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INTIMATION
A. S. WATSON &
LIMITED
ESTABLISHED 1841.
CHEMISTS
CO..
BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY
THE GOVERNOR & HOUSEHOLD.
ÆRATED
OF
ABSOLUTE
PURITY
AND THE
HIGHEST DEGREE
OF
PERFECTION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 19TH 1907.
form of restraint onght to be recommended- Those who come under the latter heading are departures from the normal type, and na Society has not yet decided upon the proper method of treating abnormalities we are still faced with the problem of what to do with these unhappy people But Because the mentally defective and the morally deficient do go netray and though it be unfortunate that the weak-minded individuals who constitute so substantial a proportion of the drunkard class do exist, that is no reason why the community should be deprived or deprive itself of the bo verages which it likes. Admittedly it would he better ibal these people become total abstainers, but it would be grossly unfair to interfere with the rights, liberties and rational enjoyment of the aober in order to practise a doubtful ex- periment upon there abnormal persons. One
The following telegram was revived by the TELEGRAMS. American Consul General at 5.30 pm, yos terday, from Manila Observatory:- 18th, noon, typhoon neighbourhood north I adrone Islands.
It is reported from a trustworthy source, Boys the Hochi, that e Formosan Government intends to re-start the lattery with a row to raising a funil for Mcomplishing publio enter. prizor.
The death has just taken place at the Govern- ment Civil Hospital of Mr. C. H Hamilton, who was engaged on the Canton Kowloon railway construction works. He was well known in the Colony and news of his death will be received with regret by a large circle of friends, Many will be sorry to learn that Mr. Harry Monthly Review has ceased to exist, at any rate, for the present. Lovers of good litora re may well sit upon the ground and tell rad stories of the deaths of magazines Gone are Longnian's,
"General" Booth was tendered a huge recep. Temple Ear, and many other old stagers have } tion at the Albert Hall 'on his return to London, suffered a change, into something new and and we nots in a raport of a London paper that Commissioner" Nles', who accompanied the strange. It is a melancholy sign of the times.
General on his four, spoke of the wonderful H.E. the Governor has been pissed to campaign in Japan as appendix to tho. A of "ppoint Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne to not as of the Apostle, Both he and Colonel" second police magistrate, Lieuteau! F. Forayth Higgins, who followed, described the extraordi. to be surgeon captain in the Hongkong asry scenes at the meetings is Japan, "when Volunteer Corps; and Mr. G. Grant to be hundreds of the Japanese ones to the ponit mt acting surveyor of boilers of unlicensed stoom-form and many afterwards enshol to the police slips under 60 tons, daring the absence on staticas tu confers clonous and receive punish leave of Mr. W. C. Jack.
mogul." This was rook Abbing.
A Chinese youth et Kowloonchai, who
attempted to robi ugly urprise on friday night, was considerably surprised when the
woman of the house appeared on the scene and skilfully Isssood bim, afterwards tying bim to a
bedpost with the rope. The police scon arrived and conducted him to the Magistracy, where bo was dealt with by Mr. C. D Melbourne,
It is motifed in the Gazelle that information
WATERSight as well argue that because a few acorchers do harm to themselves and make themselves a menace on public roots that cycling should net be enjoyed by more rational people, or that a xirailar snorifice be "imposed upon those who spend their leisure is yachting because a few foolish ones are not wise enough to keep out of danger. The evils of "drink" are admittedly great among those of an abnormal type, but it is 100 much to expect that Society as a whole should be remodelled to meet their special conditions and requirements. It has been recognised that a man cannot be nile sober hy Act of Parliament, but while legislation in regard to drunkenness and drunkauts may well be applied to the classes concerned, unfair and unnecessary restric-mountain ria Omiya daily. At the summit, tious should not be imposed on the rercovable enjoyment of persons we can Lee stimulants without either abusing or being prejudiced by them.
OUR SODA WATER is the most whole
some daily beverage that can be taken,
OUR LEMONADE, ORANGE CHAM; PAGNE, RASPBERRYADE, LEMON SQUASH, de, possess the true flavour of the Best Fresh Fruits.
