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HONGKONG'S SIGHT52-

THE EARLY MORNING' WATER CARRIERS.

One of the sights of Hongkong at the pro- sent time is the early morning procession of water-carriers along Queen's Road. Imms EARTHQUAKE IN FORMOSA.diately after dawn the march begins, and as the coolies wend their way along the centre of SIXTY PERSONS KILLED, the road towards the East, their buckets clink. ing in rythmic tune and their voices chanting a iny which seems to consist mostly of vituper CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

ative insinuations, they make a picturesque speciacie. As already stated, they proceed ́castwards, but where they go to nobody seems to know. It is asserted on the one hand that they catch water running from a nullah, white it is also maintinel that there is a tank

[From Our Own. Correspondent]

Shanghai, 19th March,

11.45.a.m.

An alarming earthquake was perienced in Central Formosa Saturday.

ex-newhere beyond the cricket ground. A wild

on

observer has argued that they walk round the city in the hope of witnessing another aquatic performance similar to that given in statue sqare the other morning, but that seems to 'Sixty inhabitants in the district be a rather far-fetched theory. It is true there is a hydrant near the Sailors and Soldiers aro reported killed.

Home, but surely they do not travel so far for Considerable damage has been tub of water. At all events, they travel light As they go eastwards, but on returning an hour done to property.

Inter their buckets are filled. No longer a chattering and yelling gang of conlies, but so- femn as qwis, the water splashing the roadway,

[Renter's]

The British Army.

London, 16th March.. A motion by Mr. Seely for a reduction of 10,000 men in the army was rejected by 296 to 56.

THE VIVE

DISEASE-STRICKEN,

SKVEN HANDS BURIED AND THREE

· SERIOUSLY ILL, ``.

The master ofthe s.s. Ulabrand, whicharrived in port this morning, reports that on the 14th inst., in lat. N. 30. 391 and long. 124.45 E. the American ship Juy, of Bath, wished it to be reported that there was sickness amongst the crew, and that they had buried seven men, while three others were ill. There were six bands on board, not including the captain and officers, and the Ivy was bound for Shanghai, The skipper wanted medical supplies im mediately, but required no assistance. The nature of the sickness was not disclosed,

STRAITS. TO BURMA BY RAIL

A PLETHORA OF SCHENES.

At length the province of Tenaserim (Lower Burma) is receiving some attention in the matter of railways, says the Stralis Times, and there seems every reason to hope that is the near future Moulmein will become an im portant railway centre. Besides the connection with Fogu, which is rapidly approaching com pletion, several other schemes are in the air, iwo of which deserve attention, because they

MARCH 19, 1906.

GANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.

·FORMAL PETITION TO 'THE THRONE,

Our Chinese contemporary, Chung Kwok Vat Po, published this morning an account of the proceedings which took place at the meeting of the shareholders of the Canton-Hankow railway held in Canton the other day. It was agreed that a telegram should be transmitted to the Board of Commerce in Peking stating that the capital required to proceed with the construction of the Canton-Hankow line had been placed at 20 million dollars, to be raised by four million shares of 55 each.

la Canton, shares have been allotted to the amount of 10 million dollars, and up to the rath inst., the sum of $1,648,700 odd had been collected on account of the first call.

The money thus subscribed has been depo- rited in the following banks in Canton-the “Hìp Sing Kin, the Yuen Fung Yun, and the

Yee Shin Yuen, all leading banks in Canton.

Telegrams have been received from various quarters abroad making application for shares to the amount of 6 million dollars, and a large demand still exists for shares in the new line.

The merchants of Canton have also des- patched a telegram to the Shangpu asking that Board to memorialise the Throne on the sub

ao Imperial Edict may be issued, granting per mission to proceed with the construction of the railway, and permitting the merchants to undertake the work and retain control of the line.

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FILTORK FOST CARD

" COLLECTOR,"

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF POST-CARDS.

