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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

mont which raises its distribution for the year to the huge total of 80 per cent, a alum comparing with $5 per coal for each of the two preceding years. The Bukit Rajab Co., which distributed" 30 per cent, for 1906-7 and 1907-8, rewards its fortunate shareholders with 55 per cent, for the twelve months to March A. S. WATSON & CO., asi, Thus in both these cases there has

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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

AERATED WATER

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been an addition of 25 per cent, to the rate o distribution. The prograss recorded by the Federated (Selangor) Co. is no less gratifying and substantial. This company, which only twelve months ago made a maiden distribution of 8 per cent., is now able to declare a dividend of as much as 30 per.ceat. The two companies whose reports have already been issued have made even greater progress than their increased

dividends indicate, and it is fairly safe to assume

that the Vallanibrosa Co., whose accounts are

aoi yet available, has done likewise. It is

··MANUFACTURERS.in. short, a fact that, bad profits been dis

SPECIALITIES

DRY GINGER ALE.

LIME FRUIT

PAGNE.

tributed right up to the hill, and bad the directors neglected to make adequate pro vision for depreciation and reserves, the payment of still more imposing. dividends would have been quite practicable. Even the mist exacting shareholders should, however, be content with the substantial dividends as crying to them, and should find added satie. faction in the fact that the payment of such CHAM-distributions is not incompatible with the pure suit of a wise and conservative Gasocial policy.

ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.

STONE GINGER BEER.

PALATABLE

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PRODUCTION, AND PRICES...

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LOCAL' AND GENERAL.

THE Admiralty announce the appointment of Sub, Lieutenants- N. Tait, to the King Alfred; to date stult.; J. WO, Dalgleish, to the King Alfred, to date 27th ult.; Lieutenant R. E. G. Burton, R.W.LI, to the Terrible, for

passage to China Station, for disposal.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 1909.

HONGKONG MILLING COMPANY. reason of the fact that in pursuance of the

INTERESTING ICE QUESTION.

A very interesting action, having reference to the question of ice-making, was heard in the Supreme Court, this day, when the Hongkong Milhog Company, Limited, ie liq, claimed the

sum of $100,000 from Masare. Arnhold, Karborg & Co. The plaintiffe, who are in liquidatioa AMONG recently elected members of the Royal-Mr. H. Percy Smith being, the liquidator- Society of Arts are Taotai Jema Tisu Yow, claimed this amount for damages for alleged Ph.B. (Yale, U.S.A), Assoc. M. last. C. E., breach of warranty under an agreement dated Imperial Poking-Kalgan Railway, Peking, and 23rd March, 1907. Mr. Herbert Edward Pollard, Public Works Department, Shanghai Municipal Council,

Shanghai,

Sun-LUTINANT M. E. Highton, serving aboard the cruiser Kent, China Squadron, has been promoted lieutenant and reappointed to the Kent temporarily, Liasterant Highton first joined the service as a codet in May, 1904, and passed out creditably, and was promoted sub-lieutenant in August, 1907. The present commission of the Kent is drawing to a close, and she is die far recommissioning in. Navem her next, when her two years' spell under Cap tais Gerald C. A. Marescaux terminates.

Sir Francis Piggott (Chiel Justice) and Mr. Justice Comparty presided.

Sir Henry Berkeley, KC, and Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. John Hastings, of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings, appeared fox, the plaintiffs. Mr. Duncan McNeill and Mr. C.. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. H. W. Looker, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Dea con appeared for the defendants.

By the agreement the defendants guaranteed that the plant would muficture ice of the same clearness and quality asics which at the date of the agreement was being manufactured: by the Hongkong Ice Company, Limited The defendants supplied the plant, but did not manufacture ice of "the clearness and quality warranted, but produced an entire

