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CONTENTS.
Marriage and Deaths. Lending Articlos :-
Dock Competition in the Far East. Police Patrols in ongkong."
A Hint to Hongkong Merchants.
Salubrious Banglunk.
The Yunnan Kadway:
1,anding Facilities.
The British (pam Ravenue,
Sterling Salades.
Chair and Ricksha Coolies.
Telegrams:--
America Maru Ablaze. - Shipping Disaster. Rising in China, The
sincheng Rising. Japanese Training Spadeon.
The Hunghuizes
Storm at Shanybai.
The SS. Niurpm. 12. Tanjng fagar Docks. Legal Intelligenoo— Partner-hip Dispute
ing Bik Case..... The Lu Claims for Remi
The Comity of Nations, "(estion of Trade-nuirks.
Legal Proceedings." Police.
Stealing Tram Tickets,
A Disorderly Houseboy, Breach of Harbour Rules. Pa Abusive Chair Confie.
Partnership Dispale.
Preach of Shipping. Hules.
Alleged Assault on the righ Seas
Suicide of a Chinese Woman.
Likongs Chuged
Burglar air insem ered.
A Seruus joke.
Leighton Hill Road Outrage.
Pesk Chat Coolies Agan."
Policeman tharged with Assault.
Correspondence:
Wing Lee Lect
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The Arrogant el Ext se Officer. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
H. E. the Governor.
Mr. A. J. Way Honoured.
The Opium Fridle,
Balbos Poble School.
Prince That Tych
Kaylons Caston Rathway
Military and Naval Lands...
Hongking Shipyards and Puble Works, Indo-Chon S. 3. Cn., UL
Yunnan Railway
Au American Visitor.
Fire in Pawnshop.
Sunday'. Excursions.
Kniha Howling Green Club..
On the Road to tanley,
Burglary unk Bay
Water etura,
Wild Deer in Engleng Harbour.
Hangbang Volunteer Reserve Association. The Prometheus Aslame.
Senferment of the archang Affds.
Education in the South of China.
The Late Mr. A. W. Maitland.
Indiri-Fokring Colleina,
-Boxežisia in füsan..
Shipping Compeition,
The Hsiorheng. Rising.
A British Post Offer for Tientsin.
U.S. Consular hanges. Japanese Dockyard at Shanghai, Honours for Japanese Warrors and Stales-
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The Charge of Arson at Tokohama. Anti-Japanese flat in Korea. Prince Togo?
The foutist Traff in Japan.
Dalny as a Fice i ofl.
The japaners Ainiy.
The Prospects of Japait.
Baby, Kding as a Trade. Dalny and Newcłowangi
The Jiariksha rad".
The South Manchuria Kailway Life Banel the. At! 1.
Japan's Foreign Trade.
The Sanation in Krea.
Dry Dock Firmy.
Wild Boar Hunt in Singapore. Sandakan as 11 is.
晚六十月五年二十三精光
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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906.
Che Hongkong Gelegraph Yet they are fur inferior to the Japanese
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An the shipping of the port grows each year and the harbour accommodation be comes more and more restricted, it has been necessary to extend the anchorage ground. for vessels of the mercantile marine farther westward to relieve the congestion in the
correctly drawn. Bangkok may be all that themselves, keep the controlling powers in to the prosperity and efficiency of the docks.
its admirers claim for it, yet things happen their own possession, and subscribe all the there that could never occur in Hongkong. necessary capital from their own resources, i workmen in brains and initiative if we are to?
For instance, it is humorous to read in one Nodoubt that is a highly commendable spirit, (and July:) believe the Shanghai panegyrist. It is dis concerting to find that all these years we
Soule pregnant remarks are made by Mr. column the beauties of Kulalongkhon's city, and it was taken as a sign that the Chinese have been living in a fool's paradise, but F. Bikinson, Acting Consul at Wuchow, and in immediate juxtaposition to find the had started on a new era of progress. They there is one consolation-we may yet reform in his ey of trade in that district during following paragraphThere has been a had recognised the importance of unity and our ways before we are swamped by the all-the past year, and they should be of special dead horse lying by the side of the new road the value of national pride. But in the cass conquering Japanese. The mechanics and shipbuilding experts at Kowloon must look interest to merchants and shipping firms in opposite Hongkong Bank lang for the last of the Yunnan railway we are faced with Hongkong While he regards the general wo or three days. Yesterday it had been another condition of things. The contract: to their laureis; they must furbish up their conditions of trade in Kwangsi as inimical dragged out into the middle of the road. was framed and signed before this new spirit Besides being offensive to the nose, the car had come into being. The preliminary con- technical knowledge; they must show that
to the development of the province's un- (30th June.)
