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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE 12 1909

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

the scale which seems to prevail in the Northern Settlement. The Mercury of Shanghai is usually very hot in the pursult THE American squadron left Yokohama on of native banks which have made defalca; } zıl last, for Hakodate.

deti tion in respect of their funds and once again our contemporary has been having VICE-ADMIRAL Sir Hedworth Lambton arrived at Tairen (Dalay) 00 7th inst. from Port

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the North. It remarks, with justice, that for many months the foreign-bankere, mer-- chants, and newspapers in China have been urging upon the Chinese Government the Becessity for controlling in some effective way the operations of native, banks, of which such a large number has recently sprung into being, some with considerable capital and more or less guaranteed, thereby agaios!--FRESH-orders have been given to the Viceroys the difficulties and dangers which the foreign and Governor of all the provinces to preserve „BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE banking and mercantile community has he sovereign rights of China in her territorial

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waters. satisfactory of these copceros by reason of | their inadequate resources, and other def. ciencies, especially the deficiency of ready money with which to meet the notes puț into circulation to amounts exceeding enor- mously the very maximum available funds within their call. It has long been' pro- phesied that the smash must come sooner, or later, and better sooner than later most competent.judges would be inclined to

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A LARGE bull rhino ran amok at Klagao, British Vorth Borneo, recently. It had a large wound in the shoulder and departed after doing some damage.

WR. John Bandow will be in charge of the Danish, Consulats in Hongkong during the abrence on leave of Mr C. Friesland or until farther notice.

Mr. W. P. Ker, Acting-Commercial Attaché to the British Legation in Peklog, in place of Sir Alexander Hosis, is now staying in Shanghai At the Palace Hotel, and bas opened an office as nsual, at the British Consulate General dir

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CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily undoren the oplalona expressed

by Correspondente in thle kõlumn:) THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.“ TO THE EDITOR OF Trim "Hongkong, TeluGRAP!!,***

now the gifs already promised amount to very near the required sum Only the other day, the magnificent donation of Laocco by the. princely, house of John, Swire and Soos was mado known to the public, and this second in- stance of disinterested and outside Ald would - seem to augur well for the success of thescheme.

to the benefits which would eventually accrdo

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under lustractions received from the Secretary produced an outcrop of surprises. In the evinced in the scheme has been the antcome of Sir, The Governor's University scheme has There is no doubt that much of the lively interest of State for the Colonins, to appiont Mr. T. K. FROM and after the 1st October, 1959, the fees Dealy to be headmaster of the Queen's College first place, it brought forth Mr. H. N. Mody's the Governor's sincere desire to see a university gaserous offer to provide, the building established in this far outpost of the "British to be paid on a hawker's licence shall be Sain succession to Dr. G H Bateson Wright, ro payable in two half-yearly instalments. tired on pension, with effect from the 7th April,The the liberal individual responses from Empire, and if ever the scheme becomes Chinese genilemen and firms in Hongkong an accomplished: fact, as there is every, like- accounted for a donation totalling $170,000 19 lihood of its doing, the name of Sir Frederick THE registration of a memorial of re-entry by THE civer steamer purchased by the Chinese farmaguificant total when the presont Lugard will always be associated with the the Government of Ma Wan Lot No. 33, on the Ning Shao Steamship Company from the 23rd December, 1908, has been

strenuous times are taken into considera-binth of a great institution. This manifestation Foochow Government Dockyard to run on the tion. The "Empire Day announcement of solid help by a friendly Viceroy is a significant Niegpo las has arrived at Shanghai and will from the Taikoo Hoog burst upon the Colony sign of the times, and is the surest proof that begin her regular service in a fortnight. The with agreeable suddeaness, and yesterday China is waking up from har ancient lethargy, vessel has twelve first-class cabins, forty second you were able to officially confirm the report With their characteristic insight into the misty class and steerage capacity for 3,000 people. you were the first to give of the Canton Viceroy's future, the Onntonese, by their sympathion with THIS afternoon, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. plendid help towards the endowment funds the project, only show that they are fully alive May left for a brief holiday in the homeland. "A

