THE CREDIT SYTEM.
The credit system has been criticised by the British Consul in a very decisive manner. He is his last report wrote :-* The unsoundress ofthe Bangkok Frodit system gres for to account for the unsatisfactory condition of the local trade.. Large, advances by Flamesa, capitalists to 'unsound Fradres have caused an urheilthy com- petition, and unlimited credit rashly sllowed, by
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1891.
An examination of the new plant (which their career, instead of growing up to a respected. has been erected under the direction of old age, and ronking the pablic in a legitimate Mr. Thomas Bunt, M.I M.E., Superintending and praiseworthy fishion by promoting finance Egineer at the Arsenal) shows it to consist of a companies, and taking fixed dep sis for three col gas producer and a furnace cipible of years at 13 per cent. There is no eresping the texting three tons of metal at a ilme. Th[<
conviction that the modern prevalencs ef gam. | of course, in a small beginning; but whan thing in its many forms in demoralising. I Direct--feel
cerinin European firms to Chinese remil tradereck, there isMila *ume they are on the right disurages and unsettles industry. It is the
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American wood sail European iron sail...........................100 Eurorean iron steam.....................98.5.. It is well known that the British Lloyds insures the hulls and cargnes of iron vesels.at much T tower rates than could be obtained on worden
C avling ships.. The British policy of iron vesels. of British pro reden. According to the authorit would naturally be favored. It is in the nature H
here cite the Continental-bellt fron sling vessel is a bett- craft than the British built, Thet statement upsels the theory that the latter class W are the best in the world. American vestela are
E divided into two classes-one the highes', and the other of the lowest survival This clasific
Duration rfélaga survival. Years. Percent. American high class weed, suil .76.15 100.00 Continental built iron, sail.................3) 85-8202 British built iron, zall ....... ...16 16 61.70 American low class wood, sall 1.414 41 (0-54:72 British built fron steamers...174239 Continental built iron steamers... gog 2134 1
The profit-exming perind of American-built iron steamers la ner down at eleven years, while that of Biltish stormers is six years. The same authority affirms that one American-built teamer costing 21 per cent more to heild is the econom- Ical match for two ste mera huilt in Eurome. But the disadvantageappears in this, "thatthe average shio of all the foreign nat ong with which our own vessele must compte, is able to syve at least 35 ner cent of every dollar that an American ship would pay for crew's, provisions and stores.” An Instance" Is cited of a British steamer from Hongkong recently discharging a cargo of tea in New York. This ship had a craw, of seventeen Chinese sailors that were paid on average of $8 a manth, with food that chat less than half that which is provided for American crews. It appears, therefore, that the disadvantage is not so mach on the side of American ship as in the cost of running them.
nothing to prevent them from source of an inconceivable amount of crime and pulting up a
much larger farmate, mfficient to
uffering. People everywhere *re taught the and other has given rise to much uneasiness up ly every nance of steel that needed. On desine the old fashisnet process of amassing and general digʻront. The climax was reached | this eleventh day of November in the year of
a competence by a lifetime of honest had wok when a large Furrpern, firm lately went into grace one thousand eight hard ́ed and alerty. and thrift, and selfishness and foresight, and to | liqu dition, revealing unsecured Bisb`lities | one, then, the Directors of the Arsenal are in a
-put all their trust in the clus de of a lucky trans amounting in some cares (mam ose debtor sion" | "osition to myke steal three tons at a time. To siction in land or shares, or of drawing the to 35,00 But this catastrophe will at least | the I-quiring mind the next question that
winner in a big consultation. The Industrious serve to clear in some degree the commercial presents its If is, How ? and in what manner ? clerk or artisan is apt to herome very dissatis Atmosphere." Since that report was written Which of the two namet conveʻed with steel. fied with his weekly wags when he sees people another Furopean firm, Maclean & Co., who did Siemens and Bessemer, has the honour of leading around him win by the turn of a curd in a day a "big thing" in teak logs, went under for the way in the Klangnan Arsenal ? The answer
more than he could hope to earn by the labour some hundreds of thrusands of dollars but is, Siemens. His process of conventing rough of years. Perhaps he risks his own hard-won as the Affairs of the principal, John Mclean, imn Into 'orl censies of making plg and scr*phim next time, and so embarks on the perilous swings on the chance that fartane may faveur, ! are
