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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY MARCH 24, 1903.

ZIENTSIN | CHAMBER OF COMF-|form at the expense of the Chamber, and

MERCE AND THE CURRENCY

QUESTION.

At the annual meeting of the members of the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce, held on the 7th inst, Mr. E. F. Mackay, the Chairman, made the following reference to the currency question, which we are sorry to see neither the Shanghai Chamber nor the China Association evinces any desire to take up.

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Gentlemen, the all but total disorganisation of the local money market and the utter in ndequacy of all tinkering measures to remedy

circulated among the members" (hear, hear).

This was seconded hy Mr. R.A. Cousins and carried unanimously.

Mr. W, A. Morlag, speaking on the collective action of the Chamber in this great matter, said it behoved them to proceed cautiousty lest they may existing dollars. He thought Sir James an additional kick to the already

Mackay's treaty, met the case already, and he thought the subject as it now stond hardly called

for their interference.

Entimations.

YOU WILL NOT BE DECEIVED. That there are cheats and frauds in plenty everybody known ; but it is seldom or never that any large business house is guilty of them, no matter what ling of trade it follows. There based on dishonesty or deception. There can be no permanent success of any kind

never was, and never will be. The men who

try that are simply fools and soon come to grief-as they deserve. Now many persons are, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain advertised articles lest they, be humbugged and deluded; especially are they slow to place

merits of medicines. The effective remedy known as

Consignees,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

THE Steamship

"GLENSHIEL,"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by the Goods are landed.

Mr. Mackay urged that the very first step was a universal coinage all over China: they saw no signs of it coming about under the Treaty apparent evils (applause) are but, part and To talk of a gold currency before the coinage confidence in published statements of the mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as

came was merely ploughing the sands,

Mr. M. H. Houston was of opinion that the Chinese would not interfere in the matter of the coinage until they saw it was a step to a goldstandard. There was no sign of the obligations of Sir James Mackay's Treaty coming into effect and in the meantime irremediable damage was being done.

Goods not cleared by the 24th instant will be subject to rent.

Mails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

(THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.)

"ROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS,

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Godowns, and a certificate of the damage YAWATA MARU.......

All damaged packages must be left in the obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the steamer's arrival, after which no claims will be recognised.

MCGREGOR BROS, & GOW. Hongkong, 18th March 1903.

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION is as safe and genuine an article to purchase as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with a world-wide reputation. We could not afford to exaggerate its qualities or misrepresent it in the least; and it is not necessary. It is palatable as honey and con. tains the nutritive and curative properties of cad livers, combined with the Compound Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh NORDDEUTSCHER

LLOYD.

parcel of a far greater disorganisation, that of the finances of the Chinese Empire. As you know this is a great question, and in the solidarity of all modern commercial interests it is now attracting the attention not only of the trading communities of the Far East but __oL_financiers_in_all-parts-of-the-world. The monetary system of China and the Impass that attends the steady fall in silver ofe, I do not hesitate to say, the question of the day. I hope that this Chamber will at once give its earnest attention to the consideration and advocacy of remedial measures. near the sent of government and in close the articles in The Peking and Tientsin Tics Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of touch with a courageous and open-minded "1. In Canada the standard is gold and though Malt and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such Viceroy who has both the will and power to there is a provision for coining gold dollars initiate reforms, As a Chamber while we can-

there is no Canadian gold coin and little or no

We are

On some one in the meeting asking the Chairman if there were any examples of gold standard without a gold coinage, Mr. MacKay read the following note which he had received from the gentleman who had writ n

a blending of these important medicinal agents

A. E. Moses WAKASA MARU........

[341

J. B. Macmillan..... KUMANO MARU..

E. W. Haswell.

TOSA MARU*,

H. Christiansen.....

KAMAKURA MARU

H. Peterica

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

must he is plain to everybody. It is beyond THE Steamship

not pretend that our voice is as potend as those gold in circulation. Without a gold currency / Price in Anemia, Scrofula, Weakness and lack

and not having even a mint for gold, dollar notes and silver dollars circulate at United States value.

of the Chambers of Hongkong and Shanghai, we are geographically far better situated to bring our influence to bear on the Chinese Go- vernment, Imperial and Provincial, and also on

