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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY DECEMBER 28 1905.

NOTIOKS communication interlist for a pallustion in, »:". The BONGKONG TELEGRAPHY shoutt is

mulitomed to. The Mullair. 1, Ies House Hunt, and should be manied by the Writer's Name and

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iy rejected MS, are to return way Contribute. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES (U ADYANGK). tra (LY--$39 per nomin WxY-$13 per manunu The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional, The daily imun'is delivered from short the addrem

Rekla tu singer. O cop on erit by post an schditional $1.80 per queries in charged for postage, Ple postage the wookly be to any part of the

world is 10 ceni pir qurter. 1. Singia Capéro. Daily, ten cents: Wickly,

THE Band of the Royal West Kents will not play at dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on Satur- day, but will play on Sunday next fentead The programme of music will be published in des cours.

Fire Waiwupo having heard of a certain Chinese in Hupeh who is contemplating getting: a concession to work a certain mine in con- nection with a British merchant, has wired to Chang Chi-tung to arrest the man if he makes any such application.

ACCORDING to the PST.Timer, the native papers give warning that there is plague among the cattle and many animals are dying. Cooked beef is being sold in the western part of the city which it is said comes from diseased cows, and Brave consequences are feured if this is

not put a stop to.

THE Nippon Yusen Kaisha have received telegraphic news from their Agents at Colombo that the British Steamship Mofoppo arrived at that port with propeller broken and is die charging part of her cargo to effect repairs,

WATER SUPPLY GRIBYAGON,

Another question raised by Mr. Fung Wa Chun at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board had reference to the deficiency in the water supply to the upper floors of houses

Delay in estimated about 20 days. on the lower levels of the Colony. A

THE Paris, a three-masted schooner from characteristically official reply was given to

Cebu, Captain Ellis, was drawn up on the the question. It had been directed to the

China Borneo Co.'s slip-way at Sandakan by Chairman of the Board, and as the control

their engineer, Mr. W. G. Bridger, on the night of the rath December. This boat is 127 fest of the rider mains is under the Director of Public Works, he was unable to answer

9ft. 9 in. It is estimated that when drawn up long with a beam of 33 feet and depth of hold. the questions, but," he added, "if you

her dead-weight was between 450 and 500 will, furnish `bim [the Director of Public

tons.-The China Borneo Co, are also over- Works] with specific instances of a de-

hauling the 1.8. Borneo, Captain Pfort, from ficiency of water to upper floors due to

Zamboanga. Both these vessels carry the this system every effort will, I am sure,

American flag.-B. N. B, Herald. be made to remedy the defect." But the

THR Press laws, which were codified some Director of Public Works was present at the Tun ream of coal an which, the efforts of the time ago by the Shangpu, and whịch were to twenty-meeting of the Sanitary Board, and it shouldPekin Syndicate have been concentrated for be published at the first opportunity, will now

have been possible for him to give a reply to

some time has been successfully reached; be amalganasted with the Trade Marks Re- this question which interests so many people and the Syndicate hopes within the next few gulation, and will be issued at the same time weeks to be bringing to the surface coat of a as the latter. The reason for this new de- On 17th December, at Amay, the wife of in the Colony, We published, the other day, very much superior quality to that now on the parture in legislation is because the laws will

a letter from a correspondent, who com markets, and also probably at a lower rate.

affect foreign as well as’Chinese interests, and plained that in the Wanchai district, the

because the sanction of the Foreign. Ministers people who lived on the second floor-at Quartermaster on board the 33, Glenturret, that representations have already been made to ATShanghai, on the art inst. Wm. David Jones, to their promulgation is necessary. It is stated was charged with an assault upon the Master the Diplomatic Corps in regard to this matter. of the ship. Capin. R. Webster gave evidence and accused was ordered to be imprisoned A Goon sign of the awakening interest that for three works, but to. be put on board his Chinese take in the national welfare of their mother country is that not only Chinese students ship should the leave earlier,

lu Japan have been advising their Government in regard to the Manchurian negotiations, but the Chinese residents in the Straits Settlements have shown their concern in this matter. Only to the Board of Foreign Affairs, inquiring of a short time ago the latter sent a joint telegram

authorities to exercise great care not to permit China's sovereign rights to be further impaired. The Board as yet has deigned no reply"

Grecia.

