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THE HONGKONG TELEG

JANUA APH MONDAY

turb because of the large amount of public conditions in which the labouring classes service he has rendered to the Colony during live does not always reconcile the lo hip last tenure of office as a member of terests of the land-owning class with those the Board does away with the necessity of of the occupiers of tapements who form by: further-recommendations on behalf of this fat the greater number to be considered. candidate. Nevertheless, it may be well for Ae to Dr. Bellios, clodidature, his mani- electors to bear in mind that Mr. Hooper lesto speaks for itself. It must also be con- likely be sup cannot be returned unless he secures the re-sidered that he will most quired majority of votes. An impression is ported by a community also postessing ini-

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Elections.deration of the Board the wishes of the Elec

CANDIDATES MANIFESTOES:

STRONG CLAIMS TO POPULAR SUFFRAGE,

#@#31, Qazen'e Road,german Hengkong, January 16th, 1909.

TO THE RATRPAVERS OF HONGKONG, Gentlemen,-In submitting my name as K

I have no medical or other special knowledga of Sanitation and I think you will agree with me that such knowledge is quite unnecessary ja the two members to be elected on Wednesday, the medical profession is already fully and most excellently represanted on the Board but I shall hope to approach the consideration of all subjects before the Board with basiesss

with due regard to

to vorted Interests and using avery

possible inconvenience to the inhabitants of the Colony, O

Your obedient servant

HORACE PERCY SMITH, 5, Queen's Road Central,

- Duart,* the Leiria, Panuguese Saturday evening.

the Consular residence present appearance with its long loer Japanese lanterns and numerous othara the beautiful follage of the tropical teams with

"Geosial for the United States Moss G. Llabart, Consul for Mme. Lichart, Mr. Gron Whe Austria-Hungary, and Mrs. Von Vorlasch," "Cosul for Germany, and -

Body, including Mr. A

entertained, that voters might well leave Mr.. portant commercial, connections with the Pandidate for one of the vacsot, seats on the like common-fare affort to see that the in the walls of: Duart."." Senhör und Madame Hooper's name out of count because of the Colony. But whether pumerically they can Sanitary Board, I beg to lay before you the administration of the Sanitary Regulations be | L'airis ware di At home to Commodorers, practically uncontested seat which he is successfully be pitted against those other following points for your especial consideration admin likely to secure. It seems hardly be sections his rivals are appealing 10, the result. Firstly, that from my profession as a medical cried out with efficiency and with the least and Mis Lyons and members of the Co cessary for us to enlarge upon the fact that, of the polling alone on Wednesday can tell. practitioner I am specially trained in byglene however desirable and however certain this A doubi has arisen in the minds of civil and sanitation, and have had to obtain curative, alda of medicine, and whereas candidate's domination may be, if electors servants whether it would be politic for proficiency in the preventive, as well as the choose to have him represented as one of them to cast their votes at the forthcoming in many cases too much attention is paid their two members, the duty, devolves upon elections. By law, they possess that to the fatter to the neglect of the former, MR. SHELTON HOOPER'S MANIFESTO, Voretsch Mr. Funstan, Vica Consul for Japan

right, and it will be matter for satis 1 am able to show that have been at faction for the public in general-and-forme pain to obtain special training in this the candidates in particular to know that branch. Not content with having attained Governor, His Excellency has replied that University la 1903, I took later up advanced post graduate course in byglene and sanitation members of the public service will be fren

warm and tropical climates; this course, at the to vote according to their own conscientious especially suited to conditions which prevail in

To the Electors of Hongkong. Dans and Mrs. Funatsu, Mr. Fuller, and

Gentlemen,The term of office for which Blanchflower, Naval Secretary to Commod you elected me as one of your representatives expire, beg to offer myself as a candidate for re-slection,

Io seeking your suffrages on the previous oc

We have jasi unpacked our NEW SEASON'S ❘ neglect voting for Mr. Hooper, they may be 10.,inquity having been addressed to the honours in the coume delivered at Edinburgh on the Sanitary Board in 1906 being about to

CONFECTIONERY imported from the leading London, Parisian and American Houter.

CADBURY'S. CHOCOLATES.

