TELEGRAMS.
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The War.
BRITISH CRITICS ON RUSSIAN STRATEGY.
LONDON 11th September.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1904.
THE WAR:
HJAPAN'S SUIGILE",
COMMENT OF THE TROOPS NEWSPAPER.
AT ANCHOR IN HONGRONG,
A PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION,
Black and terrible and threatening is the sky, The Russian troops at the front have their Over the heights of Hongkong the storm own newspaper, the Vinilnik Marichursko blankets the summit with dense rolling clouds. A remarkable change is occurring in Great Arail, that is Messenge" of the Manchurians if every furnace of Hades were ding Britain relative to the tapacities of the bel Army. Such an opublishe at the very inkiness over the island. It is going to tain.. overtime and every, smoke-stack spewing its ligerents; the tendency hitherto has been to front, night to be ab eiu give the troops some There is no doubt about that; and if all the despise Russian strategy, but critics now devond reading in a number which has just astronomers in the Fast and all the barometers clare that they must modify their previous arrived, the "Suicide of Japan" is discussed as
and weather-charts say otherwise, they, lia.. opinion regarding the prospects of the cam follows: Before the eyes of the whole world.
Green and yellow, and gold on black": "graudy as butterflies on a summer day,
Sampins are 419 purgeon
pushing off from the quay filled with washerwomen. They are making for the shipping, and we-well, we shail welcome them. There are wome plights than being at anchor
DEVELOPMENT OF EGYPT.
VAST IRRIGAT ON PROJECT.
COMMERCIAL
Shangbai'adviceu, of 7th insti, stale – Busi- ness reported:Shanghai and Hongkew WhatS at Tis, 155 Indo-Chinas at Tls, 86 cash, Tis. 36/861 for September, Tis, 871 for October and Tis 88/90/91/90/90 for December. Fam- bam Boyds at Tis, 181 for September Sumatras Tls. 6, for October. Maatschappijs. at Tls. 315 Cash, and Tls, 370 for October, Gas at Tis: 99. Gas Debentures at Tis. 94.
Business done direct-Shanghai and Hong: kew Whaifs at Tla. 162 for December. Tugs "Ord" at Tls, 46 " Pref.”, at "Tis. 44. Indo
To-day's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com Fairy will be held at the Company's Officer, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th September, at Noon,; for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1904.
HE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
paign and for the first time there seems to Japan has been committing an honourable ofit Great drops ns big as a giant's tears peck (or Public Works in Egypt, is an elaborate Chinas at Tis. 86 cash, 85/86) for September, will he CLOSED from the 19th to the 28th "
be a doubt as to thatcome. The Daily
Pat! pat! pill pat! pat! There is the first Sir Willians Garstin, Under-Secretary of State A Blue-book on the condition of Egypt, by
ments, where yesterday the sun beat down hot ing at the dusty road and mottling the pave-treatise on the Nile basin, and is illus rated
· Telegraph says that Marshal Oyama has open. Japan keep on sending its divisions and and fierce-fierce enough to fuse a Brahmin's with numerous photographs, maps, and plans, Fla. 881 89 90 for December, Farnham Boyds
been completely foiled by General Kuropat kin's indomitable tactics.
The Tzar has called out fresh reserves from za of the Odessa districts, and one cate goty of reserve officers throughout the Em- pire.
A correspondent at the front estimates the combined Russian and Japanese losses from the 26th August to the 5th September at from 60,000 to 70,000.
months, that is, harikari. With its eyes wide suicide with infitxible stub'omness for five
ships to the slaughterhouse, for it prefers to he bled to deaths in war and to die of hunger at home rather than to take thought and pull itself up so that it can ask, What is to come yet? What hat Japan' succeeded in doing in five months? What has it gained and won? Ab solutely nothing. It has not advanced by one step nearer to viciory, but it has lost nearly the half of its Navy, and is now further of from the successful issue than ever bel re
skull.
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It must have been a day like this when Admiral Noah hoisted his flag on the Ark, and with the "Blue Peter" at the fore set out for the with a vengeance, and in five minutes the heights of Ararat. It is raining now, raining gutters will be deep enough to launch a simpan, Looking at the share is like looking through flood of tears. Everything is blurred and indistinct. The awnings are sodden and jast,
a
Lord Cromer sends a covering dispatch, which will be referred to below.
