Notices to Consignees. To-day's Advertisements.
THE CHINA SHIPPERS MUTUAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COM-
PANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, AND SINGAPORE.
THE Company's 8.8. Kaiow, having ar Te from the above Porta, Con- aigases of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods aro being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the BoxDKONG AND KOWLOON
WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LITTER, Kowloon, whence delivery may bo obtained.
No Claime will be admitted after the Gooda loft the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the Orrace of the Undersigned, before Noon on the 13th Instant, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and
Gooda
remaining in the Godowns after aup the 13th Instant will be subject io ront.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary bo given before 10
'Clock TO-DAY.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
zigents.
Hongkong, October 8, 1888.
1602
To-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAI
The Steamship
Amu,
Captain R. Köner, will be despatched for the above Port TO-MORROW, the 12th Iust.. at 4 p.m., instead of as previously notified.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, October 11, 1888,
1710
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
The Co.'s Steamship
Cyclops, Captain Nu, will be despatched as store at
Daylight on SATURDAY MORNING.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,
1645
Hongkong, October 11, 1888
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAIWANFOO.
The Co.'s Steamship
Thales, Captain HUNTER, will be despatched for the above Ports on SUNDAY, the 14th Instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passago, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, October 11, 1888.
1708
THE SCOTTISH ORIENTAL STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR BANGKOK (DIRECT.)
The Company's Steamer Mangot,
at Noor
Captain GEO. ANDERSON, will be despatched for the above Port on MONDAY, the 15th Instaut,
For Freight or Passago, apply to
YUEN FAT HONG, Agents.
flongkong, October 11, 1888.
1703
STEAM TO STRAITS, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY.
The P. &O, H. N. Co.'s
Steamship
Lombardy
will leave for the above plan on FRIDAY, 19th Inst., at Noon.
EL WOODIN,
Superintendent.
P. & O. & N. Co.'s Office,
Bongkong, October 11, 1888.
FIRST AUCTION.
UF
DISCARDED
1717
GOODS
YEOM
ROSE & Co.'s STOCK.
THE
WILL SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION,
(Without Reserved)
THE CHINA MAIL.
and Swatow 10, Ganeral-DoUOLAS STEAM. sure Co.
Cheang Che, ritish steamor, 1,213,
BUY HIN CHAN.
HE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL Dunlop, Singapore October 4, General
THE
TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
The CARS RUN as follows batwoan. Sr. JOHN'S PLACE and VICTORIA GAP :---
8 to 10a.m. every quarter of an hour. 12. 2 p.m. 11 half hour
& *
quarter of an hour.
SUNDAYS. CHURCH TRAM at to 11am.
part 12 to past one every quarter of an hour, and from 4 to 8 p.m. every quarter
of an hour.
Bingle Tickets are sold in the Cars; Five Cent Coupons and REDUCED TIORETS at the
Onico of
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General ManagETH. VICTORIA EXCHANGE,
30 & 52, Queen's Road, flongum, fctober 11, 188.
Fouthow, Siamese brig, 300, H. Skol Schmiegelow, Bangkok Sept. 13, Wood.-- CHINESY,
Phu Quoc, French steamer, 234, Rubin, Macac October 11, Ballett.-Wing Tar & Co.
DEPARTURES. October 11- Strathleven, for Shanghai Chong-chano-foo, for Tientsin. Dlery for Saigon. Goliat, for Bangkok, Yung Ching, for Whampon. Poulang, for Whampoa.
Satellite, British cruiser, for a cruise. Amphitrie, for Singapore and Bombay. Glenoiz, for Singapore and London. Kutsang, for Swatow and Shanghai.
CLEARED.
Amoy, for Shanglini. Haiti, toe Chet Ports. 1715 Pensha, for Antyuman.
yclops, fur Nagenahi.
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANU, COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MARSEILLES, MALTA, ATBRALTAR, BRINDISI, PLYMOUTH, AND LONDON: ALSO,
BOMBAY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, AND AUSTRALIA.
N. H.-Cargo can be taken on tarotch Hills of Lading for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF PORTS. MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
PASSENGERS, ARRIVED.