IN FANCY BOXES: CHOCOLATE ALMONDS, CHOCOLATE WALNUTS, CHOCOLATE DE LA REINE, VIENNA CHOCOLATE and

others, is Great Variely.

Mr. P. Marty and Mrs. Marty were unavoid- ably absent owing to Mr. Marty's, Indisposto tion.

After dinner the distinguished party proceed.

them to fill in the voting paper accordingly, They would thus be loft with the choice of one other member only. Were electors to inadvertently doing that gentleman an in justice by overlooking his claim upon public support. We will now proceed to deal with the claims of the other three contestants for convictions. The elections on Wednesday London School of Tropical Medicine, was de. Casion, I did so from a conviction that, if I worded to the Club Lusitano where thay, were estar-, the candidates are gentlemen in the medical has been evinced in similar elections for Hongkong as one of the expert members oo the only other vacant appointment. Two of have aroused a great deal more interest than tiverad by Professor Simpzas, so'well known investigation of the administration of the Public tained to special performance of profession, and the third, a chartered some time past. The outcome of the con- the late Inquiry Commission, sent out from accountant and estate agent. Judging by the test will be looked forward to with pleasurEngland at the request of the public, to invest electioncering addresses of these opponents/able anticipations by the community at gate into the needs and requirements of the and impolitic administration of the law tall of the Club was crowdedeşte

SLOCAL AND GENERAL

THE Government House at Hokkaido has been totally burnt down. The building was not

insured,

We are informed that tram-cars will be run from the Fost Office right to the entrance of the Circus both before and after the perform.

Colony from a sanitarian, point of view, and who was in consequence enabled to embody his Honghong experiences, in the course which I had the honour to attend.

Secondly, that as a practitioner in Hongkong |

alected to the Board, I would, by a cloin in.

Henith, and Buildings Ordinance, be able to bring to light not only irregularities of very actious nature but such a hasty

as to reader residence in this – Colony for the Chinese, especially the middle classes, neatly unbearable, in addition to which, the wealthy. Chinese who had been in the habit of investing very large amous!!

Gelba" by the children of visitors expressed themselves the manner in which the linte

acquitted their respective parts,

"A RAILWAY SCHHME,

CANTON MACAO LINK, According to a Canton dispatch, the follow

ing is as cutline of iba railway scheme which the Minisity of Posts and Communications pro

thera can be little doubt in the minds of large. those whose suffrage is sought after for Wednesday's election that Dr. Fitzwilliams* address lays claim to the strongest support, irrespective altogether of the fact that his nomination is proposed by a gentleman. so widely known in-the Colony as the Hob. Mr. H. E. Pollock, and seconded by another member of the.Legislative Council in the person of the Hon. Mr. H. W. Slade. We note the fact that Dr. Fitzwilliams, who is a newcomer to the Colony, and the youngest of the opposing candidates, establishes his On the restoration of Chientan the Chinese claim upon the voters on the ground of Goverment proposes to carry out its coloniza. ledge to local conditions, and not giving Sir Matthew Nathan was quick in discern the districts of Faishan, Shanta, Einbui; Bin his professional qualifications; on the fact tion policy by reclaiming the land and develop that, he has no axe to grind and on the pro-ing mines. mise of furthering the largely preponderating TH Chino-Japanese Telegraph Treaty was fofluence of the Chinese community in Hong. ratified on the 11th lost. It secures to China kong. As a section of the Press which has con..her sovereignty rights in regard to telegraph sistently advocated and supported the interesis matters in Manchuria. A. S. WATSON & CO., of our esteemed. Chinese fellow-citizens, we

FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY.

COCOANUT TAFFY, ALMOND TAFFY, CREME APRICOTS, SUCRE DE LA CREME 'CARAMELS, PEPPERMINT LUMFS, MARSHMALLOW BALLS,

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS

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KOWLOON DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 5th January, 1909,

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cannot fail to note with a considerable degree of satisfaction that one of the electors at any rate has decaied it expedient to pledge himself to looking after the well-being of that section of the inhabitants of the Island, and its dependencies who contribute far the largest amount of rates and taxes towards the maintenance of the ad- ministration, and public and sanitary works of

the Colony, and who are, numerically princi. pally, affected by enactments relating to sanitation which are from, time to time introduced ostensibly for the benefit of the

ances.

