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CROSS-EXAMINING A WOMAN,

TALES UP THE "UNCERTAIN SEX" BY A LAWYER.

Women appear in the criminal courts often as witnessos, los frequently as complainants, and comparatively seldom as defendants,

To their credit bo it said, they are rarely found there au mare spectators, save on the ove of some great forensic battle or when they have a personal interest in the outcome of a prosecu tion. A compisinarts are always witnesses and as deferdante way, and in poist of fast general, ly do, boceme so, whatever generalisationé in courte of are possible regarding women Jaw ny best be drawn from teir characteristics as givers of testimony.

Or:

How old are you?" Twenty-three. Old enough to have koown bottar than to trust bim. "

What is commonly knows as "silent orosa- examination"

generally the most effective. is The jury know the difBeultion of the situation for the lawyer, and aro not unlikely to sympathisa him unless he makes bold to attack the with, shows they quiclily change their attitude.

One question, and that as to the witness' worn of livelihood, is often sufficiat.

How do you

you support yourself ? ** "I am a lady of leisurel" replies the wiinuss farraged in flamboyant colours) snappishly.

That will do, thank you, remarks the lawyer with a smile. "You may step down."

The writer remembers boing nicely hoisted by his was petard on a similar occasion.

"What do you do for a living?" he asked. The witness, a rather deceptively arrayed weman, turned upon bim with a glance of contempt:

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Roughly speaking. won exhibit about the same ciosyncrasies and limitations in the witness-bex as the opposite sex, xud at first thought one would be apt to say that it would be and absurd to attempt to predicate

fruitles any general principles in regard to their tes timony, bat a screwbat moro ofroful study of inevitable conclusion that their evidence has virtues and errors poculiar to itself.

Whatever difference does oxist in einracter between the testimony of men and women hus its root in the generally recoguised diversity in the mental processes of the two saxes. Men, it is only declared, rely upon their powers of reason; wolne upon their intuition. Not that the former is any more accurate than the latter. Fitz-Jamos Stephan tells of a criminal trial in Paris where the judge of instruction was calle i is the stand to testify whether or not in his opinion the accused was guilty. In response to sa interrogation from the court to tlist efect, he aulesitatingly responded that ho not only was of that opinion, but that he was certain of it. The prisoner's counsel theroapou, very naturally, inquired by virtuo of what means he was 80 Hure of the fact.

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"I am a rempostable married woman, with raven children," she retorted. "I do nothing for a living except cook, wash, scrub, make beds, mind the baby, teach the four oldest their lessons, take care of my husband, and try to get onongh sloop to be up by five in the morning. I guess if some lawyers worked as hard us I do they would have senso onough not to ask fmpertinent questions." James

in his "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers," says that Garrer was examining o very young lady, who was a witness in an assault case, and asked her if the person who was assaulted did not give the defendant very ill tangonga; if he did not utter words so bad that ho (the counsel) had not impudence enough to repeat them.

The lady replied: “Yez. "

Will you, andam, be kind enough to toll the court what those words ware ?**

Why, sir," she replied, "if you have not impudence anough to punk them, how can you suppose that I have?

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is no witness more difficult in the whole world to cope with than a shrewd old woman who apos stupidity only to reiterate the gist of her testimony in such incisive fashion as to leave it indelibly imprinted on the minds of the jury.

In recent American murder case a vigorous old indly took the stand at testified forcibly As the saying goes, and resolutely paint," refused to answer any question put to her by counsel for the defence.

