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VAIL SUPP|EMENT TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRE88, * JULY 2718, 1886.
foundations themedvar bent of the orsok in my office was more serious than that and have been in business in the colony for four or five that in vagtled up the arches south wall won, I tol; this hoped and hosts in the gezoral office. The real reason why was about thirty years, during which time I have wilk nu sighteen fuck work aid not put of the ront facit, and threw updne moved our offles was becanes of the cracks in bed a large experience. In Marob, 1987, Inter-all the ties in the walls before I took down the weight ou si leg inact "There were many cracks our general office. We kept on our Haiphonged into a contract with the Hotel Company to verandah. I had four of them fu.
The oromgassination bad got Bnished when in other part of the building which I attribute to be tall the lat March. This year that office build the new wiar of the hotel according to the the enbeidiones of the arches. The iran sockets occupied one room on the ground floor.
specifications of the architect. (Centract and the Court row. The hearing was adjourned to Friedrich Theodore Luts sald-Isma clerk specifications produced.) The sentrect in dated the next morning at ten o'clock.
For continuation of report ses Page 2.] were put there to strengthen them. It was not the piors but the arches which had failed, in the employ of Messes. Ainhold Karberg & Co. the 3rd Marob. The work was commenced s The plers remain strong and Bem. When Imber Mr. Cooper and Mr. Hayllar oca few dayanfterwards. I employed en contractors Aroe or four weeks to do the work, and stored in my book fram aw this building in July, 1888, it was not satu ing thore in June, 1.
day to day the work done. I personally superintended the work done and engaged a man to asist me. but he is doad now,
as there every day. It cok one month octly to pull down the old building. The pulling down of the verandah of Malchers' was commenced on er about the 16th March, and it was completed on the 24th. The tranch wai dug by my own men, not by sub-contractors. On the side next to Belobers' it was carried out
The case this adjourned till the next morning at ten o'clock
to live in. That is qrate consistent with its stil! previous to this my attention was attracted by standing. It was only prudent for the people the alarming inors in the sise of the Bving there to hire when they did. Eternels in various parts.
Ernest Goetz also a clerk in Mesara. Ar was the aubsidence, of the south wer which rendered the building unsafe. bave been ihod, Karberg & Co's gave similar evidence. the building several times siveo July. I no- tice a number of supports pat np. They do not render the building sufe or habitable. They would temporarily preveht's collapse. I ara sware that the principal crack in the cost wall he bon filed up with de mont. That would not render it's On Friday last I inspected the
opinion that the south wall continues to wh
or not. The low of water into the trench would
26th June.
The bearing of these cases wax remained. Mr. E. Terres, Superintendent of the fitting department of the Gas Works, gare
16th April, 1897. Atson was, the vane of the
may who did the work.
the verandah.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not bold og molva resyonable for the unions expressed by ear Correspondants.7 SEARCHING PASSENGERS BY
OFFICERS. EXCISE
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESE.",
Hongkong, 18th July,
But this is
BYSTANDER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY FEESS." St.-My attention has been directed to the letters and comments that have lately appeared in the columns of the looal paporu, and especially-to-a letter which appeared in ise of the 20th instant signed Bystander
Your remarks are worded in seck a fair spirit and to your editorial ramerka therson." aid you appear to be trying so justly and in- partially to refer to the diffenities that I labour" ander in attempting to collant the revonne farined by me from the Hongkong Government, that I should feel obliged if you would allow me a little of your valuable space in order that I way show to those who complain, and to the public, through your columns, that, if occasional hardship be inflicted: it is either wholly unavoid. wiscorducted bimself and has not been carry able, or else my servant who has inflicted it has ingat instructions received from me
My instractions are, and always have been
and the mail at all, it is from too much real, and I belive the dally papers, annohoing the arrivals and Chinaman. There is a story to the wifust that Ently more or less personally interested in the minutest which they,
Formerly the whole coole traffe to Dali was in question, and that there are Brob, is only wataral, and shipping noen sanoo oftras" of they takes keen perretel pleasure in whacking of the hands of Chinese broker fu Hongkong departures of steamore, the tnisbution of ear during an epitomie of burglaries geural order. groes, the sides by auction and all the altitu- were issued to thera to arrest all suspicious bok Singapore, and Penang, with their agents in the Chinese parts, who often revived more than $100 dinona mevomenta of a great commercial ms-ing people who did not hall who challenged ai for every coolls brought to Suraites Daring chins rauning at high pressure. For to apply tonight, especially if they had hilders. Nos: nigh this time several coolies were reclaimed by their the Far East the orpresive nomenclature of the a šikk on duty saw a Obinam on the top of a. friends or relations in Chine, and anch request Far West, Hongkong "just hume" all the time. ladder. Nothing could have beru eleurer, so be have been in every case attended to by the plan-Thon the obair & feland has sont to take ron to called to the man, who paid no attention, s ter, if it turned out that the obolio in question or arrives, with its four collea uniformed then thred and brought him down. It was th was really here, so it was naturally in their own in blue and white calice, and by another twist lamplighter. Even now no Chizaman is sap- I doubt if thers can be a more remarkable interests to conciliats Chinese publia opinion of the kaletitoscope you find yourself, thres posed to be out after nine p.m. without a pass. distylete from which most of the labour for their plantations is coorzited.
But as often happens is anek cases the Chi. ose firma in their anxiety for big profits went too far, and by ennatantly raising their demands forced the planters to try and escape from this adition of affairs by Anding ont some new fairor to the cooling and tree themselves from stund of obtaining labrine, which would be
and prorent Sumatra getting a Usi name in the minutes after leaving the Club, woanting
asphalt roadway at angle not tur sbors of view in the world than that of the alty of Vic-
prisons.