Per Carisbrooke, from Saigon, 17 Chinese. Par Falkenbury, from Saigont, 33 Chinese, Per Tha es, froin Cast Porte, 45 Chinese. P. Cheang Chris, from Singapore, 332 Chiueme.
DEFAKTED
Per Duburg, for Saigon, 200 Chinese Per Amphitrite, for Singapore, 3 Euro- peans, and 462 Chisene.
Por (Hen gie, for Singapore, 1 Europaan, and 585 Chineze
Por Kutang, for Swatow, 60 Chinese. TO DEPART
Per Avoy, for Shanghai, 15 Chinese. Per Haitun, for Swatow, 2 Europeans, and 300 Chinese.
Per Cyclops, for Nagasaki, 10 Chineso.
SHIPPING REPORTS The British steamer Thales roporta: HE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
Taiwanfoo to Tamani, had moderate to NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steamship HYDASPES Capt. W. E. THOMOX, with fresh N.N.E. winds and fine clear weather. Her Majesty's Mails, will be drapsicled Tansol to Amy, moderate N. winds and and overcast min at intervals. Swatow to from this for BOMBAY, on WEDNES.clear weather. Amoy to Swatov, light airs DAY, 24th October, at Noon.
port, moderate winds and fine weather.
Cargo will be receives on board until 4 p.m.
Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Once till 4 p., on the day before sailing.
Silk and Valuables for Europe will be transhipped at Colomba; but Ten and General Cargo at Hombay, arriving one wouk later than by the direct conte til Colombo.
For further Particulars regardingį
the FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply PERINSULSK &
STEAM NAVIGA & ORIENTAL TION COMPANY' Office, ifongkong.
The Contents and Value of Parkages are
ve desired prur to shipment. required to
requested to
note the terms and
Shippers are litions of the Con- pany's Black Bills of Leding.
Paascugere desirous of insuring their bag age can do so on application at the Coin- pany's Office.
E. L. WOODIN,
Superintendent. P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office,
Hongkong. October 11, 1888.
1716
Not Responsible for Debts. Trither the Captain, the Agents, NO
Owners will Responsible for
any Debt contracted by the Officers or || Crew of the following Vessels, during their stay in Hongkong Harbour:--
Dios, Norwegian barque, Captain J. A. Pettoren, --Order.
EX CHEONG, British barns, Capt. T. C. Thomsen.Kong Cheong Tal
HEVER, German steamer, Capt. Dethlef- soa.-Siemasen & Co.
Irow, French barque, Capt. F. Regnier. -Order.
NAUPACTOS, British ship, Captain Levitt. -Order
SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS. October 11, 1888 -- Carisbrooke, British str., 973, R. Cass, Saigon Sept. 27, Rice and Bios Flour.-- Mounts & RAY.
Falkenburg, German steamer, 380, W. Droyer, Saigon Sept. 24, Rice. -MELURES
& Co.
Thales, British steamer, 820, Bunter, Taiwanfoo October 5, Tamaui 6, Amy 9,
Stocks.
НАЖБА
The British ateamer Cheong here reporta: Had light variable winds and fine weather.
POST OFFICE NOTICES. MAILS will close:- For SHANGHAL-
Per-may, at 3.30 p.m., on Friday, the 12th inst., instead of as previously notified.
Por Kuang Lee, at 3.30 p.m., on Friday,
the 12th inst
For HAIPHONG.—
Per flare, at p.m., on Friday, the
13th inot.
For FOOCHOW, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOKTOWN, TOWNSVILLE, BRIS- BANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE, Per Tartar, at 5 p.m., on Friday, the 12th inst., instead of as previously notifie'.
For NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA. Per Verma, at 5 pm, on Friday, the
12th inst.
Per Cyclops, ut 5 pm, on Friday, the
For
12th inst.
STRAITS & BOMBAY ---
POST OFFICE NOTICES. MAILS will close:- For STRAITS & LONDON.--
Per Barty, as 5 pr., an Tucaday, the
14th it
For SINGAPORE.-
Por Fringa, at 3.30 p.m., an Sunday, tho
Zist fust.
