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"Hongkong, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1906.

FLOWER HILL NUISANCE.

MR. HAZELAND'S COMMENDABLE ACTION,

During the past few days the Chief Magis trute of Hongkong has been acting rather as an arbiter of morals than as a censor of crime. His latest achievement has been to teach the flower-vendors of Wyndham Street - better REDUCTIONS | known as Flowey Hill-to desist from thrusting their goods upon passers-by and beseiging Moves been made from this date IN THE them with their wares Anybody who has had PRICES of many of the following -

occasion to pass along Flower Hill and has PATENT MEDICINES,

casually admired a chic button-hole must have realised the exact meaning of the phrase INFANTS' FOODS,

embarras de richesse. The charge of the SOAPS, PERFUMES.

MAINTAIN THE LARGEST

W

MOST COMPLETE STOCKS of

these GOODS in the Colony, and our Stocks being frequently turned over, ensures all Goods being FREST and in the BEST CONDITION.

LIMITÈD. CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, PERFUMERS ETC., Etc., ETC.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, Hongkong, zoth January, 19o6

Light Brigade was as nothing to the onslaught of the stycet arabs armed with a bunch of Bowers on the innocent charioteer. They fling themselves hodily upon the chair and stuff it with flowers, which seem to fuse all their Fragrance in the confined area of the chair, while the unhappy occupant is the bun of every prickle and thorn that pintect the flowers It is only necessary to make a sign that one wants to purchase a single bud, and the whole street is thrown into the vehicle. The vendors seem, to think, also, that because they have dis- -carded their roses or lilies or whatever it is, that

THE following have been selected to play in the match to-morrow commencing at 1.30 p.in. Hongkong Cricket Clab versus a Naval team; -T. E. Pearce, C. H. Mackay, Capt Kricken- back, W. A. Powell, 1. R. Philips, R. A. B. Ponsonby, T. Sercombs Smith, N. H. Rutherford, E. A. Fowler, Major Williamson, and C. T. Figgoll.

CORRESPONDENCE,

We do not necesarily endorses the opinions expressed by

Correspondeath in this column.)

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, -

To war Kulgar or tim "ilosakoso TratonAPH,” Dear Sir,According to telegraphic advice received from our Head Office in Tukio, we are happy to inform that our regular European Line, inking freight and passenger's be tween Japan ports, Shanghai, Singapore, Pe nang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles London and Antwerp, will be resunied in, April, next, commencing with the s.s. Bingo Maru to | leave Yokohama on or about the 4th April, to Lo followed by the ss. Sudo ¿taru ar Karachi Station. The crew will he conveyed to Bong-turu on or about 18th April; thereafter one kong by the cruiser Donegal, which was to be steamer every fortnight. commissioned for the same station on 6th inst.

THK shallow draught river boat Nightingale will be commissioned for service on the Chinn

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23, 1906.

TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”

SERVICE.

· JAPANESE RAILWAYS.

NATIONALISATION SCHEME.

PROBABLE ABANDONMENT,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 23rd February, 2.15 p.m.

With regard to the project for the

PIRACY, IN THE NORTH RIVER.

BRITISH PASSENGER SUİP URLD UP.

One of the most dating escapades on the part of the pirates in the Norili River occurred a week ago whes nearly a dozen pirates at- tacked the steam motor-boat Tien-kong. As a matter of fact the motor-bont plies between' Sinam, Samshui and Ching-yuen and up to the present there have been no difficulties ex- But on the 14th perienced in the passage. instant, after the Tien-kong had left Samshui a fight with pirates occurred which may have a large influence on the proposed opening of

free trade. Nanning to

П appears that they left Samshui at nine o'clock in the morning bound for Ching-yuen. There 130 passengers an board and were

out later were aniong these as it turned ne pirates. About half an hour after leaving nationalisation of the railin Shanghai, Japan parts, and Seattle 11.S.. (cun-port the pirates appeared, flourishing revolvers, Japan, it will probably be decided

eats and other arms. Naturally, the passen to abandon the scheme. gers were terrified but in presence of the com bined force of the pirates they were absolutely helpless. There was no doubt that the affair was pre-arranged. The pirates came on deck in a body, coerced the passengers into subjection, Princess Ena's Change of Religion. sent one man to disable the pilot by pointing a

London, 15th February, revolver at his head, put another in the stokehald

Correspondence on the Spanish marriage. where the engineer was at their mercy and had question is proceeding in the Times. the 7 ten-kang within their iron control.

