MY TROOPSHIP VOYAGE,
BY A LADY-PASSENORI
Congoro.
But a voyago in a troopship is in many Ways to experienced by as compatively fow, that I am encouraged to attempt the descrip- tea of my own experiences in H.M. troop. ship Aligator.
"We had been quastored at H some considerablo tinin, when circumstances
for
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not speaking to passengers was also extend od to theia." Me Galloper, or of the young lieutenants taking passage, told me ali about it. By his account, an Admiralty
that haval
had a better appetite daring my period of grass widowhood.
At S we took in somo now peeple, most of whom, like myself, came under the
I am told, in continually raging.
Thon followed a stop dance, which was or Qod only knows how leng. Right at very much appreciated by the men, and I this point I had a thought fish across toy may add by the performers, who looked up mind like a streak of analing in a clondy in the air all the while with imbecile day. I had heard and read a good deal smiles on their sinople faces.
about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and
were
auddenly demanded my prosence in Eng. ercured one of the nine bunke. Would you no, tranted them to the eileat aystery and field rank, sound and, finding nono, pro-isolated from the men in a manner which, baliquo came from the bitter and poison
arrangmen
[No. 8056.----October 27, 1888.
ceremony, I may romark, was reported at overy port at which we stopped, so I had In those days of travel, we are most of amplo opportunity of studying it. It was, us familiar with the peculiarities of the as I have said, a. aaval trip-conscquently great acoan atomers which carry pay. Shore werd vary few soldiers on board ox-order had recently been insuod to the effect hend, of indulgence passengers.'The Like all good things, our concert came at 1 resolved, before consanting to be taken
copt some few military invalide.
to the hospital, I would try that well-known The usual number of officers gotag home from tu passengers were to be exempt ladies' unbia was now quite full, and the last to an ond; and there can be no doub:
duty of watch-keeping, which ga different, and must necessarily be sick leave wero of courer found room for, horetofore had not been the asse. In rot. gentlemen wore as closely packed as tho that the erow thoroughly appreciated the par comody. On this I gave up the doctor's
number bunks permitted.
san's efforts to amuse them. The soldiers' medicine and began taking the Syrup. of this order the naval passengers The battle of the cabins may be said to and were accommodated at the expones of sequico v
I to sit up till ton o'clock, in but thrus, doses within twenty-four hours the naval man, who ween craniped more very naturally expected to be left alone, hare commouced at this point; it is an old wives did, at any rate, for they, peur women, Marlie the wonderful resnit ! I had taken than they should have been in consequence. but in this they were disappointed.
In the ladies' cabin there were already
The lieutenants of the ship wanted them action on board troopships, and the way, otsad of haing looked up for the night when I was seized with a fit of coughing:
their usual hot of sight p.m.
and throw up the phlegm and mucus off my two women and three children, inluding to volunteer for a curtain portion of their The question at issue on the voyage was
The precaution has, Pr
presume, baon my own little boy Charlie, for whom I had fatiguing duty, and as they refused to do a follows: A certain military officer of adopted not without good reasons, yet one chest by the mouthful. The Syrup had
loosened and broken it to England on leave, was could not help pitying the womun, who were with the Syrup, the racking patu, which I up. Continuing
in want of a cabin, land, and as my husband could not leave bollove it! One of these ladies complained kept untirely sloof.
of this
wanted me to take But these squabbks about duty would ceeded to turn somebody else out. In this, however necessary, must have been a trifo humours in my blood and joints, soon left his regiment, I made up my mind to go
him into my
of courea I daily be wearisomo in print, though they afforded of course, he was perfectly right; it is humiliating and plono.
refared to do. Mrs Brown referred the plenty of amusement to me at the time.
merely tho principle which appears to be at It is We did endeavour to abstain sick leavo,
Tio alip's officers got best it, as
· but my husband, Captain-Sett, looked so question to the Captain, who naturally decid- unfortunatoly robust tha; wo were forend ed in my favest. This was blu cause of my
fires quarrel with Mra Brown; bat it to abandon the attempt, the more so un poconut of a quarrel of recent occuresnes by no means the lust. Ocious women:
Thie Mra Reo was a lady of an uneer- between myself and Mrs. Osloool Blank.