now before the bankrupter division iran tope her and inteducing quantities of a of H.B.M. Coneular Court we refrain from going special kind of fren are known as “spanish nre.”. vayaɛe that in all but sheut one came out of ten Into details. Suffice it to say that Mr. Mac'en The result is a viclent embustion which buras thousand ends in shipwreck. seems to have brewed (literally, received
dp all very nouly all, the csiban con Now, our moralist is quite right in declaring advances) considerable sums of money which he tained in the fron, and transforms that that even from a business standpoint it is sgtred to re'uin to various parties together with metal into a molten massef rel. It is impossible madness to exchange a certainly for that chance, Interest at rates ranging from 15 to 36 per cent, to eblais dicient heat to carry out this process To say nothing about the moral side of the per annum. Some Royal Highness too, It otherwise than by first converting the cat inte question, when honesty, industry, and thrift casion is of interact appears have been "bitten” by this young and gas and then homing it in the regenerative secure to a man a competence for life at the enterprising "plunger." That the credit system in furnace which is the special felure of Sir certainty of a restful old age, 09 en in harter ww-y rollen in the core stems, beyond dispute. The Wim Slemens Invention. In this fustan euch realities for a mere shadowy possibility of Bangkok Times in commenting on the trade of the Siemens process is prefered in the Bessemer hecoming wealthy at one stroke in the art of 1890 endorses the remarks of the British Con al, »s being surer and more extruisted to turn out. fool. But, unfortunately for this argument, there who painted out that some sharp dealing in the uniformly good steel such as is required for the is a defect in the statement of the case. To way of purchases by As atic traders, and the old purposes of a gun factory. The Beegamer process speak of the choice being beteren a cer- practice of bolstering up shaky businesses by consists of posing through the white-hot iron atainty on the one hand and a chance on the barrowing from Peter to pay Past" resulted in stream of cold air, which produces a combustion other is a demonstrable fallacy. Honesty. In lowes. The Consul remarked “these practices even more violent than in the other process, dustry, and thrift-nzy, even selfishness—are are most injurious to commercial relations" but Mild steel such as is required for vue making, not in themselves sufficient to ensure access in they have nevertheless prevailed, says the Timer, should contala very little carbon, 1 of r per cent.life. A man possessing all these qualifications for the last fifteen years in Java, the Straits being about the proportion needed; and in order in a high degree may starve, while around him Settlements, Hongkong and all over the Eastern to see how the process of eliminating carbon is the dishonest, the life, and the improvident are division of the world's commerce, and we are of going on, it is necessary to make frequent rising rapidly to wealth and honour. The opinion that such conditions are less due to the examinations. In the Bessemer system, a average wage-earner, however. Peserving he dibonesty of the Asiatic traders than to the force practised eye is required to examine the flume may be, has no very bright prospect to cheer of trade and other surrounding contingent dir with a spectroscope; but even then Ints, or him on. The opportunities of lifting himself cumstances. We have only to add thatthe mere "charges",' of metal from the same furnace out of the ranks of wage-earners Into a position fact that Brown hangs himselfis no justification for are found to vary considerably. Siemens of ease and possible leisure are of rare occur Jones, Robinson, or Bill 5niggins doing likewise, steel is tested by withdrawing small por
rence. As civilisation advances they become It must be clear to all but those whom it pays lens and treating them with nitric acid to rarer-and the Interest legitimately obtainable to be blind, that traders who borrow at exorbitant ascertain the quantity of carbon remalaing's and upon savings is all the while growing less. rates of interest and who ship, or are prone to this method is certainly more suitable for the His chances depend upon his power of ship, "plugged" tenk legs and go the pace! Chingie workmen, who in the course of time becoming possessed by some means of a sochy, are steering their way through the world may, become sufficiently trained to work the lunta sum of money, With that be may set on the lines Inid down by an opulent London farmece without direction. Whether, they will himself up in business, he may find stock-birker, who when asked by a novice for emphasise the value of foreign supervision by remunerative investments, he may, if the his advice as to how to smas a fortune replied allowing the whole concern to blow up some amount is large enough, bank it, and relire an "young man, you must make money (that's fine day remains to be seen The process is.by what makes the mare g), make it honestly if no means easy to work. In fact, when it was
