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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1905

MORE EXTRADITIONS WANTED | act of kindness to acknowledge the work of the

BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

25th ult, Te Kam Shing, of Cheung Chan village, and Chung Kang Tai, of Kuk Shui Po village, both in the district of Kwang Mia, under the jurisdiction of the Chiness Government, were placed before Mr. F.A. Hazeland, at the Magis tracy this morning, when Inspector Gauld ap: peared for their extradition, they being wanted in China on charges of committing armed rob bery in the districts mentioned. The case was remanded for one week to procure the neces Bury evidence from China.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do nas necessarily endorse the opinions axpræted by Correspondents in this column.)

Europeans, especially seeing that they had al ready deprived them of the bonus, which they had received as a inatter of course in the old days.

The annual meeting takes place to morrow, and I trust that some of the shareholders will see the force of these remarks and endeavour, in so far as they possibly can. to get the services of the few European members of the staff recognised, if not pecuniarily at least in some way as to show them that they have not laboured in vain and that their work is not forgotten. Verbal admiration is a line thing to give, but a graceful tribute of appreciation never lost a good servant yel, and the Hong! kong Hotel Company have good servants.--| Im, etc.

SUAREHOLDER.

Hongkong, 27th March,

HE, AND THE FRENCH CONVENT.

A VISIT OF INSPECTION,

HONGKONG ROPE MANUFAL-

TURING COMPANY, LTD...

me half was bought, was pulled down and the *pace is to be left unbuilt upon. It was pro posed to adapt the remaining two houses for District Watchnen's quarters, but eventually The report of the Directors of this Company it was decided to pull down the old building! for presentation to the shareholders at the and re-erect u more suitable one at a cost of twenty-first ordinary general meeting on Satur-55,300. Three hundred and thirty-five con- victions were obtained before the Police day, 8th April, is as follows:--

Magistrate during the year through the in strumentality of District Watchman,

Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders the annual statement of accounts made up to the 31st December, 1904.

The nel profit including the balance brought forward from lut year amounts to $121,137.07 which it is proposed to appropriate as follows:-

To place to reserve fund...$ 10,000.00 To pay a dividend of 20% 100, 00.00 To carry forward to next

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MARKET REVBAUE,

The revenue from the lease of market premises in Hongkong during last year shews an increnas of 94,619, distributed fairly evenly among all the year's account we 11,137.07 markets, with the exception of the Tai-kok-tsui Consulting Committee. Mr. J. H. Lewis market, where an increase in business is not to having left the Colony, Mr. H. P. While was be looked for just yet, and the Des Voeux Road invited to take his place on the consulting | market. The latter is not a complete success committee, and Dr. J. W. Noble was also from a revenue point of view, says the Regis invited to join the committee. In accordance

Irar General in his annual report. At the end THE A ERICAN TAR ASHORE

with articles of association, Messrs. A. J. Ray- of 1903 there were 32 shops and stalls occupied TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong TelegRAPII."

mond, D. E. Brown, H. P. White and Dr. J. W. out of 43 at the end of 1904 there were only Noble retire, but offer themselves for re-election. 10 The revenue for the month of December Sir-No one loves the happy-go-lucky Jack.

Auditors The accounts have been audited fell from $245 in 1903 to $75 in 1904 The tar more than 1 do, a feeling which doubtles

At half past ten o'clock this morning, is by Mens. T. Arnold and W. H. Potts, who extension to the Wanchai market was ready for was fostered in early days by a violent course of Kingston, Materyal, Gordon Stables and other Excellency the Governor, Sir Matthew Naare recommended for re-election.

occupation on the 1st April. All the stalls with SHEWAN, TOES & CO., one exception are let, and the revenue for writers. He was always depicted as a harum-than, K.C.M.G., paid a visit to this most deserv

ng institution, and spent considerably more

General Managers. scarum individual, with an immense capacity

December was $372, compared with $119 for for getting into crapes and setting a whole han three hours in a thorough inspection of

the same month f the previous year. The in- he building. As usual the visit was attended -The accounts are as follows:-

creased accommodation provided in the So-kon- town by the ears. Tom Cringle was as bad as

with that complete and minute attention to

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT any of them, andas for the Three Lieutenants"

go market is still considerably in excess of the «ery detail which characterizes everything of

