TELEGRAMS.
(Renter's,)
car,
President Roosevelt's Narrow Escape.
LONDON, September 4th.
A brake in which President Roosevelt and a party of friends were driving near Pittsfield, (Mass.) came into collision with an electric President Roosevelt escaped with “a few bruises, but several of the party were more seriously injured, and a detective ac companying the President was killed. The driver of the brake had his skull fractured.
LATER, The Labour Problem in Africa. Sir James Hulett, an authority on the South African native labour, problem, and one of the largest employers of Indians in Natal, has been interviewed on the subject in London. He strongly deprecates the proposed introduction of Chinese labour for the mines.
British Generals to Attend Ger- man Manœuvres.
Rt. Hon. St. John Brodrick, with Generals French, Ian Hamilton, and Kelly- Kenny, have left London to attend the German military manœuvres.
(Shanghai Times.)
Millionaire's Gigantic Project.
A
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1902.
The First Fruits of the new Treaty.
LONDON, 2nd September..
i
HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYEING CO., LD.
The following is the report for presentation to shareholders at the fifli ordinary meeting to be held at the Offices of the General Managers on Monday, the 15th September, at 11.30 a.m.
The General Managers beg to submit a state- ment of accounts covering the period from 15th July, 1901, to 31st July, 1902.
A corporation has been organised in Caliv fornia with a capital of one million dollars to promote trade with China, in consequence of the conclusion of the new tariff and treaty. -It is also reported that rangements are proceeding to induce China to buy American cotton through the New York Cotton Exchange After deducting $50,000 paid as interim instead of through Liverpool, and that Ameri-dividend the balance at credit of profit and loss can capitalists are planning to establish banks | account is $113,465,05, which it is proposed to in the business centres in China.
Oil Steamer Ashore.
LOND N, 29th Augusi, The Shell Line steamer Trocas is ashore on the island of Perim.
2nd September.
The Trocar has been floated.
(Shanghai Mercury.) Floods In Nepaul.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,
London, August 30th, Owing to heavy rains, causing overflowing of many rivers, several hundred lives have been lost in Nepaul, and there has been great damage to property,
MACAO NOTES.
(From Our Correspondent)
MACAO, September 5 h
NEW REGULATIONS,
New regulations governing firecracker fac CALCUTTA, September 2nd. Parsee millionaire named Tala, eftories are published in the Bolelim. Earh Rombay, has secured the favor of the Indian factory will have to pay to Cavernment $1,000 a year. The smaller factories will be obliged Government in a gigantic scheme to work the
to stop business, because of their inability to iron ore deposits of the central provinces of India. In return for his pledge of capital pay this exorbitant fer. It is very probable that they will be removed to Hongkong, being sufficient to develop this enormous field
attracted thither by a more liberal treatinent in the Government has agreed to grant to
the matter of fees. With the removal of this industry many people, men and women, who until now have obtained the means of their livelihood in the factories will be thman ent
him every possible facility and protection in his undertaking. Details of the schente so far divulged have excited high anti- cipations and general enthusiasm bere among commercial interests. Tata's project is the largest ever undertaken in India. It looks to the employment of Jabour on an immense scale. In addition to the development of extensive mines throughout a region long known to be rich in iron deposits, it contem- plates the establishment of foundries and rolling inills. Coal abounds in the iron districts, thus minimizing that item of expense. With cheap coal and cheap labour at his service, and the Government encouragement now formally assured him, Tata says he will obtain the best supervising talent that money can engage, with the view of making India the chief source of the world's supply of steel.
England favors Army Reduction.
of employment and so reduced to poverty
POLICE REGULATIONS.
¦
appropriate as follows:--
AWKWARD INCIDENT.
GERMAN VESSIL FIRED ON AT QUEENSTOWN,
ממ
Ance
A remarkable incident is reported from Queenstown. The German vessel Thekla, while occupying the usual anchorage for mer- chant ships near Spike Point, was fired on from the fort. In the midst of their work the officers and crew were startled by several ballets dropping on board; others passed rough the rigging and fell into the sel The men were at
mustered afı, and all work deck was suspended until the firing, which is alleged to have come from the battery on Spike Island, ceased. Fortunately no one was hit, and the bullets on board are the only evidence of the occurrence. The Thekin left in the evening for Hamburg. Prior to sailing the captain communicated with the ship's agents at Queenstown and formally P.reported the affair. This report he will repeat the German authorities when he reaches No doubt is felt that the affair was port. purely accidental, but the blunder is of such a nature 24 to require official explanation. Spike Island is a purely military station
To pay a final dividend of 6 per cent.
making to par cent. for the year...$75,000.00 To write off Property Account...... 30,000.00 To carry forward to credit of next
8,465.05 year's account .......
