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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Following the lead given by the Govern- A COMMERCIAL Convention between Hulgaria and Egypt has been signed. It empowers Bulgs a to establish, a diplomatic agency in Egypt.

„NOTICE. A commanicatiis intended for publication in "The HONGKONG TELEGRAP" should be addressed to The Editor, i, Ico ilous Road, and should be sconmpsuled by the Writer's Namendment of the Straits Settlements, the leading Addroke

merchants of Saigon are stated to be anxious The Editor will not undertake to be respousifile for for the standardisation of the piastre, which is liable, similarly with the Hongkong dollar, to periods of fluctuation and erratic be SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). ||JA ULA-130 per annum. -

haviour. In giving voice to this demand | WEEKLY $13 per annan. The rates pat quarter and per mensein, prigsertinaal. | L'Opinion says—"A question, which is un The dally imas in delivered free when the addresdoubtedly one of the chief, features of the

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THE match that was played on the Hongkong Football Club ground between the Club and the West Kents ended in a draw. The score was three all.

5.5. "DECIMA" RÈPORTED WRECKED.

A TOTAL LOSS IN HAINAN STRAITS.

The s.s. Decima, under ballast, which left Hongkong on the 7th inst., on a voyage to Jongay, was repotted in Hongkong this fore- upon to have struck a rock in the tinipan Straits and to have become a total wreck. A long kong Telegraph roposter called at the agents -Messrs. Sarider, Wieler & Company-to-day,

telegraphic information from Capt. Schlaikier

ashore near Cape Kami, in the Hainan Straits. No exact date could be furnished by the

AN IMPORTANT APPEAL.

QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT,

In Appellate Jurisdiction, this morning, before the full Bench consisting of Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, and Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisne Judge, the appeal was heard against the judgment of His Honour the Chief Justice in the case of Chau Ip Shi versus the Wing Kee firm.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., instructed by Mr. C. F. Dixon, of Mr. John Hastings'

additional $1,10 par quarter is charged for posinge. day, is the standardisation of the Indo: THE Government of Victoria are sending a and he was informed that they had received office, appeared for the respondent, San Sui The postage on the wonkly ikaue to any part of the China piastre, We have been informed, and | Japanese, instead of the cargo of flour which it of the 3.5. Decima, to the effect that the vessel is/ Chuen, Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr.

world is 10 cents per quarter. Singla Copio, Daity, len cents: Weekly, twenty-

five cents.

The Hongkong Belegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1996,

THE SANIZARY DEPARTMENT AND PROPERTY OWNERS.

The letter by "Property Owner," which ap- peared in last night's issue of the Hongkong Telegraph, dealt with a subject in a manner in which most people-in fact, we may say

HYGIENOL practically everybody in Hongkong with the

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GERMICIDE

DEODORISER

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exception, possibly, of the members of the Sanitary Board--will be in agreement. But name took the trouble or had the courage of putting his views. so prominently before. the members of the Board and the general public as "Property Owner" has done. A perusal of the suggestions 'con tained in that sensible fetier for the amelioration of a condition of things which has kept back any revival. in the normal state of the property market will afford convincing proof that the vagaries of sanitary legislation in the Colony require to It

be promptly and immediately rectified. is a notorious fact that property owners have been called upon, over and over again, to re-cement their yards or reconstruct their promises, although the demands of the Sank tary Department have just been complied with and passed. This is one of the ius tances of the vexatious policy which the Sanitary law of the Colony sanctions, to, the precuniary loss of property owners and an- noyance of their tenants. The drains have to be taken up and re-laid after plans have A. S. WATSON & CO., been submitted to the Sanitary Board, the

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Hongkong, 31 March, 1906,

work sanctioned, and the completion ap proved by the Board's inspectors. Within a few months of that officially-certified work being, completed, when the harassed land, lord and long-suffering tenants have had the [inconvenience of enduring labourers on the premises, the work has had to be done all over again, causing unnecessary expense Land the maximum of disgust at the extra- ordinary methods adopted by the Board and its servants. It is no wonder, then, that,

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sum of £400 to Japan for relief of the starving

was previously arranged to send.

THE Parliamentary members of the Kensei Honto, Japan, held a meeting the other day, at which it was decided to submit a proposal to the Diet for the establishment of a Japan-Chins Bank.

of Mr. Geo, P. Lammert, was postponed sine

to date he has said enough to qualify himself for gaol," anid It is Honour Mr. Justice Wist in a case yesterday in which a question of accounts wis dealt with, the plaintiff being in the witness box.

