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SUPREME COURT.
Friday, August 26th.
In BUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOCH MR. F. A. HAZELAND (ACTING PUISNE JUDGE).
In
CONSENTED TO JUDGMENT,
THE RUBBER INDUSTRY IN INDIA,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM IN CHINA.
ITS RELATION TO ADOPTION.
Mr. Ivan Chen costributes the following interesting paper on this subject to China, the quarterly record of the Christian Literature Society for Chins:-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 1910.
"I should," replied the disciple,
do them,"
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
Messrs. Vernon & Smyth in their wookly share report dated 26th August state-
There has been more activity in our market
daring the past week, the chief feature bein further extensive business in Shells for London account, whilst China and Mantlas and Macao Steam boats have again bean is fair demand, the latter
own upon the possible relation of fertilisers is regarded as a very important institution. Confucing remarked, "What a man without The Gene at an advance on last week's rates
of
12:1
an action brought by J. H. Gardiner nitrate of soda applied a few weks before the departed ancestors. To people who are only observed thrrents love during the first September, both days inclusiro. "Rubbers"
experiments on a
RATI An
of modern
"Then," answered Confucius, "if you can fell at ease, do it. But a good man during the whole period of three years mourning does not enjoy good food when he eats it, and derives no Mr. Anstead, scientiflo oficer, addressed a
pleasure from music when he hears it; when he mouting of the United Planters' Association at
is lodged in comfort he does not feel at ease, there- Mysore recently on "Rubber in India" He said
fore he does not do any of those things. You, the most interesting problems to be solved in the future of rubber planting were those in
however, since you on fool at pass, and, of course, action with the improved methods of coagulating and ouring the rubber and thous The practice of ancestor worship In China
Afterwards, when the disciple had left,
ས་ to later yield The former теко problems
It is indeed looked upon as one of the fouling he is! It is only three years after his which must be solved in the laboratory, the forms in which the members of a family birth that a child is able to leave the arms latter in the field. It had been stated that can perform their duties of filial piety to three years' mourning for parents is universally his parents entirely. Now the period of the Empire. Did that tapping was begun
increase, soquainted with the idnes and feeling generally mau enjoy hi and Ir had already arranged some field
Europe, such practies would be a small scale to test the point
duative of evil consequences. For otherwise it While the adopted wears mourning for three it was toc oarly in the season for any results considered as superstitious and, perhaps, pro- three years of his childhood P
be available, but they would be laid before is with as, We, more especially the women in years for the death of his adopted father, ho
the rear thugh the medium of the Plantere Chica, believe that the spirits of our ancestors
spirits of our ancestors of Tours monering for, no year incita oven Acon as obtained. Another are always hovering Chronicle point of interest was the possibility of obtaining bearth, and in order to show that we do not adopter he will become ant juris in avery
their the Manihot varieties, which would be better
ars in season. The fall is still living exempt in his relations toward his
she survives. adopted mother if details of these coromonics are given in
cat is called in Chinese te litio difculty in obtaining such a hybrid, Rocord of Rites,
His of the father of a family is unable to maintain lange head of a dan post is not Bisco all of the varieties were species of the
certain extent bo gouus Manihot. He hoped to be able to devote
exaully elective, for to a succoede to it by right af
but mem- seniority, their co-operation in it, 2833.33 en promissory notes.
There was no question as to the future of Mr. J. H. Gardiner, who represented the
the par plaintiff, informed his Lordship that this claim
their attention. A large number of the para hobeginning to bear seed and osch year more and were would do so. The time would doma
against R.F. Dely to recover $41.50, Mr. P. W. Goldring of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell), who appeared for the plaintiff, informed the Con't that the defendant consented to judgmont.
Mr. Hinds (of Messrs. Brutton & Fett) whe
Managers of the Green Faland Cement Co., Ltd., announced on interim dividend of 15 cents per share for the six months ending The transfer books of the company will be 30th Juno, 1910, payable on the 12th September.
lat to thu closed from the
have ruled quiet, and quotations close without material change either lomily or in London. With this week's issue we add to Hongkong and our hit where Co., bu, baur tour industry General Co are the for which Messrs. Bradley & Co subscribed privately. Bar Silvor closes in Lon
24 d per oz. and Sterling exchange at 193 T.T. Shanghai, the Bank's buying rate for 3 dis bills is 74% and the T. T.mie 74).
