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CANTON.
(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
September 1st,
HÓW THE OPIUM LAWS. ABR 'XVADED,
There is a clause in the new opiumi lawa now
enforood which states that no, opium-smoking implements of any description shall be kept in public houses or places such as hotels; restaurants, Bower boats, thesis, brothels
&c. for the use or convenience of customers:
The Pollon were very energetic won the law was promulgated-and-searches were fre quently made in these public places. All the implements were sitber removed or destroyed, and opium smokers who patronize these places had to one their lisenss and persphernalia with them.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1908.
RAILWAYS IN KWANTUNG.
statement of the amount of coal comanmed and 'to name the places and distriota where the coal comes from. This looks like oficial recognition-
Mr. Paul H. King, Commisioner of Cus and support of the boycott on Japanese goods.toms at Capton, in his annual report saya sim
REÇLUITS AND FISH ABM8.
The Provincial Government ja rebrniting large number of men for the Reformed Army: Viceroy Chang has ordered the Government Arms Factory to manufacture several thousands of repeating rifles and several millions pounds of smokelans powder cartridges ad soon me, possible,
It is said that the Arms Factory has informed the Viceroy that 303 rift and about 80,000 cartridges can be supplied each month,
SENSATIONAL PIRACY. --
The "Fook Chow" and "On Keo" sunches trading between Canton and Walchow were The public houses and flower boats in Fatahan, both pirated on the night of the 20th ult. The in order to evade the law to suit the convenienos pirates, about 80 in naraber, first boarded the of customers, have each taken out severalFook Chow" and made use of her to pirate licences in the names of their servants and now the "On Koo" About $10,000 in money and these places have been practically converted valuable merchandise were carried away by the inté pabite opium dens where people gan pirates. Many passengers, including sovoral go and smoke opium with impunity. This military officials and members of the crows of wort of thing has been going on in the vessels, were brutally murdered by the Fatahan since the beginning of the year. It is pirates who afterwards threw the bodies into alleged that the pollos in Fatshạn have been the river, -.- bribed and are ignoring what is going on, thus -making the new opium law a dead-letter:-
CANTON HANKÓW ZAILWAY.
The first section of the main-line (from Wong Bha to Kong Choun, about 12 miles) wae com- pisted and opened for tenfle about the 15th July last year. It is now reported that the Railway Company bas completed another 30 zi (10 miles), from Kong Chean to a town called Ngan Taan An, and trains will commence to run to the latter place on the 7th instant.
OFFICIAL MATTERS.
Viceroy Chang has sent a despatch to the Grand Council at Peking Treesmmending honours that be conferred on the Commis
The recent recrudescence of piracies in the Caolon Delta and robberies and plundering on land has been something abnormal. It would fill a couple of columns every day if all the össes were reported.
CANTOR-HANHOW RAILAF NY,
whether or
Of the Canton Kowloon Railway, it is yet early days to speak. The company has opened its head office on Shamseen in the old Deason bong. Tsotsi Wei Han is Managing Director, representing Viserigal interests, while the zingineor-in-Chief is Mr. Frank Grove, late of the Boochow Nanking Railway. These preside over a mixed staff of foreign and Chine engineers and olerks, and it is understood that the line along its whols length, Csaton to Samahan, has been surveyed. Here, again, not the line gols through to the Kowloon shore, China is safeguarded against loss in the fact that the East River traffe alone will be quite sufficient to Bocuse commercial success, besides the potability by branch extension from Weichow, of bringing Canton into direct communication with Swatow Canton-Fatehan Bamabul-branch of the Yush
The number of passengers carried by the Han Bailway during the year was 3,191,584, of whom 2,081 were non-Chinees:
The gros earnings mounted to $592,990, of which on $579,519 were contributed by passenger trato.
