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NOTICETAT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1905.

All communications intended for publication in "The HONGKONG. TELEGHAFII" abould-be adromed to The Editor 1, Ice Hons Hood, and

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

MONDAY next being a public holiday, the should be acuapanied by the Writer's Name and Hongkong Telegraph will be issued early in

the afternoon.

Addre Daliowry businascemtuarations shotki ligiläromed

to The Manager.

The Kilter will not undertake in be responsible for any rejected MS., nor to return any Contribution,

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AN additional service reservair and filter bed and other contingent works are to be construct

ed at Laichikok.

RULES made by the Governor in 'Council under section 29 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, for the licensing and control" of fishing stakes and nets, are printed in the

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A DESPATCH from Mr. Choate states that the British authorities have cofused (unber clemency in the case of Mrs. Maybrick. The State Department had sought a full pardon in order to make her eligible as a witness in a pending civil action by her mother to reco.or SIX additional cases of plague have been noti. money on account of a land transaction in The rates per quartor and per sencēts, profuntionat:1 fed to the authorities since yesterday at good, which her evidence is regarded as necessary.

bringing the total for the year to 139.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (ÎN ADVANCE). DAILY--$10 per annum.

WEEKLY $18 per manum.

The daily in is delivered free when the addrom

accesible to mawenger. copios sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly sue is any part of the

world la 80 cents per quarter. Sing Copies Daily, ten cents: Weekly, twenty.

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Che Honghong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1995.

LEAVE of absence in the neighbouring coun tries has been granted to Major, H. E. Lowis, 119th Infantry from 7th July to 4th September

It is notifed in the Gpreffe that the terms of the Proclamation with regard to the exporta tion of coal will not be enforced until funker

notice.

·FROM and including 10-day the General Post Office will be open to the public for the sale of | AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. postage stamps (ill 6 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. as

hitheria.

THE King has approved of the appointment of Dr. F. W. Clark as an official member of the Executive Courich during the absence of Dr J. M. Atkinson.

ed 31st March are printed in the Gazette, and show assets amaunting to $1.514.104.65 and liabilities $713,747-52, thus leaving a balance of $800,515.3.

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INFORMATION has been received from the di. rector of the Zakawai Observatory that the storm-warning corte now in use, will be can- celled and a new one will be adopted from the 1st January next.

NAVAL NOTES:

H.M.S. Waterwhich has returned from a short cruise.

INDO-CHINASONI

in their report dated to-day, Messra, Erich Georg & Co. state, "A telegram has boon received from London saying that at the Indo- The British soap Cadmur has arrived from China meeting à dividend of 13 shillings bas been declaret, the demand made by China Sydney,

shareholders for a bonus being negatived, in The battleship Glory and the cruiser Hogue view of threatening keen opposition in trade. have left for Wei-hai-wei..

MYSTERIOUS BONGLARY"

IN QUEEN'S ROAD.

Cavite, P.1., June'a.—The battleships Oregon, acompanied by the cruisers Raleigh and Cin cinnati and the guaboat Frolie, left Cavite to day for a seven-day cruisa, during which squadron evolutions, tactical manœuvres and i wireless telegraph tests will play an important half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening,

part.

FACM the figures compiled, as usual, by Mr. George Satan, it is shown that there has been a further substantial recovery in the value of Since assuming command, Admiral Train the shares of the forty-five representative it& has not had an opportunity to put his nest planting companies selected by him for parti-through the regular drills owing to the constant cular observation. The advance is fairly well reports of helligerent vessels being near the distributed all along the line. The improved islands. Had he left the bay with the fleet one is due, Mr. Scien considers, to a general before the lait battle was fought such an action belief which prevails that the worst has been would have put in circulation dozens of wildcat seen of the low prices brought about by over- rumours as to the destination of the fleet: a production, and that, provided efforts continue thing which Admiral Train has studiously 19, be used to develop new niarkets for the avoided. produce of India and Ceylon, especially on the European Continent, a better future may be in stare for the planting community,→Adyscats of India.

IMPORTANT Contracts have been closed for the evolutions.

American equipment of the first sted mill to

THE GREAT TEXAS TORNADO.

HOW THE T WN OF SNYDER WAS DESTROYED

in the Formosa sunits. It will be nothing less they a relay system of nearly eight hundred miles and if it works out as planned the Asiatic station will hold the record of the Navy for long distance communication. ..

In addition to this the feet will be drilled at night by wireless tel ́graphy instead of the old system of ind and white light signals.

