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SUPREME COURT,
Friday, 3rd February.
IN SUMMANY JURISDICTION.
FORE HIS HONDER MET. SERCONDE
SMITH (PUISNE JUDOE).
Mr. D. V. Steavrason (of Mesers. Deneen. Looker und Deaçõe) apposted for the plaintiff lu Almeida v. de Bartos, a claim for $150 and Me. Almada e Castro for the dendast The latter consented to judgment; execution war stayed a week.
RAILWAYS IN KOREA.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4rn, 1995,
By January 1. Rentor's Correspondent ož Takio writes, the Japanese will be able to run
two
The Company will ran two through trains. day from coal to Fusan and vice verse, 1.. south and two nurtle bound. Fifteen hours is the schedu o time for the 274-mile journey, Thore will also be ous train daily from Beont to Hawan and return, sud to laiku and back from Fuser sleepers nor dining vara.
BOLIVIAN COMMUNISTS.
trains from Fusan to Seoul. The Fusan For the present, of course, there will and all other white men, excepting a handful of-
to Wi-ju will be completed as far as Ping line yang, and
and in Manchuria the Imperial Engineers open railway communication between expict Lionyang ad Antang-hsien. In March ground will be brekon for the Seoul G nu line. Surreyers have already started work, and it is hoped that the road will be finished by the and In connection with the Seoul- of 1905. Chemulpe line it will form the Trans-Peninsula route between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Jayan. The trunk line from Eusan to the Yalu and from Antaar to Line yang will wing
Japan
In the case of Li Eai Chun. Diss Brothers, Rail to direct touch with the China Eastern stations are marked only by a loanly white!
ALARMING RIVER ACCIDENT
AT CANTON
On Wednesday afternoot un alarming affair occurred on the river at Canton, illesteating the reckless behaviour of Chinese to whom steam
On any map of Bolivia you will find a big white space in the south-eastern part of it. This large region has been neglected by explorera Bolivians, rubber collectors and a for mission. aries It was not known until lately what interesting things are to be found in this forgotten corner. Captain Jerrmann, a well- known geographer, who has been studying rubber resources in South America, has written for Petermann's Mitteilungen som remarkable facts about this region. He could find no
to help im on his journey, and the routs up he carefully propar-d gives nich frash informaton. Most people he thought
with of Bolivia, sine the war Crite in 1870 deprived her of a port on the Pacific Ocean, as being without any port through which the might exchmuge commnd ties directly with the rest of the world. But Jerram found that Bas medias port of her frontier
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CHINESE FOR MEXICO.
The Mexican Gorarament has of late years, shown a disposition to encourage Chineen ira- it out to the republic, making a concession, tong other things to a Chine-o steamship line
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The line runs through rico country practically all the way. Litla sulleys, erraced with paddy falds, open into broad plains. The water, trick ing from highest to forest, runs off to the sluggish streams that wind their way through There are altogether fifty-three statione. wild-tower rai-ked meadow lands, Sawn, the largest town, the Mukden of Korea, is some disture fro u the line. Taiks is the only other place of may size. The smaller the Siberian route, and Europe. building at mere important points there are From the moment war was declared, rapid clusters of houses with plaster walls and thatch, a claim for file, the fondant admittel 88 transit from Fu-an thronah Keres to the sensus.
or posibly tile roofs. These are the homes of Judgment with cow's was given for that amount of hostilities in Maneliaria became a military the engineers and contractors. Patted pines
Mr Almando Castroappeared for the plaintiff | necessity. This the Japaness bail foresent and plants in porcelain trava adorned their the repa Beures, on the Paraguay River. to engage in the transportation of Monglinika »]
Even before the completion in Mo Cheng Chua r. The Wing Lung fine, the first ruilred in the "Horuit King on clattered about at their daily tasks.
