SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, 11th April.
Is BUMMARY JURISDICTION. BEFORE MR. T. SERCONTE SMITH
(POISNE JUDGY).
The hearing of these claims for $400 and $250
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12mm, 1905.
THE SHANGHAI WATERWORKS |
COMPANY LIMITED.
the
CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE.
The ausual report on the foreign trade of China for 1904, published by the Inspector General of Customs, is to hand. Below is first instalment of artroots which we propose to
make
rospectively was contingel. Mr. H. W. Lookerunicipal boundaries, resulting in a very Hatif production and consumption was cut off, and ] this year, for the first time uniformly, beou
of
KODAK
FILMS
&
ACCESSORIES.
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.
LONG HING & CO..
PHOTO GOODS STORE,
17, QUEEN'S ROAD
Hoogkong, 27th December. 1904.
(SAME PREMISES AS MESSES. A¤ CHEE).
139
quantity of Tea originated at Santuao, to the detriment of the Foochow Herenne Ports in Kwangtang and Kwangsi collected Uk. The
1904, 6,113,564 in 1903 and H. The 6,383,015 in the relative figures for trade by steamor sud by junk remain much the same as in 1903, indicat The annual meeting of this Company was
ing that the tendency to ship hy steamer is held at Shanghai on April 6th.
The Chairman said: The year 1904 has been,
maintained, All the frontier marts show dis tinct gaine, Meugter in particular increasing As far as this Company is encerned, one of considerable activity; extensive additions have
The war appears to have bons of miner im from Hk. Tla. 160,955 to Hk. Ti 248,441.
Foreign Trade.The value of the articles R. FREIWALD TOLJACEK AND E. PILLIS V. been muule to our plant end works, and new
mains have been laid in the extended area within portance among the conditions affecting the
trado of China during the year. A large area entering into the Foreign trade of China have and in the districts beyend the Settlements,
nt WILLY FON UFFEL.
trade was hampered to some extent by the settled on the basis of the cost of the goods fretory increas in our mor aus. Our revamps
act-on taken by the Chinese authoritns in the motrat they enter into China's inter- all som rer amounts the satisfactory restraint of those who would have made of the national exchange-the c.i.f. value in the case fof Messrs. Desicom, Leaker and Dears) af 198, 401.246.70 and is the largest income Uhinein porta bases of supply for one or other of Imports and the fo.b. salue for Exports. peared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. H. E. Follock, earned since the inauguration of the
of the balligarente; otherwise, and at a distance This breaks continuity of the tables of K.C., instructed by Mr. H. Hasthouse (of aging Company
from the seat of war, the direct effect was not but it was thought butter to make the brenic reason to hope that
And rceptibla Indirectly, of course, some
have one value for all statistical purposes
BARON SUYEMATSU ON clearly perceptibla Mesars. Donnys and Bowley) for the defendant. Che Directors have
JAPANESE IDLALS, Evidence for the plaintiffs having been con
in the future. It is also matter for con
and another for statistics! usw found in the ural working expenses of existing since 1999 and well marked at the end system of valuation for the table of merchandise tion that the general
Baron Suyamatso has saccended in evealing cluded, Mr. Pollock, before calling witnesses
of 1901, became more prononuced as the war win practically the same as last
sammary at the end of each year's Heport or went on, and must be held accountable for
a new role in modern life, for he has constitutod In result.
of the year, total trade
kimself a sort of ambassador of ideas. Before potent agency to the balance of Ths.
it and loss
312 restricting the export of Chinese produce, T58,517,201, is 8 per cent. more than the th Society of Arta, he became an oxpositor of Japs ethics, and contrived to set forth for the 43.524.91 Dvor account to be transferred to pr acut, or an increase of Tle,
1903
bosit and enlightenment of Western hearers And thereby increasing the so-called "adverse value for 1903 given in the tables and 7
that given in the Imports we find more then balance of trade."
