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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY

we are welcoming the cricket eleven and lawn Leonis pair from Hongkong; to-morrow it will be the turk of the Yokohama rowing four which enjoys the distinction of being the first crow

Farewell to Admiral Stokes

from another port that will have competed in a DINNER AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Shanghai regatta, although, as a correspondent reminded as yesterday, a crew went from

A. S. WATSON & CO., Shanghai to Hongkong in the year 1886. Why

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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1811,

CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS,

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THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

OCTOBER 24 1908.

“Magaotic" Revolver,

INDIANS ATTACK MESS-ROOM

BOY.:

SENSATIONAL AFFAIR ON 5.5, TRANQUEBAR,"

Of all the dastardly deeds that have occurred in this Colony for some time past every one of them fades into loignificance when com- pared with an incident which happened on board the Danish steamer Tranquebar, in this harbour,

but the old saying, "Truth is stranger, etc., a few days ago. The story might sound strange

applies in this case.

His Excellency the Governor gave a farewell the experiment was not repeated it is difficult to understand, and it is to be hoped that the dinner to Rear-Admiral and Mra Stokes at precedent once again established this year may Government House, last night. The guests be acted upon regularly in future, as in other present were:H. E. Colonel Darling, R.E. tions of the approaching trials, the claims of Gomperts, Chev. and Mme. Volpicelli 10 branches of sport. With regard to the condi. Han, Mr. May, Bon. Mr. Rees Davies, Hon. Mr. private business, a continual difficulty in interspector Ges, and Mrs. Tait, Colonel Dumbleton, port athletics, have been indicated in two cases") R.E., Col. Glover, D.5.0., and Mrs. Glover, in the Hongkong elaven during recent days Sir Henry Berkeley, Commander Basit Taylor

The sinapier Tranquebar, 2,226 (Captain C. van Deurs) arrived in port from Mojí four But on the whole our visitors would appear to N., Commander Ryan, R.N., Commander days ago. On the afternoon of her arrival, be bringing a fairly representative team: Heard, R.N., Commander Barrett, R.N., Com the 19th jestant, two Indians, presumably Cin. and against any deficiency which they mander Greafell, R.N, Commauder and Mregalese, want aboard to sell their wares which BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCE, THE may experience in this respect it will be Penfold, R'N, Major and Mrs. Stephenson, consisted, chiefly of jawellery and walking remembered that Shanghai's cricketers have Mr. Murray Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Macay sticks, Vary title, if any, purchases were made, ffered not-a-little-from enforced want Captain Hart-Synnot, Mr. and Mrs. Peter, Lt. but this did not appear to worry the hawkers, of practice in the bad weather of reccal weeks. Commander J. Riddle, R.N, L. Blanchflower, who still remained bo deck, speaking quietly Outside, the athletic programme of each day a R.N., Lt. Commander Walcott, R.N., Lt among themselves. full programme of entertainments has been Simson, R.A., Mrs. Freemantle, and Mis. organized, and from these as well as from the Beasley. A reliable remedy for all savare, acute, intervals of unofficial hospitality we may hope chronic, and lingering coughs and colds that our guests will carry away with them a Admiral and Mrs. Stokes spoke as follows: him, bowing very courteously.

sense of the general and hearty pleasure tha we feel in welcoming them to Shanghai.

GOVERNOR AND Household.

WATSON'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, $0.50 and $1.00.

Relieves 'hoarseness, sore throat, tickling in the throat, and difficulty in breathing.

4.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

WATSON'S COLD CURE TABLETS,As a mark of Imperial favour the Empress

$0.60.

Dowager has eat a box of ginseng pills to Grand Councillor Yuan Shih-kai who is report

Speedily relieves influenza, cold in the ed to be seriously ill. head, sneezing, &c.

WATSON'S COUGH LOZENGES. $0.75.

coughs, asthma, colds, and disorders of the throat and lungs.

WATSON'S

Highly recommended.

WATSON'S EMBROCATION,

throat, &c..

$0.00.

