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TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters).

Germany in China.

LONDON, 22nd April.

A German Asiatic Railway Company has

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1903.

·DRAINAGE CONTRACIO85.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.]

THE DELIVERY OF MAILS.

To vam Entrok or rue "Hoyduong ThayerATH."

"DEGENERACY AMONG "SIKHS.

THE GROUNDING OF THE STEAMER " VICTORIA,"

To-day's Advertisements.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. SUBSCRIPTION CUP AND SPOONS.

been incorporated in Berlin with a capital Ordinanca 1 of 1973:-Tsang in, 4, Queen's home by the Braai and had in consequence greatly from it through this prominence given favourable prospects of floating the steamer HERE will be a COMPETITION

of £500,000, to construct State Railways in China, the financing of which will be under- taken by the German Asiatic Bank and allied

establishments.

Military,

Five men of the Leinster Regiment have been sentenced to death at Pretoria for con- nection with a military riot on the 28th

March.

(N° C. Daily News.) A Military Appointment.

LONDON, 17th April. Major Gener. Williams Terence' Shone, C., D.5.0., 1 irector-General of Military. Works› in India, since got, has been appointed Inspector-General of Fortifications.

[Major-General W. T. Stone, C.B, last saw active service in China two years ago, when he was a Colonel, with the rank of Brigadier, on the staff of the relieving forces. Entering the Royal Fagincers in 1871 he was engaged in the Afghan war (1878-80), the Mahsond Wuzeeree Expedition (88 the Burmese Expedition (1885-87), where he won the D.5.0., the two Miranzi Expeditions of 1891 as Commanding Royal Engineer, and the Chitra! Relief Force (1895) as Commanding Royal Engineer of Cominunications. The last gained him the C.B.e has been four times mentioned in dis. patches and wears the Af,han, Burmese, and Chitral med ils.)

The King's Holiday Tour.

LONDON, 18th April. King Edward was present yesterday after

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At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board a letter was read from the Sanitary Surveyor, Mr. J. J. Bryan, recommending that the follow- ing contractors be approved by the Board to carry out drainnge works, under section 191, of

Road East; Foo Sik, 41, Pottinger Street; Lee Kee, 21, Wellington Street; Ngai Yung On, 8, Third Street; Tsang Tung, 41, Stanley Street; Lick Kee, 53, East Street; Li A Ping, 10, High Street; Wong Wan and Chan Lung, 61, Queen's Lin Wo, 3, Wyndham Street: Lung Cheng, 56, Wellin,ton Street; Wing Shing, 58, Stanley Street; Tsang Yung. 5, Sun Wai Lanc; Cheng Street; Him Tai, 81, Queen's Road East; Tam Kit Kee, 113, Third Street; and C. E. Warren & Co., 30, Des Voeux Road Central. The re- commendation was approved.

918, expected an important letter from called several times at the Post Office to see the mail notice board; but as no intimation of its arrival has been posted up, i took it for granted that the mail is overdue. Imagine my

The Sikh race which supplies the British Empire with so many soldiers and policemen is said to be degenerating with the times. The religion of the Sikhs which at the outset sprang from Hinduism but which diverged to warlike tenets, is now becoming induised founded on theistic principles about four hund. and losing its military spirit. The Sikh sect, red years ago, became in a short time, under the stress of Mabommedan persecution, a cal hatred of Islamism. After the conquest of the Punjab by the British, the necessity for exist, and since that time degeneration seems armed resistance against Moslems censed to

to have set in. Among the lower classes the

Road East; Kang On, 30, D'Aguilar Street: surprise when upon my return from tiffin at 3 warlike religious brotherhood fired with fanati- |

Hoi, 14, High Street; Hung Shing, 37, D'Aguilar

CHINA MUTUAL SIEAM NAVIGATION.

Before Mr. Justice Swinfen Edy, the matter of Dodwell v. Holl and others came on for

hearing. This was a summons which has been before his hardship on two previous occasions, asking the court to determine how a certain cash bonus of £25,003, pail by. Mr. Richard Durning Holt, of Liverpool, as compensation

p.m. the expected letter was lying on my office

desk.

