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EGRAMS.

[Renter's..

The Scene at Longchamp.

LONDON, 15th October. The scene at Longchamp was a regular pandemonium. The mob fought wildly with one another for booty; some invaded the bars and got drunk; and some tore about adly brandishing stolen hank notes, of which they were soon mbbed by others: Scarcely any building on the course escaped destruction or dainage. Sixty arrests were made.

Later.

Franco and Morocco. Trouble is brewing between France and Morocco, owing to the latter creating all sorts of difficulties in the trade between Taflet and Southern Algeria,

CRIMINAL SESSIONS,

THE CALB DAP,

The October iminal Sessions will open at the Supreme Court in-narrow, at o am, bis Honour the Chief Justice presiding. The fol- Jawing is the calendar of cases to be dealt with:-

(-) H. J. W, idley (2) War.....

(3) Geowe Street

( Lm Fat....

Wong Sing Hing...

(5) Wene Chai

Bubery flr-hery. Manslaughter, Tobbery with violence. (Fom indernierts. Kope y with vulture.

Lave ny and (2) (6) Tsằng lung

Forgery !!Free indictments) With the opening of these Criminal Sessions the vacation closes.

Lay Yagn

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17, 1906.

TUP "NAINAM” PIRACY.

RINGLEADJAS CAPTURED,

[From Corespondente]

Canton, 16th October.

KIDNAPPINGĻA GINI.

"CRUSOE'S ISLAND"

THE LAST OF JUAN FERNANDEZ

I indeed it be true, as the table tells us, that Juan "ernandez has been overwhelmed in the earthquake which has wrecked the cities of Chili, we mourn its lass to the Kingdom of Komance. No deadlier blow has Reality struck at that enchanted realm since the waves of the

the empire of Prester John was cut up by a Al'antic engulted the pills of Atlantis, since

WOMAN SEVERELY PUNISHED,.

When the case against the old woman and the runner of the Tai Lo boarding house, of No. 97, Connaught Road Cential, was called was discovered that the mile defendant had on at the Police Court yesterday afternoon, it

og ytrendered to his bail. The woman who could not find the security was in the dock. His name was called three times and as he could not be found in the police court com-French railway. pound it was presumed that he had jumped his bail. Calling for the hail-book Mr. Gom- peniz, ordered the bail of face to be es- trented. The charge against the couple was that of kidnapping a girl, fifteen years of age. The case against the female defendant was then heard. Evidence of the kidnapped

-At last, afigra considerable hunt for the men two of the tingleades concerned in the piracy which took phcę on Foard the 5. Sainam have at leh bern captured at orgmoon These men are the anteriour The Yu and Pan Lo They were traced to their house, and here the capruse took place. The premises "were full of incriminating evidence against the two men, as, besides two titles marked "s.. Satnam," Jarge quantities of arms and ammuni tion, which was identified as beng part of the rugo of the Shinum, "and which was stolen by the pirates, were also recovered. The women on bei g caputed confessed their guilt. The Bettish Consul has been notified of the capture The girl, a bright looking thing, on being of the two men, and, as sunn as they are

called to the witness-stand, gave her story very bradghujato Canton, he will have an oppor-intelligently. She stated that on the evening unity of examining them as to their actions and those of the other pirates concerned with tem, before their execution.

A RAILWAY BANK.

gid and her mother was heard,

of 20th August last she left her mother's house to make a purchave. On the street the de- fendant stopped her, and after a short conver-

THE VOLUNTEER CAME

› {From Our Special Correspondent]

Stonecutters' Is 17th October. After Raveille was sounded on 'Tuniday morning the men were put on the 15pdra, and 'axima devoling fully two hours at the work." At to am those who remained in Camp were

given every facility in the direction of acquiring knowledge in gun laying, furs setting, and

mmunition,

In the afternoon there was a repetition of the morning's drill.

A concert was held after dinner and the fol

That Juan Fernandez, Crusoe's Island, should follow them into nothingness is lets surprising since it is plainly volcanic, in its lowing contributed to the evening's entertaio- origin, rising sharply out of the Pacific Ocean 160 miles west of the Chilian coust. But it has given shelter to so many exiles from civilian-Mackie, Curpl. Turner; Gunners Biden, Reed, mont-Capt. Northcote, Sergt.-Major Higby, Sergt. Darby, Lance-Sergt. Croucher, Corp.' pion since the Spaniard, Juan Fernandez, dis

grudge its disappearance. Although the best covered it in the sixteenth century, that we

known of its governors is Alexander Selkirk, that Scottish seaman was by no means the first of them.

