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TELEGRAMS.

The Naval Estimates.

LONDON, 3rd March.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1905.

THE HONGKONG' FIRE INSUR-

ANCE 1O., LTD.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The thirty-sixth ordinary general meeting of the general managers, Messrs. Jardine, Mathe the above Company was held at the offices of son and Company, this morning. Hen, bir.

The British Naval Estimates for 1905-6 amount to £33,389,000 sterling as compar ed with £36,889,000 sterling for 1904-5. Gresson pres ded, and there were also The decrease is mainly due to new construc presenten, Sir Paul Chater, CM.G, Messts. tion and repairs, and partly to the fact that A. J. Raymond, il. P. White, F. Maitland, the latter figure includes the cast of the two R. Mi.ael, Ho Feok, W. A. Cruickshank, cruisers bought from Chili. The decrease. Arnold, S. H. Michael, M. H. Michael, in repairs is due to the elimination of vessels G. H. Pous, S. J. Michael, S. A. Joseph, W. H. Wickham, o Sui Chee, 1. Tester, F. Hail, of small fighting value

and G. T. Veitch (secretary),

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It is proposed to begin during 1905-6 one battleship, four armoured cruisers, six ocean and twelve coastal destroyers, and eleven sub-marines.

The Situation in Russia. At another meeting of workmen's electors in St. Petersburg. it has been decided that, unless the demands of the men are conceded to-day, a general strike will be proclaimed,

There is general: apprehension at St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow, that there will be disorders on a large scale on Satur- day, the anniversary of the liberation of the

serís.

Later.

The Secretary having read the notice con- vening the ingeting,

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen;-With your permission, we will adopt the usual custom and take the repon and accounts as read, I think I may safely congratulate you on the outturn of the 1913 account. Our risks ran off without any, serious losses, and with your up provat we propose dealing with the balance of $307,272.21 by the addition of $30,222.22 to the reserve fund, which will then stand at the sub- stantial sum of $1,20 1,51070, and the payment of a dividend of $34 per share. The balance at credit of the 1954 working account is some what less than last year. This is owing to the numerous fires during the past twelve months, none of any great extent, but the claims ogre The group of Ministers engaged in draft-gating a considerable sum. In addition to the amount appeering in the account, $87,566,98 ing the Constitution have fallen into dis esses actually paid, we know of further claims, favour, and the Reactionaries have regained at present in course of anjustment, estimated at the ear of the Tsar who has issued a Mani- $44,839.31. This is disappointing, and I can festo reaffirming autocracy, and appealing to only hope our outstanding risks will run off in the whole nation to unite against internal a favourable manner. Our surveyors report enemies, and an obstinate foreign for. that in every instance the properties mortgaged show ampie margins on the surns advanced. There is nothing further in the accounts calling for any special comment from me, but before

posing the adoption of the report and ac conals as, presented, I shall be pleased to answer any questions pertaining thereto which shareholders may have to ask. 4* **

REACTIONARIES TO THE FORE.

TROOPS CONCENTRATING. The strike affects every trade in Warsaw, where the strikers are assuming a threaten- ing demeanour, and using revolvers and bombs. Unless the Government can force the gasmen to resume work, the city wilt bu in darkness on Sunday.

The Tsar's Manifesto has had a bad effect, and the authorities are hastily concentrating troops at Warsaw and Lodz. Supplies for the Baltic Squadron. Nine German colliers, and two steamers laden with stores, have left Port Said for the Russian Baltic squadron.

The North Sea Indemnity Claim.

4th March.

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No questions being asked," the Chairman moved the adoption of the te, orl and accounts

Mr. G. H. Potts said he had great pleasure in seconding the motion, and he was sure he was expressing the feelings of the shareholders in congratulating the Directors on the very good results of the year's working and he only hoped that the Chairman's remarks about the present year would turn out better than they anticipated.

The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. W. Cruickshank moved that the appoint The British indemnity claim in the Northment of Mr. H. P. White to the Directorate Sea affair Ims been presented to the Rus sian Government. It amounts to £65,000 sterling,

TRAMLAR DRIVERS ASSAULI ED

BY EUROPFANS.

