THE OPIUM COMMISSION,
RULES OF PROCEDURE,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1909.
the whole idea of the Conference lies in the recognition of the fact that the Chinčke Im perla! Government has professed to be auxions to take certain steps within its own territories The N, O. D. News, of 6th inst., says !---
for the restriction; if not the suppression, offbe At its elttings on February 1 and 2, the Comproduction and consumption of oplem. The mission was asgaged on busiess of a purely formal nature, a Committee being meanwhile
at work drawing up rules of procedurr, etc
Oo re-assembling at 11 am, on the 5th in M. de Gid'er notified his inability to take up his duties as assistant secretasy. M. de Lalor cade, srcre'dry in the French defegation, war therefore appointed assistant secretary, and Mr. Tror, official stenographer to the Com-
« mission,
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING:
CURIOUS EXPERIENCE ON A DRITISH CRUISER.
ERUPTION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
YOLCANO THROWS WATER,
MUCH DANICE.
The Lagnas volcano is in eruption and to judge' from telegraphic Information received from Lucena, Tayabas, bas already done sela- ively immenss damage is its immediate neigh.
bourhood.
It appears from the meagre details that have so far been received that the volcano has a
of water in the lake rushed down the mountain
During a terrific electrical storm in New presence of the other Internailonal delegates Zealand, on Christmas Day, H.-S. Pour recognises that their teipettive Governments, in which is well-known in Singapore and Far to that the matter of the consumption of opium Eastern waters, while at bor moorings in concerns their own jurisdictions, are willing to Waitemara Harbour, had a curious experience, facilitate the action of the Chinese Government
The lightning, dash coming out from the by co-operation in their respective provinces. heart of the black cloud mari seemed to maks The fullest series of recommendations and in for the warship, as being something tangible structions made public so far which are to for striking, and the electric discharge arrived a lake formed in its crater and that during guide delegates are those issued by the United on board. But it had reckoned without that the eruption, which produced a great noise, States Government. These, however, rather curious invention, wireless telegraphy, and the entire lake was thrown into the air and foll in the form of a cloudhurst, or that the moun- The Committee on roles and order thep pre-refer to inquiry and a benevolent attitude than the cobweb-like lines between the red hardtain was reet asunder and the millions of tons seated its report, and the rules drawn up were to any fixed programme of action, recognizing tangled, the fish. The current pasted harm- all accepted, with some amendments," by the that the function of the Conference is second. {lessly through the "earth line" pot, however, sides and carried all; buford it, die k Commission, which"adjourned, at 13.30 p.m. It was agreed that both English and Frenched by the Chinese Government. The British operating room it was as if half a dozen meight and nine in the evening and shattered. ary and ancillary to the measures to be propos before it had given's dazzling display. In the
The frightful explosion occurred between should, on principle, be recognized at the lan- delegates are understood to have been supplied ages were being sent at once; there was the dis guages to be used in the Commission, and that with a detailed reference generally resembling that accompanies the operation of sending, and the sides of the mountais. The waters, rushe steps should be taken to ensure that the deli- the code of instructions supplied to the U.S. re
a brilliant display of sparks at the sparking Pas terrific rate, swept away the rice fields berations be roidered, if necessary; and the presentatives. One fundamental condition at plugs, while a peculiar noise resounded throu, hand destroyed the roadways and tore out the bridges in the town of Earlays and its vicinity, taching to the lavestigations of the Conference the ship.
Notas of life has been reported up to the will be to ascertain how far the Chinese Govera mert are prepared not only to extinguish the import of foreign opium bus; a very different thing, the production of pative epium within the provinces of the Chinese Empire. We can quite well imagine that alacrity with which assurances will be forthcoming which may have the effect of inducing the Conference to
'minules recorded in both languages:
The Commission met. agalo at 3.30 pm and, after appointing a Press Committee, listened to the summary of a report presented by the Uailed States delegation, dealing with the opium question in America and the Philip pines Reports were also handed in by the British delegation (for Great Britain, Australia, Hoogkong, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, and Weihaiwal, and the Japanese delegation (for Japan and Formoia). A few remarks were offered on
presentation of these reports, but there was no debate, It being understand that members of the several delegations will require time to study the reports, before they will be in a posi. tion to discuss any portion of them,
China will bood in a report on Monday morning, whilst the reports from India and Canada, and those prepared by the other delo gations, will be presented later.