The Bishop of London has written intimating first thing they did was to rifle the cabin of the that sonic protest has been made against what officers There they got $950 in hard cash, be seemed to be possibly a conversion by order. sides other bouly, In real Captain Sturlight

Father Vaughan replies to the Bishop, con. fashion they held up the entire passengers, ademoing any attempt tu cast suspicion on the budy seemed to have the courage to withstand sincerity of the Princess.

Our American Line, between Hongkong!

The Nightingale has a displacement of 85 tons.

speed of nine knots, and carries an armament necing there with the Great Northern Rail of two six pounders; and four 45-inch maxims. way), will also be restarted, beginning with the Shixana Maru to lease Hongkong on the 3rd GEO. Green; proprietor of the Criterion Hotel April next. There will be provisionally a four. and A. Kumor of the Main Hotel, were sum-weekly service, after which a regular fortnight moned at the Police Court this morning for ly service will be maintained.—Yours truly, erecting dag poles which projected into Crown

NIPO IN YUSEN KAISHA, land and causing a nuisance to those living in Hongkong, 2nd February 1936. the vicinity. Mi. M. JĄD, "tephens appeared for the first defendant. Mr. C. A. D, Melbourne adjourned the case in go down to jespect the buildings

THE 20 yards range at King's Park will be available for practice and competition firing

CHINESE PORCHLAIN.

THE CENTRE OF THE INDUSTRY,

The

An interesting report has appeated from the pen of Mr. Walter J. Clennell, H.M. Consul at to-morrow afternoon, from o'clock to 3.30 in the course of his travels Mr. Clannell visited. five hours. The master was helpless, the uf- Kinklang, on ajourney in the interior of Kiangshem. They actually juled the boat for four ar o'clock, and on Sunday from 9.30 am, to 12 a.. There will be one pool for both days. Mem-the porcelain industry. Mr. Clennel thus des do nothing and the passengers seemed like a Ching-te-Chen, on the Kan River, the seat officers had no weapons, the crew could or would bers who have not shot this month for the cribes that city: 1935 and 1905 Governor's Cups are informed that these are the last two shoots of the month for these competitions.

Mus. Lewingdon prosecuted a chair coole at the Police Court this morning for using abusive language at Ripon Terrace on the zoth just Complainant sent for a chair on the day in question and as it was long in coming she engaged another that was passing. When de- fendant's chair arrived and hearing that he was not wanted his is alleged to have abused the complainant. Mr. F. A. Hazeland fined him $3.

Ching-to-Chen stands on the left bank of the river, which here flows from north to South

The site of the town, though well above or dinary water. level, is low relatively to most of the surrounding-country, so that the olent freshets which frequently come down, both from the upper reaches of the main valley, towards Fouling and Chimen, and from the two or more large tributaries which converge at this point, expose it to sudden, and at times disastrous floods. The town, in fact, lies in a pocket, with hills on all sidės, rising to the south and cast into noble ranges of mountains at only a few iniles distance, and with only a very narrow and inadequate ontley at its south-

west corner,

The remains of several forts on the neigh At about 12.45 o'clock to-day an old woman, bouring hills, and a long line of earthworks to aged 5, residing at No. 5 Anderson Street, Wan the south of the town, remain to mfest the chai, stepped out of iramcar No. 36 when nearuggle that raged in the '50's during the the Central-market, and was very seriously in temporary ruin of the industry and partial Taiping rebellion, and which resulted in the

jured: Her right arm is supposed to have destruction of the town.

been broken, bermouth when she was picked up bleeding profusely and several of her teeth were missing. She was badly bruised about the head and fice, and had to be removed to the Government Civil Hospital,

