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Telegrams.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

* SERVICE.

THE NAVAL COMMIS- SIONERS.

·PRINCE'SHUN RETURNS TO. PEKING.

[By courtesy of the " Sheung' Po."] [N

Amoy, 6th September. Prince Shun Pui-lap having been denounced has proceeded to Peking and abandoned the intended visit to Canton.

Admiral Sah Chen-ping has left for Canton and is due to arrive at Hongkong on the 8th inat,

[From inquiries made in Hongkong, we learn that Prince Shuo has not returned to Peking

but will continue to prosecute his mission and is due in Hoogkong, with Admiral Sah; to

morrow morning.-Ed., H.K.T}

CHINA AND JAPAN. RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pa!!]" -

Peking. 6th September. The Wajwupu has agreed to Japan extending the railways and telegraphs from Kat him to Wai-ning; opening treaty ports the joint exercise of judicial powers by China and Japan, and the working of the Tien-po-shan mines.

No railways or telegraphs will, however, be allowed at Lin-ssi.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7. 1909

MOSQUITOES.

This is not a treatise on entomology. Neither Is it the result of the javestigations of an enthu.... siastic savant, who, in some malatial swamp, has suffered mosquitoes gladly in the cause of science.

the worst.

BORNEO HEAD HUNTERS.

FUNISHMENT DIFFICULT OWING' TO-

·ABSTRACT JUSTICE:-

FIGHT WITH DEATH:

To-day's

Advertisement.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No.. $43.

HONGKONG OPIUM: FARM. Necors will be received at the Colonial OTICE is hereby given that Sealed Secretary's Office, Hongkong, till Noon on Thursday, the 30th of September, 1959, for the purchase of the privileges known as the Opium Farm established under "The Opium Ordins ance, 1909, that is to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of Selling, within the Colony, (including the New Territories), Opium

Intimations.

THE

DAIRY FARM Co., LIMITED.

BUTTER.

WE regret that, owlog to a sharp rise to

CREW AT THE MERCY OF A GALE,

"Nine days at the pumps, fighting a grim battle with death, the crew of a German schooner were beaten in the struggle, and the steedy gain of the water at length, compelled them to take to their boat, when their plight was a desperate one. They were a hundred miles from land, and for twenty-four hours were at the mercy of wied and waves. They were almost exhausted when help came, in the form of the Danish schooner Hertär, and the shipwrecked crew were taken on board and landed at Plymouth, The schooner was

the price of butter in Australia and to the Margaretha, and, laden will pyriton

the low rate of exchange culing bere, we are was on her way from Huelva, Spain, to

compelled to raise the selling price of our Perthyn, Wales. According to the story of

"Daisy" brand bauer to be cents per 1b, from heavy gate and with the accompanying wreck- the chief officer the foremast snapped off in a so prepared, inclusive of the privilege of collect. 1st September next, when the following prices

ing dress and of preparing and dealing in will rule Dross Opium, for three years from the 1st of not long before the maiomast followed, but

'Full information as to conditions of tendar. fortunately it was carried clear of the deck, alling, etc., can be obtained from the Colonial bands escaping injury.. At night the violence Treasurer and the conditions of tendering and of the storm moderated, but the seas were still form of grant have been published in the

the 3rd September, 1909.1., little craft and rendering it very dangerous to cut

Government Notifications Nos. 40 and 50s away the wreckage. Before this could be done, of 1909 are hereby cancelled.. however, the fallen spars must have holed the

A. M., THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary. ."[643

The head-bunting forays by Sarawak Dyaks into Datch territory, in West Homeo, bave

difficulties. given, rise to serious

The Dutch authorities asked for the surrender of It is merely a wail. A cry from Far Cathay the ringlenders, and the Sarawak Govern The vapourings of a soul, almost lost, and tins ged with that madness which is akin to genius ment reford to give them up, says the Jays Bode. It grounded the refusal on the argut Of all the mosquitoes here below, and above meat that, the ringleaders once surrendered, too unless our theories of a Better Land are there was no security that they would quite erroneous, surely the Chinese variety is receive the due penalty for their deeds, owlog And of all the places in China to the overstrict proof required by Datch where mosquitoes most do 'congregate, surely law. The Bode admits that, the objection is a certain old balk at Swatow is the most too well-founded. to the province of West densely populated. Deep dowo in its caver- sous depths, where the stagnant bilge-race, for instance, the Dutch authorities water is now for ever at rest, they home. Direct probl is often wanting. The find it.hard to bring the guilt of head hunters fruitful and multiply exceedingly. Disturbed capture of head-hunters and the mustering of only by the occasional jar of a steamer coming witnesses is, besides, difficult in the inland ago fell over the side into the water. It was March, 1910. alosguide, wben, with an angry whirr of coual.

