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principal commodities Building operations | OUR LONDON LET. ER appears on page 3 | VICEROY YUAN :—The Universal (Gazette. |
in Hongkong accounts for a considerable increase in the export of materials required locally. Bricks, roof and floor tiles, and wood poles all show appreciable increases, which is also to be noted, among other things, as regarda gunny bags, straw and grass bags, packing hats, etc., etc. Under the head of shipping, the Commissioner of Customs remarks that, "the total number
of this issue.
TIN MINING: The half yearly meeting of the Temeloog lydraulic Tin M ning Co, Lid, was held at Singapore to-day. The accounts
last of $14, 1947.
The meter per quarter ani per case, proptional, The dally-is-in-deliveret free wher their in-of-steam-launches which passed the Kow a loss for the int's year ended 30th June
accesibio to masenger. Ba copies sent by post an aláltional $1,80 per quarter is charged for prostago. The postage un the weekly india to any part of the
world is 30 cents per qünster,
live Cents.
BIRTH.
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Singapore, on 24th uh, DANIEL JAMES MATHEWS of Rosedale Dallestier Road, aged, 62 years.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES :-Durig the week ended the 29th ult, (w imported cases of enteric fever, one of which proved fatal, was not-fi d-as having occurred among the Luropean community. ne Europan was alsu suffering from diphtheria, and another
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
A meeting of the Legislative Council will bat held on Thursday next, at 3'p.m.
- he following business will be transacted Kepurt of the Financ'; Committee (No. 16). Questions (b. Ron Playfair):-
(1.) Would the Director of Public Works
"give some explanation of the inequali....... tie. of the intermittent system with special reference Jo Queen's Garden and the higher levels of the Peak- why very many houses, which ought · to get the full supply for the advertise ed period, get litle or no water and even that little at a most insufficient pressure ?
J
(z) To ask the Director of Public Works why the Water Accounts for 30th September are not yet out?
ORDERS OF THE DAY. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance 19. authorize the making of Bye-laws by the "Star" Ferry Company, Limit-d.
lars that the reason of Viceroy Ydän "in" THE CZAR ILL-Dr. Mezzejewki, the fore.eturning to his post via Nanking and Shangla most alienist in Russia, has been summoned is because while in Honan he received a by telegraph to proceed immediately to Livadia Peking telegram instructing him to investigate into the conduct of two high officials in con- to attend the Czar, who is suffering from a
nection with the new commercial' treaties and. nervous complaint.
into the matter of the withdrawal of the For- eign garrison at Shanghai. It is said thats soon as he has taken over the seal. (This office he will at once pro crad to. Peking for no giudience,” when he will report to the Throne the cut's loon stations in ballast was 4,434, showing
of his personal investigations of the two above an increase of 574. The number of junks IMPORTING ARMS LATO CHINA-It is mentioned maiters. Single Copies Daily, Lert cents; Wockly, twenty entered and cleared also shows a slight of 21st ult, as an incli putable fact that Gerinaning to the report of one who has made a careful declared in Peking, says the Kobe Chronicle | NEW "SOUTH SEA BUBILE" :---Accord- increase of r,120, i.e. 3 per cent. Of
merchants are pring atms into China, examination of the circumstances, the United junks and steam-launches combined; 49,808 notwithstanding the prohibition in the cace States is on the eve of a sec nd South Sea On the 30th Novemhern 87, Praya East, the entered and cleared, (as against 48,114 Protocol.
bobble, Mr. E. B. McCowan, who, bas just ¦‚wife of John MILLS; of a daughter.
in 1900), 68 per cent. reporting at the
retained from a long journey in Alaska, reports Stations in the Canton River estuary, 20
that promoters of mining corporations in per centy at the east coast station, and
Alaska, San Francisco, and Seattle are conspir iz per cent. at. the stations in Mirs Bay."
