Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL
does not seem incredible that this also should; have been a serious title oucs.
A. S. WATSON & 00 for cooked meat, while the pame of the sulmal
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED &,D, x84
CHEMISTS
Hongkong Shipping Firms Boycotted.
first is a Swedish:
three
"of the Victoria,
CAO POUDRE
by Correspondants"
had
[From Our Own Corrs
WANCHAIS NEW GRIEVANCE
Canton
16 Apri ¿To ren Zoiron ay the '"! Hawsxons: TELEOR B.E. Ko Yo Him, the Special Commissioner
Sir Not very long time appointed to conduct negotiations with the occasion to zemark upon the excell condl Portugueso Government on the question of the tion in which the Wanchal district war main. delimitation of Macad, despatched a telegram tained. According to a correspondent, hos for to Craton yesterday, advising that he would be totter apported in a recent
passenger by the China Merchanis Steams grop the district in questo Navigation Company's instanz
All who chauced to thick upon the subject must have been puzzled by the number of
THE HAIPHONG RICE TRADE, Freach terms for kidship la English as nephew, niece, cousin, uncle, grandi Thom
floped whe still fancy that the use of French words
GRAIN IMPORTERS FIGHT SHIFOWNERS.
baro History repeats itself. The boycott, which months In remains English, should be interpreted to mean that our unfortuato ancestors never tasted the was intillated against the three Hongkong vessel, while in the cattle or pigs they raised, most conclude, os shipping firms engaged in the Haiphong Hong-be charterers have the same reasoning, that they had no uncles, ang trade towards the end of 190%, has been stilar term. Our information is that the Fria nieces, aunts, or even grandfathers. In fact, if revived, sod for identical reasons. The simi bas set sail from Saigon for Haiphong where the assurance be necessary, they bad as many larily of the present situation to that obtaining she commences employmant under her chat which is due to arrive at Canton about the 19th considered parishs, sering bf these relatives before the Conquest as after, when the first boycott was engineered permits tereti some time next week. The Pictoria enters upon her new charter at this port; the and names for them all their own. It was the of a recapitulation of the facts with which com lawyers and Proctors of the Ecclesiastical mercial readers will have been more or less a Courts, no doubt, who gradually introduced the quainted. As on the former occasion, the boy dealers iorice at Daiphong. The Hoogtongship Messes, Jebsen & Co, and Means. Butterfield
was not lost, ia Staffordshire"sixty years ago.
Kwanglah
two vessels commencing operations almost 4 MISSING BANK DRAFT. simultaneously at each end, www target
THE PROGRESS OF THE STRUGGLE.
might be
pariah dóge—or at least, dogs
noithat label, collar, nor apparent owne
It was stated in your news columas the day," instructions were given Superintendent of Police mada uslicensed dogs os sight. Your
said :-" For about a mouth
much ammunition; aroused the
BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELSTROY THE.foreign terms'; but, "eem "in the sense of kin colt has been established by the leading firms of
Properly, il signifies an uncle, like the Cape-owner affectedare Mesure. 'A. R. Marty & Co of the ruggle. Sofar as we have buco abloJo Fazeland presiding, Tang Wing, a shroff in especially those in the Waschalt
GOVERNOR AND Household,
Watson's HYGIENOL,
Dutch "Dom"
"
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A SHROFF In the Palice Court, this morning, Mr. F.A.
the employment of a firm at 18, Connaught
It will be loteresting to watch the progress
ascertain, there is so likelihood of the Confer The origin of "Miss" is so curious that one and Swire. Ailtbasa firms operate rezclar lines once giving way ander the pressure of the Road West, figured in the dock on charges of bonthood bat seldom was a member of the must be circumspact in dealing with it. The steamers trading between Hongkong and opposition, whose strength and determina larceny and false pretence plea of not capine tribe "bullet-ind? Have they obvious derivation is from mistress, but it in by Haiphong. The vessels repressuted by ichtion cannot be treated with too much levity gailly was enterad, and the case was adjoureed the attempt now ?.. if so, why
no means so simple as it looks. A date for the introduction can be assigned within very few years-which itself is remarkable. "John Evelyn gives a number of references the abbreviation was new and shocking to him. In 1661 he Roes to see the "fair and famous comedian Roxalate," and there bears talk of Misser, “as
are as followss-
until next week, bail,being allowed in the sum of Stoo
ial, no
On the other hand, the "pooling" firms have The senior firm, Messis, A. R. Marty & Coquito an strong staying powers and with the wild two steamers—the Hongkong and Hanoi, present paucity of fright in the Coastal trade Mears. Jebsen & Co with five steamers, viz, there sted bo no anxiety for owners as regards the Triumph, Mathilde, Carl Diederichyen remunerative employment. At the same time Jacob Diederick and soother vessel as she must be remembered that while the rice dealers may become available.