the interest. The possibility of acquiring such the interest. The possibility of acquiring such you can, but make it anyhow, Make money, first introduced at home, several firms gave it remove the want, or the fear of want, that my boy, make it I Never mind who fails, should up after two or three unnecessful trials. Two hangs like a shadow over his life. Accordingly you alone succeed. Now go shend ! "
days are required to make the furnace ready, some such idea, as a rule, becomes the object of and when work is finished the heat must be his life. If he looks round to see by what means allowed to slowly radiate away for the space of others have succeeded, be soon discovers that a week, for if cold air be sömilited too soon the the slow plodding way is by no means the Eurest way. It is one way, but not au infallible At a time when the opening up of China laway. To judge by averages, bis chance is not attracting so much attention, it is interesting to even a strong one. So far as the at1ainment of note the sources from which are drawn the this given object is concerned, he may pat down materials required by sn establishment like the
the odds at about tea-thousand to one that his Kiangnan Arsenal Hitherto all sorts of guns life is going to be a faliure. The big fortunes have been bored, from the light 7-pounder he sees accumulated around him are mostly, in field-gun to the monster go-ton cannon; but some way or other, the outcome of successful the steel has all been Imported, in the gambling, or of unlovely usury, or both. rough, from England. The supply of hematite To gamble, then, is not necessarily to stake pigiran also comes from the old country, as a modest certainty against a remote chance. do the silica and "ganister," the only substances T is chance against chance, We are now which, by their power of withstanding intense
ense taking the business view (business views rule beat, are of use for lining the furnace. The the churches and the world, and probably the Indispensable Spanish ore came from the next world) of the matter, and disregardlig for a neighbourhood of Cominna. In the important moment the moral side. The walofo me. item of coal, however, China can and does supply as a rule, have pot become oby force of lif:1' what is wanted. What is known in the trade practice of the leady virtues. They have made No. 3. Kiiping" Mr. Bunt finds quite suited their piles by lucky speculations, by unearned to his purpose. A quantity of iron ore has lately increments, by the prompt esire of casual teen sent to the Arsenal from Hunan, but "pportunities, by mercilessly using the power whether it will be serviceable or whether it wil which circumstance has given them of appro- he tried in the fire and found wanting, is not yet printing the produce of other men's labour, known with certainty, theagh a charge which the work of other men's brains. Even if they was tried on Tuesday gives promise, as far as have stood sterly aloof from sweeps on the chemical tests can show, of complete success. Melbourne Cup, their accumulations represent The outside furnace bricks are Chinese, and the many ventures which were none the less preater part of the fron work was made at the gambling, though they were not decided on the Arsenal. The Directors have specimens at the race track. These undertakings are beyond in the shape of a warki g model of an 8-pander means of gambling ready to 'his hand are the | gun made bra Chinese antiftver. The isitors fótalisator and the sweep. That he will lose is on Monday also now the binel of a 7-pounder mount in gen and sunder rods, east a few days before and afterwards rolled in the Arsenal rolling mile, which are also a very recent addition to the plant,
There is a branch of the Hongkong and Shanghat Bank established in Bangkok which under the able management of Mr.. ]. R. M. Smith appears to be making considerable head-walls are liable to crack, way. It transacts all hanking business and issur fiend mates, which are a great con venience. The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Chartered Mercantile Birk have agencles at Bangkok, the Banque de L'Indo-Chins is understood to be about to establish a branch of the Saigon institution in the capital of Siam at an early
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It may be added, as regards shipping, that there are one or two small coasting steamers running down to the part of Chantaboon, wear the Sipphires and Rubies Company's estates, and other Gulf parts. A great deal of trouble, expense and delay is incurred by agents in the shipment of export cargo owing to the regular liners having to crown the bar, outward bound, when half loaded, and steam dewo tbe golf some 50 miles to an island port, named Robes bang, where they take in the balance of their freight The lighter coolies are a very unruly, im- pertinent, ever-bersing lot of ruffins who, knowing the ships officers can get no police of anyone else to aid them in the matter of urging the "lum pers" to transship the rice with all possible haste, feaf »bout, talk, smoke opfum, and sleep ed lie, and just work when le sul's them. The officers of the ships have on more
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ED. ROBINSON, Actlog Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 19th November, 1891.
