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Intimations.

DEATII.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1903.

At Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the zo h just, James IIENRY MACLEHOSE, aged 50

Years.

A. S. WATSON & CO., The Hongkong Telegraph

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THE WATER used is THE PUREST

Hongkong, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1903.

THE SUBORDINATE CIVIL SERVICE.

contrast in

Never pass LeMunyon's New Store without ile always has something to stepping in. please you.Adul

grant of exchange compensation. But the the methods of procedure of the "local Government is so striking as to evoke the criticism which it forcibly

SERIOUS disturbing's have taken place in St. excites. In spite of the strangest claim

Petersburg, where two thousand persons have which the subordinate employees of Govern. [

been arrested for being without passports, ment put forward in most convincing argu. ments and in language unadorned by the THE U.8.S. monitor Monterey arrived from bombast of rhetoric, the signatories to the Canton this afternoon and saluted the flag of petitions are informed, through the heads of the French Admiral. The compliment was their respective departments, that the Gov | duly returned. - ernor did not see his way to recommend any

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The report presented to the shareholders at the half-yearly e dinary general meeting held

THE New York firm which furnished the HE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, marble and bronze court- and electric fountain for Mr. George Gould's Lakewood residence has been asked by the King of Slam for an estimate of the cost of its reproduction five times enlarged for the central courtyard of his Majesty's palace. The cost will probably xceed £43,000, but the figues have not yet been completed.

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at Yokohama on the toth ult. was as follows:- Gentlemen -The directors submit to you the annexed statement of the liabilities and and assets of the bank, and profit and logs accounts for the half-year ending. December 31st, 1952.

The gross profits of the bank for the past half-year, including yes 495,073.265 brought

been deducted for current expenses, interests, 6333 448.955, of which yen 4,397,596 884 have

&c, leaving a balance yen 1,93,852.071.

DEATH OF MR. J. H. MACLEHOSE.

A familiar face has passed away; poor old Maclehose is no more. A friend of many In the introductory chapter to his excel further general increase of salaries or the An account of Mr. Chamberlain's welcome departed China hands (he was the first Britishier/ forward from last account, amount to ex

born in Hongkong); he made his genial grant of exchange compensation. The laconic home, by our special correspondent, and an tent little work on the silver standard and the dismissal of the petition is, to put it mildly, articte, entitled "A tour in Kowloon Hinter-

presence felt among those with whom he was currency question, Mr. August Huttenbach

acquainted, no matter whether it was a asserts that, if the labourer is worth his hire most galling and lacking in that courtesy land," are printed on the third page. and if that is to mean a steady and stable which the superior officers might well have THE five natives charged on remand withet evening at Macao or in the busi- Less circles of Hongkong. Of late' he has income, the labourer no longer gets that hire shown to their inferiors without any loss of armed robbery and theft of cash, etc, amount

not been seen much "down town, and since the closing of the Indian Mints. Fer dignity. It is no wonder that whenever oping to $415 at Kowloon City on the 27th fast,

some few months ago went away to Japan Lo recuperate his failing health. Since his since then prices have risen and as its no-portunity offers outside the public service,

return he had been at the Peak Hospital, torious in the Colony, no less than in all those who can avail themselves of it prompt.

where he passed quietly away from heart pinces where wages at earned in silver and ly resign the positions they hold under

failure at one o'clock this morning. Mr. James the commodities paid for upon the conventi Government. Clerkships in the Government

Henry Mackchose was go years of age, and for ble basis of the sovereign at the rate of departments are now eschewed by the heller reported in the Istand from January last. It is

over thirty years had been connected with t e the day, the wage-earning classes have been class hands and they are now regarded with added in the Governor General's report that

firm of Messrs. MacEwen, Frickel and Co,

funemi took place this afternoon and was at-

have been committed for trial at the next cri- minal sessions. THE Governor General of Formosa reports that zo8 cases of bubonic plague have been

The Directors now propose that – yen 150,000,000 be added to the Reserve Fund, raising to yn 9000,000,000, and that yen provide for the depreciation of the silver funds. 200,000 he put aside as special reserve to From the remainder the Directors recommend a dividend at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum, which will absorb yes 720,0:0,000 on. old shares and yes 360, 00,000 on new shares, making a total of you, 1,080,000,000.0

The balance, en 505,852 071, will be corsied

NAGATANE SOMA, chairman. Head Office, Yokohama, 10th March, 1903.

that can be obtained. and is skilfully F11 the greatest sufferers. The welfare of those that degree of unpopularity that the efficiency the epidemic threatens to spread in the Island.recently in the capacity of Manager. The forward to the credit of next account.

