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SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, Bed Jane.

IN BANKRUPTCY,

BEFORE His Hoyoun SIR WILLIAM M GOODMAN (CRIEF JUSTICE).

ADJUDICATION

POLICE COURT.

Thursday, 23rd June,

BEFORE MR. H. IL J. GOMFERTZ

(ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE.)

BURGLARY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24TH, 1904.

BLACK MAILING AT SINGAPORE,

TWO PRISONERS CONVICTED. Mr. T. Sarkles, accompan led by Insp. Howard, appeared before Mr. Micholl, at the Sings pore Court last week, asking for a warpt for the arrest of two Armenians and Suunal Poter and Mackortichon, under the fellowing,

MISCELLANEOUS.

PROFITA UTE FOOTBALL.

The Newcastle Chronicle says that including the receipts at the final tie, the competition proper for the Football Association Cup has yielded £29,000 in gate money, and 782,000

ofroninstances, says the Straits Times of the 17th people have witnessed the phy; but, if to those for inst. On Wednesday night these two men westgures ars wilded the gates taken in the qualify. of 1,000,000 people altogether attended the Cup to Raffles Hotel and asked Mr. Sarkies for ing and informediate, rounds, probably spwards

Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, solicitor, appearest in apport of an application by the Houng Yik firm for adjudication on their estate. He stated Queen's Road West by bending in one of the employment. He told then he had nothing forties, and paidī more than £38,000 at the turnstiles.

Hant a meeting of creditors had been hold ut which it had been resolved to apply for adjudica tion, and that the managing partners had been publicly examined,

Inspector Collett charged a Chinuman with barglary. The story was that at 11.30 p.m. on the previous night the man broko into No. 174,

fron rolls of a barrel window, after cutting the woodwork away with u chisel. He then made his way to the apper storey by means of a stairense, and broke open a pigskin "box. From this ho took a quantity of clothing valued at

them to in, but gave them $4. Later on a letter written in Armonina was brought to him. It had been sent by the defendants.

This, with a translation, was produced. It

A REMAKRATILA BOUNDARY HIT,

His Lordship asked the Official Receiver (34. | about S100, and threw it out of the window. He case of non-compliance Mr. Sarkies was in. / Hospital Saturday Home. The batyman drovė

Arnes Shopherd) if there was any objection?

The Official Receiver-No

His Hardship grantes adjudication appointed the Otleid Receiver trustee.

RECEIVING ORDER.

The Yẹo Yuen diru applied for a receiving orderin threats of Wong Chuk Yau, decoused, Mr. E. J. Grist, of Moos Wilkinson and Girist."solicitors, appared for the petitioning

froditors. Affidavits had been filed, he sai which showed that the estate was insolvent and

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was a domand for no less a sum than $1,500; in

was about to retrace his stops when the mastor formed that his life woull be taken. For, said of the house returned. The robber quickly the writers, "though you may imprison us, tharus jumpa unt of the window, holding on to ure two others who will carry out what wa the sill, while his feet rested on a moulding, threaten." The matter was at one reported to Tho muster, meing at once what had happened. the police, and in a short time the nie ware raised an alarm. The foki ran down into the under distention. A warrant was granted, and the In the meanwhile the housebreaker | defenduits are now charged with attempt at The other two men are being looked dropped from his perch and ran to a wicker extortion.

While trying to escape through this tie for.

Yosterday afternoon (16th inst), the two folci tore his jacket into four pieriss. The robber

Howard before M. Eoth with attempt to com- mit extortion by patting Mr. T. Sarkies in fear of injury to his person, and thereby attempting to induce his to deliver to them the sum of $1,600, As the men could not get

The defendants were duly arraigned before Mr. Seth. Insp Howard prosecuted. As the defendants could not speak English. Ir Michael acted us interpreter.

A vemarkable houndary hit (says the Sheffield Daily Telegraphy was made the other day by one of the patients at the Birmingham

the ball into an adjoining shrubbery, and tha tisklers discovered it lodging in a suull tree. It bad drops into a, Urush's nest, in which were four little ones. The young birds were none the worse, as the ball, being larger than the opening of the next, rusted on the top.

