1907-12-13 — Page 9

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 6641.

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Danths, Loading Artiolos:-

Railway Constracting in the Far East, N. Y. K. Shipping Services.

The Ship Surgeon's l'aşition. Caston's Fluctuating Trade, Japan's Finances...

Austher Phase of the Opium Question. Tolegrams:

West River Patrol,

Conditional Withdrawal of the Flenll

West River Patrol Service..

Ex-Viceroy Shum,

Chiness Opium Question.

Yumehow Bandits.'

Kwangui Bandits Defeated."

Chekling Loan.

Moetings: --

Sanitary Board,

British and Chinese Corporation: Kulangau (Amoy) Municipal Council. Legal Intelligenta:—.

Pirated Junk Ca/c. Kowloon-Canton Railway Sued. Crown Solicitors in Cousi, Alleged Malicious Arrest Convicted Men Abscond. Lady sued for House Rent. Police:-

Burglar's Desperate Struggle. Crime in Hongkong. “Hongkong in Danger2" Stowaways for Hangkang.. End of Daring Piracy. Burglary at Cheung-nha-wan. Japanese Godown Entered. Simple Simon and bis Friend. Miscellangóus Artioles and Reports:—

Silver Exchange.

Haiphong Shipping Boycott.

Launch at Kowloon.

Wast River Patrol.

"Tiger" at Kowloon,

Asile de la Ste..Enfance.

The Chinese Procession,

The Subscript in Griffios.

The China Association.

British and Chinese Corporation, Ltd. The Royal Hongkong Golf Club. Volunteer Corps* Orders.

Coolie's Sad Acident.

Army Officer's Experience.

H. G. Brow & Co., Ltd. Foalball..

Water

Katurn."

Canton Day by Day.

Swalow Noler,

Shanghai Wedding.

Chinese Railways.

Gilbertian Chinese Verse.

A Unique Voyage."

Death of Mr Planades.

The Late Mr. F. Ringer.

Infringement of Trade-marks in China, Cotton Spinning in Japan.

The Nippon Yosen Kaisha, Proposed Japanese Sugar Monopoly, - Bank Clerk as Burglar. The Financial Crisis in New York, Anti-Opium Macting.

German Captain Fined,

Some Opium Stories,

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1907.

N. Y. K. SHIPPING SERVICES,

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who has come out to the Far East to foo something of the world, at somebody else's expense before deciding to settle down to steady practice, in the homeland. No doubt this is all rank heterdoxy in the eyes of the elect but, reducing the question to bed-rock, if the cheaper, class of medical officers are to be expelled from their posts at moment's notice it is obvious that the shipowner and shipmaster are to suffer grave embarrassment and serious financial los The end of it will be that the emigrant ships will be filled with foreigners carrying foreig parchments which, because they are foreign, will savour of the supernatural and work astounding cures in impossibis aliments. We need not enter into the question whether it

more desirable to have colonially-quall- find medical officer, who, in acquainted with the language, habits and predilections of bis patients, lo control of the medical depart ment of a passenger vessel, than she very superior person who diedains the canailles root and branch. The whole subject teems with controversial points which are of as much interest to Hongkong as to Singapore.

ANTON'S FLUCTUATING

STRADES:

(11th December.)

With the appearance of the Chinese Imperiál period ending 1st Seply we are reminded that Maritime Customs quarterly returns for the. within a few weeks we shall have the satisface tion of perusing the crisp, senchant and outspoken romarks of the Commissioners at the dalways various treaty ports on the subject of waja during the year. The present report" aro nothing but bare statistics, wearing no glluring spec and giving to promise of interesting revelations Brill, we fancy that the expart. these interminable columns and columes of with a turn for the abstruse, who delved into

units would find something worth big white, that at all events his time had not been wast- ed. The very air of respectability surrounding the figures gives rise to a suspicion that all may not be well.owever, we propose to submit some facis relating to the trade of Canton dur. the battalions of figures, and may perhaps mao. ing the three months under review, culled from galowithdrawthe screen of some part of Chica's trade in the doing of it, it is not a long report,

