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Established A.D, 1841.
AERATED WATER
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DAMAGE, ESTIMATED AT $3,500,
An outbreak of fire which at one time threat. ensd in assume, serious proportions occurred
One often bears the remark made that Hong. at No. 1, Connaught Road West, near the New kong is a Colony with it ledustries and solely Western Market: 'shortly after slaven o'clock dependent for its prosperity upop the position last night, The building where the outbreak which it occupies as the great shipping took place was used for miscellaneous stores.
man of the sub-committee for talting Chinete subscriptions, authorises me to state that he can folly guarantee, all the“Chinese 'subscrip tions included in the list. When one recalls the numerous subscription lists which have been plastered all over with the names of generous donors who have mysteriously disap peared when they were called upon to honour their signatures, one can well understand the saxisty of the sub committed that there should be usne but genuine hard-cash names on the University Fund list. It is also a tribute to the character of the Chinese community that it is and the terrible responsibility which rests with home-grown production and consumption is alarm was received at the Central Police Sta: but as the years have progressed it cannot
from Shanghai tỉ which at least $in ooo can be MANUFACTURERS. guaranteed, while a further amount of $10,900, "of which $17,000 is in bạnd, is anticipated to
SPECIALITIES:
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ed that if Hongkong, sinoda to lose,a. heavy, sum by the extinction of the opsum trade with Although we have all along professed frank China, India is in a fawo.se plight. In mply scepticism of the sincerity of the Chinese in the to a deputation which mat the Under Secretary suppression of the opium trade we are quite | for lodia at Edinburgh last men by the willing to admit the possibility.that que views' Master of Elibank said that the Government regarding the ulterior motives of the officials had reduced the export of opium from India in declaring that the cultivation of the poppy from 66,000 chests to 61,909 cheits in 1903, and. is rapidly being stamped out are altogether this quantity had been further reduced to 56,800 wrong. We have read innumerable reports on in 1909, and would be reduced to 51,700 chests the ground floor being a grocer's shop and entrepôt for Southern China. It is quite the subject of the opium babit, its moral con in 1910. Further reductions after 1910 would the first, second and third fisors being the Hips that the port has attained to its present sequences, its disastrous effect on the people be made proponiance to the reduction in the Tai Was medicine shop. All goographical point at which it is situated prominence entirely by reason of the favour
the British. Government in allowing India to China. The area under poppy cultivation in respecter Baker was promptly dispatched to by loger be said that Hongkong is with
tion, a contingent of fire-fighters-under Chief- possible, in these decadent days, when commer cial integrity and personal honour are not
Supply Chica with the fascinating drug, We nagai was being reduced, and restrictions the scene of the outbreak and on arrival there out industries, that is to say, industries con always beyond reproach, to say of them: "The have seen how Lord Morley has ordained that were being placed on the export of opium: succeeded in confining the flames to the barn. ducted on such a scale as to be worthy word of a Chisaman is as good as his bond." it theexportation of opium from India shall cease grows in the pative States. Whereas in 1550 and ing building alone. Fortunately, there was an of noia. Many instances may be cited of | in also stated that a considerable su is expected in a matter of ten years provided that China 1881 the get income dariyed under the heading, abundant supply of water olherwlie the flames Chinese capital, fm which good returns-
concerns, fianoced by both European and takes similar steps to plough the poppy-folds of opium amounted to seven millions sterlingings which were in close end dangerous pro the period of depression that we have just pas.
