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CHEMISTS

WATSON'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY OCTOBER 10- 1907.

the Governor, and was presented to a rumi

of Europeans in whom he had no interest and with whom ba could not even converse. There was a sprinkling of Chinese at the reception to Viceroy Chang, but whether they could be

meeting

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afternoon. Presant➡HIC Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, KCM.

ADIENT... Hon. Mr. I. E. Pollock, K.G

MINUTES.

Exce. Ley' hal, only recently arrived and - The Bill pasted the second, reading without had, ant bad, an, opportunity of studying a difsentient vote

the conditions under which we lived, and the ... The Council went into. Commit "conditions of crime, and the status of the people : Bill and eventually was read a third timu

who committed crime, The Attorney General and passed. also,liad, but recently arrived and he (MS. THE APPROPRIATION BILL

8. WATSON & CO., regarded as really representative of the Chi Excellency Maf Gen. Broadwood, Ca, (ie Keswick) chuid not bust feel ibay, had been aro community in Hongkong is a matter of General Officer Commanding the Troops), ffon, rushed into this Bill by a small section of the opinion. All along we have maintained that Mr. F. H. May, CMO, (clonial Secretary), Chiness community hers who evidently had Hoo Hr. A. M. Thomics (Colonial Treasures), got control pf, one of the daily paper and. The action of the Government in steadily and Hon. Mr. W. Rees Davies (Attorney General) who having acquired a certain amount of we are afraid, almost ostentatiously ignoring flon, Mr. W. Chatham, C... (Director of Public Wastem knowledge and learnleg and hablis the existence of the Chinese in Hongkong was Works), Hon. Capt. Basil R. H. Taylor, R.Mconsidered that the exposure of their fellow not merely bad policy but was fraught with dan Harbour Masterton, Mr. AW. Brewin countrymen in the stocks was a selection on (Registrar-General), Hon. Dr. Ha Kal, MiB | themselves. They, however, entirely forgot ger to the well-being of the Colony. It is alla. Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Hon Mr that we were next door to China. Ama bad very wall to say that the Chinese have simply Wel Yuk,. Hon. Mr. E. A. Jowett, Hon Mr only to go out (wenty minutes and he was over BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIE followed the load of the Europeans who have Henry Keswick, and Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher the border. The people who were punished

Governor, and HOUSEHOLD.

established themselves joi butinem in Hong. (Clerk of Councils),****

by exposure in the stocks were not of the kong. That may or may not be sa—in our

respectable clars but they were rogues and opinion it is not entirely so—but the fact/can-

vagabonde, and he thought that in dealing with the men of that type they should consider the not be disguised that without Chinese backing,

The minutes of the last meeting were read conditions under which they themsolver lived Chinesa influence, and Chinese sympathy there

and confirmed.

in their own country, In their own country tor- are not a few firms in Hongkong to-day

STANDING COMMITTEES, ukture was one of the smallest punishments they which could not possibly have reached the

His Excellency the Governor stated that the had to suffer from, He did not need to ex- honourable' position they now occupy. Where following would constitate the Standing Coin fatiate on the various punishments which would Hongkong be without its Chloese com; | mittees for the ensuing year

ma'efactors received in China, but he wished to draw their attention to the experience of pradores, its native backs and mercantile houses? The barren rock would be still more

plce called Shangbai. There the bamboo and the cangue were abolished; inside the Settle" sterile were they to pack up their goods and

ment, although outside these methods return to their own country. Are these, then

of punishment were freely in vogue. the people systematically to slight as if they

There, instead of twenty minutes to get were of no account, and to legislate against as

over the border it ok at the utmont if contact with them meant defilement? For

ten minutes. What was the consequence tunately in Sir Frederick Lugard the Colony

of the removal of these punishments? The consequence was that crimes increased by leaps and bounds and the prisons were full of malefactors. These things should be considers very carefully by alf menibera of the Council

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tras found a Governor who will not be bound

Finance Committee-All the members of the Council, except the Governor-the Col nisi Secretary chairman.

