INTIMATION
A. S. WATSON
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& CO.,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1906.
We are informed by His Excellency the t The premises kuown as No. 8 Goorge Lane | Governor that the enggestion to postpone the were yesterday offered for sale by auction by Hongkong Volunteer Troop rynkkaan on Messrs. Hughes and Hough, and knocked down Saturday afternoon sinanated from members to Mr. I Tax Li for 82,600, of the troop.
TELEGRAMS.
["DAILY TRESS" Exclusive arRVICE.]
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of share-
was beid at the ofleas of the Co., Ltd., Company H Buildings, at noon yesterday, Sir Paul Chater presided, and Half there wurs also present-Mer. W. S. Wilson (manager), T. I. Raso (secretary), N. A. Siube, Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson, E. Goota, A. Haupt, G. H. Medhurst, and 9. Silvonalone (directors).
LONDON, August 20th. Valparaiso is still burning. the city has been destroyed. Eleven thousand persons have been killed..
Great damage has been done in V. Apoar, E. G. Barrett, J. P. Braga, Chau Santiago and other towns in Chile.
THE STEEL MARKET.
euston is for the faithful to adopt in these processions the Chinese equivalents for "' såckcloth and ashon", people who (as apparently biassed writer remarks) "Inve
Hongkong has now a clean bill of health. SOUTH AMERICAN HOLOCAUST holders in the Hongkong oud Whampoa Dook Towed to escort him on these occasions
We are, requeried to alate that the Hongkong The plague son is over, and the only other attiral in red clothes and slishevelled hair
Volanter Troop Gymkbans, which was post-communicable disease is thus officially recorded; ne condemned criminals in relata for some pozed owing to the death of Begt. Dess of the Eatsric fever 4 csas, 1 death, 3 Europasna,
For Hongkong Volunteer Corps, will take place, Tortuguese, I imported." fancied answering of a prayer ". the concluding phrase we are patently weather permitting, at 4,30 p.m. xext Saturday
on the Football Ground, Happy Valley. -indebted to a pious scoffer, who would be very properly annoyed if a Chinaman were to re-employ it is nuother connection.josna on Buminy, However, we mast admit that from our declaring tlat Boxers were after him, dived English for the disorders at Nanchang. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. point of view the Chinese do waste inimese through the window into the yard beneath, a
sums of money on those forius and core-; distance of 16 feet.
nies which we regard as melons. The He was taken to the asylum. computation has been made that in Shang- haj alone the annual waste is at least a quarter of a million dollars. Another lac of dollars, paid to the native priests for
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A coolie, living in Third Streof. became I worked himself up to great atate of excitement, and finally,
Ha broke his knee cap.
Three of the #ve labourors from South Africa who are alleged to hare murdered ona of their comralon by throwing him overboard at Hougkong, and who made their escape while
been recaptured nud are now in the Tisminin on their way to Tientsin under sacort, har
city prison.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library wad Muum for the week ending the 19th Aug! 1906, shows that of nou Chinese there were 315 to the Library and 149 to the Mustum; and of The Library was, therefore, used by 475 person and the Mnaoum by 2,55+).
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The Governor of Klangai bas telegraphed to the Imperial Gerornmout that as the result of the foods in his prorines it is impossible to pay the indemnities due to the French and the
One of the passengers passing through sn. thens, Glenlogon was Mr. Albert Rees, whom
Loxnos, August 20th. may be remenabered by tony residents on a
There is a great boom in rails in member of the Dallas and Baudmano Thecirical Companies. Be pinyed the "Emperor" in the| New York, where the greatest excite-
·Chinese Houngmoon". He has now left the ment witnessed for many stage, after nearly twenty years of it, not in
there. going to Shanghai to take up na appointment prevails.
REUTRES SERVICK
years
Sui-ki, Choa Loop-chise, E. Georg. Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Ho Kom-tang, H. Haw phreys, W. C. Jack, J. W. Jamieson, J. J. Leiria Lo Choung-shui. C. W. May, M. H. Michael, S. Michael, R. Mitchell, E. J. Moses, W. Parlson, I. S. Perry, T. Skinner, A. Percy Smith, M. Stewart, and A. ti. Wood.
