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TELEGRAM.

[Reuter's]

Facing Fearful Odds.

FIERCE FIGHTING.

LONDON, 7th March. Reuter's correspondent with General Oku's army, wiring on the 5th instant, says that the attacks of the Japanese left wing since the 28th ultimo have been pushed home in the face of tremendous difficulties, amid heavy snow storms and with star shells and search lights lighting up every movement. They carried trenches defended by wire entangle. ments and bristling with machine guns at the point of the bayonet, despite the stub Lorn resistance of the Russians. The latter are now retreating in disorder, the men dis- carding both armis and clothing in their flight.

The japanese have captured a number of six-inch guns and machine guns.

The attacks of the Japanese were covered by the most furious bombardment, all the Port Arthur siege guns being employed with terrible effect, pulverizing villages and carth- works, and demoralizing the Russians.

In the meantime the fighting in the centre is confined to the arrillery,

Later.

Diplomatic Changes and

Appointments.

The Hon. Whitelaw Reid has been ap pointed American Ambassador in London, and Mr..W. W. Bockhill, American Minister in Peking. Mr. E. II. Conger has bech transferred to, Mexico.

The following have been appointed American Consuls-General :-

Mr. Simmons at Newchwang, Mr. Miller at Yokohama, and Mr. Rodgers at Shanghai.

Russian Labour Commission. The Tsar has ordered the closing of the Labour Commission mentioned in telegram of the 2nd instant, owing to the refusal of the workmen to elect representatives.

MACAO NOTIS

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Macao, 8b March, 1985, JERRY BUILDINGS. On Monday night three houses collapsed in one of the principal streets in Chingtown not far from the place commonly known as "Hongkong miu." I wo Chinamen were killed and three seriously injured; the latter were removed to hospital for treatment, If the accident had happened in the day time the number of victims might easily have been greater, as the street is one of the most frequented in the city. The houses were of three stories, and for their height the thickness of the wall, constructed of inferior brick, was comparatively insufficient. It is asked, how is it that Government could have sanctioned any structure of such had construction? The law in this respect is kept more in its breach than its observance. Some lime ago it was de creed that, in the re-construction of houses, the widening of the roads should be burne in mind. Instead of this being the case and in apite of the Governmental order, many houses have since been re-erected and others in course of completion, while the Order has been wholly set at naught. How, then, can it be expected that the sanitary condition of Macao çin be improved 2. The Squares of S. Domingo and of the Senate are considerably narrowed since the new buildings have been allowed to be put up. Axe-grinding has a good deal to do here in opposition to the general well-being of the community.

A PUBLIC NUISANCE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905.

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING

AND MINING CO. CASE.

A SHANGHAI OPINION.

H. E. Chang Yen Mao bas, curious as it may seem, been the means of raising to the highest pinnacle of admiration in China, the British sense of justice. The case adjudicated upon by Mr. Justice Joyce was a most complicated one; but with a firm conviction of the justice of the claim put forward on behalf of those whom he represented, and an even greater faith in the fact that the scales of justice balance on the pivot of British honour always yield to the pressure of right, H. & Chang Yen-Mao appealed to that court where all men, the richest or the poorest, have the right to plead Memory travels back to the year 1880, when those most energetic of brothers, Tong Mao-ches and Tong King ing, took up the naiive-coal scratchings and with a capital of Tis. 10,000, equivalent 10 £230,000 in those days, organised the mines on modern principles. Chinese ideas of capital in those 'days were small and the Company was soon involved and had to raise a loan of 100,000 in China. This money was raised through the energies of H. E. Chang Yen Mao, The money was soon swallowed up and a further sum' of £280,wa was found neces- sary in the year 1895. The money could not

be

THE SINGAPORE DUCKS.

In continuation of the report, printed yester day, of the extraordinary meeting of share holders to consider the Expropriation Bill, the following speech, and others to be concluded to-morrow, will be read with interest!---

MR WARRACK.

Mr. Warrack said:-1 have been asked to recond the first resolution, I presume because 1 have lately had an opportunity of meeting the London Committee, but I wish it to be known that I have not consulted the directors as to what I shall say and that they are not committed to my views on the matter. I observe the "Straits Times" is pleased to consider that in holding this meeting we are affecting an indignation, and. simulating an anger which we do not really feel. I should just like to ask the Editor how his share. holders would feel if the Goverment proposed to expropriate the ""Straits Times" without any compensation for compulsary sale, and how he himself would feel if the Government gave as their reason for expropriation the tolal inadequency of his leading articles to meet the requirements of the place.

