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Antimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1907.

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· PRESENTATION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

Highnesses of

[P, W. D. BINTER IN TROUBLU,

ALLEGED MALFRACTICES,

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TELEGRAMS.

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SERVICE

THE SHANGHAI RIO1.

NANKING INTERESTED AT LAST.

TAOTAI'S DUTIES AFTER THE NEW YEAR,

[From Our Own Correspondent.}"

Shanghai, 8th Februar

3 p.m.

After we had gone to press yesterday, a pleasing function took place at overnment. House at 6 o'clock when the Chinese members the Waterworks, was before Mr. „F, A. Hart, Li Tal, allas Li Ching, a'fier, employed at

tion to Their Royalsignal. There were answer salisce char, és. On the first count, be of the Reception Committee made a presentar land, at the Police Court, this morning, to

present at the ceremony T. R. H.the Duke and was alleged to have, between Ist July last and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia, the yth instant, stolen two spinners, three Hon. Capiain M. Ponsonby, M.vo, Captain pieces of irus, and a stop cock, the property of H. C. Coloman, A.D.C., Mr. R. A. Ponsonby, the PW.D.; on the second, it was alleged he Private Secretary, the Hon. Dr.Ho Kal, C.M.Galtered the water service at No. 17, Cochrane the Hon. Mr. Wel Yuk, Alessrs. Lau Chuspak, Street, without permission, and lastly, it was llo Fook, Ho Kom Tang, Poon Ya Chuen, said he frau Culently attempted to obtain from the occupierthe sumol$io, Overseer Ross, oft é P.W.D., was the complainant. The defendant, it Street a work or two ago and told the occupies was stated, went to house No. 17, Cochrane

that for a consideration he would alter hil wa ter service so that he would have no further correspondence and documents which trouble of getting a good supply of water. The have any connection with the inquiry occupier agreed. The pipes were cut and yesterday, so it is alleged, defendant called for into the cause of the riot that oc his money, The rccupier went out and return curred in Shanghai, in connection ed with" Detective Sergeant Murison instead who placed the fitter under arrest, The P.W.D with the Mixed Court squabbles, some time ago, und bring then to Nanking immediately after the "New Year fes- tivities.

that in, 924 there was an outcry among the be placed in a proper basis, that the establish THE ROYAL VISIT. opium fanners regarding the financial lose they meat should be an integral part of the harbour were sustaining by reason of the huge sums suthorities establishment. It has been sug- they had to pay for the monopoly. The gested that at the present juncture the Govern Government of the State Settlements, eens might not be in a position to replace the cognising the urgency of the.

but that difficulty can be overcome in anmber asken fire-float by a colitely new vessel, question, dealt

the justness of the farmers' claims" for con-

way. As stated, when a fire does occur, sideration by reducing their monthly pay every waterboat in sight is rushed, willy-nilly, 'manis to the Treasury, which|thereby reduced

to the scens. But the boats having the largest the covenud derived from the monopoly. They carrying capacity may be otherwise engaged also permitted the farmers to increase the price or without a drop of water in the hold. Would at which chandu was sold to the public from it not be feasible to sbsidise the owners of $2.50 10 $3.03 per tahilatually, the direct waterboars which have ample storage provision, Hoi Chow, and Leung Ngan Pan result of this, enhancement of the retail price the understanding being that these boats, no The presents were displayed on a table in of the drug was a falling off in the quantity matter how employed at the time, should im fully designed and exquisitely executed silk the drawing room. They consisted of beauti consumed by, the public, and the farmers still mediately come under th found themselves paying the Government more thorities and remain under their control until are the finest examples of Chinese att; on under the control of the aumbroideries to serve as wall hangings, which than they received from their farms, and, more- their services were dispensed with? The fur-ivory-carved ball, which we are told is one of the over, the increased value of the chandu gave a ther provision would have to be made that the very few specimens extant of the finer Chinese direct impetus to smuggling and to the con- subsidised vessels should be at all times pre- carving, and silverware consisting of tea cups, sumption of morphia. It is not therefore surpared for duty, in other words that they should forks and spoons and a bundle of fine ivory prising to learn that the chests of opium have their holds overflowing ready for any emer consumed in Singapore dropped from 1,346 ingency. No doubt there would be occasions when 1913 to 938 in 1954. There was a slight"in the boots having completed an order would be crease in the following year, the figures show-lighter ihan usual, but under the terms of the ing a consumption of 1,046 chests of opiums. subsidy they would be compelled to refill their With regard to the revenue paid by the farmers holds immediately. In several ways such ao to the Government, it appears that in 1896 the