ing to put upon the market companies simply The passenger traffic shows an increase of
designed to mulct the people. Mining stock 115 per cent on the figures for 1900, the
with a face value of £4,000,000 and purpouting Second reading of the Bill entitled An Or- to-represent the worth-ai-mines-in-the-dinance_to_amend_The_Widows and Orphans returns inwards and outwards being respec-
Klondike, nad dredging companies at Cape Pension Fund' Amendment. Ordinance, iços lively 151,696 and 150,327. The highest NATIVE THEORY ABOUT DENGUE Nome and in the Yukon Valley, is now extant. (No. 12 of 1902). record since 1893 was established in the FEVER -The natives of Madras appen toefore the winter is over, however, at least five import of opium to the Kowloon stations, bave an extraordinary theory about dengue times this amount will be put on the market.
fever, which is widely epidemical just now. It the quantity being recorded as 656 piculs is that no medicine whatever should be taken REHEARING CASES:-Our Tientsin cor As stated in our preliminary remarks, taking for it. Some hold that one day on which respondent writes: I have previously mendinance to amend The Chinese Hospital In- Second reading of the Bil entitled An Or
the Kowloon statistics as a reflex of our own
medicine is taken will mean two days extra oftioned that notice was being attracted by tradeit must be a matter of satisfaction that, in illness.
several attempts to rehear and reverse the spite of adverse nautical conditions the pros
SEEING BY WIRE:-A new discovery of this the Chiese have wisely decided to enlist T.P.G. cases, in the Chinese Courts. Secing. erous state of trade still pursues its upward apparently remarkable value has been sub
the services of the senior Assistant judge, ander tendency and, given normal physical condi-mited to the French Academy of Sciences. It tions unhampered by local or political disturb relates to the possibility of seeing the reflection an authentic copy made of all the documents. the T. P. G. to get the various cases and have
ances of a far wider reach, the trade is
of persoas to whom op is taking through the telephone. The inventor proposes to solve the problem by means of electricity, and suggests the utilisation of the known electrical response of selenium to the action of light. It may be mentioned that it is known that sev ral persons are working at the solution of this problem of vision through the telephone.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, Tuesday, DecemBER 2, 1992,
KOWLOON TRADE REPORT.
bound to increase with prospective develop
Of the numerous returns of trade and trade reports which reach us from different sources none perhaps is of greater value, so 2.25 far as the trade of China is concerned, than that issued by the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. We have to acknowledge with 2.75 thanks the receipt of their latest volume containing the reports for the year 1901. As showing a reflex of the trade of the part of Hongkong, the report by the Comunissioner of Customs for the Kowloon district should be of special interest to the mercantile community, and as such, it is our intention to present here a few extracts giving the features of the greatest prominence in relation to the trade coming within the RINDERPEST is again prevalent in cognizance of the Kowloon Customs Com-Shanghai, missioner for the past year. Mr. R. B. Moorhead, the author, states, "At the
3.50
ARE GUAR-
ment of Chinese resources and the more immediate opening up of the inland waters of South China, with which we are more directly concerned, to foreign trade.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE MAHOMEDAN RAMAZAN, the month of fasting, commences to-day,
from small-poX.
THE JANET WALDORF COMPANY-At the heatre Royal last evening before a very good audience this Company again produced Magda. Miss Waldorf received quite an ovation, and during the evening was the recipient of many pretty bouquets and other MacGregor's Schwarize, and the fine acting of Messrs. Wilson Forbes, as voli Keller, and St. Clair Bayfield, as the German, pastor. Magda will be repeated to-night, and re-morrow night Twelfth Night holds the boards.
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The British Consul, in whose hands the docu-
Second reading of the Bill entitled An Or- dinance to further amend The Rating Or dinance, 1901.
corporation Ordinance, No. 3 of 1870.
$
Second reading of the Bill entitled an Ordin- ance lo repeal Ordinance: No. 5 of 19ör.
Comittee on the fit entitled an Ordin uze to amend the law relating to employers and
servants.
Committee on the Bi I entitled An Ordinance
ments were placed, refuses to give them up to relating to the Naturalization of Aliens, this official or anyone else without sanction hom Peking, but this will probably be forth- coming in a few days. The Chinese will then have no excuse for rehearing or altering the cases as they will have at band all the time the official best acquainted with the T.P.G.'s official Wok.
