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魏九初月八年四十三赭光
BIRTHS...
On August 16, 1908, at Peitaiho, the wife of CW. CAMPBELL, H. B. M. Legation, Peking, of a daughter,
Os August 24, 1908, at Shangbai, the wife of FREDERICK RAYDEN, of a daughter.
On August 27, 1908, at Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs. J. L. CHALMERS, a daughter.
On August 10, 1908, at Shanghai, the wife -of-J, P. Rocks, of a daughter.
On August 31, 1908, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. J. T. WYNYARD BROOKE, a daughter.", 'MARRIAGE.
On August to, 1908, at Couze-etSt. Front (France) JULES GORY, 1. M. Cantoms, to SUZIE Tyss, daughter of Frédéric Thyss, Manager Banque de Mulhouse.
DEATHS:
On August 16, 1908, suddenly, at Ichang Binais Copies, Daily, Len cents: Weekly, twenty. Dr. GEORGE F. STOOKE, Church of Scotland
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CONTENTS
Births, Marriage and Deathe. Leading Artioles:-
A Battleship Mystery Dispelled." A Typhoon Corps for Hongkong. Kowloon's Trade.
Amay's Tea Trade.
Slogapore Advice:
Frontier Ports.
The Material Progress of China,
Telegram:-
Parliament for China.
- A Naval Base,
Hankow-Szechuan Railway.
The Opium Question,"
The Chinese-Fleet. Railways and Telegraphs:
Chintan Emperor III. British Merchants in Hankow. "Superintendeor-of-Railways.
Pekingese Jubilant.
Tang Shao-yi...
Shanghai Refuge.
Foreign Affairs Commissioner,
Capital of Kwangsi.
Serious. Affray in Shanghai.
Mooting:-
Kulangsu (Amdy).Municipal Council.
Legal Intelligones:—
A Matter of Jurisdiction.
Molion for Judgment.
The Flour Case,
Polica
A Lady's Predicament
The Triad Society............
Female Counterfeiter Convicted.
Alleged Counterfeiter in Custody,
Gold Rings Stolen.
Correspondenos:
The Philippine Carnival.-
Miscellaneous Articles and Reporta.:-
İnterport Cricket.
M Customs,
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On August 30, 1908, at Shanghai, Captain DANIEL A. MACDONNELL, Pilot, aged 48
years,
At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 3rd insi, CARL LESLIE HACK, lete of the China Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 3 years Funeral will pass the Monument at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning, Friends are respectfully invited to attend."
At the Government Civil Hospital. on, the 3rd inst, Police Constable WILLIAM TAYLOR, third ron of James Taylor, farmer, East Thun derinn, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, N.B., aged 24 years. Deeply regretted.
The Hongkong Celegrapl
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
A BATTLESHIP MYSTERY DISPRLLRD.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908.
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they will afterwards Bad cause to be thank while Sumatra oll decreased by 916,88 figures: this is probably accounted for by can that be seen more clearly than in the pre- ful, abat the powers that be have hit upon a gallone (about 45 per cent) and Russian of the value of silver, which ruled high during sumption of Col. Seely that, all, the respecte. scheme to extend greater security te them by 310,305 gallons (about 35 per cent.)most of the year until October, in fact, able opinion in Hongkong, on the opium than at present exists- acheme which it is No Burma oil was imported by junk. All when it began to fall with lightning-like suppression business, would be found, to be hoped will be as effectual as it will commend the items under metals fell off with the ex-rapidity, and so cheapened the price of in agreement with that of the Governor Sir, itself for its simplicity. In fact, ita ception of lead in pigs and bars, which ad- foreign Imports. The conclusion to be Frederick Lugard, and Sir Frederick simplicity is it chief recommendation. vanced about 60 per cent. An exceptionlly drawn is that "apart from re-exports, .., Lugard's opinion would necessarily be what- The scheme, as set out in the current issue profitable business, however, is reported totes, the trade remains much as it has been over the Colonial Office directed it to be. It. of the Government Gasette, proposes to have bien done in metals, and the general for many years past. As tea was the back will thus be seen that public opinion in Fraise a Volunteer Emergency Corps for the decline in our returns may in a great mea-bone of the trade from the foreign, and no Hongkong, so long as Hongkong permits it purpose of saving life on the barbour front sure be ascribed to the fact that foreign doubt largely from the native, point of view, to be so, is the opinion of the Secretary of there is not much comfort to be drawn from State. There are fumings amongst the Un- during typhoons. Thir is to be done with flagged lighters towed by steam-launct the aid of life buoys, ropes, etc., which will are now largely employed in lieu of nati⚫ this reflection. Hope for the future, how officials, and the press sometimes-1 Down- he provided at convenient intervals along jooks to carry machinery, iron pipes, tinni fever, lies in certain enterprises which were ing Street chooses to notice it, which it does
