RUBBER SHARES,
SINGAPORE QUOTATIONS.
ON 8TH AUGUST, 1911.
[Messrs. Lyall and Evart's LIST,]
El Anglo-Sumatra
Ayer Kuning
28 Bukit Mertajam...
£1 Bukit Rajah...
2a Bukit Selangor 163 pd.
£1 Caroy United 58. p.d.....
1 Castlofleld
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SHANGHAI SHARE QUOTATIONS | A RELIC OF THE PATRIARCHAL
China Firo...
240 x div.
Sholl Trans. ord
& Trading pref S'bai Tog
&
perf Lighter...ord Kochica Transport-
ation & Tow-Boati
$135 $940, buyera
$100
$920, sales &b. 25 The. 167, sales $80 $216, buyers $50, $210 S $609836, buyera
$20 $22, buyers
25 Tle, 4, buyers
1J
$50
R$.4.0
£11.0.0
Tła. 20, sellers Tls: 474, sellers
On Lith Auquet, 1911.
[J. P. Bizart & Co.'s Lic.]
-CONFANT. PAID UF QUOTATION
Rank
Noin. Value.--
Buyers Sellers
Hongkong & National of China...
Russo-Chinese
2a Aliagar
342
389
20 $80, cales T125 R1874
Tla, 954
£1 Anglo-Jave...
2 Allagar Options........ 16
Insurance:→
168
*389
489
Union Society Ctn
1. Anglo-Jobore
713
98
North-China 1
2a Anglo-Malay
1685
Yangtare Assocn.
1,786
Canton
55a
6889
Hongkong Fire..
1363 17
Bauteng
4183 4889
28
Batang Malaka
1610 262
Shipping
El Batu Caver
220$ 2359
Lado - China
1
Batu
1 Bakit Kaia
1 Beaufort Bor200
Tiga...
70%
7889
•f-prof
def.
1525
168
210
37s
3886
1
Bukit
7183 B0%
T60
2:3 2:6
220
T50 Tla. 00, Bollew
Is din. -86 dia
5A 10% pm
Docks & Whartes:~~
107×6 116
H. & W. Dock
Shai Deok & Eng
T100
Tls. 50, buyers
Tis: 67, seŭors
24 ChersonoRO
33
386
5. & H'kew Wharf.,
Tico
28
options
Tle, 87, buyers
14
H. Kloon W. & G..
$50 $50
2ཐ
Chimpal...
184
Yangtze
omi
Tion
T18, 180
23 Cicely Ord
348
393-
29.
Pref
349
396
Mining-
2 Consolidated Malay
15×7
178
Raub Australian ...;
$2, sellors
£1 Damansara
100% 112 6 x div.
Chinese Eng, & Min.!.
£1
Tie. 14. buyer:
1 Dennistown
2256
2686
Land:-
24 Edinburgh
7:101
9я
Qa
S'hai Investmont..!
T50
£1 Fodoratad Solangar
190s. 210s
H'kong Investment
$100
2 Golang Dosar...”
546
Humphreya' Estato
Tio
£1 Golconda
758 8389
Welhof wei
T20
The. 80, sales $06, buyers $6.15, buyers Talos
Lolton Hope
China,
60 The 50-
1
Hajonp
T100
1 Harpanden
·Plantations.
2s Henwood
Alma Estatos, Ld.:)
£1
£1 Highlands & Lowlands
809 8756 x div.
Tuch Kenneth
185%
205%
24 Jusin
18
IRZ
£l Johero R. Lands 10spd
78
125 pm.
Dominion Hub
T10
1 Juru
1189
14.9
9.9
11N6
K. Java Fation, Ld.
25 Kanuving 18-pd
2.9
3a 3 pm.
Senawang R'bor...
25
L.pd....
4x9
586
Shanghai-Sumatra
Tobacco
£1 Kapar Para...
14183 15183
1 Kopiligalla
1089-128 11 x div.
£1. Kepong
25
2-
T. B. &T.Estate Co., Cottons, etc:-
Ewo
T20 21
T50
123R9
135%
Internationals
T75
Tle. 85, sales
13.46
8K5
Laon Kang Mow... Boy Chees
T100 Ti, 61 T60 Tls, 22
28 Kampong Kwanteng...
Zs Kota Tinggi:
£1 Kuala Lumpur
24 Labu (F.M.9.)
21 Lazadron
L
7
Labary fpd.