Law Committee The Attorney General, Mr. Ho Kal, Messia, Woi Yuk, Pollock and the Harbour Master,

The Public Works Committee The Director of Public Works chairman, the Colonist Tren surer, Messm, Osborne, Hewett and Keswick,

Committee.

a

FINANCIAL MINUTES,

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE.

tion for those of our Chinese fellow-subjects who had emancipated themselves from the old style which obtained across the border but be main tained that if they studied the best, interests of their own countrymen they would, instead of trying to mitigate the forms of punishment for wrongdoers, assist the Government la making.it absolutely plain in the most effec sive way to regues and vagabonds that Hong kong was no place for them.

on his

The Council considered in Committee the Bill entitled. An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding four million pine hundred and ainge som ja ty two thousand nine husdred and fifty-thran recaptio dollars to the Public Service of the year 1908.

from Manil bill passed Committen, and was read a third time and passed,

PUBLIC NOTARIES,

Dill entitled An Ordinance to provide for the The Attomey General with regard to the

appointment of Pubbe Notaris within the Colony said to would postpons the motion to go into committee,

Mr. Osbome asked leave to bring for ward certain facts which had been brought to his attention. He could not do better than read an extract fom a felter which had been addressed to him. Is England, the letter said, only those persons who had sorved articles for five years (in London seven years) to a notary public were themselves" oppointed notaries.

The Attorney General rose to a polat of order. I have not at present proposed any mo- tien, It is not open to me to reply to the hon. member, I would suggest to him to reserve any observations on the Bill until I move that the Council go into committeo.

The Colonial Secretary: I think if the hon. member forwarded the letter he has there to the Attorney-General it would receive every consideration.

+Mr. Osborne: Yes; I will do that," SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS. The Autome General brought 'up' the 'Bill

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moving the third reading he would ask the Council to recommit the Bill to committee. It would be within the recollection of members that Mr. Osborne addressed a question to him as to whether a Magistrate would have power to deal summarily with a case arising under the Ordinanca. He had expressed the opinion at that time, and he still adhered to it,

deal summarily with the question, and he did that the Magistrate would not have power to Dr. Ho ai and he had not intended too after consulting Ordinance of 1891 which speak on this Bill, but after what Ms. Keswick coumerated the list of offences excluded from summary jurisdiction. It was possible how had said he thought a few words were neces-

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The Secretary colony in the Colonel Geor

bert T. Noble, the Philippines

General, Captain Geo A. D. C. to the Division Com Manuel de Yriarte, an offic oder the Civil Government Oa

Hippias Government, Mr. Taft will be received by these representatives on his and they will accom the visitor to Manila, on the were 33 other paus transport to Hongkong, lac G. McDonnell, correspond York Sun, and Mr.TV seats the Alanijų Tixel. A larg army officers with their families to age of its transports trip to start on sieurs exè tehding to Japan and China, while several #15 are bound for the United States will join their transport at Nagasaki on 10th November,

"EXTRAORDINARY PREPARATIONS FOR

the

number of

MR. TAFTS CONVENIENCE." We have said that great preparations are being made for the reception of Mr. Taft, but that applies not merely to the land formalities but also to the sna.voyage, The McClellan, wa

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table by groundless prejudices. The Colonial Financial Minutes Nos. 48 and 49. it was Secretary, the other day, jocularly referred to agreed that they be referred to the finance before they voted for the Bill which was now entitled in Ordinance to prevent the publica, are told, has been turned upside down in order the red tape in his office—and there is many a 'trua word snid io jest; but if we are to judge

The report of the Finance Committee (No. before the Council. He had the greatest admiration of seditious matter. He said that before by the actions of His Excellency the Governor 9) was unanimously adopted. since his arrival in Hongkong there has been

The Attorney General moved the second a sudden eviction of red tapeism and leading of the Bill entitled. An Ordinance to ibat pertains to it Last night when His amend the Law relating to Companies. Excellency Lord Li, the newly-appointed he object of the Bill was, he said, set forth Minister for China to the Court of St James, in the preamble. Under this Bill the Governur was entertained to dinner at Government in Council had power to grant a licence reliev, House, the majority, or, at ali events, a large a company from the necessity of Leeping register in its company's office in Hongkong, proportion of the 'guests invited to meet the Hereafter the register kept at the head office distinguished diplomat was composed of his of the company was to be regarded as the Autiseptic and Detergent-Whitess the Teeth fellow-countrymen, which was, possibly, one register under the Act of 1865. The Bill had

and strengthens the Gums.