"11. West Indies. All the West India the Foreign Ministers, I strongly urge you to Islands and British Guiana have adopted the take this matter up. I might suggest a care-English currency, gold being the standard, but fully chosen committee to go into this matter, silver being legal tender without it. In and if we arrive at any definite conclusion, to practice British gol is never seen there; the push it with all the force at our command. I circulating medium consists of shillings and am sure that equally with me you must have been impressed with a scheme that has a local origin, and which is based on the success- ful procedure of India and Japan. I refer to that elaborated in The Peking and Tientsin Times, and, I have reason to believe, by a member of this Chamber,

The Chairman's invitation was followed by a

prolonged and Quaker like silence. Mr. Mac- kay, resuming, said he would make no apology for introducing the subject of the Gold Standard. it was of very great importance to the whole commercial community; the present tendency of things, resultion as it did in an ever in creasing taxation of the Chinese people to meet the national obligations in gold, was greatly in- tensifying the difficulty of an already danger- ous political situation. Enough had of late been said and written to show that they should

British colonial bank notes. This is an instance

of a gold standar Iwithout gold, and a silver token currency circulating to an unlimited extent at a value based on that gold standard.

III. Holland and the Dutch Indies. The standard is gold with little or no gold in circulation. The sil er is kept at an artificial ratin much higher than its market value al

of Nervous Tone, Wasting Diseases, Bron chitis, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Im purities of the Blood, Science can furnish nothing better-perhaps nothing so good. Dr. W H. Dalfe, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice and take pleasure in recommend ing it as a valuable tonic and reconstructive," It is a remedy that can afford to appeal to its ledge of bright and aggressive medical in record and represents the science and know.

vestigation. Effective from the first dose.

You cannot be disappointed in it." Like all good things it is imitated. Sold by chemists throughout the world and A. S. Watson & Co.,

Limited.

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of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

DESTINATIONS.

SAILING DATES..

{NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-) WEDNESDAY,25th Mar` #

HAMA .....

KOBE and YOKOHAMA

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA

MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND

TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE

Noon.

FRIDAY, 27th Mar, at

Daylight.

FRIDAY, 27th Mar., at

4 P.M.

VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE TUESDAY, 7th April, at

U.S.A., VIA

Shanghai, Moji,

KOBE and YOKOHAMA

4 P.M.

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT- Saturday, 4th April, at

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, Penang, COLOMBO and PORT SAID

sanien,

Daylight.

* Through Passenger Tickets issued for the Principal Cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT Northern Railway and Atlantic Steamen Round the World Tickets also issued. Between Moji and Kobe, 1st and and Class Through Passengers have the Option of Travelling by the Sanyo Railway.

"SACHSEN," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being

For further Information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings, &c, apply at the Company's landed and stored at their risk into the Godownscal Brant Office in Prince's Building, tet Floor, Chater Road. of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Nean, TO-DAY.

have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

undelivered after the 26th instant will be subject to reut..

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on THURSDAY, the 26th instant, at 9.30 A.M.

though neither it nor the paper is convertible, A above Fund will be held at QUEEN's Undersigned. except for the purposes of export.

IV. Austria Hungary. The fall To the exchange which would have accompanied or followed the fall in the market v lue of silver has been averted by closing the mints against the free coinage of silver.

remarkable, for the gold

"The case of Holland and Java is very standard has been maintained without difficulty in both countries, although there is

mint in

MACHELL MEMORIAL FUND.. MEETING of SUBSCRIBERS. to the

COLLEGE on FRIDAY next, March 17th, al 5.30 P.M.

E. RALPHS,

Hongkong, 21st March, 1903. THE EASTERN EXTENSION AND GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH COMPANIES. THE VIA EASTERN TELEGRAPHIC SOCIAL CODE

- Hon. Secretary. 13650

Hongkong, 17th March. ix 3.

ORIENTAL

PERINS

STEAM

COMPY

JHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA,]

ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.

