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CONTENTS.

· Births, Marriage and Deaths.

Leading Articles :----

Mistress and Governare,

→Trinis of a Malacca Club.

Company Promotion,"

Our Premier Bank, ..

Side Glances at Canton's Trade.

The Children's Birthright.

The Impressionable Age of Bask Clerks, Revelations.

Shanghai Shocked.

Swindlers and Smugglers.

H.E. Shum in Process of Rehabilitation,

Manila's Prospects.

Solving the Japanese Fuzile

Telegrams:-"! -

·Railway Loans,

Kiochow-Lam-to Railway.

Macao's Delimitation.

National Debts.

The Naval Commissioners.

General Machado.

Macao Boundary Question.

Salt Supervision.

Sheng Kung-po.

Shangbai Dock Co.

The Langkat C

Constitutional Government.

Meeting!

The China Light and Power Co., Ltd.

Legal Intelligence:-

Uttering Counterfeit Cala.

Alleged Forgery of a Will.

Selling Counterfeit Coin.

Robbery with Violence.

Particulare Wanted.

The Money-lander Again,

No Cause of Action.

Polios:-

American Lady Doctar in Court,

A Rickeba Squabble,

Application for Re-hearing.

The Allana Cavo.

Miscellaneous Articles and Roporta :

"The Toreador."

Liquor Licensing Board.

*Pokfulam Reservoir.

Education Committes.

Presentations at R. N. Hospital. Arrival of Macao's Governor, Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat

Company Limited.. Industries of Hesgkang.

I-New Tile Works,

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unknown. We had never heard of the hai. Ha struck on the lăns of establishing a gone home to enjoy the fruits of their labour in China many, thriving and prosperous in- Malacca Club, and apparently the Straits new Insurance company of which he would be and revel in happy reminiscences. But the xurance companies founded upon the basic of its existence, for in referring to an in- Pope, the epparily the man with the majority of these men are not old singers in principle of ep-operation among ourselves, H

the sense that they have dropped out of thought we ought to endeavour to create at pures." Although the latter” had never : met cident, to which we shall refer presently. Moram before, he agreed to the suggestion that the public eye. On the contrary, they were bank of our own on the same principles, and. which occurred at the club, our contempor- he should becoms chairman of the company in

never more active participants in the that very night I wrote the prospectus in t ary-adorns the headline with the vague and "rder that "dis pame might attract Chinese game which they pursued with such ardour question as it stands now in the archives of indefinite article or demonstrative adjective insurers. The company was to be called the In their younger days ar they are now. This the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank," So, grammatical terms have changed since we Mercantile. Life Assurance Company, but it were at school and the story figures under never had a living existence. With the object feature is best exemplified by the absorbingly this young man who had never possessed

of having everything ship-shape, Moran ordered interesting, character of re-unions at which banking account, who looked on the ubiquit. the title, "A Malacca Club," Now, by no (15th January.)

system of hocus pocus or banky panky will goods from the Imprimunte. Française, consist the giants of a previous day assemble to disous compradore as one of his trusty friends ing mostly of articles of stationery, and it was cus old times and incidentally to encourage | lo uced, and, whose only qualifications to After a patient hearing which covered the the 'Straits Times or any other nowspaper for the price of these supplies that the plaintiffs their successors who have taken up the bur. assume a leading part in the movement to better part of three days and helped, doubt convince us that Malacca is swarming with were now using. There was no dispute raden which has been so reluctantly laid down. defeat the aims of what may pardonably, bo less, to dislocate the ordinary business of clubs unless, as we hinted before, they are garding the correctness of the account: the And among those whose views and retrospec. termed an allen enterprise were als proved the Court, the Kowloon mistress and gover- of the Irish variety, and we look with eus question was Who should be held responsible tive glances are ever attractive there are few integrity, his intimate Rusociation with the for the payment of the bill? Did Moran orderthe Dess action was brought to a close yesterday. pleinn on that heading, which is susceptible goods on behalf of the company or was he him to compare with Sir Thomas Sutherland. merchant princes of the time, his acute What benefit either of the parties has gain-of divers interpretations. To come to the elf responsible for the payment of the account? Not that he stands alone in this respect, for, knowledge of the business of the Colony ed by airing petty grievances and household story without further ado, a gentleman who fa bis judgment, Mr. Lindsey Smith said it was

