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Entimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1905.

he Hangwong (legraph favour of the employer, and when, it is As a resuit of the Lyndhurst Terace: lottery with the object of establishing a hospital there,

Hongkong, Saturday, MARCH 4, 1905, * A. S. WATSON & CO., EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED.

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D.

1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

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BLEND

VERY OLD LIQUEUR.

SCOTCH

WHISKY.

D PORT,

VERY FINE OLD VINTAGE MANY

YEARS IN BOTTLE.

employers had hoped to protect them selves." As a rule, however, agreements are

rendered null and void by lapse of time it is rare that persons desirous of remaining in the East enter into another contract with

his employer or with any other firm with which he desires to become associated. It is

case, Yau Ying, the prime mover in the busi- ness, was fined $500 by Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy this morning,

THE German mail of the 1st February was | APROPOS of the visit of two of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chanres of Hongkong and Saigon to delivered in London on the 3rd inst.

Manila some days ago to look over the ground

the Cabenen aays the building selected for the tempor ry home of the Sisters' hospital is the former provost or city hall building, as it has been called, occupying hall a block in the walled city just behind the cathedral, li js one,

and is being put in perfect order inside and out. The location is contrat, quiet aifit cool, and on the line of the street railway: Sites for the par anent hospital are, under consideration by the Archbishop of Manila, and it is probable that the larger general and convalescent hos pitals will be located on the beach of Manila bay on the fine property owned by the Mitre near Pasay. A medical, consulting and active

In our issue of yesterday we reprinted the bright prospects in the Orient with a free were among the civil. Europan and foreign of the roomiest and newest buildings in Manila

an editorial from the Shanghai Times com- menting on the decision of Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson in a case in which Messrs. Hall and Holtz, Ltd, suedi Reginald Rickard to restrain him from entering into business after the termination of a contract of service in the breach of a covenant in that con- tract. It seems that the defendant came

out from home on contract in serve in plaintiff's business for a period of three years. The contract terminated by mutual consent on the 20th May, 1904, and on or before December of the same year defendant en- tered the business of the North China House

Furnishing Company, at Shanghai. The plaintiffs naturally took exception to this,

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and asked that the defendant be strained for a perind of ten years from directly or indirectly selling, enerving on, or

During the month of January 420 deaths were registered in the Coinny. Of this number 21 community, and was equal to a death rate of 23.6 per thousand per annum,

passage out that allures many a young man to the Far East, and when he finds that his expectations have not been realised,, and that the dollar has nothing like the purchas... the Governor has appointed provisionally and until further notice Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher ing power that he was given to understand to be assistant Colonini Secretary and Clerk of it had, trouble looms ahead, with the result Councils, vier, Mr. S. B. C. Ross, with effect that his employer binds him tooth and nail on and from the 8th instant. to the contract which the employee was

foulishly fed into signing when fantastic tales of advantages in the East were still fresh in his mind.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE well known Filipino Band is now on his way back from St. Louis Exhibition, where

attracted much attention.

it

THE volcano of Kilauea, Honolulu, is netive

and the usual scare is on at Hilo. Crewits tourists are thronging to the scene,

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THE Rev. C. M. Sheldon has explained what he would do if he were a farmer and if he were Lan editor, and the Kansas City Star would like to know what he would do if he were in Admiral Ruzhdestvensky's place.

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TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.

RUSSIANS REPULSED.

Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, kindly forwards us the following telegram -

Tokio, 3rd March, 1905. On the and inst. our detachment in the

direction of Penhsiho captured the enemy's positions near Changkou and on the heights north of Kastailin,

In the direction of Shako the enemy made a strong counter-attack in the district extending from Chenchichpao to Hunto, but were repulsed.

The enemy at Changtan and Sofangtai

staff will be selected before long to assist and advise the Sisters in establisiting their hospital were also dispersed.

venture on a basis suitable for the needs of Manila.

...

[Reuter's.]

MR. G. I. Rea, the editor and publisher of the The Governorship of South Africa. Fur Baskin Review, is to be congratulated on

LONDON, and March.. the excellent number he has issued for the

· LORD MILNER'S SUCCESSOR, The Earl of Solbourne has been appointed High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange Riverv Colonics, in succession to Lord Milner, who has resigned and is leaving South Africa at the end of March

GUNNERS W. J. Livesey, A. Gladwell, D. K. Moss and Sapper C. F. Livesey have been per mited to resign from the Hongkong Volunteer month of February. is a beautiful produc- Mr. 1 r. Jackinan and Mr. F. Ation, full of instructive articles and illustrations, Bidth joined towards the close of last month. and of especial, interest to readers in this H.E. the Governor has been pleased to appo`nt Colony by reason of the inclusion of Mr. J. W. being engaged in the trades or businesses of

of provisionally wad until further notice Mr. Graham's paper un "Practical Steel Shipbuild house-furnishers, upholsterers, cabinet and