For the year ended 3131 December, 1904. needs of the neighbourhood, which is not a very their pranks could not be stopped. "Even in

...$4,087.54 pabulous one, whilst restaurant and eating actual every day life we have the story of Lord his sort underlaken by our Governor, nothing Interest

128.77 house keepers and those who have to feed a Charles Beresford, whose popularity reats upon being passed over, and nothing being over Exchange............................. the fact that he was the wildest of a mad set of tanked. Every ward of the hospital, every Auditors' fees....... 400.00 large number of employés, get their supplies 1,000.00 from the Wanchai market despite the distance, midshipmen, and only enjoyed himself when lormitory, every patients' room, the childrens' Consulting committee fees.............

15,151.14 Licences for the sale of food outside the getting into trouble. The question of the esca nurseries, the scholars' class-tooms, the refect Depreciation for 1904 written off

Balance .......

... $2,137.07 markets are issued by the Sanitary Board and pides of Jack ashole came to my mind when rica, a' came in for a thorough and close

sċcount for an sucrease of $2, 113. watching half-a-dozen American blue-jacketsxamination by His Excellency, and the re-

$144,954.62 scuffling and crawling in the mud of Queen's Road the o her night Far be it from me to pose as an ao; rather the reverse, but it does seem to net ut excessive discipline bas not exactly the eff.ct one would expect.

ule was undoubtedly mutually gratifying, alike to Sar Matthew, as to the good Sisters who are here so quietly carrying on a work, which, on ccount its very cosmopu itan chract- er, and entire absence of any distinction discrimination between colours and creeds, is deserving of the support of the entire community. In this institution the patient toil of these Sisters is everywhere in evidence, for from roof to basement cleanliness prevails, even in every nook and cranny, while the pro ductions of the nimble fingers of aged and blind Chinese women, are things to marvel at. Dainly laces, silk embroideries, frocks for ladies and girls in the most delicate work are to be seen in abundance. Nor are the other sex overlooked, for there are smoking caps slippers, cigar, cigarette and caitl cases all in excellent einbroidered covers, and all showing the utmost refinement in taste, and priced at figures that appear beyond belief

On board ship Jack is subject to all sorts and conditions of petly martinership. he gets up at a certain hour, his allowances of food and drink are doled out to him and he leads the life of a St. Antony. For months he will remain at peace with the world, unless there is An occasional grow! about extra duty. Then all at once he gels shere leave, and what happens? Nothing can hold hins. Discipline is thrown to the winds; all thought of those weary days spent in regular routine work is cast aside. The funny part is that people speak about discipline as if it were a sort of ingrained sixth sense. "Give a man dis cipline, they say, "and nothing will tempt hi from the beaten track." Where Jack is

His Excellency, wis was accompanied by concerned that is certainly a fallacy. There is no man subjected a more stringent forms of Mr. Montefiore, a visitor to this Colony, on discipline than Jack aboard ship; and there is her way round the world, took a very keen in

terest and expressed himself ns most pleased no mun more undisciplined than Jack ashore.

It is hardly fair, perhaps, to hang these ideas with all he saw in every department, and con on the visit of the American fleet to Hong versed with many of the patients the hospi kong; but it is a fact that Hongkong has tal, so that the good Sisters were enthusiastic not been so lively for months as at is in their expressions of the honour and pleasure at the present time.

You see American Excellency's visit had been to them, espe bluejackets at every corner; no: a 'ricksha cially when he promised, on leaving, that it can be got because Jack has chartered it; would not be long before he called on them every hotel is crammed with the ubiquitous once again, -tar. He is found in every sort of position, and the joke of it all is that the ordinarily saber- visaged man, with an eye of contempt for all things and everybody, who sees evil in the colour of the violet, turns a benevolent eye upon Jack's follies and smiles at his frolics. There used to be a song. We all love Jack, and it

seams to me that no truer word was never said. Whatever his faults he is good at the buttum, but wouldn't it be possible to get him to restrain himself just a little bit? Uf course we can't expect miracles, but, really, the American Jack tar (I dont see why i shouldn't say the British far also) is a trifle too strong for the ordinary Jandsman.. I am, cic,

II. J. B.

Hongkong, 25th March, 1905,

HONGKONG, HOTEL EMPLOYES' GRIEVANCE.