may find it profitable on the single journey up Mesits. Butterfield & Swire--the latest eg from Haiphong to command their own char There is sedundant evidence to the same effect, trants in the competitive field-bays three tered tonnage, when the question of the return It has been provad by repeated experiments Never did word undergo a stranger transforma sinamers; they are the ChiAlf; Singan and voyage enters into calcolation with the pros firm, 270, Dan Vœux Road Central, went to the fowed to roam at large. We cand te Several
AND
BUBONIC PLAGUE! that time they began to call these wombs."
that "WATSON'S HYGIENOL the most potent agent for the destruction of fleas, especially rat fleas. ·
Hupth
The combined fleet of the regular liners thus comprise ten vessels,
attempt has been made to answer the persiu- dent question submitted by your correspondent,
that these dogs are of a most vicious nature.. Detective Sergeant J. J. Way, who made the who in the naturalness of bis humour stated arrest, conducted the case on behalf of the Johnson, Stokes and Master, defending, Colony which is not governed by Buddhistic police; Mr. Andrew G. Jackson, of Messrs. Considering that we are supposed to live in a The story which leckt confirmation at this ideas, and also in'a Colony where all dogs are any stage-is that some time on the 10 à lost, supposed to be registered, it is somerbal sur a man named Chan, Sing, of the Wai Sneg Un pilsing 10 Bad that dogs, sans owners, aro' al-, pect of little cargo lo compensate for lost Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk to cash three persons, Chisamen especially, have been bit freight, the scale may alúmately turn in favour cheques and a draft. The ch quas were receiven, and, I believe, compensation has hushed Drink of shipowners. Whatever the outcome of the
that it demonstrates the capabilities of the Chi which was for 10 and draws on the Union phobla for the question of a dollar ar 302" present struggle may be, one thing is certained and honoured. The salesman was then up the matter. But will 1, the father of a few, directed to another counter to pretest the draft, suffer my children to be the victim of hydro nese to make a stand for themselves when they Bank, of Sydney, There be met the defendant, is this the son of thing to be permitted consider their interests assailed-whether and it is alleged that while waiting to be in a British Colony, which is alleged to be |attended to-he was leaning over the count ruled by A fat Lloyd officials From my er-be-defendant slipped bis hand_into_own_personal knowledge I know that several rightly or wrongly.
the salesman's pocket, and extracted the of those who are deputed to do the work draft. Soon the drafs was missed, and of destroying those unnamed animals have while the salesman was turning out his pockets, | dona their best to rid the Colony of what le it is asserted that defendant approached him becoming nothing more nor less than a public and offered to velurð the dratt for a considéra="" pest.-to-parenthesis-it-might-be-remarked tion-fifty dollars. The salesman offered $10 that the majority of was rel dogs are afflicted and was in the act of handing over the money, with such diseases as are dangerous to the when Detective Walf stepped on the scene human being. That is a platitude, as every- given the matter a second thoughi," know per. having been notified of the robbery-and the body knows. At the same time these who hava shroff was placed in custody.
lectly well that danger does not lie so much in the hydrophaic qualities of the animal as in the maligo influence which is always engendered by the rottenness of its teeth. At once it may be said that the nuisance only extends to a fow
tion! The reason is that it supplied a "felt wast," growing more and more urgent cen tinually, and the public seized upon it, regard. less of its associations-brushed them aside trade were Mesin. A. R. Many & Co., who The pioneers in the Hongkong-Haiphong and forgot them. In less than fifty years we It has now been proved that Plague is fed "Miss" thoroughly established: Pope's have regularly maintained a fleet of small ves- sels on the run for the past sixteen years conveyed to human beings by means of fleas correspondents would have been horrified, no from rats which have died of this disease doubl to beat how it arose. But ladies of high With the advent of the firm of Messrs Jebsen & Co.-and-the-controlling_agencies_of_several rank could not forget so easily. All through
possess, the Germans also placed steamers Lady Maxy Wortley's correspondence in the atomers owned in the Continent which they eighteenth cectory the title never occurs, Lady is competition with the French owners. Ap Mary's daughter, born in 1718, left it on record that people called her "Misters while-in-the-parently, the trade was sufficiently lucrative. oursery; but the reminiscence proves that be fore her death that form of address to a girl had become obsolete and even ridiculous, "Miss" had definitely triumphed."
