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A NEW LINE TO THE EAST.

FIND ON THE S.S. "SUN NAM HOL" AUSTRALIAN SHIPS TRANSFER. TO HONGKONG.

Chief Preventive Officer Clark and a Borne of the wooden vessels built during,

The story of the discoveries at Lurer is number of Revenue Officers searched the

NOTICE. the war for the Commonwealth Govern ment and sold in August last to Sydney making the world wonder, but, says the 5.8. Sun Nam Hoi at 3 a.m. yesterday

en her arrival from Kongmoon. In the CONSIGNEES of Cargo from Marseilles, buyers at £3,000 each are to be placed in Pall Mall Gazette, China can toll

All other assistant compradore's rooms they found dit, in connection with above Store, hereby informed that their Goods, with the trade between Australia "and the East, story more wonderful still.

off non-Government oplem amphion-of Opinn, Traseure and Valíables, says the Sydney Morning Herald.

legends of buried treasure pale int113 thels

and Details of the proposed new line were insignificance beside China's two thousand concealed in cigarette tins. In a drawer are being landed and stored at their risks

a discovery of 194 false Government into the Godowns of the Hongking

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon, made available in Sydney on February year old romance dealing with Emperor labels was made. Some of the pots of whence delivery may be obtained immediately

Of the live vessels sold by the Shih Hwang-Ti's Treasure Mountain.

opium had the false tabels aithered to after landing. Commonwealth Government the Brituta Shih Hwung-Ti began his reign in

them. and Bundarra, have already been partly 231 B.C. It was he who welded China's

Yesterday a man exaployed by the dismantled in Sydney, and the remaining ancient loos federation of smalk prin- assistant compradore was charged with three vessels, the Berrings, Bethung,cipalities into the empire which lastel the offences. He admitted his guilt, and aud Birriva, nrw still in the same

until a few years ago, when new China for boing in possession of the oplum ho condition

when sold by the

came into being.

whs fined $500 with the alternative of six Government.

During the twenty centuries which have months' imprisonment with hard labour. elapsed since the first Emperor's death. For being in possession of the false Treasuro Mountain has remained inviolabola he was sent to prison for six months late, its heart's immense stora of jewels without the option of a fine and precious metals continuously and accessfully guarded by the bones of Shil Hwang-Ti and the badies of his embalmed favourites arranged in a radiant about the head of his sarcophagus,AMATEUR DOCTOR'S " MEDICINE

It is proposed to commenco trading to the East with the Berringa, ned as contemplated trade is developed to bring the other vessels into use.

Au essential part of the proposal is to transfer the Berring to the Hongkong register. This step is being taken because the vessels are to be used in trade with the East, and partly owing to the heavy cost of running vessels under Australian conditions.

DECEIVING THE EVIL SPIRITS. Although an able and energetic ruler. the emperor was very superstitious, even for his day and his race.

MAGA SUTARA. UNUSUAL MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.

PROVES FATAL

The gardener of the Kowloon. Bowling Green, named Lui Chun, who according

Optional Cargo will be forwarded an nulsam is received from the Consignssa before Noon, To-Dar, requesting it to be landed.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goode remaining unalaimed after- the 14th int, at Noor, will be subject to and landing charges,

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 28th inst., or they will not be recognised.... All damaged packages will be examined, an Saturday, the 24th insty at 10 AM by Messrs. Goddard & Douglase.

B.

No Fire Insurance has been affected,

RODENFUSERALS

Acting Agent

E372 Hongkong, 18th March, 1823.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM NEW YORK AND YOKOHAMA,

The new service will be conducted from Sydney, and it is proposed to engage in coal shipments to the East, but the mais traffle will be in timber from Hakodate,

THE SS. CELTIC PRINCE Japan, and British Borneo. The port of

having arived from the bore Ports, Hakodate, situated at the south-western He feared no man, and was renowned to his own statement has been carrying Consignees of Cargo arshareby informed that extremity of Yezo, one of the islands of for his brave deeds, but he dived in great on as an amateur doctor for the past 30 their goods are being landed-at their risk into. the Japanese Empire, is the outlet port terror of avil spirita, which ho believed