Bass-Hongkong and Shanglais have. and sales have been booked at 99274
represented the defendant, naked for taxation of a hybrid by crossing ceara rubber with one oftere prose offer them sacrifices of respect, in spite of the fact that his own father | Managers, and for which the capital has all boon
costs.
His Lordship ontered judgment for plaintiff, than either. It would soom that there would
and ordered that the costs be taxed,
FOSSIBLE CONNISSION TO SHANGHAI,'
the
lon at
P. A. Abooly v. R. F. Daly was a claim for some time to this work and should be glad of he is regarded as coming short in the perforia-bers of his son are from to raise aux obisti/ruled t-yourly dividend of £2 per Muare at
End
industry to which he wished to end to have no poster sach views have wake him worthy of "was on three promissory notes and as thai troos planted in Southern India were already prevailed from timu immemorial as in China, it as old men bitha must be old need not be £90. Nationale continue in request at £76.
motion could not possibly take long to hear,
asked the Court to fix it for next Friday.
said his client dented signing the promissory
them.
no wonder Tawa The
In a country
nder that adoption existe
Togulating
others me
of the olan -members
is
belenga
when the demand for the seed for plasting comprehensive, but the option aro rather tion which he belongs Mr. Hindu, who represented the defendant, purposes would fail far below the supply and briefly, summarised as feneral points may be oroises control over all the property which Yangisses are without change, and we bave notes, and all the evidence would have to come could be made of it. It had been estimated dose in accord of a son sa an heir is not of the ancestral tomb and ancestral templo, been imported from the North.
down from Shanghai,
able to prove it?
Mr. Gardiner-I shall have to go to Shang- have; I may baro to apply for a commission.
His Lordship adjourned the case for a week.
with the established law.
the practice through the failure of male jesus,
ex. . tha ance of a most important duty. Meucing once bera said there are three things which afe anfilial, they may have to his appointment, if he happers 19)= $22.4561, paid on the 22nd instant.market
to be a man whose reputation is not such as will closing with
buyers. tv is the greatest of
London is unchanged at the post. He
than all the
MARINE INSURANCES-A small sale of so, ao far as the genera-Unions-is-reported at 3040, but at this there are sellers, Chinn Traders, North Chinas, and concorsed, He ex
the clan in cumm
common for instance, no local business to report. Cantons pleas 1. If the adoption
louds assigned for the benefit of the up-koep steady at $167, at which rate shares have
has FIRE INSURANCES. Hong kongs can be the adopter shall be given eighty blows. A yet be cannot do what he likes unless he wife who is without male jesus, when over fifty consulted all the leading members of the clan, placed at $340, but fow shares are available at son borne and has obtained their consent. In the case this rate. Chinas are quiet at 8111 and without years of age, has the right to adopt
comment is absolutely business. by any other consort of her husband, for the of au adoption, his
is void-
SHIFTING-Hongkong, Canton and Macaos He is ave
trogly purpose of preserving the family line from caesary, and without it the adoption sa
enquired for, and sales extinct, and if she does not exercise sbie, though not necessarily roid.
been booked. market that right at such an age, the shute punishment perfectly fren to withhold his consent if his is up to 9333 bure
not satisfied with it, but he cannot do this for
closing witi bayers at $33. China and shall be given to her.
the purpose of furthering his own personal Manila, after falling away in the interests. Dispatos over questions of adoption ning of the weak to 210, as again begin no frequent, and sometimes become so cute up and close with buyers at $11 after sales at and also at $10 yesterday. Indos, ing them except by appeal to the district Donglases
and we have
no changes in quotations or basi magistrato for
It not in Judgment.
happons that the districtness to report. Shotts have been sold to London magistrate will request the head of the cina to at 91 down to 87/. market closing with local which the parties belong to exert his influence sellors at 88. and counsel the litigants to soak on amicable settlement of the disputo in a family council rather than in n law court. As the legal ox penses are not less heavy in China than also where, and as the Chinese have a great aversion to appear before a law court, such appeal ads by the district magistrate to the commYA HORLO
the question would then arise as to what use
that each trge after attaining its $fth year of His Lordship (to Mr. Gardiner) Are you go produced a crop of 500 seeds annually, and that about 200,000 seeds went to a ton. If that estimate was only approximately correct the crop Rood from Southern Indian estates would be very large. Ju a report made by the Director of the Imperial Institute, in 190%, it was slatot that the sued contained some 20 per cent. of an cil which was thon valued at 300 per tor, The seed abs contains 1.07 per cept. of pho: The case in which six Chines sailors seek to phoric acid, but its nitrogen content was not was that the seed should be collected and crush- Won again
oil, the oil extracted, and the residue used as
an a poonse to msuure the trees That
pootac Skonin tan be a very suitable fertilizer for rubber, sines its constituents had been gathered from the soil and air by the plant itself.
