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TELEGRAMS.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE.

(From Our Own Correehondent.)

Trouble in Soudan. It is learnt on the anthority of the St. James Gazette that trouble is brewing in Soudan. The Governor of Kordofan is hastily returning from his lioʻiday. An expedition is pro- paring with all speed in order to meet the emergency,

(Reuters)

Return of the Hongkong Troops

LONDON, August 19th. The Hongkong Coronation Troops have sailed, via the United States of America...

The Boer Generals in Holland. Though the welcome accorded to the Boer Generals at Rotterdam and the Hague was cordial, the crowds were unexpectedly

small and showed little enthusiasm. ...

The Anti-Clerical Measures in France.

The execution of the expulsion decrees in France has been completed.

THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

ORDERS TO BRITISH SHIP-BUILDING YARDS

A Philadelphia despatch authoritatively states that the Standard Oil Co. will build in England a fleet of twelve huge steamships of the proportions of the Kenneler, which has a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons of refined oil in cases. The undertaking, which involves the expenditure of millions of dollars, is taken as an indication of the intention of the big corporation to fill the orders of the orient with oil shipped in its own vessels. Twelve craft. like the Kennebec, calculating that each could make two tripsa year, would be able to land 48,00,000 gallons of vitin Etrinn-and-Japan avery (welve mantlis, and this amonat would be about one-eighth of

the total export of that product annually to foreign ports from Philadelphia. Just what such an undertaking would mean to the count less deep-water sailing ships, that calculats on getting oil cargoes out to the far east, is problematical, but it is believed that they would be obliged to seek business in other channels, because conditions at present point to a recurrence of what took place in the European oil trade.

At one time hundreds of sailing-ships found Jucrative employment in the European oil trade, carrying the product in barrels at a freight rarely under four shillings. The Standard built tank-ships and now absolutely controls the output of oil to Europe. Philadelphia exports to Europe and the far east 300,000,000 10 360,00.00 gallons of oil annually and upward of two-thirds of this amount is now carried in ships owned and operated by the Standard Oil Co. Its fleet of sailing ships for the Chinese and Tapanese trade is also being increased rapidly.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1902

THE QUESTION OF FRENCH

DESIGNS ON MACAO,"

The following is translated from the Portu- guese newspaper Q Patriota:

This question has recently received the at tention of our contemporaries in this colony, above all the Hongkong Telegraph which, in its issue of the 6th inst, did not doubt to ex- press its apprehensions in a leading article. It invited at the same time the attention of its Gov- ernment to the expansion of - French influence in South China and to the efforts to establish a naval and Cillitary, sanatorium at Macno, by endeavouring to this end to acquise, in the first instance, the Hon Vista Hotel from Capt. -W. E. Clarke, and subsequently Villa' Branca,

the property of a high public official, ⠀

Macao and as we know for a fact the French did purchase the ground for $1,200, - No one can suppose that the French ignore the right they have of acquiring any property in Macao, Not only does Portuguesa civil right enable them to do so, but also by treaty of Friendship and Commerce between France and Portugal. It is true that the scheme for the purchase of the Boa Vista Hotel was nullified because our Government decreed its resumption, so also was the purchase of "Villa Branca" invali dated because the owner declined to execute the deed owing to the fact of his being a civil servant and thought he should not act contrary to the wishes of his Government, But let us imagine that there is made a third effort and that this time the property is that of a citizen not being a military officer or civil, Our enlightened contemporary further states servant, and consequently not subject to that, the French, seeing that their attempts official control. What will our Government have proved abortive, had recourse to their do?. Prevent the sale? Impossible. Decree missionaries, and took advantage of an ad- another expropriation? It may do that; but it ditional clause in the Convention with China can resume sites once or twice; or it may have of 1860, (by which missionaries are enabled to

to resume the whole of Macao, because no acquire, by purchase or lease, land in any one will decline to sell his property to the part of China to erect buildings thereon), French for a high price; or it will have to buy a piece of ground ihrough a missionary an open rupture with France fur an attempt named Lo, in Cou-sa, in the district of Heung-to infringe the rights of one of her sub. shan, close to Poria do Cerco.

jects and for a breach of one of the clauses Our contemporary sees, in all this, bad of the Luso-Franco treaty which permits the intentions on the part of the French Govern-subjects of both nations to acquire land or ment and did not doubt to recommend openly buildings in Portuguese and French territories. to its Government the greatest vigilance And it is well to state that it is not absolutely on the movement of French gunboats to check necessary that the deed for sale and purchase not only the expansion of French Influence in be made by the officials of Macan. In any South China but also that Macao may not be country of the world ran a house situate at annexed by France, having regard to the fact Macao be bought or sold, according to the that Portugal, as a friendly nation and an old laws and formalities of this country, or ally of England, has no fleet of her own

through the medium of our Consuls, who por military resources sufficient to repel a

are, for this purpose, the proper registrars, foreign invasion.