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158,850,000 and the estimates for the com.

company chartered Ave freight steamers for events, we have not learned that the original ing year will reach yen 29,900,000,000, which

the conveyance of goods to Japan and promoter of the movement has been in covers the purchase and doubling of the old

Tairen. Nor was this all. The company undated with epistles from his professional lines god the construction of over 1,000 It was reported recently, on what appear further provided three more pers on the brethren. A new phase of the subject has mlius additional lines to be added to the ed to be unimpeachable authority, that the service between Europe and Japan. This been developed by the Introduction of a system. Besides this we read that Prince Nippon Yusen Kaisha, finding their attempt exceptional measure will remain in force in Bill into the traits Legislative Council Ito favours the floating of yen 120,000,000 of to secure a footing in the important shipping order to meet the requirements of the time having for its object the amendment of the Korean railway bonds and using the pro- trade between Hongkong, Swatow and Badg. That is a record of which the directors of the Chinese Immigration Ordinance of 1902. ceeds in giving the dependency a complete, kok, had not succeeded in the degree griginal. the Nippon Yüsen Kaisha may feel justi The amendment appears to deal solely with system of modern railways The Russian y anticipated, and had therefore decided to fiably proud. If we are correct, the company the qualifications which must be possessed Government is taking the aggressive in relinquish the unavailing contest, or rather to had twenty-two steamers regularly engaged by medical officers on board ships before opening up her great Eastern wheat lands. transfer the headquarters of the triangular in the trade with Europe, during the they can come within the cognizance of the For the Amur railroad alone, she has appro-duel to Singapore. There was much reason past six months, and that is something Government. The Attorney-General of the priated 3,100,000 roubles. In addition, to commend such policy, for the Hong- for a single line, which loses hore of its Straits Settlements, who was in charge of the concessions in Mongolia are under way kong-Bangkok trade has been built up on the importance from the fact that subsidies are Hill, stated that under the proposed measure and Russian and Chinese capitai is jointly soundest lines and maintained at a standard the rule, and the Government of Japan a Chinese emigrant ship would be required interested in the construction of several of efficiency which is not to be shattered by handed over several of Ita Anest captures to have a surgeon who must be either the lines that will open up a new empire. Any or every steamship company which has during the war in the way of merchant holder of a degree which entitled him to Scarcely a day passes that does not record not thoroughly taken into account all the vessels to the N. Y. K. free, grils and for practite in any part of the British down some new railway project proposed in some intricacies of the situation. It seems, how nothing. As regards the American service, ions or some fureiga degree which had part of the Chinese empire. From Man ever, that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have however, the optimlitic vela in tem- been approved by the Governor In Coun churia comes the news of stiff rate compes not by any means retired from the contest porarily checked, or we learn that cil. Such a clause if it were allowed tition between the Japanese-controlled nd Their idea of acquiring a very important share On outgoing voyages the shipping of cargo to stand in sufficiently broad to protect the Chinese lines, a cheerful note in itself the carrying trade between this port and win remarkably voluminous, including tea the qualified practitioner against the en- since it means a greater impetus to trade. the capital of Siam is still a living germ, for and other goods. So abundant was the crouchments of the incompetent, but when Just a few weeks ago another section of the we read in the half-yearly report of the Nippon cargo that the company despatched special the Bill as a whole is considered in con- Shanghai-Nanking Railway was thrown open Yusen Kaisha that: "The company is still liners at intervals. On return voyage cargo junction with the objects and reasons for its to imffic. Amoy is waking up to her needs carrying on competition over the Hongkong, was very scarce and from about the middle introduction, it is evident, according to the in the way of transportation and the projected Bangkok service with a foreign shipping of the term under review the exportation of Perak Pioneer that the scope for the line that is to tap a rich territory and place company and is resolved to fight to the last flour and wheat decreased considerably. selection of ship's doctors with British qualf- it close to the market for its products is be. There in a fine, combative, commercial spirit Such discouraging conditions have rarely fications is to be considerably restricted, ing surveyed. In fact, almost before the pro- of enterprise in that last clause which calls been experienced in recent years. On the Under the existing Chinese Immigration ject is under way it is proposed to make the for admiration from those who are not whole, however, the quantity of cargo ship. Ordinance, a "qualified medical practitioner? initial line the nucleus of a system which in particularly concerned with outside shipping ped was exceptionally large. The falling-off defined as a person holding a diploma, conjunction with the other South China lines competition, but how can it be explained may, of course, be attributed to the some degree de licence enabling him to practise will satisfy every demand for transportation that those apparently explicit and semi-what strained relations which existed between medicine or surgery In any part of His facilities in that rich territory. From indi official statements which appear from time Japan and America in the early and middle Majesty's dominions or the holder of any cations, the railroads under way, will make to time, in the foreign Press of Japan, parts of the year, although there are pro European, American or Japanese diploma, belter progress in construction next year relating to the discontinuance of the service bably deeper reasons for the decrease; for it degree or licence which has been approved than in the past. Many obstacles have been. in question, are allowed to pass without is not conceivable that a party or racial ques by the Governor in Council" It is pro- overcome during the past year and the misrefutation? And it is also a pity that our tion would prevent American manufacturers posed to substitute for this definition, which understandings that embarrass the manage Japanese friends fail to indicate the precise from taking advantage of any profitable export would appear to be satisfactory enougli, a ment have in a large measure been adjusted.foreign shipping company" with which trade that might be offering. The real fact is, new one which describes a qualified No mention is made of the Canton-liankow they believe themselves to be in conflict, probably, that in view of the unsatisfactory medical practitioner" as " the holder of any railway or the line from Kowloon to Canton, Remembering the rebuke we received when state of the wheat crops in America, Man of the diplomas, degrees or licences from except indirectly and that with respect to we suggested that Butterfield and Swire and churia and India, the American holders time to time specified by the Governor in the attitude adupted by the Chinese in de- not the Norddeutscher Lloyd were the an- considered it more profitable to retain the Council under this Ordinance, as constituting ciding to keep the control of the railways tugonists charged with the duty of conserving stock they already had in hand. In view of the qualification of a qualified medical prac under their own administration. In this the shipping trade of Hongkong to Bangkok, higher rates than to take advantage of imitioner." Under the new definition it will connection our contemporary observes: it would have been decidedly refreshing to mediate sales at mediocre prices.

