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[100 Hongkong, 12th May, 1900
A. G. DA ROCHA,
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AVING been favoured with intracting
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13th May, 1 at 2.14 p.m.. at his Sales Room,"
A QITURE AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
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in good condition.
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Iron Twin Bedsteads.
2 Office Desks..
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whence, and/or from the wharros, delivery MAY
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rent.
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Claims against the Stemmer must be pre- mentou za
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SALE BY TENDER OF H.M.S. "MOONSHINE."
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TENDERS are invited for the purchase of the above named ship as she lies in the
harbour.
2. Full particulars of the ship, conditions of sale, permits to view and tender forms may
be obtained on application to the undersigned 3. A deposit of $160.00 is required before furme of tender can be issued, this amount
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4. The vessel will be on view from the 4th May to the Slat May inclusive, during the ordinary working hours of the Dockyanl *RTICULARS Ur H.M.S.MOONSHINE"
A single screw steamer of about L.E.P.270 Length between Perpendienis ra.
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It is heroby notified that the Valuation Lists for the Colony for the year 100%. 1023 will be open to inspection at the Treasury for twenty one days commencing on SATUR DAY, the 22nd April, 1922.
U. Mat. MESSER, Treasurer and Assessor of Rates. [920 21st April, 1924.
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A Chinese was knocked down by a tram Empire. For upwards of thirty years opposite the Sun Company Store in Des naval defence has been a subject of dis Vœux Boad on Wednesday. He was re- cussion in Imperial Conferences, Australia moved to the Government Civil Hospital unconscious, suffering from severe injuries and Canada soms years ago, began to
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We learn from notice in Command Orders regarding the Tenis Courts at Happy Valley that the Hongkong Golf Club have kindly consented to alter the * Thee of the 5 and 6 holes, thereby
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EASTERN CABLE
NEWS. (THROUGH RELER'S AGENCY.")
IN CIVIL WAR
NORTH.
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THE
FENCTIEN REINFORCEMENTS.
Tressey May-titl The Fengtion army is receiving reinforce. ments from Mukden. Over 30,000 troops
have bow passed since the Washington Conferener came to an end, so that the question is due to comme un log con- are coneintrating rand Changli and sideration again by the Dominion Parlinchow where they are entrenching
About an equal number of Chihli troops aware, As everybody, 14
the have detrand and are deploying nea immediate outcome of the Washington Tongshan, five miles from the Fengtien Conference has been a substantial redus advance posts. Unless the retreat is re
sumed fighting is inevitable within-a 'very tion in the Naval Estimates of all the short period.
But the imperial l'owers concerned.
in the
FOREIGNERS IN DANGER. Some apprehension is felt for the safety
more from the miners, whom it has been of foreigners not only from the troops bat imposible to supply with adequate food or pay during the past month, owing to troop movements.
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OPIUM TRAFFIC.
THE SUPPLY TO HONGKONG, LONDON, May 19th Correspondee in the Times on the drug traffic includes, a letter from Mr. H. B Pakenham, who has lived for twenty-five years in the Far East. He alleges that
"nefarious traffic in opium and morphia is carried on" by the British- Indian Government." He says that com mercial exploitation in its most sinister
to America, then transshipped to Japag and thence smuggled into Chias.