All Claims must reach us before the 30th instant, or they will not be recognited,

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

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO., Agents. Hangkong, 19th March, 1903. [6530

"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S. "AFRIDI." FROM GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed

"MALTA," Caprain C. L. W. Feild. carrying H risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, aleiv's Mails, will be despatched from this for Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves

MARSEILLES and LONDON (DIRECT) on SATURDAY, the 28th instant, at Noon, 12kins delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports. notice to the contrary be given before Noon, TO-DAY.

at once grapple with the subject. Bad as it was the Dutch East Indies and no tock of gold HE above mentioned Code is available for that all Goods are being landed at their }

elsewhere, here it was accentuated for reasons which he need not now recapitulate. They knew that imports had all but stopped, and an unprecedented position of affairs was now ap parent in their Northern trade. Tientsin must put its shoulder to the wheel to rid the trade of au intolerable incubus. They should at once try to get on to a path which would take them from an environment of influence which threa. tened ruin and which they could in no way control.

He advocated a small select Committes to investigate the whole question. More as a guide or as a matter to talk round, he had drawn up a memorandum which he would now read, and if it found favour, it might be given to this Committee as a sort of general instruc- tion, fle would not move this memorandum as a resolution, but would none the less be glad if the members would express an opinion on it. If the Committee came to a definite conclusion he would suggest that the Chamber should at once press this conclusion on the Imperial Chinees Government, the Viceroy of Chill, the Hongkong and Shanghai Chambers, the China Association and the China League.

The meinerandum read as follows:-"As it is impossible for men of business to feel any confidence in the future value of the tael, and as they believe that the present state of things restricts the investment of capital in this country and thus seriously hampers legitimate enterprise, they feel that unless specific mea. sures be taken to secure stable exchange there can be no other prospect but that of endless fluctuations in the relative values of silver and gold attended with a fall in value of silver to an indefinite amount. We think that the

Government of China should take steps to have

the question of the advisability of introducing a gold standard into China carefully and seriously considered by competent authorities."

"To meet the sterling debt an increasing load of taxation is laid on every Province, and as the tael exchange falls the taxes must increase."

"This Indefinite impediment to trade would be stopped if a fixed exchange were assured."

"We are of opinion that the dislocation of trade on the introduction of reforms would be a lesser evil than the present situation,"

"Without expressing an opinion as to what rate of exchange would be most advantageous to China, we would urge

"L. That the Imperial Government carry out Its promises in the recent Treaty with Great Britain, and take into its own hands the mint ing of a national coin, which to be effective must mean one central mint under foreign management."

Holland. It would thus appear that it has been therr, and only a moderate stock of gold in

without a large stock of gold, as d even without found possible to introduce a gold stand.rd legal convertibility of the existing silver cur- rency into gold.

"India has secured a gold stable exchange without a gold coinage merely by closing the mints to the free coinage of silver,

"The exchange value of the rupee is to-day 14 though its intrinsic value is only 7"

Mr. Mackintosh referred to the more ger- mane case of Mexico, which, except geographi- cally, was far closer to that of China than those Mr. Mackay referred to.

Mr. Mackay thought Mexico pointed the moral his way.

Her. condition was so de- plorable that the United States was discussing the expediency of coming to her aid.

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Mr. E. Cousins said he feared to illustrate

the folly of those who rush in where angels fear to tread. He would move." That the Committee "of the Chamber be instructed to appoint a "consider this question and to report to Special Committee of not less than seven to

"the Chamber as soon as possible." He was of opinion that the Committee should be as strong as possible, and should represent all interests. He advised that it should not neces sarily be limited to members of the Chamber Mr. Buchboister seconded and the resolution was passed nem,con.

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NOTH

Intimations.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE 'AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

[OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the REGISTERED OFFICES of the Company. Nos. 38 to 40. Queen's Road Central, on THURSDAY, the 26th day of MARCH, 1963, at 1 o'clock Noox, for the purpose of con- sidering and if thought fit of passing the SUBJOINED RESOLUTIONS;-

1. That the Company may underwrite the whole or any part of the fire risks on all, or any of its properties as the directors may from time to time determine.