THERE have been 57 cases of plaque reported in the Colony since the beginning of the year. The latest which occurred during the last 24 hours was that of a Chinaman, who resided at Queen's Road West, and succumbed to the

m dady.

Axon the passengers proceeding to Europe by the Imperial German mail 5.8. Princess Allee was the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., Chap tain of S. John's Cathedral, who goes home on a, well earned leave after three years' service in the Colony

we give the news with all reserve, that it is proposed to establish the piastre at an ex-- change value of three francs. As this measure would considerably prejudice the junior officials of the French dependency, it would be incumbent on the Government to grant a general increase of salary to all those carning less than 6,000 francs per annum,

THE sale of property on the Shaukiwan Road, commensurate with the enhanced value of advertised to be held to-day, at the sales rooms the piastre." L'Opinion adds: "If the redie, at the last moment, with a view to settle. port is well founded we do not underment between the parties, stand why all officials without exception should but benefit by having their salaries supplemented." The suggestion that the French Colonial Government has been con sidering this question is important from the point of view of Hongkong, on account of the trade between Saigon, and this port. But while it is eminently desirable that the silver coinage of the Far East generally should be brought up to a standard which would defeat the fluctuating value of silver and ensure a permanent rate of exchange, it is doubtful whether a mere pious expression of opinion will have much weight with the In the first place, French Government. Indo-China occupies a very different position from the Straits Settlements or even Siam. To bring about a standard of value in the plastre, which would be accepted by foreign traders, the Government must create" a gold reserve and guarantee the payment of gold in return for silver. But that is not all, for the Government has to deal with a vast body of natives who, it may be presumed, are totally incapable of realising the meaning of the gold standard or how it should affect them. The Laos and other inhabitants of the French colonial possession would first begin to discover that a new factor had entered into the coinage of the country when they received $8 or $8,55 per month instead of the $10 or 1 to which they, and probably their fathers before them, had been accustomed to receive. Actually the piastre would have increased spending power for those dealing with France; but it is. the general experience that a considerable period must always elapse between the time that the piastre is enhanced and the time that enhancement makes itself felt in the native markets and in food prices generally. Dur

ure not so willing as they once were to pay at the same rate as formerly, and yet The to invest in what was formerly, a favourite receive fewer piastres for his labour. form of laying out surplus, capital; for à amount of trouble which would be caused property that may be worth $10,000 to-day by the difficulty of enlightening the dense 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. may, to-morrow, by the structual alterations minds of ignorant coolies must prove enor- which landlords are called upon to effect mous, and after a lesson had been given in under every revision of the Sanitary law, be bimetallism, it is possible that the coolie compelled to incur such inordinate expendi would still be as far from comprehending ture that the capital represented in the value the truth as ever. There is little to be won-, of the property would suffer a serious diminu- dered at in that, for Mr. Balfour himself tion. Such being the case the margin of confessed that on the subject of bi-metallisa safety the mortgagee usually and prudently he was as a little child ; and it is safe to say reckons upon for his margin of security may that even in Hongkong, where we are, all be absorbed by the inconsistency of the amateur financiers, there are many who have action prompted apparently in the interests the haziest ideas on this subject. · The con- of the sanitary condition of Hongkong, sequence is that should the French Govern

• Property Owner," naturally, writes from his ment in Indo-China decide on a three-franc own standpoint. He holds that the action plastre they would have to reckon with of the Sanitary officials affects adversely the serious opposition on the part of the natives. position of the property owners of the It was not the same in Singapore,`which is Colony; but there is another phase of the self-contained, so to speak, where the real question which must be considered in this facts can be instilled and disseminated in a connection, viz., the wous of the large class few days, and where the Government took who are tenants of the houses liable con- the initiative by creating a gold reserve, tinually to summary demands by the Sanitary which assured traders of all classes that Department. No matter what the extent their money was safe and convertible and area of the work which the owner is at the declared exchange value. We 'called upon to have executed, it is the ther the Indo-China Government will

tenants who bear the burden of incon- see its

the Govern- way 10 follow venience, and no matter that the tenant is ment of the Straits Settlements is an paying his rent, he has no redress or clain other matter. The conditions are by no to recover from the landlord for any disturb means analagous. But a gold standard

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"I THINK you are all getting more and more las, here; there isn't a single day that one or certified documents," said His Ronour Mr. Justice Wise in the Summary Court yesterday. The excuse is generally not time to get it dune', but really it must slop sonic time"!

other does not ask to be allowed to put in un-

"My brother gave me the revolver to protect myself in the country," said the runner on beard the 5.5. Hathow at the Police Court this ring, where he was charged with being in possession of a Colts revolver yesterday. In spector Warnock, who prosecuted, said that defendant made his living by smuggling arms into the interior of China. Mr. F.A. Hazeland Goed the defendent $50, and ordered the re- volver to be confiscated.