Wharf and Godown Company, Lugbody af some fine timber country, Before the were pursuing him all through life. One years, was charged with manslaughter the Gode was of the Hongkong and Keyloon war British steamers used to call at of his subterfuges to avoid these spirits at the Magistracy, yesterday morning Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk and Hakodate, and a considerable quantity of

a beggar, before Mr. J. R. Wood. The charge expense. was to go about dressed as Japanese timber WILE

being lifter. During the war, with high freights and while he compelled a courtier who looked preferred against him is to the effect that the scarcity of shipping, this traffic died very much like him to wear the imperiale administered, or caused to be admini- examined on gith March, 1010 M

awny, and has not since been revived.

robes

All broken, chaled, and damaged goods are

to he left in tiskaiciawns, where they will be

Al alaims moet be preninted within 15-

date they cannDİ be recognised

days of the steam animal here, after which

No claims will be admitted after the goods

There is no trade inducement for ordinary This was to deceive the evil spirits, stered, to a woman called Chan Mui, trading steamers, as load and discharge who, thinking him a beggar, would spare certain poison or anxious thing: contained at Hakodate are slow, and much of the him and turn their unwelms attention in pills, whereby the woman was killed, timber is in large bulk.

to the poor courtier. He also constructed contrary to the provisions of Ordinance

anormous palace ntaining 1,000 In addition to the Japanesó timber timber trade between British Borneo and night, also to throw the spirits off the At appears that the'. defendant was that they must produce an Impart" parnít..... trade efforts are to be made to open up rooms, and slept in a different room every No. of 1863.

approached by some friends of the

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Sydney, especially in cedar, which Briscont tish Borneo is reputed to be anxious to It was this superstition which was sell abroad Shipments will be made te responsible for the great, tomb and for decensod who asked him to supply them curo a girl who was Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and the treasure placed in it., He believed, with medicine to coal and other cargo offering will be is do many Chinese to this day, that suffering from a certain disease, falcon as back loading for Manila, his happiness in the future life would supplied a number of pills on February Hongkong, and Eastern ports. The depend on the security with which his Pacific Bleamship Co., Ltd, of Sydney, body was buried and the amount of 20th and the deceased acted according to will act as inanaging agents of the line treasure buried with it. in Australia

FUTURE OF INDIAN EXCHANGE.

instructions for three or four days when

So while Shih Hwang Ti was collecting she becams worse and died on March 18th- His Worship remanded the case until taxes and tribute for the construction of the Great Wall (one of the seven worders Monday morning. of the world he was just as energetically collecting treasure for his tomb, and pushing forward the work as it

Just as the Great Wall, the grand Canal and his other enterprises were greater than any the work had over seen, so was his tomb to be the greatest and the richest in the history of mankind.

HOW IT WAS BUILT

A- CHINESE PROFESSOR

OF CHESS.

PLAYING AGAINST A CROWD.

have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain Ing undelivered after the 26th March, will be subject to

rept..

Consignees of cargo are hereby notified signed by the Superintendent of Imports mud..

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CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform

Left

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whence and/or from the wharre6.. delivery may be obtused.

Claims will be admitted after the Goods. the Godowna, and all Goods remaining. undelivered after the 24th fast, will be sabibot All Cistagatist the Steamer must be presented to the Unduzaigned on or befors the.. 7th April, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods Ers

examined on the 24th inst at 10 a.m. to be left in the Godowns, where they will he

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

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SIR MONTAUU WEBB'S VIEWS:- Invited to express his views on the future of exchange Sir Montagu Webb replied to representative of the Associated Press:

When charged with causing an The outlook at the moment is one of great India has to meet aterling uncertainty.

obstruction in the street, a Chinese told obligations in London of about thirty milSoldiers to the number of 700,000 helped Mr. Lindsell that be was a professor of lions

chargs, Sgt. chess. Explaining the erling per annum. Is the b to bure down into the montain: until of trade in her favour during the year going

to exceed this amount? That water was reached, and therd in the great the question, so then the demand excavation a firts foundation was laid, Elston said the obstruction was caused by 15

the defendant placing 32 chess boards into rent. abroad for remittances to India will and the sarcophagus placed theroon.