As luck would have it. H.M.S. Alligator tain age, the wife of an Army Paymaster, was lying in the harbour on the point of who was nisu on board.
She painted her face and dyed her hair departure. Of course, as a portant, and golden, and tried very hard to pass us could only moze with our regiment. More thirty. The only serius drawback to her pretensions was the fact that Mrs Brown evor, the vossol was taking home the crews of such mea-of-war as had served their had two children. In order to keep up the three years abroad, and space was litaited. delusion, Mrs Brown had registered the ages On learning this fact I was in duspais, of her offspring as eleven and tun respective
shu couldn't take me of curse, when a friend of mine made a happy
by ao eluray a artalice. suggestion.
It & moquence of their supposed ages, children were obliged to tako
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occurred to me within a few days of the termination of the voyage. It is the castors on board troopships to rig up a canvas bath, in which the genilstar are free diaport themselves between the bouts of 60 and 7.80 ata.
truo,
and the neighbours know it. There of witnesses to prove it. And,
therefore, when I say I preach the grod news of the great power of Soigel's Syrup to cure pain and disease far and wide, nobody will wonder at me.
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mw, why not try for an indulgence then with the bafrica instead of meas much truth I kuw not), that the steward, on bord at the same time to apply for men. However, it was my usual custota and by the Proprieture, A. J. White,
My doar Mrs Scott, mid the gentle- passage? Captain Porlaous has never been known to refuse & pretty woman, '
indu Acting upon this advice, wa Captain Forteous's acquaintance, invited him to dinner, and, in two words, we wer
their meals
of
Passagen were refused on the groud of thore being no room for them.
The woulier still continuing line, Mr
that we left --- Ths concert was
successful. You may be sure that I lost no infants, was to to a cruel and unnatural" the sheep. pigs detur used to count Weakley's concert came off the ass nightlined the bathem. On the morning in
on
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25 the decedingly dall
of the First-Lieutenant to me entirely, and I felt like going to
„falt hrogry, with a natural appetite, and rs. always can, and metres two of the infant Finding, as I've said, there was no 900 trans turned in; when he soon his and I did sleep sound and quiet. Then I
room, the military oflicer proceeded
ato soan gut strong and well: I felt I could leap through the air with es amber, wore on the sick list during the himself appointed as 'Offer Command evening rounds, duty which at first mat voyage, tim forcing the supernumeraries Troops, by which means he became entitled bar barrassing in the case of a
ashful, single wan,
delight! to step in and all the maps. In addition to not only in a cabin, but to considerabla ro- However, 3 they say in 'Pinafore, In a week I was able to go to my work
'asilors should never be shy." chia duty, others were invented for them, duction in his expunees. It seemed to me
there should ensue a com lights out, and so forth; in consequence of pleto shule of which taucht bitterness of spirit prevailed, mesclate the gentleman going home for his own pleasure, the more so that the total and before the week was cut war to the knife was declared.
One of the ringleaders sinunget the pss.mber of soldiers on board the vessel
have exceeded a score. The naval mon, especially those who had sengers, a certain yang Dr Snapper, struct
to move, were uncommonly indignant ou
We ponr women wero of course denjet out a line for himself. His grievance was that he was forced to take part in the duty
the subject, but they were powerless to of attending the sick, which he resented; be resist, and the military triumphed. The any such luxury as a bath. I pay of course, but really I don't see why we cause nem of his own men were on hard most amusing feature of the whole affair shouldn't tub sometimes as well as the
He had taken it into his hod (with how was that two or three naval men who came
to remain within my stufy cabin until the Mr Mipcheese, was making food a year by
time when the bath was removed, or to be his situation, and it became the ohjeet
strictly accurate, until the cuoras walls of his life to try and detect how it was done.
the bath, like Jericho, foll down flat and With this view the
and paltry twice a day,
sination my watch (a very indiferent fine- most and kept au elaborate note book in which
awkward trick by gaining half-an-hour during the night. In cenanquenos of this emption of foud of all kitsee.
inet, I ventured on deck much earlier than natal, and found myself surrounded by a notabor of male figures all
less 77 more deshabite. Imagine my situation, kind readers, and pity me. The worst of the affair was that Mrs. Brown made good capital out of it, and had the impudent audacity to declare I had done it on pur- pose.