will probably remain so nuti) the rallway on The freight earnings are still insignificant, and
be carried on slong the West River bank, say, as far as the important town of Shishing, a distance of about 36 miles from Saishui, extension would be neither difficult nor soatly, sad could not fail greatly to enhance the takings of the company both in freight and fares, Daring the year some notable improvements are boon effected. The rolling stock has been greatly strengthened by the purchase of two eight-wheel locomotives from the American Locomotiva Company. The Sherwaltung ferry wharf has been easily, paid for dat of the year's earnings, and the He stands as a position I have ventured to put forward that railways in China ere bound to pay. In view of the sumbor of passonguta carried by the railway, it might be thought that "steam boating" on the Fatehan Creek had been killed as effectively as similar trafila on the Mississippi, but auch is not the case. It has, however, been severely, sut into, and there can be little doubt that when the company has so arranged matters se to run trains sotusily into depot is 18 allen from the town, the laughes the town of Fatsbarthe present Fatehas
will for the most part and their occupation gone. Inaidentally, too, another of China's problems will be solved, as the inhabitants on the banks of the Creek will no longer be There are no larga sugar plantations under tempted to pirationl ventures by the spectacle skilled management in this district, Bash of the wheeng lannah, with its dollar-laden farmer cultivates his own plot after somewhat passenger tow crawling past their doors at all primitive methods, so that notwithstanding hours of the day and night, cheap labour, the native sugar is gradually |_ the natural advantage of soil, elimate, ...and... being ousted by Its foreign competitors. Year by year the ares of onltivation has diminished,
It is feared that grast diffenity will be expericnood in collecting the second instal ment on the shares of the Railway Company, payment of which is now due,
It inreported that the Charitable Institutions in Fatshan have announced their inability to collect the second instalineat on the sharag for which they are responsible.
The Cloth Guild at Fatsban who are responsible for the subscription of over 10,000 shares have taken down their agency sign
SHIPPING NEWS.
LATEST SZHANER MOYAMENTS. the 2nd inst, and is due here on or about the "The air, Formeuthshare left Singapore on 8th inst. a..
7.30 am, on Wednesday, the 2nd inst., and left The C.P.E. afr. Monteagle arrived Kobe st rain at 5 pm. same day via Nagasaki for Shanghal, where she is due to arrive at 8 a.m. on Sunday, the 8th inst.
atas of shipping and tonnage for the HOME THE SUEZ CANAL: year 1905, 19.6, and 1907 have boun ikazed a a Parliamentary paper. The real'e of the past year's working were contained in the port issued by the Company" earlier in the year and presented to the shareholders at the White Paper states that there was an increase annual meeting, held in Paris, on June 2. The of 1,282,930 tons in the net tonnage for the past year, and ad increase of nearly 8,000,000f. vessels in bellmat, of a not tonnage of 11,600,134. in the earnings Of 3,254 merobant vessels and tons, passing through the cunt, 2,441 ships, being fullyTM 75- of a not tourage of 8,673,081 tone, wore British per cent of the number; and asrly 73 per cant were German vessels, whone tonnage was 19 per cent, of the whole, France, Norway. Holland, Rusela, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, 18.5 per cent of the vessels and 10-8 per pant. a total of
the mean duration of passage for all vessels of the tonnage of the carrying trade to the East through the Sue Canal. It is stated that navigating the canal was 17hrs: 58min in 1907,
as well as by day, smounted to 96 per cent as compared with 18hrs. 2min, in 1906, while the percentage of vessels navigating by night in 1900, as ocupared with 98'5 per cent, in 1907
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CIVIL SERVICE FAMILY „PENSIONS, Under the orders of the Secretary of State recently received, subscriptions under the Indian Civil Service Family Paupion Regulations have? been temperarily reduced by 12 per cent, the reduction taing fed from let plomber.
PLANTAIN MRAL,
The Indian Trade Fourrat call attention to a new method of manufacturing plantain mea!
to peel bananas and dry them in the sun, the which sounds simple and practical. The method,. discovered by French experimenters, is simply meal thus obtained being of excellent commerafal quality. Under ordinary conditions the yield of plantain four is roughly twenty per cent. that is, five hundred weight of frait produces ons hundred weight of four. The moanfectare of plantain mant has already been taken in hand on the Malabar Coast.
THE MONSOON.
sioner of Customs at Kung Pak (Macan board of the Railway Company and have refused living example of the truth of the pro- People who assaina that the tanker is a modera average of late years over the whole peninsuls,
for the good services done by that Customs House in the seisure of fire sms-His
Excellency has also recommended the confer ment of honours on the Foreign Consnis here for their kind nisistanso in the recent Flood dimater.
