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TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters.)

Russia and Japan.

LONDON, 10th December.

The Times Tokio correspondent wires

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

CANTON NOTES. -

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CANTON, 11th December, ROBBERS.

RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA.

NEW, SYNDICATE.

DECEMBER 12, 1903.

THE ASSEMBLING ON THE DIET

In their report, dated 11th inst., Messis, Ben- jamin, Kelly and Potts state:

The slightly increased activity'in our market chronicled in our last report was unfortunately not sustained, and a smaller volume of business. has been transacted during the week under re- view. The principal stocks, however, still maintain their position.

The Ero Coton Spinning and Weaving

ordinary meeting of shareholders in Shanghai on the 21st instant, till which data the transfer books are closed

To-day's Advertisements.

THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED. Town Office and Depot: Wyndham Street. Kowloon Depot: 57, Elgin Road.

FARMS AT POKFOOLUMİ

In view of the approaching opening of the foth session of the Imperial Japanee Diet A veritable crusade is being carried on against

Tokio political circles are now somewhat the robbers in the Tong; Kun, distric.......... For

animated. The Diet is convoked for the 6th some years Tung Kon has been noted for the There has been so much and such continued: ›December and the opening ceremony will be ron at Chemulpo, M. Pavloff accompanied by blackmail ripe and left. If the demands were place in the construction in China of milways, other things, the election of a new President the Admiral had an audience with the Em-not complied with, houses and even villages for which concessions have been granted to (Speaker) vice the late Mr. K. Kataoka is an peror and, it is believed, renewed the protest were burned. This year things have been gel-British syndicates, that it is a slight consolation absorbing topic of the day. Mr. K. Kohno, of against the opening of Yongampho. It is ing worse. The local officials have complained to know that the lines from Shanghai to Nan-old high treason fame, and who now belongs declared that Japan is resolved not to yield again and again that their forces were by far out-king, and from Nanking northward, are actual to the Progressives, is the most influential an inch from her present moderate stand-numbered by the mothers. A few months ago the ly being surveyed; although it is not known candidate. The so-called neutrals and im

Vicerov gave orders to clean out the district of that the necessary capital for construction and perialists, who are virtually ministerialists, point.

all these rascals, The first move was to capture equipment has been raise. It is dishearten- eagerly, support Mr. Kohno with a view to the cause of all the trouble. This was the man ing to see that no progress is being made with preventing the coalition of the Progressives, known as Ma Wong Hoi, He was inken the Hongkong-Canton-line, for which a British † under Count Okuma, and the Seiyukai, former some months ago in a village not far from Shek Lung, called Shek Po.'. The villagers refused to give him up and the officer in charge of the search party ordered the village to be destroyed, About seven tenilis of the houses were burned

that, after the arrival of the Russian Squad- | 'number of hyndick ja it, The leaders levici | disappointment from the delay that has taken held by the Emperor a few days later. Among Company, Limited, has advertised its eighth is wholly under European Management

Lord Roberts' Retirement. Lord Roberts denies the rumours of his impending retirement.

LATER. Opening of the Jap1nese Diet. The Mikado, in opening the Dict, re; ferring to the situation, only said that his Ministers were now conducting with prudence and circumspection important international negotiations for the preservation of peace in the Far East and for Japan's rights and interests.

and two score and more of the villagers killed. Ma Wong Hoi was captured and son after beheaded. The officer is still it work with his so'diem. Fifty or sixty men have been taken, Nearly all of these are worthless characters

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syndicate has held the concession for some ly under Marquis Ito and now under Marquis years; and it is not pleasant to hear it stated, | Saionji, If the Seiyukai fail to espouse the as it is sometimes, that one of the reasons candidature of Mr. Kohno, the Progressives, for the delay is that the concessionnaires joined by some neutrals and imperialists, will re very much interested in the longkong, probably fórm a Ministerial party in the Diet Canton, and Macao Steambrat. Company with next session, but if the Seiyukai frankly vote which the proposed rallway would come into for Mr. Kohno, the case will be quite different serious competition.. It is refreshing to see the and the Progressives and the Seiyukai will rapid progress that the Germans have made conjointly present front to the Goverment.-N. with their Shantung Railway, while the Bet. C. D. New

and many of them robbers, ---Of these, twenty ginns are getting on with the Lu-Han line, and have been beheaded and upwards of twenty are undertaking new concessions, and the more have been sentenced death and will | French are intending to push on with their line be executed in a few days. As usual, in a raid | from Tongking into Yunnan. The English. like this, some innocents have had to suffer. speaking nations which boast of themselves as The villagers of Tung Kun love clan-fights and, | being in the van of enterprise and progress Level and Storage of Water in Reservoirs during the past three or four years, there have are, curiously enough, the most backward in on the 1st December.

