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WINE AND SPIRIT 'MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
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6, 1907.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY JULY
at present ascertainable, an indefinite figure, below the metal price of the taken then, milions more than during 1905. The mere and he will be a bold statistician who will coin as the provincial mints may agree to do | number of vessels engaged, especially sailing attempt to say, even approximately, what if it has no market for its production by the vessels under the Japanese and native flags, "the necessities of the Colony" are in such irrevocable law of supply and demand the is of little weight, since 'such are mainly of which a great display is expected to take |
Government of Canton will find itself com pelled in its own, interest to desist from turning out a coin which is debased in the eyes of the commercial community of Hongkong
PROSPEROUN SHANGHAI,
luue" towed craft on the Boochow Hang- chow traffic, Among the foreign fags the British fig shows a decrease of about 100,000 tons, while the Japanese exhibits the remarkable increase of over 500 per cont having gone up for steamer tonnage from 488,653 in 1905 to
1,860,007. The French flag also shows a notable year's figures, viz., 773,249 steamer tonnage, increase of about double the preceding against 433,500. This is chiefly due to the fact that there has been a new line of three
Cinmissioner, that many of these local lines, magnificent river steamers, bearing the French flag. It is worthy of note, says the
________Telegram.
THE price of Dragan Flags has gone up to per cent in Bangkat in view of the decorations houour of the Chinese med-of-war visit. There is also a great deinand for pyrotechnics, " HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
plice-Stam Frog Persi.
SERVICE
WHILE on board the steamer Fun Sane yester "KING ALFRED'S" SCORE. day afternoon inspecting emigrants, Detective genuineness of one of the coolies called for his WORLDS RECORD IN GUNNERY Sergeant Grant being suspicious as to the pasige ticket. The man had none. He was arrelled. On the way to the Central Polica Station he gave such information to the sergeant
Ching, boarding-house suoner, sesiding a which led to the arrest of another man-Wan
160, Connaught Road Central-on a charge of, attempting to ship a man to Singapore without
Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Police Court, to-day passage ticket. The emigrant, Tam Tin Kiu, permission. They were both arraigned before. was charged with being on board; without
The tunner was fined $75, and the coolie was discharged...
A matter. There is no authority..who can venture upon a reliable opinion. Now the A. S. WATSON & CO., difficulty of overcoming the influx of the provincial coins of Ciff into the Colony by prohibiting them from getting into cir- culation can be met is the crux of the whole, iluation. We have heard the Government decried on every band for Hongkong and hanghai are so indis. its policy in connection with one of the solubly bound together in a community of most difficult financial problems of the interests which extends to everybrancis of hour as affecting the commercial pro business, and social life that the affairs of the sperity of Hongkong. But we relterate the Northern Settlement are of perennial interest view, we once before expressed that the Col onial authorities are far from being to blame is specially directed to the trade operations to the residents in this Colony. That interest
for the present deadlock, which we have of Shanghai and there is not a meeting of 58.50 arrived at mainly by the supineness of the merchants there which is not scanned and the French, German and Japanese among 10.00 traders in accepting the alien coins and putread with attention by the investing public of others, are in receipt of subsidies from their 13.0ting them info circulation in the course of Hongkong 7 he report of the Commissioner respective Governments, which enable them A pia dealer named Wa Kwai and a boarding:
their business in Hongkong and its vicinity 20.00 A few years ago when the problem present ed none of the acute features which it does to day the Government did the Chamber of Commerce the honour of approaching it for its advice on the matter, and in doing so we must give credit to the administration at the time for consulting a body which should cerininly have been possessed of the best information and, of the practical experience which might guide the Government in steer ing a clear course in the question of the standard currency in Hangkong for its trade requirements. Looking up past volumes of
ST. JULIEN...
L'A ROSE
1..5.7.50 ... 9:00
... $2.00.
CHATEAU HAUT BRION
LARRIVET ›ng
18.00
CHATEAU MOUTON
D'ARMAILHACQ
22,00
CHATEAU PONTET
CARNET.
... 25.00
CHATEAU 'LA TOUR
CARNET...
CHATEAU RAUZAN...
CHATEAU LAFITE ..