"I have been done again, but let me catch him and i'll give him what fot,” said a shop. keeper last night in anything but a sweat temper. A thief bas been hovering around Reaconsfi lil Arcade for some time and the little pranks he has been playing on a tobic conist shop in that vicinity makes bim all the more wanted by that party, and should he be caught red-handed he will pay the penalty for his misdeeds. On Saturday night, Messrs. Sayce and Company, while making prepara- tions to close up, were gathering in the pictura frames that are hung outside the shop, when to their surprise it was discovered that a large picture frame containing about twenty-four post-cards had mysteriously disappeared from its place. The matter was reported to the. policeman on that beat, and it was said that a watch would be kept for the post-card collec- tor. Messrs.. Sayce and Company did not ex-" peet the thief to return again, but an employd sat behind the window or guard. Customers had to be attended to, and the matter was for gotten for the present. Clasing time arrived, and in gathering in the frames again, one of

cards was found also to have vanished. A report to the policeman on duty in that vicinty was made, and the satisfaction that they got was that a watch would be placed near the shop, The matter is still an unsolved riddle, for the person who had the nerve to make a raid two aights in succession on the postcards and re- move such large frames without being seen or

til it seems afterwards, as if a water-cart had may prove to be the beginning of very imperfect of the resolutions passed, and praying that their number containing quite a number of post.

been on its rounds. On the return journey they pass another procession. The new lot are a most heterogeneous collection. A few men, & multitude of women, of all ages, a sprinkling of boys and one two infants just able to walk. These are the coal-beavers, bound for Wanchai. There was a collision this morning

tant undertakings The first is the reconnais. sance survay now being conducted towards the Siamese frontier, which, if favourable, may lead in the future to connection with the Siamese railway system. The second is the survey of a line to Yes, a railway which, if constructed, will be the first step towards con.

CANTON-WHAMPOA RAILWAY.

Mr. Cheung Pat Sz, Commissioner to the Canton Board of Trade, who arrived here some

General Wood's report of the recent fight. when a water-carrier accidently upset a quan. nection with the line in the Straits Settlements. time last week from Canton, made a statement heard must be an adept in his line of business.

The Fighting in the Philippines. ing in the Philippines has been submitted to the Senate, and caused a heated debate, in which the accusations of massacre were reiterated.

Russia and Japan. The Tsar is sending a Grand Duke on si mission to Japan, and Japan will send a Prince to Russia.

Later,

St. Petersburg denies that the Tsar is going to send a Grand Duke on a mission to Japan.

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The Soudan.

LONDON, 16th March, The Mahdi, who was recently causing trouble in the Soudan, has been crushed after heavy fighting, in which it is reported the Mahdi was killed.

Church and Stato in France. The attitude of the peasants to taking in ventories of the churches, in many parts of France, is causing much uneasiness to the

Government.

PULKEI SCHOOL, CANTON.

No one who has had the pleasure of visiting the Pui-Kai school can have any doubt of the good work being one there for little boys, Boys Mrs. Wood in the 5. C. Collegian. Up to 1887 there was no Christian boarding school in South Chian for hoyr under fourieen, and as Chinese are proverbially indulgent patents to their sons, the boys in many of our Christian homes were growing up to be anything but ex amples worthy of imitation. During that year ten small boys were received as pupils into the Tree Light Seminary for girls, and this was the nucleus of the Pui-Kei school, which has now grown to an enrolment of seventy pupils. As the name of the school signifies, its object is to lay a good foundation span which to build in later years earning to

the one hand and the Straits on the other is in

GAMBLING AT JOHORM.

A TWICE-TOLD STORY.

ity of water ever the foot of a lady, who may Obviously railway connection with Siam on have once been young and fair but had now reached the sere and yellow leaf. The shock the distant future, but it is satisfactory to see was terrible; the olf lady nearly had a fit; schemes under consideration which may even nobody could have believed, water wasually lead to the completion of those great half so valuable, or so cold. She danced projects. or hopped on one foot as if in the mazes of a serpentine dance. She gesticulated and pointed to the sixpenny spot of water. on her horny pedal extremity. It burned; one could see it fizzing. The rest of the foot looked quite black in comparison with the tiny white spot caused by the drop of water. She formed almost, and yet did not forget to set forth the full contents of her mind in large, choice, precise, unadulterated language, giving her opinion of the sinner in an oration which comprehended all his misdeeds, the misdeeds and character of his mother and grandmothers, away back to the fourth and fifth generation, when the original cause of the trouble had something to do with a pig. Then the gang of coal beavers fell on all the water carriers in sight and emptied paitfuls of slops-sooty slops-into the buckets of water. The coolies that escaped had little remaining in their buckets when they stopped running. The others marched slowly, disconsolately, wrath- fully back to the unknown land whence they got their firet load of water. Quite a Biblical

scene,

ALLEGED PIRACY IN 'HONG- 'KONG HARBOUR.

