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A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT

10.

THE HONGKOng telegrapH SATURDAY, MAY 5

"The HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH "shra) to

rowd to The Klinar, 1, ice ifouse Rowt, and should be acompanied by the Writer's Name and

Addrum.

1906.

COAL COOLIE KILLED.

Thus, 4.11% of the officers serving in LAVENANT A. Gon, Inspector of Army | AL&GOD MÜRDEN ON A JUNKY All communications Intendet tar publication foreign vesicla visiting the Port" were Schools, leli per 5.9. Devanha to-day for

of British nationality-a, decrease of Colomb on inspection duty.

a decrease in number of THE revenue collected for the working of cargo 2.51% with ships and of officers borne therein. on Sundays in the harbour, last year, was As regards the crews the British vessels car| $43475; this was $5,850' more than in 1994. tied 30,983 British," 2,818 other Europeans, and 108,032 Asiatics; while the 383 foreig's vessels carried 1;219 British, 42.553 other Europeans, and 78,226 Asiatics.

The Manager,

Ordinary bowini petamunden, ana shonki bë etdrowed The Halitor will und unterinke to be responside for - may rápstad MS, nor to return wuý Câutribution,

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN/ADVANCE). „JALLY-BIO PAT KOPIIM,

WжKLY-$18 per musum.

The ratem per quarter and per masent, properflanal, The daily issue is, delivered free when the address in Decemnible uz romwenger. The copisa aut by pet mil Alditional $1.50 per qutursér is chugguk for postage. The fumtage où the weekly inne to any part of the

world b× 30 orale per quarter,

Maple Capir, Daily, in tents Weekly, twatty,

· *ve Cells.

MARRIAGE.

Hence, in British vessels :-~~ 21.8% of the crews ware British.

** 1.9%

76.X

++

Other Europeans. Astatics,

And in foreign vessels.;----

1.0% of the crews were british, 34.9%

641% 5

Other Europeans... Asiatics.

The deduction is, that there is a growing tendency, when compared with previous years, for vessels to employ their own nation- als to the exclusion of Asiatics and other

Tux old man, aged 62 years, who was picked up in Connaught Load West on Thursday morning with a fractured head and a broken fe, and who stated that he fell out of a trancar, has since died in hospital.

EFFORTS are being made in Bangkok to raise the hull of the $.s. ¿longking which recently ran aground and turned over on the bar of the Hangpakung river, when bound for Patriew, Demils of the mishap are not yet to hand.

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On the 31st December, 1995, there were 276 stem-launches employed in the harbour: irg were licensed for ti e conveyance of passengers, 147 were privately owned, 15 were the pro- perty of the Government, and 5 belonged to

authorities.

3hare was much excitement, among the coolies, at Yaumati, yesterday, when it was lenint that a coal coolie had succumbed to in juries received on board a'coal junk, · Inforına« tion soon reached the police, and Inspector Macdonald, accompanied by two detectives, made for the Prays, boarded coal junk No. 941, and arrested two men, who are alleged to have killed the man. Their names are Fung Kai Shing and Chung 51 u. On arrival at the station the prisoners were placed under lock and key and policemen were despatched to learn the cause of the alleged murder. It transpired that at about one o'clock yesterday afternoon the junk was moved alongside a wharf in Yau mati Bay, disc arging coal for Mongkok. The prisoners were in the hold shovelling

mal, while deceased was at work on deck, On the starboard side of the junk, near the bow, was an old coal basket in a dilapidated

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SERVICE,

PRISONERS REVOLT.

EMEUTE AT SHANGHAL

THREE CONVICTS KILLED AND MANY INJURED. ' [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 5th May. ·

9.10a.m.

An organised 'attempt was made by the Chinese prisoners in the Ward Road guol to cecape, at 3 pm, yes. terday.

A serious fight occurred in the

ADELAIDA RANGEL FERREIRA GORDO, eldest Europeans. The Hon Captain Barnes the Imperial Government in charge of military, condition, and in sweeping the deck, deceased prison compound between 50 prisoners

On April 131d. at Yokohama, MARCOS MIGUEL XAVIER, of Hongkong, to MAREA daughter of Geraldo de St. Anna Terrem

DEATH.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. Gordo, of Yakobama,

HYGIENOL

(REGISTERED).

A POWERFUL

DISINFECTANT,

GERMICIDE

DEODORISER

CHEAP

HARMLESS

EFFECTIVE

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On the 4th May, mo, at London, H. M Bevis, of the Hongkong and shanghai Bank- [537 ing Corporation. (ny cable).

jhe Hougsong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, Saturday, May 5, 1946.