TO THE EDITOR of the "Honuzong TeleoraPK."

SIR-It is curious how prosperity affects some individuals and corporatious. When the

PROP SED ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION.

So great is the work and so inerea ing the demand on the accommodation at the disposal of the Eisters that it has been found necessary to have an extension made, and for this purpose Government has granted the Convent a site to the cast of the Race Course, and there a branch of the Convent Hospital will be established for the reception of patients suffering from such diseases, as make their presence in the present hospital dangerous 10 uiler patients. In con- section with this Convent it is regrettable to learn that the good Sisters are increasingly made the dupes of ne'er-do-well beachcombers, who at all hours of the day and night, ring the bells and persistently pester the sisters for assistance--but in meney only, for the most part they refuse food! Being situated on the Praya, the Convent is so easily accessible to that very undesirable class, who knew nothing of the work done by the Sisters, nor the heavy re- sponsibility weighing constantly upon them to provide for the daily needs of their hundreds of aged, blind, crippled women, girls, and

Balance brought forward from 1903 Balance from working account!

BALANCE SHEET, Lisbilities. Capital

10,000 shares a $50 paid-up Reserve fund.... Sundry creditur

Due to general magers Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation...gin Balance of prudit and loss acerunt

vel

Land, factory, machinery,

&c, as per tast a/c...$245,00000 Since expended......... 6,15144

$251,151.14 Less depreciation... 15.451.14

Rope, hemp, Re, in factory, valued at Rope on consignment, valued at... Fire insurance premia, for 1905...... Sundry debrors...

$ 8395-13 136,509.49

$144,904 62

$50,000.00 50,000 00 6,8c8 84 2,995.75

71,000,04 121,137.07 3751,941.70

-$136 000,00 207,257.91 98 470.00 1,432.31

Cash in hand... Investment of reserve fund-

3,800 sharesi the China Provident Loan and Mortgave Cg,, Ld, at $8.....

........$32400 CO 2,5co share in the China Light and Power Co,

Ld. (New is de) at $8 20,000,00

95.950.25 3,4 1523

50,400.00

$751.941.70

IVERE YOU AN APRIL FOOLI

OTHERS WERE,

THE CANE OF THE EMIGRANT.

WHAT IS DONE IN RONGKONG.

During the past year many statements have appeared in print concerning the emigration of Chinese not only to the South African gold. fields, but also to the Straite and other quarters of the globe in search of weahb, In some instances it was shown that persons had been enticed into the Colony on the promise of re- munerative employment and kept here in con- finement pending the departure of steamers for the south. It is recognised by the Registrar- General that the problems of how to protect male emigrants without unduly hampering emigration is hard to solve. That abuses do exist is no orious, and an examination of the 337 migrants by a steamer on the 15th October last, proved that there was ample justi. fication for common report. "Acting on special instructions, writes the Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin in his report for the year 1904, "the assistant Harbour Master and I visited the steamer after the emigrants had embarked, and detained 26, men who we suspected had not been present at the examination in the Harbour Master's Office and were being taken a road by fraud or misrepresentation. Our suspicions were proved correct in the case of 13, several of them young lads. Unfortunately no barge could be laid against any one. The Imigration-house Bye-laws are under revision and several much needed alterations will be made." Unhampered emigration butemigration freed from the abuses that common report still ronnects with it is of the greatest importance to Hongkong, and to the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, and the problem this Government has to solve, says the Registrar General, is bow to prevent and detect fraud and intimidation, without discouraging not only male emigration, but female emigration also Intending emigrants are examined by the as- sistant Registrar General, and where he sus pects fraud or intimidation the Registrar Gene ral re-examines and decides as to whether de tention is necessary or not. The large majority of the emigrants are obviously above suspicion, and nothing more than an examination of the photograph and a few questions are called for. Out of 11,521 perions examined before embarkation last year 135, or 1.2 per cent, werC detained for inquiries; of these, 74 were ulti- being made.

" PRE-INVASION”, SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN DISBASE.