With be competent for the Governor in Council “The construction work in Yunnan province learn whether the Japanese company had reference to the Australian trade that service to exclude certain British diplomas and which has been delayed on account of mis launched out into a Japanese Germanic may be dismissed in a line: "The service licenses from the list of qualifications enti apprehension on the part of the Chinese conflict or a Japanese-British wrestling match, is developing annually." Referring to the tling one to practice as an immigrant ship's

I and dry facts. One of the interesting fox more satisfactorily during rgob. The Chi-the honesty of the Japanese in once again of the help which the N. Y. K. re such a step is made manifest by the further res, in view of the present anti-apium move nese are awakening to the vast possibilities proclaiming their determination "to fight ceives from a paternal and beneficent Go statement of objects and reasons which decat is the statement detailing the quantities of the country with the introduction of more to the last," their nif desperandum altitude, veroment. It is stated that: Of the clares that "it is desired to restrict the British Chinese portsthrough Canton into Chion. Faiza of opium imported; from foreign countrian and modern facilities for transportation and the will be duly noted in the proper quarters. coasting and Eastern services, the five lines, qualifications to those recognised under opiumrulesthafavourke, standing at 1,758 piculs modernizing of its natural industries. There The fact seems to be that the N. Y. K. are of the Shanghai, the North China, the Korea The Medical Registration Ordinance XI. of imported during the quarter, but it is lower than are instances where more zeal than know- more. concerried about their foreign trade North China, the Vladivostock and the 1907." In other words, while a man might be the figures for 1906 by 203 picuis, Malwa ledge is displayed, in their endeavour to than the inter-port opportunities of fostering Hokkaido Japan proper services will be perfectly qualified under the present law LO usually took second place, but not on this pe secure all the benefits of Western institutions commerce, which would rather seem to prove granted subsidies from the Government for take charge of the medical requirements of casion. However, its record la the period by urging Immediate Chinese control of in the end more rehfunerative at less initial four years and six months, commencing on the average boatload of Chinese immigrants, pending periods of 2906, 1905 or 1904, being 234

