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Telegrams.

| Meurer's.]

Buloide of a Trust Manager.

London, ratli December.

The manager of the Quebec branch of the California Safe Deposit Trust Company has committed suicide.

American Finance.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1907.

HUNGEONG AND IS

INDUSTRIASS

BRITISH ATTACHE*8÷REPORT...

In the report on Southera. Chion to which | we have already referred, Sir A. Hesle makes same interesting remarks on Hongkong, which may produced because of the bracing | which such industries, developed in a free port, have on the future pros; erity of the Colony,

Although, he sw, "Hongkong is not within my province, the colony is so bound up

gala to Hongkong, where it is refined

Dative, establishments, "I

inch

the

owloon What * 30,000 Aubrey: payable" be: the CIR

* Payable angkats-final- di- vidend of Tir 7), and bonus of Tis; al' per sharb payable on the 15th inst

YARN MARKET.

Their report dated 19th-instant, Mesus, Ptimesha P. Petit & Co. white

To-day's

Advertisements.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG

TÜNETES—MATTER OF:::TITE-ESTATA"

OF MEED GULAM, LATE OF

· Victoria, Hongkong," "Demand,

TOTICE:

rency, in a speech, insisted that gold was garding it. It has been unital to look upon ging when cooled as a block of refined tip with the exception of only a few favour sending in Claims against the above Estate..

Hongkong na mere

Congressman, Fowler, chairman of the with the commercial interesis of China that 1 House Committee on Banking and Cur-may be pardoned for laying in few words re

depot of tiade with the only proper bauk reserve.,

If the Government continued the present China, but during recent years it has develop

ed into a pregă industrial centre, whosa manus currency manipulations, he was of the opinarea are sent not only in China, but to lon that a commercial tragedy would arise, various parts of the world, including the compared with which the present would be United States, Japan, Australia, Siam, Borman only a pleasant summer outing.

Later.

The P. and O. and Japanese Competition.

The secretary of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company, in writing to the papers refers to Sir Thomas Sutherland's

and India.

1916 addition to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock; which was established in 1866, and afterwardss. äbrorbed the Uzion Dock, started in the previous year, had the Cosmopolitan, Dock, inaugurated in 1879, fine new dock and shipyard, consisting of one granite dock 680 feet in length and three

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qualities in rectangular long, foot wide and": and second qualities are fai third frequently contains aq much 120 per cent of load. { The slabs are malted up in con- eave from pubs, 3 feet la diameter, and foot in depib, resting on brick furnaces fed with wood Tael. In the centre of each pan is placed an opan iron cylinder, t foot high und 1: foot in diameter, surrounded near he base on the gut. side with tin dross, through which the molten. metal filters" inte this cylinder and in tossed, shimmed and ladled Into sand moulds, emer

several inches thick, with its upper surface pro "jecting at both ends and weighing $5 cattias, de 1,133 lb. The skimmings" and, dross are treated with charcoal in bellow turnace and the resulting metal refined, as above, The daal dross is sold to merchants in Shanghal where it is further treated for the small quan- tities of tin and the iron which it contains Most of this refined sin is sent to the different parts of China, the balance going to the United, States and Germiny. The refinery which I visi ed was the largest of the four and could turn out 8 tons of tin a day mail prices

"In Hongkong there are several establishe

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Qat last circolar was dated the agth cht.. Exchange during the loterval bas suffered anthes severs alump, but has not contributed NOT is hereby given that the Court has ROBINSON PIANO

by virtue' of Section 58 of the: Probatei in any advanes in the dollar prices of yarn Ordinance 1897 (No, a of 1907), made an Order limiting to the 9th day of January, 1008, for spinnings of No. 1or, which have been taken All Creditors ate bereby required to send off he market for immediate requirements at their Claims to the Undersigned before the an appreciation of 51 per bale. This advance said date, da de gr is about equal to that established in the Dated this 9th day of December, 1907. MEMARATHOON SETH, Nontern market where the sime count saly

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Official Administrator.. appears in favour at the moment. Other threads are neglected