Whether any
of my fellow-prsson. gers were evil-winded enough to believe her I do not know, but you may be sure I began After this, a young officer with banju to look about the for some means of ro tinkled at us for three or four minutes, till renge. At fast I hit upon a plan and struck at my enemy's most vulnerable the unexpected bursting of a string put an poiat, hor ago, which, like the letter z ir. end to him, and he retreated hurriedly to a
unknown quantity. algebra, was scat, covered with confusion.
the naval passengers were somo At the end of each performance, Mrittle middies, with some of Weakley got up and cxclaimed in a thin, when I had made friends. This was easily effected; the simple youths were readily
middias, one and all, responded to the cali
---
timo in go and was iuformed by the wear his hair in long curia, which unwns Ret down his pathmate of the daily centiced to commence at 8 p.tn., and Kouper) descíved mic, and played
accommodation, chiaf atoward reserved for
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ing at the saloon table at the real meal hours: and to ace that poor young sun the really was very precacions even for lifteen) eating his dinner at 4.3 pm, sated batween two with board to inspect the spectacle. To crown all, he was inde to, a horth had been fortunate & pendage was the innocent cauan that
of mero trouble later on." in the ladies' cabin. mu The ladies' cabin! Good Heavens! Whyer the car tail was the Chief Stoward
The most important was in the ship turced out to bo 630 of Pens Measuan, The Paysaster, as I soon found
eight or nine bunks; it was containing clearly impossible to travel in such dis-out, wat dit nor his thumb, and comfort, and I determined to try the effect never acted without consulting him. of another dinner. Nor was my hospitality thrown away. Captain Porteous, rt I am bound in my was a meat chivalrous gentleman, after some deamur consented to having as much a scandalous thing his the Res. Mr Weakley, whose hobby was to Heavens! what a song it was. It was,
grant me a cabin to myself. But oh, my dear lady,' said he, you little know the difficulties that are in store for me!'
You are too kind,' I replied, with a alight pressure of the band, and that settled
it.
Some of the officers uned to cumplain bitterly shout this Mr Nipeterse, and declared that
that it was a
authority.
For my own part I'm bound to sur 1 got on very well with Me Nipcheese, but then, of course, be recognised my influence. with Captain Porteous, and may have been a little afraid of mo.
The other officera of the ship may be dismissed in 'n vary few words. They were all married man, who served in troopships for the sake of getting home occasionaly
I believe he afterwatts cube to the some was actually consumed, on that his ro- what natural conchosion that the live stock searches in that direction failed. Bus, like all investigatort hu upored ul another idea, which kept him optaged during the romainder of the voyage.
We had, of course, a chaplain on board,
get up cuceria and private theatricals.
Four Mr Wealley, he knew unthing of music, and even less of stage management. He was the sort of man who would be out of place anywhere except at a children's tus fight, but unfortunately he did not under stand his own chataster. Alas! how few of us de!
One of the questions of most general in-
food. There are always grumblers to be
own part, I thought the messing arrange-
I of the passengers had consented perform, after a good deal of pemunninu on the part of the reverend unger. I took my seat next to Captain Purteous, and that horrid Mrs Brown set by his loft, whilst the rest of the ladies got as near to him as they could. How they hated me for being the favourito. Dear me, it was truly funny
Well, the sailor sang his song, ant, oh without exemption, the longest and the broadest ditty I ever had the misfortane to listen to.
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"I established myself and my belongings in a vory comfortable saloon cabin, and after a sad farewell with my pace Tom. Porteaus, I bede farowell to H.
