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Intimation.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841

CHEMISTS

BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE

GOVERNOR AND HOUSEHOLD,

Watson's HYGIENOL,

AND

BUBONIC PLAGUE!

It has been proved by repeated experiments

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JULY 8. 1959.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was bald in the Council. Chamber (bin afternoon, Present-His Excellency the Governor, Sir

1 is stated that President Lindg Ton yen of Frederick Lugard, K.G.M.D. Hon. Mr. A. M. the Waiwup is much against the Abbui and Thomson (Colonial Secretary), Hop. Sir Henry and Houau representatives, who are in Peking contending against Sir John Lister Kaye and Berkeley (Altomey-General), Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. the Peking Syndicate, and that this action has Messer (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Mr. P. N. evoked adverse comments against President. Jones, (Director of Public Works), "Hen. Liang.

Mr. F. J. Badaloy, (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon, Mr. A, W. Browin (Registrar General), Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, M.B., C.N.G., Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. W. J. Gressed, Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Hoo, Mr. Murray Stewart; and Mr. O. Clementi (Clerk of Coun. cils).

ABSENT.

Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett.

MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting' were read and confirmed.

FINANCE.

The Colonial Secretary faid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No, 9),,

Telegrams.

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SERVICE

VICEROY TUAN FANG.

- DEPARTURE FOR PEKING."

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po*]

Peking, 6th July, Viceroy Tuan Fang has changed the date for handing over the seal of office to the 11th inst.

The date of his departure for. Peking has not yet been settled.

Later.

There are persistent rumours in Peking that Na Tung has received the substantive appointment as Viceroy of Chibli and that Viceroy Tuan Fang will enter the Grand

FINANCIAL. MINUTES. The Colonial Becretary laid on the tabla | Council, `.* Financial Minute No. 3 It was agreed that it be referred to the Finance Committee.

RAILWAYS.

[tion on the direct highway connecting the to ship by the Conference, Lines, as there | THE Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and

East and West has given it great natural

were the only lines giving quick and regular Commerce has discussed the expediency of advantages for the development of an communication with Europe. The result was ordering the establishment of cattle farmna in entrepôt trade.

The Commission ap tramp steamers, colliers, &c, were unable the different provinces Dire pointed in the Straits Settlements in to obtain return freights, and ceased to call. 1957 describes Singapore as the "natural. I am convinced that the establishment of A. S. WATSON & CO., collecting centre for the West Coast of the Conference helped the able management Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, of the Norddeutscher Lloyd to double the LIMITED.

Moluccas, Celebes, and other countries." number of their steamers and greatly increase Rater on freight were, on the average, low, their size. I believe British lines can work although liable to fluctuations which might at lower rates than foreign ones, and that at certain seasons be as much as roc per but for the carrying trade having been made A CHINESE trader was find Sago in the Police cent. By this time the relation of the out so profitable by the increased Conference Court, this moming, for being in possession of a Winchetter repeating rifle and 440 rounds of ward to the homeward trade had changed, rates. the increased, foreign tonange, would

ammunition without a permit from the police. and more tonnage came to be required for have been much less. One witness contend-The offender was stopped and searched by a the geberal trade outward to the East thaned that the rates of freight charged by the detective whilst in the act of boarding a West was needed for the carriage of produce Conference steamers was exorbitant, being River steamer last evening, In the bundle homewards. Competition for cargo was founded on a scale suited to what the ship was found the rifle, the ammunition being therefore very keen, and, except when ton-pers could endure without being strained to discovered in a bucket, ongo was scarce, the large merchant at breaking point. Incidentally, there are Singapore was almost in a position to dict-comparisons made between freights charged. FU. Ting. President of the Ministry of ate his terms to the steamship lines. If the to the smaller ports on the Continent and in Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, is said to bave remarked recently to the President of ste.imship lines were combined for the pur- the United Kingdom showing considerable Waiwups that foreigners had obtained, spanly pose of exacting minimum rates, the large advantage in favour of the foreign over the or otherwise, control over many mining proper. merchant could, by chartering a vessel for British buyer. In an editorial in the ties, and unless timely measures were taken to his own cargo and filling up with that of traits Zimer we learn that the general investigate the question, matters would become others inerchants, make such a comblon position in the case of the Straits differs more entangled and would necessitate greater tion ineffective. Moreover, tramp tonnage materially from that elsewhere. There the tact to solve the difficulties, President Llang

