For Sale
CHRISTMAS STORES.
MacEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., EG to call attention to the following BEG
New Supply of STORES, which they have Received
Ex "GORDON CASTLE" And Other Recent Arrivals.
OBRISTMAS CAKES, 4-lb., &-lb. and
6-lb. each.
OHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDINGS. Pure AMERICAN CANDIES. Pure SCOTCH CANDIES. DRAGEES. ALMONDS Fancy CBOCOLATES.
MARION'S CHOCOLATE CREAMS. NOUGATINES.
Crystalized METZ FRUITS. New Designs in COSAQUES, "CETEWAYO'S HAT BOX."
"MARQUERETE'S JEWEL CASKET." "GRANDMA'S BONNET BOX."
"EDWIN and ANGELINA."
&c.,
&o.,
St
SMYRNA FIGS.
Muscatel BLOOM RAISINS.
JORDAN ALMONDS.
BRAZIL NUTS.
PECAN NUTS.
HICKORY NUTS,
Cooking and Table FRUNES.
Pudding RAISINS and OURRANTS. Candled PEEL
MINCEMEAT la 1-lb. ting
VAN HOUTEN'S COCOA.
CARRAWAY SEEDS.
ECAWRITZRY'S COCOATINA.
SAP SAGE CHEESE.
American CREAM CHEESE,
LIMBURG CHEESE.
PINE APPLE CHEESE.
HAMTONGUE & CHICKEN SAUSAGE. WESTPHALIAN, BOLOGNA, OXFORD, and
TRUFFLED SAUSAGES,
GAME PIES.
Potted MEATS. .
Prime Yorkshire HAMS,
Prime Wiltshire BACON in tins & CanYES.
Pickled OX-TONGUES. OX-TONGUES in JELLY. TRUFFLES,
CALIFORNIA ROLL BUTTER. CUTTING'S Canned DESSERT FRUITS.
HUNTLEY & PALMER'S BISCUITS. CALIFORNIA Chicken Co.'s GINGER
CAKES.
MILK BISCUITS.
ALPHABET BISCUITS,
OYSTER BISCUITS,
WAFER BISCUITS.
SODA BISCUITS.
First-class and Medium OHAMPAGNES,
Fints and Quarts.
HOOK.
BAUTERNES.
CLARET.
Fine Old Pala PONT, 1848.
SACCONE'S Palo Dry SHERRY,
Do. Amontilado SHERRY.
LA GRANDE MARQUE CHARTREUSE,
Pluts and Quarts.
MARASCHINO DE ZARA.
CURACAO,
Fine Old BOURBON WHISKY. Bootes and IRISH WHISKIES. BA88'S ALE Bottled by CAMERON and
SAUNDERS, Pints and Quarta, GUINNESS'S STOUT Bottled by E. & J.
BUERE, Pinta and Quarts,
Specially Selected CIGARS.
Princesa CHEROOTS.
Cavite CHEROOTS.
Princesse CIGARS. ⠀ Cavite CIGARS,
Aroceros CIGARS,
Vegueros CIGARS,
Choice No. 1 Fortin CIGARS in Boxes
of 100.
Choice No. 3 Meinig CHEROOTS,
Choice No. 3 Fortin CIGARS.
PRESENTATION BOOKS.
SCIENTIFIC WORKS.
WORKS of REFERENCE,
SCHOOL BOOKS,
CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS.
CHILDREN'S TOY BOOKS.
NOVELS.
ATLASES.
HISTORIES.
To-day's Advertisements,
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA
The Steamship
"VENICE,"
P. Rnoor, Commander, will be despatched for the above Ports on SATURDAY Next, the 17th Instant, at 3 p.m.
DICTIONARIES. OLLENDORFF'S METHOD for Learning
FRENCH and SPANISH.
DE. 'Aas's METHOD for Learning GEE-
MAN and FRENOK.
ASHER'S MODEL BOOKS of FOREIGN
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON ♣ Co.
jal7 Hongkong, January 10, 1880.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA,
The Steamship
"SUEZ,"
EATON, Commander, will leave for the above Ports
on SATURDAY, the 17th Inst., at B p.m.
For Freight or Passago, apply to
- `DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents,
Hongkong, January 10, 1880.
