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晓十二月六年一十三精光
The Hongkong Telegraph
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1905.
AGAINST BEACHCOMBERS.
(15th July.)
MAIL SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED" 1881.).
SATURDAY, JULY 22 1905.
which, while it brought in some return to the Government and did not interfere with the labour market, taught the vagrants a useful lesson which could afterwards he tum ed to account. But that is perhaps too Utopian an idea to bear fruit in Hongkong. The main object of the authorities is to clear the colony of beachcombers. It is safe to predict that the character of these new re gulations will effect that purpose, and once free from the fraternity its not likely that they or their prototypes will again make their appearance in Hongkong.
WHITE GLOVES
(17th July.)
六年禮
313 PER ANNUM.
號二月七英香, SINGLE COPY, 25 CENTS./
funds had to be considered. It has been sald with the object of gaining the support of the you have any grievance, then here is my that "a good school is always a mancy-using Government in petitioning the Cable Com name and address, and the Company can sometimes a money-losing, but rarely, if panics to reduce the rates between Great suc me." That, is to say, he should do ever, a money-making enterprise" And Britain and Australia, India, and China. Sir nothing himself but leave it to the Company when it lasted that the income of the David Sassoon declared thatthe cable rates to to take whatever action they might consider College' from students last year fell short of West Africa were ridiculously high; the meeting the full expenses by $16,027,65 it rates to China were absurd; and even the will be recognised that the money question 50 per cent, reduction on the Indian Tariff was of varicolaiderable importance. The was not sufficient in view of the increasing Trustees took to rain subscription number of telegrams which were being sent the sum 200,000 gold, and of that and received at both ends of the cable. Mr. amount do gold has already been Austen Chamberlain referred to the general collected a yeated for the benefit of the principles laid down by Lord. Balfour's com- Collegek of erecting a permanent mittee, and held that the real function of home for the pitage was therefore started, these cable concessions which the Govern- and on Thurdast the cornerstone was ment gave was to furnish opportunities of laid in position. That ceremony marks an correcting any marked unreasonableness on epoch in the educational life of the Kwang the part of the Cable Companies. He glad tung province. It indicates the rapid addened the hearts of the Indian representa
The portage on the weekly iwas in any part of the though they take no steps to earn that liv. that the second Assize over which the Chief vance which has been made in the modern- tives by stating that there would be a further dance of time on his hands. The sugges
world in 80 conta per quattar.
fre cents.
CONTENTS.
Births, Marrlagos and Deaths.
Leading Articles:-
Against Beachcombers. White Gloves.
Education in Canton.
Cable Rates to Europe. Pardoned and Banished.
Obiter Dicium.
Pacific Trade to China,
Britain's Exclusion Bill.
Class Distinctions in Hongkong.
Telegram-
S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co. The Occupation of Saghalien.
Meeting:→
The Hongkong Electric Co., Lid.
Legal Intelligence:-
Car Conductor's Action,
A. The Luxuries of a Wife,
Maiden Criminal Sessions,
Board and Lodging,
Hongkong Becretu.
New Territory Land Action.
Steam-Launch Case.
A Hongkong Bankruptcy,
Hongkong Debtors.