30.00
44.01
50.00
14,00
OUR CLARETS, including the lowest priced, are of exceptional
value, and guaranteed to be the the Chamber's transactions we find that the tensions are constantly being developeding, and it will be the wish of those in Hong. of the accused to nine months' imprisonmen
mature and in fine condition."
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Tingkong, Fith June, 1957;
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1957."
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BULL'S-KVES: FROM THE HEAVY "GUNS,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]`
Shanghai, 6th June,
11 am,
world's record in gunnery nt. Wei- 1.M.8. King Alfred has made a
hai-wei.
Of these, 20 wers bull's-eyes.
Fifteen were bull's-eye
KITE-FLYING FATALITY,
Settlement, that its prosperity may be re- kong, who are interested in the Northern
flected in the balance-sheets of the numerous companies in which local investors are in-station, arraigned three Hunghom bodermakers bay-Antonio Gomes, seventeen years old- terested.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.- THE German mail of the 5th June was deli vered in London on the zih`inst. THE following telegram has been received by, the Colonial Secretary from the Consul General at Newchwang "Quaranting impos
Three six-inch guns in one minutë of Customs, S, H. Elgar Hobson, on the to compete under very advantageous condi-house runnar, Si lo Nam, of 9. Rennecker fired off 38 rounds and 87 hits were inde of the port last year should, in thesstions with other lines less favourably situat-Street, were convicted at the Police Court, to circumstances, find a wider public than those ed. The large Danish steamers running to day, for being concerned in a kidnapping | neored. which are generally issued by the Statistical Vladivostock are practically Russian owned, venture. Detective Sergeant Murisan prose Department of the Imperial Maritime and run in connexion with the Trans-Si-cuted. On the auth June last the two defend
ants kidnapped, three boys-the eldest being || - Customs and, as will be seen later, it merila berian Railway. The transfer of flag will that consideration on its own intrinsic value, probably be arranged before long, thereby twelve years of age from Canton and brought wo nine-inch guns fired off 19 The Commissioner begins in the best entitling the company to claim a subsidy from them to Hongkong. After detaining them for rounds in two minutes and made 10
a few days here the boys wer
were put on board
hits. spirit of the well-satisfied official, for he the Russian Government as mail carriers.
a vessel bound for Hoi Fung, On arrival" remarks that: "The most interesting The opium imports amounted to 13,068 at Sa Mun, midway to their deuination, the characteristic of the condition of Shanghai piculs as compared with 13,981 in 1906 and inatter became known and the Customs au genera ly during the year roof has been the 10,285 in 1905, while the value increased thorities arrested the kidnappers and shipped ever-increasing expansion of the town in from five or six million taels. From the them back to Hongkong, at the same time every direction," He states that new ex
Customs point of view Shanghai is flourish.notifying the police. Mr. Orme spotanced one
PORTUGURAR VOUTH! PALLS SIXTY FEET,
and the other to three months." The boys were
A mou unfortunate accident,” which tér- Jeturned to their parents.
minated falally, occurred in Shelley Street yês- * ERGEANT APPLETON, of Yau-ma-ti Policeerday afternoon, whereby a Portuguese school.
