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Births, Marriage and Deaths.
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Where the "Getty" Fail:
"Masara. John Swire and Sons' Munificance.
·Central Mirket Amáníties.
The Botanic Gardens.
The Hongkong University:
Telegrams.
The Seochow Railway,
Currency Difficulnes.
Copper Min ng.
Naval Caders,
Yunnan Viceroyal'p.
Macan Delimitation.
The Chekiang Railway.
Sir John Jordan,
Canion Hankow Railway, Portugal and Chig
Railways,
Isu Skib-rbang. Tungkunshan Mines,,, Tienisin Settlement. Oplum-smoking Officials. Governorsh p.of Fengtien. Sik Ling.
Peking Syndicale.
Interport Cricket.
China and American
China and Sweden. China's This k
The Tongkuanshan Concession. Reformers.
Naval Reorgani‹ation. Wang Ta hriech.
Na Tong and Prince Ching. *The Dalsi Lama,
Chinese Studebis,
China's Finances,
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The Fashun Collieries.
Hankow-Chingiu Roilway.
Mootings:
Legislative Council.
The Paris Toilet Co, Ltd
Kulangsu (Amuy) Municipal Council. The Opium Trade.
· Legal Intelligenes!~
The Imperial Bank
Pullen-
Alleged Embezzlement, Begu Excisemen
A Good Haul.
Correspondence:-
France in Tonkio,
The Public Gardens.
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
Hongkong University Scheme.,
New Peak Tramways.
Chion Lights..
My Eccentric Friend,
River Steamer Threatened.
Warning to Shipmasters.
Wast River Flood.
The Observatory in 1908.
Peak Tramways Company, Limited:"
“Empire Day Celebrations, o
Philippine Sugar.
Serious Accident at the Hongkong Hotel „Nuisance at Western Market
Watkins, Limited,
Re-apparaiment of Select Committess.
Strong Man in Hongkong.
The Yokohama Spečic Bank,
Boys' Own Club,
Complaint against Washerman. Rabies in Tonkie,
Hongkong Telegraph.
艴十初月四年元銃宜
The Hongkong Gelegraph
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1969,"
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SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED 1881)
FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1905.
MESSRS, JOHN SWIRE AND
SONS MUNIFICENCE.
(asth May.)
TAY
give buoyancy to the hope that the Colony has yet to attain the acme of its prosperity In their contributions towards materialising the University scheme, Messrs. John Swire and Scot are giving practical proof of their faith in the future of Hongkong-a faith that should stimulate others to emulate the plendid example set by a firms which has prospered with, and probably also by, the Colony of Hongkong.
CANTKAL MARKET AMENITIES.
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tions. That sevidence, washould say, that the of a university in Hongkong will be learnt officers are at least up and doing and how with considerable gratification. Apart from in face of these facts it is possible to reduce the assistance which the veten Chang islan the staff as contemplated we are at a loss to trumental insecuring for thematerialisation of understand. But men' we are without that the project, the fact of His Excellency having inside information which is possessed by throwa himself so whole-heartedly into the members of the Board, information which endeavour to raise money for the Endowment might put a different complexion on the Fund, betrays that enfenis cordiate between question. Still there the matter stands and the Governments of the two important com. Un Fitzwilliams was perfectly correct when mercial centres like Hongkong and Canton he mituted that the absence of prosecutions which cadoor fail to be productive of the and exemptions showed that the Department maximum advantage; to both. When the Was working without offending the suscepti redoubtable Shura held the reins of id- bilities of the Chinese.
ministration in the Southern capital, he was invariably looked upon, from the point of view of Western interests, as a reactionary with an eye to China for the Chiness.. Is would have been problematical, even if he saw the "expodioncy, whether he would have accorded the same good reception to-- wards, the representations of the Comul-
Fully maintaining the traditions, of the Great Firm," the munificence which has prompted Mess. John-Swire and Sons to make the conditinaal. promise of three sepinte donations amounting to the splendid sum of nearly half a million dollar towards the Endowment Fund for the Hongkong University, will have been re- ceived with grateful satisfaction by those who have cherished the accomplishment of Sir Frederick Lugard's ambitious education- Apparently, so far as we can make out, the al scheme no ieu than by those whose inter gentry in the North are unlike those in South ests are bound up with the prosperity of Hong China because they insinuate their opinions kong. The time limit within which Mr. H. N. prople so much as they are calculated to three lakhs of dollars expires at the end of in matters which do not affect the common Mody's offer the building grant of nearly maintain the standing and character of those }' hext month, and as far as the public subscrip him and the Head of the Department to the Gardens against the disfigurement of the General in Canton, at the initiation of the who deem themielves a triße above the pr. tians couhl fster the hope, it must be ad- Central Market some time ago. The two only: "beauty spot" left to the heart of the Governor off ilongkong, on behalf of the dinary tuck. Beginning with the idea that mkted that the sum of $150,000 thus members had gone to inspect the lighting | city, by the proposed now, line of tramway to proposed. Hongkong University. In his suce
(aand May.)