English and Scotch engineers and ship doubted resources by the introduction of cass had bech tipped open by vultures, and struction work was commenced before the One of those rabid and entirely misleading wrights-specially selected though they foreign capital he is firmly of opinion that presented a ghastly spectacle. Surely, there patriotic feeling had been manifested. articles which have for their object the dis might have orginally been from first-class British firms of standing in Hongkong would should be some chance of discovering and it is only now, after two years, that we have is the sort of thing that Bangkok people like contractors. That they made mistakes they paragement of the British engineering and and world-famed yards in the United King- find it to their advantage to open branches prosecuting the owner. Of course, if that fresh allegations made against the Yungan shipbuilding concerns in the Far East ap-don-can yet keep in the van of progress at Wuchow, and engage directly in the im pers in the latest issue of Commercial In and compete on terms of equality with
port and esport business, instead of leaving naturally they would be out of place in do not deny that they did their best to re-. kok being what it is, with all its admitted circumstances, it would be well to wait for felligence, a weekly periodical whose declared the sturdy islanders in the North. And yet in the hands of a few Chinese firms in the Hongkong. The writer remarks: "Bang-pair those mistakes seems evident in trese policy is the fostering of British interests the notwithstanding all this rigmarole about Colony. He remarks that he is well aware shortcomings, what will it be when its sani further corroborative evidence that the con world over. Unfortunately, the journal in incompetence and ignorance most people that it is the general opinion among British question seems to be guided by the principle; will retain their faith in the abilities merchants that it is quite impossible for for talion and water supply are as good as, say, tractors have reverted to the methods of the that the best method of encouraging British of the Huropean engineers at Kow-cignarms to compete with the Chinese at those of Hongkong?" There much vir tyrant before accepting as gospel the highly. trade and awakening British merchants to a loon and at other places in the Far East, proper realisation of the effects of foreign it may be foolish and an evidence of mental outers or in the interior, either in the diste in the "when," and much imagination coloured account furnished to our contem competition, is to decry British industries, decadence, but there the matter stands, tribuon of imports or in the purchase of the writer, but it is to be doubted wheporary. tam a blind eye to the progress of British despite the enthusiasm of the pro-Japanese produce for expart. The conditions, hther even in those halcyon days Bangkok commerce, and frighten British investors out writer in Shanghai. When he adds that the ever, are not quite the same in Kwangst as will ever he able to compete with Hong find that the world is not yet destitute of of the market. It does not seem to compre-apanese purchase a higher class of material they are in other parts of China, and he Long as regards salubrity and healthiness.
rate, beade by some British firm. He hend that such a principle is more calculated from British factories than the concerns in suggests that the experiment should, at any Still it is good in these doubling days to to inflict grievous injury on flourishing con Hongkong, Singapore and Shanghai we can
describes the methods pursued by the optimists, cers, and re-aci unfavourably on those Bri-only characterise his assertion as ridiculous Canton and Fatshan firms in dealing tish investors who, whether from patriotic or and absurd; it needs no comment. The with the people of the interior. Business other motives, have sunk their capital in closing remarks are decidedly mischievous is mainly carried on by barter and the Colonial enterprises, than to contribute to In view of these facts, it is difficult to see buyers have to take with them to every the promotion of new schemes or lead to anything bright in the prospects of those market town they visit as many bales of the diffusion of new British capital in over- dock companies working in Hongkong or
cotton yarn, which is the chief medium of The article referred to Shanghai, and I must again very strongly seas undertakings. emanates from a Shanghai correspondent, advise British investors to abstain from pro whose whole aim and object appears to be viding capital for any such concern that is abe aggrandisement of the Japanese enkely to be offered in London." It may be gineering and shipbuilding yards at the expense of the establishments in Hongkong, Shanghai and Singapore. Seldom have the Japanese yards enjoyed such a panegyric at the band, presumably, of an English writer In the appreciation would have been of vastly later valne had the correspondent confined his reutarks to matters. of fact. It is admit- ted by all-bat the enterprise and progress of the Japanese in building dock mid-com- structing vessels is worthy of the highest praise. Within a few years Japanese ship- wrights and engineers have absorbed and tried to practical advantage Ahe lessons
Yesterday, a correspondent residing in learned in Furopean countries and taught
the Eastern district of Hongkong drew at by British and other experts who have been specially employed to enlighten nur allies intention to a subject which seems to be the the Far East. The Japanese bave applied principal topic of conversation in that themselves assiduously to the task of acquir-locality at present. It is maintained that ing: Western, methods and that they have from Wanchai to Causeway Bay it is the succeeded none can deny. But when it is exception instead of the rule to meet one of the Inw's myrmidons, and the suggestion is elained by them, or on their behalf, that as a result of this remarkable zeal they have that this lack of police supervision is respon out-distanced all others in the race lor masible for the quitous "outrages and thescent, will be understand there is smalls ter-particularly in so far as shipbuilding, which occur in the district. It can well be understood that the fact of a lady being shiprepairing and engineering are concern.
