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Intimation.

LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

to plan, supervise and carry out the undertaking without calling in outside tech- nical aid which means additional extra cost. When Pocks are no longer considered the

Consols of the East" and confidence, wholly, estranged from the great majority of A. S. WATSON & CO., shareholders, it behoves the Directors to watch every avenue of extraneous expenditure and we are glad to observe the ultimate acquiescence, by, the Board in the wiser counsels of the interested shareholders, who-in opposing the policy that might have spelt disaster to the Dock Co. had it been put into execution by calling for fresti capital under decidedly unpopular conditions have successfully staved off the impending ruination of a concern on whose continued prosperity so many and such large interests depend in the Colony.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ESTABLISHED AID. 1841.

The following PORTS and SHERRIES bottled in Europe, have been especially selected and pro- oured from the celebrated Firm of C. G. SANDEMANTM

SONS & CO. London, Oporto and Xeres.

PORTS.

J'er CALM.

DOURO

OLD TAWNY..

$15.00 18.00

INVALID.

ESTRELLA.....

FIVE DIAMOND ......

VERY OLD TAWNY...

QLDEST & FINEST...

18.00

24.00

27.00 42.00

50,00

SHERRIES.

Per Case.

LIGHT DRY

SOLERA......

VERY PALE DRY

FULL GOLDEN..........

PALE DRY NUTTY...

FINE OLD BROWN...

$13.00 18.00

18.00

21.00

24.00

30.00

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,

AGENTS.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, zand January, 1907)

DEATHS.

.[31

On the 18th inst., at Shanghai, Eulalia, wife of E. Digmanese, aged 23 years.

Joaquim Antonio Ferrás e Maria Augusta Marques da Silva Feriás, Shanghai, participam a todos os seus parentes ¿ persoas das suas relações e amisade n fallecimento da sua filha, MARIA ALIVA, de zì ameos, no dia 15 do cor rente, às 4.30 a.m.

The Hongkong Telegraph

KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1907. .

THE DOCK CO...

LOCAL AND GENERAL

THE Enelis mail of the 26th January, was delivered in London on the 23rd just.

HONGKONG"""AND WHAMPOA,

· DUCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

ANNUAL MEETING..

and the statement of accounts to the grat De

MONDAY

FEBRUARY 25, 1907.

derstand live wir Paul Chater in vacating the || THE BUILDING AUTHORITY chair which he has occupied for four years. So

I ask you to join me in thanking him for the

AND THE IKON PARTITIONS, valuable services, be, with the arilitance of his

Alibe upreme Court this morning before colleagues, bas Fendered to the Company, and the Full Beach, can sting of their Honcurs in hoping that his successor's labours in the the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Wire, Puisse chalk will continue to promote its success. I

Judge. Judgment was given in the matter of

The ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders in the Hongkong and Whampoa Uock Co., Lď, was held in the offices of the company, Queen's Buildings, at 12 o'clock noun, to-day, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors cember, 1906, There were present Sir Paulin seconding the motipu. Chater (chairman), the Hon. Mr. W.J. Gresson, Messrs. E. Goetz, A. Haupt, G. H. Medhurst, N. A Slebs, S. Silverstone, J. S. Van Buren, D. W. Craddock, and II. P. White (director); W. Wilson (acting chief manager), T. 1. Ross (secretary): RJ. Audap, J. P. Braga, G. de Capt. W, E. Clarke, Messrs. Albert Denison, Champeaux, Chun Siu Ki, Choa Leep Chec, F. E. Ellis, E. Georg, Ha Fook, W. C. Jack, E. J. May, S. H; Michael, S. J. Michael, E. ).. Moses, W. Parlane, Thomas Skinner, H. Percy Smith, W. H. Wickham, and A. G. Wood.

The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting.

