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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903.

OUR NEW REAR-ADMIRAL. The "King of Candia" as Rear-Admiral H. T. Grenfell, C.M.., was dubbed for the

decisive part he took in the Cretan troubles,

One more chance to buy a Kodak for $5 a good Kodak LeMenyan, 31, Des Voeux Road-Advt.

IT scenis that the recent fire on the s.s. I drawn at Singapore damaged rome 1,760 tans of China ten, gum, copal and sago Roux. The cargo has been landed at Tanjong Pagar for underwriters' survey, and all or the major. part will probably be sold by auction.

PASTOR MADRIE, a Chilian seaman, with no fixed abode, was charged at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon before. Mr. J. H. Kemp. for behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk on Queen's Road, night before inst. fle was sentenced to pay $ro, in default three week's hard labour.

AUGUST 27, 1903,

HERE is a piece of interesting though not par ticularly veracious news from an English paper Five young and prelty Chinese women are to publish the Canton Record, which will devote quite as much attention 10 politics and science as to fashions and title- tattle Although naturally largely devoted to the interests of the, Chinese ladies, it will not be exclusively a women's paper. The editor is a lady known as Mile. Chew Fi Hing, while the news editor bears the attractively phonetic title Ye Mae Duc. Miss See Moi Hing is to be city editor, and the special writers include the Misses Chung Ye Ching and Chin Sen Kio"

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public market ut Quarry Bay and it seems hardly fair to charge these people the full fee now exacled for such licences. I would there- fore suggest that these licences be renewed on the old system of fees. They might be pasted to the R. G. for his consideration.-(Sd) A. Gibson,...

C. V. S.-I have passed a minute by the R. G. relative to licences in the village to you, (sd.) G, A. Woodcock.

Secretary, These licences might now be issued on the old system.-(Sd.) A. Gibson.

The application was granted.

DASEMENT.

The following minule by the Acting Medical Officer of Health relative to the basement of No. 68, Bridges Street, was laid on table.

Mr. Carter-Please have the ground floor of 68, Bridges Street measured and say how many persons it will accommodate.-(Sd.) W. Pearse.

Acting M, O, H.- Depth. Greatest Width Height

No deductions.

43,0* *** 6.0"

Ar the International Anti-Alcoholic Confer ence, held in Bremen in a discussion on alcohol and tuberculosis, Dr. Legrain, Paris, said that alcoholism created a predisposition for infec MESSRS. Macmillan have s'arted a new series tion. It destroyed the nervous system, dimin. which, while its main appeal is special, cannolished its power of resistance, and delayed ur. fail to have a general interest as well. It is called prevented a cure. The eradication of alcoholism The Jewish Worthits Series, and will deal in

would be almost equivalent to the eradication a short way with the lives of notable Jews. The of tuberculosis. More should be spent upon first volume, by D. Yellin and 1. Abrahams, is combating predisposing causes, such as alcoho-basement bye-laws, Ordinance 1 of 1903 "—A.C. lisin, than upon sanitaria. Many medical men concerned with Maimonides.

No Yung, a shopkeeper, was charged at the Magistracy this morning before Air. T. Ser-

combe Smith, for having seven tons of coal in his house, reasonably suspected of having been stolen. Prisoner was defended by Mr. £,5. Holmes. The charge was established and he was fined $100 or three months' hard labour.

Framing, fancy an artistically done by Le- Munyun, 31, Des Voux Road,—sidvi.

on account of ill-health, retired not long since from his position as Second-in-Com- mand of the China Station and in doing so has brought to our shores a grandson of the great Admiral Howe of the "glorious First of June" fame, and one of the most popular officers of the British navy. His Excellency arrived by the P. & O, mail steamer Ballan- raf this afternoon. From the mail steamer Mk. Fisher Unwin announces for publication he at once proceeded by the Colonial Gov. A book that should arose asterest in these Colonial, eraient launch Pictoria to the Leviathan.days of keenness Rear-Admiral the Hon. Assheton Gore it is called Jamaica As It Ïs, and is writea by Curzon-Howe, cv.o., c..., c.mo., a cousin Miss B. Pullen-Burry. While some account of SCOTCH WHISKY of the Viceroy of India, left home on the the history of the island is given, the book is 24th ult, to succeed Rear-Admiral Grenfell, chiefly concerned with the present condition

of the country. having hauled down his flag as Second, -Command of the Channel Squadron. This has since been hoisted again in his