Mcilvaine Messer lo be and to perform, the ing in Hongkong" The article is treated some what from a technical point of view, but can furniture manufacturers, or any of them at Ms. T. Duncan Patton, General Secretary of duties and to exercise the jurisdiction of a

easily be followed by those having the smallest

The Address in the Commons. Shanghai, Tientsin or Hankow. Counsel for the Y, M, C. A. at Calcutta, is the guest of the police magistrate within the New Territories.

koowledge of the great industry carried on

The House of Commons has adopted the across the harbour. Quite a number of pages and many half tone illustrations are devoted Address by 235 votes to 175, after rejecting to a description of the public improvements in by 250 to 20: an amendment by Mr. T. R. Manila, while other features of the work com- Buchanan, Liberal member for Perth, de- prise numerous views of Manila's fire depart-manding a reduction in national expenditure.

the defence contended that the stipulation, being unreasonable and oppressive, was therefore wair, and his Lordship, holding the same view, delivered a judgment in

the course of which he remarked that the restriction was far too wide, far wider than any protection the firm of Half and Holtz, Ltd., required. He held that they had no right to impose it on any person in the position of the defendant, as it was a restraint from trade which was not wanted for their protection, and one which he could not conceive the law to allow in any case. | Therefore, he gave judgment for the defend- ant with costs. The decision naturally created some surprise among the mercantile firms of Shanghai, and will, we think, be of no little interest to men in business houses A CHOLOE AFTER-DINNER WINE. in this Colony. Although it is seldom that the Supreme Court of Hongkong is called upon to adjudicate in similar cases the point raised before, and decided by, the Chief Justice of the Northern Settlement is one A. S. WATSON & Co., that is frequently discussed by young per- sons brought out from home and anxious to learn whether at the end of their agreements, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.otwithstanding a clause to the contrary,

LIMITED,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

Hongkong, 25th February, 1905,

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they will be in a position to make a start in business for themselves or seek employ- | ment with an opposition firm. Of course, they have opportunities of perusing the contracts before leaving home, and should realise the conditions under which they are engaged for service in the East. More often than not they are given to under- stand by "old hands,' that contracts made in respect of employment in China are rarely acted upon, and especially in the case of em- ployers seeking to restrain their employees who have left their service, from competing

local branch of the Association.

A REVISED list of j.stices of the Peace resid. ent is the Colony has been published for

general information.

A LIST of medicines exempted from the pro- viscous of section 12c. of the Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1904 has been issued. THE fosball match played yesterday on Queen's Recreation Ground hetween the Rovers F. C. and the usitano F. C. resulted in a draw with one goal each.

THE Bank of Japan has declared a dividend of 12 per cent. The sum of Y461,8t is carried forward, and the amount of Y550,000 is added

to the reserve.

CHARGED with cutting, wounding and extort ing money a scoundrel was sentenced by the Mixed Court at Shanght to a thousand blows and three years' hard labour.

CAPT. D. Macdonald, 1st Cinque Ports, Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, will carry out the duties of assistant adjutant, Hongkong Valunteer Corps, until further orders. GRAND Dke Cyril is stopping at San Remo for the benefit of his health, which suffered from his experience in the sinking of the battle- ship Petropavlovsk at Fort Arthur last April.

H.E. THE Governor has, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, appoint ed Mr. R. H. Crofton to be chief clerk in the Colonial Secretury's Office, vire Mr. M. J.

Drayson.

A Moji despatch states that six Chinese have been arrested at Port Arthur while attempting to set fire to the stores thers. The men are said to have been sent from the Shaho for this purpose.

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PARTICULARS and conditions of the letting by public auction sale of Kural Building Let, No. far, situate on Barker Read, and containing 29,416 square feet, subject to an annual rent of $168 has been issued. The upset price will be $3,530,

ment and an illustrated account of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. We note that Mr. is notified in the Gazette that an examina K. B. Westcott, a newspaper man of large, ex- tion, open to all qualified natural-born British|perience and recognized abilty, has joined the subjects, for appointment in the Civil Service staff of Mr. Rea's publications as assistant of India or for Eastern Cadetships in the Co-editor. lonial Service or fo. clerkships in the home Civil Service, will take place in London in August Dext.