AT HONGKONG.

to concenimte our efforts to obtain such moda. | LORD'HAWKETO PLAY CRICKET fications in the Bill an will secure justice to There two clauses in the Bill I regard as so ourscives and are dicted by public policy. objectionable as to involve the principle of the bill and warrant the Unofficial Members of Council in opposing the second reading unless amendments are promised by the Government, These are Nos. 13 and 30.

MU THE NO COMPENSATION CLAUSE,

No. 13 refers to the principle on which the arbitration is. to be conducted and lays it down that no compensation for compulsory sale is to be paid the Company. This is largely a legal matter and I hope that a suc ceeding speaker will take it up, but as a lay. man would point out that if it is just that owners of land in this Colony should by the for compulsory sale, it is surely just that we law of this Colony receive 15% compensation

should receive the same for our land. The only' possible excuse I can see that the Govern ment can put forward is that this compensa ion would involve too large a sum. Well, we have all heard of the woman, whoa in extenua- tion of her breach of the moral law pleaded

that the result was such "a very small one," the Government it will be but in the case necessary for them to excuse their breach of

be "a very big one." Colonial law by pleading that the result would

THE 5% CHARGE,

The other clause, No. 30 section 1, proposes that the New Board should pay to the Govern. ment 5% interest on the cost of the under 'taking and I desire to draw your attention to the following points.

1st, the Government are correctly reported in, the newspapers as having suggested $240. per share as a fair basis for negotiation, 5% per annum on that sum is exactly the dividend paid to the shareholders, the proposed main- tenance of which was so condemned by the Government and proved the chief reason for refusing to assist the Company financially. It will now be taken out of the New Board by the Governmetit.

2nd. This valuation of $240 presupposes that the arbitrators shall fix the compensation on the basis of 20 years purchase on the present dividend; but suppose for the sake of argu- ment that they listen to our contention to be out on the basis of the dividend carning: capacity and also for the sake of argument that the figures I quated three years ago are taken, víz 18%, this would mean $560 per share and the interest at 5% would be fully a million dollars against $444,000 now taken out of the Company by the shareholders. This will mean that it will be impossible to make any exten signs out of revenue and that these will have to by borrowed for as they are made.

I am not aware that we have shown any particular indignation or anger about the malter, but I do not deny that we feel sore at the way it has been gone about by the Government and the basis on which they propose we should raised in China for an essentially be thrust out of so magnificent a heritage, Chinese enterprise, but foreigners, chiefly Bel-built up, as it has been, by so much labour and gians and French, requ red little persuasion to thought on the part of the management and a'q'ire debentures in such a promising nder so much self-denial on the part of the share taking. The year 1895 did not see the con-holders. clusion of the financial troubles of the Kaiping I do not know what impression you have or Tong collieries as the avarice of governing formed from a perusal of the correspondence officials in Peking, with regard to what, in published by the Government, but mine is very courtesy, we may call royalty or commission, distinct that, when Mr. Lucas's letter of 2nd daily accumulated; and in order to purchase September last was sent into the Landon Com freedom from this ever-increasing millstone, mittee, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Prince Ching and Chang Yen-Mao personally if he had not already decided in his own mind advanced a further loan of £250,000. We will for expropriation, at any rate regarded it as see by this that a company with a nominal most probable alternative to the other proposal capital of £250 000 was carrying debts to the of assisting the Dock Company financially, and amount of £400,90, heating the somewhat that, though the London Committee did not excessive rate of 0 percent interest. A com-

know it, the Company was arraigned for triat pany bearing this financial strain was not in a and that without receiving that warning which position, particularly in the turbulent times of the meanest criminal is entitled at the hands 1930 and 1901, to stand pressure from any of the police, that any statements made by him 3rd. In charging the new undertaking with parties desiring to seeing its downfall. There would be used as evidence against him.

