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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No 5102

Marriage,

CONTENTS.

Leading Articles:--

Anierican Magnanimity...

Japan's Finances.

The Famine in Japan.

Missionaries in China.

Owners.

Saigon's Piastre,

晚三十月二年二十三糖光

ally, the American Government, agreed to accept payment in silver, a course which was immediately followed by Great Britain, That was certainly a friendly act which China should not forget, asserts the Chronicle. And now there is a strong senti ment abroad on the Pacific Coast, where the instance upon the enforcement of the The Sanitary Department and Property exclusion laws is strongest, that the money so obtained shall be expended for the edu cation of such students as China may send to America to be educated according to the ideas of Western civilization. As China is evincing a disposition to ddopt, like Japan, these ideas," she should certainly," adds the journal from, which we quote, "appre ciate the privilege of opening American colleges to her students for their education and be content with dat, without seeking to break through the Act which excludes her coolies from our shares.".

Gamblers in the Far East

Bench and Har.

The Question of Phiзcy/

St. Patrick's Day.

Telegram:-

Journalists Mysterious Disappearance. Mootings:-

China Traders' Insurance Co, Ld. Geo. Fenwick & Co., Ld. Hongkong Godown Company.

The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co. China and Mila Steamship Co., L

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association.

Logal Intelligence:--

The Peak Tramways, a

An Important Appeal.

A Special Case.

Puinours of the Summary Court.

Unpaid fate! 15 1.1.

Disobedient Cork,

Criminalessions.

l'olice.

The Admiral's Complaint. Filipinos in Trouble.

Damaging Properly.

Breach of Flare Rales. Alleged Ars

"The Queen of Aberdeen,"

Troublesome Seamen.

A ishonest Houseboy. Policeman charged with assault.

European Stow-ways

A Triple Execution,

Armed Roblery.

A Test Case,

Alleged Trad Society Members.

Correspondence:----

JAPAN'S FINANCWS.

(12th March.)" Notwithstanding the Witf waged with Russia, Japan's financus show no reduction from the tradal point of view. In the case of imports, there was a considerable in crease, due to the heavy, importation of war material and of goods ordered to arrive in time before the war'duties came into force. The importation of ordinary classes of goods also largely, increased, while exports also showed a good increase, sales of the prin- ripal goods continuing active. The success of the Japanese armis on land and sea found wider markets for Japanese goods in China, and sales of cotton goods and yarn signalty increased. The total excess of imports 28 million nearly exports was yen, as compared with 52 million yen in the previous year. The exports for 1904 showed an increase of about 36 million yen in value

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The Sanitary Heard and Depression in on the figures for the preceding year, imports

Property.

The Star Ferry.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports: -.

The Late King of Denmark.

China Sugars -

Fashionable Wedding. Conflagration at Kowloon.

The China-Ineo Co, Ld. The National Bank of China, limited. SS. Decima Repanted Wrecked. Obituary.

Arrival of 1.M., King Alfred. Fatal Accident at Quarry Bay, Sampaos Motor-Brus Hungkong Water Suppiv.. Fatality at the New Back. Visit of French Fleet. Hogkong Spaning News. Spamspari's Tent Collapses. Mr. Lai Swai-Pui. Alleged Itaban Murderers Piracy near Macao. Plague in wanting. Viceroy Sham.

Canton Noles.

Carton ankow Radway.

The Nanchang Tragedy.

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GAMBLERS IN THE FAR EAST,

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delicto? It is a nice question how to deal with gamblers, but, for the moment, we are mainly concerned with the high opinion given by outsiders to Hongkong's morality as an anti-gambling centre, and will shut our yes to the raids which, daily occur when so-called gamblers are caught, busy at their game, even in Government yards,

One of

THE QUESTION OF PIRACY.