-mentioned higher-than-that of the corres construction and operation, without regard cost. We read that: "Since the termina ctober rst this year. The other three and has, as a matter of fact, besa engaged piculs, as @gulust237 picals in the previous year, to capacity or experience. This anxiety has tion of the late war freight rates have fallen lines, the Hakodate-Amishiri, Hakodate in such work, unless it is proved to the 117 in 1905 and 133 in 1906. But now let us turn developed a sentiment that would exclude considerably, but towards the end of the Otaru and Otaru-Wakangi services will also satisfaction of the Government that his totheimports of native opium which is so rapidly foreign capital and initiative regardless of present term they showed an upward ten- be granted subsidies for two years and six British qualifications are recognised under disappearing off the face of the earth.” In 1904. Caning was content to import a trifling 11.38 not consistent with the conservatism of the Hakodate fire ad the disastrous floods, year. It may be remarked that all the above will have to look elsewhere for means whereby mouths; in 1903 that amount had grown to Chinese people and there is reason to be shipping was greatly affected, so that receipts lines were granted subsidies in the past and to earn his bread and butter. This point 53.15 piculs, and this year the amount of native lleve no such feeling will long, prevail when were far out of proportion to the quantity of that their term expired at the end of the doce not affect foreign practitioners so in oplum taken by Canton reached the high figures the advantages of having the co-operation of good carried. Of the coasting lines, the second half of this year, so that privilege was timately as it does the numerous gradustes of 632,65 picúls truly a marvellous stride. The experienced engineers and practical railroad Kobe- taru service was abolished at the end renewed. A noteworthy feature was that the of Far Eastern colleges, who may have been aggregate quantity of opium imported amount managersas against inexperienced native di of the term under review. This step was price of coat showed an increase of about jo looking forward to the day when they would ed to 2,863 plculs, being a flight decrease rection will have been realized. Atthepresent due to the fact that the company desired to per cent, as against the price prior to the late blossom into full-fledged ships'-surgeons. It

on the importations during the same period in time foreign capital seems ready and willing concentrate its energies on the foreign ser- war and that the cost of labour rose steadily might be aimed directly at Hongkong, for, 106, which represented 2,919 plcols. In the to share in this feature of China's develop vices, thereby handing over the service to on the other hand freight rates were lowered should the law pass in its present form, it is passing, that plain white shirtings are annually.

