SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1895.
BONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED,
The fourteenth ordinary annual meeting of the Hongkong los Company, Limited, was held to-day in the offices of the General Managers (Messrs Jardins, Maths son and Co) The Hon. J. J. Koawick
CORRESPONDENCE
THE
To the Editor of the CHINA MA'
Fab, D. 1805. Bik,In common with Colonist in a let ter which appeared in this morning's paper greatly surprised that the Publica
I feel
CHINA MAIL
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. - 31 (SUPPLIED TO THE 'CHINA MAIL"]
The
THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. BI IZION.
she had boens 'Child Circumstance,' ) artistio imagination davisas are thoas neithe she had drunk deep of forbidden waters in of corruption nor of despair. It lovas ratho
• Come, put on your hats, and away let us hasto
Keynotes, she had felt all the strange to delineate the strength of a congwaring To the butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feet.oharm of falling in love with beor a manhood, the purity of an innocent woman' One of the remarkable things about A Superfluous cricket is that captains seems to be chosen in being sac Woman, she had rejoiced love. At aceh periods as these in and an
of The One too Imogen, example of
, a Juliet, ● Cordelia, and forgot the for their lack of knowledge of the game. Many, he had vented all the pessimism of existence of a Lady Macbeth, an ashlmes
Discords. Nay, she had or an Iago.
•
There is not a man outside the fence who her nature
presided; and there were any present rotation above noted, Sammons (a) Bam Press has not taken the slightest notice i island of Liu-kung-tau on the 8th instant; seuld not esplain a team belfor then the Bown at higher game and worn the passion-
The gratuitous addendum to the decision of the Magistrate is under the circumstances a deliberate insult to us, and indicated want of discretier that suggests how dat- gasus it is to leave the application of such power in the hands of untreíund officials.
Further, taking the summonses in the Mesra . F. Alford, K. McK. Ross, mons (b) come for penalty under section W. A. Craickshank, W. Parfit, FF.No. 85, which is Bed a motor come Firth, R. T. Wright, D. Landale, G. 7.
(0) Summons 8100. Harumans
(d) clauses 84, 80. Vesich, Ryle Holme, W. Parlane (Man- under neither of the penalty clauses 84, 86.
Clause 84 states the
penalties attach Ho and Ho Fook,
Tuag, and #ger),
inclusiva, bolh
only while The Obairman said.deation, there tious 54 to 86, is, as usual, little for me to remark on the the section was contravened was No. 60, Batisfactory report and accounts now in for not sending plans to the Public Works
dera Department
have, therefore, besu your hands but I am sure shareholders
We
5 lit
too.
LONDON, Oth February, 1895. THE CHINA-JAPAN WAR, Japanese made a night attack on the
"Remember that Art claims the world un of the decision of the Police Magistrate
nheits province, and that if it preaches a moral the matter of the charge preferred against the ironolaids Ting Yues and Chen Yuten leader ebcam And these onlockers pal tubes of Tens of the Urbervilles
ing Firms of Ope of loading. for a technical breach of
wers sunk by tarpodocs and the island is their netractions so nicely into nutshell had been the Kate Orogeen of The Manx Lesents it ceaien to be t for
Building the
* Takı yarmı?' ort, Wy dancher man'; above all, she had
boon
proud of *Nay, rather remember," said the girl, ashon, her bysteris an the tempestuous Hadda Gir
Smith which
a more rotten, silly virtually in the hands of the Japanera pitch. 'em hap dicance, than
that artoan only live if it is in accord dentoker bewal WY.
awal bath Gabler of Ibssa. Her career on the stage with the great laws of the universe; and 'Take 'im orf.' Gek ima beesy had indeed been no less triumphant than that the highest art is always sc and harassing measure was never passed Japanese troops have lauded near Chefoe Carot yer? through the Legislative Council,
Such Ordinances as these might be safe and yesterday commenced to bombard the end
of porels, he had been ro belter than ginal degree that good shall have the fusi the hands of a Municipal body, Eastern and Western forts of that perto Noir Batterfingers a sack, and so her manifold conquests among the readers for as it based on the fans ethical, ju oc Dough
she should have been, and lived-not in any was no father sound from the bed, solitado in a certain charming flat in There
Or-
chair.' Giv2
their
oTer
mast he gravifad to woo tho steady earnings ( unjustly and erroneously fined $100 upon į but aro altogether too arbitrary and abso- The foreignota"aro andar arms and theto save these directors abo baritone before she cams to grace her where the Hamina of 1806 lay a serpen, Ai Such scanduique instance of some in power to be entrusted to any on gates of the city are closed and barricades | voices, to have a stand-pipe comics and to husband's home at Highercoombe; she had | the candles spluttered out and the last spark
$17
erected.