at we have said, old China hands are won- and his profound belief in its future, started aquabbles in public we cannot conceive, nor is content to be known to fame as "A clear that Moran was the original promoter of derfully fertile in bringing up subjects of out to form an institution which was in days! do we think that the Solomonesque Judg. Mediator" bes sent to our contemporary a the company and that, be purchased the goods perennial interest, but Sir Thomas Suther to come to constitute one of the mainstays: ment of Mr. Justice Gompertz is likely to letter which starts off at a gallop, balts half-

on his own initiative in Match. ⠀ On April 14th, land has had such an all-round experience and financial assets of Hongkong. He sub- calm the ruffled feathers of the ladies con-way, and then indignantly slides off the however, an langural meeting was held at of Oriental life that his shadow seems to mitted his prospectus to the opinion of cerned. It is to us inexplicable how any lady course. To understand the cause which led which the defendant Pope took the chair and bang over every great enterprise which has counsel, who saw retaining fees in every line, after the articles of association were read and of education can be in faced to enter the law." A Mediator" to intervene we should evident explained to those present Pape proposed and contributed to make Hongkong what it is and the prospectus was taken round to quote courts in order to settle her private differences ly have read a previous item in the cor carried his motion that, the qualification of to-day. Whether be it describing the opera Sir Thomas again" to all the leading firms with another lady, no matter even if the respondence column hut it has escaped our directors should be too sharess and then in tions of the P & O. Steam Navigation Com. in Hongkong, and with the exception of the former has been treated unjustly, because notice, so like "a mediator" we must plunge formed those who had consented to act that pany, or laying down the law as regards the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. every there is no gainsaying the fact that the in medias res. Here follows the first sentence: they would have to sign the provisional bond. Suez Canal, or bolstering up the efforts of firm of repute and distinction at that time in pectacle the parties in the witness-box "Sir-I feel it imperitive (sic) duty to tell Centala gentlemen, including Mr. Pope, sige the China Association, on taking a hand in China put their names down as members of ed the document thus consenting to their the affairs of the Hongkong and Shanghai the provisional committee of this Bank with flinging out their acid drops is treated as a you that the throwing of crackers on some

names being inserted as provisional direc- raree-show of the first water. There being Eurasian ladies as they were going out for a

tore on the prospectus of the company Banking Corporation, there is always the its five million dollars of capital. The pros no divorce court in Hongkong, and it being moonlight drive was not done by any and agreeing to subscribe their names feeling that here is one ofthe powers behind pectus was sent out with the names of the very doubiful whether there is law sufficient of the active members of the club, but to the memorandam and articles of asso the throne. It is men like Sir Thomas provisional committee, Within less than 'a' in the Colony to cope with an action for by one of the honorary members who ciation when these were ready for algun Sutherland, Sir Thomas Jackson and a dozen week the whole of the capital that wo breach of promise of marriage, such suits as was at that time not quite capable of fate. The judge proceeded: "At some data others who are the bright particular constella- could possibly allot to Hongkong, was that which terminated yesterday have to take controlling himself." Did we not say that is April after this meeting the defendant tions which act as guides and driving force taken up and stood at a considerable pre

Moran showed the plaintiff's manager a type to the Britishers in the Far East at the pre the place of the more succulent cases which things are looking up in Malacca? It is written: list of the provisional directors and

mium. The ambassador from the Royal tickle the degenerate palate in the home clear that there are adventures to be met

some days later the actual signed list itself, and sent time. An example of the inspiring Bank of China arrived in due course a fort-" courts. Fortunately, in this instance, there with there even on moonlight drives, when about this time a minute book was bought from influence which is the motive of these mas night or three weeks afterward. His name, I' was nothing in the case which could not ladies seek the refreshing breezes of the bills the plaintiffs which is presumably the one used ters of their craft, who still refuse to seek recollect, was Mr. Noel Porter. He could have been repeated through a megaphone. and try to separate the scent of the rubber throughout all these mootlegs. The plaintiffs that reclusion to which they are entitled, not get anybody to take a single share in his Lady Dolorosa felt that she was being from the aroma of the tin mines. It is also manager states positively that after he had seen was afforded by Sir Thomas Sutherland at capital; he could not discover a possible slighted in some way or another while My clear that somebody, supposed to be an the original signatores he had no doubt but

