TELEGRAMS. [Renter's]
The Famine in Russia
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1905.
THE FIREWORKS CASE,
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT,
In the action in which Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. sued the Sun Shing firm for $11,937.83 for LONDON, 8th September. The first sitting of the Ministerial Con-breach of contract in respect of Canton fire. ference in St. Petersburg, to consider the works, his Lordship the Chief Justice this question of relief measures for the famine morning' delivered judgment in favour of the stricken provinces, recommends the Treasury plaintiffs. to assign £4,000,000 for the purchase of cereals.
Violent Earthquake in Italy.
Later.
A violent earthquake has occurred in Italy, particularly in Calabria; 347 persons have been killed, and more than a dozen towns and villages partially wrecked. Piezzo, Monteleone, and Martirano are almost com- pletely destroyed.
The Riots at Baku.. Four Britishers are besieged in the house at Balakhang, and the Governor of Baku declares that he is powerless to render them any assistance.
The Trouble in the Caucasus,
9th September.
Latest telegrams from the Caucasus are
Mr. H. Pollock; .C., instructed by Mr. Hays, of Messis. Johnson taxes and Muster appeared for the plaintifs, and Mr. H. C. G. Cat- thup, instructed by Mr. H. W. Looker, Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, repre sented the defendants.'
SERIOUS AFFAIR
IN THE HARBOUR..
respect so good as those of the same grade
·which had been supplied by the defendent firm on previous occasions. One other point is clear from this evidence; that the detailed examina-
But for the providential presence of Police tion of the crackers was made in consequence planace No.4 in the vicinity of Stone- of these complaints, that this was independent cuiters island last night, there might have of the examination made on the arrival of the been committed a repetition of the crime goods, and that it bore aut the complaints which so recently sent three young Auto- which had been made by the ultimate pur- jeans to the gallows in this Colony. The incis of the case, as testified to by L. N. chasers. So far the case seems to me to be Tres from doubt. But the stress of the defen-
Robert Wills, were that about 7.40 p.m. he Carlowitz and Company in Canion but also dani's argument was on the fact that not only
was in the police pinnace, nest Stonecutiers' land, when he heard cries and shouts on Champion and Company in the United States
4 sampan near by, and he immediately went had examined the crackers and accepted them alongside the sampan and there he found two as good and merchantable. Further that when men, Eva Hore and Thomas Morgan, seamen the complaints came from America the plain of the sailing ship Resador, siruggling with uffs strenuously supported their original the two women and one man who formed the Sir F. T. ggolt said-In this case there
craw, and apparently endeavouring to throw was a contract for the supply of a certain quan opinion that they were good. And lastly, that
them into the sea. Sergeant Wills then board- tity of crackets, it was made in Canton betweenough the examination might have been, as was suggested, superficial, the examination in
ed the sampah and found Hore holding the a Chinese firm and the manager of the Canton
the United States need not have been so. Un.
sicerswoman by the throat and clothing and branch of a German firm trading in Hongkonger the circumstances can the plaintiffs now be The first question is what law governs the
heard to say that the crackers were not good?ggling with her, and Morgan doing the same with the man in the bows. He seized Babilities arising under this contract ?