(16th May.)
Apparently the only business of any spe- cial importer ce before the members of the Sanitary Board-at yesterday's meeting had Hooper on the castle De a vine to thy reference to a discovery made by Mr. Shelton
THE OBTANIC GARDENS,
(ayth May,),NG AVA After the carest and vigorous protest mode by the Superintendent of the Botanic
staunch a supporter of the scheme as If it Cessor, H, E. Chang Jen-Chun, we have,ne were proposed to be founded within the territory of his own administration. It will
"huli fledged native students in politicalfar raised from among the affire" are exercising undue interest in political affairs, the Mercury of Shanghai presents a curious indictment against the Rentry. No, studurit of Chinese affairs (it Says) can fail to recognise the desirability of taking some steps to insure the Central Go- and consequently left Mr Mody's pro-habit of certain Chinese coolies of using the Peak was only completed yesterday and hop laying of the foundation stone of the
the Peak, there will be little surprise at the ponponement of the consideration of the in by the Legistative Council this afternoon. Mr. Dunn's minute against the encroach went by this second cable route to the table member offsiderable would have bad but little time to consider the fresh objections raised against the new tramway scheme from theresthetic and scientific points of view. As ordinary layinen we cannot claim to express an authoritative opinion on the exceptional collection of patas and ferns which are "of priceless value and of which not only the Colony but the English botanical world may be justly proud. This rare collection would in great part, be doomed to destruction, if cil. As guardian of such a collection, Mr. the present scheme is adopted by the Coun- Dunn properly enters his most emphatic protest against any act of vandalism that may be responsible for robbing our Gardens their great and exceptional beauty. How far our legislators and public opinion will support the superintendent, of the gardens in his endeavour to save to the Colony small stretch of land,which his predecessors had adorned with so much care and skill, will be seen in the course of the next week
with the expediency of establishing in Hong-questions, should have thought it necessary or two when this much debated Bill again
to represent the matter in the first instance
be recalled that, "on the occasion of the
station buildings of the Canton-Kowloon Railway on the 7th April last, Sir Frederick Lugard ventured to express the hope that they would employ those Two intervening years before the "com pletion of the railway in learning more thoroughly the lesson of mutual co-operation and dispose of all petty disputes and jeal dusies which were unworthy of the two great nations which they represented." In s
to take in addressing his circular despatches- action which Viceroy Chaog has been pleased
to the high Chinese officials under him, and, through them, to the influential gentry of Kwanglung: we have a very tangible proof not fallen upon barren soll. Nons will. which the Canton Viceroy is seeking to appreciate more fully the ready co-operation, enlist for the Hongkong scheme than Six Frederick himself, it is well that the authorities in Canton recognise that "the Hongkong University will confer great bentists upon the Chiner youths who will be admitted into the institution for
South China-both from the commercial to the Government instead of the Board comes before the Council. That the Goy their course of professional studies; how itself. He seemed to feel that some excramentis self not free from blame in permit ultimately there benefits will redound to ting the disfigurement of lower Glenealy the Chinese themselves; and that there stamp. They are all more or less of the pledged himself to an espousal of the scheme planation was necessary to account for Ravine, the history of the acquisition of the fore, it should be their duty to encourage the
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to the owner,
ness to come forward and undertake this
Chinese arrangements at the market as the result of A discussion which had previously taken community represents just a little over a tenth part of the total amount which the place at the Board, but it is not clear that General Committee has estimated would decision they arrived at on that particular he required for the Endowment, and subject. Nevertheless, the visit was produc. Equipment Fund, viz. £110,000 sterling, tive of one interesting revelation, namely the vernment against the constantly recurring niso with little hope of realisation. fish tanks for bathing purposes. Now, we