A. S. WATSON & CO., │they have thereby sold them, much in the same way that a quick medicine, dealer singles out the simplest looking individual in a crowd and Compets him, blushing and tongue-tied, to pay for a box of pills warranted to cure all sorts of 'diseases, including love. Flower Hill is pic-Tar following have been selected to play for turesque from a distance; it is one of the the Hongkong Football Club in the Rugby features of the city but it is also the scene of match against H.M.5. Andrased to-morrow; pugilistic encounters every tigne as unwitting colours:-Back: C. M. Pieslaw.

kick off 4.30 p.m. The Club will play in Three- passenger appeats on the scene. The worst

quarters: J. G. Lecky, T. E. Pearce. A. O of it is, a man bombarded by flowers feels more Lang, J. M. G. Taylor. Halves: G. R. Han ridiculous than if he were the centre of a bunch nave, R. J. Blackburn. Forwards: R. M. of confetti-throwing Italians. One can hardly, Raoking, R. M. Kendall, H. F. Hickman, E.

Greenwood, and H. F. Chard.

GREGOR

& CO.,

19, QUBEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

BEER

PILSENER.

CROWN LABEL.

$13.00

Por Case of 4 Dozen Quarts.

$19.50

Per Caso of 8 Dozen Pints.

and pommel a stack of filies or a heap of violels. And to get at the sellers is impossible. It is one consolation that, so far, they have con- fimed themselves to cut-flowers; it is horrible to gontemplate what would happen should

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During the last forty-five years Ching te Chen has had time to recover, in very large measure; from this last calamity, but it is said to be not so busy or so populous as before the Taiping rebellion.

Everything in Ching-tê Chên either belongs to or is akogether subordinate to the porcelain and earthenware industry: The very houses are for the most part built of fragments of fire. clay (called "loping-tu") that were once part either of old kilns or of the fire-clay covers in which procelain is stacked during firing. The river bank is covered for miles with deep stratum of broken chinaware and chips of fire- clay, and as far as one could judge, the greater part of the town and several square miles of | the surrounding country are built over, or composed of, a similar depost. A great in-

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hands, does not remain localized in a single gpol for goo years without giving to that spot a character of its own.

flock of sheep. The pirates-nine against 130 ➡took everything they wanted, even to the very stools on which the natives lic. When they were finished they ordered the engineer 10 ground the boat, one of the rabbers taking the wheel. When the boat had grounded ulicy leaped ashore and bade farewell to the dis tu-bed passengers in the most impudent fask lon. Altogether they got about $3,0co worth of

goods and valuables. The captain of the toal wanted to go to Sanshui, but the passengers maintained, that Ching-ytten was their destina tian, hoping, no doubt, that the Chinese gun.

ever, there was no attempt made, so far as we boat there would come to their rescue. How.

are informed, to catch the pirates and so far they have gone free.

in which pirates have had the audacity This is by no nicans the first occasion

boud trading vessels of the character of the Tien-kong. In this case the omiter has been reported by Mr. J. W. Kew, of the Steam Water Boat Company, to the authorities and it is hoped that they will succeed, in obtaining restitution of their goods which were lost on the Tien-kong and also of the valuables.

It is reported that two days, later, on the

16th, another piracy occurred, the facts of

which are not known,

Considering that Mr. J. W. Kew is the sofe few weeks on the run, considerable sympathy nwner of the Tien-king, which has only been a is felt for hins in the mistestues which has befallen bis boat nud everybody trusts that the

BANKRUPTCY COURT.

ADJUDICATI IN GRANTED.

{Straits Times.]

Father Vang says that the public may rest satisfied that the Princess will not be received into the Catholic Church, without a solemn assurance on her pan that she is acting on conscientious convictious,

Anti-Militarism in France. Anti-militarist placards inciting conscripts against their officess have been posted up in

Paris.

The placards have been torn down by the police:

2,300 persons whose signaleres appear on the placards will be prosecuted.,

207 soldiers and 289 inhabitants, including many women, will he tried in connection with the disorders at Krasnoyask in Rusin,

A Suitable Attention to M. Loubet.

