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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1906.

for the increase of the company's capital, in

Entimations.

| return for their good services in effecting the

A. S. WATSON & CO

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.ID, 1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

RAINIER-BEER.

SPARKLING

INVIGORATING

HEALTH-GIVING.

During the Hot Damp

Weather when Heavy

Drinks are out of the

Question one's thoughts naturally turn to

· RAINIER,“

incorporation of the Ouska concern with that at Tokio. It contended that a pre-

THE TYPHOON.

THE HARBOURER

official has been despatched. to Carton and Macao in order to induce cargo-boat owners to come down bare to work. These men at first refused, thinking, perhaps, that it would be necessary for them to take out licences for

'A BALSI CHARGE,

INDIAN POLICEMAN CONVICTED.

On Monday afternoon last Indian Policeman

The harbour is gradunily jassuming its sentation of shares to directors, can only be normal appearance he junks and dampans their hosts. This was told to the authorities 633 by name tohimed Khan dragged a haw...)

CANTON'S PRACTICAL SYMPATHY,,

voluntarily proposed by the shareholders, as

that managed to weather the storm, which a mark of appreciation of directors who have

scat so many of their class of craft either to the bly discharged their duties for many years bottom, or on to the Praya, in unrecognizable and placed the concern under theft control piecer, like heaps of firewood, laro hat their on a firm basis. In the present case the inail damages repaired, their sails respatched, corporation of the companies, after protract and are once again in their old places along.

The Praya looking for business. ed agitation, is only just agreed to when the directors commence to claim rewards for

His Excellency, the Governar pas received their services? This fact shows, congludes from Mr. Mansfield, H.ILM's Consul-General, the fij, that the object of these men in ad- Canton, a cheque for $500, being the sub- vocating the amalgamation of the two com.scriptions of the foreign community at Canton panies was not so much the well-being towards the relief of the Chinese sufferers from of the concern under the control as the possibility of securing a few shares. The trouble is not an evil complained of in Japan nione. We have not to go a hundred miles from the Colony to discover that shareholders interests in joint-stock enter- prises are not always placed before those of the directorate who are invariably handsoine ly paid for inadequate services rendered,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

INVITATIONS have been issued by His Excel lency it: Guvernoy to a Ball to be given Government House on 15th November, the

neatest convenient date to His Majesty the King's Birthday.

Was are questei in state that members of the

Hongkong Jambi Club who have not entered. for the six asule tournament might kindly sent in their names to the honorary secretary at the

Chartered Bank.

the late typhoon.

Mr. Mansfield, in forwarding the cheque,

says:

!

to obtain licences; the only.

ON SHORE.

he city is almost clear of the fallen trees and other refuse, blown' on to the roads by the Blaim. All day long carts from the Sanitary "On behalf of our little community I desire Department have been busily, engaged in cal' in express our deep sympathy with your Ex-lecting loads of garbage from the heaps that cellency and the Colony generally, in the ap- palling disaster which has befallen you."

In acknowledgment his Excellency has written: -

have lain along Counaught Road Central

most un since Tuesday last; and a pleasing duty it has proved, for as the top layer was removed the stench given out from "I beg to convey to you most cordial thanks below was nauseating in the extreme. But for this generous.testimony of kind and neigh-innumerable, still, are the groups of homeless bourly feeling.".

usforlunnies to be seen all along the road from Blake Pier nearly to West, Point-some squat ting on mats and taking their rice in bowls, and in comfort, while others are eating "some- thing out of paper-wrappers," while standing and gazing at the waters which have stolen their homes and their all, and wondering what the morrow will bring forth.

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THE OBSERVATORY COMMISSION. We understand that members of the user- cantle marine, and others who may be willing

committes of inquiry appointed to ascertain to give information calculated to assis, the whether earlier warning could have been given of the typhoon of the 18th inst, are requested to call on the Chairman of Committee, at the Attorney General's chambers on Saturday 29th inst, at 10.30 aan.

THE DAMAGED STEAMERS.

A visit to Kowloon this morning resulted in disappointing paucity of information regarding the progress of work for the raising of the wrecks in the harbour, The German 5.5 Petrarch lies against the Wharf Company's

Tre message states that the aborigines seawall with her huge rent on the stern, ap have displayed aggressive tactics at Sankakuyu,parently nothing being done to have her duck- Two or three Japanese police officials and ed. in all probability telegrams are being others engaged in advancing the defensive exchanged between her owners, and the local works are killed or wandel daily. Up to the agents determining the action to be taken for 134th instant the Japanese casualties amounted her repairs.

