Telegrams.
| Reuters.
The United States,
LONDON, 17th February, New York reports that Mr. Morse, the organiser of the so-called "Morse Chain of Banks," the failures of which precipitated the recent panic, has been arrested on a charge of larceny, and bailed out for $10,000.
Receivers have been appointed to The Mutual Reserve Bile Insurance on the ground of insolvency. NgAKAN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1908.
GERMAN SHIPPING COMBINE, the rivalry between the two German com
1T8 VAST PROPORTIONS.
panies is the history of China trade. Twenty- five years ago Bismarck came to the concla An agreement was concluded January 10lb, sion that it was inconsistent with German between the Norddeutscher Lloyd and the dignity to have to send out her naval reliefs Nippon Yusen Kaisha, whereby the Japanese for the Chisa stat on by British steamships. Company withdraws from the Further Indian Accordingly he was anxious for the establish shippins trade, and leaves this service exclament of a German mail, steamship line to the sively in the Norddeutscher Lloyd, on condi- lions which, it is declared, may be regarded as heing in every way satisfactory to both parties, This puis an end to the competition which for the past eighteen months has greatly depressed freight and passenger rares for the Further Indian service, vis, that to the five parts of Fingapore, Bangkok, Hongkong, Swalow, and
It is stated that the liabilities are $5,500,-loibow. coo, and the asscia $3,750,000.
Later. The Austria:1 Railway Soheme. The Servian press protests against the Austrian railway project, and thanks the Russian, British, French, and Italian press Tor their, attitude towards it.
The working' agreement arrived at between the Hamburg-American and Norddeutscher Lloyd Companies is an event of momentous importance to British shipping. It is true that for the present there is in be no absolute identity of interests betweens, these twa great enterprises. Each will maintain its separate organistion and its financial unity. "But that The Servian press attributes the Austrian eventually they will form a single undertaking design to dominate the whole of the Balkans of vast proportions admits of little doubt. If backed up by Germany, in order to weakens sufficient, however, to deal with facts as they
stand, and in note that the two largest steam the 'Slavs in favour of Germans.
Reuter's agent in Berlin wires authorita-ship companies in the world have joined forces for the next four years at any rate. The extent tively that Germany regards the Austrian of this large combination of the cream of Ger scheme like other railways, as promoting man steam shipping is best expressed in figure: civilisation and as serving solely economic interests; they would similarly regard the Danube Adriatic railway, which Russia is reported to be considering.
Diplomatists in Berlin, however, opine that it would have been better if Austria had waited longer.
Ocean Steamers
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Bolicitors, &c., No. 38, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, 8th February, 1908.
Intimation.
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Commerce Science Fections will VENING CLASSES in Engineering.
are requested to register their names on opet on MONDAY, February 24th. Students THURSDAY, February 20th, or FRIDAY, February 21st, between 6 and 7 P.M. Coples of the Prospecies and Time Tabe way, bé obtained on application to the undersigned at
E. RALPHS, Bonekong, 19th February, 1008. HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED,
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Director.
ANNUAL MEETING OF SMARE "HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Managers at 11.30.A.a., on MON- DAX 2nd March, to receive a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1907, and the Report of the General Managers. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th instant to the 20d proxime, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 19th February, 1908,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BIG FIRE IN BANGKOK.
