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CONTENTS.

· Births, Marriages and 'Deaths. Leading Artioler :-

China's, Misfortune.

Yellow Labour.

The Province of Schuen.

The Governor and Rowing-

Telegram:-

The War.

Operations at Port Arthur.

Opium for China.

Meeting:-

Sanitary Board.

Legal Intelligence:--

A Question, of Title in the New Territories.

What is Contraband?

Troubles of a Coal Merchant.

晚七十月十年十三精光

MARRIAGES.

(Ộn aand November, at Holy Trinity Cathe, dral, Shanghali by the Rev. A J. Walker, M. THOMAS CALDWELL ANDERSON, of Yokohama, to KATHERINE, daughter of John Findlay, of

Hankow.

On October 25, at Preston, Brighton, Major J. F..A. MCNAIR, R.A., C.M.G., late. Officiating Lt. Governor, Pesong, to M DALENA, widow of George Williamson, M.D., Surgeon-Major 64th Regiment.

DEATHS,

On 20th November, at his residence 23. Boone Road, Shanghal, EDUARDO CARLOS izoxto, aged 49 years.

At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on 25th November, WILHELM LUHRS, of the L. M. „Customs, aged 63 years.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881)

SATURDAY,

DECEMBER 3, 1904.

Chronicle. This journal sent out a special commisslaner to the Transvaal for the ex- press purpose of investigating on the spot the manifold aspects of the Chinese labour problem. The articles, which appear to have aroused intense public interest and are issued in their present form in response to widespread demand, are by no means free from political bias, so that even those really desirous of doubting the advisability of introducing Chinese into South Africa can- not regard the effort of the Daily Chronicle to re-open an old political argument in the serious light in which it was meant. At the outset it is satisfactory to find that the com- missioner pricks the slavery bubble. On one of the mines he visited there were 197 unaccounted for," in other words, who had ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBER not gone to work that day. For two hundred coolies to abstain from work from sheer laziness, and for the employers to sequiesce in it, and pay them fall wages all the same, does not give much scope for the cry of "glavery under the British flag." The commissioner tells us that "the 197 absent' and the 65 sick were all entitled to the 18. a day which Mr. Lyttelton has agreed to as a minimun." The writer

The Hongkong Celegraph

·MAIL SUPPLEMENT,

Hongkong. Saturday, DecEMBER. 3, 1904.

CHINA'S MISFORTUNE.

THE PROVINCH OF SZCAUEN.

(30th November.)

大拜禮

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$13 PER ANNUM,INDI

SINGLE COPY, 25 CENTS;

TROUBLES OF A COAL MERCHANT

goth ult.

At the Civil Summary Court this morning, before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith (Fulane Judge), The Kwong Un firm, of Malcolm Lane, sund Wong Kum Tuk, of 10. Salt Fish Street, and others associated with him in business, for the recovery of Stroo. being balance due for goods

sold and delivered.

known Jouth African financier has asserted interport cricket week His Excellency that the coolies are intelligent, industrious, watched the matchen with keen inter- honest, cheerful and contented, and willest and although he does not profess to prove the salvation of the mining industry, be a wielder of the willow we have it on his and indeed of South Africa. Such inven- own authority that he will always be willing tions as those printed in the truth about to give his support to the "King of games." the Chinese in the Transvaal and evidently He has attended the monthly gymkhanas at engineered for party purposes cannot pre Happy Valley, enjoyed watching a stubborn

·ly fought "footer' match, and in many ways judicially affect recruiting in China.

Mr. O. D. Thomson appeared for the plain. shown his desire to encourage sport in the tiff, and Mr. P. W. Goldning defended.