Tur Chinese Engineering & Mining Co.'s total output of the Company's three mises for the week ending October 10, amounted to 21,611,68 tons and the sales during the same period to 11,344.05 1001.

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His Excellency in proposing the health of

Ladies and Gentlemen,-I have asked: you'

to dine to-night as friends of Admiral and Mrs. Stokes, to bid them farewell. It was a bold thing to do, for I am well aware I shall incur the resentment of everyone who is not, included to-night, for I believe there is none in the Colony who does not claim to be their friend. afortunately the space at my disposal is limited, and I could only select, the few to ra present, the many. It is a grievous thing to say farewell, and I am sure it is no less grievous to them than it is to us. to a long experience extending over nearly zo years of administrative work, I have never met à man with whom it was a greater pleasure to do

A beil raug. Two sailors, one of whom was named Iveson, appeared on deck. The In dians left off their conversation, and approached

"I know," said one of the Indians, myaters

iously, that you have a revolver of your own on board. I am anxious to have it "

Iveson was amazed. After a while he replied that he had a revolver and that if the man want- ed it he was willing to sell.

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The Peak Tragedy,

FURTHER PARTICULARS

SHOPKEEPER'S CLUMSINESS CAUSE OF HIS DEATH,

be correct.

New N. D. L. Lighter.

FOR SINGAPORE SERVICE,

LAUNCH AT KOWLOON,

The steam lighter Ayuthis in the Infast vassal 10 be launched from the shipyard of the Hosit- and Whampoa Dock Co. The ceremony took place this morning is the presence of

Definite particulars are to band to-day in connection with the death of the shop Coolie (Ku Tung) who was killed at Mount Kellett, the Paak, the other day, a record of which we printed in our last issue. The facts were obesentative gathering of the officers with tained from private sources and are believed to their wives of the N. L. L and gentleman" in- terested in shipping. Among those present On Thursday afternoon, Ku Tung, who was Lin of Canton, Captain Wu, Capt.von Riegen, Were Admiral Li Chan, Commodores Lin and, really a shop-kasper, and not a coolie, as was superintendant engineer, N. D, L., and Mis, you previously stated, went to the Peak to collect a number of dabts from cooks and "boys" to whom Riego, Capt. Hermeling, Mr. and Mrs. Missner, he had supplied rice and condiments, While Mr. Petersen, Capt. and Mrs. Kobler, Capt. proceeding to the upper level in a tramcar. and Mrs. Bremer, Capt. and Mrs. Schmetz, Ku Tuug accidentally soiled the clean white trousers of a 'coolie, who was seated at bis side. It would appear that the shop-keeper in crossing his leg touched the coalie with his shoe, leay ing an imprint on his trousers. The cable lost his temper and called the shopkeeper' an ugly name. The latter, it was alleged, struck the coolie.onthe face. It was there that the seed which led to the tragedy was sown.

Nothing more was said between the two men

during the remainder of the journey. Reaching the tram station, the shopkeeper was the first to leave the car, and he was quickly followed by the coolie, who stopped him on the road and demanded an explanatios. Whether he got any "We have no money, to buy it with, thest sfaction or not it is impossible to say, but the dusky individual wear on, "but we can come coolie was seen to strike the shopkeeper on the to some arrangement. I will give you some

forehead with his fist. What followed is not jewellery, or, if you like, some sticks in exclear, but an hour or so inter the shopkeeper, change for it."

who had got together a number of his friends, all of whom were armed with some lestrument, proceeded to Mount Kellett to settle the die pate. Evidently the coolis had expected that retaliation would take this form and he also bad a group of his clansmen at hand, each one

The belligerents pitched into each other "tooth

pl. and Mrs. Rober, Mr. and Mr. Schill Mr. and Mra. Wessels, Mr. Berblinger, Milt Gottschalch, Capt and Misi Lenz, Capt. Cosicki, Capt. Betelur, Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, Mr. R. Mitchell, Chief manager, Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, M. W. Wilson, manager Kowloon Docks, and the

parintendents at the yard. "The "Ayuthia" was prettily decorated with bualing.

took their stands on the platform.