A PROGRESSIVE PORT.. The gross tonnage of the shipping enter ing and clearing at Hongkong has been noted in a previous article when the sum marized retums were issued by the Harbour Department earlier in the year. In the Graseffe to-day appears-the interesting report

and 10, warders.

The convicts were overpowered after a stiff resistance.

A brother of the notorious Vah Kader was killed in the melée, ¿

picked up the basket and threw it overboard Nothing was said until the men relined from SIXTY-FOUR thousand three hundred and forty-their inid-day nical. Then, Fang Rai Shing, one emigrants left Hongkong for various places the first prisoner, went to look for the basket ur st year; of theac, 48,289 were carried He made inquiries of the other coolies as to by British ships and 16,052 by Foreign ships; the missing basket, and learnt ister that de- 14483 were reported as having been brought ceased, Mak Kwai, had thrown it into the sen, to Hongkong from placer to which they had while he was cleaning the deck of the boat. enigrated, and of these, 193,796 were brought Fung Kai Shing, it is said, became enraged, in British ships and 25,584 by Foreign ships. ran up to the deceased pan and cried:-"You have thrown my basket overboard. Whyl did you do? The basket he wanted to take home to use as firewood, and getting nu reply from deceased, he is alleged to trave struck him a blow in the ches, which was quickly jured in the fight. followed by a kick while the un'ortunate

Lawrence's repart teens with interesting compilations and comparative statistics, and it is not possible for full justice to be done to them in a single, nolice within the short space at our disposal. But sufficient in formation has been extracted therefrom to ́show that a Department which is capable of collecting a sum of not less than $300,567.76 for the Colonial Revenue out of dues and other charges admittedly small--and judiciouslyso to retain the pre-eminent atirac Opium Farm excite officers were ap paren ly kept busy last night in making raids. tiveness of the port as a gateway of cheap and arrests, considering the number of cases tolls to the trading matts of China-is one they had for trial. this ingraisg. which must earn the gratitude of the inhabi-majority of cases the illicit opium found on the tants whose very prosperity must be correlative premises they raided was large. The fines with the importance of the port as a ship imposed by ir.. F. A. Hazeland on the ping centre. There is the extremely gratify defendant's amounted to about $1.00. ing truth that each year a fresh record is

THE Great Thurston opens his season here returns for the Colony, and there is lite ,danger that, given the present administration

In the

man was falling Further reports say that the second prisoner, Chung Shu, at this moment, joined in, and both of them aasnuited the coolie.. Afterwards they returned to work,

The Indian warders fought gal. lantly in frustrating the prisoners' attempt to escape.

The head gapler was seriously in-

'Three convicts were killed and four severely injured.

One Indian warder lies in a critical condition, while others are seriously

of the Harbour Master for 1905, wherein the presented with the casting up of the shipping this evening. Judging from the very large had no sooner arrived there than he commenced injured.

•

The

Hongkong, the Colony will not continue to prosper and show from year to year a record un its predecessor.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

MR, A. J. Darby has been appointed secretary In the Squatters Hoard during the absence on leave of Mr. L. C. Rees, or unul further notice. His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise lus power of disallowance with respect to the rdinance to amend The General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance, 1893.

booking it is expected the theatre will be crowded. There has been a small army of

the past four days preparing for the opening performance to-night. Special trains will be ran to the Peak after the performance,

and the cooție went into the fore cabin. He

vounting, and a few in nutes later expired, as a

the arrival of the police, the deceased was removed to the Yau-ma-ti mortuary, and the alleged murderers taken in charge. At the instance of Inspector Macdonald, at the Magis

A COOLIE was charged before Mr. F. A. Haze-tracy to-day, Fung Kai Shing and Chung Shu were charged with the murder of Mak Kwai in land at the Magistracy this morning, at the

Yau-ma-ti Bay yesterday afternoon. The de. instance of Inspector Smith, for being in

fendants pleaded “nỏi guilty.”, possession of a dagger without the required permit. the defendant was arrested on board the s.s. Fai On tast evening with the weapon in his pocket. He said he was taking it, to Canton for a friend.. His Wurship fined him S10, and ordered the confiscation of tlie dagger.

