SANITARY BOARD.
VILLEDICTORY ADDRESS
The three years that I and my colleague, Mr. Hooper, have represented the tax-payers op this Board havs involved probably the bardest work that any such representatives have ever been called upon to perform, owing principally to H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan ap polating all the Unofficials of this Poard a Commission to inquire into the working of the Health Ordinance.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20 1909.
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
STRAITS COMMISSION REPORT..
ALLEGED OPIUM SMQNGGLING.
BRITISH ENGINEER ARDESTED,GÜVEN Alexander McCormick, second, engineer of the steamship Bubl, which arrived in port last Tuesday, was found in possession of ounces of opium and was arrested by James P. Lawler, chief of the secret service department of the bureau of castems, reports the Mauila Casio
In our last issue, we gave the address to theIt has been equally a puzzle to know why the members of the Sanitary Board by Mr. Heary Government to England were so anxious to Humphreys, the retiring member of the Board, huddle up out of public knowledge the Report In a brief form. The following is a verbatim of the Straits Opium Commission, and why, no report of that gentleman's remarks,
late in the day, and for no discoverable reason, they did finally telegraph consent to its publica. slov, although manifestly, owing to typographicde of 15th fast. al difficulties there could porpossibly have been in connection with the arrest of Mr. Mc that simultaneous publication in Eugland and Cormick, W. G. Lawson, the ship's first officer the Straus Seulements that they made the vital is said to have placed himself between the condition of publicity, remarks the Singapore officer making the arrest and bis fellow officer Free Fres. That, of cours, for no reason that and thus made it possible for him to attempt would bear..atatement, much less survive crito escape. He bas heen charged with Inter ticiam. A clue is, however, provided by a tele. | fering with an officer in the discharge of his gram appearing in the Indian papers from Rou: { duties * SABA BO ter's agency. ་་་་ *........ The stolegram is dated London Jan. 4th, and reads as follows:
The Daily Mail and Telegraph publish a loog summary of the report of the Sirait Opium Commission, including the main ro commendations of the Commission, which urges that the Opium question be dealt with by increased control and not by prohibition.
Whethal Commission:maant in the way of work and much of the corruption it exposed, the Colony is to some extent familiar with The spectacle of $10,000.00 squandered every every month during the plague anason on an unknown and untried disinfectant, of thousands of dollars paid out every month to unknown Chinesa contractors without business premises and without even a printed form for their bills, will, I trust, never again be presented to the commualty.
Officials.
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— He was valid, arrested: and together: with. McCormick was removed to the Meisic police station where they are held under order of the court to appear for arraignment to-day. Charges were filed against them yesterday afternoon by the prosecuting attorney and bail of Prop for McCormick and Pico for Lawson recom mended.
Breaking the laws against contraband opium is proving costly ia Cebu, „Here is a sent nee Just passed on a Chinese by Judge Wislizenas there.
The Court finds that the accused, on the
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ANOTHER LIGHTER BUILDING.
The usefulonas of the addition of the slipway.
To-day's Advertisements.
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to the timber businers of the China Borneo Co, Ld, lo-which a large amount of Hong.THE ong capital is invested, is beginning to be demonstrated. Ever since its complaiton the alipway department has been building lighter and faunches not only for its own use, but for that of coal and oiber companies star in Borneq. According to advices received from Sandakan to-day, the Company are now working on a
lighter which will be supplied shortly toyo
the Batu Pateb Estate,
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· Mrs. B. E. Velilios bas kindly consente) to perform the ceremony.
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The Government's answer to the Commis sioners' report was to still further clip the wings of the Board by transferring, all matters connected with buildings from the Board to the Building Authority, I am not sure this is not a good move. It certainly should save time; but good or bad, it reduces the work to be done by the Bard in the future ta mere/munication" if a "long summary" of the of any consideration of clemency the apprecia fionociers, who'ara still auxions to become at St. Francis Street, Waochai, (Branch of the: nothing and its fortnightly meeting have of ready become a farce. For this reason, if fox
Italian Convent),
Public Companies.
THE HONGKONG LAND REC
TION COMPANY LIMITED.
