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Intimations.

WATSON'S

HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES FOR THE SUMMER.

PRICKLY

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one of our most popular prepations, which has stond the test of fifty years. Cools the skin and removes

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RINGWORM REMEDY

(TONG PANG CHONG)

an absolute specific for Ringworm and

Dhobi Itch.

HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA

Try it in your bath and you will feel all the better for it. For cleansing silver. ́ware, jewellery, and clothing, it is

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 1903.

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BIRTHS.

On the 24th June, the wife of the Reverend E. THOMPSON, C. M. S., Taichow, of a daughter (Olive Marjory),

the 31st July, at 19, Quinsan Road, Hong. kew, Shanghai, he wife of the Rev. J. W. CLINE, of a daughter.

DEATHS.

On the 7th July, at Pakhoi, HENRY ARCHI BALD MCINNES, Harbour Master and Tide surveyor, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service aged 61 years.

At the General Hospital, Shanghai, WALTER PAULINI, aged, 25 years.

At Nagasaki, Japan, an 23rd July, DAVID MCMURRAY, late Chief Engineer Indo-China 5.N. Cr's 9.5. F-sang, aged 46 years.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, Wednesday, August 5, 1993.

CONVICT PRISON ON STONE

CUTTER'S ISLAND,

The proposal to establish a convict prison on Stonecutter's Island is once again revived. At the meeting of the Legislative Coune! last week, the Director of Public Works laid on the table the report of the Public Works Committee before whom plans were laid for the establishment of a convict prison on Stonecutter's Bland. The schenie is capa ble of being expanded so as to provide uli niately for the removal of the entire gaol to that place so far as such removal was deemed practicable. The project reverts to the original plan contemplated by section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1863 by which the A. S. WATSON & CO., Governor was authorized to set apart all or pan of Stoneculter's Island for a gaol. There was then the necessity of providing more prison accommodation on account of the congested state of Victoria Gaol. Finan- cial considerations, however, subsequently induced the abandonment of the newly-built gaol on Stonecutter's, and under the vigorous administration of Sir Richard Macdonnell, whose energy and severity as a disciplinarian we deny, 20 pusunters were brougat under a uniformly rigorous system of discipline in ❘ Victoria Ciaol. As the population of the Colony increased, it was found year by year that the accommodation in the local prisons fell far short of the needs of Hongkong in this respect. The annual reports of the Superintendent of the Gaol represented the

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state of overcrowding as such that further expansion of the prison accommodation be- came a matter of imperative importance. in 1891 the subject again assumed the phase of acute discussion between the Colonial 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD.

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one time was apprehended by Mr. T. H. Whitehead would undoubtedly have brought about "a constitutional crisis" had a com- plete, economical and satisfactory solution of the differences between the Government and the inhabitants failed of realization. In that year the Secretary of State issued instructions that a new gaol was to be created, and the Committee that had been appointed and had gone very carefully into the matter reduced the sites for the gaol to two-the Bonham Road or Causeway Bay. In dis cussing the Appropriation Bill for 1891, the chairman of the Finance Committee intro- duced a vote of $10,000 for the new gaol and stated that none of that money would be spent until properly detailed plans and estimates were made and submitted to the Public Works Committee. Considerable HOTOGRAPHIC discussion arose in connection with the vote. DEPARTMENT.

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other two being the then Surveyor General | Ur to the 25th ult, 4,009,502 people had visited and the Superintendent of the Grol. The the Osaka exhibition since the beginning of report was formulated upon the basis of (a) the year. an enlargement of the axisting prison area; (b) additions to the prison buildings; (c) additional space for exercise and for working of prisoners; and (d) the provision of sepa-", rate cells for the total number of male pri

Sanford's library paste, the best on earth. Never spoils or gets dry. LeMunyon's, 31, Des Vaux Road-Advi

THE French Press demands from the future [Tue Malay Mall says that there is consider!" Pope that he will confirm and enlarge the able trepidation amongst in miners at the French protectorate over the -Catholics in the rapid and contmunus fall in price of tin. If this Near and Far East.

decline continues, the outlook, will, in many cases, be serious. (This also to a considerable ill. extent is due to the gradual recovery of the exchange value of the dollar.)