Sir William Garstin and his staff have been
Pls, 861/47) for October. Tis. 87 for November,
it Tls. 180 cash, Tia. 1828 for September, Tis. 183 for October, Tls. 187 for December. Lands ut Tis. tr. ei-hai-wei Golds at $22, Maatschappijat Tie, 317 for September and Tis. 330 for December. Colonies at Tis. 19- Gas at Tia. 94 Debentures.
for American oil and the Asiatic Petroleum
studying the Upper Nile for five years, and the whether the supply of water brought down to object of this prolonged inquiry is to find out
gypt by the great river can be increased, and, GENERALLY speaking, the oil bin iness of Japan if so, by what means. The problem, is to im is in the hands of the Standard Uil Company prove the channel of the White Nile in such a way that it will add to the Lower Nile flood Cempas y (a British combination representing mporters of Russian, Borneo and Sumatra season. At present as much as 80 per cent. of oils. Last year's trade has shown an increase the vast quantity of water that flows from of 117,000 cases in actual deliveries of Russian Lakes Victoria and Albert into the White Nileil, whereas Ainetican ail appears to have lost is lost on its passage through the swamps be. ground to the extent of 285,000 cases. tween Lado and Fashoda.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company September, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, - Hongkong, 13th September, 1904. [1031
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[R. H. RUTTONJER'S S "ORES, pen TOMORROW, except between 6 A.M. Hongkong and Kowloon, will not be are. Asa, on account of the PARSEE. NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY. Customers are kindly re
Moreover, Japan is trying to carry out exactly and the decks deserted and desolute. Great and also carry more water during the dry Dutch, Russian and British interests), who arequested to get their supplies any time between
The Antarotic Expedition.
that plari of war which we have expected, and The Antarctic, and the Discovery have for the destruction of which we have made all arrived at Portsmouth, A number of scient preparations. Japan continues stubbornly to ists welcomed their return and civic recepwards that des ruction which awalts it in the force is way into Manchuria and to run to tions were held in Portsmouth, to be follow-
narrow defiles and ravines of that country ed by similar receptions in London. The The Japanese Generals, Kuroki and Oku, are King has ordered a special medal to be struck repeating the fateful mistakes made by Charles in recognition be successful enterprise. !
XII. and by Napoleon in pushing their arra Massacre in German New Guinea,ies over more and more inland and away from The natives have massacred five Roman the sea, which so far has been their only base, Catholic Fathers and Sisters of Charity in and upon which even now they are beginning New Guinea. A design to massacre all the to be punished." whites was frustrated. Sixteen natives have been executed.
́ST. JOSEPHP'S COLLEGE.
'DR JOSHUA LEAYING HONGKONG,
streams of Indian ink run down the backs of the Chinese firemen as they come up from below and run like mats to the shelter of the foc'sle
Two or three sampans cling on to the wetted sides of the tramp for protection. Others move over the face of the waters like phantom thing..
Little children pull at the sweeps as if their hearts would break. The youngest is strapped to its mother's back like a rabbit skin oa a fence-post, and the mother steer, rows, holds the sheet, sings, shouts and invokes the god of
sjarms to retire,
PROPOSED NEw channel.
Sir William Garstin proposes to cut an en- tirely new channel for the river, over 200 miles long, to the eastward of its present course, and thus avoid the marsh country, which "has an aspect of desolation beyond the power of words
to describe." He would also regulate the out- flow from the lakes by dains. Alternatively, f this scheme proves to be too costly or difficult,
he would train the channel known as the Babr-el-Gebel by damming the tributaries and
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To-day's Advertisement.
THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
[OTICE, IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Hongkong Steam Water Boat Company, Limited, will be held at the REGISTERED OFFICES of the Company, No. 37, Connaught Road, Victoria, in the Colony of longkong, on THURSDAY, the 22nd day of September, 1904, at 12 Novn, for the purpose of
joined special Resolutions,
the bours mentioned.
H. KUTTONJEE,
No. 5, D'Aguilar Street,
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowlobu. Hongkong, 13th September, 1904, 173
| NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEESA
"THE CARGO for Hongkong ex S.S. "PRINZ
rock near Point de Galle, has been forwarded from Singapore by the 5.5. "SACHSEN," due here on or about THURSDAY, the 15th inst., AM. Consignees are required to sign an Avər...... age Bond, and Bills of Lading will only be countersigned after a deposit of 5 per cent. of
office.
