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No. 8344-OC:ODE 5, 1889.]::
The Russian transport St. Petersburg was dus in Singapore on the 4th inst. with 561 convicts, (151 men, and 110 women) from Odensa for Siberia, ---
1r is ramrod, says the Strait Times, that if H.M.8. Australia is coming us at all to the Chins Station, it will be to gelieve the Orion in Singapore.
Tuz Locomotief says that the Java Dank intends to try to bring gold ten-guilder pieves into circulation at Batavia, Bamer- ang and Sourabaya, with the object ul find out whether there in any demand for 1.herm.
Our Chitties, says the (Penang) Straits In dependent, seem to be utterly disgusted at the sollon of our bank managem, who have been cutting off their supplies, some fifty of them having prepared to leave Penang to- day for India by the steamer Roma, with all their goods and abattels.
We learn, says the Straits Timies, that a Russian squadron of five vessels, two of thom the ironclade Admiral Kornilof and the Vladimir. Monsnach, woll; arzīve in Singapore about the end of the year to reinforce the Russian Squadron in the Pacific,
MANY failuron, says the Pooche Echo, ara reported to have taken place during the present week amongst the busive mereusute, and we regret to see the Kwang Cheong ton hong alou on the lat. The liabilition. of the former, which are chiedy to deslere în rice, are reported to be from nine to fifteen thousand dollars each, and of the lattor two lace.
ADVICE from the Hague in the Batavia Nieuwsblad arate that this Japanese Govern ment will not renew its troulics with Hol land, unless Japanese cease to be deemed foreign Auistics in Netherlands India, As aach, they do not come under the law alloc ting Europeans. Japan has become se Europaanised that its Government can fair- ly make the demand.
Taz Shgapore Free Piss reports that as the ss. Altonover from Hongkong was" steaming through the Boads making for New Harbour, a sailar named Revile at work on the railing lost his footing and fell into the water. The steamer was stopped as quickly as possible and cruised about for a considerable time, aided by the pilot's stearn-launch, to eearch for the poor fellow, who, however, sover reao again.
THE Sultan has been docked. It was found that the damage suffered by the ship was Her loss serious than had been feared.
plates were more or less torn away from a point 40 ft. from the ram to within 50 ft. of the sternpost on the starboard side, the break extending from the keel to 19 ft. below the water line. The rudder
pindle
was broken about 6 ft. below the water line. The original bole in the bottom made when the ship firat struck is just below the foremast, and is the worst injury sustained, The subsequent damage resulted when the
ship shifted from hur original position. There is no injury of any moment on the port side.
ANOTHEE change must be made on the map of East Africa. The Sultan of Zanzibar ha fululled his promise of ceding. to the Im perial British East Africa Company, the port and island of Lamu, and four other ports to the northward. The company's sphere of influence is than extended fruin its present northern limit to the confines of Bomuliland thongh Vitoland, which accepted a German protectorate in April, aust still break the continuity of 1885, must British influence. The concession is likely
URI KET.
Freer XII, H.K. COL. 6. Azz Qomers.
This match was commented yesterday and finished this aftormnon, “The First XII went to bat first and only put together the comparatively small total ul 105, E. J. Coxon anntributing nothing. The crowd of All Comers, however, made a very hoor stand. In the second innings the first 12 had the advantage of a contribution of 40 from E. 3. Unxin and were favoured by the Inose Bulding of their opponents. ~.In the circumstances their total of 147 was not remarkably high: "E. 3. Coson took eleven of the All Comers wioketa for 23 runs, The following are the scÁBAN Z
1
FIRST XII-et Innings
HL. L. Houderson, Bist, h. Kalmart........
E. J. Coxon, b Darby
R. W. Maitiand, run out ......
6.9. Colcone Young, zub Lammert,
F. Maitland, Innamoré, & Busāns
B. W. Ceccon, e-Dariy, b' Dundamine
T. ♬ Davis, at wicket Young, R.
Lautnert
A. H. L..., b.Darby
A. E. Watherston, is Darby,
Ji M. Atkinson, b Traver■" ........
W. Taylor. Let out.
FIRST XIL-2ed Inninge.
W. Taylor, 1 Lammert tomaramumuhiag
G. 8. Coron,-* Kirk, b.IfaPROT.
F. Milland, b Travera
E. J. Cozen, é Flome, b Newton entrepre
B. W. Maitland, b Dundas minema
S. W. Conton, Lammert, b Newton.
A.2. Walkersion, Kiri, & Newto
AI, 100, B., b'Landment
H. I. Renderson, DOT DUS
T. Davos, b Newton
J. M. Atkinson, díê not hát............... minipendrece
Total.......
ALU-COMERA-- Innings
B: Thompsc.b Walkersion,...... Meta
G. E. Folta, run out m
EG. Young Lee, RA, Wadieraton,
F. C. Dania, Alat, e Watherston, bE. Mini
land,
W. Newton, b Curon.....
8. Party, Cozen,
J. M. Tachado, b Coxon.......
R. P. Lamuert, b Coxon,..
Capt. Fasting, N., & E. W. Maitland,
B. Remme, Bist, 1 Conan.
H.A. Herbert, Doi qu
Q. ML Marionovh, b Gexan,.
A... Travera, b Cazon.......
