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FEAR OF FAMINE.

There is a prospective difficulty before the allios to provide against famine, which is oor tain. The poople are virtually in the hands of the allied forces, as the crops in Chihli are a total failure. The people are in a desperate edition, and the gravity of the position is added to by the number of poor attracted here from other places in the province, who are also being succourel. The gravity is increased by the non-arrival of the annual rice supplies from the south. Suitable foodstats will be unobtain able unless immediats provision is made for importing them.

THE RAILWAY.

On the Taku Railway the Russians are em- ploying the staff previously engaged in the work thecor

DAMAGE IN THE SETTLEMENT. In the settlement all is now quiet, but tho re- moval of the larricades and shelters displays the extent of the damage done by the shell fire, which is worse than was thought. The heat is The Rasalane are now in possesion of six 15

intenso.

cantimetre mortars, which have just Lrrived.

DATUM JAPANESE COMMANDER,

The Japanese troops are impatient for the forward movement. Gerora! Fukushima's per tinacity and aggressiveness wore largely re- sponsible for the quick downfall of the City His great ability is generally acknowledged. and commanded, while his intimate knowledge of Chinese tactics is invaluable, as has been demonstrated during every engagement since he arrived toto.

British 'and other reinforcements are arriving daily. On the 20th. we expect the arrival of Lient. General Yamaguchi.

NEWS VIA JAPAN.

THE TIENTSIN-TONGKU LINE.

A Taka telegram to Japan, dated 16th ult mys:-At a conference of the Commandore of the allod forces hold horu to-day, it was decided that the control of the railway and telegraphic coramunications between Tientsin and Tongkn ir to be transferred from the hands of the joint commissioners to the Russians.

THE ATTACK ON BLAGOVESTCHENSK. News received from Blagovestchensk, on the Amur, is to the effect that a steamer carrying Russian soldiors was fired on by Chinese troops from the Chinese side of the river. A Colonel and several soldiers were killed on the Russian aide. The Russiane retaliated by bombarding the Chinese city, which is a large and populous ong, razing it to the ground,

DEFAKTURE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS DELATED.

The departure of the eight battalions of Cossacks ordered to China is postponed for the present, owing to the disturbances on the eastern consts of Siberia.

FOREIGN TROOTS TO. PROTECT COREA. According to a Seond telegram, the Foreign Ministorm there entertain" different opinions with regard to the proposed landing of Ameri. can troops, to prevent the Bozora from entering the ponimula kingdom. The Japanese Minis ter is stated to have declared that he will post pone his definite opinion until ko has negotiu- tions with the. Raissiau Repressatatire on the question.

4 FRENATURE REPORT.

The Japanese transports Toxo-naru and Jiu- men-maru, which arrived at Mojs from Taka, brought the news that the allied forces are now on their way to Peking, for which place they lift Tientsin after the occupation of the latter town.

SUPREME COURT.

July 31st.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCONTE SOUTH (ACTING PUISNE JUDGE), AND JURY.

WONG POK SHAN Y, KWONG SAU MAN AND ANOTHER.

In this case the plaintiff songlit to recover from the defendants the sum of $1,000. damages for malicious promontigiand false imprisonment. Mr. Slade (instructid by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Looker for the defendants,

The jurors were Messrs A. A. II. Botelho, J. J. L. Monteiro, and W. Nagel.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION: 2

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1st. 1900

The following is the seventieth report of tho court of directors to the urdinary alt-yearly general meeting of shareholders to be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 18th August, at noon.

Gentlemen,The Directors have now to sub- mit to you a general statement, of the affairs of the Bank and Balance Sheet for the half-year ending 30th June, 1900,

The not profits for that period, including $900,843,56, balance brought forward from last account, after paying all charges, dedacting interest paid and duo, and making provision-for bad and doubtful accounts, amounts to $3,435,326.01.

In accordance with the intimation given at the last ordinary half-yearly general meeting, the Reserve Fund of $31,500,000, has been divid ed into a Sterling Reserve Fund of $10,000,000 and a Silver Reserve Fand of $1,500,000. The Directors now recommend the transfer of 8500,000 from the Profit and Loss Account to credit of the Silver Reserve Fund, which will

Mouse.

