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Intimations,

A. S. WATSON & CO.

LIMITED.

WINE & SPIRIT

MERCHANTS,

HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AGENTS

FOR MESSRS.

ROBERT PORTER

& CO.

BOTTLERS OF THE FAMOUS

BULL DOG

BRAND

DASS' ALE, GUINNESS' STOUT,

"BULLDOG"} Bass' Alej "BULLD20"

Light Ale

in Cham

AND

LIGHT ALES,

.PRICES:

PER CASE

8 dor

45 $& i

pagnellots. 8, pis, $24.

(specially

brewed for 12 „splits $27. this climate)}

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Svecante.

BIRTH.

MARRIAGE.

veth Aust, in Boston, U.S.A., by the Rev. J. A. Biddle, Rector, FaBR MÜLLER, of Shanghai, to MABEL LYDIA, eldest daughter of the late J. Lyman Blaints, and Mrs. Baracs of West Brookfield, Mask

the

pany's contributic (average salary:whi

PH WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27

After superannuation, should the member In addition to

die before he has received in pension the kong with most of its poi

total of his own and the company's contri-nearly 1,000,000 chic butions, the difference is paid to his repre": steamer to the Colony and as many sentatives, If he retires in the ordinary came by junku course he gets a pension calculated upon his average salary and the number of years of his service. If be has only served ten years his superannuation is 221 per cent.; eleven years, 25 per cent, and so on; forty-five years' service would give him 109 per cent. of his average salary. After forty years"

On 21st September, at Shanghal, to Mr. and service (to make a more exact comparison M16, J. R. MILLIGAN, A SON,

with the Civil Service) the railway servant gets an annual allowance equal to 941 per cent. of his average salary." The systems is not only equitable and reasonable, but it helps also to solve the problem of "widows and orphans," We have had it pointed out to us that the chief recommendation of the Royal Commission is to the effect that the rate of pensions should be counted in eightieths instead of sixtieths (until recently it was fiftieths in British Gulans, and in

DEATH.

On 5th September at Laokai, (Tongking), JULIUS NEUMANN, Commissoner of Customs, Eged 55 years.

The

jably

CLUus desiring to enter for the forthcoming Cricket League Competition are requested to send in their application to the hon, secretary Mr. A. Er Anger, Victoria Huildings, ob or before the 30th instant.

MR. Yi Yong Ik (or his double) is reported to have been seen in a junk off Weihaiwali ha has not yet been reported as sitting on the North Pole, but this is one of the few romnia ing localities not declared to be his Jurklog place-Seoul Wably P, en.

id

CAPTAIN O. Dickmann, of the Bcuador, charged Charles Nilson, able seaman, with assaulting him on board that steamer on the 26 in bread causing the fracture of a finger. The case was called on before Mr. F. A. Haze laud this morning and was remanded until

"la-morrow morning at ten o'clock.

of Colonel

mentalit Military Administrator Port Arthur and Dalny, amongst others U.S. Con H. I. J. M.'s Consul Siras of our firm including our pansers

It would be difficult to spend high terms of the

courtesy and hospitality accorded the par the several officials we had the ing, or to give anything's count of the interesting morable scenes of the eventually resulted in Japa apparently impregnable fort Ichiji's interpreter Captain Maiso personally conducted us, was able to all fuforon asked for, having been attached to General Rogi's staff during the

Jongkong Celegraph Hongkong it is reckoned on sixtieths) of the AMONGST the recent acquisitions in the miners! and Dalny from the military and

HONGKONG, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1905.

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND,

retiring salary, while special provisions are proposed in the event of a public officer re- tiring through ill health or dying in the service. To such proposals the Accountant replies that the London and North Western We make no excuse for urging once more Company's scheme is far to be preferred. upon the attention of readers the subject Our present pensions scheme need not be of the Widows and Orphans". Fund which tampered with; but when it comes to the has occupied much space in these columns -Widows-and-Orphans Fund-the-Unofficial within this month. In the agenda for the Members of Council should fight tooth and Legislative Council meeting to-morrow after-nail against the perpetuation of an iniquity, and noon the first reading of a Bill entitled An the President of the Council might sanction the Official Members to vote on the principle

oxide of thorium, and therefore, named thorianite, the new mineral is thought to be of great value. It will obviously be forwarded to Prof. Dunstan, as in the case of thorissite,

ure of the

day

So much has been written of Port Arthur the

Mand in reference to the' slege, that we propose to deal with the present position of these places from the commercial point of view only remarking merely that the accounts, since the fall of Fort Arthur, anent the nature of the realstance offered by the Russians are inclined to underrate the severity of the fighting. Va

DALNY

gallery af the Colombo Museum is a mineral which might prove to be of great value. Placed 'in a case along with valuable additions such as black cat's eyes, topaz, gold, mpon stones, star chrysoberyls, etc., is to be found a new mineral, exhibited in a little box which resem bies plumbago, but having a sharper lustre and with a tendency to flake somewhat, like mica. This mineral has only been found quite re: The damage done was inconsiderable -cently, within the last fortnight or so, by the rapidly being repaired by the Japanese Mineralogical Survey. It is not named, and is dock and wharves are scenes of great civity. Awaiting analysis and identification. As in thousands of soldiers being, engaged in dia the case of the valuable mineral recently discharging the several transports lying along covered in the Island which at first was labell side. ed monazite, and when forwarded to Prof.