Thorne, Allison, & Coxon,
F. Kuk, glat, b CozonJA IMAHNİSİYA
A. Young, RA, b Carton 9. H. Clarke, Diet, b Coram,.
Extrisa, cam
Total
ALL-COMERS.-2id Innings.
G. IL Rotte, b Maitland, F. Kirk, 5 Coxou..
W. Newton, c Ta-lar, b Maitland,- B. 6. Young, E.E, not out..
Extray, A. Young, R.A., 00: out,
Total
717
'FRAGRANT WATERS! MURMUR That a resident of long standing has quietly dropped from our bildat, and Hongkong now counts one good and true citizen the 1. BU.
That he leaves bobind an unsullied recoră
oa which is dearly written, Goodness woostentatious and charity unobtrusive. That Dr Stewart will long be remembered as a gonial scholarly gentleman, sever considerato of the feelings of others, and though by profession and inclination a schoolmaster, tenching always even more
by example than precept. That the following apt quotation is found
in the works of his countryman ---
dad art thou one Theru, the brother! art thou gone, and gone for meri And hast thou erqual that unknown river
Life's dreary boug Laka thee, where shall 1 find anochar
The world around.
That his end, like his life, was peace. That the opening areting of the Legislative
Council during the cool sesson was held last year on the 17th October.
THE
That the site for this Hospital, kas not, yet - baen determined in, although the Medi- cal Superintendent has arrived in the onlony from London, and gone back disappointed. That the report of Mr R. K. Laizh on the Drainage and Water Supply at the Peak seeme to be a well-digested scheme, and the most noticeable fact connected with it is that, although it was produced with promptitude, it bears all the appearance of a well-considered solution of the diffi-
culty That the introduction of professional sbility
of á
of an unofficial kind should not bann acceptable to the Head of the Public Works Department andor present condi
tions.
That, although no one will question the accuracy of the statement that the Chi- nese coolie is not the most reliable *hower of wood and drawer of water" the world, the charge against the con- of the Peak dasarvca Bervancy systém and calls for the strictest investigation That I have all along insisted upon the necessity of obtaining an abundant water aupply to flush drains before wich gas- breeding condults anti possibly be kept
sweet.
That, at the same time, it will be a dra. gerous experiment to do away with the system of removal, evon although that system may possibly be cap ible of im praverasat.
CHINA MAIL.
Hongkong, 29th September, 1889. Edwin Mackintosh, aq, Chairman of the Mooting of East Rusido te held at the
1615 Aug. 1820
Sir I have to thank you for a K
copy of Mr Leigh's vary able report on the Park Drainage and water supply.
I am sorry that Mr Leigh does not give as any information about the possibility of a reservoir sufficient for all requirements on the swamp below Mountain Lodge. I consider this a much better eite for the following reasoDB →→
(a). The altitude of a resorvair at the Austin Arms site is not sufficient to buable the water to be distributed, therefore causing extra expenses for machinery and fur pumping
you a few ideas based upon Mr Leigh's re- port, which I have read with plessTIFD
Where the bucket system of removal of excreta can be employed, there is nothing comparable to it, and it would sooza ind portant to avoid in any way disturbing an arrangement which worke so well
orucified, others babeaded; whilst for their | Lyall retira, but offer themselves fuæ res wives and daughter was reserved the still election. worse fate of slavery and cuncubinage. In this tragic way ended the praiseworthy of- forte of the Wutah gaissionaries to evange lize the natives of Formoen
At the present time, Mr Campbell telle us, two Protestant societies representing the Presbyterian charchas of England and Canada, nee working among the Chi- ness settlers and aborigines in the Western and Northern parts of the foland.
P. Rynta, Chairman.
UNION "INSURANCE, BOULETY OF CANTON" LIMITED.
Working Account, 1888-On June 30, 1880, To Working Acount Balance
on 30th Juus, 1888 To Net Promium 1st July to
Slet December, 1868 To Interest
Has Mr Luigh any concluaiss evidence that bat only a very small portion of excrementitious nimtler over reaches its pro per destination? (Page 6) I can only say that I am unwate of any aninance oroops lng that which has arisen from the improve- Mr Campbell, who is a uneated with the tents recently introduced. There never English mission, arrived in Formces in was a bad smell before we had these drains 1873, and he has bere given us the expe
If anyone My opinion is that the night service is rienses of eizteen busy years. efficiently performed, and of this I have wants to read a atraightforward account of had experience in various houses; and that, missionary life or labour, let him get this
albear
book. There is no writing for effect. Fe- It will take 13 months before- the were the kitchen and bath water to be a
rilous
hair-breadth scapes journeys and water from the reservoir will be availowed to rau down the nullas (caving
those in the reservoir area) in a simple aro pasaud urer with little romark. The ablu, which mest that cannot have
camented channel, for one or two hundred writer has to tell of rugged mountain water supply from it in the winter
ter fout distance from bases and thorough passes, dangerous torrente, and hos By 1890/1801 (e) The drainage, doponding on the wa- faxes, ao inconvenience whatever would hunting savage; but his enthusiasm is no
τα Berred for the work
bas which he pist his ter eapply, cannot be improved mean.