The Chairman then said:-Gentlemen,- The report and stivement of accounts having been in your hands for some days, I will, with

do not know that i can suggest a more efficient spur than by pointing to the fact that at this time last year our shares were quoted at Singand bow they are at St4ol I have much pleasure

The report and accounts were sdupted' un-' snimously.____`

Mr. Georg moved that the appointment of the Hon. Mr. W. J. Gressor and Mr. D. W Craddock to the directorate be confirmed.

Mr. A. Denison seconded and the motion Captain Clarke moved the re-election of Mr. was carried. N. A. Siebs and the non. Mr. W. I, Grosson.

Mr. Jack seconded and the malion was adopted:

Mr. Parlane moved the re-appointment of Messrs. H. U. Jeffries and H. Percy Smith as auditors

the Building Authority, and Fung Chun Va in two cases.

Mr. Wise said :-This matter came before

the Full Court by way of appeal on two cases stated by a Police Magistrate.

The facts are abordy as follows:-

TELEGRAMS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

BELVICE.

CANTON-HANKOW.

· RAILWAY.

SPECIAL COMMISSIONER APPOINTED.

[From Our Own Corrispondent]

Shanghai, 25th February,

2.40 p.m.

On July 13, 1906, a complaint was preferred at the Police Court by the Building Authority. Against Fung Chun Un, under sections 230 and

It is reported in mandarin circles" 259 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordin ance (1 of 1903) charging him with neglecting that HE. Tang Shaoyi will proceed to comply with the requirements of a notice to Cantón shortly to settle the mat- dated June 29, 190f, requiring him to remove tera at variance between the share- certalo illegal wrought iron partitions at Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5. Hill Road. On the hearing of holders and the directors of the the said complaint on July 31, 1906, the Magis Canton Hankow Railway,

trate held that the notice was bad because it did not refer to the section of the Ordinance Mr. Ho Fook seconded and the motion was alleged to have been contravened but he con- adopted.

victed Fong Chun Un under section 22a, subi The Chairman-Dividend warrants will be section 1 of the same. Ordinance for having

38 Rank and File, 3 Followers, 119th Infairy, your permission, take them as read. The net ready to-morrow. Thank you for your pre- commenced the building of these partie

arrived from Bombay per s.s. Macedonia on 21st February, 1907, to complete strength. THE annual meeting of the Finance Committee of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals will be held to-morrow in the Alice Memorial Hospital, al 5 o'clock.

LIEUTENANT A. Golt, inspector of Army Schools, proceeded on Inspection Duty, to Mauritius, Colombo,, and Singapore, per s.s.

· Davis's on 23rd instant.

THE Chinese Engineering and Stining Co.'s total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending February 2, 1907, amounted

10 19,190.6) tons and the sales during the same period to 16,349.98 100s.

profits for the half-year ending gist December, 19:6; amount to $369.596.36 as compared with. $403.255:44 for the first six months of the year, and $171,649 83' for the corresponding period of 1905: To this sum must be added the sum of $392,087.38, the balance brought forward from last account, and after deducting directors' and auditors' fees we have available for appropria- tion the sum of $739,933-74 which sum your directors propose, subject to your approval, th deal with as follows:-To pay a dividend for the half-year of 12 per cent or $6 per share absorbing $100,000, in place 550,000 to the credit of a special account to be called "No. 1 Dock Extension Account, and to carry forward the balanco $400,933-74 to a new account. Appropriations which will

sence.

The meeting then ended,

PRINCE PUSHIMPS MISSION.

1

tions without faving previously submitted proper plans to the Building Authority, and im-. posed a fine of Stoo, under section 259 of the Ordinance. No objection hay basn rtised as to cittier, of these decisions, so for the purposes of this appeal they stand.

1

OBITUARY.

MR. S. MOUTRIE. DEAD, [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 25th February,

2.40

p.m. director of Messrs. S. Moutric & Co., Mr. Sydenham Moutrie, managing

is dead.

A GOOD THING.

.RELYING ON FRIENDS FOR A LIVING.

wwwww...