$113.455.03
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
During the temporary absence of Sir C. Chater, C.M.G., Mr. R. C. Wilcox has joined the Committee, and his appointment requires confirmation at this meeting,
Alesers. A. Haupt and R. C. Wilcox retire, but being «ligbie offer themselves for re-election
AUDITOR
The recounts have been audited by M. W Human Pate, who offers himself for re-election.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Un
General Manager" Trongkong, 4th September, 1903.
FRANCE AND MACAO, After quating over two colungs of an article which appeared in our jesue on the fich alt, the Siam Free Prere anys Judging from the article which we reproduce from a Hongkong contemporary on the question of France and
DOCTORS IN CHINA,
PADRING THE AID OF THE INFLUENCES OF HEALING
Chinese medical men are not compelled to pursue any particular course of study, and are not able to obtain any university degree Con squeally doctors, says the Chicago News have no great social standing.
Medicine may
be practised by anyone. It is only necessary to hang out one's name as "Dr. Wang" or "Dr. Li" to become a physician. This seems easy
Macan, our righbours of that rock of typhoons Pough; but doctors are liable to heary penalties
and cyclones are heranin, alarmed lest the
Tricolor' should shelter the settlement of
"Sweet Mean Ander its ample folds, in the near future to the detriment and danger of Hongkong Hongkongites do not seem to hear out the old adage that "competit on is the life of traile
They have not spared neither Levite in their paroxysmal at Frice ph tacks on that subject If such a rather ungal lant policy were resorted to by the authorities of this pagan land to justify the end in view, In a recent number of the Boletim the Police
we might have passed it off spancticed, but to Regulations are published Section 32 im
see it followed unblurbingly by a people pre poses upon the sergeants the duty of instructing tending to civilization and even a little degree the constables in sundry matters. The provi-Christianity, it is ~ couter of wunder to us signs of section to is the most extraordinary that
how they can have recourse in such arrow imagination can conceive, and reads as follows and prejudiced arguments, set forth, in order "To teach them the different methods which the Chinese practise to steal and the subtle ways they employ to deceive." It was re marked to-day that two Chinese detective police appeared to wish to put the rule into practice, in a manner profitable to themselves. They entered a Chinese house yesterday, tried to gag the two inmates, both women, and rob
them. They were accompanied by two other
Chinese. Before these men succeeded in carrying out their evil design, they were dis- covered and calight. The prisoners now await trial.
SERVANTS' REGISTRATION,
LONDON, Sept. 2nd. Comments on Mr. Chamberlain's Birming bam speech are subsiding under temperate treatment. The speech is regarded as a fair index of public sentiment. Mr. Chamberlain's
An endeavour will be made, so it is believed, disclaimer of intention to advocate anything
to make compulsory the registration of native approaching general disarmament, or even a
servants in the employ of Europeans. Regis serious depletion of the force under arms, wa5 bardly needed, in view of the widespread sentration will involve the payment of a fee. It is timent of relief that war no longer harasses public thought. The tone of the press does not echo the fear expressed by the Tiutes that the speech was designed to cover official short- comings by appeals to patriotism; but it seems inclined to regard as reasonable the speaker's view that in-time of peace public opinion would not stand behind the maintenance of an army large enough for war.
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Panio Over Luzon Earthquake. MANILA, September 1st. Reports about the earthquake indicate wide- spread damage over Luzon. Details so far received show it to have been much more
serious than the one of last January. Since Mayon volcano has not yet become quiet, this latest visitation is reported to have created panic in some of the southern districts.
anther method of taxing the inhabitants. Here nothing can be done without payment. Even tickets of admission to theatrical perform - ances bear the Government stamp. In Macao registration is, in my opinion, uncalled for; its concomitant evil will be the further increase in the already high rate of wages of domestic Herbert Spencer, who condemns with good cause the undue interference of the State in matters concerning individu.Is alone, would be driven out of the colony in despair by
servants.
our meddlesome legislation were he to reside in our midst. Portuguese Government legis lation has a tendency to hinder the development of commerce, the promotion of industries, and private enterprise.
ARMS LICENCE.
Por-
to blindfold the outsole wild, as to the actual state of affairs Hut our neighbours el Hong kong appear to be just as vulnerable to the effects of miginal sin as our friends of 7A-4, and hence "in" is the cause of all our wor
TYPHOON AT SHANGHAI.
HONGKONG STEAMERS ÖVERDUE.
