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Koncito proceed to inanfu and retake itrus strike of ricksha coolies at Macho is at All costs and to netist the French railway an end. The inen resumed work on Saturday party, as we have already reported."anemoop

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On the 21st May, at No. Cuppong Java On the 17th May, at Taiping, Perak, the wife of Major A. S. VANKINEN, Malay States Guides, of a daughter.

Rond, the wife of TREO. D'Cauz, of a son,

he journal admits that it does not know We shall have a Souvenir Day soon, but you whether all these stories are true, and con- will have to pay us a personal visit as no chits

times, but we know that the "Viceroy has

will go. LeMunyon,—Advt.

Tru Peterburgshiya Viedomosti states that the War Minister's journey to the Far East will last two and a-half months.

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gone to the scene of the disturbance, and that the prefect of Linanfu has been killed. While adding that Yunnanki and Mengtsz have been besieged, that "Homitcheou and Chepingtcheon have been "captured, THE scarcity of money here is indicated by the and that lelegraphic communication between fact that native hunks of good standing borrow the Capital and Fonking has ceased, weed money from foreigners yesterday at 25 per venture to assert that up to a few days ago cent per annum, says the N. C. D. News. there were no French soldiers in the vicinity The American Cotton Manufacturers' Associp of Yunnafe, and that one had been destion, in annual convention, have passed a re patched although the lives of nearly two solution cudorsing the Asiatic policy embodied hundred Frenchmen, women and children in Secretary Hay's protest regarding Man were in danger. That the situation is churia. desperate will not be doubted seeing that previous o the siege the Viceroy Ping Chengto would not vouch for the

FR causing to be made known in the public thoroughfare by posters, that certain houses in Macio were open for gambling purposes, a

LeMunyon will have unother grand opening Day anda Souvenir day as well; watch the date

DOKĄGINALUTUR

READERS are reminde of the sale at the when the Naval Yard to-morrow mornin Government auctioneers, Alesurs klughes and

SIR,--We are hustructed by Mr. Francisco Hough, bring under the hammer many useful'Assis Comes to state that the amosat of stores including the vicllowing Engine, $2,000 damages for which he recently obtained judgment in the above action has, after deduc- Torpedo low No 8 by Thornecraft, Compound,tion of the sum of $376.75 due from him for 430 1. H. P. and 3 Boat Engices 3H. P. each legal expenses, been distributed amongst the

following Charities

The Benevalent Society.

On May 16tb, a daring member of the Board of Censorate, presented a sealed memorial to the Throne. The document denkt, with the coming anniversary of the Empress Dowager's

seventieth birthday. The memorialist request. ed the Empress Dowager to give up the celebration owing to the sad condition of the Imperial Exchequer.

505,00 The Society of S. Vincent de Paul. 5c0.00 The Soldiers and Sailors, Institute

Arsenal Street.

The Victoria Home and Orphange. 310.00

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and to ask you to be good enough to publish this letter in your next issue. We are, sir,

Yours faithfully,

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The Hongkong Celegraph on figs, outside of the native was fined by Mr. F. A. Hazeland Sino, limited to one native field hospital with Hongkong, and June, 1905

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1993.

THE BISTURBANCÉ EN. YONNAN.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Eas" Zararen ins pack" resur-lay,

of three months

Two young Russians, Arsen and Paul Dragi now, have, according to a despatch from St. Petersburg, wagered 2,000 that they will ac complish the journey round the world on the back of a caric! within one year from starting. THE gunbout Sake, formerly the Chinese gun

bout Tazobiang, struck on a rock near Nemuro,

ottaide, in a snowstores at i am on the 23rd ull. Six dead bodies of her sailors were the crew were safe. It is hoped that the verse! will be floated.

The native population of Aberdeen had a rare time on Sunday.. There, was a general cesan- tion of work, it being the Dragon Boat Feast days in the aftemoon, dragon boat races took place in the stream. There were many prizes, including one from the Hongkong and Wham poa Dock Company, valued at $25, which was won by the native employees of the docks at

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KANG YU WEI

THE Bombay Gaceite says that of the Indias contingent still in China, it is understood that the general and railway staff are to return to India, and that the India medical staff will be

regimental personnel The Goverment of India have applied for the early retum of the officers and subordinates of the military works

Further inquiry from better-informed quar services with a view to their replacement on the Indian establishment. They have agreeders has revealed the fact that the notable 10 the retention in Chinn of the Deputment reformer did not come by the French mail staff, provided they be seconded.

steanier yesterday as at first reported. Kang. Yu Wei is said to be at present in Rangoon,

MASONIC:

Wrzir reference to the prohibitive tin ore export

duty in the F.M.S., it is interesting to note that the quantity of tin ore exported from the States

to 68 per cent, from gross, against 315,602 piculs of metalle tie. It is therefore evident that the smelting industry in the Colony as well as the F. M.S. will receive a great impetus. The export of tin and in ore from the F.M.S. in the first four months of this year was 256,463 piculs against 249,921 piculs in the corresponding period of last year. The duty collected was $3.423,219 against $3,367,894.