On one other point I have no doubt: that all Hore and was putting him in the pinnace when cerns fairly clear that although it cannot be
that could have been done in the way of giving he turned round and struck the sergeant on the notice of the complaints and in verifying them neck and chest Sergeant Wills then knocked strictly called a contract fee on board,' the crackers were to be delivered to the plaintiffi
as far as possibio was done both by Champion him down, and told him if he attempted any. in longkong. It was assumed by both sides
and Company to Carlowitz and Company and thing of that sort he would get more than he that the law of Hongkong applied, and there by them to the defendants. The question is expected. Meantime Morgan seized Sergeant fore that the case was governed by the Sale of
not an easy one and so far as I know is not
Wills, who was then placing Hore in the pin- Goods Ordinance; the assumption being bared
nace, and tried to throule him, so that he on one of two grounds; either because the covered by authority; at least, none was cited. But after giving the question the fullest con-
bad to knock him down and put him in place of performance was Hongkong, of her siderations have come to the conclusion that irons, after he had threatened to murder the cause the intention of the parties was that the
is impossible to say that if the goods are not sergeant if he stirred, saying he would take fact what a purchaser contracts for he is charge of the pinnace and steer it where he stopped from recovering because he examined liked. Sergeant, Wills then took the men them in the customary way and did not dis ashore to the station and charged them. cover that they were different. The law of
at estoppel applies to words or conduct which induce other people to act to their prejudice on the faith of them; not to words or conduct which, as in this case, have no influence on other people's actions. Again it was not a term of contract that this examination should be conclusire and bar subsequent recovery; nor agn was it a term of the contract that there of the German firm, which negotiated the pershould be any examination at all as a condition chase in Canton. With rega it to the place of
tacceptance. The examination was said to performance the question is more difficult. The first presumption is that the law applicable be customary, though out an essential custom of the trade, which puts it no higher than the to a contract is the law of the place where it
examination which every purchaser makes of was made. The second presumption is that
goods before he accepts delivery. It cannot when the contract is made in one country to be,
be treated as purchase after inspection, be performed wholly or in part'in another, then the
cause obviously the whole of the goods cannot law is that of the place where the performance be inspected, but only a very small proportion.
to take place, to this.econd presumption
We have no evidence that the law of China Mr. Dicey, adds 'especially as to the mode of
would prevent recovery after such an examina. performance." The two propositions are cotton if the goods proved worthless. And I may too clearly defined, for the learned author says say, in passing, that even if the obligations tract partly or even wholly to be performed in
under this contract were to be laid down by English law, the case tails well with the another country; which practically destroys cases laid down in the Ordinance on Sutes in the value as a legal proposition of the second presumption. Itunk the only way of ascertain- A CAUTIOUS ARTICLE The Daily Telegraph fincies that the Mikadog what law is applicable to any given satol circumstances is to determine clearly what the chligation is which is alleged to have been broked, if it is connected with the mode of
so vague and confused that it is impossible law of this Colony should apply. The questa to say whether the rising is spreading or sub-ion thus raised is an important one, as it is siding. Against reassuring official telegrams, are private messages, recounting wholesale massacres of Armenians.
It is feared that the four Britishers at Balaklang have been shot, or have perished in the flames of the house in which they were besieged.
[Straits Times] Papers on Fence.
Japan's act of RENUNCIATION.
London, 31st August. The Morning Post expresses the opinion that Japan has put the crown on her victories in the war by an act of great renunciation at its close. She has thereby given the most con vincing proof that her statesmen ate swayed by the loftiest motives
A COMPARISON WITH CHRISTIAN NATIONS. The Daily Graphic thinks that the world owes n debt of gratitude in Japan for making the peste concessions, which point to Japan having a higher code of ethics than that which prevails among so-called Christian nations.
and his Council probably came to such a right decision on considering all the hazards that Japan would run in fighting, further, an enemy Nevertheless, it points cut, Japan deserves to receive the congratulations of the world for its
not improbible that many contracts are made in the East under circumstances similar to the present. The leading case on the subject is suli Jacobs v. Credit Lyonnais (17 Q. B. D., 589) and it has bees worked out at some fugih in Dicey's Conflict of Laws. The the parties may be question of the intention at once disposed of. It is not expressed, and it cannot be implied either in the case of the Chaman who contracted, or the branch house
that the lex ledi.¦ contractus may apply to a can-
The master of the sampan then stated that about 7 p.m. yesterday the two men engaged his sampan to take them to a ship at the kero scue anchorage Dear Stonecutters Island. They got in at Wanchai steps, and remained quiet until they bad passed all the shipping and were nearing Stonecutters' Island, when they sprang up and the first defendant seized the woman at the tiller, and tried to throw her overbeard, while the second defendant strug- board, hey called out "save life," and then gled with witness, trying to get him also over- the police pinnace came up and the sergeant came on board. The two defendants then set upon the sergeant, one seizing him by the throat and the other by the arms from the back. The sergant knocked them down and put the second defendant is hons, and then took them away in the pinnace.
