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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1903.

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ACCORDING to the Echo, the Chinese of Penang are discussing the advisability of forming a Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

THREE Japanese training vessels are expected to arrive in Manila about the middle of the month with a large number of naval cadets aboard. The vessels hy already been to Aus. The rates per quarter and per meurem, proportional.tralia and are now-eu route to Manila, via The daily as is delivered free when the address is Japan. The ships will be received with

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY-11, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

INSPECTOR James Williamson has been ap pointed Inspector of Nuisances at Aberdeen.

TIE Admiralty has reduced the period for men serving on the China Station from five to three years.

LeMunyon will have another grand opening Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date. -Advt.

THE trustee of Aston Villa Football Club, which altogether has provided £20,000 for cha- ritable purposes, have presented to the board of managers of the General Hospital, Birming ham, a cheque for £1,250, mised by subscrip. tions, for the endowment of a fussballers' beck This, it is stated, is the first case of footballers endowing a bed in a hospital.

THE "Church and Stage" combine has another illustration in Penang, where the Rev. Frank W. Haines is stage-managing the preparation of Pinero's comedy "Dandy Dick." The caste is to include Messrs. J. B. Aitken, Harold Cold, James Murray, Harry Neubronner, Orlo Thomas, Robert Withers and Ethelbert Sker- tehly, Mesdames Lisa Anthony, Muriel Barg, hope, Flo Skerichly and Evelyn Thomas,

ANNUAL MEETING.

The fourteenth ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders in the Hongkong Electric Com pany. Limited, was held at the Company's offi.es, No 4, Queen's Buildings at 12.30 this afternoon. There were present Mr. A. G. Wood (Chairman), Hon, Sir C.P. Chater, C.M.G., Hon. C W. Dickson, Mr. G. H. Medhurst (directors), Dr. I. W. Moble, users. T. H. Reid, G. M. Bain, J. T. M. Wheeley, J. R. Michael, R. R. Rob.rts. Q. Baptista, and J. W. A. C. Bonnar (Secretary).

THE USE OF SEARCH LIGHTS, ETC.

IN HONGKONG HARBOUR..

unnecessary for him to do so, yet he did it "off his own bat," so to speak, and is now cam- mencing the study of the Hakka dialect, which is the language almost entirely in vague among the coolies and others who work in the mines is printed in the Gazette of 10th inst, as Mr. Russell acquired all the Chinese ha krows A Government notification, dated 26th ult., of the Native States. So far as we can gather, follows-Officers in, command of foreign-written and conversational-in Kuala Lum ships of war are informed:--

the ports or waters of the Colony is prohibited That the use of search lights when in unless permission has been first obtained. from the Governor by application made through the Colonial Secretary.

2-That it is prohibited to made any ex amination or survey of the shores or waters of The Secretary having read the notice coven- the Colony, either from ships or by means of ing the meeting,

boats.

3-That in the event of their ships arriving within the waters of the Colony after dark, they are to anchor until daylight as near to Green island as possible, or in Junk Bay (Chung Kwang 0).

4. That, except as provided in paragraph 3, no portion of the waters of the Colony, except the man-of-war anchorages, may be used as an anchorage without permission having been first obtained from the Governor by application made through the Colonial Secretary,

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THE POPE'S ILLNESS.

The Chairman said:-The report and accounts have been in your possession for some time so, with your permission, I will take them as read. I am sure that I may congratulate you on the continue 1 good results shewn in the accounts now before you; our nett exrpings amount to the sum of $79,167.41 available for distribution, which enables us to pay a dividend of 9%, or 1% better than we have hitherto achieved and to write off $34,741.11, a larger amount than before, for depreciation of plant and furniture and to carry forward $3,453.00, In making this provision for depreciation we are continuing that policy which has been steadily followed to keep us in a position to '. A Cablenews wire of 7th inst. reports:~Pre meet the rapid but continued changes and im-sident Roosevelt has sent Pope Leo XIII a provements in electrical machinery and appli- cablegram of sympathy. Don't forget the ch ts for they will not go aaces. Our manager, Mr. Wickham, is now

Dispatches from LeMunyou.Advt.

