THE Dilly, coast guard vessel, built locally for the Portuguese Government at Timor, will be ready to underge her triat trip some time this wack.
We are informed that a cablegram was re- ceived by the American Consul General fast Tuesday, from the Philippise authorities, that the cholera situation shows that there are five cases under treatosegi, «
THE Chinese Engineering & Mining. Co.'s total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending October to, amounted to 21,611,68 tone and the sates during the same parlod to 21,344,05 KODU.
THE Circuit Court of Appeals at Ban Francisco bas reversed the ruling of Judge Wilfley in the Price case at Shanghai and has issued an order. directing that the accused be released on bail pending an appeal of this case.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleas ad to appoint Mr. J. Barton to represent the Hoogkong Hockey Club on the Woog Nei Chong and Queen's Recreation Grounds Com- mittee, vice Mr. T. O. Gray resigned.
YET another boatman was fined in the Police Court, last Wednesday, for the unlawful act of delving as iron stake into the praya wall at Kennedy Town. Wong Lok, of cargo-boat 1720, was the offender. He bad to pay $z.
ON the 13th instant the official trial trip of the T.K.K. steamer Chiyo-meru a sister ship of the Tenyo-maru took place at. Nagasaki, with a satisfactory result. The speed developed by the | vessel reached 31,12 knots an hour, against the designed speed of 10 knots.
A BOATMAN was fined Sa last Thursday for driving a stake into the praya wall.at Kennedy Town on Wednesday. A widow, who is be lieved to belong to the same junk (1,186) had to pay a like sum for offering a bribe of thirty five cents for the man's release...
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As the Hanyang Iron Works have been turned into a commercial company of joint stocks, advertisements have appeared in native papere at Hankow and Wuchung to solicit applications for shares. The right to hold these shares. is absolutely given to Chinese only.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 1908.
As a mark of Imperial favour the Empress Dowager has sent. a box of ginseng pills to. Grand Councillor Yuan Shih-kai who la report ed to be seriously III
A PERING dispatch reports that the Council of State Affairs has asked the Throne to issue an Imperial decree making the limit of time for the entire abolition of opium cultivation and opium consumption throughout the Empire seven years, beginning with 1909.
THE .. Tenyo Mara, of the Toyo. Kissn
SHARE
QUOTATIONS.
400
Supplied by Messy, E. S. KaDoo21s & Co, Corrected to noon; later alterations giren under "Commercial Intelligence," page gi
KRYWER AT
QOSTATION. BAKED ON LANT TRAK'S DY.
CLOSING QUOTATIONE,
STOCKS
BANKS,
Kaisha, left Shangbat at7 p.m. on Wednesday, Hongkong & Shangkal Banking Corporation the sist inst., and arrived at Hongkong at 4.30 p.m..on Friday, the 23rd lest,, making the pin 45 and half hours, or a speed of a trifle better than 18 miles an hour.
The new steamer Haiyang, of Douglas 5.5. Co., Ld., arrived to port last Monday on har maiden voyage out which was a wholly unavant. fal and She brought out a cargo of Cardiff coal. The Haiyang left for Amoyon bermaiden trip on Thursday, the 29th inst., at noon.
A Paxing feller states that at a recent con-
National Bank of China, Limited
MARINE INSURANCES.
Ganton Insurance Office, Limited
North Chiba Insurance Company, Limited
ference of the members of the Ministry of Unlos Insurance Society of Canton, Limited Posts and Communications it was decided to refuse foreign assistance in the shape of foreign engineers to construct. the Hulchos-Ch'ao- chou Railway, and to employ only Chinese engineers in the work,
THE Minister of Posts and Communications bas instructed the Governor of Kwangsi to ro quest the gentry of that province to start work on the proposed Kwangsi Railway without any further delay, and to inform them that if they de not make haste to build the line, the con cossion will be cancelled.
Yangtzse Insurance Association, Limited
FIRE IMBURARCEL China Fire Insurance Company, Limited un Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited
| POSITION AB PER LAST RÉPORT
NO, OF SHARES.
VALUE. ĮPAID UP.