initiated during the year. The most import not as a rule-behaves in_gmite obatre-, the Praya and the sea front at Kowlooh. So plates, cement, coal, kerosene oll, etc.,
ant of these is the Chang-Haig (Amoy. | perous fashion. But if Hongkong will take; far, so good; but it would appear that the Chios, The poor rice, crops of 1906 we authorities are inclined to be slightly scepti- followed by two equally disappointing crog Changchow; branch of the Fukien Railways, the bonest opinion of those who have re Cal-that-young-men, once baving enrolled in 1907 with the result that there was a which is now under construction. The sub-gretted is belplessness at a Crown Colony of themselves in the Corps, will attempt to shick steady demand for foreign rice to make up scribed capital for this line and the extension British citizens this is no more effective than their duty in the hour of need. It is the shortage. The importation of foreign from Changchow to Chinchew, which it is the traditional method of Chinese wattare by On August 25, 1998, at Pontung, CHARLES stipulated that "as x certain amount of rice reached 4,548,203 piculs, an advance hoped to build later, is $6,000,000 in $5 making faces and beating gongs, What Hong
organisation is required to ensure coof 1,741,414 picuts over 1906. Faddy incre shares, on which a call of fra share bas kong has to do, if it really desires to make the. JAMES STUART ADAMS, aged si monibu.
De August 29, 1909, at Shanghai, LAURA Operation and secure the best results, it ased from. 68,306 picul in ro06 to 1,037,906 already been paid. The management is influence of the resident British community WINNIFRED CLARK, aged 1 year and months.ie-necessary that intending volunteers picule. With regard to opium it is reported that vested in thres directors, a committee of felt directly by the Secretary of State, is to Belbred daughter of James and Ida Clark, I shall pledge themselves to obey the some 1,040 piculs of foreign opium passed eight (mostly wealthy local or Straits mer fashion for itself a weapon whose grip shall be
orders of the officer in charge of the party, our stations-the highest figures for the last chants who have taken abares) and a resid-in Hongkong and whose hämmer-head ball." who will be the Assistant Harbour Master 16 years being an increase of 23 picula ent manager. The promoters and manage be in London: The Arts Press anku: Watt - or one of the Harbour Department Boarding over the previous year's figures. Malwa ment are entirely Fukienese, and the line is can the China Association know or care about Officers or some other Government officer advanced by 59 piculs, while Patna and evidently intended to be quite a provincial the Crown Colony woes of Hongkong? deputed by the Harbour Master or by the Benares declined by 13 and 23 piculs concern. The terminus at the Amey end is And replies Nothing Downing Street Captain Superintendent of Police." Our respectively. No native drug or boiled at Sungton, a place on the mainland facing is out of the picture so far as that body is con correspondent concludes:"We can assure optum was reported. The opium trade for the west side of Kulangsu, which lles close cerned, although in altost every branch of the authorities that there are many young the year may be pronounced to be unsatis to the new tank Installation of the Standard the activities of the Chins Association that men in Hongkong who are only too will factory The Anti-Opium Edict of 1906, Oil Company. The construction of the body may well ask the Foreign Office to ing to help their fellow men in their hour of and the subsequent closing of all opifin track at Sungsen began early in July and look after its interests. It has been men misfortune and it is only through the absence divans and the restriction of the sale of the 15 li were completed by the end of the tioned to us that in some quartets là Hong- of a systematical institution such as exists in prepared drug in China, checked-oplum year. It is expected that the whole section kong, where a sort of claim to a monopoly many coast towns of England that they have smoking to a considerable degree and caused will be completed by the spring of 1909. of representation of public interests is tacitly been prevented from doing so. But now much uneasiness among sellers and buyers. With regard to shipping it is recorded that exerted, there would be displeasure at the that active interest has taken the place of The radiation of sale of raw opium announ- 257 vessels under general regulations, with formation of any body that would venture to lethargic indifference, we can assert with ced by the Indian Government during the aggregate toonage