The fleet will be away about seven days, and after its return will anchor off Manila, where the different ships will be thrown open, to visitors.

The people of Manila should not let this opportunity pass to inspect some of the most magnificent fighting machines afloat. Every arrangement will be made for the accommoda. tion of visitors, and a more instructive and in teresting afternoon could not be spent than on one of the battleships-Cablenews,

Not since December, 1903, has the entire Asiatic fleet been assembled for mancenvres, During that month Rear Admiral R. D, Evans, In the course of a debate in the House of

then commander-in-chief, assembled the fleet at Olongape and put them through the various Commons recently, Mr. Balfour stated that the invasion of Britain was considered to be

The most important feature of the present impossible owing to the increased efficiency

be built in China and for Japanese wire-draw-trip will be the tests of wireless telegraphy. of torpedo boats and submarine vessels..

ing, rolling mill and blast furnace plants, says Every vessel of the fleet is equipped with it an exchange. The work entails an expendi- and some most interesting experiments will be He also announced, and herein lies the jar. Quire a number of European' seainen, both' portant question, that the Admiralty De-employed and otherwise, figured at the Magis-ture of upward of $3,000,000. A Cleveland made.

Upon leaving the bay the Frolic will be and disorderly conduct. The usual fines were

which is to build a plant in the vicinity of stationed at Cabra island and the balance of RAL SHERRY, White Capsule 13.50 fence Committee were agreed that sub-and this morning on charges of drunkenness company secured the contract. The company,

marine mines were an inexpedient method imposed.

Shanghai, has ordered a lot of machinery, in the fleet will stop at intervals of about one cluding an electrically operated furnace charghundred miles, establishing a direct line of of protecting British commercial ports, ad he suggested that the use of blockade mines FINANCIAL, returns for the three months ending equipment. The contract for the Japanese communication with Cavite from somewhere

steel wire drawing mill is the first of its des should be considered by an international

cription ever let in the Far East. Anuther, tribunal. Since the outbreak of war be

Japanese contract calls for all the machinery necessary to go in a large rolling mill and blast tween Russia and Japan, the navigation of

furnace plant to be built in connection with the seas of the Far East has been an ab

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the Government arsenal at Kure." sulate nightmare to shipmasters. waters have been honeycombed with mines from Formosa to Vladivostok. Only last month the Sahrafense was lost, her stem being shattered by a sunken mine. Every chan nel which in ordinary times was used by FROM an extract of meteorological observa- merchantmen was rendered impassable by tions made at the Hongkong Observatory dar the elaborate planting of mines. Bothing-May, we learn that 6.825 inches of rain' fell Russians and Japanese had a hand in the business, and as a consequence of the 'exigencies of war mines were sent, laden with their freight of destruction, into the DURING the month of April 515 deaths were unknown. For the last few months men-of-registered in Hongkong. Of this number 20 war and merchant vessels have been keep. occurred among the European and foreign a sharp look-out for these mines and community. Excluding the Army and Navy ing

the death rate was 17.7 per thousand, when they were seen, the officers took pot shots at them until they had exploded harm- lessly. But there must be an immense [az number still floating around, charged with vessels puwer of wrecking the

in contact. with which they come The result has been that war risks have increased to such a rate that many owners decide to chance the danger rather than pay the premiums demanded. Obviously there is something wrong in such An extraordinary case of plague is reported as a state of things. In this case neutral vessels having occurred at a boarding house in Ran-began, lasting for several minutes, when it trading to Far Eastern ports are quite as goon the other day when a European named liable to disaster as if they belonged to a Peel, a clerk in the Railway Stores office, belligerent power. If it were decided that dropped down dead in his bathroom. He had such a state of things was right and proper been at office the day before and was apparent it is difficult to realise what might happenly perfectly well when he got up the next should two European Powers come into motany There was no sign of babo, nor conflict. Supposing that England and even any fever, but an analysis of the dead, France were at war, and this system of plant man's blood revealed the presence of the plague bacilli. This is the most sudden death from ing mines promiscuously about the sea was

plague that has yet occured in Rangoon.

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HONGKONG,

34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

FIRST FLOOK,

(WM. POWELL & Co.'s old premises),

during the month, no less than 3.080 inches being recorded on the 31st ali..

inted

In order to remove any erroneous impression it should be stated that the article we p the other day on "The incidence of Disease

in Hongkong" wal, as stated in our columns at the time, taken from The Journal of To pical Medicine, and, we might now add, with out the knowledge of Dr. William Hunter, the contributor.

