20, so as to most the recent decision of the Hon. Attorney-General re Crown streets In the. rear of private buildings not counting as "open spaces in the rear, provided by the owner.
The Acting Director of Public Works minated The houses are certainly well sitaated as meards open space in the rear. I consider it absurd to require the provision of backyards in such cases. What I would like to sec would be a restriction in the enormous height of the houses, fronting on such a hurtow street. Isin iu favour of passing them."
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 190-
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.7 PORTUGUESE CLERKS.
4th September.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY FRI88.”
8m, The Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.,
MAFEKING RELICS.-
A mass of doenments, bound in a volume,
MR. KRUGER ON THE SITUATION.
The Tires Puris correspondent wrote on the 4th nit
Mr. CHATHAM seconded, and the motion is latest attack being on the poor hard-working of the Parsee community here, may be trusted the resourceful "B, P." te there is this mass officially as Mr. Kruger's" declarations."
IMEWASHING RETURN.
like and see how he guides and controls the fold. rondering it not only difficult but highly risky for any wary batsman to make runs. It is which has been brought to public auction almont a matter for pity that the local cricket at home, furnishes a record of all, or nearly all, the authorities have not cast their eyes beyond the official correspondence which passed during the Straits. If it was possible to arrange for a siege of Mafeking between General Baden three days' match between a Bombay Parsee Powell and the Boer commantora, both the
investing the plucky little town, and these can eleven and an Interport gleven, to be played in trolling the operations of the enemy from Hongkong, it might prove treat that Hong-distance. Amid much that is of little general might not find it difficult to come sat hare. orders the various inttory tickets, tickets for Dr. CLABE moyed that the Board Bccept the making himself more and more objectionable org could not easily forget. A Parsos team interest in the volume, ench as the dally army food, licences to keep siege dogs, programmes to all sorts and conditions of men in this Colony. Our local sportsman, Mr. H. N. Mody, the fender of concerts, Mafoking bank notes designed by buildings as they now stand as complying with the Ordinance.
and law-abiding Portuguese clerics. As a rulo to arrange for the reception and accommdoda of correspondence between the leaders of the Was carried
I seldom to take the trouble to read thre
tion of such tearn. Nearer home wo have opposing forces, which recalls some of the most
memorable incidents of the investment. Government Gazelle, as I find little that intorests me there, but your correspondent "Imparcial" already e Parsee cricket club bere, the present first drew say attention to the Salaries Comembers of which are too. modest to seek mitteo, I fully endorse your correspondent's comparison with their Bombay brothers, but there are among them some who might well bo opinion on the subject, and consider Mr. May's tried in the local team for the coming interport uncalled for remarks as a gross and gratuitous contest; or failing that, a match during the insult to the Portuguesa clerks in this Colony ensuing season might be arranged between in general. What makes his opinion more I of the Hongkong Cricket Club and another serious for the Portuguese clerks is that it was.
of the Hongkong Parsee Cricket Club.-Yours published in an official Gazette. It is thos
etc.,
PARSEE. more apt to create a very wrong impression as regards the real morits of the Portuguese çlerks in general, and it behoves the Consul of that community also to officially protest and to remove this impression. Fortunately, however, this is merely the opinion of one man, who is biassed, and who like all other men is liable to err. Mr. May no doubt estimated the average
The limewashing return for the fortnight ended 2nd inst. was laid on the table. The return shows that in the Eastera district, out of a total of 1,880 house, altogether 1,147 have
been limewashal.
WATER ANALYSIS,
Reports were laid on the table relative to the analysis of public water supplies for the month of August. Samples were taken from The Kowloon, Tytam, and Pokefnium services, and in each case the water was found to be of excellent quality.
MORTALITY IN MACAO The mortality return from Macao for the wook ended 25th August shows a total of 69 deaths. None was dus to plague.
MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR THE COLOST. The mortality statistics for this Colony for the week ended 24th Augast show a death-te of 27.0 per 1,000, as against 16.8 in the preced. ing week and 21.8 in the corresponding week of last year.
UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROSECUTIONS UNDER
GUDINANCERATAMA - Dr. CLAEK moved that Inspector J. T. Cot. tou be authorised by the Beard to institute prosecutions in cases of contravention of the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance.
Mr. CHATHAM Seconded, and the motion was Byread to.
ADDITIONAL SENIOR INSPECTORE. to a telegram being sent to England regarding Correspondence was laid ou the table relative the appointment of five senior inspectors,
Dr. Atkinson on the 28th August wrote to the Gaverument recommending that a
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power to get the Colony into such a condition that the plagus could be attacked at its onnet when it appears, as it prolisbly would, early next year. The first caso appeared this year on the 4th of January. If these senior inspectors
indubitably a reliable and submissive lot, and it is really a display of bad taste on the part of Mr. May that he should needlessly run down a good and quiet section of the community, one
POLICE COURT. Thursday, 5th September..
BEFORE ME. HAZSLANTE
CREATING—A TERT CASE,
the
At this time, when a good deal is being written concerning the Boer treatment of the wounded, it is worth while to quote a letter when the enemy were killing the women whom from General Baden-Powell, which, he wrote they found outside Mafeking. The letter, like most of the other records of correspondenes in the volume, is a type-written duplicate of the original (presumably from a press copy-book). It is dated 10th April, 1900, and is addressed to Commandant J. L. Botha, Marice Laager, near Mafeking:
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Ons of Mr. Kragor's chief representatives. and interpreters in France, M. Henri des Houz. who is also on the staff of the Figaro, has just approached," as he alle It, Mr. Kruger for He finds him esentially the third time. unchanged, but no longer troubled by his eyes, The object of his visit was an interview, and certain amount of copy, which by export he has returned from his pilgrimage with a dilution ho spread yesterday over four columns of the Figaro. This production comes forth
Questioned rat on the charges of cruelty made against the Boors, Mr. Krager declined to confirm or deny them, but added immediately. that these fresh censations seemed to be rather retort to several Beer reports regarding the incontestable iohumanity of the English. War was at the best, he continued, a cruel business; but the Boer canse would justly be condemned by God if. Boer soldiers had committed a twentieth part of the crimer committed by the English Mr. Kragor naturally appealed to the testimony of Bliss Hobhouse, although he protested that her story was necessarily incom- plate: Whea impartial history registers these facts in their detail the world will shudder with horror."
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***Sir, I was much gratilled on Saturday last hear from you that the women who were
It was barilly necessary to “approach" Mr. wounded by your burghers had been shot at by Kruger with the solemnity of the present in- mistakę in the night, but I am now informed that terviewer to elicit such utterances as these, but last night your burghers again fred on women, on a more interesting theme, that of the impor.. and killed nine ont of thirteen of them. Now
tance of Mr. Reitz'e lotter. Mr. Kruger is hard- I wish to ask you what course you propose to ly less disappointing. He has doubts in the take in the future regarding women and chil- frat place, as to its authenticity, bat_ dren.1. Your present system is to shall the granting this, it merely proves that out of some ability of the Fortuguese clarks in general by
Ng Yan Kum was charged yesterday morning in their town, and thus to forse them to try thousands of men suffering from all sorts of to soaps from Mateking. 2. If they go by privations some for hava bad a nonse of lassitude with cheating in respect of $22.30. the little experience he has of certain very
Mr. Wilkinson prosecuted and Mr. Hays day your man capture them and bast them and not at all that Mr. Reits himself shared this and send them back, and sometimes shoot fealing. Moreover, if he desired to arouse a them. 3own. underpaid clorka, little more than lys, who
they go by night your mon salutary reaction ho has snooooded. Immediately Mr. Wilkinson said:On the 3rd of July shoot thom
I now write to ask
after the date assigned to the lutter the through sheer necessity are obliged to take appeared for the defence. employment to earn a pittance. It is very last, defendant came aboard of complainant's whether you will let women and children pass Generala decided unanimously to continue the unfair to draw condugiens therefrom. In my fishing junk, and asked for employment, re: out through your lines on the condition that
wer to the bitter end, and hostilities were I have had presenting himself as a fisherman." Complainant they do not return, and that I undertake not renewed with redoubled vigour. Mr. Kragor opinion (and, Mr. Editor, a good deal to do with this class of our engaged him, and as is usual in such cases paid to send letters or other communications by afirmed that be himself had no knowledge him an advance of wages of $22.30. Defendant them. If your men have not already buried of stapa having been taken in favour of commopolitan community), the Portuguese clerks after receiving the money disappeared. De- the womon, I beg you will send permission for mediation. More effective than an appeal to are as a rule a very steady, accurate, hard- fendant had perpstrated similar offences,
the Rowers will be. thinks, the impression We heard a good deal at the time of the shell-made upon them by the spectacle of the horrors working and intelligent lot of men, in he was prepared to prove; but as an important my ambalance to bring in the bodies." telegram ba sent to the Secretary of State fact they are exactly contrary to what Mr. May point of law was involved in the decision, heime of the women's lager, and there is this now being committed in South Africa. "I! would test the case by only bringing for-
letter from the offloor in command at Mafeking, have once already made a proposal for peace the Colonies requesting that these thinks of them. They have beside one goodward at present one witness, the complainant, dated 28th January: With reference to your on honourable terms dirvet to Great Britain.