be announcement, which the Governor have no objection to the coolies for meddling of these doubtless well-intentioned gentlemen, who are not content unless they was able to make yesterday, through the injunction which declares that cleanliness have a finger in every pie. There is some the courtesy of the head of the premier ranks next to godliness, but when we learn that the fish tanks from which the public are thing amusingly pathetic in the following tele commercial and industrial British Grm in gram which recently appeared in one of our Hongkong, Mr. D. R. Law, now brjugs served are used by coolies whose health may native contemporaries Liang Tun-yen, within sight the possibility of the fruition be open to question we feel that stringent measures should be employed to prevent President of the Waiwupu, is afraid that of a project which His Excellency has every time there are diplomatic negotiations promoted and which he has been indefa- such a misuse of the market facilities as that the gentry of the province concerned will tigable in fostering not only within the indicated. Mr. Shelton Hooper's statement convene a meeting by which there will be Colony but in China and Ragland also. The to the Board that Owing to the prevalence much trouble, and therefore he proposes to announcement of the promised gift on im-of contagious diseases of the worst sort and frame regulations to control such meetings."Tire. Day synchronises, not coincidently, but diseases amongst the lower class Chinese, I Old residents in China will not need any probably by design, with the recent vigorous consider the use of the fish tanks as baths long explanation of what these gentry con appeal put forward by the China Association A source of danger to the public health, an sist af, what, their aims, arc, and the means in London on behalf of the Hongkong Uni-opinion which is shared by the medical man of the reputation which it has enjoyed for that the Governor's. pregnant words have, they usually take to gain them. It must versity scheme. Mr. Scout, himself a mem-whom I have consulted on the matter," was not be forgotte that they are not an aristo- ber of the firm to whose generosity Hong by no means too strong. He merely echoed cracy as we understand that term in the kong is about to be placed under, great the opinion which every householder will west. If they were, more respect might well obligations, is the chairman of the influential entertain on hearing the facts. What we be paid to their opinions, for there is no
British association in London, and it was cannot understand is that Mr. Hooper, him truc aristocracy the world over but has an open secret that, on his recent visit to self a staunch supporter of the Sanitary learnt, during his many centuries of exist the Colony, so much impressed was he Board, as the central authority on heat ence, something of the art of govern olent, and at least a little of that com- kong the principal educational centre for mon sense which tends to the general weal. The Chinese gentry are not of this and political points of view-that he virtually literate grades, many of them have been or originating with such patriotic fervour with action because he is reported to have said:
land abutting Arbuthnot Road from the hope to be, officials in actual service, and Sir Frederick Lugard. That the weight and "There is no doubt as to the facts, for you, steps to the junction with Wyndham Street scheme to a successful issue. For in hiu all are imbued with that Chauvinism which influence of. Mr. Scott's endorsement of the air, were with me and witnessed the occur furnishes abundant evidence. Before build address to the representative Chinese Sub in undiluted course of ancient classics never project, supported unquestionably by his rence. I therefore communicated to the ing operations commenced on the site we Committee on the 15th February last, the fails to cultivate. Chow Han, the notorious firm's representative in Hongkong, Mr. D. Government direct, because it seems to recall the fact of a number of public- Governor emphatically declared that he originator of the Hunan tracts and carica R. Law, have worked like the open scsame"ittle doubtful as to who has authority to tures against Christianity, was a member of with the principals at home, is an inference instruct the Sanitary Department. I don't spirited citizens who volunteered private must remind them that the project was pri
Chinese to provide the bulk of the funds." this favoured clique. He had the courage that is plausible in its deduction to the or know whether the Sanitary Board have, subscriptions to save the site from piles of marily for the Chinese, and be looked to the of his opinions. In all probability, the vast | dinary observer of the course of events, though I think we have, but at any rate.the brick and mortar which would, as they did. Ho: has not been very long in the Far East majority of his peers have the opinions with Public liberality and individual munificence. Government have the sight to instruct them, denude the grounds of their well of semi- but he has been long enough to learn that out the courage. They are consumed with have been one of the characteristics of the It was for this reason I communicated direct. tropical vegetation. Government could, if it
good purpose the Chinese were not wont to anti-foreign envy, hatred, malice, and all community, and have been favourably The Government seem to have treated the would, come to the rescue and resume the where funds were required to some greatand uncharitableness," and they are just as will commented upon as regards the resid. maiter rather lightly and are trying to dis property by paying suitable compensation look to others. They are wont to help them
But it did not, and that selves, and to subscribe with a liberality But a count the incident on account of it having ing to wreak vengeance on a progressive ents of this favoured Island. native as they would be on any offending generosity which prompts the donation of taken place after dark. Certainly it was after pretty section of Glenaly was sacrificed which he believed to be, uurivailed by any
other nation; and the Governor added foreigners who might fall into their hands.