SWATOW.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

Swatow, 27th July.

of defence. As far as one can find out this mountain has given birth to the proverbial Three weeks have passed and no plans have yet ten sanounced, no second general meeting has been calledt, and all uro in ignorance es to what is being done. This does not add to one's sense of security, and in the event of trouble there would be a grave charge to be mado owing to the sapineness of H. B. M.'s re- presentative and the credulity of the Senior Consul. In perfect fairness let it be added that in three weeks, through the exertions of the Committee, u circular has been sent round ask-July stood at 70, ing what arms and ammunition we possess

W

NOTICES OF FIRMS.

NOTICE.

have Today ESTABLISHED .

BRANCH of our Firm at MANILA under

the Style of BEHN, MEYER & CO.

1st July, 1900,

BEHN, MEYER & CO.,

Bingapore.

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NOTICE.

year to 86. In the English Division of the Bolilios Public School a fes of a year is charged, but educntiori în the other Government Schools which are under the Inspectorate is Tree. It is almost time, in my opinion, to raise the fes THE DEFENCE €)OF THE FORT. at the Balilios Public School to $12 a year, and Since I wrote last muktors have been quietly it is worth considering whether a small fea... taking their course. As I informed you, a gon-your-should not be charged in the Chinese Division, which is now very well oral moeting of the Europton residents was beld

attended. and a committee elected to formulate a schome, School Attendance. The Average Daily Attendance in. 1899 was 4.418. That in the Grant-in-Aid Schools alone was 3,483. 4,281 and 3,581. The ratio of the average The corresponding figures for 1899 are daily attendance to the average monthly enrolment in 1808 was 81 por cont, and in 1899, 83 per cent. In the Grant-in-Aid Schools the highest average attendance-4.170—was in April; in July the average attendance had dropped to 3,105, or 24 per cent. This decrease was, no doubt, largely due to the plague. In the Chine Division of the Bellion Public School where the attendance is naturally very quickly affected by epidemies the average attendance dropped from 181 in May to 64 in Juns, and in Wars Day ESTABLISHED

have This

Name of SPOONER & WILSON, Government District Schools-The number GENERAL PASSENGER BROKERS and Last week we had a visit from the United of the Government District Schools was reduced COMMISSION AGENTS. Statos cruiser Princeton and were congratulat.by three at the end of 1988 in the manner stated in my report for that year. The villagers of Shore, which at 4/8 will absorb $33,833.33 of One Pound and Ten Shillings Sterling paring ourselves that the powers that be had in Stanley, though they were encouraged by me to duced the States to assist in doing what they do so, failed to start a Graut-in-Aid School for should do themselves, viz., have a porzanent the study of Chinese; bat the Female Educa- Bloating armament stationed at Swatow. Aftor

Girls School at Stanley for the last sixteen yeard, took up the work and turned their school into a Mixed school, engaging a qualified man to teach the boys. The school has been well at- tended and two-thirds of the scholars are boys, The avenge attendance which in 1893 was 21 rose to 41 in 1899, and as the average attau dance at the Government School in 1998 was only 24. it is clear that no injury to education has been caused by the withdrawal of the Go- Ternment.

then stand at $2,000,000.

After making this Transfer and deducting Remuneration to Directors, thers remains for uppropriation $2,923,826.01, out of which the Directors recommend the payment of a Dividend

rate at which the Dividend is declared. and The difference in Exchange between 4/6, the 1/112, the rate of the day, amount to 1972, 910.30.

The Balance 1,717,663.29 to be carried to New Profit and Loss Account.

DIRECTORS,

Mr. A. McConachie having rosigned his neat on leaving the Colony, Mr. H. W. Slade us been invited to fill the vacancy: the appoint- ment requires confirmation at this meeting. |

AUDITORS,

The accounts have been audited by Mr. F. Henderson and Mr. C. S. Sharp.