Shanghai Bank staff in London last month. that within an incredibly short space of time Lady of the Dignified Mico determined to honorary member, was in that elevated that Moran bad power to bind the provisionst the annual dinner of the Hongkong and director anywhere, and I need hardly tell you stand up for her rights, and the poor little mood which demands that all and sundry order to create that exact impression that Who that is in Hongkong to-day outside the the Royal Bank of China was wound up lu child whose education was at stake was

must join in his high jinks. Now, for our Moran took the original to the plaintiff's office. charmed circle of the Bank and the great Bombay with somewhat unfortunate if not bounced backwards and forwards in the part, we are dead against honorary members on April 27 the and meeting of the embryo mercantile houses of the Colony could recall ignominious results. That is really the hin general melee. We must state at once that in any shape or form, In a club they are company was held at which on Mr. Pope's own or reconstruct the incidents which led to the tory of the genesis of this great undertaking." we disavow all knowledge of the etiquette always speaking around, annexing the corner suggestion the minutes of the last meeting formation of what is now admittedly, the If Jardine, Matheson & Co. fought shy of governing the relations between a mistress seats, monopolising the "boys," disturbing were read and confirmed and signed by premier banking institution of the Far East? the scheme at first they were not long before him as chairman. Shares were then sub- and governess. Possibly there are hard the calm and decorum of the place, described for in order to raise the funds necessary the story from their sires and it is just postinies of the Bank. From the first, circum-

Probably there are some who have learned they took a leading part in guiding the dea and fast rules which declare how far a nouncing the committee and giving the

to guarantee the security required at Hongkong governess shall go in her acquaintance with members a chronic desire to commit before the Company could be registered, Mr. sible that a remnant of the old brigade who stances favoured the growth and expansion friends of the family, and possibly there is breach of the, peace. But when they start Pope apparently being the largest subscriber," had an active share in establishing the Cor of the Corporation. In one respect, the a code of subjects which the governets using crackers then we should say that is The third mesting was held on 11th May when poration still remain in the Colony, but it is Bank was singularly fortunate in being man Moran stated that he had attended to the com- may, if she has the temerity, submit the ultimate weed-in fact we hold it should

not given to many to come into contact with aged by ahrewd and capable man, who did for the consideration of her neighboursound the crack o' doom. And this piling of prospectuses, the arranging of more these veterans of the old days. Sir Thomas not hesitate to take risks. which might pos modern policies and the preparing of advertiss at the dinner table. But one thing she

ments at a minimism of cost, and that he was Sutherland may claim to be one of the sibly be looked at askance now that it has in position to start business the moment the fathers and founders of the Bank and his reached a ripe and mature standing. The must not do and that is to become familiar, or is pert the proper word, with a lively young sensation that he alarmed the whole town. registration was completed. Mr. Pope then said record of the circumstances which led to the staff included a young accountant in the per- spark, and she must not "cut" the master Where, we ask, was the Fire Brigade? And that they must bare a prospectus at once and rice of the institution is at once a tribute son of Thomas Jackson who was ordained of the house in the public street. These are what was the Sikh watchman doing at the on Mr. Hays advising an informal prospectus and a memorial to the business acumen and to be the guiding star of the Bank in its car very difficult things to remember. For moment? This honorary member, then, caly Mr. Pope moved and carried a resolution

chants who were bent on the aggrandisement cherous bog of abnormal vicissitudes, until example we could not help sighing in scared the ladies bent on their moonlight that a small leaßot be drawn up for the Chinese insular patriotism of the Hongkong merly days and to lead it safely through a trea to show to their friends, The heading of the sympathy with the governess when she relat-drive-that much is certain, but what wo policy, Kai Aljo, or Mr. Pope's initiative decid- of the Colony half a century ago. It was he to-day its position, influence and strength are. ed how lonely she was in the dining room, should like to have learnt, is how the ladies ed on by the insting. The printing of this who without the assistance and without unchallengable. The official history of the ou the two occasions she graced the table betrayed their nervousness. Vid they shrick. leadet and of the policy forms both appeared the co-operation of any person at the mo. Hongkong and-Shanghai Banking Corpora with her presence. The ladies talked about or scream or yell, or did they merely giggle as item is the bill. Later on Mt. Pupe spoke ment drafted the original prospectus of tion has yet to be written, but from that brief nothing but dress and society-those moth and faint away? And why did no gallant of Moran as the manager of the company, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor summary of the conditions under which it exten subjects which are rapidly going and bold-Buccleuch from the club some in

was established the historian who is charged. bath the prospectures and advertise-

poration with his own band and, as out of fashion, so we understand and active member-lly to their rescue and do ments Meran's name appeared not as

ho has himself related, "but for that with the duty of ransacking its archiver and promoter but av maoxging director. Fdr- If it had not been for the gallant co an Ajax act? Our opinion of the club is

ther expenses up to August 3 wars incurred historical fact in all probability the laying bare the outstanding features of the lonel who chipped in now and then with a falling, but we have hope when we read: "It at the plaladify works for printing copies of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- Bank's progress will be possessed of a task racy anecdote about fodia or a brief his is unnecessary to have the club closed at

bere prospectases, circulars, Chinese leaflets tion would not have come into existence," which should prove a labour of love in the torical sketch of the rise and fall of the present, as the members consist of men of etc. ertil on Aug. 14 the defendant Pope re

