colony's taxpayers, it would matter little, butį the mode of work in vogue here seriously interferes with the traffe. Anyone wishing to go Eust beyond Arsenal Street has to make a detour along tho Prnya, as it is impossible for either horse or raan without cruelty to either, to pull e vehicle over the 300 yards of rocks faud gravel put down by the coolies, but not crushed into the ground and levylle by the steam-roller, Apparently the coolice put down more stones than the steau-rollor is able to arush down during the day, and hence the portion of road impassable becomes longer daily.
Why should this be so? Either the officials charge of the work are incompetent, or riminally neglectful of the public's comfort and Louey. In either caso they ought to be dismiss ed, and the right men put in their place.. Roads repaired at the rate of speed that Queen's Road East is being repaired at, and even then poorly done, must certainly cost an enormous amount of money, far more than any taxpayer in all honesty can be asked to pay..
If the Government does not possess men empetent to repair the roads well and quickly, with the least possible expenditure of time and money, let them send some of their amateur rand builders to Shanghai, the Mode! Battlement" and learn thore how it is done.
Thanking yon in anticipation,-Your, etc., „A FRIEND OF THE TAXPAYER.
POLICE COURT.
Saturday 22nd June.
BEFORE MK. Hazıland. -
IN INSOLENT CHINESE SERVANT.
Mr. E. M Bishop. of the Hongkong and Shangha Bank, charged one Li To Nam;
servant of ong of this clocks at the bank, with
using indecent and threatening language
towards him.
in
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Monday, 24th June.
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Tuesday, 25th June. V.R.C.-Goal, L. E. Lammert; backs, C. E. A. Hance and A. Loureire, half-book, A. E. Alres: forwards, A. A. Stres and J. 11. R. Hanco.
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Wednesday, 26th Jano.
F.RO, E R. W. FUSILIERS.
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WEIHAIWEI.
Weihaiwei, 10th June.
THE LAUNCH SERVICE,
so long maintained partly by private offort and subsidised by Government, has ceased to exist. The proprietor threatened to withdraw bis kout when a proposal was made to reduce the subsidy and to limit the number of passengers. He has was good that threat. Government for their .own convenience run a
a faunoh twice daily, but so far as the convenience of private residents and visitors to this health resort is concerned. the last state of the place is worse than the first The inconvenience becomes a hardship to private individuals living on the mainlauri
Breutually the seat of colonial.
THE ONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 24r¤, 1901
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A Washington telegram of the Mind inst A very sorlons defect in the pattern of the shrapnel with which our field batteries are Staps have been taken by the Treasury Do. provided--a defect which we do not remember partment to have the War Department extend to have seen noticed before in any of the many to Cubs the Chinese Exclusion Act. just as the criticisms of our artillery with which we hare extended to the Island on June 6, 1809. United States immigration regulations were
been favoured since the present war began-is The alleged to exist by a German officer, who served officials have become alarmed at the raplilly in for many months in the Boer forces both in the creasing number of Chinese coming through
Orange Free State and in Natal. The ideal the country in bond from Pacifle Coast ports shrapnel, it may be explained, should be merely passing likewise from Canada through the case containing ballots and a stall bursting Theusands have embarked from New Orleans break up the envelope into small splinters at DUNVILLE'S V. R. States, with Cuba as their destination. charge. The explosion of this latter should and New York uity for Havans in the last for the distance from the gan for which the fuse in set. The bullets, thus set free, will then months, and once in Cuba there is little to prevent their being smuggled into Florida. continue their flight, at first with the velocity of The Florida coast is not patrolled, nor is the the shell at the moment of bursting: but boing customs or immigration force large enough in acted upon by the entrifugal fores that State to deal with this now condition. by the rotation of the projectile in which the thoy From Plattsburg, N. Y.. for the week eating were corried, they do not go forward in May 4th, 111 Chinese passed through the but extend into a cone, known by
artillerists cone of dispersion." Stato via New York city, for Haraus, with us "the cone
The resistance of the air canes them quickly to lose their velocity: no other purpose, the officinis claim, than to flus evade the exclusion act and returu