Polloo,
a
can learn, this is the seventh occasion on
it
of
a
a
but
certain age should travel free, If they were carried by their parents or nurses, but they must not occupy a seat. The card empty and the parents allowed the child
justifiable. The passenger may be wrong, and should that be proved to the passenger's satisfaction he would undoubtedly prefer to make good the difference without flying to Court. But even supposing the, passenger were in the right, surely it could not be held for a minute that he is entitled to stop the An unenviable reputation has been gained
tramcar at any police station and detain by Hongkong as the home of the wanderer,
everybody else in that and every other car the ne'er-do-well and the vagrant--more
while he settles his squabble with the con- | familiarly known as the beachcomber. For
ductor. The traffic would be utterly de years, Hongkong has apparently been the
moralised pending the arrangement of a final resort of those whose first and last plea
It is peculiarly gratifying to record the fact
petty dispute between a conductor and a is that the world owes them a living, al-
passenger, who probably had a superabun. ing. Periodically, batches of the more Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, will preside to deserving have been helped to leave the morrow will be signalised by the presentation of the Chinese character. In a pro-reduction in the rate between England and tion of the Puisne Judge that in satch cases Slagle Copics, Daily, ten cents: Weekly, twenty. Colony, but no sooner has one lot been sent of a pair of white gloves in token of the disaffection towards foreigners, the quiet, yet word-but there was no mention of China. give his address and refer everything to the vipce which was once the very hotbed of India from half a crown to two shillings the passenger should calmly present his card, away to try their luck in new fields than the city like Victoria, the hive of a most hetero-produced a revulsion of feeling, which is has retarded the reduction of rates there. It But people are very prone to believe that maiden innocence of the community. In a enduring labours of the educationist have The action of the Australian Government Company is clearly the right course to adopt. average is maintained by the influx of new gericous population, and the sanctuary of found not only among those who are in would seem then that merchants in the Far their grievance is of such supreme inport. claimants to the world's charity. Seamen,
many social outcasts and lepers from other position to appreciate the value of the new engineers and stokers have beesme are countries, the liability to sudden outbursts spirit, but has even penetrated to the lower convenience and expense which high cable until it base bave been told that is use East will have to continue suffering the in-ance that heaven and earth must stand still offenders in this respect. The seamen have of criminal violence and felonious practices classes who vaguely realise the desirable rates bring in their train. During the past again people have been told that it is use- "jumped" their ship because they could not is ever to be feared. The antagonistic in- endure the fand provided, ar they had someterests of a great majority of the popula- changes which are being accomplished by year the. Cable Companies have received less to take the law into their own hands, but grievance against the officers. Engineers tion have also to be considered and building will accommodate, we are told, Russo-Japanese war,
the American teachers. The new College enormous payments as the result of the even those who might be suspected of know- and firemen found themselves on the beach the fact that a large proportion of the nearly 300 students; and to show that there use the cables are not to beacht. The as readily is anybody else. The law may be for a variety of reasons-they lost their boat, people have beets reared in a condition of no lack of candidates for admission it has rapid extension of cable lines by foreign a "hass," but it is generally foolish to fight those who ing something about the law fall into the pit or they had taken French leave, or they were tired of the sea and found Hongkong order is also calculated to work for evil. Yet possible to raise the standard of the pre- companies is the most promising feature of to be in the right it is as a rule the bette mute opposition to established law and only to be stated that the Faculty have found competitors and particularly by American against it. Even when one belleves himself pleasant place, for a time, in which to live Victoria can establish a claim to comparative liminary examination, so that matriculated the situation. The next reduction in the policy to accept the position and smile un indiscriminate charity. Whatever the immunity from serious crime which many denis may start on a much higher plane cable rates to China may justly be attributed pleasantly. A case illustrating this vi cause of their position, they invariably be another town in this and other parts of the study thats was perhaps originally con- to that cause-alone, just as the reduction occurred in Sydney recently, and is reported came in the end a public burden. If they world might reasonably cavy. So far as we templated. The results achieved by the in 1993 was recognised by the Hongkong in the latest Sydney papers to hand. A found a philanthropist-and there are more philanthropists in Hongkong than would be which the Chief Justice of Hongkong has College in the past have been altogether Chamber of Commerce as being due to the tramcar passenger refused to pay a fare for believed--they would journey to Singapore had the pleasant duty of accepting from the address at the laying of the corner-stone, It may not be a patriotic view, but the fact regulations provided that children under a satisfactory Consul General Lay, in his construction of the Pacific line to Manila. a child occupying a seat in the car. The and take that town by storm. The dump. Registrar a pair of white gloves. In Novem emphasised the benefits which the Chinese remains quite clear that the commerce of ing of Hongkong beachcombers in neigh ber last, it fell to the Registrar, Mr. Arathon will derive from increased facilities for the Far East will have to look to foreign bouring ports aroused much indignation, Seth, to present Sir Henry Berkeley, then obtaining advanced education, and very pro: competition in the laying of cables if they and Singapore especially has repeatedly pro- the Chief Justice of the Colony, with the tested against the practice. But nothing traditional emblem of purity so far as the Perly cited the example of Japan, which has hope to get another reduction in the cable could be done with this class of people in criminal bench is concerned. The first re-sprung into the forefront of nations solely charges.