Rome say that the aged pontiff cannot live on leave and during his stay in England and more than a few hours but that the whole world while on his return journey through the United is marvelling at his wonderful hold on life.

to gain information about any improvements is intense curiosity as to the probable successor which are likely to be of advantage to us in the

to Leo XIII, and the newspapers are filled alterations and extensions we may find it desir with portraits and biographies of the landing able to introduce. The use of the current for candidates. They are Cardinals Rampolla, light and power continues to show a steady Oreglia, Serafino and Goiti, The Conclave is growth, being for this year the equivalent of preparing even now for the election of the new upwards of 22020 lamps of 8 candle power Pope. Rome is filled with the prelates, and against 16,303 last year, are lighting remains about the Vatican a great crowd hangs day the same and the lifts operated by our service and night. Messages are being received from

on working accounts has been in about normal proportion with the increase of the company's business, though we have been put to some additional outlay forcoals of a better, that is less smoke making, quality to enable us to comply

pur. The knowledge that he there assimilated therefore seem plain to the most casual obser has more than satisfied the examiner. It would ver that what Mr. J. A. Russell (ast, XX) has been able to accomplish on his own account,— under now existing circumstances, and while earning his living at his profession during the day-night also be accomplished by a Cadel holding aspirations in that direction, especially if he had nothing else to do save to study, and were to be assisted in his studies by a Govern- ment whose object it is to produce Ca ets with a knowledge of Cantonese, even at the cost of sending them to Canton to learn that dialect.

THE NILE OF 1953.

REVIVAL OF THE OLDEST CIVILISATION.

"What will the Nile Valley appear like to years hence ?" is a question which Sir Will am Wilcocks, K.C.M.G., late Director-General of Reservoirs, Egypt, has set himself to anger.

Fifty years hence, says Sir William, the sums spent on irrigation works will have brought in returns greatly in excess of the expenditure laid out on them.

There will be communication by steam along the whole length of the Nile Valley, and by steamboat and by rail it will be possible to

A CHINESE clerk employed at the Post Office, commercial filing has just been made with Re. States he will avail himself of any opportunities He continues at the very point of death. There proceed from Alexandria and Port Said to

has been charged for opening a newspaper, and the case was adjourned until next Friday.

READERS are reminded of the open air concert to be given this evening at the Volunteer Headquarters. The programme will be com- menced at nine o'clock.

THE Manila Times states:-An important

gistrar Barrara, and with it the Sulu Pearling Co, launches itself into business life with a paid up capital of $25,000. This company will operate in the Sulu Archipelago, which is said 10 afford pearling fisheries equal to any in the world. Well known and substantial Manila citizens are at its head. The company mans its own fleet, which will be among the best equipped operating in this part of the Orient. pearl fisheries is, so to speak, unknowa, but they are known to be very rich, and much profit to the industries of the Philippines may be ex pected through the operations of the company.

CAPTAIN A. W. Outerbridge of the Sungkiang As yet the commercial importance of existing have increased from y tort. The expenditure every monarch in the world.

was married by Bishop Brent at Manila on 7th inst., to Mis jessie H. Woodward, a former hospital nurse. The couple will make their home in Hongkong.

MARIA Gonzales, "Queen of Caloocan," has been discharged by Judge Rohde, at Manila, on the charge of "bandolerismo," but the court directs that the accused be arrested and tried

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IN Brazil the "giboia," a kind of boa, is largely kept and sold for the purposes of keeping down the rats and other vermin. They are quite harmless, very beautiful and graceful, and sleep all day, doing their hunting at night.

THE King's exequatur empowering Don Eduardo Nuelle to act as Consul of Peru at Hongkong, has been issued. Mr. Nuelle re- ported his arrival and assumed charge of the Peruvian Consulate on the 30th ultimo,

THE case in which a ricksha coolie was robbed. of $1.20, while wheeling his vehicle along the Shaukiwan Road, was brought before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith this morning, and the accused was committed for intal at the next Criminal

Sessions.

Ar á launch in England recently of a mission vessel, the customary bottle of wine was dispensed with at the christening. Instead, a bottle of oil-indicative of peace and calm was made fast to the bows of the vessel before she left the ways.

nila the following cablegram from Cardinal Papal Delegate Guidi has received in Ma- Kampolla, Secretary of the Pope, and his pro- desperate condition. There has been no-im- bable successor: "The Holy Father is in a provenient. He is able to take nourishment

A WIRE to the Cabimers, dated New York with the requirements of the Public Health without repugnance. The Pope's mind con-

July 7, says Seventy-five people are dead as a result of the bursting of a dam at Oakford

Ordinances. Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts, shall be pleased to

wish to put.

tinues perfectly clear."

