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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER §, 1896.

should, in their colonising schemes, be given at lanst a file field and no favour.

ink sketchers who write of what they hear, not what they know of bava actually seen with their own eyes.

THE TICK PLAGUE,

discuss out of the United Kingdom, but really Intended and accepted as a sop to cattle breeders by lenticting the competition of Canada, Aus tralia, and other countries. It may be satir- factory to cattle heredem on this side of the border if they could shut out the importation of Queensland beasts so largely introduced. But the meat-consumers of Sydney would 1000 find mach to complain of. Similarly with the trade In bides. When a few weeks ago the bill was going through our Parlement strong repress tations against prohibidon were made by sale men, tannery, and others Interested. Many hides from up north were blocked. Then, if we have any of the much-tniked-of federal spirit, we shout he doth what the loss of carpentes fortunate north. What the laser several se bens up there we can but guest; for several reasons

COMMERCIAL NEWS,

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

Hongkong, September gib. Messrs Benjamin, Kelly and Potts report an follows in their Share List issued, at 3 patie to-day-

"WE MUST Bave the tÒOLS.

Entimations.

CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

ROBINSON Onson, you remember, made a big bost or canoe out of the trunk of a tres. It was a laborious and tedious job. And that wasn't the worst of it. When he got the boat dong he oeuldn't laurob is

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. It was too heavy for one man to handle. If he had HONOKONG, Wednesday, gih Sept., 1896. only had an arrangement like the capitan of a ship

do THE THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEET. The Share Masker bas displayed greater he might have mariaged. He understood how to resTING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above strength since the rettlement and most stockstead stand for that same reason. Let me give COMPANY will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, show an appreciable advance on last week's on a freak fillustration, tied up for the moment in Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 26th qalations. The China Traders Insurance the following letter, which man! Brat be read befors instant, at Twelve o'clock NOON, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and meetings for Saturday, the a61b lostaat. Company, Limited, have advertised their yearly

Statement of Accounts to 3th April fast and of BANKS-Hongkong & Shaughs! Banks have

Declaring Dividends. ·

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company experlenced very sharp rise and have been

will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 26th placed at advancing rates up to 193 per cent

instant, bath days inclusive.

premiums, but are "again slightly easier with no

"In the spring of 1884," mye our correspondent, imagine what had happened to me lly strength "I got into a low wank way, not being able to kept abbing away bill I had acarealy the desire or ability to do anything. I felt as tired as if I had

few exist figores nae avaliable, or are likely to be. | bayern over 193 per cent. The London quota- just arrived home from a long, hard journey, yet no

item has advanced to £43. Nationals have been placed at $37.

tax more than usual of my kind had been laid upon ms. My mind, too, was worry; so that I turned from things that obliged me to think, plan, or conelder.

Bide by side, so to speak, with all this was the failure of my appetite. Of course I continued to eat, make an afort to eat, but food no longer tempted me It does a person in health. I ploked and minced over my meals, and the little I took neither teated good nor did me any good after I had eaten it. Instead of warming, comforting and stimulating me, as it used to do, it gave me distress at the stomach, pain at the chest, and a though a belt were buckled, too sang around me. singular feeling of tightness around the waist, na

"Ob! If any one wants to telegraph be wilt do so," but the best refutation of that opinion is the success of the P, & O. system, whereby on pay- This is the last letter I shall address to the ment of one gulpen (or is it £12) pasingers Hongkong Telegraph on this unpleasant subject. can telegraph their safe arrival to friends st either end of the line. A very large number of It is useless to try to persuede some people of people telegraph if the charge la sufficiently low. the error of their ways. We all know that "bo Those who murd telegraph" will do so of course who is convinced against his will is of the same In any case, but the small fry add sppreciably in opinion still." Moreover, none are so bind an the year's Income,