The head of the plaintiff firm said that on Colony. We now learn on good authority the St-December, 190s, he commenced deli that he intends interesting himself in avering coal to the defendants in respect of a practical way, with rowing, and carly next steami-launch. He continued to supply coal. until at present they owed him Sr250. He A practical commercial paper dealing with year, probably in February, may pull with claimed $1,000 with costs, only to permit the

case to come within the jurisdiction of that.. the economic products of the richest pro-crew of Royal Engineers in a four-oared race vince of China has been issued by the against Royal Artillerymen. The prelimi. Foreign Office at home, and furnishes ary steps are now being taken with a view another characteristic illustration of the of organising a regatta to be held at Kow enterprise of some of our British Consuls in loon, under the auspices of no particular boat- the Far East. This year we have had five or recreation club. We understand that White Books dealing with China and have H.E. the Governor has already promised to referred to them at some length because of present a cup to be competed for and that

costs, but not against the defendant mentioned, the many important facts and suggestions Civil Service cadets, have been de ciated with him, and who, it was stated, is out several events, including a race between but against one of the men stated ta',be ssio. made in connection with the varioue pro- cided upon. vinces which should be of practical use to interest in Hongkong rowing will be great,

The value of his practical of the Colony. the commercial community. The report by and His Excellency's enthusiasm for the Consul-General Hosie on Szchuen is cer sport may do much towards hringing other

to an exhaustive study of the products, so quickly ingratiated himself with the And while the bulk of it is devoted know that the King's representative here has methods of manufacture, and mining re-community, and he will certainly find that sources of the province there are other in associating himself so intimately with features of equal general interest. We are the boating-men of the Colony that he has told that the province, which derives its around him many thorough "sports." name of "Four Streams" from the four

(28th November.) China, in common with all silver-using countries, has suffered severely from the decline in the value of the white metal, and in her case the evil is accentuated by the then complains of the exacting demands tainly a permanent addition to the series, oarsmen to the front. It is a pleasure to fact that the indemnity which she agreed to by the coolic, alleging that their sharp pay to the Powers for injuries inflictedOriental wits had soon found out that they by the Boxers was, at the advice of Sir were to be made much of, and "gentlemen Robert Hart, calculated on a gold basis, from Hongkong and Canton, who probably The total gold debt thus created amount never had more than three hallpence a day ed in all to 450,000,000 Haikwan taels, to spend in their lives, began to develop a and the rates of the tael. to the gold cur taste for luxuries." Because they asked for, rency of each country was fixed at certain and got, certain so-called luxuries the D. C. An action against the Messageries Maritimes figures from which there was to be no thinks there would have been a great outcry departing. In the Protocol it was laid in English labourers had done the same. down that for the purposes of the indemnity"A day or two before I was there they de- the tael should be valued at three shillings manded a boiled egg each for breakfast of English money. By the drop in the value before they would go to work. In a country where eggs are 3s. 6d. a dozen this was a serious item, but the new miners got their eggs." This is of some Interest, as the advent of Chinese miners would surely give a great impetus to pig and poultry farming in their immediate vicinity. After referring to other paltry demands he passes on to discuss the

In the Bankruptcy Court,

Police.

Cie,

Important Opium Case..

The Public Gardens,

...Extradition Case...

› Correspondenos :—

The Recent Fire at Kennedy Town Godowns of silver the indemnity from a Chinese point of view has increased by nearly twenty per cent. The Chinese Government have insisted that the

Centenary of the Death of Nelson.

The Macao Ball. „Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :-

The Scots' Bali.

The Bachelors' Ball.

Queen Alexandra.

The Soldiers' Club.

Farewell to the Foresitra,

Contraband

Turf Topics.

Warning to Ships! Officers. "Dorothy" at the City Hall. Police Recreation Club. Naval Notes.

Departure of H.M.5, Vestal. H.M.S. Amphitrije. River Steamers to Dock.

Shipping Items.

Saturday's Cricket."

Review.

Death of J. J. Spooner.

Asleep on Duty.

Fire in New Territory.

Fire in Des Vœux Road,

Japanese Reservils.

Canton Leper Relief Fund.

The Luzo-Chinese Commercial Treaty. Canton Notes.

The Canton Vigarny.

Extraordinary Robbery in Kwangtung. The Rebellion in Kwangsi.

The Canton Hankow Railway.

Question of Shares.

The Attempted Assassination.

The Attempt on H.E. Wang.

The New Viceroy of the Liangkiang.

The ways of Yamens in Ching.

The Heart of Old Japan.

'Guids' of the Business.

Nows from Vladivostok.

