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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL:

THE French Mail of the 7th April was deliver

ed in London on the 7th inst.

Watch C. E. LeMunyon's announcement is this paper. AdvL..

THE P. & Q. S.-N. Co.'s 3.5. Valtika w II leave for Shanghai at 9 am, in-morrow.

In consequence of the increasing prevalence of The males per quarter and por meusem, proportional. plaque in the Colony, Ship Strees is placed out

of bounds for the troups in garrison. The daily bone is deliverol, free when the nibirou is

Breesible to messunger. En rúpins went by post an ndilitiamil $1,81) per quarter is charged for pestaga. The posinge on the weekly issue to any part of the

world is 30 cents per quarter, Single Popies Dxily, ten cents; Weekly, twenty-

live Cente

The Hongkong Celegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

that is not advisable in the interests of the

MR. W. Parlane, who, we regret to state, has been in very indifferent health for some months

past, is proceeding to England on Wednesday,

DeJOKE Mr. J. H. Kemp this afternoon, the

four nativer, who were charged on remand with manslaughter, at Jardine Wharf, were committed for trial at the next Criminal Ses. sions.

TO-DAY'S retum of British narat shipa in hay- bour is:-Algerine, Fearless, Moorhen, Ocean, Phoenix, Rumbler (ut Deep Water Bay), Rináldo, Rosario, Landpiper, Tumar, Therts, and

Water quilch.

AT half-past cleven this morning a street water main burst in the vicinity of Pedder's Street and flooded the rond. The Water Authority was notified, and the "waste was promptly checked..

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Watch for C. E, LeMunyon's locals in this | Or foreigners who fail to understand - English' paper in a few days.—Adus,

in the police-court, a correspondent of this Globe tells the following tale. Pay one, THE Lowboat Dalay, built by Farmhain, Boyd & Co. having had a satisfactory trip and every-preserved a brick wall countenance. "You thing working smoothly, she will go up north haved to payee one pounder," said the clerk.

this week.

A NEW YORK wire, of the 3rd inst., makes the announcement that the British have abandoned the Mad Mullah campaign and will withdraw their forces.

ADMIRAL

sa hielberg's squadion is so nich

in need of st and repars since its long and arduous voyage from Cronstad, that ev nif the services of the vessels were required, they could not be ready until next month> MESSRS. S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ld, have obta ned the contract to build the mast to be erected at Take for the wireless telegraph service between Peking and that point. The service will be in charge of an Italian officer. The mast will be about 163 feet in height, the lower mast, being go feet and the topmast 75 feet in length.

pound," said the magistrate. The Chinaman

Still the brick wall. "Yourches lose piyeo one-ce poundee," said the wander. The China man regarded him with the gare of an oyster. here, Li," quoth he, "the magistrate says Then uprose the prosecuting counsel. "Look

you've got to pay two pounds." "No dam fear," shouted the Chinaman; "he only say

one pound,"

THE project for the frmation of an Austra

P& O. “VALEITA" IN COLLISION.

BEL AND ND.L., STEAMURS DAMAGED,

The 1. & 9. 1.3. Valetta arrived here with the Southern malls this afternoon, and, when she went alongside the Kowloon wharves at

and, commencing forward, the post anchor half past four, it was seen that she had been in collision. The port side had met the blow,

davits were gone, the native galley was slove in, port lighthouse was broken away, the but- térily forecastle head funnel had been broken, rigging was more or less stripped on either side, 'fore topinast was gone, the three port beats were missing, two sets of davits were gone, and the rail abaft amidships was broken 11. On inquiry, our reporter learned that," while the vessel was making a departure, from Singapore last Sunday morning the collided with the stern of the N. D. L. 35. Tanglin

Chinese Bank is not likely to be soon r alised, says a home paper. Proposals to this effect have been made by a former member of the staff of the Russo-Chinese Bank; but the en terprise would lack a sound basis, since the export and import trade between Australia and China amounts to barely £40,0.0. There cannot be much hardship to merchants if the (damage to the Tanglin unknown), and then with the bow of the B. L.se, Zamanin, bre k- bills for the trade are drawn in sterling oing the bowsprit and figureheart The marks instead of krones, and if the latter bava fin's bull appears to be undamaged. no regular quotation in China; at any rate, the exchange profits on £400,00 will not leave. room for attractive dividends.