A lél
All risk of infection can be avoided by washing the floors, etc., or sprinkling where "The flens are likely to be with a dilute solution.
of "WATSON'S (IYGIENOL" spoonful to a pint 'ol water, or a teacupful to three gallons, makes a solution of the strength requited for this purpose.
HYGIENOL IS A POWERFUL DISINFECTANT AND GERMICIDE
Price per Pint
Gallon
...sa ceals
$2.00
رہے
FREDERICK BOYLE in Pall Mall Garelle,.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
THE Hon. Mr. A, W. Brewin returned to the Colony on the Bib instant and resumed-duty as Registrar General,
THE name of Mr. S. W. McF, Hamion has been added to the local register of chemists and druggists. “ A. S. WATSON & CO., on Sunday, next the preacher at the evening service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church will be LIMITED,
the Lord Bishop of Victoria,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY
ARD
KÄWLOON. DISPENSARY. Hoogkong, 17th March, 1909.
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The Hongkong Gelegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1909.
M&,"MRS, AND MISS.
THE Russian Minister in Peking has demand- ed the right of navigation and policing on the Ussuri River, but the Waiwupu has refused the
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to sppoint Mr. E. D. G. Wolls to be a depoly registrar of marriages, with effect from the 8th
2
H.E. CHANG MIND CHI, Governor of Kwangst, recently submitted a number of suggestions on reforma & the Prince Regent which were high,
ly approved by the latter.
a
MA. Archibald Richie has been appointed It is not to be supposed that the demand for surveyor of bailers of unlicensed steamships under 60 toes burden, during the absence on Teave of Mr. Thomas Skinner, sp
On account of repeated representations by the Walwops on the Pratas Island question,, the Japanese Minister at Peking is reported, to be luclined to be conciliatory in the maiter.
A LIST of of masters, mates, and engineers who have passed their examinations and obtained certificates of competency issued under the provision of Her Majesty's Order in Council of she 31st December, 1883, for the year ending 31st December, 1908 is published in the Gazette,"
to isduce a British firm lo step in and fill in the voli conspicuous by the absence of the British. A trading to, the Indo-Chinese past from Hongkong. That firm was no other than Messrs. Buiterfield and Swire, to whom no trade is too onimperiunt or any port ton lesigni- ficant that they can afford to wholly ignore, and vesipis flying the familiar colours of B. and S. soon began to operate between Hongkong and Haiphong.
BULK OF THE FREIGHT,
CANTON DAY BY DAY.”
DISASTROUS FIRE AT SAN CHEUNG [From Our Own Correspondent]
Capton, 16th April,
Hia Worship, in remanding the cats till Tuesday afternoon next, asked if bail was wanted and what sum the defendant could put up
Mr. Jackson replied-Aby amount. "What sum can he offer?" queried the ma quantern; so far ne is known; it may be that gistrate. The reply was $100,
"That's too small," remarked his Worship, Delecliye" Watt said that defendant had
On the 14th instant, in the markat town of San Cheung, which is situated close to the newly-opened trade matt of Külg Yick Fan, while a theatrical performance was being given a fire broke out in the matshed through the upsetting of a kerosene oil lamp. The flames: in a short space of time burnt down the whole of the bamboo structure and spread over a large area to the shops in the neighbouring streets The staple commodity forming the bulk of named Wab Hing and Cheung Shing, of which the freight in rice from Anam for the China over tighty is number were completely gutted, market, which is regularly imported into-It is fortunatetail at the time the fire originated, Hongkong and re-distributed Daring all the the performance hid not started, and more. time that Messrs. Marty, as pioneers of the over there was paly a smill'umber of people trade,, held a virtual monopoly of the freight present at the matshed, who were all able $1,000 yesterday. the rate per picul was 25 cents. On that basis to effect their escape safely, with the exception Mesir. Jebian & Co. apparently found it suit--of a few, who sustained alight. injuries when able to operate their steamers. It is matter of attempting to hurry away from the scene of the litilä moment to the ordinary reader whether & conflagration. The fire continued to burn for written compact was entered into between the fully five bus. Owing to the absence of two foreign firms as to the freight rate to be the latest fire-extinguishing apparatus, the fie iniomised. TV on wipper and the consignes, caused much more serious damage than would however, it was well-known that such an under, otherwise have been the case.. standing existed and for the three years thai, the Franch and German firms ran gleamers in friendly rivalry their uniform charge was one of 25 cents per picul
