TELEGRAMS.
(Reuters)
The War.
LONDON, 6th July. General Sakharoff, who watched the Motienling fight from a tower, praises the valour of the troops.
General Sakharoff reports that the Rus sians on the 3rd instant drove the Japanese to within four miles of Senyuching and that the enemy is fortifying the Taling pass.
The French Army. The Chamber has adopted the Two-years' Military Service Bill by 577 to 43-
Clerical Teaching in France. The Senate has passed the Religious Teaching Bill totally suppressing clerical teaching.
LATER
THE WAR
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1904.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR AT PORT ARTHUR
Trains may dash in and out of Port Arthur and the Japanese from the railway if hard press ed now and then; but the experts of the London Tinies, News, and fat seem convinced that the fortress is doomed. Huw long the siege it to last no expert ventures to predict.” “Any other Sabastopol," remarks the London News which makes merry over the Russian claim that the ammunition in the magazines will last a "The Crimea will repeat itself," accord-
·year. ing to Captain Carlyon Bellaires, M.P., a well- known authority on Russian military methods, He is sure the Russians will hold out to the last at Port Arthur, although the alleged advice proffered by General Dragomiroff to the Czar to abandon the place to the Japanese has a certain effect upon the military expert to the London Times. We think that advice may yet be taken, Nevertheless, he decins the capture of the place a task of immense difficulty,
In French organs the situation at Port Arthur leaves all experts serene. The Figaro (Paris) says the Russians will not surrender the place, no matter how long the war lasts. It can hold out indefinitely, being provisione for months, Admiral Togo's bombard. if not for years.
The Thibet Mission. Reuter's correspondent at Gyantsze wires that the armistice being ended, the British stormed and captured the Tibetan fort after a fierce resistance. The casualties were not numerous. Lieut. Gardon of the 3and Sikhsments make little impression. This assertion | |
is supported by statements in Austrian organs.. was killed.
The United States Presidenoy. The St. Louis convention has met. The nominations of Judge Parker for the sidency and of the eminent lawyer Mr. Tur ner for the vice-presidency are assured.
Russia.
change of climate and the assumption of steady fabour, combined with ignorance and careless. ness of living, have dire effects on health, These are what may be termed unavoidable incidences of environment, and are supple mented in effect by the usual diseases and effects of, mining and of barracking, or com pounding. That the net effect on the health of the native due to these disadvantage pay be lessened is clear enough, But so clear that to view the condition of unine native in the light of normal industrial employ. ment of a settled industrial population is ab surd." ..
In the mating age, the Ayrian Review goes on to remark, puis only natural that the natives, when questioned on the matter, should desire more pay. But "It would be just as absurd for a wealthy mining company to pay an abnormally high wage to the detriment of the industry as a whole, as it would be, for instance, for Mr. Rowntree to pay ten times the amount of the ruling wage to his chocolate employés, because he is ten times as rich as his neighbour."
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As to flogging, "those who have worked with and superintended native labour will recognise that occasional force, wheres exercised without malice or malignity, is both expedient and beneficial"
LAD. TEBRAU PLANTING CO., LTD.
Following is the report for presentation to
WAGM PROFIT AND LOB ACCOUNT. May 1, 1903.
To Balance brought forward... To Coffee a/c. balance at debit.....
April 3, 1954. To Interest
To Hongkong office charges To Auditor's les ...... To Exchange
· $49,134-35
April 30, 1904. By Transfer fees.....
7.75 By Suspense a/c. (calls paid on 16107
forfeited shares)
6.575.00 By Halance
43.551.60
$49.134-35
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers."
TO-DAY'S "EXCHANGE.
#Sallin
London-Bank T.T.
30 days sight San Francisco & New York 4 months' sight
probably extinct. Many ustralians are here; many more would leave their homeland to- 2,470.23 day, if only they could "make a rise;" if
Da demand only, that is, they could pick the winner of
Do. 4 months sight 46,128.02
be Melbourne Cup, or gain a prize in France-Bank T.T 455.15
Tattersall's sweep, or casually find a nugget, America-Bank T.T. 35-45 25.00 or, in fact, if they could find a means of leav Germany-Bank TT 20.50 ing home in some effortless but otherwise India T.T...