THE BUILDING AUTHORITY AND KITCHEN FLOORS.

COMMENCING on Monday, the 11th instant, and until further notice, the joint services of the Hongkong, Cantos & Maca Stearn-Boat Co., Ltd., and the China Navigation Co, Ltd, will run three steamers daily to and from Hong- kong and Canton. Times of departures from Hongkong about 7 am, 10 am and 6 p.mn. From Canton about 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5.30 p.m

The members of the Sanitary Board yester- In the House of Commous in answer to a day afternoon considered a minuté submitted A BUILDING facing the I. & U. Company's question regaring the possibility of a murder from the Acting Medical Officer of Health- premises is undergoing alterations, and this being concealed if the body were cremated, relative to the materials approved by the morning a portion of its rouf coilapsed into the sir. Akers-Douglas, the Home Secretary, statuiding Authority as suitable for building narrow lane between the two structures.ed that the new regulations for the examina- floors, and pointing out that Canton red tiles Luckily no one happened to be in the "linetion of bodies pior to cremation were sa were not non-absorbent. of fi c

THE case in which the master of No. 205, Queen's Rond Wast, his wife, and a foki, were charged with arson came on for hearing before Mr. F. A. Hazeland this afternoon, and defend-

ants were committed for trial at the next

searching that it was believed that there would be more likelihood of detecting crimes similar to poisonings by Klosowski (Chapinan) than had been the case in the past.

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In reply to this minute the Director of Public Works stated:-Cement concrete; cement rendering; asphalto; the tiles or paving bricks made by the Deep Water Bay Works. These are all the materials that are likely to THE Universal Gazette says that it has rearise in practice at present. If there is any ceived report of secret society men in the other brought forward I shall be prepared to Yangtze Valley Iaving organized a party under

cons.der it."

Keep your eyes open for C. E. LeMunyon's the name of Tao Trh-bing of Po-To-shan

In connection with the remarks appearing in these columns last evening respecting the report of the Straits Currency Commission, we have heard it stated that, while the members of the Straits Commission have given as their opinion that the scheme of conversion of the silver to a gold currency is within the pale of practical" polítics, no mention is made as to the advisability of the change. It is idle to suppose that a change Straits Settlements and the Malay States could ever be recommended by a Commis- mission of Inquiry appointed by the Colonial Office at the suggestion of the Straits Government. The recommendation for the change is explicit. The Commission went beyond the formulation of the recommenda- tion' and practically place before the Authori-Criminal Sessions ties in Downing Street (with whom, we assume, the ultimate decision résts) a scheme of conversion, much upon the lines which the local advocates of reform in our own system have roughly outlined as that which might, with practicability, be adopted in the case of Hongkong, should a gold standard be granted to the Colony in place of its present unstable and ́unsatisfactory currency. The levity with which silverites are affected in BREWERS OF GINGER BEER AND regard to the recommendations of the expert and independent Commission is all the more HERATED WATER MANUFAC-

ridiculous in face of the disposal of their principal contention against the adoption of the gold standard that the cost of the change would be prohibitive to the Colonial Govern- ment even assuming, from their point of view, that no other obstacle remained to preclude the institution of a change. The following article clipped from a recent num. ber of the Manila Times will be read with interest in connection with the subject under

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H.M.S. first-class cruiser Spärtinte, under the command of Captain Tate, and carrying relief crews for several of H. M. ships on the China Station, arrived from Singapore this morning, and duly saluted the port. The Spartiuiz is a

sister ship to the Amphitritt and Argonaut now on the station. H.M.S. Europa, a similar type of vessel, is shonly expected from Singapore.

AT the Sanitary Board meeting last evening the President took the opportunity of drawing the attention of the public to the fact that a forcinau had been appointed to the Peak Di.rtrict The Sanitary Board would be very pleased to receive any application from residents of the Peak who had rats on their premises. On receiving such applications the rat-catchers would be sent to the houses, This, he thought, was not generally known. I did not involve any expense to the person applying for the rat-catchers as they would be sent and the

rais examined at the expense of the Sanitary

Board.

"The fact that the new Filipino peso is to be a coin of the same weight and fineness as the British dollar coined in the Bombay Mini, and circulated in the Straits Settlements, Hongkong

By kind permission of Major. Radcliff and and Southern China, may lend, it is said, to Officers the Band of the 33rd Burma Infantry facilitate the international agreement which is will pay at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow being sought after in regard the regulation of exchange between the gold standard (Saturday) from 8 to 9.30 p.m. countries and those of Eastern Asia.

