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The Hongkong Telegraph.

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CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Deaths. Leading Articles

The Sanitary Board Election. The Law of the Election. Farnham, Boyd & Co. Railway Development in China, The Health of Hongkong. The Tight-Money Bogey. The Equitable Life.

A Question of Sanitation.

Telegrams

Farnham, Boydı.. Canton-Sin-ning-chu Oil Steamer Ablaze...

Insanitary Singapore.. Mosting:-

Sanitary Board. Legal Intelligence:-

Claim for Coal..

Claim for Money Advanced.

Selitement of an Estate..

Dispute over å Watch.

Police.

Highway Robbery.

European Charged with Theft,

More Japanese Stowaways,

Miscellaneous Articles and Reporta :--

Far Eastern Naval Visits.

St. Stephen's College.

"Twelfth Night" Party,

Turf Topics."

Prince Arthur's Reception.

Hongkong Butterflies,

M.M. Boat Ashore.

Ltd.

Hongkong A. D. C.

Farnham, Boyd & Co.

Examination in Hygiene,

Fatal Accident.

A Distinguished Visitor.

Italian Convent,

Lions in Hongkong.

The Criminal Clauses.

Hongkong Death-tale.

Water Ketura,

The British Fleets Visit to Saigon.

Macao Notes.

Canton Noles.

Another Canton" Mystery."

Queue-culting Mystery.

The Carlisie.

The Shanghai Riât..

The Mixed Court Trouble The Japanese Imperial Diel. An Appeal to the Emperor The Famine in North Japan.

A Japanese Shipping Combine.. Japan and Korea.

The Mutiny at Harbin...

The "Golden" Dollar.

The Christian Brothers.

Commercial:-

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank... Yam Market.

Exchange. Opium.

Local and Generat.

BIRTHS,

On the 18th of December, 1905; at Tientsin, On the 31st December, 1905, at Shanghai, the wife of JOHN HARVEY, of a daughter.

At Singapore, on New Year's day, the wife of E. F. H. EDLIN, of a son,

the wife of fiYDNEY BARTON, of a son.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

晚九十月二十年一十三赭光 | tary Board, we are inclined to believe that the Is such an individual not a ratepayer and ratepayers will be as well and truly served by entitled to vote, quite as much as the perinn those elected to the new vacancies as they were who has remained in the Colony and hid by the two members who have just resigned, his rates right along, up to and including The candidate first in the field is Mr."A. ¦ December? The Government says "No," Shelton Hooper, secretary of the Hongkong hat few will endorse that decision. Yet Land Investment and Agency Company, that does not end the matter, for the Govern Limited. Those who are aware of the wide nient notice in the Gazette says "No rate, interests, represented by Mr. Hooper, as payer will be allowed to vote unless he pro secretary of the largest land association "in duces to the undersigned the receipt for the the Colony, are bound to acknowledge' that rates paid by him for the month of Decem- in him the ratepayers have a candidate her, 1995." In other words, the Govern whose claims for their suffrages'are unrivalled, ment demands proof that the rates five It is nearly nineteen years since Mr. Hooper been paid, although the ratepayer has done Came to the Colony, appointed to the Govern so through his landlord. We hold that the | ment Civil Service by the Secretary of State Government has no right whatever to de for the Colonies. For three years, Mr. | mand proof of a tenant that he has paid his Hooper held the position of Assessor, am, rates, nor has the Government any right to office which naturally brought him into touch suggest that a ratepayer is in arrears. The with those very questions which' intimate landlord collects the rates from his tenants ly concern the Sanitary Board. He had and is responsible to the Government for to inspect every tenement, in the Colony those rates whether collected or not. If he for rating purposes, so that he may be said fails to collect from the tenants then he has to have acquired a very special and inside the law at his back, and can by all legal means. knowledge of the Colony's conditions, its compel the tenants to pay, in Britain there sanitary requirements, and its immediate are "owner" and "occupier" rates so that needs generally. But that was in the early there is no question on the point-each has days of his connection with Hongkong to pay separately; but here the landlord is since that time lie has widened and increased responsible and if he has paid the rates on in every respect his initial acquaintance with his property as most assuredly he will be the Colony, particularly with regard to build required to doby the Government myrmidons ings, the duties of landlords, great and small, then the assumption is that the tenants and the character of the people who occupy have paid him, that he has recouped him- tenement houses. In 1889 he was appointed | self, in fact, in one way or another and secretary of the Hongkong Land Investment these tenants, provided they comply with and Agency Company, and acting in that the other requirements are certainly capacity he has become conversant with entitled to vote. So long as a man can every question appertaining to the ownership satisfactorily prove that he is liable to pay. of property, representing, as he does, both rates, then that should be sufficient proof legally and officially, the largest property that he is a ratepayer entitled to vote. Most owners in the Colony. More especially has tenants in Hongkong pay to the landlord he gained, a practical and working know so much for rent and so much for rates. A.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1906.