The Local Authorities. rodived cable nowe. from Peking wisting that on the 31st ultimo the Emperor went personally to the Ancestral- Temple and declared before the altar that he will establish a parliament in China in 1997, (This is intended to pacify those who are olamouring for Constitutional Government).
The Board of Education has cabled to the Provincial Literary Chancellor here authorising the immediate establishment of a College for the training of lady tutors.
The Board of Labour, Agriculture and Commerce at Feking has telegraphically requested the Local Authorities tone mend them persons who are versed in botany, agriculture and veterinary surgery. High oficial rank will be given to those who prove to be qualified,
to issue notices of call,
VICEROY CHANG,"
His Excelleans Viceroy Chang has again cabled to the Grand Connell at Poking praying and old age are pleaded. thai bie resignation may be accepted. Ill-hezlth
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** FOL ́AND RUBLE.
Mr. W. R. MD. Parr, Acting Commissioner trade of 1967 remarks that Tes from Canton of Customs at Kowloon, in his report on the shows an annual falling off, and it seems only a matter of time when it will entirely disappear from the returns of the port.
With regard to Sugar the Commissioner
saya
WIRELESS TELEOBAPHY IN EWANGTUNG.
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The Hesperus, which Palmer's Company, of Jarrow, are bailding for the Anglo-American Company's German hour, is said to be one carrier that have been laid down in recent years. of the most interesting examples of the balk oil She has no fewer than 16 tanks, ach of which It would not be safe, says a Bombay paper. has a sapavity of 500 tons. This makes her out to say we had bad a good monsoon till the to be age of the largest, if not the largest, middle of September, but so far conditions are Tersel of the type, sver ballt on the Tyne, very hopefcf. Rais has been in excess of the innovation will be surprised to learn that this and harvest prospects generally are bright. Tyneside beccoza wae building steamers to Exceptionally heary zein is reported in Rajpu osrry oil in bulk as far back as 1972. Even tana and the Panjab, but the monsoon current, before that time vessels with separate tanks for secording to Simla report, in wakening and the carrying of oil wors in Caspian, but their internal arrangements air, olear skies beteken lass rain in Upper India on the wuile the hamidity has not depicted from the involved much less loss of space. Since 1872 generally. Palmer's has built no fewer than 30 steamers of the kind, all of which are at this moment aflost mortality of oil steamers this is probably s and in sotive service. Considering the high record, but whether or not, it indicates a careful highest praise. The tacker is not easy to build development of the type which is worthy of the
excessive. In att ordinary steamer the floors encoessfully, chicly because the strains are and frames distribute the weight over the shell plating in cack frame space, but in oil extent directly by the shell plating Itself, steamers, the weight is borne to s very large Success is therefore only achievable through satual experience, which largely, if not wholly, accounts for the comparatively small number of ürme specialising in the work.
IN VRANCH IN CLCUTTA, The action of this insurance companies in Calcuttarin declining to take certain risks con- that have occurred proves to have been fully nanted with jute ewing, to the numerous fires.
for 1907 it in stated that the total valas of justified. In the Police Administration Report
about 14 lakhs in 19.6. Three-fourths property destroyed by fire was 25 lakhs against lowes were on account of jate, machinery and buildings; and five lakhs worth of property was the fires were so nomerons that the companies lout at a cotton simning Inotory. This year were compelled, in self-defence, to mit their risks and the number of fires immediately decreased in a remarkable manner.