The SECRETARY having read the notice 1 contening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN - Gentlemen, The
report und abatement of accounts having boos in your hurds for wome days, I will, with your permission, take them as rend. The net prots for the half year ending th June, 1905. amount to $408,256.44 J compare with $171,649.83 for the previous six months, sod $328.20051 for the corresponding period in 1905, an improvement which I am eave muat be very gratifying to you all and which tends t show that the hopes I expressed at our last
OF THE FINEST QUALITY-AND Paying for the unenvy ghosts, vannel be soil to altogether wastes, although it
Quarter Master Sargeant Cramer, of the CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE. night certainly be expended to better por
Army Ordnance Department, was yesterday pose. An enlightened body at Shanghai
LONDON, August 18th morning fuand lying in the streat outside the we read, which regards there as "idolatro
Warrant Ofleers" Quarters in Quen's Road A Cabinet Cornell in Paris has approved practics", bas persuaded the Shanghai
Central I was bleeding freely from a unm- of the views of M. Briand, the Minister of MAGISTRATE to issue a special priselaum-Chinese 16 to the former and 2,716 to the latter.ber of wounds, and he was at once taken to the tion, exhorting the people to divert the
Military Hospital, where he lies in a serious Worship, who said that the Government condition. It is thought that the sergeant, would ignore the Pope's Encyclical and meeting of an improvement in our business large sums to "the vastly more worthy and
find ng it rather warm indoors, want au to the wait the action of the clergy. It is under.sequent upon the cessation of hostilities in the North have been to some extent realized, practical object of endowing and establish
balcony, und, whether & full sleep or not, he stood that measures are contemplated to the reaalt of the past half year's working being must have lost his balance and fallen into the include the unforcement of military service the best since the corresponding priod two ing more schools of modern learning" or
street. |an it is elsewhere paraphrase?, " to the mors
on 6,000 priests, hitherto exempt, and for years ago. To this amount must be added th
sum of 3362,232.10, the balance brought forward worthy work of educating future generations
the suppression of pensions.
from last acconat, and after dedusting directora" Lin their dution to sovereign and country".
and auditors' fues we are available for Nothing could ise more, logical or retison.
appropriation the #urn of $754,738 54, able, in our opinion; and though the inis
which yum your directors propose, subject Riouaries are not specifically mentioned in
SHAL with BA follows:--To pay a dividend of 1 per cent, or connection with the petition, we feel that they
36 per share for the half year, absorbing are entitled to credit for lighting the spark | coufersuce in October, it sounection with
$300,000.00, to write off from the value of 11 appera that of couch-sense which is responsible for wireless telegraphy.
Kowloon Docks $36,578.71, to write off from the such re-action against honry superstition.German government is afraid that Britain will Thoy would, we are sure, eagerly endorse onepolise the world's wireless system as it
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Nothing could be more definite thau this. It to be the almost miversal opinion amongst those in a position to know, writes a Peking correspondent, that this Empire is to have a constitution and parliaavutary represon- tation not later than the month of Fabinary of the year 1917, that is to my, on Chinese New Your's Day of the 43rd year of the reign of H.I.M. Kuang Hsi
Tharu is to
be anathar
international
the
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CRITIC CRITICISED.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRI 90,
Hongkong, August 20th. 61B, Referring to the critique of the snert on Saturday evening appearing in to. day's issue, there is "qne mystery we failed
The
N.-C. Daily News Service.¦ JAPANESE ENTERPRISE IN MANCHURIA.
A NEW STEAMSHIP SERVICE.
Tokyo, August 15th. Manchurian Railway Administration to carry Fushan coal to Shanghai and long- Proposes to open a steamship service from Tairer long and to bring back on the return trip
to
yous
concurrence,
to
Cosmopolitan Dack $1.712.45, to write of from
Wa can recommend D. as being a Full Bodied with us the argument we have briefly cited practically monopolises the cables of the world. to solve" (1 quote your critics words) which merchandise intended for importation into the value of Aualing plant 824,360,00, and to
Wine of very Superior Vintage
At least, they ought to. Curiously entagh, however, we encounter in company with the foregoing report another report dealing with
The above Poem ar sabinet to 5 per cent certain proceedings at Kuting, repented mong the briefer news items in this issue. Kuling
healthy place situated
dincuual.
