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ELEGRAMS.

[Reuters.]

The Plural Voting Bill.

LONDON, 4th December.

third reading in the House of Commons.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY

DBATH OF MR, T, SAKA78.

IN THE CITY OF THE GREAT

DRAGON..

DECEMBER 6, 1906.

WHI IN SLAVES IN NEW YORK.

THE HEALTH OF, BANGKOKS DEATHS FROM PLAGUE,

SUD MANAGER OF THE SPECİR BANK. It is with regret that we have to announce the Yokohama Specie. Bank, which event oc- the death of Mr. T. Sakata, sub-managar of The Plural Voting Bill has passed the curred on 1 uesday last, frem dysentery, at Dr. K. Majima's residence, "Killedeon," Wanchai Road. he deceased-gentleman, who wat forty years of age, became ill on the 7th: uli, j-hardly zoo miles from Amoy, the island-city on menu: A biodery working its hands, seventy that "apparently"may be due in the fact that but did not seek medical advice until the 15th when he had to give up work and place him self under the care of Ur Majima, a Jupabers physician Everything that could be done was done for the sick man, but he sank gradually until he died on the date mentioned above, oineteen days after he became one of Dr. Majima's patients, -

The Scot's Greys. Lord Rosebery, who was the principal speaker at the National meeting, protested against the removal of the Scot's Greys from Scotland, and warned the Government not to stir up the hidden forces of the ani- mosities of the Scotch nation.

The United States and Japan. Mt. Miller repudiates the reported in. terview.

. Later.

·

Mr. Sakata, who was born in 1866, of a good family, was a graduate, of Tokio› Uni- versity. He left the University in 1898, and joined the Specie Bank at Yokohama the same year us naissant. In 1899 he was transferred to the Hongkong branch office in the same ca President Roosevelt's message deals in a

picity. He gradually worked his way up the drastic manner with the queation of the ex: Padder of success until in April it he was clusion of the Japanese, and severely re-appointed sub manager, which position he held proves Americans for behaving badly to this until his death. He leaves a wife and three Japanese. He urges an amendment of the children in Fukuoka to mourn his i 8. Constitution, to enable the President to en- force the treaty rights of aliens against interday afternoon, the cortege leaving the Jop dividual States, and declares that he will anese Buddhist Temple, Morrison Hilload, employ all the permissible civil and military at 515, and was largely attended by all the

leading Japanese residents in the Colony. forces on the question...

President Roosevelt describes the whole sale slaughter of seals in the Pribilof Islands as barbarous, and says that negotiations arc proceeding between Great Britain and Japan on the subject. He suggests, that if the hideous crucity of pelagic scaling continues, the Americans should exterminate the entire herd in the most humane way possible.

North Borneo Dinner. Sir Charles Jessel, presiding at the North Borneo dinner, at which 350 were present, said: "We had laid the foundation of a co- lony which was worth untold millions as an Imperial heritage. The development of the colony would proceed much faster, in the *future."

It was announced that an application had 'been made to construct a railway from San

dakan to Maruda,

The ribber managers are more than satis.

enterprise. fied with the results of their

MRS, EDDY AT DE ATIPS DOOR,

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT CANNOT DE LOCATED.

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direct

Park,

Three servants are said to lave died suddenly in Prince Devawongse's palace, and bis Royal

Plague is what the people term the disease, ghness and family have removed to Dasis but it is.natural the term should be used very loosely. All suspicious cases that can be dis covered are at once inspected.

Since the above was written further details are forthcoming. One of the deaths at Prince Devawongse's palace it is certain was due to plague, but the cause of the other two deaths is unknown as the bodies were not examined by the doctor. The man removed to the Hospital on 26th October from the Bantawai district died on the 19th from typical plague. He was not resident in Bangkok but had only just arrived he day before.—Bangkok Timai.

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A recent investigation conducted by a com My friend the missionary spends much of mittes representing eighteen college seitle People are still dying of some disease after a But the disease has not assumed an epidemic. 61b, exhibits an appalling amount of oppreform, and it has not been pronounced plague. this a supremely important point of his field sinn in the city of New York. More than One suspicious case was taken to the isolation his time in the Dragon City, for he reckons is, and reported in Charities for October very short illness in the lower end of Bangkok. of operation. He only reaches it after an 130,000 women are working in more than hospital a few days ago. Two or three deaths arduous journey el five days, although it in 39,00 city factories: Here are some speci in one fairly have also taken place in Took

