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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1904.
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TELEGRAMS. attitude of your administration
equitable one, and the committee of this Cham ber will be glad to learn that you can meet the wishes of the mercantile community to this extent if your administration is unable to meet them in the fuller sense represented above.
The Russian Seizures.
LONDON, 1st March.
The Russians detained the colliers ton days before releasing them.
Coal for Japan. The Japanese steamer Sado Maru laden with coal left Cordiff yesterday for Japan, **probably win the Cape.
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The War.
A general order from the military com- mander of Port Arthur intimates that the Japanese consider a landing at, and seizure of Port Arthur, a question of national hon. qur. The roumandler declares he will never give an order to surrender and appeals to the garrison and inhabitants to fight to the death in defence of the fortress."
LATER.
It is reported that over one thousand soldiers are frost-hitten on the Manchurian raway.
Several members of this Chamber having expressed surprise at the length of time found necessary to arrive at a decision in this matter, my committee trust that the further reconsider ation of their representations now desired may be communicated to them with the least po sible delay,
I am to point out that this correspondence will be publi hed in due course in the monthly minutes of the Chamber of Commerce.--I have
elc,
A R. LOWR,
Secretary, M. Beck, Esq., Superintendent, Ei tein Extension Tele-
graph Co.
OLAY NIELSEN, Esq.
Superintendent, Great Northern Telegraph
Co.
Hongkong Station,
21st January, 1904
Dear S-We have to acknowledge re- ceipt of your letter dated the 20th instant and to state that the same is being submitted to the Admiral Makaroff has arrived at Port Companies' manager, at han hai-We are, Artistir.
A Russian cruiser has arrived at Ponta Delgada, the Azores
The Russian cruise: Dimitri Donskoi has applied for leave to remain at Suez for re- pairs, probably for a fortnight.
It is stated in St. Petersburg that the Russians are massing troops on both banks of the Valu.
{Straits Times.)
Russia Stunned.
CONFUSION EVERYWHERE
London, end, Feb.
A letter from a high official source at St. Petersburg stabs that the Russian Government Departments are in tale of confusion.
The Rurs an Admiralty officials are stunned hy the news from Kosen, end the War Office authorities are unable to trace enormous quanti. ties of stores consigned to Manchuria.
Wanted: A Big Loan.
It is now known to he imperative that Rus sia must borrow one thousand million francs, and that the Russian Government finds it diffi cult to get credit.
It is reported that ↑ussia is arranging a in n of twenty millions striding at five per cent. The Vanderbolts are interested in these negoti ations.
clc.,
I. M. BECK. Superintend m, E. E. Teleg Cn.
ZOLAP NIELSE Superintendent, C. N. Teleg. Co A R. Lowe, Fsq.
Serretary, angkong General Chamber of
Commerc
Hongkong talion,
4th February, 1974.
Dear Sir, -We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th ulting on the subject the Telegram Deposit Account. in reply therein we are inte ed to state that the Companies a e not prea red to admit that the present system is in any pect inequitable, or that the refunds of the whole interest to the depositors does not constitute a real concession seeing the the companies will thereby fuse all interest on the amounts due to them until the mohly accounts have been sendest,
erroneous impression of the real fact, I request | MAKriage at UNION CHURCH. you to spare your valuable space for this letter. The import duties in Japan on sugar accord ing to the existing tariffs, which came into force on 1st January 1899, are as follows:
Up to No. 14 Dutch standard, § per cent. ad val, or a 204 yen per picut.
From No. 15 to 20, 10 per cent. ad val. or 1.748 yen per picul.
Upward Nu. 20 10 per cent. ad vel, or 0.827 yen per picul.