the force
rce of gravity draws them earthwards, so to the States through Florida and by the
that a shower of bullets falls upon a rectangle of South Atlantic and Gulf consts. Immigration ground some 200-300 yards in length and 10-30 Inspector Wright at Now Orlesus has called yards wide in front of the spot where the sholl the attention of Commission-General of Immi- burst, the lengt
gth of this beaten zone" gration Powderly to the condition at that port depending attrally upon the velocity of the in a letter of Alay 2h, saying: I have the shall at the moment of bursting, or in other honour to call attention to the increased air-
words
the upon
range. From the statements, however, of the Ger bar of Chinese passing through this port in
than officer zeforred to abere, which are printed transit from China, via San Francisco, for Havana. There are now fifty-ave hore who in an article by him on the English Artillery in South Africa in the latest number of the arrived on the night of they 18th, and who will leave for Havana about the 28th or 30th. 1 Militar Wochenblatt it seems that the shell or fear their intentions are boni fide, and that containing envelope of the shrapnel of the they have Bone way or weyn by which they will English field batteries did not thun treak up on! Wood, samples of which will be forwarded on
charge. coach the United States clandestinely after the explosion of the bursting
that
the bullets eamə out of the front end of the shall, which was blown off, in a mass and so did either but litils. damage, or absolutely none, when, as was generally the case the enemy was behind cover.
arrival in Hava
Wright stats that from the 14th to the 18th of May 97 Chinese passed through New Orleans for Havana. The steamship com, panies give bond for their transit through the country. They are taking steps in the Orient, the officials say, to ash large numbers before the exclusion ast regulations are extended of Chinese through the United States to Cabo to the island. Commissioner-General Penderly, exclusion act since last spring, has me officers with whom lies also the duty of enforcing the
regulations there are enforced by the War for this purpose now in Cuba. Immigration
Department.
result of this fallurg
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will almost certainly be in Mahto, to the north of the harbour, Al prosout the commissioner's residence and the naval and military head. quarters are all ou Liukout. The mible of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company also lands on the island. The steamship com panies have their offices there. The dwoilor in he wishes to make sure of the meeting some Mahto requires the host part of a day, if passing vowel. Our local news wheat. The other side of the water as a rule, 24 hours after Weihaiwei Gazette, reaches abscribers on the
is not even a cable connecting the island and issue on the island! When it is stated that there mainland, the isolation of the civilian living on the latter can be realisest. From whatever point on the question is viewed the lapse of stean com munication across the harbour for those willing to pay a reasonable, charge is distinctly a retrograde stop in the goueral development of port, which, considering its very great natuwat advantages, s
should, with a little nursing, grow into the most important sanitarium and sea-sido resort of North China.
Capital invested in land, and in buildings Dofondant thereupon said, "I take this time. rooted in excellent situations for the con- convention between the Government of Hawaii the bullets caine out in a mass, struck the wait
venience of visitors coming here for the summer The crisis in the North prevented nu influx of visitors hust season. This YOLK there is no such obstacle. Sarely-if in other reason exists-the prospect of a possible increase of
Complainant stated that last Wednesday evening, bo and three others were engaged a garue of bowls on the lawn opposite the Bauk, when one of them called for four drinks. The drinks not appearing, he went up-stairs to the wine-boy anti asked him why he had not brought down the drinks ordered. He said he had not tima, but had told defondant to do so. When he (complainaut), asked defendunt
ant
ant
why he had not brought down the drinks
the initor flow at him, and mid, “This no my work. I no like this work." Defun- daut told him to tell that to his master.
but I node again. He then woat upstairs to
THE LABOUR QUESTION IN HAWAII.
iday
Perhaps the most striking of the insidonts which the German officer relates in support of Spion Kop, on the 24th of January, 1900. The his statezanat occurred during the fighting at narrator had been sent forward with thirty denly the party came under the fire of a Hold Boers to reconnaitre the British position. Sud.
