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Telegrams.

{Renter's.}

Explosion in an American

Battleship.

London, 1 July. An explosion of an 8-inch gun has occur. red in the U. S. S. Georgia while at target "practice; seventeen" were injured, of which

five have died.

Japan and Korea Viscount Hayashi has gone to Korca, in cognito.

Later.

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Bomb Outrage in Tillis... General Alikhanoff, the ex-Governor General, his wife, and a soldier have been killed by bombs thrown at them in the streets of Tiflis,

Death of a Korean at the Hague. Te! un, one of the Korean deputies at the Hague, has died suddenly., He was buried in the Hague."

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The Explosion in the U.S.S "Georgia."

Eight victims of the explosion in the U. S. S. Georgia have died, and six more. are not expected to recover.

It appears that a 200lb charge was being liked, preparatory to its insertion in the

gun, when two seamen noticed that the covering was smouldering and shouted a warning to the mes in the turret, but too late for them to realize the meaning.

THE RAVAGES OF RATS.

that inhabits nur sewers, our stables, our ware-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY JULY 18, 1907.

CHINA TEA.

[From a Correspondent.]

BANKRUPTCY.

DENTOR'S PETITION:^~

Canton, 16th July. Before his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Paispe Since I last wrote you an additional 4,000 Judge, presiding in Bankrupicy Jurisdiction boxes of tea have been sold. There are 7,000 this morning, Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs WI boxes of tea being shipped by the steamshipkinson aset Grist, appeared and applied on be- Pospun to day to be trans-shipped to the half of Yei Chong Wing, Yei Koi Chang, Yai P. & O. Company's steamer leaving Hongkong Yuk Ming, and Tam Man Sheung, lately carry. ing on business, undèr the name and style of to-morrow.

Tung Fat Lang Kee, at No. 3to Queen's Road Central, for an adjudication order and, a re- ceiving order of the estates of the petitioners,

Mr. Grist said that the liabilities of the petitioners amounted to $10,300 and the arcts to $314.60 cash in the bands of Mr. Grist and $7,700 in book debis the ma-

ARMED ROBBERY IN THE NEW THRRITORY.

GROCER'S SIJOP, LOOTED BY ARMED MEN. Intelligence received across the wires from Tai-po Police Station last night, gave the ac

SEATTLE-ONIKNYAL KØN,

NEW STEAMERS FOR THE BÈRVICE. Messrs. Frank Waterhouse & Co. aonounced on the 17th ult. that two naw stěämships would" be placed on the Seattle-Oriantal run within the next thirty days, to be run in conjunction with the Boston Steamship Company's fleet. The Kameris and Suveric, the two largest sickships of the Wior fleet, will sail regularly frem Seattle for Japan and China, going through to Manila. The first sailing of the

new fleet will be in August.

In speaving of the now service Mr. Water house said: “The Kumeric and Suveric will be placed on the Oriental run soon. The Au muric will sail from this port during the month

To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

HE P. & O. 5. N. Ca's Steamer

"SUNDA

THE P.&O.S

Intimations

THE

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA ROBINSON PIANO

PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo 'by the above-named

vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are Iming landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark,

Goods are landed. and delivery can be obtained as soon as the

Optional Goods will be landed here unless

count of an armed robbery which occurred at jority of which they believed to be good and { of August and will be followed in October by instructions are given to the contrary before

Tap Mun island on the night of the 16th inst. Tap Mun, or Grass Island, is an island at the mouth of the Tolo Channel, some ten miles from Tai-po. From the accounts al present in the hands of the police it would appear that between eleven o'clock and midnight on the night in question a number of rabbers, all arm- ed with murderous-looking weapons, broke into a grocer's shop add, driving all the fokis into a side room ransacked the place and left, Over' $20 worth of clothing and jewellery were stolen. · Yesterday morning the "at-po police were notified of the occurrence, but as the shop keepers and his ageistants are unable to iden tify the robbers it is feared that a capture would be impossible.

CHINESH IMMIGRATION 70 AMERICA.

LATE DECISION FAVOURS CHINESE. A decision sent. out by Attorney-General

Charles Bonaparte and instructions received by Commissioner of Immigration Hart North, indicate that the Government intends hereafter to be mare lenient toward Chinese labourers who, come here, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Bonaparte's decision is in regard 10 Chinese sailors, many of whom have been

It is the rat the big, brown Norway rat-arrested and deported on account of having come ashore. The instructions refer to the ex amination of Chinese immigrants, who hereafter

must expensive luxury to harbour rais, as a healthy rat will eat or destroy sa cants worth

of grain day. The at census has never

realisable.

