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HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD,
A meeting of the Sanitary Board will take plaen to-day, Thursday, 27th Jaus at 4 p.m.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.'
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1. Latter from Government forwarding an
NORTHERN NOTES.
The following items are from the P. & Times of the 18th June-
Li Hung-chang's family arrived here on
afternoon, and Wodnssday.
THEONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27TM¤, 1901
REVIEWS.
Five Years of My Life. By ALFRED DREYFUR With Illustrations. London, Georgs Bell and Bons.....
trunt from u letter of the Chamber of em Peking after & brief proceeded -direct to failure, and the decision which can senise Most people, we imagine, are now artisted
urce
2. Correspondence relativo to the provisions of public bath-hone for Chinese women.
additional Senior 3. Provision for two Inspectors in the Estimates for 1302,
4. Reply from Government relative to the construction of a row approach path to Kennedy Town Plagas Cinetery,
5. Appointment of two temporary Inspectors
for disinfection.
6. Reply from Government regarding the planting of trees in the Kennedy Town Plagne Carnetery
7. Reply from Gevorament relative to the Inspector's quarters at Kennedy Town.
Mr. Ed. Osborne, pursuant to notice, will
28125**--**
That the Board rewminend the Clovernment to enact :-
That every domestic building hereafter eroeteil, of a greater depth than forty feet (as avensured in acelance with sub-section (e) of section 56 of the Public Health Ordinance of
outs, salt las provided by the owner with a glazed skylight in the reef, of a total axes of not less than one-twenty-fifth of the total floor area of such domestic building, and every upper floor shall be provided with a well-hole, corres onding, in position and aren, to such skylight. Provided that ne such provision shall be equired in the css of domestic buildings which are, in the opinion of the Sonitary Board, adequately it by means of windows opening into a side street er stor open space of a width of not less than Afteen feet, in addition to being it from the front.
will more-
The Vice-President, pursuant to notice, Tint the Board urge the Government to insect in the new Building Ordinance or other. wiss ennet without undue delay the following provisions
(3) No building shall red times the width of the street upon which it frouts, as mousured from the outer edge of the foot-path on one side to the outer edge of the foot-path en the opposite sidu
(2.) The width of any street which is not pro- vidxl with a foot-pat shall be the shortest distance measured between the main walls of the buildings on the opposite sides thereof, or the building Uny as determined by the Direct or of Public Works whers there is no building opposite.
(3) Noverandal shall be prected in any street which is not provided with a foot-path of the width of 10 feet on that side of the street on which it is proposed to erect the verandalı.
(4) No balcony shall be erected in any street which is not provided with foot-puth of a width of four foot six inches on that side of the street on which it is proposed to erect the balcony.
G. A. WoonCOCK,
Acting Secretary.
AGENDA.--
1. Correspondenes relative to the finding of rats in the neighbourhood of the Parade Ground.
2. Application for the reaction of a urinal on the first floor of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
for
3 Lotter from Messrs. Leirh & Change relative to the certificate of occupation certain houss on Hongkong Inland Lots and 22
4. Correspond once relative to the well at No. 14. Des Voux Red Centrul.
5. Minat by the Medical Offcar of Health relative to precautions against Plague.
6. Mortality Statistics for this Colony for the weeks ended the 8th and Eith June, 1901.
7. Mortality Returns from Macao for the weeks onded 9th and 16th June, 1901.
POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, 26th June.
BEFORE MR. HAZKLAND
The villages west of Toking are being heavily fazed by the brigands whom they are compelled to support both in money and kind.
Yuan Shih-kat has adopted the plan of the Provisional Government in having bor for the reception of petitions and anggestions of reform. Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang are strongly opposed to the Court's proposal to institute a poll tax, ns they spine it must inevitably load to tronble in the country.
to
The Allied Villages" movement is reported spreading in all directions, and it is now stuted the Russians have had trouble with them beyond Shaphaikan.
The Chinese believe the fire in the Polare must have ban caused by electricty, as 210 210 was in the building, which is a detached one without anyone living near it.
Prince Ching and Là Hung hang we re- ported to have solicited the aul of Japanese official in the Municipal control of Poking, but we have serious doubt as to the truth of this.