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to frenzo like the very deuce. Now the wounded on stirred a little... p'r'aps it was the cold. I wanted to tell im not to more, so I put out my free hand a looked up at the stars. I pinched 'im again, an' said still, sir! E turned 'is end a little an' looked at me. Oh it's you, is it! What's happened?" You're cat up, sir, an' I'm oldin' you art'ry, sir, so don't more Oh! saz 'a uninterested like, Thanks!' no'o shuts 'is eyes agen. spoke in what the Scripture calls a still small voice--as if he was very tired. Suddenly some poor foller starts groanin' ' I felt 'ow awful quiet the night was an' the 'ill lay still, and waitin' for I don't know what. There was most tremendous snow peaks all about, an' under- stood what I'd 'eard one of them Rationalists say about The himmensity of space. My right arm was gettin' played out, an I krew that if 'elp didn't come soon I must risk a lanyard. I picks it up in my left and au pulls it off Bangit goes off three times an then-click-empty! The shota went echoing away for miles, A dog started owlin' a long way off, an' it was awful creepy, an' I was numb with cold an cramped off, for the next thing I

"I must 'ave dozed knew an 'and gripped my shoulder, an' I see a fall priest in duffle banketin', an' a big kind of Tam-o'-Shanter on is end. I thinks, Now we're done for!' an' I wished I'd kept the revol ver. But 'e looks down sort of kindly like, an' ez somethin in 'i lingo, so I tries Im in *Industani, Telia 'in I'm oldin' my officer's

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"I know it from his generally villaluous "Now, perhaps the genial judge of instruation was entirely right. Very probably ho was; but should any person of the male persuasion attempt to offer saca testimony here would assuredly contempt. However, in Paris, his solemn en clusion was received with due respect, recorded on the minutes, and given proper weight.

The intuition, or instinct, of women of which we speak is an eutiro misnotaer. Women reason just as do mw, but they are prone to skip over the intermediate stops and land firmly upon their conclusions in the first instance. Their minds de network quicker that mea's minds; they merely do les werk, and hence achieve their results in a shorter space of time. Essentially the process is the same; whale John is thinking, Jane has got there; but when John in due time has arrived the chances are all i Cavour of his being able to explain to a jury how ho gol thers, whereas Jane vзauet. All she knows is that she is there. What we mean by A woman's "intuition", therefore, is, properly speaking, merely her general inability to ex plain her reason, and the failings of her tes-

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Do you my, Mes." the lawyer would ingaire deferentially, that you heard the sound of three blowa?"

Oh. thim blows!" the uhl lady would cry

"thin turrible blows! I could hear the villain as he laid thim out I could hear the poor. pitiful grana ar ber, and she so sufferin Howly saiute, "twould make yer blood run cowld! Ao thin they'd come ugin!"

Stop! stop!"

exclaimed the lawyer.

"AL, stop is it? Ye can't stop me till Oi've hari me say to till the whole truth. I says to me daughter Ellen, says 1: Th' borrid bast is after murtherin' the out an git an offering,' says I ran

artry an' would 'e give me a drink ar old it for a bit. I thought as being a Bhuddist priest,

as 'e might p'raps act Christian-like. E shakes

"I object to all this," shonts the lawyer, 'is 'ead, an'. bends down to see what I was doin'. Ah, ye obje, do yo?" retorts the old lady. Then 'e nods, and sex somethin" else, an' aigus timony are simply the result of careless thought.Shure an' ye'd have beea altor objectin yerself to me to keep still, an' 'e'll go un' get 'elp. Then

For example, two witnesses, a man and woman,are summood before the jury to testify to whether or not they lacked the respectivs doors of their apartments upon a certain day. The man awers that he did an He is asked to atate the grounds for his belief.

Because", he replies, "I always put the kaz in my right).

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coat pocket. That morning I remember that there was a hole in it which 1 discord, and accordingly transferred the key to my left-hand pocket."

In like counter the woman swears she locked her deer. In response to the inquiry as to how sho knows she did so, she will exclaim, in nine cases out of ten:

if yo'd heard thim turrible Hows that kilt here gorn off down the 'ill quick bat naghty in 'is the poor, sufferin', swate crayter! I hope he gits stride. Presently I sets im come up the 'ill all that's comin' to him-bal cess to him for a with a queer old laatsen an' four chapa carryin'

E kneels down an' sez, as plain as if » hooli bloodthirsty divil! **

'It's all right, I'll look after The lawyer ignominiously abandoned the it was English:

'im for you; don't you worry, brother. I lot attack.

