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CORRESPONDENCE.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,"

Hongkong, 14th February, 1912. SIR-Spall shareholders must needs be thankful for sinnt mercies, consequently am duly grateful to the General Managers for acquitting me of wilful misrepresenta-

tion.

The usual .5 per cent., commission of Estate Agents covers cost of staff and office

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COMPANY MEETINGS,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 1912.

TOERANGIE RUBBER COMPANY,

LIMITED.

An extraordinary general meeting of the above Company was held yesterday. There

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present: Messrs. C. D. Wilkinson (Chairman), P. Loureiro, Evan Ormiston, M-W-Slade, N. F. Bland, Mr. Gaske, Mr. Willis, and the secretary, Mr. E. A. M. Wil. use of considering the following resolu- ams. The meeting was held for the pur-

tion:

| LAOUKUNGMOW COTTON SPINNING

AND WEAVING CO.

The annual general meeting of the Laoukung. mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ltd., was held on the 6th inet, at the office of Messis, Ibert & Co. 22, Kisagne Road. Mr. E. C. Fearse presided and 4,357 shares wero represented.

THE MANILA EXPOSITION AND

CARNIVAL

THE REVOLUTION.

FORECAST OF THE NEW CABINET.

Affairs;

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Though dull and wet weather deprived the Manila Exposition and Carnival of much of the pleasure which should have been associated The following forecast of the new Cabinet with the ovent, there can be no doubt that tho has been published at Shanghai enterprise bas mot with decided success in all Dr. Wu Ting-fang, Minister of Foreigu

Cheng Pi Kuang, Minister of the Navy; departmente.

Taking first the Exposition, it has to be said General LI Yuan Hung, Minister of War; that it has exceeded expectations. Most of the Wong Chun Wei, Minister of Law, swords for the exhibits were mado last Thers-Cheng Chin Tao, Minister of Finance; W. W. Barclay, director general, said: "The Tang Chou-chien. Minister of Communica day, and the committed in making its report to

General Cheng, former Governor, Minis-

ter of the Interior; *

exhibits presented are all uniformly of a voxy high order of excellence and the committee desires before all else to express its strongest and heartfest congratulations to these who has se prepared the varions exhibits and especially to the director general of the Philippines exhibi-Peking will remain the capital, pending the

Tani Yuan-pai, Minister of Education;

tions;

eral Huang Hsin, Chief of the General H.E. Tang Shao Yi, Premier;

The Chairman spoke as follows;—- In reviewing the period covered by the report and accounts, it will be remembered that wo started 1911 with rather a large stock of cotton, the value of which, amounting to Tls. 465,000 which, as I stated land gear, we 1910 1911 wes carried forward from 1910 working, and comparatively reasonable prices: The cotton crop was an abundant one, but the iniquitous habit of natives in watering cotton became mor

and were progressed and moro espenisily us prices for the spousty deteriorated the quality and rendered spinning exceedingly difficult. In spite of this fact, how over, we were able to maintain an excellent quality of yarn, and during the year secured

0x000 tion." resintained nud our yarn was in good textiles were to have been made on Friday,

The awards for Lorticultural exhibits and spinnings, deliveries request until the middle of October, when the ontbreak of the Chinese revolutionary movement

Thursday last was the American Carnival, and began. Our last quarter was, therefore, materion that day 25,000 paid for admission to the Turkestan and Mongolia and with the pen. ally affected. We trust, however, that the year's working may be considered, under the giroom stances, fairly satisfactory.

well

your

grounde. There was a military parado in the afternoon, and in the evening the queen of the festival, attended by gorgeously begowned maids and courtiers, made an impressivo and stately appearance.

Staff. Later information is to the effect that:

convention of Provincial Delegates when the permanent government will "be established and decide where the capital shall be,

This arrangement, it was said, meets with the approval of the representatives of Chinese

porary capital at the present seat of govern ment order will be more easily maintained in the north until the permanent organization is effected.