`OTICE is hereby Riven that the BIGHTH;
NORDINARY MEETING of SHARE
HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings; on THURSDAY, the 28th January, 1909, at it.zg. ali,, for the parpars of receiving the Report: of the Directors together with; a Statement of Accounts for the year ending gist Decambar, 1908.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com»
pany will bp CLOSED from THURSDAY,
the mist January, to THURSDAY, the 28th. January (both days inclusive), daring which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY 5, NORTHCOTE,
Secretary:
Hongkong, 13th January, 1909,
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
COMPANY, LIMITED, AN
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OTICE hereby given that the!!
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, on THURSDAY, the 18th January, 1909, at £1.30 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with Statement of Accounts, for the year ending 31st December, 1908.
N TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 19th January, to THURSDAY, the 28th | January (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Director,
"A SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Invest- - ment and Agency Company, Lttle General Agouts_for The West Point
Building Company, Ltd.:
What will strike people in Stogapore is that it is an extremely strange thing that two pro The Sanitary heard as a Board could not minent newspapers in London should have
A GLOOMY REPORT, be asked to share the blame in any way be. been able to publish a long summary of the
London, January 16, cause prior to this state of affairs the Govern Report of the Straits Opium Commission, ment had transferred practically the whole of when the Imperial Government bad interdict night of Nov. lil, 1998 had, the early morning The Times correspondent in Peking sends the axecutive arrangements in Sanitdry Deed publication either in London or in Singa of the and day of the said month, bring a
the following communication -- partment composed en'inly of Government pore aotil its absurd condition of simultaneous person unauthorized by law. knowingly-had-One result of the mission of Tang Shao-yl publication, which was made to depend upon on board the steamer" Kaifong, then anchored to America has been the arrival here of a re- the scanty resources of the overworked, in the Port of Cebu, Philippine Islands, in his presentative of one of the loading American to make under-staffed and under-supplied Singapore possession and under his control seventy cans banking institusjons in the Far East, 10
of opium and that the accused therefore is inquiries respecting the prospect of offering a Government Printing Office, could have been complied with. That there has been guilty of the crime charged, defined and pun-loan to China with a view to her participation leakage somewhere is obvious, either inished by Section 3t of Act 1761 of the Philip in the construction of the Canton-Haokow London or in this Colony, and the foot pins Commissios. No fact has been proven Railway. The money would, it in under- that that leakage task the form of com
at the trial showing that the accused is worthy stood, be provided by the group of Belgian Opium Cominission Report to two London' tion of which is in the discretional power at the identified with this railway, although they are newspaper must be held to explain why Court under its law. On the contrary, cir. aware that the option of its construction bas the sized being stolen, it occurred to the mind cumstances exist which show the necessity been secured by the British, under the terms of the Secretary of 6:ate that to continue to of applying the sanction of the law in all of the Hongkong loan, which has been granted to keep the stable door locked was a work of
its rigor. For some time past the Port of to Chios for the repurchase of the concession supererogation, Thore is room for much satiri Cabu has been acquiring a bad reputation, from the American Syndicate,, who were the cal comment upon the sacrity with which being one of the principal contres of the illegal original holders. The representative bas re- Lord Crewe, fading the "gaff and been blown" Importation and distribution of opium. The turned to Shanghai convinced that the moment in London, rushes out-by-cable permission to law was enacted by the legislative power after, is ill-chosen for offering a loan to China. "The publish in Singapore that which had already exceedingly careful reflection and discussion, financial condition of China will presently be become cometon property in London. If the and the object of this law is nothing less than causing considerable anxiety, arising from the secret had not been exploded in London we the preacivation of an entire people from a heavy fall in Iver, the debased subsidiary should, according to the Secretary of State's threatening evil which has with sad consecoinage, the reduced Customs ravoques, the original orders, bave remained in ignorance of
quence shown its poisonous power in these Is, over-speculation and over-trading of native the contents of the Commission's Report until lands. The accused has knowingly defied the merchants in Shanghai, Heokow, Tientsin, the poor Singapore Government Printing Office law and the power of this Government, and and other great business centras, and the had again gone through the ordeal of printing this Court will therefore show by its sentences many failures. The Tientsin Consular body off a dozen or mere successive section of the in such cases that the Port of Cebu is a dan and the Chamber of Commerce have submitted / BUSINESS on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, January (both days inclusive), düring-which
no other, I take my leave of the Board without a single regret.