-MALLS și Fan UNITED STATES PACKET. ~-- The United States Mail Packet Occanic
will be despatched on WEDNESDAY, the 17th Iristant, with Mails for Japan, San Francico, the United Status, Canada, Honolulu, Para, &,
follows- which will be closed s 2.16 P. Registry comes. 2.80 r.M. Post-Offles closes, but Corres
pondence may be posted on board tha Packet with Late Feo of 10 cents extra Portage until the time of departure.
ALMAY
NOVES OF CLOSING THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH MAILS. When the Packels leave at Noon. The following hours will be observed in closing the Mails for Europe, &c., by the English and French Packets, when they leave at Non. The Money Order Offico will be closed at 5 the day before.
8.00 1. Pasting of Prices Current and
Circulars consuS,
(Prices Current and Circulars may
T WE bowever be posted up to 10 o'clock they are fiel in bundles, courry by country, with the addresses all
way).
10.00 ..--Registry cosses.
10.30 AM.Posting of Now paperz,
Books, and Patterns ceases. 11.00 ..-Mail closes. SYLATE LETTIEs may be posted (from
11.10A.M.) with 10 cents late fee up to 11.30 .., aftur which hour they may be sent on Board with the same Late Fee,
Money Orders.
1.-Money Orders are issued at Hong- kong and Shanghai on the following coun- trien and places, at current rates of ex- change
Amoy. Azores Is Bangkok. * Belgium.
* Canada.
Bermudn
Canton. *Cope
Cape Colony
+
Ceylonople)...
Denmark.
*Egypt
* Falkland Is. Foochew. Gambia
STION
* Gold Coast.
Bankow.
На той Hoiho. *Holland.
+
* Honduras, (Br.).
Hongkong
* Iceland. India Italy. Japan.
* Madeira.
* Malta.
* Mauritius.
* Natal.
Newfoundland.
New South Wales. Now Zealand. Ningpo
North Borneo,
* Norway.
Port Darwin.
* Fortagal.
*
Queensland. Helend
* Seychelles. Shanhai
Sierra Leone.
South Australia. Straits Settlements,
Swatow.
Exeden.
*Switzerland.
Tangier,
Tasmania,
United Kingdom. * United States,
Vietorin
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Shipping. Daylight-Hailan Leaves for Coast Porta. Noon.-Zarubcai loaves for Kubó, 4p. Amoy leaves for Shanghai.
Miscellaneous.
Goods por Lydia undelivered after this
dato subject to rent. Goods par Neckar undelivered after this
date subject to rent.
rent.
Practice at Stone Cutler's
General Memoranda. SATURUAK, October 13 :--
Goods per Kaiser andelivered after
this data subject to rent Transfer Books of the Canton Insurance Offics, Limited, closed from this date to 27th Inatant, fuel
inclusive. SONDAY, October 14
foods por Wingsang undelivered after
this dato Aubject to Mossax, Oc obor Lo 4 p.m.-Target
Island Battarice. 16 TUESDAY,
October p.m.-Meeting of Perseverance Lodge,
October 17- WEDNESDAY,
Gonds par Steamer Saghalien unstained
Noon subject to rent. Claims
against the Strathieves must be zent in to Meaare Adamson, Ball & Co., on or before this date. SATURDAY, October 27-
Noon.Meeting of Sharbholdets of The
Jardine, Alatheson & Co.'s Offic
after
eroBER 11, 1888.
and we think is will be readily admitted by Musdamson, Beli & Co. inform us all, that it is soldom a Potition goes Home that the silbany, from Vauconver &o,, containing more forcible and convincing left Shanghai for this port at 3 p.m. to-day. rousons against the act or acts complained of. Some little delay has arisen in com ploting the concerted action in this matter; but the work of respectful protest has now, we think, bon most thoroughly accom. plished in.a terg workman-like mannar. The letters of the most important Chambers of Commerce in the East accompany the Petition; and in making the protest that
now been forwarded, the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerco bas nador taken the duty which was folt to be that of overy Chamber of Commeres along the entire Eastern seaboard. We shall now
have to await the result of this representa | tign, and to do so patiently.
