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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

"SHIRE.” LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERP, MID-

DLESBORO, LONDON, AND

STRAITS. THE Company's Steamship

of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods

t

REVIEWS,

Tong Bungay. By H. G. WELLS. London:

Macmillan and Go..."

THE HIẾN CÔNG DAILY PRESS, KIDAY MAY OSTE 1900.

SILVER QUESTION, REDIVIVUS.

NE MONETON FREWAN SATS IT IS COMING TO THE FORE AGAIN,

Anyone on the look-out for a good novel can

The San Francisco Chronicle obearvea be recommended to procure this latest book by

Moreton Exowan his written an artlole in the Mr. Wolls with every confidence that it will Nineteenth Century and After which is attract from beginning to end be thoroughly enjoyed.ing attention in Great Britain and this country It is a very fine satire on modern commercialism, and is a source of much surprise to those people

who thought the cance of silver was a dead Tono-Bungay is a patent medicine and the book Caesar, and that the money question was describes the career of its garrulous, imagina- completely settled by the adoption of the gold tive inventor from insolvency as a chemist in

standard by the United States, It appears, crever, that Mr. Frewen, after su extended has reached the conclusion that there is much journey of observation through the Far East, trouble in store for the Western world if it disregards certain conditions forced on his attention, and concerning which he seeks to enlighten English readers by the publication of | his artiola,

"CARDIGANSHIRE," having arrived from the above Porta, Consignees little country town to opulence as a promotor are being lapiled and placed at THEIR BISK in of industrial companies on a colossal scale. The the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown book is thick set with vivid studies of many Company's hazardous and/or extra hasar-posplo and sketches of contemporary life, and the

Kowloon, where each consigamant will be sorted out mark by palishora are fully justified in oluiming for the mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as hook that it is in the best tradition of the Eng- the goods are landed.

tish novel-full, varione, olustering, humora and real. Our copy comes from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh..

dona Godowns

Goods not cleared by the 31st inst., at 8 will be subjant tó rant.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in

any base whatever.

All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten

4

Jimbo: By ALOERNON BLACKWOOD. London:

Macmillan and Co.

Jimbo is the pet name of a child who shows

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

AN ANALYSIS,

¡ESTIMATED RECEIPTS ON THE BASIS OF EXISTING TAXATION, Customs.

Tax Revenue £

.28,100,000 Exone 32,050,000 Death Duties. 18,600,000 Stamps..... Land Tax and

7,600,000

House Imty-2,650,070 Incomes Tax...33,900,000

Post Office, Telegrapha

Non-Tax Revenue---

3

-122,900,000

and Tale £ phones... 22,400,000 Crown Lands $30,000. Buez Canal

Shares...

Miscellaneous 1,394,000 1,166.000

£ 25,490,0 0

£148,390,000 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE.

Total Revozue

days after the versol's arrival hore, after which signs of a lively imagination, to the dismay and countries na China byenabling them to nee their Other Cons.

no claims will be recognised.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

Agenta Hongkong, 24th May, 1909.

[779 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVI-

GATION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND SHANGHAI HECompany's Steamship

THE

"CHINA?

having arrived, Consigneus of Cargo are hereby informed that Goods will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazardons Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.

indignation of a kind-hearted but blantering father who insists on his wife's angaging a practical sensible nursery-governess to knock the nonsense" out of the boy, preparatory to his being sent to school. It is a remarkablő story of a child's mind during consciousness and also through a period of physical unconscious. ness. No digest can do justice to its beautiful descriptive passages, its weird suggestions, its ine implied teaching of sympathy, courage and truth. It is a book which may be read with profit by parents and others having the care of young children.

The Press Album. Edited by THOMAS GATTING,

London: John Murray.

No Clairas will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must bo sent to the Office of the Undersigned baforo, has NOON on the 31st May, or they will not be over meanguised.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 31st May, will be subject to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents,

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Hongkong, 25th May, 1909.

