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"SPECIAL CABLES

FIGHTING AT NANKING..

REBELS TRYING TO BUY OVER NAVAL FORCES.

Alleged Foreign Loans for Rebels.

(Our Own Correspondent)

Shanghai. Received Aug. 23.

Fighting continues spasmodically at Nanking, but the railway

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913.

BRITISH BORNEO EXPLORATION.

Times" Comment,

From the report, issued this week, of the British Borneo Ex ploration Company for the year. ended February 28, 1913, we gather that the company is still in a state of suspended animation, says the "Times" of July 25, It would not be incɔtreut to describe this condition as'a tactical evasion

of sudden death, for there rms to be only the faintest hope of the company a recovery. In the dir-

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FRESH

MILK

No careful mother can afford to use any but

Pure Fresh Cow's Milk.

Baby's health is of greater moment than the few. cents saved in using Tinned or other preserved milk

The Dairy Farm Milk is Pure and Fresh and con-

cumstances, we should not trouble tains no preservatives of any kind

to comment on this particular company's dishein but for the: fact that its prations history

Dairy Farm

Milk

means:

MACKINTOSH

& CO., LTD.

**MEN'S - WEAR · SPECIALISTS,"

TENNIS

and-aber communications are cut and it is impossible to got, news. farrishes some or ful lesso's Good. Clean & Wholesome Milk. 16

It is reported that the rohels are trying to buy over the naval forces who were sent up on three cruisers to bombard Nanking.

Au allegation is runde that the subjects of a certain Power have lent the ret is $15,000,000 and are prepared to and another $10,000,000 on the prospect of chtaining sejayment and the success of the movement against President Yuan.

Food is running short at Nunking.

INTERIM NOTES.

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At out eight years. 3o the com- pany was formed to acquire con- ressions with 50 years to run tol

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The Reconstruction Fallure. A previous attempt to raies more money the expedient of a

The Next Gymkhana.

events on

Non-Alcoholic Sacrament. The Archbishop of York has

ATS SHIRTS

TROUSERS

BELTS

SOCKS

Boots & Shoes.

DES VOEUX :

ROAD 16

(Next door to Thos Cook & Son.):

WILLIAM POWELL, LTD.

TELEPHONE 346

NEW

BABY CARRIAGES

WOOD AND CANE BODIES,

WIRED-ON TYRES

:

Smart Inexpensive Types.

CARPETS

A RAKE OPPORTUNITY.

CARPETS Having a pretty heavy Stock of INDIAN CARPETS on hand we are clearing them at extremely low prices, approaching very near- their cost, and earnestly advise our valued customers and patron not to miss this opportunity which may not come round, again.

A trial visit would be more convincing than saying any thing. further.

MEHTA. & CO.

Removed to Hospital, prospect for mines, mineral the best arrangement it could, oils, and precious stones in North and to dispose of its interest in A European named John Ken- Paraco. The mines, anything sights, for $1,100. The dire 218 bospital suffering from the effc st

the syndicate, including ita oil nedy has 30 removed to the was found worth miring, were to balearadata eppercorarent, and did this after consulation with of alcholism. He was found on all the valuables exported were the three largest areholders, the Polo field in a semi-nude to to duty. The original repregonting with the chairman, condition. capital consisted of x400,000 in 182,957 shares. What may be the Ordinary abarea of £1 each and prosp: ta of the petroleum' ven- The programme of the fourth my lord, I immediately retire ICO,C30 in Founders' sha123 of ture we do not know, but in the meeting of the Hongkong from the ease.” What is there the same denomination, and it 1012 report of the Exploration Gymkhana Club, to take place on to prevent him?

was provided that the latter Company there was this mopedful the 30th instant, has been issued. (By an Occasional Contributor) [Thowarder, you fool-Editor. ehould take 20 per nt. of the admission:-"Its

