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PUNJOM MINING CO., LD.
ANNUAL MEETING.
The sixth ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above Company was hell at the offer, 13. Beaconsfield Arcade, yester- day at noon. Mr. B. C. Wilo (obnirmuo) | presided, and the others present were Messrs url (director), WK. Hughes (secre- tary), P. A. Ferguson, H. C. Wilcoi, J. A. Fredericks, R. Walpole. W. T. Showan, K. Edulji, G. M. Bain, E. W. Terrey, Max Michael, A. H. Kibuire, E. Bowdler, E. J. Figuured, E. E. Elins, and Kong Kam.
The notice calling the meeting having been read by the SECRETARY,
TheCBATUMAN said-Gentlemen, in present- ing to you the report and statement of accounts for the past your-which I prepos, following the usual custom, should be taken as road-1 have lifthe farther to add to what I bave stated at
THE HONGKONG DAILY PR SS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1903
THE ANGLO-SAXON IN THE ORIENT
LECTURE BY LU. TENTECOST. Under the suspices of the Ord Volumes Society, Rev. Dr. George F. Pentecost lectured in S. Andrew's Hall (City Hall) on Monday evening. Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretory, presided over an audience which complately filled the ball.........
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well-defined school of art. It met us ut every right at the door of China? Bermeo England turn-in potters, in porcelain, in carving and was anequal to the job herself. England and decoratiu, sillee, satins and embroidarios and America were the only two great count ring which themand and one other things Chinesa urte stood in fánlation, free of other intind and yet
Power. so-called were of the very highest kind of art. i didarity with each other, England had no America had no treaty with any race ON Eastern art in a Weston home was beautiful complication with any Eurogan Western art in on Eastern bota excruciating. A Chiness gentleman in his earth, but he thought she had a beautiful clothes carried more consciousnes of good understanding with England. After all his dignity than any Westernor he hail over our gaarrels and hard feeling there was a The CLAXMAN in his introductory remarks seen. Then as to science, bad the Chinese good understanding. (Applauss) England and said that to most of those present De. Pintarast science? It emprobended a great mapy Japua- well. England, America and Japan - must be known by reputation. Darlog the things. For our thing, the Chinese understood and Russia would have a very hud quarter of short time he bad sport in Hongkong, Dr. the science of agriculture. They knew how to a bour. It was Christianity that had been Pentecoɛt bad made his personality known, and, fill the soil century after century without the inspiration of Western civilisation, and it he took the liberty of adding, very favourably exhausting it. We had not fearned that. Then was going to be the solution of this Eastern known to all. (Applanse.) He believed batter was no pean engineer though he did question. The peril of England to-day was the reverend doctor had preached and lectured not work with European machinery. The that England would forget God in her Eastern since he was 21 years of age; he would not Chinese was not a patriot in our sense of the Empire. "God of Nations, halp us yet; lest
we forget, lest we forget!" (Applause.) venture to guese how old he was to-day, word, but he with every Asiatic man had i but be ventured to think that be had great deep consciousness of his Asiatic character.
O the motion of the CHAIRMAN a hearty
There was a racial antagonism between the vote of thanks was awarded Dr. Pentecost. for East and the West which na man had yet been his interesting lecture.
recent meetings ond to the information supplied darotad a great many useful years to a very noble work. (Hear, hesir) Of recent years he hud travelled extensively in India nudublo to fathom.
n the report. You will note that one manager, in his report on the work dono, states that u reef three font thick was discovered in Kalom. poug Valley early in Noromber, and though it cut out after sinking fifteen feet on it, further large seareling in the locality has shown n amount of crushing stuff, evidently the cap of a reef. He ackls: Samples taken at different points indicate that the whole of the stone is carrying gold. There is no defined reef as yes but I anticipato that from the purince alepo wa
other countries in the East, and suite lately he
had fulfilled a mission to our neighbouring Colony-the Colony that our American cousins had taken over-there to inaugurate the work to which he had devoted a lifetime. We were very fortunate ia Hongkong to have had au opportunity of extending to him the invitation which he had so graciously accepted, and of
Dr. Pentecost was there at the invitation of the
India and China were par
excellence the religious countries of the world.