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Pronounced by connoisseurs to be the new capacity on board of the Leviathan,tralia have been asked by the Straits Trading a new first class armoured cruiser of 14,000 Company, Singapore, to ship one can of tin on tons displacement, which was commis-trial to the company's smelting works. It was sioned at Portsmouth on the 16th June by proposed to pay £84 net per ton for 63 per cent. ure, conditionally on the selling price. Captain the Hon. Walter G. Stopford, to being £135 per ton. replace the first-class cruiser Argonaut. The new Second-in-Command of the China squadron is a descendant, of the great Lord Howe, the anniversary of whose victory off Ushant was celebrated on the 1st June. Just fifty-three years old (he was born on August 10, 1850), he is a member of A. S. WATSON & Co., three British Orders, and a Commander of

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THE London correspondent of the Glasgow Herald, states that the Admiralty issued specifications for three armoured cruisers to be built in private yards, and machinery for a

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fourth to be built at Pembroke. The tenders were to be returned by the first week in August, which leaves builders an unusually short time to fill up the schedules. The cruisers are to the Legion of Honour, which was conferred || ve of the Duke of Edinburgh type. upon him and other officers at Algiers by President Loubet in April last, In the Navy List War and Meritorious Service Record he is mentioned as being First Lieutenant of the Becchante, farip bilg Captain of the Boadicea, as Chief of Staff served in the Naval Brigade landed under the command of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, x.c., CM.G. Commander- in-Chief on the East Indies Station, for the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu in East, Africa, October 1890; men- tioned in despatches; C. B. for this service (General Africa Medal Vitu, 8go, clasp); Asst. Director of Naval Intelligence, Aug. 29, 1891, to Oct. 8, 1892; Captain of the Cleopatra, received the thanks of the in- habitants of Bluefields, Nicaragua, 1894, for landing a party of seamen

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habitants, and thereby averting a ious and dangerous disturbance. It was generally felt that the prompt action of Capt. Curzon-Howe obviated an outbreak of Civil War in Nicaragua. C.M.G., January 1886, for special service rendered while engaged in the protection of the Newfound land Fisheries; Aide-de-Camp to the Queen July 6, 1899; Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron, Jane 5, C. V. O. on November 9, 1902.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Portuguese gunboat Diu went into Kow. loon dock to-day for the usual overhaul.

THERE was only one case-fatal-of plague reported to the Sanitary Board to-day.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC THE falian cruiser Puglia is due here shortly She will replace the Lombardia, which left DEPARTMENT.

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M. CUNIAC, President of the Colonial Council, in his opening address referring to indo-China finance said: "The character of our budget, bias nothing discouraging for us. We ought, un the contrary, to view the future with confidence, to foresee an era of prosperity always growing,

on the condition, however, that the general budget on which this burden rests, furnishes the means. A country seither improvises nor decrees its own prosperity, it is created by the successive efforts of capital and labour. Here as everywhere one must sow still more and longer, and to gain the full value of her Asian | Empire, France ought without doubt to con:

sent to fresh advances."

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THE inquiry into the collapse of a wall at Mui Kwai Lane was continued at the Magistracy this afternoon. Bir. Sercombe Smith visited the scene of the collapse and obtained samples of the mortar.-Cheung Yin, contractor, deposed

spoke in support of Dr. Legrain's views, some of them giving striking statistics as to the mortality from tuberculosis among publicans and the brewing trade. Professor Huppe, of prague, defended the moderate use of alcohol under certain conditions, but admitted that it was injurious for those who had to undertake great physical exertions. Dr. Deloruck gave some striking information with regard to the injurious effects of excessive beer drinking among the Germans.

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SANITARY BOARD.

