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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1903.

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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). Dairy-$30 per annuist. WERKLY—$13 per konum.

The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. The daily and is delivered free when the address in accoville to meweugor. Cu coples sent by port nu aditional $1.80 per quarter in charged for postage, The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the

world is 30 cents per quarter. Single Copies Dally, ten cent; Weekly, twenty.

live Cents,

The Hongkong Telegraph

ral Scott's watchfulness of British interests in Canton we may rest assured any repre- sentation made by British merchants and shipowners in the interest of trade will receive his full measure of support.

LOCAL

AND GENERAL.

PARCEL mail for Europe, &c. per s.s. Chusan will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, the 19th inst

LeMunyon will have another grand opening | YESTERDAY afternoon a Chinese lime-washer Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date. working on a back yard wall at a house in Des Voeux Road West, accidentally fell from the

Advt.

STATISTICS gathered by the New York Board of Health show an approximate population of : 3,732,903, or a gain of 295,701 in three years At the prasent rate of increase the city will pass the 4.007,oco mark before 1906

THREE additional lady missionaries are now being sent to North China, where, in conse quence of the run of normal conditions, the THE Criminal Sessious commence to-meniow

London Missionary Society is filling up vacan- and are likely to occupy several days. Thecies which had been left unfilled since the names of eighteen prisoners, including that of

"Boxer" troubles thres years ago, R. P. Moffit, figure on the calendar.

We hear that Mr. A. J. Basto, barrister-at-law, will be retained for the defence of P. A. Souza

in the trial in the Macao Court for the alleged

murder of a Chinaman at Shanghai.

Now look out for LeMunyan's new store adv. It is a beauty-Advt.

be sold by the Borneo Co.

THE Captains of the British steamers Bexarty and Indravetli have been ordered by the Yokohamin Customs authorities to pay a fine of Yao and Ys respectively in accordance with

Art. 77 of the Customs Du ies Law, as the

scaffolding, a height of 25 feet, and was instantly killed.

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BERGT. Kerr and a party of police surprised a gang of loafers busily gambling in a lane off Gough Street last. night. They arresting 15 and Mr. J. H, Kemp fined them each a dollar or 14 days.

THE question of the liability of foreigners to ray the house tax in Japan, will be submitted

to the laternational Arbitration Court at the

Dague in September next.

IN a recent number of the Morning Advertiser we find the following The thunderstorm on Saturday added an unrehearsed effect to Dante. The loudest peals occurred" just while the Inferno scenes were on. If they had not drowned the voices of the players they would have been thought part of the performance. AN important Admiralty experiment of storing At the Earls Court Exhibition this mistake was actually made. During the representation of the Mont Pelee eruption the storm burst over the Exhibition ground, and the rain cann down in a torrent on the corrugated iron roof of the building in which Mont Pelee is housed. The spectators applauded loudly, this thunder and the noise of the waterspouts were included in the show, A parallel incident is related in the Freematon this week. A candidate was

coal under water was comuericed at Ports. mouth recently. All the Naval stations report that stores of coal, when exposed to the atmos pliere deteriorate. Some twenty tons of Welsh coal have now been submerged, enclosed in wooden cases, and will be raised a year hence, when their steam-raising capacity will be tested

A Roy of 16 was before Mr. Kemp on the

East, when an earthquake occurred, and the columns and other lodze furniture tumbled about in an alarming manner. Forthwith the brethren decamped, headed by the Worshipful. Master. The candidate, however, calmly stood his ground, thinking it was part of the ordeal to which he was to submit I

manifests presented by them did not agree capital charge this morning. It seems that on being initiated in a Masonic lodge in the Far with the goods shipped.-Kobe Chronicle.

the 14th inst, the prisoner and another boatman The first culierent account of the unspeakable had a squabble at Saikok, and during the row THE Medura-until fately the Kelanin which cruelties practised a few weeks since by Rus.it is alleged that Chan Ho struck Sin Chee on was in collision recently and sank on the bar asian barbarians upon inoffensive residents with the head with an oar. As a result the latter the mouth of the Bangkok river-has arrived in the borders of the empire is from the pen of took out a summons and the case was to have ut Sinapore under her own steam. She is to Zangwill, the author of Children of the Ghetto, been heard yesterday, but prosecutor having The Mantle of Elijah, etc., and has been wired died so the meantime the charge against Chan Ho was amended to one of muder. The case 10 Vancouver. We veproduce the account on

was adjourned to the 24th inst.. page 3.