Committee on the Bill entitled An Ordinance 10onsolidate and amend the Laws relating to Public Health and to Buildings
TANSAN.
QUESTION OF IMITATION LABELS,
Sir W. M. Goodman, the tansap case, in "This morning, before the Chief Jus ire,
which Mr. J. Clifford Wilkinson, of Kobe,“ Japan sued the Ea Shu Co. agents for Ishims chi & Co. of Kobe, Japan regarding the ex on fof hearing.
ANTEED TO BE PURE COGNAC, the Kowloon Customs, where rice and other THE GOVERNMENT YACHT STANLEY floral tributes. Mention must be made of Mr. but their moral failing is illustrated by the clusive fight of the tansaa tmde, again came
difference, in price being merely a matter
of age and vintage.
A. S. WATSON & CO., ning of the year
LIMITED,
The Hongkong Dispensary.
1st December, 1992.
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with Sir Henry, Lady and Miss Blake aboard arrived this afternoon from M-cae. CAPT. II. C. METCALFE, vf the ♪ orthamp tonshire Regiment, has been elected thief
Constable of West Suffolk in succession to Major Poulton,
TIDEWALTER KIRK, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, died at the Peak Hospital yesterday, and was buried at Happy Valley this afternoon. · He was a native of Australia. SNOW-It has been snowing at Paris and in most of the departments of France, Snow fell in New York on the 18th clober. This is the catliest snowfall in the city during the past
cultivated produce form a large percentage of the commodities passing the stations, the state of the weather always has a consider able influence on the trade in such articles, and the question of a wet or dry season is an -important,one in commenting upon the annual figures. The weather at the begin was very favourable for the rice crops, and the spring harvest an exceptionally fine one."- The copious rainfall at the outset of 1901 was not, however, of long duration, and during the summer months fell far below the average of many years past. "As one result of the drought there was an enormous out-thinty years. put of salt, the China-to-China trade in >NOWDON:-It ́s stated by the Liverpoo: which shows an increase of nearly one | Mercuryshot the whole mountain of Snowdon million piculs, while the import from is for sale. This is the second time, willin foreign countries fell more than 50 per cent." recent years that the mountain has been in the The effect of the lease to the British Govern- market. It was sold in 1889 for £6,000. ment of the Hinterland in Kowloon, under the Convention of 1898, was that the old
stations and posts of the Chinese Imperial
Maritime Customs on the frontier were vacated, and new ones established beyond our own estended territory. The Chinese revenue is now collected at the following stations, viz., Taishan, Lintin, Shamchun, FURNITURE Samun, Shauchung, and Shatowkok. The
DEALERS.
DRAWING ROOM,
DINING ROOM,
and BED-ROOM
ELECTRO-PLATED),
GLASS, and
FURNITURE.
CHINA. WARES.
PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
ROCHESTER LAMPS,
of
THE STEAMER VENTOR, which, as we have already reported, was lost while on a
SOCIAL. CONDITION OF CEYLON —la his annual repon on Ceylan, Mr. J. J. Thor burn,. Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary, sys the social condition of the people is good in so far as their material welfare is concerned, figures relating to moral crime. It is true, says the report, that cold-blooded premeditated crime is of rare occurrence, but acts of violence, committed in the heat of the moment, are rife. Corporal punishment, it must be admitted, has
A LARGE ARMY FOR CHILI:-The Sin. proved much lees effic ́cious than was antici- Won Pup states that the report which it pub-pated as a deterrent. Education will doubtless lished sometime ago that Chili was to train an furnish the radical cure in time; but the pro- army is now confirmed What is at present yet ess,will be a long and tedious ore. It is re- unknown is whether the army will be quartered markable that of the 37 men who paid the ás Changkiakou or at different places in the highest penalty of the law, all but two were Province, but it has been decided that the army Budhists, whose religious teaching inculcates will begin training next spring and will be a farge one as six thousand foreign knapsacks tend to show that religious education and train the theory of the sanctity of life. These figures have been purchased for the army's use. An- ing have little effect in restraining passion and other settled point is that the soldiers will wear jealousy, the primary cause of most violent mud-coloured uniform, similar to that worn by crime in Ceylon. the British troops (khaki).
