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SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 11th May,

IN SUMMARy JurisdictTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCOME SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE).

A COMPRADORE'S CLAIM.

Yan Wo Tong Sing, compradors, 75 Queen's Road East, sed A. Hanart, 43, Das Vox Central, for $137.50), boing money due for pro- visious gold and delivered. Mr. P. W. Goldring, solicitor, of Mr. J. Hustings's office, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. F. Pagot Hett. solicitor, of Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton's office. for the defendant,

POLICE COURT,

Wolnesday, 11th May. BEFORE ME. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE).

A GAME OF POKER.

As a commission was taken on the game, Mr. Mr. Goldring in his aponing address stated Gompertz convicted the defendants. He fined that defendunt was manager of a cigar the house-keeper $25, and the rest $3. Factory near the kerosene works. Plaintiffa

compradores. Tu March last Gabina called at the plaintiffs"

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shop and ordered parisions for the use of the factory people. The plaintiffs were doubtful regarding Cabina's standing in the factory, and une of the firm went down to see Mr. Hart, who said he wanted the provisions supplied. Plaintifs thereafter delivered provisions every morning to Clubina, who called for them, as per

The question was, whether Hanart was respon. sible for the debt./

BMOKE NUISANCE.

Mr. Bridger, acting manager of the Electric Light Co., again appeared in auswer to a charge of "smoke nuisance." He said that he had boon unable to ahate it, within prescribed time be The new machinery would be cut soon. cans the Company had had some break-downs.

In consideration of the very long notice which had been given the Company to abate the nuisance Mr. Gompertz said he would levy

A TROUBLESOME SERVANT.:

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 12тn, 1904.

FIRE BRIGADE METHODS,

In view of the agitation which has been started by local contemporary with roference to the improvement of the Hongkong Fire Brigade, u correspondent sonds us the following interesting cutting from the San Francisco Argonaut :~~

THE FILTHIEST TOWN

ON EARTH,

A most vivid and striking description is given by the Times special correspondent with the Tibet Mission of the town of Phari, throngli which the mission passed on its way to Gyangtae. It is so graphic that it would be a pity to out it down, and consequently wo give it in full. The writer says:-

In

KODAKS! KODAKS!! KODAKS!!!

AND

PHOTO GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. We have an Establishment Solely devoted to

DEVELOPING AND PRINTING

or Amateurs, where we turn out work of the best description and with great promptness.

port.

LONG, HING & CO.,

Hongkong, 10th Mürel, 1904

BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND MOROCCO.

A GERMAN VIEW.

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17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

(Fow Doors East of Hongkong Hotel

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The Taksang from Bangkok brought 1,700 tons of rice from Messrs. Jordine, Matheson & Co.

The Carl Menzell arrived from Nowchwang yesterday with eargo for the East Asiatic Trading Co.

STEAMER MOVEMENTS. Tho C.P.R. steamer Empress of India ar

A number of Chinawoon were charged with

"Chief Sullivan, of the San Francisco Fire gambling at a house in Possession Street. Department, has reported to the board of They said they were playing poker, the santo as supervisors that the city is desperately in noed The beadquarters mess with the mission in- foreigners, with European cards. When the of three hundred more hydrants and many water cludes several men whose experience of the cards were dealt out four cards of each hand mains. What happened to Balthaore may easily outlying places of the world it would be difficult were turned face upards; one earl face down-happen to San Francisco, he says, with con- to equal round another table. But by coinmon wards. Four aces were, according to their ditions as they now exist. His statomont can consent Plari is the filthiest town on earth. rules, reckoned of greater value than a "Royal not lo donied. Ho should get his hydrants. This is a charge so freqently unde that it Flash."