The Recent Crisis.

Commercial-

Yern Market.

Shanghai Share Report.

Exchange.

Opium.

Local and General.

BIRTHS.

proper interpreta tion of the treaty is that it should pay the specified number of Haikwan taels, or their equivalent in gold at the time the

is utterly unable to secure silver coin suffi

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rivers, flowing through it from north to south into its great trade highway, the Yangtze, is the largest and probably

the richest in the Empire of China. Mr. Hosie, who, by the way, is stationed at Chengtu, glances briefly at its history and proceeds to give some details regarding its agricultural products passing in review the various industries to which they give rise, and then dealing with the animal and mineral products ofhet province. They are so exhaustively referred to that the report seems almost overburdened with de

esting reading. Unfortunately we cannot make more allusion to them in these columnstreyund remarkbig chint (ur ziclines of agricultural, animal and mineral products, Szchuen stands boldly out from among the other seventeen provinces of China. There

are

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but also many parts of other provinces, there being altogether forty districts where

TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.

OPERATIONS AT PORT ARTHUR.

MORE RUSSIAN TRENCHES OCCUPIED,

Court,

Cross-examined: He did not know that the launch was mortgaged nor did he know, that the widow of one of the partners had under taken to pay his bill in August of last year.. During the time that he had done business with the defendants he had been paid, on account, a sum of over is oco. Judgment was given for the plaintif for the full amount claimed with

IN THE BANKRUPICY COURT.

APPLICATION BY THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER,

F

Ist jakt!

case of Ho Tsui, exparte, debtor, and Yes At the Bankruptcy Court this morning before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry S. Berkeley) the Chan, creditors, came up again in the shape of in application by the Official Receiver, (Mr. Braco Shepherd), who applied for the payment to him of $552.41 by Messrs. Johnson, Stokes And Master,

Mr. H, E. Pollock, K., opposed on behalf

The Official Receiver said he made his ap plication under section 43, sub-section 3, 'of the Bankruptcy Ordinance. He thought the affidavit fully explained the case.

Mr. Pollock submitted that the application must be refused, because it seemed to bim that his clients, the judgment creditor who had actually received payment of the -money under the order of this Court,"cams" under the express terms of section 38, Bank- ruptcy Ordinance 37 of 1901, and they wors Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, has further protected in the possession of that

of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 7 of 1891.

His Lordship said he could not go behind the order of the Court directing the paying.out of this money, except on appeal. He must

kindly forwarded to us the following tele. money by reason of the terms of section 38, grams

Tokio, 29th November, 10.30 p.m. The Port Arthur army reports dated 29th

made against the enemy's line of entrench-order, made a proper order.

Mr. Pollock remarked that the order was The army firmly occupied the top of the

counterscarpand neighbourhood and are now destroying the casemates and capomiaries. Another attack was made against the 203 Metre Hill. The army occupied the enemy's trenches near the top after several

nssaults.

METRE HILL CAPTURED.

Tokio, 1st December, 10.40 a.m. The Port Arthur army reports the com- mencement of the bombardment, against the 203 Metre Hill, which commands the harbour, at dawn of the 30th November.

The Official Receiver submitted that under the Ordinance he had such power. The money, he was-informed, was still in the hands of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, and had not paid it over to the creditors. He said the payment was a wrong one.

His Lordship said it was impossible for him to accede to the application." The position would be, if he did, that he gave the Official Receiver an order to be paid back to him what the Court had already ordered to be paid to Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master. The application would be dismissed.

Mr. Pollock asked for costs. His Lordship said he would grant the

ordinaty costs, but not for Counsel.

SIMILAR CASE WITHDRAWN,

The repeated assaults met with the enemy's

A similar application in the matter of Lam stoutest resistance, but at 3 p.m. the Japan-Yung, erdaris debtor, for the payment to the ese army finally succeeded in occupying the Official Receiver of the sum of 5551.38 WAS

whole bill.

Heaps of the enemy's corpses were found on the eastern side.

** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SERVICE.

Opium for China,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

BOMBAY, 1st December. The P. & O. Co.'s mail steamer left

Bombay yesterday afternoon with about 1,200 chests of Malwa opium. Prices are as follows:-

then called.