Further analyses which he hoped to make world
CHINESE BAICONS' CLAIM.
Беед
rocover from the Hamburg America Line the statel. Now what he (the speaker) suggested | sildless, the mopted shall be given a hundred that the parties concerned. And no way of setti-this rated Star Ferrys continuo neglected
sum of $428.68 dno for wages metioned.
Mr. Davidson of Messrs. Hastings & Hastings), who represented the defendants. reminded his Lordship that he had made an order some months ago that firo of the cares should stand over, and that an extended claim should be filed in the other. It was arranged at the time between himself (r. Davidson) and Mr. Hang (of Messrs. Deacon, Locker & Deseon),
show. its expot value as a fertilizer, and
if the vil could be made to pay for the extracting and erasing estates would ob viously berufli by the process.
His object in calling attention to this pos kibility w
that in planning factories it might who represented the defondants, that they should be taken into secount and provision be made in the horse power of the engines laid down for
Probably the most ogonomical method of
not praes the matter, as the Amiria would not be
WAN
2. If adopts a sen from another but of the nurte cina, and the adopted suddenly leaves the adopter while the latter is still blows and handed over to the adopter for control. If the adopter has had a sou born to him, and the parents of the adopted have no other son but the adopted, then he is permitted to return to them if he so, wishes.
Besides the childron of wedlock and their
zoonitarios generally produces the desired
REFINERIES-China Sugars under metile. went influences have declined to $165 sellers. but no business is reported. Luzons continue on
offer at $26.
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we made a
in port until September. The case was adjourned the future addition of crushing machinerivalent of the word "adoption," but common- also picced under the patria potestas of the and Shanghai, and Hongkow Wharves in the straight course for N.S.W. all had probably
year
insect called mingling is not endowed with the the extinction of villeinage no form of slavery in Landa are firmer with buyers at $99. on with light winds and calmas four daye.
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3. Any one who adopts a sou from a family of a different. clan, has polluting the blood of his own family, shall be punished with eighty blows, and the same punishment will be inflicted on him who allows his son to be so adopted, and the adopted f
in such a case shall be compelled to return to his own family.
There are,
51 and more shares are enquired for. Kowloon | Wharves are firmer again at $54 with probabla Cases vf, adoption, not allowed by law, bat tolerated by practice, are not called in tho Chinese language"
TNT Now had hong keo," the Chinese wives, there is another class of person that is bayers. New Amoy Docks, Shangani Docks,
paterfamiline
It is the slave, Slavery is absence of advices from the North, are quoted one well, but soms evil sprite put it into my afne die, but plaintiff was llabloto file his state- ing the seed would be to establish contrally called "Ban Lai ti
meaning taken fronk
brain to go vid Noumea instead of Thursday mont of claim when he learned of the date of the factories on a co-operative plan which would orphanage, or, in written language, Ming ling abolished in this country, and the last case in nominal at last rates wirod.
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong Island. Van made no objection, and we jogged deal with the mood of a district, crediting each taze." The derisation of the term is found in which villeiango was pleaded was not of Figg r Ambria's return. More than a fortnight ago supplier with an inch oil and returning to hims
Calay, the Bftoon th of James I. Since the Book of Odes. There it is said that the the speaker had given Mr. Hung that date and so mach pouso for each ten of good delivered,
Kowloon Lands continue in request et 832, but
the fifth wind freshened, sixth day ditto so, and by night was blowing & saked him to flis hit claim. In reply he was an amount which could be controlled by a ability of batching its cugs, so whenever it lays England has been recognised by law. In 1834 at 833 there are sellers. West Points can be
livingr gale each'ample. He informed that Mr. Hang had no further in- simple analysis of
it has to leave them to the insect called slavery was abolished in all English Colonies proonred at $39, and Humphrey's Estates suggested
It the latter & fair fancy a gate in there seas and the hurricans But it still exists in Chins. there are twe probably at 88. the advice of askilled engineer be obtained Ru-lo to ho hatched. that
season three months off! Martha soon bogan structions from his client, and he asked his
as soon as possible to recommend the bost 4. Any male child under three years of age kinds of slavery in Chins, one of whieb we may business has been done at quotation. Hotels
my three "limited slavery,"
the other, "permanent are
to strais badly, and the boys (I had Lordship to dismiss the action.