六拜禮

就三十月正英懵香

the proportion of the reserve represent a ¦ or later, now that commercial enterprise is shade over their original value when the again being restored to its normal level, Company was reconstructed five years ago. upon the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese It is curious that a business whose goodwill war. The favourable situation of the must have greatly appreciated, and whose Northern port gives it the same advantage plant, machinery and stock-in-trade have a Hongkong possesses in the South, and been added to, quite apart from the in- even with the addition of an extra dock we creased value of its land in a Settlement which are not expressing too optimistic, a view has seen quite a land boom within the when we hazard the opinion that the time is half decade, that the shares of this same not, so very far distant when the docking concem should be a dearth in the market, facilities in the North will be found just and have undergone a steady career of retro enough to meet the requirements of the ship grassion for the past eight or nine months. pins entering the port of Shanghai from the Slackness in ship-repairing, business has

The trade of China has immense been attributed in some quarters as the ilities yet undreamt of, and, when raison d'etre for the low quotation of the the Kingdom is exploited by the best share value, but it is inconceivable that several

of railways-whose initiation has months ago Shanghai speculators, almost to carried out within the past few months a man, were consistent "bears" on the e volume of tonnage entering and clear stock in the market. It cannot be said the China ports will exceed the expecta that any one of them, much less the aggre. 1s, and probably far surpass the most gate collection of individual" bears," could guiric estimates, that can be formed at the for a moment have had the prescience of Bent moment. Not only, then, will S. C. discovering what the condition of the nham, Boyd & Co. profit by the increased ship'repairing business would be nine le, but we are confident that in all months later, say from April of last year, branches of business, towards which shipping It is a fair assumption, justified by sub- stands as the feeding agent, will profit by the sequent events, that the "bears" possessed developmen's which careful observers in the the envious power of divination of the East predict for the near future of China, inner, workings of the Company, which were not apparent to the average oper- stor in the exchange. The result of each quarterly settlement has revealed low truly ignorant the "bulls"—who, for the most part, were to be found in Hongkong-were of the positions, and they have been caught in the trap which Shanghai had prepared for them. For it had been asserted at one time that it was an open secret, revealed by "one who should have known" several months ago, that were the Company unable to maintain its dividend at last year's basis, S. C. Farn

WAILWAY DEVELOPMENT 18- CHINA,

At the present time, when the subject of railway development in China is one of the turning topics of the day, the telegram which we published yesterday witli regard to the construction by the Chinese Board of Com merce, or Shangpu, of a line running between Canion and Sinning.chu has According to the aroused general interest.

313 PER ANNUM, SINGLE COPY, 25 CENT..

would be in the possession of the Depart ment, so that for the present the stock in hand seems to be adequate, although not what might be described as super-abundant, it only remains for us now to demand that the Department shall see to it that the stock of vaccine shall never again be allowed to become exha sted, especially at this season of the year when, as Dr. Peame himself admitted, small-pox is parti- cularly to be guarded against. In this con nection, Dr. Pearse remarked that people, and especially newcomers, should be recom- mended to get vaccinated, now that the cold" season is upon us; but who ever heard of people, even the wisest, voluntarily becoming. sacrifices on the altar of medical science, un- less they were absolutely dragged there, either by a cowardly, though perfectly pro per and praiseworthy, fear of infection, or compulsion in the shape of the las 7 Soms six or seven years ago there was an outbreak of small-pox in Great Britain, which ran from one end of the country to the other. Read ing the daily account of cases reported by the authorities, people rushed to the free de guts to be vaccinated. In fact what originat ed in a by no means unworlly terror of inf fection degenerated into a public crasu, “a- hobby. It was impossible to obtain entrance" into the society of the elect unless one sport- ed the red ribbon on the arm; showing that, in popular parlance, the vaccination had "taken." But it was always a matter för doubt how many of those who wore the badge. on their sleeves had actually passed througher the doctor's hands. If it were desired that people should aluntarily come forward to be vaccinated, and submit to the pain and inconvenience which: follow, then vaccination must be popularis

ledge of the Public Health and, Buildings man with a house rented at $100. a month ham, Boyd and Co. might well put up their vernacular papers in the North, theed, and it is left, to the medical authorities:

FARNHAM, BOYD & CO.