It is the general opinion in well-informed local circles, says a Shanghai contemporary that upon the formation of the provisional In athletics the most interesting event was the government at Peking the Nanking govern context for the lawn tennis championship of the ment will be dissolved and President Sun Orjout, hold op till now by E 8. Gee, of Manfla Yat Sen will retire to private life of his own He was confronted by C. R. Gardiner, Facine volition. It is also the general belief here coast champion, and a brilliant struggle outlint Nanking will eventually become the

capital.

INTIMATIONS

HEAD ONE MASS OF

RUNNING ECZEMA

Took Every Hair 02 A Pitiful Sight. Kept Someone Night and Day to Prevent His Scratching. After Second Application of Cut- cura Ointment, Itching Stopped..

Now Has Lovely Skin and Hair Thanks to Cuticura Reme

"I have ranch pleasure in ancicsing photograph of baby by which you will see

that there is no trace of ecZENB. Left, When ho was three months his title head and face bassino ons mass of ranging Gosema wble £ tup every har of a bend and his little eyer warenimostclosed

willy, beesha

a pitiful sight. and it kept spine. one plekt and day to prevent

from scratching himself and making it bleed, The doctor attended him for about three months and gave us ointments and medicines. which did him no good. Then we turned

"That Mr. Gray be authorised to nego I must also hasten to express my regretiate and conclude a contract with the for carelessly writing" 5 per cent." for " 4 Rubber lavestment Trust Limited, for the per cent," high the mistake makes no differ

sale of the property and assets of the Com ence to the point I was trying to make any to a new Company to be formed and which was that in spite of the boom in registered in London by or under the auspices property, the Company is paying a smaller of the Rubber Investment Trust, Limited, dividend this year than last, and can only upon the same terms as by the resolution of pay 4 per cent, by drawing upon its reserve, the Company passed on the 22nd November As I expressly stated in my previous letter last, and confirmed on the 9th December that the $8,000 allowance was for office rent last, it was resolved to sell the said property and staff, I fail to see the point of the tatter and assets to a new Company to be formed part of the second paragraph of the General by, or under the auspices of, the United Managers' letter.

Lankat Plantations Company, Limited (the When the present disturbed state of the coun- name of the Rubber Investment Trust, try is settled it is to be sincerely hoped that China will take such steps as may be expedient Limited, being substituted for that of the to foster her industries sud remove therefrom United Lankat Plantations Company, Limit the vexations taxations which the cotton trade The General Managers assert that the cost ed, in such terms); with the addition thereto is now subjected to. In direct compotition with India and Japaz we are unfavourably placod, of management is to per cent. on the net that options on Gooo shares

the new Com- inasmuch as we have to

pay beary likin taxation profits: I still maintain that it is 16 per pany to be formed be given to the Rubber on our raw matarisi, and, in addition, excise on 'cent. on the gross rental. The items, ex- Investment Trust, Limited, or its nominees." our manufactured yarn, whereas Indian and

American cotton is proautable by our eluded are necessary disbursements, which The CHAIRMAN Said -Gentlemen,-The

our competi tom duty free It is really astonishing how am quite distinct from the cost of manage.ticular accompanying the notice convening very short-sighted the pathorities in China have ment; but the latter term includes office rent this miceling serves to explain to you the been in the past to the advantages to be gained

It appears that in the discussion of the by fostering industrial development. We siz- and staff. I included General Charges reason why the meeting was called. It ny

terms of abdication Dr. Sun Yat Sen object- corely hope that whatever government may $2,066.77" in my porcentage, because the being most undesirable that we should again evoutually be established, one of their Arst steps Drum Major Andrews, who represents the but was agreeable to the retention of the ed to the title of Emperor being hereditary accounts throw no fight on that item: if the placed in the same uncertain position as will be to waive all taxation in connection with Singapore regimont of the "Fuffe," colonial title during the lifetime of the present Em- General Managers

that in which we have been left for the last an industry which can give employment to сап prove that the