them with shaapnel. The first shell went over battery in the Tugela valley, which opened their heads, and before the English gunners could get the range, the German officer with his men succeeded in reaching ata romalow wall, only some 3 feet high, behind which they threw themselves
prostrate. Very quickly the bat found the runge, but nevertheless the Beers lay proce behind the low cover they continuous fire, with a loss of only one man had reached for more than an hour, under u killed and two slightly wounded. So far as position wes concerned, the shell barst ad mirably, but the envelopefaling to break up, and fell harmlessly to the ground. Going over
put on his cont, shouting all the time. Defon months, kas kútherto secured very little interest limited number of Chinese settled in the islands, the scene of action next day, the German officer
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ilant said "I don't fear you, you touch me, Ego police. Complainant went out on the awn again, and a little white after defendant followed with the drinks, and started to taut complainant reposting voreral times, I no four yon, you touch me, I go police.' Complainant having told him to go away, at last he wout, using a grossly abusive expression,
His Worship at this stagensked complainunt if it was the practies at the junior mess of the lunk, that the boy of any clerk when he wont on daty was supposed to do whatever told by any member of the moss.
Complainant answered in the affirmative. Witnesses were then called, after which His Workp summing up, said that it was conen sively proved that defendant had made use of indecent and threatening language, and that it was absolutely necessary to make an example of him, to show Hongkong servants that they
to from a colony that is anything but self-supporting should lead to some speen! effor being made to create easy communication oud increase the general attractiveness at the port
THE STEAMER COMPANIES. But if we have gone from bad to wore as regards mearts of communication between im. portant parts of the colony, the situation as regards dar intercourse with the treaty ports is
the
An U. S. official report contains a slatement by Professer Stubbs on the labour question.on the Hawali plantations, which in toproduced in the Honolul papers. Some remnerks on Chinese immigration be quoted:-
There has never existed any treaty or labour ud the Empire of China. It early days a intermarried with the natives, and by their in- dustry and economy were generally prosperous. About 750 of them were naturalised under the monroby. The first importation of Chinese labourers into the country took place in 185 In 1978 the number of Chinese had risen to 5,918. During the next fow yours there was steady inflax of Chinese free immigrants, which finally reached alarming properties. In the spring of 1881 the Hawaiian Govern ment was obliged to send & dispatch to the Again, in April, 1883, it was suddenly renewed, Governor of Hongkong to stop this invasion.
and within twenty days five steamers arrived from Hongkong, bringing 2,359 Ch passeugers, followed the next month by 1,100 more, with the news that several thousand more were ready to embark. Accordingly, the Havelian Government one another dispatch to the Governor of Hongkong refusing to admit that
could not with impunity insult and abuse their ecarse, and if turn a few miles from or any further immigration of male Chinese from
Toasters.
Defendant was to pay a fine of $15 or to do
three wenks" hard labour."
BEFORE M. Kasır,
ATTEMPTING TO CIRCULATE COUNTERFEIT
COIN.
ten-cent nail fire-cent pieces.
The defendant when arrested bad still six copper ton-cent and one copper fire-cent pieces
in his possessĪGU.
His Worship lined his $8 for each piece of counterfeit money found on his person, a total of $21,
port. immigration were enacted from time to time, Various regulations restricting Chinhee until in 1986 the landing of any (hinese passenger without a passport was prohibited. The amber of Chinese in the Islands hart risen to 21,000, and in 1899 it is estimated to be about 2000, of whom about 600 are employed on sagar plaatationz.
aw numbers of the shrapnel lying about, but not one of them had purst properly. If this narrativo is true, the small amount of damage wrought on many occasions by our artillery can
be easily understood,
For the rest it is satisfactory to find that the training of the English artillerists. That wor writer speaks highly of the skill and technical batteries failed decisive resalts her file to achieve more due in resit.
with the refusal of the Bears ever to adventure the pattern of the shrapnel, and in part to the peculiar formation of the ground, combined themselves in the open.
