The
NEW SERIES No. 6052
CONTENTS,
Hongkong Telegrap
魏大十月二閏年元航官。
DIE DEATHS, On April 5, 190g, at Shanghai, HARRY HENDERSON OWLER, of Panjck, gear Glass gow, aged 35 vanrs Electr cian with the
baoghat Dock & Engineering Co, Ltd,
Oa. Apail 619-9, at Shanghai, HILPA, BER Chinese Railways and Finances. The Importance of the Compradore System. TRAM,aged at ronths, dently beloved daughter
of Captain and Miu. F Haydi: Chinese Compradores.
Births, Marriages and Deaths,
Leading Articles
More Class Legislation in Hongkong.
China's Capabilities.
Telegrams:--
Rússia and China-
H.E: Tank Shao-yi. Japan and China; Foreign Nevotiations. Railway Disbursements,“ The Postal Deparment. Naval Reorganisation,
Na Tong
Viceroy of Yunsas. "The Pratės Islands,
Tibet.
Hankow-Ichang Railway. Hague Conference. Shanghai Settlement Extension, HE. Sik Liang. Cantun-Hankow Railway, Imperial Palace. N Canton-Macao Railway, Extra-territoriality. Plague in Peking. Minister to Berlin.
Showing the Flag.
Eu üchs.
Yunnan Viceroyalty. Assault by Junkmen.
Anti Opium Campaign, China Merchants S. N. Co.
Wen Tsung yao.
Prince Chi-g
England and Siam,
Foreigners in Mangalia.
Emperor Kwang-su's Funeral,
Chinese Consulater..
Meetings:
The China Flour Mill Co., Ltd;
Ex the T., P. D. Cơ,
The Toyo Kiten Kaisha,
Kulangau (Amay) Municipal Council
Legal Intelligonos
A Question of Identity,
A Manager's Salary.
A Business Proposition.
Frills and Flounces,
Club Member Sued.
Hit with a Brick'
Palico:-
Chinese Woman and a Fortune-teller, Contraband in Victoria Gaol. Jealousy Crure of Crime.
Stabbing Affray at Kowloon. Gity Larcenies.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports-
Dr. Wilder Banquetted.
Joss Sticks in the Colonial Cemetery, Danif the Magician,
The Governor's Trip to Canion,
Lady Lugard's Departure,
The Late Mr. O. B. Thomson.
"Victoria Recreation Clus,
· Sanitary Board Secretaryship.
"The Delimitation of Macun,”
The Hongkong Elecitic Co, Ltd. Dog Nuisance at Wanchai. Lusitano Recreation Club... Limewashing Houses, Attempted Suicide.
Civil Service Cricket Club..
#Emprats" Liner.
Canton-Hankow Railway!
Painful Experience.. Cricket,
Gunboat for Macan.
Ladies' Rifle Association, '
Robbery at a Refinery.
'Army Estimator for the Far East,
Race Poles Sold.
Water Return,
Canton Day by Day
The Cinton-Hankow finen. The Maran Boundary, Canton-Macao Fallway. The Closing of Vladivostok. Aborigines of Yunnan, The Stringency at Tientsin. Compradores and Trade, Shanghai Gaol Brak. China's-Naval Schemea.- Shanghal Opium flouses. The Loss of the S.5. Adato. Pratas Island Dispute, The Oaks Shoren Kaisba. Daring Outrage in Kobe. Obarge against an ́Ex-Bairinler,.
Japan Sugar Company,
“Notable Wireless-Fast.,
Great Fire in Tokyo,
Dr. Knch in lapan.
Destructive Gale in Kobe,
Sugar in Japan
Interpart Cricket."
The Founding of Singapore.
Sabang's Rival
Camraph as Naval Base.
Ching-Siamese Navigation Co., Ltd.
A Rescue at Sea.” ̃ ̈
Big Fire in Bangkok.'
