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OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

FLEET STREET, October 31st. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S TOUR

The sensation of the week is the official announcement of Mr. Chamberlain's trip to South Africa to study on the spot the difficulties presented by the present situation. The visit. is undertaken at the wish of the Cabinet, and with the approval of the King. It has that bold- ness in it which attracts the average man, and public opinion generally applauds it. The idea, I believe, has been adopted for about a month by the Cabinet, but all the preliminaries were settled before publicity was given to it. No exact details can yet he stated as to either the date of the Colonial Secretary's departure or his return, but towards the end of November has been contemplated for the former, while as to the latter, it may be taken, I understand, that the pressure which has already been brought to bear upon the right hon. gentleman to extend his tour to other colonies will be of non-effect, and that he will confine his visit at least as far as the immediately-coming occa- sion is concerned-to South Africa. It is said that Mr. Chamberlain will, during his sojourn in South Africa, have greater powers than bave ever before been possessed by a national emissary from Great Britain,

He will be accompanied by Mrs: Chamber- lain and one of his private secretaries, Mr. J. Wilson Health considerations, as a matter of fact, have assisted Mr. Chamberlain to under- take the tour, for, though nothing publicly has been said about the matter the effects of the cab accident are still observable and during the past year he has not been able to bear quite so much strain. Two sea voyages will¦ recuperate a constitution which is wonderfully full of vitality for a min nearing his seventies. There is happy omen in the fact that the new battleship Good Hope is to take the party to Capetown. This magnificent vessel, repre- senting the last word" in naval construction, has cost £976,569 to build, and Cape Colony bis undertaken to pay the annual interest on the capital expended on her. Thus the South African colonists will have a double interest in the vessel as she steams into Table Bay. The Good Hope goes into commission immediately at Portsmouth.

The well informed London correspondent of The Birmingham Post discussing the interest in the tour says:

That interest will not assuredly be lessened by the fact that, from what I have been told by a prominent German authority, it seems that the announcement of the right hon. gentleman's proposed journey to South Africa, not only did nol occasion any surprise in Berlin official quarters, but that the Kaiser.has expressed the hope to a personage connected with the British Embassy in Berlin that Mr. Chamberlain may see his way to pay a visit to

CERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA:

It may be added, in regard to the whole question, that, whatever may come in the way of official denials, I am in a position to state that important developments in regard to both South and South-east Africa will follow next month's visit of the King of Portugal to this country. Since the return to London a week.! ago of the Marquis de Soveral, the Portuguese Minister to the Court of St. James, his Excel- lency has had continuous correspondence with the Foreign Office. He has also bad private meetings with Count Meternich, the German Ambassador, and it is said in diplomatic circles to be beyond doubt that this correspondence

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1902.

and thest meetings have a special significance.” | chips for service between Scaule and the ports

of China and Japan, now building at New London, Connecticut.

I learn from Paris that Mt. Louis, who recent ly succeeded the late M. Bompard as director of the Commercial and Consular Department of the French "foreign office, is coming to Londen for the purpose of 'investigating our Consular system, and the progress which has been made by the Commercial Intelligence Department created three years ago as a consequence of the report of the Commercial Intelligence Committee appointed by Mr. Ritchie when President of the Board of Trade,

IT IS DIFFERENT NOW. Once upon a time students of medicine held the notion that there were as many different diseases as the body has organs and parts Fevery one of these ailments requiring a different treatment. Sa stupid a mistake could lead only to miserable failures. For the fact is, the body is a single machine; and what concerns one part of it concerns, more or less closely, all the rest. Thus we see how it happens that one remedy, or, mode of treat- ment; may relieve and cure a variety of complaints, or what may appear like variety, but are really various forms or out-

The Royal visit to the City was a great spc cess from the point of view of almost every body. There was no ugly crushing, the weather was extremely favourable, and the King and Queen appeared to be in excellent health. I say "almost everybody," because, as is not unusual, Tommy Atkins had the worst time of it. He was ordered to parade. "cloaked," and "cloaked" he was, though the weather was close and the thronged streets were very oppressive. But Tommy, as is his wont, bore his blanketing very cheerfully. En- thusiasm, it need hardly be said, was given vociferous vent all along the route. A note. It is said that a new hotel of unexampled | comings of the same cause. Take, for worthy fact in connection with the procession magnificence, and, I suppose untivalled ex- example, Anemia, Scrofula, Poverty of Blood, was the presence on the County Council plat-pensiveness, is to be built where the doomed General Debility, Influenza, Throat and Long form at Trafalgar Square of the Boer generals, Walsingham House Hotel and Bath Hotel Diseases, etc —a formidable array indeed they Botha, Delarey, and De Wet. They were the -stand in Piccadilly. It was, here that Mr. Took to be; yel guests of the chairman of the County Council, Sherry, the great restaurant keeper of New KANA WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION Sir John McDougall, who prevously ascertain York, was to have built a hotel to show English-quickly abates the worst of such cases, and ed that the King had no objection to their men how to make a science of eating. That absolutely cures, many which have been witnessing the procession. They occupied scheme fell through. Since then the Carlton abandoned as hopeless. The reasons are: its seats in the first row, and one of the most pleasing incidents of the day was Lord Roberts's friendly recognition of his late opponents in the field. He was able to stop for a minute, and exchange a few words with

THE BDER GENERA'S, Another feature of the day was the en- thusiastic reception of the crew of the Terrible who had just been paid off at Portsmouth. The Admiralty did not see fit to bring these heroes of China and South Africa to take part in the show, so it was left for a morning paper, The Express, to entertain them to a stand and a banquet afterwards. The crew greeted the King and Queen in lusty naval siyle and received several Royal bows. and smiles to themselves. ‹ The survivors of the Balaclava Charge stood in front of the soldiers in Fleet Street, and also received special atten- tion. Next to the King and Queen, Lord Roberts was the popular favourite, judging by the applause which fell to his share.

has established itself as the swellest hotel in town. In the new scheme the proprietors of the Carlton are said to be the prime movers so, I take it, they have something better to show us yet.