The statement of claim, as read, stated. that under the agreement the defendants agreed to sell, and the plaintiffs agreed to buy an ice-making plant with a capacity of twenty-four tons per day of twenty-four hours, at the price of 95,450 Marks (German currency) and the defendants agiced for that MAJOR-GENERAL Sir Wilsona Black, KC price to deliver the plant to the plaintiffs' pre.. late 24th Regiment (South Wales Borderers)mises and to erect and complete the same died on 5th ult, at Burwood-place, London, with all proper accessories and appliances. after an operation, aged 72 years. He served to the past financial year two favourable lo- with the 42nd Highlandeis in the Crimea. He quences combined to effect a large increase in took part in the Zulo. War, when he commanded the profits of plantation rubber companies, the party that recovered the lost colours of the. Is the first place, production showed a consi- 24th Font. Pro noted general in 1893, be com; derable expansion as a result of normal addimanded for five years, fi at the Belfast District tjons to the number of trees tapped. Is and then the troops in China and ongkong, the second place, the average prices and was placed on the retired list in 1899. obtained "showed an appreciable advance

consequence of the consumpling in Messrs. Hale & Co., Saigon, wike in their ricely different and inferior quility of ice. creasing at a greater rate than available market report of 23rd ult, as follows The fow sales effected to Java nad the Philippines supplies. It is seldom in any industry that an increase in production is coincident with a rise duing the past week at suling prices, have REFRESHING. io selling prices, and when the phenomenon tended to advance our market to no small degree, to expectation of a strong demand from these directions Millers are now adopting a cactions policy, and are only open to contract at limits which buyers are reluctant to pay for the present. At the close, our market shows indications of being well able to maintain price. FEVERAL of the Birthday promotions affect officers serving in the ships of the China Squadron, including the following:-Sub- Lieutenants Alban T. B. Carties, H.M.S. King Alfred (fagship of Vice Admiral the Honour able Siv Hedworth Lambton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O commanding the squadron): Sub-Lieutenant G St. J. Llewellyn, of the survey ship Merlin; Sub-Lieutenant Cecil R. H. Harvey, of the cruiser Monmonth, and Sub-Lieutenant Donald P. Macgregor, of the destroyer Hart.. All four.officers have been reappointed to their respective ships in their new rank. Lieutenant

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does happen-as it did last year in the rubber industry, and may do again-the result is bound to be very favourable to producers. No particulars are available of economies effected in the cost of working by the three companies whose results we are considering, but it may safely be inferred that, in addition to the advan:" lages of larger outputs and improved prices, more economical operation contributed to the very spçcessful results achieved. The statistics supplied of production and values indicate very. satisfactory progress in both directions. The output of the Bukit Rajab Co, increased from 163,521 lbs in 1907-8 to 210,081 lbs. in the paul fioancial year, while the average price obtained improved from 38.2410-41 98d per b. Similarly, the prodution of the Federated (Selangor) Co. advanced from 13,618 lbs, to 59 694 lbs., #öd¬he average price-from-35′′ S. WATSON & CO., id 10 45 81d. The net profit of the Bukit

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mixed with aerated or plain water make excellent refreshing beverages. Guaranteed to be made from the pure juice of sound ripe fruit.

HONGKONG and KOWLOON.

Huapkong, 15th July, 1909.

NOTICE,

Rajab Co. increased from £20,800 to £37,500, and, while raising the dividend by__35_per_ cent, the directors are able to place £500 to reserve, to apply £500 to depreciation, and to 128 maintain the carry-forward at about £1,600,

The Federaled (Selangor) Co. which had an avaliable, surplus of only £1,200, twelve -8}]—communications-intended-for-publication-in-months ago, has now at its disposal a sum of

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BIRTHS.-

Oc June 28, 1909, at Sisulu, to Dr. and Mrs: H. Stanley Jenkins, a daughter (Margaret Winifred)

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On July 20, 1909, at Kuling, China, to Rev. On July 26, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr. and

Dr. and Mrs. W. E, l'aylor, a sou.

Mrs. Arthur Eveleiga, a son..

On July 26, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. George Milfer, a daughter...

MARRIAGES.

Chion Merchants' S. N. Co.