d--we must respectfully derline, to admit liable to an attack by a band of scoundrels the conication. In the course of the article who may enter her house in broad daylight in Commercial Intelligence the writer says:is causing the gravest concern among the "A striking fact about the Japanese ship residents. During the daytime most of the building and dock concerns is that they are houses are practically at the mercy of prow-secondly, the knowledge that there is a firm all capable of accepting and carrying outing thieves, who have previously made building contracts of considerable magni- themselves acquainted with the habits of tude, which is not the case with any other the various households and act accordingly, Concern anywhere East of Fort Said. Of In most of the konses there is body pre course, they have to import a considerable sent with the exception of a defenceless woman and, perhaps, one or two domestic amount of their material; but so have the othiers. There appears to be considerably servants who would fly for their lives at the more technical knowledge and skill in the hare idea that a gang of cut-throats, was in |private yards of Japan than in any of the possession, and even if they were valorous concerns walong in the British possessions | enough to stand by their mistress their efforts makes is eminently reasonable the man pend upon it, hardly used, even if the arm traffic, a Government statement just issued
exaggeration. No doubt the author of the of the East or in China. What is more, the to repulse the miscreants would be feeble in charge should have a working knowed men who drove them into tunnels are an in the extreme. It is said, with what degree ledge of Chinese so that he might be in a class of material purchased in Great Britafi
that the author of that warning is a dis interested witness, inspired by the purest motives and sincerely anxious to save the British investor from ruin, but there is a curiously unsatisfactory tone about these
It rings hallow and falls as But as n tence,
One gleam of hope. prepared peroration. fulness is left-the British investor in all probability will never see the screed of mis. statements which appears in this wonderful effusion from Shanghai,
exchange, or other foreign goods as they estimate will be sufficient to pay for the pro duce they may find there. They also take up with them outward transit passes to exempt the goods purchased from likin hace. The goods are eventually shipped from Wuchow in Hongkong In some case, he observes, "the goods ordered and the price fixed in advance. The system has many good points to recommend it as it involves no risks to the foreign merchant with capital at its disposal which, instead of and very lule trouble; but any foreign, firm waiting for the business to come to it at Hongkong, open a branch of its own at this port and sends its own buyers into the
POLICE PATROLS JA HONGKONG.intchior, will apparently have so many aditive evidence, and then proceeded to pen a
It is not so
vantages over the native arms with which it competes that, while greatly benefiting its import trade, it will also be able to lay down produce for export at Hongkong at lower cost than these firms are able to do." It is pointed out that native dealers are hand! capped through lack of capital, and when it is stated that the rates of interest, charged by the tive banks run from 12 to 36 per inclination to embark on sees me success is not absolutely assured. One of the advantages of having a branch in Wu chow instead of working the trade from tongkang direct is, first of all, that less opposition will be encountered there; and, there which will buy produce at present Wuchow is merely a port of transhipment will encourage sellers in the interior, instead of waiting for the buyers to visit them, to bring their goods down themselves to the port. Mr. Wilkinson is very enthusiastic over firm opened a branch at Wuchow it would this matter, and predicts that if a British never sue the day. One suggestion which he
tainly commend itself to local merchants very who are always on the outlook for new sources of revenue, for it seems that the initial cost of inaugurating a branch would infinitesmal in comparsion with the pro: 'fits in the end.