of 1,027,703, entered at, express public opinion that did not take it some degree of certainty that everything will early part of the year gave an impetus to the the Customs during the year, against 865 cue to speak or remain silent from the group. proceed without a hitch. As we have re trade, but owing to the active anti-oplum vessels, 1,060,627 tone, io 1906. The fall-indicated. If that be the state of things in marked before, the scheme cannot be too propaganda in China the effect was but ing off is trifling and might fairly have been Hongkong the sooner it is ended the better timely and it is only to be hoped that it will temporary, In conformity with the under: expected to have been much more serious for the welfare of the Colony. But that has escape the fateof blissful procrastination as in taking with Chine, the amounts offered at in-view-of-the-non-entry of-the-large-tea-been-the-representation made to us as the the case of the new typhoon refuge at Mong- the monthly auctions in Calcutta were
Steam-launches entered and explanation why Hongkong has never creat- kokisui. Those at the helm of affairs are reduced as follows: from January to June, cleared fell to 9,203 vessels in 1907, in com-ed for itself, as a Crown Colony, and that But alone, any machinery that might form the on the threshold of an excellent scheme, and 4,400 chests were sold per month; from parison with 9,6as in the year before. there is no good reason why that scheme July to December, 4,000 chests per month; a greater aggregate lonorge shows that a medium of approach to the Secretary of should not be realised, so far as public co-
and commencing with 1908 the sales will be larger type of vessel is being employed. On State without any official intermediary, the operation is concerned, if the authorities are 3.900 chesis. Finally, the heavy-and-un--the subject of opium, it is stated that last resident members of the Hongkong Associa willing to lead the way."
expected fall in silver at the end of the year year saw the largest importation of the drug tion in London being the branch charged, cuured considerable losses to Hongkong im from abroad since 1903 and was actually the with the duty of making representations to The telegram, which is published to-day, of the rumour of war between Argentina and
poners, who had broughout at a high ex largest with the exception of that year and the Secretary of State/direct, through the a change and had to close their remittances 897, the total import of the foreign article department charged with the administration Brazil, and the suggestion that the three mammoth warships (now building in England
Being one of the Imperial Maritime to India when exchange had dropped some being 3,870 picats. The native drug showed of the Eastern Crown Colonies. If ever for the latter country) have been ordered Curioms stations of China with which Wong 15 per cent. Malwa opium was subjected decrease of some 800 piculs, but the Com- there was a time in the history of Hongkong with a view to a probable contest for the kong is very closely associated interest will to the same influences as Bengal, and to missioner says that it was dut no doubt when such a body was needed it is now, future, sovereignty of Uruguay, dispel the be found in the annual report by Mr. W..R. wards the close of the year larger sales were partly to the larger arrivals of the foreign when so large a proportion of the Colony's mystery, which has surrounded the construc. M'D. Parr, the acting Commissioner for reported, in consequence of reduced arrivals drug and partly to the large focal production, revenue is endangered by the surrender of tion of the big battleships. It has been Kowloon. On the whole the district appears. from Tolla. A small quantity of Persian The local retail price was from $6.80 of the Home Government to the agitation asserted, with a great show of reason, to have been in a flourishing condition in opium exported to Fuklen province. to $7.20 a catty,, against about 59 a catty of a poliamentary clique. We have in a that the Brazilian pavy has no imperative1g07, an advance of 124 million waels or 30 The bulk of it was sold to the Japanese for foreign opium. The opium crop res previous article shown how simply and need of vessels of this type, far surpassing in per cent, being shown in the junk trade, which Government for sale in Formosa, where lised in the districts near Amoy during 1907 effectively such an Association can be power and size anything afloat and in com- amounted toorer 54million taelain value. The there is a Government monopoly. Only is estimated at 9.310 piculs. Whether the initiated, What is it that hypnotises Hong- mission. Reuter, however, in today's tele Commissioner himself writes that "In--some-go chests of dative (Yunnan) opium internal opium-tax-is-successfully gathered kong, alone of the Eastern Crown Colonies ?