I leave it, therefore, As-Hustration af what we consider bathore that won't see. policy on the part of the Telegraph Compantes to the whole civilised world to investigate and we read in Strains contemporary that a judge whether the Įspanero sie, de are likely to typhoon which recently passed to the north-

bass black as they are painted by the pen-ind.nnerlas would have to clone if the supply of / Company, Limited, and the Douglas Steamship | we can rightly some at the point. west-ward of Formosa damaged the cable be tween Shanghai and restorailon was not expect- ed for three or four days. Meanwhile mes- sages could be sent to Japan via Persia at $485 per word 1 When a train breaks down no charge is made to the passengers for the "special" which canies them on !."When telegraph line breaks down-In both cases ac- cident alone is responsible it is surely asking loo much that people should pay extra for. sabatitution of service to attain the same result as already settled for; our telegraphic friends as we all know dealing on strictly cash prinelpies i That our remarks on this ubject are echoed elsewhere may be gathered from the following paragraph from the Indian Statisman. Writing on the aufject of cotton kraights our able con- temporary styr:-"Now that they (the colton merchants) are paying higher freigh's, the ex- porters will more than aver feel the extent to which they are bandicapped in competing for the Japanese cotton trade, by the very high cable rates still maintained between Indian and the Far East. While there has been good reason for the steamship companies to enhance their demands to auch an extent as to prevent lots, there is equally good cause for the Telegraph Companies to lower the exorbitant charges now made. They could do so without fear of paying smaller dividends, since buildest would be sure to increase if it was encouraged by the leductions asked for," This is just what we are contending for; that business lacrosseS in proportion to the lowering of rates. It is -nonsense now--days to talk of the time taken Pin transmission and the consequent glut of messages, when the Atlantic cables es a transmit several at one time at the speed of some 600 words a minute. This of course effected by the punching apparatus and doubtless requires an additional operator or so. The fact remains that the monopoly is being too much availed of at present, but we hope that wiser councils will eventually prevail.

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Cattle breeders in Queensland during the past elakt months have experienced very severe losses owing to a plague of ticks like unto the plagas of locusts of which we read in Holy Witt. It has been, and still is, a terrible courge, the lasects swarming all over the ground in tens of millions, crawling up the legs and all over the bodies of the cattle and causing, through the frijiaison of the skin, high fever, from which the animals dia rapidly. So serious bad the situation become in July of this year owing to the great mortality among cattle and the imminent danger of the plague Invading the neighbouring colony of New South Wales, that a Commission of Inquiry was appointed in Sydney to consider the maller, experts being invlied to give evidence and maka suggestions. Os the 18th ultimo the deliberations of the Commission werebrought to a concinales. Alier considering the mass of evidence fald before them, the members pronounced the disease now responsible for such ravages among stack to the northern parts of Austraila as being in every respect identical with the old and well-known Texas fewer, for which, up to date, no care has ever been discovered. The Commission recommendi jolot action on the part of the several colonial Governments

with a view to discovering some method of successfully treating the disease, and in the It meat not be forgotten that Labuan is sure meanwhile adopting stringently rigid preventive before long to be the joining station for Pontianak measures to check is further spread. Dry and other sportant Datch settlements in South Borneo. At present they have no speedy saiting of hides intended for export is recom mesas of communication with their head-ended; also the offering of a joint reward of quarters-Batavis. But the law of progress is £5,000, by all the colonies, to the discoverer of laexorable and before long our Datch friends

a satisfactory remedy. will have to fall into line. It is scarcely probable that they will elect the expensive akernative of separate cable, and failing this the Labuan station will be their connecting link. It will be wire action on the part of the E. E. Telegraphs Campany if it looks a little ahead to future pas alblilties.-N. D. Herald.

THE "ATROCITIES" IN FORMOSA.

(From our Tamsul Correspondent.) The Japanese Gavernment Eq, evidently very thankful to the imaginative Anping and Tal- wanfoo correspondents of your local contem- poraries for thele repeated, continus), and very able criticisms on the Japanese In Formosa and the "atroclites" perpetrated by Japanese in this fland. Of course such icozattotal twaddle has bean read by large numbers of people and some of them, la the absence of x, full knowledge of the circumstances and of the Japanese people and the humane laws in force throughout the land, doubtless attach considerable importance

to the reports.