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SHIPPING NOTES.

STEAMER MOVEMENTS. Thu M.M. steamer Tonkia, with the next Prouch mail, will leave Saigon on Friday, the 24th inst., at 8 am., for this part,

The P. & O. steamer Socotro left Singapore for this port on the 22nd inst, at noon,

The A. A. steamer ffimer, from New York, lott Singapore for Manils on the 16th inet, p.m., al is dno kors on the 30th inst., ..

The silk or the C.P. R. steamer Tartar errived i

TYPHOON WARNING,

that there was a considerable amount of pro. also lost his shoes, and sprained his ankle. defendants were formally charged by Insp. mu's habit of taking fruit and vegetables aml kindly informs us of the receipt of a dispatch:

perty outstanding, This application was made The foki next grabbed him by the game, but Que under Section ST for the calate to be attainis. other, in a mul dash for liberty, left the greater Of course the sored in lankruptey. The order they applied part of his "pig-tail" behind, for was Form N, 9, that the estate be adminis.hair was mostly fake. but one fair-sized tuft The police had been paller ont hy the rests. tered in bankruptcy. the Official Receiver appointed trusten and the costs of the applien- now joined in the puranit. the chus being all the case was adjourned till this afternoon. tion be paid out of the state.

long one. The man was finally run to earth in Pan Sing Chok, the managing partner oftim ruins of a burned house in Des Voeux Road

the petitioning creditor firm, was called. Ho slated that Wong Chuk Yau owed them $65,000* They hail security for somewhere about $20,000, represented by shares which the deceased hold in bir firm

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West He was quendless his hair lunging One of the loosely at the back of his head. legs of his pants was missing, the, missing piers being in the fukte haal,

Samuel Peter pleaded guilty, saying that he had been instigated by his companion and The prisoner was sentenced to six months' im- anether, and at the time he was ander the His Lewdshių granted the order us applied for. prisonwent and six hours' stocks.

influence of drink. The Court adjourned.

PENÂNG SKIPPER IN TROUBLE.

AN IRISHMAN'S FROLICS." Timothy O'Brien, a master mariner, appeared

UNLAWFUL. POSSESSION.

Inspector Langley charged a Chinese boatman with unlawful possession of 28 pieuls of pons, valued at $144, reasonably believed to have been stolen, und with having no bout licence.

The man was fined $100 or three months*

before Mr. A. T. Bryant at Penang on the 13th imprisonment on the first charge, and $5 or`14 inst. in answer to three charges of assault and one of trespass, in the Prines of Wales Hotels' imprisonment on the second. Chulia Street.

Margaret Marshall, proprietress of the Prince of Walos Hotel, said defendant went to the hotel on the previous day and offered to pay her $10 towards his old account, if she would give him lodgings. She refused, having had occasion to turn him out of the house before. Accused wed abusive language and said he wanted to se her husband. Her husband care, and told O'Brien he did not wout to have anything to do with him, and to get out. Meanwhile Mrs, Marshall caught auensed by the arts and took him out, Accused suddenly turned round and hit her with his fist William Vincant und Mr. Marshall entroborated the evidents of Mrs. Marshall, and said they saw O'Brien strike her. The evidence of the police was heard, and as O'Brien's evidence was unsatisantery he was sentenced to pay 85 on much neeanut, viz., trespass and assault of Mrs. Marshall.

ARMED ROBBERY.

Inspector Maelonald charged a fifth man in

tion with the armed robbery which occur rod at 'akshalung on the 17th inst. It appears that on the night in question five, men came down into the backyard of a house from the roof, assaulted the occupants and threatened them with a revolver and other arms. They stole property to the value of $81. The four previous defendants were put into the dock alongside their alleged comrade. One of them was arrested shortly after the robbery occurred.

the other three within a few hours of it. The man, like the other four. was committed

for trial.

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HEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

ALLEGED KIDNAPPING, Chief Detective Hanson charged a woman O'Brien was further charged with having at | with kidnapping a Chinese girl about 15 yours

He was questioned us to whether he under-

stood the nature and consequence of his plea. He replied that he did, and admitted that in writing the letter he committed a foolish act. He would be glad to leave the Colony and go to

Java.