5% interest I do not. think it will be disputed that the Goverment will be charging at least was no doubt in the minds of all those who

Happily the London Committee, all uncon-11% more than they can borrow at, seeing, for scious that they were before a public prosecutor example, that the Hangkong 31% loan stands and not the representative of a paternal above par and if my figure of $60 per share is Government which had invited their confidence taken it will mean that fully $300,000 profit burden of this amount laid upon the shipping with a view of affording them assistance, did will be made by the Government and an annual not in their correspondence give him any and trade of the port, handle for expropriation and the Secretary of State, to prove his case, was obliged to fall back on his recollection of a conversation at a private meeting with a deputation of the London Committee, to the effect that without the ausis tance of the Government the London Com- mittee could not hope to raise the necessary money for the extension proposed and to do so out of revenues would take 30 years.

knew anything of the mines that they formed very valuable property and it was an open secret that in the two years just named, certain foreign governments desired to lay hands sud- denly upon the richness of those chrboniferous deposits. Not only this, but word had leaked out that certain foreign troops had received orders to seize the mines. There was no time to loose if China was to have even the sein blance of a voice in the control of China's great Bery; and the agreement of Feb. 14th, 1991, which has held such a prominent place in the present trial, was the result. It is not for us to say that it was the wisest agreement that could have been made for either party. Neither is it for us to say it was the wors! agreement, but what we da say is that theexigencies of the case

were such that something had to be done. In this respect it was a case of "what thou doest do quickly." Again, the exigencies of the case compelled the vendees of the first part to obtain money where they could, although the spirit of the agreement was to the effect that any foreign capital should be British capital. As we have shown above, both French and Bel interest, gian capitalists, had already an through debenture holdings, is the u'd Com pany and knew its value. They. it seems, were therefore the more willing to invest in the new venture, and it was Belgians, who eventually found greater part of the capital required in a nominally Anglo-Chinese enterprise. The fact remains, however, that although the company was formed and was registered as a British concern, the Chinese thought the spirit, not the word, of the agreement was broken, inasmuch as they believed that they should always have the appointing of a certain number of directors and thereby retain a modicum of control. That the question of fraud was made the secondary charge serms in have been most wise, and it is pleasing in note that all the learned judge finds In his judgment, is that the defendants were guilty of breach of contract. At least that is what we understand from the telegraphic sum- mary to hand. The Chinese, by this action, have gained two important points, one that thy were contending for and the other in cidental in that contention. They contended that Iri ih justice should so read the agree. ment as to insist on proper representation of Chinese on the board of direction and that such board should sit in China. They have gained this point, but the second point they have gained is a knowledge that, in British counts, justice is impartials

THE KEYSTONE OF APPROPRIATION. Now this statement forms the keystone of his whole argument for expropriation, without which it crumbles to pieces, and I think that we can claim that it should not rest on the recollection of a single individual, trowey r eminent he may be, and however bar ourable we may believe him to be. I happened o be present when the Lordos Committee discussed a telegram received from Singapore in which this statement was referred to and none of them could understand the reference, and I think it is a fair inference to believe that what really happened was that the Colonia Secretary asked a leading question as to what would happen if they failed to raise the money and they replied that even then they could carry out the pro- posed scheme in 30 years out of revenue, a very different thing from an adrusion that they could not raise the money.

NO OPPORTUNITY OF OPPOSING,

Then again when the Secretary of State had decid d for expropriation, the Company should have been given an opportunity of showing they could raise the money themselves and of giving their views on the question. Among other things the Company might have asked him to consider if he was not saddling the wrong horse with expropriation and was it not public policy that the control of the Harbour should be put into the hands of those who had proved themselves the most capable, and that real solution was the expropriation of the Colonial Government by the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co of their interest in and control over the Singapore Harbour.

A LUTLE SATIRE,

The proposal is so monstrous that we can hardly believe we are dealing with the same Government which proposed an expensive Har bour Scheme and was willing to bear for many years the loss of interest amounting to a much larger sum than I have named. Should the same policy be pursued regarding the lones &c., the Government will make a further profit necessary for the proposed Lagoon Scheme, of $225,000 a year.

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GOVERNMENT NO PROFIT,

4th. His Excellency the Governor in intro- ducing the Ordinance before the Council stated that the Government had no wish to make any prefit out of the transaction and the difference between what they paid and received would be used as a sinking fund, hut if you will look at the Ordinance you will find no provision what ever for carrying this out, and there is nothing to prevent the Government charging 5% for all time to come Further there is no necessity for a sinking fund. A sinking fund is a valu able expedient for spreading the cost of un- productive works over a series of years, as in the case of Municipalities, but it is absurd to apply it to a commercial undertaking which is able to pay interest out of profits and whose

I have already shown that if the arbiters fix assets are sufficient to cover all habilities. the purchase price at not lower than 20 years purchase that is a 5% basis, and my argument is independent of the question whether they fid the net profits to be 12% or 28%, then all

ing. What then is the use of paying off by improvements will have to be inade by borrow. means of a sinking fund the original loan for the cost of the undertaking, when the new board will be continually borrowing to carry oul improvements?

