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LOOTING,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1906.

immediate help. Many bobbing spare again and again deceived us by suggesting the form of a man. The roughness of the sea allowed only jule:millent views of all but the veev inrgest hulks and rafts, and occasional heavy downpours of rain prevented any really distant seeing, Officers and passengers west now to the porteide now to starboard, now forrard and now aft, ever scanning the being deep away out to the wavy meeting of sky and sea, alike a leaden colour.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH " -

SERVIGN

FLOODS IN URINA.

RICE FAMINE IMMINENT.

mass of sails, masts and boards was all someELEGRAMS. thirty yards away broke off a piece of plank and with its support swam to the ladder's fool which he was lucky enough to reach, As soon as we ditified a little noored together a line was tossed to the three remaining on the raft and abhough several mare ropes were about to be rasied them and everything was quiet and there was amplatime, such was the hurry of the lung-exposed and frightened man that all three. of them, and each was a heavy man, grabbed

would fet

go and take one of the waiting ropes had to be hauled up the ship's side clinging to The one rope-a heavy load for the resçuera and an awkward one.. Pilot Parsons whom we picked up well to the south east of Lema Island, eight or ten miles away I should say, had according to his account given to sympa. thelic passengers between sips of jea, etc., heen in the water an hours af

AL FORMAL VEZOR

THE SHANGHAI DOCK CU.

· LARGEST TENDER BUILT. The new leader Bremen, built by the Shang. hai Dock and Enginesting Co., Ltd, to the order of the N.D.L. Co., was to be launched from the Pooting Works on the zoth inst., at 2.16 p.m. Tendara conroying guests to the works were to leave Melchers and the 1', and

Intimations.

THE

U. jesties at t.45 p.m. on that day, The Bre ROBINSON PIANO

men is the largest mail tender yet built by a

The wreckage which up to this time had the first rope and no one of them all three PEOPLE FLOODED UP TO THEIR EARS. focallyard

[From Our Otun Cofrespondent.]

Shanghai, 24th September. Owing to floods a rice famine is imminent.

The water mounted high on the banks of the Grand Canal.

SALE OF STEAMER.

The O.S.K. steamer Tafeo Maru, which was recently rebuilt after having been burnt acar. Wohu, and sold by the Shanghai Dock Co. back to the original owners, had a private trial srip to Woosung on the 19th inst, in order to comply with the regulations of the Japanese Government. A Government surveyor was on

board to watch the trial which was in every way successful.

SALE OF DOCK PROPERTY.

CO, LD.,

ARE SHOWING

It is reported in Shanghai that a certain HIGHEST CLASS

London Tyndicateodorous name in Shang. hai is said to be in the field for buying the property known as the Old Dock and certain

People gathering rice in the fields and on the Pootung side of the river also be were flooded to their cars.

up

[N. C. D). News] China and Japan

Every day come fresh cases of lasting from the wreckage both in Hongkong and at Kow. foon." At the Police Court, this morning, three coolies were fined $15 each for being in posses slon of $1,340 worth of native chemicals. The police at Kowloon City were just in time last night go see the men getting the stuff out of the ground, where they had previously buried it, to carry away. Two more Indian sepoys were, arrested at Kowloon yesterday for possessing a“ been of comparatively small fragments now quantity of yarn, and this morning Mr. Hazeland began to comprise much larger pieces. Scarce ly had the steamer resumed full headway an fined them $ apiece! Ainilor, residing at 14. her course before in the distance a flattish raft Aberdeen Street, was about to beard a car with many black spots which now and again for Skau-kan sesterday with a bundle, moved on it was sighted and a little cloter ap p each resolved these black spots into people, when a fuking stopped him. loside the

the ship for the raft, which proved and heading bunille was discovered about $503-worth of again to be the all-icipiul matting sails and silk. He told Mr. Gompertz to-day that he battans-the indefinite forms of people became.gether. He was awaiting the Norwegian teamer. Wik and got caught before" he purchased it from the saman people, but as distinguishable as seven men and three women,

could make shelter. Herbst his sail at aboui he could not get the simpin people to cor- why for hours had been forced passengers on a

craft of such restricted accommodations. Here six and shortly after was himself dumped over roborate his statement, a fae of $30 was im

we had evidence of Chinese gallantry-though board with only an oat. The last he saw of his posed. Another coolie was arrested at You it seems but just to say that among the cories.