WATER RETURS.

1701.

LEVEL.

1903.

2 to" below? everfion

+

971" below Tytam... 3 overflow

15′ 9′′ below) 13′ 24′′ below Pokfulam.

3 overflow

overflow. Wane-mai-2 38 belox). 16' 4" below cheong..... overflow

overflow

STORAGE GALLONS.

1901,

Tytam.......... 298,900,000

Pokfulam....

Wong-nei-rheong

32,560,000 1,057,000

been two or three hundred such fracas. Now | in railway work in China; for the Canton Han- These clans a e takir g advantage of the present | kow railway, of which no less than twelve miles opportunity to pay off old scores. Accusations were opened the other day, is now owned as to ...are being ́sen; in the officer by one village the m jority of its stock, by the Belgians.

against another and, almost without exception. the accused parties are arrested. Torture is applied and a number of persons have been

convicted and sentenced to death who are guilty of minor offences. They were forced by the torture to confess themselves guilty.

This week a nun ber of accusations were 1903. made against the village of Shui Wan, 307,725,000 suburb of Shek Lung, and as a result of 17,915,000 these a number of individuals have been 12,816,000

Arrested, and the officer. has had seventeen houses destroyed. The officer in command sends word in the elders of the village t hand over all the robbers. Sometimes the names of the parties wanted are given. Ir

Total 1337,517,000

358 456,003 Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria and Hill District during the month of November.

1903.

1902.

the request is not complied with, orders are.

Consumption... 67,835.000 119,670,000 gallons given to tear down and burn a certain number

Estimated po-

pulation....S

216,400

10.4

221,300

18.0

Consumption per head per

gallons day...... Intermittent supply in force during the whole of November 1902; constant supply dur. ing November, 1903.

Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula

during the month of November.

1902.

Consumption...15.933,000

Estimated po-

pulation...} 159,000

Consumption

per head per day...

9.0

1993. 13,465,000 gallons

64,900

6.9 gallons

The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.

W. CHATHAM,

Water Authority.

COUNT CASSINI ON MANCHURIA.

RUSHAN OUTSPOKENNESS.

A representative of the Revue Diplomatique bas had a conversation with Count Cassini, who was in Paris recently, in the course of which his Excellency made the following

remarks --

of houses. In this way the innocent suffer with the guilty, Heavy fines are also levied upon villages known to have harboured robbers or to have given food to them. One passage boat accused of having carries supplies for Ma Wong Hoi is now in difficulty, and the small sum of $20,000 is demanded for atonement for the offence. It is reported now that all the noted robbers have left the district and that it is safe to travel anywhere in Tung Kun. This is the usual method with these andits. When the chase gets too hot they go elsewhere and wait until it is safe to return.

LAUNCH OF A JAPANESE GUNBOAT

AT SHANGHAI.

The following details are to hand concerning

thy japanese river guabost Sumida, built by Messrs. Thornycroft in England, and put together by Messrs. Farntiam Boyd and. Co., which was successfully launched on the 5th inst. The Sumida' is 2 shallow-draught

We are glad, therefore, to learn from the. New York Sun that "a syndicate, which pro- poses a careful examination into the feasibility

of Chinese railway development on a large scale, has been incorporated in New Jersey, U. S. A, as the China Investment and Con- struction Company of America, capitalised at $1,000,000 (gold), on a blanket charter which gives it the power to own, operatej build, and scil railroads and docks, to own and operate afines, deal in real estate, conduct wharfage business, and manifold other things.

"A. W. Bash, who was instrumental in sec ring for the American China Development number of its concessions, is to make a thorough canvass of the situation and determine just what concessions can be obtained for the Chien Investment and Construction Company.