THE FIRST "GOVERNON," This honour is to be awarded to an unnamed

the log-beaks of the early buccaneers, and then disappears. The next involuntary seitler in Jean Fernandez was a Mosquito Indian named William, who was accidentally left be lying off the rich silver cities of Peru, had tie- hind by the buccaneers in 1681. The island.

come by this time a convenient rendezvous for the buccaneers, is herds of goats, and its fresh water and fish supplying their bodily needs the white.

Mr. Chang To Chai, president of the Yuction, asked the girl to go home with her Spaniard, who was wrecked there about the The (ihe defendant) wanted a companion and middle of the seventeenth century, He was Han Railway Company, Ltd, bus sent a des. patch to E. Vicetor-Shuni, infmuying him a good salary. She did not want the girl five years before another ship took him off. was willing to engage the girl, and would pay the only survivor, arid, lived alone on the island That The Bist call or shares has boca paid. This.

in start work at once, but wanted to show the But his adventures sound no Defoe as chronicler, am iets to a sum of over $9 heajono, which

girl her house so that if she wanted the mua,and personality flits for a moment through has all been deposted in 'small amounts

tion she could find the house on another day. at various receiving offices. Mr. Chang, in

Witness went and was taken to a house in teferring to this deposit, says he thinks such a

Bridge's Street where she was locked up in a large bug should be deposited altogether in ane respectable Bank. is a very large sum side witness was taken from that house and room. Alier conversation between parties ont and fee is afrallel that as withdrawal from de removed to the Tai-Lo boarding house of No, 7. Connaught Road Gratial. She was there handed over to a man, said to be the runner of the place, and the woman departed. The man took the girl to the third storey and Incked her in a room. Aher witness had been confined TERRORS OF TEA.

that she would soon he taken to Singapore. On there for over a month her jailer one day hinted the night of the 6h inst, her chance arrived FRENCH DAC OK'S AWFUL D SCOVERIES.

Dr. Charles Feine, a French doctor, has

Her jailer left her raqin for a few minutes conjured up a picne-of the ap alfing pos-

left the door unlocked and she esesped. Te abites of dri kings and coffee which is

Police testified to the fact that on hearing the enough to make the hair on the heads of the intended for the Yuct Han Pailway, from Wongtey visited the house in Bridge's Street and wirl's story on the night she made her escape, devotees of tlusse leverages stand on e

ha to Kh Tong. Under the concession form. The grave and sex ons. Pritisk. Medically granted to the American Chinese. Des the boarding house pad wrested the man

...

Journal tererds that recording to this, inedical expert the abuse i coffer has increased recent ly in France, where it is re quite common for people to drink a lite ha those of the in- fusion in 23 hours, this excess being especially frequent among won-laundresses, scams. tresses, portresses, and conly, who come in crowds to the hospitals with disorders solely attributable to this case.

tţin more easily recognisible in females, since in them it is less often associated with the effects of alcohol and tobacco than in men.

CATALOGUE OF HORRO

In even moderate quantities coffee causes general irritability ani nervous excitement, hyperassthesia, muscular agitation, palpitation, polyuria, and frequency, of micturition This he calls "acute caffeism," but the repeated and habitual use tools to "chronic caffeism," attended go by insonimia and serious dis orders of digestion,

So far from effer being an "intellectual drink," it proditur, femperary excitement, followed by depicson of mental power, 10 that these addered as its me brevese emo. tional, timid, riduraised and une menaerd by neulasthenia with all its syil consequences,"

Tea, that excellent China drink, approved by all physicians," is as harmful as coffee, af not ne s Three or four cups of tea daily are by no means her from dangry. The il effects are que not only to the alkaloid con. Tains.. ht to the essential oil, which has specially poisonous petiva.

"D) 7.5" FROM TEA.

A single cup of lea may muse excitement and insomnia, while a stronger dése rarely fails to produce acute "theism," chsracterised by excitement, bypesa:sthesia, palpitation, sweats, and occasionally by symptoms resembling those of delirium tremens. Chronic theism

is said to be well known in China and to English and American physicians; it is obser ved aming tea-tasters, and is manifested by loss of appetite, dyspepsia, aml general disorder of nutrition. The influence of tea on the beart is more marked than that of coffee.