thousands of their workpeople, and which army of Great Britain, has entered thres of the peror, a proposal which Yoan Shih-k'ai ac $2,966.77.. covers only arcessary disburse few months by the U.L..P.C. and with the should receive all consideration from the hands big events of the open track and fold mento

cepted. There was a decided difference of

jarn and cloth consuming country, yet cotton of those in power. China is cotton growing, the Carnival for championships of the Far opinion regarding the question of the capital. Yuan Shih-k'ai suggested that Tientsin be shipped for sonsamption from one China pert East, which will be held in the Carnival Stadium the provisional capital, and the Republicans to another has to pay 35 candareens per pioul this morning and afternoon. The Singapore insisted on Nanking, which Yuan strongly to export and another import daty of 11 en sprinter and distance rnauer goes into the 440 opposed.

Among the arguments against darsons. Cotten from a foreign cunntry has yard run, the 880 yard ran, and the ous, mile Nanking as a capital is that it would mean

eix mace, while yüzn if exported from rap. As thesersees tako place in the programme Woosung, and elsewhere on the Yangisze, RACE SEASON

The demolition of the forts at Chinkiang, Shanghai to another China port has to pay of finais for this afternoon within a few minutes on account of the protocol of 1901 providing The General Managers affirm that the sidering it. In answer to this, a telegram seven mare per pical. Surely of the pre-of each other, Drum Major Andrews may be that an open way be maintained to the sea.

new govern. ment in China will see, the anomaly sent position.

ments the cost of management is reduced to 14 per cent, of the gross real. A compari son with other Companies will, I think, show that the cost of management of this Con- pany is higher in proportion to its income than any similar Company in the Colony.

property boom came too late to materially affect 1911 accounts, but is it not a fact that the actual rentals, flat by flat and house by house, of the Company's property increased considerably last year, and that the increase has gone into the pockets of the formers to whom the Company has farmed ils property?

It is less trouble for General Managors of Land Companies to farm cut their property, than to manage it personally..

offer

holders here would be very reluctant to pass knowledge we possessed that the share any resolution to accept an offer which they were not assured was binding, a telegram was sent off to Me. Gray last Wednesday to the effect that the members would insist upon recelving á binding offer before con-

has been received from Mr. Gray to the effect that the offer of the Rubber Invest- ment Company is a firm offer, from which if is to be gathered that the constitution of that Company renders it unnecessary for general meeting of the Company to confirm a

made by its representatives. That being so, it may be assumed that we ac in a position to conclude a contract with the R.I.T. upon the terms of their offer should we think it to do so. But, in giving It will be interesting to hear particulars the matter serious consideration, and after from the General Managers as to the ascertaining the views of several principal -development work undertaken in war. Ishareholders, your directors came to the can find no reference to it in the report or conclusion that unless special circumstances exist rendering the proposed connection with Your correspondent,

the Rubber Investment Trust highly advis- Sympathiser " well as the General Managers ask why I and ally the offer which requires the giving other shareholders did not oppose the altera, of options in respect of 6,000 shares lasting tion in the General Managers' and Directors' for a period of five years could not be deem- remuneration last year. What was the use?ed acceptable. We therefore sent a further Small shareholders are at the mercy of the telegram, to Mr. Gray on Saturday to the Directors and Managers; they cannot insist, effect that the directors were unable to recom. they can only appeal to the powers that bemend the offer with those options To this tele- not to exact. their pound of flesh" in lean gram no answer has as yet been received. years. Yours truly,

Your directors are nevertheless of oplaion F. 8. L. BOWLEY, that although they feel they cannot recom

accounts.

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FUTURE OF DALAI LAMA,

RESULT OF THE PRESENT SITUATION IN CHINA.

Rai Sarat Chunder Das, Bahadur, C.1.E.,

mend the acceptance of the R.I.T. as it stands it is just possible that some special circumstances may exist and may be dis- closed in the letter Mr. Gray doubtless wrote in confirmation of his telegram, which cir- cunstances may render it advisable to come

to рау

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With reference to the accounts, you will have read that your board resemmends the division of the Profit and Loss Account credit as follows:- To pay a dividend of Tis. 5 per Tis

share...

