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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1903.

Governor of Lages. The saine year he re↑ MR James J. Hill, in to build railways in O • more chance to buy a Kuday fur $5 ceived his appointment as assistant harbour | China and it is said that an announcement of good Kodak: LaMunyon, 31, Des Voeux inaster of Hongkong, arriving in the Colony his plans may be expected within a month or Road. Adur.. on the 1st January, 1885, and, as we two. have already pointed out, the post of Har bour Master becoming vacant on the rat May, 1888, on the retirement of Capt. Thomsett, the present holder was appoint-Japanese walers. ed to take his place.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1903.

OUR RETIRING HARBOUR MASTER.

With the departure of the Honourable Gardening, can be obtained free on Appli-Canmander Robert Murray Rumsey, R.. (retd.), who, we are informed, retires from the service of the Colonial Government and leaves Hongkong for England at the end of next week, an important link in the history of our successful shipping administration will be severed. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since he left the dreaded Gold Coast of Africa and reported his arrival in the Colony to assume the duties of assistant harbour master, in suc

It is essential to use particular care when sowing and in exercise supervision over the

Chinese, Gardeners, whose "olo custom" methods of dealing with the Seeds may sometimes lead to disappointing results.

CLAY'S FERTILISER,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE German gunboat Tiger arrived from Swatow this morning.

THE United States Navy Department recently authorised a den al of the report that the Euro- pean Squadron is destined to Chinese and

LORD Alverstone has been selected as chair man of the Commission to stile, the dispute with the United States over the Alaskan boundary.

| THE Vicht Nicht's Peking correspondent saya that the Chinese Minister to Russia hasi reported to his Government that the seat of will be at Harbin zustand government of the new, Viceroy of the Far Ea

THE prospects of ir.. C. E. Bruce-Mitford's Modern School at Yokohama are said to be very bright Mr. Bruca-Mitford came to the

THE Chengtingfo-Shuntèfu section of the Lu. THE cable steamer Scotu, built at Glasgow in Far East two years ago, and was connected

Han railway, 390 kilometres (334 miles) from Peking, is to be opened to traffic, with a train a day each way, on the 15'h inst

The wreck of the Norwegian str. pof and the cargo remaining on board are to be sold by public auction, the vessel and cargó to be a THE Misses Yi Kung have adopted the the purchaser's risk from time of sale.

Manchu costume.

H.F. the Governor has issued a proclamation dalong Shanghai an infected port.

THE native, who was recently charged with being a member of the Triad Society, has been. fined $100 or three months' imprisonment;

THE P. & O. Co.'s s.s, Barmen will leave for Yokohama vhi Shanghai, Moji and Kobe, at daylight, to-morrow.

Tuk American Commercial Treaty with Chinn, opening two parts in Manchuria, is to be signed

on the 8th of October.

TE German transport Si via, with mithasy relie stor China, from the barracks at Lockskedt, some miles from Hamburg, arrived this morn

Ing.

ONE of the Legation ladies at Peking paid a

friendly visit to the Empress Dowager within two days after the barbarous execution of Shên

Kd-wet.

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AMONG the arrivals by the Empress of Japan early this moming were Dr. Rennit, Messrs. F. B. Deacon, Hart Buck, D. E. Brown and W. G. Clark,

cession to Capt. MacEwen, who resigned on the 13th April, 1884. Three years later, in May, 1888, on the retirement of Capt. Thomsett, Capt. Rumsey look entire charge of the department and has officiated in that capacity down to the present time. There are not many among us who can adequately For use in the garden generally. realise the tremendous changes which have taken place in the shipping of the port during the tenure of his office, nor form an adequate idea of the multi- farious duties necessary for a thorough control of the department. Turning to 'The Best and Cheapest Machines in the his first annual report, dealing with the Market.

year 1888, we find, for instance, that the total

CHUN HU WANG, á Chinaman from long. trade of Hongkong for the twelve months was represented by 63,907 vessels, measur-kong, has been awarded the degree of master of laws by the Yale Law School, after a year of A. S. WATSON & CO., 174 vessels and 357,702 tons, on the average

ing 12,996,396 tons; or was an advance of study in the institution.