ONE of the most deep-seated feelings of our humanity in respect for the dead, and it extends not only to nearly every civilised man but even to the savage. Perhaps it in this profound respect, which is almost universal, that ronders it difficult to speak or write freely on the subject of our burial
Canton Insurance Othee, Ltd., at Messrs ritce, and produces a curtain reticence in
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
;
OUR NEW SEASON'S LOWER AND VEGETARLE
SEEDS
The sailing vessels Tetuan and Maria have heen sold at Shangbai, the former for Tis, 5,000 and the laiter for Tls. 2,007.
Ir would appear that, tas notions of the Chinese building contractor as to where and how he may carry on blasting opera tious remain protty mach as they wado, ast. withstanding the wacent prosecutions. A man named Fiu Ng, was brought before Mr Wodehouse, in the Police Court to-day, charged with negligently blasting stones in Castle Road and thereby causing danger to persons and property in the neighbourhood. Mr N. N. J. Ezes, broker, stated that at 10.30 am: on the fith inst, while he was in the diving-room of his house in Castle Road, he heard the sound of an explosion near his domicile, and at the same time a shower of atones fell on the marble dooring of the ve rendah. Rejecting the assumption that the Peak had commenced business as an active volcano, be ascribed the phenomenon to the building contractor over the way, who, ho, afterwards found, had been indulging in a
littlo blast. The scene of the contractor's referring to a matter so accel. Such re- ticonco, however, may sometimes be mis operations ja only about thirty yards from takon for carelessness and indifference; and the house in question, and Mr Ezra, not hav the present position of this Colony, as inga blind partiality for eccentric displays of regards the means we now possess for this kind, thought that the interest and ex- burying our dead, is not an enviable one. citement afforded by an occasional shower Complaints have reached as times without of stones were not a sufficient compen number, not only of unpunctuality, but of sation for the anxiety it gave him as
the safety
of his children while the grossest neglect of ordinary regard for to the decancies of life and the seredness of playing hide-and-seek on the verandah; 7.60 death, which reflect anything buteredit upon especially as one of the stones of this par those who have undertaken the perform-ticular shower, when weighed, turned the Police. Sergeant ance of the last offices to our departed friends scale at three cattios. or acquaintances. One or two cases which Hall said the defendant was the may in
ARE NOW READY. Flower Parcels of 50 Packets, prien, $10.00
of 20
6.00 of 45 Vegetable
14
11
11
11
Single Packets at list prices.
SPECIAL FLORISTS SEEDS.
In Fuckets of six or more named varieties, have lately come to our knowledge are of charge of the blasting, and that a baraboo
CLOVE
viz.!
PINKSPANSIES PHLOX HOLLYHOCZE PORTELADA, VERDENA AND PETUNIA.
MIGNONETTE MACHEL (The New Variety).
PRICK CATALOGUS ON ATFIJGATION.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY 30th August, 1888.
1448
The publication of this issue commenced ai 7.28 m.
The China Mail.
EONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1888.
The subject of the status of Foreign Mail Steamers in this Port has already been Western Australia.
dealt with in these columns; but it may be *West Indies (British,
Danish, and Dutch) well to call attention to the ably-drafted -Orders on the Countries marked are Petition from the Soneral Chamber of forwarded through the London Post Office, Commerce to Her Majesty the Queso, the and ato paid less a small discount of about text of which we published in gur iset issue,
Lagos.
d. in the £1, for which the remitter should
allow. All such orders must be expressed and the original of which was forwarded to in British currency, and cannot be drawn London by yesterday's mail. This Petition, for any sum less than 6d.
from a legal point of view especially, ap-
3.-Tho comunission charged is as follows
Per Strom, at 11.30 am, on Saurday (according to the curroney the Order is/Pears to us to be conelusive, on the ground
the 13th inst.
For SWATOW, AMOY & TAIWANFOO.
drawn in
Per Thies, at 5 p.m., on Saturday, the Upto 2, or $10, or B 20,0.20 cents.
13th inst.
For BANGKOK.-
Per Monghut, at 11.30 .m., on Monday,
the 10th inst.