. Sergeant Wils, recalled, said the men were not drunk, but had been drinking.
Both defendants denied the charges, saying they did nos remember, assaulting anybody. F.A. H zeland, before whom the case was tried, found them both guilty on the evidence and sentenced them to one month's hard bour each, without the option of a fine. It was a fortunate chance that the police pinuace was in the vicinity at the time, as the locality where the occurrence took place was off the usual beat of the water police patrol, and bui
whose vital parts were practically unassailable. I performance, as Alr. Dicey suggests, then clear hundred tins of beef. Now, though when the or its presence Hongkong might once again
great self-victory.
RUSSIANS THE BETTER DIPLOMATS. The Daily Mail deems that the Japanese
were no match for the Russians in the peculiar in this case had arisen in connection with de. You examined them, found beef, said that the
kind of diplomacy wherein the latter excel.
SINGULAR MAGNANIMITY,
WHAT THE "TIMES" SAYS,
have been thrilled with the news of a grave crime in the barbour.
THE SHANGHAI TYPHOON. Yesterday (Monday) morning, an article appeared in a contemporary, says the Shanghui Times of 4th inst., anent the mischief wrought by the typhoon, in which it was stated that the various wharves on the Pootong side had suffe:- ed enormous damage. It cannot be denied that Shanghai merchants will be called upon to bear somewhat heavy loss, but 100 much value should not be paid to the pessimistic reports that have been circulated. As the result of an interview one of our representatives had this morning with the manager of the China Mer- chants Steam Navigation Company, we are able to relieve the fears aroused amongst the bollers of cargo stored in the various godowns of this company.
which the doctrine of caveat emptor is +ex+ cluded. The statement of what I believe to be the law applicable to this case may be tested in the concrete by reverting to be simple ex- ample already given: supposing the con- tract had been for the supply of several ly the law of the place of performance must upply, as in the Credit Lyonnais case where plaintiff made his examinations and took deli the question was whether the French law of very, all the tins heupened contained beef, yet if t afterwards transpired that the large majority Juice majeure was a sufficient excuse for
of the uns contained inutton, isceros seff- failure to perform a contract in which England evidence that the defendant could not say was the place of performance. If the breach
tius contained beef; therefore they do con. very in Hongkong, then the law of Hongkong tain heel, and this on the evidence before would apply. Bot in this case the breach was
me is perfectly analgous to the present case. The Daily Chronicle holds that japan's con. in connection with the quality of the goods de-
The defendant seemed at one time to suggest cessions are indeed singular in magnanimity, livered: the question being whether the crack-
that the crackers were in fact good. But this but that the "war seemed to have attained itsers were what they proposed to be, ur whether,
was not insisted upon; nor could it be, for the aim in a far shorter time than had been to adopt English law terms, the role as 19 im- evident is against him. He did suggest plied conditions applied or the doctrine of anticipated."
caveat emptor, The law applicable to this however that the crackers were in fact luw The Times has it that lap bere statesmen obligation must be the law of the place of degrade crackers which he ordered and which could not be expected to make much noise have shown a power of self-restraint rare livery and this was, in my opinion, Cunton. It
and often none at alt. But part of his case ly, if ever, witnessed in the history of the was there that the guads were examined and
is that the crackers which were tried were work. There is perhaps no power in Europe accepted by the person who had charge of that is capable of adopting such a course, the negotiations for the plaintiffs, in the pic. goud, gave the proper noisy explosion and Japan's old chivalrous spirit led her to disdain sence of the defendant: it was there that, the suppose the proper percentage of explosions; su that his own case is against him, as well as the proscention of the war for merely monetary plaintiff decided whether or no he would ac-
the evidence on this pumt. Deterioration considerations. he is to-day unquestionably cept the crackers. The transpart to Hongkong during a long sea voyage is what I should have the domirant Power in the Far East.