on the whole of this production seems some We deplore the absence of such an organ gmm, which is reproduced elsewhere, sup view of the multiplicity of adverse circum are reported to have been imported into plies the ostensible raison d'etre of the three stances-inclemency of weather, tightness of Hongkong during the year, and out of that what doubtful. Foreign opium merchants ganisation because until Hongkong arms Goliaths." In design, armament and speed money market, exchange fluctuations, restric number the opium farmer reports having complain that it is not that the greater part herself as we suggest there can be no means these vessels are strikingly similar to the tion of opium smoking, unrest in the South, boiled some 4 chests, which, it is believed of the output evades duty and is carried of co-operation between Hongkong and other battleships which Japan has now under con and last, but not the least, the transfer of the by the Commissioner, were blended with clandestinely by junk as well as overland to Crown Colonies even if there is a common. stauction. In that connection the Aew carrying trade from junks to foreign lighters the foreign, drug for exportation to Annam all the neighbouring centres of consumption. grievance to redress or a common polley ta York Herald, to which Japan is a bugaboo of certain staple commodities referred to and the Straits Settlements. The Szechuan This may or may not be the case; but con- support. of the first magnitude, insists that these elsewhere-the statistics for the past 12 drug is reported to have been plentiful, but sidering the well-known lawless character of vessels, while ostensibly building for Brazil, months show a distinct, and in the circum. the Yunnan, crop only gave a go per cent..the Tungan people-the district in which are in fact designed for Japan, and intimates stances satisfactory, improvement both in the yield. The report on further points is of the great bulk in grown--and the fact that
(3rd September.) that a secret arrangement exists between volume and value of the trade. Deducting interest but it mainly recounts events, that an opiuma tax collector was killed there some two years ago, it would seem that the control
Additions to the excellent series of Yellow Brazil and Japan to this end. This state about ro per cent. from the total, salue of 'have already been chronicled
of the growers in that region is at any rate Books issued by the Statistical Department, ment hasbeen indignantly denied by Brazilian the trade-obtained from increased valun. diplomats, but there has been no official or tion, there still remains a substantial
not conducted without difficulty, On the of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs whole it would seem. that while Amoy has continue to arrive and the latest to reach usu semi-official denial from Japan of the fact. increase of an per cent, to record,"
lost the ten trade, she is regaining her is one dealing with the Frontier Ports— The fact that Japan has not denied this Although that would seem to indicate pro- story, but has, ignored it altogether, is taken gress, we are told in the next sentence that In continuation of the trade reports for position as a general trade centre for the Lungchow, Mangtsz, Szomao, Tengyuch and Yatung (Tibet). It was first thought that in quarters other than those of the Herald with the exception of flour.and foreignsice 1907 of the treaty ports of South China we hinterland.
the opening, of Nanolog to foreign trade, offices as tending to cast a doubt on the trade was unsatisfactory. How the two state may refer to that by. Mr. Bowra, the Com-
and the consequent establishing of a Custom correctness of the Herald's assumption.ments are reconciled it is difficult to say, mitsioner of Customs at Amoy. Reference
House there, would rouse Lungchow out, According to another American opinion, but there. they are. With regard to crops is made in the first place to the tea industry
of its lethargic sleep and bring more the argument is that if Japan were really Mr. Parr says that the spring and the autumn which, has to all intents and purposes dis- arming in this secret way there would be a rice crops suffered from two diametrically appeared. Mr. Bowra latnents the fact that Sir Henry Blake's letter on the opium life into trade relations with down-river denial at once of the story. Some of those opposite causes. Unusually heavy rains in the decadence of Amoy as the port of ship-proposals for Hongkong, which we repro- ports; but so far this expectation has not who hold to this view make the guess, for it the autumn caused the river to overflow in ment for Formosan teas should still have duce elsewhere in this isare, is described by been realised and all has remained as here! is nothing more than a guess, that China is many parts, and the growing rice in the low to be insisted on but says that, far from any the Times of Ceylon as a right and left tofore. Mr. J. W. H. Fergusson, who is the country which will ultimately turn up in lying districts along the river was almost improvement having occurred last year, 1907 bander, and the journal adds "Hongkong assistant-in-charge temporarily, mention in possession of the Brazilian ships. At one totally destroyed; the higher levels, however, is only conspicuous as the year to which the has a hard time in front of it, but we can his report, that with the exception of a.. time there seemed to be something in this yielded a very fair crop. At first the autumn Formosan, tea traffic came to a virtual end; imagine that the Colony will make some couple of small steam-launches, sent up by later theory, but it is pure conjecture, with harvest promised well; in fact, hopes wera the patient, in fact, took a serious turn for effort towards compensation after the ex- the authorities for official, purposes, no out any base of known fact upon which to at one time entertained that it would prove the worse, and unless present indications Governor's plain hint to "agitate, agitate, steamers have entered the port. That steam' rest, and Reuter's despatch to-day dispels allá record crop, but before the rice was ready are unexpectedly falsified, it will only remain agitate." Taking the cudgels on behalf of navigation up to Lungchow is not an im the conjectures that had been erroneously for harvesting incessant rains reduced the for the coming year to celebrate the obse- this Colony, the Singapore Free Press, which possibility has also been demonstrated formed as to the ultimate ownership of the yield to a five-tenths crop. The spring har quics and put up the tombstone over the is exceptionally well-informed on the opium the French river gunboat: Vigilante, vosc battleships in the British yards which have vest proved even more disappointing, owing defunct trade. Of the total shipment of question, remarks in a leading article that of 150 tons, drawing about a feet. She formed the subject of so much speculation to excessive drought. These short crops Formorán teas during the past season, only that is all very well, to far as it goes. But made the trip during June 1905 and remains by theorists..