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for the previous three years, as compared with no less than 99,449 vessels with a total ton- nage of 21,333,566 tons in 1902. During the first year of his duties as harbour master the vast amount of trade was apportioned as follows:-British 5,121 vessels, representing 6.474.343 tons; foreign, 3,460 vessels of 2,532,334 tons; junks in foreign trade, 47,576, representing 3,703,707 tons; and junks in local tiadu, 8,813, of 286,012 tons. Comparing these figures with his last annual report

We find that, in 1902, British ships numbered 7,102 representing 9,574,787 tons; foreign 5,359, of 6,704,211 tons; while junks in foreign trade decreased 10 36,245 with a tommage of 3,238,239, and junks in local trade rose to the large figure of 50,7431 and 1,819,329, respectively, which, it should benicntioned, included 17,210 conservancy, and dust boats of 637,052 tons. This, in itself, is sufficient testimony to the continued growth of Hongkong's shipping, while in most of the sub-departments of the office we find

clude an appropriation of £55,000 for the THE civil service supplementary estimates in-

expenses of the British commission to the St. Louis exposition.

We understand that, ja consequence of the great increase in the amount of the monthly payment for the opium monopoly, the farmers intend raising the price of the drug at an early

date.

THE purchase of the H. A. L. steamer Kinets- then by the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, which, as stated in our columns, had been "under negotiation, has been completed. The price. agreed-upon is given at £230,000.

A JAPANESE firm is negotiating for the pur. chase of the British steamer Teucer, which recently arrived at Yohokama. The steamer is a vessel of 2,083 tons, and is owned by Messrs Holt & Co., of Liverpool!

A TIENTSIN dispatch sta es that a contract was signed between the Okuragumi of Tokio and

Viceroy Yuan for the supply of 50 guns and Japanese firm in Tientsin, left for Tokio a few 10,000 rifles. Mr. Minagawa, manager of the days ago. Payment is to be made in instal- meats,

FURNITURE that greater efficiency has been attained, opening to foreign trade of that port appears to

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

-DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

ELECTRO-PLATED,

1

GLASS, and

.FURNITURE.

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES:

which has inevitably rendered the attractive ness of the port greater to the shipping trade. To instance one important service in con- nection with the "life blood" of the Colony, we need only mention the Lighthouse ser-

The application sent in by a large number of the principal inhabitants at Wakamatsu forthe have been endorsed by the authorities. A Tukio dispatch to an Osaka paper says that the Government is now engaged in arranging for the opening of the port, situated so near to Moji.

occurred during the twenty-four hours ended Two fatal plague cases were notified as having

at noon to-day. Since the beginning of the year 1,406 cases have been reported.

1863, has been bought as a repair steamer for the U. S. Pacific cable and will be stationed at San Francisco..

with the Weibaiwei School.

It is reported that Viceroy Tsen will return to

CAPT. Peters, of the frong Bu, has been fined. Canton from Kwangsi, at an early dato, when $100 at l'enang, for failing to have a qualified he will proceed to Hunan province in order to medical officer on board his ship on a voyage the disturbed regions of the southern province. raise 30 battallion of soldiers, for service in from Singapore to Penang. The defence was that the doctor had been left behind at Singa

the last minute. pore, being prevented from going aboard at

NINETEEN pupils of the Keip Gijuku, includ- ing Master John Brinkley, started recently on

THE steamer, Diederichsen, arriving at Shang-an 1-mile swim from Hayamn to Enoshima. hai on 4th inst., brought the Chinese crew of a In consequence of a dead head wind and sea, large car,o junk which had sunk about three of them, including Muster Brinkley, had to and a half miles south, and fifty-nine degrees give up before the end was reached, but 5 did

east of the Fairy Wreck buoy,

Six months' hard labour was the sentence passed upon a native at the Magistracy this morning for stealing a quantity of silver ware, value about $65, from his master's shop at No. 22A Aberdeen Street, yesterday.

Tue money borrowed from Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. for the Kwangsi Government has been returned to tnal firm. The Viceroy contents himself with buying the rifles and ammunition which have to be delivered within fifteen days.. -Echo de Chine.

Two masters of cargo boats were charged, at the Magistracy yesterday for anchoring their junks in the fairway thereby obstructing the wharf Mr. Sercombe Smith fined them $25 5.5. Hang Sang from steaming alongside the

or one month's hard labour cach,

Ho So, master of cargo boat No. 5o, was charged and fined Sgo, or one month's gaol, at the Magistracy, this moming, for failing to By the red flag, and also neglecting to anchor his boat, at the Dangerous (oods Anchorage, while having five cases of petroleum on board on the 7th insi, contrary to regulations. -

REGARDING the Australian Government's deci- sion, and refusal to renew the mail contracts, unless the Peninsular & Oriental. and Orient

the whole distance, in 7 hours 45 minutes.

