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FOR THE SUMMER.

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Ordinary lesiness communications should be addroved

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SUBORDINATE OFFICIALS AND EXCHANGE COMPENSATION.

In several respects last week might be considered as one of disappointments to the Colony generally. The reply from the Secretary of State to the Naval Dockyard Removal petition aroused considerable feel. ing of surprise and in certain quarters almost indignation, To yet another section of the community an unpleasant piece of informe- tion was reserved to be communicated to

alditional 31.80 per quarter la charge! for stage. them towards the week's end. The reception The postage the weekly issue to any part of the

world is 30 erat per quarter.

accorded their memorials to the Right Single Coples Daily, ten cetits: Weekly, twenty-Honourable Mr. Joseph Chamberlain for

Byr Cente

BIRTHS.

On board the Spanish monil steamer Isla de Luton, on 29th May off Socoira, the wife of JUAN MENCARINI, M. Customs of a son, AT FONSO,

On the 12 July, at No. 9, Pedder's Hill the wife of L KIN, of a son.

[8250 On the 14th July, at No. 30, Haskell Road, Shanghai, the wife of C. J. WHITE, of a daughter.

DEATH,

At the Peak Hospital, on the 9th July, C. F. E MANICUS, of Amoy. Age 43 years. [833e

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some measure of relief they sought to obtain by reason of the silver exchange question, which no impartial judge will deny affects to a considerable degree all wage-earners in the Colony, was a denial which is not con- clusive in the arg ment therefor. The petitions from the subordinate officers of the Civil Service have been published in the columns of the Telegraph, and the comments which they elicited from this journal were those of an unbiassed wind. We wished to see justice done to the lower branches of the Government service, and we did not

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

occurred in the Colony during the week just A FATAL case of cholera is notified as having ended.

LeMunyon will have another grand opening Dayanda Souvenir day as well; watch the date. -Advi

THE necessity for stricter regulations for motorists is becoming pressing in Shanghai as at home, says the Cvinu Gazette.

WHILE bathing in the harbour yesterday, a native lad was drowned. recovered alongside the Canton Macao wife

The body was

THE Provincial Treasurer of Kwangtung, Ting Ti-chang, has been appointed Acting Governor of Kwangsi, pending the arrival of Ko Feng shih.

THE America Maru which left San Francisco

on tih ult, with a fuil cargo of freight and treasure valued at nearly $500,000 arrived this afternoon.

YESTERDAY forenoon, a native committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of a house at Connaught Road, west. picked up alive, but died at the Tung “ah

The Hongkong Celegraph hesitate to express, and now to reiterate, Hospital.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1903,

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

COMMISSION.

our opinion that no one branch of the Ser vice should have been excluded from parti cipation in the liberal Exchange Compensa tion Scheme granted by the Legislative Council. That scheme, be it noted, las Some months back Great Britain virtually been placed on a footing of a double grant refused to entertain a proposition made by for those of the "charmed circle" who, of the United States that the leading commer

course, are to be ranked among the govern. cial nations should take under considerationing officials who invariably control the purse the propriety and possibility of assisting the strings of the Colony with an unseemly silver-using countries to put their monetary parsimony when the "little fry" are con affairs on a more satisfactory basis, declaring cerned. The curious position is that, as in effect that the matter was one to be set. taxpayers, the subordinate officials contri- tled by the countnes concerned in their own but their quote to the ennancement of the way. Following the visit of the American salaries of their brother officials to this in- Commissioners to London about the middle ordinate degree. The sum and substance of the decision from the Secretary of State to May last, it will be of interest to learn thal Sir James Mackay, Sir Ewen Cameron, the petitioners represented, as it might have

He was

We are informed that, owing to recent outrages on the Shaukiwan Road, rickshaw coolies will not proceed beyond Bay View Hotel after sun. set. To avoid this inconvenience the number of police along that 'road might be increased.

THE general average statement of the s.s. Pekin, consequent on the fire which occurred at Kobe on the 5th and 6th April, is being pre: pared at Yokohama by Mr. H. P. Wadman, of the China Trad rs insurance Co., Ld.

A NATIVE and his wife were this morning charged at the Magistracy with entering a poultry-dealer's house at San-shui-pa, on the sth instant and scaling $85 and clothing. Mr. Hewis appeared for the defence, and after leg the evidence Mr Kemp dismissed the

case,

Hongkong Hotel during the past year, and the Directors have now decided to instai electric fight throughout the buildings. Residents desirous of having the use of elechic fans in their roams will be enabled to do so at a small

cost.

THE men have been arrested at Osaka in connection with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank note forgeries.

