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about twenty inspectors, who are not paid suf- ficiently well enough to induce a man with sanitary training and experience to accept such a poat. These officers at present, as can be readily understood, are much overworked. These, with a few others, form the staff that is suppozel by ́a careful Government to look alter a densely built city containing a population of 10,000

of the principal reasons why the pingué and other Infectious diseases cannot be eradicated from the centre of the Colony is owing to the densely-built streets and badly erected houses. Open spaces as lungs are unknown

the lower thickly-populated levels of Hong- kong, and the houses in the slums, which are many, were apparently erected with but one forsigues, and 280,000 Chinese, which is object to enable the landlord to get as much

infectal with plagas and Is from other disensen.

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Dr. Tidswell, the Principal Assistant Medical Offer of the Government of New South Wales, contributos un article to the January number of the Jourant of the Sanitary Institute entitled,

rent as possible. The houses are badly lighted ill-ventilated, and are occupied by a race of Fople who above any should be treated with as much light and airns can possibly be given them. Hygenic conditions cannot be said to exist, and if Hongkong is ever to be free of plagas and

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES. THURSDAY, MAY 161, 1901

LATE TELEGRAMS.

NEWS VIA RANGOON AND CEYLON.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

THE LOCATION OF ROER PRISONERS.

London, 30th April In the House of Commons Lord George Hamilton read a telegrams tras healthier than showing that Ahmednagar was Kasauli, Ranikhet or Dalhousie, and equal to Poena or Umkalla. He added that under these circumstances there was no reason to alter the existing arrangements.

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cases of plague in Sydney, it is interesting to. quote the precautionary monenres. Dr. Tidwell writes: "Under ordinary circumstances the medical stuff of the Department of Public Health were two in three specially qualified hygienists; bat there were in addition two Modical Officers of Health, tire more or less closely in touch with contral office. On the outbreak of plague the medical staff was increased to seven members;

two stationed at the hospital, three engaged in regular visitation of the patients, and two mainly occupied in administrative and other general matters connected with the spidamic. From time to time we had the assistance of medical visitors from other colonies who came to gain experience, and of many medical men practising in Sydney, but these were chially exployed in connection with the insulation of Iloffkine's fluid. I must hore remark that, once convinced of the reality of the plague, the medical profession generally gave courteous and loyal support to the Department.”

Apparently in Hongkong, in the neces

of house-inspection, ́no BREY matter

widened, and open spacos provided. It can serve no useful purpose to pull down an infected house and build another exactly like is on the same spot. It would mean an enormous ex penditure if the whole of the slums of Hongkong were to be destroyed; other cities of the world

THE IMPENDING CHINESE LOAN | the lekin pallectorate of Kiang Hsu for some six

AND ITS SECURITY,

or eight years to come! Beccndly, the proposed abolition of the Manchu stipends and conversions An article under the above heading appears

of the grain tribute are measures to which the in the Times of the 15th April from a votre privileged rapporters of the dynasty would pre- for all the Reforms Edicts of 1898 and the pondent. He says:Sir Robert Hart'a recent capital purishment of every Boxer leader in the suggestions, as reported in telegrame from Feking, with regard to the new and increased Empire. The I. M. Customs could no more sources of Chinese Imperial revenue intended carry thers out than to provide and compensate for the indemnity abolition of lekin, coming as a recommendation rhising of the indo they could supervise the Thirdly, the gradual claims now under consideration, would appear to from the Chinese Government, can only he have been fruted with a view to fulfilling, at the earliest possible dato, these remarkable and regarded, in the light of the Tientsin Treaty prophetic atterances of which the Inspector and subsequent history, as irony, if not as General bas delivered himself in the Press than the fact that, no matter what arrange- DENVILLE'S V. R

impertinence. Nothing can be more certain since the relief of Peking. Were it not for those utterances. it would have been diffealt offisis of the interior will continue, wherever

ments may be made by the Fowers, the native Do. for muy one acquainted with Chinese affairs foreign supervision is not backed, by effective to believe that such suggestions could have control, to levy taxation on every branch of F.O.S., Very old Hyseur? omanated in good from Sir Robert Hart; trade and on every class of goods in transit to CLUB

faith District of the Capo. The British are endearadininistrative talents built up and guided the That Sir Robert Hart should support Li Hung- Cosca OLD HIGHLAND

