Intimation.
WATSON & CO.
LIMITED
THE GREAT
POPULARITY
Watson's
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VERY OLD LIQUEUR
SCOTCH
WHISKY
HAS BEEN ATTAINED BY ITS
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QUALITY.
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impair
Irishman or braw can find in the plot to
·Magistrate are possibilit of court, then easily prove an allbl. begin the story quietly y rather chilly at the
to arm himself with an axe and ple himió! a fine old veteran of the for
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
J. Bonaparte, U.S.okmaster-General, preparing a suit to break up the Harriman
ISRS. Carlowitz & Copas aganta for, the
imburg) sand or a
Captain O. L Price, passed the Iminary examination, in Japanese at the recent examination of officers for foreign lang
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ADMIRAL'S FAREWELI..
BRILLIANT FUNCTION ON FLAGSHIP;
ING ALFRED'S
LICENE OF WITCHERY, AND CHARMS
Although Hongkong is the headquarters
was afterwards resumed and kept up with mus
of the Brilish Squadron cruising In China: adjournment was made for water, and it might naturally be expected enthusiasm anill after midnight that naval functions and naval fêtes would the guests bad, to leave layones to be as common as Bower in June, at least special tram for the Peak Theothe while the men of war were in port, yet it is the to dance until the small hours of fact that the nights when the officers and Altogether the Admiral's ve men of the squadron tear themselves of cars of his à gab away from itera duty and entertain their the bomeland on shore friends are so few and far between that brillant and successful
event and each occasion become ane
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The suggestion probably is that with the Increas.d size of the vessels placed on the Australian and Far Eastern runs, and the superfluity of idle tonnage ready to sap up any cargo that offers, the wants of colonial merchants are more than provided for by a molety of the P. & O, fleet. But is there not another explanation ? Blay not, the necessity to find cargoes on the Continent be due to the pathing energy of Continental
Bichhe has "houses with branches established in the Far East? If the German trader finds his busi-marked out for his own some me ago.
THE shareholders of the Ickio Electric fall, peis expanding as the result of sheer bard That the tree happened to be Goernme work he is not going to extend his retail or property was merely an accident which way, a meeting held on 6th Ints almost wholesale trade by providing a market for might happen anywhere. Complied ble unanimously adopti da provisional contract for British goods or advance the interests of Bri- weapon with the enthusiasm of Gladstone the muzicipal'sitios of the railway,
DURING the abiance on Isare, of" Major, tish Shipping Companter. He naturally be and had almost finished hingfack when an stows his patronage on his own people and.
Inding constable blotted out the moon's face General R. G. Braidword, C., Colonel C.lf, may happen that bis success in business means and irritably shoujed "Wood any spare tlie Darling, C.F., assumes command of the
treal or omethi Puhtus which is troops in South China, from this data. ... the narrowing of British trade abroad,
quite
Scale Chinamon made low wit are informed by Myers. Purterfield & the consequence, Lust there demand for goods from England. If or no bones to quote the vernacular Swire avents for the Nord featscher Lloyd fact, which needs no evidence to substantiate about going, but went so fail that there war Oient Liar, that an Arrangement has been the Indian policeman to come in between the N.D.L. and the NY,K, Its truth, that out fo
foreign competitors parti. only one thing;
He played a fantasia whereby the latter withd'aw entirely from the cularly in the Far East are coming to the do-dubs
ccompany ug himself with Bangkok run on terms sat sfactory to barb front with rapid strides, the reward of in on li domitable pluck and undoubted merit. variations, something: aften, by, came, L La Torre, olja, They have laid claim to their share of "Lustige bruder. Kapwing that there a Rusk sto Kwal of 378, Caseli Road Central profitable trade and where they have no other policeman within, les he did the Accured of obtaining $120 from Leung they have builts cat-call, the hat snatched the three Shinr, a shopkeeper, curving on business at up their own ever, the British have led the way, and the ard did them very well indender Meine, by means of a trick, was charged at the Police others have followed in their foot-tracks, chair carried by two cooler who seemed Count, this morning, and remanded.-- taking advantage of the beaten path which in the last stages of breathlessness and
We are requested by the Rev. Father Spads, British merchants had flattened out in per- panted with the pants of those who are chaplain, to state that from top row, Sunday, PURE MALT WHISKY forming the pioneer work. That is by the supporting men of substance was slowly and every Sunday in future, the hours for way, but it may help to explain why the P. winding its way along the Peak. The divine service at the Rosary Church, Kow and O. boats can no longer find a sufficiency occupant was Mr. F. A. Hazeland. As the long, will be Ma & at 7.30 am, and Biss, of cargoes in England, despite the increased coolies shuffled along, a Chinaan sprinted fallowed, by the Benediction of the Blessed demand in China for goods of Western into view and before he could say Jack Sacrament, at 9am. manufacture and design. It was all very Robinson" he was grabbed by the athletic mm is made in suit the convenirace of fire for Sir Thomas Sutherland to say that and browny Magistrate who, It is alleged, the R.C. community residing on the Peninsula,
