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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1903.

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within Macao was not well received. It is believed, and rightly so, that the colony which, by decree of the 20th November, 1845, was declared a free port, should have no custom-house much less one that collects

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MARRIAGE.

On the 28th May, at Rome, by His Eminence Cardinal Macchi, in his private chapel, RAPHAEL THOMAS FERDINAND DE LUCA, ... 8.00 $ 9.00 Deputy Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, eldest son of H.E. the 'te Comm. Ferdinand de Luca, His Italian 14.50 Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, to Donan MARIA, second daughter of Don Girolamo Theodoli, Count of

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and in fine condition.

Cicilia..o.

́he Hongkong Celegrap

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1903.

shall have a Souvenir Day, soon but you have to pay us a personal visit as no cbits go. LeMuayon.-Adut.

ards the close of last week made strenuous OST of the ships lying in Manila harbour to arts to clear before the "Fourth" so that

hey would not have to lay over for a couple of ays.

the leading journals of the métropolis strongly advocated the ratification of the treaty ; but Senhor Custodio Miguel Borja, a former Governor of Macao, and who is practically Magistrate of Nan Hui Tsien who was acquainted with the prevailing conditions ery unpopular, and was a man of ill reputation, and needs of the colony, protested against

has been fined by the Viceroy Wei Kwangtao certain Articles in the Treaty. Mr. Joao

Fis. 600,000. The money is intended for Marques Pereira, chief secretary of the

Kwangsi. Colonial Office, in a series of thirty- CAPTAIN F. Davies, of the N.Y.K.S. Bingo eight articles contributed to the Epoca, naru, has received a medal from H.H. Prince ourable terms of the Treaty, recalling Mariners Aid Association. pointed out categorically the unfav Arisegawa in recognition of his service to the the memorable historical fact that Governor purser of the same vessel, has received a letter Mr. Hosokawa, Ferreira do Amaral sacrificed his life of thanks and a silver cup. for having expelled from Macao the

A COMM158 appointed in connection with the sale of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant at Manila has resolved that they ought not to consider any proposal looking to the sale of less than one million dollars U. S. currency. the plant, with the land upon which stands, for The fact is that the government is not search- ing for purchasers of the plant, which brings in a large yearly revenue to the insular treasury- invested is enough inducement for the Com The interest of 12 per cent on the money mission to hold on to its "good thing."

THE repair of the Tsung Yang Men (one of the main gates of Peking, damaged by the August of 1900), had been confided by the allies on their entrance in the memorable

Throne to Yann Shib Kai, and Chen Fil the Liter civil Governor of Shengtienfu. The work of funds, and the Empress Dowager expected had been repeatedly put off owing to the lack

the officials to make voluntary contribution to defray its cost. Up to the present a sum of

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

Hoppe of Porta do Cerco, and that by re- LIANG Lan Hsun, who has been in the services, 570,000 has been secured for this purpose, admitting the Chinese customs within the of the Imperial Chinese Railway administration of which more than half the amount has already confines of Macao the Government and the and the Canton-Pankow Railway during the arrived at Peking. people will be casting an insult to the past two years and previous to that time forten memory of a hero for Free Trade, principles. and Tie-tsin University, is promoted to the years a teacher in Queen's College, Hongkong. Freed from the incubus inseparable, from rank of Tantai. the establishment of a Custom-house and with a good harbour the destiny of the TENDERS for the fast Atlantic service are such MACAO AND THE LUSO-CHINESE Slough of Despond into which it had long £300,000 a year, and the Pritish and North ancient colony may yet be retrieved from the that the Government is unlikely to accept Jeither. The tender of the Allau Line is for fallen. Portugal is still the fourth colonial Atlantic Steamship Company's offer is for power in the world. The new alliance that £200,000: They assume, however, that the has been entered into with Great Britain is British and Canadian mails will be paid for the most solid and permanent compact besides. that could be readily imagined to exist. It

TREATY.