Iusp. Howard And do the same thing

The following story is told of a well-ktown member of the House of Commons, who is in New York on Tuesday, the 21st inst, yo

It appears he Jud to devoted to, gardening, dismiss his head gardener on account of the

General Edw. S. Bragg, G.S. Consal-General.

As the uno buds from the Manila Observatory notifying the up- selling them for his own use, wife all large family, he approached his employer prouch of a typhoon to the S.E. Luzon, the day before he left, with the view is getting a character and testimonial, in order to apply for another plave. He got the testimonial. which read thus-"I hereby certify that my inte head gardener get more out of my garden during the time he was with me than any other man I ever employed."

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THE “CHINEŠĖ KONEYMOON."

Mr. Frank-Curzon' décided to terminate the run of "A Chinese Honeymoon" at the Strand Theatre, London, on Whit Monday. The mansicul comedy then reached its 1,075th per- formance at this theatre, the first representation having taken place on October 4, 101. It is estimated that the profit made on the production is not far short of six figures and is well over the profit of £84090 made on the eighteen

MISCELLANEOUS.

The ss. Wongkai arrived from Bangkok yes. terday with 700 tons of ries and 200 tons of timber for Messrs. Butterfold & Swire.

The Austrian steamer Vindobona arrived from Moji yesterday. She reports that on the 20th inst.. in Lat 27.57N.. Lon. 122,393, she passed a vossel from New York. Her batte per signal code was H.W. M.Q.”

THE BANGKOK STEAMSHIP LINES,

The steamers of the East Indian Steamship Co. Ltd. and the North German Lloyd Orient Line. are now advertised, the Bangkok Times Bays. und the one heading of the North

German Lloyd Orient Line. Elsewhere they

able time as they are all stemmers in the coast have been put under one hewling for a consider-

montle' run of "The Belle of New York“ at the Shaftesbury,

fleet of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. It Mr. George Dunce, the

will be noted that from the Hongkong lum author of the botto, has considerably ang.

there have disappeared the Phra Cham Klon, The second defendant denied having bad merted his fortune, and is now a director of the

Gaiety Theatre and owns the provincial rights! Kong Beny and thus Thichire. The smallest ilu Phan Chula Choin Alter, the Wonglui. thận

of the piece.

vessel on this line now is 1,500 tons.

there.

anything to do with the writing of the letter, though he was acquained will its contents and went with Peter to the hotel.

convicted No. I got three months, the magis

Evidence having been given, both men were

trate romarking that he was giving him a very light punishment: Ne. " get all the Court could give him-six months.

BRITISH-GROWN TEA.

At the Society of Arts, Mr. A. G.Stanton read a paper before the Indian Section on British-grown Tea." Lord George Hamilton, M.P., presided. and there were present, awong athers, Lord Reay, the Hon. Sir Charles Ice-Warner. Sir Fremantle. Sir William George Birdwood, Sir West Ridgeway. Mr. J. D. Rees. Mr. H. K. Rutherford. Mr. F. A. Roberts, and Mr. C. Thomas,

Mr. Stanton, in the course of his paper, spoke

A NOVEL EXPERIMENT. The Automobile Club, which has rendered

inestimable service to the motor car industry by its wall-considered efforts to encourage ser. viceability rather than mere speed, a London paper says, is about to extend its sphere of us fulness to the water. It has taken the marine motor under its wing, and has arranged a series of reliability trials. to be held in Southampton Water next month, with the object of proving to the navul authorities. shipping companies, yacht owners, and the pubiie generally. that beats propelled by inter- nal combustion engines can be depended upon for continuous running for various purposes and that they can be made a safe, cheap, and reliable means of transport." To this end competitions have been arranged for boats of five classes, which are to prove their reliability

sucressive days, and marks are to be awarded and endurance, one-sixth for speed, and one. in the proportion of two-thirds for reliability

sixth for safety and ecoturny of fuel.