(3rd July.), Our contemporary in Shanghai, the North-central portion of the harbour of Victoria. China Daily News, has long and deservedly It has been pointed out to us that the land- enjoyed a high reputation for accuracy and ing facilities are inadequate for the growing needs of the shipping community An reliability, a reputation springing from the due regard of sober fact unadorned by the estimable member of that fraternity has. represented that, considering, the large number of steamers which moor down away embroidery of fantastical views
by Kennedy Town, it would be a great con- venience to the crews of those ships to have some landing steps nearer than those opposite the Po On Insurance Godowns. At present landing is rather difficult and risky→→ the only available way is to get on to some of the lighters near the stone-walls and get ashore from their staging boards. It would. be much appreciated if a landing step was available near the godown of the American Mail Lines. We have no doubt that solici tous as the head of the Harbour Departs ment is, of the reasonab requirements of the shipping frequenting the port of Hongkong, the Honourable Captain Barnes. the mercantile officer who is, only one of a Lawrence will take note of the suggestion of
suitable landing accommodation at the western end of the harbour than that, at great many who feel the need of more
present existing. If after due inquit, the Harbour Master ascertains that there-- presentation of the mercantile officer.. is one deserving of prumpt notice-as we believe it fully to be-it is to be hoped that the suggestion put forward in our columns will lead to the Government provid requirements ofthe mercantile marine officers whose duties render it necessary that they ing a tanding stage commensurate with the
should disembark at the western end of the water, front.
seems probable that the os has been led astray in its account of the sufferings endured by the coolies, who were recruited at Tien- sin as labourers on the Yunnan railway, The information on which the newspaper in question based its remarks was forwarded by a member of the China Inland Mission, who declared that he took the story direct from the lips of broken-down coolies, who were trudging all the way from Yunnan back to their homes in Tientsin. Not satisfied with one witness, the missionary took corrobora graphic picture of heart-rending" atrocities" inflicted on these coolles by a callous and inhuman French Company. Unfortunately, the language of tlle missionary was so pathetic that an ordinary Lader was opt to consider it high-falutin. It wasd vivid altogether, the tale of gangs of inert kneeling at the missionary's door and begging for help. He related that :" As soon as they went to work in Yunnan] toey Degan to sicken and die, so as they could. The stronger of these refugees the foreman turned them adrift to get home have now passed us and the poor, struggling rearguard are upon us. They can scarcely rise after sitting down at our door to beg" were at work; they were starved, beaten, re Armed guards stood over them while they fused their wages and turned adrift, in the end to fend for themselves. Such is the ments upon the letter in terms which would missionary's tale of woe, and the Azul con- bring tears to the eyes of the proverbial cro codile. It cries aloud that "the anguished men "seeing their comrades dying around cry of humanity must be heard," it speaks of then, helpless, hopeless, and, we may de
THE BRITISH opium REVENUE.
(5th July.)
In view of the present agitation in Eng- land and in China against, the opium
on the moral and material progress of India during the past year furnishes some
by the Japanese yards is far higher that is of truth we are unable to say, that practical position to deal with the natives at first hand, jeremiad is a good and godly man, but it is instructive information as to the opium venue is partly raised by a monopoly of the the case with similar concerns at either Sinly every house in Morrison Hill Rond and i instead of having to trust to a Chinese staff doubtful whether when it comes to worldly traffic in British territory. The opium re- gapore, Hongkong, or Shanghai." These Leighton-hill Road has been systematically whose interests are not always the interes affairs, he is an altogether reliable witness: sing events are apt to lead the judgment.
United Provinces, and partly by the levy of ate suggestions which will appear amazing robbed within the course of the last of their employers." The idea should cer- kindly disposition and a greedy ear for pas production of the drug in Bengal and the
awry, and a missary living isolated from
a duty on all opium exported from 'native resulents in the Far East. A eulogy of six months.
ago since an American was "held up
States. Though the poppy can be grown the world at large most frequently find that Japanese dockyards" might receive a consider.
in, most parts of India, iis cultivation in ahle meed of approval even from rival under in a ricksha in the same district by a couple
his judgment has become warped for lack of of thieves who flung pepper in his eyes and
British territory is permitted only in, Bengal takings, but when it is submitted as a fact that
tact with men of his own mental calibre.. It
and the United Provinces and a small' the Japanese concerns are all in a letter attempted to overpower him. That they did
that polish which comes from continual con- is possible that the writer of the narrative
area on the frontier of Upper. Burmab. ance offered by the visitor than the presence
which appeared in the Aerus was regaled by Under present orders the area under poppy position to carry out building contracts or not succeed was due more to the stout resist.
