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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
"BHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LID
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERP, MID. DLESBOROUGH, LONDON AND
SINGAPORE..
THE Steamship
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. "BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
risk the
"DENBIGHSHIRE," Captain Davies, haring arrived from above Forts, Consignees of Cargo aro hereby informed that their Goods are being landod ot
and, Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company
THE HÔNGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8æð, 1908,
THE NEW PEKING,
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him on all siden, à foaling justified by all the | history of the East. The dower of reform in (FROM A CORRESPONDENT OF "FRS TILES,” DETİKinly in full bloom, but what of the roste ? Some millions of tools have boen, and are being, For the student of political and raois ques spent on proving to the civilized world that tions, tow places on earth can compare in inforest modern municipal administration is not beyond with the capital of Chian to-day, To revisit the powers of Chinese officialiom at its fountain. 6.8. "BENARTY," FROM MIDDLESBROUGH ANTWERP, after an absouce of ten years in to realize head, but there are already signs that the strain of this unngas) expenditure is beginning to tali something of the forces at work in and around LONDON AND STRAITS. "
the Middle Kingdom, something of the zooults heavily on the boirds concerned. When looking. ONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informed of the deadly struggle for world power which beyond the immediate prosent, it is therefors NALAN 7504 ang landed at their has made Manchuria and North Chins the natural that one-should seek to find in the into the hazardous and/or extra oookpit of Asis, and of which the end is not yet. Abancial policy of the Central Governmont To those who knew the Peking of the ninetier, some proof that these reformi are the result of s hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and
the contrast offered by the city of today gives definite and deliberate plan of reorganization Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, food for manok redetion. There are other and are not merely due to the spasmodie their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong Lild, whenos and/or from the wharve delivery phenomena in this part of the world equally activities or transient induonos of
may be obtained.....
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods striking, such as the greation and growth of progressives Considering only what meets Limited; Kowloon, and stored at Consignees have left the Gedowns, and all Goods remaining Russian railway city of Harbin, sad the the eye in Peking itself, it is evident that for undelivered after the 6th Nov., will be subject rim, ellent passing of China's sovereignty in the permanent and satisfactory maintenance of all that region eagrod as the birthplace and
police, public lighting, and other thing to rent.
cradle of the dynasty, but none of these strike hitherto undreamt of in Chinese philosophy, the imagination so forcibly as the outward and there must first be devis 1 a system of visible signs of fasion and change that sonfront défaite allocations of revenue, and there must municipal taxation, sanctioned by law, with ens in Peking,
also be a public service composed of oficials specielly trained and permanently employed for old hand-to-mouth, happy go lucky method this
of work. olmes
other words, the (methode which fad the solution of every Soancial problam in a new loan from back, and by virtue of which every Mandarin leaves
his maintenance and repairs" successor mast be replaced by an efficient and it the beginnings business-like system,
not to lead to of reform Bre
risk and expense,
All brokon, chatel, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, the 3rd at 3 P.M.
Nov,
tteon
All claims must be presented within days of the steamer's arrival bare, after which data they cannot be recognize","
No Claime will be admitted after the Goods Lave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3rd Nov., will be sub ject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
A gents.
Hongkong, 28th October, 1908.
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AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,"
FROM NEW YORK.
THE Steamship
*KORANNA,”
All Claims against the Stastner ons het sented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th Nov., or they will not to recognized.
All
to
broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are. be left in the Godowns, whore they will be examined on the 6th Nov, at 11 A.M.
No Fire Insurance has been offeated. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Öɔ.
Agents..
1516 Hongkong, 31st October, 1:08:
MARTIN'S
PIOL&STEEL Afor Ladies PILLS
Ladies&rop a la
for all eragzineitina. T
A Precan of cens be the one, to the st faný Freemansaits of the time her Kanistered Thus the recamat
At all Chester act Stores, or set fan i ARTIZ, CAL HOUTHAMPTON, HEGLAND.
Captain J. H. Beare, having arrived from the sboro Port, Consignee of cargo are hereby AS
aformed that their Goods are being lended at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Kowloon sud stored at Consigases risk and expense.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the godowas, where they will bo examined on WEDNESDAY, the 4th Nov, at 3 P.M.
All claims must be presented within fifteen days of the steamer's arrival hero, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the. Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th Nov, will, be subject Lo rent.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by SHEWAN TOMES & C6.
General Agents.
Hongkong, 29th October. 1908.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS.
THE P. & O, S. N. Co.'s Steamer.
