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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS

EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

WATSON'S

BALSAM

OF

ANISEED

is not a cure all, but

IT DOES CURE

A COUGH,

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1905.

All communaleation Intended for publication in The HONGKONG TELEGHAT'İ” should be adstracil to The Editor, 1, Ice House Road, and should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Addres, Ordinary business orminnulcations abould be addressed

so The Manager,

The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for any rejected MS,, tior to return any Contribution.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE).. DAILY180 per annum.

WEEKLY $15 per annum.

present estimate, presented as the nearest to the truth that can be attained, is satisfactory inasmuch as from what material was avail able to him the statistical secretary has shown that China is not so badly off as some would imagine us to believe,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

HONGKONG'S ICE SUPPLY

ANCIENT AND MODERN METHODS.

I installed, an that there are now three engines

TELEGRAM

THE WAR..

at the command of the engineer. One en gine is constantly running, the others taking turns, when cleaning operations are in pro- gress. The plant is all of the most modern character. In 1903, Mr. Parlane, the mana-

`STOESSEL GOING HOME. ger, travelled over England visiting many of i the ice factories there with the object of We are indebted to Mr. M. Noma, Consul finding out what was the best system in for Japan, for the following telegram :-- general vogue. He came to the conclusion

Tokia, 8th Jan., 6.30 p.m. that the system in use by the Hongkong

General Nogi this morning reports that

The ratos por quarter and per mensem, proportional. It is reported in Japan that the Dalai Lama, pitals and even private citizens looked forward Ice Company was the best that could be delivery of the prisoners under the capitula-

The daily inna is delivered free when the address in accessible in mesengor. On copies out by post an additional $1.80 per quarter in charged for postage. The postage fan elie weekly is to any part of the

world is 80 cents per quarter. Single Copier, Daily, ten cents; Weekly, twenty-

five cents.

MARRIAGE.

On 26th November, 1904, at St. Michael's Church, Alnwick, Northumberland, by the Rev. Canon Conor, assisted by the Rev. Lancelot J. Wilkinson and the Rev. R. S. Morris, C. CECIL A. KIRKE, of His Majesty's Consular Service in China, only son of Augustus Kirke, of Streatham, late of Leicester, to MABRI, youngest daughter of the late Fredk.

A VISIT TO THE ICE WORKS.

Few of the present generation can remem her the days when Hongkong was dependent for its ice supplies an Americau ships, but one can easily imagine the anxiety with which hos

to the arrival of these vessels, when patients adopted. It produces what is known as crysint lay panting amid the torrid heat of the sum-ice, instead of the cloudy product which comes mer months, and business men were obliged from the "con" process. The former system te quaff the post-meridian peg in the form of is more expensive at the outset than the latter, teddy. In those days, gangs of men laboured but the results are belter and in. the end the THE census taken on the 31st of December among the ice-bound lakes of North America, cast is probably about the tame.

has reached St. Petersburg,

THE Nagasaki Hotel, having been completely overhauled, was re-opened on the 28th ult.

1903 puts the total population of Japan at 48,326,195.

THE last hours at Port Arthur are vividly

THE British Admiralty has ordered Esquimalt R. Wilson and of Mrs. Wilson, Narrowgate, Dockyard to be dismantled. The stores are

being sold.-Mainichi.

Alnwick.

DEATH.

JAMESON. At the King Edward Hotel, on the 9th inst, ST. JOHN WAY, aged 14 months, beloved and only son of Rolla Gertrude and John Watt Jameson.,

PERAK won the cricket match against the Sin- [17gapore team by an innings and 128 runs, and

the football match by 3-0.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGEONO, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1995.

CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL

TRADE.

The statistical department of the Imperial Maritime Customs has recently published two important and extremely interesting works dealing with the trade of China. The first of these is a volume of decennial reports reviewing the trade of fourteen ports of north and mid-China, and the other is an inquiry into the commercial liabilities and assets of the Empire in international trade. Coming at the close of a period during which so much has been written of the lamentably critical situation of China the remarks of Mr. H. B. Morse, the statistical secretary, upon the subject of the second volume, are of especial interest as going to show that, with liabilities estimated at Hk. Tls, A. S. WATSON & CO., 423-734-993, and assets estimated at Hk.

and that right speedily.