RESERVE.
AT WORKINO -
ACCOUNT.
LAST DIVIDEND.
61,500,000
120,000
Srag
5125
$14,000,000 $450,000
$3,005,774
$Interim of £x for first half year ® «x} 1 1/9}-$11.943
st X
$800 sales London ¿Ba
$16,193
99,915
$150,000
$1,160,000
Så (London 3/6) for 1993
доро
10,000
Saço
$50
$14 for 1907
# X
$175 bayars
10,000
£*1
Tis. 150,000 **Tis: 48,941)
Tie. 15,512
Final of 776 maktag 15/- for 1007 mound
%
Tit. So buyers
53,000,000 90,000
$302,478
13,400 fago $100
$2.506,011 Final of S15 making $43 for '1906 and?
Elutérim of Szó før 1907.
5731 bayare
18,000
$100
$60
$199,038 $85,157
$591,700.
517 and bonus Sz for ipod
5167) anla
$1,000,000
20,000
5100
$10
$545,097
$372,433
$5 and bonus $2 for 1906...
$13,802)
#X
fg8 bayers.
8,000 $150
$50
$1,323.941
$415,017
$ay for 1906 ...
8 X
$135 bayara
$7,000
30,000
525
"Sa
$264,63817
20,000 $sa
$50
599,007
·51,093. "Nil
~~~-51 for 1god',
faj'or yoni ending 30.5198.
7+%
|---515- $14
$250,000
$387,500
80,000 SI5 515
117,755
$81,766
518) buyers
$17,655
£10,000
60,000 50,000
₤242,000
413,735 (6)
16/- for 1907 on Preference shares only ©1 62 1/9 11/16-35, 15kumui5
st X
TIL. 75,000
£725,000)
£1
£0,000
$5,000
10,000
10,000
STO 510
SID
547,221
$98
55
f: Tis. 140,000*
Cat
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45 saltare
sa bayara
Tis, 60,315
30,000
Ths. 50 Ti so
Tis, 105,000
Tix. 6,869
„Tia. 45 saliara
TIL 16,000
Tl. 17,143 532,538
20,000
100
+100
$50,848
Dr.
$279,171
$8 for year ending 31.12.06 ENDO ASOSAN DRA
5120
Luzon Sagar Refining Company, Limited.tanı Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited
7,000
$100
3100
Dr.
3135 131.
Sax vellers
7,000
TIS, 50 | [16, 50
*Tis, 100,000
TIB, 0,173
Tix. 90 sellers
MININO.
-SHIPPING-- Obina and Manila Steamship Company, Limited....... Douglas Steamship Company, Limited memor
THE marriage took place at Kobe on October to of Mr. A. Whitworth Allen of the Hongkong and Shangbal Bank to Miss B, Lucas, youngest. Yongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld. daughter of Mr. H. Lucas, one of Kobe's oldest residents. On the same day Mr. Alfred la C. Nicolle, of the Standard Oil Co. at Itozaki, was married to Miss Regina Rosenblatt, piace of Mr. J. Lybes.
THREE boatmen had to answer three charges in the Police Court, last Monday: (1) driving iron stakes into, the street, (a) assaulting Policeman 509, and (3) obstracting the officer while in the execution of his duty. The accused were
FOR stealing Gladstone bag from Yip Ming Sam, a merchant, of 173, Des Vaux Road Cea-taught injuring the roadway at Kennedy Town tral, last Sunday, a foki is bis employ was sentenced to three months' hard labour, on Man. day. The Gladstons contained clothing, jewel. lery and ginseng to the value of $144.65.
A STOKER belonging to H.M.S. Monmouth had to pay $3 in the Police Court, last Tuesday, for disorderly behaviour in a shop in Hollywood Road on Monday night. The defendant was stopped in time from picking up a lighted lamps which, undoubtedly, he would have thrown on the floor."
A MATCH of thirty-eight deportees arrived in the Colony during the last twenty-four hours. Fourteen were landed last Tuesday evening from the steamer Derwent, from Saigon, the rest coming from Singapore on board the Zaisang. When their photographs and fingerprints are takan they will be sani home.
