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TELEGRAMS.

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The King and Queen to visit Ireland.

LONDON, March 31st.

It is officially announced that the King and Queen will visit Ireland in July or August.

The Funeral of the Late General

Sir Hector Macdonald.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1903.

In 1893, however, a further report was made on malaria, with the result that it was found that there existed another agency which was fostered by such conditions, and was the new CAUBA of high fever mortality. Sanitation, Dr. Turner said, had no sentiment, and the rani tarian must make up his mind that he would receive no assistance if his advice was not in harmony with the feeling of the authorities. Time and constant fearless expression of opinion based on careful observation would gadually wear down apposition. By insani- Inry conditions he meant want of ventilation:

A determined attempt was made to con- small, dark, dirty, over crowded rooms, houses vene a great Scottish gathering at the late and chawls built close together, separated only General Sir Hector Macdonald's funeral, but by a narrow gully, in which water and polluted the rapidity of the arrangements prevented matter was thrown. Damp soil, absence of it maturing; one hundred and thirty repre- drainage, collection of fish and water, the sentatives from Societies of Clans were pre-presence of animals improperly kept, bad food, sent at the grave; the service was exceeding bad water, air polluted by sewers and factories, the presence of persons affected with-malaria, ly simple..

all these conditions tended to lower vilality and predispose there to an attack of malarik, most them contributed to the propagation of the disease: Under the heading of fevers, the number of deaths which took place annually in the City of Bombay was on the average of the past ten years about 6,000 or 7.5 per 1,000 mortality, from all the causes. of the population or one eighth of the 'total mortality, however, was not the only serious The actual

point. The majority of the persons attacked with malaria recovered, but were constantly liable to recurring attacks of fever when subject to certain conditions, which reduced their

The Charges Against the Late. General Sir Hector Macdonald. Major F. C. Rasch has given notice of a question to Mr. St. John Brodrick, asking why publicity was given to Col. Sir Joseph Ridgeway's statement in the Legislative Council of Colombo regarding the very serious charges made against the late Gene

mai Sir Hector Macdonald,

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The Marconi System. The marconigrams to the Times from New York initiate an experiment in which - Marconi, the Fines and the Post Office participate, for the purpose of testing the commercial practical value of the system.

Obituary.

The death is announced of Admiral Coure jolles, the French Commander at the time of the Boxer rising in China..

The King's Visit to Portugal, The King sails for Lisbon to-day. The Queen has gone to Copenhagen.

vitality and impaired their constitution. Young children were especially susceptible to attacks of fever, which in many cases was overlooked,

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In San Francisco there are some 30,000 Chi nese, and they are as absolutely a part of China as when they left home. Wearing their pig. tails, their Chinese clothes (except, perhaps, in some minor details), and living and eating as they would in China, it does not seem as if they were becoming Westernised, But, to quote the words of a writer in the Forum al November, 1899:

"Thirty years of more or less familiarity with California's Chinese of all degrees, from the merchant the

to man who hires himself a domestic, las convinced me

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that they one and all look with contempt upon Western achievements, and even when com pelled to employ the conveniences created by the ingenuity of Americans and Europeans they regard them either as a necessary evil or as something to be made use of in exploiting the people among whom they live."

Also in Australia we can find examples of this same truth. In the very centre of Mel- bourne there is a narrow street inhabited by Chinamen, living their own life, and utterly indifferent to the white people around them, except in so far as they are able to do business with them. It is partly this pride of race and partly the Chinese system of ancestor worship which literally forces every Chinaman who has left the country to endeavour to retura there as soon as is possible and if he dies before he has made enough money, his body is sent to China by one of the powerful Chinese burial societies which exist solely for this purpose. In Hawaii, where there is a large colony of

Chinese labourers, it has been found accessory to more than double the Post Office clerks in the registered letter department on those days upon which a steamer leaves the islands for Chipa.

RUSSIAN FEARS.

To-day's Advertisements.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

'NFORMATION has been received from

the Military Authorities that GUNC PRACTICE will be carried out at Lyemun from 8-inch Howitzers on WEDNESDAY, the 3th April, 1903, at Targets in a South-Easterly direction.