N. A. SIEBS,

Chairman. Hongkong, 31st July, 1000. ABSTRACT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, BOTH JUNE, 1900. $ c. 10,000,000,00

Fald-up capital Reserve fiind ș----

Sterling roserve Silver roserve....

`LIABILITIES,

Marine insurance account... Notes in circulation

0.

10.000.000.00 1,500,000.00

............... 10,040,000,00

Authorised insuo against securities deposited with the Crowa ngenis fur the colonies Additional in Kutho rised by Hongkong Or dinanes No, 17 of 1899, against coin indged with the Hongkong Govern ment

Currais neconnĖS ----

1,333,419.00

Silver 63,000, $10.25 Geld; £1,874,039,3,18,746,171:93 Fixed depositam

......35,793,130,70

-Silver

Gold, £4,035,479.14.6.49,300,456.99 Bills payable (including drafts on London bankers and short sight drawing on Loudon office against bills receivable and bullion shipments) Profit au lo account. Liability on bills of exchange re-discount- cel, 14,663,934.2.3d. of which up to this dato £3,127,200 have run off.

Gosl

11,500,000.00 250,000.00

three days, however, she sailed for Amøy.

THE SITUATION.

To all appearance the patires of Swatow pro- are perfectly quiet and orderly, but how much warning did the white inhabitants of India have before the autiny? Is not the

of one thing in Swator-the personality of our Chinaman as inscrutable? We are indeed glad

missionaries. If the gentlemea will continue in their policy of not interfering and of sojourn ing at our local health resort for the sea bathing, then one source of possible trouble will be re moved.

We do not anticipate any trouble in the Swa- tow district; at the same time every precaution should be taken. Tou observer the mazzor of the populace, although peaceful, hus distinctly changed in the last three months, and there is an aggressiveness. that before was not apparent A fracuslike that on the s.s. Woosung last Sunday, ending in bloodshed, with the chief officer badly mauled and only stopped by the tact and pluck of Capt. Dowson, would not have happened a for months ago. The crowd of coolies in China 11,353,419.00 | town who used to open a lane for one's advance now has to be walked round. The demolition of a partly-built mission station eighteen miles 82,644,568.19 from hore, the carrying away of building material and the warning off of the alleged soldiers by the mob-all those straws show which way the wind blows. Are we ever to learn a lesson ?

78,072,587.75

25,350,153.39 3,438,823.01

23,782,901.82

IN CASH OF EMERGENCY. If trouble were to oscar, individual efforts would be futile. The whites of Swatow are

scattered over a mile of frontage. I hear by $220,509,574.32 rumour we are all to make for a certain place. Puzzle-How to got there? Besides no addi -tidna have been made to the provisions of that place. Under certain circumstances a little foot comes in need. What must be insisted on 4,878,492.44 is the stationing of a gunboat in the Swater river. That and nothing else would be of the slightest nse.

ABIETA..

Coin alged with the Hongkong Govern

muat against note circulation in excess of $10,000,000* Bullion in hand and in transit.. Indian Government rape paper.. Colonial and other separities Sterling zo-orre fund investmonte, vizue £250,000 per cont. Con

wole lodged with the Bank

of England as a Special

London Reservo, 44 95 $297,500

1,900,000.00

£452,000 29 per cent. Con-

wlx, at 30, £470,250 £70,500 21 per cent. Na 1,702,500,00

tional War loani ut 30.

- £470,250 A £919,500 other sterling secu- rittee standing in thebooks o £359,750

3,307,500.00

Billa discounted, loans and erolits Bílis receivable Bank premises...

4,070,000,00

1,825,564.80 5,947,806.34

09,183,898,25

HONGKONG SCHOOLS IN 1899,

The Report of the Inspector of Schools for 1899 is published in the Gazette. We make the following extracta :---

Address:

Society which has maintained a Chinese 1982]-

The average attendance at the four schools which teach English shows an increase of 14 per cent. It has reached the limit of accommoda- tion, and in the case of the two schools at Baiyingpoon and Wantsal, has passed a little beyond the point beyond which the teaching cau remain as effective ag is desirable.

st

Ten boys competed for the Free Scholarships Queen's College in March, and four scholar- ships were awarded. Two of the successful boys had been educated at the Suiyingpoon school, one at Wautsai and one at Wongasi- chung. There were no competitors from th Tunmenti school.