The distance

After

CAPTAIN Barseth, P. O., Acting Governor of Leyte Province, Philippines, has an interesting ditions of the farmers in his section of the story to tell in regard to the prosperous con-

Islands. Last year Leyte produced $8,000,000 bably he larger than that. Captain Borseth worth of hemp and this year's crop will pro-

says the prosperity of Cebu is largely due to Leyte, quantities of hemp being sent to Cebu

worth of hemp stored at that place, his last trip into the interior, he visited the for trans-shipment. Ile. further says that on

town of Malipo and that he found $600,000

of the President conveying the follow- ing resolution, unanimously adopted at the meeting of property owners at the Sanitary Board office on 18th May, convened by advertisement in Euro- pean newspapers in the Colony, namely:"That the permission of -H. E. the Governor be obtained to have the report, which was read by Dr. Pearse at the meeting on the sub- ject of overcrowding and its abate- ment, printed and circulated amongst the European land owners in the Co- long"?

6. If so, has any reply been sent thereto?

- If not, why not?

7. Is the Government aware that the Pre- sident of the Sanitary Board stated at the Board on the 19th ult. that no answer had been received to that letter, but that the report had been laid on the table and was accessible to the Press if they wanted it?

8. Does the Government propose to print and circulate Dr. Pearse's report in terms of the resolution? Or is it true, as rumoured, that the report has been withdrawn from circulation and that the information which has been placed al-the disposal of the Chinese will not be available for European land owners?

9. Does the Government approve of the request of the Chairman that the Europeans should leave the meeting of land owners above referred to? 10. Will the Government instruct the Go- vernment Printers to print a larger number of copies of Ordinances, as it appears that the Passenger Act (No. I of 1889) Chinese Emigration. Con solidation Ordinance is now out of print and cannot be supplied?

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

The special wire from a Macao corres- pondent, which we published last evening, has been made the subject of much rejoicing by the inhabitants of that mediaval colony. the Colonies has approved of the general The news that the Portuguese Minister for scheme of harbour improvements, though much longed for, had been thought too good by the people of Macao to be flashed over the wire to the "gem of the Orient sea," long neglected by the mother country, Quite a quarter of a century ago an expert upon the condition of the harbour of Macao engineer was sent out from Lisbon to report

and its approaches. What remained of the dwindling trade of the Portuguese settlement with the birth of Hongkong as a British guarantee our Wines and Spirits to Colony, was surely and steadily kept away looms large in the "Gorgeous East" in the pose a sum of Ticals 15,000 has been put aside American priests, and it is probable that the forty Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year

CHATEAU LA TOUR CANET, CHATEAU RAUZAN AND CHATEAU LAFITE

are recommended to the notice of Con noisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.

We

be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Const Ports.

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

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TELEPHONE NO. 16.

CABLE ADDRESS: "ACHEE,' HONGKONG. A. B. C. CODE, 4TH EDITION.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

A CHEE & CO.,

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dominion of Portugal in its integrity. It is, Sunda Straits, etc., from Barry, was completed is an absolute guarantee of the Colonial THE master of the 5.s. Knight Ervant reports that his passage round the Cape of Good Hope. therefore, as observes a writer in the Fort without a single stoppage. nightly Review, a buttress of the throne in covered was 13,089 miles and the time taken, THE authorities of the Catholic Church have Lisbon. Portugal will no doubt share in all 7 days to hours and 3 minutes. the commercial advantages of the partner bunkering the steamer will proceed to Port seminary in Manila for the instruction and announced that it has been decided to open a ship. By emulating the example of her Arthur. sister colony she can do no better than to OwING to reports received by the Hospital will be chosen from those Filipinos evincing a consecration of native priests, The novices

and by restoring it to the condition of which the Kingdom showing the existence of small- preserve inviolable the freedom of her port Department from so many different parts of vocation for the priesthood, and the standard ocean carriers can take advantage, Macać pox in virulent form, the Hospital Department

of requirements will be high. The collegiate course will be severe, and the theological may ring up the curtain to a vista of has decided to make a systematic effort to

stadics the same as in the United States. The share in the commercial prosperity which stamp out the disease in Siam. For this pur-seminary will be under the supervision of

by the department for the purchase of vaccine Sulpicians, the great. French teaching order, and to pay for vaccinating,

which is exclusively devoted to the education of Catholic priests a the secular order, will be the instructor:

new future.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE cricumstances of the case in which a ricksha coolie was robbed of his purse con

THE English mail of the 6th June was deli taining $10, along Shaukiwan Road at vere-l in London on the 6th inst.

by the gradual silting up of the inner harbour and the roadstead. This condition was at once realized by the expert, whose roluminous report presented to the Portu- guese parliament remains extant as a monu- ment of Portuguese indifference and neglect of a most valuable colonial possession over which other Powers have more than once cast covetous eyes and under any one of whose administration the little island, with its splendid geographical situation, might have been capable of possibilities undreamt-Advt.