A coot in the employ of Messrs. Lane

Crawford and Company was charged before

Mr. Hazeland-with the theft of three tins of coffee. On leaving the premises the coole secreted the goods and tried to get away with them, but the watchman was too much on the alert, and the result was that the coolie went to three weeks' hard labour.

A MEETING of H. M.'s Justices of the Peace will be held at the Magistracy, at 2.15 pm. on Tuesday, the 14th inst, for the purpose of considering an application from Joseph Henry Newbold for a publican's licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situated at No. 2, Shaukiwan Road, ander the sign of "The Metropole Hotel"

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PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the band of the rroth Mahratta Light Infantry on the New Parade Ground, on Monday next, from 4.30 to 6 pm-

March" Rastus on Parade".

Milla Selectlon Hue Hell in Fahyland "..............Slaughter. VALO." In the Twilight

...Coore. Intermezzo-Two-step. * AusnaTM

..Grey. ...Murator, Μαπεκιου.

Amare"

·Melodia Selection. A Country Girl Hag-ti

g-time-Dance." At a Georgia Camp Meeting "...Mi||6.

1 God save the King.

MR. J. Dyer Ball will deliver a lecturé io- morrow evening at 9 o'clock at the Young Men's Christian Association, European Depart

NAVAL NOTES.

H.M.'s. river gunboat Mearken, sailed this morning, ar 9.30, for the West River.

Young men have been joining the Royal Navy so quickly during this year that already the supply exceeds the demand, and in conse- quence the standard of size and education has

been mised.

It is pleasing to note that, while the Army are having all new guns for field service, the Navy is also to get a new 12 pounder quick firing wire gun for work ashore. The gun will be provided with new breech machanism, which will give it a much higher muzzle velo city.

FIRE BRIGADE EXHIBITION.

In the Fire Brigade Exhibition which took place on the ground at the back of the Ko Shin Theatre fast evening, in the presence of His Excellency the Governor and party, the following were the results in time, of the various teams competing with the fire escapes and bamboo ladders--Foreman Fenton's team went through the various evolutions in 5 min. 56 seconds., Foreman Wait's team in 5 min. 39 seconds, and Foreman Grant's team in 5 min. 3 seconds.

Foleman Grant's team was thus declared the winner of the Shield, which will be presented

Russian Reform.

Later.

The workmen of St. Petersburg yesterday selected 200 electors, whose duty it will be to appoint representatives on the Commis- sion referred to io telegram of the arst February last. Afterwards, at the meeting of electors, which is the first meeting of workmen permitted in St. Petersburg, it was decided to refuse to carry out the task unless three thousand workmen arrested since the 22nd January are immediately released, and other demands, including inviolability of the person and domicile, and freedom of speech and of the press, granted,

The Chinese Engineering and

Mining Co.'s Case. The protracted suit, H. E. Chang yen- mao, representing the Chinese Engineering & Mining Co. of Tientsin, versus Messrs. Moreing and others, in the Chancery Court, has ended in a judgment for the plaintiff on all the important points.

The Times in a leader says that H. D.. Chang yen-mao returns to China amid general esteem. The affair undoubtedly shook Chinese confidence in British good faith, but the judgment will be re-assuring.

SHIPPING JEISAM.

The coxswain of the steam launch, Kwong We, was charged at the instance of Inspector Langley with mooring his launch near the Fish Market, without exhibiting any light after dark

a danger to navigation. He was fined $10, and warned against appearing on a similar charge in future.

with them in a similar line of business. There A TELEGRAM has been received in Tokio stat-ment, Alexandra Bildings, on the subject, at a later date. Notwithstanding the wea her when anchored last night, and thereby causing

are but few cases la Hongkong, where eming that the Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin of the ployees have endeavoured to open up a rival King of Italy, who was recently in Hongkong business, while those in which assistants and who left Italy in the beginning of February have been restrained from joining an opposi- for Japan, has returned home on account of the tion firm at the termination of their contracts illness of the Duchess. have generally been brought about by some disagreement between the parties. It is not reasonable to suppose that after a three years' SPIRIT MERCHANTS, engagement a servant desires to join a rival

AND

HONGKONG,

34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

FIRST FLOOR,

[WM. POWELL & Co's old premises).

WHITE WINES.

Graves

Graves Superieur

Sauternes ...

per case quarts.

...$ 9.00

31.00

establishment simply by way of a change, and if he is not in a position to open up business for himself in some other port and has no wish to return home it is hard indeed that he should be compelled to start a new career.

AT the United States Mint 558 boxes of Philip pine coins have been delivered for transport to Manila. These are old Spanish coins, re- claimed by the Government and recoined, amounting to 1,036,000 pesos, and also 600, co pesos in 20-centavos preces

THE new bell tower for the great bell cast at Osaka in 1993 is now in course of construction.