+

The Official Receiver said he had no ob jettion to the order being made, and the order. was made accordingly, the Official Receiver to be Trustee.

SEDITION IN INDIA.

SOUND ADVICE TO STUDENTS.

The Maharajs of Hobbili concludes a remark- able letter of advice to students thus:It has always been the case with Brahmins to set themselves agains! their Kings and oppose them. Now, not only the Bralimins but some other classes of our community join in the opposition to the Government, and conse- quently Laia Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh have been punished. You, students, should never take upon yourselves this dangerous move- ment and join in attacks against the Govern ment. If you mingle yourselves in the preist unseal, i am afraid you will be raining your prospects in life in every way! is the time for study and formation

You have yet to acquire moral

Character,

and Intellectual qualities which will make you fit for a useful career in tile. This period of kle should not be frittered away in political agitations. It is highly injurious to the best interests of a country that its youth should abandon their legitimate function and houses and our cellars, that swarms about the

take part in a movement like the present one. wharves and circumnavigates the globe by may be represented by an attorney and an into the fulness of time, as we acquire higher secaring passage in every ship and steamer.rpreter, other than the one furnished by the capacity and character, the Government will The United States Department of Agricu zure | Government.

give us all that you are now agitating for warns the farmers of the country that is a The decision regarding Chinese sailors' was such as the elevation of the Indians to higher trought about through the arrest and depot-posts in the Public Service, the expansion of ton of threa Chinese who, last December. came ashore from a Norwegian boat, the Thyra, which was lying at an Oakland wharf, The Chinese went into Oakland to buy pro visions for the boat, and on their way back were arrested by Government inspectors, They were taken before United States Com. missioner Heacock, who ordered them depart. ed. Captain. Hans Berger of the Thyra was' arrested for allowing the Chinese to go a shore, and Commissioner Heacock held bim to appear before the United States Grand Jury. that bady, however, did not indict him, Captain Berger claiming that; this being his first visit here, he did not know the law. How ever, he had to pay jail expenses and court fees -and-costs.

been laken, but the Department suggests $100,000,000 as the probable, value of the cereals consumed yearly by the rats of the

"United States."

This is a large total, but this is a large coun try, and rats have a large field to fotage in The annual loss by rats in France is given as $40,000,000. The people of little Denmark lose $3,000,uno a year by rats. It is evident that the rat holes will hear looking into: Rats congumo a great deal of waste, but that waste could be much better disposed of. The rats are a heavy drain on the profits of agriculture, and the loss they cause,, is by no means con. fined to food..

The Agricoltural Department tells us that rata destroy eggs and young poultry, pigeons, game birds an wild song birds. They have been known to kill young fabtas, pigs and lambs, and even to attack, children. Carl Hagenbeck once lost three young elephants because rats gnawed their feet, inflicting in- curable wounds. They enter stores and ware- houses and destroy dry goods-lace curtains, carpets, woollens, silk-as well as kid gloves and other leather goods. They gnaw through tead pipes, flooding buildings with water or filling them with gas. They injure furniture and the foundations and dours of building, They eat the insulation from electric wires, thus causing disastrous fire. The average fire loss in the United States due to defective in. sulation is placed at $15,000,000 annually a considerable part of which is said to be caused by rats.

MORE PRIVILEGES FOR CHINESE.

C. 11, Bunker & Co., the commission brokers, agents for Captain. Berger, protested to the Department of Justice and the Department of Comine ce and Labour against the payment of the costs, maintaining that the arrest of the Chinese was not warranted, the men were

not attempting to escape from the, boat. This contention was upheld by Bonapane, who, in saying that the money will be remitted, re mark

'* It appears that proceedings were instituted against said persons under Phinese exclusion laws. Just why such proceedings were insti tuted is not understood, in view of the fact that they were seamen and had, apparently come. shore to get provisions, and at the time of arrest were going back to the boat with the provisions purchased."