LIMITED,

Tis. 424,751,694 lik. Tls. --25. 7 2/3d.), the account about balances, and that com- THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.mercially China is, at the present moment,

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paying her way. Turning to her liabilities, the first item dealt with,is the value of mer chandise imported into the Treaty poris, BUILDINGS. which in 1903, at the moment of landing, was given as Hk. Tls 310,453,428. Hong- (32 kong trade is regarded to be essentially a Hongkong, 10th December, 1904.

part of the trade of China, but, except for the materials for repairs to vessels, the im- ports from abroad for this Colony's consump- tion are considered as offset by exports abroad of our local products. The value of bullion and coin imported into the Treaty ports is given as Hk. Tis. 27,001,165, with an additional Hk, Tls. 10,000,000 brought in by return- ing Chinese emigrants. The principal and interest of loans and indemnities is reckoned at Hk. Tis. 44,210,400, expenditure on Chinese embassies and consolates abroad, Hk. Tls. 1,320,000, Chinese students and travellers abroad Hk. Tls. 3,000,000, and a rough estimate of the net profits of foreign ers remitted to home countries is placed at SPIRIT MERCHANTS, H. Tis. 16,000,000. No profit, however,

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tion was completed on Saturday. There were 878 officers and 13,491 men, whereof 441 officers and zag orderlies so far have given parole. Generals Fouk, Smirnoff, Gorbatovsky and Admiral Willimany prefer-·* red to be sent to Japan as prisoners. General Stoessel leaves Dalny on the 12th inst. for home.

THE PORT ARTHUR BLOCKADE.

Tokio, 7th Jan., 4.40 p.m. In view of our occupation of the whole Liaotung Peninsula the blockade declared on the 1st inst. by Admiral Togo was raised on the 7th inst.; but for the present, no ships, except those in the Japanese Govern- ment's service, are allowed to enter Port Arthur.

THE LATE ME, JOHN GRAHAM.

READY FOR THE MARKET. and shipped thousands of tons of ice to the.

Ice tanks occupy the upper storey and it was East and to Europe. Norway vied with America in supplying the demand in Great highly interesting to watch the methods adopt- Britain and even within late years it was no ed before the ice blocks are placed on the carts unusual sight to witness a bluff Norwegian | and sent off to the consunier. Each block of described in lengthy telegrams printed on the birque emptying a cargo. of ice at the eastern ice when it comes out of the tank weighs third page.

pons of Britain. But the rapid and extraor- about three-quarters of a ton and there are dinary increase of the fishing industry, and the about nine tons of ice in cach box, The block growing luxuriousness of hotel life, brought ice of ice is hauled up from the tank by a winch, companies quickly to the frant and to-day run along to a turning table and placed under Scandanavian ice-boat is an unusual visitor in a cutting machine which divides the ice into the United Kingdom.

16 blocks of 120 ths, each. The ice is then slid on to the carts and they are ready for the depots. It may be stated that the water for the ice is obtained from Titam and Mint Dam. It is twice filtered before it is ready for com version into ice, so that it is as pure as human

On and int, the inquest to inquire into the ability can make it. To look at the clear cut crystal ice blocks, with their smooth shining circumstance attending the death of the late Mr. faces, transparent as the countenance of an

John Graham was resumed at the British Police honest man, one can well understand that fur-Court, at Shanghai. Mr. H. Philips acted as ther purification would be practically impos- Coroner, and the Jury consisted of Messrs. H.