have further enhanced the cost of living, about one-twelfth, went via Amay, against the unfortunate thing about Hongkong led at the port for some two weeks. The and thus curtailed the purchasing power nearly one-half in the preceding year, and that no matter how good its case all its pro journey both ways was accomplished with of the interior for cotton goods and it is probable that during 1908 even a texts and agitations are se a sounding brass out accidents. It is probable, however;" sundries. On the other hand, an abnormal smaller fraction will pass through the port. and a tinkling cymbal, for the simple, but that the condition of the river, with its demand for foreign rice to make good the Thus the end though long foreseen has at all-sufficient reason that the Hongkong many rapids and sharp bends, will always, shortage was created. Cochin-China, where last come somewhat suddenly Amoy is public has been content to remain passive remalo a serious bar to the development of e the crops were reported to have been abund perhaps the oldest of the Chinese tea porte, and unarmed, and has studiously neglected riverine trade from a practical standpoint A contributor comments on the proposal ant, was chiefly drawn on, as the Siamese The Amoy language has even given the to provide itself with the only machinery by Shipping at Lungchor is merely a matter of of the Government to inaugurate the "Vic. crops were poor. Rice alone contributed name fee to the Western world. For many which it can hope to influence the Colonial smell Chinese sampans and rafts, Of the tona Emergency Corps" as briefly outlined Hk. Tls. 14.334.393 10 the value of the im-years there was a large production of Office, or even show that it is in carnest former craft, Mr. Ferguson's report [states, in our issue of the 49th inst. In the course port trade, an increase over 1906 of tea in the district itself; that died out about anything. The Singapore paper im- 653 entered and aor cleared during the of an appreciative letter he remarks that million taels. All rice dealers did well. and Amoy enjoyed a prosperity lasting agines that Hongkong's chief misfortune year, making a total of 853 vessels, residents of Hongkong will have noted with The prohibition to export rice was not for 30 years or so as the harbour and appears to lie in the fact of the existence aggregating 3,412 tons. The number of satisfaction the news, appearing in our withdrawn throughout the year. A large entrepel for tex from Formosa, Thir, too, of the China Association, a comprehensive rafts descended from Tonkin by the two?? Saturday evening's issue, of the Govern and profitable business was done in four, to turn bow.draws to a conclusion body that concerns itself with the general rivers, Sungki-kong sad Opabang Fiver, ment's highly commendable effort to cope for the most part of American origin. HD and other sources of production, must be commercial and political interests of Britain the confluence of which Lungchow is with Hongkong's annual typhoon' scourge hanced freights and prices brought the tapped if anything of the old affluence of the in China, and also has lately affiliated to tuated, was 380, the largest number on re with a view to mitigate, if not actually pre-trade in, the Australian cereal practically to port is to be regained. Apart from tea, the itself the laterests of Britain with Japan cord since the opening of the port. The vent, the abnormal loss of life consequent a standstill in the latter part of the year. trade history of the year was favourable and through a closer, association between the trade of Mengitz during last year presente The Kanegaluchi Spinning Company's French upon its yearly visitation. The writer adds: The local flour mill had a very brisk and fair first crops were reaped. But drought China Association and the Japan Associa no special features. The acting Commis It is a rollef to learn that the authorities profitable year's working. The great de interfered with the second crop, and upon. tion. But nowhere in all this do the rela- sioner of Customs, Mr. C. H. Brewitt have at last been brought to recognise the pression which ruled in the market for the whole the barvests of the year were poor. tions between Hongkong as a Crown Colony Taylor, however, devotes considerable space becesalty of promulgating some scheme Indian cotton yarn towards the latter The clan fighting in the Naman and Heian and the Colonial