SCIENCE AS AID TO
HUMANITY.
**PRETTIEST WOMEN OF PARIS.”"”.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OPENING. AMERICAN JOURNALISTS' BREACH
PROFESSOR SCHUSTER'S SHAFTS
AT GERMANY.
OF NEUTRALITY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15′′¤, 1918.
MB. LLOYD GEORGE AT THE T. U. CONGRESS.
WAR BANKRUPTCIES.
DECREASE IN NUMBER, INCREASE
IN LOSSES.
The report of the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy, which was issued. In London on August 30th states that the war caused a diminution in the number of failures
Mr. Lloyd George, who attended the Trade Union Congress, on the 9th ult.,' in response to telegrams, referring to the Despite the war, despite the threatened Government munitions policy and the visits of Germain aircraft, despite the all- absence of profit-mongering, received an Professor, Schuster, the president of the absorbing work of caring for the wound-ovation when be rose to speak. After during 1914. He says:- British Association, had a wonderful re-ed, the fair sex of Faris has found the pressing his gratitude for the opportunity coption when he mounted the platform at the opening meeting of the ssociation's meetings in Manchester
The first task that fol] to the new presi- dect was to move a resolution of loyalty to the King, to be sent to his Majesty in a telegram.
The resolution closed with this passage:--
"We beg leave to assure your Majesty that the association as a whole and every individual member thereof are whole heartedly anxious to devote all their aner- gies to assisting your Majesty's Govern ment in the task of bringing the war to a victorious conclusion."
time to voice sin indignant protest against the announcement printed in the Ameri- can newspapers that a certain well-known actress, who is soon to arrive in New York, is the most beautiful wome
Paria.
(1
"Mile. Jocelyne is a very good-looking young lady, an extremely good-lraking young lady, if you please, bus from this the French capital there is a consider to being the most beautiful woman of ble distance to be traversed, and there are several women in Paris who would hare a far greater right to the title, such a title would be possible to confer,
of
A letter from Mr. A, J. Balfour regret.xplained a well-known aetness, herself aed sixteen national arsenals and is con- the year, however, only 800 receiving
ting bis inability to attend the associa tion's meetings said:
I should have particularly valued an opportunity of taking a share (BB past president) in the association's labours, partly because the serne of these in a city with which I was long and closely connect ed, and partly because I should like to have borne testimony (if that he required) to the patriotic zeni with which the Royal Society, of which your distinguished pre- sident is secretary, have pinced all their scientific resources at the disposal of the Government for the pitrpose of the war"
THE ADDRESS.
noted beauty.
The request for an answer to the ques.structing eleven more, and to work these we require 80,000 more skilled men and tion who is the most beautiful woman in Paris has brought forth as many names 200,000 mere unskilled men and women, as the number of persons approached. but we are not trying to displace skilled They include Mme. Letellier, MI. mon by unskilled workers. The country Marthe Urban, Mlle. Irene Bordoni, is not yet doing its best. It is entirely
Yvonne Printemps. Princess Mile.
In labour problem and you can assist: Baratoff, Mlle. Marthe Chenal, ele.
CONNOISSEUR'S VIEWS.
The most beautiful woman in Paris is no single individual, she is a legion," declared Baron de Gerando, admittedly
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The number of failures during the year of unfolding his views on the situation both under bankruptcies and under deeds
shows. 11 arrangement
very TJIKINT great falling off; 10 the Minister said:--You represent one
fact the receiving orders is of the most powerful forces in directing number of the country's life. With you victory in the smallest since the Bankruptcy Act, TJIREMBANG. assured; without you our cause is lost. 11883, came into operation, and the num come here as the greatest employer of ber of deeds is the smallest eince the Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887, which labour in the country and I am also a Trade Unionist, You pledged yourselves for the first time required such deeds to organised labour, to assist Government in yesterday, as the representatives of bo registered, came into force.
In the case of failures under the Bank- the successful prosecution of the war.
Iruptcy Acts the decrease in number ap- am sure you mernt it and I am here to pears to be entirely attributable to the the year receiving orders were made in take you, on behalf of the Government, at war. During the Bust seven months of your word. The Government has establish- 2,067 cases. During the last five months
The check on the orders were made. number of bankruptcy proceedings attri butable to the war was caused primarily by the protective provisions of the Act and Proclamations in regard to post- ponement of payments and the Courts But it also Emergency Powers) Act. A voice: Bo can the employers. seems probable that creditors, in the cir Mr. Lloyd George: I am not going to cumstances created by the war, have voluntarily refrained from pursuing spare the employers. (Cheers).
their remedies in bankruptcy in many cases where they would otherwise have done so.