...40,000.00 depreciate mill building ...80,000 00 depreciate plant and machinery...20,317,81 which same together with the amount of Ts. 3,963.00 to be paid to the general manager leave is balance to be carried forward of Tls. 636.11.

samoant of Tls, 20,317.81, which your With the board recommends to place to the depreciation of your machinery, it means that we have reduced the first cut of your plant from The 630,688.1 to Tls. 32,000.00, or slightly over 41 per cent. Besides which in order to keep your plant in proper working order, we have spent in repairs and renewals Te. 62,148.00, which has been written off saqually in your profit and less account; depreciation and repairs being entirely effected out of the mill esznicga,

Buildings by the board's recommendation will now stand in the books at Tis. 142,000.00 as against an original cost of Tie. 205 929.45.

An item on the asset side of the accounts of Tis. 2,000 to the Shanghai Cotton Anti- Adulteration Association may perhaps require a little explanation.

to check and, if possible, to put a stop to the

here and

Thursday ended in a victory for the San Francis- can by 5-7, 6-3, 6-1,

Regarding Andrews, the well-known sprinter of the Buffs, the Cablenews Americen of last Friday states:

THE ABDICATION AGREEMENT.

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to patent ointments, Sul no result. We feit daunted until we read of a cure by the Cuticura Remedies. Then we carefully spilled Cutiara Ointment. After the second application the itching stopped. He made no further altempts to scratch, and in a week he was on the high road to recovery. We continued with Cutleurs Soap and Oint- meat, and in about five weeks there was no Stae of enzemą. He has lovely skin and A beautiful head of hair, thanks to Cutteura Boan and Cuticura Ointment." (Bigned) Hra A. Morgana, 20. Full dt., Landore, 8o. Wales March 20, 1910.

Hold throughout the world. Depots Lon den, 27, Charterhque Ba.; Lennon, Lady Cape FONE. etc. B. K. Paul, Crirutia: 1.8.4. Detter Drug &Chem Corp., SeleProps., Desion.

1912.

CHRONOGRAPHS

SINGLE AND

SPLIT SECONDS

allowed to withdraw from the mile run for this There was no serious dispute as to the afternoon and ran a special race on Monday terms of the Republicans' proposed allowance against the winner of today's great.

to the Emperor. The Revolutionists went Since his last appearance in Manila, Andrews the allowance in dollars,, saying that the RELIABLE

forthcoming currency will be changed to the has been promoted from corporal to drum major doilar basis. Yuan suggested that the allow- in his regiment. He brings a fine record of ance be placed on a tael basis until the new victories won in the Transyal, South Africa, currency is actually inaugurated.

One article of the agreement specifies that Singapore and Hongkong. While stationed at the people are not subjects of the Emperor. Johannesburg, Transvaal, in 1908 Andrews The Parliament will fix the special memorial emptured the South African championship in expenses. The Republic will select and pro- the half mile, covering the distance in 2.02, and vide the Imperial Guard. ' Residence will be ran third in the quarter mile.

For this permitted in the Forbidden City or the Sum- ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS

mer Palace, performance to was solcoted as űrst resorve The Manchu migration from Peking has for the South-African team sent to the begun and many notable Manchus are leav world Olympic mealing field in London that ing, including Duke Kung, Prince Tsai Tso year. Entering the Hongkong amateur athletic and Prince Su. sports, held in March, 1910, he won first honours in the half mile and mile. Again in tho Victoris Recreation Club meet of April, 1910, at

Mr. Percy Tilley, a local architect, has 7.10.0 Hongkong, Andrewe ran every race from the gone to Hankow to assist in the drafting of 100 yard dash to the mifo in a two days' meet, plans for the rebuilding of the burned dis 200 yard dash in 23 3-5 seconds and the century and owners will contribute ten per cent. of winning the quarter mile in 51 4.5 secunde, the trict into a modern model city.