THE CHINESE LOAN.
up just London
the
structions, to the injury of their
behind the middle stamp, tha olber ba placed where the crowd is thickest round | been « harmaid, and refused so sligibles faded from the fire, the Heroine of 1895
parti' as over the captain could
mad astronomer in order to stood alone. She drew back the surtains ground, Every over
The issue of the new Chinese loan has put his car to the pipa, betald oxsetly what | link her fortunea with a gambling mud and opened the window to greet the Naw
to do, sud how to do it. Thos all would dissoluto barenst; she had sunk lower and Year. Outside the stars worn shining.
and dividends of the company. You will bo Interested, I have no doubt, 10. know that the demand, although varying very much from time to time, ahora t gregate increase, notwithstanding the fact that many of Jerger nieamers have been fitted with cooling chambers and ice-making deprive
the company of plant which will
sales for 1894 their custom. The total wore in excess of those of the previous year. The company's machinery and pre- misss are lufirst-rate order and theextension to the works by the addition oflour new mons against the Ordinance, and that theas allowed to wasto it by millions of gallops, for the adoption of a gold standard.
A GOLD STANDARD FOR CHILL
The Chilian Congress has passed on Act
these two aucunes.
man, with the chance of that man being a petent incompetency' savours much of the fool or a vindictive and revengeful head of
recently referred to quarter deck lam
bis department.
During
the absence of Mr Cooper from by the leading Judge of the colony.
It would interesting to know if any
the Colony things seemed to work very and what Government legal official was
smoothly. and the community seemed to conscited by the Director of Public Works get on very well with the Public Works not proved a success.
dat of this in his conduct of
affair.
Department, but his retard seems to have We have conclusively shown that only changed everything. Europeans find it
And it diffi- for the two encroachments (a & 6) had wo committed ang offence indictable by encult to gut Lath water while the Chinese are
and the Public Works Department 1 iond vertencias.
bes been wasting by its neglect probably That in the first can fact condoned or water than any one spotion of the
case (a) the Government had
in The company in thereby enabl
giren their asseut;
Community. more ice in stock, and also to do increased our omissions by giving permission to do
It seems singular that Mr Coupor, in one before the
the zumatona, was Certain other additions to the what wo had done
condendeavouring to oppress such Firms machinery have to be made in the courts returnable. And, no doubt, in uccond Messrs Butterfield and Swire, whong con
tion to submit mont equal to all emergencies. The man- so soon as we are in a. position to
Me Parlano, has returned to his the necessary plan. The Building Ordi: another must be very large, does not realize coin with the option of the substitution of
ho is
is undeavouring to kill the goose ager,
woll-earned holiday, and sauce is of a particularly drastic nature, which lays the golden oggs, and that his 3% bonde payable in gold, should Congress post after
the delinquencies by Mr Ble Murcay, who was tom- of natives.
who other officials, in largely porarily engaged,
WAD
chain bora sta cost of 813,080- completed wore technical
very serviceable.
last March, and
nad pro enabled to
of
Carry
go well with the other side.
Foreigners and crlaket most difficult to mont before the mph of the pavo- Daily Telegraph
deeper yet, and bes
captivated an opium- (hero and won the suffragos of a
grap. They cannot even ges a fair hold | dolent clergyman with a wide-brimmed
the present year to make the establish| casa (†), similar permission will be grated tribution in the revenue in eno way and at the rate of 4% per annum payable in and with a fine Yorkabire rapt and debased régime of the Stuarts.
filled
to
Meot
that
"during his absence his place was efficiently mainly The application to those daily bread, in common with that of the sanction such within ton days,
No questions were asked, and the Chair, have no intention of evading its provisions the continued prosperity dependent upon man moved the adoption of the report and atapen om CRECeasonable. In no in of the Colony which he seems so anxious
accoupta.
Mr.B. T. Wright seconded. Agreed.
is
The Chairman--The only other business
its
A BATHER.
hara we shown desire to escape to worry and barass,—Your obedo, servant.
We have, carsfully com plied with any demands that have been preferred by the Board of Works for infor- mation, plans, etc., etc., and have never
* FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR
batsmen.
THE CHINA-JAPAN WAR.
it
NEWS FROM NEWCHWANG,
and
the election of the auditor, for the oss met the slightest discoffriesy from the beads That the tall of Wel-hai-wol in the conclu been a considerable amount of excitament in sizeumetense afterwards to his mates he pregnant with diseass and sundry kinds of
sion of another chapter in the China Japan War.
rent year. During the absence of Mr Arnold, Mr Rose was asked to audit the accounts, but as Mr Arnold is expected back soon I beg to propose bis re-slaction.
Me F. N. Firth seconded. Agreed.
-
of that Department till now. If the usual
and proper course had been pursued of writing, calling attention to our omissions, the
aximo to
All
THE CHINA JAPAN WAR.
.
(From our own Special War Correr pondent.)