sampap his four saiters were safely aboard and ma-ti for being in possesion of a bag en training ponding lowest classes of Europeans the same attempting to reach him with lines but without navail. Some time afterwards when just about Fach-man-for-himself" might also have been 2,000 copper cents. Tastead of going quietly to

seen the men, some of them no doubt the very 10 give up and let one of his temporary sub. the station he called three other men to his

husbands of the three women, paid no atten- me gences be his last, bis head struck what asslitance and between them they assaulted the

t-on whatever to the latter'; indeed, the nearest turned out to be a heavy ten-foot spar and to lukong. They were nevertheless got to the thin to whom a rope was cast with which he this he clung with arms locked around it. After bit he managed to but on two buttons of his station. At thep dice-court this morning the should make the raft fast alongside the ship,"

bilskin coat around the log and floated this way, man with the big of enppors was fined $15 for calmly tied the same around his own waist and

began to clumber up the side. Not und two continually dodging the seas breaking over unlawful possession, On the second charge hefty Jap sailors went, on over the fide and

him and nearly blinded by the cold driving that of assul, the quintette were sent to gaoled headwork as well as haws were the rain for four hours volil he came across a

Tokio, 19th September. for one month and to be extribued in the stocks puy in a propes we old, with the sunken

ol rescue. One of the raft of matting sails and junk, sides on hree women was quite.

which, four Chinese were crouching too far The Jiji anticipates internal disputes in for six hours. And still looting guès un!

sprnt to resist, if such had been their intention, heeks and protruding chin of toothless old

China in cossequence of the reorganization of age, but, no consideration was given her; in his clambering aboard to share their fate.official posts and the proposed constitution,

act, a man and the other two women fought When we were only a short way out from the

These, it adde, might affect the Powers, and alalost herto be the first hauled up by a certain r pr. For some minutes there was, at uggle

will need to be closely watched.. during which the old woman was underneath and the loss of life at sea among the many poar

ffer rescue was ensured only by her remark fisher-falk, láken unawares, should not passable plack and the steadying hand of a Japan- unnoticed. While barge, junk, launch, river ce sailor, who, balancing himself with ech boat and ocean-vessel have suffered like fates foot on a floating spar, held her with one hand within the very barbour limits, in the outside and with the other lied a rope under her open it is of necessity the sailing craft which mote certainly faced tours in encountering the deaded typhoon, that' monster of the

·China Se 1. This aspect of Tuesday's awful storm is pat ia ful evalence by the reports of steamers arriving since then-which on weathering the gate themselves were called upon for bonis after to perform the rescue act, - toward hundreds of fishermen fiyating on rafts composed now of this part and now that part of their ill-fated form r craft, and drilung-drifting on ah apparently relentless sen....

THE HAVOC AT SEA.

THE TALE OF "A" PASSENGER. Tremendous as is the wreckage wught within the harbour by fist Tuesday's typhoon, own again completely submerged.

Perhaps the steamer whose reportshows the most biergetic endeavour in this resroe work, was the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's new European linge Sado Mary, which reached her buy in Hongkong harbour at about seven o'clock on Tuesday evening-lier passengers getting a fiue opportunity in view the awful have shown all along the Kowloon side as their ship steamed nearly the whole length of the harbour to reach her anchorage at the western end, AT this has already been fully described by the energetic news gatherers of Hongkong, and we wish new simply to give an account in as real. a way as we can of what we saw as passengera an a worthy vessel crusting southward through the stores and its aftermath

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aging light we sighted this raftful away in the south and altering our course by a right

ngled turn we soon covered the several miles of separation. The pilot's white trousers as he stud erect were quite the most conspicuous mar. we had yet seen, but it was not until we were practically upon them that we made him out as a European.

During the late afternoon we passed many wrinkled and scrawny arms.

damantled junks still, however, siding well, These ten had no sooner icen safely "deck-under one or two jury masts, though ranst of hem appeated rudderless. Although across ed than the bulk of what proved to be their

he distalice we could” “ that they were sign- jak was sighted with only a bit of the stern Post of water, and of course completely distling for our aid, they were in such an incom mantled. On his two men were crouched parably better condition than others who with a three-year-old child, a girl, 1 think, fashed to the high corner of the stern. These were soon on board and the tatle one restored to her mother.

Maru

CHINA'S INGRATITUDE.