CONSLATION.

That tex (say, the British Macheni Journal) is in some prisons a very potent poison is pro- bably tree. In a lile book recently publish ed, Prof. Saundly quotes a distinguished member of the medical profession," as saying: "Tea spoiled the 20 beit years of my life bes fore I found it out. It gave me asfal pair, almost anginifarm-with sense of palsy and weakness of the limbs and a grey face, but there was no obvinas change of the dial palse," But to most peo, le these beverages are harmless and sabulary, thou hit is well, to bear in mind that some of these ill effects may. be encountered in practice hom personal idiosyncracy or excessive use of tea and coffee.

THE WRATHER.”2.

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positors at one time will have the effect of making the money-market véry fight. Further- more, he does not think at advisable to divide the money up and deposit itwith several Banks, in view of the fact that the second call will be made early next year. Mr. Chang therefore intends to make Railway Bank, regarding which U, E. Viceroy Slants in communication with the Board of Trade at Peking.

A READY-MADE LINE.

Mr. Kong, Chief Engineer of the Yuet ap

Railway Co. of Canton, has surveyed the ground

and the woman.

The defendant said, that the girl went in her house voluntarily, there being no kidnapping done. What the absconded defendant did she

A BUCCANEERS' RENDEZVOUS The first party of buccaneers who crossed the Isthmus of Panama under the Englishmen Sawkins and Sharp, captured a Spanish vessel, and made their way down the west coast until, on Christmas 1 ay, 1680, they anchored at Juan Fernandez. The shores of the island were so

had to heat them off in order to fill their barrels thickly crowded with seals that the buccaneers

Entimations.

THE

ROBINSO

PIANO

CO., L.D.,

ARE SHOWING

Harvey, Manuk and Hayward;, Sapper Hall HIGHEST CLASS-

Gonners Chalmers and Sheffield presiding at

he piano,

Those who walked in the direction of the Sergeants' Mess were a bit surprised to see a blackboard with the following inscription:

Rending and Recreation. Magazines and Books. Writing material. Games. Postage Stamps. General messenger work to and from Hongkong"

By kind permission of the Commandant, Mr.

local Y.M.C.A., following the custom in vogar MacPherson, the energetic Secretary of the

at home, had pitched a commodious tent and had it converted into a library. Here all the latest magazines and papers were spread on two long tables. Further away a nice book case was placed in position, a writing table with all its accessories and last of all chess and draughts boards were not forgotten. To the evening the men make this place their rendez.

vous.

#1 about 9 pm, the sudden booming of guns announced the f.c that the Royal Artillery were engaged at Target Practice from the Albion Fort. The Engineer Company of the 4. K. V. C. manned the searchlights and soon we observed the military launch Omphale turning the bend of Stonecutters West and making full speed ahead for the Easi, steaming in the direction of the Cosmopolitan Docks.

PIANOS,

THE LEADING MAKERS

OF

THE WORLD.

Steinway,

Bechstein,

Bluthner,

Winkelmann,

She had in tow two floating targets and these Collard & Collard,

in the fresh-water streams. The Chilian seal-lieing attached to a cable of considerable length hunters of our day have altered all that, but in

were moving at a great speed, the steam wincli 1680 there were in addition lobsters and other on the laus ch being utilised for the purpose, fish in the sea, and herds of goats on the shore. it was a fine sight to see the targets in motion On 11 Jan., 1681, while the crew was ashore throwing up fine sprays of water and resemb- catching goats for salting, three sails were ing very much the flight of a torpedo boat, His Worship sentenced defendant to twelve sea, which were believed 16 he Spanish ships be artillerymen appear to have done some month hard labour.

of wa

The buccaneers bastened to their excellent shooting, for we noticed almost every vessel to get away, and left William, the

shot had reached its mark. Mo quito Indian, behind All he had was a guns and a knife, a small horn of powder and "s handful of shot. By notching his knife like saw be contrived when his ammunition was

ve'nping Company the line was half laid by That Company but when the contesting was revoked, and the agreement handed back to China, the line was deserted, remaining so for aid not know. long time, during which the weather conditions dui the road bed a considerable amount of

that the crimany should repair this line, be damage. It is, however. Mr. Kong's opinion

Cause it would save a great amy unt of money which would be necessary to expend, if the me was to be entirely ad anew, in carrying the necessary materials and in labour,

THE CURENCY SYSTEM,

H.E. Viceny Chw Fa considers that the currency system of Caston 15-4 of a good one.