BIRTH

TOM GREAVKE, OWLAND, of a daughter,

The Houghing Celegraph east in one particular district-were unable

HONGKONG, Thursday, DeceMBER 28, 1905..

THE LYMPH SUPPLY.

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WHISKY. It is somewhat disheartening to learn from also highly probable, for within a day or

Tuare memorial brasses in meinery of the

fell in defending the Gordon Hall in 1900 have six feet by three. The British plate hat 68 arrived at Tientsin, each brass measures some

the lists being surmounted by an armorial design according to nationality:

British, French and American soldiers who

THE Filipino midgets who were taken lo tie World's Fair in 1903, have returned to Manila. During the past year they have toured the north-western States and return now to their native soil with bulging porkets and enough laid up for many a mniny day. Mr. Mark Fang Fans, who, as their manager, accam panied them on all their trips, cause with them And will see that they are returned safely to their home in Capiz.

to get sufficient water even for culinary pur poses. That our correspondent's grievance was well-founded we have every reason to believe, and that the Director of Public Works knew that grievance, was, honest is

the Principal Medical Officer of the Colony

two after the appearance of that letter in our that, at a time when an epidemic of small-columns the defect was remedied by the $16.50 pox has broken out in the neighbouring an

districts, Hongkong'should be without an we are assured that Wanchai is by no means adequate supply of lymph for inuculation the only district which suffers from a de against the disease. In Indo-China, Canton,ficiency of water. There are many Chinese Siam and die Philippines numerous outhouses in other parts of the city where the breaks of small-pex have been reported, and water supply, is so limited as to be utterly there is every reason to fear that, unless the inadequate for ordinary household purposes, most stringent measures are adopted, the When people pay for their supply of water, A. S. WATSON & CO., disease will probably make its appearance they expect at least to get sufficient to meet in Bongkning. We are in constant touch plain requirements. They may grumble with the chief parts of those countries where when the water is turned on for only the disease ins already been notified, and hours each day, but that is a privilege are therefore puiicularly liable to contagion. which belongs to everybody. They are The coolles travelling backwards and for certainly entitled to feel aggrieved when they fail to get sufficient water for an extra cup wards between the infected ports are ex

of coffee in the morning. No doubt Mr. Fung Wa Chua will be able to culighten the Director of Public Works on the subject of householders who are suffering from an adequate supply of water, but it would have been much more satisfactory if the Director of Public Works had replied to the question submitted yesterday, or at least offered same explanation of a fact which is common knowledge in Hongkong."

LIMITED

WINE & SPIRIT.

MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA. BUILDINGS.

*Hongkang, 28th October, 1905.

$16.00

WILL BUY A CASE

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tremely susceptible to the disease, and once is finds a landing in the Colony it will require all the efforts of the medical authorities to stamp it out. But how can they begin to [adopt precautionary methods which the supply of lymph has dwindled away to vanish ing point? Take the case of the Philip pines. There the authorities are so deter mined to eradicate the disease in the [37 Islands that they have announced their in-

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tention of vaccinating a million persons against small-pox. Saigon and Bangkok. seem to be well prepared to grapple with the outbreak, but it can scarcely be asserted 'that Hòngkong is prepared to cope with an invasion from Canton, and yet Canton is our nearest neighbour, whose contiguity and Tack of means to fight an epidemic of small-

a few

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TEN years ago Captain J. P. Merill, comman der of the U.S.S. Oregon, and Consul Sheridan Tientsin, beaded a commission which travelled P. Read, recently Unued States Consul. at through China from Tientsin to Chenglu, the capital of Szechuan. They went there to investigate the anti-foreign riots that swept tha province in the Spring of 1895. The journey was one of the longest ever made through China, and the investigation fatted five months. Until they met in Manila a few days ago, Captain Merrill end Mr. Read had not seen each other since that memorable trip, and the occasion was marked by a dinner to which many of the leading gentlemen in the city were invited.

Tus American mail which came in yesterday E French mail of the 28th Nov, was de brought 140,000 trout eggs to the insular goy livered in London on the 27th inst.