An aged Chinaman stepped into the witness bax at the Police Court this morning to give evidence in a case which was supposed to have the accused was that of larceny stealing a come" under his notice. The charge against

RETURN of visitors to the City Hat! Library your direc1015 Trust, meet the wishes of {continent; but at that time the possibility of that the partitions were erected without the jacket from a hawker's stall at noon, yesterday,

and Museum for the week ending the 24th February, 1907-Library, non-Chinese, 178; Chinese, 80; Total, 258 Museum, non Chinese, 134 Chinese, 3.755; Total, 3,889. A PRIVATE letter from Yayann in the Central China Famine district from one of the Catholic Fathers states that every day when going out into the streets (he saw women and children, lying on the ground either dead pr dying, and that the distress of the people was growing

more intense.

THE Nippon Kerosene Oil Refining Company, which is now being organised with the object of refining coarse kerosene oil by a method in vented by Mr. Hagiwara of Osaka, has for pro- moters a number of kerosene oil merchants of Osaka, and it has been decided to establish a refinery at Osaka. The capital of the Com pany is 1,000,ono yen. Of the 20,000-shares. 15,000 will be owned by the promoters and the remaining $,000 offered to the public. The subscription list will be open from February 21 10 25

The interchange of missions between the Courts of St. James and Tokio sets, as it were,

·On October 16, 1966, another complaint was the popular imprimatur on the Treaty of Alli- preferred at the Police Court by the Building ance ratified by the respective Governments of Authority against Fung Chun Uo, under séc. the two counties. Five years ago, when the lion 230 of the Ordinance, for that he did on Anglo-Japhnese Agreement for Alliance was Sptember 16, 1906, neglect to comply with the drawn up, site action of the British Govern requirements of a notice dated September 8, ment consikuled a significant departure from a 1946 (duly served on him) requiring, him to policy of eschewing alliances, which seemed remove the whole of these partitions which had likely to become one of Great Britain's tradi-been erected in contravention of Section 222. oss. It is true that such a policy applied For the purposes of this appeal this notice mainly, if an exclusively, to the European must be taken to be in order. It is admitted

Building Authority, and also that subsequently plans having been previously submitted to the

plans were submited which have been ap proved. The matter came on for hearing be fore the Magistrate, and on behalf of Fung Chún Un it was contended that, in con- sequence of the previous fine the matter was res judicata. On November 13, 1956 the Magistrate decided against the plea of res judicate, io that one of the questions before this Court is whether the conviction of July 35. 1906, is not a bar to the complaint of i ctober 16, 1905.

the shareholders, 7 While, in view of the disastrous fyphoons which occurred in Seption of America, which in virtue of Anglo-Saxon

an alliance outside Europe, with the sale excep tember last, and the vast amount of work kinship is in a category of its own in regard for the Company resulting therefom, it may ot first sight appear that our earnings for the past to our "foreign" relations, would hardly have six months are somewhat less than might have occurred to the popular imagination. Conse reasonably been expected, it must be borne in quently it was left to the far-sightedness of nur mind that the whole of this work has not yet alatesmen to discover where a policy of nominal been completed and consequently the period isolation might be departed from with advant