Their people were the people of faith: We were essentially materialists, and it was becaus Christianity bad come to us and bad bred in ss some little recognition of the supernatural that we had anything to do with the supernatural, The Asiatic was always seeing and being called by that other world. The European practically was a materialist; he believed in the Now, aiot
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The following letter addressed to the Editor of the Financier and Bullionist appears in that journal of the 1st January-Your able corres- pondont Mr. Anthony Purbrook, in the columns of the Financier and Bullionist of Saturday, the 20th inst., aptly compares the Monroe doctrine to the woman who before she
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shall buvo suficient stone to keep the mill which they hoped to reap the fruits that night in the Hereafter. It was that mind we wore could cock the hare bad to catch it. The expand and become more cirilised; but I msin- jine is being laid, and 1 expect to start crashing/ Odd Volumen Socioty, and be congintalated bringing over here to deal with the extta Mouros doctrine, the hare and the gold referred tain the expansion of curioney must be based
guing night and day for some time.
A branch
at the end of the present month. The cost of getting the orn and conveying it to the mill will be slight indeed." Mr. Lostor's hope that
We
those presunt on the opportunity of hearing him. (Applause.)
Dr. FENTECOST chose an his subject, “The
ordinarily spiritual mind of the East.
to by your correspondent ara on all-fours with had got into the babit of talking about each other. There is no Menres dostting the Chinese as filthy. It was not fair to
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THE NEW TREATY AND THE EXPORT OF GRAIN.
he would obtain suficient ore to keep the mill Orient, the Anglo-Saxoo and Christianity."judge a people by its "submerged teath," except su sentiment. There are no bares except The suspension of Pease and Partners, buskers, bare expected that, as an aggrieved party,
An hundred years ago, he said, the Eastern or
going night-ud-dus--was not im Oriental gavetior practically want Turkey and realised, for he writes on the 13: ult.ut the Balkans, but the Orient had gradually been "owing to very beary raius the work at Kalanipong has been retarded and we shall be coming Eust so that now politicians and news. paper mon had divided the East into the Near, a little later in getting a start thua wES
the Middle and the Fur East. The interest of anticipated." On the 20th idem he also an-
the Eastern question was contreing here. The
vigorously pushed on. We are now.stoping on banch of leaders at the No. 3. innnel.
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he should eliminate Indiu and Japan from the
At the samo time it is
but he thought there were whole districts preserves, and so geld except what is in London, Parin, New York and Berlin that for hypothecated,
ith suster and degradation were as bad as-impossible to misconstrue what your corres-eminent firm of bankers, Baring Brothers, that anything to be found in China. They were Fondent says about the trouble in New York Was that a being the want of gold. True. But the told the Chiuust were crual. peonierly-Chino characteristic.? Think of trouble in Venezuela is also tho want of the horrible barbarities of the medieval ages in gold. The trouble in war Colonies to the
on one or both of the two money metals gold and silver the former as the standard
"H. K." writes to a fuancial ontemporary falue, the latter as the subsithery threte. After the prolonged negotiations one might Darlington, is a striking illustration on a small advantage would have been taken of the unique seals of what carrency in England would be situation to secure to par merchants and if ased on book assets. The collapse of the shipping some adequate benefits to Trade, such as the right to import salt, which is a almost strangled the strength of the Baak of Government monopoly, or a repool of the useless England and tunk the united power of the and antiquated probibiim to export grain to financial world of London to avoid a national foreign countries, the latter inlibition being monetary calamity, is another illustration of unwisely introduced into the Tientsin treaty at the vagaries of currency and wart of metal the instance of the Tautai of Shanghai (the Such signat instance of financial Inton tout of Circuit), and not by the Imperial Bat the new treaty, instead of providing for a relaxation of this archaic and unnecessary clanse, deliberately confirms this interdiction in Article XIV. although it must have been known that any valid reason which may Lave warranted the messure in 1858, such as fear of rice, &c. renching the Taiping robels, ao of 1842 the export of grain was allowed. as a matter of course, util 1858, when shipment abroad ትቤቱ prohibited by an inferior officer (Tentai), not for any economical (the Inst issue of which is dated 1806), lest aurestricted export might enable supplies to
beans from the port of Newchwang, but the prohibition was rescinded in 1862 in favour of beans, though an infringement of the cedo. with the result that since the withdrawal of the reuseless interdiction the annual export abroad of bears and beancake (manure) how aggregates over 5,000,000 outs, or more than 9,000,000 owts. if we include shipments coaste wise, employing in recent years as much as 500,000 tons of outward tonnage, of which fully
Routees:-The work at Swab is being storm-contre of the world's political interest was Europe! The main point of differentiation want of gold. Is fuct, the trouble all over them.ney.