Weikalwoi, Feb. 4,
matter would have been put straight at That after the Japanese have made all formation was given to our senior by a ca. ericketers have clockwork peculiari- fields. Her broken murmurs were of Kungtau Island forts are still making a
oace Instead, the particularly offensivo method of procedure by suminone was adopted.
of
ties, especially bowlers.
of the general idea. Frenoumen, for in glance, dan" box. row, recs, bicycle, tennis, bat and an equally e
expansive fast. and shoot fairly well, bat la cricket is beyond Naturally enough, after so diversified a them. Even Max O'Bell, who kue us past, she was haunted by many strange UNITED STATES FINANCE.
AKCEIVED AT 6.30 PM, Dr.) and car litle games like a book, left it visions which came to disturb her dying:
hours. The terrific form of Mrs Grundy President Cleveland, in a supplementary sovorely alone.
A oricket
cket club was once alaried in Paris. interposed itself between her bed-curtains
OPERATIONS AT WEI-HAI-BEL message to Congress, announces the land sa English professional of the Tam and solemnly cursed her as the curruptor
CHINESE DEMOLISHED WEST of bonds for $62,500,000, hearing interest Emmett school was secured to coach mein-
nein of youth. The Puritan spirit of Crom
SHORE FORTS. bars,
The pro. picked up som Freach wellian England glowered and gibbered during the time he was getting the over her as the representative of the car- CHINESE CREWS ATTEMPT TO
ESCAPE. JAPANESE GENERAL KILLED. accent explaind the game to the first The Pride on the Prowl identified her Il fo sinadey oop, moase, deray with all that was abominable in the gilded before votre stoomge. Com sat, pronar salvous of the latter-day music hall. Let- JAPANESE FLEET PREPARING TO gard. Je bowal, and
and if yer don't swipe ters of the alphabet, especially X, Y, Z,
ATTACK F'll take yer blessed wicket; ponder danced before for eyes and made her the stanny, mosso? The affair ended by the sport of their virtuous gibos, And with Frenchmen insisting on being fed with all greater persistence the ink-stained Messrs. Host Brothers write as follows the instructor that he threw up his appoint.
hollow indiarabber ball. This so disgusted focus of the journalist camo
at her as the worst emblem of a on the 16th January :---
at the core and via Port Arthur, Hiogo & Shanghai. Since writing on the 8th inst. there has mant and went home. In explaining the fashion which was rotten
All the forts on the mainland at Wel-And. the native town and slen in the various vil- low boobbler at 'em out of a der auch circumstances, likely to make a wai are completely in the hands of the
to say, Whoy, I wonder they didn't death. The Heroine of 1894 was not, un- lages cutside the walls. The following in-
good ond. She could not 'babbla o'
Japanese, but the Chinese finet and Lan rather valry
officer who was under Colonel Les in
When George of boudoirs and * cabinets their arrangements--and they show an
particuliers, of almost painful deliberateness in doing so the fight at KaichowOn the aveng Gifen starts to trundle he takes bie first champagne and cigarettes, of supper-partles, desperate resistance. Before the Chines
the XII moun 14th day (9th Jan.) nowe -the blow comes quickly enough when reached me that a part of the Japanese ating, do atopa after the manner cata are Empire t'romenades, and Picadilly-circus.
Suddenly she was aware of a differantuated them, they destroyed the fweat- the time is ripe, and the object of the Jape is invariably gained.
aumbering some 5000 strong was on the popularly supposed to dance on kot bricks.
to Kaichow from; Suen Yang. A good When he has finished these he makes his kind of vision, which glided softly through ern shore forte, but the eastern shots feria extent, in our distant colonies, and we call That the chief interest is now centred don't out was kept and at“, daybreak the run, and while doing so always wets bis the done as the last night of the Old Your wors left standing and are occupied by the
finger before taking the ball from the feft
LOTE WAR at its close. Her new visitor offered the Chinese Paco Envoys and their sentries on duty raw 16 mounted Japaness hand. Tarner, when be bas get to the an agreeable contrast to the shapes of fear Japanese troops who keep up a continual
in the distance The General held a 600- That It was only another exhibition of the sultation with Colonel Yang and Lee, after end of his track, swings his left foot before and dread which had hitherto watched at bombardment of the Chinese feat.
to deliver. Tramble her hedaide. I was a young girl; a glei starting back again to.
The entrances to the Bay are blockaded hopeless Inability to recognise plain facts, which we were marched out of the Sous bowls with his head on one side, as if he of BOMO fifteen Bummers. showo throughout by the Chinese Gate of Katehow with orders to capture the ad a stiff neck, or was afraid of shifting skirts, innocent, eyes, and wore her hair by torpedoes and wooden barriers most
down
her bzok. Her face showed none of of which have already been withdrawn officials, to suppose that anything bearing 10 scouts. Os nearing Shan Mi Tsai,
bit car in delivering the ball. Richardson the slightest, appearance of "bluff of tauts of about & ii Sonth of Kaichome has a peculiar oroaching run, bis feet that knowledge of the world which bad by the Japanese ficct, which is expected insincerity would for one moment be sew the full force of our opponents in front seeming to fly out at right angles. Lask
tell- wrinkles, so many ok. engraved tolerated by the shrewd Japanese, of us, they at the time being at least 6 li off.
