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smashed and half of the young trees, planted out the same year Chinese overseers and Inbourers only last autumn, were broken down. The rioters, who knew the manipulation of black teas, and, using carrying poles as levels, overturned the later, others who understood the management of heavy iron seats placed along the Bund and green teas, were introduced under Lord Auck. threw them into the river. Matters were getting hd. This last step was taken after Fortune serious. Mr. Ayrton, H,B.M.'s, Consul, on the had made it clear that blick and green teas first outbreak sent to the Tastai for soldiers, but came from the same plant, and, that the difference received the answer that a message had been between them was due to the methods of sent over the river commanding the official in handling and treatment. In 1838 the first export of charge to withdraw his men; thin of course Indian tea to England took place. The con meant nothing. The Consul again demanded signoient consisted of 12 chests, amounting to help and towards noon a small detachment 4-8 pounds, and although it suffered somewhat arrived. the meantime most of the during the long vorage, it reached its destination foreigners turned out together with three officers in at least as good condition as the Chinese, lea pf, the Taine and patrolled the streets; the then imparted." It sold for 195. 58. per pound. crowds yelled and made many threats but did With this began the foundation of companies not attack; they were in this manner restrained the planting and culing of tea in Assam. The until the military arrived and drove them out. Assam Ten Company was founded in 1839, and in 1840 the Government gave it over possession The danger was not, however, aver, for many hundreds of the men still remained on this side of the experimental garden. This company still of the river and it was feared they might return owns the largest garden in India. In 185t the in force. Mr. F. du Jardin kindly held the upcompany's crop was 280,000 pounds. In 1854 steamer Fuenge over night, and the ladies and and 1855 new gardens were opened, especially children from the back street were placed on board in Cachar. Then followed a period of wild for safety. In the evening the Consal, Mr, W. S. speculation, followed in 1866 by a catastrophe Ayrton, who acted is a most energetic and praise- which produced a momentary cessation of worthy manner all through the trouble, and gained activity. But since 1869 the conditions have the confidence of everybody, called a meeting improved, and to-day ten cultivation in Assam of the community, when it was decided to is on a stable basis and advances constantly divide the foreigners into two watches and patrol year by year. About 1855 began the spread of the settlement all night, the Consulate being the the industry from Assam' to other parts of India; first Cachar established is tea-gardens.; rendezvous in case of an attack. A company of

then they spread to the North-West Provinces, armed soldiers were stationed in the concession these preparations ensured safety and the night and the slopes at Kuman, and Dehra-Dun, where, passed quietly. On Sunday morning the Bund by the way, Chinese plants and workmen had was unusually crowded, many boatmen being appeared, as far back as 1835. At present in present, but no disturbance took place. On these places green tea for the trade of Central Monday the boats had all left; they had gained Asia, id Cabul and Cashmere, is producat, and their object. Noor the little bill hasto be settled; at Chittagong, Darjeeling, the Terai, Chota. In rumour places it at about 700 incls. The officials Nagpare in Bengal, Kangra in the Punjaub, the were very semiss in their duty had soldiers Neilgerries in Madras, and parts of 1.qwer Bur arrived when the Consul first sent, all trouble malt around Akyah and Tunghoo, ten cultivation might have been stopped.

and preparation are thoroughly established. In all these places, save the Kangra valley, the plantations belong to Europeans, and the industry is one wholly of British origin and development. From 1830 onwards its greatest strides have been made.