'It has been frequently mentioned that coffius containing the bodies of Formosans have been opened by Japanese guards. Bat these Irrespon. alble correspondents forget, or don't care to remem- ber, that the craity rebels who smuggled arms fato Taipeh, the capital, during the rebellion in North Formans, in January laat, concealed them in coffins carried in the usual way and accompanied by numbers of weeping and wall- The said correspondents also ing women. feign ignorance (§. 4. carefully forger) that the the tricks were practiced by the Chinese years ago, bath in Manlia and In Batavia, and it is not beyond the range of common sense to assume that in respect of the latter affairs

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Commenting on this subject the Sydney Dally Telegraph says :~

Just now ho subject is more important to the pastoral industry than that which the Ministerial conference has been called together to discuss. That subject is the restriction of the tick plague In cattle. The sudden increase of this plague, with its attendant mortality in large stock, and its spread through the coastal district of Northern Queensland, are toa recent to need more than reference. The news of the ticks was for some time bold back, perhaps because the outbrask was thought to be due to an xbaormal season, and hence temporary, or because the pastoralists around Townsvlile and Rockhampton naturally hesitated to make known a condlilon of things ro disastrous. The disclosure was made at length, and by that time there could be no concealment of the mischief done and to apprehended. The destruction of dairy and station herds went on unchecked. Here is a quotation from a recent Townville paper:-"A graxler on the coast north of Townsville nine months ago owned 15,000 healthy cattle; last week, the mortality having almost crated, he made a muster and found

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The efforts of the Government, and the appeals of northern pastoralists for red-ction or remission of rents tell their own tale, and our telegram of Monday about the ruin that would be wroughted their position considerably and have changed

MARINE INSURANCas—Unloni have improv by slopplife the export of bides is strong conar- mailan, We owe it to the north to considerada at $240 and $242) and are still in demand. China Traders have advanced one point and them lú every possible way, not to make more enerous the burden that events bave, imposed.

have been placed at $81) and $82. Straits are It may Indeed be worth consideration whether

easier with shares offering at $17. Yangtits are again in some demand and are not obtain. measures for coping with the plague ought nol, as with the first outbreak of phylloxers at Geeable under $145. lang years ago, to be made a federal charge and put under federal supervision. It may be s local and a passing pest ; but it is alɛa possible that it will be a general and a permanent end, and therefore we must do what we can to keep this point the semarks of Professor Wallace in our interview are most emphatic. He considers that an infected district cannot be cleared.

lis limits as narrow as they can be made. On

THE PROPOSED INCREASED TAXATION ON SILK FILATURES.

TEX SHANGHAI CHAMBER'S PROTEST.

The following correspondence was read at a recent meeting of the Shanghai Chamber :--

Shanghal General Chamber of Commerce,

37th August, 1896. Sir, The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce desire me to ask your kind attention to the enclosed copy of a latter addressed to Colonel Denby as Doyen of the Corps Diplo matique in Peklog.

effect :-

You will observe that it is an urgent profert against the taxation of allic filatores as proposed in the recent memorial from the Tsungli Yamen to the Throne; and the matter is of such geare consequence that this Chamber, in order to avold A telegram has also been ment to the following delay, sent the above letter direct to Peking.

"Chamber of Commerce request protest agala Trangli Yames Memorial taxing production Silk Filatures. Explanation by letter" and I um desired to ask your lofaence as Doyes of the Consular Body in support of the views expressed by the Chamber. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant

E. F. ALFORD, Chatyman.

To Dr. O. Staebel, Consul-General for Germany

and Sentor Consul,

FIRE INSURANCER-Hongkong Fires have strengthened and after sales at $335 are enquired for December, China Firos have hardened and for it $340. A rale at $346 has been effected have been placed at $54, $95, $55, and $97 and are in strong demand at $0.