Union Church was prettily decorated yester. day afternoon when the marriage was solemn ised between Mr. W. G. Leong and Miss S.. Wong, who have come here from Australia. The bride, who was dressed in white silk, trim- med with chiffon, wore a few orange blossoms in her hair, and was attended by Miss. Mac- kenzie as bridesmaid. She was given away by Dr. G. To. The Rev W. Bridie, assisted by the Rev. O. T. Leong, of the Wesleyan Church, officiated, and there were present Dr. and Mrs. C. To, Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Pearce, Rev. H. R. Apart from the import duty, the consumption Wells. Rev. and Mrs. C. Hickling and Miss lax is equally payable by imported sugar as well tickling, Mr. and Mrs. Peach, Prof. and Mrs. s by home products. Thus the advantage W. Fong, Mr. and Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Piercy, Mrs. derived by the Japanese sugar refiners under Pinkey, Mrs Ley Kum, Mrs. H. Gittens, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Stewart, Miss Johnstone, Miss the existing tariffs is limited to the difference of Langdon, Mrs. Woolley, Miss Hearn, Miss R. per cent, between the import duty on raw su Mackenzie, Mrs. F. Howell, Misses Abrahams, gar and that na refined. Furthermore, this Dr. Ho Nai Hop, Dr. P. Quincey, Messrs. G. Ben discrimination had originally been aimed notning, F. W Farne, E. Danesburg, H. To, Wong against the free. Hongkong sugar, but against Tak Kwong, A. Mackenzie, Lo Yuk Shan, Lee Coon, G. Thomas and others. Aftertheceremony the bounty-fed Continental sugar with which
the bridal party proceeded to 30, Caine Road Japan's markets had been "dumped" for some
where a reception was beld. The Rev. W. Bridie 101sted the newly married ouple, wishing them time past.
long life and happiness; the bridegroom re- sponded in a suitable manner. The Rev. T. W. Pearce expressed his best wishes and de light at the union, especially as the bridegroom was the son of the Rev. O. T. Leong, with whom he had long been acquainted.
In spite of the difference in the import duty mentionerl above, during the year 1901 as much as five and a hof million yens worth of refined sagar was imported into Japan from Hongkong and other places.
I trust I have already given sufficient reasons o be able to claim that so far as sugar tariffs of Japan are concerned, they are not "prohibitive," though they are, no doubt, to some extent "preferential."Yours, etc,
MASANICHI NOMA,
Consul for japan.
Later in the day the newly married couple started for their honeymoon.
COMMERCIAL
Shanghai advices, dated 27th ult, report business done: Fambam, Bayds at Tls. 138/139/138/139/tan for April, at Tls. 140 for May, at Tis. 140 for June and Tis. 140 for July. Langkats at Tis. 300 cash, Tis. jog for March, Tis, 310 for April and Tls, 320 for June.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
and February, 1904. in-With reference to your letter to the
STRAITS CURRENCY. Editor of the Hongkong Daily Press dated 16th
"Finance" writes in the S. F. Press as fol- ultimo, on the subject of the treatment of Hong-lows:-The recent rise in rates of exchange kong manufactured sugar in Japan. I am in-has again brought into prominence the humble tructed to draw your attention to an apparent views expressed by "Finance" and others, inaccuracy in your figures relating to the import that instead of introducing a dollar of the same wei, ht and fineness as the old "Straits" dollar, duties. It appears that in the spring of last
a new 'token" dollar on a gold basis should year the import duty on sugar entering Japan have been introduced, for as before pointed out unless exchange is fixed at a level appro under Nt. 13 Dut h Standard was raised from .204 yen to.271 sen per iro Japanese kias aching 2/5 or 3, we shall always have the fear Forther the kin ting only equal to 1.32507 ths.nl a depletion of the currency by melting and exporting, whenever a rise in silver or other avou, the duty warks out at fractionally more
economic reason takes the value of the silver dollar above the 2 mark (supposing that to be per pirul of 133 1/3 lbs than the figures in your
the presen fixity rate decided upon). The letter show.
stock ar.ument against the "token" is of course that the natives would not understand it, but this should not he feared; the average native possesed of fairly good gumption, otherwise he would not take Government and Bank notes, which are only "tokens," and if he once found that he could rely on getting a sovereign or "Gold ten dollar piece in ex- yen 271 duty. chan e forten token dollars, he would soon understand the situation. Exports would be adju ted by Cold, and Goverment Drafts, and Notes would serve internal exchang's.