The Attorney General 'moved the second Tua-yon of the Waiwapu, on receiving this ad- freighted outwards with coal was readily system of deferred rebates common to all vice, ordered a repart to be made for him by reading of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to re- supplied in response to any great rise conference arrangements, is complicated by the Mining Bureaux in all the provinces, of all gulate the construction and management of in rates. The strength of the merchants the extra "rebate. "An agreement,” the mining concessions, with full particulars.

railways. He said:~Hos. members are aware was further increased by the fact that they majority report says, "has been made by the

that a railway from which great things are THE Japanese Government has decided to hoped for the beatfit of the Colony will be con were few in number and many of them conference with certain of the more power grant a chatter to the Oriental Whaling Constructed between: Kowloon and the border of big shippers, and that much of the pro- fui merchant firms ranting them a consider-pany, a Japanese organisation, giving the the Colony to connect with the railway thence. duce was very suitable for chartering. able preference in the form of an extra company whuling rights, in the coastal waters

to Canton. The object of this Ordinance is to that: "WATSON'S HYGIENOL" is the

The report states that the shipowners at rebate. And the comment made is that of Formosa. It is expected that the company authorise the commraction of that railway and most polent agent for the destruction of feas, tempted to form a combination at the end The circumstances in this case are very will commence. opérations about February to provide for its administration and manage- espacially rat fleas.

of 1896 for the purpose of putting up their exceptional and may, if the course adopted next. The formation of this company for ment. That, shortly, indicates the scope of the rates. It was not, however, until the begin be persisted in, call for legislation. That operation on the coast of Formosa is probably Bill,

due to the fact bat whales are rapidly disap- It has now been proved that Plague is ning of the following year that the Conference is almost the only emphatic statement paaring from the Japanese consts owing to the was formed, and it may be doubted whether contained in the 'report. In another para-use of steamers for their capture during the conveyed, to human beings by means of Aleas

it was effective until the end of that year, graph the secret rebate is described as an last year or two. The Department of Agricul from cats which have died of this disease.

when an agreement was entered into between undesirable expedient made to the few. ture and Commerce is now considering moa- the Conference Lines and the most powerful merchants able to charter. These firms sures for the protection of whales on the All risk of 'iblection ran" be avoided by

of the merchants of Singapore. This agree command considerably more than half the "apanese cost, washing, the floors, etc., or sprinkling where

ment has hitherto been regarded as of a cou- total of the local exports, and it is a perfectly CONCERNING the recent establishment of a the flass are likely to be with a dilute solationfidential character, though many of its well-known fact that before the conference sworn measurer at the part of Hongkong,

"WATSON'S HYGIENOL;" A

features were well known to the Straits Set- arrangements were made they did charter United States Vice-Consul General Stuart J. tlements Commission of 1902. With the vessels of their own, and did succeed in Faller writes:This office bas been insti. spoonful to a pint of water, or a teacupful to

permission of the Straits Homeward Con- sending home their goods at a much lower used by the Suer Conference, which includes three gallons, makes a solution of the strength ference, it is published in the Commission's fate per ton than the shall merchants who practically all the European lines and the New required for this purpose.

report and should prove of interest to the bad, to haggle as best they could for York lines operating rid the Suez Canal.. No shipping community generally. The parties spare comers in the ships over which their cargo is accepted by any of these companies unless it has been measured and the measure HYGIENOL IS A POWERFUL to the agreement are the Conference Lines big rivals had a practically unlimited control. ments certified to by this measurer or one of

on the one hand, and certain merchant firms The suggestion of the writer in our Southern his deputies. This furnishes the lives in quer DISINFECTANT AND