"Mr. Bash is now in China on this mission, and a report is expected in the late winter or spring. Until then no further plans will be made, and the decision whether the enterprise will be of a mining or railroad character, or will be a combination of both, will wait.

and Railway Company a

"Among the members of the syndicate are: Edwin Hawley, President of the Iowa Central Railroads Chinales J. Barney and Frederick Eldridge, President and Vice-President re sp-ctively of the Knickerbocker Trust Co. of New York; Thomas Oakes, formerly President of the Northern Railroad; J. W. Clise, -Pre- sident of the Washington Trust Co.; George H. Macy, the tea merchant; C. M. Hayes,

Robert Olipliant, and others."

Mr. A. W. Bash, who is once again visiting China as the representative of the China Invest ment and Construction Co of America, was

formerly a Collector of Cusioms in the United States; ban being a personal friend of the Hon. J. W. Fuster, who was counsel for China in the peace negotiations with Japan, he came with r Foster to China with

Men of wealth, position and influence in the world of finance, some of them personally interested in China and its welfare, are to be welcomed in an enterprise of this kind, be cause they are not going into it merely as pre- river gunboat and was built in England by moters, who will sell out to anybody when Meyers, Thronycroft in ten separate floatable they see a favourable chance, but as in- sections. She is 145ft, long, 25ft, broad and vestors, who are anxious at the same time with a load of 30 tons draws aft. of water. The to contribute their share of effort towards the hull is constructed of mild steel and the sides development of China. The existence of a above the water line-are of Harveyised steel. network of American and English railways in “Japan has decided not to have recourse to The sections which came out here on a Japahina would be one of the best safeguards of arme, peace is no longer threatened, there is nese steamer are bolted together with double the independence of the Empire, and one of reason to rejoice. In any case, the initiative frames. She has nine transverse water-tight the best obstacles to partition, and we can wel! of war will never come from the Russians, you bulkheads and a longtitudinal bulkhead in the understand the disappointment that intelligent may be sure of that. You see the japanese engine-room. The upper deck is supported by Chinese officials feel when they see the have great qualities to which Europe has lately steel columns, girders and cross bearers, suffici. American trunk line practically, transferred to rendered full homage. Have these compliently strong to enable guns to be fired and Belgium, and the English railways sticking in ments turned their heads, or having only been troops carried. There is a conning town on the the paper stage, quite recently admitted to the concert of the upper deck on top of which is a powerful search. Powers, do they display that turbulence and light. The steering gear consists of two rudders impatience peculiar to youth both in nations worked by two steam steering engines, one in and individuals? In any case, they seem to us the engine-room and the other on the upper to manifes! exaggerated activity. Their victory deck. She is fitted with two of Thornycroft's over China has developed in them a self-assur patent turbine-type propellers working in iubes, ance that might become dangerous if they did not She has two sets of double compound, surface listen to the advice of Ider nations.. But just try condensing engines to drive two propelers at and make the Japanese understand that their | campaign in China was, after all, only a promenade milit stre. On the other hand, this young people ardently desires territory for its su plus population. Although there is so much to be done in Formosa, they do not find It sufficient; they want other out'cis. That is the secret of their agitations. Our rights in Manchuria are unquestionable. We made the country. When I was in China it was full of bandits. The dregs of the neighbouring populations were concentrated there, and travelling was dangerous. Now, however, Although there is not as much security as in Paris and St. Petersburg, we can say in all truth that a vigilant police Is suppressing attempts on, life and property. It is civilisation that we have brought into the country, Does that mean that we intend to annex 117 Certainly not, but we have spent enormous sun

sums of money and enormous energy, we have great interests involved which we are bent on secur ing, and, at the same time, we want to reap the legitimate benefit of our efforts. That benefit will not

not be far ourselves only. The Powers that want to trade with Manchuria will to do so and thus to profit by the ich we have realised: They are fit that none of them, poless it

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THE BRITISH INDIA EMPIRE.

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

Banks. The improvement in Hongkong and Shanghai Banks has further developed and· shares are now quoted at $675. London wires

64 10/-. Nationals can be placed at $30.