THE "KAIPONG'S" DAMAGE,
-$3,000-CLAIMED.
There thousand pesos damages have been asked by Emith, Bell and Company from the Pilots' Association at Iloilo for injuries caused the British steamer Kaifong in being run on a rock lo entering the barbour of Iloilo on De- cember 24 in charge of one of the pilots of the association, says the Mumit Times.
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The first board of Arbilzation which invest. gated the grounding could not come to a un animous decision as to the cause of the ac- cident and the pincing of the blame, two hold. ing that the pilot was guilty and one that he was not Anotherboard was appointed and the cold blood, and from motives of economy to the in this cause to the penalty of five (5) years' | against debts of narly two millions to foreign
report of this board was that the pilot in charge
voluminous Volf I containing the evidence, dia- Iributing and resetting the insufficient supply of type between each section. That was what in
Imperial exchequer, the ColonialOffice proposed
should be the course to be followed in producing of the vessel, Cipriano Vidal, was 'wholly, to
Blue-book for the information of Parliament. blame for the accident. In view of this finding The low level of the morality of the whole the local agents of the vessel asked damages stratagem is only equalled by the meanness of of the Filots' 'Association to the extent of the financial motive, but, we have no right to P3,00),
In replying to the demand the Pilote refuse cavil at a Liberal Government being convicted to pay any damage but offer to pay half the of its own illiberality aut of its own mouth. expenses of the board, or P7.00, It is under. As the old Irishman said "What can you stood that the agent asked the collector of the expect from a pig, but a grupi," and we have
defuncès.
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Berous port for the launching of this class of The Court, therefore, sentences the accused
pesos (P10,000.00,) and la case of insolvency imprisonment and to pay a fan of ten thousand to suffer subsidiary imprisonment at the rate of one day for each twelve and obe-half pesetas which he fails to pay such subsidiary imprison. ment out to exceed one year, and to pay the
costs of the cause.
a report to the Diplomatic Huby, polating out that the native merchants of Tientsin are able' to show assels of only one million sterling.
increasing silver levies upon the provinces issu firms mostly German and japaness. The ever-
ed in order to meet the indemnity pzymsols in gold add to the general embarrassment, while China, through her ignorance of the element. ary principles of sound finance, is increasing the currency confusion, although she is under
port to enforce their demand for damages but scriptural authority fur doubling whether the the two cans which have been submitted to | patch to the Wai-wu pu, urging the adoption
ait official has co authority to take any such
step.
"The Court orders that the fifty-nine cans of opium contained in the sack. Exhibit "A" of the prosecution, the nige damaged casi and Ethiopian can change his skin or the leopard analysis and which appear as exhibits in this his spots. With the publication of the gist of cause, be delivered to the Collector of Customs the Opium Commission Report, staring them Colonial Lffice saw that the game was ia-the-face in two morning newspapers the of Cebu for their due forícituro." up, and made a virtue of necessity by FOREIGN-STUDENIS-IN-JAPAN according permission for what could have been got without its latervention in course. The Nichi Nichi Skimban states that the of mall, or even possibly by cable. But it sumber of Chinneo students in Japan is
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Entimations.
Hongkong, 13th January, 1909.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED, G
NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY-FIRST" ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS ́in tils [107 Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, on THURSDAY, the 28th January, 1909, at 11 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with Statement of Ac-. counts, for the year ending 31st December, 1908.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. TN accordance with Gaverament Notification No. 19 the EXCHANGE BANKS will CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC 22nd and 3rd last.
be
(97-
Hongkong. 18th January, 1009.,
THE CHINA AND MANILA
STEAMSHIP CO., LD. HONGKONG, AMOY AND MANILA.
