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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

KOWLOON RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION.

THE THIRD

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the above Association will be held in

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, at 0.ra. All Kowloon residents are cordially invited to attend.

A. MORLEY.

Hon. Secretary. Kowloon, February 5th, 1953. –

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONGKONG.".

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5rx, · 1913,

NEW ADVERTSEMENTS

NOTIFICATION.

THE Ofices and Stations of the CEISE

MARITINE CUSTOMs for Kowloon and District will be CLOSED to Public Business on the 1xH FEBRUARY (Commemoration Day of the Republic of China), and from the 18Tix to 19TH FEBRUARY, indiuzive (Chinese Naw Year Holidayı),

4C THORNE Commissioner of Chinese Customs,

Kowloon and District.

[397 3rd February, 1893.

INTIMATIONS

INTIMATION

HONGKONG FOOTBALL

Just received

ASSOCIATION.

INTERPORT GAME. HONGKONG .. SHANGHAI SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Club Ground, kick off at 4 pm. sharp. "

SOUTH CHINA ATHLETIC ». SHANGHAI MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH. Club Ground kick off at 6 pun, sharp..

BOTH GAMES.

Fresh shipment of

ADMISSION TO STANDS :-.

Covered (All Reserved)

$2.00

Uncovered (Reserved)...

1.50

BASS

Unreserved

1.00

Chaira

.0.30

LIGHT

IN THE GOODS of RAPHAEL AARON GUBBAY late of Victoris. Hongkong. Exchange Broker (deceased).

GIVES that the

IN THE GOODS of Batuan, EMANUEL BELLICS, Iste of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Barrister-at-Law, deceased.

Soldiers and Sailom in uniformi half price to

NOTICE IS HEREBY G of Section 39 all the referred Scal of the Probates Ordinance 1997 (No. of 1897)

has, by

NOTICE IS HEREBY of Gestion as of the Probates Ordinance: 1897 (No. 2 of 1997) made an Order limit above Estate to the

made an order limiting the time for sending in claims to or against the shore Estate to the 18th day of FEBRUARY, 1923. Creditors nd Claimants are hereby required to sent their Claims to the Underrigard by the above data.

Dated this 3rd day of February. 1923,

'DEACON, HARSTON & SHENTON

Proctora for the Executor,

1. Den Vous Road Central, Hongkong,

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UNION WATERBOAT CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL GEN

ERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLD. ERS will be held at the Oßcos of Messrs. Dowels & Co. LTD., on TEURSDAY, the 1345 FEBRUARY, 1923, at 11.30 Am., for the purpose of receiving the Raport of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounta to 31st December, 1912.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 8th to 15th Feb rary, 1993, both dates inclusive.

321)

DODWELL & CO. LTD.,

General Managers

HONGKONG A SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION,

the time for sanding in claims to or against 28th Day of FEBRUARY, 1952 Creditors and Claimants are

required to date. send their gned by 1 the abore Claims to the Un

Dated this 29th day of Jaanary, 1993

DEACON HARSTON & SHENTON, Proctors for the Administrators, 1, Des Vonx Road Central, Hongkong.

299

of

FARTICULARS

VALUABLE· LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

Sitants

*

No. 13, WING HING STREET,

VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

To be Sold by Order of the Mortgages

By

PUBLIC AUCTION, IN ONE LOT

Од MONDAY, The STE DAT of Fan., 1923, at 3 o'cLOCK PIN, Br Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS

Á? THAIR OF710E, Duddell Street,

THE "Property consists of First ALL

1.,"

Booking for the Reserved Accomodation overs at MoUTRIES on the 5th.

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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

NOTARY SET FLEMENT, DAY

has been altered from MONDAY, 26th, to FRIDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY 1923. -

By Order of the Committee. F. TESTER

Secretary,

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CHINA PROVIDENT · LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD:

'THE ́ ́TWENTY-SIXTH ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING. of SHARE. HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S BUILD- ING, No. 6, CONNAUGHT ROAD, on SATUR DAY, the 10th of FEBRUARY, 1927, at 11 o'clock; m., for the purpose of receiving s Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ended 31st December, 1925, and electing a Consulting Committee and Aaditors.