(9th January.)

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construction of this line was ascribed to French enterprise, but on the authority of Mr. C. Liebert, Consul for France in Hong kong, we are enabled to state that such an idea has never entered the mind of As a matter of any French concessionaire. fact, Mr. Liebert explains to us, a junction with Sinning chu would mean that the French would have to build a line which

to devise a scheme which will 'ättract thei shutters and abandon the field of operations

masses, to the laboratory. And now we turn to some competitive enterprise or other. What

to the somewhat gruesome subject of the must have been the surprise, then, when last

death statistics for the year. The President, week the news was telegraphed, South that

in his address on the occasion of the first the Company had declared an interim divi-

meeting for the year, remarked that the death rate of Hongkong in 1905 had dend at only Tls. 4 per share, as against Tis, 5 for the corresponding period last year?

been 17.4 per 100,, so that the return of This seems to be conclusive evidence that

16.7 in 1994 still remains the lowest. the "bears" were in possession of would traverse a bleak and barren territory. centage compares very favourably with on record in the Colony. This per ledge: far 'in anticipation of their unwary opponents, who, as it has turned out to be, Such a line would yield no results commen: that of any of the large towns in Eng wrongly cherished the delusion of so-called surate with the expensive outlay that would land, Scotland or Ireland, and is most satis confidential information which led them be involved. In reality, the French con- factory in every respect. Still, it is curious inte grievous mistake. The Hongkong cessionaires contemplate the construction of that Hongkong has in outside quarters an a trunk line from Yunnan to the Tonkin unenviable name as a health resort. The Telegraph last year printed a article the subject of an interview with coast line which would be extended taint of the plague clings to it, and there is a gentleman well acquainted, as an inves. northwards from the capital of the province often an uneasy suspicion in the minds of or of long standing, with the workings of the city of Chungking in Szechuen. visitors that the fair outward appearance is thir Company; and we were Battered by the The Kwong-chow wan concession which, but a cloak for a foul interior.. How utterly the absurd and ridiculous that idea is must be prominence given to this journal when the as will be remembered, formed Hongkong. Tel graph receive a slating subject of negotiations between French apparent from the returns, of the Sanitary at the hands of the then Chairman, Mr. subjects and the hinese Government, Board, which are beyond dispute. In a J. R. Twentyinan, now retired. In that has for its object the construction of population of some 300,000 there were only article it was stated that," as constituted at branch lines radiating from the city of 304 cases of plague, a negligible trifle from present the Board is largely composed of miles into the interior. These would tap selves, their households and their surround. Kwong-chow to a distance of about 100 the point of view of those who keep them- employds of the Companya thoroughly the hinterland, which is capable of profitable ings in a sanitary condition. On the whole, anomalous arrangement. Being employés, their mouths are shut; they are in the lands commercial development; but, beyond the the result of the proceedings at the Sanitary. of the managing director. Of course, the 100-mile limit, Mr. Liebert is of opinion that Board yesterday were satisfactory, and we shareholders have themselves moinasmuch as the line would be taken into cause for complaint in the future at there there is no object in carrying the railway, can only hope that there will be as little. blame for having elected such a Board. "If an absolutely unproductive country, "and indeperident men had been appointed to

was yesterday. would not justify the expenditure of capital | the Board in the past matters would never

have reached the lengths they have. Inecessary. The subject of railway expansion should say that some of the partners of the is one of supreme importance to China, and leading shipping firms in Shanghai should all thinking people are watching the trend of be elected to the directorate of Farnham, tends to throw light on the plans in further- events. Any information, therefore, which, Boyd and Co. For instance, there might be ance of the general scheme which will give representatives from Jardine, Matheson and China her network of railways in the end Co., Melchers and Co., Ilbert and Co., and deserves careful study and close observation, other large firms. As it is, now they have their own employés at the head of affairs, an extraordinary state of things." The news now cabled to us from the North bears out entirely the assertion, which was

THE HEALTH OF HONGKONG.