MR. Basil Lubbock, who wrote Round the firm before the Must, bas fallen from the mizzen-top of his ship, and lies badly hurt in a foreign port. Mr. Lubbock is a nephew of Lord Avchury and Sir Neville-Lubbock, and was born in 1876. He gave evidence a few months

ago before the Committee which inquired into the manning of the mercantile

marinc.

In July 5.19 in. of rain fell on 13 days, the greatest fall in any July for 45 years. It was, in fact, more than twice the average amount, For the twenty Junes ended with 1902 the on only the average number of rainy days. average daily flow of the Thames at Tedding- ion was 654,000,000 gallons, while the daily In the preceding twenty years the maximum average for june, 1903, is 3,397,00,000 gallons.

flow on any day of the three summer months was 3,135,000,000 gallons on zid August, 1888,"

Á REMARKABLE story of a man-bunt has just come to light at Pietersberg. Seventy miles. from that place, and after a chase of 17,000 miles, James Beasley, alias White, was placed under arrest by two secret service men, for the alleged crime of forging, post office orders to the value of 6,000 dollars on the United States these two detectives visited Canada, the Philip- Government in far-off Alaska. In their search

Pines, Australia, and eventually got Beasley beyond Pietersberg,, after an eight months'

scarch,

THs remains of the late Phil May were buried at Kensal Green. There was a great gathering of journalists present, and amongst them were Mr. Longstaffe, the celebrated Victoria artist, and Mr. Tom Roberts; the well-known Sydney painter.

H. E. TSE Chun Hauen intends to meet Feng

Chi Tsai at Kwei Hsica to discuss, the plan of operation. After the conference, the Viceroy will inspect the defence of Lui chow and Ching- Yuan and other strategic points. His head- quarters will be at Ching chou instead of Wu-

chow.

Is the House of Commons on 3rd ult, during the discussion on the Army Estimates, Mr. laugh asked why stores were wanted for the China Expeditionary Force this year-Lord Stanley informed the hoa. member that the China, item was partly due to repayments to expeditionary force that was still in China. India and partly to the cost of the so-called

PRINCESS Louisa, eldest daughter of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and wife of Prince Frede- rick of Schaumbourg-Lippe, has had a narrow escape from dinning. She was bathing in the out too far, and with the wind and current Sound near Charlotten und when she ventured

against her she must have been drowned had not a man se vani swam out to her assistance. She was almost exhausted when rescued.

Mail your time and Kodak orders to LeMun- yon, P. O, B. 368—Advt,

THE NEW TERRITORY DISPUTE.

JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT WITH COSTS.

The case for the defence in the action brought by Pang Ft. Yu (suing on behalf of himself and all the other members of the Nam Hing Tong) against Pang Shiu Hon, to recover a sum of $3,01540 was commenced in the Supreme

Steamship Companies carry entirely white crows, it is stated that both companies will re- fuse to have their hands forced by the Austra lian Labour Party, in which case they will only A CORRESPONDENT informs us that Comman Court this morning before the Fuisne Judge, Bis carry outward mails. It is suggested that the der Li Ka Cheuk has been tricked to retura to Honour A. G. Wise. Mr. T. Morgan Phillips, Commonwealth Government may give the Canton and arrested. He has recently been sta(instructed by Mr. M. J. D. Stephens), appeared Canadian Pacific Railway Company the contioned at Yam Chow district (near Pakhoi) and for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. W. Slade, (in. tract for the homeward mails, via Vancouver, does not appear to have gained favour with the structed by Mr. H. K. Holmes), was for the people; for it is reported that they petitioned defendant. Full particulars of the claim ap- LeMun-Viceroy Tsen for his removal. An official was peated in our issue last evening.

sent to the commander, telling bini to meet the Viceroy on important business. The com mander returned to Canton, and was then arrested and cast into gaol where he is at pre sent awaiting trial.

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A CANTON dispatch reports the capture the other day of a large number of magazine rifles and some sixty boxes of ammunition in the vicinity of Nankang-kou, on the East River, near Canton, by the Chinese gunboat Holan. The contmband was being carried in a couple of innocent looking native passenger boats, but there being a traitor in one of the boat's crews, the men-of-war's men had no trouble'ic spective crews escaped by jumping into the capturing the two boats, although their re- river.