arrangement should work satisfactorily. The Government would get an efficient and enlarged service at comparatively small cost much less than the expenditure that would be involved in the construction of a new float-the port would be benefited by being in a position to Le fute slanders originating in other ports, and the owners of first-class waterboats would, in all probability, willingly fall ip with the Govers

in meal's proposal and thereby benefit financially, At all events, the position of affairs is not one that can be viewed with equanimity and it should receive the immediate attention of the authorities..

sum of $1,080,000 was the figure of the suc

cessful tender. In. 1898 the farmer secured the monopoly for three years with an offer of $1,458,000 per annum. The profits obtained from the opium farm appear to have aroused the cupidity of“rthers, fór u 19t the tender acrepied by the Government provided that the farmer should pay no less than 12,400,000 per

annum for three years, and that rate was en. hanced in 1904 in $4,243,000 per annum. Then the farmers found that they could not afford to jur hut amnesit, and the lender was reduced 10 $3,940,409, and this year it has been still further, reduced and is not expected to produce more than 12,500,"Do., But even that sum is a huge amount in the annual retures of the Settlement's exchequer, and it shows the difficult es which will face the Government should they yield to the anti-opius reformers who would sweep the ding off the face of the earth. It is by no means a simple matter to discover methods of taxation, direct or indirect, which will not fall heavily on the people generally. In a community of 250,000 the abolition of the opium farm, which is to say That opium in any shape or form is refused

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AGENTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Han,kap, 22nd J initary, 1907.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French mail of the ith January was delivered in London or the 7th inst, t

THERE will be a pick-up match to-morrow, at 15 pm, belween Mr. Woodward's and Mr. Pousonby's teams, on the Hongkong Cricket Club grounds..

THE final of the Hongkong Polo Club touna- meat for the West Kents Cup will be played on Saturday, the 16th instant, at 4 p.m., between the 3rd Middlesex team and the H.A. team.

chopsticks.

13. Ho Kai acted as the spokesmanfand, in making the presentation,, asked that the Ourhess and Princess "ntricia' might be gra- cinusly pleased to accept those presents, which are of no intrinsic worth, as a token of loyalty and devotion to the Throne and the

oyni family.

On behalf of the Duchess and Irincess Pa- tricia, H.R., the Duke of Connaught briefly thanked 1.r. Ho Kai and the Chinese, com- munity for the presents which the Duchess and Princess Patricia were pleased to accept.

This concluded the ceremony, and the Chinese gentlemen then retired.

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communicated with and on arrival Overseer Ross discovered that the tools used by sccused in his illegal work were stolen pro perty. When the case was called on this morning, the complainant asked for a short re mand, saying that there were others who also had a band in the matter. A remand was allowed.

A SECOND SANDOW.

COOLIE AND A SHIP'S Cable.

THE ADMIRAL'S DINNER,

Straining under the weight of a heavy box, Last evening the Royal visitors dined with which he carried on his shoulder, shifting its the Commander-in-Chief of the China Squa- position at intervals, a coolic was seen trudging dron, Rear Admiral ir arthur W. Moore, and along. Hollywood Road yesterday afternoon. a select parly representing the military, pro- He had not the sneakish look on his fessional, and commercial interests of the countenance, which is usually the case with flagship ng Aifted and proved a complcle interpret, but his air of brivado attracted ar Colony.. Ta dinner was given on beard the thieves, and which the police seldom fail.to

success. The Ruyal party proceeded from Indian constable, who thought there was Government House to Blake Pier, their body-something wrong with the conlie, ........... guard consisting of members of the 'constabu- "What's inside that box?" asked the police. lary. The Admiral's launch was in wailing sedman.. conveyed the guests to the flagship, where they we e received by the Admital and officers of Staff. The guests, returned to longkang at 10,33 p.m.

