We issued the following extra at 0.15 expected to be a total the olive has been received by us from the of the Buk, and we documents, cash, saved. By the ki of the Imperial Bank of Eh ness of the Bank is being' temporarily carried on thei the Tientsin staff ha sist Me. Tweed. Mr. Hill and) Mrs. with Mr. Stabb of th presumed that Mr. and Mrs, Hillier, Mr. Tweed, and Mr. Brent lost everything, and the whole of the furniture is also burnt.
The Bank, which was Liirse tried to get an engagement at the Central Hotel, but did not succeed. T was ment for three month Lwent to the star House, and was ere Lleft there with ae:
Road business, The Canton Rond business was profitable, and then in April, 1899, opened the Bronswick Hotel. On the Ist Dee: 1899, Mr. Lee joined me as partner, Between the Ist April and the st December Jost. money.
Lee knew that your business was not paying /—Ue did, sir, He knew it from you as well as outsiders /—Yes, you ma! person either in or out 0 what do you attribute your bank: rupted 2—Owing to the place "being sold out, and lo: me destitute. It was far from amy thoughts that ever T should be The Official Receiver—T should like to whether you have sent any money y tone dollar a have sent away to swear it, T have ready sworn it, Not on any occasion.
Not once. ip—We know from certain siti of $3,000 was wand in some way went D> the accounts show w me of y do, six, The debtor for $3,490, paid Phe acevunts fully of the F
Jung Li and a change of sentence was ut on Even then it seems that the Empress Dowayor's advisers are fearful of for interference. It my wot be know the decree of the Och instant, pu Li mess being on the Moor, th man in these columns, was not meant fur ager's residence on the first floor, with the the public, but for the Gover servants' quarters and a large provinces to the have. Tt Hanlins. belonged. rick' and graphed from Peking with the resuit Chat the Ava{e er of fact, the Grand Coun the arrest of the five Hauling, simply ordered the Board of Punishments to send those who were in Peking to thei vinges where it was stated the ties were to put them under strict Tance—there was not a word about impr: sonment for life. Bat on the other hand cree of the Mth was dispatched as a "decree to the Governors t solvex in order that they migh todo with their prisoner is now being made at Peking to ascertain who revealed the arrangement and sent the "geeret" dvoree to Shanghai to be publish-ead in the North-China Daily News. As the Conservatives evidently fear and expect interference in their persecutions of men who have adopted, and desire t propagate, western civilisation in their own country, it would evidently be wrong to disappoint them, and a little pressure on the part of the Foreign Ministers at Peking will bring about the desired end. Te is certain, however, that, if Wu Shih-tsao be permitted to go to a premature grave—for that is what imprisonment for fife in a Chinese prison amounts to—with out an effort on the part of foreigners to save him, there will be amongst all educated and lib Chinese, and great dislike of W asterners and their teaching; Fire wil 1 China Fire. 'Toe fire is reported t broken out in the servants' qu upper floor, but that it was due to mn, tire Cone servative element pressed disgust
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