The typhoon, the outside edge of which we have been experiencing during the last few days, says the W. C. D. Neus, sf the 3rd inst, has been one of unusual violence and spread over a wide area.
in the event of the death of a patient. Chinese materia mediça is extensive and nonsensical in the extreme. The native doctors have ar
quired an empirical knowledge of the action of restian remedies, notably ni sevmir purgatione and anodynes, but with
NO CERTAIN METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS.
their use of these remedies is often fallacions A Chinese doctor feels the pulse in bath wrists He places three fingers of his right hand over the radial artery of fira ane arın and iben ike other. In the first arm he says he can tell by his first finger lhe condition of the spleen, which is very important. The second tells him the condition of the lungs, and the third the date of the liver. On the other aro he detects in like manner the diseases of the heart, kid neys, and stomach
He leaves the brain, the arteries, repous, and nervous, systems entirely out of consideration, as hisbooks do not tell |hins anything about such systents
The pulse, and the pulse alone, to his mind is an indiction of the locality of the disease
te is not at all onequan for women patients to thrust an arm out from the curtained bed that the physician may feel the pulse and make his diagnosis on that basis alone. If the patient
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Co-dap's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, MONDAY, the 8th September, 1902,
at 11 AM, A
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A Feking despatch reports that Prince Chun, younger brother of the Emperor, was betrothed to a daughter of the Grand Secretary Yung Lu, on the fist ult, and that the great number of THE Undersigned has received instructions people of all ranks who, appeared at the residence of the prospective father-in-law of an Imperial Prince to congratulate him, as well 25 the numerous and expensive betrothal presents were unprecedented in the history of even such a wealthy city as the capital of the Chinese Empire.
Commercial.
TODAY'S INTELLIGENCE
There is very little business doing in the Share Market. Small sales have been effected - as under:-
DOUGLAS STĽamship Co., at $42 HONGKONG COTTON MIL. S 17 and 5+7.25 Humrugeys ESTATE
11:40
There are no buyers of the latter Stock over $11.25 WHAMPOA DOCKS AND BANKS are rather wenker. Small sales of Docks at $215, and there are still seller, at this rate; and BANKS at $595. CHINA SUGANs are also weaker, with sales at 59s. There have beco wies of INO-CHINAS at $79.co, while CHIN PROVI- DENTS as offered at on $u?¥!Ht ༢༠i་ I'MMENTS are at $20.
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Today's Abvertisements.
ATENARIA RECREAT RONG COATE
AQUATIC SCORES.
THEANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS will ha held on the fith, 1995, and 13th inst. in the Club Enclosure, Austin Road (Kowloon),
Sports commence 11th and 12th 50430 pm and on the 1 yh at 4 pm. Sharp, Admission for Centlemen day, Kabbers and Sailers in t'nifaran half price.
so cents ch
Tickets for ssion may be obtained fanny the Saem med V R. C., on day of Sports. VRANK W. WHITE,
Hon. Secretary Hongkong, 6th September, 1901.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLPH
AQUATIC SPORTS 1909
19304
THECOMMITTER of the V. K. Creunest the pleasure of the Company of the Ladies of Hongkong at the Club Enclosure, Austin Road, Kowloon, on SATURDAY, 13th inst., a 4 p.m. Sharp, on the occasion of the Annual Aquatic Sports.
By kis permission of Lieut.-Col W. S. Birdwood and Officers, the Band of the roth
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recover the doctor is credited with the cure: if Bombay Infantry will play during the after the patient dies he is accused of murder. medies must produce immediate favourable res sults or
THE DOCTOR 18 DISMISSED ·
The departure of the following vessels has and a new one employed. I have known of 11 been postponed. The Knitsberg will leave doctors being sent fur in one day. The pa today at om. for Tsinglao, etc.: the s. s.tient in this case polled through after taking Sanuki Maru has also postponed her departure doses, the last doctor, of course, getting the for Europe via ports until to-day. The Coptic | credit of the cure, will be we fur Hongkong to-night, while the Nippon Maru has also postponed her depar ture for San Francisco until to-night.
The Blue Funnel steamer Diomed which left Hongkong on the 28th August and was due here on the 1st September, and the steamers which leit Swatow on the 28th ult., had not ar- rived last night. The C. N. 5. Signan, which left here for Ningpo on Friday afternoon, has not yet made the return voyage, and there has consequently been no news in Ningpo since the arrival of the C. N. S. Krangtten on Satur The latter vessel went down day morning, river on Saturday, but remained at Woosting.
BUSINESS PLENTIFUL AT SHANGHAI DOCKS.