not now Berlin, London or Washington, has between the Eust and the West was that the world is the want of guld, And the question breakdown could and would be minimisat-if | Governmsut, as no denkt most peoplo imagice. Chinese had an arrested civilisation. They had arises: Where is the gold to come from, and silver were vitilised at the market prce of the day and placed side by side with gold without a ratio, and acknowledged by gold standard and up to the present we have about 20 tons Peking, and they must largely discuss the mode zo. advance for a thousand years. The is its presence actually needed for the sprrency
of nations except as a standard of value? countries as one of the indispensabila money in hand." It is evident that they are nor question from that point of view: pretically Westerner was thinking man and therefore had what could the philosophers of old be thinkingmetuls of the world.
The English system of joint-stock banking is not perfect, but dangerously unsafe. All reserve lust., we receivel a telegram to the following į discussion. The question really was what wore progressed. The Easterner was a meditaling about when they requisitioned with discriminat-
millions of China or, on the other hand, what fatalist, and that was what made him a fanatie sod civilisation of muskind and for a mousure funds should be kept in money metal, and paper longer exists. Under the Nanking Treaty
money equivalent to the American S5 green back should do the work of the pound sterling It is doabtful, if London had boon put to the monetary strain that New York has been during culminated in a breakdown, and there lies the hot on our monetary system-a real danger to
of the United States of Ameries, because these two English-speaking nations must be oue in their carroney should be inter-changeable, and
getting good supplies of ore, for, on the h
effect:-"The mill has been started to-day." I think we have reason to hope, therefore, that, now the staff has been reinforced and the work of prospecting taken in, hand on a larger scale there will soon be important discoveries of stone and a resulting smpiltude of ore for milting. It is interesting to know, as stated in one of
We Anglo-Saxons going to do with the 400 were these 400 millions of Chins going to do with the Anglo-Saxons? It was unwise not to jurn the shield on both sides. Trade interests
esme in, but only in the larger horizon ang-
ing value gold and silce for the progression mati, and therefore had stugrated; he was a
of vaine for the wants and necessaries of life? in war. There had been three great attempts And yet with all their philosophy we find that time has kuocked the bottom out of the measure by the West to master the East. First came
that fixed the ratio of one money metal to the Alexander, then the Romans, then the Crusaders, and political supremacy were questions which Every attempt had been o dismal failuro, Now, other, learing the commercial communities of the late orisis, whether the strain would not have resson, but in conformity with the penal code the world stranded on the barren rock of gold, a thousand years after the last attempt England Tho question arises: What becomes of the gold the manager's recent letters, that the Rasidan gested by the question--what kind of civilisa and Russia were moving East simultaneously. obtakved from our over-gen possessions? Does the Empire, which I have brought under the reach pirates, &c. As a fact, the original
England had made her way sound Cape Horn it go to develop our
with their staff lately paid a visit to the mines
and had a ran out to twoli to inspect operations, human destiny of these millions? Civilisatica, Russis land moved along the North. Whether muuitles? No doubt, being gold, it is being currency matters; they are so closely allied that
Me. Lester says that they seemed please with the amount of work that had been done,
Al
inheritance
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millions of yellow men P What was to be the as we understood it and enjoyed it in the West was the cumulative product of past ages and our With regard to the tin land, Mr. Murchison, civilisation was the result of a constantly pro- who has had considerable experience in tigressivo movement. It was mining, has been detailed to prospect this, and we hope to bear before long the result of his investigations. It is satisfactory to hear that the health of our staff at the mines is fairly good, and we hope it will continue so. The first osil of fifty cents per share of now capital has been made and is being pretty generally sponded to. The Boned trust that the whole of it will soon be paid up and shareholders saved the necessity of paying interest. Many of them paid up before the due date, a praiseworthy alacrity worthy of ail imitation. The prospects of the Company wore ueser brighter than at the present moment, though dividends are not yat in sight. I think that is all that it is necessary for me to say, but if any thareholders require further information I will do my best
to turnish it.