THE night that Marston, of the R.E.'s office, and his associates were arrested for demanding money, with menaces, and impersonating policemen, a native, one of the gang, escaped. Some days ago the police were successful in Yesterday afternoon be capturing this man. was placed before Mr. C.A. D. Melbourne in answer to the two charges. On the first he was sentenced to three months' hard labour fine of $150 was imposed,

SPAMPANI's European Circus continues to attract the public by the excellence of the per- formances they put up, but it is unfortunate that the present weather conditions preclude many would-be visitors living at great dis tances away from the scene from journeying out to Causeway Bay, with every prospect of a ducking," before them. The bicycle trick riding is worth going far to see, and the other items certainly deserve a larger share of the public patronage than is at present accorded

R. A. Harding, appeared for the appellant, Chau Ip Shi.

The original suit was a claim brought by agents as to when the occurrence took place Chau Ip Shi against the Wing Kee firm for As most people know, the nearest telegraph recovery of $8,640, mouey lent and interest station in that vicinity is at Hoihow, and messages thereon. Judgment was given for the plain- froin the coast must be despatched overland tiff. with costs, and it was decided that by messenger, which would occupy some con-

Lau Siu Chuen was a partner in the de siderable time, and would account for any delay fendant firm. The present appeal was in the receipt of news regarding the vessel. brought against the latter decision, and The wire received from the master of the De..

the Court was asked to consider whether cima by Messis. Sander, Wieler and Company Las Siu Chuen was a partner actually of the was sent from Hoihow and dated 13th March,

time that the cause for action arose, and as to The report in shipping circles. this afternoon

whether he was liable to execution, of the said was to the effect that the Decimo struck an

judgment, uncharted reef in the Straits, and foundered.

Mr. Slade reviewed the facts of the quit, and Whether this report is true or otherwise, could

`stated that they had brought an action, No. not be confirmed at present. The 3.5. Decimo was formerly chartered by the Osaka Shosen 38 of 1935, for a declaration as to whether Lau Kaisha. The charter terminated at the end of Siu Chuen was a partner in the Wing Kee February, and the boat was delivered to her, and for an injunction against the plain- former agents, Mesers. Sander, Wieler and Company. The Urcima, it is stated, was then chartered by a Chinese syndicate to run be tween Hongay and Amoy, and it was while pro- ceeding to Hongay to take up the run between the two ports afore-mentioned that the 'disaster is reported to have occurred. It does not appear

that any lives have been lost. The officers and crew seem to have gone to Hoihow after abandoning the vessel.

No arrangements have yet been made by the agents to inspect the vessel. The s.s. Decimu was a vessel of 794 tons, and commanded by Captain Schlaikier.

·

She was an iron screw steamer built in 1878

Giffs from treating the said I no Siu Chuen as a He would therefore ask for an adjournment of this

partner in the defendant firm.

appeal pending the decision in the action.

Hon. Mr. Pollock said that surely that appli cation should have been made on motion,

The Chief Justice said that there must car

tainly be a motion.

Mr. Justice Wise said that it would be better. to postpone this hearing for a week and the application would then be made on motion.

Mr. Stade: Will your Lordships grant me leave to move?

The Chief Justice: Well, we must first hear what Mr. Pollock has to say.

'Mr. Pollock said he strongly objected to any

by the Flensburger Schiffsh for the Flensburger postponement. The judgment was given on Dampfschiffahut. Her dimensions were:- length, 243-2; breadth, 32.3; and depth, 17.7.

THE AGINCOUNT" OVERDUE.

The 5.3. Agincourt, 2,768 toas net register, which left Newcastle some time last month, with a cargs of coal for Hongkong, has not yet arrived, and we are told that she is seven days overdue.

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12th of last month and the other side had had ample time to prepare their case in that time.

The Chief Justice said the issue of this action went much further than the interests of Mr. Pollock's client. It meant a declaration as to whether Lau Siu Chuen was or was not a part- ner, and that would affect the interests of other people who might take advantage of such a declaration.

Mr. Pollock said that unless a specific de- claration was made it meant that they would lose the fruits of their judgment. However, if the other side would pay the amount and costs into Court there might be an adjournment.

Mr. Slade said that the amount was a pietty large one to have tied up lying. idle indefi nitely, as the adjournment would have to be a long ont..

Mr. Pollock said that both he and his learn- ed friend were engaged in a big arbitration which must come on first.