SHIPPING. A few Hongkong, Canton, and acao Steamboats have changed hands at $331 and $134 and more can be placed at these rates, Indo-Chinas after being-sold at $47, and $471 aru again wasier with sellers at the former rate China, and Munllas are slightly weaker and s few small lots are in the market at $71. Douglas Steamships have again been asked for and have been sold at $67. It is sumoured that the Company will show a profit of $247,000 for the year, out of which it is proposed to pay a dividend of 17 per cent, place $40,000 to resex, write off $65,000 for depreciation, and carry $11,000 forward.

REFINERIES-China Sugars continue. In demand and have been taken off the market at '$126 and $135. For October sales have been affected at $136, and for December at $130 Loans contiane quist, although the Company's earnings up to data are reported to be well up to last year's.

MIXING-Pajoms have dropped to $zat with sales, owing to the poor result of last month's crushing. The telegrsas received from the Ming status that the mill ran for 28-days,

of gold. Futy tons of concentrates calcined or la 1,700 tons of are, yielding 384 ounces yielded 55 ounces of gold. The cyankle clean up

Ix not Jet Aatshed. New Balmorals have been placed at $21; Raubs are firm at $51; Olivers, $1 paid ap, are enquired for at $2, bat helders are asking higher rates. A telegram has been received by the Managers of the Mine which states that the first expert, has reported very favourably on the machinery, plant, acc

DOCES, WEARYLS AND GODOWAE.-Heng kong and Whauipes Docks continue to boom and have advanced ten points during the week with sales at various rates up to 301 per cent memium. Transactions on time hare taken place to a considerable extent at equivalent rates. Wharf shares have been in some demand and have been bought at $541 and ara wanted. Wanchal's have been fixed at $45.

Shanghal General Chamber of Commerce,

26th August, 1896. S-I have the houser to enclose copy of

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hongkong a Memorial troms the Taungll Yames to the Throne, published in fo-elga and battre news-Lands are again firmer and sales at 975 have papers, and am desired by the Committee of this been effected. Kowloon Lands have been Chamber to ask your Excellency's stention to negotiated at $183. A large line of West the suggested scheme for taxation of silk filatura Points have changed hands at $18, and the stock closes in demand at $181. Humphreya' Estate factories and cottos milia. The Memorial is very definite; Il clearly proposes that Is order have changed hands to a considerable extent at to "supplement likin and such-like taxation $9; (which charges are increasing every season and are higher now than ever), the production of "cotton manufacture and allie filatore" by machinery shall pay double the duty of 5 per cent, prescribed to the case of foreign experts this amounts to a duty of to per cent." Hereafter, whatever may be their destination, all goods will be exempt from Iklu.".

The proposal as it affects cotton mills (not withstanding that it frees from likin goods to be seat into the inferior) is very severe. The Cham- ber, however, defer dealing with that point pend log farther information from the owners of cation mills now under construction, and in the mean- time 1. am to ask your Excellency to protest against the proposal. The urgency of attention to the memorial alluded to is in respect to all flotures, which are in a different position to cotton mille, seeing their production le solely for export to Europe and the United States

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́MISCELLANEOUs.--Green Island Cements are very firm at $17) and are not obtainable. A. S. Watson's have been sold at $12.90, Roper

have handened and after sales at $136 and $1361 have been done at $137 and are wanted. Tramways have changed hands at $96, Kwes have dropped to Tix. 30 and are offering in the North at this figure. Geo. Fenwicks have weakened and sales at 8291 are reported...

SHIPPING AND. MAIL NEWS.

MAILS DUE: Indian and Straits (Chélydra) 11th fast. Tacoma (Victoria) 13th inst. French (Caledonsen) rath Inst. American (Peru) tätä inst. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 16th inst. American (Coptic) aged län.

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P., M. S. 5. Co steamer Pars, with malis, etc., left Nagasaki for thia port yesterday KİLATLOOK.

"After a time the condition of my stomach seemed to grow worse. There was that sense of gnawing, so often mentioned by sibers, and occasionally a feeling of fitness and sinking, almost like the ground giving away under one's feet.”