"DELHI,"
1507
FROM ROMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vassel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THIS RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods Ar
are landed,
This vessel brings on Cargo
From London, &o., ez ss. Moldsvia"
From Australia er 8.8, ** Vistoria.
From Caloutta, ex s... "Osylon."
From Persian Gulf or B. I. 8. N and
B. & F. 8. N. Co.'s Steamers,
Optional goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 5th Nov.; at 4 P.M.. will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by me in any case whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignees nod the Company's representatives at an appointed Bour. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods havo left the Godownɛ,
E. A. HEWETT.
Superintendent,
Hongkong, 29th October, 1908,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM EUROPE.
THE HAL. Steamship
***SITHONIA," Captain Brehmer, having arrived, Con- signes of Cargo are hereby requested to send to their Bills of Lading fur coastersignature by the Undersigned, and to take immediate delivery of their good from alongside
Optionul Cargo will be forwarded unless moties to the contrary be given before To-Dar. Any Cargo impeding her discharge will, be landed at Consigne risk into the bazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong. kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
All Claims must be presented within tea dayı of the sleamer's arrival hore after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Coode have loft the Godowns, and sil Good. remaining undelivered after the 6th Nov, will be subject to raut,
All broken, ohiafod, and datasgol Goode ara to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 5th Nov., et-8 E.M.
No Fire Insurencë has been offerted, '
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Hongkong, 30th October, 1909.
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Before the Chino-Japanese war of 1894, and even after until the great Boxer upbeaval, the Peking known to travellers and European diplomacy was much the same slumberous, duet Isden medieval city that from which Nar hach and his Manchu bowmen drove the offat Mings thros centuries ago. Remote, deliber
ately inaccessible to all influence and inter- course bolding haughtily aloof from the over- approaching clash of conflicting systemg, Peking
hom stood, above all, for the
sud headquarters of the Bannarmen (that dongnaring race from whom the instinct and power of conquest han long since departed) -Anschronisticexereza. Fou el aging to the walls of the Forbidden City. Long regarded by Europe (and particu- Shearly by Russia) with feelings of superstitions awo, by reason of a survival of cuspect dating nox to the days of Kanghai, the ospital or China has coms to be ruecgnized, sines the exposure of 1895, as the home of au slion-race of SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF rulers, effeminate and slank after generations of tribat eating oase, the seat of a Government Mancha only in nem, and unchallenged only by force of tradition. Despite the rude shocks of 1860 and the nearer perils of 1895, Puking at the close of the century had appareatly learnt nothing and forgotten overything exopt it. nextinguishable desire for seclusion, that desire which found its final expression in the Durises t 1900 ordering the extermination of all foreigner Teplated for want of all means of communication, innooset of sanitation, palice, and all other forms of eivio Administre tion, the capital of China slumbered on, only Len years age, amidst the gathering forces of dielntegration. Through her filth-strewn streets,
ទ Axls-deep
dust
or mud, still lambered the rude vehicles of a primitive cirilisation; through her ancestral, battlementct
atct gates, closs barred. at anneet, long lines of slow paving camels bore the city's food supply with a congenial favour of ancientry. Such was Peking in the nineties, a city well content in squalid isolation, brooding on her empty dignities, capital of the chiefest of barth's pooples. What need was there for the sacred city of the Dragon Tarons to change au of her ancient ways because of the clamour of upstart nations on her borders; was she not sill the centre of the universe, and sustain of many great States, reosfving tribute, as of old, from Tibet. Kores, Nepal, and many other
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chaos than before. The motronic boards themselves require to bo reorganized in fact rs well as in name (of which there is as yet no siga), and the Central Government could, therefore, gise no better earnest of its intentions thau by digbending forthwith its army of ine- dient and reoare officials, that loonat borda. hose immediate interests have hitherto been stronger that all the counsels of progress. Itis too much to hope that the Mandarin of Chias will follow the example of the Daimios of Japan in a general and patriotic surrender, of his class privileges, but in the absence of any such altruism it may safely be said that, aules the Government is propted to face the therongb revrganization of the country's civil service nad nandes, other reforms, however outwardly impressive, can be at but but, face saving malasbilts,