G. Gardner, F. W. Fowler and C. R. Maguire,

The first witness called was Dr. Ernest Louis Marsh, who stated that he was called into No. 4, the Bund, about 9.40 á.m. on Saturday. He found deceased seated in his chair, his hat on and with his hands in his pockets, apparently asleep. On making an examination, witness found that he was dead and had been dead for some hours. Witness thought the gay glove had been turned off when he arrived, but there was a strong smell of gas in the room. When the post-mortem examination was made all the organs were found to be perfectly healthy,

in Hongkong, the difficulty of obtaining ice in the summer months became a matter of universal interest, and when a small band of THE Ostasiatische Handels Gesellschaft as merchants offered to provide ice all the year agents for the National Assurance Co. of Ire-round at what was then considered a moderate rate, the Government came forward and offer land, forward us a calendar for 1903.

ed to provide a free site for an ice depot. Of all those who were concerned in the formation of that syndicate, or band of trustees, only one now remains in the land of the living-Mr:sible. William Keswick, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. The ice was obtained from the north of China during the later winter months and stored in Hongkong.

THE New York Sun strongly advocates an Anglo-American Alliance. It suggests that it should be formed on the lines of the Anglo- Japanese Treaty.

MR. W. C. B. Cowen, a brother of Mr. T. Cowen, the well-known war correspondent, is passenger from home by the a.s. Denbigh- chise. He is en roule for Tientsin to join forces with his other brother Mr. J. Cowen, the editor and proprietor of the China Times.

AT the Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry B. Berkeley) and the Puisne Judge (Mr. T. Sercombe Smith), the hearing of the New Territory Land Court Appeal, Tang Taz U. versus the Attorney General was resumed and further adjourned.

THE preliminary examination of II. Collins, who was recently arrested in Yokohama on a charge of being a Russian spy, was concluded

on the 18th December. He was found guilty of a major crime by the preliminary Court, and will be submilled to public trial at the Yoko hama Chiho Saibansho.

·

The following is the return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 8th January, 1905 :—

Library Museum

Non-Chinese................................

Chinese

210 92

135 1,264

Total...... 302

1,399

THIS afternoon, before Mr. Gompertz, Wong l'ing Cheung was charged with manslaughter, while coxswain of the Wing Loi launch, which collided with a sampan in the harbour, by means of which a Chinaman and a Chinese

child lost their lives, as already recorded in these columns. The accused was subsequently committed to take his trial at the next Criminal Sessions, Inspector Langley was in charge of

the case.

IN French Indo-China last year, railway con- struction went on actively and progrees was made with the line to the Chinese frontier. The Governor-General outlined extensive schemes for economic and fiscal reform. The Russo- Japanese war resulted in greater alleatics being paid to the military and naval defences, The surveys for the Yunnan railway proceeded. King Norodom of Cambodia died and was succeeded by his brother.

A TIENTSIN telegram, of the 4th inst., reports that the Governor of Kwangsi has wired to the Peking Government that though the rebellion in Kwangsi is now nearly suppressed yet it is necessary to have more effective military de- fences so as to exterminate the rebellion at its

AMERICANS IN THE FIELD.

The site which was granted by the Govern ment was that on which the present Hongkong Telegraph building stands No. 1 Ice House

Road.

A depút was erected there and for some time the business was carried on by the trustees mentioned. But the American Tudor Company came into the field and affered to take over the responsibilities of the trustees, and that offer was accepted. It was the Tudor Com- pany which erected the present buildings in Ice House Road. The Company were bound to have a continual supply of ice on hand, and every year they brought a vessel from America laden with blocks of ice hewed from the North American icefields. To give some idea of the

changes that have taken place in this trade, it has only to be stated that the price charged for the ice sold by the Tudor Company was some. thing like five to six cents gold a pound; nowadays we get ice sold in retail shops at 1 cents. Mex, But they had money in those days! People did not look at every penny, and turn it over two or three times before they spent it. They were all making fortunes; they were living in the glorious purple. East, and sending home glowing accounts of what they saw, stirring the hearts and imaginations of generations yet unborn. Such was the con- dition of things when the Hongkong Ice Com- pany stepped into the arena.

FORMATION OF THE NEW COMPANY.

