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Telegrams

A Renter's

Canada and Jäparis

"London," "19th| December, 3||

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAM SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1907

Intended, chery, and in the At

Kaid so him and hall him aun bott

This alig act at once rousit

into an uproar. The last temnant of the Sultan's authority vanished,

Matters came to a head first in Casa Blancs, Bem iliown on the West Coas, m'd-way be

Sir Wilfred Laurier, in the House of Retween Rabat and Maragan. On July 30th, 2 presentatives, said that he had every reason to believe the mission of Mr. Lemieux had

"umber ul. tribesmen, probably inspired to

Today's Advertisements.

OFURIOUS ROBBER KIKDE

TERRORISM AT SHEK-LOONG EN

ATRE ROYAL

[From a Cerrespondent.]

Canton, 20th Decear. A-antorinus-buvglar-Wen-Mony-by-

action by the no usious scere, Matel-Simin,ame, has been the terror, of all tow and

COMMENCING!

CITY HALL

To-night (Saturday), Dec 21st, at 9.15.

RETURN OF THE CAVOURITE ALE

reached a satisfactory termination, and add entered the town an i driman ed that the build.villages along the Rastiver. A red of POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN

Canada,

$1,000 was offered by the military suities and the gentry, for his captura. the questly made his cacape to Hongkor marauder, being assisted by a large gefte-

so changing and elusive that the rawabas

ed that he be leved the Japanese Governing operations on the French arbeur Works ment.had acted in good faith but had been and Customs House should be at once sus evaded by enterprising parties.

pended. Their request being refused, they The remedy was legislation by Jap`n, not amused themselves by murdering as many of Macan with perfect ease. His movemenyain

the unfortun te workmen as they could

Spanish-guns-beinharded-Cata-Blanch,

As to what will be the end of the present trouble it is difficult to say. Lermany, who is directly responsible for the recent bloodshed, ourrontemporary says, wil no doubt prever France from taking any definite steps in con trol the country. In insequence, Morocco, like Aimenia and Macedonia, will probably continue to drag'along in its present condi. tion, tora by law rd fissension and a menace to the pace of Europe,

• Sir Wilfrid Laurier also said that the im. hands upon. «f.ve days later the French and been issued for years without any affec{On

migration of Japanese and "hinese could not be treated in the same way. Japan was an ally of the Motherland and concerted im portant trade privileges to Canada. It was necessary to withhold a complete statement until the return of Mr. I envieux,

The Cruise of the United States Fleet.

It is stated in New York that Admiral Evaus, after the fleet had whiled, announced that it would retorn vía Suez.

The "cy York press is heatedly discus ing whether the ships are as efficient as they are supposed te

Resignation of Lieutenant Wood

Lieutenant Wood, of the and Grenadier Guards, has resigned his "commission under protest.

Later.

Cricket. Australia won the first Test Match at Sydney, by two wickets.

The Late King of Sweden. King Oscar was buried yesterday with great pomp.

The Kings of Sweden and Denmark, Prince Arthur of Connaught, and the For- eign Princes marched in the procession, while the Queens drove to the church.

TYPHOPAN WA MAG.

The telegram quoted below was received by te American Consulate-Ce: from the Manila Obaciva'ery yestriday,' 6 pm.:-

December 20, 1997, at. 5 pm. „Typhoon seems to have beën filling up siòce yesterday.

WHY MORCOV SERIES,

TUL STONY OF A TROUBLED STATE.

THE “TELEPONA "GIRL"

SUPERSEDnD.

the 13th inat, Welyuan Lau Chau-ch, a magistrale, received information that Wawas to arrive at Shok-loung from Hongkonghat Mr. Lau was ordered to proceed ther very day. Accordingly the sih bauktion der

to surround and capture the burglar by few. ing him up to his lair. He was seized at a desperate struggle, having been molly -wounded by several shots from the “bris” and died a few hours afterwards. His corpstas subsequently examined by the weiyuan. he joicings of the inhabitants of åbek-luonon that day after receiving the new: of his diới, were so great that niany people off:red preté to the gods. H.E. Viceroy Chang receive Canadians are justly proud of the fact that report from Mr. Lau yesterday requesting Canadian Citizen, Prof. Alexander Graham order for the despatch of the corpse andhe Belk, inventer his system of telephonic com-distribution of the cash reward. munication, at Brantford, Ontarie, a little more thin thirty years ago, and it is ratifying to know that the Board of Trade what has come to be known as the 'Telephone City' has undert then to erect a monument in honour of that notable achievement, But there is another good reason why Brantford should be koowa as the Telephone Cup'—the fact that the Larimer system of automatic telephony, # system that professes to revolutionize the ordinary method of telephony, was invented in that, sanie city by theorimer Erothers, writes Mr. Randolph Carlyle in the October Can diun Mag zine:

I

"to visit the exchange room ofthe Canad an Machine Telephone Company, limited, at Peterborough, Ontario, where the first exchange of this system has been installed and operating for about two years, gives one the eerie senia int of being in an enchanted realm, for the spectacle of a mere machine, a thing devoid of sense or understanding, performing what was described at the selephone investigation as a nervo-racking operation, is nothing short of marvellous....

QUE MERCANTILE MARINE

EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES.

The rules made by the Governor-in-Coucil on 28th September. 1915, as amended on id May, 1905, as the conduct of examinath far certificates of competency in the mercante marine are hereby further amended as follows-

1. Insert new Rale 191.

rga. It shall be open to any officer holdig or candidate for a certificate of competency master or mate în, undergo an examination o practical proficiency in the semaphore ad Morse systems of signalling. And should sh candidate pass this examination, the fact, wit the date and place of passing, shall be recorde on his certificate of competency.

OPERA CO.

Mr. C POLLARD and Mrs. N. CHESTER, SOUR OWNERS, TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY), MONDAY and TUESDAY, 2111, 23rd and 24th December:

THE BELLE OF NEW YORK"

NO PERFORMANCE ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT. THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, 26th; 27th and 18th December

IN TOWN"

Late Trafo the Peak 15 minutes after each performance PRICES: $3.00, $2.00 and Stoo

Box PLAN AT THE ROBINSON PIANO CO.

MOGUL LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES: STEAMSHIP LENNOX," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

-STRAITS..

ONSIGNE ESpf Cargo are hereby informed risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and that alle oock then being landed at their Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharvei delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowni, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 27th instant will be subject to rent.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS,

Intimations

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

CO., LD.

INVITE INSPECTO

[1103

NEW STOOK

[Naccordance with the Provisions of

EX CHANGE BANKS" will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Busiasis on WED.. NESDAY and THURSDAY, the 25th and 16th instant, respectively.

[1109

Hongkong, 21st December, 1907

THE AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL LINE. FOR BALTIMORE AND NEW YORK (With liberty to call at Malabar Coası).

THE

Steamship

"JESERIC,"

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 20th Jan, 1908, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, nad damaged Goods are Captain Thompson, will leave for the above to be left in the Godowns, where they will be Pons, on grabout SATURDAY, 25th January, axamined on the 37th instant, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected... Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

"DODWELL & Co., LIMITÉD, Agents. Hongkong, 21st December, 1907.

TOBACCO A GERM KILLER,

Many people attribute their free 'om from

1908.

For Freight, apply to

feest

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,

Agants, Hongkong, 21st December, rong

while Hongkow Whaifs have been booked at the increased rate of Tix. 107},

Lands, fotels and Buildings Hongkoog sundry minor diseases in a liberal use of Hotels continue to male firm @ Sroo Hum tobacco, the smoke of which they declare is a phreys Estates can probably be obtained powerful destroyer if germs. This view is Stoj. Kowloon Lands are still on offer. $35 supported by the Lancet which says that the while West Paints are wanted @ $48. There 2. Add to Rule, 20, before nore —

property, in the smoke which has this killing have been sales of Shanghai Lands at Tia, 101; Morse signalling, $10,

Voluntáry examination (in' semaphore an effect in for uldehyde, « powerful antiseptle. Collon Milis-in the North, Ewas have

3. Add new pingraph 70%. First aid to the injured."

214. All candidates for certificates of romi petency as mixter or mite are required to show that they possess a knowledge of first aid to the inju ed. *

AN AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE. As well as I'am able to describe it, the operation is as follows: Du wish to call number 361. There are in front of you on the telephone box four slides, each representing units, tens, hundreds, or thousands. slides are worked up or down, and the desired The

(2) The Peard of Trade have stranged with cigle as one koj 119 an everlasting calendar, nun ber is obtained on about the same prin the 5. John's Ambil ace issociation and the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association for special For number 36, you take up the hundreds, facilities to be provided for the instruction and her the next, elide, in La man of Cardites in this subject, and

by means of a certificate granted by either of { these Associations.

