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TELEGRAMS

* HONGKONG TELEGRAPH".

SERVICE.

Opium for China. (Frain. Our Correspondent)

BOMBAY, 27th August. The P. & O. Steam Navigation Company's mail steamer left Bombay yesterday afternoon with about 1,500 cheats of Malwa opium. The prices of best drug, are :—

Alalwa (New! ...Rs. 1,280'

(Old) ,,:-1,370 (Oldest) 1,470

(Reuters.)

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The Export of Arms to China.

LONDON, 25th August, An Imperial decree issued in Berlin re- moves the prohibition on the export of arms and war material to China.

The Late Lord salisbury, The late Lord Salisbury will be interred privately in the family burial ground. On the 31st inst., there will be a memorial service at Westminster Abbey,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903.

labour, why it not the Government declare

at once that the employment of it was a policy to which they were nverse and to which they would not coasen!? If they did that, they would give great relief to the sentiment of the two Colonies; and he believed the Government could render no greater service to the new Colonies than to hold decisive and intelligible language on the subject. (Cheers.)

ABACA: THE PHILIPPINE

-STAPLE INDUSTRY.

(Specially written for the "Hongkong Telegraph")

None of the colonies proposed to adhere to the Convention.

Mr. Lough asked whether, seeing that under

provided that no preference will be granted in ite United Kingdom to colonial sugar as

that the vaine of the imports of sugar last year "gainst sugar from the contracting states during the continuance of the Convention, and seeing exceeded twenty millions, the Government intend, in connection with their new fiscal in bake any steps that may enable them to modify this arrangement,

Mr. Chamberlain said the hoo, member must be aware that the Government were bound by the obligation of the Sugar Convention for five years from September i next,

Replying to a further question from Ma Lough, Mr. Chamberlain said that no bounty, d-rect or indirect, would be granted in any Crown Colony after September i next.

Mr. Laugh asked whether there were any bounties in existence which had to be sup- pressed.

Mr. Chamberlain : No, sir.

The above mode requires more power than the | ARÜSSELS SUGAR CONVENTION: average Filipino is able or willing to exercise; for especially the outer layers are extremely. hard and the stripping requires no little power. Mr. Lough asked the Colonial Secretary whe In the House of Commons on the 21st ult, The petioles once loosened are split and turn in strips of two to four inches in width and every

ther, under Article XI, the Brussels Sugar thing is then ready for the decortication. For

Conventionibus now been laid before all the Hongkong, 26th August, 1903. the latter the Filipino constructs a rough kind

Colonics in order that they may have an op- Every fortnight the Hongkong Telegraph in of machinery consisting chiefly of a heavy portunity of expressing their adhesion to the

Convention.. a market report dated from Manila gives wooden block with the blade of a knife firmly Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of his reply.

Mr. Chamberlain said the article had been said I assume, Mr, Speaker, that 1 shall be in regular quotations of sugar and hemp, two fixed parallel to the surface and a frame, carry-Inid before the colonies on April 2, 1937. order is calling attention, to the fact that the staple products of the Philippine islands, which, ing another blade parallel to the block. The Colonial Council represents both races in the

with tobacco and cigars, form the bulk of the frame is kept up by a system of rough wonden Transvaal, and I believe is thoroughly repre-export of this fertile archipelago. Being little levers which can be pressed down with the sentative of every interest in the two Colonies. acquainted with the statistics of the last years, foot of the worker so far that the two blades Article 11 of the Brussels Canvention it is It passed a resolution to the effect that, in the the writer of this sketch does not know if to have only as much distance as the scraping re- opinion of the Colonies, it was undesirable that bacco, or hemp, must be considered the mainquires. Often the upper blade alone is used and Kafirs who had no objection to underground product of this new colony. Both can boast the fibre pulled through between the blade and that may be required. in connection with the dollars, and both give work and substantial and only fix a knife with blows in a sloping labour should be taken for the superficial labour of annual crops valued at many millions of the block. thers dispense with this apparatus railways. That appears to me to be a perfectly earnings to many thousands-pay, to hundreds position on the block. The strips of abacá reasonable vie and i see no reason why effect of thousands-of families. King sugar comes