Chinese Minister said: "1 bold the mission- ingencies by increasing the rental which asies chiefly responsible for the hostile the already overburdened class the tenants

(10th March.) feelings aroused in the Chinese against of houses in Hongkong-has to pay. It is foreigners. Can we do otherwise than re- (no new suggestion, but the view, has often

Anybody who has lived in the East for sent the action of the missionary who comes been expressed in these columns, that the

proportion of house rent to salaries in Hong any length of time knows perfectly well that and wishes to convert us in a friendly man- ner or by force to his religion, regardless of kong of the middle class shows a disparity among the lower classes the sole amusement It may be a our own feelings? Our cult of ancestors and an anomaly which have no parallel in any they have, into which they throw their heart

BENCH AND BAR, and the teachings of Confucius, which we British Colony, In all these circumstances and soul, is gambling. have practised for thousands of years, he felter of "Property Owner" sounds. a melancholy fact that the coolie should pre- Give us timely note of protest, which it is to be fer to dissipate, his hard-earned cash-in

When Mr. Justice Wise expressed his are dear and sacred to us. something better and higher, and we will hoped in the interests of all parties will be such a frivolous, not to say immoral, fashion,

far 100 much procrastination on the part of both learn to understand it and accept it. taken up by the members of the Sanitary but that it is a fact none will question.opinion yesterday that there seemed to be

Hongkong took the matter in hand some People, however, who bring it to us mast Board and a serious grievance remedied.

years ago, and by Ordinance and stern de- the bar, His Honour was expressing a home act up to it themselves. Protestan! and

trees declared that gambling should be truth which has been held by laymen who SAIGON'S PLASTRE: Catholic missionaries must not squabble

suppressed. The result is, of course, that peruse the newspapers. Of course it may be considered presumptuous on the part of with each other and compete for the capture

Following the lead given by the Govern the gamblers, when they are wise, desert the of souls. How absurd the whole missionary system is. Surely there is so much to do ment of the Straits Settlements, the leading public places where they formerly threw the layman to have an opinion on the sub- in Europe that Europeans need not waste merchants of Saigon are slated to be anxious their coins, and hide themselves from the lect at all, but when he reads casc after case some document, or because the lawyer had their sacred zeal on 'inferior Chinese. The for the standardisation of the piastre, which prying eyes of the police in secluded only to find that in the end, for lack of missionaries insist upon importuning Chinese is liable, similarly with the Hongkong dollar, and sequestered sprats. peasants, who cling to the faith of their to periods of fluctuation and, erratic bebe held that gambling has been cradi only received instructions a week ago, or for a fathers, and sow dissension among the haviour, In giving voice to this demand cated in Hongkong. Every now and again thousand and one other reasons, one side is the police suddenly bestir themselves unable to proceed, and "the case was ad population until one day some hot-blouded Opinion says"A question, which is un. persons use violence to the missionaries.doubtedly one of the chief features of the and make a raid, with the result that a batch journed accordingly," one feels that there is be understood that one of the leaders at the Ther the latter's Government is appealed day, is the standardisation of the Indo- of miserable cooles is haled before the unnecessary delay somewhere. It can well to, and the Chinese Government is com China piastre. We have been informed, and Magistrate, and each of them is fined the

we give the news with all reserve, that it is usual 15, with the exception of the leader, Hongkong bar occasionally is in a quandary or what in European circles, is known as the to find time to wear in all the cases in pelled to punish its provoked subjects, A

As this banker," who is inuleted in the sum of which he is briefed, but even then it should feeling of intense bitterness is thus created proposed to establish the plastre at an ex- in the country, which finally finds vent in change value of three francs.

measure would considerably prejudice the 125, or more. These pertodical raids, with be remembered that a leader in London hostility to all foreigners." Speaking fur-

the consequent appearence in the Pulice discovers that it is possible to attend half-a.. Court have become so common that nobody dozen cases in as many Courts on the same ther on the general situation, Lieut.-General junior officials of the French dependency, it

in Hongkong pays the slightest attention to day. In his case, he appears at the crucial deal Yintschang expressed the opinion that the would be incumbent on the Government to

leaving his juniors to Chinese dragon, which has slept so long, grant a general increase of salary to all those

the incident, but regards it as a sort moment,

However, with the minor and trifling points. But has been tickled by the foreigners notil he earning less than 6,000 fiancs per annum,

commensurate with the enhanced value of of necessary evil in the Colony. has woke up. He is still, in a drowsy state, and vexed at being disturbed strikes out the piastre." Opinion adds: "If the re-tis. refreshing to learn that people in the there is no delaying cases, no begging for do not under- south are firmly, convinced that in prohibit postponements. Admitted that London is with his claws and moves his vast body. port is well founded we