who will appreciate the change.. the trade between the Continent of Europe was not's Magistrate at all at that particular
How he grabbed the Chinaman. Divid Sassoon and Company's and the Far East was increasing and to add, moment. "this is not altogether a matter of surprise the worl will never know, for the sprinter sin mer Gathering, Apar attived from Sings Qarantine Anchorage. The rumour that she seeing that, after all, the Continent of has disappeared. Mr. Hazeland refuses to pore this morning and dropped sachor in the Europe is a good deal larger than this little to tell, amenity thieght discretion the better put into circulation. On inquries being made is and of Great Britain," but that has little to they evidently do with the question; the suggestion is that part of valour, But, grab the Chinaman at the offices of the agents we were informed Britain's export trade is diminishing and Mr. Hazeland certainly did, and he held on that the rumour had so foundating in fact. that will never do. As for Japanese com- with the grimness and tenacity of a bull dog. Tpå Catherine Apear, it was stated, had petition we know already the general terms It must have been a glorious sight-the anchor in the Quarantine Anchorage, be- in which the chairman of ite P, and O. Com. law in all its majesty stepping off the bench her usual anchorage had been taken op pany spoke of the monoply in the yarn carrying to make the guilty quake. We wonder byfanother steamer, trade from Lombay to Japan, and the subject need not be further discussed. As for the increase in the cost of passenger fares if anybody coul: have made out a good case for the general rise Sir Thomas Sutherland was the one to do it. Whether he has done so_or not is quite immaterial, for we are bound hand and foot by the great passenger Sines visiting Hongkong and as each one of them has adopted the io per cent, surtax the unfortunate passenger has simply to grin and bear it and pray for better times, Adverting to the mail contract which has been signed by the British Government, Sir Thomas offered some reminiscences which are worth quoting. He said: "It is a matter of some historic interest, at all events to myself, that in the first mail contract which I had anything to
been denie connecrosis rulo, pow. fires-and-a-murder symph flea euths while 53, Queen's Road West, on the 8th instant, electric lamps, certainly achieved paid-off crew being dua toʻshil
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THE B. & U. COMPANY. Sir Thomas Sutherland was scarcely in that vein of pawky humour which has cnlivened the shareholders' meetings of the P. & O. Company in the past, when, on the 16th a, he described the operations of the
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what Mr. Hazeland really said, whether it was: " D'ye ken was I am," as one Scotch policeman avere again we keep on the sale side by saying "aver"-or "Say yer prayers at wanst, ye divvil!" as some think. In any case the Magistrale gave the Chipman the half-Nelson when the latter proposed to leave and only the sound of a teamroller going at full speed and vomiting clouds of steam into the cool air of a scraphic night saved him from being Zbyscued. The reverberating machine turned out to be the Indian policeman lumbering down hill Just at this the crucial moment Mr. Haze land's kind heart took advantage of the interruption-and the Chinaman may be still running for all anybody knows. He certainly did not come back. Now the
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The new · Arrange.
Friday.
each Invitation a thing to be remembered and treasured, Last night was one, of the memorable nights in naval circles, and also to those who had been allowed the privilege of bidding farewell to the officem who are to HMS Hawke and Creasentore be paid off on Tuesday next
England via Singapore to day, weki The King alfund was anzia for the ocers' commission was bani, in com Casion, Whoever was responsible for the the bringing out of reliefs for scheme of decorations, which were largely red, Admiral Sir A. W. Moore's carried out by the artistic grouping of relief crew number are
sult which was evidence of a fine perception of the capabilities of electric | As customary on this station there, will be illumination for decorative purposes. The no special demostration on the departers of King Alfred was alive with multi-coloured the Aing Alfrid's men. But their arrival in lights picked out in the traditional red; England will probably be made the occasion
of an enthusiastic recepționa The Ass shoot white and blue designs, and the whole scene
the splendid world record schlered was quite tangible. The staircases and layers test have been made the subfact of gave the visitors sense of the artistic whichg of the men in batile practice last year and alcoves were rendered fragrant with sweet special encomiums in service jurnal's palms were strewed with excellent effect at smelling plants, while the usual fern and odd corners. The quaiter deck was, of course, brilliantly lighted and when themajority of the
gold lace scintillated on the jewels of the guests had assembled there and the flashing of
ladies, while the garb of the Sassenach relieved the blaze of the tartan, the picture was complete.