1
16
12-6
pd.
21 Laggi Ord, ...
28 London Arintio
£1 Last 16 p.
Malacca 74% Prof.
1 Ora
23 Morliman
28
Options
21 Mount Austin...
1 N/Hummock 168 6 pil.
2s Pudong JawG
28 Pataling...
29 Folepah
28-Persk
P
£1 Pormas ..
2a Port Dickson 16 pd....
68
776 8760
783 8210
1758
190s
3910 48+
659 7286
55%
658
20a 2786 pm. -39%9 4266 gerta
9:0 1089
160%
12 pm.
.175* 1676 18286—
393 386
1
2786
526 -65% x div.
186
3183
2+3 249
14.
Ala 4683 x div.
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3:3
481)
20%
2286
par
1 Rombin Prof.
224
4 p.
25s
1 R. Eat of Jchote 15s pd. 258
3086
2 R. Ext of Krisn
2.10
*393
£1 R. Invest Trust 10s pd. 769
95
5 pm.
1 Sagga
205s 227,6
1 Sapou
2389
2786
90
98,9 40s458་ན
div.
20%
*30 pm.
383
48.5
1 Borfield
Sarden 15-nd.
Za Sengat...
£1 Seremban
1 Salford
1. Bislang
Zs Singapore Para
7CH 1-3 x div.
48,9 ́ ́5716' x div.
29. 35% 2.div,
356
4-3
2s Straits 8. Bortan
5-3
56
£1 Straits Rubber
9183 102.6 x dir.
2x Sumatra Para
8:3
63+9
72×6
9-74 1089
2319 2766
£1 Sango Choh
25 Sungei Kapar...
£1 Sungei Krian Prof
1
... ban9.750 x this.
Salak Way...
Malim 1206 pd.
Prof
1 Tebrau
£1 Tremolbye
1 United Serdang
1 United Sea Butong
2 United Bumatra...
23
United
23. Val d'
Temiang 183 pd.
Or...
Zs Vallambross
28 Yan Seng
$1 Aler Gajali
10 Ayer Hitam...
1 Ayer Kuning
11. Ayer Holek...
50. Ayer Panas
1 Balpownie
100% 10389
1861
5pm.
15x5 5246
20
20s
59a
90%
8B:9
9786
97-6
228-25/
699 7871
-86 dis: 3 dia.
1810 204 30s 3296 e div. 7.3 83 x dir.
$1.45 1.50 34.00 36.00. 0.50 0.70 1.574 1.624
3.45 355,
8.25 9.00
Bakit Timah...
8.00 10.00
1
10 Changkat Serdans
Bakil K, B,...
0,55
0.65
4.25
4.50
10 Cheras, $8 pil
£1 Daff..
#1
Gleuealy...
5 Haytor...
10 Henrietta, 88
10 Indragiri
5 Kelemak, $4 pd
I Jima
-5
Kempne
5 Lub
Malaka
Pinda
2 Malakof
5 Mantin, $3.50 pd
5 Merani
2 New Serendab
Singapore
5 Pajam
1
Pautsi
10 Pegoh
Palau Bulaug, 82.50 pd.
2.50 3.50pm
375
3.50
1.25 130
6.00
1:25
7.25
5.00
0.29
1.00 dis. 6.00 0.271
2.90dis 2.75 dis 2.50
2.75
1.50
1.60 0.50 0.60
125 1.40
0.50 din. par.
1.00 1.50
1.95
2.10
5.25
535
0.27
0,32
9.50
9.75
1.10 1.15
27.00 27.50
1.00 dis. 1.00 0.35. 0.45 8.50. 9,75
19.00
2 Singapore & Johore... 10.00 10 50 csdic.
Anglo-Fronol
Ayer Tawah Rubber
"P'ation Co., Ld..
Chempetak
Rubbers..
Kalumpong Rubber
Shanghai Cotton Eastora Fibra Industrial:-
Tilo Works****** Anglo-Gov. Brewery
Ti 92, buyera
Tls. 74, allora
271TB 050-
是 Tls. 12, sales
Ths, 25, ellera The 12
Tia 4: TI TS Th. 26, sellors
Tis. 20° Tis. 12,50, sales
TGOT. 64, gales e10 Tls.
Tle, 23, bayara $72), sales
A..Butlor Coment
China Flour Mi China Im, & Ex.