Aw to future possibilities of trade opinions prior to the war, and during the Russian occupation, certain optimists were continually prophesying that Dalny would become the eventual main inlet and cutist of the trade of Manchuria, a prophesy that will doubtles be resuscitated upon the establishment of peace, As the transport Dusern is to do all the but in spite of a great many advantages, the trooping this season with details to and from result of elaborate planning, it is extremely Hongkong and Singapore it is anything but unlikely that even the able administration of pleasant for home-going officers and men to Japan will succeed, pre-apposing such inten have the annexed extract from Truth (Aug. tion, in attracting any volume of the Mas 24) regarding previous experiences on board churian trade proper in the direction of Dulny, In other words the. Trans-Manchurian Hail, that ship. As a friend sarcastically writes: "A deter-well-found boat of this description must add way will not be able to compete with the L, enormously to the pleasures of a thirty-oho and the connecting waterways of the Pro two days voyage An officer who recently viaco-while the difficulty of securing properly returned from South Africa by the hired will operate unfavourably in regard to the io transport Dumira narrates an edifying storytroduction of large Chinese interests, it being s of his experiences. Not only was his cabin well-known fact that the ownership of his busi- infested with cock-roaches, bugs and otherness premises is a matter of vital importance verrain, but one of his wife's dress baskets in the in the eyes of the Chinese merchant.

Our deliberate opinion is that Dalay's com

for analysis and report.

again, your leave her aga

Hi Worship

John Lawson, afterwards being drue Lon the 26th

days.

HONGKONG CR

CLUB

crick

the annual Club list

of his members said that

› the con

Mr; EXW, Michell meeting of the Hongk

representative gathering the thanks of the Cla munity of the Colony, from His Excellency Govamor downwards," who did.

az pta,$15. Perdoz. pts.$3.25 Ordinance to transfer to the general revenue of the new Bill according to the dictates of Dunstan, for analysis, was found to be rich in differ widely. It may be remembered; that, evening, and in the con

the moneye standing in the Treasury to the their conscience, instead of being compelled 9.54.50 crudit of the Widows and Orphans' Pension to abide willy-nilly by the hard-and-fast rule pts, $3.00

Fund, to provide for future payment of pen-which enjoins the official voting in obedience sions to the Widows and Orphans of deceas to arbitrary commands froin Downing Street. splits $2.40ed Public Officers, and to make the pay. ment of the same a charge upon and payable out of the said general revenue, is down for the third time. It will be recalled that on ,,splits $2.40 the two previous meetings this Bill was to be taken on; but a representation (against it, it may be presumed), was A. S. WATSON & Co.submitted to the Governor, who, being

"BULLDOG*

Guinness' 8. pls.$24. pis, $3.00

"Stout 10)

Do..12 splits$18.

LIMITED,

#

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

J

ESTABLISHED A‚D, 18412

Bongkong, 23rd September, 1905.

$16.00

WILL BUY A CASE

(32

GREGOR & CO.'S

IMPERIAL

HIGHLAND

desirous of giving it his careful considera. tion, postponed the first reading of the draft Ordbiance. A correspondent has sent us'a sensible article on the subject of "Civil Ser-

LOCAL AND GENERÁL

from Weihaiwei. THE Naval Transport Merceder has arrived

THE English mail of the 26th August,was de- livered in London on the 23rd inst

THE Board of Commerce, at Peking, is mined to introduce a standard system of weights and measures for the whole Empire,

ALDERMAN Ben Turner, speaking at Bradford, hit the nail on the head when he said:To day we rave about Chinese slavery in South Africa, but it should not be forgotten that work.

entertain the teams from: Shangha pare last November. Without the hearty. operation of the residents of the was afraid our visitors would have time of it. "This Colony," he been, and I hope always will:

I

in the true sense of the word legislators in the Council day spoke rather wanted to get a branch of sport, 1

find in the Hon. Mr. and applause). Continui they received mi Shanghal in September but the Comm

vice Pensions," which appeared some time ago in the Aremitant. It is a comment on the report of the Royal Commission on Superannuation. The Arundat strongly house children are still being used in textile baggage room was opened during the voyage mercial activity will be defined by, the expan- More attention.