might have spread to the neighbouring build-
have been found to be obuinable, and now that and restrict the sale of the product. We know today it aimounted to little over breo mil-mity to the original conflagration. By dist already that India has made heavy sacrifices in lions, a revenue which, under an arrangement of zealous work, the fire was got uedar control through may be fairly safely said to have be derived from the trustees of some unnamed order to conform to the spirit and the latter of with, China, must inevitably be one of progres-in short time, but not before the whole of them to a termination, we may confidently } look for a substantial return of much of the food. The total amount promised and in hand the promise made by the Imperial Government, sive diminution The Under Secretary made building was completely gutted. is over a million and a quarter dollars, and with but we are very much in the dark as to what it clear, however, that the three years' progres The house was covered by insurance-in-the-tagnation sat in as well as at the time when - The origin of the outbreak is not known. Canton capital hurriedly withdrawn when the the sums mentioned by Dr. Ho Kai the Usi, China is doing is the matter. One day we sive reduction was regarded merely as as
sum of $1,000. The damage to the upper the conclusion that certain Public Works' and Chinese inventors, rightly or wrongly, came to, versity Fand represents a sum of $1,279,16, read an enthusiastic report from some worthy | experiment, and the whole question would | floors is estimated at $9,500, but the ex-
colporteur, to the effect stat all the people in have to come under consideration at the tent of the loss sustained with regard other Governmental regulations had began or on the basis of a 1/9 dellar, £111,916-17 China are smiling with happiness, because end of this year when it was hoped the to the ground floor is not yet known. Up Whatever may be averted against the people of
the degrading drag has disappeared from Chinese would be able to produce must-to the time of going to prets, the inmates of Hongkong, they cannot be accused of mean.
their midst. We learn that gleaming fieldsworthy data of the extent of their activities. He car's shop-where the fire originated, have not the ground floor-the Kwong Yee Lang gro LIME FRUIT CHAM pesi, for if they are capable of rising over a
of wheat now take the place of the poppy concluded by saying: "China at this moment yet revetled themselves to the Police. hundred thousand pounds sterling in a single year, when the future looked black and sombre, plantations, and we try, to fool convinced
was not in a position to produce trunk that the Provincial officers at the expense of, worthy data." Yet according to Mr. Max what might they not have done in brighter their own pockets are actually antorcing the Mueller it would appear that the very facts tines? It may be argued that the success of The University scheme is not to be claimed in edicts of the Imperial Chiaars Government, required by the British Government can be its cutirety by Hoogkong, but when all is and But later on we come to the seamy side of the furnished at a moment's potice. If that by 60, and done, we must assume that those who have tale, when we are told on equally good au- why is it Mr. Mdeller recommends that delega sent in their subscriptions from Canton, Shangthority that the suppression of the opium habit tes be sent by the Indian Government to make 15 all a force and a delusion, that while it is hai and other parts of the world have been "in
a tour of the opiom-producing provinces at duenced by their rare connections, or by their
trus fields bordering on the highways are be the proper season of the opening year? "The ing denuded of the poppy plants new cultiva fact probably is that Mr. Max Mueller is report. personal associations with the Colony. It wa indulge in a little boasting about what Hong-
tions dre springing into existence in the backing on reports brought to his attention and not blocks with the tacit approval of the district as a first band witness. In any event the idea officials. In other words, while the well-known of sending special Indian experts to China to centres of the opium trade are fast disappearing, judge for themselves how far the Chinese Go- Now, which are we going to believe? In o new centres are being established elsewhere.vernment has succeeded in restricting the pro- White Book which has just been published Mr. able. When we have their report before us then
duction of opium is cuiucptly sound and renson-in
Max Mueller, of the British Legation at Pekwe shall be able to tell where we stand, but not ing, deals with the opium question and be states till then. that "China has fulfi led more than her share of the bargain" in respect of suppressing the cultivation and sale of the drug. To those who' are actively opposed to the unrestricted sale ol opium that should be good news, es
PAGNE.
ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.
STONE GINGER BEER.