Per Case of 4 doz, quarts «.$16.50-10 24 killed and 25, wounded,

Per Boz. quarts

Per Case of 6 düz, pints Per Doz, Pints

|

The Perch's crippled neighbour, the American sailing ship the S. Hitchcock, is in the same plight. She lies with her list to starboard, in the same position as she was in after the storm on Tuesday. Nothing definite could be ascertained as to when the Dock people will take her in hand.

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TELEGRAM.

“HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”

SERVICE,

THE CHINESE CON SIITUTION,

ROYAL COMMISSION IN FAVOUR.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

·Shanghai, 25th September,

1.46 p.m.

A despatch received from Peking to-day states that nine-tenths of the members appointed to consider the

question of Constitutional Govern. ment for Chinu favour the acceptance of a Constitution as neur as possible to that of Japan.

and the representative was sent to Cantan aguiser into No. 7 Police Station at West Paint yesterday to inform cargn-boat owners that it and laid a charge of dumping subbish in the steel against the man. Inspector Cullent, who will not be necessary for thein, on this was about to take down the charge, questioned occa is,

of and on what strept it was dumped, but the thing necessary would be the payment of the policensin as to what the rubbish consisted TO BE MODELLED AFTER JAPAN. Indian made such a blunder of the whole think, will be satisfactory to the junk people, affair that the inspector faared there was twenty-five cents as "port dues" This, we who are expected here shortly. A certain roter

man could not tell what kind of rubbish prising Uongkong gentleman when he heard something fishy about the man. The police- of the huge rates junk owners were charging for it was that the hawker was alleged to have cast on the street, nor, could hell on what their boats left the Colony for Canion at once

side of the road the subbish could be found to buy junks and bring them here to hire out.

Sergeant Gardon was at once deputed to ag- company the Indian and the hawker back to the spot where the alleged dumping occurred The Indian led the way and when he got to Pokfootum Road pointed to a spot where he said the rubbish was dumped. There was no rubbish to be seen. The Indian policeman "was inken: back to the station and hold while the sergeant went out to get information which would throw some light on the matter. He was not long away before he could produce more than a dozen-witnester prove that the charge was a fake one and more than that the policeman was to blame. From some of the ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALISTS AT witnesses it was learnt that the policeman in question was in the habit of taking stuff from hawkers' stall at West Point and refusing to pay for it, in fact, if they insisted on being paid for what the "officer" took they were threatened courage their Imperial Majesties from ap with being locked up. On the day-in question proving The principle of Constitutional govern- ment for China have suddenly received an Indian policeman 33 went up to the hawker's stall and look up a handful of almonds. The accessinu to their ranks by the appearance on hawker naturally demanded payment. Seeing the field of the anarchists, or rather, Red the phiiceman showed no willingness to pay for Republicans, who acknowledge Dr, Sun Yat- These men, we learn the almonds the hawker told him that he was a, sen as their leader. poor man, that he did not make large profits from a correspondent, have been addressing out of the business, and that he did not and unsigned letters to the high provincial nuthori- the officer taking one or two of the elmonda, ties along the coast and in the Yangtze Valley but when he took a handful it was a serious declaring their determination to prevent the matter to him, whereupon, it was said, the putting into operation of constitutional govern

ment in the Empire "until such time as their Indian seized the hawker by the queue and removed him to the station and what transpired party (Anaschists, Socialists or Red Republic there is related above. Inspector Collett' on cans) was ready to give it to the country, gelling to the bottom of the matter immediate. having of course seized the riccessary power at ly charged the Indian, and at the Police the head of the Government." To obtain this Court yesterday morning he denied a charge end the policy, of the writers of the letters of misconduct. After evidence was heard would be to "put away' every one of the he was found guilty, and the magistrate Travelling High Commissioners, each and all find the man Sro, or in default one month's of whom favoured the recommendations of haid labour. He was recommended for distheir Excellencies, and inaugurate a reign of missal from the force.

EUROPKAN ON THE NINE-PINS. A repon was brought into the Colony to-day by the st. Honamthat the bady of a Euro. penh d been seca on the Wine Pins, but as it was farther stated that the body had red hair and a red beard, it was understood that it was not the corpse of anyone from the Colony,

AT MIRS BAY.