NEw crews for the China destroyers, and half. crews for the Tamar and China gunboals, will embark in the Haute, cruiser, af Portsmouth on Jan. 5, leaving for Hongkong and Shanghai on Jan. 9.

THE St. Paut Railway Company' announces, that it has concluded an agreement for co operation with the Osaka Shoten Kaitha and

shall be more especially interested in the of money in landed property; ceased doing so health of members of the community, and thereby causing great depreciation is that would be more closely brought in touch with class of securities which naturally reflected on CRICs of disease, in the localities in which they the Government by reducing the amonial pay. are brad.

abla hy way nirates, and so destroying that coo Thirdly, it is not only as a doctor that 1 inyfidence they bitberto bad in the Government claim to your votes, but as a man who has and administration of propasty laws. The enormous can have no personal axe to grind, and who redactions shown in the Government returns of will, if elected, have the best interests of the amount realised by land sales alone goes a Colony at beart Adaptlug professional know- great way to prove it, countenance to schemes of theory and ex-ing that something was wrong, and within four periment, impractical in these days of financial months of Mr. Humphreys and myself taking depression, and as I am not uamindful of the our seats on the Board, His Excellency the largely preponderating, interests and influence Governor appointed a Commission to investi of the Chiness community, I will are may best gate and report on the administration and endeavour to the furtherance of their wall reported corrupt practices. The result in well

baing.

Lastly, should you do me the booour to eléct

me to the past which I seck, I will devote my energies faithfully, and tactfully to the perform age of the duties which the position requires

"I have the honour to be

Your obedient servant, GERARD N. L. FITZWILLIAMS, M.D, CH. B., F.R.C.S., EDIN.

"DR. BELILIOS' MANIFESTO. .

known.

The Commission, so far as the administra

tion was concerned, pointed out its weak points and recommended cortalo remedies and an alteration of the law.

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that it will astume great activity in Far IN FAVOUR OF ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY. Authority, which now does not undergo the

Eastern trade,

poses to carry out in the Kwangtung province. The Canton-Amoy line is to be constructed by the gentry, and, merchants who have under. taken to do so. The Canton Macau lina is in the contemplation of the Ministry, The Canton-Wechow line is being considered by the people of the two Kwang provlaces. The Fatihan-Kaochou line, which will connect aing, Eupingi Yangklang to Kanchon, the Lieschoo-Kiungchou line, the Klathon wili- tary line on the frontier and the Lianchou. Nanning line from Lienchou, Pakho to Naas ning, are all awaiting survey and consideration. it has been decided to defer the Kuochoa. Yulin lisë, which will be from Kuangchou Bay to Yulin through Kaochou-N. C. D. Nowi.

ARMED ROBBERY.

FIVE YEARS HARD LABOUR BACH. The story of another armed robbery was related in the Supreme Court this morning be fore Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, Pulsus judge, BILE the following Jury Mans, P. F. Nicholson, J. Lysaught, E. H. Neavs, J. M.

this case, three Chinamad were charged with E. G., Smith, F. D. Day and F. Darchenchon,

In many points the administration barteen vasily improved; but as to the alteration of the I, which was contrary to that recommended by the Commission, I regret to say that the transfer of a grnal__part of the administra: tion from the Sanitary Board to the Building

scrutiny of a Public Board, has, to my mind, not been attended with success, www committing an armed robbery at Chuan-wan The instance alone of about one hundred on the night of the 27th November. The Hon. fore you as a candidate for a sest on the Sani- prosecutious undertaken against persons for Mr.. W. Rees-Davies, Attorney-General,, la« not carrying out notices of the Sanitary structed by Mr. Dennys, of the Crown Solt

defendants were unrepresented. kind support.

Hongkong, 18th Jaquary, 1909. To the Electors of Hongkong."