At a meeting of the promoters of the R. A.

following officers wore duly elected for the ensuing quarter: Sitting Prime, City Marshall,

Secretary, Treasurer,

A. of Benevolence, Chamberlain, Physician

Primo Burnett, » Smith,

1.J. Blake, J. Oxberry

C. Parkinson, Bro. Sbe Fo Shav,

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capital. Whini'action the French intend tak- ing remains to be seen, but if news of a leassuring manne does unt spun come to hand it will not surprising to learn that they have panel their oops over the Are there any indications of a revival in frontier to rehef their besiegel nationals in the near future of the claims of France to the cities of Variant and Mengis. Such step across her frontiers and suppress the a step as this crucjunciate need cause no risings in Kwangsi and Vorman 2. The queenrational, jei a specially when its aretion is again suggested by the measure of considered that the Chinese officials have

success, which insurgents in both. Provinces found themselves powerless to cope with the recovered and nine were missing. The rest of during 1922 amounted to 445,288 piculs reduce B. King Edward VII Lodge No. 910, the have recently obtained and which, according | Crisis, "The French have good reason to take to a telegram received by M. Réau, the timely aution to rullew thïe, erinding of their Acting Consul for France, and courteously Subjects placed in inatiment peril by the placed at our disposal, is at present jeopar-helplessness of Chinese officials. dising the lives of many of his nationals in Vunnan. The information "published 'ex clusively in the columns of the Telegraph last. evening is to the effect thai native officials had informed the French Consuls at Yunnanfo and Mengisa that the situation in that Province had grown so serious that they urped them to at once call in the workers on the railway line now being built between Tonking and beauty. --Ador Yunnanfu. This they evidently proceeded to do, and, according to the telegram receis. TOE Senda Coito Sansing Mill; after ed from Yunnan Province, both the Gapital qvi g beeti el sud treeveral months, is run

iving again under.. new mak, creat,, and Mengtsz have been. besieged for the past fifteen days. But a wire received at

MARSHAL DE Kung Pao yi Kwangsi, who has Shanghai the other day and printed ingen and led by mperial "Ethed to proceed t northern papers just to hand, states that 1cking, arrived at the Kwangting Provincial the Viceroy Ting Cheng-to, of Yunnanfa, che on the .7h ah, ordered out, on the 23rd ult, three bat Tus, Struts i la says that far clerks of the talions of his own brigade with instruction ending i da ti étavé been dismissed from to proceed with all haste to the walled city frie dagidunt temon for ciftlessness and

of Linaufu, where a mob of miners bading vanided delive murdered the prefect. This of course, is.

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The year which has just closed has been a very prosperous year, the total revenue was a little over Rs. 551 lakhs (Rs: 5599) and we were able to refer to it as a record year, the previous maximum having been Rs. 53 1-3 lakhs (Rs. 5338) in 1899-1900. to the year just closed the receipts were Rs. 59'17, or a little under Rs. 59t lakhs, showing an increase of more than Rs. 35 lakhs (s. 3.58) over the previous minema

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IN the report of the Navy League for roos we 'find the following reference to this Colony- Hongkong has not lost any of the interest it has always shown in the work of the League, Asst. City Waiter, Its President is now Mr. H. E. Polleck, toit may be of some interest to brethern of other Lodges of the Order to know that a beauti. whose efforts in past years the original success of the Branch was largely due. Captain Anderful consecration ceremony has been arranged to son, the present Honorary Secretary, is carrying take place on Wednesday, toth jure, and will the work of the League into the schools of be conducted by Sir Knight William Radburn Hongkong for both British and native borna.sisted by the Primos of the Order. The place. subjects, and he has also given assistance of the of meeting will be held weekly (every Wednes.. almost value in connection with the visit of day) in the R.A.0.B. Club Rooms, No. T Mr. Wyatt to the Commonwealth, and New Queen's Road. This club has been started in Zealand, having been instrumental in securing connection with the Order, and has been beauli- that gentleman's passage by.sca from Japan to fully painted out and furnished by a member of the wife of john Charles Wilson, a retired cap-Australis," The correct and useful information the Lodge, who deserves great credit for the work.