For some time past the tention of the world has been fixed pan Morocco. The troubles which culminated amidst the blord stained spins of Casa Blanca are of no recent growil. To diser ver their origin wa must-looktopping at three.

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The amount present is more than just appro-advanced to. Tls, 53, with enquiries, eng- without ciable, for if water through which a few puffs kong Cottons are unchanged and of tobacco smoke have been passed is tested business to report. Internationals are on offer for formaldehyde the result is strikitiglyp: sitive at Tis. 70. The quantity of formaldehyde in tobacco smoke would appear to depend on the quality and kind of tobacco smoked.

Miscellaneous-Funher sales of China Bor. neos have been recorded at $10, and more shares are wanted. China Providents have im- Thus, the cisar appears to yield more for proved to $. with sales. Dairy Farms can be maldehyde than the pipe, and the pipe more placed at $17, but there are none offering, than the cigrette, Possibly the peculiarly Green Island Cements have been taken off the irritating property of the smoke issuing from market at 111, and South China Morning Poik the five a carete or cigar or from at $20. There are buyers of Union Waterboste at-Stop Watsons, have been sold and exc

far back into the history of Maghreb-e-Aksā, stopped at six, and the next at one. Having proni if the required knowledge must be given the bɔwi of a pipe, is due to form ildehyde.

as the mill cred kingdom of Morocco is called by its inhabitants.

Ever since the Arabs invaded and corquered it after the fall of the Roman Empire, Moracco has been the most fiercely Mohammedan coup. try in history. The Mofis hate the Christians with a savage and undying hatred.

arranged the numbers, you swiftly turn a crank and place the receiver to your car, and if you do not get the busy buzz, you press the bution. that is all you have 10 do, except to 'inik when your call is answered. *-

"If a person alwuld call up your number while you are using your telephone, all he will At the present moment à orocco is probably hear will be the busy buzz, which tells him the wars pov tied county in the world, that your telephone is in use. When you are The Sultan, nominally roposed to be on talking over a fine you are stiffed that there is autocrat, is practically powerless. Owing to no third party on the line. No matter whether his fondners lur Europeen toys and luxuries, the person you are spanking to thinks you have ha is disliked and mistrusted by the whole | fioished and accordingly hangs up his receiver country. But for the fact that Sir Barry you can call him back by simply pressing the Ma lean, originally a subaltern in the thitish bution: When you have finisherk, the simple

·Armyyhas organised a small but fairly well-operation of lunging up your ceiver dis equipped army, the Sulian would long ago have ben murdered...

There is no law and no justice in Marocco, except such as is höugli and sold. All offices are purchased. No salaries are attached, the 'holders being supposed to recoup themselves

by plunder and oppression.

Yel, notwithstanding this at ve of affis, the Moors, down' to the lowest peasant, bitterly resent any attempt at Earopean sterference.

Owing to the fict, however, that Algeria is now controlled by France, the internal state of such a pear neighbour as Marocco in naturally a maller of supreme importance to our friends

It has more than once been stated that to- | wanted at $10: Sumatras are in demand in the l'bacco smokers enjoy an immunity from certain | North at Tls. 112]. Langkais bave been nego- A seases, and the frequent presence of a powertated at Tik. 350, ex the final dividend of Tls. Marine Office will place any intending can and some times the lungs (as is the case of

(3) The Superini dent of the Mercantile ful antiseptic in the mouth, pasal passages 7 and bonus of 11s. af paid on the 16th inst

Exchange The Bank's selling rate on Lon tatics of these Associations, didate in communication with the local secretose who foolishly inhale tobacco smoke), don is to on demand. The T/T rate on

(4.) Candidates are further informed that courses of instuction given by qualified sure geans on board merchant vessels will be accepted by the St. John's Ambul ince Associe than as qualifying the candidate to be examined for that Association's certificate, provided that the surgeon in question is able to certify that he cared out the syllabus of instruction of the Association.

5. Add at end of Rule 35 new paragraph. (.) To show a knowledge of the semaphore and Morse alphabets and of the British Signal

'Manual,"

connects the number and you are ready to 4. Add at the end of Rule 31, new paragraph. make another call..... If a telephone getą). (9.) To show a knowledge of the semaphore out of order, if a wire is broken of cut, or any. and Morse alphabets and of the British Signal thing else gors wrong to interfere with the Manual.... | service'it is not necessary for the subscriber lo complain, for the fact will be immediately re- corded in the exchange room. Even should a subscriber turn in a call nod go away and leave it thas, tying, up his telephone and the one called, the exchange room will receive a warning in the shape of an alarm which will continue sounding until the man' in charge takes action by restoring the telephone to theifIt is notified in the Gosette that, under the normal condition, an operation that is perform provisions of the Public Holidays Ordinance, 1875, (Ordinance? a. 1 of 1875), he following days, namely, Wednesday, the 251b December, and Thursday, the 26th December, 1907, Wednesday; the 1st January, and Thursday the 2nd January, 1908, will be kept as poble bolidays in the Colony.

ed in a second of time.