board
gerty-five degrees hemand in shore and on teria and Hongkong Harbour from the Peak. At night it is at if you either hand by great green palme and enormous Or at least to get much a view ulsawire on drooping ferns with fronds yards long. among must be in baliono which big butterflies are playing round tong bad mounted above the stars and ware looking oarlot flowers. For as soon as you begin to down upon them, for the riding lights of th
darkasse, while avery now and than the white The ban of an aleatric rearch-light fashes like the Hongberg is built in three layers, ascend,. the strente of Hongkong might be allays ships com exspended in an infinite gulf of in the tropical ovnservatories at Kow
of
HENRY NOMA NA-
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Si-Scino days ago I took a walk to the by sections of 10 feet cao. One or other of the Praya, bass one of the river stemmer whscvs. rived: fram: Canton and the passengers were Brm of Messrs. Bird and Palmer was there at that time the leaner Homam had just as building. The south wolf and the fire breast evidends as to some work done at Momsen. Halli- every day. Mr. Muller was the clerk of worklog. My'attedition was attracted by a lot of their degrading dapendwaɔs on the coolie-brakers ground floor, so to speak; or sea level, is the track of a meteor asgees a midnight sky. By ara in WOL80 condition that over. I un of day Wise & Co's offices on the 16th, 18th, and and he was engaged by the Hotel Company people crowded together in front of the wharf | With this parposa negotiations wage commenient commercial part of the Colony. The Praya" day, the city ie spread out searly 2,000 foot di
Croesexsmized-The Dewe of the sub-con- tractor who undertook to pull down the building and creating a great disturbance. Wishing to for a direct immigration, and during the last along the water edge is given ap to shipping reatly below yon, nad only the hips and sile. The tracks have inervgend and are large ni Achin, u fitler employed in the Awis Lun Yin Koo. I had no wristou contract know what was going on I proceeded thero, end year this has been processing in a fairly satisi in altogether unworthy of the place. It is their foreshortened mats are visible, while I osanot any, whether it has bulged mere. Ε kuow the two bath room's thrown out over the Works, any riders us to the work done on the with him. I to pay him $1.20 for palling approaching I saw two Indiana and one factory manner, though of course in the tooth of about to be changed, however, by a magnificent the whole surfnos of the barbour is tratusqYENİ lemon and foreciously-searching his loggage, who saw their chances of such galas as were next street, parallel to it, Queen's Roat, is the lanachos, making a network of trucks like luce- Broadway of Hongkong, and d the business work upon it as water-piders skim over a prol hakage. I saw a number of erness in themeconsin referred to by the last witness, which | down 10,000 bricks, and the work of removal was Malay surtounding a Chinese wall dressed gan most violent opposition from the braiter firms, undertaking, of which more by and by The continually in all directions by fast stoom. showing by their direction that they are due to included the removal of a bracket from a bath tone by some one else. I onnot find in my The man powersand one small pillow box formerly made slowly dimppearing.
On the arrival of the boals in Dall the coolies contrae upon it. In the middls seu the Club Post in summer time. For Hongkong harbour in the the onbsiding of the south wall. The opinio
own on the verandah next to the Hongkongbook the date the rat bent to parry away and two argo teunks, and he was therefore I have given are based on my practionem
Hetgi ile draw a plan showing the position of the rubbish was engaged. The first payment forced to unlock all those things. But are sli duly saamined by the Chinese Interpreter Office, Courts, and Hatels; then comeallthe banks | focus of the traße of the East, and what this peristen. I have the sure thing cur the bathroom.
to Yin Kea, tha contractor for pulling dewster these blackmen had taken the advantage'){who falfils here the duty of Protector of Chi: Í and oftrea and shops; past those to the wet are wana me cannot realíza anti coe kan lokart over and over again and the casos, bare
from Aird-He was quite sure of the the work, was the 12th March, and the last pay to search them about twenty minutes or more, noso) sa to their ressons for coming to Dali, and the different bartacks, and as das gradually gets down many times inte ita spoirs blas depths
ment on the 8th Apri, the dias esttlement being heen similer. The driving of piles would weakendes or which the work was done. the foundatioun as well as the south wall. Mr. Nichol, recalled, gave corroborative ewid.nado on the 10th April. The taking down of and no smuggled goods had been found, they may man she complained of being kidnapped, farther from the centre, the parade-ground, and noted ul that is there-the great mail linere. In my mainion precautions shaniel have le as to the gas fitting that was done, and waid the verandah on Mechers was completed on or massed to search the person of this man, and or who refosed to sign a contrect, would at onos ericket ground, polo, ground, and race-course, the P. & the Messageries Maritimes, the He about the 24th March. I have no entry about it touched almost every part of the body in a must be went back to Cuina. During all the time the and the wonderfully picturesque and pretty North German Lloyd, tia Austrian Lloyd. the aken to arvent the south wall being weakened that the verandah was there at that tirus. I think the sites of the trench and have been canid not fix the data except from the Uas Com in my book. I had no work to do in Melchers fasclent and abusive manner. At last, as still direct immigration has lasted, not a single oase carriery, the Happy Valley. In the other Occidental and Oriental, the Pacific Mail, and sely ticbered and cross strms prit in.. Ianya account, which was autored in the cash building, erecting bathrooma or kitchen, before no lleit opian could be fond on him, he was of kidnapping has come to light, and it would direction you pass all the Chinese shops for the Canadian Pacifu; all the smaller mail packets. should if I had doubts of the south wall, have onlus paid on the 30th April, but it might puling down the verandah: bus I saw-sorte une sat free. I was informed by the bystanders at be too ridicslous to suppose that a handful of foreigners and then get inte Chinatown, a quarto Torquis, Formas, to Herzen. Ma he working there. The trench along Pedder's the soone that this gentleman is a well known, plasters living 2,000 miles away would sassed tor of very narrow streets, extremely dirty, inuilt, and to ; all the ocean "fiskaps shore up the wall itself. I should not here pre-have been a few days later, creded with the foundations without safe-gaard. Francis said let clawed the care for the street was first openul. I do ust remember the respectable, and wealthy man in this colony, and, in regularly kidnapping man in a empatry.com-conceivably crowded, and probably about as ready to get ap steam at a moment's notice an dute. I filled that tranch in with foundations to my eye bis face in red and far different from paratively no civilized as Chins, whetes among insanitary as any place on the globe under divi carry anything anywhere; all the white winged ing the wall. In the two buildings plaintiff. joining Melchers. There has been no subald. The Acting Attorney-General said s learn before opening any other trench. The second the face of sa opiam mokor. In be not the coplins who are still being impeated by Chi. had rule. This is all on the island of Hong saling vessel resting after their long fights: ence of the south walls. In Russell's I based friend, in opening the can on behalf of Mr trench opened was that on Malshers side. It damaged very much by suffering this arches firus from the Etraits, there constantly seenr kong, while across the harbour, in the British the inunmerubla high-sternet junta plying to the Hon. P. Ryrie pat at the Legislative metances coalies are sent here who have already pa splendid frontage of wharves and ware malled host of wen-of-war tying arory tag taken out all the ell'arches and rebuilt is rol Coater. had stated the general outlines very was between 3 and 10 feet deep and about 8 foot on the highway By the question that uses which require investigation, and in many foreitory of Kowloon, a new oity is springing every port on the Chinese court: and all the With regard to this latter of an Eray take say ship xfloat except the new 10,000 tons Impere and the black angle of the dimini brick and osmert. 7. had occasion when that fairly and he did not propose to tramble the jury wide. It was about 10 feet from the foundations Coannil on the 1th alt, the public has the op- been engaged cu and runsway from other estates/houses: a collection of docks, one of which will under beaven, fram the white esign of the was being done lo, theroughly exersine the build with them again at this stage. Mr. Francia of Melobers' batiding. I do zet koow how deep i ing here was no failure of the foundations war alen good enough to tul them, and in prot- the foundations of Melahers' went and I aeror portunity to know that our good Government there. I know of no caulo, except the building 1 correct terms, what was the answer to Mr. tried to find out. The insah was opened in an not given suction to the Opiam Farm to tent" perhaps the loss said the botter, the causes Textonic, of the White Star Line; hali a dozen Nachin the yellow crown of the tiny Mr. Francis a. nections of 10 feet. I saw that myself. The make anoh saree, and that some learned men of his animosity to Deli being well knows, bat summer houses, o little palace among them: the Portuguese gasboat or the dragon ronannt ef f the new wing of the hotel, whieh oral | Chater's claim for damages.