wilds. The Dutch Government intends to deal leasting wings, they gird up their loins, so to

more energetically with the headhunting evil speak, as the hulk's old skipper might have

in West and East Bornen. Hitherto head now is to treat bead-hunting as penal offepte But more troops will bave to be stationed in the Dyak districts to take action the moment a head-hunting foray is reported. Mare rouble is feared now on the Sarawak, border. Two Dutch Dyak tribes-the. Bukais and the

bitched up his pasts, and go on deck seeking hunters have been let off with fines. The idea i rumping very high, constantly breaking over the Government Gonette, as Notification No. 543 of

devour. whom they may

Alas! Nor far, nor

have they to seek long What light from yonder porthole breaks? What have we beret A passenger? A beautiful white, tender passenger? A barbarion? 4 for eign devil? A fout for the gods, let us dis-

semble.

Slap awake from a blissful dream in which a huge iced lemon squash figured largely, to find myself bathed in perspiration, and my left eye almost closed with the force of my semi-conscious blow,

I get up, to find my cabin alive with mos

quitoes. They bad catered by the port, which

in my pristine innocence I had left open.

Boy!!! I call. He comes along childlike and bland, and with a quileless smile queries

Mosquitoes bave got?"

Was it only yesterday that I was raminating on the cruelty and barbarity of Chinese justice?

Surely not. for now, even the torture of a

thousand-cuts seems humane. Undoubtedly

John knows bust bow to treat his own country.

men.

I look at the Pagan with what londly im. agtor is au bonihilating lance but what, owing to my swollen dye; must appear a facetious

An agreement embodying the forewink, then with a studied calm, under which going terms was signed on the 4then seething cauldron of frenzied emotions, inst

MACAO'S DELIMILATION.

CHINESE COMMISSIONER'S

INSTRUCTIONS."

[By courtesy of the " Sheung, Po."}

Peking, 6th September.

order him in put the mosquito curtain up and depart in peace len do him an injury. Once Toro I türa in, after carefully tucking te tain all round the mattress....

cur-

Again I compore myself to slumber, soothed by a feeling of perfect security, and lelled to sleep by what now seems the musical hum of The countless borde

Stap Slap Again, I am wideawake, to fiod ibar I was not alone under the net. I had merely conserved myself for a favoured few. A feeling as of Daniel in the lion's den comes over me. Yen? A-Daniel come to judgmenį and getting it!

There is a last straw for even the most stoical of natures. I jump out of bed-had, a place of rest forsooth-seira a carpet slipper with which 1 make frantic slaps wherever i see pos of the fiends resting, but invariably, mist, and only

The Central Government has cabled to H.E. Kuo Erh Ch'ien, the Macao Delimitation Commissioner, that he must oppose any demand for compensation which may be advanced by the Portuguese Government for

succeed in making footprints all over the beau- surrondering any territory not in-tiful white paint, and awakening the Chief oluded within the original limits of Engineer, my next door neighbour." the settlement of Macao.

CHINESE IN CANADA.

EXEMPTION FROM POLL-TAX, Ĺ Py courtery of tho!" Sheung Po."]

Peking, 0th September.

A memorial has been received from Lord Li Ching-fong, Chinese Minis ter to the Court at St. James, stating that Canada has, agreed to exempt Chinese from the poll-táx.

CANTON PROVINCIAL

TREASURER',

RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.

....

By courtery of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 6th September. An Imperial decree has been issued-accepting the resignation of Wu Seung-lum from the Provincial Treasurership of Canton,

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received by the American Consulate-General' from, the Manila Observatory at 12:35 p.m. to-day : m

September 7th, at 11.30 am, Cyclone or typhoon over N, China Sea developing.

WHAT gose to show that money for good Investments is not as scarce in Bangkok as in Singapore and other places in the East is the fact that of the shares recently offered to the public by the Bagan Rubber Co., Lid, some 35,503 ticals worth, were taken up in Bangkok alone in a few days, and the secretary reporté applications still coming in.