"THE Japanese Invasion of Korea," by George Lynch, is the title of a very readable article printed on the third page.

THE negotiations of a new German-Russian commercial treaty have been opened by the presentation of the wishes of both Powers.

THE Asahi's Tientsin correspondent wires:- a Custom House similar to that existing at Kiaeshow will be established at Weihaiwci.

THE Norwegian steamer Len is reported bad. ly ashore about five miles below Kiu-kiang. She is said to have only Chinese pilots on

board.

A STRONG protest is being made in Japan againt the American coasting law which ex- cludes all but American vessels from the trade between San Francisco and flonolulu and the Philippines.

REPORTS are coming in regarding the recent storm. A number of junks and sailing vessels were wrecked at Kebe and at other points along the Japanese const; the wind was more than usually violent.

We shall have a Souvenir Day, soon but you will Lave to pay us a personal visit as no chits' will go. LeMunyon.—Adul,

THE Nichi Nichi says that the Russian Naval Office has decided to despatch the following additional warships to the Far East-the tur ret-ship Oslabeya, 17,674 tons, the battleship Alexandey III (Imperator), 13,600 tons, the battleship Cemrevitch, 13,11o tons, the cruiser Aurora, 6,630 tons, and the cruiser Almar 2,385 tons.

A NUMBER of Chinese miners operating under the name of the Jim Que Company on the site of an abandoned Trinity county town known as

Canyon City, U.S.A., dug up a cigar box to-day which contained $5,000 in gold. Among the gold pieces were seventeen $50 slugs. Thirty- two years ago Canyon City was a thriving min- ing town. Jacob Killenger lived there. He was killed by a cave in a mine. He was be- lieved to have considerable, money, but the adininistrator of his estate could not find it, The Chinese company is now mining away the ground on which the town stood and is believed to have discovered the buried treasure of the dead man.

The following item of news from the M.C.D. W. will doubtless interest some of our readers: -At the time of the capture of Manila by Admiral Dewey in the Spanish American War, A MOJI despatch says that there was an ac the famus Manila State lotteries came to an cumulation of 124,449 tons lump, 153,222 tons end. There were many in Shanghai who held mixed, and 73,357 tons dust coal there on the tickets for the last lottery and who sub. Ist inst. The stack of coal represents a desequently tore them up, thinking they would crease of 56,339 tons on that of June 1st last. be valueless. Any who preserved their tickets will, however, be interested in a cutting from MESSRS. Dodwell & Co, kindly inform us that

a German contemporary which says In the the captain of the British steamer Balmoral Madrid State Times of the 12th May an order resorts: "On Thursday, July 2nd, 1903, in is published, wherein the Spanish Government, Lat. o. 188, Long, 140. 52 E. spoke American not desiring to profit from the former Manila ship on of New York at noon.

Numbers lottery, although they have not held Manila, will redeem the tickets distributed for the

J.V.F.H."

A GERMAN wire of Sth inst says:-The English Press publishes alarming reports concerning the Far East from St. Petersburg. These stale that the Legation Guards at Peking are being strengthened. No official confirmation of these reports has been received at Berlin.

THE Universal Gazette is informed that the

have engaged a French and an Italian engineer at a salary of a thousand dollars per month each to prospect on their behalf the mining regions in Chuchow, Yenchow, Wenchow and Taichow.

ANNOUNCEMENT was recently made at Los

Stale drawing of 13th May, 1898. The tickets from the day rft e publication of the notice, must be sent in within a space of four months

that is, before the 13th September.

The

General Directer of the Public Debt in Madrid

has to test the genuineness of the tickets.

Four flous freshly painted and linted and in first class condition to rent. Inquire at E.

P. O. Box 368-Adul

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

The following are the naval promotions gazetted on the 30th June as telegraphed to

Messrs. Robert Chalmers, W. Blain, and been expected from the want of local official MANY improvements have been inade at the Directors of the Chekiang Bureau of Mines LeMunyon, New Store, 31, Des Voeux Road, George W. Johnson have been appointed as sympathy manifested towards it, the exact England's members of what is termed the In. view conveyed in the despatch transmit ternational Exchange Commission. The firstting the memorials. The decision ex- A. S. WATSON & CO., known as the negotiator of the British-China Lyped "regret at being unable to grant of these gentlemen, Sir James MacKay, is well-pressed the Secretary of State's 'stereo-

Commercial Treaty, while Sir Ewen Cameron, relief by way of exchange compensation, MR. J. M. Leck, superintendent of the Joint Angelos that with the complètion of the inner Vice Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, commanding

any general increase of salaries or any as the London manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, needs the ground that sufficient reason has not no introduction to the commercial com-

been shown for such on the part of the munity of Hongkong, he being closely

petitioners. What greater ignorance of the connected with the interest of the Colony can be imagined then this intentional prevailing conditions of the Colony that is bound up in the leading finan-blinking of the hardships which fall is now at the position of the break, so early THE foreign trade of Japan for the first half of Leveson, and Henry F. Oliver.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY..

