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Intimations,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY APRIL 28, 1908.

gal over Macao. Art, a of the said Protocol states that "China confirms perpetual oc cupation and government of Macao and its dependencies by Portugal, as any other Portuguese possession." This same declara A. S. WATSON & CO., en was later confirmed by the Luso-Chinese

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Treaty, signed 'at Peking on the 1st Decem- ber, 1887, Arts 2 of which reads: "China confirms in its entirety the second article of the Protocol of Lisbon, relating to the perpetual occupation and goverment of Macao by Portugal. It was stipulated that the commissioners of the two Governments WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. would proceed with the respective delimita tlon, which would be defined by a special commissioner, but so long as the boundaries were not made, all would remain as was then actually found, without being added to, reduced or altered by either of the parties. That delimitation has not been made up to the present day. Recently, there arose an incident in the inner harbour of Macao which supplied the motive for the eagerness of the Chinese Government to proceed with the prescribed delimitation. According to public report, the incident aruse in this way. The Chinese fishing boats that used to anchor along the coast

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might have been easy of solution in the past but which now presents difficulties because of the agitation against foreigners. It suffices to read the heated discussions at the meet. ings and the articles in the Chinese newspa pers because Great Britain sent a few gun-

THE SANITARY, BOARD.

'FORTNIGHTLY MEETING,

Members of the Sanitary Board met in the business occupied their attention. The flop Board Room this afternoon. The following Principal Civil Medical Officer was in the chair,

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closets in the new Clob house, in abe positioni already shown on the plan seat to you, and waiving the bye-law, No. 7, which provides for the soil pipe being entirely outside. The build.

closets, is the property of the Naval authorities. ing in this case, the land' at the back of the who would not permit the pipe to go over the PARLIAMENT FOR china.

RINDEEPEST. land." The following letter was received by the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, from, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, reporting the end of vinderpest at the Dairy Farm cowsheds The letter reads: have the honour to report that the outbreak of tinderpest at the Dairy Farm Company's premises has come to an

and.

boats to the West River to exterminate the pirates who infested that liver., Io former times the Mandarias and the Chinese people would have been loud in their thanks for the good service which Great Britain has rendered to China. But today when the. patriotic sentiment prevails in China, and exhibits extreme susceptibility, the Man darins and the populace. furiously up. braid England and the Government at Péking for so valuable a service which redounds to the benefit of the Chinese peo-23 plea service which China, through her moral inxity, failed to render up till the present. The Chinese papers constantly excite the public mind against Macao and the Portuguese because of the incident that occurred io the inner harbour,, cven though little importance attaches to that incident, But the intention to promote and foster ill-feeling and hostility is a danger, against which, it would be wall to be on the

"The net result, has"been that nut of 183 in contact cautis 68 have died. The 68 deaths are made up of ag cows, 16 heifers, and.

calves. Of the total in contact cattle were immuse, owing to baving bad the disense in former epidemics. This gives 16 susceptible cattle with mortality of 40 4% anti-rinderpest, serum treatment. Cows, re- The treatment was on the usual lines of covered from former outbreaks were taken and inoculated with virulent blood from sick cows.

They gave a temperature re-action but did not develop the disease. When the reaction subald ed; a further dose of virulent blood was given until no re-action could be obtained. The scrum

We request permission to have the short. length of pipe, shewn in ved; laside. the build- ing. It will be always visible so that if any. thing want wrong it could at once be rectified.. The rooms and urinals are all fixed and we are now ready for fixing the soil pipe-Yours faithfully,

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(Sd.), Denison, Ram & Gibbs, The Secretary,

Sanitary Board.

RAISING A ROF. Permission to raise the roof of No. 34 D'Aguilar Street to the level of the roofs of

SERVICE

SHANSI STUDENTS MOVING,

[By courtesy of the “Shrung" Po."]"- .........Peking, 27th April.