The mood storey of Hongkong lies ten neru fred in salutes in the hartuar in one day. bare affected antebors without affecting the nitted that Melcher building was an old one west end was first opened. The fail of the north bare said it is oujustifiable todo so wilsont obtain-as your rasters are probably not wali acquainted pleasure-gardens and kitches gardens of the Clius. A week or two ago, the Gorunur told adioining brildinga. I remember arious and practiorly the worn for wear, that it was wall of the old hotel cost me $2,00. That sing notion from Government. Lately, ou oseb with the state of affairs in this country it may community, and private residences rising rapidly. m, ne fewer than two hundred and forty gups
special notice to prevent the search, so the black-ments in his lotter.
Here nearly everybody lives, and lives, too, in a Hongkong harbour, ving shuttles in the looni fall in the hotel zelf some time ago, I de build retained soil; that it had been stand dent resulted from some of the material boung of the river steamer shares has been posted a be better to point out four deliberate mis-state-minates olib up the steep side of the island. All these vessels cross and cecross courcissaly in not see how that could bare affected "Melchorsing for twenty years, and that in addition, to its eaten by while ante.
Leong Akow said-1 bave za occupation at me ars ebliged to starob the wsssagers' lur)AR coalise coming bare as direct in-furry and ease that; are not suspected at home, of tive. bearing the golden strand of kuman
migrants are examived while still on
Hora in Government House, a fins official re-byapathy and.co.operation between world no in sky way I think the place could bare age it was deteriorating by possible defects in
ship by a Guvernment official, until now Mr. sidenes in beautiful grounds, lacking only a world or like the Zeitgeist in Faust," weaving B. Hostink, who besides being perfectly con- book put in s safe condition without almost its construction, a by the effect of olimate present. I was formerly a carpenter and builder, gage at the enteide of the whast and dare not entirely rebuilding it. I think the rebuilding and storms. It was admitted that the building and ceased to carry on basices about claren are the same inside as before.
versant with the Chinese, language, has been ball-room, which compels Sir William and Lady the garment divinity wears". I am not propar- of the south wall and of the firebreast would was not nor in a habitable or safe condition. years ago. I did some repairs to Melchers' oren worse. For instance, if a single passenger
stationed here during the last eight years Des Voux to, tara, diving-room and drawinged to say that divinity would always find itself
rooms upside-down, to build a supper-room in remfortable in the garment that is woven bare boob sufficient. I do not think the rer" U- The defence was that its present state was das building on one occasion. I was then working.who brings with him severs! things, which ars
and is thus quite aware what a scolio can do The for Mr Alford The repairs were on the base carried by several coolion, happens to be stopped dah and its crom walls would support the roof to inherent defects and to wear and tear.
or is expected to do, and who being quite in the Garden, and even to souvert His Excellancy's Hongkong, but one thing I can atra, and that in any way. I do not think any increased weight Hotel Company did not allege that there ment floor facing the Praya. On the first floor by the bloken for search, then certainly be has
be lost at this moment. Seeing that it is very dependent of the planters may well be trasted sanctum into a bar, whenever Hongkong Snoiety is that a visit to Hongkeng unkee one prouil would be thrown on the south wall by the 2- hal bean any gederal subsidence of the four do- facing towards the Prays there were dracks po time to follow his coolies, and his laggage may
to see that no injustice is done to the immis invited to danes at Government Honas, which belong to the nation that has created it from is rory often the essa in winter. If His Excel. nothing. it fills the word Empire with a new moval of the verandah. The french when opened terms, but they did by that whatever sabaideron I pat soms Iron work in the basament. (Plan of detrimental and inconveniout, to the passenger,
grants. must have approached within five fest of Mal- they had been was not day to anything they work produced.) I also did some work on the therefore earnestly beg ron te be good enough shore. I do not think there has been any mate. had done, but was due to the state of the soil in basement flocr facing the yard at the back.
issue, and if any hon. member of the Legislative such a thing as a coolie being forced to enlargement and improvement in the Colonyos sonvictions and resolves. In this letter i ment of the ground. If they had it would have mediately been the outh wall, and for the effectFlas produced.) Iron tina were put into meons to insert then few lines in your valuable daily 2-No one in this country, hus over heard of loney had not inangarsted so many schemes for born soning, and crystalline around it a set of shown itself in the adjoining buildings,
Lof the water rising and talling uper foundations the arches. The building was not in good con Conncil should read them no doubt a legal speak to au asistent on his knees, and if itself, involving for the moment all the superin.have écly tried to skateb lighly the place ant "Ex-assistant" was in the kalit of demanding tendance and labour and expense that can be its people A fail length pisture must be for Crosetamined-My profesional knowledge which were inperfect in their original construedition at that time.
M Prancis did not cross-examine this witness remedy will be enacted for the matter.I am,
sah a thing it is certainly better that he apred, he would probably have felt justified in other time.
calling apon Hongkong to build itsel? a ball. tion. He did not propose to take the jury at any with this building dates from July, 1888.