Customs service in its earlier years. While it is chang relterated request for increasing the GLENLIVET ouring to draw a curdon around the invaders, c and slight encounters take place daily,

to be hoped that the proposal for obtaining these tarif dution at the same time as he "recommends" HIGHLAND NECTAL funds, destined to compensate" China, will the grailual abolition of lekin, is in itself D. C. L.... not be seriously considered by the Indemnity

sufficient indication of the general tenor of the HIGHLAND CLO | Committee at Feking, it must be borne in mind

that, despite the state of atter disorganisation present propaanis and of their value as to futuro DEWAR's White Labol

Do. EXTRA SPECIAL into which the Custoas service has drifted urity. Tariff revision can well wait until

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SPECIAL much weight in that city, where tradition is to the Boxer rising and is romlts any TEACHER'S Highland (reizi

P.D. C. politics. overything. Moreover, the representatives of leeson has been impressed upon Europe, it is D. G. the Powers at Peking re, as a general rule, no

that the Chinese Government, as represented in PEAK BLEND do. more conversant with Chinese affairs than is the Manden rulers of to-day and their adherette, the raral elector of England. It is quite

is absolutely corrupt and untrustworthy. Also possible, therefore, that, despite the lesson to he read in the last Chinese loan and the lekin it has been made evident that, unless assisted

from without, the native minority which is FINE OLD BOURBON control fiasco which has resulted therefrom, the striving for reform in the administration of the CANADIAN HYE Legations may be only too willing to discuss decaying Empire is face to face with a forlorn any proposals which the ingenuity of flung hope. Under these conditions the Powers will

occasion.

'INDIAN OPINIONS ON AHMEDNAGAR,

| are doing it, and surely Hongkong can attempt Sitary Commissioner's report for 1899, that since 1804, his opinion is still one which carrieg / the abolition of lekin comes within the splore of

something practical if gradual in this direction. Vested interests are great, and the disadvantage Hongkong labours under is that the unofficial representatives on the Legislative Council are concerned with these vested interests. The Government gracefully left it to the Senior Unofficial Member to attempt to grapple with one of its duties in dealing with overcrowding in Wanchai, and even condescended to put a

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Calcutta, 1st May Replying to Mr. St. John Brodrick, "ths Englishma reiterates its statements about the nnherithiness of Ahmednagar. It notes the to the most unhealthy in India next after Peshawar, that the disease most prevalent is enteric; and that we only keep troops there because, years ago, the mistake was "Tuade of erecting costly larracks there.

Bombay, 1st May The Times of India oflrms that Ahmednagar is healthy, and quotes reports to prove this.

Allahabad, Jat May, The Pioneer publishes a number of facts

clides: We do not think there need be any

humanity, to • the prople of China, and to tho apprehension regarding the health of the Boer Fortunately for the fature of China. prisoners, and the agitation in their favour fur, however, inventus, in kinase words will here crease of avilisation if they fail to make of the indemnity claims ou opportunity for introducing nishes a curious commentary on the action of after require as security something more than collaterally anch improvements in the country's the Government, who specially selected Ahmed-pinions and estimatus rouched for by the nagar as having a less trying dimate than many lim politician in question. It seems inevit. administration as may be immediately possible. other cantenments and as standing well up on able that nader existing conditions China must is of paramount importance that the indep- nities should not be vist (as they most certainly the list of healtby statione."

borrow the annuity scheine heing disapproved by will, if the native official has his own way in the Simia, 1st May. a umajority of the Concert. The amount of the The returns which hare reached Simla show loan: required remains an unknown quantity, estimatter) by the imposition of further burdens, in mated at something over time how been filed arbitrary stain the people. In the present and the total amount definitely ascertained, instauce, the Munshu chausioen, the Court, and ver 40 and under 50 millions the form of lekin, on island tratie, or by sterling there should remain for the Powers two queste mandarinate in general should pay tions for decision (1) In what manner shall

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few, impediments in the way, which fortunately regarding the health of Ahmednagar and con- chang may sugg-st as timely for the present have grievously failed in their obvious duty to Wood, samples of which will be forwarded on

were negotiated, and Wanohai is to have its reclamation schemes put into practice. The Benior Member is to be congratulated upon doing what the Government should have done, and it is perhaps fair to acknowledge he will be amply compensated by the resulta,

that des death-rata omongst the European troops at Almednagar for the past year

A CANTEEN EXPERIMENT,

London, 2nd May,

A successful experiment has been made with a field canteen in South Africa rendering the army independent of middlemen. The profits will be distributed among the relatives of those

killed.