At the instance of P.C. Milis two European engineers were this morning charged before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy, with dis

vice Mr. 1. H. Lewis be confirmed, and also that the retiring Directors be re-elected.

Mr. T, Arnold seconded and the mation was agreed to.

Mr. J. R. Michael proposed the re-election of Messrs. Hutton Polis and, T. Arnuld as auditors for the ensuing year.

Mr. 110 Fook seconded, and this was also unanimously carried.

This concluded the business, the Chairman announcing that dividend wairams would be

ready to-morrow.

HONGKONG LAND DISPUTE.

THE AUTHORITY OF BROKERS.

At the Supreme Court this morning, before the Chief Justice (Sir lienty S. Berseley) the adjourned action Wong Lut Wan v. Tam Chak Ų was continued.

CONFUCIAN LEARNING.

opfucius, Mencius and fifteen of the famous disciples of the Sage. This image of Con fucius is rather contrary to custom, and is AN ANCIENT SEAT STILI, EXTANT, | peíhaps accounted for by the Buddhisilc

inclinations of Chi Fu Tax.

THE COLLEGE of the WHITE

·DEER GROTTO.

HISTORY OF UI. THE COLLEGE.

[Concluded from Saturday.].

Berides this crude wooden image, there is also

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Advices from Shanghai of 1st inst state Business reported:-Shanghai and Hongkew Wharfs at Tls, 175, P.N.4. Indo-Chinas at Tls.

a portrait of the Sage, one of the only three for March. Wel-hai-wei Golds at $6. reputed to have been marie. It is engraved Langkats at Tis, 273 for April Gas Co. at lite size on a huge sinb, of dark slate and iss. 13. Lumbers at Ils o evidently the product of no mean skill

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In a small room in front of this Confucian temple is enshrined, curiously enough, a tutelar Genius in Chian, as elsewhere, renders a god. Formerly this room was supposed to bestow remarkable success in the examinations place illustrious, and few spots are more celebrated than this lovely vale of the White für high degrees upon all those who had studied In it, because of the literary god standing in a Deer, where Chu Fu Tsz, the greatest com-

litte pavilion across the brook, who holds in mediator of Confucius, lived and taught in the his hand a pencil which points directly to that twelfth century, It is still a place of pilgrimrom, and who guided the pen of the favoured occupant to heaven-bestowed success. În con. age to Chinese literati, for Chu's writings`are

sequence of the favour thus vouchsafed to those przed by them next to their Classics. Crossing who studied in this room, there was such the "Fairy Bridge over one of the rivulels great rush each season to secure it that vigorous whose constant murmur lent enchantment to quarrelling and even murder ensued, so that it was relegated to an idol and henceforth no the otherwise quiet nook, we saw before us a high "Compound" wall, ted in part and white:student has been allowed to study there. in part. Passing the lesser gates, under gilded ideographis, we stood at last in the courtyard of a college older than any university at Europe, Salerno not excepted. This ancient seat of learning was rebuilt-when the ban ners of the third Crusade were advancing on ferusalem, and its real beginning is hid behind the veil of past ages

PRESENT-DAY ASPECT.

T. R. E. Lewis, of Shanghai, in his Educa ional Cor quest of the Far East, recites the amusing experience of himself and three American companions when visiting the Grotio a few years ago. The curiosity of the Chinese concerning all things foreign has often been. noted before, but the actions of these students may still recalled with interest.

usiness done direct-tall and Holtz at $14 Lane, Crawford and Co. at $.30. Lum. hers at Tis. 110.

SHANGHAI FREIGHT.

In their report of and inst., Messrs. Whee- lock & Co, state:-There has been very little,

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ART. CURIOS.

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Chamber of Comine ce Room, A MAGNIFICENT, COLLECTION OF

if any, improvement in the homeward freight market, but from now on we hope for more cargo. Coast wise:Rates have ruled very low since our last, and although there are a few inquiries for the coal trade from Japan, and JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERIES AND from Wuhu and Chefon, and Wuhu to Swatow and Canton, no improvement has taken place. The first steamers for Tientsin sailed on the 28 ultimo with fair cargoes, and Newchwang will be open before the end of the month.