Hipr 09 There are net profits after creating a reserve, that it now app ars to have the card. The burning question of the Alas, how are the mighty fallen, and that, in the event of winding unfortunate toat it was pr moment is the price of Langkate A year ago, when a middle-aged up, they should be entitled to 20 for us to diapors of this intorest." and I fear theo will be much

rnator referred to the Tower per cent, of the surplus ass 18. severe burning of fingers when Clock ne the dear old land-tuark The whole of the shares were the day of seulement strives of my youth," he evoked such a allotted to the promoting syndicate The last settling price was. The storm of applause that, had a in payment of the con, sssion, the reconstruction had failed. A new expressed his willingness to con- and the present market price is subseri tion list been of oned the Ordinary being credited with 158. Com Dy was to be formed with fer with the Archbishop of Can- Tis 23. he has on each share next day, ten thousand dollars paid and the Founders' fully paid, a capital of £1000 in 28 shares, terbury on the question of the is therefore about $7108. Lucky would have at over leapt from This of course, involved the work 125, of which were to be offer-Fermissive use uf untermented are they whose investments to their scabbards to defend it. To- ing capital for the exploration, ed for eutsiiption to the exist. wine in the Holy Communion. ure the word in its latest or Lloyd-\day no one seems to be so,.poorteris, &c., being"furnished out of ing shareholders, in addition to Georgian meaning-have been on

the prot sds of the 5s. liability. 425,000 to be allotted in ex- a small scale. But what of the to do it honour,

In 1908, 25,000 of the Founders' change for the old shares. This, big financiers who only deal in

May I point out to the Registrar shares were surrendered by the if it had been carried out, would PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

"Per 8.8 Mongolia departed large blocks"? Saul slew bis of the Supreme Court that he syndicate, and were then constitut-have given the company £12,500 shousands but David his tens of would to doing the community a ed Ordinary shares and issued in the word recurs in the company's Bell, Bov. W. L. McCrory, R.

in cash. But, "unfortunately" for San Francisco, and Way

Ports 23rd inst. thousande: what horrible round valuable service if he were to con- part payment of a claim against records with the doleful iteration Brown, . K. numbers to multiply by minus tinue the work of his predecessor the company. seven and a half pounds sterling and bring the "History of the

of the "never more" of Poe's Buckhingham, No Results Worth Anything,

Raven"-"developments on the Mrs. D. F. Hongkong Law Courta" up to One of the conditions of an The bathing nights at East date. I am sure that an interes agreement entered into with the and it was impossible to under- Cary, Miss N...

property were not Encouraging."Coombs, Miss E. Point seem to have been a com ting volume would be the result British North Borneo Company-write the issue. Subɛariptions Cleaves, Mrs. M. plete виссева.

Everybody is for has he not himself stated a company which is more particu-did not reach the minimum of A.. clamouring for more--more beach, publicly that, owing to arobiliarly interested in rubber flota- £8,000 that was considered pec- Griffith, Mrs. Sheppard, Mr. We stock quarter. sizes which ensure a perfect fit. more tenta, more music, more light tural conditions,

the recorde tions was that the exploration essary, so the directors abandon

Sweet, Mrs W. and more nights. The story of are not dry.

H. company must expend at leasted the scheme and returned the . J. W Mre Platonic and the way the

£10,000 a year in prospe sting the

Hicks, Mrs J. J. Sinclair, application money, closed dowa Hennessey Mr Justion Darling and Mr North Badea's taritory, bathing costumes of these two

G... M. gay young sparke, Damon and Powden will have to look to their agreed that this condition has all work a year ago, terminated Henry, Me and Siegfried, Miss Pytbiae, got mixed up, is as free laurels. They have a local rival ben carried out entisfactorily 80

agrtments, and reduced ex- from malicious insinuation as a whose obiter dieta are being carefar as the current year, which penditure to the bare point nec- Knierim, Miss R. Sheppard, S. Sanitary Board Regulation; but, fally soted down by a member of ends on February 28 next, and the essary for keeping the company Kimmerling, Dr. Tedger, G. H. in spite of the fact that it was last our ets. In the fulness of time concession is therefore prosected with the concession before its ex-Lee Sit Sum

alive in order to deal, it possible,

Vinson, Miss M Young, Miss I, told me by a churchwarden, the he hopes to ipake a book of them up to that date. An effort was made Editor refuses to let me insert

some time back to get the Piry. That is still the position Maxsted, Capt, Wesilyn, Mies

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It makes excellently pleasant minimum reduced, but the terms

and there is 5310 cash in hand.