The deeds of assignment can afterwards be reg- istered in the Land Registry, by the pre-pay. ment of the fees for registration.

They are mistaken, who believe the French are disconcerted in this matter. What they wish to avoid is that the Portuguese Government |`should attribute to them secret intentions which

they do not and never did entertain, and for this reason they desisted from the idea of establishing a sanatorium at Macao; but it the neighbourhood of Macao, in a healthy place, they do not abandon the idea, since they can not put aside the scheme for such an establish- ment which is of absolute necessity for their convalescents for reasons above mentioned. We do not understand, we frankly admit, the ground for so unjust and imprudent an opposition from our Government. Why this subject themselves to our laws and would not fear when the French declared that they would

even disembark at Macao any patient who could convey infection or epidemic to the Colony? Are not, then, sanatoriums in existence in all parts of the world, even 10 our own Colony of Madeira, and in Macan where a French hospital existed until after the

to-day it is seen printed in the Didot Bottin second quarter of the past century? Up to

Putting aside the rivatries of Great Britain who, for her own interesis, must always be on her guard and full of precautions, we do not agree with our contemporary, the Hongkong Telegraph, when it thinks that the French desire to have a sanatorium at Macao as a strategic base for the purposes of their colonial expansion and to serve them, so to say, as a foothold for her complete control over Seath China. What surprises us is that our contem. porary should think this, when unfortunately many Portuguese hold the same view and even our Government in spite of official declarations of the French Government through the medium of its representatives at. Canton and Macao to Conselheiro Governor Horta e

Costa We know from a good source that M. Hardouin, Consal for France at Canton, was perfectly correct in his procedure with the Government of Macao, to whom he com monicated frankly and without reserve the intention which the Governor-General of Indo- China, Mr. Daumer, had of establishing a sanatorium at Macao simply for the convales cenge of civil and military officials who may be attacked By malaria and for whom a change is necessary. Moreover, the French Consul said that the choice of Macao was deter relating to Macao, the existence of this French mined by its goed sanitary conditions, goue-hospital, it being certain that from time to rally known in the East, and for its being more convenient and less expensive for the Republic to send the convalescents to Macao than to have to send them back to France or to the French sanatorium in Japan. The French Con- sul further stated that the establishment would be subject to Portuguese laws and under the direct control of Portuguese doctors who would receive salaries for their services; and, lastly, he desired to know if the Portuguese Covern.

THE PROGRESS OF CHINA.

Much has been said about the increase of traffic in the East. To use as an illustrationment would oppose the scheme, what has occurred in Japan Twenty years. ago the foreign trade of Japan was not to ex ceed $r per capita of the population. To-day this trade is equal to 56 or 37 per capita of its population. Twenty years ago it amounted to about $10,000,000 and, to-day it amounts to about $250,000,000. In 1890 the entire foreign trade with China amount to about go cents per capita. With a good stable government which will protect the Chinaman in the fruits of his own labor and enterprise, there is no reason why the Chinese trade should not increase as rapidly as that of Jap in has increased. The Chinaman is the better, merchant of the two. This is, indeed, a trade worth striving for.

MANILA HARBOUR IMPROVE- MENTS.

Harbour improvements comprise the dredg ing of that portion of Manila Harbour at the mouth of Pasig river, 4,500 feet wide by 8,ost. feet in length; in other words, the removal of over 5,097,000 cubic yards of material the building of 8,oco fect of stone breakwater, the top of which will be finished with a cupping of concrete; the building of 4,500 feet of rough stone with no finish along the front of the walled city, following the contour of the famous Malacan drive."

Governor orta e Costa found the project 50 reasonable and practicable that he answered that, on his part, there was no reason for objection and that he hoped the Government of the metropolis, to whom he was going to telegraph on the subject, would accede with good grace to the wishes of M. Doumer. The reply was delayed and, during the interval, it seemed that, for the better assurance of the Portuguese Government the Consular Agent for France a) Macao. confirmed in writing, the intentions of the French Govemenea, ratifying obedience to the laws of the country and assuring that the projected sanatorium would not possess any Bomblance of an official in stitution.