ESTABLISHED A.D.. 1841.

TELEPHONE NO. 250. CABLE ADDRESS: ACHEE," HONGKUNG." 4. B. C. CODE, ATI EDITION.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

cial institution in the East. Mr. Chal- mers is principal clerk at the Treasury, and the two other members are known

to as in their connection with the recent

10 the lot of

most wage-carners in Hongkong, by reason of the excessive cost of living here complained of by all Commission that dealt with the Straits Set consistency of the reasoning which dictates classes alike? It is hard to imagine the tlements currency difficulties. The com-

in one, case the enhancement of remunera- position of the Commission is one against tion by means of double exchange compen which no exception need reasonably be taken,sation while in another no grant of com- seeing that it consists of the advocates for-

pensation at all. We have shown but a few both reform and the present status quo,

Telegraph Companies, informs us that owing to the interrup ion of one of the cables to Singa- pore, some extra delay is to be expected on

America, via Eastern. The repairing steamer India and beyond, and with Europe and telegrams exchanged with the Straits, Java,

restoration is expected.

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

THE ominous red cone, swinging point down Saturday and Sunday, denoted a typhoon to wards from the yard arm of the Tamar on

the south of the Colony, with iis centre more than 300 miles away. Junks, sampans, slipper statements boats and almost every conceivable sort of

harbour at San Pedro, that part would be made a port of call by the Dollar Steamship. Cols steamers and that a regular service would be and the Orient. maintained between San Francisco, San Pedro

this year resulted in an excess of imports of merchandise over exports of over foiy million yen, and an excess of imports of treasure of over eighteen millions. This latter excess is due partly to the receipts from the sale abroad of Government bonds, and partly to the large disbursements made by visitors to the Osaka exhibition.

on the China station..

To be Captains:-Commanders Claud A. W. Hamilton (commanding H.M.S. Rotaio). John B. Eustace, William C. Fakenham, William H. Baker-Baker. Cresswell J. Eyres, Francis S. Miller, Frans G. Eyre, Arthur C.

To be Commanders-Lieutenants Stewart - Eyelyn Forster, Ernest C, Hardy (commanding H.M.S. Waterwitch on surveying service in China). Adrain G. Allgood. Charles B. Miller (1 M.S. Talbot). Percy W. Rimington. Craw- ford Mrclachlan, William D. Church. Aired C. Sykes. Alexander P, Davidson. John Luce, Thomas L. Shelford (Senior Lieutenant H. M. flagship Glory). John D. Edwards (Gunnery Lieutenant H. M. flagship Glory.) Raymond A. Nugent, Henry A. Adams, Francis W. Caulfeild, Edward L. Booty, Eus-

Henderson, Reginald F. Parker, Wilmot S tace La T. Leatham, George H. Baird, Willrid

Wilkinson, Thomas P. Bonham, Anbiey Clure

Ferry-Ayscough, Ernest S. Carey, Murray F. Sueter, George B. Powell (formerly command- AM attempt will be made on Friday to floating H.M.S. Kinshu on the Upper Yangtze).

CO., The Commision, which is said to bus in large days ago, from the financial state, four native crali sought stelter in one promiscuous steam Navigation Company, al shanghai for

A CHEE &

CO.,

利

廣

part due to the desire of China to find a way hundred thousand dollars was disbursed by crowd in Causeway Bay, and remained there

insistence of certain of the Powers that

out of the difficulties created for her by the the Treasury during last year for the double until this morning, when the warning signal exchange grants. On the basis of the the payment of the war indemnity be average monthly rate of sterling ruling, The San Francisco Board of Health has other ports have been ordered to fly their fang Hugh Smith, Arthur C. Smith, Stewart A.

of

17A, QUEEN'S ROAD.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

FURNITURE.

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

was removed.

THE Sin Wan Fao states that Thotai Yen Tse- mai, business manager of the China Merchan s Steam Navigation Company at Shanghai for

died suddenly on the 5th instant. The different ting his health in his native district since April,

steamers, godowns and branch offices at the

at half mast in memory of his death.