The visitors arrived shortly befors 9 a.m. and

When all was rasdy the officer in charge the last block and as it fell to the of the launching directed the removal of

ground and the stays dropped the tzel hall began its downward courte seaward not be- fore, however, Mrs. Hand, wife of Mr. Hand, the superistendent shipwright at Kowloon, had brukenthefligon of wins on her bow and named the lighter the Ayushia. The vessel glided down the ways in pretty farm and took the water without a hitch amidst hsarly cheers and

salvo of crackers At the conclusion of the first part of the

vitation, proceeded to the drawing office where

changed.

Hongkong Hockey Clab on the Wong Newhose beart is too large to be capable of taking appeared on board the ship again, sought our and nail," and from all accounts the Peak has the customary 'felicitous speeches were.cz··

This did not appeal to the sailor, who stated that he wanted money, otherwise the revolver would remain in his possession.

The lodians expressad their regret and left.

getting the incident. At about seven o'clock that evening the Indians, strangely enough, Iveson, and renewed their offer! Once more they were disappointed. The sailor would money, he wanted and leaving the two men have one of their goods-money, only standing on the deck, he, retu aid in the foe's'te, and to his room, which he shared with a mess-room boy named Rasmussen, of some eighteen summers,

Thinking the matter was at an end, Iveson dressed himself and went ashore. The rest of the story, or as much of it as he can remember, is told by Rasmusica bimself.

not witnessed so fierce a fight for years."

The encounter lasted several minutes. The

shop-keeper's band (Heungshanese) retreated in the direction of Stewart Terrace, where some minutes later the dead body of the shopkeeper caused by a blow received in the neighbourhood was found." Death is believed to have been

of the spleen.

The three suspects arrasted-Kwok Leung, 24, and Li Shek Shun, 28, chair coolies, in the employ of Mr. Davidson, of 51, Mount Kellait, and Chu Kận, a washermap, in the employ of Hoo Mr. W. J. Gresson, 44, Plunkett Road- are in custody on charges of murder. The trial is expected to take place some time next

· week..

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"Baccess to the Ayuthin," was proposed by Manager Mitchell, who also thanked Mrs. Hand for christening the vessel and to whom the speaker presented a gold chain bracelet with... of his Company. the usual commemorative inscription on behalf -

Replying for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Capt, ' Vos Rieges eulogised the Dock Co. for the excellent job they made of the seventh steep steam lighter the Dock bad built for the N. D. L. within the last two years.

Mr. Hand briefly thanked Mr. Mitchell for bis kind reference to Msx, Hand in his speech.

The ceremony then concluded,

A, S. WATSON & CO., ference of the members of the Ministry of learnt to rely on her ready sympathy, her time. His reply was 5.15 After a minuls THE NORTH CHINA INSURANCE Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., to the order of

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS

"About five o'clock in the following morn ing (20th) I got up and went to the deck to get the air," he said. the night watchman and, asked him the "I approached

or so on deck I stared to return to my bunk. When I reached the entrance to the room I chanced to look bebind, and there, to my sur- prise, I saw the two ladians, who had been selling things on board the previous day, fallowing mat.

CO., LIMITED.

ANNUAL MEETING,

The Ayuthis is the novooth, steal scraw steam lighter completed by the Hongkong and

the Norddeutscher Lloyd, represented in Hong.. kong by their agents, Messrs Melchers & Co Following are her dimensions:-1,ength overall breadth moulded 29 ft. depth moulded si ft. 158 ft., between perpendiculara, isa it. 6 in.)

a cargo carrying capacity of 8,500 pleuls and is height of bulwark salt 8,in,, draftgst, gin, Eba has

designed to steam 74 koots an hour

For alleviation of bronchitis, hoarseness, His Excellency, the Governor has been plans. business than it has been with Admiral Stokes. the ship, while Iveson went to bis work, for carrying a bamboo pole. The result is obvious, ceremony, the guess, at Mr. Mitchell's in

ed to appoint Mr. J. Barton to represent the

Always counteous, always ready to do even more than was asked of him, always obliging, a men Chong and Queen's Recreation Grounds Com offence where none was meant. For my ows mittee, rice Mr. T. C Gray resigned.