What do you think could be insidė? I jus bought the box to break unto use as firewood," said the coglie, whose back was bending under the weight,

"You put that box on the ground. I want to see the contents," added the officer.

THE ILLUMINATED! "KING ALFRED," Seldom have residents in Hongkong-wil nessed a more beautiful sight than that pre sented by the King Alfred as she gracefully, The coolie thought the officer Very in Rosted at the naval anchorage last night. quisitive, and putting the box down with Illuminated from water-line to mast-head by e-a thud, started alonge to straighten bis myriad of electric lamps the King Alfred back. Theo.he, with a look of astonishment, seemed more like the phantasy of a mirage. reveled to the officer part of a ship's, cable- than the actual embodiment of one of His the chain being ro heavy that it took two men

electricity is no doubt an ancient one, but in design of putlining the ship by means of

this case there was an artistic mind at work and the result was a fairy creation which attracted crowds to the praya. The lights at the mast- head twinkled like stars, giving signals to the ather units of the British Fleet in the harbour

thai extra faxes would have to be raised to the Moncrieffand Officers, the Band of the 3rd Bau Majesty's most powerful engines of war. The to get the box on the coolie's shoulder again.

amount of $to per capita perandum. That is why most "Chinabands" regard the anti-opiam pro- paganda as illusory, the official edicis of the 13 Chinese Imperial Government as so much waste paper, and the professed desire of officialdom to stamp out the habit as a sop ta

The Hongkong Telegraph fanatician.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEB. 8, 1907.

SOME PAĜIS ABOUT OPIUM.

HONGKONG HARBOUR NEEDS.

One of the effects, which has practical'y es- caped the notice of the gene al public, of the memorable typhoon of the 18th September last, was the destruction of the fire-float which was at the disposal of the harbour authorities The boat way dashed agains the praya wall and wrecked beyond repair. As consequence, should an outbreak of fire of any magnitude occur on any of the leviathans, which are continually passing through the har- bour' f' Hongking, those who undertake the work of coping with such emergencies would,

By kind permission of Lieut. Col. W, Scott

The Duke of Cambridge's Own" (Middlesex Regiment) will play the following programme of music, during dinner, at the Hongkong, Hotel, to-morrow, the 9th inst

March. In the Front "HOLE Vzlar.....

"Hdie-der-Nuia "..... ....Langit. Selection......"Lacja Laazmermiyor...Donizets!

Seng Overtise..

Serenade.........

Suite Ciklop

,"Nazareth'

Boliemian Girl'

La l'alousa"

Peer Gynt".

.............." Pultergeister"

Reginental Marches, God Bless the Prince of Wales.

God Save the King.

......Goused ...mifa

.Greig Faust

Even the dense darkness of the night conspir ed to lead charm to the fascinating scene.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME, To-day, the Duke of Connaught was bunily engaged in the performance of his duties as Inspector-General of His Majesty's Forces. This evening their Royal Highnesses will dine

AS briefly reported by special telegram in our with H.E. Major-General R. G. F. Broadwood, columns the other day, 1. E. Viceroy Yuan Commanding the Troops in China, and at so Shih-kini has issued stringent instructions to p.m., the Royal party will proceed to the steam the local authorities of Tientsin, hangku and ship loam, which has been specially charter Chingwantan, the Tientsin Police and Deteced for the occasion, and sail to Canton, where a tive Corps and the Railway Police, to keep a strict watch on conlies emigrating for service day will be spent, the visitors leaving the car abroad. This step has been taken to prevent Chinese fabourers from going to work on the Panama Canal, first, because of the extreme unhealthiness of that isthinus and vicinity, and secondly, because of the harsh legislation in the United States against the entrance of Chinese

pital of South China to morrow night return-

coolie was asked.