Gentlemen,—I have the bonour to come be-

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Address,

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BIRTH,

On January 4, 1909, at Shanghai, the wife of Sergt. R. C. A1Eus, S. M. Police, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

KOMAROFF KORP.-On the 1st December, 1908, by the Rev. Dr. W. Gaster, at the Bevis Marks Synagogue, London, ELSA, daughter of Herman & Sophie Kerp, Berlin, to CHARLES David Komaroff, Imperial Chinese Customs £98

Service.

On January, 1959, at Shaoghai, Chins, FREDERICK JAMES RAKEFORD, fourth son of Samuel Finch Drakeford, of Melbourne, Vic. toria, Australia, vow of Shanghai, to RUBY FLORENCE MARTIN, eldest daughter of Wil Ham. Martin, of Walhalla, Victoria, Australia,

On January 12, 1909, at Shanghai, WILLIAM GATER 10 MARGERY, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Roope, of Shanghai.

DEATH.

enough, Mr. Percy Smith, whose nomina tion is proposed by one Chinese gentleman and supported by another, has not deemed. fit to emphasize the importance of Chinese interests in his electioneering address to the body of suffragists whose sympathies he seeks to enlist. As an estate agent, Mr. Smith asserts that the contact into which he has been brought with Chinese property has given him a considerable insight into the working of the sanitary regulations of the Colony. If that is all the recommendation the candidate is capable of bringing forward in-support of his election, then he has little to 'commend himself to popular support. The mastering of the statutory enactments of the

The Waiŵupu on the rith lust, referred the question of Court ceremonial to the foreign

for the purpose, decided to refer the subject to the Home Governments.

THE bulletin to-day says that "Her Excellency Lady Lugard's condition remains unchanged since the last report. Yesterday's bulletin states:-Her Excellency Lady Lagard has not been so well the last two days, and there fins been some slight temparature.

RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the 17th January, 1909~~

Library Museum. Non-Chincas...or... 323

185 Chinese .....

172 2,545

495 4,750

Total ......

wwwww.d

As a member of the general public and a ratepayer, I am fully aware of-the-importance to my fellow-colonists, of whatever nationality and status, of the opportunity afforded to the unofficial members of the Sanitary Board. Questions of Public Health affect us all and legislation on Public Health matters have often

not be complied with in the specified time on account of all ibe workmen available being engaged in making good typhoon damage, is a afficient indication that the bureaucratic ad

My endeavour in the past has been to ap ministration, of the Sanitary Board is worse than that of a Public Board.

The facts of the case, as briefly outlined by the prosecution, showed that on the night of the 37th November last, the accustomed

wan' was disturbed by a uomber of armed men who raided several shops and held up the tranquillity of the peaceful village of Chuon

occupants. A considerable amount of pro

result of the unexpected robber. The matter

the scape of the outrage at about 11. p.m. and was reported to the Police, who proceeded to

found the whole village in an uproar. A few days later, Detective-Sergeant Wilden effected

a more far-reaching effect than can be antiproach every question submitted to the Board cipated by those more directly concerned in with an entirely open mind, and giving judg-perty was stolen from different shops as the the framing of our laws. I am now in medical meat thereon after every consideration of it

·Aspect, a practice in Hongkong and anticipate making from its hygienic, financial and general politic this my home for many years to come. I am

I bave without fear or favour freely criticised therefore personally interested in the prosperity the Government, its policy and the conduct of of our Colony. I consider that much can be done by a member of the Sanitary Board by the study of the needs of the various section of the commucity, and by the fullest discus-

ment to frame wise measures, which, while they may impose, restrictions which must be borne by all in the interests of all, should be reasonable and well considered.

its officers, and I purpoes continuing the same the arrest of a number of men who were alleg.. policy. If you are satisfied with it and returned to have taken part in the tobbery. They me agala as your representative, I should were put up for identification, and among a

Colony relating to sanitary matters is not THE transport Soudan arrived at Southampton sion at the Board meetings to help the Govem continue to do my best in the future as I have men, the thres defendants were picked out by

aucli a difficult task as cannot be accom-

on 14'b ult, fiam Hongkong, on the conclusion plished by his opponents with the tech of a four months' trip. On the homeward way nical skill which their professional quali-age she called at Singapore, Colombo, Suez, fications eminently fit them to accom Malte, and Gibraltar. The troops on board plish within a comparatively short period numbered about 1,400, and consisted entirely of time. Mr. Smith undertakes to apof details, including time-expired, men and proach the consideration of all subjects be invalids.