—ས mon be appointed and sent out to Hang point, which is sobriety. Of course, like every The important point of law referred to was deliberate shelling of the women's langer. It still stands; I will not monow it." The kong at as early a date as possible.
Boars were not the aggressors, and if the pointed out, to make every endeavour in its in the fold, but as clerks in general they are according to Roscoe, unless it can he proved had the Dutch prisoners and informers lodgedwar still continues it is not they who are at Current Rates was incumbent upon the Board, the President † other nation in the world, there are black shoup that a man cannot be charged with cheating; | yesterday, I beg to inform you that I have now
that he attempted or perpetrated a similar in a temporary prison there, so that any responsible. They are defending their liberty, offence on more than one person or more
further shelling in that direction will pro-and the sole condition upon which ther than one time, or when his deed affects tably kill your friends, and you may hold your will lay dowe their arms is that that lieberty
elf reposible for their deatha" Bearing on shall be guaranteed them. For this indepen general public.
The complainant deposed as follows --I
this kaljuot there is about the same time a dence the children and the grandchildren of the and Kus Sums Lce, in Shanhaikwan harbour. that a native boy escaped from the Boers two is impossible to destroy a race, and a strong On the 3rd of July defendant came aboard the nights ago. He states that he heard the Boers Aum Sum Lee and asked to be employed as
their firing at the hospital, &a, and they then as it in the custom to do so, paint on setting fired two shots at it on purpose. These fell of wages of $22.30, Defendant after getting close to the hospital on the 2nd inst." They the money, said he would go ashore for his bad-understood alliterative contents bills during the ding and return. He never came back. I siege, for there is a pincent of the Mafeking defendant in the street again on the 29th Mail of 3th March, 1930, aunoumeing the August. I am the owner as well as the captain surrender of Cronje. "Boers Belting Before of the jonk Kum Sum Lee. The latter junk Bobel Dordrecht Taken at Point of Bayonet! had remained at Shantinikwa barhour ever Colesberg Capture Confirmed! Glorious Slaugh- ter of Women, Slayers! One Thousand Boera Killed! Seven Thousand Surrendered Cronje
Prisoner! Snyman to be Hanged!" It was Commandant Suyman with whom all the correspondence passed relative to shooting women and firing on the hospital, and it was to Suyman also that Baden-Powell communicated the circumstances of Eloff asking for pormission to join in the cricket and dancing by which the besieged killed time. Gen. Baden-Powell's letter them in cricket “when the match in which we eaying he would like nothing better than to join
are having our innings, and have, so far, scored two hundred days not out," is well known. The John Maidment, a letter from Commandant Eloff, written on 20th in the documents of the volume referred it. It with no signant, deoared himself a vagrant April, to which it was an answer, is included
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there was much to be done to improve the sani tary condition of the Colony. Eight Brst-class inspectors had been provided for in this year's Estimates, but there were only three inspectors on the actual stan, therefore the senior in- spectors, provided they arrived this year, could be paid out of the lapsing salaries if the Arst class inspectors,
H. E. the Governor approved the suggestion contained in the letter, and on 30th August the following telegram was despatched to the Beere- tary of State for the Colonies-Referring to my despatch No. 265 of 23rd July, send at once fire senior sanitary inspectors.”