Two hundred thousand dollars in a lump com Bumber of friends gathered at Murray Fier to with the promise of more to come shows the wish the departing official don gage, among largeness of heart of the Chinese people who are ever ready to manifest their gratitude`in a whom was Mr. C. Clamenti, Assistant Colonial tangible form. Viceroy Chang Jen-chun saw Secretary. The Government launch Victoria in the project a benevolent move on the part of was requisitioned to convey the party on board Sir Frederick Lugard to advance the moral and intellectusil interests of the Chiness people, especially those of South China, and a readily in the words of the Governor, welcomed the scheme as one, which would confer a benefit on the people and promote friendship and co operation in high objects between our [the British and Chinese] ostions. The Chinese Viceroy's oppreciation of the project at once took practical form and his ability to provide almost at dace a sixth part of the total amount of money required to set the University on a permanent working footing speaks volumes for the enthusiasm with which he has seized upon the idea of a university in the MR. CHIROL and Dr. Morrison were presented immediate neighbourhood of Canton and for the to his Majesty the Emperor of Japan on ibe moro soargy with which be went about to give effect to ing of the agth ultimo by the British Chargé d'Af- that spirit of enthusiasm. My information is THE Grand Council has instructed the Waiwn.faires. It is almost unprecedented for foreign that the two lakhs of dollars was made available pu to submit to the Throne the various Treaties Journalists to have the honour of being receiv.undar viceregal instructions to the Sin-hau which have been entered into by China with ed in audience by his Majesty, and the late chu, or Board of Reorganisation, the Pro foregin countries.

Mr, Fukuchi, regarded as the doyen of Ja vincial Treasurer, and the Salt Commissioner. panese journalists, is the only Japanese who As a result of the manifesto, which has been excellent has enjoyed similar honour, it being accorded issued by HE. Chang, and an

summary of which I first read in the in special circumsta.cas. When returning to. Tokyo from the seat of war during the Sat Hongkong Telegraph, which has been ad- suma Rebellion, Mr. Fakuchi was called upes dressed to the officials, merchants, and gentry to report to the Emperor on the situation of of the Province under his administration, hostilities.

should not be surprised if a sum almost equal to that donated by the Viceroy is raised within

IT is notified in the Gasette that the Reverend 1.-H. Vamel has been recognised as president

in Hongkong of the Basel Evangelical Mis. sionary Society.

Bis Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi has been appolated Honorary President of the fanhcoming Auglo-Japanese Exhibition to be

held in London.

MR. N. MOSES has been appointed a sur veyor of boilers of unlicensed steamships under 60 tons burden during the absence on leave of

a lower order, clamouring for their money and far from satisfied with the brief notice pasted on the door to the effect that though business would be suspended for a few days it was hoped that the doors would be open-Mr. W. G. Jack. ed again shortly. The latter half of the information appeared to afford cold confort, nor were the depositors particular ly impressed when informed that the bank's affairs, had been put in the hands of the Taolai and the Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. In the absence of official receivers and officials of that type in China overburdened taotais and gentle;

men whose interests àre,as manifold as must be those of the Chairman of Chamber of Commerce, interests indeed so wide that they may possibly include the defaulting or embarrassed concern itself, are, we suppose, the only possible resources in emergencies of this kind, but the arrangement can hardly be considered satisfactory and only serves to emphasize the necessity, for more effective Government control and resource in the new conditions of business and commer cial life obtaining in China to-day. Our contemporary proceeds-to-say that-in-the- banking world, such conditions are the

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IT is notified that alterations in the numbering of houses in Victoria and Tung Lo Was have been made under the provisions of section 4: 6 of 1901). of the Rating Ordinance, 1951, (Ordinance No.

WITH a view to preserving song birds in this Colony, His Excellency the Governor will be glid if all holders of game licences under 'Or. dinhoce No. 6 of 1885 will destroy, magpies whenever opportunity offeri.