EIGHT Russian newspapers have been sup pressed for publishing a workman's manifesto. THERE will be no band performance on the

ernment of the Philippines. They come from the Imperial Fisheries Institute of Tokia, and were put on board in three large cases Yokohama. They were in charge of Professo who will care for them at Manila for at least a T. Higurashi of the, opperial Fisheries Institute,

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I was announced some time ago of the trip to Peking of the Belgian Railway Adviser in the service of Viceroy Sheng Yan of Kanku, for the purpose of consulting the Waiwupy with regard to railways in that province. Since his arrival at the capital, he has had several inter views with the members of the Board, the upshot of which is that he is empowered to proceed to his hogo land and engage two engineers, one railway and one mining, to assist hins in developing the province of Kansuz

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correspondent further states that the Belgian Europe to engineer, has left (or, Shanghai, on his ways

ELEGRAMS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BERVICEN

POLICING OF SHANGHAI.

DRILLED SIKHS OR NATIVE POLICE:

· [From "Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 28th December,

2:45 p.m.

The Shanghai Municipal Council Aro discussing the nd bility of% substituting five hundred drilled Sikhs for the present nativo police.

TRAGEDY AT SHANGHAI.

FOREIGNERS SHOT.

[From Our Own Correspondent.

Shanghai, 28th December,

2.45 pm.

Captain Holger shot Mrs. Hartwig yesterday, and thon committed sui-

FORTHCOMING SPORTS.

AT KOWLOON, Following is the programme of sports for

juveniles to be given by the Kowloon Cricket mencing at a p.m. sharp. Mr. H. Goyne Stevens, the hon. secretary of the club, Informs us that the invitation is extended in children of usual amusements, including clowns, will be Hongkong and Kowloon. A Dind" and the';

in allendance.

(*6-2: pn-Running tace (handicap),; for

boys, age 12 to 14 too yards. Three prizes.

2-pm-Running race (handicap), for girls, Age 12 to 14: 75 yards, Thres prizes

(open event) Six prizes.

3.3 p.m.-Three-legged race, for boys,

4-2.15 p.m.-Girls", skipping race. (Open event) 40 yards, Three prizes, our

boys, age 10 to 12 75 yards: Three prizes,

5-130 p.m.-Running race (handicap), for

6.30 pm-Running race (handicap), for "girls, age 10 to 12., 50 yardı. „Three prizen, 17—2.45 pm-Boy's sack race, age is to

40 yardą. A MANAGER

8-245-Girl's skipping competition. Age 10 10 14 1 bice prizes. A —9—245—Mr. J. D. Logan, will set off Aight of 50 Homer Pigeons.

Running race for

Age 6 to 10. 50 yards, Thr

for

“Age 1 to 10" sʊ yards.

-Fag and spooa open event) 50 yards, Three prize

(hendi.

315 Skipping competition for piti. and under, Three prizes. >\/14)—3.10—Funning race-for boys (handie cap) Age 6 to 8 35 yards. Three prizes.

15-3.30 Running race for girls (handi- cap) Age 6 to 8. 35 yards. Three prizen.

16.—3.45—Back: race, lór boys, aga 8 10:11: 5 yards. Three prises

pox should make the medical authorities of New Parade ground on Monday next, the 1st month. The development of the eggs was able development in the cultivation of rice ja 173:45-Egg and appen race" for girls,

prox.

SIR Algernon West has written a memoir of the late Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, which is being published by Messrs, Smilb, Elder, and Company.

Hongkong doubly careful to guard against! the incursion of the disease into the Colony, The explanation of the Chairman of the SIR Edward Clarke he refused to withdraw Sanitary Board in answer to Mr. Fung Wahis candidature for the representation of the 'Chun's questions was to the effect, that as

City of London.

buffalo calves could not be obtained lymph. could not be supplied. And he went on to say that if they could not get buffaloes in the New Territory they would have to apply to Shanghai or Saigon for a sufficiency. Mean- MR. J. McLeavy Brown, lately. Inspector. while the Colony is apparently at the mercy General of Korean Customs, was a passenger of the first passenger from any of the infect- ¦ by the Armand Békic, homeward bound. His ed areas who has contracted the disease, and friends were delighted to see him looking so

well. should there be any outbreak in a Chinese tenement it would be impossible to render the residents immune from the consequences likely to follow from contact with the infect ed person. It seems to us that the Govern meni should have thought of purchasing a Supply of tymph in Shanghai or Saigon Jong before Mr. Fung Wa Chun found it neces. sary to draw attention to the scarcity of WHISKY.ph in the Colony. If the necessary