one
And when, wandering, in the streets of this nor docked Peking, so often rough handled.in the past because of the ignorance or weakness vf its ralers, one sees the military garrisons of gaven foreign Powers philosophically accepted by its patient, peace-loving popis as part of the established order of things when
après-moi-lo. remembers what this incorrigible, deluge ignorance has already cost China, and What forces are already now gathering on her defenceless borders; when one ralize that it is this very woukness of the Chinese Govern ment which perpatnally threat ins the passa of the East, one cannot but fervently hope that all these sudden evideness of patriotism and public spirit may prove to be the rat fraits of genuine and permanent awakening, that all the many current scheras for asstitutional government, a reorganized army sud nary, opium abolition, State education; and the develop. meat of the country's wealth, which exercise the minds of the Grand Council, may boom accomplished faste while yet there is time, and And to-day, as if by enchantmant, the old may commeres with a radical reform in the order has changed, and the capital of China no methods and personnel of the administration, For the writing stands clear upon the wall to longer typifies the mouldering traditions of the Manchu hierarchy, but rather the new national day, deep groven by the evente of the past ten instirols and a pirations of the Chinese people driver, may read and understand the law which
years, so that he who runs, mandarin or mul On the immediate causes of the trinnformation decrees the survival of the fittest. Time alone we need not dwell, for they sa known to the how whether the lesson has been learned in world the aftermath of the Boxer madness, - can which brought the railway and the outer world Chins as it was learned by the patriotic people to the very gates of the Palace; the continaed of Japan 40 years ago. For the present, thers. occupation of the city, and its road to the fore, while welcoming every sign of progressive soa, by the Military forces of the allied change at the ospital, we must inevitably sus- Powers, then, Sve years later, the sushing fleet of the initiative shown by the central, and Awakening of all Asia to earth-shaking foot, that Oriental armies had suoosssfully provincial Governments. ebailenged the boasted supremacy of the white races last, and most vital, the oreation
Chinese public
vassals P
A strong Okina, wise in council and resolute of purpose, would ensure the peace of the East and the postponement of many perilous quoe: articulare through the new Press, bringing tious; a weak and ineffoient Chins means per
potasl unrest and the constant harassing and to bear upon the bosry traditions of statecraft its unmistakable demand for new shrinkage of her frontiere. Every walk wisher methods and new ideals. The keyaate of this of this inoffensive, Jawab diag, and industrious public opinion, born of Western and people, every one intorested in the paceful recognition of China's humilia ing weakness, development of their commerce and well-being China for the Chinese" and its ayawad must hope for permanent and practical results object is that the Government should poodily from the present awakening of themtional con pat an end, by effective reforms, to a situationsciousness. Au, since it is within the yellow which thinking men have come to regard as Intolerable, a situation which involves dartzil- mnent of sovereign rights, the presence of foreign garrisons, spheres of influenos, and extra-territoriality, with all its privileges for the alien. And thus the day of reform bae been made to dawn in high placer, and he Mandarin to realiz, that the ancient house be put in order, and that quickly.
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tiled walls of the Forbidden City that theas results must first take form and 1-fo, the march of events at Foktug, political, financial and administrative, deserves the closest attention if the civilized world.
AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN.
IN JAPAN.
Tokyo newspapers devote whole pages to the descriptions of the welcome given in Yokohams to the Businessmen of the Pacific slope, who arrived by the Tenyo Mars on the 13 h inst. A number of representativo Japines bad proceed- of from Tokyo to welcome the arrivals, and the President of the Tokyo Chamber of Commero, read an addrese, which, cuchet ja go-ful
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THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898. APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PAEK, FREAN & CO., LIMITED, of 188, Drummond Road, Bermonds, London, England, Manfacturots, h47) on the 15th day of September, 1908, applied for the registration in flougkong in the Register of Trade Marks of the following TRADE MAFX
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PEEK, FREAN & CO., LIMITED,
by ARTHUR HALPIN GREENE. Secretary.
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN THE CHINA SQUADRON..