chivalry and elruism Among
rules of the amount passed to this account in
some if those that textiles, a third of the whole, alous show no
the hserepancy boing explainable by the Proit and Loss Account is stated in the same payment in
soligion. Lord Redlesdato maimer as last year, and after the
af... basis in 1903. The inclusion the suctity of a
Trade by jeak not otherwio
presided over a large gathering of members and taken that I ball been doing overtime workJuly fast of an int-rita dividend of 15/or wharoxjuuston, a fastdlus directly to the intiated cost spot that import values were at some ports which his countrymen havé Coma 16 invo-t with
amounting to T. 41,806.45, providing for of the raw material. These various causes have already which characterised certainly the first nine recorded for the European parinors. Mr. Voljacskintorost o dobentares, and Bank verdraft: had their influerce.in prolaving the depression of the heading thineur purview practically friends, and there was a considerably sprinkling!
on engines. boilers, and general months of the year. but amour all other canses the whole Poreign trade of China, Axe-ping of Japanese students among the audience. helenging to the firm in a vafe of which he i works, auounting to Ts. 30,000 and a thafufuationsinexchange must not be lost sight some small junntifies auriving at or leaving a (Mr. Voljacek) kept the key, and he might special sum of Lis, 20,000 as depreciation of Trade can adjust itself to a low exchat raw unimportant pouite on the const. A dia- | closely identified with whatever was best and
this increase will very if not improved | effect was produced. The monetary stringency, than to continue the pruetics of having one
for the defence, wid that the S10) denwn by ho Company remain of the year's operations some, at least, of the stognation prevalout during the tendo of the Empire. The value given Mr. Voljacek was not part payment for over 1 year, İDaving 8 ut credit of working | 1001; it is probable that it was
time money, but money which really should have been handed to the other plaintiff, Mr. Pillis, for work he had done. As Mr. Voljack was to have got twe arutha' salary from the defen. dant's porters in Europe it might readily be
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hai goi the defendant to put certain books depreciation
stocks of fillings, etc. and ON
por
cent.
things generally unworkable for Mr. Von Uffel. Directors now recommend that the also bat. whbling into the basioasa of overy Great Britain retains in 1904 fully as large a
bare mada good use of these in the oven- ings. Mr. Voljanok had communicated with the defendant's partners, who were making The private code being prepared was for now ngents, for Mr. Von Uffel considered new agents neesssary for the successful carrying on of the frm of Shewer, Uffel & Co. Mr. Von Eiffel has won his lawrit Hamburg against his partners.
Evidence was called for the defence. The case was further adjourned.
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TacaPHONE No. 135,
chairman introduced the lecturer as a · TANSAN
noblest in the Japanese philo ophy, and the paper which followed was aimly applauded as it progresaed,
on
TANSAN
or to a high exchange, or even to a shifting pram is apponded to this Report showing the exchange if the movement can be foresoon; but development of the trade of Chinn, by deces
The Barou, as he has found occasion to do PER CARD OF 13 PINTS... a state of things which introduces the element nisl intervals, during the 40 years from 1864 day, to 1984. In the carrying trade it shows that of
in various reviews, acknowledged Japan's before makor it impossible for a merchant to estimate the amount in one currency which will propertina of the tonnaga sa of the losser indebtedness to the three main religins of the
PER CASE OF 100 SPLITS give
him a profit in another, and which may amounts of each previous decule; it also show Far East (1) Shintoism, which is untire to the soil, free from dogma. simple in its the line of the American carrying trade on the
patriarelal form of oven make it doubtful if a profit actually realised
and besed the teachings, aDC Noticeable also
(2 Buddhisms, which inenlcates in one entrency can be safely landed in another. China coast, and the rise to prominence of the
also community German Bags
and a philosophie self-fuermed: of Chiness all this increases the cost of trading by enfore Japanese and
the tonnage in the steady increase it
geatleness
(3) Confucianism, which is also patriarchal, ing the wisdom of large margins, and by no
shipping entered at the Maritime Customs. much nets us a restraint on trade,