The town of Tombstone, Arizona, has been devastated by a tomado. lundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of property has been

AN American cable of 1st inst. reports that the

Tokio dispatch to the Osaka Asahi says destroyed and many persons killed and maimed soners belonging to thecriminal class. With that the British fleet in these waters is to be during the storm. The usual relief measures salmon trust is insolvent. The affails.of.the

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brought up to an equality with the Russian.

A JOINT confien e of Manchester Cotton employers, and textile, workers sepresenting the whole cotton trade have resolved to oppose to the utmost the proposed taxation of food and raw materials.

THE cause of the death of Mr. David Jackson, manager of the llongkong and Shanghai Bank, Yekohama, was an aneurism of the north, Though death was sudden, Mr. Jackson had been ill or a fortnight.

DURING the debate in the House of Lords, on

a desire not to force upon the Colony a scheme for a new and expensive prison, Lord Knutsford accepted the project for extension instead of an entirely new prison to be built, block y bluck, on a site different from that of thic present prison. At the same time the Secretary of State was not altered in his opinion that "the only fully satisfactory solution of the question would be the construction in a thoroughly open site of a new cellular prison." His Lordship considered that the alternative scheme would Hot meet the requirements of the case, for the proposals would involve the further over- crowding of a space already glaringly over- crowded; and in this and other respects they might be regarded as creating evils not then existing, As regards the "separate THE Osaka branch of the Nippon Yusen system "it may be useful to recall the words Kaisha has obtained a contract from the Osaka of the late Hon. Phineas Ryrie who, twemy.rary Arsenal authorities for the transport of. five years ago, in concluding a speech, sub-heavy guns and accessories for the forts at mitted that while all believed the population would increase, when we get the separate system the ratio of the increase of crime to the population would be a ratio of decrease as compared with the increase of population. With this view, the opinions of the Chinese

19th uit, numerous references were made to the possibilities of an invasion of the Indian frontier and hence the necessity for an increase

in the power of defence.

Keelung and the Pescadores,

MESSRS. Armstrong & Co. and several other foreign shipbuilding yards, says the Japanese press, have been requested by the Japanese Governmem to send in their estinuates for the construction of a battleship of 16,0:0 tons.

is difficult, but there are no floods. The steamers which arrived at Shanghai from River

ports on 28th all report, however, that the water is beginning to fall slightly in spite of the heavy rains.

are in force.

DR. Dominador Gomez Jesus has been sen tenced at Manila, to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court. The sentence was in posed for violation of the order of the Court of First Instance by the publication of the Let Obreros in defiance of the court.

A PAINTER and a stone cutter had a fight near the Jubilee Hospital last week, and when Mr. Luppatt, the averseer, went to separate them ihe painter cut his band and chest. This morning he was sentenced to three months' hard labour, the first last weeks of the term being in solitary confinement,

RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending 2nd August,

1903:--

Library Museum Noa-Chinese.................................... 201

46 Chinese............. .... 55 1,450

Total....... 256 1,496

HONGKONG'S troubles are to be increased next month by the addition of a new daily news- paper with the voluminous tile of The Morn. ing Post of South China. A journalist from Japan is to be the editor. We sympathise

bad as Shanghai in this respect.-Chian

Gazelle.

THE Sin Wan Pao states that in compliance with the request of Viceroy Tsen of Liang- kuang for contribution of arms and ammunition, acting Viceroy Tua Fang" of Hupeh has consented to send to Kwangs two thousand Mauser rifles and one million bullets. These will be taken direct to the south by the 3. Taishun,

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who claim to have a better knowledge THE Yangtze is still very, full and navigation deeply with Hongkong. It will soon be as of Chinese criminals do not quile accord, They regard the measure as one tending to increase the number of prisoners. In the memorial above referred to and dated the 6th January, 1893, among the reasons for their strong opposition to the gaol extension, they stated they differed from the view of those THE Commissioner of Police for London has intimated that in consequence of complaints received of abstraction to traffic, caused by who allege that the separate system will act as a deterrent to Chinese prisoners. They recent pedestrian competitions he will be com proceeded to assert that "we have no hesita-pelled to instruct his men to take proceedings tion in saying that such an opinion must be formed through ignorance of the habits of the Chinese criminals who will be in no way deterred by having to live in separate cells." Needless to say, Lord Knutsford did not uphold this view, mainly because, while objecting to the evils inherent to the association system, it is believed that the cellular system is the only practicable basis of a deterrent prison discipline.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

RABHI As won the Gondwond Stakes.