Like many another great institution the Bank truest sense of the term. For the history of Hindu Kush the poor governess would have moral character." All hail moral men and signed the chairmanship of the board of direc. was formed almost by accident-certainly the Bank is very much the history of Hong- died of ennui.. No wander that she became true, and down with the immoral honoraries. tors sad daly advertised such resignation and owing to the jealous pride of the merchants kong, and he would be a dull clod who a short time after the erection of the now com- home-sick and weary of life. And the But there is a dark insinuation in the next.

of their temporary home. Hoogkong might spirit of romance. The Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd. hardest part of it all must have been the line; "It would, perhaps, have been wiser pany so nearly at completion tottered and fell of the Colony in the welfare and prosperity could not invest such a theme with the

and nothing more was ordered from the plain. meeting of the parties on the staircase, to close it a couple of months ago as some tiffs but bottle, of gum and a few sheets of be a little place, they said in effect, but it was when each wondered whether a mumble of the people in it were undesirable."

paper on Aug. 30." "On these facts the plain. big enough and its inhabitants were bold and a stolid stare at the ceiling would pass Allens we suppose, and honorary members fiffs claimed that they were entitled to Judgment enough to defy the competition of out- for a cordial "bon matin." It is all very at that; even Brutus was an honoùrablé man.

for the amount of the bill against defendant, siders, even if these outsiders were men of Here were two Now we come to the last patagraph of all

Pape as credit was given to him and he ridiculous and absurd.

their own kith and kia. fir Thomas Buther- an horsed the ordering of these articles. ladies who, we feel certain, could have and it makes one to think furiously: "The arranged matters so that the dally round passing of sarcastic remarks on the Convent. The questions of fact which the judge, sit land, to pass an idle hour on one of the ocean ting a Jury, had to ask himself were: greyhounds running from Hongkong to would pass harmoniously, and yet, they girls is all absolute rot. The girls them (1) Whether the company gave credit to Moran Swatow, Amoy and Foochow in 1864-the must pick up the veriest trifles and odds selves look up at the club windows every for those goods as principal, or as agent for speed of the vessel was right knots under the and ends of short temper in order to time they pass by Bold, brazen bussies Pope and the other provisional directors of the most favourable circumstances-read anum- Create that strained, hold-me-at-arm's-length that they are. But we are not going to get company (2) Whether Moran bad either ber of copies of blockwood's Magazine, direct authority from Pope to order these things which contained certain articles on the rub Japanese Cotton Goods in China and Ameri-feeling which invariably leads to an eruption, ourselves embroiled in a question which con-

anthority which might be implied from the And then when matters have reached, a cerns the ladies. If they want to look up at conduct and actions of Pape, and the relation- Ject of banking, and especially on the highly of the trade returns for the penultimate quat can Competition, Employment for Foreigners in Japan.

crisis they are foolish enough to invoke the the club windows-let them look. For our ships that exitled between them. As regards meritorious character of Scottish banking aster of the year that has just passed. We C. P. R. Co.

aid of the law to arbitrate between them, part, we should say to the members-Why the Best bis lordship found that the plaintiffs compared with any other kind of banking in need not deal with treaty ports outside out. to the great glee of a number of old women don't you invite them inside?

looked to the directors for payment after seeing any other part of the world. And I absorb-ken, for it is with such ports as Canton, of both sexes in the Colony. No great harm

the signed list of provisiodal directors and noted these articles, be continued "bey far Swalow, Kongmoon, and West River to Moras, And with reference to the second, cinated me. I had never had a banking landing places that the bulk of Hongkong's has been done in this particular case,

that the greater part of the printing was done although we have no doubt that consider.