Do. demand legitimate way. The periodical discoveries of Shanghai--Bank T.T....... gold in various p rts of the country may be Japan-Bank T.T. fairly held responsible for the speculative Singapore-Bank T.T... spirit which is the dominant feature of the lava-Bank T.T.
"Baying Austrálian character. A land boom all but
months' sight L/G/ | beggated Victoria fifteen years ago; and
months' sight L/C, Victoria has shewn herself possessed of so little reserve of vitality, that up to this day she has not recovered from the shock of that mad speculation. These periodical discoveries of gold have largely contributed to the neg lect of settled pursuits. Farming and fruit culture are. poor things compared with the dazzling prospect of a rich alluvial find, and the chance of "making a rise" is far more alluring than a life of pludding industry. The discovery of sold in Ballarat in 1851 was immediately followed by such a disorganisation of social and economic conditions as is proba- bly without parallel in the history even of gold mining. Melbourne cabmen received as "much ́n £5 for driving a miner a thousand yards; miners lit their pipes with bank notes. Domestic servants could be had for neither love nor money; tricked out in finery they
women fetched and carried water through the
I bave compared the above statement with the books at the head office and the accounts from Singapore and certify the same to be cor- rect
W. HUTTON POTTS,
llongkong, 29th June, 1904.
Auditor.
AUSTRALIA'S DECLINING.
POPULATION,
INCREASE OF EMIGRATION.
[By A. H.J.
"The Bishop of Ripon, the Right Reverend Dr. Carpenter, speaking on April 25th at Leeds,
The Neues Wiener Tageblatt shares the con- the sharebelders at the eighth ordinary general declared that the terrible increase of, fashion, followed the fortunes of the diggers. Gentle-
tempt of the Paris Figaro for the bombardments of Port Arthur. The bombardment factor is pre-subject of a careful study in the Revue de Paris by any anonymicus naval officer, who enters into mathematical calculations demonstrating. to his own satisfaction that Admiral Togo's
meeting, to be held at the Company's office, Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road, on Thursday, the 14th inst,, at noon;--
to the shareholders of Tebrau Flanting Com-
pany, Limited.
Gentlemen, We beg to lay before you our
a
able childless unions was reducing marriage to mockery. The danger affected the national safety by depriving the nation of 500 children week. The decline in the birth-rate was, he said, largest in Australia." The foregoing ap. peared as a cable message in an Australian
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streets of Malbourne. Many trades and cal lings were paralysed, and the general de moralisation was complete. Nothing as bad as this has recurred in connection with gold. mining in Australia, albough the condition of
deplorable.
guns need not agitate the residents of Port balance sheet for the year ending 30th April | newspaper. It was published with startling Coolgardie in the early nineties was sufficiently
Arthur. As a matter of fact, the band plays A. ukasé today calls out 447,302 men twice a week there, "the entire population liable to military service in accordance with gathering to listen to music," note the the conscription law, also all naval reservists London Standard. "One would hardly believe in European Russia for the purpose of com.that the town was practically in a state of seige." This, however, is from a St. Petersburg
pleting the complement of the Baltic ports.news despatch. The naval officer already It also calls out the reservists in the Southern mentioned quotes approvingly in the French provinces for Sevastopol.
publication the following opinion of the eminent military writer, General Borgnis-Desbordes:
(Straits Times.) Liberal Unionists.
London, 30th June. The Liberal Club has held a stormy meeting. It was decided by 1c8 la 64 votes to send representatives to a conference with the Liberal Union Council.
The Chairman of the Club subsequently resigned the membership.
The minority have agreed to secede in a body and to form a new free-trade organisation.
last. We also annex the report of our estate manager, Mr. Larken.
W. Hutton Potts.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers,
Hoogkong, 29th June, 1904.
headlines, and no sooner than the legislators
of the Commonwealth had themselves been The accounts have been audited in Singa-seized of the gravity of the situation as disclose pore by Mr. Evalt, and in Hongkong by Mr.ed by the report of the Commission which in- quired into the subject of the declining birth rate. In 1884 the population of the whole continent, with an area of 3,000,000 square miles, or one-fourth less than Earppe, was 4,000,000; to-day it stands at 3,500,000. The proportion is a trifle less than a square mile to each' unit of the population. It seems as if this huge tract of country, twenty-five times the size of the United Kingdom and abounding in natural resources, is yet incapable of support ing more than 3 million souls,
Johore, Singapore, 31st May, 1904, Messrs. Join D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers,
Tebrau Planting Company, Limited. Dear Sirs,- beg to report as follows on the Mount Austin Plantation during the twelve months ending 30th April, 1904.