Government of Hongkong have abolished actively practising lawyers to cases in Hong- He will not be got to sleep again," said stand why all officials without exceptioning gambling by means of Ordinances the not Hongkong, but probably the ratio of the diplomat. "Europeans ought to have should not benefit.by. having their salaries

that in London. At all events, if only let him sleep,, and continued to enrich supplemented." The suggestion that the the vice from the Colony. It is highly kong is quite as great if not greater than themselves on the treasures he watches over French Colonial Government has been con- satisfactory to realise that in one respect at in his caves. Now they must accept the sidering this question is important from the least, Hongkong, in consequence of its from a newspaper point of view, Mr."

point of view of Hongkong, on account of legislative acumen, is regarded as a paragon Justice Wise gave utterance to

of virtue, in Perak. And the argument of those truisms for which he is renowned, and the trade between Saigon and this port. situation they have themselves prepared an increase of about 50 million yen, and the

But while it is eminently desirable that the Hongkong's higher morality is employed to which render his tenancy of the Bench a total trade an increase of a little over

THE SANILARY DEPARTMENT silver coinage of the Far East generally cast reflections on the vicious habits of the pleasure and delight to lawyer and layman' 83,000,000 yen, It is interesting to note;

should be brought up to a standard which lower class of natives in the Federated alike. In this connection, we had occa- as affecting Hongkong, that cotton goods

would defeat the fluctuating value of silver Malay States. Recently a number of highly.sion some time ago to remark on the and yarn were imported to a very large ex

and ensure a permanent rate of exchange, it respectable people in Perak addressed a dilatory methods of dealing, with cases at let, while raw cotton also found a good market. Some of the principal items of The later by "Property Owner," which ap is doubtful whether a mere pious expression petition to the British Resident asking him the Magistracy. It is highly satisfactory to export fell, however, inchiding inanufactured peared in last night's issue of the ingkang of opinion will have much weight with the to use his influence with the High Commis. say that the Magistracy to-day is beyond cotton, porcelain, etc. It is, as a Japanese Telegraph, deal with a subject in a manner French. Government. In the first place, sioner, Sir John Anderson, to secure the reproach in that respect. It is hardly to be the gambling Farms, and they cited the to any diminution in the number of prisoners native paper says, the regretted that sales in which most people-in fact, we may say Indo-China occupies a very different position suppression of gambling by the abolition of presumed that such a plate of affairs is due of the raw silk, and halute, which form the practically everybody in Hongkong with the from the Straits Settlements or even Siam. most important lines of export, fell off exception, possibly, of the members of the To bring about a standard of value in the beneficial effects which had resulted in appearing before the lower Court, and con. heavily, the decrease of raw silk represent Sanitary Board-will be in agreement. But piastre, which would be accepted by foreign Hongkong and Singapore by prohibiting sequently we will attribute it to the energy ing about 20 million yen and of halinale none took the trouble or had the courage of traders, the Government must create a gold the gambling evil. It is rather amusing to displayed by the Magistrates themselves. about 10 million yen. The result of exports pitting his views so prominently before reserve and guarantee the payment of gold read about the moral and material benefit Lawyers in Hongkong might therefore take a The members of the Board and the in return for silver. But that is not all, for secured by the people of Singapore through | leaf out of the Magistrate's book--metaphori in bulk for the year just ended will not,

membered that natives daily journey to of Mr. Justice Wise, whose celerity, com- therefore, be much better than for the pre-general public as Property Owner" has the Government has to deal with a vast body the prohibiting, Ordinance, when it is re- cally-and follow with attention the remarks. mon sense and fairness are not to be dis ceding year. The amount due to foreign done. A perusal of the suggestions con of natives who, it may be presumed, are markets in consequence of the excess of im- tained in that sensible letter for the totally incapable of realising the meaning of Joliere-only a few miles away, but outside

of things the gold standard or how it should affect the jurisdiction of the British Colony-toputed. ports was setiled with the money, raised amelioration of a condition by the issue of foreign bonds, and the which has kept back any revival in the them. The Laos and other inhabitants of gamble all they possess, while on every Sun- surplus was brought hume. It is gratify normal state of the property market will the French colonial possession would first day scores of Luropeans crowd the trains

over the gambling Farmer's tables. Sir John Some time ago, when we received the as- ing, concludes the Tokyo jounal, that afford convincing proof that the vagaries of begin to discover thai a new factor had bound to Johore, in order to spend the day the foreign trade of the Empire during sanitary legislation in the Colony require to entered into the coinage of the country Anderson sympatised with the object of nual reports issued by the Customs author- when they received $8 or $8.50 per month the war reniained in a very healthy condi¦ be promptly and immediately rectified.