the national strength, and are nearly incapable of performing anything but river durier. If they can make any headway against the ordinary strength of the monsoon, It Is ab ut all they are capable of in the open sea. Could they overtake in a stem chase any of the Chinese or Japanese fleet, or have they the power to come up with and overhaul on the ocean any ordinary merchant steamer ? Further, are they really seaworthy enough togo through one ofthe ordinary typhoons, so frequently scurrying through the ocean which auch vessels were designed and equipped to navigate? The ill-fated Wasp, was an advanced improvement, on such craft, and she certainly, did not succeed. We have the Cockchafer, the Espoir, the Firs brand, the Linnet, the Merlin, and the Swifi, all handsome and costly little craft which, there is a strong suspicion, are only capable of showing the flag, and which in the event of hostilities, even with China, would have to be fackal up safe in some harbour to save ships, officers and crew from filling a prey to the unsociable attentions of the enemy. Such an ignoble proceeding would infallibly destroy in a day that prestige which took us generations to win, would dishearten and disgust our scamen, incur the contempt of the civilized world, and seriously cripple our ocean commerce. But are such craft even serviceable for rivers, if the enemy could send faster powerful craft after them, with power and guns strong enough to blow them into the adjoining paddy fields 7 The time has now come when they should be recalled and their places taken not by cruisers of the Porpoise class so much, as by vessels corresponding to her in size and draught of water, but carrying much heavier metal, a ram that will not give way like the Canada's, a speed of twenty knots, and above all, a spar deck from end to end of the ship. In an ocean often so ruthlessly swept by typhoons this latter covered in feature is an absolute necessity. There is, we are well aware, a difficulty in embracing this feature with that of a heavy battery, but still there is genius enough surely in the home dockyards to. surmount it. It is manifestly absurd to argue that "these Orientals" cannot fight:-we know a little about Chinese seamen and believe they can be organised and drilled well enough to produce very respectable results. The daring exploits of the small Peruvian ram Huasca, which a few years ago on the Peruvian coast kept at bay, and actually tried to ram the two powerful

•ships--the Shah and the Amethyst-may be taken as a case in point. The men who fought the guns of the Huascar wire the descendants of what Darwin had called a mongrel race, and were, with their mixture of Spanish and Indian hlood, always looked upon as patlahs, yet they kept at a respectable distance--even frightened off, so they declare the hostile attentions of two stout British frigates, although they had only received in experience and a training of ove days with naval artillery. The time has arrived when our mosquito fleet of Merlins inust go, and give place to craft which can not only enter the rivers of trealy ports, but keep the sea on all occasions; which can carry metal powerful enough to give a good account of their

possible foes, which will have speed enough to keep their bow guns employed, instead of their stern chasers, against everything and anything on the sea, and which are light-draughted enough to follow their game into shallow days or river. The 20 feet draught of the Imperieure is a very serious handicap for her, when we find that China has ships which can steam away from her, and which, with their heavy penetrative guna, draw actually eleven fed less water they are the latest creation of Armstrong. Two light-draughted cruisers like the Chi Yuen and the Ching Yuen we should have as soon as convenient. They have no armour, but are fitted with water-tight cells; they carry three 12 ton brech-loading guns; have four fish torpedoes; only draw 15 feet of water, and can steam about 18 knots an hour. They are faster than either the impérieuse or the Por poise, and the two com- bined are possibly much stronger as fighting ships. They could do all that our small gua boats could in the way of river fighting, and as much as any vessel of our squadron on the open sen. For parading the treaty ports, two such craft, one going south and the other north, would be as convenient to the call of the Admiral and the cable, as if lazily swinging to their anchors in Shanghai or running the risk of grounding on their beef bones in the placid waters of Hongkong,

RIOT AT KIUKIANG,

"E. S. L." writes from Kiuklang to our Shang- hai morning contemporary under date July 25th, as follows:-

For some four or five weeks past a large fleet of junks numbering 360, bearing tribute rice and copper to Tientsin, have been anchored on the north side of the river "over against" Kiuklang. It appears that these boats are permitted to carry a certain amount of contraband goods': on this occasion they were heavily loaded with timber, etc., and the fin upon it would amount to

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Things have now settled down again as usual and everything is quiet..

FIFTY YEARS, OF THE INDIAN

TEA TRADE.

We have very small, hope indeed that the efforts which various Chambers of Commerce in China are making to place before the Chinese Government, and people suggestions which will enable Chinese tea-growers to compete successfully in the markets of West with ladian tea, will be followed by the desired results. These suggestions are all sound and prudent in their way; Chinese tea is weighted by lakin nnd export duties, where Indian tea is free; Chinese tea merchants collect their goods in small quantities, allowing the leaf to remain untouched until they have a large chop, while most Indian chops represent a single day's picking, the lenf being treated while it is quite fresh, these and much clse which will be found in the special reports on the subject from the Shanghai, Foochow, and Canton Chambers, are perfectly true. But they

So much for the outline history of ten-cultiva. tion in India. A few words may how be said about the different sorts of Indian ten. The first plants and seed used by the Government were, of Chinese origin, but plants, known as hybrids, were obtained by crossing these with the native plants, so that at present three kinds of tea are especially cultivated. (1) The native plant which grows to the height of a tree, and gives a strong, valuable ten, but is difficult to grow, and flourishes only in particular districts. (a)) The Chinese plant, originally introduced, is a small alerth producing a correspondingly weak tea and a small harvest per acre. (3) A true hybrid produced by crossing the former two, possessing in a degree the qualities of both, and the most widely used by planters. Colonel Money, who was himself a planter for 18 years, and who has known almost all the tea-districts, reproaches the Government. bitterly with intro. ducing Chinese plants and raining thereby the

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AUGUST 4TH, 1838.