There were no questions, and the CHAIRMAN propused the adoption of the report and accounts Bir. EDULI Beconded, and tas motion was
carried unanimously.
The next item of business was the election of directors, and on the motion of Mr. BowDLER,
seconded by Mfr. TERREY, the retiring directors, Measca. Wilcox and Howard, were reappointed. The CHAIRMAN The only business before
us now to be transacted is the election or re-
that was so then some extraordinary things were going to happen out here in the Far East. Standing on the borders of China what position were we la?
inferior race.
TAN CHINESE.
up fato the Pacific and the Indian Oceauxpand our Empire, or does it find its way into
the treasuries of compating commercial com hoarded by the privileged money-making classes. It cerainly is not in the hands of the many who make up this vast Empire.
earh would keep its part was to be settled, but neither had yet made the slightest impression upon the Asiatic mind or civilisation,
EUROFE IN ASIA.
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then they would dominate the world.
and
Currency Committee of the Reform Club of New York and endorsed by the New York Chamber of Commerce-with the exception of Mr. August Belmont, the agent of the Roths childs-a sound currency (not sound money) policy intended to boneft the Nations! City England), J. I ierpont Morgan, and paper money Bank of New York (the rival of the Bank of millionaires.
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Every wau's land should be raised against If 1 interpret the words of your correspon- currency based on bank awets. It is the n- dent correctly, there is not enough gold, and seen and acknowledged, the make-shift move- The prospects of Europe in Asia were proble-never will he, to go the round of the world for ment of millionaires, trusts and combines for commercial purposes on sonud-money principles. New York to become the great monetary head which had rapidly calmiuuted. He supposed
matical. From the military point of view he Communities have to be fivessed instead of centre of the world; and currency based on that more had been accomplished in the
was afraid there was more peril in awaking the financed. We are, and have been. xpanding inflated wealth will hasten the day. Gold and last century than in all the world's history
ou a scientific banking system whereby credit silver is the money of the people and of the before, and this was not only an encourage-sleeping giant than in binding him, ment but a warning suggesting to us that Wolseley called it the Chinese terror. We had and material wealth have been doing the work world. It is their birthright, and these of metal money; and should accruing interest two money metals must be brought into get hold of the bear's tail and we were afrdid to
on or foreign investments become suddenly harmony with each other. Consolidate the in the twentieth century-perkaps ja first half-the process of rapid culmination keep hold of it and very much afraid to let it stopped, or the stall Boating gold balances currency of England and Amerion
But now as to the Anglo-Saxone: a bald hy one joint stook banks withdrawn, the the whole world will be benefited thereby. might go on in the same ratio; and if go.
same monetary condition as Venezuela is la day. through the columns of the Financier and huidred years ago there were less than 25 Government would find itself in precisely the And with a view to that end 1 venture to ask millions of people speaking the English Then what is the remedy for a state of Homo, Bullionist where are the putriots (aside from all language. Today there were 125 millious. (Apelosial and Empire monetary complexities political issus) who will at this particular plause) That ratio was increasing. Unlike the such as we find in 1003 The remedy is not far time take hold of this momentous subject and Latin races, the Anglo-Saxon was not disappear to beek, for those who are in earnest in seeking devise means that will bring England and. for it, when once it is sought for. If, as your America together on a sound money policy. In the first place, we were mot facing a ing. It was the winning race. The solution of the correspondent says and doubtless he is right-based on the money metals of the world, and dying, a deindesit race of people like the Austra-Eastern question lay with the Anglo-Saxon ruce Lord Hosebery recently said: The wars of not on bank assets, as proposed by the Sound.
