Telegrams.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
SERVICE.
FRANCE IN THE FAR EAST. APPOINTMENT OF COMMERCIAL ATTACHES.
[By courtesy of the Sheung Po."]
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MARCH 6. 909
THE OPIUM COMMISSION.COM
CHINESE DELEGATE'S ELOQUENT SPEECH.
The following is the speech delivered by Mr. Tang. Kuo-as in submitting resolutions on bobalf of the Chinese delegation.
Mr. President and Gentlemen rf the Interna tional Opium Commission:-
THE CAN:
NKOWAR
Shiuchow, Feb. 17. The Canton Hankow Railway in at length within sight of the North River just above the famous Filalero gorge. The line is working order for forty-five miles and already a dumber
line. This may be worth millions to the com pany, for the district is very rich in minerala Many stone quarries are already to be found along the river bank, while cargoes of lima. stone go down-country frequently, Abova thiuchaw wa bare rich coal-mides worked in a primitive fashion which yield a fino quality of coal
await the contractors ore they get to Shinchow. tak, while much beary cutting and tunnelling
Today's Advertisements.
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. S.S.BENLAWERSA FROM MIDDLESBRO. ANTWERP, BA LONDON AND STRAITS
ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Home Mathil Goods are being landed
Public Companies.
HONGKONG FIRE
SURANCE
COMPANY LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FORTIETH ORDINARY MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 12.30 PM. on TUESDAY, the gh Marche pa The TRANSFER BOOKE of the Company
of visitors have come from Canton to Yuntam,t it now estimated that at least two years I beg to submit herewith, on behalf of the the farthest station opac. The rolling stock in must elapse before the line is working to Ying, Commissioners for Chinn, their resolution on the subject which has brought to know need compare favourably with that of an average subject which has brought together this Com-use is tastefully painted a dark green and would allway in England. By means of the railway. Peking, 5th March. comment that China, greatly to har misfortunesome Baptist missionaries stationed at Yingtak before the borders of Hapan we reached-hazardous: "Godowns at the Hongkong and will be CLOSEU from the 23rd inst, to the France takes a lively intercat in more deeply loterasted in the outcome of
this Commission than any other Power. With made a record journey early this year, Leav ing Yingtak at 9p.m. one day, the party commercial affairs in the Far East, most of you the opium habit is and of mady by dint of travelling all night in a native
problems which are before, your country, and
She proposes to appoint several
not perhaps among the most importani..." With commercial attaches to reside per-us, on the other hand, it is one of the most:
acute moral and economic questions which manently in Péking and Tokio.
MINISTRY OF POSTS AND -
COMMUNICATIONS. VICEROY HSU DECLINES
PRESIDENTSHIP.,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."].. Peking, 5th March.
a nation we have to face.
I wish to make clear in the very beginning that we realize that at last it is a question the solution of which depends on us and on us alone. However, much help we may have from others, the largest part remains to
boat arrived at the Fitairze Fass in a little
Even then there remains over sixty miles at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co. Ltd., whance and/or from the wharven "dalivary C. D. News,
may be obtained.
COMMERCIAL.
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WEEDLY SHARE LIST; Messrs. Erich Georg & Co. write under date 6th inst, impede path.
The ster
over 12 hours. The journey up the small stream to Yunlam took two hours and when the party reached the station thay found it crowded with a large number of Chin- ess. The up train from Caston was late and. A very fair inquiry for shares made itself felt this somewhat delayed matters, for the trains in the market during the work under review, could not pass on the single lins, but severibe and had it not been for the film and reluctant less, Wengsha terminus way reached by 7 p.m. altitude of sellor, a much larger business could after a three bouts' railway journey. The dis have been done, than has been the car. Ai We must work out our own salvation, Ourance pverland is rac miles. This formerly, it is, several stocks have advanced in value, Government-Imperial, provincial, and local entailed two long fatiguing days on launches, without bringing out many shares
plus a night in a native boat at Tsingyos, soling demand rate of exchange on London we on the North River hail the advent of the closes at 18. 81, while rates on Shanghai ara long-looked-for railway with delight. When Tls. 741 for a Bank T/T, nod Tis. 75% for a the line la completed to Yingtak and running three days' aight Frivate Bill, the rate in in connection with the Canton Kowloon Rail Shanghai fox a three days sight Privats Draft Way, we look forward to receiving our letters on this being Tis. 748. Bar-silver in London is and daily papers from Hongkong and Shangbai quoted aged, and Console £84-5/16 ex interest sich morning. We shall then feel we are not The Bank of England's rate of discount remains so much cut off from the world as at present. 3 per cent, while the private market rate of
discodot is zå per cent,
is aware of this, and the people, from the highest to the lowest, with a clearness which wa could hardly have expected in the present H.E. Hau Shi-chang, Viceroy of condition of geparál education, have definitely I would not the Three Eastern Provinces, de-arrived at the same conviction,
have you think, Sir, that China comes to this clines to take up the appointment of Commission in a spirit of impotence, Crying president of the Ministry of Posts to the world to tid her of a foe with which she bad bot the moral strength and courage to do and Communications.