Lumber
T60 $100 T60
Tis, 31, buyers
C. Sugar Refining... Green Is. Coment..... Maatschappij, &o..
in Langka Major Brothers...... Scharff's Oil & Bonc
Mille, Ed Shanghai Electric Construction...... Shanghai Electric &
Asbestos Shanghai Gas.... Shanghai Ice...... S'hai Pulp & Paper S'hai Waterwetka... Stores
Hall & Holt
J. Llewellyn A. S. Watson & Co. Central Ordinary... Central-Founders... S. Monirio & Co..... Weoke & Co.
Lane, Crawford & Co, Dunning & Co....... Hotels
Astor House Hotel
Tico Tls. 70, sales $100 $1.30, buyers
$10 $, buyora
Ga.10 | Tls. 88, sales
T50 Tls, 25, sellers
~Too
SYSTEM,
(Continued from page
has a number of husbands who visit hor in turn, and as a result of the polyandry and of the composition of the family, no Nair knows or thinks of his own father, sad it is the uncle who fulfils the father's part. The children are of the kin of the mother only, because there is uncertainty of fatherhood, and no man in the father's place."
POLYANDRY AND PROVERTY. ~ The present system prevalent in Skirakawa- maru was apparently about'ripe to produce such a polyandric family systom, and it was only the well-established castou of male accession of ancestors, before they migrated-into-this-ra.. gion, that
prevented itss sppearance in Shirakawa-mara the A perfect form. In position of the futher is asumed by the mitatör of the family. The origin of polyandry given by the sociologist can be in ferred from the following statements "The Tibetans of the South still practice polyand ry in order to remain under the same roof and to svold dividing the inheritance;" and again
J
Polyandry is believed to have had its origin iu unfertile regions, in an endeavour to check the undne pressure on the means of subsistence All these statements seem to receive confirma- tion from the o
e círcamstancja Shirakawa-mara.
in Of course the primitive people did not knowing. ly and
intelligently
tly pursue this course to pre- vant the increase of population, but the natural surroundings per
perforce led them to follow a me- thod well adapted to their circumstances. To be
when the -ancestors of explicit, people migrated to this mountain- these
following the track of wild animals they brought with them the common beliefs and traditions of the old Japanese stock whom they had left behind, in particular the custom of male encoession and primogeniture, tm a tho
more
region they found themselves in au sutirely different situation. Much of the land wan covered by incuntains, sad much labour was -needed to make the land sie'd crops, which in
the same thing as the scarcity of food.
EFFECT OF MODERN IDEAS, Those are the survivals of the old custom, but with the opening of the Meiji era much new light has been let in on the village. The roads have been much improved to facilitate com- munication, the "basket-ferry" has been one- persed by suspension bridges, and a daily postal service, primary schools, an agricultural school, the introduction of newspapers, all tend to instruct the younger generation in the rational charseter of individualism, and with the facility of communication the raison d'être of polyandry or would be polyandry is itself parsing away. The new people only, talk with apology of the illegitimate.
in the villago, and younger
brothers are starting new homes in short, the social system is going through a radical
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Atlas, admirsity tag, 616 tons, 1,400 1.p.
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1911.
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JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP- PINES, BORNEO, ETC.
Hanobe, surveying-ahip. 1,625 tons 10 gaps, 200 h.p., Commander Ragot de la Touche, Saigon Mouquet, destroyer, 300 loms, 7 gans, 6,300 h.p., Commander de la Roshe Kerandrson, Balgon Oiry, river gunboat, 170 tons, 6 gana 500 h.PTION, carefully revised each year, most of
Paiho, river ganhost, 130 tons, & guns, 250 hp. Lieut. de Maindreville, Upper Yangino
Perle, sab-marine, 70 tons, 60 hp. Läsutu Mun-
Lleut, Pusch, Tongku
Pistolet, dasteryaz, 300 tons, 7 gaus, 7,000 h.p,
nier, Saigon
Heitomart, gruboat, 710 toan, 900 hp, ListProté, sub-marine, 7 tous, 80 hp, Lieut
Comdr. B. G. Washington. Shanghai.
Commander Mortenol, Hoagay. Cadmus, British, sloop, 1,070 tons, i.h.p. 1,400,
Cumdr. J. M. Barker, Yangtste.
