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Shipping Steamers.

'OCEAN, STEAMSHIP CO., LD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV.

JOINT SERVICES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY MAY 15 1906.

CO., LĐ.

FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOR LONDON AND CONTINENT. MONTHLY SAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL.

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR ALL BUROPEAN, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN, WEST AUSTRALIAN, JAVA AND SUMATRA PORTS.

FRIEND

EUROPEAN

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASCOW, and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

SERVICE.

OUTWARD.

STEAMERS

IDOMENEUS

"AJAX"

DUE 23rd May, 31st

"MEMNON".

7th June.

7th

14th

14th

.18th

STENTOR".

"PROMETHEUS

"PATROCLUS"

*PING SUEY".

"ANTENOR,"

The S.S." Rhipeus* left Singapore on the 12th inst., for Nagasaki (direct)." The S.S. Calchas is due here on the 19th instans.

KUR

HOMEWARD.

STEAMERS

GENOA, MARSEILLES & UPOOL "CALCHAS AMSTERDAM, LONDON & ANTWERP MOYUNE" AMSTERDAM, LONDON & ANTWERP JASON" AMSTERDAM, LONDON & ANTWERP DEUCALION *GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL "HYSON" AMSTERDAM, LONDON & ANTWERP "AJAX" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP." PROMETHEUS *GENOA, MARSEILLES & LIPOOL "PATROCLUS". LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERPPING SUEY"

* Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates,

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.

OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH

Shipping Steamers.

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

5.S. "WING CHAI," Captain T. AUSTIN, R.N.R.

TA

"HIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on TH

Week Days, at 7.30 AM, and on Sundays at 8 AM, Departs from Maćao on Week Days at 2.30 PM, and on Sundays at 5.30 F.M., if tide permits.

FARES-Week Days, 1st Class, including Cabin and servant, Single-53; Return Ticket,

$1 and Class, $11. 3rd Class, so cents,

On and after Sunday, 29th init, inclu Hive, every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the following r

ratestat and and Class, Single, $a; Returo, 53; 1st Class, Single with Cabin, 33'; Return, $5 3rd Class, Single, 50 cents Re tur 80 cents,

All Meals can be supplied on Board at $1 cach Meal

First Class Patsengers, who do not care to rature on the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) on pro duction of the Return Hall Ticket.. Should

the Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to the Boiler cleaning, dus notice will be given by the Captain, and the Half Ticket will be available for the following day.

The Steamer is it throughout by Electricity, The Steamers wharf at Hongkong is at the Wastern end of Wing Lok Street.

SAM WANG Co. Long, 10th May, 1906

STEAM TO CANTON. THE New Twin Scrow, Steal Stanmors

TO SAIL 30th May. ...22nd

H

3th June.

19th

.20th

3rd July,

17th

20th

-316t

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.

AND TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALL OVERLAND COMMON POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA..

Kon

EASTWARD.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and”)

STEAMER

all PACIFIC COAST PORTS,' vi4 { " STENTOR " NAGASAKI, KUBE and YOKOHAMA)

FROM

WESTWARD.

STEAMERS

TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA andĮ " YANGTSZÉ

TO SAIL

.roth juve.

DUE 19th May.

VICTORIA and UNth any PACIFIC COAST

The S.S. "Yangisze" lett Kube on the 14th instant for Hongkong vía Moļi, and is due here, on the 19th. For Freight, apply to

long sh, 15h 3ly, Pgd

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Tons

Captain "KWONG CHOW "...1,309......T. R. MEAD. | "KWONG TUNG "... 1,138......R. RAMSEY.

Leave Hongkong for Canton at every evening (Saturday excepted).

Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 o'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).

These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cabins.

Passage Faro-Single Journey ...54

Meria

ALIO

.....$! each.

Excursions to MACAO every SATURDAY

at 6 P.M., and every SUNDAY at 8:30 A.M.

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"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.

'FOR LONDON AND ANTWERP. HK Steamship

THE

"FLINTSHIRE "

will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about the 20th instant.

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For Freight and Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agents. Honkong, roth May, 1906, "

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SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Manila, Timor, Port Darwin and Queensland Ports and taking through Cargo to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c) HE Steamship

THE

"EASTERN,!

Captain Powell, will be despatched for the above Poris, on SATURDAY, the and June, at Noon.

This well-known Stenmar is specially fitted for Fassengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham- ber which ensures the supply of Frosh Provi sions, Ice, &c, throughout the voyage.