This was all the busfuess,
SUPREME COURT
Thursday, 5th September. IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SESCOMBE SMITH (ACTING FUINE JUDGE),
first settlers and the older British and foreign community of this Colony.Yours, etc.
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A FRIEND OF PORTUGUESE steersman. I engaged him for 150 days, and saying that we have written protesting against | said the war would be over by Christmas, 1899, FIRST-CLASS FOREIGN and CHIKES RISKS
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRISS." 5th September. SIE, In view of the approaching cricket season and the Interport Cricket Carnival, for which preparations are going on in right earnest, it may interest your sporting readers to know that a privato telegram has been received from Bombay announcing the success of the representativo Parsee XI against the Bowley Presidency Team. The constitution of the opposing teams is worth noting. Cricket is a very popular game in India, and in Bombay
being
since.
Mr. Hay at this point asked to have the case vary important point of law adjourned, since
involved, he required a little time to study. the case.
"Mr. Wilkinson having not objection the adjournment was granted.
Bail was first fixed by His Worship at 8250; but upon defendant stating through his counsel that he could only obtain 8100, and Mr. Wit- Huson not objecting to a reduction of the amount of bail, this being really marely a test case, of amail importance otherwise, His Wor-
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Mr. Kruger does not think that Botha is in Cape Colony, but, if need be he will go there,
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A VAGRANT.
BEFORE ME. KEMT.
NOT COMPLETING HIS JOURNEY. Eleat. C. A. Ball-Acton, R.W.F., engaged from Murray Barreks to the Gun Club, and ricksha No. 442 on the 31st ult, to take him told the coolin to wait and take him back again. When complainant came out of the Gun Club he found the coolie had disappeared.
Defensant admitted the charge and was fined
or fourteen days.
the war would still go on as steadily as over in the British South African colonies. Wherever there is a man of our race there is a soldier ready to take up arms in defence of liberty, The public executions in Cape Colony ate most useful to our cause Avengers spring from the blood of martyrs."
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His Lordship gare judgment in a case that devotees of this national English game many
to traders distinguished players, in the Colony Shawan, Homes & Companys nesting and play as Bnglishmen, other Euro- merebants, 14, Des Voeux Rood Central, suud Next to Englishmen the Parsees have made the Fook Lee firm, 24, Hillier Street, claiming their name as cricketers. It is an acknowledged $7669 for damages for breach of contract, the particulars whereof are as follows:By & con- fact in the cricket world of all India that the trast in writing hearing date the 15th day of Bombay Purses ericketers are the best bowlers April, 1901, and made between the plaintiffe in Bombay and the smartest fielders in all and the defendants, the defendants purchased from the plaintiffs 660 kegs of wire nails at Indis. So much so that the Bombay Parses 88-15 per picnl. It was particnar teria of cricketers were considered invincible. They this contract that the, defendants should take won all sorts of local and other matches. They delivery
of the good within one week from and have been about three times to England with of their arrival in tao Cólóny
Tots In breach of
the terms of the contret, the defendants, although varied suco Lord Hawke some years ago called upon by the plaintiffs to take delivery ought out a team to play, intor alia, a Parses XI at Bombay and a return match at Poons. Iu in accordance with the terms to the contract, rofased so to do, and repudiated the contract in both conterte Lord Hawke got a sound beating. its entirety, The plaintiffs, in consequence of Lord Harris, no mean exponent of this manly the contract, resold the goods, and upon snoh re-sale suffered damages to the extent aforesaid game, happened about this time to be the Gover nor of Bombay. His Lordship it was who firat Mr. J. 3. Harston, solicitor, appeared for the plaintifs, and Mr. E. Bursthouse, solicitor, for conceived and carried out the idea of opposing the defendants combined team chosen from all the various
The goods, it appears, arrived in the Colony. on the 20th July-Ays days late Ar viewed in parts of the Bombay Presidency, including some the terms of the contest, which indefinitely of the crack bats and bowlers among English opium dross, without a valid certificate from letter from Eloff is one in which be requested due. He does not hate them, but merely a Class Foreign and Chinese Risks at Current
stated the time of arrival to be two or three months from the date of the contract
Mr. Harston raison, two pointe in this con- nection. First, be contended that the date of arrival, #warranty,
two or thine mouth, was only 47, not condition urocoment, joka Mr. Hursthouse, for the defendants, held on the other hand that the fate" was a condition precedant, and not a warranty, thus giving the defendants the right to rescind the contract.