upholds the view which lays down as a car dinal- principle that benefiting members should contribute to a superannuation fund. Incidentally it replies to a familiar argument employed by those directly interested. "True" says the Accountant, "the servant argues that he contributes indirectly, inas much as he calls his pension deferred pay, but with a few exceptions the salary of the average civil servant is quite equal to, if not more thani, market value." While it

may be

together therefore hada

sion and growth of the Trans-Siberian Trans during the off Manchurian Railway, of which line it will be he thought they ibe Eastern terialous, and that in so far as a looking in capital

share of the Manchurian trade is concerned remembered how

and two fans, value Lav, stolen, Another mills because they are cheaper than uggtown officer had a similar experience before the ship men and women.

had been at sea a week, but his complaint did not prevent this subsequent theft. It is not surprising, under these circumstances, to hear

such share will be limited to a few shipments | May this yout, «Thin that, other similar robberies have occurred on the ship, and such a state of things is most during the winter months. It may be of care and attention giran

interest to state that the improvement of mittee consisting disgraceful to the ship's officers and crew the harbour from a safe anchorage point of Phelips, H. Hancock and My correspondent says that the ship in ques- | vlew has caused, doriprian, severe, wonther, tion is absolutely unfit in every way for a while ice to form in the bagreby preventing their best thanks ware de man to travel on, and bis evidence certainly steamers from working ADMIRAL Richelieu, who organized the Siam-goes a long way to bear out that opinion," ese Navy, war, on September 1, to take

A SUSPICIOUS steamer laden with arme has sunk in the neighbourhood of Helsingfors. It is believed that the ship had some consection with a warehouse in which arms were secretly kept and which was recently detected by the police. It is thought the Finns contemplate rebellion.-Jiji,

IN.an amusing article, on golf in the Saturday Review, the writer says: Not all the mathematics of Professor Taft have solved the mystery of the curl on a golf ball. The idea le the spin accumulates before it a wad of air which is to divert the ball's course, as a stream

quite true that this condition, prevails in the over the management of the United Bream particular Colony our contemporary refers ship Company of Copenhagen, the largest con cera of the kind in Denmark, in succession to to, we are not so ready to admit that, so for at any rate as the tower branch of the M. Jacob Brandt, who has been the managing

director of the company for many years Civil Service in Hongkong is concerned, their salary is anything like the present THE British Consul at Foochow says that the bollows a bank till the bay holds the stream market value. We have already denounced port has practically ceased to be a recsulting itself in an eddy. But whatever the mechanica the proposed Grading Scheme for salaries ground for coolic labour. In 1904, only some of the subject it is certain that a good profes of the subordinate officers of Govern-rooo left Foochow, going chiefly to Tonkin, siunat can by the nature of his swing ensure ment. Any one at all familiar with the Such coolies as still emigrále do not take ship that his ball shall swerve in the air this way or high cost of living prevailing in the there, but from Amoy. An agent of the South that as he pleases; and the power to do so Colony cannot but ridicule the proposal African Government went to Foochow last often enough means the winning of a hole, year to inquire into the feasibility of procuring We have seen Vardon both slice and pull a which seeks to enlist for the public ser labourers for the Transvaal, but the inquiry di♫ } batt round an obstruction of trees; but the art pulling and slicing, are especially of use in not result in business being done.

wind; the scientific player can make of the obstruction & use and wrest value from a

of

vice junior clerks at the measly wage of $20 a month and whose maximum after a continuous period of service will only be THE Customs Garette, April-June, 1905 handicap. If the wind is from the right be that of $180 a month when thirty-two been issued. The revenue collected during drives into it with a pull; if it is from the left years of employment with the Govern- the quarter shows an advance of nearly 29 per he drives into it with a slice and can, so in

As to the cent over last year, the totals being. in Haikuan ment had been attained. higlier branch of the Service and those laels-

WHISKY.who draw the double exchange compensa

NOT ONE OF THE BEST,

JUT

THE BEȘTI.

GREGOR &

1905.

Chinese Ports 9,613,172

Kowloon and Lappa... 188,138 Lungchow, Mengise,

Szemao,and Téngyueh 78,375.

9,879,885

#1904.

PORT ARTHUR,

question that is

is that of the It may safely be assumed that this port will and labour

making not be opened to commercial enterprise. ***

At the present time the railway between palling and, Tashihchiao and Dalny is running without hitch, though the journey is not accomplished, I am of: under 15 bours. The marvellous precision only possible and punctuality every stop being timed to Many men say the minute-enable the military force to make but 1 myself the fullest possible use of the line. The fact that with the anormous demands made upon Playing of that them by the necessity of keeping supplies got some four going forward with unfailing, regularity, the tem military officials could yet without the least apparent inconvenience consult the comfort of their visitors, is but another proof of the results attainable by their alaborate attention to detail.