This Steamer is installed throughout, with the Electric light.

A Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are corried.

N.B. Tn masure the additional comfort of Passengers the Steamers of the Company have electric fans fitted in stateroorns.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBI, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 30th April, 1996.

fgr4

"DEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,

FOR LONDON AND ANTWERP. THE Steamship

"BENMOHR." For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

[554 Hnxkobak, Izu Máy,{906.

FOR VLADIVOSTOCK,

returning an SUNDAY at to A. M. and 6.30 THE Steamship

F.M.

"

rst Class single Sa with cabin $300, FARES:

return $3

19 5.00. sad Class single $1, return Breakfact, Tiffa.and Dinuer $1.00 each, The Wharf in Hongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lok Street.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, ÅGENTS.

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SHIU ON 5.5. Ca. LD, and YUEN ON.S.S. CO., LD,

Hongkong, 17th April, 1906,

.CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

SHANGHAL.............................

MANILA

SHANGHAL.......

ZAMBOANGA, PORT DARY WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK. TOWN, 'CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE)

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STEAMERS.

KIUKIANG"

"TEAN".

** SHANSI " ↑

** TSINAN **‡

TO SAD.

21st May.

22nd

z3rd

41

******* 30th

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Taking Cargo vu through Bulls of Lading to all Yangtze and Northeru China Ports, The Attention of Passengers in directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these Unrivalled table. A duly steamer, which are atted throughout with Electric Light. qualified Surgeon 35 carried,

Į Taking Cargo and Passenger at through.Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Posts.

Mon, 15th May, gut

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS.

HONGKONG MANILA.

Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.-Salãon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.

CHINA AND MANILA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

Steamship. Tous. Capraia.

ZAFIRO.......... 1540 R. Rodger

RUBI..............ng 2540. R. Almond.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong. 12th May, 10c6.

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For

Sailing Dates:

MANILA (DIRECT) | SATURDAY, 19th May,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 26th May,

at Noon.

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS.

17

No. 8, Queen's Road West.

19

"ORANGE BRANCH,"

3,435 Tons,

Consignees,

S.S. "SALAZIE,"

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

เ

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Shipping—Steamer.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA

THE Steamship

"CATHERINE APCAR"

Captain A. Stewart, will be despatched for the

CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 22nd instant,

ex ss. Dordogne and Charents, from Havre ar 8. Charente, and from Bourdeaux ex 1.s. Cambrai, in connection with above Steamer, are hereby informed that their Gnade, with the exception of Opium, Trea sure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co... Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may ha obtained immediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before Noan TO-DAY, requesting it to be Innded here,

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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the

Undersigned, Goads remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 21st instant, Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

At Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,

Agents. Hanukong, 14th May, 1906.

[$50

THE CHINESE penal CODE.

One of the most important of the many im portant changes now being introduced into China is the re-modelling of the penal codo upon which is Excellency Wu Ting-fang and some others are engaged. It is quite plain that if Chinn is over to secure the abolition of extra-territoriality it will only be after the has convinced the foreign Powers that she has a code comparable with those of the West and a judiciary above suspicion of dishonesty in itą administration. That this will take time is certain. That the first step towards it in that now being taken is no less SUTD.

There are many things in Chinese law which in theory appeal to the judicial mind as being almost all fr that might be desired, but in practice leave ,much to be condemned. Even in the West the most perfect paper schemes somtimes fail when put to the test, and, as China has been decadent for long, it is not to be wondered at that her penal practice is very different from her penal code.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 21st instant, or they will not be recognised All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 21st insinot, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 14th May, 1906

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

HE Stearnship

THE

"CATHERINÉ APCAR," having arrived from the above Ports, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside,

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense.

Cargo remaining on board after 4 P.M. of the 16th instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into the hazardous andfor extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside,

will be despatched for VLADIVOSTOCK such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

about the 2nd June.. To be followed by

S.S. "VINE BRANCH,” 1,442 Tons. For Freight, etc, apply to

DODWELL & CO, LIMITED,

Agents, Hanekang, 12th May, 1906,

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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.

(PROJECTED SAILINOS FROM Honukano.---SuBJECT TO ALTERATION).

For

Steamship"

On

S'GAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA..LAISANG * WEDNESDAY, 16th May, 3 P.M. MANILA........

