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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, 1901

A. S. WATSON & CO. profession. On the 5th ult, it badan article

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Successful amateur theatricals have been, Lgiven in Penang. The piece was entitled £100 000,

H.M. raleer Amphitrite, Capt W. 8: Tons, CB., WAR aspect on the 21st alt. at Chathiz by Bear-Adm. B. C. Holland. Sho left on the

Cértalaterations in the numbering of || houses in storis and Kowloon aré notified in the Gazette.

been placed on the retired list with the rank of Commander Bir Bourchiar R. 8. Wrey kne

22nd and proceeded direct to Partements to Captain, to date lat. Novomber,

complete her complement of ratings for the China station.

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is, ordinarily, one of the best conducted and soberest of French provincial joumale. Its leading articles, signod as is unal. in all reputable French newspapers, are penned by men who are deservedly eminent in their

over the initials L. 8., entitled" La Plus Grande Angleterre." The practised writer makes fullest use of all the literaty weapons

The Akatsuki, the seventh 3-knot destroyer, of vituperative rhetoric, but his production built by Messrs. Yarrow and Co. for the positively bristles with the gressest mis- Japanese. Government, six of which have al statements and the most scurrilus neperdy made the voyage to Japan under their sions. Thus the rearguard attack, in which COLONEL BENSON lost his life, is called a defeat more calamitous than any that pre-speed. coded it! Boer officers, captured armed, are stated to be shot almost daily, the reason alleged being that since we have annexed the two republics, the burghers are now revolted SEASON.subjects. This is one of those foul and filthy

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Devonshire men in Calenita wore to extertain Mr. Jessa Collings, M.P., at dinner on the 17th instant, at the Bengal Obat ber of Commerce.

On the 13th inst, a public meeting in the Singapore Town Hall enthusiastically and own steam, successfully passed her official tria] [unanimously carried the solutions in conner- on the 21st alt., exsily obtaining the contracttion with the Victoria Memorial Hall.

At a meeting of the East India Association on the 2nd inst. Sir Lapal Griffin strongly disapproved of Bishop Welldon's desire to intro- duce religious education in India, and cnied that Christianity could give a higher ethical

ereed than the oried of a very laży majority of Indiaris.

Damage to the extent of $1,600 was opused by afro which occurred in a house in Kowloon City. A warrant for the scisure of opium was being executed in the house when an exciso officer accidentally set fire to a jacket and that in turn to some straw. Erentually the whole building was destroyed.

According to a telegram received in Ilong- kong, the marine officers, masters and mutes, sailing from Singapore have struck work for a higher rate of pay, and it is mid the officers are using their influence at the various pors in China and India to prevent the ship-onors from obtaining marine officers to fill the vacant places.

A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News. dated Yentsiahsien, Hona, 16th December, says:-Their Majesties arrived from Hsistion yesterday afternoon (15th) at 3.30 o'clock, precisely, and remained her overnight,. This

A well-to-do Chinman, one of the principal riokaha owners in Singapore, has been banished for three years for the share he took in the recent ricksha-pullers' strike in that town.

TELEGRAMS.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 19th December. SOUTH AFRICA. - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has been opened.

The Delago Bay railway has been opened to civil trafic.

AMERICA AND CHINESE TEAS. The Washington correspondent of the Morning Post states that the United States Administration will probably ask Congress to repeal the duty on Chinese teas. ATTEMPTED PRO-BOER MEETING AT

BIRMINGHAM-STORMY SCENES.

Mr. David Lloyd-George, Liberal Member fox Carnarvon, was compelled to abandon his The following appointment has been an- nounced at the Admiralty-Assistant Engineer.it was intended to hold at the Birmingham announced speech at a pro-Boer meeting which a. F. U. Moore, lent to the Amphitrite for Town Hall The immense crowd which had collated broke all the windows in the building, any persons were injured. Mr. Lloyd-George and in the charge of polios which followed, escaped disguised as a policomani

voyage out and home, to date 18th November.

Ramdyal Cotton Mills, Howrah, Catentta. A great fire took place on the 3rd inst, at the

The mills were almost totally destroyed; and the damages are estimated at four lakhs. Tus mills were fully insured.