More water mains should be laid, Morcover, | may be worth whilo justifying the right of the city of San Francisco certainly ought to Phari to the position. But first lot it be said in have a complete system of auxiliary high-press-fairness that there are more than a few reasons

A German correspondent writes to us-- sure pipes. Until it has anch a system, it will why, rucial peculiaritios apart, the inhabitants of

During the last nine months, every now and not be secure from a great conflagration. Not this town are of necessity dwellers in dirt. only would such a system prevent great fires, the first place, with the exception of Quito, which tea, a report was circulated that Bagland and rived at Vancouver at 750 nm, on the 10th

Linst. but it would tower insurance rates so that overy is on the actual equator, Phari, at a height of Franco had come to an agreement about a

French protectorate over Morocco, The Intest the 10th inst., and may be expected here on the The P. & A. steamer Indrapura loft. Moji on man who carries insurance would be the gainer. 15,000ft, is probably the highest town that is The city of New York, situated very much worthy of the name in the world. The cold is

rersion is that Englund was geing to concede 15th inst. io France a full supremacy in Moraven undor | The Indo-China steamer Kumsang loft Cal- as in San Francisco, is preparing to install a consequently foarfal, a nightly temperature

the condition that Tangiers and its surround culta for this port tie the Straits on the 7th salt-water system. The pros and cons of the ranging in this month rather downwards than

inst, and may to expected here on the 23rd iziot. subject have been threshed ont in the news-upwards from--3ileg. F. being oftou joined withings should be declared neutral territory. We The P. & U. steamer Tientsin left Singapore papers. To the chief objection that salt water merciless grit-ladon cold wind from the north.

connot assign much erodibility to this bit og ❘ for this port on the 10th inst., sai 6 am, corrodes pipes, engineers agree in replying that. Cold is admittedly an excuse for dirt, Imt it is

For it is obvious that a neutralisation The O.S.S. & C.M. steamer Agamemnon, Wass-book. At the end of the month they ask. I tiny of $66-that was at the rate of $10 per while this is trae of ordinary pipes, linings of not cold caly that palliates the filth of Phari. treaty about Tangiers would have no practical from Pacific coast via Japan, is dus here on the

27th inst. from Moji. ed Hanart for payment, and he said he had paidiem since the expiration of the extended notice. cepper, galvanised iron, or enamel are sufficiently At this altitude the last exertion brings on

valne for England if Franca established bersulf Gabina overy week. Gabina had disappeared

as mistress of the whole. Sultanate around this resistant for all practical purposes. Captain breathlessness and apathy. To put on a pair of

The Suez Canal is neutral" by Albert Ross, Government inspector of navy boots out gaiters is often a serious exertion for colliers, urges that the linings be of bronze, the newcomer, and it is not perhaps to be er. Morcorer, according to New York's tentativo pected that the good people of Phari should go plans, there will be salt water in the mains out of their way to secure by unwelcome activity

there is શ only when

fire Fira-engines sanitation and a cleanliness which appoul to will be useless. It is proposed to have one them as little as to oller Tibstaue. Indeed, it moro central pumping-stations con. may be that uny others of that uncleanly race or nected with the commercial electric power would under similar circumstances attain an house of the city. On the alarm of fire, the equal degree of dirt. The absence of trees, motors would instantly be set in motion, and compelling the wretched people here to the argol or dried yak dung as their only fuel, is salt water under tremendous pressure. Phil. another contributory cause. The heavy grea-y delphia already has a system of high-pressure blue finnes of those fires cost the interior of the fira mains. One station takes the place of squat heases with a layer of seat which it would forty engines and delivers six streams from be-aseless labour to remove, Water is almost every hydrant at a far greater pressure than six zon-existent, except during the molting of the engines could throw the same amount of water. snow, and, so far at least as the women are The power is supplied by gas-engines, and the concerned, the dirt which seams their faces is maintenance of the $250,000-plant costs $11,000 not perhaps unwelcome, as a stern law compels a month. Cleveland uses two fra-boats, which tho disfigurement with kutch (or raddle rosem- force water from the river into a system of maning bling dried blood) of the brows and cheeks of at a pressure of two hundred and fifty pounds to all married women in Tibet. the square iach. Each firo-boat equals in otheiency ton engines. Two and a half inch streams have been thrown five hundred feet from the top of the Wüluson Building. It is sixteen stories high!

His Lordship, after hearing evidence, found that defendant was not the principal in the contract, and gave judgment in his favour with costs.

MANILA NOTES.