T THAT Pece or parcel of ground situate February 1923, until Saturday, the 10th

at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as SEL

as SECTION A of INLAND LOT No. 2168

the measurages erections of beer with!

as thereon

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that now known as No. 13, Wing Nthe ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING. Secondly ALL THAT' strip of land at thet and

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Thursday, the t February, 1923, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, 26th January, 1923,

HUMPHREY'S ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Cor of the said Section A of Inland Lot No. 2168 poration will be held at CITY HALL, being a scavenging lane. All of which pre- Hongkong, on SATURDAY the 24TH;mises are held for the residue of the term of FEBRUARY. 1993, at Noon, for the pur-years from the 15th day of May, 1016, ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL | created by the Crown Lease thereof together: pose of receiving the Report of the Court with the valuable machinery now situate in of Directors together with a Statement or upon the said premises and at No. 1 of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1992

The Register of shares of the Corpora-] tion will be CLOSED from Monday, 13th February to Saturday, 4th February, 1923 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of The Court of Directors,

A. G. STEPHEN.

Chief 'Manager." Hongkong, 5th February, 1927.

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CHINESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS CANTON-KOWLOON LINE"

Gordon Street.

Particulars and Conditions of sale may be obtained from

Mesars. HASTINGS & HASTINGS

Bolicitors,

B, Des Voeux Road Central.

- Jad Mesure, LAMMERT BROTHERS;

Auctioneers,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Mesars, LAMMERT BROTHERS have received instructiona to sell by PUBLIO AUCTION,

THURSDAY,

WITE the approof TEN DEUS

ITH the approval of the Ministry of the 8th day of FEBRUARY, 1923, at TURKS

O'CLOCK P.M.

At their Auction Rooms IN DUDDELL STREET,

THE VALUÄBLE 'LEASÈHOLD PROPERTIES

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS IN THIS COMPANY will be held at the HONGKONG Herr, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 10th FEBRUARY, 1923, at 11.30 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1992.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 6th February to the 12th February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Re gistered,

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THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILDING CO., LTD.

word

s.moment's attention. Between 1876 and Today (Monday) at 6.30 p.m. Mr. H 1911 the following territories

W. Kens will give a lecture at the Helona May Institute On collecting Chinese succesively added to her Empire: First, Pottery and Porcelain and other Curios. the Loochu islands; next, Formosa and A small display of curion will be on tha Pescadores; then, the Southern half view before the lemure, which will be of Saghalien and the Ewantung penin- the subject are cordially invited to illustratex All who its interneted in

suli; and, lastly, Koren. A glance at attend.-ADVT

the map will show that by those acquisi- tions Japan, has built herself into a wall A notification in the Government which runs like a breakwater from a section 7. of the St. Joseph's College In Gazette states that in accordance with point off the Chinä const adjacent to corporation Ordinance 1991 satisfactory Swatow up to a point on the coast north evidence has been furnished, to His Ex- of Vladivostock. Within the seclusion of cellency the Governor by Brother Aimer this barricade the policy of economie tor in Hongkong of St. Joseph's College"

Pierra of his appointment as the Dire exploitation on the continent (assisted Brother Aimer has been engaged in where possible by territorial gain) his Educational work in the Straite Settle bean, and is being, vigorously pursued. where he previously acted for a time as ments, but is well-known in Hongkong It will bo obeerved, however, that the Director of St. Joseph's College barrier is not complete. There is a gap has recently returned to the East from in the north occupied by the upper half France, and arrived in Hongkong H of Saghalien. As a consequence of events.

week ago. arising from the Great War, Japan, until] the last few months has held Vladivostock, FAR dominated the Maritime Provinces of

ALE Siberia, and still has troops in Northern

Saghalien in and around the part of Nikolavaesk, and, so far as we have been able to ascertain, such government as may be said to exist in the north of Saghalien to-day is controlled by Japan.

Events have obliged the Japanese to

Purple Triangle Brand evacuate Vladivostock, and it may be we

Εν

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}

PEKING

POLITICAL-ATTATES,

ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER,

APPOINTED,

PEKING, February 3rd. A Mandate, issued last night, appoint- shall eventually hear of them leaving ed Huang, Fu neting Foreign Minister Nikolavaesk. So lar

and accepted Mr. Alfred So'a resigna- as the military tion. Huang Fu is at present director party are concerned, this evacuation will of the financial conference, and he was be very reluctantly carried out, since of at one time financial · advisor · at the recent years a new factor has invested sidered his advice will be useful in the Washington Conference, hence it is con-

Pints & Splits Saghalien with special importance in the present financial difficulties of the Gov-

A.

S. WATSON

CO., LTD.

"Wine & Spirit Merchants.