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Chan Kam and Hu Sam, coolies, were charged at the Police Court this morning for having, with three others not in custody, while armed with offensive weapons, robbed Lag au, the hoatswain of a rowing boat, of jewel. lery and clothing to the value of £82, and used prisonal violence towards the complainant on the 4th inst. It appears that the defendants in company with others engaged a sampan at 1.30 anchorage at West Point. They boarded a a.m., on the 4th instant, and went to the junk junk, the boatswain of which was asleep; he was awakened and two men were placed as guards over him, while the others searched for pro- perty. They secured $82 worth of goods, and, after using violence towards the boatswain of the boat, decamped. A report was made to the Water Police and the men were subsequently artesied. Inspector Langley, who prosecuted, asked for a week's remand, which was granted by Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

French (Armand Beltic) 20th inst. Australian (Chingtu) 21st inst. English (Arcadia) 21st inst., 3 p.m. Indian (Luisang) 22nd inst.

Canadian (Athenian) 37th inst. German (Prins Eitil Friedrich) 28th inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 6 prox. The Boston Tow Boat Co.'s s.s. Lyra sailed from Kobe on 18th inst.

read the Chinese character is always a long and tedious operation, bur boys in Christ ian schools have an advantage over their heathen brothers in being allowed to begin their studies with the.colloquial New Testay ment, "Come to Jesus," "Teap of Day," book whose interest even the difficulties of the ideograph cannot destmy. Mental and practi- cal arithmetic, are required, the boys being taught to use the Arabic numerals, and to count in English as well as Chinese up to soo by two's, three's, etc. Lessons in geography and other subjects are given without the use of books, subject lessons with the blackboard be ing found especially helpful. Some of the primary books of the Chinese classics are used, and great attention is paid to teaching the boys to write the Chinese characters. Physical drill is a regular part of the curriculum, and a half hour's play in the mission grounds at Kuk- Fan gives a good outlet to overflowing energy The school is in charge of a Chinese woman and her daughter and two matrons whose duty it is to keep the seventy small boys clean and neat. Under Miss Butler's wise supervision The N. D. L. s.5 Gera and Stufigars lefi 'these Christian women' work wonders with Vladivostock on 17th inst., and may be expect- their lively charges, and few boys are longed here on 23rd inst in the school without learning the import ant lesson of obedience, The school is certainly filling a much-needed want, and one regrets that the dormitories have to be so overcrowded and that the boys have to sleep | on the lower floor in this damp climate. This

The ss. Neckar left Singapore on 18th inst., and may be expected here on 22nd inst.

The Barber Line 5.s. Saint Egbert sailed inst. from New York for China and Japan' on 14th

The C. P. R. Co.'s s.s. Empress of Japan left Yokohama p.m., on 16th inst., for Victoria and Vancouver

the other day which to all well-wishers of China is of some importance. He said :-" When 1 return, and, that will be in a few weeks, you can rely on me that the Canton-Whampoa railway will be pushed ahead, as is now being done with the line from Canton to Hankow." That the Canton-Whampoa railway, when an accomplished fact, will be of great importance is evident from the fact that it will be the means of connecting Kowloon and Amoy with Canton,

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Writing under date Saigon,gth insi, Messts. Wm. G. Hale & Co. report:-Arrivals from the Interior since our last advices having continued to inflow freely and no transactions of any great importance having been concluded our Towards the end of January last a Chinese: with a tendency to games of chance called at

Mr. Cheung fat Sz, who takes an important market is on the decline. We might, how over-when millers, who have soon largs con- the Johore gambling farm and in fact took up part in the proposed construction of the Kow-iracis failing due for Japan, commence buying her quarters there for the moment. She had loon, Amoy and Whampoa railways, left Hong-up eagerly all arrivals from the Interior-have with her a draft on the Hongkong and Shang-kong on Baturday last by the s.5. Haumun

to record a rise in prices. hai Bank for $4,000. She asked, by way of for Hwatow. His business there is of a opening operations on the farm, to which she private nature, and it is expected that be was well known, a loan of $100, and seemingly will be back in Canton in about six weeks', passed on a chit for it. This was on the 26th time. Immediately on his return,, as Mr. Cheung remarked to some friends, lie will of January. Two days later, she obtained a further loan of $600 and, withdrawing the chit take up

