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Intimation.

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY AUGUST 16 1909.

he calls attention quite, correctly but in a very extravagant manner to the difficulty of bringing non-British directors of companies registered under the Hongkong Ordinances who do not reside in Hongkong to. book for offences against the Ordin-

It is said that representations are about to be made to the authorities at the Royal Mint that bew coin-of 1/10th of a "shilling, or one Peony and a fifth-should be issued. If suc

cessful, this would be the first step towards ¡decimal currency..

CzComp Officer F. P. Jenyes, of the inter-island transport. Wright, w i fast overboard from that ship at about 6 o'clock Saturday evening,, 7tb inst, while the vessel was four miles off the

coast of Marinduque, near Boac, and drowned. The information has been received through a wire seat to the chief quartermaster at Mapila On the afternoon of the 3rd instant, says ibe from Calbayog. It is not known definitely how Japan Garette, a pigeon was caught on

the deceased fell overboard. Mr. Jenyes was born at Portsmouth, England, in 1869, and has board the N. Y. K. S. Moral-mart moored alongside the Yokohama Custome piers. At-served on the Pompey and Ajax. He was tached to the pigeon was an iron ring, on which is inscribed the letters L. T. 398,"

MR. Nakabasbi, President of the Osaka Sho

A. S. WATSON & CO., ances. But when he passes on to say that practically the same regulations (as in England) are in force in Hongkong 'he entirely misrepresents the actual state of affairs. The English Companies Act of 1862. was considerably modified by the Com- panies Act of 19oo which was passed for the purpose of preventing the issue of fraudulen Kaisha, left Yokohama on the 29th ultimo ent prospectuses, and containe stringent by the Kagawaru for America. Mr. Nakabashi provisions as to the steps to be taken by, is one of the party of Osaka business men who are to visit America in response to the invita Companies proposing to invite public sub-

tion of the Chambers of Commerce on the acription. These provisions have never

Americas Pacific Coast.. MANUFACTURERS. been incorporated in the Hongkong Com- pany Ordinances which are based on the English Company Act of 1862, and the result is that Company law under the Hong.

AERATED WATER

SPECIALITIES :

DRY GINGER ALE.

LIME FRUIT

PAGNE.

A TIDAL wave was experienced at Mimizu- mara, Koyu-geri, in Hiuga province, on August and thirty buildings were washed away. Four bridges, were also washed off at Taunomura

Hongkong pilat for the gunboats Quiros and ›l'ellalobos, and was appointed second officer of the Wright in 1908.

Ar the annual dinner of the Salon of Literature. and Art the principal guest was the Chinese Minister, and he remarket that art and litera ture bad for centuries besu held in the highest esteem in Chios, and at a period when Western bad not yet turned their attention to the cultivation of those subjects, their terateurs and craftsmen had already given to the world masterpieces that existed to this day. I science, however, they looked to the Western nation for guidance and were now the hope that a time might come when, stand. ing side by side, they would mutually assist in the unveiling of those mysteries of nature that were only to be disclosed by modern culture.

NEW FRENCH CUNBOAT POR

COMPANY PROMOTION IN

„HONGKONG.

LETTER IN THE "FINANCIAL. TIMES,” The following letter is reproduced from the Financial Times :-

TEK YANOTSZA,

SHANGHAI DOCK CO. COMPLIMENTED. The French Navy has received a most valu- abis addition to ber Yangleza Fleet in the River gunboat Doudart de Legris destined to Sir-As you are aware, the Hongkong Com- suppost the gunboat Olry in cary:oy the Tri-pany Ordinances were framed to afford facilitias colour over the rapids of the Upper Yanglaze for the registration and working of comprajes, into the heart of Chios.