Along the after part of the bridge were the supper tables, while the casemates haul been converted into floral retreats where whispered conversations and final partings THE Japanese Government has issued stricter might take place without the parties being instructions, pletely prohibiting the emi-subjected to the cold'stere of the critical. gration of urables towards America. This step has been taken in view of the loose man ner in which passports were issued by some prefectures. The Tokio authorities are opti mistic with regard to the fate of the Japanese Exclusion Billio Washington, The also expect that Mr. Lemieux on his return to Ottawa will do much to remove misconceptions in Mials terial and parliamentary ciclos. His hurried return was principsily due to the existence of these misconceptions.
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steamer Victoria, formerly on the British register, latterly the property of Kwang Tuck Tai sad sailing under the Chinese Jig, was arrested in the Arsenal Reach yesterday on Mixed Court warrant, reports the N.C.J), Neins of 7th inst. The firm of Kwang Tuck Ta failed at Newchwang some weeks ago, and the about a month since, has been seizet by one of the firm's creditors in satisfamion of their claim. We understand that Instructions h ve been given for her to be sold, bài that a protes:
All the Naval and Military officers of the squadron and the garrison had been invited, and for the first time since their arrival the officers of the Cameron Highlanders were sech in the ornate evening dress of the regiment. They have yet to appear in their
evar full war paint with their beavers swing, but last night's glimpse appeared to be emi nently satisfying. There were also present a representative body of Consular officials, besides many of the leading residents of the Colony
The guests were received at 9 pm; and the proceedings did not conclude till the
was so unqualified success from beginning early hours of this morning. The function to end, and the ban poyays offered the off- cere as it was enthusiastic. Whatever the King Alfred undertakes it does well; it will be an unusually successful function which
concern during the year and dealt with some do with thirty years ago, the company were question is: Should Mr. Hazeland aa Victoria, which came down from thai po cers who are homeward bound Wat RE Sin--i
paid a very much larger sum for a very much smaller and inferior service. We have saved the Government in the various
component member of the Force; a regular attendant at the Folice Ball, and a tme believer in discipline, be considered to
of the principal questions which have arisen either as the result of keener competition on the part of rivals or the enhanced prices of -general, commodities. But one sentence towards the close of a lengthy address, full contracts which we have made since that have transgressed the rules, and regulations has been sent in to the Tann by other in eclipses last night's file.
of pith and marrow, should have consoled
by allowing a prisoner to escape? Was he terested creditors.
the shareholders for many of the drawbacks we have, at the same time, accelerated 'the in the position of # Police Magistrate when RETURNS of the average amount of bank
which were experienced during the years for they were informed that, "The company was never, in my opinion, in a stronger position than it is at the present moment." Coming on top of the remark that in the last eight years the shareholders had received upwards of 100 per cent, on their capital, it is appar. ent that those who have invested their
money in the P. & O. Company have not much reason to complain of bad times or fickle fortune. But there are thousands of others besides the shareholders who are interested in the affairs of the P. & O. Com pany. There are those who have reason
are already planning ways and means to
Banks.
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ENGINKENS BANCHE
AN ENJOYABLE FUNCTION,
home.
and shipbuilder Instiute of Hepgkong bed annual dance at the City Hall,. There Last night the members of the Engineers
was an exceptionally large gathering-bo 400 invitations having best issued and the
gathering" "proved unquestionably the mest enjoyable and success!al held under the same auspices. The whole of the interior of City Hall was suitably dressed for the occasion. From the doorway a red carpet lad to, the were lined with pot plants, and evergreen, At the top of the staircase was gibe top of the staircase, both sides of which
insil ute's cost-of-arms, with the Phoenix. anding out triumphantly and etcircled with wins lectric lights Both 91, Andrew's and St George's balls were occupied by the dancers, and thain were tastefully decorated, bunung lining the walls, their glaring colos
eiergreens which were greatly in sv being flesed by sne gracef
• Tha flugi waaid perfect condillos for which was carried on patil the easly: this morning to the strains of the music sup pled by Machado's Sizing Bard.
The full programme was us under !-----
Circea Cicls Bootch Airs
Walte
Cladonians NI TAN Barn Dance Elginnorna Real Twoklep
·Walla.
Schottische Quadrilla Barn Dans Lancers.
·Walte Caledoniane..