Comasred with the preceding forfaight thự clearances, though slow, are rather more satis- factory, a total of some 6,000 bales having changed hand

No. 20-A fair business was done at law

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction, Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 16th day of Dscom-

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor,ef Oos. Lot "of CROWN

bet, 1007, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public

LAND; at Kai Lung Wan, in the Colony of

allusion to unfair competition, and says that slip, have been recently constructed at Quarry menis engaged in the manufacture of vermilés Kötar-A limited business transpired at Hongkong; for a term of 5 years,

Hay, on the island of Hongkong, by the British firm of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. It is

an absolutë monopoly has been established for the conveyance of cotton between Bom-expected that the engineering and workshops bay and japan, presumably under the agis connected with the shipyard will be completed of the Japanese Government, which shuts in 1908, when that firm propose to build and repair their own ships, as well as undertake out the competition of all other flags.

outside work of a similar nature.

The U. 8. Presidency.. President Roosevelt has issued a formal statement of renunciation of a third term of the United States Presidency..

It is generally agreed in New York that this brings Governor Hughes to the fore, while the Democratic leaders declare that it Improves the chances of their candidate.

LUNARD-LINĖ TO INVADE PACIFIC,

An authentiq STORY.

lion, an operation which consists in subliming the black sulphida resulting from the heating of sulphur with qu cksilver. The red sulphide is then pounded in mortars and ground with wter in stone mills the vermillion thus de positet boing collected and dried on trays ar ranged in specially heated rooms.

Next to this private dock and shipyard, and "The shove are examples of the principal belonging to the same firm, is the largest sugar foreign and Chin se industries carried on in Hongkong, but the subj ct attracting consider refinery under one roof in the world. It con tains sine vacuum pans, and is capable of tum-

able attention to the colony at the moment is ing out 12,050 piculs (nearly 800 tuns) of the construction of the Kowloon-Canton Rail refined sugar per day of 34 hours. It employ way. On the invitation of the Governor off 3,500 Chinese workmen and 48 Europeans, 38 Hongkong, I visited. Along with his Excellency of whom hail from Greenock. It is fitted with and Admiral Moore, the south end of the the latest machinery, including light rail-funnel now being, pierced through the mais ways from the 'refinery to the wharf, whence Kowloon range. Up to that date (March 10) cast is carried from lighters to the coal heap, only soft disintegrating granite had been met and travelling trucks by which the raw sugar with, and good progress was being made at from Java is conveyed from the wharf to the both ends of the tunnel,, which will be 3,ko refinery and the refiord sugar to the whinsf.

foot long and 25 feel broad. A temporary [108, whout z miles long, has bren, laid from the harbour to the south end of the tunne', but the permanent line will lie further east, and the station and other railway buildings will be erected on land to be reclaimed from the sea. Bridging of streams and to dways between the barbour and the's auth end of the tunnel was

No. 16. Not much in favour,

current rates.

Naitor-Cheap price induced business, No. 86-Neglected

No Selected threads fetched last maly prices.

Market closes steady.

Sales:275 bales of No. 6r., 2,545 bales of No. tar, 515 bates of No. 125.. 1,870 bales of No. 20.; in all about 4,855 biles.

Arrivals:-Per steamers Kamsang, Arratoen Air and Suling (from Calcutta), and Tabatabi Maru, Levance, Totom! Maru and ifk and Delät (from Bombay) of about 6,000 bales.

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Unsoll Stock-About 30,000 bales. Uncleared Stock :-About 26,po bales.. Exchange-We quote to-day'ss follows:-

India TT ́at, R. - 1451 per cent.

Domand

145 London T. T. Sh. tarkem

Demand, Shanghai A Tla.*74}=5:00,

. 1514. per or.

Writing under same date, Messrs. Cawasjer, Pallanjee & Co, report :-

Silver...