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LOVE de commerce, é de 29 ans, de nationalité Suisse, ayant déja ocrupé, d'importantes fonctions dans de grosses maisons,

We stood in Chu Hsi's venerable college, According to Chinese history the grotto and presently one, two, three, hesitating, inquisitive men with long finger nails, ap which shows no signs of a natural origin, utproached, and stood awkwardly about. After ing dug out of a cliff and arched over with a word of greeting we were shown the main masonry, was the retreat of the illustrious poet eating room where high square tables, benches Li Pu (ur Lí Taipeh) who flourished during with a backs, rice bowls, and chop sticks were the Tang dynasty toward the latter part of the New York man of the party we saw him still chiefly in evidence. Looking around for the ninth century. P'u had a fame white deer in the outer court, beset by two importuna e which accompanied him in his walks abroad students. They had begun with his shoes, the and thus he became known as the "white deer laces and metal eye-holes being duly explained. They took in his stockings, gentleman" and his dwelling" the while deer which were black in curious contradistine grotto." A very crude stone image of a deer tion. to a Chinese gentleman's white hose. placed there by Ho Tsing in the fourteenth they fingered his white duck trousers century now stands beneath this arck When and coat, anxious to know the cost. The chief Confucian inquisitor" procředed to ask promoted to be sub-prefect at Kiangchou, now

and to prove how many sets of garments # Kiusa, Pu built a kiosk over. his former foreigner wears on his arms. This coincided with the three coats which the Chinese expect sequestered abode rendering the spot meinor. able from that day.

to wear in weather somewhat colder. When they had reached the New Yorker's pith-hat, This prince of Chinese investigators held the there was an outburst of ill-mannered laughter piece of head gear in his band and commented an its lightness in comparison to its umbrella dimensions. He made this sally, "What i- your honourable hat made of?" The New Yorker being yet young in China could not recall the Chinese expression for "pith," and THEATRE turned to another of the party to ask. Then came an ironical borst of glee-"This foreign teacher does not know what his own hat in

At a time when dynasty fast gave way to dynasty (five successiva houses holding away between 907-931) this sheltered corner was the retreat of worthy scholars frams far and near, and here fields were bought, buildings erected, students gathered, and a school opened from the famous halls of which were to come men able to help guide the affairs of State. Si Shen- tao, a master of the Nine Canonical Books, was taken from the Imperial Academy to be come the president of this institution, styled the Government School of the Lu Mountains. In gob it was raised to the grade of a university coordinate with the other three universities of the realm. The enrolment was then one hundred students,

The fortunes of this seat of learning suffered many reverses- followed by only partial re- coveries until 1174 (11797), during the Sung Dynasty, when Chu Fu Toz (or Chu Hui-ngan, or Chu Hi) became prefect of Nankang, and un dertook to repair the buildings, then somewhat, as now, in ruin, and to restore prosperity to the institution which held so high a place in the national Annals, thus adding to its fame the Justie of his own great name. He purchased aditional lands for the support of the scholars, established a collegiate code, parts of which are inscribed on the backs if the doors, fre- orderly conduct on tramcar No. 7, and assaut-

quently visited the college to instruct the ing the motorman, on the night of the 4th inst.

students, many of whom rose to prominence. Li On, the motorman, stated that en Sa urday

The publication of the Classics being at that ume farb dden, general education had fallen to night at ten minutes past eleven o'clock, the de-

a low ebb and all classes, officials and con- fendants got on the car at the lost ffice and

mon folk alike, felt the consequent chagrin. occupied the front seats. The first defendant

Chu Fu Tsz in an audience with the Em started to take charge of the car, and witness

perar, as Inspector of the Sime Department made a pira for more liberal education, setting stopped him. The first defendant then sal

fourth the great disparity between the numerous down and put his feet up on the ledge of the

and prosperors Thaist and Buddhist temples window just beside the brake. Witness stopped