"FÖR AMOY.
The Steamship
ESMERALDA,"
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Advertisements.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL The Company's Steamship
"ÄNUHISES,” Captain C. JAOKson, will be dospatobed at 4 p.m., on MONDAY, the 12th Instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Dongkong, January 10, 1880.
SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS,
Quotations. |Hoxexone, January 10. OPIUM. --New Patna, cash,.....$570
Old
cash,... 54) New Benares, canb, 0471
cash, 625
"
Allowanus Taola
New Malwa, credit, 710
F
#1
Old Malwa, credit, 779 Allowance Taoli,
Exchange.
9/91 3/9 9/97 & 3/10
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Bank, Wire,...
Demand,...
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30 days" sight,
ja12
4 months' sight,
... 3/101
Credits, 4
3/10
Jan. 10, Paladin, British steamer, 897, Parker, Saigon Jan. 1, General.—ÁRÝHOLD, KARBERG & Co.
Jan. 10, Ningpo, Brillah steamer, 761, R. Cazs, Shanghai Jan. 7, Geveral.- jal7 SIBMSSEN & Co.
· Capt.· TALBOT, shortly due, will have immediate despatch |
for the above Port.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, January 10, 1880.
FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL The Steamship
"GLENIFFER,”, Captain GRABA, will be despatched as above on or
about the 31st instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, January 10, 1880.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
GENERAL WEEKLY SALE.
THE
THE Undersigned will soll by Public
Auction, on
TUESDAY,
the 13th January, at Noon, at his Auç- tion Sales Rooms, Peddar's Wharf, -—-- case Silvered Plate Glass 70 x 50 inch.
1
15
17
11
1
1
15
J
1
50 × 40
#
48 x 36
13
40 x 30
35
30 x 22
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24 x 18
**
4 Single and Double Perambulators.
An Invoice of Kerosine Table and Hand Lamps.
I case Lampwick.
1 case Magenta Dyes in bottles. White and Plain Colored Flannel, Fancy Flannel, Serge, Trowserings, Coat ings, Tweets, Turkish Towels, etc., etc.
2 cases Toilet Soap.
50 boxes Candles.
4 cases Hams,
10 cases Borden's Milk.
Morton's Assorted Stores,
4 casea Butter in tins.
-15-cases-Sardines.
4 cases Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits. 20 casos Safety Matches.
Rifles, Carbines, Revolvers, Cartridges, Glassware, Champagne, Whisky, Brandy, Beer, etc., etc.
Also,
1 Gold Hunting Watch, Keyless.
1 do. Open-faced do, do.
1 do. Patent Lever do.
2 Silver do. do.
A Quantity of Jowolry,
And a Variety of Other GOODS.
TERMS.-Cash on delivery.
G. R. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer, Hongkong, Jan. 10, 1880.
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MITSU BISHI MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA VIA KOBE.
HE S. 8. TAKASAGO MARU, Capt. YOUNG, due bore on or about the 19th Instant, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 24th Jan, at Day light.
Cargo received on board and Parcels at the Office up to 6 p.m. of 23rd January.
No Bill of Lading signed under $2 Freight.
All Claims must be settled on board before delivery is taken, otherwise they will not be recognized.
RATES OF PASSAGE. To KOBE............Cabin $60. Steerage $15.
YOKOHAMA &}
Do, $75. NAGASAKI...}
Do. $20. A REDUCTION is made on RETURN CABIN PASSAGES.
17
CARGO and PASSENGERS for Nagasaki will be transhipped to the Shanghal Mail Steamer at Kobé,
For further Particulars, apply at the Company's OrrIUES, No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTEAC
Hongkong, January 10, 1880. ja24
Not Besponsible for Debts.
Neither the Captain, the Agents, nor Owners will be Responsible for any Debt contracted by the Officers or Crew of the follo ing Fessels, during their stay | in Hongkong Harbour :—–—–
Jan. 10 Anahises, British steamer, 1904, C. Jackson, Shanghai Dec. 31, via Foochow and Amoy, General.-BUTTERFIELD & Swine.
Jan. 10, Fung-shuin, Chinese steamer, from Canton.
Jan. 10, Marco Polo, German barque, from Whampoa.