The Chinese plenipotentiaries are endeavour- ing to get the Foreign Legations to choose an entirely new site outside the Tartar City. offering to pay all expenses of removal and erection of spacious Ingations and barracks.
The Imperial silk looms at Souchow and Ningehow are to be stopped, and added to the silk factory at Hangonow, so that greater economy may be exercised in the supply of the Imperial silks, from one factory instead of three
Tho J J4 comments on the English schools being opened in the City by Chinese who are not only uneducated in Chinese but only know a smattering of English. The teachers make a considerable profit out of selling foreign books and stationery to their pupils.
An Edict of the 5th inst. ordoes students of the Hanlin College to turn their attention to the study of the national history, national laws, internations! treaties and laws, and the sciences, and prohibits such exhaustive study of poetry and classics as has prevailed hitherto,
also great conceptions. It is not my purpos to write the strategis history of the Transvaal war, but I may point out its great morut fostures. Two of these are especially striking the tenacity that is never discouraged by its goal responsibilities and go straight to without hesitating for diffenities or accidents Accordingly, Sir Redvers Buller, who ben beret been fonded with sarcasins, has remained popalar in London, and it must be said, justly The English popular mind cherishes the ideal of the man who le bent on bis task and does not let himself be discouraged.... As to the decision which a general ought to possess, We may cite the case of General French, who roda to relieve Kimberley when it was at ita last gasp, and did not hesitate to lose half his cavalry to attain his object, knowing well that the stake was worth more than a thousand horses.
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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
BY kind pertálssion of Lieutenant Colozel Carrington, C.M.G.. Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps, PROMENADE CONCERT will be held on the VOLUNTEER PARADE GROUND, on WEDNESDAY, July 3rd, in aid of the Corps Band Fund..
Admission $1; Natal and Military in uniform half-price
C. G. PRITOKARD, Captain, R.G.A., Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps. Hongkong, 21st June, 1901.
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WHISKIES.
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with the affaire Dreyfus; and much an English people were interested in it at the time of the Reaper trial, the case is now neither fresh enough to retain the public attention or old enough to have the attraction of past causes celibres. However, this little book, wherein the persecuted Captain recounts his life during DUNVILLE'S V. R. the five years when he was cut
off from the world on Devil's Island, makes an appeal which is all its own, and will, we think, deservedly have many readers. It is wil liste mainly from photographs. Black Mary, By ALAN MOAULAT. Loudon, CHOICE OLD HIGHLAND
T. Fisher Unwin.
a correct her, anything but correct villain, conventional herving, and an unjust accusation ending in a clearing up of all difficulties and the expected marriage. Here, for instance, is the here:- Godfrey Henderson, one of the most prominent of our younger painters, was a like the popular notion of an artist as could well be found,He had rowed stroke in his Varsity boat" (of course; the novel world has its Varsity strokes rauning about like rabbitalled won for himself a fair amount a good all-round athlete, and of fame as
The transport services were ably managed from the spring of 19 by Colonel Sir E. Ward, DOW Permanent Under-Secretary for War. Thanks to him, 200,000 men, moving over a
Tus novel, by the author of The Rhymer, is territory more than twice the size of France,
an effort on the writor's part to embody in have been supplied with food and munitions without any appreniable mistakes. Yet Cape fictional form the traditions, the homely say Town, his revictualling base, is as far fromings, the surroundings and mode of life of an Pretoria as Amsterdam from Lisbon. The old-time family in old-time Scotland. Much of santitary organisation was ut first, innilegunt the substance of it has been drawn from tradi- tion and from old family papers. It may but has been comedolled;, and, since Jane, 1900, everything has benn in good working order. Thesesrea group of facts which cannot be brought readily be allowed that Mr. McAulay has Tho 100 forcibly before those among us who were achieved a large mousure of success:
story can be cordially ree mmended to intoud. sharged with preparing and organising on Madagascar expedition. England alors can
moh to a point ressing readers. transfer 200,000
and maintain them there the ocean! Roveral years. She alone has a wavy and The Mystery of the Clamped Hands. By Gur
BOOTHBY, London. George Bell and Sous. mercantile marine large enough for anch In the Transvaal war commercial an effort.