KANG Yu Wei, who is at present in Rangoon, is leaving in a few da s for Maymyo

LeMunyan will have another grand opening Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date,

FIRST Lieutenant W. K. McCuca, well-known officer of the 1st Infantry and recently stationed at Manila, has been arrested in Chicago, for alleged bigamy.

of and uncared for by lethargic and apathetic TWENTY-ONE hundred cartridges have been figure-heada adorning the cabinet of Lisbon. discovered by secret service men in the house Sr. Adolpho Loureiro more than twenty years of a prominent Filipino contractor in the ago urged upon his Government the impera-Phillippines, tive necessity of initiating measures having for their effect the arresting of the natural process of silting in the harbour. But beyond the narrow, muddy embankment thrown across the small stretch of water to

Green Island and a few hundred feet of seawall in the inner harbour nothing has been done, in effect, to carry out the recom mendations of Sr. Loureiro. In fairness to the local administrators, however, and to the body of the Municipal Councillors,

THE Manila Medical Society has been re cognized by the American Medical Association and in future will affiliate with that important professional organization.

MR. T. Sercombe Smith, the Police Mayis trate, arrived from Viewer on board the `Empress of Japan, this morning, and resumed

FURNITURE whose zeal in the well-being of the port, duties at the Magistracy to-day.

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

FURNITURE.

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. COUNTERPANES...

COOKING RANGES,

“KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th July, 1902.

(728d

CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

TELEGRAMS: "Carmichael,”, Hongkong.

A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition.

TELEPONE, 132,

cannot be too highly praised, representations to the Home Government have been made with a commendable pertinacity to save the trade of the port from total extinction by the complete silting up of the approaches to Macao. The latest memorial was referred to in these columns when the Special Envoy from the Court of Lisbon was passing two years ago en route to the Chinese capital. After a personal inspection of the wretched state into which the port had been allowed to drift, H. E. Senhor Castello Branco arrived at the conclusion that one of the first necessities crying for re- medial measures was the improvement of the Macao harbour and the carrying out in their entirety of the plans of the Harbour Improvement Scheme. In this view he was supported by the Acting Governor, who was staunch advocate of the scheme, the advisor of Government in engineering matters, and the whole body of the Senate backed up by foreign and Chinese representa-

ACCORDING to the Manila Times the anti- plague serum used in that city comes from Japan and costs the Government $4.50 per bottle containing enough serum to inoculate five people.

THE steamer Sun Shui, late chartered trans- pon in the Q, M. D. service at Manila, has been given' over to the command of Captain Casey and he will take her to Shanghai and deliver her to the owners, Messrs. Farnham Boyd and Co. of that city.

THE Times Peking correspondent says that the Chinese representatives on the Tibet Boundary Commission have been nominated but the Amban of Lassa has no influence either with China or Tibet. The Times correspondent the Chinese but to send a mission to Lassa and urges India not to waste time negotiating with.

treat direct with the Tibelans,

TO

o'clock on the night of the zoth ult, came on for hearing at the Magistracy this afternoon before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith. After a lengthy bearing the defendant was committed for trial at the next criminal sessions.

A TOKIO despatch in the Asand states that the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce ordered sixty-five foreign marine, fire and life insurance companies at Yokohama, through the Gover- nor of Kanagawa Ken a few days ago, to depasit yen 109,000 each with the Yokohama 31st October next in accordance with Art. 5 of Government Branch Treasury on or before the No. 380 Imperial Ordinance of 1900.

A MOSгextensive robbery has been-perpetrated at the Osaka Exhibition, thieves having broken through one of the ventilators in the roof and got 17,883 83. Among the articles sto' in was an away with exhibits to the value of about Yen

okimono-gold and silver inlay work valued at stones, silk, etc. The Osaka Police authorities Yen 1,500 besides a large quantity of precious have offered a reward of yea 100 for informa tion leading to the arrest of the offenders.