michinary for the purpose of crushing or can be adopted by any one, though he is of a onl
famous Kaoakes, and Van brought foar Laside, which close nt Ts, 112
Mosuta lads) were eternally pumping. On the able in large quautitina.
child will take the name of his adopter as his ocnditions of the contract of sale remain unfal nominal,
filled, and as soon the time, during which the COTTON MULLS. Quotations auchanged and second day of the storm we sighted land, but gould not make anything of it, as we shot past. 5. In adopting a male child from a family of slave is indentured to perform personal services, no hus ness to report.
in the haze. Towards morr
morning.
without the in consideration a of a cortais sam of money lent MISCELLANEOUS-China Bornoos have been the samu cian, the adopted must be of a younger lod, or she will regain his or her booked at $94, at which rate shares are enquired!ghtest warning, we went smash into some. generation than the adopter, otherwise punish-
thing crash and we were all overboard into ment will be inflisted. The adopted will be freedom; in the latter case, the conditions of for. China Providents are wanted at 8, Dairy the water. Finding wrreif in comparatively ordered to rotura to his own family, and another the sale continue in perpetuity, or until the Farms at $19, Electrics at $20, Ices at 3135, smooth water, I sung out, and was soon answered married I with his master's consent, Water Boats at 90, and Ching Lights at in half-a-dozen different tongues, the boys, of course, swam like fish, and old Van was puttag of adoption.
not a sight of land to be seen, but presently one lationship to the adopter is always preferred to in Roman law
of the lads sung out he could see the ship, and sure enough there was Martha's muinmast sticking up through the gloom close by.
His Lordship thought Mr. Hung should be stamping the seed which would soon be avail-different suroome, and after the adoption the slavery." The former oily lasts so long at the Also Bhanged and without business, as are
communicated with.
Mr. Davidson said he had seen Mr. Hung, and was informed that he had no further instructions, so this was no surprise.
His Lordship-I don't like making an ørder;
in his absence, but he can be informed.
THE OUTPUT OF RUBBER IN MALAYA.
The Straits Timca in a racent isɛne says -
01.
Alave can
ав
81.40, the latter after extensive sales at
Mr. Hung appeared in Court Inter and stated robber properties recently at a very much younger momber skull bo selected for the purpose which done. Permission to marry 30 and $140. Ropes bare been done.at like a young steam tag. It was pitol dark, and
that he had no further instructions in the cars. flo had tried to obtain them from his clients, but be expected that they had gone to sea, as he
could not find them.
Hia Lordship Thorn is as application to striko the cases off the list.
Mr. Hung-I have no real instructions,
His Lordship What do you suggest: de fon make any application for a postponement ?
Mr. Hung-Will your Lordship adjourn the cases for a work, so that I can endeavour to see my clients?
Mr. Davidson-My friend has had nearly
three weeks.
work.
for
com
6. In adaption, the nearest member in ro. therefore, amounts to what is called manumissionston's ut $61, Peak Traws at $133 and Steam D.
As Mr. Malcolm Cumming has been valuing
kighor figure than he did a few months ago, it but notaval that he should make some offert to discount the effect of the Governor's remarka shot a Malaya mtput of 70,000 tons six years
Le is just as shrewd it
18 and the adopted shall be entitled to succeed in healthy
any man to
to bo. As he dare not say, aqual shares to any property, personal or rest, in face of the estimates he and other planters, that the atoptor may leave behind on his deatle have been making, that the Governor over-
7. If a
fa widow, without any male child born to estimates the productivity of estates, he her deceased husband, wishes to remain
ahe the state of widowhood, turns to the prospective fuerease of dion be placed in the same legal position as that
demand in in order to make appear that, in there is no cause for alarm. Well, we have which would have bosc bald by her husband, studiod the question of future consumption as a son of proper generation shall be selected closely as most people, and the conclusion we by the head of her husband's clan for adoption have arrived at is that the increase, for by her as her heir. poses similar to those for which rubber is boingtort husband a family, and her own dowry If she remarries, all the property belonging ased at present will not exceed an average on her first marriage, shall be settled in such a
ul 10,000 LOBRE per annum. This means that taking the current year's consumption at 80,000 tonk way as the members of the family of her first (which is over the mark), the world's demand husband think St.