batile. We understand the enormous difficul- The Grand Council proposes toties; we have counted the cost.; we are deter give the substantivo appointment to the acting president, H.E. Lei Tin-
lam.
JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT
ENTERTAINED.
By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."], "
Poking, 5th March.
York Herald has arrived in Peking. The Chinese editors of the local newspapers accorded him a cordial reception on the 3rd inst.
PEKING ADMINISTRATIVE
COUNCIL.
INTELLIGENT MEMBERS
WANTED.
·{By courtesy of the "Sheing Po."]
PROTECTION AGAINST FLOODS.
when miles of dykes gave way before the tre mendous foods in June, caused a change in the plans. The engineers wood-frame house
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Bank Shares-Hongkong and Shanghai. Banks opened very firm with sales and buyers at $875 and $8774, but on Wednesday the rai jumped to sales at 5882) and $185, and we COW close at Spoo, with sales and buyers, Shanghai quotes buyers at $910 with an exchange of Tis. 71, while the London zate x £84. 10s. cd. Nationals are still in request at $51.
Goodi No Claima will be admitted after the have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the tab jost will be rubject to rent nea
All Claims against the Steamer must be pro santed to the Undersigned on or before the 18th is, or they will not be recognised
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godewas, where they will be examined on the ith inst., at 11 A.bl.
No Firs Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., CALING Agents/ Hongkong, 6th March, roogilin
1242
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Trons. X. V. VERNON, Esq.,
“HE Undersigned have received instructi
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
.... קם
FRIDAY.
9th proximi hal days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD.
General Managers,:" Hongkong Fire Insurance Company,
Limited.
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Hongkong, 19th February, 1909.
THE
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF,
AND GODOWN CO., LD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERSA
THE TWENTY SECOND ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Office ot Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld, King's Building, on WEDNESDAY, the toth barch, at 12.30 PM for the purpass of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, r908,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
March, both days inclusive.
the rath. March, 1909, at 1 P.M within his will be CLOSED from the 4th to the roth
R. J. MACGOWAN, THE WHOLE OF THE residence, Newlands," 37, Conduit Road, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 24th February, 1909.
CHINA SUGAR refining CO., LD.
THEREIN CONTAINED,
Comprising
· SILK COVERED DRAWING ROOM
SUITE, CHESTERFIELD COUCH Rad ARM CHAIRS, CHINESE BLACKWOOD CHAIRS and TABLES, OLD CLOCKS, DESKS, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DIN- ING DINNER WAGGONS with BEVEL ING TABLE and CHAIRS, SIDEBOARD
LED GLASS, Double and Single BRASS.and Marine Insurance Sharon-Unions have IRON BEDSTEADS with HAIR MAT been done in small lots at $825, closing steady.TRESSES, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES Chinh Traders are wanted at $87, and North Chinas at Tis, 971 as well as Yangtszes at $191, Cantons are firm at $1874"
Fie Insurao Shares-Hongkonge are
easier and obtainable at $330. Chinas are in demand at $99, ex the dividend and bonus, of together $8 per share, paid yesterday.