No change has been made in the curriculum of the English School beyond the introduction of translation in the Fourth Standard and the substitution of the elements of grammar for geography in the second.

Some slight progress, through not so great as I had expected, has been nude in the sub- stitution in the Chinese Schools of system of teaching Chinese wapted to elementary schools in place of time-honoured system in force in China.

Grant-in-Aid Schools.--The number of grant. in aid schools on the roll ia 86 compared with 100 on the roll in 1898. One new school, a mixed Chinese school under the management of the Roman Catholic Mission, has been opened at Aberdeen, where there was previously no school for girls, and the following five schools have been closed-The Bass Mission School

I

J. J. SPOONER. H. WILSON,

KOON SUN Hong,

34, WING OR LANE,

Hongkong.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

B. BROTHERTON HARKER, ARCHITECT, &c.

好想

HAVE This Day REMOVED my. Offices to FST FLOOR OF No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong 28th July, 1900.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL."

THE WANCHAI GODOWNS.

T RAUCHENSTEIN & CO.

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BUSINESS NOTICES.

房樂館芝

KWONG CHI KOON

DISPENSARY.

街槳城省東

CHEONG LAN STREET, CANTON

子甲大歲年叁治同清大 創開年四拾陸百捌仟焘英大

ESTABLISHED 1864

為麗吉意如

Trade Mark

KWONG CHI KOON

DISPENSARY.

CHEONG LAN STREET, SANTON.

ESTABLISHED 1894

UNRIVALLED UI YAU For “AS YOU WISH OIL"

Prices at $1.00 per bottle. 0.50 por bottle. 0.20 per bottle.

【油意如

TUNG KWAN SAN, or "Army Medical Powder," 50 cents per bottle.

have This Day REMOVED to FIRST FLOUR OF No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD KU CENTRAL

Hongkong, 28th July, 1900.

12106

PROFESSIONAL NOTICE.

DENTON E. PETERSON, DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY,

10. DES VEUX ROAD, CENTRÄL.

R. PETERSON wishes to announce that DR RESUMED his DENTAL PRACTICE in South China and may he consulted at his New Offico

TIT TA SAN or "Falling and

Bruising Medical Powder." Prios at 50 cents per bottle. Made from the best selected medicine to be need for the above Oil and Powder.

散及油造製泡藥好選揀

K Native Drux shops hi Canton, employing

WONG CHI KOON is one of the largest

about 300 mon. The Proprietor, Mr. U Yam Ting, is a man of great energy and business capacity, and is also very benevolent, giving [2097any thousands of dollars worth of medicine in

10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR.

Hours 10A.M. to Noon, 2 to 5 PM. Hongkong, 28th July, 1900,

2

NOTICE.

TOTICE is hereby given that the Creditors at Matau-ch'ung, he Berlin Ladies Mission N of the above named Company are re Queen's Road West School, the Roman Catho-quired on or before the 4th day of AUGUST, 1900, Le St. Theresa School, the Roman Catholic to send their manes and dresses and the parti Cathedral School, Division II, and the Wes-culars of their debts or claims to MR. LI YUK leyan Mission Kennedytown School,

TONG, of the WING L UN FIRM, No. 89, Bonlum Strand, the Liquidater of the said Company.

Dated this 27th day of July, 1900

Out of the 86 schools on the roll only 87 were persel owing to the house in which they were examined. Two schools were temporarily dis located being rendered unsafe by the demolition of an adjacent house, and wore excused exami- nation, the grants being assessed on the results of the three preceding years, One school had to lears the premises ccezpied by it on a month's notice; a few of the scholars attended a school in the ander the same

the remainder of the year and were examined there. Four schools are closed pending the engagement of teachers. The teachers of two schools died during the year.