The Czar of Russia hus sent to M. Loubet the Order of St. Andrew, set in brilliants.

STERLING SALARIES.

ADVANTAGES FOR THE WAGE-EARNER.

A correspondent in the Straits Timet, writ- ing on the subject of sterling salaries, Fays -- There is a great deal of unreasonable com. plaint on the part of those who are paid on aj sterling basis. It is complained that many are

unable to send a remittance home now, but the fact is that now is a much better time than

fency to send money home, and just as good a formerly for those who are paid in local cur

time as any for those who are paid in sterling. As for living expenses here they are going down rapidly since the exchange rate has been fixed; ns all provisions, etc., are at least ten per cent. cheaper than heretofore. If servants' wages and rents can be reduced in proportion, which, I believe, they can and will, a sterling salary will soon be worth as much.locally, though it may not be expressed in as many. dollars, as it was months or years ago. Many

An even and well-contested game was played on the Hongkong Football ground at Happy Vallev yesterday afternoon, between the Club and the Y.M.C.A. At half-lime the score was

and ultimately the Club' sent in an easy shot as a side-line. A bunch of pansies on the which the Y.M.C.A. goalkeeper failed to ward proboscis is endurable if not delightful, but an off Result: Club, 3; Y.M.C.A, 7.--On the earthenware pot full of mud and faded greenery Naval Football ground the Army staff played plumped an the toes or scattered over the H.M.S. Rambler. The soldiers had matters summer. During this busy season, when every peared for the debtars. This was an appliction and, if those now'engaged elused to accept

their own way and won by four goals to mil."

these arabs of the pavement resort to pot plantsane all In the second half both sides pressed of Manchester, but resemble no other large Honour Sir Francis P.ggol, Chief Justice, of those who complain are living in Govern.

This is perhaps what struck me most forcibly else in China. The forms, the colour, the ma in Ching-it Ching-that it is unlike anything terials used in the buildings, the atmosphere, are somewhat reminiscent of the poorer parts town that I have ever visited. At present there thirty or so were actually in work at the time of are 104 pottery kilns in the town of which some my visit. The greater part of the kilns only work for a comparatively short season every

kila is perhaps employing an average of too lo attire would make the ordinary man see red.

200 men, the population of Ching-ĉ Chén rises Of course, it is all business, this flattering atten THE annual report on Kino-chow, covering the tail are labourers drawn from a wide area of to about 400,000, but of this nearly, if not quite tion of the otherwise unnoticed visitor, but it is period between October, 1904, and October, country-chiefly from Tuch'ang district-who that sort of attention which easity pills. The 1905, which has been distributed in the Reich-only come for the season, live, tus of bars landlady who said that too raisins stag, shows that the revenue of the Protectorate rack-like sheds, and do not bring their families

with them. has increased 99 per cent., namely from

But, apart from the kiln's, ose passes along. spoiled the pudding was not so very far wrong.501,946 to m.3,001,70 as compared with the street after street where every shop is occupied after all. It is quite possible to have too much previous year. The shipping returns rose from

by men, women, and children, ull engaged in of a good thing, and while it is very sad to read 337 vessels, with an aggregate registered ton-

the designing, moulding, painting, or distribut- about flowers being born to blush unseen it isnage of 388,323, to 463 vessels, with a loonage of pottery, Potters' sheds, where the clay is mixed and moulded on the wheel, seemed to sadder to be taken, unawares, with a bouquet of

The receipts of the Chinese be innumerable. The river bank is crowded of 470,517. Maritime Customis increased from $318,000 to for 3 miles by junks either landing material damp, mucky, slobbery forget-me-nots. Mr.

and fuel or shipping the finished product. Hazeland, we read, fined the delinquent on

Shops for the retail sale of the ware, though numerous, are less in evidener than might have this occasion Si; many a Hongkong resident

been expected, and the wholesale tride, which is in the hands of guilds, makes little display Apart from the meeting halls of these guilds, there are scarcely any buildings with any architectural pretension, but the guild halts are rich and elaborate structures.

many

Emas paid a dollar and more to get rid of the rabble. But the Magistrate's action is a good heginning, and if the hawkers realise that they aust cease from pestering passengers so much the better for the amenities of Hongkong,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TO-DAY'S plague return was a blank,

THE Gasttie announces the King's approval of Señor Don Albert Moreno Pérez as Consul of Panama at Hongkong.