.....LOONGSANG* ...FRIDAY, 18th May, 4 P.M. SINGAPORE and SOURABAYA.................CHUNSANG .....SATURDAY, 19th May, 3 P.AS. KUDAT and SANDAKAN TIENTSIN

„MAUSANG † ......SUNDAY, 20th May, Daylight. ...... CHIPSHING*.............. {UESDAY, 22nd May, 4 P.M.

• Theie Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class, Passengers, and are fitted

throughout with Electric Light.

Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Lahad Datu, Simporna, Tawao, Usukan, jessaltan

and Labuan.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hoogkung, 15th May, 1900,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Managers.

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PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, vià SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND VOKOHAMA,

TOR

PORTLAND, OREGON,

· OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH

THE ORECON RAILROAD AND JAVICATIOI COMPANY,

Steamship

" ARABIA"

Tonk

Сарогів .4.483......... Meirenthin

4,370 Wagemann

"ARAGONIA" .... ....................... 5;398...........Ernst...... "NICOMEDIA "

"NUMANTIA"...............4+370...........Feldtmann

To Sail, at Daylight on ...May aand.

June 11th.

...june 21st., .....July 4th.

Trang Bills.of Lading issned to Pacifi Ceap Points and all Eastern, Grnadian and 'nited States Points For through rates of Fright de! fertler information, communicate, eb o apply ta'

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Consignees.

FROM HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, PENANG AND SINGAPORE:

HONGKONG-NEW YORK. THE HAL. Semahip

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND BUEZ ANAL. (With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast).

Steamship

"RAMSAY"

"ANGLO SAXON ".

Abatit ............................. 22nd May. .....Beginning of July.

For Freight and further information, apply to

Hongkong, 11th May, 1906.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Agente,

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Insurance.

NOTICE.

"ANDALUSIA,"

S. SILVERSTONE. Acting Beares Agent.

Consignees.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN..

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE Steamship

**ROON," Captain Schmidt, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading for informed that their Goods, with the exception countersignature by the Undersigned and to sf Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being take immediate delivery of their goods from landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous alongside.

and/or extra basardous Godowns of the Hong kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com pany, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.

- Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO. DAY.

Any Cargo, impeding her discharge will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazard que Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 11 AM. TODAY.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain-

ing undelivered after TUESDAY, the 15th instant, will be subject to rent

All broken,'chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be No Claims will be admitted after the Goods | examined on TUESDAY, 15th instant, at have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining 7.30 AM. undelivered after the 18th May, 1906, will be subject to rast.

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR-THE Public are hereby informed that no

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to ANOE COMPANY OF HAMBURG Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph and examined on the 18th May, 1900, at 3 P.M.

change has been made in the Rates of be left in the Godowns, where they will be "HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above they are warned against paying more than THE

Company are prepared to accept First TEN CENTS (10 cts.) par Single Cops. Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at:

THE MANAGER, CURRENT Rates.

Honghong Telegraph Co., Ltd, SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong 28th May, 1895.

(58) Hongkong, joth September, 2003,

· HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office.

Hosekang, 11th May, 1908.

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All Claims must reach us before the 21st instant, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co.,

Agents.

[ssal Hongkong, 9th May, 1906,

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED

Agents. #lenzkong, 14th May, 1906,

For the beginning of her judicial system wo should have to go back to the days of the Chows, when the Greeks were still round Troy, for Saul was King of Israel. There was certain- lŷ an elaborate codification accomplished in the Han Dynasty (B,C. 200 to A.D. 200) by Hsiao Ho, when no fewer' than · 359 distinct laws were placed in the statule book, with endless additional clauses and quoted precedents. These in the case of capital pu- nishment alage ran to 409 of the first and 13,472 of the latter. Hsiao Ho's monumental work has served as a model for all the codes of the various dynasties since his time.

The code at present existing is based largely upon that of the Mings, and is divided into seven sections relating to methods of punishe ment, officials and their responsibilities, fiscal 1560 and family laws, religious, ceremonial and sumptuary Laws, laws relating to military or ganisation' and frontier defence, criminal laws. and laws relating to public works.

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EXCELLENT CUISINE.

Strictly gal punisments are dogging with the bamboo, imprisonment or bagishment, and death by strangulation or decapitation. The legal instruments are the bamboo, the cangue, the iron chain, the wooden manacles, and. felters of iron. There are permitted, however, two others at the discretion and an the respon 'sibility of the magistrate-the Anger-squeezer, and ankle-squeezer. These with the bamboo

MODERATE PRICES, are the "three wooden instruments" so terribly.