He-the Chief puts bis-bead out of his door and calls along the alloyway, "Whit the bleezes dac ye mean by hangin' op. pictures at this time in the morain. Hoo dae 'ye expec' a baddie tae sleep in at that row?"

There was only one thing to do. I know Scoismen. So 1 explained and asked him humbly to have a drink. He came along bringing two lamps with him. Ab! those lamps, Scotsmen are indeed the salt of the earth. Phenix-like they rise to the occasion when other men would be goashing their teeth in hopeless incompetency.

The lamps were not aclike the ordinary policeman's bull's eye, minus the glass and

revolving top You light them, and put the aperture where the glass ought to be over a mosquito or two and presto!-there is a sizzie of burning wings and the pests lie kicking on the oil reservoir.

The mosquitoes seem to be dared by the light, and before they can move the hot current of air sucks them in to a borṛible death. Ah? such a fine, frizzing, painful death i

Ustil the grey dawn was breaking, my Scot and 1, kept up the chase, the light of an unbely joy illuminating our features as time after time we emptied the lamps..

Never before had I realized the sweetness of revenge! Talk not to me henceforth of turn. ing the other cheek! Show me the preacher who will turn the other eye that a mosquito may pol go hungry!

Other vicious insects, such as beer, have a useful place in the great universal scheme, and have the good taste to die when once they bave implanted their venum.

Bat mosquitoes? Do they serve a useful pur- pose? Do they die? No! A thousand times No If They falten and live, and live, and live!!! Like Professor Teufelsdrocku, I fondly imagin» ed that I too bad reached...a philosophical pio, aacle, far above. the petty trials of the world, A pinaacle from which I could look down with a calm unruffled serenity at the troubled mattitudes below,

Phihings have suffered so much from Strawak head-hanters that they are meditating vege ance. The Sarawak Dyaks most is fault be. long to the Batang Lopar tribe.

WATER "RETURN;

Level and stonge of water in reservai: on the 1st September.

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS. LEVEL.

1999.

1908. o' below 17' 6" below Loverflow

overflow

المر

Tytam

o' a" below 27' 1" below Tylambye.

wash. overflow

overflow Tytam In- 。° ój" below a6 below termediate overflow

overflow 0′_cl" below) - 1.3′′ -Pokfulum

LoverBow

overflow.

ship's side, for it was discovered that she was badly leaking, whilst the water below was much increased by the quantity which made its way down through the batchways. Capt. Sasten toon had all the hands busily employ. ed at the pumps. Fortunately, the weather improved, and as the sea, moderated the water Lo longer found its way on deck. There was no stoppage of the leak, however, and

3rd September, 1999..

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

THE Steamship

Õau* t

"CATHERINE APCAR” having arrived from the above Port, Con signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from, alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense-

Cargo romaibing on board after 4 P.M., of the 9th ist, will be landed at Consigness' risk and expense.

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take' IM- MEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo impeding the dis- charge of the vessal will be landed and stored

Consignees risk add expense.

with the nearest land, Cape St. Vincent, a hundred, milas distant, the position of the cre became exceedingly perilous. Day after day for nihe days the pumps were kept going without intermission, the crew recojaising that on their efforts their lives depended, From time to time steamers were seen and were signalled, but not once did the almost disheartened sailors have any response to their appeal for help in the hour of distress below | At length it was found that the Margaretha was fast settling down, and then, after having drift. Wong-nai- * D* below 2' 2" belowed a hundred miles towards the Moroccan

ove:flow chung... overflow

coast, the order was given for the boat to beat lowered.' It was ga exciting moment, cooliou. ed the mate. Ióto the boat the crew quickly clambered, hastily gathering together a few of their parapoal effects. But there was no time to save the ship's papers, as less than a quarter of an hour sufficed to see" ber founder. For twenty-four hours we were at the mercy of the wind and waves fa the little craft, but when all hands were almost exhausted from the lack of food, sleep, and the exposure, the Danish THE Undersigned have received instructions schooner Berthe arrived, and our troubles were over,

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Tytam

STORAGE GALLONS:

1998.

1909. ........... 384,800,000

252,740,000 Tylam Byewash... 27,366,000. 18,000 198,768,000 Tytam Intermediate 195,914,000 Pokfulum ***** 65,0:0,000 63,160,000

30,337,000 Wong-nai-chung,

27,605,000 Total 699,417,005 *543,291,000 Consumption of 'water in the City and Hill District during the month of August,

1908.