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longing to the Shanghai Deck and Engineer. ing Co., with a view to converting this property into a wharf and godown company. It is siated that the price to be paid for the Deck's property, if the scheme is ever carried out, would amount and that the develop- to about Th

acquired land, l.e. bunding inent of the wharves, godowns, &c., would absorb another Fls. 1,500,000. The capital of the new com pany would therefore be at least Thres million. lacls. To raise the required capital the scheme further provides that the present shareholders in the Dock Co. would have the option of braining a share in the new company, in liku of receiving a return in cash upon the sale of the Old Dock and the Pootung property, and that tire balance of the capital required would be, raised by the issue of debentures, the under- writing of which, it is alleged, has been guar

There is a growing impression in Japan that China's ungrateful attitude, which she is to

toutly maintaining with the object of frustrataniced by "the lank." ing the policy of the Powers, will have to be modified before long.

SUSPICIOUN DEATH',

RUSSIAN SAILOR DIES. Just as we go to press, a rumour is being cinsulated in town to the effect that a Russian

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

Noon.

Buyers: ado-China's $74, Shell Tran parts 29/-, Kowloon Wharves 593, Shanghai Docks Tls, 108, Fenwicks S12, Humphreys Estates $ Cements S21, ElectricsTM $141. Tramways Falg. *

PIANOS,.

by

THE LEADING MAKERS

OF

THE WORLD.

Steinway,

Bechstein,

Bluthner,

Winkelmann,

Sellers-Hongkong Banks 1800 London 493, Unions $780, Cantons $320, Hongkang. Fires 53271, China and Manilas $24, Douglases Collard & Collard, $47, Raubs $81, Hongkang Docka St B. Hong- kong Lands Sito, West Points $5, Cottons $3:China Borneos Stoi, China Providents 1960, Ices $136, Ropes $29, China Light and Power Srot, Vowells Sto

without immediate help would almost certain- iv perish that we passed them by. Unfortunator on board the Kit, in the Cosmopolitan ately one or two dismantled kulks seen away Dock, died a few days ago, under suspicious on the eastern horizon were left unaided and circunstances. On inquiries being made the memory of it with the thought of the fate at the Central Police Station, as to the of the parsible refugees upen them still lingers

learnt that al We are at n loss to understand why though telephonic communication between our captain did not go to them.

that Station and the Water Police, is out of One point to which attention should be given order, they had heard conversations relating to

Sales:-Macao Steamboats $24, Hongkong s the matter of allowing drifting bulk the death of a Russian in the harbour, but Docks $158, Fenwicks S13. In vontinue a menace to unwary ships at nigh

Nominal-National Banks $47, China Fires' instead at breaking them up or scuttling them, definite particulus relating to his death could $73, China Sugars 5158, Hongkew Wharves We allowed at least three large sixty **

not be procured. A visit to the Russian Cons, 240, Hongkong, Hotels $115, Dairy Farms seventy-five Toni junks to continue the dan sil was next undertaken by our reporter, but $17, Watsons Stj. gerous drillings-simply because there were

the former gentleman was rather reticent over n appliances on board, our steamer by means with seem fast sume international law should obtained from him being a flat denial of sus of which they could have been broken up. It the matter, the only information that could he

render harmless any derelict, they encounter at dent, that the sailor fell down into the hold, and be enacted requiring captains, of vessels topicinus death." He said that it was an acci

further than that he would not speak on the. subject.

sea.

As we steamed, through, narrow Lyen un in tle expected to see such signs of havne as the gathering shadows of evening dusk we met nur eyes as our ship passed along the har her to its anchorage at the west.. The jumble of junks, launches, river steamers and even heavy ocean craft which lined Kowloon shore was siniply astounding and the impression of relentless fury nad power bringing swift des

LAND SALE.