send Barely

the value of the rupee Bace objects and costly jewels were the roadway and carrying on games of and layer in London may be ready to collected from the palaces and from the chess with the people in the street. bid 19. 56. or 16. 6d. or even more. Such a state of affairs would depend upon the various officials, and were carried thither When the Sergeant arrived on the scene ability of Europe to make large purchases and stored in huge quantities. of Indian sarplas

products this year, "Artificers were ordered to construct no less than four of the boards were Europe used to take over 50 per cent of mechanical orashows which, if anyone being played upon, while about 40 India's exports before the war. I do not were to ruter, the tomb, would im- people gathered round. The defendant's think that Europe will be able to buy mediately, discharge their arrows plan of action, according to the police, that much this doubtful Therefore whether the present rise Candies were made from the fat of the was to let his opponents win the first fow in exchange can coutinie much further

manfish (the walrus), calculated to last games and then after fixing high stakes * Aaked to give his opinion to the figure 3,000 yours.

beat them easily, thus claiming the which the rapes ought now to be

"Naturally po one knows the exact stakes. stabilised Sir Montagn: replied that this i still more ticulte problem.

The amount of treasure in the tomb fut it is Babington Baith

Committee's reco: known that the total is enough to stagger mendations were based largely on the the imagination. Bat in inter years his Assumption

silvertorians searching through the provincial and other commoditie

year.

It seems very

ol,

Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of $3.

that the old probably records found many items telling of gold; THE CHINA SPECIE: BANK.|

not fall greatly for overal years to and alyen and jewels tent from cities

come. But prices in England and

America have fallen very rapidly and

as a contribution,

ABLE TO PAY CREDITORS BUT SHAREHOLDERS TO LOSE.

A meeting of the creditors of the

ould be wise or not Kingdom AN INDIAN MERCANTILE MARINE. China Specie Bank, against which an

It is therefore now. a question whe ther a return to the sa rupee of the last cen tury

to the fact that

in the United prices probably be back at pro war levels bolote Whereas priced, rents and wages in Jous India though falling will ever, I am inclined tow to think that it not only to be able to defend herself but would be in the best intercals of India'to that she should want to send her products try and stabilise the

It is wholly consistent with Indian order for winding up was recently made

return to pre-war level tably not all aspirations for sell-government says the in the Supreme Court, was held yesterday:

for many year, Times of India, that India should want morning.

if

Government to do.

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The proceedings were conducted, by rupee at a point nearer to foreign markets in ships owned and the Official Receiver (Mr. G. N. Orme to la: than to 24 The Associated Chamber manned by Indiana. There will for that and lasted for less than ten minutes. of Commerce of India and Crylou last reasca be lively interest in the proceed month resolved unanimously to ask the ings of the committes which has been Mr. Orme stated that the total

"mean"

settle appointed to consider how an Indian liabilities of the Bank, te doclared by the down more in the direction's setti melcantile marine caca los rented an

but to lot work in the before making any further attempts to fix the ratio between the rupes and the in accord with this Sovereign.. I fully polios

fostered and how, Indians can be trained balance shoot, amounted to $1,823,000, including 8588,300 capital. The assets for life at goa. The very wide terms of reference for the committee

snsure

should according to the books were $1,389,000, 36, Des Voeur Road, Central.

a comprehensive survey of the but, Mr. T H Seth, who had taken over whole question, but it is to be hoped that

the business aspect of it will be kept in management since the winding-up, said ---- mind. Any country can create a mer that the value of the assete realiseablo cantile, marine if it is prepared to pay was probably good dead less. H DAIRY for it, and if its citizens are ready to estimated them to be worth about support the project by service as well og

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for the money expended Possibly that On the suggestion of Mr. Orme, the foxtably) and mcurely that you forget you aspect of the matter will be brought out hare them on the most important in during the debate in the Assembly on the mesting was adjourned till Thursday, provement in eye-glasses in the resolution which is to be moved recom-April 18th, when creditors will be able

mending early legislation with a view to to make any suggestions. twenty dyg spars Pincones Eye Glams preventing the illegal combination on the of any proscription in either regular o to be worded in some other way. If such travelling facilities as a factor in the part of shipping companies" will require

In view of the importance of cheap Tork form are manufactured by the combination on the part of shipping Hongkong Optical Co., auctor to companies is illegal there must already solution of the housing problem the Clark & Co, Manufacturing and Re, be a law to deal with it. So at least it Housing Committee of the London County would appear to s lagroan, yet the Council recommend that representations fracting Optician the most competent resolution has, tie backing of so many should be made by the Council to the optical manufacturing establishment in eminent lawyers that we may be curtain railway companies and the Railway Bogik China-located in 53, Quest' they will be explicit on the subject of the Rates Tribunal with the object of secur "Boad Ogotrad: whoTY.

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