_rbog. Consumption.... 150,045,000 127,693,000 gallons

population Consumption)

per head per } 23.3. 19.7 gallons day........ Constant supply in all districts during August, 1908.

Estimated) 207,210 209,010

Intermittent supply by Rider mains in Rider main districts during August, 1909.

The return, al consumption is subject to error owing to the difficulty of accurate mea- surement whilst the extension works at Albany Filter Beds are in progress.

*

1909.

KOWLOON.WATER WORKS. LEVEL. 1908: Kowloon) 360′′ below Gravitation

overflow Reservoir

STORAGE GALLONS, -

1908,

1909, Kowloon Gra

vitation Re77,100,000 194,667,000 gallons

servoir......) Consumption of water in Kowloon during the month of August:

THE CELESTIAL PORKEN.

D-ELECTABLE PIG...

Our friend, the Chinese pig, in såluted as follows in the Daily Mail of the 5th ult."

The latest greeting in the meat markets in London is: "Good morning have you seen the Chinese pig?"

At present the Chinese pigs are "wropt in mistry, but every pork dealer i London is keeping an eye wide open for them, and is like ly that to-day "best Pekin pork Rankow hams,""Tientsin trotters "will be offered to the shopping housewifa.' 1277 "below"The large consignment of Chinese pigs which Overdow

came by ibe P. and Q. sicamer Palermo is now in the keeping of the Union Cold Storage Com pany, and an Express representative was inform- ed at Smithfield Market yesterday that part of it will in all probability be placed on the market by Messrs. Henry S. Fitler and Sons to day.

Up to the present there has been secrecy ar to the identity of the enterprising dumpers of, Consumption...26,932,000 25,330,000 gallons there Chinese delicacies, but a director of one of the largest provision firms in the world told Estimated $4,100 88,000

population

an Express representative yesterday that the importers are the Union Cold Storage Com. Consumption:

per head per 10.3

gallons pany... day. The Government analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.

.P. N. H. JONES,

Water Authority.

KINGLY FEES 10 DOCTORS..

FORTUNES ACQUIRED DURING BUORT VISITS.

1908...

1969

9.2

"LARGE POSSIBILITIES.". "Ma Vesley, the managing director of the company, went to Chion last year," he said, and was so struck with the large possibilities of the trade that be arranged for this consign. mhoot, and a cold store has bees arected at Hankow, where supplies will be gathered for the English markets.”

'An Express representative invited Mr. Vestey to say something about the prospects of Chinese pig as a breakfast table decoration, but Mr. Vestey shook his head, and said sorrowfully: We will store no more delectable Chinese pige; they are driving us silly."

King Edward's health has cost a huge sum. When, as Prince of Wales, he was seriously ill some years ago, Dr. William Jenner attended him four weeks and received a fee of £10,000. Another 10,000 was paid to Sir William Gull for his attendance on the King during his seri-

But Mr. Vestoy's words must not be taken ous illness from typhoid-in 1871, while the too literally. It is more likely that the Chinese physicians who attended him during his pigs will proys so remunerative that they will severe illpers in the coronation year re be imported by merchants in "overwhelming ceived fees amounting to £20,000. The fa- quantities, to the disadvantage of the British-` mous Professor Zacherine of 'Moscow received born porker. It is certain that the Free from the father of the present Emperor Traders will fight to the death for the right of of Rossis a foo of £15,000 for two days' eating Chinese sausages for breakfast. attendance. Sir Morell Mackonria, received

It is not likely that the Chinese pigs will be £20,000 for a few weeks' attendance on the offered at prices very much towar than the pre- l«te Emperor Frederick of Germany, and sent market rates; the price will be just low Queen Victoria's doctors, in her last illness; cnaugh to turn the scale in their favour. But received about £,000 each. Sometime ago pigs can be bought at such absurdly low prices W. K. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, in China that the profits on importation, even requested his physician to accompany him on allowing for the long sea journey, are likely to a voyage. The doctor hesitated, and romarked. | -be-very-large, so that-it-will-be-all- to the im- that his practice was worth £200 a week. Thú | porters' interest to push Chinese pigs to the man of money finally agreed to give him utmost, and so limit the trade for British pork. £2,000 for the six weeks' trip and pay all his other expenses. Blind Dr. Gale of Bristol was paid the sum of £50,000 for curing