Beneath the awnings, that drip like a cheap ANOTHER ALLEGED RUSSIAN ATROCITY,
macintosh, lounges the chief engineer oo a An officer, who was wounded in a battle at a deck chair, smoking in a clay pipe and tobacco "certain place," and who recently arrived at that is stronger than the faith of a Methodist. Hiroshima, gives particulars of another atrocity This man is short and thick with a great Scotch said to have been committed by the Russians.head and a hard practical Aberdeen face, a face of miles. By either plan he believes that be considering and if thought fit passing the sub- fhe value of the Cargo has been made at our.
On the 27th ultimo, says the officer, the made up of logarithms and revolutions. He is Japanese artillery severely bombarded a There are many people in the Colony who certain Russia fort from early morn till late will learn with regret that Brother Joshua, at night, but, nevertheless, the fort still held 'Director of St. Joseph's College, is about to bid out. Ensign Komagene, with twenty-nine by the French mail steamer Ernst Simons, on position. The party approached close to the farewell, to Hongkong whose shores he leaves men, was sent at night to reconnoitre the Tuesday next.. Although it is but three years fort, and found the Russians to be in strong since he first came to the Colony, Br. Joshua force, there, and as they were reconnoitring has now gathered around him a large circle of a detachment of Russians suddenly sallied friends, not only among those more intimately forth and attacked the Japanese scouts. associated with the work of. St. Joseph's College, but in that larger sphere of usefulness, outside of the institution, where his helping hand and sterling advice will be sorely missed. His labours in the Orient, extending over a
wide ares, bave kept him busily engaged, with
As a result nine of the Japanese were killed and all the rest were wounded, white Ensign Komagane was taken prisoner and conveyed to the fort. After the fort was captured by the Japanese, the body of Ensign Kamagane was found inside in a terribly mutilated condition,
not of the kid-gloved. breed, says a writer in the P. M. G., but a man who loves to live amid the music of the engines--a man who can take
mind him racketing her rivets loose. ten thousand tons snorting down the waterway at twenty knots, or an extra knot if you don't curses the skipper, the harbour master, and He every one in turn for the delay. Another week means another knot off the speed. Already the plates crusted over like a bobpailed boot, and the chief is bewailing the fact like a Gipsy Hilt lady grieving over a Crystal Palace prize pup that has got i's feet wet.
The skipper is also Scotch-soft Scotch that is, he has the fear of the Almighty and two thousand coolies in his lily-livered heart.
He
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planting ambatch trees at intervals for hundreds
could add 50 per cent to the volume of the White Nile at Khartoum,
- Sir William Garstin also sketches great pro- jects for regulating the Blue Nile, at a point several hundred miles above Khartoum. For political reasons he sets aside the scheme for plateau and making it into a reservoir for damming Lake Tsana on the Abyssinian
Egypt's water supply. He would also dam the River Gash, which at present runs dry during half the year, and would thus irrigate the plain around Kassala.
AN ENDURING MONUMENT.
Should the said Resolutions be passed by for confirmation as special Resolutions to a the required majority they will be submitted Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated 13th day of September, 1904. -
By Order of the Consulting Committee,
J. W. KEW,
Manager.
but one brief interval, since 1855, when, he left his eyes having been gouged out and his body argues with the chief, and fears rebellion when may again be, and there are good grounds for authorised to adopt and ratify the said agree. |
bis native city adel, and a fond, taking Passage on a sailing vessel, had a four months' voyage to Penang, where he commenced his work in connection with the Brothers of the Christian
subjected to other barbarities, while bis sword, watch, and other personal property had been
taken from film..
the coolies get to sea. The chief chuckles at the idea, and vows that he could, if necessary, clear the whole of Manchuria as clean as plate with a steam pipe and hose. What could be not do then with a seething deck of rebel- tious coolies?
1. That it is expedient to acquire and take. over by way of amalgamation the business and undertaking of Messrs. Lane Crawford and Company of supplying fresh water to ships and vessels in the Harbour of Hongkong, and that the provisional agreement for the purpose sub. Sir William admits that the depopulation of mitted to this sleeting be and is hereby approv the Soudan will impede the progress of these ed and that the Manager and Consulting Com great works. But, he says, "what has once been initee of this Company be and they are hereby ment and to carry the same into effect and to anticipating an eventual return to prosperity... affix the Common Seal of this Company there a prosperity perhaps even greater than that to with full power to assest to any modifica. which excited the astonishment of Nero's envoystions in the agreement which they may think nearly nineteen centuries ago." "Those," he expedient in the interests of this Company euther before or after the adoption thereof, and continues, "to whom the privilege shall be
that if the said agreement becomes absolute granted of assisting towards this consummation the Consulting Committee be and they are here
Company to $150,00ch to be issued is fully und new shares of iio each to as paid up shares and to be allotted to Messrs. Lane, sale by them to the Company of their business of supplying fresh water to ships and vessels in the liärbour of Hongkong.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Co,
Agents.
