The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEWSERIES No. 8172
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deathe Leading Artioles:-
"The Mad Multab abroad in Shanghai.
· What does the Bill Mean ?
Singapore And the Opium Revenue, Rubber,
.
Death of Mr. A. W. Brabner.
A Rising Subarb,
China's Spirit of Progress.
Meetings-
Hongkong University,
The Hongking Electric Co, Ltd.
Legal Intelligence!—,"
Jura Eximpted. ". Child-Stealers at the Oriminal. Sessions. Coolies and the Junk Crew Fight,
A Lato' juror.
Claim by a Jeweller.
Can A Corporation Sue?
Folios
A Question of Opium Drois;
Correspondence:-
An Acknowledgment.
Miscellaneons Articles and Reports:-
The Late Mr Rublee...
Notes by the Way.
St. Stephen's College,
Canton Day by Day,
Japanete Sagar Tax Law.
Mudila Deportation Case.
Haugkong Gyuskhina Club,
Indragiri Rabb÷r Co,
The Imperii Maritime Customs.
A Question of Tims,
China Squadron'a Gaaperý Record. Hongkong Tepair League, Hongkong Seboats Allelic Sports. Big Opium Haul,
Sale of the ** Sheung Po.""
Amateur Billiard Championship. Manila Deportation Case
Consul-General Robles,
The Far East in Parliament,
Sugar in the Philippines.
United Singapore Rubber Co. Raub Gold Mixes. Gionnaly Estalo)..
Cate as Plague Proveniers. Hongkong's Opium Cumpe sa stion.. The Confidence Trick Again.
The Chinese on the Rapd.
Jebang Rubber Cs.
The Chartero i Bank,
The Gackwar of Baroda.
Wireless Telegraphy on the Pacific. Rubber Valuations."
A Qation of Ships, Fittings.
Baur Attacks Surveying Party.
One of Hongkong's Disadvantager.
Another Opium Seizure,
Haiphong to Hongkong.
H. H. The Mahatoni of Baroda,
S, S. Kirkfied Wrecked.
Wanchai Property Sale...
Fight on Board S. 8. Gowanburn.
A Boár on Bertama.
Jado-Culos S. N. Co.
The S. S. in Quarantine.
The Sugar Market in Manchuris Accident at Gap Rock. The Trade of Shanghai, Death of Captain T., James, Commercial:-
Weekly Share Report. Yarn Market.
Freight Market.
Bullion.
Exchange.
Local and General.
BIRTH,
03 April 11, 1910, at Shanghai, Hugh Sep.imus Cocke, aga diry-three years.
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of affairs there. When he further said eating of opium due to the possession of opiam that the very rickshaw pullers were combin pills by people who are not entitled to possess
brief stay, he obtained an appointment on ed was the fact that almo ing their money in order to become possess. thom under the regulations"and" lawa" which
the editorial staff of the Hongkong Telegraph resident, and Chinese ed of security whose value increased by Registrar General who has inquired into misWhilst all the world is talking rubber, it in January, 1906, he succeeded to largely to the opening
ars enacted. I have also a repost from he
in 1905. Upon the Vacancy occurring malarial fever. This leaps and bounds even while they slept matter and who also confirms the fact that it is sather hard to refrain from taking part in the editorship. Thoroughly conversant in which places, experts we gently smiled. We suggested that is probable that the drinking of oplum on the ali-absorbing, conversation. In every with the topics of the henaeant the Canton-Hankow railway made out of opium dross is on the increase paper from the South that one takes up, well informed on an extensive range kong some yaura ago, made
day and lurks Professor Simpson when company, whereupon he promptly be have always frankly expressed my own view rubber occupies the foremost place. In of subjects, in particular the con- the jungle growth or brushwood came indigoant and remarked that he my own fear lest this much worse form of oplam Hongkong huelf, although we do not have temporaneous history of South China, bin barracks with a view to the prevend had thought we had not the gumpties to babit should be fostered in this Colony by yo here a rubber-growing area, we have the articles in the editorial columus of this breeding of mosquitoes, for it was then a understand the situation. "Some streets,dden and dis. ic methods of preventing opjara he observed, are. so, blocked with coal smokieg. (1.ou. Mr. Stewart-Hear, ben) rubber fever and at the present time there is journal were invariably characterized by notorious fact that most of the Ge coolies, rice coolies, sampan people, and the appear to be fulfilled. We must do our best Exchange. The Peak Pioneer reports views. His forceful comments, even when wan. This action had a certain) but not