A Trip through Servi
Commercial:-:
-Weekly Share Reports
Yarn Market. Exchange
· Local and General,
BIRTHS
On February 14, 1909, N Chaoat du Mont D'Onel, Cauzi, Dordogna Frasce, the wife of Louis Rocher' (Commissioner” of Customs, re- tired), of 200-JEAN
of ET BOND, formerly of Canton, daughter. March 1, 1909, at Dichten, scher BELLION-OB April 8th, at Green Park House, 134 Piccadilly, London, the wife of Mr. R. E, BELILIOS, of a son... (By Wire),^it,
MARRIAGES,
De April 5, 1969 at Shaughal, HERMANN ALLT) eldest son of Carl Arit, of Breslau, to Valerie MARGARETE, daughise of the late Pro Sensor Peter Hobojcacy of Bodapest,~~*
On April 3, 1909, at Shanghai, CLAUDE J.G., and son of the Inte Jobs Hill of Manchester,
to MARION ETHEL, 3rd daughter of the late Richard Forster, of Durham, and Mrs. Forster, Newcastle-on-Tr06, gondolnila kay
On the fith April, at St Andrew's Church, Kowlode 354 Ray2CJE) Thompson; BA;
MINA, daughter of the late Thomson, of Hongkong ito
Pashto
The Hongbang Celegraph
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would like to emphasise the point that unless a man has a formal and proper intro duction to Chinese merchants it is consider
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foreign: merchant in these days to be success fül, must have at least a smattering knowledge of the Chinese and their country, and it is in the process of gaining this knowledge that he has to come to the conclusion that the present-day compradore is a degenerated product. But, although, his kupwledge la correct, the conclusion he draws is wrong. The latter-day compradora je not a degene? rate. He is one of the same old brand, The only difference is that the present-day foreign trader has been getting onto him
as the Americans say, "P
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public have a perfect rights and privileges and to declare that no munlty shall be exel prejudice of the many. But what the Sanitary Board and ported the resolution are veckis They would exclude the Chinese right of burial in the public cemete although the Chinese are perfectly willi to abide, ip the strictest seose by each i all of the regulations framed by a beneficent and paternal Government for the due obre vance of the proprieties at much places au
railway stocks are becoming.chary of entrust. Inwer rate and more favourable than that ed absolute rudeness and a breach of eti being merely to the effect "That as the new Mrday Chu Pak in denouncing this latest
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMPRADORE SYSTEM.
requisite accurity for the large loan that if and who must lekin to speak the Chinese required. The true policy, of course, says language"; and again: "It is absolutely cer- the London Globe, of March 4, is to place tein that an up-country buyer, because of hit the contract for building the line with furoj ignorance of any, foreign language, is com- Pean engineers, in which case the work balled to do business through the compradom would be done more cheaply, more efficient which means that it must be done on that ly and without any financial difficulty, So gentleman's terms or not at all... The mer far our contemporaries. From the Hongkong| chant is no longer a merchant but simply render's standpoint all these things have been the agent for the compradors, the latter. do. said before and will in all likelihood be re- ing sifths workBnding customers, velling" peated in the near future. But if China's ability to them, and guaranteeing the accounts. to offer the necessary security to those able. This position has gradually grown out of the and willing to lend loans for constructional easy-going habits of the merchants and purposes is so inadequate why all this fuss through their inability to speak Chinese." over the question whether Germany or Great All that bundle of platitudes makes a very MORE CLASS ZAGISLATION IN * publio cemeteries. The fact of the matters: Britain be allowed to undertake the work?. fthe showing,, but it does not prove that il-k-
ONGKONG,
izihat this sort of natty municipál legis The fact seems to be that the Lomp and British seller were to operate without the
lation is all of a piece with the policy of the foreign press is being manipulated by inan assistance of a Chinese compradore he
(15th April),
Government in reserving special landa for, clal speculators who are well aware that would be any the more successful, Thet the fast meeting of tad danitary Board the bon ton of the Coloby - First they do China is in a position to offer all the security fact is that the compradore 120 institution an important resolution involving a diftinct creed that in life the Chinese should not (10th April.)..
