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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths, Leading Articles:
Hongkong's Subsidiary Coinage. Queen's College Collusities. Canton's Currency,
Yokohama Specie Bank and Colton Spinners, The Straits Opium Commission, China and the lowers.
·Telegrams :~~~
Piratical Outrage hear Saochow.
The Shanghai Watch Club,
Meating-
China Association.
Hongkong Land Reclamation..
West Point Building Co. Hongkong Land Investment The Chins Provident Loan and Mortgage
Ltd.
Hughes Estate and Finance Co., Ltd. Hongking Benevolent Society. Canton Mass. Meeting.
China's Sprereign Rights. Kulangse (Amoy) Municipal Council. Legal Intelligence :— ·
Bankruptcy Churl.
A Boarder's "Hard Luck."
A Disobedient Deltier,
A Gardener's, Claim.
Dispute about a junk.
Payment by Misinke
The Unf rtunate Boarder. Police:--
Armed Robbery in the City. Tragedy at Wanch of
A Disorderly Sembo,
Fattening Caule,
Dust Coolie and a Raster. Destitule. Senman in Higkong. Triad Sariery Raid,
ATrick hat Failed.
Correspondence-
Manila Carnival. •
Brussels Exhibition.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:—
-New Dock Tug.
When Homer Nods.
Loss of 5.5. Yiktang
The Kaiser's Birthday.
S.S. Ving King. Hongkong Docks.
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(30th January.)
A few days ago the members of the Opium Commission returned to, Singapore from their tour to Penang and the Federated Malay States, and, it is understood, are now engaged in drafting their report. Com menting on that fact the Singapore Free Press reverts the subject on the 18th January, and in a leading article says:—It is nearly six months since that Commission, consisting of well-known residents of Singa pore, was appointed at the instance, not of the Government of the Colony, but of the Home Government, with the object not of meeting any desire of the Colonial Govern- mont for information, but to suit the politi. cal exigencies of the present parliamentary situation, and to gratify the prejudices of an active agitation within the United Kingdom, which, because it possesses a certain degre of influence in the House amongst Members who are, or And it convenient to profess to be, in sympathy with that, agitation, has to be considered and conciliated, no matter at whose expense or inconvénience. Now the fact is that the gentlemen of the Oplum Commission have, as is a matter of fairly general knowledge, found their labours far more exacting than any one could hare® SER« - pected when they with great good nature, and a desire to be of service to the Colonial Government, consented lo sacrifice much of their professional time and private' leisure in order to collect evidence and propare a report, which in whatever terms it might be couched was obviously to be assumed by the Imperial Government as an engine for the. Interference with the Colony's, excise system; to the serious dislocation of our revenue, if any way that could be achieved. The one admirable, fact of the situation Morley, as Secrets of State for India, utter is to be found in dictum of Mr. John ed in the Fouse of Commons, in bis Budget speech of 1907, referring to the petitions and addresses sent to him on the Optim traffic, declaring that England as a nation. ought to consider "Righteousness before ought not to satisfy your own righteousness revenue." "Yes" said he but surely you at the expense of other people's revenue?” ject of the anti-oplum agitation in England, and like thesmall boy and the cake of soap, But it seems to us that that is the prime ob
"they won't be happy till they get it." But the Colonial Office, when it forwarded to the Governor of this Colony the reference the Commission to be appointed here was not so honest as Honest John Morley. The that was to form the basis of the inquiry by
reference that limited the field of inquiry we did not hesitate, when it was published, to denounce as transparently Insincere, We have not, of course, the least ides of how the rentlemen of the Oplum Commission
hampered by the terms of the reference, will eventually report, but, we cannot help
which declared it only wanted the sort of, thinking that either they must have been
evidence that would." be suitable to the In our last issue reference was made to the Home' Government's fixed ideas, or that curtailment by the Yokohama Spocie Back of they will have to declare the undue limita- Chronicle since received, that the exten the period of crafts, it seems, from the Japan tions of the reference, and then proceed on sign of the business of the Specie Bank the basis that what the Home Government has proved a heavy tax on its funds, Sicce really wanted was the truth, according to the queer terms of the reference, they pro Sphero to Manchuria, and stablish fessed not to want the truth but just the send usapanese gan, the bank has ex-
mentary book. Happily the task of the ed branches in the important cities there,
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK AND
the liver curaya scored under certain condition. One imparted goods, and now hesitate to afford largely controlled by the Government of the
wangtung is ankinjudbe to the boy who gave the following as a scientific farther facilities, and the holders of such Settlements, whereas in Hongkong our trade