Theranose ships. That, as the Japs have clearly intimated The order was passed to fire our field pieces wood doss a peculiar twinkle with bis feet tale crows fest round the eyes and on the soon to enter the port and attack the Ohi
just before delivery. Bruce stands as bis forehead of the dying wa the Japanese opened crense bat after the first shot
as motionlces as a white tableau came with her the breath of snowdrops instant by any peaco negotiations (or in small batches of ten and twenty; vizaut. Stoddart cronckes in an attituds and primroses, the atmosphere of a young twelve torpedo boats in the part, and they
service for a time and as it good ser Kang did
we also open- ozger
watchfalness. Briggs's notice spring, breaking over the land with
The shima looks like a diplomatic mistake of was getting far from pleasant to the Ge. remind one of Frank Ailan, ones likened promise of enrabine and gladress.
ed out. Colonel Yang
If candles that were guttering on the drese. neral that he thought it advisable to retreat, to an Indian looking for a lost trail.
over the day should for cricketers to ing- -kable but the General said 'push forward. The be immortalised in the warworks-and such faded flowers that were grown on the floor seamed yellower than before: the words had scarsely passed bis lips when
Oo-be: laned Yang was shot through the neck, small fry an emperors, kings, and quote appeared to lose whatever likenese they are already thero-their characteristic had worn to the actual resoleaves or lilies death being instantaneous. Fighting con attitudes must not be forgotten. George of Mother Earth. Even the patobaali tinued from daybreek till noun, we were East gate Colobel Lee received a bullet be- hind the left shoulder, Out of 4,000 of our men, 900 were killed and 300 wounded, the Japanese loss was, I think, about 650 alt told.
The Chairman Genilemen, that con- aludes the business of the meeting, 1 az We feel we have been most improperly Tary much obliged to your stondance, deals with by that offensive officializm of Dividend warrants will be issued on Menoffice that unfortunately prevails, to soms day morning.
UNAUTHORISED BUILDING AT QUARRY BAY. APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR. The following letter has been addressed by Masera Buttorfeld and Swire to the
Governor :--
Hongkong, Feb. 8, 1995. Sir,-We beg to bring to the notice of B.E. the Governor the great disatiefaction wo feel with the discretion exercised by the Director of Public Works to administering the
delegated to him under the άποτε Building Ordinance No. 16 of 1889.
Under Section 37 of that Ordinanca wo
upon H. the Governor to cause amends to be made to us for the wrongdting of his subordinates.
As we have been publicly maligned by the ofcera of the Government-we are no hesitation in giving equal publicity to this letter. We therefore publish it at caco, and reservo to ourselves the right to address H.M. Secrotary of State for the Colovica upon the subject.We have the honour to
obedient serrants, be, air, your mast
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
To the Hon. J. E. Stewart Lockhart,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong,
1895.
movements.
the operations will not be checked for an
Chineas fooling), the shuffle at Hiro.
the worst kind.
otit
Birgus, Jil. Februarying That one thing is now curtain, and that is, that China mast abandon the assump. Conlod to uppoal to the Governor in correspondence for the perusal of H. E,
tion of mock superiority which she has so long succeeded in maintaining as against Foreign Powers.
are
For many years we have been engaged in very extensive building and other works in connection with our sugar factory at Quarry Bay.
Recently important additions have been made to the building, etc., involsing im manan detail work, which it has been im possible to compass as quickly and conse- cutively as s we could wish.
Le
the Governor; we may add that the letters
from the Acting Stipendiary Magistrate
of
coma
en many
She bad short
There are sixteen Chinese warships and ··
cannet escape.
Several Chinese warships came in close
reached as after our letter to you of yester That this lesson is being thought to her by driven back to Kaichow and on entering the Giffen in the act of moistening his finger, I odours were overborne by the fresh smell the mou returned to their ships.
date was written.
Wo have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servants,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
To the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 7th February, 1896, Commander W. C. H. Hastings, R.N.,
Owing to this atrain, though at the oust the Pablic Works Department were sup plied with all the plans required under the
Acting Stipendiary Magistrate. Ordinance, have latterly fallen into
Bir, In the decision you gave yester Arrears, and plans have not been submitted
day, the prosecution of our Firm to the Department for work that hod to be by the Public Works Department, you undertaken at once bofore the works were are reported to have inflicted the commenced. To this extent we are to penalty of $200 fine, or the alternative blame, but it is purely a technical error, no of two months' imprisonment with hard is. omission that will occur open in the Orbour, Would you kindly state under Business of any undertaking of which Ordinance, and the Section, you
based your decision 7
the omissions mentioned below, for which eventually the Department corved upon us, foar summonses to appear at the Police Court on the 6th inat, for ons only have wo recaived any previous notics from the Worke Department.