regret very much that our anticipations abould little else on the inquiry flat in the local originality of style and soundness of invalids came from the quarters at Shauki!) Inevitable ricksha coolie, who brings his to suppress this, and the object of the Bill dow that many people, in Ipoh are getting disagreeing with the popular view, were very marked effect on the malatin furniture along with them, that there are not before, the Council is with that intention. I rid of their tin shares to invest in rubber the exposition of an independent and settled. Now, we are glad to learn that the Govera practically but actually impossible through am sure we can look to influential Chinese to From the Stenlis Zimes we take the following conviction. As publicist he could be reason maat are taking steps to train the nullaht the efforts of these hounding dervishes to help us to check the habit which at any ate cutting: At the meeting of the Selangor ed with, but his opinion couldnot be moulded at Shaukiwan, Yesterday, work was begün obtain even oue share. If he does so he can smoking opium. There is one thing to be Chamber of Commerce Mr. W. F. Nutt, or subrorsed to individual interests. He was, on the Dallah at Shaukiwa West adjoining
regard as infialely, more detrimental tu go round the corner with his partners and it said in favour of the Bill and that is should local manager of the Straits Trading. Co., in upon times, the unequivocal critic of certain the 2ung Lee Chab Distillery At the is te to one that the first gentleman who is come into force it will immensely increase the chair, spoke on the present prosperity, Governmental policies, but bir criticisms Sanitary Board, Colonel W GA Bedford, asked to make an offer for it will eventually power of the Opium Farmer, who, as the Grand warned the members against the be mulcted in the sum of $100 to $200,” But ornor said, believes he is loslog considerable flotation of rubber companies
were directed in the interest of what he cons P. M. O., has been agitating for this to bel does he lose? Not by any nicans. He hints sums of money by the Chinese having adopted such capital as would spell ruin when the weal, rather than any inherent desire to be reasonings have at last found their way with clentiously conceived to bave been the public done, and it is gratifying to know that his to his friend Robinsons that he has a share new methods of consuming the drug. If the price of rubber falls. He predicted "agin the Government." In the advance home. Experts such as Sir Patrick Manson. in say, Ringit Ringhit (if such a company ex-
interests of the Farm are protected then it pl isis) and the latter makes a tentative offer, bound to be enhanced as each is dependent declared that native house property had apsperity of the port, his facile pen was of the Colony's good health have declared 1
lows that the revenue of the Government is further increase in the output of tin, ment of the commercial and tradat pro- who have been to Hongkong in the interesti which is refused, and hot foot Robinson is upon the alter,
preciated, and said that moncy was plentiful. ever ready to be wielded. The feature that the training of nullahs has more to do bargaining for the sale of that stock which
Hero in other enlightening item for the which he has made of this journal is the with the prevention of malaria than, almost was captured by an urchin whom no one would dream to be possessed of the princi
rubber investor:-lu the past five years the best testimony of his professional, worth, any other preventative action that can bei bles of business, except the business in
Sandycroft Rubber Co. Ltd. has paid lo During his sojuura in Hongkong, Mr. pursued The need for Shaukiwan to be which he is engaged. In singapore the same,
dividenda azo" per cent. It is facts like Brebner made many friends not only in purged of the evil is now more pressing than these that excite the gambling spirit, But, journalistic circles" but pong the general ever. It is thronged with thousands of arti excitement prevails so that the streets have had to be barricaded as if war were la pro
says a Straite paper, have the public the community. With his colleagues on the zags and labourer," who contribute their (18th April.)
least idea of the market capitalisation of the Press he was always in, harmony and the quota to a most important local industry," gress, Hongkong, fortunately for our nerves, is less demonstrative. It is only the life of a large proportion of its revenus hitherto only glance at any list of rubber share prices
Singapore, continues to bemoan the loss companies before the public? They need best of co-workers.