As a special inducement to intend
ing Visitors to the Philippine Carnival, we are offering a reduced fare of $60 for passage to Manila treaty obligation to reform her finances, TEE DIPLOMATIC BODY AND THE SITUATION and return by our 8.8. " ZAFIRO" The Diplomatic Body have addressed a disailing SATURDAY, the 30th Jan. Tickets issued at this reduced rate of immediata measures to check the currency will be available for return by either chars, to forbid the present issue of bank notes the S.S. ZAFIRO" leaving Manila 7th February or the 8.8. "RUBI" loaving Manila on 18th February.
by irresponsible banks not possessing a reserve of builion, and to control the unlimited issue. On
of provincial notes which are not also protected
by a cash reserve.
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China will have to make a radical change in her methods before she can beps to obtain again such favourable terms as the secured in the case of the last Anglo-French loan of
la the mesotime‹ Pilot Vidal, who was sus pended during the investigation, asked the cal fector for leive and was granted a month. The agents of the vessel refused to have this pilot on any of the Butterfield and Swire vessels entering or leaving the harbour, and in view at this fact the other members of the association is a point to be considered whether even if diminishing steadily. At one time there were requested the collector to ask for the resigna- such irregularly, obtained information reached as many as between pine and ten thousand, but tion of Pilot Vidal, which, mut er will be taken this Colony while the interdict against publica. now the number has fallen to below five thous * up at the expiration of the leave granted him.
tion stood against the Government in Singapore, and; This is scarcely to be wondered at it would have been correct to bave made use of Although the disaffected section of these students must have been an inflaitesimally DESERTED JAPANESH RESCUED that without consulting the Colonial Secretariat.
It is no part of ours to bazard theories arto the small fraction of the whole, they have natural-in reserve $14,00,000 (£1,150,200). This asset mode by which the two London newspapisy attracted a large share of public attention, bad de actual existence. The Ministry hoped, came into possession of a long summary of the for the man in the street is not prose to balance however, to obtain the amount subsequently, Report of the Straits Opium Commission, aegative condition against positive facts. Thus and, as already reported, received the Imperial before permission was given by the Colonial to receive his education in Japan has come to sinction to raise a domestic loan of $10,0 0,00
TERRIBLE SUPPERINGS OF LEO HERM '8
ISLAND.
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"American papers publish.tḥe following tele-
65,005,000 for the redemption of the Peking Hankow Railway, in that case the Ministry of Communications secured exceptional lermo from foreign banks by representing that they had
gram from Midway Island, dated Dec. 18 Office for publication. But if we take the result be an indirect slur upon the loyalty of a Chinese B23,000) offering 7 per cent, laterest with of the publication and the character of the Re-student, and this is quite suficient to detera abate in the profits of the railway. There
Stress of weather, which compelled the Com mircial Pacific Cable Company's schooner if,
part into account, it would be very difficult to Flaurenca Ward to 'deviate from her courre from Honolulu to a cable station and run for discover from the Report itself why the Colas is Office thought fit to deny the public of this Loo Hermes island for shelter, was the means
Colony access toit for so long a time. We can of bringing about he rescas of three marooned Japanese plumage huaters and saring them bot profess to be in the least gravefol to the from starvation and death. The Flaurence Colonial Office for a permission which it only
secorded when its hand was forced by prema Ward is commanded by Capt. Gen. II.