Crooke James tells a story of how, only by a im take my 'and from the wound quick. I tried flash of genius, Sir James Scarlett saved a to get up, but was so stiff an' cold I couldn'i stír. raus, The, famcus barrister in a breach of Then tue of the bearers picks me up, an every- promise. case (Foote v. Green) was for the thir' spins round." defendant, who was supposed to have been cajoled into the engagement by the plaintiff's mother, afterwards the Countess of Parrington. The mothor, as a witness, completely briflod Scarlett, who, on behalf of the defendant, cross-examined ker by one of his happiest strokes of advocacy he turned his failure into success, You as, gentlemen of the jury, that I was bnt a child i ber hands. What must my client have been ?"

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-When I comes to I was lyin' on skin, an wrapped up in warm blankets, before a blazin fire of legs, with a pot angin over it-lookin' at the darnes in a sort of 'appy dream. Gradually I remembered what 'ad 'appened, an', by-an'-by, I 'ours somethin' movin' in the room. I tarna on my side to look round, an' sees the priest comin' over to the fire, 'oldin' n basin in 'is and. E points to the basin', an' the pot, a' me. I sbakes my 'eal, au' sez: No! To think of food made me sick. But o uods is 'ead an' amiles; opens the pot, an' dips in the basin as the steam goes 'arryin' up the chironey. Thon e aquats down by me, an' lifts me up against which ad wound me, is dips bits of brasi

Why I always look the door when I go out!" Perlaps the best illustration of the female habit of swearing that. Facts occurred cause they unally occurred, was exbibited in the Twitchell murder tripl in Philadelphis. The defendant had killed his wife with a blackjack. and having dragged her body into the backyard, carefully unbolted the gate leading to the ndj jacent alloy, and, retiring to the house, wont to

was to create the impression opened and he tumbled into the carriage.is shoulder, oldin' the basin in 'is left "and, that had

she bed bean arieted by somente from Catching at the light luggag, rok, he fell

bod

At the trial she swore positively that she was first obliged to unbolt the door in order to get out. Nothing could shake her testimony, and she the unconsciously negatived the entire ralue the defendant's adroit precautious. Its was justly convicted, although upon absolutely erroneous testimony.

ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD.

The train was already moving when the door

wrapped up; is face was very white an' quiet, The priest shuts i nyes, breathes deep an raylor, an' puts is finger on 'is lips, which I takes to mean sleep. All at once I feels awful sleepy myself; on' the fire turns into kercane flores on a Edgware-road stall an' the kind old priest into a copper."

outside the premler. To carry out the sugagainst a girl's hat brim, and, hastily apologis- in the soup, as' feeds me like a kid, 'o makos soldier: me drink the soup, au' I feels mach batter, I gesties, he beat a poker and left it lying nearing, sat down opposite me. He wa The body, smeared with blood. In the morning small, wiry, and intelligent; for all the world asks "Im by sigas 'ow my comrade is gettin' or the servant girl found her mistress and ran like a thoroughbred terrier-indeed, his sprucely-E turns me orf round, an' there I sees 'im lyin' shrieking into the street.

waxed monstaches almost suggested whiskera, As I observed him he lifted up the right hand side of his tunic, and stuek a ticket into the little trouser pocket. His face was deeply Launed. It was a good face, of which yen roay see dozens in any barracks, or any town or sill age in England. But after a time the faces in the barracks take a new sigour, and the eyes get the quiet self-rebance that comes to men who have talked to death at the outposts of our Empire, and fought beside many strange peoples wearing the King's uniform.

"This right for Ammersmith?" he asked. "Yea!.

You're home on furlough, ok?"

Yus! we're just 'ome from Thibot-Lhassa to Park'urst, my eye!"

What do you think of the last Government's treatment of Colonel Younghusband and the trouty?"

In a very recent case where a clover thief had been convicted of looting various apart monis of over £1500 worth of jewellery, the female owners were summoned to identify their property. The writer believes that in every in- stacce these Inties were absolutely ingenuous and intended to tell the absolute truth. Fach and everyone positively identified various of the loose stones found in the possession of the prisoner as her own This was the casa even when the diamonds, emeralds, and pearls had no distinguishing mark at all. It was a human impossiblity actually to identify any such objects, and yet these eminently respectable and intelligent gentlewomen swore positively that they could rebognise their jewels.