wishing to trade under the limited liability Jawa.. The boat was built by Messrs. E. de la As a general rule these Urdinances follow the Broase at Foucha of Nantes in France, sent English Company Acts, but owing to lack of out here in pieces and re-erected by the supervision on the part of the Hongkong Gov, Shangbai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., ernment varioué abares have crept in, and unv at one of their decks. The whole re-erection scrupulous persons have not been slow to take and equipment was carried out in the short advantage of the loote administration of the pace of 33 days from the time the mate- Ordinances, especially when these companies rists were landed until she left the wharf operate outside actuat British terrkury. "Com- under her own steam on her first and un-panies registered in Hongkong, but working. official trial trip. The trial trip proved in China, can be brought under the jurisdictipa of the British Supreme Court at Shanghai, but Rreat success in every way, the number of re- folctions of the machinery being in excess of the number obtained by the builders, and her speed was 14h knots.

The gunboat presents a very smart appear-

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the Court has no jurisdiction, whatever over

all sorts of offences against the Hongkong. persons of other nationalities who may commit Ordinances without being brought to book. own Consular Courts, but when they claim pro- tection of some small South American State in nine cases out of ten they escape punishusent.

kong Ordinance is less strict than under and five men are missing. Owing to the rising earnestly striving to follow in their footsteps, in #aco, and as rogards the shape of her bulj Of course these persoos can be charged in their

of the Gokasegawa at Nabuoka, over 700 boules were finoded.

RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending the igth |-August-1909===

Library. Museum,

436 235 2,571 259

Non-Chinese........

Chinese

and

the arrangement of her deck bouses she is marked departure from the usual type of Upper Yangtize gunboats to which we have

Her principal dimensions are--

become so familiar out here,

Length over all-munum.172'-5".

the English Acts. The specific instance to which the writer alludes as a violation of the Hongkong Ordinance is not a violation of the Hongkong Ordinance nor would it be CHAM-a violation of the English Company Acts:

There is nothing legal in issuing a pros-" pectus before the incorporation of the in- tended Company either under English or Hongkong law and the only difference be- tween the two is that in Eugland, every prospectus issued on behalf of an incorporat-AN Amoy dispatch to the Mainichi roports that ed or intended Company must be signed by Mr. Liu, ex-Totai of Amoy, and Mr. Ling, the directors or proposed directors and filed formerly director of the Amoy Chamber of for registration before being issued; in Hong.Commerce, have formed a syndicate with a kong it does not require to be registered capital of t00,000 tuole to start the business of sidorable difficulty in raising a band of very prompt and able manner in which the prosecutor at home. The English Company either before or after issue. The object of in. camphor-manufacturing in Hupeb. It is re- $4,000 gold and praying that, in view of the work was carried out, by them, the contract laws do not perm t'of a company inviting public

ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.

ון

STONE GINGER BEER.

PALATABLE

AND

sisting on the registration of a prospectus is to enable the prospectus to be on record if proceedings should subsequently be taken REFRESHING. against directors for misrepresentation, but

Watson's

FRUIT SYRUPS ·

mixed with aerated or plain water make excellent refreshing beverages, Guaranteed to be made from the

pure juice-of-sound ripe fruit,

Total

695 3,807

ported that the syndicate bas obtained a monopoly of the camphor business in Hupeh for fiftecu years,

A TOKIO despatch, of the 12th: inst, to the

On the rath-insti, before Mr. F. W. Hadley, vice-consul, acting judicially, Mr. F. M. Brooks made an application on behalf of Chas, A. Hogelbrachs, who was committed for trial be fore the U. S. Court for Chios on a charge of embezzlement, for reduction of bail, which was fixed the previous day at $4,000 (gold), reports the Shanghat Tim The petition stated that defendant would have

Depth............aideu diniminin 7'-3 ", The machinery consists of two sets of triple expansion, surface condensing engines, sud steam is supplied by two watertube boilers fitted with forced draught.

The Shangbai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., have been complimented by the builders con- in most gratifying terms on account of the

fact that the U, S, Count for China would not bold a session until October, the amount of the bail should be substantially reduced. After due consideration his Hoaqur decided that bail | RULANGAU (AMOV) MUNICIPAL is the sum of $3,000 gold would be sufficient,

and made an order accordingly.. The becess ary bond was subsequently executed.