"The bombardment by a squadron of a city on a coast will result in material ruins of a far less serious nature than is generally supposed. Such rains would entail, undoubtedly, the ruin of individual fortunes, thus reacting to some extent upon the finances of a government. But
Coffee. As I said in my last report, I found the damages would not be of a nature, we would not say to cause, but even to hasten in the least, it necessary to abandon the cultivation of the end of the struggle between the two great coffee in consequence of the small returns, Powers. In a ward, bombardment, in the owing to the spread of leaf disease; and our language of Napoleon, should be counted receipts from that source have merely been the for nothing. It will always be a subsidiary proportion paid by the coolies who worked it on their own account. This year they have and very perilous operation for the ships declined to go on with it as it no longer pays Leicestershire defeated Sussex at Brighton engaged in it. To succeed in isflict bg them so we shall have little more, as the coffee
serious damages, to be certain of putting an by 5 wickets.
trees are fast becoming overgrown with jungla. arsenal even temporarily out of condition for
Rubber. I am glad to say my expectations serving its intended purpose, would require a
as regards the yield and quality of the Para very prolonged bombardiment, necessitating the rubber have been fulfilled and we secured using up of the greater portion of the ammuni- during the twelve months 1,500 br of dried tion and equipment of the auxiliary armament
rubber. The three shipments made and sold in and heavy" ordnance of sume dozen war-ship. London have fetched on each occasion, the Even then, the result ordinarily to be obtained highest price of the market at date of sale, vit, would be poor, out of proportion to the great-4f9td., 4/6 d., and 5/d. per B for No. ness of the effort and the perils incurred.
Cricket.
Nottinghamshire beat Lancashire at Notting- ham by 330 runs.
Lancashire beat Somerset at Manchester by an innings and 136 runs.
Middlesex beat Surrey at the Oval by seven- wickets,
Princess of Wales' Stakes.--- London, 1st July, The following is the result of the race for the Princess of Wales' Stakes:
Rocksand.....
Saltpetre...
I
2
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"Hence we are led to conclude that, in general way, bombardment by a squadron is a military operation of the fourth or fifib class, making much noise for very little result, with- out real importance, without genuine object, without serious influence upon the issue of a Russian Warship at Newchwang. struggle between two great military Powers."
William Rufus ...............
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STORIES OF JAPANESE SUCCESS DENIED. Reater's correspondent at Newchwang re ports that the Russian destroyer Burukoff bad arrived one afternoon from Port Arthur and had, berthed alongside the Russian gunboat Stroutch.
The Commander of the destroyer denies the truth of the japanese reports about the sinking and damaging of Russian ships off Port Arthur on the 23rd June.
LLOYD'S "REGISTER”
"Biscuit" and 3/3 d. and 3/8d. per h for Scrap" I have not yet got the report of the last two shipments containing the yield of the trees from January to April, but I hope they will show equally good results.
We were also fortunate in selling a large number of young plants from seeds from our own trees to the Sultan, to the Johore Govern- ment and to some Chinese who are opening
THE PROBLEMS OF THE RAND. | plantations.
EFFECT OF THE CHINESE CONVENTION, The African Review deals with the native
problem in South Africa from several points of view. L'scussing the probable results of the Chinese Convention, the text of which was published on May zoth, it says:
"The aim of those who have the welfare of the country at heart-and not only the benefit of the mines-in supporting the Chinese Labour principle, is to provide an incentive and a competitor to the native in order that he' shall realise that the labour-market will not for ever await on his vagaries!... The danger the Kaffir runs in the new order is that he will be thrown back on his old life as employment becomes more difficult; but in view of the great number of labourers required to satisfy the full demands of the mines, of industry, and of the farming population, we think that for many years to come the bonest native worker
It would be incorrect to suppose that all those who emigrate represent the flotsam and jetsam of unthrift and vagabondage. These perforce remain in the country for want of means to leave it. Australia's emigrants are largely composed of craftsmen who may not work at home for lower wages than are fixed by the unions.