The Commission will not sit on Saturdays, and at 4.30 p.m. it adjourned ustil rt a.m. an Mobday, the 8th instant...
The ascertainty that appeared to prevail in the minds of Viceroy Tuan Fang and the „members of his staff regarding the text of his speech at the opening of the Commission has led us to check the English version as read to the assembly by the Chinese text. We give below, a more correct translation of various passages:-
Clouer Rendering
flaence the respective Governments to end the importation of föreigo opium into China, which would thus at once confer upon the
There seemed to be quite a dance of sparks
along the decks, and the effect was both pacarant or has the amount of damage been liar and uncanny. No damage of any kind was caused, but it is possible that some other wireless installation received a message from the Powerfeed which it would require so little ingenuity to render tutelligible.
STEAMSHIPS IN 1908,-
Mois's annual steamship circular states that the year 1928, like its predecessor, has ended most unsatisfactorily for shipowners, ship builders, and every one else interested in ship
mated. The shock and subsequent ones registered on the instruments of the Manila observatory but no details have yet bica, received by that institution as to the extent of the eruption or the damage that has bean occasioned by it. It is believed however to be entirely lacst.
To-day's Advertisements.
RACE HOLIDAYS..
THE EXCHANGE BANKS will be
CLOSED for the Transaction of TUESDAY WEDNESDAY and THURS RÚBLICA BUSINESS BL11A5 AM.:00
DAY, the 16th, 17th and 18th Instant respec- tively,
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Hongkong, 10th February, 1909,
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED,
reduced to ONE CENT por pound, I ist March, the selling price of Ice, will be IT is hereby, notified that on and after the
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hereby, dbtified that, pursuant to the provisions of the JURY CONSOLIDA TION ORDINANCE, 1887, I have this day caused to be posted at the chief satrance to the Court Hours a List of all persons ascertained. by me to be liable to serve as Jurors, a 16th instant, in order that any person may "The said List will remain so posted until the.
apply by notice in writing to me requiring that While the name of the volcano is given as his name or the name of some other perfon Lagnas it is believed to be the Banajo volcano, may be respectively either added to or struck magaificent cone rising to the height of 7,381 off from the said List, upon cause to be duly feet above the level of the sea and with a crater-assigned in such notice. you feet deep. In 1730 a violent eruption loosen
a
Chinese Government the complety gestrol of what would become a domestic opium mono poly of the most lucrative character. But once that monopoly is established owing to the comping, with few exceptions. It would be died the water in this crater, by the bursting of plaisance of foreign Governments the voluntary extinction of that would be a very different affair. Those who can appreciate the Chinese official character, and can understand what
the abandonment of an enormous gurce
of revenue would mess to the provincial authorities and the hoge establishments they have to maintain down to the lowest class, will be slow indeed to believe that there will be day readiness on their part to co-operate in the carrying out of a pal cy whore chief effect will be lo cramp provincial finance to a very large extent. The cultivators themselves who can make a fair living out of the growing of the poppy will feel 'aggrieved if they are coerced into growing other crops, yielding a much smaller return. It was only the other day that serious riots accurred in the Amoy district when the Chinese cultivators of the poppy rose on and to reseal attempted interference with their poppy firms. It must be remem. „bered that the nationalities represented at
to exhort and worn, the Shanghai Conference do not all stand
Official Translation.
The gentry and merchants ol. the various provinces of the Empire have Everywhere started. Lancieties in exhort ~{and-assist-opiom: smokers to get rid of the baneful babi').