- A NORTHERN paper statos í that the report from Peking to the effect that Mr. Rockhill, American Minister at Peking, will shortly be transferred to Constantinople, is quite untrue, Mr. Rock hill's knowledge of Chiness and Far Eastern matters being much too valuable to be lost in the vertigo of Eastern European affairs.. E. R. A. KEMP, of H.M.S. Bedford, had an expensive experience yesterday while travel ling on a trim car, for which convenience he war alleged to have refused to pay the faro and for assaulting the conductor. Brought bafore the Magistrate to-day he was cautioned on the first charge and bad to pay a fine ba the second of St plus Sa compensation..
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to suit their own purpose. When interfared with bey attacked the policeman. The first defendant was fined 55, the other having 53
cach to pay.
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AT a largely attended meeting of marchants and of members of the educational institutions of Peking on Tuesday it was proposed to cele brats the seventy-fourth anniversary of the with athletic sports, as a suitable festivity: At Empress Dowager's birthday (November 3)
the end of the sports all present are then to proceed in a body to the American Legation to ask the Minister to 'convey the thanks' of China to the American people for the remis sion of the unused portion of the Americau In- demnity for the Boxer War.
H. H. Prince Ching, President of the Grand Council and Comptroller General of the Wai- wupu, has written to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to the effect ibal, in view of the many differences still outstanding between China and Japan concerning Manchuria, and pending settlement, advantage may be taken of the presence of H. E. Taug Shao-yi, Gov- groor of Southern Manchuria and Special Commissioner to the United States, now in Tokyo, to come to a complete understanding on all questions affecting Chinese and Japanese interests in Manchuria."
A TELEGRAPHIC dispatch has been received by the Grand Council from H.E, Chang Ming- chi, Governor of Kwangsi, reporting the capture and decapitation of Ties Ta-lu, one of the prin cipal leaders of the anti-monarchists. At his capture there were found amongst other in- criminating documents several thick volumes containing the names of over nine thousand members of the anti-monarchist party, of whom nearly 4,000 reside in the Yangize provinces, 600 add in Japan (very probably youths study- ing in that country), and the rest in the Two
Two bostmen were charged in the Police Court, last Tuesday, at the instance of Sergeant Blackman, with caosing neadless and avoidable suffering to a pamber of pigs, while landing them at Kennedy Town, on Monday. It was stated that the defendants, instead of landing "the animals in the proper manner, were throw---Kwang provinces.-----
Ing them ashore, The case was remanded. Tux Kiang Ta, flying Admiral Li Chun's flag at the fore, and followed by the Kiang Chi; left Hongkong for Canton last Sunday where she will be commissioned for the West River patrol service. The senior vessel had a large party of Chinese naval officer any board" bolides number of Europeans, friends of the Obiners admiral, who are visiting. Centop, at. Admira! Li's invitation.
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IT seems, according to a Peking dispatch, that an audience was granted the Dalai Lama by the Throom after all, but not in the cordial manner which was expected on such an oc cation. In other words, the audience was pure ly a formal one; the Empress Dowager merely. asked the Pontiff bow he fared during his journey from Wataishan to Peking and remark- ed that as the weather was now becoming colder he should be prepared for ii, coming as ha del from high latitudes. It may appear that this remark was rather superduous, but it will show the coldness and formality of the function as the audience came to an end immediately after.
Do.
indo-Uhina Steam Navigation Co., Ld. (Preferred)? do. ... (Deferred}} tkanghal Tag and Lighter Company, Limited. 200,000 Ti, 50 Tlajo
Do..
(Preference) 100,000 Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 2,000,000 'Star Ferry Company, Limited........
Sako Tog and Lighter Company, Limited
"REFINERIES.
China Suger Refalog Company, Limited
'
blacks Engineering and Mining Company, Ld................. 1,000,000 sub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
DOCKS, WHARTEL & LUDOWNS. Finwick (Goo.) & Co., Limited
Hoogkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., L
tongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld. shanghai Dock and Engineering Coy leđa, uspeharmone
shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Company, Limited ...