McIntosh, Mr Walruff, A. C. doubt, however, that the Editor will

and Mrs Pay- Walsh, T allow the office boy to supply the

master K. C,

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reading, the announcement that asked by the North Borneo

the Duncan Silver Medal for the Company were not considered SALE OF BURNS'S GUN. said details privately to any sub- best essay on aeroplanes, dirigibles acceptable. The matter is scriber who rings up the "Hong- and embmarines has been award- of little importance now, for

kong Telegraph." No answer willed to Capt Skrimshire R. G. A. in existing circumstances Mears. Puttick and Simpson

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He was one of the most daring members of the now famous turtle huating expedition. He had just returned after forty-eight sleepless bours spent in a bathing-dress in

MANILA CIGAR TRADE

Repest of Existing Law Would

Mean Ruin,

it

as impossible for

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Murray, Miss

H. L. Roos, Mr and

Mrs J. de Rabbith, W. E. Rumsey, Mre

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Today's Advertiscments

NOTICE.

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URING my temporary absence from the Colony the

S. MORIMOTO,

..Agent, TOYO KISEN KAISHA, Hongkong.

gold last month, some relics of to given in cases where subscrip We congratulate Capt. Skrimshire would be

Robert Bures. Aflint-look gun, tions are overdue. Lady subscrib and we consider the Hongkong the Exploration Company to ers need not give their nemes Volunteer Corps lacky in having expend £5,000 a year as £10,000, formerly in the possession of the and may

Test assured that the service of each a capable their funds being exhausted and Foet and used by bim at Ellis- blushes, however becoming, can- Staff Officer.

their chances of increasing them land, fetched 19 guineas (God- win). According to the facts set not to seen through the tolephone.

apparently hopeless. In one way

gan or other the £100,000 of working out in the sale catalogue this

D capital tor thereabouts) has Lanas given by Bures to Joha Brodie, who pawned it withị spent, and there is nothing to Robert M'Csakie and did not affairs of the Company will be show for it. It appzura from the redeem it. M'Caskie's intention carried on by Mr. C, WURIU. balance sheet that £46,861 has Heartily concurring in the been applied in prospe ting and WB to leave it to the town a typhoon in a place where the cable which the Manila merch mining development, and in council, but owing to a quarzol summits, frown, ante' association sent to Wash addition to this £55,271 has gone Mr. Veitch, whose son sold it at he did not so, but presented it to rocky-crested which rooke custom did not change ington a few days ago declaring in depreciation, los on plant, Dowell's rooms in Edinburgh on eto a bed of down. He was in that if the present law which transport of plant, and London June 25, 1910. Its next owner bed and a doctor had been sent allows all Philippine cigars con- expenses. Nevertheless, the for. Our man came along think taining a maximum of twenty directors Been to have a lingering possession it passed to Mr. W. J. From SAN FRANCISCO, vin

was Mr. W. 8. White, from whose ing to get something interesting per cent. foreign materials to hope that an opportunity will

first hand. You blong docenter the United States fr 3 of occur of turning the concession bibited at the White City in

Sage, the vendor. tor?" said the faithful boy at the duty, be repealed, it will destroy to aerunt. blushingly, and walked in. He certam amount of foreign materi-

Something might perhaps have Johnnie," the shoemaker Jobry

THE had no sooner mentioned the word al is necessary in their manufact been done with mineral oil, bat Davidson, went for £3, and "TENYO MARU."