The other evils can only be dealt with briefly. vision was made in advance to combat the presses rory heavily on most residents-parti ProThe question of exorbitant rents is one which

disuse. Whilst the insanitary and uninhabit-cularly Europesas with moderate incomes-tim-only 15 per thound, ably rookeries remain standing in Hongkong, Portuguese and the Chinese. In the majority

· pingue, many medical mon think, will be always of instancos the extortions of the landlords are with us, and as vested interests are so great akin to zobbery, for rents have been jumped up and apparently the principal interests are un- without any reason beyond that the owners wish officially represented on the Legislative Council,

to squeezo as much as possible. The Govern those valuable elams are not likely to bo

ment's position is that the taxes have increased rebuilt until they have collapsed, through

in proportion, and the Government thereby age. The apparent indifference of the foreign participates in flagrant squeezing. Prices of pro community to plagas entitled the Sanitaryisions are continually rising, through the action Department to indulge in slovenly and den- gerous habits; and it even went so far as to of monopoliste, as the recent Commission proved. send plague-baskets over to Kowloon by the It is difficult to recognise how the Government could interfere in the matter, but it is equally public forry, and would no doubt have continued difficult to believe that the Government charged

can remain idle whilst the poorer residents are. bled month after month by rapacious landlords

GENERAL NEWS.

CABLE RATES.

The

exactions levied without discrimina-

the Penalty for the recent anti-foreign movement. rather than the innocent toilers of the Central

Province, and this result can best be attaînal

by measures which, without affecting the

the loan be raised; and (2) what revenues shall Chips hypotheente un security for the saDie There is ample time, before the various claims can be completed, for the satisfactory solution of both these questions. I propose to discusses, will curtail the privileges and numbers

of the official class. the latter only, since it is with this that the Chinese Government is already endeavouring to be two sonres from which,

These ends being kept in view, there appear the administra- if to deal in secordance with the best traditions of Celestial diplomacy.

tions concerned be placed forthwith under the 1. M. Customs control, there should be available, friction, fonds sufficient to pro. without

much vide the security required. Both are referred to in Sir R. Hart's proposals; they are the bative Customs (Chang Kuan) and the Tribute collected under the former heading, and by the latter, competent authorities estimate that the Board of Revenue should be placed in position to appropriate between two and three

a new lor.

source from wifoh Sir Robert Hart, on behalf of the Chiness Government, proposes to draw the new Imperiul (an distinct from pro- incinl) rovenus which shall cooperiente

China

to do so still had it not been for the rowspapers.with the prosperity and welfare of the Colony home and abroad a reduction in the rates enable her to meet it are:--(1) Stamp duties Rice Transport Service. With the "revоRuея

to

London, 30th April. At the general meeting of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, the Chairman said that the Directors had advocated actively both at

India, but the accord of other interested telegraph administrations was necessary and the postponement of the

International was likely to prolong the delay.

**** | reformed and econnical administration under

Under these headings he

witness the intermittent,passage of but partly. and rascally monopolista. Elsewhere in the Telegraph Conference, fred for May till 1902. respectively should be the amounts soonally millions sterling per annum for the service of

For this criminal negligencs on someone's part the Medical Offcor acknowledged his regret! The same officer any day on Caine Road ean closed plague baskets filled with infected cloth. East, under other governments, a very drastic ing, which, are dumped down outside open treatment would be meted out, and it is con- windows and in much used thorough-tures,ceivable that some methods of alleviation could whenever the coolies desire to rest.

be developed hore.

eruel to

THE KING'S TITLES.

London, 1st May. The Imperial and Colonial Goverments have been corresponding regarding the question of the extension of the King's titles.

THE ARMY SCHEME.

London, 1st May. The Daily News says that a meeting of Service Members of the House of Cominus was held yesterday, when a resolution was unnaimously agreed to in condemnation of Mr. St. John Brodrick's Army Scheme.

2nd May.