"From where did you get that chain?" the

How could he know ?.. He bought the box and did not know there was anything inside

He wasntraigned before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning, on a charge of unlawful possession, to which he pleaded

guilty and was fined $ts. The accused had no money and took the alternative-one month. The chain.

was confiscated,

JAPANESE STEAMSHIP CÓM. PETITION.

ernment subsidies and lower operating ex- A Tacoma despatch of 6th ult, states-Gov.

penses combine to permit Japanese steamship companies to carry freight across the Pacific ocean cheaper than an American steamship' company can afford to perform service. In conséquence two Japanese steamship compan- ies are being established at the same time, the Boston Towboat Company announces that next

In view, doublicis, of the crusade started by anti-apium reformers in Great Britain and, China, the Secretary of State for the Colonies was moved to request the Governor of the Straits Settlements to furnish a return of the amount of opium which had been annually consumed in the territory under bis jurisdiction since 1896, and the revenue derived by the Government from the use of the drug. Fro bably the same desire for information on this to all intents and purposes, be at the mercy of labourers and handicraftsmen into the country.venience and comfortofthe Royal travellers. The | Zyria. Hyndes and Pleindes, will be withdrawn,

thorny question was sent to the Government of Hongkong, but there does not appear to have been any White Paper on the subject to far, but no doubt it will appear in due course. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, in Singapore has framed tables of the amounts recorded in each

the owogrs of waterbonis. At the present. time, when the signal is given that a vessel in the harbour is on fire all the available water boats are requisitioned and urdered to the ship in. distress. But it is conceivable that the waterboats might be engaged at the moment,

a

in on Sunday morning to embark at to o'clock on board the Delz i for Singapore,

THE "HONAM."

The Honam, which is lying alongside Blake

spring, three of its largest steamships, the

The Thotai at Shanghai

has re

ecived instructions to collect all the

[The Sinwupao published, the other day, the following Peking telegram dated the 316(" ultimo:-When the distur bances arose out of the Mixed Court trouble (in December 1905) the ~ Britınb· · Minia- ter eventually made the following demands upon the Government :-(1) An Indemnity for loss of British lives and propeny; (3) severe punishments upon the inciters of the sins, (3), the responsibility of the ouble and pay ment of indemnity, to rest with the Shang- hai Tactai (Yuan Shu-bsun) The Waiwa- pu, however, fi mly resisted all the demands. Now owing to the desire of the Government to ch'ing (who were accused of being anti-mount-... obtain possession of Juing Y and Chang Pro chists) the Britisis Minister has again made the demands noted in the foregoing, and the Wai. wapu has consented to come to some arrange. ments whereby the case of the riots in chang hai may be settled. A telegram bas now been sent by the Waiwupu to Shanghai'ordering the papers and evidence of the whole case to be sant up to Poking for the Wawupu to decide upon.--Ed., H.K.T.Į

BRITISH COMPANIES IN SHANGHAI.

QUESTION ANENT HONGKONG.

ORDINANCE.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 8th February," 3 p.m. Representatives, of the leading British companies conducting opera tions in Shanghai met yesterday with the object of considering what steps should be taken to secure the enforcement of the provisions of the Hongkong Companies: Ordinance in the Settlement.

A Committee was appointed to inquire into the matter and report at a subsequent meeting.

[The probability is that the representatives of British companies met in discuss the question". of companies in Shanghai, and conducting their operations in the Settlement, having under the holders in Hongkong-EL/KT.] Ordinance to keep their registers of share-

SUPPOSED LIGHT-FINGERED

GENTLEMAN,

PRANKS IN A. DRAPER'S SHOP.

A long-coated Chinamin, who professes to he Ho Chung, no address, no employment

fe mi the Oriental trade and operated to Nome. figured in the duck, in Mr. F. A. Hazeland's

Behring sea and other coast ports.

The Mitsui family, one of the strongest.com

a now steamship line across the Pacific. Im

has three old steamers on the ocean hurrying first vessel is now loading on Puget sound. It

America. Five steamers will then come here railroad ties from Northern Japan in Central to load for Japan.

Court, this morning; on a charge'al fraud, ho complainant was Omar Cassim Moosa, man- ger of an Indian draper's establishment, at

that Bo Chung obtained from him $a onder

the interpreter sold him of the charge, and tinn, until he had to be silenced. false pretences. He was very ungrateful.whin started to make a speech, denying the allega