is a notorious fact that property owners have instead of the 110 or $11-to which they, and the memorial, and agreed that if the termina-ities in South China, we commented on the tion, showing good increase.

on the effects resulting from the hensions entertained with regard to the been called upon, over and over again, to probably their fathers before them had beention of the Farms would lead to the sup- fact that each Commissioner laid special re-cement their yards or reconstruct their accustomed to receive. Actually the plastic pression of gaming, the Government should trade of the country at the outbreak of the war were not realised. Altogether, Japan premises, although the demands of the Sani would have increased spending power for have no hesitation in complying with the piracies which had occurred within easy lary Department have just been complied those dealing with France; but it is the prayer of the memorial; but the question, to distance of every port along the coast. In may be considered to be not merely solvent but in an extremely prosperous condition, with and passed. This is one of the ins general experience that a considerable period his mind, was whether the suppression of the the majority of instances, the pirates had Few countries, cold act as principals in a tances of the rexatious policy which the must always elapse between the time that evil in one direction would not lead to the exercised their nefarious calling with supreme. great struggle, and at the subie, time main-Sanitary-law of the Colony sanctions, to the the piastre is enhanced and the time that aggravation of the evil in other respects. success, killing and mutilating the unfortun enhancement makes itself felt in the native His Excellency proceeded: Reference is ate boatmen when resistance was offered, precuniary loss of property owners and an- tain a flourishing exchequer.

noyance of their tenants. The drains have markets and in food prices generally. Dur. made in the memorial to the action of the and in some cases sinking the junks after to be taken up and re-laid after plans haveing that interval the native would be required British administrations in the Straits Settle imprisoning the junkmen in the hold. The THE FAMINE IN JAPAN.

been submitted to the Sanitary Board, the to pay at the same rate as formerly, and yet ments and in Hongkong, in. prohibiting Customs Commissioners made strong re-

lake active measures with the view of · receive fewer plastres for his labour, The gambling, and the memorialists urge that the presentations to the Chinese Government to work sanctioned, and the completion ap 13th. March.) boterea has been manifested in Hong-proved by the Board's inspectors. Within amount of trouble which would be caused condition, moral and material, of their coun

haunted the principal waterways of the a few munths of that officially-certified work by the difficulty of enlightening the dense trymen in Malaya would show steady im suppressing these gangs of pirates who

provement were a similar policy followed in kong in the famine in North Japan, in a

wing completed, when the harassed land minds of ignorant coolies must prove enor tangible form, by the initiation of a relief ford and, long-suffering tenants have had the mous, and after a lesson had been given in the Federated Malay States. But all that Kingdom, to the detriment of trade and the fund. Although the step taken in the Colony towards supplying a modicum of convenience of enduring labourers on the bi-metallism it is possible that the coolie these administrations have attempted to do disgrace of the Empire. Yet not a finger bas help to the famine stricken million in Japan (remises, the work has had to be done all would still be as far from comprehending is to suppress public gaming, and the evils been moved by tire Chinese Gavemment in over again, causing unnecessary expense the truth as ever. There is little to be won resulting from private gambling are in every response to these appeals, with the result is somewhat late, long after relief measures had taken shape in Europe and America, it and the maximum of disgust at the extra dered at in that, for Mr. Balfour himself way more serious, and the long list of these that the pirates, grown confident by repeat- will be seen that what subscription can be ordinary methods adopted by the Board confessed that on the subject of bi-metallism given in paragraph three of the memorial, ed successes, and feeling secure in the raised locally will be such as the condition and its servants. It is no wonder, then, that, he was as a little child; and it is safe to say while it applies fully to such gambling, does absence of retributive measures being as "Property Owner" asserts, mortgagees that even in Hongkong, where, we are all not in the same measure apply to public adopted, have become bolder and more of the people in the affected prefectures

are not so willing as they once were amateur fiu inciers, there are many who have gaming where the player pits his luck audacious until now they appear in can i afford to despise. Messrs. Aochi

to invest in what was formerly a favourite the haziest ideas on this subject. The con- against an impersonal body like the Farm. the open, and impudently flaunt their busi form of laying out surplus capital; for a sequence is that should the French Govern. In the Straits Settlements in spite of the ness in public, terrifying peaceful traders, and Fakui, Progressists; Messrs. Noda and Sugabara, Constitutionalists;

constant activity of the Police, the Such a condition of things cannot be allow. Harada, a member of the Daido Club, with property that may be worth $10,000 10-dayment in Indo-China decide on a three-franc employment of an army of informers and and disorganising traffic at every centre.