to occupy a seat, contrary to the rules; and Hongkong. As a rule, they found themselves corded maiden sessions in the history of through her recognition of the principle that
when the conductor demanded a fare for the rebuffed when they started to look for work, Hongkong occurred in August, 1873. The education and progress go together. He also PARDONED AND BANISHED. and eventually they gave up the effort, and
child the passenger in charge of the child refused payment. Then the law was put lived by preying on the good-temper of the second occasion was in 1877. Then four-suggested that a school of technology should be included in any scheme of education in teen years elapsed until there was a clean China. There is no doubt that China people in Hongkong. Should they be caught sheet before the sessions; in 1891 Mt. (now remains undeveloped largely owing to the years' imprisonment for being guilty of es
Captain Bougouin, who was sentenced by into motion for the recovery of one peany. In a Japanese Court, sitting in camera, to ten the end the passenger lost his case, had to pay by the police authorities in the act of beg-Sir) William Meigh, Goodman, who was ignorance of the people on technical quespionage, has been pardoned and banished and sixpence costs, and eight shillings for wit a fine of five shillings, besides five shillings King or contravening the Vagrancy Ordin- Attorney General at the time, offered con- tions; the construction of railways and the Rightly or wrongly the sympathy of all nesses' expenses-or a total of eight ta ance they were sent to the House of Deten gratulations to. Sir James Russell, the Chief exploitation of the mineral wealth of the foreigners in the East has been with Captain shillings and sixpence; and all be at the tion and segregated from the criminals. Justice, on the felicitous event. Between Apparently the treatment meted out to them 1891 and 1896, the spotless gloves were country have been retarded simply an Bougouin. The fact that the trial was con refused to pay a penny. The fact is that the mild and lenient. Some of those who had presented to the presiding judge twice ledge. Whether the Canton Christian Col suspicion that he might be made the scape is that of least resistance. Better to lose a account of the absence of technical know ducted in private did not allay the best policy to adopt in such circumstances landed in that institution lived from months on there was a long interval-from 1896 lege can hope to provide the school of tech-goat of Russia's ally. As some Japanese penny than to squander a sovereign-betier at the expense of the community, provided sessions was always occupied, but in York out her own regeneration remains and could never be entertained for a moment dollars, to say nothing of the worry and
to 1904 the calendar of the criminal Gology which is so urgently required if China papers pointed out, such an idea was absurd, throw away ten cents than have with ample meals and sheltered from the the end of last year Sir Henry Berkeley to be sten, but to the outsider it seems clear by anyone who knew the independence and inconvenience, which. Court procla
Recently the
was in a position to say that the dimination that the success which bas attended the integrity of the Japanese Court of Justice. entail on the ordinary man. The satisfac- Legislative Council took up the question and of criminal offences was a fact" particularly College in the past and the vast possibilities Notwithstanding all these protestations, how.tion of having a real bona-fide grievance to passed a series of amendments to the Or remarkable in a place like Hongkong where which exist for the future in the erection of dinance intended to make the House of there is a vast moving criminal population" Detention a vastly less desirable abode in and to congratulate the police on the e. the new buildings, open up a vista of useful | aspect in Captain Bougouin's condemna. the small sum wasted.