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In his thrilling account of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Fronde tells how the English authorities at Fotheringay took care to buru all the ariticles which she had worn, in order that no relics should be carried off to work imaginary miracles, Beads, paternoster, hundkerchief, each particle of dress which the blood had teuched, with the cloth on the block and on the scaffold, was burnt in the hullfire in the presence of the crowd." Apparently, how. They have roclaimed many useless swamps
ever, some articles escaped the notice either of the authorities or the historian, or else a most for the caltivation of rice. Many of them are notable miracle has been wrought not only by the shopkeepers, warket gardeners, laundry by Sir Amyaa Paulet and the Earls of Kent and fishermen. They have been truly described and Shrewsbury, there is no lack of relics of relics, but upon them, in spite of the precautions as industrious, persevering, frugal, peaceable: the martyrdom of Queen Mary. stands as bigh as nad law abiding. Their mercantile, credit nationality....
that of any other beads which Froudy describes as having been Howards, forexample, are suit to preserve the
destroyed, aul, if we are to believe the the crucifix is at prosent in the possession of author of a recently published Spanish pamphlet, the Queen-Regent of Spain. This crucifix-a gold GBU- plays & foresnost part in the tragedy WITH A NAVAL BRIGADE of Fatheringay. It hung from the Qasen'e neck when she entered the fatal hall, and it was
The
still more serians. Almost daily steamers flying harbour, but leave us severely alous. The com- British dag puss within sight of this panics ask as subsidy a san that on the face of at seems nisurl-$900 for each ship calling here! It should be borne in mind that a steamor need
passing through with passengers and mails only for this port. need score oly drop an anchor. As it is, the eargo brought here in the ardinery course of business is suficient for a steamer from Shanghai to call on the average ones a week,
But there are no exports, and therefors there is little, if any inducement for stewmere to come in on their way to Shanghai, It is the accepted policy of the British A Chinese was charged by Detortive Sergeant Government to leave as much as possible Terrett with attempting to circulate counterfeito private enterprise, and to avoid the heistering up of industries by subsidies. Apart from this owing to our entanglement in South Africa, fance generally available for the baprovement of distant colo.ies and stations are scarce. Nevertheless the authorities are prepared to subsidise to some extent, but the long-standing difference with companies trading under the protection of the British flag, as to the exact Inspector Collett prosecuted three Japanese amount of subsidy, is no nearer settlement loafers, Ship Street runters, with disorderly Rather than submit to coercion, the expensive and unsatisfactory expedient of sending a It appears, that three Chinese omabs, were
gunboat to Chefoo tch the mails is very cant at the race course with three children frequently adopted. The cost in coal alone muder their charge, when the three accuse for each trip of a bout, as all ven as it Jassel by, the first one stricking Inspector H.M.S. Britomart, cannot be much less than
over it, in the remoreulees worde of Fronde, Collett's little two-and-a-half year old daughter $150. It is understood sirat a local firm has has still continued, from 441 38 in 1578 to been ready to betray, for her con whom she had The decrease of the aboriginal population that she prayed for the Church which she had with a stick. Anuh Mak Sze told him he offered to run a launch twice a week for 41014 in 1884, 34,436 in 1890 and 31,010 in Cisinherited, for the Queen whom she had should not do so, whereupon he gave her subsidy of $800 per mensen. allow with the stick upon hor, back When does not appear to have had a favourable cent a year.
The offer 1996, the rate of decrease being about 1.6 per fudeavoured to murder," and that she also Mok Ut, the Inspector Collett' ah re-
At the same time the partforgave her enemies, whom she had invited reception. monstrated with him, he assaulted her indecently negotiations Lave been opened with a Japanes between Hawaiian women and men of other authority, the executiouer, just before doing I have it or reliable authority that Hawaiians, the offspring of intermarriages Philip not to forget." According to the same and threw her on her face. She got up, ran firm, and it is not unlikely that we shall have rates, have been constantly increasing from his office, seized the sacred jewel as a perquisite, to the police station, and reported the matter. the trade of the new English colony pass into 3.420 in 1878 to 4.218 in 1984, 6,186 in 1890. Lut was instantly ordered to lay it down, The Inspector and some coartables went out the hand of cutsiders satisfied with a smaller and 8,495 in 1890. All these facta point to the The Spanish paraphleteer, however, will have it after the culprits to arrest them. The latter subsidy. We may accept as one of the principles gradul extinction of the full-blooded Hawaiians, that the gracilix was given by the Queen to Jone resisted the officers, especially first defendant, governing commercial life both of private and the absorption of the remnant of the race Kennedy, one of the women who attended ber and it was only after a hard struggle that the individuals and of corperations, that whereby the European and Asistio population. officers tuanaged to put the accused under look Government contracts are concernel the profits
on the scaffold, and that from her it passed and key-
to the Royal Family of France, and was carried into Spain by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry I on for marriago with the Spanish Kong
TURBULENT JAPANEUR LOAFERS.