The Hongkong lee Company was formed in the 'seventies, and after a successful flotation took over the responsibilities of the American Tudor Company. They acquired the property in Ice House Read from the Hongkong Government, and proceeded to erect ice-making machinery and buildings at Causeway Bay, When everything was complete the lower part of the building in ice House Road was con- verted into a town depôt and then the people of Hongkong were independent of American or Chinese natural ice supplies, The Company has gone prospering, meeting all the wants of the people, and the requirements of the ship- it holds the field unchallenged and probably ping in Hongkong, with the result that to-day

unchallengable,

AT THE FACTORY,

A visitor to the factory at Causeway Bay finds a vast deal to interest him in the manu- facturing process, and in the numerous ad juncts which have sprung up owing to the large supplies at the disposal of the Company. The Company's buildings are situated in West George Street, and comprise a range of cold storage rooms, engine house-which extends

COLD STORAGE room.

are

A trip to the cold storage rooms is an experience you

not likely to forget in a hurry. Even in these cold mornings, the temperature of the storage chambers is enough to make an Esquimaux shiver. It catches one in the small of the back and travels along the spins until it seems to get exit by a hole in the crown of your head. Usually the temperature in the ice storage rooms is about 15 degrees Fahrenheit or 17 degrees below freezing point. There are six rooms, four of which were fully stocked with game, of all kinds, bullock sides, lambs, pigs, butter and milk, etc. Ong chamber was set apart for game, and a tempting sight was the hanging birds, most of which had come from China. During the Christmas season, course, there was a big influx of game and the

chamber was stocked to its fullest capacity.

AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

of

From the Dairy Farm came a lot of Aus tralian sides of beef, lambs, and pigs, as fresh as could be desired. Other firms send their produce, such as batter and milk, to the cold storage "vaults" which are undoubtedly a great convenience to the community. Vessels from Australia frequently send their stores along to be kept fresh and sweet until they return from trips to the North. The are kept as clean as A storage rooms. new pin, and those who get articles which have been kept there may be perfectly certain they have something which has never suffered contamination.

THE CHINESE COOLIE.

The next witness was a boy employed at the Russian Consulate, who deposed that at I am. on Saturday he saw deceased trying to open the door of his office.

Chang Ah-kwie, deceased's office-coolic, gave evidence as to having found Mr. Graham sitting in his office-chair on Saturday morning, in the condition described by Dr. Marsh, Witness thought his master was asleep, so he tidied up the office and left; but when he returned at 9.30 and found Mr. Graham still sitting in the same condition, be thought he must be dead. He accordingly went to the

Shanghai Club and reported the matter there. When he first went to the office, at 7.30 am, there was a strong smell of gas in the room, He found the gas-stove turned on and immedi ately turned it off.

Mr. H. E. McCann, a sharebroker, depos ed that at 9.35 am, on Saturday he went to deceased's office. He noticed a strong smell of gas but did not notice the One of the sights which strikes the visitor to condition of the stove, Witness went into the Club to see if:be could find Dr. Moore- the ice works is the coolies going about bare. footed. How they manage to stand the icy Graham, but failing to do so, returned to the blast and chilly flagstones is more than the office and telephoned to the police station. average European can fathom. Yet they cheer-Witness knew deceased fairly well and so far fully go about, in an atmosphere which makes as he was aware deceased was not in financial those accustomed to cold shiver through thick difficulties. clothes, as though they were in the tropics. A Chinaman is a wonderful creature, but he sur passes himself on occasion so far as endurance goes, and at the ice works he is nearly at his best as an eighth wonder of the world.

so

A. L. Anderson, recalled, stated that he was formerly Mr. Graham's partner. He knew the gas-stove in the office and was aware it had to

opened when the stove was about to be lighted be worked with care. If the valve were fully Mr. W. Parlano, the inanager, has the gas would explode and the stove would go capacity, out. On one occasion witness remembered to been twenty-one years in that

what he does not know about ice have turned the store out at 2 a.m., and on certainly not worth returning to the office at 7 o'clock the same manufacturing is knowing. The engineer at the factory, morning he found the room full of gas.

