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ELEGRAMS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SERVICE

BARON KOMURA

ARRIVES AT TOKIO.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 17th October,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY OCTOBER 1

IGPU CONSERVANC

CONVENTION

The Chinese Government, being desirous of substituting far the terms of the Protocol of

to be in force.

the Powers Ignatory to the

CHABOLIS

Y. UCHIDAS AVVON CITTERS] „GOZAKÓW-

A DISCUSSION IN COUNCIL

CAUSI

HERÍDUS: NÚISANCI

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On the 20th September last, Messrs, Lane, 1901, having reference to the establishment of SINGAPORE CURRENCY NOTES Crawford and Co. addressed latter to the

secretary

■River Board for the Huangpu and the func

of the Sanitary Board complaining of tions and revenue of such foard, a new melbod

the nuisance caured in the lane between thair premises and Alexandra, Building of procedura whereby the Chiness Government itself will underlake the work and dafiny the At a meeting of the Legislative Council at through refuse being thrown into the passage whole of tip expense thereof and the Powers Singapors on the 6th October, the second read from the different floors of these buildings signntory to the fical Frotocol having assenteding of the Currency Note Ordinance, 1899, The lane was visited on the 2nd inst. by the Medical Officer of Health, and a Sanitary in- to this proposition, the following conditions have been agreed upon se Amendment Biji 1905 (Bill to further amend

that they found every justification for Art. 1-The Customs Total an

and the Com-the Currency Note Ordinance 1899) was moved show their report to the Sanitary Board Baron Komura, the Japanese missioner of Customs at Shanghai are entrusted by the Acting Colonial Treasurer, and second- Mestre: Lace, Crawford & Co.'s complaint. It seems that the servants sweep all the dirt and with the general management of the work ofed by the Auditor General...

rubbish, from their quarters across the veran- Ponce Envoy, has returned to Japan rating the condition; if the bar, baik at The Hon. G. S. Murray expressed himself in dahs into the lace below. Several absolutely

improving the course of the Huangpu, and by the Empress of India, and arrived this and the other side of Wnesung, as well as opposition to the motion. If, he said in the inadequate sinks have been erected on the

of the maintenance of such works an

course of a lengthy speech, this Bill were verandabs with small connecting pipes leading at Tokio on Monday.

With regard to the river and sanitary police, passed, it would be: as, humiliating to the into a down pipe, with hopper heads below lighting and

are used the water splashes over the veran [Writing on the day when it became defi farmer regulations will continue to be to the Council as it was undignified on the part of each verandah level, and then the sinks nitely knows that peace had been arranged the Art, 11Three months after gnature of the Government to introduce it. When the dahs into the lane the hopper heads are Portsmouth correspondent of the New Yuck the present agreement Chins will herself select note issue of this Colony was established in not adequately connected with the verandahs. Commercial siid :-The figure of Komura will an engineer experienced in matters of river Ordinance 8 of 1897, the Government asked the Several of the rooms are used as kichent by the Inger longest in the matched the even way conservancy, and if majority of the reprs-pable to accept Government notes, nay more, it servants and the refuse foods wanbeded to the Asors into the land. It was recommended to the paper men who have watched envoys day by day. All the Japanese genius is in that Protocol consider that the engineer thus chosen pledged the Government to secure the means Boardthis afternoon that the present open-work wonderful midget-that diplomatic brownie o

possesses the requisite qualifications, China by which the public were to be safe-guarded railings should be replaced by solid structures from the Land of the Chrysanthemum. Do will immediately ap; out him to undertake the in the Unlimited Liability Clause of the Ordi- so that refuse could be washed through to the not forget that he is the Mikado's Minister of work, B Foreign Affairs. He gave Haron Rosen his In case, after commencement of the works, ance, Did the Government give this pledge lane; the sinks on the verandahs should be re- heads should be connected to the verandahs passports when the war broke out The exit should be necessary for reasons the intending to evade their obligations as it moved to within the kitchens; the hopper tended Anglo-Japanese alliance, which secures valid by a majority of the Ministers, to take sought to do now at the first opportunity?s that washings from the kitchens would be of Roing, into Japan against European aggression and will steps to replace him, the selection and appoint- They had set a bad example in breaking their carried into them instead

the lane; at the corners of the verandahs" place Britain's fleet at her disposal when she ment of the new engineer would be effected in own law (Laughter).