One of the ladies oforred to testified as follow-

Can you identify that diamond 5"

"I am quite sure that it is ruins."

- How do you know ?"

"It too sexactly like it. "

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But may it not be a similar one anil not your

"No; it is mine.

"But how? It has no marks."

I don't care. I know it is mine. I swear

it is!"

The good lady supposed that, unless abo swore to the fact, she might lose her jewel, which was, of course, not the case at all, as the sworn testimony fonuded up nothing but inference laft her in no better position than she was in before.

I regret to say that observation woáld lead one to believe that women as a ruls have some- what loss regard for the spirit of their anths than mon, and that they are a trife more ready, if it be necessary, to commit perjury.

In spite of these limitations, which, of course, are by no menus confined to tuo female sex, and which affect the testimony of almost every witness who gives evidence in a court of law, so far as manner and adroitness are concerned, wonen, with the possible exception of children, maka the most wonderful witnesses to be feand

in the courts,

A woman will inevitably couple with a categorical answer to a question, if in truth she can be induced to give one at all, a statement of damaging character to her opponent. For example:

"Do you know the defendant?"* "Yes, to my cost?"

"Cbronic! After all we done, too! They are a crowl 'ere! Nice way to oucourage inen to work! We did a job that so army over as done, an nobody but as could do. Thora Eikhs and Gurklas are fius fellers au' no mistake! Lord! 'ow we suffered on the way 'ome, ever them passes: knee-deep in snow; sixteen thonsod feet up; bloomin blizzards; an we 'ad to carry ovary runce of food, fodder, an' firm'! On the way to Lhasso, too! Thera tanudorin' great mounting topplin' on your rad all the time; an' the people foolin' round with rollin' rocks, an' magazine rides zu' awords; buildin' sangars an' pretendia' they was peaceful. But we give 'em one or two good dins, aral they got quite chummy in the

and

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"What sort of country is it?"

Fine! There must be gold an' turquoises by the tou; au oaps of timber, an' a white man's elinste; an' Bussis can't do e arm

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He seemed to be getting excited, and I offered him a cigarette. Thanks, I don't mind.

Qaisted by the tobacco, he wont on We was 'arin

"I was woke up hy voices, an' rolled out of my blankets feelin' fit as a Bidle, I the Surgoon-Captain talkin' to the priest, an' lookin' at four Sikhs liftin' my sub on to a stretcher. Through the doorway I see a bit of woody 'ill and a great glistenin snow-capped giant miles an' miles away behind. The sun was

That's farther 'Ello! Ravenscourt Park?

Cors than "Ammersmith, ain't it F out an' "ave a drink? Well, I don't mit

mitul, xir, But I must back up au' get 'one to muever, Yuss! I did see the old priest eb? agen; on the way 'ome from Lhassa it was. I give 'in two buttons, aa-'e give me this."

The Fusilier dived into the breast of his scarlet tuvie and brought out a little box. Opening it, he took out a rough gold ring, sot with a big turquoise, curiously engraved. Do fiue for my girl!"

Yass, it is curious.

ain't it? A gentleman what's the brother of the young lady my sab.'s engaged to told me it agans. a ow Yer musn't kill nothin', an must love yer enemy! Run thing them 'eathben Ah! 'ere we are, avin' texts like that! Saloon Lounge!"--(Harold Blind),

PHONOGRAPHIC CRUELTY.