Very largely, also, they include miners, out of work because the development of properties, is checked by the costliness of union labour. Australian miners would have flocked to the Rand but for the importation of Chinese coolies. The Australian emigrant 18. a novel product of novel economic forces. Hitherto, emigration has followed overcrowding
of cause and effect belongs entirely to Australia. at home; the merit of destroying the uniformity Presently, the Australian emigrant should qualify for immortalisation in song, like the Irish emigrant who sat on a stile and thought
of Mary-Ex.
THE KUNLON FERRY ROUTE
TO. CHINA.
5/16
30 days' sight Sydney und Melboume......1/10
months' sight Frates.. 6 months' sight 4 months' sight Germany ..................... Bar Silver
tank of England tale
1.937
#
OPIUM QUOTATIONE. To-day's quotuviuiwere us tellows
Maiwa New
Old... Older
Per chest 9401980
080/1,160
Oldest..
ato
1,337-
Old .....
'1,740
1.345
85880
Patna New
Benares New...
Old
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Co-day's Advertisements.
HONGKONG HOTEL
DINNER.. 'TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), 9th July,
MENU.
Hoxя D'OBUVRES, Shrimp Canapes.
SOUP. Potage Parmentio,
FISH.
Salmor a la Parisienne.
ENTREES Pigeon Pic. Veal Steak and Grilled Tomatoes. York Ham a la Jardinier.
CURRY.
Crab,
JOINTS.
Roast Ribs of Beef,
Roast Chicken and Celery Sauce. Boiled Ox Tongue and Caper Sauce, COLD, Roast Leg of Mutton and Plain Salad.
SWEETS.
Victoria Pudding.. Chocolate, Ice Cream and Genoa Cake. Apricot Tart. Tipsy Cake.
THE
Coffee.
DESSERT.
Fruits.
PUBLIC AUCTION
[811
tions to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,
Undersigned have received instruc
It is strange how quietly British merchants seem to have acquiesced in the idea, promül.. gated at the time of his visit to Burma by Lord Curzon, that it would be a useles expense pro- longing the Burma Railways from the Northern Shan states to the Kunion ferry, because of the insignificant amount of trade that might be expected after the line had been laid. It is not in this spirit that Russia lays down her rail- ways, and had the same policy prevailed in Africa, we should not now have placed Uganda (SATURDAY), the 9th July, 1904, at 11 AMş in communication with the sea. The British Government being composed of men who are not traders, it is difficult for them to recognise the importance of commercial matters. The Kunion ferry itself is not perhaps a place where there is much trade at the present time. But is close to the Chinese frontier, and we may be certain that if it were within railway com.
at their
Sales Rooms, Ice House Street, SUNDRY
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
Comprising:
DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON BED. STEADS with MATTRESSES, CHEST-OF- DRAWERS, ICE CHEST, AMERICAN LEATHER-COVERED CHAIRS and SOFA, DINNER SERVICE, &c., &c.;
Unfortunately, the subject of a declining birthrate may not be too frankly discussed io the columns of a newspaper even in the name of common sense. As Mr. G. K. Chesterton somewhere says, we may not openly discuss the two problems life which most concern us, birth and death, because it is indelicate to speak of the one and morbid to refer to the other. It is, however, permissible to say that the populistic view of marriage, if it ever was more than an academic theory, is now entirely obscured by intimate considerations of personal and family convenience. We have left a long way behind us the time when a cradle was an indispensable item of a bride's equipment. It is a commonplace paradox that population has ever shewn a tendency to decline side by side with a high standard of comfort. The in frequency of wars in our time has dissolved the view that the security of a state depends upon its ever increasing population, a theory which Napoleon exaggerated in a brutal suy- ing that it was the first duty of Frenchwomeu to breed soldiers. Traces of it, however, survive in the royal custom of granting boun- ties to mothers who give birth to triplete, and in the treatment of a would-be suicide as a criminal. Not a great many years ago the body of a suicide, with a stake driven through it, was buried at the intersection of four cross- roads. Posthumous obloquy was the lot of munication with Rangoon, it would rapidly the suicide for having destroyed a life that was develop into a place of considerable commer not his own but the state's, and his estate cial importance. Russia, France, and Germany became forfeited to the government. America are doing all they can to push their Chinese with her passion for arresting headlines, brands trade, and England should certainly not be her unprogressive birthrate as "race suicide," behind hand in securing what she can. Thers against which President Roosevelt last year are so doubt more remunerative railway pro- uplifted his voice; while the latest home papers jects within our own territories which are now publish statistics showing that marriages in being taken in hand. But the extension of the MADE SUITS, &c. the United Kingdom are manually decreasing Burma Railway system to the Kunton ferry is in number-not, probably, "improvident" of political importance, and would also, if it marriages, but marriages amongst the classes
were taken in hand probably prove remunera- which, having adopted a high standard of live in a few years. As a recent writer has personal comfort, cannot afford to marry observed:-"The wars of the future will be for.