*

AN ECONOMICAL SYSTEM,

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

however, to the provisions of sections of the The offices of the Supreme Court (subject, Supreme Court (Vacation) Ordinance, 1898),

Shanghai. 7434

would, to some extent, justify the statement.

Germs are deposited in vast numbers in New Issues-Kowloon Wharfs-20,000 the nose in the process of inhaling the air shares at Si, per share, payable on the 21st is is quite conceivable that those are killed; Ins.

TO-DAY'S, EXCHANGE, Silling.

London --tank T.T......

Dondemand.............

by the frequent passage of tobacco smoke Dividends Payable.- Ewos-dividend of through the organ. Formaldehyde is a To. (%) payable on the 27th inst. very powerful disinfectant, one part in ten-thousand parts of water will destroy all microbes while the solution would have no effect whatever.on_human beings. All the | sime it is most undesirable that this fact should stimulate the practice of smoking to becco in absurd excess, for tobacco poisoning

a greater reality than many persons thinkermary-Hank T.T. musician is and to employ tobacco in large qualities for

india T. C the sake of destroying microbes might amount possibly to killing the seeds of one disease only to sow those of another.

COMMERCIAU

WEAKLY SHARE REPORT, Reviewing the share business for the week,

Da.

4 months' sight cance-Bank LTE. America Bank T.T.

Do. demaod Shanghai-Bank T.T. `...... Singapite T.T.a meminem

apan-Bank T.T. Jog-Bank T.Thomas one

Вирлик

mouths sight L/C

1 months' sight L/C, ...............

4/10 3/1

431

...... 134

74

25% prem. 好

109

Steinway

Bechstein,

Russell,

Krauss,

Romhildt,

Werner, &c.

GRANDS & UPRIGHTS

BUILT UNDER OUR PERSONAL SUPERVISION

EMBODYING 30 YEARS' LOCAL EXPERIENCE

Hongkong. 5th December, 1997

XMAS AND

NEW YEAR

HAMPERS.

(FROM $15,00 AND UPWARDS),

HAMPERS

CONTAINING 12. BOTTLES

OF. THE

Messrs. E. S. Kadooris & Co. write op tot 10 days sight San Francisco & New York .45 CHOICEST WINES, SPIRITS, inst

H

|| months' sight -

do.

46

A fair investment buriness bas bona dane 13 days sight Syduey and Meltiöurm.............. 110). during the week under review, and the market months sight France-art.31. inses firm, with the exception of a few stocks 4 months sight

**7.361 Banks-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks are | 4 months' sight Germany.................. ...a 192 somewhat easier during the week, having 1, far Silver was ein viata su

24 9/16 new shares, at which mies sales have taken Sovereign weakened to $715 for the old and 5710 for the task of England rate

7%

place. The London rate in £80,

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ncross the Channel. With the Saltan more or

·less helpless in his capitul, a powerful pretender barrying the country, and that accomplished “All manual labour by the girl operators is r'gond Raisuli carrying off every stray.Euro. eliminated, and the saving in that alone is an pean, he could lay his hands on, and holding important item. This elimination of the giri them to ranson, the French statesmen some operator also solves all the serious questions time ago came to the conclusion that, it was, considered and reported upon by the Roya necessary for them to step in and put a stop to Commission appointed to investigate the rather this state of anarchy. Our own Government startting conditions which came in light during offered no objection, but Germaný objected; the strike of the operators in Toronto last win will he open daily from to a.m. to` ` p.m., Marine Insurances-Cantons are quiet at The result was the Algeciras Conference, ter. Then the principle, the percentage prindering the Christmas vacation which com- $145, and North Chess at Tis. 87 Unious At this international debate it was decided ciple, which forms the basis of the Lorimer ibat a police force of between 2,000 and 2,500 system, is peculiar to itself and is important the 1st January, 1928, except on public bolla $145 Er the old and $130 for the new shares.

mincai on the 24th instant and terminates an have riren tó 58 o, Yangīzes nye wanted al should be at once raised amongst the Moorish from the economical and engineering point of days, when the offices will be entirely closed." Fire Insurances-China Fires" are enquired population to retore order. It was to be con- view. The central office equipment consists of The Police Magistrates' répatment is ex- for at $94. Hongkong Fires have improved to trolled by French ard Spanish officers, and to a number of units ér'sections, each complete in prevout jealousy the whole farce was to be itse and each serving one hundred-ubscribers, cluded from the operation of the Public $31 Small sales have been put through at under the command of a Swiss Inspector-Gen-There is not as individual piece of apparatus 261k Inst.