8. If the adopted cannot live on good terme
before
the court for sucellation of his
ason adopted from a family of a different
Besides this, there are other
·Ciments after sales at $5 close with wellers at the rate, and it is probable that the offer of a somewhat lower prien would lead to business.
RUBBELS Our market in this section has ruled vory quiet, and we have no business of im- The following are the latest London quota
hand by wire middto prices:
116/6
ourse with men except | tions to Lowlands...
those who are more remote. If after the adop-ways whereby slaves can regain their freedom, Laundrys at $54. for nothing, and got his Santeh blood tion the adopter has a sou born to him, his son which nood not now be considered.
To sum up, I would say that children are brought up in China under a too strict discipline, and women are allowed too little freedoms lon compared with what is enjoyed by their sisters
the West Children are not allowed to speak portance to report. unless they are spoken to, and women are not allowed to have y their brothers or relatives, This no doubt accounts for the grant difference in character Ledbury one cannot help noticing between Chinese and One shows signs of English boys and women. independent. submissiveness in every way, while the other is
How it is possible to incoleate a more national spirit in bringing up the young genera. tion in China, without impairing, their law- abiding imposition, is a matter which is
cutside the scope of this article.
Landon Asiaties London Ventures. United Serdangs Allagars... Batu Tigas Sapongs
Linggis..
Hie Lordship-These men had to go and get
Mr. Davidson-That argument might apply can supply the whole, of thai increased demari with the adopter, he is permitted to bring his deserving of most serious attention, but is Merlimans
six months hence.
His Lordship—I know, but I think a week's postponement should be granted.
Mr. Davidson-I think my client is entitled
to have something definito from your Lordship This matter may go on indefinitely.
in the your 1917 will be 140,000 tons. Malaya
itself. But it has to compete against a possible
9.
increase of production from Southern India, Cey-adoption. lop Sumatra, Java, and Bordon, not to mention a maltitude of other places, equal to its own in-elar wishes to return to his own family, he is oreano, so
so that in 1916 er 1917 the world's supply not permitted to take with him any property, should exced the enlarged demand to the extent personal or reni, he has nequired from such of about 60,000 tons. Wo do not for one rubber will be allowed to rot idly. The uses to which it can be put are absolutely endless, Mr. Hang--I cannot say, but I will under-provided that it can be supplied sheaply enough, and the future of the rubber industry depends the ability of rubber growers to create new прод
His Lordship (to Mr. Hung)-Do you think moment believe that such a usa
it is possible to find your clients?
take to look for them.
Mr. Davidson-I don't want to got the ner tions dismissed or to take advantage of their
urgo any ground the selion should be dismissed.
aful article as
not be more | 100, Juan
ize,
MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA.
THE BOIL-VAPOUR THEORY.
The Advice concerning Mosquitoes and Muleria which the Sanitary Board of Hongkong decided to print for general distribution is now published: The development of mosquito larve is very carefully described, and how the indiv anal may do his part in preventing the brooding forth in clear and simple language.
$2,6
12/9
6/6
119
102j6
-2716
5.3/9
Eastern and International Trust: 17/6 prem.
7,9
WRECKED ON A DESERT ISLAND.
▲ STORY TOLD IN THE TROBATE COUR".
In the Probate Division of the Law Courte
In February 1885, he
he emigrated to Naw
We clambered on board.
A
broke re found the ketch piled upon a ro forming a shelter for a small island, behind which about two miles off) the blue hills of considerable tract of country could be seen. It did not take us long to reach the island, which we found about 40 or 50 acres in extent, and uninhabited.
The katch provad to be
of damaged beyond ear limited moans repair. so we get everything out of her, and finally annexed her deck and spars to build a house before the rainy season came on (Jausary to March).