Office or the Imperial to the railway in course of construction. He whereby the ravages of the typhoon fiend end of the year 1906 continued through district interfered soriously with, trade; Government have the legat place. As a reports that although the prediction of 1906 could be lessened to an appreciable extent. out 1907, and the business for the past communications were not absolutely foter Crown Colony, in so far as the possession of was not fulfilled, the work on the railway That Hongkong has long been lacking a months has been most unprofitable,rupted, but many fields were left untilled, any political leverage that may be brought steadily progressed. The dry wister and In this respect, there is no denying, but Foreign goods entered China from Hong and trade in the disturbed country was very to bear in Downing Street, unofficial Hong. spring were favourable and labour was plen oving to the conservative attitude taken up kong vid the Kowloon stations during the languid. Business during the year is report kong simply has no more existence than the Uful. The 47,000-men it work at the end
sible The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd. by the Government, things have bean allowed year 1907 to the value of Hk. The ed to have been generally dull and profits child unborn Downing Street knows the of zob6 were kept on as long as Singapore Superstitions,
lo-take their own course, and, true to the 29,820,314, an enhancement of about By pods, and there were two or three failures of Governor of Hongkong and his Executive but some drifted away with the Chin traditions of "olo custom," the people of million tools over the preceding year's naliya, banks," The gross value of the trade Council, and to a leas extent the Legislative Year holidays and more with the adv Hongkong bave come to regard the story of figures Cotton goods, with two exceptions is 1997 was 18,816,566 taels, a decrease of Council But the official: majority on that hot weather and the trying wet sarzanjil lives Ipet as a matter of course. It is, there in shirtings, show subriantial advances, more about one million tseis in comparison with body makes the opinion of the Legislatire | still at the minimum in the exceptio fore, a matter of great moment to the fost especially cotton thread. » American kero that for the preceding year; but the nst Council to be whatever from time to time the bad wirther of Octob $10,000) ing population of the Colony, and for which rede all his Increased by offer pullosta de show (mall incolis over the 16o6. Bernary of State dearen it to be. Nömbies were caployed, at this time) three ye
The Patrol Cruisers.
Opium in Parliament...
>Hon. Mr. Wei Yak, c M.0..
Opium in Hongkong..
S.S. Sorsozan Sold,
Goat Flesh for Indian Troops.
Gymkhana Notes. Life-saving
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
"Rough on Rats:"
Russian Captures at Sea., Building Authority's Discretion).
Accident at the Docks,
Ceilings and Sta'r-lipings. Police Officer's Untimely End, Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association.. America and Ching.
The Recent Typhona." Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition. Marine Court.
Volunteer Corps Orders.
Typhoon Warning.
Canton Day by Day.
Parliament for Chine,
Floods in Manchuria. The Anti-apium Campaign, The Hoangpu Conservancy. *Reorganization of Thibar,
New French Council Buildings in Shangbai, The Sugar Industry in Manchuria, Cholera at the Yangiste Ports.
Cotton Spinning in Tientsin.
China's Reyenue and Finance.
A Sad Wedding.
China's Currency. Reform,
The Late Mrs Vaughan Smith..."
The Recent Typhooo. Taxi-motora
The Tenyo Mars on-Fire.
The Status of Teachers la Chjos, The China Squadron. Griffins
Attempt to Sell a Map to Russia. Gun-ranging in Ching. “Shipping Casualties in Japan.
The Peking Arrost,
Flour milling in Manchurín,
Japanese Colton Trade.
The Mic maru Affair.
Japan as a Maritims Power.
Registration of Trade-masks.
The Sugar Trade.
Japanese Sugar Refining Compray:
Big Fire in Kobe,
Claim on Bills of Exchange.
Count Komura's Reшça.
The Great Exhibition of Japan.
Cotton Yarn Market,
The U.S. Flest and Geisha.
The Japan Shipowners' Guild,
Loan,
The Japanese in San Francisco.
A Census of Cats in Kobe.
The Japanese Exhibition
Гарап.,
Mma, Sarah Bernhardt.
Ship Repair for Shangbai...
Chinese in Manila
Sammary Fines for Perjury,
Weekly Share Report Exchange
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