The decision will give more privileges to This is a terrific ediciment, but besides rats

such Chinese sailors as can be trusted by their are the host of the germ of the bubocic plague captains. "The regulations provide that the and they are the active means of spreading that Chinese cannot come ashore without a $50 disease. They are the most prolific of 301-bond, and that the captain cat be fined $500 mals. The young female begins to breed at for each Chinese caught ashore without three-monibs-old-and-will-pradace-from-three-band-Many Chinese have been deported and to six litters a year and ten little rats at a fitter, many captains fined under such circumstances. A single pair breeding without check would in Bonaparte's decision indicates that such Chi- three years be responsible for a rat population bese are not to be arrested, -eless it is evident of 20,155,392.

that they are trying to escape from the ship If it were not for the dogs, traps, poisons and and evade the exclusion laws, many other enemies of rats, there would soos

Commissioner North said yesterday that he be no room on the earth for anything but rats. had not received any instructions regarding Their numbers are kept down, but the rat po-the Thyra matter. We have always followed pulation is nevenheless enormous and costly what we considered the law," he said yester The Agricultural Department has published a day, “and so far have been supported by the bulletin entitled "Methods of Destroying Rats." local Federal authenties." Every farmer and every inan who has rats on his premisce should procure this bulletin and pus its precepss, fato practice.--Philadelphia

Prist

THE WEATHER, The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, Director of the Hongkong Observatory -

Od the 18th at 12 15 p-The barometer has fallen moderately at the mouth of the Yangtze, and risen slightly on the N.E. and 5. coasts of

the Suverio, which will make another trip to North China ports before assuming the new service.

"It is our intention to run these vessels in conjunction with, the Boston Steamship 'Com- pany's fleet, the sailings being arranged so as to come in between the sailings of their feet. Both of these versòls are new and represent the highest grade of their clan. With the addition of these two vessels, the company will be able to give shippers a three-week service between Seattle and the Orient. As with the Boston Steamship Company's fleet, both of these vessels will call regularly at Manila, Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama."

These two vessels, with the exception of the Minnesota, are of the largest class of vessels to eng ge in the Oriental trade, and have a cargo-carrying capacity of 17,000 measurement ton, or 12,003 tons dead weight. Both ships are practically new, the Kumeric, which will be the first to leave Seattle on the Be schedule, is at present making her malden voyage and is bringing, 1,000 Portuguese immigrants to Honolulu, from which port she will come to the navy yard, Fuget sound, for which place she has a cargo of 8,000 tons of Cardiff coal consigned to the govern ment. The vessel was built in Glasgow, in 1406, by Russell & Co. The dimensions are 460 feet in length, 55 feet in breadth and 29 feet depth of hold, with a net tonnage of 3,980

ions.

The Suveric is a sister ship of the Kumeric; and is well known at Seattle as is Capt. Shot- ten, her masier, having loaded cargo there for the North Chica trade. The vessel was built last year and has practically the same dimen

$5.1 fest in breadth and 28.6 feet depth of hold. The vessel is at prescol,ed route to Seattle from Acapulco, where she went with a cargo of coal from Moil, Japan. Before entering on the new schedule, the Saveric will take a cargo of four and farming implements to Vladivostok and

Newchwang.

THE BOXER INDEMNITY.

6 hours.

Goods not cleared by the 74th inst., at. 47.M., will be subject to rent

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in Any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap painted hour.

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns,

· E, A. HEWETT,

Superintendent, Hongkong, 18th July'1907. FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND NAGASAKI.--

THE Steamship

"ARRATOON APCAR,"

12.

Captain A. Stewart, will be despatched for the above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th

fast, at Noon.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation

CỌ, L.D.

TALKING

MACHINES

AND

RECORDS.

for Passengers, and is intalled through New Stock just arrived with Electric Light and carries a duly certified Doctori

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,

Agents. Rookong. 18th July, 1907.

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BAR KASTERN TRADE.

FORMER HONGKONG REgident to address SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

A Searle despatch of 18th oft saya :---- "Opportunities for American Trade Exten

in an address by Fletcher S. Brockman, at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at E. o'clock this afternoon.

LARGE AND VARIED

ASSORTMENT

MUSIC.

Comic Opera Scores

and Dance Music.

Mr. Brockman, who has spent more than filteen years in China, much of the time in Y. M. C. A. work, and has made à careful study of commercial conditions in that country, believes that unless the Pacific coast shortly awakens to its neglected opportunity, France, RECEIVED BY EVERY MAIL. Germany and England will have secured tho trade that is knocking at the doors of this

Hongkong, 29th November, 1906, country. Mr. Brockman, speaking of the subject in an laterview yesterday, said:

Legislative Councils, etc. These benefits can-ions at the Kumeric, being 460 feet in length,sion in the Far East will be briefly discussed not be forced from the Government by the present methods of agitation, it is mere fancy to think that you can raise your own forces to struggle with the Government for the purpose of attaining your imaginary‘objects, You are entirely mistaken, if you really enter tain such an idea. The castes and communities which were allotted for military purpose in this country, are indeed very few. Among them, the independent Chiefs, Maharajar, · Rajas, Zemindars and others of any status are quite RENISSION OF AMERICA'S CLAIM. loyal to the British. The Sikha and the Maho