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THE RIGHT TO DO ETIRY THING BUT LIVE. -
-A NEW KOBMAN COASTING SERVICE, In the Home of Commons, says the Pares, The Korean Government has at last, says the
Colons Busly laid down the proposition, that "Seoul Press, decided to graits subaldy to s
the colonies have a right to exclude whom they coasting service which will be started by Mr. like, but that those whom they do socept as H, Yoshida at Wansen in North Eastern immigrants must be accorded full rights of
Hongkong, 18th July, 1908,
In his annual report Mr. Paul E. Korean waters. The subsidy is to be given for | citizenship. We are not informed whether this propellers nearly capsized the balcon. The
Commissioner of Customs at Canton, Beys:
The Kwangtung government, being matimfləd
yen
the famer now finds it more profitable to Tales other crops. A Chinese acre of land produces about 3 pioula of liquid sugar, which It is reported that H. E. Yuso, nephew of sells for $12.50 at the principal local markata Prime Minister Yuan Shi Kai, is pertain to Tamaboi, Lungkong,, Pingeben, Fakmongin
sto, in the Kwaishin district. anoosed Viceroy Chang at Canton. Was acre of land the farmer pays rent amounting For this are strongly recommended by H. E. Chang Chi to #2, and the necessary manure conta about $6. Tung, who is now at the head of the Canton. while the labour is reckoned at about 1. The Asialis Wireless Telegraph Company, has Hankow Railway affairs, Chang Chi Tang has farmer thus expands some 30 on his sors of acquired eight other wireless telegraph stations already requested the Viceroy to abolish the sugar cane, and its crashing bosta hit some 33 for a range of 100 miles," and established Three Province Railway offes here, and with more; that is to say, the farmer has expended school for wireless, telegraphy in Canton, the Yuzn's appointment to special Commisson will 012 in the production of 3 pienis of
ligoid be nominated for the supervision of the Canton-realised a more or less problematical gain of Company supplying an engineer as a teacher sugar which realised $12.50. Thus the farmer Telefunken East Asiatic Wireless Telegraph
Hankow Railway. The special delegates who$0.50 per sore, The engar refiner from these 3 for the school, Two stations were erected for keep a thíp of nob less than 500 tons apk of South Africa, and parts of Australia and before the xirakip descanded. were on their way to Canton to investigate the pile of liquid angar draws some 120 cattion the purpose of practising, one in the Wireless (160 pounds) of the so-called white sugar, which complicated sɛairs of the Railway have been he alla locally for 35: somewhat better prices Telegraphy School in Canton and--one in lines and to run a monthly service on thoseWhile not admitting the abstract justice of the
everything went well. The touring party took the balloon towards LaFan's Pisin and the engines being started the command," Let go," was given, and the ship rosa slightly, with hor propellers working splendidly. The light, however, was only a short one, for one of the loose-hanging guy ropes calobing in one of the three years only, the annual amount being is a rule enanointed for the guidance of colonial engines were stopped and the balloon descendad. stations purchased from the Telefunken East the Fasan-Waski Bay line, 6,154 gen for the mere pious opinion expreened as a private being.colled up ent of the way another start was with the good working of the two Haxed at 17, 19 pan; or to be more precise, 4,770 adininistrators who desire to do right and avoid. A hammer bad to be used to straighten the yon for the Fuss-WoDsan line, 5,139 for dammable interference," or whether it is a blade of the bent propeller, and the guy ropes Wontau-Wuugki Bay line and 2,056 yen for individual. The latter part of the rale has its mada. This proved highly annossal. Rising. the Boh-ho-Kaag-iyong line. The grant will good points and is, indeed, the standard not by tos beight of over 500 feet, the airship commence next ceptember but it is to be refunds the civilized countries of £arops (from which Over Lafan's Plain towards the Long
lileg ed in ten annual instalmenta from September 1918. company we must in this unusstion exclude in the teeth of an eight-mile breeze, The Korean Authorities at the same tims Busale, where a stranger may become natur- the west, then to the anath, and then described promised Mr. Yoshida to lead him a steamer
alized and claim full sizil rights; but coupled large circle, passing right over the on the other hand, will be under obligations to will and pleasure it a likely to make the colonists and a distance of about seven miles was covered. of not less than 500 tons grow. The shipper, with the admission that the Colonies may garrison and town back to Farnborough Com 翻吗, The fight lasted twenty five minutes, the Fassa-Wons and Fuss-Wongki Bay
Canada all the more rabid exclusioniste, can be realised at Canton but the differense Whampso, the stations being opened (for service of three times month will be main-arrangement, fudisa emigrants have usually
lines. On the Wensen-Wungki Bay line hardly covers the cost of transport. From the Government service only) on the let Beptember. tained by a steamer 180 tons or more, while by way of establishing a modus vivendi heen remains of the white sugar the refluer obtains The course of the Wirless Telegraphy on the Soh-ho Kang-lyong line a monthly ready to forego some of the rights which 150 oaties (200 pounds) of tongeni which gives about 60 cattins of browd sugar and 60 castien
Bohool Isated from the 1st June to service by a steamer of a similer tonnage they would have received without question Totai Wen Taung Yng is becoming pro (80 pounds) of kiteal the liquid that remains the lab December. After the examination, be approved of by the Korean Government. It win. However, it acted upon, undoubtedly The fares and freightage on these lines are to In Engisad. Colone! Beely's pronouncemeat minent as one of the most anti-foreign olois after the brawn sugar has been made. The at which 20-students obtained the ocellis ata ad that the Financial Department has stimasite the desire of some of the colonies here. It is reported that recently he advised 60 catties of brown sugar sail for 83.20 Baste for wireless telegraph oporators, the decided to purchase a steamer at the cost of to get rid altogether of the Indian neigh Viceroy Cheng to give instructions in all the and the kitni for $1.50 the refining Kwangtung Government engaged from the some 70,000 yen, the shig to be lent to
hours who excite their jealousy. It was, Military and Nayal authorities and the expenses are calculated at $1,20. The refiner Telefanken Bast Arintio Wireless Telegraph
Mr. Yoshida,
no doubt, meant for a high-minded vindication of their rights, but is not likely to smooth the
likely, on the contrary, to add to the bitterness. way to that series of compromises in which the only hopes of a peaceful settlement liv, and is
of the present struggla..