"MOGUL” LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

18.8. - BRAEMAR.“ FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

CON

STRAITS.

YONSIGNEES of Corgo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloos Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whenes andjor from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have loft the Godowns, and all Goods rariaining undelivered after the 31st iust, will be subject to renti

All Clufins against the Steamer must be pra. routed to the Undersigned on or before the 24th Jano, orthoy will not be recognized."

All broken, plafell, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the let June, at 3 r.M. -No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LTD.

Agente.

Hongkong, 24th May, 1909.

8.8. SYDNEY, "

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

NOTICE.

NONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex

B.9.

from Harro

"Medoo" from Bordeaux ex

8,8,

the Post

of the

will surprise maay, there is no reason why they Although Mr. Frawen't statements and views should do so, for they are not novel. They are shared by a large part of the foreign element doing business in the silver-using countries of the Orient, who insist that the effect of the retention of the inferior metal will greatly assist in the development of the vast resources of such enormous storos of cheap labor advantageously. Mr. Frowen, bringing the contention down to data, points out that in China the

Wager worker have not been materially increased since sovereign converted into Chinese taels in Hong- the demonetization of silver. An Eugliah kong will pay the wages of sixty Chinese for a day. Converted into dollars, it would saifios to pay four or five white men. As no one will soutend that for ordinary daskilled labor one white man is very much better than ons Chinese, it would be absurd to even suggest that one white is equal to ten-or. Afteen China. The Chinese are beginning to realize their position and are being helped to perceive its possibilities by cutsiders, who are establishing steel mills and other modern manufactorice. They are not taking to modern methods as rapidly nor as kindly as the Japanese, but when they once get a grip on the situation they may be depended upon to develop it more thoroughly than their island neighbours.

the Journalists' Orphan Fund. The Editor This volume has been published in aid of

Signs are multiplying that the Japanese are secured short contributions from beginning to roognize that they surrendered sixty well-known writers including an advantage in going to the gold standard. Laurente, M. E. Braddon, Are Their failure to extend their trade with Chifau Noyes, Marie Corelli, Sir A. Conan Doyle. inquiry, and the result is usually to convince as rapidly as they had once hoped to do is causing Beatrice Harraden, Alfred Sutro, Rosannad those making it that if China porsiste in retaining Marriott-Watson, W. Pott Ridge, Katherine

silver while adopting Western inventions, she Tynan, Jerome K. Jerome, Shaw F. Bullock, business of manufacturing. As Japan more than will become a formidable competitor in the Edon Philpotte, Silas K. Ilooking, Keightley any other country hoped to exploit its back. Snowden, Tom Gallon, G. B. Bargin and host a ward neighbour, the outlook for her is not a of others. Some fire-and-twenty illustrations pleasant one, but it is not likely that she will recede from her monetary position. As for the by leading artists and caricaturists are interest of the world, it has hardly, as yet, begun to spersed. The sale of a book whose contents are notice, but there are signs, that it will do so in so varied and attractive cannot fail to be the near future. The inquirer will get to work extensive, and the purchasing public have the that the decline of Oriental exports is nut a in real earnest about the time that he realizes double satisfaction of obtaining good value for temporary phenomenon but is due rather to the their money and at the same time assisting a inability of the Orient to meet the conditions very excellent and deserving charity.

imposed by rising rate of exchange and the growing desire to take advantage of the opportunity to profitably develop sources by

aid of its vast supply of cheap labor.

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The Widow-to say nothing of the man. By HELEN ROWLAND. London: Stanley Paul & Co.