Curties was appointed a cadet in. May, 1903, the other three were appointed to the following September,

IT is stated that as a Chinese Naturalization Care has been promulgated in the provinces, the Waiwupu deems it advisable to impose certain restrictions on some Chinese who 400 inclusive of just 600 brought in.aruralize themselves-as-foreign-subjects for the sake of protection, but continue to reside in While increasing the dividend by 27 per cent. the directors are able to set aside £500 for the interior and often abuse their foreign pro- depreciation and to reinforce the carry forward-tection to the detriment of other Chinese The by over 50s. The amounts applied to Ministry decides to rule that they should not be permitted to reside in the interior; that they depreciation may appear small but, in relation to capitalisation and in view of the fact that

should not be employed as military or police the value of both companies' properties, far officers; that they should be debarred from the local Councils as well as forbidden to make from deteriorating is steadily appreciating, they must be deemed adequate, if not ample

BRILLIANT SUCCESSES.

direct representations to the local officials; and, lastly, that their children should not be allowed to attend Government educational institu- tions-N, C. D. News.

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COTTON SPINNING IN JAPAN.

A FROSPEROUS COMPANY,

agreement, the plaintiffs and their official liquidator on or about 'h July, 1998, bad assigned by way of mortgage the premises, to- gather with all mossages, tenements, erectionı, ata, thereto belonging.

by

There were still large sums due to the bank

bank was now' engaged in negotiations with a view to the sale of the premises and plant.

the plaintiff's under the mortgage, and the.

The defendants also stated that such inability (if any) had been owing to the fact that the plaintiffs bad, in consequence of the complete failure of their flour milling business, goba info liquidation, and consequently bad become, and were still upable to manufacture, any ice what- ever, inasmuch as such manufacture of ice was to be conducted as an accessory to the milling of four sed was to be carried on with power derived from the four milling plant and ma- chinery.

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Counsel for the plaintiffs opened the case to the Court, and after evidence was heard the case was adjourned.

CANTON DAY BY DAY,

DOGGED PERSEVERANCE OF SHAREN^LDERS,

[From Our Own Correspondent.] [ Canton, 3rd uguit. Upon receipt of a petition from a number of shareholders in the Canton-Haokow Railway Company requesting him to use bis best endea vours with a view to securing the services of both Sir, Chua Tung Liang Cheng and Mr. La Pu Shub for a further term in the Railway Company as president and vice-president' re spectively, the Acting Viceroy, H. E. Wa Seung Lin, in reply, has informed the pati- tioners that he has consulted with 'Admiral. Li Chuo and Tuotai Wong Ping Yun on the matter and bar in consequence wired to Paking. asking B.E. Ching Chit Tung and the Ministry of Posts sad Communications to decline to ac- cept the resignation of Sir Chun Tung and Mr. Lo. It is now generally believed that both gir Chus Tung and Mr Lo' will in all probability be persuaded to remain in the Railway Com

OFFICIALS' RETURN.

By an agreement, of which the defendants were aware, made between the plaintiffs and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., the plaintiffs agreed to sell add Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, to buy, for a period of six years, all surplus ice manufactured by the plaintifis over and above such quantity as might be required for their own consumption;pany's service. such surplus pot to exceed 6,300 tons per andum, at the price of fire-eighths of a'cest per pound, which price would have given large pro- fits to the plaintiff over and above the costs of manufacture-and by this agreement the plain tiff company agreed that the ice to be sold to Messrs. Jardine, Mathieson and Company; should be in quality, purity and clearnest equal to the ice then being made by the Hong kong Ice Company.

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Owing to the broach by the defendant of the warranty the plaintiff company have been un- able to perform their contract with Messrs. jardine, Matheson and Company, and have lost the profits which they would have made

thereby and have suffired ather-heavy

damages. The plaintiffs claimed as damages the cost of the plant, together with the expenses

Expectant Prefect Sit Wing, Nia, Commo dore Lum Kwok Cheung and several olbers, who had escorted H.E. Chang Jea Chue to Hongkong, returned to Canton yesterday,

of

TEMPORARY OFFICIAL" APPOINTMENTS.

Tastal Chan Moog Trang and Total Hon Kwok Kwan will temporarily assume the offices Provincial Judge and Taotai for the Deve lopment of Native Industries, repectively on the 26th day of this moon (the 11th instant), y

FLOOD WARNING.

The Canton officials have been in receipt of a telegram from the nathorities in Kwangsi to the effect that recently the Yung Ho River has. risea-to-a-height-of-sixteen-feet above the

normal level and that precautionary step should be taken in the riverine districts along the West River against the occurance, of foods, as the water of the Yung Ho is rushing" is a downward course with terrific forch.