a sum of half-a-million dollars to a dark. The market is open to the public after to the builder's encroachment: Mr. Dung To such as spend time, thought, and care-blic institution, yet in its embryonic stage, dark, and it was for that reasons we were there makes an excellent case for the frequenters. Your presence here to-day; your willag on comments on musty classics and on those mainly for the benefit of people of the to teport on the lighting. Any member of of the public gardens when he states that "the promoters, in their anxiety to secure ale, revolutionary ideas connected with Chinese race, is a demonstration of disin. the public might have been present, man or the concession of a second route to the Peak, heavy task of collecting, funds proves that) commerce, with industry, with railway comterested, public-spiritedness that raises it to woman, making purchases, and as I have have overlooked or at any rate not adequate you consider this project to be a great and munication, telegraphs, and such-like.westero the level of the splendid gifts which, stand ssid the thing is disgusting and revolting."
ly considered the limited number of those good one making för progress and enlighten.. devilments canndi be agreeable, and though to the undying memory of Sir Edward So that after informally informing the Gov-whom the tramway is intended to benefitment, and enabling the Chinese to hold even into their conservatism the thought may Castell; towards British institutions in the enment direct, Mr. Hooper scarcely receive compared with the immeuse mass of what their own among the educated, and civilized have penetrated that such things must come, home country, Magnificent as are the coned that satisfaction to which he no doubt yet are they grimly determined that if they tributions Messis, John Swire have under considered himself entitled, "When be but may be called the intelligent middle classes nations of the world. Since you have that have sny voice in the matter, They shall only taken to make to the Colony, they are only that there seemed to be something lacking of Chinese and Portuguese who would suffer faith in you, I have no fear but that you will in a special degree if the tram were run in succeed in your task of raising the funde come through the medium of native hands. in keeping with the magnitude of the enter in the supervision of the market" most people this way through one of the most important which is required. Your generous com- On various occasions we have shown what prises with which the name of Messrs will egree with him, though where the fault sections of the Public Gardens. In order to patriots in Cilina, in the Straits, in Jave, a tremendous handicap Chinese progress is Butterfield and Swire are associated in lies we cannot discern. Does it not appear ring this aspect of the case more prominent in Siam and elsewhere will, I feel sure, help Being on itself in this way. Were there frongkong. & firm that is capable of plan that the members of the Board themselves by before you I would ask you to remember us liberally, for they too will benefit by this such a thing in native literature s
hing and carrying out with the utmost ex are somewhat to blame? Their duty is not in the first place that our city is, in con. University to which they can send their sons. proverb which says, "If a thing is worth pedition the genesis of a city like that aterely confined to the discussing of high sequence of the great demand on the loft. The Sub-Committee took to heart the Gore ernor's advice and their appeal to the Vice doing at all, it is worth doing well," there Quarry Bay, has all the characteristics that politics, but, it is also expected of them thated amount of ground available for building Foy at Canton has not been made in vain, might be some hope that there would have made England what it is to day in the they will make themselves, perionally' ac- soon be merwise enough to see the utter world of colonisation and as a commerci. 1 quainted with the actual conditions prevailing purposes, unusually devoid of public open If the subscriptions that may be expected
spaces or even of private gardens, and that absurdity of wasting money and delaying nation. The Txikon Sugar Works stand as and a surprise visit here and there would access to the open country on either side of from the neighbouring Province approach advance in order to gratify an ignorance as the best monament on the Island of the not be without profit, as the testimony of Victoria cannot be gained except through anything, like the amount of $300,000 sug crats as it is deplorable. Peking evidently sagacity and enterprise of British manufac- Mr. Hooper clearly shows. Moreover, it suburbs densely crowded by the poster Rested by our correspondent in his com recognises this to some tent, and we are turers. They stand without their equal not would afford the conscientious inspector an classes of Chinese, so that the Public Gar- munication, then there can be an maner not surprised that it shoul be so. In the only in Chins but even excel. the largest opportunity of proving his worth. We hear dens, situated as they are in the centre of of doubt that the realisation, of the Univer capital there, are now a considerable number refineries in America the land of Utopian plenty about the complaints against the De- the residential district, form a priceless sity scheme, may be considered to all: of travelled officials, men who know what's schemes and mammoth undertakings. The partment but nothing is said of those with possession to the residents of the city act. It is some time since the Governor intents and purposes as an accomplished what, having seen with their own eyes; conversion of the rocky foreshores and whom no fault can be found, and in our of Victoria, by whom indeed they are