ever, there were many who saw a political dilate upon to one's friends is usually worth the future than it has proved in the past. ciency of their measures for the preservation work in which tuition in technical subjects tion. Taken in conjunction with the serious Under the regulations of the Ordinance as of law and order. It is a happy augury for should find an increasingly important place. charges which, it was alleged, were proved amended, a vagrant who may now be sent the administration of justice under the regime The western world has not ceased to wonder against the French subject, the pardon of to the House of Detention have to work of Sir Francis Piggott that his Lordship's at the enormous strides which Japan has the Emperor affords some cause for specula shall say that China's teeming millions may were of opinion that the French Minister at made during the last fifty years. But who tion. Influential Frenchmen in Hongkong not within another half-century range them. Tokio had been by no means as careful to slope are gradually beginning to realise that Some of the leading journals of the Pacific selves alongside Japan, and consequently guard the interests of French subjects in there are two sides to the question of exclud alongside the great Powers of the world, in Japan as he should have been, but if it may ing the Chinese from United States soil. If thought and deed 7 With seminaries such he presumed that the liberation of Captain there is a danger at all in the immigration as the Canton Christian College actively Bougouin is due to his representations, then of Chinese, under moderate restrictions, that engaged educating the youth of the country such a suggestion is now without force. Al danger affects the workers of the Western in the knowledge of the West, and seeking to though Captain Bougouin has to leave Japan, States more than any other section of inculcats the duties of every intelligent in which he has spent thirty years of his life, America. And trading on that fact an agila. Chinaman towards his compatriots, such a and to leave it under a shadow, there are tion has been created and fostered by a few feature as the spectacle of the Chinese few who will attach any stigma to his name, working together for a common object, for The general opinion seems to be that Capt. the rejuvenation of the Empire and the Dougouin in his capacity of newspaper cor uplifting of the masses, should not be con- respondent was perhaps over-zealous and sidered in the least degree impossible or im from his long acquaintance with Japanese probable! The Rev. T. V. Pearce, of Hong-methods, was in a position to acquire in drafted the Chinese Exclusion Treaty kong, who was present at the ceremony information which the Japanese Government with the result that the fat was in the Canton, gave a deserved need of praise to desired to keep hidden from the world. At the president and professors of the College any rate, the Captain will not be obliged to the auspicious occasion which had brought undergo a ten years' penance for his indis. the gathering together. The Canton Chris cretions, and the affair is now closed. tian College has a great future before it, and so long as the direction of the College is in the htrol of men of the type at present in charge its success is assured. All who are in sympathy with this movement will, with us, join in congratulating the College Faculty in baving at last a permanent home in which they can pursue that educational work which has already found so many witnesses in its favour.
Attempted Suicides.
Alleged Perjury.
Unlicensed Pawnshop.
Unlawful Arms and Bribery.
Correspondence:-
A Company Secretary's Duties.
Misoolaneous Articles and Reports:-
Prize Day,
Baturday's Gymkhana..
Sandow's Syilem,
Collision in Harbour.
Death of a Hongkong Resident.
Warning to Mariners.
Athleticism in Hongkong,
Steam Water-Boats,
Gallant Rescue,
Naval Notes,
Shipping Jetsam.
The Sully,
Cruise of the Vigilante.
Negligent Navigation.
Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association. New Territorie
Canton Christian College.
Drowning Fatality at Shanghai.
Impeachment of Chou Fu,
The Chefoo Schools.
Railways and Tramways in Formosa. Serious Fire on the sa. Volga.
Boxer Indemnity.
The Sicawei Signal Code.
Sailors Mutiny at Shanghai,
Chinese Students-Federation
Kobe Harbour Tragedy.
Baron Komura's Mission,
Japanese Administration of the Kwantung.
Japan and the Peace Conference.
The Japanese Press on Peace.'
The Criminals of Saghalien.
The Escaped Convicts from Saghalien.
Trade with Japan.
Great Naval Day Dock.
Chinese in Singapore.
The China-Borneo Co., Ld.
War in South Celebes,
Harshness to Chinese.
Long Distance Wireless Telegraphy. Commercial:-
Weekly Share Report.
Freight Market.
Raub
Exchange.
Opium.
Local and General.
BIRTHS.
at the House of Detention has proved too
cold weather in winter.
for his living. At the pleasure of the Super intendent, he may be set to work at an in dustrial trade, preferably his usual trade; of he may have to perform the monotonous task of picking a pound and a half of oakum
second appearance as judge at the criminal sessions should be recorded in white letters, and we can only trust that this favourable prince will be by no means exceptional
in the future.
1
·
CABLE RATES TO BUROPE.
OBITER DICTUM.
(19th July.)
pay ton
PACIFIC TRADE TO CHINA.
(20th July.)