The death is announced from Labuan of Mr. W. Hardie on the 2nd inst. Mr. W. Hardie was the brother of Mr. John Hardie, well- known in the Far East as once connected with the Borneo Co, Ld, with the Borneo. Minerals Co., and now the agent of de Bajau of Serawak in Labean. Mr. W. Hardie rosided in Laba some five years and was 70 years old when be died.

News from Acheeń says that the Dutch in paretit of the titular Sultan of the country have traversed Aobeen fromeast to west brongh unexplored land. The Sultan escaped espture, but is reported to have been slain in an

fashion. The Sultan's men were defeated in two actions when they left 45 dead on the field. The Datch loss was slight

LONDON, 19th December. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS BAW-CAPTAIN OF GERMAN STEAMER COMMITTED TO PRISON.

weight for inch scale in fores in India and the Halay Peninsula, víz, 3 lbs., for each quarter of

Inck, and you are also aware of the un- animous decisión arrived at by the owners of this year's subscription ponies (to which, I presume, you attach some weight) vis, that to bring walar ponies of different heights together, the sole should be 21ba, for pach quarter of an inch and not Sibs per inch. That decision s regards the weight for itches to bring waler ponies of different heights together must, I subunit, surely apply with equal force to all water poules, whether imported, this year or last or any year, until it has been found to be #mcorroot scale, and that another should be adopted, when it will, I submit, be question to be discussed by you with the owners of poniex.

If yes, gentlemen, mangof whom were pre- sent at the meeting of authoribers at which the decision I have alluded to was arrived at, in- fondeal that the 3lbs. per quarta inch slo should not apply to last year e ponies, why could you not then have so informed the meeting 2lbs par quarter inch scale was intended to be and dispelled the general impressich that the applied and would applied to sort raos tion of the matter until now meeting generally, instead of making no men-

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who were present at suck meeting of subscribers, I have enquired of several of the members and one and all say that they most certainly decision then arrived at would be applied understood that the sole according to the throughout next meeting to all waler pony races. Sarely it must be apparout to you that a ponalty only 3lbs, per tech must give an undue advantage to animals ranging from 14.3 to perhaps 157 over ponies of 14.2 and under. So far as the scale itself goes, it is unknown. anteide Hongkong. Under such a scale, a horge of 151 heads would allow a popy of 14 hands 1lbs, only say the 14-handa pony carried 19.7 The captain of the Norddeutscher Lloyd the 15 hands horse wall carry 11.5, quite steamer Neckar has been fined £25 at Free insufficient, I submit, to bring them together, mantle for contravening the new Customs class.

asuring both were fair specimens of their by breaking, while voyaging botwock I ask you, before you adhere to the programame Australian porte, seals placed upon ship's stores you have drawn up, to give the owners of by the Customs officials. The fias not having ponies an opportunity of meeting you and been paid, he has been committed to prison until discussing the question. In order to meet

the

question for the next meeting. I venture to make the following suggestion:- payment is made.

That of the seven races to be reserved on sach of the two first days of the meeting for waler ponies, fite be reserved arolusively for Hong- kong walar ponies of this season.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH

AFRICA.

Two thousand Yeomanry have been ordered

including Wines from the most dubbed a cemetery, and Ceylon some morsing there was heavy fog, and at 10 o'clock. engagement-porhaps after the Mat Salleh to be raised immediately, and despatched to the `]

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thing worse and this by the people who own Devil's Island! Dr. JAMESON and his raiders are pirates, who should have been lang bigh and short. The whole South African Army, from its Commander-in-Chief down to the simple private, is pilloried with taunts and gibes, and insultingly held up to nameless scoru and ridicule. The Boers are set down as poor and simple." The Creusoh factories could give eloquent testimony that their poverty is an untruth: and, as to their simplicity, the Government Blue Book on the working of the Refugee Camps in South

ceased. a gale aress which towards night has not yet weather experienced on the 13th-the day before the departure from Kaiffug. Yster- day's wonther however was quite clear and wild, which was most fortunate for their Majesties

The cold is severe; similar to the

comfort.

The Netherlands Trading Society has began building operations preliminary to sterling in business at Palo Way. Half a million of guilders will be spent by it at the outset. Optimists faner that Pals Way has a bright future before it, owing to so many men-of-war calling there, The singar feature of this, the Straite writes the correspondent of Times, is that it is not Dutch but foreign war vessels that profit by the coaling advantages offered by Sabang Bay, the port of the island French and Italian ships were among the most ides that these foroignors must have been

Cape during January and February next.