If the new drains are to be used, I thick hand, and this he sets boforo us in all its as with Mr Leigh, that no fresh connexioza pacis. Here we see him breaking now (d). I think a sufficient water supply can should be made until the water supply la ground, there, confrming the church-
be obtained by building a reservoir on the swamp below Mountain Lodge completed; and that on no account should we meeting with ohtering success, usw which will be sooner in working order exorota be permitted to enter any one of with violent opposition or keon disappoint.
thenu
uunt. And on this account Mr Campbell's pipes. ant hare the required altitude...
Before the adoption of the soil pipe aug- work is calculated to be specially useful : Taking Mr Leigh's figures as a basis, Igested by Mr Leigh, I think that the charge it will servo admirably to correct And that the service tank he proper, against the present bucket system should the absurd ideas that prevail in so many rizi 100 feet by 50 feet and 16 feet deep, be most carefully investigated; and that if quarters both as to the methods employed a six-inch pipe would be porferable, in the mission field and the moral and reli-
.18
while.
arise,
That the Chamber of Cominette' ought to or 80,000 e. ft containing 690,000 gallons: } ad ill have to be wired at the month to gious characters of converts from heathen-
of water, will be able to supply the popain as it
sion which Mr Leigh estimates for 1893. for
0596,891.69.
591,583.58 ($1,084 88:
81,029,690.26
Or.
18,897,54
8,609.05
23,012.01
10,247.03
99,444
5,705.49 6,985.26
By Agency Commissions By Agency Charges By Head Ofiles Charges By Shanghai Charges By London Charges.... Yokohama Clargea By Melbourns Charges By Remuneration for half- ending 31st December to Dircotors, Dom- mittasa and Auditora
1888,
By Losses and Claime paid. By rohange... By Bones on Contributions a/a 1888, (declared 162 April, 1889) 20% By Balance
: 9,110,64 483,282.20 208.15
211,028,48 247 104.79.
$1,029,630.26
hometer short may be the life of goba large could bu beservoir 15 times that; on account of distances, any station i compelled to acknowledge that in Formosa, Working Account, 1889. —On June 30, 1889,
Bo that
Dr.
January to 30th Juno, 18:30 & 682,517.11
bo up and doing, as last year, and wage
provent the possibility of a stoppage. Also in. Whoever reads those pages will be war against the threatened Tolegram
25 days. Therefore, it a Syndicate.
on this site, this would be inefficient, at least two pipes at least, there is a band of workers who by That,
one your's supply of being requirol. Considering once more about to would contain
drain a great harvost, be attempted by the thrie Corapanies, its water. Though I have got no positive which is gucluded by doing thelarge tes patient, plodding industry ars sowing for To Net Fremium_from_lak
information to go by, I buliere
for "burial" within anything like resson-sell denying and Interesting laboura antung But we tubat the Pescadoru istudera say n-word or two stout bio journeys into the little-known territory of the Formosan aborigines
that
objects ought to be stontly opiod with some small excavations and a damage, I think the provision of suitable sites. We cannot follow Mr Campbell in his To Interest
all
the
a reservoir 30 fust by 100 and 26 feet deep able distance would be found very difficult equal to 1,200,000 o. foot and containing Neither this yatem or that of the soil 7,500,000 gallone
of water could be built. pipe should, I think, be attempted until Mr Toigh gives the following figures of the proof has been obtained that the bucket ar prescut and future population, to which rangement does not work well.
Water Supply add for comparison the water supply ra- quired, taking as a basis Mr.Leigh's
"Euro" Che Gallon per
I
gures
It appears that the whole By Agency Commissions...8 Eastern balf of the island is still in the pos-By Agency Charges... nemion of tribes in a most primitive state By Head Office Charges theaf civilization. Here is Mr Campbell's de- By Shanghai Charges theaf civil
scription of one of the northern tribas, the By London Charges Bu-hoans: They belong to a beardless race, By Yokohama Charges
huan do, their coares black hair being By Remuneration for half- simply thrown back, tied close to the head. year ending 30th June 1889: And either twisted into a knot, or left to Directors, Committees
Auditora hanging behind in a loose unplaited mast. and
The plan suggested is undoubtedly of 20 gallons per European and 10 gallons best. Might not, two or three subsidiary per Chinese per day:→
basina be constructed between Mountain which supplies could be drawiz, thus i a good deal of pumping work
I am youre-faithfully,
GRANVILLE SHARP
peur. nese, day rigured edge sud the Austin-Arms reservoir, from and do not shave, as the 'Chinesa and Sel- By Melbourne Charges.