1
on a monutgia. It is, in fact, a health and holiday resort, annually frequented by mis- A. S. WATSON & CO., | sionaries. There is no suggestion that the
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All letters for publication should be written on No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in 'ather papera will de inmrted.
Orders for extra comes of Daily Puzes should be
ne side of the papër
unt before 11 a.m. on day of publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash, L'elegraphic address: Prava, Coder: 4.8.0. th Rd Lieber:
P.O. Bo, 88. Telephons Bo, 12
HIRTHS.
un August 201h, at Hongkong Hotel, Mrs. H. HAY, of twins, sou and daughter.
On August 20th, at No. 2, Combat Rod, the wife of Abuzer Ezis, of a daughter.
word "holiday" conveys the same idle and frivolous implications that it would in the case of the laity. The tired workers who there recuperate do not sport or Hirt or laze; they employ the tins of reat very largely iù conferences, which, vulgarly, may be said to be “talking shop”, a very sen- ible thing for all honest workers to do. We mention this so that subscribers at Home, who think of missionuries as brave men and women toiling in loneliness, dirt, privation, and peril, and who may not have heard of these summer resorts, will not misunderstand, and jump to the unfair
conclusion that missionarios eujoy what the laity calls "a good time". In order, présainably, to make the hill-top sojourn more in touch with their daily life, it has
twelve been decided to build there a thousand-dollar church. First, there seems 10-have been a "crisis", about which we
know nothing, save that it was vered by
De Auger Bath, at sumagtai, the wife of the discreet chairmanship “ of a gentleman From Ellis et a daughter.
interested. The new church is being built, On August 6th, at Shanghai 194 Mr. and Mrs. J. 31. Crson, s bughter.
it will be observed, largely because the old one é is not architecturally beautiful", and the unbeautiful one is to be pulled down, "By this meane', says the paragraph, “it
LexaRONG OFries: lé▲, De Vox ROAD C LONDON OFFIER: 151, FLEET STREET, B.C
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, AUGUST 2157, 1906.
The British Company (Marconi) has practically from out the German, owing to its contre) of the majority of shore stations.
*C
As a result of several confereness, betwe
representatives of the Chinese and Japanese Governments, the former will ocastruct the Mukden-Hsinuinton and Kirin-Kungchulin wars berself. H. E. Viceroy Yuan Shib-kai as Imperial High Commissioner of Railways, is therefore now reading special officials to
Maucharia to confer with Tartar General Chan Erb-sen at Makilen as to ways sad messus.
is capable of a very simple solation, which Manchuria. The capital of the new service will would be pe fectly obvions to anyone with be You 10,009) (PN).
■ knowledge of music. The piece referred to THE NEW JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS. was a quintet is, a musical cam position in
Tokyo, August 17th. The Katori arrived at Yokosuka at 11 am. fire obligato parts). That some of these parts this morning. should be doubled, for open-air performance, would not alter the fact that it was `n five-part composition. If, as he says, he saw a clarinet and a 'cello, it was only in his mïude oye, na both these instrumenty wera absent. His reference to Mr. Moutria's endors being "a tender little ballad" is another indication that he draw on his ignorance as a source of inspiration.—1 am, siv,
G. CLEF
A
THE IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
ACTIVE CHINESE INTERFERENCE.