To be Lieutenants :--Sub-Lieutenants Sie- wart D. Blaia (H. M. fagship Glory). Colin E. M. Law, John A. S. Blackwood, Frederick L. M. Boothby (II.M.S. Bramble), Robert G.

adopted a resolution providing that "no cellar or other apartment below the level of the street throughout the Chinese district shall be used as lodgings, living apartments or places of directed the Health Officer to enforce the re- manufacture and production." It has also solution and to obtain the passage of the neces sary legislation to make the regulation most afloat. though it is doubtful if she will be worth Davenport (H.M.S. Amphitrite). Henry Leigh effective in its operation."

the American schooner Carrier Dove which went ashore at Tsung-ming Island. The bottom of the vessel is torn out but the lumber with which she is laden will keep the craft

since the accident. A court of inquiry will, it is believed, shortly be held-Mercury.

repairing. The vessel was built in 1890 at DURING last year the Fort Health Officer, register. A lot of the caro has been looted Port Blakesley, Washington, and is 639 tons

Shanghai, examined 422 vessels, crews and pas-by the Chinese who have been hovering about sengers from Hongkong, 45 from Canton, 95 from different ports. Nineteen men-of-war and from Swatow, 76 from Amoy and many others transports and hospital ships were presented for inspection. The number of vessels qua- rantined was 2.4 per cent of the total number

¡H.M.S. Argomtut),—N, C. D. Neurs.

THE PLAGUE.

one from Tsimshatsui, and the other fron Honghom. The total number of cases since

on a gold basis, will deliberate a fort- night in London with the American and continue to receive salaries nearly ninety per officers granted the privilege have been and FURNITURE other delegates and then proceed to

cent of their respective salaries provided in Paris. The San Francisco Chronicle, from the Estimates. Monstrous "hardly qualifies DEALERS.. which we call our information, says it is the prerogative which is enjoyed by the stated that one of its important duties will one class to the disqualification of the other, be to discuss the possibility of harmonizing We have quoted in a previous article the the policy of the Straits Seulements with opinions of Mr. Huttenbach of the Straits that of the local currency of the United Settlements on the effect the depreciation of States in the Philippines and that of Mexico. the dollar has on the wage-earning class in The result of the conference will be looked silver-using countries. That effect cannot for with considerable interest. It has been work otherwise than to reduce the social and

The return giving the number of cases of predicted by extreme gold monometallists physical standards of the individual members

plague notified as having accurred in the Colony that the attempt to regulate exchanges will of that class unless the wherewithal to main

during the week ended at noon on Saturday prove abortive, and they point to the alleged tain the standard of efficiency is obtained.

pilots who follow their calling between Woo figures for the preceding seven days, 33 cay es A NUMBER of the well-known and qualified shows a slight increase compared with the WHITE TURKISH TOWELS breakdown of the Latin Union, which aimed Mr. Huitenbach is no mere theorist; but

sung and Hankow have formed themselves with 29 deaths being recorded as against 25 and at a similar result, to support their views. speaks as an authority on the subject, his inspected. Detention varied from five hours into an association in order to better serve the 18 respectively. During the two days ended at But, according to our San Francisco content- puray, they overlook the fact that the with practical experience and a perfect knowledge | being 391 hours.

views and his deductions being-hased-on | 10 1.7) days (Bulluuras),-the-average-detention--intcrcsis-of-owners-and-the-shipping-trade-on to ay two Chinese cases were-notified, drawal of the support of several nations xactically on a bimetallic basis was respon speaks. To cite a still greater authority in WEHALWEI has been a British possession for sible for the failure of the Union and not relation to this Colony, we need only allude development, a hindrance to would-be visitars, that suddenly form, and the many variations of

some four years; and a great drawback to its PHOTOGRAPHIC any inherent defect in the plan; and they to Sir Thomas Jackson. In his evidence and a source of general inconvenience to resi:

DEPARTMENT.

also ignore the essential difference between before the Straits Currency Commission, dets has been the want of regular and suit the proposed method of regulation by in answer to the Chairman's questionable means of communication with the outside limitation of output and the free coin- "You recognise that the fall in silver, world. By arrangement with Messrs. Butter- UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS. age arrangement which prevailed when the fall in the value of silver as com field and Swire we now have steamers calling

France, Belgium and Italy were in agree-pared to gold, has been

1 very regularly in their trips northward and south- tallists are doubtful about thic success of any "I do, and I feel it, that is much more."