part-and think the Admiral will, feet in this WILD CHERRY COUGH SYRUP, of State Affairs has asked the Throne to issue leave the sphere of work, whatever it might be, A PEKING dispatch reports that the Council as I do whenever the time has come for me to

$0.75.

to Imperial decree making the limit of time in which I was engaged I have always felt that for the eptire abolition of opium cultivation. I would far sooner know that I was leaving and opium consumption throughout the Empire 'affection and regrets behind me, than a record of seven years, beginning with 1909

achievements, however brilliant, mixed with a THE 8,1.. Tenyo Mars, of the Toyo Kisen feeling of relief that I was going. That feeling Kaisha, left Shanghai at 7 pm. on Wednesday, of affection and regret la que which Admiral the 21st inst., and arrived at Hongkong at and Mrs. Stokes can be assured that they leave 4.10 p.m. on Friday, the 23rd inst., making the behind them when they say good-bye to long For colds in the Chest, bronchitis, sore trip in 45 and half hours, or a speed of a kong. And if I have spoken this of Admiral

trife better than 18 miles an hour., "

Stokes what am I to say of the loss we are experiencing in losing Mrs. Stokes? Every A PEKING letter states that at a recent con class from the humlest in this Colony has Pasts and Communications it was decided to kindness of heart, and her generosity. She refuse foreign assistance in the shape of foreign will leave a gap amongst us which it 'engineers to construct the Huichon-Ch'ao-will indeed be hard to fill. But we shall know chu Railway, and to employ only Chinese that though he has left us, she is a friced engineers in the work, *

who will not forget friendships-once-formed and we shall hope that in the future may meet again in Old England. It is tha "I asked them what they wanted. They custom on occasions such as this to pay adufa said, 'The revolver, which, by the way, was tory, and sometimes fulsome compliments and lying on a table in the room, and in clear view to deal in indiscriminate, praite and it is of the Indians. I told them they could not custom I detest. If I have seemed to use some have it, but before I could do anyibing they superlatives it is because I feel them, and i'am forced their way into the room, pushing me in the past year have been with you for more then Gentlemen As the report and accounts of everyone at this table. I will add for the relief revolver. I objected. The revolver wis point them as read. The business for your consi- confident that I am expressing the feelings of front of them, and one of the mea saired the a fortnight we wili, with your permission, take of the Admiral that we do not expect any spreched at my head, and I was told 'to got away to from him in reply to the few remarks I have bed and shut up.

deration at this meeting is the passing of the made-in-introducing-the-tosit-wbičb÷1¬sm The plucky lad refused to obey the order, dividend and bonus to contributors, to place -report ̃aod accoppn, the declaration of a final about to propose to you:~Ladies and Gentle and was making his way to open the door, Taels 50,000 out of the proflis for the year to men, i ask you to drink with me the health of which the tadions had closed Admiral and Mrs. Stokes and to wish them them when they entered, to call for silver reserve, and to transfer the balance success and happiness wherever they are.and assistance, when he was suddenly seized: A of working account to underwriting reserve in whatever sphere they may be called upon to blow on the head with a stick sent him to the accost closing the account for 1957. We are floor. to the next minute he was picked up,

now having times of keen competition, deplor takes out of his cabin, carried a few feet away, ably low insurance rates, and depression in and dumped into the lower sait lockera trade; and shareholders will rightly expect a twenty feet drop-where he was left forward from the directors concerning the affairs dead. Quickly battening down the hatch the scoundrels made.good their escape with the article for which they would have committed "murder to procure--the reculver. ---

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THE Minister of Posts and Communications bas instructed the Governor of Kwangsi to re- quest the gentry of that province to start work on the proposed Kwangai Railway without any further delay, and to inform them that if they do not make haste to build the line, the con- cession will be cancelled..