before Mr. F. A. Häzeland; this morning, at met his death. Antonio lived with his parenta The Police Court, on a charge of stealing at No, 38, "Elgin Street. At about 5.25 pm, silver watch and a'“ si k" chain, valued at $7, yesterday he and a few friend, adjourned to from Lau Cheung, a bitcher, yesterday. Ac the roof of No. 40, Elgia Street the house would appear that last evening while on his the kites were high up, Antonio climbed on, cording to the evidence of the complainant of a schoul-mate--to fly their kites. When
way home on a bicycis he dropped his watch the parapet to get a clearer view of another and chain in Gascoigne Road. One of the kito which he wanted to cut." Unexpectedly. defendants picked them up and refused to return the other kite took a downward swoop, and, them to the butcher, unless something was given fearing that entanglement would follow, Antosio to him to buy tea. The butcher gave the mas pulled in with all his might, While, so doing MR. D. W. Traiman has been appointed to act seventy cents, but that was refused. He want. he is supposed to have lost his al ince; he fell as Police Magistrate in the istands of the New
ed $1.10. "As the butcher did not lou like into Shellpy Stroot—a distance of some sixty Territories during the absence on vacation
paying that amount the boilermaker and his feet. fle was picked up by some friends and Two chums started off with the watch. A police hurried to the Government Çivil Hospital; leave of Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, or until für-
man brought him back, however. The Court where of arrival" Dr. Koch prousanced life ther rotice, with effect from the and inslank,
sent the first accused to six weeks' hard labour; extinct. His remains were then taken, to the A CHINAMAN, who gave the name of Tong the second to three weeks, and the third was mortuary, Yik, and who stated that he was a
discharged, employed at the Hongkong Club, was arrested AAPANESE contemporary, observes that when in Queen's Road Central, last night, for steal all the flour mills in Japan are in full working. ing a gold ear-pick from a woman. The order, large quantities of cotton cloth bags will woman, Lia So, residing at 17, Gough Street, ber quired for packing flour and wheat. Abort carried the ear-pick in her hair. Accused was
7,000 koku of wheat will be required daily, and alleged to have gone up behind her, grabbed of this quantity 4,000 hoke can be supplied in the pick, and tried to get away, but he was Japan, the remaining 3,000 kw being in
this forenoon, on a charge of street snatching. before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, in the Police Court,
year, representing 110,000,000 in value. Al -ready foreign merchants in Japan, are consuli- The case was adjourped..
ing with the flour-mills for contracts for the Two junkmen, owners of licensed junks Nos. supply of wheat. Two or three foreign firms Sto59H and Sáz4H, came before Mr. F. A. are also offering to import cotton b gs for Hazeland, in the Police Court, this morning, flour. The managers of the flour mills, how on a charge of cruelty to animals. Police Ser-
ever, have ascertained that bags can be made geant Blackman, of No. 7 Police Station, who with advantage of sheetings produced by ja prosecuted, said that on the second instant he pacese weaving and spinning mills. There went aboard the accused's junks, which were will be about 19 mills soon in operation, and the total daily output of flour will amount to 25,720 bags. When to this is added the output
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genuine product of the juice of information given the Government by that and that new schemes are daily maturing the grape.
august body of merchants and traders was Reference is made to the engineering and to the effect that, Hongkong was powerless architectural works begun or completed, and CLARETS from the celebrate
to restrict the importation of foreign coins proceeds to deal with the enormous expan Chateaux above mentioned are too into the Colony for fear of the retaliatory sion in the motor car trade, to which we well known to connoisseurs lo
measures which the Government of Kwang may have occasion in a future, article to need comment, and we can routung might be advised to take and return to refer. In fact the entire section which goes the Colony, the many millions of its small under the sub-head of "local" is a -fidently recommend thom
coins which had found their way into favour testimony to the progress of Shanghai in the amongst the Chinese in the interior of that right direction. Educational facilities are province and beyond. Now the same improving, scientific studies are becoming difficully presents itself to the Government popular, and the immense success attained of Hongkong in a far more aggravated by the local Dock Company during the lasted against Pongkong." form for the reason that since the time few years has naturally attracted competitors. to which we allude millions of coins who have recently so increased in numbers have been minted profitably to the provin as to seriously, threaten the hitherto un cial treasury of Canton, and sent out to questioned supremacy." With regard to Hongkong where they have found ready cir. the revenue of the Customs it will not culation and acceplante hat the Govern be pleasant reading for the Britisher to ment finds itself impotent to decree the learn that the duties paid by vessels flying prohibition of the alien Chinese coin is the British dag have fallen off by over half evident from the fact that not even so much million Haikwan taels, but that does not mucan as a tentative effort is made or any sugges-to say that the British mercantile marine is in tion offered in the notification on the sub- any great danger of losing its leading position, ject, under discussion. It has been often and for while the duty paid by the British flag often urged that, because the Straits Settle amounted to over seven million taels the
it practicable to prohibit the influx of fot- eign coins into their territories, there was no third, with slightly over one million. "The a million and a half, the Japanese ranking
reason why Hongkong should not promul total collection was over 12 million tacle, gate a decree against the coins issued by the showing an
g an increase of about three-quarters Viceroy of Canton and dumped into our of a million tacks above the collection of the great entrepot of trade in Hongkong. Cf preceding year, which was already the course, the advocates of prohibition cannot. largest on record. The increase is mainly be aware of the difficulties of such a policy, under export dutes (over Hk. Tls. 300,000), the hinterland trade of the places but the increase of over Hk. Tls. 180,000 in cited is controlled abaulutely by their respec- tonnage dues is a testimony to the ever- governments, whereas our own hinter growing size of steamers visiling the port. and is China itself, which presents an Under flag distribution, as compared with insuperable difficulty in legislating in a
the figures for 1905, it is noticeable that the each junk. - Each cow was tied by the nose, the of the Manabu mill and the Toda mill st matter of such vital importance to the trade interess of Hongkong and China itself. Moreover, the army of officers which would be required by the anomalous-introduc
THE QUESTION OF SUBSIDIARY COIN'S
It will be remembered that at a recent mecting of the Legislative Council the flow.