Practice will commence at about 10 A.M.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 2nd April, 1903. HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. PROGRAMME

OF THE TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL PRIZE MEETING To be held at KOWLOON on

FRIDAY, SATURDAY and MONDAY, APRIL 10th, 11th and 13th, 1903. TINDER the Distinguished Patronage of UN

His Excellency Sir (1. A. Blake, G.C.M.G., Vice Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, K.C., H. E. Major-General Sir W. J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G.

President:-. E. Major-General Sir W. Julius Gascoigne, K.C.M.O,

Hon, Secretary and Treasurer-M. S. Northcote.

Assistant Secretary:-Col. Sergt. Cross, R.M.II.

Chapman, W. Stackwood, J. Parkes, W. Committee:-), Andrew, D. Macdonald, A. Stewart, Col. Sergt. Cross, R.1 11.

Championship, rst Stage. Distance 200 yards. Members only. No. of Shots-

Seven. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three

prizes value 50% of the entries with $15 added.

In the north of China, in Manchuria, and in Siberia the Russians have come to a very-Championship, 131 Stage-Distance 5c sincere fear of the perseverance and the virile force of the Chinese. In Manchuria, of course, the population is almost entirely Chinese, and these are gradually spreading further and further northward towards the Siberian frontier. Like a slowly moving flood the ever-increasing numbers of settlers flow northward. Already the Russian settlers in the Amur province are

but which had a serious effect on their constitu tions. The subject of his lecture, therefore, wat minimised, if not prevented altogether, and to explain how the danger of fever might be how taking precautions to prevent malarial fever would aid in bringing about a better sanitary condition of any locality and improve the public health. The malaria bearing mos- quito was harmless if she could not imbibe the blood of a matrious subject. The mos quito could not live in strong fresh air and sunlight: constant cleansing measures tended to disturb it; without water she could not breed, The lecturer then proceeded to relate certain experiments made at Rome and London with a view to ascertain how mosquitoes propagated malaria. Those experiments absolutely proved The Capture of Bokoto.

that no quitoes were capable of transmitting imalarial fever, that protection from their bites With the capture of Sokoto, a powerful afforded the only safeguard, and that this virility of the Chinese race is so strong that empire, founded a century ago, has fallen, and British authority'established over half a million square miles with a population of twenty millions.

The Western Soudan Expedition. The British o. cupied okoto on the 14th - inst, after a feeble resistance; the Amir and the Prime Minister fled. Sir H. Lugard reached Sokoto on the roll inst.

LATER.

CANTONESE RECLUSE

PROPHESIES INTERESTING TIMES!

As 2: illustration of the superstitious turn of mind of the Chinese, the following item, which has recently reached us from Canton, will pravide interesting and amusing reading. It is stated that for the past few days, there could be observed a continual stream of well-to-do Chinese repairing towards a small hut at the foot of the White Clouds Mountain to listen to, what is alleged, the heavenly inspiration of one Lum Ming, an anchorile. In a sort of semi-uance, he informed the people gathered around that, in the beginning of the Chinese fifth moon (May), Canton will be in the throes of a huge rebellion, while fires and plague will reap awful havoc. Canton will be overrun by rebels, and the place, in a short space of time, will be wiped off from the lace of the earth, The West and North Rivers will burst their

protection was easily, obtained and did not interfere with the every day avocation of life. The sanitation of malarial regions was now possible. It meant the destruction of the

mosquito breeding places in the neighbourhood of dwelling houses by suitable drainage, and cultivation and education of the people in the part played by the mosquito and in the use of quinine and mosquito netting. Malarial fevers different forms of parasites. That is to say, a of different types were now associated with particular type of malarial fever was associated with a definite parasite. The lecturer then

conveyed from man to man. gave a brief history of how the parasite was

THE CHINESE COOLIE.

HIS FAILURE AS A COLONIST AND WIS

WORTH AS A CHINAMAN.