THE DANURAK MARKET WIPED OUT. The Siam Free Pray of sth lust. reports -- One of those Gres which in Bangkok seam almost inseparable from the Chinese New Year broke out yesterday afternoon to Bangrak in some premises among the labyrinth of laner Far East, and tenders were invited for such a lying between the embouchure of the Bangrak line to Chick and Australia. The Norddeutscreek(Klong Bilom), the New Road and cher-Lloyd Company undertook the work for the land leading to the premises of Messrs. subsidy, of £110,000 a year-the bint mall sub: Howarth Erskine, Lid. The conflagration sidy over paid by the German Government. It broke out, it is alleged, in the premises of a man named Chin Thinp at about five proved so unprofitable that the company löst about £70,000 a year on the enterprise. It was minutes past three and by 6 pm, an area of such a bad egg," indeed, that the German about 15 or 20 acres and containing 87 sepa Government allowed the contract to be modi, rate buildings of various descriptions had been fied, and the service to be readjusted, so as to practically devastated including some hundred give the steamship company a better chance of yards of the "frontage of the New Road, and making both ends meet. Later on, when a the greater portion of the Bangrak Market fresh contract came to be discussed, Herr There was a light south westerly breeze blow. Ballin, the chief of the Hamburg-American ing at the time the fire broke out and it had Line, evinced a disposition to cut in. In the manifestly made some headway before the result there was for a time a joint service, the alarm was given. The parrow car of the lanca Hamburg Company running one or two pass and the flimsy material of which the greater senger steamers and a number of freight part of the houses were built added greatly, to the difficulties in the way of the various bri steamers to the East, ⠀
Fresumably the consequences were unsatis-gadea, who arrived with;commendable promptl. factory. Anyhow, an arrangement was come tude. The Police from Bangrak were theen's Colley to whereby the Lloyd Company took over the first on the scene followed by the Siam Elec Hamburg Company's passenger boats, in the tricity Co and Navy and Army brigades trade with the Far East, and the, Hamburg Oce and all worked like Trojank and fortunate Company confined itself to cargo steamers ly water was fairly plentiful except in one or two directions. The mill belonging to Meh with a right to provide passenger accommoda- tion of a modest kjød, and to a limited extent, Hia, at Wat Sam Pioo, converted its pump into temporary fire engines as well as, prayid Hamburg-American Company 167 915,519 10; those steamers.. The withdrawal from Norddeutscher Lloyd Company 145 736,91 association with the regular passenger serviceing a portable one which did good work under enabled Herr Ballito beast, as he has done the direction of the proprietress of the mill. 321 1,652,430 In addition, there is a large amount of ton ever since, that his company does not receive At Mesurs. Howarth Erskine's Lid., steam nage under construction. When it is femem-a penny in the shape of subsidy from the Im was not up, owing to its being the Chinese New Year Holidays, but as soon as sufficient bered that the greatest consolidation ofshipping perial Government. But the complaint of the interests heretofore existing in the North Norddeutscher yas been that the Ham- pressure could be got the hoses of the Atlantic Combine began operations, with less burg-American Company has not observed the firm did good work. They undoubtedly saved than a million tons, the inordinate strength of spirit of the agreement in respect of the China their own premises and also the adjoining 'oues the German Combine becomes obvious. But service, and that, by providing a considerable of Messrs. Teck Seng and Co., where a very amount of first-cl ss ssenger accommodation large quantity of Singapore planking and other As it was Mr. Pierpont Morgan's Combide, while it in- It would seem that at last the outcry that has troduced the principle of "merger," which the on its freight boats, it cut seriously into the inflammable material was stored. been raised in the fortige Press of Japan Geninas agreement does not, was international. traffic of its competitors, who bore the original It is known as the International Mercantile burden of establishing the line, and naturally extending to all parts of the wor'd—has had the desired effect. The Japan Gaertle learns Marine. The majority of his steamships have contended that they ought to have the "oppor on excellent authority that the Japanese Trade
& liritish register, and must continue to have tupity of reaping a fair reward now that the mark Buzau haa summarily cancelled. the
12. The rest are under the American flag, the enterprise has tu ned the corner. It is signi- registration by Nishikawa Trigi, of Osaka,angement of the German company being of ficant that the new agreement between the two of a trademark containing Messis, James quite a special character. Moreover, the oper- companies how provides that on the China line the Hamburg-American Company shall confide Buchanan Co.'s, Ltd., registered trade ions of the Combine ships are mainly re- mark."Black and White" and also contain stricted to the North Atlantic. The outstand itself exclusively to freight steamers, ing the statement that the whisky beating ing feature of the German agreement is that