To regard to weather I have seldom been so fortunate, though there were other dia comforts which I little reckoned upon. Wo started with a smooth son and a cloudless sky, and the thermometer at about 70 de- Freon in the absen, for it was the mouth of January and the cool sonson at H
There were a great number of val officore taking passage, and a great many mote came on board to see them off and This to drink the customary stirrup cap.
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bles."
this:
It had a
endati the first lesson."
at distance as if he remarked 'Here would do my bidding. My plan of revenge
After thie, Mre Brown ang 'The Maid of the Mill, which was rapturously oncor- by the sailors, who, poor fellows, no doubt thought her a second Albani!--bor voice was not strong enough for the open air, to my thinking, but she did ber best, and the best can do no more.
A married lady, travelling with her has and mix you up in their confounded aquabband, is charged at the rate of 5s, dd. pared
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CASK QUOTATIONS.
FOSITION FER Last Report..
3,099.05
(20) for 3 year to }
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DURING CURRENT WEEK.
Highest. Lowest,
Aug. 27, 8911 prem. 161, pram. 150 prem
buyers
per Oct. 11, 88887), buyers
2002 50 Te.281,575.42 Tie. 445,43.41ing 31 Dec. 1887 April 26, 8HT18.285,buyera Tla. 200
7 for your end. } 95; all T16, 75,014,31 Tla.
ing Dec. 1887 May 8, 88 s. 97, bellers Tls. (17 3 per cent. for ST toj 15.385,847 in perApril 1, 88166, buyers 1,000$ 200,$ 16,285.84.3
ent. for 1957 (487,21.18 304,000 calitated to forgz. end. 110% 1/1/8
30 Sept. 88ing 30/12/871%20/10/88971, buyers
per cont. for year'
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ording yes
252,243.305236th for year Feb. 16, 88 8:122, nom.
it ending 3 Do
201, 3.90 preb. to me. Feb. 22, 58 $73, buyers
| | 80°, finsă div, for 98 i |
41,152.605% interim div. Į
Tls. 96
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No. of Value of Sharca
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DIVIDEND,
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Amound,
Whosphid
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10,111.86 30 June 8
2,600,000, 10,000 $
2,000,000 24,0008 89.335
£1,000,000 4,000 £
25 $ 354
(8 386,991-82) (30 % G96,500 estimated to 3J85 650,000 $
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yet 4
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10*), for yearend-
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1,500,000 1,500
2,500,000 10,000
3,000,000 30,000S
2,000,000 6,000s
@2,000,000. 20,000j3 Is 2,000,000 20,000
20
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100$ 20$
85,000,
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100$ 20$ €50,000-8
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1403 208 11,875.91 8
125 all
$
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none
Feb. 13, 85 $18, nom.
April 6, 88 $16, nom.
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8215,000
2,058.08 瀹
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1;500,000 14,000/9 700,000 7,000 8
alt= 1864.01
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60 all 8 211,050.199
50 all 18 10,000$
300 li 100 all
3,110.37
#
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for 1965 for year to 76,505.10 ( 10% for yt-end
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98117 ing 30 Juse 1888 Aug. 4, 88117% prem., 118 prom. 117, prom.
buyers 5% for yr. end-{ ing 31 Dec. 1867 June 16, 2820% dia, acm. 15% for pr. end. Į
18.48
6% for yr. end.
ing 31 Deo. 1587 J
Har. 24, &$120, buyers $120
$116
| 12 per cent. f 1887,1
nons
Gone
11,100.43 Dr. $ 27,948,63
Aug, 24, 888184, sellers $184
980, buyers $83
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400,000 40,0008
10 oli
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in that respect it resembled of genius. all great strokes the agon of Mrs Brown's children, and of
mention has been already made of the fact that har poor boy was compelled to wear his hair in long, during curls. If I contrived to revenge myself on Mis Brown I felt instinctively that here was my op portauity. I presonted the aldent middy with my scissors, and said to him 'Bring me, before another sun has risen, the curls of Charlie Brown in a charger, and the re- ward shall be yours."