The next party rescried amounted to twenty- four and were taken from a dismantled with some of the eye-witnesses on the Sado truth of the mumpar, we and sinking hulk. Two of the people had been resued by the larger party and had come from a craft whose total crew before the Sirnt wed seventeen. Later on party of twelve survivors, seven men, two women and three children, from a toll of twenty-seyen, were taken off the upturned bottom of a good sized junk to the smooth and wave-swept sur- face of which they managed to cling by the aid of ropes brought around from the insile-now the under side-n the craft. The broad and flaftish bottom of the Chinese junk here plaved indeed a boon. And though often we have won- desel at the ugly high stern of the native junk, we had forcibly presens d to us many lines during the day at least one vinue of that fea. Jure of marinechtective; for when all the rest at the bulk was submerged a bit of the stern, and sometimes a considerable part, was The Sud Muru felt Woosung at about 8 sull protruding and on the storm-beaten pm, Saturday, the fifteenth, and fine weather fishermen found a temporary refuge To how was encountered, with an exceptionally smooth many its temporary sheker failed before the sea, during Sunday and Monday; though pariv of substantial and will never be known. Monday afternoon there was considerable in But we rejoice that at least a few were kept crease in the ocean swell, and in the wind, but long enough for our ship to. snatch them from nothing to indi ate the approach of a violent store. At about nine p.m., however, it suddenly toughened and by mid ight our vessel was in the midst of a heavy storm, of a high wind, driving rain and vivid lightning. Letting the ships * Tiy to” for just a moment, the captam deier vined that we were in the right hand semi-circle of a typhoon moving west-north-west, and accordingly brought the ship's head on by having the starcard engine po fallspeed ahead and the port engina full speed Astern. Even then, powerful vessel as she undoub edly it, the Sado Moru bad all she could do to turn and breast the wind. Once and again she would swing around a point or two only to have the wind drive her abeam again. Finally the ship won the all-important struggles and with only a few had larchen, one of which carried the jolly boat clean away right in front of my room, by snapping the iron eyelets of the davits, she got dead in the face of the wind and held her own, behaving very well indce t.

The worst part was encountered at about three to four a.m. when all deck state-rooms were waler-swept-even where doors and port Inles were securely fastened, and for those who were Onfortunate enough not to have closed their doors-no effort was made by the crew to perform his service for passengers in time-there was a perfect deluge, the sea having now and gain free run of The deck and free access to any opened-10am. Screen-doors availed nothing and some of the passengers, especially the ladies, wore in no small dis- tress breuse of unwelcome waves within their

TOOMS

With the coming of down a more quiet sea was encountered and the rain became occasion-

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Bind of a steady downpour as hefure. Daylight revealed numerous pieces of wrecked junks some quite large, and a sharp lookout was kept for any signs of life among these, floating ruins. Several larger pieces were an proached but gave no evi ence of human sur. vivors, Bil at about ten a.m. when near the rock Pedro Blanco (Tai-sing-cham)#which lies S. 40 F. by eighlten miles from Fokai l'oint, which is the gid of the promotory between Bias and Honk Hai Bays, n rat consisting of a natting sail and mast with its bouma and bal- 1ans was sighted and in the midst the head and shoulders of a man still alive were dis. tinctly discernible. The ship was put about to get near this unfortunate fisherman and after some twenty anxious minutes an, approach was effected, a life-bugy tossed and the mun hauled on board. He probably owes his life to his knowledge of how to put a life buoy on as much as to anything else. Once when very near the ship and yet being washed away and toward the stern he seemed strongly tempted to make a plunge from the friendly raft and swim for the skip, This would have been a fatal step, for he had but little use left in his legs when landed on deck and could not stand without support Just before the bruny was successfully seized a great wave, probably caused by the tos rapid pproach of our ship, broke over the raft and Completely submerged it and its passenger and Mor a moment it looked as if all were over. But with a sort of grin the fellow bobbed up, wiped his face, and scrambling over the spars and snil reached the life-buoy and in a few minutes was half hauled and half lifted from below up the Jacob's ladder which had been slung over the starboard quarter-the sole survivor of a crew of eighteen:

After this all passengers were on deck and s dozen glaucs were anxiously and, constantly'} scanning the boisterous sea through the mist and rgin la search of unfortunates who needed

a watery grave.

It would doubtless ise a somewhat tiresome re- petition to recounthe details of every case. Let i suffice to say thatframten in the morning until four thirty in the afternoon, we were "hove to" performing rescues for a longer time than we were steaming in our course.eople, who bad came from ïen diferent boats were rescued ei, pick-ups." The largest number taken fem a sngle raft of hulk was twenty-four and two were lone men, one on a mating sail our first rescue, nail one on the upturned bottom of

sampun rescued late in the afternoon, in all sixty-three? hinese and one European – 14 men, 8 women. 6 boys, girls and I grit infaif-were rescued by our ship. All of the junks from which they came hailed from Macao except the pilot's boat and a junk fra Cheng Chaw, which is about Falf-way Tetween Hongkong and Macho. We pickid them up scattered from Pedro Blanch off the upper end of Bias Bay to ame ten miles southeast of Lema Island These boats involved in all some 183 people, ol whom 64 ar about one-bird were saved. In one case an entire crew was saved intact, even with my rescues to their credi, bil în movi cases the survivors reponed the great majority of their mates as spicly lost; one man being the sole survivor of a cize of eighteen, two others of a crew of twenty-three, and so on.