+

a. That the sum of $200,000 now standing to

the credit of Permanent Reserve Fund be transferred to the credit of an "Insur ance Reserve Fund" and that this Fund shall be credited with the same premiums on the properties underwritten by the Company as if they had been insured with other companies, and that all losses by Bre shall be met out of the same Fund. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 11th March, 1903. [308e

Telegrams sent by the lines of either Company, and may be consulted, or purchased, at the Companics' Office.

J. M. BECK,

Hongkong, 18th March, 1903.

WANTED.

Superintendent.

13470

INSTITUTION of ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS of HONGKONG Wanted a MANAGER for above Institution.

Apply to

HON. SECRETARY.

* korg. 20th March, 1003.

Consignees.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 27th instant, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- 13580 fented to the Undersigned on or before the joth instant, or they will not be recognized.

OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY.

N.OTICE.

“ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

" DORIC,"

CONSIGN

The above Steamer having arrived, Con signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

and expense.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignens' risk No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,

E. W. TILDEN, .Agent. Hongkong, z1st March, rang.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND

HE Steamship

THE

SINGAPORE.

LIGHTNING," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed a once, at Consignees' risk and expense.

Cargo remaining on board after the asth instant, at 4 P.M., will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vesicl will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and

expense.

No Fire Insurance will be effected

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the in Undersigned.

DAVID SASSOON & Co, LIMITED,

Agenta. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1953. [3700

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 26th instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 29th March, rong

Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA. PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAI, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PÓŁTS.)

[E Steamship

M

Parcels will be received at this Office unt P.K. the day before sailing. The Contents a Value of all Packages are required.

Skippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company'

Bills of Lading.

For further Particulars, apply to

E A HEWETT,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 14th March, rong.

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NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

[3540 BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

"INDRA" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM NEW YORK. HE Company's Steamship

THE

" INDRANI,"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consigneer of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 27th instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a cartiicate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the vessel's arrival fore, after which no claims will be recognised.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents, Hongkong 21st March, 1903.

13636

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM TRIESTE, PORT SAID, aden, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, FENANG AND SINGAPORE,

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP THE Company's Steamship

· AND LONDON.

11. That the free coinage of silver be CAMPBELL, MOORE & CO., LIMITED. THE Steamship

prohibited.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

"III: That steps be taken to allow for the accumulation of a gold reserve" (hear, hear). THI

HE SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. Mr. Edmund Cousins draw attention to the HOLDERS in the above Company will be general vagueness that many of them felt on held at the above COMPANY'S OFFIC 25, No. 19, matters of the higher discal science. He person- Queen's Road Central, at 4 F., on TUESDAY, ally wanted enlightenment. He had read with the 31st March, 1903, for the purpose of receiv

ing the Report of the Directors with a State- great interest, the papers in The Peking and meat of Actinis, to the 31st December, 1901. Tiskisin Times and would be glad to have them The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company in a more convenlent shape. He thought it well will be CLOSED from the 25th March to the withing the scope of this Chamber to assist in 31st March, both days inclusive. this matter and begged to move "That subjectBy Order of the Board of Directors,

to the approval of the author these papers and subsequent letters be raprinted in pamphlet

A.SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER

M. A. A. SOUZA,; O Secretary. Hongkong, 16th March, 1903.3156| ASK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER.—

O. Gimult

"PEMBROKESHIRE," Captain E. J. Liddle, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon and stored 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 sub jest to rent.

"MARIA VALERIE," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are, being landed at their risk, into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This Vessel brings Cargo

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are: to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th instant, at 9.30 h.3, 6.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Gapital Agantă. --- * Hongkong, 23rd March, zgagevenum - Cayle |"

From Venice, ex ss. Elfore transhipped at Trieste.

Optional Carge will be discharged here, unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sant in to the Office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 28th instant, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns, after the 28th instant, will be subject to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

*** SANDER, WIELER & Co, Hongkong, ased March, 1969, vị Ejado

A. S. MIHARA, Manager.

Intimations.

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TO THE RATEPAYERS WHO ARE ELI- GIBLE TO VOTE AT THE FORTH-

COMING SANITARY BOARD ・・

ELECTION.

GENTLEMEN:-At the request of a very in- Auential section of our community I come forward and am prepared to stand for election as a member of the Sanitary Board.

