1910-01-15 — Page 9

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 8085

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A Benevolent ludian Maney-lender. Ricketty Rickabos.

Quaint Vapourings.

Question of Licenses. Dutch Enterprise in the Straits.

魏五初月二十年元宜

Imperial Control of Chinese Trunk Railways. income which is beyond the knowledge of My Lady Buntiful. In the Colouy's interest.

The University (und

Wailing the Verdict..

Manita Carnival.

Working Out China's Salvation.. Telegra

Earthquake at Shanghai. The Shanghai Tantai,

Chinese Minister us Paris, Naval Base, Cautoo-Hankow Railway. Imperial Household. Prince Regent. The Tungkuanshan Mines. Chinese Steamship Co. Chinese Consulate.

National Debts.

Sheng Kung po.

Macan's Boundary,

Treaty with Russia."

Wise and Tobicca." Constitutional Government, Question of In'ermitage. Ķeetings:-

Hongkong Benevolent Society. Kawasaki Dockyard Company.

Legal Intelligones:-..

Sun A Wan's Ex radition,

Claim by a Governos,

Pallce:-

British Blurjackets Sent to Gant. Moosa's Cuse.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-

Hokung University.

Sir Henry May, Sparisman.

Macao Boundary Question.

MAIL

SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1910.

for an old and unsafe ricksha. For the more

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora paid, to accept his statement and agree toned only with a hammer, and there was

tion.

Motor-bent Trial Trip.

Hongkong Bank Dinner."

Fire near, New Wertera Mørket. Hanakong ad Whampna Dack Ca Typhoon Signal Station. - Belios Public School.

Governor of Macro,

Russian Enie prise in the East.

Philharmonic Concert.

Raub Gold Mining Co.

Notes by the Way,

Cotton Exchange Gambling. Forthcoming Races,

Football League, Cricket.

Hockey, A Died-in Prison.

Self-Reliant China.

Spurious Indian Yaro.

Royal Hongkong Golf Club.

Salon Cinema Theatre,

Rubber Returns.

Volunteer Corps Orders.

Water Return.

Crowning King Rubber.

Canton Day by Day.

A New Steamer,

A Thriving Chinese Enterprise.

days of

is na suregiound. He will have a wide field

miles.

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洗五十正英港作

S13 TER ANYO SINGLE COPY, 25 CENTS.

the latter. When some poor deluded first two years, but in 1905 the output war:) soul thought he would indicate his dis 49,000 tons and it increased to 87,000 in approbation of this extortion and called 1908, while for last year the estimated output for Bovril he was quietly informed that the was put at 125,000 tons, the quantity of aute price of that liquor had also advanced by and dust coal being estimated at 20,000 five cents. Now a candidate for Licensing tons. The company appears to be a go Board honours ought to be in a position to abead and energetic concern, for it is declar whether it is a spirit or a malt extract. We pore, Hongkong and Koh-si-chang, although tell the voters in what category Bovril comes,cd that the coal is being exported to Singa know that lemonade has a perceptible quan regular stocks are not yet kept at these ports. tity of alcohol in its composition, but fancy. Then, gain, during the last four years the com man getting inebriated on Bovril All this pany has held a large contract for the supply' is it that induces Justices of the Peace to German Lloyd at various ports.in the Far bar dragged us away from the point-What" of coal to the coast steamers of the North tussle for a seat on the Licensing Board ? East. As to loading facilities at Stagen, there i We should like to know for several reasons, is an electric tip and a system of overhead but principally for one, namely, that if there conveyors for loading kad bunkering steamers worthy Aethren who could do justice to the We do not intend to go into the technical is anything taugible in it we know a few right at the maximum rate of you tons per hour. job,

details which are given under the heading "Suggestious to engineers using Pulo Laut coal, but we may say that it is quite clear the company is determined to put its product against the best Japanese coal. Most of the testimonials from the chief engineers of vessels using Pulo Laut coal harp on the point, that although Japanese coal is more thrifty" by one to two tons per 24 hours than its rival the difference in cost is all in favour of Puio Laut coal. We wish the company success, but we are afraid they have

DUTCH ENTERPRISE IN THE STRAITS,

and there

(1th January.)