THE number of exhibits lately received for the Philippines exhibit at St. Louis Wärld's Fair reaches the figure of 4,000, consisting hawe er so far only of collections of no more than ten provinces. A few provinces, like Ilocos Norte, Leyte, Marinduque, Pampanga, and Nueva Ecija, have according to notice prepared a pre- liminary exposition in their respective cavitals the une number, it camblis is now over The number of exhibitors has passed 1,000

15,000. The Exposition Board is confident that the public and public officials will respond Philippine Exhibition in St. Louis the much. to its earnest appeil and help to make the

desired success.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held in the Council Chamber to-morrow at 3

p.m.

BUSINESS

Financial Minutes. (Nos. 25 to 27). Report of the Finance Committee. (No. 4). Amendment of note to No. of the Domestic Cleanliness and Ventilation Bye-laws contained in Schedule B of the Public Health and Build- ings Ordinance, 1903.

The Supplementary Estimates for 1907.

QUESTIONS. Mr, Shewan will ask the following questions of which he had given notice -Will the Honourable the Colonial Secretary be good enough to give the following information. res-

with regard to this Colony - pecting the working of the Crown Agents sys-

THE grant-in-aid of Yen 100,000 a year bestowed by the Government on the Central Tea Association as a fund for expanding the this year, according to the original contract sale of tea in foreign markets will cease with

(reports the Japan Timer). The Association

the authorities have decided, the Shogystem has applied for the renewal of this favour, and Chugai learns, to grant it Yen 7,000 a year for five years, subject of course to the approval

of the D e'.

from Newchwang and Chefoo on the 3rd inst., THE C.M.S. Haia», which arrived at Shanghai reported: Fine weather and light southerly wind. At 10.15 am, off Shaweishan, observed signals and noticed shipwrecked crew ashore on the Island. Anchored and sent boat ashore and took off Capt. and Mrs. Jensen and 9 men of the crew of the American ship Carrier Doue, which was wrecked on the bank north of Tsung- Don't forget the chits for 'they will not go ming. One man had been lost in leaving the LeMenyen.—Advi,

wreck on the night of the 1st instant.

tions. The present Governor enjoys the re-lion-dollar steel trust, is very ill, Re has been

MR. Charles M. Schwah, President of the bil. WHILE the French Mail tender was on her putation of being a well-known civil en ailing for many weeks, and now has broken

way up from Woosung on Thursday evening. gineer and as far as can be known is down completely. His affection is largely steam launch bolonging to the Imperial Japa at about 8.30, she ran down and sank a small entirely in agreement with the supporters of nervous, and comes from the strain of responnese cruiser Abashi. The accident took place the scheme. When the concession for the sibility and business connected with the man-

agement of the great company he is at the head

of He was recently re-elected President of the immense concern which has a practical monopoly of the steel making of the United

in the lower reach a few yards astern of the

Japaness cruiser Suma. The cries of the

launch were heard on board the latter vessel and boats were at once sent to her assistance. The tender also stopped and assisted to take the men off. The French tender was not damaged lives were lost, most of the men being picked but the launch sank in about two minutes. No up by the Suma's boats. We have been unable to ascertain the cause of the collision,

railway to Canton was obtained by Senbor Castello Branco, it was held that no benefits would accrue to the Colony unless the harbour works were first tackled and com- pleted. The news communicated by Sun- States, day's wire is, therefore, a. valid ground for A WIRE from New York on 2nd inst. reports rejoicing on the part of the inhabitants at that a terrible explosion the consequences of Macao. By a strange coincidence almost which were awful loss of human life and the at the same time the last Lisbon mail almost total destruction of valuable property reports the M. C. D. News, Probably the brought out private advices to the effect occurred that day in a coal mine at Hanna, faunch was hidden by the stern of the Suma that the Luso-Chinese treaty concluded by by fire damp and it is known that 30 miners disaster:

Wyomong. The explosion was probably caused until the tender was too close to avert a Conselheiro José d' Azevedo Castello Branco lost their lives. The work of rescue is prot

In 1907 had been rejected by the Portuguese greasing favourably and sovorel unfortuustemen Four floors freshly palated and tinted and in Chamber of Deputies as containing provisions have been taken out of the ruins, most of them first class condition to rent. Inquire at C. E. unfavourable to the interests of the country to horribly mangled and burned that their lives; LeMunyon, New Store, 31, Des Vaux Road. The proposal to establish a Chinese Customs are dispaired of

A.. I Code.