PALATABLE
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Iong can do in the way of making provision fr bigher education, surely it is pardorable at this time, for when the University is in all
swing questions of finance will occupy but REFRESHING. small space in the public e, e and the origin of
Watson's
FRUIT SYRUPS
mixed with aerated or plain water
the University may be relegated to the lum ber-room of the past. Sir Taul Chater in bis letter to the Governer, covering the list of donors and subscriptions, suggests that when the sums promised have been received the capital amouat should be invested at a mini mum.rale of 5 per cent, per annum, which,
whose habitual restraint of language per mile of a bigher value being placed on the statement than would otherwise be the CARO, The only question is whether Mr. Max Moeller, in quito justified in his de claration that the Chinese authorities are anying out their part of the contract to diminish gradually and abolish eventually the opium trade in China. As the M: C. Daily Nowe says, "some more tangible evidence is required than optimistic memorials by the Ministry of Finance, or statistics of native trade unchecked. by the Imperial Maritime Cum
allowing two years for the building of the Volpecially seeing that li comes through a medium versity, would yield a further sum of $130,000 to be added to the funds. That is simply com.. mon business sense, especially when it is re- make excellent refreshing beverages.membered that there are still mapy additions to the University which have all to be pro Guaranteed to be made from the vided for. According to the Governor's letter in reply to Sir Paul Chater po provision bar yel been made for.ibo erection of the students pure juice of sound ripe fruit,
quarters, which are intimated to cost Stop,000. We had inferred, erroneously as it turns out, that the building of the dormitories would pro reed simultaneously with the constraction el A. S. WATSON & CO., University itself, but it seems that not only
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is that not to be the case but there is no money
lems. Such a memorial for example, ap-
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Kelantan gambling farm bas jast been let for three years at a rental of $55ɔ per mediem,
WE have received a calendar for the current
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year advertising the well-known brand of Da-· wat's whisky. TWENTY-TWO gambler. appeared in the Police Court this morning. Three of the men were each fined $;o and the rest 11. -
Masses A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., hava die- posed of their business in Haukow to the Han- kow Dispensary, as from the 1st-inst The Opium Farm of Kejan bat again f.llen to the lot of the previous lesseer, who tender for 52,525 or $28 mors than to the past year, THE Royal Insurance Co., represented by Messrs. Melchers & Co, in Hongkong, have issued a calendar for their Chinese constituents.
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CANTON DAY BY DAY,
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'BANK NOTES IŠJUE,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, 12th January. The Canton high authorities have received a-
despatch from the Tu Chib Pu (Ministry of Finance) at Peking directing that, in order to effect the necessary reforms in the circula" tion of bank notes issued by the Imperial Government Bank, all the local banks who ther of the Provincial Government or pri- vate corporations, should be prohibited from issuing notes for circulation, and fur. them, and now in circulation, should be called ther the notes that havs bien issued by
the despatch the Viceroy reported that the withle a certain period of time. In answer
notes issued by the Canton Provincial Govern ment Bank, dod now in circulation amount to over seven million dollars and that these notes are much in favour with the paople, so there will be great difficulty in calling in those poles, and it is appreheaded that. the market might be considerably affected if such a step were takes.
to
LEATHER FACTORY.
A site has been selected in Hepog Lu Sha, In the vicinity of Tai Sha Tou, on which the Canton Government Leather Factory will be erected. On the 11th instan! work was com manced with the building of the factory,
MOUNTED PATHOL
Mounted police have been commissioned to patrol the road from outside the Eastern Gate
to inteng,
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VOLUNTHER CORPS ORDERS.
DRILLS AT HEADQUARTERS AT 5.30 PM. Monday, 17th January, All units infantry drill with rifles and side-arms. Members to bring their own rifler to parade.
Wednesday, 1b, and Friday, 21st January,
at quarry bay AT ŞİŞ PH...... Thursday, 20th January, Maxim gun drill. Engineer Company.—Wadussday, January 19th, at 6 pm. at West Fort för technical in- stractions.
RESTRICTIVE AND VEXATIOUS,
As the New Territory is opened up, with its accessible sites for factories and such like build- pr c'ically unlimited area of cheap and easily
ings, the Chinese will no doubt be attracted. instead of repelled by the conditions ander. which certain industries can be carried on 'in the Colony.
Of late, indeed, several sew concerns have been set agoing in our neighbourhood, and it is on the cards that others will follow on, "Of course, most of those rewindustries must of necessity be initiated as a small scale. It is our purpose to take a general review of the whole of the industries of the Colony in this series of articles, but it may not be out of place to leave consideration of the older-established glauce at some of those which mark anitrely 'concerns over in the meantime and to take's
Davel developments in the Colony's progress.