(Messrs, Adamson, Gilfillan and Co., Messrs. contemporary is that if the smaller firms tion with protection against imposition on the GERMICIDE

Behn, Meyer and Co., and Messrs. Ewill boldly adopt the suggestion of forming part of shippers, as well as insuring that no Bousicad and Co.) known as the "freight an export combine, and face the respon- member of the conference is cutting rates by agents" on the other. The main features sibility of chartering, for their own require- means of short measurement. It is especially of the agreement are as follows:-The rents it will not be long before the Confer important in connec'in with cargo shipged freight agents agree to discontinue char-ence comes to them cap in hand and pro- down from Canton and transferred direct, with Jection to bathing parties going nearer than 100 tering or shipping to European ports by poses a new basis of agreement. There is sailing vessels or steamers (sailing vessels to far more hope in that than in any legislation A. S. WATSON & CO., Marsailles excepted),, other than those be- which either the focal or the Imperial Legis longing to the Conference Lines. They also lature could pass in the face of such reports JJMITED.

agree to do their best to prevent opposition as the Royal Commissioners have issued." and to maintain freighte at a paying level. In return the shipowners agree that, when-' ever, the average rate of freight, on cargo loaded in the Straits during a certain period [28 amounts to 755. or ever per scale ton, they will pay into a common fund 5 per cent. on the gross amount of the freight with cer-

steamers to or via European ports. Con tributions to the fund are to be hanked with the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co., to be handed by them to Messrs. E. Bouslead

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HONGKONG 'DISPENSARY

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KOWLOON DISPENSARY,

Hoogkong, 17th March, 1909,

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LOCAL AND GENERAL,' Tris French mail of the 8th Junn was delivered is London on the 7th insi..........

THE new Chinese revenue stamps intended to be issued have been forwarded by the Ministry

The Hongkong Telegraph rain exceptions), so loaded in Conference to the provinces.

Hongkong; Thursday, July 8, 1909.

'THE BAR EASTERN SHIPPING ·

CONFERENCK,

SIR Robert Bredon, Acting-Inspector-General of Chinese Customs, has received the Russian Order of St. Stanislas, First Class.

out landing, to the outgoing steamer.

HIGH STAKES.

‚-STRANGE STORY OF 'A GAMBLING AFFAIR.

A rather strange story was told the Chief Justice, in the Bankruptcy Jurisdiction Court, to-day, when Chao Kit, a well-koowo merchant, sought to be adjudged bankrupt. As ap- plication was made for a Receiving Order.

Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell, appeared for the debtor. Mr. R. A. Harding, who represented the largest creditors, opposed the application.

The Official Receiver (MI. A. G. M. Fletcher) told the Court the facts of the case as they were told to him. He said that debtor owned a shop at 184, Des Vœux

The Colonial Secretary secondad. Agreed,

The Bill went into Committes,

Mr. Osborne suggested that there should be a clause in the Bill compelling the railway authorities to take precautions against setting

fire to crops.

It was agreed to hear the clause at the next meeting of Council.

The Council resumed, leaving the Bill" in Committee,

STONEGUTTERS ISLAND

In moving the second reading of the Bill

entitled an Ordinance to amend The Stope cuiters' Island Ordinance, 1889, the Attorney. General said: The purpose of the Bill is to prescribe a limited distance from the shore of Stonecutters Island with i which vessels may ordinarily anchor or make fant

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Agroed,

i

The Bill went into committee. Mr. Murray, Stewart hoped there was og ab-

[A report was current in Shanghai last week to the affect that Viceroy Tuan Fang will enter the Grand Council and H.E. Na Tang will be appolated substantive Viceroy in Tientsin, and that the reason for the change is that; dwing to his leg complaints, H.E. Na Tung fods it ex- tremely inconvenient to attend the Grand Council Chamber and audiences with the Throne.-Ed, A.4.7)

NA TUNG.