are then simply pulled through the sharp angle should not be given to it. I think it would be only a bad third. In 1897 the hemp crop between the knife and the block. The strips a grievous mistake in policy, and would be reached a total of more than 100,000 tons, and

in this case are less broad. The repeated fatid to the prosperity of the country, if we were with the exception of the time of the American pulling through the pressing knives very soon suddenly to create a new and tempting demand war the yearly production certainly has not removes the parenchym which binds the fibre, for the labour of the Kaffir which wouli suit decreased, as ever since the article got known and the latter appears in long white or yel- more than has already been done lower the on the European market, the demand for Manila | lowish strings with a soft silky hue. As soon produce of this great industry. Now, in order hemp as well as the price paid for it have been as the greater part of the strip is cleaned, this that the development may proceed at the great steadily increasing.

part is rolled on a stick and the other half During the three manths since the writer ar- est possible rate, Lord Milner has applied to,

pulled through the knives. Then the fibre is me, saying, “We are thinking of employing ived in Hongkong, the lowest price quoted unrolled. The labourer whips it a few times for Manda hemp in the Hongfang Telegraph | round a pole or a tree, in order to remove small coolies on the railway. Will you represent to the Indian Government our desite in that re- was £32. 10. free on board in Manila: adhering particles and the hemp is hung over spect, and use your influence to induce their Te-day's quotation (Wednesday, August 20) sticks to dry in the sun. In two to three hours consent?" It was an assent to a proposal

was £34 49. 6d. per toù, 100,005 tons of this the drying is complete and the fibre has been reduced to half its fresh weight. Then it is which the Indian Government has already staple, therefore, represent a value of more accepted with regard to Natal-namely, that han gå millions sterling at Manila and very the conles should come for a given period, nearly, if not more, han four millions in India that the balance of their pay, should that their indentures should expire in

London, which, next to New York and Boston, is the principal market for this ankle. A be given to them in India so that they product, which puts such enormous sums of could not be permanent residents, and they money in ci-culation, may well he worth more would not remain in the South African sub-notice than is given to it at present by the The "America" Cup. continent, but would return to their native business community of Hong? ong, where not

country with their savings in their pockets. It withstanding the close proximity to the land The Reliance won the second race.

as believed by Natal at was the best way of of producties, little more than the name of The course was a triangular one of thirty securing the labour required for, sugar estales "Manila hemp" is generally known. And yet there is not a steamier or a ship in the mites; the wind at the start was seven knots and other work without introducing a perman-

ent populat on of Asiatic and that a, reginent harbour, which has not several hundred but variable; the Reliance crossed the start

dollars' worth of cables and ropes on board, has been assented to by buth sides'; and 1 do ing line 84 seconds ahead, leading by anot suppose the right hon. gentlemen would manufactured partially or entirely from Manila quarter of a inile, which was gradually in- ask me to make any protest, even if he disap-henip, and the prosperity of a large local com-

proval, in the case of a self-governing Colony, pan, the Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., creased till after the second mark she led Why am I to make a protest against it because greatly depends on the facility of procuring the by if miles. In running home, the Sham the Transvaal is not a self-governing Colony, costly fibre in sufficient quantity and at reason-

able price rock gained considerably, but the Reliance because it is a Crown Colony? I have ex-

plained the policy that, so long as I am in my The high figure of the latter and the com- pamtive scarcity of the material have caused a won by 79 seconds, after deducting time present office, I intend to pursue. Unless a allowance.

tinctly Imperial interests concerned, I in- large admixture of sisal, New Zealand flax and tend to treat the Transvaal as if it were self.other fibre, lower in price than abacf in the guverning The right han gentleman drew cabra manufactured in Europe and in America, where these articles are more easily procurable an inference which be was really justified in drawing, that the correspondence to which be than here. The enormous length of the Manila referred between Lord Milaer and myself fibre, its great strength and fire glossy appear showed a difference between us. I do not

ance make it almost the ideal stuff for ropes. refer to it in that light in the least. I am No wonder, therefore, that its price is consider not certain Lord Milner is,not in entire ably higher (two or three pounds per ton) than About 4.cog foreign-drilled Chinese troops accord with me. kie did not know any objec even ramic, its only competitor in quality; arrived to-day, en route for the sent of the time, and he applied to me whether 1 had any

This applies only to current fair, the finer and rebelli n.