Dang, prently from the same disease, though ROBINSON PIANO the coast, where many white are settled and are eight hours a week; a brass bedstead factory infection could easily be traced to the Bantawal doing a very brisk business. All over China seventy-five hours a laundry seventy hours; a the "single track" is the only possible kind of delicatessen factory sixty-nine. A candy facts road for travel, excepting where the new rail. ory.last winter worked them seventy-one hours ways are already opened. On the single a week, with half an hour off for dinner and track," so styled because there is just room for one for supper except on Saturday. The a vehicle to pass a'ong, you, ara considered to makers of misses' and children's fins dresses make fair progress if you manage mulecart or during the rush season work sixty-seven hours a week, then take their work home and toll, wheelbarrow to make thirty miles in a day, and

till at night." Refusal to work overtime is 15 miles will be express speed. Of course,

checked by fear of discharge. All this, and where the wonderful river and canal systemt are available the roads are avoided altogether.ally more, in face of the law forbidding more than sixty hours work per week, Ling-Na, the name meaning literally and work between 9 F.3. and. 6 A.M. The Dragon's Bluff, is so called because it is latter provision has been temporarily set aside overshadowed by a long, commanding, and by a local court undertaking to deny the prin singularly-formed hill, in which the super ciple underlying the factory legislation of an attious people see the fantastic figure entire century, and affirmed by the Supreme. the monster which dominates the Chinese Court of the United States-that the State may imagination. The D-agon is the one, con

interfere where the contracting parties are not The funeral took place at Happy Valley yea-stant quantity in the bewildering Chinese

on an equality, or where public health requires that a party shall be protected against himself. mythology, and in the national Heraldry, it oc cupies the place corresponding to the lion and The sixty-hour limit remains nominally in full force. But last winter the factory department anicom in England, and in the cagle" in Ame rica. There are differentiating peculiarities, stated: "It is impossible even to estimate the The Japanese Dragon has only three claws on

number of offenders, but I would place them each foot, The Chinese Dragon has five ties between 5,000, and ro,000 in this city." The but the Court Dragon is blessed with six. On

advantage is all on the side of those who are all political raiment, worn by every dignity determined to beat the law. Inspectors accom throughout the land, the Dragon must figure plish nothing. No employers have been con- Though the Dragon has no wings, it can risevicted and fined. The testimony of over- high in the firmament, and when an eclipse worked employes is required to prove violation of the law, and to give it means discharge. 11 occurs millions of people throughout the em- pire bent gongs with deafening din, in order to

Carnot be had from those in the dilemma of work or starve.-The Outlook. terity the monster that has swallowed the sun, and to compel him to disgorge it My friend the missionary goes several times a year from Amoy to the Dragon Cay. He is on the point of siling for China after his furlough among us in England, and he tells us that he eagerly looks forward to his next visit to Ling-Na, for n'that City of the Great Dragon he will be warmly welcomed by the little church of native christians whom he himself gathered, and who have learned to smile at the abject cult of their fellows, though not lang since they were them

BANKRUPTCY.

AN IMPRISONED DENTOR,

Jn the Bankruptcy Jurisdiction Court, at the Suspicine Court this morning, before his Honour the Chief Justice, the case of the Pang Cheong firm, ex parte Luk Tse Nuns, was called on for hearing, on two applications.

Mr. C. F. Barlow, of Messrs. Goldring and Barlow, appeared on behalf of one of the debtors, while Mr. J. Scott Harston, of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist, and. Mr. C. F. Dixon, of Mr. John Hastings' office, appeared för various creditors.

Mr. Barlow said, he appeared. for Lo Ming, a panner of the Pang Cheang firm, bankrupt, and he was now in ghol because he could not find the security-far his appearance for his public trint. He applied for the release of Loelves steeped in the grotesque tradition, Ming as a Receiving Order bad now been

no apposition to his being released."

Mr. 'Harston said he opposed this applica

RICE SPIRIT.

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TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

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demand

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Do.

2/3.15/16 2/3

3.83

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Da demand.. Shanghai-Bank T.T.. Singapore T.T........ Japan-Bank T.T.

ava-Bank T.T.

"Buying,

4 months' sight L/C..

.31 % prem.

6 months' night LC....................................

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1351

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RECORDS.