and it is in the interests of the Colony that few who can rake up a few hundred dollars, derived by the letting of the opium farm, for themselves. Do they realise, for in-
both they and the Garrison should ilvo under and any of these will go today to the and it would appear that, bad as the final stance, that numerous leading companies
the most healthy and sanitary conditions Races. Now let us, turo to what some Farcial condition of Hongkong is, the straits to are capitalised in market values at millions
possible. Eastern papers say on this subject, and we which they have been reduced in the sister sterling apiece? The great. Anglo-Malay quote from our up to date, alert and very colony is influitely worse. But Singapore Company, for instance, is capitalised in sand contemporary Inpital and Commerce may derive consolation from the fact that market values at over £3,500,000. On its tie eighth number of which is before us. Un the foperial Government may come to its full acreage, therefore, this means, say, derthe heading The Wheel of Chance," it rescue by inserting in the next Gaancial some £700 an acre. The great success of says that in some cases "the plantations are estimates a grant in aid of the Straits Goyome of the earlier companies was largely
reputations. China might be named the India has been called the land of die- described as talismans yielding rubber trans ernment for being compelled to loregola dus to the small capital. But Selangor,
Land of Promise Unfulfilled. The facility illusionment: South Africa the grave of great mulable to gold by a miraculously quick large share of its revenue by having to adopt with its little £30,000 capital, Buds it
of wisdom after the event will not explain process; no pest, no over-production, the principle of opium prohibitions dictated multiplied nearly thirty-five times, and so nothing to deter the investor" (the investor, to it by the lowe Government. Hongkong becomes worth nearly a million on market
away the cynical smile or weary sigh of the burial ground, the coffin was taken out of the mark you) from the prosecution of gathering is promised its solatium, however inatte capitalisation. Malacca Plantations han a
stalwart Aberdonians--Messrs, J. Grant, J
man who has read many such prophecies us precious stones from an Aladdin's cave." And again” “The floating capital in Shang direct lose to the Colony by reason of the £4,500,000, to say nothing of debentures, side. The Rev. C. H. Hickling conducted metaphore have a knack of recurring; tus quate it may appear in proportion to the share capital valued by the market at some Watt, G. Wait, R. Fenton and Wilson-friends ave been made only recently regarding the of the deceased-and carried to the grave immediate future of China. The same old hal, Hongkong and other places which is abolition of the oplum divans and the Vallambrosa reaches almost a million and a normally usable for ordinary industrial de-rictions imposed upon its trade in opium. half on market capitalisation-again a splen paid a tribute. to the journalistic abilities of awake, and in shaking off the dust of cen- the sad service, in the course of which he "sleeping giant of the Far East is at last, velopments is now taken up in speculation Singapore's position is set forth in an article did company with a modest initial capitali-the deceased gentlamas. At the close of the turice. in rubber. Extraordinary schemes of plan in the erea / ress, which says:— tation are on the market every day, and plant
Highlands and Lowlands has a ceremony, the pall-bearers lowered the colla clean out the Augman stable" etc, etc. These Now fully roused he will rapidly ing experiments with public money is to be agitators who clamoured for the interdict of We pick out merely a few instances, at world was severed in the presence of men sincere and honest as we their critics, are, It is doubtful whether the enthusiate market capitalisation of over £1,000,000. to the grave and thus the last in his prophets of bygone years were certainly as carried on in Siam, Manila, Borneo, and opius consumption in this Colony quite random. The public can work out the facts who, during the life-time of the deceased, and probably at least as able' and far-seeing
necting the big-hearted gostleman with this even Hongkong The question of de reaise that the result of their operations for themselves. Companies with market bad more than ons opportunity afforded as we think ourselves, Yet the prophecies mand, supply and price have already been to compel the Guy rament, sooder or later, capitalisation of from a quarter to balf a them of being acquainted with the true provoke a smile, and the familiar old giant is so exhaustively deal with that there is to contemplate an increase of taxation, which million are as plentiful as may be. The worth of the departed one. Those present till represented assisting up and taking no need to refer to it once again, Another might eventually come to be equal to hul total capitalisation of the active market at the graveside were--The Rav notice while the dunt la yet caked on great danger to the legitimate improve-the piest revenue of the Colony, it is shares has reached a prodigious figure: Hickling, Messrs, J. P. Brags, R. Hope, AR him, and he is merely turning la