required and who are only seeking to deling andwillen heitl remain to question of principle with regard to the rights live in the vicinity of the Peak and now in Whether the representatives of Great Bri-tract the attention of gullible investors unless some unforeseen cataclysm of nature of the Chinese community in Hongkong was death the Chinese are not deemed fitting tain through the British Minister at Peking from the real issues at stake. Great Britain eradicates his existence. One cont introduced by Mr. Shelton Hooper, second occupants of lairs in the public cemetery. with reference to the proposed, German loan has a perfect right to demand that Chins pondent who ridicules the assertion thated by Dr, Fitruilliams and passed by six The whole thing is so supremely ridiculous for the purpose of constructing a section of should observe to the letter her treaty the compradore can be abolished remarks votes to three, the minority including the that it would be farcical if the subject did not the Canton-Hankow line will bear fruit is obligations but beyond that she cannot go,
President of the Board and the two Chinese preclude one from dealing in such a manner still open to question, but there is reason to just as she is unable to compel China to
representatives. On the fate of it the reso with a subject serious in itself and in the believe that British investors in Chinese accept proferred capital even if it is at a
lution, was of a most ingocious character, principle underlying the motive which ap pears to have given rise to the motion. A ing their money unless the Chinese Imperial offered by other Powers. The wholequette to attempt, dealing direct for which
cemetery bye-laws prohibit the burning of Government is prepared to give ample subject resolves itself into a diple you are sure to be snubbed and treated with jdss sticks and firing of crackers in the Colo. example of class legislation remarked i seems hardly contumely. This is a view which is not nial Cemetery it is desirable for the Govern-Those Chinees who made use of the Co- security in return, This feeling of doubt matic tangle which it with regard to the capability of the Chinese possible to unravel at the moment, and sufficiently realised by those who condemn meat, to select a new site and authorise a lonial cemetery were chiefly the British Govemment to carry the responsibilities she the probability is that we shall hear of the system. China, Chinese customs and has undertaken in this direction is en- negotiations taking place over the question Chinese business methods must be consi cemetery for the faterment of bodies of per bamishe British naturalised, Ure Christian song of the Buddhist and other non-Christian converted and the Eurasian Chiates, and phasised by the Peking correspondent of the for years to come. Meanwhile China has dered when dealing in Ching, and if you Faiths, and for whom no special cemeteries recently Japanese had slap made use of it London Times who recently sent a some
no difficulty in getting the money she re- don't know cr understand them my opinion have been provided where It may be lawful as these people had already been admitted what alarmist report to his paper regarding quires for the construction of new railways is stick to you. compradore always or you for the practice of any rites and ceremonies into the European paradise on earth, be
in the Middle Kingdom, and that, after all, will be landed in an unfathomable abyss" the Shanghai Hangchow-Ningpo railway. It must not be forgotion that Dr. Morrison is the main issue from the point of view of of claims, etc. The attempt at direct. pertaining to the religion of the deceased, thought it was scarcely fair to debat them in speaking to the motion this set forth, from using the passage, to the European is apt to indulge in gloomy prognostications those concemed with the real interests of dealing, going up country with yourMr. Hooper, who had evidently bech well paradise in heaven.The better class of when things are dull and equally-inclined to the Empire, and its prosperity and advance own piece goods, etc. has been tried of primed on-the-subject, delving into musty Chinese who had made Hongkong their per indulge in optimistic reviews when the pond ment in the path of progress.
nese; it has never proved successful. You clearly showed that he anticipated opposition ha de conubi la what were called Chinese and on for years by Britons speaking Chl tomes and recalling byegone days, quite manent home had not a decent cemetery in
which to bury their dead, and the Chinese, is upon him. As the result of an inspec
take cargo 300 or 1,500 miles from Shang from the representatives of the Chinese rate cemeteries, Those cemeteries, were simply tion of the line in question Dr Morrison
bal and the Chinese dealers of those district presented serious charges of incompetence
payers who, after all, are no insignißcant against the constructors and suggested that
will leave you alone, a derelict, virtually section of the population of this Colony acts of barren land set apart by the Govern without business or occupation and the and went out of his way to ob- ment for the burial of Chinese dead of any the capital supplied by British investors was