International Jaterations! As Conference,
sociation for Suppres. sion of Opium [For instance, As daily progress is the manner in which made, so the revenue the Governments of the of Government must countrier concerned daily increase. There- have set about to stop fore it is hard to the consumption of guarantee that there oplam in their colonies will pot, awing to the and dependencies such difficulties of raising * Formosa, Anaam, fonds, be stoppages the Philippine Islands, and delays beyond the Java, etc, has beeo time limit fixed for
to undertake the monɔ. . suppression." At the poly of the sale of start we shall acquire opium therein, (a' pro- the false reputation of cedure which China suppressing opium alone has pot yet while in the end our
As
the monopoly of the ́in Chinese text. sale of the drug will prevent the Govern ment from learning the. number of persons suffering from the habit, nor can it pat jata effect any laws for the suppression of oplum consumption. Mr. Leech, Councillor
cult for many to recall to memory any period so unfavourable as that of last year. We are not surprised that with 1,500,000 tons of shipping laid op at home and abroad, and freights all over the world lower than ever were known before, that the advent of 19-9 is hailed with the hope that the depression in shipping has about passed its worst phase. The American panic of October, 197, has left its mark all over the world. It destroyed credit, restricted trade in every direction, and coming so unexpectedly on top of an over; supplied market caught most of us unawares,
the mountain sides, the resultant damage being enormous. Since that time, it has been dorme ant
"At the same time it may be one of the sub- ordinate tones one of which is Mount San Cristobal and the other Masalacot. In the former mountain are deep, circolar- pondo, probably extinct craters, and it might be the water from some of these that caused the recent diaster,
SENATOR
QUESTION.
MEMORANDUM, The time has now arrived when it is impɔs- sible to disguise the fact that at least 1,000,000
Washington, December 23. The publication in Paris of Senator Teller's tons of old and obsolete tosnage 'must be broken up. It is good for no other purpose: letter to Moreton Frewen, the English bimetal- and the sooner those interested face the ialist, relative to the rate of exchange between evitable and readjust their book values, the sooner freight will improve, for it is improbable that such tonnaga. can be worked again at a profit, Already ship-breaking has become so important industry at home and abroad, and is rapidly.increasing
American and European countries on one haud and Asia on the other, has served the purpose of calling attention to the fact that Freweo spent some time last winter and spring
ic. Washington, urging upon both Congress And the Cabinet the importance of a recogs
He was given a courteous hearing, and he way insistent la pointing out the fact that with ik län past decade there had been an unexamiz pled rise in gold prices, especially in the United States, with a constant increase in wages and
ARATHOON SETH;
Registrar. The Registry, Bupreme Court,
Hongkong, rst February, 1909.
· RACE NUMBER
THE KALEIDOSCOPE (Tom Swaby's Magazino).
ON SALE EVERYWHERE,
or from"
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"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.S. "BENGLOE" FROM LEITH, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
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Address -
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·C/o Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, and February, 1gog. [139.
POLICE OFFICER,
WANTED.
For Kulangu, Amoy, Chios.
N. ASSISTANT to the Superintendent of
Police and, Sectory to the Municipal Council. Salary $400, local currency, par mouth, with house, un form: sud-medical/
ence of Police and Prison work, and be cap? able of commanding a small force of Indian Pelics. A thorough knowledge of Hindustani lu essential," and acquaintance with" Sanitary work will be a recommendation. First class passage paid from India or Cisina. Six months probation, and, if satisfactory; an engagement, for three years, a Must not be aver forty years
tendencs. He should have practical experi
of age, must be of active habits and most pays a medical examination
Applications should be made in writing to the Chairman, Municipal Council, International in the bottom left-hand corner, "SUPERIN, Selitement of Kolangau, Amor, Chips, murked TENDENT OF POLICE," enclosing copies och applicaudes must-reach Amoy before. the (not originals) of three recent testiatoriais, and 31st March, after which no applications will bas
considered.
Amy, zeih January, 1909.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
RACE MEETING, 1909.
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY (OFF-DAY), '15TH, 17TH, 18TH AND 20TH
"ICKETS of ADMISSION to the GRAND STAND and ENCLOSURE may be obtained from Mesars, KELLY & Walsh, Ld., or at the Gate... Price, Sy for the Meeting (excluding the Off Day), or £3 per day, Tickets for the Off-Day, Si.
No one admitted without a Ticket to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate.
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course, --- Hongkong, 8th February, 1909.KLISE
HONGKONG JOOKEY CLUB
THE STEWARDS request ibo pleasure of
the presence of the LADIES, at the GRAND STAND_and- the... ENCLOSURE, during the Races 16th, 17th, 28th and noth inst, ́& Stand and Enclosure will be reserved for Members and Memberd Wives and Families": Tickats for which are now balog sent out with the Members' Tickets..
All Tickets must be produced to gain admission.