I am in favour of economy with efficiency and am alive to the pressing necessity of such, In the Colony's history in the past it is well known that large sums of public money have.

ried acceptance of ideas which could on more careful consideration have well borne much modification..

done in the past.”

1 am, Gentlemen,

Your obedient servant,

!

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

MR. SHELTON HOOPER'S REMINDER. Mr. A. Shelton Hooper has addressed the following reminder to individual electors(→

Sir,-The term of office for which I was having expired, and it being my intention to seek re-election, I beg to solicit your vote on my behalf at the election to be held at the City Hall on Wednesday, between the hours of.

and 6 p.m.-Your faithfally,

the witnesses as suspects. A certain amonni of, stolen property was found in their posses sion, which was also identified as that ba longing to the village-At the time of the outrage, the prisoners were armed with re- volvers and Exes, with which they are alleged to have threatened the people,

Corroborativa evidence was taken, and

fore the Board with businesslike common MR. Mackenzie King, the Canadian represent. beon, unpacesrarily expended through the hur elected as a member of the Sanitary Board sentence of five years' hird labour was passe. sense and with due regard to vested inter-ative on the Opium Conference at Shanghai, ests. We can hardly suppose that he has left New York for Liverpool. On leaving seriously entertains the belief that were one London for the Far East be will proceed by or other of his opponents élected, he will the Suez rosto, and he intends to return to not bring commonsense to hear upon the de- Canada by the Pacific Mr. Mackeprie King liberations of the advisory Board to Govern will also investigate in India, China, and Japan ment on matters connected with the sani. the problem of Asiatic immigration to Canada,

As a member of the medical profession: I venture to remind you that I shall be able to bring to bear os Public Health questions some

Shouldi receive the honour of election at your critical knowledge of such matters, a

On December 15, 1908, at St. Leonards-on lary measures of the Colony. The allusion regarding which he has already rendergbands i shall not forget the duty. I owe to the

the Sea, HELEN JOHNSTON COOPER in her, 78th year, Kelict of William Cooper, late Superintendent Engineer of the P. & O. Com- pany, Bombay, and dearly beloved mother of ibe late Dr. Cooper of Shanghai..

he Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909.

SANITARY BOARD ELECTIONS.

valuable service.

A "WASHINGTON-despatch-of-9th-inst to the N. G. D. News says:—The breach between President Roosevelt and Congress barwidened. The House received with applause the roboke administered to President Roosevelt when the recommendation to annul that portion of the message" which" "favoured changes in the law providing for the Government secret service was voted and laid upp the table. President Roosevelt sent to the Senate to-day & report connection Senator Benjamin R. Thiman with

the irregularities in land-dealing...

to vested interests is somewhat vague, If the candidate. refers to vested in Lerests of-the-property offners, then we should not hesitate to affirm that he should leave the representation to members who have no axes to grind. In Mi, Hooper, we can assume without fearof contradiction that that Colboy already possesses a member who has not hesitated to champion. the cause of those in whose interests primarily ho owes his seat on the Board. There no desire to have the representation

All the four candidates for the two vaćan»

of property owners duplicated. The con- cles on the Sanitary Board bave now issued stitution of the Board should be of their respective manifestoes to the electors, such a character a to embrace all THE command of the cruiser Bedford, Oblea Wo reproduce the electioneering addresses in interests, rather than the preponderance Squadron, changes hands before recommission ing, Captain E S. Fitzherbert having been the order in which they were received. We of way one in particular. We are cogni appointed as the successor of Captain S. E published the first news on Saturday that beat of the fact that Mr. Smith has the back- Erskine Captain Fitzherbert is a most one sides the member who iceks te-aibction, three ing of an influential body of electors in the ergetic officer and an old gunnery officer, to other candidates had submitted their names property interests of the Colony by reason of that he may be expected to jaka interest in the for appointment on the Sanitary Hoard. A his business connections. It is not always, good shooting of his ship. He solved in the list of the candidates whose games we men. however, that the interests of landlords and early part of bis career off the coast of Egypt Loned in our last Juus has since been tenants are identical. When we are remind- during the War of 1883 (medal and Khedive's officially communicated to us. They are Mr, ed of the net result of the recent Tuberated earned not a litle story for his me A. Shelton Hooper, Drs. R. A, Belfios and culosis Congress in the United States, we af operations against Glayers or the East Indios Station at a later period, having bad Fitzwilliams and Me, H. Percy Smith. The recall the fact that all legislation in several sharp affaire, with the lawless rolling