soi-disant public-spirited individuals against the admission of the Chinese labourer, mer chant, or scholar, to American territory. The Government at Washington, willing to gratify the wishes of a handful of bigots,
a day; or he may be required to turn a crank 7,000 times; or do "any other work of a hard bodily nature which the Governor shall from. EDUCATION In Canton. time to time approve." The vagrant, how. ever, will not be prevented from exchanging Recent events in China, the awakening of the seclusion of his cell for the freedom of the educated classes to a realisation of the a useful existence. He will be permit power they can exercise in co-operation, the ted to go out every day, except Sundays increasing demand for educational facilities, and other holidays, during such hours and the readiness of the people to combine as the Superintendent may specify, for for the common good, have given a new in the purpose of seeking employment, provided-sight into the spirit of progress which is that he has completed the work prescribed gradually leavening the Empire. The very for that day." In some respects these regu fact that Chinese of rank and ability should lations are akin to those in force in the be alive to the importance of acquiring
fire. The growing trade of the Western casual wards of England. When a tramp Western forms of education, and should be
States with China was overlooked at first, goes to the workhouse in an English city or ready to adopt Western methods in thought
but now that the independent and patriotic village he has to perform an allotted task in as well as in business, is a tribute to the return for his bed and breakfast, and if he labours of that devoted band of missionaries
action of China's merchents is apparent, and fails to do it, he becomes amenable to the and scholars who have spent their best days
the harm which may accrue to American law and usually finds himself landed in pri among the people, endeavouring to elevate
trade vaguely realised, there is a decided son. It can hardly be argued then that the masses. One of the many institutions
movement among the thinking men of the West to call a halt in the matter of the Ex- these new regulations are unduly harsh on which have been started with this object in the self.constituted beachcomber, whose view is the Canton Christian College. Just
clusion Treaty. "One of the San Francisco presence in the Colony is a nuisance, and twenty years ago the Canton Christian Col
attitude which a passenger on a tramcar tion to the danger of alienating the trade of A very vaxed question as to the proper papers, which is foremost in directing atten. may, as has happened in the past, become a lege was projected in America by a few sup
should adopt when challenged by the com.the Pacific coast with China, points to the menace. They will have the effect of mak porters of missionary effort. The scheme
ductor over a question about the correct fare American goods which find their way into ing a potential vagrant think twice before he was pushed forward with enthusiasm, and casts himself adrift on the beach at Hong before long the Canton Christian College
has been partially cleared up by the obiter China through Amoy, in support of its policy kong. They will deter the loungers of was established on a sound basis. The
dictum of the Pulsne Judge of Hongkong of festina lente so far as legislation against Shanghai and Manila from throwing them object of the College was stated to be-"To
during the hearing of a case the other day. Chinese immigrants is concerned.. Last selves on the mistaken generosity of Hong-raise up educated men to be Christian.
A car conductor brought an action for year Amoy took 7,771,700 pounds of cotton kong residents, And Hongkong will be ministers, teachers and physicians, as well
damages for false imprisonment against a yarn from the American traders. In (18th July.) shunned by the nqrad and the loafer as a as for every other calling in life, by teaching
European. The evidence went to show that view of the fact that cotton growers in leper spot on the China coast. After all, Western science, medicine and religion." It Europe and China is so closely allied to all boarded a car in the western district of Hong the other day the advisability of leaving the The question of the cable rates between a sanitary inspector and some of his friends the southern states were discussing only Hongkong is no place for the labouring man, was also one of the cardinal principles of the that affects the interests of commercial houses kong. When asked to pay the fares the greater part of the cotton crop unpicked the out-of-work seaman, or the unemployed promoters to foster and provide for a higher in the East that it has naturally received passenger handed a certain sum of money to because they could find no outlet for it, the sloker. Hongkong is not a terminus port; standard of education generally, Although much attention in Hongkong, which in some the car conductor, who at that very moment very idea of voluntarily closing the Chinese shipmasters are not in the habit of enrolling the aims and ultimate intentions of the respects may be described as the clearing had to run to the rear of the car in order to market against themselves by adopting a crews at this port: and in civil life all the College were of an unusually high character house of the Orient. On several occasions manipulate the trailer which is always losing piece of class legislation would be the beight On 8th June, at St. Mary of the Angels, Bays. work that an unskilled white labourer is-bearing in mind the natural Conservatism the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce has the wire. On his return, he alleged that the of folly. A purchaser of nearly 8,000,000 water, REGINALD GEORGE, eldest surviving capable of performing can be done quite of the natives and the distrust and broached the subject and sent representa sanitary inspector had not paid the proper ibs. of cotton yarn is not to be lightly thrown son of the late General E. D. Watson, Bengal as well, and at a much cheaper suspicion which are engendered by new tions to the Imperial Government, suggest amount; the passenger flouted the suggestion, aside. Yet the American dealer will en Army, to SYDNEY FRANCES VIVIEN, only rate, by the Chinese coolle. If the ideas, scarcely to be comprehended by the ing the advisability of securing a reduction and eventually the matter found a temporary deavour to build up a trade with the Chinese daughter of D. G. Presgrave, and of Mrs. news is scattered broadcast over the Far uneducated-the teachers who joined the in the rates. Two years ago the concession resting place in the police station. The Empire while at the same time he holds Presgrave, of 3 Powis Gardens, Bayswater. East, that vagrants are not desired long-Canton Christian College started their la of a ao per cent. reductions was granted by charge was refused, for lack of testimony, by himself at liberty to revile his clientele. To On 8th July, at the Union Church, Shang kong, tht they are treated almost on a par hours in a hopeful spirit, and with the full the Cable Companies. But that concession the sergeant in charge, with the result that some Americans every Chinaman is a coolie; hai, AXEL EDWARD KINDBLAD, 1. M. Customs, with chils, that they have to work for determination of making the College a sucwas not given on account of the appeals an action for false imprisonment followed as a it is only the travelled American who xe JANE ELIZABETH TINGLE, of Heckmondtheit bing, and are subject to all the cess. The College has had many vicissi made by representative firms in the East; sequel, and the passenger found himself cognises the difference. And the American ike, Kogland.
