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yard for earth-cutting, or thirty cents each for sawing wood alespors. Before settling upon piece of land, the applicant must pay 87.02 for

Babsistence youre, survey and illo for 999 money may be borrowed from the government, bat as work and wages are ready, it is not expected that anyone will apply for a loan. The master stroke proceeds to explain that Borneo is only four days and one-half from Hongkong, advises that passage be taken for Labuan, which is 25 miles from the milway, and declares that Chiness at work on the railway ate healthy, with a doctor handy in cass of need. There is plenty of timber, and water whools may be built in the neighboring streams. After the building of the railway, the export of sloopers and logs to Chian should provide employment for many men. At the upper end of the railway, hills are high, and the climate good. Ten can be grown there as well as in Java or Ceylon,

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY DECEMBER 14TH, 1901

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondente.]

A SMOKE NUISANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY FEERB,"

same year, we beg to inform you that the com- plaints referred to are still going on unabated. When the Legislative Council passed the smoke-statement Ordinance at the begin ning of the present year, wo thought that the Government would take sotion in suppressing this naisance, but we found to our regret that nothing was done in the matter. We would call your kind attention that one of our petitionera addressed you on the subject in 12th June, 1901, pointing out the gravity of the existing evil prevailing in this locality, and your secretary Hongkong, 12th December.

in acknowledging receipt of this letter on the 818,About 2 years ago, two manufacturing

same day, requested the names of the firms rms catablished business at the foot of St. complained of, which were furnished on the Francis Street and the several ill-constructed vory next day, and since then we have not heard funnols erected in their premises gave the any more relating to it. We take leave to locality au unassuming aspect of a miniature reiterate again the great inconvenience which wo have been subjected to for the last 22 manufacturing town. The depressing'sir, hoa-months, and hope you will be good enough to vily laden with dust, soot, and smoke all the day protect as by enforcing the Ordinance relating long in, this neighbourhood, makes living to smoke nniaance against the two firms. most unbearable, and repeated complaints have We are, Dear Sir, * been made individually from time to time to the managing owners of these companies to no purpose. Being poweries to sueck this fing- rant abuse unless pressure be brought to bear, the owners, all the foreign and Chinese residents of Holy Infint Lane, St. Francis Street. queen's Road East, ato, petitioned to the Go- all deliveries #1 is said to be loft for the vernment in the drst week of July last your to coolio after paymont of passage and combo kind anough to adopt measures for the missions. Nearly all the help that the railroad suppression of the smose nuisance. After contractor has was engaged in that way. No waiting for a few months, the petitioners coolies are reported to have responded for China thought that the Government land passed them to the happy effort of the Land Commissioner. over unnoticed, and on 29th September, 1900, Settlements along the road might be started by another petition was presented to the Sanitary

Several months have passed since this pro- spectas was placorded in China. Labour for the railroad meanwhile has been hired in the old was, by sending to a labour agent an order to engage coolies and promising £5 per head for

them now employed on that work, if they and the allurements of the country, aufficiently strong. The road ought to be in operation early net your. Sines garden arops may be grown rapidly thrifty labourers inight tide theraselves over until crops of longer growth and better market value cap mature, thus giving the country a trial for at losst a full season. First returns need not be specially encouraging to hold that colony and possibly to increase it. long stay might lead to the planting of cocon put trees, sugar-cans and gambler. Tapioca promises so well that the government has a Since Dr. Clark's remark was made, nothing standing offer to young men with a capital of was done in the matter till the beginning the Attorney-General £2,000 or mors, of a free grant of 500 acres of of this year, when land for that purpose and for cinchons, coffee introduced in Council a bill for the suppression and tea.

In a small way the Chinese settlers of smoke nuisance. The bill was accordingly might try a band at those producte. That is passed through its several stages, but the smoke probably the way a beginning must be made, fornuisanco is still going on anabated and besides while all of the growths may thrive, experi- ments with them so far have not shown attrac. tive commercial results.