One such instance is to be found in the
NEW TILE WORKS AT BOWLINGTON
which have been lately established by Meums. C. E. Warren & Co. The factory, since its commencement, has been full of work. Lat year over 250,003 tilas were turned out and weld and the firm keeps a reserve stock of 50,000 tiles for immediate shipment always in band. The tile pressing machine, which cost over $3,000, is perhaps the finest out East ned bas the enormous pressure capability of 300,000 lbs., to which pressure each individual tile is sub- jected before being put through the processes which have to follow before the tile is sent out for use.
These tiler, which are made in all manner of designs and colours according to demand, arë equal to anything that can be imported from Hurope, either as regards besuty of design ar excellence of material. The top surfaces are composed of specially imported cement and the under portions of Green, Island cement, the lauer having been found to be most suitable for this particular purpose. As regards the
PROCESS OF DESIGNING, it can only be said that to the lay mind it is a mivel of ingenuity. The work is dona antire. ly by Chinein who have been specially trained by Mr. Warren to the work, and they have The
vinced the u most aptitude for it.
with which to start. building them as yet, proved. by the Throne on October 4, 1908, SEVEN Chinese were placed before" Mr R. | Artillery and infantrý usits. Maxim gen drill process; seems simple tɔ the aye, but this upless, of course, the committee borrows from asseried that prohibition would be made Wend this morning for stealing a quantity of the central fund, and from the accrued interest, eff.cive in six provinces, including Hei- coal from the Mitsui Bassan Kaishe. On t which we presume they will do. Doubtless we tungkiang, within the current. Chinese the men was given there months and thres of (18 bave been led astray in this particular by the year, and in eleven mare before the closs of the
the defendants received one month each. The reference in the committee's minutes of the following, that is the present Chibete year,
rest were discharged, last meeting held in December whereis it war we know, of course, that this prophecy has not
The Hongkong Celegraph suggested that rooms should be provided for been accomplished. To refer to it is in no
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910,
THE UNIVERSITY FUND. ...
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way to doubt the sincerity of the intention, bat merely to Illustrate the difficulty of forming a accurate view of the position teached by the opium campaign. More than a year ago Sir Jobe Jordan, in his covering letter to Sir Alexander' Rosie's report, which we reviewed last July,
Tits evening at the Union Church Literary Club Kennedy Road the Hon. Sir Henry and in connection with the Moore Centenary. The Lady May will conduct an "Irish Evening"
meeting will commence at 9 p.h, sharp, and is open to the public; the chair will be taken by Mr. E. Polter
A COCONUT estate at Pasir Puteh, Kelantan,
is only because of the facility with which the trained hands go through their respectiva labours, which fit into each other in a manner suggestive of dove-tailing, it is simply amın ing to see the rough, soft material emerging from the pics in the form of a bard composite finished tile, needing only a process of so king Saturday, Jaoury z nd, at p.m. Kiog's and drying before being ready for laying down, Park Rangs.
BLAKE SHIELD COMPETITION AND CORPS
CHAMPIONSHIP. ·
Dress Uniform. Os. C. Obs. are requested to forward list of teams not later than Thor day, January auth
There is a large drying-yard adjoining the works, so, that every care is assured that the
been specially erected for the industry by tles shall have a prefect surface. The works which are situated in Sharp Street and hav Messrs. C. E. Warton & Co., are well worth a vist, being the first, of their kind to be'astab, Entries for corps championship close on
lished in these parts. The firm send out large Touraday, January 20th. Mu keirs Coun.hipments of this product to Canton and the ou posts, whilst in Hongkong the demand is so has been discourted to be rich in tin. It would King's Park Range. Suoday, Jaquary 23rd. great also that the works are kept at fall work-
jabe which they bave undertaken ́of lata "bas but three fact from the ground. Ulu Libir is Infantry Coys, " said to be equally rich. At Pasir Patch the
been the tiling of the new Hons Customs tin is found in foere grains mixed with sand,
addition to the Great expectations are entertained on
both these localities.