WATER POLO
CORINTHIAN, YACHT CLUB VI, ROYAL
ENGINEERS.
Mr. Er Osborne made a series of enquiries ments, Siam and the Philippines had found nearest competitors,' the Germans, only paid brought up by the crowd. He was arraigned poited from abreid, or about 1,95.000 kokus at the RE boat cambar. The game ended
relative to the subsidiary coinage of Hong kong, to which the Colonial Secretary replied that "a notification to the public on the subject of subsidiary coin generally is being considered." Mr. Osborne also en- quired whether the Government would in- form the public that British subsidiary coins are legal tender up to $2 in silver or 51 in copper on each bill. To that the Colonial Treasurer replied that there was no objec tion to adding that fact to the notification In the current issue of the Government
Gaætte the notification to
which the
Colonial Treasurer referred is published, and gives substantial effect to Me. Osborne's request. The notification con-
duties paid under the British flag show decrease of over half a million taels, while the Japanese flag exhibits th interesting increase of over 1 million, having aug
moored alongside the praya wall, at Kennedy Town and saw that there were sixty cows on
of the junk, causing the cattle needless suffer ing as they were unable to move, man pleaded ignorance His Worship floed them $15 each, which was paid.
end of the rope bei-g fastened to the bottom
Yesterday afternoon the Corinthian" Yacht Club played their fat frie idly match this season against the Royal Enginee in a win for the former by two goals to wi. The Engineers have improved a great deal, and they can now handle the ball much marter. The Corinthian Yacht Club goal- keeper did not turn out, and as R.E. min bad to defend their goal The first goal was scored by Witchell, and after some time Cooks scored the next. A goal was scored by Forbes, which was declared a foul. The following played for the C.Y.C.-Supper Holmes, R. C. Wit chell, C.J. Cooke, J. Forbes, E, Humphreys, MacCrae and G. Witchell,
YOKOHAMA (CLAIM. POR; CONTRACT MONEY.
and the total quantity of Japanese sheeting Haskow, the total will increase to 30,000 bags,
The junk-required for big it is estimated – will
aminni to 365,oto pieces, valued at Y730,000. In the Yok hama District Court, before This will be a new and profitable märket,for" | Judge Muraoka, the hearing was resumed on the sand ult, of the action brought by Mr. B. C. Doward, Chairman of the Yokohama Engine.
tains no more information than has beention of a preventive service in the free mented 705 per cent., and immediately | RETURNS of the average amount of bank. Japiness sheetinga,- ... -
generally known by the better-informed
peo.
The new
notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th June 1997, as certified by the managers of the res pective Banks ---
Average Specie in Amount. ReseiVE.”
Banking Corpora- tion,...