TRUNK KAILWAYS,

extension in China the other day we In "discussing the problem of railway regarded in a new light the opposition of the gentry in certain provinces to the introduction of the iron road, and suggested that it was due to their inability to recognise the advantages that were likely to flow from swift intercommunication." In this connec tion we referred to the larger ques tion. of Imperial control. The subject was broached by Mr. Pope, the manager of the Shanghai-Nanking railway, on the occasion of a banquet which was given in honour

suming that he has been a watchman for a consequence wisen a rall projects above the nation which can fly its flag on the biggest Bumber of years at $10 a month and that he level of the roadway the ricksha perform ships is the commanding nation. He is seeing saved at the rate of $60 a year how long a violent dream dance to the great delight of a lot of the German flag just now in Hongkong would it take him to bring his banking onlookers and the consternation of the pas pans. He is also seeing a good deal of the and Shaoghal, to say nothing of the coast account up to the figure stated. The seager, Probably it would be impossible to Tapanese All these half truths are just the reader can work it out for himself, provent the pullers dring the tram line as a food for the rabid people who only rejoice but it is quite evident that the sort of racing track, but if that could be when evidence or no evidence is forthcoming achieved. What we cannot understand is to another point, our friend the writer having average Indian has some private source of done then something would have been that the country is golog to the dogs: To tura the ordinary-European. Because this is not how these old delapidated machines came to solved the shipping secret, turns in Canton for the first time that Indian watchaien have be passed and licensed, and tow pulicrs this form: "The news that the Europeaus in news and proceeds to tore his information inte appeared in Gourt as money-lending credi- who are on the verge of the grave and can-

In the majority of not run two steps are allowed to drag out and the Portuguese colony of Macao, have Canton, in view of the friction between Chino tors of large amounts. these cases we have not been interested in their miserable lives by the sanction of decided to form a volunteer corps (presumably the amount lent so much as in the enormous the authorities in this crust fashion In to protect their own interests, if necessary), rate of interest charged. We can recall half Shanghai we leat that the work of reminds us that China is very much the same a dozen cases in which the rate per annum the ricksha depot, is carried out by a

as of old in the opinion of What Out, in laten per self-assertion ren well over 250 per cent, with the result foreign sergeant and six native constables, of course that the more the borrower had to During the morning their time is occupied to protect. foreigners in her own country

will think of this veiled denial of her ability pay the, deeper he dived into debt.. But by the inspection of rickshas submitted for another matter. Now what is one to make unds Singh, who seems to be a second examination by owners who wish to take cut al that? Doen Ahe. P. R. G. man think that edition of a Guada Pin, in wade of different licences during the following quarter. From be, British, German and French volunteers clay, for, as we have said, there was no men; 2 to 3 p.m. rickslas for which licences have ambering a handful at the best and all busily tion of interest by the plaintiff when the been suspended are examined, and if found gaged in commercial life, are to throw up parties came into Court. The defendants satisfactory, the licences are returned. Oldheir job and match off to Macap in order to declared that they had made payments rickshas brought in from the various stations? If he does then his imagination is sub save the Portuguesa against Chinese aggres

