To-day's Advertisements.
HAMBURG-AMERICA LINE. (EAST ASIATIG SERVICE)
TOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA AND
HIOGO.
THE Company's Steamship
"ADRIA,"
Captain Reuter, will be despatched for tha above Parts TO-MORROW, the 4th instant, at 5 PM.
For Freight, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co,
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1808.
Agents,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
"LIMITED.
1596
FOR SWĄTOW AMOY AND TAMSUI.
*HE Company's Steamship
THE
*HAILUONG," Captain Robroc, will be despatched for the above Ports on THURSDAY, the 5th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1998.
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1698.
Intimation.
A. S. WATSON & CO.
LIMITED.
:
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
BOMBARDMENT OF CORREGIDOR,
almost simultaneously from Europie, no- | MK. N. J. Ede's yacht Zephyr was put up at nouncing that a complete defeat of the auction yesterday by Messrs. Hughen & Hough Spaniards at Manila is notified in Madrid, and was sold to a Chinein gentleman for $2,500, This ends all doubt. The news must have
The bidding started:mi $1,000. been the very last thing sent over the wire from Manila before communication was Interrupted, and therefore it must have been immediately followed by American occupation of the city. If the cutting of the cable was not simply a last vengeful act of the Spaniards, it may be that
HMS. "Rapid was sighted off Plymouth at eight sim. on March goth and subsequently anchored in the Soned. The news was received with a feeling of intensa relief in many quailers," Tha cruiser, which had come from the Australia station to pay off, was several days overdon from Gibraltar, and having regard to the terrific gales that raged in March week, fears had been enter-
China, in which market, as that Associa- tlon knew, the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce had a greater interest than any chamber in the world. His remarks were strongly incorroboration of what the Hongkong Tilegraph has always said. Blackburn, at all events, could not be accused of lack of enterprise In its CAPTURE OF MANILA, endeavour to discover the needs of its Celestial customers, and in the report of
GREAT AMERICAN VICTORY. Rs Commercial Mission, which had just
It is now beyond doubt, from several been completed, information of Incalcul able value would be placed in the hands private telegrams received in Hongkong, of those who cared to take advantage that the Spaniards in Manila yesterday at the last moment the city was gained about her safely. Saugnine hopes bare WINES & SPIRITS. of it. He contended that the large wired to Madrid announcing that all was
subsidy which was received by one of lost; their ships and forts silenced, city legraph office destroyed, burnt in bom-week before;ing to the gales she was obliged ven up to riot and plunder and the te been jailed. The Rapid left Gibanliar Aba
-B subsidy to which they in Lancashik | helpless, falling Into the hands of the bardment or looted by rebels or mad has taken four months to accomplish the voyaga the lines belonging to the Conference
to heave to for three days off Finlstorte. She Whatever be from the Australian station.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
ALL there are selected by our Leadon paid through their taxation a very con- Americans, and immediately afterwards House, bought direct at first hand, Imported Insiderable amount-ought to protect them cut the cable, so that the victorious wood and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all | against such unfair and unpatriatic treat- Americans could not wire detalls of their lolermediate profits, and enabling us to supply the best growths at MODERATE PRICES.
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PRICE LISTS, with Fall Details, to be had on
Application.
If94 PORT after removal should be rested a month before use. When required fox drinking at once it should be ordered to be decanted at SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and Alter Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are true Xeres Wlacs.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at FORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTs, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, &C) THE Steamship
THE
"AUSTRALIAN," Captain Helms, will be despriched for the above Foris on TUESDAY, the roth instant, at No. a...
Tals well-known Steamer is specially fitted for
·Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Chamber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provilons, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage.
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.
A Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon
are carried,
N.B.-Return Tickets isaned by this Company to and from AUSTRALIA Sre available for return by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY and vice versa.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agents.
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1898,
HAMBURG-AMERICA LINE. (EAST ASIATIC SERVICE}
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERP AND
SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"ADRIA,
having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Esods sro being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. Peitshable Goods to be taken delivery of Immediately.