FIRE broke out in a medicine and tea shop, al No. 28, Easter Street, West Point, at about

outbreak was said to be the careless placing of some medicinal herbs close to a wooden box which contained a chatty and lighted coals. The flames were extinguished by the inmates of the premises, who poared water from a tap over the flames, and contributed about $700 worth of damage to the total loss. The pre- mises are insured with a Incal French fum for $1,800.

A HEAVY penalty was imposed by Mr. Haze. land on an Indian watchman, who was charged Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Co Ltd., with leaving his employ without giving notice. The man was called upon to pay $75. Under what Ordinance could the fine have been imposed?

EXECUTION AT THE GAOL.

Li Kwai Fan, alias Lui Chui, of Walchow

Criminal Sessions for murdering the reform district, who was sentenced to death at the last

10th January, 1901, was hanged at the Victoria

Gaol at five o'clock this morning.

SANITARY BOARD.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1903.

CANTON RIVER BARRIERS,

According to Article V. of the British Commercial Treaty with China, signed at Shanghai on the 5th September last year, the Chinese Government undertook "to remove within the next two years the artificial obstruc-H.M.S. Expregte is due to leave for Weihaiwei tions to navigation in the Canton River," on the 16th prox., while H.M.S. Rosario, which and agreed to improve the accommodation is expected here shortly, will proceed at an early. for shipping in the harbour of Canton, and date to Singapore to relieve H.M.S. Phenix, to take the necessary steps to maintain that which is leaving for Weihaiwei about the 18th by Mr. A. Shaw, manager of the Hongkong half-past eleven last night. The origin of the leade; Yeung Kai Wan, in Gage Street, on the improvement, such work to be carried out July.

MADAME Agnes Fried, who paid a musical Ao absolute specific fur Ringworth and by the Imperial Maritime Customs and the

cost thereof to be defrayed by a tax on goods | visit to Hongkong last year, gave a grand even- Dhobi Itch.

landed and shipped by British and Chinese a-ing concert at Simla Town Hall on May 23rd, | like according to a scale to be arranged between which was patronised by the Viceroy, Lady the merchants and Customs." In April last Curzon, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, yur correspondent at Canton reported that a Lady Rivaz and Lord Kitchener. great reclamation scheme was being con- sidered by the officials, and that it was bable some 150 feet of the foreshore would be taken from the river. If such a proposal were carried into effect it would be an im provement on the present condition of affairs, as wharf accommodation for deep-water |❘ at over $1,000, tonnage has been a long-felt want to say nothing of the natural result of the river dig ging for itself a deeper bed to compensate for its slight loss in breadth. But if this is the only improvement to be effected for the accommodation of shipping in Canton the

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WHILE some cargo on the Ruty was being shifted at Singapore a harrel of cement fell and broke open, and forty pounds of opium were found concealed in the centre of the cement. The cement was consigned to l'alembang and the value of the smuggled opium is estimated

News has been received of the death in his native country, Sweden, in his 78th year, of Mr. Nils Möller, for some decades a very pro. minent figure in shipping circles in Shanghai. He has left nine children, the majority of whom are in Shanghai, some of them carrying on the business founded by their father.

We shall have a Souvenir Day soon, but you will have to pay us a personal visit as no chits will go. LeManyon.—Advṛ,

IT is extraordinary, to say the least of it, observes the Kobe Chronicle, that so many stow- aways should be secreted on vessels leaving

T11 safes: course-indeed, the only prudent one-for the three lowers will be to make precisely the same preparations as if New- chwang and the forts were still in Russian occupation, and to do all they can to strengthen

the vacillating resolve of the Peking Govern- ment to refuse to submit to the impossible terms sought to be imposed by M. de Plancon. -Glo

A meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held at 4.15 p.m. ta-inorow.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Reply from Government as to the number of Chinese fearing the Colony daily and the num-

Correspondence relative to plague at For-

mosa.

Laller from Government relative to closing the Chinese theatres.