D. N correspondent, $1.000.co, per month. experiment which may be made which does Asked whether he thought that prices and foreign mail must be forwarded within 48 hours One important clause in the contract is that the not provide for the free cuinage of the two wages do not get adjusted to the new rate of of its arrival at Shanghai. metals on a fixed ratio: They claim that exchange in time, bis reply was: "No, not the break-up of the Latin Union was due to quite; to a certain extent they have, but not MANY people had been looking forward to the abandonment of free, coinage by the quite." Contrast the unprejudiced opinion spending a pleasant evening at the Volunteer United States, and they feel assured that of pb eminent an authority with that of Parade Ground on Saturday, and although the any attempt to maintain a ratio without the higher officers of the Government, te

weather was very threatening during the after- noon hopes were held out that min would pot

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

GOOD WORK.

(728d

PROMPT RETURN.

1ugkong, 8th July, 1902.

CARMICHAEL AND

CLARKE,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS,

SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHAEL," Hongkong,

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

A. I Code.

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 232.

Hongkong, zoth March, 1903.

TH

made in the tropics-SAŇ MIGUEL

[3550

ment.

of the condition of the country of which he

It may be said also that many bine- serious matter ?" Sir Thomas replied ward. The subsidy is, according to a N. C

sult in providing an expensive currency gift of intuition than a pretended show of hour the wind rose and rain fell in torrents.

generally, as well as to preserve their own;; and to provide a regular steam pilotage service between the two pois. The ever shifting channels of the Yangtze, the numerous banks

the current, make it imperative that only men who are absolutely qualified should be allowed to navigate steamiers up and down this treacher Yangize Filuts' Association."—Mercury. ous river. The association is called "The

As the Yuentang was going to her buoy this mo nine, the usual rash of sampans, touting for native boarding houses, followed in her wake, and at length go: alongside. Boat-hooks were soon out and, fastened on to the railing of the steamer, enabled occupants of sampans to climb aboard. During these operations one of the boat-hooks slipped and the unfortunate man scrambling up fell into the water. Those aboard a couple of launches made an effort to save him, and got so far as to

clothing pore and the man sunk and was

outing was stopped, as apart from accidents to

January 1st is 1,334 with 1,177 deaths.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE

French (Yarra) to-morrow. Indian (Kumsang) to-morrow. American (Korea) 16th inst. Canadian (Athenian) 20th inst. Australian (Tainan) 21st inst, German (Sachsen) 23rd inst Canadian (Empress of China) 27th inst. American (Hongkong Maru) 4th prox.

The Imperial German Mail s.s. Prins Hin rich arrived at Shanghai on rith inst., at 11 a.m. .. The P. M. S. 5. Co.'s 5.5. America Maru with mails, &c, ich Manila for this port on 17th inst,

at 5 p.m.

The P. & A. ss. Indrapura left Portland, Oregon for this port via Japan Ports on. 10:

The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s 5.s. Bengallest Singa- The Outward English Mails, and is due here on 17th inst., at about 6 a.m.

the privilege of free coinage will merely re- whom we are prepared to grant the higher interfere with the function. During dinner. I get hold of his coat with a boat-hook, but the inst, and may be expected here on 10 prox which might as well be of paper, if it ignorance which led to their advice to completely spoiling the pretty decorations drowned. It is time this dangerous system of Fare for this port on 12th inst, ar Fla.m, with

is to be made redeemable in gold, as of the Downing Street. Truly, none are so blind which had been effected on the ground at more costly counters, of silver,-whose-true-as those who do not wish to see! value will fluctuate with the fluctuations of the price of silver. Under the circumstances, when the docters on both sides say that the medicine will not cure, the result of the con- ference will be looked for with curiosity.

THE Honolulu Legislature has appropriated Syca for die purpose of inducing Dr. Gate of Japan to go to Hawaii and personally give his treatment for leprosy to lepers at Molokai.

THE Beer to drink in ho tropics is the Beer

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

made in the ropics--SAN MIGUEL.

Head-quarters. At half past nine the sky' cleared, and a few of the more venturesome went to the Parade ground where Major Chap- man and officers of the corps entertained them. We understand that the concert will probably take place next week,

T

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

the sampan people, officers of steamers are con- s der..bly annoyed by their presence; for, as we saw recently, one incoming ship lost an anchor

"and" several iter of chain.

Don't forget the chits for they will not go. TeMunyon. Advt..

The Beer to drink in the SAN MIGUEL

made in the tropice-SAN

The P.M. S. S. Co.'s s.s. Hongkong Marg with mails, &c., left San Francisco for this part Honolulu, Yokohamis, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai on 7th insi

The Imperial German Mailas. Sachsen carry ing the German Mails with dates from Bertin of the 23rd ins, left Colomba on 11th ins, af It am, and may be expected here on 23rd inst.

TE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beet mada in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,