We would draw special attention to OR LIME FRUIT CHAMPAGNE, which has the pleasant characteristics of the finest
Lims Fruit.
OUR DRY GINGER ALE is a beverage of
delightful Davour and sroms,
OUR SARSAPARILLA is not only a doli-
cions drink but a blood purifier as well. OUR STONE GINGER BEER sieco its introduction, has been steadily growing in popular favour.
has been received from the Military sathorities that musketry field practices will be osrried out daily from Monday, the 19th instant, until | Friday, the 3rd inst, inclusive, commencing at 7.30 m, and finishing at noon, from the South West slope of Victoris Ponk below the East slope of High West. Mountain Lodge in a westerly direction towards
this year. Up to the present 200 second the The number of visitors to Fuji has increased
telegraph and telephone office have been provided. The Oraka Mainiche and the Mainichi Dempo bare jointly established at the top a tent for the benefit of journalists who may attain the summit, The temperature at the top, on July 31st, was: niglit, 34 deg. morning, 48 deg. F: nem, 61 deg., sod mid-
whether the craving for stimulant is as Leaving the drunkard let us cousilor
pernicious as some of the teetotal faddistu would have us believe. From the earliest policeman in Pokfulam Road on
A grues me discovery was made by an Indian Saturday times, when mead was prepared by adding morning. Is glancing upwards at a tree he water to wild honey and allowing these the body of a man hanging from a branch, aizture to and for some days until pparently dead. He proceeded to No. 7 Police Station and procured an ambulance cart ou A. S. WATSON & CO., fermentation had taken place, men were reçu-
which the body was removed to the worlaary, Upon examination it was found at the de- LIMITED,
ceased, a coolie, had been dead about five days.
CHEMISTS. FRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS, &o, &e &c.
HONGKONG, CHINA & MANILA,
Hongkong, 12th August, 1907.
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stumed to some form of intoxicating drink. They drank wotmerely to quench their thirst but also because the liquor imparted a pleas
On Saturday morning a young Chinese women ing feeling of warmth, modified the pangs Named Leung Ki, residing at 20 Wing Fung of hunger, produced a sense of enjoymont Street, attempted to drown korself in the and comfort, gave zeet social intercourse,
harbour. At ludian constable on da'y on the lessened pain, demleged care, and imparted
Praya Central noticed her in the water as สโรช came to fresh vigour to the bealthy man. Having
the surface. He succeeded in getting ber ashore and all this reasous for partaking of stimulants removed to the Government Civil Hospital is it any wonder that their use grew within an unconscious condition. Shu vill ba
brought up at the Magistracy the morning.
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earlier beverages possessed considerable nutritive value, a claim which is not made for may mo tem liquors beyond ale or beer and it is doubtless due to this paure that the regrettable drunkenness of to-day may be attributed. The molern prohibitionist would not deny the use of tea or coffee. Yet they are stimulants in the same rense sa the much abused wine, spirits or beer. In their respective ways they met the natural demand for a stimulant, and either, if indulged in tô, excess, is harmful to the individuel. All these beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, serve distinct purposes. On August 18th, at 156, Paya Mant, the wife In the first place they satisfy the physical
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A book which deserves some attention is Mr. Edwin A. Pratt's latest publication, "The Licensed Trade." It in described as an independent survey, Laut tough it may
sho WAS
We read in the Fooden Choho that much
care and trouble have been expended by the Japanese Government in compiling a list of the foreigners to whom the Emperor will
during the war, grant ordersin recogcîtion of services rendered All the slaims are caid to
have received most careful scrutiny, and our contemporary alleges that the number of per Mong concerned is some 500. The list is or pooted to be published daring the ten days of S-ptember. We do not know how far this statement may be credited;
It is stated that Japanese military authorities have decided to build fortresses at Nanum and Hoiryong in north-eastern Kores. The pro- jeeted works are evidently of considerable ex sensation of thirst, in the second place they tant for it is said that those of Nanam wil respond to the instinctive desire for a stimu involve an expenditure of 7 million yen and hot, and in the third place the alcoholic The Portsmouth Treaty forbids the erection of those at Hoiryeng an outlay of 3 millions. beverages are readily available. It being any fortresses along the Russo-Korean frontier,
hown, then, the craving for a but as Boiryong is 10 miles from the nearest stimulant is natural, the question naturally point of that frontier It does not fall within arises in what form should it be taken. the treaty interdict. Medical opinion is divided on the subject, but as many of the experts athrm that the moderate use of alcohol is beneficial from a health point of view, people will doubtless continue to ako spirits, wine, beer or
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- not be strictly independent it is interesting aerated water, not for the alcohol they can.