Right you ara, Mrs Sertt,' said the boy, and your name nead never appear in the
matter.
And the plucky little fellowe kept their word too, and it was not their fault that the deed was finally traced to me as my handy- work.
Next morning, sure enough, the middy brought me all Charlie's beautifal yellow urls, neatly wrapped up in a piece of old lue.
I was so much plussed with the result of! y scheme that I kept Charlie Bruan's curls as a trophy, and only the other day had them made up iato a ubarming plat for my own use, shall never forget the horror, anger, and dismay depicted on Mrs Brown's face when she saw her darling Bon shorn of his leaks. He looked fully three years older than before, and I'm bound to say it was in every way an improvement. His mother, however, cared nothing for that All she thought about was her own age, and her suspicious seem from the first to laro alighted upon me.
and contenced him to a very beary punish-
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STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MARSEILLES, MALTA, GIBRALTAR, BRINDISI, PLYMOUTH,
AND LONDON ; 4280,
BOMBAY, MADRAS, CALOUTTA,
AND AUSTRALIA..
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Habekost, Capt'1 Howard, S.
Hodgen, G. C. I Hollander, J. K. 1 Holeba
1 Hocklam, F. H. 1 Herald, A. Inglis, T.
Simon, F,
Bmith, J.
Benft, N.
Schiefer, C. a.
1p.ca.Stainsford
1 reg.
Jefferson, G.
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Schor, Max.
Štero, Á Triftenberg, M.
Tezabal, Geo. Tallook, L.
Tesu, Arr. Vincent, Capt. I Wallace, Miss M.1
⚫Wilmson & Co 1
Käguer, Capt. Kyle, Miss T. 1 Kalkes
I p.od. Walker, E. E. Kahleang Keatl Williams, K. C Kamp, U
Whipple, O, L Kineding, J. 1 reg. Wastplul W.
DETAINED.
Yas Ma Keò & Co., Shanghai, 1 letter.
For Morchant Ships.
She went straight to Captain Portocus, and demanded satisfaction on the author of the crims, and hoing too knowing to disctane her suspicione, ali threw the entire blamo
the apan the actual perpetrator of deed, the poor little middy! The Cap...---Dargo can be taken on through Bills of Lading for BATAVIA, PERSIAN the
calzit, tain, of course, interviewed
GULF PORTS, MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK Hamta
Chowie, z. AND BOSTON.
Clapeyron, 5.5, C8, B-N. Chrysomene, sh. 1 Chittoor, sh. Cheshire, Hq. cheang King Deepdale, 8.8.
ment, with which satisfaction Mts. Brown professed herself satisfied, but I knew she
was raad with rage, and would have sent
PENINSULAB AND ORIENTAL STEAM her best bonnet after the luckless curls,HE PIN COMPANY Steamship eculd she only have fixad the misdeed upon SURAT, Captain F. STECK,
with ure. Thus, I was revenged, and the reader Her Majesty's Mats, will be despatched must not suppose took an
that I allowed
the poor
from this for BOMBAY, on WEDNES. for buy to suffer,
an early opper. tunity of begging him of bis punishment, DAY. 7th November, at Nook.
Cargo will be restived on board until and, making a private confension of my share in the piof. And here I must bring my story of the voyage to a close, only re- macking that from that simo forward I was very little troubled by the woman who bad dong her best to make my journey andon fortablo.-Hampshire paper.
WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
HE COULD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR.
Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Office until 4 pm. on the day before sailing.
Silk and Valuables for Europe will be transhipul at Colombo; but fen and General Cargo at Bombay, arriving one weak later than by the direct route sid Colombo.
For further Farticulare regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply to the
PENINSULAR & OLARRTAL STEAK NATIGA TION COMPANY'S Offco, Hongkong.
The Contents and Value of Packages are required to be declared prior to shipment.
Shippers are partionisely requested to note the terras and conditions of the Com pany's Black Bills of Lading.