Hongkong, 12th September, 1904. {ojp
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. -
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
HE Steamship
"GREGORY APCAR,": baving arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are bereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside, an
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense::
Cargo remaining on board after the 15th inst. at 4 P.M., will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon. Wharf and Godown- Co., Limited.
School, an institution which has spread to many would be extremely valuable in such'n case as The evidence of foreign war correspondents countries of the world. Ten years in that trying climate, to be followed by another this, but unfortunately these gentlemen are lengthy term in Singapore would tax the kept far in the rear, and their evidence is there- Since early morning I have watched then. will have a chance given to them such as self by empowered to increase the Capital of this PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE
fore not available-Role Chronicle.
constitution of most people, but Br. Joshua re-couperated by a short holiday in America and came on to Hongkong some three years ago "for a rest,” as he puts it. During the period of his Directorship he has been the carrying out of extensions to the College build.
THE RAID OF THE VLADI- VOSTOK CRUISERS.
EFFECT ON THE TRADE OF YOKOHANA.
the effect of the recent raid of the Vladivostok Oficial investigations have been made into
squadron on shipping near Yokohama; and the result (we learn from the Japan Goselle) is as follows;
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel
expense.
Twenty coolies all told shifting immense logs, dom fails to the lot of man. To rescue the Upper Nile from the marshes in which it has any one of which could support the Pyramids, lost half its valame; to control and regulate Crawford and Company in consideration of the will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and
the great Equatorial lakes, making them add to the flow of the river at will; to cause the waters of the Blue Nile to rise and irrigate the
secure to Egypt a constant and sulficient supply fertile tracts through which they pass; to for the entire area between the Cataracts and the Mediterranean; to free that country, from
1. That the Articles of Association be altered in the following manner
The following article shall be substituted for Article 63, namely:
They are great mammoth logs like you see lying in the Canadian North West, twenty yarde long and girth like an elephant. One would think fifty bullocks could not shift them, Number one is standing on the logs, and the That may be so, but twenty Chinamien can other sineteen are all in a row beside one of the fattest ones placing their six-foot poles in position. One end goes under the log, thethe ever-present danger of a disastrous flood Import Trade-During the period under re other on the coolie's shoulder. Number one view (the second ten days of July) 'six steam raises his hand, and shouts "Ho! oh! oh!" were to have entered Yokohama from and the nineteen poles begin to bend. At the Europe, three from Shanghai, three from Hong-"ob" the coolics start a quaint refrain: "Ho this sort, and no matter whether it be with the kong, one from Chémulpo, one from Rangoon oh oh oh oh! hi yah i̇'yah ¦ yah! hi yah 1/ endure long after all evidence of those erected exercise his said option in writing not los
inga now enlarged to quite twice their original size. The average number of scholars in at tendance is upwards of five hundred, and the institution generally improved in all its branches of instruction, Those who have had occasion to visit the College will have found its ener getic bead always busily engaged in the multi- farious dalies connected with an institution of
school duties, the entertaining of the scholars, or
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these are tasks worthy of comparison with any previously recorded in the world's history, and which, if sufficiently accomplished, will leave behind them a monument that will probably by an earlier civilisation shall have passed
away.
· AN ESTIMATE OF COST.
63. Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be the Manager of the business of the Company and shall be entitled to hold office for the term of five years from the 1st day of October, 1904, and he shall have the option at the expiration of the shid term of five years of being the for a further period of five years provided he Manager of the business of the said Company
than six months prior to the expiration of the said first term of five years. During the said term of five years and the further term of five pears the said Joseph Whiteley Kew may resign at any time upon giving to the Consul ing Committee six calendar months previous said Joseph Whiteley Kew shall once during the said term of five years and once during the further term of five years (if he shall then be Manager of the business, of the Company) be calendar months. The said Joseph Whiteley entitled to leave of absence for a period of six Kew while holding the said office shall (save as aforesaid) reside in Hongkong.
welcoming some distinguished visitor the tall and upright figurs of Br. Joshua could readily be discemed in the forefront rank of a band of willing workers. He intends proceeding as far as Colombo, where it is hoped he will at Yokohama during the period, having been marvellous, and give any raw-boned coolie you that the great scheme should be adopted gene notice in writing of his intention so to do. The
have a most enjoyable holiday, leaving the affairs, of St. Joseph's College in the hands of Br. Sylvester. We wish lira a pleasant voyage and every benefit from a hard-earned rest in Cayton.
·ST. FRANCIS CHURCH FUND:
The Rev. Fr... de Maria begs to acknow ledge, with thanks, the following donations:
Already acknowledged.....$1,515
P. H. M Mr. A. M. Blond
M. F*******
F Fernandez
M. Conception
Balance of "S. HI," fund
J. S. Murray!
V. McLoughlin
T. Harrington....
D. Doyle
J. Sinnott
Mr. A. Allen.
Mr. M. H.
J.L.
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H. HIT.
AJ Reed:
Jap. L-Stuart
Q. Gomez MrJE. Allen
Miss E. Allen..
JB. de Jesus
N. G. Nolan
C.J. Rodrig
W. O'Brien TAC
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one each from New York and San Francisco, and in a moment that battleship of a log creaks and six from other ports a total of 22 vessels, and rolls over, Chipamen must have studied Buting to the dangerous conditions present the laws of levers right back from the year one. ed to navigation, nine of them did not arrive Their knowledge of the application of power is detained at Kobe and elsewhere, while two choose a bamboo and piece of rope and he will others also failed to enter the port in con- and rther incidents. The Knight Comm wider
shift equally well a mountain or a fanatic's sequence of changes in the sailing schedules faith..
and the Arabia were regarded by the Vladivo stok Squadron as having on board contraband of war. The former was sunk and the latter taken to Vladivostok, "qanday
Expoit Trade-During the psriod under review altogether eight steamers were to have been despatched from. Yokohama, including 50 two for Enrope, three for American coasts, one 30 for Shanghai, and two for other
ports, On 25 account of the danger to navigators and also 25 in consequence of some other affairs, five of 15 these vessels did not leave the port, having 12 failed to arrive in the period. One steiner 10 was detained in port.
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Rain, rain, rain. It is not going to stop this time. There are the shipping clerks on the quay with their white duck suits hanging like wat paper bage. Richshaws swish by through the rivers of mud, and the victuals on the stalls At the side of the road are searly afloat. This is a good day for Hongkong, the rain will do what the sanitary man has left undone, and a walk through the Chinese quarter on a hot day will tell you what that may be.
In his covering dispatch, Lord Cromer agrees rally, though it cannot be carried out all at once. It would involve a total expenditure of £1,400,000-an Egpptain pound is worth os. 31d-of wl.ch E13,000,oco would be spent in the Soudan and £8,400,000 in Egypt The works would occupy at least from ten to fifteen years. Lord Cromer proposes, first of all, to spend 24,000 a year on further in vestigations by the Public Works Department, over which Sir William Garstin presides as Un. der Secretary. ile vext proposes to spend E5,400,000 as follows:-In providing Middle Egypt with perennialirrigation, ££1,000,000; is
raising thenew Assopandain, ££500,000; and in reorganising Egyptain railways, E3,000,000; in
retucelling the Rosetta and Damietta branches of the river, E930,000. Next, he would like in proceed with the proposed diversion of the
The following article, shall be substituted for article 66, namely →
Under these circumstances, the vessels a sampao sideways. To the destroyer it was White Nile into a new channel, at a cost of Managers shall be paid such a salary as the
10 which were detained elsewhere have begun to enter the port continually since the afternoon of to July 30th, and, accordingly, the foreign trade for the last ten days of fuly showed an increase of some 12:470,000 as compared with the preced ing ten days. The following is a comparative table
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like crocodiles on the face of the waters. They Across the barbour are the destroyers, lying came in this morning with their stumpy funnels spitting cinders at the sky, and logging about twenty knots up the straight! One of them hit like some one striking a mintch on her side. The man in the sumpan thought a horse had kicked him in the back, and, as the destroyer ripped away from him, he painted the water purple with language that nearly signed his pigtail.