The N-C. Daily. Yers of August 15th notes:--
we
carry forward the balause, 8392,087.38, to a new acconat. It may be of interest to mention here | that during the past five years we have written I of our various proportion sums to the amount of 3846,00 1, making a grand totel for the past twenty years of no less than $2,098,000 no dealt with, exclusive of the $62,651.16 now proposed to be written off. The teanage of ships dooked during the past six months shore an increase of some 77,900 tons in British and foreign meu-of-war, while the teanage of merchant ehips has slightly declined. Sure lant A native contemporary is responsible for addressing you have completed and the statement that H.E. Tang Shan-yi, one of delivered the large steamer for the Yang- the now." Comptrollers-Geuerat" of the Chinese Customs will shortly visit the various. Treaty s trade. This vessel was built in sight. Parts for the purpose of iespecting the foreign months from the date of arrival in the yard of native castorn-houseR. If this information the material from home, a fact which I think gorreel, the prop teed visit may be taken as compares favourably with anything done in a indication of the fact that the now Customs Europe. There is indeed no reason why a large Board does not represent, as the Chinese authorities would like the British Government Amount of this class of work which now goes to te understand, merly a shuffling of depart-Europa or Japan should not comes to us. heetal fazotions, but is to be au setiro factor our present facilities and up to date equipmusst in the shuiuistration of the Baritime Custome. Unfortunately this view of the cone receives any our tract in the shipbuilding line. Besides wo are well able and quite roady to undertake confirmation in many other ways. Apart from the appointment of a large stall, with infated this steamer we have delivered nine wooden emoluments
ents attaching to many of the prists, the lighters and three launches and have nor are making their presence under vonstruction four steel start wheel
withent
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Au interested reader has communicated with us concerning the footnote to the article "A thich те said
It is perhaps necessary to explain that the Vaugefal Brother", in that official enquiries indicated that both men abori letter in inserted chiefly as an exemple of It appears that how not to do it. The individual who was kind were killed by Hunglintas.
enough to furnish us with some rough notes the words "other and less prejudiced enquiries" about the concert certainly cannot be twitted would have been mors entract. What we do with ignorance, if a life-long study of music say is that the tone of the remarks, attributed and unerons diplomas count for anything. say is get the ten northing for traces of the copy of the letter shoxu to the critic evoked answer to the following effect: Plead a farbal fate of his brother show that he was not in a fit guilty to the cello mistake; it was a basa vial stato of mind to collest and appraise evidence if 1 said 'collo it was a slip of the tongue. Ex as it should to done in such sad and serious plain that the first for bars made me best
retroat, to the other bar, whence I eircumstances.
Certainly there was nothing in the noise of the quintet' to give maa hint as to its composition. I thought the stala joke about eight men playing a quiulet reference to the Inspector Geuers, considerable steamers, six lighters, a steam lanach and was the kindest way of suggesting that there casages in the administration and in the steam water
constitution of the derrice. is hardly necsR- at
The Hsiangfu (Shoasi) eurrespondent of the
glimpse of Chinese methods.
Daily Neers gives the following amusing There has been a great deal of talk here of late concerning the building of the railway, and lately two Japanese arrived, as is understood, to superintend the work. The raising of the necessary money fortos, however, a serious difonlty. People wil! not subscribe for fear they will not be able to got any return, and on the plan- of building proposed they were not likely to get any. I am told the proposal is to build a short line in this province in order to see how a railway
works and then to wait till the people of Hooan have constructed a line from Honanfu to the borders of Sheusi. In the meanwhile horses and males will be employed instead of steam."
The N.C. Paily Nrus of August 15th has the following note: The crisis over the church question at Kaling would appear to have been seccessfully passed, thanks to the discreet chair. manship of the Rer. F. E. Meigs at the special laudreuters' meeting last Saturday and the masterly bundling of the matter by the Rev Arnold Foster, chairman of the building
church to accommodate at least 600 people and to east approximately $12,000. The uid church, which is not architecturally beautiful, is to be pulled down aspoon as the new one is ready for use, the many contributions have been made on
hoped to preserve the unity in diserait which has hitherto so happily prevailed among the representatives of the
any creeks-and shades of croads, who amsälly in ere assemble on the mountain top ". the relevance of this to our opening remarks The is not at once apparent, we may be per-committee. beymittel to remark that twelve thousand We dollars is a large sam, even for a church to accommodate six hundred people at holi day resort in Chioa.