tura publication in London, But still we are Pitt. She was” bringing suppiles here from Honolulu, when a heavy gale broke and satisfied that, whatever be the reason, the abe was compelled to seek shelter at Les Report is now published, and the people of Hermes islands, eighty miles southeast of this Colony are able to examine the Report of the Commilovers for themselves, and endeay Midway. Distress signals were observed on shore and Capt. Pilz sent a small boat to
our 10 study the situation is all its bearings with the help of the Report, As showing --Investigate Three Lapanese sailors-wars-
found. Two were suffering from scurvy. The relation of cause and effect in this incident, we Japanese were immediately taken abpard may merely point out that the unauthorised the Flaurence Ward, where they were given publication of the "long summary of the food and clothing. Through an interpre. Report took place in Londen on Monday, ter one of the Japanese said they had been January 4th. On Wednesday, January 6th, wo fr.ldree-months without food except fish were courteously informed by the Fon'ble the end sea birds. No fresh water was chisizable | Colonial Secretary that the Colonial Office had and the bird wore compelled to dank distilled
*were compelled-to-light it by concentrating the
respectable but timid people from sending was no security at all, except the guarantee of their sons to Tokyo. On the other hand, in the Ministry itself, and the Chinese distrust. of the case of Korean students, to whom no such the methods of the Ministry under-its-piesent considerations apply, the number attending corrupt and incompetent President, Chen-pi, li Japanese schools is increasing steadily, Thus 19 great that this small loan has been a com whereas at the close of 1957 there were only plete failure. There has been no response to 350 of these students in Tokyo, the figure the popular appeal for subscriptions, and the to-day is nearly 800. If to these be added the Miojstry are now seeking to obtain the amount number in the provinces, a total of fully a from foreign banks, Chios badly needs money, thousand will be reached. Our contemporary you the way in which loan moneys are being peaks very highly of the intelligence, aptitude wasted is bound to shake foreign confidence, and diligence of th, Korean lads. In these lavestors will cease to lend money to CBina on Government guarantee without effective respects they compare very favourably with the Chinese, and they are specially remarkable (eg, supervision over expenditure. the facility with which they acquire the Japan ese languagda
VOLUNTEER CORPS ORDERS,
.NOTICE,
Ali ordem concerning parades issued in now,-by-cable, eccord-d-permission-for-the Corps Orders-of-13th January: are cancelled
tea water. When a fire was required the men Straite Opium' Commission Report to be and the following substituted."».
published in Singapore. The post or in this.Friday, January and Chinese New Year's day, "Maxim gug practice at a towed target. One tuya, of the son upon smal pieces of tinder case, is a very decisive explanation of the through the crystal of a walch, According to | preplir hoc,
or more series to be fired by each of the Artil lery Companies, and the Infantry Company. Parade-At headquarters at 9 30.10.
the Japanese the schooper Kioho Mrit, of Shinagawa, Toklo, Capt. Sugien, pas intu
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JAPANESE SHIPPING.
Hermes about July 1 and landed four men p The following is self-explanatory, as showing collect the plumage of sea birds. The Aloke the remarkable progress, made by the shipping Maru departed, "Having one month's provisions of Japan of late years:
for the men on the island end interding shortly.
to return and take them að. The vessel never "returned." Soon)'after ibe, departure of the "vensel a terrific pidin broke and huge "seat
swept over the island, carrying away most of. the supplies and effects of the marooned men, On what was left they subsleted as long as it farted. - Ode of the men died from exposure And Improper food and the other three men. could not have survived long.. The three sit bycared for at the cable station and in a
| ba faken to Honolulu,
No, of Vessels.
Toscage,
18981,934
613,637 1899/j: 3,536
768,538 1900
4;168:
840,032 1901 4:534 901,890 “1993 mini 4,574 min 932,819
1993
4,601 ... 977.308 4,747 TIK,50€ (1904)
3,089 1,760,187 5,536 m 1,380,716 (51784 kitotoro F1402,718
Hongkong, 11th Jan., 1909. [77
MANILA CARNIVAL.
February and to 9th, 1909.-"te
available for 6 wenke will be issued for. REDUCED RETURN FARE of $60.0 the following Passenger steamers :-
Leaving Hongkong
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com»
pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 19th January to THURSDAY, the 28th
period ng transfer ol-Shares can be registered,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary, Hongkong, 12th January, 1909.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO
STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,"
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE EIGHTY-FIFTH ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS in the Company, will be
HALF-YEARLY, MEETING of:
held at the Office of the Company,Hotel, Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 9th February, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving: a Report of the Directors, declaring a Dividend, confirming the appointment of Directors; and electr
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 35th January to the 9th February, both days inclusive.
-By-Order-of-the-Board-of-Directors,
W, E. CLARKE,
Secretary
Hongkong, 8th January, 1999.
Intimations.
NOTICE.