For STRAITS & CALCUTTA.-
Por ngang, at 2.30 p.m., on Tuesday,
the 16th iner.
The Extra Steamers of the Messgeries Maritimnes Company between Colorabo and Calcutta have baca withdrawn. From this dato through communication with Madsas and Calcutta by Messageries packet will be four-weekly only, via, on the following dates of departure from Hongkong:-
30. November 28, June 7. August
September 27. December 26.
st 2. October 31. Mnils for Indis, will be made up by the intermediate pockets as formerly for trans- mission to Colombo, when they will gu on to Madras by the first opprtunity.
Hongkong, May 10, 1988.
41
£5, or 825, or 50,0.40
31
£7, or $35, or R 70,0.60
"
,, £10, or $50, or R1000.80",
R150 $1.00.
5.-Money Ordera on the United King- dom for even sums not exceeding £5 are granted by means of Postal Notes, as to which see separate notice or the Hong kong Postal Guide.
such a naturs that we think the attention fonce was being put up at the works to of the authorities might have boon called to keep the stones from Bying all over the them with advantage. As we have said, neighbourhood. His Worship romanded this is not a subject which is often referred the easó. to, and it is well when no necessity exists for such referenca. Unfortunately that mattere are in a most discreditable condition here at the present moment, and we do not think that the public will quiotly endure
the scandalous, mismanagement longer,
TELEGRAMS..
THE Singapore Froo Press exye:We hear that it is a common practice for Chivainen to come on board passenger ships in Singa pure and to lay their mats on certain choice places in the twoon decks, afterwards sell. ing these places for whatever may be muchoqueezed out of the unfortunate coolie.
(SUPPLIED TO THE CHINA MAIL.']
(Via Southern Line.)
THE CAPE GOVERNMENT AND BEOHUANALAND.
LONDON,. October, 9, The Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith, speaking at Gloucester, esid that the Cape Government wao nistaken in supposing that England intended to hand over Bechannaland to the
MADAGASCAR TEA-Mr J. Andrianise, of Antananarivo, Madagascar, has sucessfully prepared for consumption a parcel of the Erst tea grown in the island. The arcms and flavour of the product ure said to be no excellent as to encourage every attention be ing paid to the propagation of the shrub. -- Chemist and Drugs, Sept. 8th.
ነብ
IN East Jays the sugar crop has proved short, Disease and inferiority in the cane have reduced the yield. On some estates, it is said the out-turn has decreased fifty rent short yield has been the rule. The per cent. Ou uthers, a ten to thirty por sugar crop all over Jare this year, amounts to six millions of picules. The average price is expected to be 83 guilters a picut. This rate will only be slightly remunera tive. The depression in trade has bone. Gitted the planters by compolling them to resort to improved methods to get as much PASSED SUEZ CANAL
juice out of the cabe as possible. A few DeTWARD BOUND-Bordeaux, August 10; years back, they would have ecerned to do
Elektra, Sept. 7 Regal, 11 Niobe, anything of the kind. 21; Glenorchy,
Capo
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Pathan, 18; Titans Pembrokeshire, CHINESE shipping enterprise has of late
Lartes, Victory, 25;
1.
Wordsworth, 26: Anadyr, Bellerophon, been exteading at Ranguon. A steamer Bellona, Glensheet, Allenower, Oct. 2; owned by a native firm in China will in
future run between that port and Celtic Monarch, 5;
5; G.
Amoy. izelpoms"
The vessel, called the Chean Chean, is said Claymore, Sachsen, MEWARD BOUND--Cascapedia, Aug. 14 HOMEWARD
to answer in accommodation, but to ba Glenfruin, 31; Glenariney, Sept. 4 weak in the engines, a point of not much in tin eyes of Chinces owners. Gavearn, Marcia, 11; Gleneagles, Tele- maches, 21; Benglee, Stentor, Regius, They study cheapness in every thing and 28; Glaucus, Glenaven, Lord of the Isles, make money where people of other nation- Oct. 2; Orus, Carmarthenshire, Gem,alities can hardly make a living. Chinese Red Sea, 9.