of the best compliments that could have been

received the full consideration of the Chambersary. He did not think the hon. member ever, that people might take a different offered to His Excellency. No attempt had of Commerce and also of representatives of could have studied the Bill. It was not in-view, it was possible somebody might

various companies in Shanghai' who were

tended to take the punishment of the stocks construe the law differantly, abd as it was A. S. WATSON & CO., been made, as sometimes happened in former primarily interested in the proposals. Repre away, altogether from the statuts book. got the desire of the Government this

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days, to differentiate between those Chinese sentations had beans forwarded by the repre- The Bill simply limited that punishment offence should be dealt with summarily he who hold a sort of official position and these sentatives of the Shanghai companies and it to. certain crimes, crimes which ought, asked the permission of the Council to move merchants whose whole file and energy in appointed that they approved generally of the to be punished with some effective puoishment, the re-committal of the Bill in order to insert crimes like larcen, robbery,, returning from express words to provide that the offence linked up with the affis of the Colony. Hela proposa's contained in the Bill. There were

benishment and others. Minor crimes, such should only be dealt with at the Supreme three amendments which were proposed by was an innovation which belokens the the Shanghai representatives and they were

as obstructions in the streets, hawkers' licences Court. new spirit that has entered overnment submitted for the consideration of the Goyem were the crimes which, they thought, ought House, and we believe there are few, outside ment. The Government approved of two out

got to be punishable by, the stocks. The hon. that comparatively. narrow circle, which is of the three and incorporated them in the Bill. member also misapprehended the actual stre weighed down by musty prejudice and satural-had approved of it is a modified form.

With reference to the third, the Government of things. It was not only a small section, so far 'as this Bill was concerned, who were advocating ed with moth-eaten traditions, who will not

the passing of this Bill. He might say the great Acclaim the new order of things which a wise

majority of the Chinese favoured this inter

Land broad-minded Governor has introduced

pretation of the punishment by the stocks. He quite admitted there were some who wished to into the social conditions of the Colony. How

go further, but the majority of Chinese thought can the Government reach the people betier

that a Bill introducing the limitations contained than through those of their compatriots whose

in this will would be effective. There need be industry and intelligence have brought them

no apprehension that if this Bill were passed

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907.

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The Colonial Secretary seconded and the motion was adopted.

The Council went into Committes on the DHL,

On subsection 6 of section 4 a short cussion took place.

Mr. Hewett pointed out that Hongkong under this Bill would probably lose a cost

to meet the requirements of the American Brobdingnagian. In fact, there are thsin who aver that the transport has been transmogrified for the two days' trip from Hongkong to Manila. it was discovered that the ordinary saloon entrances and cabin doors were utterly inade quite to permit of the admission of Mr. Tan corporeal frame. True, these self-same doors had proved quite wide enough for hundreds of

in the past, but Mr. Laft is à different propo- Americans who had travelled by the Aff Ciellam altion, as they say down souls," in this casn ho secuis to have been something in the nature of a mathematical proposition. Circles had to be squared and angles rounded if the eloquence of the Secretary was to be checked, So most of the doors on the transport have" been swung off their hinges and where there was only a four-loot passage it has bean Pillars and ob widened to eight or more.. structions of every sort have-been removed in order that Me Taft may, teach the io terior of the ship without being squeered to death. The biggest bath: in the ship: has The Council went into Commistes.

"been extended by the logenujiy, of the ship's: The Alloroty-General moved the following mechanicians, and an enormous, spray huɛ, new section:

been erected over the bath, The doing "Clause's. No person shall be convicted of | table has been shifted several feet aft, sa an offence against this Ordinance except by' thất” Mr. Taft" may be accommodated be the Supreme Court."

tweco the saloon- partition, and the top of the table. In place of the usual chair it has been deemed advisable to build a special bench for the use of Mr. Taft, so that at all events the worthy Secretary will realise onu of his appíra- lion to sit on the beach. It is hoped that when all'ihdin preparations are completed |that Mr. Taft will find the journey to Manila

attended by at least a modicum of comfort.