ACCORDING to Dative reports the gantry living. to the vicinity of Heali have petitioned the Viceroy at Naoking against the holding of the regatta at Henti. His Excellency bas ordered the Shanghại Tuotai to communicate with the Senior Consul on the subject,

AccomDING to a Tokio despatch of 7th inst: The sit. Nippon Kai Maru caught Are off the Aomori Prefecture and sank immediately. Of eleven badies were recovered; but iga fisher- hose on board, twenty-seven were saved and

men and sixteen of the crew were drowned.

toot of the whole matter-effective Govern- ment control. If that were established, and if there were adequate legal remedy for those Jamaged by breach of properly-framed bank- ing laws, there would be an end to the growth of mushroom banks and to the THE Naval Court-martial sitting at Nagasaki humiliating experience which many of us

on H.M.S., Kent, for the trial of those respon have undergone in recent months of having was concluded on the 24th ultimo when sible for the mishap to the destroyer Fame, our bank botes refused, nat because theyLieutenant-Commander Thomas was co- were forgeries, but because they were issued primanded, The Nagasaki Press pɔiots out. by institutions, with no adequate security that this is a formal and moral sentence only, behind them. As far as the journal in question could lesen at the time of writ ing the collapse in the present instance was due entirely to the issue of "shin: plasters," not to any defalcations or misde meanours on the part of any officer of the bank, and thus the incident is simply the Q.E.D. at the tail, of the long theorems, propounded so ably and so oft by the local

the nearest possible approach to sa acquittal,

His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council;-An Ordi- nauce to authorize the appropriation of a sup plementary sum of five hundred and twelve thousand two hundred dollars and thirty-four cents, to defray the charges of the year 1908,

A COMPLIMENTARY dianer is to be given at the Hongkong Hotel this evening to Mr. Geo, A. Caldwell, the popular and energetic secretary of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., by a few of his friends, present and past members of the office and technical staff of the Dock Co., upon the completion of Mr. Caldwell's twenty-five years' service with the Company whose interests he has faithfully served and sought to promote evan at a time, when his health did not permit of much strenuous labous

"CANTON DAY BY DAY,

CONSULAR VISIT.

[From Our Oum Correspondent.]

Cantab, 11th June.. The Viceroy received the Japanese Consul at Canton this morning.

FLOOD DISASTER.

the next month or so. I have it on the

to their posterity, kad just as Queen's Colleg has turned out students who are now success ful men in various walks of life, so in the same way the tremendous possibilities of eren a greater institution may send forth men who will prove sational assets to a regenerate Coins. 1 am afraid I have been deviating from the prin cipal object of this correspondsoce that Hong- kong fully appreciates this intest gift of the Vicer y, which could only have been actuated by the highest sense of Christian charity. The period of time within which to collect the en tire amount required for the Endowment Food, upon which godaratanding Mr. Ms dy has minda his conditional offor, is fast drawing to a close, and it is of vital impo tance that the balance of the sum should be forthcoming before that time. This has an important bearing on the ultimate success of the scheme, and it is only to be hoped that this essential fact will not be 1st sight of by those whose duty it is to set the University established. Certainly be Canton Viceroy's gift should act as an lecen tive to those who haven it already subscribed to come forward with the balanco still required.

Yours, etc.,

A WELL-WISHER Hongkong, tach June, 19.9.

SINÒ-JAPANESH RELATIONS.

SPEECH BY DR MORRISON,

Press Association at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Át the inangarai banquet of the International

dent of the Times, responding to the toast of on May 29, Dr. Mortison, Paking correspon» -

Lis bealth, said:

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I have to thank you for the honçur you':hava dose_nie is inviting_me.to.the.ibangur.i.ban... quet of your Association and to thank you for the opportunity thus given me of expressing my cordial appreciation of thoussailing courtesy and attention that have bean shown ma during my several visits to this hospitable country.