Marine Insurances.-Unions are quiet at 450. China Traders can probably be obtained

at $17 ex the dividend of $4 paid on the 9th

instant..

have been disposed of at $310. China Fires Fire Insurances.-A few Hongkong Fires

remain dull at fyo.

Shipping-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats, have further advanced to $32, at which price shares have changed hands. Indo-Chinas are easier at $75. Douglas Stramships and China and Manilas are un- changed 'at quotations. Star Ferries have. improved and sales have been effected at $29 for the old, and $19 for the new shares: the closing rates are $30 and Sig respectively. Shell Transports have reacted to £1 1/6. Taku Tugs are offering át Tls. 36. Shanghai

THE Business and Working of the Company and Control, and everything possible is done to ensure Customers an absolutely clean and puro supply of Dairy Produce.

Fresh Milk, Cream, Cheese, Buiter, elc., House-fed Capons and Pork, S. A. SETH, Secretary.

J. WALKER, Manager.

Hangkong, rath December, 1993.

[14836

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned has received instructions

to Sell by

THE U

PUBLIC AUCTION,

on

MONDAY, the 14th December, 1903, at 3.30 P.M., of his SALES Rooms, DuDDELL STREET, A QUANTITY OF AMERICAN and SCOTCH WHISKIES, SHERRY, PORT, CLARET, BRANDY, HOCK, CHAMPAGNE, &c. &c.

TERMS-Cash on delivery,

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong. 12th Decamber. 1903 [14918

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW.

The London quotation for Hongkong Bank Tugs (ordinary) can be procured at The 524 THE Company's Steamship shares is wired out as £64, a drop of 105.

Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts courte- ously favour us with the following telegrams:

(1.) From Shanghai: "FARNHAM BOYDS have declared an interim dividend of Tis 5 per share.”

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(2.) From Singapore: "RAUD-The crush. ing (for four weeks) is 700 ounces smelted golê. from 2,800 tons stone." /

WEEKLY SHARE REPORT'S.

preference shares bave been guli at Tls. 47}, Refineries. Further sales of China Sugars are reported at Sto5.

Mining. Nothing doing. The result of the Novemb:r crushing at the Punjom Mines is 72 ources of smelted gold from goo tons of Swah ore. Shares are on offer at Sij. Chinese Engineerings are quoted in Shanghai at Tis. 5.80.

Docks, Wharves and 'Godowns-Hongkong and Whampoa Docks are weak at $205. Farnhams have dropped to Tls. 118, but shares can be placed at this figure. Hongkew Wharfs have also further declined, latest Messrs. Erich Georg & Co. write, under to- advices from the North giving the closing day's date, the following:--The business done quotation Tls. 195 buyers. Kowloon Wharts during the week under review has been compara-have continued to improve and are in demand tively small. Early in the week the market ruled at $93. very firm, and an advance in several stocks, principally Bank shares and Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves, was established; but with the exception of the latter stock the advance has not been maintained, although the general tone of the market is fairly healthy. The sterling demand rate on London is us. 8d., while the rates on Shanghai are the same as reported lasi,

Bank Shares-Hongkong and Shanghais rose to $500, but close quiet with a few shares

offering at $677; the London rate is 04.

Nationals unchanged.

Marine Insurance Shares.-Unions sold at

$487 and 5455 and have sellers at latter rate, Chida Traders are on offer at $57 ex the divid end of $4 per share paid on 9th instant. Other stocks under this heading unchanged.

Fire Insurance Shares.-A few Hongkongs sold and more shares are obtainable at $310. China's bave sellers at Sgo.

Shipping Shares.-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats sold at $324 to $324, closing quiet but steady at latter figure. Indo-Chings have ruled unsteady, but the closing quotation is 576 buyers; the latest quotation from the North is sales at Ti5, 54. China and Manila's and Douglases have not been mentioned this week. Shells are easier, and after sales at 23s. to 225. are on offer at latter rale. A fair business, has been done in Star Ferries, and sales are re- ported up to $30 for old and Sigh for new shares, the stock closing with sellers at $30 for old and buyers of new ones at $19.

Refineries-China Sugars have been done at Sto5, at which rate they close steady; there are sellers on time at equivalent rates. Luzons unchanged.