am in the army. It was stated when Captain on current effairs in the Far East, forwarded

A few influenţial gentlemen in the Colony have Wilson was ordered to Hongkong he told his by this Branch to the Head Office, is both signified their intentions of becoming membris. wife it was not a fit place for her to go to. He valuable and interesting...

and it quite certain they will never reg'et was afterwards transferred to India, but never

ity for, philantrophy and conviviality Is the

were proposed on the night of the meeting Contributed

SIR F. Jeune recently granted a decrce of judicial separation to Mrs. Anna Maria Wilson,

May; Yunnanfu was entirely surrounded by and Genon - Creagh in coinuidad ul the Indiillowed her to return to him. Mrs. Wilson in Four rooms freshly painted and tinted and-in object of the Order. Twenty-five candidates

Contingen which remaine zu China,

PLACU has mule is appearance at Port-Said in the person a grocer's asistat of Breck nationalty employed “as a store near the maar several dead rats were found in the shop where a worked.

the meastime supported herself and her two step-daughters by teaching..

ACCORDING to advices which have been re- ceived in an official quarter from 51. Petersburg the Russian Government proposes at an early date to introduce a systein by which commer "cial samples, and the luggage of commercial

mob of cut-throats, there were only some two hundred native soldiers in the city and the authorities were at their wits end to know the best course to adopt. Even though they might have been able to march on Linanfu for the purpose of relieving the walled city, it is certain they would almitis Fr is report by the ShanghaiTM77xes that the travellers may be transmitted throughout the meet with disaster from the rebels holding Wai Wa a las offered the mining and railway Czar's Empire at exceptionally cheap rates. that clty and those of Chepingtcheou privileges in Mongolia and 3 hibet, to Russia and Homitcheou. The China Gatelle in consideration of the evacuation and restora referring to the disturbance says, "the ton of Sanchada. so-called bandits afe workmen employed at a copper mine at a distance of five or six days' journey from Linanfu. They are said FURNITURE to number at least 100,000. They are in

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AS first reputed in the Telegraph the Pem brake die hangot off the sucks at the Saddles. She will need a good overhauling and it is considered that it will be some time before she is ready for service again.

A DISPATCH from Madiad brings the report that Alpho go XII, king of Spain, has fallen bir tu eruates valued at seven million dollars, the leg cy comes in the closing up of the exate of the king's gradiallier, who was pussessed of great wealth.

The decree, it is understood, says the Birming ham Port, has already been prepared, and will probably be promulgated directly the new ar rangeinents requisite for carrying it into effect are completed."

ONE of the managers of a bank which has large and important interests in the Far East has told a correspondent of the Manchester Guar diar that he takes but little interest in the re port that the currency of China is about to be unified. The country is so large and the cur rency so varied that the reform, however des sirable, would, in his apiaio, take years, to accomplish. As for the "decree," he places it in point of effective value below the level of the report of an English Royal Commission.

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SUBORDINATE CIVIL SERVICE.

HANA WATERLOO LEGEND.

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The firm of Rothschild was already a power in finance when the battle of Waterloo was fought, but it has always been believed that i added immensely to its strength by achieved on the receipt of the news of the Victory The popular story, so far as we remember it, was that the Mr Rothschild of that day had an agent wat bing the battle. The agent was supposed to have ridden post- haste to Ostend as soon as the victory was won. He chartered, it was said, a fast cali

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG TELEGRAP SIR,The interest you manifest in the sub ordinate servants of the Colonial Government is my excuse for encroaching upon your space with the present communication Not so very long ago you reproduced the petitions sent in to Government praying for relief for the in sailed over to England and gave adequacy of the salaries drawn by the clerical child the news twenty-four hours before staff of the Civil Service domiciled in countries official despatches arrived. Mr. Rothsch with a silver currency. In your sense of justice played the part of Brer Rabbil. He you supported the petitioners in their memorial, and said muffin But he sent out quietl notwithstanding the fact that, as reported, bought heavily in anticipation of rise. the Governor, in transmilting the petitions thus, according to the legend, he to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, was fortune" to an aprmdiu extent, not advised, as HIE. should have been, to relancholy, it is to see, ane venerable story affor commend this the representations in the do- another: shat cuments referred to be granted. If local years after the event, 7. Leop administrators sin in any respect at all, they child has given us the true versi IT is not long since we recorded the trans- do not as regards prodigality with the lower interests of historical accuracy No emissary formation, by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, of its grades of the Service, generally occupied by watched the battle on behalf of the great bank steamer Kachidste-muru into a warship for men-honest and industrious though they being house. Mr. Rothschild, ut seems) Korea. The vessel, we now learn, is still lying--who cannot exercise the power or influence a few obips, and had told his cap at Chemulpo, not yet having been transferred for their just grievances to be beaded bring him the latest newspapers from