shipowners manage to work vessals at such low charges that they have in
in many
any cazua
that no Convention can be valid which doprivos any British subject of his private rights at common law. Even assuming that the Postal Convention upon which these Status Ordinancos are based applied 4-No Order must exceed £10 or 950 to this Colony and to the French and Ger- (unless drawn on India, when E150 is the limit), nor will more than two such Orderaman Mail packets--which the Pelilionera bu ised to the same person, in favour of absolutely dery-this fatul objection, that they doprive residents hore of their right to the same payee, by the same mail.
resort to Her Majesty's Courts in certain cases, would still hold good, as the Postal Convention has never been sanctioned by Parliament. In former articles upon this The question, we have criticised the cast con- ocasions made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the two Foreigu Steamer Companies referred to concessions giving for more than was ever asked for ;-and tf, as appeare exceedingly probable, (seeing it is based on the decision in the famous caye of the Parlement Belge) the legal argu- ment contained in the Petition is sound, viz., that the Convention does not apply Colonial Porte, then the overplus
moans of
6.Sums not exceeding 350 masy be re. mitted between the Ports of China by of Postage Stamps, subject to a charge of one per cent. for cashing them or Money Orders can be granted at Hong- kong of Shanghai on Ports where there are Agencies of the Hongkong Post Ofies.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1888.
+ Dy means of Postal Notes.
SHARE LIST. -GUUTATI: HS.
Paid POSITION PER LAST REPORT. Last Dividen
Keser. Balanceofwar up-
No. of Value. Share
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Corp.j80,00
INKUBANOES.
Ocr. 11, 188A.
Closing Quotation. Cash.
125 all 4,030,00 10,441.36 at 30 for year 151 % prom.
2508
جرایم شما را
working aje to June 3088
25.3 675.000 THE HALL & HOLTZ 0. Co., LIMITED, Union Insurance Society Os,, Ld....10, US
201 1:50,073 China Traders' Insurance Co., Ltd...24, 008 831-13
200 £ Tla 200.0 Tis: North-China Insurance Co. L...,
25 all Tia. 76,014.81 T Yangtze Insurance Association, L., Chinese Insurance Co., Listed.... 1,603 1,00
2518 Canton Insurance Office Co., L... 10,000 S
1008 90,000 $ The Straite Insurance Co., Ld......... Hongkong Fire inaurance Ca, Ld... S 20.00'S Stons Fire Insurance Co., 4.20,000 $ The Straits Fire Insurance Co., Singapors Insurance Company, Ld. 40, 0005
WEDNESDAY, October, 17th 1883, at 2 r.3., at their Aué. tion Rooms, Queen's Road, (lately vacaled by Messa LANE, UILAW- FORD & Co.)
A LONG LINE
OF
DISCARDED
FROM
GOODS
ROSE & Co.'s STOCK.
On view, 9 to 12 on day of Sale.
THE HALL & HOLTZ C. Co., L.,
Auctioneers, de.
!
Hongkong, October 11, 1888.
1713
TRE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED.
|HAREHOLDERS ure requested to for- ward their Notices or DEPOSITS, ALLOIMENTS AND BANK RECEIPTS to the Company's Office to be EXCHANGED for SCRIP
Shareholders are reminded that payments nct made on or before the la: Instant can be charged 12% per annum, in accordance with the Articles of Association.
By Order,
A. G. GORDON, Secretary. Hongkong, October 11, 1888.
1724
DOCKS.
H'kong & Whampus Duck Du, L 12,500
TEAMBOAT COMPANIES.
HK. O. and M. Steamboat Co., Ld. 40,000'S Indo-China S. N. Company, Limites 50,000 £ Douglas Steamship Co., Limited.... 20,000 5 China and Manila S. 8. Co., Ld..... 3,000 $
MISCELLANEOUS.
230,00.