The Hon, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the

St. John's Cathedral

$253,26 Zoroastrian Charity Fund...... 100. Peak Church...da 15

funds of the hospitals:-

The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. THE marriage took place at Kobe on October 10 of Mr. A. Whitworth Allen of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to Miss B. Lucas, youngest daughter of Mr. H. Lucas, one of Kobe's oldest residents. On the same day Mr. Alfred to C. Nicolle, of the Standard Oil Co. at Itozaki, was married to Miss Regina Rosenblatt, niece of Mr.J. Lyons.-

world in 30 cents per quarter.

Bingle Copies Dally, ten cents Weakly, wanty

fro costa,

BIRTHS.

· MARRIAGES.

aid of the Church Maintenance Fund, which is in the Treasurer's debt, and has to meet large claims in the rear future.

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Admiral Stokes then briefly thanked is Excellency for the kind terms he had used to wards them, and the guests for the toast with which they had honoured them,

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A GALLANT Rescue,

H K V. "SERGEANt saves a child from DROWNING,

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behind

holders of the above company was held on 20th The with ordinary general meeling of share.

Shaugkal. The chairman of the Court of inst, at the Compsoy's office on the Bund,

Directors, Hr. J. N. Jameson, presided. After the reading of the notice convening the meet- ing the chairman said:-

Unlike her sister ships, all of which are am ployed in the rice trade on the Wenam, the to be attached as a valuable addition to the Agathia will be despatched to Singapore there.

acquisition fleet of lighters of the N.D.L. She is a decided

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

TRANS CONTINENTAL SERVICES

Recout cable advices received: from the Headquarters of the Company, sunounce the continuation of the double daily train service of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. between

Company in the Orient.

Vancouver and Montreal, East and West- bound the Company will despatch two superbly of the Company. I am glad_to_say_your_equipped trains daily, maintaining their present directors have no discouraging word to utter, faut schedule until farther notice. This AT St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, to-morrow,

for they are justly hopeful that with the return item will be of interest-and-moment to On October 3, 1908, at Chungking, West the Holy Communion will be administered at

to normal activity in trade the earnings will those returning home by the Canadian Pacific China, to Leopard and Caroline N. Wigham 4-8 am Morning Prayer and Sermon at 11 am.

At daybreak Rasmussen was nowhere to be quicken and increase. As to the conduct of Route, the double service-enabling" the tra BOD, KENNETH BERNARD”

On October 8, 1908, at Newchwang, the wife (when the Church parade party of "P" Com.

found. A continued search for him was kept your affairs, there is no change in the policy veller to pin through the magnificent Rocky of GERALD ARTHUR TISDALL, of n daughter, pany, Middlesex Regiment, will attend, weather

up all day long, but it was not until three of the admisistratios; that policy is pro-Mountain scenery by daylight and making the On October 11, 1908, at Fonchow, the wife permitting) Holy Baptism at 12.15 noon,

o'clock in the afternoon, when the sail locker gress by careful and conservative methods, matter of stop-over at Vancouver sad other of R. K. BULBROOK, 1.M C. Saatuso, of a son,

It would appear from the gallant fent ac-the last place imaginable--was visited that.In bringing forward plans in 1903 for points en roufs one.of great convenience, At Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jourdan Sermon at 6 p.m. The Off:rtories will be in Volunteer Corps, that that gentlemap is quali- «cious condition. He was taken to the deck Company, the aims the directors bad in viewderstand, be obtained from the agents of the

Sunday School at 3 pm. Evening Prayer and complished by a member of the Hongkong the unfortunate youth was found, in an uncon- remodelling the North China Insurance

Particulars of this train service may, we un fylng himself for the much-coveted medal of and attended to by the ship's surgeon, Dr. the Royal Rumena Seciety. It was while wait- Hoch, and when he had recovered sufficiently, and increased returns to shareholders and con- were the constant building op of reserve funds,

ing at Blake Pier at 5 pm, yesterday, for the was, taken to the buspital" where he retributors. The wisdom of the shareholders in culter's Is, that Sergi, B. A. Seth, H. K.V., who It is pleasing to note that the lad sustained no lau ch to convey him to Camp, et Stope-mained until to-day when he was discharged, confirming these suggestions, of the directors

was in company with a number of friends, beard a commotion at the southern end of the pier shouting unmistakably intimated that some' The crowd by their vociferous yelling and On Saturday, October, 17, 1908, Shanghai, JAMES JOHN, only son of the late George Dawer

untoward incident bad happened. When Sert Esq, of Newfoundland, to MARY LANGRISHE, sident daughter of Lady Morris and the late

