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THE WONGKONG DAILY PRFSS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25гm 1903
"dare not wait upon I would' has never It is of paramount importance that the line connecting Kowloon with Canton should be made, made without delay, mado
"conquered a position nor retained it for "either men or nations." These words,
The Tokyo correspondent of the N.-C. Daily TELEGRAMS. THE NEW KING'S PAR 、AT
WATSON & CO. uttered with unusual solemnity, as a farewell with British capital, and be noder British open port, when M. Paeloff, the Russian
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Minister, made a strenuous protest and caused warning to the citizens of Houghtong, are control. There is no time to be lost; valu-
the Government to postpone the declaration, pregnant with meaning, and should be con-able youre have been frittered away; and it
The P. and T, Timse says: "When the stantly and actively borne in mind. They is high time the colonists took the matter Russians entered Moukden and turned the must not be dismiazed na merely part of a in hand in grim caruest, with the fall de- Tartar General and other officials out of their valedictory speech; they are a fatefal and termination to pressit to the earliest possi-yamous, the Tartar General allemnted to A Sir HENRY FLAKE Commit suicide by swallowing gold, but was timely reminder of the golden opportunity, ble conclusion. now within our reach, but which, if neglected, intimated, it is not the wont of Britons to may prove the most disastrous omission în be laggards in the race for developments; the history of the Colony
let us not incur such a reproach in Hong- kong.
The project of a railway to connect the Kowloon peninsula with the city of Canton It was first seri- is now quite au old one. ously talked about some sixteen years ago, and a Chinese syndicate was two or three years later, in 1889 (if we remember aright), formed to obtain the concession for its con- $20.00 struction. After much trouble His Excel-
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ment, accompanied by Mrs. May and by Captain M. R. Hurly, 93rd. Barma Infantry, A.D.C., moved into Government House yesterday. Mr. R. F. Johnston, Private Secretary, bas elready bean there for the pist threa daya,
restrained by his friends." It was evidoutly
not Russian gold.
L'Echo de Chine says that the English papers which announce the rupturn of relations between France and Siam are mistaken. However, if Siam refuses (?) to contis Le negotiations in re ference to the treaty of 1902, the régime of the treaty of 1803 will come in force again. The dising, nuousness of this is rather shocking.
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DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
London, 24th Nov.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF BLUNDELL MAPLE: Bir J. Blusdell Maple is dead: The following is the account of the late Governor of Maple and Co., upholsterers; M.F. Dulwich Division, Cataberwell, since 1887; b. 1815, m. Emily, d. of M. Merryweather, 1874. Educ.: King's Coll. London. His only child married Baron von rckhardstein of the German Embassy,
REUTER'S SERVICE.
baronot from Whittaker:-1st Bt.; cr. 1897;
THE KING OF ITALY. -
The revenue from tiu alone in three of the
LONDON, 22nd Novembar. four Federated Malay States only, during the
The King and Queen of Italy have loft first nine months of this year has been stated at | Portsmonth for Rome after a most successful something approaching seven and a quarter visit, socially and politically. million dollars. Yet, says the Straits Times, This Imperial Dist of Japan met for the first thungh there is so much money to draw upon, time thirteen years ago to-day.
many of the Government departments are undermanned.
Tis only cases of communionble disasse reported in the Colony last week were the thres of plague (ult Chinese and all Estal)
which we have already recorded.
| A travelling menagerie bousting two camels giant white horse, and an elephant, is providing ammoment for the Chinese at Praya East opposite the Centrul Market.
KOWLOON.
A WARDEPARTMENT OBSTRUC PION
The laying out of King's Park, Kowloon, is "hanging fire" on account of the War Depart ment stubbornly refusing to accopt a fair offer from the Colquial Office. Reasonable compensa tion for relinquishing certain lands in the
vicinity of that little hill overlooking Kanghom
sy has been rejected. At the time King's Park was presented to the Colony-when Major- General Sir William Gascoigo was acting as Governor during the absence of Sir Houry Blaku --certain boundaries encircling some 130 acres wara drawn ont. No one gave a thought to the War Department raising an objection to handing' over, for soilable compensation, apparently, waste lands. The boundaries wore mappend-out as follows:-The range of bills cunuing from the Glassworks, Austin Boad and thy ma, the | Polira ríflo-runge, the 'rifle-butts. Now, how
over, it is peither doci fed what extent the park is➡ to cover, nor what lines are to be ita boundaries. One would thinks the War Department is regard- ing its own side of the question without con- sidering the Colony. It is unwilling to LONDON, 22ad November.