The Times says the Opposition leaders have decided to streu aonely resist the Army Referia scheme, holding that better results are obtain able at far less cost,

for her increased Indebtedness undefined; (2) increased taxation of native opium; and (3) a house tax, us distinct from the prosent land tax. considers that fire, teu, and 2) millions of taels available. As to the proposed method of their collection and remittantes by the provincial nuthorities, we are left uninformed possibly because the unpleasant fact is sufficiently realis. ad that these new taxes could not be levied in the interior either by the Chinese authorities or by a foreign collectorate without producing the most serious disorders, if not a general insurrection. The complete failure of Sir R. Hurt's attempts, since 1898, to extend the I. M. Customs system and control to the collection of icken in districts adjacent to the treaty ports should have been in itself proof sufficient of the fatility of any effort which is not accompanied by armed force to modify the methods of the provincial mandarins or to deprive them of any of their prerogatives. Pending the partition of China, it must be at the treaty ports that the Powers concerned (excepting always Russia) can apply the sole argument whereby the Chinese official can be permanently convinced of error: at these ports, therefore, and under foreign supervision, must be collected the revenue needed to guarantee the service of foreign loans.

To deal briefly with Sir R. Hart's pro- posals:--

Now that Europeans in the last few days have These are some of the evils the Goverment succumbed to plague. Dr. Bell any roadily be might tackle with energy and perseverance ; assured that carting a dead-bos through the but, as residents only too well know, they are leading streets is not exactly decent, and is an not all. They are, however, sufficient to go on objectionabis und a dangerous practics. They with. Seeing that some of them really come would not do it in the streets of Londen, and within the scope of municipal control, and that there is no reason why it should be done here, the wretched Sanitary. Board furco has been tried although the doctor may personally upprove of and failed, is it not about time that Hongkong ít. It is to put it mildly, disagreeable should possess the privileges accorded to Singa the patient, pore and renang, and the sectiement of Shang. to residents Steamers arriving from Singapore and ini? The plays have their Municipal Councils Maails are rightly quarantined; but is there with most successful and gratifying results. any inspection over the thonsands of natives who If we possessed in Hongkong that right of con- daily arrive from plague-stricken Canton, or frol over municipal matters which prevails in does the number of passengers uppal the Shanghai, it is quite possible to believe that tiovernment by its immensity? If so, con under the guidance of the leading residents as trast this inaction with the thorough way in Municipal Commissioners in the Colony, and with which the Shanghai Municipal Council has a liberal expenditure, many of these evils would dealt with arrivals from plagae-centres, which be soon abated. We should have good reads, kas resulted in the Model Settloniant" befrig a system of drainage less obtrusive and dan- uncontaminated when the disease raged here, gerous than the present, an efficient water German expedition to Shansi has resulted in afforded to the central Government's legitimate officials to some honest walk in life. Now i

The plaguequestionise vastandsgrave question; at present it is more or los trifled with, und the Government prefers to unke new roads in a new and barren territory to exponding money and energy on cleansing was purifying the vile slums in this evercrowded city.

supply, a thorough sanitary system of control, a gradual disappearence of slums, and many other improvements which a beard of elected unofficial members, who know so well the needs of the place, would provide. The municipi control in Shanghai is one of the least costly, and The Director of Public Works has presented considering its conditions, the most effetent in as with a good deal of information about roads the world. Its district adjoins a Chinme city in the New Territory, which in years to come containing 500,000 Chinese, and its municipal will no doubt prove of public use and benefit. If affaire are conducted without friction and the Acting-Director of Public Works will go with complete satisfaction to the residents. With out of his way to visit the Western portien a thorough system of inspection Shanghai has of Des Venz Road said the roads opened on kept the plague from its doors, Singapore and the New Prays and leading to the Canton and Pening are as well administered municipally Macio Steamer Wharf, he will find roads (!) as Hongkong is the reverse. Therefore the which would disgrace a Chinese village. time has come for Hongkong to be allowed to These rols are used by thousands of people undertake a task performed by ratepayers daily and are absolutely dangerous in wet successfully elsewhere, which the local govern. weather, and they have been in this condiment has absolutely failed to accomplish. Other tion for more than two years. The road wise a continuation of existing evile will invite to Kowloon Docks is so bad that accidents the appointment of a Special Commission to oveur daily, and except to pedestrians it corsider them.