Cherub, water tank and tag, 390 tons, i.h.p. 340,
f.d., Comdr. H. Lynes, Hongkong. Master W. Smith, Hongkong. Clio, British sloop, 1,070 tons, ih.p. 1,400,
Comdr. H. B. Veale, Shanghai, Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer, 340 tons, 6
gans, 5,700 i.h.p., Lt. Comdr. H. S. Monroe, Weihaivel,
18th
Flora, 2nd class erniser, 4,360 tons, 10 guns, 7,000 i.l.p., Captain J. Nicholas, lenvan Hongkong for "Colombo August, Handy, torpedo-boat destroyer 295 tons, 6 guar, 4,000 hp.. Lent.-Comdr. Hon. Guy Stop ford, Hongkong.
guzas,
art, tarpede-bost destroyer, 295 tous 6
4,000 h.p., Lt.-Comdr. Hon. Gay Stopford, Hongkong Janus, terpeto-boat destroyer, 320 tons, 6 guns,
3,900 bp
Lt. Comdr. M, B. B. Blackwood, armonred cruiser,
cruiser, 9,800 tons, 14 gana, .p. 22,000, Capt. S. St. J. Farquhar, Wolbaívei
Dauge. There is an interesting so eis) davalon- Waihaiwei.
ment,
ing
however, in connection with this start-
of new homes. As already explained, each community owns a vast region of monataluons land to which each family in the community has free access. In starting new families, the old families ruled that the new families should not have access to the communal property. A
consequence,
only the artisans, snob as our- praters, blacksmiths.
and some trades men can patablish as independent
Admiral Bir
Kinsha, river gunboat. 616 tons, i.h.p. 1,200, Lient.-Comdr. T. J. S. Lyne, Shanghai. Merlin, surveying ship, 1,070, tona, 6 gans, 1,400 i.h.p. Commr. B. O. M. Davy, Bandakan. Minotaur, armoured cruiser (lagship Vios. A. L. Winsloo, KC.B. CVO, CMS14,600, tons, ihp. 27,000, Capt. G. C. Cayley, Wolhai wei old stocks Monmouth; armoured cruiser, 3,800 tons, i.h-p. Tis: 514, buyere and privileged patricians, while the new families
Captain L. E. Power, M.V.O., are artisans and plebeians with only limited privileges. The social evolution in Shirakawa-Moorhen, river ganbot 180 tons pats, i.b.p. 800, Lieut.Comdr G. P. Leith, West River.
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mars is not so intense sà in other communities of evoial formation, bat here is a movement towards patrician and plebeian segregation of the community, and if allowed to work out its own evolution, the strife between the patriolan and the plebeion classes, may be waged here as. it was wagal over two thousand years ago in Bome, when the plebeians come to claim the juster distribution of comtannial privileges.
SOME DISCONNECTÈD' FACTS.
From time immemorial these people have produced silk which they exchanged for rice;
cotton.
Weinaiwei
Newcastle, 2nd class cruiser, 4,800 tons, turbine,
Captain George P. E. Hunt, D.3.0., Weibelwei.
Nightingale, river gunbost, 85 tons, 240 h.p. Lt. Comdr. Clands Hillersten-Woodward, R.N., Yangtake
Otter, torpedo-boat destroyer, 385 tons, 6 guns 6,300 Lh.p., Comdr, Lambe, Wethaiwal,
Robin, river gunboat, 65 tong, 2 guns, 240 hp., Lt. Comdr. Como A. O. Douglas, West River.
Redoutable, batleship (reserve), 9,330 tone
Morris, Saigon
97
Styx, armoured gaubost, 1,800 tras, 8 guns
guns, 6,200 hp., Capt. Dronet, Saigon
Takon, destroyer, 280 tons, 6 gaon 6,500 b.p.
1,600 b.p., Lieut. Soriot, Saigon.