the direction of the Improvement of the who infert the-cOARIE. certainty of Mr. Shalton Hooper's ro

olectors. I shall have their interests at heart, and shall, by ever keeping before me, the iden that the prosperity and well-being of the Co lony at the present, and the future is the goal to which we abould all work, endeavour always to merit the trust reposed in mo.—I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servanİ,

R/A. BELILIOS, M.D 3,R.C.8, (Ed.),

MR. PERCY SMITH'S MANIFESTO,

17th January, 1909. To the Electors.

Gentlemen, Having been invited by an Influential deputation to offer myself as a cane didate and having a personal desire le place my services at the disposal of the Colony in any matter conducive to its welfare, I beg to solicit your support at the coming Election,

Although I have only been resident in the Colony for five years my business in the many gement of a large quality of Chiness property hangiten me a vary considerable insight into the working of the Sanitary Regulations of the Colony

While I shell support the Government in any

fresh regulations they may consider necessary to the sanitation of the Colony, Kabali, kiwa reserve to myself absolute freedom to criticis

as possible being before thi

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A. SHELTON HOOPER.

THE CANDIDATES. We have

have received from the Deputy Regis the following list of candidates for the election on Wednesday :-

trax

AUGUSTUS SHELTON-HOOPER, J.E.

Propped by Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, Seconded by Mr. D. R. Law. RAPHAEL Aaron Belilios, M. D.

Proposed by Mr. William Leonard Carter, Seconded by Mr. Francis Maitland, GERARD KARL LLOYD FITZWILLIAMS, H.D.

Proposed by Hon. Mr, H. E. Pollock, Seconded by Hon. Mr. Henry W. Slade.. HORACE PERCY SMITH, Cb. Acci. (two

nomsuation papers), Proposed by Mr. J. H. David, Seconded by Mr. Ho Fook. Froposed by Hon, Mr. Wei Yak. Seconded by Mr. G. Lafrenix,

on each of the prisoners,

CHINB88 TELEGRAPHS,

PROGRESS OR RETROGRESSION)

Peking, Jap, 10 A rebite. of twenty per cent, en Chivass domestic telegrams will be introduced, on, Chiasis New Year's Day. This system is con- sidered an undesirable alternative to a reduce tion of the present bigh rates, as it óffare a temptation to officials in the interior

General discontent is expressed st. (an, pos moval of the foreign Superintendent of the Paking Telegraph Office, especially in view of the recent regulations providing for the scrns tiny of talegrams and the delay of code mase

gen.-N. C, D. News.

THE WRATHER A Tia following report is from Mr. F: G. Figg Director of the Hongkong Observatory zeljus

On the 18th at 11.55′ 4-The barometer har fallen over S.W. Japanand S, China, and risen:

Areas of high pressure ard-lying orety Japan and N. China, whiis a shallow depression To nitanted over W. Japan. Pressure is low

also over, Tongking

TANO FAT, who was recently a passenger by the su Tok King, was charged in the Police Fresk monsoon may be Court, this morning, with stealing one blanket, Formosa Chapel and the Chin one sult of clothing, one met, and Sigriday, 9.00 inches money, of the total value of $493, on board the Tak Hing. Mr, Lea d'Almada Castro (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and Morrell) pro-fresh; clou secuted. A sentence of three months' hird

Hoarkong Reinfall for the 24 hours anding

ing from baasshment was also preferred agains

labour was passed. A second charge of returns.

the same defendiet, for which farther form six months was given to the's

FORECASTI and Weighbourk