in which a distinction will but elaborate in its codification of the virtues Notwithstanding the evidence of the stagan. This is the last your i
tice, astriot tion of trade, it is still true that China as a not be made between the various countries and social qualities. But there three systems of Europe, hitherto cinssed together under the had all been silapted and ulent into one, and this "Continent of Europe (Russia had become, both in theory and practice, whole was in a prosperous condition during the
and it will be interesting to and widely accepted influence ou the Japanese year. In the North the crops were abundant. heading
point of nos departure the individual and national character. For instance,
Foreign The unprecedented raine which visited Man- excepted) churis, while impeding the morements of the compare at this
virtues of particular relationships, tolligerants and causing thou wuch hardship, 40 years statistics of the trade with were
it
the sovereign, unquestioning striotuess in the father, in the subject, or filial piety in the
H. PRICE & CO. Foreign goods brought to the cultivator a joy which was miti contries. Hongkong is always our closest the Japanese had come to prize, among the SOLE AGENTS- Bnding a cash market for his abundant
tenderness in the mother, guted only by the difficulty to experienced in of statistical confusion, raceiring
to the ports of South China and Chinese Chibli and Shangtang were both favoured with good harvesta, estimated at nine-tenths of produce for shipment to all parts of the world, children, barmony between husband and wife,
Tarked
eiling ressols carying and trustworthiness between friends. Love, as market, more geney of the
leisurely movement money
an inclusive term for all these attributes and possible best; "and nothing but the goveral including China itself. In 1804, the day of order and precedence of age between brothers, stringeney at Tientsin than elsewhere, interfered with i
cargoes to destination, and with no dread of good year for trade. It is stated, long domurrage, Hongkong contributed 31 por affections, had no place in the Oriental ximi: gear, that the Shansi bankors, who four cent. to imports and took 14 per cent. of it was replaced. if anything coured that however,
1 per
Chinese lore and ethics had entered into Fears ago atardened their plundered vaults and exports: in 1004 thewa lnd risen to 4 and 35 kumanity. It would be se, of
per cent respectively. coming operations at Tientsin during the spring. In Shantung the railway to China, and wine per cent, direct in 1904. Opium and Grook studies had entered a to the life and 412 kilometres from Tsingtas, was opened to Cotton Yara. In direct imports, Great Britain thought of Rome; bat wanese faculty traffic. From Szechwan slone are bad crops shows an absolute incrassa in value, but ths for adapting everything he assimilat the reported, and the ensuing destitution can only percentage to the total foll from 21 to 16 per importation. Once s Japans professor naked partially be relieved because of the difficulties cant.; direct exports fell from 67 to six per papile what they wont'd do if China of transport. The wealtby Yangtze basin was cent. due mainly to the decadance of China's invades Japan with an army Is by Confucius
while of experts direct
pieces." free from disturbances, only in Kinngsi some Tea trade. The Continent of Europe cou- himself and the pupila ana ured without boats being reported; and the harvests of the cent, of those of 1994;
per gent, in
It would take too long to aa ter into the rioting and from Hangohor some pilfering of tributed no dirout imports in 1964 and 6 per hesitation: Take up arms and crush them to whole of the vast area were excellent, as good it took 23 per cent. in 1864 and 19
carious parallels and differences the paper offered as in 1913-tonnage, even, ancient to more 1904. The United States rose from our to eight. the rios from Wuhu, was wanting. The per cent. for imports and from eight to 11 por as compared with our Occidental notions, but a
cent. for direct trade with Japan
other than those through theologian would have perveived a close simil end of the Hongkong. stringency in the Hankow money market be came more pronounced towards the
for sundry other payments as speciflet in balance 18 the acconut, there remains a credit of Ts. 151.11 for distribation, or an increase of Ts. 16,714.12 orer last year. The use be appropriated in the following manner:→→
TIR. To payment of a final dividend for the year 1904 of 376 per share
... 104,516.12 at exchange 2/7 per tael- To transfer to reverse fund (luorean-
30.000.00 ing it to Thx 17,000)