It is not in our
Sower modern maker of paradoxus has ismarked that since life is illogical, we cannot expect men to live logically. utinest we can expect of them is that should argun logically, he conclude!. are not prepared in defend the logic of the remark, siner at the moment we are con
routed. in China, with a condition of province to suggest, how it might be better
we fancy the logically things in which some most estimable men employed; but appear to be stltdying mave decidedly inclined Chinese of Shanghai wight he Jogical arguments by acts that appear, to able to mention a “vastly more worthy and severely logiral yes, to bu muureely in practical object.”, keeping. We have often had the protesta-
We are glad to read that Mr. Archild tions of those who are rightly enough Little is recorority from his fever. shocked at the waste of time and money of
The sick mix of the East", the Sulla guilty when on jobs which Chinese are pidjin" bent. The must glaring instances | Tarkay, is now reported to in seriously ill. printed out by ridesiouaries and other.
The Frenel-cruiser Alger will leave Toulon reformers oceur thrice a year, whes ver-ou the 1st September to replace the Grieken, tures are tunde to the spirits of the departed. On duee several days in each year; many of the Chinese believe, the denizens of the spirit world are pequitter to revisit the secues familiar to them when they were in the flesh. On these days. the civic "joss" or tutelary deity is brought out freni his temple, to figure in a soleau procession.
About & 1000 men will participate in the matmosres of the Chinose army in the provinca of Honun on the 3; d October next.
The decision is to erect a wow
that understanding. By this means it is hoped to preserre the unity u diversity which has hitherto so happily prevailed among the repro catatives of the many reeds and shades of creeds, who annually assemble on the mountain
top
In the Admiralty.case of H. M. the King in his office of Admiralty, è, the Chiva Navigation of, and the China Navigation Co. owners of The Chhefiang, d. Commander Leatham, Captain of H. M. dispatch vessel Alacrity, judg- ment was given at Shanghai on Aug. 15th. Mr. T. E. P. Jones appeareil for His Majesty in bis office of Admiralty. Mr. J. H. Teesdale repre- outed the China Navigation Company. H. M. dispatch-vessel dlacrity and the ss. Chink any collided off the Shantung Promontory in thick fog at a little after 11 11.08 July À 1900; the diacrity is twin-screw, 1,709 . H. P. 2,000 a constitution N, D., and was proceeding from Shanghai to Weihaiwei: and the Chiakiang is single screw, 1,985 gross tonnage), 210 N.H.P., and was on Lord Gordon Leutes, who was in command a coyage from Chefoo to Swatow with a fall during which the people ŝacrifice vast stores of the 1st Chinese Regiment, is at present a cargo. The result is judgment for the Alacrity of paper garments and gear. incense, visitor in Hengkong. He is accompanied by candles, and pecuniary offerings. The Captain Patton Bethune,
Ninety thousand members of the Young China" party have petitioned the Travelling Commissioners to recommend with parliamentary representation."
with costs in the action, and for Commander. Leatham with costs in the cross action,
mis-
De he ist practically
felt
boat-You will remember... remark was our last meeting toms te emphasise the
of ausb significance
made with referaton to the apparently On the administration of the IN BASUTES. Imperial Maritime Customs are secured all the necesarily large stock of inaterials carried, Loans of China, with the exception of the rail- which then stood in the accounts at 1,980,411,52 way loan of 1899, while the foreign control of and you will notice that in the accounts now this branch of the Public Service may be made before you we have adopted a slightly dingen to constitute the chief guarantee for China's commercial future.
method in dealing with this item, showing th Any step which in cal-
was a expernity on the stage, but it seams ta have been risunderstood. If your correspondentary te happens to be one of the gentlemen who lingered newhat ostentationsly for an encore that was not domanded, his heat is only natural. And what do
what do you say about the tender ballad
s encore piece? Well, it was short-stanze'd sentimental, which I take to be
and the soutient was enough. If your musically lamenta on vapor
learned correspon- deat prefers to consider it a corale song, 1 object, though the singer might. By the way, there was a mistake which he has not painted out. did not call Mr. Montrie's baritono
can
very email, but very sympathétis'. Case of bad handwriting, I suppose."]