In the present movement," said a Manila banker to a representative of the Times recent-

ly, to introduce stability into the value of the silver coin of Indo-China, Sim and British Malaya, there is a noticeable absence of

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PROMPT RETURN. Hangkong, 8th July, 1902:

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SHIPBUILDERS,

SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO..

value which is to be placed on a certain number of grains of silver. The most compet- ent French authorities are in favour of fixing the exchange value of the piastre at £230 10 12 040, while the latest suggestions from the mercantile community of the Straits Selle ments apparently contemplate the adoption of 40 cents as the equivalent of the British dollar, But it may be found before long that zzd. per ounce is too low an average for the price of the white metal.

On the whole the basis adopted by Con- gress for the Philippines of making the dollar of 416 grains, nine-tenths fire, worth soc. in exchange value, seems both a convenient ar rangement and one possessing a fair prospect for stability. A good deal must, of course, de- pend on the good faith, and the financial re- sources of the Government which stands ready 10 guarantee the value of the money it issues, and dealing with the central problem of all Chinese currency-so method of solution which does not approach the problem from this

side can be of the slightest value.

throughout the Orient.

It seems apparent to me that the new peso which the Philippines is to have will ultimately regulate the standard of sound exchange A New York-wire to the Manila Cablenews of the 2nd inst. states that six hundred thousand dollars of the new Philippine coins will be shipped to Manila on the United States Transport Thomas, shortly, from San Francisco. The work of completion of the authorised number of new pesos is being pushed forward with all possible speed and it is believed that the first five

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PROGRAMME.

March... “Marche Romine ",

·OverLure Zampa "............... Selectio... The Runaway Girl' Song... Lubeslied' Selection....." San Toy" Valiz Bella Nita

"....Troleri Dance,......." Hungarina.......... TerDabne

God save the King.

Herold ..Caryll Klay Jock

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersale Hospitals boys to acknowledge with banks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:-

Ho Ngok Lan D. MacDonald Lefferts Koox Wong Po Chuen Hon. A. G. Wise D. W. Craddock Dartly & Co.. Jorge & Co.

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who e object is to create disturbances. They' bave a chieftain and vice-chief, &c. The Vice- roy Wei Kwang-tao of Nanking has ord red his men to arrest the conspirators whose names were already in the hands of the authorities numbering about 44 of different ranks in the new secret society.

THE steamer #ivo, Maru arrived at Nagasaki from Newchwang via ports on the 26th April. She reparts that fire Japanese and seven foreign steamers were in port.loading bean cake.. A Russian gunboat was lying in the Lianhio. The Russian soldiers were still stationed in New. chwang but it was understood they would gradually withdraw. Rumours of a Russo- Japanese war were current, but the condition of affairs seemed to be quiet. There were eleven Russian war-ships at Port Arthur,

Keep track of C. E. LeMunyon's locals.-Advt.

LAST Saturday afternoon a shooting affray occurred in a tailor's shop in the Broadway, Shanghai, close to the Old Dock, a young American, who gave the name of F. W. Nash and said that he was from the U.S. Legation guard at Peking, en route for Hanila, entered the, tailor's to secure a change of attire, and on the man refusing to come to terms pulled out his revolver and fired. The shot missed the tailor but went through the door and hit a wall on the other side of the street. The police were $100 informed of the occurrence and Detective McDowell effected the arrest of Nash, who will be tried on the retum of the American Consul-General.

The following relegraphic information dated 2nd inst. has been received from the Sumatra Director and Manager of the Maatschappij tot Mijn Boschen Land-bouwexploitatie in Lang- kat, Ld :-

Gallons. . Daily aggregate output of Crude Petroleum...............................

72,003 Crude Petroleum in Tanks at date...220,000 Cases,

Kerosene made since the date of the preceding half-monthly telegram....a 64,000

Kerosene shipped since the date of

the preceding half-monthly telegram ... 21,000 Kerosene in Stock at Refinery at date 95,00.