17.120.99 To carry forward to new account...
Tls. 151,737.11 Under the head of expital expenditure appours the large item of The 18,971.09, which is made up principally by the payment for two large usa boilers to replace those that had been werking constantly since the works oponed in 1858; the cost of land in the Sinza District, as the site of a new Water Tower,
very desirable addition to werke, to enable us to supply water under greater pressure than we can do at present, to the large and increasing number of houses erected and in coarse of erection in this popr'ous part of the Settlement. It also in- lades the cost of a valuable piece of property immediately opposite the Company's works at formerly owned by Doctor Barge Yangisepoo, the North side of the road, will prove a west Hia Imperial Highness Admiral Princeshable acquisition for extension of our filter beds, reservoirs, etc., which will undoubtedly be Arisugaws, of Japan, Hor Imperial Highus required in the act distant future. On the the Princess, and twelve followers, are on board liability side of the Balance Sheet, there is only the N.D.L. 2. Prinz Heinrich. Included in His one item I need comment ou, viz., the Debenture Issue, which is stated at Tls, 534,700, and I am Highness' ata are a Master of Ceremonies, pleased to be able to inform you that sines the Director of Public Works, A.D.C., a Doctor accobuts were closed, the remaining Tha, 15,300 * and Chembarkin. The Prince is en route to making the total issue of Tls, 550,000, have boen
Berlin, via Naples, to represent the Mikado at taken up at par. the wedding of the German Crown Prince. the Priz Heinrich st He embarked on
The West River steamer Kongnum was yes terday refloated from the rocks Dear Capsinu Pass, and has been taken to the sp at the Kowloon Docks for repair. She was pampel dry and towed off as high tide by the Helene together with Dook launch No. 7. She has not been very badly damaged, thera being only two small holes in the bottom.
PRINCE ARISUGAWA AT HONGKONG.
in
India seat 134
course, ist
and which, as it adjoins some of our land on withdrew their available assets, will resums of our imports in 1864 entirely Opia, the life and progress of Japan, just na
I should give you some information with regard to the very important negotiations that have taken place between the Municipal Conudil and Director with regard to a new Agroo
your
and
Yokohama. He is al present indisposed, and mant for the supply of water to the Settlements, year, From Hankow the railway to the north is from three to 14 per cent, for importa arity with the Catholic doctrine, uttrition in
did not land yesterday. He was represented
A.D.C. at • by his
recaption given in bi honcur by Mr. M. Noms. Shortly before leaving Tokyo the Prines caught cold while returning from one of many receptions attended by him prior to his departure. During the steamer's stay at Kobe, while nature, he was caught in a shower, and this made his cold worse. He is not physically robust. The Princess is often seen on deck but does not converse with the other passengers.
The Prince and Princess have the Captain's exbin, and rooms were specially built on the bridge deck for his staff,
According to Capisia Grosch, the Prius carefully avoids all reference to the war.
open to trafle for 434 kilométera as far as Hair from nothing to 16 per cent for exports salvation. The final Japanese ideal was to do
Kwangtoog
traffic, of (32
1884.
THE WATER SUPPLY. LEVAL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER- VOIBS ON THE 1ST APRIL, 1905. LEVEL. 1901.
1005. Below, overdow Below overflow. 15 ft. 1 in. 26 ft. 1 in. ft. 7 io. 37 ft. in. 9 ft. 8 in. Wongnelcheong 41 ft. 4 in. 19 ft. 0 in.
STORAGE GALLONS.
4120.
#9
a
of the Buddhistic of selfish Japan's rojection
bring in the next world. A gain, it is The direct Tea trade with Russia had good for its own sake, and not for what gain not been inaugurated in 1804, but in 1903 it amounted to six per mut. of all exports; nehiry to follow the loccards the ough his The analysis of Bushido, the code of warric r-morals hrough total imports increased to sevenfold and the which took its name from the Bashi, or nghting in 1904 this trade was disorganised,
the class of knights or horsemon. Mr. Alfred Stead and Dr. Morrison have familiarised us exports to nearly fivefold the amount in class, just as our term chivalry came
with this strange relizion of the camp an fteld. In Japan, instead of apeaking of condu
the becoming to a gentleman, they spoke of disgraceful in the presence of the hand bow and arrow." Gradually this practica gods of soldierly behaviour was invested wit literature of its own, and one remembered he w Tasso, and Froissart, and Malory had given poetry and eloquente to the traditional dero io and gallantry of our own crusaders. Bush do however, never lost sight of the practical, and the parity of soul it anj ined carried with ta aorresponding cleanliness of body. Finally, an the Pall Mall Garett we may quote a ver which the Baron iranslaid as the last coupon tion of Commander Takeo Hirose, befara hu went to his death at the harbour-gates of Par
think We
very near t Arthur; and it comes,
Fordsworth :- the Happy Warrior" lyric of
Would that I could be born seven times,
rifice my life for my country i Resolved to die, my mind firm Aul again expecting to win succesi, Smiling I go on board.