Thirty four roads will be laid out.

The in 101-5...

THE REBUILDING OF HANKOW.

MR. L. BINYON ON CHINESE ART issued. The Commercial Building Corpora-

£9.5.0

NEW MODELS.

AGENTS:

£6.10.0

£6.0.0

Chas. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

who has been both to Lhassa and Peking to terms with the R.1.T. We therefore prc. tion also to the committee of the Angels and a half, but is soon, the lecturer stated, to be purposes, pledging their land as security for

On bis former appearance in Manila, when to their acreage for these highways and for competed in some special Carnival races, sites for public buildings and parks. The Andrews made au oxcellent showing, winning land owners have been instructed to establish To be obtained from the out in all the aventa

their claims to their respective holdings in the burned area and now" title deeds will be

tion will float a loan of Fis, 15,000,000 guar- At the London Institution, Finsbury-cirens,anteed by the Republican Government, it is on the 22nd ult., Mr. Laurence Binyon gave a said, and this will provide for the erection lecturs on Chinese art, illustrated by examples of 30,000 houses. from the collection in the British Museum and land owners will be permitted to use Prospective merchants which has been on exhibition for the last year the funds realized in this way for building removed.

repayment within a prescribed time. It is Mr. Binyon said we had been familar for some estimated that Tls, 3.400.000 will be needed two centuries with the decorative art of Chins, for the road work. It is understood that 451 especially the porcelain, but hitherto the creativo other local architects have been engaged on art of China, the painting and soulpture, the reconstruction plans. has been almost unknown. The reason why there were ze museums in China and no painting had remained unknown was that. exhibitions. The Chinese did not like exhibi- tions; they thought that a picture was a sensitive thing, and was injured and contaminated by the

treasures of Chinese painting, therefore, were

said to an Englishmen representative in an Interview recently

If this

This is a guarantee inad to the Shanghai Cotton Anti-Adulteration. Association, which, as you are doubtless avers, was inaugurated last October, the object of the Association being

excessive watering of cotton by the Chinese. The Association, I may say, is doing oxending ly good work and a debt of gratitude is due by those interested in the cotton trade to the Dip lomatie Body in Peking, the Consular Body

in their endeavours to establish a Coiten Testing House. The Shanghai Cotton Testing House is now controlled jointly by the Commis sioner of Customs and the committee of the Association.

With regard to this year's cotton the quality prices since the autumn bave gradually receded, generally is an exceptionally poor one and in spite of the great falling off in arrivals to this market: one would think that the farmers are witholding their stocks, as it is hardly

profits they made last season the acreage has in any the cotton crop undoubtedly inffered a

pose that a resolution be moved to adjourn It is a curious coincidence of events that this meeting, say, for three weeks, by which the Manchu dynasty and the sovereign time we shall no doubt have received a full heirarchy of the Dalai Lama which com- explanatory letter from Mr. Gray. menced at about the same time should be be done we should then telegraph to Mr. coming to a termination simultaneously. With the death of the Empress Dowager of Gray that the meeting had been adjourned China and Emperor Quangshu, which awaiting his letter, More especially does ́occurred only three years ago, the revolution it seem to us to be advisable to adjourn the in China began. The revolution has now inceting in view of the fact that another possible to beliove that after the enormova gazo of the casual and indifferent. The great Government had undergone many interest

THE GOVERNORSHIP OF KWANGTUNG.