The inhabitants on the shores of Mirs 'Bays seem to have come in for their share of the boisterous weather of Tuesday last. A report was brought into town this morning by à visiter to that region, to the effect that a tremendous sen, almost paflaking of the nature of a tidal wave, b oke over the stores, doing consider able damage to the craft remaining in the Day and inundating the houses. la one house a Chinaman was asleep in his bod, when the high sea completely swamped the place; and the man wat drowned in his own house.

THE POLICE BASIS.

4.20) |„Tau balleship) Afikata, recently raised, after many abortive endeavours at Sasebo, is now 16,50 | undergoing ar påúr at the naval port, sidę t

side with the battleship #iken, formnily the 2.75

Russian Artyap, rated in Port Arthur. The

A visit in Kowloon this morning by a repro- repairs of these ships are expected to be cam- The French naval authorities have been well sentative of this paper was enough to convince pleted by April or May next, and both vessels advised in deciding upon raising the torpedo.bimthat the work now being done by the police on will go into Commission as powerful and well-boat Froud, now submerged near the Naval the peninsula and elsewhere was not "all child's play "as a few pessimists seen to think. ↑ The police basin there is literally clogged with all kinds of rubbish. Here the hull of a damaged steam launch can be seen, there boxes of decayed mushrooms, in fact all over the place is one complete mass of filth, and the stench for the police hallers stake. Ve, unde

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A. S. WATSON & CO., equipped battleships.

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The rates per quarter and per meninas, pasportunut, The daily imun is delivered trge when theaddress in

Kecmible to museenger: Un raspio stint ly past an ditional $1.99 per quarter is charged for postage. T'ho prostage on the weekly inge to muy pour of the

world is 30 gresstæ pour quarter Single Copies Daily, ton vents Weekly, twenty-

ve cents,

The

An Indian assistant in a shop at 41, Cooke Strel, Hungham, waarraigned and convicted

before Mr. F. A., Hazeland, at the Police Court

property of his employer.

at nearly $300, Train vonds, ple

Depit at Kowloon. We understand that, as in the case of the Hringshan, the energetic, Prefector will be entrusted with the raising of the French warship. When noce afloat she will be turned ove to Mr. Wilson, and his cap able staff at Kowlous, upon whoni it can be relied that which the Froude takaa water again

WORK.

It appears that the high officials and Man.

cbu nobles who have been lately trying to dis

terror." Once these partisans ofɑreform and constitutionalism have been put 'out of the way, the country will be ready to welcome TRAGEDY AT THE DOCKS; the tenets as advanced by the letter-writers,"

Such is the gist of the anonymous letters that CAUSE OF RUSSIAN SAILOR'S DEATH. have been lately received by a large number of high officials, and we learn also that circulars From inquiries made in official quarters lo- have been secretly disseminated amongst day regarding the rumour that was afoat in the masses containing similar sanguinary the city yesterday afternoon to the effect that and anarchical views. Happily all this is the idic talk of a few bairbrained inen who are Russian sailor on board the steamer Kite had said to have resided abroad and associase there met his death under circunts ances which were with anarchists. Such people actually number wwwmagnete Puspiwung, a prongsung stiegropin not even a hundred men nod, so far, those who representative was given the particulars of the

have been arrested by the authorities, instend

of their cause have shown themselves only loo reached the Water Police is was suggested that anxious to buy clemency by betraying their the sailor was pushed down the hold. Inspector, feHow conspirators to the judges. We remem Langley detailed Delective-sergeant Wilden to ber to have been told by inmenne about seven inquire into the matter, and together with the

years ago that these anarchistic followers of Doctor Sun Yat-sen numbered at the time over Russian Consul the detective visited the ship.fur hundred "uue and trusty patriots, which was in the Cosmopolitan Dock. Several anxious and ready to shed their last drop of sailors were examined regarding the allegation blood to bring aboutthe triumph of their cause." nothing could be adduced to show that foul, present day these followers of Sun Yat-sen made by certain members of the crew, but Apparently, however, instead of increasing strength and influence, we now learn that at

barely muster a hundred play was the cause of death. It was proved

Mr. 4. J. Gardiner, at tite office of Mr. O. D. ¦ from the Humebore. Vibodafighting ship astors Langley and Kerrand their over-worked men tragedy. When the first news ofthesailor's death of being desirous to pasa as heroes and martyrs

Thomson, defended. According ence heat a

***** Kiven charge of the shop during his master's lemporary absence from the Colony, and he was alleged to have played ducks and drakes with his master's pro- peity and money. His Worship passed sen- tence of three mouths hard labour. -.-.