dry goods department, it may be noted, e ment and there is reason to believe that a other shipping concerns of small means, as the result of the increase in the number difficult to see how the graduate. of the incressing in popularity, while the same may better understanding between foreign capital- he closing sentence of that paragraph is of steamers after the late war. The company Hongkong School of Medicing could be be kid to an even greater extent of velvets ists and the Peking Government would prove certainly worthy of attention. Why the therefore experienced no small difficulty admitted to the shipping service conducted and velveteens. The passage of Indian cotion a much desired factor in furthering this great Nippon Yusen Kaisha should evince such an la realizing profits during the term" for Chinese emigrants to the South. The yard through the port In the three months of work. For years to come, China would bene exceptionally philanthropic spirit as to hand The last couple of lines read curiously alumni of the Hongkong Medical School are 1907 in question is: 36,358 picule, which was fit from foreign direction of er railroads, over a line of potential value to a minor in view of the generally optimistic character regarded as being almost on a par with those the previous year, but less than those of 1905 somewhat higher than the figures recorded in and natural and desirable from the view-point shipping concern is not quite clear, except of the report, but when it is stated that the who have studied at the great schools of and 1904. For the first time apparently of ambitious and patriotic Chinese as Chi-on the premise that the leading Japanese shareholders received a dividend for the half medicine in the leading European and Gorman yara uplifted its head and hese management might appear lack of company put the interests of Dai Nippon year at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, American centres of research and practice, it takes a modest place on the list, experience is sure to result in delay, dis above merely commercial values, and holds and a special dividend at the rate of two per and pursued a laborious course of specialised with three picals to its credit. The importa couragement and even failure in many in that they sustain no loss in what they give to cent. per annum, it will be seen that the work at much expense and toil. Of course that tion of foreign flour is steadily risin, for stances. The fear that in some way the a friend, and a struggling competitor at that. operations of the directors with the object of is putting the position on a high basis for the whereas 97957 picols passed through the Cus integrity of China is menaced by the invest With regard to the “Pastern Service," of the overcoming exceptional difficulties were not Hongkong collegian, but when the Gover

toms in the period July-September, 1905, the returns this year were 117,651. With regard ment of foreign capital and energy must company, it is here again somewhat difficult altogether fruitless of results. Finally it ment grants, on examination, certificates to oil, it is noteworthy that while in 1905 give place to an era of confidence in which to appraise the real meaning of the directors' need only be observed that, during the which permit these passed students to attend the people seem to have preferred the Ameri the development of the resources should be report, or how the trade actually looked half-year the company carried over patients, make up prescriptiona, and generally can article as they found it, to the tune of near- the main end. As this development pro- when set forth in the company's books. It 340,000 passengers and 1,600,000 tons perform all the ordinary duties which fall to

ly Eve million gallons, last year they were con Bresses, the Chinese will have the benefit is stated that The service was very brisk, of cargo on both domestic and foreign lines the lot of the family physician, no other content with: but 86,009 odd, the amount in bulkc falling to 1,182,081. This Year, the Ame- of the experience and the training so that Owing to the successful raising of agricul through the service of 81 steamers, repre- clusion as to their official status seems

ricans have managed to dispose of nearly in the proper time, they may assume tural products since the spring of the current senting over 264,000 tone, belonging to the reasonable. The immediate effect of such a

4,500,000 gallant, of which 635,000 odd were la year the shipping of cotton and other pro- company, of nine agency steamers represent drastic measure would or to throw hundreds bulk. Borneo sent avar 300,00 gallone al- intelligently. Foreign enterprise should duce from Shanghai and Hankow was ing over 35,000 tons, and other chartered of what may be termed home-made ships together, while Sumatra was represented by Control of their railroads and direct them be encouraged and fostered in every way abundant, while exports from Japan diminish steamers, covering over 1,840,000 miles aliosurgeons out of employment, and leave a about 2,005,500 or rather mors than in 1926, but consistent with the general welfare." That ed. The Tientsin service alone was very gether. This is stated to be a record since multitude of vacancies for the distinguished much below the figures for 1904. In the mat- is a view which is certainly open to dis- barren both on outgoing and retum voyages, the establishment of the company.

· graduates of universities such as London and ter of expons there, it little of may interest to cussion, for if the Chinese will supply the although goods destined for Europe were

Edinburgh, Paris and Berlin. In such an

record except that there is a contiquons risa capital necessary, as they can, for the build-handled rather actively. At Newchwang,

in the value of the fire-crackers and Bre event the salaries offered would presumably works ing of railway lines, and if they can administer water in the Lino river was very low, in con

soar to heights undreamt of by the of any consequence, The reduced purcha

despatched abroad, but nothing the affairs of those railways satisfactorily it is sequence of which the shipping of beans and

present generation of medical officers. ing power of the people in the interior difficult to see why they should call in bean cakes was badly affected. At Tairen,