MEETING THIS AFTERNOON.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held this afternoon in the Board Room. Present The President (Hon. Dr. J. M. Albinson, PC...O.), flon, W. Chatham, D.P.W.), Mr. Mel.. Messer, (Acting Registrá? General), Capt. Lyons, Acting C. S. P.), Col. Webb, R.A.M.C., lr. Abinet Rumjan, Mr. E. A. Hewelt, Mr. UI, E. Pollock, K.C., Mr. Fung Wa Chuo, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Dr. Pearse, Acting M. CH, Dr. Barnett, Assistant M. O. H., and Mr.. G. A. Woodcook, Secretary.

The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed.

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BACKYARDS.

The following correspondence relative to the provision of backyards for certain houses in Balkeley and Market Streets, was faid on

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Sanitary Board Office,

6th July, 1903. Gentlemen,-in reply to your letter dated 16th May last in respect of the above premises, I am directed to inform you that the Board approve of scheme No. 2 contained in your leuleren

the question of kitchen area must be sealed by the Building Authority. Plan in iixiled and returned herewith.—I have, &c.,

G. A. Woodcock, Secretary.

Messrs. Palmer & Turner,

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Floor area. CINT 752.6 Super fect.

Cubic Contents...10911.3 Cubic This is a basement, average depth of abut. ment about 8

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION, OM CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

It may not be generally known that, through" the indefatigable efforts of Mrs J, D. M. Cameron, of howloon, already, no less than one hundred and fifty-five members have been en- listed by her for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10 Animals in Hongkong, which will be formally established, under the presidency of His Excellency Sir Henry Blake G.C.M.G. to-morrow. It is not often that, in Hongkong, ladies take so active an interest in any public organization, and the example ist by Mrs. Cameron might, with advantage to the Colony, be emulated by others who could do much in their own sphere, ...

Our readers are reminded of the meeting- which takes place at the City Hall to-morrow, at 5 p.m., when the Governor will preside, With the object of the Society, we feel sure the whole Colony must be in sympathy, and the attendance at the meeting to-morrow after- noon should be one to demonstrate the truth that, in Hongkong, as much enthusiasm can be forthcoming in a movement such as that the Society has in view, as in any other wherein more material results are at stake.

This basement does not comply with the Bankruptcy proceedinG,

Secretary-A pernit cannot he granted to use this room for habitation.-W. Pearse. .

Secretary, Please circulate. The place might be used as a store or shop-J. M. Atkinson.

It was agreed to inform the owner that the basement can only be used for a stall.

BACKYARD."

The following application for exemption from the provision of a backyard at No. 13 Star, Street, and minutes relating thereto were tabled." Sir-Referring to your Nuisance Notice No. 381 addressed to Mr. D. S. Dady Burgor and to our conversation with your selfre the opening of areas at the above, we now forward you a plan shewing what your wishes we propuse to do to incet You will note that there of opening up of half of the kitchens will be reduced to rather less than 5 feet supers, Under the circums- tances of the case and seeing that this is a back lane about 8ft. Gin. wide at the back of these bouses we will ask you to be so good as

(4) Exempt No. 13 from opening half of the kitchen on account of its being a corner house. (4) Exempt Noa, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 providing an area of 50 feet for the kitchens upon condition of the open areas being provided as shown on plan. We aro, &c.

DENIS N, RAM & Ginns The Hon. W. Chatham, D.P.W. The M. O. H. minuted-I think exemption might be granted in the case of No. 13 as the ventilation and light is good. The lane at the side is only 13. 6′′; but there is also a street in front and a lane 8.5" in the rear and I do not think either the land at the side or in the rear is likely be, built over.

The exemption was granted.

PEAK HOTEL.

An application was made for permission to creet four water closets at the Peak Hotel,

The Director of Public Works minuted :-Is it to be inferred that all the risks mentioned in the A. M. O. H.'s minute are opecome by the system of removal by hand?

The Acting Registrar General minuted- Refuse.

It was agreed that the application stand over until the manager could be communicated with regarding the supply of water in the dry season. (Proceeding.)

