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MINING IN WEIHAIWEI,

At this time, when the consistent fall in the

value of silver is turning every one's thoughts to the urgent necessity of giving China gold standard, the question is asked why a land known to be gold bearing from East and from North to certainly as far South as the Valley of the Yangtse River, should make un efforts to obtain the golden store hidden within its boundaries.

The gold mines of Manchufa and Mongolia have been worked for centuries, whilst the quantity of alluvial gold found annually along the Yangtsr River and it tributaries show conclusively what prizes await the intelligent prospector if he be not hampered by official- ⚫dom. In the province of Shanglung extensive gold mining operations have been carried on and mining.

ENGINEERS HAVE REPORTED MOST FAVOURABLY ON MINES.

which, remaining under Chinese control, are hadly equipned, worse managed, and are str.ngled be the Incal authorities, Gld mining has been carried on at Weihaiwei for many- years and the population unțil recently regarded į the industry as theic pri-cipal support. Severn! villages lived entirely by mising; and the caved- in working and tailing dumps remaining go to prove how extensive their operations were. The alluvial workings, having been washed over several times, are necessarily poor and hardly worthy of foreigners' consideration, but the magnificent gald bearing quartz reins traceable over great distances and with gold contents equal to and in some instances larger than those which the principal Pand mines carry, are saly awaiting capit 1 and science to show thehinese Government what loss their policy of inactivity entails on the country. Luckily Weihaiwei is British territory and the Com- missioner

MR STEWART LOCKHART IS FÚLEY ALIVE to the mines therein

Mining regulations have been drawn up and forwarded ta t'. Colonial Office in London for approval of the Crowns, whilst prospecting and mining operatinas eceive every encourage.

ment.

T.

Suce the Japanese occupation liitle actual mining has been done, as many natives, being suspicious of foreigners, migrated to other parts of the province.

The best mining areas have been taken up and considerable expense has been incurred in prospecting operations, surveys, etc., by the companies interested,

It is almost unnecessary to state that the companies working in Weitaiwei have security

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1902.

THE WORLD'S COTTON SUPPLY. lands there are yielding a profit of £18 an acre.

It is not conducive. To our sense of national -teem to find that Granny, one of the latest Powers in the field, is showing the way to England in several important departments of Colonial enterpise. Great Britain, the pria cipal African Power, can show nothing to equal the patient scientific research undertaken by the Germans in East Africa to improve the conditions of life for the White Man in tropical countries. Recently, the Lancashire spinners formed a British Cotton Growing Association to inaugurate a movement for the encourage- ment of the production of the staple in the British Colonies. They are two years behind their German competitors, who since 1900 have been husy testing the cation-producing capabilities of their East and West African possessions, and the British Association will have to take their first lessons from their rivals, One cannot fail to admire the practical sagarity and foresight with which the Germans have

conducted th's, in common with many other commercial experiments. The work was undertaken by the Colonial Agricultural Com- mittee with the financial help of the spinners. The first trials were made in Togo, where cotton was already cultivated by the natives, whose abilities, as well 23 the conditions of shil and climate, afforded good prospects for the employment of rational methods. An American expert was engaged, and the resulis already achieved hold out hopes that in a few vears Togo will produce many

thousand bales of cotton. A new company has been formed for the purchase of cautan from the natives and the opening of small model farms, whilst one of the com- panies, proposes to take Germans to the Southern States of the Union for instruction. The experimert in East Afrcia have been inore recently instituted. An expert has been sent from the Colony to the United States to study the methods of cotton grewing, and to bring over a number of skilled negro fariners from the Tuskegee linte, who will work in East Africa as cotton farmer under his super- vision. The quality of the "Togee cotton, and that raised on the East African Mission farms,

is classed as "good mildling."

The Germans have led the way in two direc tions, first in co-operating to increase the field of cotton supply, and secondly in fixing upon Africa as the theatre of their experiments. As we pointed out at the time, any attempts of the

British Catton Growing Association to draw their supply of long-stapled cotton from India

are foredoomed to failure. The recent ex- periments in hybridization carried out by Agricultural Department hold out pro- mises of a great improvement in the charac- ter of the Indian pro 'unt; but with increas

of title and are free from the numerous abrucking attention to fine spinning in the local tions of Chinese officials. but n'her advantages exist which are of utmost importance where mining is in question. There is for instance

ABUNDANCE OF CHEAP LABOUR accustomed to mining, also the mining areas being near the sea, expensive transport is un- necessary, fuel is cheap, whilst machinery and explosives enter duty free.