A CHANGE CAME OVER THE SCENE
when Messrs. Butterfield and Swite entered the competitive fisid, The former rate of 25 cents at once suffered a decline on the appear. ape of the newcomers, so that for a time rice exporters in Haiphong herefted to the extent of a reduction of 5 cents per picul, the rate having been brought down to za cents per picul But as the competition-operated agaion the triple shipping loletests, a mutual arrange- ment was arrived at whereby it was agreed to revert to the old freight of 25 cents per picul, under penalty in case of a breach by any one of the three con racing parties: The pool came fatefoice on the zoth November, 1957. Accustomed as the Chinese exporters have beef, for a time at any tale, to a cheaper freights the "Conference." terms did-est suit them at all. Hence the determination to boycott the regular liners. In fixing the rale at 25 cents, the "pool" did no more than revert to the old figures, and any charge of nu extor. tionale tariff could not therefore be sustained against them. Especially, an we understand, it has been found by long experience that that was the only workable and paying basis in the shipowners. There is the exception that 20
TOREIGN AFFAIRS IN CANTON, — Having-bèsa-appointed Inspector of Finance to the province of Fokies, Tactsi Im Ku, the present Director-General of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to the Liang Kwang Viceroyalty
in Canion, will shortly leave bere to take up bis sew appointment, H. Viceroy Chang Jen Chun is new anxiously making efforts to obtain the services of an official well convert with the English language and with adequate experience in foreign affairs to fill the vacancy,
Mr. Jacks-A man with that sum dossa't go stealing drafts.
Bail was eventually fixed at $500 and the case continued to Tuesday, as already stated,
WHAN LUCK FAILS.
the same thing occurs.nlsewhere, I have no knowledge of it, and therefore cannot speak, But it behoves those administrating the district known as Wanchal, to see that the district is maintained in the condition in which it used to be in former times. Whether it is the police or the Sanitary Depart ment that is responsible for the work in question, that is to say, the removal of a `aufsunca, which every citizen resident ta Wanchai complains about-la col the ques tion. At the same time this is a matter which cannot easily be dismissed, as it con ceros-probably the most important community. in the Colony-bar the. Pear- Reservation apiece, that they failed to become millionaires constituency. Your corespondent waxed bar. suddenly, and that they regret the venture now castic when he said that the "taxpayers won was the gist of a story which was narrated in der why the revenus is on the decrease.” The the Police Court, today. Fan Sing and Yat.writer can tell him something with regard to Te, coppersmithi, were paid baif their month's the decrease, but he believes in, as the list money on Thursday last, and having obtained Governor of the Golony romarked, "Quiet- leave, left to the gambling city to make of Let the officials at Rast: Polat do their break. They broke, Landing at Macao the pair sought out a fan tan establishment, Luck duty and there can be on complaints.— Yours,
WANGHAITE
THE ADVENTURE OF TWO MEN AT MACAO,
That they were two young men who went to Macao-the other day to count a fortune!
etc.).
Hongkong, 17th April. JAPANESE SUGAR EXCISE LAW.
REDUCTION ON BLACK BUGAR.
but H.E. has not yet secured one considered smiled on aber for a while and at one time, so to be suitable for the Important post. H. B.they alleged, they had each doubled their capi Chang bas during the last few days wired taf. But this state of affairs was not for long. to the present Chincio Causul at Tokio, The Fickle Jade smiled no more-neither did the coppersmiths, for when they boarded the Mr. Wu Ching Yin, and Mr. Wu Lim, a mem ber of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, offering
ing day they had not a cash betweed them.. them the position, but both the officials decliptamer Shui On in the afternoon of the fellow- ed it. It appears rather difficult to find a man They could then, naturally enough, not pay capable to take charge of the Bureau of Foreign their fares, and when the steamer reached Affairs in Cauton as an assistant to the Canton
geant Wilson. This morning, Pon and Yatment reads :— Viceroy in the administration of affairs of for. Hongkong the pair were banded over to Ser
were charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, and The Sugar Excise Law is amended as signa asture.
were fined $15 each, or is default a month's follows; kan s hard labour. They are serving the term, and it is certain that the gambling microbe in thers will have a quiet time for a while.