WEI-HAIWEI.

Wei-hai-wei has perhaps been somewhat ba fortunate (the L. & C. Express observes), in so far as it has had to live down certain mis- conceptions that got woven around it as the result of the uncertainty its future destinies were to be shaped to. The public generally has probably written it down as a second Hongkong, 4th August, 1903. class watering place," an unjust estimate and Dear Sir,We enclose herewith plans shew-one that will take some time to wear down. It ing Nos. 19 and 85, Huikeley Street, 71 and 79, Market Street, unghom, and shall be obliged by your laying them before your Board for the purpose of obtaining exemption of the provi

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is perfectly true it is a very suitable and healthy watering place, and it is a "while man's country all the year round." As an additional feature in this direction a sulphur spring is being developed. But it has other more sterling qualities which should lead to sion of backyards. Each house abuts on a side

steady development of a more tangible nature, street of sa leet in width and has two good-sized that will be increased by the growth of com- windows to each floor on the side wall.munications both ashore and afloat. It has an

Yours, etc.

FALMER & TURNER.

G. A Woodcock Esq.,

Secretary, Sanitary Board. Dr. Pearse minuted Messrs. Palmer and Turner's letter is not quite correct. As the ground floor with one exception these corner. houses have one side window and one side door (not two windows). I think, however,

orderly and contended population, that for Chinese is fairly well off, an absence of serious crime and other recommendations. While the situation of Wei-hai wei does not seem to warrant the anticipation that it will become a second Hongkong, it possesses potentialities which, if fostered, ought to entitle it to a rank higher than the category into which it has been placed by the public. With the German Colony of Kiao-chow on one side, where every effort is being made to attract the trade of the Shan.

that the houses might be exempted as requestung Province by means of a railway system, ted on the ground that they are corner houses and fairly well lit and ventilated..

The exemption was granted.

HOUSE DRAINS.

The following application for permission to

THE LONGKONG, TRAMWAYS CONCESSION,

In the Supreme Court this morning His Lordship Sir William Goodman (Chief Justice). gave judgment on an application for a declara

on that Charles Vincent Smith be entitled to: the sum of $2,196.75 paid to Robert Showan, the credh.ors' assignee in: the bankruptcy of Williams Howell Forbes and another.

Mr. U. W. Luoker (of Messts. Deacon and Hastings) appeared and stated that he practi

Mr. Bruce cally represented both parties. Shepherd, fficial Receiver, was also presont, Mr. Looker said that whilst Mr. Shewan, the

Creditors' Assignee, was not prepared to forinally consent to the granting of the up plication he would not object to it, but would leave it to his Lordship to decide.

His Lordship-You practically appear for b.th sides then?

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Mr. Looker-Yes, your Lordship.: His Lordship-Well, I will make a note of that.

His Lordship said :-In this case I am asked for a declaration that one Charles Vincent Smith is entitled to the sum of $2,196.75 paid 10 Robert Shewan of Victoria, the creditors. assignee, in the bankruptcy of William Howell Forbes and another, by the Yangten Valley Syndicate, Lanted, and to all interest due therein, being money it was thought Mr. Forbes 20th March, go, made between the owners of was entitled to under an agreement dated the

the concession for building certain specified lines of tramway in the City of Victoria, and the sald syndicate as one of the concession holders, and to all other moneys and shares now payable or allotable to the said William Howell Forbes under the said agreement and for an order that Mr. Shewan should pay the said sum of $3,196.75 and such interest as aforesaid to Charles Vincent Smith-or to his solicitors. Mr. Charles Vincent Smith filed a long affidavit n support of this appucation and claims that, in attending meɩt- igs and otherwise acting as a promoter of the original Hongkong Tramways Company, Ltd., Mr. Forbes was unly acling on his "(Mr.' Smith's) behalf as bis representative during his absence from the Colony. He swears that he repaid to Mr. Forbes the money. Mr. Forbes was called upon, as a promoter, to pay in December, 1884, and that he, himself, att ided the meetings when he was in Hongkong. Fede userve that in section 3 of the Tramwajaze Ordian, cc, 1883, the name of Charles Vi cant Smith appears as one of our criginal prozsotézy, and it appears that when Mr. Forbes was ad- judicated backrupt in 1891, and filed the invad tory of his separate estate no mention was made of any interest in the Tramway Company, and none was at that time, I understand, claimed on his behall'by Mr. Shewan who was appointed creditors assignee. At that period Mr. Smith was in America, and though the New York branch of Russell & Co.'s firm was made bankrupt in America and one Henry