A considerable time has elapsed since last, amounting to $130, when his Lordship, are examined between 3 anil 5 pm. Itime. Incidentally he refers to Shanghai and we referred to the efforts of the Dutch in the purely off his own bat, so to spank said should be mentioned that there is a recogniz- actually has a word to say about Hongkong hast Indies to build up a coal industry But that was paid as interest. You canupted scale of licence suspension. The term "Canton is, of course, only following the example which should eventually withdraw the bulk take that off." Nobody seems to have re- of suspension ranges from four days for an of Shanghal, which has possessed for years a plied to that, because the argument was im old cover, rain apron etc, to seven days for

fine, effichest foreign volunteer corps which bas

of the ship conling trade from Singapore. mediately shifted and the suggestion was having no rain apron, an old, young or a

dope good work. Various nationalities have This neglect has been due to the fact that made that the plaintiff should agree to re-sick coolie, old wheels etc., fourteen days for

their respective companies, and recently even a the question of the superiority of lutch uphill task if they mean to dislodge gard the debt as being $320."Nothing having a coolie blind in one eye and a mouth small, but afficient, corps of volunteers in the fat ports in the Netherlands Indies has for the port of Stangen is not exactly on any Chinese company was inaugurated.. Another coal and the facilities for loading steamers Japanese coal from popular favour. Besides doing" said the plaintiff in effeer, and ac

Far East is that at Hongkong, although they some reason or another been allowed to re-trade route except that between Australia cordingly the woman in the case proceeded strious defects the owner may also be soldiers of that British Crown Colony, pore, in face of the threatened competition, not in the habit of taking in coal on the way are somewhat ovombadowed by the garrison main in the background. Moreover, Singa- and Manila and most Australian boats are: te declare that the money had been psid, but culed. But it is the test by which vehicles are whether as interest or return of capital did not found to be fit for service or otherwise to wlucia There are under 300, members" He tries transpire. Now we come to the crucial we would call the attention of the long when the Commandant took the field in a dress

to get in a joke about a call to arma has regarded the whole fatter with such north. But if the members of the Puto Laut point, for we read th "Plaintiff denied kong police, "The A. C. Daily essaysuit and so scared the natives that they are run.

serene superciliousness that those who are Coy, keep a stout heart for a steep hill they having received the money, but agreed, if The test to which a ricksha brought in forslag yet. That is exactly the sort of stuff the that port have felt no special call to deal with In the meantime the coaling trade of Stoga not directly concerned with the interests of are likely to achieve the success they deserve. The first defendant would go into the box inspection is subjected is a pretty severe.one. "authy" in question should stick to then be the subject. It is nevertheless evident, how. pore is in litile or no danger. Mears. Gar and state on path that the money had heen in former years the inspecting officer was

de competitors in dishing up atuous fan-

ever, from what can gather that the Dutch rels, Boerner & Co., who are the local agents, judgment for $320." Here is a fine exam- considerable discontent among owners he

ure making the best of their opportunities should not find it difficult to induce the casual ple of the Indian regard for a lady. The cause of the damage done to really sound

is just the possibility that steamers which are always passing through female defendant had sworn on her oath vehicles. Now the only tool used is a sciew-

A QUESTION OF LIGENSES, ingapore may waken up to the realisation Hongkong to pay a visit to Pulo Laut.

of her loss when it is too late. In the early that the money had beca paid, but the plain- driver, with which the officer pokes, varicius

(Toth January.) tiff was not satisfied. In fact he bluntly in parts of the body of the sickaha to see that it

part of this dying decade Sabang was re- IMPERIAL CONTROL OF CHINESE Without being in the least degree inquisi-garded as the coming centre of the coal ia sinuated that he was not born yesterday nor is made of sound wood. The real test conestive, we wonder what in the sum total of the dustry. Sabang is a port on Pulo Web, off was be on the outlook for fairy tales. But when the ricksha is raised on one wheel, he honour and glory which fall to those fortunate Sumatra, and about a hundred odd miles if the male delendant said the money had officer places his foot on the bottom tim Justices of the Peace who are elected to from Pesang. Glowing. Accounts of the hean paid then well and good. Man to man