THE BRITISH POST OFFICE AT TIENTSIN.

To-day Tientsin finds iteel! nance.mue in possession of British Post Ofice, and in the first time enjoying the privileges of the penny post, says the local Times of 1st inst. This is He has therefore send two Tantais, Li and tending, more particularly since the time when a privilege for which we have long been can. Yeung, se Canton, in thomaly investigate every other part of importance in China was the system, and be ready to repait ja kim. As soon as H.E. anives and taes over office,utsie condemned for 10 astensible reason, granted the advantage and we alone stond he will depute Taois Li, Yeung, and Weng with our increasing trade, to bear the burden Kin Cho, as a committee to ex intre tu theof a zipenny rate. The iniquuy of the ar methods of the Sin How Kok, the Customs Banks, and the Canton Mint, in order ta'dis cover, if possible, the best method of improving the currency system;

TAOTAK LI CHUN,

Tantai L Chun, being the of 1.Eeroy Shine's favourites, has been transierit by

RE to be admiral of Yunnan and Hai Chow

provinces. - Taotai Li, yeken acting as adin.ral of Kwang Tung, gamed a great reputation for his maituess 11 capturing pirates, both up the rivers and out at sea.. *

ti

RE. CHOW FU'S SUITE.

When . E. Viceny Ch Fu comes to Canton as Viceroy of ục two Kwang, he, will bring with him a cukabe, of his subordinates from his old station. Among his suite will be two-copiamy as a pe's, and awo high military officers, well versed in modern systems of drilling He will stan bring a lew n. Vafofficers as lus body gitard

BRITISH NAVAL, STRENGTH.

EIRUT, LYON HELAIRS SOUNDS A NOTE DI WARNING.

T

ended to cat his gun barrel into pieces, out of which be manufactured harpoone, lance heads hooks, and are Ruife. Will these weapons he caught goats and fish for food. He built a hut and lined it with goat skins. The Spaniards found he was these ang searched for him, but he successfully hid homself in the mountains. privateers arrived at the island and took off the Three years afterwards, in 1684, two English

poar Indian, who was delighted to see English- rangement, and the absence of gical argumen, some of whom had known him before, deeply in the breasts of commercial men, and ment in the distinction has rankled long and strenuous if qe et efforts have long been

in

making to achieve what has t Fast Secu conceded us. We may be permitted to feel some sight personal gratification in the of direct participation in the bardment by satisfactory result of these efforts by reason of argument and appral, directed against the Foreign Office in regned to this question in

This morning the men were drilled with the 15 pdrs, and there was Maxim gun practice as the Range.

Camp life has not been so lively as in the days gone by and it is hoped that something will be done during the course of the week to and athletic sports, as in previous years, would make things look brighter. A military band

not be out of place, on a Sunday afternoon.

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

Noon!

Ore of these adventurers was the famous Capt.kong Fires $1773, China Fire Insurance Co. $95 Buyers: Hongkong Banks $802, Hong-

Wan. Dampier, whose daring career as pirate, Shift Transports 29/6, Eleötfits $144, Tram partion, privateer, burcaneer, and freebooter ways 1215 seems to centre strangely round this lonely both with the narooning and the rescite of volcanic rock in the Pacific. He was concerne

Largo, who next resuled here. Alexander Selkirk, that cantankerous man frem

THE EAL CRUSOE. Selkirk was the sailing master of the Cinque

1993, when a letter from the Editor of the Ports galley, a vessel which, together with -Pelan “ýnd Tientsin Timer had the honour of Dampier's vessel, the St. George, sailed in 1780 bring subigitted to Loid Lansdowne's attention with letters of marque granted by Prince Geor tgh the China League and acknowledged,ge of Henmark (Anne's consort), as Lord High

mngly taken on by the Incal Chamber of Since that date the matter has been very Admiral of England, to prey on French and Commerce, and in other directions the attack