BRITISH STEAMER LOST.

the foghorn on St. Paul's Island, in the Law- The British steamer Tarrel Bay, mistaking

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rece River, sunck a reef on the 20th ult und souk within twenty winates. Of the crew of iwenty-two, eight were washed overboard by the territic seas which broke over the vessel, and of the thirteen who, with Captain Bilton, were rescued by the lifeboat five died frotu exhaus tion before reaching land. The Turret Rug, un English steel vessel, built on the Wear in 1894, was of 2,211 gross tonnage, owned in Canada, UPRIGHT

with cement and band from Montreal to but registered in Newendle. She was landed

Sydney.

OUTRAGE ON BRITISH CAPTAIN. The Liverpool Merchant Service Guild is

o'clock the same night insulted Mrs. Marshall of age. Mr.O. D. Thompson, solicitor.uppoures of the extensive use of tea by English all over by ranning for ten consecutive hours on two claiming compensation, throngh Lord Lans

for the defence,

and assaulted a P.C. Aconsed denied both charges. Mr. Marshall stated that accused The defendant, a rather wolt-dressed Chinese cams back at 9 p.m. aut said to her You seat woman wearing na less then ten gall finger rings me to the lock-up" and spat upon her. William and a quantity of other jewelry, was very passive Vineout-corroborated this evidence.. The P.C. and expressionless. She stool nietly with her stated that his was called by Mrx Marshalleyes somewhat downcast, fanning herself gently well as her mother and father, gare evidence, the story of the prosecution being briefly as fol. lows:-The mother of the girl went to her native country on a visit our the Uth inst., not return- ing till the uth inst.: the father seamed to Juve had very little to do with his daughter, On the 20th inst. the taother returned and found her child missing; the little girl, in fact, had bewa sway from home for three days. The woman reported the matter at the Police Station. Some little time later the girl herself appeured at the Police Station also, and informed the Inspector that some people were trying to make her a prostituto nginst her will. She said she had first accompanied the defendant to the defend-

and told to arrest accused, but the latter in the most unconcerned mammer. The child, us immediately knocked him down. He pot up and with the assistanco of a European constable atrested the man. The accused said that he did not remember anything as he was not very saber.

"His Worship-mid-that-th-third charge was a more serious one. Acoused would be sent to gaol for one month for assaulting Mrs. Marshall and would be fined 25 for the assault of the P.C.

́THE RAUB GOLD MINE..

The Departmental Report of the Federated Malay States for 1903 has the following panngraph with regard to the Ruub Australia

orine:

Jn 1902 nearly a thousand tons less were grusht thun in 1903, yet the uzaount of bullion obtained in 1903 shows a decrease of 4237 ounces. The manager writes on this subject as follows:-" This falling-off is not due to impoverishment in depth so much as to the fact that we are now milling practically everything

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ant ́shouse, No.122.Hollywood Road, and then sle had been brought to a brothel. No. 21 Possession. Street, where she shared a cubicle with a pros

tituta,

The Possession Street brothel people died that the girl had been thera,

Mr. Komp said that though it may have been as it comes without any picking and choosing, the moral duty of the defendant to have you and much of the stone broken is that which led the girl to her parents he had not committed Aan offence rior the ordinance. He accordingly Joe previously rejected us worthless. eynich plant is onw being erected by this discharged bar. company to treat the accumulation of tailings of past years. Mr. Warnford Lock has been for

OPIUM,

A Chinaan charged with unlawal posses a long time experimenting on these tailings, sion of three cattles of raw opium was fined

$200 or three months.

CHARGE AGAINST A RESTAURANT,

the world, and said it was no wonder that the af growing tea in our own dependencies. The idea should have heen.conceivel by Englishmen chief part of the tes trade of the world was in the hands of China and Jupan until we began to grow it in India and other parts of the Empire. In India it was grown as long ago as 1834; in Ceylon it was not cultivated until unch later period. The only other colony where tea has been commercially grown to any extent is Natal, which has special facilities for its growth owing to the fact that imported tex

A PLAQUE OF RATS.