I was born in the Colony about 40 years ago, was educated at the Government Centrel School now known as the Queen's: Gullege, and in 1882 gained the Morrison Scholarship, then the only scholarship awarded, my com petitors being 90% Chinese boys and the principal subjects, translations from English into Chinese and vice versa.

During the past 15 years I have followed my present occupation, that of Land and Com mission Agent

This calling has given me many opportu nities of studying house-construction and the laws of Sanitation. I have at all times taken s great interest in the innumerable measures which have been brought forward, relating to our Sanitary condition,

I was one of the signatories to the Petition,. sent to the Secretary of State, praying for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the sanitary state of this Colony. ̈ And, disappointed when I read the measures with many others, I was greatly surprised and

contained in the Draft Bill, recommended by the Experts from Home, which accompanied their conjoint report.

On the appearance of this Draft Bill in the Government Gazette, I believe, i was the first to criticise through the medium of the press the recommendations made. -

From that time onward I have contributed many articles dealing with the various sections of the Bill, which, after numerous amendments, bas now passed into law..

When the Bill was before the Cound in the first stage, I was requested to assist the Com- mittee of the Chinese Commercial Union in

clauses in the Bill, and a Petition was sent to the Government praying for amendment

BOSTON TOW-BOAT, COMPANY. their efforts to point out the objectionable

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, VIA

SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TAČOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY,

Steamers. Toos. Captains. 1993.

8

Trimont*...... 9,606 1. W. Garlick... Mar. 28 Olympia 2,837 J. Tmebridge... April Tacoma 2,812 A. Dixon April 17

Steamers marked (*) have no passenger accommodation.

The attention of passengers is directed to the very cheap rates offered by this line to the Pacific Coast and to the Interior and Eastern Citier of the United Sinter and to Europa,

Special rates allowed to members of Govern ment Services.

Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and to the Principal Cities in the United States and Canada.

For fanther Information as to Freight or Passage, apply to

V

DODWELL, & CO., LIMITED,

General Agents.

(874d Hongkong, 31st March, 1903.

Insurances.”

#STRONGEST IN THE WORLD.” Take

Equitable Life Assurance, All

Contracts

Have Loan and Cash Values and Embrace all good features of Rival Companies, The Standing, Strength and Stability of the Company is inquestioned. For Rates or Information, Call on or

Address

F. KIZNE,

14, Des Voeux Road.

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE Undersigned God to accept. First AGENTS of the above Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at Current Rates, an

DESIEMSSEN & CO.

∙Las! Hongkong, sh May, 1891.

The present Public Health and Buildings Ordinarice is in part the result of our labours and, in my opinion no better. Ordinance, under the circumstances, could have been enacted,

It is always easy to make suggestions but sometimes very difficult to carry them out.

As in this Colony three-fourths of our inha bitants are composed of the lower class of Chinese, surrounded by conditions of a very exceptional character, owing to their habits of life, can plainly see that the principal factors to a successful" sanitary administration, are firmness, kindness, great tect and the enlist.

sent of public sympathy.

As I have stated above, this is my native place and are likely to retain so until home. All my interests are centred here and the end of my days.

am a self-made sian, and believe I enjoy

to no inconsiderable extent the confidence of most of the leading Chinese landowners in this Colony, Should I be elected, dependent as I am entirely on the prosperity of this place, i shall devote all the time which the responsibili ties of my office may demand, for I fully appre ciate the importance of those responsibilities.

tion,

The health of this Colony constitutan they foundation of its wealth and, I will do nji utmost to assist in strengthening that foundar

Yours faithfully,

AHMET RUMJAHN, Hongkong, 33rd March, 1903, - [3040

F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSION

AGENTS,

PRAYA CENTRAL HONGKONG, SOAP MANUFACTURERS,

SOLE AGENTS FOR-

HARTMANN'S RAHTIEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION, RED HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR® LAUNCHES,

&C.,

&CH

Sela Agents for... FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM

P. & O,

SPECIAL

SCOTCH

WHISKY LICENS EVERY KIND OFSEN SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES

ZALWAYS IN STOCK VE REASONABLE PRICES.

Hongkong, 14th May, xlab