Mombassa.

The Nile itself will be greatly altered. Its waters, which to-day are lost in the greatest and most terrible marshes the world has ever seen, will ir verse mighty weirs and dams.

At the Ripon Falls, where the Nile leaves the Victoria Nyanza, there will be a huge dam nearly a quarter of a mile long, while all around will be electric a ations and factories.

portant city-the terminus of three rail enys Fifty years hence Khartoum will be an im- and a line of steamers.

Indeed, if Sir William Wilcocks forecast

country overflowing with milk and honey. Be turns out to be true the Soudan will be a

tween Dongola aud Assouan the date-palm will have much increased. Date cultivation wilf have proved to be so profitable that improved and, among them, varieties to equal the popular golden dates of Algeria.

Park, Pensylvania. Many others were injured answer any questions that shareholders may Guidi received another cable as follows: "The qualities of dates will have been introduced,

by the frightful rush of water when the retaining walls gave way. The terrible accident accurred with hardly any warning, and those in the path of the flood had no time to seck safety. A great deal of valuable property was destroyed, and many residences swept away. The disaster recalls the Johustown flod which drowned many thousands, and which was also caused by the failure of the walls of a reservoir to retain the waters when swollen by heavy rains. The State is rendering aid to the home- less, and collections are being taken up to give those rendered paupers a new start in life.

It is a beauty-Advi Now look out for LeMunyon's new store adv

There being no questions,

The Chairman proposed, and Mr. R. C. Wil cox seconded, that the report and accounts as presented be adopted and passed

Carried.

DIRECTORS.

Mr. T. H. Reid proposed the re-election of Messrs. G. H. Medhurst and A. G. Wood as

directors.

Mr. Wheeley seconded and the motion was carried.

AUDITORS.

THE MYSTERIOUS CATTLE DISEASE.

OUTBREAK IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Later in the evening of the 7th, Monsignor Holy Father is sinking fast, the climax coming faithful are asked," at 11 o'clock last night. The prayers of the

CADETS AND CANTONESE,

The following article from the Siraits Times will probably be of interest to some of our readers:

There will be a Ministry of Agriculture, which will follow in the steps ofthe Agricultural Ministry of the United States.

Through this Ministry the prohibition of tobacco cultivation will have been removed from the Statute-Book, and the Soudan will be one of the recognised producers of high-grade tobacco.

Experimental farms and agricultural banks will be introduced; foods will be prevented by weirs across the Atbara.

The land will be as crowded in winter as Switzerland in summer." Ostriches will be reared by the thousand, and all down the valley from Aussiout to Caire will be cotton and sugar mills.

Cairo itself will be a well-built city with all the architectural resources of modern civilisa. tion except a Bankruptcy Court.

£100 FINE FOR SMUGGLING.

A Customs officer, while on duty in Sydney last month, noticed Ah Say, a sailor, belonging to the steamship Australian go ashore from the

CHINESE persons born in the Philippine chase, and, making a search found that three Sanitary Board, a minute was read from, Mr. would use the same ideograph in writing vessel, which was then in dock, To the officer's

Islands are not required by law to register, but if such persons make application, there is no reason why they should not be given a certifi cate of residence in the same way as any other Chinese person.

REPRESENTATIVES of one of the largest syndicates in the United States have arrived in

Manila and are conferring with the Philippine Transportation Improvement Co.' concerning the advisability of bringing to the island a large amount of capital for various investments.

the

A DESPATCH from Constantinople to -Figure-states that the Sultan has commanded

the Seras Kierat to order two heavy guns in England which are to be used as patterns in the Imperial foundry at Tofane. One gun is to be a six inch quick-firer and the other of larger calibre,

THE Straits Times understands on very reli- able authority that the bids for the Opium and Spirit Farms have, in one instance at any rate, UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. reached a húgue exceeding $5,000,000, per annum, and indeed approaching $500,000, per month. The present holders pay but $263,000 per month. If anybody can afford to offer half a million per month for the same concession it is easy to realise what a delicious financial picnic the present incumbents must have been enjoying for the past year or two.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN, lungkong, 8th July, 1902

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VERY great importance is being attached in the official and diplomatic world to the recall of Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador in. Washington-for that he has been recalled there is little ground for doubt. His Excell- ency's relations with the United States Government have, it is known, been for some time very strained, chiefly because of the unreliability of the assurances and denials regarding China which he has given to the American Government on various occasions. The Manchester Dispatch observes that official folk are now wondering whether he is to be again sent to Pekin.