Mr. Kemp gave some practical advice to Euro- peans this morning when fin.ng a ricksha coolieber of steamers and steam launches leaving for $10 for refusing to take a fare when requested Canion or Macao. by Mr. J. J. Bullen, of the Registrar-General's department. The prosecutor went to consider. THERE are other United States papers besides able trouble to ascertain whether the defend- the New York Sun afflicted with Anglophobia. ant's story of his having already got a fare was The New York World is one of them. Any correct, and Mr. Kemp suggested that it would be well for all Europeans, who wished to obtain thing for a sensation is, however, more its moito. Perhaps bath these aims induced its correspon-convictions against ricksha coolies for refusing dent at W hington to send it the following: hire, to make full inquiries into the truth of Suspicion is growing in the state department their statements. that Great Britain has broken her acknowledged alliance with Japan and formed a secret alliance with Russia and France, under the terms of which China eventually will be carved up with- out much regard for Germany.

There have been rumours at Esquimalt that a flying squadron will shortly be organized in undertake a two years' voyage round the world. The report is that the Leviathan will be the flagship, and that seven ciuisers will accom. pany her. The cruise is to be experimental, and if it works out as its organizers believe, three new cruiser squadrons will be organized, FROM a diplomatic source, a corre pondent of based at Esquimali, Sydney and Simonstown,

Don't forget the chits for they will not go LeMunyos.-Adv!.

al interpretation of the Article of the Treaty, and might well be advised to provide much greater facilities in the way of wharves for the many ocean-going crafts which have always been compelled to anchor in a long line down the river and discharge their heavy cargoes into lighters. But regarding the removal of the artificial Maji for China, and it is surely time that some the Birmingham Post learn that the Foriegn the idea being to have cruising squadrons obstructions to navigation in the Canton investigations were made as to what influences

are at work and how it is that nothing is done Office finds it a little difficult to pursue a policy replace the weak fleets in South American River, abom which so much discussion has been heard during the past few years, nothing appears to have been done, excepting in the case of the High Island Barrier which was done away with some twelve months since

to prevent all the trouble and expense that the conveying of stowaways necessitates.

GOVERNOR Wang has asked Viceroy Teh for the loan of 300 rifles and a quantity of aramuni- it was least obtion with which to supply his soldiers until he can receive a consignment of arms from some

struction of any, and could have been left until the others had been removed. Ou his

foreign power. The Viceroy has not shown any disposition to aid Governor Wang or accecle

of patient, cautious diplomacy in regard to Manchuria, owing to the restiveness of our allies in the Far East. The Japanese people are ready, and, indeed, eager, lo iry conclusions The Mikado's Government, with Russia. although up to now it, conduct has been strictly correct and entirely in harmony with British views, may be compelled by public pressure to tale a step which it might be impossible in

opinion of diplomais, than the "warlike inten- tions" of Russia, who, it is agreed, will continue her policy of absorbing Manchuria only to the extent to which she can safely go without coming into actual conflict with other Powers. There will be a series of small moves, not one of which, however, will be, in itself, important enough to be regarded as a cater belit; and

waters and in the Pacific.

Ir Vancouver is to reap the full benefit of the advantages which her location offers, the dock system must be under public control. A con temporary says the history of every large seaport proves this. Under that method Liver pool has prospered wonderfully. Under the

fallen behind, so that at the present time Par liament is legislating with a view of buying out the dock companies and placing the port under the control of one port trust. Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg and other Continental ports have followed similar methods with successful results. But we can come nearer home. What would have been the result. at Montreal had one, two or more private companies acquired control of this astute Muscovite diplomacy completely the harbour and dock and been able to dictate baffles the Japanese.

as to the port management?

Approval of the Board's recommendation concerning the outbreak of a certain cattle

The President pursuant to notice will

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That whereas the Board have found it necessary to take certain proceedings against people using chalk and water instead of lime-wash, the Board obtain authority to insest an advertisement in the local papers to the eflect that chalk and water cannot be accepted in lieu of lime- wash, but that there is no objection to colouring matter being added to it. Correspondence regarding the detention of inmates of plague houses."

Report relative to the scavenging of the Hill District.

Application for the renewal of the hale- house licence for No. 230 Queen's Road"West. Application for the renewal of a soap-boiling licence.

Mortality statistics for the week ended ard and 9th May, 1903.

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Rat return for the fortnight ended 15th June, 1903.

Lime-washing return for the fortnight ended 9th June 1903.