'PHONE CENTRAL 616

BIRTHS. AMIDANI.-At Shanghai, on January 28th, to Mr. and Mrs L AMIDANT,

а вод.

"DEATHS.

The Government has wired to Chia Yua Ao ordering him not to interfere with the workmen's headquarters, hence it is ex- pected that the strike will speedily bo

eyes of the Japanese, This is the dis-ernment. covery of its petroleum. Modern navies GOVERNMENT INTERVENES ON BE- move on oil fuel, and a fleet without fuel HALF OF RAILWAYMEN.). " is like an army without food. The war Owing to General Chip' Yun Ao dis time, requirements of the Japanese fleet solving the Railwaymen's Union head- quarters at Cheng Chow, railwaymen on probably exered 1,000,000 tons, and at the the Peking-Hankow railway struck this present Japan is almost entirely depend-morning. No trains are running from eat on foreign supplies in this respect. From Peking to the South: In order to rectify this distressing situ ation. the naval authorities have been busy for some time in accumulating a reserve, and they have financed oil- boring operations in Saghalien. Though at present the tappings have not come

Tsai Cheng #sun, the Tuli of Kiangsi, up to expectations, there seems no doubt has wired urging the Government to that the oil is there. It will thus be of Tuli of Kwangtung.

appointed Shen Hung Ying to the post appreciated that the presence of an American oil company in Saghalien can hardly be "otherwise than distasteful to the Japanese Government

over.

NEW TULI OF KWANGTUNG. SUGGESTED..

DUPLICATE CHINESE BONDS.

CLAIM BY THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE

"BANK

Finally, there is the question of the two JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Shanghal, on January 28th, ports which the company are to have the to Mr. and Mr. J. E. DOYLE, right to develop. To appreciate the situ

PEKING, February 4th. Semi-official statements in the new- General Managera, Hongkong, 24th January, 1923.

-daughter en mat LINDSAY At Shanghai, on

ation in regard to Japan of a port on papers state that the Ministry of Finance January the coast of Saghallen it is necessary to has protested against the detention by 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. S. LIND- look at a map of type of which possibly the Yokohama Specie Bank of a portion of 817, a BCE!

a considerable number of our readers the Salt surplus for the last two months". have never heard, let alone seen. We rater for the declared purpose of meeting to a Gnomonic projection. Accustomed coupons of the 1013 Reorganisation Loan. we are to look at the ordinary Mer.ator's The Ministry affirms that the coupons in projection, we insensibly form an opinion possession cf the bank are advance bonds regard to the situation and ares of which should have been replaced by actual Northern and Southern lands that is bonds, but the outbreak of the war prevent totally opposed to the actual facts. The ed the Russian bankers withdrawing the Mercatorial map, accurate enough for advance bonds, while the actual boods middle latitudes, is a caricature of the were retained at the Petrograd Treasur earth from about 55 degrees North and pending better exchange conditions, projection (or a globe) one can see it into the possession of the Bolsheviks who glance the portion in Sagbalien under

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. thats the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the

"THIRTY - FOURTH ORDINARY

Offices, VICTORIA, BUILDINGS, on Compan

Bad At Shanghai, on January 28th, EMMA MARY RAGSDALE BERO, wife of George P. Berg. " REINSCH. At Dr. Fearn's Hospital, Shanghai, on January 28th, Dr. FAUZ S. REINHO, at the age of 53.

invited by the HEAD OFFICE of the CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY, OHI-I NESE SECTION, for the supply of TWO LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS. The Boilers

Situato near Saigon Street, Yaumati are required to be identical and inter- changeable with those of the Main Lipe in the Colony of Hongkong and being Rogides of the Railway and to at the Portions of Section D of Kowloon Marine of the Directors together with the Statement EONGION OFFICE: 104, Das Vœux RD., present fraurs; quutationa to be C.LF Lot No. 49 intended to be registered in of Accounts for year ending 31st December London Oo: 131, FLT STREET, E.C. 1 South up to the Poles. On a Gnomonie Subsequently the formal loan fonds came

Hongkong and delivery on to Railway the Land Office as SUBSECTIONS 1, 2 Wagons at Holt's Wharf.

feet or

thereabouts

J

13th FEBRUARY, 1923, at 11.30 O'CLOCK for the purpose of receiving the Report:

1922.

The BEGISTER of SHARES of the Com pay will be CLOSED from Monday, 5th February to Tuesday, 13th February, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, 20 MOWBRAY 'S. NORTHCO TE,

Secretary to TRE HONGKONG LAND INTESTMENT AND

AGENOT CO., LTD.