THE ICE CASĂ.

N. G. D. New says: -It is expected at Tokio there is no magic registration itself. A com.

that Na Tung, Senior Assistant President of pany, therefore, does not require to be incor- the Waiwupts, will bedceforward conduct the porated before the prospectus is issued, al segotiations touching the Antung-Mukden though as a matter of practice it is usual and Railway in Peking. It is not expected that preferable hat the Company should be incor-the Chinese authorities will obstruct the recon- porated before application is made for public struction of the line, the work on which itMINATION OF MR. Arndt continUED,

The action brought by the Hongkong Mil-' subscription. The question of the administra. proceeding steadily,

fing Company, Limited, against Mesars. Ara Tion of Companies in China is beset with diffie--UNDER-date-Shanghai, 12th init, Megars. Wheehold, Katberg and Company, to recover the culties which are not likely to be solved by lock & Co. write in their fortnightly circular sum of $100,000 for alleged breach of warranty, letters such as the one quoted. It is, of We are pleased to be able to report "No

was continued to-day before the Chief Justice

course, more than open to doubt whether the. Ordinances should not be made stricter. In one respect their laxity has been officially recognized. Numerous cases have arisen in which a company registered as British does not possess a single British director: and for such.concerns the British Govern- ment has refused to allow consular protec

A. S. WATSON & CO., tion to be exercised,"

LIMITED,

HONGKONG and KOWLOON.

Hongkong, 15th July, 1909,

NOTICE,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE German mail of the 16th July was deli (28 vered in Londen on the 24th jost.

All communications intended for publication in The HONGKONG TELEGRAPH should be addromed to The Editor, 1, les House Road, and should be sooompanied by the Writer's Name and Addre

Undinary business communications should be address

to The Maunger. The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for say rejected MB., nor to' return any Contribution.

__SUBSCRIPTION_RATES (IN, ADVÁNCK), DAILY-388 per annum. WHXKLY—$13 per annum).

The ratos por quarter and per mense, próförtional

change" in our Homeward Freight market since last writing as cargo is coming forward Constwise:--There is also "No, change to in steady quantities on all the various beabs, report here, since last writing, but in the op- posite sense and things are vary du!! indeed on the coast with no prospect of any improvement for some time to come as far as we cap seo at the moment.

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(Sir Francis Piggott) and the Puiane judge (Ms. H. H.J. Gompertz),

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COUNCIL.

There are sumbers of companion trading here3 which are registered in Hongkong, but all the directors, managers' and capital ars of foreign origin, and in case of default pomone making · contracts with such concerns have noʻsedrasi.. | · No doubt the question is a difficult one, pod one cáo understand the reluctance of the Hong kong Government to take action, but what is to be said of the amborities who openly permit the Company Acts being broken? We have bere a Crown Advocate, who, in a sense, occupies the place of the public

time allowance for complatina baving been | subscriptions notil it bas registered at Somerent

House its memorandum and articles of associa fixed at so days.

tion and filed with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies a copy of the prospectus. Practical ly the same regulations are in force in Hong- kong, but io' a prospectus, published hers to day, public subscriptions were being invited for a company before it had been registered. -- "The promoters are prominent British subjecte and...... no action whatever is being taken. is it to be wondered at that foreigners defy the Hongkong Ordinances when British subjects of standing do so? In this case the company' will be regie' tered only it the flotation is successful,

Midates of a meeting of the Council, held at the Board Room,'on the 27th July, 1909.

Present:-Messra, W. H. Wallace (chair. aisa), J. E. Fenwick, W. Kruse, Lim Nea Kar, J. Mencaribi, S. Okuyama, W. Wilson, the Pealth Officer and the Secretary.

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Mr. Lim Nee Kar was introduced and took bir seat as Chinase member of the Council.