age to the nation and to lend the country with now under review does not reap the full benefit them in their interpretation of the signs of the thereof, several large repairing jobs remot yet future. The tentative nature of their action to be done and the profits arising therefrom. will come into the accounts for the current six may be gathered from the fact that an Agree. months, and white on this subject it may be ment for Alliance was allowed to precede by interesting any u to learn to what extent Alliance.signed on August 12, 1905. Current proceeded to consider the case. It was contend- three years the mere comprehensive Treaty of Having decided that polot the Magistrate ourselves suffered by these same typhoons Gentlemen, I am pleased to state that the events in the Far East provided the best possi-od on behalf of the Building Authority that the amount of damage dout to your property was ble confirmation of the wisdom of the British infringement of section 212 of the Ordinance comparatively slight, approximating in all Government's policy and ensured for the by having erected these partitions without pre- only some $53,800. Two of our launches Alliance a full measure of popular support in vious submission of plans was a nuisance with were submerged; they have since been Great Britain" With a happy knuck of giving in acction 229 of the Ordigance. The Magis raised and fully repaired at a cost of $9,200 expression to the nation's feeling in a man- trate however on November 20, 1996, decided which sum has been passed to the debit per that at once commends itself to the that a nuisance under section 220 is restricted of Marine, losarance Afc. The caissone, country, King Edward set the seal of popular to a contravention of the structural require- Į sea-walls, wharves, buildings, etc, at our approval on the Treaty by charging Princements of the Ordinance and dismissed the three establishments sustained damage to Artbur of Connaught with the'personal investi. complaint. The other question; then, for the the exient of about $44,600, of which 577,132 ture of the Emperor of Japan with the Order decision of this Court, is whether a contraven has already been paid for repairs, executed and of the Garter. That mission called for a return tion of section zzz is a nuisance within the passed to the debit of Working" A/c., leaving visit to the Court of St. James, which has been meaning of section 129/ Those are the facis $17,468 to be expended during the current six

entrusted to His Imperial Highness Prince as stated in the cases on which we have to de- mooths; taking into consideration the tremen- Fashimi, a cousin of the Emperor and one of cide the points of law. We found it convenient dous havoc wrought by the blow of the 18h Japan's distinguished generals,

'to take the second point first. September throughout the Colony, but more particularly on the Kowloon side, I think it is a matter for congratulation, the! we escaped without-sustaining far heavier damage. The topange of British and Foreign men-of-war docked during the past six months shows a attributable to the arrival in the Philippines of decrease of 3,500 tons, a falling off largely the Floating Dock, not a single American vessel having come to us for docking since then, On the other hand, the tonnage of merchant vessels shows an increase over the previous six months of some 10,098 tons, the tonnage dicked since rst. July being have not been engaged in the construction any large vessels lately a glance at our report will show that we have not been idle in the building yard, quite a number of small craft having been túru;d out and others are now hearing completion; this work together with the repairs to the numerous vessels damaged in September fast has kept us fully employed for month past, Towage and Dredger A/cs.-You will be pleased to see once on the right side of the accounts.

The chain of events recently forged in the Far East, of which the mission of Prince Fushimi is but one link, is significant of more than a political alliance between two countries. With the rapid rise of Japan we have seen challenged for the first time the comfortable own ground, that the world belonged to the assumption, which for centuries has held its

white races of mankind. We have arrogated to ourselves the enjoyment of the only civilization worthy of the name, and urged forward by a power that is not of ourselves we have conceive edit to be our duty to extend that civilization throughout the world. The ultimate effect of

Those of the shareholders in the Hong kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., who have taken an active part in opposing the tentativa-proposal-to-increase the capital of the Company for the purpose of shares of Tis, 1.1 and on new shares of i 15.0.25 for this class of versei 466,360 tons. While we such a crusade we have hardly stopped to

cx-

In 're.

The value of "materials on hand" is about

realize; but confident, as it were, in our own destiny, we have continued to push forward the white man's, civilization. Only now BTG We able to appreciate the far-reaching possibilities of such a policy, if, once the non-white races take us at our word. The peculiar circum stances in which their lives are ordered will give them an overwhelming advantage in all joint competition; they can produce cheaply, and chenpness, if not the summum bonum of in- dustry, curfics with it an almost inesistible

attraction. Whether su peace or in war the

Japanese have proved themselves capable of

It was argued on behalf of Fung Chun Un that the Building Authority had never shewn that the plans as subsequently produced were bad, and that therefore he must approve However it seems to me that the only fact be fore us is that he did not approve, and that in

he had reasons for not approving. It was also the absence of anything else we mast infer that

contended that these partitions do not interfere · with the general structure and that the word "nuisancs" in sections'229 and 13 › must not be read as "offence."