of the Chumnipo narrow gardens, Shiur label, brown little town, Puerto The same of
the town is now en
ass Ministor, at a reception to his countrymor and others, a claim for $1000. The defendints | Jam." the Company sugaged in this work had! As the train slowed down: the chattering tho istat town is not found na some of labourers to its western ports. New the Chin-
maps, and yet wero about. Judgment will costs was given secured the concussion to build a railway, als group on the platform would scatter, and gaved in forsign trade. The go is are brought in the City of Mexico, is reported to bave given
broad gange, to the southern coast. This was theman come runningi towards u, bearing letters
ocean steamers is to the Rio Plate, transferred extraordinary advice to them to cut off dir against the first defendunt.
in the autumn of 1899. Eighteen menthe sometimes, but generally sucking them. The to river unban's and carried up the Para queues, sever their home ties, became citizens of later, work on the Kai-fu railroad was mail clark on the train would pull out a packet, gusy to Puerto Suares where or pass through Mexico and thoroughly identify themeotses with fornially commened at Youtongo, a small or, if the railway colony were a large one, a the custom house inst as though they and their adopted country. This is a wile departure
from town some six miss from Seoul, and from whieh pouch, and give it to the local distributing entered a great Bolivian sea port. The from the past policy of the binese, for not IND COOPE'S ALE
has it point the new road was to brauch from the
berg the purpose of every Chinese The group
won & cluster together again, goods would be of little as they unly agent.
tho settled migrating from the shores of Asia to return to Chemalpo line.
and as the train wont bumping down the track, are hundreds of miles from
his native land, whether neve or dead, but he unless excellent means Toward the und of last year the impending the lucky ones turnost away, reating the letters, parts of Bolivia.
voy died. The
regarded the preservation of his qau ne 2 of transporting them were prov war as a fresh impetus to the work, which they had just received, had been progressing slowly, though stendily, The Japanese labourers have been quart-red common wagon roads of South Amerien are master of the first importance. If the Chin BASS LIGHT GRAVITY since 1996. Thousands of coolies were put to in the forean towas. These villagar mere among the worst in the world, but the Minister la Mexico was sing ce in his sédrico, solivians have built a road over 100 miles and it is followed by thos of his rue who ar work where before there had been but hundreds.collections of and on thatel hets, with or Thu
Japaness Governmont, besides guarantee occasional brick wall and tile roof to contrast westward from their port which will compare now in that country, they will also part with
que of their most distinctive and sarredly | Me.. E. A.. Menter with his unauding the 25,000,000 yen capital shearly fouted, with the hopeless squalor of the surronnaling favourably with the good roads of other soan.
So far as Mexico is tyrannical and says it has used the development in China, while in a row-boat on the road should be completed by the end of At harvest in they carry their grain to the
1904 If this was not done the Company markete unit there wdl it to the wholesaler.
adopted dby his countrymen. That part of it rela- to work in the Government servico for a
forting to
to marrying Mexican women will probabiy alsam launch. M. Mourer thus fold-the-story-nu
a face value of 50 tys practically the entire crop of the district more piltanes, and thus has provided an excol-
be eagerly followed, in which event to Moziops to a Daily Press reporter yesterdayMy you, and the subscriptions were payable in tea They send the grain by pack pony or coelis lent raid at very small cost. The red winds will in later years have good att ta das IND COOPE'S STOUT
over 0219 hundred miles instalments.
At present the stock is quoted carriers, or bullock cart to the nonrest shipping westward for son, my friend, and myself and
considerably below narrow excepu from drowning. I desire to to 10,000,000 par. It was necessary to point, then by junk down the innavi-rable little through the valleys and foreta until it day when they encouraged the yellow ma to
reaches the avialle streams to the sex, and theues to bemulpo erresion the parade. The boxes are transferred other countries have intermarried in lurge un- from Tokyo banks to
alle part of a stream flowing settle among them. Whenever the Chiurs in carry on the work, the 6 per cont. interest on Гинем, As to huse launchion bo
whence it is finally exported.