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To-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

2.36

HÉ Undersigned havareceived instructiona

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, on

SATURDAY,

the 8th December, 1906, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, (corner of Ice House Street),

Of all the ills flesh is heir to, microbic action is responsible for some of the worst: on the alber hand, we owe to the same agency.many of the most pleasing gratifications of the flesh. Wine, ie, tobacco and other unnecessary bat agreeable things, are valued according to the character and degree ofthe changes of microbic origin, which have obtained in them, and it is' not to much to hope that other kixarles may to the grand bluff that overshadows their yet be placed at the disposal-of-mankind made against the firm, and there could now beity the folks at Ling-Na see the bead, neck, through the very careful attention and scienti- THE

shoulders, body, and tail of the Great Dragon.fic study which is now being bestowed upon tion ne behalf of some of the creditors and But this is their own peculiar Dragon: They these phenomena. For this reason it may yet have him all to themselves, independently of prove that his fellow creatures may have good the Five Dragons of the North, South, East, cause to be grateful to Professor J. C. Ray, West and Centre of the Empire. Now, theof Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, who has devot citizens of Ling-Na, having a mighty Dragan ofed a great deal of time and attention to the ex- their very own are unspeakably proud of an amination of the Hindu method of manufactur. advantage an unique. And they make theing spirit from rice, in order to discover the most of their incomparable privilege. For they associate everything around with their tutelary maneler The City of the Bongom stands on the bank of the Dragon River at a point where three of its tributaries happen to meet. This unusual confluence of three streams is naturally regarded with wonder, and it is ascribed to the accull power of the god in the great bluff, who is reputed to possess the ability to draw the waters together below his majestic abode. Noble trees. crown the sum

mit, which attains an abitude of 4,500 feet. Of course the fine groves are called the Dragon Forest. Everything belongs to the Great Dragon

Mr. Grist and Mr. Dixon were 'with him, on behalf of other creditors, in this. apposition. The bankrupt firm was indebted to Messi Shewan, Tomes and Co. in the sum of $11,000 for certain cases of tin plates sold and delivered by the latter firra to the firm of Pang Cheong, now bankrupt. The firm had purchased that amount of goods on credit and they wanted to know what had been done with the money they admitted they ha received on e-sale of a large quantity of the tin plates.

New York, October 27-The World anys Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and head of the Christian Science church, is very, feeble and seemingly in the shadow of death in her guarded home at Concord, N., H. Her daily drive through the streets of Concord is a fraud.

Ostensibly Mrs. Eddy makes a daily public His tonour: But now bankruptcy proceed. appearance, dressed in velvets and ermine, tings have supervened and a Receiving Order show her followers that she is in perfect health, has been made, how can you keep him in It is not Mrs. Eddy, but an impersonator, gaol? I should have thought the bankruptcy trained and costumed for the part, who appears proceedings would have caused his release. in the exhibition drive. This impersonator is Mrs. Parmelia J. Lennard of Brooklyn, head of the Christina Science church in that borough. Mrs. Leonard. has been an inmate of Mrs. Eddy's home at Concord for the last three years. There she has perfected herself as an understudy to Mrs. Eddy and impersonated the head of the Christian Science church in the daily exhibition drives when to move the real Mrs. Eddy from bed would have meant almost certain death to -ibe enfeebled woman.

Mr. Darlow: Yes, my Lord, that has been held in this Court, by the late Chief Justice,

Mr. Hasston argued against this and asked that the man be field in custody until he gives an account of what he did with the money.

His Honour: I don't think you can go as

Mr. Barlow: My Lord, the man is bankrupt; how can he find security.

His Honour; It was done by another bank. rupt before me in this Court not so long ago when he found $1,000,

who has favoured this spot by choosing it as his terrestrial residence.

My friend the missionary is subject to cur far as that-all you want is security for luis apious experiences when he leaves Amay to pearance. The question is, can ho give that

start on his five days' journey for the Dragon security?

City. The mandatin at Amoy, or any other 'place, indeed,' from which he departs, is Mrs. Eddy is powerless in the hands of de

responsible for his safety as long as he is in signing persons. They absolutely control her,

the Prefecture, and must therefore send with the traveller a small military escort. "On the and their employment of Mrs. I conard's ser- vices is for a deep purpose. Just what that Mr. Barlow: His friends might come forward very last occasion," says Mr. I, "this dignitary was so good as to give me for my protectors purpose is may be easily imagined. Many to help him, but as to that I am not instructed.

two solfieri. One was an old man who only millions of dollars have passed into Mrs. Furthermore, at the meeting of the creditors Eddy's personal possession since the foundingan resolution was passed. They cannot come carried an unbrella: the other was a mere of the Christian Science cult. Millions of now and ask for his retention. They should youth, whose sole accoutrement was a fan." her books have been sold and each book has have come forward at once, and given proof This farce berekened that the official perfunc yielded her a royalty of $1.

before your Lordships to the truth of the altorily performed his duty in the cheapest pos- legations, whatever they were, which they sible way. wished to make against him,

From the mother church in Boston she yearly receives a great su contributed by devotees in all parts of the world is the form

His Honour: The fact of the Receiving

annual dues. One of her closest friends and Order having been made would appear to dis followers estimates Mrs. Eildy's fortune at $15,000,000 and her annual income at $1,000,000. Of this vast sum there is přát tically no trace."

entitle you from taking proceedings against him. What is the usual practice, Mr. Wakeman? Mr. Wakeman: The usual practice, my Lord, is ta' apply for release immediately the Receivio Order is made.