The journal of the Board of Agriculture states that the departments of Charente, Charente-Inferienre. Vendée, Deux Sèvres, Cher. Marne. and Calvados, have suffered severely from a plague of rats, vcles, and field mice, while the loss to the whole country from this cause has been estimated at 300 milliva

is subjent to a daty of id: por: which has not-franes (8,000,000 por um Local offorts to be borne by to grown in the colony, and Javing proved insufficient, the French Govern- as there was Customs Union between the Cape meat instituted a series of experiments, with the and Natal that market was also opened to the aid of the Pasteur Institute, and have now growers free of duty, whilst the recent an-

succeeded in making a poison, known by the nexation of the Transvaal and the Orange

name of the discoverer. Dr. Dazysz, which, it is River Colony and their inclusion in the Cus

claimed, is fatal in rats and vales, but not inju- toms Union hul opened a still larger market.rious to mankind or domestic animals. The Very little Natal tea, therefore, got outside our African dominions. The nereugs at the present time under tea cultivation in that

colony was 3,542. Tas-graving was experi- mentally tried in Jamaica, Fiji, Borneo, and Mauritius and the Straits Settlements, but. exempt in the last named, it had not gone beyond the experimental stage, although there were some 70 acres nuder cultivation in Jamaica. In

the Straits Settlements 33,00011, were produced in 1902. British-gro tra had now almost tirely superseded the China product in the United Kingdom as well as in some of our Colonies, while it was gradually displacing it in Tea was also grown in any other markets. the island of Java to the extent of early 20,000,000 a year. The total export from tea- producing countries in the year 1902 was

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cost of application is estimated at 4 francs 50 centies per hectare fabout Is. tid, per acre).exela sive of labour, which is expected to cost about to 7 Iranes per hectare (1s. 8d. to 2s. 30, per nere) more, according to the local rate of pay. the object of encouraging the nee of this method of destroying the pest, the French Government lave voleil the sum of 330.000 francs (£14,000),

necessary for treating the infested districts. which is calculated to by a third of the amount

SUICIDE IN THE UNITED STATES.

It is rather startling to learn, on the autho- rity of statistics published recently in New York. Clust the sinual number of suicides in the United States has nearly doubled in the last ten years. A rising suicide rate has, happily, proved a nogual feature of the development of modern

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Antillian-by Mexican Customs authorities at Captain J. M. Westentt, of the Leyland, Liner |

Choncus. On an unfounded charge of smug- gling Captain Westcott was confined in a common gacle at Vera Cruz, amid filthy sur- roundings. The frightfal air of the place caused serious illness. He was afterwards lodged in the criminal ward of the hospital. where there were even greater horrors until released on the remonstrance of the British Minister at Mexico City on perus bail. | Captain Westcott has returned home a physical

wreck due to his outrageous-treatment His ADAPTED TO STAND THE chiming £1,600 damages for himself and £3,000

for the owners.

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Captain Iver Matison, of the Norwegian barque Flou, who brought his vessel to South Afrien last month, inverted a novel and ingenious method of stopping a leak Bound from Norway to Capetown, the Floru experienced terrific weather in the Bay of Biscay, and was compelled to lie te for six days: a leak, which let in the water at the rate of SEASONED IN THE COLOI In the buffeting that she received she sprang

six inches an hour. All bunds were kept at the pumps day and night without intermission. As the gate abated the vessel drove before it into calmer seas. Captain Mattson found that the leak was getting worse, and he had a windmill rigged up to help the men. Even this was found incrificient, so he had recours to his ingenuity. He constructed a great waterproof canvas bag. sixteen feet long, six feet in circumference, and two feet in diameter. This ho kept extended by insans of boops. A win- the bottom. Then the captain stepped into the dew of glass was let into the side, five feet from bug, and by anus of tackle he was drawn under water, so that he could see the leak. The other had plenty of air, and also the opportunity of end of the bag, being open and above water, he communicating with his men. Two sleeves lad been made, and were tightly bound at his wrists, so that he could work freely. In this way, look ing at the leak through the window in the bag. he worked steadily while the ship was have to. degree highly strung. Nevertheless, after al! The vessel rolled in a hoary swell, and-sonate ONLY 5. FELT LO the present time it might be said that the allowance in made, the rapidity with which the times Captain Mattson found himself from sever At one tim it British rac: took about half, and thus that the tendency to self-murder is growing in the to ten feet below the waves.