was, it is true, part of the original contract, but Discussing the history of the war, the Timest.atcccurred alter the question whetherthegoods thought tight have been set up with some But when 1 put the attributes be unparallelled successes of the were in accordance with the contract had been prospect of success. Japanese in their complete and supremely decided. In the particulars of this preliminary queen to one of the witnesses the answer was that there would be no deterioration. nd effective powers of organisation,
that answer was nut challenged; there had. never been deterioration before. There remains inere accident or aud either is possible though not necessarily on the part of the defendant firm, who did not make the crackers themselves. But this would be no defence to foreigner. this action, whatever may have been the cause of the crackers being defective, as Carlowitztruction was worse at the Eastern harf than an this side, but, fortunately, this is not and Company have suffered by it, so also must
the case. Only two or three godowns the defendants suffer, though perhaps they longing to the Eastern Wharf have been flooded, the number of packages damaged asiounting to 12,000 bales and cases of piece goods and 703 packages of general merchan dise. This was owing to the fact that the doors of these golowns are mised well above the level of the surrounding land. The cargo in these godowns have been damaged very little ages stored. The jetties approching the in comparison with the large number of pack. wharves have received considerable damage, but this is devolves on the C. M. S. N. Co. alone.
RUSSION OPINIONS,
The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette rejoices that good sense has triumphed at lokio.
The Neve Vremyn says that the peace is disanous for Russia. The Svet says that the Japanese concessions pale before the loss of hall of Saghalien.
AN HONDURABLE PLACE.
President Roosevelt congratulate the pleni- potentiaries on securing a peace which was just and honourable to both sides.
A GERMAN VIEW.
The North German Gazette says, in a high: ly inspired article, that the r solution to yield may have well been no easy task to the Japan ese statesmen, but it does bonntir to their wisdom.
It shows also that, in concluding peace as well as in waging war, the young Asiatic World Power, which made so brilliant an en- try into the community of the old civilised powers, is worthy to stand alongside the best examples in the history of the States of western civilisation.
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may be able to recover from the makers who supplied them with these inferior goods. Judg. iment must therefore be for the plaintiffs with costs in accordance with the claim of February
43, 1994.
Mr. Pollack pleaded at length for immediate execution as defendants were out of the juris. diction of the Colony, and it was desirable that plaintiffs should obtain the effect of the judg. inent as speedily as possible.
Mr. Calthrop opposed this, and pointed out that defendants had already commenced an other action against Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. and execution was stayed in the previous case brought by them.
His Lordship refused the application.
Things look much brighter than was linped possible last Sa urday morning, and the mana ger, who has paid a personal visit to the. C.M.S.N. Co.'s wharves states that the damage caused to cargo has been generally exaggerated. The total number of packages immore or less damaged at their Kinlee-yuen Wharf numbers some 15,417, which include 8,540 bags of sugar and 20 bales of silk. This total also includes 200 bales of piece goods which will hit the
It was reported that the damage and des-
The damage at the Yang-ka-du Wharl is not nearly so bad as was anticipated and very liule. damage occurred at the Central Wharf,
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CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given, before 3 P.M., TO-DAY, 11th instant.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde. livered after the 18th instant will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 25th instant, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Gotowns, where they will be examine on the 18th instant, at It A.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Hills of Lading will be countersigned lov
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examination the facts something resemble these in the Credit Lyonnais cabe; for there, as here, there was to be a preliminy.examin tion and approval before actual delivery, to be sufficient in This was held not disturb the presumption that the law of the contract had been rngland where
the contract. In this made applied to The Listak welcomes the peace from its encase by parity of seasoning the fact that the abling Russia to re-organise her home adminis examination was to be made and apps foe tration, The Rus speaks of the peace being of given in Canton secus to me to enforce the suprenie benefit to the foe.