Shipping Shares.-Hongkong, Capton and Macao Steamboats are in demand at Sigt, at Taimin, built cheek by jowl with the but at Szgj a few are obtainable. Indo-Chinas ancient temple, stood above the first level; but sold $59, the Shanghai rate is tellers at Tis. 47, while London quotes £3...196. od., for prefer- when the bark was raised some tén feel it was completely enclosed, Now it lies in a bollowed, and $1 for deferred shares: China and that nt from the South wind, and offering a Manilas, Douglases, as well as,Star Ferries, are unchanged. Shell Transports bave in restricted outlook to the unfortunate inhabit-
quùles at 550, with a rise in London to 5ós. 34. sellers, Union Waterboats advanced to buyers at Stck.
ants.
AMONG THE WORKMEN, '»
A few days ago I walked, over the five miles mined to rid ourselves of this curse. And yel of track which is in process of construction be however fully we realize our own responsibility, low. Tal Min. Very law workmen were about, and whatever propsstion of the task of elimina possibly owing to heavy rains then falling. ting from our midst the proper use of oplum Judging from the noises issuing from the is ours and ours alone, we should be blied in matsheds stationed on intervals along the fint, in from this gathering and from iþe, action deed did we not take sew courage and inspira- the coolies were inside indulging in gambling or opium smaking. Much of the track has of your respective Governments which has had to be booked twenty feet high and more. made this Commission possible, for there can
and where the new material dips into the river by no doubt that international action and co-
bed, a facing of loose masonry two fest thick operation are essential to a successful-dealing
is being erected to protect the biok against with the question. And with China in par
scooring by the fool.. Al fight it was not pro. ticular the question is so large and has such wide ramifications that our own efforts, how-posed to place the railway above the level of ever catnest and det rmined, have their com- the great floods which only come once in a The correspondent of the Nempleta success conditioned upon the co-opera-generation, but the experience of last year,
tion of other nations. We are especially glad to meet here the representative of Great Britain, which, next to China, is perhaps most interested in this problem. Since the days of Lord Shaftesbury, that name which illumined the pathway for so many world-wide schemes of philanthropy and reform, the delicats and difficult task of the abolition of the opium traffic has commanded the time, thought, and practical efforts of some of your greatest men, sore and more will China claim, by right of her forge indebtedness to them, a part to the glory of such names as Lord Morley, Sir Joseph Pease, Alexander, Broomhall, and Taylor. The labour of such is these culminated last year in that splendid action of Parliament reaffirming its conviction that the Indo-Chinese opiam trade is morally indefensible, and requesting His Majesty's Government to take such steps as may be necessary for bringing it to a speedy close-au action whers every consideration of prudence and convenience are buried beneath the moral aspect of the tion, I doubt whether parliamentary action" of any Government has ever reached a higher moral elevation, it lifts perfoncé all sub e quent discussion of the subject into the clear aic of this altitude. The manifest sympathy with which the proposals of the Government of Ching during the past two yeus for the regulation of the traffic have met with from the British Government has been one of the greatest encouragements to China in dealing with this question. The calling of this Commission by the President of the marks of disinterested friendship on the part of that G verament. Moreover, the ear. best and effective way in which the American Goven ment is dealing with this question in her own borders not only offers a model to China, but insures ber sympatby with us in our attempt at the solution of the same problem on et me express also an infinitely larges scale. my appreciation of the presence of the delegates from Germany, It is from Geimany pro The Chinese Consul-General at eminently, with her spirit of scientific exact Singapore has telegraphed to Pek-native revelations of the effects of opium ing to the effect that Chinese ro sidents in the Straits are willing to contribute three million dollars towards the construction of naval
Peking, 5th March.
The Contral Government has called upon all the Provinces to select fair-minded and intelligent members of the local gentry.
It is desired that such subjects may be asked to proceed to Peking for appointment on the Administra- tive Council.
NAVAL BASES. SPLENDID OFFER FROM STRAITS CHINESE.
[By courttay of the “ Sheung. Po.”] -
bases:
Shanghai, 5th March.
The money is available to be handed over at any time, but con tributors to the fund stipulate that statements of expenditure should
ON TIH BREAKWATER,
Refiseries--China Sugars have been ió.
has been paid for cash shares, closing with further buyers, We hear that at the forthcom ing meeting a dividend of $5 per share will be declared. Luzons are neglected at $17.
with BEVELLED GLASS, DRESSING TABLES, CHEST OF DRAWERS, MAR- BLE TOP WASHSTANDS, GLASS, CROCKERY and EP. WARE, CARPETS and STAIR CARPETS, ENGRAVINGS,
OIL PAINTINGS, WATER COLOURS, &c. &c.;
ALSO
A Quantity of PLANTS in POT -Catalogues will be issued.