of the other and gives it a quick cwserve on the licensing Board? There must facilities afforded vessels calling for bunker they could believe one another, but when it word jerk. If the axle or any part of the be something worth striving for, otherwise coal at the Dutch port were spread broad was a case of a woman's truthfulness the pre. wheel is jerry.built it is hardly possible that whyshould Governor Council solemnly cast, and it was firmly believed by those ferred in stand aside. This is a sad aspect it will survive this test which is uled lay their comprehensive lead together and who did not consider that the trend of of life in the Orient. We. wonder whether first on one side and then on the other. formulete a long list of rules determining trade has a powerful effect in deciding where this Indian watchman is the possessor of Assuming that the ricksha passes muster the how the election shall be conducted, and a steamer shall fill her bunkers, that the what used to be called' a zonaan ?-at least hcence number is stamped on the wheels how the candidates shall be nominated, and doom of Singapore as a coating station was that was the word used in those old forgotten and body, and stencilled on the hood, rain how the, voters shall vote and so on. We sealed. But the phlegmatic, jóg-trot people days when black, acrowling tramps managed apron, and coo ie's uniform and hat. If the were under the impression that all that was at Tanjong Pagar did not show any par ta Cadge our last threepenny-bit on the plea vehicle collapses under the test it is taken required of a Justice of the Peace who took, ticular resentment; rather they magnani that it would be spent on zenanas. What away, to be used as firewood if the damage rent at the Licensing Board was to gaze mously expressed the hope that Sabang, they wanted to get, into the zenauas for we beyond repair, or to be mended if the de-stolidly at nothing in particular, look preter-with all its advantages, its machinery for of His Excellency Shen Yun-pel, the vice- haven't the slightest ides, but in our imagina- fect discovered be a trifling one. tive youth we figured out that a zenana and licence plates are removed from detective grants in imitation of the common or bara sack, its day and night service, its freedommunications. At the present time each petty The naturally solemn, emit at intervals groans and pouring coal into a steamer like grain into a president of the Ministry of Posts and Com- a nautch dance were very nearly synonymous, tickslas and are not returned to the owner door owl, and obey the command of the from irritating dues, and its magnificent district and provincial centre through which Of course we know better now, worse luck, until the period of suspension has elapsed Captain Superintendent of Police. Tlic harbour, might succeed in diverting some of the railway passes-any railway or branch but we still regret that succession of pennies and the ricksha has successfully passed in Justices of the Peace have always been re-the coal trade from Singapore, because they line, of course-regards that particular link. which went into the capacious pockeis of the spection. The procedure might well be cut gaided more or less as driver sheep. licensed band of mendicants. To resume,

if the had quite as much as they could cope with. out and posted up in the office of the ricksha police said "No" the Licensing Board We have not scen it suggested anywhere thattered and operated as the officials in the as its own particular property to be adminis however. If that Indian owns a zenana and inspector in Hongkong.

said "No" and added "thank you for Singapore has lost nay of trimmenso coal- vicinity think proper. The fact is in daily a 'plentiful store of wives we wonder what

aving us the trouble of making up what trade as yet, nor have we noticed that Sabang evidence in Kwangtung, where those who sort of reception he got last night when QUAINT VAPOURTÁGS,.- we have the honour to call our minds." has been making any very special efforts to have subscribed towards the cost of cons they learned that he scored a woman's word? Did Mrs. Gunda Singh imitate the affairs appears in a recent unmber of the Pall

A casiously discursiva article on Far Eastern If the police said "Yes, the license should capture it. It has been stated over and overstructing the grand trunk line through the to granted" then "Upanimous" was the again that the mines at Pulo Weh and the Liang Kwang provinces are determined that nrtorious Mrs. Coudle and soundly beráte full Gongite in which all sorts of things are

cry and there you were. The business all part of Sabang were opened In order that they and they alone shall have a voice in her spouse, or did she welcome him home

mixed up in a general notch-potch. We have cut and dried, the proceedings conducted foreign Governments might coal their war deciding how the railway shall be maintained with the remark that everything in the gar

at the faintest idea who the writer may be, but expeditiously and decorously, everybody ships in the Far East without having to rely and developed. We need hardly say that den's lovely 7 At all events, when the male

as he is described as a special correspondent happy and mirthful-except the poor ap-on British coaling stations. The story of defendant went into the box and swore that