The clause was adopted and the Bill was afterwards read a third time and passed.

AI JOURNMENT. The Council then adjourned till Thursday, the 24th October, at 2:30 pm,

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

A meeting of the Finance Committee was

to the forefront of commercial life? This is derable sum in the way of probate duty by the there would be an increase in crime, because | held ímmediately after the meeting of Council,

tho place for the exhibition of class or caste' pride; it is pre-eminently a business centie where every man has to fight his own battles, so that he bas ne time to erect barriers be tween himself and the hoi-pollgi. If there is a THE GOVERNOR'S ATTITUDE 10. section of the general community which would WARDS CHINESE RESIDENTS,♬ | arrogate to itself, special "privileges then thus no maoner of right to be in Hongkong Among the many changes which have been at all, and the sooner.it betakes itse ( to a -inaugurated under the present régime in Hong- 'more côngenial clime the bitter will it be for kong none is more noteworthy than the evident the Colony. His Excellency's recognition and desire of Government House to come into tacit admission that the Chinese community, in closer touch with the native population through Hongkong is in every respect worthy of being the medium of the leading representatives of received at Covernment House-which it con the Chiness community. I'may have been a tributes to maintain and whose portals 'many

false and foolish ides to entertain, but certainly

terms of the Bill..

the more serious' crimes, were still punishable

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A sum of three thousand dollars in aid of the vote, Public Works Extraordinary, Mis cellaneous, bot water apparatus and bathy, HONGKONG TECHNICAL collige. Government House: «

A sum of seven thousand thres hundred and thirty-six dollars in aid of the vote, Education, Department of Inspector of Schools Other .Charges, Evening Continuation Classes,

This was all the business.

Mr. Keswick said that probate duty on shore by the stocks. If the imposition of the stocks the Colonial Secretary presiding. It was un- held in Shanghai would be payable there. He were more universally applied, not only to animously agreed that the following voter ba know that to be the case from personal ex-Chinese but to others, he thought that would recommended for adoption by the Council:- -perience. Deceased shareholders, British take away a great deal of opposition from the. subjects, who appeared on the register in minority of Chinamen to this mode of punish- Shanghai, paid duty to the Consular authorities

The Attorney-General thought Dr. Ho Rai there, so it was not lost to the Crown. It might be diverted from Hongkong, but the had correctly interpreted the effect of the Bill Crown get it in any case.

He had returns, showing the number of pri- The Colonial Secretary--That is the ex-soners sentenced to the stocks in 1936 dad he found that all the serious offences would still planation,

The Colonial Treasurer- think it exceed come under the old lag, assuming this. Bijl to ingly unfair that property in Shanghai should be passed. The offences that should not be punishable, were offences of minor. degree. be charged probate duty in Hongkong. being paid twice over...

Mr. Keswick: There is a danger also of a For instance, under the Licensing Ordinance one was sentenced to the stocks-that would Mr. Hewett said the paint he had raised was no longer apply. There were two cases connection with people who held shares under the Merchant Shipping Laws-they and died at home and whose duty could not be would no longer apply. But for all the more serious cffences power would still be re- collected. The question had only arisen with-taised to impose the stocks He did not think in the last hour and he had abt had time to. Dir. Keswick need have any great apprehension give it full consideration.

that the punishment which, according to the ANOTH H alleged robber chief, by name. Wong

of the best of the race have never crossed--in

there was a general impression abroad that the

are thoroughly in line with what we had been previous administration was antipathetic to the led to expect of Sir Frederick Lugard, and are Chinese as a body, and, ag a'maller of fact it an excellent augury for the success of an ad. seemed, at times, as if a conspiracy of neglect ministration which has begun an auspiciously had been formed in order to discourage the undoubtedly legitimate aspirations of those whose labours and contributions to the genera prosperity of the Colony had earsed for them the honour, if not the right, of official recogni-

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Mr. Keswick remarked that the case 'he

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LORD LI IN HONGKONG.