TERED ON THE MOST SCIENTIFIC

PRINCIPLES.

THE MACHINERY employed is of the latest design and must approved type.

THE BEST INGREDIENTS only are

used.

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ably deteriorated. Mr. Huttenbach cites as

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classes has, with but few exceptions, consider the exceptions those with gold salaries and few others. "And these exceptions," he goes on to state, "have only made less fortunate wage earners feel their position the more keenly and has led to dissatisfaction and discontent, envy and class-hatred, not the least regrettable effect of the system." This is precisely what has been revealed in Hongkong by the publication of the two petitions from the members of the sub- ordinate Civil Service of the Colony. In one of these domments the memorialists represent

of the clerical service must be felt to be

somewhat impaired. We have no means of ascertaining the real truth, but it has been suggested that instructions from Downing Street have been sent out to Hongitong that officers in receipt of a certain rate of" salary should be allowed the privilege of the com- These instructions, for pensation grant.

explained, reasons that remain to be have not been carried into effect. Will any of our unofficial members of Coun cil render the public service of questioning the Government as to the alleged existence of the instructions to which we refer? Ex.

that "in the departments of the Civil Gayplanation is undoubtedly called for. | ernment of Hongkong, ullicers, other than your Petitioners and the Chinese members Exchange Compensation, been receiving in of the Service, have, under the title of

crements to their nominal salaries in ac cordance with a sliding scale determined by the average rate of exchange obtainable for each month. This mode of adjustment of A. S. WATSON & CO., salaries is a fair and equitable one, and it is

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this concession your Petitioners pray might

also be extended to them." In the case of the Chinese clerks in the Government Service a like representation is made but in the following terins :-

In years past the fall in exchange was felt more by those who were in the habit of remi ting money to England and of purchasing com- modities of English manufacture than by your Petitioners; and the Government, by intro- ducing the system of Exchange Compensation, applied a sufficient remedy to the grievance as felt by this class of their Servants. Under this system Civil Servants are at present drawing salaries nearly double the nominal amount to which they are officially entitled, while your. Petitioners have never had any such general measure of relief extended to them, and the salaries that they draw remain unchanged, however greatly the decline in the value of silver may affect their respective pur- chasing power,"

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We

recall the unanimous support which was of given by them when the question

endorsed by the colonists in good grace. exchange compensation was first brought under consideration-a support which was

We are not, however, unmindful that then the big-wigs were most concerned, but now that the little fry seek to obtain what no one will deny they should get, will the Council

be as ready to sympathise with the cause of the weak? The Chinese petition has been before the public; they have had time to consider its merits. From our point of 'view a strong case has been made out by the subordinate officials, and if the two Chinese members on the Council are all they pre sume to be.. solicitous of the interests of their fellow-citizens, let them espouse the cause of those of their countrymen who, with the other subordinate employees, deserve better at the hands of the Colony whose servants they are.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

H.M.S. Albion leaves hence for Yokohama with the Rear Admiral on the 25th inst.

Ilave your picture taken at LeMungon's Studio and you are sure to be pleased.—Advi

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We hear that the V. R. C. are giving a at Kowloon on the 2nd May, on the occasion of the opening of a new gymnasium.

AT Devenport last month, the second-class cruiser Sirius was commissioned to relieve the Pique, a sister ship at this station.

"A distinction," to quote the words of the petition; "has clearly been introduced into the Service," whereby certain officers have been, and are being, fully compensated for

GUNS up 5-inch bore will henceforth be manu- the fall in the value of the dollar, factured in India from steel imported from while the petitioners, who are

also very England. seriously affected by that fall, are left without the least measure of relief. To what extent that distinction has been created will best be seen in the 12th and 13th paragraphs of the second petition, re produced in our columns on Saturday. In 1894 officers domiciled in gold-using coun tries first began to draw their exchange com. pensation and this was calculated upon a portion of their salaries to assist officers, principally, in the matter of their "family remittances." Subsequently, on 1st January, 1902, greater liberality on the part of the Colony was evinced towards its officials when the scheme was so modified as to make the compensation apply to the whole of the dollar salaries of the more, fortunate servants of the Crown, whose salaries became thus raised by no less than ninety per cent., irrespective of the fact whether or not the officers were under the

A CANTON Correspondent informs us that it is

has been prohibited, and he has noticed that reported that the cattle trade on the West River the sleamers Safnnut, Nanning, Hongkong and others bave not brought any cattle down for several trips.