It is possible that ntish shipping in the the fraudulent trade-mask “ eintly re-
the enormous tonenge which it covers is all lected for the House of Commons," which
Atlantic and Far Eastern trades will feel the is false, besides other false statements, his
influence of the new agreement less seriously Nishikawa Teizi impudently applied, for
than British shipping engaged in other bran and actually whinined registration of this
Ches of the world's business. All the while the two big German companies were content fraudulent trade-mark white the agent of
to go on extending the steamship lives, and Messrs. Buchanan & Co., Mr. O. T. Giltong WORLD-WIDE OPERATIONS,
· was proceeding against him in the Courts. It is the fault of the virtue of British steam. exhibiting supreme indifferes de to each other's The cancellation of this fraudulent registre ship lines that they have confined their energies interests, their vals had at least some cause tion, adde nur Yokohama cóntemporary, should
to particular trades. The aim of the Bamburg for congratulation. In forure it will be very be regarded as a cause of congratulation not doly for Mars, James Buchanan & Co, American and Norddeutscher Lloyd companies different." "Not only shall we see a friendly is to conquer the whole globe. You can hard. arrangement. made wherever existing interests Limited, and their popular and energetic lv. fed a country on the map, with the excep. class, but where une or other of the com. representative, Mr. O. T. Gillen, of Yoko
tion, perhaps, of india and the Cape, with panies is bent upon an extension it will only bama, nor for ather foreign firms who have
which one or other of the companies, and carry is out after conference with and with the
consent of the other. In effect, the two com depended upon the sanctity of their trade.
possibly both, has not regular steamship .com. marks as a valuable asset in their Far Eastern municat on The Hamburg American Compavies will proceed to carve up the rest of the business, but also for japan, whìn thun shows renewed signs of appreciating an honest basis any boasts at if maintains no fewer than globe on a prearranged and perfectly amicable fifty-eight separate steamship services. Those plan. Even there pleasure cruising traffic-a of the Norddeutscher-Lloyd are scarcely less branch of enterprise in which the Germans numerous, Each has quietly but effectually have proved singularly sayacious-is to be the secured interests, in other German or foreign subject of a delimitation of spheres. award lines, until it is difficult to say where the influence of the Hamburg and the Biemen enterprises respectively begins or ends. Per haps as good a way as any of hinting at what is the share of these two great-companies in the world's trade is to give the following figures, They are for the year 1906:
THE JAPANESE “SCO)CH" WHISKY CASI
PERSEVERANCE REWARDED..
of trade. Of course this action is outside that
of the low courts, though it is per re equally effective, and thus constitutes a decided "slap" at the short-sighted jurists concerned in these casen. The latest exposure of this case up. peared in an article in the Tandon Economist.
A "HOODOO" SHIP.
STORIES OF THE "TASU." "Hoodoo" ships are the dread of the sea-
faring man, and the difficulty of the captain of the British steamer Hatasu ni keeping together ber crew while loading lumber at Bellingham for Calcutta, seems cot to, have been the cul- mination of her misfortunes, when a satisfied crew was eventually obtained at a higher rate of pay,
#ars.
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The Wataru is now reported overdue. She has been out 41 days to Calcutta on January 16th and during that time has neither been sighted nor reports, which she should have been at least two or three times. Now that she is on the everdue list, her fate will be watched for, with closer laverest than is generally attached to an overdor shin by reason of the name she bar acquired as a hondeo ship.
She had a list of misfortunes which would shake the nerve of the nerviest cerw and cause them to desert the ship, The World (Vancouver) The first officer. Capt. Dabner, had been landed at San Francisco swing to illaess and through an open hitch while the steamer was loading at Bellingham and was severely injur ed, being still confined to his berth on board the vessel when she sailed from here. While fying ill the captain received a cablegram in forming him of the death of his wife. Two of the firemen were involved in a drunken, braw! at Bellingham and were left behind to answer Trial because of the death of a man with whom they had been fighting. Capt. Calder said it seemed as if a hoodoo was following his vessel
THE WEATHER;
underthe American flag, and that its operations, both in regard to passenger and cargo business, extend to practically every quarter of the globe, This is the Combine which British shipping is
now called upon to face.