Rither less than four weeks ago cables were received to the effect that the town of Snyder, Texas, had been destroyed by a tornado. The following extract from an American paper gives details of the catastrophe:-The havoc wrought by the tornado is complete. Out of a town of 1,000 people not more than a score of houses are intact, while two-thirds of the buildings are totally wrecked. The storm farmed south of Olustee, near the Texas Ine, and took a north easterly course through a well-settled section. At 8 o'clock it was observed by the people of Snyder, but the usual funnel-shaped torination was lacking, and, though the soar was plainly heard for some time before the storm broke, many were of the opinion that it was a hall storm. Within a few minutes the sky became suddenly dark and a terrific downpour of rain

LITERARY NOTES.

Facts have now come to light concerning the burglary mentioned in, our columns a few days since. It appears that: between

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the 37th ulto. and nine o'clock, on the following Monday morning, the premises? of Messi. Schwer Uffel and Company, so Queen's Road Central, were broken into, and a quantity of piece-goods removed under somo. what mysterious circumstances. It seems that on the Monday morning in question, when the office was opened and the hay about to sweep

paper about the floors of the store and sample the premises, he noticed a quantity of torn rooms, and on éxamination, these proved to bo labels torn from piece-goads." An investigation at once followed when it was found that cases had been broken and 60 pieces of cloth of various description, valued between $1,200 and $1,500, removed. The strange part of the affair wasthat though a window in each room had been broken the hole made was not sufficiently large to admit of the entrance of a man, while neither of the doors had been tampered with. Against one of these was a packing case con taining a safe. Attention was turned then to the fan-lights above the doors, and a scrutiny show- ed that they had been recently opened, for the dost had been wiped off in parts and there wor many marks recently made by dirty fingers. But though that might account for the en- trance of the men, it did not account for the manner in which the goods were removed, an it would be absurd to suppose such heavy- goods could be hauled up and through the fan- lights. Upon this point the detectives who' are working on the case have a theory which, for the present they prefer to keep to them. selves. In the meantime, as a result of the investigations made so far they have recovered one of the caser, containing ten pieces of the goods, which had been taken on board a steamer just leaving for Macao, and they are sanguine of very soon unearthing the others. A curious fact in this matter is that the bar- glars laid a regular "paper-chase" trail with the torn labels from the far end of the store. room whence they took the goods, up to the edge of the door below the fan-light, and also" threw some through the window into the gutter" outside, as if to make it appear that that was their route l

SIAM'S PROTECTORATES.

Says (be Field -Immediately to the north of the British-protected States, in the Malay Peninsula, lie other Malay States, which have been recognised as under Siamese suzerainty, The contrast between the ordered progress of the British-protected States, and the anarchy that reigned in the Siamese Malay States, led

some two or three years ago, to an arrange

enter.

Mr. Unwin has recently published in his Co lonial Library a volume by Mr. Morley Roberts entitled "Captain Balaam of the Cormorant, and other Sea Comedies." The "Aberdeen Free Press" says of it: Those who read and enjoyed the humorous delineations of sailor life contained in Mr. Roberts's previous volume, The Promotion of the Admiral,' will turn with interest to his new book. The "Comedies" it contains are nearly all fresh in conception, only the last. "The Comedy of the Oriana" being in any way reminiscent of the Admiral, and thement between the British and Siamese Govern manner in which Mr. Roberts tells how the Bri. menis, by which the Siamese were to appoint a tish Captain Ticehurst got the pull of the noto. British adviser and assistant adviser to the Kelantan and Trengganu. The ruler of this stopped almost as suddenly as it had commen-rious Irish-American crimp Healy, a scoundrel rajabs oftwo of the Siamese-protected Staten~~-~- ced. A few moments of ominous culin follow who, in the playing of a low-down game, ed and then the tornado struck, tearing build could have given points to Shanghai Smith latter State has persistently refused to recogn ings to peces as though they were made of himsell, will unfailingly appeal to all readers se this arrangement but the Rajah of Kelantan, paper. Many people who had thought to take with any sense of humour and fairplay. The with many misgivings, agreed to receive the advantage of the calm to seek refuge in cellars title story "Captain Ralaam," and "The Muti- two British advisers. They arrived in July, were caught in the streets and between build- nous Conduct of Mrs. Ryder" describe races 1993, and Mr. W. A, Graham, the prin- ings, where some were lifted high in the air for port between rival captains, the skipper cipal adviser, has recently presented to the and dashed to the ground as though barled in the later story being greatly sided by a Siamese Minister of the interior & most from a catepult, while others were struck by resourceful wife. One of the best tales in the taining and amusing account of their expe