Special accommodation will be reserved an
in recent years for Chinese Ladies and their
at their risk into the hazardous andfor extra Female attendants in the Stand erected on the hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and plot of ground next to the Lusitano Ciab Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.,Stand,
T. FHOUGHAW whence andfor from the wharves delivery
Clerk of the Connie, may be obtained.,
Hongkong, 8th February, 1909. (asa
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
...
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in the same position in regard to the
The recent depression-in-shipping-has-been.ntios. of the rapidly increasing divergenceONSIGNEES -of-Cargo-are-hereby. questing. Outside of the Philippines, the
between the gold pieces of the Occident and United States, for instance, can bave no direct beyond contemplation; steamers of not maay concern to the matter save from that metal-if years old have been sold at about, half their the silver pieces of the Olient. moral be the word—standpoint that insists on original cost, while new baars have been revlis." denying to everybody, everything, that, can be ed at considerable lose to their owners. The
market for second-hand -tonnage is over-stock-,, classed as an indulgence or a luxury. Buted, and there are but few buyers. New steamers Britain on the other band bas her Indian in
of 6,000 tons dead weight that were sold a few terests to consider, and not only that--a "mat- ter that many people are prone to forget the year ago at £18,000 to £50,000.can to-day be built for 433,000, and other sizes in proportion. interests of the numerous independent sove.
Huilders and engineers are very short of work, reign states in the Ladian Peninsula that could and in some instances are, offering to build new never he interfered with in so domestic a mal- ter as opium production. Those independent 10sage at below actual cost in order to keep their works going. Prices for new steamers states that have no seaboard would have
were never lower, and men with the courage of to submit, however, to such export strictions as might be imposed at their convictions building at today's figures must necessarily realise handsome profis 10 British Indian port. Again, as in Hong the near future, for such tonnage must perforce kong and this Colony, the interests of the majority of the Chinese race constituting the supplant old and useless vessels. Many regular bulk of the population would also bave 10 benes and others are already profiting by pre-
re.
considered. We do not know yet whether the
cussions,
tions of the Conference" by what in elections would be described as the using of "undus influence" with the Divinity: One of the tele grams says:-
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godown, and wil Gooda, remain"
subject to rent, in the cost of living, while on the other handing undelivered after the 17th inst. will be the silver rapoo, the money of 800,000,000 peo-
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- ple of Asia, had remained stationary, with the sented to the Undersigned on or before the consequence that there had been a marked 24th inst, or they will not be recognized. falling off in exports to Asiatic, countries both from England and the United States.
He contended that the inevitable result might be the rapid cheapening of Asiatic labour as compared with European and American labour, with the consequence that is the end many articles which are now manufactured in this country and Great Britain would be made. in the Orient and shipped back here,, thus reversing the present economic condition, This, he said, must result, because of the depreciated price of Asiatic silver in gold. standard countries,
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All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ba examined on the 17th inst, at 9 A.M.
No Fire Insurance has been affected." Bills-of-Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agonią, Hongkong, 10th February, 1909:
FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE:
AND YOKOHAMA.
HE Steamibip
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at Noon.