(roth January,)

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THE TIGHT-MONEY BOGKY,

(11th January.)

A stock phrase with framers of trade reports in times of slackness of business has money" amongst the Chinese Coupled been the favourite one-lightness of

with the explanation, well founded or other- wise, appears the bogey with the advent of a Chinese New Year, that the settling of accounts in the native bazaars makes the

Ordinance, by which the Sanitary Board hands over to his landlord $113. as a itself is constituted. When the Bill" con matter of course. The receipt he gets in taining the clauses under which it was return may not specify that the payment was proposed to bring the Ordinance into opera for rent and rates; it may simply read "To tion first came before the public, it affected runt in December, 1955-$113. Should property to such an extent that the Euro the Government keep to the actual words pean landowners in the Colony formed of the paragraph quoted above, that rate themselves into a Committee laving as its payer would find himself non-suited, so to object the defeat of the Bill in its original speak, without a vote and without a right to fori. Mr. Hooper was the Chairman of claim a vote. "The above has been written on China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., that Committee. The most experienced the assumption. that the Government was architects in the Colony were employed`as entitled to demand the production of a receipt the advisers of that.Committee,' counsel were for rates paid in December last. But the engaged, and a petition was sent to the election is to be conducted we are distinctly Government pointing out the injustice fold under Schedule C of the Ordinance. which would be caused if the Bill were What does Schedule C say about that re: passed into law. The Committee also receipt? It does not even mention the word commended certain, alterations and modifi- "receipt" in any of its eleven rules! What cations in the Bill. As a resut of these right then has the Government to demand representations, backed by high and influen the production of such a receipt at all, when tial names, the Government, in the main, (unless the Governor in Council has amend followed the advice of the property owners ed the rules, and that is hardly probable) and amerided the Bill. Although property. they are flying in the face of the law? The owners still contend that there is great room whole question of receipts, and the date for further amendments in the Ordinance when the rates have been paid, and who paid as passed, the fact that Mr. Hooper was them and all the rest of it, have been im Chairman of the Committee which obtained ported into the nolification of the forthcom the alterations and modifications of the ing election without any apparent authority, original Bili should be a guarantee of his If these anomalous features are carried inte acquaintance with that measure, and his effect in their entirety there is little doubt understanding of its provisions. On one but that a Court would uphold any protest point Mr. Hooper has made it clear made upon the issue of the election, which that he is in sympathy with the effort would thereby be rendered mull and void. of the Sanitary Board to keep the city Bui a protest would mean money and no sweet and clean. He contends that prohody thinks it worth the trouble and expense. perty-owners in Hongkong fail to recognise Only the principle of adding irregular where their own interest lies if they do not features to a legal document is absolutely keep their property up to the highest sani | wrong, tary level. It does not pay to have insani tary premises, which is the crux of the whole matter. On another point Mr. Hooper has expressed his views. He states that when the Government attempt to do anything" in The telegram from our correspondent in the way of confiscation without adequate com Shanghai yesterday in reference to S. C. pensation he will, if elected, offer strenuous Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd., is one of more opposition to the proposal, holding that the

than relative interest and importance to then criticised by the chairman of the Com On receipt of news from our correspond-stringency of the money market more keenly principles approved by the House of Com Hongkong. We are not, as a rule, im. pany as a slanderous and vituperative re-ent in Canton that small-pox had broken felt. Never has the random statement of a mons should be followed in Hongmediately concerned with the commercial ection, upon himself. Impartial readers out in that congested city, we urged the tight money market been so clearly estab 3rd January, at Hotel van Wyk, Singa-kong. These are some of the points on doings of the northern port, but in the will have no difficulty in discerning that, by Sanitary Board to adopt stringent measures lished as within the past month or two. pare, the wife of H. VAN WYX, of a daughter.