the future would be commercial wars," how and with Christianity. The Anglo-Saxon was in aborigines, the American Indians er,
regrettable it is his Lordship, having realised perhaps, the Filipinos he had very little hope the man and Christianity the motive. He was
the true state of affairs, does not apply his time, for the Filipinos as a representative race. Nor not now talking as a practical theologias e a influence and great abilites to ways and moans here were we facing 400 millions of barbarians. praecher but as a practical politician, if you for providing the sizons of war-gold or its The time was past when intelligent people please, and Christianity was the best pelitics in equivalent for the coming commercial warfare old colonising country stund more in need of a spoke thus, Yet he had heard in India ednosted the world. The people that turned their backs of patiens. At no period of time did the grand people call the Hindo, a "rigger." And is the upon Christianity wore riding to the worst fall great financier statesman than it does today. The Anglo-Saxon Bugland wants a Chancellor statesman who some way it was customary to talk about the the world had ever scon
THE AMERICAN NEGRO. Chinese as heathen Chinoe." We did our-
was a residuum of all races. Its great principles can do something more than balance the Budget
that is simply the work of solves and the whole question a great injustice wore the right of the individual, freedom of England wants a statesman who can create aud
If anything can reconcile the people of the if we allowed ourselves to talk about the Chinese unscience, personal liberty, free government. maistain as Imperial Treasury from the money
United States to the recognition of the negro's thus. As a matter of fact we were dealing with If Germany did not make peace with the Anglo-mutals of the Empire, in order to increase the a very ancient, siriló and constantly increasing Saxon peoples and allies of the Anglo-Saxons currency on an elastic basis to keep pace with claims to citizenship, now but nominally his in type of man and not a man of a very greatly she was lost. The Anglo-Saxon was the only the expansion and developmost of the Empire's the Benth at least, it should be the work of Maaich, Dark"
new words of trade and commerce, Who is Booker T. Washington. He has recently election of an auditor. I may say that the
The Chinese represented & suveessful colonist the world had ever seen, that mad? If it is Lord Rosebery. let him
tremendous audience at the an it has been very ably conducted by Mr. Low vitiation some centuries older than ours, a What was Spain, today? What was Portugal? who has gone through it in great detail and civilization in mony respects the equal of ours, wind was France? Frases and a little colony done a great deal of valuable work for us into some respects the superior of ours, and he down here at Tankin and she was sitting suspecting all the assets, leases, aud everything. represented an intellectual and ethical life that there alaking and shivering now. I leave it to the meeting to decide whether M. should give the Englishman and American was sitting on the top of a volcano:
serious pause before they spoke in terms of Dutch colonists had not hon very
skecess. gold can automatically perform the functions of stooped shoulders and the characteristic dialect sound money salus, equivalent to the standard; of the negro, only slightly modified, this rough Mir. Bain--I beg to propose that Mr. Lowe contempt of the Chinese. Hers were wo, a fal Germany was making a big hullabales (b) if this logic is sound, then legislative man in his ill-fitting evening dress swayed His Lad, Coops & Co... For & Doz. Pta: $19.50 $2.45
comparatively little handful of Auglo-Saxons, about colonising, but she could not colonies; moosaces are necessary to utilise silver torough Mr. EDVL--I beg to second Mr. Bain's looking into the face of the Far East with its she had not got personal liberty and froe ballion banks of issue at the market price of the audience with his every word sad gesture, Guinness, Boar's
Head silver as a commodiy would find its level on the the Peatme fell from his lips as readily as the government. No mation could colonise sith a day-that being the equivalent of gold. Thus Quotations from Shakespeare, from Barus and mailed fist. (Applause.) The Anglo-Saxonbnilion markets of the world, because the bullion dialect anecdotes of his own people." Booker was a conquering mee. It had never been wing hypothecated against the issuance of legal Washington's warning to his own people is this:
H. beaten in war for 1,100 years. The blue-eyed tender paper money, could ouly be released with. The coloured people must now rectify a race had beaten the block-eyed race.
the notes issued and in circulation; (e) that the fault lies in the want of metal money in the tion. They tried to start in at the top; they mistake which they made after their emancipa. currency of Latious, and this the gold standard But the great death-struggle was coming does not supply. The people on the Continent brought. a carriage to ride in instead of a wagon to work with. I am trying to trach my between the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav; und of America must, by force of circumstances, people that they must begin at the bottom at her population on the same basis as Gers Chion lay between the two. The point was currency as their trade and commerce expand.