In this connection it may bo! Continuing, he said:-There is machin-
mentioned that while the number of the greatest connoisseur of femininery applicable to the manufacture of war debtors petitions shows 2 decrease of 14
in society.
material which is idle aight and day; per cent, as compared with the number sion iteelf is an arenism, reminder,
to say, of the days when the approba. only 15 per cent, of the machinery in the led in the preceding year, the numbers tion of the Sovereign was necessary to country is working night shifts, turning of bankrupter notice and creditors obtaining the title, and the last woman out canoon, rifles, and material for war.petitions have decreased by 28 per cent.. to possess il
the Countess de With plenty of labour factories would be and 23 per cent, respectively. during Castiglione,
I think that reign of occupied continuously. According to Poincaré, he said, the plea Napoleon III. Paris society is really a material could be supplied. The problem
While the number of failures hates | sure which the study of science confers consists in its power of uniting the beauti conglomeration of several societies, and is not for destroying but for saving the
I want your clearly decreased the liabilities and assets show
increases, and the total) But it would be each of these possesses its must beautiful lives of young men. ful with the useful, wrong to adopt this formal as a definition. In the absence of a court, there to understand the problem to which we substantial of the object of science, because it applies and he no final judgment in this spect, have set our minds in order to equip the estimated loss to creditons under th and the rights of the several claimants aimies in the coming months and enable forms of administration is nearly two with equal force to all human studies, cam never he satisfactorily settled. If go further and say that the combination one speaks of sensational beauty, a beauty them to hack their way through to victory. million pounds in excess of the loss
German workmen worked quietly and por-estimated in the preceding year.
The of the search for the beautiful with the that fores admiration without admitting sistently without stint or strife through
liabilities exceeded a million Then pounds in the case of merchants, £1,692,918, achievement of the useful is the common even the possibility of a dispute, the last interest of science and humanity.
instance of such was the beauty of the autumn, winter, and spring.
companies, £1,050,500, the increase in I must guard, said the president, Madame G., during the presidency of come the terrible avalanche of shot and and directors and promoters of- public At times, when Marshal Macmahon and of M. Casimir shell which broke the great, Russian, arme the former, as compared with the curres
The German ad- against one criticism.
All of Paris crowded to the and drove them back.
ponding figures under the same trade: vance in Russia is a victory to German heading for 1013, being £1,520,711. There the struggle for existence keeps masses in Perier. permanent bondage, in a society in which alon to see her portrait; but even at
It was not Hindenburg wore two failures of bankers, with aggre a multitude of men and women have to that, she was never declared to be the Trade Unions. face starvation, is it at futile to speak most beautiful woman in Paris. As for or Mackensen, but the workman who won-gate liabilitics of £791,009 (one of the Should I not have the present, the task of one who would The war resolves itself into a conflict be- casos accounting for more than £600,000), found a sucér ground for the claims of designate a woman as holding the beautytween the mechanieg of Austria and Ger-ne against one such failure in 1913, with DAIYA MARU, Japanese str., 695, Y. Gote, Master d Almada e science in its daily increasing necessity championship of Paris would be for more many and the mechanics of Britain and liabilities of £15,100. The chief decreases we thoroughly occurred among engineers and founders, difficult than that of Paris of Troy, and France, and the sooner for the success of our manufactures and he would indeed be a hero who would understand this the quicker will be the £164,064; builders, £160,437; and silk
manufacturers and merchants, £159,467. But I must ask, do we not find u thodara to render a verdict in this respect." worship of material success the seed of the pernicious ambition which has maddened a nation and plunged Europe into war? Is this contempt for all idealistic purposes" not responsible for the mischievous doe trine that the power to possess confers the right to possess, and that possession is desirable in itself without regard to the
The President's address on the common aims of science and humanity dilated the motives, purposes, and dissertations of various scientists.
festhetic motives?
commer
use which is made of it?
was
the
BEAUTY IN WAR-TIME.