Optional Cargo will be clicbarget here unless acilea to the contrary be given Immediately. -No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after TUES- -DAY, the 10th instant will be subject to rent.
The steamer having arrived under general avorage, as Atzrage bond will be signed at HAMBURG.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by'
CARLOWITZ & Co, Agents. Hengkong, 3rd May, 1898
Tar
Intimations.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
PLE AERATED WATER,
SIMPLE
SODA WATER.
LEMONADE.
the Dispensary belose belng sent out,
CLARET.—Our Clarets, including the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the grape and are not atlicially made from ralsins and
currants, as is generally the case with Cheap
Wines.
BRANDY—All our Brandy ↳ guaranteed to be pure Cognac, the difference in price being merely a question of age and vintage. WHISKY-All our Whisky is of excellent quailty and of greafer age than most brand, in the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY masked "E" is universally popular, and pronounced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand is the
Hongkong market.
is
Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Porti.
A
ment, and they desired through the medium of that Association to call the attention not only ofthe Government but also of the people to a state of things which was preventing that expansion of our trade in China which they had a right to expect, and was also in all parts of the Empire. He omitted doing incalculable damage to British trade to add (what the Hongkong Telegraph wishes to make clear) that the subsidy, under the present contract, carries no obligation of the kind required; the shipowners cannot be expected to do what does not pay them. remunerative. If a steamer is simply paid to carry malls, or to undergo Admiralty survey for war service, that is no reason to claim anything in regard to freights.
Mr. Waits, who seconded the resolution, said they had heard a good deal in the discussions of the way in which foreigners were protecting themselves against British competition, not only in their own but even that the foreigners were quite justified in In British markets, and it had been argued doing the best for themselves; but here they had the case of Britishers actually protecting foreigners in the British market. So long as the Government subsidised these shipping companies, so long would they be enabled to keep their rates in favour of foreigners. Here the speaker fell into the popular error of forgetting that the subsidies are paid for specific
else. nothing
and the contract would have to be made
Success.
The telegram which was to sald to have
a
been received yesterday by the Spanish Admiral's children, announcing the bom bardment of Corregidor, had more truth in it than we thought. We disbelieved it partly because such a message would usually be stopped by the Spanish, and partly because the Admiral has no children in Hongkong, aa far as we can ascertain We find, however, that there was such telegram received in Hongkong by the children of Captain CONCHA, of the cruiser Don Juan de Austria, News telegrams have hitherto been rigorously suppressed, but this apparently got through on ac count of being a private message of an officer. It stated that the Americans had begun to bombard Corregidor, the Island as the entrance to Manila Bay. From the fact that there is no mention of any bat- teries on the mainland supporting the Island forts, it is assumed that previous reports were correct in assigning the northern shore (Mariveles) a few guns of no great value and with little ammunition, and the south shore no defence at all, The southern channel is six miles wide, What and dotted with rocks and shoals which
case
and deeper channel north of Corregidor, only two miles wide. It was known that the wide entrance had not been mined, while the Spaniards claimed to have filled
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the real explanation, the cutting of the dened Spanish soldiery. cable means some kind of disorder and THE mes al science have been teaching us to believe that the day is not far distant when the violence in Manila, eral quarters in England and America, all pura science an Indian paper turned on a There are urgent telegrams from sev-killed by the phonograph. In the interests of reporter-in his professional capacity-will ba
to this effect-"We have Madrid report phonograph to "take down" = speech at a other version," But there is nothing to Chairman-hem-ladies, and gentlemen-We of Spanish defeat at Manila, send us the meeting, and this way the result Mi send; the Madrid report must haver met-hen-on-this-hem-suspicions oc- passed through Hongkong, for (as cailon-speak up'-' 'old yor and up—on this far as we know) there is no other auspices occasion out with 1-to-er-to world; but it is a remarkable lustance-stally, la lace of such interruption, I cate —-^ Tat 'em 'ava -l- go it, old brass lungs-to
of the trustworthiness of the Eastern auspicious occasion, 'tor, 'Sit down dry Extension Telegraph Company, that not and 100,
not go 'on-'go agdn't apologize1-on this'
a word of the message. leaked out in Hongkong, and we at the telegraph station to Manila know less than the remotest inhabitants of Europe and America. Until some ship comes from the Philippines, there will be nothing but the Spanish version of the fight.
cable
from
Manila to the outside
nearest
LOCAL AND GENERAL. A CELESTIAL was to-day fined $10 for neglecting a report a case of plague.