RIKAZZ: An eminent Fondon physician, in one of his books, describes this sinking feelings, one of the most appalling and frightful that it is possible to experience. It is not the body but the mind that sadurs. I, the present writer, hava had two attacks of it, and pray to have no mare. It is like unto the overshadowing of the Death Angel's wing, with the mind fully conscious of the situation. The cause is urio sold poison in the blood, one of the producte of prolonged indigestion:}

When this sinking fooling came on, continues the latter, it weighed me down like nightmare. got to be so weak I could only walk Finally I slowly and feebly. The doctor who prescribed for had no perceptible effect. me said my complaint was dyspepsia, but ble medicine

the same, but now better and then worse. Yet in all "I continued like this for eight years; not always has long time there was not a day when I could say I was well. No mediains or treatment. somced right for me, and I almost began to think I never should rooover

my former health

"In Marab, 1892, Mother Belges Syrup was like mine, even when they were of long standing and recommended to me as having done wonders in ose everything else had failed. No harm to try it, we thought, and got battle from Mr. Grime, the chemist, in Balton Road; and after taking it I felt great relief. My appetite quickly Improved, and I could eat without pain. When I had taken two two or three bottles more the bad symptome bad all gone, and I was so well as ever, ify husband slao took the medicine with the same good results. You may publish my latter and refer inquirers to ma. Bolton Boad, Darwan, March 1st 1895." (Signed) (Mrs.) Beabeth WEsan, &, Northcote Street,

for us to miss it. Our old friend Crusoe not The lesson in this intarosting narrative is too plain able to launch his boat for the want of

of machinery. Similarly the doctor who attended Mrs. Wilson was not able to oure her because he did not possess the right remedy. His opinion as to her complaint wa entirely correct. She was suffering from chronie dyspepis, precisely as he told her. But alas! 10 is one thing to know what ought to be done and quits another to have the knowledge and means to do it.

Between these two things (over this wide gap) stands Mother Belgal's Grup, just a between the two sides of the Thamos standa London Bridge-Adel.

Amusement.

THE IMPERIAL

CHING LING FOO TROUPE

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WONDER WORKERS.

ARE PREPARED TO GIVE SHORT PERFORMANCES

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HOTELS, CLUBS, OR PRIVATE HOUSES

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Address

CHING LING FOO,

No. 9, Chiness Strock, Bnd Floor

[1383

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1806.

Intimations.'

farmers and others connected with the fosargent Minister issge powers of prohibiting the Impor | practically vanga from rather over 1} per cent, Wr are informed by the Agents of the Austrian IARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS

were killed in the inevitable struggle resulting from an attempt to subvert the power of go-

vernment,

It is a fact that women and children were occasionally employed by the insurgents in Formosa for the purpose of reconnaitring and "apying out the land," so it was, of course, impossible to 'nvold killing some women and children who were seen by the sentries on duty sneaking through the lines and otherwise helping the ill-advised rebels,

Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Maria Valerts left Singapore this morning for this port.

UAD FOR 30 YEARS,

With the Utmost Success.

Thoroughly reliable preservative for Wood and Stone agaleat White Ants, Decay, Fungus Rot and Datapress.

Sole Agents for China, Hongkong, 15th May, 1895.

SCHEELE & Co.

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By Order of the Board of Directory,

W. H. RAY,

Secretary.

[1397 Hongkong, 4th September, 1896.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, ' LIMITED,

THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above "COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, on SATURDAY, the 36th September, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General' Managers. fogether with a Statement of Accounts to goth June, 1806.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the xrth to the 26th September, both days leciosira.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th September, 1896. (1398

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY. LIMITED,

- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

requested to send in a STATEMENT of CONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS are BUSINESS CONTRIBUTED during the Half-year ended 30th June, 1896, on or before the 15th September, on which date the Accounts will be CLOSED.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. L ROSE, Secretary.

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Hongkong, açık August, 1846.

Motels.

NEW VICTORIA HOTEL. ROTISSERIE,

MEALS A LA CARTE,

“HOPS, STEAKS, &c, &c, at any tima.

* between 7.30 AM, and 11.30 P.M.