General Agonte for THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING

Co. LTD. Hongkong, 29th January, 1923,

AND 3 OF SECTION D OF KOWLOON Specification, drawings and full parti- MARINE LUT No0, 49, culars may be chtained upon application

To be sold to the Head Offer of the Railway, at

IN THREE LOTS Cantor Applications must be accom- Each Lot containing an are of 4,756 panied by a cheque for $1,035.00, of which square

and more, $35.00 is for cost of drawing and speci- particularly shown and delineated on & fication, and $1,000.00 for deposit which plan exhibited at the Offices of Messra, HARSTON. & SHENTON will be returned upon receipt of a bona DEACON, file" tender,

and at the Auction Rooms of the Auc-¦ ¦ TENDERS, enclosed iz maled envelope tioneers. clearly marked "TENDER FOR LOCO" MOTIVE BOILERS," and addressed to "The Managing Director, CANTON-Kow- LOON RAILWAY. Chinese Section, Canton," LCT 2-Subsection 2 of Section D of THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO will be received up to the 4th day of

Kowloon Marins Lot No. 49 May, 1923.

ri

The Erm whose tender is accepted will be required, to sign a formal Contraet and to furnish a deposit or guarantee to the amount of 10 per cent of the valite

LOT 1-Subsection 1 of Section D. of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 43 as per plan.

*****

as per plan and LOT, a.-Subsection 3 of Section: D of Kowloon Marine Lot. No. 49 ar per plan,..

[$95

STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

The Daily Press.

·HONGKONG, FƐBLUART STE, 1913.

O.

American control, though suffering from attempted to dispose of thom in the London the disadvantage of ice in winter, would 44 Paris markets, but both governments in certain eventualities be an extremely entered a caveat. Now, somehow or other, painful thorn in Japanese flesh. It duplicates have come into the hands of the Yokohama Specia Bank These would lie a few hundred miles from the mainland of Japan and well under three coupons are said to amount to "£127,585, which is an ice-free American port in the dollars. thousand miles from Dutch Harbour, but the Bank is detaining two million

OIL IN TROUBLED WATERS. Ir the news in connection with Saghalien a

Aleutian Islands We do not suggest for The Ministry of Finance points out that moment that the activities of the ne the advance bonds issued by the Russo. oil, which was reported from Paris on American company are other than purely Asiatic Bank were not withdrawn," the January 29th is correct, we may be jure commercial, but, unless we are greatly at Chinese Government would have to pay fault in our estimation of the mentality twice for the same bond if compelled to that in it lies the germ of considerable of the military party in Japan, those honour the interest coupons of duplicate trouble. According to the Chicago activities, however innocent, will be bonds held by the bank. Moreover, Tribuns'e Moscow correspondent, the suspected as fraught with danger to the anticipating the possible appearance of Soviet has granted an America oil com spoke in the wheel of that domination of informed the Beorganisation Loan Balks Empire of Japan, and in any event such bonds, the Chinese Government pany a concession lasting for thirty-six North-Eastern Asia which the records of at the end of 1921 that unless certain. THE ONE HUNDRED and THIRD years under which the Americans may the past indicate as being Japanese policy formalition were complied with the Loan.

ORDINARY MEETING of SHARE of the anntract for the due performance ALL THE LOTS WILL BE SULD EX. BOLDERS in the Company will be held at exploit petroleum in an area of are for these several reasons, then, we fore Bonds in question would not be honoured.

CLUSIVE OF RECLAMATION RIGHTS. the Office of the Company EBRUARY, Saghalien, and they may also constructment of a fact it is also the birth not received sufficient notice.

44, DE VAUX bundred square miles in Northern cast that if the telegram on which we by the bank. However it pleads that it baa

have based these reflections is the state ROAD, on TUESDAY, 13th 1923, at 12 0 Dowex Noos, for the purpose receiving & Report of the Directors, together two ports on the Pacific coast. This news, Announcement of an addition to the with Statement of Accounts, declaring af trustworthy and, since the fanchester of Far Eastern Questions,

already numerous and squalling family Dividend and

siroting Directors and Auditors.

Guardian has commented upon it, it * THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, 29th January, seems likely to have somo basis of fact- to Tuesday, 18th February, both days inclusive, will cause a good deal of activity in the during which period un transfer of shares canForeign Office at Tokyo. be registered.