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There are two other sugar refinerías lo A special cablegram to The World (Vancou ongkong the China Sugar Refinery Com. pany, started in 1878, and the Luron Sugar ver) says that negociations are on-foot between

Refinery Company in 188. Both companies the Cunard line and the Grand Trunk Railroad

are under the management of the British firm of Canada, for the fornt handling of the Cana

of Messi: Jardine, Matheson and Co. (now diab passenger and freight tr: ffir. The scheme, which is still in its initial stage, contemplates Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Limited). running a live of Cunard steamers direct from The former is capable of turning out some Liverpool to Canada and a Cunard line service 4,co piculs, and the latter 100 piculs-a total being carried out, and a short tunnel through from ike Pacific count Japin, China and Aus of about 350 tans-of refined sugar a day. In low ridge lying between the harbour and the tralia. As the plans far the Grand Trunk Pacific connection with the former there is a rum dig-in range was about to be commenced The Railway Co. unfold the indications point to tillery, but the output is not greal, and there length of the alignment from the station at decline in exchange, importers withdrew stocks:

a battle royal between the two big trapecontie ental corpicians. The announcement made a short time ago that the G. T. P. would, as

some difficulty in finding storage room for the spirit until sufficiently matured for the market. Probably the most important industry next which is carried on by the Green Island

Kowloon to the terminns which i have already indicated at Cantan is 25 miles, 11 miles of which-dificult section-lie within British Kowloon, and it is estimated that the enstrac

soon as thrie din : was completed, pat connect to sugar refining is the manufacture of cement, ❘tion will be completed in 190," ing steamship services on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bork out the idea that the All-Cement Company, both on the island of Hong-

Red Rute" when established, will be by way of the G. T, P. There are strong reasons why this should be the case.

kong nad in British Kowloon. The capital of the company is 12,003,093, and it is proposed to'double' it. This company further carries on The fund mental idea of the All-Red project the manufacture of fire-bricks, fire-clay, drain. is that of the fastest service pus ible hom. the pipes, &c. Their cement works at Kowloon, British isles to the Far East and to Australis, Sir which 1 visited, are fitted with rotary kilns and Wilfrid Laurier, who fathired, the G. T. P.up-to-date machinery of every kind. enterprise; has also given manifestations that, he will ses the Atl-Red Route an accomplished fact and lend his support to it, bringing Canada into a very substantial contribution 13 the

scheme.

The

COMMER

WEEKLY SHARE KEPUNTI - Reviewing the share business for the week, Messrs. E. S. Kad ie & Lu. write op the 13th Inst.:-

4.

Annual output of cement amounts to some

Further signs of activity have been apparent 120,000 lans, and limestone used in his mou in our market since our last circular. Most facture is brought by junk from the West and stocks have roled firm, and the principal fea North Rivers, in the Kwangtung province,ture of the week has been the sharp rise in Clay is the only other ingredi nt, Limestone Hongkong and Shangbai Banks, has been found in the Kowloon extension, and this may later be utilised by the company. Vader the same management, namely, the British firm of Vestre. Shewan, Tomes and Co., is the Hongkong-Rope-Manufacturing Com pany at Kennedy Town, fitted with the lates American machinery, and turning out ropes and hawter of various sizes from hemp (the fibre of Muss texillit, Nees) imported from

Our last report was dated the 29th ultima peras. Devianka, since when a quiet but steady usiiess was being effected in the beginning of the fornight on the basis of late sales. Sub.. sequently owing to the unexpected benys

from the market by asking bigher prices with the result that an advance of St to Sit was established in desirable favourite spinnings of which a moderate quantity has changed handa. At the close, holders are asking still bigber prices, but dealers now having satisfied. their

requirements are not inclined to increase their holdings of interesi, more especially in the abience of sufficient orders from the country Mkanwhile the market closes quiet but steady,

No. 65,--Trifling inquiry at quotations. No. Br.Nothing doing.

No. 1os Vadium threads have nitracted mat attention and show an advance of one dollar per hale in price, the demand for superin tickets having greatly subsided.

No. 124-Small sales on the basis of late quotations,

No. 16-A low special tickets have been dealt in at current rates under country orders.