Do view on Thunday, the 11th instant. TERMS: As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, *Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 6th March, rong-
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instructions THEU
to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
DO
~ SATURDAY, KA
Sales Rooms, No, 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, A QUANTITY OF AMERICAN BOOTS, (various sizes), ALSO
NOTICE.
334
THE THAL MEETING of the SHARE- THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY AN-
HOLDERS of the above Company will be beld at the Offices of the General Agents, King's Buildings, on FRIDAY, the 19th March, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1908,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th to 19th. March, both days inclusiva,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, LaDai
General Agents. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1909.,
LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO., LD,
NOTICE.
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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY THE
ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, King's Buildings, on FRIDAY, the 19th March, at 17:30 F.M., for the purpose of receiv-
the year ending 31st December, 1908.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th to 19th March, bolk days incluàive,
It is not often that one comes across an eight hours' day is actual operation is Chias, bui the tunnel at Taimin is being cut by three respeculative demand, and from $135 to $142) the 13th March, 1909, at 11 AM, at their ing the Report and Statement of Accounts for Jays of men, each of which works night hours a day. Already work has been proceeding at the tuseel for ten months, but it is expected that six months mard must elapse before the total length of 130 feet has been cut through. The men who drill holes for blasting have curious habit. Using a bamboo tube a yard long, the workman sucks up some water and pirts it into the hole. The tube is then inserted into the hole and the process of suction repeated. In this fashion the dust and fragments loosen ed by the drill are removed. The stuff thus brought out resembles pea soup in colour and subsistency, and one could imagine it would
Mining Shares, Charbonnages have been done and are wanted at $60, cum the dividend lost paid, as follows: an interim dividend'an account of igo9, of fres. 371.per bar (coupon 16) has been paid in Patis on ist March, 1999; A drawing of 110 four 4 per cent. 1903 boads has taken place to be redeemed at par on ist prox'mo.
Roubs are easier with sellers at $-4; the Hongkong Telegraph of 27th ultimo, prints the
28 cases. PRESERVED PINE APPLE. TERMS As usual, ennen ka
A HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioncars. Hongkong, 6th March, 1989.
1244
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,
General Agents. Hongkong, and March, 1969----
Notices of Firms,
NOTICE.
United States is but one of the many taste very pleasant, Thouli the workman hap mining mabager's report for the four weeks 1909, at 3 P.M. at the Offices of the Public KRAUSS, Mr. W. F. GRAY will take
a
pen to suck not wisely but too well.
THE END OF "FENGSHUI."
..
ended 30th January▲ telegram from the mine reperte & crushing of 5,362 tons of ore, yielding solo ounces of melted-gold, besides which 338 ounces have been won from other
Bources.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's abares sold and can be placed at Tie. 181.
it is remarkable how the advent of the rall way is removing superstitions. Not so long ago the cry that the "féagahu;" would be spoiled if a mine were to be opened, was suf ficient to stop any attempt at exploiting the mineral wealth of the country. But, as a rail-- Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c-Hongkong way official remarked the railway has killed, and Whampoa Dock shares have ruled quiet, agshui. The numerous graves which closing with sellers an $87). Geo. Fenwicks atud the landscape at one time presented insu- have sellers at $12. New Amoy Docks are parable barriers to the construction of a railway. wanted at $9). Shanghai Docks, had another Now they are being removed from the route big spurt, closing in the south with buyers at -al prices ranging from five to a hundred dollars, | Tis: 9t. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharven according to the position of the family and the sold at $47 and $48, closing firm at the latter amount of "bobbery" they are likely to raise. figure. Shanghai and Hongkow Wharves have Temples also have had to go. A little above improved in the north to bayeri ai Tis. 1778. uniam a temple stood in the way, but the native contractor and his men were loth to lay rude bands on the sacred shrine. Only by using dynamite was the foreign engineer able to get this stumbling block out of his way.
THE CASE OF THE TRACKER.
Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hengkong. Lands have advanced to buyers at $96, bat holders stick out for a higher rele. Kowicon Lands and West Points are unchanged. Hong kong-Hotala bave sellers at $20 Humphreys Estates are firm at $28, while Shanghai Lands are quiet at Its
the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of held on MONDAY, the 15th day of March, Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Ore Lot of CROWN LAND, at Conduit load, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from oth July, 1899.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. :
LOCALITY.
Adjoining
Inland
aland
Lot 17j2]
Lot No. 1801
Conduit
Boundary
Measurements.
21
Annual Rent
Upset Price,
Road, Asper sulò plan. 30,000 | 8s 1,800.
(about)}
Hongkong, 6th March, 1900,
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THE "FATSHAN" INCIDENT,
AGITATION IN SHANGHAL
URING the absence of Mr. E charge of the Agency hero. den dag
By Order of the Board of Directors, ATHR NORTH CHINA INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 5th March, 1909.
INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR
and
'EXPRESS TRAINS Co
(THE
GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN, ROUTE
HA
TO EUROPE.)
LTAVING bean appointed AGENTS får
the above Company, we shall be
SHEWAN, TOMES & 06,
Agents,
Stongkomp, via Taly, cont.
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It will be remembered, says the N. C.D. Newi of tat inst, that some time ago we reported in our columos the arrival of a Cantonese, by pleased to give any loformation as to rales (1 name Ho Chen-buan, in Stanghal, from Canton, in connection with the Fatikon passage, &c., in connection with above Cotton Mills-Shanghai quotationsare: Ewos incident, in which a, Portuguese ticket collector Tis. 103, Internationals Tis. 83. Lau Kung on board the steamer Foshan was alleged to Mows Tis, 88, and Soeychees Tis, 310. Hong- have canted a Chinese passenger's death by Sandry Manufacturing Companies-China with the object of stirring up Chinese feelings og Cottons have been done again at. 59. kicking him violently. Ho Chéa-huac Came Light and Powers are wanted at $42, Hong on the subject on the ground that neither the keng Electrics at $:81 and Bell's Asbestos at Portuguese Consul nor the Chinese authorities $10, Dairy Farms can be placed at $14. had taken stops which afforded the Canton Greca Island Cements changed hands at $9.50 public satisfaction in the matter.
Yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, a large and more shares are wanted, Ices have sellers at $205 ex the final dividend at 515 per share mass meeting was held in the Cantonsso
dividend of Sr por share-plid-on-set-instant by several hundred people, manly Cantonese paid on 1st ingles Ropes sold at $24 ex the Hospital in Haising Road, which was attended
Miscellaneous Chios Borneos have brewing the Fatihan incident, and stated that the done et S114 and $12, and continue in demand Portuguese Consul bad not replied to the at the higher rate. China Providents have Viceroy, who had written to him several times, commenced at a big tonnel, and the road one buyers at St. New Peak Tramway shares Mr. Huang Yu-kan then delivered an im- The daily issue is delivered free when the sliding into the stream below, Work had gically only two feet wide was concealed by have been fixed at St. Langkats have,sisen pressive speech and brought it home to his sloping debris several feet deep. A false slept Tis, 210 buyers; referring to our circular of audience that unless, Chinese displayed a unit. and one would have been precipitated to car
20th ultimo, we find that we omitted to state od front, foreign aggression would-be aggra that an amount of Tla. 316,682.89 has been vated and Chinese lives would be regarded as no weightier than "wild goose feathers in tain death,
foreign eyes-Resolutions were then passed with acclamation to the effect that telegrams be dispatched in the Viceroy at Canton, the
and research, that we bave the most au upon the burhan system. We know that the friendship of Germany for China puts the results of your incomparable laboratories and learned investigators at our disposal. And to Japan, our dearest neighbour and closest of kid, who has so successfully torped back the waveof disaster which has well-nigh overwhelm- ed us, who 'bas even succeeded in regulating the traffic in Formosa, where it had a strong hold, to you I turn with especial confidence in
1 your co-operation. To France and Russib, also, 1st duumvirate which has been the mainstay of peace in Europe for nearly a quarter of century, we desire to express our feelings of appreciation for your sympathy in our stuggle
It is matter for regret that the railway com far reform. Time fails me to zame each of those Powers which have expressed a willing pany has been so regardless of the tow paths be published with a view of ensures to cooperate with the open quant to my along the river. By raising embankments they
however, not only be recreant ing confidonce in the minds of the duty hut should misrepresent my colleagues have covered over the towpath in places and it is pathetic to sea these human beasts of and n y country if I did not pause to express people.