It is satisfactory to learn that the Territory is being carefully prospected, and that although Weihaiwei, owing to past treaties, is never likely to become a big trading centre there is good reason to believe it may become an im- portant gold mining district and by its gond example assist in the proper development of Chinese mining-China Garette.

"OTTAM & CO. FOR GENT' RATP.

ING GEAR

SINGER

mille, rearly all the long-stapled cotton grown in the country will be absorbed by the internal demand. Africa, on the other hand, provides, a field large enough 10 ren- der Eumpe independent of the American cotton supply. In West Africa, beyond the forest girdle, there are vast tracts of land fitted and used for the cultivation of grain and cotton, In German East Africa, in the valley of the Rufigi River alone, there are estimated to be from three-qua fers to a million of acres of uncultivated la de suitable for colton growing. Signor Fernando Martini, one of the ablest administrators whom Italy has Erythrea, avers that, one of the chief sources

sent to

of the Colonies' prosperity will be the cultiva. tion of callon, ard some of the colton growing

"OTTAM & CO., FOR TRESS'S STRAW

and FELT MATS

SEWING

MACHINES

It should be danecessary to show how excep tionally favoured Great Britain' is situated in this regard. In Nigeria there are millions of acres as well suited as Togoland and the Cameroons to cotton growing; and it is proved that a good staple can be easily grown in Sierra Leone. The East and Central Africa Protectorates offer equal facilities, and Count Gleichen, in a recent address to the Manches ter Chamber of Commerce, pointed out thn enormous cotton-growing possibilities of the Nile Valley. Moreover, the British cotton lands now possess transport facilities which the Germans lack. The mil is complete from Uganda o the sea; in Sierra Leone a light line is being pushed into the hinterland; Nigeria controls a mighty navigable river; and the long delayed Central African railway has been sanctioned. The Germans have been in advance of their transport facilities; the British behind. There is little doubt that if the British Cotton Growing Association push forward their experiments with the same shrewd practical enterprise as their rivals, the African Colonies will be found, by slow degrees, capable of pro. ducing nearly all the cotton the Lancashire spinners require.—Times of India.

PIRACY AT AMOY.

A few nights ago, a daring robbery was per petrated close to an island a mile to the west of Amoy called Monkey Island, on a Chinese cargo boat. But the printes did not have everything their own way, for the crew of the cargo boat returned the fire, and shot one man, and took four other men prisoners. There can be no doubt that the Chinese authorities are half asleep, and do not putrol the waterways in the immediate neighbourhood of Amoy as they ought to do. The natural formation of the estuary, in which the island of Amoy lies, with its numerous inlets where bands of pirates can lie in ambush, ready to pounce upon "unwary boats, lends itself very favourably to these night attacks, and the only remedy is in a continual vigilance, which, alas, is the one thing the Chinese are apparently unwilling or unable to consent to. If the inland waterways of China are to be open to foreign traffic, as was promised with great éclat by the British Government some years ago, and confirmed in the recent new Treaty, more pressure should

be brought to bear upon the Chinese to protect the natural trade routes from pillage and robbery. Otherwise end'ess disputes will arise, proving a hindrance to commerce, and causing

irritation and delay. These robberies are always more numerous towards the end of the Chinese year, and in times of drought and bad harvests. Yes most of them night be pre. vented, if only the mandarins did their duty, But what a lot of virtue there is in an'if N. C. D. News.

Entimations.

BAZAAR

in aid of the

POOR CHINESE ORPHANS. of the

ASILE DE LA SAINTE ENFANCE.

Under the distinguished Patronage of Their Excellencies

Sir HENRY and Lady BLAKE,

THE FRENCH SISTERS have the honour to announce that their ANNUAL BAZAAR will be held at the CITY HALL, ON FRIDAY, the 12th instant, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

They request the presence of the Community in order to inspect the different Needle and Fancy Works made by their Poor Orphans.

Hongkbay, 8th December, 1902.

Mails,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

I MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.)