Holidays: Ordinance, 187f, on Thoraday, the eral. This farcical pinpoint met with the late for every subscriber, but a sufficient number which it deserved. With the whole populk of connecting divisions (mado common to tion hating the sight of "the infideli," it was scarcely likely that they would bind them selves spgether a fight against their own people for the benefit of the latter. European States men sood found out that, although you can take a Mour into your confidence, you cannot make him enlis. The Swiss Government daly appointed a gallant gentleman of the name of Uolonal hüller, as Inspector-General, butqhd' thereupon found himself in the trying position

ving nothing to inspect.

I was the state of affairs when, a few

THE WEATHER,

5.1.10

&c.,

&c.

We invite you to call,

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figs at our Office and make

irector of the Hongkong Observatory →

On the arst at 12.10 p.-The northern de

pression is crossing the Sea of Japan and your own selection from approaching the neighbourhood of Hakodate where pressure his decreased very ripidly, thik rate”--

Shipping-China and Manilas are steady at The baromelet bas risen moderately to con Our extensive stock in all $15. Douglases have further enquiries at $18,sderably over China and a slight rise baatsken

49f. Star Ferries old and new are in demand Shell Transports can probably be secured at place also over the Philippines,

Lines of Wines, Spirits, Pressure is, however, still low over the latter'

The anticyclonic area remains over theiqueurs, Cigars, &c. Upper Yangice,

Gradients are sleep generally, and hard mon.

the one hundred subscribers) is provided in At about six o'clock list evening the fire bell each section of one hundred to handle that the Central and No. 5 Pulice Stations S2 and S11 respectively. Hongkong, »rea and the S.E. part of the China Sem greatest number of cal's that is made at any clanged out. Inquiries el cited the informe Canton and Macao Steamboats have found one time. This is anid to redu a com, induce tion that the outbreak was at 26, Graham Street buyers at the reduced rate of Siç.... simplicity, and remove many of the expensive (third floor). The city brigade tumed out Refineries-China Sugars have been dealt and puzzling engineering difficulties presented sharply, but before they arived on the scene in at $100, closing with further buyers Luzons in other systems in the large multiple ex- the fire had been subdued. A careless maid and Perak Sugars are unchanged and can still changes.

servant, it is alleged, is blamed for the fre, be placed at gastation, *** "Just one thing, more, while I am speaking which consumed about $30 worth of property Mining,Chinese Engineerings have streng about my visit to the Eotech rough exchange. before it was eventually extinguished. On her thened to T16. 15-95, at which inte sales have I called up some of the subscribers and found way to the kitchen it appears, holding a ligh been effected in the North, Raubs are quift

delightfully clear talking line, The distinct ed candle in one hand, she fell up against a:| að 381,

Thi

....

inka *go; Ruinli wima" to the Sulian sug-nons with which the voice, was heard was very bed and ant the curtain abláz

that they should arrange their various marked. This, as wii explained to me, is in a minute and spread is a partition,

Sulian shereupon sent Kaid largely due to the fact that the positive connec taking fra later The Inmales terms with the famous ont-ition made by the machine is much more lost no time in tackling the blaas

To com

val, however E leamed reliable than the cailly-word plugs and condsing it before the Bremen

* Gitescily or incorrectly) shat

Suliam used by the girl operatorE

Docks, Wharves, and

bed Wharts, 170 DOW

soon gates will comino to prevail over the hina Sea, and very strong monsoon along the whole of the Chipa coast,

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours endleg H. PRICE & Co., Ltd., at 10 sur to-day, 0.00 tech

1.-- Hongkong and neighbourhood, N, wiadi, sirong dne

winds, strong.to:

between Hongkong:

Formosa Chandel..

fouth coast

cast-of China, stween Horr

WINE, SPIRIT AND CIGAR MERCHANTS,

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