We have been
ever since putting in the lime as best wo coald, catebing turtle (warms of than), preserving their shells, alsó bêone do mer, &e, but it has beon a weary time (the first six months was the worst, though). We could not tell where we were by a few
score miles,
A ver surmises were wrong, for wo were in the extreme west of the Solomon Islands, and the' distant lard was Buka-Buke,
After making up our minds to spend the rest of our miserable lives here we to our intense amazement raw a brigantine standing towards us. Cap- tain Blair tells us that the natives of this part.
are so trencherous and untomably ferocione that, though there are two or three white traders up on the eastern part of the group, they don't venture down here. We haven't seen the ghost of anstive in over two years, so thore can't bo' any tribes round this part...
ahould be granted, but if my friend cannot than £30, and the input oft that output of adoption is permitted by custom only, and whe-belief that mal ria must often be caused by Zealand and sailed from London in the resuel Warner, of New Zealand homeward bound with
His Lordship adjourned the case for a week, but remarked that there would have to be a
adjournment.
500
mature trees pay bo
At 6d.
åt
follows
The party was eventually rescued by the a cargo of copra. The Werner was standing From that date down to the middle
and frequently correspond. in for water, as a water tank on board, luckily for the shipwrecked crew, had been leaking, ed with his parents
and
ared to have made Ro appeared
10. If the father of the adopted has no other son than this one, then the adopted shall be allowed to succeed, with the consent of the parties concerned, as heir to his own father and also
or the 18th alt; before Sir Samuel Evans, there was heard a motion for leave to swear the death his adeptor,
In this connection, I may say that there are
of John Willis Kirkaldy in or since 1895,
Mr. G. Wightman Powers said that John way the sixth 800 of the late so by readiness to sell their output at a rat cases where two sons are adopted at the same
William 61. Yin of equitoes in the vicinity of dwellings is set Willis Kirkaldy was position if there is any reason why further time profit of Gl. or even 31 per 1. The bedrock time, onu is called in Chinaka langus
Kirkaldy and of the late Jans In some recent comments on the subject of Steele Kirkoldy and was born on January 13th, production of an acre of law, while the other is called Ai mcaning
modestly at adopted on ground of affection. The latter kind the origin of malaria we mentioned the prevalent 1863. its.
per pound
her this custom exists in all of China or exhalations from freshly broken soil. This is Soukar.
parts gives a rotura of £12 10s, per
which is about ther
not it 31. por not it is difficult to 40 per cent on the bedrock
BAY, but it does exist in the discussed in the pamphlet by Dr. Francis of 1892 he regal family. He seemed to Another letter dated from Auckland, June 9th. strong ground before he would grant another pound the profit would be about 20 per cent, southern part of Kiangen and some districts in Clark, the Medical Officer of Health, as
Chokiang and at. lid. it would be about 20 per cent.
In all cases of adoption, the adopted stands in It has often been noticed that the die. are been engaged in rarions kinds of ends 1895, announced his arrival there, and gave ม We can turn London into a city of silence the same relation towards, the sdopter as if he turbance of the soil in tropical regions in nare with a mau warned Van Brup, whom ad. long account of the bad state of his health after these figures, and check the development of multitude of nervo troubles due to noise. But were his own son. He will, as soon as he is followed by an outbreak of malaria, and this dress was never known. About the middle of his privations, and two further letters droz how many acres are there in Malaya now stand-ulopted, pass under the patria potestas of his was seen recently in this Colony during the 1892 all correspondence coased until Murel, Sydner, dated August 15th, 1895, also dealt with on & hedrock capital basis? We are adopter together with his wife and childror, if building of the railway in Kowloon and the 1895. In that month a letter was receivet from that raatter. Those were the last communica indebted to the good gentlemen, Malcolm ho has any, and on the death of his adopted New Territories, and in fact whorever building him dated from the Solomon Islanin, January tions that had ever reached his family. It was 11th, 1895, which accounted for liis long ailence believed that he had since died, a bacheler and Cumming among the number, for making reports father he will perform all the funeral ceremonies operations are in progress. It has been a
The learned President, having perused the which urge the public to put their money into for the rest of the docessed ancestor, and popular theory in the past that this breaking inasmuch as he stated that he had been ship. intestate, and that he was not insured.
Wear
arning for him for three years.
up of the soil set free certain vaponts" which wrecked in those islands and had lived for three.
correspondence and the affidavits, made the order. things with a capital per acre nearer £300 than
As the reason for £30.
wore the canse of the outbreaks of ferer, but years on one of them. or wearing mourning for three
The President Like
Crusoe. in the terms of the motion. years may not be generally known, it may be the tras explanation of the causes of malaria
Was there a man Friday? wall to bear in mind what was said by Con- which accompany such contract works is, that the LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP.
fucina to one of his disciples on this subject.