MONTHLY BOARDERS at Moderate Rates,

MADAR & FARMER,

Proprietors. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1896. (1384

WINDSOR HOTEL,

HONGKONG.

Building, known THIS ESTABLISHMENT, altuated in the "CON- NAUGHT HOUSE," offer First-class Accom- modation to Residents and Travellers.

Passenger Elevator, from Entrance Hall to ach Floor, in charge of experienced Attendant. Favourable Arrangements made for Familles and for Monthly or Extended Periods.

P. BOHM, Proprietor & Manager. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1895.

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FUJIYA HOTEL,

MIYANOSHITA, HANONE.

Four and a half hours from Yokohama. FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION. NATURAL HOT SPRINGS.

"HE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN ALL THE

TBUILDINGS.

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TWO ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLES. EXCELLENT CUISINE.

5. N. YAMAGUCHY,

Proprietor.

PEAK HOTEL.

OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND,* HIS commodious and well appointed

THOTEL, atuated at a height of zago seet

| above sea-level, has just been thoroughly re-decorated, renovated and re-furnished, and a NEW WING has bem built, which commands

of China.

only 400." A drover crossing the Burdekin, Bear Strathalbyn, describes the track and the camplag-groned :-"We were in amongst the ticks. They wers be seen on the barn ground, the stones, logs, and the long grass was covered to such an extent as to give it quite a rusty appearance. The drover's description of how the Insects covered the cattle and the horses, so that the latter had to be greased to protect them, while the former developed, red water, lost condition and died wholesale, is a shocking testimony, Alarm began to be felt in Queens land, and grasier in the south got the Govern ment to take the matler up. Mr. Sydney Smith despatched Mr. Bruce, and this journal sent a we special representative, and the letters published from this source contained the fiut

The proposal to charge 10 per cent. ad and impartial statement of the condition in Northern Queensland. Mr. Tozer then fixed a valorem on silk filatures simply means 7 per quarantine zone, from the north of which no cost, to 8 per cent, additional export duty, as stock shenld travel southerly. The Parliament the present dailes of Tis, to per-pleul.an white of this colony passed a short Act giving the silk, Tlay on yellow, and Th. 5os Tussahs talion of cattle supposed to be infected, and sus- to 3 per cent, on their respective values. pending the importation of anything that might The Chamber submits to your Excellency contain the tick. Victoria was on the that this additional taxation wi5. have a whole content with the natural protection disastrons effect on the flatura Industry in afforded by the colony. In Queensland Chins, with corresponding advantage to the Wx are informad by the Agent of the Messageries special board has been established to help stamp production of those countries with which Chins Maritimes Co. that the steamer Caledonien, with the pest out, Dr. Hunt has been despatched to now compsies and it it is intended to exempt the next French mail, left. Saigon for this port America to study in the land of its origin the native flatures worked by hand or such-llks at 3 am, to-day, and may be expected her on Texas fever, which is believed to be the same as means it would not only be inequitable, but it or about Saterday, the rath inst. This Packet the tich fever of Northern Queensland, and no would possibly lead to stoppage of flatures brings replies to letters despatched from Hong MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA cent Views of the Harbour and mainland momonzes etch as arranging for oli dips and other remedial treatment are neglected.

What then is the necessity for holding a con ference such as is about to be held ? It may be པོ twofold. On the part of purpose Queensland, the producers want to reassure the scatharm colonies and no suspend the prohibitory measures which, under the leñance of public alarm, the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria might launch against the cattle trade of the north. The southern colonies, on their side, wish to get pablle guarantees from Queensland that all is being done to ham in the pest that can be expected. And all concerned

Aggregating 1,476 tona register. DEPARTURES, feel that good may result from frank and cor-

Fooksang stesser, for Canton. \ dial interchange of views. If in addition to the karm the plague has directly caused there wern

The Chamber does not of comes contemplate Markew...........................

Sawtow. » Ukalihood that the southern colonies would that such an injustice would be permbad on riik Hasof..........................................