The crux of the whole position is the overproduction, of opium in India and
The family of the inte Mr. LAU CH. PAX navy is still costing the taxpayers of the
beg to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and Horalnited Kingdom some eighty millions of tributes, in their bereavement,
pounds sterling per annum, while none of the sister nations" in the British Commonwealth expends a sum exceeding two. million pounds à "year, we believe, on naval defence. So Jong as Navies may be deemed necessary to national security, the question of making the British Navy an imperial navy in face as well as пате must continue to decupy attention of the statesten of our. Empire. The lesson which stand out' most clearly BRITISH DOMINIONS AND
from the experience of the war have been NAVAL DEFENCE. defined by the expert" as "being: (1) that ALL ministers of the great spending central contral, uniformity of training, form is being seen in China in connection departments in nationu! Governments must standardisation of material, and'decen | with the appalling growth of the morphi experience no uncomfortable time when tralisation of its construction are necestralhe, which has increased from five and in 1920, every ton representing 32,000,000 they come to fruine expenditure estimatessary for successful defence; (2) that half tons in 1911, to twenty-eight tons in which they must contrive to reconebe owing to rapidity of sea murements, it doses. A very large part of this opium it is converted into morphia and shipped the views of their expert advisers with is an essential condition of naval strategy comes from India to Great Britain where hy demands of the taxpayers for the that sea forces of all natures shall be national economy that is so imperatively distributed about the world in times of peace, in accordance with the functicas necessary at the present time. Bailer. 4 ft. 8 inches dia, 6 ft. 6 inches long-sociate these anxieties, perhaps, with the they will be called upon to perform in{if that is arrested other sources of produc Speed 9 knots
For further particulars apply to F.O. Box First Lord of the Admiralty's outspoken time of war; and (3) that such matters tion could be handled with comparative ense. He says that about 13,000 pounds 1980
the tardiness oi the are too vital to be made party questions of opium is sent every month to Hongkong 474. Hongkong."
Dominions in enforcing the decision in any part of the Empire. A sen Furce, from India, when 36 pounds & year would ot the Imperial Conference whereby the fulfilling, these conditions, would be the be ample for medical erquirements. The Dominions agreed to operate in the cement which would bind together thence goes in the demoralisation of the Colony, or is smuggled to the mainland For scine great nations of the Empire, which the of China. Naval defence of the Empire.
Mr. O. M. Sin, Honorary Treasurer of (2) Two 50 BHP. two cylinder Bondes "years the Dominions have resented their sea dirides. On all these aspects of the the Lordon Chinese Student's Union, in a designation as Colonies and the status of matter there is probably no disagreement letter supports Sir William Collins, it dependance that the term implies. in the Dominions. The question for each urging immediate pressure by the League They have claimed recognition as "sister of them "is: Shall they as "sister of Nations, for the effective and im mediate execution of the recommendations nations" in the imperial confederacy, nations" in the imperial Commonwealth of the Opium Convention.
More than one Pakenham has lived in entitled to a voice in the Government of shoulder their proper share of the burden
the Far East for twenty-five years.
Wa the Empire and in the determination ut of the Naval defence of the Empiral ideatify this Mr. H. B. Pakenham as the ita foreign policy-claim which has been National rank involves the responsibilities well known Church of England Mission gladly allowed, because while they are all of nationhood, and, when the contriby-ary who was stationed for many years in self-governing countries, developing freely tions of the Dominions to the naval the district of Foochow -ED. H.D.P.
JAPANESE TROOPS IN SIBERIA Follection Hongkong,
ORMER Eastern Resident retails fine on their own nes, according to their defence of the Empire are contrasted with
A QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF Dependencies, Ceylon, sto. Almost complete to own national characteristics and envirun the contributions of the taxpayers of the thegreatest varities. Prices low. Sent ou ment, under different climatic conditions, United Kingdom it becomes perfectly.
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[978 ure yet bound to each other by loyalty to a more adequate conception of their to the same King, by the same ideals of duty in this respect if they wish to freedom, and by a common need of justify their title to a voice in the defence against world forces hostile to imperial decisions by which the strength WING to the advancing cost of newspaper those ideals. The Great War settled of the imperial navy must be determined.
production, it has been decided to make
to the recognition of On the basis of population alone, the an ingrossed charge of 20 per cent. on present rates, as from APRIL 1st, 1922, on the following the Dominions of this community of" sister nations" should bear at least a
of casual advertisments namely
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Tsingtau has declared Hongkong to ba plague infected port and quarantine been ordered.
LONDON, May 11th. In the House of Commons, replying to the Right Hon. George Barnes, Mr. Chamberlain said he understood that it was owing to the breakdown of the Dairen Conference that the Japanese Government had been unable hitherto to give effect to their declared intention to withdraw troops from Siberia,
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