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GENERAL NEWS.

Chinese Crops.

The crops between Tientsin and Peking are said to show good promise. The repeated snowfalls. Inet winter have done much good. The farmers will have an cause to grumble. "P. D. N."

Speaker's Family Escapes Fire.

Pa-a Caristian, Mws, March 22.-Lynee Ostle, # widely known winter hotel on the Gast coust, at which Speaker Champ Clark, Mr. Olark and their daught- or Genevieve are guests, was badly damaged by fire to-day. All the guests had ample warning and saved their pirannal effeols."

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915,

S. MOUTRIE & Co., LTD.

A Consular Appointment, The Japan Advertiser states that Mr. James Marshall has been appointed Brazilian Vice-Consul at Kobe and bas assumed charge, having received his exequatur from the Minister of Foreign " Affairs, Mr. Marshall ia in Yoko-|: hama at present. ⠀

The New Staking Fund. Te Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury announce that the sum of $1,000,000 will shortly be issued to the National Debt Commissionere, this being the amount payable in the New Sinking Fond of the financial your 1914-15.

East Ham as County Borough.

East Ham on April 1 assumed the dignity of a County Borough, so Levering its connection from the E sex County Council. The Ant making this alteration recei- yed the Roy I Assent on April 30 last year. The Borough wes in corporated in 1904. It has a po- palation of about 135,000, and is reteable value is just over

£550,000

Braid Factory In Chosen, It is reported that the Manager of the Kanegefachi Cotton Yarn Mill in Tokio and some business men of Fusan, Chemulpo, and Seoul, have a plan on foot for the establishment of a braid factory in Chosen at a subscribed ospital of three million pen.. The Seoul Preas adds that an application for the necessary permission will shortly be filed with the authori- ties..

1910 McAdoo Operation for.

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TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION INCLUSIVE.

4

TROUBLES AFFEcting"

SHIP CANALS.

In the European war canals are perhaps of more importance than railways, the Kiel Canal to the Germans and the Suez Canal to the British Government in Egypt. It is not generally known what enormous difficulties have to be faced in the endeavour to keep these canals clear.

LONDON FINANCE.

The British and German War

Loans.

The Straits Times

London

special correspondent writed ap der the date of April 1.

To

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the first floor of No. 3 Duddeli ROOMS suitable for offices on Street.

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Bishops Lodge South" No. 11 The Peak, unfurnished 5 rooms.

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JANTED.-Fianoforto for beginner; must be cheap. State price, etc. to Musio "A. Ogilvie," clo Hongkong Telegraph."

British, finance has been pat to several severe tests in the past few months, but no country has ever emerged with such success as that indicated in the revenue returns for the fiscal year ended yesterday. On May, 1914, the The Germans have spent a peace Badget settled in an ap- gigantic sum on their Kiel Canal,parently cloudless sky gave an which carries their ships from the estimated revenue of £207,140,000 North Sea to the Baltic. Just and a bare surplus of £125,000 before they made this war they over the anticipated expenditure. had widened it at a cost of fifteen in November, after three months millione....

of war, fresh taxation was impos- The United States has anxieties ed, particularly an inoresce in the over the Culebra Out in the tea and beer duties and the in- Panams, bat not more so than come tax, with the result that the the Germans over their waterway. estimated revenge (after certain 3 roonis, suitable for office, 1st For the ground through which adjustments made subsequently) floor, Queen's Road Cential. the latter is cut is in most places was fixed at £209,206,000 while Westward Ho Bonham Road. No. 25 Bolilios Terrace, with nothing but peat-rotten, black the total expenditure was put at staff which keeps on breaking up however, the actual revenue for with entrance in Conduit Road, with private family, on the Poak. WANTED. Gentleman and falling back into the canal.

£568,840,000. As a matter of fact, entrance on Conduit Road.

No. 27 BELILIOS TERRACE,

desires room and board bortom continn. the year amounted to £228,694, In very good order.

Apply --"H. E, X” c/o Hong- operated on in New York in 1910 ally "bumps up," thus lower- COO an increase of £28,450,000 No. 3 Des Voeux Villas, 59, kong Telegraph.".

previous twelve Mount Kellett, The Peak. for hernia, and not for appending the depth of the pas over

sage. The craft that use the Kiel months and of 217,488,000 over (Furnished or unfurnished). citis, as was erroneously report. Canal have to crawl along. They the final estimates, while the ex- No. 1 Cameron Villas, No. 61 ed" at the time. Today it was positively seserted that the latest say that if a cruiser were to make penditure chargeable against The Peak, furnished. (immediate operation in this city a few days would take a year and several the Exchequer balances have

a dash through at top speed it revenue was £580,474,000, and possession. ago was for appendicitia. The statement is made that the secret. ary is recovering. It was said further that the recovery from the first operation was complete. The Island of Lemaos. This island of Lemnos, which the Alliee are said to be using as a base for their attacks on the

Hérnia; Appendicitis Now,

Washington, Maroa 27. The statement was made unofficially at the treasury department today' that Secretary Moddoo bad bewn.

Also the

millions of money to remedy the damage done by her atera wavo.

Leave any canal alone for even a year, and it would no longer be fit for navigaton. Within five years a small boat would ha un able to pass through it.