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS. Anglo-French Land Investment Co. Ld. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai).... Cantral Stores, Limited yahi qua and be my spa wakinyany Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited Hongkong Länd Investment and Agency Oò, Lede van Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited ... Cowloon Land and Building Company, Limited hanghai Land Investment Company, Limited West Point Building Company, Limited
COTTON!
~MILLS.*
wo Cotton Spinning and Werving Company, Ld... Hongkong Cotton Splaning, Wearing and Dyeing?
*Company, Limited
SENÁTORā nternational Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld..... Loog-kong-me Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. Toy Ches Cotton Spinning Company, Limited...
MISCELLANEOUS.
L
150,000
50,000
150,000
6,000
0015
BLOG
£150,000
514 for first half-year ending 30,6,08.................. · 70 %
Tis. 14,510 L03,817
Interims of Tis,'if for account 1908 (Final of 1f making 3) for 1907 and la.
tarim of 1)- (No, io) for a/c 1908......... }.| $1.00
for year ending 10.4.1508............................................
Fival of Tis,' af making Tļa, 3 for 1909....... 11 %
Tis. 4.(8 %) for year ending 31.8.05
£113895
£11,556
Interim ol 1/6,(No. 10 fer account 1908....... 14%
Tix, 15.85 välas
64,373
Dr. £3,191
No, 17 of 1/==48, rents
$200,000
TIL 170,000
DODE
Tis. 150,000 15,000 Tis. 50 ris. so 14,939 125,000 510 Sto
520,00
10,000 Ti, 75. Tis, g
Tls. 150,000
2008. 8,000 Tis 100. Tis xog 1,000 Tis. 500 TIL 00
.513
7 X
$30
81%
393 buyers
Final of Tis. 21 making in all Tl, 5 for ↑ `year ending 30,408 nummosnosocomios 2 Interim Tls, 4 for account 1908 warm
61 %
Th. 8t seller
- Tis. 254 salen:
Final of St making 531 for 100g-
1384 847 Interim of Se for account 1903 M........ Tis. 33,743
Tit. 22,516
Ths. 8 in 1906LAKINI
„Clɛ, ça'lni rgað
18,000
Siš
5:5
$53,601
53.736
$1.75 for year ending 31.12.06
50,000
60,000
3:0
5,0
*$26,806
53.556
$40,000
_176,1971
$0,000
$50
5;0
$51700 Tla roo Tis, too
1'is. 1,000,000
$5,000, 1007 roo
***T\s, 697;257"}
Tis. 75,000 Tis. 125,000
!
35,000 30,000 50,123
13,000
Tis, too Tis. 100
Tis, 25,000
TIL 6,531
Tis. 5 for 1907 .......................................Deuts
6%%
Tis. 95 bayss
525
$30,000
Dr.
$4,3:0
53) for year ending 30.6.07...
$13
$1,000
59,178
$1.80 for 1906 meiosárecasvacuanse
Szó sellera Sist buyer
$48,975
132,000
$14,619
Interim of 3y for account 1908'...ta
~8~X ̈ ̄ ̄ ̄|~577 bayars
50,000
$100
$250,000
$36,915
Interim of 533 for account 1908 m
Sto
$50
$10 {
$217,435
$50,000
5462
jo cents for 1007
7X
Sal buyers
530
• доде
5555
St4 fox 1907.........
6) X
Say
Tlu. 1,533,0452
78,000 Tis, foris. 50 13,500
Tui, 107,547
Interim of Tis, 3 for account 1908
7. X
$50 Sco
Ex,541
Interim of 52 for account 1998 „madı
Tia. 116 buyers $45.
I'll. 8,Boy 19.553
Tis, it for aar oued 31.10.1907
Tla. 671 bayer
jo cents for car coding 31.7.48,
40X
Stoj
Tla, 85,519
Tis. 6 for year endeď zagod (8 %),
Th, 60 sellers
Tis.75 sollers
Tis. 50,601
€1,500 $25,000
£648 NIL
אא
Done.
$25,000
S10
$130,000
$1,500
So cents for 1907 «, mensisemitt
25,000
571
{.