Mr. O. D. Thomson opposed.

Mr. Bruce Shepherd" said the order was: wrongly made.

His Lardship thought he bad, better with- draw the application.

Mr. Bruce Shepherd contented.

TO RECOVER COSTS.

Mr. Harston made an application for the recovery of certain costs, in the bank`· rupicy matter Kwang Tez Ting exparte, de btor, and Chau Chui Nam, brick manufac Iurers of Queen's Road. The application was made under section 33, sub-section 3, of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 7 of, 1891. The appli cation was granted, the costs amounting to $60.

RECEIVING ORDER MADE,

Mr. P. W. Goldiring appeated on behalf of Cheung Cook! Nam; exparte, debtor, that's receiving order be made against his client. · Ho put in a declaration made Ly the debtor stating that he was quite usable to pay bis debts and showing that his liabilities far exceeded his - assets. The application was granted.

payments became due, and further, that it minimum wage problem noticing that "astute tall, yet Mr. Hosie has prepared his workNovember state that assaults have been bolieya that Mr. Justice Wise, in making that cient to make the payments in gold at the gentlemen from Hongkong *** were not hit. with such care that it provides most inter-ments extending eastward from Sunshushan. made in 1902. value of the tael. The European Powers,ting their drills very hard "the minimum wage being a shilling whether a man drills however, insist that she should pay the

three inches or twenty-four. In the sub. amount of gold represented by the 450,000,000 taels at the time the treaty sequent chapters we have the results of the commissioner's sifting of information from was made, and furthermore that ahe

all classes, the general outcome of which is an must pay it. Recognising this the

be vast quantities of minerals to Grand Council recently issued an Imperial endeavour, on his part to prove that there is

plenty of Kaffir labour in the country, but found some of which have been deve. Rescript to the high authorities of the that wages have been reduced, and that the loped in a remarkable degree, while others various provinces of the Empire, command. ing them to make up the deficit due the personal factor in engaging the hands has are only in process of exploitation.

been eliminated. The treatment of the learn that there is not much gold taken from Foreign Powers concerned Tis. 10,400, Chinese is spoken of approvingly, but there the bed of the Yangtze nor is the province 000. It is said that, after due con- is a most unworthy sneer appended to this particularly rich in silver, but copper, lead, sultation with the Council, the Emperor commendation. "The mine-owners are far zinc, antimony and many other minerals are and Empress Dowager decided that the too astute to treat the first lot of Chinese found. It is, however, in the manufacture various provinces shall provide this sum badly. They are set on getting 100,000

of salt that Szechuen is famous, this being before the end of the present Chinese of them by next year, and they know one of the greatest and most valuable of its year, in the following proportions:-

that the only way to do this will be industries, and the Consul-General devotes The Custom Superintendencies of Chihli,

treat the first arrivals well." He considerable space to a description of the Fuklen, Honan, Anhui, and Shanghai watched "shambling creatures, who had methods of production, and arrives at the Are each to furnish Is.

500,000)

been brought from the slums of Canton approximate estimate that Szechuen each Kiangsu, Kiangning, and Kiangai Tls and Hongkong at an enormous expense, year produces 484,000,000 catties, valued 800,000 each; Hunan, Shantung and being hurried off to their daily task at close on eight million taels. Not only Shansi Tis. 650,000 each; Chèkiang and by the overseers," and continues, "Was does it supply its own vast population, Szechuen Tis. 700,000 each; Hupeh Tls. it for this, I asked myself, that the 900,000; Kwangtung Tis. 300,000; Canton best and bravest blood of the whole Empire (Yeh Hai-kwan) Tls. 300,000; the Customs had been spilt! Was it for this that salt is produced. There can be no doubt Trotais of Foochow, Tientsin, and Hankow the sons of all the Britains had come from Tls. 100,000 each; Customs Taotais of the great wheatfields of Canada, from the Cheloo and Wuhu Tls. 100,000 each, or sunny pastures of New Zealand, from the a total of The. 10,400,000, said sums to be mines and the bush of Australia. Were transmitted to Shanghai without delay. Dis these undersized and badly nourished speci-