they called at A captain arrived

the habit of making trouble for the officials every year and are famous for their daring courage. These workmen are posed to be in league with the Kwangsi Adits, and it is also believed in certain quarters that they are going to join these last-named gentry, Since the beginning of May the French authorities have many French soldiers, in connection with railway building, into Yunnan. The turbui, ent miners have had mar encounters with these French troops. More than 100,000 of the workmen leagued together and are causing all the trouble. These are the pro- le who captured Linanfi. Another tele gram, which reached the Waisikupu on the Tue Thioue has issued instructions through the Korean Government has no loger a desire draw the attention of those holding the purse a single ling':: Great.

31R. T. Rose, the papatur secretary of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., returned to the Colony today and to all appearance seems much benefied by his holiday. He resumes his duties in the Buck Co carried on with such marked ability by his decem ferens, Mr. G. A. Caldwell..

the Wai Wo Tuto all the Viceroys and 22nd ult., says that when the bandits en

vernois in the Empire in do their best in countered the French soldiers, there were exioning the merchants in their several juris- many of the latter captured, and the dictions to go to Japau and America ta Witness Mission at Linanfu has now been desthesis exhibition and the St. Louis Exposi. troyed. There were two or three French tion, respectively, as a preliminary step for the priests stationed there and these were holding of similar exibitions in China in the killed on their way to Yunnanfu.

manfu. The near future. railway in the South of the Province has been destroyed, and the French Minister

that as the. Удорад,

disturbance is so much more serious than that in Kwangsi, [28d French troops have been sent and more will follow to the first named Province. The

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to the authorities. It appears, according to des In contrast with the treatment served out to patches received by the Osaka Mainichi, that the clerical service of hongkong, 1 beg to Dutch

strings of the Colony to the following extract at Amsterdam.

Penang Straits from a Malay States correspondent to the graphical.~ímaccumc

18th May

to own the vennel, and desires to be rid of its

the other hand, the Mitsui Bussan contract on payment of a sum in

Kaisha-very naturally--will not agree to this, and are pressing the authorities to take delivery. The recent resignation of the Korean Minister of the Army and Navy'was, it is said, a direct result of the affair.-Nagasaki Prezi

ADVICs have reached an influential quarter in London from New York to the cllect that an WITHt the hotweather looming scarer, insomnia, agent of the Japanese Government will arrive rears its hated head again, like Mr. Tim Healy's evil England early next month for the purpose of Inn-grabber. Various remedies for this placing orders for a large number of railway have been tried, with varying, results, A cor- locomotives. It appears that he was sent to the respondent sends an exchange short United States, with a view to placing a portion which he has translated from a recent work by

of the order, but, as, Auserican finns could not

protected city strategically, and long ago complete and deliver within the specified in Ma Julung, the head of Miaotsu, with about he is arrange for the whole of the comniis 200,000 bandils, surrounded it, but was untsion with British manufacturers,

able to take the place. The present bandits, The laying of the section of the Pacific cable who are tinder Chao Yung-chang, have cap that is to connect Mujta and the Philippines tured the city very easily so that it is evident with Guam, began on the morning of the 24th that they had been very much enraged at the The Manila end die cable was landed

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professor Duruille, of the Paris, Schorl of Magnetism. Sleeplessness, except with para Tysle says Fri Durville, is usually due to excessive cerebral activity. We know that the right hand on the forehead excites,

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The clerical service of the F. M. S. seems to be, like the Cadet Service, he "elect of heaven. lj bonuses and windfalls are flying about they are sure to light on these. Lately all, the clerks' drawing, 575 a month in 1902 regarded themselves as lucky in beli that they were to draw $10 a month in 1903 But their good fortune did not end there for now, in the fifth month of the year, it has been discovered that they ought to have drawn an increase of SFS of this year, and according back pay from the 1st $90 a month. after the

rate of

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Mr. Rothchild see convinced that a victor he hurried off to tell the news was scouted English had been previon

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