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This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers, and is installed throughout with Electric Light and carries a duly certified
Doctor,
For Freight or Pastage, apply to
sent low prices to replace their older steamers, According to Lloyd's returns for the quarter put into actual fored):] - financial resources will proceedings of the Conference will be open to ending September 30th, 1958, the amount of the public. But as may rate, even if there are. a matter of fict, not suffer. the....mere prohlbi. C inierted no press reports, we shall bear in good time, Age under construction was 733.378 tons tion of opium without at end of passage, through communicated reports of the proceed for the corresponding period of 1957, and the Government having > not foundings, the general drift of the Conference dis- 1,264,767 tons for the third quarter of 1906. ForDuring the course of his stay in Washington,
the year ending 31st December, we should say Erewen addressed a letter to Representative There is one point in the telegrams to-day the tonnage under construction will be about W. Weeks of Massachusetts, who is a member Capt. S. H. Belson, will be despatched for the that calls for serious temark. It may be e-600,000 toss, as many of the steamers launched of the Banking and Currency Committee of the above Parts on THURSDAY, the 18th inst
on the 35th September-were detained waiting House and also of the present Congressional - scribed as an attempt to "nobble" the delibera-
for their machiatry, owing to the recent ill. Monetary Commission, in which he urged advised strike. The amount of new tornage the adoption by the United States and Great registered in the United Kingdom alone for Britain of what is known as the Goschen plan the first 10 months of 1958 was only 135,400 for the purchase of more silver. The Goschen "An appeal signed by the Bishop of London tons, or 381,000 tous less than in the cor plan originated with Lord Goschen in 1891, responding period of last year, and g30,000 when he was Chancellor of the British Exche and the Nouconformist Scottish religious.lendons less than in the first to months of 1906. quer in Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, : He was crs urges the necessity of special; prayers-for-
a strong manometallist, but he suggests the eradication of the opium traffic during the
the establishment of a strong central, gold reserve in Great Britain, to be composed of gold sittings of the Commission in Shanghai,”
small paper notes, to be redeemed in silver collected from the public by the juance of
and to be made legal tender for only $to. The English silver advocates of the time prevented the adoption of the suggestion, bat Frowed ad- milsin his letter to Weeks that they were short- sighted in this course, and he now urgently presses the adoption of the plan, both in his country and in this Frewen's letter was published in the Congressional Record, but at the time attracted no stieption. In it he dwelt especially upon the advantages the adoption of the Goschen plan would be to the oiled
Mr. Leech is made of the British Legation to any io Chinese: in Peking, has stated Asto China suppres. "Whether China ese sing apium, unless completely obtats the there is a monopoly, it good the risks, without,, will certainly be diffi gouramint control of call to act effectively; opium, boik nalive it would certainly be grown and imported, is difficult to succeed," somewhat doub!!»!," an
- opinion whích gajos my deep. admiration for bis wisdom and far- sightedness and merits our sincera thanks for his warm sympathy ja QUE. endeavours. What, however, is to be apprehended is that Chinese mer- chants.importing opium: may claim thai -such a step will be con- trary to former treaties andbadisadvantageous to their trade and so' oppose it, thereby pre- vegling Chioafrom put- ting into effect a proper Control over opium and . the spread of the opium, prohibition throughout the country.
Chinesa ** omitted,
exhibition of prejudice in the terms it nierits We refrain from characterizing this amusing
But an endeavour to induce the Divinity to take sides is an entirely secular, fiscal and physiological controversy seems to any ordinary mind unafflicted with prejudices to lack a sense of spiritul decorum and decracy. That is the mildest thing that can be xsi1, but it is enough for the purpose. Might we submit a hypo thetical parallel-
The Sbeikh-ul-Islam and the whole body of Ulemas urgh upon the Faithful the neces sity of special prayers to Allah for the eradics.} tion of the beer-drinking habit amongst the miserablo and degraded people of England,”
We wonder, if that were to appear in the London papers some fire?morning, what the British working-man would say to his com rades regarding the well-meaning but fatuous "altempt: at interferença on the part of the dignitaries of the. Moslem religion at Con- stantinople, with his personal habits. How a bad ever, on the whole, it is not thing that the Bishop of London and some
eminent Presbyterings-whom with ladicrous Ignorance the telegram styles Nonconformists, ----should have been persuaded foto this curious! attempt to dish the Conference by what it is charitable to style a gross irregularity. This attempt to prejudice the proceedings of the Conference by bolding Heaven in errorem over the heads of the delegates is not playing Today at Shanghai the International Com the game. It is in a sense a contempt of Court, Ission op Opium begins instings General for it seems to us that the deliberations of the aking, the discussion will not be clicum Conference, although to think these to be uns say prescription from the various recetrare, ought to have respect paid to them lepiciented by delegates. In as though they were, the proceedings of may be said that the foundation of judicial body.- Singapore Fim Frutaka
SINGAPORE COMMENTS,
~Time, however, wolk#"{!5 OWN"Cute, and at ready there are signs of improvement, parti cularly in the United States of America, fram trade always reflects self on Europe in parti- whence, as in past years, any improvement in
cular. The advices from India predict a very large export for this year, in contrast with last. The prospects from Casada, the United States, Argentina and Australia of larga shipments of grain, &c., sean much better, and with new developments is the Far East; together with the restricted output of new steamers, we look for a gradust improvemet in shipping during the year 1919...
„RAUB GOLD MINE.