"The most beautiful women in Paris?" queried a well-known portrait painter. All Paris women are beautiful, for they possess that inexplicable something which puts expressive gracefulness into every one of their features, into every one of their movements. To say the most bent fiful woman in Paris is to prove oneself He insisted, therefore, that we experi-ignorans of Paris and Parisiennes. ence a double pleasure if the efforts of the mind contribute to the welfare of the nation. The duty to work, the right to live, and the leisure to think are the three prime necessities of our existence, and
complete life.
ultimate victory.
If
I believe the British workman is best if he chooses to put his back into it. every skilled man is employed there will still be insufficient labour for the task in Government is unable to equip the hand.
They must suspend during army unless the Trade Unions help in the direction. the period of the war all restrictions upon the best use of skilled labour by employ. ing unskilled men under skilled superv labour is not obsolutely indispensable. Secondly, they must suspend all practicos preventing men from turning out as much
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STEAMERS.
CHAOCHOWSO, British str., 1,195, Wolf, 12h October-Swatow 11th October, General. Butterfield & Swire. DAIJIN MARU, Japanese str., 889, S. Saito,
13th October-Swatow 17th October, General Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
0th October-Wakamatsu 4th October, Ccal.-Mitsai Bussan Kaisha.
EASTCEN, British str., 3,586, F. Carter,
1505
VISITORS AT HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
Alemada e Castro Mind Almadso Castro
Mr & Mrs F. G. Jones Mr A. Adler Mr Goo, E. Ander.on Miss C. Kennedy
Mr A. J. Kouninge Mr & Mrs F. Xd Mr Ms 8. B. Knox
Mr H. Ladd Mr C. auribson Mr A. M. Lawrence Mr G. T. Lloyd MrB. Longfield Mias E. E. Mahong Mr&Mrs W. Manning Mr Mansfeld
Castro MrJ H. Backhouse Mr&Mrs F. J. Parkey Mr J. H. Baring Mr H. Muray I alo
B. R. Bellion
Mr C. D. J. Ball Mr J. J. Blaudin Mr & Mrs J. Bl ckyn.
13th October-Melbourne 6th Sopters The total number of failures of women
ber, General-Gibb, Livingston & Co. in 1014 was 251, as compared with 358
Odober-Bangkok 1st October, Rice and General.-Chinese.. n: in 1913-a decrease of 29 per cent.. FOGLUE, Chinese str. 859, Miyaoks, 10th. E. Bellios
the total failures of both sexes. compared with a decrease of 20 per cent.
10th October Wakamatsu 3rd Octo ber, Coal.Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. The had no sccupation, as compared with 9 Eleven per cent of the women debtors FUKURA MARG, Japanese str., 3,179, per cent. in the preceding year.
Chesaki, 10th October- Moji 4th Mr.W..Lowerm n trades in which the greatest number of FURU MARU, Japanese str. 3,087, H. failures among women occurred were:--
October, Coal-Mitsui Busan Ka Mr3 P. BioWLS Drapers and haberdashers, 24; milliners, Judging house keepers, 16.
sha
don
Mr J. P. Bourne
Mr G. Human
Dr & Mrs O. Marriott Mr G. Mavor Mr S. M. Mayon
Mr D. McMurray Dr G. M. McKean MR. Mokenzie Mr J. Marecki Mr B. K. Mebts Mr & Mr J. W. Miller
The one that, shows the greatest erosion for all work in which highly skilled and dressmakers, 22; grocers, 18; and HAIMUN, British str., G4, A. H. Stewart Mr & Mrs RD Bunn Mr H. Molden
tion to the cause for which France is fighting at present is the most beautiful woman in Paris, and there is no diver gence of opinion ou this point," announc
and ould
when one of them fails we only lire an ined the author whose novels of the day work as their skill and strength permit. in 1914 than in 1913, and the increase in HONGWAN I., British str., 2,060, G. King- Mr F. C. Charman
BCIENCE AND POLITICS.