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to stop the nuisance.

BONDS 10 the extent of Y195,000 stoles from the Japan Treasury Department have found their way into five banks and one company as security for loans, while owing to the vagueness of the information published by the Treasury, bonds to the extent of nearly Y2,000,000 are tainted with suspicion.

THE escaped convicts from Shanghai are still at large, and every day diminishes the chances of their being caught. The N. C. D. News says it is probable that they have got on board same ship or other and left the port. If any. thing would drive them out of concealment the

1.M.5. Albiers, arrived from Weihaiwei yes-dune so. terday.

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THE English Vail of the 4th July was de- Ha ifax from Bermuda, in June, over fifty SINCE the British warships arrived at ivered in London on the 3rd inst.

THE British and Chinese Governments ratified the Sheng-Max kay Treaty on 28th ult.

desertions have occurred from his Majesty's Goldfinch. A few men have been captured ships Ariadne, Retribution, Tribunt, and

by the police in Halifax and the pro- Munyon has rubber stamp dalers, the best vince, and occasionally men have returned voluntarily. There is a scarcity of seamen for merchant vessels there,

kind. Advt.

TO-DAY's plague retura shows a slight increase in the statistics, five fatal cases having been reported, Four of the bodies had been dumped.

Orders by mail promptly attended to when sent to Le Munyon, P. O. B. 368—Advt.

WHILE getting on the gangway of the 5.5.

Indravelli, at Shanghai, the other afternoon

D. V. Sloan, the fourth engineer, stipped between a sampan and the side of the vessel and was drowned. An inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict of death by drown ing but that how it came about there was no evidence to show.

Ne s of a serious disturbance at Yangchow, the big silk town south west of Scochow, has been received at Shanghai but no particulars are given beyond the fact that three or four steam launches have been destroyed by the rioters Order is now said to have been what rowdy place."

THE Wai Wu-pw has received a telegraphic memorial from the Southern parts signed by several tens of thousands of Chinese asking

ing of the Empire by abolishing the regency the Emperor to personally assume the govern.

of the Empress-Dowager. But the

up burnt the message and did not send it

on to the Throne.

THE Echo de Chine says that the Daily Mail announces, with all reserve, that Japan is making great preparation in view of the

big corporation are in a mess. It is probable that the result will be the throwing on the market of a large quantity of canned salmon, at a rather low figure, though the big packers outside of the tray will try hold up prices.

On 27 ult. Chefoo was visited by a myst severe rain storm and the place was flooded, many natives being drowned, and thousands rendered homeless. The streets were covered to a depth of several feet, and the small creak which flows within the native seulement hecaine a wild torrent almost a mile in width. All business is at a standstill, and several foreign business houses have lost heavily,

The Keinu Cristina, one of Dewey's victima

being rapidly dismantled. She has ten boilers at Cavite, and which was raised recently, is

in first class condition. Her engines, of the incline compound type, are of not much value' but all the brass and copper is being rapidly removed. The brass work in the condenser is. also being taken out and the proceeds of the sale of this wreckage goes to Captain Garry,

WIRE from Londen, of zoth ult, states :-The coast guard cruiser Bielampus, Captain Oswald P. Tudor, sank during heavy fog. The entire. crew of goo men were rescued by the life saving service. The Melampus was a twin screw pro- tected cruiser of the second class, 3,400 ons 7ros ilip, used by the coast guard. She was placed in coast guned commission on May 1st, 1893, with officers and crew turned over from the cruiser Belltisie.

Take your Kuda developing and printing la LeMunyon's, 31, Des Vœux Road -Advr.

ACCIDENT TO THE “CHU-KONG"

Rumour is current that the 5.5. Chucking, owned by the Kwong Wan Steamboat Company, Limited, and recently chartered by the East Asiatic Trading Co., for service in the Philip.. pines, has been ashore and sustained consider- able dimage to her hull. The Hongkong, owners have received a wire reporting the accidet to the ship and further details. ure anxiously awaited. The Chu-kong, which was formerly the Bakan Mary, had, until recently, b. en engaged on the Hongkong-Macao run.