1805. 200,120,000
in substitution of the original one entered into as long ago as 1881, sud which in addition to chon, and the roadbed is ready to the Yellow River. In Fabkien, too, a very good Rios crap Clause No. 7, which was harrested; but from the vicinity of Amoy many vague and obsolete elonses, contained a very important ore, viz, has proved to be quite anworkable, and which come reports of devastating floods. From this would doubtless at some faturo date have led to province is heard the firat audible note of friction and probably to litigation between the distress-not local-due to the war, coming Council and the Company. Mr. F. Anderson in from the dealers in Tes and Timber, shut out his speech omarked that the protracted negot's from their northern market. tions, extending over a period of about thros suffered from deprivation of the Beancake years, had given the members of the Council needed to manure ita fisks, nd the piracy in the C Canton della was rampant; the provinco esa whole was prosperous and the harvest abundant a great deal of very anxions thought and hard work, and I can unhesitatingly s ́ate that
The silway from Canton to Sanshai has been your Directors have also had a most trying an i anxious time in the work of endeavoring to trains an agromesse which, while weesplable to kilometru). In Kwangu, the disorders hav
besu reduced, if not satirely repressed, and Tytum the Council, would not be too burd-suune to
We consider that in the new here, too, the harvest was good. Tantan re- Lywash the Company
although i tho community will benefit ports the harvesting of an exceptionally good Pokfulam
of Kies," and an abundance of coin cir- by the concessions we have made, we crop c
1204. were justified in making them, in order to culating, introduced for rilway construction. that the trade According to the N.-C. Daily News the
703,740,060 Japanese community at Shanghai made con- obviates the great difficulty of carrying out the Finally, far-away Yatang reports
1,150,080 siderable preparations to welcome Priaco and terms of the old agreement and especially of with Tibat was entirely disorganised by the Tytam
Clause No. 7 to which 1 have alrendy alluded, operation of the British Expeditionary fores Bywash...........
506,000 10 613,000 the Wongueicheong Princess Arisuguwn. The Japanese Vice and we must trust to the expansion of our that a two years supply of both Imports and Pokfulama.....
257,632.000 Consul General, accompanied by suembers of business to recoap us for the peennisry escri- Exporis is waiting to be moved, but that
Total 105.39€,000 coma reports of the Consular staff, the Lientengut in command fices we are now making. One very satisfactory nucessary transport will not be available; from of the Japanese Voluatcer Company, and other feature of the new agreement is that the Yunuan and reshwan
VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DUBING. THE MONTH OF MARCH. prominent Japanese, went to meet the Primes community, through the Council, will in future increased trade with Tibet. On the whole, CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF participate in the prosperity of the Company, the conditions of trade were excellent and
1904. 1905. on the Samson tender. Their Highness which will be carrying out exactly the such us to overcome, reupt in the sofinal Bold
68,297,000 88,291,000 gallons being unable to land, sent son of the Marquis origin 1 intention of the promoters of the of operations, the inevitably depressing effects
922 900
227.700 Ito and a military officer sahure to represent Company, as expressed in the lattor which of the war; and the maintenance and even in Consumption.
trade are on indication of brilliant pro-pentsation them. The Japanese Company of Volunteers addressed to the Council in 1860, before crease, of the values of the Import and Export. .Estimated jopa
the original agreement was entered in'o. Ant
day
13.5 gallons herul per (nambaring 35) were drawn up in the North extraordinary general meeting will have to for the coming year, assuming that no untoward Consumption per
Intermittent supply during the whole month Yangtze Road, and also a large number of be convened at an early date, of which due conditions intervene to bring distress on the
of March 1904. a scheme for the
Intermittent supply up to 28th March, 1904 before the shareholders
CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON increase of the capital of the Company, in order
PENINSULA DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH. to provide the shares to be allotted to the
-1904. 1905. Municipal Council under the terms of the new Agreement, and to defray the cost of the impor- tant extensions and additions to the works, which are necessary to keep pace with the constantly increasing business of the Compeny
school children. Three carriages and pairs notion will be given, for the purpose of laying arena-The collection of the year was
waited in the roadway, and the Consulate was gally bodecked with fags. Whan the repre- sentatives of Their Highnesses arrived, the Httle children bowed low to them, but the Volauteurs were quickly ordered to stand to STs instead of at the present. The party adjourned to the Consulate.