The vobfentartrathc is impassable after rain.

in the business part of the Colony is very small and is confined to a few roads, and considering the unsatisfactory state they are generally in, it might be well to soul a doputation from the Colonial Engineer's department to Macao to study the road system there. In the matter of roads, Hongkong is immensely behind Singapore, the roads of which Colony are usually splendidly kept up.

Another evil which Hongkong is suffering from is that of overcrowding, which the Go- vernment, is attempting to mitigats by the -This introduction of the recent ordinance.

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It is an opon secret that, when the terms of the last Chinese loan were ander discussion, Sir ablert Cemmissioners in the Custome service to Robert Hart was strongly advised by some of the

abandon the foredoomed scheme of lekin control and to insist that the native Customs be placed ander the inspectorate. In this matter, however, the Ingector-General bad at the time little choice. The Tsung-li-Yanen (knowing well that the provincial authorities would never band over effective control of the inland waterways to foreign supervision without a desperate struggle were realy enough to pledge the lekin sud salt taxes of certain districts; but to surrender the junk trade collectorate at the open ports would have been a very different matter. The scope of this artide does not permit of a full description of the native Customs administration and its immediate results; suffee it to say that its existence in Chinese hands side by side with the foreign collectorate is an unachronism tive of evil. The transfer of the whole prope the open ports to the 1. M Customs could be T readily and speedily carried out it would place the entire maritime trade and revenue.ön a-[ (1) Under the heading of stamp daties un definite footing; it would provide fauds for be tons, since a welcome addition would thus be would necessitate the return of many provincial doubtedly something may, and should, hereafter Peking which are now alourbed in a great

measure by the provincial collectors, and it Hongkong, 17th February, 1899.

revenues, and the burden thereof would fall ou

the time and opportunity for accomplishing the class best able to carry it is, the peace this reform, which has been obviously necessary loving and prosperons merchants, But the for many years past. | introduction of any general sysians of stamp

At a meeting of Marylebone Cricket Club the proposed change in the leg before wicket dnes will be the work, not of mouths (as Sir The advantages to be gained by China Lerself rule was carried by 259 against 188, bat as a two-thirds majority is required the rule remains

unaltered.

INDIAN TELEGRAMS,

KRUPP GONS FOR CABUL

B. Hart's proposal appears to imply), but of long and toilful years.

Any large increase in the duties leviable on native opium-and an increnes to produce 10 million tacle would be very large must entail, on the one hand, falsitiol returns of production from the provinces concerned, and, on the other, increased importations of the Calcuttu, May 1st. Indian drag. For the revenue purposes of the The Englishmun states op reliable authority central Government the results could scarcely that the Amir of Afghanistan has placed at be successful, while a cobaiderable addition to order for a battery of Krupp gans to be the ranks of native officials and underlings delivered next August, and he's paid 6 fakhs would inevitably follow. of rupees on account.

(3) Chinore administrator knows that country, the bulk of the population

CENTRAL ASIA.

Allahabad. May lat.

theval landowners throughout the

in the reorganisation of the Tribute Rise Trans- port Service are obvious and immediate, and in this case, as in that of the native Customs, the only saferers would be a horde of squeezing officials and underlings. Under the present adminisation it has been computed that the cost to the Government of every pient of rice delivered in Peking is about tuels, five of which represent extortion and peentation.

be

In conclusion, , until the total amount of the

indemnity claims is definitely known, it must be difficult to give any final opinion as to which of Chi's available

akbets should be pledged for liquiuntion of her liabilities. From the two sources above mentioned, however, sufficient should be forthcoming to provide security for the greater part of the interest on any loan to The work which Dr. Stein is at present grd the present land tax as the final limit of, and the advantages to China and to 1. carrying on in the Taklamakan Desert is greatly their direct taxation. Kang-hsis edict boing her neighbours resulting from the oxtorsion facilitated by the ready help which the local their Magna Charta in this question. A wod Chinese anthorities continuo to render as erate house tax might be possible in a few of tonest administration should in themselves

Do small compensation for the harm done by regarda labour for excavations, ets About the the richer cities near the coast, but outside of

the Manchu Court and their Boxer followers. middle, of February the daily minimum tem- these it would be simply impossible, unless col- perature was about 10 degrees Fabr. below zero: Sir R. Hart would probably shriek from adso lected by the aid of Corsacks-s system which so work in the desert implied a good deal of

ating. exposure.

PLAQUE IN INDIA.