THE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY

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STRAITS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

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HONGKONG CONSULTING COMMITTEŻ — F. Sair, Esq., Messrs. ED. SCHELLHASS & Co. E. L. REUTER, Esq, Messrs. Pusiau & Co.

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seem to us scarcely to go to the root of the mat quality of the tea and the fertility ofthe gardens. will be at once landed and stored at Kowloon LICIES again-t FIRE on Foreign and

ter. In China tea is grown by a large number of persons, each for the most part working his own little garden, or plantation; aided, perhaps, by half a dozen labourers, Nearly 4 years ago Fortune, in his record of visits to the tea 'countries of China, noticed that the plantations were very small. He says in all his travels he never saw one which would produce.600 chests, and not many which would produce 300. In India, on the other hand, the gardens cover. sometimes thousands of acres; in Assam the average size of the gardens in the whole province in 1887 was between Soo and go acres, and the tendency is in favour of increase in size and diminution in number. On gardens of this extent, the latest and most improved machinery is in use, large capital is experided, and every operation is conducted on, a large scale with a consequent decrease in the cast of production. Capital and science are at work to attain the best results at the lowest possible figure. It is la grande culture against la petite culture, cultivation on a large against cultiva- tion on a very small scale, American wheat against British wheat, Australian meat and wool against the British articles. Hence it would seem that to compete successfully against Indian tea growers all along the line the Chinese will have to adapt Indian methods, and in the agrarian condition of China this scarcely sceras likely.

However this may be, the subject is now in the phase usually called "burning," and a brief account of the growth of the trade that threatens the destruction of its Chinese rival may be interesting. The past year is described as the jubilee of tes cultivation in India, 1873 having been the first year that tea was successfully produced in that country. This important anniversary has been commemorated by several publications, the most complete and interesting being a pamphlet published in Prague early in the present year by an Austrian gentleman who was until recently attached to the Geological Survey of India, and who, during his resi- dence there, devoted much attention to the

le describes both as very different vafleties of the same plant; their habitar, rates of growth, sinoɗnt of wood, and the degree of moisture required are all different. The leaf of the native Indian plant is much stronger and sharper, it by a length of nine inches or more, white the Chinese leaf is not more them four inches; the former is of a bright greenish hue; the latter dark green; and the Indian produces new leaves ("ushes" much more plentifully than the Chinese. The native tea also brings higher prices; the young leaves from which alone tea is made, liner and more tender than the Chinese leaf; the former may be compared with velvet, the latter with leather. The crossing between the two was effected by conveying the pollen of one in bloom to the other, and the product is a true hybrid possessing in an equal degree the qualities of both bitt the process has been repeated again and again among hybrids themselves, among hybrids and Indian and Chinese plants in all manner of combinations, so that there are about 100 varieties now, no single garden con. taining solely Chinese or Indian plants. The more (Colonch Money is still speaking) these hybrids approach the Indian plant the more xcellent the quality of the tea, and thus it happens that one garden has better plants than another. But Indian tea is not what it would have been had Chinese tea never been introduced. The home of the native plant is in the luxuriant

to a tree as high as 20 feet.. Some of these

jungles of Assam and Cachar, where it grows

jungles are now converted into tea gardens, and they are among the best in the region. The native plant and the nobler hybrids require a hot damp climate, and therefore do not flourish outside Eastern Bengal. It has been cultivated in the Himalayas, but the cold kills it; in Dehra-Dun and Kangra the climate is too dry

All Claims against the Steamer, must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 14th fustant, or they will not be recognised.

RUSSELL & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 4th August 1888.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

1759

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* NAGASAKI. (Fassing through the INLAND SEA) THE Company's Steamship

Captain W. von Schuckmann, will leave for the "GENERAL WERDER," above Forts, on or about WEDNESDAY, the Sth instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

MELCHERS & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 4th August, 1888.

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STEAM TO SHANGHAI.

THE Company's Steariship

"BAYERN;"

HIS Company is prepared to Issue

Native Houses, Godowns and their contents, at- Current. Rates.