need it morn stian during these the same manner as above mentioned. Through their monthpiece the Colonial Trea 4-inch pipes should be fixed to take all wash- with the Muscovite, is known to be chiefly ol

ings to the hopper heads, so that it cannot Komura's devising. His career in crowded

surer they were told that "the conditions of the splash below, and a small surface channel high poin's Yet, behind bis personal for purchase of material or of machinery, etc, old ordinance were inconvenient and unneces should be formed along one side of the kitchen achievement, and much more important; is his shall be submitted to public tender and award-sity." The impecunious debtor all the world and the floor slope to it. The report added that ethnic representative quality and Rs one ed to the party offering the most advantageous over told the bill collector when he called for these requirements are all that should be watches his movements, knowing how clear a

it was impossible to prevent servants from wil Japan those purposes that bewilder the Ger- port upon the work done and a statement of and as time went on and he hardened in sinfully throwing filth into the lane, and this prac conception he has of the ulterior purposes of Art. IV. Every three months a detailed re- his money that "it was inconvenient to pay necessary to stop the nuisance, but, of course, man Emperor and are not indubitably known expenses incurred will be drawn up and sub: he consoled himself with the reflection that it tice could only be dealt with by prosecution ether in London or Washington-one specumitted for examination to the Consular Bady was not necessary to pay. (Laughter). They of the offender should he luckily he caught.

Mr. Rumjahn minuted-The practice of lates curiously as to the future of our relations at Shanghai. ⠀ with a state whose shibboleth:is "Asia for the

however did not make the excuse of impecus emplying urins into down pipes bas become Asiatics and comes to the conclusion that it

niosity. In the debates on the Bill of 1897 he general among servants in large, blocks of is a good thing for the Caucasian races to have

told the Government that he feared they were buildings causing a great annoyance, and a friend at the Mikado's court in John Bull.)

trying to get the note circulation into their own nuisance to the atores below. This should be hands for fiscal purposes and what he asserted rigidly stopped. MONGOLIAN MINES,

then proved to be true from the mouth of the

RUSSIAN OFFICER'S MISSION.

Treasurer. He said at the same time that he was no great believer in the ellics of Colonial From Our Oton Correspondent.]

Government and they now found that Govern ment placed profit seeking before the duty of neeling its obligations. These papers however on the considerations which had led to "the in- troduction of this Bill showed clearly the pro- cess of Government, of official, thought. The Secretary of State, Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, the Government Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General and Auditor

Shanghai, 17th October, 1,20 p.m. A tussian officer of engineers has left. Péking for the purpose of examining and reporting upon certain mines in Mongolia.

It has been arranged that he is to meet the Dalai Lama in relation to his visit.

[Reuters.]

Art. 111-All contracts for undertaking the

witole or part of the river conservancy works,

terms.

Art. V. The sanction of the Taptal and of the Commissioner of Customs in Shaoghal will bu required for constructing wharves and jetties as well as for the establishment of all pontoons Art. Vi The Tantai and the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai will have the right to expropriate the existing permanent moorings and to establish a system of public moorings in the river.

or floating houses in the river.

Art, VI. The sanction, of the Tastal and of the Commissioner of Customs will be necessa- ry for the prosecution of all dredging and other

work.

Art. VIII. The Taotal and Commissioner of Customs will have the right to acquire all

tand, situated outside the foreign concessions, proving and canserving the Huangpu and to dispose of the said land. 16, in this connection,

necessary for the execution of the work of im-

should be considered necessary to expropri- General and Treasurer hald high revel-a ate land, and if such land should be the progoodly company forsnoth (Laughter). But, he perty of foreigners, the price therefor will be: determined by a commission composed of :-

(1) A person selected by the Consular author ity having jurisdiction over the owner.

(2) A person relected by the Total and the Commissioner of Customs.

(3) A person selected by the Doyen of the Consular Body.

Should the Dayen of the Consular Body be niso the Coniul of the proprietor, the third The Russo-Japanese Treaty. member of the Commission would be chosen

LONDON, 15th October. by the Consul next-in seniority in the Doyen.

The Consul having jurisdiction over the Newe has been received in Washington that the Tsar and the Mikado signed dupli-party interested will give off at to the decision

cate copies of the treaty yesterday.

Bye-Election.

A LIBERAL VICTORY,

Mr. Andrews, a Liberal, has been elected for Barkston, by 4.376 against 4,148 for Mr. Lane Fox, conservative.

Mr. Andrews replaces Col. Sir R. Gunter, deceased.

[The lats Colonel Sir Rabel. Gunter was Conservative Member for the Barksten Ash Division, Yorkshire:-Ed., //.K.T.]

the commission.

In case of Chinear property, the Customs will proceed to estimate and settle the price, and will carry out the decision under analogous, conditions.

AK

Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., agreed with Mr. Rumjahn.

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Intinuations

ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY, LD.

OPIUM QUOTATIONI. „To-day's quotations are sa follows

Malwa New

Old

Per_pical:

1,080/1,130 140/1,190

Older Oldest

1,200.

Last Three Weeks

1

Maina New

Arnat

Old..

Peraian (Paper) .....

Per chest

1,025

#.997

1,000

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Co-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY), the 18th October, 1905, at I AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, comer of Ice House Street,

Mr. Lau Cha Pak also agreed, but he asked

the where was the urine to be taken to? The people living in the houses are not allowed to carry pots downstairs and empty them into the. drains. A place should be provided for its reception in every house.

The Hoo. the Principal Civil Medic. Officer pointed out that the trouble was to catch the offender. When he is caught in flagrants delicio he can be prosecuted. The Sanitary Surveyor has required the owners to provide a trap connection to the drains, and this is being done.

FLOATING MINES.

SUGGESTION FROM SHANGHAI,

At a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council the following minute was on the Agenda :--

reminded them of the salire of Horace-Pari turiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. 'Con. tinuing after an outburst of amusement the speaker declared that Government were dead to their responsibilities and duties, Govern-

Having reference to the destruction of the ment in this Bill sought to make the paper. Hilth-ko off Weihaiwel by an explosive currency of the Colony parily a fiduciary one, mine on the 30th altime, it is decided to ad- dress a letter to the Benior Consul on the sub. They were to use 'paper currency as a means of borrowing money without paying the proper quarter far clearing the seas of this ject, with a view to making representations in any interest for it. He would be told that there source of danger, The Council considers that, was a precedent, if so i was a bad one and by a system of rewards offered to fishermen on not one for them to follow. The Government the coast, much might be done with this end

ja view. of India had a note issue which was legal len- der to an unlimited extent, but if he might judge by a statement in a London financial paper, the Currency Commissioners were fully secured. The latest returns from the Currency department were of interest and he read the following extract from the Stätist :--,

Riparian landowners, Chinese as well as foreigners, will have the right of pre-emption in the case of all accretions of land in front of their properties by the deposits effected in im proving the river channel, the price at which

"The latest return of the Currency Depart such lands may be acquired will be fixed by a commission constituted similarly to that dement is most interesting in showing that the scribed in the preceding paragraph, or Record. Cavernment is taking full advantage of the in- ing to the case, by the Customs authorities.

Art. X-The Chinese Government takes creased powers given by the new Curicacy Act upon itself the whole of the expense of the im-viz, by issuing notes to the full extent of two provement, without.levying any tox or con- cores against a holding of sterling securities Norway-Probable-King.

tribution either-upon-riparian property or upon in Landon. The total note circulation has in- Norway will shortly proceed to elect a trade or navigation.

creased to' 441 crores, which is secured in the King.

Art X-China specifies, and gives guarantee for the total expence of the river following somewhat complicated manner: 1,433 Prince Charles of Denmark is still men-improvement works, the whole of the duty on laca against coined rupees; 240 lacs against tioned as a likely candidate.

opium of Srechnen and of 'Soochouft: In ancoined silver; 1,414 lacs against gold; 1,000 [Prince Charles of Denmark a son of the Kiangsu. In conformity with the provisions of lacs against securities held in India; 150 lacs Crown Prince of Denmark, grandson of King the Protocol of 1902, she will devote annual Christian of Denmark, son-in-law of Kingly to liese works, and for twenty years, the against ear-marked gold in London'; and so lacs against sterling securities in London." Edward, a nephew of the King of Greece, a 34 of 60.000 áikuan tels nephew of the King of Sweden, and a cousin during the course of any year after.com- The point that struck him was that 1,000 loca of the Tear. He is 33 years of age. Bly

mencement of the warks, the purchase of mate- fession he is a naval officer, and up to the time rial or machines, ce, should nece matte were held against securities in India. Possibly of his mar iage with Princess Maud of Wales exceptional expenditure, China, in order to in 1896 ho devoted most of his line to paval meet it, may raise a loan by means of bonds on matters, Princess Charles in three years older the revenue derived from t'e above-mentioned than her husband. Her son, the first child of oplum dutytty wi the marriage, was born in 1903. She is the For the amnisation and the service of this prettiest of King Edward's daughters, and is loan as well as for expenses of all kinds con said to be a daring horsewoman; As a linguist nected with the execution of the works or with sbe excels, speaking English, German, Swedish, ed, China will furnish annually a minimum of

the maintenance of the works slready complet Norwegian, French, and even Russian, Prince Charles is reported by an English paper to be 460,007 simple and neaffected, and one of the hand. somest princes of Europe, & good rider with the bounds, a fine shot, and a billiard player of ability, he is a thorough sportsman in every way. Of his

his administrative capacity nothing is known.

Later. Great Britain and Germany,

***LE MATIN” INCIDENT CLOSED,

Kaikuan taels,

The provincial authorities concerned will re- mit this sum by equal monthly payments into the hands of the Total and Commissioner of Customt at Shanghaiest

50 were securities of the Government but they were negotiable in the hands of the Com. missioners. But the position here was different. Government said they would pay the debt at some future plate. Abolish the legal terder clause and the public could take care of them ordinance he must oppose the Bill. It was selver. If this was allowed to stand in the

A correspondent, writing to the N. C... News, says that, those who know anything about marine mides must have smiled sadly t the deliberations of the City Fathers and the conclusion they arrived at that, by a system of rewards offered to fishermen, on the coast, much might be dne to remove this source of danger. Can anything be more absurd or dangerous than for ignorant people to handle

Why then, this terrible instrument of war."

A LARGE Assortment OF JAPANESE CURIOS. TERMS:-As usual.

HUGHES &HOUGH,

Auctioneers

Hongjong, 17th October, 1905...

AUCTION.

[rors

PUBLIC "HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

the Registrar, Supreme Court,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

THURSDAY,.

19th October, 1995; at Noon, at No. 59,

.. Des Voeux Road, Central, THE GOODS AND CHATTELS of

SUMIRE & CO., Printers and Stationers. Catalogues will be issued. TERNSA tisual

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 17th October, 1905,

THEU

PUBLIC AUCTION. HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

THURSDAY,

the roth October, 1995, at 2.30 PM at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:

TEAKWOOD HATSTAND with BE- VELLED GLASS, SINGLE IRON BED- STEADS with WIRE and RATTAN MAT- TRESSES, MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS with GLASS, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, OVERMANTELS, VIENNA CHAIRS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.-T.

TERMS As usual. WARE, PICTURES, CARPETS, &c, &c, &c.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 17th October, 1905,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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he says, "urge the poor fishermen to do work fit only for a gunboat in reality, although many

to' sell by of our merchant fleet have rendered them THE Undersigned have received instructions

PUBLIC AUCTION, valuable services, in. destroying the infernal machines?"

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERYED,

THE NAVY OUGHT TO KNOW, Dollyther-comes-forward-and-under-

an

SATURDAY,

Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, in Sport and Gossip. He says "The Captain the above heading pens the following verses the 21st October, 1905, 112.30 P.K, at their of H.M.B. Hogue, before the blowing up of the

corner of ice flouse Street, SUNDRY

sick to, reported that the mines seen by merchant vessels, at sen were nothing but mpty barrels and logs of wood," and pro

ceeds:-

When the drifting mines were sighted

And reported, day by day,

We despatched a British cruiser To explode them as they lay; For the things appeared a tenace,

As they drifted to and fro, Bot the Navy said "They're barrets!"