[{"warnojen∙ly ballever is the greatness of

bost authority in Canton that the officials and teral of thedistrict have been infected with the vanerable Viceroy's enthusiasm in the scheme. The Chinese race is nothing if at an eminent ly practical one, and with an eye to the inėstim-, able advantages which will accrue to the option from an university established on the very threshold of their doncs, they eagerly tame A letter from Kwanggi states that, in the forward with their quota to assist in the soc market place of Luk Chan, in the Ping Nam cessful and early founding of the institution, district, one hundred and fifty buildings-have-The support from the Viceroy is unques ion-

"posit-on-she-was-dest{und-to-sttain-among-iba- collapsed to consequence of the recent floads-ably a feather in the cap of the Governor, Bir Japan and esily convinced myre'f of the "groat and there are at present only a small number Frederick Lugard. I confess that, with many

foremost 'vations of the world, To this convic of shops left, all in a ruined condition. A grast athers with whom i bave discussed the sub-

tion I bave adhered unfalteringly. Equally

the floods. number of cattle has also been swept away by jct, was sceptical of the Colony's ability to

raise the £1 0,003 within th: short period of six alocere was the conviction that I early formed months. The result, however, has proved that and since have held of the iesite possibilities of the fatura of Chlos, covering as it does so The Canton Central Relief Committee is stül Sir Frederick has obtained a closer insight foto continuing to despatch expeditions one after Chinese sentiments than many, with longer exirgo an expanse of the world's surface and another to the faded districts to relieve the pe ience of these people, have done. And his peopled as it is by a virile and industrious race ind vidually capable of attaining to the sity. sufferers with rice and other articles of neces confidence.in.them has been amply justified, highest degree, of development, intellec sil

It oled beepbaks a masterly diplomacy on the part of the British Governor which, has raised. „Owing to the flod's firewood cou'd-dot, be||British prestige in Öğinese eyes 10 a very con- shipped down from up country to Canton, and consequently the price of this commodity has goze up considerably in the city as well as in

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FLOOD RELIEF.'

DEAR FUEL.:

the town of Fatshan.

THE PACIFIC MAIL S, S. CO. .

and physical.

Until quite recent years, Chira presented

National sentiment in China' stímulated by self-denying agreements of several Powerl demands that further diminution of that eres of Empire shall cease and that the nation shell increase in strength and solidarity,

siderable degree. What if Sir Frederick had the remarkable pheanmetion of a vast extens yielded to the clamours of anti-Canton subsi-sion of race existing concurrently with a con diary doing declaimers and placed a ban on them tourd shrinkage of the ares of her Empire... against admission into Hongkong? Would not this drastic act of prohibition at once raise doubts and suspicions in the minds of Viceroy Chang and his advisors of the Iriend- A New York telegram states that Mr. Harri-ship of the British, colony towards the neigh mas anncu sced, prior to bis departure for bouling Province? If gratitude in a trait, in? Europe, that he would not sell the Pacific Nail the Chinese character, unforgiveness is also line, An intimation to this effect has reached one of their idiosyncracies. From a friendly the purchase of this line of steamers project, Hongkong might have raised a verit-

Those of us who live among the Chinese and are animated by a sincere sympathy with their. pirations and who witness the efforts they are steps of Japan advance their position among the nations have viewed with regret sha course of recent, relations and the obitusion. of dif

thair.copies dialivered at the residence without foreign Chamber of Commerce, the China His Majesty the King has not been advised. Japanese who wished to open negotiations for manifestation' towards en 'ambitions Colonia! making to follow, however haltingly, in the fool;

any szins charge. On sopies went by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

The postage on the weekly iwne zo any part of the

world is 30 cents por quarter Single Copies, Dilly, tan conto. Weekly, twenty,

five cents (for cash only), ``

Wohu.

BIRTH:

Association, the Peking correspondent of the times, by scores of well-known mer chaots and financiers, and, not least, by every journal of a responsible character on the China Coast, or indeed throughout the Far Cast. It may be (continues the Mercury) that this is but the beginning of a serious crisis,

to exercite his power, of disallowance respect to Ordinance No. 2 199, entitled so Ordinance to authorise for public purposes the reclamation of certain portions of the Crown foreshore and soa bed sitdate in Hunghom Bay in the Colcay of Hongkong and to vali dale sach reclamation at has beretofore taken place.

N, C. D. Non.

- UNIQUE PROSPECTING.