be is presumably of some position. A the same

one result of this attitude. of insensate the syndicate which was formed to establish selfishness is to be found in the innumer- payments on account had been inade, the time, one wonders where he got all hirit forma pllcent, perhaps and all willing to fall oo plaintiff accepted the situation and the Court dealing with the shipping trade be, as a Bri. Police in recognition of his ability to save Sabang and some unnamed port in Indo which have occurred in connection with the the neck of the Captain Superintendent of coaling stations at Perim, Pondicherry, able delays and the vexatious stoppages Do from, especially bin generalisations. Ip

On January 5, 1910, at Shanghai, Algernon stances we do not understand why the case

entered judgment for $320, In the circum tisher, naturally arrives at the conclusion that the time of the Court and the mentality of hina is an old one. There was 2 Francis, only sop of A. M. A. Evans, to Prewas brought into Court at all. The debt Great Britain, Germany and Japan are the nor-in-Council frame all these new rules concern, and the day was fast dawning when obstruct the construction of a railway track the only nation which is out of the roaming is the Justices. Why then should the Gover-marquis or a count at the head, of "the ousies have been allowed to hinder and Canton Hankow line.. Miserable little feal- darica Dorothy Nellie, youngest daughter of Edney Page, both of Shanghai.

was not denied and the plaintiff acquiesced

most determined tuoners in the race, which about the election of Justices to the Licens- foreign vessels would leave British coaling which would be of the first importance to the on the statement that payments had been implies, of course, that the sed eusigu is vo made. Where was the case? It is some-

where la be seen. Many of us (says the ing Board? The idea we indagine is that stations severely alone and bestow their Chinese mpire; and yet when the Imperial writer) will still remember the aggressive de

there will be a big rush for the position when patronage on the international group of coal overnment makes a move with the object. what disappointing, however, that none of claration of policy by the chief shipping flim

the next election takes place and in order to depots. It sounded all very fine and large, of inducing the malcontents to go ahead The resalis of that restrain the enthusiasm of sporting Justices but the promoters of the scheme left out with their work, the clashing elements com valent Indian watchman who wil lend policy are now apparent in the six fios new and quench the ardour of-excited partisane point of vital importance out of their calcu bine immediately to resist the common you $450 and take your word for it that you trading between Japan and London.

9,000-ton libers of the Nippon Yusen Kaishat has been deemed necessary to lay down lations. They forgot that vessels trading to have paid it back. Such an omission

enemy and 'defy the Imperial Government to amounts to gross negligence.

North German Lloyd Company, too, keeps the law sharp and definite so that the ex-a hig distributing centre where they unload

do its worst. In this respect the Cantonese some of its biggest and most modere vorisis uberance of the runners for the licensing ed cargo and took fresh cargo aboard were

would seem willing far rather to tolerate the on the Far Eastern service, but the chief Bri- stakes may be kept in check, to show that not inclined to make little excursions here assistance of the foreigner than to suffer the RICKATTY RICKSHAS. tb company, the P. and O.. only occasionally there is really something in our supposition and there even for the sake of international semblance of interference on the part of A BENEVOLENT INDIAN

sends ons of iis crack liners direct to China that those who get the position of members friendship. The great livers found it cheap: the Central Government. It may be ar MONEYLENDER.

It is an old question to bring up, that and Japan, Granted that the N. D. L. and of the Licensing Board will cause all the er to go direct to the ports on their intine-gued that the districts and provinces are regarding the condition of the ricskhas in N.Y.K. are getting along famously that is other Justices to break the tenth command-rary and coat there, even if the cost was actuated by a proper spirit of local (8th January.),