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supply of buffalo calves could not be obtain- ed, at least the stock in hand should not have been allowed to decrease. It is a week

In the High Court, the other day, the Lord Chief Justice observed that he hoped the day was not far distant when commercial transac tions would be carried out without secret com missions

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In the report of the meeting of the Sanitary Unard yesterday the minute credited to "Mr. 1. E. Pollock and relating to an application by the proprietor of 1, Queen's Road West, was made by Mr. Lau Chų Pak.'

ON the recommendation of the Council of Finance the Government has consented to Ko Fong-shih, the High Commissioner of the Tax on Prepared Opium.

suspended on the voyage by applying ice, but they have been put into water of the proper temperature and should hatch in fifteen days, The coming of the trout eggs is the result of efforts made by Commissioner Worcester, who negotiated with the Japanese Government through Huntingtou Wi son, American charge afdies at Tokiu. When hatched the trout will be placed in the mountain streams of to Benguet,

(open event), do yards. Three prises.

(open event), 4.00—Boys', \ug-of-w Three prices.

$19.-4.00-Girls' thread and needle race. Three prizes

15.-4-45-Hopping race fo

for boys (open event). Three prizasi

26-5.00-Running race (handicap), for girls age 4 to 6. 25 yards. Three prizes.

Bran tub for young children...

TuR New York Maritime Register of Nov. 13 published an interesting article on the remarks

the United States which has taken place in the past five or six years. The United States, it observes, has entered the list of the world's rice producing und exporting; countries. Figures compiled by the Department of

20—4.15—Running K race, ((handicap); for Commerce and Labour through its Bureah boys, Age 4 to 65 yards. Three prizes. of Statistics show that the exports of rice to|||11-4.15——Sack race for boys, age 6 to 8, Cuba alone in the fiscal year 1955 Amounted 15 yards. Three prize

34.976,414 poundr, against 695,98322-4-30 Girls running race (handicap).4 pounds in the preceding year, the value of rice years and under, as yards. This prizes

234 30-kunning race for boys, thandi exported to Cuba being $993,819 in 1995, cap.): Age 4 to 635 yards. Threo, prizen.ts COMMENTING upon the, report of the annual against 519,985 in 1994.- The total value of 24. —4-45-Ruonlug: rate for giris, age 4 and general meeting of the Chinese Engineering nce of domestic production shipped out of the under. 20 yards. Three

priser and Mining Co., Ld., the P. & T. Times country in the fiscal year 1905, including that observes that it stops short, as other reports to the non-contiguous territory of the United have done, of giving information on those States, was $5,361,047, against $657,389 in 1900 points which are of most interest to us out and $16,454 in 1895. Meantims the imports of here. Under the very reasonable plea of the rice have fallen from practically four million present appeal the Board was unable, for dollars in 1890 to two millions in 1905, and for instance, to go into details with regard to the first time in the bistory of American com the Court's finding as to, the binding nature merce the rice exports exceed in value the rice have been asked or volunteered as to when of the memorandum. But something might imports,

the Board felt itself in sufficiently deep finan. the appeal was likely to be heard and whether

cial water to float right up. 1o the House of Lords should the results be again in favour of the China shareholders. The brief reference made to the matter by the Chairman in reply unpalatable sugestion that the entire business of the disturbance ascertained that one of the 1900 to 1907 The Powers will perforce haval be transacted only in China, was not however redolent of a keen desire to fall in line with the of the others, and refused to deliver it up. The

helthenon falfi. *h the attempts law's decrees even had its equity not been accused man denied his possession of their will be doly noted when fit is their

bein

made on all sides to evade all questioned...

money, but further investigations developed turn to consider demands and desires emana-

AN UNLOCKY, FIND

THE ABOLITION OF LIKIN

We are not surprised to learn that tho Wai-- wupo are pace more suggesting a year's des lay. In the, abolition of likin. The foreign Ministers have recently been making on the subject as the date for taking has long

passed wupu

Wai

IN QUEEN'S ROAD,

that the cry from all the, provinces N samej the new reforms baing While Jadian sergoast No. 706 was passing"

require fundan and along Queen's Road West, yesterday, hp no

Cannot be carried out. What then ticed a group of nine roolles engaged in is to be done? asks the 25 72