In this newest story by Mr. Boothly we find transports-that is to say, one-twentieth of her moventile marine have sufficed for sich auctly what we expect to flad-a wild plot. ente luckyards, as cais double her feet in au soluble by the reader, but not by the detection, Thanks, moreover, to lor industry hurrying from incident to incident, o murder and emergency, as she did in the Crimean way.
This material power is rendered still more effective by England's exceptional geographical position, for she is at once protected against any invasion and capable of making a descent. on any point of the world that she may choose. Hitherto her statesman, from the commencement of the contury at least, have disclaime! any idea of aggression, and the Government had been only anxious to possess an army for the defence of the soil. The Transvaal war and the com- templated military reforms seem to prove that this state of mind is undergoing a clunge, and that there is an idea, not of intervening in Europe, but of acting far off in the colonies fr A PRENCH JOURNALIST ON at sea with a military strongth which could not at the same time had painted at least
most beautiful be equalled by any other nation. Mr. Brodrich theen of the
pieturas- THE BRITISH ARMY,
scheine seems to as explicit on this point.
of the mother picture with a subtle touch of Poetry in M. Germain Bapat, who was a candidato at If to those 120,000 - men
constry we add the contingents of mounted them that the Public has soon for many years. yesterday's election for a vacancy in the In liste, and will, I believe (writes the Faris colonial troops which have just proved their His height was fully six feet, bis shoulders were broad and muscular; he boasted a pleasant and correspondent of the Tiges) before long be strength in the Transvaal, we see what a
powerful
army England will in future successful, publishes a leading article in the
villain. on the other hand, was Figaro entitled "The British Army" It is have at hur disposal. Couple with this open countenance." etc. Violor Fenaden, the Hix pictures were with rare satisfaction that I transmit the fol fact the demand constantly made by all parties, lowing extracts, for I an anxious that the Conservative or Radical, for the increase of the Impressionist painter. English reader should have the pleasure of Fleet, which is already so large, and we may ask merely "protty onough in their way, but perusing an article by a representative French for what object oxcopt conquest England is lacking in form, and a trife vague as to oloating. In consequence, Victor Fenaden journalist whs is not afraid of according to accumulating saol forces. We certainly do not England ta: praise for the valorous qualities of believe that the British Government is light- her soldiers and the energy and perseverance of heartedly seeking a conflict, but it wants to committed a murder, for which the other was hor national character, and feel himself suffici-enforce its will on the world and it knows that tried and séquitled, while he was "suddeuly ently master of his subject to say exactly what this requires he passession of force. The Ea- called to appear bofore a greater ritmas!" he thinks. Ho does not seek for popularity by glish are a practical people. They do not take just as his guilt became clear: Geoffrey then disparaging what he knows to be worthy of the trouble to discuss matters with men whom took out praise and subordinating his knowledge of his they know to be incapable of resisting them. subject to the ignorance of the generality of With those whom they dose of equal strength his readers. Nor has he fallen into the opposite they finally agree to treat. To those who are If he has praised unreservedly, he has stronger than themselves they yield. This should not
In Houan near the borders of Chibli Province a Society calling itself the Heavenly Society recently started and enrolled several thousand members, each of whom were a ring on the right hand with the characters of the Society The leader has been arrested by an official named Ching Fuchsion and the Sonioty will probably be broken up
error
criti indiscriminately, and his very be a warning to the statesmen at the bad of
our country. Si vis pacom para bellumn"
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us chance of securing it in book form in Messrs. From the doleful accounts reaching throughout the spring and the gloomy riet Bell's excellent Indian and Colonial Library taken of the future by those who in the slackeri. season had visited those markets we were pre- pared 10
unprecedented diffenities attending the commencement of business this season, and it is not too much to say, that the Chiness rather expected ther than otherwize. We do not mean that we were prepared to so no buying until the middle or end of Jane (as some predicted) or that Chiness expected to get
add weight to his observations. "England is a nation that is faithful to precedent and dislikes changes. In the army. more than anywhere elso, there is a refusal to nake innovations, nat.an eurieurour to keep to the old lines. The English Army is, therefore, an old army, whose traditions as to the staff, armanent, manouvres, and reoruiting are out of date. So it has always been in history, but at the same time, whenever things have become serious and demanded change. English tenacity has tom its best to draw up the reforms
The Sivorinu Railway in its pressat condition required, and has carefully carried them out.
