hanged if handed over. An officer from the ship denied the allegation. The sailors were ordered back to their ship...

ence on a lamp trimmer for stealing canvas, NEW STEAMER Tado-China will shortly the property of the Admiralty, a term is expo-be greeted by a new steamer belonging to the Compagnie Nationale de Navigation. Her name is the Cao Bang (alter a town in Ton quin), and her register tonnage is 6,600. She was launched at La Sayne on the roth ulto. As for the accommodation, she will have room for 104 first-class, 200 second-class, and 1,600 'tween deck passengers.

sure in the stocks.

Single Cupies Italy, ten cents: Weekly, twenty. PLAGUE AND CHOLERA-Two fatal cases of plague and two fatal cases of cholera were reported during the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day.

DEATH.

On July 7th at Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, MARION, the wife of Edward Stevens, Chinese Cusions Service.

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HONGKONG, Tuesday, August 26, 1902,

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hongkong and the Labour Difficulties.

THE CORONATION CONTINGENT:-A lengthy letter from our Correspondent with the Coronation Contingent is unavoidably held over until to-morrow.

MACAO TEA:-Macao exporis about $500,000 worth of tea every year--some good and much bad. Some of the tea is made up of re-dried leaves, good tea being mixed with the refuse and the mixare sold as good tea. The bulk of this goes to India.

ICE WANTED:-The Imperial Japanese Government have decided to put down an ice making plant on the Linde system in their new Naval depût. The Linde British Re-

an ire-making plant to Weihaiwei.

HONGKONG SUBSCRIPTION LIB. RARY:-Subscribers are requested to attend at the Library on Friday, the 29th instant, at 5 P, to appoint an Honorary Secretary and Treasurer who is leaving the Colony; and to Transact any other business that may arise.

A STRANGE AMUSEMENT —A¤ Indian constable in plain clothes was found in Holly wood Road amusing himself yesterday after noon by striking every Chinaman he came across. This moraing he was fined $3′ and bound over in a sum of $25 to keep the peace for three months. Mr. Kemp also ordered his conduct to be brought before the notice of the Captain Superintendent of Police.

UNPOPULARITY OF THE QUARAN. TINE REGULATIONS-The Universal, Gasette's Peking correspondent reports that the Wai. Wu Pu has recently informed the foreign Ministers at Peking to the effect that the quarantine regulations now in force at the

to endure, and that they are requested to take immediate steps to have these regulations

relaxed.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column. 1.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMFOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HongKosq. TELEGRAP, "

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that his own remarks also were delivered in tones so inaudible that he himself could not bear them? And, wonder of wonders!--The Chairman's faculty of hearing is so peculiarly unique that, while at certain stages he cannot hear his own words, at others he hears them with a distinctness quite unrivalled, as can be plainly seen from the report which has the honour of having his autograph appended to it. The possession of such a sense of hearing is so convenient as to be almost enviable; almost, but not quite

For what a great pity it was that when the Chairman began to wax so pathetically elo- quent in his appeal to Mr. Michael 10 withdraw hisamendment an appeal which was prompted by no selfish motives but only by his own great love for the good name of the concern on whose behalf he was pleading, his ear should have chosen to play him such a treacherous faculty as to be itself as deaf to his own words as was his relentless opponent What an irretrievable loss it would have been to our posterity and our grandmothers had not your representative been on the spot to save the Chairman's burst of eloquence from the grave his own ear would have consigned it to i The mere thought of such an appalling calamity ~ makes one shudder. Suppression No. 3. It is surprising,, Mr. Editor, how your reporter

remarks when the Chairman, who was in a.. better position to hear him, could not do so i But the Chairman says he could not, and there- fore there is no room for argument."];

Discrepancy No. 1 and last marked Bigher up as No. 4. Your reporter told us, Mr. Editor, in his report of the proceedings that five hands (the number of hands required by the Articles. of Association) were raised in favour of Mr. Sharp's demand for a poll. Now, the Chair man wants us to believe that hands in excess of the requisite number were held up. Who is right and who is wrong?. Your reporter, who, I take it, is an outsider, having no per- sonal interest in the discussion either one way or the other, cannot be accused of misstatements. On the other hand, the chairman cannot for a

The existence of labour difficulties in frigeration Company, Limited, are also sending Tieaty Posts are too arbitrary for the Chinese could have managed to hear Mr. Michael's Hongkong is a subject often commented upon, and the letter of Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE, as Secretary to the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld., which was addressed to the Cham- her of Commerce, and appeared in our columns las evening, goes side by side with the numerous complaints recently made by private individuals respecting the behaviour of native servants. Several months ago, when discussing the general points of the subject at issue, we ventured to express the conviction that when the coolie took the reins in his own hands and endeavoured to dominate his master, it was time he should be severely dealt with and sent to prison without the option of a fine. Mr. OSBORNE undoubtedly airs public opinion in his very thoughtful communication to Chamber of Commerce. and it is gratifying to note that, unlike the question of stowa ways, the Government intends taking the matter up, and that the Attomey General A. S. WATSON & Co., has already drafted a Bill to meet the cause of complaint. In view of the conditions LIMITED.

which have been prevailing for some time past, and the climax which now appears 10 have been reached, we may go a step further and hope that the law will deal even more severely than at present with those "boys" who have a notion that they are employed

us in our domestic

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tion in the present building and the in- creasing demand for admission, it has been found necessary to extend the wings of the main building and to enlarge the Chinese de- par neat by an additional storey with two 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 its past papils. As this is the first time we have applicu for assistance we expect a generous response. The names of our most liberal Benefactors will be inscribed upon marble tables, as a lasting testimony of their generosity, THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS. Hongkong, azad November, root.