After taking in a few necessary objection and I said, as I said before, as I said more carefully selected sortings attain such stores, etc., they will proceed to the front when I was in South Africa, as i have said in unheard of prices as £80 to £100 per ton! Thirty to forty passenger boats and junks, this House-I have been perfectly consistent (Quitol, Lupis). towed by about twenty launches, were requisi-that before I assented to any introduction of tioned for their transport, and Wuchow has Asiatic labour, whether Chinese or Indian, into seldom seen such a procession as passed in

the Transvaal, I must have some reasonable front of the city. In-day. Quite a string of

WUCHOW NOTES

{From Our Correspondent)

LATER.

Wechow, 2 tri August.

THE, KWANGSI KEBELLION, DA

launches and junks, extending about three miles, wended their way along and the bugle calls from the different boats proclaimed their foreign training.

CRICKET MATCH.

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Abard, or Manila hemp, has nothing at all to do with the plant (cannabis) the fibreof which we are used to call "hemp." The Spaniards, who after the conquest of the Philippines, found the natives clad in rough clothes manu-

CUNARD SUBSIDY,

The British Governdent has now completed, the Press Association umietstunds, an import- which will shortly be submitted for the approval ant agreement with the Gward Company,

Parliament. of the shareholders at that company and of

There is good reason to believe that the Government to the company of a large sum- lerms arranged include the payment by the considerably over a million sterling-for the are to be the largest and fastest afloat.

construction of two additional steamers, which

rolled up in small strings and placed in a magazine until it can be shipped and transported to the packing press, if the producer does not possess such an instrument himself. This, however, is rarely the case. Very few of the pio OVER A MILLION FOR TWO NEW STEAMEÈS ducers possess their own grouŭd”. Those who own a few acres, on the strength of this possession, lead an indolent life, working only in a very moderate way, when the necessity of procuring food drives them to this desperate step. The average daily result is 25 lbs. of hemp per man, or a picul a week. Two good men can produce three piculs of hemp in a week. Occasionally, a day has to be set apart for cleaning the plantation, but the loss of time and work is only trifling. The price of a picul unt-1 recently was $10 to $20.50. [See quota- tions May to August, Hongkong Telegraph.] The actual price, in the new Philippine car- rency, is $19 equal to £2. 25.91d. The cost of shipping from the places of growth to Manila is trifling. 37 cenis to to cents per bale. No doubt, the hemp-grower could realize nearly Lz a picul if he were not a Filipino, ie, á careless and improvident being the type of a proletarian. As it is, he works only when his stomach admonishes him to make a start, or when he feels the need of a lule excitement, like betting at a cockfight, a love affair or an indulgence in unlimited palanewine or other delicacies.

Foreman (The Philippine Islands, Sampson, Łow Marston & Co. Ltd, London, 1890, and edition) thus amusingly describes the modus operandi of a Filipino abacá planter in sore nerd of a spree.

(To be continued)

THE LATE DR. MURRAY. of that it was a policy which the Trans- vaal, if they were a self-governing Colony, would approve. A regards Chinese labour, itfactured from abacd gave the latter the name of

Dr. J. Ivar Murray, late ci lonial surgeon of is really a premature question. The sight hon. cañamas (canabis, hemp) owing to its resem-

of Hongkong, whose death has taken place at gentleman relies up a these little paragraphs blance with the European article. On account Addison Mansions, was educated at the Univer Which he sees in the newspapers. I assure him of the silky appearance of good fihre the abaca A single innings, cricket match, Wuchow that unless you have before you the full inform (arbol de cañamas) has sometimes been calledsity of Edinburgh, and was admitted a licenti ale of the Royal College of Surgeons there in versus H.M.S. Sandfiber, w 5 brought to aaior, of which this is only the merest sum- the silktrec." But neither the product of the 1845 and a fellow in 18;6. Dr. Ivor Murray satisfactory conclusion, the Wuchow team,

was an Army Staff surgeon in the Crimen dur- which was exceptionally strong, winning by mary, you are extremely likely to be misted as silkworm nor the stem of the hemp plant has to the importance or char.cter of any move,

any relationship to the abard, which is simply ing the Russian War, and was afterwards seven wickets.