Spanish commerce has been well and continually sustained, and pany with Dampier in 178, Selkirk, at Panama, The captain of the Cin. que Ports was one Stradling, who parted com credit for the ultimate fructification of nur desires is undoubtedly due to the energetic place with his sailing master, and in October, and sailed southward. A violent quarrel took action of the Governor and Major Nathan of this port. Our appreciation of the establish but in spite of his subsequent regiets, was 17c8, Selkirk, at first at his own desire, ment of a British Post Office here, though not

landed on Juan ernandez, with his coaths wholly unassociated with anticipations of an

and bedding, with a firelock, some pow eventually improved handling of-home maileder, bullets, and inbacco, a batchet, knife,

Jairs, M.P, says that, in reply to his protest the diffe ence between a four and ten cent tax A statement issueit by Lieut. Carlyon Helis primarily and mainly a financial one, and concerning the omission of one Crimin battle- ship from the comparative return issued by the

rn the bulky mails sent home and received by Admiralty on the adjournment of Parliament,

our merchants here totals up to a very bighi Mr. Edmund Robertson has expressed regret that "a clerical error" amounting to 17 per cent" should have been made in the ships laid down or projected in (iermany for the three, years, 190j.7.

lative strength of countries according to the The return was designed to show the re

age of their first-class battleships.

figure in the year, while even in private cor respondence the saving will be an inestimable boon. As we said the other day, allowance will have to be made for the first few weeks while the new office is becoming familiar with i's new duties, and the public must not be too exacting at the outset,

a kettle, à Bib'e, some practical pieces, and his mathematical instruments and books. When his cleats were out he made himself a cont and a cap of goat skins, which he stit- ched together with little thongs of the same that he cut with his knife. He had no other needle but a nail, and when his knife was worn to the back he made others as well as he could of some iron hoops that were left ashore that he beat thin and ground upon ones And so he lived for four years and four months until'in February, 1709, there arrived another privateer company, with the indefatigable Dampier again among then, this time as pilot

personality among this strange crew was "Dover's powder," and was at this time a pri- Thomas Dover, the physician, who invented

valter caplain.

Sellers-Unions $775, Cantons $310, Indo-

$42, China Sugars 5:57. Raubs $92. Kowloon Chinas $73, China and Mañītās $23, Douglases

Wharves $91, Hongkong Lands $108, West Points $50, Hongkang Hotels $115, Humphreys Estates, Cotions $13, China Barnens Sro, China Providents $9.50, Cements $191, Ices

Hopkinson,

Haake,

Krauss, &c.

CASH OR CREDIT,

OR ON

HIRE FROM $10 PER MONTH

INCLUSIVE.

Hongkong, zand August, 1906.

B

$236, Repes 517, Chinn Light and Power S10, that Powells $870.

Sales: -Watsons 5124,

STRONG, HEALTHY,

WISE AND

SURE,

118

you get Boar's HEAD BRAND GUINNESS

Nominal: National Banks $47, HK., C. & M. Steamboats $16, Hongkong Docks $153. Shanghai Docks Tis. 105, Hongkew Wharves STOUT. Tis. 237, Dairy Farms $17.

TO-BAY'S EXCHANGE,

Salling.

Lindon-tank T.T.

n. denmand

10. 4 months' sight.......... Face-Rank T.T.. Aerica-Bank T.T. ermany-hank</U edit T.T.

a. demand. Hungħar-Bank V.T. Singapore T.T. JapanHank T.T... Java-Hank TT.

11.50 A.M.

...2 3 1/16

....2 3 7/1G

IRELAND'S BEST.

2.83

..541

.7.30

167!

.168

73 IF YOU REQUIRE STOUT, WHY NOT GET THE

.31 % prem. .cro

Buying

....3 2/3 13/16

4 months' sight L/C, 6 months' sight L/C.........

months' sigh!

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do.

FULL VALUE OF YOUR MONEY IN

OUTAINING

30 days' sight San Francisca & New York THE BEST, ONLY THE BEST?