;
ADELIBERATIVE COUNCIL,
A site baring bren selected in the vicinity of the Eastern Parade Ground on which to erect a building for the proposed Deliberative Copo cll the Viceroy has now instructed Welyusu Eui Yao Shuri to make arrangements for the purchase of the lands required for the purpose Tas land-owners have been requested to sur render their title deeds within ten days limb with a full cargo, but as the vessels cannot al-It is reported that the construction of the in Ways obtain sufficient grain to return with full tended building is estimated at a cost of bottoms, on the average, the to-cent-rate works $300,000, out at a loss.
• COLLAPSE OF THE POOLA
LIKIN COLLECTION,
The collection of Likin dues in Canton dyr-
a new title, to distinguish bachelors from mar kled meb, will ever be satisfied, The British Empire at large is fuvited to suggest ane, bul wa seem to have lost the faculty of devising now words. It would be convenient. A good many young men, who have taken on the pre
·cious burden of a wife, not oply ikaw it off but ignore it when they find a chance, this wicked levity would be dangerous if they had. also toʻresume z designation to which they bad no lenger soy right, But there is little profit la discussing reforms, however excellent, which will never be carried out. "Lord" (Haford) and "Lady" (Lhaeidige) sufficed our ancestors for an indefinite length of time; if they rightly maan" "Loaf-owner" and "Loaf giver," they A RICKSHA'coolie, who, through, sheer careless. might be applied to all who had servants and
neas, knocked down a boy with the shafts of his dependants, evild or cevil, as the old phrase reticle at West Point this mornings was order wet. At any rate, no others are recorded..
ed to pay the lad fifty cents compensation. We can scarcely grasp the condition of The bay was playing in the strest, when the society, saited high above, the stage of barickats struck him on the chest, bowling hidicata per picul may be found remunerative barism, where tities other than those pertain ing to office are unknown. It always puzzles over, and damaging his right foot. an Intelligent schoolboy to read one of the little speeches in Greek or Latin history, where s rough fellow addresses some great personage by his bare mame, as it might be "Thomas" or
Jones, with no intention of disrespect, as peal to arbitration if Ippan objects to the idea maner of course. But if "Lord" and "Lady" and prefers to settle the questions outstanding were restricted to poisons of rank, as is general-between the two countries amicably and by ly supposed, it was the same with, our own mutual concessions. people, so far as appears. Many vocabularies survive from the leath contury downwards, but MR. P. P. J. Wodehouse, assistant superit it is not until the thirteenth that we find May. tendent of police left England on the 9th stor, the old French Maisra" without change instant for. Hongkong. Mr, Wodehouse, it of pronunciation, Magistre does not appear will be remembered, left here some months
A somewhat serious charge was preferred by In the parly lists, though used in contemporary to consult a specialist regarding one of his
Inspector Robertson, of No. 7 Police Station, dialogues, where it means schoolmaster. It is eyes, which was defective. We notice, also
against two Sanitary Board cooliss, Tang Sam thought valgas now lo call a teacher a "learner," that Mr. F. Howell, of the Supreme Court, Is but Archbishop Asifric-knew no other English expected back about the same time.
Finding that the 20-cent rate was productive and To Szs; in the Police Court, this forenoon word for a schoolmaster (larcow),
of au profit, or at any rate offered little induce. Owing to the absence of sunther man, who is Woman had to do without a title a good deal on John Chinaman's qualifications is decidedly meat to the triple combine to continue it say also wanted by the police, s day was fixed for longer apparently. But those good old words refreshing. It' says Ah Sim bas many good longer, and in view also of the brisker tone of the trial of the defendaals, against whom alle
market, the Conference once again gations of theft have been laid. "Gaffer" and "Gammer" call for mars notice polute about him, and is by no means the com- the freight screams thalf scale: The sate de-The alleged-facts-of-the-case are these:-A than is granted them generally. They are bination of fool and kears he is alleged to be termined upon quite recently is one of 26 few days ago a widow, Li Tang, residing at 23, Ignored in the vocabularies, so far as we have. He will master the mysterious process of deve- observed; but that proves nothing at all-only toplog a negative in a very short time, and bis cents per picul No sooner was ibis an- fecord Street, informed the police that her son nounced than the rice exporters in Haiphong in-law, a ward "boy" of the Government Ciyil Bospital, had suddenly taken ill. The defend began to show their old-time. sentmani,
ania were sent to the house to take the patient (be success off to hospital. While shall boy” was being re dealer took moved his mother produced a red woollen uite as bold a blanket, brew it over him, and requested, the defondants to return the coverlet to bar later, On the way to the Institutio
PRINCE Ching in reported to have assured Mr. folo, the Japanese Minister at Peking, fast Chias appreciates Jupao's sincerity and that, she, (China), will waive her proposal for an' ap. The Conference rate broke down through the ing the second ten days of this moon, as report stobborn opposition of skippers at Haiphonged to the Viceroy by the Likin officials, was who rather than yield to the higher sari, pre- 63,521.25.4 (aels, being early one-third more terred to hold their grain in stock, resulting than the amount collected in the preceding tes in several steamers of the regular fleet being days, tied up and leaving with the scantiest of a chow chow cargo in their holds. In the meantime rice shippers began to secure their owa freight by chattering vessels and the dead. fock was brought to an end by what was tanta mount to the yielding to the terms of the Chi-
THE happy vein in which the Syrex enlarges
a minute fraction of English words figura mechanical skill fe unquestionable, da there. "Gaffer" sounds very old and mcy, prepare for
Dese who were then masters of the situation..