It is reported that the students of Shansi Province proposo

to call: mass. meeting for the purpose of formulating a memorial for submis sion to the Imperial Government

be swo adjoining houses was applied for praying for the establishment of by Mesers. Palmer and Turase. The application. Parliament.. was as follows

Hongkong, 6th April.. Six,The owner of the above aimed house

Authority to renew the roof of the house which

Yeung-to,

Hunanese, purposes

has been served with a notice by the Building to get his compatriots to join in a is defective fu places, He wishes in raise it memorial to the Imperial Govern to the level of the roofs of the two adjoining ment urging the fixing of an early houses instead of renewing it at the existing beginning of outbreak, the' sorum the way long potent bus tok, dis he and was low level, and we beg to request that the Board cute for the establishment of the death rate was higher. It was also the visions ofthe Ordinance to allow this to be doo.

will recommend an exemption from the pro Parliament. means of conveying picoplasmosis to the sick cattle. This combined with abortion gave,

in the manner shown on the enclosed plan. Three housen, of which No. 31 is the middle a heavy death rate at the beginning. As

one, were originally, erected three storeys in be scrum became more patent and the results height; sabiequently No. 32 was raised to pro- more satisfactory it was decided to place calves,vide a fourth storey Bft. Gin, in height, and in contact with the disease and when, they later the two side houses-Vos, 37 and 34- thus contracted it naturally immune serum was

were raised but to a greater height, nia, tạft, given. The first experimental lot of five had

300, that looked at from the front the sky one death, then sevenisen were tried with no deaths, until all the calves of suitable aga had

line has a small dip'in the centre.

been treated. When it was decided to treat the calves in this manner the only obstacle was red water. This was got rid of by twice

of Lappa were is the babit of going to the guard. We have thus given in detail the Por-rom these cows was given: to sick cams. At Harbour Office at Maçao to register them-tuguese view of the delimitation question, and selves and to obtain their licences, but though, it remains in abeyance in the mean they used at the same time to proceed to time, it is certain to crop up with perennial Lappa and obtain licences from the Chinese regularity in the future is it has in the past, authorities there. Knowing this, the harbour- until some adequate solution can be found master of Macao prohibited the boats from

to the Government of satisfactory both repeating the farce of taking two licences, Portugal and to China. seeing that they came to anchor to the inner harbour of Macao, which is under Portuguese jurisdiction, and one day, the correspondent did not know for certain why, he ordered the vessels to leave their anchor age on the Lappa side to anchor nearer the Portuguese shore. The Chinese authorities a Lappa lodged a complaint with the

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FROM Friday, 1st proximo, reveille will sound at 545 am. and retreat at 6.50 p.m. THE railway across Formosa has been opened, Ten hours is the length of time that it takes to

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Whether this dip be filled up or retained can make little or no difference to the light and air of the adjoining bruses, or houses on the op.

THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

MR: HAYASHI'S REPRE- SENTATIONS.

[By courtesy of the

Po."]

Peking, 27th April. On account of the boycott against Japanese trade, the Japanese Minis

notice of the Chinese Government the losses sustained by the Japanese

$16.50 Mandarin at Casa Branca, which was make the journey between Taipeh and Tainan freezing the serum and then thawing it, the posite side of the. street, while the benefit to ter has repeatedly brought to the

referred to the Viceroy, stating that Portugal had over-stepped her limits and invaded Chinese territorial waters; there fore, there has been a violation of Treaty and hence it was expedient to proceed

D. SHERRY with the delimitation. It is stated that

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ALEXANDRA · BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.

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THE directors of the China Import and Export Lumber Co., Lu, bave decided to recommend at the annual general meeting the payment of the usual annual dividend of ten per cent for the year 1907.

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organism being apparently unable to resist this, while the "anti"qualities of the serum seemed unaltered. The freezing of the serum was the result of a suggestion from Dr. Hean- ley, of the Bacteriological Department

(5d.), ADAM GIBSON,

C. V. S.

22nd April.

romarks.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE,"

(the house (No. 3:) will be enormous, in that a light and airy floor will be obtained instead of the very low room now existing. The house is owned and occupied by respectable Chiness and the raising of the roof will not mean its occupation by moré persons than at present residing there, but, will reader it lighter and mare sanitary,

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Dr. Pearse minuted-The proposed addi- tional height will not make any appreciable: difference to the lighting of the apposite houses. It will make more difference to the lighting

of the room on the second floor at the rear. of the yard, but this room has at pienent no external air and may not be used for habitation even if the definition of external air in the Bill to amend Ordinanće 1 of 190j becomes law.

The Director of Public, Works-This is rather

case which the height of the building should be diminished. Its height is already

the width of the street, Cansiderably in excess of one and a half times

CARTON DAY BY DAY.

THIRTYters in the Chyung-chyong

pro- _lengthy communications have been exchang: vince kently supposing that Prince Ito

ed between the Viceroy of Canion and the was drding to Seoul overland, removed The report of the architects on the proposed Consul for Portugal regarding this matter. seventeen spikes from the sleepers of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment. The Chinese newspapers in Canton published railway. The conspirators disappeared before diuauce was submitted. The report, which is dated March 31, and is signed by Messrs. portions of the correspondence and have the arrival of the troops.