After the lapse of some. fifteen days there was published in the Boletin Official the proclamation decreeing the ex- option of the Boa Vista Hotel and all the buildings comprised within the area from the hotel to the summer house called "Santa Sucha," the property of an Englishman, Mr. Mr. Hardouin and all those who bat know Heibert Rent, of Canton. By the proclamation, ledge of the negotiations became aware of the decision of the Home Government in their attitude and silence.

Commercial, Directory for 1902, in the section

letters, printed matter and circulars with the following

time the Post Office at Macao still receives

address:-" Monsieur Mesaaier,

directeur de l' húpital Français de Macau." for up-to-dateness on the part of the publishers [This argument proves rather the necessity

of the Commercial Directory than the actual existence of any French hospital at Macao at this time-Ed., H.KT)

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that the existence of one during the second China War was, tolerated, is mentioned to justify the endeavour to seek a similar privilege at the present time. The building then made, use of for the French hospital is still standing and is the identical one previously occupied by the British Superintendency of Trade in the old days previous to its removal, after the cession of Hongkong, by Sir Henry Pottinger in February, 1842. By a strange coincidence, on the extensive grounds and garden attached to the old hospital is now erected the house occupied by the present fepresentative of France in this colony. The premises adjoin the Joint Telegraph Companies' offices. Cir. cumstances and conditions existing in the '50's and which are now subjects of history, are absent to-day. There are times when it might suit even a nation, as it does individuals, to blink at international breaches. Tempora mutantur, et nos matamur in illis is a trite saying most applicable to the question that has occupied so much public attention of late, Ed., H.K.T.]

THE GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES:

By the German mail steamer on the 14th inst there arrived in Singapore a most dis- tinguished visitor in the Hon. W. H. Taft, Governor of the Philippine Islands,

JAPAN TO THE FRONT

Five now steel steamers with a combined tonnage of 17,800 are to be constructed by the Japan Mail Steamship Co. (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) for the service of the company with the United States, Japan, China and Australia. The contract has already been awarded to the Mitsu Bishi yard, Nagasaki.

OPIUM QUOTATIONS.

Hongkong, 220d August. To-day's quotations are as follows 14-

The Prinsess Irene was not alongside until about 5 pun, but as soon as she had tied up, the U. S. acting Consnt for Singapore, Mr. Davidson, went on board to welcome Governor Taft Mr. Bosanquet represented Ilis. Ex.cl- lency and several local prominent American gentlemen were present to greet their distin guished countryman, and so also was the As- NEW PATNA sistant Executive Secretary to the Philippines Civil Commission, Mr. F. Heiskell, who arrived here in the U.S. gunboat General Alava to meet his chies.

Governor Taft landed in the evening and drove to Rafles Hotel, where he was enter. tained to dinner privately by several of the leading American citizens who had been re- quested in do so by the Mayor of Manila.

On the 15th inst, a representative of the The following paragraph appears in to-day's Singapore Free Press saw Governor Taft at the Raffles Hotel and was fortunate in obtaining some interesting information regarding certain prominent subjects.

From the Daily Press.

issue of our morning contemporary:—

In our Portuguese contemporary O Patriota we notice a letter signed "B"-this is the initial, by the way, of the consular agent for France at Haczo-on the subject of French designs on China. The writer thinks that the Portuguese Government did wrongly in pre- resting the sale of the Boa Vista Hotel to France, and that too much has been made of the affair. Incidentally, "B" in citing the longkong papers omits to mention that the Daily Press was considerably the first to call attention to the Doa Vista affair and its sequels.

THE MISSION TO THE VATICAN

is a subject about which Governor Taft can say a great deal, but in view of the Friar's question being, sud judice, it may be naturally inferred that he would not care to say much. However, in view of the various reports as to the success or failure of his mission, Gover- nor Taft stated authoritatively that no decision. has been arrived at at Rome, but the negotia- tions there were more of a preliminary nature than anything else. The only actual result was that an Apostolic delegate to the Philippines is to be appointed who will proceed to the Island H.M.S. Arethura is expected to arrive from in a reasonably short time and as the result of Shanghai to-morrow.

his investigations there and consequent re- H.M.S. Rinaldo will leave for the North commendations to the Vatican a settlement of to-morrow.

the troublesome question may be confidently

THE NAVY.

H.M.S. Espiegle is expected to arrive from expected. the North of the 4th proximo.

"KOREA" AND "SIBERIA."