ed to continue. It was only the other day, may, to-morrow, by the strectual alterations piastre they would have to reckon with the support of 243 ether. Members of the which landlords are called upon to effect serious opposition on the part of the natives. records of the Courts show that the success House of Representatives in Japan have under every revision of the Sanitary law, be It was not the same in Singapore, which is of their efforts is doubtful, and that the that a piratical gang "held up" a steam introduced to the House a representation

facilities for gambling and the aggregate | Hongkong--and stole $3,000 worth of goods from the officers and passengers. The fact calling upon the Government to adopt compelled to incur such inordinate expendi- self-contained, so to speak, where the real results have been, while diminishing the passenger boat which had been built, in

tere that the capital represented in the valus facts can be instilled and disseminated in a

that this was done in broad daylight shows immediate measures for the relief of the of the property would suffer a serious diminu. few days, and where the Government took amount of gambling, to make what remains sufferers from the famine. From the latest

tion. Such being the case the margin of the initiative by creating a gold reserve, still more ruinous, because it is secret

a large and the contemptuous scorn in which the rob- returns, the memorialists give the number

of spies

who only bers hold the Chinese authorities. Now, was safe and convertible undesirable class of destitute people who are now reduced to safely the mortgagee usually and prudently which assured traders of all classes that and uncontrolled, to create

are not sufficiently we learn that pirates, gaining assurance the verge of starvation in the famine-stricken reckons upon for his margin of security may their money

he absorbed by the inconsistency of the at the declared exchange value, Whe- inform when they efectures, as follows:-

action prompted apparently in the interests ther the Indo-China Government will bribed, to shake the confidence of the every day, as raid after raid is crowned with

its Miyagi Prefecture

follow the Govern. public in the police and to increase so success and nothing is done to check their lawless and desperate ventures, have carried of the sanitary condition of Hongkong. see Fukushima

"Property Owner," naturally, writes from his ment. of the Straits Settlements is an called private gambling. In Singapore were

it not that there are public tables easily their operations beyond the bounds of the The visit of the Chinese High Commis-

own standpoint. He holds that the action other matter. The conditions are by no sinners to the United States appears to have It is pointed out that the number of suf

But a gold standard accessible in neighbouring territories, these Canton and West River delta-which has been productive... of a manifestation of ferers needing help having reached so high of the Sanitary officials affects adversely the means analagous. friendly relations which, we are told, America is desirous of perpetuating with figure, it is now beyond the power of the position of the property owners of the without a gold reserve would be without evils would be still more aggravated." always been a favourite hunting ground for local authorities and charitable bodies to Colony; but there is another phase of the foundation, and subject the currency of the After these extremely sensible remarks, which desperadoes of this type-to the borders of country to the danger of panics in times of will be endorsed by every resident of any Portuguese Territory. At a spot not far dis- China. Simultaucously with the arrival in the States of the Chinese Commissioners it satisfy their need, and also states that question which must be considered in this

these conditions have been maintained life, His Excellency suggested that the only defenceless trading 'vessel, dung the crew is announced in the San Francisco Chronicle several deaths have already taken place connection, viz., the waes of the large class uncertainty. Could a gold standard under standing and any experience of Far Eastern tant from Macao a piratical gang attacked a that Senator Piles of Washington State is from starvation. No delay can be tolerated tinually to surinary demands by the Sanitary during the anxious days that Admiral remedy which can be at present adopted is into the hold, battened down the hatches, in taking action for their relief, otherwise Department. No matter what the extent Rodjestvensky was lingering in Kamranh to restrict the hours of gambling, under secured $3,000 worth of valuables, and de- contemplating the introduction of a bill in

and area of the work which the owner is Bay? It is very doubtful indeed; the value heavy penalties on both headmen and owners camped. After some time, the unfortunate Congress appropriating the $25,000,000 innumerable deaths will result.