Roubtless he experience of our vessel was bu typical and the cases of the people we resented typical al o. If that be true. it is interesting to note that within the ac curary of my statis ies (which were gather- ad carefully from each rescued party through my attendant interpreter) one-half of the

mes involved were saved, one-famth of It is at leial suiting, if not necessarily

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truction to even the staunchest vessels and busting thousands of our fellows into the great unknown is beyond our power, to describe. Of ne thing we can be sure-every passenger on è or steamer, however rough his personal ex perience may have been, was devoutly thank ful that the storm had so impeded our progress that we were ten hours late in reaching Hong.

Kong, for had we reached here at the predicted hour, eight a m., we should hat unlikely have shared the fate of which there is such abun

no doubt this tale would not have been told.

dant evidence within the harbour. And then

C. K. E.

DANGEROUS LŪNATIC AT

LARGE.

At the office of the Public Works Depare ment this afternoon, eno lot of Crown land at Bowen Road, was let by public auction, for a term of 21 years. This property, registered as Garden Lot No. 29, is situated near Inland Lot No, 1711, Bowes Road, and contains 10,700 square feet, carrying an annual Crown rent of $24. The upset price was $535. It was bought by Mr. Yeung Sai Ngam for 5,5s.

"WORSE-PLAY" FOR HIGH

STAKES.

The adage, "Woe to him by whom the ellence cometh," in this land of reversed rules easily becomes "Woe to the countrymen of the affender"

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To-day's Advertisements. :

CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

of

the MEMBERS of the above Club held in the Pavilion, at the Wong-nei: Recreation Ground, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), the agth instant, at 5,35 P.M.

A. E. ASGER.

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 24th September, 1906x COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

A party of sailors have some innocent fun with a compradore, The inconsiderate Ce lestial dies as a consequence. The offenders embark and go scot-free. Native papers take up the outrage; posters ar: printed detailing the affair and embellishing it. Incidentally a ESCAPES FROM THE ASYLUM.

boycott follows; then a massacre of mission. When it became known to the officials at the ades at an exposed point ist the same province will be Lunatic Asylum that one of their lunatics-The myopic public ex

exclainis: "Those trouble-chong and a dangerous one at that bad escaped on

some missionaries" Haliday afternoon, last to say that there was By dint of great effort on the part of re- excitement would be putting it too mildly, silent foreigners and nights of sleepless Owing to the interruptions with the telephone anxiety of the consular staff a measure of service a messenger from the Asyjum rushed wood-feeling is restored, and foreigners living down to No. 7 Police Station and reported the in Kwangtung begin to breathe freely again. mailer. In less time than it would take to tell The hope, rises that the frolicsome sailors every police station in the Colony had special in their swift, well-protected fortresses have men out, searching for the lunatic. The search been impressed, and may be expected to curb was carried out until about two o'clock yes their fun-loving propensity. But before a terday morning, when the police in the Central second year is past down comes the news-- district sighed neir man, who was dressed we hope somewhat exaggerated-hat olber in lunatic's uniform, showing the mark of defenders of their fellow-nationals have again the Asylum, walking along Queen's Road Cen-sought diversion in almost exactly the same ral as if he were bent on urgent business, and sort of a game. A boy is shaved into the

the women, an "one-sixth of the children. character, the police were nottaking any chances,

conclusive, i connection with the „afi- | him. sepented statement concerning Chinese neg- fect of girls, that out of a total of sixty children. involved exactly half were girls and that the rescues were in exactly the same ratio of one

in one,

Another thing, which struck us was the calmness of the women and children. There was no weeping or wailing at all if you neglec the crying of a two-months infant exposed to the fury of oceanic elements for hours past and deprived of its mother's nourishing care. The men were the most excited members of the rescued parties and seemed also the most sel fish, women and children to taking second place with a calmness and in such a matter-of- course way as to make on.'s ire rise-though to look at it coldly, I suppose it is more proper to save the male adult as the o t upon whom the rest would be dependent. In many cases, however, preference was given, to children, though in no case to women.