'POSSIBLE' STROKE OF TORTURE YOR NAGASAKI,

able hornet's nes! by invoking the ire of the millions of Kwaoglung against her trade and institutions. The lessons of the boyferences tending to impede the harmonious co cant should still be fresh, in cur minds, and without going any further were the mer cantile and manufacturing classes in Canton And the inferior to laboo the notes of our local Banks, we shou'd find ourselves landed is a fine predicament.

operation of the two, great Empiles of the Orient. We will rejoice when those irritating mitunderstandings. sball. have been removed, as there in every reason to believe that they, will be removed, and nothing can more effic tively contribute towards their remor 1, than the Press of the two countries, especially a press inspired, as is this faternational Press Association, with a lofty desire to promote in

A short time ago, says the Kogasaki Fresa, 'it || was rumoured abroad that rich coal beds had been discovered in our midst and that Nagasaki would boom and expand to calamitous dimen- ions within a very brief period. With wolficies Circumstantial evidence to dispel the idea that we were being fooled entirely, we set about find-sali-Chinese party is to be, deprecated. We fire of the country in which I live nothing bas

On June 6, 1929, at Shanghai, the wife of L. though we hope it is not.. It is urged in E. CANNING, of a son,

MARRIAGES..

defence of the bank, that the actual state of IT is announced that the sixteen United States On June 7, at Shanghal, DENIS EWART, its reserves against note issues was made battleships which made such a spectacular eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Donnelly public by a dismissed employee' and that | voyage round the world are to be remodelled. of Ningpo, to ISABELLA ELIZABETH, second had this person been leas bitter and more According to the New York World, much of daughter of Captain and Mrs. R. Jobas of discreet no insecurity would have been felt ships, which affords a splendid target for as the cumbersome superstracture on the battle. tinued without, what we will hope is to be my, will be taken off. Another innovation og out all there was to know about the matter. Mr. Katsoka, a well known merchant in Oura, Nagasaki, has discovered a rich bed of call in the narrow channel between Korose Island and Sakito Island, near Basebo. The discovery was made by shell-divers, and is lying

Sydno, saghter of Frank McDonald, of

On June 7, 979, at Shanghai, ERITH ANNIE and the bank's business would have con-

New South Wales, to Wu, Dennis. elder son of S.F. Dennis, of Walibamstow, England.

only, interruption. Unfortunately, bank de- positors are but human, as are dismissed On Monday, June 7-1909, at 2:30 pm, Mrs, employees, and as soon as the breath of AGNES CLYDE RICKER, the sister of Dr and Mrs. Jobe Goddard, to Mr. DANIEL COATH, suspicion stirs they begin to look out for Shanghal.

themselves;: and it is quite certain that whe ther this special form of undue publicity is

DEATH.

On June 7, 1909, at Shanghai, JOHN WIL-

would raise the grmour-belt to a point where it would become more effèctiva, “

MR. G. H. Corse, Jud., General Oriental Agent of the Chicag Milwaukee and Paget Sound Railway Oo, arrived at Shanghai on Sunday night by the Tags Marü, Mr. Corse will es tablish an office in Shanghai in connection

which is, briefly, sa follows::

bate at the bottom of the sea, from four to pina- fathoms from the surface and covers a large ama. Thisunique colliery only needs competentdivers

LIAM JONES, of the China Mutual Life Insur. adopted or not, a back, or any other form with the new Trans-Pacific service of and explosives to raise the mineral, bat the

Race Co., Shaochai, aged 39 years:

Ge Honghang Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1909,

BANKING INSTITUTIONS, IN THE NORTH.