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The recent revival In the construction of large American wooden salling vessels reverses the theory that the successful days of this class of theory that the successful days of bis die so of struct these vessels at a loss. It is apparent that there is yet to be one more effort to win back commerce with the largest salling vessels con- structed of wood. At the same time it is to be noted that no large ocean steamships are now in precess of construction in this tour. try of wood. Even upon the Great Lakes, where both timber and metal are abundand, and
Advertisers are reminded that the Hongkong where of late, there has been an extraordinary Telegraph has by far the largest circulation of development of the shipbuilding interest, there any English newspaper published in the Far has been a very large increase in the proportionEast. THIS IS GUARANTEED., Terms on of metal steamers." The facts cited in support application. of the comparative value of worden shil vessels are of practical interest on the Pacific aid of the country, where the production of iron and reel, is so smell, and where lumber is abundant, and some cfit of sa good a quali y that it is now sent to many of the great "maritime cities of the worlde-San Francisco Chronicle.
SOTT's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hongkong, 14th October, 1891.
Masonic,
VICTORIA
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named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the Visiting Brethren are cordially invited. 21st instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely,
Hangkong, 16th November, 189r.
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Hyesphosphites, for Rickets, Marasmus and all wasting disorders of children, is very remark- able in its results. The rapidity with which A REGULAR MEETING of the above children gain fish and strength upon it is very wonderful Read the following :—" I have tried 'Scott's Emulsion in cases of waxing in woung children, and I am of opinion that it is alabic preparation for such cases. The children take it and ask for more, and the
god ffects are aspirant. I consider it far superior to ordinary Cod Liver OIL”—~J. Mamħall, MRCS, &2, 143, Grange Road, Bermondsey," SE Any Chemist can supply it. A. S. Watson
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hereby given that INTEREST will be charged on all CALLS due on Shares of the NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED, as and from the 16th instant, in accordance with the Articles of Association.
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OTICE is hereby given that all AERATED
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-than one occasion been brutally assaulted by first charge of steel ever cast under their régime he reach of the poorly-paid wage-s]·ve. The & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and THE SHAMEEN HOTEL. possession of the same will be proceeded against
these burly ruffians when they hiyo gape down in the hold to show them how to stow the cargo to the best advantage from a shipowner's pint of view. Most of them wirely let well alone and so long as the coolies don't exp-ctante hetel-nur ice on the quarter deck or in the salon. nd don't enter into deadly combat ( they often do, however) with the sallors and firemen, let them land the ship in accordance with the dieta es of their own sweet will. This a state of commercial affairs which would not be tolerated by any other than an indolent, cerap', imp tent: Government which appears to have bien l'owel to ex at and bern pondered to teo long. Instead of diving in perfect Paradise many of St.m's big wigs appear to be fl surishing in what we shall show later. is a roguer' par äise and de facto, the Mocte Carlo of the Orient,
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REACTION IN FAVOR OF WOODEN. SHIPS.
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18th November, 1891.-At 4 pm.
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The largest wo›den meichant abin ever built in the United States as recently! unched frem one of the thin-yards of Maine. It was not long ago that the theory fund much favor that the are of wooden ships was about to close. No more warships would be built of wood. The Iron commercial ships of Englab build were successful competitors for the carrying trade. They have had the call for wheat charters at this port. But as most of the ships of that country would naturally have the wheat was shipped on English account, the advantage, Very little progress has been marle in the construction of metal commercial ships in this country. This has not reulted from the lack of any facilities for construction, as is evident from the cagerness with which con. tracts are sought to construct metal war-ships for the Government. There are firms in Sao Francisco who are ready to constice any number of war-ships of iron and steel. They would be as ready to construct commercial shipsBaramacor paid to leveljed the man se aches, Leuths and of the same material if there was any strong demand for them.