The old man, who, according to his evidenco, fence, and as soon as he entered the box he saw the whole affair, was a witness for the de-

was put "through the mill" and made to tell a few "home truths" about himself, *.

What is your occupation?" asked his Wor- ship...

"I've no work,” replied the witness. "How long have you been out of work?" "Several months."

*Where were you last employed?" "I was a coolie at the barracks once,” "Where have you been living all this time?” ***With a friend."

Who is that friend?"

My friend is employed on board sa Am- press boat."

There are several · Empresser,. Which one?", queried the Court,

"The Empren of Japan,”

is

** Is your friend in Court-now ? "

Np-he sailed on the. 14th of this month." Then how are you living with him?"

I am living in his cubicle. When his ship in port wa share the room," explained the witness..

"How much do you pay for that?"

"I don't pay anyibing!"

"Then who pays rent?"

"I don't."

"How much money have you in this world?" "Not a cash,"

"Then how do you manage to get along?" "You see it is this way. I am an old man and my friends, having pity on me, see that I am looked after."

His evidence on the case was then heard, then the defendant was sent to gaol for three weeks and four hours' stocks.

ZRAFFIC IN JAPANESE WOMEN.

NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ARRESTED.

A'man-named-Taka-Kamekichi, aged 38, On referring to, section 229 sub-section 3 who, according to vernacular contemporaries which reads "Any building or works whatso-

is notorious as a murderer, burglar, and abduc- ever commenced, resumed, altered, or complet tor of girls, has been arrested at Moji. He had ed in contravention of any of the provision of in his possession numerous cultings from the this Ordinance" Counsel argued that it ought to

Osaka and Kobe papers relating to him and be read “Any building or works whatsoever in his misdeeds. He was about to leave the coun- contravention of any of the provisions of try when arrested. Two pieces of Yico notes this Ordinance bereafter commenced, resumed, and Y46 in other notes were found is his pos altered or completed." However when the session. He was sent on to Nagasaki on Tues- opening words of section 222 sub-section day, says the pan Chrone of Feb. 14, as be I are considered viz, "It shall not be law has committed crimes chiefly in and about ful to commence any building or works Nagasaki... He has of late been engaged in the or to repair or reconstruct any existing building abominable traffic in Japanese women, whe or works etc," it appears to me that the word have been sent by him to Hongkong, Shanghai,

altered in section 123 sub-section 3, must be

and elsewhere, making Moji his headquarters. taken to refer to the existing building or works" mentioned in section 22a sub-section I, Then again sub-section á of section 229 seems In be wide enough to cover everything, vie "Any act, failure, neglect, omission or refusal whereby any provisions of this Ordinance is contravened, I am therefore of opinion that the Magistrate was wrong on this paint, cer- tainly on the grounds he gave for his decision.

As to the question of res judicata I am of opinion that the fine is no bar in this case, He was fined first of all for having erected these partitions without having previously sup- plied plans for the approval of the Building Authority.

The summons against the coxswain. of the Steam launch Jack Lee who was summoned some days ago by P. C. Berrie, of the Water Police, for plying the launch in the harbour without a licence and failing to stop when called upon to do so by the police, was concluded at the Police Court, this forenoon. Mr. Hazeland found the accused not guilty on the first charge. On the second count he fined him $25. The Jack Lee is at present being overhauled, as, according to reports, she is in an unseaworiby condition at present: THE annual report of the Shanghai Gas Com pany for 1906 reveals a net profit for the year of just over Tls. zco,cou and this permits the payment in addition to the 7 per cent. interim dividend of a final dividend on old shares of 7 per cent, dividend on new shares fortwo month at 14 perce and a bonus on Did per share. The private consumption increased lengthening the No. Lock at Kowloon during the year by 51,804,675 cúbic leet; there will have pause for gratification in the Chair- was a stall increase in the public consumption man's pronouncement at the annual meeting | and residuals found a favourable market.. ',' to-day when Sir Paul Chater said: "We