into the speak about it
The opening of this rics country by a general frun the wagens to small boate, which carry bers with an alien race the half-breed progeny onefits of the railroad. It may take some time to tributed to the leading towns of the country dangerous element in the body politic, driving overcome the Corean's prejudice against making To reach the rabber district Jeremaan had to the original inhabitants out of the sea board's
fadastries and monopolizing the leave the good wage road and strike path ad any change whatsoever in his daily or un routine, but the awakening is sure to come in the hung a narrow sad tortuous path through the to the disadvantage of the original inhabitapis, dvuse frosts. On his way he came to the us they did in the Philippines. The proposition Once this trade is booming, there will be an ever-increasing demand for foreign imports country of the Guarayo Indians, of whom he of marriage with the Morian women is, more- over, a mockery, for most of the Chinese im kerosine will come more and more into general gives the best account yet written. Their name use, for not only will it be cheaper thug before cay Yellow. Mou, and they have really no ex migrants there, like those who have entered this tremely light complexion. The Guarayo hdde country have wives and children at home. but the lower freight charges will make tl. export of vegetable oils profitable, and thee him-elf superior to the Cancasina, and it The Mexican relationship will therefore be native must needs find some substitute to light cannot be denied that in uprightness and sturdy merely a form of conaubinage, which the Chi- mese will abandon, and the progeny born of it, his home,
compares favourably with more
whonorer it suits his whim or his purpose to civilised peoplos, The tribe, which numbers
awn rotura to bis own country. Possibly the Moxi- only a few thensand souls, lins become known
cap. Government may intervene uguiast the simply because of one peculiarity: Its life is orders on the communistic plan. Everybody formation of these mixes alliances to prevent the evils whion they produce and the possible
eraft are entrusted for ustication.
Rechof a gentlamun interested in railway subscribed nu additional 2,500,000 on condition trovels. In theso Jininlets the rice farmers live, trios. Jerrmann cells the government of the thurished adoram concerood, it will be lor, the river at Canton, were ran down by a Chinese reed to repay the amount #abscribed with makes the circuit of all the country fair chooses to exorcise te compel the misfortuns to have the things Minister's a ivice
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The bonds had internat
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made to take more care in the future. First this loan being paid by the Governmenghtening of freights will be one of the gren'naithew to the northwest, and they are finally dis- has invariably developed into an ageressive and GUINNESS' STOUT
of all I must tell you that. Messrs P. Lemaire & Co., a firm of which I am the proprietor, lately opened a branch in Canton, which is looked altor by my for. Clearles. Our quarters are in the old American Consulate building, the Honam side. We supply coolles for railway work every wook, sending them by steamer up river. I had been to Honam in connection with this busina, and the three of us were crossing in a gig to Canton, so that I might return to Hongkong. When about half way scross, right in the current, when we had just avoided one launch, the launch Choy Sing came behind us. It all happened in a moment, as the launch was travelling very quickly. She did not alter her cours but ras us down, capsizing our boat and passing right overus. Under water so were rest- ing on the awning with the bottom of the boat over our hand. The boat then came to the surface. My son cannot swim a stroke and I was very frightened on bis account; I was the best swing An Imperial Customs best in charge of Mr. Clarkson, rescued my son, and Mr. Rachot was picked up by a samopan, sed cur
mer of the true.
through the Railroad Administration. Iu the middle of August, 11 4, it was estimated that an additional 2,800,000 yon was needed to com- plate the line. The Imperial Department of Communications on investigation reported that with various economics 1,590,000
you would an This sum the Goverment lent the Company ou easy terms; no payment used be minde for the first five years; at the end of that time the subsidy was to be repaid in annual in- stats of 50,000 you, on condition that such an outlay did not interfors with an 8 per cout. dividend. With this constant official help the road has been practically completed six weekн ahead of time, though the format opening will not take place until January 1.