Board authorities, imploring the Bound to use their good influence to assist them. At the mesting of the Hanitary Board had on 11th October, 19, a report of which was published together with the petition in full the issue of the Daily Prew a day later,... Medical Officer of Health said in referenes to it that

the Government bave written home for full particulars as to the means of enforcing sub- Asection 7 of section 91 of the Imperial Public Health Act of 1875, which deals with umoke nuisance."

Unless North Borneo has an unincky mark against it, good management ought to contrive with the mans at hand to attract a Chiness population. Sarawak has greater uren and more people than North Borase, but it is much farther south in

these firms have erected two more new funnels in their premises; their last transgression was looked upon by the petitioners as a glaring invasion of their lawful rights as taxpayers and peaceful citizens wonder whether the action of the companies was justified under the cir. cumstances. As nothing was done in the mutter addressed the following letter dated 19th June,

"Dear Sir.

the island, out 1901, to Dr. F. W. Clark M.B., D.PH., ote, of the direct as of trade, and it is not Medical Officer of Health :- claimed to be physically superior to this territory. The personal fores of Sir James Brooks and of his nephew, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, the present Rajsh, have made it what

Your obediant servants,

(Hero follows a list of names).

I trast that His Excellency the Governor will be kind enough to investigate into the unse not only of smoke nuisance but also of in Cessant uvises caused by the many engineering firms establishing business in the heart of the population along Quom's Road East, and by doing so, I only endores the opinion of Capt. Hon. F. H. May, I think, delivered in speech by that gentleman at a recent meeting of the Sanitary Board.

J

If you could find space for inserting this letter I shall feel extremely obliged to you on behalf of those who have suffered for the last sacred two years, as "men in distress are objects."

I have the honour to be, Sit,

Your obedient servant,

M. FERNANDEZ. c/o Mesars. Kelly & Walsh, Ed.

PRIVATE CHAIR AND RICKSHA COOLTES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY Texas."

Hongkong: 13th December. SI-I see a letter from "Onsirda" in your issue of this date, which, in conjunction with other recent letters to the Press on the subject of private chair and riskahs coolies, constrains. me to offer a suggestion. It seems to me that the treatment of coolies by their masters has lot to do with the behaviour of the coolies. I am very far from being pro-Chinese, bat believe in treating coolies as human beings, with the result that, during the last two years which I have spent at the Peek, I have not only had no trouble with my four chair coolies, but lately, on removing from one house to another, where

I have no room for moro than two coolies, 1 told my boy to dismiss two of them, but they decline to go, preferring to crowd the four of thenfeelves into quarters only large enough for two.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

NEWS VIA AUSTRALIA.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA:

London, 19th November. WARNING TO DE. LEYDS.

Dr. Leyds bas e semi-fhoially warned in connection with hie visit to Berlin that any pen-Gorman agitation against the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain which he might assist in pre-

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AUCTION

PUBLIC AUCTION.

NOTICE OF SALE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF JEWELLERY AND PRECIOUS STONES.

mating would not modify Germany's foreign THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE BEEN FAVOURED WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO policy."

MONUMENT TO DE' WET, Five hundred Germans, all bearing the name *«hristian," have created monament in

honour of the Boar lese, General Christian Do Wet. at Scheleratein,

PRESENTATION TO A TRAITOR. Major M'Bride, who commanded the Irish Brigade against the British in the earlier part of the war in South Africa, has been presented with a sword of honour by Celtic subscribers in Paris. At the presentation ceremony a number

SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

TO-DAY (SATURDAY).

THE 14TH DECEMBER NEXT, AT 11 A.M., WITHIN THEIR SALES ROOMS, NO. 20, DES VEUX ROAD,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

of violent anti-British spa-ches were deliverad LADIES'

London, 1 th November.

LETD AND FICHEE AT BERLIN. With regard to the object of the visit of Dr.

correspondent at Brussels states that the Boer Leyds and Mr. Fischer to Berlin, the Tiner representatives are making a supreme effort to obtain the mediation of the German Emperor between the Boer Government and Groat Britain.