A reduction in the uumber of Government

Tow yours ago I pointed out that 99 per Schools was commenced in the year 1892. In that year there were 6 English and 28 Chinese rent, of the boys and 9 per cent. of the girls Schools compared with 5 English and 7 Uhi in Chinese Grant-in-Aid Schools were in the 10,000,000.00

nese in 1899. The number cannot be reduced thres lowest standards. I have tabulated the 79,800,561.72 any further at prosent unless the school at Pok returns made by each school at the time of 210,655.16 fulam, which last year had an average aften. examination, and it appears from them that dance of only 11 scholars, should be elossi Iwith the exception of Girls Schools in Class III $22,509,574.32 zin loth to recommend the closing of an old more than half the scholars spend not more school; but unless there should appear to be. than a year in any particular school. A small prospect of an increase to the Chinese popula percentage may have attended other Grant-in- tion in the neighbourhood. this school ought Aid Schools in previous years, but the number not to be kept up. Of the 22 schools closed cannot be large. In considering the educational during the last seven years 11 have been reproblems of Hongkong these two facts are placed by Grant-in-Aid Schools. At one time worth bearing in mind, 53333.53 or another seven other Grant-in-Aid Schools

GENERAL PROFIT AND LIBS ACCOUNT, 30TH JUNK, 1900, Dr.

To amonnta written off :--

Remuneration to directora

dividend account £1.10 per share on 80,000 shares

$120,000 124,6

By balance of undivided profita, 31st December, 1890

Mr. Slude said that in Junnery or February, 1899, the plaintiff went into the employ of the defendants who wore silk merchants and gen- eral dealers at 29, Jervois Street. The plaintiff was a working tailor but his duty was also to serve customers. Shortly after the plaintiff To dividen 1 adjustment aceennt: entered the defendant's employ a man of the Diference in sxclungo between . 4D, name of Wong Hing Chun, who was a clan

the rate at which the dividend in des brother of his and carried on xiness to transfer to silver reservo fund

clorul, and 111, the ratu of the day Honolulu, came into the shop and wanted to To balanes forward to next half-year bay some goods on credit. The plaintiff co- salted the secretary, who said he could supply the goods, the cost of which was about 380. In due coarse the clothing, or part of it, was maile, and on the 5th of May Wong Hing Chun came into the shop-uguin, introducing a man pamed Lenog Sam Wing, whom he said was his further, and saying that Leung Sam Wing wanted some clothing on credit. The plaintiff aguiu consulted the scrotary, who, on being informed that the proriosa account had been paid, said that the goods could be supplied, Accordingly goods valne at 180 were applied, 30 bargain money having been deposited. To- wards the end of the Chinese year the en dants began to collect their accounts, and as To baláto they could not find the plaintiff's clarstian or partner" they applied to the plaintiff for the money owing The plaintif said he would write to Hongloh. When the end of the Chinese your came the money had not been paid, and the defendants dismissed the plaintiff because he would not pay the account, and sub.

Is 980,343.36 By amount of net profits for

the six months cring 30th June, 1900, after making provision for and doubtful debts, de ducting all expenses and interest paid and no

2,477,932,45

STERLING EYE YOND.

by amount transferred from general re- survo fund (invested in sterling semur- ities.)

sequently had him arrested on a charge of To balance obtaining goods by false pretences. They also

BILVEN RESERTA PENIS.

detained some property belonging to him. Mr. By anoint trusferred from general re- Blade read the evidence of the first defendant sorvo fund

at the Magistracy, and called attention to the By transfer from profit and loss account fast that the depositions stated that the man was discharged and that an application by Mr. Looker on behalf of the prosecution for a nur houring was refused.