OBSERVATIONS OF HONGKONG MEDICOS,

Dr. James Cantlis, who will long ba ramem. bered for the good work he carried on for so many years in this Colony, has written a most nteresting article for his widely read Journal of Tropical Medicine. He says that from a study of the signs and symptoms of certain diseases recently brought forward by severni observers in different parts of the Tropics, it would appear to be necessary to recast our text-book tescriptions to some,, or even to a marked, extent. In the commoner ailments, such as scarlet fever, typbald, smallpox, &c, the descriptions of the periods of incubation are passed over in our text-books, with a mere com inent the sum and substance baing that inde. finite symptoms may prevail during incubation, but they are of such a natura as to occasion no necessity for accurate description. In measles is allowed that signs and symptoms of a com- on cold may prevail before the invasion period sets in, but this amount of admission is exceptional in other ailments.

How far this is true there is no means of knowing; clinical observation seldom begins until the stage of invasion develops with in- crease of temperature and it may be of rigors. We have become accustomed to accept this teaching, but we have no guarantee that it is uc, and when we gauge these statements in the light of what we have learned lately in the case. of plague and beri-bari, we have some reason to doubt the belief. In the case at plague we have dated our descriptions hitherto

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28th ulta

Jugment has been delivered by the Calcutta High Court in the case brought by the Secret nry of State against the P. and O. Company for damages alleged to have been caused to the pilot brig Alice by the Company's steamer Sunda. The suit was dismissed with costs.

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population of Shanghal on 22nd inst to the A rumour was current among the native effect that the lado-China Navigation Co steamet King Sing had struck a floating mine during her passage across the Gulf of Pachili, The C. M. S. Hslebho, which arrived, there from Tientsin, reported that on her voyage from Shanghai to Tientsin the LC. S. Liens thing sighted a floating mine, and from distance of zoo yards fired at and exploded same with rifles. This is probably what gaya had struck a mine and been blown up. rise to the rumour that the 1.-C. B. King Sing

29th aft. The C. N. S. Anhut has been chartered by the N. Y. K. for its Shanghal service,

The N. Y. K. has also, chariered the C. N, S. Tinan, and the Norwegian teamers Sverri and Skärpeno,

The news of the impending opening of Now. chwang caused a tremendous rush at the. Shanghai Custom-house on Friday when some 7,000 applications for export permits were made.

The collier Romulus, for Vladivostok,, which was stopped by the Kasuga, had her plates stove in by floating ice, and was beached in a sinking condition near Misawamura. She is an old vessel with defective ballers.

The German ship Robert Rickmers, 3,174. tons, which left Philadelphie for Kobe with a cargo of kerosene oil on the 15th of June last, and was reported in the Macassar Strait on the 26th of October last, has been given up as lost.

irom the onset of fever with budo, fever with pneumonia, ur fever with evidence of septic- nemic infection. The sbservations of Drs. 1. Bull and Wm Hunter, in Hongkong have modified this clinical record. They have slawn us that; before the so-called initial fever and bubo, there is a period of gastro. Captain McKinnon of the C. N. S. His intestinal catarrb, attended by a preliminary fung, which arrived at Shanghai on Friday rise of temperatue occurring during what we from Tientsin, reported that when about thres have hitherto considered to the symptomless miles S.. by S. of the North-east Promontory, incubation period of plague. They have he saw a drifting mine and circled slowly bacillus in the blend which was considered a even stated that the presence of the plague round it, firing at it with all the rifles on board the steamer. It was struck twice, the second late development in plague is nothing of the shot exploding it, at a distance of about a hun kind; the bacillus has been found by these dred yards from the steamer. A columa of. observers in the blood of persons suffering from water was thrown into, the air, some twenty symptoms which did not even indicate that feet in diameter, a glass in one of the vessel's plague was threatening. Attention has already skylights was broken, and a lamp in the chief been drawn in the Journal to the epidemiologi-officer's room was knocked to pieces and pieces cal importance of these observations, but the of iron fell in a shower, some of them on the matter goes deeper and opens up a wide sphere vessel. No one was hurt. Capt. McKinnon for investigation. Are we correct in assuming opines that it would be decidedly unsafe to go that in other ailments the symptoms during the nearer than a hundred yards to one of these incubation period are of secondary clinical pestilent contrivances if it were intended. to significance ?

explode it.