1851 226 1025 1890 300 1300
1891 425 100 + 850 3000
14.770
10,000
Gallon per
quired. 5,301,50 8,935,00
26,500
47,000
* At some foture day.
9,073,600 17,155,000
will
1889.
REVIEW.
от
'were sans "cu-
14,787.69
6: 677,301.69
15,614.74
6.M6,63
21,510.62
10,860.87
28,497.48
5,704.70
7,105.90
9,461.94 189,635.60
176.07
985,220.00
8:677,304;63:
N. J. Hom, Secretary. We have compared the above Statements with the Books, Vouchers, and Soourition the Head Office, and with the Returns received from the various Agencies of the Society, and have found the same to be correct.
JAMES H.
B. BALL, CO,Auditors Hongkong, 2nd October, 1880.
BALANCE SHEET-ON 30TH JUNB, 1880, Union Insurance Society of Canton,
· Limited. Dr.
commercial coun iu
Braat. That the evidence given by Me Cooper, in bis capacity of luspector of Buildings, before Mr Wodehouse, leaves the public in doubt as to who would have boen responsible had a second collapse of the building followed the accident ruts which inquiry was being made. That the habit of drawing hard and fest lines As to duty-this b'long my pidgin, that so long my pidgin-was popolarly believed to be confined to Celes tial domestics of the lazy order. That one would have expected a different sort of answer from an English official,
| Their facial tattoo mirks take the form of By Losses and Claíms paid and even the Magistrate was not a lil
short bars, pinced
A columu By Exchange... horizontally in a surprised at the curt nature of the reply:
down middle
part of the forehead and By Balance given.
lower jaw. I noticed. that That the recent Magisterit) Inquiries ints Mr Leigh says the above quantities of water
tall fellow had a necklace composed of Fires have accomplished some good re- will of be used actual working; there PAST AND PRESENT MISSIONARY
human teach All of them were * WORK IN FORMOSA. it not so much as might have boon fore, as the population living on the Peak sults,
lottes, and the very scanty cluthing they expected: they have thrown light once for six months is about one half of the
An account of Missionary succuss in the did wear loft by far the more upon the store connection which number Mr Leigh natoes, we can safely ru
island of Forros Published in Lan body exposed. Their weapons consisted of greater part of the oxista between insurance policies and duco the quantity required by one-fourth
don in 1650 and now reprinted with.
fastened on bamboo rods, and spearheade fires, and upon the cheerful, free-and-this would materially alter the above figures
copious appendices by Revd. Wis.
long, easy manner in which some Companies and would make the reservoir sugizent
knives, which were Campbell, F.R.G.S., English Frosky worn in wooden scabi can inour and pay their losses.
below Mountain Lodge sufficiently large to
In terian Mission, Taiwanfoo, In two telfactually, they seem to be mere children. That I note with social interest that a car supply the population der Leigh estimates for Volumes. London: Trübner and Co. They use their Bngers in counting. For
tain youthful artist engaged in the light-th year 1801 Though I am myself very fingered profession had worked up to the much in favour of living all the year round theft of an umbrella, for which success on the Peak, I doubt that the in handy and well-printed volumes was that two campanics, and arrange to meet again Our first impression on glazing over these example, a large party hunting for game, or on the war path, would separate into imagines, an he received fourteen days' imprisonment be as rapid as D Leigh
Mr Canipbull had been ill-advised both as and twenty strokes of the cattin. cost of living on below, and as there are
the
in Ave days. Pense considerably
by one hand that ja, their title and their strangement. The and That I am not bloodthirsty.
in fear-
row of human heads and skills (more) dora than
sentence." published in Loudon in 1600 fastened up at t
at the sad of the chief's house. ful to contemplate the mass of suffering many people who do not care for the dis
on the title page is not encouraging. 1650 They were mostly doven in, and same ef of the year. which might have accumulated had the comfort during purt of mysterious disappearance of every un-if we are to take into account so large any to be sure, a year that stands in the them were comparatively fresh, and had e brella which I have known to danga tuoresse se Mr Laigh thinks will take place, periods of Eaglish literature, and yet, in the other houses or buts were similarly Very centre of one of the moar brilliant most ghostly look The greater number vi kends is this way
way been followed by 14 Lothing wil prevent the Government tespite of the passion of Milton's political provided. 7 counted thirty-nine in one days and 20 strokes.