The power which the revelations of science can exert over a community steeped in the petty conflicts of ordinary life the president illustrated by the following in
cident:
as
in
But 28
to
before the war dealt with the
If it cal side of feminine beauty. anuses our Yankee confrères to designate Mble
the impersonation of why beauty
Paris, feminine
then of the opportunity rob pay a compliment to all Paris women in the person of one! I know Mile. --, and I am glad that it happens to be her. An American friend who possessed a and not someone else, whom our Trans-
frinds have happened powerful telescope one night received the atlantic visit of an ardent politician. It was the designate the beauty queen of Paris. time of a Presidential election, Bryan and I tremble to think where their exuberance feeling ran high. After looking at clusters of stars and other celestial objects, and having received answers to his various questions, the visitor turned to my friend: "And all these stara I see," he asked, "what space in the heavens do they oc cupy"
The failures with unsecured liabilities of £20,000 and upwards were ten more Thirdly, there must be no stoppages in liabilities was £1,488,600. essential teades. Profits have been re- stricted in practically the whole of the trades employed in making munitions under the Munitions Act, those under the Act etubracing 95 per cent, of the labour engaged in these industries,
RESTRICTION OF OUTPUT. He was going task an unpleasant been kept? It had been maintained hon- had not carried it out.
question. Had their side of the bargain
13th
Mas E D. 1s tian
a. F. 2 English
IX KHAWILLINGN
13th October-Swatow 12th October, Mad. Casile General.-Douglas Laprnik & Co. Mr C. Champlin hore, 13th October Singapore 7th Mr. Chetham October, Gaueral.-Chinese.
Mr P. H. Clarke KWONGBANG, British str., 1.428, W. F. Mrs Coinelinson LARGEST FAILURE OF THE YEAR.
Bichard, 11th October-Shangbai 5th
Mr.J. J. Cokely The ordinary trade failures include
October, General -Jardine, Mathe- | Mr F. Collet- Bon & Co.
Mr & Min F. E. Davis the largest bankruptcy of the year, that of a well-known bank in the West of MAUBANG British r., 1.643, G. HMT J. M. Doz nieon England, in which the liabilities were
Alcock, 11th October-Sandakan 5th Mr W. A. Dowley estimated at £601,668 and assets £319,076,
October, Wood and General. Miss M. E. Duty which may possibly realise £250,000. The
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
MH Elis bank, which was established in the eighONBANG, British she 1.737,
to have been teenth century, is stated
October-Stagen 4th October, Sugar. insolvent for over 50 years and was
Jardine, Matheson & Co. October-San Francisco 15th Septera. V. N. Gascoine ber, General.-P. M. Co.
Mr J. Gould MARU, Japanese str., 3,860, Mr. V. Gouldbourn K. Asakawa, 11th October-Shanghai | Mr C. L. Goodrich 8th October, General-Nippon Yusen Mr & Mrs W. Kaisha
Hannilai
lund, 9th October Shanghai Sth Hoo, Mr. A. towelt TAISHU, Chinese str., 1,710. A. Wester Capt T. P. Hall
O.MA, October, General.-Chinese.
str., 3,224, Mr W. J. Hodge TENMEE MARU, Japanese
Tamura, 12th October Moji 6th Mr LG. Holgate October, Coal-Mitsui Bussain Kai- Cap: Hoperois sba.
Mr J. SC. Hunt. Mrs R. LELESS Mr F. B. Ingersoll
R. B. Jepson Mr A. H. F. Jennings
the outbreak of the war.
Capt H. E. Morton Me Wm. Moore
Mr & Mr H. J.
Morgan
E. M.
Mr & Mrs W. R.
Neighbone Mr A. Nimim Mrs Niss za Mr J. Ormiston MrT. N. Parsley Mr A. J. P.tohar Mr & Mrs
Raymond Mr F. H. Ray Mies F. Hesy Mr. C. Leed Mr. J. Robinson
Mr Wm. Scott Mr & Mrs J. R Shaw Mr Shooker
Taft being the opposing candidatos, and might have led there in another case, ourably in many cases, but far too in unable to survive the van on R caused by PERSIA, British str., 2,744, J. Hill. 8th Lisa Coudr. & Mrs Mad. Salle
Not even the question of the most beauti- ful woman, however, has distracted the attention of the Paris women from the fact that winter is approaching once more, and with it the cold and stormy days when the soldier will need again all the warm things that kept on pouring into the trenches during the last winter Like the soldiers, with the About the area of the moon,"
months. "And you tell me that every one of them soldiers, and for the soldiers,' is the motte of the Paris women at present: but is a sun like our own!"
prait till the war is over, and the Yankee "Yes," "And that each of them may have a journalists will hear something on the number of planets circulating round it subject of the most beautiful woman in
Paris. like our sun 7"
"Yes."
