The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 5510
CONTENTS.
Birth and Death.
Leading Articles:----
The Health of Hongkong. Canton-Hankow, Railway. Hongkong insurance Compatici. The Simple Life:
נ.
Hongkong Civil Servants! Salaries,
Education in Hongkong.
The Sugar Trade.
· Telegrams:---
The Liang-kwang Viceroyalty.
Typhoon Warning.
· Meeting's :--
Legislative Council..
The Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.
The Club Lusitano..
Canton-Hankow Railway.
Anti-Opium Campaign."
Gambling Suppression.
Legal Intelligence
Criminal Sessions.
Bankruptcy.
Appeal to the Privy Council, 'The Building Authority Casa,
The Disputed Mortgage. Building Contract.
The Man On Insurance Co. Landlord and Tenant, Suit for Money Lent Claim for Commission, Pollos-
A Jewellbr in Trouble.
Juvenile Housebreakers,
Chinese Stoward Assaulted. Alleged Murder at Yau-mati. A Rish Chaffeur.
Cargo for Manila Broached. Ex-Magistracy Interpreter Arrested. Rejected Lover's Revengo. A Rogue's Downfall, Miscellaneous Articles and Reporta
Our Civil Servants' Salaries. Sir Matthew Nathan, The Fête in Canton. Kowloon-Canton Railway. Eye Diseases in Hongkong. Canton Tea and Silk Crops. The Bacteriological Institute. Cape Collinson Light.
Typhoon Relief Committee.
Suicide at East Point.
Shanghal Docks,
Alleged Attempted Murder.
Rats and Raideas in Hongkong.
Chion Tent
Armed Robbery in the New Territory.
Volunteer Orders.
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Seattle-Oriental Run.
Belilios Public School.
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How to Secure Trade of China.
Far Eastern Trade.
The Boxer Indemnity. Wuchow Notes.
Canton Day by Day.
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Shanghai Share Quotations.
The Anking Assasination.
A Constitution for China?
The Rus Japanese Agreements.
Rice Market in Japan,
MAIL SUPPLEMENT.
ESTABLISHED) 1881)
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1907.
賦十二月七
she would with his own. He lived on rice and vegetables, he said, which he got om friends and patients for it should be understood that the Prince on his own asser tion gave medicine to poor Chinese. One is inclined to wonder if Alexander is a quack in more senses than one? The Court gave judgment for, the Chinaman-to the utter stupefaction of the noble defendant, we have not the slightest doubt and now Alexander is without a home. But he has always his title or titles, and he can always get under them when it begins to rain, but he would be well advised if he steered a course away from Hongkong because titled gentry with a penchant for leading the simple life at other people's expense are not hugged to the breast here. There is a moral in the tale which needs no pointing out.
HONGKONG CIVIL SERVANTS'
·SALARIES.
(17th July)
英港香 註
ŠIS FER ANNt SINGLE COPY, 251
晚一十月六年三十三猪光 births registered. It is customary, therefore, But the Company was floated by the people deposit with the Registrar of Companies of the Chinese in Singapore. The Prince result has been that by the rise in to assume that all children of one month and it is not a vain repetition to remind the securities of such kinds as aforesaid, to the and the Chinaman lived together contented the gold value of the dollar, they found old and under who die in the various reader that the meanest coolies in Canton value of auch balance of premiums, until the ly, the former sharing the latter's wakan,' as that their speculative bent had ledy convents (being brought there sick by poor clamoured for the opportunity to subscribe deposit equal two hundred thousand dollars." they call their chow in the South, them astray. Then the whole body of people) and all children found dead in the their mite when the share-list was opened That does not seem to be a very extravagant until one day a coconut tree in the com- civil servants, framed a series of memorials streets, harbour, hillsides, etc., by the police, and retained in the hands of the people for amount, especially in the case of a company pound was blown down. The philanthropist which, upon submission to His Excellency: proceeded to gather the nuts whereupon Sir Matthew Nathan, received his support have been born in the Colony but not regis the benellt of the people; yet no sooner was doing a large business in the Colony or on tered. By adding the number of such it mooled that a meeting would-be held to the mainland, but it is at least a safeguard | Alexander caught up a knife and chased him in a recommendation to the Secretary of children to the number of the registered appoint the,, necessary officers of the under that irresponsible, mushroom concerns off the premises. By this time it appears State. The answer from the Colonial Office, births a corrected number of births is taking than confusion reigned, the main will be prevented from entering on a purely that His Highness had arrived at the con- in the first instance, was what any practical obtained and from this is calculated a cor- endeavour of the shareholders apparently speculative career to the ultimate loan of the i clusion that he owned the premises, that the man in the Colony, might have anticipated. rected birth rate. The number of such being to thwart any and every effort which policyholders. As regards the nature of the Chinaman who had given him a bed and his On the 19th of May last Lord Elgin tolestia children in 1906 was 267 males and 316 was calculated to tend to a speedy adjust securities required to be deposited, "Any lile food was an intruder, and that he should graphed, in reply to Sir Matthew Nathan's females, total $83, which being added to the ment of affairs and place the company on ainetrance company may, on giving due notice make an end of such an anomalous state application for the payment of sterling
At any rate, he chased, the salaries at 188d; that he would conelderly registered births, makes a total of 1,904, business-like footing. All this meant that to the Registrar of Companies, withdraw of affairs.