(a)This notice, for plans and directing
are settled,
Kaiohow is row in the hands of the Jap- Lanese: Colonel Lee's wound proud fat and
be died here in an ina,
BANKING IN THE FAR EAST. THE 'INVESTORS' BEVIEW ' CRITICISEJ.
Investors' Revieso :—
to the shore, and attempted to land their orewa with the object of escaping; but the Japanese troops drove the crews back and
The Chinese fest, aided by the Inland Who are you?' asked the dying woman,forts, maintains a continuous Des. and Hamlet's words beneath him. Bill of growing grass and budding blossoms, your finger on your lips, thus and Taruer, just swinging his loft foot, with the with a fashle groan,
Major-General Oders and a Japanese motto, I can turn, and still go on, would be a fine object lesson to the rising genera
war correspondent have been killed.
tion of cricketers.
doal of
bo
I am the Heroine of 1895, said the now. "I T comer, I come to capture for myself all the charm you once possessed for man's eyes. They are tired of you, with your garments soiled at the hem, your mad- besprinkled ankler, and your bacchanal wreaths of presion and sio. got sick of Women with a Past; It is BOW yearning for Girls with a Fatura.
The
The assault of the Japaness forces upon the Chinese fest and Island forte haa nos yet been made. world bus
Of course such pleas and in art the same rale should not hela ?
The weather is inteussly cold and greatly hinders the operations of the Japanese fleet, The troops are in good health, and under striot military disciplias.
the undersized Japs will perhaps add pungency to the instruction which could not otherwise have been secured. That it in dificult to guess whether China will be stupid enough to give Japan time to take Shan-bai-kwan (or
We bear a good desi and see a good deal sven Faking) before satisfactory terms of
of reversal of form on the turf nowadays, peace aros
bat what is that to the mysterions reversal That,
as I have stated before, 'face' is of
of cricketers' formal Why, even the most far greater importanos to the Chinese
barefaced horses are not in it with some official than the lives of his country.
betsmen. What excess, for instance, ou men, and there can be little doult
in 000
Indeed? asid the fading Heroine of the two Pones Envoys are now coolir g
there possibly be for a man their heels in Nagasaki because no one The following reference is made to the innings can't even break his duck, and in 1894, the contrast is somewhat sudden.
the around tito Dragen Throne would take Bank of Chira, Japan and the Straits, with 200 so his credit, and going strong? fifteen, that history has been a series of "Yes," returned the short-shirted girl of next rompe home, hard held, not oul,
́ ́all resetions are sudden, Surely the risk of asking for a stroka of the Vermilion Pencil to put the credentials Limited, in the January issue of the It is a good thing we have no cricket you know
stewards, or surely there would be good zig-zaga-can you expect that in lilezatore
THE Health and Vigour of an individual de- in correct form.
'carpeting. tba
fall of Wei-hai-wei must havo If readers of this Review will tors back as the ball bumping, being interfered: For the last twelve mouths the world has When ibs statues have hemat works, thors erw pand upon the quantity and quality of the Blood. caused the greatest consternation
to the number for May last year, they will with by the wicketkeeper or the 'felders, been delaged with presentations of
thrown into the blood, whate products, sad it Peking, and perhaps some one will yet find an account of the position of this flank, world be put in. But these excuses do not Everyone who went to play bed a shud- there be not eliminated but (through any cause) write a novel with the great Li Hung-which was thought too gloomy at the time, hold good in racing, ualeas como miracle dering consciousness of the character detained in the Mood they inilueres astrition Magistracy,
chang as its hero.
but which is now proved to have been far evidence is support is vouchsafed, and this which the heroice would wear; every man and function and finally produce organis dis Hongkong, 8th February, 1895. That the loss of the flost to China, and of within the truth. We commend it sapo- is very hard to get and still harder to or woman who opened a novel knew that ease. The Humanitarian. In esses of Sero- Gentlemen-With reference to your Jui her two naval ports, cannot be estimated cially to the oosk-cure Scotch five-pernenter, believe. Of course it would never do to he or she would be invited to take an inter-fale, Bourry, Eosema, Red Legs, Skin and Flood tet, dated 7th instaut, I am directed by
who lives beyond his means and thika ke panish s cricketer after the
Disasses, Pimples and Soros of all kinds, the down' for a fanereuse." Interest without risk. Unless we are very reason, because if this were done there
ne doubt you are right, answered Magiaints, to point out that there are ob
much mistaken, the million add which would never be an Australian eleven at all. the figure in the bed, sadly. Perhaps I one reasons why the adjudicating Ma- gistrate should decline to enter into cor-
these pious and worlby usarere base on In the very worst instanide a heavy fius, ought to have known that I was the child of may have beau before him. respondence with parties to any case that
trusted to this Bank will be more then such as stopping a man's shandygaffe for the hour; a mere whim of the jaded appe- half lost. For, of course, the reconstruc- month, could be inflicted. In less serious tite, which would soon crave for other stimu» tion accepted by the shareholders in the eases he condemned to take nothing but lants. But what I wonder at is your middle of last month means, first of all, water daring an innings. For minor hardihood la thinking that it is within that said, shareholders have no intention
administered -The Austrodusian.