Before the war began. regular trains had been running stue 20 miles over the northern, and some twelve miles over the southern branch. In February, 1904, the line had been extended
ead
The Seoul-Wiju road is really a port of the same linea cont nontion thereof. For the present the construction is in the bands of the Army, while the Kei-Fa" line has been hailt
character las
works, not for himself, but for the commen
country's trade
by civilians. The wood. The prople have a of upon the
Inat as thorough at
Present, destined to threats and four large ones and aro zalodate.-Sun Francisco Chronicle. quite as permanent. in building this line the Japanese bave been fortunate in being able to
French engineered Korean Company.
with
as far ne Us, 30 miles miles south of Yontongi | use, in many cases, the road-bed built by the .They derived their communistio idea from Workwen in ever-increasing numbers were put on the embon nkments, the grades, the bridges, From Yontongpe, south, and from Fasan, north, everything was bustle and hurry. Great loads of ties from Hokkaido, and rails from England and America were brought into Chemulpo and Fasan. At these parts they were reloaded on ant boats and towed along the coasts and up the little streams to the points nearest the railroad. Flore the anterials were landed and piled co
to their destinations..
three sailors ky another sampan. Mr. Rochet bal'ock rarts, then dragged across the country portant. Proper g may be postponed.
is in bed using congestion nail a severe bronchial cold.
LOCAL SPORT:
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JAPANESE "MARVELS OF PERFECTION,”-
Mias McCaul, who was specially commissioned by her Majesty the Queen to inquire into the working of the Japeness Red Cross Society, bus sent to the Royal United Fervice Institu. of interesting exhibits of the clothing, equip. than for their museum in Whitehall a number ment, food, oto, of the fighting man of the Mikado.
Most people are aware by the accounts sent by the war correspondent that the Japa
a rod of iron by their escique.
the Jesuit fathers who lived among them All along the line the railway troops are at several centaries are. They have enlarged work. The results attained thus far have been these ideas according to their own notions nud believe that by serving all each may con most satisfactory. In eight months they have pushed forward their line at a rapid pace. The tribute botter than in any other way to his own well being and that of his tribe. The grades are much too steep, the bridges are all of wood, the German. 60th rails are 100 smaller settlements are divided into two s-oliens, light. But these
hasily remaliad. Bute is all-im- there are eight sections. The supreme head of are necessary evils, and the larger towns into four, and in San Ignacio
and the construction people in each section is a cacique, who, of stone and steel
under him a superintendent, a judge and a Work has been
carried sitaultaneously all
all secretary, the last keeping a written record so The terminal points at either end were moved along the live. Materials were landed at that an account of all the offairs of the section further and farther afield. By the beginning of various points on the coast where small streams becomes part of its history. There are abe a authorities pay groat attention to Juno a regular passenger service had been render its transport inland an easy task. The number of superintendents of labour, one of them the well-being of their soldiers in the established to Mitsuyo. 36 miles north of 300 miles of track to the Yalu will probably be having under his direction the men who dis- field, but still, in spite of this discounting, Miss Fusan, contraction trains running about 20 milos farther, to Taiku. Here a mountain spurlaid by the end of this year, certainly early in tribute the water, another squad supplying fire McCaul's exhibits will come as a surprise. It blocked the road, and it was found necessary to 195, but it will be some years before the line wood, others attending to all the farm work. would really seem as if the last word had been
Every man derailed for farming has a plot of spoken by the Milda's advisers thei put inte final shape. There has been no delay. run 34,000.ft. Emvel.
It Ix Possible that there may be in the future ground, for whose careful cultivation he is
subject of clothing, feeding, and on this account, however, as a witchback
equipment. some question raised concerning the right of the responsible. The crops he harvests gajuto the The summer and winter outfits of the privates to retain control of the road, for which common store to the last pound or bushel, but of the Imperial Guard are marvels of perfec the mountain. There are altogether 24
ma punished if it is decided that the tiou. The warm underclothing for the winter, tunnels, with a total length of 1,300 feet, a
This Company encrendered its yield generally quite short, and most of them rights to the Corean Government on rondition been if his industry had been creator. If the hoods, and the huge, Herviceable gloves occurring in this same stretch of li country,
мошка, of que of the trike is burned it is replaced France
cne more of the rig-out of a
& wealthy between Waikon and Kantoku. Here, too, the that all materials should be bought in
Thus throughout their lives in explorer than anything elve. grading has been steeper than elsewhere In and only French engineers anployed If Japan at pablic cost.