Haiphong. refuse to perali cattle to cross their northern reeled from cocoons bought this senses withouta Azidigenium

Pakhal Saigon. borders, and would stop the importation of hides hint of the step now proposed. Your Excellancy. Carlstensen and other pastoral products, a great industry would is possibly unaware that the exigencias of the

"Kabe, ; be brought to the verge of callapan. In 1894, for trade necessitate the purchase of the entire un- Aggregating 5,857 tons register,

instance, the intal export of horned cattle from naal requirements of cocoons for the flature New South Wales was 45:377 head, while the factories in May and June, when the market for HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURN import from the one colony of Queensland was cocoons usually opens and lasts but two or thren Tacoma....men in Kowloon 136,619 head, valued at £287,434. Also in 1894 weeks, and that consequently this season's pur-Dec we Imported from Queensland 198,563 bläck, chases have already been effected at prices Actto numme worth £97,499. And as we szported in on which would obviously never have been paid Carabianca-co principal market, the United Kingdom, only had the proposed additional taxation been con Form10

Briland.isinin | 12 124,85% hiden, but 10,763 packages of leather, templated. supply of meat and in keeping

kald that the

ARRIVALS.

worked by machinery-li would put back China | kong on 8th July, in that respect to a period of twenty yearn sgo and throw out of employment not less than 25,000

· SHIPPING RETURNS. From B. pani yesterday to 8 pan, to-day, natives who now derive a living and support for their families from those factories.

The sativa Government appears to imagine Cosmetă .......Mærmer from Ilalia. that Chins's production of milk controls peloson | Tatrang num foreign markets on the contrary, Soséign markets Kangra ... regulate the price which foreign merchants Para C. C. Klassen

Hallong30812 in Chins can afford to pay for Chinese cocoons.

It may laterest your Excellency to know that | CXingping summana the like and loti-shul tax which the io per cent. Bralarig is to supplement, already amount to an average Deucalion un of about per cent, to China proposes ta pensiles the improved silk product by no less than 19 per cent. I

As far as I can gather, some houses Swére burnt by order of commanding officers' when they were found to seriogaly Interiors with military operations and tactics. And this is just what any officers, of any rationality, would do in the course of warlice operations and when occupying the enemy's country. But these things, about which the

anonymous' correspondants | hysterical and shrink, are not a tithe an shocking to delicate nerves as were the acts of Russian soldiers in - Koscow, during the great fire before Napoleon's army reached the Russian explial. Of course, one bad deed done by Russians or others does not justily like conduct on the part of Japanese but what I contend is that there are parallais for all that has been attributed to the Japanese by the Chinese and half-breed informers of the very impartial correspondents referred to above, and that some serious acts, such as barnlog houses and shooting sples, were inevitable, necessary, and Justifiable.

In conclusion, I'may add that, as far as 1 can valued at £330,167, file plain that both in the The Chamber, relying on your Excellency's em Battler

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gather, the Japanese Government is surprised uk | Lex and fellmangelen Queensland Our tanner. |,sense of justice, call attention to the subject, and Gaskt-umuua

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No. 8, Queen's Road Central, Head Office TOKIO, Branch Office2 pin LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, SINGAPORE, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN, NEWCHWANG and all Porta la JAPAN. Agencies 2——

Mini Coal Mines. Okmura Cos! Mlans. Kanada Coal Mines.

Tokyo Marize Insurance Co., Limited Mail Fire Insurance Co., Limited.. Imperial Government Faper Mills, Japan, Cotton Cleaning and Wkg. Co., Shanghai. --- Onoda Cement Company, Japan. Kanegalichi Cotton Spinning Miii, Japan, Tokyo Cotton Epinning Mill, Japan. - Elayzahl Clock Factory,

Flongkang, 6th July, 1805.

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LEVY HERMANOS.