THE FIGHT RENEWED.
The elderly can recollect It Infamiliar usa Tax Courrise Saigonnais pablishes interesting Encouraged, also, probably, through the remoter districts of the Midlands figures showing how it stood with trade **The Gaffer" was the farmer'; but any man of Dochin-China and the
standing could be described as Gaffer. Bo-and The Colo
Bo. It may be suspected
articles
ween their rooy campaign, the Chiass
up the gauntlet and
front as they did
oatings by theft
SANITARY BOARD COOLIES
SUNGARRESTED,
ACCUSED OF ROBBING THE DEADĮ
An amendment to the Sugar Excite Law, which was approved by the Diet during its last session, has been passed as a law and duly pro- mulgated by the Official Gorette. The amend-
Quality No Sugar and molassen below No. 8 Dutch standard of colour (Article III. of the law)
(a). Black sugar in barrels... Ya per ton kin. (b) Other qualities...........Ys per co kis, THE Chinese Government has learnt a lesson from the Pratas Island. controversy and H.E.
By the amendment quality No. 1 has been Liang Top-yen, President of the Waiwop, classfied at No. 2, and the excise on black sugar therefore proposen to appoint delegates to visit in berrels has been reduced to Ya per iĉo kin. all islands within the territorial waters of China, This alteration will greatly beneft producers of inhabited by Chinese or otherwise. Some sugar in Luchu, Oshima (Kagoshima prefec officers of the Hydrographical Department for tuto) and the Bonins, and at the same time the the seven provinces will be detached to ac poorer classes, who use black sugar, will also be compeny the delegates, and they will survey benefited. The total aunusi consumption of these islands and prepare proper descriptive black sugar in Japan, in about 70,900,000 kip, charts of them. After this has been accom and the amendment of the law will result in a plished the chests should. be embodied in a loss in the Government of about Tis. 700,000 in report to the Whiwupu, who will then take revenue. By this measure the sugar-producing steps to malify the foreign, diplomatic repre industry la Luchu, which was threatened with sentatives, so as to prevent any occupation by extinction owing to the heavy tax, will be ra foreigners of these islands. The Waiwupu willvived. OSTURADA ZPEVN also detail men-of-war to visit, auch finlandi.
His Excellency the Governor has bran plossed occasionally, by way of protection.
to make the following appointarents onder THE following were the charges against a stone Section 7 of the Public Health and Buildings mason, by name Wong Taal, who was placed. Amendment: Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. before Mr. J. H. Kemp in the Police Count to 23 of 1903):~Inspector Altert Collett to be day-Stealing a quanity of copper, valued at a sanitary inspector for Shaukiwen; leppector $5, from the Quarry Bay Shipyard yesterday Alfred George Dymond to be a sanitary lespao and wilfully damaging the steam tog Tow to tor for Aberdeen; and Sergeast George Sim the extent of Ssa, According to the evidence to be a panjiory jespecter for Kowloon City. Wong Teal was seen follaring in the shipyard
day or twn.ago. An attempt was made by arts depotus-Overs Policeman J. T. O'Sollivan to capture him, but we have invaded the Chinese without avall. Yesterday afterocon, however, reported to have he was landed, The head,watchman, Wm. Burton, saw the accused stripping off the brass from
the lug, which was lying the
to the NA
satique that it would
noticu ja sok
record