Danks-Hongking and Shanghai Hanks have apprec'a'ed to a considerable extent, hav-

No. zo-Orders from. the country are not ng risen: sone 6 points during the week farge, but still a moderate business has been Numerous sales have been effected at various put through in superior well-known spienings rates from 57.0/715 for the old, and $705, for

Sales during the past fortnight comprise of the new sharer, closing steady at $720, and an appreciation of 55 to 53 pm bale. $715 respectively. In London, the rate has im-ab ut 6o bales of No. 6; 1.74: hales of No. proved to 483.

Marine Insurances-Cantons have declined 101.510 bales, of No. 121; 320 bales of No. tor 1,890 bales of Nɔ, 201; in all about 4,475

The C. R., the only existing company that can handle such an enterprite, realizes fully the situation, and within the past year has put "forth wonderful effilts to maintain the asp emacy it has gained by a fast service on the Atlantic, a through train service across the continent and a service across the Paci- fic to the Orient and to Australix. To re- 1ain the subsidy of Siggo's a month for mail carrying from the British isles to Hongkong. Manila. These ropes have a ready sal: locally to $43 Nonb Chinas are easier and can probales. “Arrivalo per steamers Takasaki Marui,

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hably be obtained at Tls. 87. Unions have msg, Levanzo, Totomi Maru, A. Aptar, advanced to 795. Yangtzes are quoted boyers and Delhi are 6,500 bales. in the North at Thi. 149 for the old and $125 for the new shares.

Fire. Insurances-China Fires are inquired for at the increased rate of 592. Hongkong Fires are firmer at $35, after small sales al the rate.

Shipment to Shanghai and Northern Parts of about 3,000 bales. The unsold stock is estimated at about 41,000 bales.

Local Mille:—Na business is reported the mill is still working short time,

which expires in April, the C.P.R. has been and in China, and I-neticed bales of hawsers making grea improvements in its services. being shipped for use in the ail wells of The proposal to supply faster steamers for the Burma. The manager info med me that Atlantic and then transfer the present Empress the colour of the hemp was not so good as in former years. What struck me in the rope liners on the Atlantic to the Pacific is regarded factory was the small amount of superintending but part of an organized effort, on the pait of native labour required, and what there was the pioner corporation to hold the supremacy consisted mainly of small boys. Among other which it has gained.""

The G. T, P., however, will have several industries carried on by foreigners are several advantages. will have a rather shorter route across the continent and a road which, owing to the easy grades, will ́ni ow of faster time soap and sada factory (German), a feather | still obtainable at quotation. There are buyers Rs. 1.46% · On Leadow at 11.17}5′′

being made.. In addition to this, the distance from Prince Rupert, the Pacific terminus; to Yokohama and oiber Oriental parts in about 500 miles shorter chin-the-route from Vanco ver to the same parts.

giseering and shipbuilding works, steam sawed. mille, wo match factories, a glass works,

cleaning and press packing works, an ice factory, and a steam laundry. There is also a Paper mill filled with British plant for the manufacture of Chinese paper, and a Fargo flour mill with American' machinery has re cently been erected at Junk Bay. The latter

Supping-China and Manilas are dochang-

Hongkong; Canton and Macko. Steam brats have sollers at $30. Jedo-Chinas aro

of Shell Transports at 43/-,

Refineries.—China Sugars have ruled quiat hi Siod. Lurons are in demand at Sco, and Ferak Sugars at Tis: 80. -

Japanese Yaro:-Importations have ceard and sales reported are bales No. 166. at $115 and 125 bales No. 208, at S 27,

Fxchange -Ws quote on India to-day at

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE."