which Mr. Hooper has strong and sound hanghai Dock Company so large a propor- the attitude of the Shanghai shareholders, to prevent the entrance of the disease into Were trade circulars and commercial reports convictions.. He is eminently the man tion of Hongkong, capital is invested that the independent criticism which appeared in this Colony, as far as they possibly could. framed for the benefit of home and Con for the Sanitary Board. He possesses the news of the character conveyed by our these columns was prompted by a spirit of But Canton is in constant communicationtinental readers examined, it will be seen sanitary and conservancy requirements of dinary interest, That the state of affairs this part of the world do not frequently ex-officials exerted themselves to the uttermost with but a few notable exceptions-as the city; he is critical, honest and disin- with regard to the conduct of this Company; bibit towards the directorate of public com in the endeavour to exclude the disease, tliere to present the condition of trade-in terested; and it will be a very strange and under its present constitution, is such as to panies in general; and we are glad to see that were always a hundred and one channels China in the worst possible colours, For remarkable thing if he does not head the poll at the forthcoming election.

warrant the interference of the shareholdersaturactionisendorsed, although late in the day, through which contagion might be carried, the contributing cause of such a pessimistic this stage by their convening a special meet by shareholders in Shanghai in now calling despite the vigilance of the preventive guard. condition of trade, those responsible for the ing to consider the winding-up of the under in question the anomalous constitution of the frame, therefore, as something in the nature weekly, or fortnightly commercial budgets taking, with the view of reconstructing it on Company. A word of commendation is due of a shock when the President of the Sani- have, in the majority of instances, been too THE LAW OF THE ELECTION. a popular basis, is sufficient indication that those public-spirited shareholders in Shang-tary Board at a meeting held a few days later ready to ascribe to tight money with the the long-standing grievance against the Com hai who have taken upon themselves, the informed the public that the supply of Chinese, aggravated by the withdrawal One phase of the forthcoming election of pany's constitution, which formed the subject initiative; for it must have been a most dis vaccine in the Colony had become exhaust. of cash on account of the approach members to the vacancies on the Sanitary of criticisms in these columns on more than tasteful task to oppose the constitution of ned, and even if they desired to vaccinate of the Chinese New Year. How com Board which has aroused no little remark is one occasion during the past year, is well directorate, or of a board, which has far from people, who had been in contact with in-pletely lallacious these reports are, we the curious wording of the notice appearing founded, and is one which will be endorsed met the general views of shareholders in refected persons, against the disease, the are in a position to prove, by actual figures, in the Government Gazette with reference to by the large majority of people holding gard to what was once a most prosperous Department was powerless to do so. of the immense flow of treasure, that--has- the election. The ratepayers entitled to interests in that great undertaking is business in Shanghai. We allude to the time Consequently the first remedial process found its way into China within the past six: vole are (1) those who are included in the the Northern Settlement. As we have when the shares of the Company stood at in the work of eradicating the disease, weeks. Reader of the Telegraph will bave special and common jury lists; and (2) those stated, at the outset, Hongkong has more The. 335, as against the Tls. 118 to-day. Yel should it make its appearance, was lacking. had no difficulty in compiling for themselves ratepayers who are exempted from serving than a relative interest in that Company. this is an undertaking which, it is generally And while Bangkok was boasting that a return of the treasure that hit been, ship un juries on account of their professional The commercial community of Hongkong admitted, is possessed of immense resources 150,000 persons would be vaccinated this ped from the United States to Chlua, since avocations. Such is the order as laid down has invested in it, and had a large amount and is unrivalled in the unique position it year against smallpox, and Manila was the price of the white metal began tot rise. in Section 8 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903. of money in scrips of that concern, at, we enjoys as a first class ship-repairing concern prepared to vaccinate 1,000,000, Hong. To go no further back than six weeks ago, But the notice in the Gazette has the addi- are sorry to say, such an appreciated figure in North China. Much capital has been kong, the distributing centre of the there has been a sum of eight million dollar sion for the year 1905", that is to say, that, were the present market value of the made in the North of the Kiangnan Arsenal Far East, in daily and hourly contact with in actual coin (not to speak of silver bullion) that the ratepayers entitled to vote must shares to be considered, it is no exaggera- as a formidable competitor of S. C. Farm, those places where the disease had appear that has been sent out to China from Ban have been on the special and common jury tion to say that the depreciation In the ham, Boyd & Co.; but the ridiculous ed-not virulently, it is true, but in a suffi- Francisco and London. This sum, large es lists for last year. The same requirement actual investment between last year and now contention of Interested parties, who trat cient number of cases to cause alarmas it is, is the actual amount ascenainable, ex- does not, evidently, attach to the profes is one of quite 25 per cent. Investors, not out the Kiangnan Arsenal as the phan without enough lymph to provide for the clusive of others which there has been no gional men who are ratepayers. Now what to speak of speculators (who have purchased tom of the loading commercial under smallest number of contacts. Naturally, we means of tracing. The P. M. S. S. Chine, on is a ratepayer, may be asked, after reading a dear experience), have bad faith in the taking in Shanghai, will be clear to those reprobated such a state of affairs, for even if her last trip to the East, brought out ■ ship- these rules? The Government by this notice earning powers of Farnham, Boyd & Co., who see in a single dock, of only 315 the supply of buffalo calves, had run short, ment of four million Mexican dollars, as at in the Gaselle: defines a ratepayer as one (8th January.)