Chion & deep gratitude for this unselfish is burden at the tow rope struggling and slipping on the new clay surface on a wet day. In other teler. I wish to express also gratification at the unanimous and spontaneous reco,bition on laces what way before a parrow creek easily the pair of other coueiries of the sincerity of scrambled over, has been excavated ten feet Chion's intention in her recent efforts to exterids and many deep. It would have bren 5.8. "SURUGA" AGROUND AT MANILA.
minute this evil.:
In dealing with a question with so many sad an easy matter and cost little to provide We learn from the Manila Times that about such fr-reaching relationships, motives may plank bridge for the tracker. Again, in places three o'clock on the morning of the 1st instant easily be misinterpreted, and the fact that there
ke the Blind-Bop's Pass the tow-path is a the British steamer &urugh, Captain Chubb, of | has been no disposition whatever to do ibis, the Barber five, ràn aground on the tip cap augurs well for the successful outcome of the Thirt track hewn out of the calid rock, some outside the breakwater about two hundred feet efforis of this Commission. There werp Doi tinies sixty feet above the water. I walked Orber stocks under this beading are unchanged. Mr. Ho opened the meeting by recapitulat | WEEKLY—S13 per annum, from the lighthouse on the riverside of the who at first doubled the ability of China 10 weight of a tow-line found it dificult to avoid entrance. At that time in the morning the fog Over the of the ship were confused by the over the bay near the water is dense and lights of the city and let go their anchor when they thought they were safe outside the bicsk water. The aucher had hardly been let go when the vessel sirock bow on the rip-rap This morning there was Fixteen feet of water In the forward hold of the vessel and cargo was being lightered as fait; as possible so 31 10 get her off the rocks at high tide this afternoon, The captain and agents have but litle docht that they can float the vessel at that time, but the opinion was expreated by other ship. pisg men that it would be difficult. The exact damage to the hull is not known at present bat ibute lightering of cargo it will be ascertain d: The Surge came in frem, Hongkong With a smili cargo of Chinese products for the AaRlic comt. £he came to Manila to the wrency of Macondiny and Company and was fed to load hamp kus for Haw York:
few, to be sure, Chinese as well as foreigners, along it the other night, and even without the grapple successfully with this evil in her own surprise. The crise was so widespread, the borders. This, however, should not occasion dificulty of breaking the opium habit is so Kroat, the clandestine use of the drug in to eat, and the difficulties so baffl og and enormous that it is not strange' if anyone should have conceived success to be impossible. To these doubts, the national sentiment against opium has proved an effective answer. Of the tirength, genuineness, and widespread dissemination of this sentiment there can be no question, The determined action taken by the Throne in September 1956, and the loyal co-operation and coergetic measures of suck Viceroys as Their Excellencies Tuxo Fog, Hai-Lass, Yang Shih-balang, and Histi Shifi-chang are indicative of the official attitude; but mots encouraging than the determination of the Imperial or prae vincial authorities has been the response on the part of the people,
There is a konstant traffic of boala-say fifty day whose trackers require these path Surely they are entitled to some consideration. The Company may contend that it is not theft duty to make a tow path along the river-alds, but they are morally bound, and in any other country would be legally compelled, to restore or replace footpaths previously existing sanhang MINERAL, POSSIDILIZIA
carried forward to new sccount.
Watkins and Wa. Powells are quiet at last quotation In other stocks under this head og nothing has transpired and quotations are the same as given last,
o
EVEN in the maller of eggs the Philippines de
not raise enough to supply the local demand.
7,896. Most of there It, may not be generally known that the. During the past year katta were imported from concession to make the railway carrida with it| China eggs valued at F the right to all mitbin ton malies of the egge cause to Chinese la the fulande,
Walwupo" and the Portuguese Miniri Peking asking for severe punishment.
draw up the telegram: offender, Mr. Halashib, Edit
or of Publi
the polated Treasurer Hal-ku Editor:
which reached over $200.
Zin
sler
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