from his custody any securities so deposited, inaman off the grounds, barricaded him- proposals to grant relief. to prison wanders, The preponderance of male over female the administration of the railway was at a gistered births is very marked amongst the deadlock. Nothing could be done in the on depositing with him xpproved securities off in the house, and lived the life of a subordinate police officers and persons of Chinese, there being 1gg males. to 100 way of beginning the construction of the equal value; and such substituted securities recluse, doubtless feeding on the nuts which similar salary and status, but ha was not pres Lemales. Even with the 583 above mention-line to Hankow, because there was nobody shall for all purposes be treated as securities the owner had been prevented from gatherpared to consider any allowance to officers ed unregistered births the proponion is 144 endowed with the necessary powers to see originally. The Governor shall in any case, ing. The case came into Court and Alex. more highly paid. The contentions of the males to 100 females.. The deaths registered that it was done or to direct how it should whether of original or substituted deposit, ander valiantly proclaimed his right to heads of departments, whose memorial them we reproduce to-day," apply with fur"morá during the year numbered 8,379, or 25.06 be done. And, in view of the spirit of be the sole judge of the valus of such stay on the premises, to sell per thousand, but that figure Includes the contrariness which prevailed, those re securities for the purposes of such deposit,if he thought: fil, and to deal with them force to the officers and Government ser vants drawing small salaries than to the loss of life in the typhoon of September and presentatives of popular opinion who and his decision shall be final and conclusive the fatalities that occurred through the burn- might have been considered well qualified on the life insurance company" Provision
agitators for further exchange relief. Yet ing of the Hankow, the exact rerulls of to undertake the direction of at least is made for the separation of life insurance
when two years ago, the subordinate officers which will never be known. But taking these the preliminary operations of the work, and annuity contracts accounts which will
presented their petition for a readjustment: figures for what they are worth it appears that pending the election of officials, fought shy form, what will be known as the life in:
of their scale of salaries because of the the death rateamong non-Chinese has dwindl of an appointment which offered little likeli-surance fund: "Provided always that this
bigher cost of living in the Colony, principal ed from 20.50 in 1901 10 14.02 per thousand hood of reward but might pave the way section shall not apply to any contracts
ly in the matter of house rents, but generally last year, which is extremely satisfactory. for an abundance of abuse. The money made by any life insurance company exist
in all departments, they were met with the Unfortunately, the statistics for the Chinese was subscribed by the shareholders, lying ing at the commencement of this Ordinance
reply that only in the matter of house rent community are by no means so bright, for Idle in the local banks. of Canton, and by the terms of whose deed of settlement
had an increase taken place, but as to the the death-rate per thousand has risen from naturally excited the cupidity of those who the whole of the profits of all the business
necessaries of life there had been no change. 23.77 in 1901 to 35.41 in 1956. Referring saw an opportunity of diverting it to other are paid exclusively to the life-policyholders,
The heads of departments who framed. to the high case-mortality recorded at the purposes while the shareholders were being and on the face of which contracts the la-
the comparative statements of the cost of Tung Wah hospital, the compilers observe distracted by the moves and counter-moves blity of the insured distinctly appears." |
commodities present as an enclosure to that the "Hospital is a purely Chinese in of the faction leaders. Fortunately, such The other sections which have reference to
their petition a scale of charges ruling for stitution, maintained by voluntary contribuefforts were in no case successful. But the this branch of insurance deal with the pro-
what constitute the daily wants of life in tions, and supervised only by a Government effect of all these delays, disputes and cedure to be adopted in the event of the
Hongkong Table A, another of their en medical officer. The reason, however, for the imbroglios was by no means designed to company having to be wound up, the power
closures, purports to show a bill of costs typical of the monthly expenditure of thehead of a junior department with a family of three high case mortality at this Hospital does not induce a favourable verdict regarding of the Court to reduce contracts, notices to
young children and drawing a salary of lie altogether in the treatment of the patients, Canton's commercial ability from those who policyholders and other formal matters. but in the fact that the Hospital is regarded were, accustomed to western methods of With regard to fire, and marine insurance