1. scue places it is as much as one in 5 while at successful in the present war, however, her every way rack shares the good and bad fortute extraordinary attention given to detail, it may
position in
in Coron will be such that, while she
neighbours
The Cacique is an absolute he mentioned that while the hemp, cloth, cotton, The following is the League tabts up to date no other point on the line does it exceed one in
So. Theugh there have been many streams to may, to avoid all unpleasantness, pay a consider ruler, and disobedience to his will is severely and leather goods for the Army are made in 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw).
ablo indemnity to the Franchunen interested, parished, Laziness is one of the worst of
of private factories, the woollen mat risk, in there will be no disputing her claim to the crimes and the penalty inflicted is often several which it is all-important that there should be control of the road.
hundred blows well put on the naked back with
.nú "scamping" or adulteration, are wholly strategical importance of such a liue from leather strap. Even the women are punished produced and made up in the military clothing. north to south cannot be over-estimated. It is in this way, receiving sometimes as many as ifty factories. Nothing, indeed, seems to have born for this reason that steps are being taken to strokes. Discipline is remarkably severe. No forgotten, down to the provision of socks and fortify the island of Kojedo, which guards the one may have his section without permission. sandals for men whose feet are blistered with harter of Masampa. A branch line connects No one may ent-rtain a stranger unless the log, vinds of provisions and forare tued by
marches.
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en Monday next commenồng at 2.30 p.m. The has been constructed to carry the trains over Japan gendicate originally obtained the them his patch is loss than it would have the sheepskin-lined overcoata, the "col-proof `
A friendly cricket match between those clubs will be played at the former Club's ground
following will represent Crigengower :- E. Aäger (Capti. J. 1). Kiaunir, R. Basa, L. A. Roso, J. L. Stuart, E. S. Ford. B. Festenji J. Craik, L. D'Almaila e Castro, J. Pestonji and J. Glogy.
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The third Club 1ace of the Corinthian Yacht Club to be sailed to-morrow will be over a ven and a half mile course.
The Hongkong Regatts sailing races will be sailed on Monday, the 6th inst
VOLUNTEER INSPECTIONS.
Major-General Stade will inspect the Hong kong Volunteers to-day. When Major-General Slado was at Ceylon several changes were
cross. none of them are of very great: aizo. The principal difficulty has been, in almost every instance, the necessity of building much longer structures than the more strem onld seem to
warrant owing to the foods during the rains season. The 299 bridges, large and small, have a-total length of 23,800 feet.
In going over the line in June our trait left the regular embankment for the first time ut Usan, about ten miles beyond Suwon A four spau bridge was under construction. The piers htud been completed, and the workmen were driving piles preparatory to swinging the steel rom this point on we wore. iuto pluco. From
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willensin liged to run down from the regular iconrage. The old-time seven-day trip peculiar and somewhat advanced civilization had under the strictest
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Fusan with this neighbouring town, and the cacique assents. No one may marry outside of fortress will be for the express purpose of safe. the tribe ander any circumstancom, nor take a the Japanese see shown. Here, again, there is guarding the southern end of the raway. wife in another section of his tribe without the another striking instance of the mare shown Commercially the railroad will do mark for consent of the caciques of both sections. It is in. throughout. All provisions and forare are Kors. It will, above all things, facilitate the tetesting to bare those further details about this prepared in private factories with one most. emigration which the Japanese are so anzions little group of South American Indians, whose important exception. Cattle intended for the are inspected and killed, prepared and between Seoni and Tokyo way be made in 56
55 already carried their name abroad. Jerrmann at
military supervision road-bed, over a rough track laid in the fields, hours Already emigrants are flocking to the last reached the rubber fields after travelling The army biscuit contains proportions of wheat
3 stream on a to continue aur
wooden structure, Peninsula. All a ong the railroad the employes many days through the danse forests. The tree is and rico four, and a few grains of millet seed. then climb up a stiff
the of the line have formed the uncleus of an ever-
Hewn braziliensis the same plant that yields which latter prevents it from becoming noduly Journey on the
proper track.