The minutes of the last meeting were readin addressing this latter to you I do sp in the and confirmed.

bops that the publicity accorded to it in your

After discussion, it was decided to fix iba

widely read paper will induce the authorities to stop to a state of affairs which is fast degenerating into a scandal. I am, etc.

. A BRITISH MANUFACTURER. Shangbai, June 19,

period of notice to be given either by the Conte cil of the Secretary, to, terminate the latter's

Slade, instructed by. Mr. Joho Hastings, of

Sir Henry Berkeley, KC, and Mr. M. W..agreement with the Council, at six months.

The secretary reported that inquiries had beep Mestes, Hastings and Hastings, were for the made concerning (1) small-pox on the Island, plaintiffs, while Mr. Duncan McNeill and Mr. ¦ and (a) disease amongst the cattle, with the re C. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. H. W. Looker,sult that there was found to be no foundation for

CHINESE RAILWAYS,... of Messrs. Deacon, Locker and Deaçon, ap such tumours, which,,ay regarded the cattle, peared for the defence.

'might have originated in 'the fact that a former

ALLEGED GERMAN INTRIGUES. had been prosecuted and convicted for selling a

The following is the original text of the ~ cow for consumption unfit for human food, the purchaser-who afterwards sold the animal intelegram sent to The Times by its Peking Correspondent, to which Reuter referred in a Amoy-being also precended against and fined

A communication was read from the Hai- telegram of Julý 25:-)

Peking, July 23, fangting requesting the Council to order the

The telegram of President Taft to the Kulangsu sampai men to register their sumpaos 'sh the nifipgting's yaren, and' to carry Prisca Regent, emphasizing in friendly, bat special license boards issued by that official.anmistakable terms America rights in the It was deci led to inform, the Hailangling that Caston-Hankow Szechuan Railway loan, has the Council could not comply with his requesti stirred the Chinese. Following upon its re as the Cuncil considered that, as the Kulangsu ception the Regent, for the first time, sum. sampaat already carried license boards, with moned the whole of the Waiwupu to audience,

and showed cons darable anxiety; for, 'if this' the sumber plainly marked in, both Chines and Foreign character, such boards were ample for purposes of identification, whether on the Kulangsu or the Amoy hide, god that no good purpose would be served by compelling these sampap men to carry two license bonds; morenver, it would be a distinct bardship to call on these men to pay two license fees. The Haifangling was also to be requested to isse

BARON Shibusawa, Mr. Kondo (President of Mr, Aradt, formerly manager of the machin, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha), Mr. Omani (of Yoko-ary department of Messrs, Arabold, Karberg hama) and Mr. Hamaguchi (of Tokyo) bave and Company, again went lato the box. This been chosen as the promoters of the Japan witness' examination by Me Stada principally Chisa syndicate, and the number of shares to hinged on the question of specifications sop». be allotted to the leading capitalists has been plied from Berlin. The case was again ad arranged. Thus the preparations having pro- journed. gressed to a patisfactory point, the inaugural general meeting will be held this month. It js expected that Mr. Furuichi, ex-Vice-Minister of Communications and later President of tho EXPORTS to Hongkong and China from the Seoul Fusan Railway Company, will be select- Straits, last year, reached a value of 121 millioned as president of the syndicate. doliais, being a fall of 41 millions or 271 per cent.

THE Goveromen proposes to add to the Chinese Press Laws special articles according favourable treatment to editors.

MESSRS, Lobaitz and Co. Real ew, have re- ceived a cable that the hopper barges Hercules and Cygnus have arrived at Gran on their

voyage to Singapore.

THE Chiness Government decided to organize a fist of ten med-of-war at a cost of T.

out in spite of the want of meaus.

CANTON DÀY BY DAY,

ANNIVERSARY OF LATE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY.