The question whether European merchants question remains how long can any one wait. cute the real point at itsud, Heare class. The Government reserved to itself being squandered. Then there was a state trading in China cats succeed in doing unless he is a Chinaman? Again there inferred to "the Bag, which is always a cer- the right of resuming the land and or ment issued by the Board of Communica business without the interposition of the tions giving the results of the working of the compradore is once more agitating a section must therefore accept native bank orders inyapia, the protection afforded all our tel-buried anywhere else as the Government no money in any of these districts and youtains, attraction and a source of mental dering the remains to be exhumed and principal, lines, shown a profit on the work of the foreigners in Tientsin, with the and you must be a Chinaman to know low subjects,, the justice meted out under might from time to time be pleased to direct ing of most of the northern lines but a con-
usual result. It is contended that if every whether the bank is sound or that some un the British constitution to all and sundry, Fancy the outcry there would be among the siderable inss on others, more especially the European assistant were required to posseis dercurrent is not at work. To sum up the and he even hinted at the glorious traditions elite if the remains of their predecessors Shanghai-Nanking Railway. There have a fluent colloquial' understanding of the also been reports that the different sections Chinese Jaguage the time would speedily whole matter it is madness for traders to go of the past. If we assume the speaker to be were subject to removal at the whim and of the Tientsin Pukow Railway are pot arrive, when the services of the compradoiep country whilst the financial conditions a Burke or a Pitt such language is all very caprice of some, insignificant official in making equally satisfactory progress, and could be dispensed with and foreign traders remain unaltered or unit the banking and fine and large, but what it has to do with Government Department. That in itself, lately the Associate Director of that railway would be in a position to deal direct with currency are put on a satisfactory basis. It is cemeteries we cannot pretend to understand should constitute pics for the Chinese was in Shanghai en route to Pukow to make the Chinese-buyer. To those who have losing the substance in a vain attempt to Incidentally, Mr. Hooper spoke of the desire that they have a right of interment in the an inspection of the Southern section of the given a modicum of study to this question may allow the matter to rest,
achieve the Impossible." There we of those professing the Buddhist religion to Colonial cemetery. As Mr. Ho Kom Tongo line, while the statement was made a few the great fallacy underlying all such profident that if the leading banks, shipping might practise the riter and ceremonies acquiries, instances of cracker firing in the Co-
Co have a cemetery of their own where they very properly pointed out From hit in days ago that the Viceroy has appointed an positions: is apparent. able British engineer to make an inspection assumed that immediately a foreign book is find it advantageous to retain the services duced no particulars to show that he had Even granting, for the sake of argument, that It seems of companies and industrial undertakings cording to their burial service, but he ad. lonial cemetery had been few and far between of the Shanghai Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, staffed by assistants of linguistic ability the of a compradore and his staff a drastic mea- been given a mandate to plead for the fol it was a general practice, there was already! with a view to ascertaining whether or not ordinary Chinese dealer would be CO sure such as that implied in the asserera Towers of that or any other religion. What in existence the necessary legal machinery to Dr. Morrison's criticisms are well-founded. tent to conduct all his trade, operations tions of those who know little or nothing of he did do was to envelop the question in regulate it, in order to reduce to a minimum As a Northern contemporary points out through the European staff, and that the the actual conditions.is wholly out of the there is reason to believe that all this unfortunaté compradore would be relega question and a merely visionary project neither applicable nor interesting, as to cording to the orthodox rituals of those be such a misty haze of history, which was the so-called objectionable observances, no, activity is due to the operations of rival syoted to outer darkness. It seems to be which would probably result in the general obfuscate, the vision of those members longing to the Buddulat pemulsion." There dientes and that, in consequence, the reports forgotten that the Chinese people are decay of foreign trade with the Chinese of the Board who failed to realise is the whole matter in Rutshell. More are not always to be implicitly-trusted Atecoming more, and more averse to the writer in the Mercury of Shanghai holds that idea of granting foreigners greater facilities
that they were bartering away the unques over, it was stated by the senior representa the heavy loss reported in the working of the of business intercourse than they already
tionable and irrefragible rights of the Chin- tive of the Chinese that the majority of CHINESE COMPRADORES. Shanghai-Nanking Railway during the past possess. In many cases it is extremely pro
ese bora and bred in this Colpay of Hong Chinese and other citizens "belonged to no year proves that the fact that a line has been bable that the compradore's department is
kong: Still further to avoid the issue, re- particular religious denomination to that splendidly constructed and supplied with in the real bulwark of a foreign firm engaged
(13th April,)