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SENATOR Dietrich of Nebraska said, in the

At a recent meeting of the. Hongkong

A. Gibson, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, re- porting an outbreak of disease in the Kennedy town cattle depôts. The President then stated the Government had authorised investigation into the disease, and that $1,500 had been voted to begin with. The actual cause of the disease was not known, and to ascertain what it was the Government Bacteriologist and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon were pursuing investiga- tions.

It costs the Government something in the neighbourhood of 55,000 to send a Cadet to Canton for the purpose of his acquiring the Cantonese dialect on the spot, and thus qualify. On the proposition of Mr. J. R. Michael, ing himself for the Chinese Protectorate or any seconded by Mr. G. M. Bain, Messrs. Gershom other department of the Straits Civil Service Stewart and C. W. May were re-elected auditors. wherein a knowledge of some Chinese dialect The Chairman:-That is all the business, is essential. The theory is that Chinese may RAMEES David, book-keeper at the Kowloon gentlemen, I thank you for your attendance. not be acquired outside of China, and that a Hotel, and-Abdul Kareen, ice cream veedor, The dividend warrants will be ready on Mon-practically thorough knowledge of one dialect esiding with him at No. 8, Austin Road, Kow-day morning, and can be had on application at is necessary before the student should attempt loon, related at the Magistracy this morning,

this office.

to learn another. China, as everybody in the that at about 3.30 am. yesterday he heard a

East well knows, is literally speckled with noise in his room, and on getting up saw a

dialects-all of them utterly different so far Chinaman trying to break open his trunk. He

as the actual words whereof they consist immediately rashed at him, but the intruder

are concerned, but all using the same written made for the balcony, and ere long was out in

language. Therefore it comes about that the street. He gave chase, and directed his lod-

whereas one man might use the word "which," ger to report the matter at the station, which he

as a relative pronoun, and another man would did. At 4.30 he returned home after a fruitless

pronounce the word "that," the two men watches, an umbrella, a pair of silk slippers, and

When the Cadet is sent to Canton, he has a he stopped and searched him, with the result eye, Ah Say's outlines looked suspicious, ard a penknife were gone. An hour or two later

doleful time of it as a rule, and his practical that he found four tins of opium concealed in articles in his possession, and was sentenced the thief was caught at Yaumati with the

expatriation for a term of years in his early his trousers. At the Police Court Ah Say manhood occasionally renders him different to by Mr. Kemp this morning to four months'

his confreres when he returns to his own sphere. prosecutor asked the magistrate to infl ct a pleaded guilty to a charge of smuggling. The hard labour,

But then it is necessary that somebody in Go-heavy fine as a deterrent. He said this offence vernment service should be able to unders and of smuggling opium was becoming very the language of the ubiquitous Chinaman; so learn it somebody must. In this town alone, frequent, and was a great injustice to honest we have some 20,000 piggishly ignorant Chi-importers of the article. There were at the into trouble through their lack of knowledge. nese coolies who are always getting themselves present moment three of the crew of that vessel

in prison for offences of the kind. The mag As Colonel Penosfather explained the other

istrate imposed a fine of £100, in default three months' gaol. ment's contract, and it seems similar to that which has been affecting the Government who understands their dialect-the somewhat Police, there is only one available official of cattle in the Kennedytown depots. The Timer Hokien-and when one of them has to ex- says the disease is called variusly cattle plague plain any trouble, he might as well be a or bovine pest and scientifically belongs to the clucking dorking hen for all that any European or native official that he is ever likely to find, seventy five carbiao so far received six have hemorrhagic septicemia group.