writes the Times corm pondout at Odessa, The Transvaal war will show us once more how
had apparently, bitterly isappointed many of There were five cases of illicit possession of speedily and cloverly the English Army modifies
the hopes it originally fail. I have just had opiam, the fines ranging from 2 to 815.
its organisation and tactics. The armament of
a conversation with an officer lately returned TWO THIEVING YOUNGSTERS. Two Chinese boys were charged with snatch. The troops especially the artillery, is not equino offers for their tong for some time after their from the Far East, who confirms the rumours to that of other countries. In the Transvaal, arrival--that would indeed be a serious which have been current for some time past in ing a gold watch chain, locket, and some gold for instance, the English guns were much in-collapse in a trade that is dying out, but the connection with the dishonest practices carried on Trinkets from the parison of Mrs. F. Frampton.ferior to those of the Boers.
end is not yet. What we and they looked for, both by the contractors for the railway work Mrs. Frampton stated that as she was walking
There was no reconnaissance departarent, under all the existing circumstances was a along Queen's Road West on Tresday at 2 she saw two boys, the accused, coming out of no advance guard, and low or no outposts at determination on the part of buyers not to begin und by certain of the Government supervisors. Dongius Lase. The second accused pushed the the beginning of the war. How many batta-basiness unless they could purchase on a tig informant does not hesitate to affirm that plundered in most shameless manner by the first against her, and he snatched the chain and licus we have seen surprise, surrounded, and tinetly lower basis of price than they did last the Government has in several cases bhen
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other articles from her tees. Then the two
execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD- ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as well as in REPAIRING of SHIPS. The COMPANY has a POWERFUL SAL VAGE PLANT READY SHORT NOTICE.
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C. E.. WARREN, BUILDING CONTRACTOR, No. 25, ABERDEEN STEEKT.
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prompt attention, rade prisoners at one blow! An advance year, These remarks do not apply to our responsible for the efficient carrying out of th Indian cou-table, who, however, semned unohla vared General Broadwood's artillery, which was which our rivals in India and Ceylon have that millions of roubles have found destination USED FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS. rau again down the lane. Complainent tok an / grard at the Bloemfontein reservoir would have specialities, Souchongs and Flowery Pekoes, contract on various portions of the line, and to do anything for her. She then went to the originally commandod have been superseded by stable commodity,, Uongon, that we write, and quite other than that intended by the Govern
Contaal Station and reported the matter.
The Chinese accountant of Tui Fong's pawnshop at 96, Queen's Road West, stated that at pan. the second defendant brought the chain and trinkets to his master's shop to pawn them, saying they belonged to his mother and she wanted $7 ou them, Suspecting that it was stoles property, he took the boy to the police
caught as in a mouse-trap. The gonerals who experiensed men who had previously fought on battlefields like those in South Afries, and, whether in Afghanistan or the Sondau, had been able to overcome the difenities of maintaining long lines of communications amid deserts and in terrible climates. These new chiefs soon
300 changed the tactics, aud with British per severaner they imve succeeded in reversing the The Boers no longer surprise British
not
yet succeeded in interfering with. It is of our
ment promoters of the entossal undertaking. He what have we seen? So far from there having declares that in several instances the Gorem been any hitch, the market sprang into life ment officials charged with the super of almost as soon as the samples were shown, and the work must have been, perfectly cognisant on a scale of prices fully on a parity with those of the fact that vast sums of money were established at the opening of the market last year, blowing the forecast to the winds. And being systematically diverted from their so we are launched into the the season of 1901 Proper channels and openly suggests that their own pecuniary advantage was at the .002.
The Chinese are making handsome bottom of their protended ignorance of what profits, and as regards the best chops of bagh was going on. The glaring dishonesty of them, since it will encourage them to supply constraction of the railroad has been carried to
station. where he was detained. First defen- silnation officers have studied the labits trist it is a good thing they have macertain of the individuals responsible for the
the
dans pleaded guilty. His accomplice in columna. crime decured that the former had given bit the chain asking him to pawn it. He did not know it had been stolen.