has made any public statement-apart from. men who know that for technical tasks it sandy beaches into the finest graving dock opinion the good should be recognised more or less crowded all the year round,"
that concerning the Taikoo donation-on is absolutely necessary to have expert and ship repairing yard in the East is a feat equally, with the bad. Of course that is men; that neither the Four Books nor that but few would have had the temerity of merely a pious opinion. We conless we felt City Jungs" are all too few in this Colony the subject, The community would like to
and for the residents in the central district the Five Classics will enable even Hanlio, contemplating, much less of putting into surprised to learn that Mr. 11ooper was unbe they Europeans or Chlaese the be taken into His Excellency's confidence to build railway, command an army, or, execution. Yet in spite of physical difficul deformed as to those responsible for the gardens, are the only resort in suinier within to the replies, if any, which hava navigate a battleship, that, in fact forties, that at one time seemed well nigh salary condition of the markets, would comparatively easy reach. Quite apart from been received from the Municipal Council in Shanghai, the Goverment in Peking. every practical good, mental or physical, insuperable, with the dogged perseverance like to ask you," he said, who is respon the crowded nature of the districts they have and the authorities of our sister: Colbay the mere graduate, is no better off after all and a superfuity of ready money that have able for the markets? Has the Veterinary to travel to reach the suburban open spaces, the Strails; communication to the his years of cramming than the most made the firm what it is, Messra Butterfeld Surgeon anfibing to do with the markets? the distance they have to go to from their Press will be all the more appreciated as illiterate coolie. Yet the ancient reverence and Swirte have, an if with the magic wand, Moreover, I would like to know if there residences would militate against the ad- to which a knowledge of this old world transformed what was erstwhile a village any inspector of markets in charge, wantage of an afternoons constitutional this stage, especially when it is whispered literature is still held amongst the Ilterati of fishing desperadoes into a veritable hive what his hours of duty are? Having for the adults in summer and render that little material help, or none at all, may is strong enough to ensure a confidence of industry wherein modern mechanical inven said that, I should be glad to have an it altogether prohibitive to the children be expected from the Northern Settlement in its possessors which, makes them feel tions and the engineer's skill have supplied answer to these two questions." The Pre
are. the only place that can be frequented Chinese capital, anywhere and do anything." Is it railway Chinese hamlet Shaukiwan has grown under Surgeon has supervision over the meats sold in charge of their nurses. If the Gardens competent gor as in days gone by to go all that is best in the trade. From a little fident replied that the colonial Veterinary of the middle-class by whom the Gardens or from the Central Government at the engineering? Their opinion is to be taken, the guidance, of the "Great Firm Into a the market, while the actual cleanliness of Mining does not offer any diffically. Are Scotch colony with all modern contrivances the markets is under the Medical Officer must be sacrificed in the interest of a semi- In concluding a review of Mr. C. A. Monialto public undertaking, it should be considered || de Jesus' Istosi work, " Historic Shanghai," the On May 14,19:9, at Ichang, the wife of F, they not well acquainted with all the twists in the shape of trial tramways and palatial of Health. Each market is under the in-that local residents have a sort of a vested flat Times remarks:-Mr. de Jesus writes with and turns which the terrestrial dragon is residences for the men that help to main spector of the district in which it is situated. interest in them by the partial loss of a clear literary style, and one would scarcely capable of? And as for telegraph, lines, tain the prosperity of the Colony. More Weil that is no new news, but it it it which they can claim to be fairly entitled to suspect that he was writing in a language smoke stacks, atxd other innovations, who closely identified with the Ocean Steam information to the members of the Board it consideration by their substitution by an which is not native to him. Considering the but they are capable of deciding whether or ship Company, Ld, which also figures is well that it has been clicted. The market casily accessible and as salubrious a site at early influence of the Portuguese in the Far no feng shui will not be fatally injured if in the list of contributories, is the Bra's at all events, are now to be purified and such the expense of those who stand to gain by East, and the large number of Poringusse these things are allowed in any way but latest achievement on the water front in practices as those represented to the Board the encroachment which deprives them of a such as pleases them? Have they not, also, Kowloon: The solid block of buildings is having taken place ato to be abolished or benefit which they have uninterruptedly en sidents in the Settlements, it is a matter of com-
graintation to his nationais (hat" the most April 24, Dr OT. KEW, of Hongkong, to vast influence over their still more ignorant with their self-contained electrical plant for ther rendered impossible by the injoyed these last forty years.