SENTENCËS ON REDELS A rebel maced Vanwyck has been exocated for treason, and for violently assaulting the postmistress at Maraiburg. The sentence of death passed upon the rebels Mabler, a farmer of Beaufort West, for attempted murder, and Vanrensburg, for treason and murder at Coles barg, have been commented to imprisonment for life. Vaurensburg, in addition, has been fined £1,000.

KRUGER'S PEACE PROPOSALS DENIED.

Mr. Wolmarans, one of the Boer prace do. legates who visited England last year, has non- tradicted the story of ax President Krager's terms of peace. He adds that absolute indep- endence for the Boers is essential, and that the Raud will not be eeded.

A previous cable message stated that the London Daily Mail had published a stalement which parported to be the terms of pesce ro. quired by ex-President Krager. Mr Kruger was stated to have expressed his willingness to cede the Rand to Great Britain, and to con clude peace: if an amnesty were granted to colonial rebels, the Boer prissors of war im mediately returned to their homes, the British broops withdrawn, all farmhouses that have ren dostroyed rebuilt, and a treaty, to be guaranteed by France and Rumia, concluded, granting immediate and complota autonomy to the Boor Republics water the Afrikander fag.]

GOLD OUTZUT ON THE RAND.

Reports received from Johannesburg show that the output of gold from the Rand mines for the month of October totalled 33,393oz.

BOER ATROCITIES.

& GENTLEMEN'S

JEWELLERY

COMPRISING :-

DIAMOND, OFAL and CORAL NECKLACES, WATCHES, LADIES LONG CHAINS, PENDANTS, BROOCHES, EAR RINGS, SLEEVE LINKS, RINGS SET with PRECIOUS STONES, SCARF PINS, &c, & Settings of English and Chines Workmanship (the English saltings being of Bolid Gold, Hall murked 15 and 18 Carat) ;

ALSO

A Large and Choian Salection of UNSET DIAMONDS of Perfost Cut, RUBIES. OPALS and other PRECIOUS STONES ranging from 3 to 49 Corats each, which will be

Bold by the Carat.

This Collection is not Locally Owned, but consiste exclusively of Jewellery. So, selected of home for the Philippine market. but swing to the excessive import duties recently imposed in Manila, the consignes has decided to stop the consignment and realise by Pablic Anction, hore, which will enable the Hongkong Community to obtain high-class selections at much under

Catalogues will be ready on the 10th December next, and the several Articles will be on Tiow in oar Sales Rooms on the 12th and 13th.

retail prices.

TERMS: —As umal.

Hongkong, 30th November, 1991,

GENERAL NEW3.

COST OF TANMANY ADMINIRTE VTION.

London, 11th November.

Li is stated that owing to the extensive system of Tammany fraud and corruption, the ecst of administering the municipal Fairs of Greater New York during the your 300 amounted to £40,000,000 (2000).000 dollars)

PLAGUE-INFECTED RATS AT MAREILLES. London, 11th November,

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On board the Mesagerios Maritimes, Com Pony's steamer. Saghalien, which is at prasout. unloading at Marspilles, in France, 480 doad rats, which had died of bubonic plague, were discovered. The authorities of the port are discussing the matter of destroying rats as a

precaution against an outbreak of plagas.

GEEHAN ANGLOPHOBIA,

and a number of veteran German warriors who

Lord Kitchener has reported that the Hoars

London, 19th November. Large and noisy anti-British meetings have recently captured and killed Private Christian- son, of the Cape Pioneer Railway Regiment. been held at six of the German Tuiversities. The Boers also shot and killed a sergeant of the Caps police, who was away on sick leave. He was took part in the Frano-German war of 1890 sitting on the step" of the hotel where be denounced the Right Hen. J. Chamberlaina for was staying in the Odendaalstrom district when his recent supposed insulting referanses to the he was shot. A retel at. Maleking has been methods pursued by the Germans in that cam- sentened ie douth for shooting a natirs in coldpaign. The Cologne Gazette, in an article on

blood.

London. 14th November.