ordered to return to Poking.
September 2nd.
AN ANTI-TOREIGN OFFICIAL,
Literary Chancellor of the Kwangtung Pro vince to use only native cloth for the uniforms of soldiers and scholars and to strictly prohibit the use of foreign cloth. Inatenations to the above effect have_beer_already_issued by the Viceroy
If ho adopts similar measures in Tibet there will, no, doubt be trouble in regard to British
trade
INCREASING THE RAILWAY FARES,
or merchant is therefore ever in a worse.
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exelade anybody at their own ungasstioned
NEW BRITISH AIRSHIP.
MALAY ROYALTIES WED..
A BRILLIANT SPECTACLE.
increased from the 1st day of the 9th moon. by a parasite which damaged much of the river patrol, so as to enable the administrativo run them or the consuming markets can most and0essful. Great interest was evinced in eleoŝaccepted the invitation of Tanka Ali, st
to
plight than the farmer, for he has only Company an expert as adviser to the Kwang. realised $8:60 after an expenditure of $13.70 tang government and also to supervise the THE LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE. (sa, purchase of 8 pians of liquid, $10.50 refining teaching of now students and the installa loss of some 85 per 3 pienle of liquid sugar tion of the stations, Regarding the places |expenses, $1,20= $13.70), representing an actual
refined. All the native sugar merchants there where the stations are to be installed, tho fore fared badly in this distrist, and those in the northern part of the provinces appear to have angtang government has decided to use done no better. As a consequence the price of them for the extension of the system of wire liquid sugar bas fallen, and it prenant prises it lows telegraphy in the West River and the will be impossible for the farmers to continue Delta, more especially to establish effective the enltivation of the sugar cane. Morever, means of communication for the is of the The railway fates on the Fatsban lize will be during the year the sugar ospe was attacked
growing anne, thus adding one more blow to a
anthorities to control the patrol servics In fast dying industry which appears no longer able more strategic and efficient manner than it to compete successfully with ita foreign rival, would otherwise bave boon possible. Of gan
hosts, the “Leungehan" (built a year ago in THE NAVAL BASE AT ROSYTH. Hongkong) has already been fitted out with the wireless telegrapha installation; the four new Great interest, the Naval & Military Record | gunbosta now in course of senstruation in saya, is being displayed by the people of Hongkong are also to be Etted with wireless Edinburgh in the development of the naval base telegraph installations. The thin and Jokers," who have brought about the presentour,. at Rosyth. While there is no reason to doubt stations in and around Canton have be that the small vote of £30,000 taken in the placed under the supervision of Admiral Li current Estimates will be fully expended, it is Chan. improbable that outward and visible signs of progress will be apparent during the next few months. Our contemporary adds: We able to state en reliable authority that there is
the increase being 10 sents for every station in the first and second claus and 5 cents for the third ales, It is expected that the third class passengers will protest as the increase is out of proportion altogether to their
moins.
_ DENGUE FEVER.