Sir Paul Chater's business-like document on † $10,000-to say anthing of having their busts emphasizedthecooficking nature ofthe accounts "ppear that din is to be had there at a depth of 9 a.m., Nos. 2 & 3 Coyne 2 p.m. Bagincer and Fing pressure all the time, One of the largest
the financial position of the Hongkong Univer. uity Equipment and Endowment Fund, which has been presented to His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, and was published in last night's issue of the Telegraph, convoys little that is new to those who have followed the courie
50 students-more or lost-and #llowance mad: for extending the residential quarters to accommodate r,coo students. Then there is the question of free scholarships. Under resolu- tion 4 Chireen donors of $10,000 and upwards are entitled to claim a free scholarship for each
displayed in the University lobbies We have that reach the British Legation. to that report never been able to discover whether that za Sir Alexander Hasio alluded to the compitation solution means that the dagor of $15,000 could by local authorities, then "in process of being claim only one free scholarship or whether he made, of the total acreage under poppy cultiva could go on claiming free scholarships one lion. Nothing, however, has yet been publish afiar another until the day of bis death. But, ed in spite of the warning given to the Chinese
Second Police Magistrate, this meroing, chirg-
Notice Members desirous of attending the dancs are quested to send in their names and those of any guests carly as possible.
Sergt. Lochead, Corpi A, J. Pagh, Br. L. 8. Greenbill and G6, G. G. Fracklin having
Two Ch sese appeared before Mr. J. R. Wood, left the Colony are permitted to resign with "of the scheme. In the latter part of December in any case, that livle item practically segre❘ Representatives at the. Opium Commission lasted with the alleged larceny of a couple of affect from the 1st January, the University Committee submitted a reportgates from the principal fund a capital sum of February that the time was drawing pear when chegaer from the Swatow Drawn Work Com
·SHIPPING AND MAILS
Guusers W. C. D. Turner and L. Le Breton effect from the 8th instant. of No. 3 Company are permitted to resign with
THE WEATHER:
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg,
lying to the S. of Tapas yesterday, has moved On the 13th at 12,10 p.-The depression
away over the Pacific, and the bixpmater has rises moderately in S.E. Japat.
The barometer has sixan slightly over the | Yangīzs valley, and fallen moderately over W.
Ispan, the Loochooi and S. China,
showing how matters had progressed and His $112,000, which we presume will be ear it would be imperative for China to produce larceny was a fost in the employ of the com pany. One of the man at the time of the Excellency the Govarder supplemented that statement in the course of an elucidatory gest is that the Chinese donor of $10,000 contemporary remarks on the want of practical bad them cashed at the Hongkong and Shang- marked at the Bank. What we would aug. tranworthy data of the progress achieved." Oar plainant shop and endorsed the cheques and speech delivered at a function in coubection with St. Stephen's College. The virtue of the advantage of, the' indulvence to claim a free Sipingiu, Kanso, it was noted in Jope, thai wan said to bavo bien pied as a tool for the Director of the, Hongkong Observatory im・・・ should be asked whether he intends to take uniformity in the campaign. For example, at bai Rank. The other, a cook by profession, report issued by Sir Paul Chater, who is the scholarship and in the event of his replying in poppy was being sown, because the farmers awarded six months hard labour while the commission of the offence. The foki was bon, treasurer of the Fund, lies in its systematic the negative then the Committee could release realized that pope of the threatened penalties cook was discharged. detail, from which there is no gelling away.