A Boston despatch of 18th june says:Sir medans are likewise strongly attached to the

Chen Liang Cheng, retiring, Chinese ambas Government. None of these will ever en-

"My work during the past ten years bas courage the present agitators. On the other sador to the United States, who is in this city hand, they will use ail their power and influ-on a visit, to-day made the following statement: taken me over many parts of China, Korea "shall make public today the contents of and Japan, and has afforded an opportunity to coce to defeat them,

an official noto which I received from Secretary obrerve the marvellous development which is Root last Saturday night, which shows better

now taking place in the Orient. The mos! sense of justice which the United States has the world has ever witnessed in the same than anything else can the remarkably high significant and the most colossal change which

osed in all her dealings with China. You period of time has taken place in China during- remember that after the Boxer troubles China the past two years. The industrial (and cop- agreed to pay an indemnity of $24,440,778.81 sequeatly commercial), educational and-gov. on account of the losses entailed by the United eramental life of 400,000,000 people is being States governmeal, as well as for personal pro-rapidly transformed. The significance of this perty lost by her citizens during the Boxer to the United States, and especially to the campaign.

Pacific coast, can not be overestimated,

"I strongly advise you, young men, who are and for the sake of your country, out to join still on the threshold of life, for your own sake the present seditious movement. Australian experRIMENTS IN

CRIMINOLOGY,

In transmitting the following principal lea. tures of the habitual criminals act of New South Wales, Vice-Consul John K. Foster, of Newcastle, says that the Australian authorities elsewhere are watching the experiment with much interest:

The visiting officers and the Governor of the prison, with any other person who inay at any time be appointed by the controller-general, are constituted a consultative commillee for

the purpose of considering the case of each prisoner, on the lines laid down in other parts of these regulations, of dealing with any speci firma ter referred to them by the permaneat head of the department, and of advising the controller-general thereon. The prisoners will

;

Four years ago your government was good enough to promise me that when the time arrived, as a token of sincere friendship for China, the original figures of the indemnity would be revised.

PRESIDENT NOTIFIES AMBASSADOR. · "Troe to the promises of the executive offi- pers, I received a nute from Secretary Root last Saturday, night saying that the president directed him to say that in his next message to Congress he would be pleased to recommend that China be relieved of all obligation in excess of the final revised amount of the in

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"No people of Asia will prove more worthy of a high place in civilization of the twentieth century than the Chinese. The foreign trade in China-that is the new trade of China-is

THE

LEADING COGNAC

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the greatest commercial pride of the age. Eng. J. & F. MARTELL'S.

land, Japan and Germany are alive to what is at slake, and are manifesting great, foresight and business acumen in their attempt to capture the prize. Our own country has been prone to use its sagacity in solving the pro blems growing out of our own rapid develop ment to the neglect of trade opportunities which are knocking at our door."

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be dealt with under a progressive-stage sys.demnity, which had been-set-at-51-1,655,492.69.-~~~~Although-the-address will be given...this.

That, as you can see, will save China over $11,000,000 and also an interest of 4 per ceal

You cannot emphasize too strongly my great admiration for the fair spirit which has always characterized the dealings of the United States with my country. This final action is another monument to America's high sense of antice, and I feel called upou to say--not because I am the retiring ambassador-that personally I feel that America is one of China's strongest friends."

,

afternoon at a regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, the officers of that body extend an invitation to the public, interested in the commerce of the Orient. to attend.

COMMERCIAL.

SHARE LIST,

3 p.m. Following are alterations in Messrs. E, S. Kadoorie & Co.'s share list to-day?—

"Star" Ferries (New)................................5. 14 53. Hongkong Docks ................. 101 China Borneos...

A. S. Watsonƒ............... combina

TO-DAY'S EXCHAXOK,

Selling,

London-Bank T.T......

Do. demand

Do.

of b Iib.

tem, by which they will practically determine their own treatment as regards the enjoyment of privileges, or, the reverse. They will be classified into three grades, the lower, the intermediate, and the higher The lower will be divided into two subgrades, the penal and the ordinary, Prisoners in the later mediate and higher grades will be competent to earn various privileges, for which those in the lower grades will not be eligible. On completing the definite portion of his sentence The instructions as to the immigrants being a prisoner will be placed in the intermediate