ELECTRIC FANS.

TO ORDER IN

EVERY ROOM.

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON. Minulenny, roth May Tand.

ORIENTAL HOTEL,

MACAO.

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. situated in the

Centre of Prayn Grande with splendid view of the "arbour."

LARGE AND LOFTY ROOMS, Elegantly Furnished.

EXCELLENT CUISINE.

WINES AND SPIRITS of the best quality. BILLIARD TABLE, the best in the Far East,

EVERY COMPORT FOR RESIDENTS AND TOURISTS. For Terms, &c, apply t

THE MANAGER. Maeso, tfìh October, 1905.

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CARLTON HOUSE

HOTELS,

Nos 8 and 10, Ice House Road.

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ELEGANTLY FURNISHED ROOMS.

COMFORT OF RESIDENTS AND THE CUISINE

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known to the native delinquant. Mr. Giles, however, declares that "torture though, not unknown In China, exists there practically in name only."

The Chinese recognise ten "heinous crimes"; ebellions, destruction of imperial tomba, trea chery to the State, parricide, triple murder in ne family, sacrilege, filial impiety, family discord, official insubordination, and incest No mandarin, it would appear, ever attempts to master the vast agglomeration of statues in the present code. He relies on the knowledge of "law expert," much as the magistrate in ipck. wick did upon his clerk.

The section on fiscal and family law contains many interesting enactm mis, If a mon adopts A son he must be boy bearing the same sul name. A son may not set up an establishment spart from that of his father. Thus the family remains at the national unt. A man may have any reasonable number of concubines but only one wife.

Capital punishment is permitted in two forms trangulation and decapitation. Recently it hay been rumoured that in the new code the fatter is to be abolished. The natives regard the loss of the head as being a far greater punishment than the mere loss of life, since in such cases the disembodied spiril must perforce e mutilated presentitself in the nether world in ther

There remain a very considerable nume ber of capital offences in Chinese law,

the following:High treason, par- Example

n ricide, and the murder of a master by a slave, which are theoretically punishable by lingchih the frequency of which Giles vigorously denies. Then fellow others for which strangulation in the penalty-the theft of more than Tis, 120, robbery with wounding, highway robbery, kidnapping by violence, opening a coffin, homi- ide, attempted murder, nccident homicide, rtain medical errors resulting in death, caus- ing to commit suicide, wounding a government officer

striking one's master (in case of a slave),

striking a parent (decapitation), and is on t

is evident

there is room here for reform, Life is held cheap in China, as cheaply as it was in England, when the death penalty was indicted by us on the purinier of a sheep or he utterer of a forged bank note. But we have long since discovered that it i not the severity but the car afty of buriment which serves as best deterrent

It may be news to our readers to hear that the Chinese laws against bribery are stringently severe. Popular opinion would have it that the "itching palm" is to be found whenever and wherever there is a yamon, and that the very rare exceptions merely prove the rule, But on paper, at any rate, it is a highly dan gerous thing to accept a bribem China i the [519 mere acceptance of eighty taels for an unlawful, or of a hundred and twenty for a lawful ebject, renders the peccant official finble to death by etrangulation. But this, we fear, serves only to show how wide is the difference between what aught to be and what is,

THE PROPRIETOR.

Hongkong, 7th May, 1906,

KING EDWARD

HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

LADIES' AFTERndon Tea-ROOMS. PRIVATE BAR and BilliaRD-ROOME. HOT and COLD WATER throughout.

The

reston why Turnpeans, British in particular, are foal to go to law is the question of expense, There is in China another in addition, Litigation is actuali discouraged to this extent that any

filing a false charge is punished

more heaton

than the accused would have

'bea' had he been guilty. Even charge is false in degree only there is a

while ELECTRICALLY LIGHted. Electric FANS proportionnte penalty,

authors of

of agony. mous charges (trud or false) render themselves (if required),

liable to strangulation. One of the short

of the present Chinese position in the means for the ready making of recognised

ion of new laws. This will be a and promulgation matter which must come up for serious qonsideration in the near futura, since the Admission of China Into the comity of nations will impote upon her the duty of keeping up to date in law as in other things.--N, C, D, News,

Electric Passenger Elevatok to each

floor,

TAULE D'HOTE at separate tables, For Terms, &c, apply to the➡

MANAGER, Hongkong, 4th Decomber, 1905, {(*

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