The foundations of the tower have been com

the finishing touches to the ball. tion. Wurkmen are now employed in giving

"The Primeval Conception of God in China, and Primitive Religion of the Chinese." Mr. Ball is the best authority in South China on this subject, and should have a large audience. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Take the lift for the top floor.

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THE "Country Git" was aguin staged at the Theatre Royal last night, by the Dallas Baudmann Company, to witness which a viry fair audience had assembled, despite the in- clemency of the weather. Quite one of the features of the performance was the dancing, of which there was a good deal interspersed. throughout the piece. The "Country Girl! will be stayed again to-night, and on Monday

new to Hongkong,

MK, Barry, a well known engineer and brother of Sir Wolfe Barry, arrived at Tientsin on 20th ult, with Major Nathan, R.E., both having come overland from Shanghai via Hankow and

up

Peking. Mr. Barry is an old hand out here and was at Chinwangtao in 1897 and from there went on through Manchuria. He is said to be connected with the proj cied Canton from Shanghai via Sonchow to Nanking. He Kowloon Railway and with the other railway

was to leave for Chinwangtao on the 21st-ult, en route for the south.

THE case in which Indian Constable Karim

The fault seems to be rest with those at pleted and the bell was recently placed in posi. will give place to The Orchid", a piece home who have the responsibility of engag ing assistants for business houses in the East. Were they to make it clear to suc cessful candidates for colonial appointments | Tu - Jiji states that full inventories have now that every clause of their contracts would be been taken of everything at Port Arthur, and strictly adhered to instead of giving the that the whole place is under Japanese control assistants to understand that some of the by Japanese methods, with the exception of the hospitals where thousands of Russian sick clauses are the usual thing' and embodied as a matter of form, there would be less possible ur advisable to attempt any radical and wounded are lying. It has not been found disputes between employers and employed. changes in these. Things are carried on just The question, however, must be looked at as they were in the days of Russian occupation, from two standpoints; for, as the A. C. except, of course, that there is ample provision D. News points out, in cases of this kind of surgeons, nurses and medical necessaries. public sympathy is nearly always on the side of the employee. "Employers," it states, "are regarded as rapacious and soul-less per- sons-especially if they have the misfortune to be a corporation—who are trying to pre vent a poor young person from earning an honest living, and the finger of scorn is 18.00 pointed at them accordingly. The public is apt to forget that the employer was of full age when he signed the contract, and must be presumed to have known what he was signing; that he was probably very glad at the time to get the position which the con- tract secured him; and that employers would N.B.-All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at be very foolish to pay an assistant's expenses out from home, keep him for three years

Sauternes Superieur...

Chateau La Tour de l'Ile

Chablis

Meursault ...

Montrachet

མ་

++

400

11.00

18.00

75.00

31.50

bome, thereby ensuring to our Customers all the advantages, accruing from bottling

and teach him his business and the local conditions, and then allow him, when he had become thoroughly acquainted with done at home under the direct supervision those conditions, to start in business for of the Growers and Distillers as compared himself, or join a competing firm.

It is

to bottling done in China by Chinamen hardly reasonable for the employee to make

at the service of European Firms.

Hongkong, 10th December, 1904.

his employers observe all the conditions of

the contract that are favourable to himself,

· [33-i | and then evade the condition by which bis

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor has been pleased to appoint provisionally and until further notice Mr. G. N. Orme to be assistant Registrar General and deputy Registrar of Marriages, vice Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, with effect from the 8th instant; also Mr. S. D. C. Ross to perform the duties and exercise the jurisdiction of a police magistrate, and to be an assistant Superintendent of Police, vics Mr. E. D. C, Wolfe, with effect on and from

the Eth instant,

THE following returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 28th ult, as certified by the managers of the respective banks, are published in the Gasette

Average Specie Banks.. Amount. in Reserve Chartered Bank

India, Australia and China, Hongkong and Shang. hal Banking Cor poration, 18,715,949 -13,000,000 National Bank of

China, Limited,248,877 150,000

of

$3,610,453 $2,400,000

Total......$23,575,279

and the mud pools in which the men had to work, and which considerably handicapped their movements, a comparison of the tinies with those of last year show that each team earpassed it previous record.

The following composed the competing

team!—

Foreman Fenton's-Garrod, Watt, Boole, Cullifent, Wiliams, Hayes, Walker, Hedge Spencer, Davitt, and Shepherd.