In opening the case for the defendant, Mr. Slade pointed out that the course he pro posed to adopt had already been indicated in the cross-examination of the plaintiff, and in the first place he would endeavour, to prove that the defendant never was secretary of ACCORDING to the New York Maritime Re- the Nam Hing Tong. Tat office appeared to gliter the British steamer Achille, from Hong- have been held by successive heads of families, kong for Liverpool, arrived at Suez on July 2r, and the elders of the village, whom he intended. with the bottom of her rudder carried away. calling, would state that not only was the The same journal reports from London on July defendant never appointed secretary, but that porary repairs, occupying about to days, betion of the Nam Hing Tong, been kept by the 23rd.-It has been recommended that em the funds of the society had, from the founda

made to enable str. Heathford (Br.) to complete Kwang Hing shop and bad practically been in the voyage. The cost of repairs will amount to their custody as bankers. When the shop failed tio. As before reported, the British siz the whole of the accounts of the society together arrived at Colombo damaged by fire and water gated by the elders, who arrived at the concla eathford, from Hongkong etc., for New York, with all the accounts of the shop, were investi

sion that the money, having been lost the only Two points will occur to the public in reference method to adopt would be to save to the new draft Currency Bill, says the S. F. they possibly could and set off the debis owing Press. The medium of notification to the by creditors of the society to the shop against public, who may be the petty Chinese or Malay the money owed by the shop to the Nam Hing trader, is the Government Garette. The time Tong. If his Lordship believed the elders

days from publication therein of the notice that did not think the case child go very much these coins are no longer current. The posses, further, and although he euld call other sion alone of these coins is made punishable, evidence he did not think it would be neces- This seems to go against the right of propertysary to do so. Incidentally, he observed, one in bullion in any form, say, for the final purpose of the three reputed founders of the society of melting down, as is so often done in India, was only a member, and the other died. A SPECIAL interest attaches to the new. Cana. into ornaments. These points are of impor before the sociely started. That was what the dian stamps with the King's head, says thetance and should be well debated in Legislative olders stated.

Evidence was then called, the first witness

SOME interesting experiments in deep-sea salvage are, according to Shipping, about to be made in Australian waters. A deep-sea diving fully worked on the Thursday Island and other machine will be used, which has been success. peal fishing grounds at various depths as low as 95 fathoms. A test of the "grab, which is manipulated by the diver, has demonstrated that the apparatus will work at a depth of 200 fathoms. By way of showing how easy it would

large ship, could be broken to pieces with as a ca ple of experienced Admiralty men said a

#8 much as~*

vice which, during Commander Rumsey's THE steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha be to dislodge the huge iron girders of a vessel, for the getting rid of demonetized coins is thirty that such was the arrangement arrived at; be

administration of the Harbour Department, American line, which have been arriving at has been made more efficient by the crec tion of the light on Gap Rock and the acqui- sition from the Chinese Government of the Waglan light. That his term of office in the Colony has extended over a period marking extraordinary progress in this Far Eastern portal of the British Empire there can be no

Shanghai for a month past, have been doing an immense traffic in transporting four from ports on Fuget Sound, in the state of Washing ton., When the Toss Maru left the Pacific coast she bad nearly three thousand tons of breadstuffs aboard.

THE Osaka Mainich! states that there are

blown to pieces on land. A beginning is to be

much ease under water as a house could be

made with the Elingomile,

gave

testimony regarding the society and plaintiffs connection therewith. Other wildesses were then called, and Mr. Phillips subsequently pointed out that the evidence was so strong against his client that it would be useless to contest it

COOKING RANGES,

disputing, and when in June last we recorded thirty-two warships now waiting for repairs. | Birmingham Daily Post, in that the design Council. The powers of police seizure seem KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

the news that the Imperial Service Order The Naval docks are working, in two shifts, the for the die was prepared under the personal too drastic, and legal confiscation will be made being a grey hendes old man of 81, who.. HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. had been conferred upon him in recognition authorities being in a great hurry to finish the advice of the Prince of Wales. The King's to look rather like robbery.

of his valuable services we dwelt at length epairs. The private docks at Yokohama, portrait was serected by the heir apparent, who upon the duties he had rendered Unga, Kobe and Nagasaki have been ordered decided on relying upon the reproduction of a It would seem from the protests of the Lancet PHOTOGRAPHIC to the Colony. The record of his services to decline father orders for private work so good photograph, instead of employing an that opium smoking is getting its hold on

DEPARTMENT. in connection with Colonial Governments that their establishments may be available for artist to draw a special likeness. The new English society, writes the London corres

may not be generally known, and as he is the ships of the Imperial Navy.