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DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG.

Among the passengers who let the~Coluny to-day per the Empress of China for Van. couver, etc. were the Hon. R. Shewan, Dr. and' Mrs. G. H. Bateson-Wright, Judge W. W. Foster, Messrs. Hart Buck, F. B. Deacon, C L. Gorbam, and C. E. Le Munyon.

POPULAR CHINA HANDS.

The North China Daily News of 11 inst Skys

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Mercantile Marine, are leaving for America to

Two very popular old China hands, of the day by the P.M.S. Ktret-Capt. F. M. Patter

THERE can be little doubt that the Hongkong/Coming war with Russia. The squadrons olson, late master of the C.M.8. Hsinfung, and

GOVERNOR Taft-has received word that Pro- Chamber is to be credited with offering a fessor Jenks, who is with the monetary cominis-practical solution-and indeed the only possi sion now in Europe, will continue to Peking and ble solution-of what is, under present circums- confer with the international "committee which tances, a great difficulty and cause of much salting financial expert to the Commission, meets there, and afterward go to Manila as con- hardship and oft'times much loss to steamship owners and to those who are dependent on re-

ACCORDING to a New York wire of z6th uk,wonder is that large segregation camps were gular supplies of Chinese coolies. The only printed in the Cablenewr, Rome is seething with sensation because the Fisherman's Ring, with which all Papal briefs are signed, and which has been worn by every Pope since the thirteenth century, has been stoleu.

A CABLE from New York, of 25th ult, reports country. Fifty-four of the palace guards were that Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has fled the assassinated, and the Prince got warning just in time to save his life. The wire adds that Bulgaria is in the throes of a revolution.

At LeManyon's you can get the famous Follet Numbering Machine.-Advt.

not long age established on islands near Singa- pore for that is inanifestly an easy way out of the difficulty.-Straits Times.

A WRITER in the Medical Review asserts that the sanitary condition of China constitutes a menace to the civilized world, now that the country is gradually emerging from its com- says, exists in the foully insanitary conditions mercial isolation. The root of the evil, he

of the Chinese cities themselves; and these conditions should be remedied, either by exerting pressure on the Chinese authorities to. make the necessary changes, or by iurning over the sanitary control of the more important seaports to some of the great political powers.

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WORD was received at Manila that the repairs The senior unofficial member of Council 1st of this month..

on the Sumner would be completed by the THE Courrier d'Haiphone, commenting on the (the Hon. Sir Paul Chater) strongly opposed dock, and will not be likely to leave it for

The Transport is still in question of the ravages committed by alcoholic excess in the French colonial forces, demands it. He did so as it appeared to him that it some time to come. When she was taken into that energetic measures shall be taken to was an attempt to work in the thin end of the Cosmopolitan dock it was found that fifty-prevent Chinese and other Asiatic drawshop the wedge for eventually building a new gaol one of her plates had to be removed and some keepers in Indo-China from selling inferior "al an enormous cost, at an unfortunate of her "rib" as well.

alcohol to soldiers. It states that innumerable. time, and contrary to the wishes of the whole CAPTAIN C. W. Mead, chief engineer an

cases of typhoid fever and cholera in the army community." The estimated final cost of location and construction work of the Cauton from these bars, and if the French command- are to be traced to the infected liquor dispensed the building was $700,000 to $750,000. and Hankow Railway, recently arrived at The Senior Member, who was also a mem-

kat passed an order forbidding the sale of the Manila and told a reporter that he hat heard poisonous stuff to soldiers, he would merit the reports of Americans and Europeans being bless ags of his country. with the Kwangsi rebels, but he would advise any who were to take a béc-line for the coast as he believed if captured they would be beheaded.

ber of the Gaol Commission, submitted an alterative scheme. That was the extension of the existing gaol. Ultimately after pro tracted debate carried through successive meetings of Council, but not without the protest from the Unofficials and a memorial from the Chinese Justices of the Peace and leading members of that community, the unanimous sanction of the Council was ob tained for the carrying out of the recommenda tions for gaol extension as proposed by the Committee in their report of the 15th No- vember, 1892, of which the Hon. Sir Paul Chater was one of the three members, the

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

By kind permission of Major Radcliffe and 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..." Carillon et lambar....Rosenstein Selection...." Cavatteria Rusticana " Selection...." A Cquitry Girl"