"And that there may be life of each of these planets}"
"We canet tell that, but it is quite pos- sible that there may be Jife on many of them."
COFFEE FOR BEER.
WORKERS' CHANGED HABIT.
If the Govern-
ment, when trying to do its best for the gallant fellows in the field, were hampered at every turn by little technical objections, it would be impossible to do the work that the country demanded.
Another exceptionally large failure, is which the liabilities are estimated at £432,000 (included among the failures dug to financial and speculative enterprise). sively engaged in company promoting. is that of a debtor who had been extor Mentioning an instance of restriction of He had also speculated largely and in. the output of materials vitally needed, carred considerable losses in America Mr. Lloyd George asked: Will anyone railway, ahares and Canadian railway (Cries of "No." The stock. The failure was partly due to per- defend that?"
sonal extravagance, the deflor's house- Minister concluded that he had no more to
hold and personal expenditure having, He That was exactly what he had come since 1910, amounted to £75, 180.
had also lost over £72,000 in connection Several questions were asked and with a residence, on which he had spent answered.
say,
for.
NATION'S ECONOMY.
HOW STATE EXPENSES MAY BE. REDUCED..
£92,000 on improvements and furniture and a further loss, amounting to about £64,000, was incurred on a collection of pictures which he purchased for the house! at a cosh of nearly £113,000.
Aracing the failures due to personal which the extravagance, etc., is one in debtor, during a period of five or six Tears dissipated two fortunes, which he had inherited, of £60,000 each. He sub sequently incurred heavy liabilities in respect of which he charged properties Such good progress is being made by to which he claimed to be entitled, and the Retrenchment Committee appointed at the date of the receiving onder was to examine the expenditure of Govern indebted to unscoured creditors to the
extent of about £15,000. ment Departments to see where economiesĮ can be effected that the Committee hopes to issue its repo shortly after Parlia ment reassembles. The Committee is working three days a week.
And after pondering for some time the politician rose and said: "It does not
There are snares and pitfalls for the matter after all whether Taft or Bryan
hospitably inclined stranger who ventures gets in."
Happy were the times," concluded into South Wales, remarks a Home the President, when it could be said with truth that the strife of politics count-paper..
A little party of four visitors from the ed as nothing before the silent display of the heavens. Mightier issues are at stake Midlands strolled into the bar of a Well, what's it to be, to-day; in the struggle which convulses the Cardiff hotel. world all intellectual pursuits are vitally boys?" said the energetic one, following affected and Science gladly gives all the the custom of the country,
Treating isn't allowed," promptly power she wields to the service of the
commented the barmaid. She pointed State.
"Sorrowfully she covers her face because out that they were in one of the special that power, accumulated through the drink areas. You may treat each other but not peaceful efforts of the sons of all nations, to dry gingers," she explained,
Not even if I geb to intoxicants. was never meant for death and destructhem to eat a dry biscuit with it" said of departments can be looked for until tion; gladly she helps, because a war wan- "Nothing less than a plate of ham tonly provoked threatens civilisation, and
beef." enly through victory shall we achieve a peace in which ecce more Science can hold up her head, proad of her strength to pre serve, the intellectual freedom which is worth more than material prosperity, to defeat the spirit of evil that destroyed the sense of brotherhood among nations, and to spread the lore of truth."
one. and response.
WHE
Administrative economies are being rigidly enforced in all departments, but no important cessation of the activities after the committee's report has been unsympathic considered. the
In April Mr. Lloyd George said that Each bought his own drink. One effect of the new drink restrictions reduction of 1,700 in the temporary staff has been to increase the coffee drinking working on land valuation would be habit of Cardiff. More and more people made. Already a number of men have who eat no longer enjoy their morning received notice. This is a natural outcome beer now drop in for a coffee and of the approaching completion of the cigarette between 11.30 and 19.30 at one work of valuation,
At the beginning of the war the De- of the big cafés in the city.
From noon to 2.30 and from 6 to 9 are partment was staffed by 600 established the only hours during which the public Civil Servants and 4,100 temporary mer houses are allowed to be open, and on ou a monthly engagement. Of these 1,000 had enlisted, and when the 1,700 who will
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, 21st Ook.:~~-
0 PM-As Open-Air Concert and Fête in
the Public Gardens. Wednesday, 27th Oct,
Noon Hongkong and South China Steam Fisheries C, Ltd., Meeting of Share- holders.