Each canal has its own special Dardanelles, has a long and troubles. That of the Panema is varied history, but is now noted landslides. chiefly for its medicinal earth. place during its construction, Many have taken This earth, which has been high- many more will have to be dealt ly esteemed in the East since with in ooming yeare. Even at classio times as a care for numer- the present moment the canal is oua ailments and an antidote to completely closed trallid ba poison, comes from a dry mound cause of an enormous landslide. near the village of Katechinos, The German-led Tarks are said and can only be dog before day to be about to attack Egypt. break on one day in the year their armies ever manage to cross August 6-when a Greek priest the waterless desert of Sinai they and hadja both attend and go will find themselves on the for through an elaborate ceremonial: bank of the bread Suez Canal, which will be patrolled by British warships, mounting gune beside shioh the Turkish artillery will be mere toys.

the

',

risen from £10,435,000 to 283, 450,000. Of course heavy bor.

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Foonyuan Signboard dealersNELING Kwangwuchong Jervois Street, Rangoon

rowing has had to be indulged fore, why abiatus, that the greater game, as Carpentier in und up to the end of the fir- never arises under normal cir- is doing. At any rate, if he can- ancial year £260,000,000 out of cumstances, should occur ander not do military daty, he can at the £350,000,000 war loan had present conditions, "and we have least discontinue the use of a been received, while on balance to part with a certain amount of military designation, the issue of Treasury Bills and gold that might be more useful Exchequer bonds yielded shout in the vaults of the Bank of 18,000,000. That, however, England. But that is only a the fact that

not so much the point as minor disturbance which will UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS,

the ordinary work itself out in a satisfactory evenue has shown so much way presently, and it would be lasticity under the conditions of foolish to attach too much import- this dreadful war. It is a totally ance to it. One very satisfactory Eastern Extension Australasia different position from that of feature is that there is a growing Germany which is not only on the tendency on the part of investors basis of a forced paper currency, (and there is no specalation" with the prospect in the near nowadays) to go in for things for future that the "mark" will be below the" gilt-edged " class and worth Ud, or less, but has taken in this connection it is gratifying the ma ezt aordinary measures to be able to report that the best to get aubroriptions to war loans, rubber absres are receiving a The Late Lord_Rothschild.

know of a care in which a bal-great deal of support." Allowing Lord Rothechild bore the same

ance left in a German tank was for the restrictions on business name Nathan Mayer as the

used to apply for the first Ian and the recent activity in the rabber founder of the English branch of

when the second came out the murket is es encouraging as it is #his house, who was the third son

But the Surs, like the Panama bank dolly informed the creditor healthy and I hope to see still af Mayer Amshel Rothschild, the Canal, could never afford passage (through a neutral agent) that it farther progress in this direction prestor of the family fortunes. for these great ships unless work had applied on his behalf for an soon. On coming to England "Nathan went on constantly to keep it clear, equal amount of the second issue, the First look up his quarters,. It is estimated that, if the dredg had given him an overdraft for 60 both businees and residential, in ng work on the Suez were aban-per cent, of it and requested him St Swithin's lane, and though he doned, within less than 10 years to pay up the balance. We are died abroad his remains were the Turks or any one else could not doing that kind of thing just brought home and laid in state in cose is dryabod, w

Alleged Salted Tin Mine, the same famous office where his On both sides of the canal Business on the Stook-Exchange Tawang Hydraulic Mining Penung, April 29.-The Buk- descendants conduct their basi-stretch miles of dry desert, from has shown a steadily improving Company's report says the genera which every wind that blows lifte tendency recently. Not only has manager has advised that opera Protest Against Sunday' the sand in edging spirals and the number of transactions official tions be sopped. The bares

Newspapers, adv At its meeting at the Memorial Cerries it in great cloude.ly recorded increased but there in originally put down being alleged Hail the General Committee of single storm may drop a thousand general consensus of opinion to have been salted, this led to the National Free Church Council tons of sand into one mile of the that the satual amount of businese false ideas of the mins's value.

canal, passed a resolution declaring that.

is better both in its character and The whole working capital was The committee viewed with of trees have been planted along that money is sccumulating for and the company owes $3,800 Of late years a great cusutily amount. There can be no doubt expended by September, 1914, grave concern the multipliation the banks in order to prevent the investment and this must prove a to the bank. Prospecting is pro of Sunday publications pictorial sand from drifting into the water; factor of Increasing importance in ceeding. Straits Times and otherwise, as establishing a precedent which will probably Je oven so, great steam dredgers the future The lead in this country, as in U.S.A., to always at work scooping from trouble we are face

the bottom the blown in sand,

meas today,

yet.

position of cert

to sevendey journalism, a de- and dumping it along the shore. changes manding an over growing exten sion of Sunday labour in their Another trouble of those in from certain cour circulation and distribution, and Charge of the Suez Canal ir

osused by freat water springa,

wing still further inroads which burst up an deep, bed cha

reverent and serious ob and piles the and in ridget,

the whole es are

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Singapore.

Lingwaichee, Manila. Macondray, Saicoo." McFarland J. B. Pinson, London. Quesada China Hotel, Manila. Wing Pang Tan, Queen's Road Central, Nogales.

J. M. BECK, Superintendent.

Hongkong, 6th May, 1915.

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