A MESSAGE from Taipeh to the Jiji states that the Tirokoku tribe in Formosa has shown "great activity during the present manth, several Japanese having been killed by them. Some particulats to this effect have already appeared in por eglumas. So serious has this alive disturbance become that the authorities have decided to take further action against them. A number of troops and hundreds of police have heen ordered to the scene, and were to embark at Anping on the 7th and roth inst. The local forces will thus be considerably augmented, with a view to porting an end to the trouble.

Two steamers, said to be each over 1,000 tons,

Hongkong Celegraphing at the bittent of Port Arthur, are. to-be.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1906

A BINT FOR COMPANY DIRECTORS.

Not long since considerable friction had existed in certain cxanmercial circles in Japan culminating in the resignation in a

disposed of by public tender. The O.SK steamer Senshu-maru, which struck a sunken Russian ship at the entrance to Port Arthur, and settled down on her, is reported in have now sunk to the botion, owing probably to the strong currents. Immense quantities of broken shell, cartridge cases, damaged rifles, etc., have accumulated at Newchwang and Tairen whither they are taken from various parts of Manchura by Chinese, who collect them on. the battlefields. This old metal is being

body of the directorate of one of the pro-shipped to Japan in large quantities. minen!" joint-stock companies in Osaka. The maller apparently did not rest with the

At the Supreme Court this morning, in Sum resignation in question. An indictngest of

inary Jurisdiction, before his famour Mr. A. several prominent uten appears in the 1976 | G. Wise, when a case was called on the solici- a-Japanese, venicular paper, which charges tortor the plaintif applied for an adjournment certain directors of a public company with on the ground that has client had left the pro- -acting in the interests of themselves, and not missory note, the subject matter of this action, their shareholders. Our contemporary also "Yes, but will he come back?" asked his and bad had to go to the country to get it. states that the action of Mr. Bara, the Hanour. He returned last night, my I ord, Home Minister, in sanctioning the car-fare but of course I have not yet been properly in- increase at Tokio in defiance of popular structed." "Oh! he came back, did he? 1

if she had never been through the experience of list Tuesday morning.

The Prins Waldemar when seen at her moorings-on Sunday, could not be believed to have sustained any damage at all. She was, however, dry-docked yesterday morning, when the Empress of Japan made room for her in the No. Dock. A mique examination dis closed the fact that her shaft and rudder have been rather badly injured by being twisted, Minor damages will also have to be made good before this Australian liner leaves the dock.

are in the pond up to their waists, dragging out the rubbish, in order to clear the basin of its refuse to allow a faunch; which is on the slip to get out to work.

LCOTING

is being carried out by the natives with as much vigour as before in spite of the strict watch being kept by the police. Reports say that when a shopkeeper barded the ill-fated „Steamer Kwongchow on the morning of the

18th instant, with the intention of going to

Canton, he had over $1,000 in motes to make purchases with. Before the ship went down the shopkeeper lashed the notes under his ärm in an oil cloth, but when he was picked up on the beach at Kowloon later and identified the oil cloth was still there, but the money was gone,

that the deceased sailor was on good terms with all on board before his death, and that his fall into the coal bunkers--a twenty feet drop-was purely accidental. The tragedy occurred on the afternoon of the 19th instant. The medical evidence taken by the police SINGAPORE'S CONSOLATION.

gave the cause of death as due to a fractured Commenting on the fate typhoon in Hong-skull, there being no signs of foul play." Thai was enough for the police, and the matter was Kong, the Singapore Free Press writes:-

Singapore may suffer many disabilities as

drapped, the sailor being buried the following compared with the mors energetic and wealth day,

The Chinkai Muru' is coming up to the sur face of the water off Kellett's Island rather slowly, but none the less certainly. Weather conditions yesterday again hampered the work of the salving party. Pumping operations had to be discontinued off and on, only le be resumed to-day. When the Boarding Officer left the ship this afternoon the Chin Awi was not then completely, re-floated, but work was steadily proceeding to that end, and we should not be surprised to find that withinier Hongkong, but at least we are spared the periodical infliction of typhoons, with all their the week, the Japanese tramp will have fhund her berib, in one of the Dock Co.'s establish tale of death and destruction

And for thai immunity we cannot be too thankful. As mis- fortunes proverbially never come single, it is unpleasant to see that "another typhoon is This is almost adding insult to expected." injury; as though eac experience of the kind were not enough for any ordinary lifetime. The details of this great typhoon must be exciting reading, and we away the arrival of the Hong kong mails with andas interest,

meats.