THE BOXERS ABOUT NANKING :-The Sin Win Puo is informed that Viceroy Chang has ordered the Kiongning Nagis rate and the military oficials of the same district to airèst those who were practising the "boxing" art. voyage from Wellington (S. Z.) to Hongkong,Some days ago some runners of the said was insured under a voyage policy from Singapore to Java, Australasia, and longkong, by underwriters and companies in London and Liverpool. ITEMS-Japan papers state:-The goods talved from the late, great fire at Yokohama
."
brought over 82,000 ya az auction-The
Magistrate arrested one of the Boxers at Kaokani, The man is over twenty years old and stared at the trial that he acquired the "art * from a Taoist „Priest at a place called Kanchuo. In consequence the Magistrate has Sent runners to capture the person who initiated the prisoner into the mysticisms of
former site of the Club Concordia at Kobe, xerism. adjoining the Oriental Hotel, has been bought by the Hotel Co. for 293,000 yen, and the Company will build there a first-class tince storey hotel.
amounts altogether to £1,485,957, apd
It was an application by Mr. Wilkinson for an injunction to restrain the defendant selling mineral waters, under the designation of Tan San.
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Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. F. B... Deacon, appeared on behalf of the Ea Shu firm, whilst Mr. C. Wilkinson was represented by Mc. H. E Tollock, K. C. ins ructed by Mfr. G. D. Wilkinson; of Messrs. Wilkinson and
Crist.
Mr. Slalo asked that the order for the in
and stated that, it had been granted, under junction previously obtained be set aside,
misapprehension for it had been recently decided by the Japanese Law Courts that the name Jan San was a nanie common in the trade and not the exclusive property of Mr. THE GRAPHIC CRHISTMAS NUMBER, C. Wilkinson. When application was made.. an advance copy of which has reached us, 15. for the order, it was stated that the labri sed - as usual, illustrated throughout in colours, and by the plaintiff, and the trade mark which contains" a number of gand stories by such appeared on the bottle produced ́in ̧ the case popular (writers as 1. S. Merriman, Eden was registered in this. Colony on 23rd March Phillpouts, H. B. Mariott Watson, the Rev. S
go. As a matter of fact no such label was Raring Gould, Mrs. Stepney Rawson, J. A. registered, but an entirely different one in Barry, and Ruma White, with a characteristic every essential material, and the word "tansan" poem by Thomas Hardy. These stories are was written in an entirely different way.
Mr. 11. E. Pollock, K.C. admitted that a mis- illustrated by the well-known artists Seymour Lucas, R., G. Napier Heny, A.P.A., and take had been made, but held that, indepen. Frank Craig, 1, while humorous pages are dent of the judgment of the Japanese Law contributed by II. M. Brock, Tom Browne, Comus, regarding his clients, the decision was
R., W. Raton, John Hassall, R., Reginald not binding in the Hongkong Law Court, and
the
His Lordship, however, set aside the in- Junction which had been rated, with custs,
Cleaver, A. Guillaume, and Claude Shepperson, stated that the point upon which is chents R.1. Two.profusely coloured plates are given desired to be informed was whet er in his RUSSIA'S NAVAL BUDGET FOR 1903:
The Budget of the Russian Ministry of the away with the number-Lidy Craven, from colony "Tansan," was understood to be a portmit by George Romney, and Snowed mineral water, and the exclusive properly Marine has just been virawn up for next year. Up is the Couching Pays, by Cecil Aldin. of Air. Wilkinson, or whether it was, a HK. THE ONE TOPIC everywhere to-day, says this sum comprises the flowing important The other pictures, appropriately, for an old- common mine al termi
items of projected expenditu e on the Russ ansaned festival like Christmas, are all of the Navy during 1903-Shipbuilding and a ma- good old school, while the stories are brigh, ments, £4.419.465; cost of sailings, and voy. fresh, and of the best literary calibre. ages, £2, 60,898'; cast of imaintenance ol running the workshops and the Adiniralty
aine troops on shore, 1,276,940: cost of GENERAL MILES AT HONGKONG. Department, L629,627 for building and rent- ing buildings, 573.800; for the construction.