called upon to have executed, it is the would possibly have dropped during the of plantations, as well as coolies in the agri-traders managed to break open the hatch- demnity paid by China to the United States

tenants who bear the burden of incon early days of the Algeciras conference, when 'cultural districts. Apparently such a mea-way and reach the deck, only to and 10 cover the damages to American citizens

venience, and no matter that the tenant is it seemed impossible that France and Ger sure will be adopted, if not immediately, at that their vessel had been looted from and the Government through the Boxer re- bellion to defray the cost of educating

paying his rent, he has no redress or claim many could arrive at a compromise. And, any rate when the new Farm comes into stem to stern, the pirates having worked with Chinese students in American colleges. The The alleged existence of anti-foreign feel to recover from the landlord for any disturbin fact, unless the French Government pro existence. It is, we submit, scarcely a fair the rapidity and fore-knowledge of where bill was prepared by the University of ing in China has been so much to the fore ance entailed during his occupancy by the seeds on sound lines it will only substitute procedure to impose on plantation owners the valuables lay, born of previous ex- Washington and the co-operation of the recently and missionaries have been brought requirements of the Sanitary Board. What a fictitious exchange rate for a real one. Of the duty of preventing gambling on their perience in piracy. So long as the pirates waters, the duty of rooting them out and in- educational institutions of Oregon and Call-in to associate with the cause of the exist is more, apart from the annoyance to whith course it is well that the subject should estates; it compels them to undertake police confined their depredations to Chinese fornia to favour its passage has been solicited, ence of the supposed Chinese hostility he and his household are subjected, there is exercise the minds of the French colonists, functions with no reward should they auc- Our contemporary urges that there is no against foreigners, that the views of a repre- in many agreements we have seen a condi- especially in view of their proximity to ceed in dispersing a gambling crowd, and flicting condign punishment upon those cap. reason why it should not be given. In fact, sentative Chinaman on the question will be tion that any cost incurred by the lessor Singapore and the trade which is carried on heavy penalties if they fail to ferret out those tured devolved, in the first instance, on the it is perhaps the best disposition that can be perused with some interest. Lieut.-General in cleaning or in other sanitary work shall with that port as well as with Hongkong. infringing the law. It is a well known fact Chinese Government. But when the pirates made of the money, for, at one stage of Yintschang, China's diplomatic representa be refunded to the lessor by the lesser." For that reason, the fact that the question that gambling is surreptitiously carried on all forsake their former haunts and plunder the negotiations for the settlement of the live at the German Court, has been explain- That stipulation is actually embodied in is mooted at all is satisfactory, and shows day and the better part of the night in the trading vessels in the high seas, or in the Boxer indemnity, the United States hesitated ing to the Tageblatt. the causes of the leases which we have perused; where that our French neighbours are not blind to servants' quarters of most residences in waters of other Powers, it becomes the mani ever able to discover the servants in flagrante the matter into their own hands, and sweep to accept any part of it. After aiding, how nationalist movement among the Chinese. such a clause does not appear, the les- the benefits flowing from a fixed exchange Hongkong, but how many employers were feat duty of the nations concerned to take grer, to cut down the sum total masteri | Referring in its anti-foreigner, phase, the wor invariably provides for such con value of the piastre,

The Trial Trip of the C. M. S.S. Dinkang,

The Situation in China.

French Shipping ervice to Indn-Chitta.

The Famine in North Japan. Japanese Earthy akes.

Japanese Railway Nationalisation, Life lose ance in Japan. Philippine Company, Limited

Information for Mariners.. Fighting the Motos.

Kig Philippines Battle,

The ingapore Treasury Mystery.

An Overdos Steamer..

N... Prinzers Alice

Hangkok Boiler Explosion.

Customs Dilemma.

New Health Resort.

Chinese Serret Society in Muai. The Netherlands Trading Co. Commercial:--

Weekly Share Report. Shanghai Cos. Dividend.

Freight.

Exchange.

Opium.

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Local and General.

MARRIAGE.

At Penang, on 6th inst., HENRY JAMES ALEXANDER CROWE to AGNES LILIAN

LEICESTER.

The Hongkong Aelegraph,

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, SAturday, March 17, 1906

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(10th March.)

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