SIR Ewen and Lady Cameron are booked us passengers to Hongkong on the P. and O.

steamer Jevanha from Colombo on March 4.

Ar the last meeting of the Committee of the Royal Portsmouth Hospital there was a pleasing little incident-the receipt of a postal order for 35, n donation from a seaman at faraway Hong kong, says a home journal.

$296.00, while the value of the transit trade rose from $21,861,262 to 533,426,596.

By kind permission of Lieut. Col. A. G. Fitton, DSO,, and Officers, the Band of the 2nd Batt., "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) will play the following programme of music during dinner at the Hongkong Hotel, to

morrow, the 24th inst.-

£ Starch

." The Tyronian ". ....McKelvey Oyritare.

Siena"

Vate

Sympathie "

...Mezrázapps Selection from..." Las Ives St. Gervais. "......Lecc Song (Cornel Selo)......." The Chubster. "Sullivan Minet and Trio.

Reminiscences of Scotland)..........

God Save the King.

Mozart F. Godfrey

In Bankruptcy Jurisdiction yesterday, His

presiding, Mr. Hurthouse of the firm of ment quarters, and as for the others, our acting Messrs Denny's and Bowley, Crown solicitors. Municipal President has given us the comfort. appeared in the case of the Hong Lok linging assurance that there is a tendency towards Tai firm, ex parte the debtors, and said he ap† reduced rents. The supply of servants is large;

for adjudication, and at the meeting of the creditors it was decided that they would pass no resolution in the matter, an allidavit to that

effect having been fi'ed. He would now ap ply for adjudication, the Official Receiver to be appointed trustee in the muter.

His Honour made the order as applied for. PAYMENT, OF TAXED COSTS. To the case of the Hau Fuk Chan firm, er parts the Hong Yuen Bank, Mr. C. F. Dixon, of Mr. John Hastings' office, appeared for the creditors and applied for an order for payment of taxed custs out of the biokrupt's estate.

reductions, others can be secured at lower figures.

BUBONIC VACCINH,

Consul Paterson, of Aden, forwards a report by Surgeon Major Pral of the Indian Army in regard in the suppression of bubonic paguo that visited Aden during the winter 19 4. The consul makes a synopsis of this eport as follows:

Indian and many of the physians of that For several years past the gowrnment of country have been trying to set the entire population of infected districe to submit to The Official Receiver opposed the applica-vaccine inoculation as a prevellative of plague. tion, saying that the creditors' proper course At first there was but little, ifany real objection would have been to apply for the adjudication time it was needed the worst to stay the awful. to it among the people, ut just about the of the firm as bankrupt instead of bringing pr action and attaching the property. Another firm had obtained an order adjudicating the firm bankrapt about three weeks after the action taken by Hr. Dixon.

Mr. Dixon submitted that by taking that action the property was preserved for thie beue. fit of the creditors and quoted authorities in support of his application,

The Official Receiver said that the firm had committed an act of bankruptcy by absconding out of the Colony,“

Mr. Dixon submitted that it was only the managing partner who had absconded, and the absconding of one partner did not involve the firm in an act of bankruptcy.

The Official Receiver said this application ought not to have been made in bankruptcy; it should have been made, if it was made at all, in the action, and he should have received notice of dial application.