Pier, has been admirably fitted up for the con

alleyway leading to the saloon has been heavily a variety of Chinese curios including a magni- carpetted, and is lined with beautiful plants and ficent bronze incense burner. Chinese lanterns, mercial houses of Japan, has just established Nos. 1 and 5, D'Aquilar treet. Ils alleged fitted with electric lamps, depend from the ceil ing and give almost an oriental aspect to the place. The suite of rooms to be occupied by the Miss Felly are situated on the starboard side Duchess of Connaught, Princess Palicia God of theship and have been specially decorated and furnished for the occasion. The Duke, General Maxwell, Captain Ponsonby and Captain Coleman, A.D.C. to the Governor, have their quarters on, the opposite site of the vessel. The saloon has been beautifully embellished, and it is equipped with blackwood furniture, a variety of Chinese pictures, and a number of

So long as this legislation continues in lory: in the United States so long, it is reported, will the Cainese Go crnment stop Chainese la bouters from going to the American Continent. INSTRUCTION on tuberculosis, its cause, into the public schools of the Philippine islands. symptoms and treatment, is to be introduced Bulletin No. 5. on tuberculosis, issued by the Bureau of Health will be used in the sixil grade in connection with instruction in phy. siology and hygiene. There are at present 1,486 scholars in the sixth grade in Marili schools and the Director of Education has made up plication to the Directors of Health for 1,809 of reiterating--where some of the largest copies of the circular for inmediate use. In for the farmers to import' chandu clan vesacts are berthed every other. day, there structions on tuberculosis has been introduced) Chinese blackwood lanterns, all of which are the first service will be to the United States. The when the change was placed on the coun destinely and to sell more than they repon should be any possible defect in the machinery into many of the schools in the United States, properly of Captain H. D. Jones, the master of Toya Kishen Company is building three ter, and after further parlance: Ho decided

of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, so far as obtainable, but expresses doubt as to the accuracy of his figures. He observes that: "Even with regard to those for the last two years a 'güaraqlee of accuracy is'

impossible. The ports of the Colony are free and the Government possesses no Customs establishment. It is possible, therefore,

or be without a sufficient supply of water for the purpose of resisting the flames. That is contingency which has not arisen up in this moment, but it is one which cannot be blinked, and should not be allowed to exist. It is for from creditable that in the premier port in the world a fact_which, `we

RIC *never Lired

necessary for fire-extinguishing purposes. Even the owness of the waterboats which are

the vessel, under whose personal supervision the scheme of decoration has been carried out Macao Steamboat Company, was also in at Captain Clarke, the secretary of the Cantou

hat the arrangements were satisfactorily completed.

·A SPECTACLE FOR THE MULTITUDE,

having been adopted by many of the State to me. There is, however, no reason in believe

Text-book Commissions. The disease is the that this has been done! The figures are

so hastily commandeered whan in alarm is Philippines and it is believed instruction cause of a large percentage of the deaths in the stated in chests of Benares. opium, and cal. culated on the basis that each ball is manu. given may not always, feel quite satisfied within the schools will aid materially in assisting tendance in the course of the day seeing factured into 30 tabils of chandu and that each the autocratic action of the harbour authorities, to check its ravages. chest is equivalent to 1,200 tahils. The Secret but, of course, they know better than to offers the very early hours of Wednes lay morning' tary also explains that: "Ip practice here, as allowed to continue there is no question that feather on the cheap, to make a barvest for the any protest. If this condition of things were a Chinamant-probably a shoemaker wanting Iin China, large amounts of cheap Persian apiam have been used in the preparation of chandu,the part of Hongkong would speedily become but the return will probably be better suited for a hyeword among the shipping fraternity. In

Some time yesterday afternos 1, the defendant. Baron Shibusawa, who has visited the Uni-went to the draper's shop in question and isked ted States several times, and other capitalists to be shown some socks. Out of a box he h ve arranged to establish norther great steam-selected two pairs, the price being twenty-fiva ship company with a capital of $15,000,000. It cents a pair. Accused handed a $3,bilixo the is expected that Mr. Uchida, "d'rector of the complainant as payment for the goods and ship control bureau of communications depart received in resura $4.50 in small coin. Some... ment, will resign to be general anoger. Its thing went wrong with the quality of the socks

12,000-ton vessels for its San Francisco route. steamers now on the run will be diverted

to the new South American line.