HOPES OF FLOATING HER

The Yangtze Insurance Association has received a' telegram, stating that there are Victoria, provided the weather continues fine Lighter Co. have sent a tug with complete. for the next few days. The Taku Tug and wrecking gear to the stranded ship, and the Luyun is also proceeding to the wreck.

Commercial.

** TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

ornament, and I therefore ask leave to remind I suppose the big board is not there as an the supervisors of its existence and utility, or substituted ofd hands are at fault? can it be possible that the Chinese who have loss of the original warlike pursuits of the owing to the firmness of holders of the prin-

Yours faithfully,

J. M. R.

Hongkong, 24th April, 1903.

WATER RETURN.

Level and Storage of Water in Reservoirs on the 1st April.

LEVEL. 1902.

1903.

S overflow

> belo 239 below Fylan... overflow

140' 11" below) 36' 0" below Pokfulam.. £ overflow

overflow

E

above TO-MORROW, the 25th instant, commencing at 2.30 P.M.

RANGES-707 and Boo yards. Ten Shots and a Sighter at each Range.

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 24th April, 1901.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. PAQUEBOTS-Poste FrancaIS.

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The volume of business is still restricted. THE Company's Steamship

"TONKIN," cipal stocks. CHINA SUGARS bave to-day Captain Schmitz, will be despatched for EUROPE vin Ports of Call, TO-MORROW, in a simple reversion to linduism. Where again attracted attection...and have strong the 25th instant, at 5 o'clock is the afternoon.

Sikhs has resulted, or is likely to result,

the reversion to Hinduism occurs, there is a grave danger where the British Empire is con. cerned. We, who draw our levies from among the Sikhs, are proud of our Sikh regiments, and look upon them as the most soldier-like of all our native dependents, and we would be sorry to see the Sikhs lose their warlike tendencies. Where the tenets of Hinduism are imbibed, however, the characteristics of the Hindu race must, to some extent, be imbibed also, and there does seem good reason to fear that, if

buyers at Srio cash. HONGKONG FIRES are easier at $307.50 while CHINAS can be placed at $83. INDOS have buyers at $107.50 after ́

sales at Stc6.50 In Mining stocks no business

For Freight or Passage, apply to

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 24th April, 1904.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.

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has been done, although both RAUDS and JELENUS have advanced, the former to $975 and the latter $1.50. In spite of a reported: THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s Steamship large net profit for March-the record for the „first quarter of the current year—Docks are a shade lower at $216. HONGKONG LANDS have declined to $172 with no buyers and WEST POINTS to $54. Business in HONGKONG HOTELS was done at $150. CHINA BORNEOS

are unobtainable. WATKINS have buyers at $8, and Ices are quoted $240.

" BENGAL," FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named

to the employés, &c., of the Chian Mutual Wong-nai ·) 42' tof" below) 34' " below Sikhs continues, the effect upon enlistment have still further advanced and at St 1.25 shares Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each

cheong......overflow

S overflow

STORAGE GALLONS.

Tytam...............

Steam Navigation Company, Limited, which Mr. Holt had acqu fed, should be divided. Mr. Eve, K.C., s.id he appeared, with Mr. Whin- ney, for the directors of the company, who had Pokfulam........... issue the summons with reference to the dis-Wong-nei-cheong tribution of the £25,000. The directois prepared

a scheme for the division of the bonus ; £3,0.0 was set aside for expenses, leaving £23,000 available for distribution. Out of that it was

1001, 26,460,000

nil 293,000

the present degeneration of the religion of the

amongst the Sikhs will be very marked. It has rightly been the rule that religious questions 1903. 129,070,000

of every description should be avoided in the 2,400,000 administration of the Indian Empire, but, in 2,319 000 this particular instance, in view of the im

portance of the question involved, it does seem 133789,000

that.

a point might bestreiched, and some slight Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria official encouragement given to the study of the and Hill District during the month of March.

Sikh scriptures in the Punjab, in order that the

teachings, so admirably suited to the Sikhs as a warlike race, may not be lost.

Total......... 26,753,000

1902.

1903.