DANQUETIKO AT GOVERNMENT:HOUSE,

Lord Li Ching-lang, Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and suite attived at Hongkong from Shanghai by the German mail steamer Gordan last evening. As soon as the Gotden was sighted the sleam tender Kowloon Chat (MTG S, Stocker, efficer in charge), of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs proceeded to meet the mail steamer, On board the Kowloon Chaf was Mr. W.R. MD. "Porr (Commissioner of Custome) and Marquis Li(a grandson of the late Li Hung-chang), who had come from Casion to meet certain members of his family travelling by the Goodza

en fouls to Capton. The Customis launch was brought alon side the German mail steamer at $45 p.m. 5000 after Lord Li Ching-fang and a suite of three or four officers of rank, with the usual attendants, got on board the sender and were conveyed to Blake Pier where the

had in mind was that of a man who died 1 Magistralės, cartialy did have a salutary | Hing Ú, alias Wong Ning Sui, was arrested in party:fanded: They were received by a number

Lathame, Sir Robert Jardine, and whose estate

paid probato at home and in Shanghai also.

After further discussion,

Mr. Kenwick urged the Council to follow the

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the Colony yesterday. The Canton authorities, it is stated, have been searching for this in dividual for some time. Learning that he "bad-landel'in the~Colony-the-matter was:re- ported in the Detective department, with the

of Chinese residents and a Guard of fiebour- and Band furnished by the 3rd Middlesex Regiment. Z

The embassadutial party than; proceeded to Government House in chairs where they were

tion. When functions of any importance took available to play during dinner at the Hong. suggestions of the Shanghai" representatives in saying he did not think this Bill would in resalt that the supposed "figitive `was located the guests of the Governor, Sir Frederick

kon; Hotel that evening.

place at the official residence of His Excellency the Governor the Chinese commosity was MR. J. V V. Vernon, local agent for, Reuter's soverely ignored. When distinguished Chinese Telegram Co., Id, writes us this morning that statesmen visited the Colony and were received their Shanghai agent wired as follows to-day: at Government House, the Chiness element"The well-known mining engineer, Manuel Listler, after being absent a year travelling was rigorously excluded from the list of invita: China, Manchuria, Borneo, has returned to tions. Even on State occasions when it might Japan to examine large copper-silver deposit. have been thought that Chinese "revidents bad quite as valid a claim to receive FETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 6th an official invitation as any clerk in an

October, 1907;--- office, the 'Chinese, who had helped to build'

Library. Museum." up the trade of the port, and whose financial Non-Chinese.................................... 36 178 power and local interests were of the first im-

2,051 portance to Hongkong, found themselves left

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who had considered the Bill, and framed" amendments which he was sure met with the approval of the entire community.

The Attorney General said that he would consider the point raised by Mr. Hewett and if, when the Bill came up for the third reading it he would move that the Bill be re-committed to The Bill passed through Committen with the amendments mentioned.

was deemed desliablé to make any, afteration,

committee.

THE STOCKS,

at 372, Queen's Road, West. At the present Lugard, and Lady Lugard. The guests, who juncture the particulars of the case is not accepted the Governor's invitation to, meet know, the papers not having arrived from Lord Li Ching-fang, were;-H.E. Wa Ting: Chion, but it is reported that the prisoner was fang, Chinese Minister-desigqate to Washing" connected with an armed robbery, which was toa; Hon. Mr. F. H. May, Mr. Janice Wise, perpetrated in the in Kong village, of the Pak Lo district, some months ago. The Case was adjourned for one work, pending the arrival of the necessary papers and witnesses

effect on the Colony, would be materially tes sened by this Bill

The Colonial Secretary observed that he had the duty to maintaining law and order in the Colony for nine years and he had no hesitation