Simia. Ist May.

These proposals, in short, are unworkable. No doubt the intention of the Chinese politi-

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India numbered 4,093.

persistent policy of anuudling the treaties pussessel by Kipling, hut adds the reproach bales canes, 100 bales tea mats, 370 rolle meta

of the spirit 240 casks plumbago, 8bkts, shell, 8 caser silk

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the poet is dominatel piece goods, 2 cases old silk. 1 case grass, cloth, Plague is now rapidly decreasing all over artless confidence of European diplomacy in racial self-interest instead of by

The writer of the article supports lis stand- 110 cases P. L. fans, 93 cases Chinaware, 42 India. The #gures for lost work fell from sicps will remain ukghaken. Sir E. Hart's point as followsIt seems as if Kipling

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CEVAS WET office ros, 33 pkgs, aaval stores The novelists of the present day are nothing sulcient solution of the indemnity guarnutes your hair tarn grey on their account; their

storba naturally fails hard upon the Chinese rooli and F. effects, 4 pkgs marine clothing 160 pkgs. if they are not practical men-of-business. One question; their undequacy being recognized villainis arm only people who do not belong who must either pay an increased rout to reside feathers, 30 pkgs. P. effects and curios, 9 of the Londen illustrated papers gives the possibly even at Peking-we are now provided to us; their brutalities are, as a matter of fact, in town of go outside and live at a considerable sundries, 675 empty drums. For Manchester: following incident:-The editor of one of the with "complete programme" (vide the Times necessary for the empire. Kipling & prin- bales waste silk, 2 cases floss silk. For leading daily papers received a talagram on the of 6th inst) which relegates these aw and ciples, proceeds the critis, are an aberration

-16 eases blackwoodware, & case day of the Queen's funeral from

compensatory taxes to the unassisted care of of morality and of art, the fruit of that very well- sent no facility exists in the matter of cheap

known novelist, which ran as follows: I am the Chines Government to the Greek devilish prejudice which makes many persons and proposes as specific seencity for believe that the power of a nation depends, transport, though occasionally rumours are Opt. Goole-100 bales pierced cocoons. For prepared to write you 400 words descriptive of Kalende heard of electric tramway that is to be London Opt, Hamburg: 132 beles canes. For the Queen's funeral for 1200. The editor, new loan certain revenues already in existence, in th first place, on the possession of aboriginal Spice does not permit here of a detailed brut ity. By means of an instrament in which.

A ON & CO., babit of obtaining £50 per 1,000 words for stories, assumed the dropping of a nought by to say first, that the existing personnel and markable manner with the ordinary artifices of PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PORTRAIT

PAINTERS the telegraph department, and wired back, resources of the I.M. Customs are utterly in journalism, Kipling has worked on a people AN OLD FRIEND BY A NEW NAME-Liebig Will pay £200 for 1,000 words." He received adequate to the supervision of the salt excise in whose social superiority has developed their All kinds of Oil Paintingy and Photographic Company's Extract will soon be known as the reply. Not 4,000 but 400 words. Need the interior of Chins. Foreign control in the conscience and intelligence, to ro awaken from

Enlargementa LENCO, the new name placet upon it and com- less to say that the editor did not assess the collection of the excise would be a sin qua non deep step certain butal, stavist tendencies 39A, TOP FLOOR, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL posed of the Lisbig's Fxtract of Meat Company's writer's literary value at quite this high rate, for security, and Sir R. Hart has himself which must be headed against foreigners, as Opposite to Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.

[1900-5' and the negotiation fell through.

officially admitted has inability to control oven there is no scope for them at home. initials.

Hongkong, 20th March, 1901:

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distance from the scene of his labours. At pre-Gare, cases cumquarts. For Londou

the

started, which will enable the European and London - Opt, Antwerp Opit. Hamburg-20 recalling the fact that this novelist was his analysis of this complete programme Suffice it all the magic of art-is-amalgamated. In

Chinese employee to live in the enturbe ander healthy and reasonable conditions and enable him to travel cheaply to and from his business. But in introducing gach an anti-overcrowding ordinance the Government made no arrange ment to grapple with the inevitable result. One

-cases bristles.

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No. 39, QUEEN's Road CenTRÁL, CHADWICK KEW (LATE OF POATE & NOBLE). Hongkong, 15th September, 1899.

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