$10,000?
$800
$48
$1.30 for year anding 11.7. B
Sy sales
Sta bayars
Sok bilyar
514
400,000
Sto
S10
$12,000
15.078:
Interim of 40 cents for account 1908-
$1,000
Sto
Sto
$5,000
Sage
75 cents for 9 months ending 31.11.07
Sta salas S13 buyárs
21,000, 60,000
$30
$186,000
18,957
51 for year ending 28.2.08
10 X
550 sales
SIö
$9,321
51 and bonus 20 cts. for year ending 29.2.08
61%
5,000 Sas 60,000
$4,578
$8,19%
Interim of $4 for account 1993......ummyandernisse Interize of $1 for account 1908 ......
S235
$35.
Parts
25,000 G1, 100 GR. 100 15,000 $10 5:02 50,000 $10 75,000 $10 510 #4000 T 50 Tia su
30,000 T. 20 Ta
Tis: 547,500 «Tis, 27,003 S.
TIL 17,137
£30
+ $5,000
nons
** TIL, 100,000
Tie, 24,820) TIL. 75,000$ Tis. 190,000
$7,473
אא
Tix. 700 bayara
SX4
R$
NIL
Tia, 6,603
01%
Tis, 219 salas (19
Tis. 116 buyers
The 56,392
6,000
Sas buyars
pone
Dr.
$99,532
Nopp
10,000
Tix. 15,295)
40 cents for year ending 31 8
3,000 1,100 Ft 100
Tls. 4,000
maisemi
Tis: 94 huyant -
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50,000.
..Sto
Sio
$11
10,000
Sto
90,000
110
$10
$10
$30,000 300 Doud
36,438
51-95
8,604 19/8 11/1 Sis Sia ST02 $107
$13
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited ..................... China-Borneo Campany, Limited...summamencostimurin 60,000 China Light and Power Company Limited........ 50,000 De, special shares) * 50,000 China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld....|| 195,000
Do.
ACOOLIE warlined Sao in the Police Court, last Wednesday, for attempting to obtain the large amount of fifteen centi-by false pretences from the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., on Tuesday. He could not pay the fine and was sent "in" for a month. The foreman Coolio THERE will be general regret in Shanghai | Dalry Farm Company, Limited En who was alleged to have been concerned in the matter, was discharged. Mr. J. Lopes, the gate-keeper, prosecuted.
THE Pacific Mail steamer Manchuria, which salind from Hongkong on September 30th Three days ahead of regular schedule) in order to get overland shipments delivered to the rail lines before the new ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission went into, effect on November 1st, arrived at San Francisco op October 27th, allowing ample time to effect the transfer of the overland shipments to railroads under the old ratOS, BECAUSE an antiële which be bad tendered in pawn had baén refused, a carpenter-Lau XK, of 33, High Street became so obstreperous that a policeman had to be called in. The presence of the uniform did not have any effect on the wood artist; in fact 'be got worse, and. he was arrasted; not, however, before he had struck the lukong a low blows on the chest. In the Police Court, on the 27th inst, he was fined Sa on the first charge (disorderly conduct), and 55 for assaulting the policeman."
A JAPANESE, who is alleged to be, a black smith, was suddenly taken in his collat headquarter last Wednesday night and had to be sent to hospital. It is believed that the man caught a severe chill and is expected to remain in hospital for an indefinite period. Shimboda, for that is the name of our hero was arrested on board the Ammons Maru, and charged with having obtained passage from Nagataki to this port without the master's per mission: Owing to the defendant's absence, the case was adjourned sine dis.
when it becomes known that a sad and serious accident occurred last month to Miss Mac Ewen, eldest daughter of Mr. A. P. MacEwen, (formerly taipan" of Mesura, Jardine, Mathe son and Co, and one of the most successful and popular Chairman that ever presided over the Musicipal Council) of The Grove Holling ton. Whilst out shooting, the gun the keeper was carrying slipped as the keeper was RESİL ing her over a lag, and the contents of both cartridges entered her left foot. The accident took place some distance from the lodge, and it was many hours before medical assistance could be procured!. Sir Patrick Mansoni as soon as he heard of it, motored over from Clou- bura village 30 miles away, where he was staying for fishing. He still hopes that the foot may be saved," Miss MacEwen is progress. ing as favourably as can be expected,—Shang. | haj Times.
