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THE POPULATION. OF 'CHINAT

In view of the charges to meet the indem- nity payments the central Government of China has taken a census of the population which may be taken as approximately accurate. It will be observed that according to this Shantang is the most densely populated province, which wilf probably surprise many people, whilst the average per square kile, comes out less than popular idea, based on the limited knowledge that was available, have usually credited the Empire as possessing. Indeed, China proper comes out little more in density of population than the German Empite. The following are the figures:

Sq: kilometr . Population. Per sq. ki. Chibli... -00,000 =0 937,000 Shantung... 145,000 38,247,900 · *264

212,000

176,000

Shani

Flonao...

Kiangau

... 100,003

Anhui..... 142,000

Kinnasi

180,000)

95.000

120,000

185,000

Chekiang

Fokien...

Hupeh

Ha an

****** 216,003

Kansu 325,000 Shensi....... 195,000 Szechuan (66,000 Kwangtung.. 259,000 Kwangsi..... 200 000 Kweichow

174,000

Yunnan-380,000

Forthe eighteen

provinces. .3.970,000 Manchuria... 942,000 Mongolia 3,543,000 Thibet .... 1,200,000

Chinese

17,200,450

35,316,800

13,980,235

70

57 2011

140

122

23 672,314 167 26,532,125 148 11,580,692 22,876,540- 191 35,280,685 19t 22,169,673 103

10,385.376

.32

8,450 182

68,724,800

43

123

31,865,251

*5.142.330 76

7,620,282

·12,324,574 ----34

407,737,305

8,500,000

2,580,000

103 9 0.7

6,130,020- 5

0.8

Turkestan 1,426,050 1,200,000

Gross total...11,081,000 426,447,325. 38.5

PRINCE TUAN,

Rumours from Peking seem to indicate that the Court believes in the possibility of putting a period to Prince Toan's punishment.. His wife has ahearly returned to the capital and is said to have been received by the Empress Dowager in a most friendly manner. he is supposed to be the forerunner of her consor who will soon follow her from his exile in Kansu. All this appears a little premature. The Court itself returned to Peking last spring only, and most assuredly foreign Powers will take it ill should the Roxer leader follow their Majesties to the capital within less than a year. If anything of the kind happens, it will be difficult to suppose that Prince Tuan is effaced, and still more difficult to imagine that bo will be found a converisto the cause of reforms. The strong probability is that in Pek- ing he would once again become the pivot of dangerous conservatism.

N.Y.K. EUROPEAN VESSELS.

MAY VISIT NAGA "AKI,”--

The Nagasaki Chamber of Commerce and several leading merchants of the port some time aga requested the Department of Com- munications to lay before the Nippon Yusen Kaisha the desir bility of their European boats calling at Nagaski, This was done, and the Nagasaki Press understands, that the steamship. company have gone thoroughly into the pros and cons of the question, and have almost decided in favour of these vessels touching here. In all probability next January will see them paying Nagasall a visit either on their outward or homeward voyage. An extension of the Nagasaki branch will of course be made.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22, 1902.

THE RUSSIANS HAND BACK THE RAILWAY.

THEY TAKE. AWAY EVERYTHING"

MOVEABLE.

NEWCHWANG, 9th October.. The Russians have "now handed back 10 China the Newchwang-Shanhaikwan sectional rallway and have removed their entire railway staff to this side. They are busily engaged in making up their accounts and for this pur. pose have engaged- the "large, three-storeyed building on Made ra Road. The Chinese flag is flying at all stations along the line and the trains are entirely manned and worked by the Chinese. For the last week window frames, 'doors, railway sleepers, wharf girders, complete lengths of trolley rails and trolley cars, etc., have found their way her, and elsewhere. A "trolley-line may be seen working from the 'Bund to the vicinity of the future Russian Consulate. Trains were not run for several days on the line just banded back, on account of telegraphic and other interruptions. The Governor-General of Shenking Province has been here in connection with the restoration. --Shanghat Mercury,"

THE BURNING OF THE

“YOSHINO-MARU.”-

Hardly had Nagasaki-heard the story of the abandoning of the schooner Otelia Pederson then another, and more dramatic tale was brought by the U. S. A. T. Crook, reports the Nagasaki Press of the 18th inst. The transport arrived here on Saturday morning from San Francisco, having on board four Europeans, four Japanese, and thirty-nine Chinese, rescued from the British steamer Yoshino Maru, afire off Kagoshima.