"I am requested, as the author of the petition against smoke nuisance which was presented to you in last September from the owners and foreign residents of St. Francis Street, Holy it is. They have had it for sixty years and it Enfant Lane, Queen's Road East, etc., to ap- does more business, perhaps on that account,proach you again on the subject. In the meet- than this territory. The labour needs there ing of the Banitary Board as reported in the have been supplied quietly and with great ad. Daily Prese of 12th October, 1930, you m

tioned in reference to our petition that the vantage to the revenues of the Rajah. Bereral Government have written boms for full parti- times when he had us for more Chinese, he outlars as to the means of enforcing sub-section arranged for theta, and they came in according of section 91 of the Imperial Public Health at to schedule, to oa3 knowing much of it until of 1875, which deals wit smoke nuixangs. Since your remark has been made, the Govorn their arrival. He is bringing into the colony went have passed a bill for suppression of from as far north as Foochow. The way he smoke nuisance in the Legislative Council alt F If people were to try sad consider a cooling instances of such atrocities. If such con did it was to make a contract with a Chinese some months ago, but I regret to stato to deliver 2.000 men with their families, that it has not been exforced in this locality, as the nuisance is still going en unabated. in two years. Half the deliveries will have I beg respectfully to reiterate the gravity of been made by the end of this year. Foo- the evil which is still

MR. BRODRICK ON BOER ATROCITIES. The Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, addressed a meeting of the City Carlton Club last night, and made some important and interesting statements with re- The wages I pay are the same as I paid twegard to the war in South Africa. He stated years ago, and are not above the market price that the Boors bad frequently murdered Hair In addition to carrying me, they have to do oddaties in order to conceal their tracks from the parsning British columus, and a cable mes- jobs in the house, and two of them have to be enge just received from Lord Kitchener states) at my office every day to run errands, &c that cold-blooded murders by the Boers had Now, if this can be so in one case, why not is bien frequent of late, and he gave several stock.

chow men often leave home to work in this community lias availing and I consider

As the

ax, at least, an approximation to a human being, I think we should hear less about the privats coolis question,-Yours, etc.,

JOINT STOCK SHARES.

T.

Massm. Vernon & Smyth say in their weekly share report, dated Hangkang, 13th Decembar

Continuod dullness has ruled in our market during the past week, and we have only i miscellaneous business to report.

duct became general, Mr. Brodrick stated the perpetrators must be treated an bandits and desperadoes, and not as belligerents. The erea tion of blockhouses along the lines of som- mauleution had resulted in the exclusion of the Boers from 14.700 miles of country in the Orange River Colony. Since the commente meut of the war, 4200) adult male Boers bad boen captared. 1100 had been killed or wounded or had left the coualry, and it w believed that there were about 10,000 now in the field.

grierane to lay before ness by provinces, returning when they can yan; for the last 18 months Ley have been subjected to all sorts of inconvenience arising cave enough strings of cash for a rest. This is not only from dust, boot and smoke all the day the first time there has been a colonisation of long, but also now and then from the arsenic such magnitude. The immigrants will come fumes caused by copper smelting by the one firm at least 1,50 miles. Those who cau stand the and the poisonous fumes caused by boiling

BEINFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA mysteri us chemicals by the ether.

An announcement was made by Mr. Brodrick climate will miss their families in Sarawak and health of this community is under your kind

be to the intentions of the Government with become part of the permanent population. protection I have full confidence that you will

regard to reinforcing the froops in South North Borneo, seems to be relying on the pub-make strong representations to those who are

BAKA Small sales of Hongkong and Africa with a view to the more rigorous pro licity of an advertisement rather than upon the responsible for erecting ill-constracted fun-

to send out two persansion of an emissiry as ons of draw-nele, with a view of having them removed. By Shanghaic are reported at $620. The Lordor secution of the empa ga. He stated that the

rato has slightly receded to £63. National Government are about complying to our humble request you will have

regiments of cavalry, 2000 other mounted ing colonists. There may be no exception to placed this comranity under a deep obligation are offering at $27.

MARINE INSURANCE). → Urions

betroups. two line battalions of regalar troops the excellent rule that advertising pays, but it of owing you a debt of gratitude for which

placed to some extent at $342). China and somo militia regiments, while India will would look or if China furnished such an excep. they shall always feel indebted.