Six more Militia battalions have been em bodied.

LONDON, 2014 December.

TRIAL OF SCHEEPERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

The trial of Commandant Scheepers, has commenced at Graaf-Reinet, Thirty charges, of murder, arson, train-wrecking, and cruelty to prisoners, are brought against him.

DAILY CAPTURES.

The daily capture of Boers continues.

LORD ROSEBERY'S SPEECH. The Right Honourable H. H. Asquith,

Of the remaining two, one to be reserved for Hongkong water pouies of this and lust. Benson at the 2 lbs. per quarter inch scale, ponies of this season receiving an allowance of kay 5 lbs. winners at the meeting to carry a penalty.

That the other race should be open to Hong- Long and Shanghai enbecription ponies of any season, pontos of this season receiving an all- owance of 5 lbs., and if you are determined to try an experiment in the weight for inch scale at Sibs. per inch, you can do so in this

taco.

Owners of Hongkong subscription ponies of last season can, if my suggestions are adopted, select one or other of such two races in which to run hair pouies or run them in: both, whilst owners of Shanghai griffing man have no cause to grumble, since in Shanghai the inch alss, soch a programme could not be scale ribe per weight for inch

A. S. WATSON & CO. Africa, from which we gave long extracts attention hitherto has has devoted to this recent arrivals. Pessimists maka mach of the K.C., Liberal Member for Fife, speaking at reasonably objected to by any owner of a sab.

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BIRTH. On the 20th December, at Kanfurly, Conduit Boad, Hongkong, the wife of F. A. WEEDT, of a daughter.

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on Friday. Inst, convincingly proves that Crass unpardonable gorauce would be an apter description. We are further told, & la vérité absolue, that the women and chil- dren of both hemispheres glory in the slightest Boer success, and devoutly with for our final and utter discomfiture Even the recent unsuccessful and insane attempt on

We have received the prospectas of a book shortly to be published, by Mr. C. A. Montalto de Josus, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Socisty of Lisbon. Those acquainted with Mr. de Jesus's writings will readily guess that the subject is Macao. Historic Macao, as its author calls it, will be a record of our Porta gnean neighbour since its foundation. Little branch of history, although a Mr. de Jesus points out, for three centuries Macao stood as a unique breach in the Chinese exclusivista which to effectually withstood the pressure of s sive rulers of the deep. To uphold that exceptional position," he continues in his pre- face, to tide over an ever pracarions situstion, hard indeed was the struggle of the Portuguese against a rumpant mundariuđom as wel as against the ambitious designs of several mari time powers; whilst far-reaching were the penalties of a martyr-like spousal of Rome's though ill-requited loyalty towards Portugal, cause in the Far East, and of on unswerving

under circumstances which verily constitate the reverse of Montesquieu's sping, Heure le peuple dont historie est ennuyeure." We hall wait with interest the publication, of Mr. de Jesus's book.

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spying out the defencelesmess of the island,

with the intention of profting by it at the flest oppportunity. The Government has taken the alarm, and has set about starting defensive works there. Great preparations are on foot to beat off invaders, pad to maintain Dutch neutrality in time of war. Heavy artillery is on the way to Sabang Bay. Artillerymen have already been despatched thither. The garrison at presont consists of a small detachment of infantry.

Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited, held at the At an extraordinary gemoral meeting of Bell's

London Offices of the Company, on the 3rd inst. the subjoined resolutions, which were passed at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company on the 18th November, were submitted for confrmation as special resolu- tions: That the Capital of the Company be reduced from £10,000, divided into 10,000 shares of £1 sach, to £5,377 10 01., divided into 3,604 shares of 12s. 6d. each, and that such

Wolverhampton, unreservedly endorsed the

speech at Chesterfield.

LONDON, 20th December.

scription pony of this season, as, if my recollec

views expressed by Lord Rosebery in his recent tion serve me right, nothing well said as to six races per diem being reserved exclusively for such subscription ponies. Five were, "I think, mentioned, and the probable number of runners in order to procure good Helda, will sourcely warrant more than dvo moes being so exclusively reserved, to which would be added the option of entering in two other races with an allowance.