Bars Danos :: Lancersk
Water ** *Caldonium
Soolok Air
The Boston Ballde ''The Beli amang ika' Taliars, Binas Away, Cquino Talizes
Happy Darkles
** ** ** ** The Choristers,
Jolly Jinks.
The Gondellers.
Plendor
time something like £100,000 a year, and
Forthe convenience of the two hundred shore
The arrangements had been most care guests attending the King Alfred farewell Carried out and nothing was spared to movement of the Indian mails by not less he grabbed that Chinaman, and did to be-notes in chculation and of sperie in reserve in than a whole week, the China malls a whole come a mere man when he forgot the tongkang, during the month ended, it ball, boats and barges attended by the officer the comfort of the guests. The officiati
incharge of boate awaited the arrival of those in charge wars;-Invitation Commisters A.Rii fortnight, and the Australian mails, I think, double lock? Some poor tukong or apolo December, 1907, as certified by the massevited, at Murray Fier. The guests began to arrive D. Harvey, 1. F. Miller, R. Hunter W even a little more. As a matter of fact, it getic Indian gets fined every other day for of the respective Banks:
Avenge Specie in shortly before 9 o'clock gun was fired. All the | Crake and A. L. Sutha's Decoratiba Comm has been our policy to connect the mail letting prisoners escape. What about Mr.
Amount. Reserve, way up the gangway on each side of the flag H, T. Richardson, R. Mitchell, TW. Sinc
ship electric lamps were run. Ascending the A. Milroy and H. R. Badgers Supp contract with the generat progress of the Hazeland's case? The point is a very fine Chartered Bank of India,
Apsirali and China, 53,174,8:7 $500,000 steps at the tap of the gangway was a bowery mittent T. W. Robertson, A Hongkong and Shanghai Company, and I think to the moderation of one and there are one or two inspectors of our demands on the public purse on the police who are racking their brains over the Banking Corpora one hand, and the enterprise which we have conundrm. Perhaps after all Mr. Haze- tion, 13,890.6ng 10,200,000
Limited,
341,736 shown in carrying out the service once it land maybe absolved; consider his constema. National Bank of China was obtained, we owe the fact that for sixty-tion when suddenly brought face to face with
Total,.......................... $16,9 6,165 17,630,000 seven years to-day the company have secura Beeing apparition; think of his dismay ed what I might call almost a monopoly of and amazement when he found he had A Toxio.despatch, of sth in 1 to the N. C.
national institution.. fter all is said and done the P. & Q. Company has every reason to be satisfied with the result of its operations in
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of green trees, roses and sextocal flowers giş. | Miller, JD." Morrison, W. F.C
Moore, Attend 'd by his officers, was on the quar-" | "mittee: W. A Crake, R. Hunter, D. H Ing out a delightful perfume Admiral Sir Arthur Logan, D. Harvey and A; L, Cunt oly 50,000er deck to receive the guests, amoy whom | J. D. Logan, T, Skinner and J. McCubbin.
were:-Commodore and Mr. Stokes. Major General Broadwoo', CB, Colonel Darling Colonel Anken, Sir France Piggon, Sir Henry's Lady and Miss Berkeley, Hop. Mr. and Mrs. F
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AWAYS AQUIN
TYOURTH GANG ARRIVES
the
Apparently
the mail contracts with the Far East," That actually grabbed the vision and learned that Nets says:-Viceroy Med, Chih-chans return: at any rate in a record which the company. It was no "spirit from leav'n or goblined to Mukden on December so. Yo terday be L. May, Hon. Mr. and Mrs, Henry Keswick, Mr. to study the mail arrivals and, those who may well be proud of and one which fully danin'd imagine his anxiety when he proclaimed the dependence of the judiciary H. Ross, the Han, Capt. Basil R. H. and when the scems of Dal Nippon to secure a trip home by the line which will Justifies its claim to being considered a heard, the fairy footsteps of the pursuery.it | in view of the completion of the judiciary arts. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs, H. W. Looker, Mr. of migrating to more congenial clim gemenile He promised impartiality of F.A. Hassland, Maj w Chapman, Mr. W. Arm- the past month or an an, cas ihan Josice, Honestams began to run in Mukdes sirong, H. Mr. and Mrs E. A. Hewolf, Han, of stowaways have alis
47. A telegram from Taiten states that Mr. and Mrs. W. Chatham, C pt. and Mrs. admission into the Colo the face of alleged Japanese discrimination Wyatt, Tan, Mr.W, Rees Davies, Capt, and casion the new in biancheria, Rapsing tobacco, ingalbar, with Mr. H-Beasley, Majo and Mrs. Chitty, Mr. Gusbed across 1B-2,itagaw piher vanlife, boters, Manchuria vi Harbin N Clothige Liest, and Mes; J; D'Exterra, y they have had to pay the tax practically free of Customs duty and is over Capt and Mrs. Dooner, Lt Comdr. and Mr. at the Police Cuit. On Wede
musa afsparcie Government Freemantle, Comdr. and Mrs, Greafell, Mr tounk gang,comp apanese traders in Tairas are agitating for. Ill. Gomperts, Mr. H. Hancock, Mr. D. R. men, arrived on t exemption from the payment of duty panding Law, Mr. and Mrs, G., C. Moxon, Mr. H. R. They were found
land them as near as possible to the thatched cottage or the suburban villa. English per ple in the Far East may not travel home by one of the P. & O, boats, but nevertheless they regard the P. & O. Company as a national institution, whose interesti are in- dissolubly bound up with those of the Britishers who are plodding away for dear
1907.