concede for fair terms a piece of property in The report of the Transvaal Labour Commis-significant from a strategical point of view. Chairman of the French Municipal Council sion rays that the total sheringe of labear in the The reason why this and other questions are at Obanghai, while recently in France, sucgeed Tranavun! is 241,000, inainding the shortage for not considered for the best intarsals of the od in effecting a loan of thras raillion franc, the mining tutastries of 130,000. It is expect Colony by the Colonial Office and War Depart (£120,000 for the French Council. This willed that the Trapareal Council, will be invited asut conjointly is hard to say. If the action enable it to pay off the advances it has received to pass an ordinance in favour of importing of the War Department is persisted in, it wil
According to L'Echo de Chine, M. Breuni,
THE TRANSVAAL LABOUR. COMMISSION.
We cannot insert "Anti-Humbug's "latter, honey the then Viceroy of the Two Kwang | as it is of two personal a character. approved the sobéme and strongly' recom- mended it to the Imperial Government at 27.00 | Peking, but for some mason--probably sufficient palm-oil bad not been dispensed- it never received the Imperial sanction. A Harvey was made, however, and an oficial 35.00 document, of which a translation was published in mur columns, was issued, giving route it would take. The Kowloon termian was to be at Sam-shui-po, at that time on the Chinese frontier; thence it was to be carried to Slam-chan, Po-kák, and Shih-lung, passing through Tung-tau-bia and Chat-ping. From Shih-lung or Shek. loong it was to cross the river at Nju Shek.
The China New Year is still far distart, bat tong, go on through the Linng family's current village, Tang-lia,
Tong-chung-tan, and the fire season" appears to have arrived, Shik-tsean, where it would again cross the These are generally mors synchronous than central provinces, says the N.C. Daily Neves, suffering from inflammation in the middle of decided on an artery was deemed necessary. river to Tu-tun-tsan and Sinkai. From they are this winter. thence, pissing 15 the tick of Sin-tung, it would come nyt on the river and enter the
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Pwan-yu district at Nan-kang. From there,
The Gerinas gan-rossal Sperber is expected to arrive at Singapore from Colombo on the 27th inst, and will leave again for the North on the 3rd prox.
The Japaneso Consul at Newchwing reports to his Government that the quarantine enforced there against vessels coming from Hongkong, has now been abolished.
THE THARINA'S HEALTH.
from local banks at local rates of interest; the alien labour. repayment of which these banks have been constantly urging. The new loan bea beetk obtained from the Banque de l'Iudo-Chine, and the Commercial, Industrial, and Colonisł Bank of Lyons,
Lordon, And November.
not only greatly depreciate the concession as a park, but it may continue to rutard the progress of the laying out for a considerable time. Recent balletins show that the Tsarina is hom, is being perstructed through the park. A new road, connecting Yaumati and Hung
still suffering much, but maintains heretrougth. A large number of coolies and lead-carriers had An official bulletin at S. Petersburg, reported been noticed orossing the fields between Yau- last week, anucange that the Tsarina was mati and Hanghom, so when the park wax
the ear.-Ev. D.P.]
Although he los à pretly respectable force with him at present, drawn from the varions |
B.E. Viceroy Shum still finds the strength of his army insuffecient to sur:ound the malcontents. of Kwangsi in their special districts. II.E. bas, according to a Foochow despatch, there- fore, also obtained from the high authorities
LONDON, 22nd November. The President of Colombia, in un address to modern-armed troops from the Foochow garri- the American people, expresses bis confidence son, which left that city for Canton a few that they will not permit violation of treaties,
Our BRANDIES are guaranteed to be passing to the back of the Polo Temple and Sh nghai and ports in South China, including of Folkien province the loan of a brigade of
PURI COUNAC, the difference in Price
being merely a matter of Age and Vintage.
the Niushun Batteries, it would reach Wuyung, a market town, from which place
The N-C. Daily News, commenting on the
COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES.