ference was made to the origin of the word they could not likely injure the sentiment proachable rolling stock is not sufficient to in Chinese trade, and that were it not for a reference to our leading article on "colonial" as applied to the public cemetery, al ideas of those who did profess a cortain ensure its being run on a paying basis. this attachment to the firm with which be Saturday on the subject of the compradore as if a display of recondite knowledge had faith while they remained amongst the must be well managed, which no doubt the may be associated and his general integrity system, it is interesting to note what a conanything to do with the matter, while Mr. living. As we have already sald the Shanghai Nanking line is, and besides he and comparative disinterestedness the trade tributor to the Shanghai China Casette, who Hewett dwelt on the desire of the Govern-resolution to exclude Chinese from able to secure profitable traffic, which appa dealings of many for ign houres would signs himself "Cosmos," has to say. He ment, or somebody else to proside all de- the pubite cemetery is on a par with the rently the Shanghai-Nanking line cannot do, languish and finally disappear. The Chin writes:Referring to the subject of com nominations with special cemeteries, and Peak Reservation scheme, and we can only notwithstanding the fact that it traverses
ere are no longer to be regarded as nonen.prados generally, and to the decline, or twitted both Mr. Lau Chu, Pak and Mr. Ho add that we are astonished that Mr. Hopper one of the richest districts of Chine. The tities, incapable of looking after their own so-called decline, of the Chinese commercial Kom Tong with speaking a little bit off the should have been the one to father such Chinese Covernment, however, seems to be interests. They are as alive to the pouri community as a class, reference to which line" whereas, to our way of thinking, they unworthy progeny or that Dr. Fitzwilliams' awakening to the fact that all is not well bilities of trade as any foreign firm, whether has on recent occasions been made in the were the only persons who were exactly on should have been found to set the part of the with the railway, as it is announced in it he conducted by British, German, Ameri, columns of the China Gaselte, I beg to say the line. To begin with, it should be un-benign godpareat. We trust, however, that the Governor-in-Council will veto the plan native telegram from Fcking that the can or Japanese merchants and the elimina that while I agree in the main with the derstood that this cannot be viewed all and accord our Chinese fellow subjects the Board of Communications intends to
tion of the compradore would only induce sentiments expressed in fecent leaders to party, racial or sectarian question; it is a send a high official: to investigate, along Chinese syndicates to spring into being and the effect that the present-day compradores matter which affects most of us but little in undoubted rights, to which they are plainly with the Governor of Kiangsu, into the absorb the trade which is now handled by and merchants are not the soul of honour, I this life and for that reason we can approach it Causes of the heavy loss incurred in European houses through the medium of am not altogether inclined to agree with you without blasorfeeling. Itisnot even a question- the year's working of the line, and mention the compradore and his staff. Moreover, that they are in this respect very much of cemeteries so much as it is one of general "· CHINA'S CAPABILITIES. is made of revising the freight regulations. the compradore has the business of foreign worse than their progenitors, if course, 1 principle. We can come to view it from a In this connection the Peking and dientsin markets at his fingers ends; he has must admit that I know very little about the old purely disinterested point of view, although Some writer (o the "hanghai Mercury ha Times has recently published a suggestive painfully and laboriously acquired the most time compradore whose word was as good it is apparent that Dr. Fitzwilliams entirely been doing his utmost to malign the Chinese article dealing with the financial position of intimate knowledge of and acquaintance as his bond, as his class, if they ever exist failed to reallas its import when he reconded character and their abilly. His trouble is Chinese railways, with special reference to the with the methods of Furopean middlemen, were before my time, but I have had the plea the adoption of the motion. The Colonial about the "regeneration of a decadent race." Camion Hankow section of the grand trunk and that knowledge would immediately be sure of the acquaintance of sompot the retired For Protestant or whatever fancy name any. It is astonishing in these circumitances to line, It is well understood, says our con-placed at the disposel of his compatriots- foreign merchants of those days, and while hody may wish to call it the publle ceme find that the Powers do not consider China temporary, that China is at present negotiat when it was not utilised by himself were they have been able to set, by a good store of lery of Hongkong is maintained out of the either a backward countly or one given to ing a loan of some four millions sterling, in he dismissed as an unnecessary incubus, this world's goods, in spite of a surprisingly rates and taxes provided by the residents in such foolish transaction ax dintinguish the order to finance the construction of four Who that lives in the Far East believes for colossal ignorance of things Chinese, I do the Colony. It is no more a private insti- procipality of Bulgaria The writer - in hundred miles of the railway between Hana moment that he would be content to be not, simply going by that as a criterion, tako tution than the public gardens paly it is question is most serious when he says: kow and Canton, Her chances of success snuffed out as a burden and a