Of the

is able to understand aneat his grievance died, one having succumbed within a week of

From this it may well be seen that it is its arrival. The other cattle have been qua. absolutely necessary that certain officials. rantined and are being watched carefully. There should know Chinese. At this point the ques- tracted the disease in China or on board an in- intelligent student, as the fact of his having is some doubt as to whether the cattle con- tion arises, why should the Cadet-a necessarily

to clear up this point orders have been sent to the fected ship while on the way over, and in order passed into the Service attests—why should be.

have to be expatriated in order to pick up government specialist in Shanghai to examins | Cantonese? The answer to this his long been all the cattle there. If the disease is found to that he can learn the dialect in no more con-

of cattle on the govenment contract will be be prevalent there it is probable that shipmest venient locality. This is a statement that can now be refuted by facts. Some six weeks ago," stopped and a cattle quarantine established Mr. J. A. Russell-a son of Mr. John Russell, against Shanghai and Hongkong, where a dis- the well known Director of the F. M. S. ease supposed to be the same has been found Government Press at Kuala Lumpur-present THE MANILA-HONGKONG RUN. among the cattle. So far all the animals «d himself before, Mr. Hare, the Secretary for afflicted have died and the statistics of the Chine e Affairs for the F. M. S. and the mest Another big cut in first class passage. mates disease show a mortality of 100% in Minnesota | eminent sinologue in the country, to under3.m., 11 inst., and is due hers Monday noon,

Senate in February last, "Both the great 10 bacco and sugar estates of the Philippines have been so conducted that the great mass of labourers on them never saw any money from 30th ult, that a disease new to the Philippines We now learn from the Manila Times, of one year's end to the other. The pittance has broken out among the caribao which have which they received for their labour was given been shipped from Shanghai under the govern- day, in his Report as Inspector General of

in goods from the company's stores. In fact they were always kept in debt and thus held in semi-slavery." Hence the past and present unrest. Weekly cash pay rolls are a quietus. The senator further said: "Now that we have possessions that can produce all of this coffee, rubber, copra, cocoa, dye woods, spices and other tropical products, I am in favour of placing a protective tarif on them against the rest of the world. We should do what is best for our own people and the people of the Phil- ippine Islands, for they are our own people. The Philippine Islands are ours; why not develop them instead of paying out millions yearly to develop foreign countries?"

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has been made, says the Manila Times of 29th ult. Messrs Smith, Bell and Co. announce that on and after July, ist they will carry passengers to Hongkong by their favourite steamers Sung- kiang and Wuckang at the law rate of $20 Mexican, and $35 for the round trip ticket.

It is the intention of the management to run the steamers on regular schedule, and there will be sailings from Manila and from Hoog- kong every Wednesday at 4 p.m.

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in 1901, and from 80 to 90 per cent in 102, Several animals inoculated with the disease at the government Laboratories died of it within twenty-four bous. The discovery of disease among cattle imported from Hongkong and the prevalence of such diseases as and rinderpest among the cattle of the other countries of the Orient from which cattle are exported to the Philippines emphasizes the need of a quaranthie station for cattle at this port

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the "eer

the regular examination for qualifying Cadets in Cantoness. Mr. Russell, who is not a Cadet, and is not yet twenty-one, succeeded in passing the written examination "with credit" and the oral examination "with great credit-the exami nation having lasted a week. Now, Mr. Russell has never been East of the Peninsula, and is withal the youngest man--the first youth, one might say who has passed the examination requisite to qualify Cuders in Chinese, It was

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THE PLAGUE.

Four additional cases of plague were report- ed during the twenty four hours ended at noon to-day. tatally. The number of cases since the be- They were all Chinese and ended ginning of the year is 1,332,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE

American (America Maru) to-morrow. French (Purra) 14th inst. Indian (Kumsang) 14th inst American (Korea) 16th inst. Canadian (Alkenian) zoth inst, Australian (7sinan) 21st just. Canadian (Empress of China) 27th inst. The E. & N. 5.8. Empire left Sydney on th ins, for this port via Queensland Ports.

The C. & M. Co.'s 5.5. Rubi left Manila

Singapore on gth inst. for this port and is ex- pected here on or about 15th inst.

The Shire Line 3.5. Merionethshire Jeft

The C. N. Co.'s 9.85. Tsinan from Australi n Ports left Pert Darwin to-day, for this port via Manila and is expected to arrive on 21st inst.

The N. YK 3.5. Awa Maru (European Line) left Singapore for this port on gth inst.," at 9 pm, and is expected to arrive here on 14th inst.

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