The

At a time when there is so much talk of the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa to replace the black labourers, it may not be without interest to gain some idea as to what manner of men these Chinese coolies are, In the first place, as a workman the Chinese banks and inundate the land. Already the coefic has few equals in unskilled labour, gods have informed him that in 2 week's Even those most opposed to him acknowledge time, the first disaster will make its ap

his sobriety, industry, and perseverance.. will be remembered that same years ago there pearance Canton being visited by a thun. der storm, which will ravage the chief buildings. were violent anti-Chinese disturbances in West- The second event to follow will be a pestilencer America. A commission was appoisted to of locusts, and then will come the overthrow inquire into the facts of the matter. and destruction of the city. There is, however, report of this commission might naturally be a way for the habitants to avert the awful supposed to incline towards the camity of the calamity now hovering over them! He urges country, but it forms interesting reading the people to offer up sacrifices, and fast and The following brief summary of the results of Chinese labour is not without significance. pray to the mukitudinous gods in Canton, and subscribe liberally towards the various hospitals, and rui tongs. He avers that the reason why the gods have decided to visit them in the foregoing manner is because of the corruptness of the officials and the decad. ence of worship among the inhabitants.

THE PREVENTION OF MALA- RIAL FEVERS.

Lecturig at Bombay recently Dr. J. A. Turner, Health Officer of the municipality, said he had chosen the subject of malarial fevers because the disease was a preventible ones because every means taken to prevent it was associated with sanitation, and because it was intensified by insanitary conditions, and due

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of the Chinese for-the railway communication with the Eastern States; the progress of its

vation of large tracts; the creation of inex manufactures, the rapid bringing into cufti-

haustible polders by the drainage of vast swamps, which could not have been drained, except by Chinese working up to their middle in water, their heads surroun 'ed by clouds of mosquitoes :" (a condition white labour could not have con'erided with), 42.-

"California is indebted to the hand labour

able to make a living owing to the influx of Chinamen. To-day Chinamen are to be found as far west as Irkutsk, and there many Rus- sians with experience who regard this incursion of the yellow men as one of the most serious problems lying in the future for Russia. The

any mixture with other races produces almost invariably Chinese children. In Manchuria and Eastern Siberia children may be seen of mixed Russian and Chinese parentage,

THE

Co-oay's Advertisentents.

POSTPONEMENT.

AUCTION SALE.

OF SECTION A OF INLAND LOT 428.

HE SALE of the above 'VALUABLE

· LEASEHOLD GROUND advertised to take place Tomorrow Friday, the 3rd April,

1903, is "POSTPONED INDEFINITELY.

EWENS & HARSTON,

Vendor's Solicitors. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1903,

METROPOLITAN CYCLE AND TENNIS CLUB.

HANDICAP TOURNAMENT

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THE

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"HE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

SATURDAY, the 4th April, 1903, at 2.30 P.M., at their SALES ROOMS, No. E, Das Vœux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

A FINE AND CHOICE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, GOLD and BLACK LACQUERED WARE, OLD SATSUMA VASES, BOWLS, and PLATES, IVORY INLAID PANELS,

Beginning SATURDAY, April 4th, at 2 P.M. CABINETS, KAKEMONOS, CLOISONNE

SLOW BICYCLE RACE Each Day at 3 F..

ALL ENTRIES must not be later than 9

P.M., on FRIDAY. April 3rd. For further Particulars apply to the Arrange ment Comittee, Mr. JEWSBURY, Chair man, or

Mr. F. L. CLYDE,

Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1903.

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FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.- THE H.A.L. Steamship

"SERBIA," Captain Deinat, will be despatched for the above Ports on SATURDAY, the 4th instant, at 4 P.M.

For Freight, apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office. Hongkong, "nd April, 1953.

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FROM HAMBURG, EMDEN, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. HE H.A. L. Steamship

THE

"SERBIA,"

Captain Deinat, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

yards. Members only. No. of Shots Seven. Entrance fes so cents. Three prizes value 50% of the entries with $15 added. 3-Championship, 1st Stage.-Distance 600

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless yards. Members only. No. of Shots-notice to the contrary be given before Noon, Seven. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three TO-DAY. prizes value 50% of the entries with $15. added. 4-Championship, 1st Stage,—For competitors

whose respective scores in Nos. 1, 2 and 3. make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee so cents.

1st Prize

2nd

3rd 4th

$20

IS

TO 5

5-Championship, and Stage-Distance 500

yards. Members only. No. of Shots- Ten. Entrance fee so cents. Three prizes value 50% of the entries with $15 added. 6.-Championship, and Stage-Distance 600 yards. Members only. No. of Shots- Fifteen. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three prizes value 50 % of the entries with $15 added. 7-Championship, 2nd Stage,—For competi-. tors whose respective scores in Nos. 5 and 6 make up the highest aggregate." En- trance fee 50 cents.