The plaintiff then gave evidence, bearing out

+

$

15,000,00

$

4

The Philippine Civil. Commission will a same the form of a legisintive body on the lat day of September next. General "MacArthur will continue to act as Governor of the islands and will carry out the laws made by the Civil Commission.. "In political status the Commis sion will be paramount and the Military Go- vernor will act and its authority and enfores

were started with the intention of replacing THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION, Government Schools, but five of them are no 672,930.99 longer in existence, and two are closed for the 500,000.00 time being. Nine of the schocks therefore 1,717,548.25 remain unreplaced. and it is much to be ro- 5,433,328,01 gretted that fire of them were over closed, Education by means of Grant-in-Aid Schools is cheaper that education by Government Schools, but it is subject to fragment interruptions owing te difficulties with teachers and landlords, and I believe that if the Government Schools re-its nactments. ferred to had remained open, the attendance ut them would by now have more than justified their existence. The remaining schools, four in number, were in small isolated hamlets, and should never havo beert opened.

The position which Judge Taft will occupy as President of the Commission will be similar to that of a speaker of the U. S. House of Re- President of the Senate. presentatives or

clarity, usually with an age to the main off- chance. He has may testimonials as to the efficiency of his medicines from offcdals, scholars IN THE MATTER OF THE CANTON and business men. Like the Classe generally ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND he has great faith in modicine and is desirous of FIRE EXTINGUISHING COM-extending his business to foreign countries, PANY, LIMITED (in Liquidation), giving people of western lands the benefit of his

merlicines.

He lus submitted to me the formulas of some of his preparatious for examination, giving full explanation as to the medical qualities of the ingredient, I have found the Tung Kwan San or Army Medical Powder end the Tit. Fa San or Falling and Braising Medical Powder com- posed of Musk, Barove, Cacophor, Rhubarb, two kind of gum, with red bride of mercury and yellow sulphide of arsenic, animal and vegetable charcoal, which are known in western pharmacy. Besides, this it contains gold leaf, tigers and dra- Kone bones, sharings of antelope and rhinoceros horns, which I have shown him that chemical science proves to be inert, he proposes to omit from the medicine prepared for foreign aso.

The medicine is to be bhiefly used stor untatory, as is put up in small pastel bottlos by which is can be injected into the nostrils.

2000)

C. EWENS, Solicitor to the above famed Liquidator. PILOTAGE NOTIFICATION.

TOTICE is horeby

that the

Consular Body and the Heatur and Representatives of the Shipping Firms do agree, after consultation with the Harbour' Master, that Local Rule No. 4 be altered The rate of Pilotage at the port of Swatow, for all sized Steamers and Sailing Vessels, shall be 85 per foot English measurement from 1st August, 1000.

J. C. A. HOLZ,

Harbour Master.

Approved.

W. M. ANDREW. For Commissioner of Customs,

Custom House, Swatow, 27th July, 1900.

W. B

REWER &

(2112

C 0.

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.

The Real Chinaman,by Chester Holcombe

27 Illustrations Year Book of Photography, 1900 Brassey's Naval Annual, 1900.

$450

The small amount of oxide of mercury and sulphide of arsenic will not be dangerous d in this way.

(Signed) J. G. KERR,

Canton.

Directions are given according to the Chinoge method of using the medicines.

The nature of the oil is very mild. but its .uction is exceedingly good, possessing wen- defully curative effects in both interval and external discuses. As it is an invaluable medi- eine It should be kept on hand ready for use by all persons, whether at home or abroad.

DIRECTIONS.

For external use rub the off on the temples forehead, between the ayebrows, back of the ears and neck, the chest and back, on the abdomen or wherever the pain or soreness is ocated. It must be rubbed on for å minntaz. For toothache put a little in the tooth on cotton. 70 and rub on the gums. The oil has beneficial 10.00 effects in headache, fainting, colds, sore throat, 1.50 stomach-che, colio pains, rheumatism, numb 9,00

ness of the limbs, pain in the back, eramp. 1.75 local swelling and inflammations, influenza, 4,50 Jiarrhoea, toothache, pairs in the head and co- visions after childbirth, prickly heat, boils, 6.50 and mosquito bites.