The following figures show clearly to what extent the Hongkong refineries are discriminat
raw
The Companies regret that there unable in meet the views of the Comunities & theng uded again by the Japanese Government- in the rehabilitation of the obl system as the Japanes refiners' import separate working arrangements which the Companie, have rece tly in ngurted render the said system impracticable
In order, however, as far as possible to meet the wishe of the Committee the Comp mes arelling reduce the amount of the deposit !o one-half, nn the moderstanding that the minimum sans ceived on deposit shall as hi herto be fixes at $25, and that the Companies reserve the right to render half monthly ac counts. We are dear Sir, Yours baithfully,
1. M. BECK. Superines ndent. F. F. Teleg. Co OLAF NIELSEN. Supenstencen, G. N. Teleg. Co
[France for years past has been advancing The 90,000.co¬raubles ex- money to Russia. pended during the last ten years in constract ing the 1000 kilometres of railway connecting Entope with Vladivostock and Port Arthur. Freuch were mostly subscribed by France. capital invested in Russia was stated within the | A past month to amount to slev-n millia ds of Francs (410,000,000), and that must be accept- ed as a co servative estimate, because others have calculated it al 20,00000,000 francs, or £800,00 1,000. Attemple from time to time have been made to stop the flow: but Russian apologists always contended that the invest ment was a cap tal one and brough 5 per cent to the investors. It is for payment of the inter est on this vast so that Russia will onw feel pressed in view of her tremendous war ex penses.j
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAM- HER OF COMMERCE,
(Conc uded from yesterday,)
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, zoh January, 1904. Sir, am directed to ack owirdge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant in reply to my lewer of the 28th August jast on the sub ject of customers' deposits and tam to inform you that the decision of your respective board of directors 10 refund the whole of the interests on the deposits to the depositors cannot be regarded by the committee of this Chamber in the light of a concession as your letter infers, but rather as a tardy act of rastitution of an imposition which should not have been made in the first instance by your Companies, and further I am to point out that the mere fact of ao few of your clients having expressed any dissatisfaction with the new system does not carry much weight with my committee as was well known that the Chamber would take the matter up, and naturally many members accordingly refrained from openly expressing their dissatisfaction.
R. Fawe, Exij,
Secretary. Hongkong General Chamber of
Commerce.
The Chairman and that though the re bit of the respondence was not e grely as satis. factory as could have been w shed, still better Terus had been obtained from the Companies
t first imposed on the rom than they hul munity
EXPLOSIVES ON WARE STEAMERS IN THE HARBOUR The following iter was read :- Hongkang Geral Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, 26th January, 1904, Sir, am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of te hukimo enclosing copy of the new regulations issued by the Act.ng Harbour Master for the guidance of officers in bis department in dealing with vessels arriving in the harbour and carrying small quanthie, of dangerous goods
2. In reply I am instructed in state that the Committee of this Chamber regrat the Government's inability to carry out more fully their suggestions for the greater relaxation of the law in this matter so as to allow vessels to proceed direct to their ber-hs in cases where the quantity of ammunition carried is small, and I am to point out that unless the Harbour Office official boards a yessel inmediately on arrival, and before anchoring, the efficiency of the now regulations will be much impaired, unles the master of a vessel carrying danger ous goods in small quantities not exceeding those laid down in regniation No. is free to carry on to the ordinary anchorage without fear of a fine being imposed.
The Committee have every wish that the Government should know of all ammunition arriving in the Colony so as to control the movements of such goods, but they are unable
It is a matter of regret that your administrato understand why the information collected by tion has ignored the main point at issue, which was the rehabilitation of the old system, and my Committee again beg you to give this m ter your farther consideration,
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sag n and pay a
...yen .271 duty. Japanese refiners refin: raw sugar
and rercive a drawbac' of
Japanese refiners pay con
sumption tax on refined
... Yeay sugars
160 1.21 2.80 (ccording to quali y)
Total tax on lipanese refined
sugars
Rongkang refiners import refined sugar and pay import duty
Hongkong refiners import refined sugar and pay consumption tax...
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. Selling
yen 1.60 2.20 280
London-Bank T.T.
Do. Do. 4 months' sight France-Bank T.T.......
denn
America-Bank T.T.
yen 27 748 827 (according to quality)
1.80
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Germany-Bank T T.
India T.T. ......
Do. demand.. Shanghai Bank T.T. Japan-Bank T.T.. Singapore-Bark T.T.
...ven to 1.20
(according to quality) Java-Bank T.T.
Total Tax on Viongkong
Buying.
4 months' sight L/C.