MARQUIS ITO'S TOUR. Marquis Ito has arrived at Bimsala,

THE EGANDA RAILWAY. The rails of the Uganda Railway have been laid to the Victoria Nyanza,

CORRESPONDENCE.

On the third day, one race can, ne on the two now Boription ponies of this and last season and the previous daya, be confined to Hongkong sub-

We do not prided by our correspondente.1

opinions expressed

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS."

Hongkong, 21st December, Sir,--As a convenient means of enabling me to communiste to the members of the Hong. kong Jockey Clab the contents of a letter I addressed to the Stewards of the Club on

handicap be open to Shanghal and Hongkong subscription penies (of any season), the haudi- cap to be published in the weighing room after the snoezd day's racing and to appear in the evening papers. I am, gentlemen, yours faithfully.

(81) Godfrey 0. C. Master,

RATS AND PLAGUE.

the part of Duch dock labourers to organise a boycott of our mercantile marine, in foreign ports, ie lugged in as a make-wright at the close. The entire article, over a column in length. is informed and palpitates with hatred of the bitterest and most concentrated Dature. The profound antipathy that this **nation of robbers inspires, on all sides, is u chimera. Formerly, England was "not loved, although she was feared. ** SALISBURY and CHAMBERLAIN

The report to be submitted at the annual bave managed the matter so well that the the City Hall this afternoon at 4'o'clock, shows meeting of shareholders in and subscribari to "whole world hates her, while

fears her

ne that a new Committeerman has to be elected in reduction be effected by cancelling capital | Monday last, the 16th instant, I beg to send by your correspondent "A Easident," "ono

say longer." Such place of Hoa H. E. Pollock, K. C., resigned. is a literal transistion of the last In repairs and alterations the sum of $703.14 On the 16th November, at Lahad Datu Estate, Phases of the article. Yet it is tame was spent apou the City Hall building, during compared with the malignant calumnies, the yar ended 30th June last. The number of written and pictured, in the gutter-press performances in the Theatre exceeded all of the Paris boulevards. How then can previous records, the audiones drawn by the we believe BARON DE CONSTANT when be various entertainments being much in excom of assures as we are not hated? The wels of average sonsons, sud had it not been for the death of our lamented Queen, which for a time continental opinion have been deliberately checked the gaiety of the season, this receipts poluted. Happily, we have no need to draw from them..

would have been far above the average. The erperditure on repairs was not heavy. As to the Library, it continued to be increasingly oppreciated and the experiment of kop

Or the 7th December, at St. George's Church, Poning, by the Eev. F. W. Haines, BA, Colonial Chaplain, WILLIAN STUART DUNN, Assistant Municipal Engineer, Penang, to Lizze (Dot), third daughter of Capt. E. Bradbery, Harbour Maator, Penang.

DEATH.

B. N. Borneo, L. Qerave Jovevs, of favoz,

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CI, LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.

HONGKONG, 23rd December, 1991.

LORD ROSEBERY's remarkable Chesterfield speech will, we imagine, when full reports

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " DAILY PEESS.” kett, the Hongkong, 23rd December. BIE-It must have been with no small séusO of satisfaction that the muguilty of your readers noted on Saturday last that you did not hold yourself responsible for the opinion expressed

which has been lost or is unrepresented by you enclosed a copy of such latter, which I

When he ushes into print and dictatorially available assets to the extent of £1,443 17s. 6d. would ask you to kindly publish in the colntons declares that there is no sonpection between rais on the 1,396 shares in the Company which have of your next issue, My sense for troubling and plague, one is very forcibly reminded that been forfeited, and to the extent of £2,751158.01. you is that I think the subject of my letter of fools rush in where angels fear to tread: If being 7a. 6d. per share) on the remaining 7,838 sufficient interest to members of the Hongkong allowed to stand uncorrected, "A Resident a" issued shares in the Company, and by extin. Jockey Club and others who take an interest in letter might mislead some of your renders with guishing the said 1,396 forfeited shares and racing matters to warrant my publishing it. I a lighter knowledge of medical matters than A Resident" appears to possess-presuming reducing the nominal amount of each of the may add that up to the time of writing this my remaining 7,338 issued shares and of the letter remains wholly unacknowledged. Thank 12s. 6d. Ing you in anticipation, I beg to remain, Sir,- 1266 unissued shares from 1 to 2. That the following Artids be inserted in Yours, etc..