FAMILY'S ARRIVAL" IN TIENTSIN.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]:

Peking, 6th July. Na Tung's family arrived in Peking on the 5th inst

LEGATION GUARDS.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]

Peking, 6th July. Germany has replaced the Legation Guards by marines and has applied. for the use of the Kwan-ming Lake to hold naval manœuvres,

The Waiwupu has strenuously opposed the application. ·

'RAILWAY LOANS,

AMERICAN-PARTICIPATION.

\By courtesy of the" Shewny Po"}

Peking, 6th July.

It is reported that Great Britain has agreed.

yards when there were military people there to observe that they either lauded or trenched on their privileges. He understood that at a dis- tance over 100 yards from the shore there to the United States participating in the was a strong tide which inconvenienced those loan for the Szechuan-Hankow Railway to who were not strong swimmers. For those who could not get away early in the afternoon Stonecutters was the handlest resort for bathing parties.

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"Colonel Farling explained that it was not^in- tended to apply to bathing parties but merely to give the military authorities power to deal with the sampan people:

The explanation satisfied Mr. Murray Stewart, The Bill passed through Committee and was read a third time and passed. 201

COMPANIES LOCAL REGISTERS.

the extent of 25 per cent.

NEW CANTON VICEROY,

EAGER TO ASSUME DUTIES,

[By courtesy of the " Bhoung Po"]

Peking, 6th July,

H.E. Yuan. Shu-fun, Viceroy-designate, of The Attorney General moved the second the two Kwang, has despatched a télegram reading of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to to Shun Po-ki urging him to proceed to dinacce, 19 7.

& Co., and to be distributed by the freight THE Waiwapu has appointed deputies to in- Road Central, and also had a share, valued at amend the Companies (Local Registers) Or Shantung forthwith to relieve him, so that-

Lim.mx.com.co

H.E. CHANG Jen-chuo, Viceroy of Kwang-

Mr. Goldring observed that when debtor got unscrupulous gang-Taey induced debtor to the money he fell into the hands of an

play a game of cards, through which be lost the entire sum. Debtor had the men charged in the Police Court for swindling him of the money, but he was asked to 'withdraw the case by bis own partners, and he did so.

Mr. Hartinge said that his clients alleged that debtor converted the money to his own use.

The Chief Justice—is all the money gone?, Mr. Goldring-AIL

What are his anexts ?—$1,500.

The Chief Justice refused the application.

On a vote being taken only Messrs. Gressan and Murray Stowars voted in favour of the smaller amount and accordingly the fea wa 6xed at $10 on the motion of Mr. Osborne.

INTERPRETATION ORDINANCE.

On the motion of the Attorney-General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill entitled an Ordinance ig amend the interpreis- tion Amendment. Ordinance, 1908, was read a

secand time,

It was then considered in Committee, read a third time and passed.

STAMP ORDINANCE,

The Attorney-General moved the third read ing of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend The Stamp Ordinance, 1957, as, amended by The Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance 1902.

The Colonial Secretary seconded. The Bill was read a third time and passed. PATENTS.

he may be enabled to start for Canton to take up his appointment as Acting Viceroy.

ANHUI MINING CON- CESSION.

FABIAN POLICY CONDEMNED,

[By courtesy of the "Sheing Po"]

Peking, 7th July, The Prince Regent has informed the Grand Council that, as all countries are watching the progress of negotiations res- pecting the Auhul Mining Concession, it is impossible to consent to the Fabian policy adopted by H.E. Liang Tun-yen, president of the Waimupu, in handling the matter.

SHIPPING AND MAILS

MAILS DUX

vestigete the question of foreign station-masters 51,000, but now worth $1,500, in the Tong agents amongst themselves and such other opening hangs and hotels of their own without

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Shen Wing Company, in which firm he was firms supporting the Conference as the freight authority.