not so barfare on the rack might be
Yours most obediently,
(igaed) BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
That
in money.
attention to ab encroachment, was Commander W. C. Hastings, Acting Police That if China could be wise in time, this knows all about the way to get a big jockeys, and masks him "etander of cat in the sera and yellow lost of departed effects of Clarke's Blood Mixture are marvellous..
banded us on the 24th ult. & fow
our letter
saiuutes afterwards one plan was in the possession of the Department, and is
letter of enclosure we ate the excrsachment and asked that per mission might be giran therefor. Permission was accorded on the 5th
one day prior to the day on which the summons was returnable. Owing to an error on our park we wore sader the impression the structare reated
проп our sad not upon Govern- ment ground, hence we were unaware
I am however to inform you that the
Asting Police Magistrate has (ador sec tiun 97 of Ordinance 10 of 1890) decided to
review the case.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obediant servanty
(signed) W, M. B. AKTEVE,
First Clerk.
till notified that any encroachment had Mesars Butterfield & Swire.
been made, We were able to send the
plan promptly, as we had a single copy
in our possession, nud have had to ask
for its return for further copies to bo mada for our own usa,
Police Court. Hongkong, 8th February, 1895. Cuses Nos. 1597, 1388, 1389 and 1390.
(b). This case of emission was first no tlied to us by summons on the 4th inst. It is for an encroachment on Crown lands and neglost to sand plans of a small pier erected on the 0. H. Hastings, Acting Felice Magistrate, Bir, directed by Quramander W. foreshore. Similarly to carp (4) we were unaware of the encroachment and to inform you that he has, under provisions review bis adjudications in the above cases of Ordinance 10 of 1890, sec. 97, decided to on Monday, the 11th instant, at 2.30 pm.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Reg. by H. P. Tooker, Executive Engineer P.W.D. or E. Mackintosh, Menors Butterfiold & Swire.
of otżne work.
the plans wore overlooked in the press (e)-Sumpions in this case was the calz notification of our omission to sand plans; it is for three items of work.
Item I was for an addition to a chimney. The plan for the original work was deposited with the De- partment.
(signed) W. M. B. ABTU, E. Mackintosh, Esq.,
Magistrate's Clerk.
Mousra Butterfield & Smire.
sorry business ought to be very pear to its end. That the greatest and noblest characteristic
of the Public Works Department 30 pears to be, to pounce upon residents for their omissions to carry out the many technical absurdities of the complicated building ordinance.
lag.
THE HEROINE OF 1804. BY W. L COURTNEY.
cathetic curtains surrounding
Well,
What do you mea? said the Horcing your power to offer any stimulant at all,
of 1893, drawing herself up in all the conscious pride of her fifteen inzosent summera,
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hands of wondertal cures have been abected Clarke's Blood Mixture is hold every. a 3. d. par bottle. Barware of worth imitations and sabitlinton.
Jews
Quotations. Horowana, February 9, 1895, OPIUM-Now Fatnay cash. 886
cash,... 860 New Benares, cash, 852 Old
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HONGKONG, February 9, 1895.
Berlin-Demand,
Bank, Wire, ...
On demand, 30 daya' sight,
4 months aight, Oredita, Documentary, 4mmonshaʼsigħu,.
On demand,
.... 1,114
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That everything, or nearly everything,
which Mesars Butterfield and Swire of paying their just debts, The Bank is rotted from top to bottom; the Chiccse on this head will be echoed by most sen-shareholders have openly repudiated their siblo residents.
liability, and they and other foreign holders That the mighty engines of the law, when have been backed up in their rofnaal to
Oh, perhaps you would hardly noder guided by arbitrary and in some case pay by their consuler courts out in the By the fast-fading embers of a motibund stand me, even if I tried to explain. After foolish men, usually work against the
Enst, Only the British shareholders
fre the Heroine of 1994 lag a-dying. What all, you are very young and inexperienced, spirit of law and order.