rules, and the penalties which follow the tudes since it was opened'; the innovation it was due to the competition of the Pacific mulcted in damages to the extent of 825.immigration laws are framed on the same infraction of these rules, of the prison or the was not greatly appreciated at first, and it cable to Manila. The cable rate to Europe In other words, because there was a differ- principle that the Chinese immigrant is of House of Detention as it is euphemistically was difficult to reach the people who were is still a heavy burden on those who are con- tion in the number of waifs and strays who the College, and to spread abroad the news further effort was made the other day to pay out $25, to say nothing of the costs operations of the officials. It is fortunate ence of opinion to the extent of 30 cents the coolie class until he has proved himself termed, there will soon be a marked diming the most likely to benefit from a course af cemed with shipping transactions, and a between him and the conductor he had to otherwise by submitting to the "grafting however, to be regretted that no scheme men as to the character of the institution forcible representations to the Cable Com we have nothing to do with the merits of the and Seattle are seeking to stem the volume wander aimlessly round Hongkong. It is, which would tend to reassure their country induce the Imperial Government to make which would not be inconsiderable. Now, that newspapers of standing in San Francisco could be suggested whereby those who are But the Faculty persevered and their labours pantes to reduce their rates. A deputation case, but every resident in the Colony, will of inesponsible empiricism, and are sub- committed to the House of Detention might have been uniformly fruitful. The increas from various Chambers of Commerce through he anxious to learn how he should act were mitting actual facts instead of manu labour at some useful work. Picking oakuming attendance of students at the College out Great Britain, introduced by Sir David he placed in a similar situation. The learn-factured arguments. In this connection or turning a crank is labour absolutely made it clear to those at the head of affairs Sassoon, MIP the chairman of the Tele-ed judge laid it down that in such a case the unwise policy of excluding Chinese thrown away. Surely it might be possible to that it would soon be necessary to secure graphs Committee of the House of Commons, the passenger should say I have paid you from the Philippines is creating some set these people to work at some occupation greater accommodation j'but the question of I waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer | what I believe to be the correct fare, If interest in America. The arguments for and
AShanghai, on the 11th'inst, the wife of G. Monday, of a daughter, sfill-born.
and Mrs. Arthur 5 Adams, Am. Bap. Union, Hanyang, Central China, on ad, 1905, at Kuling, of a daughter, BZg. MARGARET,
Fepang, the wife of Mr. G. J. HOUTSMA,
aughter and a sZON,
MARRIAGES.
DEATHS.
Oo 7th July, at the General Hospital, Shang- hai,' ANNA MAERTENS, aged 64 years.
On the roth Jaly, at Shanghai, Guglielmo Valenza, age 18 years.
On Erth July at the General Hospital, Shang: A CAMPBELL, into Engineer, I. C. S. Tai- Shanghai, on the 13th July, 1905, Captain P. DAMSTROM, aged 67 years.
16th July, at Shanghai, GEORGE
TIN WATTS, Silk laspector, Mess,
föld, Karbarg & Co, aged 34 years