Passengers, Mileage. Hamburg-American Co...... 431.955 7,437,000 Norddeutscher Lloyd Co... 491,383 6,003,938
23.338 23.432.93
The various cargo services of the two com panies are, of course, included in the mileage. The figures show that the Hamburg-American Company's voyages in a single year are equal to 344 times the circumference of the globe, and those of the orddeutscher Lloyd 10 27 times: No Brilish steamship live can pretend
to cover any such distances.
THE BRITISH DANGER.
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Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœur Road, 22nd February, 1908, at 11 A.M., at théit
corner of Ice House Street,
A QUANTITY OF ENGLISH JEWELRY,
"to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, the flames crossed the lane and gutted the THE Undersigned have received instructions" little Mahomedan moique on the southern side
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, ON afit, beside doing other damage. But by 5.30
SATURDAY, or 6 pm, all immediate danger of a further spread of the fire was at an end and after that the trigades, with the exception of that of the the
Shortly after the alarm had become general police, one by one withdraw. throughout Bangkok, H. M. the King arrived by motor-car. His Majesty remained for about two hours, giving valuable directions to the various others, of the Royal Princes took,an various beads of departments engaged, while nelive part in the subjugation of the file. Several farangs ils lent valuable aid, Dr. T. Heyward Hays doing yeoman's work in the salvage of the Wat am Ploo mill, Which bad an extremely narrow aicape. A bg Chinese boat-builder's yard in its vicinity was com pletely gutted, with it going three or four bulls of motor-boats in their final stages of com plesion,
The scene in the New Road while the fro was at its height absolutely beggated descrip: tien. Being a general holiday there were more persons available than usual to rush to see the falmai, get in everybody's way und hinder the work of both firemen and householders en | Aged in salvage work, motorcars, caringer, rikishas, mingled with gangs of "coolie's and others carrying goods and with thousands of people of all nationalities formed a kind of congested mass in the barrow roadway which it required all the efforts of the police and military to clear out of the way, and not unuaturally a few broken beads and other casualties of the sort resuited.
The circumstance is fraught with oo little risk to Britisk shipping-to the liner as weil as the tramp interest. Germany does not, to anything like the same degree as ourselves, rely on the tramp steamer. She is a great
Asto the extent of the damage done estimates believer in regular lines,' and which have their "feeders in the shape of local lines. vary and estimates varying from half-a-million Her policy in the creation of a network of town and even three million ticals have been services, with the smaller feeding the greater. mide by persons who ought to know some With the two great German companies work thing of the matter. Several of the buildings ing hand in hand, our tramp steamers, as well in the Bangrak market were pawnshops con our regular lines, will find competition pips more or less vauable stacks of jewel. keeper than ever. Unicas, therefore, they are le y, but most of this would appear to have content to lose further ground, they will have been salved. As a general thing the dwellers need to brace themselves up to a great effort, in the burnt out district were poor folk, Malay They will have arrayed against them organisa. sailmakers, Chinese carpenters and sitters tions with a total capital of close on £13,000,000, and petty traders and the like and most which must of necessity find new avenues of of these would appear to have lost all or employment for their older boats,, and which the greater port of their worldly possessions,
Comprising:- DIAMOND RINGS... GOLD CHAINS, NECK CHAINS and FANCY GOODS;" BRACELETS, PINS, GOLD WATCHES.
ALSO
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising: g NEW ENGLISH OVERCOATS, MACIN- TOSHES, HATS, SUITS QF CLOTHES, COPES, SHOOTING BOOTS CLOCKS, SEXTANTS, BINOCULARS, MICROS BAROMETERS, GOLD CHRONOME and VALUABLE SINGLE STONE DIA TERS by Arnold, SURVEYOR'S LEVEL,
MOND RING;
AND
A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS including Typhoon Edition from the Carolines and Foochow a cents halved, (about 5,000 Stamps).