as presenting in broad outlines the case for win but because of the stimulating effe the defence of the liquor trade and the which they produce. In other words, we licensed trader. The dogmatisms of the have to distinguish very little between the teetotaler have been so load in the land of ostetaler and the non-teetotaler innstich late years that the claims of the other side patronised by the former show that in these as an examinative of the temperance drinke have been somewhat neglected, with the ho partakes of alcohol, and that being go result that injustice has been dose to a large the abstainer, as he calls himself, ought section of the community and evil has
to be less insonsiderate to his brother followed where good was expected.
whose drink in different to The writer of this
his own special plea deals with many incidental aspects of the trade, in interesting fashion, but for these readers are referred to the book itself. His best or most telling point, we consider, is that with which he refers to the reaction likely to follow in the case of scholars who ultimately discover the exaggerations of the present "temperance" teachings permitted in Board Schools.
That prople should live sober useful lives is not an ideal confined to the teef otaler. The temperate man abhors all excess, whether in enting or drinking, or in any other manner of life, and the man as sociated with the licensed frule, be he distiller, brewer or pulitican, has no liking for the drunken sot. Indeed the drunkard is of no use to any one but a tetulal Fecturer. He is a horrible example, without doubt, but what treatment should be meted out to him is rather an open question. Should he
Two cases of plagus, both fatal, were reported be regarded as one of the mentally deficient, on Satardsy, bringing the total up to 210. then he ought to be treated as other im- beciles, but if he be placed under the category of those who overindulge eno other of their appetites, then soui?
The Chinese Government has ordered from
the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard, Kobe, the construction of a gun-boat. The cost is said to I be yon 1,400,000.
Just before he left London
ir
Secretary Metcall of the Navy and Fost master-General Certolyou, havior invarred the President's displeasure, are going to resign,
Mr. Metcalf is intiaately connected with the railway king, Harriman. Newspapers through out the country are opposing bis neval policy He is being strongly denounced by all ofas-es of people, who point out that his talk about the ernins of the great feet in the Pacific before the President and admirals had come to any agreement, was intended to fatter the people of kin nation state, Caifornia, and that he has thereby injured to country's interasis. By reason of this condemnation, be is unable to maintain his position. As for Mr. Cortolyou, he be shown himself oppose to the nomination of Mr. Taft as presidential candidate, whom the President zealously supports. He has cause! ́estrangement between Mr. Taft and his friends and has also publicly spoken against the displeased Mr. Revolt in this way, it in nomination recently in Ohio. Haring grantly believed there is no way for him but to reziga.
LAWN BOWLS:
'The return match between the Civil Service
and the Kowloon Bowling Club was played on Saturday afternoon at the Hippy Valley. Both teams turned out in fair strength aud the four sinks which took part were thoroughly representative of both sides. But it was not expected that the visiore would win, as they did by eight points. On the whole the game was very good. Play may not have been” of such
WHA
Ligh order at is sometimes soon at theao meetings, but the match proved very enjoyable, the excellent weather contributing to this result. The most interesting contest witnessed in the rinks akipped by Handeren and Wheel Shots were taken and displaced with remarkable skill, and the fish saw the Kowloon men with one polat to the good,
REUTER'S SERVICE.]
KING AND KAISER.
LONDON, August Hih. Huge crowds assembled at Cassel and cheered King Edward, the enthusiasm being remarkable. The monarchs held a review of troops, and drove out twice," afterwards dining at the castle. The speeches at the dinner were of the most cardial nature, both rulers dwelling upon the good relations of the two peoples.