The gramophone or phonograph as un înstru- ment of torture is nothing new to residents in semi-detached villas with the usual slender walls, or oven in fata with the floors warranted duly pagged." It is only the method of application that is novel in the horrible tale of marital cruelty told by the Daily Mail's New York correspondent. The husband, it is alleged, My towela

like brothers we was.

talked into a phonograph an impassioned love a bit of a scrap in the speech to a young woman of whom his wife wan igh Dls, an it was 'and to 'and. I'd stack a jealous, and then put the instrument zightly great big foller, an' another beggar, with a bally ontside his wife's bedroom dour, where it great sword, was 'ackin at my 'ond. I sees it vociferated the tou Sagrantly misdirected words cousin'-the sweep of it-an I says to myself, of love. Before third parties the man and the

Now I'm done! when my townie-sticke 'ia rifle in between, an' the sword slips down an' cuts ia and, an' next second the foller with the big sword cuts im down. Then I got mad, an droppin' my rife. I jump at is throat. I don't know 'ow I done it, for 'e was about six-foot two; au' I'm nota big man! ButI 'its im fair, and aslips up on somethin'. Down we gees, an I throttlesis which & soldier was gouded to frenzy by a 'ir while I bangs is ead on a rock. I remem

other woman looked as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and to the wife they pretended that the voices were only an hallucination on ber part, designing, she maintains, to drive her mad. The phonograph has been profaced and sot going in court, with what result does not yet appear. It recalls that story of Mr. Kipling's

mato who taught a parcot or some such

bur snarlin', I'll teach yer, my beauty! I bird to insult him by continually screeching, teach yar with every bump, when my liouten-Simmons, ye soor" They did not know ant comes along, and, What's this? soz 'e? everything, even abont torture, in those good Look' sex I, aoddin' towards may neste between old days of the thumbscrow and the scavenger's the bumps, Como off, yon little devil!' sez'o, daughter.

to be without a box of the Pilla in the bouse. I've been another man since using them, and dar home's like another home."

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The contract further provides that the net profits, after payment of the annual rent, pit fax, sad working expenses and subseqnnot to a frat charge for payment of interest to the shareholders of % per annum on the capital of the Company, are to be divided into teu ports and apportioned as follows:-

Une-tenth is to be set aside for Amortisation of Capital, and one-tenth for a Reserve Fund; of the remaining eight-tenths, 25 per cent. has to be paid as royalty to the Chinese Gocerament, and the balance is at the disposal of the shareholders of the Anglo-Chiness Company,

Permission is givan for the employment of a Mining Expert to prospect, and also for the construction of railways and canals for the transport of minerale, subject to reasonable conditions. The Concession area is comprised within the limits of such prefecture of Kiang-pi, a district situated on the north bank of the Yangtze River, immediately below the Treaty Port of Changking; and measuring 120 li oast and west and 200 li north sad south, an area of some 3,000 square miles. The district is noted as containing deposits of the beet · cal and iron ores in Szechuan, if not in China. Thousands of old workings of both minerals tentify to the vide extension of the deposits. The native mitors abandon their workings in the ground as soon as diffcalties with water or ventilation arise, and thus many promising wines have been left derslict and are non, under the terms of the concession, open to profitable working by improved forsiga methods.

Of the few coal mines in the basin now being worked on a comparatively important scalo, that at Lungwangtung is the chief. The coal from these collieries is almost identical with Welsh, is free from sulphur, and is the best steam raiser yat discovered in China. During the past five years, on association of the local mine owners and gentry have combined with Mr. Littl in working one seam in the Langwangtung Glen, and have mot with an active demand for their prodnation, both in Exechuan locally as well as in thy Lower Yungisza ports: Ichang and Hakow. No coal approaching the Lingwangtung in quality has so far been found in the Yangtze Valley, and as a conséquenes, this Association has been able to sell all the coal it has bow able to put out at the following prices :-In Chungking. Ths. 5 per ten, in Ichang, Tls. 0,50 per tou, and in Hankow, Tls. 11.50 per tou-as against Japan coal solling in Hankow at 7 tals per ton.

The cost of the ceal at the pit mouth is little over one tasl per ton; and it is to lemon the cost of transit by the substitution of a light mineral milway for the coolie porterage now employed between the mine and the river, that capital is requiral. The distance from the mice to the river is 15 miles, and the oatămated cost of a two-foot gunge line is Tls, 150,0. The road will be carried by easy gradients along the valley of a stream, which falls into the river at the site of the Company's shipping port of Shihtṣekou, to which railway transport will effect a reduction on present coolie transport of Tls. 2 per ton. By improvemouts in the working and the opening of a now adit to tap a hitherto untouched portion of the field, a practically un'imited iner ssa in the output may be obtained at a reduced cost from the Langwang tung Coal Field slons.