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[From Our Qun, Correspondent ] THE Apcar steamer, Lightning, Capt. A. E

Canton, 14th August, Gentles, sister ship to the Catherine Apcar,

Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of which arrived at Hongkong on Thursday even the late Emperor of China (Kuang, Hsu) in ing, from Calcutta via Penang and Singapore order to commemorate the occasion Dragon reported that after leaving the Sadd Heads the flags were hoisted on the various yamens as well steamer met with cyclonic blows denoting that, as several prominent buildings. A pumber of Tomewhere in the Bay, a circular storm was shops were closed-for the transection of busi travelling. The Lightning a good sea-boatness. The native press in this city suspended and behaved splendidly throughout. Da

about 3 p.m. a quantity of wreckage was pass- ed, painted boards and about 100 logs, pre-. sumably the deck cargo of some sailing craft that had come to grief. After passing the Cocos Islands fine weather was met with and

policy of drift contiques, he realizes that be may receive other and less friendly warnings direct

from other rulers.

Prince Ching, the President of the Walwapo,

whose beglect of bis high duties does China

much disbonour, has been awakened, and on

Tuesday was present at the Waiwapa to discuss affairs with Sir J. N. Jordan, the British Minis

Bubscriptions for any period less than one month 401,000,005, and this scheme will be carried August 3rd in' deg to in R., 99 deg-18 in. work and consequently, there was no issue of such orders as would, pievent Goh Pek and "ter-for-the-first-time-since-the-latter's arrival_

will be charged us for a full, month. The daily son is delivered 'free' when the addrom 3+

woosible to messenger. l'ork subcribers can have their copies delivered at thair residences without any, extra charge. On copias sent by, poss an adidas 81.30 per quater je charged for postage.

Tas postage on its weekly'isce to any part of the

~world is 30 oenta par quarter.

Single Copies, Daily, con cents. Weekly, twenty:

five cents (for cash only)...

A WIRELESS messige has been received from the Commander of the Rt. M. S. Emprian of Yakobama on Wednesday, the 18th instagt, at

China to the effect that he expects to arrive, at

8 o'clock in the morning.

continued until arrival.

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THE W iwupu proposes to address the Anti-ACCORDING to a report of the Acting Inspec Opium Commistiocers painting out that it tor-General of the M. Customs, says the would be desirable to bave opium smoking re- Smwanao, the British Government has con- On August 10, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr. and duced by one-hall before the bolding of the sented about reducing the export of opium

next Opium Commission.

BIRTH.

„Mrs. J. j. Dawn, a daughter.

MARRIAGE

Os July 31, 190), in London, Robert Kan- netb Evans, M., Mansfield College, Oxford, to Jaust Elisabeth, second daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Hopkyn Rees, London Mission, Peking.

DEATHS.

We are requested to state that the resolution regarding the crease in liquor licence fees was by error lateral in the Government Gazelle as having passed the Legislative Council and

that it was not in fact so passed. '

On August 7, 1901, at Weibaiwei, Frank THE Waiwapu intends to recover the muni Wildes Craven, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs.elpal control in Kulangsu, Amoy, and, with Į. H. Gravou of Shanghai, agod 1 year and y that object in view, has begun to organize a

Chinese police force and municipal govern meat outside the foreign settlement,

months.

On August 10, 1919, at Shanghai, Moira Agnes, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jsmes Law, aged 8 montba.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONO, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1909.

COMPANY PROMOTION.

As the Revenus Council in Peking finds that the import of foreign opium has been shout $3,000 piculs a year previously and the 'presert import is 47,000 plcuts, which is obly a sight reduction on the former quantity, it has asked the British Government further to reduce the import of the drug.

The

vernacular newspapers to-day

HARBOUR FATALITIES.. Two cases of barbour fatalitiei: have been reported, ong taking place on the sith inst. and the other on the following day. Is the first instance a rampan capsized in mid-stream when two persons were drowned; in the second case a cargo-bost collided with a steam-launch close to the river steamers wharf as a result of which the goods on board the smaller craft were lost, in addition to one woman being drowned.