Integrity of the Government of classification of food stuff Curry fow! marchrodue, with the exception of thore of highest standing, are experienclog much is almost entirely with a foreign population,
ghbouring province, for it is of no less and ice cream" bad, bis paper ruthiconly difficulty in meating their obligations. Export who by the tens of thousands onter and leave the Colony dally, fmplying a minimum Intrinsic value than our own Sir Frederick tom up. Is it possible that his mind was marchonts are not in much better, cees, For outley by each individual of, we will say, Lugard recommises, in, I sense of justice, oba ased with thoughts of feast to follow the stance, Chinese merchanar depending upou "Au a long-astabilsked usage have been placed in a at least a dollar for transit and incidental that the Chinese Government has at last examination? We read further:
customers Chips, to expenses. Consequently, the movement in come alive to the fact that in the sub- extraordinary answer in the same class very difficult position in their transactione. With
many of them, i
go, to foreign the currency can be put down at from sidiary currency it found an easy and a deserves to be recorded. The bottom and $10,000 to $15,000 daily as between profitable source of terences and in resort sides of a nullah are smooth because mad id, bare bass, compelled the R
bank Our fapan: contemporaries point Hongkong and the mainland and Canton- ing to that to enrich the coffers of the men are kept there with details of a padded not that the action taken by the Spicis Bank which may be considered for the purposes Province, it did no more, than the Govern room." Is it possible that nullah suggested is the result of a want of funds, and the only of trade the hinterland of this Colony ment of this Colony has done in the past to lunar lunatic? Half-a-doren boys in Class remedy available is an increase of capital, The report of the Committee appointed We have, then, on the recommendation of the advantage of the public revenue to VII when asked to write down six preposi Merchants engaged in foreign trade are natur by His Excellency the Governor to consider the majority of the Committee, the propost the amount of two millions in the aggre- tions, wrote the word proposition six times, ally hoplog that such an increase may be the question of the direction in which the tion that the exportation of coins should be gate, The suggestions contained in the and three others painstakingly covered thehir-ged for so that the targt of drafts may be THE STRAITS OPIUM COMM subsidiary currency of the Colony should prohibited. On the point as to how such a majority report are only of the character of side of a page with the full definition of ■ be reformed was presented to the Legislative prohibition is to be enforced the Commitice's tentallve efforts to palilata, po trouble with- preposition repeated six times. here can
MISSION: Council on Thunday, and without any beat report li entirely silent. As regards the out any clear dagron of ages being assured be no doubt that if all the scholar at ing about the bush we may say at once that question of importation it is easily dismissed or even a bullet of casure of the Queen's College are no genluses some of it does not appear to carry us a single step without much argument. It is admitted as succer likely to be stalked. Whereas in them approach that plane very closely. CANTONS LURRENCY. forward. That this should have been the an axiom by the Committee' as a whole that the recommbadations of the minority there result of the Comunitter's deliberations is the alien coinage is not legal tender in is nothing to lose, and the question would
(28th January,). not to be wondered at. It could never have this Colony; and, that being so, need not be resolved, according to the measure of been expected that a Committee constituted be accepted for more than what it is really success attending the negotiations between as it was of gentlemen representing such worth; or, to use a technical phrase, for more the Hongkong Government and that of Can While the Hongkong Government is con- conflicting interests could have arrived at one than ite bullion value. Were the suggestion' ton with the view of bringing about a com-sidering the best course to pursue to reform and the same conclusion. That their interests against importation to be carried out, to point mos understanding to their mutual ad the subsidiary coinage of the Colony, the should have clashed, those who studied the out its absurdily, one has only to suggest vantage It was recognised that the Viceroy of Canton has been engaged in an Committee's constitution were able to predict that the banks in. Hongkong might be pro most acute phase of this question is past inquiry and deliberations over the proposal, even from the very beginning; and that pre-hibited from trading in the importation of inasmuch as the discount of 9 per cent at emanating from the Central Government, to diction has been fulfilled by the fact that bullion To make it an offence punishable which the coinage stood about a year ago alter the standard coin of the Southern Pro while the merchant class are agreed on what by law to import sliver which is not current has gradually fallen to 4 or 44, and given that vince from the dollar to the tael. It will be the Governor has termed the majority report as a legal tender in Hongkong would be no rate of retrogression in