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The official list to-day of ships in the hands of the repairing staff is as follows :- Kowloon Deck:-Vigilante.

Sorsogon, Changsha, Ch. Hardouin, Suliberg, Deva wongse, Pritz Waldemar, Fri, H.M.S. Mour he, Francisque, and Johanne.

Cosmopolitan Dock: Radnorshire and

Strathmore.

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LIGHTERS FROM SHANGHAL

The Straits Times says: Reuter now joins in with our Special Correspondent in describe ing the dreadful convulsion at Hongkong The typhoon which struck the port would seem

In shipping circles it is currently discuss ed that, owing to the scarcity of lighters in the harbour, one of the great ship ping firms has ordered a number of then have been one of exceptional fervcity, and firm's disposable lighters to be towed down the long list of casualties grows longer and from Shanghai, thus replacing those that have longer as details come to hand. We in the been wrecked or foundered on Tuesday morn

Straits extend our heartfelt sympathy to the ing Another leading firm of shipowners is sufferers and losers by this awful visitation at the Shanghai Deck and Engineering Co., Ld., the last twelve months calamitous march of believed to have placed a fairy good order with | Hongkong, which marks another milestone in for a number of lighters to be towed down South the Fiend, who rules the volcano, the earth- as soon agready. They also are intended quake, and the wind. to replace the "crippled floating plant of a

!

AN UNGRATEFUL BEGGAR.

"I WON'T LEAVE-PUT ME OUT."

المصادر اليوم الحياة

NO

In respect of the calibre of these followers, we have only to recall the attempted wholesale murder by Sun Yat-s£n of the officials of Canton on the morning of Chinese New Year's day, pre- vious to the Boxer uprising of 1900, during the règims of the late Li Han-chang (elder brother of Li Hung-chang), Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces. Sun Yat-sen organized at Hong- kong an "Army" of Invasion against Canton, which was to arrive in Canton on the day usital of the projected atbreak in the steamers plying daily between the two ports. It was proposed to destroy with gunpowder (underground tunnels having pre- viously been dug) the yamens of the Viceroy, Governor and Provincial Treasurer, while at the same crucial moment and with the same in- struments of destruction the Viceroy, Governor, « Treasurer, Judge, Tanteis and the thousand- and one civil and military officials, who were gathered at the Imperial Temple (Wanshou- before the Imperial tablets, were to be also kung) to pay the usual New Year obeisances

hoisted to the heavens" and thus make away with one stroke the entire governing the confusion that would certainly then arise machinery of Kwangtung province. During in the city the "gloricus Army of Republic

the

nothing while those who don't get all, is 2 The old saying that those who deserve get saying that is quite tree, for it was illustrated at the Police Court this morning when a répre- sentative of Messrs. David Sassoon and Company proceeded against a man for dis- orderly behaviour in their office yesterday morning. The defendant in the case was one ans under its "Pesident and-commander-in- Ezekiel Abraham, Messrs. David Sassoon chief Sun Yat-sen" would then rush to and Company, as is well known to all, breach and gain peaceable possession of the have always been in the habit of assist. Meliopolis of the youth which would be ublic. into the headquaiters of the New Republic. ing needy Jews in their difficulties. About The scheme was very good, but the agents of a month ave, according to Mr Judah the Chinese Government in Hongkong knew- Joseph, a the defendant y sited their office and be long before it left Hongkong for Canton, and clerk in the complainant firm, council of the "Republican Army of invasion" everything that was going on in the innermost

was then given the price of a passage to the officials in Canton were prepared to Stam. When all thought he was far away deal with the invaders the moment they

one day this week and was again given arrested on leaving the steamer. At the trist the defendant walked quietly into the office landed on the jetty. The result was that nearly all the five hundred men Wero some money. He turned up yesterday and on it turged out that nine out of ten of the "Army" this occasion was refused any consideration and were coolies of the most degraded class, who BRITISH SQUADRON IN KOREAN blank, saying that a policeman was the onlying what they were expected them that they when told to leave the office he refused point had been enrolled by Sun Yat-sen without know-