The second point raised by Mr. Harston was one of time, the more important of the two in its general agaiñentice. He submitted that the plainting in their use of the time to three months," did not specify a particular date for the arrival of the goods, simply about two or three months
Mr. Hursthouse took the oppoelta view. argued that erat dato was meant with three months sa the limit, p
On the first point his Lordship followed the
civilian and military cricketers. Every year hi the middle of August a three days match is fixed to be played between the Presidency team and the Farsees. Saturday is always the last day of the match, and if a visitor, were passing by the cricket ground that afternoon he would simply be astounded to see an ordofly throng of some 12,000 to 15,000 spectators enjoying the friendly battle. The Presidency team for many years included noob a renowned bat as Captain Greig, whom your sporting correspon- dent referred to only tho other day. To tell the truth, Captain Greig was a terror to the Parece eleven. Once, in a true sportsmanlike spirit, the Parsee Captain presented. Greig with a bat in token of the remembrance of the huge trouble he gave them in getting him
case of Ohi Yuen Ebraham on appeal, out. He was the recognised century bat
and decided in favour of the defendants of the Presidency team. The Parsee team that the date of the arrival of the goods war condition precedent. On the question et time he held that three months meant calendar -months, and that lath July was the termination of the peried in which the goods ware to arrive. Judgment was scoartlingly entered for the
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Ises in the Bulawayo Chronicle that your mea in Mafeking play cricket on Sundays, and give concorta and balls on Sunday evenings. In case yen would allow my men to join in saune, it would be very agreeable to me, as here
Lastly, Mr. Krnger declares that the Boers fair sex, and there can be no merriment without
will never give up their flag, the symbol of their outside Mafeking there are seldom any of the their being present. In the event of your freedom, that a complete amnesty must be being able to allow this, we conlil spend some
have not to ask for an amnesty, being helli-UNERAL AGENTS for the thous Undersigned, having been appointed of the Sundays which we may still have to granted to the Afrikanders as for ourselves go through round Mateking, and of which gerents "that a protoctorate is out of the ques- there will probably be many yet, in friendship tion" if we wanted to be protooted it is not Comp ny, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS and unity. During the course of the weok you
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[439 Hongkong, 7th February, 1901. and I shall then be on the cricket ground or at struct their shattered homesteads, and recon- the all-room with my men at the time appointed struct their country-to undertake such by you. Wishing you a pleasant day, Eloff, long and difleult task we must have complete Commandant, Johal Commsado."
No wonder that on 1st May the defender of limited therty and that, finally, the only thing the Boers can possibly give to obtain Mafeking wrote to General Snyman, enclosing pesos is money, which they are willing to pour another letter from Eloff, and presuming the out like water. It is his conviction that the ofBeer in not quite of sound mind. The other English will finally grant them, what is their General Badon Powell to send "50 blank forma plores their blindness and pride. He daily of warrants of apprehendion and two pairs of affers up prayers to God for those who are haudenffa." It was not long after that Eloff dying, the victims of an unjust cause, and for made that closer acquaintance with Mafok- the British Government, which no obstinately ing which he so much desired, for on 13th May persists in its earsed enterprise. When peace is concluded he wishes to lire on good and loyal there is a letter to Bayman informing him. that, in the fight yesterday a number of your terms with the English in perpetual peace and burghers were killed and wounded," and that friendship and the reciprocal recognition of I have 20 prisoners, including Commandant rights. The proof of the justice of the Bour Eloff and four officers." This, it will be re- cause is to be found in the universal sympathy membered, was the outcome of the rush which of the world. This shows that God is with Curront Ratos, the Boers made on the defences and of the them and will not abandon them. "I am more never use by which they were captured... Inconfident than ever, ha declares.