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Ia beri-beri Dr. Hamilton Wright alto draws attention to what we have termed "pre-invasion" symptoms. We are accustomed to regard a slight cedema over the shins, patches of anesthesia over the front of the leg, the dorsum of the foot, the finger-tips and other parts, ac- companied by marked pain when the calves of the legs are pinched, as the initial signs and eymptoms of this disease. Dr. Wright, however, lonks upon these evidences of beri. beri as rather late developments, and de- scribes a period of gastro-intestinal catarrh with preliminary fugitive fever as yet earlier indien tions of infection. The duodenitis theory of beri beri advanced by Dr. Wright would explain the appearance of early Alimentary canal infection in beri-ber, and both clinical and portmortem records point to the justifica tion of the contention.

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With these facts before as it behoves us to examine more carefully the symptoms of all our diseases during the incubation period; for by so doing, not only may the spread of in fection be possibly curtailed, but means of arresting the disrase even in the individual attacked might be under nken with a greater degree of hope for successful treatment.

That malarial parasites are present in the bloed long-it may be years-before feverish symptoms arrest attention is well known, and, could we call so extended a time the incuba tion period of malaria, we have another and most important addition to the diseases which exhibit definite indications of infection before

Hongkong Hotel Company was a struggling infanis, and they surely should be protected paper with stran er signs than "Excelsior" matcly allowed to leave without any order recognised clinical evidence is forthcoming.

concern, bailling for dividends and tearing out the vitals of the employes in order that another hall per cent, might be added to the profit and loss account, the directors were as good as gold to the willing horses who were responsible for the results attained. They showed their ap- preciation of the employes energy and faith- ful service, by giving them a bonus of a month's salary at the end of the year. That was money well spent, for it induced all the employes, Chinese and European alike, to hustle around with increased determina tion to do their best by the Company.and to secure its success That the money was laid out to advantage was p:oved by the fact that the business of the hotel steadily rose in volume, and shareholders had the satisfaction of seeing good balances and good dividends at the end of a year's operations.

against these men, even if it requires extra police patrols in the locality.

KILTS IN HONGKONG.

SCOTSMEN GET A WHIFF OF THE HILLS, 31st ull,

SYSTEM OF EXAMINATION,

It was suggested this morning that April Fools' Day had passed away--"into the Limbo of Forgotten Things," as one Clubman put it, But there are one or two jokers in Hongkong, who have a lively-not to say an embarassing recollection of the old days when pieces of were adhibited to their cnastasis. Why it should seem funny to tack a motto to a man's coat is one of those curious fantasies which the

It has been said that the present system of world will never make nut. "At the same time examination and the possibility of detention the humour of the Situation, when a poor de act as a deterrent in respectable women luded individual chase: round the twon in emigrating. This is quite possible, and the search of something that does not exist, will | tion. Mr. Brewin states that Le has known appeal to everybody. Indeed, it is wonderful | cases where it has happened. Last year, fl what humour can be extracted from the respectable women were detained, and in the No wonder that the Scots in Hongkong were

faintest symptom of fun, sa long as the victim Case of 21 of these, it was found on further ex- prancing around the city to-day with a lil on

is the other man. A good story is being told amination that there was no cause for deten their lips and a swagger in their gait. A whiff-strictly sub ros-in the h. One of partion. But the cases of these women are of the misty Grampians and a breath of the

mast respected ci izens-would it be wrong invariably investigated the evening of their heathery dales had come to them like a mes 10 say that he was a harrister?-carefully detention by the Committee of the To Leung sage from home. It was all the result of Ameandered round the Club with monstrous | Kuk, and if the result of the investigation is couple of lads wearing kilts in the city it notice behind him. It was evidently the satisfactory, they are released the next morning not given to many to tell the colours of the composition of are who had passed the and enabled to proceed on their voyage by the Scottish clans, but on chance that it is

Oxford preliminacy 11 read-"Poeta nás- steamer by which they have taken their citur non fit-also kick." One man, a big, burly passage. One of the causes of the detention individual, took advantage of the occasion and of women who are ultimately se cased is a habit kicked. Feathers and fur were flying for a they and their relatives have of inventing a Day reconciled the thers. A cashier in disbelieved. The invention breaks down on few moments, bu: the good old April ools story when they think the time facts will be

a shipping office in Hongkong saw great examination and the suspicons of the examin- Opportunity for fun. Instead of enclosing ing officer are naturally aroused Sull there have been several cases where although the cheques for the employees, he sent them envelopes with the strange device "Thou art story told had obviously been fabricated he has an April fool. Somehow or another the re- thought the behaviour and appearance of the cipients of these letters-minus enclosures parties justified his passing them. did not appreciate the joke, They actually clamoured for their salaries, ao almost un-

hill, had to wheel a wheel-barrow through the known thing in business circles, There is a rumour that an American, who stays on the areets broad and narrow, crying Cockles," etc, but General Bragg discredits that story, good as it is. The fact seems to be that Apri Fools are few and far between nowadays,

HONGKONG'S DISTRICT

WATCHMEN.