+

"I WAS walking alung Wong-nei-chang Road

A Chinese detective said thal, about two or lock yesterday afternoon, be went on board the junk in question, which was lying alongside the praya at the Kowloon chal yard, Mongkok. when he arrived an bid, the defen Jants were pointed out to him by another coolie as the two men who assaulted the deceased. lie then arrested them. Witness also saw the dead

body of the deceased in the fare cabin. When he took the defendants in charge, he cautioned them, and the defendants admitted assaulting

earlier returns are amplified by details, ex- planatory and statistical, relating to the shup of affairs governing the shipping interests of men working on the Theatre Royal stage for result, it is averred, of a ruptured spleen. On ping of the port for the past year. total tonnage shows Hongkong to be a pro- gressive port; it amounted to 34,185,091 cons, being an increase, compared with 1904, vl 622,305 tons, and the highest tonnage yet recorded. Eight thousand one hundred and thirty-three steamers, 22 sailing ships, ami goo steamships under 60 tons, in foreign trade, entered during the year, giving a daily average entry of 24.81, as compared with S. WATSON & CO.. [ 23.25 in 1904 If the figures for foreign trade junks alu added, the daily average would be 79.5, as against 70 in 1904. For ocean vessels under the British flag the report shows a decrease of 320 ship of A CORRECTED Copy of the register of medical and surgical practitioners qualified to practise 34,410 10115.

This decrease, the Hon. Capt.medicine and surgery in this Colony is Barnes Lawrence explains, loses any signi- published in the current issue of the Groitte. Rcance it may at first sight appear to possess when viewed in conjunction with his report | for 1904, where an increase appears of 35

ships of 930,300 tons, which is shown to be practically due to special circumstances connected with the late war. These special circumstances being removed with the ad vent of the Baltic Fleet in Far Eastern waters in April, 1905, the shipping tended to return to its normal state, and we are left with a net increase over the figures for 1903 (neglecting those for, 1904) of 32' ships of 893,890 tons. This seems to show a con- tinuance of the general increase in size of British ships trading to the Far East. And for purposes of comparison it may be useful

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

flongkong, 3rd Match, 1956.

BAHADUR

CIGARS.

THE

(1

THE Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. E. A. Hewett provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Cousca in place of Mr. Kobert G. Shewan, resigned.

yesterday and he got me by the collar and thumped me. I asked hins what he meant by it, and he said I owed him money. I replied: 'If I owed you money you need not handle me like that. I will pay him when I get money."" Such was the excuse made by a coolic at the pofce Court this morning, when changed with fighting another defendant in the street. Mr. F. A. Hazeland fined them $3 cách.

the deceased. The case was remanded.

FORHIGN HOTELS IN JAPAN.

AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME.

Foreign tourists coming to this country have INDIAN Sergeant 699, who was arrested and

considerably increased in number this year, THE Manila steamers Neill Afodiod, Aldecoa charged with seriously assaulting a hawker at and N. 5. del Rosario, belonging to the Com- Welt-Point recently, was brought up on remand $1ys a japanese vernacular journal, and the pania Maritima, are to proceed to Hongkong at the Police Court to-day. It will be remem-necessity is now felt more keenly than ever to be docked and repaired here. The Neill bered it was at first stated that, in consequence fortable, and so to nitrict even a larger number for making their sojourn in Japan more com. Maclend will come under her own steam while of the hawker undergoing an operation for

of visitors. The opinion 'prevails in business. the latter two vessels are in be towed. rupture, he was not expecte I to live. Latest circles that a large hotel should be constructed information from the Government Civil Hos-

in Tokyo, with a capital of from Y2,000,000 to Y3,000,000, and that this example should be gradually followed in other ports and, in the

www.

An entearice examination for clerkships in the Hongkong Civil Service will be held at Queen's College on Friday, the 8th, and Saturday, the th of June, beginning at 10 am, each day. Ol the candidates who qualify, ten will be accept

pital to-day is to the effect that the hawker is progressing favourably and is expected to he discharged from hospital on the 19th instant. The case has been ajourned for a week.

interior. At first such hotels may not pay, and it is therefore urged that subs dies should be granted by the State or local Municipalities. Some movement in this direction will shortly be taken, it is reported.

It is

THE Committee appointed by the War Office for the investigation of the services rendered

Even before the war the money spent by by each officer and man betonging to the Japanese Army in the Japan-itussia War is foreign tourists in Japas, amounted annually to of next month. The total number of soldiers maintained that it is discourteous to provide and others attached to the Army who are to hotels that do not afford comfort to foreign receive honours in connection with the wax is visitors, and moreover it is a growing love to estimated at about 1,220,000, About 170 of japan. this enormous number are officers holding the

to reproduce the figures relating to foreigned as probationer clerks, Candidates must pol ocean vessels, which show an increase of he under 16 or over 24 years of age. 149 ships of 469,938 tobs. Here again, reference to the 1904 report is necessary in MR. Uchida, Japanese Consul-General in Net order properly to appreciate the significance York, telegraphed to the Foreign Office in ofthe figures. During that year, on account of Tokyo last month, stating that on the 3rd April. expected to complete its labours by the middle between twenty and thirty million yen.

a Bill was introduced in Congress proposing to impose a duty on coffee and tea. The markel PREMIER CIGAR ships of 1,910,589 tons, of which, Japund been in no way affected by the introduce anese shipping accounted for 834 ships of tion of the Bill at the time the message was 1,800,000 tons. The causes militating dispatched.

