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It is a'well known fact that Plague is con- veyed to human beings by means of fleas from
rats which have died of this disease.
All risk of Infection can be avoided, by washing the floors, etc., or sprinkling" where the deas are likely to be with a dilute solution of "WATSO J'S HYGIENOL" "A ica spoonful to a pint of water, or a tencypful to three gallons, makes a solution of the strength required for this purpose
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THE HONGKONG TELEGI
step referred to. That a young man pipeteen years old, should have been giver
that
aborten
Sba presoni the City 10-morrow (THER:
Enoking has been biisk.
MYSTERIOUS ABIGAIL PRICE,
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institution
fested that festival occ
ual races:in "oon-
the position sergeant seems incongruous and it is to bo the age and experience of those sele officers will receive more considerati the Interests of fair play we refrain from commenting further on the subject. The case is now before the Consular Court and there is no reason to anticipato very serious consequences as a result of the Incident."? On the following day Sergt. Rangel was again escorted from bis cell Hongkew Police Station to the Portuguese Consulate for further inquiry into the matter by Mr. Potier who had a larger number of wit- Destes summoned, including Capt. Na lasco, Lieuta, Carion and Carneiro, That being only a preliminary investigation the proceedings were still private. During the time, he has been kept in the Station that any secrets he might possess were quite bo board the steamer, This measure if a diagoa. race as it is contested In China
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the prisoner has been visited by a large number of his fellow countryaien and by
......... Ithough Mies Abigail Price, a member of
Mr. Cartel party, who has been mystify thousands of people, recently, annonces the official programme that she gives : audiences to anyone, a Press repre had the pleasure of an interview with her,
Alive
In reply to interrogation she laughingly ad milled that the flad had not read the written questions hidden in the reporter's pocket, and
safe in her presence.
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the Canton KWOB
questing the sace special steamer on Satur nights during the plague season.from. ong with the object of facilitating Chinese valids desirous of pro ceeding to Canton, the Viceroy, in addition to granting the petition, kas siso requested the Canton Bell-Governi 1 Society" to "devise | means for the collection of subicriptions and Kto erect a large matshed on the Canton New Bad in close proximity Kihe'river steamers whsives Yr the purpose of receiving plague patients on their arrival here from Hongkong
proposed with a view of helping the Canton
After the appearance avaning that it was to be Owing to the fact that the the middle of the week instund. Saturday, the jority of those having business in the city would be precluded from making an excamion to the ther, mide of the Island, the management has changed the hour for the classic event of the afternoon. The principal race of the day was to have started at 3:30 p.m. to-day "hot by
thoughtful change in the prog has since been fixed for 4.30.to:
The alteration in the hour of the race will give a
large number of the Eutopean residents as opportunity of witnessing the unique spectacle
Auka | proper. Unfortunately the heavy downpour
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PORTUGUESE CONSUL GENERAL SUES NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR
From Our Own Correspondent
Shanghai, 3rd June,
Mr. O. G. Potier, the Portugueses i have been upon the stage ever since Fog Pin Hospital in its work, as the latter of rain will have perverted many from making Consul-General, ~ Las -instituted the time he is released he promises to be was eleven years old, and under the most hospital, in the only institution which admits he trip at the risk of a drenching.
favourable circumstances studied the occult plague-infected people from Hongkong for specier Dymond, who is in charge of the action for libel, in the French science with the best masters. The cultivation medical treatment. Moreover, the Foug Pin police station at Aberdeen, has worked hard in sular Court, against the proprietor con-of the so-called sixth sense is little understeed Hospital is situated at a distance from the river collaboration with the local committee of man-
in America. It is a gift which I discovered Iamer wharves. The Viceroy also stated
agemement to make the gala day in his district the Shanghai Mirror newspaper ibat the Shan Hou Chu will be authorised to possessed when I was a very little girl.*
one of completo Auccess, The villagers and Canton Government Treasury towards the spirit of the afternoon's proceedinge with appropriate a certaie sum of money from the boat people on their part have entered into the in connection with the Rangel case. expenses of this ratief measure.