The Yoshing Maru, Captain Broadbridge, owned by Taniguchi Kato and Company, of Moji, left Shanghai at 3p.m. on the 7th inst. with a full cargo of raw cotton and beancakes, for Köbe. When she was off Satanomisaki,

fire broke out in the fore-hatch-as a result, in Van Diemen Strait, at 1,30 pm. on Friday,

there can be little doubt, of spontaneous com- bustion. The flames ran from end to end of the vessel with terrible rapidity. In half an hour she was ablaze, the fire being fanned into strength by the wind that prevailed.

At 2.p.m. the Crook

THE JAVA UHINA-JAPAN LINE,

ZHEAD AGENCY IN HONGKONG);

A loan is announced of fi.2,000,000 in 3,000 shares each of 1,1,000 for the Java Chica-Japan- line, established at Amsterdam at par, and tenders were invited on 23rd ult. The capital is | f1.6,000,00), but only fl.2,000,000 are issued. In the prospectus the following is observed :--Mr. L. P. D. Opten Noort, Mr. E. Heldring and Mr. B. E. Ruys have made an agreement with the State, by which a subsidy will be granted for the projected line, which will give a monthly service between Java and Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, and on the return voyage to Java touch Amoy and Hongkong. Three steamers, will be constucted of about 5,000 lons, and the service will commence io September, 1903.

Zutimations.

NOW READY

THE PAMPHLET ENTITLED: THE HONGKONG DOCK CO.: IT'S

PRESENT AND FUTURE PROS PECTS. Discussed in connection with th proposal for the construction of a New-Dock."

PRICE: 50 cents, cash,

Apply to the

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OFFICE. 1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

Hongkong, 1st October, 1902, ·

GOVERNMENT GENERAL OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA.

THE

HANOI

Mails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

(THE JAPAN MAIL' STEAMSHIP COMPANY)

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS.

Kanagawa MAKU

J; Mackenzie...

·EXPOSITION KASUGA MARU

A HEAD AGENCY will be established in Hongkong, and an agency of the Company in Netherlands India. The object is the carriage of goods and between deck passengers, while there will also be some room for cabin passengers. The principal cargo will be sugar from Java nd coals from Į Japan but it is expected that the regular direct service will promote the traffic of other produce from Java and of various articles for import there from China and Japan. Besides the above-named gentlemen, the names of Mr. Abram Muller and of Mr. van Haren Noman, the former director of the Netherlands Trading Company, and the latter director of the Nether-ments, Burma, &c. (3rd section). laads India Trading Bank, are also mentioned as members of the-foard of Directors. In ad-

dition to the present capital issue it is intended to issue later on a bonded loan, at 4 per cent. interest, of §,1,000,000.

THE STRANDING OF THE "SHIKISHIMA "

The Kobe Chronicle takes from vernacular

papers a description of the circumstances at- tending the stranding of the battleship Ski- ishima. The pace where the vessel stranded was two cables distant from her anchorage. So fierce was the force of the wind that this

while huge waves over twenty feet high washed great battleship of 15,000 tons was in Ave minutes ashore, dragging her two anchors, over the decks. The velocity of the wind at the time was over ninety miles an hour, and it force may be inferred from the fact that part of the apparatus for wireless telegraphy fitted on board the vessel, which is in the shape of the letter Y. was bent merely by the force of the wind

BURIED AT SEA.

THAMES.

SIGHTED THE BURNING VESSEL and bore down to her. The transport could, however, give no such assistance as would save! STRANGE FUNERAL AT THE MOUTH OF THE the Yoshino Maru. The vessel was by that time beyond help, and all that could be done was the immediate saving of there on board. This was smarly done, and there boarded the } Crook, Captain Broadbridge, three Eurepean ard four Japanese officers and engineers, and 39 Chinese sailors.

The Crook left the scene of disaster at 2.30 p.m., and arrived at Nagasaki at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning.

The point at which the Yoshino Moru was abandoned is three miles south of the Cape of Satanomisaki and the vessel was drifting to the north east on a strong current. The Yoshino Mary was recently bought by Taniguchi Kato and Company, but as official formalities had not yet been gone through she was still under the British flag The fire was an unfortunate one for the Japanese firm at Moji. The vessel, which may now be supposed to have sunk, was of 2,094 gross and 1,246 registered tonnage,

SEWING MACHINES

IF YOU BUY A

SINGER

The funeral of Capt. R. Marsden, of Gravesend, formerly Harbourmaster of the Port of London, and a County Justice of Kent, took place last month.

polished oak coffin, was conveyed to sea for The body, containadžin a, shell, within a

burial, in accordance with a wish which the deceased gentleman expressed in his will, He was born at sea, and married at sea,

The departure of the tug Britannia, on which the body was placed, was witnessed by large crowds of people. On the boats in the river flags were at half-mast,