(in the provincial capital more than one hun. the car near Ship Street, but the first Bon, Mr. F. H. Sharp, R.C., (instructed by dred, and in every prelecture several lens) and defendant refused to alight, and held witness Messrs. Ewens and Harsion) appeared for the the sparse and poorly supported schools (only one in a prefecture and none in the small dis. by, the hand, and wanted to use the start plaintiff, and Mr. H. E Polloc, &C., (instructiricis), and urging the be towal of an Imperial ing handle. Witness then cut off the currented by Mr. F. X. d' Almada e Castro) defended, |. Tablet (a stone bearing a part of the Classics and removed the handle from its place. The The case was before the Gout on the 15th witten on it by the Emperor himsell) in order first defendant then struck witness in the face

and 10th September last, Plaintiff, a merchant that the prestige of the Groun University might with his fist. The second defendant, who was

be restored, honour paid to is Majesty's mesi of 15', Des Voeux Road, sued the Defendant, Lorinus pred cessors, and the scholars of the standing in the street near the car, got on the landowner of 61, Ites Veux Rosal, for the realm favoured. This he ventured in leg at the car again, and struck witness so the nose, specific performance of an agreement, made risk of his life, for the civil anthorities regarded causing it to bleed. Witness produced a blood-

even the action with suspicion. between plaintiff as vendor and defendant as

The request was granted but the tablet did stained handkerchie, The second defendant

purchaser, on the 28th May of last year, for the not assure perpetual blessing. At the close of had all the way been telling the motorman to sale by plaintiff to defendant of the remaining the next dynasty it was cast out into the brush burry up. The bruise on the first defendant's portion of Inland (ni 1,216, subject to a certain during a commotion and not till the sixth Em. forehead was caused by his falling and striking mortgage registered in the Land Office, and to

peror of the Ming Dynasty (cir. 1470) was his head against the side of the cor. The de

found and replaced. It is not recorded 'ow the payment of $27.500 portion of a principong Chu Fu Tsz laboured here, but legend fendants went over to the management and

sum of $100,000 with inte rest. Plainuff in the asked them to hush up the mauer, but they re- alternative asked for $10,000 damages. faser to do so as it was a serious matter, and the motormen must be protected from men of

this class.

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P. C. Mlls said, on the night in question, he was passing in another car and say the defen dints assaulting the motorman of car No. 7. The second defendant was holding the motor man, and the first was striking" him. Wit ness asked what the trouble was about, and the defendants said the car was not going quick enough, so they wanted to increase the speed. The motorman said they were inte fering with the controlling gear, and had assaulted him, Witness then arrested the defendants. The second did not appear at all to be separating the other two, but holding the motorinah for the first defendant to strike.

Defendants said they wished to say nothing, and would call no witnesses.

P. C. 55 said that defendants were both under the influence of I quer.

His Worship remarked that a motorman in charge of a car was in the position of a man in charge of the helm of a ship at sea, and in these cases such man must be protected against unwarrantable interference. The first defen- dant was fined $25 on each charge or $50 in all. As regards the second defendant the first charge was dismissed, and he was fined $5 on the second-charge.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plum mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser-

vatory -

Plaintiff set forth that defendant said that be paid $6,150 bargain money on the faith of re presentations Lisely made to him by a broker who was employed by the plaintiff to negotiate the sale of the property to the effect that the poprty was let at 1650 per month, when as a matter of fact it was only let her $250 (defendant) then made a counterclaim for 16,150. I was alleged that the broker had authority to make such a representation.

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claims that he spent the rest of his life as pre- sident of this institution and was buried in the shady prove near by.

The following is a rather free rendering of a part of this noted pr ceptors collegiate code written on the inner panels of the doors of the Assembly Hall:"The ancient worthies might men in seek the principles of righteousness and to cubivate a moral conduct which would influence nthers. They did not wish men me-

Herely to exercise their memories in writing com positions to secure fame and profit. But the students of to day (Chu Fu Tsz's tame) do not follow the ancient worthies. Let all earnest students give heed, inquire and discriminate, if a man knows his duty and forces himself to do it, will be not finally know instinctively what

The case for the defendant, which was taken first, was concluded when the matter was first before the Court. This morning after Hisis right without any rules of order? * Lordship had read through his notes, and the evidence given in September, Mr. Sharp con- tinued the arguments for the plaintiff.