on Pope's own suggestion. The judge distin- account in my life. I had only an account coastal trade lies. Naturally, on turning to able expense has been incurred, but we Shanghai has a curious knack of producing galabed between the goods ordered by Morau with the compradore, which was generally the statistics of Cantoo, we look for the hope the result will induce intending tl- that class of mercantile case in which the grip te 17th May and found Fope liable in the overdrawn but it appeared to me that, if a opium market with the object of discovering gants of the fair sex to think twice, and to speculative element takes a frent place. It is

to the plaintiffs to the amount of $51,30,very simplest things in the world and one of along. Under the heading of Importe, opium say "plums, prunes and prisms three times seldom that one takes up a Shanghal paper in total $370, while Moana indebted suitable opportunity occurred, one of the how the trade in that product is getting

which there is no reference to some dispate in rapid succession before they decide to about abates and stocks or some scheme which the costs being adjudged against Pope, the wisest would be to start a bank in Chips is given first place. From a cursory glance follow the example set them by the parties is to make all the promoters rich in next to no

Our purpose in quoting this case is to show how sasily a mas may be led into expenses more or less founded upon Scottish prin: it is apparent that during the months of July, from Kowloon. Such actions are never time. It may be inkan for granted that long

parties have been at loggerheads, and that one agreed to become the chairman of a company put those ideas into practical shape. They found decline in the market, for, foreign

In course of formation. As chilman Mr. Pope lay dormant until the time had arrived when opium, although, be it: noted, there was it is always a case of “honours easy."

or the other has failed to see his fortune mate became liable for the expenditure incurred in the good seed sown by the magazine articles significant increase in the quantity of

the purchase of the material necessary lo had time to germinate and fructify. Months native opium Imported Into Chias by: from evolving new plans to attract the fancy of connection with the flotation of the company, afterwards, the P. & O. official was called way of Canton. It will be borne in mind the public, and the noteworthy part of the basalthough i was not the promoter or even the So far as ever we have been informed the mess is that there saver seems to be the slightest oflglastor of the scheme, and even although asideby the captain of a mail steamer who come that we are always speaking of the third ancient British Settlement of Malacca in the difficulty in getting capitalists to finance com he resign his position before the company as municated to him the momentous news that quarter of last year. Xa., that period

SOBY be the

that certain people in Bombay had recently then," Canton, imported a little over 190 Malay Peninsula is the finest imitation of pay promoting schemes. It

climate of Shanghai which leads sasa badress a living sailty began to breathe, wet in future started » Royal Bank of China, that they piculs of Malws as compared with 451 Sleepy Hollow in the Far East. We read of

mes to lay thele hard-earned money on the Mr. Pope will be more circumspect la laro.of a card, to speculate on the flimsiest Pre promoting Vastores

when he is asked to dabble in company had appropriated to themselves two-thirds picule in 1908 and #34 picula in 1907-w the rumpuses that occur at Penang, wa mro

While the judgment of three-fourths of the share capital, but are leaving out fractions. That shows a overwhelmed by the plethoric culberate position and to follow the principle of ballering awarded against him may prova mere doabite, they were going to send an ambassador on distinct fall to the demand always suppos. which emanate from Kuala Lumpur, in is pare lack. For some time past, fortunately, the moral should be appreciated by the ter, William Arthur, eldest son of W. J: Onghi | dread we devour the tiger tales concocted in few have been bitten in the share market, speelstime atomity of business mes to to China immediately in order to distribute ing that the supply equalled market requires. top, in bla 39th year. of Chaux De Fonds, Joli Site, 17 Rue du Com./ into fame. But Malacca, the city of a for. some unfortunate, crazed by folly, has defied has yet to be decided, the question as iesno, is capital, to create a Board of Directors and ed war:3,362; picule, which was about 560, On zgib Decembar, 1909, Jacques Ullmans, Selangor, and now and then Ipoh blossoms fact which is evidenced by the long spell since Hongkong. As for the second; action which the one-fourth or one-third, their remaining ments. In Patna, the total amount import

Canon 'gainst salf-slaughter," but that is gotten civilisation, was wost to rest in peace pot to say that the boay beator of the people on the ruins of its past. It would seem, in the Model Settlement have been at rest, however, that a new generation has sprung Jadgment has just been delivered on what many up in the dusty township, a generation which be described as the first act of a case, which threatens to bring Malacca once more into shows how easy it is to blossom forth as a the limelight,. And the process is likely to coming force in Shanghai. The second part interest a wider circle than the Malay States; comes on at a later date and it deals with another insos, which, we shall carefully vold

Chion Bomeo Cole Sawmill. III The Oriental Brewery.. IV. The Steam Laundry. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. "Rise in the Price of Opium,

6.8. Kaya Maru,

Obituary

Police Smoker."

Boxing.

Notes by the Way,

The Racos

A Shanghai Boom.

The West Point Building Co., Ltd.