book is "The Order of the Gun," which tells rienca during their first twelve months' resi- flying débris and crushed almost beyond re cogation. Those who remained in their how the conceit was taken out of a ship owner's dence at the Rajah'a court. Kelantan is one Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the North Sea would be so strewn with hidden dangers THE bureau of Insular Affairs of the U.S. Wat houses, except in a few blocks in the south-son, who on the strength of his being his of the richest States in the Malay Peninsole, in the shape of sunken and floating mines that Department at Washington, is having prepared eastern corner of the own, fired no bauer, father's son, was endeavouring to play the and as it has a co raiderable population of skill. The frame structures collapsed like egg shells, "boss" on board a vessel bound from Newed agriculturists and fishermen, it ought, to he for the Philippine Government plates for a

incompetence and corruption of the rajah's nd- the carrying trade of the world would be series of postage stamps, equiv dent in deno- burying occupants under the debris, killed and | Orleans to the Cape with "The rakings and one of the most prosperous. But the hopeless ministration had reduced the common people completely paralysed. In a protracted war,minations to those of the United States. These maimed, Whole families were wiped out. Six scrapings of Texas" in men and horses on the continuance of such a condition of things stamps are to bear the vignettes of Rizal, of the eight hotels were torn to pieces, burying board."

Mr. Unwin is bringing out in his Colonial to a condition of poverty and slavery, while vice and crime flourished in high places, Me could not be permitted for a moment, McKinley, Magellan, the discoverer of the many in the wreckage. North of the railroad Neutral nations in their own interests, as well.Philippine Islands; Legaspi, discoverer and track, where many cottages stood. not one is Library a new novel by Mr. Alphonse Cour as in the general interests of the belligerent explores, who followed in the footsteps of left, and the wreckage was mostly carried away lander, whose first story "The Taskmaster Graham's report, however, makes it clear that parties, would certainly rise in their might Magellan, implanting government in the in a few moments it was all over, and the air was recognised by the critics as a work of he and his colleague, by the exercise of infinite. sucresses of its season. The "Daily Tels- foundations of a better state of things, and and object. The fact that such a contin. various localities, and establishing friendly was filled with shrieks of injured, mingled with exceptional promise and was one of the tact and patience, have been able to lay the gency is possible has appealed to the Ad-relations with the natives; Lawion, Lincoln, cries of those who had escaped and were seck-

Sampson, Washington, Carriedo, a Spanish ing lost ones. Within a short time messen- graph" says of this new book:-"Feth of their further efforts are deserving of being student of the relations between Occidental miralty, and it is now proposed to argue the philanthropist, who, upon his death, devisedgers were despatched to Mountain Park, two the Cross' to the story of a village tragedy. It watched with sympathetic attention by every

is just such a tragedy as readers will find now question before an international tribunal, certain large estates to establish a water supply and a half miles away, where the news was Sunken and floating mines when en- for Manila; and, Franklin, and those of the sent by telephone to Hobart. Physicians were and then recorded in the "shon and simple and Oriental peoples. ployed to protect the entrance to a har-denomination of one peso and over are to bear

anasis of the poor." There is genuine and

Craddock's struggle against fate, so pitiful and bour may be quite permissible, but mines the coat of arms of the Philippines Islands.

unforced pathos in the narrative of Seth per doz. which are sent vaguely over the high The special delivery stamp has on one end a

so unavailing as it proves in the end. The Meantime the able-bodied survivors in seas are a menace and danger to every Filipino messenger boy, and on the other end quarts. body except those against whom they Mount Mayon, a volcanic mountain, in the Sayder were working heroically all through road-mender sturdy, rezolute, capable of better province of Alhay, near the sea-coast, and the night amid the most-heart-rending scenes. things and striving in despite of the tricks of aimed. It is curious, however,

A building was utilized for a temporary hospital fortune, to raise himself above the mean and prominent as a landmark.-Cableness. $20.00 to note that the Admiralty Defence Com

and another was used as a morgue. The lac debazing surroundings of his existence, is Sandeman's Invalid Port...

ter, a dry goods building, presented a grue-amazingly well drawn. The r'ral, environ mittee are not in favour of sub-marine 21.00 mines for the protection of ports. Whether "1 HAD to say this, because when I was lakes some appearance, when they dawned, with the ment around which the story passes ls) Sandeman's Two Crown Port...