Mining Shares.--Without any transactions. The Hongkong Telegraph of 5th instant prints the general manager's report on the Raus Mines for the four weeks ended 7th: November. Docks, Wharves, and Godowns.-Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company shares have ruled quiet with sellers at $205, Honkong || and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company shares sold at improving rates, and at time of writing $93 has been offered and refused. New Amoy Dock shares are unchanged with sellers at $38. Farnhams have drop, ed in the North, but the latest quotation by wire is Tis. 1171 buyers; we just learn by wire from the North that an interim dividend of Tls. 5 has been declared, payable on zand instant. Shang hai du Hongkew Wharves, after rambling to Tis. 175, have buyers at Tis. 185.

Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hongkong Lands have been dealt in at $151, and are in further request. Shanghai Lands are inquired for at Tls. 104. West Points have found buyers at $52. Hongkong Hotels have hardened and there are inquiries for shares at $148. Humphreys Estates are wanted at $11, and China Providents have been placed at $91.

Cotton Mills. Ewos, after sales at Tis. 35, shares are on offer. The company is to pay a have gone up to Tls. 40, at which latter mte

dividend of Tls. 4 per share Internationals

are asked for at Tls. 25. There is no change in other stocks.

52.

Cigar Companies-Sumatras are firm at Tis.

. Miscellaneous.-Green island Cements have risen to $74) and there are buyers at the price. A. S. Watsons have again been done at $147. Electrics (old) have changed ownership at $12.35 and the new shares remain firm at $61. Hall and Holtz have been disposed of at $34. Langkats fell to Tis. 3071 during the week, but have since recovered to Tis. 3to and business has been transacted at the latter rate.

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TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE: On London, Telegraphic Transfer ...1/8 7/16

Bank Bills, on demand.18 Credits, 4 months' sight.... ..1181 D'ments 4 months' sight ...1/9 ON BERLİN, (demand)

.M.1.748 ON PARIS, Bank Bills, on demand.........2.14) Credits, 4 months' sight...2.18 ON NEW YORK, Bank Bills, on demand...414

Credits, 30 days' sight...47 ON BOMBAY, Telegraphic Transfer

On demand.......

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127 .1274.

On Shanghai, Telegraphic Transfer' ......714 Private 30 days' sight nom. ON YOKOHAMA, T.T.

,831 Gold Leaf roo touch, per tael............60.60 Sovereigns, Bank's Buying, Rate...........$17.68

Bar Silver

OPIUM QUOTATIONS, To-fay's quotations are as follows:--

MALWA NEW ......

И

LAST YEAR.. OLDEST

PATNA NEW....................... RENARES NEW PERSIAN (PAPER),

.....251

Per chest @ 970/960 @995/1,050

@ 1,080/1,100

@ 1,185 1,187 800/850

Co-day's Advertisements.

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FROM RANGOON AND STRAITS. ГНЕ

a pressure of 149 lbs, to the sq. inch Steam is the view of investigating the opportunities for taken from two. Thornycroft water tube boilers railway development in this Empire, After of the Speedy type. On her trial trip in Eng a conference with H. E. Hung-chan land with her propellers making 290 evolu-and the Tsungli Yamĉo, Mr. Bash returned tions per minute, she made 13.2 knots. In home, and reported on what he had learnt to most respects she is similar to the British gun his friend ex-Senator Brice, with the view of boat, Woodepek. Her full complement is organising a syndicate to take up the question men~N. C. D. Xews,