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE TREATY,
LONDON, August lith. The text of the Russo-Japanem.Convention has been published at St. Petersburg Both | countries undertake to mutually respect the territorial integrity also maintaia the status quo and open door in China.
LONDON, August 16th. The Times in poiuting out the equity and opportuneness of the Russo-Japanese Con- vention hopes that Japan will now take measures to remove all grounds of complaint regarding the open door in- Manchuris and trade-marks in Chian
THE DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER
BILL
WATER POLO.
a pity that
CORINTHIAN Y.C. 871 ... This match on Saturday was as koonly fought And as anxiously watched as any of the previous games. By losing it the Corinthians wers put out of the running, and the V.R.C. members, who did not cars who won the compatition long as it wasn't the Corinthians, wre accordingly happy, and signified the same in the usual manner. It is oemi-private differences between two clubs should load to aach unsportsmanlike obullitions, and there was more than a suspicion Is many minds that the Corinthiam had not received a fair field and no favour. They scored the frat goal, and in the suonna balf the soldiers were credited with two that being the final scoro as offeially recorded. But there was ag eufortunate misunderstanding about a goal by the Corinthiaus, for which the lineaman's fing actually went up, but which was disallowed, On top of that, there was heated argument ldier was actually scared in the complete as to whether the second goal credited to the
way required by Hula 13. Water polo sems to be a game at which a certain amount of fouling is inevitable, but there would be
•
future werY
less trouble if the referee in to belong to neutral club, and set he pestored by partisans swarming round him to bawl outradictory instructions in his are.
CHIEN-TAO.
Readers who have followed the costs of recent Far Fastern history with any alfention INDON, August 15th.
will recognise, says the Japan Mail in the head- The Deceased Wife's Sister Bili hasing of this paragraph the name of a diatried passed its third reading in the House of Commous. After an all night sitting, the House of Lords has adjourned the disens- sion on the Scottish Land Bill, until the English Small Holdere Bill is brought up, when they will propose to incorporate the lesling provisions of the latter in the former.
MOROCCO.
LONDON, August 15th. The Hkmass tribe, infuriated at the Casablanca borgbardruent, threaten to take revenge on Raisuli is protecting.
Sir Harry Maclean, whom
THE OPIUM - QUESTION.
LONDON, August 16th. Mr. Churchill, in the absence of Lord Elgin, who was engaged in the House of Lords, received the anti-opium delegaten, Mr. Conolly and Mr. Alexander from the Straits and Malaysia. They urged timt the time was ripe for introducing reforms, and for restricting, and eventually suppres sing the opium traffic. Mr. Churchill promised his careful consideration of the for three cheers for their hosts sad the complithe present condition of the trade cannot be facts presented to him, and said that be felt ment was returned so the initiative of Mr. Brett. The moorea wore :--
19 to 18. An extra head was played and Henderson earned the plaudits of the oulo kars with his last shot, a fine draw, which gave a second shot to his side. The Civil Servico Club dispensed their usual hospitality and at the close of the match Mr. Henderson valled
Kowloon. W. J. Crawford R. Hunter G. K. Edwards A. A. Milroy (skip) J.C. How T. Neare A. Rameny
T. Petrie (skip) 23 D. Harvey A. Nieliolo W. Hutchiso AV. Russell (skip) 12
T. Skinner
W. Taylor R. H. Baxter J. M. Henderson
(skip)
.
Civil Services JCARS
-Thornbill.
C. Raml
W. Fincher (skip) U
P. R. Ad
M. Melvor
A. Blowey
L. E. Brett (skip) 19 H. Palmer
9. Balepek
R: Fonion
W. H. Kely (akcij) 30 H. Parkinson
C. W. Brett
A Beau
·J. A. Weil (skip) 19
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THE FOURTH OF JULY HARVEST.
allow to coalinue. Meralers of the deputation must not assume that the Go vernment is indifferent; he thought the ense for Caylon was particularly strong, and that the Government must go step by tep in the Crown Colonies with the new policy adopted in reference to In his and
Chica.
THE YUNNAN RAILWAY.