FOR making fast to the steamer Colherbes Apar while under way, two bostman wein to- day floed $50 each,
to-day Into the stranding ofthe Sfikas. Evidence was given and the enquiry was adjourned till
0.30's.m, to-morrow.
Tax Powa-Kuangles collision case was te
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to services and be geaning when bought direct from us in the had been said with regard to the make navigators usually take the narrower As enquiry was held at the 'Harbour Office
cotton trade applied equally to almost every other trade. Take the of rails and iron goods. Such goods were shipped at Antwerp, and the A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. seamers then came to London for English goods, and they actually carried the Antwerp goods to India, China, and the [7 Cape, at less rates than they cariled the English goods to the same ports. That was a state of affairs that required their attention; at any rate, no assistance should be given by the Government in the shape of subsidies to the shipowners under such conditions as to maintain an unfair rivalry on the part of foreigners.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, Sih December, 1897
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, TURSDAY, MAY 3, 1898.
THE SHIPPING CONFERENCE.
[Concluded]
had been attempting the northern entrance, probably the telegram would have men. tioned bombardment of Mariveles as well as-Corregidor. ———
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THE Spaniards radau lo get a navy together by Madrid At the Opera House there on March 31st some means or other judging by late events in a mammoth performance was held to raise funds for the purchase of a war vessel. It is stated that fabulous prices were paid for seats. The
Queen Regent paid 2005%, for her box; the Bank of Spain 20,00of; the Countess Burnos, 4,000f; the Laitos Bank, 6,cool; the Tobacca
distinguished personages, while clubs and reg!- Company, 4,00i,; and the Margols Torreligune, 12,000/ Large prices were also paid by other
ments, civil and military corporations, doctors, and all classes of society handsomely contributed towards the 140,000), which have already been collected towards the object in view.
THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG.
A HOSPITAL NURIE' ATTACKED.
plague in Hongkong as officially tod, there Despite the stories about][the decrease of
stems to be little diminution of the disease Only
the other channel with torpedoes and sub-sumed at the Supreme Court to-day. The Chiat marine mines. If the American squadron Officer of the Pawan gave evidence of the sovers- a few days ago a European policeman was Ing of the engines after the collision occured.attucked and not long before a European boy Mr. Pollock then summed up on behalf of the
succumbed to the peilTM, "Now we have, with the Burses at the Government Civil Hospital, fa sorrow, lo report that Sings Genrade, ose at:
lying ill of the milady and in much danger, She was at Kowloon yesterday shenon and at about 6 pm she began to feel
defendants and the case was adjourned illl as
Shitaya-Ku, Tokio, on the zoth, alt, which
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She soon developed unmistakable plague symptoms, and, coached is rather dangerous stage. We are happy to stale, however, that she was slightly better this afternoon.
son of Mr. D. R. Crawford (of Lane & Crawford). Another case is that of Mr. L. S. Crawlord, a
The unfortunate young gentlemen is only 30 years of age, and his condition, the dactor #ays, Is very bad...
Sister Catherine, another nurse at the Govern
tion, suffering from a severe febrile attack. ment Civil Hospital; is at present under observa-,.
aaw cases and 14 deaths from plague, were res During the 24 hours up to noon, and May, ported, making the total since zai Januszy, (xx2 days) 733 cases and 646 denike.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
(From our own Correspondent.).