DEPARTURES.
Jan, 10, Niigata Maru, for Koba, da
10, Hector, for Amoy and Shanghai.
CLEARED.
Hainan, for Hoihow. Pampero, for London. Katie Flickinger, for San Francisco. Kwangtung, for Coast Forts.
PASSENGERS. ARRIVED,
Per Ningpo, from Shanghat, Messrs King and Frazer, and 53 Chinese,
Per Anchises, from Shanghal, Mr. and Mrs Betts and family.
Per Paladin, from Saigon, 362 Chinese. DEPARTED. Per Niigata Maru, for Kobe, &c, Mr W. L. Todd, and 5 Steerage.
SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamer Ningpo reports: First part light variable winds, thence to port strong breeze with cloudy weather,
The British steamer Anchises reports: Strong monsoon throughout.
CARGO.
Per British barque Echo, called 6th Fire Crackers, 1,609 rolls Matting, 2,000 January-For New York, 1,250.pkes. bales Cassia, 185 boxes Essential Oil, 100 boxes Gallnuts, 61 balon Hidos, and 17 bales-Sundries.
POST OFFICE NOTICES. MAILS will-close-
"
Documentary, 4 months' alght, 3/10
India, Wiro,......
03
demand, ...
Shanghai, demand,
80 days' eight,
Gold Leaf, 99 fine ... Sovereigna,
Shares.
225
226
+4
731
... 74
27.80. 5.23.
Hongkong Bank, 62% prem. sales. Union Ins. Society of C'ton, $1,400, aalen. China Traders' Ins. Co., $1,325, sales. North China Ins. Co., Tis. 1,200, sales. Yangtaze los Assoc., Tle, 740 Chinese Insuranco Co., $300, ez divi. H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $820, sales. China Fire Ins. Co., $220, sellors. H.K. & W. Dock Co.,9 % prem, zalas, H.K. C. M. S.-boat Co., 819 prem, buyers, Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tis. 11 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tls. 109 Hongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $66, China Sugar Refining Co., $158, buyers. Chtress Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.
Do.
of 1877, do.
1. Temperature.
TRE
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Established A.D. 1841.
香港大蘗遊
[No. 5150.- JANUARY 10, 1880.
A. 8. WATSON &'Co., UAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALE And Retail Druaszata, IMPORTERS
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Decaoisra' SunNDRIES, NURSERt Requi- aites, Toilet Requisitus, ExelISH, AMERICAN, AND FRENCH PATENT
MEDICINE. MANUFACTURERS
OF
disordered my intellect. If 1 wake up at night it is only to hear the well known train running through my head, and I sympathise with the English musician who left his studio in London to have a holiday at Brighton, and from the time he arrived thero to the time he departed he was treated to this never-to- be-forgotten air. It was wang at the con. certs; it was whistled by the boys; It was played by the brass band and It mingled eo freely with the soft sea air that our friend made his way back again to drown his sorrow in Braham's 'Song of Destiny, The only thing I hope for now is, that some | musical” Samaritan "will send us something eise which I trust we shall sooner tire of.
AMONG the various objects deposited the other day under the foundation-stone of a schoolhouso in Maisachusetts la (says the welter of "London Gossip" for the Mel boures. Argus) a specimen of Mr Sankey's
Soda Water, Lemonads, Toule Water,volve. It is not, I need not may, in the
Olagerado, Potass Water, Sarsaparilla
Water, and other Aerated Waters.
* The Manufactos, is under direct and continuous European Supervision. Mongkong, June 1, 1876,
PASSENGERS Arriving in Hongkong, or any
other persous who may desire to con- sult the files of local, China, Japan, American, English, Indian or Austra llan newspapers, are invited to call at the "CHINA MAIL" Office, where over sixty newspapers, dallies and weeklies, from these countries, are from to-day filed for reference. Hongkong, Jan. 1, 1880.
form of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, but "phonographically preserved in tis- foil." A thousand years hence the anti- quary may be astonished by hearing "Hold the Fort," which is the specimen solooted, proceed out of that hole in Mr Sankey's best manner. One bas road of "Sermons in Stones," but a hymn in granite is quite a novelty.