BARBOUR FATALITY,

incurred in erecting an ice fictory and store, less the astimated value of the ice-making

The amended statement of defence was, in plant. They also claimed their loss of profits

Yesterday morning, 'when the steamer Fal effect, that the agreement to sell the ice plant was intended by the parties to contain only an had acchored at her,wharl on arrival from those terms which were contained in-certain Hong-ng; a large number of sampann swarm- written correspondence which had passed be ed alongside her to receive passengers-Gwing- to the face of being over-crowded, one of the tween the parties prior to the agreement. ........

were thrown into the river with the result that The attention_of_the_defendants was not sampans-was-cipsized-and-several-persons-

ont of them was drowned and two others in- drawn, at the time of the signing of the agree- met, to the inclusion in the agreement of any term or terms different to the terms contained- jured. in the written correspondence.

The defendants sigand the agreement in the hasest, but mistaken belief, that the agree ment contained in effact no terms other than those which were contained in the written correspondence.

5.8. "TACOMA MÁRU”

QUICK PASSAGE..

We are informed by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha that the us. Tacoma Marn, their first Trans-Pacific steamer, which left Hongkong on the 3rd July last on her maiden voyage to Tacoma, Wash. (via ports), arrived last Satur day afternoon, the 31st July, being two days earlier than her scheduled date of arrival,

There was a duty. cast upon plaintiffs to draw the attention of the defendants to the fact that the plaintiff, of their solicitors, had inserted in the agreement term or terms which had not been mentioned, discussed or agreed to, during the preliminary negotiations. The plaintiffs were estopped by their conduct and branch of the duty from set ting up or relying or any term or terms no HONGKONG-FLOUR-MERCHANT - contained in the written correspondence.

Those who may be inclined to regard the re- sults now being notified as spectacular and ab

·Dormal will soon be convinced of their error if they will only take the trouble to consider the position and prospects of the robber plantation industry. Brilliant as has been the success al ready secured by enterprises which are, com-

The half-yearly general meeting of the Fuji Paratively speaking in their infancy, it should be far surpassed by the prosperity yet in store. Spinning Company, held last week, says the A steady increase in production may safely be Japan Chronicle of zoth ult, sdopted the re- reckoned upon, as additions are year' by year commendation of the board of directors to In anwar to the state nent that they had being made automatically to the number of distributo a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent. warranted that the plant would minofacture _ircco.from which supplies are drawn. And while per annum. The meeting was then converted. -ice-of-the-same-clearoers-and-q-sality-as-the the output of plantation,rubber is bound to show into a special general meeting, and considered a large expansion in the course of the next few a proposal to double the company's capital by years there is no reason toanticipate appreciable increasing it to V16,co0,000. The proposal was reaction in prices. Quite apart from the rapid unanimously adopted. The new shares are to development of the motor car trade, fresh ases be first offered to all shareholders on the list on are being found for rubber almost every day, October 1st next onë new share to one old. while the demand for the commodity must Mr. Wada, managing director of the company, show a continuous expansion with the increase repudiated a report that the company was to in general industrial prosperity. Meanwhile suspend its working on account of the scarcity Os July 14, 1939, at Shanghai, Thomas supplies are comparitively limited, and even of the stock of raw cotton. Mr. Wada said that Daniel, second son of C. C. Gram, formerly of farseeing experts entertain do apprehension of the company held a stock of 8,845,150 kin, the Customs service, Shangbai, to Barbara an excess of production over the whold's grow which would be sufficient to last for seven- Primrose, eldest daughter of Geo. Pestion, afing requirements. Certainly there is no like-months. The new capital is required for the