the China Times of 27th ult, was the paraly sing fall of silver, which has reached a point. that no one even a year ago would have dreamt possible. With the tael hovering around two trader in China to think of shutting up shop and a penny it seems about time for the foreign before the New Treaty, with its 12 per cent. tariff comes in to add to our woes....
but issued a new order restraining the Ex bu firm from using labels, hich could be colour- able imite ions of the plaintiff's, but allowing
them to use the tau san until judgment w:.5.
given in the case.
NAVAL NOTES.
total collection for the year was Taels 404,450, being an increase of Taels 54,426 on the figures for the previous year. This is not inclusive of the Granary Tax upon ride and paddy exported, which brought í a collection Tis. 22,437-
It has to be observed that the collection of this tax is but a revival of that levied previous to the 1st April, 1898, when it was discontinued. There is an export limit attached to this staple industry in China, it being fixed at
5. 5, "INGALLS" ARRIVED 500 piculs per annum, and the duty paid is
THIS MORNING. WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. at the rate of seven mace, two candareens EXECUTION IMPOSSIBLE!-The Peking of Port Arthur, £451,550 for enlarging and im
per 120 catties for rice, and three mace,. six and Tientsin Times says:-We have not heard proving the harbour or Vladivostock, 349.98 chief of the United States Army, and Mrs, Lieutenant-General Miles, commander-in- candareens for paddy. The value of kero-how the escape of Capt. Liu Liang ju' has been for the construction of the new naval harboties arrived here, at about half past sine oil as an illuminant, and its popularity received in Peking, or any official pronounce-Ingeraler Alexander II at Liba, in the among the Chinese is becoming more and
inent on the occu.rence, but the fe fe plainly Binic Provinces, 258,393; and the sum of nise this mumming, in tnited States trans- pingalls, and is now staying at the itinerary of the Philippine Islands he will visit Peking and afterwards cross Asin by the Manchurian line of the Siberian railway. He also intends to visit the principal points in disposal for such length of time as he may Europe. The Ingalls has been placed at his
Lastevening's match at Happy Valley between deci necessary, but it is believed that when he the Hongkong Football Club and HMS. reaches Port Arthur he will order the vessel to gendut resulted in a deleat for the Club. In turn. When touring the Philippine Islands Spite of the Arconaut's being handicapped by
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING RANGES,
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING.
UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK.
yesterday.
The German gunboat fifis left for Singapore
H. M., surveying vessel. Waterwitch left the harbour for a cruise this morning and the
with a cargo of coal from Wellington, N. Z.
more evident each year, as the duty collected tells us Capt, Liu was delibe ately relased by £208,2-7 for the Central and Hà bour Départ Hongkong Hotel Having completed his British Admiralty transport Whitgift-arrived":"5"
an
this article of import shows the officials and gentry of Hunan, who have advance on the statistics of previous now memorialized Chang Chitung that this years. From the 18th December au in-official can never be executed, and asking him to take steps to have the Edict altered, and, if crease of 30 per cent on tea, sugar, tobacco,not, they will procure a substitute, samshu, and native opium was ordered by the Viceroy, but as it was put into operation so late in the year it does not affect the -(728 | returns for igor. As regards foreign trade, we observe that the value of the net imports
PROMPT RETURN, Hongkong, 8th July, 1902.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY-A certani Japanese paper has been instrumental in bring- ing to light a new and evidently important commerical rotite known as the "Hongkong Japan River Competition upon it is said to
ments of the Admiralty. --
A NEW SPANISH NAVY :-The Diario de Barcelona states that the committee appointed tu consider the proposal to build what would be practically a new Span sh navy has reported in favour of the construction of 12 baileship, len cruisers, and 76 smaller vessels. The Epoca understands that the schem of Generals Navarro and Ferrandiz is that which will be
submitted to the Cortés. It includes the “con-
with General Miles on board, the Ingalls hit a
FOOTBALL.