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that he would not mind baving back his-5j bill, and returned the socks to the shopkeeper with the change, saying he would go elsewhere. He received his bill and started for the door. The complainant gathered up the money on JAPANESE enterprise has laid plans to quietly the counter and in doing so be discovered that take the immense Asiatic four trade from the ut of the $4.50, po less than $2 had been sub- Pacific Coast millers. Several small flouring sit ted with counterfeits. Lio was detained mills, recently built in Japan, have been con- until the arrival of a policeman. As the solidated, and two mills have just been com. Magistracy's shroff was away and as expen pleted at Kobe. Eight ather large flouring evidence was needed to prove that the coits machinery. The superintendent of the largest case. mill in Tacoma has been engaged as superin tendent. Moritz Thomson of Spokane, and F. !. Wilcox of Portland, two, of the wealthiest

the purpose for which it is required-if stated in these days of competition, when all the princip. it subsequently transpired, under his arm. benefits of British rule. There will be flares, mills are going into Japan, using American were counterfeit, his Worthip adjourned tha

tion.

SHIPPING AND MAILS

None should omit the spectacle which will Chinese New Year-way seen leaving the Naval be afforded when the native craft take the op: Yard, with a roll of leather, valued at $32, as portually of showing their appreciation of the was arrested and escorted to No. z Police lanterns, candles and crackers galore. What chests of opium than if in tahils of chando, al ports in the Orient are fighting for supremacy, Station, where he was taken care of for a few else there may be can be left to the imagina- There are no means of ascertaining the actual when Singapore, Manila, Kobe and Yokohama hours, until the curtain rose on the magisterial. amount of Indian and Persian opium used by are expending, or are about to expend, huge him on his appearance. There was consider that the King has approved of the Victoria millers on the Coast, are said to be interested

proceedings, when sergeant Lee introduced The London Gazette of January 13 announces the farmer." Omiting the figures obtained in sums in extending their harbour facilities, it Penang, Malacca and the Malay States it will hebover Hongkong to keep in advance of her as he calmly admitted the offence with which allowing, who should have been decorated if five years in flour milling industry on the able doubt as to whether this was bis dious, Cross being delivered to representatives of the in two of the largest mills. During the last be sufficient to state the returns for Singapore, rivals and defy them to do their utmost. But he was charged, and appeared to be quite they had survived. Private Spence of the Pacific Coast has reached enormous' propor.. which may be considered for purposes of com If it is known that one of the first essentials of familiar with Court proceedings. Sergeant Indian Mutiny, Ensign Phillipps of the: Siege tions with an ever-expanding market in the parison more on a par with Hongkong, In a first-class port is lacking, that is to say, the Lee, asked Mr. F. A. Hazeland before whom of Delhi Lieutenant Melvill and Coghill for Orient. Forty thousand tons of flour are now, 1896 thisro were 749 chests imported into the ability to cope with an outbreak of fire in any remand, as sjuce his arrest, it had been die Trooper Baxter, of the Bulawayo Field Force Dany and Newchwang. Japan proposes to the leather-fancier was placed, for a their efforts to save the Colours at Iasadiwash.being shipped from Tacoms to Vladivostok, Southern Settlement, but that amount annually vessel in the port, on any and every occasion, covered that three other rolls had also gone of 1896, Lieutenant Heeton Maclean of the seize this trade by grinding Manchuțian-raised out., at 8 pim; and may be expected here on Increased until in 1903 no less than 1,356 chesin | then there is a loophole of which our competi- astray from the same store-house, and time ware being converted into chanda (oplam tors will assuredly take advantage. The main was required to trace their whereabouts. The prepared for smoking). It will be remembered thing is that the floating belgade should remand was granted;

Indian Staff Corps in the Swat Valley Expe dition of 1897. Somewhat late even for pos ihumous honours,

whest in Japanese mills. Some wheat will be imported from Tacoma. Several cargoes o what bave been skipped to Japan - ibis winter, |

'MAILS DUE. Australiao-[Tatyuan) 9th insti Canadian (Athenian) 9th inst. German (Grattanam) 11th inst., „Indian (Kumsang) 13th intt, (German (Printer difce) 13th inst..:

Canadina (Empress of Japan) syth lust. The N. D. L5 Roon left Colombo on 6th

The N. Y. Kas To Mars, American aych inst, at dayligbossing FME

Line, left Shanghai for this port on 7th init sad is expected here on soch lust,