The American Revenue Steamer Negros, lately built by Fareham, toyd and Company for the United Sta es Government, is lying in the stream off the Oid Dock read! to proceed to Manila as soon as the weather moderates. The Zmow, another steamer of the same type as the Negros will follow shortly. The United States Anny Transport Liscuw will be towed to day from the Old Dock to the International Dock where her old boilers will be taken out
Several years ago I was
called to see the little six anonths old grandson ef the Governor of Peking. The child was in convulsions from having eaten a quantity of indigestible material when it had only two or three teeth.
Each one of a sumber of Chinese doctors had poured down the infant's throat, without effect, some decoction of nastiness, the last dose of which was powdered scor. pions' tails. By means of chloroform, a hot bath, ice to the head, and other remedies managed
bring the infant around, much to
the joy of his grandfather. If the child had died 1 would have been blamed with killing him, especially as I had dared to use ice, a remedy that the Chinese doctor not only does not use, but condemns as the cause of many latal inesses,
The native physicians are great believers in the efficacy of counter-irritation, which they use in the form of antimonial and arsenical plasters, often creating intractable ulcers, generally both painful and useless. Their fees are exceedingly small, but they frequently make op for this by p oviding the medicine, for which they charge in proportion to the wealth and credulity of the patient. One patient of wine
PAID HIS NATIVE DOCTOR 30 CENTS
and new ones of the latest marine type sub for his visit and $150 for the velvetly fur from stituted The work will probably occupy six
a young deer's horns, which was prescribed as weeks, after which the transport will return to medicine. If the patient recovers he often has the Old Dock where she will be put on the day a memorial tablet of heavy wood carved in dock to have her hull repaired. Many steamers characters setting forth the disease from which are lying at the works undergoing repairs.he was marvellously cured by Dr. Wang or The works are run to their full capacity, a any other doctor. This tablet is hung on the large force of ineu being employed. –Shangkoi | wall outside, the doctor's residence, and is a Times.
Jasting testimonial and useful advertisement to bis ability, or more often good luck. Some doc- NEW BRITISH PORT PROPOSED.
tors have a dozen or more of these large The Westminster Gaz tle, in a recent issue wooden testimonials hung on their walls.
The new law licensing the carrying of arms has evoked much adverse cnticism. It exempts officers of certain Government departments War Scare in German Press. from the payment of fees. It is clear that its
LONDON, August 31st.
provisions cannot have the same local applica
one takes Cerman newspapers, no longer able to nagtion as in Lisbon, in Macao no England on Boer war account, are working out a licence for the carrying of such weapons themselves into a frenzy of apprehension just as revolvers, rifles and swords; only a very now over the prospect of war between England few people possess them in the colony. and the United States. Taking as a text the When arms are spoken of here they are recent speech of President Roosevelt on the generally applied to sporting guns, carried by Monroe Doctane, it pleases the German editors individuals for purposes of pleasure only. A to read in the speech notice to England to quit tax on these is not seriously objected to; but the American Continent, and this, in their it is the compliance with the formalities de- view, is equivalent to a declaration of war. Of manded in the application for a lience that is course this construction gets ne support here. sev rely censured. An applicant has to furnish As understood in England, the speech was a on a withio schedule all the particulars relating general declaration, much after the order of to his profession, age, beight, colour of hair, many previously made by American políticians. etc., etc.; in fact, it brings to one's mind the re- If special notice was intended by President quirements from a ticket of leave inan. Koosevelt, be meant that it should apply, in tugal unfortunately follows blindly in the English view, to Germany, whose trade efforts footsteps of France in all that are against in South America have led to supposed public opinion. Her grandmotherly legis- schemes of territorial occupation.". It is under, lation in a small colony such at Macao stood that one, of the Kaiser's purposes in is not productive of usefulness, and to those sending Prince Henry to the United States who have lived under Governments with free discussing the new Canadian Pacific Railway doctor's house which I often pass has boards was to recover the good will which uneasiness and liberal institutions is most objectionable service, which it assumes will unquestionably reading thus: "His hand touched and life The public revenue is not benefitted by the be carried out, says: While the new vessels, returned." "In diphtheria the only saviour" imposition of the arms fees, as it should be. as now proposed, will be running within two Another;" His art is grent." Still another: "Due to him I live again." One day in (North China Daily News.)