Manila, 6th May,

JUSTING ROMAN CATHOLICY. The Fenafrancia Church case is causing con-

Mr. Haynes, mazarer of the Hongkong Hotel, charged a boy with leaving without notico. The boy was fined $10 and also to forfeit April's

wages.

THIEVING RICKSHA-COOLIE.

Two Chinese women hired a rieksha. After driving soue distance they ordered a halt, and while in a store the ricksha-man cleared off with

a basket of clothes belonging to them. Six

weeks' and six hours' stocks.

siderablo interest hura. Eight ren are charged BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE the mains filled with an unsuited supply of

MAGISTRATE).

CUBICLES.

NOT A BIG RASUAL.

with illegally aiding, tolerating, and abetting in an action to force an entrance into tho church at Penafrancia, and forced un entrance For not removing certain cubicles in con- and occupied the house by force, without formity with the new ordinance several Chinese fega! riglat and deposed the parish were punished. One was fined $50, two $25, priest and his communicants. The Fenafrancia and several others nonnal suras. Mr. Almada church has been the scene of several e Castro, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the uncounters recently, the natives, especi- two that wore fined $25. ally the Aglipay faction, baring made repeated efforts to cccupy the property and to oust the Roman Catholics from the building without process of law and by fores. Among the witnesses was one women who testified that she was one hundred and ten years old, that she had

The Hindoo got off, but the dwarf was con. been a comunicant of the church all her life,victed and sentonced to six weeks' hard labour. that it had been dedicated to the Roman Catholic Church, and that they had never had any trouble in church matters until after the mun Aglipay was heard from, when his followers attempted to take the property by force.

AGUINALDO.

Emilio Aguinaldery Famy, former general of the insurgent army and erstwhile president of the Filipino Republic, is, according to the United States papers, planuing a visit to the United States this summer. The reported visit

is published in the Los Angeles Times, stating that a citizen of that town has received a letter from Aguinaldo to the affect that he will risit the S. Louis exposition in the mouth of July, that he will call at Washington and will also tour the principal cities of the United States. His risit will have no politicul significance.

FRIAI LANDI.

The net of the Commission known as "The Friar Land Act," providing for the administra tion and temporary leasing and sale of the Friar lands, has loven received in this city. It provides that actual suttlers and accupants of the loads at the time of their acquiroment by

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One of the smallest men in Hongkong, a Burmese dwarf, together with a Hinloo, were charged with stealing $50 from a "Eing table

keeper" at Yaumati.

OPIUM,

Four Chinaman were charged with having plura without a certificate. They wore fined

$18, $40, 850, and $92 respectively.

MARINE COURT.

Wednesday, 11th May.

"Citizons of San Francisco will have only themselves to blame if some day they look upon their city in flames. Only good luck lus saved it thus far. Expansion of the present system to its fullest capacity is worth something, but nu auxiliary high-pressure system exclusively for fires-even if it covered only the down-town district--would be infinitely more valuable.

"City Engineer Gransky, at the request of

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international agreement; but nobody doubts, that England would block it at the very moment when important English interests & measure, As long should demand suoli as England keeps up her dominion in the Hinterland of the Canal, sho would be in s position at a moment's notice to give affect to her declaration of a state of blockade. In the HAVE YOU TRIED · Samo way France donkl, i Conta or Tetuan were left in her undisputed possession, within a few days oceny Tangiers by a coup»-de-maíu, Į and then make impossible or at least dougerous for English warships and merchantmen to pues the Straits of Gibraltar. · Tho free passage through these Straits is, however, of paramount importunes for British interests in uil parts of Asia; England cannot risk to be, in certain circumstances, inconvenienced at this strate- gically invaluable point. A mere declaration on paper that. Tangiers is to be neutrał would be of no value for England. The least she would Haring thus pleaded the cause, I have now have to insist upour would be a stipulation that to explain the effects of this want of cleanliness Fraen should exercise her much coveted upon the town of Phari. The collection of protectorate in Moroces without quartering: end-built hovel, one or at most two stories in considerable masses of troops in any part of the height, cowers andor the southern wall of the whole country. If that would be agreed on, the

whole French protectorate would reduce itself; dong for protection against the bitterest wind,