the matter of discount recalled that departmental committee the others are on the side of the minority. lesz heinous than to prohibit the banks from and the adjustment of the position as between was appointed by H.H. Viceroy Chang We must qualify the term "merchant clesi" importing either silver or gold as bullion, an Hongkong and Canton, the disparity should Jen-chun to consider the proposal of the in this instance using it to imply the class articls of merchandise in which the banks ultimately be equalised automatically. In authorities of the Imperial Mint at Peking, whose interests are brought more directly in deal for profit. Again, as to the question of other words, the majority's recommendations who issued instructions to the different touch with the daily retail trade of the enforcing effectively a law passed against would introduce a meddlesome interference mints.in. the various provinces throughout Colony as distinguished from the merchants the importation of subsidiary coins, the pro- offering no degree of certainty of an absolute the Empire, to inquire into and report on proper who handle the import and export posed draft Bill submitted by the majority or partial solution of the problem, whereas the feasibility of the proposed change of the trade, to which the term rightly ap contains, absolutely no provision, dealing in the case of the minority report this idea coinage to the standard of a tael ́and its with the point. If it is to be maintained of trusting to a self-adjustment of the dis fractional parts instead of the dollar standard. pertains. It must not be assumed for a moment that we suggest the idea that that a preventive service, such as we find parity now obtaining, by reason of an over. After some deliberation, we are informed, individual interests were allowed to today in the cordon of excise officers supply of the Hongkong token money, which from Canton, to day, that the officials of the obscure public duty, but that the views formed by the Opium-Farmers, should be is bound to be worked off by absorption or Canton branch of the Imperial Mint have of individuals should be influenced kept up at the expense of the Colony otherwise of the silver money, may prove reported that, under present circumstances, It was found that the system of coinage by the interests which operate in ordinary then we say it would be an incubus fruitful of satisfactory results.
now. obtained, within the Province is commercial dealings in every-day life none from which we might, well pray, to be de
the most suitable to the general public, who has any knowledge of such dealings and livered. We thus dispose of the two maio
and that: no change in the standard the peculiar conditions which exir in his recommendations submitted by the majority,
was considered necessary. The soundness Colony will gainsay. Hence, we disclaim which in their opinion are calculated to
(27th January.)
of the opinion arrived at by the officials of any intention of depreciating the value of reform the subsidary currency system of
Tucked away in a corner of that interest; the Canton Mint merits commendation, the considerations which prompted Messrs this Colony. We are glad to observe that Shewan, Osbome, Raymond and Wei Vuk tono serious consideration was given by eithering publication the Yellow Dragon, the especially so from bankers and traders in formulate the views which are incorporated of the two parties to the impracticable sug magazine of Queen's College, under, the Hongkong. Any change in the provincial in the report which has been submitted by gestion presented by Mr. Mansfield, the heading of "School notes," certain informa standard of currency in the present chaotic the chairman of the Coinage Committee. British Consul-General at Canton, for how tion is given in the January issue which condition of China's monetary system, On the other hand, we have in Messrs. Law, ever excellent he may have proved himself should give pause to those who are inclined would only render the existing difficulties To be as a consular official, when it to think that the Far East is asleep. The even more complicated and tend to defer to Wood and Smith's minority report what we consider to be far the more logical and the comer to a question of practical commercial youth of China and of other nationalities a still more remote date the fulfilment of more practical, as well as practicable, dealing his recommentation: Cannot bear born in this part of the world are apparently China's pledge, as contained in Article II. suggestions and recommendations that even the most cursory criticism. The exàs quick to absorb Western methods as their of the Mackay realy, to adopt a uniform could be offered to the Government pensive machinery of a special department best Fields could wife partirps more 30. standard throughout the whole Empire. for the solution of the vexed question of the which would be called into existence were Certainly they are on the high road to as- Yr. Mansfield's suggestion of a note issue similato the "tricks of the trade" in the Colony's subsidiary currency. To sum
LUTION SPINNERS. marise briefly the intricate report before us, of such small denominations as 50, 20, 10 matter of filling up the dread examination the recommendations of the chairman, sup. and 5 cents would certainly neutralise papers which are set with all too frequent.