Vauban, torpedo-depot, Commander Mortenol,
In Hoserve, Saigon Hongay
Vétéran, sorpedo-depot, Lient. Bibel, Cap
Saint-Jacques Vigilante, river gunboat, 180 tons, & guns, 7 h.p
Lieut. Dumoulin, Sikiang
, GERMAN,
Arcona, oraiser, 2,719 tons, Captain vou Hipper
Amoy Iltis, gunboat, 1,000 tone, 10 gans,
h.p. Jaguar, gunbost, 900 tons, 10 guns, 1,300 h.p
Captain Laus
Leipzig, orgiser, Captain Engel
Captain Graf von Posadowsky-Webast Luche, gunboat 850 toas, 10 guns, 1,344 h.p Bokarnhorst, armoured cruiser (flagship)e
Captain Bölken
*11,420 tons, 52 grus, 20,000 h.p., Kapitau Taku, destroyer, 299 tons, 4 gune, and 2 torpedo
Zar Soe Maass
tubes, 6,000.p.. Kommandant Kolbe (Hans) Bertram
Torpedo boat" Sga, Kapitan Leat. Haydan Tiger, gunbost, 900 tons, 10 guns, 1,300 1,p,, Tsingtan, ganhost, 170-tous, 5 guns, 1,900 b.p.
Captain v. Kow
Vaterland, gauboat, tons, 3. guns, 500 k.p.
Captain Roa
Captain Toussaint
ITALIAN,
Calaurin, protected oraisoz, 2,428, tons; 26 gans
Poglia, propected oraisor, 2,498 tons, 28 guns, 4,000 h.p., Capitano Maria Casanuara di Jarsersch
7,000 h.p.. Capitano Gusant Viganti Mar checo LorenzD
PORTUGURAM Patris, gunboat, 700 tons, Captain J. Altrexo
UNITED STATES,
Albany, cruiser, 3.000 tons, U, 8. Williams. Bainbridge, destroyer, 7 gas and 2 torpedo Arayat, gunboat, Ldent Comdr, Matt H Signor
tubes Ensign Lloyd W. Townsend
cotton-not being raised, flax takes the place of Rosario, depot ship for Submarines, 980 tons, Barry, destroyer, 420 ons, Eas, Edmand S.
i.b.p. 1,400. Lt. Compr, N. E. Arohiale, Hongkong. Sandpiper, river gunbost, 85 tons, 2 guns, 24
h.p., Lieut. Comdr. E. J. J. Southby. West Riser.
Foot
Callao, gunboat, 243 tone, Eas. J. R. Murrisson Cleveland, oruiser 3,200 tons Commander Charleston, battleship (figship), 9,700, tong
Hugh Rodman, Shanghai
Social amusements consist of drinking and carousing. The young men seem to spend much of their saving in liquor, and thoir drinking Bongs are very simple"iu meaning but utterly monotonousi Folklors and peculiarly chara teristic nursery stories seem to have been Baipe, tiver gunboat, 85 tons, 2 gans 240 hp.. entirely lost; perhaps the
Lt. Comdr. Maurice B. Leslie, Yangtare. propagation of Bad. dbism the 13th century had much to do with Taku, torpedo boat destroyer, 305 tona, hp. Chattanooga, oruiser, 3,200 tons, Commander
in
6,000, Gunner E. J. Trillo, R.N., Hong-Chagacey, destroyer, 420 tour, Eas. LN this matter.
John Î. HeoDanak Shanghai.
I asked if there was any custom of bridal gifts..e, the survival of the purchase-marriage.
58 gans, 21,000 h.p., Comdr, John Gibbins, Shanghai
MoNair
kong Tamar, receiving ship 4,560 tons, 6 gaus. Dale, destroyer, 420 tons, Lieut. Herbert H
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cotton have been the time out of mind. That the gifts are trifling regular bridal gifts from may prove that the custom was established in olden times, when two she of sake and a tan of
cloth were of much greater value.
Lieut. Comdr. R. J. Buchanan, Yangtare
Michael
Cagehart, Shanghai
Thistle, gunboat, 710 tous, 900 b.7., Lieut.Galveston, oraiser, 3,200 tone, Commander Virago, torpedo boat destroyer, 395 toas, & gu Helens gunboat, 1.592 tous, Comdr. Reuban
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Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 450 i.h.p. Mindoro, gunboat, Lfout. George M. Hann
Lieal-Comdr. R. L. Hancock, Singapore.
(station ship), Commander G. E Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tone, i guns, 5,900 hp, Lieut. Comdr. G. B. ffartford, Weihaiwai.
As might be expected, protracted sickness is very rare here, and some people enjoy great longevity. There is a woman said to be 102 atif-living. But the people do not experience in ten years what outsiders meet with in the course of a fow months. Mare length of axis. toneo does not count; it is the variety of experiWidgeon, gunboat 195 tons, 2 guns, 800 h.