All Contributors of Business in the above Two Companies participate in the Bonug whether Shareholders or not.

JOHN ANDREW, Agent, "Office, 24.-Queen's Road, Opposite Hongkong Hotel: (710

Hongkong, 17th July, 1888. ̧

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Intimations.

BANK HOLIDAY,

FN accordance with Ordinance No. 6 of 1875, CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY, the 6th instaat.....................

For the CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF

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AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA,

T. H. WHITEHEAD, Manager, Hongkong.

For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THEORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET-.

n the Offices of the Company. No. 14, Praya Central, an MONDAY,' the 27th instant, at VM, for the purpose of receiving the Report f the Directors, and a Statement of Accounts in 30th June, 1884.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 17th August, hoth days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. GILLIES. Secretary.

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Hongkong, 1st August, 1888.

HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO: STEAMBOAT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE DIVIDEND at the Rate of 7 per cent. "T'

or $1.40 per Share, declared at the Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders hell This Day, will be preable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION en and.after SATURDAY, the 4th instant.

Shareholders are requested to apply at the Office of the Company for Warrants,

By Order of the Board of Directory,

NOTICE

T. ARNOLD, Secretary, Hongkong 3rd August, 1888,

[768 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

hereby given that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET. ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corpora-. tion will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-fifth day of August, at TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th

By Order of the Court of Directors.

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager, Hongkong, 27th July, 1888.

[741 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, June, 1838. THE

LIMITED.

CAPITAR SUBSCRIBE

$1,000,000

The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKE at CORŔer KATES on GOODS. &c. Policies sganted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies,

WOO LIN YUEN,

Secretary.

HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, Hongkong, 18 February, 1882.

TOTICE is hereby given that the REGIS

NTER OF SHARES of the Corporation

will be Closed from the 11th (SATURDAY), to the 25th day of August nexi, both days inclusive, Jaso during which period no transfer of Shares can be

registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

T. JACKSON,

Chlef Manager. Hongkang, 17th July, 1888.

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$140,000,00

Captain R. Sander, will leave for the above place about 24 hours after arrival with the CAPITAL TAELS 600,000, #833,333-32 outward German Mail.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

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NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

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nearly 40,000 taels; the Tantai demanded 18,000 subject of tes cultivation. The work is styled mental gardens where only Chinese plants were SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ | world.

taels as he considered they were carrying an excessive amount. The beatmen, of whom there were about 3,000, looked at the matter from a themselves pri-

4. furent standpoint, considesty's service and re- vileged persons on His fused to pay likin, whereupon the Tactat refused to permit them to continue their voyage. On several occasions parties of men from the boats landed in the Concession and were disorderly, so that one man was arrested for attacking Mr. Millar, the chief of police, and first detained in the consular prison and afterwards cared for by the native officials.

Time passed on and there seemed no pro- spect of either party giving way, so that the boatmen determined to make a demonstration and compel the Tastal to let them go. On Saturday morning many hundreds of them landed both in the Concession and in the native streets with the intention of dis turbing the peace. In the native streets they were a terror to all, entering the shops and taking what they pleased, and if any objection was made by the owner of the property, he was forthwith beaten. They took a great fancy to foreign umbrellas and carried away a large pumber of them. The wing and spirit shops were looted and the mes proceeded to help themselves freely and to breathe out threaten ings and slaughter.". Finally most of the shops the street were closed up in order to keep the ruffians cat, and the streets, as far as the closing of the shops, was concerned, wore a holiday aspect. After several hours of this kind of work soldiers were sent to clear the streets.

The foreign concession was not to escape their depredations. At 8 o'clock they landed from the Lung Kal Ho and tore up the large wooden barriers and threw them into the river if they