Gla
The marriage ceremonien of Tunku Mahmood Shah have been the thema of conversation bin Abu Bakar and Tanku Ayesba binte Allum among the Malays for some time, and the old house of Sultan Ali, in Kampong Glam, has, one of great festivities for many days,
ys the Singapore Free. Press, been the The beidegroom is a son of Turku Aba Bakar,
Shah are great grandchildren of that Baltan The bride is the daughter of Bulten Allam Shab, sad she and her brother Tauka Ali bin Allum Houssain who ceded Singapore to the British the finished yarn make it impossible for Lan- The prices now prevailing for raw cotton and
in 1819. Bride and bridegroom are both cashire spinders to conduct their business on
descended from the Malay Royal Family that- in its varions braccho ruled over Slugspora, Johore, Rhio and Pahang in days gone by. profitable lines, sayaa home paper. The cotton trade has been in a depressed state for some ▲ SUCCESSFUL SEVEN HILE FLIGHT, A months, and spincers assert that the primary
The guests at the ceremony on one night cause for this temporary decline is that many
were Malays, and a very large number gathered The new British Army sirship was taken to offer their congratulations to the newly now mills have been erected, apparently without from its shed on Farnborough Common a month wadded couple. Next night the principal Euro consideration as to whether there is raw material. ago for its first trials, which aventually proved peans were bidden, and a large number of these absorb the additional goods produced. Em ployers and operators alike admit readily that J. E. Cappor, the chief of the British Aero-
the operations, which were divested by Colous Sulten House, Kampong the prevalent slackness is brought about nautical Department. When the new machine brilliant. Flaga and numerous lights made the The suppe inside and outside the house was directly by the andas extension of the trade was brought from its shed, amid the hearty approaches and ground very bright, and an Mr. W. Mallin, the Secretary of the cheering of a large crowd which had assembled, immensa crowd of Malays througed about the Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation, in his it was soon that its under part was of quite contre lawn, which was laid out with tables latest report, speaks of the "unreasonable new design, the car being roomy square for the more distinguished guests. There were folly of mill-building speculators and position framework, filled in with wire betting. The no less than seven wayangs. Malay and JavanONS,
with the 70 ) hor e power quadrople engines with their appropriate_native_musical instea.......... state of ever-production and necesitating or
placed forward, was suspended from the balloon ments and an admiring crowd to each, ganised short time
by wire the twin industry. But simplbanconely with the working ou sithar side by maus of an elliptical bridge derson were roofved by Tunku Allam, and
Excellency the Governor and of shorter bours and a consequent rednotion in of strong woods? The propellers, instead of when the bride and bridegroom were seated on wages, the Employers' Federation have recom- exercising an atmotive force as in the their bridal throne, with their numerous atten mended the trade to seek a further reduction of last-designed aireli neo, in the new one, dants of honour, a band of Malay women sang
i five The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued crested not a little surprise among many of the or misty men of the war balloon factory dram accompaniment. The room was redolent per cent in wages. This latest move has designed for propulsion proper. Some fifty the praises of the newly married couple to s On the dad at 1155 am. The barometer oparitions representatives to thats the for, the brought the hit sling out into this operator of the appropriala dos Milo wedding, hy dad
means of sight gay ropes along either one wing were Mr. Ng San Sung, usagar of thy Fook On the alternative naval base at Cromarty. From has fallen gmorally exempt at the Bonins, where out this course of action, & foeling of teatrane means of sight bag g
the Malay balloon. In the in silks Fot colore. Company of Hongkong, was robbed of his gold to the northwerd, bat Cromarty-is tog fár a moderate increase of pressure has taken place. is everywhere manifest. The operatives offers
which the Firth of The depression over the Fanilo to the .. know that masy firms have been working at a offear in
our were three passengers-Captain 10. Klug
The Governor made a short speech congratu watch and chain and certain other articles larger fleet. After the maneuvres upwards of bably moving towards N.W. at present. A preceded the present depression they have paid in okerge of the engines; and Lieutenant krellensy and the company for the honour Forth, is capable of accommodating a muck of the Loochoss it still indicated. It is pro-loss, but as a result of profitable trading bioh balioun department: Captain Carden, who was translated. Tauka All returned thanks to His of the Boyal Engineers Isting the bride and bridegroom and Mr. Severn warships were anchored to the Forth, come second depression is shown orer, Central Ching, their asual dividend out of substantial reserve Westland, has been reported to the police who are now on excellenes of the anchorage was again fully appears to be silting towards the East,
Capper directed the operations in coming. demonstrated. It is no secret either that most Moderate NE. winds
recommendation made by the from the ground. The crowd hemmed in the Meanwhile the principals were seated on their may be exposted in the employera will affect all the districts of the soldiers s soon as they reached the common, throne, and beautifully-ads artificial flowers alaborate..