$5,400, and a subordinate official drawing a by the Chinese more as a "home for the procedure in such crees. It is needless to companies, no mention is made of any de
Salary of £345 per annum. We need hardly do more than direct our readers to this extra- dying than as an institution for the treat dwell on that point, for the Cantonese never posit being required by the Government, ment of the sick. Consequently, the great did appraise foreign' opinion very highly, which means that a decidedly unfair advant
Of the public schemes which were originat ordinary document to show how preposterous majority of the cases of malaria that are but the fact remained that they were not age is given alien concerns to enter into admitted thereto are in a moribund cond! doing justice to themselves. Eventually, competition with Hongkong companies ed by the former Governor of Hongkang, are the charges which the officials allege they tion, and so near to death that even the preparations were made to hold another which specialise in these branches of insur. Sir Matthew Nathan, it will be admitted have to incur as against the ordinary civilian hypodermic administration of quinine is of mass meeting, and it seemed as if these pre- ance. If must not be forgotten that before that few formed the subject of adverse cir-in Hongkong. For the taxpayer is called upon no avail. Could we educate the Chinese to parations were mainly to take the form of a Hongkong marine insurance company can ticism by the Press, but his policy with to make provision for a man carning $5,400 reference to the emoluments of the a year to the extent of $1,080, quite 20 per Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition.seek medical aid on the first onset of the lining the streets leading to the assembly hall operate in Japan, to take á near example, a Marine Court,
symptoms of fever, and could we at the with troops. The promoters, however, made deposit of 100,000 yen has to be made, but public service in Hongkong, never com- cent. of his income, for his insurance fund, To and a similar amount for his clothes and same time educate the many Chinese herb their arrangements with skill, foresight and any Japanese marine company may enjoy all mended itself to our admiration. alists and native doctors who ply their call ability. They brought to Canton represent the privileges and advantages of a local begin with, when he inaugurated the footwear which average $90 a month. The ing in this Colony, in the efficacy of quinine, atives of the principal railways in the Empire corporation without offering any guarantee classification scheme for the lower branch servants of such a public officer cost bim 3BS many lives would undoubtedly hesaved which whose combined wisdom would influence of its soundness by, the transference of of the civil service, fixing the maximum a month and we are asked to bellere that be are now sacrificed to ignorance and indiffer- the shareholders, and they had a workable securities from Japan to Hongkong. The salary of the subordinate officials at $185 Cause "teeth 'go' very badly in Hongkong ence." It had been hoped that malarial fever scheme for the determination of the voting majority of the sections will appeal rather to after a period of over 30 years' falihful and dentists' bills are very high he was in a fair way to being expelled from the results. For reasons which it is unnecessary the lawyer than the layman as will be service to the Government, we condemned requires a monthly provision of no His Excellency's advocacy of less than $10. The absurdity of these Colony, after the reports of the immediately to attempt to fathom, that meeting was apparent from this sub-section which says it in foto, preceding five years, but the total number of postponed, at the last moment, until last that Ifany company or member thereof the higher civil servants for further relief in figures will be apparent to any taxpayer, deaths which occurred from malaria last week, and the outcome was brilliantly suc feels aggrieved by the name of such com.the matter of exchange compensation, over and why they did not appeal to the year was higher than any since 1897, when cessful. Mr. Lo Po-shun was elected pre-pany having been struck off the register, a year ago, was also opposed by us, as being a critical faculties of the public representatives the figure was placed at 554, whereas last sident. Mr. Wong Shiu-ping vice-president, the company or member may apply to the one-sided arrangement in the interests of 2 at the Legislative Council yesterday we are year it was 448 as compared with 287 in and Sir Cheng Liang-cheng, Mr. Li King Court, and the Court, if it be satisfied that body of officials who had twice had their scale. at a loss to conceive. The unofficial quem- 1905, 30r in 1904 and 300 in 1903. Coming fun and H. E. Chang Pat-sze members of it is just to do so, may order the name of the of salaries readjusted since 1894 on the plea bers cut a sorry figure at the meeting. Dr. to the question of dwelling houses in the the committee of management. Judging company to be restored to the register, and that they were suffering on account of the Ho Kai spoke in support of the resolution Colony, it is stated that the number of from these names, most of which are thereupon the company