1st Prize

and

3rd

4th

$10 15

whom it would be difficult to distinguish from full-blooded Chinese. It is this peril even more than the economic question that the Russians fear, since its results are much more far-reaching and vital. In Australia, too the mixture of English and Chinese blood. results in little Chinese boys and girls not in English, By this is meant that however they may be in appearance, in thought and charac 8--Championship, 3rd Stage-Distance 750

yards. Members only. No. of Shots Ten. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three prizes vaule 50% of the entries with $15 added. 9.-Campionikip, 3rd Stage.-Distance 800!!

yards. Members only. No. of Shots--Ten. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three prizes value 50% of the entries with 515 added. Chiro-Championship, 3rd Stage.-For com

petitors whose respective scores in Nos. & and 9 make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee go cents.

1st Prize

ter they are Chinese. Russia's danger from China lies in the fact that she has no barrier of sea to protect her, and therefore the Chinese immirants do not feel so strongly that neces. sily for returning to China as soon as possible. IMPOSSIBLE TO CIVILISE,

2nd

3rd

4th

..$10

To sum up the principal points of the nese we find that as workers they are able to present many attractive qualities: as per manent colonists away from

China they are worthless; they are thrifty and economi cal, and finally they are the superior farce in. any inter-racial mixtures. The fact that they have an intense pride of race which-Championship. Grand Aggregate-For prevents them from adopting any Western ideas may be shown to best advantage by the following quotation from the writings of the great Chinese sage Mencius:

I have heard of men using the doctrines ol our great land to change barbarians, but I never yet heard of any being changed by bar barians. I have heard of birds leaving dark valleys to remove to lofty trees, but I have not heard of their descending from lofty trees to

enter into dark valleys.-Alfred Stead in the Morning Leader.

Commercial.

TODAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

The tone of the market is very firm, but business is restricted owing to the unwilling- ness of ho ders to meet the affers of buyers. In $105 and for June 5 of FIRE sh-res have Innos forward sales are reported for May at weakened, HONGKONGs being on offer at $305 and CHINAS at 182. CHINA SUGARS have been auld in small loss at $10 for end of the

ing firm at $110. HONG KONG & WHAMDA can be obtained. WATSONS have been dralt in DOCKS are very firm at $214, but at $215 shares to a considerable extent at $4.50, and aro wanted at this rate.

The report als stated the Chinese workmen to be very trustworthy, very intelligent, faithful and later for cash at the same rate, clos all able in read and write, sober, enjoying good to their engagements, temperate, active, honest,

health by reason of their cleanliness, and that they take a bath every night. The key to the reason for the agitation was given by one

THE CHINESE ABROAD.

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EXCHANGE,

Bank Bills, on demand.../75 16 Credits, 4 months' sight D'ments 4 months' sight./1 ON BERLIN, (demand)

....M.1.65 ON PARIS, Bank Bills, on demand......... 02

Credits, 4 months' sight 2.66 ON NEW YORK, Bank Bills, on demand...391

Credits, 30 days' sight ON BOMBAY, Telegraphic Transfer...

On demand......

to the habits and customs and neglect of the witnesss, who said: "The Chinese nation, ON LONDON, Telegraphic Transfer people.

Malaria nbounded in dark, damp, ill-ventilat comes necessary to protect the intemperance being decidedly sober and industrious, it be ed localities. The cause of the disease was of the whites against Oriental temperance." due to an organism which was present only. when those conditions existed. Improve the Perhaps the strongest characteristics of the conditions, and "lons et prigo" of the disease would disappear. Much had been said and Chinese people are their intense pride of race written about the mosquito theory of malaria them to retain their habits and "customs had their virile strength. The former leads and the history of the disease and many sug- gestions made to exterminate the mosquito In the year 1889 attention was drawn to the bigh fevermortality in Bombay, and repost was made by the late Health Officer. The causes given then were defective drainage, imperfect conservancy, over-crowding, ventilation of

It is this pride of race which makes so dwellings, accumulation of sullage water, de absurd the idea of the possibility of civilising composing matter, and undrained areas flooded the Chinese in China to our ways of thinking. with water. In 1895, six years later,-another We have only to look at those places where report was made, which referred to the kindred Conditions of certain parts of the city where water could not be carried off by the drains, SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER-

even when far away from China. Europeans ON SHANGHAI, Telegraphic Transfer imgine that the Chinaman is glad to welcome