1110 109/16 1/10 1316
2-35
451 1.92
139
-1394
71 ...92 Nominal
1:32
.....I/IT .... 4/11 + efined sugars ...yen 1871 2948 3627 6 months' sight 1/C
30 days' sight San Francisco & New York 46
do. 4 months' sight Difference in favour of
Japanese refined sugar yen 271 748 827 This Chamber understands that as a matter
In fact, very life refined sugar under No. 14 Dutch Standard is imported into Japan and the higher duties of yen 17.48 and yen -827 represent such a heavy percentage on market value that it is easy to believe they are really prohibitive. In thus connection a glance at the following figures representing the value of refined sugars imported into Japan is instructive :-
1897... 1898...
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30 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne 4 months' sight Francs 6 months' sight
4 months' sight Germany
Par Silver.....
Bank of England rate
GUM QUOTATIONS. Toy' qutions are as inflows.--
Malwa New
Old
1
Oldest.
1.
1899
11
yen 15013.330 21,105.595 9.156.303
M
Patna New......
Igco...
15,598,894
1931...
זו
Repares New... Persian Paper
14 21,111,001 5.584.157 1902.. Although the discrimination" alluded to in your letter may have been aimed chiefly against bounty-fed Continental sugar it obviously applies equally to sugar from Hongkang not bounty-fed, and there is wanting any evidence of a desire on the part of Japan to treat Hong: THE kong products as japanese products are treated
in this Colony.
Any comments with which you may favour the Chamber on this subjet will be appreciated. have the hon ur to be, Sir, Your obedient
servant,
A. R. LOWE, Secretary.
Masanichi Noma, Esq., Consul for Japan,
Hongkong.
Japanese Consulate, Hongkong, 4th February.
Sir, have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated and instant, and in reply I have the honour to express my high appreciation for your kindness that you had drawn my attention to a certain inaccuracy in my figures relating to the import duties of sugar, which was caused by my misuse of a reference book. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
the boarding officers from the master of a vessel waiting to be allowed to anchor should be any mare accurate than that obtained in the same maoner after her arrival at the ordinary mer. Shnaid this not he acceptable to you I am to chani vessel anchorage, particularly as a per. draw your attention to paragraph in my mit is required to land dangerous goods even previous letter which reads as follows:- in small quantities. They therefore trust that "In fixing the deposit at the average cost of His Excellency the Officer Administering the one month's telegrams i' must be apparent to Government will authorise, the addition to the you that the advantage is all on your side. new regulations of a clause suggested in the The utmost surely your Companies can de- later half of paragraph 2 so as to allow the A. R. Lowe, Esq., mand is cash on deposit of a telegram im- vessel to proceed direct to her anchorage or mediately before its transmission. The mon h's what have the honour to be, Sir, your deposit you require means that for the best obedient servant.
part of the month the sender of telegrams will have a balance to blu credit in your books. From the nature of your business it is un- reasonable to ask him to give your Companies
A. R. Lowe, Secretary. Hon. A. M. Thomson,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
* this credit, nor doas it appear necessary in JAPANESE MARKETS AND HONGKONG SUGAR.
such cases where there is no question as to the financial standing of the firm, or individum!, with whom you are in business relationsy. It would certainly make the transaction a more equitable one if the deposit now required was reduced to one haif","
The reduction of the deposit claimed by que half would, as pointed out, make the
MasanichĮ NoMA, Consul for Japso.
Secretary, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
DATING OF NEW YORK-TELEGRAMS.
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1/07 .2.40
.2.42 1.961 .20 11/16 .....4%
Per chest (@) 900/940 @ 970/1,040
1,080/1,120
1,200
[ 250 900010
Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON TUESDAY
The Bib March, 1904, at 10 AM, at H. M. NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL. OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,
Comprising BOATS ENGINES. OLD BRASS. COPPER, IRON, PAPER STUFF, CANVAS, FURNITURE, IMPLE-
MENTS, &C.
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE :—AS customary.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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L'o-day's Advertisements.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kong
moon having been declared a Treaty Port, an Office of the Imperial Maritime Cus toms will be opened there on MONDAY, 7th March, 1904. Shipment and discharge of Goods and Passengers will be allowed under the provisional rules for trade on the West River separately notified. The provisional steamer anchorage will be in the West River opposite the 1.M. Customs near the mouth of the Kongmunn Creek,
F. W. MAZE, Acting Commissioner of Customs. Custom House,
Kongmoon, ist March, 1904.
1323 IMPERIAL-MARUTIME CUSTOMS
NOTIFICATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kong
moon having been declared a "reaty Port, and the Provisional Regulations of Trade on the West River of 1897 being nder revision, the following provisional rules will govern steamer traffic on the West River until further notice:-
The 1897 Regulations remain in force where not affected by the provisional rules now published.