Hao Fung Chee, head writer in the Registrar General's Office, was called to prove that the characters in the preliminary agreement for

The important subjects laught by the ancients I myself will investigate with all the students, and we will force ourselves to practise them

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDINGS

The unpretentious buildings, evidently 5650 rental" which were supposed to have designed for use and not for show, are com been added by the plaintiff at the request of prised in eight paved but uncovered courts the defendant through the broker, were not in affording sufficient shelter for the four hundred the same handwriting as the body of the docu-stadents that are said to have gathered there men. It was a deliberate imitation of the in the palmy days when scholars prepared for writing in the body of the document.

the service of the State by writing verdes to the stars. Three sides of each court are given up to living rooms for students, two in each, while the fourth or upper side gives space for teachers' quarters and class rooms.

Mr. Pollock objected to the evidence of the witness being regarded as expert, and His Lordship took the same view..

made of!!

Still more significant is the treatment these visitors received from the master of the school, for it typifies in itself quite well the change in China's mental attitude in her contact with Western thought as pointed out in our first. paper-from initial arrogance and conceited ignorance to a lively appreciation of the value of the Newer Learning, "Hefore we left the cnilege we found a teacher sitting at the head of one of the courts with a bandage about his head. He was not glad to see us, his malaria possibly accounted for his in civility, which, however, might have been

gravated by the fact that two of the company forgot to remove then, spectacles on coming into his presence. However, his frigidity wore off, and when it came out that the foreigners could write (nore or less) as well as talk his native language, the professor rose slowly and stood as he talked with us. Inquiring if we were students he seemed first abashed and then incredulous when he learned that all his interlocutors were second degree 'men. He looked as much as to say, "These foreign chaps must have brought their degree, if they really have them not an unnatural thought for a Chinese,"

"At length when the professor was thawed out, to the point of civilay at least, the Bos- tonian in the party produced from his imperi. menta a large package of Chinese books. The professor, with a quizzical took on his face, re ceived a beautifully illustrated life of Christ, and Dr Faber's four volume Commentary on the fassics, from a Christian standpoint. The learned man saw the beauty of the printing. and bowed his acknowledgments. sued a scramble among the students for the One fine-looking fellow reumaining books secured a large volumed commemary on St. Mark and St. Luke, and three or four others

Then ea

cased him to his room in the attempt to get

it from him

We left the scholar aed his students earnest.

ly pouring over the books, and went out of the compound. By the banks of a sparkling brook we spread our luncheon and while talking over the experience of the day, a messerger arrived from the professor. He was instructed to say that the books were much appreciated, that it "was most kind of us to bring them; and might he ask that we bi ing another instalment, espe cially the Commentary on the Classics? We 75sured the messerger that in two weeks or sa books could be secured from Shanghai ard would gladly be sent."

Two years ago some ladies who accom panied a party of gentlemen from Kuling in a Lisit to the College were not allowed to enter the Confucian temple, and the gentlemen wee required to remove the spectacles; but on our visit in August 194 not only were nur glassrs allowed to remain before our eyes, but the ladies of our party were granted ready en- trance to this holy of holies. The real diff. culty was rather that things were too free and casy and the long robed but rather youthful students too pert even from a Chinese point of view. Evidence was not wanting of the shift- lessness resulting from Chu Fu Tsz's pro-

free tuition vision of

and support of each student. Elad it cost them more to gain this classical learning, they might have been more diligent in its acquisition and more earnest in making it bear fruit in helpful service to their fellows.

naisant à fond de comptabilité en partie duble, parlant couramment le Franç sis, l'al- einand, le Hollandais, Pitalien et l'Anglais, désirerait une situation dans l'une des villes de la cute de Chine.

WALL

ART CURIOS, Comprising :- EMBROIDERED PALACE HANGINGS, PRIEST'A ROBES, TEMPLE BROCADES, OLD FUKUSAS, COURT KIMONOS, SILK VELVET PICTURES (Landscapes and other designs), &é, &c.