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man.

Ar about boon to-day, the French Vice Admiral tended by many friends of the deceased gentle- Marechal, accompanied by his Bag officer, landed at Blake Pir where a guard of honour from the Sherwood Forester, was drawn up, After inspecting the men, he proceeded to (invernment House and paid a formal call on His Excellency Sir Henry Hlake..

PROFESSOR Plans Molisch, of Prague, has reported to the Vienna Academy of Sciences the discovery of a lamp lighted by means of bacteria, which he claims will give a powerful light and be free from danger, thus being valuable for work in mines and powder magazines. The light will burn brilliantly for from two to three weeks, alterwards-dminish in brightness,

Tux friends of Mr. N. G. Nola the interpreter at the Magistracy, will be pleased to learn that last Friday, he successfully passed his examina tiam in the Fukien dialect, and gained a bonus months' leave and will proceed to England on of $300. He has also been granted twelve the 17th instant by the German liner Kiruchow. Mr. Noian has been in the Government service

for twelve years; this is his first holiday.

I wish to announce to the people of Hongkong that I am now prepared to take poi.raits in the very latest styles and patterns. Prices reason- able. Yours very truly, G. E. LeMunyon, No. 3: Des Voeux Road, P. O. Bux 368. Tele- phone 390 –Advi,

THE A enir du Tonkin says that, for the last two months, Chinese coolies are passing through the port of Hanoi in crowds on their way to he employed on the Yunnan Railway. So many indeed go up that sanitary precautions fall short, and great numbers of them die of disease and privations on the way. The survivors reach their destination sickly and exhausted for the most part.

THE HEALTH OF THE COLONY.

The number of deaths from plague recorded in the Colony during the week ended 18th inst. shows a considerable increase over the figures of the preceding week. From a return showing the number of cases of communicable diseases which have been notified as having occurred | in the Colony during the week ended last Saturday it would appear that 51 cases were reported. Of these 47 were fatal--45 being Chinese and two Indians. In Health District, No. 2, there were 10 cases and 15 deaths. During the preceding week there were 25 cates, 22 of which proved fatal. The total number of cases notified from the 1st january up to noon to-day was 299, 284 of which ended tatally. During the week onder review there was one European case of enteric fever and one fatal Chinese case of small-pox.

FIRES IN HONGKONG.

THREE OUTBREAKS.

Since the beginning of this month up to the time of writing there have been no less than

tight fires in Hongkong. The first accurred on the 4th instant, when five houses in Queen's Road West were entirely gutted; on the 6th, a carpenter's shop in No. 19 Circular Pathway was consumed by the flames; on the 7th, a sight outbreak occurred on the s.s. Olympia,

and on the 18th there were two fires, one at

AT THE DOCKS,

Fire broke out in the engine-room store on the American freighter #yades, in dock at Kowloon, yesterday. The inflammable oils made a big b'az, and before the flames were overcome the woodwork room and "all its contents were wrecked, but the adjoining ship- work, which was of iron, was unharmed. The Hyades arcived here badly bruised last month after a tough encounter with the Pacific. The bow plates were stove in and it has been necessary to unrivet, roll and re-rivet them, Other extensive repairs are also being effected.

The 5,5, Moutanes, undergoing repairs at Kowloon, looks as if she was being brokeo up; daylight can be seen through her in several, places. No doubt, when the Dock Co. have finished with her she will be an A t'ship.-,/

The French mail Tonkin is having a new tail-shaft put in at the Kowloon Docks.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING FOR MACAO.

The city of Macao is to be installed with electric light and the Government are adver-

tising for tender. The exclusive privilege is to

be leased for a term of 30 years to the firm securing. the contract. Tenderers must stipulato in Mexican dollars the amount at which they are prepared to supply the power.

RICE SHOPS.

(From Our Corre:fondent.)