The Public Works Dopariment baro the werk well in hand, the course boiagalready cut out. it is being so arranged that the beauty of the park will be interferoil with as little na possible. The road will make it practically impossible to lose in the park, so, more than probably, the park will be surrounded by simple boundary. This arrangement will uo
on day and night watch Still, however, the fact of the park being open is unlikely to make extraordinary vigilance necessary; the Botanical Gardens here are only sarmanded by an easily surmountable railing, yet the
it would be carried across the Sze-pri-hi to /full Singapors scors moord in the Interport days ago in one of the Government transports. although President Roosevelt is committed to cessitate a staff of keepers to relieve each other
the south-east corner of the city of Canton, having its terminus at the Tientsin Matow, the official wharf. The total length of this line was said to be 380 l, or about 127 miles A. S. WATSON & CO.rs were not to be allowed to hold
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BIRTHS.
On the 21th November at "-Waterford;" -M
Works Department, I angkang, of a daughter,
18253
On the 21th November, at “Ranfurly," Conduit
shares in the undertaking, which was to he owned and managed by Chinese only. A wave of reactionary feeling having set in at the capital, the question of railway construc-
tion was hing up altogether for several
in this direction for some time.
The next move was made bear the end of Road, the wife of P. A. Wasnt, of a son. 3154 the nineteenth century by foreign Syndi-
On the 15th November, at Blanche Villa, Scott's Road, Singapore, the wife of H. A. Score,cates, and in 1898, after lengthy negotia of a daughter.
tions, concessions were granted by the On the 10th November, at 7, Subil All Read, Singapore, Ms. LANGHAM Carern, of a son.
rifle matek, says: sems from this that it
was only nominally a Singapore team, but was really drawn entirely from tlio garrison.
It is stated in Chinese quarters in Shanghai that Hsifu bas beau changed into Heisugaoka, sad that Feng Lin-fang has been promoted to
be the sub-profect of that fe. The reason given for this change is that the Empress-Dowager contemplates going to Hsian,
due here today at daylight. She brings Prince
Wilhelm), who beg recaired orders to join. H..G..8. Hertion in the 27th November in Hongkong. H.R.H. will da service during the The subscription series of recitals of Shake
Lext two years on this station.
It is also related that Vigaroy Shom asked from the Chekiang provincial authorities a brigade of their best. trongis, but that owing to the Manchurian crisis the request was declined.
The way in which a paper with the greatest of reputations may be led astray by a telegram is shown in the leading article of the Times in the "Peking plot" story. The Times remarks therein :-"There was a certain fiendish humour
Panama. He also appeals to Venozaels for moral assistance.
FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD,
It was reported by the polics yesterday that about 11 o'clock on the previous night a fire occurred at No. 132, Queen's Road East, pre- wises used as a medicineshop and shoe shop The Fire Brigade turned eat under Mr. P. P
valuable shrabs, etc., are never destroyed or A larga unilab of ma- stolon at night time. soury and conerote is being contracted on the north side of the road. It will replace that malodorous, stream of stagnant pouls so
on in various directions. The road itself will
months.
All kinds of measures are to be taken for the
The-German mail steamer Konig Albert is in the idea which must have been particularly | J. Wodehouse, Assistant-Superintendent of annoying to passers-by in that vicinity. pleasant to the Criental sense of fun. The bill Polica. A pientiful supply of water was got Draining and levelling work is being carried donnell Road, the wife of 1. M. XAVIER, Public years, and nothing further was attemñpled Adsibert, of Prussin (» younger son of Kaiser sförded an Elmirable opportunity for the exsou from the strent hydrants, and though they be on the level. Its width will be 100 fest;
tion of the design. The disappointment had obtained a good hold on the building-in of the piatters in filiar 10 perpetrate a hideous which it originated and was also spreading to the centre only. lowever, will be metalled with butchery of the hated foreigner can hardly have the adjoining houses on each side before the granite. By this unw thoroughfare Hongkong been atoned for by the partial success of nuetvor | Brigade arrived, it was not long before the and Hungbom will be brought much pearor portion of their scheme" the carrying away of flames were subdued. Ten bosss played on the each other. It will be fuished in a few the breechblock and sirbis of the 4-7 gun). Lamus,
No. 132 was gutted. The outbreak Imperial Government at Poking to various peare's plays to be given in the Theatre Royal However, the Times partly guards itself by the origiunted on the ground floor. Ne. 130, an On the 18th Novonder, at B, Clmoutoong Roast svudicates to construct railways. The But.. by Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal Williams will cour
remark that it is just purssible that the mysterious eating-house on the west, was badly damaged, promotion of sport. There will probaby be en the evenings of the 4th and 8th December.