The body was committed to the deep a few miles beyond the Mouse Lightship, and almost out of sight of land.

funeral service, which was of a simple but very The Rev. B. Shaw, of London, conducted the impressive character,

WILL BE OPENED ON 3RD NOVEMBER, 1902. THE Exposition, which is situated close to the Railway Terminus at Hanoi, will comprise a GRAND PALACE and MAGNI- FICIENT BUILDINGS, con.aining Artistic, Commercial Agricultural and Industria- Productions of the greatest variety from France and her Colonies (1st section); French Indo- Far East-China, Japan, Philippines, Siam, China-(2nd-section); and the countries of the Netherlands India, British India, Straits Settle

The WEATHER in TONKIN during the months of November, December, January, and February, is mild and invigorating and may be compared to a winter at Nice.

The GALLERY of FINE ARTS_will contain more than.gon Pictures, and will be organised under the Direction of the Inspection- General of Fine Arts of Paris.

SPECIAL EXCURSIONS by Railways and Steamers to the chief Places of Interest in Indo-China (Cochin-China, Tonkin. Laos, Cambodge, Annam) will be organised at reasonable prices,

. H. Fraser

INADA MARU....

W. Bainbridge

محمد

DESTINATIONS KOBE and YOKOHAMA

SAILING DATES,

FRIDAY, 24th("Octy:

Daylight.

Noon.

NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-į FRIDAY? 24th Oct,

HAMA

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT) SATURDAY, 1st Nov

Daylight,

THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE) SATURDAY, Ist

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG,

COLOMEO and Pout SAID

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA)

Noon

and BRISBANE

KOBE and YOKOHAMA

TUESDAY, 4th Nov,

J, W.-Ekstrand ..........

VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE,' U.S.A., VIA SHanghai, Moji, Kone | and YOKOHAMA ......

Noon. TUESDAY,

Novi, at

------- F.M.

Yaw VTA MARU........

A. E. Moses KAGOSHIMA MARU

K. Kori KAGA MARU⭑

*Through Passenger Tickets and Bills of Lading issued for the Principal Cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY and Atlantic Steamers,

For further Information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings, &c., apply at the Company's' Local Branch Office at Prince's Building, 1st Floor, Chater Road.

Hongkong, 15th October, 19oz. NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

ATTRACTIONS OF ALL KINDS: BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Military Band, Theatres, Circuses, Concerts, Aquatic Sports, Balloon Ascensions, Fireworks, Dances, &c., will be provided.

REDUCED PRICES will be charged-by- all Steamship Lines running to Haiphong, from whence Hanoi may be reached in a few hour by Railway or Steamer.

NUMEROUS First-Class HOTELS and CAFES assure every accommodation to visitors at moderate prices.

For FURTHER INFORMATION apply to the French Consulates in the Far East.

P. THOME

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Commissaire-Général de l' Exposition de Hanoi.

AN APPEAL..

HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most 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,

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones.

Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Cm.- dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.

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.

Bangkong, zód April, 1804,

The weather was rather rough, and the coffin NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS. on being loered overboard was carried away by a large wave, but being weighted with an anchor and chains, it soon sank,

Many wreaths were sent, and these all went down with the coffin.

OTTAM & CO. FOR WASHING COTTAM

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LOTTAM & CO. FOR SUN HATS

MEMORY POINTS

SINGER

SIMPLE.

Neither the CAPTAIN, the AGENTS, nor the OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE for any of the following Vessel d ring her stay in DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crews

Hongkong Harbour:

S.S. PLEIADES, Amer. str., Capt. Purington.→→

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

ABOUT

SEWING

STRONG.

MACHINES.

SILENT.

SOLD ON INSTALMENTS AND FOR CASH.

WE make but one grade of product, admitted to be the best; hence attempts at imitation,"

BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY. PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,

VIA

SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Steamers. Captains. Tons. Pleindes*...... F. G. Purington 3,753 Oct. Olympia. Truebridge... 2,837 Oct. Duke of Fife... S. Cox. 3,821 Nov. Shawmut...W. H. Smith... 9,606 Nov.

1902.

23

29

4

Steamers marked () have no passenger accommodation.

The attention of passengers is directed to the very cheap rates offered by this line to the Pacific Coast and to the Interior and Eastern Cities of the United States and to Europe.

Special rates allowed to members of Govem-

ment Services,

Coast Points and to the Principal Cities in the Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific

United States and Canada.

For further Information as to 'Freight or Passage, apply to

DODWELL, & CO., LIMITED,

General Agents. Hongkong. 21st October, 1902.