TIONS IN CHINA un 0,50 ence that is of valce.
REGULATIONS FOR RAILWAY
CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA... 0.50 HONGKONA HANSARD REPORTS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Pab- lished Annually
3.00 MOUNTINGS OF NAVAL GUNS and their Bubsequent Use with the Ladysmith Relief Column WARLIKE EXPLOITS OF THE
1.06
The socialistic ideal of common labour and comman enjoyment seems to have been admir ably worked out in these large families, if we take the master as the nominal representative of the household. But in minute details they are excessively individualistic, as is evidenced in their enjoyment of special relishes at meals, mentioned above."
The remotest relation found in the official register of the family in the Village Office is the sixth cousin, but this is of course aubelievable For if this system bad been followed from time immemorial, there must have been some mem- bers of the family whose relation to the master POLITICAL OBSTACLES TO MIS-
is untraceshte. In fact this was the case when, SIONARY SUCCESS IN CHINA 0.25 in 1875, the Government first undertook to
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Comdir. M. H. Wilding, Yangtze. Woodcock, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 guns, 550 h.
Lout-Comdr. B. B. Brooke, Yang taze. Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gass, 550 h.F Lieut. Comdr. G. F. A. Malook, Yangtase. Submarines:-
Herbert, Lieut.-Commar. No. 36, Godfrey No. 37, A. A. L. Fenner, Lient-Comar. No. 38, J. F. A. Codrington, Tt-Commr.
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Kaisarin Elisabeth, Austrian protected cruiser 4,000, Fregattoakapitan Oskar Hanas, Northern Watera
Panther, third elas oruiser, 3530 tone, Fre gattankapitan, Theodor Skerl Ed. von Schmidtheim
FRENCH.
Achéros, armoural gunboat, 1,830 tone, 9 gur
1,700 h.p., Lient. Bertrand, Saigon Alger, 2nd class oraiser, 4,320 tons, 22 gun's
5,100 b.p., Commander Fearnler, H kong Alouette, gunboat, 506 tons, 7 gaus, 40) b.p
Commander Badin, Saigon
register the people of the village, and all auch dependents,
whose relations could not be traced, 0.25 er
were officially registered as children, brother, sister, aunt, or uncle according to their ages The
present official register records the births sinca 1875.
Aceastomed as we are to foster and raise the father, it is a pathetic sight to see an emaciatel woman of thirty-five looking after her own children. In a house where we took a phe tograph there were two elderly women, sp parently cousins, who had each a son, When they were about to pose for the picture, ono of the boys wanted to don his best apparel a pair Dupleix, armoured cruiser, 7,578 tops, 26 guns, of close-fitting-pantaloons. It brought tears to
17,000 h.p.
with the combined labour of mother and eat. Audmarz,
10-
1.
1 Panggor
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17.00
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0.80
1 Ulu Pandan
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1 United Malacca.
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river gunboat, 1801 ɔns, 6 gume, 570 b.p.. Baionnette, gunboat. Cimetorre, gunbost, 140 tons, Reserve, Baigon Caronaldo,guuboat, 184 tons, Reserve, Saigon
idée, gunboat, 630 tons, 10 guns, 900 hp.
Linares, Shanghai
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Saigon 152 h.p., Haiphong
my eyes to see his mother helping the littleDesaix, armoured craiser, 7,578 tons, 26 gune, fellow to put ou
ou the pantaloons-an old 17,000 k.p. pair-perhaps the result of her labor-
D'Thorvillo, ganboat many days. Pautaloons are ugly things, but that being the fashion of the community the 620.
little fellow must have them on for the
picture. Bat still. mere pathetic is the sight of the 1,00 old baobelore. In their youth they
may have 0.75 lightly shunned the responsibility of raising
children, bat in their old 0.75
age they find them- selves truly dependents of the family, and 0.75
though the house gives shelter and food, they POWER OF ATTORNEY FORM... 0.25 resuscitated in their own scions, and their 50 have not the consolation of seeing themselves
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future reems as dark as the corner of tho 0.80 & 0,20 hearth in which they are wont te sit.
Lynx, sub-matine, 70 toas, 6kp., Lieut. Marra;
Saigon Montcalm, armoured bruiser, (Ragship). 9,367 tans, 36 guns, 19,000 h.p., Bear Admiral de la Croix de Castries (Commander-in Chief
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