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anittant of the boons, is that in, the great. Eugland, some of them, like & r. Thovdore of raising prices of raw rubber, and majority of the new companies nothing like Taylor, are in Parliament, but all of the undimored optimism prevailing, it is enough money is set aside for working these may be deemed to be outside the not easy to say when it will cod. capital. There is an unwarrantable haste to range of argument, or whatever other moon Another view is expressed in the following njake the cash spin out, and some calculus of persuasion, or protest the public of the fines, culted from one of our' Southern con. tions for necessary working capital are rarely Colony might see reason to exert. There are, temporaries: Kubber, shares continue to made. Ad over-capitalised company cannot however, a good many of these impassioned boom with increasing vigour, and sensational pay high dividende, perhaps, but the fate of misguided persons who live in this Colony. advances are of almost daily occurrence. a company with insufficient working capital Their names are known. The reports of their There is no doubt whatever that the Stock Is only too well known. Investment in rub ber has degenerated into a game of chance,Tome thing for them to come to learn that been based on more real merit than the meetings are on record. It will be a whole Exchange has never had a boom which has and the rubber "punter"
"backs the favourite,, He generally lays very long odds on, but hehey will be unable to divest themselves of present one in rubber shares; but as the the moral responsibility for all the increases maricat gets wilder and more excited the does not mind much as the chances are that of taxation which may have to be imposed public gets lers cautious, whereas it should his shares must reach the top price. On April 1jib, 19:0, at Shanghai, is Mr. and ready to jump at any wild cat scheme, if it
as a compensation for the sacrificed excise be doubly on the alert. It is pretty certain Mrs, Simmons, a daughter,
is rubber. And the "boom" has monopo ther it take one form or another, and we Derer have seen the light had the promoters reveous from opium. That taxation, whethat many of the recent flotations would DEATHS.
lised the business of the Far East so much, would not veature on any suggestion as so that every other trade is at. a stand to that, will be sure to be resented, bu-gambling public Blushed with continuous not been fully aware of the blindness of the still, which fact itself goes to prove cause it is murely the result of what some successes. We think that the market looks the unhealthy nature of the boom." The danger from the conception of rubber might call a wanton, an ignorant and as an investor's paradise is of no moment as regard for the equity of the Colony's fiscal alico agitatibu, Of course any decent compared with that of the conception of its position would demand that the whole loss, stucks as the speculator's paradise. When whenever and however that accrue, from the boom is in progress, there are several sacrifice of the excise revenue from oplus methods of keeping up the market. The should becontributed exclusively by those sec chief of the elements ke ping up the pretions of the community that, exclusively and sent boom is the forward seling of the crops, voluntarily, contributed the opium revenue; There are people who doubt the bona fide and are now, exclusively, to be relieved Character of many of these forward sales, from that contribution to the Colony's Trea and reports of a regular array of such forward sales afford reasonable ground for y. Generally, the opium deficit ought doubt. It is not beyond the bounds of pro- bability that a syndicate of company pro moters should ask a merchant to buy crops forward at a certain price, and give guarantees to buy back the same at a profit to the merchant, or in the case of a fall to pay the | difference between the market and the
Un March 29th, 1910, Taiyuanfu, Sbanal, Ruys, the beloved sun of Louis R. O, and Florence Boyan, Imperist University, aged 3
years.
At the Government Civil Hospital; Hong- koug, on the 19th April, 19:0, ALEXANDER WALKER BREDNER, lato Editor, Hongkong Telegraph. Ago 34:
Un April 14, 198, at Shanghai, Captals Jon Hauderson BrowD, RN.R, .. Ai iu,
sked. 53 years.
The Hongkong Gelegraph
MAIL SUPPLEMENT," ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS...
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL' 43, 1910.
like advancing still further, but, of course, about the price of rubber, purchases must on top of so big a rise, pod with no certainty be considered at least a little risky. On the whole there is little, to the equanimity of the rubber investor as re gards the present state of the market but a word of advice is not out of place to the effect that many of the rubber-planting pro- Jects being put forward just now are wild-cat schemes, framed to mislead and beguile a public that is only too ready to be gulled. DEATH OF MR. A. W. DREBATE.
THE FUNERAL.
of the late Mr, A. W. Brebner were laid to
2151 inst Yesterday afternoon, the last mortal remains rest at Happy Valley, The kaare left the office of the thongkong Telegraph at five o'clock followed by the European and Ohinese staffs of the Journal. At about ball-gast five, the conega arrived at the Moonment, where it was number of friends and acquaintances of the deceased. The cortège marched in a slow pro. Joined by local Press representatives and a
cassion to the cemetery and of arrival at the carriage and lifted on the shoulder of five
Ellis, Pui Lul
Turner (Sowth China Morning Past) Telegraph), G. T. Lloyd, F. Brower, Ramsay, R. Victor, &. N. Kemp, T. Heigh, (Hongkong Daily Prass), T. Hunter, R. Fea ton, A. S. Ellis, J. Grant, I Watt, G. Watt, Wilson, W. Murison and F. Eilis.