Canadian stamps thus boar the best likeness pondent of the Straits Echo. A big firm of now bringing his public career to à close it

of his Majesty that has yet been produced on medical manufacturers bas issued circulars" coronation robes on the shoulders is a decided the drug, so as to sooth the sufferers from labels of this kind, while the addition. of the broadcast to advertise a new pipe for smoking improvement upon the bare head and neck de- picted on our own postage stamps.

· DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN.

Hongkong, 29th August, 1903.

CARMICHAEL

CLARKE,

(728d

AND

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO,

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

A1-Code,

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 232,

Hongkong, zizh Match, 1903.

1355

HE Beer to drink in the tropics in the Bear

-made in the tropics-SAN

between Messrs. Farnham. Boyd & Company and the Japanese Government whereby the Shanghai shipbuilding firm will put together and complete a shallow draft river gunboat, con- structed by Messrs. Thornycroft & Co. of England. The vessel has arrived in Shangliai in sections. When all the parts and fittings are received, the work of preparing the boat for its mission on the river will proceed with all -speed possible.

A CONTRACT was entered into on 4th inst.

neuralgia, asthma, pneumonia, peritonitis, fatigue, and sleeplessness. The Lancet wages 'war on this method of advertising, on the A NATIVE called on a money-changer esterday, ginund that it will cause the use of the drug afternoon, and asked for change fer á $5 nole, without medical supervising. The manufactu which he threw on the counter. The moneyers assert in reply that they expressly recom changer looked at the individual presenting the note, and then at the $5 bill, which, at first sight, he could tell was a forgery,. He asked the native where he oblained the note, and then told him it was bad and he would be arrested: The native ran out of the shop, and bolted full speed down the street, followed by the money-changer. The antive was caught near Wellington Street, and taken to the morning, Mr. Oliver, John Barnes, a clerk from Central Police Station. At the Police Court this

may not be out of place to give a brief summary of the appointments which our retiring Harbour Master has held. Entering the Royal Navy in September 1862, he was promoted to a lieutenancy in April, 1873, and served on the North American, West Indian, East Indian, Pacific, and Home stations, and seven years later, in May, 1880, was appointed commissioner of Volta district, on the Gold Coast. In January, 1882, he retired from the Royal Navy as a comman- ACCORDING to the report for the last half-wear der, and a year later was promoted to acting of the Formosa Sugar Refining Company the assistant colonial secretary of Lagos and net profit for the period under review amount district commissioner, officiating in those ed to Y67.315, which, added to the amount capacities from January to July of 1883. brought over from last account, made a total of He still continued to serve in Africa, where the legal reserve, Yio,co was written off for Y67,471. Of this sum, Y3,700 was placed to he was appointed as acting assisting colonial depreciation of machinery, and, buildings the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, examined secretary of the Gold Coast in January andY51,600 constituted the dividend, at the rate of the pots and informed the Court that it was a February of 1884, and during the two follow 6 per cent per annum, and a balance of V2.17 ing months assumed the duties of deputy was carried forward to next account.

AHE Bear to drink in the tropics is the Boer

HE Beat to drink in the tropics is the Boods is to war 115

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

mend the patient to use the pipes only under medical advice, and, payway, the pipes are so contructed that nobody can get stupefied with then. It is well known that many resumed Frenchmen from Indo-China continue the use of the drug. I saw only this week a photo of smoking room in, Puria belonging to an officer who served in Tonquin, It was filled with all the apparatus for: opium smokin

the equipment of private smokin believe this is not ap uncommon

Paris and Marseilles.

raming,, láncy and artistically dad Des Vœux

judgment was then given for defendant with costs, gimta

SHIPPING AND MAILSte

SEIL MAILS DUE, Australian (Chingte) to-morrow. English (Simila} ) ith instv Canadian (Tartar), h'inst Indian (Namsang) 14th inst. German (Bayern) 15th inst. -German (Seydlits) 16th inst

American (Coptic) 16th inste Australian

American America Ma American (Korea) 1st prox

THEN I K L Kinh Line) left Singapore for this part

arrive bere

ico for

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