Alerity depatel-boat, 700 tous, 4 guns, 30 h.p., Com. G. T. Fuller, Hongkong Astra, 2nd days cruiser 40 tons, 10 guns, 7000 lp., Captain F. EU, Byas, Hongkong
Bedford, Int, 'sce oraizer, Capt. S. E. Erskine,
H... Borgkong
Bramble, surboat, 716 ans, 300 Lh.p. Lioni-
sincers or less friendly than there which we," your near trous-Pasillo neighbours, desire to convey to you. Commeres le the handmaid-n of alvilization. It disseminates knowledge; stimolatoa manufacture, it cabanoss the vuln of production; it creates ronidense; it makes friends out of sighbourn, it preserves more than any other elements the prosperity and peace nations. We do not visit y as merchants only however, but as bumble representatives of great nation which ever has brop, and which we hope ever will be at pace and in friendship. with the great astion of Japan, which is not divided from us by the bread Pacific Osan bat rather brought closer to us. The ocean made us neighbours and should ever make us friends. We come, not only to stimulate trade, but to get nearer to you as human beings, to your art which is a model for the entire world, to thousands of years before our country was even koow more of your glorious history which dates known to the civilized world, to observe the sources of inspiration and patriotism of people and
ot your their self sacrificing spirit. In a word, we come to
сред you with heart and friendly desires to learn and be inspired by Yamatoda nashit, the soul of Japan, so that we may go back and tell our friends Japan, was made possible end to induce them to Bendy torpedo-bost dobroyer 75 tous, & iruzu,
Lieut.- Comdr. B. J. D. Guy, ea route Hongkong
and
same and ase for themselves that which they will hardly credit when we tell them co our retare, of our observations and echolusions. And fully wo shill hope that at no very far distant date our visit here will be returned, to give as an oppor- tunity to demonstrate to the Japanese suz friendship and good wilt. We will endeavour to rival, though we cannot hops to ercal, the attentions walsh are now in store for us and for which it is now my privilege to present to you the delegation that apponia before you.
REFORM IN INDO-CHINA.
NAV HEADORES TO. DE INTRODUCED BY GOVERNOX-GEN KILAL
M. Klobukowski, the Governor General of Indo China, was in Annam a protested Stato,. in the middle of this mouth. Bank selition flourishes there and in Tonkin, and agilatoru Had ready eat among the people, who complain bit arly of high taxes and officia exactions.
His Excellency issued a proclamation to the people of Aurata and Tonkie, promising the redress of all grievances, and warning them not to listen to the sedition mongers who lead them step and whom baleads to push severely. la Excellency thea on lines the reform matures ho, will take when order is once
restored.
These measures are:-Yo new tax to be
levied and no existing tax to be incressed astire customs and unges to be respected; fairness in the weight of laxation; thoseliable to do foresd labour for Overnment to have the
be
Bo it has come to pass that to-day three railways bring their traffic and broadening influences to the very gate of the city. The tinkling camel bells are gone, their old world masie replaced by the indefatigable bagling from school parade-grounds and camps. No langer doos the medieval watch patrol the midnight streets will noise of atil, and dran; the now police, with their foreign aaiforma, rif and sentry-boxes in every garter, hava ferms, may b sammed up by saying that it“ consigned it to oblivion. Well-paved streets, expressed the profound pleasure, given to the Asuked by bricked drains, now connect all the Japanese by this vixit, and t at it breathed principal gates; the paper Interns that acconsentiments of deep friendship and admiration tuated the darkness of former days have been towards the United States of America, Mr. replaced by electric light; senvenging is no Dubrms in replied on behalf of the visitors, and longer left to the unaided efforts of pariah taire his apecob verbatim from the Japans by worked for the best fit of people; greater
and pige broughams and jinikabas Tintes :- ply in the plass of sedan-chairs and spring. Five Chambers of Cammerge of Japan, desir of boudin sed Treleas carts, and public haildings of suitable ing to give expression to their fasling of autheritis; native visiala of proven bid character to be dismissed; the salaries of native Bize. and design are being provided for friendship and good will towards America and
ofials to be raised, more natires to be the varions Government offices. Mostre Americans, and wishing also to gnioken the maritable of all-as indicating the change is sentiment of matust attachment and good employed in the higher Government posts; extensive reclamation and irrigation works ou social and educational standards-is the new neighbourhood which units the peoples of the
waste public band; the salt and liquor mauspo zoological and botanical garden, whither large two lands, extruded a cordia in Cadott the lies to bi renderet lese burdansumo to the crowds of both gorea resort daily; a purely number of of itens of the Pacific Coast of the Chinese enterprise, of which the citizens are United States to come to Japan during the people; the well tax to be lightened; medion! justly proad. All these manifestations of a new coming, chrysanthamam season. This invition help to be brought within easy reach of the And energetic administrative faculty are the work was presented to the various chambers of com. masses; and steps to by taken to make lawe of the past ten years, and to those who remember merce of our oi ties through the Japanses Consul against sagyling less oppressive, the Peking of the old regime the change is a in Seattle and through bighly, esteemed and matter of wonder and hopeful aygary. It any respected Japaness fo the cities in which one had prediated in 1900 that in less than ten they raida Tau ci in of the Pacific Coast years a foreign adviser to the Chinese-Govern have responded to this invitation mad 39 gentle- ment would be driven in an automobile, fu | men have been selected as commissioners, and company with a member of the Grand Council, are now about to lead on the Japanese soil, from the City to the Bammer Palace, or that These ton cities are miles apart and commis- Chinese newspapers, printed in the capital, sioners were mostly strangers to each other Width of Entrance on Bottom...