Lieber's Standard Code.

Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.

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THE Bear to drink in the tropica is the Beer

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P. O. Box 368.—Advt.

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1.

(a) What method is adopted for paying

the Crown Agents?

Do the Crown Agents receive a com- mission on orders executed in ad- dition to regular salaries? (c) Do they receive'remuneration from other Crown Colonies in addition to this?

4. What is the annual sum paid by the Colony to the Crown Agents during the past three years, giving salary and commissions separately, or what annua} sum has been charged to the Colony for the services of the Crown Agents i 3. (a) Are all orders for material, etc., sent to Europe on behalf of the Colony, made through the Crown Agents? (5.) If not, what system is adopted with regard to such orders which are not executed by the Crown Agents? (a.) What system is adopted to ensure that all order on behalf of the Colony, are executed by the firm best able to carry out the work at the most reasonable price? - (8.) If orders are put up to tender only. for those firms on the Crown Agents' lists, how are these firms selected?

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First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance 10 amend Ordinance No. 13 of 1900 entitled An Ordinance to facilitate the hearing, determi- pation, and settlement of land claims in the New Territories, to establish a Land Court, and for other purposes.

First reading of a Bill entitled As Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of & Supple- mentary Sum of One millios eight hundred thousand two hundred and one Dollars and

1902,

Second reading of the Bill. entitled Aa Ordinance to repeal The New Territories Rent Recovery Ordinance.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to give effect to an Order in Council made by His Majesty the King on the 12th day of March. 1903, relating to the Marriages" of British Subjects in Foreign Countries.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to authorize and regulate the estab lishment and use of installations for the purpose of Wireless Telegraphy.

Oriinance to amend The Malay States Second reading of the. Bill entitled An

(Fugitive Criminals) Surrender Ordinance, 1993.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils, N.B.-A meeting of the Finance Committee will be held immediately after the Council

HONGKONG WATER POLO LEAGUE COMPETITION.

The following is the present position of the competition :--

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Goal.

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THE PLAGUE,

at voon to-day gives 5 additional Chinese cases

The return for the twenty-four hours ended.

of plague, of which three were fatal. One of the cases in yesterday's return should not have been included in the list as it was under obser- vation only. The correct, number of cases up 10-date is therefore 1,316.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE..

German (Prinz Heinrich) to-morrow, Australian (Australian) 9th inst. American (America Sfaru) 12th Inst. French (Yarra) 14th.inst. Indian (Kumsang) 14th inst, American (Korea) 16th inst, Canadian (Athenian) 20th inst

The E. & A, Co/s 0.5. Australian from Australia on Thursday, 9th inst, at daylight

The T. K K 13. Rosetta Maru left Manila 5th inst., afternoon, and is expected here to morrow, at 2 p.m. titta p

The M. M: Co/s 8.1. Parra with the next p.m., for this port via Salgob. French Mail will leave Singapore, to-day, at 455.

The N. Y. E. s., Hiroshima Baru (Bombay Line) left Koba for this port on 6th inst., p.n and is expected to arrive here on rath insti

(c) Can any reputable firms on applica-

The N. Y. K. ss. Bingo Maru (European tion be placed on the Crown Line) left Shanghai for this port on 6th inst,, at- Agents lists, or do the Crown1 p.m., and is expected to arrive hore on 9th-

inst. Agents exercise a right to refuse to The P. M, 5, S. Co.'s 8.5. America Maru with place a firm on their list? mails, &c., left Nagasaki for Manjla Saturday (d) In the event of such a refusal, has midnight, and is due there to-morrow afternoon

the firm thus rejected any right of about 4 p.m. appeal and, if so, to whom?

5. Will the Government state whether they

The PM. S. S. Co'san Karta with mails, Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohamia, and leaves Sec, from San Francisco to the 19th ult, via received a letter from the Secretary of for this part to marrow morning, gia Inland the Sanitary Board sent by direction

HE Bear to drink in the tropics is the nicer 'made in the tropice-BAN MIGUEL

Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghat. THE Bear to drink in the tropics is the Beek

made in the tropice-SAN MIQUEL