Wilkinson injuring his knees, they scored three
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, amounts to nearly Hk. Tls. 19,000,000. This be so keen that the P. & O. Company will struction often battleships of 13,000 tons, sivcoralucef and was lifted two clear feet for her goals to one..
80.60
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
Cask of 375 Boa. Net ex Factory. 3.60 Bag of 250 Bs.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, General Managers.
Alangkonu, 15th Marchionz.!
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CHS. J. GAUPP & CO.
“HRONOMETER, WATCH, and CLOCK
MAKERS, JEWELLERS, SHIVER MENU SMITH'S, and OPTICIANS, VANEME CHARTS and BOOKS.
NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Sole Agents for Louis Audemars Watches awarded the highest Prized at every Exhibition; and for Voigtländer and Solo's CELEBRATED OPERA:OLAS ES,V MARINE GLASSES and SPYCLASSES,
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THE WEATHER.
is a decrease of about Hk. Tacis 1,900,000 as shonly withdraw their larger boats from the to ten cruisers of 3c00 tons, sx tib.d.'s of 20 entire length. The accident was dus to an compared with the previous year. In opium district. The Hongkong agents ae totally tons, 33 Lb.'s of 130 tons and 40 of 70 tons, 20ffort to cut of twenty minutes on the run into there is a decided increase. The same ignorant of the proposals and will doubtless gunboats of 300 tons for the protection of the Legasp. It is said that the vessel was not
“Injured: satisfaclory advance is to be observed with make inquiries regarding their unknown coasts, the fishing, the Canary and Balearic Islands and Fernando Po ; two training ships regard to Indian cotton yarn, which steame s lying upon the unknown waters. shows an increase of 1,594 piculs; but; THE SIBERIA :—It will be impossible for mixed steam and sail, for cadets, and three owing to the low price in the markets the Pacific Mail's new liner Siberia to take her sailing ships for training quartermasters and- The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figge during the year the value of this article place on the Hongkong route on the date set men. The cost of building these vessels would Acting Director, of, the Hongkong Obser
be from 20 to 24 millions sterling, and the vatory W denotes a decrease of Hk. Taels 46,000, by the company some weeks ago. The new Turning to the exports, the figures show an steamer, although making the remarkable ordinary annual charge for the navy would rise all-round increase of g per cent, the total speed of twenty-one knots an hour on her trial to between three and four inillious. The chie irip, is still detaineil at Newport-News, and disagreement between the members of the being Hk. Tacis 27,919,708 as against Hk. will therefore be unable, under any circtim cominilice was as to the battleships, one pm Taels 20,857, Go for the preceding year. The stances, to reach San Francisco in time to sail, posal being that they should be of 14,000 ton
to for the Orient on December syil the date displacement, and another that they should be report tells us that this increase is due to
the signly enhanced value of most of theo iginally set for her departure.
ASK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER-
AMG® Girault,
SK for ASAHI
G&Giriult.
ESE-DEER
from 8,000 to 10,000 long,
SK for ASAHI JAPANESE DEER-
On the and at 12.5 p.myThe harometer
has risen in the extreme North, fallen over Pressure, is low over E Japan, and high," arparently, over N. China.
The monsoon will probably freshen in the Formosa Channel. Moderate monsoon over the N. part of the China Sea
Forecast-moderate NE. winds; fair.
ESKAF1 ASAHI JAPANESE BEER.
SKIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE. American (Korea) 4th inst Indian (Arratoon Afcar) 5th last English (Valeita) 6th inst
Canadian (Athenian) 11th ins'" American (Gaelic) 13th inštit American (Hongkong Maru) 23rd inst
The P. M. 3. S. Co.'s steamer Korea with mails, &c, left Shanghai for this port this mora- ing, at 11 am,
The Imperial German Mail steam
which left here on the 28th arrived at Shanghai on, Sunday,
SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BRET