to an empty title, like Tackey's rights of The houses themselves prop each other up. Rotten and raisplaced beams project at intervals suzerainty. With such an inunity the French through the black layers of pent, and a few Colonial politicians would never bo satisfied, their small windows lined with crazy black match-orabition being directed ou a well-rounded boarding sometimes distinguish an upper from North-African Empire, in an uninterrupted the lower floot. The door stands open, closed stretch from the Bay of Biserta to Capo Nun. perhaps at night with throu black plunks; But, oven quite apart from the Gibraltar Straits couple of traverses, and a padlock. Inside the question, the realisation of their dream ef black glus of argal smoke coats overything. A making the whole western basin of the not be to the liking of English politicians, For the further expansion of the French on the southern shores of the dominion Spain and Italy might sink inte's certain Mediterranean would involve the danger that

political vassolage towards the French Republic.

BEFORE HON, CAPT. L. BARNES-LAWRENCE estimated for an auxiliary high-pressure fire brass cooking pot or an iron batamer, elenn ad Mediterranean practically a French laku could

R.N. (MARINE MAGISTRATE),.

JUNKB,

Three Chinamon were charged with wilfully anchoring their unlicensed junks at a place within the waters of the Colony other than a | junk anchorage. It appears they anchored off Kennedy Town after being warned, not to do so. Two men were fined $20; the other man $10.

CHINESE DREAMLAND.

In an article in the Nineteenth Century ou "Chinese Dreamland Professor Giles tells of

of necessity by use, catches the eyes as the only thing in the room of which one sees the real colour. A blue baze fills the room with acridt the real is being cooked, and a dark objec and penetrating virulence. In the room beyond

the supervisors, has now made plans and

system-not, however, to use salt water. His plans call for a pumping-station with a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons a day, a roservoir on Twin Peaks of 10,000.000 gallons capacity, a pressure relief turk of 700,000 capacity, and the necessary mains. The cost of the whole is estimated to stands aside as one enters. It is a woman be 86-42,000. Of course, fresh water is better than salt for fire protection purposes. The only question is. Is there a sufficient supply for every emergency? As to the relative officiency of a direct pumping system over a stand-pipe system, it may be remarked that, according to figures at hand, the Philadelphia salt-water

Nevertheless thero can be no disputing the barely visible in the dark. Everything in the place is coat-1 and grimed with filth. At last point that a solution of the Morocco problem one distinguishes in a rudo cradle and a blanket, will have to be found. On the not very distant both as black as everything else, u wazen-faced day when the tottering Sultanate will be over- by. How the children survive is a mystery. thrown, the European powers will be coupelled, It is the same in every house. Nothing has for the sake of their commercial interests, to been cleaned since it was made, and the square step in and prevent a reign of anarchy in those bole in the flat roof, which serves to admit light wide regions. England has a legitimate interest down upon practically the same interior in ually if, as at present, an arrangement is proposed that might have such a dangerous effect on the maintenance of a free passage through tho Straits of Gibraltar.

the Government shall have preference over all Chuang Tzu, the brilliant mystice of the fourth pumping plant, costing $250,000, has a capacity and air and occasionally to emit amoke, looks to protract a solution as long as possible, especi-

A COAL BOOM.

and third centuries BC. who anticipated Shake. others to lease, purchase, or acquire their hold- ings. The bill status that the lands are not speure's conclusion that we are such stuff ns dreams are made of. He taught that this life is pable lands," that the titles and administrareally a dream and death is the awakening -- tion are in the hands of the civil governor.

Those who dream of the banquet wako to The Commission bus provided for the acquiramentation and sorrow, Those who dream of lamentation and sorrow wake to join the hunt, ing of title to public coul-lands in the Philippine While they dream they do not know that they Islands. It has enacted a law prescribing the

dream. Some will even interpret the very dream regulations covering the procedure for acquiring they aro dreaming; and only when they swake titie for coal lands It is reliably stated that there are good con! lands in the islands, and that do they know it was a dream. By-and-byo comes the now law onneted by the Commissions will the Great Awakening, and then we find out that gire a boom to the coal interests in this this life is really a grast trenin. Fools think they are awake now, and flatter themselves they know archipelago.

if they are really princes or peasants. Confucius and you are both dreams; nid I, who say you are dreams, I am but a dream myself.