Die Thee cultur in Britisch-Ost-Indien, Im to Jahre ibres 'Bestandes; historisch, naturwis senschaftlich, und statistisch dargestellt, von Dr. Ottokar Feistmantel, Prag, 1888" (The Tea Cultivation of the British East Indies, in the 50th year of its existence, treated from the histo- rical, scientific, and statistical points of view, by Dr. Ottokar Felstmantel, Prague, 1888.) The facts which we now proceed to relate, are taken wholly from this work. The author's main object apparently is to make Indian tea better known on the continent of Europe than it is at present, and his facts cannot but, interest the Eastern pubile. ·

succeeds in the Terai below Darjeeling, and in Assam. Cachar, Chittagong, but Northern Assam is the best climate for it. The Himalayan plantations have Chinese plants for the most part, mingled here and there with the pobrez hybrids, all coming from Government experi-

grown. This is alio the case with, Kangra and Dehra Dun; in some gardens on the Terai there is a belter hybrid; in Assam, Cachar, and Chittagong all the plantations have a number of native and hybrid plants of the better quality, many having only these. The value of a tea garden, then, depends wholly on the kind of plants used, and a careful planter will increase the number of those of the better quality. Many other authorities agree that in India the Chinese plants are the worst, and that the nearer the hybrid approaches the Chinese rather than the Indian plant, the worse it is.-Japan Mail.

To-day's Advertisements.

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA, VJA AMOY.

"DIAMANTE," :

The ten-plant is really a native of India, although it was not until 1823 that this fact was discovered, and even now it is not generally known. The discovery was made by a Bruce, In the year mentioned, in the Asiam Valley, where he had some business relations, and which at that time belonged to Burmah. In THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP 1826 came the first Burmese war, in which Mr. Bruce's brother took part. He collected several hundred plants and a quantity of seed," some of which reached the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. In 1833 Lord, William Bentinck seat Captain THE Company's Steamship Jenkins to report on the products of Assam, and especially directed his attention to the tea plant Captain McCaslin, will be despatched for the of Mr. Bruce. Two years later, Jenkins, then above Ponts, on TUESDAY, the 7th, lastent, at Commissioner for Assam, reported to a "tea 4P.M. committee that the shrub was native over For Freight or Passage, apply to a large area. A commission of doctors

RUSSELL & Co., and botanists visited the province, and on their

General Managers, advice Dr. Gutzlaff procured from China plants Hongkong, 4th August, 1288. and seeds, which were grown in the Botanic Garden in Calcutta, and then sent to Assam, and THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING the North-west provinces. Dr White, of the

COMPANY, LIMITED. Bengal Medical Service, in a lecture on Indian tea delivered last year before the Society of Arts

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FORT SAID, 'BRINDISI, GENOA, "ANTWERP, BREMEN & HAMBURG,

PORTS IN THE LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC PORTS; ALSO, LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON,

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THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL AT SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE.

N.B.-Cargo can be taken on through Bills of Lading for the principal plates in RUSSIA.

N THURSDAY, the 30th day of August, "BAYERN," Captain R. Sander, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE and CARGO, will leave this Port as above, Cailing at GENOA. **

Shipping Orders, will be granted till Noon Cargo and Specie will be received on board until 4 And Parcels until 10 am, on the '29th' board; they must be left at the AGENT'S Office). August, 1888. (Parcels are not to be sent on Contents and Value of Packages are required.

The Steamer has splendid accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stewardose, -··

For further Particulars, apply to

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whom they belong. Then vaulting over the law who were responsible for this introduction of Agents have this day declared an INTERIM wall into Mr. F. du Jardin's premises they Chinese tea toto India unintentionally did the DIVIDEND of 6 per cent, for the half-year amused themselves by throwing flower pots into most hand thereby, not merely to the future of ending 30th June, 1888, on the paid up Capital the road and tearing up by the soots plants and Assam, but to the prospects of the whole industry of the Company. shrubs. The Concession was soon filled with which it was their duty to foster. "The intro hundreds of people, shouting and yelling to duction of the Chinese ten shrub into Assam futimidate the foreigners and keep their own was just as ruinous to the province as the Courage up, Encouraged by their fint success potato blight to Ireland or the black leaf-bug they tore down the railingsof the Commissions to Ceylan In 1835 the first experimental The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company house and entered the dwelling, but were sent tea garden was established by the Govern will be CLOSED from the roth to the 24th But again by a faithful servant. Stones and ment at Lakhimpore, but it was not a success instant, both days inclusive. bricks taken from the walls of the compounds another was tried in 1837; which manifested all began to fly and a good deal of glass was broken," the signs of vitality, and from this dates the - All lhe lamps on the west of the Concession y me i cummencement of tea cultivation. In India, In

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COMPANY, LIMITED," THE CERTIFICATE No. 1,374, dated 30th June, 1885, of the Shares Nos. 4516(4515 in this Company, standing in the name of MR. GEORGE LEWIS, of Shanghai, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate will be larged by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged

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