Traders have sold at $53 and are wanted at supply four battalions of infantry and two tion from the experience of the two colonies

rather loss, North Chinas can be placed at regiments of cavalry. He further stated that Tis, 180, Yanglezes continue on offer at $130,one of the colouies not in South Africa) has What reliance on the railroad may do is quita

and Cantons at $155.

off-rod fresh e atingats for active service. Goujeðfæral, Sarawak prospers without a rail-

London, 15th November. road, all its trade going by water. The Malay

BAIDING IN CAPE COLONY, Peninsula isujoying unprecedented prosperity, but there might be a different story to tell of received- its few lines of unconnected roads, were it not

Soliciting the favour of your reply.

I have this honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant,

M. FERNANDEZ. 12, St. Francia Strret."

On the same day the following letter was

Sanitary Board Office-No f "S-In reply to your letter of even date for the increasing wealth of ita tin mines. The addressed to the Medical Oficer of Health, Northern Borneo read aims at onlarging the pleass furnish the addresses of the firme com- marketably productive aron in one corner plained of,

I have the honour to be, Sir." of that territory and thus improving its ra-

Your meat obedient servant, vennes through a class of colonists who will be

(signed) G. A. WOODCOOK, worth to it uncertain returns from duties on

Acting Secretary.

their exports, but an Assured £2 per head for Mr. M. FERNANDEZ, their follies.

***DRAT BIE,

In reply to your favour of yesterday's date I bag to inform you that the names and addresses of firms complained of, aro Kes Heong Chan, sweetmeat manufacturers and exporters, No. 65, and the Tin Hing Co engineers and shipbuilders, No. 57, Queens Road Bart. These

firms are both situated, beside each other at Lin

In reply to that I again wrote on 13th June Doubtles Borneo can never be settled al-1901. as follows together by Europeans. Whether in the process of making it serve white enterprise it may become so inviting to Chinese that they will book it as they have sought other lande forecast must be idle. A beginning stretched over twenty years has not yet furnished satisfy ing results in that line. However well laid foot of St. Francis Street. I shall fast miteit may be the foundations for moderately pro obliged if you would kindly convey to the gressive government, some of the golden fancies Medical Officer of Health the expression of of the governing company's promoters have our sincere thanks for protasting the health of already boi dissipated. Possibly it will be this community from the wanten agression of the office of time to clam Chinese colonisation

I am, Dear Sir, among them.

Yours faithfully.

M. FERNANDEZ.

the above named firms.

Secretary Basitary Board

SOFT, FAIE, DELICATE SEIS A clear and To G. A. WOODCOCE, Esq. healthy complexion, produced by using Bow LAND'S HALYDOE, the most soothing, healing, curative and refreshing preparation, and war After keeping this community in throes of zanted harmless to the most delimto skin: I prevents and removes Frankles, Tan, Sunbara suspense for some time, the petitioners, not Redness, Boughness, heats Catanerne Erap daunted with their several failures, again tions, Irritation, Stings of Insects, Eczema reminded Dr. Clark in a letter dated 28th Burns, imparts a luxuriant beauty to the co October 1901, as follows-— plexion, and arrays the nook, hands and arzis

"Dear Bir in matohis whiteness, unobtainable by any other amena. Aak Stores and Chemists for Adverting to our petition which was present. HOWLANDS KALYDOS, and staid poisonous ed to you in September, 1900, and subsequently Tisations.

11364 appeared in the Daily Press of 12th October of

can

FIRE INSURANCEs-Hongkongs are obtain- able at $65. Chinas are still in request at $80). SHIPPING. Hongkong, Canton and Macaos

the subject, shows, however, that the agitation is based upon mistranslations of Mr. Chamber- lain's remarks.

London, 14th November. The Rhine Evangelical party in Germany have issued an anti-Chamberlain manifesto, in which it is stated that the British placed Boer women and old mòn in the front rank in battle to shield themselves from the builots of the Boers. The Cologne Chuckie is indignant with the falsehoods which are being published, and

will honestly repudiata the statements that bare presses the hope that some of the pastors buen made.