My object in writing is two-fold: to ex- press my gratitude for a great bencis, and to tell a short story which cannot fail to intorest the feelings of many others. It is all about myself, but I have remarked that when a roan tells the boness truth about
Passengers desirous of insuring their bag- himself he is all the more likely to be of gaga can do so on application of the Com. USO to his follow-creatuves. To begin, pany's Office, then, you
mast know
I had long been more
or less subject to attacks of bronchitią, a
E L. WOODIN,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, October 26, 1888.
complaint that you are aware in very P. O. 8. N. Co.'s Office,
common and troublesorts in Great Britain
in certain seasons of the year. Some
apt to do when atohing
For Sale.
1802
STAG HOTEL.
NOTICE TO HOTEL KEEPERS, CLUBS, &c.
SALE:
months ago I had e e very severe turn of it, worse, I think, than I ever had before. It was probably brought on by cold, as we are all
We feast expect it. Works passed by, and mig trdable proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began to have violent racking pains in Firsts and back, I became greatly alarmed. I could neither eat nor sleep. If I had been a fepbla, sickly I should have the Chought less atrangely of it; but as, ou contrary, I was hearty and robust, I fear- &c., Complete. 45. die, oned some new and terrible thing had got
First your
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Loans to Imperial Chinese Government.
Agents for the Loun.:
Amount of Lean.
Par Falas of Bonds.
Late of Interest,
When Payable.
Bongkong Shanghai Chincee Imperial Govt. Silver Loan 1884 BBanking Corporation Chiness Imperial Gort, Silver Lead 1884 Dj
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Do.
$1,394,700.14 Hking Currency. 8600 'kong Currency. 8% por agnum 30 June each year until 1890 % prem $1,594,700.14 H'kung Curteroy, 8500 'kong Currency.8. Kuping Tis, 700,000, Equivalent of
LJ
115 Oct.
18026 % prem.
Shanghai Tls. 167,200. Allsited at!
Chinese Imperial Govt. per Cent.
Silver Loan 1686 E
exchange et Tls. 72 per
100
Dc.
'kong currency. Drawn Bonds Stanghai Teele 250.7
1
and interest payable at current rate
(3let March and 30th Sept. each year until 31 Meh.
J91T
14% prem., Bellers
of the day for demend bills on Shanghai."
Equalisation of Dividend Fund,
Depreciation and Insurance Fund.
925% pr., s'iors
¡811, no. 1847, bagere lis prem,
STOKES & YOUNG, Share Brokers
$20 paid up
Closing Quatatines.
FOR
WO ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLES, with BALLS, CCE, MARKING-BOARDS,
A Very Handsome Set of BAR FIX
wat
old of me, which might make my strongth TURES, quite new, Buitt of Solid Teak of no avail WAY I
inlaid
with PLATE GLANG Mirrors,
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Presentest it. I say, that was the wood, handsomely.curved and moulded, Propgedor.
I could not ever lie down for Ales, Several other PLATE GLASS the pain all over my body. I used my MIRRORS; One TEAKWOOD BAR doctor what he thought of my condition, COUNTER, with Four PULL PLES, and he frankly said, I am sorry to have to PIPES,
tell
tell you that you are ge ting wores! This Two Handsome STREET LAMPS, with so frightened my friends, as well as myself, strong Fancy METAL BRACKETS, Auitable that they said "Thomas, you must go to the for HOTELS or other PUBLIO BUILD Hospital; it may be your only chance for INGS.
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But I didn't want to go to the hospital suitable for HOTEL PURPOSES Dali Who does, when he thinks he can possibly very on or after 1 DECEMBER, 1888. get along without doing it?" I am a labour- The ROTEL in CLOSING, on Recent
ing man, with a large family depending on of the PROPERTY having been SOLD.
me for support, and I might almost as well
be in my grave as to be laid on my back in
a hospital unable to lift a hand for montha,
APPLY
J. COOK,
Stag Hotel
Hongkong, September 10, 1889,
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