Boy, by Marie Correlli New Revised Hill's Manual Pitman's Typewriter Mannal Village Life in China, by Smith Life and Letters of Sir John Millais, Vol. 13.00 Wellington and Waterloo-Choice Illas

Bussin on the Pacific and the Siberian

Railway by Vladimir...

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, by Mrs. Bish Polities in the Far East, by People and

Norman

Whitaker's Naval and Military Directory South Afric "Story of Nations Series,"

by Theal...

Tuternally the dose is five drops in a little 9.00 water, and it is to be repeated every two or

three hours, at the same time using it ex terually

13.00

The proprietor of the Kwong Chi Koop 450Drug Storo of Canton has placed in my hands for examination a number of his preparations with the receipt for each.

3.00

Citizen Atlas-120 Maps and Plans, with

Gazeteer and Geographical Text.19.50

The Commission will make rucks laws and disones The decrease in the Grant-in-Aid Schools and formulate such asystem of enactments as will 9,439,820.01

dates from 1995, when there were $3 Chinese appear to them to be most just and equitable for $3,435,823.01 Schools open as against 73 in 1899. I am afraid the good government and welfare of the islands. that in the near future the number will be still The various members of the Comraission are mak.. $10,000,000.60 | farther reduced

the closing of schools in ing enquiries and preparing reports respect by $10,000,000.00 Victoria unless circumstances change very much.ing the various department of the ocal govern- The entire confidence of President The general increase in renta is pressing soverely ments. on some of the schools and certain morements MeKinley has been placed in the Commission

23 & 25, Queen's Road, Hongkong. they will act with practically a free land,

Jaige Taft and the intelligence of the individual members being relied on to formulate a system

government which shall ment with the approv and fulll all the reasonable aspirations of the Filipinos

and

the

General MacArthur will continue to act as Governor of the islands until such time as the President of the Commission reports to the President of tho United States that the islands are in a fit condition to be wholly entrusted with civil government.

DAY.

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TOW' appearing weekly in the HONG NOONG DAILY PRESS,

À SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES,

Entitled, THE

BRITISH ARMY:

..

His UI YAU" "As you wish Oil" has o wide circulation and is very much used. It is composed of aromatic and stimulant barbs and barks, most of which are well known in our pharmacopoeia, together with pingpin (a costly two or three other less known articles, but none of the objectionalde substances which enter into many Chinese medicines. It is one of the combinations which has real merits and it in not strange that it has attained so wido a reputation for the relief of maladies for which it is recommended. -

(Signed) DOCTOR J. G. KERR,

Canton, China, Any order please apply to: MESSES. DARTLY ́& Co.,

.......ŞI),099,000.00 of population are also adversely affecting the administrative ability of the President, THE GREAT QUESTION OF THE kind of camphor) bishops wort, orris root, with.

schools in the Western Districts. $10,000,000.00 The total number of children on the rolls for $2,000,000.00 the year under review is the largest ou record,

The number of scholars learning English con-of $4,200,000.00 tinnes to increase and the untater of girls on the rolls is only four less than in the year 1803, 1,500,000.00 in which the highest number occurs.

500,000.00

The ratio which the expenditure on echication $2,000,000.00 bears to the general revenue of the Colony has now sunk to a very low figure. This is, of Nothing tends to the injury of brain workers conrso, due in some part to the increase in the so greatly as over-eating. Many activo brain attendance and in the fees charged at Queen's workers have suddenly broken down, and fancied ollege during the last ten yaure. The it was due to brain fatigue, when as a matter of fees last year amounted to over $27,000 and it fact it was due to over-sating. The furnace is only natural to wish that some portion at any connected with the mental machine becomes rate of this large sum could be diverted to CONSULTING ENGINEERS, SURVETOKS, AND clogged with ashes and carbon in various shapes Education and not be lost altogether in the LIFE AND VIGOUR FOR THE HAIR-The and forms. Nervousness follows this excessive general revenue of the Colony. The net erpen- only article which really possesses nutritions clogging, and the general system gets out of diture on Education is now only 1.66 per cent. virtuos for stimulating, and restoring the hair, ordue. People eften take a week's holiday, of the revenne.

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