increasing Japanese Colony Small tradesmen the famous Para rubber in the Amazon basin, hard. There are also shewn dried horse food. On the bridges the Japanese were at work, Koreans doing only the heavy tasks: pumping of all, Kurts are opening their little booths. and Bolivia is applying mois and are of this pressed green tes, and baskets in which to carry
There are many scheme for the exploitation of superior rabber every year. tree is
Tho out the center-dams, carrying, and the like. The tha'vast tracts of waste land, and in Japan the among the rubber collectors as the seringa, cooked rations of rice.
Altogether the exhibits are most interesting excavation was
e all done by native cooli-s under well-crganised Emigration Societies" explorer meglions a very carious fact concerning and instructive.--Pall Mall Gazette, Japanese forewoon Near Suwen was a quarry undertake to bring settlers into the fertile the search for a ber rabber fields in these great which furnished the limestone use for the form loads. The tide is the steel-tipped wedge forests. The groups of rubber trees which are piers and onlverts and the stretches of rookiriven far into the very heart of the Hermit scattered only here and there are among the tim faced embankments.
Kingdom." It will be a potent factor in theber, and men are kept constantly in the field in future development of the Peninsula; an sear effective means to Japan's desired end, the danger, for there are perils of wild beasts and absolute dominution of Cores.
of fever and many of the Indians are not friendly. The prospecters therefore travel in Azgall parties, spreading out within hearing distances of one another during their day's teil. A little bird with a sweet flute-like note in found in there groves of rubber, trees, and strange to say, it is not known to live outside of them. So the rubber collectors have given it the name of seringero. As the prospectors push forward through the bash they listen for the familiar "hawist, huwitt, hawe of the little bird. When a hantor hears the charac teristic cry among the tree ahead of him he raises a glad shout that reaches bis brethren through the woods. Come here he cries. I hear the seringero singing; and here are the trees."
CHURCH SERVICES. -
The read has been built by some twenty suggested in the Ceylon Artillery Volunteers Japane a contractors employing forces of from 500 to 1,000 mm sach. The Korvans in every -improvements as to quarters, etc. New guns use have done none of the skilled, merely the ars dre at Colombo shortly. A suggestion was coolie, labour: The construction work was rando that all ranks of the Ceylon Artillery carried en by two distinct bodies of men, the Volunteers should wear badges on their one following they other. The first laid the helmets so as so distinguish them from the track, under favourable conditions putting down as much as a mile a day. Tis, of course, along
S. PETER'S CHURCH. second division
-Queen's Roul. West. rest of the Volunteers, infantry especially, a road bed already graded. The
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. Major-General Sinite expects to get back to followed the first, straightening teseks, regrad-
Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. Colombo about the und of the present monthing cutting the first angle having been too
great, with the consequent danger of landslides Venite, Wesley; Te Deum, Russell: Jubilate, when he will visit the local Volunteer Coast in the rainy season. They sodded the embank Barnby: Hymne, 172, 196, 227, and 183; Kyrie ments; built the stone facings where the line
Holy Communion, 12.15. Camp.
runs along any considerable boly of water,
"Evening Prayer. adding the finishing touches, in faat, and goue-
Magnificat, Gous; None Dimittis, Croft: The great rowing carnival on the Thames has rally put the line into its final shape. In Hyous, 203 184, 228, and 187.