David McCulloch said-1 am the Chais man Sir, yours truly, a
should remain in China and employ his leisure room in which it would be fittingly entertained. in writing abusive articles to the Hongkong On this storey of Hongkong too, is Headquarter don't think you can take it that the whole build length through theevidence that had already been ing is badly constructed. The bricks which given, bas he thought that caald be more of the Hongkang otal Company. I remember
Telegraph. On the contrary, the bamp of Heuso, where General Camarón and his family sereno is not early as well developed in a have just been stoceeded by General Edwards. have crusted below the fra breast are the ordin-conveniently done when they had the evidence the pulling down of the buildings on the south
Chinese goolie as in a Javanese or Tamil, and And on this level are the wonderful streets I ary blae bricks. There are not bigh class brisks of the Hotel Company before them. But there side of Melohere. It was in the beginning of were orrtain circumstances in the case which be 1887. Walasore correspondence with Messrn. The crashing of the frebrnaal would lezdor
coolies who concise themselves wronged have
The Viceroy of Neuking has seul the follow- that part of the building upfe. It is possible rust review before calling his evidence-cir Holliday, Wise & Co. shout the alteration of the
often a very peremptory way of calling at have already described, although one might as that the damage to the roof way baro baon cumstances witch, from theepening of his learn verandah, and Mr. MroEwer throatened to take
ing letter to Mr W. V. Drummond, the Chair- tention to their supposed grievances, and not properly call Windsor a home, as to describe
those patinshaded walks and groves an etrosta caused by other reasons than the subsidence of eð friend and from the way in which he had-out az injunction. He afterwarda suggested
Finally, there is the third layer, the top storey of the Pain Relief Committee at the south wall. There is no appearance on the framed quiet ons to the witnesses, might leave that we should call in Mr. Chator as an arbitra
Four-at-all on beaded kaver We had to do certain work and pay 3000
(3)-By the Dutch law an coelia dan be punish Hongkong, kaswa oolloodrely as "The Park Shanghai.
NARRING. 30th Jane, 1889. ed ou on ostate for any offence, but must be The Peak itself is one of the highest of the roof of its having hran damaged by storms. The the jury uniler's misapprension as to the true tor
to, the famine from sent up to the magistrate, by whom, it found hundred hills of the island rising previpitously Sir-With uteronen arches which I spoke of as bring iron socketstate.nf stairs. The first point to which he and we wore then allowed to pull down the ve mast have failed. That would have made the world aktuale, sund a sumAwhat important' cue, randah, which Mr. MacEwen said, was leased to
guilty, be may be punished with ane crim behind the city to the signal station. 1923 feet fued and drought which has prevailed over this building unsafe at the time, but its romedied was that which ross on the first imue, es to him. Mr. Chater was aware of this sad in the
prisonment. Flogging on only take place for abora the sea, where a gun and a flagstaff an country in Kizugu. Anhui, and other provinces, by the Bookets. The erarks I charted in the whether the verandah was pulled down befor the agreement with him the verandah was excluded.
offences committed in prison and against pri zonos the arrival of mails and bosan steaters: reducing the people to great miary, I have south wall ran in all directions and were worst 15th April or subaquently. As to the founda The receipt for the $900 was put in and bore date 14th February, 1887.1 I can't say
sta discipline, a rule not unknown in British But the Peak as a residential district means bees repeatedly informed, by the offers whom at the two corners. The wall might have been tions of that verandah, he might at once say
all the hill-tops where cool breezes from the sea I appointed to intile charitablo subscriptiore pressed outwards by the weight of the roof. I they did not for moment contend they were when the verandab was actually pulled down.
on which u coolie gets permission to leave the blanket at sight, and where in a word one can Tuota, the Superintendent of the Arsenal, Jea should say it we a couple of inches out of taken op until after the 15th April, but he Mr. Chator was pat into possession I believe on plumt. I could ses 16 appearance al July, 1888, thenght be would be able to satisfy them that the 15th April. The letter informing him the
(4)Without speaking of the may occasions blow in summer, where one can seep under a at the Shangbai Tao-tai Kang, Niv
estate bo has always foro days in the mouth of any subsidence in the wall. I could not see the the verandah itself was if not wholly at any rate building was ready was written on the 31st
free, sad on these holcay's the coolins of all pead a summer in Flongkong with a reasonable Tatai, Attaché for international Commerce, probability of being alive at the end of it. Here the Chin hester L. Deputy for foreign affaire plieth live; it was buried in rubbish I have substantially pulled down and removed befor Mr. March. I would curtainly not have written
the staten in the vicinity of a town such averybody who can afford it has a second house, and other, that you have bouumeirament To astral knowledge of the foundations of thu Chater entered on the premises. It would be that letter if the verandah he not been down
Modna, Labosan, or Bindgay, marbs sen flook-
sua of many tons of thon new wing of the hotel bate examined the dioult, ne daubt, to remove from the minds of at that time.
Mr. Fraucis crcks.examined the witness on
ing in to make their purchases for the next and so many are these fortunate people that the in selecting from foreign and Chinese gal
"top side" of the island is datte all over with seripers a toil in the neighbourhood of the new wing the jury the impression made by sheegideĚ
fortnight and have a little outing. In fact costly konses and bungalows, there is one kotal sand of tus, which has an apportioned fo The rise and fall of the fo water ja
the gas fitter, but be would not deal farther with the agreement for a lanse dated 16th April,
great was the influx on these days that the and another building, and a steam from way runs the relief of Kiangen, Ahmi, and uilior pro the oil in correspondeuco with the tide that point now. bet would lear it until he came which appeared intended to cover the arrangeaince I took iver the farm, that the excise officera
vineca The sympathy that you have displaye Dutch Government, to prevent fights betwoan should bare to influence the foundations to deal with tin eridence as a whole. It bust home to to be made during the pulling down of ars to luflet as slight an inconvenience to the passengers arriving in this calonyas is compatible
different states, clans, or konges, bad to sak" and down every fifteen minutes. The fare if they were well patio. If the foundations horue in mind that at the time Mr. Chater en-
His Lordship pointed out that the agreement with carrying out their duty, which is to stop the
tao plasters & few rears ago to 5x these holi. up is thirty cents a shilling, and down half as for any distressed conteynea, is a prof of the mach. This is startling mough, but a botter natural benevolencs of your disposition and I were imperfectly laid it might affect them. If tered on the premises he was fully aware of the
illicit importation of prepared opium, and they
days on different dates, that all their coolies notion of the expepes of life here is conveyed by cannot suficiently express to you my gratitude the foundatious were laid octions of ten feet direnmatancos ju connection with the alterations, referred to the vorandoh as "the late verandah.