£5,000 $ 1,031,486 6 650,000 $
371,507.10 26 %, 1886 985 20 119.2820%Panan 08 326,119.88 10% for 1887. 285 38057% for 1867 Pls. 90 24,285.846 for 1887 8166 429,37.98 10% for 188
82.170.5%yr. 1988 flere
252.243.30 $20.80 for 8335, sellers 204,003.90$ 4 for 1867 $75, sellers
41,12836 yr, 1883 818 76,898.10|10 % for 189) $16, bupora
23
2016
100$ 1000
*
20
$
11,875.913
11b: all
***
18
20 all
240,000 +216,000
1.
all
50 $11
178,431,50g 10,000 8
LOL ali
LEA all
10 all
% for year $185 11,160.to Juve 30/8- Dr. $7,915 Nous Моде
$79, buyers
لله
a
Jbias Sugar Company, Lauitul...... 15,000 3 Luzon Sugar Company, Limited...7,000 Panjom & Sanghio Dus Samatan
40,000 $ Mining Co....TOMER Société Francaise des Charbon-
8,000 Fca. 500 Fr. 500 nages du Tonkindown Co. 17,000 $
100 2K & Kow. Wharf &
100! all $ 3,800 $ 1,6002 50 all 3,000+ 5,10018.
1st...
A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited... Cruickshank & Co., Limited.. Mongkong Howl Company,
3,000 ah, terded HK, and China Gas Co., Limitad
Nes Shares..
Lil
Hongkong les Company, Limited Hongkong Bakery Company,
'kong Rope Manufactory Co., Ld. 3,000 Ft
...... 3,000's Hongkong Dairy Farm Co...... HK High-Level Tramways Co., Ld. 1,2.08 Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited... 1,200'S East Borres Planting Co., Limited 3,000 $
LOANE.
Thineze Imperial 1884
10
25
1884 O................
20,0008
37 5008
13% for senti3% prem. 1,138. D
JUDO 30/68 2,008 OB% half punj,
June 30/58% prem. 1,992.8.05 % for 1887 15% dia., nom.
6,5 4 68 7% $53, sellera 18.588, for 1897 $119, seller
First Year 65% prem. 1,1,074 % for 88763 7 prem,, buyers
411.47 13 for 1857 100% prem.
Int dir. 6% 521 div.
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Jung 30/28 $170, ex div., nominal 10% and 24% 1,900. 15 8 bonus for
$130, buyers, fully paid up 420.60 16 % for 1887981, buyara 139,19% for 1887.863,
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$159 s 500
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3% prem
5% prem.
14% prom.
+ Pepropiation and Lagrange Ford
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* Equalisation of Dividend Fund,
to
of concessions made will scan to our read- ers to be all the more absurd and uncalled for. What any be termed the more strict
ly commercial side of the question has not
been so fully dealt with by the Petitioners
as the legal aspect of the subject has been. Probably this is owing to the fact that the document was drafted by the able Quean's Counsel in this Colony; but it must be per- fectly well known in the Colonial Office that the competition in the cargo and pas- Benger trade is now more keen than it has
consequence
with foreign rivals. Sometimes Europeans ateamor Surat, with the ENGLISH MAIL little difficulty in successfully competing of September 14th, left Singapore on with a large capital at command can run Tuesday, September 3th, at 4 pia, of Chinese liners. With Chinese-owned and may be expected here on or about steamers, overloading and undermanning, Monday, the 15th inst. This Paket
brings replies to letters despatulad come into play when profit, bulks largely
ic prospect.-Straits Times. from Hongkong on Aug. 2nd. The P. M. Co.'s steamer City of Rio de
Janeiro, with the AstsuIGAN MAIL of Tar. Pioneer Mail of 19th Sept says :- Sept. 19, was to leave Yokohama on the News has been recived from the Amir, 10ih instant, and may be expected dated the 9th instant (a day earlier than here on or about the 16th inst.
Beuter's announcement of tho succoss of The Glen Line steamer Glenfintas, from which was held by 700 of the rebels, had Ishak Khuu), stating that the Kamard for,
The
London, left Singapore ou the 6th
later
inst., and Day he expected here one captured by Nizam-a-fi
or about the 13th inst.