No. 324 Queen's Road Central, when a medi- THE CLOSING OF THE CANTON cine shop was entirely gutted, and the other, at No. 205 Queen's Road West. Last night there were two outbreaks-one in Wellington Street, and another at Fat Hing Street, and at 8.30 this morning the Brigade was suminoned to No. 205 Shek Tong Tsui. Regarding the first outbreak last night, which occurred at nine o'clock on the first floor of No. 57 Welling MEETING of the justices of the Peace was held ton Street, used as a tailor's shop, very little this afternoon at the Magistracy to consider an dainage was done. The Brigade, with the application from Frank Francis for the transfer assistance of some natives, soon extinguished of his publican's licence to sell and retail

the fire in which a few chairs and some floor intoxicating liquors at Thomas Hotel to Arde-matting was destroyed. The fire was caused Mr. F. A. Hazeland (chairman), Messrs. J. H sher Bejanjee Kharas. There were present by the upsetting of a lighted kerosene lamp. At go am. the Brigade, under Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse and Acting Chief Inspector Baker, was summoned to No. 12 Fat Hing Street, behind the Man On Insurance Company, where an outbreak bad occurred. It was found that the flames had got a very good hold on the premises, but the firemen concentrated no less than four hoses on the burning house, and although the fire looked like spreading to right and left, the flames were fined to the one house which was n three-

Kemp, H. E. Pollock, K.C., R. H. Craig and C. D. Melbourne. Mr. J. Hastings, of Miessis Deacon and Hastings, appeared on behalf of the applicant. There being no police objec tions, the application was unanimously granted,

It is stated that the colonies are heartily supporting the new movement started by the League of the Empire for the establishment of correspondence clubs for English and colonial children. The Agents-General are exhibiting

a very friendly interest in the League, and have largely helped to develop the movement by linking schools, English and Colonial, for friendly competition and exchange of The colonial specimens for school museums.

con-

Canton, April 20th. The rice dealers refuse to pay the additional, tax. Some of the shops closed yesterday but the closing will be general to-day unless some arrangement is arrived at. This is an imperial lax and the money is to go to pay the indent nity, so the people say. It is not to be won dered at that the people should refuse to pay. The price of rice is high, has been gr

a gradually rising until everybody is complaining.

Later. The rice shops are still doing a little busi- ness with closed doors. The protest is general so that throughout the city all the shops are closed. No rice is being shelled. The tax is levied according to the number of "mortars in a shop These shops have from one to fifty mortars in which the rice is pounded and upon these tax is levied. If some arrangement is not come to very quickly there is sure to be disorder. The people buy by the meal, at least a great many de this. Then there are a few who have enough rice on hand to last a few days. But the doors cannot remain closed 24 hours with

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storeyed building. The ground floor was used as a plumber's shop, the first floor as a medicine shop (insured with the Hung On Insurance Company for $700 only) and the outc second floor as a family dwelling house. It

THE face value of the Siam Currency Notes in circulation at the end of last month, is portion of the work is well advanced, and white is reported that the fire was caused by some day, and the authorities being prepared for:

officially certified to have been Ticals 3,479,105. It is also certified that the whole of that sum, received for the noles, was retained in silver at the head office of the department.

at Capetown Mr. Chamberlain addressed the South African branch of the League.

THE Castle Peak Farm is conducted under scientific supervision and no contaminating

A RICH Chinaman who had just died at Saigon fertilizing agencies are employed in the cult

vation of vegetables, which are grown from

was put into his coffin on the zoti ulto.

necessity of making remittances home. If The Saigon Opinion says that, before the lid European and American seeds. A few days again rang, and some of the members of the the matter will be settled in a few days

should be stated that the grant of the ex- change compensation did not act as a can- cellment of the increments attached to salaries on an incremental scale, following the recommendations for a revision of salaries a few years since. While, on the one hand, a section of the public servants are in receipt of nearly double their nominal silver earnings, on the other a niggardly 15 17288 per cent, was doled out to their less favoured brethren in January, 1951, and that after a CARMICHAEL AND lapse of nine years from the date of the

CLARKE,

previous general increase of salaries. It has been remarked that prosperity and advance are marked by a general higher standard of living. If that be so the vaunted prosperity of the Colony must be true and realisable

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th July, 1902

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS,

SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS,

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

TELEGRAMS: "Carmichael," Hongkong, A. B. CICode, 4th Edition,

A. 1 Code.

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 232,

Hongkong, 20th March, 1903,

[355e

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

of the coffin was closed, some pinches of tea and a diamond worth $650 was put into the mouth of the deceased.

Keep up with the times and have your Develop ing and Printing done at LeMunyon's. His work is of the very best and thoroughly guaranteed-dvt.

CHATRE'S New Indian Circus and Royal Menagerie-a troupe of sixty Hindu per- formers, and a number of trained lions, tigers, panthers, elephants, birds, etc., is returning to the Far East from America per the P.M.S.