ou to build an additional reservoir at the That the fripting-credited to the conewing Austin Arms, as Mr Leigh suggests, which writing, to quint wiedena of Thomas collection, thirty-toro its aucther, sweaty
Fuller, the sweetness and eloquence of of the Oplura Farmer's spias and would give an additional largo WREN JOTOBY Laplor, the rustic charm of one an a third and sử Cân • Thị Thu Tỏ-đi
supply to the Peak and
hand of the Bu-hoan is against every man, and which would
Izaak Walton, and the excellencies and he considers nothing more praise afios for any population in the near fature. I do not think that the reservoir of many another Seventeenth Century
propose would cost much more than the worthy, it remains undeniably true that the worthy then to succeed in transfixing any
of that period is
I is insufferably tedion is an ascertained fact that, in some cases,
the straggler who wears a pig-tal. service tank Mr Leigh proposes to be built seemed abrange, therefore that Mr Camp the heads they carry of are boiled to pre- below, Mountain Ledge;
about enrly Should the reservoir i propose at Moun. bell, if he had anything to
pare a fully-liku mas, which is made up To Working Account 1888, missionary work in Formosa,
should have into litter cakes and eaten, in the ballaf
Balance taia: Lodge nut suffice for the whole year chosen to set it before us in the wordy, in that, doing so, they demonstrate the com-To Working Account 1860, we havo still the wells to full back upon as
volved prolix style of 250 years: prepenso is aiz months' imprisonment, or; a reservoir, and theve should be simply suffi- intly lear, indeed; that the casino pleteness of their victory, and become
dient,
on we have had to depend on them
nerved for farther deeds of bloodshed.' To Sundry Creditors who opens this book will stop at the firet The account of the Ka-les, or Southern solely for our water supply up to now.
Further, as Me Leigh sags that the small Bagif ho guts even as far as that. For tribes, is equally interesting, but for parti
sss would onliot the what encouragemont is thero to probed culars we must refer nur readers to the book service tank proposes
when you find that the Revd. H. Jessoi, iwell.
opens the Brat Valley, so that for soirething like the volume, requires no lees then in the year scarcely any pumping would be words for a title, and commences his and visited several of their villages, he has j information about those aborigines required, and za MY Loigh given the maxi-
*** | narrative with auch a soulance as this only mum requirunt as 17,100 gallons Dearely beloved, there are three things, only tuched the fringe of the great un-
12 of his report, I take it, that of page
known region which they inhabit. But this or nearly 7,00,000 gallons, could be the suit any cry that has travel after reading what he says abbut it, we are bloged for you, foure that I am in travel surprised that our local sportsmen era con- collected in the reservoir on the ans
zeal of runters is becoming more annoying every day.
That among the passengers broked by the French nail of the 20th October 1 ob- serve the names of Julye Ackroyd and That & recent trial fo Shanghai elicited the not-generally-known fact that the penalty attaching to shooting cat with malice
Mr W. M. Deanc..
a one of £20. That a cat in the eyes of the law is evident
ly a a much more, vakiable animal than in the eyes of the general public
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To Capital 10,000 Shares of 8200osch 82,600,000upon which 825 per Share oalled and paid
To Remrve Fund
Unclaimed Bonus
...$ 250,000.00 9 096,500.00 5,740.33
To Exchango Fluctuation Ac To Investment Fluctuation
count
Account being the increase in, market valdo of Boon- rities
Balance
to prove a valuable one, not only for what That the late-lasited Dr Stewart is said That sums Brokers' Rickahes are already whole of the drainage water of the Oppar | whose re-printed pawphiseventy-tree, although Mr Campbell has gathered By Cash on Current
it gives, but for what it prevents other
countries acquiring or coveting
THE B. Glamorganshare, with a general cargo from Middlesbrough, Antwerp, and London, arrived here to-day-a day or two behind her time. She reports having left London on the 18th August, and enjoyed fairly good run down to Port Said. Suez was reached on Septocaber Ist, and while proceeding through the Bitter Lake the
to have put the finishing touches on the Estimates for the Colony before he was laid aside by his fatal illness. That the arrival of the Hon. Alfred Lister will be opportzue, so far as the opening of the Legislative Session is concerned, as his knowledge of the Colonial finauces is fairly extensive,
provided with antimacassars, and if times continue as hot as they are on Uhange pookahs will probably fullow,
That science and sentiment are diametrical-
ly opposed to each other. That the very latest application of sicotici.
ty in to eliminate wrinkles.
sita
That the thus easy removal of them oor of course this would not alow for lors by with, and must not cease till they be ingut tent to waste their energies on the gentle ragations randers meaningles, Time säsorption and evaporation, but as Mrth amely, First, that on Earth, where snipe when there is, within sany Kenol, writes no wrinkles on her beauteous Leigh puss the annual rainfall for the ares the Lord's Nume hath boono groadly dia. such a glorious hunting ground. An Feal. 113.3. Faal. 07.2. Mal wither they know that three or four
What the eye, Mra
brow.