WATERS...

person who could put him out. He became ay those who had engaged them that they "would be told what to do when they arrived general nuisance to the office by following the af Canton." And the leaders of the "Exped- manager up and down the premises, until it getitionary Force," like the shrewd and sly fellows so aggravating that a policeman was called they were, never landed at Canton, having The few junks that were spared by the ty

beed too late to recall their "Army"--that Admiral Moore and staff, with 3 other and the defendant removed to the station. everything was known to the authorities. phoon are reaping a barvest now. There is so officers of the British Asiatic Squadron, and The defendant said that when he was given Sun Yat-sen and his lieutenants left their much cargo to be shipped;and so few junks to to men, arrived in Seoul on the 14th inst his passage money he took sick and the victims in the lurch and fled abroad. A few of

schedule time owing to the deficiency of cargo men accompanied the British officers. harbour, it is said, cannot leave according to squadron at Ckémulpa, and other officers and undertake the work that many ships in the Admiral Nakan, Commander of the Japanese money was spent in purchasing medicines. the latter who showed that they did know some Messrs. Sassoon and Company were his coun- thing of the expedition were executed "as a warning to others," while the rest of the unfucky trymen and they ought to have helped him, coolies were set at liberty, having undergone. junks are at work in the harbour at the present visited the Residency-General and then the "Oh, yes, know" bouts. That those cargo boat owners whose, Immediately on arriving Admiral Moore Mr. Ularcland informed Inspector Warnock | imprisonment and suffering at the rate of one that from what he had heard about the case the dollar-the advance given them on their wages moment are making bay while the gun sbines, British Consulate. At 3 p.m. the Admiral and prosecution could not prove that the defendant Sun Yur-sen and his crew are now, it is stated, which was to ho about five dollars a month, is a well-known fact, for they have been offered other officers attended a reception prepared by was disorderly. He was of opinion, he inform again at work, and we may be sure that, when Syo a day for the hire of their boats and they the Residency-General. There were presented Mr. Joseph, that it would be beat in the it comes to the point they will again fee and have refused, averring that they could obtain over 400 officers and officials including the future if they gave the passage ticket to the leave their victims to suffer as they did in double that sum at other quarters. This scar guests and hosis. Unfortunately decorations person they are helping instead of the money as Canton. It is to be hoped that the people 'of city of cargo-boats, it li reported, has been the were almost completely spoiled by rain and all they w'u'd then be sure that the person would is working, will take warning from what hap Yangtze Valley, where it is stated Sun Yat-sen cause of bringing oar harbour authorities to the-entertainments, which bad been prepared go. Defendant would be bound aver in the sum peaed at Canton in Viceroy L Han-chog's action, forwe understand that a Government || had tóʻba abandoned,

of $100 to be of good babeviour for six months. } ilms.-N.G, Dally Nevis -.

know thang about this man; he has been

firm whose mainstay is the large fleet of gES

opinion, in approving the constructions of the Keihin (Tokio-Yokohama) electric rail-a bankrupt, has he not? "Yes, my Lord, but sels whose operations in the East they control. that is not against him now," "No, quite so, either in the capacity of agents or as general

way, and an electric railway.in hie Pre fecture, has caused strong criticism among the public. According to oor vernacular guy temporary, we gather from the columns of the Japan Chronich, the charter in the last-man- tioned instance was granted To a syndicate in which a number of Constitutionalists are interested, in preference to another syndi cate, which nevertheless had made prior "application. It is expected that this matter will be taken up as a political qucation as the next session of the Dist approaches, The Jiji also learns that the new directors of the Osaka-Sugar Refining Company have under consideration a scheme to distribute between themselves a number of now shares

it is not against him now," rejoined his managers. Honour, but if I recollect aright, there was a judgment against him which was never paid up. R's a curious thing; this man goes into bankruptcy and withholds there papers, and then, when he gets clear, he faud." "But he was made a bankrupt, my starts to sue on them--that looks to me like Lord," and the solicito said his Honour," He was a partner in a firm that became bankrupt, and was ordered to file a statement of accounts, but he never did so, and the matter came to some sort of settlement, and he got out of it. i know the man. Let the case go into Friday's list, and in the mean- time it would be as well for you to make some inquiries about your client and his antecedents."

SHORTAGE OF JUNKS.

ADMIRAL, MOORE AT SEOUL,"