The following aniele soall be substituted for article 76, namely
him on the Company's behalf.
66. As remuneration for his services the said Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be paid by the Company a salary of $500 per month payable on the last day of every month and he shall further be paid a yearly bonus of two and a
annual balance sheet. ball per cent on the net profit of the Company as shewn and declared by the Company's The said Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be entitled to his sald remuneration whilst on leave of absence. As remuneration for their services all subsequent
4,500,000. Anuther £9,000,000 would be General Meeting shall determine. Every Consulting Commitee or the Company, in needed for the regulation of the great lakes, the Manager shall be re-imbursed out of the Com construction of barrages between Assiout and pany's funds all meneys properly expended by Kench, and the perennial irrigation of Upper Egypt. The estimated result of these works would be to give water all the year round to By the ferry two chows sit in the stocks and 750,005 acres which now have only a partial wo little Europeans with sticks are finding out supply; to bring water by pumps to 100,000 which is the most sensitive spot on the sale of acres; and to add 800,00 acres to the area The Chinamien's feet. The two prisoners kick and under, cultivation. The increased revenue 213,125 wriggle like a brace of rock wallaby in a man- from taxation would amount to LE1,205,000 for trap Close by is six-foot-three of Sikh police Egypt alone. Lord Cromer hopes to finish with a black, curly beard shioning like a patent the Suakim-Berber Railway by 1906 at a cost of boot. Some of the coolies on the quay crowd E1,750.00 He would then go on with the round and threaten him. Ho seizes the pear- Kassala irrigation, to bring 100,0Lo acres under est pigtail and twists it quickly rounds his wrist, cultivation, at a cost of about £Eg'an acre, thus the unfortunate owner feeling as if bis quede increasing the revenue from land tax by had caught in the wheel of a motor car. LE50,00. The other schemes might be left Overbend is a patch of blue sky looking like till later. Lord Cromer points out that they a smudge of Reckiti's' on a sheet of brown would fertilise a million acies of land, and add paper. The blue is spreading and the brown 000 to the Soudan revenue. *-* 10 fact, Article 8a shall be cancelled.
disappearing. To ten minutes the rain has her adds, the only hope of rendering the pered 81 to 122 for reference accordingly.
TB The remaining articles. 83 to 123 ba renum- ceased, and Hongkong looks like a newly Soudan ultimately self-supporting lies in the finished oilypicture, Ap, hour age the streets | Judicious expenditure of capital on railways and were practically deserted, but now the pave- irrigation. As to how the capital, will ments - are alive with chattering coolica, obtained, Lord Cromer is reticent.? Wealthy Chinese merchants stand outside deal will depetid upon the ultimate results their doors,, arrayed in silk of priceless value, the internat
ations now improgt
Last ten days, Second ten days, increase.
Jutyc
July,
Imports...3,070,975 2,857,820 *Exports... 5,045,920 2,783,864
1,684
Tota
report as to
domestic.
The sup trade is omitted,
REPOR
which has reached St. Petersburg, yra San-Francisco cable of 9th inst., for assault on the -inast, fortifications at Fort irically connected with ang under a body of looses are placed {1,0 0 of which 700 ere killed outright
Chefoo reports stats that Japanese troope bave been **
'withdrawa
Artbur
the
about 2,000 Japan in the neighbourhoo
were
Port Arthur and the vigour which characterized the earlier stages of the siege is slackening,.
76. There shall be a Consulting Committee consisting of not less than two or more than four members of the Company. Alfred Hof land Skelton, a member of the firm of Lane, Crawford and Company, or in case of his death, or absence from Hongkong one of the mem bets of the firm of Lane, Crawford and Com pany for the time being, shall be a permanent member of the Consulting Committee and shall be entitled to retain office so long as Messrs. Labe, Crawford aud company holds not less than 1,020 shares in the Company, S It shall be for the Company in General Meeting to determine who shall be the remain ng members for the time being of the Con alting Committee and they shall be appointed once in every year by the Company in General Meeting.
in article B (or as renumbered B3) the words The sum of $500 each per annum whilst holding office shall be substituted for
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, tath September, 1904-
Intimation.
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THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
"BLACK&WHITE
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.
SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERY. By Appointment to
EM. THE KING
HRH the PRIN ALESS
Supplied
the words "Shall not exceed 5750-per-anoum", and; HOTEL “to be divided between, the stydza.
thereof in such manner, aa they shall agree
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