DISTILLERS

BY APPOINTMENT TO

HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.

in the East who have had to suffer as, indeed, we are still doing, from the unseemly be haviour of those in our employ; for, accord. ing to the Malay Mail of the 16th inst., they are in a similar fix at Selangor. This and Collars renewed on old ones.

is their opinion, written, prior to a meeting Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Chi- | called to consider the matter :- dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs

The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Sisters.

Hongkong, 22nd April, 1895.

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"The question of the limitation of the sove reignty of the servant over the master is one that affects our community strongly, for we have to compete with a labour market the demands of which are in constant excess of the supply, and which is able to offer inducements to the new arrival which powerfully affect him in choosing his industrial career in our States But se.vants we must have! The main ques- tion, we lake it, to be brought before the meering to-night will be the placing of some sort of check on promiscuous rascality and the granting of means to the employer whereby in case of and he may obtain some redress. Given these, the issue will rest in the hands of the employers themselves. It will be of no ROOM No. 146, practical use to pass excellent paper resolutions Hongkong Hotel if those who do so are not determined to see 1836d the matter through to the end. If the servants, as is probable, object to any curtailment of their powers of peculation, a form of strike may follow. Then would come the pull Visions of dinners uncooked, homes unkempt, and a water supply totally insufficient to supply the place of the soda which there was no one to bring, rise up and form a vista for a possible future which may cause the stoutest hear, to quail; but surely it will be better to put up with almost any temporary inconvenience for the sake of securing a permanent benefit, such as will enable the householders of the future: to regard his domestic accounts with com placence. But if those who attend to-night's

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THE STONES OF CHINA:-Several Americans are studying the stones of China with regard to the American market and expect to establish a business in Canton for the making and exporting of tombstones and fine building stones to the United States. The granites and marbles of China are as fine, if not finer, than ours.

SIR,—I shall be much obliged to you if you will kindly find space in your columns for the following

Report of the Dock Minutes of Dock meeting as reported in meeting signed by the the columns of your chairman, Mr. Brown issue of the 18th inst.

1. Mr. Ross (in con PITCAIRN ISLANDERS, for the first time cluding his speech which since the mutineers of the Bounty were dishe seconded the amend covered on that island, in 1808, will havement) said regular communication with the outside world. Sometimes, even in recent years, ships have touched at the island only once a year. Pit- cairn will have regular service with Manga Reva and Tahiti, according to late advices.

HICH-GRADE RUBBER MANUFAC- TURED FROM OIL-A special to the Sun From Austin Tex, says: A series of tests cover. ig a period of several months is said to have demonstrated that a high grade of rubber may be obtained from Beaumont oil when put

This discovery is through a refining process.

to be placed in practical operation by the Gum Carbo Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, which filed its chaser here to-day, Cotton oil is combined with Beaumont oil in the manufacture of this rubber substituto,

PROGRAMME OF MUSIC to be played by the Band and Pipes of the 33rd Burma Infantry, to-morrow, the 27th inst., on the New Parade Ground, between 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

1. March

PROGRAMME.

BAND.

."Constellation".....

...Clark.

2. Overture...Zampa", .............Herold.

3.

Selection..." The Geisha". ......Sidney Joan.

•. Carolls

"Deuxieme Cavotte"...... Albanezi, .Margis. "Les Baisers "i "The Everlasting Bay ... Beran.

5. Walia ......

Song...

a. March

7. March J. March". 4. March

Strathspey Reel

5. March

BAGTIERS,

All the Blue Bones are

over the Border."

"The Cameron Men," "Barbadoes"Belle"

"The Highland Wedding." "The Caneronias Rani."- ."'Captain Dutt's"

"The Battle of Killiecrmakio. God Save the King.

are to pass through the trying ordeal with the least discomfort to themselves, then it would be infinitely better that the question should never be raised at all, for in such a case our domestics would only have to rejoice over

AND ESCAPE FROM an exhibition of weakness which would prove VICTORIA GAOLA Chinese cook was to those far-seeing individuals how completely

LARCENY

we were within their toils No! If we act at charged on remand with stealing a pair of all, let it be with an idea of benefiting not only trousers while escaping from prison on the 27th ourselves but those who have to reside in these States in times to come; let us show that we are our servants' masters, and that, in case of need, we are prepared to put our foot down firmly. If we do this, and if the individual will be only pablic-spirited enough to bring forward any cases of rascality which arise, we feel, sure that the meeting to be held to-night will remain hereafter bright landmark in the chronicles of Selangor domestic economy. N

Undoubtedly householders further: South have been experiencing a rough time, and with them we can sincerely sympathise. In Hongkong we have not time to rise en masse, and very frequently will not leave the strug gle even for a few minutes to see that the erring coolie has his deserts. We are con tent to leave the washing of the linen to our neighbours, and when their efforts are re- warded with success turn and smile and then pass on.