behaviour and assault.
His Worship fined first defendant $10 for disorderly conduct, and 0 for assault, second defendant 85 for disorderly conduct, and third defendant $3 on same charge.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS
The steamier Gyperte, from Japan, China and Hongkong, arrived in New York on the 2011 inst.
The C. P. B. steamer Atherian arrived at Kobe on the 21st iust, and left that pert to-day for Yokohame.
!
be well above the average. But in this should particular cum we may well ask where esprit
The effect of annexation to the United States of whatever race, and to exclude all Chinese will be to put an end to all assisted immigration labourers. But under the recent treaty between the United States and Japan, there is nothing to limit the free immigration of Japanees, and overal companies have been formed to promote
WATER RETURN.
de corps and patriotisme comes in. By their persistent endeavour to coerce Government into LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESERtes of Escalante, who left it to a convert in
offering a subsidy altogether out of proportion to the service rendered. It almost looks as if the British stomer companies will allow business of much potential value to pass out of their hauds altogether.-N.-C. Daily News
macaroni
We are now
almost
The following story is from a Tolio paper as Tokio in soba Nagoya abounds in udon (inocaroni) "ships back wheat maratoni) shops, probably because a biter quality of wheat flour is produced in the vicinity of The Imperial Germon mail steamer Sachsen Nagoya and this enables the Nagoya an left Shanghai vic Feochow, on Saturday, the to make savoury macaroni. 2nd inst., at 5 a.m., and may be expected here told that all those keroral hundred to-morrow.
*lops have tocome The N. Y. K. steamer Hiturki Maru (European deserted by their customers, in consequence Line) left Shimonoseki for this port on the of a strange rumour to the effect that owing 22nd inst.. and is expected to arrive here nu this to the recent advance in the price of dried 26th inst
bonito, usod for giving seasoningto the The P. & O. steamer Malacca left Eingapore acaron, the dealers de dried saake an a
substitute. This for this port on the 21st inst., at 5 pm.
credible. carvely
but we are told that the truth of it has been The O. E. 8. steamer Peleus left Singapore, at noon, on the 22od iust, and is due in Hong-estabished in at least one case. A certain kong on the 27th inst,
macaroni shop got about a month ago a consign. ment of 30 to 40 tin cans from Formosa. The canswere old petroleum caus, and the forwarding Here are extracts from a book auction cat agent thought it curious that such a consignment alogue issued in America:-Grand;
should reach a macaroni shop. One can hap. Heavenly Twins"
(not to be had separate) pened to be much buttered, and cn carefully Gray, Maxwell: "The Silence of Deaa Mait exemining the inside he saw it filled to fand (broken). Hnggard, H. R.: "She"
astonishment, so the story goes, with dried (avique). Holmes, O. W. The Autorat pieces of scaly snakes chopped to the length of of the Brankfurt Tablo" (plates missing).3 to 4 inches. The story quickly spread How to be Happy Though Married" (rare from neighbour to neigbours, till at last. it had in this state). Phelps: The Gates Ajar
gone throngh the whole town. And so all the (anopored),
macatoni shops once crowded with customers are now completely deserted.
VOIRS ON THE 1ST JUNE, 901..
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∙1903. ว Tyta
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Total 155,120,000 250,975,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF MAY.
1900.. 1901.