the amount representing the capital valan of the had been venied on those who sowed the your We had been waiting for the time when the scholarship and the central fund would be so before; and three months later at Tsiuchon in Committee in charge of the ̋pretimidary ar much to the good. For example, we don't the same province a new proclamation wan ionai rangements should deem it advisable to call in suppose for a minute that the Viceroy of ed of the most stringent nature against sowing, the subscriptions promised, because every day Canton intens to claim 30 free scholarships in either in that autume or the following spring. the money is allowed to lie not meads a car respect of bis donation of $200,000, or that the At Ylananfa in November there was a pli- responding loss to the Fond in the way of insidents in Saigon are to claim four and the blic holocaust of 20,000 ounces of prepared terest. Until the amount required for the residents in Weichow, are to claim ninż. Indeed opium ; but smuggling on the most elaborate equipment and endowment of the University we believe if the matter were gone isto, none scale was undoubtedly being carried on in the had been paid or subscribed it, was not of those who hava subscribed largely to the same town at the samo time. At Wanhsion in
in the Formoss Channel and along the northern within the right of the promoters to ask sub- University Fund hire the slightest intention of October, while the oplum dens front doors had
Moderate variable windi may be expected scribers as a whols to me their promises using their privilege to distribute free scholar. beas closed, the back door remained open for
shore of the Chics Sea. "good, but the time has long passed since the ships. The donor who can afford to subscribe all comers; yet in a district but a few miles
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 houm endjeg 'minimum' amount necessary for supplying the $10,000 and over would not be so parsimonious away, the local magistrato was visiting al
at to am, to-day, nor inchesija-
** FORECAST. S material waste of the different faculties was an to evade the straightforward payment of the farmers in person and persuading them to hand Genoa yesterday, at 4 pm. obtained. And on-thai-bappy-Consommation fees of any student who might be sent to the over their poppy seed, if there be such left Shanghal for this port on sath inst, and. In
Hongkong and Neighbourhood, Varlable The Q. 9. K. sa Ssattle Afarm from Tacoma | winds modacato; minty, probably some rain... being reached it. was possibin" that work on Wolversity under his aegis: At the same time differences between one district and another, expected to arrive here on 15th inst.
Formoss Chrutal; same as No the buildings might be commenced forthwith, the question is work more than a moment's can we be sure that uniformity will be pre-hd P. MS.S COWL colla sall
-South count of China between Hongkong Tham laa fine ring about Bir Paul Chatainki
Big Kid Paminki from Yokohams on oth inst, and is due to arriv
Gamocks, same ne No: 20 consideration and might be dealt with at theserved between one time and augther even in (at this port pie Keba; Nagasak'and
· the same district § - Et must also be remembeu, mainitő
MAILS DUE. -French (Tourons) 18th inst,
Indian (Fooksang) 18th inst, American (Mongolia) soth lost, Indian (Latsang) sand inst.).
Coast, arrived at Yokohama on tith inst.
The sa. Kaight of the Thistle from Pacific
yesterday, and may be expected here on 19th The Danish 1.3. Indien passed Singapore
st Sandakan on 11th inst, afternoon, and may be The Imperial Garman Mail så. Bormio left expected here on 17th instiajal
The Imperial Gennan Mail-sa. Priør Lüd- wig which fole bara on 18th ult, szíved at
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In addition to the tile works, Messra. Warren & Co. have other spheres of activity in lines, which, though perhaps not peculiar to them selven, are distinctively enterprising,/. Thin re►
fors particularly to their
HARDWARE" FACTORY, situated at 10010 108, Wanchai Read, where all kinds of brass and galvanised iron work are- turned out. A plast has been installed of one 8 bp. Olds' oil engine, polishing machines by Messrs. Canning and Oo, and brass-finishing laikės and planes by Mesirs, Alexander Young and Co-all imported by Mesurs, &ruhold, Kabag and Co. The output includes build. ers' supplies of every description—boks,
and cold water installations are a spried blogas, caiement fasteners, jalousie Ettinge, butis, storage tanke, staircases, etc, ele, Hot
'and all the work; turned out is admitted. by local experts to equal la strength, dura., bility and foish to the imported article and over to per cent cheaper. This dan | pariment has only lately been added and in
now able to supply any kind of work required! designs and requirements. The excellent way for building purposes according to architecte
40 which the galvanising, lacquering and pole isbing work is folshed is söatly striking and is worth-seelug.... It may be said is conclusion
MARKUS FIRM WAS ESTABLISHED A
A low pressure through extends from Tong |king over S. Chica to the Eastern Sei, and probably a circular depression is developing over the latter.
Presine is highest over N, China, and Man.that the charia. M
South coast of Chida between Horgko
moving afterwards to larger premises in in 1901 by Mr. C. E, Warren su building and sacilary contractors in Aberdetur: Stipet, re
Wyndham Street and again to shair present headquenter address at Des Vous, Rond. From small, baginnings it; hasaitsived to big dimensions: sed at present stock of |_ sanitary" fittinge of all kinds li" always'kupt on band to the value of $30,000, so that th very large orders' can be Sled at a moment'e molically They have jant complared she katir baldia hasides supply leg eight:00