(THE JAPA

3

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.—SUBJECT. TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS.

BABIES AND CHILDREN ( should be fairly plump. They ought to put œ fat as fast as they use it up; for fat is fuel, and the barding of it makes power and force. Thin children-even along to the age of "eighteen or twenty-are in danger from con sumption, and from other wasting complaints. The children who starve, and the young men and women who are consumed why, the very idea of it is frightful. For such as they there is always what the Bible calls a "mighty famine" in the land. Food, though it may be taken plentifully, does not nourish them. It makes no fat; it gives no strength. To prevent this, to cure this, to save the young ones at the mother's knees, and the bright-KANAGAWA MARU boys and girls who are just looking at the

J. MacKenzie. world with hopeful and ambitious eyes, is the TAMBA MARU purpose of

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION, Its success is decided and settled. Thousands owe to it life and health. It is palatable as Honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers; combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. In build- ing up pale, puny, émaciated children, parti- cularly those troubled with Anemia, Scr-fula, | Rickets, and bone and blood diseases, nothing quals it; its tonic qualities are of the highest order. Parents whose children are sick can-

not resort to it a day too soon A Medical Institution says: "We have used your pre- paration in treating children for coughs, colds and inflammation;.its application has never failed us in any case, even the most aggravated bordering on pneumonia. The children like it, they love the taste of it, it looks "good to them, and it builds up their bodies; many little children owe their lives to it." The more it is used the less will be the ravages of disease among the people from infancy to old age. Every dose effective. "You cannot be disappointed in it.". At all chemists and A. S. Watson & Co., Limited.

Entimations.

NOTICE.

J. W. Wale.... KINSHIŲ MARU*

F. L. Pync.... SADO MARU...

S. J. G. Parsons... YAWATA MARU.........

DESTINATIONS.

(MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-]

WERP, VI SINGAPORE, PENANG COLOMBO and PORT SAID

(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-)

HAMA scien

SAILING DATES. SATURDAY, 13th Dec,

Daylight.

Turspay, 16th Dec, at

Daylight.

VICTORIA, BC and SEATTLE TUESDAY, 16th Dec., at

U.S.A, VIA SHANGHAI, MOJ', KOBE

und YOKOHAMA ste

4-P.ME

MARSEILLES LONDON & ANT-SATURDAY, 27th Dec., at

- Daylight.

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and PORT SAID. (NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-į SATURDAY, 27th Dec, at VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE, TUESDAY, 30th Dec., af

A. R. Moses'........... { ; HAMA ..........................

SHINANO MARU” M. J. Cumow

KUMANO MARU

E. W. Haswell SANUKI MARU

W. Townsend

BOMBAY MARU........

Noon.

4 P.M.

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA THURSDAY, 1st January, at

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA dui)

THURSDAY ISLand, TownsVILLE and BRISBANE..............

4 P.M.

| KOBE and YOKOHAMA

FRIDAY, 2nd January, at

Daylight.

Tab., at

Noon.

BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and) FRIDAY, 2nd

COLOMBO .........

Though Passenger Tickets issued for the Principal Citics in the United States, Canada" and Europe. in connection with the GREAT NorthÈry RailWA and Atlantic Steamers.: Round-the-World Tickets also issued. ́ ́Between Moji and Kobe, tst and 2nd Class Through Passengers have the Option of Travelling by the Sanyo Railway.

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

Hongkong 6th December, 2. COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,

PAQUEDOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE.

STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE. BATAVIA, COLOMBO, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;

OCCUPIERS of DOMESTIC BUILD-PORTS

are hereby requested to co-operate with the Board in its efforts to combat PLAGUE

by thoroughly, cleansing their Dwellings and Servants' Quarters between the 15th November

and rgth December next.

After the 15th December, the Board proposes to strictly enforce the provisions of the Bye-laws governing "Domestic Cleanliness and Ventila

ion," and the Board will, if on inspection it be found necessary, direct its offic rs to cleanse and disinfect premises under the provisions of the Bye-laws for the "Prevention or Mitig tion of Epidemic, Endemic, or Contagious

Disease.'

By Order of the Board.

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary,

Sanitary Board Office,

4th November, 1901.

NOW READY

{11852

ALSO

OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.