presumption in favour of the lex loci contractus. think therefore that this is a Chinese contract indicated at the trial that this might be the view should take; the defendant answered that the plaintiff bad failed to show what the law of China is. But it is the defendant whe has in reality appealed to the Sale of Goods Ordinance and to the rule caveat emptor; he has failed to show that samlar principles are in force in China. I cannot assume that they are. There are, however, some things that a Court may assume in such a case as the pre- sent that it is put of the law of China as of every other country, that you are entitled to get what you pay for: that it you buy heef an action will he against the vendor if he supplies you nation. So if you buy a cracker you are entled to get something which does what | MORE TYPHOON EXPERIENCES crackers are supposed to do explode with a certain satisfactory noise, which is in fact a cracker. The whole question in this case is whether the crackers supplied did fulfill this essential condition. hold therefore ihat farther proof hom the plaintiff as to the law of China on the subject is unnecessary and that the defendant who desires to justify non-fulli 1- ment must prove that the Chinese law warrants the justification he puts forward. The solution of the question whether the defendants supplied crackers in the ordinary sense of the word, is simplified by the fact that there were un doubtedly previous dealings between the same parties in respect to the same quality of crackers, and that there had been no complaints such as those which form the subject of this action. The plaintiff knew what be wanted: a low grade cracker, but still a cracker; and the defendant knew what he was expected 10 sup ply. The facts as to the quality of the crackers supplied rests entirely on the evidence taken on commission in the nited States of the per- The German Minister is said to have advised sons to whom they were subsequently sold by Prince Ching that, as China has shares in the Carlowitz and Company. These witnesses were Chinese Eastern Railway to the extent of Tis. not cross-examined. Their statements are 5,000,000, which Japan has now compelled therefore unchallenged and must be taken as ussia to give up, China would do well to true. Evidence taken on commission must be communicate, with Japan as to the measures treated precisely in similar way as evidence moderate Sou.herly and S.W. winds, until the kew Wharfs at Tis. 190 cash, at Tls. 196/195 | having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees
The Japanese concessions are all the more vateable as they spring from voluntary self restraint, and are not the outcome of external pressure.-Reuter,
[N. C. D. Netus.]
China and the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Peking, and September. At a secret conference of Waiwapu it has been resolved that if Russia should demand compensation from China for the return to China of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which has been heretofore the joint enterprise of Rus sia and China, China should refuse to accede to the demand, but Russia, who has allowed Japan to occupy the railway, should, on the other hand, compensale China. Otherwise, Russia should transfer all her milway conces sions in China to Japan, with whom China would jointly complete the works..
regarding the railway to be taken by the latter. The Prince has now stated the result of his interview with the German Minister in a memorial to the Throne, and it still conferring with the Walwupu Ministers and the Grand Council.
MONEY due for board and lodging, guaranteed by In Kwai Sang, and amounting to $247.99, was recovered la the Summary Court this moming by Tsei Chk Nam to whom it was owing by Chan Lai Yu. In Kwal Sang guar- anteed the amount and was therefore sued. Mr. O. D. Thomson represented plaintiff, and Mr. R. A. Harding appeared for defendant. It was announced that the defendant would corrent to judgment, and His Honour the Pulene Judge entered came accordingly.
given at the trial. If it is intended to question its veracity or to draw other inferences from it than those which appear on the face of the finguage used by the witnesses this must be prepared by cross-examination. Nothing can be more dangerous for the other side to allow the evidence to be taken without being repre- sented. When once the order for the Commis sion has been made on the application of one party the other party can only decline to take part in the proceedings at his peril. It may be costly; but that is inevitable to the great of a Commission, which is pan of the regular proce- dure of the courts. From this evidence then it appears that the crackers were bad in every respect that innumerable complaints were se- ceived from the ultimate purchasers. that they did not explode, and that they were not in any
Incoming steamers still have more news to bring of the ravages of the late typhoon, which came so near this Colony, and it would appear that we should congratulate ourselves here that we did not have the experience that Shanghai has had to go through, as shown by The recent reports from that settlement.
S.S.KWANG TAH,"
The Chinese steamer Kang Trah, Captain Lant, which arrived in port on Saturday evening froin Shanghai, which port the let on the 6th inst, reports that she experienced light variable winds and fine weather to Chapel island, after passing which she met fresh to strang S.E. and S. winds, with a strong swell from the same quarter. On the way down she passed numer ous dead bodies of Chinese, while a consider. able number of coffins and quantities of wreck- age were passed between Gutzlaff and Steep Island.