His Worship sentenced both young thieves to six weeks hard lubert and fwelve streses
- with the birch.
BEFORE MR. KEMP.
TWO CASES OF ASSAULT.
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0135
CHINESE
LISDICTIONARY.
WITH THE PUNTI, AND MANDARIN PRONUNCIATION.
For comprehensiveness and practical service this Work stande unrivalled. All the new words which the Chinese have of late years been com- pelled to coin to express the numerous objects in machinery, photography, telegraphy, and in science generally, which the rapid adrance of foreign relations has imposed upon them, ars here given in extenso. Each and every word is fully illustrated and explainative nature. Both forming exercises
students of a most
for the Court and Punti pronunciations are given,
the accents being carefully marked on the best principle hitherto attained. The typography isplays the success of an attempt to make the Chinese and English type correspond in the size of body, thereby offceting a vast economy of space, achieving clearness not previously attained, and dispensing with those vast margins and vacant symes which have haretofore charge-
of their adversaries, and have borrowed their command, flying columns, composed of mounted
trade if there was a larger margin in price; minimum width at top of Lift have been luid troops almost entirely drawn from the colonial of advantage to all those interested in the of the lins stipulated by antract to have
between those that are best and those that are with a width of barely lift, a state of things contingents, travezes enormions distances with. out baggage, pursne the commandos uninter-
which, of course, precludes all possibility of riptedly, frogs-ntly force them to acerpt combatt. It may be indeed is arguod now that
Justices of against their will, inlliot losses, and defeat the important shortage in the yield of first, crop guaranteeing the safety of the ling ander their projects. The British Army in the (catimated at 30 per cent) warrants the prices
Combankments giving way after a fail of rain Transvaal now numbers 204),000 men, 60,000 of paid for every chop so far shipped, looked at as ordinary working conditions.
first steamer shipments, his scarcely fits in have been protty frequent already, and accidents Mr. N. Noer. of Wanchai Sirest, a building whom, nearly all colonials, form these Sying with that was generally thought a fortnight have happened noend which nothing has been one printed in London for which fifty conta interized Chinese Past step
That is more information than is given on foreman, was assaulted by a Chinese bricklayer columns. Thor muinder, the infantry recruited
heard hore, the Siberinu Railway authorities charge. The price of the locally printed by name U Tse. As defendant failed to appear in England, Dow guards the lines of com- After all it is nothing new that the opening being nothing if not discreet.
correct card is 20 cents on paper. 30 cents on the court order bis bail of 815 to be forfeital.munication. In this latter force we see the
of business should go contrary to local pr My informant adds that the whole matter cardboard. Supplied only for cash by Daily Chan Tez Wing, a fortune-teller, of Praya English soldier, who has been in the Transvaal, concaived ideas. It has long been evident that of the construction of the line is at pro-Press Office or the Booksellers. West, was assaulted by an angry customer, who what he was at Waterloo or in the Crimea.
however disastrous a past season may have been sint under the careful consi eration of the did not like the way complainant prophesied
than his future. Acensed and to pay a line of sit! He has borne an unheard-of amount of fatigue to shippers, the circumstanes has no indnence | Government, and that it is more.
and privation, such as professional soldiers of on the opening prices of the next season. Is prob long service can alone endure. Under äre he ments, Spitzkop
or do the weeks' hard labour.
TRESPASSING ON WAR DEPT. PROPERTY.
G. Bf. P. Sergeant William Haloop charged
an Indian barler with trespassing into a tene nient, the property of the War Department,
Defendant was given the option of paying $5 fine or going to prison for fourteen days.