The mall from Japan this morning brings ported as they are by three members, amount whatever advantages the note issue might re.ularity. Scores of scholars in the West to this; probibition of importation and re- have over the token money now exist-have spent sleepless nights and laborious
Specie Bank has wuddenly contracted the Hongkong: Canton and Macao Steamboat gulation of exportation. These recommenda- ing. Necessarily the machinery would days in sitempting to discover some method a report to the effect that the Yokohama tions are based, as a careful study of the have to be of an extremely elaborate as whereby the memory might be surreptitiously term of drafts on raw cotton imported from report will convince anyone, upon the suc well as costly character if the notes currency strengthened on the occasion of the ordeal
go days. The course taken by the bank the Straits Settlements. We are at a dis- come a fact, so that the idea may be thrown have been invented by students who if they seems to have added largely to the difficulties cess attending the reform of the currency in department of the Government were to be by examination. Some ingeniour devices Bombay and America to 30 days instead of advantage in dealing with these considera out of court wilbout further debate. With bad only given half the attention they of those interested in the cotton spinning tions for the simple reason that many of the regard to the recommendations of the have devoted to the outwilling of ex industry. A movement has been started by The P. & O: Company and is Japanese arguments which were advanced and discussed minority, we may say at the outse: that we aminers to the work in hand would have the spinners for the restoration of the former
taken high and respectable class honours. in the course of the inquiry do not appear cannot agree with the suggestion that m
to conduct negotiations with the Specie among the papers accompanying the report; special officer of the Government should be There are many who have the inborn term, and a Committee has been appointed and we are, therefore, in the dark as to seconded from the Service to proceed to belief that more glory is to be attacca Bank and in other quarters. It is stated what actually prompted the recommendations Peking in order to conduct negotiations to a clandestine manoeuvre carried out based upon the experience of the Straits with the Imperial Government over with success under the nose of a vigilant that the amount of drafts drawn on the Settlements. We can only surmise that these question which, as the Committee minority master than is achieved by hard plodding Specie Bank on the shipment of raw cotton recommendations have been formulated just themselves be aware, reals entirely over uninteresting subjects and a parrot-like not infrequently exceeds V30,000,000 in on the principle that the results which fol with the Provincial Government. We are ability to repeat a mass of facts and figures month, and therefore colton spinners must lowed the labours of the masterful Commis quite alive to the fact that the Mint at that do not afford the slightest scope for the obtain this amount from other banks in stan presided over by Sir David Barbour in Canton wad only recently designated exhibition of individual perspicacity. nd Japan in order to settle the bills, so that the Singapore sonic five or six years ago would branch of the Imperial Mint of the Co-one of the boys who fat for the annual ex course taken by the Specte Bank may affect be attained with equal facility in Hongkong.vernment of China; but it is, as every amination at Queen's College held last other banks very considerably. Assuming that surmise to be correct, we body knows, controlled absolutely by month tried the old game of befooling the can only point out that the conditions in the Viceroy for the time being of the two examiner as to the extent of his geographical this Colony and those prevailing in the Kwang Provinces. And negotiations have knowledge by carrying with him for the Straits at the time the experis of the Barbour to be carried out at all, as they must be in purposes of reference a minute sheet of Commission sat are by no means analogous our opinion, those negotiations could be paper which contained a full and complete It may be recalled that the exportation of more speedily, effectively and successfully guide to learning, written in microscopic coins w prohibited, as the chairman of conducted within eight hour journey characters. He had concealed the paper, > Straits Commission urged, in order to of Hongkong-We-are-not-at-all-agreed which must-have-cost him much time and allow of a sufficient accumulation of the that in the Government service of this labour to perfect, up his sleeve, but fortune land trade, after the. demonetisation of the member sufficiently versed in so intricate as it to be supposed that bis example will