of the reservoir at the Asstin Arms at
ship ran on a backĺbank near the lighthouse. Taat Mr Lister is an bouest, hard-working. That Colonel North's (the Nitro King) 60,000,000 gallons, I think there can be stored, there His Name may be greatly should like to ask our blast club-lanngers
The engines were put full sping ansuccess speed autora, but to get her of all efforts to get off proving fal, zone Fighters were brought alongside, and 100 tons of spare coal and several hon drad tons of cargo were discharged into them, The engines were then again rever- ad, and the ship floated into deep water. The cargo and coal were again token on board, and the ship proccoded on her voy- ago, after being on the bank about thres days
the
bust
painetaking and conscientious publis servant, and were the little corners of
Lis offcial character slightly rounded off, he would make a moderately successful Colonial Secretary for a time. That a Inerative office such as is that of
Colonial Secretary of this Colony is sa omois? plam which is not likely to be Kivon to any one serving in Hongkong,
and it should be remembered that the
late Dr Stewart was the first Hongkong offcial who obtained the appointment. That the high regard in which Dr. Stewart was held in the Service, and at the
Colonial Office, perhaps explained his
selection, and the presence of so many clamant applicants at Court, with high claime and big frisade, explains the zale which was in this one case not aside. That at the opening meeting of the Legisla
tive Council last year a letter from the War Office was read, in which
apologies
1.1
&c
Hongkong and
Account with the
Shanghai Bank
ing Corporation
By
Cashon Deposit,
Rangkong and
Shanghai Bank-
ing Oorporation 135,000.00 Chartered Bank
"Wa
days
of India Ausira-
a
Alladdin-like palace near Chiselhart is a little doubt 7,000,000 of these 68.000,00 Jessei kas to say is deeply intereating, but steamer will take them to
to all beholders.
auflicient space bolew
martel
allons can be collected bolum Mountain surely we could have spared his brackets
that waits to be discovered)—a where there are now-clad moun- That among other wonders it contains a Lodge; therefore I popose that if there is and itation and Scripture references.
marble musician's gallery.
is thero not room for further in peaks, primeval foresta, and head. Then, too, That it announced that a scherne for the a reservoir to contains about 7,00
17,000,000 gal
hunting sarages, and, therefore, a country estruction of a canal between the Forth lons of water, that this reservoir should be complaint when we come to Mr Campbell's
built fr and Clyde is being niature.
first, na it offers several important ad own experiences? Why give us odd jettera sa promising in novelty and adventure as that Bir Rider Haggard's Imaginatiou The travellar and the be built later on as suggested
missionary That the fact seems to have been overlooked vantages, and that another reservoir should or miscellaneous cuttings from old journals? hay you created.
must, we that the Forth and Clyde have been con-
Mr Leigh
Where, we would ask, are our tiger- nected by a canal almost as long na they at the
these letters must they always inflich have been linked together by the now supply from
estors ADD:
the study journals
excellent map at the beginning the long-suffering public when on almost estimet Roman Wall,
should be done at one to alleviate the done? It may have interested the Hon they will and their Unalopogaas waiting I am stronule of opinion that something they want to tell us what they have jaun or of Mr Campbell's second volums, and steer straight for Formos. We venture to say. great want of water, which will be severely Mrs. Va friends to know that she was for them at almost any point on the Western By
That this late Strikes show the London Dock Labourer to be a strange mixture, That he builize the blacklege, and in his
half braggart, hall poltroom.
thyn is crdered by the Strike Committee to resume work,
That such is the boasted freedom he enjoys under the iron rule of 'trada delegates.
BROWNIE.
PEAK DRAINAGE AND WATER SUPPLY.
ME SEFTON, OF Baub farne, who went back to Raub lately with Messrs. Bibbey St., Bibbey Jr., Kinloch, White (minors), Laurie (61-ekemith and engineer) and Walker (carpenter), returned to Singapore the other day. Mr Softon was to leare directly for Brabane, the sent of the syndicate which holds the Kaub concessions, in order to report and tender his opinion of the mineral worth of Raub. During an interview with a Straits Times reporter Mr Sefton, speak. ing of ditionlties in getting to Raub, said from mima Kubo to within two or thres concession, was on of the
was one of the
The following correspondence has been mountain tracks ho had ever seen, and, as
lauded to us for publication, for the cording to our Brisbane contemporaries,
a capable judge, as he has That the date of that letter was uut given. Mr Sefton
formation of Peak Residents and others travelled through nearly every part of
Hongkong, 2nd Optober 1988: The letter bure special reference to Sing Australian continent. Hauh, be sage, he be
hisraenote
with Sir, I have the honor to inform you apore, and Hongkong was lieves to be one of the most extensive gold codeluding line, bat 5th May 1888 was that a meeting of the Deputation appointed mentioned in the letter itself, as the date by the Paak-Residente was held yesterday bearing places in the world. MrSefton speaks
highly of the Belangor authorities for * presumedly kindred commtmisation forenoon, when the following resolutions their ready assistance. The road to Kuala That Sa has been more successful were passed-
Singapore in getting forts
than we bare been, and the explanation appears to be that the Singaporeans
oreans have given the authorities no
no rest, and have asked nutil they got their
of
the
Kubu, he says. is a credit to Mr Fraser, who carried out the work. It is scarcely. possible at present to judge when the trial mining operations at Raub will be fairly got under way but everything is being pushed forward with the atmost apood.