number of provinces protesting against the in ideas, and in standards of living--to be command and declaring their utter inability the people of the new dominion? F'very to get together the respective amounts they marble monument, every cairn of stones, are commanded to pay. The majority, al- every simple cross, which marked the spots though protesting, say that they can only where British blood had been spilt and pay at most one half of the amount they are British bravery shown from the Cape Brequired to subscribe. This, of course, was Border to Pretoria, and from Moo! River only to have been expected considering the to the Bushveldt, seemed to cry out, 'No.'" On 23rd November, at 7, Haskell Rond, incessant drain upon provincial funds for And what sholl the future be he? asks. Cricket and football have been termed Shanghai, the wife of H. A. GRAY, of a son.

Fome alleged object or another. Kwangsi is "Shall there be another great white com- our national pastimes, and while there is no SCAGLIO, of 24lare, Clarenza il fortunately omitted from the list of those monwealth, stretching from the Cape to the doubt they will still maintain their hold upon Home 100, 30th November 1994 at Tesla, requiring to subscribe, but from what-we Zambesi, where men shall dwell, using the the public it is refreshing to note that the Hongkong, the wife of HERBERT B. BRIDGER, have heard of the financial state of affairs in methods of government which a thousand old British sport of rowing has apparently Kwangtung the Imperial Rescript will not be years of English life have gone to build up taken on a fresh lease of life in Hongkong received with satisfaction. This, together and to perfect, and where ordered liberty is As year after year goes by the interent or with the present signs of discontent in the the precious birthright of every citizen? Or hibited in the various races organised by the South, constitutes a danger reflecting on the shall this be a land where crowds of servile Victoria Recreation Club, and the Hong management of affaim at Peking.

labourers toil for ever for a small white caste kong Boat Club increases and the general which is there for gain and nothing else standard of rowing improves, with the result section 236 of the Public Health and Buildings. Tourans on the and inst, as already recorded averice at one end, and alien serf labour that we now have many keely contested William Coysb and Robert Charles Witchell hold a survey before an action is filed, and the competitions. Fortunately H. E. Major to lostitute summary proceedings before a Ma- Principal Collector of Customs mada order that on the other. Is this to be the dismal sir Matthew Nathan an administrator posed by part 1 of the said Ordinance or any representative from the M.M. Cie, and then the

gistrato for the recovery of any penalty Im-he would hold a survey in the presence of At the Presbyterian Church, Bingapore, on reth November. Matthew B. MOKEAN of Considering the strong opposition to the future of the Transvaal? God, forbid !" Bingapore, to MARION, daughter of Matthew importation of Chinese labour into South Only one point more. The introduction of whose sporting proclivities are being dis-bye-law made thereunder when so instructed plaint could be presented: Dunlop, Exq, of Paisley, N.,

On the 19th November, at the Presbyterlan

Africa it in only natural that someone should Chinese labour into South Africa is unjust covered very quickly, and quite a large in writing by one of the Medical Officers of

THE Empress Dowager was most determined Carried unanimourly.

that the strictest economy should be observed Church, Singapore, MARY GIDSON, oldest come forward from "disinterested" motives to the British workmap, ought never to have number of little proofs are coming to, light

1 A DENTIST'É'APPLICATION.

in the celebration of her birthday at Peking. daughter of the late David Karr, of Ayrahiro to and probe to the bottom of the much been permitted, and should be done away of the extent to which he supports the many Robert Pasmore SILBY, eldest son of the Rev. debated question. By the mall to-day we with by law. So say the British workman forms of healthy recreation in the Colony dentist, of 37: Des Vœur, Road, to enclose the twelve million taels,Her Bajesty's refusal to An application on behalf of Mr. H. M. Chaun, and the cost has accordingly been reduced to B Sliby, Queen's Park, Landon,