Since the departure of Wu Han Ming the Tutuhship of Kwangtung Provincial

The Dalai Lama, who had been fêted and on more or less similar terms to those of deal of damage owing to floods and the great Japanese that, we had begun to have some when ex-General Wu left for Shanghai, also through Mr. Gray, telegraphed an offer way beep redused, but on the other hand in private collections. It was chiefly from the ing changes. The China Press recalls that

knowledge of the subject, that nation having Wong King Wei, one of the republican peace typhoon, more especially locally and in those published in magnificent reproductions a great delegates, was appointed to take, the position districts of Tangohow and the island of Taung number of Chinese as well as Japanese master of military governor for Canton. When he was named to assist Dr. Wu Ting-fang in ming berdering on the Yangtze. It is more po stocks are still held in the country awaiting painting back to the sixth or seventh centuries elected to be the Acting-General. Later Mr. than probable, therefore, that considerable

The lecturer traced the history of Chinesa the Peace negotiations, R. M. Cheng was either a peaceful bod ett para solution to the present distur. 3.C.. the earlier art being of an epic kind, Wong repeatedly sent in his resignation of rise in the present prices of the commodity.

of communication, or a devoted to representation of national heroes and the post Somelime ago the Cantonese at- the portraits of Bages. It correspondad, în tempted to break the deadlock by asking Mr. The rest and accounts S. 1.

Alexandra Buildings,

Chater Road,

эле

He had been practically divested of ait ruling gentienten, it is not worth while to go fur. I think of the loret ped-poco, nt require, foot, to the ideals of Confucius, who, like Plato, S; N. Feng, now surving in the Government PINCE NEZ and

my

In doing so he SPECTACLES

Accurately

Fitted to Each

Individual's Face,

resulted in the abdication of the last of the Company, the Rubber Estates Agency, has Manchus, a child of six.

loaded with honours while at Peking in October, 1909, was formally reinstated in his the RT which offer ought also to be con- position of sovereign ruler at Kumburn, insidered by this Compan before that of the the beginning of 1910 by the Viceroy of RIT. is definitely accepted or refused. Kursu under an fimperial edict. But on his The special busiess of which this meeting return to Lhassa, the Dalai Lama found is called is merely to consider the one offer himself in no better position than he had At a subsequent meeting, if due notice is been in during the advance of the Young given of the business to be transacted, both husband Mission to Lhassa in August, 1904. offers may be considered.

1f you agree,

authority. The Resident Amban even did her into this matter at the présent time.

But Mr. Feng following the explicit, but should there be any questions moral effect. The pictures of the fourth con- the reins. not pay him the respect that was due to his Mr. SLADE said it seemed to him that an which any shareholder would like to ask, I will tury AD. (of which he throw on the screen example of his predecessor, Wong King Wai, position as Dalai Lama. Though he was adjournment for three weeks would probably be quite willing to answer them to the best of some of the earliest known examples now in tendered his resignation. honoured and worshipped by the Tibetans of be too short, and he thought the best plan ability.

the British Museum) represented a reaction recommended Mr. Wa Ka Fo, one of the all ranks and classes, the Chinese and State- would be not to pass the resolution, and to On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by from the social system of Confucius in pioneer revolutionists, for the honour. oficials were quite aloof from him. In the authorise the directors to continue negotia. Mr. J. M. Young, the report and accounts were favour of individual liborty, deriving_its At present, however, it is difficult to say meantime he was informed that the Chinese tions with such persons in London as they adopted.

inspiration from the thought of Lao-Tze, whether Mr. Wu will be given another had destroyed eighteen large Buddhist might think fit and to ascertain what were Mr. J. W. Bandow proposed, and Mr. H. The influence of Buddha, he thought, had chance for resignation. So far five re- monasteries in the province of "Kham and a the best terins that could be obtained for Marshall seconded, that a dividend of Tls. 5 per been exaggerated, although that influence bad publicans have been nominated in vain. large army under a Chinese general was the floating of a company in London to which share be declared for the your ending 31st beer nevertheless very great, and he showed advancing towards the Central Province. they could transfer their property, because December, 19.1. This was agreed to. Messrs. some specimens of early Buddhist sculpture The Dalai Lama finding it unsate and it might be possible for themselves to pro- Bandow, and Chung Liang-yu were re elected found in Turkestan and elsewhere. The sighth At a meeting of the Board of the Man- undesirable to stay at Lhasa any longer as note a company, and thereby obtain the directors, and Mr. George Wingrove anditor. century was the time of the greatest painter of chester Chamber of Commerce held on a nouentity took shelter under the British bencat of the London quotation, and the