National Bank of Chin's,
Limited
and Iron Works, Ltd, against Mr. Geo. Symer Thomson, representative of Messrs. Dodwell
ple of Hongkong and, of course, by the port of Hongkong so as to delect the recovered, with interest, their trace lost dur
Ar a meeting of the Northwestern Millers' entire body of merchants and traders-in-the-portation of the proibited currency ing the war. The German flag has held its
Association in Seattle last month four prices. Colony. The only fact which is apparent would involve such an enormous expendior, with a slight increase of about Hk. Ths,
both for local sale and for export, were to those not dealing with the question of ture that it would, militate against any and
200,000; while the Chinese flag remains al
advanced 25 cents per barrel. This makes the & Co, Ltd., claiming the sum of Y6,199,09, currency and exchange, as an everyday affair, whatever advantage that might accrue most stationary, with a slight improvement of
basis on patents for the home trade, $475 be due to the fi m, together with interest there
being a portion of contract money alleged to Banks. is the fact that the coins minted at Canton the trade of the Colony by the en
Hk. 'Tis 60,000. It will be observed that "Chartered Bank of India,
and on export, $380,The advance on the or other paces in China are only eightforcement of such a prohibition. That
export, however, is nominal, the agreement, computed at the rate of 6 per cent. per ́an- no less than 5419" drawbacks (HX. T Australia and China, $3,197,011 $300,000 being that the rise be 15 cents per barrel num from October 29th, 19.6, until the date of pinths of the value of the standard coin of is, of course, assuming that such a probe146,707) were marked for cash payment Hongkong and Shanghai the Colony. The rest of the information tion could be made effective, but we during the year, as compared with 3,022
except in the care of any individual the execution of judgment, reparts the Japan who might
ant to raise the quotations. Berald, and Mr. Masujima for the defendan", which makes up this text of the notification argue that it could never be so; first, by (Hk.. Tis. 96,300) in 1995.
16,338,873 11,600,000
the additional to cents. For the present, Yokohama Dock Co. who was examined as a Mr. E. R.. Thompson, an expert of the is the fact that the legal tender of Hongkong reason of the fact that Hongkong is a free facilities for rapidly obtaiting issue of
cording to the millers, it will make little differ subsidiary coins is one of $2 nominal port; second, by reason also of the fact that drawbacks, as introduced from the at
215,799 100,000 once whether the advance, is if or 35 cents the defendant company was to act as agonis witness, deposed that the principal business of value in silver and 51 in copper. That is many scores of junks enter all the ports of December, 1903, having evidently proved Total,... $19,452,283 15,400,000
no effort is now making to book any orders.. a matter of common knowledge even, we may the island and the New Territories every of advantage to merchants, who now WHEN a aumber of fitters, who resido at No.
All the Puget Sound mills have orders ahead for seamships. Their function was to transact presume, among the schoolboys of the twenty-four hours; and also by the difficul. utilise them freely."
to carry them up to July 1, at which time thers the business of the starships arriving in the Entering the do 14, Suidier Street, Tai-kok-isui, returned home may be a change in the wheat conditions, and harbour. It was part of the business to cons city. One important fact, however, to be ties which the maritime communications of main of foreign trade, the Commissioner from work last evening they found the place the nature of the competition offered in the tract on behalf of the onnets, or captains of adduced from the information imparted in the port and the mainland present in main-
states that the gross value of arrivals ransacked and property, to the value of $45.99 Orient, The advance just inado put American the steamship for the work to be done to the official communication is that all coins taining an effective excise service. No sane aggregated over 227 million taels, against stolen, Nast of the property that was carried flour an average of about 50. 10 75 cents a barrel such steamships, in which case the de tendered to Government departments by the individual in the Colony will argue that the 250 million trels in 1995; but these figures away belonged to two nem, who lost no time bigher than the Ausilian. The Liverpool fendant company was presumed to be public in payme st of monics due to the Go- freedom of the port should be destroyed cover the vast stocks if piece goods ordered in communicating with Sergeant Sim, at Sam. wheat market is moving up, however, which acting 21 an agent for the ownersor: vernment will not be put into circulation simply to keep out the coins of a foreign at the close of the Russo-Japanese war, and known that, the cook employed, by the filters they affect the moving of wheat and flour, came
shuispo Police Station. Meanwhile it became market. The matter of traffic conditions, captains thereof, Eren in cases whrane again. Such coins, we are informed, the government, when it is in the power of sanguine buyers in many cases over estimated had disappeared. He was traced to a house in for some discussion, bat no action was Government intend to send to the melting the traders themselves, if they were to co
the stocks that they would be able to die some distance away, when the stolen property taken toward compelling or even requesting pot and so reduce the amount in circulation operate amongst themselves.
to reject pose of. Consequently, the local reserves of was discovered. At the Police Court, to-day. being the opinion of those present that the the railroads to give a more prompt service, li to one actually required by the necessities the foreign subsidiary tokens tendered piece goods increased enormously, as the the cook, Cheung Chat, pleaded guilty to a railroads were treating the millers as well as of business in the Colony." If by the relum
in payinent in the ordinary course of ofstake gradually resurised ita normal course charge of theft and he was sentenced by Mr, they could. of the two million odd dollars of subsidiary
business.