MORAL INTIMIDATION.

To-day's Advertisements.

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN FRESH MEATS,

QEEF. Sirloin

Rump Steak Porterhouse Stenk Suet............rz Soup Meat...ONCEALESVIRTUT MUTTUN.-Legs

Loid Hawke, the prominent British cricketer, is expected in Hongkong by the English mail due here from the South to-morrow. We under stund some special matches are being arranged to take place during the stay of Lord Hawke in this Colony. The famous cricketer is accom-B panied, we learn, by another prominent bals- man, whose name, however, has not transpired. The first match to be played will beene between the L. R.. C. and the H.K.C.C., and will com- mence on the H.K.C.C. grounds on Saturday at half past eleven, the other matches at pre sent in contemplation depending entirely upon the length of Lord Hawke's stay in sporting readers that Lord Hawke accompani- Hongkong. It will be remembered by our ed 'rince Ranjetsinghi on the latter's return to India.

to all probability the other prominent bats- men who is accompanying him is A. C. Mac- laren, who came out to India with Lord Hawke

and Prince Ranjetsinghi. In a match at Cal- cuta early in the year, Lord Hawke compiled 148 and 4 in two innings respectively and Maclaren put together 36 and 87, though these willow wielders. We' fancy that it will be are by nu means exceptionally scores for these some time before such a crack is again seen playing in Hongkong and, given fine matches, a most enjoyable gaine should result.

COMMERCIAL.

SHANGHAI SHARE REPORT

The following resume of the week's share tansactions is from Messrs. J. A, Sullivan and Co.'s report published on the 2nd March-

Last month's settlement was small and every contract passed through smothly. The only business of any pretension done this week has been in Shanghai and Honghew Wharf shares. Farnham, Boyds have dropped to Tls. 150 and Langkats are weaker in tone. Indo-Chinas wavered a point bat at the close are firming up again. London sight is 2/2-1/16. Three days' sight froin Hongkong is quoted 72-3/8. Consols Lgn-7/8.

Wharves. Large lots of Shanghai and Hong kew Wharf shares changed hands from Ts. 1721 10 Tls. 120 cash (p.ni), but afterwards a reaction caused the price to fall to Tis 125,1778.175. Shares are again in demand. Old' shares were placed at Tls. 145, Tls. 142,144 and 'New' at Tls. 143 and Tls. 140,1414, Better raies are being offered at the close. For warch sales at Tls, 182,814,182),185 were repo ted; but following the cash weakness transactions were subsequently done at TIs 175.1771;

Shipping A few cash Indos were sold at Tis. 90. For March Tls. 91,5oj ure posted. Shures are in demand at these rates. Shells quiet at 1.2 Tug and Lighters have been placed at Tls. 527 for cash.

Docks. Farnham Boyds were sold for cash, and settlement at Tls. 15,155 and weakened yesterday to Tls 150 cash. March sales have heen booked at Tls. 155, Tls. 156, 1571.156 and to-day at Tls. 50,149, Ts, 152,155,154,152. April at Tis. 158 and Tis. 155.

Lands-Several lots of Shanghais were sold at Tis. 15.

Cottons-Nothing done.

Sugars. Peraks are in demand at 1s. 5o. Mining-Chinese Engineering and Mining Co shares bave changed hands Ïls. 7.65.

Tobaccos.-The Shanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Co.'s accounts to 31st October, 1994, show a surplus Tls. 129,206 34. After deducting the interior dividend of 15 per cent, paid in August, the balance is deal with as follows:-by pay. in a final dividend of 30 per cent (making in all45 per cent for the year), say is. 78,000,

balance Tls. 1,297 67 The crop of tobacco for by writing off buildings, roads, implements,

1904 from 425 fields weighed 4,051 pels. Crop th, 5-12,000 and carrying forward the

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450 fields are being planted. Shares have been sold at Tls. 72 and Tls. 73 for cash. In Langkats business has been done at Tis. -68,269 and Tls. 2671 cash; for March at Tls. 174. Tk. 271 and Tls. 271 10-lay at Tls. 2671, April Tis. 273 and June at Tls, 280.

To-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORKOW, (FRIDAY), the 10th March, 1905, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, A QUANTITY OF GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY. TERMS: As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers Hongkong, th March, 1905.