10%

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

This is a little book of smart and amusing U. 8. INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT dialogue between a widow and a bachelor, which

AND OCEAN CARRIERS. goes to prove that what the widow does not know about man, women and the love game is not worth knowing. An agreeable half hour in the verandah chair may be passed with this book, and the reader will not drop off to sleep, however warm the weather may be, until he has gone through the book from cover to cover. Helen Rowland was the author of "Reflections of

Bachelor Girl."

a

Polly Winford. By Eyre Hassey, London:

Longmans, Green and Coy, 4- This is a bright, breezy, bracing story of an Australian girl who visited England and whe found the conversions which hedge life around in the old country decidedly irksome. However she succeeded in overcoming the prejudices "Villa do Lorient" and Ville de Constantine" in against the colonial girl and charmed every one connection with above Steamor are hereby in- by her naturalness and vivacity. Very effective formed that their goods with the

ot exception is the criticism of English social life in which Treasure are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra the vicar and his wife shepherd the villagers, hazardous Gedowns of the Hongkong-Kowloon and they in turn: belonging to a higher circle Wharf and Godowa Co., Led, ut Kowloon are led by some superior person. The difference honce delivery may be obtained immediately between stay-at-homes and colonials was well after landing.

Optional Cangs will be forwarded or unless summed up in the words of the heroine "you intimation is received from the Consignees think in acres; in Australia we think in miles." before 11 A.M., TO-DAY, requesting it to be Though the main events of the story are Bills of Lading will be contorsigned by the concerned with horses and hunting, it is not too Unilersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after horsey." The book is one which most readers TUESDAY, the 1st June, at Noon, will be will enjoy subject to rent and landing charges.

laniled here.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before

the 1st June, or they will not be recognized.

All damaged packages will be examined on "Tuesday, the 1st June, at 3.P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been offected.

P. DE CHAMPMORIN,

Agent

Hongkong, 25th May, 1909.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

8.6. DENMOHR,"

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Travel and Exploration. London: Witherby

and Co.

The May number of Travel and Exploration opens with an article by Mr. L. C. Beraneki on Lieutenant Shackleton's Bouth Polar explora- tions, illustrated by a full-page portrait of Lientenent Shackleton, three views of Antarotic. scenery, and a map. Mr. Bernacchi asys that the next Britlah expedition will probably again make its way south by way of the Row Bea, and

A San Francisco paper of the 23rd ult reports in the "matting cases involving alleged re- In a series of opinions handed down yesterday bating by the Fucile Mail Steamabip Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, United States District Judge De Haven held that the Interstate Commerce Act does no apply to ocean carriers from foreign countries.

While he sustained the demurrers interposed by Attorney Charles J. Heggerty for the Prelie Mall ompany he overruled those of the Southern Pacific Company, holding that the indictments clearly stated an offense against the A joint rate bod been made between several laws of the United States by that corporation. milroad companies, among them the Southern Facile, with the Pacific Mail Company on to Springfield, O., and this rate was filed with through shipments of matting from Kobe, Japan, the Interstate Commerce Commission and be came the legal rate.

MET JAPANESE COMPETITION,

·

39,153,0x

Consolidated Funil Services- National Debt.28,000,000 Fund Services 1,670,000 Paymenta to

Toal

Taxa- tion account... 9,483,000

Army

Supply Services—

...27,435,000 Navy

Shipbuilding 15.818,500 Other, 19,324,400

Civil Services- Old-Age Pen

Aione (in Clase. VI) Other

Cuong

and Inland Re-

8,750,000 31,320,000

venue 3,373,000 18,978,000

Post Office

Total Expenditure...

124,999,000

Estimated Deficit Farther Charges for 1909-10- Developments Grants Labour it changes Valuation Expenses

164,152,000

...£15,762,000

$200.00 100,000 50,000

350,00

£16,112,000

Final Deficit PROPOSALS FOR DEALING WITH DEFICIT. FRESH TAXATION,

Motor Cars Motor Spirit.... Spirit Duties

Liquor Licences Tobacco Duties

Estate Duties... Income Tax Stamp Dulias... New Land Toxes

Sinking Fuid

£260,000

340,000

..1,600,000

1,900,000

2,600.000

£2,830,000 650,000

500,000

Total fresh resources provided Bet aside for Road Improvement...