ment. At present, no suggestion of the kind the fibre piatticed front the stent of a wild

colonial surgeon, a magistrate, and inspector has been made to mé ar brought formaily or

banana tree (musa textilis) which in the Phi of hospitals at Hongkong from 1859 to 1870, ASIATIC LABOUR FOR SOUTH officially to the notice of the Transvaal Gov. lippines covers many thousands of square

e had held several public appointments in AFRICA.

niles. The fibre of this species is four times And it is certain that whatever may

Edinburgh and Scarborough, where he practis- be the objection to the employment of coolie

as strong as that of the ordinary banana. In

ed for some time. Dr. Murray had done con- | labour, the objection to the employment of other countries the cultivation of this banana

siderable literary work. He was the author of greater. (Hear, hear.)

crnment

second reading of South African Laan Bill, Chinese bour would be probably much has often been tried, but almost always without the "Catalogue Raisonné of the Military Sur-

In the course of the debate on the the House of Commons on the the 27th uk, Sit

William Harcourt asked for a definite Govern. ment statement with regard to the introd ction of Chinese labyar.

HONGKONG-CALE LYMPH SUPPLIES.

In the House of Commons on the 23rd July Mr. Weir asked the Secretary of State for the Calonies, seeing that there was a publle vaccine station at Hongkong, would he state why public vaccinators have to obtain supplies of calf lymph from Tong-King or Jap in 7

Mr. J. Chamberlain : I am not aware of it. M. Weir: Will the right hon. gentleman inquire?

Mr. Speaker: Ouder, order

There was a telegram, date i ♬ -hannesburg, July 4, which said that the Consul stationed there had received a cablugram bom Hong | kong containing a positve offer of 200,00 Chinese labourers to work in the mines for a termy of five years, the wages be 43 178. 6d. a month, food included. The cost of transport, it was said, was to be arranged by the Mining Mr. J. Chamberlain : I am not aware of the Companies, and deducted from the wages.necessity referred to by the lion, member. This offer had been submitted to the represent- Mr. Weir: Why has the vaccination station atives of the industry. The mine owners were ¦ heen closed? determined to force the British Government, if they could, to sanction the introduction of Chinese labour. They had discredited white labour, they had deprecated black irbour, and were insisting time after time on the importa tion of this Chinese Inbour. These telegrams were the gambling counters of the bulls and bears to galvanise the paralysed industry of ..the Kaffic Market. One man said to another, "At last the Gavemment are going to give way we are going to get Chinese chenp labour," and things might go up 16. If there was any doubt abon the matter next day, they Would go down (aughter.) In his api ion, it was time the Gwernment spoke out as to whether or not they were "against the introduc- tion of Chinese cleip labour.

tion of Asiatic Lab ur can aris. on this hil

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success.

gery Museum in Edinburgh University, and he had contributed to the pr. fessinal journals China"-L. & C. Express. papers on the "Meteorology and Climate of

THE INTERNATIONAL EX-

CHANGE QUESTION,

The Berlin correspondent of The Times in a

The plant requires two things, which even in tropical countries are very rarely found combined, viz, an average yearly temperature of about 30° Celsius (84 Fähren. heit) and a copious rainfall all the year round. Even in the Philippines only the eastern coast provinces south of Manila Julfill these requirements. The North and the West of the main island, Luzon, and several of the southern islands, which are in a less degree recent despatch states:-Since the members of visited by regular moist winds are entirely void of abaca. The plant, of which the stem has an Avera height of ten feet in Albay, the Cama- riñas, Marinduque, Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Sulu, etc. reaches only 1) to a feet in the west, where sometimes a drought of three to five months occurs. A few hours steam from the last named archipelago (Sulu islands) lies the Sandakan Bay (British Nerth Borneo) and up in date this is the only spot outside of the Philippine archipelago, where the succes ful growth of the tree on an extended plantation kbeen conclusively proved. French Indo- China, British India and the West Indies have been found either too dry or otherwise unfit to produce a good fibre tree.