Clement Palmer said--I am at aroblicet und ere never to arroet a person unless they, as pro-
might not be in the hazaar at give
the fact that to have a secul bouse at tho and my thoaks. the ground being opened. pilos driven in and buring acted as mediator between the Hotel
Of course some estates are so far away from Peak" for the sunauzer, you must rent it for the I am now having prepared for you a tablet ther demant Elled in, this I should all a fairly Company and Messrs. Holidays. Wise & Co. member of the firm of Bird and Palmer. I have vided for by the Opium Ordinanco, not only
whole year, as it is untalebitable in winter, at a bearing, the charactersini Chi Wa Min safe plan to work, an. I should also have taken and even if they came to the conclusion the rer been an architect for 16 years, and have been in reasonably, hot strongly spoot that be 18 in town that the coolies even on their free days can-
andal was unt pulled down beers the 15th April, the Colony eight years. In April, 1896, our possedion of prepared opima without my licence not walk so far, but it would be hard to make rental of 150 to 200 dollars a month-about a Sympathy exfouted to my people, as slight the precaution of boarding up the trouch.
As Bretander must be aware, the pillow fem were appointed architects to the Hongkong was met bore at the time, and I de gel know there still remained the question--possibly whether be trench was boarded up or not.
I de question for his Lordship to decide rather than Hotel. I unde myself personally acquainted box of which he speaks is always to he found the plaaiers responsible for this: is well comesereign a day all the your round for four ornition of your gerent goodness. With re- not know whether the south wall say shored up the jury to whether Mr. Chater coult with the buildings. I am aware that the Hotel amongst the baggage of an opium stocker, as it plain that a Chinaman Irring in Saator cannot ive month residence. Busides this, thero fe gast to be other taste which I am presenting When the Chines Commissioners were here to traway fare, the cost of socios to esery I must request on to wool them to the several oume in and compitzu, knowing as he did whon Company bought Melbers' building iu 1887. in in a box of this description that apiara pipes stroll over to Amoy for an evening walk.
bringing every item of domestic. supplies, frow themy behalf in. The tranch might be full of water and no be pulled down and that it wart barf April. 1897. They were then in a more or leas aarried: the more fact a traveller arriving was given tham tor investigating the condition soals to cabbage, a forty-five minutes clinab. not necessarily saves the sides of the tesach to fall he took the team that the Feraudab was to I made my el acquainted with the buildings in and the other paraphernalia for smoking retro and a half years ago, overs possibls Lacility or phair up and down, and the expense of peradrs for who they are dystined and to thank- damage might be done. Thave was a very bowy the jury came to the conclusion that it did dilapidated state. I did not make any special here in possession of a pillow box ia prin fc of their countrymen on the estates, and the tri-up-bill. But what is the summer climate on the complimente of the season rain storm in early part of May. 1883. I ru-bare-seine offent at any rate on the sunth examination then. I recollent the Hotel Com evidence that the owner thereof bas some refing compaints they made showed that there second storey of Hongkong, you will ask, which
A very large percentage of the occlies who force poople to flee from it at so much trouble W. V. Drummond, Ex member at that time damage was done to Marine wall. He would now pass to the question of the pany entering inte a entrant with Cheng-ampered epius in his possession, and as it is far was really nothing sorieas to complain of
and cost? To be frank, almost every man 1 Barristor-st Law, Shanghai.
A list and $3 inscriptions for tukfels are scut trenob. His leared friend not only contendodon the 18th March 1887, and part of the work more convenient that the owner should opan hi Mokhers. There would be an incissas of water that whes the trench was opened the sapport to be carried out under that contract was the box and by couler demonstration show that its come here by the direct immigratia consist of have asked has described it to us by the mono-
The tablets thetuseiros are not yet mado, but in the subsoil. The driving of the rain weight of the enth wall was removed, but he in-removal of the verandah on the south side of contents are harmless, than that hashard betaker relations of aid coolise, who have returned to syllabic appellation of the altinse destination borowith
the up to the charge room of the Central Station their native village with such glowing accounts of the incorrigible unrighteous. One of the Melchers' buildings. Imiparintended widen the cracks in the wall. A continuation plied, if his words did not actually express.
and there obarged with 2 offence of whichbemy of the life in Doli that offer ten or twelve men chief cammor problems of Hongkong is to de-ara in course i preparation and will shortly be of the rain wight affect the defects in the wallnetaal negligence on the part of the Hotel Com carrying out of the Erst part of the con-
From tract. They began by pulling down the ver possibly be innocent. my excise.officers have re of one family come here with the intention of termine whether the mushrooms which grow on forwarded. The following is a list of the names Be-examined. The heaviest of rains could not pay in the way they opened that trench.
nived instructions to suggest to the owners of pil. have produced the cracks in the auth and cross the questions Mr. Francis put to his witness, ash and the out-buildings. Thin work was
The damp is indescribable. Moisture poars down tablet, with translation: aud from the pavere be gut, the jury would be carried on at the same time. I visited the low bozus that they mighisora themselvas trouble planting on some special estate. Such dream.
Dams of Slave trade" which the editor of the the walls, anything left alone for a couple of The Lord Jaye of London Kuang-chang
Tove Howe widels in the ful aid-I have been in Fingsong for 3 years, of opened from oust to west withost any procentions of the second wook in April, the whale of the contents of their boxes. Further than this the Hongkong. Teisgraph so liberally bestows on the days-othes, boots, hats, portmanteaux-is co-fu-in-
Albit Derison, architevi kad sivil enginest, led to suppose that this trench was recklessly buildings almost every day. Before the end if they were willing to refuntarily disclose the stances pertainly do not seam to corroborate the daring the night are edible rust, with a romanied version of the texts on each
vered with mould. Twenly stops in the operi which producer happiness). And in conclusion, as English planters in a air and you are soaked with perspiration. Thor Sir Thomas Wade, G.C.M,6--Shany» which time w soven years tril Meers being taken whatever. They had heard Mr. Loigh verandah s taken down, or at any rate the azuise officers have not been allowed to go, and immigration. Danby and Leigh. During that time I Enday what he would have done, that the trench whole of what supported the wall. The found should they do so in future casas, I should be
Datoh colony, we would protest against the con
The Governor of the Straits Settlements: good deal to do with the constraction of build- should bare bown opened in sections of ten fetations of the verandah were taken up in sections only too thankful if a bystander or any one als ings I know Malobers building. I iuspsoted at a time, and that he would have planked the Whilst the taking down of the veraudah was in who witnesses the miscot doet of an exeise officer station presentations to which this district there are the cockroaches, to say nothing of the Men hein. (Goodness abounding over the world!