OFFICIAL'S TRANSFER

H.D. WEH THUNG YAO..

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other "wa chers," from interfering with I cented here three years ago. Sir J, N. Jordan grave. - sampan,men belonging to the laternationally warned him of the danger that Chipa was running by her failure to enforce iba orders of Settlement of Kolangio,

others residing in the neighbourhood of the A letter was read from Mr. A. B. Craggs and coal yard owned by Mr. Tang Tai, complaining of the nuisance caused by the coal dust. The secretary w. directed to inform Mr. Tong Tai of the complaint, and to request him to bave the coal heap regularly sprinkled with water,

to carry out this request, the Council would and then covered with matting. Should he fail reluctantly be compelled to proceed against bim in his Consular Court.

The Chairman referred in seling terms to the loss the Foreign Con.munity and the Council had sustained by the death of Mr. A F. Gardiner, who bad served on the Council for over four years,

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from 1908, ten per cent per year, so as to stop

The ex-Provincial Judge of Kwangtung, Wei it ia jen years while the expart of opium from Persia and Turkey to China will be com-Ching Tung, handed over charge of his yamen on (be ith instant in Tees Chào Hang Tranr 'menced to be reduced from 1909.

and will leave here is the course of a week for ludian opium imported in 1998 is 47,034 Kwangsi to take up his new appointment as picule, and is a reduction of 5,951 piculs Provincial Treasurer in that province. compared with the 52,985 picule of 1997 båt It is.1,134 piculs more than the amount of import

Owing to the death of his mother in his The Captain Superintendent of Palice report- of Indian oplem for 1993 promised by the native place in Kwangtung, B. E. Wen Trunged the following cases bad been dealt with at British authorities, namely 45,900 picula. How Yao, at present Assistant Imperial Resident the Mixed Court since the last, meeting (-- ever, this is due to the fact that what the Minister at Lhassa, recently submitted Summonses: Assault to, Allowing pigs and British authorities promised was the reduction memorial to the Imperial Government tender- of actual export from India but not counting ing bis resignation from his post-in-order to enable him to return to Kwangtung to go into the am unt slieady on the way to China or stored in other ports from where it is re-ex-hourping. H. E. Wen's resignation has been ported to China.

~rofused but ho-has-been-granted three.montba.

leave of absence ·

SHELL TRansport SHARES.

NEW STRIKE of oil on east coast of

BORNEO.

THE wedding took place on the 3rd 'instant at Nagasaki of Mr. Aage Ludvig Frants Jordan, son of Mr. A. L. Jordan, Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Company's Naga. saki office, and Miss Clütchen Roberta Bowie, daughter of Dr. R. 1. Bowis, of No. 24, Oura,

There has been steady and persistent buying Nagasaki. The civil part of the ceremony was performed by Mr. J. H. Wallace, acting Danish of Shell Transport phates, and the shares have. Consolar Agent, and was followed by a religious advanced. Buying comes from such well-in- ceremony at the residence of the bride's father, formed quarters that it is generally assumed the Very Bar. M. A. Salmon officiating. Mr.", woma'development will shortly be announced

A FIRE, which might easily have developed into serious proportionn, occurred on board the A Shanghai correspondent has addressed Clenavon, lying at the C. M. Lower Wharf, a letter to the Financial Times, reproduced Hongkew, Shanghai, at about 5 am, on toth lost. The watchmin saw smoke issuing from elsewhere in this issue, on the subject of company promotion in Hongkong. The one of the holds, and gave the alarm. The crew and officers set to work in right earnest, writer is so wide of his mark in his criticisms and located the firs in No; a bold, which con- Kand Jordas, the bridegroom't broker, acted that he has been taken to task by the North | tained'a Cargo of phosphorus and bran. Aided as best man. After the ceremony a reception China Daily News. Our Shanghai contem by the Whirl heass the ship's crew were ablo was held at No. 2, Umagasaki, the real porary, in animadverting on the letter to put out the fire, though the fire was finally dence of the bridegroom's parents, the entire appearing in the pancial Journal com- got under control only at 3 o'clock in the after- foreign community, says the Nagasaki Fys, menta editorially thus:The dificulties. The damage to the ship is trifling, responding to the invitations issued by Mr. of this subject are, perhaps, better i though a great deal of the carge has been and Mrs. A. L. Jordan. The newly married damaged by fire and water; the full extent of couple subsequently left by the N.. D. L. lustrated by the letter than its wriller may the damage, however, cannot be ascertained steamer Goron for Miyanoshits, where the bave quite realised. In the first place will the cargo in lauded,