China, Wu-Taotze, Almost nothing was January xo, certain resolutions, the terms of Government at Darjeeling;

benefit of subscribers in London, on terms

known for a long time of that period, but Dr. which had been remitted by the Board to be Our Stock is Complete, Assortment The Dalai Lama is believed to be the which would be much more favourable than

Stein's recent discoveries had added greatly to settled by the General Purposes Committee, incarnation of Abalokiteswar, a disciple of either of the two offers which they had re- At a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute with its idealization of nature and its wonderful meeting of the Association of Chambers of

our knowledge. Then came the Tsang period,

were adopted for advocacy at the next annual Buddha, while the Emperor of China is said ceived. The mere adjournment of the meet- last month Dr. Miller Maguire road a paper on to be an incarnation of Manjusti," another fing would not give them any advantage the coming importance of the Paoife Ocean in conceptions which might be compared to those of these dealt with the loss of the Oldhamia | landscapes and pictures મ Bowers inspired Commerce, to be held in March. One of that could not be obtained by the method world politics. He declared that the Panama disciple of Buddha, both of whom are sup- he suggested, namely, not to accept the offer. Riel Caral is German ; contrasted the compara. Lury there was a gradual decline, and modern and was as follows That, in view of the posed to be spiritual brothers. They came

Canal

would soon be as nech American as the

Wordsworth's poetry. From the fifteenth cen together to rule over Tibet and China and and calling a fresh meeting. If no one it is in the fitness of things that they should seconded the resolution it would lapse and tire emptiness of the American and Australasian painting in China ceemed to be rather dagene uncompensated loss suffered by the owners retire together to Nirvana.

he would propose a new resolution after territories with the overcrowded condition of rate. Chinn, however, could boast of a magni. of the str. Oldhamic through the destruction The Emperor, as has been reported, goes wards. He moved, "That as this resolution Eastern Asia; and commented on Australia ficent record lounger that that of any other ccan of the vessel by the Russians in the Russo- to Jehol, a place some 150 miles south-west

has not been accepted, the directors be au- creation of a local navy and adoption of universal try in the world.

Japanese War of 1905 for alleged contra- band, this Association requests the Foreign of Peking, where possibly he will be housed thorised to negotiate with the Rubber In compulsory training. Professor Spenser Wilkin

the summer-palace, built by Emperor vestiment Trust and any other companies son and the Agent-General for Fasaanis took Mr. Ruby Nissim, eldest daughter of Sir Office to make a further attempt to obtain Chhinglang (Querlung) in about 1750.

or individuals in London, with the view to part in the disenssion which followed.

Sassoon David, died at Mahableshwar on justice from the Russian Government, or if January 28 as the result of a carriage sccident. this is deemed impracticable by the Foreign Mrs. A. J. David, who was with her in the ear-Office, that the British Government be asked circle at the Kennington Theatre wis reserved remain were taken to Bombay that night. All tive of the Association be requisitioned to A Remarkable Family Party - row of the ringe, was injured in her spine. Mrs. Nissim's to indemnify the owners. That the Execu

ing of a Mrs. Cornfield, a Lincolnshire woman, recently for a remarkable family party, consist the Jewish offices in Bombay were closed on bring this before Sir E. Grey by deputation and her 21 sous, eight of whom are in the Army

Jaunary 29 as a mark of respect to the deceased or in such other form as may be deemed most Lady.

likely to be effective."

in

In

1780 Quenlung advanced there to receive promoting a company to take over the Tashi Lama Fandanyesha, in whose court assets of this Company,"

The motion was seconded by Mr. ORIS "Tox, "and" carried

Warren Hastings had sent George Bogle as a_envoy.

Reuter announced recently that the Dalai Lama goes to Tibet in March

The CHAIRMAN That concludes the busi- ness, gentlemen.

THE NEW PACIFIC"

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