Hongkong, and we should not think of 6 18. But of Inte years there has been a not to say, the 7% and 0 har'left the

neat into small and gritty chunks, we used somewhat greater, than to take a flying jawat pride, and that may be perfectly true, Wigt has come over the spirit of the referring to it, were it not that a description lerdency to throw esid water on the efforts only point out that there is no rule to guide to this island and make a passing call at that but when that pride prevents the people. Indian moneylender in Hongkong; when of is given in a Northern contemporary of the of the British company to compete with its the presiding officer in the event of there barren waste and so lengthen their passage.seeing beyond the length of their nose then his own accord he expresses his willingness methods adopted to discover whether the active and beavily subsidised rivals, with the being no candidates for the office. That Speed is everything in these days and vesit degenerates into pure pig-headedness. So to forego his pound of flesh? Time was vehicle is in a fit condition to ply for hire.result that those who began the movement of suicly speaks for itself. If the Governor-in-.aels on the regular run only call at those far as the railway schemes have gone no when the moneylender was regarded as a Some time ago when what are known as depreciation are beginning to persuade them Council thought for a minute that there might places where cargoes are forthcoming and great harm has been done, but the time is usurer pure and simple and to our shame "first-class" rickshas were introduced into selves that their original taradiddles were an by a half-hearted response on the part of trade is brisk. We are afraid that Sabang fast approaching when measures will have to be it sald to the light of the evidence given Hongkong, everybody was led to expect that actual fact. Thouroi is, of course, that all the those entitled to enter the contest for a scat could not pretend to compete with Singabe adopted for the constitution of a central lo a case in the debt court yesterday, we the good time had arrived when we should shipping lines in the client are finding it the have on occasions denounced these rascally akim across the ground like swallows over

on the bench, he and his advisers would pore in that respect, and so Sabing has had rallway administration empowered to under most difficult thing in the world to make ends meel. Even the Japanese companies which undoubtedly have made ruits to deal with to remain content with the custom she can Indian vampires who fatten on the blood of the surface of a pool. We were told how have many advantages in their favour confess, such a deadlock. But there are no such rules; obtain from tramp steamers, which haveed with the running of through passenger

take supreme control of all matters connect the unfortunate poor. Now it seems that the admirably arranged these machines were, that they are anxiously awaiting a revival of nor are there any to say what shall be done plenty of time to spare and can afford to and freight trains on the main trunk Indian moneylender is not a human leech special care had been taken in their con-transport business, not only on the European if there are only two candidates for three dodge road all sorts of corners and lines. There is no getting away from the rather he is a philanthropist, ready to come struction, how the lyser were of the most for but olan on the lines running to South vacancies. The entire list is framed on the crannies if there is a shilling or two fact that there will be trouble when the to the aid of his fellow man-with emphasis fashionable rake, and how the pullers were Company goes is way without fuss or com

America and the United States. The P. & principle that there will always be more can- to he saved, thereby. But if Sabang's Imperial Govemment begins to move to of the "man"-and.help him over a way. selected from the crême de crème of Chinese plaint, and all we know abrut is doings is didates than vacancies, and that the great ambitions sill remain to be realised, a new wards this end. It will require all the atte side stile. But when we come to examine aibletes, who had been super-educated in from what transpires at the hell yearly and thing is to make the conditions so stiff and competitor has entered the field in the pers and stratagems and Machiavelliae practices into the facts more closely we feel bound to the art of politeness and courtesy. There yearly mee ings, and then we don't learn too the handicap so heavy that the participators son of the Pulo Laut Coal Company. As of the most skilful of China's Bistesmen confess that in no single respect does this were many people who thought the prospect much. But it must not be forgotten that at the will, not have the time to engage in a game most people know there are a dozen or more to surmount the obstacles which niggardly moneylender bear out the general descrip- too good to be true, but most of us being last meeting of the P. & O. Company, the of fisticuffs. What we should have liked to islands down in the Straits designated Pulo cunning will devise to resist the smallest tion of his tribe. It was not alleged that he ready to believe anything which would chairmen referred to the Past Office payment have seen in the rules was an order com Laut, but this pulo lies at the extreme S. B. encroachment on the powers exercised by charged Interest-the most extraordinary relieve us from the dominance of the yelling we gathered that the payment was so low as to peiling every candidate to make a speech extremity of Dutch Boraco, being only the cabals over the trunk lines which pass

fortbe carriage of mails, and from his comments feature of all, He did not proceed to the bandits who scoured the streets accepted the be practically approfitable to the. Company.