discoveries at the Peking Legation were meant No. 131 on the east was also badly burned. The cricket, football, hookoy, polo, and tenois grounds. Itomeo and Juliet will be interpreted by Mrs.
to be discovered, and were merely intended as qu
ground floor of No. 332, in which the conflagra- | The Bowling Club at present held a position on Williams at 9 o'clock on Friday, the 4th prozaudacioue jest at our expanse.
tion started, was insured for $4,500 and the top the site of the new park. It is hardly possible sud on the following Tuesday, the 8th prox.
Mainichi publishes the following floor of the two houses adjoining (which were to turn them out; nobody, anyway, would desire King Henry IV. (Part I) will be given by Mr.
telegram dated Peking, 13th November used by the same occupier) for $4,700. Sergeant to do so. A bowling graan, moreover, would. The Russian Minister to Peking has notifiel R. Macdonald was the engineer in charge of the hardly be practicablo unless ran by a club. An the Chines Goverumout that Ruwais connot| Brigade.
idea favourably received by those interested consent to rapsfat the quarantine arrangements
in the construction of the pack is that a bicyulo track should be constructed
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. 8. Nzesos, a dughter
MARRIAGES.
gian-American syndicate obtained the right On the lith November, at loly Tinity Catho-to make the railway from Hankow to dral, Shanghai, by the Rev. G.J. F. Symons, BA, Canton, and a British syndicate secured in WILLIAM MECH-NE, of Stevenson, to TRAUKELA CAMPBELL PROVAN, of Glasgow, Scotland.
On the 19tis November, a stone of Mr. September of that year the concession to Billard Lyon, 85, Range Howl, Shanghai, by construct a line from Canton to Kowloon,
Williams.
the Rev. A. P. Parker, PHILIP LORING GILLETT, Beyond making the preliminary survey, The construction of the now Kowloon water. Springs
of Seal, to BERTHA LOUISE ALLEN, of Colorado and procuring reports and estimates, nothing works, we hear, was likely to affect the water On the 12th November, at his residence, has been done by this syndicate towards supply of the Hongkong Steam Water Boat Bluff, Yokohama, SicOLAS PHILLIPPS KINGlos, carrying their concession into effect. More Co. Ld (whose annual report appears in ausilier
DEATHS.
The
at Kewohwang, as it must remain in Russian
LICENSING SESSIONS.
control. As to the evacuation of Manchuria, The Justices of the Peace assembled at the around the football and oricket fields. Such a
On the 16th November, at No. 12, Wilkie Boad. than five years have elapsed, and while work column), bnt Mr. J. W. Kew, the general negotiations thereanent will shorily be resumed,. Magistrsoy at 2.15 p.m. yesterday to consider thing has in many instances been found
aged 76 year,
Singer, VIVIAN EMIL GORDOs the youngest on the Hankow-Canton section is pro
and 4 months,
The Daily
Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DiVox Road CT, LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.
manager, has arranged with the Government
for five streams to be conserved for the supply
kok
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hosas, age 2 yearsgressing steadily, not a single sod has ben of the Company's tanks, situated beyond Laicți.
turned of the line to connect it with its werd terminus. The fact is being brought
The Chinese Governmont is reported to have ominously home to us, and the recent com- consented to the establishment of a German Pletion of the first sertion of another line Government Agout in Chivant, Shanburg, from Canton to Samshui has painfully whose power will be equal to that of a Conqul. emplinised ar backwardness in this Mattors affecting German interest in that great work of opening up South China.region will be subject to this agent, whose anar completion of the German railway The line, it is true, presents some natural stablishment in China bas hou dae to the difficulties, but these are easily surmount-
between that city and Kiaochoa. able by engineering science, and were well known when the concession was applied for
HONGKONG, 25th NOTENDER, 1903
tion at the present moment,
agreed to.