SALUBRIOUS BANGKOK. undertake repairing work than such under
some Chinese mendicants with a story which cultivation in 1899-1900--viz., 637,300 takings as the Hongkong and Whampoa of the police! Of course, it is a hackneyed
acres is not to be materially exceeded. Dock Company, the Shanghai Engineering saying that the police are never where they
Hangkok people are peculiarly sensitive to they had picked up, and elaborated in the
The cultivator of opiom receives a licence try. M. Gaston Liebert, the French Consul from the Government, and is granted ad- and Shiprepairing Company, or The new Gov. are wanted, but we would not endorse the ernment institution, the Tanjong Pagar Dock remark for a moment. The police in Hong any allusion which would seem to disparage course of their wanderings through the coun
vances to enable him to prepare the land Board, a chorus of dissent will be aroused. kong have an onerous and difficult duty to † that'centre of civilisation. When it was sug The Hongkong Company can point to a perform. They have to handle a cosmopoli. | geged in these columns some time ago that at Hongkong, who should know as much
tan population judiciously, and patrol a Bingkok was annually scourged by cholera about the doings on the Yunnan railway as any for the crop, and he is required to deliver the whole of the produce at a fixed price to record of achievements which would have
we stated a fact which nobody can deny; but body, seeing that he was one of those who had the residents in the capital of Siam decided-share in completing the negotiations at Pek- opium, agents, by whom it is dispatched to added lustre to the reputation not merely of large area with a liniited force. But it cer any shipbuilding and engineering yard in tainly dues strike the average tender occa Great Britain but event of the private yardssionally that much power is lost by indiscri-ly object to any reference being made to ing, in 1901, declared to a representative of the Covernment factories. The supply of minate raids out hawkers and gamblers, with their misfortune, and the result is seen in a the Hongkong Telegraph that the whole prepared opium required for consumption in India is made over to the Excise department. of Japan. That may appear to be a pre-
The chests of "provision" opium for export posterous averment in the eyes of the Japan the result that the real criminal is left to leading article and a contributed sketch, story, if represented as having occurred re- pursue his nefarious profession in the quiet which appeared on successive days in the cently, is a pure fabrication. "He admitted
are sold by auction at monthly sales in ese enthusiast in Shanghas, int the fact re- mains and is incontrovertible. When it is residential sections of the city undisturbed Haukak Times. It is amusing to read in that when work was inaugurated on the rail- suggested that the Japanese appear to have by the fear of the law in the person of a con- the former that "Bangkok, it may be admit-way in 1904 mistakes were made by the Calculla. The various Native States have more technical knowledge and skill than stable. While petty crime must be held in ted, is not an ideal place of residence, but contractors, mainly through ignorance. They agreed to assimilate their oplum arrange- in Hang- check, it is highly essential that no part of the the act remains that no farang ever willing knew nothing of the conditions in China;ments to the British excise system, and levy the trained British workmen
tempted city be left at the mercy of the felon. Certainly, ly changed it for either Bingapore or they were unprepared to deal with gangs of heavy dues on opium exported from their kong, for example, to smile and wonder how the writer when a case occurs similar to that reported longkong, even though flatter has the Chinese labourers who depended upon them territories for the China market. came by that fellow feeling which makes the other day, when a lady was attacked in distinction of being cleanly enough to suit for their rice; and they thought they could opium pays to the Indian Treasury a duty, The despised her private house and dangerously wounded, the kastidious plague bacillus." And yet it pay the men with cheques and banknotes. which was £40 per chest of 14clb. for several him so wondrous kind.