increase of capital; but the attitude of the group of men representative of the honest British and Mexican dollars, so that the problem as that of the subsidiary turrency deter others, from similar, attempts to bam bas had under consideration scheme for the Commission bat lailen into the hands of a as to be capable of conducting negotiations boozle the teachers? Alas, the contrary has Government and the present faancial situation common sense of this Colony. Their report enormous traffic between the Settlements
do not allow of the immediata carrying out of will represent a fair average of opinion.on and the hinterland and the utch posses
on behalf of the Government or merchanti proved the rule in Western countries, for sions of Java, and Sumatra should not be of this Colony. If a special commissioner every delinquent is firmly convinced that such
ไม่ yesterday, during And, as stated
by examination the utmost patience and disorganised by any lack of token money, is to be appointed at all we should certainly however, others may fail his scheme is for the bank to logress the made it necessary both sides; and it will have been based on a In the law which demonetised the British | suggest that he is to be found in one bound" to "succeed and he rushes, to. his./ade bank to lessen the amount of money great mass of evidence to whose elucidation mooth the book contracted the maximum term care has been expended. When the whole dollar and legatised the new Straits dollar, of the Banks of the Colony or in seme doom accordingly. But supposedly alloged for the redemption of draft frog mass of evidence comes to be published it
to 30 days, "Keba paper. On January 7, 1928, at Shanghai, the wife | Sir David Barbour had sufficient prescience of its leading mercantile, establishments.:) admitted. - that the scholar was is It. 1s well known that the Specie Bank enjoys will supply a tribute to the thoroughness of
to provide for the; reduction in the intrinsic The services of such a commissioner if im actuated by a sincere desire to oblige his value of the token coin so that when the pressed into the service of the Government superiore with the answers they desired the privilege of drawing money from the Bank the Commission, not to speak of the physi
are granted to Japanesa merchante. facilities price of silver rose above a certain parity it would, of course, in such circumstances be rather than any wish to benefit personally of Japan at a low rate of interest, with which cal endurance of numerous protracted ait ola getting the services of these representative. should not become a source of profit, if adequately remunerated. It is satisfactory to at the expense of his friends, then there is
mas of late yours has caused the funds re thrown into the melting pot or exported observe in one of the recommendations which something to be said for his system; An- The marked increase of the foreign trade offings. Wethink the Colony has been fortunate. abroad. The wisdom of such a proviso has not received sufficient prominence that other boy who had falled to provide against gaired by the bank to expand yearly, and this men. in dealing with a subject of so much was amply demonstrated in the fact that the there need be no necessity for the Govern the faults of a defective memory hid to demand for funds has been greatly enhanced, importance to the Colony's financial inter ment on receiving Hongkong coins in pari asawer the question: "What three different by the excess shown of late in impotis over cata. In looking for a Commission to handle On January 21, 1908, at Shanghai, the Rev, original issue of the Straits dollars was called Jon CHARLES MANN, to ALICE KTHYL in and a new hus of which the dollar ment of revenue to remit these home to be kinds of matter does man require for food?" exports. It is pointed out that the Specis Bank this question we might so easily, by going
large amount as that required cannot be membership, have fared far worse. Some younger daughter of Andrew Maclure, Esq. was of smaller Intrinsic value, substituted. sold as bullion pure and simple, because the And in the most amiablospirit be submitted can draw on the Bank of Japan, bat such little further in the search for men for the Newlands, Deanington Park Road, Hamp A similar measure had to be resorted to in minority propose, the far more economical the following answer's" Cate, tigers and
: of the money in circulation and ot
other stead, London, 19.8, at Niogne, HERBERT the Philippines in the case of the Conant plan of allowing the coins to accumulate in liont. He added in explanation of the com- drawn without causing an excessive expast of us have occasionally paid for medical at