in particular, and the Batch East Indies genor agilo centipeda whose bite may lay you up for a the building at the request of Messrs Sharp, idee of the trench. That was exactly was progress I toek pressitions to preserto the egal would bring it immediately to my notion,
tiffin the other day. When the booksollers hers doing) The fact that the daily consumption of preally are exposed in many English papers. There couth killed one under the table after Haing-ins-ya-fe. (There is happines in wall- The North.China Faine Relief Committee. " Johnson, and Blokes on the 11th June. I was done. It was also suggested the trench and weat walls. I put in iron tica above the examined it carefully and consider it dangerone was married down deeper than the foundations spring of the rob on the ground foor, rousing pared oplum at Macao, which has only a populaare few onnaitian where a foreignor is so hospit. receive a case of books, the first thing they do for anyone to live in. The path wall and of Melebars, but he would be able to show on through the south well and finishing on the tion of soms 80,000 Chizers, is beats taeda, aby received and her little respect is shown is to varnish them all over with a damp-resisting Singapore te ken che. (You have done
Ladder's-strent side with a plate. This was to pee that is about the same amount that is disposed to muro nationality, and whore story who compustion containing corrosire sublimate. lofty deede in distant placos tntly ail the walls are gracked. Thus staru clasively that the new fondations 'wees not car
The Sultan of Parakuty dong bug. comes me an honest man is received on his own Otherwise the cockroaches would eat them be half of the south wall is cracked in all directionseled below Melchers' bat were carefully kept on rent the west well going out. The west wall had of for local consumption in Hongkong, where
(Kindness ehown to this Middle Kingdom). merita.
fare they had time to go mouldy. If you coms The western is supk between two and thros a level with them or above them As to the a direct balge. The cast wall already had the population is nearly four times as great, is
The Sidan of Blazgor.-Zi uo cheng min. Thanking you for inserting the above and home at night after dinner vory tired, literally chas in the middle. There are several cracks south wall, he thought he would boable to prose a tie in it. I put in another. The eant sufficient to show whata tremendo amount of wall showed weakness on the first and second prepared opium finds its way at this notory aewr the western und which show in my opinion to them that the south wall had not subsided in
your evening clothes over & olisir, as you would i HM. The King of Siam:-The-chi chiung Youre Faithfully that the worlorn portion of the south wall how any appreciable degree. They would remembi floors. The object for which the ties were without paying anything towards the enormour pologizing for taking up so much of your valu-or motaphorically, beware of carelessly throwing Fond given to my umorous peopl).
at home. If you do, the seokroaches will have Hai. (Kindness extending to the regions watered sunk bodily. There are overal iroz ties is he that the wall was built on pies. Mr. Leigh pat.in was to support the east and west walls, sum I pay to the Government for the right to able space. We are. Dear Sir,
ALF. H. QUADLING,
destroyed them before you wake. They must be by Yangtzes at the Huai rivers). wath wall binding it to the past and west walls, had led then to exppose these six plare bad set. I filled the archon in with briskwork, to streng boil and retail opiian here. I say onormous"
A dzinistrator,
hang up in a wardrobe with hermetically fitting The Chins Famins Committee, New York: There is one externs iron-tie binding the ousted simultaneously, but he took it, whether the then the wall generate I remember the sum because I am paying about twelve times.
Crited Langkat Plantations Co., Limited.
doorn And it does happen, I am told. that-Pao-yu hatung. (Brotherhood and fellow- to the auth wall The nest and west walls are gentlemen of the jury bad any technical know verandah before it was removed. The uroligs as much re the Hanks Farmers pay to the Government, while the amount
U. FRASER 'MELBOURN men die in sumarter in Hongkong from sunrise ship with all alikat cracked near the ooraora: The cracks alope lodge or not, as mes of common sense looking between the outside and inner walls were crack- Portuguese
Manager downwards from the top of the south wall at it from a practical point of view, they would ad. The south wall bad a great number of daily disposed of by me for local consumption
Padang Tji Estate The chimney breasts appeared to have suborider ench a suggestion very anressonable. cracks in it before the verandah was removed a BB I have said above, practically the sardo ne
ALEX GLEN, sided bodily. I did not notice any urushing Mr. Denison put it that though the east portion The cracks in the south wall on the top floor that sold daily by the Mens Farmers
If you or any of your readers can or will sug- of the bricks I did not judgo that the sub of the south wall might baro subsided it was were all at the end. I thought there was a po
New siblity of the wet wall falling. therefore gest any other means by which I may suficiently rádause of the south well had any affect on the the west portion that had really anbrided skimpy breast. I attribute the failure of the Me. Danison's evidence was correct and there tied it to the seath wall I did not apprebend protect myself in the rights I have seqnirel south wall to the putting the n wing of was a sinking of the piers on the weed, what any danger after I put the one tie in. The from the Hongkong authorities, and so wushla the hot meal to it. The ample oposing of a would they expect to a in the south wall? condition of the sonih wall apart from thema to pay the largi smennt I contribute to the trenok voeld of weaken the wall. The driv. They would expect thearohes to creck in some racks I have mentioned, was fairly good on all Revenue of the nolony, I rhall be only too happy ing of piles, pacially if the bottont of th way, at any rate they would see a crack at the floors. The cracks I have devribed were caused to consider the suggestion. I am fully awar trench west below the vid foundations. would osntre of the wall bud in the aroh at the by the going out of the wet wall. It is a very of the foot that Hoogkeng bossin of beings free weaken the well. The most dancerons part of contra. The jury would have an opportunity old wall. Ever since I have been in the Colony port and that anything in the shape of a Custom the building is the south-eset corner. Just now of weing for themselves wbuther there were there has been a bulge in it, the effect of des House hare is looked upon with great dislike, it is chored up against the botol., If those any such orsoks, and they would alan have footive constraction, the south being build but from wist I have seen and heard of customs shores were removed the building might some opportunity of seeing how the piers ca su arcade has slipped sad pressed against regulations in European countries and in America: 1 he defacts in the I understand that much greater inconvenienas down'at any inument. A great many defects in ran along. They would see there were no piers the corner of the west wall. The building are due to finally construction. In this centre, and if Me Douleon's eridence was sant wall are due to fanits in the brickwork. is caused in collecting the duties payable apu cannot asair way other reason for the sub-orrect the sinking of the west part of the wall The trench was gourd in mctions of about ton tobacco and other mazed articles, and the only Haze of lessening the present ineinrezisnes edence of the sent wall exempt the spirtion of must sooossarily have cracked the archway in foot in length. The depth was ahont the eas the new wing of the hotel.