THE MAGISTRATE'S PRE- DICAMENT
Some of the ribald people who are to be
Magistrate ? It is useless to beat about the bub, although there is reason to bellove the Magistrate did some bush-beating at the time-for the gentleman concerned is the humorist of the Hongkong bench along top
was chough, when all is put together, to dis arm ́and rout a regiment of: magistrates, there is a doubt in the mind of the reader as to The responsibility of Mr. Hazeland for allow ing the prisoner to escape, then Mr. Mare, land is entitled to receive the benefit of that doubt, and a majority verdict in favour of dismissal will in all probability be accepted,
Tagus is a project on font to build a Japanese town of considerable dimensions on the im. mediate west of the city of Helder The estimated expenditu a is Y8,500,000, spread over a period of four years, but nothing is said
Manchuria
fore
A CANDID confession is good for the soul," thought Lan Yung, a fireman, soalding at 8, Des Voeux Road Central, early this morning when he was stopped by alubong in The decorations were carried out, with ran Des Voix Road, Lao was carrying animic skill wb ch1xcited general-admi pig-skin inak containing about Syn worth Beautiful fernt, Ceepers and
the quarter deck and from
MET. F. Hough, some of the Consular Off-«omy with abisipler a paus cers, the Officers n the British and Foreign mourn to Hongkong without
Saco each respectively) Navy in part, and the Officers of the Cameron The two male delandsets, were
ishlanders,
place.
SHIPPING AND
life at the. Back o' Beyont. The principal found in and about the Magistracy are pain. but it should be understood that these the complete enforcement of Costume errange. ['phefips, Major R. T. Rosi, Br, H.-W. Blade, the Water Police, i points touched upon by Sir Thomas Suther-f fully cudgelling their brains over a problem highway jinks must not be indulged in atments by the Russian ninho ities in Nonh | Mr. and Mrs. C. D, Wilkinsor, Mr. A; G. Wise, This morning, 18sy wete chat land related to the foreign competition of the deepest moment, for it. Involves the the Peak ospecially with Impunity which was experienced at Antwerp, the com question: When is a Magimrate not a petition inaugurated by the Japanese in the Bombay Japan service, the yarn trade to China, the increased cost of coal-English, Indian and Japanese—and the higher prices that had to be paid for food-stuffs, the hue and cry raised by a section of the British population in India against the ten per cent. surtax on the passenger rates and the all-red route. With regard to the fight which the we except the medical man, he is most likely P. & O. Company engaged, in with the to get his own back, Bo that we will retail Germani, at Antwerp, Sir Thomas made an the harrowing experience which is alleged observation which we fancy might be in légal circles the word "allegad differently interpreted. He remarked that: all the sins of the docalos "Antwerp 21,8 port, is more néce to urothen
now than ever it was before
absolutely, Impossible for us to fill Loui
to the source from which this money is of fathing of his shoulder. The Inkong
alde, to wit Mr. F. A Hazeland. Now, it be obtained. It appears that the willway wanted to know who, the trunk" belonged is a dangerous thing to treat a Magistrató's possesses aures of land measur doings with levity, because of all people, if trúba, and
known: to Jawy
thon,
wam-ly 650,000 frida, will site of the town. ba built within the
*COVAN
and a few
miles from wide will lead The line
of greenery peeped fotka ogmb
176 10 Lau hommed, sad bawed: nwhile, halba' in the national colours
Ara, bat when be difcovered that the officer land-red, white and blue. Electric lamps
the meant business, he took the
Third
to the were slon run all around the ship. There was
bespecially ma'e
ather
ping, for t