Walwepu can only suggest a )ear's delay, and

fikin

since we gave prominence to the outbreat grand monthly salary of Th. 2,000 to H.E to an inquiry by Mr. Cox, who propounded the wordy war, and upon lávestigating the cause the postponement of the date from

THE Council of Finance presented to their Ma. jeatles for approval on the 19th inst.specimens of the new coins, accompanied by an illustrated

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men, had Sico, alleged to be the lolot properly acquiescendo bel

SHIPPING AND

ILS:

English: (Ociana). Indian

of small-pox in Canton and referred to the serious consequences which must follow from the neglect of the ordinary precautions against contagion, and we now hear that there is a scarcity of the first necessary to pamphlet giving the rules and regulations THE ways of the foreigner, remarks the Japan the fact that he had a roll of notes to the ting from the Chinese The breach of salth is prevent the spread of the disease, should it with regard to the minting and circulation, of Gazette, are a continual, source of wonder to amount of Stoo in his belt. When questioned an overdraft on foreign confidence, and for be communicated by some: irresponsible the new currency,

the Japanese; there is little he can do that will the man then said he had picked up the bearance which must pay its interest, and wo absolutely surprise them and the actions of the money in Queen's Road, and as the other trust that so equitable balance will be mild traveller from the mainland. It is quite, DURING the night of Dec. 15, a serious fire. most eccentric assumed to be the normal deede i coolies wanted him to divide "ll "lid them he

tained in the diplomatic game' of give, and true that the Christmas holidays have inter broke out in the town of Temoh, eight shop of the race. Strangely goough, the and to try to find the owner. But the man fol was running away to prevent them stealing it, vened but that is no reason why the health houses bring burnt out. It is stated the Ibis remark would apply equally well to the foreig lowed and made such a volle that he could of the Colony should be endangered by the was covered by insurance, the offices interestedner and his view of matters Japanese, Daring not proceed with his search, Three men were lack of one of the prime essentials in the being the Now Zealand Insurance Co, and the the week one of the Japanese papers described at once arrested, and taken to the Central prevention of disease. Rather than spend Commercial Union, each having covered four with illustratiour, the performance of a numberStation, and later Mrs. Mok Po Yuk,, of No, vain days in searching for suitable buffalo of the houses, though the amount of the risks of foreigners (at Yokohama) who buried a dog 113 Queen's Road, called at the Police Station calves, the medical staff should immediately taken is not yet to hand,"

with much pomp and ceremony, The reader telegraph for a supply of lymph from Saigon SIXTEEN Chinamen in their national costume", under the impression, that figners do such she had $18c in her possession, and after mak of the Japanese paper are now, no doubt, and stated that, yesterday, when put shopping or Shanghai, and when that supply has were found destitute in the street of Newcastle things regularly. There some basis for ng purchases to the exisst of S80 she went arrived then they can afford to wander and taken to the workboose. There they re the story, in the fact that Grant,” the west home and then discovered she had lost 5100 Co., through the New Territory. Mr. Fung Wa mained, placid, and coutent with the conditions known and splendid favourite of Mr. H. Mac. in Queen's Road, Well The

Chun did a public service to Hongkong of Chinese labour in Newcastle Workhouse; Gowan, died recently of old age and eleven of when he directed police to the scarcity of the lymph supply in the Colony, and we can only trust that the medical authorities will now see fit to renew that supply at the earliest possible moment.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

15th June,

but the authorities are perturbed, for they do his foreign friends buried him. Grant" was do know what to do with the Orientals, and twelve year old and succumbed to old age

stated that they are sanion, and that one many besides his master, who appreciated the who is to pay for their, maintenance. It He had fairly on his way in the affections of Chinaman, who had received a month's way C

lly, though

remed were this morning pisceá

A. D. Melbourne,, and: chriges of the Stars The cast. aterion for further

Upon rosuming ati

id the Stoo, and the ma

Mok. Po MIACIONY

the friends who decided to the antes were found was eat to one mo

to divide between them, decamped a quan honour the passing of his dog,z

240 bard labour.

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