paper described the Consul
quite a hero. Sergi Rangel, who is very popular, is as cheerful as ever in his finement, and it looks as if the Consul had alienated the sympathy of at least a number of the volunteers, Rumour has as usual been busy, and among the ports is one well-founded it is stated-to the effect that
There is no chicanery practiced in any cabinet demonstrations, she went on frankly, "It is done by the projection of my astral body
a very large proportion of the volunteersy real and forceful self-out of the phy-
U. S. CONSUL GENERAL.
keen sporting rosticci." The two to thres hundred members of the entire boats' crews as an ass.
may resign as an outcome of the two inical. You will admit, that 'as a trickster. During the absence" on leave of Mr. Leo for: some time pas, took to daily practices,.
cidents, which have occurred. They hold that the usual course of Sergt. Rangel's case should have been to have brought it under military law, contending that Mr. Potier can have no jurisdiction in a matter which is really an army affair.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THB graduates who received their diplomas at Tokio on the 2;th alt, at the Military College include seventy-four Chinese.
THROUGH traffic on the broad gauge line be- tween Tairen and Kwangchengize was opened on 27th ult. The result is satisfactory,
THE Yalu Forestry Agreement was to bë zazalted on 1tb ult. Il puts no embargo.on the Chekiang Railway securing its sleepers în the Hunho district.""
A VLADIVOSTOK dispatch states that the Grand Duke Constantinovitch will makes tour through
A. S. WATSON & CO., Eastern Siberia early this summer by order
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The malen per quarter and per mensem, proportional, The dally lewe in delivered free when the addrem is accesible to morenger. On copies sent by josz na
of H. M. the Tsar.
A TELEGRAM has been received from the Consul General at Shanghai stating that the Consular body has agreed that Hongkong shall be declared an infected post.
INFORMATION has been received from the Government of Bengal that Hongkong has
been declared an infected'port, and regulations-
for the prevention of introduction of plague by sea will be enforced in the port of Orissa against arrivals from Hongkong.
THE Hongkong office of the Chinese Im
would merit even greater credit than by so called supernatural agencies. The fact is, however, that there is nothing supernatural, out of the natural or miraculous. It is simply beybad the ken of the lay mind. With God all things are possible, and it is for us to dis
cover the unknown."\\g
"My ability to thus operate upon an astral plan is the result of patient study and long practice. To me it is, the result of the most natural causes, hence the term 'scientific man- pulation.""
Bergholz, Consul-General for the U. S. Az at Canton, Mr. Willard B. Hull to-day assumed duties as Vice Consul-General in charge,
BLACKMAIL
Blackmailing letters were recently received by the rice juaks running between Canton
and Fatshan demanding from each of them the payment of a sum of 1:00.
-JAPANESE CONSUL
H. E. Viceroy Chang will receive Mr. A. Segawa, the new Japanese Contul at Canton,
at to o'clock to-morrow morning.
WUCHOW.B. s. co...
When confronted with the statement that these scientific manipulations" had been ex-
After the agitation over the West River posed as resting upon a very material basis, she admitted that such vulgar assaults were to patrol question the Wuchow, gentry staned to be expected under the circumstances, and paid do a shipping company under the style of the little attention to them. She also detalled Wuchow Shipping Company, Limited, to run several instances where persons seeking unstears between Canton, Hongkong and Wuchow. The required capital of $japon das dotoriety stooped to baner methods.".
is reported to have been fully subscribed. The "But why didn't you answer my question?" promoters of the concern have petitioned the was asked.
Viceroy applying for the registration of the "Perhaps you did not come within the Company, and their applicatie has now been prescribed circle of personal infidence or were sanctioned by the Viceroy. It is expected that one of the many. I did not find time to con: the enterprise will shortly be in a position to sider," she quietly replied.
place ateamers on the run in competition with foreign vessels now engaged as the line.
and June.
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"Then do so now," I persisted.
"I cannot," she said. "I need an audience to make up a circuit. My method in som. polency is similar to a wireless telephope exchange, I am merely a central or a mouth piece of many intelligences which reach me through, space and are successfully and delicately photographed as împressions upon a sensitized mind. I do not invent replies to questions, but merely translate these impras them on in English. When I take my sexta |sions received from relative sources and pass
upon the platform my head is as empty of
anything to say as yours,
"I blod my eyes simply to aid in a better concentration of thought. The sheet covering me is to protect me from the ignorant assaults (you would call it abnormal state) I am exqui of homocogenious thoughts, to which la that
perial Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District will be moved from the present pra-sitively sensitive. mises, and floor, 16, Queen's Road Central, to the 3rd floor, York Buildings, Chater Road, from and after Thursd,y, the 4th instant,
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"There is positively no other means of com munication with those of my audience or my attendants."