Mr. Powers. Yes, Van Brun. The letter breaking up of the soil takes the form of tren
contained the following passagen :——— Tai-wo, a disciple of Confucius; Inquired ches (for foundations, etc.), pits from which stone The police are making a bold bid for the
excavations in bowling honours of Hongkong. Ali the ties about the period of three years' mourning for is collected, and other
while water is also long which rain-water lodges, preliminary to the semi-final will be completed parents, remarking that one year was
necessary for sach building operations as this week. P. 8. Pilt, Inspector Cameron and enough.
"For," said he "if a gentleman abstains for the mixing of cement and of mortar, the laying Inspector Grouring have qustified.
Civil Service representative left in three you
ceremonies, he will lose his knowledge of mosquitoes are allowed to breed freely.
"We thus representative, and G. R. Edwards of Kowloon them, and if he puts aside mansie for three
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report →→
On the 26th at 11.65 a.m. The barometer has fallen slightly at the stations bordering the N. part of the China Fea and risen a little in the S. Philippines.
A depression aproars to be forming over the China Sea, probably to the Eastward of the -Paraore
Pressure is high over Japan and relatively low over N. Chins.
Moderate to fresh E. and N.E. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and over the northern shores of the Chirn Sea.
ing
only
Cameron
Robinson
Near Buka-Buka, Solomon Islands,
Friday, 11-1-'95.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The IG.M. str. Luefrow, which left here on. instant, ut 4 p.m.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending the competition, Gourlay defeated the Taikes pour from the performaveo of all necessary of bricks, etc., and in these ecleations of water will say when you seo my--I was going to quote the 28th ultimo, arrived-at-Gunda on the 25th
My dearest Mother,I wonder what you you and say well-known hand, bat that would hardly be applicable, the heading of this will also surprise you; as a matter of fact I am
The N.I.K. str. Hitachi Maru (European Line, left Shanghai for this port on the 26th
The N.Y.K, str. Iyo Maru (Europes Line)
erent kinds of firewood collected in the Thus the mong incapacitated from work and writing to you I should have regarded that left Singapore for this port on the 25th instauf,
person as a
one told me I should be seated in a ship's cabin
as a lanatic.
As you uny remember, I expected to bo
fetched (ie., from New Guinea) so as to reach Sydney in August or September hat when the latter manth came no
at
10 a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.
fizal.
E. winds, mo-
WRIGHT AND GREI'S PREMIER"
SCOTCH WHISKY-just the same as you
get at home in Scotland.-Advt.
pet numerous mosquitoes on the and K. McLennan were to deside last night years, he will entirely forget it. Again, oven site of any building works, and at the same The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon who should be the fourth man to enter the wemi- in the ordinary course of nature, the corn time there will be a number of infected persons surprised myself; a.fow hours ago had sny, i instant, and is expected berg on the 29th inst.
which has grown up in one year is morn among the workson-for many natives of
to the new corn
born which tropies carry avey to gire place to
up; and in one year wo consumé all. the blood without Kering of malaria in their
the
are able by their bites to
I believe, therefore, that convey the infection from the infected natives duce a small epidemic of malaris in the imms- dists locality of the works,
Such epidemica Or
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bu-day is as follows-
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
Formosa Charuol
derate to fresh
fair to squally and showery.
.. Same as No. 1.
South coast of Chips between
Same as No. 1. Hongkong and Lamooks. South coast of China between T NE. winds, mo- Hongkong and B... derste to freak
diffemat sessons.
and is expected here on the 30th instant,
The N.Y.K. str. Hakata Maru (Bombay Line) left Singapore for this port on the 24th
r, the completion of one year, mourning tray to uninfected natives and others, and to pro- (189 Yessol, Old Von Brutz and I talked instant, and is expected here on the 30th inst.
after pause."
Confucius answered, "If after one your's mourning you were to eat good food, and wear fine clothes, would you feel it ease i'"
4
The N.Y.K. str, Kumano Maru (Australian can be avoided by the regular and systematic things over, and came to a conclusion
decided to and
make for Sydney in Line) left Nagasaki for this port on the 26th of all collections of water not less than Van Brun's vessel, a small ketch, Martha instant, and is expected here on the 30th inst. viling
once a week.'
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