Green Island Cement Company, Limited H. Price & Company, Limited ............MITED Hall & Holtz, Limited Hongkong Electric Company, Limited .... Hongkong Ice Company, Limited Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld.. Maatschappij tot Miin, Bosch en Landbouwers
ploitatie in Langkat, Limited „sumsessiemontese, Peak Tramways Company, Limited Pesk-Tramway Company (new) ......a na cotitzberg) (1990 Philippine Company, Limited shanghal Gas Company, Limited
"Kinghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited.
shanghai Waterworks Gompany, Limited.................. South China Morning Post, Limitad
DR/ Stopben Wootton Bushell, C.M.G. (1897), Steam Laundry Company, Limited
for many years physician to the British Legarenssin Waterworks Company, Limited a ma tion at Peking, dind on 19th aft, at his resi dence, Ravensholt, Harrow-on-the-Hill. The third son of the late William Bushel, of the Moat, Alb-next-Sandwich, Kent, Dr. Boshell was born in 1844, and received his medical educa tion at Guy's Hospital, where he was London University scholar and an exbibitioner and gold medallist, fu: 1665 he was house surgeon at Guy's, and after a year as resident medical officer at the Bethlem Royal Hospital went to Peking in 1868 as physician to the British Lega tled. That appointment he held until the end of 1899, when he retiredos a pension. Dr. Bushell was a member of a number of learned societiesia cluding the Royal Aviaticand Royal, Numimetic the council of both of which he was a mem- На was also a Fellow of the Royal Geo- ical Society, and a corresponding member of the Zoological Society and of the Numis matic Society of Viesas. During his long resi dance in China he gave much attention to the study of Chinese art, and the knowledge thus gained on the spot resulted in the publication of a handbook on the subject. He also publish-
Jan Waterboat Company, Limited
Javed Nabéstas Oriental Agency, Limited .....
Vary, August cong Luma cik
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OWING to the unavoidable absence of Total M. Y. Chung who has bonn appointed to the Staff of H.E. Tang Shao-yl. Special Ambassador to the United States, his post as one of the two -Chitos: representatives on the International Opium Conference which is to take place at Shanghal naxt January, bas been given to Total Tong Kai-san: - Aswill, perhaps, be remembered ad Oriental Ceramic Art," and was the author
by our readers the other Chinese Representative of papers on procelain, namismatics, znogra.. Jus Teated Tet Quak-lin, formasily Chiassa phical, and archeological subjects connected
Conin Gewal. In South Africa, All"thren "ith the Far East: He was much interested Dincial bound above are returned American the collection of Chinese curios, colar, books, madest of the Chinese Educational Mission and Antiquities, Dr. Baskell married a daughter. of the seventies
of Dr. X. N. B. Matshown of Pickley, Konigs
* Those shares are entitled to hall of the profits. ...
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$120,000 Воде
BORE
BOSE
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are for 197$1,037
15.30 tur: 1907äyntiosoirankansaní masky ope 50 cents for year ended 18,106
Tie, 8,493
Interim of Tis, to for and quarter.
(a cants on fully paid shares and 6 cents on 2
51 paid shares for year ending 30.4.08.5 Nous
одели проправы
Final of Tia, 4 making Tis: 7å for 1907
Find of Tia, 9 making in all Tla. 14 for 1907 12 X
Final of 37/6 making 39/6 for 1997 ume
Tie. 400.
$1,300
Tis, 54 for year ending 304:07
-50 cents for 1907060-
180 crûts on 7,90 ord, shares and $19.80 on?
100 Faus ska s for yr, and. 33.5.07 making 60 cents: Final a jo
lur year anding 353407, USULKESNOTIDENDE”, [ Fiùst ó! 30 củ›, masing 80 cts. for the
your inded 30th Juan, 1996
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