shall be deemed to variations in the gold value of the dollar. moved pro forma by the Colonial Secretary. dwellings in Hongkong reaches the respect familiar, we should say the directorate is a have continued in existence as if the name To appreciate the exact position of the ex- to grant exchange compensation to te off able total of 8,503 and these contain 25,296 strong one, capable of resisting outside thereof has never been struck off, and the change compensation scheme it will be cera of the Government, involving a retro- The average number of persons ra blandishments or chicanery, and sufficiently Court may, by the order, give such directions necessary to take a retrospective view of the spective loss to Hongkong of $44,000 for the floors. siding in the dwellings was 20.4 and on imbued with the spirit of the undertaking to and make such provisions, as seem just movement carried on in the interesis of the first half of the current year and the paying cach floor 6.9o.. During the year, the sanitary force on the work which will bring Canton for placing the company and all other publicservants ofthe Colony; that is, of course, awayofazavingofno less an amount, probably, officers made 1,393 night visits with the into direct communication with the capital, persons in the same position, as nearly those servants domiciled in a gold-using which will bave accrued by December for the object of discovering whether the tenants and, at the same time, sufficiently powerfuls may be, as if the name of the country, for it must be remembered that the second half of the year. Dr. Ho Kai is the i^ were keeping within the law in respect of to safeguard the interests of the shareholders. company had never been truck off." scheme only affects such officers in the only member of the Council who sat at that ov rcrowding. In 566 cases they found that What the appointment of this board means to That would seem to offer an abundance of public service. In 1894, when the value of board when the question of exchange.com- the total number of persons occupying the Canton and to ongkong time alone can tell, practice for the legal fraternity in the event the silver dollar began to depreciate in its pensation arose in the nineties, and how can floors exceeded the allowed and doubtless but all are agreed that it will regenerate and of, differences of opinion arising among the relation to the sovereign, there was a general be justify the attitude he adopted yesterday the usual prosecutions followed. We may revivify the industries of South China, and members should a company encounter agitation on the part of the Far Eastern in celling upon his constituents to providle have an opportunity on a future occasion of therefore contribute incidentally to the future difficulties in its operations. Finally, it is colonies to obtain an increase in salary for this extra sum for public servants" salaries referring to the minor statements incorporat prosperity of this Colony. The only other laid down that the provisions of this Orthore officers whose private requirements when it is centrasted with his previous argu- ed in the main report, but we have, we fancy, point which occurs at this time is as to the dinance will not arply to any life insurance necessitated remittances home. The result ment for an increase when the dollar had given enough to prove the extremely en- position of the Hongkong.subscribers to the company which has made a deposit in Great of the outcry was that the Legislative Coungone down? The unofficial members proved *grossing nature of the document as a whole. Railway Company who refused to remit Britain under the provisions of the Life As-cil voted a liberal grant, to the officers affect so many puppets at the will of the official their first instalment to Canton but deposit-surance Acts 1870 to 1872, and the Govern, ed, being the equivalent of a substantial rise wire pullem. Let it be understood that CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY. ed it in Hongkong banks, The reasons or-in-Council may at any time in his discre in their salaries in dollars calculated on the these wire-pullers were the officials of the which prompted them-to-retain-in-their-tlon and for such peri-d-and-on-such condi.Laverage rate of exchange ruling in the preced local administration; for Lord Elgin and (15th July.)
own hands the funds collected locally can- tions as he may think fit exempt from any or ing manth. And, again, after a few years, the Under Secretary of State for the Nothing could be more satisfactory in the not now be said to exist, and the only ques all the provisions of th's Ordinance any life, when the great slump in the price of silver Colonies have consistently opposed the took place, there was another agitation giving of any grant which could not eyes of those who sympathise with the Can- tion is whether they are recognised as full-fire or marine insurance company.
to obtain still further relief for the be logically upheld in the interest of tonesc in their effort to work out their own fledged shareholders or must go through the
favoured officials. Then it was that the sterling paid Government, servants. It is not officials salvation than the result of the mass meeting form of making new application for shares.