But alas) for the limitations of human endurance. What does it prevail against the emissaries of the Nether Empire, trained as they are by their Master to get under the cloak of civilization, religion and philosophy under Tus outlook for the Younan Railway is becom-

which we poor mortals ostrich-like, tsy to hide tha' diseased knen of a wealthy gentleman. ing more and more discouraging. Anam and torment us sutil in our agony we cast it off Tonkin, a newspaper published at Haiphong, and stand revealed in all our primitive simplici says that British traden profit more by the railty-cassis, awearing savages, way than Franch business men in Tonkin. The Obi ya good people whose hearts and latter have neither the spirit nor the enterprise pockets are touched to the sending of missions to intercept the Yannua trade with Hongkong,

to China, hear my prayer! Leave the heathen tum uols to that the railway carries British ipsa little while lonzer to bis idolí, and daypie da more than French wares. That fourcal year wealth to the extermination of mosqui

it all to lack of money and want of toes, lest through them your white brethren in

in French commercial circles at the East fäll from grace, or

| J. G. Smith in 2. C. D. Hmi.

Senator Magen paid Dr. Browning the stu pendous fee of £200,000-undoubtedly the | largest fee on record. The late Shah of Persia paid Dr. Galexowski of Paris £5,000 for caring his son of an affection of the eye. Dr. Faok Billings claimed £5,000 for seven days' attend- ance on Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant. prince. The doctors who attended the late President McKinley after he was shot at Buffalo presented the United States with bills to the total amount of £8,304,

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COMMERCIAL,

4 p.m. Following are further, alterations in Mormu, E. S. Kadoorie & Cole share list to-day - Shanghai Docks .............................Ti». 8aj sales Hongkow Wharfs. Tis. 150 sales Chinese Engineerings...... Tis: 18.20 sellers. EVO omnei.Tia 1364 sales, Bomatras

„Tis, 141 sollars, Langicals

1,025 bayars.

Indo Chicas.......................... Tư, 46 malaz Farak Sugars ..............Tis. 295 sallars ⠀⠀ Hongkong Binks native 4739 vellurg

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

"Koneysuckle" brand

"Daisy" ** Dairymaid" Buttercup"

"Hongkong, 25th Auguss, 1909.

PILSENER

ASAHI'

AND

per lb.

$1.00

80

70

66

1380

'SAPPORO"

BEER.

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED, LIGHT and

Agents.

Hongkong, 7th September, 1999."

PUBLIC AUCTION.

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

[544

FOR 'ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY),

AND .. THURSDAY,

the 8th and 9th September, 1909, commencing each day at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales

Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, ·

comer' of ice House Street, SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:-

with

SILK TAPESTRY-COVERED DRAW. ING ROOM SUITE, OVERMANTELS. with REVELLED GLASS, Double TEAK WOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE TOP BUREAU LEVELLED GLASS, TEAKWOOD-SIDE BOARDS and DINNER WAGGON with BEVELLED GLASS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E.-P. WARE, a quantity of HOUSE- HOLD LINEN, PICTURES, a quantity of CANTON BLACKWOOD WARE, CAR- PETS, RUGS, BRASS MOUNTED IRON BEDSTEADS with WIRE and HAIR MAT- TRESSES, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS,

BC., &c. ¡

ALSO

2 COTTAGE PIANOS (008_by_Bechstein and one by The Robinson Piano Co.), One POLYPHON, One GRAMOPHONE and RECORDS;

FÁND

One LARGE AMERICAN ICE CHEST,

Catalogues will be issued. TERNS:-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers," Hongkong, 7th September, 1909.

1633

REFRESHING

SUMMER

BEVERAGE.

OBTAINABLE AT——

Messrs. OALDBECK MCGREGOR & CO.

"

H. PRICE & CO.

A. S. WATSON & Go., LTD.”

VICTORIA:DISPENSARY.

WATKINS, LTD.

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'AND

EVERYWHERE.

SOLE AGENTS:

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CLUB WHISKY

AGE, QUALITY

AND

MELLOWNESS.

Test for 15 years as an Ideal Scotch for this

climate.

CLUE

$14

Per Case.

SCOTCH

cur, sed Se

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WINE MERCHANTS;-

18, Queen's Road Central.

Telephone No. 186;

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