Sqvorai
eng with the
intelligence announces that I had been taken prisoners along steamship Arratoon gear, from Calgarris cutta, Singapoto on this 8th inst.,
tho 14th
ot Kabul The from the l Heibak, and Abdur
and may be expected hero on or abo and had a
inst
advancing, on
гого,
hopeful that the rebellion wa
was very he The O. S. 8. Co.'s steamer Telumon, from subsiding as Ishak was still unable to leave
Liverpool,
left Singapore on the 8th Khanabad. The Amir's
troops, operating have defeated inst., and way he expected here on or from Khinjan, have
aparts of To About the 14th inst
hak's cavalry
south of Ghori, on the road
The Union Line steamer Galley of Lorne, to Heibal. There are the usual contradic-
from Hamburg, leit Singapore on the tory statements as to the losses; but the
10th inst., and may be expected bare on or about the 16th inst.
T
Thoon. Albany left Shanghai for Hongkong on the 11th instant, and may be ox pected on the 14th inst.
ever been before, and that these privileges We observe that the Tramway Company and immunities mast furnish the French are to run what they call a 'Church Trau' and German steamers with the means to on Sundays at 10.40 a.m. handicap their opponents. It must be ad-
The com-
Amir's official return gives 120 of the enemy
as killed and wounded. Herat province remains quist, and no sympathy has been so far shown there for the rebels.
As already mentioned, at Pilam in South Formose the Chinese coloniara had allied themselves with the aboriginal savages and organised an armed opposition to the new land-tax,
Berious was this opposition
that the Clovemar, Lin Ming-chuan,
graphod to Li Bung-chang, Superintendent
to send Porta, Le who
the other with two
clads.
the
nt Keelang
with
and the Tsing-yuan
mitted that the Petitioners are eminently ARRANGEMENTS ara, we believe, being made rezzonable in their representations to Her for the forthcoming regstt Majesty. They do not ask for the with-mittee have drawn up a programme of drawal of all privileges:they merely seek events, which will be submitted to a meet. On 23rd September the latter vessel arrived to modify the effect of the Foreign Mailing of members of the Cub interested in Steamer Ordinance, so that no more at least rowing and sailing to be held on Saturday may be given than the Frouch and German next at 5 p.m. The Committee propose Governments have actually requested to that the regatta be hold on Thursday and obtain. As the Petition says, 'the reason- Friday, Lith and 14th December. They able demands of the French and German have stranged for nine events each day, Governments for certain privileges rouy be the rat race to begin at 12.30 and the fully provided for without conferring rights others to follow at half an hour's interval done
JGWS that on 18th, 19th and 20th, the Imperal troops had been engaged in an attack on Lü-ka-mong village, the strongest of the savage settle
without
mach gaining baring lost over 100 men killed,
leers wounded, and, eight gunners fren the moon of war wounded and one killed. On the 21st Admiral Ting and bis men had carried a field-piegs into action, which had 100 of the the after which Zu
done great execution mong was lastiz”. uxtonaiye in their nature as those now grant-On the first day it is proposed to have the brave attack by our men, The asvages
by
have no
ex-
ed.' We have stated more than once that the following events:-Junior Sculls, race for
ambushes, vulnwe language of the Ear! of Roschery, when heavy gigs, Chairman's Cup, race for men-skilled in setting, arbusty tactics, but are explaining to the German Government the of-war gigs and whalere, juic oars, Griffin's cellent sharp-shooters. It is necessary al-
bafore waya making an advance to manner and spirit in which the concessions four oera, Ladies' Pyrso, (four oars opou them from their ambushes with artiller were to be granted and accepted, was race for mergingt vessel's gigs, American otherwise there is no hope of the attack. rendered almost entirely nugatory by the Cup. On the second the proposed ercats succeeding. The Governor would gladly have detained the admiral several months, the Ordinances against which the are--Sucior Sculls, race for heavy gigs but the Viceroy La Hong-chang has tele passing Petitioners now object. It is not, of International, race for men-of-war gutters, graphed carnestly reqaceting his return to course, known what line of critician has German Cup, Naval uficers' race, Mem. Tientsin before November, in view of the
approaching closing of the Northern Ports w been adopted by H.E. the Governor to bete Cup for defeated fours, double sculls, by ion. Paa and Shin Fuz.--Trana wards this Petition but it is quite cisar, ! Challenge sights
lated by 10. Laily New),