EXPORT CARGOS:
ago,
probable that several portions of the line that our buyers as a body have no control over. When it became Lapwo a short while ago has been steady and calm. In several engage- tus been proved, the present opening provee it, will have to be relaid as quickly as possible
them, the Inniskillings the market; it is those at a distance in the and the Dublin to cite only these two.
that the Government intended to hold & various consuming markets who unwittingly
Orders come from all quarters of searching inquiry into the various scandals which have come to light in connection with the agiments, lost 66 per cent, without giving way control it.
railway, more than one Eussisu railway engineer lost no time in quitting Siberia without leaving his address behind him. The question of rail-
relevant at the moment in view of the
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or losing spirit But if the regiments may be the globe for, say, finest teas to be shipped considered first-rate when massed in battle, it must be acknowledged that in isolated detach by first stoomer; they may be ever
small but in the bands of several firm ments they have faltered terribly. How can we
IEN TING.
SURGEON DENTIST, No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1891.
To illustrate the rast scope of the work the following facts are subunitted for consideration
Chalmers Vocabulary, contains about 16,000 Chinese characters, and Medhurst's English and Chinese Dictionary about 100.000 whilst this work contains more than 50,000 English words, and upwards of 600,000, Chinese characters Again, despite all the grammare and other elementary works as yet published, the student of this difficult language absolutely requires ex- amples to display the various applications and equivalents of different words which have one
[32 general meaning. Of these examples this work contains more than five times as many as my other Dictionary hitherto published.
Ford purposes this arrangement of the
enables a pose that a reference to its pages. a person who understands English to oomunicate effectively with natives woo under stand nothing but Chinese. In this respect the
A ON & CO., explain these constant capitulations of Bruil they lead to a good deal of comped way construction by the State is peonlar | PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PORTRAIT work":
tion in the course of their execution,
PAINTERS. garrisons and poets which still continue? An вий so it comes about that the most position in which iussia finde herself in con. angry has been demanded on this pofat, but careful buyers find themselves obliged to pay sequence of the enormous expenditure incurred All kinds of Oil Paintings and Photographie whether it will over be made is donbifal. In
Enlargements her of late in railway building... The prices their neighbours doem sbsurdly high, by oar Algorian wars, which exhibit some analogies. Smell though these orders may be, they ag expediency of the Russian Government's 59A, TOP FLOOR, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. to that in the Transvaal, we had only one caRO
Opposite to Clas. J. Gatpp & Co. gregate quite suficient to set business going assuming direct responsibility for its various of this kind in 18 years. And how many were
Hongkong, 20th March, 1901. the combats in which all succumbed to the very and establish a scale of prices which others railway enterprises is to-day more than ever last man: Need I recall Sidi-Brahim and the have to follow or lose their chase of an doabled by those who have all along persistently
interest in first steamer. This is the ex-advocated the
giving of affair of Sergeant Blandan
planation of our early activity and big prloes, andertakings to private capital. The question MACHINERY With regard to the plan of campaign. It is undoubtedly a hard case that the regular la seriously asked whether events have demon there have been, as in every war failures and trader should have the market spoilt for him strated the wisdom of Rnisia's humbling herself
freer hand in sach
Per steamer hipeus, suiled on the 14th June. For Liverpool:- pkgs. toa (particulars un- F001), 1.700 trates hemp 129 balos mass, 100 cases palxa leat fang, 53 cases, bambooware, 22 euses private effects and curios, 2 casse cigars For Manchester:-25 bales waste silk.
For P. & O. steamer Parramata sailed on the 2nd June. For London: 90 bales waste ilk opt. Manchester, the. tea from Amer 327 boxes tea from Macao, 1 case cigars from Manila, I case cigars, 2 cases books, 10 cases bristles, 20 cases vermillion, 4 cases camphor-
IT IS BETTER TO KEEP WELL than to have at the commencement of the Besson by a hand-by making pilgrimages to Paris for the purposs wood trauks, 30 pkgs, tea, 15 cases zilka, 50 hales raw silk, canes grasseloth. I case effects. the quickest possible recovery from illness. That ful of small orders, practically unlimited as to of covering advances made to railways which For Lyons:-335 bulus raw silks For Maris why there is such a universal demand for price, and sent by people who will have no would have been infinitely better and certainly seilles:19 bales raw silk, £ cases lacquerware, articles like LIBIG Company's Extract, now further interest in the article during the season infinitely more economically constructed by
[1200-4 but where is the remedy P-Podchive Echio. called LEMCO. 1 case silk.
private enterprise.
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