Foreman Watt's-Appleton, Fowler, Mills, Murphy, Adlington, Farr, Fox, Winyard, Earner and Brown.

Foreman Grant's-Macdonald, O'Sullivan, Lee, Rutledge, Evans, Cooper, Fyfe, Hedge, Counsell, Joncs and Sutherland.

SWATOW COOLIES FOR SAMOA.

The master of the steam launch Emerald,

Hazeland, this morning, with blowing his was charged by Inspector Langley, before Mi, whistle most unnecessarily and against the peace and quietude of the neighbourhood, in

the harbour, at half-yast ten o'clock last night. The defendant said he was re-calling his engi neer who was on shorel Mr. Hazeland said he mast not do so in that fashion, and to help

him to remember that fact he would fine him $25.

It is not strange that the American Associa His Excellency, owing to other engagetion of Masters and lots is thinking seriously ments, was unable to stay throughout the of trying to have American versels compelled whole exhibition, and left about five o'clock,

to carry the so-called "Plimsoll mark" that all after addressing a few remarks to the Captain British craft have on their sides. It is not that Superintendent of Pufice. Several of the evolu- perhaps American vessels do not need it any more tions were then repeated.

than the English ships needed it before 1876, but as a trademark, a sign to indicate that the vessel bearing it has been inspected by the Government, the mark has done much to aid We understand that, during the past month British shipping. Mr. Plimsoll fought a long Mr. Van Drees, the Transvaal Chinese Re-

battle before a Parliament accepted his views,;. cruiting Agent, his been engaged in recruiting and he credited bis interest in the subject a number of Swalow caclies for shipment to largely to bis wife. "It was all on account of Samoa. At the present time some 600 of these | Eliza," he once explained publicly, and the people are ready to be sent to the German phrase became popular in England, and was Colony, where the farmers have made arrange. used as the refrain to a topical song.

South Africa, for the coolies to work on the meats, much on the lines of those ruling in

RETURN OF THE CANZON farms. Only a few hundred are required, and

VICEROY,

Elahi was charged with the larceny of a watch, chain and trinkets from a coolic, and attempting to obtain a bribe of $zo from the same mat, WBS concluded before Mr. Hazeland, at the Magit-

as soon as the arrangements for chartering a tracy yesterday, when His Worship said that noted for being strong and industrious, will be steamer are completed the coolies, who are there was absolutely no case to go before a jury, embarked and taken to Farios. and the accused was accordingly discharged from custody. The complainant was severely reprimanded for the manner in whi h he had FOOTBALL CHALLENGE SHIELD. given his evidence, which had brought him very -close to a prosecution for perjury,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

The match between the Blangkong Football Club and the Royal West Kent Regiment, play SOMETHING Unusual seemed in the air last even-ed on the Happy Valley, this afternoon, resulted ing when, at 9.15, a sharp crack coming from the in a draw. vicinity of the harbour followed, a few minutes The game H.M.S. Albion v. Navy Yard, was later, by a second, aroused the majority of the also drawn. inhabitants from the peacefulness of liqueurs and cigarettes. There was no caute for alarm, however, as the military authorities were only discharging a few patent rockels from the Nayal Yard. Towards midnight there was com motion of a different kind on the Queen's Road Central when a number of noisy and somewhat bibulous pedestrians were clamouring for ric shas and making use of language that the pro- verbial Thames bargeo would exclude from ble dictionary of strango epitheta,

MAILS DUE. French (7ourse) 6th inst. Indian (Lightning) 6th inst.. Canadian (Athenian) 7th inst.: Indian (Susang) 14th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) and inst.

The

Rudi left Manila on Saturday at xr am, and is dus bare Monday at 3.30 p.m.

HIS UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL.

(From Our Correspondeus.).

Canton, 3rd March.

H, E. Tsen Chun-bsuen, Viceroy of the Two

Kwang provinces, arrived here unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. from Wuchaw where ba has been staying during the past few months. I A telegram was received the previous afternoon... stating that he had left the West River port by gunboat and was steaming in the direction of Canton. Consequently a large number of officials started out on gunboats and launches to meet him, but for some reason or another. His Excellency disembarked at Samehui and, made the remainder of the journey by train, and subsequently landed at Tui Tso Ma Tau at 3 p.m. No one knew of his arrival and it was not before he was back in his Yemen that peo ple were apprised of the fact that H.E. was in' the city. It is stated on good authority that the Viceroy has come down in consequence of the French wishing to have a guard stationed around the concession na which the cathedral stands owing to a party of roughs having dam-. aged the property. This is what a French priest alleges, and the French Consul is reporte ed to be claiming compensation,