In the House of Commons on the 23rd ult: Mr. Weir asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he was aware that the

The production of the fibre is extremely recommendations contained in the report of the experts who were deputed to visit Hongkong simple. The stem of masa textilis, like that of all other banana plants, consists of the for the purpose of inquiring into the sanitary condition of the colony had been only partially marrow, from the centre of which the new leaves bud, ad the surrounding layers of accepted by the Government of Hongkong; and, seeing that the recommendations had petioles, partially still carrying leaves and in her materially moslined in the Bill relating to part only forming the anter layers of the stem public health and buildings which was recently in pairs, almost in the same way as the onions passed by'ile Legislative Council, would hestate are formed. The cutermost layers are the whether the experts had an opportunity ofuldest, thickest and shortest; in fact, all that reporting as to how far the terms of the Bill would meet the difficulties on which they were orginally as ed to report.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

the American and Mexican commissions came ta Europe they have had conferences with re- presentatives of the British, French, and Dutch Governments in London and l'avis and at The Ungue. In all these capitals-and the same holds true of Berlin-the joint American and Mexican proposals met with an extremely favourable reception. In the British, French and Dutch capitals it was determined that the conferences should remain private and con- fidential; in Berlin their result was published through semi-official agencies. What they are endeavouring to secure is that in those coun- trics throughout the world which have a silver currency representing a total silver coinage of which is 300,000,003 souls, the attempt should $3,000,000,000, and the oggregate population of

be made to give stability to the silver currency by establishing a steady relation between its value and a gold standard, as his been done in British India. On behalf of Mexico, China, the Straits Seulements, the Federated Malay The 5 eaker: I do not see how the ques

States, Indo-China, and the Philippines, assur- Sir W. Han our said that it was a question

abces have already been given which exhibli wheiber or not the £5,0 0,000 for railway would

their entire readiness to contemplate measures uch as these which the American and Mexican be assquare, and whether or not they were to

remains from the decayed original leaves of

commissions are advocating There are, un- be worked by Chinese cheap habnur ft scented

the plant. Consequently, they give a shorter

doubtedly, certain difficulties un be overcome, "to him of consumare im, ostance that this

and coarser fibre than the inner petioles. The question should be set at rest in this country

and it would be necessary for China to provide Mr. J. Chamberlain; I am aware that the very shortest are scarcely used, although they hersell with gald deposits at home and abroad and a South Africa. The late Secntary had told them, in the case of the war, that they new Public Health and Buildings Ordinance of give a very valuable material for the manu

facture of paper. The marmw is thrown away

in-offler to establish and maintain a stable. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship Hongkong des not embody all the suggestions

silver currency. But the proposed system ex- ought to have great regard to the opinion of made by Professor Simpson and Mr. Chadwick; and the first layers round the marrow REC the Colonies. Well, in the New Zealand Legis

good fibre. The

pressly contemplates this necessity, and i is lature Mr. Seddon had been questioned in ard I am in correspondence with the Governor not consistent enough for

plant furnishes in average twelve to sixteen believed that there would be so serious diff- order to give the House an opportunity of upon the subject.

pelioles containing bemp of different strength deposits. The general conclusion is drawn culty in making arrangements for these gold -discussing and adopting a resolution protecting

and fineness. The hemp drawn from the exterior against the employment of Asiatic contracts of

petioles is coarser, stronger and darker coloured that while a country with a depreciated currency labour in the Hand, and Mr. Seddon had some

than that of the inner layers in epeh petiole tries with a gold standard, it obtains a constant is in a position to increase its exports to coun- doubt as to how far he could take that course

the middle part gives stronger and 'coarser. that it would put him in a delicate position, as, The desire has been generally expressed hemp than the overlapping sides. Insufficiently decreasing amount of foreign products in if the mines were self-governing. it would be that a monument to commemorate the great sorting, as well as careless treatment by the exchange, and thus incur an economic loss an enroachment. The impression Mr. Seddon and noble life work of the founder of the natives, gives a very unequal product. Syste- which is not balanced by the development in its export trade. The resolutions adopted at had come away from South Africa with was Polytechnic, the late Mr. Quintin Hogg,matical plantation work will furnish a product

the Berlin Conference, which L-am assured are that the mines were self-govering. Mr. Sed should be erected in close proximity to the which stands so much above the average native don said that the introduction of Asiatics would | Polytechnic. Thers, for many years he devot, drawn hemp, as the Assam and. Ceylon teas

substantially in agreement, with the view ex- make South Africans think that their sacrifices ed himself in the mic ests of all that conduced are above the leaves prepared by Chinese Pressed in the other capitals visited by the had been in vain. The introduction of Chinese to the social, educational, and religious welfare coolies without European supervision.