And all this hap reduced to £40, at which rate it now stands. and ignorant artificers and mechanics of people are apt to become hysterical and is to Hongkong that the furungs in Siam in. Of course, these were serious errors,, but they years, until it was raised to £434, and then the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock' Com-ibrow the entire blame on the shoulders varibly journey when their health breaks were not irretrievable. pany have now reached the depths of dis of the police, forgetting that even a con.dah and they need the bracing climate to pened two years ago. The best proof that The net opium revenue in 1904-5 WAS counteract the effects of life in the jungle the missionary's tale lacks solid foundation £4,054,414, compared with £3,510,301 in once, be everywhere at grace, True, the Admiralty experts in Eng. stable, cannot
not include the licence fees and duty on Co 30th June, at 'hanghai, JOAO CLAUDIO and have but recently lavished encomiums But there seems to be no doubt that Thi writer of the contributed article denies is found in the fact that the recruiting of 1903 and £3,849.955 in 1992. This docs _oplum_consumed in India, which in 1994-5 aldest son of the fald Jose Cycll'Aquino, to on the skill and efficiency of the so-called a revision of the areas patrolf ig high. thai Bangkok lacks the luxuries and comforts coolies for the Yunao railway has the LILY MARIA, second daughter of the Te
inept workmen at Kowlong and have ly necessary--If-the-beat-allotted tool adinary civilised flies, and, greatly daring, sanction of the Chinese authorities, and is is absolutely certain, that if there was the Chevalier Eugenio Francisco Xavier das held out their performances as worthy of each constable invols absence from offes to find us a first-class hotel and supported by Viceroy Shum of Canton amounted to £894,637.
But having had some slightest suspicion that things were not as
STERLING SALARIES. Santos Remedios, F.R.GA, Lis., etc., etc.
emulation at Woolwich and Devonport. any partignar spot for an extended period thebest of everything provided we take a The shrewd managers of local shipping of time thes the remedy is at han Hong-trip to that city.
The theory advanced by Mr.
(6th July,) On the 27th June, at Shanghai, ALEXANDER: firms have heaped praises on the Dock kongcan well afford to pay for dditional experience of the place we hardly care represented such support would be rigidly
Among the first questions asked by Hon. MILLER, 2nd Engineer 5.6. Perlmour, aged Company on account of the character of the men so that the districts may reduced, to lake advantage of his generosity even withheld.
vessels built for Far Eastern requirements; and a feeling of security implanted in the thogh we miss all the delights which Liebert for the circulation of these stories On the 18th June, at Shanghai, LILY CUR-but that is of no avail. The Shanghai cor minds of the inhabitants. At present the he depicts. He speaks of hale and is at least plausible. He believes that the
Lespondent of Commercial intelligence knows Wanchai population, if we may judge from herty old residents who actually prefer "agitation" is due to those Chinese who Mr. H. E. Pollock, after taking his seat in nothing of these things and cares less. various reports, live in an agony of appre- the atmosphere of Bangkok to any other wish to retain all national enterprises in the Legislative Council, was one in which he When the Government of the Straits Settle-hension, fancying that evy knock signifief plce between heaven and Texas, and sug- Chinese lands. That feeling was evidenced sought to know whether the Government The gets that the "Hongkong, critic" knows when the question of the Canton Hankow would consider the advicability of granting to ments expropriated the Tanjong Pagar docks the arrival of a marauding band.
ching of Bangkok. In fact, he abandons railway was under consideration. Then, the those civil servants who draw their salary on hipecif to an orgy of enthusiasm in favour Chinese declared that they would have no a sterling basis the privilege of drawing ball bis place of exile and, it might be fancied, more concessions to foreigners; they would their pay at the rate of 15. Bd. to the dollar, alost persuades himself that his picture is | undertake the, construction of the railwayor of granting some other relief by way of
Trid Society in Sarawak,
Commercial:-
Weekly Share Report.
Shanghai Doc's.
Freight
Exchange.
Opium.
Local and General.
MARRIAGE.
DEATHS,
38 years
RIE, aged 15 years.
On the 1st July, at Shanghai, FRANK LEE, late Wharfinger, China Merchants S.N. Co., Kinleeynen Wharves, aged 71 years,
On the 2nd July, at Shanghai, of heart failure, A. W. MAITLAND, aged bɔ years,
Died at 43, Cainé Road, July 5th, 1906,
SARAH HONOR Kяw, aged 61 years.
Australian papers please copy.
we .are
it did not consider it necessary to discharge picture may be exaggerated, but that is the summarily the old staff of mechanics, etc., impression conveyed, and it behoves the on the ground that their, technical know-police ta dispel the alarm of those under ledge was nil, and their presence a menace their care,
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