and who will blame them when the feet, which has to carry out all the Govern application could always be made to Saigon the present price of silver it paid the mer who has paid his rates. But we contemd average divisible carnings for the past ment works for which it was primarily re- or Shanghai for a temporary supply to fide chants better to remit in actual cash than Through the retirement of Mr. H. E. that the Government has most unfairly five years as represented by the balance opened, the power it has for competing over the danger. Apparently that view has negotiate a

remittance through an ex- Pollock, K.C., and Mr. Ahmet Rumjahn from limited the list of ratepayers. Take sheets are taken into consideration 2, On against a company, which has so many docks been adopted by the Government, for at change bank. That shipment was followed the Sanitary Board it is necessary that two the case of one who had been a their présent baths, the showing is that the of dimensions far in excess of the single one yesterday's meeting of the Banitary Board, it by one on'a P & O, steamer of six hundred representatives of the ratepayers in Hong ratepayer six months ago. He proceeds to Company is capable of paying, on their mar of the Government Arsenale making was stated by the President that there were thousand. The largest quantity of Mexican kong should be elected to fill the vacancies, Europe, on furlough, but before leaving ket value of Tis. 118 per share, an annual the most of the point of bent com- on hand 2,150 tubes of vaccine, each cap. dollars to reach Ching, however, is destined. and the election has been fixed to take place gives up his house, sells his furniture and retum upon the capital invested of ten per petition the detractors of Shanghai able of vaccinating two or three persons-in | 10-come, from the great port of shipment in on the wand inst. So far, only one candidate leaves nothing on which rates are leviable. cent. In reality, the quotation represents

Docks make no allowance, antever for the other words, there is sufficient in stock to San Francisco,. When the last-mail, left, Increased tonnage which is bound to enter vaccinate about 5,500 persons. It was fur... that port it was expected that the Occidental Fand standing at Tis: 1,000,000, the $5 the port as a result of trade expansion-ather reassuring to leam that, within ten and Oriental liner Daric, would carry the shares in the Company, when credited * Ih | factor which must become apparent sooner days, another couple of thousand tubes largest amount of money ever shipped from

Da

On the 4th of January, at Southsea, England,

ibe wife of Lieut A. E. HOUSE, of a daughter,

On the 4th January, at Singapore, the wife knowledge, born of long experience, of the Shanghai representative is of more than or fair play and a boldness which the Press in with Hongkong, so that even if the Sanitary that they have been invariably so drafted-

of R. W.CHATER, of a daughter.

On the 5th of January, at Shanghai, the wife of M. W. TRIFFENDERG, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

December 9, at Cotter Herts. MICHAEL LONGRIDGE to VIOLET MAUD, dauther of M. G. MORRIS, J.,P., of Hongkong.

On 27th December at Singapore, WILLIAM EL COPE, B. N. Berpen, to ExILY LAURA, Younger daughter of the late J. Wine Ward rop of Bhgnuuse, Diulithgow. N.B.

On the 6th instant, at the Peak Church, London, 10 W4 daughter of Edwin Harlow,

to CARTER.

DEATHS.

On the 2nd of January, at Kiukiang, Ep MUND, the beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo. J. Bahr, aged 6 years.

On the 6th of January, at the Shanghai General Hospital, MICHAEL KINGSTON, aged 26 year!.

The Hongkong Celegraph

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONOKONO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1906,

THE SANITARY BOARD ALECTION.

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has come forward, but from the appearance The ex-ratepayer returns to the Colony on par value of the stock, for, with the Re

of the gentleman, and his manifold qualifi- et January, 1996, takes a house, and pays Fations for the office of member of the Saal. bis rates, in advance, as required by the law,