Catalogues will he issued. TERMS-AsusDal...
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
· [239 Dongkong, roth February, 1908.
Public Compantes
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOÁ DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING THE SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, New Prayn, on MONDAY, the 34th February 1908, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the stat December,
1907.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to the 24th February, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary,
Hongkong, 29th January, 1908.
INVITE INSPI CF:ON"
NEW STOOK
Steinway,
Bechstein,
Russell,
Krauss,
Romhildt,
Werner &c.
GRANDS & UPRIGHTS
BUILT UNDER Our Personal SUPERVISION
EMBODYING 30 YEARS" LOCAL
EXPERIENCE.
-nekong, sth Tecember; 1967.
Entimations.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
7.00 1.1.
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE
WEEK DAYS)
7.30 am, to 9.30 am... Every 10 minutes 9.30 am to 11:00 am. Every 15 minutes 11.30a.m. to 12.45 p.m. ... Every 15 minutos:: 12.45 p., to 1.15 pm.... Every to miantas. 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 pm. ...Every 13-minutes- 1.45 pm to 2.15 pm....Every to miputes.. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. v..Every 15 minutes. 3.30 pm to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minuter. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00p.m....Every to minuter,
NIGHT CARE. every half hour. 8.45 p.m. and 9 pm 9:45 pm, 10.xx.15 p
.
SONDAYS 8.00a.m. to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 9.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30am. to rojo sim....Every 15 minutes. 10.30 am to 11.00 ....Every 10 minuter. 1.45am, to 1200 2003...Every 15 minuten. 11.00 Noon to 1.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes." 1.00 p.m. to $.00 pm. .....Every 15 minutes: [1755.00 pm to 600 p.m....Every to minutes, 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm....Every if minutes. 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 pm.... Every toʻminutes.
NIGHT CARS as on Week Days,
SATURDAYS,Dated,
are accustomed to a policy of systematic deve The destruction of the Bangrak Market or,:
COMMERCE, Most people have pictured these two Ger-lopment. Moreover, they need fear no difficul-father, of a considerable portion of it, is per HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF man companies as working amicably together ay in getting further capital, be Hamburg-haps a good thing. Although re-built six or
in the interests of German trade. In reality American Company for the year 1905 paid 10. there has always been great jealousy between
That this has had had a vastly stimulation effect upon the energies of each of them can. not be doubted, but it has led in not a few cases to unprofitable. competition, if not to scarcely disguised warfare, It follows, there
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Committee for the year ended 3151 December, 19oz.:
seven years ago it was at best an insanitaryHE ANNUAL MEETING of the Mem- the Hamburg and the Bremen enterprises, per cent, and the Norddeutscher L'oyd Com kind of a place a stinking hole," as same. Ters, of the HONGKONG GENERAL pany 8 per cent, Such dividends, although one this morning called it, would perhaps best CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on in the City Hall, for the following purposes, they may not be maintained those rates for describe it and the prerent fire will afford the MONDAY, the 24th February, 1908, as a r., 1907, are attractive to the German 'inventor. Government a chance of seeing that the new Besides, the German people know that they one is constructed on better sanitary princi To zrceive the Report and Accounts of the It is stated that several of the build sea communications. British shipping com- sap a rich reward from these ever-increasing ples.
The fact inga desiroyed were insured, but none
Beside the Go Heng boat-building yard hitherto, alluded to, an extensiva blacksmith's shop belonging tax Chinese as well as several blg opium shops were completely destroyed. Messrs. Howarth
died in a hospital there, and Capt. Calder fell fore, that future co-operation will not only be panies, if they are wise, will not ignore the for any great amounts.