The Korea is expected at Hongkong about

the 26th proximo.

Immediately upon arriving at San Francisco she will sail on her maiden voyage, har first stop being Honolulu. After 24 hours she will sail for Yokohama, a distance of 3,400 miles. The next stop is Kobe, 350 miles from Voko-

sea, a distance of 400 miles, to Nagasaki, then hama. Then she will pass through the island

442 miles to Shanghai, and finally 850 miles to Hongkong. After remaining here 13 days, the homeward run will be started, the same stops being made on the return passage.

The Siberia is expected about three months later.

MORE COMPETITION TO THE EAST,

ROOM FOR ALL.

The Boston Steamship Company has entered iqlo a contract with the Northern Pacific

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

is purely a Civil one at the present time, said Governor Taft, the pacification of the Filipinos is practically complete and the Is lands are free from the military Règime. The Civil Commission as a governing body was form. erly under the Commander-in-Chief of the Phi- lippines but now this has all been altered and the ing 18,000 officers, N. Co's and men, are under U. S. forces at present in the Island, number

the command of Major General who commands them as a division of the U.S. Army. The Civil Commission is cmpowered to administer the Government according to the President's in- structions, Governor Taft at its head, with ad- ditional powers conferred on him. All import- ant measures are subject to revocation by the U. S. Secretary for War, but in minor matters the Goveront and Commission are paramount. The Commission has authority to sell public land, to grant mining rights and concessions, to grant corporate franchise rights for railroads and in short to act in every way desirable for the public improvement.

A NEW ERA

Is confidently looked forward to, despite the

BENARES OLD PATNA

BENARES NEW MALWA OLD

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PERSIAN-- Best quality.

Per chest. @S912 912

927

.....@ .915

@ 970/1010

1020/40 600

Co-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"THE Undersigned have received instructions.

to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,'

TO-MORROW, (SATURDAY), the 33rd August, 1902,' at 6 P.M..

on the Polo Ground at Causeway Bay, The following Ponies, the Property of Majo

WARREN, RA

"BRUMBLE," Hay Waler Gelding 14 1

Winner of the Nil Desperandum Stakes at the Last Race Mecting. 'SHOJE, Cream Waier Mare 1411-Wh

ner of the Morrison Hill Cup, "Off Day" Races, 1902. "KANGAROO," Winner of Races..

TERMSAs Usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers... Hongkong, 22nd August, 1902.

[878d

CAMPBELL, MOORE & COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE SIXTEENTH ORDINARY AN- NUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 29, Queen's Road Central, at 4 PM, on TUES- DAY, the 9th September, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December,. 1901.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 26th instant to the 9th September, both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

M. A. A. SOUZA, Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd August, 1902. [879d

FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.

THE N.D.L. Steamship

"FREIBERG," Captain Proesch, will be despatched for the above Ports on MONDAY, the 25th instant, alg P.M.

For Freight apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE

Hongkong Office.....' Hongkong, 22nd August, 1901.

[88od

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

THE Company's Steamship.

"KEELUNG MARU,"

Imperialists in the United States. After two vigorous opposition of a small section of Anti-Captain K. Sabajima, will inaugurate the New-

years a ceasus of the islands is to be taken and then, if in the opinion of the President of the U.S. the step is justified, there will be created a Lower House consisting of from fifty to a hundred representatives chosen from the people, whilst the present governing body will constitute an Upper Chamber, similar to the political representation in the Mother Country. Note would be excluded from the Lower House on racial grounds; a Filipino, Spanish or Mestiza U.S. subject, if properly elected, would be able to take his seat in as regular a number as an American and in this way the voice of the people in the cause of its own government would be distinctly heard.

steamship line from Puget sound to the orient, and Great Northern railroads to establish a

Co's ships, Pletades, Hyades and Lyra. The in connection with the three Boston Tow Boat