"OTTAM & CO., FOR WASHING

BOW TIES,

September, 1898 J. A. Straube, a turkey, deposed that on the day in question about 12.50 p.m. be missed the prisoner who was undergoing imprisonment for returning from banishment. A search was made bat he could not be found. The prisoner was working in the tailoring department under him. He took away the trousers which were on the table near hias He was at the time mending mattress in the yard. A plank about 14 ft. tong was found against the wall, Jas. Sinnott, Chief Warder, who produced, the warrant of committal dated 8th March, 1898, said that be recognised the prisoner, who was sentenced to 12 months for returning from banishment. On the first charge, that of stealing, he was sentenced to one month, and on the second he was committed for trial

"OTTAM & CO, FOR GENT'S BATH

ING GEAR

and hope that

and hope that the Director will shell the Directors will see out the extra money their way and unanim and earn for themselves ously shell out?" a good came in the minds of the share- holders."

2. The Chairman (in his speech after the amendment) concluded by saying

Ibope, gentlemen, that under the circum

stances and with the

Bound business reasons before you, and in which I can tell you: our Bankers concur, as

they also do in the dividend that we re commend, and while I Bank would not lend do not say that the

the Hongkong" and Whampoa Dock.Com. pany any more money, I do not think that any Board of business rien would be willing to stake their reputation by giving that tail too biz a twist in asking for more money for dividends. I hope, gentlemen, that under the circumstances the amendment-this is only the first six months of the year and forthe good name of the con- cern, I should like to see not only the aniend ment withdrawn, but the accounts passed un. animously." ONCE

[Omitted.]

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moment be suspected of tampering with the truth as to represent matters otherwise than a they actually transpired. Now, placed between. the two homs of such a dilemma, what is" one to do? The solution would be very 'difficult, indeed, unless one were to suppose that either. the chairman's eyesight is as defective as his hearing, namely, that he at times sees double, and, therefore, instead of finding fault with him we should basten to tender him our sincerest sympathies on the possession of such decep tively defective organs, or else, owing to thes fact that three of his colleagues besides himself held up their hands on the demand for a poll," and in the excitement of the moment, forgetting that he was at a meeting of shareholders and not of the Board of Directors, he must have -been under the Impression that it was one of the occasions on which he was called upon to exercise bis casting vote. In other case, your reporter and the chairman should be both exonerated from any imputation of misrepre senting facts; for either supposition would make them both correct in their respective

versions,

·Hurrah! Let us jubilate ¦

Yours faithfully,

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH:

Hongkong, August, 26th, rgo1.

A STRAYED TRANSPORT.

REWARD OFFERED.

A contemporary's extra of lo-day, under the heading of departure, says Bufalo, American transport for Manila. In the last issue of the Journal the contemporary says

* "The U.S. transport Bufule, which arrived on Saturday from Shanghai, left yesterday for San Francisco. We draw attention to these statements as they are contradictions of ourT correct announcement of Saturday man's expressed hopes ages at a rate and in that the Buffalo was bound for New York via that the amendment such inaudible tones:

3. Mr Michael (in 3: Mr. Michael 'pro- conclusion of his speechceeded to deal with in reply to the Chair figures and percent

would be withdrawn) that it was impossible the Suez Canal. Her first port said: The Chairman to follow him, and. Singapore.

seems to have only put concluded by saying

a threat before the I put it down in shareholders-that is, if speech,

you persist the directors words, a will think it a slur and of figures a loss of confidence.

y plain; matter

4. Referring to the 4 MrSharp and demand for a poll your several others, exceed

Five hands having number, held up their paper says:ing the necessary, been aised the Chair hands in favour of a nian said, etc etc poll being called

Suppression No. 1 (For with the exception of the discrepancy which is noticeable in No. differences appear to be all due to suppres sions), not being a Canadian and, therefore, Canadian unacquained with the peculiarities of Canz grammar, I am not in a position to say whether fo shell out." is an intransitive verb or not in that language; perhaps, it is. But when the expression is found in a document purporting to report the proceedings of a meeting of share holders in a British company held-in-a Balish colony, and when the word uttered by a British subject, the employment of English, aus Put, as it is, in the report of the Dock.

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MAILS: DUES Indian(Arraleon Apcar) 28th inst English (Bengal) 29th inst. American (Peru) 10th inst. Australian (Eastern) 1st prox.: Australia

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