NAVAL NOTES.

A FINE BIG OUN SCORE.

The N. S. di Begona, which arrived yesterday morning, the Manila Coblenames of 26th uit, says, from Nueva Caceres and Daet, brought several officers and the stewards of the steamer Pharsalla which is ashore in the Ban Bernardino straits. The Phantalla is in bad position, though hopes are still entertained by some that she may be floated.

The steamier Borneo recently purchased from the Sabah Steamship Co., of Sandakap, by the South Philippines Steamship Co. made her formal change of allegiance on the rath ult, by hauling down the Union Jack" and raising "Old Glory" in its stead. The Borneo was to leave that day for Sandakan to undergs certain necessary repairs prior to being placed in commission. Upon her return she will make regular trips to all provincial ports.

CHINA NAVIGATION CO'S ENTERPRISE.

MR. H. A. HANCE IN ZAMBOANGA. Zamboanga, March 18-Mr. H. A. lance, marine agent of the China Navigation Com pany has come and gone, but while here he arranged a schedule of passenger and freight rates from Hongkong, and vice versa, which are very much less than those given by Manila shipping firms. On many items, the freight rate from Hongkong to this port is less than half, and on all articles is at least as per cant less than thoss from Manila. When it is con sidered that the prices paid for imports in Hongkong are very much below those in Manila, and that in addition to the saving in freights and commissions the duties paid are expended in this province, the new arrangement is most gratifying. The passenger rate to Hongkong is $30, gold, oneway, and 550, gold, round trip, first-class passage. The present rate from Zamboange to Manila is $40 gold.

28thull. High score with the six-inch pun have been so frequent of late that they excite but little

In an interview with a Herald representative, interesi, says a naval correspondent. A per Mr. Hance said that his company was out for formance achieved by a peity officer of the the business of the port, and that it could bà cruiser 4 tree, on the China station, however, depended upon that they would lead every a deserves notice. Firing at three thousandsistance to the local merchants. While here yards' range, this man made 99 per cent. of Mr. Hance extended to every mercantile firm hita. It appears that this remarkably fine of this city one complimentary round-trip-first shooting was largely due to the use of a new kind of cross, sight. Yet with the evidence that is continually being furnished as to the great importance of good sights, the Admiralty continue sending to sea ships whose gun-sights are not correctly adjusted.

29th ult.

HMS. Glory, wit Admiral Sir Gerard Noci aboard, is now in Mirs Bay, where she dropped anchor at 5 p.m. on Sunday last.

It is reported from Cavite that the battle- ships Wisconsin and Oregon and the torpedo boats Bainbridge, Dale, Decatur, Chauncey, and Barry are to return to Cavite immediately EMIGRATION HOTELS AND H`USER

after the docking work at Kowloon has been During the year 1904, so hotels and 32 completed. This action is said to be taken by the U.S. naval authorities on account of the emigration-houses (for men only) were li cenced. At the end of the year there were prevalence of bubonic plague in Hongkong |

The monitor Monadnock was towed into 48 hotels and 14 emigration-houses holding licences, as against so hotele and 16 emigra Manila from the target range on the 2nd ult. in a disabled condition, owing to a crack in tion-house at the close of 1003. The total number of emigrants passed by the Emigra. the cylinder head of her starboard engines. It tion Officer and by the Registrar Ceneralis reported that the Monadnock bas beaten the during the year was 76,304. The so hotels score of the Oregon with her thirteen inch afford accommodation for 3,267 persons and guns, but the exact score could not be obtain. employ 1,011 servants, so that the numbered. It would have to be remarkable shooting as the boys of the "Bulldog" made 54 hits of guests that can be accommodated at one time is 2,356. It is not only intended emigrants in 58 shot with the thirteen inch guna. who are accommodated in these hotels, but people returning to China, besides numbers of temporary visitors to Hongkong. The 14 emigration houses can legally accommodate 264 persons, but as they employ Bg servants the number of emigrants in them at any one time cannot exceed 175. The largest house fiscated. can accommodate 41 emigrants, but there is one which can or ly accommodate 3, three 4, and two 6. These houses are obviously only emigration offices. The Protector of Chinese at Singapore mentions in his annual report for 1903 that 12,177 unpaid passengers arrived