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anly one remove, from a dead certainly Still CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL | TH there is a chance for him--a pow and remote chance, hat the one chance he has of making his life soma bing more than a ceaseless, weary grind. So he risks his coin, and if he loves, an? The time fixed for the ceremony, if it may be lores, and loses again, he feels somehow that he so called, of exiting an ingnt of steel from the did have a chance. We are not spol-ghing for ́new fugongo was three o'clock,but at that time he spread of gambling ; we are not. justifying it; the only important facials present were Vr. we are merely accounting for it. Gambling is Liu and his two heather Directors win urbanely demoralising and debasing. Rur so, on the other received their foreign fride. The District hand, is extreme poverty i an la hopeless, lifelong Magistrate, the Generale mmanding the troops til. If the moral reformer can succeed in Nagasak... In Shanghal, and some køer "dignitaries | abolishing these last, he will not need any special Shanghai dropped in by degrees, but it was not until half legislation directed against the bookmaker or past four that an usher with a batch of red | the "rote, except such legislation au is necessary riding-cards announced the arrival of the
to make these two machines gimbla bonestly. Total; wereupon there w's kolowing »|| Sydney Bulletin round and much he ming on the part of Hi- Excellency, who ce tilnty has a pleasant way with Him." Once the great man had arrived no A CHINASE STEP FORWARD.
timo, was lost. He had scarcely had a look, through blue glass, Into the fiery farnaca ere A leaden sky dropping sledy sprigklings of he was politely bot firmly escorted to the other cain, and a souching wind with the first breath end ; the arcassɔry words of commend were of winter in it ; a lofty iron-ro.fed shed, distinctly given, the bung (if one may use such an Western and factory-like, and striped swings, expression) was knocked out, and to the accom of the brightest possible colours, aggressively paniment of a shower of sparks and "Hi-yahs, Eastern ; mandarins' red and gold nan-cha-ba's
a stream of molten steel, like Ugaid gold, fowed or name boards leaning spalast, convenient into a huge receiver, the shape of an inverted bell. fences, and their besters, in propany ("like | From thỉ: veceiver the metal was' first vun into costumes composed chiefly of red, gold, and dirt, a mould capable of holding 3,000 pounds? weight waling away as best they may the interval of and next into smaller moulas; a beautiful sight waiting for the Tastal; peity officials, brass and and one to be remembered. Turned to dinner, white buttoned, standing abou: in scores and "was satisfled, and promptly adjourned Occasionally paying a visit to a table spread with took place in the yamin and was served
"Thi light refreshments; grimy Cyclopes feeding an in foreign styles. The Tantal affably presided insatiable fiery demon'; the atmosphere tinged at the centre table, at which his foreign gussts with smoke, and ever and snow lighted up by were seated. The two other tables were occupied the glare which issues from the mouth of the by his own countrymen, welle, mere Sinico, Kores id fiery demon whenever he opens it sundry winvited coolles watched the feast from to call for more foods from outside the hours the neighbourhood ofthe door, His Excellency's "brealling"" "of 1 Title: ecomoty) —Hiring powers of expression, being confined to his own Bound
in China Such were the surroundings fanguage, there were no sentiments uttered, under which a few Europeans were privileged and shortly after seven o'clock the gathering ba Monday afternoon to witness das of those broke up. It may be of interest to note that, of few but certain steps which the great Empire the nine foreigners present, not in the employ makes upon the path of modern civilisation of the Chinese Government, alx werd German The step in ques fon was not in itself a great gentlemen. One of the remaining, three, was one. It dies not call for wild excitement. Fire Mr. Hearson, of the English Navy, the hero of works will not stand on account of it. It was the famous Admiralty burgle, Mr. Hearson was simply that after some twenty years of buying in Shanghai on bis way to take up bis past of from foreign countries, the Directors of the Instructor at Nanking.→N C. Daily News. Kiangnan Arsenal have decided to manufacture their own supply of that most important, me:al, for their purposes, steel; and on Monday guests were invited to witness the first public trial of the new furnice which has been erected at the Arsenal. The orent, as we hava said, is not in itself of great importance, except to the foreign manufacturers and merchants, who have lost a good customer; but it shows what some people are not too ready to believer that, however fettered and restricted, there is a spirit of pro gress among Chincie officials and that they are ready, in their own sms and is their own way, the bottomless pit of totalisators, wild-cat mining are inscribed. There are also the names of Captain Tayler, be despatched for, the to adopt wastern improvements. The present companies, and other complex modifications. 155 fron sailing vessels of all nations. There Directors, led by Mr. Liu Tolds, have shown heather and Christian, of the unsophisticated are also 1,000. steamers, nearly ha fiof which abors Facts on SATURDAY, the arst lestant, considerable enterprise in embarking upon this pitch-penny or fantan. It is deplorable to have Brilah registers. When ship (ails to at randomde se com alerg undertaking, and the large outlay of money think of the number of carefully brought-up pass inspection her character le forfeited, but the Yor Freight or Passage/apply to Judnotí required. They have their, noward in the fact youths who are led on by the seductive wiles of name to retained as long as the ship exists.