Shipment and discharge of goods and pas. sengers will be allowed, in addition to Treaty Ports, at the following six Stages or Ports of Call:
Kumchuk, Paktauhan, Shiuhing, Lotinghau, Takhing and Dosing, and steanters may land ad ship passengers and their luggage at any of the following ten regular passenger stations: Yangki (in Tallung Channel), Mahning (in Junction Chancel), Kankong, Kulow, Wingon, Howlik, Lukpu, Yuetsing, Lukto, and Fungchuen (in West River). Passengers luggage must not contain articles subject to duty, and the presence of dutiable articles will render the whole hable to confis.
cation.
Steamers are divided into two classes: 1. Local River Steamers running from Can
ten or Kongmoon to ports up river without leaving Liang Kwang waters.
2. Foreign-going Steamers from and 10 Hongkong, Macao, etc, trading for the voyage up and down river. LOCAL RIVER STEAMERS will deposit| then registers with their Consul or (if Consularly unrepresented) with the Customs at Canton or Kongmoon, where the Customs, in addition to inspection or issu: of the Arms Certificate, will issue n Certificate to the steamer to be called the RIVER PASS vahd for the year during which issued, on expiry of which it must be either surrendered or renewed at Can- ton or Kangmoon.
FOREIGN-COING STEAMERS will enter the West River either via Kongmoon or win Canton. If entering i Kongmoon they will take the Motomnon (Broadway) route and report at the Mongchao (Lappa Customs) Station, to comply with the requirements of previous regulations including issue or inspec unu of Arms Certificate, and take out the KONGMOON PASS. They will then pro- reed direct to Kangmoon where, if bound further up the West Rover, they will surrender the said Pass to the K ngmoon Customs, and depost their Registers with their Consul or (if Consularly unrepresented) with the Customs, and receive Certificate to be called the SPECIAL VER PASS, without which they may not trade at any Treaty Port, Port of Call or Passenger Station. On ren to Kong moon and when all dues and duties are paid or accounted for the ustons, on surrender of The Special River Pass, will issue a Clearance which will entitle Steamers to the return of register and KONGMOU, PASS, which latter is in he surrendered at Mougchao on the way out for cancellation. If entering via Canton, seamers will deposit their registers
with Consul ur Custom in order to obtain the SPECIAL RIVER PASS, the surrender of which on return to Canton will entitle them to Customs Cleanse and possession of register.
Steamers trading at the West River Treaty Ports must enter and clear and load and dis- other charge cargo in the same manner as Treaty Parts along the Coast, and is no cordance with the Customs Regulations of the River Ports concerned,
DUTY TREATMENT.
Cargo arriving from a Foreign Port (a) for a Treaty Pon pays Import Duty at Port of discharge, (b) for a Port of Call is to be re- ported at first Treaty Pari, Kongmoon or Can- ton, and pay Import Duty there.
Native Goods imported at a Treaty Port from a Port of Call without passing another Treaty Port en route pay Full Import Duty at Port of Discharge: exported from a Treaty Part to a Port of Call without passing another Treaty l'ont en route pay Export Daly at Port of Shipment. If passing a Treaty Port en route Native Goods imported or exported as above pay Full and Half Duty on discharge or ship- ment. Native Goods from a Port of Cail to a Purt of Call passing a Treaty Port en route must be reported and pay Full Import Duty at said Treaty l'ort.
Cargo shipped at a Port of Call for a Foreige Por pays Export Duty at Kongmon ne Can- ton. Foreign-going steamers when applying for Customs Clearance at Kongmoon or Canton are required to present a Manifest of all cargo on board, and either pay Duty or exhibit proof of duty paid elsewhere.
The above Rules take effect from yth March,
1904
R. DE LUCA,
Acting Commissioner of Customs. Custom House,
Canton, ret March, 1401.