THE S.S." PEMBROKESHIRE

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The latest information we have been able to

B.E. Tsen Chun-hsuen, the Viceroy design from the Eastern province. It will be at least ate of the provinces of Kwangst and Kwang-three months before the agent can deliver the tung, took the opportunity of inspecting rifles and ammuntion ordered at Canton from these useless obstacles and paid special at a freign hong-Shanghai Press. tention to the Bridge Barrier, connecting Danes Island (Whampoa) with the main FURNITURE land, and especially constructed for the use of troops. It is doubtful whether his survey DEALERS.

has any connection with the removal of the ubstructions on the river, and, in view of the fact that there are nearly fifteen months still left in which to fulfil outlaws, and twenty-five captured and tortured, emigrated from European Russia in search of THE New York World has issued an edition there was the probability of an estimate being

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MORE than 2, 2005 Russian peasants have

gather in regard to the unfortunate s.s. l'em- brokeshire, salved from her perilous condition some time ago, by the firm of Messrs. Farnham, Boyd & Co, of Shanghai, is that copies of pho- tographs of the steamer as she stands' in dry dock at Shanghai have been received in the Colony. Not long since we reported that

submitted by our renowned ship-repaiting works at Kowloon for the job. We now learn

that our Dock officials are still at work overthe

INFORMATION has been received in Shanghai, says the Press, that the Peking Government is very much worried over the receipt of a cons munication from Yunnan to the effect that several hundred French soldiers who were sent into that province to assist in putting down the rebellion, have been defeated by the An investigation has been ordered, and if it is new homes in Siberia during the last ten years, of 136 pages, said to be the largest daily paper found that such an encounter has taken place, and of this number 600,000 peasants have ever printed, to mark its 20th anniversary settled on land belonging to the State. Since under Mr. Joseph Pulitzer's management, Be. the authorities-in Yuanan will he held strictly the beginning of the year, 30,500 peasants have sides a review of the past, prophesies were estimate with a view of tendering. The photo. accountable.

immigrated into Siberia, and the tide of emig published as to the next 20 years, the chief graphs received from Shanghai yesterday in senators and experts in almost every field of printed of the enormous damages to the hull endeavour. In its review of material changes of the Pembrokeshire, and it is feared the cost in the World under Mr. Pulitzer's direction of repairing her will not fall much below the some figures never before published are given original approximate estimate mentioned in The total income of the World when Jay these columns at the time of our first report. It Gould sold it, was $7,500 a week, but in the will be another feather in the cap of the Hong 30 years of Mr. Pulitzer's direction the total kong and Whampoa Dock Co. people if they income of the World has been $67,08,244-75, succeed in securing the work for the Company, it is said that this Sunday edition of the World weighs about scoora, lbs, and will cost more

them will be made for the present. Delays By kind permission of Major Radcliff and rants has begun to flow in increased volume contributors being members of the Cabinet, every way bear out the description already

are, however, dangerous and when one of our passenger boats or ocean steamiers come to grief it will be 100 late to consider the folly of waiting such a length of time for the com- mencement of a work which, according to experts, will take at least two years to com- plete. Our pilots and shipmasters on the Hongkong-Canton run have quite enough to occupy their attention in avoiding the fleet of trading junks always plying in the waters

Officers the Band of the 33rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme at the Kowloon Hotel, during, dinner, to-morrow evening (weather permitting):-

March

....." Constellation".. ......Clark. Ove.tere.

..."Tancredi ". ......Rovini. Selec.iun...." Les Cloche de Corneville"., Flanger.ie, Song.

.."The Flight of Ages".......... Bevan, Selec.lo." A Chiners Hoseyinoon "Talbot and Dance: Yaliz

"Valse Rose

Magix Serenade.

Macvetli

Love in 1dienes

God Save the King.

which contained information to the same

THE PLAGUE,

During the twenty-four hours ended at noon

disease.

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with the coming of spring, for between April 4 and April zo the number of emigrants rose suddenly to 13,025. More than ever before, the want of churches and schools is being felt in Siberia; in many districts there is not a church to be seen for several hundred miles. Alloge ther, zor churches have been built in Siberia of the Alexander II. Fund; but at least 300 churches are needed only for supplying the present spiritual needs of the awakening coun- try. In the matter of schools, Siberia is in than $50,000. PHOTOGRAPHIC of the Delta without having to run the risk A PEKING wire says that reassuring news has even st.it worse plight, for there are only 184

DEPARTMENT. of accident owing to the useless barriers in been received from Yunnan that order has elementary schools, while 1,1co schools ou, bt. 1 an editorial on Osaka and the free port

the river. The Committee of the Hong been re-established in that province. The to be built to satisfy the most moderate claims. movement, the Kobe Chronicle says there is to-day 9 further cases of bubonic plague, no need to go further than Hongkong to lealise making, according to the official return, 1,292 kong General Chamber of Commerce could news was subsequently confirmed by another In some districts the peasants have subscribed the immense impetus which is given even to since January, 1st, were reported. Of these UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. always be relied upon to lend their sym-telegram received by the French Minister and from go in 1,000 roubles for building a little transit trade by a post whelly free of Customs seven Chinese cases were fatal. Another Fure.