Losnos, August 15th, Mr. Hobhouse, in reply to a question, stated that the Government and received Lilley's report on the Yunnan railway. Mr. Sweaton asked, whether the Government was aware that if such a liae were not made. the whole of the trade of Yunnan wool be A list of Fourth of July cssusities, as gathered diverted from Rangoon to Saigon. Mr. gives the following figures: Dead throughout Hobhouse, replied that the Government had by correspondeats all over the United States, country, 58; fetly lajured, 102, probable not last sight of the importance of the wat deaths from lockjaw, 88; injured in Chicag (not fatal), 87; injured in other cities, 1,647 ter, but it would be most injudicious to Mark Twain said:"I have toda rilently cannon. 44; firearms, 56; gaspader, 59: toy
for home Classification of caus--By fireworks, 427;lay all the reports on the table at present. gay life here for four weeks, but I felt pistols, 88; dyaemits casos, 63; runways, 16, The list does not include the following, all
THE BELFAST STRIKES. fatigue and have had little desire to attributable to the excitement of the day: quiet down. I am younger now by seven years Murders, 7; sateides, 14; drownings, S. than I was, and if I could stay, another mouth For purposes of comparison, the following I could make it 40 years. This has been the
are the deaths in prarions years —
Dead. Injured. moet enjoyable holiday I over had. I'm worry
158 4,308 and made 100 new ones. It is a good kind of be end has come. I bave met 100 old friends
182 4,994 riches to have. There is none better. For but I have obanged my mind and postponed it, ¿wo years I have been planning my funeral,
I do not like to think of that." I suppose I shall not see England again, but
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"Scazations astronomy" is the term applied by Professor Charles L. Doolittle of the chair of afronomy at the University of Penunyivavis and director of the Flower Observatory, to the efforts of various scientists to prove that tho planet Mara isinhabited. "I do not expect that the telescope or the telescopic camera will over actually detec figures of living creatures upon Mars. There is noting really determinate in
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reduced by the heavy rains, which wore general was $304,000. Damage by fire was greatly The total fire loss attributable to fraworks
over the fiddls Wast the night before the Fourth. It is certainly satisfactory to find this grim harvest growing less every year.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
left Shangbai for this port on the 15th instant, The N.Y.K. str. Sudo Maru (European Line) and is expected here te-day.
Iosnos, August. Dik.
The Belfast strike has been settlel and work is resumed-to-day.
GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.
the
kring beyond the rouugnised north westera limit of the Korean Empire; a district whiab, as ;
sun the Tamen rivers as to be considered as.. its name implies, is no subraced by the Yala
island. Whether this region belongs to Korsa or to China has for centuries been question. At all events either Empire has 。 mat many prastical attempt to adminuter the affairs of the region. In the matters of spply. ing the law and preserving peace and gool order,
people have been left to take care of them- selves, and all accounts show that deplorable condition bas gradually come to exist in this absence of effective Authority Recently the unmarenly signed memorial to the Government KureAD inhabitants of Chien-tao sent a in Seoul complaining that they were at the mereg of arbitrary and exacting conduct on this part of their Chinese fellow-residents and pray- ing for relief. For some time past the question of ownership in this region has been dismissed between Seval and Paking, but it doce sot ap pear that Chiness claims have been in any respect, subetsutinted or oven that they ar seriously, erted. In this circunstande the Japanese Government, according to Toky
has decided that Chien-tao comer within Japan's sphere of intuener, and a fores ing and maintaining order. Chian-tao is said is to be dispatched for the purposs of anteblisa- to be a distriot of great productive, capasity.
newspapers,
THE TOKYO EXHIBITION.
The Tokyo Exhibition closed on the 31st time. Some of the Tokyo journals describe the affair as a signal failure, but the epithet published, but it is known that the attendance seems to us quite andererred. No accounts of expenditure and revenue have Jal beena exceeded the original satimste of three millions, and certainly no one will deny that the show and zeal were shown by he management in was highly attractive and that great energy catering for publie entertainment. There were which are in themselves eloquent. The reasons 14,800 exhibitors and $3,700 crhibits, figures assigned for dubbing the exhibition a failure are merely fortuitous incidents. The fit was the heavy leakage which took place in the early days of the show owing to nin making is way through badly constructed roofs and damaging quantities of the exhibits. But that is to ha attributed to the fault of the architects and not to any defect in the management. The cond roasoa ie, that the lotteri did not pase over without some disturbance of the peace, and the third that thefts to k place at the hands of the employees themselves. certainly unfortunate but they can hardly be Suck things wore- adduced as constituting violaale failure, Muil
CONSTITUTION FOR CHINA.