In Shanghal, the question of banking in wiitutions seems to overshadow all others. Whether it is because the Chinese banks there are less trustworthy than they are in

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of commercial institution, must eventually Osaka Shosen Kaisha, the first,, steamer of find itself in difficulties if, whether the which sails - from Hongkong on July 3 for owner's plaus are not yet public property and public knows it or not, it cannot take up its Tacoma, via Shanghai and Japan ports."

up to the present we understand ko hae. gone paper. It is greatly to be feared that the

no further than making application to the incidents referred to will not remain cops. An official telegram reaching the Home De authorities for permission to work his "aub partment in Tokyo reports that on the and marlos ming" Mr. Kataoka informs us that picuous by their singularity, for disappoint-time, after the establishment of the defence the coal, a sample of which he has in the office, ment begets distrust, which is the mother line against the Nantoom tribe of aborigines is of good quality, though soft, and will pro. of panic, and it will need · cool beads and a had been completed, a police officer and tan bably turn out a good steam fael. 02

volunteers were murdered and the defence lios Apart from the foregoing, Mr. Kaizoka bas bioken. It was re-established on the 10th alt. exonsive works in progress on Sakito Island, The length of the line is now about seven miles, close to the Kyushu Tanko Kisen! Kaisha the line has been constantly attacked by the (Steam Colliery Co.), which may be in work aborigines, four police officers, four volunteers, Ing order within about two years, producing and three coolles being killed and three police coil to an unlimited extent. The procoods officers, two assistants of police and ten volun- - from this and his sea-bed colliery, will be more

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Feeing as I do a deep regard for the wel

All things considered there is much to ad. mire and commend in the policy adopted by the present Governor of being fortifer in re, suaviter in medo, The rabid doctrine of the have in the most recent exchange of communi- (cations between the beads of the Executive in been more gratifying to me daring my Canton and Hongkong, a most gratifying mani-present visit to Tokyo than the expressions festation of that perfect understanding which of goodwill towards China which I have hear from all classes of Japanese--gonufus cannot fail of their best resale to the advantage expressions of sympathy with a country to- of both the British and Cainese people—l sm,

whose meelest civilisation Japan has owed so etc,

much in the past and whose people barg only to recently awakened to a consciousness of nationality.

JOHN CHINAMAN. Hongkong, 1th Jude, 1909.

CHINESE COMMEMORATION SÌAM PS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.” Sir-The news that H.E. Chang Jen Chun, Viceroy of Canton, had given the handsome donation of $100,000 towards the Endowment

In commemoration of the succession to the Fond of the proposed University as announced in your colames must have come as a pleasant Throne of Emperor Hsuan T'ang these special surprise to those who have the welfare of the postage stamps, the designs of which are said Colony at heart and particularly to Sir Fred-tube very pretty, will be fissed about, the end erick Lugard, who, since the idea of a local of July or the beginning of August next, The saat of learning was first mooted, bus spared value are to bà 2, 3, and 7 cents respectively, no piips in making the scheme find favour In Two million placas of the a cents, demommas the eyes of those not only resident in the Co-tion, and one million of each of the 3 and, long, but also the most influential citizens coots denomination-the latter two an am residing in other important centres in the Far value by the way, which are id be rataine East, and evoo in England. The interesting ordinary stamps hereafter-will be printed, correspondence which passed, betweed the These figures will not be exceeded.

As the demand for these commemoration On the gist'ultimo the opening ceremony of tears wounded. The loss sustained by the thin sufficient to supply all demands. Naga Governor and fl,E. Chang, bas doubtless been

lot of ready cash to avert a crisis, for there is serious ground for believing that several of these new institutions are far from being, whatever may be their name, true and righteous" altogether.

Hongkong or not we are not in a position ibn Tairon factory of the Osode Cement Com• laborgines, was 26 killed, the number of the sail will be made the principal depot for thì || read with the greatest interest. The Governor, stamps is sure to be very gres!, it is ady to my, but this mach, we do know, that one pany, which has just been constructed at a cost wounded” boing, unknown. It is stated, the', polpat and, according to the present outlook, | with his asual tact and a refreshing disregard for those who wish to buy pumber of saldom, heart of fraudulent transactions, suspensions or anything of a similar che factory cover 700,000 Isube of land on which of their position and have onored to surrender, forward to the parts resuscitation in the acar af fusarmountable Sidicalties, bar nucenéded ba allotted to the various Imparial Post Ome racter in this Colony, at least, not on the material for cement is obtained.

with ya riden.

futare, the result of local enterpries.

in" gradually swelling the subscriptions notik !--Shanghai Merowy,