On the sth engaged is managing `partner,

The motion was carried and the Bill went Recent exchanges from Singapore are full agents may decide to admit into the ConferTHE Impster of Viceroy Chang. Jen-chan in firm's employ, used the firm's chops to borrow

Juns the debtor, who was still-in-the-latter|though Commities.

It was proposed that the fee for authorisation of articles dealing with, the report of the ence. Only six or seven firms participate in the Canton to the Liangking Viceroyalty has been $14,000 from various Chincat backs. This should be $too instead of $10. Royal Commission on Shipping, Rings, fund mentioned, and there it is said repre made on the recommendation of Grand Cour-money was required by the firm to import rice which sat in London for many months, sent about 50 per cent of the trade. The cillor Chang Chili-tung.

from Singapore and from other southern ports obtained, an extensive amount of expert majority of them are also agents for steam-

When debtor got the money he gambled it evidence, mostly contradictory, and which ship lines; but there are seven firms of me

tang, has telegraphed to Peking asking for Im away, and was now indebted to the firm. But has now issued a majority and a minority chaats (five at Singapore and two at Penang) perial permission to make the newly opened for that he would be solvent now. report which clash on almost every point. which hold such agencies, and nevertheless port of Heungchow near Macao a free post; Of course the Singapore papers deal only do not participate in the special dividend. BRO. STEPHEN, who has been connected with with "that section of the complete report re The right to share in this dividend, it ap St. Joseph's College for twelve years and who ferring to the Straits Settlements and no pears, is not granted as a matter of course has recently returned from a trip to Europe, mention, 30. far as we can see at a coursory to any merchants whose shipments are on a will leave for Singapore by the English mail giance, is made of the system of rings and scafe similar to those of the participants; but, next Saturday, rebates as they affect Hongkong. It will be in order to obtain it, a firm must show, either PRINCE Tsai Chen has been granted an Im. admitted, however, that the circumstances of by chartering outside tonnage or by threaten-perial Audience. He presented an autograph Singapore and Hongkong as entrepots of ing to do so that they are prepared to fight letter from Prisce Chun, Regent of China, to trade are very similar, if not precisely an- the Conference unless the privilege is accord the Emperor of Japan and louched at the alegous, and the quotations which appeared to them. The amount of the special Palace. He was to dine with Prince Fushimi. in the Straits papers will show how the commission is not distributed either equally | GUNDA SINGH, the Indian watchman in the "conference" schieme has affected that or in proportion to the amount of cargo sup-employment of our junior marsing contem- port. It should be stated that the majorit plled, though apparently in the first instance porary, who was charged the other day with ty report is signed by those who to a

the basis of distribution was the former offering a bribe of $3 to a Supreme Court off. certain extent represent the great ship amount of chartering business. The propor- the Police Court, this morning,

cial, was fined Stoo by Mr. F. A, Hazolaqd, in ping interests, while the minority report tion to be received by any firm subsequent- gives the views of those who may be termed ly admitted is determined by negollation outsiders, including such a well-known between the participants and the newcomer. authority on finance as Sir David Barbour. With reg. to the minority report the fol In the Descriptive and Historical chapter, lowing statement appears: "We have called the majority review it is noted that accord-attention to, the waste caused by the ing to Mr. R. D. Holt (of Messrs. Alfred limitations which the Shipping Rings Impose Holt and Co., Liverpool), a Conference with on the movements and action of tramp Ar a sale of Chinese porcelain, the property of a rebate. system existed in the homeward steamiams, There is, however, another aspect Mr. Gerald Brockelbank, of Shanghai, beld at trade from the Straits in the years 1885-7. of the matter which has not been sufficiently Messrs, Christie's, on 9th ́ult, £373 was paid The Conference was discontinued from 1887 examined. When the tramp steamers, which for a powdered bisa cyllodrical vase, enamelled to, 1893, in which year it was reconstituted are mainly British, are excluded from certain with women in a garden, in familis varte. A and continued, though without a rebate sys branches of trade, they are replaced by familie karte square-shaped vase, enamelled Lem, until 1895, when it broke up. Luring liners. The latter may be foreign or British with flowers and kyline on a stippled green besides the boatmau and all were vidically pre-