THE gamblers were out for a good time yester hope to be able to carry it [the extension] day; ey are in for having it, to-day--or through without making any call upon share rather, for not having the means to pay their holders for increased capital." There may fines, as ordered by Mr. F. A. Hazeland when be among the shareholders many who would presiding at the Magistracy. A large number have preferred a more definite statement from, of these lovers of chance were arrested by the chair as regards the vexed question of the Sergeant Gordon in the servant quarters at the increase of capital, than the mere Tai Ping Theatre, at West Poldt, when a pression of hope of the Company's ability to heterogenous mass of cooks, boys, and house provide for the extension scheme out of coolies were taken. They had nothing what ever to say, and Mr. Hazeland fined the leaders profits. Writing for ourselves we confess our

$25 each, and the gamesters $3 per cap, Ante at our private meeting in August last is as we have proved the capabilities of the one ìdability to endorse so guarded a ́statement,

completed, and we have now under considera-race in such an incredibly short time, it would siace the Board must have long been in

tion tenders for the work of removing the be dangerous to speculate on the absence of possession of actual figures realisable out of

hill and lengthening the No. 1 Deck, We "the vast amount of work" not yet com

propose carrying on this work with our pleted and "the profits arising therefrom

own staff, and, as I bave already mention.

will come into the accounts for the current

FOULTERERS are proverbial the world over ed, recommend passing the first sum of six months." It is idle to suppose that for their other disregard for the manner in $500g to an account specially to defray the which they pack and carry fowls, ducks, geese, cost of this undertaking and we hope to be

It is inevitable that the tendency which has large repairing jobs that have been tendered

etc., in transit from farm to merket, or shop to able to carry it through without making any already manifested itself should continue to for and accepted and which are in

customers' dwellings, but nowhere in this cal-call upon shareholders for increased capital, develop; and it would be well for the white progress cannot, with a reasonable de tousness so calmly displayed as in the Far Before moving the adoption of the report and races at this stage to consider carefully the

situation and the manner in which they pro- gree of approximation, be figured out; East. And Hongkong is no exception, and accounts I shall be pleased to answer to the

pose to order their actions. Already the

A police was then duly served on him to and as it is admitted that the largest profits cannot be exempted from this sweeping baser-best of my ability any question you may wish Japanese constitute a new industrial force in abate the nuisances which still contínue if it in arising from the typhoon are yer to tion, for who, if observant, has not seen tha to nik.

what was formerly the white man's preserve. a nuisance as I have held it in. To hold other. No questions were asked.

In a less degree the natives of India are enter wise would be to stultify the Ordinace, accrue, the Directorate might have taken overloaded baskets and crates of these finds the shareholders more into their confidence being brought off the Canton boats, with the Mr. M. G. Wood, in seconding, saiding into direct competition with the white races,

and this not only in their own country, Fung Chun Un admits he started with an fowl's heads, legs, and wings, oft-times literally Mr. Chairman, have much pleasure in but also in other lands. and remove the doubt as to the financial forced through the apertures of their jemporary seconding this resolution, which must judice the non-white races find their way into seems to be continuing it

In spite of race pre-illegality and as the law at present stands he ability of the Company to meet the cost of prison-homes, Just such an occurrence was think be considered satisfactory. It is also the white man's territory; Japanese are the I therefore consider that on this point the extension. Another point gained for the observed yesterday by Inspector Gourlay at satisfactory to learn that we suffered compara agricultural labourers of California, Indlans sigaatorics to the protest against the in-East Point, and without any argument, he ar- tively so little toss from last September and their counterpart in Natal, white Chinese Magistrate was right.