"thereof.at

The Railway does not bind. itself to accept the lowest; or any, tender.

The Head Office,

CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY. DASTON, 8th February, 1923.

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8.S, "ANGERS.”

HERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES;"

NOTICE.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo from Marseilles, de, ip connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods, with the arception of Opitm, Treasure and Valgables,

For further Particulars and Conditions of-Sale-apply

Mezira. DEACON, HARSTON & SHENTON, Solicitors,

1, Des Vieux Road Central, of-to Mer LAMMERT BROTHERS,

the Auctioneers.

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BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTOR PUBLIC AUCTION of the "OLLOWING VALUABLE and DESIR- being landed and stored at their risitsABLE LEASEHOLD FROPERTY Into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately stir landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless interstation is received from the Consigneer bukowe Noor, To-Dar, requering it to be landed

Bills of Lading will be countermigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after kiss 9th inak., ab Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.in to me on or before

All claims must be sent the 13th inst, or they will not be recognized.

All

damaged paokages will be examined on Friday, the 9th inat, at 10 AM., by Mders: Goddard & Douglas.

Ho Fire Jararagon has been affected.

"R. RODENTUSER

Acting Agent Hongkong, 3rd February, 1829.

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Inland Lot No. 1772 and the message known as "ULBANK," No. 1, MAT ROAD,

Situate thereon". TO BE SOLD Subject to a Reserve Price TUESDAY,

By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD,

Hongkong, 18th January, 1923.

Secretary

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THE CORONET.

DORIS KEANE

the 13th day of FEBRUARY, 1923, at 8 .; LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers,

at their Salon Room, Daddell Street. Particulars and Conditions of Sale can be KOWLOON obtained from "|"

ROMANCE.

THEATRE.

fals

BEGGAR IN PURPLE.

Messer, DEACON, HAKSTON & SHENTON, No. 1, Des Vanex Road Central

or From Mesars LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The Auctioneers, Hongkong, Lat February, 1923,

Police Sergeant F. James has been appointed to be a sanitary inspector for Stanley,

The

FAR EASTERN TRADE. ?!

* ANOTHER BIG LINER LAUNCHED.

Sarpedon, 19,400 tons destined for the Blue Funnel Line steamship

Far East trade, has been launched at Birkenhead. Mr. R. D. Holt, in a speech is to distribute the prizes at St. Paul's that one.

Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.O.B., delivered at the launching, mentioned steamer recently brought College on Wadaceday.

13,500,000 fresh eggs from China by means of refrigerating machinery.

m

M. PERNOTTE RELEASED

reported to have presented the Peking Gov- The former Manchu Imperial House is ernment with a demand that an articia providing for special treatment and privi-

PARIS, February 3rd. included in the Permatant Constitution, Industrielle de Chine, who has served his lege, for members of the Royal House be M. Pernetto ex-Manager of the Banque

term of imprisonment, was released. Isst

The island of Saghalica has been a centre of Japanese interest for a very long time, an expedition having been sent to explore it in 1755. At the time when Japan first awoke to the danger of Russia's expansion: from the North, she was still rubbing her eyes after her awakening from two centuries of sleepy seclusion and the Russians were able to insist on their claims to Saghalien in The Japan papers announce the engage night.in return for a cash payment and the simple mant of Miss Margaret Maitland, oldest

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Mult process of recognizing Japan's sovereign land, of Yokohams, and Mr. H. E. Adams, ity over the Kurile islands. This event at presont in Tokio. The wedding will took place in 1876,

probably take place in the latter part of TEN MILLION DOLLARE WANTED. When Japan became fairly launched on next month

The Finance Minister in a circular that policy of territorial and economie Mr. J. Ralston, of Queen's College, was telegram to the Provinces states that the expansion whose and is not yet, she soma the victim of an impudent theft in Lynd- Trossary is empty and the revenue from to have shaped her endeavour in accordhurat Terrae, near Pottinger Street at the 11th year bonde is exhausted. The anco with two principles one territorial, at about 1.60 p.m., on Friday. He was Customs and Balt revenues cannes be the other coonomic. With the latter we walking with Mr. J. O Fletcher when, he touched. The government needy tem noticed that a gold watch with a silk fob million dollars to tide over the New are not now much concerned, but her and pendant worth 230 and $40 in notes Year, and the provinces should do their policy of territorial expansion is worth were missing from his waistcoat pocket, utmost to remit funds to Peking.

PEKING'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR MESSAGE.