THE WEISING LOTTERY.

ENORMOUS LOBB TO KWANGTUNG/RE

The knell of the well known Welsing lottery,

for for so

gent

at Canton, having been sounded by the recent played Imperial decree commanding the abolition of the biennial (Chujen, or: Master of Arts) and crease the length of the drive by thirty yards has caused a lot of a yearly revenue to the triennial (Chirishib, or Doctor) competitions, it or more. Andrew Kirkcaldy for instance was Provincial Government of Kwangtung of near- 7401,836 ppped to be able to beat anyone on thely $350,000, this sum being inuuially paid bf7** tion we cannot refrain from the obser-

169,978 Muirfield links simply because of his skill in clique of wealthy gentry of Cantony for the the vation that they are treated with a measure

gauging and so using the cross winds that monopoly of conducting the lottery. In con 76,037 prevail.

sequence of this there will be serious deficit ofliberality in a ratio with the niggardliness

in the Provincial Exchequer, of Kwank{UDE: which doles out the wages to their poorer

which has hitherto been depending upon this 7,047.831

A VERY pleasant and enjoyable concert was annual subsidy partly for paying the local brother-officer. Never was the truth of the saying more forcibly exemplified than in operations for raising, the data were night. Space forbids us to enlarge upon the called public works. In view of this, Viceroy

THE Mikard given at the residence of Mr. L. A. Graça last troops and this instance that Peter is robbed to pay lieved, to be good prospects of the war-ship items, but there were three novel features tive correspondent, bas, says the correspondent

Tiên Chun hound, according to Carton Đ Pgul. But to revert to the Superannua- being raised without great dificulty. Search worthy of record. The first, in programme of the W. G. D. Now, been making armor tion subject. The Accountant approves has already been made for the bodies of the order, was the violin sala playing of his Missments to float a domestic loan of three a scheme quoted by a financial contem dead, and many of those of officers and men Fanny Hains who, for one so young, showed a teels at seven per cent interest and perary by which the question of pensions have been recovered, being, mostly inside the remarkable command over her instrument, with, in instalments within a period of ten

people of Kwangtong: have in the United Kingdom, which involves the vessel, as expected. Most of the bodies which, once her natural primary nervousness is pitiable to observe that

was past, she showed herself to be quite at the promises of their were found to be so badly inutilated as to be yearly outlay of over two and a half beyond identification, without the aid of per home, playing the difficult variations of " Home, Viceroy bar announced that million sterling, might be satisfactorily solved. Kool belongings, such as pockat-books, &c. sweet Home" with great expression and re- ton of the loan will be placed The scheme suggested is on the basis of that Many others of the killed, it is now believed, encare, and a bouquet as big as herself. The next the duty of regularly paying markable sase of the fingering. This elicited an of the foreign Commissioner

Maritime Castoma, who in force in the London and North Westem were blown to atoms.

feature was the guitar playing of Miss Gutierres, Joan and the repayment of the Railway Company. consists in the de- duction of 24 per cent. from each Civil MR. Edwin H. Conger of lowa has resigned a very finished performance, and the third, the ments at their stated times a

his post as Ambassador to Mexico, to take effect banje performance of Mr. Ko Po Shan, which says the Viceroy in his Announc

will be no diager of dishonest atte Servant's salary which goes to create October 18th next, and President Roosevelt recalled the days of the coon Christy missirèle frag the people of her mante superannuation fund. This should super has accepted the resignation. My. Conger be the player having a full appreciation of the mines derived from theil autan sede the iniquitous Widows' and Orphans' gan his national public life as a member of possibilities of his instrument. For the rest, monopoly be mostly Goveros

(sanctioned by mparejad{C}}%@#!} Fund. The company use the fund at 4 par Congress from lown in 1885, and was twice re. when we say that such well-know

eries are to form the guaraNÇÕES” cent. interest, and in the result it appears to elected. President Harrison sent him as the Mesdames Gutierrez, and

*proposed; Ipani Co., work out must equitably, "Should the Minister to Brazil, and in 1890 President Me Paine, Inokay, Walstow

member, before attaining the superannuation Kinlay transferred him to the hard post at Grags himself, who age (sixty years permissive, at sixty-five Peking. Here Mr. Conger and his fami

through the Boxer uprising Ha

34 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Hongkong, 15th June, 1905.

rtainment bein

from

chestra, com

Rosario and

compulsory), resign the service or be dithis post, due to friction arising with med for any reason except fraud, the Department over a mizuno retandis whole of his own contributions to the fund more recently represented his country at Am. to show that a very

"returned to him... Should be die before kassador'to Mexico,

caterers for DRE

remains

sporti

bfor:

they