Shawmut, Tremont and Hyades are to run between Seattle, Tacoma and Victoria, in Puget sound; Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai If France wanted to be mistress of Macao it and Hongkong. The Hyades sailed on her would not be the existence of the sanatorium first trip July 20, the Shawmut yesterday, and that will justify her violence. Therefore, the fear the Tremont will sail on Nov. 7. It will take manifested by our Government is puerile and three months for them to make the round trip. and groundless, which had no other effect than The Shawmut arrived at San Francisco from to hurt the susceptibilities of the French Go- the Atlantic coasts on Monday evening, June vernment with whom we are in good relations, 30, having made the trip, stopping at Coronel, and to drive from our Colony an element of Chile, in fifty two days, a new time record for prosperity, because as M. Hardouin rightly the distance. The Tremont which was built said, the sanatorium would have brought about at Sparrow's Point U.S.A., sailed from New a great activity in the passenger traffic, the York for San Francisco early this month and is regular visits of French gunboats to this port, due to arrive at San Francisco Sept. 20. an increase in the local consumption of commo. Lyra and Pleiades will run between. Puget appointed to enquire into the matter recom- duties and the development of many industries. sound, Vladivostock, in Siberia, and ports in mended a gold standard, like that of Japan, We have already heard the criticisms of anti- North China. The Lyra made ber first trip that is, that a silver peso should be coined patriols against those who do not fall in with from Puget Sound Aug. 5. The Boston Steam-which should be worth fifty cents gold or silver the view to oppose the establishment of the ship Co. has taken steps toward acquiring the and which should be kept on a parity with gold French, sanatorium. We defy the so distant Boston Steamship Co., Incorporated, which by a limited coinage, similar to the ruped in patriols to prove wherein lies the anti-company was granted a charter at the last India. The House Committee of the House patriotism. We do not belong to the class of session of the Massachusetts legislature. The Representatives approved of the recommenda. those who bend before the ipse dixit magister,

tion and embodied it in this Bill, which was when our belief affirms us in the opposite opinion. Let us be shown the reason why a citizen has not the right to establish an hotel

or a bouse to receive his convalescent fiends

nationalities. So long as they pay the respect- exclusively whether they be of one or more. ive licence and subject themselves to the administrative regulations, we believe that all can put up an establishment for whatever To those quick of apprehension a gentle purpose not being repugnant to the law and Three contracta in number, aggregating

hint suffices. Once that loyalty is not recipro- public morality, notwithstanding that it is of the

most strange description possible. In proof about $300,000, were awarded. That of thecated with loyalty; once that our Government Imatagement of the harbour comprises two resatts to law to frustrate the end of the French that the design of M. Doumer was just and legal, Government, by means of expropriation, it was

our Government never ventured to state amounting. $2.5:0,000, while the

|: not to be wondered at that the latter also resorted to him that it was otherwise, but just and smaller ones for $6,000.

The

shares of the present company will be ex- changed for the shares of the Boston Steam ship Go. Incorporated, on a share-for-share basis. No change will be made in the bonds.

MANCHURIA FLOUR.

flour manufacture. Two modern flouring mills We learn that Manchuria is progressing in

have recently been constructed at Harbin, one with a capacity of 250 barrels and the other of 500 barrels a day. They are operated by Russian millers, and the product is said to be very satisfactory. The buildings are covered with iron roofing. The four from these mills is going into the markets of Manchuria în

smaller coast is for the construction to law to push forward its purpose, the more so. tried to hinder, by all possible means, the competition with flour from the United States

B.

[The above is unmistakably the vindica tion referred to in our Macao Correspondent's letter of the 17th inst, in which he writes -

h localed at langici Point in

when the number of the convalescents was large realization of the project, without manifest aling-s

be arsenal at Cavite. The and who could not remain in the insalubrious violation of right, it is trus,and that it succeed. then there is the building of Mammoth territories of Indo-China The French, there-ed in doing, due always to the circumstances principp bunkers, for which: 4.500 tons of fore, tried, in the name of Dr. Mesny, to buy of the occasion. This is what we profoundly steel seal, 3,500 plies, 50,000 feet of "Villa Branca" from Dr. Gomes da Silva, and sincerely deplore as patriots who wish for

so,roo barrels of cement and a large The agreement for sale and purchase would the prosperity of his country. Yount of rock from the quarries will be used. have been completed if it had not been for the The preliminaries for this work, before a Silliness of the treasury employees through yard of ruck can be laid as a foot of earth. whom the provincial government came to be dredged, are fair-sized contracts in themselves, possessed of the knowledge of the affair, and First the company bas established headquarters the use of moral pressure on the owner. The at Manila, near which are the company's ship result of the action was that the vendor want yards. Here will be built a fleet of a dozen to the would-be purchaser and stated to him scows and a steel launch which will be used to that, as the sale was not yet legally completed, tow the stone from the quarries across the bay. be was in time to alter his decision and not sell These barges will be 125 feet in length. The ¦ his property. And the French, the Hongkong «dredge will be shipped from the United States Telegraph now says, convinced of the im and put together at the yard. It will be a practicability of acquiring a property in Macao, suction dredge built of steel.

bought a site in Cou-sa near the boundary of COTTAM & CO FOR PANAMA HATH HATH

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COTTAN & CO. FOR SUN BATS,

I have it on good authority that a vindy cation of the French action to secure a fool, hold at Macao, by a prominent gentleman here and who by virtue of his official position should be expected to held his brief for the French Government, will soon appear in a Portuguese newspaper. The defence is that there is no faw prohibiting the French from putting up a sanatorium here. The precedence

"OTTAM & CO., FOR WASHING

BOW TIES.