the contre! There was another point in the as that of this aid foundations. In some cases that suggests itself to me at the moment is, that
The first sight of Hongkong, the farthest out- and so on, each hollow stopper being filled with
W. S. Wetmors, Esq.-La-alan-pa chuan," we wont lower in consequence of the nature of the Government shonlil establish a small Polica Cross-examined-The cracking of the walls onse which was introduced as a rather Lats me-
(Untiring delight in good deeds)
FC. Bishop, Englại chỉ vàng. Kind and the cutting of the doorn made that part of the went, and there was now an ane before them the ground, there being large boulders with Station in the vicinity of the harves or upout peat of the British Empire and the fourth portunelaked lime in altering paper, to absorb any building dangerous to live in. 1 at sware why as to whether the weight of the large building med in between them. We drova in piles where the whares at which the river and Mac in the world,, la disappointing. As you ap-damp that might penetrate inside. Those bot the people loft the place in 1. If I had been on the scuth of Malahors bad affected the sath we could and operated over the top, placing steamise arive, to which the excise officers conit prosch it from the North you enter a narrowtles tell the whole tale People ran over to
J. J. Buebleister, Eng-Sha-ya-jen-lung. erecting the new wing I should have opened up all of leher. Assuming that building had stones on top of that. I left the Colony on the immediately conduct any parson arriving by and unimposing pass, then you discover a couple Macso, that Lusitanian Thule, four hours nose extended to the sorrowing people). (literally, the trench in apollons. I consider that to be this depressed the focutatiuos, did they for a fooment 7th July, 1887. Two sentions of the trench were those stormers, who might be suspected by them of sugar refouries eovering the hills with smoke; steaming away, for Sunday, sad when the sum
Rer. Muirhead-Hesing-shan-yu shu. proper way. I cannot and in my experience appose there would be au trace of it in the build then completed. During the work on the text of being in possession of prepared opiam without and when the city of Victoria lies before you it mor is proving too much for them and their Case in which the weight of a new building a freting italf. It would require no asientific know. section I see nothing of the Foundations of a Losase. Such Police Station need only be is only St. John' or Vladivostook on a larger thoughts begin to ran on Happy Valley" and Sacrificing self to do good to others) ing the wall of au adjoining building.
ledge to say that if a heavy billing of that Age Malchore Building returned to the Colony opened for a short time immediately after the scale. It is piled up on the stoep sides of the grave there, like that of Martha's husband in Charles Henry Thompson, clerk, employed by wiption had sunk on its foundations, they must in November last. I inspected the building then. Farrival of cash aleger, and should the cuspicion island without apparent purpose or ochesion: Padua well-placed for cool and comfortable Fall of schemes of benevolace.) Mosers. Holliday, Wise & Co. salI WA with sarily find some omoka or some evidence of It was empty. The cracks in the south wall turn at nofounded the owner of the baggage for flos buildings tatach themselves from the reet, they just go on board a steamer and disEm Cameron, Faq-Ishaneki-jm. Ex John Macgregor, Ex-Fayinari-hrad. front; and the greater part of the houses and enuatoriam of the Far East. my firm when they soupied part of the buildit in the building telf. Mr. Laigh and Mr. had some of them grow larger. I noticedarshed would be immediately released without mass; there is no bonferard along the water embark at Nagaki or Yokohama Japan is the tording benevolones to follow men
any material inconvenience.
A striking feature of Hongkong to the elegance Possessing a sympathizing heart), ing known as Melobers 1 rehamber reason had no special koorledge of this build. That in many pluous the plattor had been fresket that this letter ahould have extended offices in the immediate foreground, though many Gooper and Harler coming there in June, 1888, ing. He would produce witnesses who would out off. I have resantly examined the south to make an examination. About a month or go tell then there was sa uvidotes of ang sub will, but I did not so any signs of, the settle to such a length, but when it is remembered that of them are in reality large and costly struc-and-solidity of its public works. Its waterworks before that I noticed the cracks in the walls he. sidence of the building. There was only one tens of the foundations. The wall in praction-1 am paying $3,80 mouth towards the tares, book belter skilter from a little distanosat Tytam, on the other side of the island, aro
The King of Sium, who has been lafely euf- athar point to which he would allude, and that ly in plamb, but st plans there are slight bulges revenae of the Colony, and that the sum is about In one's disappointment one remembere Mr. Ho almost picturesgne and the aqueduct which map- name larger, and in the dining room I rotier was ze to what, was done at the time of the re- I have examined the roof. It. in a fairly heavy three times sa much se hes sver been paid by any welle's constic characterisation of the water plus the city in the base of a footway three soure fresh cracke. About this limu also a new- crack came in the south-east corner. We savemoval of the verandah to counteract way oril one. If there had been any settlement of the previous holder of the farm, I think that all fair front of New York-that aftar London and Lilles long, called the Bowen Boat, of asphalt ral times gammed pieces of lean paper to swerfecte on the south wall. One if not two of the foundations it would have been apparent on the minded readers will consider that I am entitled verpool it looks as though the Americans were and coment as smooth and solid as a billiard.fering from an attack of fever, left Bangkok on the cracks and the paper used to break after witnessce hnd stated that the south wall was inger walls. My opinion as to the reason of to some consideration, and that complaints, eroamped there The face of Hongkeng is not table and which laughs at the tremendons dors the 11th inst for a trip on the west coast
west walls the prosent aante condition of Melchers' build often, though I don't say always, made by parties its fortune, anybody merely steaming by would pours of the rainy season "Happy Valley" is ▲ abort time; two or three times the cracks were bound
are vary meal pleased with the new arm. filled up but they always opened again. The for the purpose of ouring the south well, inge is that it is due to defective brisk work, who are interested in illoitly importing prepared never geass the marvel it grows on closer sotke pride of Hongkong, and the palin shaded troops were inst weak armed with a new repont The bium Mercantile Gasatte understands vorendsh was began to En taken down in Feb. but he thought he would be able satisfactorily faults of construction, and wear and tour. The opium, should not have vidas weight gives to quaintance. For few wonks Lurestigation road I described above was a dangerous and ugly.ing ride; wo bear that the offers and men
them, at any rate until a formal charge of mis transfigures this precipitous island toto phe of ravine called "Cat-throuts' Alloy" for years rasry and finished about the end of April. to proge to them that the bonding was not be south wall is as good as any of the others.
Cross-examined.When Holliday, Wise & Co. condnot has bee made and the use bas been the most astonishing spote on the earth's surge. All this the ocmunity cires to one man,
bost Siam Supporter have failed and no further The floor of the general oflos also sank. I tooked cause of the weakness of the south wall but be over the building on Monday last but I did' uct use of the atual state of the west wall in par want to the building first, I did not ocnsider the dnly enquired into after I have reneived notio face. By an inevitable alchemy, the gibilon Mr. J. M. Price, the Colonial Surveyor-General, tai all attempts to raise tuo sanken torpedo ticalar and also of the oast. wall. They were building unsafe. Mr. Turner more particularly of the same.-1 am. Bir, your obedient servant,pher's stoko of a few correlated facts transforms and it considers the CM.G. just given to him on
KOH CHENG SEAN. see that the pracka ware any larger.
one's disappointment inte stupefaction Bhang his retiremst as by no means a toy grenerom u attempts will be made. She will have to be du
Speaking of cut treyed in some my, as in her pant position bai was a surprise, but Hongkong is a revelation, cognition of his services.
she is a danger to navigation. Oro-amined-When we first went into the both showing eigns of deoxy, and it may neces-looked after the taking down of the versial.