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tional government. His friands might reasonably Marc,” wh đã has brought us 6,00 můstkovas considerably and is PATENT SLIP.
have called in medical advice; jet these things, and pleasantly to our journey's end. But now high over B. Japsa, -Buitable for vossols up to 1,000
and others equally remarkable, have come to though strangers to each other, they ware Moderate monsoon my be expreted in the THE WORKS are well equipped with
To pressure of public opinion in the unit from the beginning of their voyage in
Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China LATEST PLANTS and APPLI. provinces the change is primarily das; the realizing the great honour which has been con- ANGES to undertake BUILDING 102 actual irception of reformed administration ferred by the invitation and by their collection, REPAIRING: SHIPS, ENGINES, and Paling (frankly modelled on the example and in bringing a mosrags of friendship and BOILERS: -and
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Tien-toiul must be credited in great meseurs to grest Pacific Ocean, to be delivered to the the wisdom and courageous initiative of Yuan Chambers of Commerce, and to all the people Shih-kai, Prince Se, and other prominent pro
of the land of the Rising San, We ora eure gressives.
that if this commissión bed, boou selected by 1,0/0 cities of America, from all parts of the Atlantis Gpast, of the interior, as well as from the Pacific Coast, the message would be the same, and that the sentiments, which we are charged to present to you would not be las
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Nevertheless, and while these evidenons of reform are entirely hopeful and rearing, there remains inevitably in the mind of the cless absorver & sense of paril in the very enclenocas and feverish haste of the changes that confront
WEATHER REPORT,
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-
in the 2nd at 11.30 am-The barometer has fallen over N. China osing to a depression- which is movi:g. Eastwards to the North of the Lower Yangtze
Comdr. Hon. R. O. D. Bridgemas, Shanghai Britomart, gusbeat, 710 tons, 91 t.g., Liont
Comdr. F. B. Noble, Shanghai Cadanis, British sloop, 1070 tons, Conde, H. L
F, Heard, Hougkong: Cherub, water tank and tng, 350 tons, 300 h.p
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Hart, torpedo-bost destroyer, 275 tops, 6 guns, 4,00 hp, Lint-Comd. G. C. Dickens, en zoute Horgkong
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Monacut, seuier, 9800 tons, Capt. G. W.
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Moorhen, river gnuboat, 180 tons, 2 gana,
Li-ut-Coudr. C. Walcott, Hongkong Nightingai, riur gaubost, 85 tons, 340 hp Lient-Comdr. R. 8. Roy, R.N., Yangtase
Utler, torpedo boat destroyer, 385 tons, 6. gun
63.p, Hongkong
Robin, river gun bont, 35 tous, è guns, 240 hp.. Lieut. Coudr, J. White, West River Sandpiper, riter gunboat, 83 tons, 3 gunt, 240 hp, fieut Comdr H. B. Tickell, West River
.
Snipe, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 h.. Diout-Comdr. Alan Dixon, Yangtze Taky, torpedo bost destroyer, Guuner Barlow,
Hongkong
Tamar Festiving ship. 4500 tons 6 gra Tes), river funboat 180 tons, 2 guns, Lim.
Godfre, Tangtaze Thistle, gauboat, 710 tons 900 hip., Linf
Comdr. T. Attlay, Yangle
Bear Admiral Stokes, Hongkong
Comdr.
Stevensou
Virage, tordo-boat destroyer, 393 tons, 6 guns,
6,300 h. Cousuder. en roole Hangkong Watervitch, survaring ship, 620 tons, 450 1.5.p.
Lieut. Cod. H. P. Douglas, Singapore Whiting, torpelo-boat destroyer, 360 tons 5
gene, 5,900 k., Liont. Comdr. J. Kiddle, | Hongkong
..
Widgeon, gintoat 195, tons, 2 guns, 800 b.p.
L-Comdr. John F. Knox, Tunglaze. Woodcock, ranboat, 150 tans, 2 gans, 550 b.p. Lieut-Comdr. H. B... Cottrell Dormer, Tangise
Woodlark gunboat, 150 tops, 2gune, 550 h.p....... Lisat.Comdr. G R Livingstone, Yangiere.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending In at 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches,
Pbe forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows
Hongkong & Neighbourhood. (E.toN, B. winds,"
oderite; fait.
Formosa Channel
...Same as No 1. South coast of China between game as No. 1,
Hongkong and Lamooks." South coast of China between Same as No1
Hongkong and Hainan....
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