Amaia
who can be made to per over elas she might have beon-and she and the charm which you possess is one That I rather incline to blame the P. W.
which
though you dontbless think it per D. much more than the Magistrate, and these, by the reorganisation, sometimes declared that she possomed a and therefore I thi
have decided to imitate their Oriental superlative piquency of her own-she was ennial, will probably have a closing hour, think the references made by Messrs B. & S. to the Bench brethren as far as they ean. Cumulative not a good woman. These who were shock like mine.
preference shares are to be created at her said that so gloried in her 4 per cent.
A with some dignity.
I must ask you to explaio,' said aruncalled for and unwise. That the alternative of fine or imprison- and put ahead of them, be means of a shame: those who believe in her said that the
call of £5, 158. per ald
d share. The liability ment might occasionally be left to be on the old share is A, 15., plus the unpaid charm of fin-de-siècle womanhood; but no is only a question of fashion, which you are Jiality she represented all the aft and languishing It is a small matter, was the reply; it understood in certain cases, but when given as a formal declaration of the law portions of the pound per share oclled up a
a good name which a been tried over and over again but you are Do London→→ there is no special reason to impate year ege, and badly met. In Hen of this he was found at her last boar to give her as yet too young to understand. You have
Liability, the shareholders in the Dow Co that tributo of
Hebraic writer-whom the higher eriti and yet you seem to imagine. animus to say Magistrate, for including pany are called upon to find £3, 15s, and giem has now discovered to be anonymous something absolutely now. Even I myself it in his decision.
this money is not to be used for paying the afirmed to be better than precions have had several incarnaticas-albeit that, That Messia Butterfield & Swire should feel depositors. It is to be traded with or kept ointment. And therefore her death-bed to hear people speak of me, you would think
indignant over the notion of the P.W.D. is in hand, and the depositors are to be put off was not wholly an edifying spectacle. that I was aforeation of 1891. not to be wondered at, naarbitrariness and with bite of paper, payable over a period of There was a heavy scent of patchonli in the I would tell you that we have bath been in
to comprehend a habit of pouncing upon the unwary are, eight years, the first payment to be made in zoom, and the sat as I have said, unpleasant characteris October 1896. At the rate Company her couch were redolent of the arms of existence from the beginning of the years On Patia tics of this Department. That the Ordinances should be worded to teen month, there will be no money at all an Esat which all authorities except Sir and that even if you are rash enough to bone un your lineage from Ere, I have an equally as is chock fliciousness, but instead teen months; til Richard Burton have greed to each oficial hocks up his bruther oft fur depositers two years hence, Calls on peatable. There were rouge pots and august anersity in Lilith. If you have on
pharmed men aa
in Penelope, my empire bas On New York-- cial, wrong or right, and the Executive of the assets, with liabilities apgrens's paints on the dressing table, and e
them, which the Company owns, may have red-and-black domino, the memory
boen somewhat more extensive as Helen. Council comes in with its fatherly bloss swallowed up by then wint the fall in silver a wild night, lay carelessly the Queen, I have carried all bearis captive at On
of many I
you have Sgured as the chasto Virgin the chair. Other adoramants of her bou- That there le very little in the offcial world and the speculations in exchange leare.
If we might offer depositors a little advice, doir were the roses and rapturos
chariot wheels as Mary Queen of Soots. of sice, to note except that the exodus to England it is that they should refuse to abide by this grinning Death's head, a
the work is tired of one, it turns to is unusually large,
8 Death's bons in balon toes, the other; when it finds Amelis Sediay On Galand, That I would be the last to object to public fusist upon the liquidation of the Company the head of a satyr, Lec
arragement, prolly
and
fisvern,
Leonardo da
Jornetmarkiak, it disecrers more than a passing servants obtaining a holiday, but many of in bankruptor. By so doing they might ob In Giocondo, and a so-called comic mask,
fascination in Beeky Sharp these gentry seem to think of themselves tain 50. of 6, in the £. Should they aa-
I do not want to disturb your last first and the public service some time copt what the epheme-makers bave offered which leared with an indescribable sadness.
the girl, sweetly. If it is any Har library was choice, bot expressive: afterwards. at the Police Court on the 6th inst., I the same surfene afterward, IN DO rea- That I see Wilson, the emphatic and then them, their chances of revalving any pay Durian Gray,' and a beautifully fade, by ell" means let the thought soothe Gold Leaf, 100 finu (per tad)).