Sum Available... Deduct Final Deficit

Final Surplus, 1909-10

6,700,000

antal

COMFOR

Prevention

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BEECHAM'S PILLS.

Sold everywhere in boxes, price19¡d, 1/1† & 2/9,

On option notes the rates are to be similar, Brokers who are not members of the Stock Exchango will in future have to isme con tract notes bearing the proper stamps...

Licences. The scale of duties for the full publican's licence begins at 30 per cent, of the value, subject to a minimum based on population £5 in rural districts andția urban. areas of less than 2,000 persons; £10 in urban areas between 2,000 and 5,000; £15 between 5,000 and 10,000 £20 between 10,000 and 50,00 £3 between 50,000 and 100,000; and £35 in London and other towns over 100,000.

Beerhones.The rates on this clace of licence will be graduated similarly to full "on" licenses, the basis being one-third of the annual value of the premises..

Hotels-Hotels and restaurants whose re- ceipts from the sale of liquor do not exceed one- third of their total recsipts will receive con--

coesions,

Clubs.-A duty of 3d. in the £ will be levied on the amount of the receipts of clubs from the sale of liquor.

Land Taxation. It is proposed (1) to tax the owner of land, the value of which has risen through the enterprise of the community or, neighbours, to extent of ene-fifth of the "strictly unearned-increment,?-starting from the value at the prosont moment. The tax will be payablis when the land is sold. Corporations will pay at stated intervals (2) A tax of. in will be imposed on the capital value of land "not used to the best advantage including mineral land. It is to be charged on unbuilt and only. (3) A 10 per cent.reversion" duty is to be imposed on bonetits derived frost the determination of leapes,pecial abatements will be made in certain cases. These new taxes

necessitaté a reconstruction of the methoil of valuing property.

The Spirit Duties-To be raised 38. 9. per gallon.

Tobacco,-Tlie daty on namannfuotared to- bacco to be increased by Bd. per with equi valent additions to the duties on cigars, 7,600.000 sigarettes, and manufactured tobacco. £14,200,000 3,000,000

A SUMATRAN TRAGEDY.

154-1

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NATURAL APERIENT WATER. Battled at the Springs, Budapest, Hungary. For continuons use by the Gonty, the

- Constipated, in the Obere.

GOLD MEDAL,

St. Louis, 1904.

DOSE: -4 Wineglassful in this morning before Breakfast.

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AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF

LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS-

THORNE'S

PERCASE

OLD VAT

$16

THIE VAT WAS STARTCO BY THE LATE RDEEST THORNS OF CALSHOCK AND HAS BEEN SOLD AS ITS SINCE MONI

SCOTCH WHISKY.

"LE AGENTS IN

791

HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA,

A.S.WATSON & CO, LTD. *

£17,200,200

600,000 A sensational igoldent in the war being raged against chinese rebola in Samatra is relatest £16,600,000 in the local newspapers It soon that the 16,112,000 other day a band of rebolis was located in a large cave, but upon the Government troops arriving, £483,000 no one was to be see fter diligent search:s small pazinge was found and a daring fientonant salanteared to creep along it is the hope of finding the rebel's lair. At length, his progress was barred by a heavy stone which he was just able to displace sufficient to enable him to place hie bead boyand, but scarcely had he removed the obstacle than he received a spear weand that MITSU made him beat a hasty retreat. The military

THE EFFECT OF THE BUDGET. The changes introduced into the fiscal system by the Budget of 1909. O are so mumerous that a brief synopsis of their effect will be found useful the items of taxation are mentioned in the order adopted by Mr. Lloyd-George.

108. under eyes. £1. No change in rates on motor enba: Doctors cars pue-half these rates. Moter existing exemptions on trade vehicles continued Duty on Patrol-Threepence per gallon on petrol and otherspirits used for motor vehicles

rebate to be granted of half the sinty to motor-caba aait omnibuses, incomes up to £3,000 per annum remain us at Income-tax-The rates of poundage on earued

sont 11 94 31 10 62,000 and 1s, over £2,000 sad under £3,000. On all other incomes case of incories under £500 a new abatement now liable to Is, the rate will be 1s. 2d. In the will be allowed of £10 for every child auder 16 years of ago.