GRIENTAE

STEAM

COMP

19744

A.. 8. MIHARA

Manager.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE

STEAM FOR “ SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA FORTS, LONDON,

HAVRE, BORDEAUX; - PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.;

ALSO

ON Companive Steamship N MONDAY, the 3rd November, 1902, "ERNEST SIMONS,"Captain Dupuy-Fromy. with Mails, Passengers, Specia and Corgo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY.

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL - STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

STEAM FOR STRAITS,CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.

(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAI, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) HE Steamship

TH

"BALLAAKAT," Captain F. Summers, carrying this Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 25th instant, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for Lopdon (under arrangement) will

be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer

to Marseilles and London;

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.5. Australien, which vessel takes. on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 15th November Direct to Suez, Port. Said and Marseilles."

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the places of Europe.

principal

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Specie and Parcels until 3 F.M., on the 2nd Cargo will be received nu board until 4.P.M.

Nov. (Parcels are not to be sent on board;

tents and Value of Packages are required they must be left at the Agency's Office,). Con- For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Office.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX Agent. Hongkong, zist October, 1992,

To be Let

TO. LET.

[10040.

EVERAL. NEWLY BUILT EUROPEAN HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL ROAD, Apply to

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO., LD. No. 8, Queen's Road West,

Hangang 20th October, ang

TO. LET.

WESTLEY," UPPER RICHMOND ROAD,

Apply to

LAU CHU-PAK, C/o A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD Hongkong, 15th October, 1902. Crossd

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TO LET UROPEAN HOUSES, Nos.:35 4, 5). 73.9%. 11, 12, 13 and 15. Morrison Hill Cap (opposite Monument at Racecourse)

Apply.to

SANG KEE Compradore Department, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 8th October, rooz [10560

TO LETA EIRION No. the Peak Room October, igaz.

proceeding dirt London, &c., will be conveyed Mouse near the Flagstafi, from 13th-

vid Bombay with Transhipment,

Parcels will be received at this Office unti P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and

SPEEDY. Value of all Packages are required.

WE deal directly with the people, through our own employees all over the world, selling 1,000,000 Machines

annually.

YOU get an up-to-date Machine, built on honour, to wear a life-time. YOU get it for the Lowest Price at which such a machine can be furnished.) YOU will receive careful, instruction from a competent teacher at your home,, YOU can obtain necessary accessories direct from the Company's offices.

YOU will get prompt attention in any part of the world; our offices are everywhere, and we give careful attention to all customers, no

matter where their machines may have been purchased. YOU will be dealing with the leading sewing machine manufacturers in the world, having an unequalled experience and an unrivalled

reputation to maintain the strongest guarantee of excellence and fair dealing,

THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

GENERAL OFFICE FOR CHINA:

18, BANK BUILDINGS, CORNER QUEEN'S ROAD AND WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG. BRANCHES IN EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD AND AGENTS IN EVERY TOWN. RETAIL OFFICES, 3A, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG.

04 ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON.

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Bills of Lading.

Superintendent.

For further Particulars, apply to

E. A. HEWETT,

Hongkong, 11th October, zonz,

HONGKONG SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.

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-18, Bank Buildings, Wyndham Street. FOUNDED in 1891, by DR. CANTLIE, and conducted for several years by H.E. POLLOCK, Esq., K.C.

TRUSTEES:

HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.,

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$7.50..................

Ver Half Year.

or

...Per Month.

The Library contains, in addition to Fiction,

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E JONES HUGHES: Hongkong, 7th October, 1002 [1033d

TO LET.

HOUSER IN CLIFTON GARDENS, COM

DUIT-ROAD,

GODOWNS at BOWRINGTON, Praya East HOUSES at CAUSEWAY BAY, facing the

Polo Ground. THE RETREAT MT. KELLETT. No. 3, RIPON TERRACE.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY COLD: Hanghano. 17th September, rooz,

Masonic.

LODGE EASTERN SCOTIA -

933 S.C.

HE above Lodge will be OPENED and CONSECRATED at CHATER'S BON- GALOW, KOWLOON, aa SATURDAY, the th instant, at B P., sharp.

Visiting Brethren are cordially invited. Hongkong, zoth October, 1902

a number of Standard Works on Biography, VICTORIA History, Travels, &c, and Works of Reference; and it is hoped to maintain it up to date..

Subscribers are allowed to take three books

apply to

พ

REGULAR MEETING aft

at a time,

Intending Subscribers are requested to at the FREEMASONS HALL, on M

the 27th instant, at 8.10 for 9 P.M BERNARD LANKESTER, Visiting Sir Knights are cordia

Hon, Secretary & Treasurer, attend Hongkong, 13th September, 19014130) Hongkong, toth ba

A VICTORIA PRIORY will be held