AN American (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is about to carry out the railway dining-car system in a novel direction. He has designed, especially for the use of London ers, a "tes-bus." In this vehicle there! will be every sconmmodation for "five o'clock tea." It is expected that the 'bus will be a great favourite with Indies, who will take advantage of It not merely for, The publication of this issue commenced shopping purposes, but also as a pleasant at 9.00 p.m.
(Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, THE GNINA MAIL.
THERMOMETER—9 A.M..........
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Queen's Road.)
HONGKONG, January 10.
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MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES :—
Vallaval
S. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, The Righ Reverend Bishop Burdon. Morning Bert rice 11, Evening 6.45. Boly Communion on the first Sunday in the month.
Military Service-Rov. J. Henderson, officiating Military Chaplain, Aåt 8 a.m. Morning Prayer, &o. Holy Communion on the second and fourth Sunday in the
month.
UNION CHURCH.-Morning Service, at 11 A.M., Afternoon, 6 r. M.-Divine Service in Chinese, 2-3 r.. every Sunday, with
Rev. Dr. Chalmers, communion on first Sunday of every month,
ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S Cпuаон.-Rev.
J. flenderson. Sunday. Wednesday and Friday, at 11 Service at BP.M., every
All seats free. Morning Prayer and Communion on the First Sunday in each month at 11 A.M.
A. M.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1880,
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The next Esotzen Wait may be expected to arrive here on or about Sunday next, the 11th inst., by the P. & O. steamer Geelong, which left Singapore on the morning of the 5th. She brings London dates to Dec, 5th.
H.M.S. Figilant, 2, Commander W. M. Annesley, left the harbour this morning for a short cruise and returned to her moor- fngs this afternoon.
Á LARGE Amount of interesting local and other matter is hold over to allow of our giving in full the judgment in the Anadyr Our leading article is also crushed out to-night.
caso.
Tur yacht race announced to come off to- day will have to be called on some fature occasion, The Naiad and Ariel started with a fresh breeze, but towards afternoon the wind fell away so light that the Naiad, which was leading, was unable to fetch the winning point within the appointed time.
We bellova that the Inquiry into the cir- cumstances attending the gun accident at
way of spending the afternoon and having agreeable chate with each other over their tescapa. A narrow tabla runs along the middle of the vehicle, and behind the seats there will be room for the conductor to wait on the tea-drizkera Water will be boiled in a little apparatus beneath the seat of the driver, the top being Inside the 'bur, so that kettles may be filled without diboulty. The tires of the wheels are to be indiarubber to prevent unpleasant jolt- ing, and the springs of the carriage will be adjusted on an entirely new and improved principle, essuring the complete ease and comfort of its occupants. With a plenilful, supply of biscuits and bread-and-butter the soheme may prove a success, but the "bus will have to be driven with extreme care, for the horrors of a collision in the streeta will bo greatly enhanced by broken arockery and boiling water.
Wilson's Great World Circus is, we obse attracting the Rangoon publis preti, o siderably, the huge pavilion being nightly crowded to excess and the further sale of tickets had to be stopped to avoid discom fort. A fresh batch of ten Artistes had just arrived from England, and when the last Rangoon advice were made up had not yet made their first appearance before an Indian audiepos.
ORIGINAL DOUBLE ACROSTICS,
ANSWER TO No. I.
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Prayer:-Litany, Ante-Communion, and Col. Staart, B.E., the most searching and. For STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SOIZ, P.M. Preaching, at 6.30 r.a. Holy Com- Most of our brief notice as to facts has Sermon, at 11 A.M. Bible Class, at 3 exhaustive Investigation has taken place.
AND LONDON,———
Per Anchises, at 8.30 p.m., on Monday,
the 12th fast.
For SWATOW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.
Per Kwangtung, at 5 p.m., on Monday,
the 12th inst.
For JAPAN via KOBE-
Per Takasago Maru, at 5 p.m., on Friday,
the 23rd inst. (Contract Rates.)