Mr. Shelton Hooper
What is
quarantine arrangements at Newchwang to three bat as to the transfer of the contro of the an application for a publican's licence, and a great success at home. The question is applications for adjunct licences, whether colinists in these parts take great China, Russia will never consent to it. It is Mr. J.H. Kemp presided. The Justicen present interest in cycling. Cycling races, no doubt, therefore believed in Peking that Russia intends were Captain F. W. Lyons (Acting Captain would be an attractive feature at various to adopt strict measures with vessels entering Superintendent of Police), Masers. F. Browne annual sports. With all these facilities for and clearing from Newchwang, ker object being | G. T. Veitcir, A. Shelton Ho^per, D. Clark, R | taking exercise there must certainly be some to transfer the business of the port to Dalny. H. Cmig, and C. A. D. Melbourne,
place provided for the purchase of light 'rofresh- James D. M. Cameron applied for a publicun'sments. A good idea would be to erect a pavilion; It is further baliovod that Russia intends to influence the negotiat ons at Tokyo by the lines in respect of the "Occidental Hotel," the right of selling refreshments could be let by roopening of this Newchwang quarantine quest, Elgin Road, Kowloos. Mr. Kemp, may tender. Carriage-drives are to be constructed ing there were no police objections, and that through the prettiest parts of the park. The the names of the householders were saceptable, beauty of the grounds will be greatly promoted We are unfeignedly glad that His Excellen.
The first sitting of the International Confe- moved the application be granted, and this was by shrubberies and flower bods. ey Sir HENRY BLAKE, when bidding fare-
conce on regulations to combat plague and 'well to the community in the City Hall on
cholera in Europe and the East was held in
to be done about water is hard to say. George James Clarke, of the Connaught Water certainly is a very essential thing for The Japan Mail writes ;– If Russia havojoy
Paris on the 10th ult at the Ministry of the House Hotel." Queen's Road Central applied for Saturday, male special reference to what They certainly are not of a character to bonest intention of averting the calamity of Interior, under the presidency of M. Deleases an adjunct licence. Included in the names of gardening purposes. A fountain and pond would should be generally regarded as the burning daunt any enterprising constructors, nor is war, it is time that she spoke definitely. She The English delegates are Mr. Mauries de the householders was that of Chan A Fook, of greatly wild to the offosiiveness of the somery, question of the hour in this Colony. Our the amount of capital required at all eat-in playing with fire at present, and alting Bunser Minister Plexipotentiary and First Mears. Watkins and Consplied lung to ite Thea again thers are all kinds of objections late Governor was deeply impressed withculated & frighten financiers. It is estima-
she thinks perhaps that to extinguish the fanes Secretary at the British Embassy in Paris; Ur applicant. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Chan A raised on the grenade of still water breeding speedily if they break out is within the compass the supreme importance to Hongkong of theted that the total cost of the line will not
T. Thomson, of the Local Government Board; Fook were absent. Mr. Shelton Hooper mosquitoes. How this question is to be settled of bor great power, we give her Emperor ibe Mr. Alban, of the Consular Service; Dr. Cla sew, said he thought they ought to treat the it is hard to say. Large tracts of open space railway question. He said-and we make greatly excoon a million sterling, and this credit of being a peace lover and we bellerathat British representative on the Constantinople Annual Sessions of the Justice; it was groat will be cleared for the Chinese. No doubt this
application in the same way as those at the no apology for r peating his words in foil: ought to be readily obtainable in Loudon many of her wisest patriols have no desise to Sanitary Board; ond Colonel i ichardson, disrespect to the Justices to be asked to oon will have a healthy effect; it will also be greatly “Bu, great as is the importance of the If the present syndicats are shy of the na. force Japan's band. The whole responsibility representing the Indian Government, now of tinue the application when the applicant "structural improvement of Hongkong, dertaking, tearing lest it should not at first rests with her, and her perpetual procrastination the Army Medical Service. After the Forsign did not atteid. Mr. Clarke then walked in, appreciated. The rifle butts, now situated on there is a matter of greater and more yield a good interest on outlay, we make no is creating a situation intolerable to all nationals Minister had welcomed the delegates of the and, in answer to Mr. Kemp, said that Messrs. the ground, are to be removed near the vicinity Watkins and Company did not supply of Kowloon City, Altogether King's Park will "pressing moment that I wish to bring doubt the Imperial Government, or the in the Far East. She has some obligatics to twenty-five European, American, Asiatic, and į ligner to the applicants. A proposal that the
discharge besides those dictated by hor spilt of African States who are participating in the application be granted was agreed to.