Following is the result of work at Raub for States the four weeks coding January 3:
Bakit Koman,Stone crushed, 3,774 tons; gold obtained, 921 ounces; average per top, 4.88 dwt,
to part, he said "The demand for silver to put behlad the small notes would raise the price of silver bullion to a dollar an ounce. The effect of this rise in silver would be magical. Bukit Malacco-Stone crushed, 1,793 tons;. It would raise the exchange with silver-uslog gold obtained, tro ounces; average per top, as Asia; it would thereby greatly impair the abl. ality of Asia'to expors to Europe such products as del Extra from plates 315 ppaces,
The extra from the plates may be taken as ghost, colton, rice, timber, etc., products which the final clean up in this panicular for the compete with our exports to Axis, which now Company's financial year which ends on languish with each fall in exchange-in other February 18,
words with each fall ip the price of silvar The-manager reports an excessively heavy bullies, You are building the Panama Canal, deluge of rain on the night of January 16, beamong other reasons, to assist your trade with tween 11.30pm, on the 26th and gam. on the the Orient. A rise of so cents ie the price of 27th. 6.5" of rain fell at Bukit Koman. The silver bullion, while givng that profit to your result has been the partial flooding of the Com- mountain states, would, by raising the ex. pany's working. As, however, in addition to change with Asia, pay probably many timer the Company's ordinaty pumps, additional over the entire cost of the cansl pumping Appliances are now at work it "is ex-" "In bis interviews here Frewed expressed the pected that the workings will soon be freed of opinion that if the Government of the United would: plan hails water The Manager farther reposts thike inte open to the British Governess as returns are not expected to suffer as he has a proposals would be accepted with alacrity, and tenrva of stops on the surffon
partips by GotMEDY, MO."
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents, Hongkong, 10th February, 1909.
SHIPPING AND MAILS
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German (Prinsess Alice) 12th inst. American (China) 14th inst. Indian (Gregory Aptar) 14th inst. French (Tourant) 15th inst. Canadian (Monteagle) 16th inst, Canadian (Empress of India) 17th inst,
The P. M. S. S. Co's am, Mongolia which eft this port on gth ult, arived at San Fran Cisco on 6th inst. ."
[O CHILDREN-undar the age of 14 years.
T. F. HOUGH,
Clark of the Course. Hongkong, 8th February, 1909.
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Nill be admitted into the Enclosure.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB..
【O ́SERVANTS will be allowed inxide the
NOSE
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Any Chinese found loitering about, with “ 'Servants' passes in their possession, will forfeit
them and the holders thereof will be removed · from the enclosure.
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Cousse Hongkong, 8th February, 1009.
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"THE IMPERIAL COLONIAL OLUB,
The P. M. S. S. Cos 9.1. Manchuria sailsHE above Club is formed chiefly for COLONIAL and OVER-SEAS. MEM- from Yokohama. to-day, and is due to arrive at DERS; it is situated at No. 84, Piccadilly (the this port on 20th inst
centre of Clubland), opposite the Green Parky:
The Club has a Bridge Section, Reception,
Reading Room and Library, Dining, Billiard Room, Smoking Lounge,
The Imperial German Mail 15. Derfingar, which left here on 13th ult, at noon, arrived at Gonca yesterday, at 6 p.m.
The P. & O, S, N, Co's 1.4. Danča léfi Singa- pare for this part on 9th inst, at 11 s.m., and is due hera on 16th insi, at 6 am,
The N. Y. K. 5.s.. Sanuki Maru, Europeno Lines, left Moji for this part vis Shenghai on 8th inst., and is expected herein sgta inst,
The Apcar Co.'s us. Gregory Apear from Culi culta, left Slogapore yesterday afternoon, and may be expected here on 14th fast, svesing,
Thề N, Y. K, La. Fowata ifura, Australian Lins, left Kobe for this port gifa Mcji and Naga saki on 9th inst, and is expected here on 16th
The P. R. Co.'s sa. Montengia arrived at Kobe at 1 pm, on 8th lost, and left again at 7.30pm. Today, ofs Nagaiak! for Ship uni, where she is due to arrive at 6ad.ma.
Ladies are eligible as Members, Entrance Foo, Five Guiness, Annual Sub- scription, Fire Guineas
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