"The caution on the programme is necessarily
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
general public holiday will be observed in Tu-morrow being the Dragos boat festival a
non. "The Custom House here will be closed and the discharge, and shipment of cargo will be suspended..
Á CONSUL AND HIS NATIONALS AT
LÖZGERHEADS,A
The Portu zuese Consul-General is
with a considerable degree of intarest, stimulated, so doubt, by the fact that fast year the Hon. Mr F. H. May, who was thep the Officer Administering the Government, was
resent throughout the races and personally more at loggerheads with his nationals, presented the first prize for the race of the while there is no need for foreigners to take day. In order to keep up the enthusiasm sides in the controversy, it has to be admitted which has been manifested during the training that it is difficult to reconcile his action with weeks, prises have been 'off'red by various re-the dignity of his offis, writes the N. C.D. sidents in Aberdeen, Notably among these is News of 18th ult. Our reader will remember one presented by Mr. C. Fittock, Jr., manager the case of Captato Nolasco, of the of the Aberdeen Docks whose prize will be Co., 8.V. C., who wis arrasted on
charge awarded to the winning boat in the first event of not showing proper respect to Mr. Potipr of the afternoon. Mr. Lau Yau Pau, The case was fortunately settled; manager of the Paper Mills, has also for this satisfactory solution bad bean contributed a prise. The race
confined roached Dr. Luis Nolasco, a well-known barrister-at-law" "from Macao, bad come up to Shanghai to defend" "histë broiber. When he found that his services ward; DO longer required he made preparations to retur to Macao by the French mail last week, and k There are three dragon boats entered for the circular was sent round to the members of No: various events; each of them is manned by #4 Section of the Company inviting them craw of from sixty to eighty man, and con, assemble on the jetty and bid him farewell, sidering the steady training to which they have The circular rather indiscreetly mentioned thit submitted themselves, the spott at Aberdeen this farewell demonstration would provide an: to-day should be as interesting as it is certain occasion for showing sympathy with Captain to be novel to those who can afford the time Nolasco, Yesterday the Consul General li for the excursion to Aberdeen.
reported to have received an anonymous letter telling him all about the affair, and following
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women only should be productive of keen rivalry; only sampans will be allowed to compete in this event. If 'the necessary purse can be raised, the race will be brought off.
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INTER PORT SHOOTING TROPHY. Fite reception he went round to the house of
WORK OF ART.
Serjeant VF, Raogel ofthe Holland and China. Trading Co., tomake loquiries: Haasked forthe original of the invitation and was promised as The Interpori Shoot Trophy which is com copy, but Sergeant Rangel' was unable to find peted for annually by teams selected from one. However, he give the Consul a full ac Shangbai, Hongkong, Singapore, and Penang, count of the incident, and Mr. Potter then took steamer Arration Apoar, and at present is in the Against this course the prisones's father pros arrived here several days ago from Tadia by the the drastic stop of arresting Serga int Rangak.
custody of the S.V.C. Orderly Room, but in the tested, on the ground that his son was in re- course of a few days it will bs placed on ex-gular employment, and asked for his release hibition in the window of some prominent shop upon bail. Mr. Potier, therefore, arrested Mr. in the Settlement where it can be viewed by Rangel, senior, also, and both men were talcan Mr. C. Johnson, formerly traffic manager of the general public, who so generously subscrib to Hongkow Police station, where they are the Capton-Hankow Railway Company, an-ed towards the purchase of the trophy some Railway Company, flunan, as chief engineer. ton, has been engaged by the Canton-Hankow
now confined, awaiting trial for their alleged offence.
RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
member of the Ministry of Posts and Com. Mr. Liang Yao Wu, a native of Canton, and
munications, has been instructed in proceed to Canton on a mission of investigation int's the affairs connected with the Canton-Hankow Railway Compady,
GOVERNOR OF KWANGSI...