BISHI GSHI KAISHA.

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

Collieries

BOLE AGENTS roa KISHIDAKE. MIYAO and KIGYO KOMATSU Coada:

HEAD OFFICE-MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO.

commander summoned them several tími to Duties on Private Motor-cars-A new ga sarrender, but was met with a stubborn refusal, dusted scale of duties on private motor-cara and motor cycles is proposed for the United King from the interior of the care showing plainly

the fanatical outeries which reached the soldiers COAL DEPARTMENT dom (including Ireland, where hitherto there that the rebel band had devoted themselves to SOLE PROPRIETORS TAKASIMA, has been no tax on motor-cars). The seala is as death. They were then told that the women OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, £3 38.: under 16-h.p., £4 48.; under 25-h.p., 46 freedom if they came out and that the lives of is under 33...pa na orde 60-31. 342 terrible alternative being death by stuffocation. follows:-Under 61-h.p.. 22 2; under 12-h.pand children with their would be given their SAYO, SHINNEW and KAMĮYAMADA,

£8.88.; under 40hp, 10 all who surrenderod would be spared, the

waiting for two hours, the military commander Defiant osteries came from the care, and after gare orders for a fire to be lighted at the narrow entrance to the cave. A light breeze wafted clouds of dense smoke along the passage, and when, after a few minutes. the fire was extinguished and the rebels wore i called upon to surrender, it was evident they were determined to die rather than fall into the hands of the military authorities More green fuel was collected and piled att entrance to Fedoral Grand Jury against the two different

its work After a while antination was On these facte indictments were found by a

the care, a match was applies the fire did Codes, AI, ABC 5th El, Western Union, companies. To these indictments the Pacife

made of the esto, firemen being found dead, and Mail Company demurred, holding that the

by their side lay the corpses of twelve women Interctate Commerce Commission had no

A super Tax. ---On incomes over £5,00's and eleven children, death in each case being jurisdiction over it or its rates and that to hold super tax of ód, is to be levied on the amount by dae to suffocation. When the news of this liable. would be to practically ruin its basiness, which it exconds £3,000, Income-tax exemp incident reached the ears of the Governor of as ite competitors were not handicapped by anytions and abatements are in fature to be restricted Achsen, he is reported to have been so shocked such regulations and would be enabled to make te persons resident in the United Kingdom, that he issued orders to the effect, that in future, whatever rates they pleased on no notice at all

The Death Datios.The scale of Estate dutieshould a similar oocasion ariso, a gaurded outlet notice, by filing with the Commission, must be when, under the Interstate Commerce act

steepanel" for estates exceeding £5,000 for escape from the cave should be left open, made by a common carrier before such rate goes into effect.

Owing to a rolaction of rates on matting by Facile Mail boat sulled from Kube the agents a rival Japanese line of stonmára jmat before the of the latter met the reduction and obtained the hand, but at a rate lower than that filed with the Commission

it

DEMURBERS ARE SUSTAINED.

18

FROM MIDDLESBRO", LONDON AND suggests that Tibetan yaka might be employed to make any rate it ehose without giving notice. £500,000 to £800,000, 13 per cent.; £800,000 to

STRAITS.

+3

of

ranging from

ة

and the maximum of 15 per cent, will be reach- od at £1,000,0 0, instead of £3,000,00** Tho new scale will be £5,00 to £10,000, 4-par cant.; £10,000 to £20,000, 5 per cent.; £20,000 to £40,000, 6 per cent. ; £40,000 to In sustaining these demarrers, Judge De per cent, £70,000 to £100,000, 8 per cent.