be a great boon. Surely, too, it will be an Richard Francis Daly, Uyster Bar and attraction to Hongkongites to move their Restaurant," 31 Des Vens Road, applied for an residences over the water. It would not be safe,
Mr. Kemp read adjunct licencO.
portion of letter from Mr. LaComer, who hough, to evou make a wide guess as to when
being granted, it will be completo, aying the increased opposition would injure objected to the liseuse
his business, After coisidering the matter in private Mr. Daly was called in and told that GERMAN STEAMER BURNT AT SEA. the Justices had decided to refuse his applica- tion. Mr. Daly explained that he had to fend This afternoon, on the Happy Valley, the to another hotal daily for liquor for his guests;
The Manager of the East Asiatic Trading Hongkong Football Club A" Team will play he was money out of pocket by it. He had been the R.G.A. Reserves. Kick-off at half-past four manager of the Kowloon Hotel for some three Co. informed us yesterday afternoon that he years. It was explained to him that the sp had just received the following telegram from sharp. The following will play for the Clab-plication for the licence was not refused o
A. N. Other, goal; H. C. Austen and A. N. account of the character of his houss or himself, the firm's Amoy agents:-" Arnold Zwykon Other, backs; R. H. Craig. L. C Rees, and bat on account of the locality; on the ground, has been barat at sea yesterday, four o'cloøk 5.2., near White Doge. chief officer, assistant, C. T. Kow, halves; A. O. Brawn, C.. Hum. in fact, that the house was not necessary. phreys, C, R. S. Cooper, S. Moore, and A. J Restaurant," withdrew his application for an
John Anderson, of the "Happy Valley Retreat fifteen Chinese lost, remainder of orew here.
Steamer still burning when abandonel” Darby, forwards.
adjunct licence.
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imperialism.
conference, M. Barrère, the French Ambassador
FOOTBALL.
*foreilly below you in these last moments | Colonial Government, with the sinction and "before I leave your shures: That is, the assistance of Downing Street, will como to
Mr. Henry Mountain, of Woodville House at the Quirinal, who had been unanimously "pressing necessity of utilising the British the rescue either with the promise of a sub-
concession, that has been granted for asidy or guarantee, or will take over the work Hounslow, who died in September last left elected president, explained the programms of
adjourned until the following Monday. * railway from Canton to the borders of our altogether, seeing its immense importance state valued at £24,691 198. gross, inoiding the conference, after which the assembly " territory,
That concession has been to this great waval depôt and centre of £21,479 198. in not personalty. The tesator, after bequeathing £4,100 to various instititions #granted to a British syndicate, and it is commerce. What Russia has done for the gave £1,000 each to Lillinu Blanche, wie of their duty to utilise it and supply the Trans-Siberian Railway, Germany for the Mr. John B. Cameron, of Shanghai, and Kate "natural seaport terminus to the great ar-railways in Shantung, for the beneat of Loufia, wife of Mr. Arthur K. Craddod, of *terial line to Hankow, lest possible develop. Kiaochzu, and France for the sake of con- Hankow, China; £500 to his nephew, james "meats be sought inimical to the interests of necting Tonkin ports by rail with the Yunnan Mountain Patterson; £100 to Mr. Poty £100 "Hongkong. We have not built up our frontier, Great Britain can surely do for the to Mr. W. G. Lowe, of Eating; and to hi wife "Empire by being laggards in the race for maintenance of the third port in the Empire, £100, his freehold house (Woodville), at his household and personal effects; and he lo the developments necessary for the expansion its one stronghold in the Far East. But residue of his property to Mrs. Mountax and "of the trade of the world, and letting I in any case the railway must be made. Mr. Pofyl in equal altares.
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