Korea.

WRITING from Canton under yesterday's date, our correspondent says:-An old man has appeared outside the north gate of the city preaching destruction to Canton" City and the

The new tax came into force at noon yester

medicinal herbs, which were being dried on

resistance despatched soldiers to arrest non- the first floor, becoming ignited. The two

payers. At one shop four men were arrested adjoining houses, viz., Nos. 12 and 13, were and subsequently another three were taken in also badly damaged by fire and water. They charge The tax is reported to be a squeeze were used as tailors' and family residences.

oo the two large shams! o distilleries and the White the majority of business men were at rice shops thus being affected resistance breakfast at 8.45 this morning the fire-bell being offered. It is pr bable, however, that

Brigade who had scarcely returned from the since we received a few specimens of the many second outbreak in Fat Hing Street again donned varieties of the vegetables grown at the Castle

on their rie, and, under Mr. P.P. J. Wodehouse Peak establishment and can testify to their worth.

and Acting Chief Inspector Baker, proceeded to They were forwarded from the Farm Stall, No. Shek Tong-Tsui, where in No. 205 Koon Hoj During the twenty-four hours ended at noon 22, Central Market and arrived in excellent Low, a Chinese restaurant recently erected and 10-day 21 further cases of bubonic plague, condition. We understand that the object of managed by Mr. Tsang King, the contractor, making agg since January 1st, were reported the growers is to raise and provide the public a fire had broken out. It originated in the Six were from No. 2, health district. with healthful and wholesome vegetables which,kitchen where servants were boiling water. as is generally known, are so deficient in our The fire was put out before much damage had markets here

teen caused.

BEFORE Mr. J. H. Kemp this afternoon seven natives, including two women, were

charged with breaking into No. 280 Queen's

THE LILLIPUTIAN'S LAST PERFORMANCE.

only by those who depend for it upon those overthrow of China unless the people at once arrested yesterday a large quantity of stolen per S S. Enipress of India to marrow for

"horses of the mill" whose income has)

THE PLAGUE.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS

MAILS DUE American America Maru) 23rd inst English (Bengal) 24th inst." Indian (Suisung) 25th inst: Australian (Guthrie) agth inst- Canadian (Tartar) 26th inst,

Indian (Laisong) 5th prox American (Korea) and prox. /

Canadim (Empress of Japan) 6th prox.

Road West, & Eastern Street, 3 Wai On Lane, 23 Lower Lascar Road, and 34. Pokfulam

To-night the Pollards close their season with Road este 13th, 22nd, 27th March, as i the Wcher & Field's grea: American burlesque 12th and 13th of this month. Their head quar- Pousse Café, which the Manila papers say is ters were in No. 2 n Wai Lace, and when their best effoit. The whole company leave articles consisting of clothes, jewei'ery valued at Shanghai where they play for five weeks, and over $2,000, etc. were found in the house to then go on per. 5.S. Athenian for Vancouver been so reduced that their standard of living

gether with pawn tickets. The two women kept where they open on the azad of June, from must, of necessity, have become lower. We

house for the robbers; and generally did the thence they go to Dawson City and return to need not recall the unseemly baste with recluse.

selling of the stolen articles. It is gratifying | Briush Columbia, and on through the States, which communications were made with the Bring your pictures to LeMunyon's to be in crow the

be to know that a great deal of the stolen property finishing their American tour, in: New-York át Colonial Office by telegraphic despatches framed. He has the very latest patterns in this Been identified. The case was adjourned tie end of 1905 returning this way in 7900 and otherwise to put into effect the con patre moulding, and is sure to please you for a feek Detetive-Sergt. Kerr had been All Hongkong will join with us and wish them insty and may be expected here on or about

mama, on their trail, and findily run them to eanh," currence of the Legislative Council in the Adut.

turn to their idols. This seems to bear out the paragraph published by us a few weeks since setting out the predictions of this old native

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Terherne MIGUEL THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

a pleasant journey round the world.

THE

Beer in drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropica➡SAN MIGUEL

* The Silk ex Canadian Pacific:Railway: Co.'s' steamer Athenian arived at New York on the 1916 inst

The steamer Denbighshire left: Singapor yesterday afternoon for this port and is expected -here on or about Monday, the 27th insti

The 1. CS N. Co.'s steamer Calcutta' for this port via The Sta onroth

the 5th prox.

made in the

to drink

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