Leigh and Orange and Messrs Palmer and continually published articles instigating, the THE financial conference at Osaka between ter Turner, reads:-We have carefully studied the authorities and alleging that Portugal com- presentatives of banks and clearing houses, at proposed Public Health and Buildings Amend- mitted a breach of China's sovereignty, by which di approval was expressed of the Government Ordinance, 1928, and have the honour to invading Chinese waters and compelled Chi-ment's financial policy, is fizzling out. It has houd you herewith a copy of the Ordinance and nese subjects to anchor within Portugue been agreed that moderate overtures alli baita objects and reasons interleaved with our waters. It is said that the language employed made to the Government. A. S. WATSON & CO., by the Chinese press was both hostile and in-Tuis Datichi Kiujn Mars, which arrived at which we consider invite criticism, and have We have indicated the clauses in the Bill solent. Meetings have been held in the city Shanghai on 16th instant, was accompanied by endeavoured to show clearly the effect the al LIMITED,

of Heungshan which always terminated by two new torpedo-boats for the Chinese Navy-terations will bave upon, the interests of the urging the delimitation of Macau, under the the Hagues and the Husing. The torpedo praparty-owners and ratepayers. pretext that not only in the waters of the bears are beribed alongside the Japanese

We must call attention to our previous report

HOUSE COLLAPSE," inner Harbour, but also on land, Portugal | steamer to receive their armament.

upon the draft for the Bill now being amended, had encroached on Chinese territory,

vit, No, 1 of 1903. We then protested against

[Exam Our Own Correspondent] FAAGAARD-On April 27, 1908, at Austin by going beyond the city walls, thus im- THE Midiater of the Household, Major-General "Count Tanaka, Gov'o,, gave a luncheon on

of one man, the Sanitary Commissioner, and

Canton, 27th April...... plying that l'ortuguese jurisdiction should be

23rd inst-in-the-Shiba-tetached-Pal.ce, alter discussion the same was then vested in Testricted to territory within the walls. In the honour of the German Admiral van Koerber the Board" this Bill again proposes in to heavy rain,a shop dealing is jois, sticks, in the “Oq the 25th" "instant, al 1 am,, during "the" course of the discussion, it was brought to A similar function was to be iven a 24th instir, but instead of the Sanitary Commis-g Fu Lane, suddenly collapsed. The police- sioner introduces the "head of the Sanitary man, who was on dut, in the lane, noticed tuguese barbarity, the fact of the expropria-

Department," (acidel), who shall be respon- something being blown down from, the roof of tion and burning of a few matsheds and OUR well-in'ormed Chinese contemporary sible for the administration of the Snitary the shop by the wind which was then very hovels which existed in the village of Lung Board of Revenue has notified the Provincial Department. One man!

Sheung Po, is advised from Peking that the

Such parts of the Tim-chim opposite the Flora gardens.. Ac

au borities not to permit the circulation of notes power as are taken from, the "Board" alto-strong He proceeded close to the building to investigate, when without warning, it collapsed cording to what is published in the news issued by Foreign banks in the interior of Rether, are vested in the Building Authority--aad he did not have time to escape. The papers it is known that the Government of China; their circulation should be confined to

policemen was half buried by, the debris, but

• Section 175 is not dealt with, and the he could still manage to raise an alarms with Macao had asserted its rights under Art, a | the Treaty pans only.

words "by the owner" remain. Their effect his whistle in spite of the pain he was suffer mentioned, wherein it is stated that, so long We are informed by Mr. Somerset Playne that after nearly five years of costly experience ing. The policemen in the neighbouring as the boundaries of Macao' are not defined he has received the following cable from Lon. is well known and an excellent opportunity street, in response to the alarm, hurried

arises for their deletion. !

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"Avonne, Kowloon, Hongkong:-the-wife-of

Djarne AagaARD, GÍA SOD....

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The Houghing Celegraph the notice of the meeting, as an act of Porin honour of the Franch Admiral Perrin.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1908.

TRE STATUS OF MAÇÃO.

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of the Luso-Chinese Treaty of 1887, above

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the power intended to be placed in the hands.

one mad again!

don: "H.R.H. the Frince of Wales has gra- ciously accepted a copy of 20th Century Im Section 176 retains the provision for selling pressions of Siraits Settlements and F.M.S. back from any slope or declivity, "one fourth compiled and published by Lloyd's Greater | the" height of the building," instead of one- Britain Publishing Co., Ltd."

fourth the height of the declivity, which is obviously the correct wording.