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg Director of the Hongkong Observatory-
On the 19th at 11,55
55The barometer hat isen moderately over Japan, and fallen lightly ia S. China. ad d
that the next rounds in the contest Germans will be more severe than any of their predecessors,
In a telegram to Herr Ballin, the German Emperor gives expression to his lively pleasure
all the better for the shareholders, and pro- bably for Gorman trade, but that, instead of having to
meet opponents divided against themselves, British shipping will have to en- counter rivals who will have but a single
at the conclusion of an agreement between the Erskine, Ltd., had the good fortune la escape policy-the supremacy of the German marcan tile marine. This leads to an inquiry as to why it is that these two German companies Hamburg-American and Norddeutscher Lloyd with very little damage. Although the flames are now found ready to bury the hatchet, shipping lines. The understanding in ques-swept right along the outer wall of their com Among other reasons the following lake imtion, according to the Hamburg correspondent pound, damage was only done to a few out- portant place:
1. The appearance of the Lusitania and the Mauretania on the North Atlantic, and the se fusal of the Cunard Company, to agree with the other lines, as to the conditions under which those vessels shall work,
2. To elect a New Committee.
Extra cars at 3.15 p.m., 11.30 pm, and
SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Dar Yaax Road Central, grund Company's Office ALEXANDRA BUILDINGA
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON
we General Managers, ARNA Hringkong, 4th Jann. 1007":
3.7n consider the following Resolution:-F BLACKHEAD & ̈Co.,
That in consequence of the importance. "of the trade existing between ibis port "and Bombay it is resolved under Rule "XXIII to increase the number of the Committee from 9 to 10 10 as to *include a Merchant interested in the *Bombay trade.”
To transact any general business.
> By Order,
E A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary,
[zaz Hongkong, 14th February, 1908, 4, HONGKong, canton anD MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED, " NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
ORDINARY EIGHTY THIRD SHAREHOLDERS in this Company, will be, life but so far as is really known the only cale held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Man
of the Frankfurter Zeitung, regulates the ri- buildings, etc. The row of Indian traders' and valry of the two companies in all points of im- Chinese dealers' shops fronting the New Road portance. The Hamburg-American renounces between the Baugrak Market proper and the its passenger traffic to the Far East, and in lane leading to Wat Sam Ploo also managed to return is allowed to increase its quota in the get off practically scatheless. The fire rap right Transatlantic pool, The correspondent men along their back and then was stopped, mainly 2. The establishment by the White Stortioned speaks of the agreement as a wide step by the efforts of the brigades and the fact that Line of an express service to New York from In the direction of a German Shipping Trust they had fireproof, or, nearly fireproof, walls.THE HALF YEARLY MEETING OF
PENS Be Beth various reports aš ja lõss of
There' Southampton and Cherbourg, which is regarded Daily Telegraph.
an infringement of the spirit, although not
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The Anticyclonic aros still lies over the Yangiza Valley and pressure is relatively low over the S. part of the China Sex,
Strong montong may be expected in the of the letter, of the agreement between the TACOMA dena'ch of 17th ult, Bays-Fire was that of a small-footed Cantonese womensions, on TUESDAY, the asth February, at
Formosa Channel, and strong N.E. winds to gales over the China Sea -plaad
Li Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending
foam. to-day, 0.00 inch.
FORECAST Hongkong and sighboorbood, Not
North Antic Combine and the German companies
3. The desirability of avolding unnecessary competition between Hamburg Americas com pany and Norddeutscher, loyd, interesis of an derstanding with reference; to
of the fathie,
on the America steamer Tremont, loading She was excients and either could not get out 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving
for Japan, Chios and Manila, did damage herself or was forgation in the general con estimated at from $35,000 to $40,000 10-night/ The flames were discovered in the fore tweeofasion. One Chinamzo got a fractured arm docks la cotton which had been sowed during and Malay man had his back and arms badly the day Prompt action-prevented a serious barsed, but beyond this po serious cassaltjes
by fits are to be blare. About 620 bales were dama and water, while some darong -the deck;beams and
a Report of the Director, together with A
Felecting Anditors, ARE HUNGERST Statement of Accounts, declaring Dividend, confirming the appointment of a Director and
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 15th to the arth February, hot days inclusive, Si
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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