NATIVE OPIUM.

vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Gouds are landed. This vessel brings on Cargo:-

From London, &c., ex S.S. Oriental, From Australia, ex S.S. Australia. From Persian Gulf, ez B.I.S.N, and B. & P.

S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless

The people of Tonkin largely depend for their supplies of opium on importations of that drug from Yunnan where it is extensively instructions are given to the contrary before grown and is sold much cheaper than the

noon at a Polo Match between the Army and proposed to pay 11,260 10 the officials and Consumption....39,468,000 64,786,000 gallons elevating and even ennobling tendency of those Indian article. The export output of the drug

Navy at Malta.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.

In connection with Mr. Rumjahn's propost. tion at the Sanitary Board meeting regarding the amendment of sub-section 51 of section 6 of the Public Health Ordinance, the following discussion, in addition to that appearing in our issuc last evening, ensued :—--

In proposing the resolution Mr. Rumjalis contended that roams such as dining-rooms, accountants' rooms, which are found in Chinese shops and hongs, and also rooms used as offices which did not open into the external air and were not used as sleeping places, must be removed. The definition of a room, he said,

Was

employés and the balance, £10,720, among the directors. Exception was taken by Mr. Nelson and those who support d him to the distribu. tion of any portion of the fund among the directors, and, accordingly, the directors took oct

this summon, asking whether they were justified in exercising the discretion reposed in them by the agreement between Mr. Holt and the shareholders by distributing the money in the manner proposed. When the summons came before his lordship in Novem-

ber, last it was arranged that there should be a general meeting of the company. The meeting in November last it was arranged that there should be a general meeting of the com- pany. The fheeting was held on December 18, when a resolution was passed approving of the directors' proposal, and all the employés had accepted the £11,280 in full satisfaction. That left 10720 still to be disposed of, and Mr. Nelson, representing the opposition, tonk thic

218,000 213,000

Estimated po pulation.... Consumption)

per head per 5.9

9.6 gallons day............. Intermittent supply in force during March of both years.

7,164,00 gallons supplied from other sources than reservoirs during March, 1902, giving a supply of 7 gallons per head per day from all

sources.

during the month of March.

Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula

1952.

$$,202

1903.

61,000

BOVRIL AND HISTORY.

in Yunnan is expected to be short this year. This means scarcity of the article in Tonkin and an increase in price followed by a check to consumption with disastrous results to the

revenue.

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EXCHANGE.

1'74

Bank Bills, on demand...1/7 13/16 Credits, 4 months' sight .......................18

(demand) D'ments 4 months' sight...1/8

ON BERLIN, ON PARIS, Bank Bills, on demand........ 2.073 ON NEW YORK, Bank Bills, on demand...4o

Credits, 4 months' sight......2.11†

Credits, 30 days' sight..... ON BOMBAY, Telegraphic Transfer...

On demand.......

40

123h

.5237

..nom. .201 $12 co .62.60 .234

ON SHANGHAI, Telegraphic Transfer.........72 Private 30 days' sight ON YOKOHAMA, T.T. Sovereigns, Bank's Buying Rate... Gold Leaf 100 touch, per tal ... Bar Silver.....

Bovril has been playing a very important] ON LONDON, Telegraphic Transfer...... part in British history during the past few months, and it seems as if no event of any great importance can happen without this popular nourishment having some part therein. The recent attempts to swim the English Channelby Messrs. Holbeing and Holmes have attracted Consumption.... 8,477,000 13,043,000 gallons all over the world. The English papers, in considerable attention among aquatic athletes

Estimated po-

giving particulars of the training and diet of pulation.....

the swimmers, especially mentioned the fact Consumption)

per head per

that Bovril, formed as important part of their day..........

nourishment, taken while in preparation, when The Government Analyst reports that the in the water, and as a restorative as soon as water is of excellent quality.

they came out. Another thrilling story comes W. CHATHAM, from England of five men imprisoned in a coal Water Authority.

inize in the Forest of Dean for five days with- out food. When reached by the explorers,

the same food formed their principal nourish- ment when they were brought in safety above gr.und. During the recent Royal procession through London, the crew of the Terrible ware

رگاه گرد

6.9 gallons

not bound up with the definition of a domestic building. Under sub-section 22 of section 6, buildings such as Prine's Buildings, and the blocks of buildings between the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and the Hongkong Hotel and the blocks of buildings between Wyndham Street and Duddell Street amendment to that effect at the meeting but NARROW ESCAPE OF SHANGHAI | Bovril was at once banded down to them, and

came within the definition of domestic buildings because they were adapted to be used for domestic buildings although they were used as offices, and more than two caretakers passed all night there. Of course, it was not desired that Government should be asked to amend the Ordinance at once; an opportunity might be found when other amendments came up.