COMMISSALLET FRAUDS.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

AUCTIONEERS.

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ploded, and he was decapitated. Besides thore killed or injured, many of the crew bad hair- breadth escapes.

A DIVORCE CASE.

Londoù, 14th November, for a divorce from his wife, Miss Marie Lloyd, Mr. l'eroy Courteney has brought an action the well-known actress. The co-respondent in the case is Mr. Alec Hurley,

CHURCH SERVICES.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

Decomber, 15th, third Sunday in Advent. Matins (13).

Responses, Forial; Vouie, Stainer; Psalmos, Cooke, Woodward and unpais; Benedicite, Maunder in F; Jubilat. Ongeley in G; An. them," Sleepers Wake" ("St. Paul," Hendels- sohn); Hymn, 855; Kyrie, Hopkins in C Offertory Hymn, 49.

Evensong (5.45 p.m.). Responses, Forial; Psalms, Oakeley; Magni. fest, Ges in F: Nuno Dimittis, Purcell in it minor; Hyman, 50, 587, and 268; Tesper Hymn, Ward (No. 1); Voltasies, Posilnile Smart; Andauto, Batiste,

ST. PETER'S CHURCH.

3rd Sunday in Advent, 15th December. Matins (11 ..), Hymn, 423 Yenite, Barrows, Te Deum, Goss; Benedictos, Trent; Hymns, 446, 14, and 4. Evensong (6.30p.m.), Hymn, 21; Magnificat, Jones, Nunc Dimittis, Macfarren; Hymns, 379, 15, und 462.

TRADE

London, 12th November. Acting Quartermaster-sorgeant Brow, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, has been publicly degraded at Flestwood for permitting ineat, which had been passed by iba Inspector of Army Stores to be replaced by other of an MOET & inferior quality.

INFANT MORTALITY IN ENGLAND.

London, 12th November.

Br. Symona, modical health officer of Bath, in Somersetshire, has published a return show- ing that the mortality among infants for the DRY summer quarter in Dirkenhead, Salford, and Manchester has been greater than that in the concentration camps in South Africa, which has been the subject of so much pro-Boer comment.

MARK

CHANDON'S

IMPERIAL.

VINTAGES, 1893 & 18 8.

BIVAL MAIL. BOUTBE,

London, 13th November. The authorities of the General Post Office deny that it is in contemplation to make use of the American route for the transmission of malis between England and Australia. They A WIND OF THE va state, however, that they woull gladly adopt. this route if any material advantage in time were gains thereby.

CLASS WHICH WE ARE STILL

OFFERING AT

[A previous cable osage stated that the London Daily Express on Thursday last pub- A Boer commande vombering sixty zuen has lished 's report that the Oceanis Steamship Com have firmed up, and are in strong request at been raiding in the Sonth Darling distriot in 8353 Indo-Chinas have weakened, and are Cape Colony 15 the object of obtaining fresh any was urging the British postal authorities PER CASE QUARTS

to abandon the Boez route for the Australan horses, and als, pasishing the Dutch residents mails in favour of the acute vid San Francisco, obtainable at $145. China and Manilas are quiet at 3321. Douglases have sold at $47. for their lukewarm support of the Boerse the maile could be delivered five days quicker Star Ferries are offering at 824 for the old, and Capetown Guards have been sont to the locality by the route.] 39 for the new issues. Shell Transports have to repel the raiders. further improved and are now salable at

2. 178, 6d.