But a declining birth-rate is only a part of markets; they will be wars of necessity, or T Australia's trouble. For several years past rather, perhaps, prompted by the hope of Australians have been going abroad in increas material gain. Many of them will be fought ing numbers in search of a means of livelihood with other weapons than cannon and money. not readily obtainable at home. The persis Established commerce, a firm held of trade tent exodus is a source of the gravest anxiety routes, preponderance at a trading posts, effec (SATURDAY), the 9th July, 1904, at 2.30 P.M,
at their within her own shores. Whereas the populative occupation of a produce exchange-in the tion of the United States is at present sufficient struggle for markets these will be points of for all purposes, and the surplusage of the vantage worth more than battalions, and a short United Kingdom may be found scattered all railway may be of greater value than a fleet of the world over, Australia's need has ever been
battleships-Rangoon Times. population, and for many years she has en- deavoured, with only partial success, to attract it by every expedient of advertising. The Profit and loss a/c, balance ai debit 43,551.60 great majority of immigrants have always.
Mount Austin Plantation is in first rate order and the trees are all that can be desired. I hope in July to considerably increase the out- put as I shall be able to begin tapping a good many more trees.
I remain, dear sir, Yours faithfully,
M. LARKEN.
BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30TH APRIL, 1994. Liabilities.
Dr.
Capital Account:- 17,825 fully paid up shares
at $5 each
189,125.00 1,285 fully paid up shares
at $5 each..... 0.425.00
5.95.55000 Mortgage of estate to C. F. Marshall 10,000.00 Account payablé maram 3,600.00 $109,150,00 Cr.
Lloyd's Register for the first quarter of 1904 shows that there were registered 398 ships of nearly a million tonnage gross under construc- tion in the United Kingdom, excluding war- ships. Of the latter there were 74 of 377.115 tons building, and only four of these were for foreign Governments, including the two 16,000- tor battleships Barrow and Elswick are build ing for Japan, Great Britain has ten battleships and eleven first-class cruisers building besides numerous smaller craft. Private yards have more than two-thirds of the contracts and Bar-will easily find occupation. The mere fact of Buildings ......
row is constructing 13 submarines. Accord ing to foreign returns received up to the time of publishing, Germany was the most active foreign ballder, having 73 vessels building the United States 63 Contrary to the usual custom France was building no sailing ships at all, but Italy and Sweden each had ten ander construction. The Fish mercantile construction showed an increase in tonnage over the first quarter of 1903 at a decrease in the number of ships. The Colonies were the largest customers for British-bul kehips, taking 21, Norway coming next with nine. Glasgow
and Newcastle were the busiest centres.
the
more natives offering their labour on market than the market requires will automati- cally have the effect of restricting Chinese im- migration with all the expense and the respon sibilities entailed in the process."