SHEWAN, & Co. that theirs is the fist successful attempt to make the tempter into petty and punishable forma of The average survival period of the 'different
General Managerk ☞ Besi n1 n Chinare government onsalikmenly" | 1 dichonesty, and so go to ruin at the vary amtset of · types of vessels is found to be as follows som
Hongkong, 19th November, 1897, 2
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The report of the Commissioner of Navigation affirms that ships built abroad are neither better nor cheaper than our own. This statement will surprise many; The average iron ship, a she sails to-day has not the durability of the Hongkong Observatory, 19th November, 1897. wooden ship which she has displaced; nor does she cost any leas, except possibly in England, where wood enough to build her skips could not be grown, and where the poorest fton ship is cheapest made and mostly used. It has frequently been asserted that vessels built of iron would last twice as long as those built of wood. But the facta elted do not seem to support that aspumption,
ABOUT GAMBLING.
Making all allowance for the improved lozuri- unce of denunciation that the tople of gambling naturally evokes amongst the noisier and more intemperate class of pictists, there still remains
« big residaum, of ugly. East in connection with The Commissioner draws his proof from the
the betting Industry, it is a saddening sight to Register of the Bureaus Veritas International for watch the slender, earnings of the shop-boy, and the year 1864. In that book the name of 913
the domestic servant engulfed week by week in wooden sailing vessels under the American flag
Co-day's Advertisements.
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP
CU/COMPANY, LIMITED,
SIN NA
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FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY.
Company's Steamship
ESMERALDA," e di anda mun
您
TO LET
BAHAR LODGE, THE PEAK,
R. B. LOT No. 59.
**HIS desirable residence. with Gas laid
to be Let Furnished er Unfurnished, Apply to HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 12th May, 1891.
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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD
A REWARD of $500 will be paid to
person supplying information that will ∙land to the discovery and Metlication of 4. Chinese girl named LI-AFAT, who, in or about the month of September, 1898, was resident at St. on | Francis Street, Wanchal, in the house of JOHN MINHINNETT, an overseer in the Hongkong Public Works Department, under the protection of a Chinese kept woman named WÒNG AH TENGANAGANA
AND
[7013 AFAT is about 10 years of age, "and
according to a decisiration made by WONG · AH NGÂN-at the Magistracy, she was returned to her mother about these years ago—presumably to some village in the Kwangtung Province, where It in-stated she died a short Ume after- warda,
TO LET, With:Immediate Possession."
AT KOWLOON DOCK, BAY, „BUNGALOW with 5 Rooms, a large A Teppis Court and Garden, Moderate
Rent
Apply to
B. A. ERANEE,
c/o Victoria Hotel.: Hongkong, 30th October, 189r.. 1379
TO LET.
On the other hand JOHN MINHINNETT deposed on oath in the Supreme Court that LI AFAT was sold by WONG AH NGAN and that he was present in bis own house when the purchase money was paid; and it has since been reported that the girl was taken to Singapore for immoral purposes, then
A Reward of $ago will be paid to any person HOP is Pedder's Street; ROOMS on First i LAFAT was returned to her mother, in or who shall produce rellable evidence, showing
Sour, Suitable for offices,
Ore FURNISHED BEDROOM on Top
Apply to
CRUICKSHANK & Co., LAD.
· Hongkong, ajed October, 1891.
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about September, 1888, and afterwards died an alleged. "Badan K
Japan Apply to planta da, EE THE EDITOR, aaaaaana gaggia The Hongkong Telegraphi Hardio Aurus, 1891. tira
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