SANDAKAN, April 19th. The most (myariant item of information from
Since the telegram in question was from THE Palho, says the N. C. Daily News, is so- the Captain of the cruiser. Don Juan de parted to be worse than ever. No liter draw After some discussion Mr. HIBBET re- plied, and, in the course of his remarks,
Susirio, presumably the Spanish squadron ing more than 6 feet 6 loches can get up to the said that what he maintained was that
was Inside Manila Bay.
This is Tientsin Bund, sad thara-Is' very little water us || Father the shipowners had no right to make
Large presumption, for low this slongside the wharve; at Tengku, while Lancashire pay higher rates to enable several other explanations are possible; water on the bar, but the mouth of the Falke is the channel is very narrow. There is plenty of What is wanted is, of course, not that them to carry foreigners' goods at lower Captain Coscia might send the message tilting up so fast that it is possible at low tide to the British shipowners in the Conference rates, On the other hand, if the ship-overland from a distant port, or his ship walk out on the south bank and talk to the should put up their rates to and from owners could afford to carry American Continental parts so as to be as high as the goods from New York to China, to Liver might be at sea without him, or the squad-people on the lightship. The railway has re- rates for Brkish ports and higher than pool, for 27s. 6d. per ton, why should they ron might be at sea without the Austria, daced its tail for cargo, and is competing the rates quoted for foreign ports charge the Lancashire manufacturer 40s.? or the telegram might have been sent by seriously with ike Taku Tag and Lighter Co. by foreign shipowners; but that, if Here again Mr. HIDBERT. did not quite anybody in his name. But it seems most DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & the foreigners will not raise their rates follow the line we should prefer. He probable that he and his ship and the fleet A Fax broke out at Sakamoto-cho, Sanchome,
COMPANY,
to the level of those charged to and speaks of rights; our view is that any were all together inside the Bay, and pre-destroyed 415 houses besides partially destroylog from British ports, then the rates to commercial corporation has a right to and from British ports should be reduced, make money as it can, so long as it keeps sumably then going to the aid of the Cor-24 others. Some burning embers ware Earied so as to simultaneously give British trade the laws. Shipowners have a right to regidor forts. That was yesterday morning. by the wind to Nippar! where they caused sa- simple fairplay and give the foreigners a charge what rates they can get, according Our own ideals that the American squadron other outbreak and the loss of so heures. Ona dose of their own medicine. We are to the Indefeasible law that any ardele or was then steaming into Manila Bay by old man of Bo years of age was burnt to death, Inclined to think British shipowners. should service is worth what it will fetch. At any the southern entrance, having previously while soother man was badly wounded by a do this voluntarily, in their own intereats; rate, it is certain that the abipowners will but they ought to know best what they continue to do as they have done, unless done what could be done to feel the way, sign-board dropping on him. The scene of the can do and what they cannot, so for the they are offered some tangible Inducement reconnoltring at night with steam pinnaces Bre is near Ureno Park, and as the neighbours. sake of getting the discussion forward to to alter their methods. Let the Govern- and launches from the large cruisers, look hood was crowded with sightseers, the cherry e tangible conclusion we will grant that ment give a premium to all steamers which ing for booms or other obstructions which res helag in fall blooms, there was immense they cannot. Their contention is that, if will take cargo between British ports and British shipping ports as a whole could be the Far East (both ways) at such rates the defenders might have put in the chan- matched against Continental shipping ports that Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bre-nel. Having completed preparations, and as a whole, in a rate-cutting contest, the men, etc., shall be more expensive routes ascertained as much as possible about the British could not win. We think they even for Continental trade. There was a movements of the rebels in the hill-country could, but we cannot compel them to do it time when it was cheaper for German behind the Bay of Manila, Commodore if they do not choose; they have an easier merchants to buy tes, rice, and alik In polley, which pays them well, and their London than to Import direct from the DIY must have steamed Into the BAX posterity and the British nation may starve. East to Germany. Very well, let us not complain it corpora- lines which will make it so once more. passed, but probably not walking long Subsidise British exchanging shots with Corregidor as he tions are soulless; let us take things as There was a time when it was cheaper The forts could not stop him; if there were Any complaints should be addressed is the they are, and make the best of them. Let for American cotton growers to send mines, the Americans could explode them one of the guests was ; puzzled by the idea. CRUSOT, Damely, prospectore for various purposes
os make it immediately worth while to un- their raw material to Lancashire and dercut foreign ports. Let us make it more have it brought back to them manufac-in advance by a hail of shot into the mine.ty of the face of one of the servants, advantageous in the present day for the tured, than to manufacture it themselves. Aeld, and then there would be nothing but P. O. and other companies to charge. It would pay Great Britain to make it so the feeble realstance of the poor Spanish cheaper freights to and from London than again. It is no violation of free trade; squadron to help Mazila Itself, the N. D. L. to and from Bremen. It is no coddling of trade, nor wet-nursing Let as come to some arrangement whereby of enterprise. It is a plain business Invest- the Blue Funnel steamers can carry cargoment, every bit as much as grants-in-aid between Liverpool and Hongkong cheap for elementary schools or volunteer corps, er than between Antwerp and Hongkong. The nation pays steamship subsidies for and still not have to walt until the next postal services, and for the defence of the generation for their reward. That is Empire in case of war; equally should it 140 what the British nation has to do; and no pay for the defence of the empire's trade
doubt the shipowners will respond.