MORE THAN HALF HAS BEEN PAID ALREADY examined as to their right toʻland being repres grade. From this be can rise to the higher A Washington message of the same date re- seated, if they desire, by an attorney, are supgrade by industry and good conduct, and can ports: The state department confirms the posed to be the result of the recent visit here fall to either division of the lower grades as statement of the Chinese minister regarding of Harrison Kesbit, ass stact solicitor for the the result of idleness or any offence against the resolution of the United States governmeri Department of Commerce, and Labour, and | good order.

regarding the reduction of the. Chinese Pa promotion to the higher grade a prisoner indemnity. The fact that the indemnity John S. Rogers, Cominissioner of Im

During their will be eligible to receive full privileger while is being collected under a treaty makes it. migration at Philadelphia. visit they looked into a number of cases of he earns the maximum marks. When 2,000 impossible for the executive to act alone in this Chinese who had appeated against orders to marks have been earned in this grade a prisoner. matter and the president in bis annual mess. deport them. Some had complained that they will be eligible to be placed on the special age to Congress will suggest that the payment had not been correctly interpreted. The ex-fist, provided full marks have been gained of more than the amount actually expended bo

a continuous period of nine months remitted. A depression, which is probably movingamination of these Chinese has been a star for

Every prisoner Eastwards, appear to have passed from the chamber proceeding, no one being present but immediately preceding.

the Government Interpicter and immigration will be required to perform some fixed continent to the Yellow Sea.

officials. Under the new ruling the Chinese tark daily, suited to his capacity and physical under examination may be represented by an condition. The work should be of a productive, attorney and an interpreter approved by the reformative, and educational character, Red, officials, Neither the attorney nor the inter- whenever practicable and not inconsistent with disciplinary requirements, the prisoner should preier, however, shall be allowed io take any be employed at the trade at which he is mosland lives lost in the uprising, amounting to part in the examination unless they observe proficient and which will do the most to fit him

A careful estimate has just been completed 30 days' sight San Francisco & New York-547 the regulations.

for honest self-support when at liberty,

do. -

$57 With the consent of the controller-general of the expense to which the United States4 months' sight will be allowed to remit portions of their cam in China, the Daval expense and the lossce S.W.winds, light or moderate thunder showers. blooded Chinese there is often a great deal of ings to their relatives, where of reputable suffered at the American consulates. These 4 months' night France......

1-Formosa Channel, W. to S.W. winds, animosity, which, it is alleged, has sometimes character, provided, excepting under special aggregate $9,000,000, so that all of the in- 6 montbr, sight

led to bullying on the pan of the lnterpreters, circumstances, a balance to credit of at least demnity that should really be charged against 4 months' night Germany...... 2.30 WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, moderate or fresh,

3-South coast of Chins between Hongkong It is to prevent this, and errors, intentional or $75 is maintained. In January of each year China is 511,000,000, and at the rate the pay: Bar Silver

the controller-general shall forward a report to ments have been made recently it is expected.

12, QUEEN'T Road Centrala and Lamocks, same as No. 1. ́)

otherwise, that might arise in conducting the the insister in each case, giving partieslars of that the total will be met in four or five years Bank of England rate..... 4-South coast of China between Hongkong examinations, that attorneys and interpreters conduct, health, prospect of reform, and any more. The plan is to then give. China-a; Bank of France................34 %

Boveral relouse la fall, other necessarý detalle, pad Hainen, samo'ar No. 1.

I are hereafter to be allowed to be present. :

China.

Moderate or fresh W. to 5.W. winds will probably prevail in the Formosa Channel and the Na part of the China Sea,

The returns from Formosa and Japan are lacking.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours coding at somm. to-day, o.to inch.

FORECAST.

Many of the Government interpreters are

China was to pay the United States a sum sightly less than $15,000,000 in anual in stalments for thirty-nine years with interest. So far there has been collected $5,000,000, and 'out of this has been paid all of the claims of American missionaries for property destroyed

about $1,000,000.

.2/24 *****.2/2 7/16

..per dozen $25.00.

28.00

49.00

90.00

4 months' sight

·France--Bank T.T... America-Bank T.T....... Germany-Bank T.T... Ladia T.Ta

Do.

demand....... Shanghai-Bank T.T. Singapore T.T............63 % prem

107] Tapen-Bank T.T java-Bank T.T. loobuna

Buying.

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V.S.O.P.

V.V.S.O.P.

| months' sight L/C," ....................2/1 15/16 c. 6 months' sight L/C...................................

SOLE AGENTS:

-Hongkong and neighbourhood, W. to † half-bread Chinese. Between such and full- | prisoners of good record, should they so desire, government was put by the military operations 30 days' sight Sydney and Melbouras 1.3.3 3/16 . TRIOE & CO., Ltd..

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16th July:

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