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1820.
When you land, the inevitable riskika carries throats reminds me that Hongkong even now is
An Electric Light Company has been started building, there were slight appearances of cracks. mry that they should be prevented from falling The contract for this work was signed in March
yon through a coopis of streets, far from being not a particularly safe place. People avoid Isoloed the king in the flour of the ufles by binding them to the south wall. There was and included the taking down of a number of when we first moved in. I pasted, paper one point he had forgotten for the moment, and buildings and the putting up certain bath rooms CHINESE EMIGRATION TO SUMATRA weanaged, but you forget walling stone at night in one or two directions at Siam with i capital of 180,000 tils divided
that was as to the foundations of the verandah, and cook bones. I am in the babit of writing aver seven cr eight cracks altogether. I saw
this in the rush of life about you. Messengers every Bikh constable warries a rife at night and into 6000 shares of bil tinch. There are I cannot produce the diary..
jostle you, rickakas ran over your toes, chair several renade of ball cartridge, and if you bail besides 900 free shares of similar value. H me-of those paper when I went into the which he had told them he work deal with when a diary generally hailding en Eunday. I saw as that the net Le came to the gasstion of the tregoh The I kept at that time It has been: lest, I have
Sie-ly the Honghong Telegraph of May holes dig-you in the rib The hotel clerk smiles a sampaa at night to go to dinner en bol some Majesty the King baldu 2500 glinary abacos foueations of the verandah, such as they were, ne record of the date the contract was signed, Christian Petersen Karberg said I were taken up piecemes: at the some time that but I remember the date, because it was the be appeared a letter signed "Es-Assistant with politely as he informs you that there has not stap in the barbour, the constable at the pier and 375 free shares. A contract has been en olerk in the employ of Arnhold, Karberg & Co. the different sections of the trench were open, gluing of large contract I took up the reference to the Chinese emigration from Swaboon yasat room for a month. Later on your makes a note of its inimber, in case you should tered into with the Anglo-American I remember or firm moving into Melobers' He would not datain the further, but to the boulders and west deeper then the old found tow Sumatra, accompanied by some editoris fellow-passengers envy yon the little rabbit-hole be missing the next day. For the span Company for the necessary machinery and for a building in the caning of May, 1982. In the issues in this case the sewer of the Lengkeng itions in some places, because I was going to remarks in the mail edition of the same issue of a bearouts you has secured at the top of the people good to have a plosant habit of suddenly supply of 10,000 amps to begin with. Paddy begianing of 1889 I noticed a big crack in the Hotel Company to the first was, that the veran put up & different kind of building, a mach and gain on the 11th of that month in her Club When you come down again into the dropping the mat awning on the beat of a pas husk will be used as fuel, which is of course. month wall it run from the topof the room to the dab was removel prior to the lath April, and to heavier out. The boulders were taken out for the editor was incited to his philippies hall yen find it ororded with brokers of many senger, ontting his throat in the enaning meeh sheaper than cost. The Comymay o
they can board. The Bikhs make admirable palicamen. The fercantils Gazelle hears that considerable httom. My impresion is that it was a new urnok: the third, that the admittedly ugsafe conditica and narried away, none of them were blata, against the Sumatra planters by a feeling of nationalities, making noter, laughing, whisper struggle and dropping his pillaged body over to be in favour with the Siames nomunity. Leon-examined. The suspection by Mir. Hayl of the premises at the present time war das to I do not remember one contractor being philanthropy an only be known to himself, but tog drinkfog, but all just a busy ne har en obedient, trustworthy, and brave, and and corres- sale of shares has taken plans at an advance of 7
aver summoned, because of the primnos caused for the so-called "fants which be so glibly ruma be. And on the walls and upon the ler and Mr. Cooper was made in consegne inherent defects and to wear and tear.
Chang Sam mid-1 um à building contracts by blasting: The pils driven in were about up, he must be dependant on some informant pro domen printed Express, timed with the pondingly dutoited by the Chines. If they in por cont or complaints. It of opinion that the
Houm. I do not think it would do any damage.
walls which I have mentioned.
burst.
to the
and
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"HONGKONG
TAILY FRESS."
Manager
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.Manager,
Sumates Tobacco Plantations Co., Limited. THEO. C. BARCLAY,
Manager of Mariondal Deli. Banatra, 4th July, 1889.
to reset without rhyme or reason. And the The San Frangico Committer- ja Hud community is a palo food one, though it in hai China las full faith in your goodness
The Hamburg Committeo-Ĥwi là pien te only right to add that it numbers probably as
masy athletes and vigorous workers as any! Your virtue has spread among the poople), Pago Jambu Batates Co. ofher. The place used to be known as "tho The Melbourne Committee --Chai Nan J. J. PRACHEY...“
grave of regiments"-troll thongh Happy how. You have brought tranquility to pur Valley" tells you why. Now the ran ara not southern lands). allowed outside barracks until ve p.m., and The Adelaide Committes--Ying-daż "kali-jen" there is a regular inspection to ste that avery (Kindress from over the wide 0083). Estate.man has his cholera-balt on. The down side Fokion Guild at Singapore: Swator Guild
of Hongkong is damp and hot the top side at Singapore: Csuton Guild at Singapore. is damp and pool. That is the difference: fur) N. . Famine Relief Committeo--H. M which people are prepared to pay so heavily. Hillier, E-Tee-pi-tea-li. Showing kindne The frst time I stayed at the Peak. I noticed to the famine stricken people round the house a number of large stoppered
M. B. Brado, Eig-Foshi yu Miu, (Giving
THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE.
prettily onesext in wicker week. On inquiring A. G. Wood, Eaqjen Tone-hein. Chm PICTURE OF THE GIBRALTAR UY THE EAST. HONGKONG AND ITS INHABITANTS. A PRO-bottles, such as you see in drugglets windows basetiful kid to the people
of my host he showed me that be contained rising huntity in his heart By Special Arrangement with the Author.] biscuits, another cigars, another writing-paper,
E. G. Vouillemont, Esq.-in-tun-lirici. Haring beneficial relief ut heart),
Zorroicing antha").
STAM
The Mercantile Garells on the Siamese
Brash