The fire wreaths soot word many and ings-Steara. Ho Turg, Ho Yook, Ho Kem beautiful and included those from the follow Took, 1.
A. R. Ellis, Cheung Pai Kei, Lui Sing U. Braga, R. Hope, E, B. Helme,
China Mall, Staff. Hongkong Datly Preu, Hongkong Telegraph staff, Editor and Staff, "Bob" Ferguson, and Ellis Brothers,
RISING SUBURB, "
(atit April.)
CHINA'S SPIRIT OF PROGRESS.
(22nd April.)
to read the signs of the times aright in any land, and among any people, and nowhere harder than in China and its enigmatic people, Bince the tragic drama of 1900 the rulers of this the greatest in forced by threatening dangers from without aumbers of all the tribes of men have been
claim a series of "reforms" some designed and coormous pressure from within to pro
pacify the increasing clamour inside, the to ward off the outside peril, and some to
gaten. Many of these reforms resemble that- paper, money which is burnt at funerals. Others deserve attention/ One phenomenon calls for the most serious consideration of thoughtful and practical men. Whereas
generally Yaumati and the New Territory the scholar and the farmer, it has come to It is generally claimed that of all the formerly the mere merchant, or busines suburbs of Victoria City or of Hongkong man, was looked down upon by the official, are the most advanced, and very little heed pass well within the limits of two generations, is paid to the position occupied by Shauki that the trader is not only, usually able to requires to walk down the Shaukiwan Road to him but that he can sometimes dominate was and its neighbourhood. Yet ons only hold his own with classes once beld superior at the time when the dockyard and, the them and always influence them. We our- disturb
sugar-bouse are "scaling," to "rezlies what selves of a trading nation watch this advance thronged there together. Shaukiwan, in thy and approval. Their ideal and me- an immense industrial population is now of this merchant class in Ching with sympa» deed, is the most progressive offshoot of the thods in business are essentially the same as Colony. That it is so le due largely almost our own, and when we complain of the entirely to the enterprise of the great firm obstructiveness and short sighted obstinacy of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, who in a re of the Chinese it must be very clearly under cent issue of the London & China xpress stood that we are not speaking of the trading got a well deserved eulogy from that well- class. We are condemning the enemies of the informed organ. The building of their whole Chinese people the blind, ignorant dockyard and the fitting out of it was an minority, who mistule one fifth of mankind! engineering feat that would have been faced Business men have little or no room for use. death of Mr. A. W. Brebner, the Editor of cognised as one of the greatest accom and practically they consider facts and judgo, We deeply regret to have to announce the with diffidence by most people, and it is re-less, that is, unprofitable, sentiment. Sternly the Hongkong Telegraph, with which he had plishments that have taken place in by results of the ferment" the "leaven." been associated for over five years, His de our Colonial developineot ever since the which has been working in China for por were, in their indignation, to hold the Gov preumonia, from which he had been ailing period that trade, would follow the flag to the transformation of the military forces of dollars. But they would be wrong if they Government Civil Hospital and was due to idea of the "Princely House" at a remote ten years. Even a casual observer will note ernment to blame. The Government, if it for the last two weeks. Mr. Brebner was the eastward end of the,lfarbour, but oven the Empire, and the establishment of a few vanis directed from the Colonial Office tion at Kobert Gordon's College hement is farther removed from the centre of giving a good sccount of themselycar actually is a Government and not as it only in his 34th year. He was a native of their expectations have been exceeded in battalions armed and drilled accordies p actually is an administration of civil ser Aberdeen, and after completing his educa this respect, for the Quarry Bay establish Western methods, capable, it is said, "of would, if left to itself, not forego a dollar of jolved the aberdeen Bree Press. He was the post that was believed to have been pos efficiently, ind. We may pass on to the that revenus. And as a result there would soon after detailed to report in the sible quarter of a century ago. Where be consideration which must this evening, be than such as might naturally result from he had exceptional opportunity of ace unpromising foreshore, there is now situated the much trumpeted abolition of a number be no more taxation impending in the future Court of Sessions in Edinburgh wherefore was but a sterile granite hill, with an yery brief—wo shall return to it again—of the increasing departmental complexity quiring his experience in law reporting. Like one of the finest docks existing in the whole of Buddhilat and Taoist monasteries, and