Reviewing the progress of the Chinese. Labour movement, the African Review con- cludes that "nothing can be more plain than the gradually growing conviction of the Trans- saal people that recourse to Asiatic labour is both expedient and innocuous. Ordinance is framed to the end that, with all the benefits derivable from a reliable labour supply, none of the evils which leavened the result in other parts will operate in the Trans vaal"
L
The
AT a meeting of the Singapore Legislative, A great deal is being said about the heavy Council on 1st inst., Mr. Tan Jisk Kim put the death-rate in the Rand Mines. The subject is following question "Whether the Govern; discussed in some of the medical paperi. The ment is aware that the action of the Transydal Medical Press, for instance, does not hesitate to Government in recruiting Chinese labour in assert that the returns are a blot upon the South China, whence the whole of the labour national escutcheon," The Sanitary Record supply for this Colony and for the Federated | says: Theoretically, we proclaim that all Native Sister in-drawn,' is likely to cause as men are brothers; practically, the treatment. most serious injury, and, if so, what steps are meled out to the native races is often worse being taken by the Government to protect our than that given to the lower animal." The interests?""'The Colonial Secretary said the African Review, on the other hand, points out. "Government 'was alive to the detion of the that the surrounding circumstances are such
Transvaal Government in introducing Chinese that the mortality is bound to be high into South Africa, and was aware that it was
"The pati
patives depart from their homes likely to affect this Colony and might lead to | and are received at the mines, indiscri
was in contemplation to minately. The long journey with very difficulty appoint a special officer to watch proceedings little, food, tells upon the weaker kort, and and report to the Government in this respecte aggravalos disouse... Then, in many cases, the
some
1
Assels.
:
..$ 50,000,00
Property Account:— Purchase price of old Company's
property rubber plantation....... 10,846.16
Tools ........
288.38 Cash in hands.
26.30 in Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank · 419.41 with estate mana
447.67
with general
managers...
2,461.45
WORKING ACCOUNT COFFEE. May 1, 1903. To Balance brought forward
April 30, 1901,
By Proceeds of Coffee
Balance transferred to profit and
loss account......
· WORKING ACCOUNT, RUBBER, May 1st, 1903.
2,10902
3.354.84
gravitated to the large centres of population, $109,150.00 and half a dozen of the most important of them account for one-third of the whole population of the country. The solitude and $47,083,23 remoteness of the bush are the immigrant's last reluctant resort when pressure of com- $47,083,23
petition in the cities has forced him to seek $95.21 them. The inducement to linger in populous centres is principally offered by the extravagant 46,128.02 wages fixed by the trade unions. But as high $47,083,23 wages mean small profits and fewer workmen, every Australian city is burdened with an army. of unemployed who' habitually importuse the $6,897,51
government for work. Immediately after the Boer war several thousands of Australians sail- To Wages...
2,374-75- #Salaries, manager for 12 months 3,60100 ed for South Africa. According to the latest
Charges.
358.31 returns 16:570 more persons left Victoria then Carrived there. Doubtless they did not all go to $13,239 57 Bouth Africa. Many of them might have gone over to the "Golden West," which ever since the discovery of its 'auriferous areas has 'con- tinued to strip the other states of population; others have gone to the Argentine, where $2,384-4 10,846.16 twelve years ago an attempt was made to found an Australian settlement on strictly $13,75237. communistic lines, but which by this
To balance brought forward...
April 30, 1904.
April 30, 1994.
By Proceeds of sale
plants Proceeds of sale Erubber
$959.49
5,425.01
Balance Carried forward
COMMERCIAL.
: Quotations for the week close as follows:
Hongkong Banks $660 s. £67 10 Nationals
36 b.
Union Insurance China Traders Cantons
Hongkong Fires China Fires
3
4 545 5
64 b.
212 5.
310.8, & b.
38 sa. & S. HK.C.& Macao Steamboats 29 s.. Indo-Chinas
17. China and Manilas......... 25 b. Douglases
Star Ferries (old) Do.(new)
Shells Transports China Sugars Rauba
H.K. & Whampoa Docks Wharves
Farbams
Hongko
West Hongkong
36 334 b.
ALSO Ona COTTAGE PIANO by W. Robinson & Co. 3 FOWLING PIECES, $ PHOTO- GRAPHIC LENSES;
**AND
A Great Assortment of WHITE and COLOURED SHIRTS, COLLARS, READY
TERMS:-As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 8th July, 1904.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.: THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
* TO-MORROW,
- Sales Rooms, Ice House Street, The remaining: portion of the very fine collection of OLD and RARE POSTAGE STAMPS unsold on the 18th June last.
TERMS :—As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1994.
1807
FROM HAMBURG," PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE HA. L. Steamship
"SITHONIA,"
Captain Hildebrandt, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby. requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless- notice to the contrary be given before. TO- DAY
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods: have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 15th instant will be subject to rent
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the Igih instant) at s P.M.
No Fire Insurance
HAMBU
Hongkong, 8th
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