lihood of the output.outstripping consumption extension of the company's mills. The dewing order by the plain'iff-no attempt had in the immediate future. At the present time works now in progress are the Oyama Fourth visible stocks are abnormally low owing to the Cotton Spioning Mill, fitted with 40,000 Brazilian shortege, and the deficiency, in avail-spindles, estimated to cost over Ys,500,000, the able supplies will not be made good by the io Miss Water Power Electric Works, the cost of creasing output of the Middle East so long as which is estimated at over-Y2,000,000, and the the demand remains anything like us strong as Hodogaya Mill. For the temporary loans it to-day. Hence any severe rolapse from have been made or debentures issued. The the almost record price now quoted, is in Hodogaya mill is expected to be completed the highest degree imp,obable. But, even, if a shortly and the other two, at the end of this selapse were to occur, plantation companies year. Upon the completion of these works, could continue to make handsome profits and they are estimated to bring in about Y1,000,000 pay Imposing dividends, as a fall in prices will of additional profit. be counterbalanced by a compensating increase in the quantity of rubber produced. For, Bol enly are large numbers of new trees coming RUBBER, DIVIDENDS.

into bearing year by year, but the productive- ness of the old trees is constantly increasing. The imposing dividende declared within the Thus a fall in prices should possess no terrors past few days by three of the leading rubber for rubber shareholders, while it might beregard. companios; says the Financier of June 29, from 'ed as a desirabla consummation so far as it and don't care.")- which=ws quote as follows, afford. striking ||would serve to stimulate consumption. Looked ovidence of the flourishing condition of the at from every point of view, the outlook is ex« - rabbet plantation industry. In each case the tremely favourable, and investors may, rost as: -rates of distribution have been substantially in- shred that the industry which has already yield. creased, and the extent of the improvement si- | ed them such fine resulin in not- likely to dis- tablished indicates pretty clearly therapid striden appoint their most sanguine hope for the future, made during the past financial year. The Val. The handsome dividends now being declared lambrosa Company breaks all records in rub-are, In short, but an carnest of all! more bur dividends by recommending a fioul pay- | schleromante yet to come,

On July 30, 1989, at Streatham, William Alexander Fonescu, youngest son of Frederick Halliley of Kandy, Ceylon, to Margaret Elizabeth, oldest daughter of D. Addison Darling, of Shanghai, and Mrs. Darling, 101 Hopton Road, Streatham, London.

DEATH..

On July 2, 1939, at London, Joho George Barkisy, fate of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1909.

· frozen chinese pigs.

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(Mr. John Burns, when asked a question in the House concerning the arrival of froren pig carcases from China, replied, "I don't know

When members fise the usual'volley

Of questions on the day's concerus, There's one man thinks the game is foll

And that one man is Mr Burns. For when approached en China baçon,

And how it ranks as breakfast farm, He made reply, bla narwas unshaken, !!! I neither know nor do l'cars 1.

F. J. Quis Shower Tima,

PREDICTS INCREASE OF TRADE, "Not only Seattle, but the whole Pacific coast will respirenimable profits through the development of Oriental trade in the next few years, and I predict that the possession of the Philippines will enable the American merchant mating in time to dominate the Pacific trade, said Kai, a millionaire flour merchant of Hongkong, yesterday, reports a Seattle paper

of 1st ult,

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Telegrams.

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SERVICE.

DOWAGER EMPRESS"

FUNERAL.

FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."] :

Peking, 2nd August. The various Foreign Ministers in Peking have notified the Waiwupu that special representatives will be sent to China in the autumn to attend the funeral of the late Empress Grand Dowager.

"OHANG CHIH-TUNG,

PRINCE, REGENT'S CONCERN.

{By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 2nd August. The day before yesterday, the Prince Regent instructed Tsai Cheuk and Hau Shi-chang to go and inquire after the health of Chang Chih- tung.

NEW CANTON VICEROY..

ARRIVAL DELAYED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung_Fb."] ·

Shantung, 3rd August... Owing to indisposition HE, Yuan Shu-fun, Viceroy-designate of Can- ton, has postponed his departure for one 'week.

His Excellency will proceed to Nanking. first to hold a conference with Viceroy Chang Jen-chun before starting for Canton

VICEROY CHANG-JEN CHUN.

ARRIVAL AT SHANGHAL

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."}

Shanghai, 3rd August, Viceroy Chang Jen-chun arrived by the C.M.S.N.Co.'s 5.8. Hain Ming. The official landing took place at noon to-day.

STUDENTS FOR AMÉRICA.