By the publication of the during, the first half of the year, and during Hazeland to six weeks hard labour and alx coins last year to Birmingham the Colony.
notification not one - step, is advanced the latter ha'f the falling off was, nearly had to incur a loss of something like $100,000 towards the adoption of any remedial we dread to contemplate what will be the measures to overcome the currency difficul. expense involved by the luxury of re- ties of Hong ong. The Government is turolog some $400,000,000 of subsidiary powerless. The situation has been created mand anything like the value of Japanci Y37,791, surplus brought over from the previous colna, which is the amount estimated by the merchants and traders themselves, or certain local varieties. Russian oll has ontimate and by the moneychangers, whose business dissppeared, allogether from the Shans
Colony By a process of elementary arith it is to turn a profitable dollar out of their melic let us multiply by 200 and we arrive exchange transactions. Let the commercial at the enormous total of 520 000,000 which section of the community, combine to resist the Colony might be required to pay for the the acceptance of the foreign coin and then privilege of calling in the subsidiary coins, we will find that the difficulty will automati allowing, of course, a certain amount for cally resolve itself in the currency of Canton what is considered as being required "by being so depreciated that it will be accepted, the necessities of business in the Colony."only at its intrinsic value. If is local That amount is for all practical purposes, as market value should by any circumstance 80
bours in the stocks.
will have its effect on the Australian figur
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
- MAILS - DUE,
French (Tonkis)'7th Insti Indian (Hopsang) 8th inat. American (Doric) 9th-Inst.. Indian (Kumsavg) 13th 'inst. Indian (Autrang) 18th init,
universal, reaching in some cases to over 33 THE stat half-yearly report of the Japie Flour per cent. Indian yarns, it is stated, lead Milling Company for the period from Decem in the market, but they do not comber to May last, just published, shows the bet profit for the period to ba Y110;166, fecluding period. Of this sum, V4,287 has been paid for, dividend at the tie of 23 per cent, per annum, Y4,400 bas been placed to the reserve. Yro,000 to the reserve for the depreciation of machinery, plant and buildings 17,ao for bonuses to officials, surplus of Y47,187 being Carried forward. The authorised capital of the company is 11,000,000, of which Y474,001 is
hila debentures have been lasised to the The Imperial German Mail di Prinz Zad paid-up,
with TheCrva aggregating Y85,600,
odo. Or the capital; Y210,745 is | w/7, which left hate on-grd ins, cat 9 am,
hai market; American case oll shows a de crease of some fifteen million gallons while Sumatra of has increased by over 60 per cent., which must be good reading for the shareholders of the joint British and Java Company, which controls the oil-fields in the South. The total tonnage of all the vessels visiting the port during the year aggregated 17,113,903 fone, or nearly shros
The s.q. Saint Patrick left Keslung to-day, and is due here on 8th inst.; about mount
request was made through the telephone for certain work to be done to ibe steam» ships, the defendant company were presumed to be acting for the owners, sic, of the said steamship. He was giving this evidence from.
past experience. He is the Errol And also that work, was done to hực by, thị Yokohams Engine and Iron Works, · ·Payment was usually made by the defendant compan"," but in default of such payment she demand bad to be made on the owners or captains of the vessels, in the event of the steamship having left the barbour and payment not being made by be defendent company, the demand was of course made to the defendant company,»
This concluded the evidence:
Mr Masolina contended that the defendintat was not acting as the legal
Lafaction.
The N. V. K. a. Kanagawa Mark, Euro- pean Line, left Shanghai for this post on sit the owner of the steamship last, and is expected herd on 8th lost, war and it was therefore improper for the salai
The NY, KL Yaward Mary, Australian, to demand payment of the Lins, left; Nagasaki for this "port" on gihʼinst;
Me, Idzura argu and is expected here on geb inst, R.m.vi
sigoed by:
therefore,
I in the premises, maçalbery and plant.): arrived at Shanghal on 5th inst, at 7 pm 3: 14 Judgment wat