THE SILVER PROBLEM is unsettled. The Commission which was

passed, but the Senate Committee was afraid that it was too radical a measure for the Orient, where there was so much free silver coinage in the shape of British and Mexican dollars. As the two Blouses could not agree on the subject, given for a subsidiary coinage. The main nothing was done except that authority was

issue, however, will continue in abeyance until Congress meets in September next; at present there has been no decision one way or the

other.

PERSONAL.

Service between HONGKONG and SHANG- HAI VIA FORTS..

She is expected to arrive here from SWATOW on THURSDAY and will be despatched for SHANGHAI Via Ports on TUESDAY, the 26th instant.

Yangtze River Ports as well as North China Through Bills of Lading issued for Cargo to

Ports in connection with the NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA's Steamers from Shanghai.

For further Information apply to the Co.'s:

Central. Branch Office at No. 2, Des Voeux Road

T. ARIMA,

Manager

Hongkong, 22nd August, 1002.

18681

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA, HE Company's Steamship THE

"ZAFIRO,"

Captain A. Fraser, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 26th instant, at 4 PM

Powered, Nedest and Most up to date on the Highest Class Passenger Steamers, High run. All Accomodation Amidships. Electric Light and all other Modern Improvements, A Surgeon is carried.

For Freight or Passage apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO, General Managers. Hongkong; 22nd August, 1902.

18653

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.'S NEW YORK LINE,

FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL

HE Steamship.

TE

"AFTON,"

or about the

will be despatched as above 20th September, 1902.

For Freight, apply to SHEW

TOMES & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 22nd August, 1902 · (686d

FROM HAMBURG, PENANG

AND SINGAPORE.

"FREIBERG,"

In view of the alarming reports with regard to Mr. Taft's health and the gloomy prognosii-" cations alleged by some papers to have been uttered by him in regard to his return to the Philippines, the S. F. P. representative felt.THEN.DL. Steamship justified in asking the Governor whether such reports bad any foundation, His reply was a Captain Froesch, having arrived from the characteristic one, for whilst acknowledging above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby the uncertainty of human life, he cheer requested to send in their Bills of Lading for fully added. "but I don't mean to die in the take immediate delivery of their goods from countersignature by the Undersigned and to. Philippines if 1 can help it." Nor to judge alongside. from his exceedingly healthy appearance does. Governor Taft look like a man who would easily succumb.. In a word, his beakh, which was bad when he left the Philippines, is now quite restored, and he returns to the scene of his labours with a vigour which augurs well for the future prosperity of the Philippines,

At noon on the 15th inst., the Deputy Gover

CHINA'S SILVER SUPPLY. We observe that a consignment of silver has been sent from Seattle to China. This is an important indication of the trend of oriental trade. It is only a few years ago that no silver importer in China would have dreamt of pur chasing bullion anywhere except in London. Then San Francisce cut into the London trade. For three or four years past San Francisco has been shipping an increased amount of silver every year to the orient, and London a corre cation: of the trade centre's shifting from San ́spondingly decreased amount. The first indi- Francisco to Puget sound is contained in the shipment of silver bullion exported from Seattle.nor, the Hon. W. T. Taylor, C.SLG, called on As a matter of fact, the orient bullion market Governor Taft, who leaft for Manila the same should all be in the hands of British Columbia aftemoon in the General Alava, Lieut. Com: sports Bitish Columbia produces large mander J. H. Glennan, which was specially quantities of silver and the state of Washington sent to Singapore to meet him and convey him practically none.-Pictoris Colonist..

to Manila. A DON “OTTAM & CO, FOR GENTS BATH-

ING GEAR.

PROTTAM & CO.„; FOR TRESS'S STRAW

and FELT HATS.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice the contrary be given before 5 P.M. TO- DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Limited, and stared at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods. have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th instant will be subject to rent pap

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 29th instant, at 3.P.

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE Hongkong Office,

· Hongkong, 22nd August, 1902, A2

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