Seth proceeded to ascertain the cause of the James P. Fox, Esq., of St. John's, Newfounded that as the weather was now becoming colder child about two years of age struggling help excitement be discovered a litle Chinese fadd

DEATH.

he should be prepared for it, coming as he did On October 18, 1908, at Shanghai; ELIZABETH from high latitude. It may appear that this lessly to the water. It had dropped through JANE PATTISON, aged 40 years.

remar was rather superfluous, but it will show hole by the removal of the plank from the The Trang sebar left the following day for the coldness and formality of the function an pier floor into the harbour. Taking in the Saigon. Meanwhile, Rasmussen is detained the audience came to an and immediately after child's predicament, Serge Seth without a hers until such time as he may be permitted to

moment's hesitation rushed to the side of the to join.

A BOD, RAYMOND.

On September 16, 1908, at Saint Pierre de Chaillot, Paris, Lieutenant SALVADOR ROXAS ELIO, Ire Regiment, de la Légion Eirangère, eldest son of the late Monsieur Roxas-Elie and of Madame Roxas-Elio of Bordeaux, to EMILY LOUISE (Milly) eldest daughter of Mrs. I. V. Iburg, are Towers, of 22, Rue de la Tre: moille, Champs Elysees, Paris, late of Shang hal

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IT seems, according to a Peking dispatch, that an audience was granted the Dalai Lama by the Throne after all, but not in the cordial manner which, was expected on such as oc- ension in other words, the audience was pure ly a formal one; the Empress Dowager merely asked the Postiff bow be faxed during his journey from Wutaishan to Peking and remark.

The Hongkong Telegraph Test will be general regret jo Shanghai pler and dived into the ea. He was then clad

Hongkong, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1908.

INTERPORT AMENITIES.

SHANGHAI'S WELCOME' TO HONGKONG VISITORS,

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when it becomes known that a sad and serious in his full aciform with balt, heavy ammoni. accident occurred last month to Miss Mac-tipp boots and pulties. Strong swimmer Ewen, eldest daughter of Mr. A. P. MacEwen, that he is, in spite of the dragging, weight (formerly "taipan" of Messrs, Jardine Mathe of the soaked ammunition, Sergt. Seth struggled son and Co., and one of the most successful valiantly for the drowning child, The rescuer and popplar Chairman that ever presided over just managed to reach the youngster before it the Municipal Council) of The Grove Holling had bad time to slak and lifting the "little too. Whilst out shooting, the gun the keeper as on to his stoot shoulder he swam The N. C. D. News writes editorially on 20th was carrying slipped as the keeper was absist for the pier steps, rewarded with the ing,Rarely if ever has Shanghai witnessed, ing her over a log, and the contents of both trophy of a rescued child whom he tenderly At ous and the same time, such a varied com cartridges entered her left foot. This accident delivered to the custody of the grateful mother, bination of interport contests as that through took place some distance from the lodge, and The boat womas was profete in her expres! which we are now passing. Last week, the it was many hours before medical assistance signs of thanks to her child's saviour whom shooting for the Interport Challenge Shield could be procured. Sir Patrick Manson, as she described to the admiring crowd of the gal took place, when, if our men were unable to soon as he heard of it, motored over from Clou Jent deed as "a No.'s good-hearted gentleme." repeat their successes of the two previous bur, a village 30 miles away, where he was Sergt. Beth then returned to his office at the years, it is permissible to think, without staying for fishing. He still hopes that the Dairy Farm Co. of which he is tho well-known detracting from the merits of Singapore, that foot may be saved. Miss MacEwen is progress secretary, for a change of uniform and was back they had unusual il-lack in the conditions ing as favourably as can be expected-Shang. to catch the 6 pm. launch to the Volunteer under" which they had to shoot. To-day- hel ZYpers,

Camp at Stonecutter

broken bones, bis injuries, consisting of a few scratches about the body and a graze on the head.