OF

INDIA.

No. 1

$2.75

the war, there was the enormous decrease of

102,010 civil

All is quiet now, and steps are being taken to guard against a re- currence of the emeute.

ALLEGED MURDER IN THE NEW TERRITORY.

CORPSE FOUND AT PING SHAN,

The body of a Chinaman, who apparently had heen dead for some little time, was dis covered by the New Territory police, on the 3ed instant, in an empty house at No. 303, So Kun Wat, Fing Shan. The body was examin. ed, and after it had been identified was found to be that of Chan Yeung, a farmer in the village. On his forehend there was a nasty wound, which, it is reported, could not have been self-inflicted, but no other, marks ware found on the body. The remains were sent to' the Morgue for examination yesterday, and this morning it was stated that a native had been arrested, as being instrumental in the farmer's death. Up to the time of writing the circum. stances under which the crime is alleged to have been committed cou'd not be obtained, but it is said that the mas now under arrest

will be placed before the Court in a couple of days, and the particulars relating to the mur der will then be explained.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

FURTHER APPOINTMANTS.

His Excellency the Governor under instruc tions from the Secretary of State forthe Colonies has appointed Mr. M. H. Logan to be district engineer as the. Kowloon-Canton railway construction, British section..

Mr. Robert Haker has been appointed per- sonal assistant to the chief resident engineer in

charge of the railway,

THE COLONIAL CEMETERY,

PROPOSED EXTENSION,

It is officially, notified that, as it has become necessary to extend the Colonial Cemetery at Happy Valley, and as the work will interfere reverently and decently, to take up the res ́mains in certaío graves, to re-inter them in adjoining ground in proper order and to re-fix the existing monuments or tombstores over

raak of general, 2,200 field officers; 21,600 Tux new bridge across the Zambesi river, Afri. against the employment of. Japanese' ships PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the company officers; 6,300 other commissioned | ca, is the highest in the world. It is of the with some existing graves, it is proposed,

officers; 223,co non-commissioned ofcers; cantilever style, and crosses the river for a distance of soft, at a height of 420ft. from the B02,670 private soldiers, and

low-water level to the rails, of about 380ft. from ONE of those, by no means curious, "accid. high water. It consists of three spans, and is

were not removed until late in 1905; indeed, they are not completely removed even now, so that the increase now shown is but the partial restoration to normal conditions, and should really be read as a net decrease, on the figures for 1903, of 1,020 ships of 1,440,951 tons. Much has been written and said of the employment of aliens on board British ships. An examination of the returns before us will reveal the exact state of things in so far as ships entering this harbour are concerned. We have it incon- testably established that the go6 British vessels carried 3,793 British officers and 30 por 100 foreign officers, as follows:-

No. 2.- $2.50 - por 100

No. 3

-

$2.25 - per 100

Gregor

& Co.,

sole agents.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1905;

British....... Dutch.......

Norwegian

Swedish........ United States

Total

.3.703

1

7

I

t

26

3,873

Thus, the proportion of foreign officers serving in British vessels was o.ge%, com prising four nationalities-a decrease of 0.08%, with an increase in number of officers borne, in a slightly decreased number of vessels. The 383 foreign vessels carried 2,895 officers, of whom 119 were British, as follows:

In Chinese vessels lik

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80

1

French

2

"Japanese

8

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가

United States verácia ..................iu 119

Totala 179

Band of the 119th Infantry, on the New Parade Ground, on Monday next, from 5 to 6.30 p.m.-

Line Be "Pigur Dame".

"Gonfollers

***The Threader

M. sch Overture. Waltr Selection

.." Silver Pail". Galop kaprem Train'

God Save the King.