Mr. Pollock contended that his learned

friend was bringing on a metion without a

notice.

SEOUL FOR JADED WORKERS,

There is a new health resort for jaded work- ere in the Far East, and it is Seoul, the capital of Korea, the hermit kingdom. It is not so to the world at large, but that day is past and very long ago, since Seoul was barely known gone, and in Seoul we have the future excur sinn terminus for visitors from Hongkong and Shanghai, in order 1 advertise the country a beautifully-printed souver in the shape of

The Chief Justice said he must consider the photographic seprodactions of sights in "the land of the morning calm has been arranged smallness of the Bar, as well as the Dench, for circulation and some thirty photographis and also the physical capacity of the indivi give a vivid idea of the strange and extraorduals concerned, and he was very loth to rệu” dinary life that seems to be led by the Korcana. fuse the application. They are like no other nation; their moru. ments are weird and fascinating; their daily habits are a source of perennial interest; their customs, their attire, their ways of thought are all curious, unusual, and amazing. This sou venir furnishes a first glimpse of the Koreans, photographs are really well printed, clear and and it is intensely interesting. Moreover, the distinct, and there is no elaborate letter-press to distract attention from the pictures. One ol the novel illustrations in the volume is that showing an electric car of the latest up-to-date sort, similar, in fact, la Hongkong's cars. It is crowded with Koreans in their quaint and wonderful dresses-a medley of East and West. On the opposite page there is a charm, ing scene, which reminds one of some parts of FRON the Messageries Maritime Co., we have rural Japan-typically Oriental. The two pic received a large, handsome and ornnte wall

tures in juxtaposition form time-table, showing the departures and arrivals They have a first-class hotel in Seoul, the Astor flouse--the souvenir is issued by the Astor House proprietor-and we are told that of the French minil steamers from ports on the Noumen, and South America,

China and Japan, Australia and Seoul possesses an agreeable and healthy 1 is a most climate rivalling that of Monte Carlo, with stylish and elegant production, and should be neither the severe heat of Singapore and Hong- very useful to those in this partofthe world who kong nor the intense, cold of biberia." It abounds in game, from tigers to snipe, and are always thinking of mails and mail days, generally it seems to be än ideal spot for a Moreover, it is an ornament as well as a time-holiday. We only want to know now how table, and is highly creditable to the Messa. much it costs to get there, to live there, and to do the round trip The Astor House seems to geries Maritimes Co, and to the Parisian be all that is claimed for it--where the accom- publishers.

them.

run to

AN Indian watchman, residing at Quarry Bay, imagined a few nights ago that he heard some quietly out of bed, got hold of a stout stick and one prowling outside his matshed. He crawled rushed out of the door. Tie saw nobody, so he waited until some minutes later, when Chinaman 'came passing by on his way to Shaukiwan. The Indian thought he had the right man, and walking up to the coolie lested

his skull with the stick. The coolie retaliated,

modation is first-class.

striking contrast.

THE WEATHER,

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory:

On the 15th at 11.50 p. The barnmeler has fallen over E. Japan, and risen in China.

The depression is moving towards NE. over NE. Japan. Pressure is highest over the E.

coast of China.

Gradients continue slight, and moderate to

The Chief Justice said it must turn upon the payment into Court of the amount.

Mr. Slade said he was unable to say at once whether the payment could be made as his client was not now 'present."

The Chief Justice: Can you take this case on Monday?

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Mr. Slade: No, my Lord; it is absolutely impossible that i can do so on Monday. The arbitration case is a very important, involving some $10,000.

The Chief Justice: All cases are important. Mr. Blade: Qoite so, my Lord, but in this case time is of paramount importance, as there are only nine days before a witness leaves the Colony,

Mr. Pollock suggested that a day might be set for payment of the amount, and if not paid on that date the case would go on.

The Chief Justice said that was a very rea- sonable suggestion, and made the order that the money must be paid into Court on Tues day, and if not paid the case would go en Wednesday morning.

Mr. Pollock: Peremptorily? The Chief Justice: Oh, yes, peremptorily.

FRENCH SHIPPING SERVICE 70 INDO-CHINA,

THE NEW SCHEME.