are working some of the mings of the Transvaal Crease of capital is in securing the reversion rested the culprit, one To Shek Cheung, a typhoon, while there is still an amount of work and are wanted for the Panams Cical, In ANOTHER street coolie, one Mau Wai, yester- of the Board's decision to place the farmer, and this morning placed him before in hand arising from that culamity. I am sure each case the white man refuses or has refused day fell a victim to the temptation afforded undertaking in the hands of engineers not Mr. F. 1. Hazeland, on a charge of causing that our shareholders have heard with pleasure to do the work. Against these powerful forces by the gleaming gold ear-pin, glittering in the 21st inal, and may be expected here on 5th prox. connected with the Company. It was from unnecessary suffering to the fowls. The Ins what you have told us about the dock extens to be successful in the long run. It is difficult, hair of a Chinese lady, in Wanchai. There The M. Y. K. s.1. Sado Maru, Esropean-

pector said the baskets were only intended to slon new being taken in band. Many may however to foresee the end. For the moment was the usual rush, the hand on the Indy's | Ling, left Kobe via Moji and Shanghai for this the outset known to those intimately asso hold 16 fowls each at the outside, but the de- perhaps, agree with me in regreting that we the best policy must be to face the altered head, the pin gone, the hue and cry, the arrest, port on 23rd inst, and is expected here on 4th

the capabilities of the fendant was carrying no less than 47 in the two are at the commencement of the work instead circumstances and to let diamond cut diamond the plea of guilty, and the sentence of six prox. staff of the Docks at Kowloon that baskets. Mr. Hazeland said the man was un-of at its completion; we would have then been petition; but it has the right to expect complete werks hard labour and four hours' stocks. And Shanghal at 11 pan or 23rd inst, and lek

No virile race will altogether reject com-

The CPR. Coll 1.4. Alkantot amongst its members there were

men necessarily cruel, and fined him $15, with, of in so much better a position to meet the in straightforwardness from those who ask to meet then Mr. Hazeland sat back to wait for the again at 4 am, Sunday, for Nagaank)") whate sufficient technical skill and ability course, the usual alternative,,

creased competition we bare to expect. 1. und it on equal tematem di Gi

Yewr

146 in day to nmiya aj to pome an artilment

clated with

* NOT

other lot were the quarry of a Jukong on duty in Clarence Street, who gathered in a gang ❘ of street gamblers. Mr. Hazeland let these off

with fines of Sz each:

the same as in the last account, while work in progress shows an increase of about 581,000 The purchase of the land at Kowloon referred

-mastering all the whits man's arts. It is true that not all non-white faces are Japanese; but

latent probabilities in others. Fony years ago no one could have predicted that Japan would occupy the position she holds to-day, in añ other forty years those who are convinced in day that the Japanese will exhoust the paten- talities of the non-white races may be equally

wide of the mark.

the policy of rigid exclusion seems too cruda

next t

*

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. Indian (Kutsang) 27th inat," German (Prior Ludwig) 1st prox. Australian (Changska) i3th prox.

';

Tho. Apcar Co.'s ss. Lightning from Cal- cotta left this a.m., and may be expected here on and prox

The M. M. Co's us, Ernst Simons, with the next French mail, left Singapore on 'agth inst, at 4 s.m., for this port via Saigon/

The N. Y. K. a. Ceylon Maru, Bombay Line, left Bombay for this port on aard inst, and is expected here on toth prox.

The P. M. S. S. Cole sa, Korea szila 'from Yokohama for Hongkong to-day, and will be due to arrive at this port on 8th prox.

The Imperial German Mail as. Prenzzen left Shanghai on dyrd inst., at to à m., and may bo expected here on 26th initat 3-a m..

The M. M. Co's cargo-boat Komang S7 from`· Antwerp and ports of call left. Singapore on | 24th inst, and is due here on and prox

The T. K. K. 6.8. Hongkong Maru mailed: from Manila on 24th instų and is due to arrivo at this port between 4 and 5 p.m., to-day,

left Kobe via Mej! and Amoy for this port on The Java China-Japan Lija ss. Tjibodar

arrived at