Di

...Supp Roeder .Menckion ....... Bevan Kalkbrenter

The

officials under sonin rank,

::

about 30ft, wide,

ents" occurred in Des Voeux Road about noon to-day, where by an altercation, and a little bil

A TAILOR residing in Li Yuen Street, Central of "fist play," resulted, which certainly ap district, received an order a few days ago for peared justifiable, writes a correspondent, six pairs of trousers. He was apparently busy THE U.S. cruisers Chattanooga and Galver. The writer says it was by no means curi-at the time, so getting the necessary pattern of ous, because it is maller of wonder cloth, buttons, etc., he gave same to an old fon arrived at Cavite from Singapore on the

that such "accidents do not happen every woman to make the clothes with. A day or goth ult The war vessels came from the day, with the really curious" laxity with two later on passing the street he discovered Mediterranean station by way of Suez. They which the peripatetic coolie is allowed to per- that the woman was missing from her usual will be dispatched to Shanghai to reinforce the ambulate the streets of this Colony, with a six position. Inquiries were made and it was fleet commanded by Admiral Train, Chattanooga and Galauston are recent addito eight foot hamboo pole across his shoulder, learnt that the woman had pawned the clath in tions to the powerful and growing Navy of at any angle he chooses to carry it, and in any various pawnshops and had left the city. The locality of the Central district he cares to take tailor appeared at the Police Court to-day and Uncle Sam They are sister ships, of 3,200 ions displacement, and a speed of 16.5 knote up as his "happy hunting ground." But be applied for an order from the Court to get back Their main batteries consist of to five inch that as it may, in this instance, according to his property from the pawnbrokers. After our correspondent, the bamboo carrier, at any various law-books had been consulted, his rapid firing guns. Both ships, while attached to the Mediterransan station, took part in the sale for once, got his deserts, for traversing the Worship adjourned the application until sidewalk near the Harbour Office, and utterly Wednesday next, to allow certain Chinese opening ceremonies of the conference at regardless of where he was going, or what he pawnbrokers' entries to be produced. Algeciras.

was doing, he knocked the hat of a Euro- FOLLOWING are the returns of the average Pean gentleman into the gutter, by a sud- amount of bank notes in circulation and of den turn of his pole. Now, the gentleman specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the was not accustomed to having his hat knock. month ended 30th April, 1906, as certified by ed into gutters, and was, maveover, a so- the managers of the respective Banks.

Average Specia Amount in Reserve

$3,511,199 $1,300,000

journer from "For Cathay," so he took the low into his own hands, and the coalie did not lika what he did to him. There is a good deal to be said on our correspondent's behalf, but, unfortunately, the Court has held that a bamboo, carried on the side-walk, on the shoulder of a coolic, is no obstruction, and, 8,500,000 therefore, the coolie is held innocent if any accident occurs through his so carrying the bamboo pole, unless it can be proved that his Totalu.........$16,173,934 $10,849,009 Jówn carelessness caused the accidenk

Banks. Chartered Bank ol Indio, Australia and China;...... Hongkong and Shang

hai Banking Cor- poration, 12,588,123 National

Bank of China, Limited................... 63,612

40,000

THE WEATHER,

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

On the sihat 125 p. The barometer has risen over E. Japan and fallen W. Japan, the Loochoos' and the China coast.

A depression appears to be developing over Contral China. Pressure is high over N. Japan. Light to moderate SE. and S. winds are ind.cated in the Formosa Channel and over the N. part of the China Sea, accompanied by fog along the coast,

Forecast-light to moderate SE. winds; thunder showett,

them.

Survivors, friends or relatives who may desire to make any objection to this removal are requested to address the Colonial Secretary within three mouths.

Particulars of the graves are as utider :--

Rank and Name,

Date. Robert Joseph Lachian, Chief

Officer of the Ship Gertrude 6th July, 1860. John Lake, Private, Royal

Marine Light Infantry, II,M,& Imperieuse ga zoll July, 1861. Petrel

6th Aug, 1861. W. A. Williams, A.B., H.M.S. Elizabeth Lucy, wife of George'

Bowman Buchan

gib Aug., 1861. „25th Aug., 1860, E. McCabe, Balli, S.V., U.S.A... Iflegible. Newell Giles......... Henry Willis, Sergt. Commis

sary Staft Corps

o George Bevans, H.M.S. Mel

ville...a e apksemaid No inscription ..................

7th Dec, 1863,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUK,

American (Siberia) 7th inst, German (Willehad) 7th inst. German (Roon) 9th inst. Indian (Luizang) 9th inst American (America Maru) 16th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) 22nd bat. American (Mongolia) 27th inst. The Imperial German Mail us. Willehad be expected left Manila on 4th inst, and may here on 7th inst.

The II. A. L. ss, Andalusia from Hamburg left Singapore for our port on 4th inal, at 4 pm, sad may be expected here on rath last,