nuisance, everything they say for gospel truth; Really, governed by rules and regulations consonant "The task in the task which China has suff however, can hardly be rated very high- without making any effort at retaliation? I must laugh sometimes when I hear them with decency and respect for the dead. henself: the means are Chinese meant, Tew ly, for several reasons must militate Who can claim that foreign trade in Chipa say how they owe their fortune to the late Even the Protestants cannot claim it for people have ever stopped to consider the against her in the Judgment of British is not, on the whole, admirably served by the grity and honesty of the compradore they em- their very own; it is the public burial place magnitude of the work which China must financiers The Chinese Government has compradores, with their mytlad interests and ployed. What they say is of course true, la of Hongkong maintained by the public, accomplish before she can attain the object no reputation for efficiency in constructional ido-sympathy with those of their fellows this respect, at least.-Living-as-strangers to or gather by the Government, which she has at heart, and of these few ovary undertakings of this kind. The Imperial subjects with whom they have commercial a strange land, without attempting to leare comes to the same thing, out of general much doubt if there is even one who can Chimese Revenue is very inelastic under connection? Not the great business firms anything about it; seldom, if ever going be revenue. No sect, or body has ⚫ right claim either Chinese or Manchu descent: present conditions, and its figures demon-established in China, apparently, otherwise good the limits of the Foreign Settle to say that it has apy particular claim on The task has been begun and its burdens strate how utterly inadequate that stevenue why this apathy when the question of doing ments, they were quite content, so long as the domain, but so far is we can mikke our assumed with no clear understanding of the is as security for a loan. The present away with the compradore system is mooted. their transactions brought them a profit; all have an equal right to interment immensity of the labour, the complexity of foreign debt of Chins amounts to £145. It is all very well for a Blackburn Chamber of and making good profits was an easy matter there. If the Roman Catholics and the the scheme, or the world-wide knowledge 000,000, which has been, almost entirely Commerce to say that young Englishmen in thore days. Not, however, because the Zoroastrians prefer to have cemeteries of required for its successful achievement. contracted within the last thirteen years who have an inclination to engage as assistants compradores and native merchants were their own which they maintain themselves "Let there be light,' is the native reformer's To pay the interest on that debt a sum of in British-houses in China should learn the honest; far from it. It was simply the lack under the laws of the Colony and subject to fiat, but it is altogether anot seven and a half millions in required, of Chinese language. No doubt that is so of competition. If their compradore had the supervision of the Government, then whether the concluding which it is estimated that productive works and such a knowledge in addition to their been honest they would have reaped ten that is their own business. They interfere sentence will ⠀⠀rend, supply about a million. The charge on the stock in trade would do them good to help times the profit that they did. The other with nobody, ask nothing from the public light? Of course, if Imperial Revenue is, therefore, six-and-a-to modify that ineffable conceit which is the bine-tenths went to the compradore, and he purse, and seek only to act according to the for granted that the balf millions sterling, to provide which hall-mark of the great majority of foreignstrip kept up his bluff about his word and his tenets of their particular, religion. That is an effusionis none other the revenue of the Imperial Maritime lings when they come into contact with Chinese bond so beautifully that the old time as it should he, but when it comes to individual-perhaps, we only Customs and part of the Provincial re-dealers. But who, with any appreciation of foreigner was not able to detect it which question of the public cemetery the scans is reminiscence, a missiona Tenues are hypothecated and there re-the situation, will go farther and say that it will not surprising, as he was generally an changed, so to speak. If a number of in told, fins to tackle two or mains but a balance of some six mil result in the relations between foreign trades obtuse sort of a gentleman, and besides he dividuals have a certain brand of religion first of which is law. The lions sterling to meet the purposes of the and Chinese dealer being improved to such was getting a good proft, so he had no and with to practies last riter la God's Acre sited is referred to, ordinary expenditure. That sum is obvious ka extent that the compradore will become reas to be suspicious. But things are in their own particular fashion, and at the came not from the tailor ly insufficient even to meet executive ex-virtual curiosity? The Blackburn Chamber penses), and it is notorious that additional of Commerco sald — Spes
money has to be scraped together each in order to make good the deficit
generally
Bar | fordiger merchants, unļas they going for do more in the future than they are doin's that the revenue can be ex present, they will have to gos stances 11/la facturers at home ought to send
dealers.
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entitled.
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