The matter was reported by the captain to the Danish Consu! (Mr. G. Friesland) who notified police headquarters this morning. The nothing unturned to bring the desperadoes to police have taken up the matter and are leaving book.

SANITARY BOARD.

on Tuesday next at 1-45 p.m. Following are A meeting of the Sanitary Hoard will be held the orders of the day :-

has been fully confirmed. For the last four years you have received filicen per cent divi dead where previously your hare eight per cent; and by a glance at the accounts you will see how steadily your reserves have increased

until they are now more than three times the paid in capital of your company. You will also

fidence and satisfaction to our policy holders, amounting to two millions of twels, to give con. notice that you have fist class investments

Before putting the first resolution to the meeting 1 shall be pleased to give any further information that may be required.

No shareholders had any questions to ask and the meeting terminated after the passing of the following resolutions :-

That the report and accounts as now present. ed by the chairman and seconded by Mr. w, || D. Little: -

SHIPPING AND MAIS

French (Tourane) a6th inst. Caundian (Empress of Japan) 18th inst * Indian (Lattong) 30th Insti American (Korea) 3rd prox

The s. Rubi left Maulla on rith insi, and is das here on asth ́inst, at 6 pan."

The H. A. Lu, Sitkonda left Slagapore on 23rd inst,, at noon, and may be expected bere en goth ist, a m

The Imperial German Mail`ss. Manila' left Sydney on soth: lust, and, may be expected here on 11th prox.

The Imperial German Mail as Prinn: Estel Friedrick, which left here on z3id ult, ariset a jât Gonca asst lust, at 6 a.m;

The N. Y. K. a. Vawała Maru, Australian Lins, inft Manila for this port on 24th inst, and is expected hare op 26th inst, SANDS

Line, left. Shangbai for this port on aged lust,, The N. Y. K. s. Hitachi Maru, Estopean and is expected here on 26th fast

Line, left Singapers for this port on ayed inst., The N. Y. K. 12. Wakasa Mars, European

The N. Y. K... Vaboshi Moru, Bombay, and is expected here on 29th fast,

and Singapore on and lust, and is expected Line, left Bombay for this port via Colombo

That a final dividend of 71 par cast, on the ́paid-up capital, and a bonus of 15 per cent Report of commitice appolated to consider bath payable at the exchange of 2/44 per upon contributory premiums. be distributed, amendments to various bye-laws. for the disinfection of infected premises, etc. Reserve food, and the balance transferred to Bye-laws tael; s. 50,000 to be transferred to silver Return from the Building Authority relative to spderwriting, referve account, closing the with under Section 175 of the Public Health and seconded by Mr. H. R. Kinsear. the houses in Victoria and Kowloon to be dealt account for 1907-proposed by the chairman and Buildings Ordinance Comespondance re lative to latine accommodations No. 34 Des Kinocar, Little and Meyerink he re-elected That Mesus Jameson, De Gray, Bide, Veg Road Central Application from IpDirectors of the Company, and that the re- application for permission to erect two water mineration of ibe. Directors be Tis. 6,000 per The C. P. R. Co.'s sa Empress of Japan- clcsein on the roof of the Taikes Dockyard annum proposed by Mr Me Young Bad arrived at Nagasaki at 7 aim, on 24th stand Ofice Application for Berniasion to retain seconded by Mr. C. W. Wrightson felt again at p.m., same day, for Sharghal, six cubicles on the first floor of No. 3, Ko That Messi Wingrove and Hayler, be re Shing Street Mortality statisties for the elected auditors of the Company proposed by woska ending October 3rd and 10th, 1900. Rat monia ending September 30th and for the Mr. A, C. Hunter, return for the weeks ending October 17th and

The Chairman-Thank you, gentlemen, for your attendance. Dividend warrants will be

here on 11th prox,

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last; will wall from Yokohama anath ins and will be due to arrive in Hoogkong on ord American Mall from San Francisco on 6th