Selline Londap-Bark T.T. may minu

Do.. drmand

Do.4 monthe' sight),

Mining. A slight improvement has taken lace in Chinese Engineerings which close' is capable of turning out 400,00 lbs. of flour awith buyers in the North at Tis 1st. Raubs France-Rank TT

Not only is it natural that Sir Wilfrid Laurier should be expected to favour the G. T. P. in assigning the contracts, owing to the fact that day, and neother mill of similar capacity is it was ender his fastering care, that the enter projected. The bran and refuse food-stuffs are to be used for fattening pigs for the Chinese priza was undertaken, but Lord Srathcona, market. The owners of the mill are under agent general for Canada in London, is reparted the impression that they will at some future to be strongly inclined to the side of the G. T. P.

time obtain supplies of wheat from 'Man Lord Strathcona's interest in the Hudson's Bay, Company gives him a deep interest in any rail. Churia, and an attempt is to be made to in- way project which opens up new territory increase the cultivation of wheat in Kwangtung the Canadian west, thus enhancing the value and Kwangel. The supply now used comes from of the company's boldings. He is anid to be the nited States of America. The Hongkong heavily interested in the C. T. P. project, and for these raisons the G. T. P. may be expected to find favour when the question of the heavy subsidies contemplated in connection with the All-Red Route are put-for aid.

The C. P. R has 1 kewise strong claims to recognition, and it is anticipated that when the time comes for perfecting the scheme there will be a bitter fight for first 'place between the two great Canadian transportation companies,

Caton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Com. any's mill, with £5,0:0 spindles, started in

18,9, had to write down and bring in fresh

capital in 1901, and has pot proved the success ful venture that was anticipated.

"Magnetic iron has been found in large quantities in the Kowloon extension, and a company with a capital of $1,000,000 has recently been formed to work the deposit.

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are firmer at $84

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BAN PARTICULARS OF THE, LOT,

Farm Lot No.

Kai Lung Wan

Registry No.

Locality.

K.

Boundary Megurements.

feat fact foot fout

Contents in

Avonal 1

Upper Price

(Aa] per | plan.)} 3.12 50

333

Hongkong, 14th December, 1907.

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TICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

PARTIC

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to.bè.

held on MONDAY, the 16th day of December,

INVITE INSPECTION

NEW STOCK

Steinway,

Bechstein,

Russell,

Krauss,

Romhildt,

Werner, &c.

GRANDS & UPRIGHT'S

1907, at 3 P., at the Offices of the Public Works BUILT UNDER OUR PERSONAL SUPERVISION.

Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Ong Lot of CROWN LAND,

at Pokiulum, in the Colony of Hongkong, for

a

term of 75 years, ko'

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. 73. | Registry

LOCALITY,

Boundary

V.

L

£

n.

£

(As per pilan.)

Heppkotij, 14th December, 1907.

Contents is

Upset Price.

DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of Pr letting by Public Auction Sale,, to be held on MONDAY, the 23rd day of Decem. bar, 1907, at 3 P.M., at the Officer of the Public Works Department, by Order of ills Excellency | the Governor of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 75 years, with the option of re newal' at a CROWN. RENT to be fixed by the

further term of 75 years... Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale

Lot Sa, 1,750 || Registry No.

Adjo 193

LOCALITY

Boundary MeasuremanIO.

W.R.

1.S.

PLOT.

f. No

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Contents in

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❤ Annual Reat.

❤Upset Price

ENDOLYING 30 YEARS' LOCAL

EXPERIENCE.

Hongkong, 5th December, 1997.

XMAS AND

NEW YEAR

HAMPERS.

1842" 150'0" 152′0′′ 196'0" 15,600-385 (FROM $15.00 AND UPWARDS).

Hongkong, 14th December, 1907,

PUBLIC AUCTION

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*THE Undersigned have received Instruc- tions from Mrs. STEWART, to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FRIDAY,

the 20th December, 1967 230 P.M., withio

*ber residence, No. 4, Lochisi Terrace,

Kowloon,

THE WHOLE" OF "HER" VALUABLE.

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, THEREIN CONTAINED,

Comprising

HAMPERS

CONTAINING 12 BOTTLES:

OF THE

CHOICEST WINES, SPIRITS,

&c.,

&c., &c.