5.5. ALDGATE."... Captain Michalson of the British s.s. Aldgate, which arrived on Saturday evening from Moji, wh ch port she left on the 1st inst., with a cargo of coal for this port, reports that on the and inst., she encountered a typhoon in lat. 33.15 N., ong 18.15 E. After that she experienced
8th inst,, when sfio encountered a strong cast erly gale, hauling round to the South, and moderating at 4 am on the 9th lost.
As a matter of fact, and yaite in contradic tion to what has been published, the damu e which has taken place is far greater at the lower flongkew Wharf than as the Eastern or Yang-ka-du Wharves, comprising as it does of bent 22,000 packages of piece goods and mer- chandise.
Every effort is being made to restore and dunnage the cargo and to separate the good from the bad, and the management is sanguine that the loss will not be neaily so large as has been idly wated.
Damager in the Native City are very large owing to the ground flans of buildings being so much below those in the Foreign 'Seulement and it is estimated that the native merchants the City have lost over one mullion and a
half tacks.
COMMERCIAL.
Shanghai advices, of 5th inst., state:-Busi- ness reported Shanghai & Hongkew Whats at Tls. 195 for December. Indo-Chinas at Tis 67 for September. Fareham, Boyds at Tis 140 cash, at T15. 141 for September, at Tls. 144 for December. Lungkats at Tis, 176 for Beptember, at Tls. 185 for December. Tele- phones at Tls. 581.
Business done direct:-Shanghai and Bong-
for December. Indo-Chluas at Tls. 693 for December. Farnham, Boyds at Tls. 141 for September, at Tls. 144 for December, Astors at $27 for September.
A VERY sad drowning accident happened at
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Stiling the Singapore Swimming Club, on the 2nd inst by which Mr. A. Bimbaum, a young German, Londoa-Back T.T.
Do. demiaed employed by Messrs. Behn Meyer & Co,
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Mr. Birnbaum was | France--Bank T.T. pathetic circumstances, ihs only son of Brigadier-General Birnbaum America-Bank T.T. and only by last mail he wrote bome to his Germany-Bank T.T... parents congratulating them on their approach India T.T. edaranayi
Do. demand ing silver wedding, and telling them of a pre- sent from him which was to follow by a later shanghai-Bank T.T.............. mail. In their bereavement dzep sympałby Singapore T.T. gemeen is felt for them in Singapore, says the local Japan-Bank T.T.
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No Clainis will be admitted after the Goods
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 18th instant will be subject
to rent,.
All Claims against the Steaner must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 22nd instant, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance bas been effected. Bills of Lading.will be countersigned by
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents Hangkang, rolb September, 1905
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,
THE Steamship
CATHERINE APCAR,"
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of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be fanded
at once, at Consignees' risk and expense.
Cargo remaining on board after 4P.M. of the 13th instant, will be landed at Con-
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Mark
THE FAVOURITE BRANDY OF THE
FRENCH IS
MARTELL'S
*...$25.00 per Case ofone Dozen
18.00 "J
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V.S.O.P... 49.00
V.V.S.O.P..... 90.00 31
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Even their cheapest quality is recom mended by the Medical Faculty for Invalids and delicate people.
BUY THE GENUINE
"TANSAN"
BOTTLED BY
THE
CLIFFORD-WILKINSON TANGAN
MINERAL WATER 00., LD.
| KOBE-JAPAN.
Per Case of 48 Half-bottles.....$6.50
Per Dozen
Per Case of 100 Quarter,
Per Dozen Quarter Bottles..
1/11 3/16 | Bigutes risk and expense into the Godowns | SOLE AGENTS—
1/11
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of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and 1/11 7/16 | Godown Co., Limited.
....2.43 Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to tako IMMEDIATE 1.97|| DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, .344+ Buch Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel 1441 | willbelanded and stored at Consignees' risk and
expense, res .91% prem.
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DAVID SASSOON &Co, LIMITED,'"' Agenti
(916)
Hongkong, Lith September, 1905.
1,70
8.00
1.10
H. PRICE & COA
12, QUEEN'S ROAD.
PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION, Hongkong, 18 August, 2005,
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