The motion was seconded by Mr. Lau Chu Pak.

view that this ought not to be distributed among the directars, but ought to be divided among the shareholders. He proposed an the vice-chairman (Mr. J. A. Maitland), who was in the chair, declined to accept it, and Mr.

Nelson now alleged that the meeting was irregular, and the resolution approving of the directors proposals invalid, because the amendment he proposed was not put to the meeting.

Mr. Macnagluten, K.C., appearing with Mr. Pearman for Mr. Netson, said that the meeting was altogether irregular. The real crux of the maller was that the amendment which Mr. Nelson wished submitted to the meeting was declined by the chairman. If the amendment was one which could pr. perly be put, the re sult was that the meeting was altogether invalid and that any resolution passed was invalid.

His Lordship said at present his view was that he could not sanction the directors dividing the fund, if the old shareholders claimed it að-

The President proposed as an amendment that the Board do not take action with regard to these offices and accountants' rooms or other offices that Mr. Rumjaha referred to. It was not advisable, he thought, to make'an amend- ment of the Ordinance at this early stage. If they recollected, the Board passed some Memoranda on 15th March, 1500, in connection with the enforcement of the Insanitary Pro- parties Ordinance, providing that it should not. be necessary for the Board to take action inversely to the company; but he must put them regard to existing " ping-pong shops," which

on terms of bringing an action at once. He were pracically accountants' rooms. He moved

would give Mr. Nelson ten days to consider that in the cases mentioned by Mr. Rumjahn the matter, and let it stand over for a fortnight. they take no action.

Then he should require him to give an under- taking to bring an action, and prosecute it at once, or he should deal with it on the footing

Mr. Fung Wa Chan seconded, and said that as long as the Board did not take any action in

such cases he saw no objection.

Mr. Rumjaha pointed out thit the Insanitary Properties Ordinance was repealed by the new Ordinance and consequently any bye-laws made under the former would have on effect.

The President-That is not a bye-law. M. Fung Wa Chun-It is a concession. Mr President-Simply a concession. Mr. Polluck inrught it was somewhat irre- gular for the Board to say they would not take action under any circumstances in any case which fell under the notice of the Board.

The Pr.sident said it was only intended not to take action with regard to offices and ac countants' rooms.

Mr. Pollock thought they should not pass n res lution binding themselves not to take action in any such cases, if they had power m take act on by law.

Me Fung Wa Chun-But we can move e concession.

On the motion of the President, the Board went into committee to “consider the Me moranda referred to

that the money was not claimablc.

Mr. Macnaghton said Mr. Nelson was only like to consult the other shareholders. a representative shareholder, and he would

His Lordship said he would adjourn the matter for a fortnight, and meanwhile Mr. Nelson would have to consider whether he would bring an action at once insisting on the legal right of the former shareholde s 18.claim the ninney for division among themselves.

The matter stood over accordingly.

FIRES IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT:

Shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday Inspector Collet, in charge of No 2 Police Station, was informed that an outbreak of fire had occurred in wanchai Road at one of Messrs. Chai Lung's bakeries. The manual engine and hoses were manned, but considerable damage was done to a large quantity of flour, and biscuits stored in the premises. The two adjoining houses, Nes, toy and 109, were charred by the flames. Damage to the extent of $1,000 was done. The premises were insured with a Chinese firm for $4000. The outbreak was caused by paper being ignited while biscuit t'ns were being soldered.

PILOT BOAT.