PLUSH COVERED DRAWING ROOM: „1′10 15/16 || SUITE, THAKWUOD OVERMANTELS „,1/11 1/16. with BEVELLED GLASS, SILK-EMBROI- f11 DERED PICTURES, SCREENS, TEAK- WOOD SIDEBOARDS with BEVELLED GLASS, DINING TABLES and CHAIRS DINNERWAGGONS, DINNER SER 1.96 VICES, GLASS and E-P. WARE, BRASS- 144 | MOUNTED IRON BEDTEADS and.

BEDDING, TEAKWOOD WARDROBE at our Office and make

with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE-TOP 74 BUREAU with BEVELLED GLASS, 203 X'pram, CHEST-OF-DRAWERS, &c.]*** [S

..931

Decks, Wharves and Godowns-Kowloon | very —Rask T.T. Whaifs have sellers at $63. Hongkong and | WaHT TO Whampoa Docks have weakened to 597. In De Amund the North, Shao, hal Docke have declined to Shanghal--Rank T,T. Tis. 71), while fongkew Wharfs have streng. Singapore T. Tu.... thenol to Tis, 205

Japan-Bank T.Tem qu Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hongkong || [wa-Bank T.T/ Hotels and Hongkong Lands remain unaltered. Humphreys Estates can probably be bad at Sick. There are inquiries for West Points at maths sight L/C,111 15 16 $48. Shanghai Lands can be sold at Tis, 303,

- Colton, Mills.—Ewos, are, wanted at the slightly reduced rate of Tis. 48. We are in formed by private wire from Shanghai that the Company has declured a dividend of Tis. 1 pershire (5 per cent) - Lau Kung Mows can be secured at Tis. 70.

Ruring.

i mnaths' sight LIG. 1/11 11:15

jo dare sight Ban Francisco & New Ynik, 471

monthe sight

10 days sight Sydney and Melbourne 1.1115'16

months' sight Franco...

6 months' right

months' sight Germeor Par Silent bank of Reefand Basic of France.... Sovereign acaband

2.501

$10,36

MiscellaneousChina Borneos coatings in "There are also numerous purely Chinese demand at Stop and Daley Farms at 5161. industries in Hongkong, such as soap making. Union Waterboats have been dealt in x1 Stok dycing, tanning, the manufacture of vermilion, closing ja request. Watsons have fandd buyers In a gambling raid, which fergeant Aris, of and tin refining. There are about a dozen 100pat. Sia. William Powells are wanted at 55 CHAN HOK TAUN who was arrested near the No. 7 Police Station, executed at West Point work, and I found that the materials used are Green Jalan Cements can be sold at $11. Clock Tower yesterday afternoon on a charge last evening, twenty men were captured at 90 pigs fat or lard from the island of "aipa", soda Langka's continue in demand at Tis, 355, of stealing 336 from Captain biancough First Strest. The gambling paraphernalia was aud resin. Both toilet and bar soaps were being | Te re is no change to repon in other Wocks forfeited.. The prisoners were paraded before" | måde and the persome used was manufactused, under, this heading, SIN BA

10 An under circumstances exclusively report.

Cours, Asd #Disc", and the remainder

Jeaters

ed in last evening', Telegraph, was at the this morning, at the Police by Messrs. W. J. Bash and Co. of Hackney - Exchange —The Bank's selling rate on Lon. Police Court, this Ing, convicted by Mr.

ying 515 Nearly all the tim produced in the mines of - doa is 1/112 on demand. The TTTAKEN

Tarate on H Hi J. Gomperts,

six weeks' rept by the Red Birgr, and Ton. Shuaghil

ALSO "One" COTTAGE PIANO by F, Dorner & Soba, Stutignit ;

AND,

A quantity of PALMS in POTS, Catalogues will be issued TERMS 1—AS GEual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 13th December, 1997, 187 (109)

On Monday, November 16, Maston Nicolls, American citizen, was brought before the U.5. Consolar Court at Seop! on a charge of homicide, and honourably acquitted. From what we can leam, says the Kores Daily News, appars that the verdict was a very proper on Karan broke into the premises of the American mine at Teracol, and the buller which killed him was fired by young Nicolle under great provocation, The Korean author Itles were the prosecutors, but even their evid ences was favourable to the prisoneT

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