delegates. testify to a general belief that the interests of European countries with a gold labour, he added, was a signal failure under of the young men and women of London, and The petioles must at first be separated from standard which trade with silver countries ground. In view of these declarations and the where, in the midst of all his work, he died the stem. This is done in different ways. Some would be materially promoted by the establish- other facts, the sight hon. genteman, urged on the 17th January last.

split the whole stem in two or even four parts that the future social condition of the new

over the whole length and, after removing the ment and maintenance of stable silver curren Colonies would be ruined by the intraduction

marrow and the outer resis, force the layers as- of yellow labout, and said that the question was

under with wooden wedges shaped, round, like as urgent one. The Government had them

the layers others cut the stem at the bottom in selves raised this question as between the

a fisted shape and try to loosen the petioles by Colonial Secretary and Lord Milner, and un--

stamping the sharp edge on the ground, etc, less they made it perfectly, clear that they

Another method is, to strip the bast from the Were not going to commit the British nation in

undivided stem. · To effect this, the operator reference to these new Colonies to' this form”

mikes an oblique incision in the skin by the of labour, they would encourage the form of

unter "part of the stalk, drawing the knife gambling which was now going on, and enable

gradually to the tip and stripping off the whole people to be deluded more than they had been

lengthasbroad a piece as possible, and the opera already, to their injury and ruin, by hopes

tion repented as many times as practicable," being raised which never could be, fulfilled,

(F. Jagor, Travels in the Philippines, chap. If the feeling was so overwhelming against this

•"Chápmião' and' Häll, Piccadilly, 1875.)

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MEMORIAL TO THE LATE

MR. QUINTIN HOGG.

A site has been granted in Langham Place by the Borough Council, and Mr. George Frampton, RA, the eminent sculptor, has been asked to: submit designs for'n nionument. In order that all who admired the self-sacrifice and devotion of such a friend, to the young man hood of the country may have an opportunity of sharing in this memorial, it is proposed to raise a fonde 50,000 shillings.

There is in my an old member of the Poly in the Colony, and as subscriptions will, we under- stand, be also collected in Hongkong, Poly boys will be glad of the opportunity to sub- scribe to a permanent memorial to one whose work is so well known to them

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"BALLAARAT," FROM DOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-name vessel are hereby informed that their Goods ar being loaded and placed at their risk in the Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where each Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown consignment will be sorted out Mask by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo From London, &c., ex S.S. India, From Persian Gulf, ex B.I.S.N, and B. & F.

S. N. Co.'s Steamers. instructions are given to the contrary before Optional Goods will be Innded here unless

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Goods not cleared by the 3rd September, at 4 PAL, will be subject to rent.

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

MEMBERS of the Primrose League Habitations Damaged Packages must be left in the throughout the home counties are rejoicing at Godowns for examination by the Consignea's the appointment of the Duke of Marlborough and the Company's representative of an ap. as Under-Secretary for the Colonies. His pointed hour. Lordship and the Duchess have long been. All claims must be presented within ten days popular hosts at the celebrated garden parties of the steamer's arrival here after which date held at Benhem. It may be noted, as an they cannot be recognised. interesting circumstance, that the wives of the No claims will be admitted after the Goods Colonial Secretary and the Under-Secretary have left the Godowns, and one for the Colonies are American ladies, Thể Duchess of Marlborough, as is well known, is

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E. A. HEWETT,

Hongkong, 27th August, 1003

"SAMBIA," Captain Schmidt, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice" to the contrary be given before Naon TO. DAY.

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

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 3rd September, will be subject to rent

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 3rd September, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 27th August, 1903.

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