· SAN FRANCISCO PLAQUE.

EXTRAORDINARY REPORT.

OVER 2,000 DEATHS..

NEW YORK, Oct. 30th, Great surprise was caused here by the publi- cation in this afternoon's papers of despatches from Washington indicating the prevalence of a belief in many Western cities that bubonic plague exists in San Francisco to such an ex- tent as to constitute a serious menace to, the health of the country.

power over the digestive and assimilating process, its action in expelling impurities from the blood, and its consequent ability to vitalize and rebuild the whole structure. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative proper.ies of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It was not dreamed out, or discovered by accident ;it was studied out, on the solid principles of applied medical science, It is precisely what it is said to be, and has won the confidence of the public on that basis. You may resort to it with a faith and hope that arise from the history of what it has done for three years deaths have occurred almost daily others. Dr. Thes. Hunt Stucky says: “The

One telegram says that for something like from the plague in San Francisco, yet the continued use of it in my practice, convince, authorities of that city persistently deny that me that it is the most pålatable, least nauseat. there has been a single case, Another messageing, and best preparation now on the market? says the Marine Hospital Service reports that since February 2,333 deaths from bubonic Every dose effective. "You cannot be dis plague were recorded in California, all but appointed in it," Sold by chemists here and three of which occurred in San Francisco, throughout the world and A. S. Watson & Co.,

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These figures are so large that they were received here in New York with incredulity. Persons who have been keeping in close touch with the sanitary situation in San Francisco tell me, in fact, that such numbers must be erroneous, and that while cases of bubonic plague undoubtedly accur from time to time in the capital of the Pacific slope, they are relatively few, and practically confined to the Chinese population.

On Sunday, the great Thanksgiving service drew huge crowds, and the officials muddled the arrangements so that for three hours after the Cathedral was full they allowed the throngs to wait-outside without informing them that their efforts to secure admission would be futile. Whereat there is much outcry, and the usual feeble clerical excuses. The King and Queen will entertain in the next fortnight at Windsor Castle a number of Royal and dis- tinguished guests, including the German Em- peror and the King of Portugal. The latter has been ill with a cold for a fortnight in Paris.department of the kind in the world, shows that Magnificent apartments have been got ready for the visiting Sovereigns and their suites, who are expected to stay at Windsor several days. The Duke of Connaught leaves Genoa

on

the battleship Renown on November

30 for India. About 150 English guests at the Durbar left last Thursday by an early

steamer.

Arrangements are being made for still fur- ther reducing the time which it at present takes to make the through journey

FROM PEKIN TO PARIS. Before long, when the new time table is completed for the Trans-Siberian route, the whole trip will be made in fourteen days.

A New York correspondent informs me that what is believed to be the biggest anchor in the world is being cast at the Seaboard Steel Company's works in Chester, U. S. A. It is one of a pair for the Eastern Shipbuilding Company and weighs 16,800 pounds. It is of the "admiral" type, stockless, and will be used on one of the Great Northern Railway steam- `OTTAM & CO., FOR TRESS'S STRAW

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Meanwhile information teceived at the Marine Hospital Service in Washington, which has charge of the sanitary arrangements at all the ports, and which was described by the late Professor Virchow as the best organised

the health authorities of the various States are becoming seriously alarmed at the continuance of the plague in San Francisco, and that several States are considering the question of quar antining arrivals from that city, particularly in view of the fact that the Grand Army of the Republic is to hold its next annual encimp. ment there, and this mi ht be the means of spreading the disease widely unless it be eradicated at the fountain-head.

It is noteworthy that the Washington des- patches which thus sound the note of alarm are published, not in the sensational papers, but in organs like the New York Mail and Express and Evening Post, the latter of which adds that it is the policy of the San Francisco authorities to be little and to disregard the Marine Hospital Service reports as a matter of business, and it is understood that a committee of San Francis cans came to Washington several months ago Department by which only the merest skeleton to make an agreement with the Treasury

of the facts should be printed in the public health reports. The plague there can be stamped out, the medical authorities maintain, if sufficiently vigorous action is taken, und they think that the time has come to compel San Francisco to to do its duty,

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Daylight TUESDAY, 16th Dec, at-

Daylight, 2. TUESDAY, 16th Dec, at (~44 P.M.

SATURDAY, 27th Dec., at

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SATURDAY, 37,h Dec, at

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THURSDAY, 1st January, at

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FRIDAY, 2nd January, at

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Hongkong, and December, 1907

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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.) IHE Steamship

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Captain Fr J. Fox, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will. Co dospatched" from this for BOMBAY,on SATURDAY, the 6th December, Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for thiế abova Porta.

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo;for France vid Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped 21 Colombo into a steamor penceeding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for Leadon, &c. will be conveyed vid Bomlay with Transhipment

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Shippers are panicularly requested to, mi the terms and conditions of the Company' Bills of Lading.

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