H. E. Chang Mieg-K16, Governor of Kwang- pi, has been, denounced to the Throne by censor Pi Shou on several charges. The
Canton Viceroy, f. E. Chang Ten Chun, who
time ago.
additional $1.80 per quartér is charged for postage: ACCORDING to official returns, the total output worded very conservatively in order to protect mailer has been placed in the hand of the being the Royal crown and oak leaves sur of abusing his position in the Shanghai
The postage on the weekly imus to any part of the
world is 20 ounta per quarter. Single Copla, Daily, len cents: Weekly, twenty,
Gre cents
BIRTHS.
On May 22, 1908, at Hangchow, to Rey, and Mrs. Clarence D. Herriott, & daughter (ELIZA•, BETH TAYLOR).
On May 27, 1908, at Shanghai, the wife of
C. M. DE SENNA, of & Son,
The Hongkang
elegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1958.
A-REGRET-I-ABLE-INGIDHNI,
of Formosan sugar, this year, is estimated at 115000 picule. Owing to the rise of the price
others from mistakes in these Marconi cap. nections, for no one is infallible."
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of the commodity, the sugar companies' profits How do you project yourself in this sensi are expected to be greater than last year, tive astral plane?" although the sugar cane harvest has not been-By mental concentration and will power" so good.
she replied. "As an illustration of the first easy steps: Often when writing I come to a IT is reported that Chinese Government noies dead stop, as before, a stone wall, I close my of five thousand cash, ten thousand casb, and eyes, forget everything save the information 1 atro of five dollars-and-ten-dollars-will-soon--desire, and demand its acquisition with all the be put into circulation. The sample notes mental, moral, and spiritus force I can com have been sent to the, local authorities by mand," whom a proclamation will be issued informing the public to circulate them.-Honko Daily
Neros,
THR Honkow Daily News learns that the claims of the Japanese shopkeepers who suffered during the recent riots were paid on Saturday aftern000¬(23rd-ult.), after what amounted to an ultimatum had been sent by the Japanese Cool. The total claims amounted to the respectable little sum of thirty thousand
In view of our special telegram from Shanghai to-day the comments of a Northern contemporary on the regrettable incident leading to the institution of the libel “tania, action by the Consul-General for Portugal at Shanghai will bear reproduction. Writing depletion in the national treasury and the extra A PEKING dispatch states that owing to the editorially on the 28th ult, the Shanghai demands made upon it on account of the dis- Mercury observes" Up to time of writing, turbances in the South, the Empress-Dowager we have been unable to obtain an official received, on Monday morning, in special andi.. version of the arrest of the young sergeant of ence, the members of the Ministry of Finance the Portuguese Volunteer Corps, Mr. Ran-and enjoined upon them the necessity of exer- gal, and his father, Mr. I. Rangal, sud until cising the reitest. economy in all national "both sides of the question are heard it would expenditure.
be not only impolitic but even unjust to form
Here she repeated the English version of probably some Hindoo formula which was done in a surprisingly forceful and dramatic map
"I often coptique this,T'she went on, until I am absolutely exhausted. When I do lapse I' remain quietly in a condition" of absolute_pas... sivity. First there will pass clouds before my vision, then come light, and finally like a flush complete intelligence as plain as, print
Balthis in
Later on when one gra
duates into leaving the physical body upon asiral excursions, the work la much more fax. cinating, but correspondingly dangerous A too great an absence will result in dissolution or death."
"Aren't you sometim:s quite afraid of your. #ell ?"!
"Do the contrary, I am quite proud of my abilities, for they never permit me to get lonely
and seldom sad," "
How alkust the world's agguessed mitery
The trophy is a magnificent example of the If the facts of the case are as stated, and silversmith's art and was designed and made there is no reason to doubt their accuracy, It by Messrs. Elkington and Co, London. It is will be generally felt that Mr. Potier would about four feet in height by nearly two feet hava acted mors in consonance with his high broat and is mounted on a massive oak back-office by taking no personal action in the ground. The design is pear shaped, on the top matter. If Sergeant Rangel has been, guilty
mousted by massiva silver Bon. Underneath Volunteer Corps to gratify private spite, it has been instructed to investigate it and to this is the Royal standard with a border of would have been sufficiest to bring the matter report accordingly.