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"TEAN"
........26th January.THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG, BENEVOLENT-SO- "CHANGSHA” .......... 3140
'CIETY will be held at the CITY HALL; on WEDNESDAY; 27th inst, at 12 o'clock. "TAMING" .......and February.
Consul-General Wilder has kindly consented. Hongkong, 16th January, 1909.
to take the Chair,
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FORMOSAN GOVERNMENT
FINANCE.
19%
Hongkong, 19th January, 1909.
NOTICE
THE only Edition of the RACE BOOK and PROGRAMMES authorized by the Stewards of the Jockey Club are those printed by Mess, NoRONEA & CO.
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Coutras. Hongkong, 19th January, 1909. Tro
ESTIMATE FOR COMING"FISCAL YE\X~~~ The estimate of the Formosao Government for the coming fiscal year. (from April 1909 to March 1910), which was under examination by the Home Department, has now been sub mitted to the Finance Department. The reve pue of the island in estimated at Y32,375.449 cary revenues, and the expenditure at representing both ordinary and extraordi $32,231,549, both ordinary and extraordi- A after the first performance 30 any Geisha," Oce GOLD LADY'S BRACELET, With Chinese Gold Coín pendant...
Omber can have same on application to→
THE SECRETARY,
* Club Lusitano.
LA FOUND
the 'Club
sary. Compared with. the estimate for the THE TIENTSIN-YANGTER TRUNK ZINE. present fiscal year, the revenue shows a The latest scandal is in connection with the decrease of Y1,595,879 and the expenditure of English section of the Tientsin-Yangize Anglo-1 Y1,636,779 The principal item in the extra German trunk line. The northern two-thirds, ordinary expediture is the cast of lumbering Hongkong, 5th January, 190g that is, the German section from Tiosisib to on Ari hill, proposed to be taken over by ike the southern border of Shantung, is making Government, upon which, it is proposed to od progress veder 1 Chinese managing direc sprad Y1,800,000. The proposal has awakened tor, who allows the 'German engineer.jo-chief strong opposition in many quarters, it being
equate wall and who is actively coppie scarded as a sacrifice of public funds to the Frates of Subscription to the Jongkong
to
ing in the work. The southern third, that is, pre fit of a private merchant, and it is expected the British section, under a British engineer that the question will arouse a great deal in chief, from the southern border of Shan of discussion in the Diet. Arisan is a well- ung to the Yangtse, is making no progress wooded hill in Formosa, on which lumbering whatever. The managing director, who is a was undertakra a low yours ago by Mr. Fujita, native of Canton and has been educated in Amè. |- a well-known business man of Osaka, But the Dress:Khaki and Putties, service dresssica, is effectively provanting the work of con- enterprise bas "proved a failure and it is cap. Tiffin will be provided.
stuction. Although the contract is signed and alleged that Mr. Fujita, seeing that he was “ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY, COMPANIES.TM the work to be completed in four years, an involved in a heavy loss, appealed for assist Parade-At beadquarters at 5.30 pm on official report, dated December stb, stator that fance to the Government or the Premier Tuesday, the 19th, and Wednesday, the 20th the survay has been complored, but that no | through Marquis Inouye, who is on intimate. inst. Maxim gun dri.Sergt. Eveleigh, 2.0.4 rails have been ordered, no sleepers purchased, terms with Mr. Fujits: The Formosa Govern. will attend.
and no, earthworks constructed, The managment now proposes to take over the business, ing director, Instead of residing on the railway, for which ample compensation will be paid. 11 frequants Shangbai, and has been seen only is regarded as strange that, while Government once by the chief engineer in the course of two saw-m'Da in Japan are being transfered to whole months Sir John Jordan, the British private concerns, a similar business in Formosa Minister at Peking, has the matter lo hard, and should be taken over by the Government The Parade :-At West Fort, Kowloos, at 6 pms foreign representation has been made, but matter forms a striking example of the facon- on Wednesday, the soth inst, for lechnical owing to the mourning of the Court, diplomatie sistency of the Government policy in these Instruction,
Injarcourua in Peking in much hamperede matters-Jorda Chronica
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