Monckton Song." For the 5pke of the Past"-ħintiri, Selection." A Chinese Honeymoon" Talbot Valisi Follette"

....Fahrbach

Mazurka... Le Comtec'

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

A CONSULAR report just to land shows tha: the trade of Japan is, as a whole, steadily in creasing. In 1898 it amounted to £45,000,000; in 1899, £39,000,000; in 1900, £50,020,000; in 1901 nearly £5,000,000; and 1902, £54,000,000 Japan's greatest favours went to the United States, which supplied goods to the extent of £13,000,000, or an increase of £600,000. But German exports declined by £256,co on a total of about £3,000,000; while British exports only declined £21,000 on a ictal of £7,000,0:0, From British India Japan imports raw colton to the value of £4,000,000

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ready to come to blows. The English papers publish pessimistic dispatches announcing that the Russians and Japanese are making warlike preparations,

the two countries were before Vladivostock

THE largest vessel ever built in the Philippine Islands the J. Rodrigues-was launched by the daughter of Governor Taft on 26th ult. from the yards of the San Nicholas iron Works, into the Pasig River. She is a steamer of 740 tons burden and was constructed in the main by Filipino labour. She is a twin-screw vessel, have all the up-to-date improvements including electric lights, and will engage in the

Knights' first visit to China was in 1857, in Capt. A. E. Knights, Assistant Marine Superin- tendent of the China Merchants'S. N. Co. Capt. which year he arrived at Hongkong as second officer of the Northfleet. In 1862 he was gain in China as chief officer of the tea-clipper Hal tarat, commanded by Captain Jones who after- wards brought out the auxiliary twin-screw tea-clipper Far East, which went home with tea from Hankow in 1864. Captain Knights left the Bullarat to go as chief officer the auxiliary screw ship Niemen with tain Hutchison, and on the latter's going home he had command of the Niemen on the Yangtze. The Niemen made an attempt to get up Hongkong to Shanghai against the monsoon, but her boilers were old that she NEW YORK wires on the Northern situation had to put back to Hongkong, where her are very pessimistic. Here are two from the engines were taken out, and she sailed to New Cablencws:-New York, July 25th. It is be-York, under the command of Captain Knights, lieved in the United States, and particularly in Washington that Russia and Japan will come to blows within three months. The big papers of the East are all preparing to report the war, they expect. New York z6th.It is thought here that Japan and Russia will come to blows before the next month is

coastwise trade.

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with a cargof cotton. Captain Knights then went into business in New York, but he soon tired of a shore life and in 1868 he returned to China and joined the S. S. N. Co. as a Yangtza pilot, which position he held until 1876. In that year he joined the China Merchants' S. N. Co. and was appointed master of the Kiang- yung. He was afterwards transferred to, the A GERMAN telegram of 30th July says: The Kiangy and about two years ago was English and Russian Press are simultaneously appointed Assistant Marina Superintendent of publishing statements, according to which the same company. A man of the most stesi- H.M. the Kaiser and King Edward of Englanding character and courteous, Capt. Knights a will meet shortly in order to come to an under-been liked and respected by all who know him, standing in regard to the Bagdad railway and and he will be heartily, welcomed back, when the future political development in East Asin he returns to the Far East. These reports are considered here to be dallons dessa. A visit of King Edward to the Con- tinent during the present year is considered rather improbable, although not impossible,,

Tux chief engineer of the Canton-Hankow Railway states that trains, will probably be runing over, the Canton-Samshui division by January next year. He says it will take from three to five years to complete the main line. A little construction work is being done on is

in the immediate vicinity of Canton. A pre-- limiary survey has been made of the entire line and the work of location is well under way Tea loca ion, parties are working South from Hankow and another North from Canton Their work will be completed by September. THE Beer to drink in the tropica is the Beer

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE

· French (Caledoniin) Toth inst, Anierican (City of Peking) 13th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th inst. Indian (Laisang) 17th inst. American (Doric) 20th inst.?

The T. K. K. 3.s. Rosetta Maru left Manila last night and is expected here on 7th in t, atlygini daylight,

The CN. Co.'s s.5. Trinam left Kobe for this port on and inst, and is expected to arrivo. bere on 8th inst.

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made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL-