1905-12-02 — Page 4

Entimations.

E

BLEND.

VERY OLD

LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

Per Dozen

WHISKY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 1905.

Almost stone publicati "THE HONGKONG TILRERATII “strik be afirowed to The Ellor, 1, les lives Howl, mlaquitžal kom moistorrymezioni ing the: Writer's › Nanie Audrow ! *

Onlinary businew o uununicacious shaill be addrement

in The Manager.

The Killor will uit anderke to be responible for any rejected M., núe to return any Contribution.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN AUBVANUK)

DAILY-$40 per kutulia. WEEKLY $18 per wadann,

The rates for quarter mod per honsertis, proportional,

accesible to mowunger. 'The poples went by prst an alditional 81,56 per quarter is charged for portage, The jewingo on the weekly iwie ło-nny part of the

warld.la 30 conta ja'r quarter,

LOCAL AND GENERAL

CHIKY Carpenter F. Stears has been posted to H. M. S. 7amler for duty in Hongkong dock yard,

Dr. F. O and Mm. Stedman returned to the Colony by the English mail Churan yesterday.” Dr. A. Regine leaves for England where the popular medico will make a short stay,

THE season of masonic banquels in Hongkong The French and English maile of the gratis fast approaching. The banquet given by the and 4th Nov. were delivered in London on the Naval and Military Lodge, No. 848, takes 30th Nov. and 1st Dec respectively,

place on Wednesday next, while St. John's [idge hold their installation banquet on the,

1. NDÓN sewers are declared by a sanitary ex pert to be healbier than the streets. No mi crobes can live in a main drain..

raih inst.

LEA Park, the magnificent mansion built by the late Mr. Whitaker Wright, was put up for

£10,000 being bid for it. The cottages and building lots on the estate realised nearly £30,000,

A CHAU TUNG SIFA

ANOTHEN, FOREIGN ATTACHMENT,

The

China Dinner! Rooms of the He

Bearly

In Original Jurisdiction this morning, His Honour, Sir Francis Piggott, Chlaf Justice, presiding, Massro, Leigh and Orange, archi. tects, builders, and contractors sued Chat Tung Shen, the much sued millionaire, lateho muster made a total of Caston, and Hongkong,, for the recovery of the largest number that ban asser the sum of 511,586.89, being the amount dus great, indeed, that it taxed the space for work done by, plaintiffs on behalf of the most The President of the Associatio

the year, Mr. R. S. Gundry defondant...

over what was a very representative The toast list was commandably brief, mitted that pleasant time of reuni must always be a feature of these gai

PROSPERITY TO THE "CHINA TABLOI

i Tha'dally imen is delivered free whom the ældrow in yesterday's Government Gazette kro pub. auction on 26th Oct, but" was pasold, only the plaintiff firm, the defendant being peither

lished regulations for the collection of Crown Tent in arrear in the New Territories. '.

'OWNEиs of properly are reminded that Crowe rent for the second half-year of gas is payable at the Treasury on or before the ayrd inst The Victoria Amateur Dramatic Club will give At Shanghai, on the 27th November, the wife performance of "The Shangkraun" at St. Patrick's Club next. Saturday, when it is ex of GEO, BUCHANAN, of a son,

pected there will be a large audience.

Single Copie. Dally, ten cunts: Weekly, twenty

Herentia.

BIRTH:

China

The usual loyal toasts having been given and honoured, the Chairnian, Cordially received on rising, ahve to the China Association. Among the vari subjects which were dealt with comprehensi

loan for the re-purchase of the Cantón llankow ly be alluded to the Hongkong

Mr. W. H. Slade, instructed by Mr. E. B. L. Howlay, Crown Solicitor, appeared for present in person nor represented. Mr., Stade said that the defendant was absent from the Colony, and an affidavit had been filed to that affect. Lefendant had given a power fattorney to his wife who was in the Colony

His Lordship said that if the defendant had a properly constituted attorney in the Colony

the jurisdiction of the Court? could it be said that he was abient and cut of

Mr. Slade submitted that the man was unmilway in the following terms doubtedly out of the Colony, but his where abouts were entirely, unknown. There had been other foreign writs of attachments, his -client's being the third application, under the

same conditions... ► MISSIONARIES AND COMMERCE, M., Orange, a partner in the plaintiff firm

In the opening remarks in their weekly share report of this furenoon, Messra. Erich Georg and Co. write:The week has passed without bringing any improvement at all to our share market, and the remarks made in our two last cliculars cap only be confirmed. Business has been very small and rates have weakened fur ther; in fact, privats sales have been effected in several cases under the ruling quotations;

The Hongkong Celegraph Straits Timers anys:After continual pursuit but rates have not been made public.

HONGKONG, Saturday, DecEMBER 2, 1905.

THE RISING DOLLAR.

Singapore, like Hongkong, is greatly can. et about the rising dollar, and the cry

which is heard here from those who are paid on a sterling basis is making itself heard in the southern port. The bitter complaint of $16.50 Government servants, that the purchasing

S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED,

SPIRIT

WINE &

MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINOS,

Hongkong, z8th October, mos.

[32

GREGOR & CO.,

A SORRASYA telegram of the 23rd ult to the

extending over a period of four months, a Dutch patrol has captured the Rajah of Boni.

THE departure of M. Heau, Governor-General of Indo-China, which was fixed for. 29th Oct, has been postponed till Nov, 12, owing to the Congo Commission not having completed its inquiry

We have received from Messrs. Kruse & Co. an elegant calendar issued by Mesir. A. G. Coulis & Co., the makers of the well known Egyptian cigarettes, for which Messrs. Kruse

& Co, are the sole agents in Hongkongs THE Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, was to address the members and tady subscribers of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge at the monthly meeting to be held at the Society's house, Northumberland-avenue, W.C.,

power of their salaries is falling every day, while those who are paid in silver do not notice any appreciation, is quite as tree of Hongkong as it is of Singapore, and we might say of the East. A few firms in this __Colony_have_reduced their prices, foron-November

the vast majority of articles people are pay- ing exactly the same number of cents or

With the barbarous massacre of missionaries at Lien-chau so forcibly before us,all the many plaints that have been put forward for the sup pression of missionaries are doubled in their

ed that the missionary has far more than one significance. It must, however, be remember

use, and, however be may have failed at difter-

ent times and in different places on an errand which should above all things carry with it the very essence of peace, we cannot réfrain from according to him a well-merited word of praise, in other ways. We have more than once re ferred to the arrogance which persundes a white than to try to alter what he nuty choose to term the idolatry of a tribe or nation when that so called idolatry has many features similar to his own helief and more than that, is one that has endured for centuries and which saw its beginning when the white min's

the world. He seems alterly to forget the horrible tortures and massacres which have

tian religion, and should the folk be now seeks

dollars as they did when the dollar was at Secretary's office until noon of Friday, the 15th country was perchance one of the babies of

TRE Government is advertising for sealed tea. ders which will be received at the Colonial

instant, for a lease of the vacant land on eart side of Maconnett Road, Kowloon, and ad of one year, commencing from 1st January, 19c6

of Mesure. Leigh and Orange, gave evidence in proof of claim.

His Lordship:-1 think the case is made bul. You can take your judgment with costs against defendant, execution to sue, against property mentioned in the memorial, and in the affidavit filed by the Crown Solicitor

CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING. CO.

ANNUAL MEETING,

In moving the adaption of the report of the fourth annual meeting held at Winchester House, on 27th Oct, Mr. W. F. Turner sald

Ons needs paly, to look round on ibli grest":

gathering-considerably the greatest that has yet been held by the Association to realise that the aspirations for its prosperity that have been expressed by my predecessors, now for sixteen years, have been abundantly fulfilled.

rang: bas, The fact that the Viceroy of He just borrowed, 1,160,000 from the Government of Hongkong to enable him to buy up the Concession for the Bankow-Canton line hardly

looks as though the gros sums required len railway construction would be readily forthcom ing from Chinese sources; and what seems *** really likely is that the help of foreign capital will be invited in a different form. A transac tion so exceptional on this kas netuplay excited attention. It has been surmised to imply pos sibilities of the employment of British capital in the completion of the trunk line,:; It bas been surmised, even-wildly surmised la in dicate an intention on the part of the Chinese authorities' to make, some day or other, or al- low to be made, the little line from Kowloon to Canton. I fear there is in Hongkong, a feeling that the delay in beginning work on that concession might have been overcome by, a- timely display of energy on the part of the London committee of the China Association, Well, gentlemen, I should be the last to deny

imported goods in Hongkong at the present joining Kawinon Inland Lòl 416, for a period from time to time maried the beatly of Chris-profits for the past few years, and which had now that the Association is a powerful organisation,

It

Overture........" The Halerilan fürt **

an...... Busan Wellen" Saulih Serehude "La Patoran

Setectie......" ke Peribuíc"...

to convert to his own religion resent.his intra- sion and make known their resentiment by bru tal massacre, the chief cause is assigned to the fact that they are ast Christinus, instead of p.m.cribing it to a lack of civilised education through a course of centuries which as much as any.

****...-Balle

Коректу

......Yradiar

Nesvadbathing helps to eradicate or suppress the barba Offenbach rity which is habitual to humanity, Therefore, Inhovel we argue that when the chief work of a mission is to open up hospitals for the relief of suffering and pain, the foundation of all that we consider MR. W. H. P. Anderson was to leave London the brightest and best in Christianity is well on the 27th Oct. for work among fepers at and truly laid. Chandkuri, Central Provinces, India. He is a Canada and a chattered accountant and heThere is yet another way and in this directorms of-a-memorandum-dated Feb. 19-1901,

| one shilling and eightpence.. The worst of it is that the goods, certainly most of the

time, were purchased when the dollar was cheap, so that people here are really paying from 15 to 30 per cent, more for the goods ¦ PROGRAMME of music to the performed by the to-day-than they were six months ago. Yet Band of the tzyth Baluchis on the New Parade no merchant ever failed to raise his prices Ground, on Monday next, from 4 to 30 whit the dollar fell in value. Gasott Abschied would not be at all surprising, if the Paraphrase the diesman Song Loreley dollar fell to one shilling and eight pence next week to learn that, on ጶር። count of the reduced exchange mic at which the dollar was quoted merchants found it - necessary to increase their prices, and, of course, we all know that once a 15 or 20 per cent. rise is mutely sanctioned has given up his professional prospects in order that is the price at which the article to devute his life to caring for these out casts. will be sold for the future, no

matter if He will have upwards of 400 sufferers, under his the dollar rose to half a sovereign. While charge at the asylum of the Mission to Lepers, those who are being paid in sterling at one of go asylums, supported by the undoubtedly feel the effects of the rate now prevailing, it is equally true that those who, have always been paid in silver are reaping no, advantage. House rents are the same as

1.*

It was a gical satisfaction to be able to say, in the words used a year ago, that the accounts dealt with increased sales, increased profits, la cicased reserves, and an increased dividend. As to the debentures purchased and cancelled dur. ing the year it really represented the investment of a portion of the reserve accumulating out of reached 80,000. In no other way could they regarded, 1 doubt not, with an awe tempered have utilised the money in so advantageous a by affection by the Departments with which it manner. The profit and loss account showed is privileged to have; relations. (Laughter.) a totul increase on the credit side of over But it is not omnipotent; and I am afraid; that $5,000 of which £51,712 was increase of gross it is credited in this case will an influenca profit in China, the total to the credit of the greater than it possesses. We could not, for account being £21cc88. One item in the instance, control the financial barometer and accounts was law costs, estimated at £11,000, insist that it was "fair," when the British and This was due to the action in the English Chiness Corporation and the British public da. Courts, which had been referred to in the last "clared that it was unsettled” nor can we two general meetings, arising out of the pur coerce Sheng and the Cantonese Notablen if chase of the company's undertaking, the com- they persist, now, in obstructing the project, All we could do was to orge H.Ma Göveran any being one of several defendants, it was

ment to support the scheme and assist in its stated at the general meeting two years ago that the object of the action was to enforce the inauguration, and we encountered in so doing the goodwill which experience has led us to ton missionaries deserve well of their country. with reference to the formation in China of a expect. (Heir.) If the Hongkong" "Gövarme." Too often the direst poverty exists among the

local board for the administrasion of the comment, the Colonial Office, and the Foreign pany's business there, and the appointment of Office have for the last 18 months been pres” tribes of the world who wat little of "the white man and his ways, and in going amongst them Chang Yen mac director-general there, and sing this matter upon the Canton and Peking pointing the way to happier things by tutoring that the board of directors were not a party authorities, and Chinese obstruction has been them in sums new and renuine alive industry, to this memorandum, and, had, in fact, no too much for these co-ordinated forces, is it not the missionary not only provides the black or

knowledge of it until afterwards, and they were

somewhat unreasorùble to blama'us ?... yellow man with a better conception of life and advised, and believed, that it had no legal effect THI GRAMS have been received by the mili-instils gratitude and love into his breast, but whatever. The siat took place in the early tary authorities in Hongkong, stating that achieves an amount of practical good for his

ed one, judgment being given on March last. country which cannot be over-estimated. Help part of this year, and was an 1xtremely protract pari steamer funere. Severni, men seem to him to make his own narrow life happier and The Court held that the memorandum was bind have been affected' and two have been left at when complete confidence is gained then you Col mbn. The Dunera is bringing reliels to are really working for his good, point out their upon the company, and that effect must be Hongkong, and was expected to arrive on the tenets of the Christian faith and give him credit given to it, and the company was ordered to pay the plaintiff's costs, The aniount stated in 14th inst. It is possible that in view of disease for the possession of an intelligence to reason

plaintiff and the provision of a sufficient being on the vessel she may be delained at out for himself that the man or woman who the accounts includes the taxed costs of the

has taught him' .40 many things Singapore until the outbreak has been quelled his material profit can only be thinking The directors were advised by most eminen and the vessel released from quarantine,"

amount to cover the company's own costs.

to appeal against the judgment

-under-whose auspices he will work, -Chand-

society.

19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. before; there has been no fall in the price of scarlet fever hus.braken out on briard the trans

CHIANTI WINE

| provisions, the cost of wines and liquors, ex- cept in rare cases, is just what it was 'twelve months ago, and in fact nobody except the regitter and those who gamble in the money market stands to gain anything by the in- creasing value of the dollar. According to the Eastern Daily Mail, "the rate of ex-

L

for

of his good in volcing the slightest profest against the worship to which he has been ac

counsel

^ Let us hopp that the signature by Japan of

treaties of peace with Russia and alliance with England indicate a clearing away of debris and

a commencement of repair. We may, perhaps, if we look at the Hongkong loan to Chan Chi lung from that point of view, conceive it to be a presage of better things. (Applause.) The opportualty of the visit of Sir Charles Dudgeon

Committee, in public meeting, and privately and Mr. Bland was taken to discuss maiters in

has been led to realise more clearly the Shang and I think that, while the London Committee

hai standpoint, those gentlemen will be ab'e to

the conditions prevailing hers.

change is higher than it has been for the We hear that a syndicate has been formed in customed. Thirty, long years ago General 16 certain important respects, and notice explain more clearly at Shanghai the nature of

fast ten years, during which period home. prices for imported goods have practically been stationary. Yet we are paying at least

Singapore to float another morning paper. This, it is understood, will be of a Chinese character, 'hough, of course, in English and run on much the same lines as our contemporary in Penang.

Gordon made an eloquent ppeal for a mission, more especially on commercial and industial lines, to bader paichest to the Soudan, and about Christmas the wish of the dead hero will have

of appeal was Indged at the end of April last. Under there circumstances it was impossible to discuss or comment on the sub- ject. As to the coal trade for the past year,

15 per cunt, mure for imported goods sold Such a periodicul should command a circula: had it fulfilment. Under the auspices of the the aurput was 8y6,725 tona, while the salen

tion is now on his way to Mongalla, near the boarders of the Egyptian Soudan and Uganda, to help better the lot of the pagan tribes who have their abode in the surrounding districts, but religion will not be the only consideration, and in fact, in choosing the area of their work Lord Cromor has been careful to avoid the Maliometan population while every attention

by retailers. Daan we did ten years ago.

House rent, servants' wages, and, in fact, in Singapore, for the class of English-speaking everything that a European requires have Chinese is rapidly increasing and they are keep also greatly increased in price during the supporters of the press. They represent the last few years,

whereas salaries have remainman-in-the-bus public, tie class for whom the FROM U. FAZZINI, FLORENCE.ed at a standstill with the silverites and have Hamsworth publications have catered so suc

cessfully. Now that saveral brilliant Straits" materially diminished in the case of the born Chinese have been to English Universi- goldites. It would appear that the only ties we see no reason why such a newspaper people in the Colony who are making any should not be edited by a member of the com profit but the present unsatisfactory state manity for whom it is published. This would will be paid to medical requirements and the

teaching of fresh Industries, notably the manu of things are the banks, retailers and hotel be far more satisfactory to them than the prefacturn of bricks. All honor and success to keepers, and the latter, not content with a The time comes when the European editor is sent system of engaging English journalists,

sách missions, - SAUNAN Timel twenty-per-cent. increased profit on their asked to write something which is dead against drinks, must need add insult to injury by ¦ his own principles, and then he either loses his measuring out their refreshments with ma- self-respect or his job.—Pinang Gazette. thematical exactitude by means of a patent invention which makes one diraguk into two." ON taking his seat in Original Jurisdiction this

$9.75 PER CASE.

Latest award

GOLD MEDAL

THE CHINESE HIGH COMMIS. SIONERS.

consumption being nearly 70, co tons. The the demand but by the output, as the economi, sales during the year had not been limited by

cal value of coal, compared with the fuel used by the natives up till recently, had been brought home to the Chinese by the gradual introduc. fion of coal into the markels...o great was the change in the situation that the general manager informs them that the demand for dust coal by the Chinese alune largely exceeds the present total output of the mines. As the important question was not primarily the in- crease of sales, but the increase of output, and as this was mainly a question of dealing with water in the Tongshan and Linsi mines, ten- ders had been invited for a powerful electrical pumping plant and the erection of a central- electric power station at Tongshen.

Mr. Edmund, Davis seconded the motion,

That would seem to be the most unkindest morning, His Lordship said, before calling on broad were, according to a Peking dispatch, which was agreed to unanimously,

cut of all, first to rob a man by charging to make, and he desired to make them public- the case set for hearing, he had sorpe remarks price which brings four or five hundred perly, and they might be publicly known. His cent profit, and then to steal the article he Lordship then said that he had received this has paid for outrageously from his grasp. It morning a letter front a party or, there properly, would not be quite so bad if one understood a person professing to be interested in an ac that though he were suffering, at least listion in which he recently gave judgment, in which the writer complains that he has been

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. F, G, Figgi

First Assistant of the Hongkung Ubservatory

On the and at 11.55 am. The barometer has fallen moderately over Japan, and rises

slightly over the E. coast of China,

Pressure is highest över, Central China, and lowest over NE. Japan.

Gradients continue slight on the China coast. Moderate to strong monsjon may be expect ed in the Formosa Channel and the N. part. of the China Sen

Forecast-moderate NE. winder fine,

SHIPPING AND, MAILS.

MAILSIDE. American (Siberia) 3rd fast, Australian (Changsha) sed inst, daylig Ger. (Print Bilal Friedrich) 5th lost, noon, Australian (Ching(a) 17th inst Canadian (Empress of China) zoth inst

The Chinese High Commissioners going

the 24th Nov. As far as is at present known, expected, to leave that city on their journey on

The Chairman in replying to a vote of thanks His Highness Duke Tsai Teth and their Ex

exp essed the indebtedness of shareholders and The Imperial Garman Mails.s. Pries Walders cellencies, Shang Ch'i-hang, and Li Sheng-to the board to the agent and general morget war left Sydney on 25th ult, and may be exe are expected to travel by train by the Peking. (Major Nathan)-who was assisted by an expected here on 17th inst. - Hankow railway as far as the later terminys, collent staff for the admirable manner in which The Glen Line as, Glenturret from Landan where Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has been the affairs of the company had been marged &c., left Singapore on sit intly and may be making all arrangements for, their entertain. In China.

The shareholders thanks were expected høre op 7th inst

friend who endured the evils of a Buctigating unable to get a copy of that judgment ; but that, mert and protection against further anarchiatic due to him no less than to the board for the dollar not so very longago wasgaining, butthat of course, was due to the way in which law re-assaults, while their Excellencies Tuad Fang results which had been submitted. is not at all evident.

The vast majority of ports were published in this Colony, which was and Tai Hung-Ize nie to come down, to Shang people are employes and that is the very class well known to the public and to the profession. hat direct from Tientsin by steamar, Under Scor's Shipbuilding and Engineering Com which is hardest hit by this daily rise in the fut, as they no doubt knew, he was completing instructions from Péking his Honour Yuan pany, Greenock, launched on 16th Oct, the dollar. The uncertainty what a man may arrangements for a verbatim report of all faciat, of this port, has been lately occupied to steel screw-steamer Xusicket, which they have receive at the end of the month may have judgments to be delivered, the arrangement to the best of his ability in making arrangemente built to the order of the China Navigation one good effect in inducing the thriftless to commence with the Now Year. The writer of for the protection of the High Commissioners Company, Limited, London. The dimensions look oftener at the white metal before part that better then proceeds to criticize that Judg on their arrival here, and has in that connection of the vessel are-Length, 267 ft., breadth, ing with it, which will have beneficent effects ment, but of that he would say nothing further also asked the assistance of the Police of the 40 ft depth, as ft 6 in, and canying capacity,

then that such ́action, was most improper, "and" Interantional and French Municipalities. The| 7,600-1ons". After the launch the on the community, at large. The day that he would only band the letter in question to N.C.D. Newer understands that great precau. which is like the fluichow the dollar in based on a fixed standard will the counsel engaged in the case referred to who tions are to be observed as to the giving of recently bulle by the same firm, be the brightest for all who are not speculat-would no doubé make proper representations to permission to unknown persons wishing to call Moss, Scott Alliag.out 33-laing in the value of silver.

ble client,

apan any of the High Commissioners,

8T. LOUIS EXHIBITION. -

Hongkong, soth Junoj 1995.

machinery put on board,”

The P. M. S, S, Ca/s 6.a. Beria left Shan:" bal yesterday, at și am, arrive on Sunday afternoon, at 51

The O. 8. a. Co. & 0 Hufchow all Singapore yesterday at day!! and is due here on yih inst

The CN. Co.'s 21.

fan ports 'dushere on grd inst,

Sparlin of theż