the same letter Gen. Baden-Powell anggeats
The Temps, commenting on this interview that an bis food supplies will not admit of and on Mr. Chamberlain's speach, says giring the prisoners a very good or pleatifal Nobody can foreses the end of so terribls a ration, Snyman might care to send them extra conflict between two equally obstinate races. food, which would be handed over to them "in England may have avoided the general rising bulk as it arrives." In conclusion, I should of the Cape Afrikanders, but not the distrust like to record my admiration of the gallant way of that population, who had previously given in which your burghers fought yesterday."
stich strong proofs of loyalty. The Afrikander Some of the news slips--such as that telling is morally united, and united against
of the enthusiasm in England and the aureling
the Empire, and as England does not yet
of the Volunteers-signad E. H. Ceoil, Major, are securely hold the soil on which that race lives interesting reading, and the menu of the dinner the present situation is not very favourable for gives at Dixon's Hotel by Leutnant-Colonel her
Vyvyan, to celebrate the ith day of the siege,
shows that the diners were regalod on Cunarde One of the correspondents who want through 10 rolis à la Cronje, Hartcost vert à la Lee felford, the siege of Ladysmith, Mr. Donald Macdonald, Crepes aux drapeau blanc, and so forth. The tells some good stories. One of the bast is that volums contains documenta dating from Bulu-
of a young older, who, en a critical occasion, Wayo 2nd September, 1899, to Nylstroom volunteered to eat some wire fences, as he was $28,507.20 26th August. 1500, when General Baden-Powell the only man who possessed's wire-cutter. If
wrote to General Grobler. Waterburg Com mando, requesting the surrender of arms within Was a perilous operation, conducted under a galling fire, yet the officer escaped. Some time afterwards Mr. Macdonald met him, and said, twenty-four hours.
I suppose you always carry wire-entines now f No fest,
was the raly. ** I cork-screw
I carry a Per Reamer Patroclue, siled on the 13th and a tin-opener; they are more useful. An Angust. For Liverpool 25 kalf-chests tea other story is of the discovery of a Boer who from Macao (particulars unknown), 100 Fules had received a terrible bayonet wound through matting, 100 bales bambooware, 20 bales tencuata, 4 pkgsundries. For Glasgow case gare. Per esmer Doric, sailed on the 15th August For San Francisco cases, silkgoods For T Libertad cases silkgoods. For Acajutla
C. P. CHATEE, Hon. Tress. ST. JACKSON, E
A new jungle story: The Honess I hope it won't hurt your feelings, dear, but the report is being aireslated that your husband mate eater. The here (overally) Alani hare good foot for thinking that it's only too glean The Tonete Yes What aroused you, suspicious! The greu Four or five times Intely, I've caught the smell of
D. Fenchurch Avenue, London his broath.”
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SIEMSSEN & CO.
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Hongkong, 28th May, 1895.
UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
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SIEMSSEN & CO., Agenta
Hongkong, 16th May, 1992.
THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM- PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, INCORPORATED 1851.` CAPITAL.............£410,000,
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WM. MEYERINK & CO.
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Hongkong, 18th May, 1900,
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COMPANY.
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HOTZ, s'JACOB & CO.
[33 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900,
TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG As the man was being carried into the ribs.
The Undersigned, having been appointed the British lines, a London "Tommy" who wAN watching him asked if he was badly hurt. AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- "Yes" said the doctor, do you know him?"pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at
SIEMBSEN & CO, Course I do," said the soldier, "he's one o' Current Bates
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2 od dkgoods For Guayaquil 7 milk mine. I gur itim, but I did it as gentle an I good For Callao 2 ones silkgoods. For could. It won't the shovin in; it was the New York.-1 oase silkgoods, 50 bales raw silk. ) pullin' out. Lucky fork he met me,"