that means the mines which are operated by to the station the Police twisted my armi, so i corpses lying tier above tier on the shelves. particularly vivid and striking. Mr. Cour 22.00 the military on shore, or what are familiarly said "Ob," to make them let go." This was The search for budies continued during the Sandeman's Fruity Old Port

known as sunken mines, which explode on the remarkable statement made by a Chinese day and ninety-five were recovered. Others witness in a case before Mr. G. N. Orme, are being searched for, which, with the casual Sandeman's Five Diamond's l'ort... 32.00 coming into contact with a foreign body, it this morning, whereis Chui Mai, and Yun ties reported from the country, will probably is impossible to say. The probability is that Ysen, were charged with picking the pocket raise the death list to top: Several of the in it refers to those irresponsible mines which of Chung Tuk at Swalow Lane and extracting futied will be added to the list of fatalities. The get beyond control, and are as dangerous in the sum of $5.10 therefrom, on the gth insi. most pressing need is fasocial. Organisation the end to those who launched them as to The first defendant was called as a wiloess was perfected among the citizens and appeals those against whom they were sent. It is against the second, and denied all know were sent out to leading cities of the territories satisfactory to know that the question is to ledge of him, the second stating that he asking for immediate assistance. In addition

knew nothing about the matter until he to the seriously injured, who are being cared and it relates how a millionaire gave a cheque | 14th insi, N.B.-All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at be considered at last, for shipmasters in was arrested, and informed of the charge for at the hospital, many sustained lesser injur for 3000 to a young American, on condition The C. P. R. Co.'s 5, Embrest of Chika Hongkong and the Far East know by bitter against him. It was poisted on to the first défes and are incapacitated for the work of caring that in a year's time be abould report how he left Yokohama pm, an oth ins, for Victaria experience the anxious days and nights they fendant that at the station, when being charged for those who are in need of assistance. The had spent it and what adventures had befallen and Vancouver have spent in trying to avoid the mined he said the second defendant assisted him in property loss is variously estimated at from high. The here starts off for France under an areas in the northern seas. The war has picking the complainant's pocket. He said in 500,000 to $409,000, Twa hundred residences assumed name, a name which happens to be arrived at Shanghai at 6 am. on the roth inst, taught us a good many lessons, but that re was not true he did not know the second de ate demolished, and about half the business that of a Senator who has made himself famous and leaves again at 13.m. Sunday, for Hong- garding the wines is of international imfendant. He then gave the above explanation huildings are practically a total loss, Thein Paris for thrashin a German who insulted kong, where she is due to arrive at 11 am

for having made the false statement. He ad remainder are more or less damaged. The Napo'ran's tomb, He is fated and, run after 19th inst.

book is described by the Kansan City Times” portance,

, and it is to be'hoped that a deci miued his own offence, and was sentenced to Hilton, the largest hotel in town, remains intact and all kinds of ludicrous mistakes occur. The The as. Rubi left Manila on the Toth inst oney or the other will be arrived at six weeks hard labour, sad six hours in the and a portion of the building was used for an as "without doubt one of the most amtaleg and is dus bere on or about the sath inst,"

stories of the past five years,”; ssible.

stocks. The second defendant was discharged: amergency hospital.

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called for, and relief trains were made up at Mangun, Hobart, Chickasha and Lawton, and hurried to the scene by the Frisco. -

lander paints his village and village 1 fo with B all the fideity and minuteness of a Dutch Interior. The figures who play their parts in the tale are such as one may encounter in any typical hamlet of the kingdom, Mr., Cour- lander paints them to the life,"

"A Cheque for Three Thousand" by A.H. Vesty is a new novel which Mr. Unwin it about to include in his Colonial Library. It ir à farcical romance, full of vivacity and dash,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE,

American (Coptic) 14th inst. Canadian (Empress of Indi) 13th inst.

·French (Oceanien) 13th insti German (Prine Waldemar) 19th inst.: Canadian Canadian (Tartar) 20th inst. Indian (Swisang) 20th init,

The 0. 5. S. Co. & C. M. 5. N. Co.4 1.1. Foxton Hall left Singapore yesterday pm. and is due here on the 14th-inst.

The Imperial German Mail. Preussen which left here on the foth irst, has arrived at Genoa on the 8th inst. at 8 p.m.

The O, & O, S. S. Cola 9.5. Coptic will be despatched from Manila to this port on the 12th inst, and is due bere about soon on the

The CH. R. Co's s.5. Empress of India