501

THERE ARE NO TWO OPINIONS ABOUT THIS.

days' sight Sydney and Melbourne......231

4 months' sight France. 188

months' sight months' sight Germany. Bar Silver Bank of England tale

Sovereign ro

OPIUM QUOTATIONS, To-day's quotations are as follows

Malwa Nowaka

PER CASE 8 Doz, PTS.......$14,00

2.891

...32+

8.83

PER DOZEN

3.00

PER CASE 100 SPLITS

17.00

Per picul ....@ B$0/899 .....@ 910/950

.@ 970/1,000

Per chest

While snticiling patience for the new official, we would take this opportunity of extending to The results are somewhat remarkable," the postmaster who has hitherm handled out says Lieut. Hellais, for whereas in vessels home mails, a very high appreciation of his 23 years or less Great Britain has twice as uniform and untiring courtesy and kindly atto Capt. Wontes Rogers. Another interesting many as Germany, if the older vesselstare Ltention to all complaints, and there are few excluded and only vessels 13 years old or less public offices perhaps at which both public The following report is from Mr, F. G. Figg, are entmerted (a period roughly synchronis- and private complaints are more incessantly First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory?ing with the improved armour), France and hurled than at a post office. Mr. Summers has

On the 17th at 11.20 p7-The barometer has

HIS RESCUE. Germany combined have a superiority of four displayed throughout our lengthy acquain- risen along the Yangtze, and fallen over N. battleships and the United States and Ger

tance with him a tactful patience in dealing made a fire, whose light was seen, and the pri

Selkirk, judging that the ships were English, China and the Philippines.

many a superiority of 11 battleships.

with all difficulties which is well worthy the vateers landed. They found him in goat skios, imitation of anyone placed in a similar pasijust the typical Robinson Crusoe that so many tian. The disabilities from which we have artists have since drawn. At first he could suffered originate mainly in Shanghai, and in hardly speak his native tongue, and from long course of time we shall hope to see a benefi- cial change in handling the sorting of the restriction to pure water as a beverage, he was

unable to drink their ardent spirits. mails between Hongkong ard Shanghai, or in

Selkirk was scon engaged is maté by his "It will be seen that Great Britain's position Hongkong, so that mail matter for the north gels steadily worse as old vessels are discarded. may be placed in separate bags for direct deliverers, and had a profitable cruise along

transhipment in the same way as the Continen. the Spanish Main.· The inclusion of old so-called first-class battle tal mails appear to he, and not be detained in England at the end of 1711, there was, about When they reached ships in the British face is seriously ques.hanghai for an elaborate process of weeding £350,000 to divide between the owners, the tinned by naval experts, in view of the fact that out there.

authorities, and the privateers. Next year an Full particulars of the British Pest Office account of Selkirk's adventures was published. all the British vessels over eight years old have and new rates will be found in another colume, and in 1719 Defoe, in "Robinson Crusoe," no protection for the water-line except amid and it will be seen that for alher places in though he placed the island at the mouth of A Hongkong Bank, suitable for Offices.

The depression lying over S. Manchuria is moving into the Sea of Japan. Pressure re. maine somewhat low over the Pacific to the E. or N.E. of Luzon.

A high pressure area is spreading over China from the N.W. and hard monsoon is expected to set in over the whole of the China Coast, and the N. part of the China Sea,

The Japanese returns are lacking this moin ing.

. FORECAST.

1.-Hongkong and neighbourhood, N, winds, increasing to fresh or strong breezes fine.

2.—Formosa Channel, N.E. winds, strong to

1

a gnie.

3-South coast of China between fongkeng and Lamecka, same as No. 2.

4-South coast of China boween Hongkong and Hainan, same as No. 1.

"Computed with Germany alone, Great Britain has a superiority of only 13 battleships, When vessels which will be eight years old in 1407 are enumerated, Great Britain has 8 as compared, with 16 for Germany, 16 for the United States, and 12 fir France.

ships. Against arch vulnerable targets foreign iority in second and third-class battleships nations could are with great effect their supe

and coast defence vestels, which are not enu- merated in the return,"

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To-day's Advertisement.

TO LET.

FLAT and THREE ROOMS, near the

China as well as local mai's, tha C. 1. P. will the ringco on the other side of the Continent, Moderate rental. cient service. The postal order department, immortality. The latter has since been a will be the cheapest as well as the most efft-handed Selkirk and Juan Fernander down to

residents, will not be in operation for a few but it is sa" Crusoe's laland” that we all trea which promises to be a great boen to Tientsia convict station, a seal fishery, a Chilian colony,

days yet?

curs its memory.-Morning Leader

Apply to-

X, Y, Z. Clo Hongkong Telegraph, Hongkong, 17th October, 1906, ~2 lot

TER DOZEN máum 2,35

SOLE AGENTS:

H. PRICE & CO.,

WINE, MERCHANTS,

12 QUEEN'S ROad Central,

Telephone No. 135.

Hongkong, 9th October, 1908, 7

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