Tite anion of farmers in the northera 'districts'

of German East Africa has been considering abolition of cubicles in driving thousands Our predictions as to the effect of the

the question of importing coolies into the Geront of the Colony, and affecting: the cost of man colonies. Reporis received from Canion, labour have proved to be lamentably correct, Hongkong, Nanking and Amoy showed, how- W'e again protest against the injustice of

ever, that the engagement of coalles according legislation which is entirely aimed at the per and the scheme appeared unacceptable.

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merchants..

Mr. Hayashi's representations are made with a view of lodging a claim for compensation."

CHINESE NATIONAL BONDS.

FROPOSED ISSUE.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo."]"

~Peking, 27th-April. Duke Tsai Tse; prasident of the Board of Revenue, has addressed a communication to the various Pro vinces advising the proposed issue of National Bonds for China.

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British Cruiser Benched.

*London 16th April,

Gradjater in a snow storm, off the Needles, The liner St. Pan/collided with the cruiser

her beam ends.

The cruiser was beached, and now lles on,

perished.

It is feared that twenty bluejackets have

The bows of the liner arp damaged;

Later, The storm in the Channel on Saturday was the most terrific since 1881.

The Gladiator is a total wreck. Four of the crew are reported drowned and thirty-four, as missing..

to the help of their broiber officer who 15. was injured. The Fong Fia Hospital was at once informed through the telephone of the accident, and a door with a number of enalies of the hospital hastenëd to the scene, where six persons were extricated from the ed to the hospital for treatment. debris, all seriously wounded, and were remov.

YUMCHOW BANDITS.

The Fighting on the Indian From der. The Mohmand's losses in the recent fight are computed at 400.

The Funeral of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman.

M. Clemenceau will "attend the funeral

During the recent rising at Yumchow many of the insurgents fled over to Appam for refuge

trappy. At the request of the Chinese Govern at Westminster Abbey. ment, twenty of the bandits have been arrested

RAILWAY CO.'S CALL

The Tatsu Muru incident brought under the limelight of international prominence the status of the little, yet not unimportant, Portuguese settlement of Macao, the first European pied à terre on the threshold of by special convention the stufi qua would the great Empire of China. Yesterday we be maintained without addition, reduction, reproduced from the columns of a London

or alteration by either of the parties. contemporary a very readable article on the Chiria argues that, with reference to the status of the neighbouring Portuguese co- inner barbour, according to international lony viewed in its relation to international rights, where a river or an arm of the sea questions ar. between England (because of washes two opposite shores, belonging to the proximity of Hongkong), China and

two nations, the river should be divided in Portugal. In reference to the London

the middle by an imaginary line, each coun paper's article our attention is directed-to-try claiming the respective half on the side of day to a communication appearing in the Lis- the shore belonging to her. It must, however, to the usual agreements' would be 100 costly, sou most easily puntatied, viz, the landlord when they were being pursued by the Imperial service of Sir Henry. Campbell Bannerman bon paper, formuldux Colonias, whose columns he stated that, in the not remote past, there

id nearly all cases of nuisance the tenant is are devoted exclusively to Portuguese coloni- was no Chinese population in Lapra ; there-

the transgressor, but because he is difficult to

in Anuam and were recently extradited to THE undermentioned delaits arrived in the al affairs” “The communication in question fore, Chinese jurisdiction over the waters of TL appropriation for the building of American catch and prosecute he goes free, while the Vunchow.

consular buildings in the Orient has been

"command"per"P"& ̈Ð ̈££.”Sumatra on 24th: to our Portuguese contemporary is from a

the inner harbour of Macao was never passed by the U. S. Congress,-Senator Callemandlord is forced to employ expert assistance,

instant: Royal Garrison Astillery-Lieut. V, correspondent at Macao, and deals with the thought of. The Portuguese authorities was its sponsor and Secretary of War Tall And is put to expense and annoyance.