any way, weaken the hands of the authorities in decreasing crime

His Excellency the Governor remarked that the hon. member at the end of the table (Mr. Keswick) had said that, he the speaker) had not been very long in the Colony, and that the hon. Attorney Geceral bad.ndt been long here; but personal. he had been long enough to carefully con- sider the provisions of this Bill which was one of special interest. He was particularly struck from the interior. with the argament that if the punishment was The Attorney General moved the second made ton common law-abiding people like the THE approaching cold weather drove a street reading of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to Chi zie would ceaisto recognise the seriousness coolic nained Kwok Kan into gaol this mor- limit the imposition by public exposure of crimes whicir they really condemned. He ing. Shortly after four o'clock this morning, in the mocke. He stated that the punish thought that a very strong argument. As it Kwok soe ked aboard the steam launch Stw ment of the stocks had been considered.) was when the law-abiding people went down Fat, which was lying alongaldo her wharf op- excessive in some cases, and having regard the street and sew a person ju the stricks för en posits the Central Market, and made his way out in the cold. To all intents and purposes a

**TAVON TAN, The French Consul's Aunamite to the representations made-to-the-Govern offence which they considered of a serious into one of the seamen's cabins The seamin, policy of ostracism, was followed, as if it were Secretary, who was arrested by Inspector Gourment in the matter it had been thought character they admitted the necessity for taking Chan Ki, was fast asleep at the time. Quially the purpose of the administration to keep the lay fast week on a charge of harbouring a ser desirable to limit the power of imposing this measures agebat, such crimes. But if they saw removing the blanket which covered the sleeper, Chiness in their proper place, subservient to vant maid named Shuilia, under circumstances punishment to cases where the offences were persons. In the stocks for minor offences which Kwok beat a batty tetreat. The seaman the very people who would probably require already detailed in these columns, was at the punished by imprisonment only. The Bill had they did not consider serious the Government felt the loss of the blanket sud, jumping out of their financial assistance on the day after the Police Court, to-day, found not guilty and dis-been introduced for the purpose of meeting the would cease to carry with them the public bed, bo was in time to see Kwok disappearing opinion of the majority of the Chinese. He up the ladder. The launch crew was soon fair. Viceroy Shum, probably knowing the con- charged. The charge against the servant maid representations that had been made. | ́for stealing a pair of gold bangles, valded at The Colonial Secretary seconded,

thought that the Bill would in no way weaken aroused nad, Kwok was laid by the heels dition of things, rejected the hospitality of too, from her mistress, Chan Yui Tong, the Mr. Keswick wished to oppose The Bill the hands of the Government or detract from This morning, he pleaded guilty to a charge of Government House, when passing through wife of the compradore of the Nippon Yaren because he felt that they had been rushed their power to impose a penalty which was in theft and the magistrale (Ms. Melbourne) sent Hongkong on his way to Peking. Viceroy Kaisha was not proved, and she also was dis- lato it. His Excellency would pardon accordance with tradition, and the law of this, him to gach for, six weeks, and four hours Chow Fu accepted the invitation to lunch with charged

be called attention to the fact that Hia"] Colony for many years part,

stocks thrown into the bargain...

Chinese

Total..... 519

Hon. Mr. E. A. Howell, Mr. F. A. Hazeland,

Captain and Mrs, Lyons, Mr. and Min. A. W, Brewin, Mr. Mureno, M. and Mrs. Pereira, Dr. and Bra, Jordan, Dr. An Miss Sanders, Hoo. De Hoy Kat? Mr. Wei Yak, H.E. Major-General Proj wood, Captain Borham. Commodore Stokone Mr. slauchflower (secretary to Commodore Mr, W. R. MD. Parr, Mr. Fong Wa-chup, Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. Swatt, Cher, and Madame Volpicelli, Major and Mr. Chitty, Major and Mrs. Stephenson, Major Parker, De und Mrs. Tais, Lieu-Com-Bams ber, Lieu-Com Darwall: Captain de Horsey Lieut. Com. Stevenson, Rev, and Mrs. T. W. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. Moxon, and Mr. Loung Pul-chic

The dinner was over about 10pm. The Chinese Ambassador, and soile re-embarked on board the Kowlore Chat

Thay board attended by Commissioner far ed the Goodes at 17.15 pm. The German mil left for Burons at soon to ca