ground, feschad 97 guincas,)) this period it was, however, apparently, quite steamers, and, so far as they are foreign,

cipitated in the water. The pamengem were | MR. SuODA, Director of the, Finance Bureau, ineffectual. It was rocatablished in 1897, the final result is probably a diminution of A HANKOW dispatch states that the amount of rescued, but the boatman, who was standing on in the Finance Department at Tokyo, arrived arrived at Nagasaki at 7,30 am, and the means adopted to impose the rebate the amount of British shipping. Evidence coal supplied to the Hanyang fron-works thate the cross-board at the time he was thrown into at Hankow on the 24th ultimo by rail after a and leaves again at 4 pm, Dama system. In that year were of so peculiar to this effect comes from the Straite Settle by the Mitsui Bassan Kaisha has greatly in the water, was drowned, despite all possible at tour of inspection in North Chine In the where she is due to arriva

The Great Northam La Increased of late and the aunant quantity sop comps to save his life,

evening Mr. Kobayashi, manager of the Has character as to deserve special notice. Sigments. Sir Walter Egerton's statement was alle is likely to reach: 83,000 tons. The The body of the deceased boatman has not yat kow branch of the Spacie Bank, gave a dintér Seattle arrived at Yokohama apóré," which, "like" 'Pehung, (and it might, to the following effect: The establishment financial position of the iron works kas math been recovered, but it is expected to be found have been added Hongkong) is a free purt, of a conference by the chief shipping lines improved under the new director, and the in the course of a day or twb, perkapa dost

pot itself a producing esaire - but its sitas: with deferred rebates compelled merchanti | concern is now paying its way

(the vicinity of the sad pocurand

CALCUTTA correspondent states that the effect of last your's lofiation of opium revenge has become apparent in the considerable de crease nom. The duty on opium exported from Bombay since the beginning of the official your is close upon six lakhs of rupees less than in the conesponding period of 1908.

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HARBOUR PATALITY.

BOAT CAPSIZES-CHINAMAN DROWNS

A sad harbour fatality occurred some time yesterday, in which a Chinese boatman lost his life by drowning..

The Committee stage of the Bill satitled as Ordinance to amend the Patents Ordinance, 1903, was not proceeded with,

Australian (Taływan) 14th German (Prine Ludwig) reth inst.

The Council adjourned till Thursday, the 8h inst, and is das here on 11th fast.

The G. N. Ca's .a. Amini left Shanghaf

z3th inst.

ADJOURNMENT.

FINANCE COMMITTEE...

The Bank Line 1.3. Aymeric left Vancouver for Kobe, Moji, Manila and Hongkong on 3rd Inst.

The N... Ka." Fotorofu-Murw, Bombay:. Line, left Maji for this part on 5th lust, and is. expected here on 11th inst.

. It appears that a boat employed as a daily ferry between Hongkong, Tal Q and Toog

A meeting of the Finance Committen was Choog was proceeding on its usual run when held immediately alter the meeting of Council, the craft was unfortunate enough to have the the Colonial Becretary presiding. It was agreed strike against a steam-fanoch which was dis-adopted by the Council :- current washed against it, which caused it to to recommend that the following vote charging cargo in the bay. The boat was

** CHARITABLE SERVICES. being sculled ́at the time and the force of the A sum of five hundred dollars in aid of the impact of the boat against the ship's side vote Charitable Services, other charitable albe expected here, on rath inst caused it to capsire.

There were a couple of passengers on board

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lowances.

This

was all the business."

in honour of Mr. Shoda. The latter afterwards

The Nonb German Lloyd L2. Frist Stj wand left Kobo on 8th Inst, et à Lim, and may

The N. Y. E, 43, Aki, Mark, American Line, left Shangbai for this port on 6th Instr and is expected hârg on gth (nati

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The CP, R

visited the Viceroy, and was to leave for Nage #Skanghel on 17th/