of the Whampoa for $400, gave a chit for $1,000. On the 30th railway, and also the opening of Whampoa as of the month, the lady asked for the loan of a seaport [treaty port?). Mr. Cheung is quite $3,000; she was doubtless losing heavily. This confident that the Whampoa railway will not accommodation was granted, but she then, so it be long in starting and that in a few years' is alleged, signed a document running to the

time a journey from Whampoa to Amoy will effect. that she left the draft of $4,000 in the

not be needed by steamers, hands of the manager of the Gambling Farm as a guarantee of repayment. On the 30th of January, she told the manager, Chun Hoon Chu, that she was going to Singapore and asked for the balance of the draft Chua Hoon Chu, not knowing the discount of the day, said he would 'make, inquiries and let her know. She went to Singapore and reported the draft as last, to the police. Payment was at once stopped at the bank. In the meantime, the manager of the Gambling Farm had heard of the reported loss of the draft. He came to Singapore with the draft and went to the bank. He was told that he mivat see the police. He met the lady and went with her to the bank; thence to the Cen- tral Station. Here, so the story of the prose cution gues, she thiew, metaphorically, dust into the eyes of the Farm Manager, coaxed the draft from him on the plea that she would make

PROPERTY SALES.

This afternoon, at auction sale, Mr. Ho Tung acquired two properties in Caine Road koown as Nos. 66 and 68 for the sume of $13,100, and $11,700 respectively. The first lot is registered in the Land Office as the remaining portion of section D. of inland lot No. 577, held for a term of 999 years, and containing 2,644 square feet, bearing an anoual Crown rent of $5.93.

The second fat is registered as sub-section 1

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of section D. of inland lot No. 554, also for 999 | BOMBAY, says the Times of India, has regained years, containing an area of 2,593 square feet, its old proud position of being the Second and bearing a Crown rent of $5.75 Messrs. City of the Empire. The first rough estimate Johnson, Stokes and Master were solicitors for of the total population of the city at the present moment, shows the number of inhabitants to the vendor.

be at least 982,000. The official final calcula- tion is not yet forthcoming, owing to the delay experienced in receiving some of the retums; but the basis of computation is sufficiently ac cu ate to indicate that the total given does not err on the side of exaggeration. This total places Bombay next to London in point of population among the cities of the Empire.

THE KOWLOON SCHOOL.

To-day's Advertisements.

things all right with the bank and the police,

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION, and pay him what she owed. She did not do this, but placed the draft in the hauds of In. spector Kirke, as the one she had lost. The

The following is the list of successful pupils sequel of this was the laying of certain in at the Kowloon School, where the prizes distri formation and the arrest of the lady, several | buted at noon to-day. days ago. The story was told to Mr. Bryant Form IV.-Form Prize-Gladys Hume and in his official capacity, last week, by Mr. Nan Rodger. Scripture Prize-Gladys Hume. Gaunt, who is retained for the prosecution. It English Prizs-Nan Rodger. Mathematical was then remitted to the Bench Court. Yester-Prize-Ethel Parker. French Prize-Nan Kod. day, the case was called before Messrs. Bryant ger. Needlework Prize-Eva Rodger, Special and Colman and, for the information of Mr. | Prize-Nora Store. Colman, Mr. Rowland ållen, in the absence of Form III-Special Prize-Lizzie Vanstone. Mr. Guant, went over the ground again. ItForm Prize-Lily Neave. Scripture Prize-- was then found that in the absence of Mr. Lily Neave and M. Rodger. English Prize-C. THE H. A. L. Steamship Sproule on leave, the prosecuting counsel held Lowe. Mathematics Prize-J. Rodger. Needle-

work Prize-J. Rodger.

Form 11--Form Prize-Bessie Robinson English Prize-Bessie Robinson, Mathematics

no sanction to prosecute. This was awkward, Mr. Allen very gracefully admitted that he had quite overlooked the point. Mr. Everett, for the defence, denies these imputations against-Bessie Robinson, his clent. The case stands postponed for a third, and, no doubt, longer hearing,

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory:-- On the 19th at 12, 5 p. The barometer bas

Pressure continues in defect over China and lowest in N. China.

Form 1.-Form Prize-J. McGlashan. Scrip- ture Prize-D. Rodger. English Prize- Rodger. Mathematics-J."McGlasban. His tary J. McGlashan, Needlework-M, Wilson.

LOWER SCHOOL.