pathetic support and influence in representa-sent by the French Consulates at Yunnan, church and school

duties. A visit to that prosperous emporium pean, James Hawkes, of the Central Police tions to Government to secure the removal effect, but nothing was said about the recapture THE London corespondent of the Birmingham of trade ought to be an eye-opener to Japanese Station, is reported to have contracted the of obstacles in the way of pur trade. The by the Imperialista of Linganfu, as given out Post has been told by a diplomatic authority economists who believe in high tarifis. With Chinese Government is pledged under the by the Wai Wa Pu. It has been officially that the Russian Government has either issued, a population not much exceeding that of Kobe, Treaty to do away with the barriers which denied that the Yunnan mob are in sympathy or is about to issue, a circular to the Powers Hongkong has an annual income, without stand in the way of the safe navigation of with the insurgents at Kwangsi. A wire from regarding the position of affairs in Manchuria imposing any Customs duties, of some four the Canton river by the ever increasing fleels Nanking, however, states, that acting under and China. The whole situation, says the in-million dollars, which more than covers, the of valuable foreign vessels. Nine months instructions from Peking, Viceroy Wei Kuang formant, is so litile understood that the author whole expenses of its administration-expenses which are calculated on a very liberal scale. have passed and they seem to content them- Tao of Shanghai has ordered General Chang ities have but little hope of bringing con

Its trace goes on year by year increasing in Chun Fa of Tsingkiangfu to go with a large viction to the minds of foreign nations, but not selves in allowing the pledge to be redeemed division of troops to Yunnan to help in sup the least impor ant factor in determining Rus- somewhere in the Greek Kalends. Chinese pressing the disturbances that were recently officialdom requires waking up from time to reported to have broken out in Lingaafu. time, and the present seems an opportune General Chang and bis troops have already set moment for the owners of the steamship out on their journey for Yenean by land. But companies to bestir themselves in a joint it will take them at least three months to representation to Government to bring to arrive at their destination. the notice of the New Viceroy at Canton' the necessity to comply with the specific obligations under the Treaty so far as this [3556 waterway is concerned. With Consul Genie HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beerade is the tropica-SAN MIGUEL That the tropics-SAN MIGUEL Bost to drink in the tropics it the Beer

Hongkong, 8th July, 1902

CARMICHAEL

CLARKE,

AND

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SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

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

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Hongkong, 20th March, 1903,

Four floors freshly painted and tinted and in first class condition to rent. Inquire at C. E. LeMuayan, New Store, 31, Des Vœux Road, P. O. Box 368-Advise The Beer to drink in the tropics in the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

bulk, the amount of shipping alone entering

sian aims in the Far East is what bas come to the port last year being an increase upon the be called "the yellow peril." England in previous year of no less than 2,303,306 tons.

The net increase last year in imports-esti certain of her colonies and the United States in the negroes have a "black peril," But mated in bulk, as there is no means of ascer Russia, in her close contact with the Chinese, taining values--amounted to 482,476 tons, and bas an even more serious question to face, in exports to 136,814 tons, while in cargo in because of the superior intelligence and the transit the increase amounted to 237,812 tons wonderful power of absorption of the yellow And it must be remembered that Hongtong race; and it is estimated that the Chinese in has nothing like the advantages for manu Siberia alone in some districts now outdumber facturing industry which would be enjoyed by

any part in Japa the Russians by five to one.

THE Beer to drink to this tropics is the Bear

made in the tropice-SAN MIGUEL

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

MAILS DUE.

English (Ballaara!) to-morrow. American (Siberia) 20th inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 22nd inst. Indian (Arratoon Apear) z3d inst German (Roon) 14th inst, German (Hamburg) 24th iąšt. fodian (Luisang) 29th inst. 'American (Ceptic) 1st prox. Canadian (Tartar) ist'prox.:

The B TB: Co's 1.8. Pleiades arrived at Victoria, BC, on 12th lost.

>The Apcar Co.'s sis. Arraioon "Apcar from Calcutta left Singapore for this port to-day,

at noom...

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

Tmade in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,

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