Referring in his consular report on indo. China to the new scheme of mail shipping

mosa Channel and the N. part of the China been considering, Mr. G. W. Pearson states Forecast:-Moderate NE. winds; fair,seilles-Australian line and that to Bombay, and that it is proposed to do away with the Mar-

ance entailed during his occupancy by the without a gold reserve would be without with the result that both were arrested. Yes. fresh NE. winds may be expected in the For- service which the French Government have requirements of the Sanitary Board. What foundation, and subject the currency of the

terday morning the Indian was charged with Sea. is more, apart from the annoyance to which country to the danger of panics in times of assault and had to pay a fine of $5. be and his household are subjected, there is

uncertainty. Could' a gold standard under

in many agreements we have seen a condithese conditions have been maintained Now is the season when a lady's thoughts tion that "any cost incurred by the lessor during the anxious days that Admiral lightly turn to spring and summer finery, when in cleaning or in other sanitary work shall be refunded to the lessor by the lessee Rodjestvensky was lingering in Kamranly the winter attire is cast aside and the sedale garments of that season blossom into the gaie. That stipulation is actually embodied in Bay? It is very doubtful indeed; the value ties of summer delights, Although so far from would possibly have dropped during the Paris, the centre of fashion, Hongkong is ad. leases which we have perused; where such a clause does not appear, the les early days of the Algeciras conference, when mirably supplied by those who seek to pro. sor invariably provides for such con- it seemed impossible that France and Ger- vide for the fancies and tastes of the ladies in tingencies by increasing the rental which many could arrive at a compromise. And, this Colony, Perhaps the leading establish ment in Hongkong whore Parisian fashions the already overburdened class-the tenants in fact, unless the French Government pro-

may be seen is that over which Madam Jay of houses in Hongkong-has to pay. It is ceeds on sound lines it will only substitute presides, and a large number of spring and no new suggestion, but the view has often a fictitious exchange rate for a real one. Of summer hats bave just been received by been expressed in these columns, that the course it is well that the subject should Madam Jay direct from Paris. These bats, we are told, are now in vogue in the French | proportion of house rent to salaries in Hong, exercise the minds of the French colonists, kong of the middle class shows a disparity especially in view of their proximity to metropolis; every bat is an original model, and an anomaly which have no parallel in any Singapore and the trade which is carried on and there are no duplicates. We may there Brilish Colony, In alhese circumstances with that port as well as with Hongkong, fore anticipate that Hongkong will shortly be the letter of "Propers wner" sounds a For that reason, the fact that the question pay with the creations of Paris, and ladies will be anxious for the hot weather to arrive so timely note of protesich it is to be is mooted at all is satisfactory, and shows hoped in the interest of all parties will be that our French neighbours are not blind to that they may display the beautiful and taken up by the members of the Sanitary the benefits flowing from a fixed exchange charming productions procured from Madam

value of the piastre.

Jay's establishment. [36--14|| Board and a serious grievance remedied,

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUR,

Indian (Gregory Aptar) 17th inst. American (China) 18th inst., 4 p.m. French (Armand Behic) zoth inst. Indian (Łultang) 2zad inat. Australian (Taiyuan) 6th prox..

to reduce gradually the subsidy on the Saigon- Shanghai line. By way of substitutes there will be a new line from Saigon to Sydney via Singapore, Batavia, Noumea, and Brisbane, and another moothly service, in addition, 10 thuse now established, between Marseilles and Saigon. The latter service' will be extended to Tonkin until railway facilities have been pro- vided, when the subsidy for this extension will be unnecessary. Then a weekly line may be Ton between Marscilles and Saigon. It is, however, very probable, Mr. Pearson thinks, that the scheme detailed above will we found impracticable. It will probably be necessary to supplement the line of mail boats by a ser vice of large steamers running between Lyons. The East Asiatic Co.'s s.s. Norge left Singa- and Mursailles to Shanghai and Canton, in pore on Monday afternoon, and may he expect-view of the expected increase of trade in sice ed here on 20th inst

from Indo-China and in silk between China The C. N. Co.'sss. Talyuan from Australian and France. A project for a subsidised line Ports left Sydney on 12th inst. p.m., and is between Tourane and Swatow, Foochow Shanghai, Hanila, Osaka, and Yokohama iz due here on 6th prox.

The C. P. R. Cols ss. Empress of Japan on foot. The success of such a lice must de- arrived at Kobo at 8 p.m., on 13th just,, and pend upon the improvement made in the porta left again at noon Wednesday, for Yokohama, of Tourann and Saigon, which need new docks where she is due to arrive at nöga, on 15th inst“) and godowns, coal yurdu and rice depote,

The Boston Tow Boat Co.'s.s.s. Lyra arrived Yokohama on tath inst. The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s 5.1. Poona left Singapore for this port on 14th inst., at 8 am, The Blaston S. S. Co.'s .. Shawmut sailed from Puget Sound on roth inst., for Hongkong via usus parts.