But there is another question to be is vividly manifested by the smaller figures foreign help, especially after the experience bo h imports and exports showed a remark

(16th December.)

considered in this connection: Where which appear against practically all tha they have bad of foreign syndicates in able increase on account of the gradual. Some time ago we published a com ere all these men carrying, full British goods sent by inland transit. From Bouh China; Alter referring to the pro- development in South Manchuria. The munication from a well-known ship's surgeon qualifications to be found when the vacancies treasure to the value of 765,387 Haikwas, then, Hongkong and Macao, ("anton Imported silver gress of railway works in Siam, the importation of rice and other cereals from in which he proposed that in order to con-

come to be filled? It was only the other and from Chinese treaty another 341,580 Indies, in each of which countries quantity and value. At Vladivostock, ship careers are spent on shipboard a Far Eastern

was arrested and his vessel seized at Singa exports af treasure to Hongkong and Macao rapid development is evident, the writer ping was also active owing to the fact that exsociation of ships surgeons should be pore because he could not produce a doctor

in coin reached the sum of 1,403,267, EW, then alludes briefly to what is being done in the agricultural products in North Manchuria formed with headquarters in Hongkong on board. His explanation was that the

and an additional 1,000 went to Wuchow. Philippine Islands. There, we learn, there were forwarded to that part over the The idea was that such an association should surgeon had himself fallen Hil on the voyage are over 800 miles of railway under construc Chinese Eastern Railway. Exports from not necessarily be of an aggressive or and died, and although every effort had been tion and Manila has 30 miles of trainway, Japan were, however, very scarce as in belligerent character, but rather that it made at 'every place en route to secure a This means that in two years the archipelago the past." So that the report is a record should endeavour to secure for the qualified ship's surgeon it bad all been in vain. The will enter on an era of development that has of progression and retrogression, and members of the profession the recognition shipmaster was fined in a small amount, be- marked the history of other sections of the fan unbiased critic might be allowed to of thier status, the acknowledgment of their cause it was doubtless appreciated that he Orient where the locomotive has led the assume that the one counterbalanced the ill-requited skill and the protection of those found himself in a predicament which it was way. In Indo-China there are 468 kilometers other. The best statement, on the whole, rights to which they are honourably entitl practically impossible to guard against, unless Por a very considerable time, la fect since of railrned in operation and 1,558 kilometers appears to be that under the heading of ed. The writer suggested that those who every emigrant vessel were to carry an army of the conclusion of the Russo-Japaners War, under construction or projected. For this

"European service!!. In this relation it is were in agreement with this view should get doctors. The difficulty is that shipowners those disinterested observers, who have been A very informative article, the result of purpose the French Chambers approved in noted that although the exports, from Japan themselves into touch with him, when pre- do not consider that an honour man, equip giving attention to the financial status of the Investigations made on behalf of the Far 1898 a loan of zoojaprono francs. When were generally inactive, in the Straits Settleliminary steps might be taken to form the ped with the lateat knowledge gained at the country have frequently wondered, how Japan, Hastern Review, appears in the latest issue this system is completed Indo-China andments shipping was comparatively Erisk. On organisation in question. Now, it is a well most advanced medical college, is required facts may be proposed to meet the voluntary prosperous and enterprising though her sabe of that monthly on the subject of railway Tonkin will be connected with Yunnan return voyages the company's liners were known fact that many of the medical officers for a cargo of coolles whose average voyage burdens which she assumed to the shape of construction in the Far East. At the outset, and fliere will, he few sections nor brought flooded with cargo which was destined for who are carried by the passenger boats does not exceed a week or ten days. The foreign loace. One after, another, these loans the writer belleves tint 1908 will prove a within easy distance of the markets. After Japan and other ports in the East, Is running along the China Coast, and to graduate of the Colonial institution, whose | were floated so England, America and Ger- record year in the building of railways, and L.a-careful review of what has been accom addition to this a regular liners, the company Dell and the Straits Settlements in the education has been under the charge of the many; and many countries of wider area and proceeds to give his arguments in favour of plished in recent years and the projected employed the steamer Chiksun Mars which South" are in full, sympathy with such a principal medical officers of the district, la resources but smaller influence and initiative that view. Japan has concluded the gigantic construction under way, the writer concludes was built in England to the order of the scheme, but evidently they have per occasionally a betterman to deal with what we must have goashed their tooth in envy at what task of nationalizing her railways, including that there does not seem any place for the company, and also the awa Maris, which mitted themselves to become reconciled may call household ailments even including which attended japan in everything the unde