Unlike the practice of other nations in Macao years, the ultimate scheme involves establishing The Cholera, on the "Saikio Maru.” the fees go to benefit the high officials.H a new and thoroughly modern port, whose passing this place in a cart with a Chi- nest friend I pointed to the numerous cannot understand why visitors, who are licens location is yet undetermined, eliminating KODE, 29th August, The ship's surgeon, Dr. Tani, and one boyed under the laws of their own country the St. Lawrence passage and shortening the boards and said: "That must be one of your on the N.Y.K's. Salkie Maru have died of should be exempted from the payment of any voyage materially. With the view of improv. Breat doctors, judging by the number of cholera, ́ The passengers are all well,
fee here. Take the case of Hongkong, for ing the time of the through trip to the Far grateful patients he has cured." "He" re- instance, there is no reciprocity there in favour East, two new vessels of equal speed to those joined my companion with scorn. "He bad The New Japanese Commandor
of residents from Macao for the carrying of of the Atlantic lines will be added to the Pa. everyone of these boards made himself. The at Shanghai.
ams. It can only be imagined that this chic fleet, while ultimately twenty-five knot people he is supposed to have cured never ex
isted.". Some doctors have recipes that were favoured treatment of strangers is a cances ships will be added to the service, which will handed down to them by their ancestors and Captain Imamura Shinroku has been ap sion out of international courtesy at the sacri
be mamed by naval reservists and constitute keep them in the family, telling only one mem pointed. Commander of the Japanese force at
fice of the respect of our own local legislation.
the most effective fleet of commerce destroyers ber in each generation bow the nostrum is pre- Shanghai
pared. Some of these formulas have great local and protectors in the world.
reputations, but they are never widely known. · “OTTAM & CO. FOR WASHING MOTTAM & CO., FOR TRESS'S STRAW
BOW TIES
on this account had lost.
COTTAM & CO. FOR PANAMA HATS: COTTAM & CO, FOR SUN BATS
and FELT HATS
FRANK W. WHITE,
Hoa. Secretary. Hongkong, 6th September, 1902.
PERSEVERANCE
{940d
LODGE OF
HONGKONG, No. 1,165,
REGULAR MEETING of
A LODGE wil he held in the above
Masons' Hall, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 16th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Rrethren are cordially invited to attend, Hongkong, 6th September, 1902. [937d
OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE.
ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
"COPTIC."
CONSI
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees
of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
J. S. VAN BUREN,
Agent. Hongkong, 6th September, 1902.
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at his Sale Rooms, Duddell Street, 15 Cases CHAMPAGNE, 5 Cases GRIF- FIN'S ALE, to Cases WHISKY, zo Cases PORT, 20 Cásés SHERRY, 15 Caseɛ DODD'S ALE, 15 Cases THOMÁŠBŘAU, (Munchen Beer), &c., &c.
TERMS-Cash on delivery.
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GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 6th September, 1902.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
19354
WE Undersigned have received instructions from the Captain Superintendent of
Police to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
THURSDAY, the 11th September, 1903,
on
at 1 A.M., at the
CENTRAL POLICE STATION,
A QUANTITY OF SURPLUS STORES, Comprising:-
RICE, SUGAR, GROUND-NUTS, PEAS, COFFEE, ROPF, LEAD, ZINC, BRASS, FRON, CROCKERY WARE, &c., &c;
ALSO
17 BLACK WOOD CHAIRS and TABLES and 8 RICKSHAS and TRUCKS;
AND
On FRIDAY, the 12th instant, at Noon, at the WATER POICE STATION, Kowloon, a Quantity of HARD-WOOD, FISHING
"ETS, BOATS and 3o Bags SALTPETRE.
As Tegal,
DEPAR
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 5th September, 1902.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA,
(938d
(ORIENTAL 5.S. CO.)
REGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN HONGKONG AND MANILA.
[HE Company's well-known Steamship
"ROSETTA MARU," 3,876 Tons, Captain Tate, will be despatched hence for MANILA, on SATURDAY, the 13th instant, at 33.
Comfortable Magnificent accommodation. cabins. Excellent table.
Unrivalled speed, Electric light. Doctor and Stewardess carried..
For Freight or Passage, apply to
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA," Agents.
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Ice House Street.
[171d
Hongkong. 6th September, 19oz.
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR FIUME AND TRIESTE (DIRECT), Calling at SINGAPORE, PENANG, CAL- CUTTA, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ and FORT SAID. (Taking Cargo at through rates to the BRAZILS, In EAST and South AFRICA, RED SEA BLACK SEA, LEVANT, VENICE and ADRIATIC PORTS).
THE Company's Steamship
* NIPPON," Captain Klausberger, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the 19th instant, P,M.
For Information as to Passage and Freight, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Princes Buildings. Hangkong, 6th September, 190z.
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