Mr. Hashimoto, a Nagasaki contractor, has from Hongkong during the year. All of these been empowered to try and raise the sunken should have passed through the 14 licensed Russian men-of-war at Port Arthur. emigration houses and have spent 48 hours there, it is unfortunate that so far, it has been found impossible to appoint an Inspec tor to ensure the enforcement of the law. The revenue derived from these licences was $2,820.

A right guess, the kilts worn by the boys were Royal Start and Macdonald. At any rade they But although it was deemed wise to give the were Scotch; the sporians were Scotch, and entire staff a bonus of a month's salary or half the feathered glengarry was the Scotchest of a-month's salary at the end of each year when all. What the Chinese thought of it is another no dividends were being paid, directly the question. They gathered in knots round the business began to prosper and the efforts of two cotties, who looked in amazed wonder at the employes evidenced in the overturn, away the conumotion they were making.

I oyal went the bonuses to the Euroaan members of cotsmen were actually seen to past half a dozen the Hongkong Hotel suff The Chiness bars in order to get a glimpse of the tartan once employes still continue to receive their again. They immediately made up for their bonus, but not a penny beyond his actual temporary aberration by ordering double salary does the unfortunate European allowances of Scotch. Meanwhile the kit get. The grim humour of the thing is that ed laddies walked along Queen's Road at in the employment of the Hotel Company, the ese street arabs seemed to think that while there are only half a dozen Europeans the head of a procession. Some Chin Chinese coolies, billiard markers, waiters and they would see a carduring trick if they what not are numbered by the score. Surely, only walked far enough. Wome with children it cannot for a moment be held that the on their back hurried after the kilts, so that European employes are less valuable or lesstle Chung or Hung might have something worthy of encoura,ement than the Chinese similar when he grew up.. Judging from the employeil Yet that would seem to be the number of sampen people who joined the logical conclusion-ae arrived at by the direc- procession there should be quite a fun on kilis tors.

on the water-front The Chinaman in kitt The work of a European in a busy car would be quite a sight for sore eyes. And avanserai like the Hongkong Hotel is of the after all it is not too certain that the kil most arduous character. He has to be all did not originally come from Chipa. The

The good work done by the District Watch things to all men, ready to anticipate the Egyptians or Assyrians have claimed the

men of the Colony was eulogised by Sir Henry wants and ideas of the Hotel's patrons, bagpipes, and the Red Indians have put in Blake just prior to his departure from the Colony Always prepared to exchange chaff with the a word for the cockade, so why shouldn't in 1903. In his report for the past year, Jovial customer and commiserate with the the Chinese be the original designers of the the Registrar General points out that the unfortorate. His day begins when the first kilt? Sandy will still have his oatmeal cakes condition of the force during the twelve months guest thinks it time to sise, and ends when the to fall back upon, unless some Dago comes

was not quite satisfactory, it having been found fast has retired. He is tied to the wheel from along and snatches that and the plaid from the impossible to attract or retain good men. In moming till night. His recreation is confined long-suffering Highlander. At any rate, the consequence of this it was decided to raie the to a quarter of an hour's stroll on the sea-front. idiers of Hongkong had the pleasure of an un-rate of pay which is approximately that of the He is worked as hard as a gailey slave, and at doubted novelty today in viewing a real un Chinese police. During the year the force was the same time he is subject to every whim and diluted kilt, and as for the vast tribe of Scots increased by 13 men consequent on an under fancy of the most capricious customer. In men who try to "run" the Colony they held standing come to with the Government by spite of all tha', nobody who has ever been in themselves with such an air of proprietorship which a piece of land in Nullah Lane, pot far the habit of frequenting the Hongkong Hote! and strode along with such a jauntiness 68 10

from the Wanchai market, was given as a site will seek to deny for a second the universal make the mere Sassenach grind bis moters in

for a District Watchmen's house on condition courtesy which he has exerienced at the impotent age. Every one of those Scots, that the number of the force was increased. bands of the European staf. It is the European according to his own repeated statement,