February there were five engines belonging to The Church launch dayspring will call on fallen off greatly in popularity, says the Daily the Seoul Fusan road. Thone, with twehrs ships carrying whito erewa to bring friends Despatch. This loss of public favour is now passenger coaches and about 50 box and open ashore to the services, between 3.15 and 10.30 reflected in the accounts of the regatta stewards cars, have all been built in America. Many am, and between 5.15 and 6 p. (Kowloon the Police Pier 10.30 and 61: returning afterwards. who are lamenting that their reserve fund has vanished, and that there has been a great completion of their own:
When the line is formally opened on January the sittings are free and anupp opriated deorouss in tonations and subscriptions. Those, the Company will have ready for service 28 Visitors welcome. Books, &o, provided snoday have falls from £1,105 in 1902 to £731 in 1904. kocomotives. There will be 53 passenger cars, School 10-10.45 am. --a very sorions reduction. The fact is that test and second class, second and third class, Hentoy is no longer the fashionable event it and third class coaches. Of the 230 freight was ten years ago, and ita vogue has fallen off rapidly since motoring became the passion of the momeat. Hauley is sharing the fate of the University boat-rave and the Lord Mayor's show.
search of more trees. This work is trot
WEATHER REPORT,
without
INSURING THE TSAR.
EXTRAORDINART FIGURES AT LLOYD'S, We learn that a large number of policies have been issued in Lloyd's covering the life of the Tsar.
The rate of insurance upon this risk stoud at fire guineas per cent, a weak ag, but on Wednesday it rose to ten guineas per cent.; and this mording tens of thousands of pounds.i were covered at fifteen guineus per cent, and underwriters were standing out for better rates still.
It is difficult to discover the exact soures from which these large orders emanate, but they have esme to Lloyd's principally from Stock Exchange brokers, probably on account of clients holding Hassian bands.
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Whether there is a fear that an attack will be made by Nihilists on the life of the Tsar, sa a result of his refusal to entertain the proposed reforms, or whether be is in Lad health, ca poly be conjectured;but there is certainly a scare in well-informed circles, for many thousands of pounds have been paid in premiums hiring the
were in ssa on the Chegmlpo line peading The Answering Pennant is the all fag. All The Hougkong Observatory yesterday islest two days.-St-James Budget, Dec. 30th. 7
cars, 170 are flat. The bodies of the ears have been built, soms in America, and some in Japan. The trucks all come from the United States, The rails, 751b, in weight, are English and America, with a few thousand tous milled in Japan Girders and bridge materials are also either English or America.
ASHLEY ROAD HALL, KOWLOON. No. 6, Ground Floor. Services. Lord's Day, 11 ... Breaking Bread. Lord's Day, 8.30 p.m., Gospel Meeting. Tuesday. 7 p.m., Bible Class. Thursday, 7p., General Meeting. Saturday, 7 p.m., Prayer Meeting.
the following report:
"On the 3rd at 11.55 a.m. Tho barometer hea fallen in the north of Chica andria moderately af ill other stations.
The antigeluto remains over northers and contral China bat the gradients on the east oüast are not quite so steep. Strong is.. mouston will prevail in the Formosa Charicel and to the northward of it and fresh N.F. winds in the northern part of the China Sea.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The M.M. steamer Caledonien, with the next" French wuil, left Saigon yesterday at 8 a.m., for this port.
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12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
40
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With Itching; Burning, Scaly
Humours.
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PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7,68 m.m. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS. SIEMSSEN & TO Hongkong, try! (tetober, 1960,
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DR. NEWELL WILSON,
DENTIST.
Latest American Methods. Reasonable Fooa
No charge for examinations. Offle boars 3 A.T. to 5 P.M
The P.&O. steamer Pekin kft Singapore 1er FLOOR, WATKINS' BUILDINGĖ for this part on the 2nd inst. at 6 a...
The U.S.S. & C.M. steamer Patroclus, from U.K.. left Singapore on the 1st instand is dus Forecast-Fresh N.E. winds, overcast. fair, here on the 7th just, at daylight.
31, Quran's Road Central.
Hongkong, 19th October, 1904.
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