seemed that the work would cost the captain his follow-United States is nothing short of astonishing life, as the chafing of his feet against the rossel's subjet should be of interest to our countrymen, whether here or abroad, Without Last year over eight thousand five hundred per side wore a hole in the bar and the water DA. NEWELL WILSON. DE WILLIAM D going into the merits of the fiscal question, it sons were reported in the newspapers as having entered and covered him. But he was drawn was quite intelligible that as long as tea was

taken their own lives, and it is of interest to note ap in good time, the bag was repaired, and the not grown by our fellow-subjects but by for- that the enterprising city of St. Louis, where the euk stopped. éigners it should have been taxeil, but when its International Exposition is being heiti, had the production was so largely in the hands of our largest number in proportion to its population. countrymen, as had been the case for the last 20 to 3 years. it was somewhat strange that the tuxation should have still continued so heavy, and that it should have been impossible to find The other coustable accompanied him.

some other product upon which an impost could The case was rompued, defendant being be levied which was not so largely grown by our

fellow-subjects, allowed bail in the sum of $1,000,

A discussion followed, at the end of which the Chairman remarked that the tea industry desery From Messrs Sheran, Tomes and Co. woed well at the lands of the British Empire. In have received samples of foot and yard measures, rate of the difficulties with which it had to cou- blotting puds, sic., which represent one of the tend, it had practically achieved a monopoly in advertising devices of the Fireman's Faud the Empire. and in foreign countries the demand

for teas was rapidly increasing.

60.000.000; so that of all the tea produced at

and he now writes that the success of his experimental treatment has resulted in the designing of a new plant on novel lines which A Chinaman, the keeper of the London $15,000,000M., and of this total Great Britain civilization, and it must therefore be looked for will establish a record for economy and sheienes & New York Restaurant." was charged with 2.000.000, and reizi & country where life is to an exceptional It is a pleasure to riscord the fact that the having his establishment open during pro Government and this company have agreed tohibited hours, and with outertaining two sink a shaft at their joint cost to a depth of Chinese constables whilst on duty.

P.-Sergt. Sullivan statel that he went to the Läuft, if the results at intermediate levels between this depth and the present workings at restaurant at night and saw the two Chinese Bakit Konnn justify the expenditure. The constables with chopsticks in their hunds: Government are desirous of proving the ex- their hats and belts were on the table. As soon istence of lodes in depth, and the Raul Company as they saw him they jumped on to the verandan are equally anxious to do so on their property, and crawled under a table. so therefore no better policy could be pursued than sinking this shaft, cach party sharing the cost. At the end of the year the shaft, which iSft. by 5ft, inside timbers, Ind reached a depth

of 297ft. Farthereconomics in the east of mining and milling stena will soon beoffected as the steam pamping and winding machinery is being replaced by electrically driven plant. On this property everything is being done that em be done to reduce the cost of taining and willing, and it is probably no exaggeration to say that we may soon see in the Malay Peninsula a mine being worked where the low cost for mining and milling will bo difficult to boat.

One of the constables said he had a stomach ache, und was lening against the stairs of the restaurant. The keeper asked him to come ap and have a cup of tea and some pills to cure hiru

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WEATHER REPORT.

particularly melancholy fact is the number The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued

On the 23rd at 11,50 asn The barometer of children who kill themselves-nearly always the following reporti without serious cause. A rebuke from a has fallen in S. China and in the Philippines tearber, a dispute with a play-fellow, I und at almost all other stations, capricious desire to punish those who hare offended them--such are the causes assigned for many juvuile suicides. The increasing manifestation of this neurotic precocity, with its deeply significant implications in respect of heredity and environment, is the most dis quieting aspect of this very painful subject.

Gradients are slight on the China Coast and moderate E. winds will be met with in the For. mosa Chanzel and moderate S. winds in the i northern part of the China Ser.

Thore is a depression in the Paciɓe to the must of Luzon,

Forecast Light 83, winds, fine.

NB.-No . formation has been received this morning from the worthern vor western regions,

Hongkong, 8th June, 1904,

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