Mr. McCann, recailed, in reply to a Mr. J. Irving, has been two years at his post and is well versed in all that concerns ice-plant, juror, slated that on two or three occasions In every way the Hongkong Ice Company's he had met deceased out early, and works are admirably carried on, benefiting the deceased had explained that he was working community and the shareholders alike. One late the previous night and had slept in the wonders what our grandfathers would have office, thought of this revolution in ice supplies in Hongkong could they have a brief sub-lunary sojourn here again.

earned in China other than the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is includ ed, nor allowance made for losses on invest. ments in, r. g., cotton mills. The net freights and net premia of fire and marine insurance collected by non-local companies is placed at Hk. Tls. 6,750,000, and for munition of war, not otherwise specified, five millions are pul down. From a statement of the details of assets it is seen that merchandise exported is valued at Hk. Tls. 236,205, 162, bullion and coin exported Hk. Tls. 33,046,532, and toot and also to provide sufficient arms and nearly the whole length of the main build. ammunition and that as the provincial governing and ice-tank chamber. Almost every- ment has to pay the contributions towards the body has some idea how ice is made, although old and new indemnities there is no fund and Mrs. Malaprop has been known to say that you that he is authorised to raise funds to meet the

had first to get an ice-cream bucket, because it Hogmann (17) will take place as previously to the effect that deceased met his death necessity.

WO SHUN STEAMBOAT COM-

PANY, LIMITED.

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above Company was held

was unwise, not to say foolish, to patronise the Italians who cried "R-r-real bice."

HOW ICE IS MADE.

But joking apart, ammonia is the chief agent employed to freeze the water and this is how the process is described in official or technical

THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS.

The execution of the three mes, Charles smith (20), William Nason (22), and Erik

announced on Wednesday. Five o'clock in the morning is the hour fixed for carrying out the dread sentence, and there is now no hope whatever of the unfortunate men being respited, The Rev. J. H. France, of St. Peter's Church, will perform the last rites of the Church.

excess of exports over imports in con- per dozen. nection with unrecorded trade over the land frontier is estimated at four mil lions. The average yearly expenditure on the development of railways, mines, etc., provided from foreign countries is reckoned at Hk. Tls. 3,600,000, the ex- |penditure on foreign legations and consulat es five millions, maintenance of foreign gar 3.60 risons, Hk. Tis. 7,500,000, expended for

waters fifteen millions, for foreign merchant vessels, etc., two millions, repairs to foreign vessels at Shanghai, and elsewhere, ten millions, expended on foreign missions, hospitals and schools, six million, money spent by foreign travellers six millions, Company be increased to $:40,000 by the crecirculates and brine is pumped to the ice-boxe"; | law demanded the last penalty for their awful

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N.B. We have been appointed sole agents

to

for China for Messrs, Schweppes Aerated

Waters, and we have made arrangemente

have fresh consignments shipped to us by every

mail boat.

The Caroner said that was all evidence he

proposed to take and the only question the jury had to decide was whether deceased met his death through misadventure or whether he purposely turned on the gas stove, Mr. Ander- son's evidence was important as showing that the stove had to be lighted with care.

The Jury, without retiring, returned a verdict

through misadventure.

THE FUNERAL.

The funeral of the deceased took place at Bubbling Well Road Cemetery yesterday (1st inst.) at pm, in the presence of a large con- course of friends and mourners. The service was impressively conducted by the Rev. A. Walker and followed with the most evident and sympathetic interest by all who stood

terms. "The aminonia is compressed by a We understand that every preparation for the maintenance of foreign warships in Chinese at the offices of the Company, 138, Connaught compressor to anything between 130 and 200 successful carrying out of the gruesome act has around the grave-side,

and remittances from, and money brought in by, Chinese emigrants Hk. Tls. 73,000,000. In the course of the inquiry Mr. Morse points out that, by reason of the China. Japan war debt and the indemnities to foreign powers, amounting to upwards of

Road, this afternoon.