12.15 p.m.-Hongkong and South Chica Steam Fisheries Co., Ltd., Extraordinary General Meeting.
Saturday, 30th Oct
2p.m.Ministering Children's League Bar. Wednesday, 3rd Nov
2.15 pm.Meeting of the Licensing Board
in the Council Chamber,
A German aeroplane, adorned with 16 Saturdays the limits are reduced to 6 to iron crosses, was forced to descend als 8. These regulations apply to the leave during this year have gone the dis-Menday, 22nd Nov.- D'Echairs recently as the petrol tank Cardiff, Newport, and Barry areas. The missible staff would be reduced to 1,400. The mining villages lie outside the scope of In January 1914, when the temporary had been pierced by bulleto.
their alaries machine and its two occupants were capthese restrictions and existence here staff mumbered 4,326,
amounted to 2412,941. tured.
flows on uninterruptedly.
Noor-Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving & Dyeing Co, Ld. Meeting of Members at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &Co., Ltd.
SADO
TarBODAS. Dutch str, 2,853, E, H. Kroes, 5th October-Balik Papan 27th Sep- tember. General and Sugar-Java China-Japan Lijn. ToxauONG, British str., 1.313, F. J.
Prynn, 6th October Saigon October, General.--Order.
2nd
UNKAI MARU, Japanese str., 1,888, G. KA- makaki. October 4th-Wakamatsu September 28th, Coal.--Mitaui Bus- san Kaisha.
WAKAMATSU MARU, Japanese str., 1,772, Yamanaka, 11th October-Wakamateu 5th October, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
British str., 1,250. E. P. WUHU,
Partridge. 9th October-Wahu 4th October. Rice-Butterfield & Swire.
British YEDDO,
str., 2,781, J. M. Brustraino, 12th October-Singapore 8th October, General.-Order. YUENSANG, British str.. 1,128, W. M. Mesney, 12th October-Manila 9th October. General. Jardine, Mathe. son & Co.
VESSELS EXPECTED.
MERCHANT KTEAMER,
The str. Giengule is expected here from ||London to-day.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Mr S. . Josepli
Mr And
Mr W. H. Smith
A.
Mr V. Sorby
Mr C. H. Spittlos
Mr H. H. Taylor
Capt. The psoa
Mr C. Trimm
Mr&Mrs F. H. Tyson Mr CB Waiten Mr C E. Walkins. Min C. M. Wilkes Mr J. Wilkis. Mr G. G. Word De & Mrs. Liadsay
Woods
FEAK HOTEL.
ar W. Armstrong
MES LOWAŁ
Mr & Mr. Carmichael hur F. W. Cary
sarà in C. D.Casalli Lt & Mrs 100x167 Mr & Mrs A. Cresland
Col. Darting K.k. ar Berman Fofler Mr & Mas Dobie
me & mis b. A. Hate. Capt & Mrs Msond
⚫and stuld Mr & Mrs W. T.
Alan
Mr. W. Hind Mrs T. J. B. Johns Mr Lice Jone At Lembalut MAE Sorgen
ÖRAND
Mr E. M. Abb.it - Mr G, Angelo MEJ. U. Arker
Kutsang, from Calcutta, is due in Hong. Ma C. E. Amoit
Mr C. H. Booth kong to day.
SHIRE LINE, LIMITED.
Monmouthshire, from Japan, is due in
Hongkong to-day.
ME... Brit Misc. Bachażan
A H. Cow
Mr C. Cruden
Shiutru Maru, from Manila, is duc in Mr A. Durich
Hongkong to-morrow.
Per
PASSENGERS.
ARHIVED,
from Hoibów, Loksang Hongkong, Mr. Wilding.
M: P. 8. Yau Dyk
Mr J. de Grann Mr A. Haig Maz K, Hassel for Mr. Xuma
Ir B. James
Mrs V. Mar tin and ́
children
Mr & Mrs Mess, and
oniid
Mrs MacGowan and
child.on Mrs OnneuraES Me 1. 1. Perzins mir C. skott
Mr &
Mrs Grant omita
Mr & mrs A. Findlay
Smith
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NOTE.
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