frame monetary laws that will expand their the soil sad work up. They must learn they must follow the growth of all nations. They and other European nations dealt with
the future || But this sound entrency movement, besed theirs. And they all knew what Chinese who was going to dominate
bank assets, may have far-reachingust learn that liberty is a conquest, not a
baquest," Gorton" said about the Chinese and their oivilisation of China. Was it to be Skronis on
or Anglo-zazun? He did not think they consequences, if it becomes law, which the promoters fail to recognise at the moment espacities for being soldiers. apprehend that sach an army would ever be head compare the two. England and America and meg, like the shipping trust, grip John
made
Bull fancially by the throat. This concerns up the Anglo-Saxon race. They were ine
than any of the other
Powers. great kuropeau. true that between England and Amerios there
Currency based on bank assets to represent rolled 3,000 miles of water, bat England had steel, shipping and other fafated paper vuluva monetary upheavals and travelled East and America had come farther cannot withstand West sud hers they were-Hongkong and Madrat Buatuations that will occur when such tatud paper values are forced upon the marke nila, with only a ferry between them. Why had for conversion into goll-unless the American God sent the other branch of the Anglo-Saxon Gov rament is at the lack of such currency at race ont to the Philippines and planted them ace value. A marked distinction must always be drawn between metallic money and material and allion. Currency based on bank assets wealth (bank assets); and between coined money means a blanket mortgage on the world's gold, and, therefore, I vesture. to predict in the near future, if such becomes law, a gold quake. At the same time I admit the currency of nations should increase as communities [2943-2 |
Lowe is to be re-elected.
be re-elected..
preposition.
The CHAIRMAN-That concludes the business of the meating, gentlemen. Thank you for
The motion was put to the meeting and population of three-fifths of all the people that dwell upon the earth. In China alone there agreed to without opposition.....
wea one-third of the whole buman race. If wo looked at the question from a military point of view as between Europe and Asia it was quite within the area of possibilities for China to put from 60 to 80 millions of goldiers ia the field, dealing, that was to say, with
your attendance.
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
A mesting of the Sanitary Board will be hell
10-morrow, at 4.15 p.m.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1902.
J.G. A. Woodcock,
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AGENDA.
Secretary.
He did not
put in the field for Chinu. but it was a
THE SLAV AND THE ANGLO-SAXON,
1. Latter relative to the incidence of malaria potestiality, and, aguiest it, it pronid not befamily, one blood (Applause.) It was quite England, as the creditor natios of the world, mostrom Sex Francisco to the 28th ult., via Hono
at Morrison Hill and neighbourhood..
2. Minute by the Medical Officer of Health recommending the erection of a public latrine
at Tai Hang village.
. Further correspondence relative to the bridges in the backyards of three houses on H.H.I.L. 195, 196 and 197.
possible for Europe to pat more than five millions. But it was not a question of the physical force of the Fest against the physical force of the West; it was the civilisation of the one against the civilisation of the other Civilisation was the outgrowth of religion.
CHINESE CIVILIHAYKON.
4. Mortality statistics for the weeks ended and a very marked civilisation. She had a The Futeutees-Macnivon & Cameron, Limited,
January 17th und 24th, 1908.
What was tlie Chinese civilisation ? China
literature ancient and powerful; he thought it
5. Limewashing return for the fortnight endod would be safe to say that Western literature lad February 14th, 1008.
6. Rat. reiura for the fortnight ended its roots in the literature of India and China. Had Chine arts? She had a well-established and February 16th, 1903.
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MOUNTINGS OF THE NAVAL
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The O&O. steamer Gaelic, with mails, &o. inin, loft Yokobama for this port yesterday morning, via Irland Sea, &o.
The Boston Steamship Co.'s steamer Tre nont
Victoris for Yokohama and the usand ports MUNS and their Subsequent Usa on the 10th inst.
The N.P. steamer Olympia arrived at Victoria (8.C.) on the 34th inst
The N.Y.K. sleamer Sunuki Maru (Kuropean Line) left Shanghai for this port on the 17th
The 0.8.8. steamer Achilles left Singapore inst., and is expected here to-morrow. yesterday morning, and is dus here on the 3rd inst
The P, & A. steamer Indrasamha left Por- and Or.) for this port win Jepan on the 11th 'st, and may be expected kers on the 14th prox.
with the LADYS ITH RELIEF COLUMN,” Boing a Lecture by CAPTAIN PERCY SCOTT.
R.N. C.B., and
CAPTAIN A. H. LIMPUS, E.N. (of H. M. 8. Terrible). The book is printed on art paper, and illus- trated with coloured maps and skatches.
31 and S150
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