Sec etary of State for the Colonies held out often that we side with the f the Canton-Hankow Railway Company's It may be assumed that the Hongkong sub.
too great While there are some people who are the option to the Government servants of in Downing Street, shareholders, which was held with the object scribers are in a position to look after their of electing a president, vice-president and own interests, and doubtless. the paint as to compulsorily obliged to lead the simple life, taking their salaries half in silver and half in praite cannot be extended to them for hold- committee of management. Amid evidences their standing in the Company will he de- from the cheerful ne'er-do-weel to the gold, the latter calculated at the average rateing the purse-strings of the Colony as tightly of fraternal amiability and general good-will cided in their favour. In every way the dyipeptic millionaire, to say nothing of that of exchange for the month. The option, as they did in the matter under discussion. the much canvassed meeting, which was finding, the conduct and the character of clans of literary scribes who resort to fantasti. which was undoubtedly in the best interests until compelled against their better judg expected by some to end in dissension and the meeting of the company's shareholders cal rethods in order to keep their ephemeral of the civil servants, was refused by them, ment to give way. Time and again the Direc uproar, paised off peacefully, regularly and last week must be regarded as admirable, reputations green, it is seldom that we meet, and almost to a man the sterling-paid officers tor of Public Works has bewailed the fact in Few of the reports issued by the several as composedly as the half-yearly meeting of and the construction of the important link that type of Individual in the Far East. elected to receive their salaries in full in ster- the Council that the programme of public public departments in Hongkong cover such the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor in the web of railway development of China, Nevertheless he is to be found in "Sunny ling. It must be borne in mind that at that improvement works bad been curtalled on- a variety of interests as that which appears in poration. Eight hundred shareholders pre- from Canton to Hankow, should now be no Singapore," as a ministerial writer who wrote period the consensus of opinion was that ing to the shortness of funds in the Treasury, mainly about Malaya called it, and he is a ine'ead of exchange remaining at 18: 8d. to. lake. Pier shelter, long recognised as a the Antent issue of the Government Gazette sented their tickets of admission, listened to longer delayed.
curious sort of character altogether. He the dollar it would so depreciate that it would public requirement, has, from year to year, under the signatures of Dr. J. M. Atkinson, the speeches with decorum, and voted for
is titled personage who goes under be quoted at anywhere between 1a 4d, and had to be shelved for that reason. The ty P.C.M.O., and Dr. Francis Clark, mon. i the men they considered best qualified
COMPANIES.
the name of the Baron de Horn, but . 6d. to the dollar. Contrary to all expec. phoon shelter which should have been com deals generally with reports on the health to represent the general interests of the in-
that appears to be his designation tation, the white metal-through the action menced and completed long ago is not yet mad sanitary condition of Hongkong for 19:6, vestors on the board of management. After
(16th July)
when travelling inchg, for on high oe of the Philippine Government, the Straits begun. The fire brigade apparatus anti- and comprehends official statements from all that has occurred in the past, after
The Bill which was introduced in the cations he blossoms out into his full title Settlements and the Mexican Republic inquated, ridiculous and impotent, the laugh the Superintendent of the Government Civil the riots, tumults, street fracas which have Hospital, and of the Victoria Hospital, on invariably followed, the meetings which had Legislative Council this afternoon by the of Prince Alexander Tsar. Whether bis reforming their standard of currency, and also ingstock of the community, remains lunatic asylums and the gaol hospital, on the previously been held with a similar object Attorney General with regard to life, fire protensions to either of these titles are well because of the large purchases made by the soimproved because no place for a vote can health of the railway employes, on bacteriolo in view, and the arrest of prominent share and marine insurance is certain to prove of founded does not appear, for the Singapore Indian Government, and, more recently, bebe ound on the Estimates. The firefloat gical investigations, and indeed, on every holders who have been kept in gaol for con- intereal in a community which is the papers give his name and rank within cause of the amount of silver required for which went down in the typhoon last year thing relating to the health of the Colony,siderable periods because of their connection headquarters of several insurance companies quotation marks, as if they would throw the war in the Far East-look an unexpected is to be replaced only to the extent of a new In these circumstances, it is manifestly im with the more vigorous element, is it not and the lucrative sphere of half a hundred doubt on the subject, but then they treat turn and silver rose in valus until it attained hull, the engines of the old float being tra