MAILS BY THE BRITISH PACKET.- The British Contract Packet Kaisar-i-Hind - will be despatched on WEDNESDAY, the 14th Instant, with Malls to and through the United Kingdom and Europe via Brindisi or Southampton; to the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar. N.B.-This Packet carries no mails for the Australian Colonies, E. or 8. Africa, nor for Mauritius,
MAILS 2 THE FRENOM PAUKIT.- The French Contract Pankot Peiho will
be despatched on WEDNESDAY, the 21st Instant, with Maila to and through the United Kingdom and Europe, vid Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burman, Ceylon, Indie (vid Madras), Australia, Now Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, Aden, Sey. chelles, Réunion, Mauritius, Buez, and Alexandria, This is the best opportunity for forwarding Corre spondence to E. Africa, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension. The usual bours will be observed in closing
the Mails, dc.
. HOURS FOR CLOSING
THE CONTRACT MAILS,
The following hours are observed in closing Mails, de, by both the British and French Contract Packeta-
Day of Departure
5
F.-Money Order Office closas, 5.30 P.M.-Post Office closes till 8 P.M., except the NIGHT Box, which in always open out of Office hours. P.M.Post Office opens. F.-Registry of Letters ceases. Posting of all printed matter and patterns ceases. P.3.-Mails closed, except for Lato
Letters.
B
9
PALMA, German barque, Capt. Binge.- Melchers & Co.
MOSES B. TOWER, American barkentine,
10
COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE, | Capt. C. Hall;'-Jardine, Matheson & Co. GEEMAN, FRENON and SPANISH.
"NORTH CHINA HERALD" DATE
BLOCK for 1880.
MIDDLEBET, British barque, Captain A. Walsh.-Borneo Company.
GARIBALDI, American barque, Capt, T. J. Forbes.-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
PRINOS FREDERICE, British ship, Capt.
NEW SEASON'S PRESENT TEA, la 6 and John Clague.-Vogel & Co.
10 Catty Boxes, Hongkong, December 18, 1870,
KAZIE FLICKINGER, Amer, barkentine, | Cspk, Gilman.-Ramil & Co.
10.10 p..—Letters may be posted with
Late Fee of 18 cents until
10.30 F.M.--when the Post Office closes
entirely.
10.40 ..-Late Letters may be posted or board the packed with Late Fes of 18 cents until time of
departure.
munion, 1st Sunday in Obinese month.
BERLIN FOUNDLING HOUSE.-Service in the German language, by Pastor E. Klitzke, the Chapel of the Berlin Foundling House, every Sunday, at half-past ten A.M., in West Point.
ST. JOSEPA'S CHURCH, Garden Road. In the morning, Mass at 8 o'clock.
MEMOS. FOR MONDAY. Shipping.
4 p.m.-Anchises leaves for London.
Auction.
been verified, and all that was said about the negligence shown was, so far as we dan gather, fully corroborated,
We shall be
most happy, however, to publish the result of the official inquiry, as we have before intimated, If It Is placed at our disposal.
* Vide My Uncle Toby, in "Tristram Bhandy." No correct answer has been received.
No. II.
A. dignítary quasi-royal Lays down the law for this and that (Some casuists nee bim as a foil),
You best can know him by his hat!
Should ere it prove his anxious fate
Tuz sad telegram, dated 24th December, To steer the noble Ship of State, regarding the foundering of the steamer This metaphor may well be reckened, Borussia with 200 souls, will be better He's bound to stand upon my second. understood by a perusal of the following.
2 p.m.--Auction of Books at Mr J. M. from a late American file :-
Armstrong's Sales Rooms.
General Memoranda. TUESDAY, January 13 :—
Daylight.-Kwangtung leaves for Coast
Ports. Noon.-General Weekly Sale by Mr G.
R. Lammert, at his Sales Rooms. WEDNESDAY, January 14 :----
Sp.m.-Ucoldental & Oriental S. 8. Co.'s Steamer leaves for Yokohama and San Francisco.
Goods per Iraouaddy undelivered after Noon, subject to rent and landing charges.
11 p.m.-English Mall leaves for Ports
of Call and Europe. FRIDAY, January 16
2 pim-Auction of German brig Oari. Transfer Books of Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, closed from this date to 29th
Instant.
Saturday, January 17;—
3 p.-Fenice and Suez leave for Bin
gapore, &o. Transfer Books of H., C. & M. Steam- boat Co. closed from this date to 30th Instant, inclusive.