His Honour: Well, then all there is to con- sider is; What is the use of keeping him'in gael?

But great changes are at hand, even under the very claws of the Great Dragon. The awakening of the Middle Kingdom is assur A big stir has begun throughout the ed. F1 wery land. And one spot where it will achieve stupendous results is the Dragon City in the province of Fu-Kien. The Mountain of

scientific principi- s upon which it is based, and to indicate the line upon which improvements nlay be most readily introduced.,

A comparison of the method in use, with that by which whisky is manufactured, is chiefly useful by way of contrast. In the production of whisky, the grain is first malied, that is to say germination is initiated.

A LAROR ASSORTMENT OF

Comprising:-

LARGE AND VARIED

ASSORTMENT.

MUSIC

Comic Opera Scores

and Dance Music,

JAPANESE CURIOS, RECEIVED BY EVERY MAIL OLD SATSUMA VASES INCENSE IN BURNERS, WALL PLATES, GOLD and

ENERLY SWARE, WAER-ZRA SUTS= ERIES, OLD BRONZES, WALL HANG INGS, KAKEMONOS, IVORY ORNA- MENTS, &c, &c, &c.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 6th Decembar, 1906,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Hongkong, 29th November,

[4 MOET & CHANDON'S

This cannot be done with husked rice. In place thereof, after the rice has been swollen by steam, a mould is added in the form of Dakhar. The rice is spread upon a platform in tittle heaps or cakes of about abr. each which are, in time, solidified, by entanglement THE Undersigned have received instructions

of the grains in the filaments of the mould or fungus, so that they can be. liked without breaking. The brewing is accomplished direct from the cakes described without any addition of yeast.

On charging the vats with water into which the cakes are introduced, the isiter fall to pieces, and fermentation supervenes with the production of spirit. Is ten days' the mixture or work is ready for distillation by which the finished product is obtained. This roughly is the process in use; it is not feasible here to enter into detail.

Obviusly the character of the spirit obtained must depend chiefly upon the nature of the mould of fungus introduced. Now the Bakhar, in which it is introduced, is a material over which the brewers or distillers can exercise very little control and one of which they have practically no knowledge. Some little

discrimination has, no doubt, been rendered possible by co-operation of the senses of smell and colour and touch, with long experience, but that is acknowledged to amount to very little.

the Dragon overshadowing Ling. Na contains Bakkar is prepared and sold by a low class vast deposits of valuable anthracite coal A bill population of the Orissa Hill, and is of an happens so frequently in China, the seems extremely heterogeneous and variable com. crop right up to the surface in many parts of position. It may be defined as a fucor spare the cliffs, in that working is easy. But no ferment, as far as its essential character in

must touch coal anywhere within concerned. sight of the city below for the workings would interfere with the head, or limbs, or clawi or intervals of the Dragon. Works on the hill out of view of the city are not troubled about. The hill containing the fine hard coal is fifteen miles long. When a railway is made the con! will be brought to Amoy, and Ling-Na will become one of the most important industrial centres in all China

A clew to what has become of this great for true may be had by consulting real estate His Honour: Yes, it seems to me that it is transfers of Concord, New Hampshire. These the duty of the debtor to apply for his dis records show that Mrs. Eddy's estate was or charge at the time of the making of the Fe- iginally purchased in great part by Joseph T. | ceiving Order." Mann, her former butler and the brother of Mr. Grist: Yes, but on giving notice of his--one ber present coachman. They also show that intention to his creditors. Mrs. Eddy's home, furnishings and all jewelry were transferred a few years ago to Calvin A. Frye, her present footman, secretary and the supreme power at her home. Frye is a foot-

Mr. Harston: The man has admitted that man in livery on the box of Mrs. Eddy's carri be bad at the time he was naked for the pay age during the daily drives of the real Mrs.ment of the goods bought by him from Shewan, Leonard and the fictitious Mrs. Eddy. He is Tomes: that he had 51,000 in Hongkong add Fecretary, at Pleasant View for the rest of the some 16,000 or so in Macao, and be was always time, the one in absolute authority, who for promising to go and get it. We want to know three years has guarded Mrs. Eddy with a vigilance known only in prisons.