One of the important sections the Baron with such pbvious respect that its present price of oyér 28, ad. to the dollar. ferred to the new launch. Yet the millions passible to do more than brosch some of reasonable to wonder what genius succeeded others. the principal subjects which are taken under in stilling the storm and placating the im- which will appeal to the policy holder is they seem to fear the result of any playful | Accordingly, as we know, the civil servants of tons of shipping which enter and discussion by the Medical Officers, and to placable? Why should it have taken all that which lays it down that life insurance alusjon to the Prince's forebears. Alexan- once again raised a hue and cry against the leave the harbour have been for nearly hint, rather than to enter into details, at the these weary months to arrive at a decision companies carrying on business in Hongder, it seems, lias made a row of poverty, but system under which their salaries were paid. a year dependent on the favour of the Interesting information set forth in theseries which was reached with practical unanimity kong must deposit with the Registrar of how he managed to reach Singapore when be Here then we have established the Steam Water Boat Company in the event of coin being an emergency. The very essential Public of reports in question: During-the-past-the-other-day? What has happened in the Companies securities to the value of $50,000, hade't's sou it in difficult to imagine. The anomalous position of a year, there were 1028 births among the Chin meantime to remove the tension, and tone. After the first year when the Ordinance is in only conclusion is that be followed the er denounced when-it-was-low-in-value-and Works scheme for the extension of Tytám esa community and 293 among the non- down the spirit of suspicion with which all operation each company dealing in life in ample of those travelling bucksters who de decried when it subsequently appreciates. If Waterworks has made comparatively smuli Chinese, a total of 1337 altogether. It is parties, sections and cliques seemed to be surance must send in annual returns, sworn clare that they are walking round the world the scheme proposed by Mr. Chamberlain progress because of the smallness of the stated, however, that the number of Chiness torn and tormented at the earlier meetings? to by the principal officer of the company, for a bet, and generally spend their time in 1993 had been accepted, the civil servants funds available for the provision of an births registered does not give an accurate If the Canton Hankow Railway Co. had been of the amount of premiums received in from Naples to San Francisco on board would have been in the comfortable position enlarged water supply to the city. Sir record of the number of births which have a wild-cat affair, floated for the benefit of a few Hongkong, and in the case of a company comfortable passenger steamer. At all of being on an "even keel," inasmuch as if Henry Blake's admirable achenis for the occurred. Owing to the custom of the scheming financier, or at the instance of the registered in Hongkong, doing business in events Alexander settled down in Blaga- they had had to make remittances home to resumption of infianitary area can only Chinese in not registering biraba unless the Government, with shadowy prospects of any China, the amount of the premiums recely pore some months ago and proceeded the extent of half their salary, they would still be carried out piecemeal because the child has survived for a month and often in returns being derived from its operations, ed there in respect of the policies lasued to finske the acquaintance of China have had the other half in local currency to vote provided for it is inadequate to meet the case of female children not at all, it is one could well understand why the victims And the life insurance company ball, after many He asked for rice, and not only provide for their needs in the Colony. By the goods of the community. At the probable that the majority if not all of the of conspiracy to defraud them of their deducting twenty-five per centum therefrom did the Chinaman provide him, with a meat the rejection of that sensible and practical same time, the enormous revne derived Infants which are sickly at birth or die before hard-earned savings should protest with all and the net amount of losses or claims but he also gave him room, which is plution of the problem, the public officers from the (pium Farm la threatme gamble with exchange, and the auction; and Sir Matthew Nakkas they have lived a month have not had their their strength and with all their might, actually paid in respect of such policies, abundant testimony to the generous instincts elected to
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* BIRTH. On 19th July, at Hongkong, the wife of CARLOS CABRAL, Chinese Customs Service, - of a daughter."
DEATH.
On June 25, 1907, at Hillcrest, Ardnadam, ADAM A. WILLIAMSON, aged 61, late of Han- yang, China..
The Hongking Telegraph
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1907.
THE HEALTH OF HONGKONG, (13th July.)
HONGKONG INSURANCE
THE SIMPLE LIFE.
but