Hannah was appointed general assignee of the firm, it appears that Mr. Smith was no er personally, in his private capacity, mae Bankrupt, and that Mr. Hannah, acting under legal advice, accordingly made no claim in Mr. Smith's interest in his private capacity in the promotion of tramways in Hongkong, it appearing to Mr. Hannah that Mr. Smith's interest was paid for out of his own private money, As Mr. Williami Howell Forbes is dead the Court is deprived of the advantage of knowing what he would have said as to Mr. South's claim, but if he had beld any interest" in his own right instead of as representative of or agent or Mr. Smith it is probable it would have been disclosed in the inventory of his private estate, unless, indeed, in 1891 he supposed that any such interest was of no value and that the right under the Tramways' Ordinance of 1883 had expired, as nothing was being thea done towards building the tramways Nos, to 5. From the wording of the recital to Ordinance No. 9 of 1902, it is clear that the survivors of the original. promoters (of whom Mr. Smith was one) named in sect on 3 of the Tramways (rin under that 1883 Ordinance, and in view of the allegations contained in the affidavit of Mr. Charles Vincent Smith it appears to me that he has established o prima facie claim to the money, paid to Mr. Shewan under the impres sion that it forine, part of Mr. Forb s catate. As I understand from Mr Looker that he re presents: Mr.: Shewan as well as Mr Smith," and that Mr Skewan has no de ire as credi-" tors assignee to appear and formally oppose the application though he feels he cannot for malty content, preferring to leave it to the Court to decide, I make the declaration asked for in the petition and the order for payment, bot l'only allow such interest (if any) as has actually been earned by the money in Mr. Shewan's hands.

that he obtained the job to pull down the wall lemporarily construct the drains. of two houses this part of the world, though, its harbour,ance, claims in May, 1902, to have certain rights

The contract was sub-let to one Chung Hop Fuk He warned the men and told the fore man to remove the bricks from the second floor as soon as they came down from the wall. H examined the wall from both sides and did not think it dangerous. The mortar was very bad and the collapse was partly due to the great rain. He was not there at the time the wall fell Mr. Haggard said he was in charge of the buildings. Mr. Danby inspected them as casionally.

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS, Patrick for 20,000. They have made a good ACCORDING-to-home papers, the first stages of

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HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Boer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

FOR the fortnight ended the 24th inst.,,453 rats. were caught in Victoria and 145 in Kowloon of which II and 5, respectively, were infected. Foua celestials were paraded in a row at the Magistracy yesterday, to answer a charge of gambling in the street. They were fined $5 or fourteen days' hard labour each.

the work of erecting the national memorial the late Queen in front of Buckingham Palace and at the head of the Mall, is proceeding. smail army of worknem has already removel. the iron railings at the palace end of the Green paik, cut down a number of trees in the Mall cleared the upper end of the park of it shrubs and dammed with biue clay 'the upper end of: the orpainental lake, cutting off the part be yond the island near which the boathouse situate. These preparations give a good ide, of the extensive nature of the alterations in contemplation. The erection of the memoria statue will be accompanied by a striking change in the appearance of the palace and if the avenue leading to it. Where it is possible BEFORE Mr. T. Sercombe Smith at the Magisto spare the fine trees at the head of the Ma tracy this morning, Li Wong and Ho Yan were without interfering with the general lines" charged for stealing from Mr. Malahich the scheme this will be done. ›› Yamada, a passenger per sa. Hitachi Maru, ains Bank of England £5 notes, They were sentenced to six months' hard labour.on