-A: S. MIHARA,

DRICHTAL

Manager.

STE

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION. COMPANY.

STEAM FOR TRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON:

N MONDAY, the 15th December, 1902

PM, the Company's Steamship "INDUS," Captain Duchateau, with Mails, (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, Passengers, Specie. and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, via Ports of Call, WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon dou as well as for Marseilles, and accepted i transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe,

PERBIAN GULE, CONTINENTAI, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.).

Steamship

"BENGAL,"

ptain A L. Valentini, carrying His Malcaty's Mails, will be despatched from this for

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P...

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 20th instant, toon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the Specie and Parcels until 3 PM, on the 14th | above Ports instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; and Valuables, all Cargo for France, they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Canan Tes for London (under arrangement) will tents and Value of Packages are required. be 'transhipped at Colorado into a steamer

For further Particufis, apply at the Commeeding direct to Marseilles and London; pany's Office.

ainer Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed nd Bombay with Transhiposent,

G. DE CHAMPEAUX-

Hongkong, and December, igaz.

Agent.

Farcels will be received at this Office until. {rcow 2, the day before sailing. The Contents and

Value of all Packages are required.

Shippers particularly requested

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

PECTS. Discussed in connection, with the proposal for the construction of a New Dock."

PRICE: 50 cents, cash.

PRESENT AND FUTURE PROS NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

Apply to the

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

• OFFICE, I, ICE HOUSE ROAD..

Hongkong, rst October, 1002.

MEMORY -POINTS ABOUT

SINGER

SIMPLE.

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,

SPEEDY.

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

annually.

IF YOU BUY

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.

SINGER

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

patter where their machines may have been purchased

YOU will be dealing with the leading sewing machine manufacturers in the world, having an unequalled expreience and an unrivalled

reputation to maintain-the strongest guarantee of excellence and fair dealing.

THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

0793:

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.

64, ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON.

COMPANY.

BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY,

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,

SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN,

VIA

the terms and contictions of the Company's Bills of Lading.

For further Particulars, apply to

EA HEWETT,

Superintendent,

* 6th December, roz

To be Let.

FOR KOBE AND YOKOHAMACOMA, and JA

IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Steamers, Captains.

Tons. 1903-03

Tacoma. A. Dixon ..... Tramons.... Victoria J. Panton

1,811 Dec.. 17 -9,606 Dec. 32 .....3,502 Jan. 3

Steamers marked (*)-have'nn passanger. 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..

Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and to the Principal Cities in the United States and Canada,

For further Information as to Freight or Passage, apply to

v DODWELL, & CO., LIMITED,

General Agents/ Hongkong, 24th November, 1903,

RIGAUD

(8740

WHITE VIOLAT

This fugative and delicate perfume is peralatant as an Extract for the. handkerchief while as a 800p

Powder,

it has been astopted by the most re

fined French Society

EXTRACT

RIGAUD 40o

10,000

PERFUMEAS.

Violets

Boite of

PARIS

TO LET.

WO SPACIOUS GODOWNS--Nos, 93 TWO ROOMS above New VICTORIA HOTEL,

Apply to-

H. N. MODY,

Victoria Buildings Hongkong, 4th December, 1902. [13280

THE

TO LET,

HE RETREAT”—MOUNT KELLETT.

HOUSES CAUSEWAY BAY, facing the

Polo Ground.

No. 1, RIPON TERRACE, GODOWNS at BOWRINGTON, Praya Kast Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 29 November, 19072. (zoge

TO LET

NO.4, KNUTSFÖRD TERRACE-KOWA

BLOONĖ Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY.COM LDS Hongkong 21st November, 1902. [1261d

TO LET.

EVERAL NEWLY BUILT EUROPEAN

Apply to

SHOUSES 2 LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,

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

·Hangkang. 20th October, ron

∙C11040

TO LET.

MEIRION No. 2, the Penk,- 6-Room House near the Flagstaff; from 15th October, 1902,

Apply to

E. JONES HUGHES!, -Hongkong, 7th October, 1902,

Insurance

[2053d

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

PHE-Undergued AGENTB of the abovs Company are prepared to accept Fire, Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS si CURRENT RATEN,

SIEMSSEN & CA flangkong," 18th May, 1896-