The following items from japanese exchanges

will be of interest to readers:-japan has made an agreement with Russia for a regular dis patch of mails from Japan to Russia by the trans-Siberian railway. The mails are to travel from Tokio to St. Petersburg in 74 days. The three chief Yangtze steamer companies are now

FOR the past few nights, between 7.30 lo 8.30, the various streets in the Western part of the city have presented a very animated appear ance, Chinese lanterns of all sizes and designs, hanging from the shops, crackers going off merrily, and other jass pidgin, prevailing. This is due to the Chinese god of the earth, Too-1, going his rounds, and frightening the evil spirits, who are responsible for the preval-running the Chingwo, Shest and Kuling on ence of plague One great feature is the awful the Tungung Late-The new X.V. X. Ak din caused by the beating of gongs, drums, and Maru, Capt. Ekstrand, from Yokohama to the clanging of cymbals.

Seattle, picked up a big 4-masted sailing vessel, belleved to be the overdue German b roue Columbia, dismasted and in distress, and towed her into Victoria-The German steamer Samoa has been bought by Japanese and is to

DURING the thunderstorm last evening, an incident occurred, which might have been attended by loss of life, had it not been for the presence of mind of the skipper of a junk.' It appears, , that a catile junk, which arrived from

be repained Keiho Maru.

The President said that Dr. Pear.ensved for a ruling. It appeared that ordinary Canton tiles were not impervious. He believed he was right in saying that at present most of the kitchen were paved with these tiles It would be something of an inconvenience to have to concrete them over or obtain impervious tiles. This, he thought, was not an urgent necessity. Mr. Fung Wa Chun-All kitchens have been concreted.

Dr. Pearse

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CHINESE THEAIRES AND

THE PLAGUE.

At the Sanitary Foard meeting yesterday. afternoon the Presidei t moved that the Board recom end the closing of Chinese theaties, viz., Ko Shing, Cheng Hing and Poing during the prevalence of the present epiden jc of bubonic plague. He stated that it must be evident to members of the Board, that the con- gregation of large numbers of people at sich times as the present was inadvisable. In 1901 the same course was pursued, and he thought it very desirable to take this precaution now.

Colonel Webb seconded, and said be quite concurred in the President's view. d

Mr. Fung Wa Chun strongly opposed the motion and pointed out that theatres were the only plaes where the Chinese could have a little pleasure, and he thought it better that they should be encouraged to go out of doors. in the evening rather than confine themselves. in ill-ventilated and badly-lighted houses. Po- sites, it was not fair for the Board to close the Chinese theatres and leave the English the stre open. The Coard must be impartial.

Mr. Hewett-In the event of these theatres being closed, sir, do I understand the order to extend to all places of entertainment, such as "sing-song" houses 1 suppose there must. be such establishments hero.

The President-No; merely the recognised Chinese theatres.

Mr. Fung Wa Chun-I think so—unless the Mr Hewett-Mr. Fung Wá Chúa, has re

ferred to it as the closing of the only places of officers have not been doing their duty.

entertainment open to the Chinese. Wuld. any compensation be paid to these, people if

The l'resident-Of course, there are kitchens on the upper floors as well.

Mr. Lau Chu Pak-You cannot concrete the the theatres are closed by the Government? kitchens on the upper floors.

Mr. Rumjaha I think it is possible to lay a course of encaustic tiles on the top of Chinese | red tiles. I have done so.

The President-There is no doubt it is pos- sible. The question is whether it is feasible..

Mi. Fung Wa Chuo-I do not think it is feasible.

Dr. Pearse made a statement with reference to

the large extent to which these tiles were used for kitchen floors. These tiles had been found to be pervious to water, which was not satis- factory, He had weighed one once wet and found that it absorbed about two and a ball pints of water. There were, however, many kitchens in which these tiles had been laid down and which were in good condition and he thought it would be a large order to compel the taking up of these floors at once. He bad in the meanwhile, however, instructed the Inspectors to insist on impervious floors in all kitchens which they found from time to time in need of repairs,

The President thought this matter might be left to the discretion of the Medical Officer of Health to effect improvements gradually.

Mr. Hewett suggested that in new houses or where floors were being repaired non-absorbent material should be used.

The President's proposal was agreed to.

PLAGUE-INFECTED HOUSES.

Regarding the correspondence laid on the table, at the Sanitary Board meeting yesterday, relative to the removal of fursiture, bedding, etc., from plague-infected houses, and referred to in our issue last evening the following dis cussion ensued:

The President said that according to No. 2 of the bye-laws for the prevention or mitigation of epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, it was evidently illegal for any person or persons to remove clothing or furniture from one house to another in 'doy district that had been defined by the Board. The whole of the districts had practically been defined by the Board, and inferentially the polite and sanitary inspectors bad powers to stop the removal of clothing or furniture from one house to another.