Tite compound of the British Legation in Bangkok had an unwanted "raked up" appearance this morning, says the local Times of th inst. Inquiry elicited the information that it had suffered from the visitation of a pig during the night. The chief gaoler was stand- ing with a rifle, a bandful of cartridges and a worried look, He was trying to locate the pig. After a search, in which gaolers, prisoners and SOME days ago, a verdant Chinaman in interested bystanders took part, the predatory Singapore was rambling along North Bridge pachyderm was discovered hiding under the Road. On passing a house he saw some shrubs near the Consulate offices. The chief Japanese ladies within, and being of an amorous gaoler took deadly aim and fired, and the pig turn, he evinced his pleasure at seeing them, ran into the klong and drowned itself Thereupon, the males of the household seized him, tied him to a post and carefully besmeared THE case of Edwardes v. Dallas bas comc his head and face with tar and oil, avoiding before Mr. Justice Swiefen Rady, on a motion injuring his eyes. They then let him go. He by the plaintiff, the manager of the Gaiety and showed himself to Inspector Sullivan who sent other theatres, for an injunction to restrain the THE changes in the garrisons in the Far East him to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where it took defendant frain infringing Mr. Edwardes right next season will include the transfer of the 3rd five days' diligent labour to remove the of representation in various plays. Counsel Haltation Manchester Regiment from Mid-objectionable ornamentation. As it was in stated that the notice of motion only dealt with delburg, Cape Colony, to Hongkong. The 3rd possible to get the stuff out of his queue, this five pieces-The Cingalee, The Country Girl, Manchesters is a new battalion on its first tour appendage was severed. Information was laid, The Duchess of Dantiic, The Girl from of service abroad, having gone from England and the Japanese who applied the far was

Kay's and The Orchid. Mr. Dallas had been to the Cape in 1903. So far as we can ascer summoned for causing grievous hurt. The producing these plays for some time past in sold. tain no battalion of the Manchesters has ever victim made a great todo about the loss of his Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, and Longkong, served in Hongkong. The 3rd Battalion has a

queue, declaring that he could not go back to without a licence, and stating that lie was doing the property had been fireserved-notechnical. | strength of about 800 of all ranks under the China queueicas and must perforce remain an iso by arrangement with Mr. Edwardes," That | ly, but actually. command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. A. An-

After further argument from th sides i exile. When the case was called, the' vicifin statement was quits untrue. There was no derson; with Major H. L. James, second in said he did not wish to offer evidence. The appearance for the defence, and his Lordship Honour said he would take it matter into

defendant was acquitted,

granted the injunction,

consideration, and reserved kişdecision.

Hongkong, 16th June, 1905, -

[361a command,

Mr. Dixon said that unless they got theft, costs out of the estate they would not get them at all, as they certainly; would not get them of of their client. He would submit that they were entitled to thecosis, as the whole propity was preserved, and if he had not attached that property there probably would have been nothing for any of the creditors, as he aached on the very day when the property was to be

His Honour agreed that there wasno doubt

avages of the plague, though the carelessness of some one, a lot of inculated patients died of tetanus, and this gat it such a setback that for some time the peple would have nothing to do with the remed, and many even assoited that it was not a preventative. But since then the government as provided a specially ins- titured laheratorsat Bombay, wliers this vac- cine is prepared and where it is impossible to beco e contationted with outside poison, Again strenul efforts are being made to get the people submit to inoculation, as from experienced results this seems to be the only reme that in any manner diminished the ravage of this discasca

SKIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUR,

American (Siberia) 25th inst, ndian (Kuisan¿) 26th inst; French Longsor) zóth inst.. German (Zitten) 27th inst. Australian (Changsha) and prox. American (America Afuru) 2nd prox. German (Bayern) zul p.ox. German (Pins Waldemar) toth prox. Canadian (Hmpress of China) 13th prox.

The P. & A. 6.6. Aragonir airived at Yoka- hamma on 22nd inst

The Glen Line 5.9. Glenturn from London.

for this elc., left Singapore on Thursday,

p port

The P. M. 5. S. Co's sa. Munchyria which saited from this port on 26th ult, arrived at

San Francisco on 21st inst.

The P. M. S, S. Cols s.s. Siberia left Shang- hai at g'a.m., this morning, and is expected to arrive in Hongkong on 25th intt, at 11 am.

The N, D. L.. Imperial German Mail sa Boraro left Sandakan i Banguey on Wednes day pm, and may be expected hard on 3Bib

inut,