on his nomination. Then we might be able separated by a narrow strait from the main through the various provinces. They will debtor's house and raise pandemonium in statements as gospel. readings. To make If that be so, then the main contention that the to select the wheat from the chaff, that is to island. We are told that in 1903 the Pulo sit on, the fence and hedge and consider till order to show him in the face of his neigh a long story short, we were like the proven P. & O, receives a subsidy on the same lines say, the moderate drinkers from the teetotal: Laut Coal Coy, started the exploitation of Doomsday, professing always their absolute bours. He did not expostulate, or ledge and bisl stranger. All the difference we could as its rivals will not prevail. To return contradict himself in Court, nor did he seek see in the first class vehicles was that to the P. M. G. writer, be says that The One can imagine the enjoyment that could a railway line from theminentotheses, the port rial Government, but they will be united Is?

lers, the bigoted from the free-and-easy, the coal seams on the island and constructed desire to conform to the wishes of the Impe to make out that the only truthful man la they were rubber tyred and some of air passenger traffic is very considerable be obtained by asking candidate the sim- being Blagen. The harbour has, of course, in their opposition to a scheme which would Court was himself. What manner of man them painted in the most atrocious hues, sending the best ships East, the Norddeutscher plo question What Is whisky? Or, better entrances, worth and south, the northern be set a sovereign power over their heads is this, we ask to set up, business as a calculated to give the liverish individual Lloyd Company is getting a bigger state than All-Define the difference between brandying absolutely safe, with 30 feet of water at Now a Imck line of hundreds of miles money lender? He does not appear to jaundice at first sight. That would not is comforting to the Britisher. In fact, the N. and Hongkong brandy, giving examples to low spring tide and sufficient room for In length, cannot be run by half a dozen know oven the rudiments of the game in have been so bad if the wheels bad been D. Leamor, with their direct service, are the electors. When we go into this question soy ship to manoeuvre. From a pamphlet, meddicsome busy yo le stationed at dis which bully-ragging and high finance are securely fixed, but there does not seem to be tooked upon as the passenger liners. The we soo what pitfalls would be in their path. which we have received, setting forth the ent sections of the line, Interchangeable terms, Guoda Singh Je in Hongkong a single licensed ricksha which Japanese score by rasane of their cheeper For Instance shortly after the duty on advantages, which appertain to Pulo Laut governed by chlapre watchesan and he lent certaip parties, a man is not tottery and in constant danger of area The Belian camps are probably liquors imposed, the hotel keepers to as a coal centre and Stangen as coaling liker and dislikes. It and a woman, $450 on a promisory note. depositing the fare in the mud. Of course Chinaman (and he conuen Instade med ang solved to raise the price of their spirits and stallon, we gather that there le a great future over

holding their own as regards cargoer, but John It may be asked by the inquisitive reader that is due to the fact that the pullers Ipulut | in na yat very likely to be impressed by spine.

sby, firo cents an glass for, for the promoters of the company, The TOYS COACH Milton moon ? di on running along the Ham ralls, and me a and show, and he very

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losimideant in the

The Formosan Sugar Industry.. Fire at Yokohama.

Hongkong Lighters Adrift,

Manila Carnival:

Opium in Manila.

Hemp: Machines.

Opium Smuggling, Banteng (Selangor).

Commercial:-

Freight Market. Weekly Share Report. Bullion. ** Exchange.. Looal and General.

MARRIAGE.

he Hongkong Gelegeak the papers give the address of this bene in Japan some years ago,

---MAIL-SUPPLEMENT,

ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRINERS.

Hongkong, Saturday, JanuaryY 15, 1910.

The

in these days, and ibere la'on doubt that;.

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