GODFREY C. 0. MASTER. the Company's Articles of Association after Article 8:-"Ba. Upon any offer of shares to

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Hongkong, 16th December,

that such a thing were possibles

Now, Sir, I will as you to persuade your didactic correspondent to dissest a rat that has recently died during the height of a plague. season- let him remove the spleen, ont it in half and smear on a glass slide some of the serous

the public for subscription the Company (or the To the Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Club, fluid to be obtained from it, having done this let

The Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, K.C., hasing it open in the evening might be said of it come to hand, be found to be one which be elected a member of the Church Body, to be quite a success The Free Lending Directors on behalf of the Company) may pay | may be rightly called epoch-making. vice Nr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., resigned. After temporary withdrawal from public It is notified in the Oazeite that Thursday, life he again emerges, and with something the 2nd prax.. will be observed as a public more than Punch's merry-thought to add holiday, in addition to the 25th and 26th inst. to the political consommé. His frankly and the lat prox. rigorous denunciation of the traitorous conduct of so many Irish Nationaliste, and

In connection with the wale by public auction at 2-30 p.m. to-day in the sales rooms of Mr.

his absolute repudiation of all alliance with Gec. P.. Lammert, special attention is called to teresting specimens have boer sided, including nominal amount of the shares. The Company ther that in two of such free races the weight mich misleading, statements from him in the

that party of odds and ends, are significant tokous that, at last, Liberals are awake to the vital fact that mere party strife should be quak in times of national tribulation. Mr. AsQUITH, SIE EDWARD Gery and LORD ROSEBERY, during the past two years, have sach and all given unmistakable evidence of genuine imperialistic instincta, as opposed to the petty parochial influences that have characterised the shiftless policy of the accredited Liberal leader and his

the very fine silver inlaid and silver ground cloacaued and Makudie ware that will come under the hammer.

The crow, 27 in number, of a junk which was run down and sank by the s.8. Idzuma Maru about two days' sail north of Hongkong bave been brought into the port and handed over to the care of the Registrar General Facape was effected by the boats, and all were saved.

Collection attracted a number of rosdere, bet a

a commission to any person in consideration of Gentlemen-On Friday Last, I heard that a him requests medical friend to stain the speci Letter supply of books is urgently needed his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether draft programe had been drawn up for the men suitably and examins it microscopically Sixty-two is at present the number of borrowers, absolutely or conditionally, for any shares in the forthcoming Race Meeting, and that of the 10 and there will be found an almost pars culture

races per diem included in mola programme 7 and the Collection now includes 382 books Company, or procuring or agreeing to procure were to be reserved for waler ponies on each of of plague bacilli. This proceeding would pro- The number of visitors to the Library during subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, the first and second days of the meeting and 6 hably serve two purposes---

́ (1) "A Benidout" unless he took unitable pre- the 12 months was 19,050 not-Chinese and for any shares in the Company, provided that on the third day

That of thers 20° racer only thres

would be 6,097 Chinese-more than doable last year's the rate per cent of the commission shall numbers Begarding the Museum, savural in-

not exesed the rate of 10 per cent, in the open to Hongkong anbscription ponics of last cautions would probably disprove to his owa

BOSBON, and that each of such three races were parmon his assertion. aleo open to Shanghai aabstription ponies; fur- (2.) There would probably be a timely and to gifts from His Excellency Sir H. A. Blake,

or the Directors. behalf of the Company, G.C.M.G., Capt. F. Wall, Mears. E. 9. Perdita may also, on any issue of shares, pay such for inch scale was to be caly S lbs. per inch futuro Yours, etc.

(fractions of an inch preniably counting in

*ONE WHO HAS CARRIED OUT W. Goldenborg, Lee Lin Shang, C. H. Gale, brokerage as may be lawful. 3. That in favour of the pony), remaining event being a

THE ABOVE EXPERIMENT."-- A. P. Samy, H. P. Tooker, R. O. Edwards Article 78 of the Company's Articles of As handicap.