turtio" than the air was full of ure, Governor General Forbes here again the company has ten portrait by A. Nasmyth of another The unprintable words. As our man sent a cable to the secretary of "unfortunate." It entered into of Burns's friends, the Kav. baring arrived, Consignas of Cargo are sadly remarked when he beat awas, late yesterday afternoon, says arrangements with the British James Auld. "Daddy Auld," hereby notif. 1 to send in their Bills of retreat; "He seems to me to need the "Monila Tines" of August 16, Borneo Petroleum Syadicate un-) a priest far more a throwing his influence with the der which it was to receive 25 brought £2 15s.

local cigar manufacturers to whom physigian.

the repeal of the law would mean cent, of the purchase price of business destruction.

1911.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

hặt was ex- HONOLULU, JAPAN FORTS,

AND MANILA.

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door. "Yes" said car man un- the local cigar export business as a » An “Unfortunate " 'Company. The chair used by "Jonter

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The recent Wootton v Sievier

any subsidiary company formed

Magisterial Change.

above"

named

steamer

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effect d.

No claim will be recognised after the Goods bays left the steamer Godown, and

SILK MERCHANTS.

HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

ARE YOUR COLLARS JUST YOUR SIZE?

THE CRAWFORD

| in 156, 194, 2, 244, 24 ins. deep Avarious of Other Styles

fr

Lading for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of Caige from alongside.

Chigo remaining undelivered on Tues. to work and get oil. The 30 We have been informed that August 26th at noon will be landed at Governor General Forbes fur-terms were afterwards modif- Mr. G. N. Orme is to take the consignees' risk and expense and delivery Oase bos suggested a way in which a criminal can defeat the ther explains that it is impossible ed, and the Syndicate took place of Mr. C. D. Melbourne, as must then be taken from the Company's ende of Justice without resorting to meet all the requirements in

up a large area which it was cond Magistrat, Mr. Mellorne Godown. to the unsatisfying hunger- regard to certain cigar wrapp entitled to work on its own going to the Supreme Court, ast strike",

Imagine for a moboxes, tinfoil, eto, which are. went that Peak Barglar 11 is necessarily foreiga. Copies of account, the Exploration Com- Deputy Registrar,

1any reiving 17,000 fully-paid Counterfeit Coins.. being tried and elects to con- the cable were sent to Secretary Deferred shares of 1s. in lieu of Inspector Gerrard charged a all Goods remaining undelivered on Sept. duct his own defence. I assume Redfield, Senator James Hilton the 25 per cent on sales. It was Chine at the Police Court, this 2nd will be subject to rent and landing shat, while conducting that I wis, the Philippines Bociety; not long, however, ksfore the morning, with endeavouring to charges. defence, he would be accord- and the Chamber of Commerce of Petroleum Syndicato found it pass counterfeit coirs at Yau- All chafed and otherwise damaged Decessary to reconstruct with a mati, and with being in p and examina ton of same to be held on

Cargo to ed every privilege.that even full- the United States.

be left in the godown, wigged counsel can lay claim to.!

liability of 3e. a share, which on aion of counterfeit coins. Imagine that in his line of de-

Will the Calendar be Right? the shares held by the Explore On one charge defendant was All Claim must be filed on or before

Sept, 2nd at 1018. fenca he denies the jurisdiction| We are keenly looking forward tion Company would have fined $60, or in default one Fept. 9th, cibe wise they will not re- of the Court. The objection is to to-morrow. According to the amounted to £2,601; and the month' and on the other he was gais, over-ruled. ¡Up jumpe Peak Bur- Chinese calendar it is the Festival company was quite without sentenced to two months hard 6. MORIMOTO, glar II and, beatrically throwing of Chm Shu, or "Stopping of fands to meet any such commit labour and four hours stocks, down his brief decisime, Then, Great Heat,

ment." It bed, therefore, to make Sentences to ruit consecutively, Hongkong, 23rd August, 1912. (400

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