Two months' hard labour was the sentenced passed upon a native this morning by Mr. T Sercombe Smith for stealing an iron shutter value $2, the property of the Robinson Piano

Fresh Kodak film, plenty of them, at LeMun you's, 31, Des Voeux Road-Advi

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in topics tropics- MIGUE

on Reclamation Marine Lot 63 with stoneware pipes in place of cast iron pipes, was laid on the table..

and with the Chinese port of Chefoo on the other, which has for many years been the rom mercial port and outlet of the trade of that province, it is easy to see that Wei-ba-wei has formidable difficulties against which to contend in its attempt to obtain share of the trade of which is the best in China north of Hongkong, and the fact that it is situated in the direct line of tride, are points in its favour. In alluding to these features we are perhaps wandering Hongkong, 14th August, 1903, away from the original idea under which, al Sir-With reference to my notice and plans the solicitation of China, we took the lease of the port on the same terms as those under which submitted fur proposed drainage of two new houses on Praya Reclamation of Marine Lot the Russians held Port Arthur. China, then induced us to enter into possession to show. 65, I have the honour to inform you that it is that she was not abandoned, and we went in not pussible, at present, to obtain in the Colony with the hope of implanting some lile back cast iron pipes. coated inside with Dr. Angus bone into the Government of Peking. Now

therefore apply

we are concerned with making the place a Smily's patent composition.

commercial success, and utilising its great that permission may be granted to construct health-giving properties for the benefit of the the drains with stoneware pipes at present. The

crews of the British Squadron in China, and for the foreign resident in Chloa.

owner will relay the drains with cast iron pipes when they can be obtained.—I have, &c.

"E. M. HAZELAND. The Secretary,

Sanitary Board.

The Director of Public Works minuted ¡~A

time limit should be fixed, say, six months

The application was granted.

SALE OF FRUIT.

GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGIST AT HONGKONG.

The following question was put in the. House of Commons on the 23rd ult. :- -

Mr. Weir; I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that it is the_practice of the Government Bacteriologist at Hongkong to demand a fee of $25 from private individuals for the examination of any

The Court then adjourned until next Thurs- day.Senden

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE American (Nippon Maru) zgih inst. Indian(Kumsang) 31st inst German (Klausschou) 1st prox. American (Siderin) 4th proxi Austrálian ( Chingla) 7ih prox. Canadian (Empress of Japan') &ti prox, American" (Coptic) 16th prox. »

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An application for a licence to sell fruit in respect of No. 429, Queen's Road West, and No. 12. Swałow Lane, was laid on the table,

The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon minutedbird or animal suspected of having d ed. of plague; and, if so, will arrangements be made cannot find the FF.I have seen the premises, for no fees to be charged by a public medical they are hardly very suitable. The Shek-10 8-fficer when plague is shown to be the cause sui market is quite near and there are vacant of death? Ligne de stalls there to which the applicant might be referred. EVER The application was refused.

SALE OF FOOD. Applications for licences to sell pork, fisli, and vegetables, eg at Nos. 15 and 38 Quarry Bay respectively were considered.

The following are the minutes! Secretary Mr. Chamberlain: Until I have the facts Attached are three licences for the sale of food | which the hon, gentleman has promised me 1 † this afternoon, and is expected here on Satursued

nily sold in a publié market. There is no

cannot say what course I shall take on day, 29th just,, at 3 p.m. teen datadi.

Mr... Chamberlain : I have no information, and shall be glad to receive privately from the hon, member the authority on which he makes the suggestion.*** ********

The S. T Co.'s... Wordlynis expected herein from Manila on or about goth instand fanato

The T. K. K, s... Nippon, Maru with maily; mai

left Shangbai for this port on Tuesday tre 25th inst at:rop.m. any warminster The C. C. S. S. Co.'s 1s. Lothian lest Mojjat to at noon on 26th inst., and; is due to arrive onla

Mr. Weir will supply it to the pt hon. gentleman. He has not answered the last part of my question,

A the morning, of the 31st instantial and 63 elucen

The TK. Ki so Resetta Mare left Manila

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