sneaking loudly to himself Being n dangerous water. Harmless cacugh; but so is a spark screeping up quietly behind him they shares harmless, if produced in its proper place; vel The shadman at first attempted to somewhat risky if introduced into a powder

magazine. ukupa fight, but numbers told, and he was re Transient foreigners passing through Canton moved, roating with rage, to the Central Poi ce can have their "fling" at the native, then pass Station, and later to the Asylum, where he was om, while resident foreigners pay the score. The confined in his cell. The news of his resilor ashore from his ship kicks the coalie, capture was then phoned to the various stations, chats the shipman, drowns the compradore, and police sent out to look for the lunatic, | enjoys many forms of "horseplay ;" then at the were withdrawn.

mess-table narries with gusto what his trip a How the Chinaman got out of his cell was shore has added to his log of exploits. He feels not stated, but it was said that as soon as he brave and contempturus of danger as he sits got clear of the building, he made for a wall, surrounded by guns and marines. But hefare which he scaled, dropped into High Street, he gets home to tell his exploits to the gaping and disappeared. “The” Chinamân developed | friends of his native town, some customs insanity same months ago, and was sent to the station or remote missionary's family has been of sylum atter violently assaulting a coolie. plundered and all foreigners shot, as a proper ofket to the sport. The transient sows the wind; the permanent residents reap the whirl- wind-and are criticized for tactlessness in managing the Chinese-Contributed.

SHIPPING AND MAILS

THE WEATHER. -

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

•On the 24th al $ 30-5.m.-Signal lowered. On the 24th at 12.5 p.-The bakomëtër ha risen over S. China and the Philippines.

The typhoon has probably moved up the Gulf of Torgkin.

Gradients are slight on the Coast between Hongkong and N. China.

Weather improving over the China Sea, The returns from the Japanese" stations aro.

lacking this morning.

In some cases all hands were doing their best to attract attention of passing vessels and even when we were fast approaching them with the evident intention of stopping to pick them up they kept on beseeching ourassistance with swaying arms Others, however, seemed to have abandoned hope and were roused to life only by the shrick of our whistin as we approached the apparently deserted hulk. And then such would prove the most impatient to get aboard-in fact, one man foolishly jumped from his hulk toward which we were fast drifting and attempted to swim the interval. But for a timely life-buny and a friendly hoist he would have been crushed between his junk and our ship's side. This impatier ce, natural 1.-Formosa Channel, N.E. winds, mo enough from their point of view, but from our 'derato. exalted station on the promenade deck,

3-South coast of China between irrational and foolhardy, monifested itself, in | and Lamocks, same as No. 1.

Telegraphic communication between the nervatory and Hongkong continues in terrupted.

·

FORECAST.

1. Hongkong and neighbourhood, E. winds, fresh to moderate.

MAILS DUE.

German (Prius Ludwig) 25th inst., 6 n. m. Indian (Sulsang) z5th`inst, American (Hongkong Maru) 27th inst. Indian (G. Apcor) a;th inst.. French (Tourane) ist prox. American (Korea) 4th prox. Canadian (Tarlar) 18th prox.

The M. M. Coss.. Touran will leave Singapore on 34th iol., at 5 p.m., for this port.

The Apcar Co.'s 8.3r G. Apcar from Calcutta left Singapore and inst., a.m., and may be expected here on 27th inst.

HongkongMavila for this port on Tuesday noon, and will The T. K. K. 14. Hongkong Maru wil: leave

the case of four men found on the same rait 4South coast of China between Hongkong with Pilot Parsons, Dos of them when the and Halogo, decreasing &, gale.

be due to arrive Hongkong on Thursday afternoon, the syth lost,

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UNRIVALLED FOR

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LIGHTNESS

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WHOLESOMENESS.

JHAT. Japan has shown to the World

"PRINZ SIGISMUND,*`· having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk intothe hatardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong in the late Wat can also convince Con kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- pany, Limited, Kowloon, whicsco delivery may noisseurs in the excellence of her Produc

he obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless

notice to the contrary be given before 5 P.M. tion of this Famous TO-DAY.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after MONDAY, the 1st of October, will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on MONDAY, the let of Uctober, at

10 A M.

All Claims must reach us before the 6th of October, or they will not be recognized. ''

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

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

MELCHERS & Co., Agoats. Hongkong, 24th September, 1906,

“YEBISU BEER.”

·Per Caso 8 doz. pls..........................

Per dor,

H. PRICE & CO.

Hoogkong, aznd September, rpcë,

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