The contribution to the fund for the year were staff which has made the hotel what it is to had worn kilt at some time or other. $23,141, as agnina: $12,495 in 1903, being an days it is the European staff on whom the Most of them had kills in camphor-wood increase of $745. The expenditure was $32,347 shareholders have in depard for their divi boxes in the house. But not wishing to The large increase in the contributions has dende, yet it is the European staff which is made embarrass thete impecunious brethren by a dis-rendered fasible not only the increase in the to suffer-t go without that honus which the play of ca'f and finery and having no desire to number of the force and in the rate of pay, but THE distances covered by Nogi's army in its kumblest Chinese employe expects and very ford it over the Englishman, they retrained has also permitted the construction of quarters outflanking march to the north of Mukden properly, gels: why penalise the w Euro from exhibiting themselves in their warp.int. in both the East and West end of the town, were 10 miles the first day, as the second, 20 poans; why single them out as if they were a Where the two little Sandies went is neither and will allow of a needful extension belog the third, and is the fourth in all go miles in species of pariah!

hers nor there; it remains the fact that the made to the Central District Watchmen's four days. It immediately broke up the rail- More, the direcion hays not even expressed sight of the homely garb came as a balm to

House in Tai-pingsban. Two and a halfway north of Mukden and hoped to catch their thanks for the services of the European the heart of many a Highlander in Hongkong bouses were purchased in Third Street, West Kuropatkin, but he had got off already in bis employesi Burely is would have been a small to-day,

| Point, during the year. The house of which || privals vary.

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SHIPPING JEISAM.

27th ult.

The King Arthur has been definitely con

The captured steamer SaxonPrince has been set free, it being proved that she was not en- gaged in any contraband trade.

class passage to Hongkong in order to enable those so desiring to make connections with wholesale firms in that city. Captain H. Pfort, president and general manager of the South Philippines Steamship Company, has been ap pointed resident agent of the China Navigation Company at this port.

CANZON NOTES,

[From Our Own Correspondent.).

Canton, March 25th, THE VICEROY AND RAIN. The Viceroy has taken in band the control of the elements. For several days by his or der the various forts have been firing salutes in order to break up the darkness of the heavens and cause the sub to shine. Day and night for several days there has been a great can nonading. This moming when the cloads grew thin and the sun almost shone the Chi. nese began to say that the Viceroy's 'attempts were accomplishing something. However,ike action of His Excellency showe what the Chinese think of matters climatic. It is many years since there has been such a long spell of dark weather,

When

THE NATIVE PAPERS AND THE VICEROY, The native papers are having a fling at the Viceroy. That is, the paper published outside of Canton, It would not be safe for the Canton papers to criticise the Viceroy or any other high official. But the Chinese papers puldish, ed in Hongkong take the Viceroy, to task for his misdeeds. The last occasion is the execu tion of the noted robber Lam who was tomad over from the Macao officials, During his trial in Canton he showed no fear. On the contrary ho boasted of his deeds. he was accused of robbery be admitted the charge and accured the Viceroy of being the biggest robber. For this offence he was coŹ. ·· EXCURSIONISTS HELD UP.

demned to be cut to pieces, ling chi. Now the Owing to the very low tide prevailing at papers denounce the Viceroy and point out Macao last evening a large number of excuritat no matter how great his crimes a robber sionists from Hongkong did not arrive home should be put to death by beheading, and that past two o'clock this morning. The as, to inflict this barbarous death of ling chi Wingchal left her usu i wharf about 6.30 p.m., for a personal offence against the Viceroy it The Hongkong but was unable to get over the bar at the en- unworthy of an official. trance to the harbour, with the result that her native papers are doing a much needed Journey to Hongkong had to be delayed until work in discussing Canton matters and Good, beal by past eleven o'clock. The Ying King, which in criticising the officials, started half an hour earlier, had enough water criticism by the daily papers it very much to carry her over the mud without grounding needed and when honestly done will have and so reached Hongkong at the usual hour, ood effect upon the „fficials pt 2 ¡ cuplo,