Private so days sight the high civilisation they offer him, quite ignor. ON YOKOHAMA, T.T. ing that the fact of his pride in his immensely Gold Leaf 100 touch, per tad

Sovereigas, Bank's Buying Rate old civilisation leads him to look upon them Bar Silver......... and their a systems with supreme contempt.

large bodies of Chinamen are living in the midst of a white population to see how impos sible it is to "civilise even a few Chinamen. A SK for ASAHI JAPANESE” BEER-

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competitors whose respective scores in the Three stages of the Championship make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee Si oo. Prixes to be selected by winters in order of merit as laid down by Rule 12 Seven to Ten prizes according to number of entries. $50 to be added to winner of First Prize,

Re-

12-Asersery-Distance 206 Yards.

stricted to members other than A Class Sho's, who joined the Rifle Association on or before 1st April 1903. No. of Shots- Seven-Entrance fee 50 cents.-Three prizes, value 50% of the entries with $rg added.

Yards. 13-Nursery-Distance 500

Re- stricted to members other than A Class Shots, who joined the Rifle Association on ar before 1st April 1903, No. of Shots- Seven-Entrance fee so cents. Three. prizes, value 50% of the entries with $15 added.. 4--Nursery. Distance 600 Yards. Restricted to a embers other than A Class * hots who joined the Association on or before 1st April, 1903. No. of hots-Seven---En- trance fee 50 cents Tree prizes, value 50% of the entries with $rg added, 15-Nursery Aggregate For Competitors whose respective scores in Nov. 12, 13 and 14 make up the highest aggregate. (For List of A Class Shots see Appendix to official Programme) Entrance fee $1.00. Three prizes, to be selected in order of merit as laid down by Rule 12. 16-All Comers. Competitions for all comers. Rifles or Carbines, will take place simult- aneously with the foregoing events al Ranges 300, 500, 600, 700 and 800 yards. No. of hois-Five at each range. Un- limitedeatries. Entrance 30 cents per shoot. 1st Prize at each range. $10

and

3rd

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17-All Comers Aggregate.—For competitors whose respective highest scores at each tange in No. 16 make up the highest aggrega'e. Entrance Soo Prizes to be -selected by "winners in order of merit as

laid down by Rule 12 18-Ladies Nomination.-Open to Lady Members or their Nominees. Distance 300 yards. No. of shots-Seven. No entrance fee. Prizes presented. See Con- ditions Nos. 3 and iz

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OPIUM QUOTATIONS. Today's quotations are as follows:—— : MALWA NEW

Per chest

LAST YEAR.1,000/1,030 PATNA NEW@ 1,07239

ÜLDEST min@- 1,080/1,130 BENARES NEW 1,003 PERSIAN (PAPER).......

740/800

ASK OF ASAHI JAPANESE BEER.--

19—Ladies. Competition-Open to Lady Members only. Distance 200 yards. No. of shots-Seven. Ne entrance, fec.". Two Prizes, Beau

za-Consolation-Open to all Members who have not won a prize at this Meeting.. Distance zoo yards. No. of shots Seven.

obtained from and Subscriptions paid to

No entrance fee. One prize. Programme and Entry Forms may be

KAMAN M. SI NORTHCOTE,

25, Queen's Road Hongkong, and April, 1903.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 9th instant will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are examined on the gth instant, at 3 P.M. to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, and April, 1903.

S.S. "TONKIN."

WARE, IVORY CARVINGS, OLD BRONZES, TEA SETS, JAPANESE PICTURES and OIL PAINTINGS, &c.;.

ALSO

2 POSTAGE STAMP ALBUMS with about 1,500 ASSORTED STAMPS each.

TERMS: As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, and April, 1903.

THE

ROBINSON

PIANO

CO., LTD.

NEW

PIANOS

JUST ARRIVED

DIRECT FROM THE MAKERS

BY

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before 5PM, TO-DAY, the 1st instant, request. ing it to be landed bere.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining” unclaimed after WEDNESDAY, the 8th instant, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 8th instant, or they will not be recognised.

All damaged packages will be examined on WEDNESDAY, the 8th instant, at 3.P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent.

Hongkong, 2nd April, 1003.

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