of railways in China. The result was the formation of the American-China Development Co., and Mr. Bash "being then (and now) a large shareholder in it, was sent to China to A Blue-book published last month by the negotiate in 1896 and 1898, his efforts resulting British Government contains figures about the in the conclusion with the Chinese Government Indian Empire which are full of interest, of the contract for the construction of the while the population of that territory is over Canton-Haskow railway. After Mr. Brice's 291,000,000 less than 3,003,000, are Christians. death Mr. Whitridge, of Cary and Whitridge, In an analysis of the population according to assumed the management, and, in cor, a "occupation nearly 4,0:0,020 are supported by controlling interes: in the line w was sold to servants engaged in the administration of the the Belgians, the American company still Stale, 1300co by sport; 2,250,000 by heidsmen, holding the charter There have been var 2,340,000 by barbers and shampooers, while ous rumours from time to time of prob- tailors, milliness, and dressmakers have to find support for over 1,000,000 people. A glance able changes in the management, the enga at religion shows that Hindus number over 200, gement of Belgian engineers, and so. fonb, Miscellaneous-Green Islands have improved cooooo, "Mohammedans 61,500,000, and Bud but so far the line remains, nominally at any to $243 buyers and no sellers under $25 Fair chists less than 10,000.00 The complex rate, American, while, with the exception of the quantities of China Buracos have been taken off work in India ipfurther evidenced by the great number of languages there being no fewer coal currying line that the Peking Syndicate to the market at 58 and there are further buyers. than forty-two Indian, eleven Asiatic, and nine. Tuilding in the north, British enterprise, con Watsons changed hands at 5:47 and are on offer. teen Furopean languages spoken in the Empire spicuous as its operations are on the waters of Old Electrics sold and are wanted at $rat; new besides greater number of dialects There China, has done nothing to add to the means shares can be placed at $61 China Providents are 25,000 lepers au 1 150,000 deaf mates, while of communication on land. And so urgently sold at So. Powells, have buyers at $9. no less than 350,000.never see the light of day, Those who can read Indian languages have is improvement in the means of communication. Langkats close with sellers at Ti 30. We 7.081 newspapers to glance at and 1,312 are in required in China, that we welcome railways bave eliminated from a our share jist the Hong: English The figures of the milways, exports, by whomsoever built, so long as their con- kong and China Bakery. Colnager wild animals, and snakes are added, struction is not made the pro

Limited, for the same having interesting and very detailed:

falso the sin the various

ing

Lands, Hotels, and Buildings.Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company shares. changed hands at $1gr and have further buyers, THE Company's Steamship time business has been done at the equivalent of the cash rate. Kloon Lands are un changed. West Points sold at $53, Hong. kong Hotels have improved to buyers at $148. Humphreys sold and can be placed at $11.

Cotton Mills-Ewo's have advanced in Shanghai to Tls. 40; other mills unchanged. The 8th ordinary meeting of shareholders of the Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co. Ld, will be held on the 21st inst., transfer books are now closed until that dale; we understand that a dividend of Tls, 4 per share will be declared.

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

ction of armies of trai Sappy Manchuri, N., C-Z

Universal Tradit

Liquidat mpany, dime

Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining instant, will be landed at Consignees risk on board after 5 PM, TO-DAY, the 12th

and expense into Godowns at East Point.

No Fire Insurance will be effected: Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 17th December, jong 14920

RECULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE

WTO NEW YORK

VIM PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL [With Liberty to call at PHILIPPINE PORTS) PROPOSED SAIlinos From HONGKONG.

1519037 N

LOWTHER CASTLE" SIKH ---་་་་་་Ét---- SAGAMINE

LENNOX

AFRIDI

About 19th Dec. 24th Dec. Sth Jan,

15th Jan

27th Jan.

For Freight, and further: Information, apply;

DODWELL & Co. LIMITED

"HAILOONG," Captain Evans, will be despatched for the above Port, on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, at Daylight,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 12th December, 1903. · [14946

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

•

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

THE Company's Steamship

Captain Girard, will be despatched for the "ANNAM," above Ports on or about TUESDAY, the 15th

instant,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

G. DE CHAMPEAUX,' Agent. Hongkong, rath December, 1903.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

[10040

"YUENSANG," Captain S. J. Payne, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the 18th instant, at 4 P.M."

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, and is fitted through out with Electric Light.

For Freight and Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers,

Hongkong, 12th December, 1903.

[14930

CHINA COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

司公限有船輪業中

FOR MOJI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SALINA CRUZ-MEXICO & SAN FRANCISCO.

THE Steamship

"CLAVERING,"

Captain Barton, will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 14th instant, at Naon.

For Freight, apply at the Company's Offices, No. 20, Des Vicax Road.

J. S. VAN BUREN, Superintendent. Hongkong, 12th December, 1903. [4360

Intimation.

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

BLACK&WHITE

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERY

ByzAppointment to st

F.M. THE KING

and

HRH the PRINCE of WALES

Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS and to be obtained from LANE CRAWFORD & CO. Oussa's Rös ly

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