MONDAY, January 19-
Noon.--Tenders for supply of Sundries,
received by Naval Storekeeper. TUESDAY, January 20:-
:
The British steamer Borussia, Captało Williams, bas sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans with sixty-five farmers and their families, bound to Texas. They are mostly from Lancashire, Yorkshire and Darbam, with a few from Scotland and | Ireland."
We hear with pleasure that Sr. Scarplebis will be elected Toputy for Macao in the Portuguero Cortes. The election in to take place to-morrow,--Catholic Register.
Tue Mauritius correspondent of the S. A. Advertiser writes concerning Sir George
Bowen :-
1..
I'll give you now the letter "0," And so you'll bid adien to me.
A castle, house or quaint chateau Erented on Italia's too.
3.
"Where furious Frank and dery HunTM
Again the bloody deed have done.
4.
A stimulus, or 'Pick me up,' Whenever we too freely sup
DUMPS'S BABY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL To the Editor of the "Onia Mate.” St. Paula College, Jan. 9, 1880 SIE,-Will you kindly ál'ow me to s
Our new Governor is a man who keeps pacs with the times, and his policy is some. what startling to many Mauritians so- customed to the bumdrum sameness so frequent in all tropical places. His Excel- lency now proposes to sell several useless public buildings, and with the funds go for the information of the Cathedral realised to build a free pablis library on the aime principle as the Australian institutions gregation that, including a sum of of this nature. It is expected that about raised by special subscription for ligh
the Cathedral close, da, the offertory £8000 wil he spent for the purpose, which the beginning of August to the end o it must be admitted la la every way a good December amounted to $751.11. Of this one.
paid $169.50 for the three new gas lamp erected outside the Cathedral doofs, as wal as two branches added in the chance printing & servico book for children, a other expenses connected with the Cath dral; and $49.25 on various other object
We have not yet gone wild here over "My Grandfather's Clook, but it was started and it was only due to the good sense and
Goods per Gaelic undelivered after this taste of the Hongkong Community that it At a meeting held to-day in St. Pau
date subject to rent.
WEDNESDAY, January 21:---
did not becomis, the rage. The following College, consisting of the Hon Sle
Smale, Hon. W. Keswick, T. Tacksob wail is going the round of Australian Esq., A. Lister, Esq., H. E. Wodehoue 11 p.r.-Franch Mail leaves for Ports papers. It is sat aflost by "Euterpe," the Esq., Rev. W. Is Groves, and myself, sh
of Call and Europe. FRIDAY, January 23 ------
9 p.m.-"Sorcerer" at the City Hall SATURDAY, January 24-
Daylight.--Mitsu Bisht Mall leaves for
Yokohama via Kobé. Noon-Menmuir leaves for Singapore,
Brisbane, dro. Thursday, January 29 :---
4pm-Meeting of Shareholders of the H. K. Hotel Co., Id., at Hongkong Hotel.
FRIDAY, January 30---
8p.m.-Meeting of Shareholders of the H., O. & M. Steamboat Co., Limited, ni No, 59a, Queen's Road.
musical contributor of the Queenslander, following appropriations were made of th and has been eagerly taken up :-
Have any of your readers heard Grandfather's Clook I wish I never had but I am no batter than my fathers. beard it and bought the song, played it, and have suffered over zines. First Í Since the first Sunday in October th learnt it myself and thought it very good, has been a general offertory on the fin in fast it improved on acquaintance,fall Sunday in the month, collected both fro of pathos; and when I came to where the communicants and non.commnufcants. old man died. I had some difficulty in this is continued regularly, substanti suppressing a tear. Then my boy got hold help will be afforded to religions sobem of it, and was equally smitten; then the that should naturally find a place in over girls and the wife; and what with the | Chri tinn vongregation.➡Yours, &o, piano, whistles, the human voice divine, the incessant repatision of this has almosį,
balance Cathedral Expenses, $100,00 Seamen's Chaplaincy Fund, $100.00; Diner Mysan Home and Orphanage, $132:86;*|
sions among the Chinese, $100.00; E Naval Scripture Reader's Society, $80 the Poor, $50.00; total, $532.38.
J. S. BURDON Bishop of Vistara
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