Consumption 98,403,000 108,178,000 gallons Estimated popu
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16:1 gallons Intermittent supply 1st to 13th. CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON PEN.
INSULA DURING THE MONTH of May.
1900.
1901.
Consumption
8,086,148 11,027,000 gallons
28.100.
93
*
29,300
Estimated popu
lation Consumption per
head per day....
12.1 gallons The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
W. CHATBAN,
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Valladolid, by which it was presented to the Uride of the late Alfonso XII. This, of course,
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fanatical Mariainters will ask nothing mor 3 a very goodly and honourable pedigree, and
confirm their belieinthe genuineness of the relic. Yet, although it must be vastly comfortlug to think that the crucifix was saved alike from the erventioner au from the bontira, the cirmaa-
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From England to the Cape, and Crossing the Jane The Naval Brigade in South Africa (Boer War. 1899-1900)-Off to the Front (Colonso) Spion Kop-Vaal Krantz-~- Final Operations and Relief of Ladysmith From the Cape to China--Naval Brigade in North China with the Allied Forces To the Relief of Peking-Summary of Siege Appendix.
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stances of its present custody cannot be viewed by any trne Jacobite without regret, The reign- ing family in Spain, according to Legitimist almanacs is after all s race of umrpers little boilers. better than the Savoyards in Italy or the Hanoverians in Great Britain.
To escape desecration, that crucifix ought to be in the bands of Mary III, and IV. in Bavaria.
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A provincial English paper says that witle a view of rendering their Eastertide servicna plen- | sant as well as profitable, the worshippers a Eonth Wales Nonconformist chapel hold a mook trish on a miscreant, called
Alcohol
who was duly convicted and condemned upon over- whelming evidence. At the conclusion of the performance it was discovered that a bottle of beer, which represented the prisoner, hud boon" covertly abstracted by a member of the coagre gation, and presumably placed in close continement.
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THE NEED:
MUNICIPAL
[611
OF
FREEDOM
IN
HONGKONG.
BY
"SCRUTATOR."
With Lending Articles and Correspondence thereon Reprinted from the "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS" owl "CHINA MAIL."
Price 20 Cents per Copy or Bix Copies for Sh
On Sale at Local Newsagents and H. RUTTONJEE'S Kowloon Store. Hongkong, 30th May, 1901, AUTOMATIC
(1383
MAUSER PISTOLS. ·
CALIBRE 7.63 m.m. With CHAMBER for, 10 CARTRIDGES, FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong 3rd October, 1900.
[75
A
TUITION.
YOUNG ENGLISH LADY desires to gire Elementary and Progressive LESSONS in VIOLIN and PIANO. Intend- ing Papile can apply by letter to-
Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 19th June, 1901.
15:0
AMERICAN SYSTEM
OF
DENTISTRY
AT
No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENtual, CHADWICK KEW (LATE OF POATE & NOBLE}. Hongkong, 15th September. 1899.
A. LING & CO., FURNITURE STORE.!
1508
PLATED GLASS & CROCKERY WARF, Also FOOCHOW LACQUERED WARE. FURNITURE on HIRE.
68, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, let May, 1901,
[1:45)
OREGON LUMBER.
THE Undersigned, being closely connected with the leading MILLS at PORT- LAND and PUGET SOUND, are always pra- pared to book orders for any specifications at LOWEST RATES.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 14th February, 1901. [5
ONE
FOR SALE.
SECOND-HAN D
HOE NEWSPAPER
486 PRINTING
POLITICAL OBSTACLES
MISSIONARY SUCCESS IN CHINA.
TO
A LECTURE
BY ALEXANDER MICHIE
PRICE 25 CENTS CASH
On Sale at ** HONGKONG DAILY PRESS" Office and Local Newsagents.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1901.
[1072
MACHINE.
PRINTING A SHEET 27 BY 40
INCHES.
THIS
118 Machine is in good condition, and
is being sold, as it has been replaced with a
Larger and Quicker Machine.
Apply
MANAGER, Hoaglong Daily Press Ofcò. Hongkong, 1st April, 1901