Mr. Wong Kam Fuk presided, and there were also present Mr. Hung Hing Chuen (manager), Mr. Leung Ching Pao, and others.

The Chairman proposed for confirmation as a special resolution, that "The capital of the

ation of goo new shares of Stoo each."

The resolution was seconded and carried. The proceedings were conducted in-Chinese.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. 1.1. Plum

vatory-

lbs, the square inch and it is then condensed been made, but the authorities are very reticent into a liquid, and circulates through pipes which are about a mile long. It then passes

as to details.

None of the condemned men, we hear, have to the refrigerators where all the cooling is taken the situation seriously since their incar- done. These refrigerators are full of smallceration, though it is said that the Americans, pipes through which a strong calcium brine Smith and Nason, wept whee informed that the

crimea,

while the ammonia being acted upon by the compressor reduces the pressure, and after further being acted upon intense cold is pro.

THE DEFENCE OF FORMOSA. duced and the water in the tanks is frozen."

Notification No. 31 of the Naval Office has That may appear somewhat highly technical but it would be difficult within short compass been issued, announcing that of the 23rd to give an idea of the process, and a popular instant the undermentioned section of the statement is practically out of the question. Empire was declared the zone of defence for a popular statement is also doubtful.

within a line drawn from the highest point of CRYSTAL ICE.

Kelung island to Rokobri Point, and also The engine-house is a very interesting build- within the line drawn in the direction west by

N.B.-All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at 10rty-five millions a year, one would imagine mer, Chiel Assistant of the Hongkong Obser Whether the man-in-the-street would appreciate Kelung, Formosa:-"The section of water

there would follow a compulsory increase in 1: home, thereby ensuring to our Customers the shipment of merchandise- to cover ell the advantages accruing from botting the indebtedness. Instead of this it is the done at home under the direct supervision imports which have increased to such they are now a third pun of the Growers and Distillers as compared an extent that

The barometer

On the 9th at 11.35 am. has risen in northern Japan and has fallen at nearly all other stations.

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUR.

Indian (Namsang) 10th inst Amencan (Gaelic) 12th inst." American (Siberia) 1am inst. French (Ernest Simons) tæth inst. English (Simia) 14th inst. 4 p.m. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th inst. German (Roon) 17th inst.

The China Mutual_s.s. Kintuck left Shang- hai on 8th inst, and is due here on 11th inst.

The Imperial German Mall as, Room left Kobe via Nagasaki and Shanghai to-day at 9 a.m., and may be expected here on 17th inst,

· The M. M. Cols 8.5. Ernest Simons, with the next French Mail, will leave Saigon this afternoon at 2 pm and may be expected here on 12th inst

The P.&O. S. N. Co.'s 5.5. Simta left

Gradients are slight upon the coasts of 108, the machines being unlike anything that south from the highest point of the same island. Singapore for this port on 9th insi, at 6 am, China, and light NE. monsoon will prevail in is generally seen. During the winter months The War Office, saya the Japan correspondent with the Outward English Mails, and is due to battling done in China by. Chinamen greater than the exports, In any tabulated the Formosa Channel and in the northern part the Company only work one engine, the de- of the N .C. D. News, also announces that the hare on 14th inst, at 4 p.m.,

at the service of European Firms. Hongkang, 7th Decembar, 1904.

mand for ice being considerably reduced, but statement, however, concerning the trade and of the China Sea. finances of China the statistics must in many Forecast-Moderate E. to NE. winds, in the summer time one or more engines are | kept working. Recently a new engine was [33-respects be of doubtful accuracy. But the cloudy, fair,

Governor-General of Formosa is entitled to call out the reserve officers and men as well as reserve conscripts, to deal with contingencies.

The Imperial German Mail is. Zieten car. rying the German Mails with dates from Barlin.

of the auth ult, left Colombo on Saturday after noon, and may be expected here on 19th inst

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