Jors are our wings-sorrows our spurs. A doon name keeps its lustre in the dark. A COURAGEOUS foo is better than a cowardly friend.
JUSTICE raises nation, but sin makes & people miserable
BULAN foresight often leaves its prouglest pozessor culy a clivics pi erila.
Tue richest man, whoever his lot, is ho
who is content with what he has got.
Ir character, in manuer, in style, in all things the supremo excellency iz in sim- Globes are a good deul like men; they
pro harmless when alone, but they make
trouble when they get together
Ir hai béon observed that the mAT TEŽKO has the fewest failings in the most tolerant of those of his neighbor
Tas soundest argutsent will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declaration; as a feather and a goixes fall wish equal volvcity in s
were given and explanations made about the non-arrival of the promised guns for our defence.
of a
az
Brined
the China Association at llome, which Was Inaugurated with so much vigour and spirit, ham not as yet won its apura, end might make a start by impressing the Tapazial Government with a sense of its
poses and onfulfilled blig
Ations.
wati Arnus sile toont the suppose, write letters or keep a diary, but Į slayers—our Allan Quatermains? Let them By
the first.
falt on the Park this and next winter.
I am, clear Sir, yours truly,
(rigued) Cmas. . #inst PS-After writing the above I have looked at the swamp below Mountain Lodge, and, measuring superficially, fud that there
reminded of the West-count of Bostlend when she sailed through the Strails of Magellan' and it may have given pleasure to these to whom the Revd. Mr B. original
Coast at which they decide to land
y sont his letters to know that he felt THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
hopeful when he left one town, or
OF CANTON, LIMITED. The following is the Report for presenta
is sufficient room for a reservoir containing thaght upon Psalm 67. when he slept iù on- twice and three times 7,000,000 gallong and ether. But du these subjective experiences tion to the shareholders at the sixteenth that a very small dair would be the chickeneral reader's Travellers and initsiona-ordinary meeting, to be held at the Society's Loda the knowledge or evjoyment of the to make the reservoir; therefore expense and work would be
be in concre
the bottom, as it apparent marshes have placed us under many obligations Offices, at noon, on Thursday, the 19th
soil by their writing, and we trust we are duly October, 1889-IT The only difficulty in my opinion will be to grateful; but we are going han
hantlily weary falls within the collecting area pill bo suta decide whether the gazotity of rain which
cient for one years requirement.
(Signed) Onas. J. H.
literature to which every other tourist Shareholders a Report of the business of fis journal-cum-letter-book kind of The Directors hare now to submit to the
-
Hongkong, 30th September, 185).
Edwin Mackintosh, Bet on hold at the
feels bound to make au addition.
We make these romarks about the the Society for the Year 1888, and for the
super six months ending the 30th June 1889. ficial festures Mr Campbell's book, 1858. The net Promiam collested for because we feel sure they will hinder its the year, after deducting Returns and Ke- circulating and anything which does this insuraness, amounts to 81,243 613.04. say, after carefully reading every page, that Contributions paid in April last, thera ro-
For we are bound to
After
providing for a Bonus of 20% un
in these two
and
36. per
Arges the digging of new wells and the Jausk 7,000,000 Without old in outline but what a story of sucess equivalent to 28% on the paid up Capital of f
OD
which Mr
Rs.and China.... 100,500,00 Chartered Mer
cantile Bank of Iedia, London
and China
47,250.00
Now Oriental Bank Corpora tion Timited... 21,000,00
Amount Mortgage, via:
in Hongkong 00,000,00
in Shanghai... 47 523.49
Cash invested
In Chinese I
perial Loan, vizu
B-1884
O 1894
By Ursh at D. bịt” of Branchen and Agencies Including
37,255.27
69,741,14
247,10172
385,220.00
164,3377
$1,940,959.18
$1,734.97
303,260.0
131,628.49
16,000,00 121,500.00
197,500.00
1,171,315.08
£99,135.10.2 invested in Lendon in Console, East India Government guncall-
teed Railways, and other Securities,
£47,000 on Deponit with Banka in Lon don, and
50,000
on
Deposit with Banks
in Melbourne.
By Bills Receivable
London Agency, 30th
Jana account
By Bundry Debtors.
7,172,87
6,623.01 TIDAL 46
81,849.959.18
N. J. EDB, Berstavy,
Meeting of Peak Residents 1. That Mr Leigh's report and Mr Oity Hall; 16: August, 1869.
Birat's paper be gout to the Govern Best bir,- With reference to my yester- tionally interesting we have an excep- mains at Gredit of Working Account
valuable account of balance of $247,104.72 ment for its consideration
day's letter I and that the annual rain fall past and present missionary work in the statement. 2. In the
meantime the Deputation draining into the reserver. I proposed is at | island of Formose
From this sum the Directors recommend The story of the Early Dutch Mission is the payment of a Dividend of $1 per Share, per annum. My deepening of existing pues for rollef calculation is as during tho coming winter the Mem into account the bill on which the sud disaster it is!