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ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

THE EVENT OF THE SEASON,

5th. So far I have spoken on this clause, whole intercals are in Singapore, but there is not so much as a shareholder as one whose an aspect which I think deserves attention from the shareholder's point of view. It is that I regard the insertion of 5% interest payable to the Govern ent as a moral intimidation of the arbitors that they do not give more than 20 years purchase for the concern, for if they gave more say 25 years or 4%, which is nearer the biss of home valuations, it would mean that THEATRE the Government would be put in the foolish position of extracting 5% in the new board which would only he earning 4%. Now to make a Government look foolish is repugnant to every loyal subject, and I do not thick that They could have shown that the Colonial the arbitors should have to choose between Government had done little or nothing for the their loyalty and the justice of the case. To protect them the Unofficial Members of Coun. Barbour since the settlement of the Colony.il should demand that an addition be made to. They could have shown that while they were this clause that nothing in this section shou'd making a huge profit from the Straits Lights, affect the compensation payable to the Com they had only established a single leading light pany. on Fort Canning, when they should have covered the Harbour with a network of lighted buoys and enabled steamers to enter at night as they do at home, and thus greatly increase the working capacity of the wharves. They could have shown that only one rock had been removed at the entrance of the River, when they could and should have removed several reefs in the fairway of the New Har hour. They could have shown that, except some mudlarking in the river, they have not

HOW TO MEET THE GOVERNMENT, terest I might be tempted to enlarge upon, but There are many other points of general in I shall spare you and conclude by suggesting the attitude we should assume toward Govern ment. We intend to fight for every dolar of our rights and I have no misgivings as to the result of the arbitration if the proposed amend- ments to the ordinance are allowed by Govern- ment, but we, besides being shareholders of this Company, are all interested in the trade and prosperity of the port and I think we should consider we have been badly treated and be let it go forth to the Government that while we lieve that it would have been better for all con- cerned bad the development of Tanjong Pagar been continued in our hands, yet we do not propose to offer a factious opposition to their scheme and cordially accept their invitation to assist in the management of the new concern.

While on the subject of sanitation, I would like to bring to the notice of the municipal authorities a nuisance which is a menace to the public health unless promptly abated. I refer to the objectionable disposal of the fugal mat- ter on the Praia Grande which, for lack of efficient supervision, threatens the health of all inhabitants living in this beautiful and, should be healthful part of the city. It is a matter of common knowledge that to save themselves the trouble of distant cariŝage the cooles (men and

THE COPPER OF YUNNAN, women alike) empty the contents of the buckets over the praya wall into the sea, and this is Taorai Yen Shou Fang, chief of the Con- done as late as after seven o'clock in the morn-mittee Commercial Bureau of Shanghai, some ing when the offenders should be apprehended time ago bad the intention of obtaining copper and dealt with severely for such a reprehensi- the Chinese Minister af Mining Affairs in that from Yunnan, and subsequently telegraphed to ble practice. This offence is too common and province, asking to kindly supply him with the the wonder is that it is allowed to continue for so necessary information, as already reported in long with perfect impunity. The foreshore must these columns. According to the reply re- perforce be polluted, and the offensiveness of ceived a few days ago, the price of Peking cop per is Tis zo per hundred catty, not including, the exhalations at low-tide might easily be however, the transportation fees. From the responsible for an epidemic of typhoid or mining factory of Yunnan to Luchou, for every diptheria which may lead to consequences far instalment of 500,000 catties, it would take mosa serious than pleasant to contemplate.

over three months, so far as transportation carried out a single recommendation of their is concerned, and from Luchou to Shang own River Commission, though held five years hai, over a month. In usual practice, the copper in escorted by a specially-appointed, ago, and that a state of congenion exists which deputy to Peking, where he would report to inflicts a greater loss on the trade of Singapore the proper Board for delivery. The above is than any detention to steamers by Tanjong only a rough account of how copper is sent Pagar. They could have shown that the from Yunnan to Peking. In conclusion the Government, by their dog in the manger policy I do not wish to prophesy evil and I do not, Chinese Minister of Mining Affairs asked whe ther the scheme referred to the purchase of as regards foreshore right to land belonging but I cannot conceal my apprehension of the copper from Yunnan or the development of to the Dock Company, they have prevented the very grave difficulties which will confront the new board, difficulties arising not from any lack copper mines thereof, and if the former part construction of wharves which would have of vitality of the concern, but from the deader- of the scheme be adopted, it would result in relieved the pressure at Tanjong Pagar at such ing influence of Government control, and its considerable difficulty, as much copper from Yuncan is consumed in Peking every year. periods as the China War and that at a trifl-incompatibility in temper and principle with a commercial undertaking. To surmount these But if the latter, there are some chances of ing cost compared with the huge schemes now

difficulties will require the brains of men of the success on condition that sufficient capital is put forward.

highest ability and large commercial experi. raised. The undertaking will bear no fruit for

ence but these the directors and shareholders a few years to come. For, it must be realized,

can and I think should supply. (Loud applan mining affairs have been carried out in Yunnan for twenty years, and since then no less than

88)~S, F. Press, Tis. 5,000,000 have been sponte-Baiern Timit.