to the notice of the Commandant. Certainly- the circulation of such an order to his Com pany ex is attributed to Sergeant Rangel would prove him to be unfit to remain in the Corps but disciplinary measures against the man should be left to the commanding officer,
THE OPIUM CAMPAIGN,
The Viceroy has again issued a proclamation to prohibit his subordinates throughout the whole province of Kwangtung from indulg. pg in the habit of opiums noking. In the proclamation His Excellency stated that those officials who are still addicted tothe oplum vice are required to report themselves within the limit of one rangth and they will be sent to the anti-opium refuge for medical treatment. Those who do not obey the instructions as set immediate dismissal from office when found. down in the preclamation will be visited with
SU BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL.“
Mr. Harry H. Fox, Acting Consul General, Assumed charge of H. B. M.'s Consulate General at Canton on the 1st instant from Mr. R. W. Mansfield.ee
SHIPPING AND MAILS
MAILS: DUR
· America® (Koraal ab insta Canadian (Empress of India) 41hInst,"
The 6.3. Kuronga sailed from New York on arat April, and is due here on soth July.
Thess Ghoste lest Reclung to day, hod may
which you caunot always escape in these be expected here on 5th lost, afternoon, Alightly, peregrinations?
The Mogul Lipe es. Montiere lalt, Singapore moins
leaves. Then comes the coats of arms of the competing posts, Shanghai Hongkong, Singa pore and Penan., with the words, "Inter-Port Challenge Trophy," "Singapore, Penang Shanghai, Bongkong."On the sides there are two massive female figures, that on the left being "Fritannia" and the one en the right Feace, Near the bottom there is a shooting
29th May, scene, four ranksmon crouched on the ground wore arrested by Mr. Potier on We
Yesterday morning the two Rangels who firing over a low mated, At the very bottom there is a giant figure of Neptune rising from the were brought up at the Ponuguese sea, with his hands raised supporting the rest for a preliminary investigation,"
ings were not open to the i of the younger Raugel, Portugució Company, When he was brought into the Con Lieut. Colonel Watson, Commi
of the shield The whole is surrounded by a border of laurel leaves. Round the cak border there are placed forty small shields for the names and score of the yearly competitions,
The whole desige is comp
is composed of raised work which brings the figures, etc. out la. V. C. was present, and strong relief It is one of the handsomest full consular uniform. A
of witnesses had been summos trophies that has ever been sean is Shanghai and should prove a strong incentive to the Captain Nolasco, Lieuigna Shanghai team toʻs'rive and repeat their last Carion and the N. C. O and year's performance and so keep it here for some Section fwreply to Mr. Pot years to come.-Shanghai Mercury, er fasco stated that Rangel had
private circulars to his sec orders. Captain Nolasco and the AT the Shanghai Horse Brasar on 27th ult, the enante stated that they had her well-known face pony Runic, which showed circular, the subject of ikese? excellcat form during the latter part of the it had been issued, training season, but was not entered for say of men stated that they had the events of the Spring Meeting, was offered the usual way when it wa for sale by auction. There was a poor attend.
one witness said that chu reading it,
ance, and as there was no better offer than
Tie. 115 the pony was withdrawn PARISIANS have found a way of torning the sat
After this evidence had been: Colonel Watson and the prisoner
*! I see much ¡Ahat is, depressing... Indeed, Į to-day, and may be expected here on oth inst Into a profitáblá commodity. In that city there and 1beeldar Rangel was
an opinion of the subject. The tendency to Ir is reported from Paking that the Waiwupu criticize the action of a Comul-General is has been considering the complainin mado by
Fam oftes tempted to give up this life of mere unfortunately too prevalent in certain the various Chinese Chambers of Commerce quarters, but it is safe to assume that in the Vangita provinces that many merchantly giving demonstrations and join the society the circumstan
steamers of various pallonalities have of late for psychial research; but the world, has not
that have led to the been visiting non-treaty ports along the Yangtze vet allained that ideal; state" where one can ore gentlemen must contavaalios of the Commercial treaty of emptorily abandon practical business for what
thared;
ent to the Portuguese 1899, which allows foreign marchant vessels to
hold that touch: at the following eight Yaugtis, ports
gons at high flowak tha:
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10 rat-pound.
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