Studies of the Renaissance, In the Key pleasure to you to think that I, too, shall appear at who we at once admitted that we had com son why the thing would not talk. I tried
polay conductor of the Investor's Reviews,ent will beaume leze with every month
of Blue, that the experiment first on a strip of telegraph
passes. mitted the technical offences against the the
bound version of the Decamerone of your fretful and storms-toned pillow, it all Sovereigns (Bank's buylug rate) has ran foul of the new Bank of Chine,
The following reference is made to the Na- Boccaccis wore papped against each other turns on the question which is the mure Silves (per on) 4. Building Ordinance No. 15 of 1899. The paper, and found that the point made an al
Japan, and the Straits.
tional Bank of Chino, Limited Stipendiary Magistrate thereupon, after phabet I shouted the wards Hailoa ! That the National Bank of China also comes
the shelves, There was no one with powerful, good or evil' Halloo into
The National Bank of Chios grows but her are a few ghosts, one of which was the mouthpiece, the
rau commenting upon our presumed knowledge
paper in for a
A smack by the was of no harm. of the law, aceing the large building in back over the steal paint; and heart a faint Thas I don't suppose Mr Wilson can tell curities' Carporation, it will be remembered, The Phantom of Heredity, and a third Remember that we are at the end of a Oh, spare me your homilies came in The Trustees', Exevators”, a Bowls
labelled The Shadow of a Part," another | ghostly tones from beurath the bedclothes. HONGKONG HEGISTER. *Halloof Halloo !' in is a Brio of -turunta weʻbad, Buœmony, and added | to make a machine that would work assa- : I determined return,
Hongkong folks much of these inalizations placed 18,970 of the £10 anticary shores Pay de que voudras. 8200, or 850
pentury; we have long sinds used up the «n» which they do not already know. es the indignity thrust upon its by being ratels, and gare my eslatante instructions That Robinson Crusoe came to go onsson after the state the Bank drifted into petienses, this pour, wasted fragment of absolute evil. Long ago we have discover.
10. premium in 1801, But
Sho fortainly had had no lack of ex-tique nations of an ubeolata good or an compelled to appear in a common Fuliou telling them what I had discovered. They
swingingly, and an-an old fogie I hope the troubled enters swing is the failure Humanity who lay in her death agony.ed that such distinctions as these are Barometer... Court, that the alternative of non-payment laughed at me. That's the whole story, children will have a chance of seeing it. ut Russell & Co. It was denied that What visions had she hot seen! What purely relative, depondent ga
air. Temperaturs the Bank was formed to take over Rassell's disguises had she not worn! Woal and sumatances and on the listesinel experiences Humidity. business, but fluweelle vertainly took masquerades were there of which she had of the rage,
Direction of} Yuts that la fust," was the qulok reply,
Wind 1 they had the upper hand in the mannge victim She had during the past twelve it is wely at the end of a century that the Fores a prominent part in forming the Bank, and not been at one the bergine and the!
Any expansion which might have months Bgured sa the wife who at once world finds a fasolantion la such as you. Weather ... Eng Ordinance No. 16 of 18dgment hourly ranted to cleanse the blood from all impactice Tax Spanish torpedo araisor Pilipinas will taken place in the business of the Bank has loathed and envied her husband-envying In the springtime of a people's vigsar, when Rat lays down,
80, ponal-· in scations ties attachable to persons offending against Scurvy, Etzoma, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood shortly be handed to the Spanish GovernIndian Government to maintain the value of in his because she did not enjoy similar ning to Bower, and shooting out those blos since been checked by the attempt at the him for his changes of seeing life, oath agreat period of literature or of art La hagia Its provialous
There is therein Discases, Pirapies, and Sores of sil kinds its meat, who have commissioned to the rupee, by the repeat of the sherman oppostauition. She had given expression soms which will remain for the healing of the power given the Stipendiary Magistras affects are marvellous. Thousands of wonderful Philippine Station this year, and she is Silver Law, and by the general depression to all the concentrated contempt of "The nations et aush a time, when the world is * pendance on siternative of imprisonment, curse bave been affected by it. Bald everywhere expected in sail from Spain.arly in Jaizu Erstern trade. The Back has not yet Heavenly Twins, he had been the mute, vosal with the premise of a new heaven and s wither seith or without hurd labrur, in events. 34. Beware of worthless imitations and In Lior private trials she alleined a speed reached a dividend-paying stega. fans not being paid
noder forged draught of 17 kueta
pasulenten elongated Yellow Antar, met verib, the shapes and forms thing fix. Hongkong Obmerstory, Feb. 0, 1898,
Itera 2 was for the construction of small lean-to shed athibed to a Enson had his finger pricked when speak- ing into the telephone, hence the invention building
Item 3 was for the construction of the phonograph. The inaldent to des- orited fa the Life and Invention of Thomas of an underground funnel. (d).This summons was for the con Ales Edison, publicbed by Chatto and Win- struction of two godownt, plans of dus. I discovered the principle by the
stator which, for the Department, ware un-metest
Bit Edison. nocident,'
I was der consideration some time age, but singtag to the mouthpiece of a telephone. pressore of other urgent work caused when the vibrations of the voios sent the them to be set aside for a more couve fine steel point into
That eat my Boger. If I could record the venient timo.
me to thinking For these offences we were semmoned to actions of the point and send the point over
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of the fins was two months' imprisonment with hard labour.
you will turn
If you
BROWNIE.
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