Class 1-Mollie Neave-Conduct Prixe. Jessie Craik Reading Prize. Rose Langley-

FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN, PENANG AND SINGAPORE..

"SENEGAMBIA,”....

Captain Peter, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading, for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods, from alongside,

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO- DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the hazardousandferextra hazardous Godowns of the Hongicong and Kowloon Wharf signees risk and expense...

Yokohama on zoth inst, and is expected to

The O. &0. S. S. Co.'s 9 s. Doric sailed from fallen over SE. Japan, and Fallen over N. China. 3td Arithmetic Prize. Rose Langley-Needle. and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Con- arrive in Hongkong on 3ist inst.

The Imperial German Mail 6,5. Princess Alice, which left here on 14th inst., arrived at Singapore on 18th inst., at noon.

The C. N. Co 5.8 Chingly from Aus. traliub Ports, loll Manila yesterday a.m., and is due here on Wednesday daylight.

Gradients remain gentle and light variable winds are indicated in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China Sea, accompanied by foggy weather along the coast,

Forecast:-SE. or variable winds, light; cloudy, foggy.

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work Prize. Ella Robertson-Recitation. Alex Kinross-Arithmetic Prize. Henry Stewart General Intelligence Prize. Willie Stona Writing Prize. Henry Stewart-Scriptore; Prize. Nellis Vanstone-Spelling and Dicta-

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Class II.-Enid Craik-Conduct Prize. May Smith-Spelling and Dictation. Alister Mc- Donald-Writing Prize. Willie Kerr-General Dolly Season-2nd Improvement Prize. Arithmetic Prize. Willie Watson-1st Arithme-

condition of things constitutes no ground for criticising the management of the school, but does offer a splendid opportunity to those who The Imperial German Mail s.s. Bayern left A NEW feature was introduced in the Military have means to help by supplying the muck-Kobe wa Nagasaki and Shanghai on 18th inst., Mancavres at Aurangabad recently, needed new building and play-grounds, so that and may be expected here on 27th inst. the future success of this "foundation laying" Singapore for this port on 17th inst., at soon, Infantry located there. Eight standards were The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s 5.5. Arcadia left curious night march was executed by the 8th school may be assured.

with the outward English Mails, and is due fixed in unknown places, for apart among the | tic Prize. here on 21st inst., at 5 p.m.

low hills and uneven ground at the back of Infant Class-Kenneth Robertson-Con- IN a circular letter to the Fleet, the Admiralty Friedrich carrying the German Mails with

The Imperial German Mail 9.3. Prinx Bitel Ursool, which were ordered to be traced out duct Prize. Colin Macdonald-Arithmetic have expressed the utmost satisfaction in the dates from Berlin of the 27th ult., left Colombo and brought back. Both wings diverged in Prize. Kenneth Robertson-Reading Prize. remarkable increase in battle efficiency and the on Friday p.m., and may be expected here on

Collio Macdonald-Writing Prize, Dodo Rit- marked' · improvement in other directions, | 28th inst.

chile-Kindergarten Prize 2nd Reading, Willie They attribute the increase in accuracy of fire

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separate directions under strict injunctions not to make the slightest noise, but to proceed as cautiously as possible not only to avoid detec to the great interest and keen spirit displayed Iw speaking incidentally of the Chinese queue tion but to save themselves from rushing over

Class II.-Elizabeth Skinner, Reading and by officers and men to the general introduction at the Royal Institution, Professor Barker boulders or tumbling in the nuilaha. The Spelling and Kindergarten. Charley Stewart and use of additional instructional appliances, said very few people knew that it was worn by flags were discovered after a great deal of Conduct Prize. Charley Stewart-Arithmetic Captain A. M.Rail, will be despatched as above, and tothe improved system of gunnerytraining. the Turkish and Tartarnations many hundreds troublesome search and brought back in and Tables. Maud McGlashan-Recitationen SUNDAY, the 25th instant, at Daylight. In conclusion, the Admiralty reiterate in the of years ago. He quoted from some inscrip- triumph. The difficulty was mainly due to the Kathleen Williamson-Sewing

For Freight or Passage, apply to strongest terms their high appreciation of the ilons 2,000 years old, in which it was stated | standards beľng mera blue' signal flags which Class 111-Harry Langley-Scripture. Folly result of the gunnery practice considered as a "The Turks let down their pig-tails when they could not be readily recognised among the io Hume-Sewing Prize, Nora Robertson--Scrip- whole.

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