Very Fine GOLD LACQUER BOXES, INROS, OLD ZONSEI LACQUERED SCREENS and TABLES, &c.

CHOICE SELECTION of EMBROIDER- ED SCREENS, EIGHT OLD PALACE DOORS, with choice designs; FINELY EXECUTED and SILVERWARE -

DAMASCENE

A Quantity of OLD BRONZES, 'KAKI- MONOS

A Fine Selection of SATSUMA and other PORCELAINS.

ALSO 2 FINE DIAMOND RINGS and 1 CAR- VED GOLD RING. TERMS —As usual.

The above, which is equal to anything that bas been offered for sale forally, will be on exhibition from Thursday, the 9th March.

Catalogues will be issued.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 6th March, 1905.

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Without a competent head or organized faculty, without a governing board ar scarcely a janitor, the students are a law unto them. selves. They bring their own fumiture and cooking utensils and build little hearths for private use or perhaps in clubs. The dilapi dated condition of many sections of the build. ings, no doubt, results, from a lack of other ready fuel. Some parts of the roof are crushed But in one court, in place of the teachers' + in and weeds flourish in several rooms. Many to the contrary be given before.TO-DAY, quarters, there is a high pillared shine-room of the memorial tablets have fallen down, and where behind red curtains sits the massive altogether the place has become nothing more wooden statue of Chu Fu Tez, an object of than a sleepy, and degenerate cloister where reverence as the intellectual father of the race about twenty students, free from the distur, of students cultured hero. This room comes bances of home-life and new spirit of change just in front of the grotto where the image spreading over the land, can better prosecute of the white deer stands. An inscription in their antiquated studies. As typically repre- huge characters hangs above his throne and sentative of China's ancient educational system, on either side are tablets to the memory of bis the College of the White Deer Grotto has upon distinguished disciples.

if the mildew of decline, while in many places throughout the Empire schools of the newer learning under foreign and native auspices are preparing the alert of China's youth to lead in the strong and masterful civilization which she is destined to attain..

Mr. Sharp said his witness was employed in the Registrar General's Office, and part of his business, was to show by comparison whether documents were genuine. Therefore he was undoubtedly an expert witness.

In reply to the Court, Mr. Sharp said he d d On the 6th at 11.50am. The barometer has not go so far as to say that any one had com- risen over Japan, and is little changed else-mitted forgery. It was futile to imagine that where.

the characters had been inserted by the broker, The anti-cyclone is spreading Eastwards for it would have been brought home to him at over Japan, its centre, however, continuing to ance at the meeting in the solicitor's office lia over N. China.

when the parties were present What he Gradients are moderate on the China coast should ask this Lordship later on to say was, Passing into the adjacent court through a and rather steep over the China Sea.

whether the defendsat had proved his case and The monsoon will probably moderate in the the allegation, it contained. That he was in Formosa Channel, but continue to blow strong-duced to sign the contract by false representa ly over the China Sea.

Farecast:-Moderate N,E. winds; overcast, The further hearing of the case was adjourned some drizzling rain,

sill half past teq (q:Morrow ingraing,

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tion.

circular doorway we stand in the sancium sanctorum of the college, in the very midst of its buildings, occupied by a temple with great double doors smeared with the ubiquitous Chinese red. Dark and damp the main hall of this temple offers shelter to large images of

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HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1995..

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex 5.5. Dordogne and Adour, from Havre ex s.s. Dordogne, from Borbaux ex ss. Ville de Valencienne and Vi-beckmaer, in connection with above Steamer, are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treature and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may' be obtained immediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before 2 PM, TO-DAY, requesting it ïo ba landed here.

Bills of Lading will be countersigard by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 13th March, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 13th March, orthey will not be recognised.

Alt damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 13th March, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

L. BRIDOU,

Acting Agent Hongkong, 6th March. 1905

Entimation.

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

IS

"BLACK & WHITE"

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO,

SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERY. By Appointment to EM. THE KING

HRH the PRINCE of WALES

and

Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from [jay the principal Stores,

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