THE WEATHER

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observa. tory :-

On the 9th at 11.50am. The barometer has risen over the E. coast of Chine, and fallen slightly on the 8. coast.

A high pressure area is lying over N. China and gradients are rather steep in the Formosa Chanhel and N. part of the China Sea, where strong monsoon may be expected to prevail.

Forecast:-Strong N.Z. breezes; overcast, some drizzling rain,

BILL MUST BE MODIFIED,

But however good our case against expro priation is, I think we must realize that the Government are determined on it and we ought

FUTURE DIFFICULTIES

[To be concluded to-morrow:]

THE DALLAS-BANDMANN

OPERA CO. .“

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TO-NIGHT!

CONSISTING OF ARTISTES

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TO-NIGHT!

(THURSDAY), 9th March,

·

Grand Production of "THE CINGALEE." From Daly's Theatre, London.

TO-MORROW, (FRIDAY) AND SATURDAY, roth and 11th March, "THE CINGALEE."

MONDAY, 13th March, The Enormously Successful Musical Comedy, "THREE LITTLE MAIDS," From the Apolls Theatre, London. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 14th and 15th March, "THREE LITTLE MAIDS."

Doors open..mendató 8.30 F.M.

Commence.................. 9.00 P.M.

PRICES AS USUAL.

Plan at Messrs. ROBINSON PIANO Co., Ld. Late Tram 15 minutes after the Performance.

F. C. GARTON,

Business Manager.

·Hongkong, pih March, 1905,

Lain Chopso...nođen Rib Chops....... Fore Quarters i.. Breast.

********

per lb. 30 cents

30

19

30 I 20

#

Sheep Tongues........................................ each 20 Sheep Kidneys. LAMB.--Hird Quarters..... per lb.

Legs

10 36

Loin Chops Rib Chops army Fore Quarters PORK-Legs ma

Chops....... Shoulder......KEKNEKTAKAN

Loin

Sausages

34 30

30

Fritz Sausages ......... CORNED MEAT (OUR OWN FICKLING). BEEF. Corned Round.........per lb. 35 cents.

Corned Brisket... PORK.-Corned

POULTRY.

น

HOUSE FED CAPONS and CHICKENS

(own feeding)...0191

per lb. 32 centâ. HOUSE FED TURKEYS (own feeding)............................

70

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SPECIAL NOTICE. All the meat imported by us is officially ex- amined and certified in perfect condition before shipment.

Hongkong 9th March, 1905.

NOTIDE TO RESIDENTS. THE RISE IN MEAT PRICES.

(To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL.)

DEAR SIRA in your last evening's EAR SIR,-I was pleased to see House- issue. Let us all combine and back up the Dairy Farm Co., and we will soon break the back of the Guild. I am a shareholder and so really get my me cheaper than local market rates, for the simple season that I am refunded the profits on my purchases in dividends. The Company's shares may be purchased through any broker, thus we have a Meat Co-operative Society ready established.-Yours faithfully,

[345 Hongkong, 6th March, 1905.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

HE Steamship

THE

CALCUTTA.

MEPHANAC,

"LIGHTNING,"

Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 14th instant, at 3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co, LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong, 9th March, 1905.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GLEN LINE OF STEAMERS.

FROM ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO', LONDON AND STRAITS. THE THE Steamship

"GLENESK," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that

Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at their Goods are being landed at their risk into

Kowloon, where each consignment will ba the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon

sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can to obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 16th instant wil be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage ob- tarned from the Godown Company within ten days after the steamer's arrival, after which no claims will be recognised.

MCGREGOR BROS, & GOW. Hongkong, 9: March, 1005

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Intimation.

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

IS

"BLACK & WHITE

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTCH WHISKY 'DISTİLLERS, By Appointment to HM. THE KING

and

HRH the PRINCE OF WALES

Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS And HOTELS, and to be obtained from [301 | the principal fegrun,

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