INSTRUCTIONS TO VICEROYS,'

[By sourtesy of the "Sheung-Po."]-

Paking, 3rd August. The Board of Education has issued instructions to all the Viceroys and Governors to select students for edu cation in the United States of Ame- rica,

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CHANG CHIA TỪNG.

HEALTH NOT IMPROVING.

[By courtesy of the "* Sheung Po"]

Peking, 3rd August Chang Chil-tung's' condition. becoming critical:

He is suffering from hæmorrhage with intermitent fever and cold."

Hongkong Ice Cimproy, defend lots said the warranty was not included in the correspond ence. It was an express term or condition of the agreement that the warranty should be good for twelve mouths from the date at which the plant should be taken over in full working order by the servants of the plaintiff company.

The defendania now said that the term or Besides controlling an immensa flour busi- condition of the agreement had not been faldess, Mr. Quas is compradore for the Pacific

CHIENTAO DISPUTE, filled. The plant had not been taken over in Mail' Steamship Company, the Toyo Kisea Kalshs, the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Com- full working order, or, at all, by the plaintiff

CONCILIATION SUGGESTED, - Alternately if➡and this the defendants denied pany, and is agent for the Portland Flouring

the plant had been taken over in full work Mills Company.

(By courtesy of the " Sheung' Po,”] · There is no doubt that the future extension

!. been made by the plaintiffs or their servante, of the world's trade will be in the Orient. No

Peking, 3rd August. between the taking over and the date of the country has as great advantages for trado in the Orient as has the United States," continued writ, tp manufacture soy ice with the plant.

The Japanese Minister called at The defendants did not admit that the ice Mr. Quan.. "My country is most favourably plast did not manufacture-ice of the same dispored to the United States and is anxious the office of the Waiwupu and sug- clearness or qually as the ice manufactured to do business with this country. Annually gested that each country, should China imporis millions of dollars' worth of by the Hongkong Ice Company, Limited,

The defendants also alleged that no fair or goods from the United States now, and this yield a little in its respective attitude, complète trini had been made of the plant, trade is increasing all this time." and that owing to the action of the plaintiffs, or their servants, the defendants were not permitted to ran the plant for a full week as required by the agreement. Any inability on the part of the plaintiffs to perform their contract with Messrs. Jardins, Matheson and ∙Company, was not owing to any breach of the defendants of their alleged warranty, but had been, owing to the wrongful action of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, in refusing to accept the ice manufactured by the plant.

Further, the defendants said that such in- ability (if any) had been owing to the fact that

Os his plenure tour of the Pacific canst and 80 that negotiations regarding, the visit to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, Chiontao Island disputo may be con Quao Kal is accompanied by his two young on, Quan Chee On, spad 14, and Yet Oo, cluded at an early date." eged 12; bis nopkow, Quan Yuen, a Sas Fran cisco mercheat; J. W. Ganong, of Portland, vice-president of the Portland Flouring Mills Company, and the latter's son Author,

"Though I was educated on the Pacific coast this is my first visit to Seattle," said Quan Kai "We arrived in San Francisco on the Manchuria, June 14, and spent a week there av guests of T. B. Wilcox, president of the Portland Flouring Mills Company. We visited a week in Portland where we were entertained by the officers of the company 1 reprosant. Wa aro the large profits, referred to, by reason of spend several days visiting this wonderful city." the fact that on or about 18th March 1908, the Fox seventeen years Quan, Kai, conducted plafotifs had agreed in writing to execute and wholesale boot and shoe house in San Fran cisco, where heffaid the foundation of his Tor- deliver to the Chartered Bank of India, une, in 1891 be sold out and returned to China. Australia and China a mortgage of the premises The party plans to sail for the Oriant on July wherein the plant wat then erecied, and by, sa su the Mongolia,

the plaintiffs bad put it out of their power lowers to Tacoma for a day and I intend to

FRENCH MILITARY.

“MANŒUVRES.

APPOINTMENT OF CHINESE. ATTACHE.

{Dy courtory of tặc " Sheung Po3]

Peking, 3rd August. The Ministry of War has deputed

Lau Yiang-yuen to proceed to France to attend the military manoeuvres,