GINGER ALE
SARSAPARILLA
RAS
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rison with the best English Manufactures.
Special terms to HOTELA, CLUBS, MassKs and - Ther Large Consumers.
Manager.
Hongkong. 1st March, 1897.
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AN OFFICERS ***No. 6, Pedder's Hill.
Hongkong, 18th March, 1898.
At the annual meeting of the Assoolated discussion was Initiated by the Blackburn Chambers of Commerce an important Chamber in reference to the grievances of British exporters, and particularly Lancashire manufacturers, against ship- owners with regard to preferential rates. Mr. HIBBERT moved :-
In Bme of peace.
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
THE UNITED STATES, `·
LONDON, May 1st.
confusion for some time.
Tez London correspondent of the Birmingham Gausite has the following: story is being told privately to the effect that a Azamarkable Russian spy bad been discovered in Lud Salli
able to afford way restantes, seeing that such bury's household at Hajfeld.::Of Itu truth I am
care for raksons that are otvory. The story an incident would be concealed with scrupulets goes that at a dinner party at Hatfield
It
here at this moment is that new Inc of steamers is to he put on sunsing one steamer to Hongkong and two to Singapore together with are too high at present and the reduction will a small facal feeder. Both freight and pirengo
rate of freight there should be great expansion resily imalata business, especially the timber trade which is largely expert, With a law in trad- and considerable developments may be scarcity of labour, as much as $40 advance is expected. The main diffenity now in the
hour from Labuan, Brunel and Boldogão, This as there ought to be ihs means of attracting 14- being paid locally for men, and such advances
scarcity of labost. It attributable
to several
shippers compete against each other for every are out is two or three directless, the tímater avaliabis man; India subher planting in being: began to earnest, the price of fire wood fes sport it up, Thor la niver labour enough for the Bakan works (sakau, otherwise called extch. is a preparation of mangrove bark for dyeing purposes)
next fem ou par list, vice coffee-knocked out, * India rubber planting is in fact evidenḥly thu Planiing a pretty fair scale is already in progress in three directions and if successful here will be rash, luie Haupthing infoilor to the tobacco boom of piss sexta nge, with, 16. jus hope, more fortunate regulis,alijo
By and by he remembered where he had last seen that face, and the fact belog made known, became a matter of morat certainty that the The cutting of the cable last night was owner of the lace was a Russian cry, disguised practically a certain sign of Spanish re- probable in the story. It is well known that
as & fcolman. There is nothing inherently (m verses. Commodore Dewey would never domestic espionage is one of the methods em idvised they should put their local feeder under If the new las of steamere are properly have injured the cable; that is well known played by the daring and ungerspulous Russing the Dutch fistable business is expected with The rebels could not interrupt the line, for Secret Service, It maintains a large staff of but it is not near enough to the mines; the port
the Calches gold-fields. Menado fa un open part. is wholly submarine, all the way to secret agents in every capital, and little that ignester the minor is closed to British ships and Manlia, since the Bolinao station was an- discoverable by derog Ingenalty is not made 10 a boat under the Datch flag could go to the
mines, obtain the ore and tranabip it in San tirely abollahed a few weeks ago. There, koowa to the Roselan Government,”