the that must result from more complete all Aberdeen-trained journalists, he had an world, replete with modera appliances and establishment of Government schools, to and, minuto administrative organization. excellent footing in his profession and he was capable of dealing with the heaviest ship gether with a complete change in the educa- When additional taxation comes to be de-soon distinguished as not only a ready writer plog that frequents these waters, whether it tional system, jurolying the study of what cared, as it probably will be when H. R. but a brilliant exponent of the professtop as be of the Grandsought type or a Pacific mer are called Western subjects. We as to autumn the finance arrangements for the en- 1895, when he weat to Jamaica, in the then, that the growth of this huge in of at least one large and populous Province the Governor comes to explain in the well. His first appolotment abroad was in cantile liner. It can easily be understood, beware of rash generalization, but we know suing year, the public of the Colony may West Indies, to take up the position of sub-dustry has led to the formation of where not even a handful of not like it. But they must not hold the inedker of the Bally leaner in Kingston, a new township in the Shaukiwan neigh ants of these Government nocent Government responsible. They must During the Cuban War he acted as special.bourhood. Long rows of dwelling houses a serious examination la rather think of the real cause of the taxation correspondent for the London Dally Zefer bayo sprung up like mushrooms in the Ject whate and blame only those who are to blame. It graph. When that appointment had term night Dealers of all kinds have found from with not at all likely that very heavy taxation nated, be had short stay at Home, it to their advantage to open shops Governm the Imperial Government what misoo to accept an offer of the assistant editor will bo precipitated all at once, but unless but bls" roving disposition soon led him mer comes to the rescue with a sufficient ship of the monetary compensation, for
to be met by fresh taxation of the Chinese population, in cumulative proportion to the aggravation of the deficit. That such a course would be justified requires not the least argument. This proves itself. Admit that such a course is adopted. The Chi- Inese would not like to have to make up
(20th April.)
IEB MAD MULLAH ABROAD IN guaranteed values. The profit to be made some amount that might reach
by buying the shares of the company before as much as four and a half or five million mise occurred at ten o'clock last night in the possession was taken over. It was the fond † sibly the past sixteen' and certainly the past
SHANGHAI.
the forward purchase is made and selling them after the announcement of the sale will more than compensate for any loss incurréd
*(16th April.) cally no idea of the intense sensationalism quiet discriminating nature of the writer's views Apparently we in Hongkong, have practi by a fail. We have quoted enough to prove the produced in Shanghai by the rubber boom, and we may wind up with the remark to the Certainly, the symptoms are not so marked effect that rubber may well say to itself to nor is the sinity of the people so likely to day unlike the Vicar of Wakefields #1 am be endangered by the rush for shares in an at the top of fortune's wheel, and any re
WHAT DOES THE BILL MEAN I
article which few or any oút, here avar convolution must take me down.” aldered in the light of a dividend producing stock before. If the newspapers of this Colony and Shanghai were given over to the wild genious of American Journalism we should at this time'discover the enticements There appears to be more than meets the and: cajoleries conveyed through monster eye in the hill introduced at the Legislative headlines, stern denouncement on the one amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909, unless the | Council on Thursday entitled "An Ordinance to hand and glowing tributes of the rubber maks of His &xcelleady are to be taken as stock on the other, Well it is not mere obiter dicta and not of serious import for any one man to criticise the The clapse to which parti ular, arisatina, is future of rubber, for we question If called, is that, which declares it anffance to aby stogle individual has the moral' cour- be in possession of morphine or corppound rage unless he is already a muld-millonite of op um... unless it is exempt from the and then it is in credit to him to declare.accordance afh any regulatos mids there
provisions of; iba, Ordinance or is obɩsined. that he would coldly turn away from a pro- moder, it is unsusi as His Excellency said for posal which offered him a probably 100 perspeechas to be made on the first reading, but, Conty dollars on kyone dollar share within paverthil si key was, palecily, Jaatif darin bas compelled the Colo
called at [abeddløg i ght on ably inuicara. fico the other day
doroody Govimyr proceeded to rem
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there in order to supply the daily wants in the
dockyard and the sugar who Shaukiwan