sremed to be the stupendous good fonsos under Government control 18 lines with a pessimist in Far Eastern affairs during the arranded in British waters some time ago and to the situation or found themselves ueable in that category the native forms of such re-tack: So far as it went the scissor unders milgugo of: 4,809, miles. Last year, the year 1908—a, sentiment with which the was completely repaired. The shipping to raise the necessary energy requisite to current diseases as cholera, plague and small, in securing ready midney to proceed anew withi Goverance; appropriated yoqmajority of observere will probably agree of cargo from Curopo was so great that the express their riors ca the subject; df all poz, then the bigbly acientito Individual the industrial projects which, and bean dite

authorities may be expected to continue However, that is beside the point, although subsidiary lines we are given an inkling doctor. That the Government contemplates hang only to pine pages, but it bristles with

Commerall:

Yarn Market, Exchange.

Local and Goneral.

siku.

On 30th Oct, at Dunmow, wife of E. T. BOND, of Canton, daughter.

On 9th Nov., at Wimbledon, wife of D. A, RELILIOS, M.R C.B, LR.C.P., D.P.H. (Lond), daughter.

At the Govergshent Civil. Hospital, on Sunday, the 8th inst., at 3.55 P.M., the wife of N. G. NOLAN, of a son.

On December 8, 1957, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH WHITESIDE, A SON,,,

MARRIAGES.

On December 3, 1957, at Shanghai, AUGUE TUB ROBERT, second surviving son of the late E.W.G. von Stockhausen and Min. von Block. Hausen of Hongkong, to MARY ELIZADET, only daughter of Captain P. Klopfer, of the China Marchants' Steam Navigation Company, and Mrs. Klopfer, of Snanghai.

Do December 3, 1997, at Shanghvi, Ermest LEE ALLEN to FRANCES ETHEL, only daugh, ter of the fate Captain William Waddilove of Shanghal and niece of Mr. and Mrs. Harry

On December 4, 1937, at Shanghai, RICHARD POLLAK to PAULA, Fecond daughter of Mr.

Sharp,

and Mrs. Carl Bloch,

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HARRY DOUGLAS DERRICK, Yaungest son of On December 5, 1907, at Shanghai, EknEST Mr and Mrs. Geo. Derrick of "Hollybank," Southampton, to MADELINE ETHEL, Rith daughter of Mrs. Limby, Shangbai.

DEATHS.

On December 8, 1957, at Shanghai, HARRY WRIGHT, Chief Officer of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's str. Puochi, from posamonia, aged 6o yours....

MCGREGOR SMITH,On the job inst., at

the Government Civil Hospital, aged 74..

consequences. This attitude, at this time, is dency. Owing to various epidemics, the months, commencing on 'ctober 1st this the new Medical Régistration Ordinance he siculs of the native product för the three

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THE SHIP-SURGEON'S

POSITION.

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The Hongbang Celegraph Federated Malay States and Netherlands Korea- to Japan was considerable both in sérve, the interesis of medical officer whose day that the skipper of an emigrant steamer 6. faels, motit of fato post flike bar sto

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBKR 13, 1957.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN

1HB PAR KAST.

(7th December.)

From these statement, it will be seen that Canton was not in an over-finurishing condition doring the months of July, August And Septer ber last.

JAPAN'S FINANCES,

(12th December)