KUPPOSED TREACHERY. Information has been received that a patrol

THE CAPTURED MISSIONARY,

London, 12th November. The Bulgarian Government is reported to REFINERIES-China Sugars continue quiet of the District Mounted Police was attacked be retarding the relays of Miss Stone (the at Sel. Luzons under a continued enquiry and worsted at Jansenville by an insignificant American missionary who was seized in Mace- have jumped to $26.

force of Boers. A similar case has occurred at donia some two muutks ago, and has since been MINING-Panjoms have sold at $5, and Somerset East, in the Central district of Cape held captive for the purpose of exacting a are now obtainable at $5. Charbonnages Colony, and these incidents suggest that there ransom of £25,000) by trying to compel her have been placed at $325, and are now has been treachery on the part of some of the captors to take refuge in Turkish territory. quoted at $350. Jelebus are still offering at men in the British force. In the latter case; They thereby hope to addle the Sultan with 41. Raubs have declined to 813 with sellers. the officer in command, who was an office of the burden of paying compensation for the

DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNS.-Hong- the regular army, had most of the horses shot kong and Whampoa Docks have ruled very in order to prevent the Boers capturing them. dull and close with sellers at $200. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves can be obtained at $06. New Amoy Docks are wanted at 825.

THE AFRIKANDER BOND.

outrage.

The United States Government have inli

PINTS

SOLE AGENTS-

$47.00

$40.00

H. PRICE & CO.

12. QUEEN'S ROAD.

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London, 13th November. PIANO PLAYING Reports from Capetown state that a number mated that they will hold Bulgaris rasponsible EXTRAORDINARY of prominent members of the Afrikander Boud for the safety of the American lady missionary, LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong- ure now covering their convection with that Miss Stone, and her companion, who were re kong Lands have sold at $195, and are further organisation, declaring that the Bond leaders santly kidnapped in Macedonia, and have sluce obtainable at the rate. Kowloon Lands can have misled the country and betrayed their been held for ransom. be purchased at $34. West Points are in the followers. There are now indications of s market to a small extent at $65. Hongkong strong revulsion of feeling among those who Hotels, efter slow $140 for the settlement, have hitherto supported the Bond. are now offering at $189. Orientes can pro bably be placod at $56. Humphreys Estates are wanted at $133, but are not obtainable under $14.

COTTON MILLS-Hongkong Cottons have declined to $1éj at which shares can be obtained. Ewos are somewhat lower at The. 44. sellera,

ABREST OF MISS HOBHOUSE.

Further details of the arrest of Miss Emily Hebhouse at Capetown show that she was not allowed by the authorities to land, but was con- ducted on beard a returning steamer.

Adelaide, 18th November. PRÁISH FOR AUSTRALIANS.

ANYONE CAN PLAY THE MOST

DIFFICULT MUSIC WITH OUR

AUSTRIAN CLAING AGAINST TURKEY.

London, 19th November. The Porte bas.agreed to settle the claims. made against Turkey by the Austrian Govern- ment, including the leave sustained by Antriane PIANO PLAYERS. in connection with the maanatros in Armenig

UNDERGROUND TEANWAYS IN LONDON.

London, 18th November. The London County Council have, décided to dopt a system of shallow underground tram- ways in the main atzeale of the metropolis, in order to minimise the congestion to trafilo.

THE GUN EXPLOSION.

London, 19th November. Additional details have, been received of the

MISCELLANEOUR-Green Island Cements Cape cables state that Lord Kitchener has are quiet with sellers at $2 A, 8. Watsons highly praised the conduct of the Adelxide fifth have sold at $15 Electrics can te procured it contingent during recent fighting in which 318 for the old and $64 for the new issues. they showed distinguished bravery.

•** QUIFECENT" DE WET. Ropes are quiet at $175, and Toes at $195. providents have sold at 39 and ere still wanted. has been retired respecting the movements of olan battleship Root Sorreisn, off Astakos, Tramways can still be placed at 9986, China Cape cables state that authentic information recent disastrous gun accident on board the first- Tobacco Trusts have sold at $50. Manila the mysteriously quiescent De Wet. It is statin Greece. The weapon which exploded was a Investments are 5 toring at 947.

ed that he has been basily preparing for some 6 in. quickfirer, and not one of the big 13 in. Mazo-Dairy Farm Company, Limited, time, and is now almost in readiness to under guns, as at first stated. After the misfire the extraordinary general meeting to-morrow, the take, a vigorous cffensive campaign against armourer opened the breech to withdraw the 14th inst.

the British.

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