dakan to the home steamer, fore the cutting of the cable (barring aC TER sintemaniis made that a pifvate concession cident) must have been done by the Spani- of premamably very great vaino has been made ards. Such an accident, at such a juncture, by the Chinese Government to British capitalists, is not impossible, but there is much more The concession in question is stated to be for an probability fa the supposition that the extensivo area—as large as 10,000 square miles, Spaniards cut the line. Then why should It is said-in the province of Shansi, to a Britfah Even if you have no money "Go where they cut it? It seemed to us, on hearing syndicats. No particolars are forthcoming, but 'money la le pennyson's advins and Bundalas the news late last night, that there could perhaps the party of mining experts which left seems to be doing so now; what with the golá be no other explanation than total defeat Walk on goth March by the Southampton round Sandakan itself, some foportant indurs la Mintebaser, the nit in Colf, and the timber of the Spanish forces. It would not bene-x woule for Chins, els New York and that are springing up in the neighbourkend fit them greatly to cut the cable; but it Pritchard Morgan, M.P. B Tomething to do feat and steamers are roing to be medally Vancouver, under the leadership of Mr V. | The oil: refure is 16° be used as thipat with it. This party is the outcome of gegoilu make many steadicis pass on front dear and fitted for lin use, a matter which seems likely to floor antered into with Li Hang-chang. Me! give de cheap freight to Austrália, Java and Morgan accompanied the Chiuere Plenipotay. Hongkong and give a fresh impalance to the That the Board of Trado be requested to take
lary, across to New York when laries and art coast of Borneo and the war cost of | steps to verify the existents of prefarea!lat rates,
and obtained commissions to induce English preduce cargo, as the suction to draw the "Caliber." The next thing is for Sandakan to and, if proved, to folilate such legislation as may be considered necessary to deal with the matter, Simultaneously with the redent bombardment
Up to this point it was all guesswork capitalhts to interest themselves in developing steamers of their direct course only six hours marks, confined himself to the freights town, but were repaised with twbaty kitled deduction, some of it problematical in the result of his visit was said to be that he obtained mongst other abloge s company is being Mr. Hinzer, in the course of his re. of Matanzas the insurgents advanced upon its some of it sound and practically certain the moral resources of China. Shortly alter der Timber copre cotton and enich are at |wards Mr. Morgan went out to Chins, and the Present the miticles most relied upon to provide which were charged on cotton goods This lodicates to the Americans that the lature extreme. Nowy this morning, Several pri- some valuable concessions, though particulars formed to work soll seara of coal found close shipped to the Far East, particularly to gents as co-operating.
vate telegrams have reached. Hongkong I was savez vousisstad -L: & C. Hverat
The House of Representativas has passed a
increased zonasga dues. bill for creating a war sewanne Including the
That the executiva counell be instrce ed io call the attention of the Board of Trade to the existence of preferential rates in the shipping The British, German and French represents wide, which are given to our foreign competitors, tivos are protesting against the facienso of the to the great desiment of British comme.ce, and tonnage dass and threaten to transfer their trade generally in the East and Far East, which latesfera most prejudicially with our irade to Canadian and Mexican ports,
That this meatlog in of opinion thai no sabe dy should continas to be given by any Covera ment authorliy any shipping company which confers on foreign sea-berne traffle advantages not enjoyed by British traders.
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. The Americans fear that Key West will be the first port the Spaniards will attack.
A flying squadron has been despatched to meet the Spanish squadron which recently left
St. Vincent.
would be their last expiring kick at the hated Invaders, and would at any rate inconvenience them and deprive them of the satisfaction of recounting their own brave deeds promptly.
wi the back of the town..