Bubsequent onquiries made of two of your. M. de Jesus and Basil Taylor. It is much to ociation, for the words " shares of the Company be regretted that lack of spas and funds and of the nominal value of "there shall be number confimed what I had heard. A remarkable fustance of a treasure trove I would set you, gentlemen, before publish• haa ocentred in the Asiatic archipelago just of Reientific supervision prevent the develop substituted 100 shares of the Companying the progeninine, to as yourselves if you on Cheshmish, in the province of Smyrne, ment of the Museum, while the ravages of the

are not, according to the programme as at near the island of Chics. In the year 1770 climate reader it difficult to keep the specimens

present framed, treating owners of Hongkong battle took place at this spot between a Russian subscription ponies of last season with a great and 'a Turkish fiest, in which the Russians, in good condition. The Masum is, however,

want of consideration, and whether this want who were commanded by an Englishman, i much appreciated by visitors to the Coley, be cancelled.

of consideration is not likely to prve very ficted surer defeat on the Turks. However, both Chinese and non-Chinese, the number of

detrimental to racing in the fature in Hong- they sustained some damage themselves, and immediate following. That LORD BOSE- November shows a total of 24 in the European

The return of deaths in the Colony during visitors during the 12 months ander redew

kong by holding out to our no inducement among offers their treasure ship (according to BEET's rallying attitudo has arrested and foreign community (civilians 28, Army 5, being non-Chinese 9,047 and Chinese 106,172

ponies which have shown fair form. Surely About to years ago some sponge-Labors over for the next year's rare meeting some authorities their flagship) was sunk. to keep continental attention is abundantly shown Navy 1) and 408 in the Chinese community. 114 The balance in the bands of the Hon. Treasurers

owners of last year'a subscription ponies | brought to the surface some relies of this by BARON DESTOFENELLES DE CONSTANT'S deaths were das to chest affections (10 in the when the accounts up to 30th June, 1901, vers

who have kept them for many months at battle, such as swords, gans, and plecos of open letter to him-alluded to in our European and foreign community) and 42 to closed, was $3,019,98, showing a gain on the

considerable expense are entitled to be able to gold. The news reached the Admumlty at enter their ponies in more than one race per Constantinople, and the Rahermen were in- London Correspondent's telegram dated the radarial fever The principle averages in the year's working of $2,291.55. Most of the

diam, and not to have to always mest the pick trusted to conduct a therongh, soszch, with a 19th inst.stating that opinion on the con- different registration districts were-British (balance carried forward has since been expended

of the Shaogasi subscription griflus, which, I promise of 15 per cent, on all they found.” The believe, originally members from 70 to 80, 411 search has just hoon ompleted and thonsaadus tinent is insphed, not by hatred of Great and foreign community civil, 35.1 per 1,000 on repairs and improvements. The reservo

of which were entered and whose height of bone, some quantity of gold ballion, але Britain, but by hatred for the war. This per annum, Chinese, Victoria, land 19.1, har fund on fixed deposit with the Hongkong and

1. Correspondence relative to 21, East Street, rauges up to 15 hands,

Ky zmy, trájumble” articks, bars, heat resoned, bou 10.8; Chinese, whole colony, and 18.3, Shanghai Bank is #13,642,55, upon which astounding assertion is difficult, if not quite boat 12.1, land and boat 17.4 whole divil com interest amounting to 3541.70 had scored ups Mortably Billado or this Colony for sub oor you propose an allowance of only 3 ing

2. Fortnightly lime-washing return, seja, Again, as to the conditions of weight for Among other things the cicily jewelled bind- Bble has come to light, though the impossible, to believe. The Lyon Republicam muilty, 13.0.

to 24th June, 1901.

the weeks ended December 7th a 14th, 1901271 Iba per inch. Why no You are aware of the unges, af ree have long been destroyed.

Tant in Article 124 of the Company's Articles of Association, the words "made up to date not more than four months before the meeting

HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD. Amooting of the Board will be held to-day, Monday, 23rd December, at 4.15 p.m.

ORDRES OF THƐ DAT.

L Amendment of Drainage Byelaw No. 30% 2 Fourth Report of the Quarterly Inspection Committee.

G.A. WooDOGÓK, Brorstory. AGENDA, Sta