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THEN R. T. WRIGHT, Esq., to Sell by THE Undersigned have received instructions THE Steamship
PUBLIC AUCTION,
од
THURSDAY.
the toth March, 1904, at 2.30 P 1, within his residence No. 10, Macdonnell Road, THE WHOLE OF HIS
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURF, Comprising:-
BEVELLED
MOROCCO and TAPESTRY-COVERED SOFAS and CHAIRS, TEAKWOOD EX- TENSION DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, DINNER WAGGONS, TEAKWOOD SIDE. Read letter dated 9th ultimo, from the Shang. BOARD with BEVELLED GLASS, DOU IRON BED BLE BRASS-MOUNTED hai General Chamber of Commerce asking the STEAD with WIRE and HAIR MAT Chamber to support them in their endeavour to TRESSES, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS. obtain an alteration in the practice of the Com- TEAKWOOD DRESSING TABLE with GLASS. WARDROBES, mercial Cable Co., of omitting the date and hour of despatch in messages passing over GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, COOK their lines, which is found to be of serious in- ING STOVE and UTENSILS, &c., &c., &c. convenience to merchants in China dealing A large number of PALMS and FLOWERS
in Lots with America.
Catalogues will be issued. After some discussion it was decided to sup-
TERMBAS usual. being closed against the refined sugar of Hong port the suggestion of the Shanghai Chamber kong by prohibitive tariffs, and as I consider by addressing the New York Chamber on tha this statement is apt to give one rather an subject.
Japanese Consulate,
Hongkong, 16th January.
To the Editor of the "Daily Press. $15,-lo the leading article of your to-day's issue, a mention was made about Japan markets
ALSO
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionsers,
[328 Hongkong, 3rd March, 1904
"PREUSSEN,"
of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 11 A.M., TO-DAY.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 9th instant, will be subject
to rent.
All broken, chased, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on WEDNESDAY, the 9th instant, at 9.30 AM.
All Claims must reach us before the 14th instant, or they will not be recognized. No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO., Agents. Hongkong, jtd March, 1904.
To-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE
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THE
ROYAL,
HENRY DALLAS MUSICAL COMEDY
COMPANY.
ENORMOUS SUCCESS.
TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY), 'BELLE OF NEW YORK."
and
TO-MORROW
(FRIDAY) and SATURDAY,
"THE MESSENGER BOY."
POSITIVELY LAST 2 NIGHTS.
PRICES $3, $2 and $1.
PLANS AT
ROBINSON PIANO CO., LD.
T
Late Tram Each Night 15 minutes after Fall of Curtain.
W. FLEMING VALLANCE, Manager.
Future pieces will be duly advertised. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1904.
FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE. [^HE Steamship
"SAXONIA,"
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Captain Brehmer, will be despatched for the above Pans, on THURSDAY, the roth instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight, apply to
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1904.
THE
44 P-TO-DATE
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SHORTHAND" has reached Hongkong, where a Permanent Studio has been opened near the G.PO. and WATKINS, LTD., Queen's Road Central.
1ST LESSON write any Word. 4TH LESSON write 40 Words a Minute LITH LESSON write 10 Words a Minute. 21 LESSONS to Completion of Full Course.
TERMS: $50, or by Instalments. No Books TO BUY, or other Payments to make.
May be learned in One Month; the very Dullest in 12 Weeks,
OUR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OFTEN ASKED ON THE "UP-TO-DATE SHORTHAND." Can it be learned as well by post as at
you Studio?...
...YES,
......YES, ... YES.
YES. ...YES. Is it accepted by Government Offices the
world over?
...YES.
Can a person of ordinary intellect master
it in six weeks?... The full course to completion and fast
writing in six weeks?...
Do you examine us on each lesson?
Personally or by post!
Is it easy to learn and to read?...
***
Do you give a certifica e of competency
on completion?
YES.
Do you supply a lesson book to each pupil and show the date each lesson is
...YES. Riven?...
Then this is proof of the pupil's prograss; and before receivin. the 12th lesson)
I must write (30 words a minute? ...YES. Shall I be competent to write a shorthand
letter and make notes?
...YES. At the third lesson within one week? ...YES. The pupils take as long as they like between the lessons; they master one and then come (or send if a Postal Pupil) for the next.
PRINCIPAL: WARWICK PEELE,
(late Special Reporter, British Houses Lords, Commons and High Courts). Hongkong, 29th February, 1904. [298
Entimation.
THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
IS
"BLACK & WHITE"
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTON WHISKY DISTILLERS, By Appointment to BM. THE KING
and
HEH the PRINCE of WALES
Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS. and HOTELS, and to be obtained from LANE, CRAWFORD & CO; Queens Road Central
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