On January 21, STANLEY REDFERN, M. SC,, son of the Rev. peto, the only difference being that the the vaults of the bank, as custodian bination which was obviously evolved fromwiss disturbing the financial situation. For tendance and for legal advice. From that W. Rediere, Rocbdals, England, to MARGARET Conant Act did not provide the allding scale of the Government, to be re-issued from his inner consciousness:The cook cook this reason the special privilege cannot be point of view alone, the value of the gift of BLANCH MELVILLE JONES, (late of Chung which Sir David Barbour bad foreseen to he time to time as demand arises. In this the cat flesh the cook cooks the tiger flesh availed of as extensively as desired, and the many hundreds of hours to the service of the klog), daughter of
laughter of the Rev. J. Janes, Assam, necessary, and Congress had to sanction Away, the loss which would Lis entailed the cook cooks the Hop flesh," and doubt term alowed for the falling due of drafte in Colony is not to be lightly estimated
for the fo' protection the Colony," when we consider in what over- A new Bill legalising the introduction of by the sale of a million dollars worth less after that effort of genius lie beamed on general has been contracted to one-third might be more correctly put, in defence of
of the bank's interests. "January 241,128, at Shanghai, ADOLY || more alloy into the Copant pesa after its of subsidiary coins per annum would be the mailer. However, this is an unsympa. course which is inevitabis course has natural bearing ways, the Home, Government hal
was caned the Co, to Miss MARIA AVQUÉTA EMILIE LUIRS, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. Librs, I, Msion is necessary in order to point out that money will attain its par value as soon at charge being gross impudence. Nothing is
whereas in the, first instance, that is to A common understanding has been arrived hinted as to the process of reasoning which on the facilities afforded by the Specie Bank, Crown colonies, and might so easily have say: in connection with the Straits currency at between the Government of Hongkong led to the answer, but when the companions in Owing to the depression in business since had recours to the same methods on this 19, 1965, at Vancouver, B. C., reform meshare it was necessity to provide and that of Canton; and it will be to the misfortune commiserated each other on their the latter half of last year, the ls of imported question, instead of having and course to Mr.W.HA WOOD, mother of Mis; Clifford C. a sufficiency of currency in the case now advantage of the Viceroy as much as to herd fats they must have come to the con merchandise has been very unsatisfactory and bow of investigation that Ead Title mince A War of Shangaalagandirefo
under condderation it is the superabu d that of this Government, that the loken clotion that examinere pro a heartless lot. In many merchants have felled to dispose of their rity when it was dictated but own to lo
Now such merchants are placed in a still worse is proposed to curtail by legislation. More which would permit of its belog is not better to have tried and lost than never position by beirs compelled to fad the money residents of this Settlement, l'assume ance of the subsidiary currency which it money should be maintained at a value the latter cars its certainly proved that it goods within the time, the dicha hive matered having been entrusted to routing to over, the trade of the Straits is principally profitably put into circulation. It has to have tried at all, for even a bad shot is two months carier than before Most of the virtue it did pot ost
considered equally, se heinous se a bull's brake am" pessimistic si to the outlook for United concerned with a hinterland which is been shown that the term
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Interport Hockey,
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A Plucky Rescue,
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Shanghai Municipal Election,
The Lagu Kung Mow Couron Co., Ld.
Opiam in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Fire
Piracy on the Whangpo.
The S.S. Tourant Collision Case.
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Japanese Cabinet Cric
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Major-General Broadwood,
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Singapore Land Values.
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MIRTHS.
of Ed. Hangor, 1. M. Customs, of a son,
On January 22, 1903, at Chungking, the wife OF JOHN STENHOUSE, DÉ A SOR
On January 23, 1908, at Ningpo, the wife
of A. R. DONNELLY of a son (St.llborn),
On January 26, 198.. at Shanghai, the wite
of CHARLES BESWICK, & son.
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(29th January.)
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sandud cain for the Straits and its hinter- Colony there is among the cadets sny was against him. He was caught and caned; this has meant the outlay of consider of stuff that would suit, their Parlia
in consideration of which the board
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ly dealt a heavy blow Chania who refied for success of the operations