CHINA STOCK COMMENTS.
Pekine were strong throughout the session, dealing in the shares being on an extensive
Financial News
À
ENGLAND'S RECORD IN JAPAN.
lation........
9.9
Consumption per €2
1,639,000 44,960,0
66,950 72,530
5.7 gallons haul per day The Government Analyst reports that the
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority. water is of excellent quality.
CUBANS AND FILIPINOS.
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
$6.5
8.00
40
[09-5
The Washington Government has discovered that when a nation aspires to the position of a World-Power, it must be prepared to eliminat both consistency and logio feem its scheme. While the Filipinos are every bit as much under American Hk. Tls: 31,493,156, an increase from 1903 of
entitled to Helf-government early one million taels, or three per cont. Aathis
gaidaacs as the Cubane are, the if it be is the principle source of revenue from which
the former. Both bold precisely the sme the Chinese Government draws the means of meeting its Foreign liabilities, it will, perkaps,
position both before and after their release from be better to say that in 1903, at the average Consumption 12,915,000 12,770,000 gallons one is granted, to the letter white denied to Spaoish rule. There was an insurrectionary exchange for that year, he Customs Remus Estimate popu- was £1,023,355 DE
or its equivalent in other
elamouring for independence in each party Foreign varrencias; and in 100s, at the xverage exchange for 1901, it was £1,514,019; thus
instance, and intermittent fighting wout on almost contiumously. But American statesman- constituting a real, though fortaitons, gain to
ship
refuses, rightly or wrongly, to sc "equality of opportunity" to the anaexed
HIRANO WATER. paper on "England's Record in Japan" the Imperial exchequer of £485,664, or 13 per
territory. The Caban rebels have gol practically asked for; the reform party" in the was read before the Japan Society by Mr. J. cont, The increase in the gearral Import
all they nearly measures the increase in the total
sent that the Rumour-mongere are also busy in the Chinese H. Longford, formerly bis Majesty's Consul at Duty (Opium excluded), Hk. Tis 887,86, very
collection and was mande mainly in the last A NOVEL SHOOTING COMPETITION Philippines Las to make the best of military! THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATALS.
The general
Export and section, garsiping about a coming railway deal Nagasaki.
Mr. Longford said that the record of Eng-
quarter of the year.
Colonel Trollop, V.D., Commanding the rule. It is all very well to between the Pekin Syndicate and the Chinese
land's
services to Japan was a long Coast Trade Duties and Tonnage Dues in- Government, and date.--Daily Mail,
cheerfully predicting an and honourable one, every incident in it being creased but slightly; while Transit Dues fell Quson's Woskaninster. Volunters has justite-civilention to be safely trusted with: Homa Boils. THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE BEAST,
Bat there are many who desm them quite as Са ни metamorphosis th announcement at on
of the highest value to Japan at the time.
"acontacy and endurance shoot," the prize well fitted for that Sensational movements occurred in Pekio
Opin Likin was less by goods inwards. Syndicate shares. The Ordinary rose I, and the was the example of England, constantly on-off, chiefly from reduced collection on Foreign ted a now competition which is called an
of Westminster.
Moreover, Aguinaldo, the Filipina sebel lender, Deferred, which are of the nominal value of 1s. forced upon Japan by Sir Harry Parkes, that Ik. Tis. 322,936, measuring the reinced import being a challenge cap presented by the Mayor negroes were at the date of th ir emancipation. usob, and
the anderstanding that some mea re of jurular rounds of ammunition for use in one
independence would follow victory whore a it the army, which is no 1638 £25 to £180 or 359,900 per cent.