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what has become of that money.

His Honour: What was the amount of the security he had to find?

Mr. Balow: $5,000, my Lord.

to sell by... PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

MONDAY,

the 10th December, 1906, at 4 P.M., nt their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TOYS AND FANCY GODS A180 A Number of GOLD RINGS, (suitable for X'mas Presents). TERMS: As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 6th December, 1906, (1175

GOVERNMENT BILLS.

ENDERS for SPECIE, BRITISH and

HIGHEST GRADE OF CHAMPAGNE

“DRY IMPERIAL

BRAND

AS SUPPLIED BY Royal WARRANTS

TO

KING EDWARD VII.

TMEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this at to days' sight on, the Lords Commissioners Colony, in Exchange for Sterling Bills drawn THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY, of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be received by the Treasury Chest Officer, until ITA.M., on the troth December, 1906,

The Tenders to state the total amount (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which each Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for less than 100.

The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in sealed. covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, and endorsed "Tenders for Government Bills." The right to accept or reject any or all of the. Tenders is reserved.

Copies of Forms of Tender can be had an application.

J. T. CARTER,

Lieut. Colonel, H.M. Treasury Chest Officer,

THE CZAR OF RUSSIA,

ALSO SUPPLIED FOR THE

LEADING PRESIDENTIAL

BANQUETS

OF

(1172 FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.

Under the microscope it shows, besides spores, a dense coating of mould fungi inter weaving fragments of barks and roots of plants- and powdered rice..

There is no knowing what else it may or may | His Majesty's Treasury Office, not contain, doubtless many things capable of

Fletcher Street. Hoogkong, 4th December, 1906. producing a high-class, delectable spirit, and

STEAM TO CANTON, many things likely to make the spirit produced, nasty if not poisonous,

THE Now Twin Screw Steel Steamer "KWÔNG TUNGA......1,338.......H. W, WALKER. Leaves Hongkang for Canton on exch Sun. day, Tuesday and Thursday, at every evening. Lesses Canton for Hongkong on each Mon-

every evening. day, Wednesday, and Friday, about 5.30 o'clock.

This Fine New Steamer has unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and is lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cabins.

At present the anthracite cannot be transported. Some of these days our most highly priced for any distance, for the Dragon River contains liquors may be prepared from the action of a in its channel many boiling rapids. There are fungus upon rice. In that case, we shall owe about 25 000 people in the Dragos City, engage it to workers in the. Geld which Professor Devotees, rich, social y prominent and loyal to the cult, have been turned away from the

His Honour: Then I think he must find of is chair making, fan and umbrella manu Ray has already turned the first soda.

Meanwhile it is a matter of surprise that the door of Pleasant View by Frye. They have that security before he can be released.

facture, and other such arts. A significant bèrn assured that Mrs. Eddy, although in per-

Mr. Barlow; It is very hard on my client, token of the coming awakening was the apspirit obtained is as good and as farge, in pro fect health, was "overwhelmed with work and as he is only one of the partners. They can plication of the local mandarin to the mission. portion to the rice consumed, as it proves to could not be disturbed," They were told she attach bis property, but they cannot keep bimary for help and advice, about a year ago. The be

gaal. We don't know how far the partners official had received that decree which has 1 are involved.

could only be seen in her daily drives. Now that the amazing facts have been made public, the door so long barred by the footman-secre, tary may be opened. Legal action, to ascer tain the full truth is practically assured,

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The distillers, who are the servants of absen- llis Honour: But I think a strong case has made so poparalleled a sensation throughout les capitalists, have little inducement to insure heen made for his retention. I can't release the Empire, and which started the world. 11 the best output, while the masters manufacture him until that security is deposited, but I won't was the Imperial edict commanding the open- under licenses sold everythird year to the increase

Mr. Barlow: Then will your Lordship con- ing of new schools everywhere, for pupils of highest bidder and have therefore no enduring siderably reduce it?

both sexes, on the Western plan. Bo the interest in the business. mandarin determined that English should be taught in the City of the Great Dragon, and he wanted la trusted Englishman's assistance in achieving his new organisation-Pall Wall GaNik

Sik Francle Bamand says his advice was His Honour: Oh, no; I can't do that! *don't send anything to Ponch' that is told Mr. Barlow: Then may I ask, my Lord, if you a good joke," We are strongly fo- there are any prospects of my client ever being clined to belived that „this advicá' must bava

His Honour: The payment of the security bhen consistently acted upon, and told will relones him,

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