While the pilot schooner Tele Star was

riding at anchor off the Yangtze last Friday morning, she was run into by a Norwegian steamer and only saved from total destruction by the prompt action of those aboard, consist ing of four pilots and the crew. According to the W. C. Daily News, it is only about a month since one of the schooners (No. 9) was run down by a Japanese steamer on a clear moon- light night, going to the bottom in one minute and a half, and the pilots and crew having a narrow escape from drowning.

REPORTED NAVAL BASE

NEAR CAPE VARELLA.

supplied with hot Bovril after their journey up from Portsmouth. Finally, Bovril helped J. Butler to accomplish his recent record walk from London to Brighton and back. Butler did the 14 miles in 21hts, 36min. 37sec. “Itrained

on Lovril," writes the hero of this feat; " and it was the chief diet during my walk. I am well satisfied with the result." And well he may be.

THE ADMIRALTY DOCK.

QPIUM QUOTATIONS. To-day's quotations are as follows :-

MALWA NEW

11

14

LAST YEAR OLDEST PATNA NEW. BENARES NEW PERSIAN (PAPER)..

Per chest $970/980

(1·1,020

@ 1,070/1,100

@ 1,025

@ 1,005

@nominal

To-day's Advertisements.

OCCIDENTAL

HOTEL,

(LATE QUEEN'S)

ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON,

HE Undersigned has the pleasure to THE

Aonounce that, having inade à favourable. lease with the proprietor of the QUEEN'S The London and China Express of the 27th HOTEL, will open same on the FIRST of MAY ult, states:-

under the Name of the

Wires from Hongkong report the formation of a committee of representatives of commer- The Governor-General of French Indo-China cial firms to consider the advisability of is said to be bent on carrying out a scheme for petitioning the Imperial Government for the making Port Day t, a harbour near Cape transfer of the present Admiralty extension Varella, a great naval base. The Colony has works to another site. Certain difficulties already three ports admirably suited for the which will involve delay and greater expendi- purpose in Saigon, Haiphong, and Touran allture than was estimated have been encountered the contrary lies under the disadvantage of position the committee, with Sir Paul Chater in thickly inhabited sections. Port Dayat on in the work, and taking advantage of this

being in a thinly peopled and broken country as chairman, has been formed. The sug- For all that its geographical and strategical gestion is that the whole naval establishment importance is such that optimists fancy it to should be removed from the centre of the be easy to build there a stronghold-the city to a better site, which, it is claimed, will allow of concentration and expansion and lead to greater efficiency and economy. It is

Gibraltar of the China Sea.

HONGKONG PASSENGER

MISSING.

also claimed that the removal to another site will be to the benefit of both the naval author.

ities and the public. The wants and require When the Japanese mail steamship Tambaments of the dockyard at Hongkong have Maru arrived in the Thames on the evening of grown enormously of late years, and simultane- the 24h ult. the captain reported that one of ously the population and business requirements have increased in like degree. The transfer the passengers, an English gentleman, was missing. The gentleman in question, whose therefore would be mutual, and as, presumably, the sale of the present site would compensate name was entered as W. Simpson, shipped at

for the whole cost of removal, and even Hongkong, and was proceeding to London. For some time he had suffered from insomnia. iniprovement, elsewhere, there is at least a About a week ago, while the vessel was passing prima facie case for thorough inquiry, missed by the steward, and although a search through the Mediterranean, Mr. Simpson was

was made throughout the vessel, his where- abouts could not be ascertained. The officers came to the conclusion that he had committed

suicide by jumping overboard. The L & C Expert opines that the deceased was manager of the Minerva Cigar Factory at Manila, where he had beea resident for some years.

Ou resuming Mr. Punjahn withdrew his motion on the understanding that no action be taken in the cases mentioned unless the Medical Officer of Health thought it necessary.

THEIR Majesties the King and Queen, held a Court on 20th ultimo at Buckingham Palace.