portant work which has yet been produced FLORENCE ETHEL BROWN,
countrymen, and can they not, whenever the rapid handling of cargo and the deased vigilance of the inspectors, al they will, rouse all those bad passions which massive steel wharves for ocean steamers of though it will mean that some unfortunate
ceralog Shanghái xwould be the work of Portuguese,: Mr. de Jesus has givan: 147. turn the naturally good-tempered, good any size and draft bespeaks a confidence in Individuals will have to be on the spot from
"years" of labour to the production of (bji valn? natured peasant into a murdering maniac? the future of the port that encourages a feel-arly morn till the markets close. With The gentry can, and have done such things.ing of optimism which, It must be admitted; togard to the work of the officers of the
Immediately following the announcement able book, and he dasaires wall, as the hands They need to be educated out of them, and recent events have somewhat tended to disanitary Department. It is of interest to note of the promise of the munificent dobations of the community. The price rather
pansive, for a volume of lis sixa, Emit paraa meanwhile should be muzzled. All our sipate. However, the foresight responsible that during a single, fortnight 328 houses had equivalent to about $300,000 by Mess, this wil be remedied by such al endocilon sympathy is with the Waiwupu. May they for the investment of millions in big under bean linewashed in the Hastein district; in John Swire & Sons, the action of the Viceroy price as will make it possible for a large nurs succeed, and my China make real progress takings like the refinery, the dock, and the the Central district 1,433, and in the Western of Canton, reported in another column, in bar of velamats to find their way into the hom under an enlightened dimstorate/s wharves must certainly command respect and districts,son, There had been no prosecu, furtherance of the scheme for the founding of Changhai realdaith
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Cadion Day by Day.
"The Macao Boundary.
Interport Cricket.
Canton-Kowloon Railway.
Manchurian Hallway jurisdiction,
The Macao Problem.,
Shanghai Holocaust.
Drowning Fataluy,
Asher Langkat Case.
The Op-um Я.bit
Wu Ting-fang. Lapin Sugar Scandals Echn of Loangmoon Accident Commercial Univerity in Japan, Foreign Trade marks, in Japan; The Japanese in Koreas
Lloyd's Fire Tourance-in-Japan, Closing of Vladivostok.
Oplum mckers Arrested.
Volcanic Activity.
Japan.
Shooting Fatality,
Defiant Rebels,
Sabang and Singapore.
Gadon for Chjør..
A Trip to Chins. :) Bangkok-Swatow Shipping. Chinese Poll Tax in Bangkok Commercial?—At
Weekly Shara Reports."
... Yarn Market.
Exchange.
Local and General,
BIRTHS.
Hedemuended, Germany, the wife of W. federacodes, at Ville Hubertos,
HENNE, of W BOD. „**
On May 5, 1009, at Shanghai, to Mr and
Mr G. A. GRAHAM MORSE, à 100,
L. Hersell, a (MOWBRAY JOHN).
Beall, of 600, (Menus Rev, and
Mrs. PT. DEMPILY, A ROD.
On May 20, 1979, at Stanghal, the wife of C.
MICHELẨU, of a daughter.
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On May 23, 1919, at Shanghal, to Mr. and Mrs, 0.8, BARF7, & daughter.
MARRIAGE.
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Da. April 24, at the Tacoma Hospital, Tacoma, U.S.A FERDINAND King, aged forty-seven years......
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