£70,07 Haven held that the Paciño Mail Steamship 2100,00 to £15,003, 9 per cent.; £150,000 to Company was not a common carrier, within the meaning of the Act, and that it was at liberty

£200,000, 10 per cent,; £200,000 to £400,000, 11 per cent.: £400,000 to £600,000, 12 per cont for the journey to the South Pole. In an article the Southern Pacific Company, demurred to the

Along the same lines Peter F. Duane, for £1,00,000, 14

por cont over £1,000,000, 15 entitled "Through Austria's Now Provinces, indictments, contending that there was no law

per cent. The Settlement Estate Duty will be ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- Mr. Clive Holland describes a tour through requiring the filing of a rate by an cean carrier, necession duties where the beneficiary is a increased from 1 to 2 per cent, legacy sual formed that all Goods are being landed at Bornia and Herzegovina the Earl of Honaldshay, hens a joint through rate, to which an ocean their risk into the hazardous and/or extra M.P., writes on the various modes of Asiatic carrier was a party, was not a legal rate in the sister, will be raised from 3 to 5 per cent., brother or sister, or decendant of a brother or hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and

intent of the Interstate Act, and for this Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., travel of which he has had experience; Mr. Wresson any deviation from any such joint through rate will be a

and in the case of all other persone the whence and or from the wharves delivery may Hilton-Simpson tells the story of a visit he | rate would not be violation of the law, the

uniform lo per cent instead be obtained.

to 10 per cent. The 1 per No Claims will be admitted after the Goods paid to a curious race of Cave Dwellers in South: original rate not being a "legal rate."

To these demurrer Judga De Haren says charged onlinuals" and spouses, in cases where have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining/orn Tunis; Mr. C. Reginald Enock narrates that, while it is true there is no law controlling the catste exceeds £15,000; 1

cent, legacy or accession Inty will in future de undelivered after the 1st June, will be subject how he crossed the Cordillera of the Andes in the rates of ocean carriers from foreign ports or

that

in cases where winter and found himself at midnight on the requiring their publication, there is a law con-

the amount of the legacy, or succession, does not top of a pass higher than Mont Blanc; and Mr trolling the interstate rates of railroad co-

exceed £1,000, whatever the size of the estate D.B. O'Sullivan-Beare, formerly British Vice-anies, and that is the Interstate Commerce et.

from which it comes, exemption will be allowed: That when the joint through rate from Kebe, of die deceased, or child auder 21 years, if the and it will be allowed if the legates is a widow Cousal at Pembe, discusses the ivory trade of Japan, to Springfield, G., was filed with the Zanzibar. Every article is illustrated with re Interstate Commerce Commission it became a legacy dona not exceed £2,000. The rules on to productions af photographs on plate paper, and railroad rate within the purview or the law, and valuation for purposes of Estate Duty are there are reviews of books of travel and notes by notice required by law was a violation of the at it market valug" instead of at 25-years that any reduction of that rate without the modified. Agricultural property is to be taken specialists ou exploring enterprises, tourist law by the railroad company and placed it in valued at their market prices. The period purchase stocks and shares. are in all resus to travol, motoring in the Antarctic regions, and peril. He held that on offense against the law

had been set forth in the indictments against is extended to five yeara.

which a gift daring

inter }s

01000 liable to aerial flight.

to duty the railroad company, and for that reason would everrule the demurrers of the Southern Pacific

Stamps-The Stamp Duty on conveyances on Company.

sale is raised from 10s. to 20s.. except in the ense of stocks and other securities which change The demarrers of the California Pine Box hands frequently. The duties on transfers of Company and Miller & Sons to indictmentesenrities are readjusted, the rate between £5 charging preferential rates in violation of the Interstate Act were overruled by Judge De £500. 18. (an at present); £500 to £1,000, 28.; and £100 to be 6d, nɛtead of 19.); £100 to

and forther 2s. for every additional thousand

to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the the Undersigned or before the 7th June, or they will not be recognized,

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

examined on the lat June, at 11 AM,

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by ES GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents,

785 Hongkong, 26th May, 1909-

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