Viceroy Ynan is said to have presented to the Throne & memorial of great length, 50 pages according to some telegrams. He takes for text the Franco-Japanese Entente which pledges ita signatories to maintain the
integrity of Chins. The Viceroy thinks it little short of.a disgrace to a = great on1 independent Power like China that her territorial integrity should be ban guaranteed by outside States without any reference to herself, and he sees in the fact a conolasiyə
usive proof that the time has fully coms for Chine to amend her systems and develop her resources so as to educate thorough ability of self-defence. To that end his Excellency orges the adoption of constitutionn government and the grant of local autonomy. He enters into LONDON, 16th August.
unny details, among others that an oath should King Edward's toast at Wilhelmshoche, be taken in the above sense before the ancestral which was couched is remarkably friendly precadent of the celebrated Imperial oath taken tombs, which idea he probably derived from the terms, has given the greatest satisfaction to is Japan at the Restoration. The memorial is Germany, and is regarded as evidence of very weighty and of grost interest but the reaum given by the telegraph is scanty. It is the happy relations, existing between the said that the Viceroy has resolved to resiga his Monarchs and the peoples
office if his suggestions be not accepted by the Thronė,
THE TRANSVAAL.
diamond for the purpose of presenting it to the King, as a token of Ingalty, nor to commemorate the granting of self goven. ment to the Transvaal.
Line) left Bingapore for this port on the 16th The N.Y.K. str. Sanuki Mara (European
Loxuos, August, 180h. instant, and is expec'ed here on the 22nd inst. In this Transmal Assembly, General The Indo-China atr. Nimsang from Calcutta Botha moved to acquire the Callinan our knowledge of the so called canals of Mare.
Bud the Straits left Singapore for this 17th inst. at 6 am, and is dus here on tead inst, The very
The P. & 0. str. Malle left. Singapore for this mathematically exact would mam to refute the outward English Mails and is dee hore on the port on the 17th instant at 11 am with the
idea that they are artificial water channels for
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bal about 82.0%. irrigation or other purposes. It is absurd to German Mails with datos from Berlin of the The 1.G.M. str. Prim Heinrich carrying the suppose that any intelligent beings would 80th alt. left Colombo on Friday the 16th inst construct canals in perfectly straight and p., and may be expected here on or shent parallel lines for thousands of miles on the Tuesday the 27th inst. a.m.
probability in the theory that these objects are again at 5 p.m. same day for Shanghai_where variable surface of the planet. There is more 78 8. on Saturday the 17th inst, and leave,
The U.P.R. str. Tarter arrived Nagasaki at
su appearance rather than a reality, and are due she is due to arrive at 49.,m, to day, to atmospheric or gaseous conditions."
'The I.G. M. str. Preussen which left hero un 17th ult. a:rived at Cenca on 17th inst, at 8 am.
Meanwhile the Chinese Government seems to ba in state of considerable anxiety about the doings of the revelationary party, and is mid to b revolving various means for removing the partition that has hitherto Hood betwens the Undoubtedly the best safety valve is to be found Manchin and the Chinese elements of the Empira. in sonstitution, but it is doubtful whether the Manchu can yol appreciate that fully-Jop Mail.
Yesterday being the anniversary of thebirth day of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Mr. Mr. W. A. Evans, master of the Shire line de Santirmay de Darvate, Consul for steamer Denbighshire, was on June 26 presonted Austria-Hungary, Was "at home" at the ficent gold watch sud chain with the Imperial callers who drank to at the Russian Embassy, London, with a magni. Consulate, where he received a number of the health of His cost of arms, as » present from the Tsar for his Imperis! Majesty Fraucis Joseph. His care of the troops carried by im from Excellency the Governor and H.E. the Vladivostock to Odesss.
G.O.C. were represented.