FILIPINOS TO SWING CLUNE,

The Bureau of Public Instruction has decided to adopt a Mannal Training Department for the provincial high schools. Equipment has hen ordered from the United States for the twelve loading schools, which is expected to arrive soon, and work in the department will be

Much more famons, however, than the abors

passage is that in which the philospher records a dream of bis own, from which he gained the sobriquet, now more than twenty canturies old. af Butterfly Chuang-Once upon a time I,

ing hither and thither, to all intents and purposes

equal to forty engines, for unlimited tim while Mr. Grunsky's plens call for stand-pipes and pumping-station costing something like $500,000, with a capacity of twenty engines for sixteen hours." But these are details. The rain thing is that an auxiliary fire system be installed with expedition, In Philadelphia, insurance rates have fallen fifteen cents on the $100 since the system was put in, and a further decrease of ten cents is promised.”.

CEYLON TŁA FOR RUSSIA.

The fears that were entertained in Ceylon, says the local Times, that the war would affect our exports of tea to Russia have completely passed away, and the only difference that the war has made is that the despatch of tea to

Russia has been resumed under the conditions which prevailed before the additional Russian duty drove our tea to abandon the European

thousand hovels,

But it is the exterior of the houses that strikes one most. Let it be said at once that in the beat quarter of the town, that in which the houses are two-storeyed, the heaped-up filth dejecta and rejecta alike--rises to the first-fcor windows, and a hole in the mess bas to be kept open for access to the door. It must be seen to be believed. In the middle of the street, between the two banks of filtle and offa!, ruus à stinking elmunel, which thaws daily. In it borns and bones and skulls of overy beast Batea or not enten by the Tibetans-there sra few of the latter-lie till the dogs and ravons have pisked them clean enough to be used in the mortared walls and thresholds. The stench is fearful.

SHIPPING NOTES.

WEATHER.

The ss. An Pho (from Saigon with 1,400 tous of rice) reports moderate winds, high sea and fine. The China Merchants' s.s. Chi Yuen, from Shanghai yesterday, reports fine and clear to Breaktor Point, thenes to port foggy. The P. & O... Formosa from Facehow reports foggy weather.

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The medical officer of health and public analyst for the city of London, England, reports the ROYAL & Baking Powder chemi- cally pure and giving the maxi- mum possible yield of leavening

gas. The Shire liner Monmouthshire ran athore in the Bango Channel a fow days ago. brought le Kobe extensively damaged, and docked.

THE M. D. L.

Half-decayed corpses of dogs lio enddled up with their wongy but surviving brothers and there a stagnant pool of filth has partially defied 1903 states that the East Indian coasting traffic sisters, who do not resent the ravens. Here and The report of the North German Lloyd for

began with the opening of the next clio Chuang Tzu, dreamed I was a butterfly, flutter. the Russian market via Dalny. The war, of the warmth, and carrion, vorminous rags, and at present is served by 14 lines of the Lloyd,

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RELIGIOUS IMPOSTOR.

Jose Saide, the Filipino who has been repro seating himself as the "Black Christ," has been charged with estafa: A number of specifications have been filed against the impostor for collecting money from the people who were duped into believing him some great personage. The amounts in the specification range from ons dellar to twenty-five dollars, and complaints continue to come in showing that the impostor

had made a financial success of the venture. Charges will also be placed against bis asistants at an early date, and they will be held awaiting trial before the court of first.

The Bume Fashoda" was recently changed into something else out of regard for the sensi- tiveness of the French, in whom the word arouses memories of humiliation. The Mescow Gazette Low suggests that the name of Port Arthur should be changed into "Port Nicholus," as its present title is "too Engliska.' The Rus sians need not be afraid that we shall retaliate by altering the title of the "Cesarewitch." Will the Parisians have to follow suit by calling their Boulevard de Sebastopol and Pont do l'Alma by other names?

ports of Rassi and to seek an entrance into course, effectually closed Daly and sompelled

a butterfly. I was conscions only of following us to send our shipments back along the older In the middle the browa patch is iridescent experienced in that business in 1903, the hope:

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added that although unfavourable periods were bones, are set romud it in broken yellowish ico.bioh are unmerated in the report. It is A curdled and filthy torrent flows through the may be entertained that in 1904 more favour market-place, and half-breed yaks shove the able results will not in. The Bangkok lines- sore-eyed and month-ulcered children aside to Singapore Bangkok and Bangkok-Hongking- The men and women, clathes and suffered in consequence of the unfavourable shippers as to what should be dono, especially a among the Russian firms in Colombo, who could faces alike, are as black as the peat walls that rice crop in Siam; on the other hand, the goods not, during the first few weeks after the out- form a background to every scene. They hare transit traffic from Singapore to Bangkok has

never washed themselves. They never intendinoproved. The new steamier Bornce, rauning DR. NEWELL WILSON. DR. WILLIAM DANEL break of the war, say what exactly was going to

to wash themselves. Ingrained dirt to an extent between Hongkong and British North Bornes, happen. The demand from Russia, however, as that it is impossible to describu roduces what has given favourable results, especially in the represented by orders from Moscow, &c, would otherwise be a clear, sallow-skinned, but wood traffic, also the results of the Singapore. continued practically unaffected, and, though good complexioned race to a collection of foul British North Borneo hue hare been satis-

and grotesque negrock.

And the disgust of all this is heightened,

my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious routes in spite of the enhanced duty. Just ut first there was some hesitation winong local of my individuality as a man. awaked, and there I lay, wyself again. Now, I do not know whether I was then a man dream ing I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Innumerable essays have been written by the leading literary teen of various periods upon the fascinating problem involved in this dream, but not one seems to bring us perceptibly nearer

to its solution.

the Russian branch of the Asiatic Steamship

Company suspended their direct conveyance of our tea to the ports on the Black Sea, and the approach to Odessa and Batoum sosmed likely to be difficult, the old conditions have now set

at the end of the streets, hanging in mid-air above this nest of mephitic filth, the gold and almost saintlike purity of the everlasting snows highputs to perpetual shame the dirt of of Chumolari—a huge wedge of argent a mile

Phari

A rather novel form of increasing their in- come has been found by two casteridongeren Poris, man and wife, who had the "bappy" idea in and a good deal of our tea is being sent to of getting knocked down by sutomobiles and car. Odessa by transhipment at Suez, while the riager, and then demanding compensation from Danish section of the East Asiatic Company's the owners. The husband had supplemented steamers still carry Caylon tea to the Baltic transhipmonts which his income in the course of a year by no fewer ports. The great deal than sixteeh street accidents," while the wife go on in London for Russia must not be had been the victim" of four. The frequency forgotten, too. Up to the 18th instant (April) her Majesty. However much he might have Ceylon bus already sent 3,778,463 lbs. black tea,

of the occurrences strucks the police as peculiar, and 60,995 Ils groen tea, to Ruvia this year, a and the couple were watched. Last month they were charged with swindling, with the result quantity which in both cases exceeds that for that the court santened the man to three the same period last year. There have been very { years' imprisonment, but acquitted the woman, large shipments recently, too.

factory.

MISCELLANEOUS. The s.s. Eclipse arrived from New York yesterday with a full cargo of ease-oil for the Standard Oil Company.

terday with 8,867 tons of coal for Messrs. Tho s.s. Heathburn arrived from Moji yes-

Bradley & Co.

The Chowtai arrived from Bangkok with 1,400 tons of rice and 55 tons of timber for i Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.

Some years ago a leading London paper an columns that the nounced in its "Court Persian Ambassador had been introduced to The Hamburg-Amerika s.8. Theodor Wille tue Queen, and presented his "creditors" to arrived from Hamburg yesterday with 5,000! tons of cargo for the Far East. She had, by hardly fancy the Queen sccepting them great carga Hongkong receives 1,500 tous

the way, 50 cases of cartridges. Out of this liked to get rid of them in this way, one

graciously, as she was reported to bare done. The ss. Mathe arrived from Tauron yes- Of course, the word ought to hure teen terday with 1,100 fans of general cargo for "credentials."

this port.

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