On 21st November, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, received a copy of a pamphlet, entitled through bis mouthpiece, the trade unions, His reputation as polo player long preceded verandah with glass chiements, so that it may receive presents was not interpreted too, stride Shanghal, by the Rev. A. T. Walker, M, A"Yellow Labour, the truth about the Chinese and he receives the cordial sympathy of his arrival here from the Gold Coast, be used as a dental surgery, was submitted to lysand 1. M. received over Tls., 13,000,000 in LIZZIE SMITH, daughter of the late James in the Traparpal," being a series of articles the Daily Chronicle. Alas; for consistency and we have since seen how cleverly Works minuted, that the application be refused, outside the capital being: H. E. Yuan Shih-kai's the Board. The Hon. The Director of Public intoney alode, the biggest single offering from Farrier, of Shanghai, to WILLIAM, son of the Jate William Ortwin, also of Shanghel, reprinted, with a yellow cover, from the Delly And all this, in spite of the fact that a well be can handle the mallet. During the iis contrary to section 139 of the Ordinance. contribution of Tis, 4po,coo,

On the 26th October last, at Stanhope House, Pengaro, Abergele, North Wales, the wife of E. JONES HUGHES, of a daughtery patches have ince been received from a large mens of humanity-aliens in race, in tongue, interesting field to the mineralogist, but

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On 21st November, at 5. Chuan Road, Shanghai, the wife of R. Y. ANDERSON of daughter.

On 1st November, at No. 12, Park Lapp, Shanghai, the wife of Mr. W. SCHONAU, of

On the 18th November, 1904, at Singapore, the wife of RTHUR SMITH, of a pọn.

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On at November, at "Irene Lodge Seymour Road, Shanghai, the wife of. R. H. Ellas, of a son.

A. daughter,

of a son,

MARRIAGES.

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At the Peak Church, Hongkong, LENNOX GODFREY, third son of the late Colonel Frederic Vincent Godfrey Bird, Royal Marina Lt. Infantry, to MARGARET STUART, only daughter of Bir

John Cockburn.

**^On 19th November, at the Church of the Bacred Heart of Jesus, Shanghai, by the Rey, 0. Frin, SJ, JOÃO MARIA, son of J. da C. Medina, to NATAlina Helena, daughter of R/F. Martins,

YELLOW LABOUR.

(19th November.)

millionaires rich beyond the dreams of

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that when the country is opened up to scientific exploitation not only will this mineral be found in much larger quantities but much varied wealth will be laid bare. Parts of the province offer an exceedingly

under present condition, there are obstacles which stand in the way of rapid and profit- able disposal not only of minerals but of all the economic products of this richest province of China.

THE GOVERNOR AND ROWING.

Malwa (New)...Rs: 1,650

(Old)

1,780 (Oldest) 1,900

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SANITARY BOARD.

- 29th ult. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held in the Board room this after

nood.

MOTION,

Hon. Dr. Atkinson, president, moved that the Board under provisions of section 30 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993, depute inspectors George Willian Coyst, and Roben Charles Witchell to fostitute summaly proceedings before a Magistrate against any persons contravening any I the bye-laws made under section 16 of that Ordinance, when so Officers of Healiks, and also for securing any instructed in writing by one-of the Medical penalty imposed by part 11 of the said Ordi- nance or any bye-law made thereunder, when so instructed in writing by one of the Medical Officers of Health,

GOOD NEWS YOX CREDITORS,

A. M. C. da Silva exparte, the debtor, made an application for His Lordship to approve a composition which he had been able to effect.

Mr. Bruce Shepherd in reply to His Lord- ship said he recommended that the application be granted, as by doing so, the creditors would get fifty per cent of their claims, instead of hardly anything.

The application was acceded to.

AN ACTION AGAINST THE MES SAGERIES MARITIMES CIE,

TO RECOVER RB. 30,000, Proctor Tisseverasinghe appeared before the Mr. Advocate Dodwell Browne and Mr. Hon. Mr. W, H. Jackson, Receiver of Wrecks, at Colombe on 4th inst, and lodged a com plaint against the Messageries Manlimes Cie. for the recovery of Rs. 30,000 as damages done Also that the Board, under the provisions of to the native vessel run down by the M.M. s. Ordinance, 1903, deputs Inspectors George in our columns. It was, thought advisable to

Health."

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