$20 per share, and an addition to the Reserve bera further express the earnest hope staff stands and the other bill
We have compared the above Statements In 1624 the Dutch East Indis Company Fund of $36,000, raising the Reserve to settled in Formosa, and for thirty-seven | $733,600, The balance remaining of it the Books, Vonchen, and Becurities supply of water be decided upon and drain into this reservoir. I find that the years carried out at the Garliest possible draining aras wou 1 d bu
be over 500 feet lous possession of the Western Lalf of the inset liabilities and claims still outstanding, received from the various Agencies of the memeat.
900.
fest
wide, or 180,000 square feet. Ialsnd. Daring this period missionaries and thus close the sesount for the year Society, and have found the mame to be
·3. As regards the Deat
the De With a a rain-fall of 60 p, this gives a from Holland and Bitavia laboured among 1888. putation urges on the Government the iptal
JAMES H. Cox, Auditors. collecting aras cain-fallon
aras of the natives with remarkable success Con 889.-The resition of the Bogiety for
DR Irin, 4 desirability of providing for the flush-1,250,000 c: ft. equal to 7,000,000 gallons verts were numbered by thousands, schools the process year, as far as it can be ascer ing of the present drina twice daily by of water.
Hongkong, 2nd October, 1889. tained, 'is'ss follows:— were established in many districts and hus- hand-labor permanent water I
to this rain-fall from the
the r Wỡ ndd
the dreds of children were taught to read and Helance of Working Account hills surrounding. I do supply is until the porna
write. AT T
In no less than three-and-treusy.
to the 3th June as per as-
TO THE DATA Perou cured of Deat Me Leigh's Report has already been nual rain-fail collecting into the reservoir tous churches were formed and, 20 a nexed statement
385,320.00 Iness and noises in the bead of 23 years. standing by simple remedy, will send a handed you, and I have now the pleasure to will be 10-13,800,Dor galleus, lean a cor- central locality, a college was founded for Add catinate of Premiums to enclose Mr Hirst's Recommendations.
30th September tain quantity for absoption and evapors training teachers and catechists But
300,000.00 description of it free to any Person, who I am also directed to express a hupe that tion, a careful survey and measurement just in the
Hey heyday of act
applies to Nicholsun, 21, Bedford Square, 8.685 280.00 Loudon, W. O., Kozinge, the
England. wie soon this
piraleantimale of Lorce to pay... 209,300,00 Finans Society among the variona proper pumping appliances, (which whether I am right or wrong in my figured.eded with AD. Zamense force ink
were promised should be forthwith under
Iwn, Dear Sir, yours truly, means of defence at our disposal, and the taken when the Deputation had the honer
1669 and stoned the Dutch garrisons to
$ 481,920.00 absence of all reference to that gallen
Unas. J. B of meeting His Broallesey The Governor
surrender at once on pain of death by fire Directora Owing to the resignation of and sword. There was, of course, a rigoscais Mosare. A. F. McEwen und J. Bell-Irving, resistange, but after natoid sufferings, the Mesa. P. Holliday and JJ Kostick Hollanders bed to yield up their hat were invited to join the Board. stronghold; and reti-e from the island. In accordance with clause 110 of the Many unfortunate missionaries and school Articles of Association, Mosers. B. Layton masters fell into the hands of Kezinga and and E. A. Solomon retice, but offer them- his bental soldiers and were treated with salves for re-election.
avome permanent scheme for the Ballion's house is situated and which partlys they appear sa hayu held undisturbed | 8141, 1072 they propcze to carry forward to the Head Office, and with the Returns
That I see you draw attention to the mis leading remarks contained in Brassey' otherwise admirable Nerd Panaual, wisich represent Hongkong as the beat defended costing station we poegera. That probably, these remarks are guided more by official expedienny than by onragy of
of observation, That Commander Ramsey would perhaps
bo aried to f condition of his Noval Contingent
corpe,
read
of the flourishing
with
not doubt the
Bensonsfield Aroade, 4th October, 1889,
with its rocket apparatus and other on the 22nd August last) are completed, gear is all the more remarkable, as it died so that the temporary water relief may be austural death only some ten years ago. available during the funding winter
Fuver Commission That two years ago a
have the honor to be, Sir, your E Mackintosh, Bag, B was appointed, ass year ago that Com- obedient Servant, mission issued a report, and the Govern
Peak Drainage Dear Sir,-In reply to your invitation,
ment was popularly supposed to have de aided to erest an Epidemic Hospital.
MACKINTOSH:
F. H. May, Esq., Acting Assistant Colonial though somewhat late, I terawith hand
Secretary, doo, do,
notorious Chinesa
every form of cruel indignity. Some vere
8
Auditora. --Mousen, J. H, Cox and P.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
ATA APH, TODAY. Barometer
SUOTETIREE
Daap Bulb
Direction of Wini
Force
Weather
Rain-fall
29.95
Hongkong Oburratozy, Oct. 5, 1889,