Than
German
teachers, there is scareoly one brach ren
is not on record that the Cuban insurrectionista Past
Hk Tls. 920,421 in 1204. Norchwang shows hour, during which targets will be exposed at premium-Morning
Dealings in
and Chinwangtae The objects of the competition are stated to ever afforded effective assis ance in driving out
the Spanish garriang.-Globe. large scale. Favourable reports regarding the Englishmen have not played a gwent part. They
collected Tientsin Revengo
bat be-1. To bring home to members of the cerpa that important noirs will be announced in the and light-house, of the prison and banking reaintained 1913 fign. es; so did here to Kian- the conditions under which a soldier is liab os to properties are in circulation, and it is unticipated were the founders of the railway, telegraph the effect of the war in the rednotion of intersals making an aggregate of fifty minatas.
modern battle. The THE BURMO-CHINESE TELEGRAPH. with transference of trade from Chefoo The decline of Russian systems, of the press, and the mint. They first course of a few days. influence with the Chinese Government is also built docks and waterworks, and opened minen
and with measured ranges, may well End regarded as a bull
aa tlore bus always and when their chow, continuing in this the history of 1903. have to use his rifle in
rose from Hk: Tls. 75,141 tok
for He himself with a practically unlimited supply of bosz the fear that. Binsouvito infinences might leit vay doir direct toushing was done they Chungking and its transhipping port, lohang Volunterr on the defensive, lying under gond hemmunition, and an enemy who is trying hour he exerted to interfere with the operations efficienos, which made its subsequent að- of the syndicate-Financial Times,
are not
in
of the manipresent in the aggregate only 100 produced the ambition to become a naval and of the Foreign drag; while Opium Duty was
moro by H. Tls. 381,438, occasioned by an in- The competitors are to be chosen by vote, ono And, with the exception of of the company, were marked up commercial powers the creation of French and Pekin Svodicates were on a very of modern development in Japan in which Satire Opium from Hk. Th.167.907 in 1903 to lowed a company. They are each to be el gate valuable help to the Amerlein tro%@=
The sharp rise in Pekin Syndicate shares to fis, and the improvement in Sbaasis to 198, remind me of the favourable view I have
expremed regarding bese properties. There is undoubtedly a dead for the shares of concerns kaving great futare possibilities, and the fact that this company is the first to top the great unused mineral wealth of China means a great attraction to the speculative public. A little baying quickly has a marked effect on the Jaia
ministration plain sailing.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The P.M. str. Mongolia will leave Kobe for this port viu Nagasaki and Shanghai on the 13th inst. at midnight, and is dus here on the 19th inst. Her mails have been transferred to the DI.. str. Tekkis, due bere on the 17th inst.
grease in the collection from the movement of frem eich
which day on native ion in cover; a
Tis.423,592 and Hk Tla.845,278
of Yochew and of Changsha after hour to mass bis attacking troops at a
Mr. Barrington, director of the tr elench of Indian telegraphs, has proceeded to shanghai to assist in negotiations for the renewal for the Anglo-Chiness Telegraph Convention of 1904,
o RevEDEO of Ilection of 19-3, Of point within 500 wards of the defende; it will the Chinese Government having motifed ander
did not equal the Yochow
Hankow and Kintion then be borns in upon him that the man who Lower Yangtze
can make the best score in a short match may Ibad itcreased collection, while ports below were
slightly under 1903. Shanghai shows a dis- not be of so much use as the man who can cou tinct improvement, to which general Import and tinne indefinitely to pour out bullets with s Export Duty and Tonnage Dues contribute good average direction. 2. To discover what Chehkiang ports held their own, Hangchow percentage of hits may be expected from good making the best showing. Fukkien ports shots under the conditions stated; whence data were about the same, except that a greater applicable to many situations may be evolved."
PORN, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING.
Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNELL & Co. BEWARE OF Japanese IMITATIONS. F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTS. Hongkong, 31st July, 1903,
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the torms of agreement & desire for the modites- tion of certain clauses. The belter maintenance of the line on the Chinese side of the Harmo- Yunasa frontier and a reduction of rates are understood to be the chief points to be urged is reportel to be in a deplorable state of disrepair and discussed with the Chinesa representatives. The line in Yunnan beyond the Bhamo border Hongkong, 19th October, 1001
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