AND millions will be coined by the middle of May Haiphong yesterday, anchored for the night at THE Trinan arrived at Manila with sixty-eight)}

It will be remembered that by the Act Kennedytown Roads When the vivid flash bead of stock for the Inspection of the civil Mr. Pollock-What do you take to be the of Congress authorizing the new Philippine ings of lightning took place, the cattle, chiefly government which, has touched the Austrian meaning of the words "during such time currency, it is necessary that twenty millions buffaloes, look fright and broke loose from market on the, draft animal proposit on for the of this cleansing" at the beginning of clause of the new coins be minted before the their places. For a time the junk was swaying insular selvice. Of the seventy bend originally No. 3-what does it refer to 7 money becomes legal tender for all debts, to and fro, and this, combined with the buffaloes shipped aboard the Isinan, two died en route The President-That refers to cleansing public and private, in the Philippine islands, going to one side of the vessel, caused her to after a voyage of thirty two days it sea, and the operation, actually going on in an infected By the provisions of the same. Act, also it cant over very dangerously. With great pre-excessive heat encountered en the trip. This house, ie, in a house in which a case of plague is made incumbent upon the Government to sence of mind, the native skipper, assisted by is a fair average and the animals now at the has occurred. There is a full stop after satis- receive the old peso and other coins issued the crew, cut the sails and put them over the government coural are in good condition after faction and the second paragraph, applies to by the Spanish Government in payment of the verb by shifting a large quantity of stone for y heavy Australian horses and twenty-eight defined district,

ponies and form a fair shipment in view of the Mr. Pollock did not agree with this interpre- past seven years, drought in the breeding sectation, and on the motion of the President tion a little north of Southern Australia from seconded by Mr. Pollock, the matter was re- which the anithals were selected

ferred to the Attorney General for his opinion.

TALEGRAMS: CARMICHAEL," Hongkong. A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition.

A. 1 Gode.

Lieber's Standard Code..

TELEPONE, 231,

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Hongkong, 20th March, 1903, THE Boer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUELA.

Mr. Fung Wa Chin--In, 1901 compensation was paid. However, that is not the question.

The President observed that it was highly necessary that these theatres should be disin- fected and cleansed, and the closing of them by the Government would afford an excel'ent opportunity to do sr. The theatres contained thousands of prople when they were full-two er three thousand could get into the Rohing Theatre-and on public health grounds it was desirable that those large gatherings sboi id not take place at present. With reference to the English theatre, he was not aware that any performances were going on there just now.

Mr. Lau Chu Pak moved, as an amendment, that the theatres be closed for cleansing and disinfecting purposes once a fortnight, and not closed altogether, Mr. Fung Wa Chuo seconded, but on a division the amendment was lost and the President's motion for the closing of the theatres was carried by a majority of six to two,

HONGKONG I

BOUND STEAMEK ASHORE

· AND · RE-FLOATED;

Private cablegrams were received: yesterday

in the Colony to the effect that the Société dl'Est Asiatique Francaise. s.s/ Combed chas been ashore at Cape Saint James, at the mouth of the Saigon River. "Her immediate departure port was Singapore, and she was a Hongkong, bound vessel. The steamer has been re-floated, and is dus at Hongkon, on 22nd inst.

THE PLAGUE:

During the twenty-four hours ended at noon to-day so further cases of bubonic plague, making $28 since January ist, were reported.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. German (Bäyern), rath insta Indian (Lightning) 13th just; German (Stuttgart) zist inst.. Indian (Kumsang) aand inst

The Apear Co.'s ss. Lightning from Cal...: cui eft Singapore for this part yesterday afternoon, 7th intt,,

The CP. R. ss. Empress of China 1.ft.

for longk-ng, via Vancouver p.m., 5th- the usual Ports of Ca

terrified cattle, and, at the same time, righted their hard voyage. The shipment consists of the removal: from any premises within such, left Shanghai:for this port 8th inst, and is ex

ballast to the opposite side.

Atend

C. E. LeMunyon has an announcement

public dues until such time after January 1st, 1904, as the circulation of the old pesa is discontinued by proclamation of the Civil Governor.

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