All consumers of the Langwangtung coal testify to its exceptional value as a steam-raiser. The Company holde sertificates from Naval Engineers, from Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co. Eram Mossrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., and from the Luhan Railway, all of which may by soonat the offices of the Solicitors, The Chief Engineer of the lattor notes the foot that using this coal his compound engines can make the ran of 200 miles without stopping to clean fires.

Alongside of the coal deposits are found excellent iron ores, which are now worked on a small scale province. Seeing that the coal and iron ores, hematite and elny-iroaste e, are the natives, who make fine castings which are employed in stoel manufacture throughout in juxtaposition, sud that masses of first-class limestone, from which large supplion of cheap tine are now drawn, lie above the coal, there is material here for a great iron and coment industry in the near future.

The untouched reserves of coal and of iron ores throughout the wide Concession aros are practically unlimited. Of the one narrow seam now being worked at Lungwanetung. Mr. Kingsmill. C.E., who made a detailed survey of the region last year, and whose report and maps of the surface, as of the geological features, as well as of the Cono asion area, my be seen at the Company's offices, estimates the untouched area of the Lungwangtong sa practically level and ssif-draining at fifty-four square miles. Out-croppings in the neighbouring glans, as well as aleng the river bank, show the existence of numerous other seams. One pach is the evine foot anthra ite of the Lutikou mines, aituated to the West of the Lungwortung, a coal which, when the mines wereis full working, supplied the brine distilleries at the salt wella. The intrinsic vane of this coal is shown by the fact that it pays to convey it up a" rapid ” iufested stream, to the salt wells, to distarcos of four and fire hundred li

Mesara, Arabold, Karbarg & Co., who, for the past three years, have acted as Agoats for the sale of the meal in Honkow, will enatinge the management as General Agents of the Com. pay for a term of three years from date. The provisional agreement can be seen at the offices of the Solicitors to the Company.

The terms under which the Concessionaire, as Vendor, parts with his Concession to the Company which was registered in Hongkong on the 23rd March last, have been formulated in an agreement dated the 27th day of March, 1906, made by him with the Company, whereby ho fristers to the Company all his mining interests in the region acquired thereunder, in return wherefor he is to receive one thousand fully paid-up Shares in the Company.

nder present disadvantageous conditions the Lungwangtang Collieries bare, since their mungement was taken over by the vendor in 1899, distr inted an anual dividend of 15 por cent. on a capital of 71s, 60,000, and an output of only 20,000 tons, besides some ten per cent. spent in improvements in the mines. The short railway will be built during the coming winter, after which it will be possible to deal with a vastly increased output, and to earn a proportion- atoly increased dividend. Iron smelling and allied industries will be dealt with later. It will be the aim of the Directors to work economically, and only to introduce expensive innovations cautiously.

The working of this Concession is no new experiment, but a proved proposition which only nende fresh capital to be developed into an cuterprise of great maguitade. By its conversion into a Limited Liability Company, Investors are offered an unique opportunity of participating in one of the most promising mining concessions that the Chinese Government has thought it to grant. They granted this Concession in recognition of the work already done by the Concussionaire in Sscobusu, and there is every reason to anticipate their continued and hearty support in carrying through the developments contemplated.

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Copies of the Contracts and Report referred to in this prespectus, and of the Memorandum

Arbits of Aasmaation of the Company, may be inspected at the offices in Shanghai of the

Legal Adviser,

Applications for shares should be made upon the accompanying form and forwarded to the Bankers of the Company, together with the amount payable on application. If no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned without deduction, and where the number of shares allotted is less than number applied for, the surplus will be credited in reduction of the amourat pyablo on allotment,

Prospectuses and Forms of Application for shares may be obtained at the offices of the long- KƠNG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION in Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow, &c., and also at the SOLICITORS' OFFICES, No. 4, Yuon-ming-yuen Road, in Shanghai.

Shanghai, 16th April, 1906.

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