for -Arrangements mining the ap Formosa Channel, and moderate N.W. and W. Federation, and, if imposed, It is ach to it is splendid and egger pachcholes windsores this. Negant of the aging, forge Rodgers The fin de dedited mille
that and the inconvenience resulting caused an in- of flages work were banded round. The orden! age have been perfected. Already a large Beat-
Hongkong ramisil for the 24 hours eading for. Altogether it is calculated that about the failure of the attempt. The greater part had ornaments, and she needed all the attention mälle milk fat med likely to gangs, Laras a severe one for the bride, with her manire. boats stationed on the Wert Biver. Each could lie near the Forth Bridge in complate at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inches, has to patrol a certain neotion of theority. The opinion has been freely expressed
45,000,000 spindles, would be affected. The of the common is now covered with
camp of her lation. siver and must not go beyond the limit by naval offers in the Nore Division of the The forecast for the 24 hours anding at noon short time movement concerned about 70,000 of the public schools Volunteers, and Into The congratulatory speeches being ended, the
Hoge feet that the Government will be ill-to-day is as follows :— assigned to it unless for cosling purposes advised if it allows the Easyth works to be
operatives, and they lost approximately 2.80,000 the midst of this expanse of teate and marquees brklegroom went to the bridal chamber, at the N.W, and W. in wagen. When the last five per cent, advance the airship drifted while the floors in the top of a fight of stairs covered with richly The Bureau of Local Affairs bas established delayed by financial oxigencies. There can be Hongkong & Neighbourhood, winds,moderate; in wages was given to the workpeople, Mr. Cear were endeavouring to get the engines to hrouded aloth, traversing the line of Imperial "aiz soling stations on the West River vis little doubt that these works would have been
tate,
W. Macara, President of the Federation, work. Blight damage was caused to the can- yellow laid on the floor. There they received Shek Kee, Chu Tax Shan, Yang Kee, for the Admiralty to find the necessary fands pushed forward with rapidity bad it been possible
N.E. winda, expressed *th
hope
that when bad trade caused vas, but no harm was done, and the trials further congratulations, while the European- - moderata. Yon Ho, Wong Hong and Te Shing. The under the now discredited loan system, for thres South coast of China between Same as No. 1. the latter had been to them. Employers little dioulter was experienced with the on- and all the accompanimente of the Malay the employers to ask for reduction the proscedad, Colonel Capper calling up a troop of guests adjourned to the lawn, where refresh- operatives would be as gehrens to the employers mounted paitoe, who got the crowd in band. Some mints were serred, Malay cakes, stats, officinis in charge of these stations have been millions in a mere bagatalle compared with what Hongkong and Lemooka. }' instructed not to parolase any foreign coal, bat we have expended at Keyhan, Portland, Dover, South coast of Ching between Same as No. 2. ggest that no is the time for the operativas gines, which wanted a lot of hand labour before kondari." It was late before they took their do mas naiive coal, and to ruidor a monthly and Gibraltar daring the past ten years.
Dengue Fever is visiting na again, Several Shameen residents are laid up with it and it is feared that the epidemic will spread as it did in 1904-
It is said that the disease is spreading fast in the City. The cases, however, are mild, sind no deaths are reported.
MONGKONG MERCHANT BODII.
valued about 3300 on the 31st ultimo, while
sre
WEATHER REPORT,
no foundation for the reports that the Admiralty the following report: have been considering the question of creating
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I staying at the Yeat Wah Hotel,The matter abore and some below the bridge, and the The bigh pressare ares lying over NAE. Jopat funds that have been in most cases built gear, Colonel charge of the steering they had done him and the bridegroom's family
the track of the criminal
MANY GUNBOATS ON THE WEST RIVER,
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