HONGKONG, VOLUNTEER RESERVE ASSOCIATION.
a
culated to lead to the fateorption and disappear amount of work in progress separately from ance of the Inspectorate must be viewed with amount of materiale on hand, the two together considerably alarm by all bondholders, and it is
high time that the Diplomatic Corps in Peking totalling $1,641,013.89 as against $1,950,411.52 should arrive at a clear understanding with the in the isst account, a decrease of 1300,967.64, Caizese Government regarding the scope and due to the completion of the Yangtaas staamer functions of the new Customs Board.
Aos rding to a native contemporary the and other works. The dredgar Cantar Shiuwaebu or new Castoms Board under H. E. River kas, I regret to say, been unemployed Pich Linng an
abg and A. E. Taug
Shoo yi namprimus for practically the whole of the past six months, four separate departments dealing respectively, which explains the item in the profit and lose with (1) Foreign duties and taxes, (2) Native account under this head. The accounts do not duties and taxes (3) Opium duties and taxes,
seem to call for any special comment; but before
of these departments is administered by
The following are the highest scores for the und (4) Miscellaneous duties and taxes. Each moving their adoption I shall be pleseed to Governor's Cap for the mouth of August, 1966, Director with one searstary and two clerks, answer any questions any shareholder may wish
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The majority of those who love books roma at last to divide human beings into two classes those who care for literature and thess who do not. Before this classification, all ober divisions into good and bait, ugs and beauti fol, Christian and infidel-retire into figni- ficaron. The love of literature, indoet, captures es like the passion for alcohol, and, white we are in bondage to it, we cannot understand how life would be worth living on other terms
while Tuotai Cheng Chn-sen has been made
all four to pat. *Superintendant-in-charge" ovor
directly andor Their Excellencies
departments Tiek and Tang.
In the face of three appointments it would um impossible to maintain seriously the
Mr. HOMPHRErs, in seconding the motion for the adoption of the report, said in doing so be proposed to follow the oxampls of the Chairman
contention timt no encroachment is coatem and be as brief as possible. They had had a plated upon the Inspectorate-General.
It fairly good balf-year, which although it could would be fateresting to learn the placa ascribed not be compared with soms of those they had by the Chiose authorities to Sir Robert
WEATHER REPORT.
Line in this New Customs hitnrchy, Tajoyed in the flood lide of their prosperity, yel was a distivet improvement on the last two report in trus, it is between the Superintent- out in charge" and the four Directors.
years. That in itself was estiefactory, especially when it was borne in mind that this result had been brought about in facs of increased competi tion. But they should remember that competi tion would tend rather
to increase than On the 26th at 11.25 am-The barometer diminish, and that amongst other things they · has risen geherally, except over the S. Philip must not employ more cats than catch mise. pines, the most marked rise being shown over In every firm there were always a certain N, Chixa.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report
rendered
Pressure is almost equal in all districts. It number of tea, who although they did not do thura liabis to is slightly lower ever the Sea of Japan than anything which lowers. The normal is still exceeded by dismissal, yet did not pull their weight in the thout 0.1 inch over 2. China, Formosa and the bout. It seemed to him that the expensen at La choos, while it is a little below the average the Kowloon Docks and the Head Office for iu E. Japan.
Gradients are goatle, and light variable supervision were somewhat large. It might be winds are indicated along the China cost, and that his lack of techuical knowledge led him to over the China Sea.
wrong conclusions, but," speaking for outside Hougtong rainfall for the 24 hours ending shareholders, he would like the directors to at 10a.m. to-day, 0.13 inches.
*S.B. winds,
light: fair. Variable
give this msttor their attention and see if any The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon economy could be brought about in that respect. to-day is as follows:-
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
Farcos Channel...
South coast of Chiun between Hongkong and Lamocks.
Seath cost of China between Hong kong and Hainan...
winds, light. Same as No.1.
Same as No.1.
He had much pleasure in seconding the motion for the adoption of the report and acconata
The motion was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN--Dividend warrants will be ready to-morrow morning on application. I shall now thank all of you present to remain a little whil
This apparently was for an informal din cassion in private.]
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