kostymãos it të DE THERA

cattle to stray 12, Illegally removing property 3, Debt 5, Throwing rabbiab, &c., into the public drains 4. Damaging property 8, Creating a disturbances. Using abusive language 1. -Summary-priests: Theft 5, Assault 9, Creating a disturbance 3, Breach of M. R. (disorderly hou el Breach of Sampan Regulations 2, Illegally removing gravel, &c, from the fore- shore 3. Quilting service without giving lawful notice 2, Dronk and incapable 1, Being a rogue and a vagabond 1.

(Sigsed), W. H. Wallace;

By order,

C. BERKELEY MITCHELL, Secretary,

Chairmao,

which will explain heavy purchases. This Rou Roy 11. of Arrendale, the champion male seems to have come in a cablegram announcing Chinchills Persian cat of England, is leaving a new.stiko of oil in Kostel, on the est coast England in the Majestic for New York. He of Borneo, There are likewise rumours of was bred by Mrs. George Wilson, of Parley closer connection with the Standard Oil to the Grange, Parley, for whom he has won many effact that the president of the Royal Datch prizes at the Orgstal Palace and other cat Petroleum Co, with which the Shell Co. works, shows, but Mr. Wilson has sold him to Mrs. will get a seat on the board of the Standard Oil | Lynas, of Chicago, fɔr too guíneas, a sum con- Co., and that one or two representatives of the siderably in advance of any ever paid for a cas Satter will join the board of the Royal Dutch, before.

the Central Government upon the provinces.

The President's telegram is directly due to

whose influence over the Hongkong and 5bang. bal Bank is so injurious to British interests in Chins. Their agent induced Chang Chih-tung to write a dispatch to the Waiwups, saying that,"

the intrigues of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank,

America respecting its participation in the lean; unless arrangements were speedily made with he would proceed to the signature of the final contract in spite of the American protest,' or would relinquish the scheme altogether. This dispatch, coupled with the uncertain action of the invertebrate Waiwapo, was promptly cabled to Washington and called forb Me. Taft's ex- cellent and opportano message.

Many Englishmen here hold the opinion that the British Government should bring prea sure upon the Hongkong and Shangbul ̈B^nk_ tɔ dissociale itself from the German Intrigues, which are persistently directed, here as elsa- where, to bring us into a misunderstanding with the Americans, whose policy and alms-in-Ching are identical with our owa.estr

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SHIPPING AND MAILS

NAILS DUE, French (Australien) 18th inst. English (Devanka) 18th inst., 7 a.m. Indian (Fooksung) 19th Inst. German (Prinz Waldemar) 20th inst. -Canadian (Empress of China): 18th. Inát,.

Indian (Latràng) 16th imit,

The C, P. R. Co's as. Empriss of-India: arrived zí Vancouver on 14th inst.

The 1.5, Flintshire left Singapore on syth.

test, and may be expected here on 21st last,

The J. C. B. N. Co's 6.3. Fooksang from Call

`on'14th just....

"The "Ban*-Lino sa: Bancieuch, from Mid-

cults and the Straite left Singapore for this post

dleabro, Antwerp and London jeli Singapore on 13th inst, for this pont,

The Imperial German Mallua. Boulow, which, left here on 11th inst., at 10 am, attired Shiagbal on 19th fan, at 9 pm,