And the Navy ought to know. For they had to leave their tennis,

And the gaieties of port, And performing useful service Was not their idea of sport. They returned with mien disdainful, And in caustic terms said "No" All these mines are bred of fancy1"

And the Navy ought to know. They were casks, and legs, and flotsam,

Which neurotic men had seen Through the sharpened eyes of terror;

For what else could it have been?,, 5p it was not worth the searching,

With the chances of a blow, It was ensier in harbour;-

And the Navy ought to know.. Vet one proud vessel struck one, And the ocean hides the trace Of the shattered bull reposing

In its watery embraces Where, in witness of its power,

She has gaping rents to show, Which is passing strange in "barrels,” As the Navy ought to know e Well, they may be "merely barrels,

As the Navy said they are, But they're mighty lively barrels And unpleasant things to far. But it strikes the mere outalder *** On this planet here below.

That there still are heaps of matters That the Navy doesn't know.gi

admitted that the Government owed the Com- missioners of Currency a considerable sum of money, but he certainly saw nothing in the or dinance which granted the Government absoluta Should the revenues indicated become in remission for its past síns or anything in the sufficient, the Chinese Government must pro Bill which relieved Government of necessity of vide the sum specified from other sources

Art. XI. If the works are not prosecuted. paying the debt. The Bill now before them with diligence, care, and economy, the Consu provided for the future but did not obsolve lar Body, acting upon a majority of votes, may the Government and the Commissioners of notify the Trotai and the Commissioner of Cestams of the fact and request them to instruct Currency from their delinquencies. He had no the engineer to take the necessary remedial yet done with his indictment against the Go measures. Should the execution of the works vernment (Laughter.) Had clause 12 of the continue to be unsatisfactory, the Consular ordinance no terrors for the Currency Commis Body, in the same way, may recommend the sioners?? Let them read. The speaker then dismissal of the engineer as well as the selection recited amid continued laughter, that if they. and appointment of another in the manner set acted contrary to their duty and were found forth in Actide 11,

In case the Total and the Commissioner of guilty of the offence, they were liable to impri Customs at Shanghai should not act upon sonment "for a term not exceeding three years these representations, the Consular Body may &c. He would be sorry to see such eminently lay the matter, before the

be representatives of respectable members of this small community the Fowers Interested.

Art XII When the present articles have languishing in prison, The only remedy would been discussed, agreed upon and signed, the❘ be for them to appoint the Chief Justice on the regulations contained in paragraph B of article body and he could then acquit himself and his LISION. nd in Annex 17 of the Protocol of 1901, cocommissioners of the charges he brought

shall be suspended, but, if China should fail to furnish annually suficient funds, in accord against them. (Renowed laughter). The Trea ece with this new bonvention, in such manner sumar, in introducing the Bill, told them, the

The North German, Gastle, confirming Router's of the 14th instant, says that Great Eritain's communication, which was spon taocous and confidential, was received in Ger- many in the same loyal spirit in which it was mide, Raw my

The assertions of Le Malin had not given any occasion for an Anglo-German diplo matic Incident, and the semi-official state ment was regarded in Berlin as closing the

THER

laca that the exécutian; of the works: should be Commissioners' Accounts had been audited by.

the thereby impeded.or

should she omit to can the Auditor General with his usual care (Langbe,

form to any other essential/stipulation of the ter), Toming to page 14 present arrangement, the origipal provisions of

The Protocol of 1901 and pl Annex 517 thereto,

will immediately come stain into force..

scial, report be found

been

the

COMMERCIAL.

-TO-DATE EXCHANGE,

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE, .

Comprising

REMOVAL SALE

Over 50 PIANOS

have each been

reduced by $200

to clear for

NEW STOCK.

NOW ARRIVING.

All Guaranteed in First-class Order

and Many

NEARLY NEW.

Makers

BECHSTEIN, STEINWAY, RACHALS,

KRAUSS, COLLARD, HAAKE,

"OWN MAKE":

Hongkong, 14th October, son

Trade

TELEPHONE NO. 135

Mark

HUST LANDED.

FIRST SHIPMENT.

SICK TAPESTRY-COVERED · DRAW- ING ROOM SUITE, BRASS BEDSTEADS, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARDS and DINNER WAGGONS with BEVELLED GLASS, TRY IT OVERMANTELS, TEAKWOOD EXTEN

JON, DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, VIENNA CHAIRS, TEAKWOOD WAR- DROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, CAR: PETS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.-P. WARE, BLACKWOOD WARE, &c, &c, &c.

TERMAAs usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 17th October, 1905. THE HONGKONG FROZEN

FOOD SUPPLY.

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