THERE arrived in the harbour late yesterday Amongst those invited on the present occasion. While F. C. Moore was at Praya East about afternoon, two Russian torpedo boats Grozova were the Japanese Minister, the Siamese Mi 11.30 p.m. yesterday he observed that the in- and Wartner, from Saigon. These vessels, ni ter, Mr. Frederick Verney, her Highness the mates of No. 129 were greatly excited and which are also part of the fleet under Admiral Rance of Sarawak, and Bic. and Mrs. R. B. found that some wood work in a cubicle on Stackelberg, are of 312 tons each, and were Marta. Amongst those presented were Mrs the ground floor was alight. Seizing a blanket built quite recently. They are estimated to De Wind, by her Highness the Rance of Sare and obtaining water be extinguished the have a speed of 30 knots, and are armed with wak; Mrs. J.J, Bell-living, by Mrs. Bernard flames Damage was done to the extent of : 4 six-pounders, and two torpedo tubes. After Miss Kate Jackson, by Lady Jackson; and 5 The slight outbreak was due to the in coaling, they will proceed to Port Arthur to Miss Evelyn Stringer, by Mrs Sitinger. mates "jois pidgining,”

foin the Russian Pacific Squadron.

SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER-

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G. Gimult

FRENCH INTERVENTION IN

KWANGSI.

"OCCIDENTAL.'

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It will be conducted as a First Class Residen- tial and Tourist Hotel, having every facility to assure comforts to gueals.

The BED-ROOMS are excellently furnished,

and will be kept scrupulously clean and neat. Each room has its own private bath.

The DINING Room and Cuisine will have

routine of the average Hongkong dinner will strict attention, and many changes from the

be inaugurated.

The WINE LIST and Bar will have a chnice

selection of European and American Wines, Spirits and Bears.

The BAR will be conducted on the American principle; the foremost feature of which will

be the

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4 P.M., TO-DAY,

Goods not cleared by the 1st May, at 4 P.M. will be subject to rent.

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

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap- painted hour.

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere after which date

they cannot be, recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.

E. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent,

Hnagknag, 24th April, 1903

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

NOTICE.

CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

"AMERICA MARU,"

The above Steamer having arrived, Gon 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.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense,

E. W. TILDEN, Agent.

Hongkong, 24th April, 1003

to

AMERICAN ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.

*HE Steamship T

"BENARTY,"

Captain J. D. Sarchet, 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 30th instant will be sub- ject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th instant, at 7.30 PM. No Fire Insurance has been effected. luis of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 24th April, 1903.

[$18 "BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S.BENMOHR," FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

Cinformed that all Goods are being landed

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company,

delivery may be obtained.

FREE LUNCH COUNTER,Limited, wince and/or from the wharves provided with all the fresh nic-ancs that the market affords.

The Bar contains two English Billiard tables, and ONE AMERICAN POOL TABLE, (the only public American Pool Table in the Colony).

The HOTEL will keep on file American, English and Manila Papers.

TERMS, etc, very reasonable; and special rates to Residenti can be bad on application to

JAS. D. M. CAMERON,

Manager. Hongkong, r8th April, 1913

have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde livered after the goth instant will be subject to rent.

No Clans will be admitted after the Goods

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 7th- May, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 30th instant, at 3 F.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected Bi is of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents: Hongkong, 24th April, 1903.

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THE HISTORY

Some confirmation is given to the rumours of French intervention on a large scale in the Chinese province of Kwangsi. by the fact that a force of 1,200 men, with guns and material, is under orders to embark for Haiphong on April 1, and that further reinforcements of all arms, to the number of 6,000 men, will be sent Of impaired and lost eyesight, cataracts and other diseased co 'ditions of the eyes is to Tang-King la the course of the next few generally associated with delay in getting first glasses, cheap spectacles, tramp spex, bung. week. According to an official explanation, ing of incompetents and the indiscriminate wearing of others discarded glasses. these movements are necessitated by the critical state of affairs in French Indo-China, where To last a life time. Keep them bealthy and enjoy comfortable and perfect vision to

ONLY ONE PAIR OF EYES brigandage and piracy is daily becoming worse, the greatest age by getting your glasses fitted by hut in well-informed circles this is admitted to be only an excuse for forwarding * large lofce

N LAZARUS, without attracting too much attention.z.&

all boat OPHTHALMIC OFTICIAN, CEN

WOF LONDON AND CALCUTTA Consulting Room: No. 16, Queen's Road Central Entrance through Mr. R. Houghton's Tailoring Establishment, neady opposite Hongkong Hotel

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