SPECIAL SUMMER RATES, (FROM APRIL IFT TO OCTOBER SIFT). One persens, per dayanmausminimummā. 400 One person, par mönthusiasts$75 10° 90,00 Mamed couple (occupying one room) per

day

7.60 Married couple (occupying ons roots) par

monta consensoUSSTOJNERI KOOLILLOS-sima 150,00 Married couple (occupying two rooma)

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bereiklios. 170.00 Extra Bed Room, per month ..............$40 to 50,00

For further particulars, apply to

THE MANAGER,

New Victoria Hotel Hongkong, 2nd April, 1506.

THOMAS'S GRILL ROOM,

THIS Establishment has always enjoyed a high class reputation for Liberality in

LAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWELLERS | Menu, Quality of Food and Perfection of Cuisine.

THIS REPUTATION WILL BE MAINTAINED,

Fresh Dairy Producs, – FRUIT and other supplies are regularly imported from the United States, Canada and Australia. BEXY .... fram Kobe and TURTLES from the Siralis,

Tha WINES, SPIRITS and MALT LIQUORS, comprising all brands In general demand, nes the best skipped to the Far klass

addition to the BAR, GRILL and DINING ROOMS, the upper floors are sewaged we sa to provide PRIVATE ROOMS muitable for DINNERS or SUPPERS, än. **

AND WATCHMAKERS. SOLE AGENTS IN THE LAST FOR CLEMENT DUNLOP TYRES'S BICYCLES-~PRICE~$185. A special reliable Watch made for this Climate, Quality Amouniani$15. Quailty Biannum 13

10, QUBEN'S ROAD CENTRAL 27. Geñestis the Talegraph Oslos. CHS. J. GAUPP & CO., HRONOMETER, WATCH, and CLOCK MAKERS, JEWELLERS, SILVER..

SMITHŃ, and OPTICIANS. CHARTS and. BOOKS,

PICNIC and BATHING PARTIES supplied “ NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, Agents Soe Louls Andoms Watches With light refreshments at a moment's notions

PAFICE CREAM: from 1. 236, to 12 PAG awarded the highon Frises at every Exhibition; | COLD MEAT SUFFERS frou 9 to 11,90 PAL

"THOMASS GRILL ROOM,

FREDERICK BISHOP,

was and is beg thai sa Doyen of the Corps Diplomatique | Askommunenäokite a the exaggerated criticisms of the Anping corre- eur most important source of raw material, i you will more your colleagues to inform the

PARKED THE CANAL, spondents and is reluctant to bellera that such The Importance of these matual Interests Taungil Yaman that the proposals of thele me

OUTWARD-gih. August-Breconshire, Queen false, one-sided and rocklom stories can karo ama- requires at least of New South Wales in this morial will not be assented to by the foreign

conference the most careful handling ›

Olga, Zdrunt Maru. 14th Augzat--- Hisrichdale, There Powers. sated from the imagination and the facile pens of cannot be two oplatons that we must safeguard- I have the honour to be, Sir,

Oak Branch, Radley, 21st August-Ceylon. upright and Impartial Christian gentlemen. If one pastoral and dairying industries. Hut we

Your Excellency's obadlent servant,

24th August ---Ganfu. 25th August-Sarpidon. this be the Government's ideas it will surely be have at the same time to beware of making the

1st September Prins - Betaries, Kertka, Sole I. F. ALFORD, |Howich" "Hall," 45" Sapiamber Glawar fury, excused if it entertalva grave suspicions of the legitimale pestacifon of our hands from disease a

Chairman. Aramis, Tanica, Deemden. Och Septembervle Rutentiona and motives of Auping correspondents text for what would amount to fiscal protection

Com, Nallery HOMEWARD=4325 Algústum j

and for Volatilador and Söka's_ CELEBRATED OPERA GLAKES,

who write' so bitterly against Japan and who for the local producer.. We have a case to the To His Excellency Colonel Denby, Minister for | PäłydArmus, Animats quanto en PAS bar] Pals. || "MARINE GLASRER and - BETOKARERA,

point in the bli rodnady balora the British Parla.

show `oucis "slight desire that the Japanese Imont, Thai Wan amtensibly designed, la korp

the U.5, of American] Dayan, Corps Diplom- atique, Fakleg

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