As the Canton Nins Charitablo Institutions R. Guise (on felura from sick leave), z women, question on the tapis as regards. the de exercised their command. over there aided Secretary of State Fost in arginis

We call attention to the serious drop in the

were the promoters of the Canton Haskow 6 children; Army Service Corps-warrant limitations of the boundaries of Mação. Neither did the Chinese Customs cruisers passage. The structures planned for are to be value of property since the passing of Ordin Since the question is of some moment cross the mouth of the river for Chin in Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama Chemulver-speculation, and trade depression, as some

ance No. 1 of 1903. - This is not entirely due to Railway Company and the first call of subscrip. officer, jonka appeaLITY, E

tion at St 'a' share was collected by them, the A VICTORIA, B.C., despatch of March 27 at the present stage. of international

san or CRER Branca without asking the Nagasaki, and other 'pone of Chine, Japan and affairs in South China, we make no licence of the harbour master of the Kores. The amount is $4,373,643 (gold), which aver; but it is largely accounted for by the re Company has now requested the committees of says: Negotiations are going on 21.Osaka, excuse for giving a translation of the commander of the warship anchored in the is to include the purchase of land and erection daction to the earning power of the buildings there institutions to take up the responsibility Japan, between Mr. Hillard, vice-president of of collecting also the second call at $1.50 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, article which in effect gives the Portuguese harbour. And foreign warships, including of Consulates in the sixteen leading commercial Dow required.

Houses cost more and accommodate fewer share for the company ; but the committees of soon to be extended to Pugat sound, and I re- views of the boundary question's affecting Chinese, anchored in the inner harbour at

the institutions have refused to comply with aident Nakabashi, of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, persons, and consequently command less rent, the Company's request, the neighbouring colony. The Macao cor- places indicated by the barbour master, so THERE war on hesitation or conciliation in the The revenue from premia on lands loused by

sa to whether Hongkong or Dalay is to be used as the terminus of the transpacific line in respondent writes that the English and Chin that it was Portuguere authority that exer- methods of Senhor Franco, the ex-Premier of the Crown has fallen heavily, the confidence

It is ascerta ́zed.Ifam mandario circles Abat. the Orient. If Dalny is decided on; a freight. csc pewspapers have published the report cised full jurisdiction over the entire waters "onugal, whose dictatorial policy is said to of the Chinese in the Government has been

H.E. Viceroy Chang, who irnow on a tour of | arrangement will also be made with the Somb that the Government at Peking is despatch of the inner harbour. Such in the stafu que be largely responsible for the recent terrible shaken, and they now hesitate to invest money.

spection to the East River, will return to Manchurian, railroad, which laps Maucharis ing to South China an Imperial Com- which Portugal claims, and it is a just tragedy at Lisbon. When a group of well in real estate in the Colony. missioner charged with the duty of demand. But the Chinese adhere to inter known Ponuguese Libera's objected to the In conclusion we suggest that an interview Cantor on the 4th proximo, as His Excellency and Siberia Pending the settlement of this Dictator's autocratic methods, Sector Francoat which we could meet the Hon Cofonist is determined to spend only, ten days on the question arrangements regarding freight, rates Conferring with the Government of Macao national rights in their arguments. The invited theist to meet him to discuss their ob Secretary and the Bop. Director of Public present tour.

aro suspended. Six 9,00-100 atsamers are on the question of the delimitation of the correspondent of the Lisbon journal inquires:jections. The place of assignation was the Work, and discuss the technical polots rained

WRICHOW BANDITSEN

being built by the Japaactor lipa) for the boundaries of that colony. As regards this What will be the result of this discus admiral's cabin on board a warship lying in this report, would possibly result in most of The Brigadier General at Welchow has re- American business, fares at Nagasaki maller, the correspondent considers it hission 2. Will the inner harbour be divided the Tagus. The opponents to the Dictator or proposals being adopted before the Bill is ported to the Canton authorities that, a few yards and three at Kobs, Owin duty to state that the Lisbon Protocol sign between Portugal and China?" He answers ship went on board unsuspectingly. For some read a second lima

diys ago, he proceeded to Hog Pu-with two installation, the Japanese ira. ed by H.E. Henrique de Barros Gomes, his own questions thus: "It will be a mis minutes they reviewed the situation with the

rogiments f troops in attack the malcontant will not be equipped with Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of fortune and a disgrace if it so happens. It Dictator. Suddenly the Senhor excnsed bim. An application for permission to fix the pipes who collected there to the number of several apparatus until July. Two Portugal, and by Mr, Duncan Campbell, is necessary for the Goverment to be on its self and left the cabin, and to a few minutes for two water closets inside the new club house hundreds. The Imperial troops had at engage opened to foreign trade 15 Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial guard to avoid unpleasantness The cor- the Liberals on board realized that the ship for the Victoria Recreation Club was tabiad went with the bandits for a few hours with the

found they been it result that some ten of the later were kille Customs, en belialf of Chine, was respondent proceeds to comment, that there was moving. They loved day hd beast reide this April fotb, 1905,

was great negligence in hol ving thought any had already started on fis, journ 10 0058f-On behalf of the Victoria Recreation |äist

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