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The Chinese Navy Commissioners. The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency

Co Ltd. Sports. Hockey. Pahang Consolidated.

Clergyman's Experiences in China.

Hongkong Volunteer Corps.

Marathon Race

Rowing.

Royal Hongkong Golf Club

Salon-Cinema Theatre..

Dress Reform in the East..

Volunteer Corps Orders.

Canton Day by Day.

The Canton-Hankow Railway,

Anti-Opium Campaign.

Osaka's Trade with China

Osaka Shoten Kaisha.

Wreck of the King George,

China Borneo Co., Ltd."

Rubber Returns,

Commercial:-

Weekly Share Report.

Yarn Market

Bullion,

Exchange.

Local and General.

BIRTHS,

COMPÁNY PROMOTION.

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SIDE GLANCES AT:CANZON'S

TRADE..

While it is too early yet to look for détailed

statistics of the trade of China during the past year-and as a matter of fact we have, just received the official analysis of foreign trade (exports) published in the laterests of the Imperial Maritime Customs for: 1908 some idea of how the chief markets are movieg is to be gained from an examination

On December 24, 1909, at Chinwangtao, the difying and they never attain their object-- before these disputes, come into Court, which he bad never casculated upon when be ciples." But the time had not yet come to August and September-fast, there was an all-.

wife of C. N. Holwill, I.M „Customs, a son.

On January 11, 1910, at Wasih, the wife of Dr. Claude Marshall Lee, of a daughter.

On_19th January, 1910, at **Edgehill,”. 64, The Pask, the wife of Albert Raymond of a

· MARRIAGE ***

под

On January 8, 1910, at Shaughal, Alan Hillion, only son of 1., W. D. Hilton-Johnson of Sarre Court, Kent, to May Lane, eldest daughter of Wm. L. Merriman, of Sbangkai.

DEATHS,

On Friday, December 14, 1959, at Manches

marca, aged sy years, Senior Partner of 1. Ullmann & Co. Chaux De Fonds, Hongkong, Shanghai and Tlentils papers please

Bhanghai and Tientsin.

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TRIALS OF A MALACCA CLUB,

rialise. But these cases do not, check others

the

** De faɛnary 9, 19to, at Shanghal,. Viccent Carlisle, late of the 19th Hussars, Chinese Im perial Maritime Customs (Air) son of the for the rejuvenation of Malacca is to be as far as possible. The case in quamion was Iata Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Henderson.

On Ianuary 13, 19to, at Obama, Japan, in his achieved through the medium of a club, that of Limmimaria. Francaise w. 1. AT. 3rd year Rowland Ja Calp, for may years Of course readers will immediately jump Moran and A. W. U. Pope the plaintiffs suing

as to whether there was or was not any regement between Pope and Most, is to who should bear the initial expenses of the all-born company. The evidence in that case when it comerton for proof should prove of Interest to high fliers in this Colony,

to earn all the profite out of the local com less than in the previous year. The Import munity throughout Chlon. My friend Capt, of Benates oplum dwindled from 496 pieuls Eastleigh said this was a golden opportunity in 1908 to 208 picula inagog. But palive for me, that I might obtain some of those oplum has been steadily moving forward since shared if I only paid, proper respect to the thelastqulaquennialreport. In 1906 the total expected ambassador, that I might even importation of the native product amounted hope at some time or other to arrive at the to 163 picals; in zboy it was 633 and to the OUR PREMIER BANK,M

position of a Director of the Royal Bank of following year it was about the same, 614. (17th January.)

China Well, gentlemen, I reflected a good But last year the swelling demand for the One's the gifts and graces of public life deal on the subject. I thought to myself that native Riticle resulted in the importation of haken, that we mean Malaoca Club, other delivered. The learned Judge does not go businessmen away from the dull prosaic were so lacking in public spirit that they half the total foreign importe January 15. loro, Eemelis Joanne de wise known as Case: nothing of the very deeply into the evidence because each routine of everyday affairs by the fatrodne would submit to a Bombay enterprise coming readers are at liberty to Brive of it was more relevant to the forthcoming tion of a theme, hich is as new is it in old. along in this undignified position-I thought conclusions: In this matter, but Srent relict of the late Cir de Sant resort. We mean the ordinary, sociable, action, than 15) the amader consideration, monin me on two old China, bands who they would deserve whitever fale might be dheki teem niegular shal P10108amily-party club where nothing stronger. Bet belad to or due antember hotel neared in the crailer who have fall them. But the result of my cogitation inhould become so popula

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